The Saturday Evening Post 1906-01-06: Vol 178 Iss 28

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THE SATURDAY | EVENING POST @ (Danted A MILLION Henry M. Hyde OGhe Tremolo Stop | By William e_ e Allen White - = ve f DRAWN BY H. 1. MARLATT The Private Freight Car System—By J. OGDEN ARMOUR

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Ns PRE a sgn oes at Ni Meas ; : ow Im ready for anything’ I feel “bully” after a breakfast of Pettiohn ALL WHEAT GOOD TO EAT It is the breakfast food that makes boys and girls ready for anything. Ready for work or play—ready for study or sports. It puts them into just the condition to get all the benefit of youth, and builds them up for after years. It is the natural food that is as dainty and delicious as it is et beneficial, and every boy and girl just loves Pettijohn. aes ome . pacer wht Te

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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 Published Weekly at 425 Arch Street by THE CurTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY London: Hastings House.10, Norfolk Street, Strand,WC. Volume 178 PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY oO, LoOo =? Matter Numbes 28 | The Private Freight Car System lem wl y im} ble I out some Knowledge of Why and how the private car came into « seen wos istence and how the te ni Deel developed to its present proportior Equally important toa right cor sion in this matter is a kno edge tne source and the animus of the ay i n, theavowed } } } Isto} hey ate car tt Unk hese t! f ( i the meat of the who'e contentior But before I attempt to present the facts let me say that I believe in the fairne American people, and that when once they get a clear understanding of a cause the vill render a righteous judgment. President Roosevelt ha the disposition of this people most deseript In declaring that thev are for a square i It because I believe this so profoundly that I make the statements contained in tt pi i those which will follow it Any man who has a just cause need not, I believe, fear t American people when he can be sure of react practically the whole people direct, and assured tk he is ! iting his ea i ) be 1 juoted « nanvt ‘ Phe rm ec e of the | nt cor the it fruit ind ( Ca this m for the r t ( il ne atter ! he tac re i na meat Car W he } t i that the tri car W: i il I nasa a re ethatth I hicn the pr ite Car came ! Clear to \ eXISTE } fairl isposed 1 ‘ iffa lr e old i i ‘ J. Ogden Armour - “Xe OR Merete en ja: Vice By J. Ogden Armour

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What this phase of the industry means to the people of the United States and to the packers I shall try to tell in another article; but it is merely suggested in the statement that by its economies the packers are able to ship meat into thousands of localities remote from the great source of supply in the West, and sell a superior cut” at a lower price than the butcher can sell an inferior cut”’ taken from a home-grown meat animal killed in his own slaughter-house But the refrigerator car was destined to do more than revolutionize the meat industry. It was to place upon the tables of the people in cities and towns delicate and deli- ious fruits, berries and vegetables grown in remote locali- ties, as it had already brought to them the fresh meats from the prairies and ranges. Very early in the history of the meat refrigerator car my father, who had been a farmer- boy in the fruit belt of New York State, became thoroughly yonvineed that refrigeration was the magic that would ork as great a liberation and expansion for the fruit ' H ‘ it had for the cattle industry After watching the results of experiments in shipping ‘alifornia fruits in ordinary meat refrigerator cars he became so enthusiastic in his belief in what refrigeration would do in the handling of fruits that he called Mr. George B. Robbins (now president of the Armour Car Lines) into his office, discussed various points of difference in the re- uirements of a refrigerator car adapted to carrying fruits and one for the shipping of meats, and finally said Eimbody all these ideas in a plan and then place an order for the building of one thousand of the cars ‘But,”’ cautiously suggested Mr. Robbins, ‘‘where are we going to get the business for so many cars?’ Build them,”’ exclaimed my father in his hearty and lecisive way I'll pay for 'em; then you do your best them right While the cars were being built men were sent out into the fruit-growing sections to hustle for business. When the growers of a district were first solicited to ship their to run ruits in a refrigerator car they scouted the idea and de- lared that the fruit would be frosted and spoiled. In thei minds refrigeration and freezing were synonymous, so far as the handling of fruits was concerned. Through sensible arguments and the testimony of growers who had once tried the « xperiment, sufficient business was secured to employ the new cars as they came out of the hops About this time my father took an extens trip through the South and came back filled with the idea that it held wonderful possibilities for fruit-growers. At once he sent sut a force of missionaries to see if the facts to be ra ned by ful and scientific investigation would confirm this ypinion. When the reports of these men came in he ordered another thousand fruit refrigerator cars from the shops These 1 onaries came into closest contact with the peo he ind aimost hiterally helped to plant and start one ilter another of the now famous fruit and berry district f the South These soon made themselves felt, and the third thousand of cars wa won under constructior \ r h he pinch f hard te i to be felt tI ! the co ind Mr. Mysenb f the Well ind Fre h Car Wor ed that if exper Lor vere not ed a si wn seemed tal M ther im ‘ te } a ! a t isa i ruit ea nd ad ' ith for th construct |} tr r ‘ he had a ¢ ! lar ea r int nthe d P pment f th ‘ ersona nterest ir he ind try itse ( rand at ‘ hat hict ri { he retr at ‘ 4 t t Fr he beginnir hich I ha etched, th TO t nd | t beer ‘ 1 fror } ane I t arat il consequential avoc n to t lig i ndust The n ber Y i t ref er ( n the Armou ’ ha ireased to twel tt ur rhe op tion of the | ite tru tr erator car has changed the ’ {fru ind ber ! igambletoa t ne fr a loeal ine at 0 ‘ r i il T il V t T MN i ! ir an ly tod where land is Worth or fy » ter if fruit was Ollar in acre betore the general dist yu made px bl Vv th wency I lite ural, then hat the lav re er hould ask If ne pr e car ha lone all this for the grower of fruit, why all this outery men against the private car lam glad to on raised, for the people, as a whol th « he matter; it is time they did ‘ ira wor is they see he real a I'} r t views are based on the rt rmation and i r representatior put « t er el » of the pre und |} those t " in ax 0 i, but who do not care to come intot! ven to ak The fact of th tter is that this whole; ition started with the commission men of the country and not with the growers; these middlemen are the manipulators of the ampaign that is being prosecuted for the express purpose of putting the private car lines out of | ness With Washington, D.C., as a centre, these comn on men are pushing an extensive propaganda based on the ery that the ower is being oppressed by the private car line th the growers’ fight for a chance to do business at a THE SATURDAY EVENING POST profit. All of the cunning at the command of these men is focused on the one purpose of spreading everywhere the impression that the private car is an ‘‘octopus”’ that is strangling the fruit-growing industry. What are the facts in the case? The growers are satis- fied with the private car, with its service, and with the system which they recognize has been the biggest factor in building their business to its present proportion and stabil- ity and in opening tothem the marketsof the entire country. This, I repeat, is not the fight of the growers, but of the commission men. Thereal attitude of the growers toward the private car was cleverly expressed in a recent speech by a representative of the Georgia Fruit-Growers’ Asso- ciation, who publicly declared We have trained and chained the octopus so that it will feed out of our hands. The only thing we are afraid of is that this pounding of the refrigerator service by the com- mission merchant interests will cause the octopus to break its chains, jump the fence and leave us, as in former times, ith no octopu but with all our peaches !” This is the sentiment of the growers everywhere. I do not believe there is one exclusive grower in this country who AN UNCLE REMUS RHYME By Joel Chandler Harris Hog-Killin’ Time Some seasons er de year you gits puny an’ pale, An’ de Doc keeps a-comin’ twel you thin ez a rail ; Den, ag’in, sometimes, whiles you feel purty well, You know sump’n’s wrong-—what ’tis you can’t tell: De vittles tas’es flat, an’ de water’s so weak Dat 'twouldn’t answer back ef you cuss it a week ! But one thing sho, you allers feels prime When de year rolls roun’ wid hog-killin’ time! Hog-killin’ time! Oh, de hog-killin’ time! Ef I had my ruthers I wouldn’t gi’ a dime Fer de diffunce ’twix’ Chrismus an’ hog-killin’ time! You'll know it, too, kaze you'll hatter shake yo’ feet Fer ter keep um warm in de sprinklin’ sleet, An’ ol’ Brer Win’ will sweep off de skies, An’ de twinkle-little stars will wink wid der eyes ; An’ den, come mornin’, ol’ King Sun Will shine so weak dat de fros’ won't run; An’ you'll hear, at de pen, de squealin’ shote, Wid a-many too big fer one man ter tote! Hog-killin’ time! Oh, de hog-killin’ time! You nee'n’ ter tell me freezy-froze don’t rhyme Wid all dat b’longs ter hog-killin’ time! Chillun blowin’ up blathers ez fur ez you kin see! Haslet’s a-hangin’ like fruit on de tree! Niggers a-singin’ ez fur ez you kin hear, An’ all un um grinnin’ fum y’ear ter y’ear! Hogs hangin’ up on de gambrel-sticks Ef you count um twice, dey’s Lev’ mty-six ! De house-gal say backbone is * chime,’’ But dat’s all right at hog-killin’ time! Hog-killin’ time! Oh, de hog-killin’ time! Chine er chime, I know it’s prime, Kaze I done had some at hog-killin’ time! Hog-killin’ time! Can’t tell you all it means! Kaze it fetches on jowl an’ turnip greens, Spar’-rib baked an’ backbone pie, An’ red-ripe sassage ready fer ter fry Watch out de red pepper don’t git in yo’ eye! An’ tubs er fat all ready fer ter try! An’ hogshead cheese, an’ chitlin’s ripe I could eat um all wid des one swipe ! An’ cracklin’ pone, an’ fatty-bread Ez ol’ marster Say, ** Dey’s 'nough been said! ”’ Hog-killin’ time! Oh, de hog-killin’ time! Chitlin’s an’ tripe! I wish you could try’m! Dey all comes in at hog-killin’ time! January 6, 1906 does not recognize that the private refrigerator car is the salvation of and the mainstay of his business and absolutely vital to its prosperity and expansion. Also I as firmly believe that there is not one large grower in the country, having no interest in the fruit commission business, who does not clearly recognize that the private car line, operat- ing on the principle of the exclusive contract, is the only practical plan of handling fruit refrigeration, and that it gives the shipper a quality and reliability of service impos- sible under any ot her scheme of operation. Scores of fruit- growers’ associations and hundreds of individual growers have given public testimony to that effect, and hundreds of pages of such testimony have been given in the form of legal evidence under oath Why, then, are the commission men so interested in put- ting the private refrigerator car lines out of business ? Because the private car has been steadily and irresis.:bly liberating the grower from the clutches of the commission man; because the private fruit refrigerator car has com- pelled the commission man to quit doing business upon the capital of the growers and forced him to become an actual buyer and a merchant in fact. Under the old conditions of shipping fruit and berries, the growers were absolutely at the mercy of the commission men. Fruit shipped with- out proper refrigeration stood a good chance of arriving in a more or lessdamaged condition, and this likelihood was the strategic stock in trade of the commission men, who were not slow to make the most of it. Many reliable growers have testified that in the days before the private car invaded their territory they considered themselves lucky if the commission merchant did not demand a check from them to make up what the reported net results from the sale of their fruit fell short of the amount of the freight charges and of the middleman’s commission. The con- signments of fruit acknowledged by the consignees to have arrived in good condition were, in those days, about as rare as honest packers are now popularly thought to be. Or. if the grower’s shipment was not reported to have arrive« in damaged condition, he was likely to be told that the market was glutted, that the finest fruits were selling for what the poorest should bring, and that the shipper would do weil if he did not have to send money to make up the freight Of course, it is true that without modern refrigeration great quantities of fruit did arrive at market in bad con- dition and that a glutted market was altogether too common. But this situation was diligently and assidu- ously used by the commission merchants as a club over the growers’ heads. A thousand pages could be filled with the evidence of growers who have suffered this sort of thing The coming of the private fruit refrigerator car into a district put an end to this kind of tyranny It carried the fruit of the growers into the usual market in precisely the same condition in which it left the orchards Chere was no dodging this fact; it was so clear to the grower, the railroad and the commission man that it was beyond question or dispute. That did away with the time-worn excuse of the commission man that the shipment was received in bad adamaged condition The backbone of that stock claim was »>ken By the same token, the private refrigerator car put the ther stock excuse of a middleman out of service The itted market became a vanishing quantity under the ability of the private fruit refrigerator car to take its cargo in prime condition to remote as well as near market In a word, not only did the private fruit refrigerator car multi- ply the markets open to the grower and shipper the good condition of his fruit in transit, but the ] system permitted him to divert his car at will and while in transit from its original destination to another less con- gested. In short, the private car enabled the grower to know that he could put his fruit into a good market in good Vate car ain Now these changes from the old line-up completely over- turned the business of the commission merchant The grower was no longer he Iple ss in his hands, and the result was that the middleman had to get out and hustle for business; he had to go to the grower and treat with him on something like a fair basis. The history of every fruit district in which the private refrigerator car has operated for a period of years shows that its advent was followed t the buyers who went out to get their share of the crop and to bid against each othe In a single short article than touch the high spot of that which has thus been stirred up about the private car lines -and to dé so in merely a suggestive way at that Therefore I have attempted in this paper little more than } I shall undertake sub- equently to deal in detail with facts and conditions which rin order to do so it is clearly impossibie to more a controversy of the magnitude an introduction to the subject, can only be put briefly and assertively in this opening article Several of the most important phases of this fight must be indicated by at least a passing statement. One of these is the matter of rebate rhe propaganda put out by the men who have set themselves the task of driving the private car off the tracks of the railroads of this country proclaims that the private ref! 1 igerator car is simply adevice contrived

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» evade the law forbidding the giving or receiving of re- bates This has been pounded into the ears of the peopl until, broadly speaking, they accept it without question Already I have shown that, so far as the Armour privat« cars are concerned, natural conditions, the force of cireum- stances, and the positive refusal of the railroad companies » put any mon ey into new-fangied re simply compelled my father to build then found that the re pansion in the meat industry, and tho fi) tui car worked a wonder ¢X- rht he saw that he could do as much for the fruit business. He backed h faith with his money and pioneered the way in the devel- opment of the fruit, berry and produce industry Phis development was not only natural but inevitabl Lc dent seemed to decree that the meat and fruit refrigerator car should be builded by private enterprise, and certain industrial laws seemed to have further decreed that the private car should remain in private hands, and that its private operation and control give a far better service to the industries which employ it than could a refrigerator All this is very remote from a artificially called into being to dodge the rebate car owned by a railroad device’ laW But let me add to this the statement that fact, the Armour private car is not used as a device to secure, directly or indirectly, rebates, discriminations or concessions to the car line owning it, to the shipper using it, to the individuals or any one of them—owning the Armour Car Lines, or to any individual near or remotely connected with the industry It was determined when the prohibitive law against rebates went into effect it wasto be obeved and not evaded; that a policy of indirection and eva a poor policy from any standpoint and would not be coun- tenanced by the Armour interests That there is a considerable difference of opinion be- tween the Interstate Commerce Commission and the rail- roads, relating to the transportation of property fror nterior cities of the United States upon a through tari! ver railroads and steamships to foreign countries, is un deniable. The situation has provoked much commer THE Howe t not s within tl rovit that the Interst lat the recent ind at Kansas ¢ t st pmetr i mm i n own « aN e Det oncessior yr disc in this reiat It er e th est nort! eas 3 to whethe the ariff schedule re Interstate Comme moditis 1 rit always bee made ments invol ait t it ido nowr «Ai rs of I} been Tully under nN or there ha respect it vhich the Interstat urged to letern I ( ) whether the tariff } } ( rhe ther tt at oT any other shipper tr ha Lit tatement in the p Another eleme atment and ai eparably associ the rate charge Right hers Will rece SATURDAY EVENING POST } ‘ t he i } au road ( le } feat WANTED—A MILLION H, I JUST wish I had a mi wut! mens By HENRY M. HYDE The She petulanti t ed the i iper on the floor as she spoke and walked » the window which looked down the ragged stretch Main Street Huh snickered her husband ut mpatheticall , he bruss ered On ti la t t ed rnir her i nit Austin ma \ But | ind l ( il d I stay here uch What's the trouble n You kno Gossip! ( 3 en ur f Austin! I I ( nd see pietur ! OD | want | The Mallers mortgage | i next Thursday,’ the man Then we'll run up to What you need is a rest A rest! This side the grave there's no place like Austin if a rest all you want ‘rupted Chicago John Stephenson smiled griml it his wife’s bitter « mphasis Haven't you any ambition left John?” she cried tensely Do you want to work forever for eighteen hundred a year?” He started to speak, but she interrupted Yes, 1 know. When Forsyth lies they'll make you president at two thousand. And all the time ll be living here Think of London and Paris and all the world we'll never see! “You should have married a you didn't I wouldn't say a word! body knows you've got H brain in you be satistied to sta in that wretche¢ ttle bank? Stephenson stood up and threw ick his shoulders We haven’t done so bad,” h iid “ There ’s the house and ——————EeEE . ten thousand loaned out, and Nuthe of Buc. That's My Off aneers Vie pepe bite hn

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SN “Oh, 1 Just Wish | Had a Million Dollars!" Here, read this,”’ he said handing Stephenson a letter 1 just pot it We regret to report,”’ the letter began, that we do not find ourselves justified in loaning the $10,000) you applied for, on the collateral you offer.’’ It was signed “Sixteenth National Bank, by A. B. Burt, Cashier Stephenson looked inquiringly at the younger n They've got me done Filson said ‘When I n Chicago last week they approved my security and promised to mail the draft yesterday What does it mean? It means that the Atlas Oil Company has put up a job on me The know that, if I t get th money before noon to-day, all my options'll be void and they'll gobble up leases on tive thousand acres of the fattest oil lands vy the country Perhay l can get vour options extended No, the Atlas people have plugged that hole, sure it a plain case If 1 don't get $10,000 more | noor to-day I'll lose the five thousand I've already put up and the leases, to Stephenson, there's a good million dollar profit in the dea i | a ! nterrupted himself 1dde1 } ! et me have the money? | can have the coll rai here to-t I (or ‘ la ‘ i n he bank t i rned de ! ind t it isn't even in hand, anyt We aren't doit I i of high finan Filson The exeited promo pra! to his fee Then I h ( t to! « the casn ¢t Vire or t I 41d “If 1 or had twer four hou eeway I'd beat their pain ire John Stephenson sat at his desk, string vacantly at the ink-wel Half-unconsciously he covered a sheet of paper with penciled dollar mark Ar on d pro No d I VAS ( the \ dre ofan enthu tic pror If the VAS O1 SOT of vettir the trutt Af er, Who had come in unhear 0 absorbed t stephe t i int thru a bushy face throug! tl a he counter-gr ir and = caller Het Jot Seer ' Filson around th orning Ye he ty if bel e! I ] reckor t pu ~~ Inher , the eu | , out of that deal What fo Dor LV couple of thousand ea sa J e farmer red } oice to a whisper r beckone he « hier close t the yindow ome it ! bent “a t t el nt! fart The I her it th mort ind struck a spouter. and ne re {Te t nur i! e lor ne We Dar T pad ‘ ead ip 4 t } n me f Pi Ain't th ext 1 i , epher { i NT «i ne (it ! rie t T tingle Perhaps Filson wa ht! Certainly the Atla the ¢ hier } no doubtit w their avents wh« had bored the t: i Austin oil field were extrem: ricl rofit! Stephenson sprar wok fre the sult, marked velope ontents on the de Presenth THE SATURDAY EVENING POST the calendar on the wall before him. ‘‘ Four “It won't up at days,” he said aloud, and shook his head. do. The old man’ll be home to-morrow.”’ He got up and put the envelope back in the vault. As he turned away, Slocum, the station-agent and telegraph operator, came sauntering into the bank in his shirt-sleeves, and threw an open yellow slip of paper on the counter. Old man must be having a hot time in the city,” he called over his retreating shoulder. suspect these church deacons.” The telegram was dated at Indianapolis. ‘‘ Going Home in ten days,” it read, and it was signed by Josiah Forsyth. The cashier looked up from the message and glanced around half-guiltily It made the plan he had had in mind perfectly safe. The clock struck eleven. Filson came hurrying into the bank, and the cashier turned to him with a new, shrewdly-calculating expression in his i always do to Chicago. meet eyes “Just got this from the Cincinnati Nation ” the promoter broke out, reading from a message in his hand ‘Will make loan, but can’t send money by wire. Now ain't thatalot of comfort? Ste phenson, I'll pay youa bonus of $5000 if you'll let me have the mone’ The talking about that,”’ he said Great Scott, man! Just think of it for a week eashier shook his head decidedly No use I'm going to lose a million dollars for the lack of a dirty ten thousand.” Looking at him coolly, Stephenson reflected that he had better grounds than the promoter for feeling certain of huge profits in the deal. ‘I can't loan you the bank's funds,”” he went on But” he hesitated and Filson watched him with staring eyes cash of my own and : Filson sprang to his feet, a but I've some And you'll loan it to me new light in his face No, Filson, I'll not loan youacent. But I will pay you ten thousand cash for a half-interest in all the 1 he interest!"’ he gasped. se oil leases.”’ promoter collapsed in a chair For a_ half- I've done all the worl I've already paid out $5000 and I'll have to put in ten thou- You don't want much! his sand more desk It'll be and pulled “That's noon himself to- Stephenson swung round to my offer,’ he said, in a tone of finality soon.” Filson glanced up at gether sharply I'll take it, he the papers and I'll sign them the clo k snapped, Draw up By twelve o'clock the partne rship papers had beer gned, and twenty thousand dollars— half of it advanced by the cashier paid out to fifteen farmers for the oil and of land. Every eral offe gas rights on five thousand acres one of 1} - ed iarge as reluctant to sign the leases. Se them Vv bonuses for the cancellation of the options they had given Before he went home to dinner the « hier took the ten- tr isand dollar Mallers mortgage ire h private box again and put it with the securities belonging to the banl That'll be paid on Thursday he said to hin lf ind = before Forsvtt pret home the cash'll be back n the bank vault It's a perfectly square business deal.” i AT DINNER Stephenson told | wife that I 4 closed his lease for the oil lands He's paid out $25,000,"" he said, ‘‘and it look lik there was an enormous profit) in the deal.” Well, Johr his wife answered, “‘that just illus- trate what I was talking about this morning You've known all about it from the start, yet you've yme down here and et this young man from teal the opportunity Our chance may come sooner than you expect Molly,’ Stephenson answered with an uneasy laugh Filson had two crews of drillers on the ground and » also took posse the agents of the Atla to Chicago to arrange Oil Con hey were se on of the ilson went for fh f the Independent par ry ied to handle the oil leases and r epnenson were to be equal owner nen parted on apparently friendly terms irbored ar grudge against the cashier for taking advantage of his necessity, he suc- cessfully concealed it Wednesday mort to the bank Stephenson heard dis bout Mallers It was whispered th Id % t of duplicate mortgages on his real estate and fled A hurried call ‘+ ’ ” TT “ 4} at the office of Mallers’ lawyer confirmed these renia. “*Eic re ports s fooled me 1] whether He'sa crook and ever body else the mortgage you hold is valid or not A group of de positors was already w: the bank to inquire about the Mallers defalcation The ban Maller Stephenson told them all That was k holds none of the paper,” once the o January 6, 1906 truth and a lie. As he repeated it, the cashier felt himself losing all hold on honor and common honesty In his mail he found a letter from Filson in Chicago. It was dated Tuesday and announced that the Atlas people had successfully blocked the placing of stock in Chicago, and that he was leaving that night for New York, where he was certain to find a broader market Slocum, the station-agent, came in presently, br a message from President Forsyth looks bad,” it said. ‘* Home to-morrow That left Stephenson just twenty-four hours in save himself from exposure, if, indeed, it were possible to form any plan which promised success from the time the bank opened he was not given even a moment to Instead, he was foreed imminent danger inging failure which to } Sut consider calmly his own situation to face a new and a more A steady and constantly increasing stream of depositors filled the bank, every as possible one of them eager to withdraw Is They showed a suspicious, to panic account as quickly unreasoning fear which was already When the cashier closed the bank at than $2000 remained in the vault farmers coming in from the country would renew the run If the $10,000 he had paid out on the oil leases hand it might have been weathered. Now Old Forsyth would come home to find hin his bank gone down in the crash! Stephenson sat down wearily to try to thinl He would raise as much money as he could on his house over night and put that in the bank to replace the funds he had bor- rowed But the despe rate sit which he found himself did not affect the soundness of his judgment \ moment's reflection showed him that any attempt to mort- gage his homestead in the present excited temper of the people would only increase the panic. He did not know President Forsyth’s address in Chicago. Besides, the old man would probably be on his way home before a message close four o'clock less cash To-morrow, were oO! self ruined uation in could reach him. There was nothing to do but await developments It was characteristic of Ste phe nson that, having once analyzed the situation and come to a definite conclusion, he should allow himself no further futile, distressing strug- gles Ve r\ caln ly home, having decided to tell his wife the whole miserabk truth he got up from his chair and started “*Mary,”’ he said, when they had finished dinner, ‘‘ there is something I must tell you Mrs. Stephenson looked at him in half-alarm ‘You know the Filson oil leases ‘Yes, [know,”’ she answered eagerly And the Mallers mortgage ‘Yos.” ‘Mallers has run away and swindled everybod\ ‘And we've lost our mone, ‘Yes, I'm afraid the money is gone You see he hesitated a moment, then squared his shoulder vent traight or I bought a half-interest in the Filson leases It cost me $10,000 Our Mallers mort- gage came due the next Thursday 0- morrow so) ] bor- rowed the money from Filson, | Hear You've Been Striking Oil”

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the bank and gave the mortgage as security. Now Mallers has run away, and | John,” gasped his wife, rising to her feet, ‘‘you—you haven't done anything dishonest ?”’ Sit down, Mary,” he answered her. ‘ Now, listen ilson had to have ten thousand to make final payment on I hi soptions. I knew our mortgage was coming due to-day And I knew those oil leases would pay a big protit So I took the money from the bank. Now I can’t put it back.” “But that isn’t dishonest!’ “It wasn't meant to be But everything depends on how Forsyth looks at it He'll be home to-morrow “Then Mrs. Stephenson hesitated breathlessly he might say—you might be Yes,”’ her husband interrupted with a bitter smile, you might as well say it I may be arrested when Forsyth gets home.’ Oh, John,” cried his wife, throwing her arms about his h s all my fault! WwW J' JHN STEPHENSON did not sleep until early Thursday ©@ morning. Then, after lying in a troubled doze for a couple of hours, he was awakened by the sound of his wife’ suppressed sobbing in the next room He went in to her, and she turned a haggard face toward him and stretched out her arms “Oh, John,” she cried, ‘‘I can’t bear it! Isn't there something we can do? It’s all n y fault! At the sight of her tears a feeling of he iF less anger took hold of him. He had no thought but to take the responsibility of his own acts on his own shoulders. Yet, in his inmost mind he knew that, to a certain extent, she was ri her sharp spur to his ambition he wot meddled with Filsor oil lease And the presen of a weeping woman wi immensely to th difficulties of the situat i to face ‘Molly,” he said, almost roughly, I'm not a baby I went into this deal because I wanted to ave You must go up t tay with your sister Stephenson insisted o1 aking nfor Chicago. Fror the station he went directly to the bank. His first customer Was one of the men who had withdrawr h i yur the da Phe d I er last night t said, ‘and we decide money ba Sh laughed at me for getting scared Stephenson received the deposit of $2000, feeling like a I pocrite a he aid Oo. She said everybody knew John Stephenson was as square as a die,” t he man Went or Nothing like standing in with the ladies, eh, John?’ All morning men kept coming in to re-deposit the | } money they had drawn out The panic of th previous day had changed, without any apparent reason, into a feeling of renewed confidence Ihe bank was safe. Now, if there were only some wa ot sa gy } self fron The d perate g to Filson came into I ter na train somewhere bet Yor B les, | Was 1n no position to ask a financial favor from a man ol hose necessities he had just taken id la There was nothing —absolutely nothing—to do but to wait for the coming of Forsyth The sound of the engine !l as a train pulled into the station made him realize ive to wait er I y long. He glanced up at five, th t i would be all over in a f vould be branded as a defaulter or, at be st, turned out of the bank penniless, to beg n life over again with a black stain on his record He walked over to the side window and lo d down the street leading to the statior He saw the village hack coming swiftly toward the bank The old man must be in a terrible hurry to spend a quarter that way,”’ he said to himself bitterly Any- how, he'll be glad to find the panic’s over A great pity for himself filled Stephenson as he watched the oncoming hack. Plenty of men had taken longer chances than he and had won out It was a terrible, a cruelly unfair, thing that he, whose intentions had beer entirely honest, should be caught like a rat in th " The hack stopped at the curb in front of the bank, the door fie open and out jumped Filson! I thought you were in New York said Stephensor forcing himself to be caln I did expect to be answered the sn ing Filsor : The re a ant seem to be a cnance of ser { al ot our stock in Chicago. But Tuesday evening at the club I met a broker. who asked quotations on a good blo 250 shares at a hundred and I'll let vou have I told him by wavy of a joke give you my check syth, who came in pant Not a word to the old man satchel for fear of out to Maller now wh With Her Dainty THE SATURDAY EVENI without a m« iow and have rtodo but | back and a pr a rut Let that’stoo bad. Fil » the prom« Feminine Unquestioning NG POST

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hold of that he sold in Chicago? to be the key you can get tock That to tne if you'll get situation my power! of attorney back from ilson Stephenson an- wered, ‘I'll look after the rest of it.” *That’sasimple matter. We'll written notice on him that his power of attorney 1s re- voked. My men have him located.” \ messenger left just serve the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 6, 1906 looked at Mrs. Morris and the expression on her face in the moonlight compelled his confidence. “T’ve come down to Wall Street myself, Mrs. Morris,”’ he “to be sheared.” Native caution, a suspi- cion he was instantly ashamed of, had stopped him. The change of feel- ing had showed on hisface, and the woman had _ been quick to see it. “I don’t think you'll be sheared, Mr. Stephenson,” she said quickly. ‘‘Come, almost began office with the signed paper, and Getty turned to his new client curi- ously You think you will be able to swing asked I hope t be which left no room for further inquiries. control of the company?” he Stephenson replied in a tone ‘*Bronson, let's able to get to a hotel lhat evening Bronson and Stephenson dined together at the Waldorf with ilver, flower broker pointed out half a de h to make their doings good newspaper cop) yreat dining-room Was porgeous The notoriety ine and red-shaded candelabra zen people whose Was wide enoug There Wa emphasized by the Wile, a a United States Senator whose senile decrepitude was young much-married presence of a be-diamonded couple of sensational actresses, a I mart set, with her latest husband, and, in member ot the the far corner, a group of heavy-jawed men, who were just coming into prominence as Western plungers on Wall Street rhe rest of the chairs were chiefly filled by rich or curious people from the provinces, many of them stiff and awkward in their « emng ciothes al d deeply impressed DY the splendor of their surrounding Presently Stephenson's gaze hich had been travel a slow and critical course about the room, fell upon the tw occupants of a tiny table in a partially screened alcove Over his face came a look of sudden, questioning admira- tior Good eve iwhed the keen Bronsotr | wondered if you'd pick her out We Stephenson smiled back at him. the most beautiful woman in New chuckled at the note of un- Bre nson egret in his friend's voice By shifting a trifle in his seat, Stephenson brought the hig! Morris well within his line of vision. His eves were pleased with the subtle air of aristo cratic Among the garish gowns in ender bred profile of Mrs distinction about her the room, her delicate la toilette was in itself a patent of refinement Stephenson changed the subject of con For tive he listened while Bronson t« experiencessince their graduation That her father with her he asked then abruptly Bronson again struggled with his mirth ‘No That’ old Mandlebaun He used to be her husband's partner on the Street Morris wa Feeling curiously embarrassed ersation minutes } dof hy on Wall Street, then?” He thought he was, but, if it hadn't been for his wife, he wouldn't have lasted twenty minute She's a business man Behind a screen of palms, musicians were playing wild gipsy airs, and Stephenson sat for an hour, fascinated by the color and glitter of the scene Suddenly the flute and ft ped into the thrilling measures of a Roumanian love-song The half-barbarice music strangely stirred John Stephenson. Hedrew a long breath and threw back his broad shoulders with a gesture ft unconscious power At the same instar Mrs. Morr looked up from her table Acros the wide crowded Too! their eves met. For flash the look ted then the woman urned te peak iviv to her companio1 Come, Bronson,” said Stephenson on the mo- ment tal lown the avenue before we t ’ V YETTY, the lawyer, reported, the next after- i on, that Filson had been successfully served with a written notice revoking his power of attor- ney to vote Stephenson's stock And now you must let me know if there's any- thing more we can do for you,”’ he added Thank you,’ Stephenson answered. ‘I guess there's nothing else just now Getty looked at him sharply. For a country Indiana village, this rhe banker, fresh from an man felt showed astoni iw self-reliance lawver warn him of the dangers which threaten In a Corner of the Moonlit Deck, with the Beautiful Woman Beside Him a greenhorn in a big deal on the stock-market —most particularly a deal in which the Atlas Oil Company is interested. But something in Stephenson’s manner kept him silent A little later Stephenson dropped into the brokerage office of Bronson & Co., and the senior member of the firm had interesting news for his friend The Atlas people have you spotted, John,”’ he said. ‘They want to meet youand size youup. Colonel Thomp- son, one of their crowd, is going to take a party up the Hudson on his yacht this evening, and I'm asked to take you along. Of course, I'm not supposed to put you wise to the scheme lll be readily When Bronson and the man from Indiana boarded the Sea Shell they found themselves the centre of a gay party Half an hour later, while Stephenson and his host were till subjecting each other to a cautious, but critical, scru- tiny, dinner was announced I've a surprise for you, John,” You're to take down Mrs. Morris.”’ Stephe nson straightened his shoulders This was a complication he had not expected. He bowed a littk stiffly as Bronson presented him. ‘The memory of the way he had stared at Mrs. Morris across the hotel dining-room embarrassed him. But she was quick to put him at hi glad of the chance, Stephe nson answered Bronson broke in CASE ‘“T saw you at the Waldorf last night, Mr. Stephenson she said, ‘‘and I knew you were from the West at a glance ‘*Hoosier written all over me?” Mrs. Morris appreciatively There's thing strong and out-of-doors about all you Western men,’ went on. I like the Our New York men are well-dressed little manikins — all out of the same One gets tired of their sameness.”’ After dinner Stephenson found himself sitting of the with the him party were gathered about the piano in the Her voice, her i manner, everything about her was sympathetic and stimu- smiled some- she tvpe box Ina corner moonlit deck beautiful woman beside Most of the cabin or sitting in a group far aft lating You Wall Street pliant among our West are making a great figure in ‘Jim Hill looms like a what the Moores against which men from the she said presently pygmies. Then, see ave done! You have a vitality, a force, Easterners seem powerle The vacht was slipping through the dark water under the shadow of the Palisades. As if from a long distance the soft sound of tk A pleasant feeling of Stephenson. He Came ie Canin John snging in isolation possessed “Is it Possible, Molly —— He Began let us join the others.”’ Stephenson, feeling un- comfortably that he less than a gentleman, found no further Only, when the had shown himself opportunity to speak alone with her. yacht was tied up again at its dock, she gave him her ungloved hand for a moment and said I'm at home on Thursday afternoons, and I shall be naie™ To-morrow, Stephe nson Thursday glad to see thought with a thrill, was Colonel Thompson would like you to call on him at his otfice,”” Bronson told St phe nson the next afternoon. | don't care to talk business with him,”’ the cashier answe red I believe the Atlas people are prepared to pay half a million for a controlling It don’t interest me. I'm going back to Indiana But when John Stephenson left the broker's office he went at once to the building of the Atlas Company on lower the old man an elevator and was left sitting alone for Then a knob turned and framed in the doorway of his private interest,’’ Bronson urged Broad way and sent his card to the president himself Presently the third ten minutes in an the great —_ 1 a clerk took him to floor, where he anteroom ood man I presume, Mr Stephenson, you called he began, the man from Indiana ventured I control sixty-two and a half per cent. of the stock of I'll but to interrupt the new Independent Oil Company,” he said sell my rights for two million dollars cash.”’ For a flash the cold gray eyes studied him. just half that, provided the ] ‘I'll pay deal is closed this . the answer. afternoon, came Stephenson replied, and without a further word left the office. On the street he recalled his invitation from Mrs. Morris, and took a for her house. He found her at home drawn and the room was dimly lighted with pink-screened candles In the effort to make up for his unworthy suspicion of the night before, he found himself, over a cup of tea, telling her most of what had happened since. She glow of sympathetic enthusiasm **Good-day, sir,” train at once and alone. The shades were small warmed into a “That's yorreous! * she said. ‘*T knew you'd have the courage, the to play for big stakes.’ The charm of the woman, with her dainty, feminine ways and her quick, unquestioning admiration of his mas- culine strength, seized John Stephenson irresistibly. ‘I'm going back to Indiana to-night,”’ he said finally, regret in his nerve, voice **Oh, but you'll be in New York again soon,’ When the Atlas really wants a thing it'll pay what it must to get it. And I shall always be glad she an- swered to see you.” Stephenson went straight through to Chicago to his wife. “Oh, John,” she cried, when she had kissed him; “sit down and tell me all about it.” He looked at her curiously, almost as if she had Pitilessly he noted the wrinkles about her eves, the gray hair at her temples I wrote the the Mallers mortgage had been straighte ned out,”” he began “John.” her hands tensely, ‘‘ before we go any further I want to say Set been a stranger vou that mess about she interrupted, clasping something It was wrong to take that money from the bank. The fact that Mr. Forsyth didn’t find it out doesn’t make it right. Nothing good can come of it What's the use of bringing that up?” he answered with a shake of his head. ‘* Forsyth got his mone Vv long ago The thing tnat interests me now is how much I'm going to make. It’s likely to be a lot,”” he added ‘Il ought to be glad,” she said, as if speaking to herself. ‘‘ I’ve always wanted you to make money a '

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE PRISONER AT THE BAR More Tricks of the Trade By ARTHUR TRAIN Author of McAllister and His Double

“ But we know that the la is good, 4 1 man use it guilty, provided the judge could be induced to let him off lawjully.” I Timothy, 1:8 with a fine, which the Policy agreed to } Ac HE tricks of the trade practiced by criminal attor- cordingly, th ted ft judge in his chambers neys are so many and so diversified that to describe and the latter promised to inflict onl fine in them in extenso would require volumes They case the defendant, whon we will eall, out of cor leration are devised to avail of every technicality of criminal for his memory, ‘Johnny D h,”’ should plea ilty procedure, every weakness of Jurymen, and every idiosyn- Unfortunately for this very satisfactory arrangement, the crasy of judge and prosecutor. They are adapted to each judge, now lot nce deceased, was aflicted with a serious separate stage of the trial and increase in boldness mental trouble which occasionally manifest ts in ingenuity as the defendant sees the net tightening around — pec r losses of 1 ! Wher Johr 1) h him. Ina previous article a few of the devices employed — the Policy King's favorit arraigne before actual trial were discussed Let us 1 vy see what in answer to the cler i ert ifio tated tl ! } can be done when at last the prisoner who has fought per- drew his plea of ‘“‘not guil and now ly to sistently for adjournment has been forced to face the wit- plead ruilt the ge, to the rprise ter nesses against him and submit the evidence toa jury of his nation of the lawver, the defendant, and t | el peers. Let us assume further that he has been ‘‘out on bled friends, turned upon him and exclaime bail,” with plenty of opportunity to prepare his defenss Ha! So plea uilty, do vou Well, I senter and lay his plans for escape you to the penitentiary for one year 1 mise e scoul This Poor Boy When the case is finally called and the defendant takes = dre his seat at the bar after a lapse of anywhere from six months Utterly overwhelmed, ‘Johnny Doug! . ed away earl compan thatl toa year or more after his arrest, the first questior for the while | lawyer and re t retire the « t r te eir t district attorney to investigate is whether or no the person expri their opinion of the Court \ t three mont} t ead of which he refe later t t ( ( i ma tL lorr M M iY he case, happened to be the office of he ¢ tr Prese ne apy ( attorne ne ne itt ‘ ed i smuilt I t ! eler inquires ‘. t H Well, how , ‘ Mr. Ix } ' sate or e | ip} i ¢ I

never went the isked ul I What do me wired , I hear nanrene 1s | him senten« tk ‘ ! elf I can't } he d t rne rhe The é ‘ otner « i nema é 1OW tt | eet { ‘ old frier Tot T TT ' iher ri re J cert j Doug! on the t nen ne i 7 ! tor OM « rse exclaimed John Dough! I t ne Ww ‘ ! elle ( at all! lr} I parte ‘ \\ ! | ed } tuted ar ‘ ma I " ite ‘ Island was : rine There **You don't sav! ried the lawver suc ful. atte , t «¢ e« Yes continued the ¢ tattorne | t that not fa , i") oore ' f } the best part of it You see, the ‘rings he v t lent tthe etter ppearatr two hundred dollars per month for each 1 h of Doug} client nd confu ! etime sentence which he serve The pr thoriti } p la er ar " } refused to keen him anv! er ! ¢ in the ¢ ' (rene | aan and is trying to pret of manda < ! ear her ‘ ‘ them to take him back and let him serve out the rest of the room, not a finger r raised sentence!” tu n that apt t t Many anotner 1 tratior ild be en where Led Away While His Relatives Retired to Express substitutions have been successfully earried out There or ch an effort to ese ‘ Their Opinion of the Court is one familiar case where ar nocent 7 erved ou ’ a three-vear sentence for a high municipal thera t iltempt made presenting himself for trial be in point of fact the individual | twenty-five thousand dollars per year; and another where n being pre mentioned in the indictment. This is often a difficult mat- by ‘‘ keepir till.”’ a minor offender earned fiftv thousane innocent peo} ha ‘ I ter to determine. ‘‘ Ringers’’—particularly in the magis- dollars per year during a short term as a consideration for large re i Phe question re trates’ courts—are frequent. Sometimes they appear even not turni State’s evidence how to get the cli tT when he in the higher courts If the defendant be an ex-convict Probabl the 1 t ‘ i nst ‘ n record « he an the pathies of the or a well-known crook, his photograph and measurement making use of a dumn «curred in the early stages « tart W vey will speedily remove all doubt upon the subject, but if the now famous Morse-Dodge divorce tangle Dodge the market ' he be a foreigner (particularly a Pole, Italian or a Chir had been the first husband of Mrs. Morse, and from bachelor, wt not pr re f man), or even merely one of the homogeneous inhabitants him she had secured a divorce of the densely-populated East Side of New York, it is A proceeding to effect the ar ! sometimes a puzzling problem. ‘‘Mock Duck,” the cele- nulment of her second mar- ‘ brated Highbinder of Chinatown, who was set free after riage had been begun on the h two lengthy trials for murder, was charged not long ago ground that Dodge had never t with a second assassination He was pointed out to the been legally served with the r police by various Chinamen, arrested and brought into papers in the original divorcee the Cr inal Courts Building for identification, but Cast in other words, to estal ‘ long time it was a matter of uncertainty whether friends _ lish the fact that she was of his (masquerading as enemies) had not surrendered a in spite of her marriage to : substitute Luckily the assistant who had prosecuted Morse, the wife of Dodge , this wily and dangerous Celestial in the first instance was Dodge appeared in New Yor able to identify him and swore that he had never + Many vears ago, during the days of Fernando Wood, been served with any paper a connection of his was reputed to be the power behind <A well-known and reputable the “policy” business in New York City—the predeces- lawyer, on the other hand, Mr he sor of the notorious Al Adam the “ Polic King.’ A Sweetser, was prepared to runner”’ belonging to the system having been arrested wear that he had served them and policy slips having been found in his possession, the personally upon Dodge him- reigning Policy Kiag retained a lawyer of eminent re- self. The matter was sent by t} spectability to see what could be done about it The the Court to a referee At the tl defendant was a particularly valuable man in the business — hour set for the hearing in the ‘ and one for whom his employer desired to do everything — referee's office, Mr. Hummel n in his power. The lawyer advised the defendant to plead and Mr. Steinhardt arrived * That ain't Him at Ali, at All! on

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one jJuryman to procure a disagreement, and as usually “two dis: rreements are equivalent to a verdict of not lants rarely heing tried more than twice guilty defen this offer is a comparatively safe one for the defendant to make since the prosecutor, ho must secure unanimity on the part of the jury (at least in New York State), can afford to take no chances of lettin an incompetent or otherwise unfit talesman slip nto the bex. Caution re- quires him to examine the iry in every important case, and frequently this ruse on of the defendant makes it appear as if the te had less confidence in its case than the defense invariably used by the late William F Howe, of Howe & Hummel, in all homicide ‘ases Where he appeared { The next step is to slip ome uryman into the box } , than Their Clients who is likely for any one ot the defense a thousand reasons to lean toward the defense — as, for example, one who is of the same religion, nationality or even name as the defendant I once tried a case where the defendant was a Hebrew named Bauman, charged with perjury Mr. Abraham Levy was the counsel for the defendant, and having left an associate to select the jury I returned to the court-room to find that he had chosen tor his foreman a Hebrew named Abra/ ] Needless to say, a disagreement of the jury was the almost inevitable result [he same lawyer not many vears ago defended ent named Abraham Levy In like manner he managed to get an Abraham Levy on the ury, and on that occasion s icceeded in getting his client Frequently Little Better in Appearance olf ‘ No method is too far-fetched to be made use of on the chan ( catching ‘ tray talesman In a case fended by Ambrose Hal. Purdy, where the deceased had ven wantonly stabbed to death by a bloodthirsty Italian tiv after the assassination of President Mcehinl the a ! ‘ ery itna 4 quarrel Nad arisen en the ty ! ‘ t >the act that the deceased had idl proel ed anaret loctrines and ope i the death of the President, that the defe } tulated with hit Vhereupon the decease ed the 4 ner, Who had killed him in self-defense Phe whole thir i » thin as to deceive nobody, bu Mr. Pu is ea i 4 ook the witne chair to be eXA ‘ nth Ole ni isked each one Pa t « for askit ch a question at this time t ! jut ! infortunate ciient tha npel it have } ( tt fhe i rej ‘ nth eva- tt j \ conti lr i eT ju ecu ne good 1l¢ vhieceh t ast th the trial and show itse n the et t nay re irk ad I the earl lave of the ‘ Durir ! ( lan ! rae rial each ie exhauste j hirt veremt challen and also the entire par ( ? he x At th i of the case the fore in became i had to be X¢ i No r 3 were eft ex pt ome t 1 beens ed by mutual I nt me trifli nd who « f« tv had remained 1 t H oiced in the name Stone Both ie then agreed to i ‘ hi i reman provided he i ii V Air I ‘ t i! } to be the case het 1 phantly mace Vav towa the box \ he did t* fendar our l re ihe Stone which the uilders rejected has become the head of the corner The li nerated by t meagre jest stood him later in ‘ ent 1 n cle alt wy other defense, sor criminal attorneys r edible as it i el eek to excite ympathy for t! I i i wearing in court so intoxicated t { ide Care ¢ f the dcetendant intere i | rs Na Irequently been acqul a re iW ver ot i ? pwaci The attitud } ’ h ca er » be that the defenda nas t had a t and so sl ld be ac «jl i, al va ‘ ipT il »>the jurvma . mpat hie he overl he fac rv his act the prosect en? ! ait al Similarly het tryin ‘ ‘ ( aborir ‘ ve ftenape an uncouth: i t ed THE SATURDAY EVENING POST attorney carry this to an extreme which would seem to “out-Herod Herod.” ‘An’ I pray you,” he exclaimed pathetic- ally to the jury, ‘‘ not to lay up ag’in’ this poor homeless defendant nothin’ that J either done or undone!” Generally speaking, the advice credited to Mr. Lincoln, as being given by him toa young attorney who was about to defend a presum- ably guilty client, is religiously followed by all criminal practitioners : * Well, my boy, if you've got a good case, stick to the evidence; if you've got a weak one, go for the People’s witnesses; but — if you've got no case at all, hammer the district attorney ‘ea Asarule, however, criminal lawyers are not of a sufficient calibre to ‘‘ hammer” the prose- cuting officer, but endeavor instead to suggest by innuendo or even open declaration his bias and unfairness ** Be jair, Mr !’’ is the continual ery “Try to be fair!” The defendant, whether he be an ex-convict or thirty-year-old professional thief, is always “this poor boy,” and, as he is not compelled by law to testify, and as his failure to do so must not he weighed against him by the jury, he frequently walks out of court a free man, because the jury believe from the lawyer's remarks that he is in fact a mere youthful offender of hitherto good reputation and de- erves another chance. When such a one 1 his record is repeated by the clerk in open court the jury learns a valuable lesson in practical criminal juris- prudence By all odds the greatest abuse in criminal trials lies in the open disre lawvers who deliberate ly supply of them is convicted gard of professional ethics on the part of es, In their opening and closing addresses to the jury, what incom tent bits of evidence, true or false, they have not been able to establish Dy their witnesses Chere is no comple te cure for this, for even if the judge rebukes the lawyer and di- rects the ury to disregard what he has as ‘‘not be ing in the evidence,’ the damage has been « still lingering in the jury's mind without any opportunity on the part of the prosecutor actually to disprove it There Is no antidot for such jury-poison A shyster lawyer need but to keep his client off the stand and he can saturate the jury respectability and history which his imagination is powerful enouvh to supply (n such occasions an ex-convict with i ‘noble fellow, who, rather than nily name tainted by being connected with a 3 mind with any facts concerning the defendant is willing to risk even convic Rough Rider a veteran of the glorious war which knocked the shackles from the slave the father of nine children aman hounded by the polic lhe district attorney may shout himself hoarse, the judge may pound his gavel in righteous indignation, the lawyer may apologize that eal with which he feels inspired for his client’s cau aps (Which only makes matters worse) has } but some juryman ma pose that, after all, the prisons aheroort! etil a ttorney Who poses as a philar - thropist and who invariably promises the jury that if thes acquit his client he will personally give hin employment If he has kept half his promises he must by this time have everal hundred Clert gardener achmen, choremer and «Alt In like manner attorneys of this feather will deliber ately state to the iry thal the defendant had taken the stand he } testified thus and so; or that if certair nesses who have 1 appeared (and who perhaps ir eaht ago not exist at all) / testified they would have established various fact Such lawvers should be locked ip or disbarred; courts are powerless to negative entirely their dishonest vy in individual cases rhe privilege of remaining silent and not testifying it h own behalf without prejudice to his case is the great est boon which a criminal defendant now enjoys Hi real character, profession and past performances are cor cealed from the jury and his own version of the affair (whic would usually clea ate his guilt or innocence left in obscurity reasons can be advanced why a defendant charged with crime should not be con pelied to té ll what he knows of the affair as well as the other witnesses. Surely the public would benetit by such legis- lation, and there is good ground for belief that the whole theory of the privilege of witnesses to decline to testify to facets because their answers vy tend to degrade or in- criminate them "’ is founded on a purely fictitious doctrine peciously described under some such vague phrase as th ‘right of individual liberty and privac Such “rights well give way before the common weal Of course, few jurors in strict point of fact can wholly sregard the failure of a defendant to render explanation January 6, 1906 of the charge against him, tell his side of the case, and submit to cross-examination. Common-sense men cannot but ask themselves, even unconsciously: ‘“‘If the man be innocent, or can explain this matter, why is he not willing to do so?’’—or: ‘If he is not ready to take the stand must he not have something to conceal?” A trick of which skillful criminals sometimes avail themselves in or- der to negative this subconscious argument is to decline ‘ counsel and ‘“‘stand upon their constitutional right to defend themselves In one of the first cases in which the writer ever appeared for the prosecution, a defendant who had five convictions for felony to his discredit adopted this course. As he had no lawyer to conduct his exami- nation in the event of his taking the stand, no juror could comment fairly upon his failu he almost gained his freedom Clever counsel, of course, habitually make use of all » to do so By this device sorts of appeals to sympathy and pre,udice In one case in New York in which James W. Osborne appeared as prosecutor the defendant wore a G. A. R. button. His lawyer managed to geta veteranon the jury. Mr. Osborne is a native of North Carolina. The defendant’s counsel to use his own words, ‘‘ worked the war for all it was worth and the defendant lived, bled and died for his country over and over again In summing up the case, the attorney addressed himself particularly to the veteran on the back row, and, after referring to numerous imaginary engage- ments, exclaimed Why, gentlemen, my client was pour- ing out his life blood upon the field of battle when the an- cestors of Mr. Osborne were raising their hands against the flag! For once Mr. Osborne had no adequate words to reply $y far the most effective and dangerous ‘‘trick”’ em- ployed by guilty defendants is the deliberate shoulder- ing of the entire bla one of two persons who are indicted together for a single offense A common example of this is where two men are caught at the same time bear- ing away between them the spoil of their eri ointly indicted for “ criminally receiving stolen Both, probably, are ‘‘side partners,”’ equally have burglarized some house or store in each other's com- pi They may be old pals and often } ogether. They agree to demand sep that whoever is convicted first hall responsibility Accord ngly, \. is tried and, in spite of his asseveration that he is innocent and that the ‘stuff’ wa given him by a strange man, who paid him a dollar to nsport it to a certain place, is properly convicted lhe bargain holds. B's case is moved for trial, and he claims never to have seen A. in his life before the night ir question and that he olunteered to he which seemed to be too heavy t estifies that thisisso— that B., Adam, tendered his services and that he a of the offer weight of evidence is clearly with the defenda The jury are usually prone to Many changes are rung upon this device famous is that of a man who was convicted of first degree and sentenced to be executed. It rcumstantial evidence and the verdict he result of ion on the part of the hours of delibers had stoutly denied knowing anything of the homicide Shortly before the date set for the execution, another mar turned up who admitted that he had committed the ¢ and made the fullest sort of a confession \ vy tria thereupon granted by the Appellate Court, and the vict, on the application of the prosecuting attorne discharged and quickly made himself scarce It th He had Chosen for His Foreman a Hebrew Named Abraham Levy

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| UR business has changed great Horace Greeley S da\ And, althoug! ict ive yme into little offices like ours, the greatest changes have come in the men who do the work in these offic In the old days —the days before the great war and after it printers and editors were rarely lead citizens in the community) rhe editor and the printer were just coming out of the wandering minstrel stage of social development and the journeyman who went from town to town seeking work, and increasing his skill, was an important factor in the craft. One m coming in when there was a rush of work in the office, and also figure on one of the tourists in the office leaving when he was needed most From the ranks of this wayward class came the old editors and reporters; they were post idua ‘ ( back room of newspaper offices and they brought to the front room th r casy view of life some ort neral writing craftsmen had professional fame. There was Peter B. Lee, who had tramped the country over ho kne Greeley and Dana and Prentice and Bob Burdett and Henry Watterson, and to whom the cub in country offices looked with worshipful eyes. There was ‘‘Old Slug the printer who carried his moulds for making lead slugs and who, under the influence of improper stimulants, could recite stirrin And there was Buzby-— old Buzby, who went about from office to office leaving his obituary set up by his own hand iw scenes from the tragedies of Shakespeare conveying the impression that the end had at last come t misspent life Then there was J. N. Free the J. N.,"’ as he called himself, a gaunt, cadaverous figure ir broad hat and linen duster, with hair flowing ever hi shoulders, who stalked into the offices at unset hours t raise the veil’’ of ignerance and error, and ‘‘relieve the pressure of psychic congestion in a town by turning upo! it the batteries of his mind hey were a dear lot of old souls out of accord with the world about them, ever seek They might } ig the place where they would e stepped out of Dicker harmonize books or Cruikshank’s pict. now their lineaments seem out o in the modern world And yet they did live and move in the world that was, and the other day when we were looking over the files we came across the work of Simon Mehronay the name which he said was spelled Dutch and sounded Irish —and it does not seem fair to set down the stories of the others who have made our office traditions without giv- ing some account of him. For to us he was the most precious of all the old tribe of journalistic aboriginees. He came to the office one bright *s, and when one recalls then f drawing and impossible ght always depend upon a tramp printer THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Tremolo Stop By William Allen White I noe ul mud of o1 I t ur ve knew he had r tot nd ba " is the ot met ! il their wa from the Sout! i ne eason as Tipe t birds to come North and it Was the 1 d of Texa i clung to him His greeting is he strode through the front room, not waiting fora reply, was ‘‘How’s work And when the foreman told | to har his e fi , , aay ‘ I ‘ \ t , } i ; , , * +? ; There | } mal morning and the ia I i whence he ime t t t He Pisin +} } ‘ eile cal ol type at the end of the 4 i ned f obdact he ¢ i { office He was a e man, with a fr of ha he grea ve t « r of } coat th heac black eyes, and a n che that ofter eded ( was the opinion of the foreman and the prints Mechrona weakne i juor, the h that op not arise from anything he said. I i the weeks we did not hear him say 1 h, | th that followed, his mild little ce, that ever seemed teetering on the edge of the laugh it hich he fe of times during an hour, became a fan ir sour the office, and the soft, flabby little } i hich tt printers laughed about, during the first ‘ f } ployment in the shop, has rested or I in the shop guiding us through many sad wa In those days there were only threeof us in the fro and all the bookkeeping and collectin nd report editorial writing was done e th ha that one morning near the first of the ntl I books needed attention, no one | heard the ! of Hamlet by Thomas Keene at the opera house tl before, and no one about the rr vrite Wherefore there was perturbat t } came tre tne bac re ‘ pe and prove There \¢ t ! t ( t I a { i I 1 > have he« een here for a map ¢ 4 Bure } ‘ iff and en ‘ t i t i ‘ r y amongst ‘er In the illerv of the « } the college lacu and the Potte ‘ ! ne Cottonwood Vall Deil as the char pio! vell, and near him was Evere | ‘ ho! le publ ippearance t ne parted s] t ( was U! ( ‘ a ill Observe ar ‘ \ Morr } yus U-shaped ha | of his presence to the dr rele. The M Churet ey ented by brother-in-law John M vhois wear ine tlowered nec e, sent by | n California i lt t know 1 (rer t ) the Statesma I hen the orchestr | ed Turke n the S vy, and Bill M be in to ike Une ir ( vhict Markle Tee ran t J t} rht th chill Af I n the Straw he orc tra 7 i quick and de h, which Charley H played the snare drum at Ce bur therefore entitled t« eak or Say as The Irish Washer i! i appropriate overture the cu ‘ real show berar Mr. Keene's Hamlet is not far people as his Richard III, but it gave great isfaction: for it certalr i Metho t Hamlet from the clang of the gong to the home-st I The town never has stood for Mr. Lawrences Barrett's Unitarian Hamlet, and the high-churct Episcopal Hamlet put on the board winte by Mr. Frederick Paulding was distin lisay pointing. One of the most sear ng scene the play was put on when Ophel t they er and had to be carried out to the pumy he Chicago brother who plays the ghost has a great voice for his work fie mar ouls to a realizing sense that they are sin-stricken and hair-hung over the fiery pit The groans and a \ ‘ l¢ +} ; a , “ pe ta ‘ i i } ! me ! ‘ Me Got a “Chunk of Copy ame se And Then the Hor hat Mehronay en Walking wit! ! Report Had Been Wor i he } ‘ ipl +} cle il i eu ' oop na re ty !

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10 we were a week straightening matters up. Figures didn’t mean anything to him. When the bank failed he tried to write something about it, but he got the assets and the liabilities so hopelessly mixed that we had to keep him busy with other things, o that he had no time to touch the bank story. They used to when he laid down a piece of money, how- on a store counter he waited for his change, but be it said to the credit of most of the merchants that they would for Me hronay, non his next when he would ay around town that ever large, never ave the change to h to the store d give it a child tally he left the and became a fixture the front He iis and editorials and helped trae roon wrot+ rai hice th the advertising, drawing for this the munificent salary of fteen dollars a week, which uld have kept him like a prince; but it did not —though what he ne knew did with his money no For he bought no +, and never buttoned had Before sending out on the street in the some one in the oflice new clothe those he him morning had t« if it was a gala day say circus day, had to put a clean paper collar brown wool shirt and a procedure which he called of fashion out of an honest workin’- » button him up, and or the day of a big political powwow — we on Mehronay above hi: shove out the dents in his derby hat making a butterfly man He slept in the press-room, on a bed which he rolled up and stowed behind the press by day, and of even- ings he consoerted with the godds of nicotine as he called h his lead-penci the next hictitio plug tobacco — and putin his time at his desk with his pad of white paper writing copy for Nothing delighted himso much asa personage or situation which held real relations with local eve or home pr ople One of the best of his a new reporter who, according to day's issut many inventions Mehronay’s legend, had just quit work fora circus where he had been employed writing the posters. Mehronay'sjoy was to write up a local occurrence and pretend that the circus poster-writer had written it, and that we had been greatly A few days after the affair which had been written up by Was bothered to restrain his adjectives Sineclair-Rushman tone churche wedding a particularly gorgeous in one of the as the whole town knew, in a most dis Mehronay sat chuckling in omething which he put on the copy-hook before the bride’s mother usting manner his corner, writing going out on his beat It was headed A DAZZLING AFFAIR And it ran thus For some time we have realized that we have not been doing full justice to the weddings that oecur in this town we have been using a repressed and obsolete style which is painful to those who enter into the joyous spirit of such wcasions, and last night's wedding in the family of the patrician Skinners we to our gentlemanly and bane Mr. J. Mortimer Montague, late of the publicity the world-famed Robinson Circus and The following graceful account from Mr. Mon facile pen is the and satisfactory report of a nuptial « recorded in these “olumns assigned epartment of Menagerie most tague accurate vent we have ever And thereafter followed thi Last evening, just as the clock in the steeple struck nine, and the chivalry of our splendid city, composing wealth beyond the dreams of the kings of Indiaand leemingeagnians only excelled in splendor by the knightly company at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, issembled to witaess the marriage of Miss May Skinner and Mr. John Fortesque. The great auditorium was a bower f smilax and chrysanthemums, bewildering, amazing, superb in its verdant labyrinth As the clock was striking the hour, the ten-thousand-dollar pipe-organ filled the with strains of ductive, entrancing music, played by Miss Jane Brown, the only real left-handed zed world. Then came the wedding “a vast concourse of the beaut: lifes of most s* raniat ‘ seril yanist in the civil party, magnificent, radiant, resplendent with the glittering t her : ewels of the Orient, dazzling with gorgeousness, stupefying and miraculous in its revelation of beauty There were six hers —count them ix: ten bridesmaids ten ive, flower-bearing fairies, capt ured at an outlay time and money in far Caucasia. The bride's resplendent costume and surpassing beauty put the ‘tush on the Queen of Sheba, made Hebe's effulgence fade as the moon before the sun; and as the long courtly train of knightserrant and ladies-in-waiting passed the populace, the regal spectacle presented was one equaled since the proud Cleopatra sailed down the perfumed lotus-bearing Nile in her gilded ‘ Mare handsome u a bevy of re al, | f Immense never meet o pageant to THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 6, 1906 up, he brought it every morning in his pocket for them to pin on He was as simple as a child, and like a child lived in a world of unrealities. He swore like a mule-driver, and yet he told the men in the back room that he could never go to sleep without getting down and saying his prayers, and the only men with whom he ever quarreled were a teacher of zoélogy at the col- lege, who was an evolutionist, and Dan Gregg, the town infidel. One morning when we were sitting in the office before going When You Think You Can Fool Your Pa, Antony, triumph To describe the bride's costume begvars the English language; and the human imagination falls faint and feeble before the Herculean task. From the everlasting stars she stole the glittering diamonds that decked her alabaster brow and hid in the Stygian umbrage of her hair From the fleecy, graceful cloud she snared the marvelous drapery that floated like a dream about her queenly figure, and from the Peri at Heaven’s gate she captured the matchless grace that bore her like an enchanted wraith through the hymeneal scene The array of presents spread in the throne-room of the Skinner palace has been unexcelled in lavish expenditure of fabulous and reckless prodigal wealth anywhere in the world. Golden tokens literally strewed the apartment, merely as effulgent settings for the mammoth, appalling, maddening array of jewels and precious stones, sunbursts and pearls without price that gleamed like a transcendent electrical display in the hypnotizing picture.” while all the world stood agape at the unheard-of t need not be set However, it should be said that nothing we ever printed in the paper before or since set the town to laughing like that piece. We have calls to-day for papers containing the circus-poster wedding, and it was printed over two decades ago. There was more of the same kind, but down here It was Mehronay’s first great triumph in town; then the expected happened: for three days he did not appear at the office and we suspected the truth -that by day he slept the sleep of the unjust in the loft of Huddleson’s stable and by night he vibrated between the ‘‘oyster parlor,’ where he absorbed fabulous quantities of soup, and Red Martin’s gambling-room, where he disported himself most festively before the gang assembled there. The morning of the fourth day Mehronay appeared — but not at his desk We found him sitting glumly on his stool at the case in the back room, clicking the types, with his hat over his eyes and the smile rubbed off his face We were a month coaxing Mehronay back into the front His self-respect grew slowly, but finally it returned, and he sat at his desk turning off reams of copy, which was xo good that the people read the paper up one side and down the other hunting for his items. He is the only man we have ever had around the paper who could write. Every one else we have employed has been a newsgatherer But Mehronay cared little for what we call news. He went about the town asking for news, and getting more or less of it, but the way he put it was much more important than the thing itself. He had imagination. He created his own world in the town, and put it in the paper so vividly that before we realized it the wholetown was living in Mehronay's world, seeing the people and events about them through his merry Mr. Mehr may, and before he had been on the street six months he was calling people by their first names nicknames which he tagged on them to the v« room countenance. No one ever referred to him as or by He was so fatherly vung people that the girls in the Bee Hive, or the White Front, or the Racket Store, used to brush his clothes when they needed it, if we in the office neglected him, and smooth his back hair with their pocket-combs, and he never remembering the name of the particular ministering angel who fixed him up — called one and all of them ‘‘ darter’’ and smiled a grateful smile like an old dog that is petted, and went his way. The girls in the White Front Dry- Goods Store gave him a cravat, and, though it was made out to the street for the morn- ing’s grist, Mehronay dog-eared a fat piece of copy and jabbed it on the hook as he started for the door. “My boy was drunk last night,” he said. ‘‘Me and his mother felt so bad over it that I gave him a pretty straight talk this morning. There it is.” The office dropped its jaw and bugged its eyes “Oh, yes,” he continued Didn't you know I had a boy? He's been the best kind of a boy You are Wrong till here lately. I can see his mother don’t like it and his sister's worried, too.” His face for a second wore an expression of infinite sadness, and he sighed when the came back on the face he turned to us from the door as he said: ‘‘ Sometimes I think he is studying law with old Charley Hedrick and some- times I think he is in the bank with John Markley; but he is always with me, and was such a decent boy when I had him out to the college. But I saw him with Joe Nevison last night, and I knew he'd been drinking.” With that he closed the door behind him and was This was the article that Mehronay left on the hook smile rone Your pa was downtown this morning complaining about his ‘old trouble,’ that crick in his back that he got loading hay one hot day in Huron County, Ohio, ‘before the army The ‘old trouble,’ as you will remember, bothers your pa a good deal, and your ma thinks that his father must have been a pretty hard-hearted man to let him work so hard when he was a boy. Your pa likes to have you and your ma think that when he was a boy he did nothing but work and go to prayer-meeting and go around doing noble deeds out of the third reader, but number of the old boys of the Eleventh Kansas, who knew your pa in the sixties, are prepared to do a lot of forgetting for him whenever he asks it. The truth about your pa’s ‘old trouble’ is that he was down at Fort Leavenworth just after the close of the war, and after filling up on laughing- water at a saloon he got in a fight with the bartender and was kicked out of the saloon, and slept in the alley all night That was his last whizz. He took an invoice of his stock and found that he had some of the most valuable ex periences that a man can acquire, and he straightened up and came out here and grew up with the country. Your ma met him at a basket-meeting, and she thought he was an extremely pious young man, and they made a go of it. “So, Bub, when you think that by breathing on your coat-sleeve to kill the whisky you can fool your pa, you are wrong. Your pa in his day ate three carloads of cardamom seeds and cloves and used myrrh by the barrel. Also, he knew which was the creaky step on the stairs in his father’s house and used to avoid it coming in at night, just as you do now, and he knows just what you are doing. And more than that, your pa speaks from the bitterest kind of ex- perience when he pleads with you to quit. It is no goody- goody talk of a mutton-headed old deacon that he is giving you; it has taken him a year to get his courage up to speak to you, and every word he speaks is boiled out of an agony of bitter memories. He knows where boys that start as you are starting end if they don’t turn back. Your pa turned, but he recollects the career of the Blue boys, who are divided between the penitentiary, the poorhouse and the southwest corner of hell; he recalls the Winklers dead, one a porter in a saloon in Peoria, one crazy; and he looks at you, and it seems to him that he must take you in his arms as he did when vou were a little child in the prairie tire, and run to safety with you. And when he talks to you with his bashful, halting speech, you just sit there and grin, and cut his heart to its core, for he knows you do not understand. ‘It’srather up to you, Bub. In the next few months you will have to decide whether you are going to hell or not Of course, the ‘vilest sinner may return’ at any point along the road—but to what? To shattered health: to a mother heart-broken in her grave; to a wife damned to all eternity by your thoughtless brutality; and to children who are always afraid to look up the alley, when they see a group of boys, for fear they may be teasing you you, drunk and dirty, lying in the stable filth! To that one you will ‘return,’ with your strength spent, and your yada friends, gone to the devil before you, and your 7 4 ance in life frittered away

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“Just sit down and figure it out, Bub. Of course there are a lot of good fellows on the road to hell; you will have a good time going; but you'll be a long time there You'll dance and play cards and chase out nights, and soak your soul in the essence of don’t-give-a-dam- tiveness, and you'll wonder, as you go up in the bal- loon, what fun there is in walking through this sober old earth. Friends—what are they? The love of humanity what isit? Thoughtfulness to those about you? Gen- tility - Whatare these things? Letteroll—letteroll! But as you drop out of the balloon the earth will look like a serious piece of landscape. “When you are old the beer you have swilled will choke yeur throat; the women you have flirted with will hang round your feet and make you stumble. All the nights you have wasted at poker will dim your eyes. And the garden of the days that are gone, wherein you should have planted kindness and consideration and thoughtfulness and manly courage to do right, will be grown up to weeds, that will blossom in your patches and in your rags and in your twisted, gnarly face that no one loves. “Go it, Bub! don’t stop for your pa’s sake; you know it all. Your pa is merely an old fogy. Tell him you can paddle your own canoe. But when you were a little boy, a very little boy, with a soft, round body, your pa used to take you in his arms and rub his beard — his rough, stubby three-days’ beard—against your face and pray that God would keep you from the path you are going in And so the sins of the father, Bub-— but we won't talk of that.” Three months later, when the Methodists opened their regular winter revival, Mehronay, becoming enraged at what he called the tin-horn clothes of the traveling evan gelist conducting the meetings, began to make fun of him in the paper~— and, as a revivalist in a church is a sacred person while the meetings are going on, we had to kill Mehronay’s items about the revival; whereupon, his pro fessional pride being hurt, Mehronay went forth into the streets and got haughtily drunk, and strutted up and down Main Street scattering sirs and misters and madams about so lavishly that men who did not appreciate his condition thought he had gone mad. That night he went to the re- vival, and sat upon the back seat alone, muttering his imprecations at the preacher until the singing began, wher the heat of the room and the emotional music mellowed h pride, and he drowned out the revivalist’s singing partner with a clear, swect tenor that made the congregation turn to look athim. Mehronay knewthe Gospel hymns by heart, LADY XVI—THE STEEL WASP B ERTAINLY Hortense Rieppe would have won the battle of Chattanooga! I know not from which parent that young woman in- herited her gift of strategy, but she was a master. To use the resources of one lover in order to ascertain if another lover had any; to lay tribute on everything that Charley posse ssed; on his influence in the business world, which enabled him to walk into the V-C Chemical Company's office and borrow an expert in the phosphate line; on his launch in which to pop the expert and take him up the river, and see in his con pany and learn from his lips just what resources of worldly wealth were like ly to be in store for John May rant; and finally (which was the key to all the rest) on his inveterate passion for her, on his banker-like determination throug! all the thick and thin of discouragement, and worse than discouragement, of contemptuous coquetry, to possess her at any cost he could afford; to use all this that Charley had, in order that she might judiciously arrive at the de- cision whether she would take him or his rival, left one lost in admiration. And then, not to waste a moment! To reach town one evening and next morning by ten o'clock to have that expert safe in the launch on his way up the river to the phosphate diggings! The very audacity of such unscrupulousness commanded my respect: success- ful dishonor generally wins louder applause than successful virtue. But to be married to her! Oh, not for worlds! Charley might meet such emergency, but poor John, never! I nearly walked into Mrs. Weguelin and Mrs. Gregory taking their customary air slowly in South Place But why asteel wasp?” 1] said at once to Mrs. W It was a more familiar way of beginning with the little dig- nified lady than would have been at all possible, or suitable, if we had not had that little joke about the piano snobil between us. As it was, she was not wholly displeased ; these Kings Port old ladies grew, I suspect, sometimes a trifle wistful in the centre of their stiff, magic circle of pro- priety, and were not sorry when some young person (whom they knew about, of course) crossed it and ventured se- dately to caracole with them So she smiled and her dark eyes danced a little. “You remember I said that, then?’ gueli TI 1E SATURDAY EVENING as he seemed to know his New Testament, and the re Mehronay Was thoroughly sober there Was a short } and the singer on the pulpit sang There Were Ninet N face was wet with tears and he rose f n je ing and wrote an account of the r al so eulog we had to tone it down, and fora week went about da with all the oaths in the pirate’s log, Dan Gregg at he college professor who taught evolution Butt one ¢ coax him back to the revival. And as the spring came we thought he had forgotten the episode of |} regenerat and perhaps he had forgotten it, but the Sat iy be Easter he put on the copy-hook an Kaster sermon that! ‘ us in the office think that he had added another dreat his world. It was a curious thing for Mehrona \ indeed, few people in town realized that he wrote for} had been rollicking over t« on | at « ‘ months after the revival, and half the pious peop thought he was shamming his emotion the night he came t the church merely to mock them and their re Bu we in the office knew that Mehrona Ka I come as the offering of a contrite heart It ut crap-books in the town that it should be | } that the town may know that Mehronay wrot« The celebration of Easter is the celebrat he ‘renewal of life after the death pre ail te eople of mar faiths observe a s} gy fest al « ing, and of | aver tor tut ep I Probabl he Faste celebration i at at Thanksgiving 1 sur al some ancient e that: esta hed « f over flowing heart ng at the end 1 season ar praying for favor at the beginning of a new one gut to the Christian world Easter mbolizes a Divine tragedy The coming of Easter, as it et forth in the Great Book, is a most powerful st« it is the r ‘ one of the deepest pass ons that may move the humar heart —the passion of father-love Once there lived in the desert a man and his litth child —a very little boy, who sometimes was a bad litth boy, and who did not do as he was told And on a da when the father was away about his business the chil playing, wandered out on the desert and was lost Fre home the desert beckoned the little bo 1 eemed tal and fine to adventure it When the boy had beer ne fe many hours the father returned and could not fine vivalist kept the song service going for an hour, and whe ine feelingly with an adagio movement, and Met He came to the office chastened a BALTIMORE al Knew the ‘ rehir a i cr Yas ! ‘ t} ne ‘ wa i i } e wh T} } r the keep the fat ! athe i } cl a } r ea \r ot msy | » th ) father dierstal then he 1. ar T} heart | j ‘ | } ‘ th and Way } he the Aut} OWEN WISTER Nuthor « f The Virginian Commonly the Possessor of a Poetic Gaze, a Mane of Silvery Hair, and a Noble Neck he ‘ } t? i le ‘ } } athe ia | he r } } } re. al } ver h Vea thir put it bra } ( }

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12 failure of the phosphates, she had hailed it as an escape for her beloved John, and for all of them, because she made sure that Hortense would never marry a virtually penniless man, And when the work went on, and the rich fortune was unearthed after all, her influence had caused that revelation to be delayed because she was so confident that the engagement would be broken. But she had reckoned without Hortense; worse than that, she had reckoned without John Mayrant; in her meddling attempt to guide his affairs in the way that she believed would be best for him, she forgot that the boy whom she had brought up was no longer a child, and thus she unpardonably ignored his rights as a man. And now Miss Josephine’s disapproval was vindicated, and her own casuistry was doubly punished. Miss Rieppe’s astute journey of investigation—for her purpose had evidently become suspected by some of them beforehand—had forced Miss Eliza to disclose the truth about the phosphates to her nephew before it should be told him by the girl herself; and the intolerable position of apparent duplicity precipitated two wholly inevitable actions on his part: he had bound himself more than ever to marry Hortense, and he had made a furious breach with his Aunt Eliza. ‘That was what his letter had contained; this time he had banished himself from that house. What was his Aunt Eliza going to do about it? I wondered. She was a stiff, if indiscreet, old lady, and it certainly did not fall within her view of the proprieties that young people hould take their elders to task in furious letters. But she had been totally in the wrong, and her fault was irreparable, because important things had happened in consequence of it; shemight repent the fault in sackclothandashes, but she couldn't stop the things. Would she, then, honorably wear the sackeloth, or would she dishonestly shirk it under the false issue of her nephew’s improper tone to her? Women can justify themselves with more appalling skill than men. One drop there was in all this bitter bucket which must have tasted sweet to John. He had resigned from the custom house; Juno had got it right this time, though she hadn't a notion of the real reason for John’sact. This act had been, since morning, lost for me, so to speak, in the shuffle of more absorbing events; and it now rose to view again in my mind as a telling stroke in the full-length portrait that all his acts had been painting of the boy during the last twenty-four hours. Notwithstanding a meddlesome Aunt, and an arriving sweetheart, and imminent wedlock, he hadn't forgotten to stop ‘‘taking orders from a negro” at the very first opportunity which came to him; his phos- phates had done this for him at least, and I should have the pleasure of correcting Juno at tea. But I did not have this pleasure. They were all in an excitement over something else, and my own different excitement hadn't a chance against this greater one; for people seldom wish to hear what you have to say, even under the most favorable circumstances, and never when they bave anything to say themselves. With an audience so hotly preoecupied I couldn't have sat on Juno effectively at all, and therefore I kept it to my self, and attended very slightly to what they were telling me about the Daughters of Dixie Il bowed abs« ntly to the pDoetess ** And your poem os said A yreat success, I am sure?” ‘Why, didn't you hear me say so?”’ said the up-country bride; and then, after a smile at the others, *‘I’m sure your flowers were graciously accepted.” Ask Miss Josephine St. Michael,’’ I replied. Oh, oh, oh!” went the bride ** How would she know?” I gave myself no pains to improve or arrest this tiresome joke, and they went back to their Daughters and Sons of Dixie; but it is rather singular how sometimes an utterly absurd notion will be the cause of our taking a step which we had not contemplated. I did carry some flowers to Miss La Heu the next day. I was at some trouble to find any; f or in Kings Port shops of this kind are by no means plenti- ul, and it was not until | had paid a visit to a quite distant arden at the extreme northwestern edge of the town that 1 lighted upon anvtl ing worthy of the girl behind the counter. The Exchange itself was apt to have flowers for ale, but I hardly saw my way to buying them there, and then immediately offering them to the fair person who had ld them to me As it was, I did much better; for what I brought her were decidedly superior to any that were at the Exchange when | entered it at lunch-time They were, as the up-country bride would have put it, Miss La Heu stood them in water on the counter beside her ledger sia! expected \ Baltimore was read 4 Well, if it not all eaten yet Oh, no! Nota slice gone.” Ah, nobody does your art graciously accepted.” She was looking lovely. The new Lady 1 yesterday,”’ she said. justice here!” ‘‘Go and sit down at your table, please.”’ It was really quite difficult to say to her from that dis- tance the sort of things that I wished to sav: but there seemed to be no help for it, and I did my best ‘* | shall miss my lunches here very much when I'm gone.” ‘Did you say coffee to-day ?"’ Chocolate. I shall miss And the lettuce sandwiches?"

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\ ty ,, ; cay ~ - i ‘ - a “Gay ~ Yo P Danced Like a Whirling Fan , Among the Empty Chairs “Yes. You don't realize how much these lunches “‘Have cost you?”’ She seemed determined to keep laughing. ‘**You have said it. They have cost me my —— “I can give you the receipt, you know.” “The receipt?” ‘*For Lady Baltimore, to take with you.” “You'll have to give me a receipt for a lost heart.” **Oh, his heart! General, listen to " From habit she had turned to where her dog used to lie; and sudden pain swept over her face and was mastered. ‘‘ Never mind!” she quickly resumed. ‘‘ Please don't speak about it. And you have a heart somewhere; for it was very nice in you to come in yesterday morning after—after the bridge.” ‘*‘T hope I have a heart,’’ I began, rising; for, really, I could not go on in this way, sitting down away back at the lunch-table. But the door opened, and Hortense Rieppe came into the Woman's Exchange. It was at me that she first looked, and she gave me the slightest bow possible, the least sign of conventional recog- nition that a movement of the head could make and be visible at all; she didn’t bend her head down, she tilted it ever so little up. It wasn't new to me, this form of greeting, and I know that she had acquired it at Newport, and that it denoted, all too accurately, the size of my importance in her eyes; she did it, as she did everything, with perfection Then she turned to Eliza La Heu, whose face had become miraculously sweet. **Good-morning,”’ said Hortense. It sounded from a quiet well of reserve richness; just a cupful of melodious tone dipped lightly out of the surface Her face hadn't become anything; but it was equally miraculous in its total void of all expression relating to this moment, or to any moment; just her beauty, her perma- nent stationary beauty, was there glowing in it and through it, not skin deep, but going back and back into her lazy eyes, and shining from within the modulated bloom of her color and the depths of her amber hair. She was choosing, for this occasion, to be as impersonal as some radiant hour in Nature, some mellow, motionless day when the leaves have turned, but have not fallen, and it is drowsily warm; but it wasn't so much of Nature that she, in her harmonious lustre, reminded me, as of some beautiful silken-shaded lamp, from which color rather than light came with sub- dued ampleness I saw her eyes settle upon the flowers that I had brought Eliza La Heu. ‘How beautiful those are!’’ she remarked. Is there something that you wish?” inquired Miss La Heu, always miraculously sweet Some of your good things for lunch; a very little, if you will be so kind.” I had gone back to my table while the “ very little’ was being selected, and I felt, in spite of how slightly she counted me, that it would be inadequate in me to remain completely dumb ‘*Mr. Mayrant is still at the custom house?” I observed. ‘For a few days, yes. Happily we shall soon break that And she smelt my flowers connection.” “*We,’”’ IL thought to myself, ‘‘is rather tremendous.” It grew more tremendous in the silence as Eliza La Heu brought me my orders. Miss Rieppe did not seat herself to January 6, 1906 take the light refreshment which she found enough for lunch. Her plate and cup were set for her, but she walked about, now with one, and now with the other, taking her time over it, and pausing here and there at some article of the Exchange stock. Of course, she hadn't come there for any lunch; the Cornerlys had midday lunch and dined late; these innovated hours were a part of Kings Port’s deep suspicion of the Cornerlys; but what now became interesting was her evident indifference to our perceiving that lunch was merely a pretext with her; in fact, I think she wished it to be perceived, and I also think that those turns which she took about the Exchange—her apparent inspection of an old mahogany table, her examination of a pewter set were a symbol (and meant to be a symbol) of how she had all the time there was, and the possession of everything she wished, including the situation, and that she enjoyed hav- ing this sink in while she was rearranging whatever she had arranged to say, in consequence of finding that I should also hear it. And how well she was worth looking at, no matter whether she stood, or moved, or what she did! Her age lay beyond the reach of the human eye; if she was twenty-five she was marvelous in her mastery of her ap- pearance; if she was thirty-four she was marvelous in her mastery of perpetuating it, and by no other means than perfect dress personal to herself (for she had taken the fashion and moulded it into her own plasticity) and perfect health; for, without a trace of the athletic, her graceful shape teemed with elasticity. There wasa touch of ‘‘sport”’ in the parasol she had laid down; and with all her blended serenity there was a touch of ‘‘sport”’ in her. Experience could teach her beauty nothing more; it wore the look of having been made love to by many married men. Quite suddenly the true light flashed upon me. Oh, I had been slow-sighted indeed! So that was what she had come here for to-day! Miss Hortense was going to pay her com- pliments to Miss La Heu. I believe that my sight might still have been slow but for that miraculous sweetness upon the face of Eliza. She was ready for the compliments! Well, I sat expectant—and disappointment was by no means my lot. Hortense finished her lunch. ‘‘And so this interesting place is where you work?” Eliza, thus addressed, assented. ‘**And you furnish wedding cakes also?” Eliza was continuously and miraculously sweet. ‘‘The Exchange includes that.” *T shall hope you will be present to taste some of yours on the day it is mine.” **T shall accept the invitation if my friends send me one.” No blood flowed from Hortense at this, and she contin- ued with the same smooth deliberation. ‘The list is of necessity very small; but I shall see that it includes you.” ‘**You are not going to postpone it any more, then?”’ No blood flowed at this either. ‘‘I doubt if John—if Mr. Mayrant —would brook further delay, and my father seems stronger, at last. How much do I owe you for your very good food?” It is a pity that a larger audience could not have been there to enjoy this skillful duet, for it held me hanging on every musical word of it. There, at the far back end of the long room, I sat alone at my table, pretending to be en- gaged over a sandwich that was no more in existence external, I mean —and a totally empty cup of chocolate. I lifted the cup, and bowed over the plate, and used the paper Japanese napkin, and generally went through the various discreet paces of eating, quite breathless, all the while, to know which of them was coming out ahead. There was no fairness in their positions; Hortense had Eliza in a cage, penned in by every fact; but it doesn’t do to go too near some birds, even when they're caged, and, while these two birds had been giving their sweet manifestations of song, Eliza had drivena peck ortwo home through the bars, which, though they didn’t draw visible blood, as I have said, probably taught Hortense that a Newport education is not the only instruction which fits you for drawing-room war to the knife. Her small reckoning was paid, and she had drawn on one long, tawny glove. Even this act was a luxury to watch, so full it was of the feminine, of the stretching, indolent ease that the flesh and the spirit of this creature invariably seemed to move with. But why didn't she go? This be- came my wonder now, while she slowly drew on the second glove. She was taking more time than it needed. ‘Your flowers are for sale, too?” This, after her silence, struck me as being something planned out after her original plan. The original plan had finished with that second assertion of her ownership of John (or, I had better say, of his ownership in her), that doubt she had expressed as to his being willing to consent to any further postponement of their marriage. Of course she had expected, and got herself ready for, some thrust on the postponement subject Eliza crossed from behind her counter to where the Exchange flowers stood on the opposite side of the room and took some of them up

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST But those are inferior said Hortense rhese.”’ Didn't: you know,” she replies the langua And she touched lightly the bow] in which my roses stood roses tron i ngie gentieman tf i i! lad I i close beside Eliza's ledger Kings Port Eliza paused for one second. rhose are not for sale.” I stood staring and stiff, taking it in, taking Hortense paused, too. Then she hung to it They are Eliza, and Hortense, and the implicated John, a so much the best She was holding her purss Why body in Kings Port ws th l think so, too,”’ said Eliza But | cannot let any bride; and now my mirth rose ¢ ihbove ! one have them Hortense put her purse awa) ‘*You know best Shall XVHil- DOING THE HANDSOME THING you furnish us flowers as well as cake BY no mear essened 1 ‘ ire 1 ert Eliza’s sweetness rose an octave, softer and softer Hortense must feel herse ‘ ‘ , t Why, they have tlowers there! Didn't And to this last and frightful peck thro bars Mrs. Weguelin St. Michael and contained an invitatior Hortense found no retaliation With a bow to Eli a, and me for the next afte or 1 th iyt ort ‘ v1 a total oblivion of me, she went out of the Exchange dangers have come down to us from distar throu She had gone altogether too close to the cage at the end, the songs of ancient poet ihe nart ‘ pe and, in that repetition of her taunt about ‘furnishing’ channel between Scylla and Chat bristled unque supplies for the wedding, she had at length betrayed some- ably with violent problems, but with none, I st 1 th ng which her skill and the intricate enamel of her expe- pose that called fora nicer hand upon the hee or: ‘ \\V rience had hitherto, and with entire success, concealed more alert, than t! steering of 1 tt trireme namely, the latent vulgarity of the womar She was cessful marriage, between one man who believed | | wearing, for the sake of Kings Port, her best behavior, be your destined bridegroom and another who « her most knowing form, and, indeed, it was a well-done be so, meanwhile keeping each ir norance ¢ imitation of the real thing; it would last throu most vou were ngtotheother. In H nse’s ] ‘ occasions, and it would deceive most peopl But here have wished to hasten the wedding now, ha was the trouble: she was ring it while, through the whole encounter, Eliza La Heu had worn nothing but her natural and perfect dignity; yet with that disad- vantage (for good breeding, alas! is at times a sort of disadvantage, and can be battered down and covered with mud so that its own fine grain is invisible) Eliza had, after a somewhat undecisive battle, got in that last frightful peck! But what had led Hortense, after she had come through pretty well, to lose her te mper and thus, at the finish, expose to her weakest position? That her clothes were paid for bya Newport lady who had 4 taken her to Worth, that her wedding — feast was to be paid for by the bride- es; groom, these were not facts which Eliza would deign to use as weapons; but she Na 2 was marrying inside the doors of Eliza's Kings Port, that had never opened to ¢ admit her before, and she had slipped into ’ putting this chance into Eliza's hand and how had she come to do this? Oh, yes, my vision had been slow Hortense had seen, through her thick veil, Eliza’s interest in John in the first minute of her arrival on the bridge, that minute when John had run up to Eliza after the automobile had passed over at poor General. And Hortense hadn't re vealed herself at once, because she wanted a longer look at them. Well, she had got La | it, and she had got also a look at her anced John when he was in the fire ; mood, and had displayed the ¢ - ippropriate to 1840, while Charley play had been so much more modern And so first she had prudently settled that awkward phosphate difficulty, and next she had paid this little visit to FE in order to have the pleasure of telling } With All Her Blended in four or five different ways, and driving Serenity There was a it in deep, and turning it round dor Touch of “ Sport” you ish you may act hir " in Her ‘That's all as cl as day,”’ I said to mvself. ‘‘ But what does her loss of ten per mean?” Eliza was writing at her ledger. The sweetness hadn't entire gone: it was too soon for that, and be sides, she knew I must be looking her ‘Couldn't you have told her they were my flowers ] performed thi ifter? t : or to-? Y asked her at the counter, as I prepared to depart thus precipitated by some ir table turt the } Eliza did not look up from her ledger Do you think — her poor dear fathe But she had she would have believed me?” by pl ng it for decided] mu **And why shouldn't couldn't be used Go out!" she interrupted imperiously and with astamp tand fixe né uW he of her foot You've been here long enough! it Jol Horte ! You may imagine my amazemeny at thi It was not get her boat in safe wit t sn } either J until I had reached Mrs. Trevise’s, and was sitting down to or Charl 1 wondered a little that st answer a note which had been left for me, that light agair incertaintyv about her affiances er. § nyu , came. Hortense Rieppe had thought t flowers were much | vord to hit from John Mayrant and Eliza had let her think s« riven her the second time to put } Yes, that was light, a good br light shed on tt heron the re of the pl ‘ | I matter; but a still more brilli: n is cast | ‘ rich experience f life } ight he ! up-country bride when I reac frevise’s. I told a woman should not be bjecte& ‘ her myself,at once, that I had taken flowers to Miss La Heu woman's advent. On the whole, | suppose I preferred she should hear this from me bef she learned nati hose flower ( | ‘ it from the smiling lips of YOSSID It surprised me that she that Eliza. the minx. s ild nn oy 1 oT should immediately inquire what kind of flowers ? a joy to the marr n wat ne vour ene harried and **Why, roses,"’ I answered; and she went into peals of | discomfited by his own gratuitous contrivance laughter on serenely at a show which hasn't cost lag H I Pray share the I beggec ‘ t i ‘ i t tory ‘ I I Had t 0 ‘ } l hadr ! n ork ‘ 1 ‘ W t ‘ r is t ’ ne ‘ ‘ Hh Dos lL ee ! ff read hat ‘ ! And Y 7 } ’ ened la M\ ) \ il i he e of ‘ me when other i My \ M ‘ nephe } ried | { ’ ’ ; ; l ‘ { th » for \ ‘ ot ! iT I t ! } ! n heir u rou t t is equal I . } } | the

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a. U 6. PAT. OFF FOUNDED A°‘D' 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 423 TO 427 ARCH STREET GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 6G, 1906 Single Subscriptions, $2.00 the Year In Clubs, $1.25 Each 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 © Lovers of self admit of no rival ¢ Necessity knows no law but a mother-in-law @ Cupid gets blamed for many errors of judgment ¢ Often confession is owning ip Ww hen you are sure to be caught @ Sometimes conservatisn moly radicalism in it dotage | There never was a rood ener who would hot Make a better friend C When women exchanve secrets the re« ording angel opens a new set of boo! <q A woman's lov: easured le by what she gives than by what she forgive @ When a sarcastic woman marries, even the honeymoon needs to be sweetened @ The power be hind the throne of Roosevelt, President, is Theodore Roosevelt, citizen @ A man who wears diamonds may be a gentleman, but appearances are against him @ Sermons on the dangers of wealth are not intended to discourage the collection plate € Can it be that the simple-life craze has already joined the ash-heap of discarded luxuric @ Those who are tive minutes late do more to upset the order of the world than all the anarchist © Wisdom is more precious than rubies: therefore women, with an eye to economy, select the rubies @ Emperor Nicholas of Russia has shown what even the most absolute monarch will do in order to hold on to his salary Farmers’ Profits YECRETARY WILSON jubilantly calls attention to ) the fact that the farmers are rich rhe value of farm products in 1905 was nearly six and a half billion dol lars, which promises a neat addition to the billion or so that the optimistic Secretary says the farmers have in their stocking But this agreeable condition is not altogether rhe fact is that American agriculture is the strongest industry in the world by the It succeeds with individualistic and competitive methods that everybody else has abandoned, only because of the fertility of the soil and the enormous market lhe farmer simply raises his grain and sells it. Thus, due to the farmers themselves grace of Providence usually, a big production means a low price, and as a rule although in wheat the speculators occasionally help him out the lowest price for the grain obtains in the months THE SATURDAY EVENING POST when the farmer is selling his crop; the highest price after it has got into the hands of middlemen. The packers naturally wish a low price for hogs when receipts are heavi- est, and the hoary old law of supply and demand usually gives it to them. Broadly speaking, the farmer gets the lowest price when he has most to sell. The production of iron is now the greatest on record, and prices are very high. The mills, working as a unit through their trade agreements, increase their capacity only when prices begin to advance. When prices show signs of de- clining, they promptly curtail output. So they get the highest price when they have most to sell. This, also, is according to the law of supply and demand; only they take the other end of the proposition. All the coérdinated, unified industries and that includes pretty nearly every- thing except agriculture let the demand come first, then meet it with their supply; so they have the fixing of the price. The farmer furnishes supply first and takes what price demand will give him. The cotton-growers are already working, through association, to keep such con- trol of their supply as will enable them, at least, to meet demand half-way. The fruit-raisers of Michigan were mostly ‘‘ broke”’ until they formed associations and thereby kept control of their supply and had something to say as to what prices they should get. Now they are quite uni- formly prosperous, **Retiring”’ Bosses by ) of the worst of the bosses defeated in the November Y elections has ‘‘retired’’ from polities, in accordance with his announcement on the election night, when the returns were hammering at him. He ‘‘retired”’ a few years ago in the same circumstances But) when the storm cleared away and there was no longer danger of his being arrested and pointedly asked, ‘‘ Where did you get it?’ he ‘‘responded to the unanimous call of ‘the grand old party,’”’ and “reluctantly took the tiller in his experienced hand” again What a farce! What a miserable, time-worn joke! But we shall never hear the last of it until a victory for honesty is followed up. It isn’t enough to beat a boss at the polls He must be jailed and stripped of his stealings. A few victories of that kind and the boss business would lose all itscharms. How the house-breaking industry would thrive if the burglars knew that, when the police interrupted, they would not suffer any inconvenience beyond the necessity of withdrawing until the police went to another part of the beat! A Corner in Kings Ww" have the Norwegians, an intensely democratic people, settled down so contentedly as a monarchy ? For the same reason that keeps Holland and Belgium mon- archies; for the same reason that would cause the Swedes Lo elect a monarch if they held a plebiscite to-morrow, with universal suffrage. All the democratic but small peoples know that they would lose their independence, would be come provinces for exploitation, like Ireland, like Alsace- Lorraine and German Poland, like Finland and Russian Poland, if they did not have thrones tenanted by member of the big German family that rules in England, in Germany in Russia, in Holland, Belgium, Denmark and Greece and Bulgaria, and which is closely related to that other German family which rules in Austria, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Portugal The Norwegians set up a republic, and then, to get exter- nal peace, disguised it as a monarchy with a son-in-law of Edward and cousin of William and Nicholas on the throne His salary of $200,000 a vear is in the nature of a tribute to the big German family But will it avail? The Security-Makers MHEORETICALLY the railroad rate isa simple problem The rate must be fair. To be fair it must cover oper- ating expenses and yield a reasonable return upon the capital invested. It is generally known that, in fact, railroad rates have been fixed. not according to any scien- tific formula deducible from this simple proposition, but by a series of guesses as to what the traffic will bear. Railroad capitalization has been fixed in very much the same happy-go-lucky manner, so that the outstanding stocks and bonds of a road, which people are asked to buy, often have no relation to the real investment The outstanding capitalization per mile of the Northern Pacitic (excluding its Burlington bonds) is about $19,000 greater than that of the Great Northern. These two roads are nearly parallel and of substantially the same mileage, yet the outstanding stocks and bonds of the former exceed those of the latter by a hundred million. Across the border, the capitalization per mile of the Canadian Pacific is less than that of the Great Northern by about $10,000 per mile, and it is less than half that of the Great Northern. A mile of Northwestern track earns about fifteen per cent. more than a mile of Rock Island track, but Rock Island capi- talization per mile is over fifty per cent. greater. Chicago January 6, 1906 and Alton’s capitalization per mile is nearly four times as large as St. Paul’s. These are merely a few well-known examples. Messrs Hill and Morgan added, out of hand, $110,000,000 to the volume of outstanding securities on which the Burlingtor road must earn interest in order to give present investors a fair return for an important part of these railroad securi- ties, whatever their intrinsic merit, are sold to people who buy them in good faith. The stocks and bonds represent a power to levy tolls upon traffic. That is why investors buy them — not for so many tons of rails and so many locomotives. If the Rock Island manipulators could levy what tolls they please, they could make their 880,000 shares of common stock worth the 3100 each whichthey allege themselves to be worth on their face If the Government is going to introduce reason into the rate-making field, shouldn't it, as a logical corollary, also impose it upon the security-issuing field? A Melancholy Career YOUNG man who will some day inherit an enormous fortune and who is being brought up as a “‘ gentleman, was interviewed the other day Among other things, he said: ‘If I did not have my career cut out for me, if I were to lose my fortune, ] should turn to the law and study some phases of it that interest me greatly.” Probably, if the young man were actually thrown on his own resources, he would resort to something less entirely elegant’’—and more useful. But, that aside, what is this ‘‘career” that he fancies he has ‘‘cut out” for him? To take care of his property. That is, to spend his life at an occupation similar to that of a watchman ora policeman, but far more mechanical and less exciting. What a miser able, whata melancholy conception of a career! To spend one’s life at Just making money is poor enough use of the one chance to live; to spend it at watching a heap of mone what dullness, what dreariness! And in a world teeming with opportunities to live intensely, vividly, in- terestingly, usefully! Our Democratic Press P )L RNALISM certainly has some excuse for spreading high and wide its tail-feathers and strutting because of the Russian autocracy’s tribute to it. History relates noth ing more astonishing. The autocracy took its iron hee! from the editor's neck, lifted him up, fell down before him and worshiped. The press is indeed powerful-— but only as the sword is powerful And let not the editor forget that His power is his only so long as he wields it as his reader wish — er convinces them that he is so wielding it. A news paper defying public opinion is about as worthless a thing us ever ate hugely without producing. The editor's “trenchant pen” is trenchant only when his reader reads and says: ‘‘That’s so. That's just what I think The editor’s news-columns influence public opinion exactly as they try to approach the ideal of the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth The power of the press is in no sense autocratic; it is wholly democratic. Editors who forget that truth are themselves forgotten The Bubble Reputation HE other day one of the brightest and best newspapers in the United States published a news dispatch, re- lating something alleged to have happened to Speaker Cannon. The same story has been told about every famous and carelessly-dressed man since the Revolution Plutarch cut it out of his Lives because it was a chestnut It has been deciphered on Assyrian monuments. Nearly all well-regulated villages in the country have some local celebrity on whom it is told. This is no reflection upon the newspaper. It is merely an interesting illustration of the fact that there is scarcely such a thing as a bit of knowledge which is common to all the people. There are two men in the country who are probably really famous) John D. Rockefeller and President Roose velt. Probably those two names would convey a more or less tangible idea to almost every person although within the year an active business man in a large city called the head of Standard Oil “John Rockinfellow.”’ It is doubtful if there is another contemporaneous name which has any such practically universal currency. Authors whose books sell in the hundred thousand are as unknown as the builders of the pyramids to the great mass of the people To all but an infinitesimal fraction of the population you might as well say Jones or Robinson as Sargent or Whist ler. The fame of great surgeons and scientists is scarcely suspected by their own housemaids. Moreover, the authors do not know of the surgeons, nor the scientists of the authors. If you gathered together the hundred most famous men of the country you would have to introduce about seventy-five of them to one another and explain who they were. There is no particular moral to this except When seeking the bubble reputation at the cannon’s mouth or elsewhere, remember what a small bubble it is

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST IS The Correspondence of a Diplomat MaprLEvILen Ac Dear Father: 1 thought I would drop you a few lines to let you know how | like it here where you have sent me to go to school ADEMY, Sept. | which I know you did because you thought it was for the best and which I will try to pay you for by being faithful in my studies. 1 e is a lovely place quite a bit 1: an Apple- town and they raise fine fruit and vege les which they ship to many parts of the country the demand being so great that we do not have much of them a our boarding house which is run by the school. We have quite plain stuff to eat which ] suppose 1s good for us and keeps from having boils which Still prea expect the incon- venience you can't very best board for three dollars a week where they have to make some money on it too are a although if you have coffee it is twenty-five cents a week extra. I am not one of the coffee scholars and they sit at another table which I do not think is so much to be proud of. The woman we pay to has a list of the cholars who are coffee and tt who are not coffee and she takes your pay according to what you are which is quite a system Some of the boys pretend they are coffee to their folks and are not so they can have the quarter to spend which is hardly honest although I suppose they want the money 1OSt Some of the boys have boxes in their rooms which are sent to them by their kind parents and usually have a number of things to eat in, such as a roast chicken, a chocolate cake, some sandwiches and maybe a jug of cider and some pickles. Such boys are mostly very popular and their rooms are full of merry light hearted boys at nigh? singing songs and enjoying themselves. The boxes can be sent by express direct toa boy *sroom at the dormitory which is very convenient. I am not very well acquainted here yet and my room is quite lonesome nights which I suppose I will get over after a while When it rains I usually look out of the window what they are doing in Appletown My clothes are not as nice as some of the boys here but they do very well. I know it is very expensive to raise a boy and my present suit will do me till Christmas anyway Some of the boys here are working through school which will be fine for them to think of afterwards although it is not so pleasant now. I wondered if you would care if | and wonder did some chores around the building and made a little money for a new suit. I would not do it without asking you because IT know you and Mamma are very proud and might not want meto. By studying till nine or ten o'clock at night I could get my lessons and after that I think I could get a place to scrub the halls and other light wor! I would not mention this to Mamma because you know how she is and if you let me do it she might as well never know about it. The suit [ was thinking about getting is elever dollars which ought not to take very long to make. But I would not say I was coffee if I was not even if I could get a quarter every week by doing it. The boys here mostly two or three suits which is not really have necessary although it is customary and gives people a good idea of how vou are at home. I do not think I will he in the boys gymnasium which costs two dollars to join although it is valuable exercise and boys who are in it are generally healthy and stand well in their classes. None of the boys who are in it ever yo home sick although some of the boys who do not exercise are looking as though they are coming down with some thing. But I am good and strong and if I should get sick I will have kind parents to nurse me through I will tell you how I am getting along in my studies next week. With much love to Mamma and you. Your affectionate son Tommy. P. S.—You can tell Mamma about the boys boxes if you want to because she is always interested in all kinds of boys and it may be new to her. gett ing Tommy Maprevitie, Oct. | Father: I can hardly tell you how pleased and surprised it made me to get the letter from you with the fifteen dollars in for a suit and to join the gymnasium and to have a little spend- The having spending money gives Dear ne money vou quite standing which } l ipt to be ILUit ery i i in case you want good company which you can alwa get. If more of the boys tathers were thoughtful like you are they would not be so apt to pretend they are coffee which they are not which is very liable to lead them to doing wrong sometime I have worn the suit only once and will not wear it for common because you do not feel so sen e about ring clothes which are not your best if you have got ir closet full of good clothes to wear wheney you want t I leave my closet door open so the tx an see! od clothes hanging up there vy hich is ju the same a t I them only they do not get shiny so ! The box that Mamma sent wa plendid Most of th bovs have been to see it and said to tell Man ashe i the best cook of any of their mothers which I know please her very much. The be eem to like n much and the first night the box came they came t room in quite a number and offered to ¢ me le ul of the Guards if anything should happen to thr ne of the lieutenants out. [am not saying this to brag but just to let you know how I stand I have lent some of my two dollars to several of the second and third year be which is quite an honor for a first year boy toget. They are ver particular about paying back money ai doing it t is soon as they get some to spare You have heen so good about sending me the money and Mamma the box that I will not ask to come home tor Thanksgiving which will soon be here ne It would cost ouite a bit for me to come heme and vou v probabl not be able to see my new suit till Christma hich I should like to show yeu but it willkeep. — It will trange to be away from home Thanksgiving for the fir t e and eat turkey at a strange table which I presume they will have for all kinds of boys whether the ire coffee or not 4 good many of the boys will go home for Thant which will make it lonelv for the rest of wh I hope it will be a bright sunshiny day which will not ma us feel so bad to be away from home I suppose ind Mamma will sit in the dining room with a big tur and wonder what | am doing and I will pre vabl e writ i letter to you to keep from being » lone ny | VOU ( tell Mamma anything about me not coming home for Thanksgiving because there is no use of worrving he ntil the last moment She will probably think I am coming until it is too late which will make easier for her Being the Hitherto Unpublished Letters of upper oo him won “that | Thomas Smalboy, Esq., Late of Appletown : ng he way it now. Hf iN i eri V ’ } R 1") } i } } " | A } i rved tt he } rf . t i ‘ t ‘ t } if] i ! \y I ‘ me t ther 1A rf iM | M thet ~ i ilw rprises itt lar Dill in ! hat it r which looksa i nt ntended to send ‘ i 1} het ey in my tter by a ie I I iintended for me, though, be el hapy n about the wild tshowandif ldor } ‘ it making take in it Iw that i kes me very gratefulfor your prompt rey No wonder vou are > uccessful in busit vhen vou are so prompt in all vour dealings which is a ver ood ntiormet be lkewl You do not say anything about nu t cor home for That dl us th } , rp ysuld be M 1 } | ming hor ind tl t i minut 14 t me un nown to he d have me there Thant ' ning for i picasant rpr It would } i | ( her and i proba t her hap} I th that some t t ! rst tr the t this hat t t ent a litth | re as ti ht Mam ha i rked » hard rus all th ( it t her ore } I ) pe l al ('} m VT nN alr T a } rnka th r vs way off at scl But it +} hout it though if anyt! } } Id be apt to make us | K Da ind | t did not do for her whic r i 1 ful f revret I I ind M ‘ t | hich is eT ! el it nm the tor ’ ! a } I i fteen nt peck whicl hea r h big red or some of th ha i | } t he roon for eating when it t Acr thet ur I I e and on hast 1a f the ) t } } } i inesda and Saturda hash da hich lets the t enough meat t ther that tall eate for hash } me time It ‘ onor | system teach } | f not wasting anything hich se 1 th ' ' len A peck of appl ! n ry ha en thers } } a} } el Iam ad P } | ' tanding card in tl tter M ne ’ fy rave - } , id } ’ Mar ] eral ind rm | +} i the ards tor but wt he pr } f Yo T | P.S ‘ » Ma | p da

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LADY BALTI MORE Continued J i Duge bereavement was not ath More homes here were robbed by death of their light and promise than with us; and to this you must add the material desolation of the homes themselves. Our were not laid in ashes, and to-day we sit in affluence while they sit in privation. Asforthe negro, for- give me if | assure vou that you retain an Abolitionist exaltation for a creature [ paused here in my letter to Aunt Carola, and sought for some fitting expression that hould characterize for her with sufficient severity the new type of deliberately worth- less negro; and, as | sought, my eyes wan- dered to the garden next door, the garden of the Cornerlys. Ona bench near a shady arrangement of vines over bars sat Hortense Rieppe. She was alone, and, from her atti- tude, seemed to be thinking deeply. The high walls of the garden shut her into a pri- vacy that her position near the shady vines still more increased. It was evident that she had come here for the sake of being alone, and I regretted that she was so turned from me that I could not see her face. But her solitude did not long continue; there came into view a gentleman of would- be-venerable appearance, who approached her with a walk carefully constructed for yublie admiration, and who, upon reaching fi r, bent over with the same sort of foot- light elaboration and gave her a paternal kiss. I did not need to hear her call him father: he wassoobyv iously General Rie »ppe, the hero of Chattanooga that words would have been perfectly supe rfluous in his iden- tification. | was destined upon another day to hear the tones of his voice, and thereupon may as well state now that they belonged together with the rest of him. There is a familiar type of Northern fraud, and a Southern type, equally familiar, but totally different in appearance. The Northern type has the straight, flat, earnest hair, the shaven upper lip, the chin-beard, and the benovolent religious expression. He will be the president of several charities, and the head of one great business. He plays no cards, drinks no wine, and warns young men of temptation. He is as genial as a hair-sofa; and he is seldom found out by the public unless some financial crash in general affairs uncovers his cheating, which lies most often bevond the law’s reach: and because he cannot be put in jail he quite honestly believes Heaven is his destination. We see less of him since we have ceased to be a religious country, religion no longer being an essential disguise for him. The South- ern type, with his unction and his juleps, is better cor , unless he is the hero of too many of hi anecdotes. He is com- monly the possessor of a poetic gaze, a mane of silvery { and a noble neck. As war days and co davs recede into a past more more filmed over with ro- mance, he too grows rare among us, and | it, for he was in truth a picturesque eral Rie ppe Was per ‘fect th at the distance they rendered hearing what were saying very soon, howe the frame of my open window provided m with a living picture which would have been wae tually spoiled had the dis- turbed its eloquent pantomime General Rie ppes daughter responde d to her father’s caress but languidly, turning to him her face, with its luminous, stationary beauty He pointed to the house, and then waved his hand toward the bench where she sat; and she, In response to this, r ofs to beware

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a chair with him. When they turned the corner at the arbor, Hortense rose, and greetings ensued Few objects could be straighter than was Juno's back; her card- was in hex hand, but her pocket was not quite large enough for the whole of her pride, which stuck out so that it could have wen seen from a greater distance than my CASE January 6, 1906

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For Shakespeare's Horlick’s Malted Milk Co. Without a Brush Scidond . Paste and Mucilage Best 200 pe FREE! ©. 2443 North Third Street THE SATURDAY EVENING POST WANTED—A MILLION But it’s wrong it’sall wrong. And it’s my fault.’ Stephenson got up and looked at. his watch sig » got to take the nine o'clock train for Prtked., he said vi \ HEN Stephenson walked bank the next morning old looked up shrewdly ‘Hello, John,” he said What's he got to say? He says that you put up ten thousand dollars to buy a half-interest in his leases,”’ the old man went on threateningly. ‘‘ What I want to know is where got the money ?”’ ‘Mr. Forsyth, said Stephenson, you found any shortage in my into the Forsy th ‘Filson's here,”’ you have account ‘No,”’ the old man admitted grudgingly Have you and the bank got every dollar that’s coming to them?’ Why, yes, | Well, then, I want to know what bus ne it is of yours where I got the money ? Forsvth looked the cashier straight in the eyes fora moment ‘I want back that power you ve got to sell my stock,” he said Stephenson put the paper which meant control of the Independe nt Oil Company yn the old man’s desk without a word. Then he got up and left the bank. At the corner livery-stable he hired a horse and started to drive to the oil fields. A mile out of town he uddenly stopped his horse and turned around. Half an hour later he the foaming animal in front of the bank out orsyth, looking out the window, saw him e up, and walked forward to meet him : he counter came in. There wa no trace of ex nent about Stephensor Mr. Forsyth,” he said, ‘‘either you or Filson is going to lose out when I sell control of the Independent Company to the Atla ell what you h’ain’t got l r vou to decide Il be I don't which one of vou it want ng | didn't give vou a chance.” Che old man hesitated painfull W you treat me square John?” he asked Slocum, the station-agent, came into the bant ‘Why, hello, John,” he said | been looking all over for you. Here's a message that come early this morning Stephenson tore the enve lope, read the telegram and put it into his pocket without a word of explanation Wait a moment,” he said, as Slocun »go out Mr. Forsyth'd like vou turned t to witne a paper for hin All richt. all right.”” broke out the n tied old mar Come inside John, and we'll dra er ur The pe werot attorne Va ritter { i Slocum and by another r who was called in from the street he tephen Sor she put the paper in bine poe ket, ‘calls me - ick to New York at once ] expect week, Mr be closed inside of a and witnessed by man telegram I just got, aids our deal r Forsyth On arriving in New York, Stephensor the oftice of Bronson, who had sent the telegram of recall Colonel Thompson wants me to find out went to what is the smallest cash price you'll take for your stock?” the broker said | have made my epeettion. Stepher on answered, and have nothing to add | he New Yor! rthe next two week The same evening he went to call on Mr Morris, craving the sympathy and support vhich he felt sure she would give hin Nor is he disappointed Hespent a lor rest nspiring ¢ i her and a nh ked o } h tei ame to hit re } ere Was the proper mate fora vho l at the yinning of astrenuous and exciting Cares is a financier Next afternoon, driven by his determined and told her gently and tactft went back Mrs. Morris wa the fact ad no sugg pathet c. Shet tior of reproach for the other woman ip ndeed, Mr Stephenson was wrong about it. Could he not go back to his wife and make explana- tions which would result jn a mutual under standing? Mrs. Morris could never forgi herself if, willi ngly, she had come between nan . Wi fe John § tephe nson broke out into prot { his love for her Between fea breach had been growing estations 0 him and his for vear Very well. She would not attempt to deny that she loved him in return. But he had so much to offer and she so little. He was just beginning a great career in finance Would it be wise to risk the handicap of divorce and remarriage? They must wait Less than a week later Stephenson sold his stock to the Atlas Company at the figure he had originally named. He promptly sent drafts for $375,000 to old Forsyth in Austin. Then he wrote to his wife—the first time he had written since he left her in Chicago — saying, briefly, that he had closed the deal successfully, and that he had made arrangements for her to have a credit of $500 a month at the Sixteenth National Bank in that city. When he told the great Morris she answered simply ‘Now you must promise n e, pleaded. If you are sure, John,”’ she answered; if there is no doubt in your mind.” news to Mr: ‘] knew ‘it Anne he vil T WAS just below the crest of a great bull market in Wall Street, and John Ste- yhenson plunged at once into the thick of it t was decided that he was never to go back to Austin and that he was to marry Mrs Morris as soon as that was legally possible, but he still hesitated, with a cowardice which angered him, to take the step which should cut him off from his wife forever Meantime the stock market was like display of fireworks against the back- ground of public excitement, and Stephen- son developed almost at once an uncanny kill at guessing which skyrocket would go up next Vithin three months he had multiplied his capital by four, and his name was beginning to get into the newspapers as that of the leader of a new crowd of Western plungers which was shaking up the old bones in the whited sepulchres of the Street. One evening, calling on Mrs. Morris as he almost always did, he told her of the great profits he had made that day Within t hirty days I'll have everything arranged,”’ he said. Then you and I will go to Europe for a year.” So it happened that on an autumn after- noon Charles Boyd Getty sent his card up to Mrs Stephensor at the house of her sister in Chicago I am Mr. Stephenson's personal a ney,” he said, rising to meet her I trouble you to read this letter?” The envelope was addressed to her in her husband’s handwriting. She drew out the inclosure Phis will introduce Mr. Charles Boyd Getty, my attorney,” it said simply You m: iy take whatever he says as coming lirectly from me.” What is your errand, sir?’’ she asked ‘I come with a which Mr Stephenson feels will be more of a relief to you than it can be to him. He feels that fora long time there has been an utter lack of sympathy between vou, and he wishes to offer you release from a galling bond.” I understand that Mr. Stephenson in- tends to obtain . divorce?” No. He wis guided entirely by your own and to protect your feelings from any possible hurt. A divorce : inevitable, but he leaves you to obtain it.’ I will not Allow me to madam, that my client’s only wish is to get this whole matter ver With as eas ily as possib le for you. 7 | was about to say that I will not inter- fere with my husband's plainly expressed determination. Is there anything further?” Yes. My client desires to provide iberally for your future s ipport. I have ttor- May message hes to be wishes, Say, here he, took some papers from his pocket book drafts for one million dol- lars. They are to be turned over to you as soon as Vou have secured your divorcee, ; Mrs. Stephenson rose to her feet. ‘'I hall never touch the money,” she said Madam,” said the lawyer pleadingly, let me suggest that such a refusal would [he income from this largesum will supply you with every luxury It will open opportunities for European travel. You may see great pictures Is this part of your instructions from my husband? Mrs. Stephenson inter- rupted. The man was repeating her own words No,”’ I make t I do not vou into be very foolish answered the lawyer, also rising hem on my own motion, because want you to let vour pride lead a course you would later regret.”’ January 6, 1906 made in America was a C&K inapp-fell HATS for MEN Number of The The Spring Hatman how Knap} Felt hats are made and shows 1 vhich well-dressed nw vear for Sprin | i february Is \n unbecoming hat 1s not no matter what name or mark it satls under. Knapp made in a variety The best hat Knapp-Felt Knapp Felt $4. 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though the bill was sed, news uppre ili somehow reached the newspaper and John Stephenson's prominence ga reason for its being widely printed A few days later Mrs to receive onvmo New York, telling of her tion for Anne Morris, ported to be certain In the aseries ot al s letters fror hu infatua and giving what pul sband sensational career of that young woman. Mrs Stephenson's feelings ely She sent Strang mixed word to her attorneys that sh had changed her mind, an

divorce suit set for trial They atter to argue with her, but that only aroused her antagonist ind her final orders were the « hould be stricken from the docket The next week she went to New Yor} \ Mrs. Eaton, an old friend, whose |} band was the editor of one of the great da ne pape Kating luncheon one da downtown, she saw her husband come int th lining-roon With hi was a ta beautifully-gowned womar Ne morning Mrs. Stephenson mac occasion to speak with Eaton alone Mr. Eaton,” she said, *‘ you know that i suing my husband for divorce I to } ntends to marry Mr Anne M of this « L) u know her B ht onl I have had ‘ } he Wh In our gr: i at th oft where keep pi es ar lipy i people Vhno are n ar . | there iwi ‘ elope devotec her SI © « t { b« keey he hte } a fa ! ? t of ‘ T ma he ast husbat aid Mrs. Stephe her rning she foun from her lawvers in Chicag« We find,” they wrote th ‘ I band has deposited one million dollars ir credit in the Sixteenth National Bank vo of this citv. The money is to be paid over to vou when vou secure yvour decree It provided that unless the decree is obtains within ninety day the money ; The next wee k We s from the date of depos rt to Mr. Stephensor up on Sat shall reve ninety days will be irda that you judge as to the wisdom of pushing your ¢ to a hearing, but we feel mind vou that, unless immediate actior taken, you will lose this large sum of mone We hope vou will in to proceed at nd we have not understand are the fina t our dut to re truct us once. With that hope inn as vet dismissed the su Allow us to ad vise vou not to let any feeling of false pride Please wire us if once to Chicago stand in your way intend to return at Mrs Stepher on sat aow! immediate answer! Now, more she was determined not to allow the divorce to write ar thar proceedings to go any further But the letter was hard to write. Cer tainly she could not tell the lawvers her rea reason for ordering the lit dist e Impatiently she turned from the desk a picked up the morning paper which hae fallen on the floor. A headline on the fir page caught her eve. She raightened in her chair and read the article thr The last paragraph ran tnu **And so it may safely be pr itha

John Stephenson and his crowd of plungers have met their Waterloo h: It ing to buy control of the P.& S.W attempt Railroad they have met opponents who are more than their match in experien il financial resources n the early part of th campaign the Stephenson party succeeded in getting hold of a big block of stock It may be admitted that they pulled the wo« ver the eyes of the Murkins clique, whic has so long controlled the road. But once Murkins was aroused to the danger, he tool swift and effective action. From now on it will be chiefly a question of who can pour the most millions into the fight, and on that issue Stephenson and his party are certain to lose

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‘ eve i the fever anxiety r . displ } Within twenty- reaches the Wir \ ( 1 icigee tte listenit the aie Wi hr ranted the e and rhen Mrs. Step} n it 0 o he cred ial Bar 1) ird of her orne nd the ints ot tt k off he took t r n Ne Yor Ihe er ’ New Yo \ aid « he agent of ul i it a Boyd | and it deposite ese ‘ Stephe ” I i When his wif filed, Jol Stephet tremendous eff . P.&S.W. Rail ly nek ist i ne whic ’ CA 1 ‘ ‘ 1 i ghtir rol t] o W ¢ S nsor nized ! ‘ ra ch thr " , pu ner i t i WI Mr S enso1 Yi 1 ( i ! Jol a «Al 1 ’ , Mrs. M i irn the me fhist eutel t ul tal } ) Bu idenly M ns ar ! had been s« it n ( r hip of the P. & aware that t P ¢ ed « roa n dar I} Fir of t} ‘ ’ large | | : rea of th . } the open market to fight wit] si f the ha the at ck, Ww hr yh thet 1 M il Was a re wv lile-1n rance compa il was able command pract rhe ar read ¢ M which led |! o change he deni and take th first ! Chica wa he fir ty nl ot the ermination of the Mu to hold contre f the road at Stephenson ralled all | meet ‘the le He defied Getty ar r ther who to sa omethin tof tt Even in Mrs. Morris he detec tone of incertal a ‘ in the mpatt enthu hitherto been ! inspirat plunged into the fight h the ‘ i nwt } thir nree da\ t rP.&& g. Fe ‘ i! lar eT T ar t r I ] ‘ il Pa ( or ie {? tr tT? ’ I t t if 7 } } } \ } eter t | } } plunge Ci 1 ‘ le ii wor ! it p the le posite car rl The 1 president of the S eenth Nat and himself started for Chicago On the evening of the critical third d: Morr during the wrran

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No, there is no mes- for any one.” Next morning John Stephenson sat alone in the little office from which the P. & S.W fight had been conducted. He was ruined. His last faith in human nature was de- stroyed. Nothing made any difference now. sapre He picked up the mail which the carrier had laid on his desk. On the - was a letter addressed, as he recognized with a start, in his wife’s handwriting. He tore open the envelope Out of it dropped drafts on New York to the amount of an even Each of them was indorsed There was nothing million dollars payable to his order else in the enve lope. Twenty-four hours after she had mailed the drafts to New York she who had been Mrs. Stephenson took a fast train for the same city. At Albany the New York papers were brought on board, and she sat down toread them. She had not long to look for what interested her. Under flaming head- lines was told the story of the most sensa- tional fight Wall Street had ever = n “On Wednesday,” the article said, ‘the Stephenson party seemed to be complete ly routed. The Street went home feeling that the demands of the day had left the daring plungers utterly exhausted. The people in control of P. & S. W. counted the victory already theirs But yesterday morning Stephenson, though deserted by his allies, surprised the Street by displaying unsuspected and still unexplained resources. He poured a vast sum of money into the market and kept his enemies ina panic all morning. Never has Wall Street seen so desperate a struggle And when John Stephenson finally went down, his enemies were fairly gasping for breath I have lost aid Mr Stephenson afte closing time vesterday, ‘but I shall be wos THE SATURDAY EVENING POST at 37 Broad Street to-morrow, ready to meet any one who may wish to see me.’ ”’ Mrs. Stephenson drove straight to the office of the man who had been her husband. The elevator man pointed out a little room at the end of the hall. She knocked and John Ste phe nson himself opened the door. “Molly he gasped. ‘John %y she you.” He stared Said, I have come to help at her with unbelieving eyes Molly — you —don’t--know,” he stam- mered., She went in and closed the door behind her Yes,’’ she said ‘You can't know,” what I’ve done!” She looked at “T know eve rything ‘is he declared ‘After him and smiled a little, pathetic, twisted smile. ‘‘It wasn’t you at all, John,” she said ‘] know that.” Do you know that I was going to marry anotherwoman? ThatI’mruined? That all my friends have deserted me? That even she has left me without a word?” ‘Then don’t you think you need my help, John?” she asked “Molly,” he went on, ‘‘the fight I made yesterday I made for you.”’ ‘I knew it.” ‘But I lost.” ‘Thank God for that, John! said earnestly ‘All these ent on ‘But now you're sane again.’ They sat silent for a moment What shall I do?”’ the man asked finally From outside the shrill, insistent clamor of the great city beat into the quiet room the woman months I've been crazy,” he ‘What would you think of a homely little white frame house on Main Street in Austin, John?”’ she asked Ste phenson crossed the room and knelt down at her feet Is it possible, Molly " he began Why fot?” she interrupted In the beginning it was my fault. Now let me help to make it right again.”’ THE TREMOLO STOP in the graces of the others about the office who knew of his weakness, Mehronay turned in the gayest lot of copy he ever wrote There was an ‘‘assessment call of the Wid Protective Associat pas the ad wedding loss of Brother P. R. Cullom, of the Bee Hi whose wedding was an- in the society ce there was a Ben Pore to those who ympathy and glue to : in Which had blown ight and reso- he owers ion to nounced jtumn card of thanks had come with their nurse n wooden Indi: aown from 1 and broker the r re fore, i lutions of respect fo same departed brother, in most mocking language " fron the Red Men Lodge There was an item aving ses i t varieties of Jones and three kin rhes were in town from Leb th ettlement; there was a call for the uniformed r ik of head waiters to meet in regalia at Mrs. Larabee’s recep ti ned by the three men in town who e know have evening clothes, : there was a meeting of the Anti-kin Soci announced to discuss the length of time Alphabetical Morrison's new son-in-law would be allowed to visit the Morrisons be- fore the neighbors could ask when he was going to leave But when the paper was out Mehronay vot a dozen coples from the press apd sent them away in wrapper ch he addressed, and the piece his blue of these and be« pencil marked wa (s the spring tf none lled out ‘ame sum » noticed that Mehronay was singing ewer Gospel hymns and rather more ntal songs than usual And then ort came to the office that been seen by one of the w one night after bedtime reet elms with a woman ndicate a closer roing on in society illy could have In ch the girls in the and a pair of celluloid cutis his rumor the office afire th curiosity, but none dared to tease Mehrona Not until late in the fall, when Madame Jar \ ne came to the opera house to Mehronay uncover his in firs t time in his three years employment on the paper he asked for two show tickets! And the entire office lined up at the opera house-—-most of us paying our own way, not to see the Macheths, but to see Mehronay s Romeo and Juliet. The ottice devil, w ho was late mailing the pape! rs that night, says that about seven o'clock came in singing Jean, Jean, my) and that he went to I lluloid cuffs, a new sky Me hronay Bonnie Jean, took out his ce s trunk, -blue and shell-pink necktie that none of us had seen before, a clean paper coll: and the boy, who probably was mistaken, swears Mehronay also took his white shirt——in a bundle which he proudly tucked under his arm and d out of the office whistling a wedding march. An hour later he ap peared at the opera house dressed in this regalia and a new black suit, buttoned primly and exactly in a fashion unknown to Mehronay, with Miss Columbia Merley, todd spinster, teacher of Greek and Hellenic philosophy at the college, and the office force asked In a gasp of wonder Who dressed hin Miss Merley— late in her forties, steel-eved, thin-chested, flint-faced and with hair knotted so her high stony tightly back from brow that she had to take two hairpins to wink--Miss Merley ght have done it but she had no kith or kin who could have done it for her, and cer- tainly the hand that smoothed the buttoned the vest, and the hand that but- toned the vest put on the collar and tie But that was an mystery We never have solved it, and had the courage to tease Mehronay about it the next After that we knew and Mehro- knew that he and Miss to church every Sunday Presbyter church, mind vou, where there shness —and that after cht irch Me *hroni iy always spent out coat office no one morning nav knew that we Merle evening the "an was no fooli exactly half in the parlor of the ho ise whe re initv roomed Anda whole Vvear DY wherein Mehronay Was sober lid not look upon the wine when it was red or brown or other color. 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There they have lived happily ever after. Mehronay brings his pote 5am home every Saturday night, and she gives him his car- fare and his shaving-money and puts the rest where it will do the most good. When the men from our office go to New York which they sometimes do—they visit with Mehronay at his office, and sometimes— if there is time for due and proper notice of the function in writing —there is an invita- tion to dinner. Mehronay fondles his old friends like a child and takes eager pleasure in them, but she that was Columbia Merley all but their pockets for the tempter. For Mehronay has never broken his word. He knows if he does break it she will tear him limb from limb and eat him raw. So ; to his work, writes his pieces, hums his gentle bee-song—so that men do not like to room with him at his office—and has learned to keep himself fairly well buttoned up in the great city. But Miss Larrabee that was— who used to edit the society page for our paper, but who now lives in New York —told us when she was home that, as she was walking down Fourth Avenue one winter day, she saw Mehronay standing be- fore the window of a liquor store looking in- tentty at the display of bottled goods before him. When he saw her half a block away he turned from her and shuffled rapidly down the street clicking his cane nervously. It was not for him! Se arches he roe The Private Freight Car System (Conti ila When it comes to duties whether re- frigeration rates are reasonable or unreason- able we must consider the quality of the service, its cost to those furnishing it and the hazards and liabilities which have to be houldered by the car lines. That the service is indispensable to the grower, that he has paid far higher rates in the past than he now pays, and that his business has marvel- ously expanded under rates, | have already indicated The quality of the service is so high that growers are of one voice in ts ~ "aise Broadly speaking they have no compl: ints to make « in this scor Of course there are individual complaints, but these are so in- ignificant as compared with the total num- ber of shippers or the number of shippers who have put themselves on record as de- lighted with the service that my state- ment stands without Here these qualification Is One incident, typ cal of scores of others demonstrating the growers appreciation of the qu: of the private car service Benton Ha r, Michi ran,1 “ three railroads Ty . — b season t cars to shippers and did cing at the cost for f $2.50 per ton, Th private car line operating over the other road charged its regular refrigeration rates. The apparent ditference was great; but, in spite of this, t. of the peach crop of that place was shipped by the private car line, and 80 per cent. would have been carried if the road over which it operated had had engines enough to haul the trains, \ large proportion of the labor required in this service is above the ordinary in the matter of cost Inspections, to be of any value, must be intelligent and dependable, and this kind of labor cannot be had at a cheap price Private inspected not only at the shipping point, but at vari- ous points along the route Then let us look at the matter of hazards. Failure of the entire fruit crop in whole districts is one of the hazards. This happens altogether too frequently It means, first, a total failure of revenue from 60 per cen cars are that 1 yn, but that is only the beginning of the loss, side of the account Let me illustrate this by an actual occurrence representative of a routine feature of the In 1898 the big ice houses at ile and Fort \ illey were stored Georgia fruit busit Marst with ice to refrig rate the crop; we had to from Maine to Say ond and from there by rail to the > wh country expensive, but a big crop w: us expected the next seasor late frost wiped out the entire crop and not one car of peaches was hipped out of the State. There was no way in which to use the ice and it melted rhe ice hazard is one which catches the private car lines both coming and going A fruit ip that ice in vessels this was THE SATURDAY EVENING POST sao paced in tine " also January 6, 1906 Masked Merry Makers New Years Eve City Halb Park, WY. 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If he should not ask him to write the THE ROYAI $$ __—_——_———_ name the defendant's counsel would argue HOW TO BREATHE] tothe jury that he was o/raid todo so, ‘The For Health, Strength and Endurance Gistrict avtorne herefore took the bull by the horns and challenged Parker to make | from memory a copy of the signature, and, | much as he had suspected, the witness produced a very good one An acquittal | | ang and Muscle Culture BREATHING AND EXERCISE 10 cents eemed certain, and the prosecutor was at P. von BOPCKMANN, ROS his wit's end to devise a means to meet thi l Rriste ng, 00 Sth Ave, New York | ’ r practical demonstration that the - wane xe mare, was In fact the forger At last it Help vo » Make Money re oe os wos 5S com tive eas\ o memor e sucn as iynature, mot k ' : Ws and acting on th hint he found tha fter M half hour's pra e he was able wegen about as good a forgery as Parker. When o , A therefore it came time for him to addre I the iry he pointed out the fact that The National Press Association Par! ers persorn “pout the witness-stand ; e Baldwin, Indianay really established at all——that any -—— ome could forge signature from Going to - Per Month Tos caeeenate a te ' oO prove to you h We Pay the Freight. done,” said he, “I w rae _ nema CALIFORNIA ll vo ‘ a te er Kauser signature than Parker did. thereupon seized a pen and began to ee ) | ue trate his abilitv to do so Mrs ' t the | BUCKEYE INCUBATOR CO, Box 21,8pringti Parker eing the “ce of this ocu ‘ ten ; to male = . _ —— demonstration, grasped her counsel's arm EAT SQUABS fives ton anderied aut For God's sakedon tle him ; IVY: “ doit! Phe lawyer objected, the objection si ( a eo Rock wa istained, but the case was saved aight big Home Wh he jury argued, should the lawyer ¢ | | ree Book C5 ot ‘ tne it of such a forgery Sew prenten mattes were in fact an easy matter? Piymouth Rock Squa ‘ owa In desperate cases, desperate men will take desperate chance The famous instance where the er, defendingaclient charged with causing the death of another bv ad- ministering poisoned cake, met the evidence CORNELL INCI BATOR MPG. COMPANY of the prose eX} with the re t Box 8 Y mart ( a ee and calmly ate the balance of the of the OUR MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE C#®°; too familar to warrant detailed poet repetitio jury retired onan Chicago, Milwaukee ——— I ‘ vhere a y , tae tor thim out of dan «& St. I aul Ry . ‘ “ } ee d 3 a Such are some of the tricks of the legal é f ’ Reliable Incubator & Brooder Box B-4. Quincy, MU 8 A trade as practiced in its criminal branch tra Most of then uccessful and serve é monotony of the k ; Fs CO Print Your Own Cards. only to rele ses $5 courts. 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