The Saturday Evening Post 1906-01-13: Vol 178 Iss 29

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST An Illustrated Weekly Magazine Founded A°D!1728 éy Benj. Franklin ¥ JANUARY 13, 19006 FIVE CENTS THE COPY - THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA

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Copyright 1906, by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, Fo u nde d A°D' in the United States and Great Britam THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 1728 Sy Benj.Franklin Entere Published Weekly at 425 Arch Street by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY London: Hastings House,10,Norfolk Street. Strand,WC. da atthe Philadelphia Post-Office as Second-Class Matter Volume 178 PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 13, 1900 Number 29 Nicholas the Irresolute F PROCRASTINATION the thief of time, it is the executione! BY of empires The seeret of the catastrophe which has overtaken Russia and her rulers is that the have habitu ally put off till to-morrow that whicl they ought to have done to-day. There are, of course, other remote sources of the trouble, but the immediate cause of the Al is simple procrastinatior The Rus sians and their rulers have been too late once or twice, but first and last and all the rhe sins and crimes of the Ru an ts er? ment are not offenses of to-day or ever yesterday. The oppression : nst whic revolution is a protest was far more grit three vears ago, thirteen vears ago, twe five vears ago, than it has been in the twelve months. To say that the rulers of Russia have been despotic not enougt explain whv the despotism has collapse Phe have alwavs been despotic, but the potism did not col: ‘ Nict is Il milder autocrat Alexander II] But the autoeracy with all its seve and brutality stood four-square to all winds that blow, whereas to-day we se« the autocraecy in ruins Why now and then ? Of course, it is possible to say that €zardom has filled up the measure of its uity, that the day of grace allotted to it ha expired and that its Judgment Day has a rived. In France, in 1780, the m was much less of a tyrant than his predece SOTS The liberty of the ‘ never so much tempered with mere i! modified by modern ideas as in the few ve that preceded the Terror The mills of God grind slowly The Dav of Judgment often separated by a great interval from the Dav of Transgressior nations there comes a time When the full cup runneth o’er And merey can endure no more and the fountains of the great deep are broker ip and the flood is let loose No poet ha expressed better than Lowell the mulation of offenses against the Day of Wratt \ As flake by flake the bectling avalanch: K a Jay he Build up their imminent crags of noiseless snow | T rill some chance thrill the loosened ruin launches , , in } And the blind havoc leaps unwarned below If , cra , Ru So grew and gathered through th siler i " lhe Madness of a People, wrong by wrong rastination that made J ' ! Arth } er te That is much more true of Russia to-day than it was of France in 148 Ihe A t Ru he | ! I Madness of a People’ that has leaped like an avalanche from its bed among the , I ttt immobility of Russian life, and is overwhelming both Russia and her rul th ce prey tion. Oppression maketh even a wise man mad. Of oppre yn Of all sort dd oncer i there is ample store in all countries, even the most democrati No matter | Their I fully Governments may be builded and however fair the front which the present t he i lar hict ‘ i world, their foundations alwa press heavily upon the poor, and it often hapy t ne The R ‘ ne ore stately the superstructure the more onerous is the load beneath which its livir r be t ‘ } foundation groans and sigh ime i \ ! In Russia it may be that the wrongs and abuses under which the people groa \ negotiations were J " more manifest than those in Britain or in America, but of one thing there is no dout ! The R i 1 Russia there are more poor people than in Western lands, and the la ( I ted to the Er keenly felt thar lack of freedon It was We i i a marl \ ar ay ‘ at J are the political expressions of the pinch of hunger When mer t | t Th } day with regularity, or even two, there no re lutior But when ever eal a ! i day becomes difficult of attainment the soldiers of despair fall into line bet bar I} no | cades. Hence among the real causes of the Rev min R i must be placed lyr It 1. The excessive cost of the army The Ru ent o1 The enormous expenditure over the

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effort was made to strengthen the garrison of Manchuria The Russian somnolent Colossus would not rouse himself either to make peace or to prepare for war. Then, suddenly, as the bolt leapsfrom the thunder-cloud, declaration of war. The Emperor was heart-broken He had never conceived the possibility of Japan taking the came the Japanese initiative, and, now that the catastrophe had come for which he had made no preparations, he beset himself too late to prepare fo the war All the disa ninster Abbev on the tomb of Lord Law ne In W y rence, who saved the British Empire in India during the Mutiny, there are inscribed the rd Be Read For retting tl , Ru a has had to sacrifice herempi einChina Unreadine Wa eryvwhere In the army and still more the navy, Russia found that her rulers had foreseen repared nothing, were behind with every ning \s a result, the whole Russian navy, with the ex ception « ils cruisers, Was W ped off the Pacitic, and het ne solitar ctor over Une Japanese After eighteen months of frightful sacrifices and an unbroken succession of humiliating defeats, Russia is compelled to sign a peace, making over to Japan eve thing tha had been in dispute between them, and the outhern halt Sayvhatlen into the bargain Che fuliextent of Russia's humiliation was marked in the eyes of the Westerns by the failure of Japan to exact an indemnit But to the Russians the much-vaunted victory of Count Witte at Portsmouth was as nothing Nothing ould conceal the Nateful reaiit that Russia had been beaten so utterly that he had been compelled to accept the terms dictated by Japan, minus the indemnity, and i that she had lost at one fell blow all the fruits of all her wrific Korea was to be Japanized, Port Arthur was lo She no | r had an open water-port on the Pacific He raiwa a wrested from her her tleet le troyed, the Admiral the Pacific’ had become a laughing-stock, ind, worst of all, Japan replaced Russia as the predominant Power at P t This was no peace with honor It was defeat with ace, Ulte lestr f the prestige of the ¢ ern t it home even more thal broad The ioral authority of the empire over its own subjects di appeared When the representatives of Japan dictated the Peace of Por it! Phe peace? itionsat | uth preoccupied atter tion durir August L arrived in St. Peters ron the twenty-fourth of that month, and had no intention of tak ing part in the discussior But hen I found that the Liberal f St. Petersbur ere ¢ edingly distrustful of the wd entior ) he ty ‘ wnt and ere Dy no near lisp fto accept the Douma and make the best of t, | went to the Emperor and told h exactly | matter tood He ree: { me | ly and We had a long cor I 4 or l i t i AT 4 l nad t ira t eT le Conhdence the rit { ne ts er ner Nad Hee destroved I} tut e Douma regarded t ! it i ! i iW n the ‘ itter i i i a pro ) to he ¢ at hment of ( yur f lament verti f associatio f public ; f the press and of the person — without which no epresentat assembly ld nto « The kimperor a ime that he rega ithe Dou is merel a fir te ird tt i t ! | i National \ mil and that, if orked well, he wa epared to o furtt 4s for four rties, he recognized that the ere! t Laws establishing them were drafted and he expected ’ e ther na tew da He ld also ippoint a M Presi and ela in a st HIS wa the first days of September. I begged hit to all ' t t te ft ry yw ome tate what he had told me he pres He said he thought it would be a little precipitate [i plored hin emember that everything had been lost here 1K ‘ nha eer pre pitate enougt He also de rr atura nouvh. t } rst intin or i t wemnge acie 1 ' } \ ut ( tr tt ith of a r | ognized the istic ction and again urged hit » lose not a 1” nr } t at eit il ling new \ i rie t be done t i\ } } i brief hatit wa etter to accept the ID) ma sat ; iding i Vas a } ‘ t the prompt ! ’ tthe fou nd ‘ biter (or paring i Pouma t a hor | ud \ representat issembl ¢ ¢ rt f st ch f asa ition and of pt 1 } i} ‘ rt ‘ Ke a hor hout ar , a repress ative assembly witho 4 respor bie minister 1 Ke au horse without ar head rhe cor ll iil nel ee conc T ’ we bPou a ‘ iud, a de isto at ia nare wit t orollaries of freedon The Fr eror THE SATURDAY EVENING POST expressed his sympathy with my views, and cordially wished me success in my conferences. I saw General Trepoff, and Count Solsky, the president of the Council of the Empire, and explained my point of view and what I proposed to do. General Trepoff demurred a little over the demand for habeas corpus, but ended by giving me permission to hold meetings, public or private, whenever I pleased to set forth my views. Count Solsky assured me that the Emperor had accepted the Doumaasa limitation of his autocratic powers There was a preliminary difficulty. Just before I had arrived in Russia, Professor Milukoff, president of the League of Leagues, had been arrested and was at that moment lying in prison. He had never been informed on what charge he was arrested. The gendarmerie officer told as going tocommit. I told the Emperor and told General Tre pot? that it Was nonsense talkin me that he was being kept in jail until they found out what crime it was he about conceding representative institutions to Russia so long as they kept Professor Milukoff in jail If he has done any thing criminal,’ I said, ‘try him, by all means, and if the courts find him guilty punish him as severely as you like But to arrest him administratively and to keep him locked up on mere suspicion is to make a farce of the whole busi ness.”’ Until Milukoff was liberated I could not possibly appeal to any Liberal to accept the Douma. Three day after that conversation with General Trepoff, Professor Milukoff was liberated, and I naturally accepted his libera- tion as evidence that the Government intended lovally to follow up the ukase of the Douma by abandoning the practice of administrative arrest. In the Zemstvo Congress WENT to Moscow. The Zemstvo Congress was in session. It decided against boycotting the Douma, but it did so only in order that it might secure a majority in the Douma in favor of refusing to do any business until a con- tuent assembly was summoned, elected by universal ulfrage At the close of the Congress a conference was held in Prince Doloroukoff's house for the discussion of my paper It was translated into Russian and read to the conference by Professor Milukoff In the discussion that followed, leading representatives of all shades of Liberal opinion took part Professor Milukoff translated the pet *he Sas they were being de livered I re plie d to the first t t vo and again summed up the discussion at the end What I found was a fierce impatience at the delay that had taken place, an angry refusal to regard the Douma as an honest first step, and a contemptuous avowal of absolute disbelief in thea ssurances of the Government The speakers were eloquent enough, but very doctrinaire They accused me of not taking a sufficiently serious view of is, if they had but known it, I wa to their harangue the situation, where: How many of thinking as I listene« these fine orators will have their throats cut before this time ext year?” In my parting words I adjured them to re member the revolutionary forces which might be let loose if they refused to coéperate loyally with the Emperor in mak ing the Douma the ec tussian liberty I warned them that the fires of Baku might soon be blazing in Moscow, and I declared that | owed it to my conscience nerstone of before God and man not to leave without addressing that last solemn warning word They were very courteous, but very furiou What pre- I imption fora fore igner, and that foreigner an Englishman, to venture to lee re them as if they were barbarians! To which I meekly re plied that I had only given them an Eng i 1 lish point of view and was delighted to have received in exchange the Russian point of view. And I could not resist the temptation of reminding them that they had at least had ne free political meeting in which they could speak to their hearts’ content what they felt abo he lator From Moscow I went on to Saratoff, which had the repu tation of being the hottest revolutionary centre in Russia There I had an intensely interesting conlerence with the leading representatives of the Zemstvo This tin M Shishkoff acted as interpreter. [1 the speaker sat down, and when I left at two o'clock in the morning I had the satisfactior made every one who heard me thoroughly understand n D f Phis sampling of the public sentin f the Russia I or ithies to pr ‘ ha is absolutel I t ippealing he I erais to yport the Er pero? I tt | eror made ¢ i} ‘ , rt nenont 1 found how the matter la ported both to the Emper ind to Grener me had the ntest cont lence in a: d by the Government. No beheved ed upon ac an amnest £ erous and he pron } mula m ol iws guarante ty and the right to freedon issociatior and free pre Until that was done nothing uld win back the contider f the peopte 1 to tk cdimir rat harm nize with pol Having t 1 the ug in the shape of the Douma, cease firit ipon the you are To-morrow, always to-morrow! Day followed day, and week after week, September gave place to October, and still nothing was done, and the Government every twenty-four hours was nearer the abyss. It is not quite correct to say that nothing was done General Glazoff, the Minister of Education, suggested to the Emperor that it would be a good thing to restore their liberty and right of self-government to the universitie The Emperor, anxious to make any practicable concessior ordered General Glazoff to carry out his suggestion. Ti immediate result was that in every great city it kind of Alsatia of free speech Was established Abortive Concessions HE students are very well capable of supplying bot! audiences and orators for political meeting But thei first step was to invite their brethren the workmen to use their halls for purposes of political demonstrations. The vorkmen, nothing loth, invaded the universitie Night after night St. Peter of populatior , Where once not even eight persons could sit together in a public restaurant without the interference of the police, enjoyed an orgy of free speech which resembled urg, Moscow and other great centres nothing so much as the scenes in the Palais Royal in th French Revolution. Social Democrats, Social Revolu- ionaries, describing themselves as such, had free course to declaim, at their own sweet will and pleasure, against the Czar and all his Ministers, to impeach the established orde and to demand a revolution Meetings of thousands of all classes and of both sexes were held where the wildest doe- trines were acclaimed and the bloodiest crimes lauded t« the skies At one meeting excited orators would demand the prompt dispatch of the ¢ gloated over the prospect of setting up the guillotine in Isaac’s Square to shear off the heads of the enemies of the , at another the speaker people, and in a third a lady chemist described to an excited crowd the sweet simplicity of manufacturing high explo ives in vour own bedroom whereby, for the expenditure a few copecks, bombs could be manufactured capable of blowing any bureaucrat to atoms. When orators grew hoarse, then audiences sang the Russian Marseillaise, or lashed themselves to fi by singing the dirge for the mar m were there in plenty tyvrs of freedon Soidiers 1n and now and again an officer would vary the proceeding by assuring the delighted listeners that his regiment would never fire upon the peoplk All the time that this saturnalia of sedition was flouri ing in halls dedicated to art, literature and science, police outside were breaking up meetings in private house the censors were busy blue-penciling newspaper proofs, and nothing was done to liberate the political prisoners, or evet 0 suspend administrative arrests Then toward the end of October the great railway strike broke out which held ip the whole en pire That also was the result of procrasti nation The grievances of the railway employees had beet formulated in Februar They had been promised consid eratior Here was October and nothing done to redre their grievances! They decided to press for a settlement and, by way of illustrating anew the old lesson of the Sibylline books, they added to their economic requests a demand for universal suffrage and a constituent assembl\ Up to the time of the breaking out of the strike it might Nave beer possible for the En peror lo save the situatior An imperial manifesto embodving the promises which he had assured me at the beginning of Septe wer ne ful ntended to make and to fulfill might have averte storm. But the sands were running fast out of the hou glass and nothing was done Higher and higher rose th revolutionary roar from the halls of the university. The air grew electric with the sound of revolutionary song Phen the men on the Reazan railway struck on the strengt! of a false report as to the arrest of some of their leader The Spread of the Strike een Reazan the trike spread as a prairie fire overa the railways of the empire. The Emperor at Peterhof could only communicate with St Petersburg ea. | the cities, tradesmen and and shipyar truck in sympatl The went out in tt reets and in the house totf at the mai Ihe t a were idle whole community, partly f own fre« land partly under the influence of terrorisn idiciou applic ceased from its labe and endured th miseries of a sieve All th time Cour Witte wa irgit the ¢t i ’ ike the dec e step, which ¢ ( s delay rendered more arduous and more dangerous. To make concessio now, Instead of eing regarded as an act of grace would be scoffed at as idence of impotence The En peror wavered All one long week he wavered, hesitating between the coun els of reaction and of progress. At last, on the midnight ot October 30, the struggle terminated in the issue of the mperial manifesto wh uch promised a Constitution, raised the Douma to the dignity of a legislative assembly, and promised the fundamental liberties. Count Witte wa fed Peg January 13, 1906

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST A MORNING C ISS WARREN turn ' : . — : ales sp sete Miss Warren's Visitor and Mrs. Grayson’s Revolver

‘ ‘ intent! here wa pause 1 absolute silence, to wus" By Ethel Watts Mumford the softest of soft footfall YyY © a Ss um or Miss Warren rose, gathered the ‘ tloating fold I he azure t yown about her, and walked t { lor leading to the rear o | at | she lal 1 4 ne | e ale n , ee | ifter one Ire a box « } Hi extracted a b-nosec i woud marr Ket ae | nger and pped d | } her sleeve Whe tr l nthe wse loop of <, invisit | mut convenient All was stil ; } rning th iwh the door o Ne et st sund Nhersel \ | a4 r rear “ H} the din room openit it m the fir ‘ With | ¢ aps! t 1or ne tr Qe rhit i Before el! Di t it I | rrit stoo “a in j ! Woman Ina Diack Walking-sult ‘ : “au Nandbay ing at Ner sic ‘ al t 4 } lhe vil fx i j white, her dark hair | nged, her ¢ nte | ind black, were turned in a t hard, bright stare upon th He Struck Me,’ Explained the ¢ l ! man — What arc , etod ea . : \ , ; \ \\ } Phat depends,’ answered M Warret ! hat Do y hir The t hat \ t ind M tend to do Warrer oked into the glittering black eves before her f W oar er } ! it? j | intend to get out of here, and tho t ! nt befor Nhe he t p | the intruder announced, thrusting | 1 ed hat ()t irse, | nt t ! tt t n jeep into the pockets of her jacket other sne | the be \ borated What's your hurry nquired M Wart Of course vou doen't He hould Y ‘ th i ul I'm running awa) confessed tl tI it tb mi d ‘ ‘ ul Ted that ight, will you il Miss Warren considered Wel ‘ I ( uid ybody will think you would take refuge where an \ t iwake Did you break the window Ni I lock it | thir Wa from where you stand, on the insid \ ive alread lone } Weer i id to il | I} vir her hea i rea po where 1 wer lt chance ! M \ ha hrough the apartmer Plea ‘ hi ' setter leave ted M W I hed harst a eon thr sn Pped aside i I i I t t ! 1 ‘ After you, my dear Alp| M \A\ er hed wit o) } Che girl had been taking stock of h I iO now hor \ i t i noting the mass of golden hair, the sweet ’ ' dimpled face with its childish blue eves at ! ! humorou nquisitive mouth no detail « — ’ M \ the frilled, embroidered, flower-trimmed | and the velvet tips of tiny hig ! heeled mules "’ ¢ caped her A look of relief | M rossed her pallid face | All right, Gastor he said, and wal | I thre vh to the pantry into the corridor am thence to the sitting-room, where the lamy ist a warm, shaded glow over a miscella | neous collection of objeetsof art and feminine | T I} re t pa t ! Wi t | lg ou she nquired ¢ ilml | ay 1 ts the door over there Miss Warre sdded it d or Bu I wer and I might be followed, [wouldn't rust I | it | hat. Why vi iit here and | happen If any one cor 1 1 of mit pping with 1 I ga ’ he I and let yourself it I A ’ nar t t I ler i ua | { fa 4 a ! Mi i she a 1 Isple | M Warren nodded OT | mea \ ri rul iwa tron t ” t "CUSOT ( t wher t tab | t e-escapes a r tir rt I He struck me,” explained the gir | nly She lifted her cull, revealing a bruise ie = . ———— — nase she added fhercely Miniaturing isn't a Starvation Game Evidently,”” Observed the Girl with a Gr

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 13, 1906 are you a human Marconi station ? [ a cae the side of a house at two pace I didn’t want to hurt your feeling but it is a comforting sensation t you know, after you've been so hold one in one’s hand, isn’t it white to me but it Neen so long You see, I felt I could shoot right ne | is treated With any cons through the sleeve fl had to; ju erat ic hat I get leer inv one lip my hand inside so It half decent to me, and vou ell would have spoiled my tea-gown, o1 you haven't any reason to be kind set it on fire, perhaps | suppose >} ‘ l have Vas th vou thought the ame thing d rejoinder eve reasol th Funny, wasn’t it? And how fortu best of reasons! I was bore we didn't happen to be tw extinetion when you dropped ir foolish women, and shot each othe bored, and not a bit sleey | have out of sheer nervousness! insomnia ee: didn't Isn’tit, though? Whatafunr tuke ) r the terfere witt tuation, anyway! It was a ver F ‘ I fine | a \ ( ticklish minute In I’m proud of art, and want ‘I felt very thump imitted to do 1 best Thanks to ve Miss Warren I've penta ver nteresting f I do still,” confess: Mr ©, come or ll go th ’ Grayson and vou can rifle the ice-bo t You'll find the brandy ina litth Mrs. Grayson smiled for the ti silver flask on my dressing-tabl e. She had a large, flexible just enough for you. I think vo bovis outh and excellent teeth are justified.” Ihe le Was attractive. ‘‘ Mis Phe slim black figure disappeared hat-ever-your-name-is : ' 5 between the curtains into the bed M hy aid Miss Warret ae ae room and reappeared with the flas} j ptly 0a = Soda?” she said with businesslike M I would you mind put “LT Intend to Get Out of Here, and Without Any Row, Too,” the Intruder Announced direetnes ting p that revolver that’s Iving Ice-box aid Miss Warre? nthe loop of voursleeve? I've a horrid fear of firear drew an up-to-date magazine revolver from her jacket For you,” she continued I never touch anything M Warren blushed crimsor Really | he pocket and laid it beside the snub-nosed derringer. She “Nor I said Mrs. Grayson, “‘except as medicine hesitated I'd forgotten | had it there. However, you drew away nervously It’s his,’’ she almost whispered, Let's make it ginger ale.”’ have quite disarmed me, Mrs. Grayson. I'll put my re and it was with that | wanted to kill him — I believe | They adjourned to the pantry and turned on the light er here « the mantelshelf if vou'll take yours from would have if I hadn't been afraid of the explosion and the Che larder was well stocked — cheese, crackers, cold chicker pocket and put it there, toc mess. All women are like that, I guess. Aren't you? half a cantaloup, the remains of a lobster salad It was the guest’s turn to start and color. ‘‘ Well, Mi Miss Warren shook her head. ‘‘I really don’t know ‘*Miniaturing isn’t a starvation game, evidently,”’ ob Mar ! t X-ray eves vou have I’ve never met a girl she answered. ‘‘T ne ver had to use mine you see, but I feel erved the girl with a grin **Are you your own cooK with all modern improvements before. Here goes! She when I have it. I don’t really suppose I could hit ( y > enri Uupl aSa OwWw-Fr unc O FELLER like . a, . wy, they got a miser lok ta te Se Rose Andrews’ Hand and Doctor Bugs’ Gasoline Bronc ee ee oe ye here he t quick jus’ to have Wanted tna ‘a cr come an stan out in timo om Py EFLEANOR GATE &§ eputnno'as aries plumb ne I'd nasty as a’ Injun, but ih e man Har Nuthor of A Round-Up in Central Park, The Biography of « Prairie Girl lookin’ turrible stylis} fe ‘ red ha he rhe men was bad 'nougl Panhandle, an’ I'd knowed } gal, Rose, since she was kne+ bout it, an’ when the \ had one of Doe Simpson's dren¢ he high to a hop-toad. Pritty gal, she is, by thunder! ar . they haids was as big as Bill Williams’ Mountain. But th 1 ‘ Wa hen, after tyin’ up t’ that blame women! The } cavvieyard of ‘em, 'ceptin’ Rose, stan fi S e Andrew he'd got her matreeme peded over to him An’ Billy got such a snow-under tha ; off in le mn three ? ! owin’ t' Monke M they had him a-diggin’ for his grass be ‘ t he tr er finger " l was plumb cTaz\ bout it Billy | says ne day ee a n-} ! when | met him a-comin’ fr'm 'Pache Sam's hogan on his nt brar he \ bisvele Billy, vou got to do somethir Course | didn’t | ’ in Har he f ob an’ ¢ mention Rose You goin’ t’ let any sawed-off, hammered Andre e's pa Har I bree ! down runt like that Simpson drive you out \ it's free har ! Cal nit hell eTazin here ! take t | he sh his foo t time Billy, he smiled kinda wistful an’ begun to brush the » t ? ea ‘ alkali offen that ole Stetson of hisn, turnin’ it ‘roun’ an pitti ther f i! | he could ! ’roun’ like he was worried Oh, never min’, Alec,”’ he ten range hisse he little didn't have no « 0 says —‘‘jus’ keep on you’ shirt.’ with | he wasn't | Wal But pritty soon thii a darn sight worse, an’ | M ‘ ! He to " I extr could hardly hole ir t satisfied with havin’ the hull lon nm J ‘ | here d dott od country on his trail ‘count of that surrey, Simpson tried a in the hu ‘ it piut tickled, tt ] new deal: he got to discoverin’ bugs! plumb tie ever he Sheriff He foun’ out that Bill Rawson had malaria bugs, an I said } t Funny how I na et’ use the Kelly kid had diphtheria bugs, an’ Dutchy had typhoid ado r wor hen I th t par ri inat bugs that didn’t do business owin’ to the aleohol in his s\ be e Sir r he horn ue me re a do tem Too bad! W'y, it was ‘stonishin’ how many ki Ar B ! I B Ir bridge he be of new-fangled critters we'd never heerd of was a-livin’ or medicine-1 ve ever had these p he t all this mesa! his learnin’ right here from his 1 He air he spor But all his bugs didn’t split no shakes with Rose She dul , hat ' But he ot was polite to Simpson, an’ frien’ly, but nuthin’ worse. Ar his doctor cert ©. kK., an’ when it come rin’, he it was plainer ’n the nose on you’ face that Billy was solid cal ul r pades lo ar ‘ ou ! ntal n college “ Billy,”’ | Says, “’ You Goin’ t' Let Any Sawed-off, Hammered- with her But the ole man is the hull show in that fambly, pezat ul beat out by a mile Tha } down Runt Like that Simpson Drive You Out?” y’ savvy, an’ all we could do was t’ hope like sixty that Billy e'd al ed Rose lor fore Andrews got het nuthin’ ‘d happen to give Simpson a’ extry chanst An’ R 1 i ea B Wal, after Sic’ ‘er a-d he was clean stuck on hin T’ hear the ole man talk But, shucks! Somethin’ i happen — Rose's baby got endin et we all fixed p quik imongst us that Simpson was the cutest thing that ever come in to the sage sick. Wouldn't eat, wouldn't sleep, kinda whined all the B i} e man Hart's new n-in-la Billy's smar An’ Billy? He was the bad man fr’: Lit time like a sick purp, an’ begun to look peaked, pore little a! ' in’ rut He ever wore no hard hat Say, but we punchers at the home-ra ore wher critter neitt hed hist | vdor he's one of the we seen how ole man Hart was headed! We didn’t like When the news got to the bunk-house (T w in for that ta run at } fingernails oncet in a whil Simpson a little bit He wore fine clo'es, an’ a dicer, an Hart then) we was plumb nervous Which'll the ole mar Now, mavin puncher or a red air par ilar "bout } when it come to soothin’ the ladies an’ he paws, he _ sen’ for,’’ we says, “ Simpson or Billy ? han bu profeshnal gent's got to be An’ with a nice was there with both hoofs Then, he had ; ‘in's of fool It was that bug-doctor! gal like Ro t shore do stack up. But it didn't stan’ the jiggers for his business, an’ one of them toot surreys that’s He come down the road two-forty, sittin’ up as stiff as if chanst of a v-man in Yuma when it come to ole mar got headlights an’ seats stuffed with goose-feathers he had a ramrod in his backbone. When he turned in to Hart. Doc Simpson was new in town, an’ Hart'd ast him t was that gasoline rig that done Billy damage, speakin’ the front yard he staked out his surrey clost t’ the porch an out to supper at the Diamond O two or three times. An’ financial. The minnit folks knowed it was inthe terrytory, stepped down. My! such nice little button shoes! Fe RR

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Oh, ma says Monkey Mike he o rich lood! The ole man come out to sav howd When Simpsor een him, Nhe says Mr. Har he ene oul ere Vant em to hoy t if | e house Then | “ er me Car t eep shooed I n Hire ! | too mp I ection that « ear ! boo sea ip,! isa reachit Oo Dritches pocket ain tno hired ma Hart, he puts in quick No, I) he says I in's one of 1 cowbo I Heaver sake, Alec! 1 gitti be as tect ico oimy ) he apologize il 1 kk ner } rina me ou i-course, far s him an’ me i snad 1 I el he il rye I yr nda pale I it he peiii B » I ' ! >] t Ar he come ne i nh-t inne mal es that his buckboard plumb oiled down the pike Rost 1 savs oncet to her, ‘‘can't we give Billy Trow t itve he rh su } ! lo t ‘ ean Rose did iv nuth She irned ‘ over ( Cee wt | } ‘ ee a man cr Nex he kid had a ¢ ulsior é hore she o to kick the bucke \ is hang he porch, prit near ‘ I pore littl f-a-zun, Bill Rawson « ‘ in’ he had a stor hat b took the las’ | outer 1} he}

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

WITH THE HANDS The Test of an Auto and the Measure of a Man Aha! I See Y« Boys are Working \ PHAVHE Stanelands had joined late and had

K t ‘ pre Né Dp or nstead of a stretch of bank that slope the tM t i ‘ Kea ¢ ‘ ce tr nté ? if ‘ | i for ir ' ’ work and ( ape parce ! ! i oe ‘ tion demandes he f Mr. Hargra ane of the house He} th hi er | ia th ¢ ant pend from England b people. He wa an integral part ¢ he Steel City Fishing did mea hat } t ediate intent ) t i n tal { t Mr Har ra t Wa anur ‘ ' lr ni reputati 4 cone based upon |? vor ir he oor indy with Aaa if ut i t and mouse ' epea hoteur But } nt wa arger jol when upon ‘ al in th rene he Bunga ection of the ‘ elected, a f i iown the Ope pre ite Dank 4 r tre 4 previous thought ng his first et erection of ‘ 1 is and «¢ dra ent aightwav out of hir Not that any Vaucluse « } Bandu m t Stans Na e ne i ‘ | r il runnel meant the most unparalleled of oppor up a hydraulic rat For Star ind Tf elf. ar moot ' st tsown ent and sufficient reasor itis! his sister Elisa he explained tha 4 hould fl bie ade 1 } Tf ill the need { the T art it a 1pu ny le al re ot tr eour ty vhat alterec But had it 1 Nature i ‘ ' t the har f ' M rec er. he couk ‘ t ate { and ha Parna er ould be re : } ha} t the t \ } i the { al a out nveve a compret

(ne evening a week later he came back from the cl house and sought out his sister. She was cutting magazines in the ‘mosquito proof” at the end of the veranda Some one’s else,”’ he said have ou any appurtenances by the name of Stickles She put down her paper-knife (i. Stuyvesant ?’ Well, I didn’t ask him to produce his front name But | guess that’s the lad, all right. It He arrived this afternoor ame up by the New Road in So it’s you, eh? in you, evidently hi bubble Oh, I don’t know about it being I in anv excessive sense. | introduced you one evening last winter M-m I really / met him before, then? What's the Johnny like? Like a peanut Why, I ean’t say that he has any highly distinguishing or notorious characteristics And I’ve hardly digested h coming up here vet Io be sure, he warned me he might And wherefore, pray, do vou thus afflict urself about nin Well, the truth is he gave me the wa affectionate hand upon what seemed to me insufficient ground I'm very particular about the way I'm to be loved, vou know And me for a Timon of Athens if 1 think anv body is loving me too much. But again; is Stickley the real thing (,oodness me, how do / know ? | ippose hes prett h like every other man, except vou, and dad, and a few I've read about in romances Is there ar test Phere are evera Only j couldn't work ther Hm! // 4 Phat rather interesting I'd like te eur little r on the ipject it Od} ] } I'd ] hiv ’ Va } elf \ ou needn t be und wi d KI l ha 1 the clothe th me for an elopemet And if had | shouldn't be a ‘ re whether it'd be (. Stu esan ” one of elever r twelve tner ] like fe ! hautte But I want to hear more

This request brother or ne econd ore he be alread ent of some frest hlueberry turnove And let be set dow © Dis ere 4 itact an, toe tr her rht nave 0 er | na lid not. that there was a flave hout Stickle moking r onversation which he had re en He Va ontent for the preser tt } re rey ‘ Hye 4 ig ad deal of (+. Stu esant tne i OHOW TNE And he had the expectation of seeing still: re ft himinthe veoh hich were to come But if he e« ad not show ar nth ism at the prospe he at least appears ( ce} t with | eustomary tranquilit He 4 re, fa and fro nis uuth up he hilosophi 1 ed h on the il of . lo ick re i) 1m it i his \\

Stanel d x hundred Brother Hargraveclimbed down tf the heach, and for an hour reveled in

lengths of three-quart inch and inch-and-: half,”’ ir l'’ pieces ar x<_ brass valving ina not —_ pair of clean pine pur heons, and tinallv in a ram that looked like al rol headed de il fis! with thetentacles cropped ; she rt When he came upagain for the eleventh time he expatiated tothe littlesis = ter upon the whole beauty , The water when Paste of Blue Clay

_ By ARTHUR E. MCFARLANE dropped steeply down through the larger piping for, sa fifty feet, could be made by means of the valve of the ir strument to lift, or ‘‘ram,”’ a part of its volume up throug! the smaller piping seventy-tive or a hundred feet highe than the source of the supply itself. The smaller puncheor set in in mediately below the spring, would allow of an even flow down to the ram. The big tank, when placed o1 the derrick behind the cottage, would receive the up- mounting water from the slenderer pipe-line; and from that tank the service could be extended indefinitely! Once get your balance established, and your valve pum] ing, and there you are with your own private system of perpetual motion! So don't talk to me of any man test To-morrow Jimmy Hughe and | are going to do a .ob that will be simply the knock- f the common, garden variety out of the plumbers’ union! Jimmy Hughes was Staneland’s next-door neighbor ii things He was

the paternal offices, and his Patroclus ina a quiet young fellow, athletic of person and competent f not adventurous, in idea He generally wanted to do the thing that Staneland wanted to d« He lived a he Bungal almost as much as at the club. Consider ne nature o chumsnif vith Har risa Staneland had come to look upon him asa kind of stepbrother. But there was nothing ve than that in it, either way _ oe l half-past two next day Stickle auto ripple iL h ponderous ease up the extension of the Ne Re 1 hich led through the pines t« he Stanelands He was an exceeding|h yood dresser The absence of i the woods had allowed him to leave all goygle monstro lt hpenind And, frankly no oung French noblemar ould |! ‘ ooke bette behind that 1 eled eering post As he rolled out o the clearing a succession of ‘‘ tank t unkInes bee nto meet his ear nd the t Yiy | He believed at firs } e brother's ic} e?} bye he hands of th ‘ But the ounds were cor from down the banl He steered oot! er te Hargrave Staneland and hi

riend Hughes, bo e foundrymen on a mudd lay, were doing vith a g section of iror tubing Whether or not other men were alwa il their ease with G. Stuyvesant, G. St vesant was always entirely at ease th other mer Aha!” he now saluted the twair } ffusior 1 se tM ire or { Q} iid Staneland just la i fe pipe Made a pretty good contract I yuess maybe it'll be worth while responded Hughes Perhaps / could be of some use to Why, my dear fellow’ — brother Hargrave straightened pon the word and beamed like the morning sur f regara ou aS a godset ! Went Slithering Down into the January 13, 1906

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Att once hat Stick lev fingered his tiller-wheel div and began to back ip somewhat d I have the ‘mobs with me to-day, you know He looked hopefully toward the house / Exactly the thing we're eed r busines { We thought we'd Nave oO ser | x | $ tora block and tackle | Stickle descended fron ne il He } vith re- thoughtfulness, left his chauff behin« he ¢ He ow wished intensely that he had brought } Have you any old duds in the back of ir gas-bugy i nquired Jimmy Hughes ' Why, no he began ti ce hope a hat I have | Oh, that’s all right,’’ said Staneland Come around ; to the stag shack —the private ict here J n and | i houseat night you know and we f ou; né me ] In the Stay snack with a gener hat would take | no refusals they forced upon hit a pa knee-high penetangs,”’ a green and pink sweater (Wally Jot or | had brought it up and had wanted t ist lecorative value shamefully by wearing it uy ordinat ( and the only pair of overall t like the sweater, had never know , to many, would be offensive When he put a long-handled shovel into the hands of his guest. and h was to dig, Stickley, with all pleasantne remarked that he had never done anything like th be , Ho, ho!” Staneland boomed ir icophono thorough-bass Jeen bred pet, eh Then you'll now get achance to remedy your il -cond icte ith! The newer er attempted te ise f renchir gr imple nent from some fairly solid ground Muc old mar ick in!" cried the big brother and smote him jovially hetween the shoulders Tha e beau of the old o’. They give you a chance to get right back to Nature! You'll feel like tha Anteus guy after ve heer orkir vith us for a week or two! A few moments later he nquiring of both his lieutenants what they thought he’d hired them for and how much thev'd take call it off and go to work for some one ¢ Ise Stickle looked coverth at Hughe he wanted to knov ist how Jie felt about it. The had apparently so littl spirit that he seemed to be tak ng I tte if ‘ If anything, he « over THE SATURDAY occupant I provided them forthe: man explained the host C)bse t he tine fullness ot aT , shoulder-straps The i Ke ' feel as chesty as a plasters Sinn Stickley did not war © fee ‘ lasterer’s apprentice I os laintained the principle of tv i LiIngrins t ) i t Ye one he iess Ne in| nore the! nat he Was re ¢ ecepted Iponat ot « ? acié ty ic The } brother f I re r than ne ! th he night before And thou Stuy ve is the only t otne ad nad no t n¢ the fraternal-sorer é ( p told him that bl ee! h more rap ‘ h of ; by har evel the 1 ‘ dére he} Staneland smiled } itl of tha om the cle ‘ S« e going to hely ‘ Mr. Stickle WI I] 1} th Vfuily nice of you! He al ) Tt ? i eo eT ! 1 she he nt S¢ ery nice of her Drother t« ! hely And ( Stuyvesant ! buovancy once more beran to swe If You are Wearing a hin Pink and Green Sweater There Rr her Haret e. he ever. d Almost No Dignity Possible ’ himsetlt ( be de ned [ isterly rad ons We'll prot not need the bubble for ar her he he said We've rs ore ( cl t a place under the spring f he ‘ ch } There is one thing which all poe I ects i ent the matter « prir I Q | H Pieria Soracte or North A ‘ ( ne t if nv nay burst forth “‘more glitterir har thev flow from } 1 ada the vrour ‘ re v them will ir iniab be f nad to he heo 1¢ Kl re ee ft bog And is in sucha b hat S nd and } I ! fellow-engineers now h he major f } he while to do } I Another thing d 1h me rt tior hich As ( Stickley was not long in 1 KIT Oo! I ate he r “| rdir no doubt brother Hargrave did not know hx t sounded his tempe but he had a loud, strident manner of bossing things which es more In } iW er th nir t¢ ice Geet mit her brot} } ntent EVENING POST

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(gS) + a Hie Made a Lot of Money and Blew it in” tha ! 4 el is the ears pa e pape rt irl me ippers, th htoan unpract h alil Bu vhen one igh the paper hust na cer f irs, | I ” Then His Pride Left Him’ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “AND YET A FOOL” January 13, 1906 The Story of a Good Fellow BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE Che paper proved to be an Arizona newspaper full of saloon advertising, restaurant cards, church and school meeting notices, local items about the sawmill and the woman club, land notices and paid items from wool dealers Or the local page in the midst of a circle of red ink was the innouncement of the death of Horace P. Sampson. We vet notices like this every month of the deaths of old settlers who have gone to the ends of the earth, but this notice wa peculiar in this” that it said One year ago our lamented townsman deposited with the firm of Cross & Kurtz, the popular undertakers and dealers in Indian goods and general merchandise, S100 to cover his funeral expenses and another hundred to provide that a huge boulder be rolled over his grave on which he desired the following unusual inscription: ‘//orace IP? Sampson, Born Dec. 6, 1840, and died “A? a rare fellow, my | a We handed the paper to ‘‘ Alphabetical’? Morrison, who happened to be in the office at the time, pawing through the disearded exchanges in the waste-basket, looking for h New York Sun, and, after Colonel Morrison had read the item, he began drumming with his fingernails on the chair- seat between his knees. His eyes were full of dreams and no one disturbed him as he looked off into space. Finally he sighed: ‘“‘And yet a fool--a motley fool! Poor old Samp kept ituptotheend! I take it from the guarded way the paper refers to his faults, ‘as who of us have not,’ that he either died of the tremens or something like that Che Colonel paused and smiled just perceptibly, and went on: “Yet [ see he was a good fellow to the end. I see the Shriners and the Elks and the Eagles and the Hoo-hoos buried hin Nary an insurance order in his! Poor old Samp; he certainly went all the gaits! We suggested that Colonel Morrison write something about the deceased for the paper, but, though the Colonel admitted that he knew Sampson ‘‘like a book,”’ there no persuading Morrison to write the obituary But,” he said, after some urging and by way of con promise, ‘I’m perfectly willing to give you fellows the facts and let you fix up what you please Because the reporters were both busy we called the tenographer, and had the Colonel's story taken down as he told it to be rewritten into an obit y later And it hat he said and not what we printed about Sampson that vorth putting down here The Colonel+took the big leather chair and got his hands locked behind his head as he Deval Let trie Lae Samp Wa por i» he ays LD emt A | as h IS40, in Wisconsin, and came out to Kans: ir closed He Was ina college ip there fat the secon all for troops he led the whole senior class into forming a company, and enlisted before graduation and fought fror hat time on till the close of the war acaptalt but you! r heard hit When } Ca here he'd be a ittec Na i ( i er i mighty od lawyer fo ne al na business'’n ab hoe. Hewa ta oy then, and, like ijoyed a good t He i more or they all did fara t t ne pt 4 ifter he i her i Sor face isine t t t iv a ft 1 And | isa ig d fell We \ i he old man on the tow ‘ el te up the whol t ul t ( ind taking tne ul i! t \ Samp W \ na a ( ler I puy i i oO | tupa y coming ho Nitn tt itr r Va 1 of prairie hicker 1 j ha ne ) 10 il ¢ rut samy \ | ead the sir g being just a mite more lubr it the t re a i the he rnt ne Na i t ‘ ne ed t i) 1 4 i mone ind Diew it it Jim TI 4 iloo g dr and playing d poker and bettins quarter horses, and lending it out to fellows who helped him forget they'd borrowed it And say, in two or three years, after the chicken-hunting set had married off, and n in a way to settle down Samp took up with the other set coming on; he'd married and got the prettiest girl in town we always thought that he married only because he wanted to be a good fellow and did not wish to be impol te to the girl he'd paired off with in the first crowd But still he didn’t stay home nights, and once or twice year say, election or Fourth of July he and a lot ot other young fellows would go out and tip over all the board sidewalks in town, and paint funnysigns on the store build ings and stack beer bottles on the preache r’s front porct And the fellows of his age, who owned the stores and were in nights, would say to Samp when they saw him coming down about noon the next day Go it when you're young, Samp, for when you're old oucan't.’. And he would wink at ‘em, give 'em ten dollar apiece for their damages and jolly his Way down the street to his offies Now, you mustn't get the idea that Samp was the town drunkard, for he never was He Was Just a good fellow When the second set of voung fellows outgre him and and raise Ned generally ettled down he picked ip W th the third, and his boty ‘ —_ eo a 4 ean , & > gins Eg ee | | / ~ W Jhor Kt a Once He Kept White Shirts, Cuffs and Collars on For Nearly a Year bore Nn adlapaca be i oO be no d more ¢ t ymier B Samy practi didt ull off { changed He didn't have »>mucl il-t i i y and got Y il practice Gradually | mea ‘ il la I ind } fame tor Ww ind ¢ yuence ¢ ! len aii ¢ er ne St ite W he ! 4 ( got n trouble I t Ka alwa\ raves i big tee to et the | ‘ ind he did it When he i he ‘ ‘ S ptiry aca t and r hothel ar i \ ! t , Sam] i ow ‘ vould be s« hit ) i od ind the ¢ y-roon " ed ‘ Kitenen ft eek after | at thre awful things he woul en H new ric } their first names than a drummer Colonel Morrison crossed his fat legs at the ankles as | continued, after lighting the cigar we gave hit Well, along n the late seventic “ fellow that he tarted out with got to owning our own homes and getting on in the world. That was the time when Samp should have been grubbing at his law books, but nary a grub for him. He was playing horse for dear life. And right there the fellows all left him behind. Some were buying real estate for speculation; some running for office; some start- ing a bank, and others lending money at two per cent. a (a

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month and leadit of hitched up his ambition and took the slack out of his habits for a few n g in the prayer-meeting. So Samp kind nths and went to the leg say that he certainly did have a good time, though, when he got there. They remember that session vet up there and call it the year of the great flood, for the 1 ehts they was filled with music, as the poet says, and from the best accounts We could get the days was devoid of ease also and how Mrs. Sampson stood it the women never could find out--for, of course, she must have known all about t though he wouldn't let her come near Topeka He began to get pursy and red-faced, and he wa clicking it off with his fifth set of voung fellow It took a big slug of whisky to set off his oratory, but when he got wound up he surely could pull the feathers on freed m to beat scandalou But as a stum}] peaket! ou weren't always sure he'd fill the « nent He could make a Jury Diubber and clench its fists at the prosecuting attorney, and he didn't claim t much law, and } turned Over all the work in the Supreme Court ! part ner, Charley Hedric] Then, when Charle as practicing before the Supreme Court and wasn't here to hold h down, Samp would get out and whoop it up, and quot oni and make stump speeche ar r* is D at nd put } ur i nd i Mars! KF ck and tell him he w the mil we f Al ‘ ice Y f hu reor le is | ked Color Morris f tl ! apher when she had finished sharpening her pe Oh ve long in the eightte Ar het ! } a Samp tried to ge ! and make ! I He se to have tried to catch up with us fellows of } and hi began to plunge. He got in debt, and when the boom broke he was still living in a rented house th therent ten month behind, his partnership gone and |} practice cut dowr to joint-keepers and gamblers, and the farmers who hadn't heard the stories of h financial irregularitie that were floating around towr LADY BALTIMORE By OWEN WISTER XVIII— AGAIN THE REPLACERS HERE upon the table before me, unfinished, lay 1 t to Aunt Carola; and there looking out {f the window after every one had departed and tne rae Wi ‘ t ‘ il ence, | sat wit! led th ervtts “ee \ , \ been raise n} | he , te e | had witne | I ‘ pi I M i han ‘ I ts.1 ! ‘ tot 1 esce pon her lay ld at in } be ress, f llv and ger epting the evitable ma hom her he John had brougt onthe as } elect — formally and ge " pers il i ill i ne her atonemet el ephe he wre era tion had led her | I nat ed ar nexcu t tampering with |} affair No lad delicat« t nane ri ed te ral 1 mutei I not in appe t more as if to sa Mv heart set o7 OTe M at t i t ‘ vorld, but lo enough to have ‘ once or twice a tamuy cirele broker marriage unweleome. Yet it was not what awaited Miss Eliza, a monotono toleration and sit ( acceptance Hortense for John’s sal or «ise ast estrangement fror Johr ha , p ippermost in n tnougnts | Oot pen, andfiim hed what | had to say about the negro and the in:ustice we had done to him, as well as to our own race, by the Fifteenth Amendme I wrote I think Northerners must often seer to these people strangely obtuse in their attitude. And they deservesuch opinion, since all the \ need to do is come here and see for themselves what the War did to the South. ‘*You may have a perfectly just fight you are able to go on with your work health is so damaged next day, while hi By Coffee with a man and beat him rightly; but if the Richest it t { 4 4 nt a ai t yl had ‘ to } ‘ i } } , pid ul t old f \ } } i al w ‘ ace il nea a } from } cle ‘ dou ‘ ! t aa Cre ’ nr i ' , el st i at tne r vit} Alphabetical I ’ Cor rhe ‘ It makes ' i ra fi t 1 } | { ‘ at ( | ail asi i a i I i ( Author of Time He had Unrolled for Me Tapestry of Gayeties That I Remember The Virginian THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 13, 1906 ET A FOOL” The Story of a Good Fellow By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE rhe paper proved to be an Arizona newspaper full of saloon — be impolite to the girl he'd paired off with in the first crowd advertising, restaurant cards, church and school meeting But still he didn't stay home nights, and once or twice « notices, local items about the sawmill and the woman's year say, election or Fourth of July he and a lot of club, land notices and paid items from wool dealers. On other young fellows would go out and tip over all the board the local page in the midst of a circle of red ink was the — sidewalks in town, and paint funnysigns on the store build announcement of the death of Horace P Sampson We ings and stack beer bottles on the preacher's front pore! get notices like this every month of the deaths of old settlers and raise Ned generally. And the fellows of his age, who who have gone to the ends of the earth, but this notice was owned the stores and were in nights, would say to Samp peculiar in this that it said when they saw him coming down about noon the next day One year ago our lamented townsman deposited with “*Go it when you're young, Samp, for when you're old the firm of Cross & Kurtz, the popular undertakers and oucan't.”. And he would wink at ‘em, give 'em ten dollar dealers in Indian goods and general merchandise, $100 to apiece for their damages and jolly his way down the street cover his funeral expe nses and another hundred to provide to his office that a huge boulder be rolled over his grave on which h Now, you mustn't get the idea that Samp was the town : desired the following unusual inseription: ‘//orace 7’. drunkard, for he never was. He was just a good fellow Sampsot Born Dec. 6, 1840, and dred “ny { When the second set of voung fellow outgrew h ind a rare fe me, my { he’ qood at anything, a jet settled down he picked Ip Ww th the third, and his wife We handed the paper to ‘* Alphabetieal’’ Morrison, wh« happened to be in the office at the time, pawing through the discarded exchanges in the waste-basket, looking for his New York Sun, and, after Colonel Morrison had read the item, he began drumming with his fingernails on the chair- ; seat between his knees. His eyes were full of dreams and : no one disturbed him as he looked off into space. Finally F he sighed: “And yet a fool —a motley fool! Poor old 4 y He Made a Lot of Money Samp kept it uptotheend! I take ft from the guarded W240 HCO and Blew it in” way the paper refers to his faults, ‘as who of us have not,’ that he either died of the tremens or something like that Che Colonel paused and smiled just perceptibly, and went r MH « hanges that come to a country newspaper like on: “Yet | see he was a good fellow to the end I see the | become familiar friends as the vears pa ne Shriners and the Elks and the Eagles and the Hoo-hoos | } read hese papers regularly comes to know buried him Nary an insurance order in his! Poor old j t the rappers, though to an unpracticed eve Samp: he certainly went all the gaits!’ t eem much alike But when one has beer W uggested that Colonel Morrison write something ' his thumb through the paper husks ina certain pile about the deceased for the paper, but, though the Colonel i Vear n nows DV some sort admitted that he knew Sampson like a book there wa ‘ hen a ne paper appear And, when the no persuading Morrison to write the obituary | I es hunting for the stranger and But,” he said, after some urging and by of con hap] intil he has found it promise, ‘‘I’m perfectly willing to give you fellows the One morning th pring the stranger stuck its head from — facts and let you fix up what you please ‘ t hanyge pile, and when we had glanced at Because the reporters were both busy we called the fdre and at the one-cent stamp tenographer and had the Colonel's story taken down as he had been mailed to us t omeone told it to be rewritten into an obituary later. And it is | het For the newspape hand vhat he said and not what we printed about Sampson that ‘ ea ‘ ! yas the legal hand tt orth putting down here rhe Colonel took the big ' leather chair and got his hands locked behind his head as he beta ays December 6 ‘ ansas right af tne al re, and at the secor “a Class into torming ce and fought fror at He Wasa captalt 1.4 ; { that. When hi Wy. bart. a ir and Wa a Foo Once He Kept White Shirts, Cuffs and Collars on For | t il ( al na Nearly a Year ' i I He wa t da good t H ( alapaca began to be no i more gy th t ail did fara t mer ; Sia practi didn t se t off " av after he i changes He did: have »> much real-« i i y t isi f r and I eri il practice Gradual I mea i 1 il lawyer flame for wit a ‘ lence ¢ ig i fel We nde i ver ate W he 4 ¢ neher go ! r imanon th \ t Die s he East alwa ; ~ pa bigteet t ptt whole | ‘ net out, and hed When } i he il il taking th ea ‘ es Our ry a Cast ! and ilor And Samp wo r vho the f ire ina he f \ I ‘ \ ler his bu e Samp wa own there would be se hing going ‘ i ‘ t pp al co ! hor Nitn tr Vit? rew ntt ‘ ng For | i eatl oO f of the i | of prairie chick : ‘ and the dining-roon it t) ised qua ha ne 1 out at ever r Samp w i ‘ vi ne ehen ke week after n ne at the f i ead the singu being stan ‘ e lubr iwful things |} Wi li ! H ! I ! } | 4 Nhe r r 1 4 i the { ig? he Na 4 ne r first nat ‘ ar mt T Y ' dor as they used to say Colonel Morrison crossed his fat legs at the ankles as | He made a lot of money and blew it in at Jim Thoma continued, after lighting the cigar we gave hit aloon, buying drinks and playing stud poker and betting Well, along in the late seventies we fellows that he on quarter horses, and lending it out to fellows who helped tarted out with got to owning our own homes and getting \ him forget they'd borrowed it And sa) ntwo or three on in the world That was the time when Samp should years, after the chicken-hunting set had married off, and have been grubbing at his law books, but nary a grub for begun in a way to settle down Samp took up with the him. He was playing horse for dear life. And right ther other set coming on; he'd married and gotthe prettiest the fellows all left him behind. Some were b girl in town we always thought that he married only — estate for speculation; some running for office; some start- wiZt.~ a Then His Pride Left Him’ because he wanted to be a good fellow and did not wish to ing a bank, and others lending money at two per cent. a buying real

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ionth and leading in the \ ting SO 3 of hitched up his ambition and took the slack out of his r-meeting re ta N tie i habits for a few months and went to the leg slature ihe onti oak Up a ‘ not t 1 \ ! m witt i } wife Say that he ce rtainly did have a good time, though, when never as drunt tt la t i ‘ t ‘ i ‘ t { ‘ of tl he got there. They remember that session yet up there ised to | ngs wl } ‘ i pre t } Horace y } . and call it the year of the great tlood, for the nights they I had an offies ext to hisawhile;: it ‘ ‘ i l was filled with music, as the poet says, and from the best talk t me mod deal Tr} out le i Myr ‘ ! est t 1 ¢ A i } accounts we could get the Gays was devoid I ease also he would like to run wit! ore u and how Mrs. Sampson stood it the women never could ipid, and the old fellows except 1 ‘ tind out-—-for, of course, she must have known all about he had no one to loaf witl He decide } nfe | vaftershe left hir | t though he wouldn't let her come near Topeka eral times to brace up, and once he kept wl hirts, cuff Myrt | where sl et Ar a pape He began to get pursy and red-faced, and he wa and colla n for nearly a vear. But when Har lor t sa nvthis 7 ‘ el Morriann ree clicking it off with his fifth set of voung fellows. It took a — elected he tilled up from h hoes to I hat a t ert rain. and smiled as he pr ede | big slug of whisky to set off his orator! Dut When he got it home tor inre aay (ine da iiterthat, when! t | | tt cu ed il pia ot h wound up he surely could pull the feathers out of the bird of back tot flannel shirt and dirty « ir he wa ind tr } { } ein ka i vt t om freedom to beat scandalou But as a stumy] peakelr l ! thi r r at the re ’ 1 i weren't always sure he'd fill the t He could — brol vith M he ¢ rose 4 make a Jury blubber and clench he prose ng Aly etical. wha he i t M \\ i whe attorney, and he didn't claim to kn much law, and he | { ends men to Congre t ikes Supre ( } hell of turned over all the work in the Supreme Court to his part iat ot other t sends fellows to Kansas City a ‘ 1 \ ! i ‘ ada ner, Charley Hedricl Then, when Charley was practic It makes r ‘ } ‘ before the Supreme Court and wasn't here to hold h | t t natura lirts with everv one t ! x ; i down, Samp would get out and whoop it up, and quote ‘ nk do I get. I know ar i ‘ ‘ . } Shakespeare and make stump che d roods boxe I ‘ I ¢ teacl ( ' | at midnight d p i ar around Mars! Supre! ive la l \ } Furgeson ne and te ! ne Was the ) mir flows t I Dank t ! i try \ rme de a fool of hir ‘ } ! ‘ \ } | j ere Was | asked Colonel Mor ‘ rt I WV t eT ad finished sharpening her pe Or ‘ t i? ‘ vr} ‘ Ane hen ear i \ ( ut \ 7 d te n it and make some mone He se | } ‘ iin th to have tried to catch up with us fellows of Nis age, and he i didn t 1 \ 1 , i behing began to plunge. He got in debt, and when the boom broke fa But | ther I i } he he was still living in a rented house with the rent ten month behind, his gone e cut de ! ! ! I I H i to joint Ave} ier VI »>hadn t , t ‘ ! i rhe t ! r ‘ M T | heard the stories finar that were d } tt i ‘ i \\ 3 floating around towr for a man still his fortie LADY BALTIMORE | ' | XVill— AGAIN THE REPLACERS } } ome By OWEN WISTER me, unfinished, lav my letter " rm to Aunt Carola: and there Author of The Virginian h } " oking out of the window i I after every one had departed and he ¢ 1, vas |e . ’ } | ence i Sat wit! dded tt ! write Aur I } } i \ bee! 6 nme t he ‘ | te | had witnessed, but v } 1 } t M i | hand. in these th t nverseeme to | or ce upon her ial idl i i be iress, f “a and get veceptir | the inevitabk ! hom her he } | John had brougt nthe as | i ect rma Arial pre e} ! ! pers« ar th I i t her atone t t el i nepne the wrong her a tio led her tod " } hat ed ar nex tampering with | t No, tha id aelicate nite Nane emed tot raised n t ? not In apy t more as if to sa Mv heart wv et or omething else, and it hurt be ! Saqness ] had not lived long in tk insimy | world, but long enough to have se once or twice a 1a iv circle broker marriage ome Yet as m what t | a I on ay a tolerati« ! alec, af pt anes ’ Hortense f Ss or else ast ) estrangement from John, that wa ippermost in! houghts i Toot pen, and finished what | had to say about the negro and the injustice we had done to him, as well as to our own race Fifteenth Amendment I wrote i I think Northerners must often seer to these people strangely obtuse in their attitude. And they deservesuch opinion, ince all they need to do is come here and 1} nate ' to A see for themselves what the War did to ( ' pen the South. hat she might ‘*You may havea pe rfectly ust fight By Coffee-Time He had Unrolled for Me ‘ th that repr I with a man and beat him rightly; but if the Richest Tapestry of Gayeties hicl knew so well how t ‘ you are able to go on with your work That | Remember v7 Vian, ’ Rut there his health is so damaged a Certain pat! next day, whik

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10 when it came. She felt it her duty to go over a good deal f history first, but | do not understand the present generation,”’ she fin- ished, ‘‘and I suppose that I was not meant to.”’ Che little sigh in these words did great credit to Aunt Caroia This vindication off my mind, and relieved by it of the more general thoughts about Kings Port and the South, which the pantomime of Kings Port's forced capitulation to Hortense had raised in me, I returned to the pe rsonal matters between that young woman and John, and Charley How much would Charley tand How much would John stand, if he came to know How much did Charley know Coming to know ought to be his salvation, his liberty; and lV Interest r svmpath only, wouldn't Hortense manage to keep if he didn’t make it so he would be a fool past 1 hem in the dark skirt-dance in the garden, executed with such aston d grace behind the back of departing Kings Port, ed for me brilliantly the jeweled recesses of thi woman's nature; could close my eyes and see vhat a dance she would inevitably lead young John, once she got him safe; but what I couldn't see, now any better than before, was why she wanted to lead him at all Through him she had triumphantly brought stiff Kings Port to her tea-table—Mrs. Gregory's cardcase was a sort of scalp; scarce enough temptation, however, for Hortense to marry he could do very well without Kings Port —indeed, she wasn't very likely to show herself in it, save to remind them, now and then, that she was there, and that they couldn't keep her out any more; that might amuse her a little, but the society itself wouldn't amuse her in the least. What place had it for her to smoke Eliza La Heu, then Spite Che pleasure of taking something that somebody else wanted? The pleasure of poiling somebody else’s pleasure Or, more accurately, the plea ire of power? Well yes; that might be it, if Hortense Rieppe were vounger in years, and younger, espe lly, in soul; but her museum was too richly furnished with specimens of the chase he had collected too many I and bibelots from life's Hétel lprouot and the great bazar of female competition to pay so great a price as particularly when a lady, even in Newpert, can have but one husband at a time in her collection. She must love John, as Beverly Rodgers had reluctantly come to believe; and it was most inappropriate in her! Had | followed out the train of reasoning which lay coiled up inside the word I might have reached the olution which eventually Hortense herself gave me, and the jeweled recesses of her nature would have blazed still more brilliantly to my eyes to-day; but, in truth, 1 oul wasn't old enough yet to work Hortense jut by itself, unaided! The next time that I met Mrs. Gregory St. Michael it was on my way to ,oin the party at the old church, which Mrs. Weguelin 1 The cardcase } j he sight of it prompted me to allude going to show them I declared. not deny the beauty, although she growing upon me poke with reserve at first ‘It isto be said that she knows how rite a lilabie note the lady also admitted She n't te vhat the note was about, naturally; but I ild imagine th what jov in the exercise of her ed that communication which prompt return of the cardcase downright Since tongue beca sure able to see so much of her, why don’t vou tell her to marry that little steam-vacht gambler I'm sure he's ayving t and ne ist the thing for her A} I returned Love so seldom knows what's just tr thit i arriag Ther fall declared Mrs. St Michael from me along the street 1 wate) walk; for who could help atchir { ory St. Michael that there Na 4 T nt re t l t Hortense | did not n unknown to John May- rant Ye { the boy have to sav, if it Wa hit hat H ense teadfastly clung Che church party, | ever, Was to provide me at its conclusion with a symptom that seemed to show Hortense was watching mut W t i ! lance Chis pa was already assembled when I arrived upon the pot a nted | he tree a tew pace from the hurel d Bohr and (hark ind kit ind Gazza, witt er Ro who, as | ure ar, ie ne and O} he wher ff with her fire ate r ponded Bev dia for Horter Do you th k sk Vas a dad, old 4 Pri : tl ht But she goe vell with th re l wyesated Beve et ickle She goes where she | She'll meet us he hen we're finished, I'm prett ire THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ee ao The Negro s \ Who Waited on Us Well, she has to attend to Charley, you know!” Mrs. Weguelin, it appeared, had met the party here by the church, but had now gone somewhere in the immediate ne ighborhood to tind out why the vate Was not opened to admit us, and to hasten the unpunctual custodian of the ke I had not looked for precisely such a party as Mrs Wecuelin’s invitation had gathered, nor could I imagine that she had fully understood herself what she was gather- ing; and this I intimated to Beverly Rodgers, saying ‘Do you suppose, my friend, that she suspected the feather of the birds you flock with?’ Beverly took it lightly Hang it, old boy, of course everybody ¢ n't be as nice as lam!”’ But he took it less lightly before it was over We stood chatting apart, he and I, while Bohm and Charley and Kitty and Gazza walked across the street to the window of a shop, where old furniture was for sale at a high price; and it grew clearer to me what Beverly had innocently brought upon Mrs. Weguelin, and how he had brought it. The little, quiet, particular lady had been pleased with his visit, and pleased with him. His good manners, his good appearance, his good English-trained voice, all these things must have been extremely to her taste; and then--more important than they—did she not know about his pe ople She had inquired, he told me, with interest about two of his uncles, whom she had last seen in IS5S She's awfully the right sort,” said Beverly Yes, I saw well how that visit must have gone: the gentle old lady reviving in Beverly's presence, and for the sake of being civil to him, some memories of her girlhood, some meetings with those uncles, some dances with them; and generally shedding from her talk and manner the charm of some sweet old melody and Beverly, the facile, the ap- preciative, sittir angle on hischair, admirably sympathetic and in good form, and play ing the old school He had no thought to deceive her the old school was his b right, and ge nuinely in his blood; he took to it like a duck to the water How should Mrs. Weguelin divine that he also took to the 7 ea eu to the tune of Bohm and Charley and Kitty and Ge And so, to show him some attention, and because she there with her at a correct, deferential couldn't ask him to a meal, why, she would take him over the old church of her colonial forefathers; she would tell him the little legends about those forefathers; he was precisely the young man to appreciate such things—and she would be pleased if he would also bring his friends I looked across the street at Bohm and Charley and Kitty and Gazza. They were now staring about them in all their perfection of stare: small Charlie in a sleek slate- colored suit, a as any little barber; Bohm, massive, portentous, his strong shoes and gloves the chief note in his dress, and about his whole firm frame a heavy mechan- al strength, a look as of something that something rapidly and accurately when set going—cut or cracked or ground or smashed something | ter and faster than it had ever been cut or cracked or ground or smashed before, and would take your arms and legs off if you didn't tar Was onl n Bohr Ss « ‘ ind lip I t made entirely of bra ind ron, t i shoulders received a pur aluable time And there was itt or Bohm so soon as she could a re whom she had united herself befor he married him for, his old Knickerbocker name, was no longer in the. slightest January 13, 1906 degree necessary for social acceptance; while she could feed people, her trough would be well thronged. Kitty was neat, Kitty was trig, Kitty was what Beverly would call ‘‘swagger’’; her skillful tailor-made clothes, fitting like gloves, gave her the excellent appearance of a well- folded English umbrella; it was in her hat that she had gone wrong-—a beautiful hat in itself, one which would have wholly become Hortense; but for poor Kitty it didn't do at all. Yes, she was a well-folded English umbrella only the umbrella had for its handle the head of a bulldog or the leg of a ballet-dancer. And these were the replacers, whom Beverly’s cl the temple of his civilization, pushing down the aisles climbing over the backs of the benches, walk ar-sighted eyes saw swarming round ng over ¢ ach other’s bodies, and seizing those front seats which his family had sat in since New York had been New York and so the wise fellow very reluctantly took every step that would insure the replacers inviting him to oecupy one of his own chairs. I had almost forgotten little Gazza the Italian nobleman, who sold old furniture to new Ameri- cans. Gazza was not looking at the old furniture of Kings Port, which must have filled his Vatican soul with con- tempt; he was strolling back and forth in the street, with his head in the air, humming, now loudly, * La-la, la-la, BE quando a la pred ! it, la-la’’; and I thought to myself that, were I the Pope, I should kick him into the Tiber When Mrs. Weguelin St. Michael came back with the keys and their custodian, Bohm was listening to the slow, clear words of Charley, in which he evidently found some- thing that at length interested him—a litth 3ohm, 1 seemed, did not often speak himself: possibly once a week His way was to let other people speak to him when there were signs in his face that he was hearing anything which they said, it was a high compliment to them, and of course Charley could command Bohm’'s ear; for Charley, although he was as neat as any barber, and let Hortense walk on him because he looked beyond tk now softly, aincl vedera l I- and propose d to get her, was just as potent in the financial world as Bohm, ving Empire to his own terms just as fully as could Be was, in short, aman after Bohm’s own-—I had almost said heart: the expression is so ob- stinately imbedded in our language! Bohm, listening, and Charley, talking, had neither of them noticed Mrs. Wegue- arrival thev stood ignoring he while she waited n But Beverly, suddenly casting a timid eve upor i perceiving this, and begging her pardon for them, brought the party toge ther, and we moved in among the old graves Ah!” said Gazza, bending to read the quaint words cut upon one of them, as we stopped while the door at the rear of the church was being opened, ‘French! It was the mother-tongue of these Colonists Mrs Wegue lin explained to him. Ah! like Canada!” cried Gazza ‘But what a pretty bit is that!’’ And he stood back to admire a little glimpse, across a street, between tiled roofs and rusty balconies, of another church-steeple Almost, one would say, the Old World,’ Gazza declared ‘Our world is not new said Mrs. Weguelin; and she passed into the church ‘*But there was nothing in it,’’ I heard Charley's slow monologue continuing behind me to the silent Bohm We could have bought the Parsons road at that time Gen- tlemen,’ I said to them, ‘what is there for us in tidewater at Kings Port? I had now followed Mrs. Weguelin and those of the part who were makit L me show of attention to her qui little histories and explanations; and Kitty’s was the next voice which I heard ring out “Oh, you must never let it fall to pieces! It’s the quaintest, cunningest little fossil I’ve seen in the South **So,”’ said Charley behind me, ‘‘ we let the other crowd buy theirstrategic point; and | guess they know they got a gold brick I moved away from the financiers, I endeavored not to hear their words; and in this much I was successful; but their inappropriate presence had got, I suppose, upon my nerves; at any rate, go where I would in the little church, or attend as I might and did to what Mrs. Weguelin St. Michael said about the tablets, and whatever tradi- tions their inscriptions suggested to her, that quiet, low, persistent banker's voice of Charl Vs pervaded the build- ng like a draft of cold air. Once, indeed, he addressed to Mrs. Weguel followed her throughout protectingly and charmingly, tion. She was telling Beverly (who with his most devoted attention and his best manner) the honorable deeds of certain older generations of a family belonging to thi side had borne French it scriptions ‘My mother’s family,” said Mrs. Weguelin t Ss congregation, Some ot whose ombs out- ‘“‘And nowadays,” inquired Beverly, ‘“‘what do they find instead of military careers here are no more of us nowadays; they -they were killed in the war."’ And immediately she smiled, and with her hand she made a light gesture, as if to dismiss from mutual embarrassment and pain this subject ‘I might have known better,”’ murmured the under- standing Beverly A

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ut Charley now had his question How you Say How man) Mrs Weruelin didn't quite ‘Were killed?” explained ( harle Again there was a little pause before Mrs answered: ‘‘My four brothers met their deat} Charley was interested of fatalitv in their regiments - ne Oh,” said Mrs. We; ! did th f it that pal wa And she turned a tru Charley,’’ said Kitty with some precipita make Ar M Bohm look at the church! and si turned after Mr t t W eguelir It ich a es Yes, Kitty did her best to cover it uy Kitty, as she spe would undoubted have said herself, « ee a few A) Bol thing But nobody could cover it up, tl h Beverl was now perspiring through his efforts to do s« Indeed ‘ replacers cannot be covered up by human avert } t re Ul T i Bot if I I mr al { aA i t | t ‘ had 1 ee! le ! ‘ \\ St. M ! It r t I ance of the! Nn plainly ne t calculated (ar i re lew } é me?" and which died instant t glaze of indifference on seeing that no mone , ‘ made Bohm's eve, according iked and then glazed Manners, courts he ¢ t need, not yet; he had looked at ther I replacer glance, and, seeing no mon n th had gone on looking at and mills (and bare shoulders, and bottle Should manners and courtes come yn to mean money to hit then he could have then in his fashion © that his admirers and his apologists should alike declare of hin \ rough diamond, but consider what he has mad of himself! After what, did vou sa his was the voice of Gazza, addre ing Mr W egue ot Michael. It must be said of Gazza that he, to made a certain pretense of interest in the trad ~ tions of Kings Tort Se After the re cCatlor the « a. ‘ Tas replied Mrs Weg lelit 5 Built it in Savannal Charley wa I ri to Bohm, ‘or Norfolk This is a good place t bur pec ple in, but not mone Nov he pl phate propositior Again | dragged 1 ittentior ree a fror hat quiet retentiess ? | au listened as well as I could M W ave seh: There had coms » be amor is all, I tt > ] Beverl Kit (iazza and 1 ‘ ie .. impulse to shield he te t t her = follow her steps from eact tle le e tl } fir 5 ? he new 1 ere } ) ‘ r Deva Ve ait a ‘ to the end; but there le ‘ in « performanc | areal \ h I ce nt ; a ( ( Ost ni our que a ! ! I helped, and we went on to the er ‘ ‘ elve doing ana it na ( ! But she i } irre one ed to acc - Segre “Almost, One Would 2 a ae the Old World” ore | ‘ nd i change ne ! rme previous familiar ol ne l } ¢ , re | } she thought, or how much she noticed Her face " Char always so pale it ma ell have been a i I t | me that she seemed, when we emerged } ‘ ot the eet, paler tl ? la tl tall \ th: ner hand i nt I ' | ’ 7 I } 1 thanks of the par nee the ; ‘ i ; t the r il « ‘ re I time, the appearance of Hortenss« ‘ } ‘ M | John Mavyrant Charley had resumed to Bohr A tax of t -five } cents on the ton is nothing with de t ft hne either four when his voice ce ased and, lo i niu s the if 1 nent cause, I perceived that his eye was on John, and that his ou for Udoly polished finger-nail was running meditative along his Whene thin mustache Weather pern Hortense took the matter whateverthe matter as r or after that hand understand W eguelin , Y percentage THE SATURDAY Lae j A ~ =? EVENING POST “a ix UDOLPHO

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12 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A°D'‘ 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 421 TO 427 ARCH STREET GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 13, 1906 In Clubs, $1.25 Each Five Cents the Copy of All Newsdealers Single Subscriptions, $2.00 the Year Foreign Subscriptions: For Countries in the Postal Union Single Subscriptions, $3.25. In Clubs, $2.50 Each Remittances to e Made by International Postal Money Order Make Way for the Auto gee projected automobile highway between Londor ind the sea at Brighton isa move in the right directior hen it became evident that the steam locomotive and it t r va big factor in the future of mankind, there j i i il I that it should have it wnt t And now that it is clear that the automobile to plement, if not some day entirely to supplant, the other lo distance transportation, the soons we sel | i { the new development, the fewer | \ be lo nd the more quickly will everybody begu ip the enorm« potential benetit A f track |} 4 Detweer Philadelphia and New York would be a good starter: two tracks for the speeder Why Greek and Latin? \' THE present moment there are probably i 4 Hot ing men and oung women, In college Cu ( ind higt ‘ ved in trying t t Lati ( ‘ their head he pend hour each week, the | I f the educational per ‘ t ‘ rhe i } iveier from Ar Tt Ker] tug rwhen the ntoaT ‘ ‘ ral the il mer t ) rire ' 1 { } the erst M t i pid kh if | and | t he ‘ Ir t Wr t! t I ‘ ‘ | i ¢ ot | Ar « eason Ar I ‘ ha I ishr f feeling that, a Da Middle Age cul , one Car t i lt rhe he presence ola re r The Game is Getting Wild i | . ntr a receive r the Cine na Ham- and a ra ad igre that the r t n umence Perhaps President R ‘ } frie ths hiact i ne ‘ ? ire ivear and a hall old I “ J “id ha } hu 1 licats hict 1 t hasic roa aryre h borrowed ( r ‘ M let and ed = s cnn) tie ‘ fur t otina e the hase. Only ay uro there was anothe ie of $15,000 La March the I « Ma { Va int ind ' i holds andir tart i ta il i Last vea 4 Pere M letle \ S600 ( new re n r ' | t Sey mober, when the sy Cate ha ilar ivme ts hol 7 et, M M 4 ‘ } chased then heq one arranged 1 ell the "9 . +} e. whicl " t yme S368 “) of capit s of wn to look t for Phere ectior howe ind ‘ it} ght wa ‘ © throw t} t kru ind reory ‘ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Thus, it will be observed, the hopeful purchasers of some 230,000,000 of the new system’s new securities barely had ime to get them in their pockets, and turn around once, before they were called upon to surrender them to the re- This is too discouraging. The rules must be amended so that the purchaser of a security shall have at least two laps the start of the receiver, or it is going to kill organizers. the game The industrial consolidation game was finally killed by the shipbuilding affair, which fell down on the heads of sub- cribers before they could jump out of a window. The C. H. & D. incident points a warning that the railroad consolidation enterprise will go the same way unless it is »ymnewhat reformed The great ‘“‘new’’ Rock Island System, which has just cut off returns to its preferred stockholders, pushed the limits rather hard; but at least it permitted investors to draw several dividends and a long breath before it called upon them to face readjustment. This should always be the rule The reorganizers can afford to be natient No doubt the next important business depression will bring them the usual ample grist to grind They Must Learn Their Trade pk ERAL of the high officers of the navy are saying J frankly that our naval service is away below par be- cause so few of the officers know anything about machinery and they urge that at least a certain definite small pro portion of the graduates of Annapolis, say one in ten hould be practical mechanical engineer But why not all? What excuse is there for this bour bonism, this snobbishness that refuses to recognize the revolution in naval conditions? A naval man of to-day might as well be ignorant of navigation or of gunnery a of machinery The engine now is what the sail used to be What would a Paul Jones or a David Porter have said to a proposal that at least a certair proportion of } taf? hould understand sails! Both our army and our na are filled with old-fast ioned notions of an aristocratic and, ir time highly vrilous survivals from the ancient order. Every one of thes hould be rooted out. There are no degrees of lignity and honor in the service of one’s countr The engine-room is the quarter-deck of the modern warshiy The Peasant Prince | be BET is the first people's President of France 4 is the first who came from the masses intr) And, now that he is about to retire, all par from the France are admitting the truth that there is not at the head f anv nation in Europe his equal in all the essentials of a hief of state He is the best endowed in intellect, has the finest character, has the most perfect tact, is the most gra- ous host and the most attractive guest. In a word, the peasant measures head and shoulders above any prince vhether as man or as gentleman Emile Loubet is the kind of man that makes the carping democrat nstit itions ridiculous The Worthy Rich Iden age of American letters, when for ten cent ecessful busine r ht be vritten up papers of | } e¢ t custor n the first f , he laud stick } hieet of th tch was born of poor but hone t Phe imp ti f th vord a 1 uM that ordinary, « ‘ ‘ nq ¢ he exceptional cor n, carried opprobr t} nified a | r ! t ‘ i tatu he ph e ha ' it at a ae ,' rid atl t ne Ar if na { ‘ ird povert ich, with susy r But the per m of | ppr ving . +} ther direction that. if we do not « | rn te ‘aaa re it will be said of the suc f an that he wa tw not? nt r re tr rent rh fast ! n popular moral : to consider wealth a thing » be palliated, mitigated or explained W here aid ne get it ul fective club to throw after a grafter t, unless we are caref ts bus end will be dented t toe t eonthe neads of more or less honest men la , + t expre e and felicit cor i 1 of words, is le to lose it trengtn, and become ymvm fora rnl mone riven to any good cause \ the phrase tl thy niet s lial to e its? r of meant ) nstar and ge nut ny intr iS an eT het at ar rich mat if tor hould be lerst¢ pre lefinite that there tCla f citizens who may be ! Vnas the worthy r dese , t ist as thers inowl class Known e worthy or deserving poor; and we should not forget hile we are extending our kindness to the deserving poor that we st 1 be equally generous with the worthy rich We shou lever remember that it is no disgrace to be rich t asit is not an evidence of dishonesty to be poor. Many January 13, 1906 persons are busy doing real service to society who inci- dentally accumulate wealth as they serve; though many others not a whit more deserving than the worthy rich re- main poor W hile they serve their fellows Riches or pov- erty, as such, should signify no more than the color of the eyes, the grain « f the skin, or the timbre of the voice. The real test of a man’s value to society should be his service This may all seem trite, but there is a large class of citizens who evidently think that what the old-time theologians called the Lamb's book of life” is being edited by Duns and Bradstreets Little Caution and Big SticKs \ JHATEVER may be the manner and motives of President Castro, it is impossible for boss-cursed Americans not to have a strong sympathy with his war on the bondholders and the concessionaires. Everybody know how some of those bond issues ana concessions were made the rotten conspiracies between the capital- ists and the dictators by which the conspiracy got everything and the people nothing \ legitimate de velopment of our inflexible policy of two parties to the enforcing the Monroe Doctrine would be for us to establish a permanent commission to get and publish the actual whole rotten truth about any transaction over which group of grabbers Is trying to set on our Government or it to attack a South or Central American republic. The mere publishing of the facts would, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, make it un some European Governme ecessary for us so much as to glance in the direction of our The Decay of Lying ” NO minor respect has the life-insurance investigation been more instructive that in its revelations of an iT effeminate, decadent style of mendacity lake a recent nstance One of the cor ipanies loaned somebody, for one aay $700,000 of non-taxable bonds, in order that the mebody might dodge taxes on that amount by swearing hat | Dp ( 1 of -taxabl ecuriti Che next handed back the comy non-taxabl nd po PSSIOT th yT able ¢ A robust outright liar is not b i hoy He ft } ) ind swears off his ‘ a ir, ring- f e, Without a blink He has couras hich isalways a hopeful quality Moreover, he has a kind of admirable tegrit) t He ivs to Nimsell I don't propose ) pay taxes, so I'll just lie out of it But the shuffling joubling, timorous prevaricator who has to bolster up his vobt 1) little ecanscience w th cheap little devices before he can get it tostand for the lie is probably beyond redemption He is compounded of such fluid materials that if you lifted him bodily to the side of virtue he would begin to spill and lea acre t k al ui ‘ ahi il ts t t > mak I i St vVallow ni Vn he and thereby do i dout er ‘ n perjur bot outward a a vard The old challenge wa You lie your throat But the mar whor es himself lie to h elf hes his s Phe out right, courageous perjur ist te himse What he is ! th ‘ t who re , itt I Lae) i hi i night order ‘ hat he hast ‘ and ur lodge taxes W pe he pe nto | vn heart ] ! t il iii bu i are ( 4 rit a ‘ » il j A Washington Emergency grade ernment of the United States was recently sub- cied to a strain of considerable wlence ‘ é SU,000,000 subjects who ac ol dwell \ hin the immediate adow of the dome were unaware of it Senator Mitchell, of Oreg n, dieG suddeniy At the time of his decease he was at liberty under bond pending an ppeal from his cor ction for participation in exte é ! Iraud again the G ernmer the sentence it id ne and imprisonmer Out of sight of the dome this eireu tance Would appeal her nelu eas to whether the funeral should be solemnized by public honors. More- over, both of the representatives from the Senator's State n one of whom would devolve the traditional duty of ng notice of the death and moving for the usual public cognition were ler the same ciouad, one ! been mvicted, the other indict Away fron e Capit his lation " met promptl ind simply by he con n that tl } ter B this t is solution encountered what Is probably t trong- est ingie force a W ngt arn Precede Ac- cording to Precedent h and such for lities ¢ ‘ pon the death « fa Senator he lobbte lebate tne question whether Precedent be rnored with a zest which the Monroe Decctrine scarcely could have worked There are many government il phe nomena which seem inexplicable until one remembers that clothes are more important than the body to persons who are professiona cing the clot}

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SE THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Rubaiyat of the Automobile Wake! For the Car that scatters into flight The Hens before it in a flapping Fright, Drives straight up to your Door, and bids you Come Out for a Morning Hour of Sheer Delight. Why, if the Soul can know this Glorious Game, All other Stunts seem dry and dull and tame ; This is the ultimate, triumphant Joy, Automobile Elation is its name! os Would you your Last remaining Thousands spend About the Secret ? Quick about it, Friend! A hair perhaps divides This make from That And on that Hair, prithee, may Life depend! 4 Each year a hundred Models brings, they say. Yes, but Who buys the Car of Yesterday ? And every mail brings in New Catalogues That make a Last Year’s Model fade away ! 5 Waste not your Hour nor in the Vain pursuit Of Demonstrators who will loud Dispute ; ‘This one is Best because it’s painted Red!”’ ‘« That one, because it has a Sweeter Toot!’’ o Whether at Naishapur or Babylon, Whether the Car shall jerk or smoothly run, The Wine of Life is in a Motor Trip; (Though all the Parts keep breaking one by one!) Indeed, with my big Car I’ve run so long It seems to me there’s Always something Wrong; Faulty Ignition, or a Leaky valve Or maybe the Compression is too strong. 8 Then to the Laughing Face that lurks behind The veil, I lifted up mine Eyes to find Two pouting Lips, demurely murmuring, ‘¢T don’t See why you ever bought This kind!”’ 9 Myself, when young, did eagerly frequent Garage and Club-— and heard much Argument About it and about — yet evermore Came out more Addled than when in I went! 10 Indeed, i’ve learned to treat it as a Joke When Nuts work loose, or Carburetters choke ; And then, and then — the Spring, and then the Belt ; A Punctured Tire, or Change Speed Lever broke ! B Y i} A Look of Anguish underneath the Car, Another Start. a Squeak -aGrunt~ a Jar! The Aspiration Pipe is working loose ! The Vapor can't get out! And there you are! 12 For I remember Stopping by the way, To tinker up the old Machine one day, And with a Reckless and Unbridled tongue, I muttered) Well, I wouldn't like to say! Fey When suddenly an Angel Shape was seen Approaching in an Up-to-date machine, Bearing a Vessel which he offered me And bid me smell of it ‘Twas Gasoline 14 The stuff that can with Logic Absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Parts confute; rhe sovereign Alchemist that in a trice A drop of Oil will into Power transmute 15 Strange, is it not, that of the Myriads who Have empty Tanks and know not what to do, Not one will Tell of it when he Returns! As for Ourselves Why, we deny it, too! 1o© We are no other than a Moving Row Ot Automobile Cranks that come and And what with Goggles and Tale-windowed Veils, I M wth ip we're a Holy Show ' 7 But helpless pieces of the Game bestowed Upon the Checker-board of Hill and Road; Hither and Thither moved and sped and stopped, And One by One back to the Garage towed is The Car Question makes of Ayes or Noes But Here or There as suits its Fancy gi But the Bystander, offering Advice He knows about it all He knows He KNOWS! 1 And if in Vain down on the stubborn Floor Of Earth you And weary, cra pe H t You gaze to-day; you may as well be Sure To-morrow ‘twill be Worse than ‘twas Bet ao And that Inverted Man, who seems to li Upon the Ground, and Squints with Practis'd Eye Lift not your hands to him for Help. For he As impotently works as you or I 21 Whereat some one of the Loquacious lot Who seem to rise up, jeering, on the Spot! Butts in and says, ‘* You'd better test the Coil,’’ ‘*Your Exhaust Valve Spring's broke,"’ or, ‘* Crank Head’s hot!"’ And this I know Though in the Magazine Perfectly Running Motor Cars I've seen, It’s quite a Different Proposition when They're on the Road, and filled with Gasoline! 2:3 The Moving Motor speeds, and having Sped Moves on Nor all the cries and shrieks of Dread Shall lure it back to settle Damage Claim Not even if the Victims are Half Dead! 24 And when at Last you've mastered Valve ad Bolt When with no fear of Side-slips, Jars or Jolt Your Forty H. P. Racer licks up M At Meteor Speed, turn on a Few More V > 2 Then in your Glorious Bravery ex When your Car plunges like a Catapu Sit Tight, Hold hard, pass everythir ht! And you will be Surprised at the R

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 13, 1906 THE LOVE STORY OF Caliiorni CHARLOTTE BRONTE The Hero of Villette By REBECCA HARDING DAVIS N 1891, during a short visit which I made to Brussels, | became acquainted, by chance, with certain circumstances in Charlotte Bronté's life in that old capital, more than half a century before. They were trifles in themselves, but they gave me a totally new idea of the author of Jane Eyre, and made a flesh-and-blood woman out of the weird little creature who so magnetized and puzzled the world in the middle of last century The Bronté sisters, perhaps, had more of the unreal, intangible quality than any other English writers. The public, from the first, threw a mystery around them and they never yet have been brought out be- fore the world into honest daylight. Three lean, consumptive women living In a grave- yard in the middle of a damp, malarious moor, starved in body and mind, with a half-mad clergyman for a father, who vented his silent rages by firing pistols out into the night, and a wholly mad brother, standing on his feet ranting curses until he dropped dead —these were the material out of which the newspaper critics and biog- raphers of the day made up their apprecia- tions of the new writers lhe biographers of the Brontés all hinted, too, that they possessed the qualities of the ters in their books. Emily, a silent wild-eyed girl, the solitary event in whos« life was its long dying agony, 1s popularly believed to have hidden in her lean little body the ferocious passions with which she endowed her monstrous heroes and hero- ime in Wuthering Heights. Charlotte, even when she elected to fill the common- place role in the world of the wife of a very commonplace village curate, is still regarded askance by the public as a low-voiced, soft-eyed monster—-a Jane Eyre, a Roches- r and a Rochester's mad wife all rolled Into one o of these lonely, sickly women edly possessed—the mysterious creative power which enabled them to con- ceive abnormal and inhuman qualities and to breathe them intotheir fictitious men and women with such force that the public received the men and women and gave unent place in the world as if had been living souls. But I doubt I wh th sronté sisters in actual fact were themselves one whit more abnormal than are the lonely, sickly, unmarried women of ar BE nglish or American village The fac f ¢ ~ arlotte’s sojourn in Brus- ev] when the came to my nowledge, 1 th pr uc conviction on me \s I said, it was by accident that I learned this chapter of her history. Coming one day with another American woman out of the cathedral we stopped on the steps discuss the Miracle shown on the pictured My readers will recollect the tradition } tt enth ce a Jew stole Kuch t the on the altar tot home in a miserable quarter f the city, put it into a caldron on the t t and boiled it The water, we are t ! at once into blood and over- tlowed, deluging the street The Jew was , 1 } the mol The cits d ‘ penitence f the crime i he H and the five great sover- eigns of Europe caused the story of the to be painted on five windows of the cathedral, and humbly offered them to apy ! vrath of an insulted God. \ e came out on the eps of the nme i a l th 4 th re TY ust be a monument or other 1 rial of the ‘ t on the place where it ‘he a occurred, tho we could find no mention of it in guide-book \ p! leasant-looki ng man standing n us overheard the remark and said pre tly Permit me, Madame You will find a church built on th te of the event, in ( which the Host is elevated every day from sunrise to sunset, in token of the Divine forgiveness of the sacrilege.”’ She walked down the street with us, suggesting other interesting old houses in 3russels not known to Baedeker or to Cook tourists. Presently one of us said that we intended to go to the Rue d’ Isa- belle in search of the pensionnat of M Hegér in which Charlotte Bronté had taught, and which she had made immortal in Villette Our guide hesitated, coloring a little, and then she said gayly: * No one can show you that house so well as I. It is con- ducted now precisely as it was in Miss Bronté’s time by my sister. We are the daughters of M. Hegér.”’ Naturally we gave up the afternoon to her and to the school. What old church could have any associations which would mean as much to us as those of the class- rooms and the dusky garden paths in which the poor little English girl wore out the best years of her life, in the futile passion which she afterward shrieked out for the whole world to hear? Our guide, Madame P., was the youngest of the Hegér children, the ‘Georgette”’ whom Charlotte describes in Villette as an ‘affectionate, lisping petite,’ and for whom she really seems to have felt the natural, wholesome affection that every woman has for an innocent child. You will remember how very little there was in Charlotte Bronté’s nature that was whole- some or natural. ‘Georgette"’ had married a man of means and influence. The Hegér family, I found, had long held a well-established and honorable position in Brussels. Their tanding among their fellow-citizens was not affected by the esclandre which followed their connection with Miss Bronté, and which made them the subject of the world’s gossip Hegér was an able, excitable man of keen insight, who threw himself with fiery enthusiasm and passionate belief into one hobby after another. His hobbies were, as a rule, high and pure in purpose, but usually wholly impracticabl He was e found--still living and till exercised a supervision over the school controlled by his daughter. Many of the girls trained in thisschool were of high rank yng them had been one of the royal Belgium. She was a classmate of one of M. Hegér’s daughters, and the two girls contracted a close friendship for each other of princesses t which lasted into middle life They kept up a clo « corre ponde nee for many vs rs, in which the Princess wrote freely to her friend of her most private affairs Mademoiselle Hegér died suddenly. Before night,” said het ter, “my papa made a package of all of the Princess letters, folded it in a white paper, sealed it with white wax, and sent it to her Highness He would not allow her to spend a single night in doubt and anxiety about them. egérs, in fact, appeared to be pe who would promptly do the delicate and honorable thing in ar ich dome cT Their feeling toward e was naturally extremely bitter. She had un- doubtedly received constant and great iness from their mother, and in return ip as ‘Madame Beck,’ Oo the contempt of the world P. was apparently not t portunity to tel] rue otte B sper freee She tions and hospit: to i charming grace, " » home and took us » the n? wh Villette has le t! world familiar ‘ We found the classrooms unchanged; we sat on the very chair in which Lucy Snowe describes herself at work, now taming the huge, lazy Belgian girls by her dumb heats of fury, now skillfully warding off her lover's outbursts of passion —frenzies of rage to-day and of love to-morrow The following account of Charlotte Bronté’s connection with the pensionnat and the Hegér family was given to me by Madame P. It is that which is believed now in Brussels. 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it, although it differs in some particulars from the statement of Mrs. Gaskell in her biography It is as follows: Emily Bronté entered the school as a pupil, but Charlotte as a nursery-governess. Their means were so limited that this was the only way in which they could carry out their wish to spend SIX months in a school where French was spoken, in order that they might acquirt the language. Charlotte was engaged to take care of the Hegér children and to teach them English But so great was her eagerness to learn French and so marvelous the ability which she showed, that Madame Hegér’ssympathy was aroused for the poor little English woman, and she arranged that she should be partially relieved of her duties as nursery- maid and should receive lessons from M. Hegér himself. This kindly plan was carried out by Madame Hegér at the sacrifice of her own interests and at no little daily inconvenience. This Belgian schoo]lmistress, about whom there raged so long a whirlwind of gossip seems to have been, simply, an able, shrewd but generous woman, quite capable of sacrificing her own plans and comfort for a needy English girl, but not at all likely to permit the English girl to impose upon her in the smallest degree, Madame P.’s statement of their rela- tions, as you See, corresponds exactly with Charlotte’s own account of Lucy Snowe’'s position in Madame Beck's household She tells us that she began as a nursery- maid, was promoted to the position of scholar, and, later, of teacher She gives us the history of the love which grew up between the fiery little professor and his cold, sickly English pupil. There is no more real love story in our literature We know, as we read, that it is the history of an actual occurrence; that ew he this half-starved, anzwmic, ugly girl did meet this brilliant, ill-tempered little man and poured out on him all the hoarded, fierce passion of her life. The account given in Brussels is that the infatuation of the little English teacher for M. Hegér was soon apparent to all th school and was not long concealed from his wife. Charlotte Bronté was suddenly summoned home by the death of her aunt It had long been her intention to open a school in England; her father was becoming blind, her brother was almost uncontrol- lable from drink. Every circumstance and condition of her life made it necessary for her to remain in England. But she chose to turn her back on all home-duties and to return to Brussels, where she was offered a alary of only sixteen pounds per annut refusing one of fifty pounds in England Her English biog rs give no reasor for this choice but French account luntly ascribe it to her mad devotion 1 her master, M. Hegér. She remained i: ] t the school despite the cold discourag of Madame He She was at last d missed by her and sent back to Englar From thence she constantly wrote pa I ate letters to M. Hegs Madame P. assured me that her father had reserved these letters until within a fe veeks of my visit to Brussel Vheir lite ary value made him unwi them. Both he and his wife apparent had laughed at the { ‘English Mees— no lor ~ ; ougly! So gauche Poor Charlotte! The recital of the little incidents of daily life in the Rue d’ Isabelle soon mai her a very real person to me. It that the lean, silent little womar ng in her that mysterious flame of geniu which probably nobody about he but M. Hegér. Apart from that, she wa precisely what the daughter of a pre her ne rrecovnizer poor clergyman would be, brought wp o1 a lonely moor, ignorant of the every-da world and of social life, prejudiced, bigote: and totally lacking in that most wholesome uality in any woman or man—common ense. Whatever was in the world outside of Haworth was in her opinion ignoble a mtemptible. The worship and trir f the great Roman ; Greek churct were dismissed as *‘silly’’ by this buntptiou little person. The Belgian nation was swept aside contemptuously as *‘ nothing In fact, the whole outside world counted as nothing to this self-centred English woman. rhe ke y tot harlotte Bronté’s whole life the one dominant motive that urged her on year after year, was a hunger to be loved. The desire to find her fellow-soul obscure im- pulse in the character of most women, was fierce as the clutching of starvation in ‘harlotte. It is the on tif of writ r n the time when, as a child, she was in love with the son of a neighboring York shire farmer whose brutality and virik coarseness she has immortalized in Roches ter, in the days of her infatuation with the mild, blue-eyed young doctor whom she painted as St. John, to the years spent in the little chamber where for years Madame Beck's protégé looked with despair at her homely face in the dingy mirror, and worshiped Paul Emanuel, I to be loved her mate —which is a tender, ol by the same hun loved and wooed like fairer wom Near the end of her |] passion drove her to marry an she had once held up to ridicule in print eering at his commonplace stupidity \ good, worthy soul, who loved and tended her faithfully, but who was no more akin to her than is the tallow of the candle to the flame which it feeds When Miss Bronté returned to England he began at once to write and to put her own history and passions into print for the whole world to see The Professor was a ketch of M. Hegér. which she afterward enlarged in the Paul Emanuel of Villett« rhis later book was, in fact, so accurate a description of her own life in the pension: that it drew the attention of the whok reading world to the little school in Brus els. Poor Madame Hegér, to her ama ment, was held up to universal scorn and contempt Her daughter, one day, led me up ti portrait of a middle-aged woman with a face full of kin i, noble meanings \ That is Maman,” she said i } Madame Beck illette, in which Charlotte Bronté laid bare her heart to the public, and took deliberate revenge on the wife of the man whom she loved, was undoubtedly a work of genius. But surely the exposure and the revenge were ignoble and paltry The novel, I learned in Brussels, produced great excitement in that community when it appeared tional burghers gave a moment's thought to Charlotte, her woes or her brilliant powers, but I not because the grave conver because the book asserted that flirtations with outside lovers were possibl to the jeunes « ( in the Hegér pensionnat, and that audacious gallants could smuggle love-letter to their daugh ters under the very nose of Madame Hegér The school tottered to its foundations But I was told ‘‘it was too securely ground ed in the contidence of the court and get ( \ pape Was drawn up! mal he noble women in Be 1 ho had he educated by Madar Hegér tif r to it101 re } wT + it it 1 Ww on ‘ ll¢ ‘ hy uN } ( hariotte i ( ‘ i ttle gos and Bruss¢ | | got her and—- her ok VV time a Mma t na i grat ific on in h H i satisfied that England never had prod a yman of genius so grea hat of | prot ind he was equ " nt that | had discovered the ( ein} ad nursed life Wi ever ( Bronté had given to f world was, in his belief, due to M. H While I was in B ‘ he was passing n i he Rue d’ Isabelle one ark rht and ran into a group of English tourist ho were gazing ar 1 it the wa f I nat, di sing eagerly the Villette and its hero Was h t hen the ship nt d th " argull Y i M. Hegér « bed ur ! the toy he which he stree I n he turned, f in the t and flashing |} n on his fa | Behold! I am Paul I ul ind anished t if if n ! It t pr ‘ | i r I ni } | s Sr e’s i hot-tempere t er vould have done M. Hegér died soon afterward We v condemn Charlotte Bronté as weak and umderbred when she laid bare her passion to the world and painted for us the human, chivalric little man whom she loved. But what would we have lost it if I if she had not done it! 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16 THE SATURDAY PLAYER FOLKA r — Fay Davis Defending an Actress NV ISS AY DAVIS is the possessor of a 1 puritar cal sense of propriety, an In- he ites ee a long line of New England ancestors; and, though she has also an in- stinctive sense of humor which for the most grace, she was not from part acts as a saving above being very much annoyed, of late, when it was reported that she was secreth married She very pl ymptly traced the report back to its source In a general conversation, it appeared, some one had said that he had seen her kis a man good-by at the Grand Central Sta- tior Now, gossip is nowhere more deadly than in the world of player folk, and an English friend of hers rose to the oceasion with the best-intentioned gallar tr) He il knowledge the man Davis is now pray- friends As it happened, the man was her brother said that toh was her husband. Mi Getting ““On" to Barrie N HIS later n r, as the lit would call it, J. M. Barrie, ingly popular in England, ha trial to our American vanity as a nation of humori His fur so much a matter of personal whim, not to say idiosynerasy, as to elude most people who are not professed and pract The Admirable Crichton was searcely a success, in spite of Mr. Gillette's popularity, and Little Mary, his comedy centring in the human stomach Sentimen erary critic while unfail- proved 3 sad iced Barri ites tal Tummy one critic called it was a flat failure here, though it ran for months in London and to crowded houses Peter P: in which Maude Adams is ap pearing, is undoubtedly but nevertheless, a sore trial to many a steady going man in the well-known theatrical mar rer latel overheard two noted ng to decide on a p lay for the evening over their dinner at Delmonico's successful, race-tract ort ry- One was for Miss Adams and the new Barrie play, and the other was for almost anyth Ing’ @iS¢ inally the non-Barrieit« concluded I'll make you a sporting proposition You go to the play, and I'll go to kid Met oy's At the end of the first act, jom me there If vou're ‘on,’ I'll go in and sit through the play If you're not ‘on,’ the eats and the supper will be on you Frohman as Barrie Enthusiast Mien: “HARLES FROHMAN was as ous over the fate of Peter Pan was Miss Adar lo the theatrical the Napoleon of the drama —a roar ‘ ambition, and an iror her t wehe ng it Personally how ever. he re t o the point of shvne He has almost never been known to appear onan t t,and eldor n the audience at at rie B to his friends, whom he l n | tinge he very na mathet M un eee n The Litth hat laid the cornerstone of h and her fate ir r Pan meant to thing t ot be measured in the receipts of the box-office. He had seen Barrie’s Little Mary fail disastrously, and his Admirable Crichton floated into a dubious vogue by Mr. Gillette’s personal popularity —for, with all our pride in our American sense of humor, we are far behind London in appreciating the finer and more intellectual shadings of nonsense. But Mr. Frohman liked Peter Pan—he thoroughly believed in fairies and his whole heart Was In Its success, In the anxious days before the first Broadway performance, Miss Fay Davis asked him what the play was like. As she playing in Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman, she is unable to go to the per- formance, and will probably never see it; but she is ve ry fond of Barrie and, of course, Miss Adams. Mr. of hope and fear, sat down scene, all that is said five acts. He has a intensely interested in Frohman, full and told her, and done in all of the trong sense for acting, as all whom he has rehearsed bear witness, and he mimicked the various performances marvelously, even to the fairy, Tinker—which must have been very amusing, for Mr. Frohman, who is very short and very round, is as little like a fairy as — . His account of the play 30 vivid and minute, Miss Davis says, that she will always feel as if she had seen it act by act and heard it line by line scene by Was A Chorus Girl Who Read Buckle VHEATRICAL life cratic as the is not quite so demo- public sometimes imag- ines. No smart set can be more exclusive than the principals of some companies in their deportment toward the support young woman who had an ambition to act managed to get a small part by means of her ocial connections, and joined the company incognito. The play treated theatrical life, and one of the scenes re presented a rehearsal in progress. The aspiring young actress was a chorus girl. During the long waits she used to take refuge in the dark seclusion of a box and read by the light from the stage Here she was discovered by Miss Millie James, who had the leading part. Miss James fell into affable conversation, and took up the book It was Buckle’s History of Civilization Fancy!"’ she exclaimed. ‘‘A chorus girl reading a book with a title like that!’’ As it turned out, Miss James’ surprise was quite justified. At the end of four long- suffering weeks the young woman who read Buckle's History of Civilization no longer fancied being a chorus girl, and slipped back into private life Author and Manager at Rehearsal | l IS one of the theatrical traditions that stage distinguished for their manners, temper and language —all of them being bad But the past decade, which has brought a marked advance in the qualit ty of our theatric output, has rr above the old stage man- managers are ager, and thus abolished the reign of terror For men of intelligence know that anger and hysteria do not normally produce good art David Belasco, who in his curtain speeches against his ene- al syndicate, is benignity ‘ For the most part he sits front rows of the orchestra, and in astill, small voice. to drill his scene-shift- and actors twenty-six hours breathes rage and defiance mapas says what he He has been known ers, electrician is tO Say on a stretch, rehearsing the smallest detail in the lighting or the least word in the dia logue, without once lifting or quickening his voice. The result is that, as regards the externals of management, his produc- tandard of excellence. Thomas sits back in the audi- perspe ctive on the Augus torium to get a fairer stage picture, but rather than lift his voice iseS a Megap yhone Being a wit, he mingles his criticisms with pleasantry that seldom, however, verges upon satire, and if it dos of the 1 lide t il it st am iable character An e fact that in privat life, ed, he has a fighting ten ts at a kitchen t: among his actors and smokes a cigarett Much of the effect of his the minutiw of intonation and de portment, and when the actors fail of the precise ¢ ffect he himself represents it forthem. In almost any of hi s those who have seen him at scenes depends upon piece EVENING POST January 13, 1906 Whether your leisure you pick out your car at the automobile show or buy at make the salesman prove his claims lots later on would be people Direct There less money wasted on poor cars if more being shown. 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That Long-Distance Telephone I Far West Horen, N. D., Pane Kaki December 10, 1905. luesday next will be your birthday. Itis three months since we have heard each voices. On Tuesday at 10 a. M. with you in Connecticut) I am going you up. Be ready to run into Ed as soon as he calls you. I wish you phone and then you'd be spared -mile walk--so would he. Perhaps i better go to Ed’s and wait for me to Call ou up It would be like home to hear your voice Never mind the ¢ xpense; this is my treat, oO oW a5 MY man Is coming to se¢ me and I must go to the sample room Your loving husband, Tom i The letter of Thomas to Helen goes as far as Ohio and is then destroyed in a train wreck, so Helen does not know what is ex- pected of heron her birthday. She wonders why she gets no letter and become appre- hensive mi It is Helen's birthday. It is also snowing Helen is nursing a cold and is wondering why she has not heard from Ton Through the blinding snow comes Ed Blake on horseback, at a gallop Her heart sink rom is injured or some- ‘ \ om want to talk to you from North Dakota. Think they talk that far Hurry, Helen! He is waiting at the other end hundreds of miles away t think of it! I've got an awful cold, but | ld n mile hear Té vol ear ma Wrap up Ww ly and ride the | ‘ ve I')) fe on foot; i down to snot ’ mw or a stifli i elephone boc waiting for Heler she evident aia tah ! rT ce " 0 kd Awkward wa He Cer rot mv wif Central (thippar N her ~ ‘ it We I \ i B, Walling ( cut. and | Ww Ch i} I'l) it ! frest i ( Wi i iq if } wv H exhau z } | ‘ mar grasp the receive her numt hi i a I nha ‘ lr \ ce He « ected he linne i ! accour I the snow Ar Oh, wl I 4 d and Sar ch i a Central ! } ul sur } i Anade l ¢ \ ] ne >} ha cl Hi mie I i No. } iH quit Happy birthda Oh, 7 , how husky vou are. What happened “Are you well? Happy birthday Sense and Nonsense ‘‘Tom, I’ve come here in a blizzard. Tell me you're well!” ‘Why, you ought to have known better than to come out on such a day as that.” “What?” “That.” ‘What?’ “That, that day, Blizzard. Say, Helen, I am roasting to death in this box. You ask the Blakes to put you up for the night and don’t you go out again in such stormy weather. Awful risk.”’ “But why did you call me up? What did you want to say that couldn't have been written?” ‘**Wanted to wish you a happy birthday Haven't you any sentiment?” “Not when it costs a dollar a word Good-by.”’ ““Good-by Plaguy long time before I call you up again, D——n a telephone, anyhow ‘a (Rings off.) Charles Battell Loon Rondeau Redouble vhat d r been al in dor I've fixed 1 ps, I g rig 1} 1 dat two ¢ chea 1 in’ Mame \ to dat de ode ‘ ' | \ ‘ s Is a } | t ex kr I be I t er, th r} iY ed dow ht wh P ‘ r I bougt | y fer f Wed t e tight Mar () yer I t sh I've fix { ,Il gu rl \ t I I'm w honor brig n 1k ! , M We | 1 Li i \ \ 1 t te lk ' ( ’ \ M hat it « ht i) | ta } A Lesson in Agony JYOSE WATKINS, considered by Edwin \ Booth one of the best Juliets who had ever played in | ipport, made her début th Chariotte Cushman’s company An Mrs. Watkins’ daughter, tells this story of her mother t appearance I thi: play was Jane Shore M mother was ot ed to rush upon the stage and, at the ght of M Cushman, start back with a ¢ of terror. On the he wi over ne with stage lat she ildn’t utter a sound. The isa fl lallure But, contrary to her expectation, she was not dismissed You will doa [r ght to-morrow night I ’ sa the il Wher on tt { wing evening I er made her er e, Miss Cushmar ( ht her t the ind jabbed a hat I } rh her arm. Naturall nat i ! ne t out a blood ‘ i hriet he ene Was a treme a Ver cor nted Miss Cushmar ifter th rtain ca Now 3 ire ina I iV tot ea eat actre Sentiment Subject to Change | be THE recent political fight in Philadel phia the reform organization in one livision ! workers. One of the men was particularl zealous, but it was suspected that he wa prepared to dispose of his vote to the side which bid higher Well,” said a reform the dav after the Ma Do IT understand sentiments are ib) Wall, sah aid " change cuts a pore rfu’ ments on election day — vas, sah."’ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 13, 1906 A high power car with a four cylinder motor, 35-40 horse power, sliding gear transmission and all modern features, but simplified to the practical service of non-professional operators. Speedy, silent, simple and powerful. Our catalog will interest you and a personal exami- nation will convince you that it is the car of the year. Thos. B. Jeffery & Company Main Office and Factory, Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S. A. Branches: Boston, 145 Columbus Avenue Chicago Philadeiphia, 242 N. Broad Street S ’ i Market Streets Milwaukee, 457-459 Broadway v York Age y, 134 W 8th Street Agencies in other leading cities 302-304 Wabash Avenue Francisco, 1ott Model R-— FoureCylinder Touring Car The Exclusive Haynes Transmission ** The Car the Repairman Seldom Sees "’ HAYNES AUTOMOBILE COMPANY, Kokomo, Indiana Chicago, 1421 Michigan Ave. New York. 1715 Broadway | | | |

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( ] asa very agr pe it the pantry Phe he bla ! forg ne i we tr b he girl in blue chiffon forgot her « Ih were heartily enjoying the unexpected nt t the crowded play of their live Here was wit for wit, laugh for laugh, shrewd comment and rare philosophy. ‘They might never meet again; it was unlikely that either would ever repeat the story of that ght The episode was unique, beginning of nothing, leading nowhere one of those strange detached events of life that uggest so much, leave such a deep impres ion, and seem to have no connection with the woof and color of one’s rational ex ence The cat stretched, sphinx-like, on the table, contemplated the dissimilar com- panions with unwinking eyes of liquid wis dom, seeming to comprehend the situation and find it matter for serious thought, even for vague unrest, for the tip of an anxiou tail twitched time to the quick tlow of talk Four o'clock tinkled from the clock in the front room. Already night had given plac to blue dawn rhe rattle of an occasional vehicle echoed in the street The girl iv black raised her eyebrow ‘Four!”’ she excl

has bolted! I'll thing 1s quiet n we yet. I'll go down to the Grand Centra as if I was due foran early train then come out as if I'd just arrived | ne. I'll have time to find some little hotel before ther much going on. I’r re, Miss Ely, I'm more than grateful to you— I sha'n’t forget any of it, you car bet your paint box Miss Warren nodded You don't know how I've enjoved my evening or morning rather I don tsayv ‘come again, because it er would be the same, would it You vuldn’t be vou if you arrived at the front door, rang for the elevator, and gaye our card to the maid

N Ke at a iughed M Gira or I'd have more etha ha ne idded s sl) We « ar have hadt ark « talked as we have, bluffe« ind held each other up, if thir hadn't \ ist happened. | dn't have y fir ut what a really « ir) tofaf lam. No, it’s ‘Good-t i Heaven bl and vod luc } lnart hir ted Miss War re? B | ‘ id I was home en 1 a I'l] get my traps, if vou don’t mind Mrs. Grayson rose, drank the last drop in her glass. and turned toward the sitting- room, unst the strap from the black handbag da it and pped it in her pocket Don't need that now,”’ she smiled It was convenient wher gotiating fire- escapes. My revolver, please.”’ Miss Warren hesitated It's been amus- ing. Suppose we swap. I’m not usually so ills SLY , and yours is the best, | know, and if you don’t want to ss THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

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‘‘Nonsense, here! Swap? Well, rather! You've been a brick to me, and the best sort of an entertainer, too. I'll keep your pop- gun for luck--and—mine will play you square "ig **Good-by,’ her hand ‘‘Good-by,”’ said the guest, gripping the extended palm. ‘If any one meets you in the hall,” added Miss Warren, ‘‘or says anything, tell them you've been stopping with me, and are off to catch an early train.’ The girl smiled irresistibly. ‘‘Do you mind telling me the name of the lady I was visiting? That ‘Miss Ely’ business didn't go down, you know.” ‘*Really —I’d forgotten that. Say Miss Warren, then—and, by the way, Mrs. Gray- son, that story of yours about your cruel husband didn't go down, either. I don't want to know what the truth is— I’d rather not —much rather not.” said the hostess, extending Mrs. Grayson’s eyes shifted uneasily, ther he laughed. ‘* You're a whited sepulechr he said you and your golden hair and baby eyes and pink cheeks— you ought to be a fox-faced ferret -Miss Warren —am | right this time I'll prove it,’ the vision in blue r narked, crossing to her escritoire and returning, held out an opened envelop: bearing an address, Miss Eleonore Warre: Read the inclosure,”’ she said; ‘‘it may interest you In a few formal phrases a celebrated de tective agency requested the cooperative ervices of the addressee The girl in black whistled, almost dropped her handbag, a nd Was overcome Dy a MIX ture of amusement and wonder ‘T'll be hanged!” he cried softly. *You'reafemalk detective! I'll be Let me get my) breath! I don't like to hurry you,"’ Miss Warre1 if you are going to be off | fore the house wakes you'd better move. I hate to lose you, but Mrs. Grayson put down the bag, walked

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to be acquiring a new viewpoint. ‘‘Oh, if - on —~ vou swear cure! Butyoumstr’t T DE LUXE ODD VOLUME SALE you swear to it, of course! But you must ge rd > x | risk hurting his feelings, you know. Bele, ie | He labored up to the top, and sent auto- : _ , + : | . = . : . - . . ¥ a | ward a bellow of friendship and pacifica- You Do the Selecting Only \ tior I say, Stickley, old man, it must be K } ‘ pretty darn warm up there on the box. W ; f I ‘ Supposing we just block her wheels and let ry dare + a the engines cool while the three of us get the ae fa . ' ke | ram placed.” M th on Ww HE rest must be told with rapidity, be- esis cause it Was with rapidity it happened. d : - : —a = Undoubtedly Stickley hate ew have been JUST I HE ntinitely better advised had he refused to rn deseend again at all When he had de- BOOKS cended, Staneland showed his unshaken YOU contidence in him by allotting him the task : we : co i The L-W Steel Leader Range of digging the post-holes for the ram plat- os a baaie. ' Se is * WAN I r ll vol esa uniform in siz P See It, Try It, Then Buy It. forn ; ; All volumes are uniform in size ° If the strata of the bluff about the pring | consiste d large iV of ye llow Clay broken with The De Luxe Volumes Are ~ The De Luxe Volumes Are | mam, fifty feet farther down that loam | ‘ : be -~ ippeared only as a thin outer skin nder | t the clay was of the pure blue variet Adam Bede | Life of Washingtor oh y (nd if you have ever attempted to dig post African Farm, Story of an | Light That Failed | he H r =W holes in a pure blue clay, we can save our ge of Fab } ee Poetical Works 3 : . ss | orna Doone elves any delay for the descriptive epithet Andersen's Fairy Tales Micah Clarke Ma icklev it w *king in an element x i : e] | ~ade Re » lo Stickley it was like working in an element | Middlemarch etes LREET TS | Torte * ee ects | peo nae I FR } main as bright and clea ineland Turn | e vour vim, vivacit Fir P 8 Washington Place, New York,NY The White Company | Years o0 they were and ee In a little while vou'll feel as Great Bape . Twes Years Afte t : * arry Le e arda are : “2 ud Deen Join i tie ocye { 1 . Hypatia Under Two Flag And te nutes later he descended te Hunchba f Notre Dame Vanity Fair ee } w ih il rentice VAS vettir tloms Ivanho Vicar of Wakefield We Manufacture a Complete Line | Moly H very id : PGR, See yet John Halifax Washington and His Generals i Piase 1 a rot ti ed ‘ Kenilwort j one vet Well ] wue oul ist have Koran of Mohammed | Waverle A +} ‘ ‘. eill ¢ more . \\ Last Da { Pompe | Whittier’s Poetical Works WRITE US TODAY 0 leave the otne vices heal ad . . = as ae te Woman in White Ul got to buck ir ether il et the can Miserable | Wreck of the Chancellor ping distributed before Jimmy ar i! : atti ‘Mie = . ¢ - | ret any torradet . , ~ 2. s 7 rw , 1 , ‘ The Lattimer -Williams Mig. Company | © oh ont ll EP oe a A. L. FOWLE, 8 Washington Place, NEW YORK,N. Y. i 394 West Spring St., Columbas, Ohio j feam th. “be ich » the lope of the ink —_ - ne a ee — : fg ‘ _ - a _ ae = vere almost ats ley s hand Pherefore T (Te) = to him Was given the job of pa sing them or Cc —_- - St ise = _ = | ‘U-ALk-NO- to the middle mar Hughes took that ee | i] place —and he in his turn would send then C ] . 1 tae | io i} ip to Staneland The nearest bunch cor i} ‘ I ft e-quarter-inches But t - _ nisted ony of ches. B THE ee ae NABISCO YEAR

i a Thi 4 i me te, ter pocnmae ~ thatch - - solahera + In January — Queen of Confections. | would go about to avoid it —and he sa February — First in the hearts of all. that Hughe i som to De trving te H . . ae ae March — Subtle as a spring zephyr. him in a way that \pril-— Refreshing as the morning shower. m te not merely his right . 7 “Poh piso adage RL ton ; May --Sweet as a Mayflower. | +4 avoid ita

Stanelat is, meanwhile, still exhorting June — Fresh as a rose. wiped July — Healthful as the golden wheat. he would

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He was recovering his balance and blood shotiv opening his eyes again, became aware that some one was calling at him from the river Hev! Hev, there! You in the explosive sweater and the pant when he Just take this up to the be will y That was absolutely all he said, and he might have meant his own bh to Rut Stickles is al i empting a | ne i I atl i t t ‘ OAC RB H t ilset ti B gad i vho do you think I Grrea Seott ~™ ] } b hat the row He tool e f i hougt | Wa n I} ght \ some I “a Ji Go « That was the one other thing th Va ed Stickiey did not go or He He gave himself up to rage thah hat abandon of certain badly brough hildren who throw themselves on the ind h forth their fury with feet and hat amings at the mouth. It was one those interesting revelations of innate ct ter which five minutes can male creature ¢ row! ip C

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THE SATURDAY When Cupid Was a Cow-Punch led f ‘long the ridge, like they'd been a snow-fall Billy grinned, took out that shiny instru- ment an’ give each of them pore little gum butte the double cross Zip-zip, Zip DP, zip-2tp, Zip-2ip An’, jumpin’ buffaloes, t pop ir of the purtiest teeth a man ever Bugs? Rats! Now, a little Bella Donnie,” says Bill, an’ the baby’ ll be O. K.”’ “| = SG, Say s Rose Oh, Silly!” An’ ha kissin’ the baby, of co ‘ Ole man Hart stop ped swearin’ a minnit Wat's the row?” he ast reeth,” says Billy Chink of that! W’ y, the trouble was so clost to Sim pson th at if it'd ‘a’ been a rat tler, it'd a’ | vit hn n! ‘Teeth ! s the ole man, like he didn’t believe it Come look,’ ; Billy Hart, he w: alked. over to the baby an’ toops down an’, all of a suddent, I seen jaw go open, an’ his eyes stick out so far uu could ‘a’ knocked ’em off with a stick Then he got red as a turkey gobbler An’ let out a reg'lar varwhoop / at m!”’ he yelped * Rose! \lec! at ‘em! Four all to oncet!" \n’ he give me sech a wallop on the back that it come near knockin’ me down I know,” I says, sarcastic, ‘‘ but, shucks! a baby ain't all teeth This is a mighty uizzlin’ case, an’ Simpson I

Shut you’ bazoo Says the ole man an’ look at them teeth! Four of a kin’ eal " beat it )-0-oh,’ I say snifttin “*so, so, | reckon, but any kid ™ Iny kid!” yells the ole man, plumb aggravated. An’ he was jus’ turnin’ roun vive me one when in limps Simpson! Mr. Hart,” he says, *'I come to make a complaint he shook his fist at me win this here ruffian. He Wow!” roars Hart. ‘‘ Don’t you trouble

mat 1 mplaints in ¢ house Here heen a-treatin’ this baby for bugs when vas jus’ teeth. Say! you ain't got sense sugh to come in when it rains!’ That plumb rattled Simpson. He was ttin’ a eception he didn't reckon on. Sut he tried t’ keep up his game. ‘Th cowboy here is esponsible for damages to my auto,” he says. ‘‘The dashboard’s smashed in to matches, the tumblin’-rod broke, the spark-condens- er’s kathummaxed, an’ the hull darn busi ness is skew-ree his man’s you’ servant, an’ if he don’t pay ll sue you “x Sur ays Hart; ‘ e! You needn't ie. You jus’ sen’ in you’ bill. By thun- ler, it’s worth the money to git shet of secl 1 doy hyste i ul (it.” An th that t goes Mr. Bug Ar randpa shake } a then he turr un » Billy in’ I coul e ne i ry | oe nasa jed Trowbr he i you cat make it \ Billy didn’t say nuthin’; jus’ went over to i table, pulled out a piece of paper an a encil an’ begun t’ write Pritty soon he ip an’ con ack Here, Mr ert he says I was right byside the ole man, an’ nuldn't help it —I stretched to read wi'at Bills Ar i V/ j llart mto i 1. Trow he han’ 0 Rose Hart he read the paper over an’ over rnin’ all kin’s of color An’ Billy an’ me me blame near chokin’ fr’m holdin’ our eaths. Rose was lookin’ up at us an’ at r pa, too, so anxious. As for that kid, it vas a-kickit ts laigs into the air an’ rylir t a bottl Fin'lly the ole man looked at me, then looked at Rose, then he looked at the Wal,” he saysat las’, kinda slow, holdin’ it tha per Wal, Doctor Trowbridge 1 | reckon y’ might as well receipt this.”

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GROUSE & CO., Dept 419 D, Rochester, New Yo LADY BALTIMORE Continued mm Page for me with the conveyance in which he should drive us out into the lonely country through the sunny afternoon; but instead | chose to walk round to where he lived, and where I found him stuffing beneath the seats of the vehicle the baskets and the par cels which contained the provisions for our ample supper I have never seen you drink hearty yet and now I purpose to,”’ said John As the packing was finishing, Miss Joseph- ine St. Michael came by; and the sight ot the erect old lady reminded me that of all Kings Port figure —— to me and seen it the garden paying their y t of ceremony ti Hortense, she alone— she pee Eliza La Heu had been absent Eliza’ declining to hare in that was well-n igh inevitab le, t put Per roiny Miss Josephine was another matter h ips she had con idered her sister thereto be enough: at any rate, she had not been party to the surrender, and this gave me Whimsical satisfaction. Moreover, it had evidently occasioned no ruthie in the affectionate relations between herself and John John said she, ‘tas you drive by, do A te umber Much | rget a burglar, Aunt Che sper in the end, and neater work Joseph It was thus, at the outset, that I came believe John spirits were high; and this ilusion he suecessfully kept up unt after we had left the plumber and Kings Port several sordid miles behind us; the approach to Kings Port this way lies throug! dirtiest Africa, John was loquacious; Johr -. coursed upon the replacers; Mrs. Wegue in St. Michael had quite evidently ex circle what she thought n and town in eqquence ti rh it did not see them or their nai le +, because it appeared they were vone me twenty miles inland upon an excursion hotel, and a tourists of the town kept them well The automobiles would d to her own the co! auto i resort where was a large little variety in the way of the replacer mind s eve some trips have sufficed to bring them into disrepute, but Kings Port had a better reason in their conduct in the church; and John found many things to say to me, as we drove along ibout oe an ind Charley V and Kitty Giazza hall ng seer he forgot, although, as appear in it place, Gaz ‘along while in his memory Bi ve ; helen he, of course recognized a en a gentleman it wa clear that Beverly met with Kings Port | il and, from hi Newport ¢ per ‘ John was able to make out quite as ll as if he had heard Beverly expla 1 } elf th vhole wise philosophic systen f joining with the replacers in order that bet laced y irself Int mightn't | do the same he rmise I fear I'm not as Sy} ul as iunt mly pra don’t mentior t tr And then, because | had been answering vitt ngle lables, or with nod " at all, he taxed me with my taciturnity he even Went so tar as to a ! what thoughts kept meso silent —wh ich I did m it } la mdering,”’ | told him instead hew much they steal every weel l = 4 seat \ Be presit n 4 omp and ( hari i ector re ria ‘ ranroag \W her peoy I ry ‘ hem. how do the t elected ( hare th pleasant sy r r r 1 can't be vho it dir r ‘ ‘ vish tot i i ff r t , } Ah, the ja rned It’s the Americar Ke it re s ie rule i ocrwty Or hose who have ’ ‘ are admitted I NT a iha A and la ers lo keep the rich out of jail t's called r ynal etiquetts Your picture flatters! ‘ it's onl e North and see flatter n i photograph THE SATURDAY EVENING POST HOW Business Encyclopedia aoe - f TO GET THE January 13, 1906 aid of \ business At a cost of thousands of dollars, with the twenty-seven experts, we have compiled a complete, compact Business Man’s Encyclo- ' pedia We have clipped, extracted, preserved business data from thousands of different sources —from magazines, newspapers, books, correspondence coul om actual business experience And all this data we have boiled down, classified, arranged and indexed into one complete business Britannica tt i uM i je eer E pia OT PRR Cn Kr mS { } a iN “SPECIAL EDITION If You Want to Know How to $2.00 \\ If You Want to Know Anything About Business ( g 3 . 3 yclop SPECIAI xed f{ \ t Desk 0, SYSTEM ft Experienced Business Men Manufacturers, Bankers, Credi Men, Accountants, Corre pond ents, Advertising W te er hants, Off lanag Advertis spond SYSTEM The Magazine of Business ! $2.00 ript $$ Edited by A. 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HRoleprooFr “Alosiery” Ladies’ Holeproof Stockings HOLEPROOF ‘\ HOSIERY CO SEND FOR INTER Dept. C, Milwaukee, Wis. ESTING BOOKLET Its popularity has long since justified its name. The king quality among shirts of equal price $1.00 and $1.25 in fast color fabrics and white. Leading dealers. CLUETT, PEABODY & CO. Troy, N. Y. » DEAFNESS + «The Morley Phone” ut few cases of deafness that THE MORLEY COMPANY, Department 1 31 South 16th Street, Philadelphia of2o LITTLE WONDER Little Wonder Warner Mot Ir Dept. 16 Flatiron Bid New York gn IK FRUIT BOOK 216 varieties STARK BROS., Louisiana, Mc THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 13, 1906 observe how instantly he is fit for the suf- frage. Now they want it written down that Government shall take all the wicked cor- porations, because then corruption will dis- appear from the face of the earth. You'll find the farmers presently having it written down that all hens must hatch their eggs in a week, Oh, we Americans are very thor- ough!’”’ And I laughed. But John’s face was notgay. ‘‘ Well, mused, ‘South Carolina took a short-cut to pure liquor and sober citizens —and reached instead a new de n of thieves. {s the whole country sick “Sick to th marrow, my friend; but young and vigorous still. A nation in its Jong life has many illnesses before the one it dies of But we shall need some strong medicine if we do not get well soon.” What kind?” Ah, that’s beyond any one! And we have several things the matter with us —as bad a case, for ¢ xample, of compl: wcency as I’ve met in history. Complacency’s a very dangerous disease, seldom got rid of without the purge of a great calamity. And worse, where does our dishonesty begin, and where end? The boy goes to college, and there in football it awaits him; he graduates, and in the downtown office it smirks at him: he rises into the confidence of his supe riors, the town’s chief citizens, and finds their gray hairs crowned with it Presently he faces worldly success or failure, and then, in the new ocean of mind that has swallowed morals up, he sinks with his isolated hon- esty, like a fool, or swims to respectability with his brotherknaves. Andintothis mess the immigrant sewage of Europe is steadily pouring Such is our Continent to-day, with all its fair winds and ti des and fields favorable to us, and only our shallow, com- placent, dishonest selves against us! But don't let these considerations make you gloomy; for (1 must say it again) nothing is final, and even if we rot before we riper which would bea wholly novel phenomenotr we shal ha t l ile our contrib it or to mankind in demonstrating by our collaps that thesow’sear belongs withtherest of the animal, and not in the voting booth or the legi lature and that the doctrine of uni versal suffrag hould have waited until men were born honest and equal. That ir self would be a memorable service to have rendered We had come into the divine, sad stillness of the woods, where the warm sunlight shone through the gray moss, lighting the cur tained solitudes away and away into the at pth of the golden afternoon; and some- where amid the miles of sleeping wildern« ounded the hoarse honk of the automobile The replacers were abroad, enjoying what they could in this country where they did ] , and which did not a yet belong to then If said John May rant, ‘what you | said true, the nation had better get Knees and pray God to give It grace ] woked at thet and saw that h CO tenance had grown very fine The act 1 ‘ . } i aid, would bring grace, where, cor fr : jh he assente If he st ne ot ‘ nere noth ! doe ot tre le me: fo rreatel eT il And ou eour na me here I} ! | ' } t hir lrenp j } I kr t noblene + have risen t ’ \r he pursued happer } ‘ ( tars and s} ‘ and tha t ' nt lor vatch every tiniest boat meet and brave ; , (ut of his troubles he had brought suct stead of bitterne he was saying as plain as if his actual words ‘ to make the best of it H blene t moral elegance, compel b ‘ and I envied him, : ire if | thus } ed, W i acg y And there wa ni vee tne t t on that strangely reconciled me t t t i aspects of our na I I Invisible ar y ! ! there 1 quiet | r 1 in the depths. while the . matic Yes, he ( t I wished doubly that I l a ll enough he not shir } duty, but how much he could be led to see that marry- vhere he did not love was no duty of his (Tol CONTINUED) HaveYourMassage pgeercy ThisWay-ByHand Od Wher u vet a ma — \ r shop. alwa tell the rber t uu want a hand-massage with Pompeian Massage Cream. \| nes cant ( | tiie cope | that 1 | i t d« It , t P l bl } bs nakes ti | Send for Generous Sample, Free e ere er t Price Do + POMPEIAN MFG, CO., 49 Prospect St., Cleveland, Ohio ‘ TRAY 3 PAG REG Qi! G LET ME SELL | Your Patent Patent WILLIAM E. HOYT Patent Sales Specialist 290 P Broadway, N.Y. ¢ an lene c t SMOKE ‘OR ODOR Madein — fferents for ¢ THE BEST LIGHT CoO.,

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