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——— Volume 178 PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 20, 1900 Number 30 |

The Private Car Controversy ace tek aiding oa be By J. Ogden Armour os bt i mae atement tha

mensely satisfactory as the | he time I profit percentages which the ! ) ‘ national magazine writers are able to bia ind other « rises | figure on the Armour Car Lines and —= = have ma ‘ } tr ‘ packing business. The iv these er I l have | terprising Journalists an pile uy bjiected t n the lime hich I ha folle paper profits for me reminds me of More than th er ein the ma nothing so much as the net returns olthatt me ! ld Nave liar er to be realized in the breeding of Belgiar I he ind r met ! < thar hares—on paper. Some of the readers of Tn 1} be« they e and the pa ' Sarurpay Eventne Posr may have had a litth | ! M | ! isa ‘ practical experience In breeding these creatures thi ‘ i hat ! for market and trying to make the actual profits | red ] ' ‘ hr ind coincide with those so elaborately set forth in the the regard ‘ of huma hat tt prospectus sent out by the breeder of stock hares ( ry « isa}; ! it In the prospectus the seale of profits is an a cend | ri t ! ( duc ing one in which nothing short of arithmetical | f per i progression is capable of computing the increase he f I er of th er he Now in the magazines the net profit in the pri \ rCar | und Ar ( hea vate car and the packing business are arrived at | fr } f | t by these entertaining writers, by the same procs ind ca ‘ } . of figuring that the prospectus-maker used to ce I I termine the cumulative profits of raising Belgian ! ! ‘ I ‘ I hares. The reisa world of ditference between the I e cH i i t j actual earning of actual profits and the figuring of ee | I I i r paper profits where the total revenue is arrived at ( rie in a broad, generous and offhand way with a large b ! of wnorance and compre he nsive disregard of ¢ ul ria i ‘ rh expenses and all the practical elements and details has be by a f the really involved. If these writers could actually operation of for | } deliver the profit percentages which they are able Are ! «fa to produce on paper they co ‘ommand higher I ‘ ‘ | i tion salaries in the packing or pri\ ‘ar business than | tf ! | juite as any magazine in America can : ord to pay then ta ( Kil ai na ; If anv business man who reads, in the artick I have | | ! pre put out by the magazine writers, the statement | t i rie i of our profits is inclined to believe them, I have existence tl | ! h to the only this little act of justice to ask him comfort ar I ‘ i Go to some neighbor who already a profound ind private ributed, and conviction that you are making too much money, , these benetits have been to all the peoy for ther and let him figure, from hearsay information, the Mr. George: S. Rowbine, Meactent of the Armeur Car Eises re fe I ‘ re ter profits which you make. If you are then honestly the fresh fr tole { meat that the content to be judged by a showing arrived at in such manner | will find no fault if you pri re r car | iaranteed at all times t accept as true the profits figured for the Armour Car Lines by these writers who start out Poor hempl cannot fairness, be placed u he fact tl t} roWers eve with a necessity of making a case by showing exorbitant profits, and who are unhampered wt e hailthe pr ite fruit car as the direct age er i i na by information and have a splendid inditference to all matters of cost tha he « of t el e | certa I er ‘ } ! j their Just try thisexperiment; you willfind it hugely entertaining. Perhapsalso it willteach developmer id, they freely declare that the | ite car has libs he f vou how far you fall short, as a financial genius, of the expectations and ideas of t! ( } condit ! ! } ere chok ind SI ther gy their bu ‘ eel that you are making more money than you have any business to make. This may be a Carel ‘ ind persor h axes of thei ha ht t eate the little dampening to vour pride right at the start, but it will suggest to vou what you cou re that ‘‘r eration service’ as applied to f transportat is on a high accomplish if you could somehow contrive to eliminate the matter of expenses, and to use it nyt elt Nothing could be further f t trutl Refrigera your best day's business as an ‘“‘average’’ by which to multiply the business of the three nservice furnished by the private car line exact I eter lie It ervi hundred business days in the year , e that ires to the ¢ er Or pe f 7 ipply of the lhe profits of the private car business cannot, with any fairness, be judged on a harv: he tv} ft lern ca careful loading, prot freq ect d time basis — which the critics of the enterprise seem to insist upon doing. It ild be ur ce t f the to take the profit for a whole yea the business upon that basi \\ I Because I} eC! ‘ CO! ehet e, highly organized : ‘ ert Trans} itior this is a business of lean years : years. Then the period of profitable and esta care for a highly-perishable commodit ts special and rk. ¢ of ice it « lished operation should be averag years in which the busine isinastrugy ‘ the expense of maintaining it. Its eflicie es it maintenance of a ‘ and pioneer stage. Absolute fairness would go further than this and take ir Accou he ( ‘ i f trair ‘ " ‘ f exigencies of the future —such, for example, as the possibility that modern inventive geniu of fruit transit, but of seeing that the grower or shipper ha irs, and the right |] f may render practically useless and obsolete an equipment now representing an investment cars, in first-class conditior he nee he ind not when he ne the of millions of dollars, and this possibility is by no means so remote that good busin The charge for refrigeration se ce a covers I tenance, repa i replacement of prudence would not take it into account the tools emy ed in the busine the ice-making ] t e house ng stations botl Again I urge each business man who attaches any weight to the profits to the Art r n the fruit-growing sections and tl ighout the cou lor he routes f the growil interests as they are figured in the magazines to act on this suggestior Phe injustice of cality to the market, repair and the cars themsel ve hese « cost from $1000 criticism and attack based on this kind of figuring will be so ay pare nt tothe ma Vho trie tk = WW) eact atl iand rie mie nail more ut ! tre ordaina;# Cat I} ‘ ire this experiment that he will never again be tempted to place any conhidence whatever it ea qaar 1 \ tevery car net I re or ! rs every Ur he I assertions arrived at by such a process. I deny that the profits of the private car line mor 1 than ordinary freight cars, and are 1 ee f service n ul business and the packing business are extortionat: I have no desire to deny that both — cause When returning empty railroads frequer r he nto use for other freigh these interests do pay a profit. I should consider it a poor compliment to the manner ucle h anyt I ‘ odor rug l, et is |} ns of which I have discharged 1 responsi I 1s made ‘ tne

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tw California is a district in which a field organization must be maintained practically the year round. We have to maintain our own car-repair shops and icing stations, and when fruit is moving a band of more than fifty men as inspectors, supervisors, ete., whose traveling expenses, as well as salaries, have to be paid, are up and down through the district superintending the loading and icing, enforc- ing prompt movement of cars and pushing all details of the work. All told, we have a force of more than 200 men in California during the season. Before the fruit-shipping season opens, cars enough to handle the crop must be assembled at points convenient to the shipping stations. More than half of them go West empty and are subject to many delays; some may be loaded with clean package freight. These will be from fifteen to thirty days en route from Chicago to Los Angeles, and unloading there may be delayed. During all this period, before a pound of fruit is loaded, the car line com- pany must keep track of these cars, trace them from point to point, and know whether they are empty and available for immediate use or loaded and unavailable. Finally, the car we are following lands at our Los Angeles shop, where a large force of car r pairers 18 ¢ mployed at all times; they thoroughly overhaul the car, put new padding on doors and hateh plugs, clean and repair tank pans, drains and drain traps, and attend to any other repairs needed, from supply- ing a new roof to anew set of trucks. After the car is thoroughly overhauled and inspected to ee that it is sweet and clean and in proper condition to carry a perishable load of fruit its tanks are filled with about ten thousand pounds of ice. This initial icing alone in Los Angeles is a heavy expense. Wonderful things are grown in California, but no one, not even the wonderful Mr. Burbank, has been able to grow a natural crop of ice in Southern California. For Northern California we must haul the ice from the mountains at heavy expense for freight and shrinkage We also buy enormous quantities of manufactured ice. In 1905 we bought more than 120,- 000 tons of ice in California. When the car is iced it is sent out to the loading point to During this process there is a further heavy shrinkage of ice in the tanks. The car may have been standing for daysina railroad yard. The fruit loaded into it and the packages containing that fruit are also hot oaked, as it were, in California sunshine. The car and its load must be brought down to a low temperature. Every board, every nail, every orange, every pie ce of wood exudes heat. Much ice must be melted, obviously, to bring the hot car and its load down to a low temperature. rhe car, when loaded, is sent back to Los Angeles (to Bakerstield if going East by the Northern route), its ice tanks are refilled, it is thoroughly inspected again by car line men and is started on its journey East. If it takes the Southern route it stops first at Tucson, Arizona, to be re-iced under the supervision of a car line agent, who not only sees that the tanks are properly filled to capacity, but also makes a personal inspection of all drain pipes, ete. The ear then passes on to El Paso, where car line agents arewaiting for it. It is again thoroughly re-iced and inspected and sent on to Fort Worth, where another agent is in waiting to perform the same service. This process 18 reper ated seven or « ight times more before the car reaches Boston — Kansas City; Davenport, lowa; Chicago; Galion,Ohio; Hornellsville, New York, and East Deertield, Massachusetts. The same careful attention 18 £1 receive its load ven it at each of these icing stations as was given at the beginning of its journey. The same facilities , are maintained on all the various routes. If slow time by the railroads or weather conditions necessitate a larger amount of ice than usual at any point, extra icing stations are put in immediately. This is watched very carefully by an elaborate system in the Chicago office, and is also super- vised by the traveling inspectors. They drop in on the Arion ing stations unannounced his work, however, is more of a precaution than a necessity. The agents who are strung act the country in nearly all cases have been with the car lines a long time, and are men who take @ per nal pride in the wellare of the Dusine Let us not be understood that any of this frequent re- icing and re-inspet tion has been done at randon W he n the car leaves Los Angeles, the ca ber, its condition and digest of the way-bill are all taken by acar line inspector and filed with the district agent in charge of that territory. The car line agent at the next station Tucson in this case 8 hot ified by mail, or by wire if nec+ssary, that the ec: on the way to him This checking and notification of sta- k until the car reaches destination From the first icing until delivery at desti- tions ahead continues without bre: nation the car is under the eve of the ear line organization every hour and kept }. When the car finally reaches Boston it is met again by a car line inspector. He notes its condition, sees it opened, inspects condition of its load and reports all details to the head office This emphasi es the insurance the ¢ ce gives the shipper. Nobody in Boston ventures to report to the shipper in California that a car handled and watched as described has “arrived in bad condition.” The history of this car as traced from California to Boston is typical. The same thing, generally speaking, happens THE SATURDAY EVENING POST to every private fruit refrigerator car, no matter from what point it starts or to what point it is billed. Therefore, I repeat, the cost of this service embraces many items, to wit: Expensive ice in a hot, non-ice-bearing country, at the beginning of the journey, just where the most ice is needed ; maintenance of repair shops at various places (Chicago, Omaha, Kansas City, Fort Worth, Los Angeles, Sacramento and many other points) ; salaries of inspectors wherever cars are iced; salaries of executive officers and clerks; cost of maintaining icing stations; repairs; depreciation; interest on the investment, ete. The item of repairs isa heavy one. During a short, rush season, asin handling Michigan and Georgia peaches, time does not permit sending cars to the shops, but car repairers have to be sent into the field. In Michigan last fall three car-repair superintendents were maintained in the field, and each had from five to ten men with him, at the expense of the car line. In view of these facts I submit that a tariff rate of $77.50 Los Angeles to Boston on the car outlined above is as low as good and proper service will permit. It was only a few years ago that this same rate was $95, but we were able to reduce our operating expenses and gave the shippers the benefit of it. Just as soon as conditions will warrant it the rate will again be reduced. The private car line service also enables the shipper to control the destination of his product and to avoid glutted markets. It works this way: A shipper starts a car of peaches from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to Boston. After the car has left he learns that the Boston marketisfull. At any place along the route of that car—Detroit, Buffalo, Albany—he can change its destination to New York, Providence, Philadelphia, Baltimore or any other point that promises a better market. In 1904, during the one month of July, more than 500 cars of Georgia peaches, an average of more than 16 a day, were caught at Cincinnati alone, diverted from their original destination and sent to other places that promised better results. This diversion of a car from one point to anotheris most practicable with the kind of an organization maintained by the private car lines. The point I desire to emphasize with these details is that the refrigerator service tariff is not an arbitrary charge. It is based mathematically upon the service to be performed and is earned by the service rendered. This view is held with practical unanimity by all growers and shippers who have had experience both with private car line service and with refrigeration service furnished by the railroads. One ex- ample of this willsuffice. In 1901 a certain railroad touching Benton Harbor, Michigan, was undertaking to furnish refrigeration service at cost of ice. Private cars were operating on another road reaching that same point. Mr. Roland Morrell, of Benton Harbor, one of the best fruit growers in America, had 25 cars of choice peaches to ship. He was within three miles of a loading station on the road which provided refrigeration at cost of ice. To reach a loading station of the private car lines his peaches had to be hauled five miles, part of the way uphill. Yet he turned his back upon the alleged low price service, made the five- mile haul, shipped in private cars and paid the tariff of $55 acar to Boston rather than take a chance on railroad refrigeration service. Asked why he paid this ‘“unnec- essary”’ charge, he said: “I raise peaches to sell. Iam not raising peaches to be spoiled in transit and paid for by the railroad.” Just afew weeks ago Mr. John R. Wylie, of Shelby, Mich- igan, said to one of our representatives: ‘For long ship- ments we preferthe private car line service, with all its cost, to ice at actual cost with the imperfect service of the transportation companies.” At the close of the last Michigan peach season the Fenn- ville Herald, which is the organ of one of Michigan's heaviest peach-shipping points, a paper that has never shown friendliness toward private car lines and is edited by the secretary of the Michigan State Horticultural Society, said that had it not been for the good work done by the Armour private car lines in furnishing ple nty of first-class ears and looking after the prompt icing of same in transit that section would have been ruined the last season. Almost every fruit and vegetable growing district in this country is a living witness to the pioneering work and the é fficiency of the private car line. These lines have served both to develop new fields and to widen the market of the fields already in existence when they entered business. This one fact alone should be sufficient to demonstrate the truth of that statement: there are practically no reliable statistics to be had anywhere in the country in relation to the fruit industry save those gathered by the private car lines. A caller at the Agricultural Department in Wash- ington, D. C., a few weeks ago asked for statistics on the fruit crop of Idaho. He was told that the Department had none, and that aside from the apple crop the Agricultural Department had no fruit statistics whatever. Is it not remarkable that so many people should be eager to legislate definitely in relation to an industry that amounts to more than $400,000,000 a year, yet on which there is so little information that the Agricultural De- partment of the Government has no statistics whatever! Let us again look fora moment at the Michigan fruit dis- trict, concerning which there has been so much discussion. January 20, 1906 Up to ten years ago practically no fruit was shipped out of Michigan under refrigeration. Practically all of the crop was dumped into Chicago by boat and by ventilated cars. The Chicago market was uniformly low in consequence, and Chicago commission men made handsome profits by re- shipping Michigan peaches to other points, even back into Michigan. The private car line began to investigate the Michigan field some years ago. The car line agent discovered that Michigan growers and shippers would not ship to Eastern markets, such as Boston, New York, Pittsburg, etc., be- cause they had no personal acquaintance with firms han- dling fruit at those points. The agent made it his business to get into communication with Eastern fruit dealers. Many of them were skeptical as to the statement that they could buy fancy peaches in Michigan. They were told to send their buyers into that district and, if they found that the results did not justify the effort, the car lines would pay theexpense. Several of them took advantage of that offer; they came, were convinced and bought. This practice of sending buyers to the door of the grower— buyers who buy for cash and do not require the grower to ship on commis- sion—has spread to all parts of the country. This is not the least of the advantages that the private car lines have brought to the fruit growers. Jt gives the grower a mi at his own door and his product is disposed of without risk to himself. Since 1889 the fruit and vegetable industry in California has grown practically ten times in volume; and financially it is in better condition than at any previous time in its history. California shipped, in 1905, 30,000 cars of lemons and oranges at an increase in profit over 1904 of more than $100 per car. Right now 200 cars a day are coming out of that State. The orange and lemon industry of California would not have been developed without the private car. A few years ago head lettuce was a rarity in Northern markets. The private car line has developed this trade and has made many Florida farmers rich thereby. In the beginning, not more than half a dozen years ago, one cara day of head lettuce was sufficient to supply the New York market. New York alone now absorbs forty to fifty cars a day during the winter months. A car line agent interested strawberry growers around Nashville, Tennessee, in 1903, to ship eight or ten cars as an experiment. Results were so good that the shipments rose to twenty cars in 1904 and to sixty cars in 1905. Humboldt, Tennessee, used to send out about fifty cars of tomatoes a season, six or seven years ago. The tomatoes had to be shipped green and ripened in the commission man’s storeroom, which, of course, impaired the quality. Humboldt now ships in a season 500 cars of tomatoes that are allowed to ripen on the vines and therefore bring a much better price. The new prune plum district of Idaho has been developed entirely by the private car line missionary work and within a very few years. The far Northwest now sends to market from 2000 to 3000 cars a year. Other important new dis- tricts are being similarly developed in northeast Texas, in Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Arkansas and Missouri. The principal fruit-growing districts of the country in 18990 shipped under refrigeration only 9164 cars; the same districts in 1905 shipped 42,982 cars. In particular districts during this period shipments have been multiplied to ten and even twenty times over so far as the Armour lines alone are concerned. A phase of this development that is not to be minimized is the increased value given to the permanent investment in the fruit and vegetable growing lands. Michigan peach lands undeveloped are worth only from six to ten dollars and never more than twenty-five dollars an acre; with bearing peach orchards they command $200 to 3300 an acre. Florida lands that were almost worthless are now yielding to growers of head lettuce and other early vege- tables an annual return of $500 to $1000 to an acre. There are districts in Georgia where lands bought for one dollar an acre are now worth,with peach orchards in bearing, $300 an acre. California orange and lemon bearing lands are worth $1000 an acre It is impossible to ove r-emphasize the dey elopment w ork of the private car lines in providing for the grower a sure market and a profitable market. The grower wants to know before he lays out money on his land that he will be able to deliver his products to markets in prime condition; the private car line service gives him that assurance. The shipper wants to know, when he loads a car of perishable fruit, that everything possible will be done to carry that fruit to any market or to the best market in good condition so that it may command a fair price there; the private car line service gives him that assurance. The business of both the grower and the shipper is thus, as it were, insured. That growers and shippers all over the country take this view is proclaimed in the reams of sworn testimony given in the past year or two before the Interstate Commerce Commission and Senate and House Committees of Congress at Washington. Mr. C. A. Sessions, of Shelby, Michigan, aptly summarized this phase of the question a few weeks Concluded on Page 22)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING The Mill at Washington HE prospect of railway rate legisla = vas sil Pe Be WiLL FAYE motes better. It has been brightened with elbow ara Presider , f POST : the bleached bones of a pre url ‘ ! } tt here i is as far as the matter ¢ holiday a n the wa | : where but it Was considered encouraging | ‘ ate pror mat f all } the gentleman who furnished the bones nal r , ody sa The President's mess mentioned three | that th r P , ent « , great interest—the canal, life insurance and 1 S act wh he |] mower ie lation The last decide dly overshadowed he } } a bis and everything else that is likely to come up ‘ , h } . . thing that the public really expects of this Cong ‘ her he } } } t +} It is a foregone conclusion that the Hou Senate The ha f } whatever bill the Administration recommends humorous Speaker—to whom, fr the galleric lock in the centre of the bald spot gave an odd rt t ( and innocent appearance —assumed the chair h The Se | f rhis House is the only place where the voice } em | bel of the people, without intervening machinery, } ere n express itself,”” A little later the Democratic vena ‘ ; ) had been courteously granted five minutes t } ‘ } } was earnestly wa members that, after the “Aye’’ on the adoption of the rules governit } } they would be ‘‘as helpless as a bird trying to \ phalt lake.”” The members knew it, and 22s of Aye.” In short, the House has demonstrate nm of eve body, including itself, that business except under gag rul With any nat vidual latitude it would simply talk itself to deat é put itself ina strait-jacket to keep from. mi ‘ { The individual member counts for nothing I i in Speaker and the caucus, and when the Speaker |} t « patronage behind him he comes pretty near being the } e| IS { ember of caucus. Speaker Cannon’s great object in life is to stand enate ca I ‘ nal pat on the tariff. It is common knowledge that the Presi et t the dent agreed to stand pat with him and in return the Speaker I} enatorial « in | agreed to put the railroad rate bill through the House Honorable Joseph G. Cannon ; . laeat : 3 el ffa . tas Thus, on this great subject, the lower chamber is neatly ilfair may th y I rious matter disposed of and is no longer considered a factor in the ) As he has pretty largely absorbed the Hou th rug e four years a i cr 1 of Penr inia } icia At the Speaker’s right hand is a capacious wicker for a balance between the executive and the legislativ: ere promoting a ra th ithwe ienta basket, which possibly su eda titter when it heard branches of gove ent fa | he Senate. | ta he fa State iw his declaration about the absence of intervening machin incidentally, that in recent years the President has usua ghast tinct ne n the recet ‘ he Enterpr ery. To ‘introduce”’ a bill, a member simply drops it in been right and the Senate wrong, but the important | { Natio Bar it Allecheny and t} ; cash this basket. If it happens to be his laundry bill it is all just now is that the tension is between the two. Both A Ter cannot el is in aid \ Sta the same. The first five d s of the session, 7022 bills were are cheerfully e to the tact ( may bel ‘ b il Live dropped into this receptacle. The great majority of them The o al business that came up prior to adjourt ne ‘ In March, 19 t} | ured in th were private measures, to increase somebody S pension or ment wi emergency approt it n tor the Pa t eal it I eN Me Ar i i ler further some constituent’s claim, and bills for public build- Canal sed the | enough and ca Oklal at para I It had the ings here and there all over the country. These purely into the Senate in the oy rhe t raply appr mighty backing of the late Mattl nley Quay and the local things are what House members with their two-year priated $11,000,000 for i ite canal need If it ha fie ra ‘ I he « Two we tenure mostly busy themselves with, for their uncertain come up in the affairs railroad, the board ifter r the ¢ I ‘ od favorabl political fortunes largely depend upon them, and upon get- have disposed of it judiciously in an hour's dis¢ n. B and a month later it was pass¢ t tany great noise ting jobs for constituents. More than ten years ago Mr. it evoked vast Senatorial doubts and suspicior I} ch the phability of the House lt nt mediate Cleveland demonstrated that, by judicious use of Federal Committee on Appropriations took it up and held hear to the i! is referrs t er of course, to patronage and threatening to veto local bills, he could” ings. The President was called upor a cle he ¢ on Te ( \ il sequence coerce the House to his will. The other day anew member statement of canal expenditure One balef ter f it! | defeats } ret ed n senior member nervously approached the Speaker and explained that, discovered. Mr. Bishop, a very good née per man, f tha t a } I eof Ir it cor unless he could get a point of vantage for his publie build- drawing $10,000 a year as secretary ar t rial iH chai t ! ( ing ! ing bill, he would have to go home and stay there, where was haled before the ¢ mittee for examination, and er he upon Mr. Cannon extended his hand with a smile and deve ed that th irger part of t ! r it t r t e! replied: ‘*Good-by, my son giving out inforr mt he pr t t nflue 1 I le, 1 There is compensation of a sort. Having } i the public opinion about the ca t me to t ‘ t rid to be President’s emergency canal appropriation, which was all normal,” as he ge explair } t | party | I ‘ he | that was really required of it before the holidays, the House [he President was hiring a canal pre ‘ its er carefu Not r afte ard t nd Sen: was permitted to amuse itself. So, day after da } avea ( e Se ’ 1 f } } } hour of adjournment, one member after another arose and It appeared that Mr. Bishop i friend of the Pre ent of the Cay that rt for the ¢ lelivered an impassioned harangue, toempty benches, upon which natura nereased the amaze t ritories, and ! re ed t) I any subject that his fancy happened to dictate Senator Tillman, a member of t thes ‘ 1 bill might ell be A gentleman from Tennessee made the rafters ring fora little persor maze of his « reta | \ il er r ‘ } f ( with denunciation of college hazing, and sat d r Then iving tl had been de } M \ } up bobbed a gentleman from New Y = iunched —_ to “‘ keep publi , , , } } } into a fiery speech about the abuse of the Jew nk i erroneou ea th Isthr } b I S When he sat down another member worked himself into a thus it ‘ t t t err ' ' i r. | state bordering upon apoplexy over the trusts. Sev: machinists, ¢ ne ke t » there rt members tock mighty wordy falls out of life-insuranc: woke the ¢ ent Car The speeches were y printed in the Lee 1 Why, that irpr me, bs t I } t and circulated among the orator’s own constituent Th plication for constituents for such plac th ! | ‘ ! had as much to do with the business of legisiation as making have always been t ithatt re no om ’ i 1rod on the mud-pies has to do with housekeeping. The little boy rhe portly secretary tried to explain that the Senator the tremer j ep th are pe rmitted to play at being statesmer The are r1IVe! had rT sed tne pr per p i if rier I i} IT nt $ this toy in consideration of keeping quiet and letting the his applicatior ist after Mr. Bist had “‘nort ‘ { } President and the Senate run the country) opinion and thereby made apy ur entif but M ‘ J Which brings us back to the sacrificial press agent. The rillman did not look especially impressed f the and by! he low estate of the House is a factor of prime mportance be After much had beer uid, not Dy Wa It «¢ pi r ] ! I Li r cause it accentuates and throws into sharp relief the great about the press agency, the President sent for Senator H But he didn't H contest between the President and the Senate, wh h runs nd authorized him to say that the Dp would !t ut sine 4 much further and reaches much deeper than the railwa Che Senator said it on the floor, and the bill was passed Mr. Quay be rate matter, or than any personal equation arising out of Now there are a good many members of the upper hous ourte iY ! I f th the character of the present incumbent of the White House who would contemplate a man or the present membership of the Senate. Concentration government money and not have a fit about it Probably couple of years it would br ourt of power in the hands of the President isa theme that has the actual expense entailed in getting Mr. Bishop out of | Finally Qui whose friend r ting f I been sufficiently explained to be familiar to everybody. his job would have paid his sal: aman drawing sSIl0O.000 a ear mittee nad if he } ‘ er y ‘ nthe} t vear or two The

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4 THE ORGING T That is Hardly the Question The Point is, Can IMMY DOLLIVER was slightly troubled He was facing one of the problems of life It seems to me," he said slowly, toying with the solitaire that graced Miss Pembroke’s hand, ‘‘that we ought to marr Miss Natalie Pembroke flushed and nodded. ‘J think we ought, he answered. She hesitated for an instant Phese ” envayements Seem somehow, so. chea; Dolliver started It seemed an odd thing for Natalie to say —/ Natalie The girl, too, seemed instinctively to understand that she had struck the wrong not« I I don't mean that so much, Jimmy,” she went on, ‘‘and anyway, it doesn’t hit us, for we haven't been engaged so long. But don't ye 1ow how people talked when ‘Tom Dilkes and Aline on stepped off She sniggered at the recollection After five years! he laughed I think We ought to marry soon,”’ she repeated sober] Unconsciously Dolliver’s face clouded it's a matter of pride with her,’’ he told himself lo some extent he was right; to a very great extent he was wholly wrong For Natalie Pembroke—if the ex pression be permitted was head over heels in love with Jimmy Dolliver She loved him for his looks; she loved him for his gentlene he loved him because he was Jimmy Dolliver, and because he, too, was head over heels in love with her And there wa omething behind Jimmy personality that con tantly lent spice to his every word, his every act It had puzzled her for a long while until she had heard it said one day that Jimmy Dolliver possessed executive amity Nhat was the phra ‘ executive abilit Jimmy Dolliver was inthe world and of it He was master ful; he had force Jimmy ‘ll get along,’’ Natalie's father had said to \ Natale Jimn et 1iong, as young men of twer five ‘ get along lie was head man down at Fisenstein Thalheimer & Compar manufacturers of gold ct in Monroe Jimmy was a practical man Fortunately for himself, he was living in an age when the American aristocrat doffed his hat in the presence of the practical, successful business mar Unfortunately for himself, he was living in age when salaries were relative mall, compared with the cost of living, and when the ¢ f living consisted in keeping up appearances t was ( when men who ought to marry early married late a Jimmy Dolliver was a marrying man / can get alons Jimmy went on, to Natalie that hardly the question rhe point is, cat et along l ratching as it aughed. Jimmy was pacing slowly up and down the room. In all Monroe there was no man so well groomed, so well caparisoned, as was Jimmy Dol- liver. She liked him for it. It was a part of Jimmy) * You!” she exclaimed Again she laughed Do you know what the iv, Jirmmy They ay there are few men that lavish money on a girl as vou do on me They say’’--she smiled mischievously and with an appreciation of the humor of her own remark that you ’ do treat me well Jimmy laughed in spite of himself And vet, there wa Here was Natalie Per aman who could buy a grimness about it all only child of old John K many men in Monroe; a man whose wealth had c« to him through generations--and yet, in spite o biooded ancestr n spite of her innate einen SATURDAY EVENING POST HE GOLDEN CHAIN January 20, 1906 Business is Business—And So is Romance voiced unconsciously the sentiments of the age, and in the vernacular of the times. That was the supreme test of to-day, Jimmy told himself, some- what bitterly —Does this man make good? Does that other show his coin? But Natalie, too, was sobering. ‘We can get along, Jimmy, I’m sure,’ she said simply, and in what she considered was a matter-of-fact tone of voice, ‘‘and if we can't, father will “Stop right there,”’ ex- claimed Dolliver; ‘father We Get Along?” pon t. He won't, in the first place, because we won't let him, you and I, and in the second, your father will never see, will never know, the weak spots in our system of finance. Father will hand out ivory pianos when we need a joint of mutton. He will adorn us with an Oriental rug when we'd prefer to pay our rent on time I know~ I’ve seen and heard what other men have borne, and said 1—I want to begin on a sound basis, Natalie, he went on I'm not marrying a rich girl. I’m marry- ing a girl whose father is rich A rich girl is one who's f £ rich in her own right. I’m marrying you,” he said, seat- ing himself at her side, ‘ beeause you're Natalie You're marrying me because I’m Jimmy Dolliver. That's all And we've got to fight it out together, side by side.”’ Natalie Pembroke drew along breath. It sounded good, this business-like discussion It was something different from the kind of thing she was accustomed to to her that she was standing on the threshold of real life I'm afraid,’’ continued Jimmy, ‘‘that I'm making a It seemed fool of myself in taking these things toos« riously, but, some- how, I want to be understood — 1 want things understood I can live, alone -andon very little.””, Hesmiled. ‘‘Itisn't very romantic and it isn't very good taste, and it certainh is sordid, to mention it — but it yu , as your friends would say didn't cost much to ¢ We haven't been to the theatre twice a month; the opera once or twice a vear—figure it all out How much did it cost? It’s mean and cheap to talk about it, but It’s fun,”’ returned Natalie go, we had just everything and did everything there was to have or do and besides, when we did How much?’ pe rsisted Dolliver Oh, I don’t know she returned —‘‘twenty-five hundred dollars. No More Dolliver burst into a hearty laugh. ‘This last year he returned ust three hundred and fifty dollars— at the rate of seven dollars a week. 1 figured it all out For the rest, my board at Mrs. Tackleton’s, and as for clothing and the other things —oh, yes, / could get along, but you and | there's the rub rhat’s the thing we've got to think about, and we've got to think about it all the more, because because I'm going to take a step that’s going to Somehow Natalie, I want you to be with me when I'm hustling was a wild ye ing within him the girl and drew her toward him make me hustle Somehow There He threw his arm around ‘I want to begin life ? v,’ he said And I,” she whispered Forbes and I,"" he went on, “‘are going to buy out Risenstein, Thalheimer & Company We know how to make gold chains. Practically we're running the business Fisenstein is the only member of the firm that’s left. He's tired and he’s old-fashioned It’s our chance; Forbes’ chance and yours and mine. It’s a good business. It needs building up. But we'll be manufacturing jewelers, Forbes and | he y all get rich, here in Monroe,” said Natalie ‘Those you hear about do,”’ returned Dolliver; ‘‘the rest don't 1 don’t know which class we'll be in, but I've got a fight to fight, Natalie girl, and I want to fight it with you at my side, urging me on Am I selfish? Am I wrong? Am | right? I'm afraid it means poverty for a long, long while - secret poverty; a terrific struggle to i keep up appearances. How long, I cannot tell.” Had Jimmy Dolliver been a little less of a business man he would not have said these things i: ust this way Even By William Hamilton Osborne as it was, he admitted to himself that he had not expressed them just in the way he ought. But he wanted to put Natalie on her guard; he wanted to show her just how it would be; he wanted, above all, to get her down upon the record. She was willing to place herself on record She felt the doubt of her that his words unconsciously implied. ‘‘I think, Jimmy,” she answered him, “that you do not realize that it is the rich girl—or the girl with the rich father, as you put it— who is willing to do as you say We've been used to luxury; a little adversity may be a relief. Itisachange. It is something new If l were a factory girl | should look forward to marriage as a grand holiday. 1 would say, ‘Now it is my turn to rest. I'll have servants. I'll order them around.’ It is the poor girl who is not willing to face poverty. The rich girl is vith the man she loves. It’s the man after all, Jimmy Dolliver. The rest doesn’t count so much Dolliver crushed her to his breast. She had said the thing he wanted her to say, and just in the way he wanted her to Say it. ‘* Are you sure?” he cried ‘‘Sure,”’ she answered. ‘Do you realize, little girl,’ he asked, ‘‘what it all means?” Jimmy,” she answered, ‘“‘we're going to fight it out together.” They married. All Monroe approved the match; all Monroe liked Jimmy, and loved Natalie. And Natalie's father, who was a club man, was glad to have his only daughter so very well disposed ot; he tapped her on the shoulder. ‘Natalie,”” he said, ‘Jimmy is the real thing. He's doing well He's straight as a die, and he’s got a thunder- ing good business re putation You take good care of hin ‘ and you'll be all right Jimmy smiled ‘We'll get along—somehow,”’ he as- ented. Chey lived ina small cottage in a good residence neigh- Natalie had picked borhood on the outskirts of the town itout. Jimmy had suggested a flat —not an apartmer at a lower rental But he conceded the little six-room cottage The open air and the little flower-beds would do them good. They hired the cheapest kind of a servant, but changed her later for a good one ‘‘For,”’ reasoned Natalie, ‘‘a cheap one wastes so much thata good one pays in the end She saves so much ‘If there’s anything to save,”’ thought Jimmy, for his appetite and Natalie's were sufficient usually to lick the platters clean ‘‘And besides,’’ Natalie had told herself, ‘‘ we've got to make some kind of a showing when Genevieve comes here.” Genevieve was Genevieve Lawson, the bosom friend of Natalie. Genevieve had married G. J. Lawson, of Law- son & Sons, brokers, in Monroe G. J. Lawson was young and rich. He, too, had a business reputation; though it “Wait Till You Have Eight, Like Me,” He Said

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was said about town that Lawson & Sons was a concer! that had learned to run itself. At any rate, G. J. did not let it interfere with his enjoyment of life. G. J. was as much a friend of Jimmy's as was Genevieve of Natalie's. ‘*We've got to make some little show, just with our wedding presents, Jimmy would nod ina tired sort of wa) Lawson to keep up Natalie told Jimmy Dolliver He was always tired now, it seemed It’s good to come home, night now,” he would tell her, ‘‘to home, and — you Why are you so tired, Jimmy ?”’ she would ask You didn't used to be.”’ Ah,” returned Jimmy, “ Forbes and I must hustle now We've got to hustle on our own account, you set It’s hard work to make both ends meet But we're doing it all right You get home so late,’’ she went or It's along walk, you know,”’ he answered He hadn't meant tosay it. Itslipped out naturally enough. Natalie opene d her eyes. ‘**Walk!”’ she exclaimed walk home!” Jimmy nodded. All that persisted. ‘‘ How far is it?’ ‘‘About a mile,’’ Jimmy answered. He lied. It was two andahalf. ‘It isn’t far. And beside I need the exercise.” ‘*But,”’ she protested, ‘why don't you walk in the morning when you're fresh, and ride at night when you're tired? I walk both ways,” returned Jimm) ‘Both way s!’’ she echoed Phere was a note of incredulity in her tone. ‘‘Jimmy—why?” Jimmy took her hands in his ‘Because, little girl,”’ he this: we're running so close to the wind down at the shop that it’s a matter of pennie actually of pennies. Seems funny, doesn't it? But it’s true. Forbes, my partner, doesn't economize. I must.” She said nothing just then. But when she s alone she sat down and thought about it You don’t mean to say you listance?”’ she answered, smiling, “‘it’s just It seems so ridiculous,”’ she told herself It Was absurd The idea! What kind of at ness was this business of her husband V here ten cents a day could make a difference She didn’t, couldn’t understand that some men sell their very shirts to make a business pay One day she picked up Jimmy’s everyday She turned them up In the sole of hole, worn almost completely shoes. one was a through “You must get a new pair of shoes, Jimmy she said. ‘‘You always used to be so wel dressed, you know And these shoes, why they're disgraceful!’ I'll get them,” returned Jimmy, ‘Just as soon as I have the time. He meant just as soon as he had the money, but he did not say t And he did not get a new pair He had his old ones patched and repatched., “i i matter of pennies, you know,” he would tell her Natalie didn’t like it It all seemed so It was of a piece, too, with the general lack of mone yin the house Natalie had not expected to roll | don't want money to spend in luxuries she assured herself; ‘* but 1 must have neces- And often there was no money for Yet, outwardly, they Her trousseau was still new sordid. in riches Saries the barest needs of life. vere living well. their house and table were bountifully supplied with wed ding presents. To their neighbors they seemed prosperou lo the eyes of father Pembroke the Vv were comfortable But to Natalie ‘“Weren't you better off when you were on a salary? she one day asked her husband He shook his head. ‘*] had more money for myself, he assented, ‘‘but now don’t you see? I've got a business.” Natalie could not reason it out What was the use of having a business if it did not vield enough for one to sult sist upon? And, besides, no one knew it HDusiness was Jimmy's I suppose,”’ she had asked him once, ‘‘that it will be Dolliver & Forbes?"’ He had shaken his head It'll be Eisenstein-Thalheimer still,’ he had answered We can’t afford to lose the name, Somehow, it all seemed so futile to Natali She loved Jimmy —oh, so much! — but she doubted his business wis- dom. The old thing that had provoked her admiration his executive ability ‘Don't you think, Jimmy ,’ she said one day, after seven long days of financial famine, ‘‘that it would be better to take a salary again?” ‘‘No,” he cried, ‘‘no! You don't understand We're forging right ahead. We're doing business gold chains, and we're selling them, too. No, no! Wait you set where was that? We're making THE bit New York And s still kept up his ow SATURDAY easier Now and You look so hat people think B ‘ ‘ clothe not } ’ ext te rare She d , r } ' +} weddir eau r I «Al told } her, that his wife tu ura j ) (rt t ‘ Genevieve i me It was awf menow And ons Y } limn face, but with deter? i , ataile, ¢ the thing I knew must His way re not tious l t rhe Little Jimmy Dolliver, When He Arrived progressive HH ‘ i water all the time Weca got to separate | gottot For buy me out, that’s all rot the ‘*What will Forbes pa he asked the hand of Providencs If Jimmy « pay him, say, five hundred dollars for | ness, they could | é lot he ind and Jimmy could take another ir ilong It eemed good What Wil Forbes pa) ne que ‘ Ten thousand lar I i n ‘ t inne ner i I the i! lo iT ! inatic Are you Jimn 1 Vhy, of « e,”’ hear red, ina bu } r} nt going to bu it « let him. I'm going to buy Forbes out Sh miled in spite f herself Wit he queriec ren th and dollar No,” answered D and that talk to vou about I'm going to d War nT + not t} at | ag t te i hard pull | wanted to h 4 / F It was a wail, almost of ind there her opinion of Jim onon } hy \ ma } t } 1 r \W 1 Law ation it {to her come OF EVENING Became hat t rat ¢ 1 t har are ret al nd th “a hoed POST v Lite h, ri f th j id he th } f u 1 ! ! } ' " ‘ | } tor . t rar a ‘ i } ‘ nha } p j | h } } d } \ t \ } t il Wit } } ( ta t! ; } y ] } | il ! { i t t ne il i rad a tl il

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 20, 1906 THE IMITATION BAD MAN Z , \ / ‘ t \ \ — we . A Ay ITHOUT the Western miner, the Western cowboy A Chronicle of Long Hair and Short Nerve By Emerson Hough The counterfeit bad man, so far as he has a place in litera- ture, was largely produced by Western consumptives for Eastern consumption. Sometimes he was in person manufactured in the East and sent West. A typical instance of this sort of thing was the familiar case of Bill Germaine, of a city in New Jersey, now dead, if memory serves, these many years. Germaine was the owner of a target-gallery some twenty years ago, and, having read in the popular magazines of wild life in the West, he turned his hair loose, bought a buckskin shirt made at Niagara Falls, and then, feeling that he just could not stand it any longer, saved up three hundred dollars and started West It, was his intention to be a ‘‘scout.’’ When he was as far West as the Missouri River he got off the cars at Mandan, North Dakota, and strode out upon the depot platform, long hair, long boots, long knife and all. Then he folded his arms, to the accom- paniment of a heavy frown, and stood where the inhabitants could get a look at him. The inhabitants had never seen any- thing exactly like this, and they admired the spectacle very much. At last one of the citizens ventured to speak to him. ‘‘Stranger,’’ said he, ‘‘do you mind telling us where you came from?” Germaine started, frowned a shade more deeply, and in a hollow tone replied: ‘‘My home is in the Rockies!” ‘*You surely do look right bad,’’ said his interlocutor. ‘‘Did you ever kill very many folks?”’ ‘“‘T have smelled powder!” Bill replied in Delphie wisdom. This was true, for he had worke¢ many years in a twenty- two-target gallery, which is somewhat smoky at times. So he passed on. By the time he got to Yellowstone and the Western desperado—all characters of Park he was broke and could not get back home; but kind which, in the nature of things, they perhaps have Fortune took care of him, as it does of many long-hairs. but little knowledge at first-hand — the makers of literature One day, as he stood somewhat hungry, but stern, on the who dwell east of the Appalachians would be obliged in depot platform at Cinnabar, a party of German tourists some measure to go out of business. This is no harsh strie- got off the cars. They did not speak the local language and ture upon the Eastern product, but, on the contrary, unre- were somewhat frightened, having also read Eastern fiction served and joyous commendation. Impartial folk who live on Western topics. They saw Bill standing on the platform, in the West hi from the East who have lungs or who have not lungs; and they rather rejoice when the latter write al t: it keeps them from writing about vhat wise man can arise and explain by just what process of self-hypnosis or irresistible obsession tablished certain Eastern stand tain Western types? Where did it the West first originate, and it so permanent, unvarying, and, tructible? How ean a school of g¢ heavily upon poor Bret Harte, utter over and over again the same unspeakable inaccura and have them accepted as the Gospel of the West How can the wisest of the VIS¢ account for the fearsome continuity of the car- window school of literature regarding the West? No man can answer this. It seems a sort of fate The West itself was long ago resigned to it. If it be difficult to ov ke a lie, it is far more difficult to overtake an entire it on There is a stage Irishman, a stape Jew Yu stage Englishman, a ay not change these things. The people will not You may not alter, for instance, the popular conception of the iT have any substitute Western cowboy If he does not wear a six-shooter and ‘‘chaps"’ (although he himself never calls them ‘chaps and if his hat be not wide and white, why, then, so much the worse for the cowboy, for he isall wrong. The fact that Western cowboys long ago discarded the six-shooter has nothing to do with the conception of the average artist in regard to the proper dress: and a divine Providence alone can tell by what infinite variety of wit the average Eastern artist manages to show so many wrong wavs of carr ‘ But the West is resigned. Aste the imitation bad man, then, it was simply a question of supply and demar There had to be imitation bad men to fill a long-felt want The t earch of “local color” ae ong hair and a red sash ana and thev got it The t ded in the West, not Tair the West, but was ath nal bad man propo- i tandy nt no objection to the presence of strangers long knife, high boots and all. They saw that he looked The Skilled Use of Weapons was Once Desirable in the West > hairy, did not know he was hungry, and hailed him with joy ‘“‘This,”’ said the leader of the party, ‘‘is our preserver in this wild land. With this bold scout to protect us, we will make our journey in safety.’ So they timidly advanced and asked Bill how much he would charge them to guide them through the park. **Ten per,” replied Bill promptly, forgetting the language of the scout. Having been interpreted, the arrangement was, however, concluded, and Bill climbed on top of the regular park stage and ‘“‘guided”’ his charges through the park, saving them from the tame bears, and from everything else except the hotels. As the tourists understood but little English, they were contented, and said farewell with profuse thanks. They paid Bill so much money that he took the cars back to Jersey and lived as a Western scout ever after. Iam inclined to think, although I have no legal evidence, that he may later have made a living posing in cer- tain accepted studios of the goodly city of New York It was, perhaps, the spell of the old West whick brought out such phenomena as this. There is such a thing as being stage-struck, and, without question, many men at a certain time of our history were West-struck. The glamour of romantic adventure in the West was too much forthem. I once met a man in the city of Chicago who for some seasons enter- tained his entire neighborhood with stories of his own performances in the Wild West. A friend and I passed with him one of the most interesting evenings I ever knew. The narrator, who was known as “Cap,” described to us in perfect minuteness his experience on the Yellowstone, in the Big Horns, in the Judith Basin, showing a fidelity in detail which under other circumstances would have been admi- rable. Apparently, he was familiar with every foot of the country. ‘**He has a fine memory,”’ I said in admiration to my friend after we had left him. ‘*Yes,”” was his ruminating reply, ‘‘one of the finest memories you ever saw— especially in view of the fact that he was never west of Chicago in his life. He works at the stockyards, and once in a while he sees a Western man there.” This I later found to be the truth. simply West-struck, and so thoroughly was he in touch with his times that he was practically ready for syndication, if not, indeed, for an artistic career The extreme type of West-struck man who insists on wearing during his work in an Eastern town a wide white hat with a leather string, and a red sash, in connection with a dialect invented by himself, is very mu I do not feel prepared to say to what extent he observes the historical verities of costume. He may have warrant for his preferences. Once I saw a man with a red sash “Cap” was ch admired of some

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down in Texas, but he was a Mexican, and the foreman fired him next day. ‘‘I want fellows that come along in overalls,”’ said the latter, ‘‘and that just weara hat. These fancy fellows make me tired.’’ But then the foreman was possibly not ready for syndication or for an artistic career He could never persuade the American people that the wide white hat and the little high-heeled are things passing or past upon the cow range; andt the ‘* West- ern” dialect as writ in the Western story foundry (where apparently, one man does all the work under diff names) has not yet appeared in the West. It is « asy to see the pl ilosophical difference between the actual bad man of the West and the imitation article. The bad man was an evolution; the imitation bad man was an instantaneous creation: a supply born full panoplied to fill a popular demand. Silently there arose, partly in the West and partly in the East, men who gravely and calmly proceeded to look the part After looking the part fora time, to their own satisfaction at least, and taking themselves seriously as befitted the situ- ation, they in very many instances faded away and disappeared into that No- where whence they came. Some of them took themselves too seriously for their own good. Of course, there existed for some years certain possibilities that any one of these bad men might run against the real thing. There always existed in the real sober level-headed West a contempt for the West-struck man who wanted to seem ‘‘bad.”’ Singularly enough, men of this type were not so frequently local prod- ucts as immigrants. The bootblack bad man was a character recognized on the frontier—the city tough gone West with ambitions to achieve a bad emi- nence. Some of these men were par- tially bad for a while. Some of them, no doubt, even left behind them after their sudden funerals the impression that they had been wholly bad. You cannot detect all the counterfeit currency in the world, severe as the test for counterfeit was in the old West There is, of course, no great amount of difference between the West and the East. It was not any more the West than all America which demanded of its citizens nothing so much as genuineness Yet the Western phrase, ‘‘to stand the acid,”’ was not surpassed in graphic de- scriptiveness. When an imitation bad man came into a town of the old frontier he had to stand the acid or get out. It was pretty sure that his genuineness woul doubted by some one. ‘*My friend,”’ said old Bob Bobo, the famous Mississippi Delta bear-h toa n erent I Inter an who was doing some prett loud talking, ‘‘I have always noticed that when a man goes out hunting for trouble in these bottoms he almost always finds it.”’ Two weeks later this same man threat- ened a calm man in simple jeans pants, who took a shotgun and slew him im- pulsive ly. Now, the West got its hot blood largely from the South, and the dogma of this Southern town was simply the same in the Western mining town or cow camp. The bad man or the would-be bad man had t declare himself before long, and the acid bottle was alway close at hand. That there were grades in counterfeit bad men accepted as a truth on the frontier. A man might be known as dangerous, as a murderer at heart, might | feared, and yet be despised. The imitation bad man dis covered that it is comparatively easy to terrify a good part of the population of a town, county or territory would be more apt to flourish in an old cor inity. Thu the city of Chicago is one of the most dangerous coverable —life there is far more dangerous than life i army or in the wildest Western region. The hard citiz Arizona and of Alaska are afraid of Chicago, becau: read the continual recountals of men killed th tion bad men, footpads who hold up a victim, g no chance for an ‘‘even break.” Sometimes this base imitation of a desperad: exal in the public eye as the real article. A few years ago four misled hoodlums of Chicago held up a street-car barn, killed two or three men, stole a sum of money, later killed ¢ policeman and yet another n out in the sandhills below the according to the most accepted dime-novel and took refuge in a « ly themselves Cl , comporting standards. SATURDAY EVENING POST ought never to he lity of being hanged or ord Garrett added later Hungry, but Stern, on the Depot Platform Perhaps the most typical case o

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HEN one comes to know an well—say a horse, or a cow, or a dog—and sees how sensibly it acts, following the rules of con- duct laid down by the wisdom of its kind, one cannot help wondering how much happier and healthier and better hu- man beings would be if they used the discretion of animal the animals. For ages men have been taught what was good for their bodies and their minds and their souls. There has been no question about j \ the wisdom of being tem- perate, and industrious, | \ and honest and kind; and v4 n\ \ the folly of immod- , 1\\ eration and laziness = \ and chieanery and 7 lh meanness has been 3o Well known that ageometrical prop- has not more defi- community In Our Town He was at the Head of His Profession osition been nitely proved. Yet only a few people in any observe the rules of life, and of the them all, and so misery, and pain, and poverty and anguish and they wonder why they are set down insuch acruel world. It was Eli Martin who won the prize in the Bethel neighborhood back in theseven- ties for reciting more chapters of the Old Testament than se few no one observes are as pestiiences among men, any other child in Sunday-school, and the old MeGuffey's Reader that he used on weekdays was filled with moral tales; but someway when it came to applying the rules he learned, and the morals that the stories pointed, Eli Martin lacked the sense of a dog ora horse. And once, when the paper had contained an account of one of Red Martin's eS¢ apace sin police court, George Kirwin recalled that, when we offered a prize during the Christmas season of 1880, for the best essay by a child under twelve, it was Ethelwylde aney who won the prize with an essay on the weakness married Eli Martin when she and the ile town knew what he was Naturally one would suppose that two persons so full of it, and that in ap- plying it they would have been the happiest and most useful and instead they were probably the and Mrs. Martin, whom we knew better than Red, because she once worked in the office, was forever bemoaning what she called her ‘‘lot,”’ though we knew for many years that her ‘‘lot’’ was not the result of the fates against her, but merely the inevitable ent and she theoretical wisdom would have applied people in all the town; most miserable people in town, consequence 0 er temperan Before we put in linotypes and set ourtype by machinery . l half a dozen, They kept coming de who work in country towns, getting it was set t yiri { 1] loved yt Ialy we employed who came from the town high school and going as girls married in their twenties or finding something better than printing, and it is likely that in ten years as many as fifty girls have worked in the office, it said to the credit of the girls be said of so many of the boys en who have worked in the shop that they were we were pre ud of —all but Ethe Ilwylde Swaney We called Ethelw \ Ide the Princess She worked in the office less than two years, but the memory of her still lingers, the scent of the roses for the Princess was not merely a poor compositor, she was and he which cannot ind nr nirl iri though hardly could one savy like ‘ the kind that would make mistakes them, and that kind never learns. Though she ran away Martin — which was this g others for her faults was so strong upor her and blame others for to marry Red her own mistake ha t jam! that she never forgave her mother for making the match We kr our office that Mrs. Swaney did not dream th: the girl was even going with Red Martin until the married. Yet the Martin neighbor blamed Mrs. Swaney. When the nd out that the truth wasn’t in covered that and that she 7 Right at the busy hour in the afternoon we used to catch her with a type in her fingers and her hand poised in the air, looking off into space for a minute at a time, and when we spoke to her she would put her vad on her case and ery and the foreman e to her wit were for twenty vears have Princess was in the office we fou her; also we dis- cried too easily she was laz V softly, would have to apo THE SATURDAY EVENING POST IN OUR WEAKANESS By WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE before she would go back to work. And then she would have to take the broken piece of looking-glass that she kept in her capital ** K”’ box and make an elaborate toilet before settling down. Moreover, though she was only seventeen, much of the foreman’s time was spent chasing dirty-faced little boys away from her case, and if some boy didn't have his elbow in her quad box, she was off her stool visiting either with some other girl, or standing by the stove drying her hands— she was eternally drying her hands—and talking to one of the men. In all the year and a half she was in the office the Princess never learned how to help herself when she had to dump her type. She would call some man from his work to help her—when there would be more conversation. But we kept her and were patient with her on account of her father, John Swaney, a hardworking man who was trying to make something of the Princess. So we put up with her perfumery and her powder rags and herroyal airs, and we did all we could to teach her the difference between a comma and a period—though she never really learned; and we were still patient with her when she deliberately pied a lot of type after being corrected for some piece of care- lessness or worse. We made due allowances for the Ruther- ford temper, which her father warned us not to arouse, but, nevertheless, her mother came to the office one winter day in her black straw hat with a veil around it, and with the coat she had worn for ten years, and told us that she was afraid working in the shop would hurt her daughter’s social standing. So when the Princess walked out that night in a gust of musk —-in her picture hat and automobile cloak, with her bangles tinkling and her petticoat swishing the office knew her no more forever About the time that the Princess left the office to improve her social standing, Eli Martin and his big mule team came to town from the Bethel neighborhood. He was as likely looking red-headed country boy as youever saw. We were laying the town waterworks pipes that spring, and Eli and his team had work allsummer. On the street he towered above the other men several inches in height, and was big and muscular and masculine in his striped undershirt and blue overalls, as he worked with his team inthe hot sun. Of course, the Princess would not have seen him in those days Her nose was seeking a higher social level, and the clerks in the White Front drygoods store were upon the pinnacle of her social ideal 3ut Eli Martin was naturally what in our parlance we call a ladies’ man, and he was not long in learn ing that the wide-brimmed black hat, the ready-made, faded green suit and the red string necktie which had swept the girls down before him in the Bethel neighborhood would accomplish little in town. So when winter came, and work with his team was hard to get, he sold his mules and be- decked himself in fine linen. He had afew hundred dollars saved up, so he lived in the cabbage smells of the Astor House, and fancied that he was enjoying the refinements of the great city. Time hung heavily upon him, and of nights he joined the switchmen and certain young men of leisure in the town in a more or less friendly game of poker in the rooms at the head of the dark stairway on South Main Street When spring came the young man had no desire and little need to go back to work; for by that time he was known as Lucky Red. Ina year the sunburn left him and he grew white and thin. He went to Kansas City fora season, and known among gamblers as far west as Denver But he was only a tin-horn gambler in the big cities, and in our town he was at the head of his profession, so he came back and ope ned aroom of his own blaze of glory * towlt a long vray frock coat with trousers to match, pleated white shirts studded with blinding dia monds, a small white hat dented jauntily on three sides, a matted lump of red hair on the back of his head and a dashing red curl combed extravagantly low on his forehead Before he left town for his foreign tour Red Martin used to hang about the churches Sunday evenings, peering through the blinds and making eves at the girls, but upon his return h » had risen to anothe r social level He had acquired a with horse So he dropped from his social list the girls who became But he came back ina cart ‘ed wheels and a three-minute worked out’ and nade eyes at those young women who lived at home gad- ding around town evenings, picking up boys on the street nd forever talking about their ‘ , It was the most natural thing in the world that Red and the Princess should find each other, and six months before the elo + latest pement we heard that the Princess was riding about the country with him in the red-wheeled cart. For one way and another after she left the office we had kept track of the girl--sometimes through her father, who carpenter, was frequently called to the office to fix up adoor being a or a window; sometimes through the other girls in the January 20, 1906 ottice, and sometimes through Alphabetical Morrison, who big family of girl school-teachers made him astorage batter of social information. It seems that the Rutherford temper developed in the Princess as she grew older. Mrs. Swaney Sinclair, and her father was a mild-mannered little man, who went out-of-doors to cough, but her mother was a Rutherford a_ big, stiff-necked, beer-bottleshaped woman, who bossed the missionary society until she divided the church. John Swaney, who is not a talkative man, once got in a crowd at Smith’s cigar-store where they were telling ghost stories, and his contribution to the horror of the occasion was a relation of how, when they were fooling with tables, trying to make them tip at his house one night at a family reunion, the spirit of Grandma Rutherford appeared, split the table into kindling, dislocated three shoulder-blades and sprained five wrists. It was this Rutherford temper that the Princess wore when slouched around the house in her mother-hubbard and her hair in papers. The girls in the office used to say that if her mother over-cooked the Princess’ egg in the morning she rose grandly from the breakfast-table, tipping her chair behind her, and rushed to her room ‘‘to have a good cry,” and the whole family had to let the breakfast cool while they coaxed her down. That was the Rutherford temper Also, when they tried to teach her to cook, it was the Ruth erford temper that broke the dishes. Colonel Morrison once told us that when the Princess thought it was time to givea party, the neighbors could see the Rutherford temper begin wig-wagging at the world through the Princess’ proud head, and there was nothing for her father to do but to kill the chickens, run errands all day to the grocery store, and sit in the cellar freezing cream, and then go to the barn at night tosmoke. It was known in the neighborhood that the Princess dragged her shoestrings until noon, and that her bed was never made up in the daytime in the memory of man. We are Yankees in our town, and these things made more talk to the girl’s diseredit than the story that she was keeping company with Red Martin! But we at the office saw nothing to indicate her real self in the proud creature that passed our window so grandly The year that Red Martin came back to town the Princess used to turn into Main Street of an afternoon, wearing the big black hat that cost her father a week's hard work, look- ing as sweet as a jug of sorghum and as smiling as a basket of chips. Though women sniffed at her, the traveling men on the veranda of the Hotel Metropole craned their necks to watch her out of sight. She jingled with chains, and watches, and lockets and chatelaines, and she carried more was Juanita she ra & The Traveling Men on the Veranda Craned Their Necks to Watch Her Out of Sight

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rings than a cane rack, and walked with the air of the heroine of th ciety drama at the | opera house. When she was or ade she never even glanced t ‘ ‘ t ! she had jeop clize ne i - irely q ed a re br ris who had worke ! i the ne laugh her at \ © at ‘ But the Pr ‘ Red M ‘ { Tr if t I i i r a I , t tN ‘ wr ifter ire 1! i i ui es, Sn i at rhe « th ne t i ne i t n, Colonel Alphabetical’’ Morr

whe 4 1 A 1) Varder thes a pi tter n the basket it used out to the platfor ce ( I th of J and r belle of tt ppe L I t SIN Cor | ( r h But he Colone t full of saff « ! 1 sur ‘ } é Ss, wh ( é her ’ | cess |} ‘ N has « ! his day, but eventuall t i Cat } From the 1 of the « ar hen R Ma hands i ‘ irgest I t purpose it I i ‘ ne am rT t 4 Tr} lourhi ol the ve! of ¢ } not I Was s Phe l hoe —_—__—— — Red bought after | ‘ e was Eternally Drying Her Hands — and Talking to One of the Me t leather } f i DINY plat t ( t! t he ( re « mor r t ‘ } t] ess hi he fa } } r he } ( } | wet j | her giddy sp e! ed } ’ the econd tf i ‘ ove i ‘ ! t } } } tning ¢t i t ne \ M . t } } }

LADY BALTIMORE XIX — UDOLPHO Continued worse BY OWEN WISTER Mayrant, but lacked the beg ng of it; and of this beginning | wa Author of The Virginian search as we drove up among the live ! } I

oaks of | lolpho to the little club-house i or hunting lodge, where a negro and his wife received } } and k the baskets and set about prepar K..2 beginning sat so heavily upon my attention that I took ‘ scant notice of | dolpho as We Walked about Its adiacer grounds in the twilight before supper, and John Mayrant \. pointed out to me its fine old tree ts placid stream, and \ bid me admire the nug character of the hunting lodge, 9 ve ” rit buried away for bac rs’ delights deep in the heart of the <4 aS a I pleasant forest veard him indulging in me ries ar 4 : anecdotes of late sittings after long hunt but I was: os ‘ self always on a hunt for 1 beginning, and none of hi a ‘7 Se words clearly reached my intelligence until I wa are of Yd gee. nis reciting an excellenti pe inent couplet a Sy » 5 AN ‘If you would hold your father’s land fl Ban You mu ‘ ish 3 ur throat be I es 4 1 found n elf standir ‘ ( | t } he had t viasses nla ! I i ermout! il ! ‘ la chert i ! i which he had ve lfully mingled himself in the happic proport Phe rer ked he i — i 1OW n la our har A mn ha ‘ + fily } ca } S } r 1 r 4 Y i ia diml : ( , } mured a 1 tf he rr ! ! en ] Pres | e we " other in well-cooled uw? I nat! only the ne I ‘ or was plainly reveling in John’s remark 1 1 cook, with her bandannaed ebor head poked I! ind the With No More Than corner of the kitchen door, was doing her utmost to lose no Half-Melted Con word of this entertainment. For John, taking up the young sciousness asteril and the old, the quic k and the dead f masculine Kings pe iol at? ‘ t t t a

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10 floated in mv brain and being. Nothing was difficult for me. But | was getting away from the triangle, and there was John waiting at the window, and | mustn't say too much, mustn't say too much. My will reached out and caught the triangle and brought it close, and | saw it all perfectly clear again What are they all,”’ I said, ‘‘the old romances? You ke Paris and Helen and Menelaus. What's that? You take Launcelot and Arthur and Guinivere. You take Paolo and Francesca and her husband, what's-his-name, or fristram and Iseult and Mark [wo men, one woman Triangle and trouble Other way round you get Tann- hiuser and Venus and Elizabeth; two women, one man; more triangle and more trouble. Yes And | nodded at him again. The tide of my thought was pulling me hard away from this to other important world-problems, but my vill held, struggling, and I kept to it You wait,”’ I told him. I know what I mean. Trouble is, so hard to advise him right Advise who right?" inquired John Mayrant It helped me wonderfully. My will gripped my floating thoughts and held them to it Friend of mine in trouble; though why he asks me when I'm not married——I'd be married now, you know, but afraid of only one wife. Man doesn't love twice; loves thrice, four, six, lots of times; but they say only one wife. Ought to be two, anyhow Much easier for man to marry then Wouldn't it be rather immoral?” John asked Morality is queer thing Like kaleidoscope New patterns all the time But I'm going to tell my friend he's dong wrong (joing to write him to-night Where's ink?” It won't go to-night,’ said John. ‘* What are you going » tell him Going to tell him, since only one wife, wicked not to break his «¢ ngagement John looked at me ve ry hard, as he stood by the window, leaning on the sill. But my will was getting all the while a stronger hold, and my thoughts were less and less in- clined to stray to other world proble ms moreover, below the confusion that still a little reigned in them was the primal cunning of the old Adam, the native man, quite and alert it saw John's look at me and it prompted mv course

introubled Ye I said He wants the truth from me Where's his letter No harm reading you without names."" And I fumbled in pocket Leiter gone Never mind Fact are friend asked girl Girl's said yes Now he thinks he’s be 1 by that He thinks right aid John Vota bit of it You take Tannhiuser Engagement to enus all a mistake. Perfectly proper to break it. Much han proper. Only honorable thing he could do. I'm going to write it to hin Where's ink And I got up John came from his window and sat down at the table His glass was empty, his cigar gone out, and he looked at me. But | looked round the room for the ink, noting in my earch the big fireplace, simple wooden, unornamented, but generous, and the plain plaster walls of the lodge, \ whereon hung two or three old prints of game-birds; and dl the while [saw John out of the corner of my eve, looking the poke first Your friend has given his word to a like a gentleman.’ urned, still looking round the etter. If his heart has broken

make him a gentleman John brought his fist down on the table He had no business to get engaged to her! He must take the conse- That blow of the fist on the table brought mv thoughts wholly clear and fixed on the one sub ‘ect; my will had no nger to struggle with them, they worked of themselves in ist the way that | wanted them to do If he’s a gentleman he must stand to his word,’ John repeated, ‘‘unle she releases him ] fumbled again for my letter That's ,ust about what I I rejoined, sitting down He thinks he

the consequences Of course! John Mavrant’s face was very stern as he at in ‘udgment on himself But why should she take the consequence What consequences ? l asked Being married to a man who doesn't want her, all her life, until death them do part. Having the daily humilia- tion of his indifference, and the world’s knowledge of his ndifference Perhaps having the further humiliation of knowing that his heart belongs to another woman. That's not what agirl bargains for. His standing t¢ his word is not an act of honor, but a deception. And in talking about taking the consequences,’ he's patting his personal sacri- fice on the back and forgetting all about her and the sac- rifice he’s putting her to. What's the brief suffering of a broken eng (hat a man should shoulder for making such a mistake is the poor opinion that society holds of him for placing a woman in such a position; and to free her is the most hon- erable thing he can do. Her dignity suffers less so than if she were a wife, chained down to perpetual disregard ment to that No: the true consequences

THE SATURDAY EVENING POST John, after a silence, said: ‘‘That is a very curious view.” ‘*That is the view I shall give my friend,’’ I answered. ‘“‘T shall tell him that in keeping on he is not at bottom honestly thinking of the girl and her welfare, but of him- self and the public opinion he's afraid of, if he breaks his engagement. And I shall tell him that if I’m in church and they come to the place where they ask if any man knows just cause or impediment, I shall probably call out, ‘He does! His heart's not init. This is not marriage that he’s committing. You're pronouncing your blessing upon a fraud.’”’ John sat now a long time silent, holding his extinct cigar The lamp was almost burned dry; we had blown out the expiring candles some while since. ‘‘ That is a very curious view,’ he repeated. ‘‘I should like to hear what your friend says in answer.” This finished our late sitting. We opened the door and went out for a brief space into the night to get its pure breath into our lungs, and look to the distant place where the moon had sailed. Then we went to bed, or rather, I did; for the last thing that | remembered was John, stand- ing by the window of our bedroom still dressed, looking out into the forest XX -— WHAT SHE WANTED HIM FOR H" WAS neither at the window, nor in his bed, nor any where else to be seen, when I opened my eyes upon the world next morning; nor did any answer come when I called his name. I raised myself and saw outside the great branches of the wood, bathed from top to trunk in a sunshine that was no early morning's light; and upon this, the silence of the house spoke plainly to me not of man still sleeping, but of man long risen and gone about his busi- ness. I stepped barefoot across the wooden floor to where lay my watch, but it marked an unearthly hour, for I had neglected to wind it at the end of our long evening. And then I saw a note addressed to me from John Mayrant tmy conscience

You area good slee per,” it began, ‘‘bu Jombo, called by some Kill-devil, about which I hope you will remember that I warned you.”’ He hoped I should remember! Of course J remembered everything; why did he savy that? An apology for his leaving me followed; he had been obliged to take the early train because of the Custom House, where he was serving is clear as to the his final days; they would give me breakfast whenever I \ hould be ready for it, and I was to make free of the place | had better visit the old church (they had orders about the keys) and drive myself into Kings Port after lunch the horses would know the way, if I did not. [t was the boy's closing sentence which fixed my attention wholly, took it away from Kill-devil Bombo and my Aunt Carola’s mission, for the execution of which I now held the w, and set me puzzling for the right interpretation of his

words I believe that you which startled me last night, but which | now begin to see in T did. Only, between alternate inj may find it harder to choose which is the least he can intlic For in following vour argu- ment, he benefits himself so plainly that the benetit to the will help vour friend by that advice

more in thi uries, he than vou, who look on, find it other person is very likely obscured to him. But, if you wish to, tell him a Southern gentleman would feel he ought

to be shot ei way Chat’s the honorable price for changing your mind in such a case.”’ No interpretation of this came to me I planned and carried out my day according to his suggestion; a slow lressing with much cold water, a slow breakfast with muc good hot coffee, a slow wandering beneath the dream)

branches of Udolpho, this course cleared my head of the Bombo, and brought back to me our whole evening, and every word I had said to John, except that I had lost the solution which, last night, the triangle had held for me At that moment, the triangle and my ¥ le dealing with the ore famy, hud seemed to contain the iry is; but it had all gone now, and I couldn

it back: only, what t had contrived to say to John

his own ment had been certainly well said; I would say it over again to-day It was the boy and the meaning of his words that escaped me still, bated me, and formed the whole subject of my attention, even when | was nside the Tern Creek church; so that [ retain nothing of a littl ws long since done,

at, save a general quaintness, a gen ral loneliness,

deserted, forgotten token of human d standing on its little acre of wilderness amid that solitude which suggests the departed presence of man, and whict »>much more potent in the favor of its desolation than the virgin wilderness whose solitude ts still waiting for man to come It made no matter whether John had believed in the { hrough and accepted in good part mv manceuvre: he had ice, or had seer

friend to whom ! intended writing ac idered my words, that was the point: and he had not him at all Several times 1 read his slept in his bed, but on it, if sleep had come to this I found out while dressing Between alter note over e injuries he may find it

harder to choose."’ This was not an answer to me, but an explanation of his own perplexity At times it sounded January 20, 1906 almost like an appeal, as if he were saying, ** Do not blame me for not being convinced;”’ and if it was such appeal why, then, taken with his resolve to do right at any cost, and his night of inward contention, it was poignant ‘I believe that you wili help your friend."’ Those words sounded better sut ‘tell him a Southern gentleman } ought to be shot either way.”’ What was the meaning of this? riate could redeem? This might §t all that had come, so far and still, with such a two as they, I should forever hold th: boy the woman’s victin But this did not fit what eame after. Perhaps it was the late sitting of the night before and the hushed and strange solitude of my surroundings now, that had laid my mind open to all these thoughts which mv reason, in dealing with, answered continually one by one, yet which returned, requiring to be answered again, for there are times when our uncomfortable eye see through the appearances we have arranged for daily life, into the actualities which lie forever behind them Going about thus in my boat, I rowed sleepiness into myself, and pushed i a nook where shade from som« thick growth hid the boat and me from the sun; and there, almost enmeshed in the deep lattice of green, I placed my coat beneath my head, and prone in the boat's bottom I drifted into slumber. Once or twice my oblivion was pierced by the reaming honk of the automobile; but with no more than the half-melted consciousness that the Re placers were somewhere in the wood, oblivion closed over me again; and when it altogether left me, it was because nt nt¢ of voices near me on the water, or on the bank. Their ills and laughter pushed themselves into my drowsiness, and soon after I grew aware that the Replacers were come here to see what was to be seen at Udolpho — the club, the old church, a country place with a fine avenue and that it was the church they now couldn't get into, because my visit had disturbed the usual whereabouts of the key, of which Gazza was now going in search I could have told him where to find it, but it pleased me not to disturb my- self for this, as I listened to him assuring Kitty that it was probably in the cabin beyond the bridge, but not to be alarmed if he did not immediately return with it. Kitty, not without audible mirth, assured him that they should not be alarmed at all, to which the voice of Hortense sup- plemented: ‘‘Not at all.” They were evidently in a boat which Hortense herself was rowing, and which she seemed to bring to the bank, where I gathered that Kitty got out and sat while Hortense remained in the boat. There was the little talk and movement which goes with borrowing of a cigarette, a little exclamation about not falling out. accompanied by the rattle of a displaced oar, and then still- ness, and the smell of tobacco smoke Presently Kittvspoke. ‘‘Charley will be back to-night To this I heard no reply ‘What did h’s telegram say?"’ Kitty inquired, after an- other silence “‘Tt’s all right This was Hortense murmur was as deliberate as always ‘Mr. Bohm knew it would be,” said Kitty He said it wouldn't take five minutes’ talk from Charley to get a contract worth double what they were going to accept After this, nothing came to me for several minutes, sav: the odor of the cigarettes ‘Hortense Rieppe,”’ began Kitty, ‘“‘what do you intend to say to my brother after what he has done about those phosphates?’

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘He is always so kind,’’ murmured Hortense. Kitty gave a little screan Did you let him now shone down upon the garde } Hortense } ‘Well, you know what it means. **One has to take care of one’s self at tin danced. | stared at Job tteras if its word renew t I ‘*Means?”’ Kitty's disdain for John increased How crude! me, instead of beir rds that I could have flue ! ( ‘If you persist in this folly, you'll drop out.” Hortense did not make any answei peated from beginning to end without an err t Was a Hortense chose another line of speculation. ‘I wonder ‘How crude!”’ Kitty, after some siler repeated. S} f. by virt of re wing at the « ment. I hope F vnhy your brother is so sure of me seemed to Nay found the right word i 4 ‘Charley isa set man. And I've never seen him so set Steps inded upon the bridge, and the vo of Gazza the mind whic ( re tea .- on anything as on you, Hortense Rieppe eried out that the stupid key was at the imbecile club-hou eemed to get less f ead of 1 Had th I ‘He is always so kind,’ murmured Hortense again. whither he was now going for it, and not t alarmes purpose beer ! tify me he hi i } ) ‘*He’s a man you'll always know just where to find,’ Their voices a ered reassuringly, and G was hear better | think that he ha ich intention, f y declared Kitty. ‘‘Charley is safe. He'll nevertake you by growing distant, singing some little sor have be inlike } I n it th surprise, never fly out, never do what other people don't do, Kitty was apparent nable t et away fr Jol I had re helped him, had real haken } ld Qu : never make any one stare at him by the way he looks, orthe —crudity He actually i that t ‘ \ f his ha i F , way he acts, or anything he says, or—or- why, how you Yes t wn out of the tray | could not be e that the da can hesitate between those two men after that ridiculous, ‘Where was it Pell me about it, Hortense road of « pe had take il dyt t } th h childish, conspicuous, unusual scene on the bridge ‘We were walking in the country on that oceasiot t } ‘ ‘ er it ea d with a hea ‘Unusual. Yes,” said Hortense Kitty still lingered with it Did he look I've never idow | { e are mises at the best: if John ha Kitty’s eloquence and voice mounted together. ‘'] had any mar 1 wonder if — how did 1 feel formed a ul can never know it. a Jur re irl should think it was unusual! Tearing people's money up **Not disagreeably And Hortense permitted herse it breakfast on Sund mort our trange and making a rude, awkward fuss that everybody had to to laugh musically omething a thousand milk va For she snoke of the smooth over as hard as they could! Why, even Mr. Rod- Kitty's voice at once returned to the censorious tone wedding, and of the fact that it w ertainly be a sma gers says that sort of thing isn’t done, and you're always Well, I call such language as that ver er me She went over th mes of the people who woul saying he knows.” Hortense helped het ‘Operatic have to } nvited, at ted he were one of these ‘*No,”’ said Hortenss It isn't done ‘*He could never be taught in those wavs either de Rut if she } ild be. the } would ge f t hy . of ‘“*Well, I've never seen anything approaching such be- clared Kitty You would find his ardor alw: untrained M Josephine St. Micha he declared In short, it wa havior in our set And he was ready to go further provincial perfect iin that Juno was much afraid of being left out Nobody knows where it might have gone to, if Charley's Once more Hortense abstained from making anv and that | horses could not drag her away from it. if ar perfect coolness hadn't rebuked himand brought himtohis answer nvitatic ime to her BR is I sav. th de of the we senses. There’s where it is, that’s what I mean, Hortense, Kitty grew iperior Well, if that’s to vour taste ding seemed to have nothing t lo with it. when I th i} by saying you could always feel safe with Charley Hortense Rieppe! of all that lav beneath: mv one interest to-dav was to s« Hortense put in a languid word I think I should It was none of it like Charley murmured Hortense John Mavrant, to get from hir f not I ome word. thet always feel safe with Mr. Mayrant by some look or intonat ? But Kitty was a simple soul edge of what he meant to di Ther Indeed you couldn't, Hortense! | fore, disappointment and someanxiet assure you that you're mistaken met me when I stepped { the Fs rhere’s where you get so wrong about mana’s gangwav upon her de rr men sometimes. I have been study- Charlev asked me if he , , ing that boy for your sake ever sines B he laune} ent | t , we got here, and I know him through fina br ht Jol , ‘ for and through. And I tell you, you } latene cannot count upon him He has not Meanwt | is J 1 , been used to our ways, and I see no he ther ' promise of his getting used to then er il Riepy WI } He will stay capable of outbreaks like him fros listar I | that horrid one on the bridge. Wher he } mans f \\ ever you take him, wherever you put f t h oth he him, no matter how much you show re ’ ‘ him of us, and the way we don't allow } ' f it} f Ch conspicuous things like that to occur, ma himself th ted ser believe me, Hortense, he'll never ‘ of Hortense } KK itt ( learn, he’ll never smooth down. You Bever Bol , G in her may brush his hair flat and keep him pright wake lo he ndeed appearing like other people for a made a few compliments during tl while, but a time will come, some- first fe minutes after n thing will happen, and that boy'll be iboard, while ever rt of drink conspicuous. Charley would never cigar was he circulated among be conspicuous.” | the ibir “ Kitt costume ‘*‘No,”’ assented Hortense asthe most marked maritime thing Kitty urged her point. ‘Why, I that | have ever beheld in any water never saw or heard of anything like ind her white shoes looked (1 mu that on the bridge—that is, among ee ee ey ee eee ee confé ipremely w an hor neett among—us!”’ \ ttle feet 1 am no advocate of ; ‘“‘No,” assented Hortense again sumptuary la\ but there should be and her voice dropped lower with each statement One **T should think not! Charl not crude What d one prohibiting big-footed women from wearing hite always sees the same thing. Always hears the samething. you see in that man?” hoe Did these men know wha , te tT, Always the same thing These last almost inaudible **T like the way his hair curls above his ears.” their feet so shod produce no la vould be 1 words sank away into the silent pool of Hortense’s For th Kitty found nothing but ar mpatient excla Ye Kitt Va iperlativel trident ! meditation mation could have known from a great distance that she ‘“‘Have another cigarette,’’ said Kitty You've let And now the voice of Hortense sank still deeper ir to the very latest steam-vacht class, and that sh Der yours fall into the water.” dreaminess I think I want him for } nnocence fectly ignorant of the whole subject. On he I heard them moving a little, and then they must have What light these words may have brought to Kitt | for instance as worked a red propeller with resumed their seats. had no chance to learn; for the voice of Gazza returning down, and two chevror It was the rat ‘You'll drop out of it,’’ Kitty now pursued with the ‘ put an end to this conversatior But | chief engineer, but tl had she kr ! ild 1 ‘‘Into what shall I drop?” doubted if Kitty had it in her to fathom the nature of Hor have disturbed her ‘‘Just being asked to the big things everybody goes t« tense Kitty was like a trim little clock that could ticl I chose it he t me in reply t :1dmuration of it and nobody counts. For even with the way Charl \ has tidily on an ornate shell he could ge he could keep uy DeCAUSE t prett UT t e enyj Irselve arranged about the phosphates, it will not be enough to with time, but she didn’t really have many wor [think while those stupid old blue-bloods in Kings Port are goir keep you with us —just by itself. He'll weigh more than — she would have scoffed at that last languore peech asa to churel And with tl he p, and orders his money, because he'll stay different — too different.”’ piece of Hortenss nonsense, and that } Hortense the cabin boy to bring her Rer n ¢ ! B ‘He was not so different last summer.”’ ittered it aloud he was safe from beir inderst Rodgers called for dwarf 1,and I chosea} ‘*Because he was not there long enough, my dear. He But in my ears it sounded the note of revelation, the simpk and n found myself the ty of the Genera learned bridge quickly, and of course he had seen cham-_ central secret of Hortense’s fire, a flame fed overmuch with He wa ppil hisky and pla lan pagne before, and nobody had time to notice hin But experience, with sophisticatic grown cold under the ldier r, he explained to me ind | p to the ny he'll be married now, and they will notice him, and the ministrations of adroitness, and ed ne th I I of tl ! H r I be won't want him. Tothink of your dropping out! kitty ity” of John’s love-making. And when, after an interva e have than fly t hers th not of \r became very earnest. To think of not seeing youamong I had rowed my boat back, and got into tl riage, ar he rr itely | I ; us! You'll be in none of the small things; you'll never be — started on my long drive from Udolpho to kir Port, I equainted with the wor f Sha asked to stay at the smart houses—why, not even your found that there was almost nothing about all this whict I replied that I ha moderate knowledge he ‘ name will be in the paper! Not a foreigner you entertair I did not know now Hortense, like most riddles wher assured him that a horse not a dinner you give, not a thing you wear, will ever be you are told the answer, was clear Doubth r; but a veterat ever oid f described next morning. And Charley's so set on you, and I think I want him for his innocence Papa 1 Horter i t let th i I you're so just exactly made for each other, and it would all our head be so splendid, and cozy, and jolly ! And to throw all this XXI— HORTENSE’S CIGARETTE GOES OUT Thar ou, daughter mine The vd 1 ! away for that crude boy!’’ Kitty’s disdain was high at b ena was the riddle that I could not read. Among my but I presently felt that for some reason she wat at the thought of John. © last actions of this day was one that had been almost n He moved farther beneath the awnir | followe Hortense took a little time over it. ‘“‘Once,’”’ she then earliest, and bedtime found me staring I ‘ stated, ‘‘he told me he could drown in my hair as joyfully stood, half undressed, by my tabk The calm moon appreciate what it is to confide such a jews on girl t as the Duke of Clarence did in his butt of Malmsey wine!’’ brought back Udolpho an hat had been said there. as it

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FOUNDED A°‘D' 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 421 TO 427 ARCH STREET GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 20, 1906 In Clubs, $1.25 Each Five Cents the Copy of All Newsdealers Single Subscriptions, $2.00 the Year For ¢ Single Subscriptions, $3.25 ountries in the Postal Union In Clubs, $2.50 Each Remittances to be Made by International Postal Money Order Foreign Subscriptions One Year's Business te year 1005set a new and tremendous pace in business, Farm products were the most valuable ever gathered

na twelvemontl Bank clearings the country over were about thirty billion dollars greater than in 1904 The iron t le broke all records, shipments of ore from the Lake Superior region reaching thirty-four 1 or about eigt million tor above the best eason In hort, practical ill indicator hov enal pros- peri At the end of the year individual bank deposits excluding the deposits of one bank with another) reached and three-fourtl

the unprecedented total of eleven billion dollars, of which over three billions was in savings-banks The average i dual deposit per capita rose to 3136, from 869 ten years before, and deposits in the Southern and Western Stats creased about 200 per cent Mr. Rockefeller ave it all. Wall Street enjoyed a monopoly of all illy important ime troubles the ear Some gre business abuses are going to be reformed; but a New Year i thought that The Commor tight weil take home with him is that he has a hugs stake here, after all, and his hatre 1of rate } lid not lead him to overlook his proprietary interest in the house the infest Never before in the history of the world was s large a body of people » well off. They ought to be better off, Dut in the stres ot retormator\ eal the ol i adage about the bird in hand should not be forgotten. Digging Up the Bone dog, finding himself in possession of a bone

lin has no use areftul pure it Then, oved there mysteri instinct, he digs it up per ical Carries it me ince a and again inter t fist i¢ le ly deri an ine able satisilaction ire ni t ish proce We Ippose that the huma nd 1 differs the Governmer at Wa on ha t bone Nabi han advanced forr ind regula practices it Che departments carry a large number of employees who ire I e ¢ kk capacitated ire ther AUN Evervbody kr anh plore t N t th rage eithe ) harge or to pension ther Rack 4 norable se¢ t es refer to the fact in their a ial appropriation | intain the stereotyp hat none of the money is to be paid to inefficient r ‘ ther he atter end In shor ! ( t er jut yd ip bone ontemplat« \ ir na i ( te t until the follown 1a The bo ard by no means exclusively devoted t t ed-emplo ‘ uestior There 1 the admitted tre- met! vaste of the printing-office, which is periodically dep} i, but which can be stopped only by hurting the Tet y I a rnmental gentlemen who love t ot

things in type things are valuable or not { ties in salaries Take up from the President's down, last vear,”’ ‘‘I have before

and you will fir attention,”

called ike warnings that some buried bone is about to be exhibited THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The sight of an old bone is pleasurable to dogs, but not to men We think, in the general interest of governmental sightliness, Congress ought to appoint an old-bone com- mittee —to be called the Committee on Moral Courage which would take up the subject scientifically, ascertain whether Congress could be induced to do anything about the decayed employees, the printing waste and the like, and so assign these mouldy objects to a permanent resurrection or a lasting burial. They are approaching a state which it is not nice to mention. The President and a Postmaster ) ie President has appointed a new postmaster at Chicago. Mr. Coyne, thus retired, has given an ad- mirable administration of this great office, on which sound business ground his retention was generally desired by the people of the city The only reason for his retirement was that the local Republican machine, which is in bad odor ind has been ignominiously beaten at the polls of late, wanted another man Senator Hopk ns, living outside f ‘ of Chicago, insisted upon it. Senator Cullom was willing to oblige his colleague, and the President vielded The excuse made for the President is that the two Senators threatened to defeat the confirmation of Coyne No doubt this But the committed to reformatory railroad will be opposition in the Senate was a bluff President is deeply rate legislation. There Naturally he was chary f that puissant the postmaster was Senator Spooner, apropos about antagonizing two members « Oddly appointed, the President's friend of quite another incident, declared in the upper house The greatest danger threatening this country to-day is body. enough, the day after new the invasion by one branch of the Government of the rights of another.”’ Railroad rate legislation is highly desirable but eve ry- body knows it is really the President rather than Congress that is carrying it forward. In this find two Senators, in effect, naming the postmaster at Chicago, which is purely an Executive function if the Executive had not been so much interested in further- ing legislation, the legislators would not have found it so easy to name a postmaster Of years the saddled with, a great amount of legislative responsibility. lhe reaction upon his own field must be highly important. Mavbe all concerned would be happier if there were a com- plete swop, the President legislating, and Congress - -or the Senate, which is really the only branch that counts—ex- ecuting. At any rate, there ought to be a realignment ipposing that that described by the Constitution is really Chicago case we We can guess that late Executive has assumed, or has been out-of-dat« Secretary Shaw's Idea S' JON after Mr. Shaw was made Secretary of the Treasury b s, Who did not like certain of Probably the ome metropolitan bankers his acts, private ly described him as a farmer characterization Was a complime nt \t any rate, it 18 pleasing to note that the intervening years of intimacy vith sophisticating finance have not entirely robbed the Secre tary of his simplicit the ele- cy system by permitting ulating notes in times of tress, but that the elastic attachment must work ‘‘ unob- w explaining that we must introduce t of elasticity into our curretr the banks to issue unsecured cir« lest the ordinary business man, noting that strin- that there is The Secretary would

rency currency is being issued, t the idea

need for it and thereby take alarm patient take his dope hy pode rm cally and un-

aware in order that he n ay be made we ll before he even ispects that he Application of the secret syringe, of ( irse, would be ted to the banker We believe Mr . in fact, before coming to W ashing- on, Was rather more banker than farmer. He seems in- fected with that fraternity’s superstition that the way to ake the public feel contident is to keep it as much in the lark as possible For Federal Control * IR along time John R. Walsh powerful individual in Chicago I that nothing could beat Mr. was, probably, the most t looked as though W alsh he had a syster

himself was a dominant figure in the local Democratic par When John P. Hopkins, the Adonis of Cook County politi was may vas the power behind the throne He owned the ntial Democratic newspaper in that sectic is fir utenant and the vice-president f } sank, Fred. M. Blount, was as powerful in the Repub- chine Mr. Walsh had, moreover, mightily in- luential church affiliation In time Walsh began using the assets of his bank to bolster his personal ventures in the

: > and coal fields It was the Comptroller urrency who, in spite of the banker's local power,

forced a halt, with the result that the bank was put into liquidation under a sufficient guarantee that every depos- paid in full itor will be

January 20, 1906 The case is very significant just now, when various ene- mies of Federal control of life insurance are urging that governmental supervision of the national banks has not saved depositors from loss. In fact, in spite of some palpable mistakes, Government supervision of the national banks has been splendidly From the institution of the system, forty- two years ago, 40 national banks have failed. The affairs of 361 have been wound up, with a final loss to depositors of thirty-one million dollars, or decidedly less than one per cent. of the present deposit liability. Depositors in failed national seventy-one per cent. of their claims, whereas depositors in failed banks other thar national received about forty-five per cent., and this does not include other banks that were mere swindles. Walsh lent about half the assets of his bank to himself It is exceedingly doubtful, in view of all the circumstances whether there power outside of the Government that would have brought the local potentat« and forced liquidation so that all Mr. Walsh's a striking argument for Federal control. serviceable banks received

some was Federal any to book, even then, depositors would have received their money case, in fact, i A Life-Insurance Instance ( BVIOUSLY one of the first duties devolving upon Congress was to assault the life-insurance companies witha battery of wooden cannon This duty was promptly and gallantly performed f In a case where the facts are so

clear and public opinion so unanimous, it is scarcely in ora- of tickling matter rhetoric has and worst, and what was torical human nature to forego the opportunity the galleries. But in this long since done its best life-insuranee really important in the early debates was the disclosure of a de but mors that Congress has no jurisdiction cided opinion, especially in the more prosaic, powerful, upper house, over the subject While learned members at Washington were lack of Congressional } Life n President asserting a "isdiction, the trustees of the Mutual the years life insurance

et to fill the vacancy caused by resignation of McCurdy For on the amiable theory that the security of poliey- in the eminence of the gentlemen who man- In the Equitable crisis Mr. Ryan made an intelligent attempt to attract public confidence by calling in Grover Cleveland and choosing Paul Mortor am } andl many was

conducted holders lay aged the companies. an very widely known as having exceptional executive ity —for the presidency. Since then, life insurance has been thoroughly ventilated, and it has been demonstrated that policy-holders are, in fact, he Iplessly in the hands of the the that there are practically no bars between them and exploitation save

men who manage companies; such as may be imposed by the conscience of the president and his colleague The Mutual Life trustees chose for pre sident Mr. Charles A. Peabody No affront is meant in the simple statement that nobody ever heard of Mr. Charles A. Peabody For the great body of Mutual police) -holders the name might have been Smith or Robinson. In effect, the Mutual 1 ‘You must rely entirely upon the character of the president, and for president we Rhetoric nre t viously trustees say to policy-holders rive you a man quite unknown to you.”’ is not what these need trustees really Metropolitan Consolidated WE HEAR that Mr. Ryan, who controls the street rail- ways of New York, has agreed with Mr. Belmont, and that the result of this agreement w ill be a grand « onsolidated metro- who controls the elevated and the subway, politan transportation system with a grand consolidated

capitalization of three hundred and fifty million dollars or matchless richness. if most of the

from Sharp's Broadwa do not wish to dwell upor red sandstone franchise steal to the gla Avenue a short time ago. We

painful incidents the past: but we do wish the grand consolidated company could see i ay, purely in the ntere ts of civic history, to prepare z il

tion, showing which bonds

ashioned old- bribe ry, and which perio¢ ain to the promotional age, also poir money in the vast m: would be trivial; students of municipal government immens¢ It be highly convincing the New York publi that the reason it must pay a five-cent fare for a long time to come is that for a long time in the past i not watch sober politically, while the who held powe r by virtue of s ich public lapse took good care to make up in watchfulness of their personal interests all that they lacked in sobriety honest expense to the company would

uable, too, in it woule

Various may have

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 13 Wiping Out Our Wild Game : >Y RAT WETEZEL

F RE the waste places of this count becoming so the man who lives inthe ( untr hould } \ | swiftly civilized that our wild game will practically as Carelu col ered, inthe tramu tia isa t be wiped out within the lives of the men who nov of the sportsman wt come it tr au forat find their pleasantest pastime in scouring woods, marshe In many ca and pa la | and thickets with guns upon their should: And if the ame is as tar } answer is in the aflirmative, then what esponsible for raised fron In th this unfortunate prospect and what can be ne to mitigate i I il hunt i | fa the consequences of this threatens i extinet n of our best van tm t t t} i yan t bird and anin alld Ihe « a yue tior of ntere t \ T I | i a} i to the entire people of the United State not alone to the amp nad the i sportsman W ho can afford expensive ications a {1 rvanta ‘ Having retired fro he bu s of hu ind t ing ch wild game for the general market, and | ng handled Pellir al pe rhaps, more wild game than any other person, it is but fascinating dive ! } natural that I should be inclined to defend the killing of ind | - game for market purposes. But there isan element inthe — real that many tu l } t situation which, it seems to me, the sportsmar inclined advantage of condit } | } almost wholly to overlook | refer to the rights of those ight ab t and } h | , p persons W hose limitations of purse or of empioyment fort id it | i nt the ft them to take advantage of the brief ‘‘open season”’ which 1 hich |] ld { I the sportsman’s energy and rapacity have stea helped vught to shorten by forcing the hands of the lawmakers Cl iza ! ley a t ! it Are not persons of this class asmuch entitled toanoppor- the Cherokes t ! is of th tunity to secure the delicacy of a wild fowl or a venison I ifter day, for a pr hree mont steak as are the men who can afford to belong to gun-clul per I oti ! buyers tf igt take long and costly shooting trips, and charter cars wor i in order to get on the remote ground where the sto er r ‘ it ‘ is! ! be had in greatest abundance—and get there the very laughter; the birds were in the way of civilizat hour when the prohibitive law is off I think they ar had to be sacrificed — but it was a pity, for all th M They should have a chance to go into the open m: of th broug only $ ba n, | I t 1 and buy the game they wish without paying a prohibitive to get the birds at from fifteen to eighteen dollars a « price forit. In other words, the laws should not be framed = And _ thi ests the observation that prairie cl with an eye single to the interests of the sportsman and _— will be one of the first of our game birds to suffer p with a preconceived hostility to the professional market- extinction, in spite of all that the wisest la and the hunter—for the market-hunter is practically the only ft cement of them can do to prots the source through which the person who is not able to go out for this are plair r , with a gun can get any game for his table ul ind as the w i i An examination of the ga statutes of any State, or birds are bound to go Another fact wl bea of all the States, will, I think, convince any open-minded — elimination of the prairie chicken is that this bird tal person that these laws are fundamentally hostile to the the open, and consequent mucl re accessible t } marketing of game, and operate to the distinct and especial hunter and more easily killed than the partridgs And advantage of the sportsman who “‘shoots for fun”’ and re- finally, it should be remembered that ‘ to the gards it as beneath him to sell h ur! game and thereby turke ind the woodcoc} there is n ral Dir } ! If l were t hoot the Top One First the Othe place it where the ordinary buyer can procure it Then, higher esteem by the hunter or the epicure tha e pra Two Would Fly at Once too, It almost seems to me that the rights of the native chicket One of th t llful hunters of prairie h America is J. J. Long, of Mobeetie, Texa Not til I went out shooting with him did I realize what ha a i, anything : good hunter can accomplish when the chickens are plent f wild Ly » ful. That day he shot and secured > bir wl managed to bag Xt\ x tor! hare Ul ! James Robinson and Fri nt H or } hipype chickens from Herrington, har and from Chambs ! ! ! O'Ne Nebraska. were amor } + + nal tior ha , } Aict } and conse ative market-hur nt busir App t { the fa t tt il tine table i | I it l i , 1 n the fi ! alter it ! hese 1 I i leach of their hunti ul \ ! ‘ ) hich tk I re packed t he at fe ed the hunte Th } ‘ ? hict ul j } t the sle f ' ' ’ ' hamt Ee ' th . atior . f Rut } na t } tt . | tC f — ure Bi) * y I, } y } ~*~ 2 ' > i ‘ é . He Cannot Resist ; "edb the t “ r the Plaintive Call . of the Hen Turkey

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i4 hetween the swamps of the North and the cane-brakes of the coast. Asa result, the number of ducks seen at the lakes and swamps of the intermediate States is much less than in the years when these birds alighted at almost every tempting feeding ground and ‘‘loafed”’ in a leisurely fashion all the v inter resort. Goto the If coast in the that there are as ever and that there is particularly as the laws stringent ay down to their \

cane-brakes of the Gi winter, and you can- conclusion practically “us

small dange! , ' protecting them are each year It is a fact, however, that the present laws in the coast States are prevent the of ducks under conditions that are prohibited becoming more not adequate to killing of larye quantitie This present winter 1 was stopping with a friend near the coast and he asked me if I wished to see a sight that would remind me of the old days when I used to ship a hundred barrels of ducks a das Of course I answered that I did, and he thereupon took me to a point upon the bank of the There mallard in great heaps, were the bodies of at tripped of their feathers and left to nearest river enst Vow spoil When I « he rephed ‘Yes, that’s so I it bovs <claimed against such a wanton waste of fine game, but there’s another side to the the native hunters about here a pound for ducks’ feathers, but the law prohibits birds themselves. And when a ell one of the birds he is caught with the goods right on him, as the saying has it. Now it looks to these birds that come hereabout belong to them y don’t take kindly to the notion of saving the Southern, either to Cast can get forty cent the sale of the man at tempts to boys as if the At least, th Northern sportsmen —-or Before the general disposition en the part of the local them; but the boys don’t like to be told te get off the earth entirely —and chis kind of slaughter ducks for play with laws became so strict there much hunter Was a more to obey is the result They'll stand for restriction, but not for prohibition This observation expresse the attitude of native hunters everywhere They will submit to restraint, but when the entire vear is closed to them -or practically the whole ason then they rebel and exercise all their hrewdness to evade the law and shoot all they can with- out yetting caught Chis may not be defensiblk pul it aiso human nature. (of all of our wame hirds I think the qua reason for this i in that he almost be id to be a now of fully twenty farmers in Wiscon il is least hable (ne bobwhite may

domestic bird sin who not 1, Jast winter, that covies of quail came regularly to feed along with the barnyard chickens. In the fall they were decid diy shy, but before winter wa paid almost as little attention to a humar being as did the domestic chickens hy the quail will last cor k quail has almost as Then there is another reason w other birds The strong a sense of domestic re sponsibility as the hen In Houston County, Texas, | containing sixteen eggs and hecame than wOonger liscovered a quail’s nest mech interested in it (ine day I noticed that the littie hen was gone and the cock was covering the nest in her place From that time for- ward I kept close watch of him He stuck tight to his me out of the ergs faithfully as the little She had probably post of duty, and after the little brood ex be ‘“motheyred” the chicks a hen could possibly have « haw! hut th ired for ther calamity did not wine

The cock prairie chicken, however, has no ch domestic attacnment a the quail When th mating season 1s ever, the prairie eo ither in a stag part leave the hens to their own device ind put in their time holdit ‘owing bees aly going to the same place each d for this vocal contest They wiil not miss the spot of the previous da teurnament by so much as ten feet As a result of the unchivalr« conduct of the prairie coe) any acc t to the hen wipes out the entire fami nicrease and I ha i] rked effect pon the we al rate ¢ nere t But to. rn to the qua . uy the Northern sla ire cor rned, It amistakc to}? f per ‘ ym at all for these bi Wi Because once it four or five vears we have a se re winter th heavy 1 that kill off all the bir i iby ine ise OWing to the prohibition of shooting the Would it not be better to allow a very short seaso! iv tw wee whict the may ‘ hot, rather than to prohibit shooting then for a long period and have all tt nerease perist } the everity of the weather Of course, this argument doe not apply to the Southern Stat Broadly p aki there are more quail in the country to-day than at any time in t ears past, and I have no fear that the time will come when quail shooting will not he a sport at the command of a!most any hunter Okla homa, Indian Territory, Tennessee, Texas and Kansas are the best quail States Next to the mn danger of inder present conditior mminently turke\ the prairie chicken, the bird most extinetion is the wild THE SATURDAY EVENING POST splendid of all our game birds. He is now strictly a Southern bird and is most abundant in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri and the timbered portions of Alabama. His plumage of burnished bronze, his long, graceful neck and his sharp, wedge-shaped head, graced with a beard often more than a foot in length, make him a king of game birds Although he the hunters have lay him through these. He cannot resist the call of the hen turkey —and the hunter imitates this most iceessfully. Then, too, he will give his whole attention vaarking dog and allow a hunter to approach boldly within rifle range. Naturally, the hunters go out with turl ey dogs" ¢ specially trained to raise a furious ‘‘ rough- when they get a gobbler up a tree. 5S who can afford it travel hundreds of miles each year in order to shoot turkeys. as the ' a wild Indian, and plaintive is as shrewd and canny a learned his foibles and weaknesses

toa ‘ores of men

house” The hunters increase in numbers turkeys decrease, and consequently the time seems not far distant when they will be extermi i know that the plan of crossing them with domestic turkeys is When [ was a boy there wild turkeys in the woods near our house As a result, our broods unmistakably he- ated. entirely feasible. were turkey hens would hatch some longing to the wild gobbler. a higher price at the store, because they were readily sold as wild turkeys shaped heads distinguishing them from the For these we always received their peculiar coloring, large size and odd other turkeys Il Have Known Hunters to Pick the Deer from the Ridges

I hid be- irom have ling home of purely domestic lineage Many a time hind a stump, the woods at as our turkevs were stragg and watched the wild the barnyard and then night, gobblers escort the flock almost to the edge of suddenly retreat to the Jacksnipe are, 1 think, just as timber humerous as ever, and I do not believe they will greatly decrease, so far as the country at large is concerned, although disappearing entirely from localities where they are now plentiful Wherever the thrifty farmer begins ditching and tilling his wet lands, the snipe and the plover which have visited his in season, will depart to return no more Qn the other hand, the rice fields of the South are swarming with

nereasing numbers of them lhese fieldsare flooded to about the right depth forsnipe, and, as the area under rice cultivation Is steadily increasing the snipe is in little danger of extermination — especialiy a his legal protecti« is ample Although the costly woodcock is scarce, | do not believe } numbers are decreasing So carefully is he protected

He does of home or +} ! at his chances for are excellent not

| ay “ontr make any eccentric

All he asks is a snug and secluded e sides bushes and pat | the game birds to come climate s of briers North in the pring, and I have found a woodcock's nest and eggs when of which are grown with low

He is the first of al

the snow was sti!l on the ground Because of hi peculiar feeding habits, he e mparatively easy to |} Find a bit of damp soil which is peppered with holes out the size ola lead-pe neil end, and you may know that a wood- cock has been there plugging tor worms and that he will return again in the morning or evening Both woodeock and jacksnipe may be ‘‘stalked’’ with a dark lantern and taken alive Frog hunters often find

January 20, 1906 snipe along the banks of rivers and swamps. Unde the dazzle of the dark lantern’s flash they crouch and blink until the hand of the hunter closes upon them. Woodcock spend their nights in brier patches and are equally dazed by the glare of the dark lantern. Partridges are not easy to kill and will, in my opinion stay with us a long time. Although generally very crafts and always quick in their movements, they their special points of foolishness, and one of these was taught me by my grandfather almost as soon as I bevan to go out hunting. A trio of partridges had lighted in a small tre« on the edge of the woods, a little distance ahead of us Our dog, who had been well trained, was under the tree barking, jumping about, and putting up an entertainment that seemed to command the entire attention of the birds “You said my grandfather, ‘‘that par- tridge is almost at the top of the tree, the other a little lower down, and the third one still lower. Now, if | were to shoot the top one first, the other two would fly at once. Bu I’m going to begin with the bottom one, and the other two will stay and let me pick them off in turn, so long as the dog Keeps up his part of the show.” Within five minutes the old muzzle-loading rifle had brought down all three of the birds and grandfather considered that he had given practical proof of his prop sition. But, boy like, I had a surprise in store for hin A little later, when we had more birds treed, I said to him ‘Now, grandpa, you can show me that the others will fly if you shoot the top one first greatly, and, when he had done laughing, he highest partridge. As it fell through the branches, the others instantly took to wing. The lesson of that day has brought me many a partridge that otherwise would have escaped. Of the game animals the elk will undoubtedly be the first to suffer practical extinction and that misfortune cannot long be postponed, even with the best legislation rigidly enforced. The elk proximity to human settlement. However, this consideration does not justify the wanton slaughter of these noble animals that has taken place for ycars past, whenever the hunters came upon a big herd At these have bought from hunters, years ago, carloads of the ‘uts of elk meat with the hide on them. This means that only the tidbits and the antlers were saved At a later period I have known hunters to go out, at the time of an overflow, and pick the deer from the ridges or Sometimes a These about have notice,” one This seemed to amuse him shot the cannot stand times | choicest

high points where they had taken refuge single knob Vie lded the hunters a half-doze n deer killed for their skins, which each. But of all the man’s wanton slaughter of game animals the great moun tains of buffalo bones at the foot of certain bluffs in W yo- ming and in western Canada are the most startling. Thess show that the hunters organized a ‘“‘drive’’ by which thousands of the animals were forced over the brink of a high precipice and thus made to kill themselves by whole- sale. Of course, the object of such a drive was to obtain thousands of skins without the expenditure of and ball There is another kind of slaughter which is just now claiming the attention of all sportsmen who hunt deer and of their families. The number of hunters who are killed ‘by mistake”’ is something appalling. More that, I believe this terrible loss of human life to be practicalls Two causes are responsible for it: the taking 0 deer were brought seventy-five cents monuments of pow der than without use of powerful, long-range rifles and the mi hunters for deer. So long as hunters are permitted to go out after deer with clothing that is much the color as the coat of a deer, other hunters will continue to mistake the wearers of such clothes for deer, and, in the excitement of making sure not to let the game escape the unsuspecting hunter will meet the death intended for Every State should have a into the woods in the de or cap (or both) of a certain pre scribed color, so bright that it cannot be mi taken for the dun coat of a deer. Maine has a law of thi character and other States should follow her exampik Dressed in the regulation tan hunting cap and jacket, | have stood within te not identify me If the eves of a buck didn’t ‘ a hunter, how could I expect another hunter to make the distinction when every si I was a deer that would } didn't shoot quick? When a hunter argues in favor of the modern long-rangé projectile rifle ‘What do you want of a steel bullet that will kill at a distance of two or three miles, when there is not one deer in a thousanc that is seen at a distance of more than And what is the sense of using a rifle powerful enough to shoot through six bucks, lined up in a row for slaughter, wher you have no hope of killing more than one at a tin Rifles of the power now used by city sportsmen who gt into the North for deer are permissible in the excuse. Same the supposed deer hibiting a hunter from going season without wearing a jacket

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had begun to grow purple. He lost th mbing-room which Was or his { was operated by a youth with a « Diack Mustache Nose « the recalied tt ivs of Red's triump! Red n 1 aler, ind his rou « re 1 a t bottom and he shaved i «] But the Prine sed t Main Street of nights carrying a | her coat to use if she found the woman Ww nim Who the woman wa he 1 ht ever kne V, but tne Prir ess fa t ther inderstand that th I rprise if she told then It was her t tend that the woman was a so« lea as she ealled her, but the b arour tt poker-dive knew that Red Martin's da as a heart-breaker were gone For what whisky and cocaine and absinthe could ds for Red to hurry his end they were do but a man Is a stror Deast, and i many years to kill Als ‘ saves men like Red for horrible examplk etting them live long that He ma t have to waste others. But women se« to have Gods pity and He takes them o nf the misery quickerthan men. So with the ec ing of the seventh bat he Pring died When the news came to the office that she was gone we were ‘ rT e | little for her Her | ere gone her health was gor her il were si it—pitiful and wretched and _ s« a ur were, eve it thet Yetf i na Geor Kirwit k d to the . vrea whict he tt I t t I ) iN ‘ ne W aw anythir t the pe wehir in the | roon ihe it; anger he seemed to be lo ! att ha i g his kr } esp ‘ hose he did not k: ‘ ive, ayea i na\ B ntl us mor! ibout the funer he Prinee ina the reporters on the pap ild ha irned. He told us how the pitiful | irlor with its advertisi hror al mit { t ’ he ral I i f diversior | th r hair hth ha folded and i har pa f the i ppe t T it mot ne eT fail at fu { | ha sp ‘ to him about it, as all th own Know h Red Martin shaved for the oceasior ind it a borrowed suit of clothes stood out by the ]

well and did not come into the sed the services; how only the elder childre: sai the front room with the mourner and how the prattle of the little ones in the kitchen ran through the parso l with heart-breaking ir tenc George seemed to think that the pover tricken little n nil to bring beaut nto the miseral me and } Dp ul } appearance of a kind of gent t , up forthe children was the best thing h t knew about the Princess, and he said he ’ glad he went to the funeral: for the gera ims in the crépe-paper- red tomat ins, and the cheap lac r ill it tl ndows— even though some of the par rome ind the hair-wreath inheritances from the Swaneys made him think that tl f the Princess 1 ht have r ‘ the rack and calamity of the vear When the funeral left the house the neigt bor women came and put it in or yr. ao there was a better supper waiting for the father and the children than they had eat for many years. And thet © dish were put away, the neighbors left, and for what he tried to do and be for the mother less brood just that one night God will put down a good mark for Eli Martin —ever though the man failed most sadl) Whent c the next night, where he wa tried not to swear when he t and the next day they swore only mild oath und him, out of But the day after punctions, and, within a 1e went back tothe cambling-ro their cor Red Martir forgotten, too In time forgot week seemed to have the family was scattered over the eartl divided among kin, and adopted out, and as the town grew older its quick conscience

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16 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

January 20, 1906 A CORNER IN EGGS “see The Story of a Clever Farmer BY GEORGE ETHELBERT WALSH JHETHER or t the fe versatior reported !

place} en tnree vouched f rpa hich i ns hardly needs ar planatior I t ne ( ur ie iW tne nit that the j} oung ! I Vil nd their chance I rkKe the first mi naire Phe oid thir ar wa mon poli it w ol da t will be in bru | d the secor made y I out f shod Shoc n OULD Was a ne thing It seer a mira us in those d tot old cloth into new tt Peopk uid I \ 1 1oo) nter ct intried field.’ (nd the third n dire Spoke in a sim ir vein, recounting how he had made hi ne out of ne ind dwelling upor bit Of pr it \ iz men é kit busine enture it ¢ he ordinar Nhe hit | ! nextt ‘ r ( eur t hardest to find Ir 1 { eh diversified } od t ine vill ict nor is natural I irce it lid be lie to imagine that ali the great : I king rtune ere al t { by capital or to re mn that th 1 ! n have no such chance ‘ } fat a t ifathe ( I rder anc? mine ine I iret t ‘ I reat pportunitie rt r ‘ 1 Tt if requ ‘ aorvee in ignt yrasp the ct ind t! ne ivent hi ¢ is Constant iliustratio Or this fact i turnir p the daily papers, and me wel the ee ot one é H HH tts me ( } f that 1 befor \ Rising Market t £ Market

but iking! ( t? t 7 v} isked of i comm nh merchar H egg Goit higher Ihe alk ‘ red the questioner that tl wer y high hefors i prouted the new gra We I'll he bit | rer ther W he he mer ha disappeared the merchant remarked i here imal ! Willi some Ga havea ‘ ‘ ( He ot e! hundred ca of « now \ ing for } er price Phev « himt cel 7 el and he ll get thir r for for them before th ea ove! How d he vet th so chea G d } he'll te i ini j est n wast ( ible lor a triy P n Long Island where one + ng man ’ the n p is q t } to 1 igood ! ind pe ni I trv farr t tu i i } I I} fory xy) } j PVE i hur red ‘ ‘ { ¢ ‘ is nota ree oO ¢ ' ' } y thy He ed oa mall poultr ur ¢ n Ne Yor ( t} r ‘ et he « ie hen the I ‘ t e Trepea j } Oh ther ’ lange f +} | ? ' y I maki ‘ ind ‘ her ] tk eA they r | { he sp , i ‘ ra mn at th wn vame ha o] } t rT , , t ' Cor t } l | } i h } ; . at | | albx twentv-f Cad re } } mn the ¢ ke 1 roofed witht hed the te When | nlocked the door and walke« a a rait of ( ‘ ur vVept « ce As nee ! 1 hows er upor er of case f ‘ nearly four } lred it I'} the secret of the whole | t the ng farmer ntinued Instead ¢ ending my eggs to the city in July and August for the cold-st« men and spec- ulators to snap up cheap, I keep them here rage until winter, and then I get top prices for them It what any man can do, but | don't know of any one around here who does it Pressed to some of his «¢ xperiences which led up to this novel venture, he said Thereisn't muchtotell. Istartedin here ten years ago, and tried to make a living “ sand pe I didn’t have much capital, but I thought I could make it a go I was brought up on a farm, and knew som thing about knew that old in summer hardly pay for the keep of the chickens, and that chickens which laid many eggs in winter were as rare birds as the Dod I tried all sorts of food to make them lay eggs in cold weather. I had heard that ving hens could be ive ' "3 3!

itry e- eves chicken g more winter-l raised, and | experimented with all sorts of breed But | didn’t have much luck Somehow, the cold weather just stopped m from laving, and when they began again prices for eggs were "way down.”’

Ul Phe Spur of Failure Now, it’s pretty annoying to have a flock veral hundred hens when you read in papers that eggs are selling from forty cents a dozen, and not a dozen egg onthefarm. Itstruck mea I felt like wringing their necks ot se tne LO SIXt laid ada most innatural | fed them with warm food, built them a nice inny feeding ground, and made them is comfortable as possible. But it was no Ist I couldn't make them lay much in winter Then | decided I'd try keeping their ery I tried liming them, and this brought n better profit But limed eggs only com- ! prices in special seasons. They are sold MoOsti) to the bakers Nobody ever thinks of eating fried limed eggs for break- fast. A good limed egg may taste as good as a cold r, but the look of it kills t ou can't stare a limed egg in the face ind good torage eg¢

and imagine you are eating a fresh one But Ve can a coid-storage egy l've got ome August eggs in this house which are just as fresh as those laid veste rday They will cook just as well, and you could never tell the difference 1 saw that eggs sold in the as high as twenty-five and thirty They do it now, every win- supply of fre heggs never comes up to the requirements. And do you know the winter de id for eggs 1s t much faster than the supply that I believe in ten vears we will have to pay seventy and eighty dozen for f forty and fifty cents for best rhe big storage companies know that, too and they are planning for it Phere are being Dullt lo-day a dozen big storage ware coid-storage winter ents a doze ter rhe

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houses which will accommodate thousand f cases of eggs for the future Well, | simply made up my mind that | ‘ould store eggs as well as the speculators 1 put s500 int ni torage house and made theexperiment. I stored one hundred cases het t winter, and got twen five cents a

ers will have their cold-storage they can keep their eggs and butter for high winter prices sut the big- gest profits will come to those who get in on

the ground floor before every other fellow ha crambied in Then it will be about time to try something else —to manufacture artificial eggs that seem like natural ones, or invent a wooden hen that will lay eggs when you squeeze gg Phe contains so yet it is so simple scription of the cold while He started success of this young man’s venture much of novel interest--and that a few words of de- torage plant are worth in with a cold-storage house only ten feet square, but large enough to hold one hundred ca The eggs were stored in the house daily from May to August as laid, and throughout the warm season they were kept in a tempera- es of erg

last a ture ranging from thirty-two to fifty-five degrees. An egg kept in such a temperature does not grow stale, and cold-storage eggs 31x months after laying are fresher than eggs a week old which are kept in a temperature above SIXLty degrees The cold-storage affair Che and the floor inside of filled with sawdust with a ten-inch

house foundations were of concrete laid Over a space } Wo wall : awdust Was a simple wood Ihe re were ‘ between for

filling. The ice was stored in a room above the cold-storage place, and carried on a floor lined with zine so that the water could not thre There were two en-

one below, which opened into the and the otherabove, for filling tran storage room the ice-roon lhe walls were built of two-by-four-inch tud and even-eighths’-inch hemlocl boards, nailed down. Waterproof building paper was fastened on either side Good packed in between the the upper two feet dry sawdust was two walls. The studding to carry floor was four-by d set apart through the centre. The ing of this floor sloped to one corner, and connected with a drain-pipe to carry over the arip The two entrances were protected by double doors, with an air space between, and the roof had a ten-inch s pace between it and the sawdust filling on top of the ics f » ar tour al zine cover-

Fresh Air for Old Eggs be packed in this , and one hundred cases of ¢ goes stored The eggs were stored in open crates An open roof to Iwo tons of ice could nouse below hat air could circulate freely ventilation-pipe extended to the carry out the foul air, and an outside tilating-pipe entered the storage room the foundation his storage and a clean, dry sot ven- near house cost $300 complete, temperature of thirty to thirty-five degrees was easily maintained throughout the summer he ice was suffi cient to kee p the place cold from one season to another rhe eggs were gathered daily and put in the house so that they were chilled to the proper temperature soor two

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Tragedies of the Trial Balance E B Y O T CCORDING to common notions the expert accountant’s profession is the acme of the ‘‘deadly commonplace,’ dealing with the dryest of technicalities and being devoid of all that is implied by the term “human interest.” Such aconception of this calling, however, is wide of the mark, as every one of its followers who has achieved a fair degree of skill will testify Especially in point of dramatic posal bits 'S it is not far behind the profession of the law or the calling of the private detective. In fact, it is the ally of both these professions, and without the service of the expert ac- countant neither the detective nor the law- yer could serve their commercial clients with the degree of effectiveness which they are ab le to obtain with the assistance of this ‘man of figures.’ So common is it for the special account- ant to uncover a vein of romance or an ele- ment having strong dramatic color, to use the miner’s terms, that he may fairly be said to experience a degree of disappointment when he fails to read between the figures a story of genuine human interest. There are scores of cases which aptly illustrate this observation, and every one of them enforces its own lesson for the benefit of the business man who has eyes to see and ears to hear. The Duty of a System Accounting serves its purpose only when it shows all the essential facts of a business situation, and makes them stand out so clearly that the tendencies and currents of the affairs of the house are indicated with as great distinctness as the buoys and floats indicate to the experienced yachtsman the course over which the regatta is to be sailed Modern accounting contemplates that the first step toward correcting abuses is to know them The system that does not show the actual drift of a business, and, in fact, of the various departments of a business, is no a good system. What the sound business man wants of an accounting system is warn- ing of troubleand of dangerous tendencies in time to avert calamities. All the v and tendencies of a business should distinct ly reflected in the balance-sheet that the executive may dictate his policy from that document. Antiquated account- ing systems are continued only because the management does not realize what they cost the business. A good system results in regular comparison of the results obtained in the various departments, and each de- partment head ins tins tively feels the effect of such a system and responds to it with better work. A business of any magnitude positively cannot stand the test of modern competition and close margins if its exhibits are made in bulk and at long intervals Perhaps no kind of business man is more dangerous to himself or to his associ: than the man who cannot ‘No. While the intentionally dishonest schemer is, of course, more offensive morally, it is doubtful if he works more injury than does the man who is so consistently a ‘‘good fellow,’’ in the general sense in which that expression is used, that he cannot meet with a denial the importunities of shift- less, reckless, unfortunate or unscrupulous friends. Altogether the most dramatic case with which I have come into professional contact was that of a man who was a chronic “‘ good fellow,’’ and who was constitutionally un- qualified to say ‘‘No.”’ Let me tell the story in the natural sequence of its events, instead of beginning at the finale and unraveling it backward, as I, of course, did in my work on the case This man had an uncommon capacity for making friends, or inspiring a loyal and enthusiastic following and for maintaining a growing reputation as a whole-hearted, genial and popular man. Naturally, this kind of astart led him quickly into politics in the Western State where he lived. From success in county affairs he soon reached yrominence in State politics and eventually 1e carried off the nomination to State Tre il facts be so say ‘as- urership. This was regarded as the “‘fat- test” position in the pay of the State, and there was great rejoicing among his followers when he secured this prize, for they well understood that his generosity would com- pel him to ‘shel! out’ to his henchmen and THE T O supporters a ws liberal ie official income accruing to l'reasurer Before his first term of two years was out every politician of his political faith in the State who needed money had received sub- stantial aid and comfort, in a financial way, from the State Treasurer, and the word was passed along the line to the effect that ‘*ar 5 man in a hole can touch the Treasurer he’s easier than money from home.” Of course, a man with this re putation was renominated and reélected, although the popularity of his party was then ina decline There was no f: illing off of his generosity during his second term, and the only com- plaint that his followers made, when the went up to the State Capital ‘“‘to make a touch,”’ was that he was always away Those who were most familiar with his habits soon learned that he spent a consid ble part of his time in Chicago, where the Board of Trade and the stock market exer eat attractions for him Some of his followers also felt th: at they had grounds for complaint in the fact that his wife and daughter were sent to Europe, where th« were rumored to be se« king titled However, these failings were overlooked by most of ‘the faithful,” par ticularly by those who were able to prevail upon the Treasurer's lieutenants and associ act for their principal in the dispens- ing of party favors of the fin: Practically without contest, the renomina tion was given to the State Treasurer, whose motto was, * Never sav ‘No’ to the bovs He was too in Chicago, during that campaign, to spend very much time on the stump or in handshaking Instead of watching the changes of public sentiment in his State his eye osely held to the blac k boards of brok« rage houses H share of tt! the State cised £ society charitabl ates to incial sort busy 3 were ¢ The Man fr om Missouri When it was all too late, like many another old-line party wheelhorse, he awakened to the fact that he had been swe pt away fron his mooring and was stranded and wrecked upon a desert island of defeat and de spalr However, he put on a bold face and returned to share his trouble and his courage with ‘*the boys,’’ as he had always shared with them his money. Unfortunately for him the newly-elected State Treasurer was, in tne slang phrase of to-day, “from Missouri, and demanded that he be shown every st« p of the w ay into his off icial respon ibilities To make a long story hort, this ‘‘ doubt- ing Thomas” of a new Treasurer refused, in the most emphatic manner, to take over, as a transfer of funds, on deposit with the State depositories until compe lled the m oneyv to do so by the courts He shrewdly pect ted that things were not altogether right with the State funds, and would not shoulder the 1 prom ; of his office without a clear bill of exemptions in every articular. Then trouble began to show its 1ead in every bank in which State fund had been de posite d, and there was a shake- up along the financial and political lines that traveled from one end of the State to the other Finally the most popular Treasurer the State ever had was arrested for embezzle- ment. Precise ly thirty day ; before the call of his case on the trial calendar I was sum- moned to examine the financial records of the Treasurer’s office and present a plete statement, so far as figures were con- cerned, of all his acts during his four ye of official service. As a wit in testily com- ars ness Cz to only what he knows pers nally I could not delegate any part of the work of re W to an assistant, but must do every part of the investigating myself Millions of dollars were found been handled during his two terms and it was not necessary minutely the record of every transact that period, but it perative to analyze all of the ind stand their meaning from a moral and legal as well as an accounting viewpoint. Short- to have of office, ony to examine ion in Was aiso 1m transactions under ages of various kinds were found, amount- ing to a total considerably in excess of half a million dollars. But so far as the results of the trial were concerned, one of the most important facts established by the in gation of the accounts was that this ar State sees irer had loaned o popu t the State SATURDAY EVENING POST L BtIG t t fur ind ft | ed tt nte Ye ’ or ‘ } OTe 1 rt the te the St as a criminal ac The cor the ni feat t th ere merous a iintricate,and! hi ter isas in eX tT wee’ rt pr seT { ‘ T int t flicient il most accomp ed and skillful acee 1 or his me { It i pos ble he t ho t to speak of only one feature of the ma At the trial a deposit of $50,000 offered by the defense as being 1 turned over to the State from the pr funds of the defaulting Treasurer deposit did not appear on the records of State, but the balance on deposit wit! int at the t e thi Trea rer fro office s shown by the bank, identica th that indicated by the St books. Consequently, I dre the cor sion that the money so deposited had 1 essarily been withdrawn to recon balance so on deposit, as shown by bot} bank statement and the books of the St and this contention was verified \ examination of the account of the St on the boot of the bank The St t course, proceeded to show that the ‘ had been so deposited, but o1 iter it been previously withdrawn by the i This pl e of the case wa ntre iced the defense merely to confuse the i Anvhow, the popular State ire was convicted and entenced to t years’ servitude in the penitentiar Sc of the men, at least, who had profited his generosity while in office had a cert sense of gratitude, for in afew monthsa his imprisonment began a monster petit Was presented to the Gover I ! ‘ mar if the mn nf . men i I State Great } ht to bear upon the ¢ ' pe il d th the re Ided to ‘‘y ir clamor d i pardon for the m det t i cor tuti nal to Ni After the id been act rrant ind the pr ! given his freedom, 1 hown that the mtu riant name the petition were forgeri« The par } ever, could not be recalled, and ma was all ‘ iin | i er ( the h it isa mplished by fr Someti it happens that seri ‘ T i I ‘ il ! re ne is in] ‘ a bill rec for 1 ran premiums covering s years in advance, and reaching a cor t ly large nount The insuran heen in force fer only f days prior date of the transfer t wa actu the dat of the transfer if the contract it w I th the ther asset e of he ticers of th ‘ med that their firn > be expected to Pa v anv of the exper the consolidation, nd protested a assigning the pol But their cor I ever! made no pre i ms lor tions of any character, and th finally brought to a realization t} letter of the law compelled them t ove ney es without al I As these premiu an t t} nd doll the r er eal a tr ing ‘ O1 of t I ot the a tirm pti ! tr tion in the remark that We drew up that - act , t our own medicine iwe} t s bitter Il that! 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18 a. oe a another's keeping.’’ He summoned the cabin boy, who brought him some more of the simple beverage of the camp, and I, feeling myself scarce at liberty to speak on matters so near to him and so far from me as his daughter's marriage, called his atten- tion to the beautiful aspect of Kings Port, spread out before us in a long white line against the blue water. The Gene ral immediately seized _ his opportunity. ‘Swee *t Auburn, loveliest village of the plain!’ You are acquainted with the works of Goldsmith, sir? I professed some knowledge of this author also, and the General's talk flowed ornately onward. Though I had little to say to him about his daughter’s marriage, he had much to say to me. Miss Josephine St. Michael would have been gratified to hear that her family was considered suitable for Hortense to contract an alliance with. ‘My girl is not stepping down, sir,” the father assured me; and he commended the St. Michaels and the whole connection. He next alluded tragically but vaguely to misfortunes which had totally deprived him of income. 1] could not precisely fix what his inheritance had been; sometimes he spoke of cotton, but next it would be rice, and he touched upon sugar more than once; but, whatever it was, it had been vast and was gone. He told me that I could not imagine the feelings of a father who poses a jewel and no dowry to give her. ‘‘A queen’s estate should have been hers,”’ he said. ‘‘But what! ‘Whosteals 6 my purse steals trash And he sat up, nobly lensed by the = osophie thought But he soon was shaking his head over his enfeebled health. Was I aware that he had been the cause of post- yoning the young people’s joy twice? r had the doctors forbidden him to risk the emotions that would attend his giving his jewel away. He dwelt upon his shattered system to me, and, indeed, it required some dwe lling on, for he Was the yicture of admirable preservation. ‘But know what it is myself,”’ he declared, ‘‘to be a lover and have bliss delayed. They shall be united now. A soldier must face all arrows. What!” I had hoped he might quote something here, but was disappointed. His conver- sation would soon cease to interest me, should I lose the excitement of watching for the next classic; and my eye wandered from the General to the water, where, happily, I saw John Mayrant coming in the launch. I bris! ly c alled the General's attention to him, the and was delighted with inexpected result. young Lochinvar has : General, ut of lifting his come ¢ the said the glass. 1 touched it ceremoniously with mine. **The day will be hot,” 1 said; ‘The boy stood on the burning deck.’”’ On this I made my escape from him, and, leaving him to his whisky and his contem- plation, | became aware that the eyes of the rest of the party were eager to watc h the greeting between Hortense and John gut there was nothing to see. Hortense waited until her lover had made his apologies to Charley for being late, and, from the way they met, she might have been no more to him than Kitty was. Whatever might be thought, whatever might be known, by these onlookers, Hortense set the pact of how the open secret was to be taken. She rade it, for all of us, as smooth and smiling as the waters of Kings Port were this fine day. How much did they each know? I asked myself; how much had they shared in common? To tl Replacers Kings Port had opened no doors; they and their automobile had skirted around the outside of all things. And if Charley knew about lese the weilding, he also knew that it had been already twice ones. He, too, could have said, as Miss F za had once said to me **the cake is not bake “ad ye t.”” The Gene ral’s 8 talk to me (1 felt as | took in how his health had been the central point) was probably the result of previous arrangements with Hortense herself; and she quite as certainly inspired whateve r she allowed nim to say to Charley A r Kitty, she knew th: her brother was “set! she always came back to that If Ho Irtense found this Sunday morning delicate steering unless by that a passage of particularly she showed it in no way, heightened radiance and triumph of beauty which I had seen in her before No: the splendor of the day, the luxuries of the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST BALTIM OR E “A Kalamazoo - ntinued from Page Hermana, the conviviality ‘of the Re- placers—-all melted the occasion down to an ease and enjoyment in which even John Mayrant, with his grave face, was not verceptible, unless, like myself, one watched Ses. It was my full expectation that we should now get under way and proceed among the various historic sights of Kings Port harbor, but of this I saw no signs anywhere on board the Hermana. Abeam of the fore- mast her boat booms remained rigged oui on port and starboard, her boats riding to painters; while her crew wore a look generally lounging as that of her passengers. Beverly Rodgers told me the reason: we had no pilot; the negro waterman engaged for this excursion in the upper waters had failed of appearance, and when Charley was for looking up another, Kitty, Bohm and Gazza had dissuaded him. “Kitty,” said Beverly, ‘‘told me she didn’t care about the musty old forts and things, anyhow.’ I looked at Kitty, and heard her tongue ticking away, like the little clock she was; she had her Bohm, she had her nautical costume and her Remsen cooler. These, with the lunch that would come in time, were enough for her ‘But it was such a good chance!” I exclaimed in pe ne ene “Chance for what, old man?” “To see everything—the forts, the islands —and it’s beautiful, you know, all the sway to the navy yard.” severly followed my glance to where the gay company was sitting among the cracked ice, and bottles, and cigar-boxes, chattering volub ily, with its back to the scenery. He gave his laissez-jaire chuckle, and laid a hand on my shoulder. ‘‘ Don’t worry 'em with forts and islands, old boy! They know what they want. No living breed on earth knows better what it wants. : * Well, they don’t get it ‘Ho, don’t they?” ‘The cold fear of ennui gnaws at their v itals this minute.” Shrill laughter from Kitty served to refute my theory. “Of course, very few know what’s the matter with them,” I added. ‘‘You se I dom spot an organic disease at the start. Hm,” said Beverly lengthily. “You yut a pin through some of ‘em. Hortense aed got the disease, though.” ‘Ah, she spotted it! She's taking treat- ment. It’s likely to help her—for a time.” looked at me. ‘You know thing?’’ I nodded. He looked at Hortense, who was now seated among the noisy group with quiet John beside her. She was talking to Bohm, she had no air of any special re- lation to John, but there was a lustre about her that spoke well for the treatment. ‘Then it’s coming off?” said Beverly. ‘She has been too much for him,” I an- and Gazza some- Beverly misunderstood “He doesn't loo »k it.’ ‘That's what I mean.” **But the fool can cut loose!’’ ““Oh, you and I have gone over all that! I've even gone over it with him.” Beverly looked at Hortense again. ‘And her fire-eater’s fortune is about double what it would have been. I don't see how she’s roing to square herse elf with Charle Se It isn’t nece ‘s8ary to-day. We had to a our subject here, for the owner of the Hermana approached us with the amiable purpose, I found, of making himself civil fr a while to me. ‘I think you would he ave been interested to see the navy yard ’ I said to him. ‘I have seen it,” C harley replied, in his slightly foreign, careful voice. ‘‘It is nota navy yard. It is small politics and a big swamp. I was not interested.” ‘Dear me!" I cried. ‘‘But surely it’s going to be very fine!”’ ‘Another gold-brick sold to Uncle Sam.’ Charley 's words seemed alw ays to drop out like little accurately-measured coins from some minting machine. ‘‘They should not have changed from the old place if they wanted a harbor that could be used in war- time. Here they must always keep at least one dredge going out at the jetties. So the enemy blows up your dredge and you are bottled in, or bottled out. It is very simple forthe enemy. And, for Kings Port, navy vards do not galvanize dead trade. It was You have not been on the ” a gold-bric k. Hermana before? He knew that I had not, but he wished to show her to me; and I soon noted a difference as radical as it was diverting between this banker-yachtsman’s speech when he talked of affairs on land and when he attempted to deal with nautical matters, The clear, dispassionate finality of his tone when phosphates, or railroads, or navy yards, or imperial loans were concerned, left him, be changed to something very like a recitation of trigonometry well mem- orized but not at all mastered; he could do that particular sum, but you mustn’t stop him; and I concluded that I would rather have Charle +y for my captain during a panic in Wall Street than in a hurricane at sea. He, too, wore highly pronounced sea clothes of the ornamental kind; and though they fitted him physically, they hung baggily upon his unmarine spirit; giving him the air, as it were, of a broiled quail served on oyster shells. Beverly Rodgers, the con- summate Beverly, was the only man of us whose clothes seemed to belong to him; he looked as if he could sail a boat. (TO BE CONCLUDED) The Ideal Light R. LANGLEY has said that if we could 4 imitate the light of the glowworm on an adequate scale we should have the ideal illuminant—cold, perfectly steady, and without appreciable waste. He found that the amount of heat given out by an excep- tionally brilliant tropical firefly during ten minutes was only seven-millionths of a calory—a calory representing the heat required to raise the temperature of a cubic centimetre of water one centigrade degree. Also, he ascertained, by experiment, that in three days and nights of constant shining such a firefly, without food, lost only three- hundredths of a gramme in weight. Nec- essarily, but a small percentage of this loss stood for energy expended in lighting. It is obvious, then, how inferior is our best illuminating apparatus to the means em- ployed for like purposes by Nature. The photogen” light, if ever we get it, should be vastly cheaper and more satisfactory than either gas or electricity. It cannot be put out by wind or rain, and it will never cause fires. Furthermore, inasmuch as it is a chemical substance, though of organic origin, we may be able to reproduce it in the laboratory, without looking to plants or animals as sources of supply. It has been estimated, by the way, that, to produce a given amount of illumination, the glow- worm expends only one-fiftieth of the en- ergy consumed by an electric plant in evolving an equivalent light—a fact due, in part, to the circumstance that, as ascer- tained by Mr. Langley, all of the rays emitted by the insect are within the visible limits of the spectrum, while in the case of our artificial lights a large proportion of the rays are invisible and useless. It is only a tiny torch that the firefly bears; but, when we consider the bril- liancy of the living flames that crown every breaking wave-crest at sea on certain occa- especially in the tropics—or the intensity of the golden fires that appear under similar circumstances to underlie the broken surface of the ocean, when cleft by boat or stirred by oar- here no lack of available light, if we could utilize it or imitate it in kind. Even in | the black depths, miles beneath the bil- | lows, certain fishes carry brightly-shining lamps on head orfin, and others have search- lights which they can turn on or off at will, as they may wish to attract prey or to conceal themselves. Some of the cephalo- even provided with apparatus to throw a radiance downward. Nearly always, when people find that a viece of meat or a fish, put away in the : fe hold larder, has become luminous, they throw it away, looking upon the phenomenon as evidence of commencing yutrefaction. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST PLAYER FOLK Minnie Maddern Fiske A Workman and His Chips ANAGERS are brought into such close relations with the public, and are so intimately interested in it, that they are apt to forget how little the public cares about them. When Miss Blanche Bates is obliged to refit a public hall for a production in Washington, or Madame Denchavél is forced to tour the South in a circus tent, there is a momentary interest in their man- agers, but for the most part people do not know whether the name of the man who, according to the program, ‘‘presents”’ this star or ‘‘offers’”’ that is Tweedledum or Tweedledee. And those who are acquainted with the affairs of syndicate and anti- syndicate know that the point at issue is mainly a matter of business, and not at all, as has been so loudly proclaimed, a matter of art. Of all the ‘mighty opposites’’ Mrs. Fiske, who happens to be both actress and man- ager, is oak the only one who has enlisted intelligent sympathy, and even she has been suspected of carrying the flag too far. Whil« playing in Boston recently she was invited to deliveran address before Harvard Univer- sity It came to President Fliot’s knowledge that she was planning to use the occasion to attack her enemies. He summoned the professor in charge, and pointedly mated that Sanders Theatre was no place to air business squabbles. That is one reason, perhaps, why the address dealt in generali- ties which were not all glittering. Time and again it has been shown that what the ] lic is interested in is good plays and cond acting. Given these things it will go any- where, and without them it cannot be lured by talk about artistic freedom. As Pro- fessor Brander Matthews once remarked, a workman is not known by the chips on his shoulder, inti- Intl yub- Making the Supers Cry rs IS to the public that an actor has to look for success or failure, but the judgment which, as an artist, he most fears and re- spects is that of his fellow-players; and it often happens that this is the best criterion of future popularity. Forseveral yearsafter his appearance in America, Mr. Robert Loraine had the reputation of being a bad actor who would not be tolerated except for his handsome face and physique. But Mr. Ben Greet, in whose company of Eliza- bethan players he got his early training in ned steadfastly predicted great things forhim. Perhaps the chief qualification of the actor is a voice that is strong and capa- ble of rich, emotional color; and this, Mr. Greet maintained, Mr. Loraine possessed in a remarkable degree. On one occasion he was speare’s Henry V without town hall of asmall provincialcity. Inaddi- tion to Ancient Pistol, Mr. Greet was ap- earing as one of the crowd of super soldiers. Mir. Loraine was playing Henry. In the scene in which the king condemns Cam- bridge, Scroop and Northumberland for high treason, the actors were so huddled giving Shake- scenery in the together as actually to rub elbows, but as Mr. Loraine spoke the lines: Get you therefore hene Poor, miserable wretches, to your death, The taste whereof God You patience ance Of all your dear offenses to endure, and true repent the manager and the other supers could not restrain tne tears from running down their cheeks. When an actor can make his mar ager weep, Mr. Greet used to argue, he is not abadactor. Mr. Lorains Shaw's Man and Superman is, in fact, largely duc to the vigor with which he de livers the long xacting speec hes of his part ssuccessin and ¢ The Rage of Bernhardt HE public which marveled at the youtn fulness of Madame Bernhardt’s voice and vigor, in spite of her threescore years and more, had occasion, during her New York engagement, to marvel also at the preservation of her historic temper. Ap pearing in eight different plays in six days each of them, of course, containing a long and trying part, she had pe pore no strength to look to the details tage man agement. The wonder was thi at ws was abl to perform that histrionic feat, the mere re vorting of which proved a he ne b ler critics, In the great scene in Daudet’s Sapho, in which Jean quits her in anger, she flies into a rage, fetches his trunk with her own hand, and, angrily, helps him pack. As it hap- pened, the trunk supplied her in the wings was a scrubby little old affair, evidently be- longing to one of the supers, and with the tour label, ‘‘Sarah Bernhardt, Paris,”’ in staring letters pasted across the end. At the sight of it Madame Bernhardt flung it upon the stage with the reckless enc rey of a baggage-smasher, and the audience burst uncontrollable laughter This was bad enough, but on going to a flim 7 robe Sapho discovered in it, as the entire rai- ment of her lover, a rack hung with dozens upon dozens of wash ties, a shirt or two, and absolutely nothing else. Then the rage of Sapho knew no bounds. She grabbed thos« ties by the handfuls, and threw them, not into the trunk, but upon the unoffending irden to mto head of Jean Gaussin. The curtain rar down amid roars. The stage ma er « took tl for applause, and immediately made the curtain soar again. The audience was dé lighted with a view of Bernhardt he leading man still gl iw at each other ir more than theatric passion. Even ashes live their wonted fires, and Bern is still very far from the ash-heap. haradt A Windness to the Manager 4YOR the most part, it of their repu- spite tation, the critics are both painstaking and honest, and the more reputable papers protect them from intimidation. Ph favorite means of attempting to influenc them is a threat to withdraw theatrical ad vertising, which means a loss to the paper of much more than their salary. One of the most powerful of the n some years ago called on the editor of a great morning paper, the critic of which had offended him, and intimated that he could do him a great favor. What he meant, of course, was to discharge the critic. The editor smiled and said: anagers “T will do you a great favor.” “You mean you will discharge him? the mans nang Spee ced, delighted. ‘‘T mean,” was the answer, ‘‘that I will not tell him of your call. We are all of 1 human, and he might become biased if he knew how you have insu!ted him, and us.” It was only the other day that the critic ever heard of this, and then by accident. The Debut of E. J. Morgan N' )T every aspiring actor is able to take advantage of his chance when it comes, and the greater his power of imagination, sometimes seems, the likely hi is to fail. The story of Colley Cibber’s début is highly characteristic After months of hop ] more deferred Cibber was given a line to to the great Betterton. When he e on he was so impressed with the spe ak in our tragediar terrific aspect that he stood petrified by fear, quite ruining the effect of tne & ene Betterton al wy or ore 1 Une manager to dock the | ua Wi s} t | tl et ne ua ‘ ined the n agre Then give him t tormed B er i There may have beer } ne for Cibber beca irtistl ( ersatile a et h century, Mr. E. J. Morgan’s ‘ a i phe Hi I eC! ‘ Va is a iper in S! i I pestered the manager alt i. i na yaa | absence of one of the « I u { to hold the lantern 1 VI signal ligh art ive ‘ unt mountain and the | on ri | em by the aid of a code book \ ca r a ! e and tear, he umbied and, in catching | lanes rked out t light rhe manager loudly called him off, but he was so frightened that he went through with his part, y lantern up to the code boo quite ruining the effect e manager, lack ing Betterton’s discernn forbade hin evertoa iora part ; Shortly afterward the actor who |} been ng the part of the doctor fell sick. Mr les Frohman ordered a substitute from New York, and hims yn ‘ him. The new or did not appear. Mr Morgan, who had understudied all possible parts in the play, and who was not forbidden to spe ik te Mr Frohn an, Volu teered, and was perforce accepted. Thistime heshx his true colors, getting a round of ay which the part had never before ev plause ked Revenge ona Ticket Speculator P jstied and bute have been blocked « d buttonholed by sidewalk peculators will appreciate this story more than the hero of it. One of the New York critics while going into the theatre with his wife was lately caught by the sleeve and whirled t-face Now, tl ht « i ticket is about as alluring to the professional first-nighter as the click of atypew er to the busir man; and the victim, who ha is of or iled d i tt pr « r Ca gt nt « 1 I I ler | rour Ll n Irishma vi " rn friend and adi I | ‘ had ( ct na ] ( ( t t cop for |} nd pre a block it l ie icase lt 1,H he ud, it and wit! t tl ‘ second time dod dintothef ‘ i t wil When the play w er, a ‘ i } in’ a to } } . } } l if 1up irignt I rhe « ha ratit le ! yet had th the result of his The Stony Critic ] | god knowledge and long experience of the drama do not alw 3; soften the heart to the appeal of theatric sent Mr. James Hun experience at The ( risitonthe play 4 from an extended tour among artistic theatres of the Cont he gathered much of the materi Iconoclasts, a Book of Dramatists. 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20 THE be some glory to share in that enterprise. Had he known the actual state of affairs he would hardly have crossed the street as he did. The Kid quietly waited until Ollinger was directly be low him before he spoke. Hello, old fellow!” he said. Ollinger looked up, to catch the full charge of heavy shotin hisheadandshoulder. The Kid fired once more into his prostrate body, broke the gun in two pieces and threw it down on the corpse. ‘Take that with you, you long-hair,’’ he remarked calmly and with no {great feel- ing; ‘‘you may need it. Other than these two men engaged in the terrible little tragedy above mentioned I know of no’better types, each of his own ‘lass. One wasa genuine bad man, and the other was the genuine imitation bad man. They were really as far apart as the poles, and are so held in the tradition of that t loody country to-day. Throughout the West there are two sorts of wolves--the coyote and the gray wolf. Kither will kill, and both are lovers of blood One is yellow at heart and the other is clean ame all the way through. In outward look both are wolves, and in appearance they sometimes grade together so closely that is it hard to determine the species. The gray wolf is a warrior and is respected ; the coyote is a sneak and a murderer, and his name is a term of reproach throughout the West. The one is bad, and the other imitation-bad. A Self-Constituted Barber ‘The frontier did not take itself seriously and did not feel bound toaccept every newcomer at his own valuation —a scheme of life which sometimes worked a certain hardship to pretenders. Thus—to retell a story which always seemed amusing—there was once, in a certain party of Panhandle skin- hunters, a man who wore his hair so long as to cause dislike in the soul of one of his associates, who kindly but firmly asked him to have it cut As he failed to do this, the objee tor one di ay ‘threw him down upon the ground, pinioned him with a sinewy knee, and amputated his ambrosial locks with a butcher knife—an operation which the victim was wise enough to pass off as a joke. It developed later that he had turned his hair out some tite before he started West. He was West-struck—a victim of the Western-fiction habit. A more sensible, if less ambitious, repre- sentative of ge ntler lands was that other well-remembered youth who once blew in and took a job of cooking in a cow camp below Las Vegas. He worked for two months, drew his salary and went to town, whereupon he proceeded to purchase him- self an entire new outfit — hat, spurs, leggins, belt, gun and all, everything new and shin- ing. So accoutred, he waited on the plat- form for the east-bound train, path on, and disappe: ared, never to be heard of again. No doubt, he acted as a mission- ary after that somewhere in the East, serving to spread knowledge of the West. Indeed, evidence is wanting that he secured employment in the Western-fiction foundry. The imitation bad man was in most cases simply some such an example of West- struckness. But why? What was the philosophy of West-struckness, and why were SO Many young men—not to mention editors, writers and artists—thus West- struck? Why did the trans-Missouri put 80 strong a stamp upon the times? The answer to these questions ought not, after all, to be so difficult, in view of the fallibility, indeed the gene rally poor human nature and daring always leave was only human to phenomena, born of necessity, for these qualities themselves. Many trail men and trappers and plainsmen of the barberless West wore long hair, and unaffectedly spoke a strange dialect; ergo, any man with long iair and dialect must also be hardy, brave and daring! It might be easier to assume the hair and the dialect than to gain the yualities of courage, hardihood and daring; but the public did not always discover the faulty logic of reasoning from particular to general; although it was out of just this sort of crippled syllogism that much of the ystensible and accepted ‘‘badness"’ of the West arose, and much of the indestructible misconception regarding all things Western not illogical make-up, of Courage, odiioed their imprint. It mistake attendant

THE SATURDAY IMITATION B (Concluded from Page 7? Toseparate imitations from the real thing, the sentiment and practice of the West swung to the opposite extreme. The West laid aside the six-shooter and the high- heeled boot, and abjured very many other things which the East has assigned to it as immutable. If you go on a cow ranch to- day you will see more black hats than white, and you will find no six-shooters at all. The foreman discourages ‘‘fancy boys,” looks askance at conchos on leggins, or even leggins themselves where the latter are not necessary, leaning to overalls and straight talk himself. The imitation tough man gradually has found his habitat ae to the railroad towns; and even there he is not always welcome. Bad Man or Good A good specimen of long-hair once blew into a saloon in a town where I lived, and met the barkeeper at a time when he was eating his lunch, which consisted of a can of tomatoes. The barkeeper cast a severe eye upon the newcomer. ‘‘Are you bad?” said he; ‘‘or are youa ‘vangelist? If you're bad I’m going to pour these tomatoes down your back, but if you’re a ‘vangelist I’ll go get another spoon.” Indeed, it was hard for an imitation tough to gain respect even in his own home although sometimes really bad men were afraid of some woman or other. The only yerson on earth who could scare Ben Thompson was the queen of his affections, of whom he stood in deadly terror. Joel Fowler's wife could make him stand hitched at any time; and Straightgoods Allen, of old White Oaks camp, never attempted to run apy bluff on the inside of his own threshoua. Thus discredited, where could a poor desperado go? In time, a great many of them found a more congenial atmosphere east of the Mississippi than west of the Missouri. A friend of mine, a very good horse thief from Wyoming—who always justified his acts by saying that he never stole from anybody but an Eastern man, and one who had ple nty of horses to spare used to makea living inChicago, as, perhz aps, Bill Germaine did in New York, by posing as an artist's model. ‘I certainly did tell things scary to that fellow,”’ he confessed to me; ‘‘I had to do it. I wore two guns for him, and wore ’em low, and I shore looked fierce. I filed a few notches on the handle of one Colt, and | always turned it out, careless-like. Folks would come in and look at me from across the table, and once in a while they'd ask me how many men did I ever kill. Then I looks thoughtful, and says I: ‘I don't remember exactly, but I think it was eight or ten—somewhere along in there. Not that one could call this artless soul anything of a pretender, for life was one bright comedy to him, and he imposed only on those who asked him to do so. Pat Garrett's Gloves To show the horror of the real West at ultra- Westernism, I may best again cite my friend Pat Garrett, who admits that when he first came into the Pecos Valley from the Panhandle buffalo range he was wearing long hair because he couldn't get it cut; and likewise a pair of buffalo leggins about three feet long, to piece down the bottom of his trousers — he was six feet four and one- half inches tall, and could not always get his fit at a frontier store. Ona late mounted journey over the country which we both ee a quarter of acentury ago, and which, in its day, was woolly as any, Garrett wore clothing which would have left him incon- spicuous on Broadway. One day, seeing that he had worn out his gloves and could get no more, I offered him a pair from my own kit, provided that he would promise in advance to wear them, which he thought- lessly did. Now, these gloves had been purchased as a souvenir, being orthodox cow-puncher regalia, with red embroidery and a long leather fringe on the cuff. He always took them off when he saw any one coming, and one morning, when we were riding into a settlement, 1 was disgusted to 7A $58 + i ose t ese <a ; - +2

EVENING POST AD MAN see that he had ruined my souvenir by cut- ting off all the fringe! He was afraid of being thought Western. I had with me a pair of English-cut buckskin riding breeches, most comfortable for saddle wear, which I had owned for twelve years and never worn, since they had always seemed too Western for the East, and too Eastern for the West. Alas! were now too Western for the West, where buckskin is to-day strictly tabooed, no matter how severely cut. Garrett would not let me putthemon. One cold morning in the mountains I rebelled and got into the buckskins; and seeing that it troubled Garrett very much, I kept them on after that for a few days. As we approached the town of Roswell he could conceal his nervousness no longer. ‘It’s not so much on my account,” said he apologetically, ‘‘ but I’m an official under the Pnited States Government, and I ought to be careful whom I associate with. For Heaven's sake, man, haven't you got any human pants?” The West demands that it be considered not Western, but just human. It is to be feared that the typical Alkali Ike, who wears a long knife and ties his pistol down, and who addresses you as ‘‘ Young feller,” would be very difficult to find in the West to-day. The would-be killer never existed save in fungoid fashion, and even thus is scarce to-day. In time he must be lost utterly in the swift whirl of American events. It is libel to call him Western. The West is responsible for her own children, even though they be wild and bad ones, but she ought not to be asked to mother a cuckoo product. ‘‘The babes of the West were giants, because that was a land of giants. The Indian, the hunter, the plainsman, the cowboy will not die. They will but pass back among their people whence they came. They will vanish upon the edge of the plains. They will look down upon us from the hills in some immortal form.” Not this the fate of the imitation desperado. He is no product of the West, but is a misconcep- tion assigned to the West. He has no ancestry and no environment back of him, and will hold no place upon the page of history. Cheap, brazen, oroide, counter- feit, unable to stand the acid, he must perforce pass out of circulation, winning only the reward of insincerity and pretense. “The Salt of Sincerity ”’ The one quality in a man’s character most valued on the frontier was sincerity, and it was recognized that insincerity rarely goes with courage. The man must ‘‘come through.’’ The man who went into the hills, who forded a bad water, who went into any dangerous undertaking and ‘‘came through’ was the man respected. The advance of civilization into the West meant the curtailment of much individual liberty, but the best men of the West, the men who have made the West what it is, were those that accepted the necessities that go with the law. The skilled use of weapons was once desirable if not necessary in the West, butitisnolongerso. I used to knowa man who spent a half-hour each evening practic- ing at whirling his gun over, and firing it just as he presented it butt forward and apparently harmless. ‘‘That’s the way to get a fellow who asks you for your gun,” said he. One day he committed some ey crime, and an officer went to arrest im. He pretended to surrender and hand over his gun, but whirled it over, fired, and killed the officer. They hanged him then; so that, after all, his- accomplishment did not amount to much, and he founded no permanent family tree. Some day there will arise a publisher who will print a novel about a Western man who is just a man. Perhaps he wiil find some artist who will paint a picture of some Western character and make him just a man. If this departure from the ancient and accepted foundry output shall prove profitable — as very likely it will — the result will be the routing out from his last lurking place of the imitation bad man. His only record then will remain on the gravestones of the big, sane, law-loving land west of the Missouri. The epitaph of the would-be desperado is that which in time comes to be written over all insincerity: ‘‘ Died of self- deception.”” There is no poorer epitaph than that they |

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THE Their Ways and Their Work Owen Wister Author of Lady Bal*imore Mr. Wister and the Syndicate HE literary syndicate moves in a mysterious way, whether office be on Broadway or Fleet Street, but for a certain sort of ‘‘enterprise’’ it must be admitted that the British institution has its American cousin hopelessly distanced. The latter orders what it wants from an author on short notice, but it at least has an appre- ciation of distance and makes a certain al- lowance for the Atlantic Ocean Not so the English concern. It—or, at any rate, one of the species with “ main office in London wrote only the other day to Owen Wister in this wise Dear Sir: We would like you to do for serialization through our We would want the completed manu- script to be in our hands by March Ist, 1906. Entire length, 190,000 words; each chapter to end with dramatic climax; scene to be laid in some quarter of the British Isles, especial locality to be named later. Kindly advise in regard to this your earliest opportunity, and oblige Yours very truly, Buggins & Blank Lit. many its home- a novel avency Synd Will Allen White, EADERS of. his charming sketches of life in asmall town can well understand that William Allen White is wedded to Emporia, Kansas, and the newspaper edi- torial desk which he there adorns. But about twice a year Mr. White, out of a hard sense of duty, wrenches up stakes and comes East. The latest wrench occurred quit recently and, as ever theretofore, Mr. White appeared in New York and Philadelphia looking like a walking advertisement for Fashion Critic the salubrious qualities of the Kansas climate. ‘Why, Mr. White,’’ exclaimed one woman whom he met at luncheon, ‘ little stouter than when I saw arent youa you last?’ ‘Probably,’ said White,‘ quite probably I usually am.” And,a moment later, whenshe remarked ‘What delicious salad! ‘* Madam,”’ he answered, ‘ delicious: it has a real heart-interest.’ That same afternoon Mr. White sat in a box at a matinée and iooked out over the audience with no small degree of interest “It’s much darker than the last time | was here,”’ he murmured. “Darker 4 repe ated his host ““Yes. How fashions in hair change! Now, only a few years ago this would have been like looking over a box of lemons.”’ it is more than Rex Beac h’s Melodrama EOPLE who know Rex Beach as a short- story writer—and, still more, people who knew him as a business man—will be somewhat surprised to learn that he once wrote a grt one ge Yet the truth must be told: he did write it,and it was produced He wrote it one morning : it was rehearsed that afternoon, and was played that even- ing. The whole thing happened at some out- post in the Klondike. The proprietor of a concert-hall at that particular me ta ge Is found that his audiences were falling off and decided that he must give them some- thing new, but the only new thing he think of was a mek could dirama ind there was no one to write it. However, the pro- prietor, with true Yankee enterprise, had posters printed announcing ‘‘a new melo- drama” for a specific night, and trusted to luck to bring along the book of the play Luck brought it, but only at the last minute, when the proprietor, then almost Beach do,” he said, and they'll prob- place if I don't in despair, confided his woes to Mr 1 don’t know what to for | ain't got no play, ably shoot up the whok make Beach was touched—and went to wor He grew interested and turned wildest tank-drama that ever played nort! of Seattle Somehow the players s through their lines at rehearsal performance that night the last Mr. audience rood. out the tumbled and at the all went well until act. Beach, knowing and wanting be realistic, had arrar hero entered to exch wretch is dead at last and virtue triumphs,” the stage-manager should hand out a bleeding heart fresh from the butcher's shop across the way, but when this odd piece of color of his same time to the when the stage property was produced a Swede in the audience bellowed : ‘Ted at last Yoost look at id! De blood’s ban try t'ree hours! Walt Whitman's Door-Plate N THE door of Walt Whit: house in Camden, New Jersey, there re mained, until a few ye ago, the old door plate engraved with Walt Whitman's name One day a visitor from New York, a youth whose devotion to Whitman was ur bounded, asked for admitt to the house and was most courteously shown through the rooms by the tenants. It was not until ars ance he was leaving that he mentioned the plat upon the old-fashioned front door Is he observed, that you have the Whitman door plate ou are very lucky to have been able to keep it His host, to whom the Whitman enthu Slasm was a quantit unknown howed mild surprise ‘Yes,’ he said, “‘we haven't got a door- plate, so we've just left this one where it was *‘Might—might one buy it asked the visitor tentatively 1 suppose you wouldn't wish to part with it “Oh, no-—no,”’ said the owner positively we wouldn't want to sell that People seem to like to look at it. No, we wouldn't want to sell it. 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tw tv ago in conversation with one of our agents. Mr. Sessions is essentially a grower—one of the most successful in the country—one who makes his peach orchard pay him all the way from $50 to $120 an acre net profit. With private car line service,”’ says Mr. Sessions, *‘ buyers come to us—to our very doors — because they know this service will deliver in good condition what they buy. That makes a good market. Indifferent ervice keeps out the buyers. That makes a poor market and throws our fruit into Chi- cago Where the market is almost always glut- ted with fruit that goes across the lake by boat. Chicago commission men work to keep rlutted. We have had commission-house jicitors running up and down our streets here soliciting shipments, when they kneu Cf jo 1s already overstocked. That was to get our fancy peaches at a low, glutted market price, so the y could be reshipped to other points at a profit. The effect of such uation—growers deprived of efficient refrigerator car service—is doubly bad. It depresses prices and it causes quality to deteriorate. In an overstocked market fancy peaches will not bring enough more than common ones to pay for the extra cost and labor put into growing high quality. One of the greatest benefits of the private car service 1s that it has encouraged us to strive for quality. With that service, when we grow fancy peaches, we know we can get

a si a good market for them.” Mr. J. R. Wylie, of Shelby, Michigan, supports Mr. Sessions with this testimony m Chicago asa market: ‘This last summer I shipped plums to two points, Chicago and Dayto mn, Ohio. The same kind of plums vent to both places. My Chicago shipment averaged 80 cents a bushel net; my Dayton shipme nt averaged $1.45 a bushel net.” A | af from our own experience corrobo- rates both Mr. Sessions and Mr. Wylie. Last fall representatives of two large Eastern fruit houses came West to buy Michigan peaches. They wanted to ship in private cars. At the Michigan points served by private cars they found competing buy- ers. They also discovered that quantities of Michigan peaches were being dumped into Chicago by boat and by rail from points not covered by the private car service. Those agents forthwith came to Chicago, went on the open market in South Water Street, and there bought Michigan peaches for shipment East at lower prices than they would have had to pay over in Michigan at points served by private cars. More than 400 cars were thus Tendied. According to commission men of a certain kind —the kind who are the source of prac- tically all agitation against the car lines the private cars check rather than develop the fruit-growing industry In view of what has been shown as to growers’ and shippers’ views it may be asked: ‘‘Have the commission men a motive?”’ Let us look at an example of what used to bea t infrequent experience of fruit shippers ¢ r before the guarantees of the private car wee were thrown around the business A Case from Georgia

Not many seasons ago ; wer in Georgia shipped two cars of peaches to an Indiana tv The consignee wired the grower that both cars arrived in ‘‘ bad condition,” inti- mating that the price would have to be cut. The grower asked t > ne agent’s advice is to what he shouk it it. He was advised ‘Those cars left here in good yndition and are, undoubtedly, in good ondition now. Our reports will back up a iit and probably enable you to collect but law is always « xpen- probably save money by going vourself to Indiana now.” I'he grower took that advice His peaches had reached their destination on Friday; he did not reach there until Mon- lay Going as a buyer to the consignee irm (its members did not know him per- sonally) he found some of his own peaches exposed for sale in fine condition “Got 150 erates as good as those?” he asked, indicating packages stenciled with his own name Sure,’ was the prompt answer. ‘‘ We've got parts of two cars still on track fine Sealine all the way through. Come down and see 'em.”’ The grower accompanied the commission man, saw his own peaches still in good con- dition after lying on a side track nearly

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(Concluded lost patience, and notified the chairman that would move to take the bill from the committee. Then it developed that the able Pennsylvanian had framed up a clear majority of the Senate vate the fo the Democrats, although this was such an excellent yarty measure that was pledged to pass the bill. Beveridge was still ob- durate, however, and on June 19, Quay formally moved to take the bill ax the committee. He had a majority pledged to pass it; but discharging a Senatorial com- mittee is pretty discourteous, too. Some members of the majority deprecated it, not necessarily because they sympathized with Beveridge, but because the act would be in derogation of the dignity of aSenator. Then it was agreed that the committee should report the bill out on the third day of the next session. This was done (in December, 1902). The committee’s report, of course, was adverse. Quay had his majority pledged to pass the measure, but Beveridge and his friends,under the rule of ‘‘ courtesy,” proceeded to talk it to death. Quay was elderly and in bad health. Beveridge was young and hardasnails. Eachof these lead- ers of the fight had to be in his seat almost continuously throughout the winter and spring lest the other take strategic advan- tage of his absence to blow him up. This test of endurance was pleasa exercise to the gentleman from Indiana, but death to the gentleman from Pennsylvania. Senator Frye, the presiding officer, thought the filibustering was hurting the Senate Senator Hanna thought it was poor busi- ness. So they took a hand, and an agree- ment was reached which really gave Beveridge what he had been fighting for This agreement proposed that Oklahoma and Indian Territory should be admitted as one State, Arizona and New Mexico as one. If Hanna and Quay had lived no doubt this agreement would already have been carried into effect. Both died. Last October the Enterprise Bank at Allegheny failed, its cashier com- mitting suicide, and the Pennsylvanian crowd was pretty effectually demoralized. So with this session a new set of factors came into prominence. Under a territorial gov- ernment, Senator Clark’s great United Verde mine is assessed for taxation at about the value of one month’s output; other big copper mines proportionately. Railroad taxesarelow. They say that their interests have always been singularly successful in impressing the territorial legislature with their views about the sacredness of vested interests. It is argued, with much plausi- bility, that they might be equally successful with the legislatures of two sparsely-settled States. Montana and Nevada have never been at all rough on them. With a big State they might have more trouble. Of course, there are many good Pe ople in Arizona, especially in Phoenix, which wouk d be the capital, who want to bea State all I themselves. Some of them would even be willing to hold State offices. At any rate, although there is no dispute about Okla- homa and Indian Territory, a good deal of opposition has developed to the joint ad- mission of Arizona and New Mexico. Senator Clark has not yet taken the ex- treme ground adopted by Senator Alger, who declared on the floor of the Senate that if the bili passed he would dispose of his investments down there; but the gentle- man from Montana has been exhibiting his bronze top-knot and whiskers to admiring Senate galleries rather more assiduously than common, and stories have gone around about a powerful mining lobby that was willing to let useful members buy choice copper stocks at attractive figures. The Republican members held a conference on the subject early in the session, and only 110 of them voted for the joint State bill, with 65 against it. However, party pres- sure will probably get a majority in line. Naturally, I don’t vouch for the lobby stories. Nobody ever does. The lobby, in fact, is a good deal of a bugaboo to seare the folks at home. Most of the stories ought to be printed in the Boy Detective series. The other day an elderly man of powerful frame, with a look in his dim, blue eye as though he would know a joke if he met one, might have been seen wending his way cau- tiously —for the floors are rather slippery — down the marble halls of the Senate wing. He disappeared behind the silently swing- ing doors of a committee-room, and in due time it became known that President THE THE MILL AT WASHINGTON Cassatt, of the Pennsylvania Railroad, } been in to see Senator Knox. lous persons looked for the prints of his some credu- cloven foot and the mark where his tail had dragged along the corridor. (thers sur- mised that if he had had anything partic larly devilish on his mind he would have telephoned for Knox to come over to Philadelphia. If the New York Central is o »posed to railroad rate legi will Mr. Vanderbilt have to goa lobby ing to get word with Senator Depew or Senator Platt ? If the Arizona copper interests are op to joint Statehood, will not Senator know it without the intervention of a lobby It is true there are some lobbyists and lation, lobbying. When Senator Elkins’ com- mittee was holding its solemn hearings on the railroad rate business, a genial little gentleman, with a dash of the military in his gray goatee, often sat just behind the chairman, within easy speaking distance of which he frequently took advantage. This was former Senator Faulkner from West Virginia, who now has offices as a lawyer in the Kellogg Building and is cer- tainly — interested in the railroad side of the rate case. Inform: favor- able to that side freq. ently leaks out tot press through his office, by way of keeping public opinion normal, as Mr. Bishop ex- ape it. Probably this activity would ve called lobbying; but it is not belic ved that anybody had to give love philte r to evoke railroads in his rugg As well known as Mr. Senator Elkinsa aA fond fee ling for the ed breast Faulkner, and as much interested in the railroad rate matter, is former Senator Chandler, now president of the Spanish Claims Commission. But his interest is all on the other side—that is, in favor of rate regulation. The arguments, oral and written, that he Ege nded to influence legislation, and s » pl robably, must be classed as lobt me Tay although, without any doubt, sonal profit. There is some he does it for no per- ragtag-and-bobtail of a real lobby, composed of ill f who now and again persuade a minor interest that they can doit some good. As oftenas not, I believe, they can’t; but the y do no doubt A favorite lleged influence pick up considerable money. avenue to this little graft isa with the press, for they all have the right idea —namely, that the effective influencing of legislation, except as one member of the Senate or House may influence another, is done away from Washington. Keeping public opinion normal is the great tric} for public opinion finally rules. The rail- roads showed that they understood this when they got up their immensely expen- sive publicity bureau to feed the country press and as much of the metropolitan as could stand the diet About everybody hunts the same (rail to the best of his abilit Of lobbying by bribery there i probably indirect method persist. A certain venerabl figure is still to be seen about the Capitol on most sunny believ He first appeared in the days, I airect none Some palmy times of Collis P. Huntingt ‘ it is his sole and responsible duty to han out passes to receptive Western members Drawing mileage from the Government for a long haul while aang on a pass makes an appreciable addition to the Congressional lis neaterthan taking the mon Income, and is in ten-dollar bills. Besides, it really dos not imply the same moral or immoral ot gation to the donor. The idea has grown have a kind of sacred and can up that Congressme! vested right to railr oad passes, take them and still vote against the road Very likely, if the truth were known, a perce P we f this unprofitable fact behind the recent action of the trunk lines in sheted ing off passes. At any rate, the rox - know well enough that the House will | the railroad rate bill. Perhaps they "ae concluded that it would not be right to assist gentlemen who wish to be so heedful of th e public weal in drawing mileage from the pu treasury not morally entitled. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Forging the Golden Chain (Conclud later she walked in. He wasthere. He rose and kissed her. Upon his lips was the odor of those peanuts. ‘‘Nataiie!’’ he exclaimed, pleased. foreman approached ‘‘Have you had your dinner, sir?’’ the foreman asked If so, I'll get mine.’ Yep,”’ answered Jimmy. ‘‘I’ve had my dinner. Go ahead.’ The foreman went. And yet understand. Business, sometimes, liver had told her, was a matter of pe nnies The she did not sO Dol- She did not know that there were times when the only man ina factory who went dinnerless, perforce, was the proprietor All the others got their pay regularly but himself. But Natalie was not thinking of these things. Her eyes had fastened upon five ten-dollar bills that lay upon Jimmy’s desk ‘Jimmy, he said, ‘T’ve just got to go to New York, to get things for myself and the baby. I can’t wait a minute longer, and so I thought I'd come right down and - Jimmy Dolliver never winced ‘How how much do you need?” he asked. She looked at the money. Fifty would do me, Jimmy,” she an- swered ‘Il ean hardly make it go, but—it will Jimmy Dolliver hesitated for a moment. Then he picked up the money and passed it lake it along,” he said. ‘‘I’'ll go early and see to Jimmy, and you get when you can.” He was just about her once more, when a man stepped in with a bill in his hand. “Got that fifty for Carter-Welch?”’ he queried. Jimmy seratched his head ‘‘Carter-Welch’'ll have to wait,’’ he an- swered It's the only time the y ever had to wait for me I'li have the fifty Monday, certain, but not before.” ‘O. K., Mr. Dolliver,” said the man, as he swung out and rattled down the stairs Dolli or suvdied's t his wife. ‘We like to keep our credit good, you see,’ he said Young Mr Dolliver went “T should think Carter-Welch could wait! he thought. She went to New York. She spent the fifty, carefully, economically. *“But—my!” she thought; “it does feel good to spend money once again! It does! Two women at next to her on the Chri tophe r Street car as she came back home On the way the atte one was at- tracted by three Italian women, young and lusty, and very dirty, who carried on their head huge pack of wood +“ tHow can thev « next to Mr Jimmy Dollive The other woman was a ntion of ghed the woman phil ) opher ‘*My dear he said genially, ‘‘they have to hive their live you know.” They have et / It wasa new idea to Mrs. Jimmy Dolliver—an idea that She must live her life. She mnsidered that before She had for better, struck home. had not ¢ taken Jimmy for worse. And she must make the very best of the very worst And her life » far it had been could mh t be thus alw ay - Jimmy would be poor. rebellion! It She would be poor: She must live her life A sudden resolve thrust itself upon her— she ild live her life And yet there were things she couldn't understand. On the Monroe trolley, as she hung on a strap, she heard two men behind her talking 1 can't go away now, not much,” he said; ‘‘I'm afraid If I'm going to make gold chains I've got to stay right here in town I've got to sell.” ; ‘Afraid--of what?" the other asked casu ally ‘Of Eisenstein-Thalheimer,” returned the other with a laugh They're pushing close for second I lace, Look out, sell It seemed ‘incomprehensible, all this What was a business reputation worth if it did not bring Jimmy business? What was a business worth if it did not bring Jimmy mone ind luxury, and ease? But she thr it all behind her. ‘'] have my life to live,” she told herself: ‘‘ I'll live it your- d from Page And there was something strangely altered in the wife of Jimmy Dolliver when Jimmy kissed her his welcome home that night, and lifted little Jimmy to be kissed. It was intangible, but it was there. And later she slipped her hand into his. “We'll foht it out together, Jimmy,” she said; ‘‘and hereafter I'll be a better fighter than I’ve been.” “What?” heexclaimed. ‘‘ Better fighter? No one could have been a better fighter than you’ve been.”” He drew her tight. Natalie, girl!’’ he whispered. It was two years later that he came in, . ON marr . smiling, one evening. ‘‘ Natalie,’’ he said, “*G. J. Lawson is going to sell his brownstone house downtown. It’s good. I’ve been through it. How would you like to buy it, little girl?”’ She stared at him in amazement ‘How can we buy it?”’ she asked. ‘With money,” he answered; ‘‘our money —made out of our business business and mine, Natalie,” he said. ‘“The business?’’ she gasped; ‘‘is there money in the business? “Why, of course,”’ he answered; ‘‘it’s a good business. It’s always been good. From the start we’ve done well. But it took money to run— and, now it’s running, it brings in money.” ‘You—never thought it; never ex- pected it! ” she protested, ‘Never thought it?” he returned. ‘‘Why, I’ve always known it I’ve always seen it. I've always felt it coming.” They bought the Lawson house. Lawson was not yet through with it. ‘We're going to have a ball first, Na- talie,”’ said Genevieve, ‘‘and then we go to live abroad.” They had the ball. Natalie and Jimmy Dolliver went in their own coupé. But ‘That is, it’s yours, if you like it,” Jimmy said, as they stepped into it that night For she had not known before. ‘It’s like old times,”’ Jimmy laughed, to cover up her contusion, **Hello, old man!”’ G. J. Law him later. ‘‘It it does, for us to have this ball in your house — but we had to havea kick-up before we left, you know And Natalie noticed one thing that sur- prised her. The people that knew people that knew he know her husband much better than they did herself Men stood at attention about him. Men sought him out. Men introduced their wives to him “*Mr. Dolliver, my dear,’ ‘Whois Mr. arrival ask. *Dolliver?”’ re plie d the new husband. Haven't you ever Ktisenstein-Thalheimer, manufact jewe Iry here in town?” “Oh, of course!’’ was the reply. ‘Well, Dolliver is Eisenstein-Thal- heimer, that’s all.’ It was enough. Dolliver, of Eisenstein-Thalheimer, moved into the Lawson house. And Li son moved to Europe—he was retiring, so on said to seems queer, seemed to they would say. Dolliver?”’ she heard a new arrival’s heard of urers of iw- Monroe understood, having made or inher- ited his pile Dolliver shook his head. It was a year later that he told his wife about it. ‘‘G. J. Lawson and Genevieve have come back to Monroe,” he said. ‘They're broke They were broke a year aro when I bought the house I kne w, but few besides did. They got reckless, that’s all. 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