The Saturday Evening Post 1906-02-17: Vol 178 Iss 34

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST « # ol The Creed of Nations—®”.Ciprianc Castro

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ee $$$ —_— -_ ——_____— ee ——_—, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Copyright ,1906,by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY. Founded A°D' 1728 by Benj.Franklin Entered atthe Philadelphia Post~Office in the United States and Great Britain as Second-Class Matter Published Weekly at 425 Arch Street by THE CuRTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY London: Hastings House.10, Norfolk Street. Strand,WC. Volume 178 rHRILADELIRIA, FEBRUARY 17, 19OO _ Number 34 | THE CREED OF NATIONS By Cipriano Castro resident of the United States of V« and Restorer of Venezuela onstitutional p= XE Ek Es ox a ak a or} ; A My P i” | : ACCEDE our request, c through Creneral Ybarra, tha tk _th oh eh & us ‘ r littl i t . \\ ‘ cs { dl ! thie ele : Wiipeortaned pre i Wi ny 1 l ! progress Of mundane eve = he ft ! ' w civilization TH koi Ilva | ine ha vel t sil if rt ‘a \ tL weekly miigazine o1 hianieda | enty rs ¢ founded by the great | wl | | is ily Vs stl ol lj ( 1 is} nk =a 2 | oft bring | ta iversal restoration j | : . iY, pects and prowressiv unitest \ t Wp “=m Ca tite vis all the renter as |, for 4 part wt y ’ ever spared an effort o matter | 1 fieant it tu have been to contribute to thes reciprocal attempt of nati communities and tamilies to bring about the hiatppiness ot the S> Decne reece through its intellectual and cultural de velopment. 1 I Wi LT have thought, and T still think, that virtue, reason, justice and right ki eit nie { anne | bowmdaries nor fronters This is the lesson taught us by the erandeur sid om tion ‘ { { re ul ‘ al Ve the ‘ tion of tl ‘ ( { tial I Thin ] : Hl ey T\ rhitl fostiith i 1 Nature. (Lomarvelous masterpiece, pertect!y finished and taultles | | ‘ hint, been oll | ri 1! 1 hii 1 i eve progress, \V i tevin il ta i { I i ‘ i which tural when col ! t| | ( God who in’ His works is as colossal and infinite as are spr cinch Trp unl w bv { " | all unitv and all pertection ! He tills, therefore, into sad, 1 whe, as an individual, as a component part ofa whole, or as the rule fri ' | — a OY I oe re or stitutes the PoC =x 7 >> a +a. +s ea + a © ¢ xx 1° Ga ¢ Gm t « Ye am os > © a) > EE © EE © GED © GEE ¢ GEE © G6 GE 0 Gm + Ga » ae ress Very sion V tows ent | inte I I the fulfillment of their | sant tron The Capitol, Caracas The Arch of the Federation, Caracas. Miraflores inthe Background

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE FAITHFUL LEGION February 17, 1906 Arrayed on the Farther Side of the Styx in a Distinct Group, Along with the Shades of Black Horse Troopers, Stonewall’s Foot Cavalry, Stuart’s Horse, Alexander's Artillery and Pickett’s Infantry, My Fancy Sees a Dead Phalanx of Ebony “ Uncles” T N THE pre ceding article I undertook 1 to describe slavery as it existed in the average slave-holding establish- ent of Virginia up te the time when hed. ivery was abol From my knowl- edge of conditions as they existed in the tates to the south of Virginia, Iam sat istied that, asarule, the relations between master and slave South Carolina, m } n South Carolina, Georgia and the Gulf States were not so — half-clad, wild-eyec nor soa in the Old Dominion, North — not Tennessee, Kentucky and Northern Alabama hentuck and Northern Alabama were more like Virginia The 3 erected ir r tlectior ile as ania able difficulty that toa State, and the former was Transyl ‘father and his companion met speak or understand English. gentleman could only communicate with him in some sort of jabbering patois, and even in this it was with consider- he was asked whose slave he was. The Slave Who was Servant and Friend By JOHN S. WISE : afrowsy, T he man coul j South Carolina i and untamed savage The the negro was made to understand that He answered, ‘‘ Massa ople were, for the most part, Virginiar North Alabama That was the name of the gentleman himself, alr t a colony of Virginians transplanted with their who seemed amused that he did not know his own slave, or r ther belongings in the ‘‘tlush time of Ala that the slave did not know him. The man was working ima { the people of that section cherished and mai: upon one of his master’s distant plantations under an tained almost intact the mode of life which the y hadknow! overseer or manager. The master’s residence was at a more Virg 1 before their departure North Carolina ha alubrious place, and he visited his plantations so seldom “ paid to Virginia that sincerest form of all flattery, that he had no personal acquaintance with his slaves ition,”’ and Tennessee occupied much the relatior These conditions were as well known to the Northern North Car i that Kentucky did to Virginia ( of the South as to the Southerners themselve he se ! t mentioned, slavery was as tolerabl and the surprising thing about the post-bellum legislation itior ny kind of slavery can be. But in the n the subject of the slaves is that, with full knowledge i bord i the Gulf, or with ports on the S h of the utter incapacity of the great masses of Southern \ in appreciable proportion of the slaves wer laves to think or to act intelligently on a question so } rted Af in negroes or their imme ive as that of government, the triumphant North should ‘ The too, M Ippi and Lou ina W t have imagined it po ble, even Ww it Was acting under r of slave evil er A bad or vicious slave in th he excitement of deep pa n, stow the franchise er State vas apt to be sold to negr buvers wi icha pe ple with any hope that they m eXercise ! tra ed that section looking for slave lo l lligently, or W any expectation that the whites igar and cott | atic of the South 4 ection would allow them to enjoy it in such a sul the cor ms referred to above tended to r a to dominate ther That was the effect ‘ of the f § } a cla ferior to th of the honest and free exer er State h in intelligence and in moral Or roes, th were, numeri i i bh tra t! nt ‘ the |} r t nd ne t 1 Det ane etects of these anteceads A party of blacks « franchise it was be wed, ne ( ince in \ nia or hentuc Nill i ill that section was certair ‘ t t j } ! and t | At fir AST of foree as made t antee to them ve ul way, i é ed ¢ ment of tl ise. The force r pert Not so in t Sou there was white. But it was not long before the influ- here t ‘ for ¢ i! I race prejudice wa ich that the very whites who *? boa " f t to prote the negroc and see that thev v | 1s, | ane and inclined to card-y 1 e, Joined with their fellow-whites in the cray nd th are much mor i States to help them in cheating the negro. Tl " firea t i i n the « sta ! ed double the representa nin Federal affairs | ( tte ! r ( iVv,a ! ! it re ¢ oved ft computing the negro 4 i ‘ he Car i } rida i ! ‘ i re e of representat did not enure \W hat never, ur yen, had he real 1 the « I he negro and gave to the whites the ab r t te ted or he Sea Islands and t} Fy r re esentation which has been the cause of fs Carolina, Georgia i} a OAC i h complaint the North eve ‘ is bestows } i f the negr there e either or the North t ror i, or little re ed fr he In a ve fe " as war prejudice led, whil " progenit , either in intelligence, morals or eve ace prejudice ved, the authorities in Washingtor irance. The ea omprehensible lingo ‘ ‘ ind le renuous in their demands for the equal t of the i ally did not knov he name ot the of the me , and IS7T7, when the electoral votes of maste! Their food ar 1 appear ] usiana and South Carolina became necessary to the itive as that of African savage il great Repu party in order to seat the Republicar features of the ir ition, Which we f th contestant for the Presidency, that noble party, with its high profe irk ndship fi had always looked upon as a necessary accompaniment of ry, were singularly lackir 4 rthe r For example, riding one day with an educated gentlema slave-owner sold h and charming host a short distance below Charleston, of the white man sions of equality anc of as coolly as evera 1 all its boasted record egro, traded him off im, and delivered him into the hands States of South Carolina and in the return for the electoral votes of those two States In the days of slavery there was a distinct aristocracy among the American Louisiana, in slaves, but that aristocracy is as dead as itself, and there is nothing to replace it. It died with and is just as 1 and unreplaced the vaunted aristocracy, of which one hears so much and sees so little nowadays. real aris- tocracy of white and black, if there were such things, finds lavery as Southern white One who was acquainted with thi much to amuse him in the spurious aristocracy of the present. The claims of certain Southern white people to be representative of the old Southern gentility are enough to make many an old white-cravat patrician turn in his grave and groan, and if the real negro aristocrat of the days of slavery could but see the modern negro aristoc racy, W hich is graded on the per cent. of white blood in the veins of its possessors, it would make him burst the bra buttons off his waistcoat in swelling indignation. The dead and extinct guild or caste of black aristocrats | lords, nabobs and tyrants over black and white alike, was the Southern slave butler, or ‘‘dining-room servant,” as he was then called. Arrayed on the farther side of the Styx ir horse troopers, Stonewall’s foot cavalry, Alexander’s artillery and Pickett’s infantry, my fancy sees a dead phalanx of ebony ‘‘Uncles.”” The soldiers moved in gallant companies, their mastery disputed at every and their end a blaze of glory. The butlers ruled as sole despots over little undisputed worlds, wielding a power which no one questioned, and fell by a stroke which, it the effort to elevate them, annihilated them. However welcome theoretical freedom may have beer to them when it came, the last one of them lived to realiz in bitterness that emancipation stripped them of their dignities and citize nship destroye d the ir power; that when at the end of the a distinct group, along with the shades of black horse, Stuart’s te p great struggle, their masters fell, they fel also beneath the structure that was pulled down. There were n abl reat spectacles consequent upon the g ocial of the Civil War, but none more patheti than th ancient family butler cast adrift, much ir the pli hat broken-down race-horse described a vorthless f vorlk expel e to Keep, and too valuable to kill Time has nearly leveled the pile of rubbish left where the palace of slave ry le ll. Let ustry to reconstruct in fancy ons f the pillars that stood aft its hospitable, ever-open door way 1 in doing so let us drop generalities and descend cula I was a child every family of any consequences ts domestic establishment one individual knowr dir room servant. I have described our own fice it to say of him here that his power and the head of the and that he was much more ever-present and ex acting in his demands than the only persons in the world whom he admitted to be his superiors —his master and his : ° , importance were second Only to those of nouse, mistress One of the earliest stories I recall related to a confiden- tial talk between one of these worthies and his mistress the widow of the master who had but recently departed this life. Colonel , an esteemed neighbor of ours, had been gathered to his rest, full of years and full of honors

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He was not strictly a godly man, having been fond of the good things of this life, and given, under provocation, to strong expletives. Uncle Levin was his butler, devoted to his person, and cherished his memory with great reverence. Uncle Levin was a strict church member and had often been shocked by his master’s indulgence in profanity and occasion ally by his inclination to strong drink. Not- withstanding these slight defects, he believed him to have been one of the best men in the world, and, as we shall see, the subject of his master’s future state had caused him anxious thought. After the Colonel's death, Mistress secluded herself during her period of mourn ing, but the time came when she felt that her spirit would be soothed and comforted by tendance at church, for she, too, was a godly woman. She wished to go first to the sanctuary is nearly as possible alone, and she chose on thi ecasion to be driven there by Levin, whom she knew to be nearer to her husband than any other person but herself. Accordingly the lit- ollowing tle carriage’’ was ordered on the Sunday. There wes always a big carriage and a little one, and Lev.o was the driver It was a trying drive. It was the first time she had ridden over the old familiar spots alone since the departure of her husband. Levin sat o1 the front seat and she on the back He had too much regard for her grief to intrude upon it while she wept in silence. After a while she found relief in communing with her husband trusted friend. ‘Ah, Levin,” said she, wiping her tears away, “every spot reminds me of him ‘“Yes'm,”’ said Levin, sure that this opening sentence would be followed by others ‘Levin, we never had a friend like him,” said the widow mournfully. ‘No'm, dat we didn't. Nobody else never had no friend like him, nuther!”’ ‘*Levin,”’ said his mistress, ‘‘we shall soon join him in Heaven.” ‘*Yes'’m,”’ said Levin, but there was a doubt implied in Levin's tone, for he was a conscien- tious man, and the jealous love of the mistress letected the doubt. ‘Levin, don’t you believe your master's soul is in Heaven?” she asked. ‘*T hope so, Missus,”’ said Levin, reaching for his whip and flicking a fly from the rump of the old speckled gray “Don’t you know so?” said she, in anxious inquiry, her voice rising as if to force him to reassure her No'm,” said he: ‘‘’cos ole Marster cussed powerful sometimes.” Oh, Levin, you will break my heart!” said she. ‘* You n't think your master’s gone to Hell, do you, Levir Oh! no, ma’am !” was the vigorous reply, ‘‘dat he ean’t No sech man as Marster ever went to Hell “Then he must be in Heaven,” she protested Don't you think so?” ‘*Well, Missus,”’ said Levin, rubbing his chin with the back of his glove, “1 has thought of it a great deal sense ol Marster died. I kn he didn’t go to // but I don't *xactly see how he got into Heaver Then where is he appealingly. ‘‘Well'm, if you ax me, I will tell you. I believe dat fur a man like Marster, dar is a place called Lincumpinch, which is not 'xactly Heaven, but nex’ do’ to Heaven, whar exclaimed the desperate widow folks dat is good can go, and cuss a little, and take a drink occasionally, and be hap I was about eleven years old when my sister was en- gaged to be married, and I was made the bearer of many love-notes to her fianes of Presbyterians who lived in a great brick mansion at the corner of Fifth and Main Streets, Richmond, Virginia They were wealthy, and their house was the model of a Presbyterian palace. Every red brick in it looked as if it had been washed. The iron railings around the painted three or four times a year. The grass was cut as smooth asacarpet. The magnolia trees stood on the lawn in exact cultivated circles His parents wer ra were The marble portico steps ar 1 approach to the house were as spotless as table linen, and the Corinthian pillars on the porch gleamed so with white paint that it hurt my eyes. The front door was of solid Hev ot ai Tt? } Haug L, ne | Lce t l W ver-led eve ! tache i pearar pearance dentiy expe manners: | me lesecrat S able played arou What a my rn irbit ih ] ud he dirt you d over de pl aidan t ut j } uit aul exclar it mew which Ww cant t « I THE SATURDAY EVENING Haughtiness, Contempt, Rage and Impatience Played Around His Countenance Like the Dancing of Flames POST he f ty rt I ‘ ‘ ul ’ i I } I | } t

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 17, 1906 HONEST DOLLA ARLY last century a sarcastic gentle man on the other de of the water remarked thought of the American seaboard as that he alway one vast, interminable counter. The observation was not meant in any flattering something init which made bitterness been asked: Is thing ? Need it re pre sent what Or, like every- and there wa Americans with But the que of its own nature ar is mart and tricky thing else in the onl Sense take it uncommon ' ion might have a counter iznoble and oily-fingered ? material world, can it of necessity possess those ch are lent to it by the When Cambronne, qualities wh spirit of mal tanding in that last square at Waterloo, was called upon to lay down his arms, he did not trike his breast and er lhe Old Guard dies, but never irrenders! hat was put into his mouth by a bleating, lad bo poet tie emitted a single word, an expre ion not only ligar, but “low vulgar the vocabulary of Frenchmen there has been a halo about it ever since! Cherefore it 1 ht have oceurred to our grandfather that there is hope also for the counter And in May, IS at Cor av, Massachusett there was born ar ndl- i ho t} h tha inter which had ‘ re ( e be re Marst bie » many of his kind, came of good, t Ya et t His father was reckoned a h drive ! t orked the lad at home, he gave hir nl ( mon-school educatior it also several year r he a 1 t Amherst Ther ne he a eventeen, he t | nto the Pittsfield general store Deace Da the of that empori iver t t nda ! ne cler| make “a ‘ nant i thousand year What ‘ re pl to that do no now be is alwa eticent ene But he pre had his own thought In any case e find fiir tayvir vith the Deacon until he as twent one Then he drew } ry I from the bank and took the big road for Chicage hieu 1tosa ite that ever nan has two education one } h he on ‘ from other ar a second more importar hat } é niy elf We kme little about those | f t t #* may take for granted that be ‘ y t ed |} econd education had begur Fy hin four vear fter } ari il C} wo he had reached business dignity as the junior partner ina big dry and Potter Palmer. If to these na e add that of Philip Lb. Ar ! et e Chica Ar , in tf conne t avine that y ense has bee ‘ i ne ! t he en earl on ‘ the ible y (} ] ible 4 re b are ! I 1 1 t I " ‘ ( " . ta . al at t i ne i yue Pha ‘ : na . ell} pa ‘i ‘ ‘ } i ‘ ‘ ! ya P er Wa e olde he is alrea i kind of I ‘ trace he so-called Field prir pie of making a store a public utility and convenience, of selling with the pr ore How They Were Made: How They Still Can be Made By ARTHUR E. MCFARLANE Marshall Field in general, of giving something for not! cn fl: part of exchange, and, ng. Leiter supplied an energy wh dav nor by night Field, for hi ties sufficiently rare rired neither ty ,evineed three qual in the same person: a genius for or- punization, a Vvearning for new thing , and an eternal The triothrove from the beginning him. He pro- cautionintrvingt hem In 1SG7 Palmer's health began to worry posed to the two vounger partners that they should buy him out They were t pa hir what the coul Cas! nd give him their note 1 the balances At th me Field, at lea \ till sleeping above the store, which does not bespeak ¢ iperabundance of read) money But he was as eager as Leiter to grasp the opportunity Now, one of the erroneous deas repgar ny the mn vhich have rece ed Ve pene credence hat he never g ea note In the case of tl retirement of Palmer alor with Leiter he g ome ver large one and those notes had a series of painful and humiliating renewal But in experience 1} paid Field interest for the remainder of his life He made the ple of | Minas l Having planted th shoot from the tree « aor and behe t airead promising f no uncertain shade and shelter, with his part ner permission he proceeded to set forth a econd sprou And though, according to I eld, t came fr the same parent trunk as its pred- ecessor, for a long time it looked to Leiter horribly like a itting from the idiv upa Chev were doing a wholesale i Vell as a retail trade i! ‘ 1 Wholesale Leiter had often it ed to himself a business paradise in which he ia Dp ol y te i ind always be paid himself in cash Field, agair n t arguments Of reas ind | " iture, reversed tf He and his partner were t iv the sh. and the cust er ere to get the time But, mark it, it was not to be “‘long time It was t ‘ horte me i of the other Chicas wholesalers ere offering them! Could anv departure be better calculated f the alienation of trad Wer remember, tox hat hat t e the small torekeepers of the West were about as heerfully haphazard in the matter of meeting paper as ha ever been a matter of gloom record in the commercial urencie In the opinion of Field & Leiter's competitors, they needed encouragement Field decided that he could best offer them encouragement by making his through its «¢ ash firm able, buying, to put them in goods at and then to insist that in the course of things prices listed before 7 } ence never a bargain was a baryair ilures ensued —which failures might otherwise have staved off for a year or And after that an influence for good business methods—for prudence and forehandedness and punctuality —began to make itself felt from the Mississippi to the Pacific. It extended itself with the extension of what was to be vastly the greatest business ever done upon this or any other continent. And it is the standing legacy of the mighty Chicago house to-day. Sometime a chapter of the country’s commercial history will be written under the heading: ‘‘Sixty Days Net. As for the reflex action of the departure upon the imme- fortunes of Field & Leiter, by 1870 they making an annual turnover”’ of $8,000,000. And although in the great fire of the ensuing year, by the failure of certain insurance bee two. diate “were companies, they lost a clear million which the should never have lost at all, theirs was the only Chicago dry goods con pany which had to ask for no extension of credit over all So great an advantage, rivals that might have been said to be for them While the indeed, did this give them that the fire fortune Field himself confessed a piece of great good engines were still play on the embe the opened up in the old car-barns o1 corner cf Twentieth and State Stree The had nave er alwa broken one of the “‘safe rule r trade’’ by doir both a wholesale and a retail busine it the t me Now the two were at any rate given separate housing Upon the old State and Washington site went up that block-front structure which \ to be for twenty vears one of the Chicago landmark The wholesale busir a given a block to « xpand in at Madison and Market B annual retail trade had grown to $19,000,000 iyure surpassed only by \ lr IST5 the t Stewa t's famous hous« New York. In 1881, the year in which Leiter retired, a turnover” of S30,000.000 ended Stewart preéminence forever And the big Field ‘‘ general staff"’ rejoiced young lions who have not merely sought their pre have found it Yet the proper business of this paper h underly principles, and not in the glorification of the outward de tails which make them manifest Nor must Leiter valu to the partnership be passed over too glancingly was steam-box, piston-rod and driving-wheel, all in one But it was Field who gave the “ power” its undreamed-~ and measureless act ithe In the first place, what was his chosen power It wi that of absolute honesty and fair dealing. On the surfa his must seem the flattest of truisms. But is it? Th: ++ Ff atnwel ] , . al: pe of storekeeping clevernes which, taking its standar from the thimbler r, regards a customer as some one to be done, still survi ‘smost plentifully among us. Eve own has its examples, and neither starvation nor banl iptev can teach then an\ thing is at least one very large To mv own knowledge and well-known s tore in New York where vou may buy blankets for pure wool which largely of very well-prepared cotton ne that all stores divide into the ndeed, almost sa\ believing that hone Sty pays and those believing it does ot Whether Marshall Field made honesty his rule mere] hecause it paid we shall be a position to | idge better Deacon Davis was a Very Short Time in Deciding that His New Clerk ** Would Not Make a Merchant in a Thousand Years”

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST later. For the present, a story told by Mayor Dunne understand what that mear He never bou ‘ may serve as some indication of how far the Field store of stock on margin; he did not th he w agood- rh e 4 came in the end to carry its rule of rules. He was buying guesser All short-cuts to wealth he regarded a i dt an umbrella, and upon the end of the counter he noticed runways over baited tray Breathing t air of ( several under a reduced-price card. The saleswoman ex- though he did, he never put ar ist in the plained that they were damaged. The mayor picked up he at all times carried a huge reset \\ ‘ one which, in honesty, he had to inform her was not dam- of | having plant aged at all. Oh, but it must be! And she went over it, Visdon With those herewith ad he stick, ribs and covering, until she found a tiny place which years possessed of a ndbreak capabl had been ripped and resewn She pointed It out an f agall i financial ¢ ” Ma imph! It is a kind of nuph which, I venture to sa rea ew rw cle ito Phe ‘ was signally uncommon in those good old days of non- but pretty boxwood hed, advertising dignity, which, we are told to believe, possessed Yet upon theattitudeof his« - principles that our own pushful and vessive days can every owner of a great retail store ultimat: eper never wot of. The principle that a clerk may misrepreser of Field's employees tells us that two prineipl ‘ i} to a certain extent ‘‘for the good of the firm” is hardly a to govert one wa Istice he oche Val ‘ modern one. Under the Field régime, the clerk who mis Marshall Field early instituted a kind ervics } represented once for the good of the fir n, and was found ov Detailed records were kept out, never did it again —for the good of his own soul ployes sales, but of his or her deportment t } Now for some business tenets in the regular, but | narrower, acceptance of the end of the , phrase If Field paid cash, , he saw, too, that he received ‘ } his cash discounts. Thess f discounts he deducted from I} ere he Within Four Years After His Arrival in Chiceze He Hed his retail prices, and he con ‘ ' ' “ener eats: Cone ie nae ates etre dered that they must al in a Big Dry-Goods H Wa Prive ni one great 1 } i intage over ft ompeti } \ j \ . tors so they did, unt 1 hi } ' a competitors began to go t ilways a hat ry hard In the e of money he } i ( : * guided |} self at all time I by th veeping assump h mucl lth ite tion: only that capital which ne ht me } } " had Is a in in absolute free ul H. J. W I ( \ bh } f do can be of any actua HI both 1 « | value to hin The most h } } i } } peciously attractive of op to five ! \} Mr | . Y th portunities could not induc na sala ( | } } hief"’ t Field to borrow Fifteer fortun rom ( ve } yy illion dollars’ worth of re } often { \ } to th t Chicago real estate, while he | udement f S t , } | M hall Field — ‘ posse ssed it, never knew a ! He read h i f ha nay ' mortgage —and only those ee ee eee motives and gauged the part lar aptitude t I om tI | ! I ‘ who went through the hard- Which in the Last Resort Only individual aln t clairvovant! He eould bot} \ he To ery ' hi } time years with him can Honesty Can Inspire pick a good man and put that good man where | THE HAND OF HOLOFERNES panne alte oes) ~~ Dar, BahbuKanda’s Nemesis _ * 'The first thing on 1 ! ! rhe } ¢ Ti} ‘ at ie tatiana a Bi ee 1 be aske >} you met he Vl le? the Bal they called hit und rae of at fot wor chen Te BY ARTHUR TRAIN | eevtissrms tretidien rte Son mere boy, and I were to ea thousand pages, iMeents at th , hop perfectly f should never be ‘ NEO / Author of McAllister and His Double Yh, Iie nder, that Babu! ther trade FERINGHEA fhe Supapat Mosth earn » SSUR-REDLY it is a gr-reat pleasure aid Docto row of brass-bound ports for window eal trange pair to have hit th ‘ , Bahbukanda softly, displaying a gleaming row of head and a swinging lamp moment ! ltl | } rath i distast white teeth It is indeed my misfortune that we The ship's eloe truck eight bells as the stewar | for Hir | i ' n excention have not met here-to-fore. Colonel North is well know should say waiter -filled the last ‘ passed it to We fn { Bal for } thr-roughout India.” and left the room ited aol falls . ak alt “ ‘Glad to know you, Doctor,’’ responded North I reeal \h hed Nort! twelve ) Tust t for n of Not to | i } id seeing you on the P. and ©. Dock in Bombay the dav | hort cigar } be \\ | } ‘ sailed. And I've a strong impression that I’ve rut ‘inst North het ntvpeofal } | } | { you somewhere else, before that — Nepal, perhaps.” but no one could help liking hit he { It is hardly pr-robable,”’ replied the other, a shade les and tanned and unsuspecting, and none of ! { } t} ‘ i the nicht effusively ‘Po you r-return soon] he added with months laterthat he wasa V.( me att nthe Kt N I t seeming indifference I belie He had been out West ona lo } Yes, on Saturday, answered the Colonel, sighting his and was now on | wav back to join | rermment in O } | . cigar and glancing around the room stopping over with one or two good lett. manner his ‘Ah-h~ the Cedrie? We shall, then, be hip compan- — slow-spoken chap, a little matter-of-fact, perl but } ions. I am myself sailing thereor kind one likes to thir f i Soldier of the Q ' ail Ah,’ politely echoed North Indeed He twisted Doctor Bal inda had dropped fre no o1 Hoat nth his tawny mustache absent-minded| where at al tL the ! t Hye eared ¢ t ! It was the very last place in the world for anything to more ready to talk about his God th f hit =. happer nthe little upstairs pipe-room at the Yacht Club, body had asked to lecture before The Th where I had dragged a few men equally bored by an inor- eal, and he had dea t hit — espe dinately stupid dinner farther up tow: wi fe Y 1 i here ere x ol ull told Ned Belle , the «¢ far ! na district attorne Flandrau, Webb, Colonel North, Doctor with ’ t \ : Bahbukanda, and myself Afterward, in the light of what heer re } ; ' , occurred, it seemed a bit ange th I should have chose oO Na ir f R } ‘ ’ ! \ that particular room, furnished as it was after a whim of astra pe nm of 1 ' r habit ) ™ ] ‘ the architect to resemble a small cabin on shipboard, witha _ part lar use see ) I t Note — It is true that, according to a Thuggee and Dacoity Report master for dialogue with the thin air t | for 1879, the number of registered Punjabi and Hindustar Thug Undeniably however t he t ter } Bahbul | Det | ame hh the al ar nted to 344. Buta had n j tonishit { mat 1 { .

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and had come back on the Volga. As he didn’t take the stand in his own behalf I really never found out much about him, but he was a fat, Deely chap with child- ish gray eyes and a big red be if j “The steamer was full and Jenkins was assigned toaroom on the lower deck which happened to be oc- cupied by a Hindu No Doctor you set your being here no doubt otfense vested the thing to me The Babu grinned good- naturedly and gracefully lit a Cigarette No one k new anything about the feliow exc pt that he booked from Southamp- ton, wore a rich native dress and kept entirely to himself of Rhutti Kahr Colonel North glanced quickly at Bellows across his glass t morning out, when the steward came to fix up the room, he found the Hindu strangled to death in his He registered under the name bu and Jenkins feigning sleep in the berth above. On the floor lay a solid silver box, about ten inches in length and four in height, the cover of which was open upon its hinges pt The key was found under the Hindu’s robes fastened to a thin silver chain about his neck, and attached th me chain was a curious little ilver pickaxe with the t head of ani n the haft of it— some hoodoo or other lor r ther asn't a paper or a mark on the body to tell who or what he was, except some characters in Hindu tattooed on the de of his right elbow. The interpreter at the courts said it was the name of a god Well, it was clear that the Hindu had been murdered that was plain enough —and the motive in all likelihood had robber astly, Jenkir refused to say anything ttt id e of cour l That was the queer part of I wi ! itfirm or denva ngle fact And ina belt around h body next the skin there were found two or three pear! necklace f considerable value Was the door of the stateroom open or locked?" asked Webl | ( t i t i } t but locke 1 Ry Wy +} n ia ina Evervth to J ind her no I have never seen a man act so strange In fact, at times | almost thought the fel v had erazy and killed the Hindu in a period of mania —epileptic explosiot fy you know. But t doct reported that | as sound as a drum, and mere ner il exe 1 | he « e Came on tor ¢ He was defended by Croo k ib vy. Croo} t i t { et I t if i t t! t T There ! ithe « port ne irenty t ‘ he probat extra the ¢ I Itt the pe concealed ‘ Jenk per the t that the Hi ‘ ldn't have bee neied t! Jer Kr ‘ ethir ot what " ‘ iT that way v t mak 3 I 7 t i | at if il ( i ; It made a} rong case curiou ‘ h, I me rt la il t ™~ et vw, I be eJ had done t I « tt I ( He t You in't ‘ it i i there he Dar and } d } if | ( 1 tu eT Hit era i t t i . ' t} ! | ‘ ‘ RI K itr i, i 1 the ‘ en W When the | evi ill 1 { ( na ind J i | row , ( at +} } ( har ‘ ndigna kept shaki his head while } veat stood out in beads upon | ad Then Crookshanl ed testily that there would | ( def e, and that the ‘ ld by t} I ‘ ‘ am ” th I ip the a ‘ I ir a ut t ve ised i Ke t wild hor “LT had Only Time to See that on a Cube of White Rock, Between Him and the Door of the Cave, Lay a Small, Reddish-Black Object with What Seemed to be Fingers” ‘Well, if you'll believe it, the jury stayed out forty-eight hours and split even. They stood six for conviction and six for acquittal from the very first ballot. You never can tell what those fellows will do. The funny part of it was that just as soon as I got through summing up the case I myself ceased to believe that Jenkins was guilty. It’s a queer thing that — to have all the evidence one way, and all the feel of a thing the other ‘*We tried Jenkins three times and every time with the same result —six to six. Half held that we'd proved our case and half that we hadn't. Only the last six could never say why. Almost everybody on the professional staff took I didn’t try him after the first time but it was no use. And after the third trial he was dis- charged on his own recognizance. Then he disappeared nobody ever heard of him again. ‘*Well, gentlemen, that was the strangest case I ever tried. But, as I said in the first place, I can't tell you why. Flandrau, hand me that siphon, will you, please?’”’ “*Well, | think it was clear enough,”’ said Webb. ‘‘If he was innocent why didn’t he say so?”’ “Come, come!" I retorted. ‘‘What motive could Jenkins have had to kill the Hindu? As for the pearls he was probably smuggling them in for some jewelry firm as a little flyer on his own account.” ‘‘Nonsense! At all events he had as much motive to do the thing as he had to refrain from a denial of it,’ returned Webb tartly ‘I don't think the case Was prove ” ig a whack at Jenkins I answered. ‘‘Some one else might have done it. The door was unlocked.” ut he must have known what was going on—it takes three minutes to strangle a man, and there are unconscious, involuntary paroxysms of extraordinary violence "’ inter- jected Flandrau. “IT don’t care,” I re plic d. ‘‘The fact that the contents of the casket seemed to be missing tends to show that some one else committed the murder and removed the proceeds of the crime. The pearls were in a belt, and so far as we know be longed to Jenkins Old Bellows laughed There you are,” said he; ‘ the thing happened ten years ago and it’s just as much of a puzzle as ever. Let’s take a vote. Those in favor of guilty hold up their hands.”’ Doctor Flandrau, Webb and the Babu held them up. ‘““Now, not guilty Old Bellows, Colonel North and myself came valiantly to the succor of the hitherto forgotten Jenkin The Babu Returned the Colonel's Gaze Unflinchingly Str-range Tale that You Tell,”’ He Remarked SATURDAY EVENING POST “ This is a February 17, 1906 Bellows drained his glass. “‘An even split!” he cried. ‘‘ Just where we stood ten years ago.”’ A pause followed, dur- ing which a back draft through one of the ports sent it clanging to and made the big swinging Jamp flare wildly for an instant ‘Mr. Bellows,” said the Colonel slowly, ‘it’s a rather unpleasant question, don’t you know, but wer there any marks on Rhut Kahn’s neck to indicate how he’d been strangled ? “Only a thin, faint, bluish line,’”’ answered the ex-prosecutor. ‘* Evidently a silken cord or a handker- chief It was almost imperceptible.” A soft laugh from the Babu grated on my ear like a file, and the others, too, all looked in his direction. ‘*Colonel North is think-ing,”’ said he, ‘‘of what he has seen in Hind. Eh, am I not r-right? Of the Phansigar? North nodded gravely. “Yes, I was thinking of something I had seen, though not, I fancy, of what Doctor Bahbukanda supposes. I be- lieve I once met your chap Jenkins—although, to be sure I never knew his name. But he had a red beard.”’ “‘Indeed!”’ cried Bellows. ‘‘Where? In the West?” “Hardly,” was the reply. ‘‘If it was really Jenkins, he had left the West about as effectually as possibk mind and spirit.”’ ‘“‘What’s the answer?” laughed Webb. conundrums, vou know, are out of fashion have time for ’em.’ “It was in the Punjab,’’ replied North “The Punjab!” we exclaimed. ‘*Precisely,”” drawled the officer. The Punjab. It’s quiteabitofayarn. But the thing certainly is jolly queer.” The ship’s clock struck two bells ‘*Let’s have it,” exclaimed Bellows. “It is one o’clock,”’ polite ly remarked the Babu chance Colonel Nor-rth is tired.” “Not at all, thank you, Doctor,’’ re plied North. ‘*The fact is, 1] knew Rhutti Kahn, too, rather well.” ’ shouted Webb ‘You don’t say! Who body, “Over here, We don't ‘*Per- mm By George!’ was he?” ‘“‘Those who didn’t know,” answered North, was a jewel merchant in the bazar at Lahore year he made a journey to buy gems—so he gave out. In reality he was a Thug. You know there was a sort of re- vival of Thuggee from about ’91 to’98. The Government had rested securely on the work of Lord Bentinck and Major Sleeman, who had practically, as every body thought, put an end to it ’'way back in’35. Then came a crop of stranglings in out-of-the-way places and the Secret Service began to get a bit uneasy a trip to Pithoiagarh and Askote where I'd been getting up the Raot forest wildmen, you know bit of a paper on them for the R. A. S. Every little counts, you understand, ‘Well, back I had to come to serve on the commission There was Major Hillhurst, Belknap of the 187th Goorkhas, and myself. Belknap had been selected because he’d mad a study of the subject for the Society He knew ever, Thuggee and Dacoity report from cover to cover, and wa the Thug secret Jargon) and on native worships ‘*said he Twice a I remember, I was recalled from intenaing to do a an authority on Ramasi and occult practices In gen “al He'd put his conclusions in a report (filed it lot of talk. He ree, which Was *SS) that caused ; contended that T a religion, or better, a religious busi ness, could no more be sltampe d out the outbursts « than Masonry, an the nineties was right ‘We decided to proceed on the Sleeman basis and compel some Kae to turn state’s evidence. From infor mation which we had obtained we were led to suspect Rhutti Kahr He was arrested, confessed 1d mace what was practically a complete di closure. It appeared that, while still worshiping DeviorKaliand Bohwanee, the Thugs, originally only Phansigar stranglers —had taken up new meth ods, new fetishes, and had, in fact, become assassins and avengers in the more ordinary sense. In addition, the ramifications of Thuggee had spread through all castes and into the highest places. His statements were startling >

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i inthe extreme. The Thugs still swallowed the goorandwor- and I touched it, wonderir hat was coming. He se h the flay vhen he look« ind saw it was? 4 shiped the sacred pickaxe, but only in the nature of aritual to be having great difficult n articulation, but } i | and not as an act of immediat« preparation as in the old — effort was an impr t t \\ \ ] { days. Well, he gave us sufficient information to enable u I am dving ‘ t I rar mt \\ \ Hy in the course of four or five years lo stamp the thing out will « e back soon and } t} j I") again—apparently, although to-day hare Belkr } ‘ He ived |} view that Thuggism will last, in some form or other, as long mething Then he lider er T his } Hi as India. After we had squeezed him d we turne ? tent f da I all th Rhutti Kahn loose We couldn't very we have an execu t it of my med r t ! tT th t tion, out of common decency, don’t you kt ir " I lrear wa how, we knew the Thugs would take care of that Wher Ky tir 4 did you say Jenkins was tried?’ Bohwanee’ and ‘Kk \ i ** Eighteen-Ninety-Five,” answered Bell And you irms ar eem to be } | He} think Rhutti Kahn was strangled in revenge he would et the 3 ! | he ild 1 Colonel North shrugged his shoulder mardat Again he ca . iil) ? ' **You said there were two Hindus in the steerage. Ther the ddess « i 1 } a always did the trick with a noose He never left } pallet ut he died; the f | “One would think you'd be a trifle unpopular with the rotten into } hone i} bervars, yourself,”’ remarked Webb pite of | red beard i i t } North laughed good naturedly, man. But his eves told the story. bright } t } , } eon “That's what I’m for,” said he. ‘‘I suppose my work always fixed on the flap of the tent. I mad Cop] did make me rather a mark, but they | burned never molest Europeans. Anyhow, it | hung a | } in the day’s work. , 1, “Pity we didn’t know this before we } The Hl tried Jenkins,’’ muttered Bellow I } } never heard of this Thug business. I suy rool posed Th igs grew on the Bows ry. Any- way, it’s a mere hypothesis. It isn't \ I } conclusive ( ‘ ! i} } 1 ‘“‘*But how about Jenkins?” exclaimed cl t a Webb il “Oh, that was ten years later,’’ continued Then } North. ‘‘ Last summer, infact. AsI said, I { ‘ | } , ' don’t know that it Jenkins, really —only ’ i ; there could hardly have been two of ‘em, { } ad. vy t} don't youknow. It was arum experience, | hand or a ha anyhow.” ‘ } , c} The Babustifled a politeyawn and looked } inquiringly the clock. Then, as the ‘ } of at Colonel began again, he lit another cigarett« , and poured Out a lew more drops of soda Ik f us } ‘ } water. f “Tt was this way: The 12th. was ordered oi. out to Puydah, just at the edge of the jun } he pur ' gle. One morning I pinked a tiger and notl followed him with my trackers a long di The 1 i} | tance into the hills. At last we entered a i e | i heavy forest growth. On we went for a } | f Jeni o mile or more and then came flat against a , i brit j big pile of rocks, through one of the crevice , XK ‘ \ in which the trackers said the tiger had , nd the H slipped. I left my orderly to watch the rt ie entrance of the place and made my way, } red | rifle cocked, around the pile, hoping to { } he { t} make the opposite side of the rock in time H ! he T) eo forashot. The land rose a bit as I went on, t | } and, plunging suddenly through the thicket, } " I found myself in an extraordinarily curious place. Overhead the trees met so as to | f make a kind of deep twilight. On one side | sid | the rock had been roughly piled together ; 4 he ‘I into what suggested the entrance to a tomb, aid * * ‘ } } iu with one big slab for a lintel. A fire smoked ( { in the centre of the clearing, before which Hse, wh tds -” } on his haunches sat a tall man in native é J } dress, with a red beard and staring bright “You Can Imagine What Effect that Kind of a Performance Would Have Mad ene H eyes that shifted in my direction and re- Fat Chap Just About Comfortably to Turn In” mained glaring at my face when I broke | through. He did not speak or rise, and I had only time t ‘ n ¢ ped cor t see that on a cube of white rock, between him and the door viet! he thought i ipernatu nes } of the cave, lay a small, reddish-black object with what Of « ae ild ge fi ‘ { | seemed to be fingers, before I heard my orderly shouting km n ther hat I ne } bye faintly, ‘Tiger! Tiger!’ I turned and crashed through He would touch | bre he sp } the brush. It took me twenty minutes to find my manand doing that Phere I ! \ t to lr when I had done so the tiger was gone I don’t believe ir with eat | ] ‘ { bothering natives —it never pays—else I should have gone had played a part the trar He back to look at my red-bearded man. But any curiosity I on th pect of it, and I press | might have had to do so was balanced by the unpleasant fact of the matter that he had tl ness of the thing on the white stone. He appeared to bi not to be spoken of, int: ‘ r t ] i 4 worshiping it 4nd these thir ever th } . , , | ' “Three nights dater, as I sat reading in 1 tent —I re cr ed } nes of life in the § \ | | I member it was swelter ng mv servant came to the fiap hov incant t a itt estol t! ! th Uf and said a native desired speech with m« man talking, with one hand c!ut it | ‘*** What is he like, Sagundar?’ I asked in Hind other t t he « “**He is mute, Sahib--accursed by the God ri expre d repeated me ‘ ‘ H has a red beard like unto McIlvaney Sahib of the ¢ cha i h having th I I ‘Let him approach,’ said I, ‘and be not distant in case I made out to be f with the whole rot er I bet ( his infirmity extend not to his arms as well Che fourth night, I found him star at had t t he **Soon Sagundar held back the flap and in walked m the wall of the ter nis teeth chatter ind! il t ! t nh ¢ t t Druid —but a jolly sick one if I know hing of jungle tretched in apparent supplication. As I entered he uttered ht the fir 7 nd tim fever. a loud er t to poor ! road awake in | ‘““*What is thy desire?’ I inquired. The Hand! The Hand! bunk, as if ere ng t from th all. H Sagundar had dropped the flay d see if we were alone. Then he licked his lips with a curious glass of water) and he shrieked agai ing ( tching! H ‘ lor he na hen da prt smacking sound and said ‘**The Hand! The Hand!’ began to filter in through the ports fell into a sleep of ‘**Creosote!’—then: ‘English’ then: ‘Weare white ‘Then he seized and clung to me like a child } ter utter exhaustior a king to find it nearl lune} ‘ man.’ He held out a skinny hand from beneath his robe withfright. I di and my Druid turned to ‘*The shadow moved (it was from a flower placed it turned his back, vet he e« l see it there behind him clute}

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The Store of Nuts Laid Up for a Severe Season Another old saying has it that when a severe cyclone evisited my boyhood home in th near birds become puzzled, fly in circles, dart about and had my first lesson on the petuously and are easily entrapped. Thi no doubt veather prophets recalled to me ina well founded. It corresponds with my own observation "ing Way One of the first memories and, I believe, with those of lighthouss keepers t foot on the old home place wasthat whoare in favorable position for observation. So I called it faking my daughter mat birds dash themselves against the windows of “lights” that the glass has to be carefully pro how you how I used to get my winter ected by strong screens. Of course, birds driver all cracked and shucked, too the teeth of a storm go against the lights, but rh the woods unt | reached th so do many before they are actually eaught by timed is, girls istas it the storm ole up t That is right at th When birds cease to sing der nest ther helped me tay ll probably oceur Phat may be, and doubt nd as we took out several quarts of less is, all rignt as applied to certain kinds of at we were going to ha 1 sever birds, but its application is by no mean il Ked him to expla 4 he to ike tne pin, lor instance Who that ves i the red sq reis knew ! 1 col he country has not repeatedly heard a score of i that the store of nuts laid up f t mes the cheerful song of robin when a wart aniably larger th wher r r as drenching the thirsty ground Pow which the be able t iy much importance ilso attached, it seems to me lorayve f m da i to the i 1 ind fowl ling feathe itl topp in and juir i ter t | accepted tt theor arafter year, And as tl t more careful rvation bre me to t rad i ¢ eact A t ] eoneiu if nat h the umost iia i ! ea ( ‘ p be " rm, the d ! ect t! i} I The q ‘ art « heir toile n dr eather, and conse al! Y que r ‘ ? ea i ther t char ter the ime categor I place the tra or na t} } vhen fow | in the dust ra it hand Ir 4 ‘ the ad tic 10 Is a inreliat 7 ‘ , ather indicator the hok } Natives of the arid district of Western 17 i i ( here the famous bat cave are located, will t red had p “ ‘ uu that you need have no better storm indica n the gro th I is t \ i urious creatures If they are out Lelts t ea sing the night hideous with their Weather Folklore, the Departme: neann\ then you may look out for a Was Invariably Larger than When a Mild Winter was at Hand Lower Animals By NAT WETZEL E ARE told by the sci entists of the United States Weather Bu reau that fore and I have found particular delight in going over those relating to birds and animals. As there is not a more interesting way of getting at the weather instinct of the furred and feathered creatures than by a survey of these odd old saws and maxims, let us take a quick and passing glance at some of them as they are presented in this official bulletin ‘When birds of long flight hang about home, expect a torm.’ All my experience goes to show that the revers« of this statement is true. Depend upon it, when ducks feed early and begin to fly about in a nervous and restless I have observed the truth of casting the tate of the for more than a few days weather fashion a storm is on its way ahead is still this literally hundreds of times, until it has come to seem mere guess strange to me that so patent a phenomenon should have work and no t caped the attention of any man who shoots ducks or who doubt this i lives in a country frequented by them ecerrect so far Not very long nee I was out witha party of hunters a man the neighborhood of Corpus Christi, the greatest duc prophetic country on the Gulf coast, where millions of teal, mallards labors are and other varieties spend the winter. The day was mild eoncerned However, the little w and clear and every prospect was of peace and pleasantness To any person not familiar with bird-signs there was every thing to indicate of the delightful weather of the moment and nothing whatever to suggest approach a continuance eatnet in furs and ing inclemency, let alone a storm feathe have But I saw wedges of ducks darting and circling about in strange gift the upper air alighting for a moment, perhaps, and then taking to wing again. of prophee which enabl Gentlemen,”’ I remarked to my companions, ‘ we'rs going to have a hard storm in the course of a few hours This suggestion was received with shouts of laughter and I was at once offered very substantial wagers as a proof of an accuracy the derision in which they held my powers as a weather | of them paused to inquire upon absurd forecast —~we had been in camp h of weather bulletins or signals to make stance asts with prophet Finally one I hased my human scien and out of rea and I said Wait fortwo days and then | batting tothe what i for several ron da\ ll tell vou The very Norther” that When the storm ercest | took occasion to remind them of how the duck next day we caught a regular ‘ made us curl up and hug the camp fire Was had been fly ing the day before and to «¢ xplain my theories I ding birds, animals and weather Geese have the same general ha ensitive weather barometers as bits as ducks and are just their smaller cousins THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Weather Prophets in Furs and Feathers A Look into the Weather Bureau of the Rabbits Hate a Cold North Wind, and the Moment One Comes Up it’s No Use to Look for a Cottontail on the North Side of a Hill February 17, 1906 The raccoon is a clever little forecaster, so far as the coming of soft weather is con- cerned. Time and time again, when there was so tight a freeze that the animals would leave no tracks on the crust, I have heard the ‘‘holler”’ of a coon and remarked : ‘‘Things are going to warm up to-morrow, and we'll be able to track coons in the snow.”’ I do not reeall a single instance in which that prophecy failed to come true. If the weather is going to keep tight and cold Mr. Coon will lie quiet and snug in his home ina tree; but if there's a ‘‘ break up” coming he is about the first to feel it in his bones and he just does a little ‘‘hollering’’ to tell the wise ones about it ‘*When chimney swallows circle and call they speak o rain”’ is a saying accredited to the Zufi Indians; at an) rate, it is a shrewd observation and one which a little observation of these interesting birds will confirn smaller f The crane is a bird which figures prominently in weather foik- lore. One expression has it that ‘‘when cranes make a great noise or scream, expect rain.”’ It is not my obser vation that the approach of rain stirs up the cranes so much These birds hate the cold up a regular powwow when they feel its approach Another bird which holds the centre of the stage when it comes to folklore is the but he is suck sophisticated | coundrel that I do not and have any confidence in him asa weather prophet, or in at as the coming of cold and sleet and set crow ; a shrewd half-human other capacity outside of matching his wits against ma wits. ‘‘One crow flying alone is a sign of foul weather I if crows fly in pairs expect fair weather,’’ may sound very Wise, but, for the general reason which | have stated | attach no weight to it. There is only one movement of the crow which, in my experience, has any weather sig nificance. Immediately before a cold storm the crows will assemble in a thick grove on the sheltered side of ah They are partial to a pine grove on the south side of a hill when this do« >the ‘*When the peacock loudly bawls Soon we'll have both rain and s juall Here is a saving that rc not expose them t« will be verified by tl experience of thousands of men who have had the advantage of a boyhood spent it the country’ I remember that our haying opera tions, when I was aiarm boy, were governed by the behavior of our neighbors’ pea fowl If they 4 set up a hollering when we had hay down there was a hustling to get it inand no chance were taken on leavit weatherge nerally veritied the adage lhave quoted. It is not too muchto call the peacock the first weather bureau; heissued hi bulletins to the ancient kings whenthiscountrs had not known tne la fa v} te malt Blackbirds ar fairly good fore casters at shor range t th camp-mer ' the ] he } p } th. y + ma it 4 A t next da . 5 ya liar tl r e early to r nh 1oa | ; i ea Te I ré to ne

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is probably true, although I have had small oppor- tunity to watch gulls, petrels and birds of that char- acter. What I do know is that ducks and geese will not strike out into deep water when there is a storm on the immediate pr Rather, they will beat back inland, if poss Speaking broadly, an im: change in the weather is sensed by the birds, and if that chang to a cold s then the birds become excited and show it cteristic cri dbva il rest lessness. » sense the char: mon weather much further in advanes o othe I have already spoken of the red squi i good long-distance forecaster Prairie chickens at are not far behind him in the display of this remar able faculty. If I lived in a locality where thes birds nest, and if I followed a business in which a knowledge of whether the su dry would be of material advantage to me, I'd ¢ I pra t 1? ' rl 4 little I \ il vf ] A ict ‘ } ’ I | I T té i months immediately succeeding the building of nests, he would know that the instinct the bird gets a line on the weather in a way that In my schooldays a ivorite pa ( the t was hunting sereech-owls— cutting them out of the holes in trees and stubs. We went forth ar i with axes and s iring the slashings We hadn't been ; this very long when I observed that we never found a screecher in a hole on the north side of a tree or stub, and that we seldom chopped into one having a th exposure that did not contain an « For a time I kept this interesting observation to myself and I would never choose as mine any nest not opening to the south Day after day the boys would ask, ‘‘H t chat youa i pick the hole vith f t i leave the empty or to Fina I told ther Because an owl has too much se ! ) 1 house that has its front door open to the north wind A nur ter who hz evena ] ttle pr ict 4 ! SS ipre of the weather habits of animals ean bring ho game The Incomplete Amorist NESBITT =a 111 — Continued geome two befor Bett oe B yY rn a certain youth of g Kaling, where he was received into a family in the capacity of Crammer's pup. The famil was the Crammer and his daughter, a hard ed, tigl mouthed, jlack-haired i! man who kne ‘ i what she wanted, and wh« int to gr Poverty had taught her to know what she nted. Natur and the folly of youth—not her own youth—taught her how to get it There were several pups. She selected the most eligible, secretly married him, the day of her death spoke and thought of the marriage as a love itch. He was a dre amy youth, who wrote verses and called the Crammer’s daughter his Egeria. She was too clever not to be kind to him, and he adored her and believed in her to the end, which came before his twenty-first birthda He broke his neck out hunting, and died before B His people, exasperated at the news of the marriage, threatened to try to invalidate it on the score of the falsi swearing that had been needed to get the boy of nineteen married to the woman of twenty-four. Egeria was fright- ened. She compromised for an annuity, of two hundred pour ds, to be continued to hér child ett Was born The passion of this woman’s life was power. One cannot be very power! i] with just two hr doubtful position as the widow of a boy whose relations are prepared to dispute one’s marriage. Mrs. Desmond spent three years in thought and in caring severely for the wants of her child. Then she bought four handsome dresses and some impressive bonnets, went to a hydro- pathic establishment, and looked about her Of the ligible men there Mr. Cecil Underwood seemed, on in- quiry, to be the most eligible So she married hit He resisted but little, for his parish needed a clergywoman sadly. The two hundred pounds was a welcome addition to an income depleted by the purchase of rare editions, and at the moment crippled by his recent acquisition of the & & Who that Lives in the Country eerful Song of a Robin When a Wa the with hir Mr Mrs. She rn cold f li the Ch | nand at Ce il ror eil Ur 1 her il Christmas dec she d done ed resentf her - dit au would go on ' mall t} Bett She her cons! loth ck ¢ moKe tor Was Drenching the have had had leit cer ban ‘ i a t} } i } hey » wf f ‘ i at 4 er } 7 , he } i } t i i t} a SATURDAY EVENING Has Not Rey m Rain Thirsty Ground ? POST Tox \ } ‘¥ } i } } } } } 7 ' 1 Ives a I ‘ of that \ } } } } j i i i ima } }

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The Reverend Cecil Underwood Stood Where He Was Left Till the Man He Had Struck Had Passed Out of Sight 1 hate flattery He has begun my portrait. It is beau- tiful, but he says it is exactly like me. Of course it is his painting that makes it beautiful, and not anything to do with me That is not flatts ry. I do not think he could s iy any thing unless he really thought it. He is that ] am so glad he is so good. If he sort of man, I think were a different sort of person pe rhaps it would not be quite nice for me to go and meet him without any one knowing But there is nothing of that t He was quite different the first day But I think then he was off his guard and could not help himself I don't know quite what I meant by that but, anyway, Iam sure he is as good as gold, and that is such a comfort. I revere him. I believe he is really noble and unselfish, and so few men , ; are, a1aS The noble and unselfish Vernon meanwhile was quite happy) His picture was going spk ndidly, and every morning he woke to the knowledge that his image filled all the thoughts of a good little girl with gray, dark, charming eyes and a face that reminded one of a pretty kitten. Her not half bad either. He was spared the mortifying labor of trying to make a silk purse out of a drawing was sow's ear He stood He took no step forward His rdle ful “brother artist If his hand touched hers as he corrected her drawing, that was Her pretty, conscious dignity charmed him. till to look at it was that of the deeply respect accident If, as he leaned over her, criticising her work, the wind sent the ends of her hair against his ear, that could hardly be avoided in a breezy English spring. It was not his fault that the little thrill it gave him was intensified a fold when, glancing at her, he perceive d that her hundre own ears had grown scar Betty went throuch her da in a dream There wer: all duties she hated—-the mothers’ meetings, the parish visits when s} ried to a the quarrels and calm the jealousic of th t, ag e mothers, the carrying the parish magazine There were no long hours now In every spare moment she worked at her drawir 0 plea I ] Vas the ne ¢ ld de ifter all } kir ess And, as a beautiful background t he gross realisr f the r 1 pa h tires ene ‘ tr was always the of the lden mort s, the aew and the sti ur f his white coat among the pine-tre For he was always first at the trvst now Betty was too young to distinguish. When she had been sober she had feared intoxication Now that she was intoxicated she thanked Heaven that she was sober 1V—INVOLUNTARY NIX days of sunlight and clear air, of mornings as en- \) chanting as dreams, sas full of magic as May mornings. Then an interminable Sunday, hot and sultry, with rolling, purple clouds, and an evening of thunder and heavy showers. A magenta sunset, a night working, of dream THE SATURDAY EVENING POST hidden in its own darkness, its own secret purposes, and a Monday morning gray beyond belief, with a soft, steady rain. 3etty stood for full five minutes looking out at the straight, fine fall, at the white mist spread on the lawn, the blue mist twined round the trees, listening to the plash of the drops that gathered and fell from the big, wet ivy leaves, to the guggle of the water spout, the hiss of smitten gravel. “He'll never go,” she thought, and her heart sank. He, shaving in the chill, damp air by his open dimity- draped window, was saying: “She'll be there, of course. Women are all perfectly insensible to weather.” Two mackintoshed figures met in the circle ¢* pines “You have come,” he said. ‘‘I never dreamed you would. How cold your hand is!” He held it for a moment warmly clasped. “I thought it might stop any minute,” said Betty; ‘‘it seemed a pity to waste a morning.” “Yes,” he said musingly, “‘it would be a pity to waste amorning. I would not waste one of these mornings for a kingdom.” Betty fumbled with her sketching things as a sort of guarantee of good faith. ‘**But it’s too wet to work,” said she. better go home again.” “That seems a dull idea—for me,” he said; ‘‘it’s very selfish, of course, but I’m rather sad this morning. Won't you stay a little and cheer me up?” Betty asked nothing better. But even to her a téte-a- téte in a wood, withrain pattering and splashing on leaves and path and resonant mackintoshes, seemed to demand some excuse. “T should think breakfast and being dry would cheer you up better than anything,” said she. ‘‘And it’s very wet here.” ‘“‘Hang breakfast. But you're right about the wetness. There’s a shed in the field yonder. A harrow and a plough live there; they're sure to be at home on a day like this. Let's go and ask for their hospitality.” “T hope they'll be nice to us,’’ laughed Betty; “it’s dreadful to go where you're not wanted.” ‘**How do you know?” he asked, laughing, too. ‘‘Come, give me your hand and let’s run for it.”’ They ran, hand in hand, the wet mackintoshes flapping and slapping about their knees, and drew up laughing and breathless in the dry quiet of the shed. Vernon thought of Love and Mr. Lewisham —but it was not the moment to Say So, “T suppose I'd ‘See, they are quite pleased to see us,’’ said he; ‘‘they don’t say a word against our sheltering here. The plough looks a bit glum, but she'll grow to like us presently. As for the harrow, look how he’s smiling welcome at you with all his teeth.” “I'm glad he can’t come forward to welcome us,” said Betty. ‘His teeth look very fierce.” “He could, of course, only he’s enchanted. He used to be able to move about, but now he’s condemned to sit still and only smile till —till he sees two perfectly happy peopl Are you perfectly happy ?” heasked anxiously. ‘I don't know,” said Betty truly **Are you?” “No-—not quite perfectly.” ‘I'm so glad,” said Betty. ‘I shouldn't like the harrow to begin o move while we're here. I'm sure it would bite us. Hesighedand looked grave. ‘So vou don't want me to be perfectly happy?” She looked at him with her head on one side “Not here,” she said trust that harrow.” His eveli« +} ‘IT can't narrowed over his en relaxed No, she was erely playing at enchanted eves Are you cold still?” he asked, and reached for her hand. Sh fr kly Not a bit,” she said, it away again. ‘The run warmed and took She unbuttoned the mackintosh pread it on the bar of the ugh and sat down. Her white ess lighted u iy dows of the hed. Outside therain fell steadily “May I sit down, too? Can Mrs Plough find room for two children on her lap She drew aside the folds of her dress, but even then only a little space was left. The plough had been carelessly housed and nearly half of it was where the rain drove February 17, 1906 in on it. So that they were very close together—so close that he had to throw his head back to see clearly how the rain had made the short hair curl around forehead and ears, and how fresh were the tints of face and lips. Also he had to support himself by an arm outstretched behind her. His arm was not around her, but it might just as well have been so far as the look of the thing went He thought of the arm of Mr. Lewisham. **Did you ever have your fortune told?” he asked. ““No, never. I’ve always wanted to, but father hates When I was a little girl I used to put on my best clothes, and go out into the lanes and sit about and hope the gipsies would steal me, but they never did.”’ “They’re a degenerate race, blind to their own interests But they haven’t a monopoly of chances—fortunately.’ His eyes were on her face. “‘T never had my fortune told,”’ said Betty but I think I should be afraid all the same. might come true.” Vernon was more surprised than he had ever been in his life at the sudden involuntary movement in his left arm It cost him a conscious effort not to let the arm follow it inclination and fall across her slender shoulders, while he should say: ‘Your fortune is that I love you Is it good or bad fortune?” He braced the muscles of his arm and kept it where i was. That sudden, unreasonable impulse was a mortifica- tion, an insult to the man whose pride it was to believe that his impulses were always planned. ‘I can tell fortunes,” he said. ‘‘When I was a boy I spent a couple of months with some gipsies. They taught me lots of things.”’ His memory, excellently trained, did not allow itself to dwell for an instant on his reason for following those gipsies, on the dark-eyed, black-haired girl with the skin like pale amber, who had taught him, by the flicker of the camp-fire, the lines of head and heart and life, and other things besides. Oh, how many other things! That was be- fore he became an artist. He was only an amateur in those gipsies. “I'd love it, Something ts days. “Did they teach you how to tell fortunes truly?’’ asked Betty. the school bazar last really and ‘We had a fortune-teller’s tent at vear, and the youngest Miss Smith- son dressed up in spangles and a red dress and said she was Zara, the Eastern Mystic Hand-Reader and Foreteller of the Future. But she got it all out of Napoleon's Book of Fate.” “T don’t get my fortune-telling out of any body ’s book of anything,” he said. ‘I get it out of people’s hands and their faces. Some people’s faces are their fortunes, you know,” ‘**T know they are,’ she said a little sadly, ‘‘ but every- body’s got a hand and a fortune, whether they've got that sort of fortune-face or not.” Sut the fortunes of the fortune-faced people are the ones one likes best to tell.’’ ‘*Of course,”’ she admitted rather wistfully going to happen to you is jr :** but what's st as interesting te you, even And So 1 Come Straight Up to You, Sir, Me Being a Father and You the Same, Sir”

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i! if your face isn't interé sting to anybody Do you always But half the fun must be the t \ aid be Pa tell fortunes quite truly; 1 mean do you follow the real “You're right,”’ said he t | ot always ne to Par ce rules? Or do you make up pretty fortunes for the peopl The laborer had reached the park gate. | pace ha one’s j hie i with the pretty fortune-faces.”’ | quickened to the quickening remembrance of his « I I want t el better the ‘There's no need to ‘make up.’ The pretty fortunes daughter, sitting at home \ always there for the pretty fortune-faces; unless, of . Do you reall t nmvy hand ‘ 1 Be i } | the hand contradicts the face.” my cr ng the sea, I meat \ l Bu “But can it?” I ther but it depends o1 irsel ( hy, ther “Can't it? There may be a face that all l I dic n e} her let me ‘ \ ‘ things in the world are promised to: just by - that a now, wher uid 1 «¢ tiful itself it draws beautiful happenings to i Pari hand contradicts the face, if the hand is one of those narrow, “And he it, of cour You ‘ niggardly, distrustful hands, one of the hands that will give **No; he said Paris was a wicked place. It isn't re And { he nothing and take nothing, a hand without courage, with- _ is it a? ‘ er} out generosity—well, then, one might ds well be born Every place is wicked,” said } and eve place In the ‘ without a fortune-face, for any good it will ever do one.” good. It’s all as one takes thing I t n of th “Then you don’t care to tell for- tune for pes ple who haven't fortune- } mee t} } faces?’ 4 ‘I should like to tell yours, if you would let me. Shall 1?’ He held out his hand, but he hand was withheld. GOA» ‘I ought to cross your hand with silver, oughtn’t 1?” she asked + ‘It’s considered correct but 2 ; “Oh, don't let’s neglect any proper ¥ precaution,”’ she said. ‘I haven't gi any money Tell it to me te morrow, } and I will bring a sixpence “You could cross my hand with your watch,” he sai 1, ‘‘and I could take the ‘Fe ae crossing as an 1.0. U.of the sixpence She detached the old watch He held out his hand and she gravely traced a cross on it. ‘“*Now,”’ he said, ‘‘all preliminary for malities being complied with, let the prophet do his work. Give me your hand, pretty lady, and the old gips will tell you your fortune true He held the hand in his, bending back the pink finger-tips with his thumb, and looked earnestly at its lines. Then he looked in her face, longer than he h: ever permitted himself to lool He \ looked till her eves fell. It was a charn ing picture. He was tall, strong, well- ( ‘ built and quite as good-looking as a clever man has anv need to bi And she was as pretty as any oleograph of them all It seemed a thousand pities that there should be no witness to such a well h an ol posed tableau, no audience to such a } , : charming scene. The pity of it struck Destiny, and Destiny flashed the whit \ Ge of Betty's dress, a shrill point of light, into an evea hundred yardsaway. The Or keep this t eye’s owner, with true rustic finesse, elf. \ ha | t drew back into the wood’s shadow, : wd) } ke that about shaded one eye with a brown rustic R ‘ hen al hand, looked again, and began a détour : ¢, ; ie won at } which landed the rustic boots, all ee - He rey ; } f or ‘ silently, behind the shed, at a spot where | ; bs bee JnnEw he a knot-hole served as frame for the little ii r = | Not me : George at eres picture. The rustic eye was fitted to esis RN Whiz eas Chiias 60 Weauaiaien. OF Wiad Dhaai Contain as Toko Thies It rT loa , , , And the knot-hole while Vernon, holding Noes WEE Picts iin Ban f I might mak hold i just 7 Betty's hand, gazed in Betty's face, and on vour hat at ' > pA taadins ae decided that this was no time to analyze his sensation The rectory gate clicked sharply as it ing to behind nuts here’s that hole } of the shed what Neither heard the furtive rustic tread, nor noted the the laborer rhe rectory gravel scrunched beneath the ol 1of. You ain't o1 to pe revere ‘ gleam of the pale rustic eye. laborer’s boot o that there. and vou o I air ‘ The laborer shook his head as he hurried quickly away Yes, the master was up; he could be seer tongue for no dr He had daughters of his own, and the rector had been kind The heavy boot ere being ru 1 against the | } } 1, Ge { { l ( when one of those daughters had suddenly come home broom that, rooted at Kentish back door nds to receive | mornit ( from service, ill, and with no prospect of another place the scrapings of Kentish clay t ‘ | r ( **A-holdin’ of hands and a-castin’ of sheep's eyes,”’ said You have the artistic line ‘ ! } he. ‘‘ We knows what that's the beginnings of! Well, we . Vernon wa aving (ine, t nree es, paint } } vouth’s the season for silliness, but there’s bound music, perhap ! tranger. } there’s bounds. And all of a mornin’ so early, too Lord lam ver fond of mu 1 Bett thinking of above knows what it wouldn't be like of a evenin’.”” He hour's daily struggle with the Mikado and the Moonligt rt hook his head again and made haste it three ar What « } ‘ ( ( \ Vernon had forced his eyes to leave the face of Betty pla 1 fe in instar ! } ‘Your fortune,’’ he was saying, “is, curicusly enoug ed behind f t ! lo | on ‘ just one of those fortunes I was speaking of. You iet t! have great chances of happiness, if you have the courage te Whatever it i i've enort t } Re takethem. You will crossthe sea. You've nevertraveled, ‘you'll find out what it n good time | : t er, t ! ‘ } have you?” something much more important tha hie t to mart ‘‘No—never farther than Torquay; I was at school together, and perhay ou've t eve re talent for ! by there, you know; and London, of course. But I should than you have for the other t } } he love it. Isn't it horrid to think that one might gr yuite But there isn't any other talent t ! t} ed he had t ht | old and never have been anywhere or done anything?’ I can think of a fev There he stage ! o re not the sha of cor ntior ( ‘That depends on one’s self, doesn’t it Adventures art that, I fanev, or not exactly tha There ‘ tl eat « , ‘ | to the adventurous.” confess now, don’t vou write poetrv sometime her i , , develon cl ‘Yes, that’s all very well —girls can’t be adventurous ght hen there } t of being “Yes, it’s the prince who sets out to seek his fortune Der of being like | ! ot } isn’t it? The princess has to sit at home and wait for her: iccessful ir of the eful f ! | to come to her. It generally does if she’s a real princess t }

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12 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A‘*‘D! 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 421 TO 427 ARCH STREET GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 17, 1906 Single Subscriptions, $2.00 the Year. In Clubs, $1.25 Each Five Cents the Copy of All Newsdealers | Foreign Subscriptions: For Countries in the Postal Union Single Subscriptions, $3.25. In Clubs, $2.50 Each | Remittances to be Made by International Postal Money Order Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy € Whitewashing always comes off © Pecks of trouble come in pint bottle € Only ignorance is afraid to ask question © Failure can always get a physician's certificate. @ Some men propose by mail and repent by telephone. @ Society often makes the mistake of lioni iy a cub. £ Yesterday's unanswered mail is a mortgage on to-day. In that Panama game somebody should be given spades, If they probe the Standard Oil they will probably strike ater sf ¢ @ America has no leisure class except those who make the ! change in the department stores, ¢ When a man is elected to Congress he walks on air. Afterward he can't even stand up without Speaker Cannon permission Checkers at the Capitol rMHERE is a general misunderstanding concerning the foreign policy of the United States. Many people think it means our relations with other countries. This is entirely a mistake It is, really, a game of checkers between the President and the Senate. If the President gets a treaty contirmed, that counts oneforhim. If the Senate defe atsa treaty, it feels that it has broken into the Presidential king- row The game has its peculiar etiquette When the President makes a move, he recites the Monroe Doctrine. When it’s the Senate's turn, it has the secretary read Wash- ington’s Farewell Addre Neither of these venerable utterances has anything to do with the issue actually at re t More tha ear ro the Presider aiscovered 1 forlorn litth enterp is the Republic of Santo Dx I , operated f pe ‘ f } characte and h rribl 1 debt European ere r ere tall f tal charge of ) heim} ned a eed to ha Americ ( € tr dutie and ply f e per cent thereof t ! i ta of fore tet It ear | lea that t eat Powers of I oO} re al to re- org: the choly Sta of M ) ‘ with } re} disp n to have a fines me he appointed Ameri ‘ ‘ to tl ( n 1 ‘ upon the os e has beer ‘ r astoS } ‘ the M a" : velt Doctrine, and to Moro about embroilir trv in Europea pol ceiy tT Pr ler acted ur ely both case an American soul outside the District of i that cares a rap about either. Whether we do or do not collect customs in Santo Domingo, or send power- less commissioners to sit in the Morocco conference, is as THE SATURDAY EVENING POST important as whether the President sits on the right or wrong side of a cow which he attempts to milk on his Virginia farm. The palladium of our liberties is not totter- ing. The noise and fury mean, simply, that the Presi- dential-Senatorial checker game is waxing rather hot. Legal Ethics —In Jail HE proposal is seriously made— by an eminent lawyer that the undeniably low tone of the legal profession be raised by yiving courses in legal ethics in the law schools. That is, young men well over the threshold of young man- hood are to be solemnly instructed that it is wrong to steal, to lie, to cheat, to procure injustice, to participa® in the “divvy” of ‘‘swag.” There is another way to the same end. That way leads through the penitentiary—and sending a few “‘lights”’ of the profession along it, instead of electing them presidents of associations, would quickly produce the desired effect. As for the way of moral suasion, why not estab- lish the courses in legal ethics in the penitentiaries, as soon as there are enough lawyers there to justify paying a professor ? Who's Prosperous Now? —- minor statistics of an immensely prosperous year W throw an interesting sidelight upon the drift of things in the business world. Prices of staples advanced in 1905; but the average gain in the three big staples that the people produce — breadstuffs, livestock and fruit —was very small. You have to go to the third decimal point before it appears. Prices of the big staples that are controlled by efficient organization—provisions, hides and_ leather, metals—-advanced decidedly more. The average gain appears at the first decimal point. The average liability in each commercial failure of the year was $8912, against $11,820 in 1904 and $12,064 in 1903. In short, proportion- ately it is more and more the small man who fails. The number of commercial failures with liabilities exceeding $100,000 was only 154, against 215 in 1904--a decrease of nearly thirty per cent.--and the number of failures with liabilities under $100,000 was 11,366, against 11,984 the preceding vear —a decrease of five per cent The pre fit and security of business are being found more and more in com- bining into big units. Taking all the sales of stocks in New York, the average price per share in 1905 was $87.30, against $69.90 the year before. Practically all of these stocksrepre- sent big consolidations in transportation or manufacture. There is no doubt that combination is the real prosperity band-wagon. The Faculty on the Gridiron i JOTBALL is a bad thing for college faculties. Profes- sors are not credited popularly with much business or executive ability. Certainly they have not distinguished themselves whenever they have undertaken to ‘‘manage”’ football by their athletic committees and boards of control. Either they have shamefully winked at improper practices by their youthful athletes, or they have been deplorably deceived by them, time and again- probably the latter. The spectacle of faculty management of intercollegiate sports, no matter how effective it may be, is not exactly dignified. There is always rivalry, more or less open, among institutions of learning, and this rivalry is by no means confined to the student-body. Manifestations of h rivalry, especially when they lead to trickery, are poor enough for callow youth, but they come with bad grace from the professor of mature years. He should not spend his time and his energy in playing the detective upon a rival college, or bickering with it over sharp practices. Let the college boy go back to his books for a time —and the profe sor also. What is the Popular Will? eee has been having some interesting trouble, v hich ij wor h light upon the more conspicuous trouble at Washington. considering, because it throws a certain Nei a year ago, in Chicago, Judge Dunne stood for he mayoralty on a platform that declared for municipal ‘ownership of the street railways. He was elected by a good ’ rit At the same time me aldermanic « »? inicipal owne Was We Kr I r ha rant tated U! antag to that « - ‘ cam] eccl ere re 1 to the City C } ‘ oe ‘ 4] here were } } ‘ ‘ ‘ of the ( Cour | g t ‘ t Know! 00 Ise ur il When J Dunne k the office of ivor } 1 med it the vote which elected him conclusi expressed the public will, and he immediately demanded that the City Council accept his plans for municipal ownership; but a ajorit of the Council, who were known to hold other view and who had bee n adi lv electe d bv tl elr seve ral con- } ies, balked. Then the mayor began talking pretty February 17, 1906 foolishly, in a way to raise the inference that he thought the aldermen who opposed him were dishonest and traitors to the public. The situation grew so acute that a resolution asking the mayor to cease from presiding over the Council was introduced, and probably would have passed but for considerations of courtesy. Under our system the will of the public often expresses itself in diverse ways. President Roosevelt stood for cer- tain policies and was triumphantly elected; but Senators Aldrich, Elkins, Platt, Depew, Spooner, Foraker and others, whose views about ‘‘ vested rights” and corpora- tions were perfectly well known, were also duly constituted members of the Senate, holding their certificates from the authorized agents of the sovereign people. ° Exeunt the Plutocrats LOWLY, but steadily, we are being drained of our plutocracy. Every few days there is an item in the newspaper, setting forth that so-and-so, famed for wealth, is selling out and going abroad to live. Sometimes news of this kind is a little slack; again, under the stimulus of some painful disclosures, some rude prying into pluto- cratic private affairs, the exodus booms. We hear a great deal about checking immigration. Let us hear more about stimulating emigration. If every prosecuting attorney in the United States were to “get busy,”’ how long would it be before we should have waved a tearful farewell to the last of our plutocrats? Big Thieves and Little CLEVELAND broker forged about a million dollars of bonds—before committing suicide—which is rather surprising, considering the ease with which he could have incorporated himself into a company and issued all the bonds he pleased in an irreproachably legal manner. The first step in the merger of the New York traction lines, already enormously over-capitalized, was to provide, out of hand, nearly $100,000,000 of additional securities. Under the merger plan $115,000,000 of old stock—all water, if the cost of the joint properties be assigned to the outstanding bonds—is to be exchanged for $205,000,000 new stocksand bonds. So long asthe laws permit a corpora- tion to issue all the certificates of value that its fancy may dictate, without any regard to whether the alleged value is behind them, it seems the most foolish supertiuity for an individual to lay himself open to prosecution by forging such certificates. Last year there were issued and listed for sale on the New York Stock Exchange new railroad bonds to an amount ex- ceeding $500,000,000, and the year’s sales of railroad bonds, old and new, reached $815,000,000. This is far more than the yearly income of the three big life-insurance companies; far more than any year’s accretion to the savings deposits of thecountry. The greater part of this immense bond output is really sold to the people, net to ‘“ Wall Street”’ or to ‘“‘magnates’’; but it is practically outside the laws. There is nothing except their native modesty, for example, to prevent the traction magnates from turning their new, highly-watered stock into bonds of the same or a greater amount and putting them on the market. The plea is that the investor must buy a security at his own risk. That, evidently, was the idea of the Cleveland man when he sold the forged bonds. Democracy in Education HE late President Harper was the spirit of democracy in higher education. He will be remembered for this quality when his reputation asa scholar or an administrator has faded. He did his best to place the institution which he created in the front rank of modern scholarship, but he was even more interested in whatever might bring the higher learning to the busy man on the street. His first fame came from teaching Hebrew by correspondence. When the university was established he made correspond- ence courses and university extension lectures a real part of the institution. He opened a college in an office-building where clerks and teachers might follow the regular courses of the university under college teachers in afternoon and evening classes. Doctor Harper believed in the joy as well as the business advantage of all real education, and with the fervor of a missionary he sought ways to carry this joy into the lives of the busiest and the least favored. His advocacy of university extension and other popular methods of edu- cation brought upon him suspicion and criticism from the older institutions of learning These had the caste preju- dice. They did not believe in fragmentary studies. They scoffed at teaching Hebrew and psychology to business men ‘quarter system”’ by correspondence; they derided th 1 which enabled the working student to get what he could of college and when he could. Doubtless few schol: the approved type have been made by these methods. But doubtless, also, the inspiration, the hope of knowle dge, has reached many an obscure corner of our country through the efforts of Doctor Harper, and has touched to highest ambi- tions many a struggler -™

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= THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 13 MEN @Q WOMEN How LafFolliette Holds On QENATOR LAFOLLETTE’S K/ in inches as well as in sense Wher i leet tall When he «4 ‘ Ve 4 hit hi That makes no Tere \ ! d many a tall man is! ht hort One of the Senator’s admirer I one rht during the last campaign he? (

1 : 1 Why, say, of course Bot S rt ol I t ae a : e he begins to talk, why, nobody giv ther he if ive feet tall or fift

dy with hir He r il thenes, either. There ars plent Imeninthe t te Sta who have him beaten when it comes to pure ra rutiles and frills. The thing about LaFolk is that he talks like a man with red blood in } | talks like a sincere mar He talks like an honest man, a better than everything « e, he KnOoWS i r about They—meaning his opponents in W critics elsewhere have called him a p ir, a cr actor, a and ¢ ern ‘ ! LaFolle f vher he Ca eis I to | “They never called me a quitter, did the he a One involuntarily checks off the va is LaFollette ¢ r nation Poseur —crank —actor n through the ‘ No, is the conclusion, the never ¢ 1 CZ iq tte They couldn’t. As a hanger-on, a sticker LaFoll n the same cla With gr death and taxes He has e ugre t He gets ou and He speaks up in meet i the nineties ! 1 he a candidate for the al

nomination for Governor, he ame down to Milwaukee wit} enough votes pledged, he thought, to nominate him Oy the night before the conventio1 bought away enough of his delegates to his opponents, he say nominate another man. La Follette tells about that incident onthe stump. He speaks about it without any flourishes. He describes the room in the Pfister Hotel where the delegates were taken. He tells who took them there, and how much mone Vy, down to the kind of specific sums, each delegate received. He identifies the bribers He makes no bones about the identities of the bribe story He has been telling it for years, Nu body has denied it. Nobody can. He knows That experience with the machine — which was then, and probably is now, dominated by the railroads—put La- Follette on the track of railroad rate reform and caucu and convention reform. He went from the hall where he was beaten to a law library and began to study railroad

Representative J. W. Babcock, of Wisconsin laws and taxation laws and all other laws that give the railroads their graft, either directly or by evasior He started at the first law and went through tothe last. Ther he began on railroad tariffs. Hestudied those complicated masses of figures that mean so much to the railroads and so little to the publie, unless one of the public wal tod tribute something. He found where the rebat rked When he was through he knew more about freight and

passenger tariffs than any railroad man in Wisconsin. He utilized tha mi to } y ta During the years he crisscrossed the § ampa for ra id rate regulation a vote of the people, he spoke constar t 1 of the prevailing cust He ‘ ple. H lid not try to impose theories « he é ‘ His prin rw hat the St eve! eal atior Ihat ‘ aXpave! It penetrate At a me f aid t Waste il ! rene i no sermons from the te If the ‘ hy ve shall all be hap; N nae l her came to the rate part of his speech, he edge of the platfe rm and aske Hi mar ! ship hogs to Chicago ? Half a dozen or fifteen or fifty men shipped gs to Chicago. They rose and said so. LaFollette asked tt

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enemie without fea Of cou > a yp : : gets all the ipport he can He does 1 } ; M ‘ there i chance to secure the vote of the gical lamba : nt nave ae r nd I Still, he doesn’t go fishing where the fish nt ‘ \ CT Hl ¢ MI his personal followers follow Phere no faitering in the f ral ( ; LaFollette has a t I | ( other I i He nt » be | \ } end it He t . ( never | a fe ] for | } } ref rs i he 1 j 1 | | } } } ’ r} I hat | i rea } ’ wr ; ’ ' the r < | ‘ | h Ser r \ Py ’ ‘ ’ t ! } hie ithe He t fury } . ] ( nor | ‘ « < enator » further as Senator He may or not, but he of Wisconsin

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February 17, 1906

PLAYER FOLK §Spring Suits

Margaret Wycherly as Lydia Carew in Cashel Byron's Profession Pugilist and Poetic Actress

MS MARGARET WYCHERLY has i hitherto been known as the leading representative in America of the Irish lit- erary movement in the drama, and has been highly praised for her performances in the

plays of W. B. Yeat Since Miss Edith WW ne Matthison appeared in Everyman no actre has made 1 impression at once prof ds etic It is quite inthe ne ol her a tic development, accord- her to assume the g¢ role in ima tion of Bernard 3 novel, Ca Bvron’'s Profession here is an

act that question 1s of the that the leading part in ( r than the Corbett. W ycherl serves hi the no le rin all her expe- 1¢ ‘played opposite”’ a man who is more unmistakably courteo of sound instincts. More than arance ol incongrult

the profession in and ex-champion pugilist, James J friends, however, hat Mr. ¢ aig + plea oe sl lo her orbett de tac stave us this,

he bears testimony that he is a most pains- taking devotee of his new vocation. When the first arsal was called, the members of the ¢ y, in the good old spirit of laziness and indifference, had merely rlanced through their parts, trusting to experience to teach them with the least effort Mr. Corbett, on the other hand, was letter-perfect, and keenly interested in the rende ring of eac h spe ech, In his preface to his dramatization of the novel, Mr. Shaw pokes fun at the report from America that, when Mr. Corbett first yroduced the play some years ago, he took fieneslt quite seriously as an actor. He however, that the ientific’’ than in his first love of muses — or such at least Mr. Shaw v d call it, for he ; that prize -fighting is an art, though an evil must now be convinced, ex-champion 1s no less ‘‘se the

argue one. Saving the Life of a Fairy ICHARD MANSFIELD, as a good \ many people know, is an actor, and his formerly Miss Beatr ron, Was for many years his leading But until the other day they »wed their ice Can r lady had never alle wife

sever -year-old or Gibbs, to go t a play. Then Mrs Man ield took him to see Maude Adams in Barri phantasy of childhood, Peter Par Young Master Mansfield is en- dowed with his fatt imagination and temperament, and followed the play with bulging eyes, until the pirates came on and threatened the life of Peter and his band in the Never-Never-Never Land Then, in ter- ror, he covered | is eye *s With his fingers. But he followed the play, nevertheless, for when Miss Adams came forward to the footlights and begged the audience to save the life of Tinker Bell by saying that they y be lie ved in fairies, he une @ over the railing of the box and shouted ina ec hildish treble: ‘‘I believe in ‘em! J believe in ‘em! His manner was so seared and his voice was so earnest that he drew the attention of the entire

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The Faithful Legi : = eer SS Seow, “ e Faithful Legion eS eo ' . } ; . meet Ne The Seddon © Was e 4 ‘ st de lightful imaginable They had a full qu r . : ‘ 7 lr } } — y y nest eS of children anda hapy ( more refined . } ) yn) . } r . ; Ny ¥ 1ome could not be found in all America f lhomas m P mus ive had ir & - mind just such a home as tl w he et nS wrote his poem Uncle Gabe’s White-fol te Uncle Charles was as near as any servant t may be the head of this establishmer lor , os . both las ran nistres I re or le The Wayne Automobile Com | RREET BS ; } : " invalids, and the prineips lenofadmit | pany manufactures a complete ling istration fell upon him I think he called of high-grade Automobiles, from himself ‘‘Charles Brues but he was so the luxurious 7 passenger, 50 h. p seldom referred to otherwise than a Unck . : . a ( irles by white and black, old and voung Pouring car at $3,500 shown at . . : os AR that any other title was mere surplusag he to : - ' e+ ‘ . _ top of this advertises tt In appea ‘e, IN manners, in speech ' . . ; the sp ly and powerful 1 th. p Uncle Charles revealed his character as if is Runabout at S800 shown below it were an open book. Of dark brows 3 We in ipply cars to meet nearly complexion and medium size, he Was alwa s c* Hod : scrupulously neat in his attire His move- | a gdeman isl con ments were alert, vigorous, but almost } struction, sty noiseless. His face was open, often smil ind pri ingly deferential in its expression, but ; without the least trace f offensive ob- sequiousness. His manr to stranger was perfect. At the di rreeted then with Chesterfieldian grace, expressing with- ' out saying it Welcome to our hom« So long as you are here it is During a stay the visitor found his least desire for ‘ *, comfort often anticipated by Uncle Chark \ and saw in his face the constant inquiry e’ rms , ie cre ansthing else gy doforsouto | N rhe All Mahogany Bookcase } there anything else I may do for you to | \¥ e , Manogany OOKCASC f t add to your enjoyment Heknew howto §& ‘ . Model F, 4 speed the parting as well as to welcome the Ca Ever { ! ent \ rice $3500.00 coming guest. rhe last word was spoken eA nite ! | i \\ Model K, 4 « “te : “ay Pe . Price $2500.00 at the carriage-step by Uncle Charles, ea Model 8,4 cy er 1-28 and generally it was some flattering cour- } rice $2000.00 ’ . - “ats . S nile ‘ree Model C, Double o4 tesy or courtly message of respect to an Art Catalogue No. R-1105 Mailed Free tor rice $1250.00 ; absentee, for Uncle Charles knew eve ry- ‘Modet va gira i A etna sce body. Eventhe lordly way in which the fine anst ion wit rect be t old fellow pocketed his tip witha proto ; Price $800.00, Cr obhec » uly - 3 Mt f rts so f ne « ‘ the « ‘ ‘ bow, rol red the vulgar en ol I ; HOME OFFICE AND PACTORIES, Cirand Rapids, Michigan f ible” ft the f t 4 aspect, and elevated it to the aignity ota RETAIL 81 ES q ken apart , passing courtesy between friends Yor AF } 10} o We shall appreciate your request for full informatior . al Oe -_ . ] } n 1 W ‘ P i4N F a regarding any models in which you may be interested When ¥ Dahlgre : 3 trooper 3 SACKC a i " : . . : : rned Sx il , 8 el rarles Re oes Wayne Automubile Co., Dept. K, Detroit, Mich. burned Sabot Hill in Is Uncle Charl z — - y remained and battled for his master's rights. :

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‘What about?’ asked the flatter Cabinet r w{KD Why ‘the President has: ippeared at \ eral functio é I rcoat i t Vose & SONS PIANO CO. 1600 Boyiston St Boston, Mass TANOS —_. Prevents Wet Feet= Worth Cushion Sole Shoe Saves the Stockings Men's $4.00 and $5.00 Women's $3.50 The Cummings Co. 406 Washington Street he recerves a proposal he has been working Boston, Mass , ( ( \ corner that 1 t ntal i ipe . Vi r Society radit tamp : ‘ Putting a woman on a edestal to look down upon her S Testing the engagement ring n window-¢la Jo Promising to be a sister Steel Pens ‘dem th mata Ww mone Hi use function should ers and white tie. We wish you would eall this matter to the attention of 1 President in vour well-known tactful wa gray tre pe rsor Have Been Established Wea 54 Vears - at ind g aver 1 bp eg ‘ ~ howe - ! ad No ber re plied.‘ You will have to do that We Challenge i Hobart took the matter ut ad Comparisons. | °°: ra By our «¢ plan « hh tied i vose pia W ‘ for o 1 \\ \ ‘ W he \ ‘ \ * Woman pays || igesmoeig is more provocative ol hu- morous Observation in the theatre than the vicissitude Which actor eXpe- “ ce in the parts they recelve — : ViURE I WASTE of the heroine In Peter Pan, a 7 home as a THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 17 membde hi ms Ina dinner coat and striped yUSe Now, thatisn’tright. Ever , , ull evening dress You know how spike-taile dc vat, dress vest, Dlack t it straig op mengyen sir, l won't de the Cabinet me alle ina and the Cabinet me bert rav trousers at a White House fu r that The Litthe Chap’s Faith Model k, 10 h. p. Runabout, $750 Model H, 30 h. p. Touring Car, $2,500 Model M, Light Touriag Car, $950. Mode! L, 40 bh. p. Touring Car, $3,750 Frivolous Definitions All prices f. 0. b. Detroit (ee Se Ree nme: A fifty-ce CADILLAC MOTOR CAR CO., Detroit, Mich. " " 1@ spendthrift’s excuse \ penitent bach i — ae = Posterityv’s revenge = — ————— SE What you an glad to get when you ykin r for re is | iat ao! At ite to Mans Vanily that CRYSTAL Domino The surprise a girl shows when An Odorous “Part” N CRYSTAL Domino SUGAR” company, Miss Katherine Pro rable part in L Aiglot and it ister of José she P fora ff y/o . efattest part in the play xt tothat — BEST ETAT] FOR TEA AND COFFEE, Bro or evel nere. Gxe¢ there is nothing that suits her, and though " . a F gS i she appears on the stage it is in what actor Mullins Pressed Steel Boats Can't Sink call a heavy thinking part.” Her name i asier to Ri solutely Safe SPENCERIAN PEN COMPANY my Easier to Row — Absolutely Safe 3490 Broadway, New York * BORATED her TALCUM Chapped Hands, Chating | GERHARD MENNEN COMPANY, NEWARK. N J Le ®) PLY S im a = A 50 " an 7 SAM I FREN H st 22d Street NEW YORE

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THE HAND The Hand was gone, and the Hindu, sitting on his bunk, was motionlessly watching the silver box, which, closed and locked, lay in the centre of the floor. ‘It was eleven o'clock next evening that Jenkins once more returned to see the same scene reénacted, Hindu sitting as before, incense burning, blue light flickering, and the gruesome Thing dangling on the wall. ‘“*Put it away! Put it in the box!’ gasped Jenkins. “The Hindu smiled. ‘Then would its ower of good vanish, and its power for evil begin. Then would Devi punish me. It may not be. Such is the ‘‘ Law.’’’ “That night Jenkins awoke with a start to see through the dimness of the cabin the Thing on the wall glowing with a kind of phosphorescent light, and twitching with y movement of the steamer. ‘Next day, although ordinarily a good sailor, he could eat nothing, and he found himself disinclined to talk to the other passengers. Somehow, the Thing on the wall by night, locked in its silver casket by day, had shaken him so that he felt no longer iike himself. The last night out they had a storm When Jenkins came in wet and shivering the Hindu was there as usual and the Hand, the ‘Hand of Holofernes,’ was in its place. Jenkins tumbled into his berth and lay star- ing at the Thinginabject terror. It glowed with a strong blue light, and through the flashes of lightning which filled the cabin its pale gleam was still visible. The ship was roliing heavily, and from time to time great waves dashed seething along the closed portholes. Everything was in motion; the i , }

vdclothes swung against the sides of the bunks, so did the garments hanging on their gs, the very towels on the washstand eemed eager to leave their places, and the Hand clutched and jumped as if trying to tear itself free Above the straining of the partitions and the groaning of the ship, the roar of the waves, and the keen whistling of the wind, he could hear the Hindu moaning n his berth below. The bed-curtains swung into his face, and he stifled a scream as he tore them off and cast them to the floor. Then there came a gust of wind from somewhere, the lamp was extinguished suddenly as if blown out by a human breath, and he lay in darkness save where in its ghastly light the Hand writhed upon the wall. Louder and louder wailed the storm the pounding of the engines, the whir of the screw, and the steady drenching of the seas against the ports made a wild tumult, through which you could hear the Thing on the wall flip and knock, and see it clutch clutch—and jump to get away. He had fitful dreams, in which the Hand sprang from the wall and grappled at his throat; others in which the Hindu knelt upon his chest, holding the dry and seratchy Thing to his face. Then there came f

a crash of thunder and a brilliant burst of lightning He saw the Hand wrench itself from the wall and come reaching toward him, pre-

hensile, monstrous, supernatural, and he knew no more until he heard a choking ery of agony from the berth beneatt The dawn Ww teal n through the port hole he a gurgiing iff aling groan Leaning over, he lowered } head until he could see into the bunk below The Hindu lay u tarting from their while at his ne hung the Har

astened ina Ch, é d of Holoferne upon his lips knotty grip its fingers buried deep in the brown fles! Even as he looked they relaxed, the black Ching slid from the Hindu’s neck ening of the port, undid ed to the fast a rev and crawled or slipped out into

ta. lurn up the lamp somebody, will you? muttered Flandrau. What became of Jenkins h body, I mean ? asked Webb, after a silence of

some moments. Colonel North direction of the Bal I forgot that, Perhaps it’s not altoyge ther to my credit, but somehow seemed ght enough at the time The night the fellow died Sagundar entered the tent and said that some men had come for the body of their comrade No one could explain how they knew that he had died. Jenkins had left no instructions. They stood silently before the tent door in the misty light of a low-swinging yellow moon. One taller than the rest, the \e mardar, |

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om Page 7) fancy, stepped forward and begged for the body. Hewastheircomrade; they desired to bury him with honor. I let them take him. Swiftly they entered the tent, wrapped him in a white sheet, lifted him upon their shoulders and bore him away into the forest. It seemed fitting. From the forest he had come; to the forest he re- turned I shall never forget the face of the tall man who directed the movements of the others.” The Babu grinned over his cigarette, and returned the Colonel’s steady gaze un- flinchingly. ‘This is a str-range tale that you tell,” he remarked **Good Heavens!” cried Webb. ‘* What the explanation? What was Jenkins doing out there? ‘“‘] gathered that after his release he went to India to learn, if he could, something of the mysteries of which he had been an invol- untary witness. Have you ever heard of such a hand-worship, Doctor?”’ ‘“‘T have hear-rd of it,”’ replied the Babu. ‘It is only in the nor-rth. It came from Assyria many centuries ago.” ‘* India’sa queer place!’ remarked Webb. ‘“‘T recall that De Mille has a story of a white man who joined the Thugs,” Flandrau. Well,” ejaculated Webb, “with work on that commission and your being made the re pository of poor Jenkins’ se cret I should say that your future was not en- tirely rose-colored. Did you never have an attack made upon your life?”’ Not really,” answered North. ‘A na- tive once tried to enter my compartment upon the train at Delhi,but Sagundar thrust him out. It was only last summer, before I came over here. It was rather unpleasant, but I dare say the fellow meant no harm, Anyhow, the Thugs never bothered Euro- pean the y Doctor?” ‘*Nev-vah!”’ replied the Babu promptly. That is,” he added more slowly, ** been told. Ah, there are no such things now. They are of the past.”’ He arose and held out his hand, smiling It is late. I have much wor-rk for to- mor-row.”’ **Hold on a minute, Doctor,” said Webb. “Tell us something about this Thug busi- What sort of fellows belonged to it ?”’ ‘Huea-jatizo and huea-sipanni,”’ an- said your

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swered the Babu without looking back. Men of low tribes and low trades. I know nothing of Rhutti Kahn's sayings. There are none such to-day.” He bowed and made as if to go, but at that moment the door opened, outlining a tall, dignified, dark-skinned Hindu in trim civilian dress. *“Sagundar!”’ exclaimed North. ‘* What brings you here?”’ Forgive me, Colonel Sahib,”’ responded the Indian in soft, liquid accents It is late and | had fear for thee.”’ “Come on in, Sagundar, old chap! called Webb Let’s have a look at you Sagundar entered obedi« ntly stepping as he did so face to face with the Babu The latter turned, but not before the had sprung between him and the door “Colonel Sahib! Colonel cried ‘It is the face of him who entered our train at Delhi! The jemardar! } ervant Sahib!”’ he

t the same instant the Babu staggered ind groped blindly for the table then hi face turned ¢ shade, hi hands 4 {NAS 8 twitched and he pitched heavily forward ifted him to the

lounge Give him all the air you ean,’ Flandrau. “And loosen his somebody, while } about 1 Webb prang to do so, but, as he un- buttoned the clerical-looking garment, ittered a suppre ssed cry. Har ng froma silken cord upon the motionless white linen shirt of the Babu lay a tiny pickaxe of silver, directed teoat

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came fast through his dilated nostrils Webb turned a half- questioning face to the Colonel and then deliberate ly pi ied back the right sleeve Inside the Babu’s elbow was tattooed a single word in Hindu. Bohwanee!"’ cried Sagundar. We all stared spet chless at one another. Only Colonel North seemed undisturbed. I thought as much,” he remarked dryly. ‘Our friend here, I fancy, has swallowed the goor himself. Ship-companions, eh? Not if ] know it! Sagundar, you had better change our passage.”’ Sagundar’s breath

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Can't you imagine a love so great, so deep, so tender, so absolute ly posse ssing the whole life of the lover that he would almost grudge any manifestation of it?”’ **Oh, dear!”’ said Betty to herself. ‘*But I’m talking like a book,’”’ he and laughed. always get dreamy and absurd when I tell fortunes. Anyway, as I said before, you will be greatly beloved. Indeed, unless your hand is very untruthful, which I’m sure it never could be, you are beloved now, far more than you can possibly guess.” “Did I say so? seemed said, but it Vernon setty caught at her flippancy, evaded her. ‘LThere was a silence. still held her hand \ black figure darkened the daylight. The two on the plough started up started apart. Nothing more was wanted to convince the rector of all that he least hed to believe. Go home, Lizzie,”’ he said, ‘‘go to your room,” and to her his face looked the face of af It is hard to control the muscle dden on compounded of immeasurable stay there till ‘ emot orrow, sympathy and an pity. ‘*Go to vour room and | send for you.” Betty went like a beaten dog. The rector tt rned to the Now, sir,” he said young man V THE PRISONER y Vernon looked back on that in- terview he was honestly please d with himself. He had been patient, he had been kind even. In the end he had been posi- tively chivalrous He regretted, of course, deeply, this un- fortunate misunderstanding. Accident had made him a —— with Miss Des- mond s talent: he had mere ly offered her a little of that help which is customary be- tween brother artists. The rector spoke again, and Mr. Vernon listened quietly, bareheaded, and in deepest deference, I can only express my thoughtl ess should hay he said, “and beg you not to blame Desmond It was perhaps a little entional, bu regret that my »annoyed you, Mis un- Cony Unconventional to tri Mr. Vernon held ip hi uinely shocked Forgive me,” he si uch words in hand: he wa yen ‘but I can’t hear with a iid connection with lady for whom I have the deepest re rhe rector bit his lip, and Vernon went on *“T have listened to vourabuse without defer I can't allow any a word against l am not her father bitterly stood hin spect vour abuse — ves, ding myself, but en her father, to one ‘ Say her ‘said the old man stant Vernon under- etty had never done | yn the in and the young man’s tone changed in 7 ; Look here he said, and hi ce grew i t bo ‘“‘l am really most ‘ewtall} r Tt hole } what there i of ind it’s very little was entirely n doing It inexcusably thoughtless Miss Desmond ery young and very inno- cent It is | who ought to have known better i perhaps I. did But the ‘ ve full, and it was a real pleas e te act iy a pupil Che d have me belis that ( ‘ I te¢ en ‘ I No more than s} es me rid Verne r tr i ever reathed a word her he went o ch an idea hea She a chart | } nsely. } ntfha raweay ind defended | t that ime id edtoa the I is e1 ‘ t that I am inter f it M B ™ a mseil ms not more flatteri ‘ool, idiot, br to let the « shild in for th ' And as for me — well, the absolutely up! eally most awfully sorry,” he said vame is up THE INCOMPLETE AMORIST Continued fre EVENING POST ym Page 11) ‘I find it difficult to believe in the sin- cerity of your repentance,” said the rector, frowning. “My regret you may believe in,” Vernonstifily. *‘Thereisnoground fore the mention of such a word as repe ntance ‘If your repentance is underlined the word you will leave Barton to-day.” Leave without a word or if I will go, sir, if you will let me have your assurance that you will say nothing to Miss Desmond, that you won't make her un- happy, that you'll let the whole matter drop. I will Sald sincere "’ he Long a sign from Betty It might be bes a word, a sign to her? make no bargains with cried the rector. *‘* Do your worst. God, | can defend her from you! ‘She needs no defense. It’s not I who am lacking in respect and consider: ation for her.” I do not need to be taught my duty by a villain, sir!’’ The old clergyman was trem- bling with rage. I wish to God I were a that I might you for His upraised cane you! Thank younger man, chastise the hound you are.” shook in his hand. ‘‘Words are thrown away on you! I’m sorry I can't the arguments that can come home to a puppy!” “If you a vounger non slowl yur wnaway use ] ony said Ver- words would not have on me They would ha had the answer they deserved. J leave Long Barton, and Ish alls mond when and how I choose were man,” been thre hall not e Miss Des- Long Barton shall know your true charact« r “So you would blacken her to blacken me (one see how it is that she doe not love ner fathe ¢£ He meant to be cruel, but it was not till he saw the green shadows round the old man’s lips that he knew just how cruel he had been The quivering old mouth opened and closed and opened, the cold eyes gleamed. And the trembling hand in one nervous move- ment raised the cane and struck the other man sharply across the face. It was terical blow, like a woman’s, and with it the tears sprang to the faded eyes. Then it was that Vernon behaved well When he thought of it afterward he decided that he had behaved astonishingly well With the smart of that cut stinging on his flesh, the mark of it rising red and angry across his cheek, he ste pped back a pace, and without a word, without a retaliatory mo without even a change of facial . he executed ig most a hvs- vement expression elabo- courteous bo as of one treading a et. recovered the upright and walked \ bareheaded. he old clergyman was left pla cane still jigging up ing hand perhaps,” and down in his sha r nted there, the ki A little the il, mused Ver- atricz non, When the cover of the wood gave him leave to lay his fingers to his throbbing cheek ut nothing could have annoyed q ne on ld ¢ *h However e Peo oll it may be to turn the other cheek, the burning of it does not cool one and he walked through the than he ever remembered ap more 's Passions, grier wood at being. 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was a convent there, a Protestar ste hood. Perhaps he was going to make a rangements for shutting her up there! Never! — Betty would die first. At least she we uld run away j rst But M weTe CF 1d one run t The aun Be ] itt iul she distrusted their age Phe were t LESS than even -selgirvgrnayed SETS were ever sold old to sympathize real with her I} ct letters would most like iv understand a Ueas! Coupon Tear off the Coupon, write name and stepfather had done Anl: ard M« address plainly, and mai! to us now before you torwet it told Betty that the storv of the fort té w. of the sever olen meetin: \ } to print our price . ’ o in thas } S s broadcast ne save eset Seg P si ecigge eee greatiniury to future sa convincing " ea } +} ( per na iC ( I } \ ( i not be hut up not by fifty aunts and } f Ss vuld ge Hir H j stant He was the o I } ha derstood, She aigh ' hi d ask hir nha ( H ' idvise her. He was so clever, so good ble Whatever he advised would te $I

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shed. She pictured her stepfather tram- pling flere¢ ly upon it as he told Mr. Vernon what he thought of him. At the last moment she hesitated. Mr Vernon would not be idle. What would he be doing? Suppose he should send a note? Suppose he had watched Mr. Underwood drive away and should come boldly up and askforher? Was it wise to leave the house? But perhaps he would be hanging about the churchyard, or watching from the park for a glimpse of her. She would at least go out ind se I'll leave a farewell letter he said, *'in l never come bach She found her little blotting-book — envel-

pe but no paper Of cour (ine cant ‘ith dignity write cutting farewells on en elope She tore a page trom her diar 1ou have di eni i ! he wrote lam ng ay lin time I shall try to { ‘ i t pe meannesses and elties of } eal I knov yu Wa hat ! might have had t | All life | | bear the ! 4 I ’ ot the t tyranr I nave er art Ne l : ne a i tintoth i God kno hat | be fy She folded, enveloped, and addressed the te eK al hatpin tiercely through 1 left eared her pincushion, ith ne plathers name uppermost (jood-by., little roon he said I feel hall never uu il! it na a ne ¢ ed he roon nd turned the handle of the door Ihe r Was locked Unee ear ah ippler m than the Reverend (se had been rector of Long Barton And the room that now was Bett he had had iron bars fixed to the two window bev that reom was the it evening, after dinner, Mr. Vernon at his parlor window looking idly along to the belt of lilaes } the wet bowling-vreer

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life itself. His final days may well serve as anillustration. W hen informed of the grav- ity of his state, he called William G. Beale his personal counsel, to his bedside, and gave himself a few last hours of business Then he bade farewell to his familv and friends. And having thus cleared his decks he made a fight against his malady which his doctors would not have looked for in a lan twer ea his junior He had contracted the disease playing olf but golf was | sole active diversion. He led Ais strenuous life among the pust buttons. He eared little for society. He even of that which in the hours of trade lacy; fis associates did not take advantage builds itself about He did not invite int never called him anvtt Mr. Field He had of that culture which the work of his generation has thrown open to the generation t He did not read broadly Though he traveled much owned beautiful pictures, he seems to have regarded them merely as things for a tired man torest his e) Inthe collections of fossils brought together in the museum he had establisned he confessed he could y old bones.”” The notable thing is that he was entirely honest about it. And that honesty was something that gave him a power which no accumulation of money ever Twice he was offered the Democratic nomination for Vice- ident. What other multi-millionaire is there in America whose name could for a moment be thought to add strength to a cal ticket ? He was,” said a contem- porary, ‘a rich man of whom no one spoke bitte rly because of his riches. He had nored silk cushion on the top of his desk, but that desk was a pulpit of a sort we can use a great many more of at the present time Again, in the business world he ins; men

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who sold by wholesale of necessity belongec to a caste far above him gna, Speen counter Field’s life-work broke down nose craz and moth-eaten barr for- ever. Not or tha He did mu ore H took tha ed-at retail counts eptit clean of ali the meanness and truck- hich ej i t,and, by the power f honesty and fair dealing alone, lifted it ito the d vy of the great professions An d Sunda upplement re- orter, né atisiied with the commonly accepted sources of the Field millions has ted that he ha side information to w that Field a wned a great gold mine, Although vou may not find that gold ine in the [ran vaal or California or the Klondike, you need not, therefore, doubt itsexistence. Foran existence verily it has! Furthermore, it is a mine which, by an un- has left to all whatsoever. written codicil in his will, he other business men

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