The Saturday Evening Post 1906-03-03: Vol 178 Iss 36

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The PacKers and the People OGDEN ARMOUR

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Founded A’D' 1728 Sy Benj.Franklin Published Weekly at 425 Arch Street by THE CuRTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY London: Hastings House,10,Norfolk Street, Strand,W.C

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Volume 178

PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 38, 1900 plies caine das + Number GO

The PacKers and the People OGDEN ARMOUR By Jj.

— hil 2 a * a te vi cty Lo ng Lay: HE public prejudice against the packer is more than pop ular—it is almost universal. In my opinion, this preju dice is inevitable, and will always continue thout re to the manner in lhis is becau packer deals in a food product of universal and extensive use —-a food whict furnishes the basis of living instead of being a small and only a comparati incidental part thereof. In the very nature of things the prices of meats a bound to rise rather than lower; the contraction of the range, as I have already explained, is sure to continue and also sure to increase the cost of pre ducing beef; the price of corn lands is steadily and inevitably rising, and this, also, means the increased cost of raising and feeding meat animalsof all kind Of course the consumer does not naturally take all this into consideration when he goes into the retail market to buy his meat; he only recalls that the price he is paying is higher than he used to pay, and so he damns the packer and lets it go at that. It isa perfectly safe thing to do. I do not remember a time when the retail prices of meats were satisfactory to the consumer and I do not believe any one else does seemed too great to the consumer—even when it represented, as it some- times has, a direct loss to the packer. Again, we shal! miss something essential to the understanding of the packers’ secure position in the dis- regard of the public if we fail to take account of one point of human nature the fact that there is, in every person who goes to market, a sense of rebellion against the fact that certain things must be bought—and bought practically every day. Compulsion in anything is not pleasant, and there is no joy in buying something that has to be bought to prevent the pangs of hunger. Consequently, there is, universally, a feeling of resentment against the necessity of such expenditures. Those purchases which give pleasure are not the basic necessities of life; they are the luxuries, or at least the finer comforts. And it is human nature to think how many of these coveted things could be bought with the money which must be paid out for meat and the other articles of food. Thus, the daily meat bill seems to stand con- stantly between the consumer and some coveted comfort, some article of beauty, some greatly-desired luxury or pleasure. And because it doessostand so far as the feelings of the purchaser are concerned —-it provokes an unrea- soning resentment of which the packer is invariably the convenient target All of this, to my mind, is something inherent in the situation which exists independent of the manner in which the packers conduct their business and will exist without regard to how they may conduct it in the future And this feeling is al there to be appealed to by the aqit ich the packing bu if as conducted The cost always

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nothing of the faring awaiting ich a rot rit new t me, it seen to me the contempt and bitter execrat fy fi wmen can arcely be atoned for | th | { \ Marshall hield died the other day the ent ! ned. XN ed i his righ to the millior he had amassed honoral But were it pa iWa

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expression of hatred against an avowed enemy? I think 4 man to do this without any personal provocation er shows that his mind has been powerfully wrought persistently and systematically warped through a and this is generally not whate' upon cunning appeal to his prejudice cloaked under the disguise of an appeal to conscience I assert my profound belief that a letter of this kind from such a source would be absolutely an impossibility with- out such 4 campaign of persistent misrepresentation and organized vilification as that to which the packers have ubjected. Think of the occupant of a Christian pulpit, in this enlightened day, going out of his way to write a a letter of such studied venom, rankling with a hatred that would have done justice to a barbaric Highland clansman, in the old days, expressing his contempt of afeudal enemy! And yet I have no doubt that, personally, this Christian pastor is a kindly man for years been stranger who really loves justice and delights in doing good How Sentiment is Made i ie ME he is imply ane cample of the absurd extremes to which this propaganda of slander against the packers has warped the judgment and the sentiment of thousands ol he best people iid, a compulsory expenditure for a hard-and-fast nec¢ kind of latent he s and periodicals have found ar in the country Because, as I have ity naturally creates a sentiment ise impossible; they have persisted and increased because it was found that the people read these charges eagerly ind that they therefore made circulation shrewdly and skillfully cultivated the impression 0oea to cultivate, for the reason I have exovlained that the packers are the natural and inevitable sof the people, preying upon them as the wolf preys upon the flock. Only, fully the pac ker as it is de picted by the the wolf should be a double-headed monster, with one set of jaws busy hamstringing the cattleman while the other i the throat of the consumer Letters of the kind I have cited are the legitimate fruit of have to delineate the character of sensational magazine, losed upon ich a sowing as the sensational publications have indulged that actual violence does not follow is no fault of the most radical of these publicati ns Who are not looking forthe facts from Do you vhich to lead their readers to a fair conclusion think that this conclusion is not warranted? Then let me assure that I have received, through the United States mails, a typewritten letter without place you or date, addressed to myself and reading as follows about you and your kind of commercial tyrants in We would think that you tyrants and ought to get tired from your con- tinubus gorging upon the sweat and blood of the people of the nation. What are you and aiming at, anyway? What are your ultimate objects? Have u not got enough of this world’s good already? Are you pirates seeking to enslave the people? Why not commence to be men with human hearts and try to be fair and just We feel that the authorities at Washington are going to clip vour cruel claws very shortly, but we also feel that personal punishment and a little terror on the Russian plan will in a large measure aid in accomplishing effectively the work in hand. We have, therefore, organized ourselves into a VIGILANCE COMMITTEE for the PUBLIC SAFETY, and propose to use dynamite and assassination to help suppressing you commercial vultures of the nation We propose to be fair and just in our operations, and all will be justly tried before our tribunal, and if found guilty and sentenced to death, the condemned the penalty they are to pay, and if not to-day then Chis is the plan which has been so successfully in operation in the execution of the Russian political tvrants by the Committee of Public Safety there We beg to notify you that you have been tried by our tribunal, and your death decreed PREPARE FOR THRE INEVITABLE! You may temporarily avoid the xecution of tl but your time will shortly come 1LjOn Of LOIS sen We have been reading accused tvrants will be dulv notified of cannot de escaped norrow Lence Our officer who has been appointed to execute this sentence has already been appointed, and you may be assured that he prepared Lo sacrifice his life in such a worthy cau r} ame } Tur Vie ‘ & COMMITTER FoR THE Purnrtic Saret [This letter i ites upor face that it has been brought by the wrazine attacks upon the packers It speaks tor itsell i that part ilar The only comment I| care to offer upon it ts that it is the natural and legitimate outcome of the wantor ation t hich the packing industry and t privat e indust have been sul ted _ erie R popular method of inciting prejudice against 4 the pack is to represent them as throttl the ra r of the ntrv a ing unfairly low freight es on dre its and r-h e product Some I id off ive er i this misrepresentatior \t banquets and elsewhere they have tossed off jaunt worded expr yns of rate-making that sound well in tt c f the inexpert ar tre hen the belief that ‘th THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Mr. A. B. Stickney, president of the Chicago Great Western Railway, has frequently indulged in word-pictures of the poor trembling railroads in the clutches of the vora- cious packers. One of his most often-quoted statements runs as follows: ‘In fixing the rate on dressed meat we’’ (the railroads, I presume) ‘‘don't have very much to say. The packer generally makes the rate. He comes to you and always makes you feel that he is your friend. Then he asks how much you charge for a certain shipment of dressed meats. The published tariff may be twenty-three cents a hundred, but he will not pay that. Yousaytohim: ‘I'll carry your meat for eighteen cents.’ He says: ‘Oh, no, you won't: I won't pay that!’ Then yousay: * Well, what will you pay for it?’ He then replies: ‘I can get it hauled for sixteen cents.’ So you haul it for sixteen cents.” That sounds convincing; to the average reader or listener it appears to be a freshly-written, undried page out of the every-day experience of a railroad manager, and sounds as if it might be a verbatim report of what took place only the day before in Mr. Stickney’s office. Now what are the facts? The rate on dressed meats from Missouri River points Kansas City, Omaha, St. Joseph and Sioux City—to Chicago is twenty cents a hundred and eighteen and a half That was the rate when Mr Stic kney made the statement quoted above It had been the rate for more than three years It will continue to be the rate for more than three years longer. That rate was fixed by a formal legal contract between Mr. Stickney road, the Chicago Great Western, and the Vissourt Rive cents on through business. Lohe a contract erecuted in the summe / 1902 and made binding fi seven yea And Mr. Stickney wa o well pleased with that contract that he made execution of it t ! n¢ reular fler? he ¢ tw A holder aswomn of a circular letter to the Grea estern stockholders, ’ ich he explained (and almost boasted of) what a good bargain the railroad had driven with the packers—a bargain that meant an advance of fifteen per cent. over rates pre- viously prevailing, and that meant a fifty per cent. increase in the railroad’s net earnings. Mr. Stickney also made it appear in his circular that the new rate was as high a rate, the Great Western believed, as could be justly exacted from the packers, in view of the small margin of profit in the packers’ business. But let Mr. Stickney speak for himself Here are extracts from that ‘ private and con- fidential”’ circular which, as I have said, Mr. Stickney sent to Great Western stockholders under date of August 4, 1002, the itales being mine: on rates Mr. SticKney’s Private Opinion “TT GIVES the management pleasure to be able to an- nounce that the company executed identical contracts with each of the packing companies doing busi- ness at Kansas City, St. Joseph, Omaha and Sioux City, by which the packers agree to route over the Chicago Great Western lines at least a certain percentage of the entire output of their plants, at definite rates, for the term of ; has seven years The rate tre a substant advance ove fhe / f , / h } rey aue ere pre i rates which have ‘ “The aggregate revenue which these contracts secure to the Chicago Great Western Railway on the present volume of business to be $14,000,000, and, if the business increases as rapidly in the next seven years as in is estimated the past, approximately $20,000,000 contracts cannot be without a knowledge of the magnitude of the packing industry. The Swift & Co amount of its sales last year at the enormous sum 20,000,000. — Pre- its chief competitor, Armour & Co., did stantially as much, and it is probably safe to estimate the aggregate sales of the other packers amount to enough to make the grand total fully More than half of the aggregate business is the output of the plants at the Missouri Ris the * These understood published report of gives the of 822 sumably $700,000,000 er cities mentioned, and is affected by arrowness of the margin of profits is even more surprising than the magnitude of the transactions. The report of Swift & Co. (the only report available) gives the information that, on sales during last year, practically in a retail way, aggregating over $220,000,000 of perishable commodities requiring the greatest care to guard against serious loss, the entire profits were only about $3,000,000, or less than 14 percent With such a narrow margin of profit it is easy to see that freight rates are nportant factor business. It is est anr l time tne innual profits Hence which ha beer established for bu 5 is Deer adjusted, is a seri And the pack ‘ ! ’ thstantial ad rance tha feen p (., the manage- ment felt that its duty to the stockholders demanded that accept the opportunity to secure for a term of \ this substantial ance in rate Accordingly it has entered into identical and lawful contracts with each and every packer doing busine at Kansas City, St ph, Omaha and Sioux Cit March 3, 1906 “In consideration of this contract on the part of the railroad, the packers agree to ship over the Chicago Great Western lines in each and every month during the full term of seven years at least a certain percentage of the entire output of their respective packing-houses, and of all such packing-houses as they, their successors and assigns, may hereafter own or control, and to pay therefor the full published tariff rates, regardless of any lower rates which may be offered by other railway companies * These unlike the ‘maximum tracts,’ are legal and therefore enforceable in the courts ‘There is no way by which the other lines can reduce the rate or quantity “It is certainly satisfactory to know that so large a volume of gross revenue, approximately $1,000,000 per annum, is already secured by contract for the Omaha and Sioux City lines now under construction, as soon as they contracts, rate con- are comple ted.”’ It is note the difference between Mr Stickney talking to the general public about freight rates and President Stickney telling his stockholders in a con- fidential circular what a good bargain he has made with the packers. I have only to add that loose-tengued talk and undigested generalizing by authoritatively have had much to do with prej instructive to men supposed to speak idicing the public mind against the packers No Smuggled Freight ( NE of the most flagrant of all the many misrepresenta- tions which have recently appeared in certain magi zines is this statement Beef is hung up in the refrigerator cars. There is aspace beneath on the floor of the car. It 1as been charged that this space is sometimes crowded full of dressed poultry, eggs, and soon. Poultry and eggs take a high freight rate; but, thus packed, Armour gets t/ lj How much of such busines heer hown to ext in carried jor nothing. goes on no one knows, but it has IMS CASES P= Nothing could be falserthan this statement. Itis untruc in every respect and particular. The older men in the employ of Armour & Co. are witnesses to the fact that my father’s instructions were most strict on this point; that he guarded against anything of the sort by pointing out both the dishonesty and the foolishness of any practice of that nature The same precautions against the possibility of that sort of thing on the part of an over-zealous ¢« mployee have been taken by myself. There is not a man in the shipping de- partment of Armour & Co. who thoroughly understand that an attempt at such a practice would bring rime does not him instant dismissal Any person believing that such a thing would be done by any packer can quickly rid his mind of such a notion by going to the freight department of any railroad handling packing-house business. The roads’ only on the platforms from which the cars are loaded, but they have access to the books of account and to the very which the collections are made from the persons or houses to whom the cars are shipped. The statement is not only utterly false, but it is absurd, and any freight man who knows the actual processes of shipping from a packing-house will say so. They know that a thing of this kind could not be done without detection and that an attempt to do it would be silly and suicidal Whenever the people of this country —or any of them come to cast up their score with the packers, there are some things which cannot in justice be overlooked, although they are so commonplace as to be accepted as a mere matter of The packers’ contribution to economic progress Inspectors are not invoices from course, in the way It is impossible to realize the extent to which this touches almost every physical element in our every-day life--from making worn-out and barren lands yield bounteous crops to supply ing the buttons on our coats If all of these by- striken from commerce the void every of by-product utilization has been enormous products were sudden] would astound the world and the result would be where considered a dire public calamity At the Industry's Cradle “s YV/ASTE NOT” is the packers’ creed, and his scientific faithfulness to it—inspired by self-interest — is one of the most fruitful le of the civilize p brought about by the aid of the laboratory « sources of economic thus far actually advantage to the peo 1 world the scientis Let us see just how muca this by-product utilization means to the grower and the consumer of food ar ils as vell as the people in general In the old times packing was done in the winter Che first change in method was the use of ice and the con mencement of summer packing. This started in hog- packing, but, with the introduction of the refrigerator « beef was killed largely in the summer. About this t some of the packers adopted the method of packing and i sintineans. The refrigerator car permitted od near where it was cheaps r ( f j Pe it Was grown, as

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THE “THIRTY”. By William Allen White N THE afternoon, between two and three o'clock, the messenger-boy from the telegraph-office brings over the final sheet of the day Ss re} of the Associated Always at the end is gynature Phirty.”’ That tells us that the report is closed fortheday. Just why ‘Thirty "’ should be used to indicate the close of th work no one seems to know. It is the custom. over the country, and in the news- for end cantly that ever a printer ora r reporter dies } gener- ort Press the s \ edays The y do so n telegraph-offices all paper business stands the so Phirty signifi- when- 11s associates ally fee] to have called upon a floral emblem made with the fig- ures In the centre It therefore entirely proper hat these sketche f life ina country te een throug! 1 repor s eve hould close with the symbolic word But how to clo ques- Sitt here by the ¢ window, with mell of the ink in one’s A he steady, monoto- nous clatter of the linotvypes in the ears, and the whir- rit ot the shafting the room in the from press- Dase- ment throbbing through one nerves, With the very material real of the offic nd one, it s as though When the Baptist Church Needs a New such a small part Roof, Jim is the Cinderella of the Occasion § of jt, and of the life about it, has been set down in these Passing the window every moment is some one with a story that should be told. Every human life, if one could know it well and translate sketche ottice it into language, has in it the making of a great stor) It is because we are blind that we pass men and women around us, heedless of the tragic qual tv of their lives. If every man, or woman, could understand that all other human lives are as full of sorrows, of joys, of tempta- tions, of heartaches and remorse as his own, thinks so pe culiarly isolated from the web of life, how mu kinder, how much gentler he would be! And how much richer life would be for all of us! Life is dull to no one But life seems dull to those dull persons who think life ho the woof that is woven about them is dull for others, and w see shades in the Here in our town are ten thousand people, sketches have told of less than twoscore of them. only drab and gray and yet these In the town are thousands of others quite as interesting as thos of whom we have written. A few minutes ago Jim Huddle- son rode by on his hack. There is no reason why others should be advertised of men and Jim left out; for Jim is the proudest man in town. He came here when the town was young, and was presi- dent of the Anti-Horse-Thief League in the days before it leritus inst when it was a power in the Sheriff as a matter of right and of became an en itution, 1 named polities ar course Jim has never let the fact that he kept a livery-stabk ] and drove a hack interfere with his position as lead- ing citizen. He keeps a livery-stable, because that is his business, and he drives a hack because he cannot trust s a valuable piece of property in the hands of the bo when the street fair to be put on, or the baseball tean financed, or \ the Baptist Church needs a new roof, or the petitions : » be circulated for a bond election, Jim Huddleson gets wn from his hack, puts on his crystal slipper and is the Cinderella of the oecasior hat is why, when young men go in Jim’s hack to take young women to parties and dance they always invite Jim in to the fire ad get warn hile the girls are primping. TT is why when vo ing B ! Mercer, just home from five years of Harvard, offered Jim a “tip” over the usual twenty-five-cent fare, Jin quietly took off his coat and whipped young Ben where he stood and the town lined up for an hour, each man eager for the p ilege of cor tmributi el cent to th popula! ipseription to pa old Jim ne and cos the polce-court Following Ji Hudd] ! on his hack past the offi wind me Bill Harri once ext! 4 ra ematr t t Dry Creek Branch, ju " moted » be conductor on th mal le, an © full of glory in his exalted positi eight wite his pay-cl doles out his cig quarter at a time, and wher he fora dollar he loo at him as if she suspected hin of leading life It i herambition to live in Topel i tons on fr train igns wck and rar mone i ask a double for ‘‘there are so many con ductors in Topeka he says “that society is not so mixed that the student-brakemen dominate man from Kansas ( lead dollar for fare ‘‘Lean’tt because his job was new “Well she complains itv got then, you might ju company,” responded the drun And when the head braken had to fuss with his wife for t ot cigars to stop the trouble As these t be ing into the office with a not lines were She has been teaching school in town for thir is not so cheerful as she was once For long time the board has considered di missing her. But it continues to char her around from building to building anc from room to room, switchmer 300)! \ on Bill turt mer tt a o days to gt written, ake this,”’ protested Bill, empha one SATURDAY EVENING POST Counting the Liars and vhere nen and the ile 1 ollered a Miss Littleton car for the Missior and to keep her out of sheer pity And she knows it There is tragedy enough 1 her tor to fill a book. Yet she looks as humdrum a l l » gaviy a ne pu one thint ; pert iD she is trying to d el th mre that she is cross and impatient with the children On the other side of the street, upstair in his dusty real-estate office ith tir placards of insurance companies on the wall, and gaudy calendar tacked e\ ewindo where, Silas Bucknerstandsat tk counting the liars and scoundrel double-dealers and villain ind th windiers who pa since Sila defeated for Register of Deeds he become 1 pr imi He ha oure the town hen } ee mat thir only of the evil th } Silas knows all men’ eakne forgets their strength, ar Look j from the window hates! v~ tor the ro the ’ ‘ | his or kedt that he kne ( tr } never en our report | m of ne nee } . t here i cise il citizen going a ind i t from Sil and if we do not print avs we have taken hush mon if have to print it, he says we ar rin ine ary Societ t Vv Vé With » Notice the Missionary t rdre and 1 trife. Ses hi vn t ! i earyv Go ist | much better thar And we h ! Silas thint i { mat ul. Buty men mav overcotr WILN US @s Silas 1 Ls night Aare vear thi orld ind died as a child his home amor t} the mourner poke ere drawl! i { 1 | i ‘ t} +} l , th ( , } . De rs and Villains Who Time Enough } HAR Fase n the t sucht how knowin tf men portant a at efTac femish tha il iu j I t iy } ‘ ! wh i I i ind u te i the blind t re nm the ise, there yo whe thourh they f death ¢ Wil th bye md am the ‘ ind ‘ ce al i i uu he land an r ol that ar hel ta f th { pie se , j as the a t i i

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST March 3, 1906 THE WAY HE WON HER HE Prince ss, dre sed in white samite with a gleaming envelop- ment of richest taffeta about her, des¢ ended from the automobile. Over her golden locks was wound a scarf of such a wondrous texture that it might be passed through a ring to be worn on the little finger. ‘The glass slippers were concealed for the moment by small silken shoon edged with the rarest fur brought from the frozen realms of the Arctic king. Even in such disguise her surpassing grace and beauty were not to be eclipsed, but appeared, in spite of it, with all royal charm and loveliness. If pearls did not drop from her rosy mouth, it was because they were very securely fixed behind her vermeil lips. Absolutely the reason that her words did not set silver bells a-ringing was that she did not happen to be saying anything at the moment. his, at the least, was the way all seemed to Jack Mason. Alone she tripped up the long tunnel of strange striped tuff illuminated at intervals by the most brilliant kerosene lamps. To be sure, the Queen Mother accompanied her. This august personage, however, did not wear the mon- archical insignia, but was simply dressed in robes of state consisting of a skirt of blue satin overhung with blue and ilver lace and a bodice of the same material embroidered th what might have appeared to be silver caterpillars and gra shop] er She displayed all the air of stern dis approval which such a one is always expected to exhibit on all occasions The Princess disappeared, as if the earth had swallowed her, round a canvas corner That's she,’’ muttered Mason with absolute and sudden conviction, coming to a complete standstill “And J believe that I might as well make up my mind right here that ‘there's only one girl in this world for me,’"’ he added ie started in pursuit of the small royal party up the tortuous labyrinth For an instant he had not breathed His heart beat urdly His spirits seemed lifted in strange exaltation fold symptoms made clear the fact that something extraord c Me —to her,” he announced to6 himself definitely “No matter the odd I play to wir Since his arrival in her father’s kingdom, she had been Not that any one but he recog- or that her parent, who in fact possessed an immense political ‘pull’? and was described as a “financial magnate,’ had anything to do with sovereign rank Mason, however, was not to be de- ceived, and the moment his eves rested upon her he knew the truth. He had heard of her. He had often noticed the big gravstone Renaissance chateau in Mohegan Avenue as he walked down town in the morning, or returned in the evening to his rooms in the University Club. At sight of her he recognized instantly and perfectly what she was, and understood that, although the place in which they were might appear to others to be an every-day American city, with a post-office of the first class, in reality it was some- thing verv different Suddenly it became a part of the wonderful world of fable and fantasy; of youth and ad- venture, of glory and be auty to be won: of yreat deeds to far away across the seas nized that she was a Princess, be achieved and great good to be accomplished; a splendid glittering region of castles in the air —and in Spain — where all was possible and even probable; a midsummer's dreamland country of enchanted woods and magic moun- tains; the land of Fortunatus’ cap, of Aladdin's lamp, of Arthur's Exealibur and—Mambrino's helmet. Not that he described the locality in that fashion to himself He merely felt that life was very marvelous and the universe a rainbow-tinted spectacle of great brilliancy and allurement In the golden ballroom, where the violins and hautboys and sackbuts and bassoons were making the most enchant- ing music, he watched her swim over the pe lished floor in the quick measure of a “‘two-step.” he communed with himself, becoming more convinced with every glance that she was the most ess that there was in the whole world Just then a remarkable thing hay pene d As she sped past him, by some curious mischance she dropped the big bunch of violets she held. It fell directly at his feet. She as she noticed her] and as he sprang forward, picked it up and handed it to her, she received it smiling And she looked as if she wished to only she possessed the knowledge of it partner with rare presence of mind you let me present Mr. Mason a ‘Miss Brown, great friend of mine 1a bower of pines and palms and smilax and roses in the corner under the gallery, they rested after she had ‘split’ the fourth dance to give him a “turn.” A Story of the Princess Charming and the Beggar Lad | made up my mind I should talk to you,”” he declared boldly **T said it to myself the ment lsaw you. And now I am with you,” he concluded, overcome with the wonder of it. ** How nice of you,” she murmured gratefully. ‘‘A man can do anything he wants to do,"’ she continued as she glanced at him quickly, while a queer, swift smile for just a moment bent her perfect lips. lhe next day for him wasa day of reaction. Resolutions about winning a Princess are easy to form, but seen in the cold, bright light of a snowy winter morning, as one trudges down before nine o'clock to sit at a desk in a law-office, they afford but little promise of hope He had not the great advantage of being able at the best dramatic moment to throw back his cloak and declare himself the Crown Prince and Heir Apparent to the Kingdom of Paphlagonia. The best he could do was to point toa slowly, very slowly growing law practice. He would forget her. Probably he should not see her again His presence at the ball was a mere accident in his hardworking days and nights. Such a glorious, unapproachable, high and mighty person as herself would not be likely often to come in his way. At that instant a thrilling tintinnabulation aroused him. “Yes,”’ he said, picking up the black receiver. ‘*Oh, Mrs. Morris! Come to dinner on Thursday evening? Dreadfully sorry, I have so much to do I cannot possibly. Awfully good of you and Norrie to insist You know there's nothing I should likeso much. Just yourselves and one or two others? Who? Oh! Miss Brown! A great friend of yours? She is—yes, she is perfectly beautiful. I could say more than that. Why, if you are so kind. Perhaps I could manage it. Yes, half-past seven on Thursday Now, some great enchanter, Merlin or another, had by his necromancy so brought it about that our hero had received the wonderful summons. Myriad threads of gossamer, reaching from house to house through the city, enabled those who possessed the conjuration—at five dollars a month and unlimited messages—to know what each other was thinking As Mason hung up the receiver, he looked up into a room which seemed to have widened in the most amazing manner, and out through his high window into a world transformed with a flood of golden light from the setting sun which just then broke from under a cloud The Norris Morrises lived in an enchanting “bijou” residence —for they had only been mar- ried a year and a half — where one coming through the front door into the hall had to execute a skillful piece of acting in order not to appear conscious of seeing the host and hostess as he re took off his overcoat. Otherwise, to make a formal entrance into the drawing-room was diffi- cult. Everything was as new and fresh as if it had been given to them by a fairy godmother as well as by friends, and uncles, and aunts, and cousins, and bridesmaids, and a best man. There was only room for Mason and the Princess and another pair of young peo- ple to whom little Mrs **Norrie’’ Morris ‘‘owed"’ a By GEORGE HIBBARD od cook ae afterward. Naturally, Mason did not sit next to the Princess, but the great distance of across the dinner-table away from her With the unusual number of chairs, the small maid could with difficulty squeeze between the backs and the side- board. However, though separated in this tactful and conventional manner, they managed to reach a number of subjects which would require discussion and elucidation later. In the hall the Morris quarter-grand harpsichord stood with its stubby tail almost touching the hat-rack Beside this Mason seated himself when the men filed in from the contiguous dining-room. The Princess was playing with a most charming s and catholic taste which included Tschaikowsky and * Teasing ‘I felt I should never see you again,” he began, ** though of course I knew that it was not possible for me to liv the same place and let a long time go by without doing it ‘You thought that * she re sponded, as carelessly her tingers strayed over the keys into something louder. “Here I am,”’ he continued joyfully, ‘and there you are or better, here we are I was sure that I'd bring it about in some way.” “Of course, girls are helpless,’’ she murmurs ‘You hadn't forgotten who I was?” “In such a long time?’’ she laughed softly and moc} ingly. ‘I might have done it.” “Then,”’ he declared with decision, ‘it ip to me to that you don't have the chance again.” She merely glanced at him and then became absorbed an intricate bit of fingering “Don’t come on Sunday afternoon, when every one els« is there,"’ she said suddenly after a silence during which s} solved the difficult problem of technique —‘‘Some afternoon in the week And you had better telephone Oh!” she hurried on, ‘‘it was so good that you were a friend of the Morrises! ‘Awfully nice of them to invite me,” replied Ma gratefully, ‘‘when they never have before Was all surprised, though, that they did it in this w ay oul of a clear sky. And to ask me with —you.” ‘“*Why,” said the Princess de liberatels , ‘Constance told me that she was going to have this little dinner the after- noon after the ball when I came here.” The next thing, they quarreled. Not that evening. Not the next day or the next week. The difference was serious Great preparations were under way at the Palace. The orders had gone forth to prepare fora great festivity Not every day does a Princess have a birthday — and a twenty- first birthday. Five hundred invitations were forthwith despatched. All the ‘‘old friends’? who antedated the Princess’ christening were bidden, and all the‘ new people”’ who had come on since that time. The elders were asked “Perhaps | Could Manage it. > a Yes, Half-past Seven on Thursday” i i i

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST from “‘nine to eleven,” but in a corner “Dancing” held hate to take out the chauffeur, so I am left smiling lil the most exhilarating mu “ h his heart throbl | out promise and hope to the youngest débutante. The Patience on—an automobile.’ All day long he whistled in a way which would } Luse banqueting-boards would have groaned, if they had not “It’s an ill automobile,” he responded kly, ‘‘that the clerk, if he } ‘ rh « r und Mason t been so solidly constructed, under the richly sauced sal- does not bring somebody some good ] found a his 7 tion, to reque hit olite but firn mon; beneath the boneless turkeys; with the luculent you must listen to me S i t Y id aspics and the richest patés All the royal silver decorated Don’t!" she implored, holding up her hand Now wort win | Certa he ha tr to do tl the table—with a large amount from the purveyor’s. In you say you have found me, I want to ma a conte " amar } } if | the centre a bank of roses almost reached the chandelier I never thought I should sav it at pr A i] ‘ ind with a ‘ far hich at P ' hed | iy The two drawing-rooms had been entirely cleared of their I never, never, never was going to see vou ot ik 1 } Yet she he Pr . and he th rat th inlaid tables and brocaded chairs, of their scattered again. My birthday,and nottocome! I mig! He reme red etl ‘ Y n and | leopard and bear skins. The orchestra was hidden in the you that I have been doing all I could to keep out of r aringandapa f glass and one who wrote that he fa iB vestibule of the closed front door behind a grove of palms way until now — vou see! he made a despairing tur ild rise, vet ired to fa Wi he feared take th n Every tireplace was a bower of ferns. With such prepara- indicating the immobile automol [ was wror ep, tosay the word wh might shattertl hick i tion, the importance of the ceremony became manifest entirely wrong! Of course, vou had to meet ir f l } ring tl ering pinnacle of his hon t With a command from the Palace, to be present at Court should have recognized it, and Ldo now. I should ha on | \ a wed da on such a night was a duty. had you do anything els« You must understar ~ ' the P re appeared wiffrom the air: as if Atsixo'clock came a frantic note from Mason stating that What?" he implored as she paused sprit rina ' fr for lir pace: al ‘ he had received a telegram from a college chum with whom “T wanted you to come so much he resumed A ul en: a ind a threat Hed ered th he had been on the ‘‘team.”” They had not seen eachother “‘that was the reasor rapt ume on her particular desl } } for three years, and the dispatch announced that his friend “It is all right now,’ he exclaimed gleeful 1 ver vn cor he music-room which she lasasot would arrive on the Magic Carpet Limited at 10:40; thathe have had a bad quarter of a month, thoug! ‘ is of formal bou for the reception of the favored and tl intended to stop over until the Hippogriff Express left at find out what is wrong with the car it ‘ H e or il of the portra wa vod | +:10 a.u., and that he wished Mason to meet BS tan nol ne. with a him. Therefore the missive stated in dok mela hol , hast } } ful terms that the writer could not be pres poems - { ' f ent at the birthday celebration that night : uN The next afternoon, when Mason crossed . WV} the gravel of the drive and rang, she was not he ¢ } in. Whereupon he tramped dejectedly up he ar 1, : the Avenue and in the evening smoked much awa i more than was good for his nerves. At nin¢ Vh hat } ' he was unable to endure the suspense. Con hold seque ntly, he had recourse to the necro- th } } mantic means of communication already sshed —a mentioned ‘ } takal “West One-Nine-Two.’ ‘ | I'na i} } | Something appeared to be wrong with the for \ } { exorcism, for he was obliged to repeat ir we ther harrow tur more peremptory tones Such a cha mat } ul “Yes ves! West One-Nine-Two! \ } , r ‘ i 1] Wi Luring a delay in space in obeying his call, I pe wl 1 and I were th j his face wore a strained and anxious expre | ‘ i \ horrid r | ‘Yes!’ he exclaimed suddenly. ‘Is Mis } urd, all the erir ) | Brown at home? Yes! Will you ask Mis ' { i } le Brown if Mr. Mason may speak to her? } idful, threates Again a stage wait rt iLhadappeared. H i “What isthat? Miss Brown says that she ( loubt it. As he pe led dow i is very busy? You will receive the mes- . \ } . the club. } sage Iked a the ruin of a glot | The talisman was put down with a violencs i that so disturbed its mystic qualities that a I} ! { } He le ned j man was obliged to come the next da) to j } he i eare | the Palnc ) | see about it. the f i he had | A period of restless activ ity followed. ‘I ry been carried off I | darkt as he might, he could find her nowhere He Out of towr } is tol t} i oddly missed her on every occasion. The a He th Y | houses which she frequented the most were Mother On ! n, he hur fT to | not blessed with her presence, at least ee lit Mr N Mor | at the hours when he was in the habit of W) } } unded. fait visiting them. Any inquiry at the Castk ! t} ra m, wh " | in the afternoon or evening was always t} tt burt ! ill met by the announcement from the striped- | fla ma | waistcoated servitor, or his superior, the black-vested seneschal, that Miss Brown $$ \\ } here ! t red | was out The malicious genii did their “ Then it’s All Right!" He Cried Exultingiy Mrs. Mort | , , ‘ ' work well. She had completely vanished. I pare 1 } () He was not to be foiled. There must be moments, he **Do you know about them ?”’ she demanded in astonish unt to kn it J argued, when, by some counter-spell, he could dissipate ment Ye he nded breath the cloud concealing her. There must be some superior ‘““As much as any one can know about their cussed “Gone to sta h the I ‘ t} ntrv plae magic which could overthrow the invisible barrier keeping psychology,’’ he answered, promptly abasing himself before I had a letter fr he ! I not let you herfrom him. He thought of this one day as he jogged, on the machin« 4 but | account of his horse’s feet, along the grass by the side of the An expression of dismay, almost of fright, appeared upot \ ilv then his eve oured the wor on the page sh H road. The one extravagance which he permitted himself was the Princess’ rosy visage outstretched to hit the steed on which he regularly rode out forexercise through “*Never mind,” she enjoined hurriedly, ‘if you will only I'm off to toboggan and ‘ ! ( } ind snow the Park and into the country every afternoon after work, ride on and telephone.” ba haparty atthe O not } hat I shou rain or shine, mud orsnow. Between five and six, when he ‘**Let me try what I can do,” he responded, rising fron r ell —if Id that e one would be did not call at the Castle, he trotted past the Country Club, between the wheels the For that reasor 1are to be par Uarl ire not : rarely stopping Now, as he looked ahead over the familiar He touched a lever here, a pi there Next, going to t ! VU notet ! rt n per nwt road, he beheld an unfamiliar object. Not that the thing the front, he proceeded to “crank” the engine with a skill hall be namelk " he T at once to find itself was so unusual, for in the age in which he lived and vigor which promptly brought an answering rattle, 1 He has seen a 1} is about it devil-wagons were almost as numerous as perambulators. rumble and roar from the interior and if he thought the origir e her the | | Still, the fact that a dragon-chaise should be standing “Why, it’s all right!"’ he cried, looking up Lit Mrs. Morr } } t} ised ¢ motionless in the highway, though again failing to be in “So it is!”’ she said in apparently the greatest wonder | ‘ t be { } least e Su any way remarkable, was at least noteworthy. “Oh, how stupid Iam! I thought I knew about all the | As he drew up his panting barb, she turned and cast over inner workings of the creaturé Pride goeth before a f the tonneau an appealing glance toward him and this is an awful tumble formine. Tothink of 1 t Ss winding |} nal iry traveler | y “Oh, you!”’ she exclaimed in seeming dismay, her help- ting here, when, if I had known, I might have been going ithered his fur i} less expression changing to one of repelling hauteur allthe time! Oh, it’s entirely ridiculous, a perfect joke!’ © more fir n his har \'} t “Yes,” he replied, jumping down, ‘‘and glad enough with a certain nervous hollowne t | r too! I've been searching for you asif you were the Golder d of anxiety had its effect. The torment toa ‘ ith tor Fleece, or a needle ina haystack. Where have you been through which he had passed did its worl If the imy i 1 of rusted it In th t th I f agreat What is the matter?” sibility of the vision in which he had indulged | elf ha ! n gleamed thr rh th fle t t} re “Which question do you want answered first?” she at moments struck a chill to his heart, that was forgotter tructure massing dar wainst th ‘ pale-greer replied, smiling happily. ‘‘Well—for the last. The igni- In the joy of the sudden reconciliation all was bright again teadily he tramped on, the fine flake fting down on | tion is wrong, or the transmission has broken down, or The winter’ssunshine had anew brillian The sparrows, juare shoulders and erect head. Suddenly he came to a | the counterpoint is crooked, or the chiaroscuro is loose, or as he went down town in the morning, caroled like larks. complete stand its inward consciousness is out of order. You know that I As he came up in the evening, the hurdygurdies played

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EEAING KZ oa a “No More Lies! I Know the Whole Thievish Scheme From Start to Finish" NOTHER good ad. for the American Dynamo Com- pany!’’ exclaimed Rainsford with disgust, as he 4. tossed aside a newspaper Light at Mars- and went out again la night Dynamo broke down. Diek, why don't you take my tock off my hands and re- organize that concern? It's rotten the ‘es I laughed a littl You'd make a poor drummer, Rainsford Phat’s not a very tempting introduction toa k sale What's the matter withthe concern, anvway Allin the management, Dick There is no question about that But there mething wrong with the manufacture I don’t know ere it 1 and if | did } 1 couldn ao ar hing Chere 4 cl e runnil thing ind} tle blo ol ock doen't count for muct rhat’s the trouble with many met They accept the Is’’ because it is, and make no effort to attain the ‘Should be It \ a noble thought and I made a note of it, to embody in my next lecture before the Seringford Improve- ment Associatior How much have you l nquired. [wo thousand share What ‘ ipita itior One aollar X per cent. bond a hou- | share mit u I tt isand st ‘ t of te thousand dort el no of a pull | observed ] ol ee that | ea thir I) t ‘ You can practica ‘ your pr ‘ ] i in the far lV, any- NaY There ts alway omething very alluring ina matter of this kind. The splendid problem of combination, of reorganization, of wresting ucce from failure, of doing what other men fail to do, have far higher and nobler incen- tive than that of profit So | made some inquiries about the company, without, how ever, getting much hght to guide me, until I was providentially led to an interview with ACnKit He came into my bank one morning, and after beating around the bush fora while, offered to ell me me bor of the Dynamo Company I at once refused to take hold of them, but sym pathetically encouraged him to talk, and he soon lost sight of his desire to sell, in his tale of Every dollar 1 have in the world, Mr Dubble is in these bond nd those old chumps are running things so that I'd not be rprised to see the interest defaulted next time Confound them! They've got a good thing the best dvnamo in the United States! I know that. But they're running it into the ground with their fool policy Excuse my language, Mr. Dubble, but my blood boils when I think of what I've got to lose through it all!" THE SATURDAY EVENING POST INVESTMENT Mr. Richard Dubble Rescues a Pair of Struggling Industries By GEORGE CARLING He certainly had not been sparing of strong terms, but in my desire for knowledge | had to take the bad with the good, so I did not remonstrate with him. ‘*What seems to be the trouble?”’ I asked. ‘Trouble!’ he ejaculated. Then he choked hard to keep back another flood of profanity. ‘Trouble! They've got the best dynamo in the world, and they're try- ing to build it with a lot of tracklayers and tinker’s helpers There isn't a decent machinist in the shops Greene, the superintendent, has a fool theory that no mechanic should get over twenty-five cents an hour; and the shop is filled with bums— just simply bums! They’re scrapping more stuff than they're shipping, and the profits are in those scrap-heaps that’s where they are!”’ ‘Don't the directors look into that, Mr. Shackle- ford?” “The directors!) They're dummies— simply dum- mies! President Langeville owns the whole business and Greene is his son-in-law-— and there’s the whole cussed story! Langeville believes in the ‘twenty- five cent’ theory, too. Says that the safety of the country demands that a check-valve shall be placed upon the growing greed of the working-man! I wish I owned tock instead of bonds. I'd get up a voting combination which would show these chuckle-headed public benefac- tors” (it wasn’t just ‘‘chuckle-headed”’ that he said) ‘that they’re not the whole show. But I’ve got bonds and I’ve got to sit down and watch them depreciate in value with- out having a word to say about the management.” **What are they worth now?”’ I inquired. “The last quotation was fifty-three.” ‘**] don’t see how they could run down to that,” I said. The security must have been poor, in the first place.”’ ‘It was not!’’ Shackleford stoutly asserted. ‘*The bond issue was based largely upon their patents--and the patents were good! They are good to-day, but we're not getting the benefit of them. The plums are ripe and ready to pick, but these —er — well —these fellows are knocking ‘em down with clubs-- and the plums are all scrap! ‘So you think you could form a combination with other stockholders and vote in a new board of directors?’ ‘I’m sure of it, Mr. Dubble, if my bonds carried voting power!” ‘Then you would probably be willing to exchange your bonds for stock.”’ ‘On a fair basis, yes! I thought it over for a few minutes A man thinks rap- idly at such times and my mind was soon made up. He Certainly Had Not Been Sparing of Strong Terms, but in My Desire for Knowledge I Had to Take the Bad with the Good ‘I think, Mr. Shackleford, that I can find a man who I would be willing to exchange perhaps two thousand shares, on a basis of two to one ‘**T wo hundred dollars in stock for one hundred in bond eh?” ‘Exactly.” He talked about it for a while, trying to make better terms, but finally agreed to the proposition That evening I told Rainsford that I would buy his stock at twenty He had told me that I could set my own price, but he looked a little blank at the twe nty. ‘All right, Dick, you can have it, but you’re getting a good bargain, as u ual!”’ ‘There'll be no bargain in it until I have done a good deal! ‘And I shall want you to help me when I get a little further along.”’ ‘*Anything in reason, Dick; I’m getting old and fighting shy of excitement, or you wouldn't get that stock — but any quiet little matter I’m ready to help on.” “This will be quiet enough!” I said witha laugh. ‘It'll have to be quiet a Within the next day or two the transfers were made and I became the possessor ol Shackleford’s bonds to the face of thinking and working,”’ I retorted value of one hundred thousand dollars- which cost me forty thousand, cash. No doubt, any of my business acquaintances in Toonsville if they had known of this transaction would have looked upon me as insane for putting that sum into a concern which was dged to be approaching bankruptcy Yet it vas With this small investment of forty thou- sand dollars that | hoped to secure contro of the two-million-dollar compar ‘The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing there- of is of the Lord,”’ It was now October, and the fiscal year of the Dynamo Company ended in February. In four months, therefore, the bond interest would be- come due, and— I contidently expected — woul be defaulted. It gave me fair time for the development of the first steps of my plan Shackleford seemed somewhat elated over his acquisition of stock, and I gathered that he figured on combining with other stockholders to upset the existing management. I had but little fear that he would succeed. His manner was forceful, but not convincing. However, I found an opportunity to give President Lange- ville a pointer on the matter, trusting to him to block any such plans for the present. I did not want Shackleford butting in with any readjust- ment schemes until I was ready to take th: lead I now called on my father-in-law, Rainsford, for the little assistance he had agreed to give me. “| want,” said I, ‘‘to buy the controlling interest in the Toonsville Engine Company.’ ‘‘What?” he exclaimed, after staring at me a few moments in surprise. ‘‘ You're all the time doing queer things, Dick, but this is the queerest yet! That concern is in worse shape than the Dynamo Company.”’ March 3, 1906

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] } “T generally make the queer things pa “Well, yes But this looks reckless, Dick “T’ve looked carefully into their affairs,” I replied “They make a good engine, but it co >; them too much They're digging along with old tools and equipment lf all that was overhauled, thev'd make fair profits ; Rainsford shook his | dubiou rheir stock is down to eighteen, Dick! At least, I was offered a block of it at that figure, t} Week, Phat tells the story! [t's an interesting story to me,”’ I retorted not be buying in i it Was not as low a have out a half million preferred stock and a half million That's the total capital. 1 want all the pre- ferred and as much of the common as wil Say six thousand shares in all already. common. rive mecontrol I've go quite a block of it Had chances to pick it up lately And I want you to get around quit tly after some more If 1 look for it myself, they ll be putting up the price——and | don’t intend to give over twenty, or twenty-two at the outside.”’ ‘IT guess you can get all you want at that figure,” replied Rainsford with a laugh. ‘The stock is scattered in small lots and the holders are pretty well disgusted. If you've got to have it, I'll look it up willingly “If I don’t get it,” 1 said, ‘‘the forty thousand I've put into Dynamo won't be worth Rainsford laughed knowing that experience yet, have you, Dick? ifty cents on the dollar! ‘Never had I | iy and said So that matter was settled, and in course of the next three months I had got hold of th preferred stock and a good block of the commor con plete control, in fact It cost me an average of twent larger part of the dollars per share, so that my invest ment In this company amounted to about one hundred and twenty thou- sand dollars. | have found there is usuall r an operation Involving promotion or re organization, an anxious pe riod of wait ing forsomethir gorsome bod) forsome one to make up his mind, or for some- back to his office, or for some arbitrary date to arrive—which pulls hard on the nerves. It may be a very short period, or the sum involved body else to get } may be small, but the trouble is almost always there, and calls for the exercise of that patience, and faith in self, which is SO requisite to success rhe scheme on which I was now engaged was much in the nature of an experiment, and | looked forward with eagerness for the annual report of the Dynamo Company) Upon this hinged all my success! At last itcame! And as I hoped and expected it showed that the earning: were not sufficient to pay the interest on the bonds. The payment was defaulted! I think it came as a surprise to most of the smaller men. Langeville had always dominated the company’s affairs, keep- ing so cheerful a face over them up t the last moment that I thought that he was himself unaware of the true condition of affairs. For the previous vear or two he had been hungry sometimes for public recognition, and had prot ably paid more attention to his philanthropic societies and art gatherings, his literary with a little high- than to the proper manufacture and sale of dyna mos He al feasts and musicales rrade politics mixed in THE SATURDAY EVENING I saw in a moment that ve were « ‘ business 1 should have to take the lead Lange noted tor his verbosity or conait “Mr. Langeville,”’ I said vou have hand the Ame cal Dvr i! ( } ‘ I ‘ i? time it Nas 1{ a ‘ interest I ak ité Ar 1 the showil! im ‘ e oul } You are the first man who has ever } the company, Mr. Dubble!"’ he retort ‘ There aiway ha I tM lirst il Mr Lailigre Now, you probably have some proposit to make } wouldn t have come to me mply to reproact steps to protect my investment! Il came to you, Mr. Dubble, to remind vou th ! vestment is han five es as great a i } I have beer instrumental in bulldir uy I that my time and money have been poured edly — and that it would have been only courteous of have consulted with me on the proper steps to take, at tl unfortunate and our stockholder If I had not seen that 1 could make use of the pre man, I should certainly have terminated the intervie once Such an assumption of absurd d t on ‘ non-successtul mar What else have vout plan is there which will give thi - > make a better showing in the future than we have | 1 been the leader in al these matters in Toonsville while his leadership of the And he d But it came over him now, unmistakably Without a company Was tot- in't ' tering seem to know it moment's hesitation, I notified the officials of m) as one of the bondholders, to commence foreclosure suit intention, It istrue that my interest was not large, but often make up in velocity what it lacks in weight It was so in this case meeting of the Toonsville Ethnological As to my office bursting with—er—righteou believe he called it. He was a tall, erect man, with gray hair and mustache, at once a small body wil Langeville, ignoring a sociation, came indignation, I and asomewhat military bearing. (He had been a colonel on the Governor's staff for one tern He refused the chair I ofered him and commenced ‘We have received a communication from you, Mr. Dubble, announcing vour intention to commence suit for foreclosure on your mortgage bonds. Is it possible that a man as largely interested in the industries of our town as yourself those industries means the prosperity of the town, : development of the better life of the people inconsiderate as to take such a step as you propose without first consulting me?” as conscious as you must be that the success of i the could be so He walked around for a minute; then took the ct had previously declined, saying, with a little hesitation am not prepared, at this moment, to « definite plar Ne f 1 he 1 bond and stock holder got together and calr ar passionately dis« ed the 1 t« he clouc ld away asucce il solution of the proble ould appear That was Langeville! Whatever he may have beer the past, he was now vacillating lalking th was his chief resource I, Dubble, think and I adopted his own metap! I see the bre n th clouds now, Mr. Langs iT In place of tl dollar company, I see one of { r muillior | twice the s of th with up-to-date equiy a machinery —with a productive capacity which, ht managed, will bring bounteous dividends to bot stocks figures of to-day to the golden realms of par I see Willia which will raise the quotations from tl to preserve I 3 dignit, POST juncture, to protect both our bondholder eville president of this great and successful cor

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST March 3, 1906 The Prisoner at the Bar BY ARTHUR TRAIN _ mussnusununn T And to Three Years and Six Months in State's Prison Have You Got that in Your Pants’ Pocket?" HAT have you to say why judgment of the Court should not be pronounced against you according to law?’ th these words begins the final chapter of the convict’s history. He has been arraigned for the last time at the bar of justice, aftera jury of his peers has declared him “guilty,” and now awaits his sentence The judge who presides at the trial of a criminal case does but begin his labors when he receives the jury's verdict. if he be a man of sensibilities the strain of a trial and the writing of opinions are as nothing compared with the re- sponsibility of determining whether the defendant shall be let go free under a ‘‘suspended”’ sentence or ordered to prison. No one appreciates the horror of prison life or its effect upon the individual better than the judge himself, and he passes many a sleepless night before sentencing men whose circumstances and whose years suggest the possibil- ity of reformation Where the defendant has been found guilty of murder in any of its degrees the judge is, of course, relieved of the re- nsibility of determining the sentence, which is fixed by law, and the question of the clerk must seem but a mockery 0 the prisoner, who knows that, whatever he may say in his own behalf, the judgment of the Court will be the same. For this reason counsel rarely address the court upen the sentence in such a case, but sometimes the prisoner himself last public opportunity to assert his innocence or his re pentance times such a reply solemn and thrilling, but at enes such as that which occurred upon the sentencing of Dr. Carlyle W. Harris, convicted of the murder of his girl-wife by the administration of morphine capsules which he compounded and furnished to her. He others there are secretly under an assumed name, and in al} probability had never intended to recognize her as his wife Events finally rendered it impossible for him to longer, and realizing this he procured for her the medicine which caused her death. Harris was one of those smooth, suave, oily persons who illustrate had married he conceal the mart Lombroso's theory that certain classes of criminals are, like various species of Wild animals, adapted to compass their victim's capture or death by virtue of their a to the surrounding foliage or flora and thus escape detec- tion Harris was ostensibly a gentleman— or pte r, he WAS a Ver debonair, nonchalant and brazen imitation of one Throughout his trial he had preserved an absolutely inruffled exterior, chatting affably with counsel and court ittenda nd gy the verdict with undiminished equanimit Or vy set for his sentence he came into court th the easy and gracious manner of a young man paying an afternoon call. He wasarraigned at the bar, and the recorder Smyth proceeded to rehearse the history of his terrible crime and stigmatize the loathsome character of act Harris listened politely, and apparently endeav- ored to show a considerate interest in his remarks. Then the recorder made some slight error in stating a trivial fact. Author of McAllister and His Double HE SEN TENC Pardon me, your Honor,” interrupted the blithe de- fendant. ‘‘It was eighteen and not nineteen ” and corrected him. The recorder frowned and replied with dignity: ‘That is a matter of slight importance!” “I beg your Honor’s pardon,’’ returned Harris pleas- antly. ‘‘You see I have never been sentenced to death before, and am not so familiar with the procedure as | might be.” This horrible indifference to their own lives is charac- teristic of most brutal criminals whe have been found guilty of murder. I recall prosecuting in 1904 a man named Koenig, who had strangled to death the woman with whom he lived. Throughout the case Koenig listened to the evidence with a considerable show of interest, not once turning a hair as the frightful details were recounted In due course he took the witness-chair himself and pro- ceeded to give a minute account of the whole atrocious affair. He was absolutely unmoved when describing the exact manner in which he compassed the woman's death, and seemed anxious that it should be entirely accurate He had a terse, matter-of-fact way of putting things which, to the casual hearer, was shocking beyond expression. ‘Who spent the evening with you?"’ inquired the pros- ecutor. “Mr. and Mrs. ’ answered Koenig. ‘‘And who were in the adjoining bedroom when you threw the deceased upon the bed with your hands clasped upon her throat?” “Same parties 24 replied Koenig briskly. When sentenced to die in the electric chair this man laughed, and on being led away remarked to the officer who had been in charge: ‘*Well, my lawyers put up a good fight for me, didn’t hey?” Awful as is the experience of the prosecutor who is obliged to move that the sentence of death be pronounced, it is less terrible than listening to the few simple but hope- less words that doom a convict to life imprisonment. The murderer must die; but it will soon be over. The ghost of his victim will in a few weeks cease to haunt his dreams But the ‘‘lifer’’!) Who can picture the horror of a lifetime of repentance or of mocking remorselessness? ‘‘Civilly dead,"’ he is doomed to drag out his weary years in an earthly tomb, a silent, forgotten creature, numbered like a human specimen, enduring all the tortures of purgatory until the end seems a blissful but a far, far distant haven of oblivion and rest. The courtroom echoes, like the empty, vacant future of the white-faced prisoner, to the dull fall of the words upon his barren soul — ‘‘/or the rest of The listener shudders. ‘‘God grant that it be short!"’ he murmurs, then looks away. Of course, in the seventeenth century and early in the eighteenth all felonies were punishable, not only in Eng- land but in America, by death. When the severity of pun- ishment began to be abated and imprisonment substituted for the extreme penalty, all sentences were for a fixed and definite term, and the only way that the convict could obtain release or secure the modifica- tion of his sentence was by a pardon from the supreme executive authority of the country. Pardons, of course, or reprieves have existed from time immemorial and have required no particular legislation to render them legal Sometimes a ray of sunshine illu- mines ‘the dreary pages of the court records, the stiff phraseology of the crabbed entries failing to obscure it. For example, on Monday morn- ing, March 29, 1784, ‘‘The Court met pursuant to adjournment”’ and was opened by proclamation.” The grand jury came into court and pre- sented an indictment against on Sylvia, a negro slave, ‘‘for stealing monies from Alex’ Johnson.” ‘The prisoner being set to the Bar and arraigned, did plead guilty, and for trial put herself upon God and the country.”’ Her case was immediately moved. One witness, the Alexander your natural lise. : . “All Right, Judge. Johnson mentioned, testified Pants’ Pocket” Bar say, that they find the prisoner at the Bar Guilty of the Felony | W whe reof she stands indicted. : E Just one week later, Sylvia, now a convict, ‘‘was called to the Bar, for judgment, and it being demanded of her in the usual man- ner, what she could say for herself why judgment of Death should not now pass against her, according to law, she did produce and plead a pardon of the People of the State of New York, under the Great Seal, bearing test the 3lst March, 1784, which was read and allowed, and the prisoner discharged.”’ Sylvia was undoubtedly a valuable piece of Pe rsonal property — valuable e nough evide ntly to make worth her master’s while to urge his claims upon the Governor for clemency White offenders did not always fare so well. But for them in the Colonial times still occasionally remained that quaint old plea of ‘‘benefit of clergy.’’ This lingered on as late as 17S4, when the records show that one John Cullen, having been convicted of forgery, ON MOTION of Mr. Attorney-General . Was sent to the Bar for judgment, and it being demanded of him in the usual form what he could say for himself why judgment of Death should not pass against him according to Law, he prayed the Benefit ot Clergy, which was granted by the ¢ el THEREUPON IT WAS ORDERED that the said John Cullen be branded in the brawn of the left Thumb with the letter T in the presence of the court, and that the Sheriff execute the order immediately, which was done accordingly Benefit of clergy was the historic privilege accorded in England to all priests of being tried only in the ecclesias- tical courts for their crimes. Coke says that ‘‘it took its root from a constitution of the Pope that no man should accuse the priests of Holy Church before a secular judge.” As all common-law felonies (except ag larceny and mayhem) were punishable by death n ite as 1826, and as these felonies included heneie ide, ri ape, Fagg poi arson, robbery and larceny, and all were clerqgyable, it must have been a prerogative of considerable value to any mem- ber of the cloth of lively disposition. Originally the privi- lege could be claimed bejore trial, and ousted the lay courts of any jurisdiction whatever, the right being strictly lim- ited, however, to those who exhibited all the physical attributes and garb of priesthood, having ‘‘habitum et tonsuram clericalem,” but before long (1350) it was pro- vided that ‘‘all mar f clerks, as well secular as religious, shall from h¢ neeforth freely he ive and enjoy the privileges of Holy Church.” Asa priest’s trial in the ped secoer courts was hardly more than a matter of form, with rarely any result save that of acquittal, he who could plead his ‘benefit’’ was practically immune so far as punishment for his crimes was concerned In course of time the right was accorded only ajter conviction in the secular courts and, with various limitations in favor of priests actually in orders, was extended to all the inhabitants of England The crimes which were still clergyable were correspond- ingly reduced in number. In 1487 it was proy ided that every person cony icted ofa clergyable felony should be branded in the brawn of his thumb, so that mere inspection would reveal second offenders The letter M stood for murder and T for thief, as we have seen in Cullen's case. The statute also provided that no person could plead unless he were actually in orders. Thus as late as 1487 his clergy a second t practically any one who could reac ’ might commit as many crime nenacing murder, as he chose, h no in ishment save of having to gate his purgation, and a/jter that date could, so to speak, have one murder, a farceny and escape with branding, while the priest in orders continued free to violate the law tohisheart’scontent. Perhapsthis whole- sale extension of the privilege was made in the interest of education and as an incentive to literary accomplishment. It certainly puta premium on learning which a mere ‘‘degree”’ could not offer. From the beginning of the eighteenth centul on any one could plead his clergy o7 to any crime that remained cle rgyable , if he could find one, and priests in orders could do so indefinitely. In 1779 branding was practically done away with, although the statute is not so definite on the subject as might be desired. (19 Geo. 3,¢. 7458. 3.) Got it in My

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It is interesting to find branding still in vogue in America as late as 1784, as shown by the case of Cullen. Where the defendant could not avail himself of clergy and no pardon was at hand to save him, the law in the early days took its full and awful course. At present when “‘ benefit of clergy”’ is but a legal tradi- tion, and pardons are obtained with difficulty, but one legal barrier can be raised to the interposition of sentence upon a convict — proof of hisimsanity. If, in the opinion of the Court, there is reasonable ground for believing him to be mentally unbalanced, the question of his sanity must be tried out as provided intheCode. If he is found to be sane, judgment must then be pronounced, but if found msane he must be committed to the State Lunatic Asylum until he recovers his sanity, and when notice is given of that fact he must be brought before the Court for judgment. Secondly, he may allege legal ground why the judgment should be arrested or why a new trial should be granted There is a reputed case, the memory of which still lingers around the criminal courts, where it is said that a defend- ant who was charged with murder in its first degree feigned insanity just before his case was moved for trial. This was many years ago, at a time when such a fact did not, of itself, necessarily excite the same suspicion that it does to-day The issue of the defendant’s sanity was tried before a lay jury, who promptly found that he was incapable of under- standing the proceedings against him or of making proper preparation for his defense. He was thereupon committed to the State Asylum for the Insane, where he remained incarcerated for many years. It so happened that there was but a single eyewitness to the shooting, and the cir- cumstances surrounding the affair were such that without the testimony of this witness it would be a practical impos- sibility to determine whether the deceased had been mur- dered or had committed suicide. After twenty years, in the course of which the defendant's lawyer had died and the entire family of the defendant had either died or moved away, another lawyer, who had found among some old papers a memorandum of the case, located the defend- ant and discovered, as he had anticipated, that he was entirely sane. A writ of habeas corpus was thereupon procured and the defendant brought back to New York The Inc nye ee “Do You Know I've Been Married Since I Saw You Lasi ? And Left a Widow Vill —-THE ONE AND THE OTHER OME idiot," remarked Eustace Vernon, sipping vermouth at a little table, ‘‘insists that, if you sit long enough outside the Café de la Paix, you will see every one you have ever known or ever wanted to know pass by. I have sat here for half an hour--and voila.”’ “You met me, half an hour ago,” said the other man. “Oh, you!” said Vernon affectionately ‘‘And your hat has gone off every half-minute ever since,” said the other man ‘*Ah, that’s to the pe ople I've known I've wanted to know that are the rarity “Do you mean people you have wanted to know and not known ?”’ ‘*There aren’t many of those,”’ Jove, that’s a sweet woman!”’ ‘‘] hate the type,” said the other man briefly: ‘‘all clothes—no real human being.” It's the people said Vernon; ‘‘no, it’s In that time the entire aspect of the city had changed Buildings twenty-five stories in height had replaced thoss of six; the city had reached far up and entirely covered the island; electric surface cars had taken the place of ran shackle bobtail horse cars. The defendant, prematurely aged and with clothes long out of date, impressed those in the courtroom as a sort of Rip Van Winkle, awakened after I a long sleep. There was absolutely no question as to the man's sanity, and he was discharged upon the writ of habeas corpus and remanded to the Tombs to await } trial. The following morning he was brought into court and the district attorney moved that the indictment against him be dismissed on the ground that there was no longer any evidence upon which the people could proceed to prosecute or anticipate a conviction. Then for the first time the dejendant discovered that the onty witness a had dived ten days after he had been commétted to t} In addition to the so-called legal ground of insanity judgment should not be imposed, a convict or his cou may properly on his arraignment state to the Court an) general reasons for a mitigation of sentence or for its abso lute suspension when such is within the discretion of the Court, and few sentences are recorded without a mor: less lengthy appeal for clemency It should be noticed that originally only one sentence, and that a definite one, could be passed by the judge upon a prisoner for any given offense. At first there were n visions of law granting to convicts as a matter of right reduction or commutation of sentence because of good behavior. Then laws were passed which provided for tl definite commutation of the sentences of all cor fined in State’s prison In ISS0 there was introduced into New York State f the first time what commonly known as the ndeter- minate sente *€ that is to say,a sentence con ti fa minimum and a maximum term of imprisonment du which time the prisoner may be discharged at the option a board consisting of various persons, but distinct fron the board which passes upon the question of whether or not any prisoner has earned his *‘ commutation The judge usually prefaces the sentence with a few re- marks of an admonitory character, commenting upon the omplete By E. NESB The woman was beautifully dressed key whose harmonies are only mastered } Frenchwomen and Americans She turned het head as her carriage passed, and Vernon's |} went off once more “ld forgotten her profil aid Ver “She's quite human, really, and as charmit anv one ought to be So I should thin] aid the other mar it sorry I said that, but I didn’t know you |} her How's trade ‘Oh, I did a picture—well, but a picture! | did it in I and inthespring. Best thing 1] done vet Come and se« W hers I should like to look you up you hang out? Fight y-six bis Rue Notre Damedes Cham; said Vernon Every one in fiction lives ther It's the only street on the other side that authors seem ever to have dreamed of. Stil it’s convenient, so I herd there with all sort » blackguards, heroes and villains and whatnot Eighty-six is the number *T'll come,” said the other man slowly I) you know, Vernon, I'd like awfully to get at “your point of view—your philosophy of life ‘*Haven’t you got one, my dear chap! is my motto ‘“You paint pictures,’ the other went on, ‘‘so very much too good for the sort of life you lead.”’ Vernon laughed **My dear Temple,” he said, ‘‘I live, mostly, the life of a vestal virgin.” ‘You know well enough I'm not quarreling with thé way you spend your evenings,”’ said his dear Tempk ‘it’s your whole outlook that doesn’t match your work Yet there must be some relation between the two. That what I'd like to get at There is a bond stronger than friendship, stronger than love —a bond that cannot be forged in any other shop than the one—the bond between old schoolfellows. Vernon had sometimes wondered why he “‘ stood so much”’ from Temple It is a wonder that old schoolfellows often feel, mutual] Sufficient unt« THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Bowing Delightedly to His Various Friends severity of the crime which the defendant has committed ind upon the tact that rt Within his power to sentence the latter to a long term in State prison He generally add der all the circumstances, and considering the fact that the defendant has never been convicted before and ha Only so and 80 Mal vear n State s prisor CM course thi occur onl n such case i deserve leniency. But where the defendant is a hardened crimit atrocit’ ne ol course, 10 me, the! r Please develo; ol hesi Wi ther I Y rm horourt fT } ntimer enoug! ntimer to keey or he | Degu t en alism of La Wt ‘ ‘ ‘ n 4 rie N I ! (i B ! t 1 muct W l'mat ‘ Ash ’ mal " t That r f V« f } kit oh, | don't kne ! t 1o | haven't t Ther T ! oxce nati ( en time 1 the yea t And e notice that when temper pou mast ir? r ( ! irre rie ! tha i ie \ t t lke, and here d kee] The real m iid \ ! ‘ n? pieture ( ind appre { t I t } i nstan ar | bel ‘ enul itlacne rm Oh, re aid Bol ] don’t sec ud Vernon, moving h iron chair to make room for two people at the next table why 4 rhe 1a ‘ pe Lf be 1 ire { rt A th my life A mal irt dot rhyme with } personality Most ten it contradi t fla Look at musiciat what ad ne art, and what pigs of high priests And look at actors but no, one can't; the spectacle is too sickening ] sometimes think,” said Temple, emptying his glass, that the real j nt bor et It waiting for For the refining touch of a woman's hand, eh You think the real me Oh, Temple, Temple, I've ne heart forthese childish imaginings! The real me is the man that paints picture good pictures, too, though I say it And is that what all the women think ‘Ask them, 1 dear chap; ask then The von 't tell 1 the truth They’re not the or nes whe on't I should like to know what you really think of women, Vernor I don't think about them at all,’ lied Vernon equab! rh iret { t | T the rrit put lor t { or and eve ol tha t is Ma re It D le 8e7 usl t ‘ ir’ ma nur n be sh merel 1dea delightful, daint

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10 ‘Well, yes—or rather, a very delicately-tuned musical instrument. If you know the scales and the common chords you can improvise nice little airs and charming variations. She’s a sort of —well, a penny whistle, and the you get depends not on her at all, but on your own I've never been in love,”’ said Temple; ‘not seriously, I mean,” he hastened to add, for Vernon was smiling not a life or death matter, don’t you know; but I do hate the and one of these days you'll hate it, too.” So a lady told me, only last spring,” said Vernon Sut I'lltake my chance. Going? Well, I’m glad we ran icross each other. Don't forget to look me up.” Temple moved off, and Vernon was left alone. He sat smoking cigarette after cigarette, and watched the It wasa bright October day, and the crowd way you talk, idl hifting crowd. Was 4 gay one Suddenly his fingers tightened on his cigarette—but he kept the hand that held it before his face, and he bent his head forward. ['wo ladies were passing, on foot. One was the elder Miss Desmond —she who had warned him that one of these lays he would be caught —and the other, hanging lovingly on her aunt's arm, was, of course, Betty. But a smart, changed, awakened Betty! She was dressed almost beautifully as the lady whose profile he had failed to recog- nize, but much more simply. Her eyes were alight, and he was babbling away to heraunt. She was even gesticu- lating alittle, for all the world likea French girl. He noted the well-gloved hand with which she emphasized some as point in her talk. ‘‘That's the hand,” he said, ‘‘that I held when we sat on the plow in the shed and I told her fortune.” He had risen, and his feet led him along the road they hadtaken. Ten yards ahead of him he saw the swing of the aunt's serviceable brown skirt and beside it Betty's green [ am not breaking my word,” he replied to the Inward He watched the brown gown and the green all the way Boulevard des Capucines, them cross the go up the steps of the Madeleine. He paused at t to keep his promise : because he could not well recall him- ond on the ground of his having six ago involved the one in a row with her relations, i. ‘*Who'sgoing out of his way tospeak to thegirl?”’ Saw hard, ce rtainly, et so lar it Was ea elf to the Misses Desn month ind discussed the situation afterward with the other i do wonder where they're staying, though,” he told himself. ‘If one were properly introduced sut he knew that the aunt would consider no introduction a proper one that should renew his acquaintance with Betty Wolf, wolf,” he said, ‘let the fold alone! There’s no door for you, and you've pledged your sacred word as an honorable woif not to jump any more hurdles.” And as he stood musing, the elder Miss Desmond came down the church steps and walked briskly away. Some men would, doubtless, have followed her example, He He as the next man Vernon up the f not her direction was not one of these. found himself going wht to go into ths Madeleine bly not see the girl. If he did he would not certalr ly he would not even see her. of the great church. steps had asgooda He would proba speak. Almost But Destiny had remembered Mr. Vernon once more Betty was standing just inside the door, her face upturned ind all her soul in her eyes. The mutterings of the organ and the voices of boys filled the great dark building He went and stood close by her. He would not speak He would keep his word. But she should have a chance of speaking. His eves were on her face. The hymn ended t exhaled a held | atl tarted and spoke ) words are spelled The tw of Spoken, they are capabk infinite variation ALI AG \ rhe first i ent Vernon's blood leapir y The seeond Ir ‘ to what it had been before he met her For indeed that little unfinished idvll had been almost forgotten by the man who sat drinking vermouth outside the Café de la Paix How are you he whispered. ‘‘Won’t you shake hand She gave him a limp and unresponsive glove | had almost fe but I am glad ryotten vou,”’ she said to see you — because Come tothe door. I don’t like alking in churches Ihe od on the teps behind ons of the great pillars Do you think it is wise to stand here?" he said. ‘‘ Your aunt might see u S« ou followed r aid Be tty with perfect self- pOssessior That was very kind. I have often wished to to tell you how much obliged I am for all your n t} pring. I was only a child th and | didn’t understand, but now I quite see how good it was of you.” *‘Why do you talk like that?” he said You don't think ~you can’t think it was my fault? Your fault! What? ‘“Why, your father finding us and “Oh, that/”’ she said lightly. ‘‘Oh, I had forgotten that! No, I mean your kindness in giving Ridiculous, wasn't it? THE SATURDAY EVENING “Has Monsieur Vernon Yet Returned?" He Asked the Waiter so many hours to teaching a perfect duffer. Well, now I’ve seen you and said what I had to say, I think I'll go back.” ‘*No, don’t go,” he said. ‘‘I want to know —oh, all sorts of things! I can see your aunt from afar, and fly if she approaches.”’ ‘You don't suppose,” said Be tty, opening her eyes at him, ‘‘that I sha’n’t tell her I’ve seen you?” He had supposed it, and cursed his clumsiness ‘Ah, I see,”” she went on, ‘‘you think I should deceive my aunt now because I deceived my stepfather in the spring. But I was a child then—and besides, I’m fond of my aunt.” ‘Did you know that she came to see me?’ “Of course. You seem to think we live in phere of deceit, Mr. Vernon.” ‘‘What’s the matter with you?”’ he said bluntly, for finer weapons seemed useless. *‘ What have I done to make you hate , “Thate you? Oh,no—not in the least," said Betty spite- fully ‘I am very grateful to you for all your kindness.”’ ‘‘Where are you staying?’’ he asked ‘Hotel Béte,”’ said Betty off her guard, * The ‘‘but”’ marked his first score “I wish I could have called to see your aunt,’’ he carelessly, ‘‘but I am off to Vienna to-morrow.”’ Betty believed that she did not change countenance by a hair's breadth ‘‘T hope you'll have a delightful time,”’ she said politely “Thanks. Iam sure I shall. The only consolation for leaving Paris is that one is going to Vienna. Are you here for long?”’ **T don’t know ‘Paris is a delightful city, **Most charming.” ‘Have you been here long?” **No, not very long.” “Are you still working at a pity to give that up.”’ ‘] am not working just now I see your aunt,” he said hurriedly. ‘‘Are you going to send me away like this? Don’t be so unjust, so ungen- erous. It’s not like my pupil of last spring was not unjust Your pupil of last spring was a child and a duffer, Mr Vernon, as | said before. But she is grateful to you for one thing —no ‘*What's the other?’ ‘*Your drawing-k “Then what's the ‘*Good-by,” she said, and went down the steps to meet heraunt. He effaced himself behind a pillar. In spite of her new coldne could not believe that she would tell heraunt of the And he was right, though Betty's reasons were not his reasons. ‘*What’s the good? asked herself as she and her across to their hotel. ‘‘He’s going away to-morrow, and I shall never see him again. Well, I be- haved beautifully, that’s one thing. He must simply loathe me. So that’s all right! If he were staying on in Paris, of course I would tell her.” She believed this fully an atmos- mie but said Betty was on her guard again isn't it? your painting? It would be you two.” he asked swiftly demurely answered ssons,’’ she one s, he meeting she aunt walked POST March 3, 1906 He waited five minutes behind that pillar, and then had himself driven to the Rue Notre Dame des Champs, choos- ing as driver a man with a white hat, in strict accordance with the advice in Baedeker, though he had never read any of the works of that author. This new Betty, with the smart gown and the distant manner, awoke at the same time that she contradicted his memories of the Betty of Long Barton. And he should not see her again. Of course he was not going to Vienna, but neither was he going to hang round the Hotel Béte, or to bribe Franz or Elise to smuggle notes to Miss Betty. ‘‘Tt’s never any use trying to join things on again,” he told himself. ‘‘As well try to mend a spider’s web when you have put your boot through it. No diver brings up love again Dropped once In such cold seas. But what hashappened? Whydoesshehatemeso? You acted very nicely, dear, but that wasn’t indifference. It was hatred, if ever I’ve seen it. I wonder what it means I shall never know. And she’s prettier than ever, too Oh, hang it!”’ His key turned in the lock, and on the doormat showed the white square of an envelope—a note from the other woman, the one whose profile he had not remembered She was in Parisforatime. She had seen him at the Paix, had wondered whether he had his old rooms, had driven straight up on the chance of being able to leave this wasn't that devotion?—and would he care to call for her at eight when they could dine somewhere and talk over old times? One familiar initial, that of her first name, curled inthe corner, and the card smelt of jasmine — not of jasmine- scent in bottles, but of the real flower. He had never known how she managed it. Vernon was not fond of talking over old times, but Betty would be dining at the Hotel Béte--some dull hole, no doubt; he had never heard of it. Well, he could not dine at the Béte, and after all, one must dine somewhere. And the other woman had never bored him. That is a terrible weapon in the hands of arival. And Betty had been most unjust. And what was Betty to him, anyway? His thoughts turned to the American girl who had sketched with himin Brittany thatsummer. Ah, if she had not been whisked back to New York by her people, it would not now be a question of Betty or of the jasmine lady. He took out Miss Van Tromp’s portrait and sat looking at it; it was admirable — the fearless poise of the head, the laughing eyes the fuil, pouting lips. Then Betty’s face and the face of the jasmine lady came between him and Miss Van Tromp ‘*Bah,”’ he said, ‘‘smell, kiss, wear—at last throw away Never kee p a rose till it's faded.”” A little tide of Breton memories swept through him. ‘Bah,”’ he said again, ‘‘she was perfectly charming, but what is the use of charm, half the world away ?”’ He pulled his trunk from the front of the firepla pushed up the iron damper, and made a little fire. He burned all Miss Van Tromp’s letters and her photograph but from habit, or from gratitude, he kissed it before he burned it. ‘*Now,”’ said he as the last sparks died redly on the black embers, ‘‘the decks are cleared for action. Shall | senti mentalize about Betty—cold, cruel, changed Betty — or shall I call for the jasmine lady?” He did both, and the jasmine lady might have found him dull. Asit happened, she only found him distrait, and that interested her. ‘*When we parted,” she said, ‘“‘it was I who was in tears Now it’s you. What is it?” ‘If I am in tears,”’ he roused himself to say, * because everything passes.”’ ‘‘What’s broken now?” she asked. “Another heart? Oh, yes, you broke mine all to little, little bits. But mended it. I wanted frightfully to see you to thank you! “This is a grateful day for women,” thought Vernon, looking the interrogatory. “Why, for showing me how explained it’s quite easy when perfectly delightful game. I play imagine how I ever got on before I learned the rules ‘You forget,” he said, smiling. ‘‘It was you who broke my heart. And it’s not mended yet.”’ ‘That's very sweet of you. But really, you know, I'm very glad it was you who broke my heart, and not any one Jecause, now it’s mended, that gives us something We have a past. That’s really what I And that’s such a bond, ist When dead, you know—no t it is only I've hearts are broken,’’ she you know how, and it’s a it myself now, and I can’t else. to talk about wanted to tell you. it really past cataleptic trances, but stone dead.”’ “Yes,” he said, ‘it isalink. But it isn’t the past for me, you know. It can never : She held up a pretty jeweled hand. “Now she said. ‘‘That’s just what you don’t understand. All that’s out of the picture well. Just reafize that I’m the only nice woman you know who doesn't either expect you to make love to her in the future or hate you for having done it in the past, and you'll want to see me every day. Think of the novelty of it.”’ tit? abou nonsense don't,” I know you too

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I do and I do,” said he, ‘‘and I won't protest any more while you're in this mood. Bear with me if I seem idiotic to-night. I’ve been burning old letters, and that always makes me like a funeral.” **Old letters— mine?” “| burned yours long ago.”’ ‘‘And it isn’t two years since we parted! How many have there been since?”’ ‘Is this the Inquisition or is it Durand’s ‘‘It's somewhere where we both are,”’ she said, without a trace of sentiment; ‘‘that’s good enough for me. Do you know I've been married since I saw you last ? ind left a widow — in a short three months it all happened. And well, I’m not very clever, as you know, but Can you imagine what it is like to be married to a man who doesn’t understand a single word you say, unless it’s about the weather or things to eat? No, don’t look shocked. He was a good fellow, and very happy till the motor accident took him and left me this.”’ She showed a scar on her smooth arm ‘‘What a woman it is for surprises! happy? But of course he was.” ‘Yes, of course, as you say. I was a model wife black for a whole year, too!”’ “Why did you marry him?” “Well, at the time I thought you might hear of it and be disappointed, or hurt, or something.” So he was very I wore “So I am,” said Vernon with truth ‘““You needn't be,”’ said she “You'll pane find me much nicer now I don't want to disappoint you or hurt you, but only to have a good time, and there's no nonsense about love to get in the way and spoil everything.” ‘*So you're—but thisisn’t proper! Here am I dining with a lady and I don’t even know her name.” ‘*] know-—-I wouldn't put it to the note Didn’t that single initial arouse your sus- picions? Her name? Her title, if you please! I married Harry St. Craye. You remember how we used to laugh at him together? ‘That little St. Craye.” . ” 1 eS, I beg your pardon, Lady she said; ‘‘de mortuis 1 ? bonum: of the dead nothing but the bones If he had lived he would certainly have beaten me. Here’s to ournew friendship! Our new friendship!’’ he repeated, raising his glass and looking in her eyes Lady St Craye looked very beautiful, and Betty was not there. In fact, just there was no Betty. He went back to his rooms humming a song of vette Guilbert's There might have been no flowering May, no buttercup meadows in all the world, for any thought that he had of them And Betty was a thousand miles away. That was at night. In the morning Betty was at the Hotel Béte, and the Hotel Béte was no longer a pretty hotel which he did not know and never should know For the early post brought him a letter which said: now or memory pet orem I am in Paris for a few days and should like to see you if youcan make it conve- nient to call at my hotel on Thursday This was Tuesday. The letter was signed with the name of j the uncle from whom Vernon had expec- tations, and at the head of the letter was he address: Hotel Béte, Cité de Retraite Rue Boissy d’ Anglais. bear witness!’’ cried Vernon, appealing to the ‘bear witness that this is not my fault!” “Now Universe IX —~ THE OPPORTUNITY V ERNON in those two days decided that he did not wish to see Betty again. Already a mood of much day- light was making him blink and shrink. He saw himself as he was—or nearly —and the spectacle did not please him. The thought of Lady St. Craye was the only one that seemed to make for any sort of complacency. The thought of Temple rankled oddly. ‘‘He likes me, and he dislikes himself for liking me. Why does he like me? Why does any one like me? I'm hanged if I know!” This was the other side of his mood of most days, when the wonder seemed that every one should not like him. Why shouldn't they? Ordinarily he was hanged if he knew that. He had expected a note from Lady St. Craye to follow up his dinner with her. He knew how a woman rarely resists the temptation to write to the man in whom she is THE SATURDAY EVENING POST interested, even while his last words are still ringing in her ears. But no note came, and he concluded that Lad St. Crave was not interested This reassured while piqued The Hotel Béte is ve ear the Madeleine, and ve near the heart of Paris— of gay Paris, that i et it have been a hundred miles from anywher No om re ally be cheerful at the Hotel Bét Vernon felt as thougt he were entering a family vault of the highest respe bility when he passed through its silent hall ar ( ‘ for Mr. James Vernon Monsieur Vernon was out No, he had charged no one with a billet for Monsieur. Monsieur Vernon wo ‘ less return for the it was certain that he would return for the dinner Would Monsieur wait it Monsieur waited, in a littl salon with glas prim furniture, clock It English papers on the table, Through the glass doors he s door and an elaborately ornamental French silent, of course There : and the New York He every one was were dav-old rald who came Could See in or went out And he saw no one There was a stillne as of the tomb Even the waiter, now laying covers for the « sner, Wore list slippers and his movements were silent as a heron’s ghost gray flight He came to the glass door prese ntly Did Monsieur breakfast And Watched the Shifting Crowd Vernon was not minded to waste two days in the pursuit of uncles. Here he was, and James should appear Yes, decidedly, Monsieur breakfasted He wondered where the clients of the themselves Were they all dead, or As his watch showed him the approach of half-past twelve he found himself listening for the tramp of approaching feet, the rustle of returning skirts And still all was silent as the grave The sudden summoning sound of a bell roused hin here he stayed, till nek hotel had hidden merely sight-seeing a dreamy wonder as to whether Betty and her au already left If not, should he them at The idea of the possible meet more than it interested him. He crossed the bare ” By Heaven meet ing amused hall and entered the long ina he was the only guest! A cover was laid for him only —no, at a distance of half the table for another Then Betty and heraunt had gone. Well, so much the better He unfolded his table napkin In another moment, doubtless, Uncle James would appear to fill the vacant place

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A°‘D' 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 421 TO 427 AKCH STREET GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 3, 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 Newspaper Slobber a. right-minded people have good wishes for a bride. 4% Her situation appeals to the universal human heart. If she has the background of a prominent position the interest is naturally heightened. If it happens that she has come happily through hardship or peril, she takes on an elementally dramatic quality, symbolizing the final tri- umph of love and innocence which all of us retain a sneaking belief in, despite the scientific necessity of doubting it. In the case of the White House bride these accessories were present in an extraordinary degree. Undoubtedly millions of good people awaited word of her marriage with a real, personal anxiety —seeing the determination of some news- papers to treat her as the press-agent treats a circus parade and make her look a fool if they could. { more trying position, in which the victim is more completely helpless, could not well be imagined. The victims are always women, too. Newspapers sometimes overpraise aman; but they never actually slobber on him. That supreme agony is reserved for the gentler sex. Per- haps they have a saving suspicion that a man would shoot. In this particular case, no doubt the victim was sustained by faith in the good sense and good heart of the people, would understand that the “princess” business and the rest of the idiotie exploitation was much more disagreeable to her than to them. What We All Want oo a fair and gentle prisoner the other day: ‘‘ When I J woui! read the newspapers and see the names of other girls printed and descriptions of the fine clothes they wore, it drove me almost crazy I wanted to be somebody and see my name in the papers.”’ Being unlearned in the law herself, and having no husband or other natural or un- natural male protector who knew the way about, the unfortunate young lady resorted to methods which a brutal statute describes as obtaining money under false pretenses, and the police soon had her. ‘‘ For only a few days,” she I tasted the glorious life of which I had dreamed.’ girl! Poor girl! Her ambition was fine and laudable. It is the identical one which constitutes the mainspring of vast and beneficial activities. Without it we should have no highest society to uphold the precious traditions of noble and dissipated living. If the desire which agitated this young lady's tender bosom should die out among men—or women—there would be a dreadful falling off in captains of industry. Wall Street would run down like an unwound clock. Stock Exchange seats would decline to continuous vaudeville prices. Rows of Fifth Avenue mansions —-that were never built to live in would be turned into boarding-houses. These things exist mostly because people read the names of the other girls in the newspapers, with descriptions of their fine clothes, and it almost drives 'em crazy —and fires 'em with an invincible determination to get their own names printed oftener and nearer the top of the column, and to have still more stunning clothes to be described The gentle prisoner is a true daughter of the House of Mirth. If Fate had kindly provided her with a loving, able fatheror husband whoknew how toget other people's money knowing they Savs, - » r oo! THE SATURDAY EVENING POST under non-actionable pretenses, she would have been a society queen in the Sunday Supplement — instead of mixed up with the drunks and disorderlies in the police report. Poor girl! Still she did have a taste of the glorious life. Hard Lines for the ClerK HE case of the Government clerk has been receiving a good deal of attention of late in connection with various suggestions for a pension system. It is said that his work is the most uninspiring routine drudgery; that the utmost he can reasonably hope for is, by long service, to win an $1800 place; that he is pretty apt to be unam- bitious and improvident. The Secretary of the Treasury is on well-approved ground when he quotes Franklin; urges the Federal employee to cultivate thrift, open a sav- ings account and stand on his own feet. The clerkly class is a very numerous one, and, of course, continually growing. Every large city has its army of clerks in great railroad offices, banks, stores and the like. The principal difference between them and the Government employees at Washington is that their hours are longer, their work harder, their pay smaller, their chance of finally winning an $1800 place, on the whole, decidedly less —and they are not tempted to improvidence, like their Washing- ton brethren, by a knowledge that they have practically a life tenure of their jobs. On the contrary, they generally have excellent reasons for supposing that they will be discharged if age impairs their efficiency. As to their providence, most cities with a big clerical population fairly swarm with benevolent Shylocks who do a fine business making loans without security to salaried people at about double pawnshop rates. It is good to quote Franklin to them; but conditions have somewhat changed since Franklin’s day. The city clerk has to paya high tax in living expenses for the modern improvements and the wealth thatsurroundhim. Perhaps the greatest discouragement to thrift arises from the fact that in a city the opportunities of the little capitalist are steadily narrowing. About all he can do with his money is to put it in a savings-bank and get three per cent. interest. A very diligent reading of Poor Richard is necessary to extract a high degree of cheer from such prospects. When Congress Plays the Hero HAT leading business men are generally opposed to any governmental ‘‘interferenee’”’ with their affairs is partly due to the fact that they have a low opinion of the intelligence and integrity of Congress. This opinion, of course, is abundantly justified. There is no legislative day in the year whose descending sun does not see some exhibition of disingenuous folly in one or both Houses. The country is interested in the Panama Canal, consid- ering it an important undertaking in which American interests and prestige are involved. ‘The Senate has spent a fair share of the last two months on canal matters. A press-agent has been discharged, the tremendous fact that Mr. Shonts is drawing a small salary from his rail- road has been unearthed, and the whole staff has been stirred up and exasperated. As this annoys the President, the Senate considers it worth while. Soon after the Pennsylvania Railroad shut off passes, several members of the House awoke to a shocking rumor that that road controls the Baltimore and Ohio, Norfolk and Western and other lines. So, after solemn diseussion, the House passed a resolution calling for light on this dark subject. Of course, the Pennsylvania ownership in the roads named has been duly set forth in its published annual reports, and is almost as much a matter of common knowl- edge as the location of the Capitol. The silly resolution will give numbers of passless statesmen a chance to pose a while; but no public good can possibly come of it. The Poor Things F THERE remain any investors in railroad stocks who fear that Congress and the President are going to do something that will seriously imperil their interests, we wish to reassure them. Whatever slight effect, by way of unsettling railroad values, may result from action at Wash- ington istootrivial to be taken into account —in comparison with other things which operate in that direction. Witness the dire calamity that recently overtook the widows and orphans who have their little all invested in stock of the Reading Railroad. Their sacred vested rights shrank to the extent of twenty-five dollars a share, or one-half the face value, within a few days. A number of sterling, bottle-nosed dependents were observed in the Waldorf- Astoria café in a highly disconsolate state—a sight to move the hardest heart. Yet President and Congress were in nowise responsible. A little band of helpless widows had staked their patrimonies in boosting Reading some seventy-five dollars a share. Then it occurred to some diligent orphans on the other side of the market that the movement was overdone. So they jumped on it. This is the true and only really important peril to railroad stockholders. In comparison, Congressional action is a March 3, 1906 bagatelle that may well be ignored. The virtuous relicts leading their orphans by the hand, who are buying railroad stocks at the rate of a million shares a day in Wall Street, should not bother their poor heads about Congress. And we are rapidly approaching the point where these Wall Street innocents will be the only people interested. Another year or so of such Stock Exchange activity as we have seen in the last twelve months and the leading rail- roads will retire their stock certificates, issuing in lieu thereof smooth ivory disks which the widows and orphans can stack up and pass across the table with greater facility. When Silence is Golden ERIODICALLY the mayor of Chicago is plagued by a band of inconsistent people who insist upon consist- ency —devoted disturbers of the peace who will not leave off demanding that the laws be enforced. The statutes of Illinois, like those of other American commonwealths, were framed in a proper respect for the ten commandments. They provide very clearly that no dramshop shall be kept open on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday. For many years there has been no pretense of obeying this law in Chicago. Saloons have been as wide open on Sundays asonany otherday. Nearly a generation ago this was made an issue in a municipal election; and the Sunday-closers were overwhelmingly defeated. Persons of political experience there think that an administration which stood for Sunday-closing would be overwhelmingly defeated now, and in the last campaign both candidates carefully opposed it. There is the law and there is the open violation of it; and there is the duty of all good citizens to impress upon trusts and labor unions that the law must always be obeyed. It is one of those interesting situations when it is so much pleasanter to talk about something else. The SicK Man in MolesKins RESIDENT BUTLER and the faculty of Columbia University have the honor of taking the most impor- tant step in higher education since the introduction of the elective system. They have undertaken to abolish inter- collegiate football, at least for the present, and possibly other forms of intercollegiate sports. Naturally enough, rival universities hasten to point out that Columbia can best afford to try the experiment: her undergraduate body is small and unimportant as compared with her graduate schools. Her sacrifice will be small, if, as is supposed, col- lege boys will desert Columbia for some alma mater less hostile to ‘‘sport.’’” Nevertheless, Columbia should have all the credit there is in first proclaiming boldly that an American university does not exist primarily for football. And it would appear from the present outlook that, having taken this bold stand, Columbia is to have many imitators Harvard is a case in point, and there are other cases in the West, where football is not the degenerate article that it has become in the older colleges. Wisconsin has instructed its representatives at the conference to be held in Chicago to advocate a temporary suppression of intercollegiate games. Stanford University, out on the Pacific slope, untouched by the influence of the effete East, has already taken the momentous step. And there aregrumblings of asimilar na- ture nearer Columbia. Even the universities of the country would seem to be caught in the 1905 tidal wave of Reform! The Trouble with the Senate HE Senate is a well-meaning, industrious and honorable body which suffers much cruel misunderstanding be- cause it lacks the hardihood to take adequate measures for self-protection. Thus it is continually victimized by care- less or corrupt legislatures that send it members who turn out in a way to bring opprobrium upon it Arguing onthe Statehood Bill, the gentleman from Ohio said: ‘If Arizona is admitted to the Union it will have as many Senators as New York.”’ The gentleman from Minne- sota replied: ‘‘ Why mention the Senators from New York when the rest of us are trying to forget them?” The day before, Mr. Burton, of Kansas, modestly appeared for an instant at a cloakroom door, that he might be seen in the Senate and thus draw his mileage. One regrets exceed- ingly having to mention the Senator from Kansas. The late Senator from Oregon was a duly constituted and full- fledged member of the upper house when under indictment. The Senate objected to Mr. Clark, of Montana; but his State sent him back. In short, the Senate is a fine insti- tution; but various States keep inflicting undesirable persons upon it, thereby seriously damaging its reputation. As it seems out of the question to cure all States of this reprehensible practice, what the Senate most needs is evidently a sort of purgatory, or quarantine, or detention hospital in which doubtful members may be segregated and draw their salaries and mileage in silent, innocuous oblivion until such time as it appears that they may safely be mentioned without bringing the Senate itself in for a lot of painful animadversion. With this improvement there would be nothing much the matter with the Senate.

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) $1000 a day Rot at \ \ 1 he plans were modified i: irse of construction and t 1 we , at tha delays occurred one after the ! Va } i ) to contorm to the provisior f the ntract Phe t th rht 1 ' ur was not completed until thirty days after the time specit reserved Ind broken arn vhict When the agent of the vault company presented a! befell her I Wi a he r : quest for a check in full, Mr. Walsh said he would pa he early on Cl ! mor to th se of the far amount less $30,000 lhe agent explained t was not the the tat to r ( fault of the construction company there were dela t No one ever kr } Mi \ Mr. Walsh retorted the company could take that or nothit 3een Next | \ } " ‘Very vell, said the agent, Il am going to St. Lon rt 1 the ing iughte r I } ‘ ri Ip several day When I return I think you will be w ind take her for a drive Ava e} er to the to pay the full amount W iorf with her manicure f nek She rv fond of Mr Walsh closed the conversation by ntimating that u VaiKiIn ind or Lid Ine Tre i riftt Avenue it was planned to collect the money by going to law the carrying to her n re ‘ hich her ow ' had suit might be entered at onc: baked lee crear owers and presen ill rt h . The agent disappeared and was absent from Chicago for bestows upen thos » Ser } hose numer How Did Bryan Know ? a week. When he returned he called on Mr. Walsh capacities which the ltt men of the present dav ILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN is a great friend of Without a word the latter turned to his desk, wrot« ita find imperative to comfort, health at LU Dr. John H. Girdner, of New York, and usually stays check for the full amount, and handing it to h uller at Doctor Girdner’s house when he goes to New York demanded Girdner gave a breakfast in honor of Mr. Bryan some Now, give me the combination to that vault time ago. He invited all the leading New York Democrats It seems that the vault company refrained from turning of the Bryan way of thinking and had a pleasant party. over the combination until after the bill was paid. Fora Grapefruits were served, each with a spoonful of brandy week every effort had been made to enter the vault spilled in the cavity in the centre without success, although expert safe-men were emploved Mr. Bryan is a teetotaler. He did not touch his grape- on the task. Friends of John R. Walsh say that tl fruit. Afterthe breakfast Mrs. Girdner went tothe ancient is the only time on record when he admitted defeat in cook of the household and said a business transaction 4 ‘Bridget, you made a terrible mistake this morning.” : =<" “Indeed, mum?’’ said Bridget. An what Was it Domesticity ““On the Road” Why, you put brandy on Mr. Bryan’s grapefruit and he never drinks. He doesn’t know the taste of liquor. He Mss ELSIE DE WOLF'S house in Irving Place, New didn't eat his fruit.”’ York, is a favorite gathering place for artists and ‘**An’ he never drinks, mum, an’ doesn't know th’ taste _ literary folk, and it is filled with curious and beautiful : : es ; of it?”’ things. It is the custom of Miss De Wolf to spend her . —_— “Certainly not.”’ summers in Versailles, and she rarely returns from abroad ‘*Then, mum,” said Bridget, ‘‘ plaze tell me how he knew without adding to her store of curios, all of which ar it was brandy, mum?”’ associated with some illustrious name. She has, for exam- ple, a bit of wood carved in the workshop of Lord Byron's Poor Mr. DocKstader grandfather, with whom one of her own ancestors was . associated, and she has a thimble that belonged to Marie [‘TVHE cowboys and plainsmen wt ime from the W i E. POWERS, the artist, and Lew Dockstader, the Antoinette. In her second floor ing-room there is a help inaugurate President R t last March had a e minstrel, were riding through Central Park one night, great couch of old oak, and mirrors, made from the wood world of fun in Washington and saw many things 1 ) contemplating the beauties of Nature and decorations of two old beds brought from chateaux then This palled after a time. ‘I am hungry,’’ Dockstader in Normandy One of ther ted Major I nat the New Willard announced Miss De Wolf is one of the few stage people whose dress Hotel The Major had a pera hat. closed. on the bed “So am I,” said Powers. ing-rooms are made habitable, and where a cup of tea The cowboy sat non the bed, as all the chairs wer ‘Let's go to a restaurant and get something to eat.”’ may be served and visitors received If she ed, a he ha pened with a crasl Powers pondered. ‘‘No,”’ he said finally, I know’ ina theatre for anv length of time, her own st: \\ I r } rid pping the ha something better than that Mrs. Powers went away to- ties—consisting of easy chairs, a low dressing-table, a alarm; ‘‘that’s the fust f | ever see day, but before she went she baked me a lot of cup-custards couch, and covers of bright-flowered chintz—are sent ; I where she is, and these and a little writing-desk furnished Who is Folk 9° P in red leather make attractive a room usually drear An Inconspicuous Vanderbilt REDERICK VANDERBILT is the least consy e1 member of the immediate \ lermilt far One of the

ti brother of the late Cornelius and of William K. and ¢ le touch Vanderbilt, it is remar hat | he Sta eve of the pubic Frederick Vanderbilt live ra t Hestr ttothe« ‘ tthe | ‘ ! irl or two of the winter in the { Vanderbilt house at Fifth e his he t tory eff Avenue and Fortieth Street, occupied | his father Who is J h W. 1 William H., before the t brownstone mansions up the He paused for! | } } ura And street were built for himself and his daurhter i ww F ow oh W. } : kad : principal residence is |} intry home at Hyde Park « Still there the Hudson With ons ist. vivant ‘7 + } , A nla Nature and books are Mr. Vanderbilt's chief pleasuré 1, wi Joseph W. I and cake. We'll go up to my flat I'll get the custards and he is with difficulty drawn a from these to other Oh, ped ttle r } t on one of and stuff and we will eat that. It’s much better than affairs. Of late, the house at Newport has been entiré first bencl I’ te Wh Joseph W. Folk restaurant truck.” deserted, and the New York residence almost so. If he Dockstader agreed. They drove to the apartment. must be Grawn into the social world, he prefers to go by Powers went in to get the custard and cake, which they had way of his vacht. the Conqueror, which allows « i planned to take to the Park and eat under the trees stretches of ocean solitude between ports that entail sub There was a long wait. Dockstader grew nervous. sequent visits to rovalty or the social great Indeed, were Finally, a window on the seventh floor opened and Powers _ it not for his wife, and the pleasure which she takes in the stuck his head out. world's society, it is to be doubted if Mr. Vander! “Say, Lew!” he shouted, “Mrs. Powers hasreturnedand circle would extend beyond his books and a few—a very won't let me go out again, but here are the custards.” And few—people eminent in scholarship. Visitors to the Hyde

he threw six of them down on the patient Dockstader. Park mansion often come and go without a sight of Frede- rick Vanderbilt, he pe rhaps, being snugly ensconced in the ¢ farthest possible ce ier of the house, engaged witt } | Defeat for John R. Walsh re ee eee or in the uttermost nook of the estate, bu with a flock of | B see R. WALSH, the well-known Chicago banker and _ birds. The farm at Hvde Park affords him constant it J magnate, rather prides himself on his shrewdness. terest, and he is as intimately concerned with the doing When he was building thestructureoccupied bytheChicago of his geese or his ducks or chickens as another country National Bank he had some difficulty in awarding the gentleman might be with his horses contract for the vault, but finally gave it to a New York Mr. Vanderbilt is a man of fine physical presence, and company It was provided in the agreement that the

his face at all times bears an expression of earnestness. He

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Knapp Felts are two grades: the De Luxe the very finest that can be pro Felt, the he best hatters duced, 1s $6; Knapp next best, 1s $4. 1 sell them. 4 copy of TH HATMA zg how Kn I : ule a showing the proper shapes tor Spring, will be mailed on reque THE CROFUT & KNAPP CO. 840 Broadway, New York tabric of It is the result of sufficient variety. of THE SATURDAY EVENING POST March 3, 1906 The Correspondence of a Diplomat—By J. W. Foley A Resumption of Relations with the Home Secretary MaApLeEvILLe, January 9. Dear Father I thought I would write you a few lines to | let you know I am back safe in the Academy | again after my fine Christmas vacation at home which gives me much happiness to look back to although sometimes a lump in my throat which will probably not bother me so much as soon as I get used to being away from home again. All of the boys are back from home and getting ready for hard study which they have all promised their parents to do with the best intentions be- cause of it being New Years and a splendid time for beginning over doing right. It being such cold weather and needing some- thing to warm you up I think I will be coffee this term until it gets warmer weather which will be twenty five cents a week more for you to figure when you send me my board money but it will be worth it in mak- ing me able to stand the cold better and probably not catching any cold weather diseases and having to pay out for doctors bills which is always very useless. The night we all got back we had a meet- ing in one of the boys rooms after we un- packed our trunks and each boy bringing something his mother put in his trunk on coming away from home which was quite a spread. I took one of my big fruit cakes which does not go very far among twenty five or thirty boys and I am down to the second one which I am being more careful with but it is gradually getting to take up less room in my trunk. I was thinking they would last for two or three weeks but it is only three days now and at the rate they are going I am going to be out in a couple of days which will probably be the best thing for me as I will not be eating so much be- tween meals. Mamma said a fruit cake would keep for six months but she must have not put that kind in my trunk. Something I have been going to speak to you about is my pants to my new suit which are coming higher from my shoes on account of me growing so fast and I have let them clear down to the bottom of my suspenders but it does not seem to do any more good. It is a shame because my new suit is per- fectly good yet no holes in it or anything ex- cept the pants growing so short for me of which I will soon have to do something for them. They are plenty big enough around the waist except I have let them down so low my vest is not covering the top of them any more which is liable to be attracting some attention in my classes. Do you know of any way to make pants longer which would let me wear my new suit all out before having to buy another one? I am awful SOrrTy to be causing Vou so much worrying on account of growing so fast but you can see how it is. I was thinking maybe you would have some old pants that Mamma could cut down for me which would be all right if nobody knew but us although I would not want to wear cut down pants and have the boys here know about it many of which are liable to make remarks. I could send my new suit pants to Henry Gregg who would be very grateful for being smaller than I am and shorter in his legs. I wish you would be sure to give me some advice on it in your next letter because I will not be able to last in my present pants more thana few days It being New Years I have made up my mind to improve all my time and get ahh the know lecdgge | possibly can so that if anything should happen by which I might have to earn my own living I would be able to. The yutting the lights all out at ten o'clock ~~ ps me from studying as much as I want to but it may be for the best.as I might work too hard if they let them burn as long as you want them to. That is one reason why I think I better be coffee so 1 will not go to sleep while | am studying. A good many of the best scholars here are coffee and they are anxious for me to sit at their table which gives you more valuable conversation to hear and picking up much information to help you in your studies. We ought to not overlook anything that may improve our mind when it is only twenty five cents a week extra for such a splendid chance. I wish you would tell Henry Gregg if you happen to see him going by that I will probably not bein the Appletown base ball team next Summer and he better get Walter Trask for pitcher being able to throw curves and probably willing to buy some bats if he is pitcher. I would not tell him about me probably sending him my new suit pants though as I may get some advice from you about how to fix them so I can wear them a little longer which is doubtful though. Still it is just as you say and if the boys make remarks I guess I will be able to stand it. I would not tell Mamma about my pants and the fruit cake being gone so quick as it is no use of her worrying. The boys put a cow in our dormitory pro- fessor’s room for the holidays which is caus- ing some looking into who did it. Nobody seems to know who did it which they are ane to find out. nele William sent me a fine calendar for New Years with splendid rules for every day which if I am able to live up to ought to do me a great deal of good. Your affectionate son, Tommy. P. S.—The pants are about two inches short when my suspenders are let down as far as they will go which may help you in letting me know what to do. Love to Mamma. Tommy. MaPLeVILLE, January 15. Dear Father : 1 received your welcome letter with the news about Henry Greggs stepmother fall- ing down on the ice and breaking her leg and what to do about my pants which is a great comfort to me and I have bought a new pair with the money you sent me and will send my old new-suit pants to you for Henry Gregg which is too bad about his step- mother. I hope it did not happen in front of Henry’s house which will be a terrible scolding for him not keeping the sidewalk clean if it did. It will give Henry quite a rest from her though while she is in bed with her leg which I suppose will last for several weeks. I hope it will not keep Henry from enjoying the pants which you do not need to tell him are my old ones as he might bea little sensitive about it. Mamma can clean them up and press them and all Henry would need would be a new coat and a cap anda pair of new shoes to be perfectly happy except for his stepmother’s leg. I waS think- ing perhaps you could get Henry to carry out ashes and split some wood for us while I am away at school so he could earn enough money to buy the other things and you could charge it up against me and I would pay you out of what I am going to make in my next Summer vacation. 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Asthis was about Dralf of what he had anticipated, he made his exit with a face wreathed in smiles, bowing delightedly to his various friends among the spectators In point of fact, the judge was suffering from a cold and had sentenced the defend ant to eighteen years, of which fact the latter was promptly informed when he reached the foot of the stairs leading to the prison pen. A layman happening to be present on a Friday in the Court of General Sessions would be surprised at the apparent lightness of most of the sentences. Ihe judges of our criminal courts are merciful men and rightly believe that a year or two in State’s prison has a better effect upon the de- fendant than a longer tern A short-term man emerges, at least it is so to be hoped with some aspirations for the future and with health as yet not undermined. ‘To most judges the infliction of sentence up: a fellow human being ever remains a bitter experience. 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he should do in view of the threats mack A judge of the court advised him to resort to weapons. Be these things as they may, that night Ben Thompson and King Fisher appeared at the theatre. the name of Coy held his A big Mexican by tepped behind Thompson and arms, and at that moment Winchester firing began from the oe ce- nium box. After it was over, Tho on a billiar d t: able This was in the and Fisher were laid out on for view of the populacs spring of ISS2. King Fisher was vounger than Thompson, a dark-haired product of Goliad County, which turned out more than its share of bad men The upper cow range had its time of bad men, but Sisters is much eee rted here by the newspapers. For instance, there were hundreds of columns of ‘tr nzied fiction written about a little two-by-four cow war in Johnson County, Wyoming, in which only a couple of men were killed. This was a commercial proposition, for by this time a great deal of Eastern capital was invested in the cattle business. i remen and cow-punchers did not like to their privilege of a personal branding iron taken away fromthem. Still less inter- est attaches to the vigilante days in Cali- fornia and Montana, regu- ie fc have ancient although the lators on the Montana cow range ran across men who deserved to be called some- thing better than thieves and murderers n Houal some THE SATURDAY Then raising |

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Another is suprarenalin used in the most delicate surgical operations to stop the flow of blood. To illustrate how closely the by-product feature of the business is gleaned, the su- prarenal glands of more than 100,000 sheep are required to produce one pound of suprarenalin and, when produced, this suprarenalin is worth more than $5000 a pound. Certain by-products of the packing plants are used for hardening and for coloring steel; in fact, materials of animal origin, the result of by-product utilization, enter into the manufacture of almost every article extensively. The packer who could make the most out of these products could afford to pay and did pay more for the live steer than his compe titor who was not so progressive, and in consequence he got his pick of the cattle. The stock-grower was benefited by the higher price paid for the live animal and the people were benefited by the lower selling cost of the beef over the old method. One cannot eat his cake and have it too, and the reward that the packer received was that of increased business and the decreased cost per head of killing cattle, owing to his much heavier kill; but, in order to cash in that reward, he had to give both the stock- grower and the public a part of the benefit of by-product utilization. origin are Editor's Note —This article will be concluded next week The Incomplete Amorist Continued from Page “Ves -oh, ‘Then I may ask questions. I want to hear what you've been doing since we parted and where you've been, and how you came to Paris—and where your aunt is, and what she'll say to me when she comes in.”’ “She likes you,” said Betty, ‘‘and she won't come in, but Madame Gautier will Aunt Julia went off this morning—she couldn't delay any longer because of catch- ing the P. and ©. at Brindisi; and I'm to wait here till Madame Gautier comes at three. Auntie came all the way back from America to see whether I was happy here. She 7s a dear!” ‘And who is Madame Gautier? Is she alsoadear? But let's have our coffee in the and tell me everything from the be- yes.”’ salon ginning Yes,”’ said Betty, ‘oh, yes! But the salon window was darkened by a passing shape. **My uncle, bless him!”’ must go. See, here's my card! said Vernon. ‘I Won't you write and tell me all about everything? You will, won’t you?” “Yes, but you mustn't write to me. Madame Gautier opens all our letters, and friendship wasn't Invented when she was young, either. Good-by.” Vernon had to go toward the strong English voice that was filling the hall with its Inquiries for ‘* Ung Mossoo ung Mmossoo Anglay qui avoir certainmong etty icy ce mattan.”” Five minutes later Betty saw two figures go along the pavement on the other side of the decorous embroidered muslin blinds which, in the unlikely event of any happen- ing in the Cité de la Retraite, insure its not being distinctly seen by those who sojourn at the Hotel Béte. Betty instantly experienced that femi- nine longing which makes women write to lovers or friends from whom they have but now parted, and she was weaker than Lady St. Craye. There was nothing to do. Her trunks were packed. She had before her two hours, or nearly, of waiting for Madame Gautier. Soshe wrote, and thisis the letter, erasures and all. Vernon, when he got it, was most interested in the erasures, here represented by italics: Dear Mr. Vernon: Il am very glad we are good friends again, and I should like to tell you everyi thing that has happened. (.1/ter / ! 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Paris because of what you had said. My aunt came down and was very kind. (She told me) She persuaded my step- father tolet mego. I think (we) he was glad to get rid of me for (somehow) he never did care about me, any more than I did about him. There are a great many (other) things that he does not understand. Of course I was wild with joy and thought of nothing but (what you) work, and my aunt brought me over. But I did not see anything of Paris then. We went straight on to Joinville where Madame Gautier has a villa, and (we) my aunt left me there, and went to Norway. It was all very strange at first, but l liked it. Madame Gautier is very strict; it was like being at school. Sometimes I almost (jergot) fancied that I wasat schoolagain. There were three other girls besides me, and we had great fun. The Professor was very nice and encouraging. He is very old. Sois every body who comes to the house — (buf) it (was) is jolly, because when there are four of you everything is so interesting. We used to have pic- nics in the woods, and take it in turn to ride in the donkey-cart And there were musical « venings with the Pastor and the Avocat and their wives. It was very amusing sometimes. Madame Gautier had let her Paris flat, so we stayed at Joinville till a week ago, and then my aunt ae in one day and took me to Paris for a week. I did en- joy that. bud eee we nt has gone, and Madame Gautier istaking the invert tory and getting the keys, and presently she will come for me, and I shall go with her to the Rue Vaugirard number 62 It will be very nice seeing the other girls again and telling them all about nq) my week in Paris lar 0 SOrTy ‘th at I shall not have the p

of seeing you again, but I am ¢ we met because I do not like to think my friends do not trust me. ours sincerely By y Deswont That was the letter which Be pn ed But the first letter she wrote wa quite ditierent, it began You don't know, you never will know, what it is tome to knowthat vou did not deceive me M dear friend, my only friend! And how I treated you yesterday! And how nobly you forgave me! I shall see you again I must see you again. No one else has ever understood me.

And so on to the ‘‘True and constant friend, Bett : She b saad this letter ‘The other's all right,’’ she said; ‘“‘that’s the worst of life. If 1 sent the one that’s really written as I feel he’d think I was in love with him or some nonsense, Buta child who was just in two syllables might have written the other So that’ all right She looked at her watch. The same silver watch with which she had once crossed the hand of one who told her fortune. “How silly all that was!”’ she said. ‘I have learned wisdom now. Nearly half- vast three. I never knew Madame late vefore.”’ And now Betty began to watch the win- dows for the arrival of her chaperon; an - four o'clock came, and five, but no Madan Gautier, Betty was not minded to stay the night alone at the Hotel Béte For one thing, she had very little money—save that in the fat envelope addressed to Madame Gautier which her aunt had given her. It contained, she knew, the mone y to pay for her board and lessons during the next six months, for the elder Miss Desmond was off to India, Japan and Tibet, and her horror of banks and checks made her very down- right in the matter of money. Betty decided to go now. *‘T will return and take my trunks,”’ she said; and a carriage was called. There was something very exhilarating in driving through the streets of Paris, alone, in a nice little carriage with fat pneu- atic tires. The street lamps were alight and the shops not yet closed, Almost every house seemed to be a shop, ‘*How glorious it would be to live alone in Paris,’’ she thought, ‘‘to be driven about in cabs just when one liked and where one liked! Oh, I am tired of being a school- girl! I suppose they won't let me be grown up till I'm so old Is hall wish I was a school- girl again. I do hope Madame won't be

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CHARLES KINGSLEY AUTHOR, “ i PREACHER, ICONOCLAST, n., OF ASSIc hali the regular to i price. WE STWARD HO, AL 10 L OCKE and s HYPATIA Too Many Books Who Reads Kingsley ? These Sets at Less than Half Price aif the re ar price r one m the CUT HERE MAIL TO-DAY A SF The Right Opportunity | Let Us F ind It For You Apgoods The National Organization of Brain Brokers EA ERN OFFICES | furious She couldn't expect me to wait forever. Oh, I’m sure I'm right to go.” The doubt, however, grew as the carriage jolted through narrower streets, and when it drew up at an open carriage-gate Betty jumped out, paid the coachman, and went in quite prepared to be scolded. She went through the doorway and stood looking for the list of names such as are set at the foot of the stairs leading to flats in London. There was no such list. From a lighted doorway on the right came a babel of shrill, high-pitched voices. Betty looked in at the voices ceased, “Pardon, Madame,” seek Madame Gautier.” Every one in the crowded, stuffy, lamplit little room drew a deep breath. ‘*Mademoiselle is without doubt Madame’s young ladies?” Perhaps it was the sudden hushing of the raised voices; perhaps it was something in the flushed faces that all turned toward her. door and the said Betty. “I one of bo her dying day Betty will never know she dic lnots ay Yes, "What she did sav Was “Tam a friend of Madame. Is she at hon ‘No, Mademoiselle —she is not at home; she will never be at home more, the poor lady. She is dead, Mademoiselle —an ac- cident: one of those cursed automobiles ran over her at her ve ry door, Mademoiselle, before our eyes.”’ Betty felt sick ‘Thank you,” she said; “it is very sudden Will M: aap leave her name?” the conciers ked = curiously The brother of Mac “* in e, he is in the Commerce it Nante A telegram has been sent — he arrives to-morrow morning. He will give Mademoiselle details.” Again Betty said what she had not in tended to say. She said Miss Brown Perhaps the brother in the Commerce vaguely suggested the addition ‘‘of Manchester." Then she sage d away, and got out of the light into the friendly dusk of the street. She must be pe think. She would have to write home. Her father would come to fetch her. Her aunt was beyond the reach of appeal. Her artist life would he over I thing would be over. She ld be dragged back to the parishing and the mothers’ meetings and the black cotton- ‘covered books and the Sunday-school And she would never have lived.in Paris it all! She walked down the street I can't think —I fthink! I'll have this night to myself to think in, anyway. I y some che ap hotel I have en ugh for She hai led a passing carriage, drove to the Hotel Béte, took her luggage to the Gare du Nord, and left it there Then as she stood on the station step she felt something in her hand It was the fat letter addressed to Madame Gautier. And she knew it was fat with banknotes She unfastened her dress and thrust the into her bosom, buttoning the dress fully over it. letter care But I won't go to: y hotel yet,” she sid; “I won't even look for one I'll ee Paris a bit first She hailed a coachman Go he said, ‘‘to some restaurant in he Latin Quarter where the art students eat And I’m alone in Paris, and perfeetly free, aid Betty, leaning back on the ishions “Oh, it is glorious to be per fectly free Oh, po r Madame Gautier! >} dear, h She held dy bre: ath and wondered why ad not f 1 not feel sori ro BE CONTINUED The End of Importance je newspaper correspondents of Wash ington were having their biennial row , T the election of the St inding Committee to represent them at the Capitol in con- ! with the Senate Committee on Ru ind the Speaker of the Hous I Sena Chandler, always likir o be nad where r a row, came alo ind ed at the atte le was { en ful How : So-and ()} he } ed Well ud ( nandier hat nat I The least ir rtar mar ‘ man who has voted THE SATURDAY EVENING POST March 3, 1906 CrySTAb Domino SUGAR : Ks HAVEMEYERS & ELDER A Triumph in Sugar [You C an n Judge a B: ink | By the valu t its stock When stockh h t twice the*ar ft th } . x uy iT t 4 ink y in iv ! mh ‘ i 4 , t Solid as a Rock Capital and § Is $2.86 | Reso ¢ $28, I Fite three t sand ley 4 per cent interest | int ta about ¢ eland and the advantages ot Banking by Mail The Cleveland Trust Company _ CLEV ELAND, OHIO = BORATED i UM | a Se) Chapped Hands, Chafing skin troubles | | — L GERHARD MENNEN COMPANY, NEWARK. 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