The Saturday Evening Post 1906-03-10: Vol 178 Iss 37

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Copyright,1906, by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, Founded A’D' 1728 by Benj.Franklin Entered at the Philadelphia Post-Office in the United States and Great Britain. as Second-Class Matter Published Weekly at 425 Arch Street by THE CuRTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY London: Hastings House,10, Norfolk Street, Strand,WC. Volume 178 PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 10, 1900 Number 37 THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN Over a Slope of the Hill Hung a Black Cloud, Fed Perpetually from a Forest of Chimneys HERE is one fact r- Human Documents in the Case of the New Slavery wt « hwaring for the tinth garding the industries childrer toil let ther in America which con- peak for themselves; to sh cerns every man and woman omething of their lives which throughout the land. Since B y MRS. JO | i N VAN V O RS | will be eloquent in claiming cotton mills began to spring for the 1 ( ! iland up like mushrooms, and socio- humane: 1 ind th logical philanthropy began to be the fashion, we have heard much about child labor; Listen for it in what 1 am going to te A complaint? you ask, used as you are so much, indeed, has it been a matter for discussion that the very life has been taken the wheedling of charity recipient A complaint! Why, the children of out of the phrase itself and it has come to have no meaning. It suggests reports and an army of tiny pilgrims whose miserable bodi« nthe onward march, are | the vel dull discourses and lobbying for legal reform, and dry statistics. It has assumed the for a spirit that no suffering can repre \ ms of ince a e, robbed form of a mere stereotyped heading which serves as a watchword to deter the hurried health by the heavy burdens too early placed upon their fra houlde denuded of reader from wasting any time on articles he ‘always skips.’”” Yet back of these two hope, they trudge forward on life iv with a fortitude and deter on which mal words linked incongruously together is the fact that concerns us all, an outrageous fact their ery less a complaint than a summor emory of fa } theirs cling that cannot be denied, a fact that need only be prese nted from its human dae in orae! n the mind with lingering t« wit faded mash i withered fles! irk eves fazit to touch every heart that beats for the good of the country and the welfare of other of pale, swollen brows; all the ugline ble which deprivat ul can pra In our thriving mills, both North and South, there are thousands and thousands of littk ipon the human feature t, illuminating th tra i n expre n tl hildren at work. As I formulate this simple statement I can hear a chorus of protest glows as the sun does for whole days behind clou hich seem t ffuse and urnif echoes of past objections which have been made for years by those whose interest it is brillianes not to acknowledge the truth. In response I have only to say that I started, a skeptic The bringing about of ar modification it ‘ col tie na republican count myself, upon a tour of inspection regarding what I held to be ensational report e ours, deter ed c n, a I ‘ f ‘ about child labor. After remaining six weeks in various cotton-mill towns of Mai Hampshire, Georgia and Alabama, I have determined to relate only what too sensational, alas!— believing the simple account of realities to be the most convir hild labor ng, and daring to hope that it may serve as an appeal, and that it may stir those whom it Census bulletins sh that there t the United era nat touches into procuring some remedy for an existing condition of things which hall of children between the ol ind filteer t tv-five] nt ne te contrary to every principle of civilization and Christianity. operative the South The facts of the case as regards the law are these: Each State being free to imposs doing night r n Pe nia I 1 thousar eemy ‘ t th ure upon manufacturers what regulations it pleases, there is a variety of labor problems ounger in New Yor t R t stat that ng fe to choose from in studying any single American industry. Not having unlimited time Considered thus, a re figure r I mt, the housat f childr in which to make a genera! investigation, I selected as centres of observation for these eem like one of the studies of child labor: Maine, where there are good laws poor enforeed New How are tl esigi ‘ the 1 ! the vre i Hampshire, where there is no factory inspection; Alabama, where the laws are poor fa irly by employer N and the enforcement poorer; Georgia, W here there are no laws at all | confined 1 er pertiner it r nar i ! t! t i t! Visits almost entirely to the woolen and cotton mills because more children are emploved attract the manufa ire For } the t the there than in the other complicated manufactures, and because, also, by making a com-_ that repressed within them to the t hich parative study of the same industry under different conditions it was possible to arrive at onsequence Yet it ol | tal t e to thir f these } lua some general conclusions regarding it that thev can appeal to us from a human p of vie | ist t} fe of the thar To be sure, even the most rabid reformer could not hope that business be run as a fore hich the mill disregards, that I would aim to make the hiect of these tich philanthropy, and the question might easily be asked whether—once a model child lif not a t manifest elf u echani ture labor law had obtainec there were till ar nine | protit to be made by the cotton-mill « er entiment and feeling, the hom« i studying there the evolution of reform and We don't want to he | ! its practical effects both upon the well-being rh a remark often ma of the emplovees ana tne wellare ot eT = I tant ol the 1 ployers But, if the articles which follow ng r, poverty are not tl } make a slight pretense of tracing the histor ror paucity of spirit, lack of of an industry, their most earnest purpose and indifference can also come under th comprehensive Editor's Note—This is the first of a series of art cles by Mrs. Van Vorst in which the victims of t i stirred up new

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with existing condi- ma tions than with their v own inactivity. They argue in this way: “What is the use of knowing about such dreadful things when we can't help them?” So long as there are over a million children at work for us, our in- dustrial need such forcible cleaning up that everybody can “help.” If those who set their shoulders to the wheel find that their hearts fail them in the effort for reform they need only con- sider the example of these little laborers, and once hear the cry of the children, in order to renew their energy and their courage records “1 Cut My Finger Right Smart,” She Drawled After first consulting the State Records at the Capitol in Montgomery where all corporations are registered, and determining upon what centres it seemed advisable to visit, ] accepted a letter of introduction to the owner of a mill in Birmingham and set out for that place, the xecond city, with Montgomery, in Alabama, which has attained to a population of thirty thousand. The idea of a letter of introduction was, to be sure, in- congruous with that of making a tour of investigation, and though the few courteous lines | presented to the proprietor of the mills might have procured me hospitality under his own roof, they sent me as an outcast from his factory gates. ‘It was of no interest to him that a piece should be written about his help."’. This he made quite clear, and, having done so, he closed the door peremptorily, leaving me with- out to meditate upon some more successful method of I obtaining entrance tothe factories I had determined to visit veral ladies laws which place any restraint upon Alabama manufacturers, I called upon them before proceeding to Anniston, and gathered from their conversation certain facts ituation in their State My chief informant was a pretty woman of the grace- ful, languid type it was a shock to hear her affirm in her soft, musical voice, with its dr W hy, child labor in Alabama is a necessary evil Profiting by the presence at Birmingham of se who had been more or less active in passing the only regarding the we designate in a word as ‘‘Southern wing intonation Do you think,” 1 exclaimed, *‘that it is just as well for i child twelve years old to be at work as to be in school ? Her gentle eves reflected in their smile a feeling of inward That,’ she said, ‘is not a fair question. When you } yw more Of these people you ll see that they re just like il In the mill they have some chance of getting civilized If we made laws restricting labor we should I rhten away Apilal ts and wreck our very surest chanc:s of progress and prosperity.” She followed up her argument with pitiful description of ignorance among the people who flock in from the hills to feed the mill machinery en know enough to level the ground where They fry every bit of their food, and plains They don'tey they build their cabins. even the bread And then she repeated the comprehensive phrase They're just like animal She was a stockholder, this gentle ‘‘ South- mills 1 had ous logic which greed alone ! What part, pray, had God and could maintain, with justice, that out of such ence a better state erner, in the Oh, hu makes plausible just attempted to in creating a class ‘‘like animals,” who mental and moral insutffi« might come, were it coupled to phy sical op- Two wrongs and the cursory dispatching pression and cannot make a right; misery ? le cla , 0% people to the realm of the the bondsn n from | ai dot not tree anit ite aceounttog for the soul which ha d, along with the body, into h itter of fact, there was a law made h prohibited the employment of children under tories unl w O03 whi« twelve years of age in fac dowed mothers or aged or disabled fathers be dependent upon the labor of such children, and the sam¢ children under thirteen to work after 7 or before 6 a. m., and all children to hire out for more than sixty-six hours a week day- work, or forty-eight hours night-work law forbade “ Goin’ on Tweayulve” which she THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘““‘Why did we pass the law?” responded one of my feminine informants. ‘‘Why not? What difference does it make? There are no inspectors, no school laws, no truant officers, and where there is nobody to enforce a law it can’t inspire much respect.” The method of asking permission having met with such rebuff as I took to be characteristic, I determined, on reaching Anniston, upon the more simple plan of walking into any factory that might be open and pursuing my in- quiries regardless of consequences, until I was stopped or put out. The town of Anniston lies among the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, half-way between Birmingham and Atlanta. There was little need to ask directions for reach- ing the mills: over a slope of the hill on the village outskirts hung a black cloud, fed perpetually from a forest of chim- neys that rose like the dark cypress trees of some cam po Thither I bent my steps. The cotton-mill ‘‘folks’’ wear unwittingly a badge which distinguishes them far and wide. As I came along down over the hillside I met a child holding in her arms another smaller child; both were covered —their hair, their clothes, their very eyelashes even—with fine flakes of lint, wisps of cotton, fibres of the great web in which the factories im- prison their victims. ** Hello,” I said, ‘‘do you work in the mill?” “Yes, meaum.”” The voice was gentle and the manner friendly. She hitched the baby, who had a tendency to slip from her tiny, motherly arms, and showed me one of her fingers done up in a loose, dirty bandage. ‘‘I cut my finger right smart,"’ she drawled, ‘‘so I’m takin’ a day off.”’ “How old are you?” [T'weayulve.”’ *‘Got any brothers or sisters?”’ “T’ve got him.” She straightened the piece of lemon stick candy in the baby’s mouth as she thus called attention to ‘‘him,” and continued: ‘And I’ve got one brother in the mill.” “How old is he?” “Tweayulve.” “Twins?” I asked. She smiled, and shook her head. “He's tweayulve in the mill, and he’s teyun outside.”’ This little bit of humanity, tak- ing a day off as mother to a still tinier promising sponsor, and I suggested that we walk along together. She could not go to the mill with me, she ex- plained, without first consulting her mother, so we proceeded to the settlement in which she lodged, along with the other eighty or a hundred families who man the mills in which she worked. That's where we live!” Her fleet little bare feet picked a way deftly over the stony path, and she kept a hand free —when it was not laid on the baby’s back —to point out the turns that led to Her home was one of a group of -story houses perched on a slant of ground. Each house was encircled by a wooden veranda, and the order of housekeeping wif before the ey a whisk of the broom which carried all dirt from the kitchen on to the porch, and another whisk which landed it on the slant of ground, bedecked, In veget able santo. een being, seemed a “‘where she lived.” rame one deseribed it eS, as h old tin cans, decaying , pieces of dirty paper, rags, and chicken feathers. consequence, wit It was to the more intimate quarter, however, that I penetrated with my guide. The inside court or square upon which these ‘“‘homes”’ opened their back doors was a large mud-puddle overhung with the collective wash of the neighborhood. In and out of the mud-puddle wallowed the younger members of the mill families, receiving from time to time admonishing repri- mands from a gently irate parent, who swished her long cotton wrapper over the mud court, drawling to her off- spring I sure will whip you if you- all don’t quit.’ ‘That-a-way'’s where we ‘said my little compan- ion, stepping on to the pore h and depositing her load, as she opened the door and ran to announcea Visit to her mother. The woman turned listlessly from the sewing-machine over was bent liv eS, March 10, 1906 ‘Won't you come in?” she called to me, dragging out a chair by the fire, without getting up. *Lookin’ fer work?" she asked. I took a seat, glancing at the interior which my little friend called ‘‘home."’ The outer room was a kitchen though it might, except for the stove, have been mistaken fora hen-coop. The chickens pecked their way about the dirty floor, venturing as far even as the table upon which stood the meagre remains of a noonday meal. The second and the inner room had each a bed—an unmade bed I was going to say, but how, indeed, could a bed be made without either sheets or pillows? Two grimy counterpanes were flung in disorder across the mattresses; a few chairs, a bureau and a machine completed the house-furnishings. As the listless woman talked with me in a kindly manner about work, the baby, who had crawled in from the porch and arrived as far as its mother’s skirts, now tugged at these to be taken up. His tiny hands had served as propeller across the filthy floor, the stick of lemon candy was still clutched in one, and it added to the general stickiness of the dirt with which his face and clothes were smeared. Asa soldier shoulders his gun—the burden to which he is most accustomed —this mother swung her baby into her arms, and while she talked on, giving items about the cost of living and factory wages, she loosened her cotton jacket evideutly the only garment she had on—and, folding the baby to her breast, lulled its whimpering. “Yes,” she said, “‘ we pay one-fifty a week for three rooms. That's a little over six a month. I callit high. We don't get no runnin’ water. Every drop we use's got to be drawed in the yard; ’n we don’t get no light either—nothin’ but lamps.” The baby, comforted and consoled, though the stick of lemon candy had slipped from its grasp, let its hand stray over the woman’s throat with little spasmodic caresses which left in their trail smears of dirt, flecked with tiny ~ The Order of Housekeeping Described Itseit Betore the Eyes scarlet streaks where the sharp nails had caught in the pale, withered flesh I reckon you-ali might be cold,”’ she said, directing the older girl to put more wood on the open-grate fire, thinking apparently nothing of herself. ‘*We don’t like it here firstrate. Mebbe we'llmoveagain. I sure do crave travel in’, Well, honey,” this was addressed to the baby who had sat up witha jerk and begun to whine. The candy, picked up from the floor where it had fallen and restored to its did not seem the desired thing. The mother looked at me with a knowing smile. ‘I reckon I can guess what ails him. He wants his babies."’ And at this, always without getting out of her chair before the machine, she reached behind her and drew from a shelf over her head two white rats. This was apparently what the baby had wanted. In the game that ensued between him and his pets, his chief delight seemed to be in seeing the rats disappear through the open-throated gown of his mother, and make the tour of her bodice, wrig- gling, burrowing, crawling, to emerge finally from her collar at the nape of her neck. Sometimes they diversified their gyrations, proceeding upward into her hair and down again by way of her ears on to easier climbing-ground Impassible, unmoved, she talked on in her gentle, drawling voice, giving no sign whatever that she noticed the ¢ It was only when the baby plunged its sharp nails in white rat’s side that she ejaculated mercifully ‘Quit that! You-all ‘ll hurt them babies.” I was somewhat dazed as I proceeded pre my little guide from this interior to the mill. The squalor and disorder of what I had seen, the ignorance and the insensibility, contrasted strangely with the friendly con- cern about any intention I might have to get work, the desire to help me on my way, the strange lethargic tender- ness which took the form of pity for even rats ‘Like animals,”’ my friend had told me. That we must wait to see owner's mouth, o th sently with

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Following thus in the bare footprints of my companion, Then hastily I put the questior How old ar par fa as dirty a the way seemed to lead directly into the mill, the door of Goin’ on tweayulve,”’ he responded. ‘I've beenw which stood open with no more formidable porter than a abeaout four years. 1 come in here when | was si Wha tired overseer. He nodded an indifferent ‘Yes’ at our ‘Ever been to school Sw l request to visit the mill, and we stepped over the threshold He shook his head No, meayur I don’t know if H ! | ke a day on a level with the street, and into the spinning-room I'dlikeit. I reckon I'd as soon work here as be in school.” Iw There were thirty-eight hands in this spinning-room **How many hours do you work he a day And | { ar Not ten of them had reached the aze of twelve “From six until six.’ eayvur It was only after I had talked with them and questioned The noise of the machinery was distracting, and l rt t ird mact » Mm: trans for the them for some twenty minutes that the ‘“‘second man” bent over him to catch his answers, piped in a shi nasa i ‘ tayu He made twenty cents a came to me and explained in a jovial, courteous way that voice, I could not but notice how fine and delicate | la Others | questioned were eight, nine, ten, and ‘talkin’ kept the hands from work But in that twenty features were; the deep eyes, the high-arched nose, t! ceca ‘ there w meas old as twelve ; minutes there was a little world revealed to me of which I si ader lips, were placed in the oval face asfeatures o t Some t Birmingham informants had told me tha had known nothing, and had read only such accounts as 1 be placed by the unerring mould that breeding ca there were wh familie iwarfs who came down fror believed to be ‘‘ sensational.’ Observing also the miniature shoulders that seemed to have the mountair ‘ k work in the mills, greatly n The operation of spinning is an extremely simple one. been oppressed by some iron hand, I said lea r certa rs wh ipposed them to be childrer An expert hand can run as many as a thousand bobbins or ‘Don't you get very tired ? inder a As | alke n now throuvh the mil ten ‘‘sides."’ A child of ten keeps from two to four “ sides’ There was a pause which made more marked the honest talking withatw ir-old red-headed girl who had beer going with no further effort than the renewing of the large of his response four years at we t ‘ iddet fi ipon a strang spools, the cleaning of the “saliva” from the frames, and “Why, I don’t never pay much attention whether I get couple (doubtl | thougt ye of the dwarfs agair the refilling of the spindles whose threads have snapped. tired or not.” whom I had been warned could not take my attention The replenishing of the quills or bobbins is done by the ‘You have an hour at noon?"’ from the tinie f the tiny pair; the boy's hands appeared smallest hands, who from the process they perform in lift- Here he pushed the cloth cap on to the back of his head, to be made without bom } humb flew back almost ing the full spools off the frames to put empty ones intheir and sent a long, wet, black line from his mouth to the floor double as he pressed th t loosen it from the re place are called ‘‘ doffers.”’ “Well,” he said (it was the man who spoke, his arn lving rod in the spinning frame: they no longer moved The first child to whom I spoke here stood waiting, akimbo, his body warped in the long tussle for existe thes anser ands. as thouch directed in thei without work, for the machinery to start up. He ‘they aimtogive usan hour, but we don't never get mor diff tacts by a thinking intelligence hey performed had on a cloth cap, overalls, and a blue cotton shirt twenty-five minutes. We all live right up ther He mechanica the ture hich had give hem their open at the throat. His face was wan, his eyes blue, nodded toward the square of houses clustered around the — detir with an intenser blue streak beneath them. His mouth mud-puddle on the brink of the slovenly hillside I} headed ¢ iughed and nodd n the directior was full of tobacco which had caught in a dingy crust about Here the bobbins began to re ‘ th pin his lips As he leaned back, one foot crossed over the other whirl, and the boy started back to } wor He ! \ H Tene here two year expectant for the spindles to begin again their whirling, he You can't loaf much," he explained vhen the 1 H le brother 'most “ presented, in his attitude and his gestures, the appearance chine’s a-runnin’.”’ our'’s workin’ | not of a child, but of a gaunt man shrunk to diminutive size Up and down he plied on his monot mus beat yrne } “I Coming over to where he stood, I began little figure Ah, how far some of us could go if we worke Oh, he works on the nigl hif He « es in "bea ‘**How many sides do you run a day? thus in tacit submission, without stopping even to question — half-a-past five ar tavs t thet nit “Three to four,”” he answered whether or not we were tired! 1 wer ver to ! ur th ple, older **How much do you make?” Evidently waiting to join in tt nversation, a ‘ dently tha } ' tel her red cott * About $2.40 a week.” boy, I noticed, was standing b« H " _ THE LUCK OF CAPTAIN SPINK HE Swan of Avon.anwy. 4nd How He was Hind to the German Empire ‘ built tran p steamer named } mit il } proce led to‘? after one that Captain Spink it int the se d mat qo By MORLEY ROBERTS “ice: of Socotra, and the calm of the } r ed t f-satist more northern waters inside Caps (Gjuardafui had given way to a particularly disgusting Wherever the strange light came fr t was very far off Ward yu’west monsoon. The heat was horrid and as wet asa and onl isible by being reflected I f rf t ? nf Russian ipor bath The Swan wallowed and grunted as the monsoon it wa vious tha is not hehtnir nalit her } & he got the sea on her starboard bow, and the only really any natural phenomenot t ind went and reflected Fetcht i xdd's boo ‘ } cheerful man on board was Captain pint This Ward, itself witt »>much rt larity in it eT rre rit " Wher in } and Day, his two mates, put down to natural deviltry preclude its being that th } lhey frankly owned that weather like that did no man any Hang me iid Spink as he scratched | owsled |} \ od, and yet Spink went about singing. It was more **Hang me if I can ma t! I don’t OV but Wi l'r } } n lor than the second mate did when he relieved Ward at mid- by Jove, | tumble to the racket ld A) la night It was a gr omething in the dark of the night which justified him in calling the skipper I wonder what the deuce that is rid Day “iy wonder what the deuce it can be He got out his glasses and stared into the mirk of night with his nose pointed about northeast at plea ire to him that he soon saw Chen v ti t i y | “*T’ll swear it wasn’t lightning,’’ said Day though 1) ho } at first I thought it was f I know It comes } and goes ina mighty queer f Hanged if I dor ma t have old Spink up I don’t care if he is mad serve ? hat him right anyhow for bein’ so beastly merry all day He slipped off the bridge and, entering the ‘‘old r I I sl man’s”’ cabin, turned up the light It woke Spink at once, and he called out without opening his ey: ) ( ‘Well, what's wrong now, Day Has the ship fallen , Ar } ur overboard?” \\ ‘I thought you’d be mad to be woke up, sir said \ 2 Day in an obvious tone of disappointment **Well, I ain’t mad in the least,”’ said Spink [ can’t ff afford to sleep sound with officers picked solely for their ( fighting capacity, because I can’t live with any one that } I can lick. What do you want me to come up and teach vou now?” ’ } } ‘T’ll never come to your school to be taught mar \\ ) * nerfs, sir,”’ growled Day ‘There isa strange winking } light away to the nor’east, and I can't make it out.’ } r th } I never expected that you would,”’ said Spink as t th he pulled on his trousers. ‘‘I shipped you to do nothing V ver ir ! \ with brains in it, same as Ward. I'll be up in a pig's of I i t | | I whisper.” iyi Alter tl He was on the bridge a minute later and soon made — He went belo irned wa out the appearance to the north and east that had = A gold mins , Da id] He thought it wv puzzled Day. Fora little while it puzzled him as well What's Wrong with You? = 1 great pity that S) had bhecon lunat

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vays he’s not a bad chap. But he’s a snorter and no I take rhe night was as dark as a Port Said coaling nigger, and was only a S ighted by phosphorescent gleams x | \1S ‘ x from the breaking waves and the ix > Dy i that the Swan washed through j A K “iS elegantly as a towed barg Pe « A Her wake showed like a 4 Milky \ Way in a dark sky and it was as bread as Regent Street. She was “i, built to carry cargo and had as much elegance about her as a \ Pa 7 Dutch vroouw of fifty. When she N, was at anything less than full | speed in a following sea she i i steered like a "bus on a greasy nie road goes again!” said There she Day as he watched the light on / thesky. ‘‘l wonderwhat it means. { Perhaps old Spink is right after all. He { Spink would have been pleased to hear it for Day rarely owned | skipper knew anything { | ¢ | " sno [ool

that the j But he did so now, for it was soon < | . obviou to anv one what the | } SQ BN, northeast li And gradu- (oae~f SY illy the dawn came out of India, Sy and when the ipper Wi called ‘For What, or How Much, he found Ward and Day on the Will You Tow, and How bridge looking it a pec i] irly Much the Coal Will You Sell? helple first-cla eruiser lvir wallowing in the sea. She was German by her paint, and her appearance and her flags acknowledged her shame

Phis ld mine iid Spink Day, run upasignal ind a 1 e Wants a tance Oh, don't I love the rmans! Lsell er oal, oh ves, and at twopence a ton te As the flags showed out, Spink ran on and rounded to head to the wind, under the lee of the big cruiser within easy hailing distance He rang the Swan down to dead ow and just kept her going lhe old tin pot!”’ said the lordly Spink; ‘‘and to think

thi It’s my firm opinion hmen should be allowed out of sight Gimme the they manage things like nut Er of land, unless they

ave an English skipper peaking trumpet Ring down to stop her!” And with that he let out a bellow that rolled up to the most windward in surprising Wa) vou?" he asked, and he What's wrong with was promptly answe red by one of half a dozen officers on the bridge of the cruiser We are out of coal said the owner in excellent English Can you supply us with some l'r maded with the verv best brand of it, my son,’ id Spink but I’m takin’ it to Singapore, and I’ve no authority to sell it in the Indian Ocean How do you chaps come to be without any I never had much opinion of any of you as seamen, after a long experience of Dutchmen, but i did think vou had enough savvy to take some coal to sea vith vou Ihe Dutehma ot yusl ur noved but he said * more than t t

his officers would

eadyv to see } ea boat and drowna few ner he observed hat thev ¢ tat at over tie ae , enough in spite of he ‘ Wher h« ! al d tenant ( on boa A t it ting a ic} . plash, and | mie t Sp k wit ny fa ‘ (y id i at ( i Spink You did t erv nics Thar ou iid the fair vou euten- ant, whose Englist 1 not so spicK and in as iniforn Have Ou COais LO St How do you come to be without ‘em said Spink blunt Our coal-ships have “Well,” Said the Noble Spink, with His Hand at His Heart, ‘1 Propose to Say Nothing About it Publicly” collisioned with each other,’ said the Germar

THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘“‘and accordingly they are both sunk and we have not much.” Spink turned to Ward and addressed him in rapid slang. ‘* Hear the trickiness of the galoot, Ward! He's letting on that he has some when his baily bunkers are as bare as his sweet face. Pipe his Jills as I palaver; do you think he tumbles? Oh, I'll sell ’em coal!”’ ‘‘Ach,” said the youngster, ‘‘ you will sell, eh? ‘‘Sell,eh? To be sure,” said Spink. ‘‘Ain’t I the whole market in the Arabian Sea? And do you think | won't do a good turn even to a German? Oh, no, I'm not that sort, and you can tell your skipper that I'll fill him up right enough.” The youngster hastened to impart the good news to the helpless cruiser. When he spoke, he told the anxious commanding officer that the Englishman was a queer chap, but ready to help them, and a pleased and happy smile spread itself over the faces of all who heard him. They were bound for China and had refused to coal at any English coaling station out of their new-born sea-pride. Asa matter of fact, they had received orders to coal at sea, so that the German nation should have an object-lesson as to the necessity of coaling stations. ‘‘But there are too many sea waves y it?--to coal here,” said the lieutenant. do you do it, eh?” Spink looked at him cheerfully and then winked at Day. ‘*We'’ve got the bulge,’”’ he said with a heavenly “Oh, here we have the bulge on the whole German Empire and no mistake! We'll tow you into the lee of Socotra and coal you there, m) Pell your skipper that we'll do that, and tell him we'll do it at a moderate price considering the circumstances Day and Ward knew their Spink, and were exceedingly anxious to learn his extremely moderate terms. **You mark me,” said Ward, *‘he’ll bankrupt the German Empire or | come from Amsterdam myself.”’ The same thought was doubtless in the minds of the Germans when they heard that Spink was ready to treat. The lieutenant and his captain conversed for some time in their own language and presently the young fellow turned to Spink. ‘For what, or how much, will you tow, and how much the coal will you sell?” he asked. Spink reflected, and in order to assist his powerful intel- lect he scratched his head. But when he spoke it was sharply and to the point. ‘I'll give you a pluck into calm water for ten thousand pounds, and I'll sell you not less than a thousand tons at ten pounds a ton.” ich, Himmel!” and his eyes staring, ” how do you ‘*How say smile. son.

said the German, with his mouth open **vyou do not mean — you are choking, sir. He mistook Spink’s heavenly smile—that smile that always overspread that handsome, childlike countenance when the Englishman found himself in a position of superiority. Now Spink smiled again and shook his head. If you mean that I'm joking, my son, you are away off it by leagues. Of course, you thought I should ask more. I know you did. But I’m not a greedy man and I'd fair hate to take advantage of any one, even a German, when he is in distress on the high seas. Tell your captain and et to work right off.” rhere was a brief interchange of rapid German between the German skipper and his lieutenant, and it was obvious that the of the cruiser was in a rage He's swearing, I do believe,”’ said Spink to his mate, I like to hear it. Oh, but I've got him and his Empire on the hop and no mistake! Ward, my son, this to reiuse to pay very moderate

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deman¢ | feel sorry already that I asked so little. I hope he will refuse, for then up go my prices.”’ Ward sighed. You are a wonder, sir,”’ he said, and the lieutenant turned to Spink My captain says that 5 much too high one and that he cannot pa Right ' } of the evelid our price is a very } so mucn said Spink without so much as a quiver in the coal-selling trade nor am I a On ‘T ain't tugboat, and I can keep my Empire's mone I iSmperor’s scheme for bulldoz to sell him ¢ Phe 7 talk coal and he can keep the never did approve of your German q n’ China, and I don’t hanker val to carry it out.” stranger found it tolerably hard to foll no means hard to gather his and he was far too young and ingenuous to hide left derelict once more real This Spink spotted, and he ow Spink's meaning, the fact prospect of aid to Ward Dut it Was by that to be was a terror to him ina rapid aside s josser could never play poker with you and me, Ward, could he? Why am I so generous? I might ask more, oh, much more!" Once a the lieutenant spoke to his commanding

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English in England and he showed Spink what the fullness of his heart was and what he knew of English abuse. ‘*Good, good, very good indeed,”’ said Spink, and just as Ward thought he was going to answer an awful broadside he turned to the lieutenant and said: ‘Your captain speaks very good English. when I have heard a foreigner speak it better. And he held out his hand in the pleasantest way. poor lieutenant sighed and gasped and took it. ‘“*You will not sell for less than ten pounds, sir?’ Spink beamed on him as if he was his dearly-beloved brother. ‘‘The price is twenty pounds now,” he said amiably, ‘‘and twenty thousand for towage. But good-by, sir, I see your captain will not pay and I’m losing time, which is money in all languages except Spanish. I’ve been very glad to make your acquaintance. If you ever come to England I shall be glad to see you. I’m Captain Harry Sharpness Spink, of Glo’ster.”’ And he accompanied the lieutenant to the gangway with the most affectionate courtesy. ‘‘Run the ensign up and dip it politely to these poor chaps, Day,” said Spink as the German went over the side; ‘their skipper has been rude, but I can understand his feelings and he can’t understand that I am acting out of regard for my country’s interests. Wedon’t want German in China if we can help it, and though I was bound to try and deal with him onaccount of my owners, I'm glad it has fallen through.” But Spink knew well enough it had not fallen through, and when he dipped his ensign and rang the full s pee d ahead’’ he was quite aware that the ness had only begun. Nevertheless, he was a mile off and was going at nine knots an hour before the German made a sign. Then she made another signal: ‘‘I want to communicate with I don’t know Good-by The Swan busi- you.” And Spink turned to the two mates and smiled once more. ‘*When it comes to business, I'm a real cultivated daisy,” said Spink. He brought the Swan round again in a circle and headed her for the German. He showed them how he could handle a steamer, and, as he said, he put the fear of Heaven into their hearts by making them think he was going to run her down. But, just as they began to yell at him furiously, he went full speed astern, came round with his propeller and his helm working together and stopped her dead and broadside on within fifty feet ‘*How’s that for high?” asked Spink. ‘‘I’m the boy to handle a boat ‘Well, what do you want to communicate this time, sir?’’ he asked, still with the greatest politeness. For if you have only brought me back here to swear I] want you to know that I shall answer you this time, and no fatal error You ain’t to think because I said nothing just now that I Come to busi-

“| ain't in the Coal-Selling Trade Nor am | a Tugboat” can't use my mother tongue to advantage. What are you after, sir? ‘‘T think you had better come on board and then we can talk,”’ clean-shaved North German with a complexion like a milk- maid's and the voice of a bull. ‘Thank you, but after the way you have abused me I decline to do anything of the sort,”’ said Spink. If you want tosee me, | re quest that you will be so good as to come on board this vessel thoroughly prepared to make me an ample apology for the use of language to which I am quit unaccustomed.”’ Tothis he added in lower tones: *‘ Exce pt from my two officers that can lick me The situation was anything but pleasant for the German f } ae to some ot his othcers ness said the German, who was a very big and typical and he squirmed visibly. He spoke who were divided in opinion ‘‘Some of them are telling him to tell me to go to blazes and others are wiser and are suggesting that he should cay in,”’ said Spink joyously. ‘‘I know these Germans, I’m gettin’ even for all the things that an Englishman has against their beastly country. And I don’t forget the way treated in Bremen--I don't forget by any means. This is a joyful day to me It was even more joyful presently when the German ntimated that he and now once I was would come on board.

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‘This is score number two,"’ said Spink He went down on the main-deck, and in five minutes the German skipper came on board accompanied by the lieu- tenant who had been the first visitor I am very happy to receive you on board my ship said Spink as he held out his hand, to see so fine a vessel as yours lookin’ so paralyzed and and I regret very much helpless. It must be a very humiliatin’ situation for you ‘*Well,” said the German with an air of cheer Spink greatly admired Well, I would than me, I own that His English was much better than Spink's own and his accent was quite perfect Why, you talk English like an Englishman Have you ever lived there? He had lived there and his mother had bee woman. Oh,” said Spink, * markable. My name is Captain Harry Sharpness Spink, of Glo’ster. Do you know Glo’ster by any chance?’ ‘‘I’m sorry to say I don’t,” said the German ‘*T don’t know whether I am sorry or not that you don't,” said Spink thoughtfully If you'd known it or Sharpness I should have felt bound to allow you a decent discount He led the way into the Swan's cabin ‘*You want coal and I've got it to sell,"’ said Spink, ‘‘and in this matter I want you to know that I'm a thorough gentleman and wouldn't take advantage of a brother sea- man for the world, even if he swore at me as you did.”’ ‘*T apologize, Captain Spink,” said the German, who was delighted to see some prospect of his being reasonable, after all I must apologize sg Spink interrupted him. ‘“We'll speak of the apology later, if you don’t mind,” he said; ‘I've got an idea about that, too. But I want you to understand that if 1 open my mouth very wide in the matter of prices I feel that I am not dealing with you but with the German Empire And, to put it quite straight, though I like you, I can't abide the German Empire and never could ‘Oh, I don’t say it’s your fault went on Spink, ‘‘ but that’s the truth and it clears the ground before us Whatever I make you pay for coal and towage, I want you clearly understand that any squeezin’ I do i said Spink nan English- you don’t say so That's very re- because I have a down on your Empire and on the way it is inter- fering in matters that it doesn't under- stand and never will so long as it has a nose on its face, so to speak. I refer especially to China. I don’t approve of the way you are carryin’ on there and it goes against my grain as a sea- farin’ man and a man from G help you on your way out there. For, if I'm not mistaken, you are goin’ there now if I give you any coal. I pause for a reply } » 1O Ster to re Yes, we are bound for China, ‘ said the German captain dryly. ‘Nobody in England approves said Spink severely. ‘‘ Dothey, Ward? ‘*T guess not,”’ grunted Ward Certainly tt don't “They don’t,”’ said Spink, ‘‘and they d the general opinion that you and your Empire will some day spoke to very severely, though they are loth to do it, as it ve to be might cause a row. I hope you understand now how | and in this matter.”’ ‘I understand,”’ said the amazed Germat But he didn’t. *‘And you see the fix I’m in?” ‘“‘l can’t say I do,” replied the naval captair Why, it’s as plain as the nose on your fact iid Spink contemptuously. On the one band, I want to do the proper thing to a brother seam: it seems mighty clumsy management for a seaman to have got into such a hole. Englishman, I don’t approve of helpin’ a Cerman vessel to go out to the East and collar something else from a help- less country like China, especially as we might ourselves by-and-by. Now do you set ‘*T see, sir.”’ “Then we can get to business with a clear program before us,’ said Spink. ‘‘Have I explained it clearly to him, Ward?”’ Ward had got over his very unnatural fit of silence and was burning to speak. ‘I’m glad you think of asking my opinion at last,’’ he grunted; ‘‘and as you've asked for it you shall have it straight. I think you are wastin’ a lot of valuable time in useless jaw with these Dutchmen. Why not name your price and have done with it?” Spink turned to the German captain with a very red face. Led & | = asked SpInK anxiously. 11n distres thougn to me apologize for this officer of mins t nas! I nner he said sadly I'm greatly hur ated t as much as you must be ir and bei \ lookin’ as a winged duck ina pond. What ivou dot er of yours tha i . al officer de i tt ke circumstances, but if the way | \ ul rite n of his cond | ! ! likely to have a ry bad But W Lor Spink explained that he was a very unfortunat a very unfortunate dispos n It’s verv } rrid i iSpink } Ilha 4 } 9 3 that I can’t control, because, if I car tl then they pull me up for assault, and I pa money : in fines and I get a bad namy Oh, | unfortunate man! You'd be ht if vou had less ja said W I sha’n't stay any longer. If 1 War ‘ call me He went to his berth and lay down, and in a minu ‘ fast asl ep Now we can do business,"’ said Spink with a I But you see the position lam in. I want twenty tl sand pounds to tow you into the lee of Socotra and I « sell you a thousand tons of it twenty p lsat That will make forty thousand pound toget he dirt cheap The Germans both gasped But vou said exactly half the money befor irged th poor and helpless captain of the German et Then He Shook Hands with the Captain at Least Ten Times i Know il a ud S t t na i mu wore at me l ha ) ip } mates on account ot 1 intortunate dis} tion, t very tact Makes Me all the re deter from any one else I'm sure you cat erstand tha “But | really cannot nan (rove | irged the nava iptall That n eand ik! \ il 4 wortl I 4 4 i} floatir about the In« (iceatr a! ) t I i mart ma il na ‘ nel i t And eakil 1 tha l ! id through this busine i Germa i ‘ ata If | was our Cl bor n Off I sh away fro 1 However, tha I } I) agree to my terms or dont | ha i engagement at Singap 1 nail \ irlitin nor east it t ind me here about tl benighted coast Iv It looks as if I had no choice iid the G il pper I'm glad you see it,’’ said Spit inside of five minutes I shall double it Very well sighed the German cay t \\ draw up the paper hich | am to sigr I'd rather have it all in your hand of write iid Spinl And, as it means a deal of money in a way, I'd lil your office rs to put their fists to it, so that, if you come to grief before you get where you are goin’, your Emperor won't be able to say that I’ve forged your signature This was agreed to and then Spink looked at hi the enemy THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i A H } ith iu ‘ And nm na { te nd ¢ men come fro | e me If the her go about w i certificat tt ly

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6 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST March 10, 1906 The PacKers and the People The Branch House and the Retailers two or three features in the stem of distributing dressed PTVHERE are pacKnel! meats which demand at least passing attention In the first paper of this series I howed, in detail, how the development of the modern refrigerator car completely revo- itionized the meat business of the world In a omplish th wonderful transformation of food onditions, the refrigerator car had a powerful and ndispensable ally in the form of the packers’ ‘‘ branch houses,” or distributing agencies, containing a reserve cf fresh meats in the best of refrigeration, awaiting the of the local retailers Not onl loes the branch urden Of providin own, but it also all rstock than he would otherw local retrigera- ws him to carry relieve the gr extensive house tion facilities of h e be able to carry ithout danger of disappointment to his customers. (Juite as important as either of these considerations the fact that the local “‘ branch keeps at the de- and of the retailers a supply of choice cuts, ripened to just the right point At call, the retailer is able to vo out and get for his most select and discriminating st cuts im the No feature of the packing and dre: than these brane h more important to the public as well as customers the be best of condition ed-meat busine is more Important house none to the packer. Neither expense nor attention to minutest detail i pared to make them models of what meat-house hould be, perfectly adapted to the purpose whi Chey are built « erve f the best material an buy, and they are built on the best lines that in- renuity and experienced Skill can contrive to secure perfect refrigeration and absolute cleanliness In the up-to-date branch house building materials that are practically imperishable and impervious to outside in- fluence are employed wherever possible The floors are of cement. Storage and cooling rooms are lined with lazed tile potlessly white and smooth as gla Not a ranny or crevice ts left in which dust might gather ora er } ir the frequent cleansing All in all, they ue as near dirt-proof, taint-proof and germ-proof as a building can be mad These branch houses complete the pack chain that takes the animal from larm or range, converts it into meat d sets it down at the retail meat merchar floor We would hear less criticism of the pack f cor ers could llow asteer fre pen to slaughter-house; see it converted into *‘ quarter and ‘‘ cut and hur n the cooler, t ferred thence to a clean, cold car; transported under ice to th farthest part of the cor ! al final (le ted it ! That we er, as nothing else car ple’s food supply receives more careful handling tl dos the meat that comes from the large pac h ‘ In the absence of such a comprehensive inspection it would bea istinet benetit t« f the eneral | il would take pains to visit ; ethe branch h ( They ire aiwavs open to visitor If the i branch house of Armour & Co, tn vour vicinity, vou are cor invited ker takes care hated pac to see for yourself just how the of your meat suppl >The number hese branch houses maintained by the packers } ‘ rea \ our & Co. have alt three hundred of the the United States alone From the , her « ecue received from mal ections of the cou uwsking for the ulation of branch houses, is Ver ch that ese DTA } t tne peor ae f creat ber and th consunie (ur Y d 7 him in bi Pp a secure A Help to the Small Butcher N ADDITION to the branch houses, we have, many sections of the ( intry, established mokehouses Pickled hams, ete., are er yreen t these points and ire there noKked nder ‘ i er or atte hich the ure t the branch house Th ‘ les the enier tT ‘ ! r mk ed ment One pa f hich the packer tributes 1 i i t ° re it thr igh the local dealer been eit ich eri ina most unjust tor 1 refer t ca I hich meat ( ) those tor rye enough to n una » ¢ tril rene r even to enable the retailer to er his me carload | he accusati that t! irs are used ti peadte eats al } hurt the } nm he Ca tchers : N I part of Mr e, 1 Packers and the People By J. Ogden Armour Every Animal is Carefully Inspected It is not true that this is are These cars to the butchers as well as the consumers, and were brought into a peddling proposition of great advantage and benefit local existence to meet the present requirer of the commu- not fairly ent nity at large, and are to be considered as an ad- vantage to the packers 3o much as an advantage to the peopl If the community were sufficiently large, carload lots could be shipped to these various points to much greater advantage to the packer and at a considerably less But the demand in the is limited have fresh them in large hipn ents; therefore the route car is indispe nsable to the je of the small towns It is far more ¢ xpensive to ship than to ship by the Every time out of a train and put on a siding expense all place is as urgent the retailers and the consumers there must but the, 1 meats, cannot take in this way full carload Is cut the packer must pay from three ve dollars in addition to all the other transportation and a car makes mar ich tops in the course of covering the route of all town The Advantages of the Route Car HE question might b freight ? asked: Why not ship by local Because meat would not arrive in good con- dition Another reason for not shipping by local freight is that no de pendence can be placed upon the arrival of meat thus shipped at a certain destination at any specific time In short, this way is too slow and too unreliable for th inspe rt mn « fresh meats and Y at products The car-route salesman visits all the towns along his route and takes orders for shipments to be made on a specific day, stipulating tk the car sh arrive at each place at a certain dav and hour -to be by the wagons of the retailers of that tow? rh method of del ry 1s earried out revularly once or twice each week, ; demands, insuring the consumer the delivery of meats in the verv best conditior We do not sell to consumers, but reach them through the meat dealers in the various ir hands notice, towns, and our method of putting the meats in the ¢ enables them to get a fresh supply at very short vhich could net be done without the route car Showing the practical working of this method of dis- tribution let me relate tance: Mr. Boyd, former) one of our branch-housse rers at St. Louis, Missouri, is now extensively engaged in the retail meat business at ce in the whether 0 secure h ow getting the bulk of his beef products from the route car running through his town, although he does, oceasior evo to the local butcher or slaughterer for some of his meat but t! only when he finds what he cor ( i bargain.” could not by any possibility attempt that and use condemned OTC al dreds of empl Government inspection is another impor- tant feature of the packers’ business. TT: the general public, the meat-eating public, it ought to appeal as one of the most features of any and all business in the whol country. It is the wall that stands between the meat-eating public and the sale of diseased meat This Government inspection alone, if there were ni would be sufficient reason for the existence of the packing and dressed-meat business on a mammoth seale. It should if understood, make the general public a partisan sup porter of the large packers. Strangely enough, in view of its vital importance this Government inspection has been the subject of almost misrepresentation—of ignorantly o1 The public has been told that meat animals and carcasses condemned as dis- eased are afterward secretly made use of by the packers and sold to the public for food in the form of both dressed meats and canned meats. Right here I desire to brand such statements as absolutely false as applied to the business of Armour & Co. I believe they are equally false as to all establishments in this country mportan other business or economic reasons, an all endless malu wusty jalse statements, that are classed as packing-houses. I repeat: In Armour & Co.'s business net one atom of any condemned animal or care } fs way, directly o ndirectly, Every meat animal and every carcass slaughtered in the Union Stock Yards, or in the stock yards at any of the markets of the Ur i States, spected by the f is carefully in- United States Government. This in- in practically all cases, by inspection, or both. The live are inspected on the hoof and again when slaughtered The inspection by the United States G« not ce mpulsor on the of the term; it is more binding thar It busine Attempt to evade from the purely commercial viewpoint, suicidal. Vo packercan doan spection Is s Ip} lemente d, State or city animals vernment Is packers in the strict legal sense if it were compulsory it would be, ; / pectu €or er} f ‘ ‘ lhout Grovernime forces him to make use of it is that he shall not receive meats or by- products from any n Self-interest Self-interest ass . hikewtse demar mall packer, either for export or other ‘ official ”’ Inspection nless that small packer’s plant is also that is, under United States This inspection is carried on under the direction of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agri- culture. The packer has nothing to sa) ployment of the They are United States Government. The Government likewise is It requires of them, first, full three-year course in as long a course as most States require Government about the em- inspectors assigned by the ] of their qualifications that they shall h veterinary science for the admis Then these ci il iVil-Service judge ave taken a ion of physicians and surgeons to practice selected by rigid educated veterinaries are eXamination Eve ry meat ar imal that comes to the stock yards is first inspected on the hoof, as stated, by representatives of the Bureau of Animal Industry All that show signs of disease are segregated and tagged as rejected by the At regular inter- in Chicago under direction of the and consigned to other than food uses. United States Government inspectors vals they are slaughtered State officers How the Consumer is Insured A! L carcass cattle, calves, sheep, hogs—are again + rigidly inspected after slaughter. The internal rs s affeeted by the animals are subje ct are examined which meat On the slightest sigr the carcass is rejected and so marked that it From the moment it is re- reass is in the custody of the United States dise Various ases 1 of disease cannot es¢ jected, that ca ‘ape observation, Government agents and is by them personally followed to the rendering tank into the It is hacked into small pieces, thrown tank and emerges only as grease or fertilizing material. This tankage product is in such form that it be renovated to become a food packer were dishonest were possible to evade inspection enough to product even if any And if casses or product from an “‘un- ff 1’’ packing-house, self-interest would again prevent » the packer would subject himself to speedy de- tection an by the hun- sure (if not endless blackmail ees Who would be cognizant of his trickery. This Government inspection thus becomes an important adjunct of the packer’s business from two iewpoints It . uts the stamp of legitimaev and honesty upon the packer’s product and so is to him a necessity. Tothe pub- lie it is an against the sale of diseased meats.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 7 SHALL WE HILL “INCURABLES”? HE wife of a famou: How Nature Often Cures When Doctors All Despair , * multi-millionaire lay ar nue death + 2 scliests By Dr JOHN V. SHOEMAHER = J atiection of tt 1 hat seeming] useless organ, the ‘‘ suprarenal capsule Hialf a dozen ph ans of the highest re puta- tion were at her bedside, and all of them declared her case f absolutely hop¢ less She could not live, they agreed, ore than six months at the utmost. It would have been a mercy to put her out of her misery -though nobody sug gested such a thing, ideas on that subject being less advanced than now I was a young fellow in those days, and, being sum- moned in a sort of accidental way, I ventured the opinior that the patient was suffering f from nothing worse than a i disordered liver My temerity provoked frowns of rebuke, but proof that I was correct may be found in the circum stance that, though the inei- dent to which I refer occurred eighteen years ago, the lad still aliv New York \ Sago, one month after the death of her nillionaire husband this story because it : ‘ . ~ : serves to illustrate the fact — : . . ' : f i that | | that people “ineurably”’ ill Rough-on-Rats is Painful, Yet it Will Help Her to Forget do sometimes recover Med ical science at the present time is getting away from the Indeed, my own observation bore out his statement They looked f they | beer cld idea that certain conditions of the body are beyond Invalids who had not stood on their feet for vear an\ gether in ever directior It ‘ lene na i Week 1é possibility of cure Under the newer dispensation, it of whom were screaming with pain when first landed in the example of Nature } diwor he had done the declares that there is alwavs a chance of recovery, and the place — were walking about ing for herself, after the man had been given uy traditional “‘ hopeless invalid"’ is not properly to be con- What didit? Thespring water? I dare say it ha me Another « ] remember-—_ that of fi of 1 sidered as existing any longer Hence the absurdity of medicinal value But the main thing is change of scene cequaintar suggesting that it should be made lawful for one or more and climate, and the mental impression produced thereby of the joints. Spe ng of him, the f Doctor! physicians to pronounce and carry out a death sentence Have we not read that in ancient time neurable ere tid to me Poor W ! Ne he be dea \ upon a patient as a measure of mercy cured in large numbers by vis Not long ago I was treating a man who was slowly for help In that case there was no « dying on his feet, as one might sav, from “ blood change” of drinking medicinal waters: the beneficial effects wer ‘ er unt twent i te hen | ree eda that is to say, from what would be called, in medical par- attributable to change of air ani rroundings rram from hit He hae ‘ to New M lance, malignant anwmia. He became so weak that he It used to be a common thing could not even take a drink of water without help, and one that he had just about so day, when he w: aving my office, mv assistant said to specimens of humanity that | have ever set eve rm? me: ‘That's the last of Kelly We'll never see him In considering this question of he PSST vhere ce again.”’ Sure enough, he failed to turn up the next week, es a _ >] ditions of the body are concerned, we ought to rea tha | and we concluded that he ead people ymetir u } } f } Neverthe less, as subsequet ih appeared, Kelly Va ery E th = rrave Ihe ‘ ‘ key are } } , +} ( far from being dead. What he did, after being dismissed u anasla | Enoland ry + ‘ n Londor \ hy ae . for the last ame, beanie Bo hor ply — He thr | By William Wallace Whitelock ‘y | , : away his medicines, and } ‘old womar fed him regu : | but | } beer larly with tea and broth. From that time on he got steadily | Father’s got conniption fits, } } d ha f } better, and when we saw him again he had entirely recovered Put him out of pain; ' You see, Nature knew a great deal more than we did about | Mother’s almost lost her wits | It the case From the fearful strain } Now, suppose that I had done the merciful thins i} Doctor, can vou hesitate? | and had put this particular sufferer out of his miser Strychnine’s yonder on the plate | I tible | with a dose of something strong and painles It would | ( ‘ T he | f have been rather unfortunate for Kelly, on the whok } 3aby’s yelling with his teeth, ‘ would it not? } Poor, dear, little creature! | When I was a youngster and a student of medicine we One above and one beneath, the liy ' I} were taught that certain conditions of disease or injur || I wisting every feature : ‘ } vere to be regarded as necessarily beyond hope of curv \| Whe n his mouth he opens wide, he part of lf a person had the gout, he must always continue to } Give to him the cyanide. , , be a sufferer. If he had clubfoot, or was deformed 1] Fanny’s had an awful blow. ’ | ‘ I ' any other way, there was nothing to be done about it It | Her engagement’s broken } is different now; we are constantly curing the incurable 1] Cin tian aan ee ee an? I} } th hope or, more accurately speaking, Nature accomplishes th: 1] Not a word she’s spoken Cer . } t cures, With a little help from us. 1] Rough-on-rats is painful. vet t Hence, | ever wel } ’ A vear ago ] paid a visit to the famous resort called i] It will help her to forget tain inst ind f t} ake of mere to { end q Aix les Bains. On reaching there 1 noticed that quite a lj , . t he pair f Dy fT * imber « rs on the train were full of cots, provided Uncle Thomas has the gout I for sick pe vere constantly arriving An official | Feet and legs are swellin in char wonderful hot spring, which wa 1 Cannot sleep or move about Meanwlh ipposed have ( culou 1] Hark! You hear him y ng? eve I “‘These people who come here are mostly incurables, | I We, his heirs, have all agreed ’ l suppose,”’ said I 1 From his pain he must be freed er { Mostly so,” he replied, ‘* but we cure ther t the same i an a her They all get well eK{—— ~ nn ee N

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST March 10, 1906 The Young KAnight-Errant Patrick Sarsfield as a MatchmaKkKer—BY MAUDE L. RADFORD RTY and Osborne had just finished dinner and til behind the desk look rick Sarstield d back in armchairs ing above their cigars at yuuing Pati piece of pl »moind uv him,” said Flaherty admiringly ; he’s doin’. I shud Kathleen'll be sthoppin’ me econd whole sowl in what dinnaw I lave him have so much ple, hin she comes back. But sure, he was that shmart lasht mt’ gittin’ me out uv me throubles wid thim wimmen I've not the harrut to der him ar ny t‘ing.”’ He'll be a great help to you in the ward one of these lays, ud Osborne triking a match I uppose the been ir al ail? nen haven t i Mrs. Callahan and Mrs. Cahill sthay away, but Miss in does be dhr » tell me what af ppin in Pathrick is, and fur to shov r engayement ring \h he’s the grand woman,” Flaherty finished, half-regretfully i Osborne; “and handsome i \ t ( me ti it ‘ indest woman there and so | ena oO r ) L' ve ‘ t i@ Soe to ¢ ia i t tet tr to ha r We i { eu the 1, alter a And put a“ ) ma ul! 4 i " contributed P i havin’ a wid M rt n ! t wa Ja I) L) t i “ay } r git t ind Hi knows I wish her | 7 he ave i I dir i does it plaze thet nto be n fther that harrud They | aoa ie t he cha thir ‘ (isborne ‘ { to i i th face | he forge neg to be ficient] f ) 1 for ou did for her, Pat ; he asked acutely t } lushed a little Before he could reply the door restaurant opened, and the three turned their heads ‘ uld be. Dennis Doy t dark little man, entered, followed by Mrs. Cz nd Mrs. Cahill. None of the at Flaherty, though ft little Mrs. Callahan sidled by lingeringly as though she would lift the least Mrs Cahill strode flinging back her scrawny fur boa with an air of scornful languor. Plump Dennis pulled « see Who the late comers ce three looked her evelids at encouragement last yut chairs for them at a distant table, snapped his fingers to a waitress, and ordered tea and muffins. Flaherty closed his relaxed jaws, and turned his back on the three ‘See that, now,’ he whispered to Osborne; ‘‘ comin’ in, the two uv thim, to show me that they kin have a man to take thim round if they want ut.” ‘Uncle Dan, will you niver larrun annyt’in’ about women?” asked Patrick Sarsfield patiently. ‘*That ain't why they’re here.”’ Why not, thin, me Flahert y elaborate ly “Sure, don't you see ‘tis Dinnis Dyle wid thim?” asked Patrick. rhey’ve come in to show me they've tuk him away from Miss O’ Brian Flaherty 's glance referred the That's it,” agreed Osborne. Well, I'll not be able to wait fur you to-night, Uncle said Patrick sadly “If you'd jist say to Mrs, ilynn I’m off on a matther uv business and will be in be asked young incyclopadia?”’ matter to Osborne i \ to have all the slape I nade He put on his coat and cap, and the next moment the door of the restaurant closed sharply after him Well,” said Flaherty; I'd ought to whale him fur not confidin’ me, but, upon me worrud, whin a boy has sich a as that plintv uy toime I suppose, Robert Immit his plans in janiu that I ought to con ple le ly.”’ wan fur managin’, I dinnaw ind his disregardin’ me It'sr it that,”’ said Osborne, smiling as he watched he devoted attention with which Mrs. Callahan and Mrs. Cahill treated Dennis Doyle. ‘‘He simply won't ask for help till he needs it. You’ve done well for urself with that boy, Flaherty.’ Meanwhile, young Patrick Sarsfield was beating treet against a driving wind in the diree- t of ‘ ettlement where Miss O’Br was } emaid. Shown to her room, he found her in her stantial rocking-chair bravely humming a tune as he sewed Patrick was quick to notice that she was not en- gaged with her trousseau, but was mending the torn binding of a skirt He also felt, without being able to express it, that her pleasant, self-confident manner t altered lis as if all the harrut had gone out uv her,” he thought. Well, Sarsfield, avic, and how goes ut?” she All right.”’ He dragged the toe of his boot across the carpet and looked at her questioningly. For a moment it asked seemed as if she were not goin him an opening Then she dropped her sewing and said half-defiantly “Well?” Well —ah * stumbled Patrick. **What do you know, Pathrick? chair a litth He related the scene in the restaurant. She sighed a little bitterly, and then she looked at him and smiled. “And so you right over here? Well, 'tis you are the good friend, and I'll tell you the trut’, though it’s the harrud t’ing to say. You raymimber I was able to take the widdas off your uncle because I knew all the scandals in their families fur the lasht hundred years and a wurrud to vive she asked, drawing he nearer his. come no wan cud say ag’in’ wan uv me own?” “Well, uv coorse ‘twas he replied. the same raison kep’ thim away from Dinnis. But well, Pathrick, me brother Larry —oh, but I cud put the curses on him! —he lives in the village Mrs. Cahill used to come from.” “And Thin I'd Make Dinnis Dyle an Alderman and See He Give You All the Silk Dhresses You Cud Buy”

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“Ah, now, that’s too bad! What's he done asked Patrick. ‘A letther come to Mrs. Cahill about ut day befure yves- terdah, and to me the same mail,’’ said Miss O’Briar ‘*Praise Hivin I got the news as soon as she did, and she wint sthrakin’ over to see Mrs, Callahan, and you see how fur they've got wid Dinnis.”’ ‘“Maybe what Larry done wasn't so bad?” questioned Patrick. Ah, me aunt wrote me all ¢ about ut lis a jail oftinse iin’ 'twud be an honor to be jailed fur, If ‘twas only somet sich as puttin’ a head ona p'liceman or tachin’ a soljer his place Woman, dear, what was ut at all?’’ he asked impa tiently Miss O'Brian was too much depressed to resent } “It seems the crathur was on the thramp fron to Wexford, and he sees a horse wanderin’ about the road Well, I can see how he luked at ut. Says he to himsilf ‘Sure, I'll lade the baste a Ways ar d mate the owner Well aft a while he gits tired, an she: ‘lll take a ride B by he says Well scninighiminetdibiaicmeaais why shudn't I borry the horse furtorideto Wexford ? May re I'll git a job there and can pay fur't,’ hesays. The nixt thing | l ‘Sure, | don’t belave the horse has an owner at all.” An be the toime he thrikes the middleuy Wicklow he s offerin’ the passers by achancet to buy his horse that he brought up fromacolt. You see how aisy it wud be, Pathrick, fur a good- natured bye loike Li “Oh, ves,” said Patrick And he was tuk up?’ ** Ave, was he,” si O'Brian the furrst uv the family iver.” ** Well, we'll git Dinnis back ] dinnaw how yit,”’ said Sa: field, ‘‘ but back we'll git him.’ Well, t’ings ain't disprite yvet,”’ remarked Miss O’Brian I’ve me ring sthill,”’ and she isplayed the garnet stone but that’s about all I have ‘I suppose you've been t'inkin’ how will you do wid m?”’ asked Patrick *T’ve not got far, Pathrick,” admitted Miss O'Brian ‘Sure, ‘tis two whole days! he eried, how nave ou t the toime Ask anny woman on the pint uv losin’ aman, Pathrick said Miss O’Brian grimly, 1 if she tells you the trut , know l Well, have you seen him Not since a befure yves- | terday night, and thin he was } | SATURDAY EVENING onaisv; the women had run afther him at the noon hour to blarne v him **] shud t’ink he'd be sure to come bactl aid Patrick } i ike you goto school or dit ner because you re perplexedly ; * tn the way uv ut ‘The men ain't like that,’ said Miss O'Brian bitterly They've the whip hand uv us intirel , I mind now me mudder said wance you are niver safe wid thim till you have thim befure the althar,”’ said Patrick, and not sure thin. Whin you git him again, sphake to the priest at wance But the furrust t’ing is to git him back I'll take thim widdas off somehow ‘*Well, how, me bould buccaneer Patrick leaned back in his chair I dinnaw,” he said. ‘‘ Bein’ shmall and young is harr Suppose ‘twas like in the ould days whin the O'Connor were kings uv Oireland. I'd be the king, then, d’ye se Miss O'Brian, and I'd jist go out be me t stoop, and | ay: ‘Bring in all the likely middle-aged men that have no wives.” And I’d set on me gould steps while they brought thim. And I'd see had | a grudge ag’in’ anny, and if I had I'd pick two uv thim out And I'd say toal thrappin wan: ‘Do you marry Mrs. Cahill, and moind she toes the line, and jist smash young Terence’s face if he thries to giv you anny uv his lip.’, And the man'd bow and say Ye King Pathrick, and t’ank you kindly,’ and away he'd go falin’ ready to put the curse uv Cromwell on me, but smilin’ fur fear I'd land him wan wid me gould club I'd be hould- in’on me knee. And then I'd pick out a shmaller man and I'd say: ‘You're big enough to match Mrs. Callahan and “What Matther a Few Months? * Said Flaherty Gallantly

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10 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST AN OUTLAW AT HOME By HAT must be the essen tial character of that man who, as a calin and Arthur E. McFarlane

March 10, 1906 allowed that he’d be going most powerful quick! Our difficulties were of another sort. Within fifteen miles of our

settled thinking, lives of the law attractive habit .of his work and his life in defiance Putting aside the but entirely doubtful, psychology of Raflles and his artistic kind, what is the general viewpoint of the outlaw? In our cities we have the pro- afe-blower, and porch- and hold-up man ~all have had ink enough them But in not necessa- these nited States there exists a type who is of an entirely different kind. He is the prod- ict of a preud heredity and is loyally sustained in his environ- He is the benefactor of his district And, but for the unromantic industry of his illegal illing, his neighbors would prob- ably regard him as a kind of modern Robin Hood We think at first fessional s climber, of whom bestowed upon certain rugged, but remote ections of outlaw ment of the far West. But the West has changed since ‘49 and the roaring cattle days. If lawless men now rise up in camp, there are in the same camp other men, and a vast majority of them, who will, when suffi- ciently provoked, rise up also; and they will see to it that those lawless men tread upon air as unmitigatedly as they desired to tread upon the accepted rules of our human

polity. I speak of regions where all the popular feeling is with the outlaw, and of regions much nearer the long- established East, at that lo the lower reaches of the Great Smoky Mountains ther lock themselves, like ertebre about the spinal cord, a series of counties in North and South Carolina, Georgia and Tennessee in which the outlaw are ¢ ost businesslike species The y anufacture, with license en-eighths of the liquor ymsumed by their fellow-mountaineers. Every few day rmist ike pla h the revenue officers in which itter commonly get the worst of it. When, together tha sawyer kinsman, I entered the country ona edestrian trip, a friendly cautior is given us that we'd ea heap } to go throug! hout our guns than h ther Yet we observed that almost invariably he t a native on the bs,"" or came upon him hilling his corn in a “ bott he had his gun with him, even if it was nothing but of those hand-bored heir- which were old at the time of the Civil War Phi ymmewhat remarkable lition of things may found within ten miles of the Asheville and Murphy r of the Southern Railroad \s for the stills which nave been » flercely fought over, we soon learned that r Northern greenness thought of them as “‘secret.”’ I'} are placed for the convenience of their patrons; and he tow hit which we becan familiar they with vere more numerous than the post-office i In the cove where we made f halt we stayed with the storekeeper; and his wife had set up in her door-vard one of the big copper kettles rforated souvenir of the last excitement 4« ] ered and pe ‘ Pr’ intain dew The mo

and wa ing 1 vhich it had once contained as to give a more delicate now us was much more interesting, if less poetical, was balds ‘ blockader entire countryside later I shall to his dwelling- be close enough to call him Uncle Niely Turkey And the busines that within six hours’ tramp through the fort perhaps the 1) in the famous onorable tern not

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place It w MeQueen, and s: Uncle Niely was the fo He hat he abode over on ‘ rth generation in

owned and -worked a still which, w

th nece ssary re- wn through the He had, by rht notches in his gun, and rather more ittin upon his and he had been under the ban of outlawry for so long that his outlawing was, in the legal opinion of many local mind

a and reer

family for one hundred and five years ymmon story, el perso 1 itself outlawed. It also came to our knowledge ifter a time that it was our host wh» supplied this patriarch of ‘ blockaders’’ with his salt coffee and ammunition Without having any expectation of him if he could not in asked to his success, We pass us in some Way

moonshiner’s domain. Apparently he decided that if we were really looking for a noose into which to thrust our necks it was the place of mountain hospitality to do the honors; for by the morning following he had provided us with a small guide to take us to the ‘‘gap”’ in the divide, and a formal note of introduction which ought to do the rest. It was for us, however, to deliver it. Now, on two previous occasions other chance wanderers without either guide or passport had attempted to cross by the same trail. Over the head of one of them had sud- denly come miauling a charge of ‘‘sixteen-to-the-pounds,” which he had very properly interpreted much as neutral enturing into blockaded waters interpret a shot ir bows. The second wanderer had been met at i the path by anaged but forbidding mountaineer, hips

described with some vagueness as having a great deal of beard and whiskers, “‘like a Boer.’’ In addition to the whiskers this mountaineer displayed a weapon of Boerlike modernness; and he ventured to inquire -ust whither the stranger might be going. The stranger con- fessed that he did not precisely know. Whereupon the bearded one delivered him from his uncertainty by inform- ing him that he was going back whence he had come, and

And He Ventured to Inquire Just Whither the Stranger Might be Going

outlaw’s fastness there was no ‘‘wheel road,”’ even in the Great Smoky acceptance of the word; and the horse trail lost itself now on the storm-washed tops of the ‘‘balds”’ and now in the jungles of laurel and rhododendron which mat the hollows. As a matter of fact, we could not see how any man could take a horse through that up-ended landscape at all. But it was certain that Uncle Niely took his pony through whenever he needed supplies. Not only that, but a year before, when one of his lieutenants had fallen sick, he had fairly kidnaped an unwilling doctor and taken him in through the wilderness on his saddle-bow! And toward the end of the afternoon, after a last desperate hour of floundering and climbing, we came out on the top of the ‘“‘gap."’ Crooked in the elbow of a creek far below us lay a tiny homestead group of cabins—the three we had been told to look for. The path we had now to follow was the only possible one, and it was within plain sight of those cabins for every rod of the last mile. Having zigzagged down to the creek, too, there awaited us the dizziest of foot-logs, which, upon occasion, would have served admirably as drawbridge and portcullis; and finally we had to push through a hundred yards of brier scrub that could give long odds to any barbed-wire entanglement When we emerged we might have jerked a pebble over Uncle Niely’s roof-tree. Yet not even a dog had barked The silence was of that highly oppressive variety so justly celebrated in fiction. We walked around to the front of the cabin. The door was open. A kindly-faced old wife sat knitting by the huge fireplace. ‘ Yes, Mr McQueen’s.”’ And sleeping heavily upon the bed behind was Uncle Niely. At the sound of our voices he rolled swiftly from the bed to his feet; but he at least gave us time to deliver our safe-conduct. this was He looked decidedly like a Boer, and not like any ‘*bad man” at all. With the exception of a scar on his forehead and a cicatrized right hand, he carried no visible marks of strife. Between brows and nose-bridge was that fullness which generally means a dangerous temper, but around his eyes there was humor in plenty. With slow puzzlement he deciphered the note; and it proved to be our open Sesame. When he laid it down he reached up to the chimney- shelf for something which he called ‘‘bummins.”’ The liquor was of a pinkish cast, with the purple lights of coal- oil playing through it; and it had the heady, sweety-sour odor of a silo when the corn has been a month in storage. I declined the cup for various My companion was of rasher stuff. He tilted a mouthful into him, and the next moment he was stampeding for the spring. On the way he managed to spill out what remained in the tumbler. He had had all the sensations of committing suicide by carbolic acid. Being a lawyer, however, he returned with an expression of considerable relish, and with a voice more innocent than a dove’s remarked that ‘‘bummins”’ tasted something the same as whisky. Uncle Niely looked at him. a grin in suspended animation, ‘‘I don’t guess you-all wouldn't be wrong in callin’ it that. But up h’ar on old lurkey we cyan't get the gover’ment fellers to come in and put a stamp on it; so in general we don’t feel right in givin’ it the reg'lar name.”’ After that we believed we were already in sight of the active source of the ‘“‘bummins.’’ But notso. Uncle Niely tactfully side-switched the talk into another subject. We had brought with us a small pocket camera. He wanted to know all about its mechanism. By this time, too, we began to be taken in charge by the lady of the house ‘Aunt Metty”’ she told us she was ‘‘ most generally always called."’ And we were not long in making up our minds that Aunt Metty was excessively all right It was late in the day, but there was still light enough to get us back over the ‘“‘gap”’ by nightfall. Yet plainly the old girl had no thought of that whatever. <A few rods nearer the creek was the tiny cabin which had belonged to reasons ‘*Well,”’ he said, holding

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the McQueen forefathers. Aunt Mett up a bed in the corner of it, and there she told us was to be our abiding-place. Then she sat us down to a supper of chestnut ham, wild honey and corn-cake such as would ha mpelled Lady J e } if e sword and ules while i ef Ar i that we sque i into the chimney-corne 1 learned from Aunt ard and spin le Niely himself had disappeared. Nor did he come ain for 1 good ft irs (rota ( p the cove a piece,’ he explained vhereat | Ast clucked and bowed very st We had some trouble with Mr. McQueen could not but be conscious that the sit uation was rapidly getting away from him. But he de- clined to be forced. Rising up, |} t a tir rass lamp which John Smith might have bro er with h ind with considerable dignity showed us to our quarters Next morning after breakfast he went out to see the And so it w th. ww , x ij} , rir ’ ‘tly whe ve had been the beginning same sick cow after dinner again. And we were ¢€ Perhaps Aunt Metty read the disappointment in our faces. At any rate, when once more “‘her man" came in Father, thar’ as mighty sick cow, ain't it, now?” Uncle Niely shuffled his feet I guess you-all ha’ had some one she regarded him with derision ’ she said, ‘‘ that THE SATURDAY EVENING 4 ment or ? nat tr ibe hem off While on, came ip oung mo were ist intil Unel were ablé posed ol The tw t i al 4 ‘ it me N } } ’ } na i i ut i ‘ ict ind nh We! : It was no Phe halted 1 ired them th mn” ne CAN nad brougnt uw ettin’ up ‘ith her for pretty nigh a man's lifetime? The badgered manof the eight notches in his gun tried to find a cooler place on the griddle, and then reached helplessly for the bottle on the chimne y- shelf And I jest do wonder to gracious you-all ain't afear’d to drink her milk,” continued the old lady, entirely without mercy. We were hanging bricks and paving stones to our safety-valves; and now Uncle Niely emitted a guilty and covert snigger himself Seem like the old woman wants peo- ple to think thar’s somethin that cow o’ mine? We did not re ply about Mebbe some one been tellin’ you-all that I don't pay for my bummins Even a brief experience in the prac tice of the law had ven my friend an insight into human nature which at times proved valuabk He looked o 10st squarely under the eyvewinker Mr. MeQueer he said ve've hea that you're about the worst blockade n Ameri lioment Was a deiica or Nie is | r oth I wn on his knees with a roar of savy what do you-all want fown h’ar, anyway We want to see that old cow of yours, and make pictures of her, and write about her, too, when we get hom« He reached up to where we had hun the camera on the wall and bade us come along with him. As he explained, while we were climb- ing steeply up the gulch, he had found wise to change the site of his*‘ copper y } We now found it half a mile away from the cabin, and in the depths of the shaggiest and darkest And, to be quite honest, was a disappointment Inthe inclosing shack, which was built half overalittle mountain torrent, a low, rough, stone furnace sprawled turtle- like upon the floor; and set into its back, as it were, was the kettle. From the left of it projected the worm, cork- screwed into its condensing bath, a great, home-maci barrel. Through a wooden pipe let into the wall, the water from the creek entered to chill the worm when a run wa being made, and the waste or ‘‘sludge’’ was troughed « through the opposite side of the shack into a shallow vat below. Uncle Niely’s yearlings were smacking their chop over it asif it had been so much ambrosial bran mash. In one corner of the still-house stood half a « gums, full of the ‘* beer,”’ or brewed malt, in suces ‘ tages of fermentation. In the farther corner was a bed where one of the grimy young “‘stillers’’ now on du slept and watched at night. His gun hung above his head There also dangled from the low roof a quaint or two. of ‘‘ pockets | ozen hig } pee laboratory equipment of gourds, and reeds, and home-made wooden dippers; and Uncle Niely pointed to the twists of na- tive tobacco which he put in to give the bummins bead.”’ The pinkish cast we had noticed in the bott] at the house came from the fact that the last ‘‘ batch”’ had They Had Asked for Breakfast, and, as Uncle Niely Reminded Them, the Terrible Hard on Him Who Turns Any Man Empty Aw POST Fae Gen ay n ‘ " i 4 AT " un } meres j “a | ! | | | | | | } sar He pre red] 1 f +} ty » I il Pal 2 i r NT na I heir owt ' tack mer tre tne iralit hey mich hye irkm 4 \nd r t} wT or WY | t? me Wall hed ‘ mh t rhe ! " 1 pa i } ur } i " ‘ er hor t j it ‘ wor hir

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A Concierge Unexpectedly Amiable The Man Me marpit of huge Henry Moore Dear I I wonder ! he tr ? u ud At lea hese n nt? thir r to le d ite? t Mear ie pe Boulevard St. M VV f } i | we t ! i [he r ' rest int } of the had ( wit! blk f j he kne he i | r n e notyes he \ S} ‘ ratner an unbet he lered coff wa iifti th it the back of I thir t An mre er } trar i roe ‘ the level of th of the tree nt through the hea nothing but th was pushing fe tra topped at Mediterranean venteenth Centur vy one type from another.” r NES DB She sat down and ordered her hot milk, and with a flutter awaited it. This was life. And to-morrow she must telegraph to her stepfather, and everything would end in the old round of parish duties; all her hopes and dreams would besubmerged in the heavy morass of meeting mothers. The thought leapt up— Betty hid her eyes and would not look at it Instead, she looked at the other people seated at the tables the women. They were laughing and talking among themselves. One or two looked at Betty and smiled with frank friendliness. Betty smiled back, but with embarrassment. Then a handsome, black-browed, scowling woman, sitting alone, frowned at her. Betty felt quite hurt. Why should any one want to be unkind ? Men selling flowers, tov rabbits, rattling cardboad balls, offered their wares up and down the row of tables. Setty bought a bunch of fading late roses and thought, with a sudden sentimentality that shocked her, of the monthly rose below the window at home. It alwavs bloomed well up to Christmas. Well, in two days she would see that rose- bush The trains rattled down the Boulevard, carriages rolled D Eve ry now and then one of these would stop and a couple would alight. And people came on foot. The e: was filling up. But still none of the women seemed to Betty exactly the right sort of person to know exactly the right ort of hotel A blond girl with jet black brows and eyes like big black beads was leaning her elbows on her table and talking to her companions, two tourist-looking Germans in loud checks. They kept glancing at Betty, and it made her nervous to know that they were talking about her. At last her eyes met the eyes of the girl, who smiled at her and made a little gesture of invitation to her to come and sit at their table. Betty out of sheer embarrassment might have gone, but just at that moment the handsome, scowling woman rose, rustled quickly to Betty, knocking over a chair in her passage, held out a hand, and said in excellent English ‘*How do you do?” Jetty gave her hand, but ‘‘I don’t remember you,”’ said rhe ‘May I join you?” said the woman, sitting down. She ore black and white and red, and she frightfully art, Betty thought She glanced at the others the tourists and the blonde; they were no longer looking it her Look here,’’ said the woman, speaking low, I don't know you from Adam, of course, but for Heaven's sake o home to your friends! I don’t know what they’re about o let you out alone like this.’ I'm alone in Paris just now,” said Bett Good Heaven, you | ttle fool! Get back to your lodg- ing You've no business here I've as much business as any one else,” said Betty. I'm an artist, too, and I want to see life You've not seen much yet,” said the woman with a laugh that Betty hated to hear Have you been brought ip ina convent? Go home and say your prayers —I sup- pose you say your prayers? What are your people abou . My father's in England,” said Betty ‘he’s a clergy- I an I generally say mine was,"’ said the other, ‘‘ but I won't 0 you, because you'd believe me. M\ father was church ist, though And the vicarage people were rather ne. Lusedtodoa lot of parish work.” She laughed Betty laid a hand on the other woman's. in't you go home to your father — or or— some- thing?’’ she asked feebly its vou that have got to go home, and do it now, too.’ She shook off Betty's hand and waved her own to a man 1O Was passing Here, Mr. Temple Ihe man halted, hesitated and came up to them Look here,”’ said the black-browed woman, ‘‘look what a pretty flower I've found~— and here of all places! She indicated Betty by a look. The man looked too, and took the third chair at their table Betty wished that the round might open and cover her, but the Boule Miche asphalt is solid The newcomer was tall and broad- houldered, with a handsome, serious, boyish face and She won't listen to me Oh, I did! Betty put in reproact ully You talk to her like a father. Tell her where naughty little girls go who stay out late at the Café d'Harcourt -_ fire THE SATURDAY EVENING POST March 10, 1906 e Incomplete Amorist I | and brimstone, you know. She'll un- derstand; she's a cle rgyman daughter.” ‘“‘T really do think you'd better go home,” said the newcomer to Betty with gentle politeness ‘*] would, directly,” said Betty almost in tears, ‘* but the fact is I haven't settled on a hotel, and I came to thi café. I thought I could ask one of these art students to tell me a good hotel, but — so that’s how it is.”’ ‘I should think not,” Temple answered the hiat Then he looked at the black-browed, scowling woman, and his look was very kind. ** Will you allow me,”’ he said, ‘‘to find a carriage for you and see youtoa hotel?’’ ‘Thank you,” said Betty He went out to the curbstone and scanned the road fora passing carriage ‘*Look here,”’ said the black-browed woman, turning suddenly on Betty “Id sa} vou'll think it’s no place to speak — but, look here I'm not fing. | deadly earnest *Yes,”’ said Betty I know If you're not good you won't be happy ‘There you go the other answered almost fier« “it’s always the wa Every one says it~ copybooks and sible and ey thing and no one believes it till tne} tried the other way, and then it’s no use believing thing. Good ny ““Good-by, aid Betty ‘oh, good-bv! You are kind u're a nice little thing.’ and good! People can’t all be good the same way,” s} added vaguely and seeking to comfort ‘Women can,”’ said the other; ‘‘don’t you n mistake. Good-by She watched the carriz the spiteful chaff of Nini and her German friends ‘‘Now,” said Mr. Temple, as soon as the wheels began to revolve, “perhaps you w ill tell me how you come to be out arive away, and turned to meet in Paris alone at this hour Betty stared at him coldly “T shall be greatly obliged if you ca ea good hotel,”’ she said ‘I don’t even know your name,” said he; ‘I cannot advise you unless you will trust me a little,”’ he added gently. “You are ve one’s advice ‘Iam sorry if I have offended vou,” he said, “ but I or wish to be of service to vou She Took Off Her Hat and Pulled the Scarlet Flowers from It

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THE SATURDAY EVENING “Thank you very much,” said Betty; ‘‘the only service got an old portmanteau somewhere. You can come w I want is the name of a good hotel me This is really rather a lark i “You are unwise to refuse my help,"’ he said. ‘‘The Five minutes’ walking brought the two to a dark hous i place where I found you shows that you are not to betrusted The woman rang a bell; a latch clicked and a big d : about alone.”’ swung open. Sf rrasped Betty hand Don't say ; ‘Look here,” said Betty, speaking very fast, ‘I dare vord I aid, and pulled her th I ' say you mean well, but it isn’t your bu s. The lady I It was ver i ia was speaking to was very kind, an But I don't The other woman called out a name as they passed thi intend to be interfered with by any iwwers, however door of the concierge —and her hand pulled Bett | well they mean.’ after fl of stee} On th 1 ‘ ne He laughed for the first time, and she liked him better vy, and left Betty ‘ ng at the thresl a, when she had heard the note of his laughter hted a lamp ‘Please forgive me,” he said. ‘You are quite right it he said, ar hut the door and bolt Miss Conway is very kind. And I really do want to help _ it you, and I don’t want to be impertinent. May I speak lhe room was small and smelt of white rose scent; the plainly?” looking-giass had a lace drapery fastened up wit! “Of course.” red rose and there were voluminous lace and stuff « ‘Well, the Café d'Harcourt is not a place for tains to bed and window *‘T gathered that,’ she answered quietly Sit dowr said the hosts She took off her hat ar ““Have you quarreled with your friends?”’ he persisted pulled the scarlet flowers from it. She raked under the **have you run away? with a faded sunshade till she found an old br No,” said Betty, and, on a sudden inspiration, added manteau. Her smart bla ind white dr Was cha ‘“‘T’m very, very tired. You can ask me any questions you like in the morning Now, will you please tell the man where pene to go?” The dismissal was unanswerable He took out his cardease and scribbled ona card Where is your luggage?” he asked Not here,’’ she said briefly I thought not.”’ He smiled again lam discerning,am I not? Well, per haps you didn’t know that respectabl hotels prefer travelers who have lug gage But they know me at this plac I have said you are my cousin,” he added apologeticall He stopped the carriage * Hotel de Unicorne,”’ he told the driver and stood bareheaded till she was out of ight The Thought came out and said There will be an end of Me if you see ain Betty that we ing person ay would not face the Thought, buts Va roused to protect it She stood up and touched the coach man on the arm Go back to the Café d'Harcourt he said “T have forgotter some- thing.”’ That was why, when Temple called, very early, at the Hotel de ]'Unicorn he heard that his cousin had not arrived there the night before — had not, indeed, arrived at all. Xl THE THOUGHT MMHE dark-haired woman was still abl) answering the chaff of Nini and the Germans. Betty came quietly behit her and touched her shoul leay in her chair and turned whit under the rouge “You she roughly you frightened me out ot my wits.’ ldn't do that I'm so sorry,’” said Bett who wa pale, too. ‘‘Come away, won't vou? I want to talk to you Do come, she urged ‘Isn't there anywhere we I’m all alone want help rd I des May I Join You aid the Woman me than any one else Can't 1 go home with you fora bla ne ! e pass \ No, you can't.” cheekered golf cape and n iu “*Well, then, will you come with me not to the hotel — transformatior he told me of, but to some othe r you I ist know ot How nice you | yO? 11d Bett one.” The other bundled sor nen and brusl nto the y The other woman took some thirty or forty steps in manteau silence. Then she asked abruptly The poor old Gladstone’s verv tl e = ‘*Have you plenty of money we must plump it out somet “Yes, lots.”’ When the portmanteau is f i and upped the **And you're an artist ?”’ carried it down between thet ‘*Yes—at least I'm a student.” on to the pavement Again the woman reflected. At last she shrugged her I am Miss Conway no uid the a i! shoulders and laughed 1 shall make a dragon of a_ drive to the Hotel de I 1 went t e one ha chaperon, | warn you,”’ she said Yes, I'll come, just for my father this one night, but you'll have to pay the hotel bill With the change in her dre a cha had ‘Of course,”’ said Be tty M Conwa This is an adventure! Where's your lugg At the Hotel de Lille it was she wh 1 th It’s at the stat but I want you to promise not totell rooms, communicating, for herself and her cou that Temple mana word about me. I don’t wanttosee him — plained where the re f the lugga iS, 4 i again. Promise.” for the morning chocolate **Queer child. But I'll promise. Now look here: if | This is very y,’ said Bett hen they were a go into a thing at all I go into it heart and soul; so let’s do It's like an elopemer the thing properly. We must have some luggage. I've Exactl uid Miss Conwa ( i-night POST

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14 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A°*D! PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 421 TO 427 ARCH STREET GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR 1728 PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 10, 1906 Single Subscriptions, $2.00 the Year. In Clubs, $1.25 Each Five Cents the Copy of All Newsdealers Foreign Subscriptions: For Countries in the Postal Union Single Subscriptions, $3.25. In Clubs, $2.50 Each Remittances to be Made by International Postal Money Order Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy @ One cause of poverty is too many bars t | Aciean desk to-night make a good begin c Ti \ old that the tariff must til t i al ‘ pp i nhit CA city congregation an assemblage of strangers who i f it ld be safe to know one another c¢ Wi the a awake Heaven he will finds an alarm clock and a cup of © Our ancestors rejected taxation without representation heir descendants dodge taxes and don't bother about the trimmings ¢C it ( ! ao! i hat even the an whe have hit elf doe t fee hat the by tit hed until he droy a tip hi Pao @ If the rich man could get through the eve of the needle is easily as he squeezes thre rhthe | holes of the law uld be sate Patriotism and Pork he Senat nd Hou my? t or \ i R , e Wast } ' } t ma he wor | t ( ‘ nere | er 1 ‘ ot ‘ ‘ t i ) buil I I H ‘ lew ur ‘ for the is of the § } he er ind } } a , p the leader of t] he Statehood bill until tl Administration } bly helped him to a succulent por Committes \ I} her lear ns emi! ‘ t te renewed and ent t © te e ( ind O Part We dor know just t sugar-cured har le cuts and spareribs Unck ] ph Car t i! the lent exhibited o other mem be vho de rec heir convictions against the Stats hood bill, t f i ed for it Probably an approxi ma rrect that regard can be reache THE SATURDAY EVENING POST after the omnibus public building bill is passed and the consulships and post-offices are distributed. It is somewhat shocking to the amateur to consider that the rather important question of creating two new States actually hinged upon a new post-office building for Con- gressman Jones’ town and a Federal job for Congressman Smith’s constituent. Perhaps the amateur doesn't exactly see why it is noble for a party organization to “influence”’ votes and infamous for a life-insurance company. Many beautiful things owe their origin and development to vulgar and it is the pork barrel that is the meat smoked or fresh—of that beautiful sentiment of devotion to party which makes so many Congressmen vote for bills that they don’t really believe in. Only the People Suffer EW YORK CENTRAL interests recently bought the trolley lines of Rochester, with which last link in the chain they will soon be operating a complete, connected system of electric railways from the Hudson River to Niagara Falls. It is needless to add that the system will be operated so as to interfere as little as possible with tariffs and profits of the steam road. roads have been active of late in absorbing electric lines. It is quite probable that in a few years nearly all the trolley systems that are so situated as to offer any considerable competition to the older and richer carriers will be owned by steam roads and operated essentially in their interests. For a long time the steam roads generally obstructed as much as possible the construction and development of lines that might possibly compete with them. Now, when the new method of transportation has proved itself, and is evidently here to stay, the older one absorbs it, and reduces its competitive powers to a minimum. Gentlemen who are certainly in a position to know are fond of telling us that a most important justification of our great industrial concerns lies in the fact that they are the pioneers of improvement. It is a pleasing theory, but the record doesn’t support it. In the nature of things a vast aggregation of capital that is invested in old methods and processes takes an extremely conservative attitude toward revolutionizing inventions or unless such inventions or discoveries happen on the outside, when the attitude becomes radically and rabidly antagonistic. The capital in furnishes a motive against the introduction of electric traction on steam roads. A new way to make steel at half the present cost, supposing it to have been discovered, would probably have come into general use more rapidly before the formation of the Steel Trust than at present. Oil is cheap. Probably it would have been cheaper with a thousand refineries instead of one. The first economic function of the great combinations is to give stability. Inventions and discoveries do not make for stability. Generally their effect is to destroy or de- preciate the value of old methods. Persons owning the old methods do not like that. sources; salt, Elsewhere steam electric discov eries vestment in locomotives Mr. Ryan Learns a Lesson T IS a great pleasure to note that the lesson of the life- insurance commotion has been taken to heart in one quarter at least, and that, in the light of it, a preventive tangible value has been adopted. We and it It was evident measure of very have been awaiting tangible results for some time, seemed that they were a good while coming early in the winter that the scheme of Federal supervision, from which so much was hope d for, would fail. Alexander, McCall and McCurdy resigned; but their places were filled by men elected on the same system and by the same powers If poliey-h Iders were better protected, It Wa merely because a certain few individuals chose to protect th i not that there was anv essential change in the cor itions of the companies, or in the potential opportunitic for grait The New York Legislature r nt do mething important; but that was not certair Meantime peop vere ft King at it railroad r { ion and other I emed | hat t eal | urance t i il we i De fo ri I t I t 1 « I ip- pened with the smaller one of a doze ears | re But 1 he The ‘ ‘ Equitabl Life reese received a repe ‘ elf-inve ti ‘ ! a ind the manager nt took the prec 1 of pledging ther on a ( content Ihe vhole f s er weCAUSE ome ‘ t to | hout the conditions withir I lessor not been lost upon Gamblers and Crop Reports ee the Government W* SHOULD be very sorry to s } } discontinue its crop reports, aS manv persons are t Washingtor e of doubtful value \ now iterat urging it to do The dep: ] put out a great ma of reasonably accurate rops would be actually to the ment publication report on the people genera In every Cc more than any other Govern- , } country March 10, 1906 crop reports are made by Government authority. It would be regrettable, we think, if our Government, though continuing copiously to favor the farmer with treatises on goats, toads, humming-birds and other subjects of some- what questionable interest, and though providing the merchant with ponderous treasury tomes about the foreign trade, should refuse to do for them the one thing that will benefit them most. It is urged by people with fragile consciences that the Government should discontinue its crop reports them—-which is much like demanding a suppression of the ivory trade because poker chips are sometimes made of ivory. Thess gentle critics would send a divinity student with each ten- dollar bill that issues from the Treasury to see that it does not fall into the hands of Wall Street speculators. It is true the Department of Agriculture has made a disgraceful mess of its crop reporting. The reports were not only ludicrously wrong, but the Department fatuously insisted upon quarreling with the Census Bureau when the latter exposed the gross errors. Possibly Secretary Wilson would be happy to see the last of an undertaking which has caused him so much chagrin. But this is no reason why the Government should dodge its duty and leave crop reporting to the big operators on ’Change. The President is an able reformer. The Department’s sore spot will get well. It should not discontinue reporting; but furnish good reports. because gamblers bet on Football Courage EARS are sometimes expressed lest in th days the male may lose that spirit of combativeness proper to his sex. The only serious argument in favor of football as played at presentin American colleges is that the sport nourishes the manly virtue of courage. The battle of Waterloo, according to Wellington, was, we are told, won on the football fields of England. Well, the battle of Gettysburg, it might be said with equa! truth, was won behind the counters of A. T. Stewart’s dry -goods store There is ample testimony in our Civil War that the pale and As a matter of fact, much se sedentary unathletie clerk made a good fighter brawn has very little to do with c lurage, and not with endurance. The beefiness of football play« probably renders him less fit for the severe strains of after life The gladiator was never a military hero ( ourage is nine-tenths a moral quality, anc ime of football cannot be said to develop moral A Dead Man’s Grasp HE Field millions are the first of great modern American fortunes to come to the probate court After all direct legacies are paid, including the eight millions forthe Field Columbian Museum, it is believed that considerably more than a hundred millions of dollars will remain intact in trust for a period of forty years. Thus that useful process of disintegration of great estates by incompetent heirs, which is Suppost d to preserve us from the centration of pe rsonal property, has been thwarted for a period of two generations by an ingenious use of trusteeship. It is likely enough that the same method will be followed with the Rockefeller fortune and other great fortunes The ultimate destiny of the vast Field wealth is confided to two young boys, of whom neither the character nor the be predicted at present. And during the forty years of trusteeship no considerable portion of the can be diverted to public or charitable uses. Thus the dead owner keeps his grasp upon his treasure to the furthest limit of time permitted by law! Doubtless there is a kind of negative benefit to the public in the assurance that during the period of tr be invested honestly and conservatively. Ne ntration in the control of a few and its dangers of great con- capacity can estate ust this lump of money will ertheless inevitable wth constitute a real menace, which will become mort alized as other multi-millionaires follow Marshall In a long trust cones ly re Field's example and tie up their possessions In any case, this desire to hold together what one can no longer use. it is a pathetic exhibition of human pride Painted Food i /R the ordinary man a modern meal is a melancholy istry. What gives that rub) Aniline, or plain coal-tar dye is the trade secret of the too verdant green upon the ce: beans? Did they have a bi a dash of saccharine, or were they dosed tinge to What ed lesson in chem the tomato soup ? was and the string-bea pea salicylic acid, wit! copper and alum? Was the ham pickled in borates? Those big red strawberries that are fresher than June probably have some acquaintance with balmy _ ben- vate The salad, we know, is dressed with honest cottonseed oil. Johnny and his sister Sue suck glucose or cane syrup, and think they have Vermont maple sugar Grandmamma’s cocoa is doped with ‘foreign starch.” tomach say to this new invoice of Well, the appendix seems to have quit work- America. Perhaps the coats of the stomach will go next iat does the ing in on a strike

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MEN @ WOMEN Bailey vs. Anecdote Et Al. ALLING the case of Senator Joseph Weldon Baile v, of Texas, Two Anecdotes that Alwa Figure in Stories Written About Him, what are the facts Here are the specifications Ite That when Bailey first came to Cor refused, with scorn and indignation, to array himself in that livery of the classes—-always opposed to the masses the ‘‘dress suit.”’ lle That when Bailey first came to Congress, Judge Culberson, of Texas—wisest of the wise-—-told him to take a subject and make a study and a specialty of it, and that Bailey chose the Constitution and has clung to it ever since It is hard to keep a good anecdote down, and when it comes to killing—actually slaughtering— intimate old friends it seems like doing murder at one’s own fireside Still, truth is mighty and must prevail. Hear Bailey's attorney “The Senator never refused to wear evening clothes (ne night, soon after he came to Congress, while he was living at the Riggs House, there was a big social affair \ newspaper correspondent asked him if he intended to go Bailey said he did not The correspondent pressed for a reason. Bailey finally said he had no evening clothes. The correspondent wrote that Bailey would not wear evening clothes. Other correspondents sent it out, and the story has been printed, with variations, ever sine As to the other anecdoté , Judge Culberson never told Bailey to make a study of one thing and s Bailey IcK chose the Constitution as his spe eialty ot his own free will and accord. kente he Jud Balancing the evidence t does not seem necessary or advisabie t he l i dote Bailey was a i vith high reheat and a high resolve, when he t ( he } first Congress that be van operation r ISSO Hye from Texas and, before that, from Copiah Cour Mi sissippi. Undoubtedly, he looked on « alfectatio He wa ! M ! seemed t we of portance hat ere 1 ] t busine t bea T t ‘ t ii aa hit it least 1 ffa = = it Wash ol ( f lit 3 } t} ho f ( bores by every body elsé erha} he did not w eve clothes then He wea ne ne finel tailored, moulded to his strap- ping big form. His viewpoint has changed, probabl) He was a bit woolly when he arrived The StOrS must stand. Old friends must be protected. It will be fine, too, when Bailey runs for President, as he hopes to some day. They said Jerry Simpson did not wear s " and he did. That story will live forever, too. As to the Constitution anecdot: Judge Culberson knew a great deal about a great many things. One Sa SOCKS Senator Cullom was Congress He might have told of Illinois ee ERS m4 ’ Looking Like Lincoln Baile y to get aspecia It would is His Copyrighted have been good advics And the Specialty fact re ill th B v did ge ny, and hat } me al is d is the Const I He bre ne t Lott reat di ument r ve witt ] 4 | Vi e and on ! le can f i Constitutional application to ad 1 nof conic sec 1 or an argument on th: exact wWaya her hould lay an egg Case decided in favor of the Watching a man grow is ar t interesting diversion It makes no difference whether he gro great or small In the case of Bailey the 1dy has been fa H came to Washington a big, young countrymar ward, gangling, but with a lot of brains and the faculty of u then They said in Copiah County, Mi ppi: ‘Joe Bailey can play a better game of pool, is be ( can talk down any man in this sectior He staved in M sissippi until he was twenty-two. Then he went to Tex Colonel Bill Sterrett, that eminent commentator on Texa affairs, said once: ‘‘Joe Bailey struck Texas running for Congress.”’ That is nearly true, for Bailey was in Texas only a few vears before he was elected Re prese ntatives, Bailey was raw mater He could talk. He had courage He was a close student and, more than all, he had implicit faith in himself. The pounded him a good deal, laughed at him, japed and jeered THE SATURDAY EVENING st } at ? al } i at ( hit 4 more ve rood } ‘ Dee the th Senator Joseph Weldon Bailey } ‘ t at B: Bi hich } POST IS Aggressive Mr. Cullom i gl artir I f SI M the Unite Cyt an } My The Point of View 1)" JOHN H.GIRDNER, the me ilwit of New Yor va thr h Car il Pa one afternoot He “Safe Aboard the Lugger”™ REPRESI \T] \ \ ‘ CP: ent R ‘ f ently take enator Lodge Representative Richard Bartholdt f Missouri

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16 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE YOUNG HANIGHT-ERRANT astonished, then sympathetic, then amused slapped his great knee. ‘Be the powers,’’ they heard him say tis me’ll put the comether onthim! And I'd loike to have a luk at Miss O’ Brian, too. ‘I dinnaw is that necessary,’ said Pat- rick. ‘‘She'll have to be sphindin’ her toime on Dinnis.”’ Oh, I don’t mane to have more thin a luk at her,’’ said MacAdoo, as they rose fron the table; “jist so | kin have more hearrut in me job, or iise thim widdas moight git a rale holt on me Patrick ned hesitating. They're decateful crockodiles,MacAdoo, ind that’s the trut I dinnaw shud I risk you on thim, but you shud be able to luk afther your 1 Pipl “Oh, kape your worrimint fur Miss O’Brian,”’ said MacAdoo, laughing. ‘if iny Wan ropes me in, you'll not foind m«e ipin’ to you Well, sorr,”” he added whin kin | The opening door gi Again Dennis Doyle entered, followed Mrs and Mrs. Callahan, who were again obliviou Flah rty and his friends begin job? ve him his reply on me Cahill MacAdoo and Patrick joined the two at the till ‘Well, Pathrick,”’ said Flaherty, ‘ how’ll ou break t’rough that wall uv delicate esal I dinnaw?”’ ( worried to be inthroduced, iggested MacAdoo Patrick considered erved to the ‘l know Mist her Pathrick,” got until tea ~— be Then he said Robe rt, do you ind play on the pianna fura while. Thin, MacAdoo, do you sthand up and sing Sweet party vO Belle Mahone Ah, de ah, dear, th’ ould so rhed Flah« ; Good fo tu, Sarsfield,’’ said Osborne. MacAdoo in and after a time joined Osborne at piano, Presently his full oice began Soon beyond the harbor bar Shall my bark be sailing far, Mahone The loud laughter of the group at the table Led he yun around and atared at MacAd vho ood looking far beyond them, his handson ‘e Very grave Flaherty eve were moist, and even Patrick forgot f t moment his plans Swe-et Belle Maho-one Swe-et Be Maho-one Wait for me at Heaven’s gate Swe-et Belle Mahon Flaherty was quite sincere when he sa ; ~ ahi Well, ma'‘a i ought to all sh hand nact ! nat | t 4 t ¢ hat | hful l j MacAdoo When the ladies rose to go helped Doyle escort them home, all walking abreast so that none should have an unl! idvantage of any one else Patrick f lowed them, doing a double shuffle at times to express his satisfaction with himself and ris employee. At the —— house h turned off, late though Miss © B rian running up te the resul his efforts. Her sobs t face gleamed with a musement It's rale funny, and | } «Til see ut ) ymme time t id pete the bright s Pat " dinnis asked fur the ring to-da Vhat d ido?” he inquired Miss ©’Brian rocked back and forth a he said n and laughed, and back widin a week if he nd; afther that it wud be told him changed his moi to come off.’”’ If | was big enough I'd break the face uv im,’’ said Patrick I've ag stead mind to ve MacAdoo ordhers that way, annyhow (Continued from Page 9) only I am wishful to hand him back to you in dacint ordher.” You are a considerate frind, Pathrick,’ said. ‘‘And now, to-morra’s an avenin’ off; do you bring this MacAdoo round and inthroduce him. Thin we'll all go to the risthrant togither.” Patrick was plainly opposed to having any one but himself make a plan on the matter. ‘*You’ll surely grant,” said Miss O'Brian reasonably, ‘‘that I’ve had more expayri- than you in love-affairs. Well, don't you see that if I do be walkin’ in wid another man that'll make Dinnis jealous?’’ f he doesn’t want you himsilf, he ought to Mes glad to see another man takin’ you,” he objected. ‘* Well, that ain’t the way Dinnis is made. Dog in the manger he is, and most men are loike him at times.” Tis you shud know,” said Patrick; ‘‘only | don’t want to be wastin’ MacAdoo's time.” “It'll be good practice fur him. you jist betther sind him be his lone. save you the walk.” ‘All right.’’ He rose. ‘‘Maybe you cud help me out be givin’ MacAdoo a few point- ers about how to thrate thim women?” ‘Maybe I cud,” said Miss O’Brian with a smile. ‘I assure you I’d loike to see your schemes succes d, Pathrick.”’ The next day at about six MacAdoo re- ported to Patrick at his newspaper stand. ‘Well, what are me ordhers, sorr?”’ he asked, smiling. ‘How've you sphint the Patrick. ‘‘Well, jist afther breakfast I tuk a lesson from wan uv the waither gurruls about how run in the risthrant. Thin I wint and luked for worruk. Thin I came in to dinner and had some more lessons from the gurrul, and had a talk wid Misther Fla- herty. You see, I got to put me waitin’ job t'rough right. Thin I called on Mrs. Cahill and thin on Mrs. Callahan, and that tuk the afthernoon.” ‘Well, that’s fine, MacAdoo,” Sarsfield approvi “And ro and git Miss O'Brian.” sitting innocently by she ence Maybe That'll asked day?” L ings 1s out said young nely. now, if you'll Fla- Patri . was herty when MacAdoo entered the restau- rant hour and a half later with Mi O'Bri: The walk beside a handsome and attentive escort had done Miss O'Brian good. She was quite cony ineingly uncon- cious of the presence of Mrs. Cahill and Mrs. Callahan and her recalcitrant lover, as she took a seat where she could face her d de 1ored her, anc 1 the elves » Dennis Doyle wh wever, cast seve restive glances in the dire of the ch 11 Miss O'Brian. i ( itch i matters impatiently. | ild h to take off the widdas,”’ he borne and if he don’t git back on he'll ondo all the good he did ifthernoon let M O'Brian alone for know- Osborne t's she’s doing!” ro to the piano pre »bably merge the parties. ed a long time to the critical Pat- replied. sently and that e Osborne began to play. Then, to ann atient nod, MacAdoo stood beside the piano. Next, to s great delight, Dennis moved over beside Miss O'Brian. thout waiting VidOWS Seeing this for orders, Patrick smiled complacently, but Os- borne said Don't 1 be as iz that vou’ve got it all settled, young man. Those widows will try to do Miss O'Brian out of Denni and MacAdoo, too; and mind, they're two to one.”’ ‘Sure, spare the bye the wet blanket murmured Flaherty worrukin harrud enough as ut is The party « f five went home together, the widows studiously avoiding speech with Miss O'Brian As Mac Adoo told Patrick, it Was hard to keep then I with Dennis with the bl and the widows edging Mi idewalk but not ‘Ain't he mortial peaceable terms frown on him O'Brian off the at all, i Inde «0 nd, ter a few more days had passed MacAdoo confessed to Patrick that the t was getting almost beyond his strength. It was toward seven o'clock, and the two were walking to the settlement to call for Miss Che boy stopped short in dismay seein 1 asi ‘‘No, I’m not t’rowin’ up me job,” said MacAdoo, clapping his employer on the shoulder. ’Tis only that ‘tis a turrible complycated business. If ’twas handlin’ two women that didn’t know wan another but to do ut half the toime in aich other's prisence, and thim widdas at that!”’ ‘I ain’t iver said ’twas aisy worruk,’’ re- marked Patrick. ‘And there’s Dyle shilly-shallyin’,”’ com- plained MacAdoo. ‘‘Be Miss O’Brian’s accounts he’s not offered her back the ring yit. Says he’s not made up his moind. Dade, I t’ink she’d be well quit uv him.” ‘“‘He’s got five t’ousand dollars,’’ said Patrick, as they dodged in front of a cable car. ‘Sure, ain’t he always tellin’ ut? And thin, he will say nawthin’ to Mrs. Cahill or Mrs. Callahan that they kin put their fingers on. And thim widdas kape expectin’ me to go furder.”’ ‘Ah, I heard me faather say ’tis harrud to talk to a woman widout promisin’ her,” sighed Patrick. ‘Utis. But ’tis nawthin’ to havin’ wan uv thim thry to exthract a promise befure ” the very eyes and ears uv the other. Patrick felt depressed. He plodded on the more dolefully because MacAdoo began to whistle Sweet Belle Mahone. Presently MacAdoo stopped in the middle of a block, hesitated, and then made a rush forward and overtook a man who was walking slowly in front of them “O'Brian, be powers!"’ he ‘Sure, I t’ought I’d lost you furiver!’ Patrick looked up curiously at the stran- ger, a square, stout man with simple blue eyes, a smiling mouth, and general happy- go-lucky expression. ‘So you didn’t t’ink I was thryin’ to stale y our lot hes?’’ he said. ‘* Who's the bye? ‘Me bist frind, Pathrick Sarsfield O’Con- nor. "Tis the man I bunked wid on ship,”’ MacAdoo explained to Patrick. ‘‘ We're goin’ your way, ut seems, O'Brian.” ‘I'm goin’ to the sittlement house, what- iver that is,’ said O’Brian. ‘‘I’ve jist found out me sister's adhress. I tould youl hada rilative here.”’ Well, be the powers!’’ shouted Mac- Adoo. ‘Is ut Mary O’Brian? Sure, we're where are you off to, Pathrick?”’ I'll jist run ahead and tell her,”’ Patrick over his shoulder. He ran the two or three lement, rushed up the fell into Miss O'Brian’s room. he told her of her oO ‘Br ‘ the cried. shouted blocks to the set- and almost Breathlessly brother's arrival. Miss face darkened. 1 kt ow jist hi } Stalrs, } what you fale loike doin’ wid ’ panted Patrick; “‘but we cant afford ut We nade him, fur MacAdoo avs his hands is too full wid thim widdas.” Miss Q’ Br ian sprang to her feet. us if iver there was ou don’t see halt Sure, if wance he . 1 UV i can't up h a} - ‘ ’ ! t j she ll foightin’ wid the other Down the stairs wid us! She pt Patrick behind her and bore him r wake to the side door just as MacAdoo and O'Brian knocked upon it. She drew them into the back receptio room, and silently offered a flushed che to her brother. 1ad kissed her she began without ‘Larry, warrud After he pre face your disgrace is all over the Mrs. Cahill ‘Sure, ‘tis no disgrace at all,’’ said O'Brian, taking a chair and crossing his legs comfortabl ‘The priest wint bail fur me and I was niver whose horse I borried was an whin I tould him all wouldn't push the case at all. He said fur me to come to America; that me imagina- wasted in Oireland.” vas makin’ fun uv you,” sniffed Annyway, the story is held. The American, : about ut, sure, he tion Was ciane er, Whin I wasn’t?’ ithrick?"’ cried Miss “Sure, you ain't you know that the trut’ know it’s the ss people She noticed the boy’s dubious expression, and that reminded her that he was the manager of her campaign ‘*‘Larry,”’ she went on, “I nade not ex- plain in detail what I want. 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THE SATURDAY Pathrick Sarsfir ld, has been he lpin’ | t Larr\ vi n houid your ru J rea i ner rw ‘ esent plans, and remember the money I have sent take a luk at her and see. You omadha va ! able I he evenit ea su, and so you'll plaze fall in wid thin you always make love to anny woman, a iS Ser Pats nea Fla “Sure, if I can,” said O'Brian the ould —I mane Mrs. Callahan has a wa herty 1 irked to O ! ‘You're not married?’’ she asked MacAdoo'll t 1 that lroth, | | it Sweet B anxiously *‘No; Widda O'Dowd she t’rew me overt because deny ut admitted MacAd Mahone t'res ‘ ‘* Well, niver moind; I’ve another widda fur you. Pathrick, wha ) Sal arpl Well, Pathrick MacA ! ‘ M to Mrs. Callahan fur him?” ur tongue goes so fast I! dinnawamI O'Briar Patrick considered, carefully surveying on me head or me heels,” said Patrick fr Well, sorr,”’ said MacAdoe Pa O’Brian’s genial face fully. ‘What do you t’ink, MacAdoo “T give up me lasht ht, and I'd I ‘*Well, I dinnaw that ut matthers which ‘“°’Tis a grand plan said MacAdoo to have tould 1, bu if you t’'ink he’d betther jist thry wan and you have the great head, Pathr “On, Nave i t ieine ‘**Was your idea to have him take turrun That's why vou run ahead to tell Mary her Patrick to Miss O' Briar and turrun about wid me?”’ inquired Mac brother was come ( ng her? ince to rey MacAd Adoo, grinning. Patrick's face lightened continue Ut was at furrust,’’ said Patrick gravely, Well e loike takir respon- \ 1 has set me uy 1 some ca ‘ **but I see be lukin’ at him that he'd betther © sibility fur L Miss ©’'Bria rher and | have larned ich these t jist thry wan and sthick to her. Yes; Mr MacAdoo, all's fur you to d totake good — here that I’ve decided to start a little r Callahan; she’s aisier nor Mrs. Cahil If holt on Mrs. Cahill. That laves voufreefur rant mesilf at th her end uv the he jist pitched in wid niver a worrud to Mrs Dinnis, Miss O’Brian Plinty uv ro uid Flaherty Cahill, he moight carry ut t’rough fur a Ut does,” she said lent] Idit it his hand ( ilu wake.” And t’ings t where the were two ‘ id “A wake, indade!”’ cried Miss O'Brian. akes ago. Do yout'ink you cud fix ut i lank i, Misther Flah ‘No, me lad. You camp down be Mrs Dinnis in wan more wake, Miss O'Briar Wher Dinnis the night Patrick . How to Callahan, Larry, and don’t you git up till “I'd ordher MacAdoo to hould down 1 asked M O'Briat she’s said she’d have you, and then don't ob about wan wake mors ‘ sed M H hud 1} } Patt Judge an Ov ercoatl you waste time befure you go to the priest O'Brian with a smile at MacAdoo rick, to te he trut' Ldon't want } R ' = , — “Oh, no!”’ gasped Patrick. You'd not Well, then, let git down tothe: his t’ousand Mrs. Cahill kin have } et py raly have him marry her, Miss O'Brian! ant,” concluded Patrick l Dar he : You are not so mad at him as all that De ondherin’ where | ar ata But began Patr MacAdoo grinned silently, while M During the next fe 1 Patt We ca ha ir plar O'Brian answered ‘ eld } bs f t aver " iM O'] Why not? She's crazy to be mar ene? O'Brian pa iT pullir her Ch, } } ind my brother is good-lukin’ enough fu mitti ind acceptable devot M her inda I ‘ anny wan, | shud hope, and on hi d Callahan, bringing her often, at his sists I Jimmy here ‘ there’s her money P requ for tea to the restaurant Mr What matt} uf nt i] “Oh, ‘tis money she ha queried Cahill appeared no more, | MacA he t \ O'Bria O'Brian, interested a rick that he « d on het ‘ ‘ f se You see, Pathrick,”’ expl: i Mi aft deve r th eaving Lk And whin we've ©’Brian; ‘‘you kin see | iv him no opportunit I) i ck saw or " I kis St. Michael himself cudn’t drag wurruk out — or twice lowering he reet, and he Larry. Now, wud you have me sup- felt vaguely. sor Sie He Ccvanih ibaa ieie portin’ him? Wud that be fair? went to see her one ce, but her door th he I} he he } **No-o,”’ said Patrick doubtfully. was locked, and she called out that she is to Patrick. 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He is now in receipt of numbers of letters offering to dramatize his story. Some of the admit with ostentatious pondents candor that the idea of rehashing an artistic novel for the stage may well be repugnant to the author, but they insist that they are able to see a real play in the book, and offer showing that the to the letter ‘tory corre narios will do no violence artistic conscience One of the riters offered not only to do a satisf: ob of dramatization, but to use his influ- with a well-known firm of managers to get the play produced. A further complica- tion is added by the fact that Mr. Williams’ play is founded on one of his newspaper which was published some years ago, both in a prominent 1e and in ‘ forn At that time as no ru rs from would-be dramatist several interestins to draw up sce } P aramatizations ences maga there neident ms. One of the chief characteristi ! el, as ha en been pointed out lack of fort the tendency to ramble, leven te f no ts would mee e ther torn In the first instance } methi | the and concen n of the drama able that the would be at ly-kr i re bar ul dra ed me \ oat ma d that He ‘ n at increasing tenden toward the dramatic form, the action of The Golden Bowl, for example, being limited to a few days and a and though it is not likely that a good play, It cer- Mr. James’ clearest pDiaces 3 novel would 1 The Dullest Audience Ihe PICS of plays and players never hesi- tat to ¢ frankl kpress their opinions and publicly, whether favorable or other e: but for obvious reasons the actors’ ‘ t f their a ences, When openl f 1, are preva complimentar in {| at } ‘ own to decided preference One of ther t popular of our actresses, «name it Would be unwise to mention, lences in the of the opinion that of all aud j those of to true art are and the circle hat i latest books, and make occasional trips abroad; and these give tone to the whole THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (PRAT EA FrOLA audience. But people who live in the sub- urbs travel only as far as they can go hung up on straps, and read only the newspapers. They are respectable and they are intelli- gent; but with regard to matters of art they are dullness stratified.” The actress was asked how the difference made itself felt in the theatre. ‘It is not so much that they don’t laugh and applaud,”’ she said, ‘‘as that they laugh crudely, or in the wrong place, and applaud only the most obvious sentiments. The del- icate shades of life, the intimate nuances of art, pass over their heads. Their intelli- gence and their moral feeling is that of the gallery at melodrama.” She was asked whether she found the audiences of Broadway particularly appre- ciative. *‘On the contrary,’’ she said, ‘‘they are particularly dull. In faet, New York is it own greatest suburb. There is this differ- ence, however, that in Harlem and Brooklyn the simpler truths of life and art are enjoyed, whereas in New York the audiences are so jaded, as well as so dull, that they sit back in their seats and seem to say: ‘Now, amuse us if you can!’”’ It may be added that this actress is not suffering from blighted ambition, being one of the most popular and successful women of the stage. In fact, she for many of her fellow-artists hold identical! opinions, though they are not quite as \ them. is several such, igor- ous 1n expressing Rosalind in Trousers fh )R some time previous to her marriage Miss Katherine Kidder was suffering from a nervous breakdown, and she has not yet quite recovered. With her husband, Mr. Louis Kaufman Anspacher, who is_ the author of several dramas, she has been visiting friends in Westchester County, north of New York. Her favorite diversion is Walking over the winter hills and through the woods; and to gain freedom and ease of movement she dons ¢ The erect, athletic build which enabled her to appear to such advantage in Rosalind parts 1 From a distance poetic nen s costume. ands her in good stead. he appears the very man. But like lind she has no doublet and hose in h disposition. Several times, on the nearer approach of strangers she has hidden het face in her hands and taken to the tall tim ber. The result is that the countryside ha become aware of her masquerade, and she her rambles to the remoter Rosa- is obliged to limit tields and woods Dramatic Royalties MTMHAT a successful playwright is richly rewarded 1s ond question; but itl beyond que yn also tk the returns of ical authorship are g r- ‘ i le | ite n re annual income | been placed as hig] SO.000 yut it} robabile that 1t has never reached two-thirds certain that the S1LO0.000 have of that amount, and it is ars in which it has approached I ry few indeed There been ver was, moreover, a long period following Beau Brumme!l which Mr. Fitch calls his nine lean vears, When his earnings irtua In George Ade's m prospe is royalties fell short of ear he has scored only on very hard to nothing vear his dramat $100,000. This 4 success, and that is of the kind distinguish from failure. The ordinary production, when suc ful, nets for its author between three hun- and five hundred dollars a from nine to fifteen thousand dollars for a Vv } A successful book week, or season of tl WeeKS nets S$ au ne iv, or quite, twenty thousand do for « ndred thou- and copies sold It takes far more time and r, to produce a play than to Not only is the drama the , rigid and difficult of the arts labor of rehearsals is tedious and rit } | Write a DOOK, tru most at but the prolonged. Mr. Fitch } rapid as the reputation of the fire playwright; but, as he recently pointed out, his annual aver of plays since he started two has peen le When his output has reached I ave been old pieces, long refused five plays the majority ne And the chance of finitely smaller than wit! ness is so liable to meet as that of the theatre, of production is er success With plays is in- books. No bus foreseen disaster and the initial ini ious. 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At that time—say twenty-five years ago anywhere in the West the report that another railroad was coming to town fired civic hopes as explosively as, sometimes, last night's smouldering coals did the care- ess kerosene-can. Leading citizens who would have received the heralds of Kingdom Come—perhaps not without reason—in complete self-restraint, flushed with joy over the arrival of a surveyor’s gang; and the most bitter of all impersonal ills of life was the announcement that the new road had, after all, decided to go to the town eight miles south. In the fullness of time it developed that the new road charged the same rates as the old and was quite as heroic in resisting damage claims. Its passenger service gave the traveling man an additional chance to get out of town before night-—and thereby wound the feelings of the hotel-keeper—and its freight tonine gave the farmer two chances to have his heifer killed where there was only one before. But for the country town and the rural community generally the new road, in the end, meant nothing very Important The town is a little town still The banker and cattle-buyer can get passes more easily than before, and the township bonds, which were gladly issued and donated to aid the new road, have been paid off or refunded. The farmer helped to pay them and has furnished most of the tonnage for the new line; but probably in the main he does not see where else he comes in, When the new line is either formally consolidated with the old or makes all it rates to small shippers in agreement with it What evokedt he joy and caused the bonds to be voted was the idea of competition in transportation Everybody now knows that railroads do not and will not compete xcept in regard to big shippers. A new factor is appearing, in a limited way, and the eagerness with which this new factor hailed discloses a pretty universal desire whether well or ill founded does not matter here —for relief from what is to all intents and purposes, so concerns farmers far as and small merchants, a_ transportation monopoly. This new factor is the electric road. In almost all over the ill now hear the probable ‘ley discussed with about s that was formerly in- spired by the coming of a new steam line. In this discussion pecially are interested, for the trolley ought to be especially the farmers’ road. With its small units and frequent service it can, and in some does, bring both freight and sportation prac- tically to his It now carries, in some the farmer's milk, butter, eggs and vegetables to the country market and brings out packages from the town. In certain communities, where the freight and express busine the trolleys has been country communitte Middle West one v coming of the tr the same eagerne reports of farmers es- instances passenger tran door. ] ] H iocanties, Ss of tne well developed, the character of farm industry has been notably modified by it. As a rough rule, the country trolley runs once an hour, with rates for both passenger and freight decidedly below steam-road cost. In many cases the farmer finds it cheaper and more convenient than to use hishorses. What it offers onthe social side, in the wav of cheap, speedy intercourse between farm and farm, and farm and town, need not be dwelt on here. Some typical interurban lines report that from fifteen to twenty per cent. of their passenger business is between town and farm Of course, the trolley has already very decidedly arrived as a mode of transporting urban passengers. Electric roads in the United States now carry about seven times as many passengers as the steam roads. They transport well over four billion a year. But over half these passengers are carried in the cities having upward of 500,000 inhabitants. New York alone furnishes a billion to the huge total. This scarcely interests the farmer or small merchant. When he is in those centres, news that the trolley is coming is conveyed for purposes of warning and reproach rather than en- couragement. In the country the trolley came first, naturally, for passenger business, the field in which it was already highly developed. On the whole, its freight and e xpress busi- ness is so new that perhaps the best idea of the efficiency of the electric road, as compared with steam, can be had by a glance at its record in the older field. The Census Bureau has recently completed an elaborate report on the subject, and it found that the fast, long interurban trolleys being the type we are now interested earried 114,000,000 passengers in 1902; that the rate of fare in the Middle West averages about one and a half cents a mile, or, roughly, one-half the charge of the corre sponding steam roads. In a great number of cases steam-road fares have been reduced to meet the new competition. Only the other day, in lowa, a grand jury indicted the Rock Island road for making a discriminatory rate reduction to meet trolley competition. The Railroad Ga- zette says the number of steam-road trains between Cleveland and Oberlin have fallen off by half, because of the electrics. The average distance traveled by each steam- road passenger in the United States in- creased only hive per cent, In the five years prior to 1897, and twenty-one per cent. in the subsequent five years—a fact pointed to as indieating that the trolley is forging ahead in short-haul travel—although, of course, _ is not necessarily conclusive. The best development of the trolley asa complete inde pendent transportation sys- tem, Carrying goods as we po as persons, has been in the Middle West, especially in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. Last year a hand- some terminal station for the use of inter- urban trolleys was built in Indianapolis, and only recently this station was improved with three freight-houses, each 24 by 105 feet. Recently, the trolley roads have built freight stations and yards in Crawfordsville and other interior towns. \s to the effect of these improvements, one Indiana manager says: ‘*We are now getting all the freight we can handle.”’ A trolley freight terminal is being built in the Columbus, Ohio, wholesale district. One has just been completed in Kalamazoo, Michigan. In Topeka, Kansas, the trolley line now moves all the output of a stone quarry, and has arranged a car-lot freight transfer business in the city In Massa- chusetts the management of the largest interurban electric, covering the southwest part of the State, is busy getting freight and express privileges, and proposes to organize a goods service from Fall River to Boston, and another Massachusetts company is reported to have bought out an extensive wagon express concern to take over its business. These too, all recent happenings in different parts of the country—show the decided drift in trolley development. 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By JOHN C. SCALES (hairman Refrigerator Car Lines Committer N MAKING answer to Mr. Armour’s I second article, it is necessary to quote from the opening lines of my first reply : “Leaving Mr. Armour’s history of the rise of the private car line, his appeal to the American people and a square deal to stand for what they are worth.” First, taking up his history of the rise of the independent fruit-car line and the missionary work incident thereto, investigation reveals that his history is wholly inaccurate and con- sequently wholly worthless. In my first reply I stated that ‘Mr. Armour had been misinformed upon every vital point in this controversy.’’ And I now state that his history of the rise of the private car line, in so far as shipping fruit in - frigerator cars is concerned, 1s one of the points upon which he has been misinformed. The following is the true history of the rise of and this history I do not say that the private fruit-car line, cannot be controverted Mr. Armour has willfully misstated the facts. He has simply been misinformed, and has made himself responsible for a flat misstatement of actual history To get at the actual facts of the rise of he private fruit-car lines I called upon Mr. Fk. A. Thomas, of Chicago, at one time and for many years the largest ship yper of verishable fruits and vegetables in the | nited States. I also asked him in re ‘gard to the cause of the downfall of the C. F Co gerator car line with which he connected, and his reply to me is embodied be lo \ refrig Was Inanarticlein Tue Sarurpay EVENING Posr of January 6, J. Ogden Armour practically maintains that the Armour refrigerator line introduced refrigerator urs to growers for fruit transportation and was the pioneer in that business So far as cars for meats are concerned, the writer will not dispute this, but Mr. Armour is still a young man and perhaps thinks he

can maintain as much for fruits. Older men thar e, howeve a know be tter, though bold assertion often works (on the public) as Wellas facts. TIT insist that F Thomas & Son had built for them, and had their name painted on, the first ten cars built in this country exclusively for fruit trans- portation Mr. Thomas personally declares himself to have been the first to go into the fruit belt to solicit fruit for transportation in refrigerator cars as an independent line fthe Armour agents who told growers they freeze their fruit by putting it ar He doe not say that he ran refrigerator cars for The Railroad had rur ‘the m for some y irs. Armour had no thought then of running ears for fruit transportation. At th: at time from Florida to Chicago there was not what could be called a re-icing The conditions then called for a car that could be loaded in Florida, take a freight train and be on the road for from seven to eight days without being re-iced this is for strawberries +} " 1 ‘ ] stheone instead

} 3; Central Station The Real Pioneers ‘After every sort of objection on the part of the Southern Pacific, Union Pacifie and Northwestern Railroads,"’ says Mr. Thomas, we finally prevailed upon them to take five cars to California to test carrying Cal- ifornia fruits under refrigeration. What were the conditions in the run from Cali- fornia? The same as from Florida, except for a greater distance one which took from twelve to fifteen days with no chance properly to re-ice. Yet the experiment was an — success. At that time no fruit shipper in California would touch refrigerator cars. We bought the fruit to load our cars The year following, some shippers there said they would try them, and before the season was over every shipper there wanted them. At this time the C. F

T. Co, (The F. A. Thomas Company) had been formed This shows who did the missionary work claimed by Mr. Armour After we had demonstrated the value of this work, Porter Brothers Company got a refrigerator line of their own into California the Goodell Line The T. Earl got his line there third year Edwin the C. F. X. Line National League of Commission Merchants The fourth year Porter Brothers Company made their connection with the Armour line. This connection was undoubtedly a work of pure philanthropy on the Armours'’ part. They loved the growers so much. If the writer recollects rightly, it was testified to in open court that the Armour people paid a member of the Porter Brothers firm several hundred thousand dollars. What for? To have Porter Brothers use their (Armours cars exclusively, for Porter Brothers were a ruling factor in California fruit trade at that time. “TheC. F.T. Co., by constantly increasing their equipment to nearly one thousand cars, Were working in other parts of the country. This is about the time Armour began to fight for the business. Where the C. F. T. Co. had running contracts with the roads the word went to those roads from

the Armour people: ‘You will let — fruit cars run on your road, or we will ni allow our beef cars on your line.” This we were told by railroad managers at that time Then they would go to the growers with ‘If you will use our cars we will cut the Edwin T. Earl, with his C. F. X. cars, did the same thing ‘This cutting of rates was done to such anextent that it often compelled the Thomas Company to work at a positive loss. That the intention. It was known that the Thomas concern was not a strong company, that it could be swamped—and swamped it was; driven completely out of ness. It wasa line must but the all their money, all their exclusive neither bluff nor drive him. They iy. Iwas told by one who was ver} to the Armours at that time that E T. got from Armour about $450,000 more than his equipment cost him, and it is common knowledge that Armour & Co. had alse to buy out the Earl Fruit Company after they had bought his cars, to keep Earl from building a new fruit-car line with the money they had paid him for his car equipme nt.” this message rates was 1 DUSI- His way, With with could had to ’ close Earl different story with Earl. also be gotten out of the Armours had to buy him out with all their rebates, contracts, the \ How Much was Philanthropy? ‘Where are you fruit growers and fruit dealers now? Jo you think for a moment that the Armour Company was so philan- thropic, that they loved the growers so much, they were doing this for nothing Armours did not do their preliminary work, their missionary work, without

an object, and that object was money. They said to themselves: ‘A million dollars will do it now. We can easily spare the million, because we not only will get it back out of these growers (with several millions in addition), but we can get every fruit section and every railroad running throug h them absol i ar 1.’ They could - ng snap “the ‘ir fingers and say ‘Without us, how will you move your fruit ?’ Every one who isin any way connected with the fruit knows how they are getting their money back now. “Conditions in the railroads in this country are so much changed that what used to be a necessity in transportation is 3o no longer. Where there used to be one railroad icing station there are now proba- bly a hundred; where cars could not be re-iced in a week they can now be re-iced business every few hours. Every railroad has these icing stations; every railroad has to have them.” I supplement to the foregoing: Railroads can and do ice cars as well as independent refrigerator lines, and nearly every one of the largest railroad lines in the country owns, operates and ices its own refrigerator cars, including, as stated in my first reply, the Illinois Central, the Pennsylvania system, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, the Nickel Plate, the Rock Island, the Michigan Central, the Northwestern, the Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Wabash System, the Grand ' ‘runk, the Wisconsin Central, the Burlington and Quincy and the Santa Fe. Mr. Armour in his second article harps upon the to the immense development of and vegetable Same string as the fruit

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THE industries brought about, as he by the operation of private car though every one at all familiar subject and conditions knows that it has been refrigerator cars that have developed these industries to their present stupendous proportions; not private re irigerator cars, but refrigerator cars -it is immaterial whether under railway or private owner- ship. So far as is concerned all the talk about the private car line making it possible al- with the lines for every one to ‘enjoy fresh fruit, vege- tables and meat,”’ the people enjoy all those articles when iced by private refrig- erator lines by paying a large advance for the enjoyment over what they would pay if the same commodities were not subject to the inordinate profits in the icing which those lines exact. Take two examples To ship a car of grapes from a Michigan point to Boston, the Armour charge for icing in 1905 was $55. To ship a car of grapes from the New York grape belt to Chicago over any of the railway lines the charge was but $10 at the outside,and I have a large number of original railway freight bills in my where the charge for icing is but $5 per car. Take another instance: The Armour charge for icing a car of perishable fruits from Gibson, Tennessee, to Chicago was $73, and in the case of a similar car shipped the same day from Memphis, to Chicago, a little farther distance than Gibson, the railway charge for icing was but $15 hese are but two instances out of thou sands. This is certainly affording the public the ‘‘enjoyment of fresh fruit, vegetables and meat” with a vengeance! possession Tennessee, Icing as High as Freight Mr. Armour attempts to set up a formidable irgument in stating what is pa ie in the of purchasing and maintaining hi equipment. Railways have to pe urchase and maintain their « = nt also, and in ddition build and n tain depots, office buildings and whatnot. But cor to make this plain it is only cost isely

necessary to state that 1 have in my possession a large number of original freight bills where the Armour icing charge is as much as the rail- charge, and in many instances and yet the railway furnis everything: roadbed, rails omotive, train crew, station houses, office bu clerical and manual labor at both termini, and even the very car of the private car line in which the ice is put, because for the use of the car the railway pays the private car line three-quart« rs of acent per mile mileage both ways, loaded or empty In concluding this short reply I he embody letter from Mr. E. G. Davies which is a complete answer to some of the other contentions Mr. Armour puts forth way freight much more; hes lox lding MAlTiVesS rew ith ‘In reading Mr. J. Ogden Armour's at ticle in Tue Sarurpay Eventne Post, lam amazed at the vast amount of presumed knowledge that Mr. Armour has acquired in so short a space ol time It seems but as yesterday that Mr. Armour testified before the Interstate Commerce Com- mission that he knew nothing whatever of the business of the Armour Car Lines and referred the Commission for information to Mr. Robbins, president of the company. Mr. Armour was no doubt perfectly sincere he told the truth. The history of the fruit and vegetable development in the United States is not exactly the place one would look fora treatise on philanthropy, and the earnestness with which Mr. Armour the inherited virtues of benevolent disposi- tion reads like a bitter sarcasm upon the means and methods that were ted by adop

the Armour Car Lines since they first en- gaged in the fruit-carrying business. If Mr J. Ogden Armour’s articles are read analyt- ically it will be found that he has a peculiar style in answering hisownarguments. The contention that has been ra ound Mr Armour is that his charges are extortionate and unjust. In his last art he labors to prove that a charge of $77.50 for icing service on one of his cars loaded with fruit at Los Angeles, California, and shipped to Boston, Massachusetts, is a reasonable one For the sake of the argument let u that it is. We must, however, take into consideration that the mileage that the car would earn would be about 350. This, on a basis of three-quarters of a cent per mile for somewhat less than 3500 miles each w ay. Let us follow this item up on the figures that Mr. Armour himself used in his article. He says that there were 30,000 carloads of concede oranges and lemons alone transported from If all California in the past year. the cars SATURDAY

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the mileage alone would amount to no less than $1,500,000, or an amount sufficient to build the best refrigerator ears at the rate of 1500 cars a year. Armour has 12,000 cars, and it would require less than three round trips per year to accomplish these immense revenue-producing results. ‘We conceded, for the sake of the argu- ment, that $77.50 was a reasonable charge for the Armour icing service from Los Angeles to Boston—from a section of the country where ice is comparatively scarce. At all events, $77.50 for about 3500 miles looks reasonable (whether it is so or not will be shown, if necessary, at another time). But what of the Armour charge from Humboldt, Tennessee, to Chicago? Humboldt is ninety miles south of Cairo. Chicago is 365 miles north of Cairo. The Illinois Central Railroad charges $10.25, average, for icing cars through an entire season from Cairo to Chicago. How much more would it be worth to furnish ice for the remaining ninety miles between Hum- boldt and Cairo? Suppose we say that it is worth $9.75, making a total charge of $20. That looks reasonable, $20 for 455 miles, but that is not Armour’s charge. Kighty-jour dollars is what Armour thinks a reasonable rate for ice from Humboldt, Tennessee, to Chicago. The run is made in less than thirty hours.” The Telltale Rates ‘‘Let us examine what Mr. Armour tells us about the 500 cars of tomatoes shipped from Humboldt, Tennessee, last year. The Armour rate is seven cents per crate; a car usually contains about 1200 crates, amounting to $84 per car. The icing charge as I have already shown is $10.25 on ship- ments from Cairo to Chicago. The Illinois Central iced the cars at that price. The same Illinois Central iced these ears from Humboldt at Cairo. Armour has no icing station there and never did have. I have hown that in the charges that Armour makes for icing the Humboldt shipments there is $64 per car charged in excess of what would appear to be a reasonable rate That amounts to no less than $32,- 000 per year tribute (from one station on one railroad) to Armour’s public-spirited benevolence toward the fruit growers and consumers.” In corroboration of Mr. Davies’ state- ment as to the mileage earnings of refriger- ator cars, | quote as follows from page 16 of the third annual report of the Interstate Commerce Commission: ‘‘A forcible illustration of the results of car mileage to owners of refrigerator cars appeared by a statement put in evidence from the books of a railroad company show- ing the mileage made and earnings of some such ears for nine months. During that period the mileage for which compensation was allowed made by the cars of three shippers from Chicago to an eastern point and over a single line of road was 7,428,406 and the earnings of the cars $72,945.97, be- ing about the cost of Sl ears. The mileage allowed during most of this period was one cent a mile, and three-fourths of a cent a mile for a part of the period. Refrigerator cars run on fast time and make four times the mileage of ordinary freight cars. The cost of investment in cars and the amount of mileage allowed for their use show that the investment is very profitable. Ata car mileage rate of one cent a mile the profit on investment in many of these cars is very large, reaching, according to informa- tion acquired by the Commission, 25 per cent., 50 per cent. and even more, annually. Now, in view of the foregoing statement by the Interstate Commerce Commission as to the profit derived by private car lines in the matter of mileage alone, what shall be said when, at one of the late hearings of the Commission, it was shown that the Armour Car Lines charged for icing ears from 100 to 100, and in many instances over 400, per cent. above the cost of the ice What this tremendous profit added to the mileage- profit means can be best understood when we consider that the entire perishable prod- ucts of the country are now shipped under refrigeration in distances approximately over 150 miles from their market ote p Dv ste p this icing of cars ha been the means, through the operation of exclu between railways and pri- vate refrigerator lines, of placing an onerous tax upon the one thing the perishable food of our pec ple which should be re lieved of every burden possible in passing from the producer to the consumer.

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Y. $50 if it Suits Nothing i Ki Special if it 3 Doesn’t \ IANS I Split Hickory Special Top Buggy 1 SEND YOU ONE FREE y make THE Onto | CARRIAGE MPG COMPANY Station 108 Ci nnati, Ohio | of child labor, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Queen of Sheba considered The Cry of the Children (Continued from Page frock hung a long apron which reached to the ground. Her hair was_ short a shaggy, her face bloated, her eyes like depression in the flesh, and about hae mouth trailed dark streaks of tobacco. It seemed atrocious to question her. Obliv- ion was the only thing that could have been mercifully tendered, and even the peace of death could hardly have relaxed those tense features, cast in the dogged mould of misery. ‘How old are you?” She shook her head ‘*What do you earn?” She shook her head again I asked “I don't know.” On the Night-Shift at Six Her fingers did not for a moment stop in their swift manipulation of the threads. Then,asthoughshe had suddenly reme smbered something, she said: ‘I've only been a-workin’ here a day.” “Only one day? “T’ve been on the night-shift till now. Dwarfs? Ah, yes; dwarfs indeed! But would that those who affirm it might once catch sight of the expression that lowered under the brows of these two miniature victims. Like a menace, threatening, terrible, it seemed to presage a great storm that shall one day be unchained by the spirits too long pent up in service to the greed of man. The next child I questioned was twelve. She had been only three weeks in the mill. “Did you ever go to school?”’ I asked. “T sure did.”’ **Would you rather be in school now?” She stoppe “da moment, looked full at me, and the n ae said , indeed I would.’ It was just then that we were interrupted by _the “Second man ‘Some folks,"’ he explained, “thinks we are runnin’ children under tweayulve. They's all over tweayulve except a few little ones that's in here helpin’.”’ He knew something of the law then, this second man And if the children were only ‘ who was paying them for it? Who but the owners of the mills? At the next factory the intricacy of work helpin’,”’ cotton-woven bedspreads and crash towels—requires older and more expe- rienced hands. The “boss’’ made no objection to showing the mill, but, as I was accompanied through the rooms by aclerk, I had no opportunity to question what children there were. Of the two hundred hands, I saw six or seven Ww ho looke dto be under twelve, and a score who might have just completed their first dozen of years. About a mile out of Anniston yet another mill employing one hundred hands, There, finding the gate ope n, Iw alked in without passing by the office or asking any is sort of permit to visit. My solitary tour | through the spinning-room was inter- rupted by the superintendant, who asked “ business.” e curiosity me my When I told him it was “simp! " he led me on a fatiguing expedition through picking, carding and twine rooms: but I had already questioned hastily ten miniature ‘‘hands’’ who were under twelve years old. Too large a pro- yortion, perh aps, even though they might f* ay e been only ‘ ‘helpi n’!’ The largest factory was firm in its refusal to allow visitors of any sort within its gates ** You see,’ the superintendent said, with a knowing twinkle in his eye, ‘“‘we have ie difficulty keeping our help, and we're alwaysafraid folks might be prowlin’ around to get some of our hands away from us. Besi that,”’ he added, fortifying his refusal, insurance companies don't permit us to let people through the mills.’ SO t { des the Where Night is Day One mill there was whose tall, narrow windows continued through the night-hours to glow in the darkness, reflecting long silver beams of light against the hillside houses, as though to search out and claim in their very sleep the mill hands. Let him who is a skeptic on the subject let him who scoffs at the worth of the “lower classes,”” stand one morning at six before the door of that mill when the night-shift gets off broken | March 10, 1906 herself the richest ruler in the world until she saw the Many a man has considered his letterhead as rece OLD —the pn ive splendor of Solomon. good as any until he a letter written on HAMPSHIRE BOND S ] ‘ater Mark’ eable S 1S ws at once. Orv Hampsuire Bonn is designed for intelligent men and firms who appreciate that the dress of a business communication is as important as its address. 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In the haggard procession that filed up the incline toward the settlement the thing which impressed me most was the cheerful ness of every response that was made to any question I put. Conversation with these peop le never becar as it does inevital ly with the ‘poor whom chi irity societies reach, an occ ‘asion for lamentation and complaint ‘Why, the old mill keeps us company, one woman protested She was a pale wraith of a being, clad in black, her sparse hair dragged clear of herforehead. The fine films of cotton had settled over her garments where they rested like a shroud already enveloping one whose weary limbs would find rest only in death ‘“*We-all don’t mind sleepin’ in the day- time,”’ she smiled, ‘‘when the children don't wake us up, playin’ round By our side trudged a long-legged, bare- footed boy, who gave his age as thirteen At an exclamation of pity from me with regard to the night-work for children, he Said: ‘If youdon't work you can't earn nothin’. You sure do make You can more night get as much in five nights as you can in days’’—which information was accompa nied by a comprehensive expression that traversed his wan face How much time do you have for resting in the night ?”’ Not much of But for eating You ve got any,’’ he said ‘ just abeaout time enough for swallowin’ your midnight lunch. The ma chinery don't never stop and the worl mostly piece-work Here I caught sight of the ‘‘hand ‘most four’? whom my red-headed friend hac naled to me as being on the night-shift Tumbling along by his mother's side in the semi-obscurity of the dawr he appeared like & sprite, & Cres ature bred in a cave, his flesh bleached, his eyes dazed by perpetual darkness Yet when I spoke to him he turned his strange, bloated, masklike face to me and smiled. He's only he Ipin’ me,’ the worker ex plained. ‘“‘He makes a dollar-twentv a week I've got three and myself,’ she added, almost apologetically, ‘‘to look out for since my husband died Anniston is a typical Alabama town in which there happen to be mills. The tene- ments rented by the mill hands are part of the companies’ property, but the schools belong to the township, and the mill chil- dren, like any other residents of the city, may go or not, as they please, to the public classes. There are no compulsory school laws in the State. “We don’t think it’s right in a democ- racy,”’ one of the Alabama club women ex- plained to me, “to Jorce any one to do any- thing. Ifthe parents want their children to go toschool, it’s their privilege to send them ; but we don't believe in compulsion we believe in libert Vy. Uncommon Honesty (= the 4 business linen that has taken place the past year, it g to turn up a story of business integrity like the fol ing—a kind of st ry “th: occurs mu more often than it gets into print A large clothing house in Chicago sh a $10,000 consignment of goods merchant in Alaska As was going a long way, and wou general washing of airty is consotin il

time on the road, it was insured agains On the first week out this clothing got into a freight wreck and was burned up Proof ot te tal destruction was furnished the in surance company by the ppers ind within another week a check was received for the full value of the consignment After a second consignment had been forwarded to the Alaskan dealer, the head of the clothing house remembered that the first shipment had been billed subject to a five per cent. discount for payment ir thirty days. The in surance compan} had paid the full face of the b vithout | rotest within two weeks after its date. hen rding to the business ideas of the head of the hou: who is a Hebrew, the insurances was entitled to the custor Therefore a check fors immediately to the insurance people with an explanation. The latter, on their part, returned the tating that the face of a policy was not meant to include a trade discount, and that the ild not accept the discount. After one ortwo letters had passed the check turned over to a charity. compan\ Same discount ner. 1) Was sent che CK, § co more was THE SATURDAY

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I wish I was comin’ with you to take care of you, for I’m as good as a pilot as any for all the East and a sight better than most.” ‘We wish you were, too, mans. “I'm very much pleased with you all,” said Spink, ‘‘and it will always be a pleasant ret to me that I saved you as you were floatin’ about like as if you were an old tin kettle in a duck pond, as I told your skipper here. And though I'm doin’ you a service, I don’t want to insist on it, as I’m gettin’ vaid for it, and I want to do you one that ’m not paid for if I may. May I? ” and he ‘*wunderbar, " said the Ger- | They asked him what he proposed to do | for them, and he stood up and told them. Gentlemen, my name is Captain Harry Sharpness Spink, and I come from the best county in England, and I have an uncom- mon deal of pride in me in spite of my nature which compels me, as I said, to ship mates | that can lick me and speak to me in terms sometimes that any ‘deck-hand might resent if they were used to him by a drunken ad- miral. And, havin’ that pride, | can feel for the pride of others, and I want to save you and the German Empire from derision, which you and your Empire will certainly get if this affair is put m the papers. | suppose you see that?” There was no mistake about their seeing it, and the ar silence said that they did. Well,” said the noble Spink with his hand at his heart, ‘' 1 propose to say nothing about it publicly, and | further propose to make my officers hold their tongues on so sore a subject by givin’ them a whack out of the swag, and I shall let the crew under- stand that the Swan was hired to come here to coal you, and then no one but yourselves and your Government, when it pays up, will be the wiser. And I only reserve the right to tell it to the English Foreign Office, for it will ease their minds about the German navy. Is that a bargain?”’ The skipper of the cruiser said it was, and all the officers drank the health of Captain Harry Sharpness Spink, of Glo’ster, and he said he would send them a double Glo’ster cheese if they got home again safely — but of that he had his doubts and he owned it. Then he shook hands with all the junior officers once and with the senior officers twice and with the captain at least ten time And I'l \ right,”’ said pink as he went le ‘We'll find a nice quiet ane “hors we in the lee of i fill you uy coal that your old Fatherland ( a museum. And I'll bet the men you have there was brought from neighborhood of Cardiff. But the morning, when we'll go your poor empt feel a home He was very sorry for them, but not at all him He had aone a mighty stroke of business and he revealed his heart to Day “I've sold those poor benighted lubbers a thousand tons,”” he we'll take the after all, and ‘ll fix it up with the consignees m part owner, ain't 1? And I don’t see Ww hy I s fe tell the robbers who my partners anything about my deal with the German Empire. They have robbed me socotra an ut of speci- the good-by till and l unkers, my sons I though, if oun, to Work deal easier, “+ ~ ve sorry for self land- said, ‘‘and rest out to Si ngapore are re you in, Day? d Ward | to those ‘em up to public Harry ess took a last look at it below fora snoo avs did be lieve in iid he w: “TI think I beh: Dutchmen not to hold aptain f Glo'ster, as he iser before he wer 1 alw: derision,” said C Spink oharpn the cru ‘But bein’ kind to March 10, 1906 The Latest Word In Sanitation The name SY-CLO on a closet means health ingin which the closet is placed ; it means treed usually traceable to noxious odors and poisonous insuran r your home or any build- yn trom all those diseases which are gases afising trom ordinary closets SY-CLO stands for more than mere flush t stands for a wonderful syphonic iction of great power — an action which literally pulls the contents of the bowl into the drain, cleansing the non-reachable parts, instantly sealing the outlet channel with a water trap to an unusual depth, and absolute venting all danger of gas The SY-CLO Closet stands for an interior cleanliness and purity impossible in an iron closet, and unknown in any closet but > made of china like the SY-CLO Hand-moulded of china nto one solid piece like a vase, the SY-CLO Its without crack, nt or rough surface to collect dirt or disease rms. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST AN OUTLAW |; a... 7 see AT HOME Both Sides of this vet Ra Underwear Question } 8:

| Aunt Metty was at home Both assistants , , | had gone to Marysville the night before, and | Uncle Niely was sitting up with the old balty j ‘ ‘ow in their stead. The two visitors ex- , - | t plained, with some awkwardness, that they - i had been going on to the ‘‘gap,’’ and had . 9 seen the cabin, and had thought that per ki fu haps they could stay over and get some wor vo ' sor hen breakfast po ‘ rh > word \ : { Uncle Niely did not come down the gulch j I your letters do not | tor another half-hour. He hed heard the w .

° 7 onies, however, and when he did come, he r | read right It raat : be the ions much more silently than those ‘‘rev- , : 3 : stenogr: ap yher’s. fault. It ance Rg gs — —_ ; a a " covered them with two large hammerless rm } 7 the y do not look right revolvers at the same instant as they threw Li 7 Me h \ ' | it's the fault of the typewriter. up their rifles. -INEN Mes With th The power of personal magnetism is « ; | e something which has, perhaps, been over- ‘ emphasized. But there is one phase of it nel > > to which almost no attention has been given ‘ ' ' i j at all. When two gentlemen face each Kneipp Wear-Guarantee }

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owned that the request Was a moderate one 0 10 04 ) Filth Ave and commanded her to prepare it for thet fea) See. bee ‘Lage ms $ ee $4 Ihe Pralf Teachers’ Agency on y - Also, that they should be ready for it when | FXG 4 2 ' it Was prepare d, he seated them side by side for par tieulars at the table, and upon that small vertebral hummock on the nape of the masculine —Pos iti vel 7 ae neck -which under more fancy-free con y as

ditions is commonly polished or abraded by | ie the collar-button--in the case of each of | | of the his guests he placed a revolver muzzle | | — een . “ colder than a retriever’s nos« After tl | | —— ne fatoar tad aes teot | PSOOKLOVers’ aie he bade them eat MERCHANT & EVANS CO., Inc. One of the pair seemed to have the same | |

lifficulty in finding his mouth with | { l , now first i t Booklovers’ Shakespeare ani ditheul n finding his mout! ith his fork ' tys } } ‘ rt ; as a three months’ old baby has in finding ™ : , , it witharattle. The other choked himself yED cat sole min. ot OIE at the second gulp, and was in common

fairness warned that another such par- | | \ yvsm might loose off the trigger. They F aid they could not eat They had asked | ' oD ae | ERCHANT ‘'S for breakfast, however, and, as Uncle Niel | positively the last of the Booklovers’ Shakespeare reminded them, the Scriptures are terribk ; }

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They found a little restaurant where only art students ate, and where one could breakfast royally for about a shilling. Betty looked with interest at the faces of the students, and wondered whether she should ever know any of them. Some of them looked interesting. A few were English, and fully half American. Then the weary hunt for rooms began again. It was five o'clock before a concierge, unexpectedly amiable in face of their refusal of his rooms, asked whether they had tried Madame _ Bianchi’s -Madame Bianchi, where the atelier was, and the students’ meetings on Sunday evenings number 57, Boulevard Montparnasse. They tried it. One passes through an archway into a yard where the machinery of a great laundry pulses half the week, up some wide wooden stairs—shallow, easy stairs—and on the first floor are the two rooms. Betty drew a long breath when she saw them. The y were lofty, the Vv were airy, There was not much they were light furniture, but what there was was good old carved armoires, solid divans and — joy of jo. in each room a carved oak, seven- teenth century mantelpiece eight feet high and four feet deep ‘I must Ang » these rooms!” Betty whis- pered. ion uld make them so pretty! rhe rent a the rooms was almost twice as much as Paula mur the sum they had fixed on, and mured caution. ‘It’snouse,”’ said Betty. ‘‘We'llliveon bread and water if you like, but we'll live on it here.” And she took the rooms. I'm sure we've done right,”’ she said as they drove off to fetch her boxes the rooms will be like a home — you see if they aren't. And there’s a piano, too. And Madame Bianchi, isn’t she a darling 4 Isn't she pretty and sweet and nice?” “Yes,” said Paula thoughtfully; ‘‘it certainly is something that you've got rooms in the house of a woman like that.”’ And that ducky little kitchen! Oh, we shall have such fun cooking our own meals!”’ When the boxes were unpacked, and Betty had pinned up a few prints and photo- graphs and sketches, coal arranged some bright-colored Liberty scarfs to cover the walls’ more obvious defects~ left by the removal of the last tenant's decorations when flowers were on table and piano, the curtains drawn and the lamps lighted, the room did, indeed, look ‘‘like a home.”’ ‘We'll have dinner out to-night,”’ said Paula, ‘‘and to-morrow we'll go marketing, and find you a studio to work at.” ‘Why not here?” ‘That's anidea. Have you a lace collar icanlendme? Thisis not fit to be seen.” Betty pinned the collar on her friend. yo ‘I believe you get prettierevery minute she said. ! must just write home and give them my address.’ She fete hed her embroidered blotting- book and wri 7, Be Mont! NASSE Vv j rhis is our new address. Madame Gautier’s tenant wanted to ke« pon her flat in the Rue de Vaugirard, so she has taken this one which is larger and enient as it Is close to Many of the best studi It is not deeided i Il am to study, but there i atelier in the house for ladies only think it will be there, so that I t have to go out to my lessons © €2fain aS Soon as We are settled. We only moved in late this afterr » there is a lot to do. 1 hope are quite well, and that everything 1 going on well in the parish 1 will certainly send some etches for the Christmas sale. Mad- ame Gautier does not wish me to go home Christmas; she thinks it would interrupt my work too mucl There is a new girl, a Miss Conway. I like her very much. With love, Yours affectionately E. Deswonp. 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