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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Copynght,.906 by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, Founded A°D' 1728 by Benj.Franklin Entered atthe Philadelphia Post-Office inthe 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,W.C Volume 175 PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 24, 1900 . Number 39 OAQUISTITA ee FRR BC TSA ga a RE a at : > OER eS }r uf Robert Henry’s Own Story of His Captivity and Enslavement Y NAMI Robert Henry I was born in the ailor ho gave me } ur Per t Fishkill Landing, Dutchess C« Robe r rather I New York, in the year 1857, and am fort nsistecd on calling me eight years of age I am to-day a member of the _ his high approval of my di uniformed force of the New York police, ranking asa away, explained that th: } Roundsman, and am attached to what is known a begun | wn disting he the *‘ Health Squad,” detailed to the Health Depar nti i me to a frier ment in Sixth Avenue. With these facts as an intro deck-hand on the R duction, I propose to relate the early incidents in 1 sotween the | career, leading up to my capture | a band ol nightta meat Indians in the Sierra Madre mountains, my d over the le, and cones covery of their town of Joaquistita, my detention tuffed with biscuit and a sma a of among them as a captive for sixteen months, and my eventual escape and retu United States where I had long been accounted dead. I believe that a si beyond mv} ‘ ‘ , } ment of my adventures, set forth exactly as they occurred without a sing of mer eir ( thet elaboration or concealment, and with careful reference in every case to place 3s, name men found me crouching ; ! ‘ ind haule , ‘ mew} and dates, may prove not uninteresting d even may perhaps have some fror ‘ } ‘ | } point of view of history and ethnology In an) event, I desire to leave behind me hoy The order, alt ivr} ! nie I i than I } some record of my « xperiences, before returning next year, at the expiration of 1 ever heard in | ni al | twenty years of service upon the police force, to the Sierra Madres for the purpose of had read. neverthels eeme nd 1 cor ure } } i tinding , if | can, the plateau and town of Joaquistita in store for 1 I er } I ‘ f th TNTIL fifteen vears of age I lived with my parents in the town of Fishkill Landing James Johnsor is ave e place of t ent Wha hr ‘ ess on reac} | where my father, William Henry, had been for many years connected in busin t he Gulf Stream and the abuse posed upon me his 1 nt, I pretty bad with the Fishkili Landing Machine Works. Here I attended the old brick school, but hape wher e got to the Ist} 1 Ir tion to tl lhadt ent of mone beyond distinguishing myself as a juvenile athlete I never showed any particular promise and _ the t} 1 had o1 I co! 1 of 1 e entirely and soon decided that I had no use for hi education. My parents, however, wer ina resolved that I should have all the education which they could afford to give me whether Witha partir I i! Jol nt hore nihe rs tort ‘ 1 wanted it or not, and the end of the matter was that, becoming heart tired of stu rnorant of | I et to Par the me ( ! ! nt and of life in Fishkill, I slipped on board the little steamer that plied between that tow: is if I sh i have t I i t} esl and New York City, and, with less than a dol in my pocket and with only what hen | was accosted ‘ I n board clothes I wore, took French leave of my family and old surrounding among the passenger I t | ‘ I remember the day very well, for it was Memorial Day, May 30, 1872, and the ipon me nee t nder { veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic were marching through the streets, but | inteering to st t nar instead of making me feel homesick, the music and activity only thrilled me the 1 | 1 the luctor sh I ’ p the with a desire to go forth on my adventures I had heard a great deal about California a ! t I nad brent rtt t fl and the very name had a magic sound to my country ear. How to get there, or exact ‘ have reached ( where it Was, I had no idea, but n Vv imaginat n had been fired at he ep readil In th i I Lto}l ne I ( ! storie of the sea, and it seemed roper to be n mv new iite ft gyetting a s00n a ale ied that the ol possible on board a ship ilso of the Pacific Ma Accordingly, | bought some rolls of bread and, eating as I walked, struggled against the and asked tot 11 I My re J f ra i: crowd -which was moving uptown—down toward the Batter Here I found large as again | ed int kest | I n | numbers of tough-looking sailors, standing singly and in groups, and all very jovial ter, aftera sant and | I high on of and noisy. Though I was but fifteen, I was tall and strong for my age, yet the thought human nat of confiding my purpose to any of these strange, half-drunken men did not plea e me l I first secured a Dou I nar n Ma i finally mustered sufficient courage, however, to address one of them and inquired if he ne found position for tha t nder ona barge bel ng regular could tell me how I could get to California. It is not my intention to take the time to ¢g trips of two or three hundre es up the San Je lin Rive M ity consisted into all the details of my running away, else I should tell how the sailor piloted me toa in seeing to the tow-line when the steamer made round a bend { the rapid chang grogshop kept by a man called ** Peg-leg’’ Robinson, and having drunk all the rum which that have occurred in the West eve recent times are we trate the fact that the contents of my pocket would buy, agreed to help me to get aboard the old Rising 1, a mere child of fifteen, received ages the im of eighty dollars a month and Sun steamship of the Pacific Mail Line then lying at Pier 42 and bound forColon. The my board. It was withagreat di f pride that I wrote to my father and mother of my

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success, and for the first time I began to feel that perhaps my departure from home had not been such a mistake as the period I had spent in the Rising Sun's bakeshop led me to suppose. I kept this lucrative and exceedingly pleasant position during the summer and autumn of 1872, and at the conclu- sion of river navigation returned to San Francisco richer than I had ever been before in my entirelife. If I re- member correctly, I had over two hundred dollars when [ arrived at the Lick House, which in less than one week was reduced to ten without any perceptible betterment In my condition, By this time I was a victim of afir s case of the gold fever and, nothing daunted by the ease with which I had disposed of my money, set off to recoup my losses (a simple matter as I then amid the mining camps of Nevada. In due course I arrived in Virginia City as penni- less as when | had landed in Colon, and vastly more hungry. I had no comrade, and what friends | had acquired during the temporary period of my affluence had remained behind at the Lick House. Even in the coal bunkers of the Rising Sun I had never felt such pangs in my poor stomach as I did on Christmas Day, wandering down the straggling street f that little mining town with the big mountains rearing their sharp peaks all around me. Everybody eemed happy and cheerful except myself t-cla suppose d THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Ed! That smells just like a bottle of Crosse & Black- well’s pickles!” Murphy turned abruptly and pointed with a laugh to the sign above our heads—we were standing directly in front of Crosse & Blackwell's! It was a caution to see how those dapper little clerks stared when we two wild Indians rushed inand began to buy pickles! The Britishers are a funny lot! Labor was scarce in those days in Nevada and I had no difficulty in finding a job as an ordinary miner in what was known as the Mexican Mine, owned by Mackay, Flood, Fair and O’Brien. Needless to say, I boarded with my adopted mother, Julie Ann O'Neil, and you may be sure that, from that time on, I ne hungry until I once more gave way for wandering ‘ The men about me were rough, but extremely capable and intelligent, Irish, Welsh and Cornish miners, and from them I thoroughly learned the rudiments of mining, just as later I acquired what I knew of metallurgy from Clarence King. Not once did I wish myself back in the old brick schoolhouse at Fishkill Landing, although now and again I longed to see the faces of my parents and old associates. Here I remained four years, which seemed short enough, hardly ever leaving the mines and carefully saving most of ver knew what it was to be to my irresistible thirst At home in Fishkill I knew that my father, — mother and the rest of the family were just sitting down at the big deal table in the ‘ ms : kitchen to a good-sized Christmas goose. f With these painful thoughts in my mind ve a Bigs = I suddenly became aware of a current of ees warm air which enveloped me with such a ae piey, cloying sweetness that the tickling in my nostrils actually caused me to sneeze. , +—F- ' 4 1 turned around and found myself in front & f | y p ; : of the open door of what seemed to be a _ & ; - te j boarding-house, wherein a stout, rosy-faced * ‘ , woman was busily engaged in fetching smok- a 4 fu; i } ing dishes from a huge oven and placing them S| ‘ upon a large table at which were gathered one = * ¥ . % of those motley collections of vigorous hu- f ; : manity to be found only in a Western camp. i. t 4 On the table were pies and buns and dough- ; ; nuts and popovers, and an immense Irish stew which filled a platter fully three feet . \ long. Sucha vision for a homesick, hungry boy! How can you blame me if I timidly * approached the open door and gazed wist- , i 4 fully at the glorious heaps of food so tempt- , i ingly displayed within? : The woman banged down a huge pile of ; j doughnuts and turned to go back for more, i -_ when she caught sight of me staring help- ; In an instant she had nui | rs “asped my arm be By an !’’ she exclaimed, a wali bs pg . Baket ft ‘ } l of 1 herly concern spreading over her ’ ¢ Lag i } | ample countenance Shure an’ from the x A ae , é ‘ / look av him the t hungry! Come in an’ af a ; cedetpos: 82 fill yer belly, ye poor starvin’ crayter! : Pes eer And with that she led me unresisting into rn —— the kitchen and planted me down between ’ . ” See two burly miner Tt Ne Did I eat Ask some fifteen-year-old ras- ~ cal that has been hunting rabbits all day and ” ere ah ha e home to a Thanksgiving dinner! ; yg) : ] at til dear old Juke Ann O'Neil —for it was to her that I had come—threw her checkered apron over her head and burst into a flood of weeping that any of God's creature hould be so hungry on the day of the blessed Saviour'’s birth Dear old Julie "ae Ann! She is living still in Dublin, and every I can post ffice with a he: od wishes for the Christmas | write the best letter that and carry it to the thankfulness and g honest woman \ befnended me B the b’y’s heart! Hecanstay an’ eat until he fir i an’ d as t shall he pay ! That was Julie's introduction of her new boarder to the group around the table. How I repaid her later for |} warm-hearted generosity you shall hear The two men ty hom she had pla me were Edward Murp! of Pr ‘ «, Rhode Island whose company 1 was aft W it a rse im ithe mining distr 3 of the world and the other John Flood, of San Francis« who owned many valuable properties in Virginia City in partnership with John W. Mackay, Fair and O'Brien Many years afterward I « xperienced an aimost olfactory sensatior It was after I had made my stake with Murphy in the Cowan range in Queensland, Australia, and was blowing it ar’s trip through mon | nona y Europe that | Street in London pungent, delicious, spicy, familiar odor For a brought back that Virginia City, and then I slapped Murphy on the back and exclaimed: found myself one afterno tegent town with a queer all about me moment it Christmas Day in March 24, 1906 which were taken out of the level were carefully guarded and sent by Mackay personally to the assay office. Of course, the results were known only to those interested in the financial end of the proposition and determined the real value of the mining stock. I decided that it would be a very good thing if I could find out what was going on. On the seventeen hundred foot level was working a young Irishman named William Brennan, who came from a farm in Illinois. Like many other farms in that region, not only in those days but in this, it was heavily Brennan's one ambition in life was to get enough money to pay this off and return to work his land free and clear. He had thought so much about this that, during the four years I knew him, he had, from a jovial, good-natured fellow, changed to a taciturn and morose one. One day I hinted to him that I had thought of a plan which, if successful, would more than enable him to pay off his mortgage and ought, in fact, put him in a position to buy half a township. The scheme was simplicity itself. All he had to do was to come downa ladder from the seventeen hundred foot level, where he was working, and take samples of ore from my level which I would push out under the bulkhead point to him. After some hesitation he agreed to enter into the project, and the next day we found ourselves in possession of a complete set of samples of the ore which I was drilling for Mr. Mackay, and, after having it assayed, knew as much about the value of the mine as the owner did himself. mortgaged, and bo i Once we had discovered the immense value Such a Vision for a Homesick, Hungry Boy! my money for the stake with which we all hoped sooner or later to start out prospecting and make fortunes for our- But first I had to learn my trade, and I hope Is i ot be called egotistical if I say that at the end of that time I was classed as an expert miner and was working the id drill in the Crown Point Mine for Jol othing, and for that reason ! t recount an episode which, though it casts no credit on ul art ints . ell), Was at least due toa I re I tive uwa\ Vanted to show, In some ibstantial 1 preciation for what Mrs, O'Neil had « forr was due quite as much to this as to any desire to yself that I vielded to temptation Il was first oned in the Crown Point Mine at the one th ind eight hundred foot level, where, before | was ever permitted to operate the drill, I was compelled to take off my street ¢ and pu in a separate room. At the conclusion of the day’s work I had to take off my working clothes, which were then carefully searched, take a bath and re-don my ordinary dress. This wasa nec- ary precaution to prevent rival owners from learning the ue of the property from dishonest miners. The samples lothes t on working togs « % lay your hands on of the property, which was rich beyond our wildest imaginings, we held a meeting in Mrs O’Neil’s kitchen, at which were present Julie Ann herself, Bill Brennan, ‘‘ Yank”? Benson, b my cabin-partner, and myself. I can recall 8 the scene as if it had occurred only yesterday ¥ when I got up from my chair as calmly as I f could, knocked the ashes out of my pipe, and with a formality adequate to the importance of the occasion addressed our hostess. Mrs. O'Neil,” I began, in the tones I had heard employed by the orators who fre quented the Fishkill Lyceum, “it gives me » great pleasure to be here to-night. You have been very kind to me and to my friends You have always said that it was your desire to return to Ireland, there to spend the re mainder of your days. It is my happiness to show you how you may do so. Buy every share of Crown Point mining stock you can even if you have to steal nae the money.” ‘Bliss the b’y, what does he mane?” ex- s claimed Julie Ann And then without any further frills I of how we had value of the mine. poured out excitedly the story discovered the fabulous After a solemn pledge of secrecy separ- ated, and within a month Mrs. O'Neil left Virginia City forever, the possessor of thirty thousand dollars, the result of the inform: j tion which I had been able to disclose to her Benson and myst If cleared ten thou- sand dollars apiece, and Brennan returned to Illinois and paid off the mortgage on his farm, where he is still living happily with his w We i- abou x wife and a large family of sonsand daughters, D: some of whom have children of their own I was now the possessor of a handsome stake and eager to start prospecting on my own and, as was the in those days, formed a partnership for the pur- pose with Benson, Murphy and a man named Edward Carroll, who was a native of Rich- mond, Virginia. ‘These three men from now on became my inseparable companions, and we were bound together by such ties of friendship, cemented by danger and hardship, that each sto dy to give his life for the others, at any moment, if This Y i We por led our mone y, purens could be bought, account, is custom ion required it s no idle statement, as will | st outfits that and set out or » wanderings which ended only in my capture and enslavement at Joaquistita \ word Yank”’ or two ast Re nson, ¢ n wno ere my Iriends a quiet, shrewd, hard-headed, but war ed Englander, in whom rned that insatiable love of adventure whicl 30 often ind where it is to be least expected. He rarely spoke, and when he did so usually veiled his seriousness of He was between a great fellow to lie his teeth and smoked, but thought ina on his back with a esting I grass ‘ He exert an almost Murphy, on the other hand, was a Prov arank or superhuman strength stare up into the never when angry coul idence Irishman, with some knowledge of boats and sailing and the most picturesque collection of profanity I have ever heard He had all the virtues and most of the failings of his loquacity for Benson’s Celtic blood, and he made up in

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 3 taciturnity. They were Senator ha ’ good foils to each other, vce b nt and Murphy was always i with playing practical jokes on I “Yank,” which somehow ‘ i always used to rebound upon himself with re- vt doubled force without the slightest disturbance to his equanimity, for he was S the most good-natured I soul I have ever known a He, too, was strong as a bull, but his taste for ‘ ‘ 1c i liquor and tobacco (the . he Sena latter he indulged to ex- { ‘ in to waste cess) had rendered his inted powers of endurance less } e of f extraordinary. Ll had } check Carroll was a college f , n question man, a graduate, I on | | California believe, of Harvard | San Francisco University. He was a Next ny I dispatched finely-built, handsome runner to the fellow, with dark, curly hit ictions for hair and very black eyes t| ‘ e as fast ; a Southerner from his toes to hisfinger-tips. He spoke in a low drawl that to the rest of us was out of Pacific for Sar the ordinary and rather Fra \ " pleasing. The only thing I I cashed that ever roughed us at he c} at is Wa all was his insistence on : : a ~ ‘ f ‘ in the the superiority of the : a See oe . fr i f the | House Southern leaders in the E Fob HAaxees ee wee ot, Wet wt with 4 one-thousand Civil War over the Union i .; : PPE a rubber generals, It appeared f ’ ladmit I that his father had been t} hiv ashame : oo xp : * Mrs. O'Neil, it Gives Me Great Pieasure to be Here To-Night y ashi : a distinguished officer this transaction, but I in the Confederate Army have r to tell 1 and had met his death at Gettysburg At all events, when however, avs he, “‘a large amount of valuable min hole ‘ That t} rk t ever we staked out a claim Carroll would invariably insist deposit litable for the erection of boundary walls or rether f I t the fact tha that it should be called after one of his father’s old com- the pavin' of streets, in addition to which ther ulthou } ‘ ' er in the rades in arms. He made such a point of it that after a silver and considerable sign of quicksilver. There migh proposition while it became a regular custom. Thus we had the be more of the perly injected Phet | r Robert E. Lee Mine, and the General Forrest, and when all closed his r nd picked up a long blad rime ] iv ofte bliter the names were used up we would begin all over again, of grass for : at r} esh il ‘ id conduc and christen them ‘‘second,”’ “third,’’ and so on There They tell Vy, that quicksilver j e! Yea . he 1} i ‘ er ot the must have been a dozen Robert E. Lees, some in Nevada, valyable for the makin’ av thermometer Ifwecansellthe New York | ea | ne ¢ n fror f some in Sonora, and one or two in far-off Queensland. owld hole any quicker he Hott H e, | heard a heart e¢ behind me, that Carroll was the “literary feller’ of the party, and often, as ‘| fear,” interrupts Carroll, ‘‘that in that case the mer I recog las M we sat around the ca fire in the darkne he would = cury would be unable to register the degree of heat which If I didn't } that Bob |} rv had been killed | repeat verses from Tennyson, Keats, Shelley and Browning would be generated.’ Ir ul i ‘ ! t ra l should say tha I remember he used to say that in poetry the Britishers had “What's the matter with Senator Hearst Isuggested. that was | us whipped toastandstill. “Yank” remarked that when The meaning was ol ! At this time the grea \\ | he had made his pile he would go back to Brattleboro throughout the Western State and particular in Ca | | and turn off a few miles of verse show them how fornia is qu ind wal . of | ’ Carroll's favorite piece of poetry it the moonora knowled that the father of the pr | rietor I ‘ i ’ cloud or something of the sort, w ‘“‘orbed maiden with white fire laden ortals call the We talked the: ré r,a ! l moon.” It had quite a swing. E rphy allowed companions at the e, I ) that it was good, and that it made him tl k of a June and boarded the t! rSan | t like night on Narr ifter a clambake. I remem- tunel ! he Se | ber Carroll alm blows one night with Bensor before | as all manne | l He because after he had repeated the lines several times end- I had known Hearst be Vir it na J. | ! i a ' ing with ‘‘that mortals call the moon,” ‘‘ Yank” yawned his attention without diflicult I laid it « is th I I t lJa nM and added in the same mournful ton dared, and the Senator packed a valise a 1 he t the M M back w hmeto Fort Yuma ibhence t i l ! The little dog laughed to see such sport took the trail back t the mine ! ‘ | ! par nt And the dish ran away with the spe ! knew evervbody else and we all called one t il } I i maret nto the first 1 ‘ We found e hk " rf " Hott n | M i t { t “Sir,”’ says Carroll, springing to his feet, ‘‘those lin brief chat, for he was a man of business, the Senat irne ‘ mt me ! i e of tl littl are sacred. You can never understand them.’’ Then he to me and said marl edt it { itor the story of the dropped his clenched fist and wandered off among the ‘Bob, I know you area good fell ind perf honest t nd the \\ } hea iugh out of it trees. There was something about him none of us ever but I wouldn't trust 1 own mother if she was trving t ind Hearst ed me t iter he | taker S100 quite understood. I learned afterward that the name of sell mea mine, sol propose to go down and put the shot int 000 out of th ne I eing he mood for his sweetheart was ‘‘Cynthia.”’ f I } ] } ampl We were a gay party enough the morning we set out ht, Senator " | ( i | f I M H it a from Fort Yuma on that series of adventures that was mething there to ] ‘ } t to extend over years—but into the daily life of four or- So the Senator scrambled down the shaft with } ! [ t erou ! men, and dinary Western silver miners I do not intend to go. Let and fired into the mine, and after the ke had cle 1 f as | t t | “partment I vet to it be enough to say that we located our f r clair away filled a gunny-sack (one of } i the We | up in the Mule Mountains, where there were strong indi- which he had brought from San Frat } ) \ ! ' led, and cations of quicksilver, which, it turned out, was not in malt Then he climbed out and wa Keen tog t a pett ! the l fafellow t i sufficient quantities to be mined with profit. The mine Yuma that we 1 ‘ I I I ti ! t mind had been christened, in accordance with the rule which been tethers tthe foot of t { t , | ' the afterward became invariable, the Stone ill Jackson f i at ite t Itt ! Mine, and Murphy soon declared that it was well-named cious sack slung over | houlders, for he that nothing but stone walls could be got out of it. all any one el be ' : M M t This proposition was so self-evident that we held a coun- While in San Frat had purcha " 1 : Sie : cil of war for the purpose of deciding what to do next which I had filled with ra juicksilver, and 1 ee 4) It was ‘‘Yank”’ Benson who finally suggested trying to made our way with difficulty down the steep 1 I sell it. This was before the days of frenzied finance, managed, after two or three unsuccessful attempts, 1 And next uvla but I suppose the game was played under about the — squirt a little of the contents into the sack — not too mu same rule. but enough to ‘‘ make the indications unmistakabl F N . M “IT reckon,” says ‘‘ Yank,” “that this here mine is too Once at the foot of the mountain we straddled our - ; { durn difficult for poor men like us to work. There is, mules and made for Tucson as fast as we could. Here Mexi« E: ‘

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST March 24, 1906 Religion in the Days of Our Fathers ID it ever occur to you that, when we Americans talk of the growth of the nation ir the last fifty years, we alway ure it by things? We gauge it by telephones, automobiles, anasthet- ics, the number of voters, the cheapness of education —all the tangible good things, in short, which we have and our grandfathers had not Uncle Sam has undoubtedly pushed his way with his material successes to a foremost place in the Congress of Nations. Every day, when we read our morning paper, we fondly note how he is holding his own with the peoples of the earth in trade, in diplomacy, and in art. But it never occurs to us to measure the individual Amer- ican himself. What is he to-day? How does he compare with his grandfather, the old farmer, in the flannel shirt and hobnailed shoes, who used to hoe corn in the patch yonder? His grandson has built a stately Colonial mansion on the site of the old farmhouse. He has terraced the cow- pasture and turned the potato fields into softly-sloping emerald golf-links. His library, built on the foundation of the kitchen in which the old people lived, is rich in first he has two or three really great pictures on his walls; he entertains scholars, politicians, presidents and princes at his table. But in the grain, as a man, how does he compare with the old farmer? Is he a finer gentleman at heart? Whatis there to say of the relations of the two men to their servants, to their women-folk, to their God? We don’t often look into these things it now for a few minutes. The modern man is here for you to judge. I will tell you what I remember of that older American of fifty years ago. I do not mean the New Englander — I was not born in his bailiwieck -but of the American of the Middle and Upper Southern States, the descendant of the old Scotch-Irish immigrant, as vigorous and fine a human stock as any ever planted in this earth The dominant fact about a man, at that time, was his religion. Whether he was a truer Christian at heart than ua gut certainly his religion or his lack of it was the important fact then about every man as it is not to-day For instance, you now to ask whether your milkman or doctor is verted. But then you would have known, and if they were not believers you would have wrestled often for them in meas- editions; Let us try to do you are is not for us to decide it never occurs to con- prayer to God, Religion because there was not much else to possess them. The struggle for a living was not then breathless and eruel ing imple and cheap. Tidings from other nations came but seldom and hence we felt b nterest intheirconeerns. Never having heard of gigantic fortunes later than the days of Midas, we never thought of making them. Then, too, each indi- d his way alone upon his narrow path. There sor unions to absorb his thoughts. Hence his brain was busied with his own little life, and the two agents at work in it--God and the devil. You felt them near you at every turn. You heard of them every of the day In all respectable households the then possessed every man's thoughts, partly Consider as now ] ving wa ita feeble vidual worl were no guilds or league moment The Simpler American of Only Fifty Years Ago By Rebecca Harding Davis day began and ended with prayers; and grace was said with more or less reverence at every meal. Naturally, in these observances there was every variety of expression, from the most exalted worship down to cant. I remember, for instance, the daily evening prayers in the house of Bishop Alexander Campbell, founder of the denomination known as Disciples. All sorts of folk found their way to the house of this famous religious leader. Once a day they gathered about him while he read a few verses from the Bible, which were discussed by every one present, even the little children and servants giving their opinions. No service could be more true or solemn, On the other hand, I remember a certain house in which, three times a day for many years, the father, when the family were gathered around the table,would summon them ina singsong whine through his nose to ‘‘come down from the hills of your iniquities and the mountains of your trans- gressions to taste the blessings”’ (the pork and pies) ‘‘ which flow in upon us here in covenants of love.’’ The piety underlying these two services was probably as pure in one case as in the other. But the familiar chatter to God and about God was apt to degenerate with vulgarly-minded folk into meaningless blasphemy. There is no doubt, however, that the universal neglect now, in this country, of the old custom of family worship is a distinct national After all, we are all only ignorant travelers in an un- known country,and it is wise to meet once a day to consult together, and make sure that we are on the road to our far- off home. The God, of whom our forefathers talked so familiarly, was no awful or unknown Creator. They had no doubt about Him. Blacksmiths and ditchers talked as familiarly of Him, His acts and intentions, as if they had been in His cabinet of advisers when the world was made. They gave Him the human qualities which were most admirable in their own eyes — chief of all, an unreasoning will and inexorable, merciless justice. This grim Diety was a real fact to these people. Religion in their souls was not so much a glad, absolute trust in a loving Father, or a brotherly kindness for their neighbors, as a perpetual terror and fearful ex- pectation of judgment. Their favorite passages of Scrip- ture were David's curses upon his enemies, or Paul's legal arguments. St. John’s Gospel of Love was not popular. ‘I fear,’”’ said one godly minister whom I knew, ‘‘that the beloved disciple was a lee-tle lax in his theology.” Strange, horrible ideas grew up out of this ignorance and fear, and made their lives miserable. One of these was the Unpardonable Sin, an undefined, nameless crime which God never pardoned, even when the sinner had borne eternities of hell. In almost every village there were slow-witted men or starved, anemic girls who believed that they had been guilty of this mysterious crime. A few illogical folk, too, in some of the sects conceived the idea that God, in order to punish the disobedience of one man, thousands of years ago, had gone on ever since creating daily myriads of human beings in order to roast loss. them in hell. He had, however, they said, arbitrarily chosen out of these hosts a few men and women to bless eternally. No act of yours, no pure or heroic life, could save you from perdition if you were born into the accursed majority. I remember that once, when | was a pert girl of fifteen, a pious minister, a guest in our home, reasoned with me until midnight to convince me that if I were one of the hordes born to be sent to hell I should submit and thank God. He was so grieved at my refusal to do this that he did not go to bed at all that night, but prayed aloud until morning with cries and tears—not that I should be saved; his prayers, he believed, could not touch that— but that I should be willing to be damned. But, although many of these good folk declared their be- lief in this scheme of wholesale damnation, each one prob- ably was secretly convinced that he, personally, was safe among the chosen few. The old story of the good woman who declared that ‘‘only meand Johnare sure of salvation,” adding sadly, ‘‘an’ I have my doubts of John,’’ was no exaggeration. Believing themselves thus our grandfathers dealt out the wrath of God to their neighbors generously I remember but one or two sermons heard in my youth in which were not preached the terrors of hell, or of a huge worm which was supposed to feed upon the souls of un- believers. The discourse always ended in a congratula- tory greeting to ‘‘My Christian brethren,” and so terrible a warning to the unconverted hearer that, if you were a timid child, you felt the fires and the worm already at work upon your body as you cowered in the pew. This kind of preaching was not confined to any sect, though the Episcopalians, as a rule, dealt more gently with the soul than other denominations. There were then, however, but few members of this church scattered among the Baptists, Presbyterians and Methodists who settled the Middle States. They were regarded askance with suspi- cious looks. The women were apt to wear ribbons, and were addicted They quie tly drew their children, as they were, early into the fold of the church, believing ‘‘change of heart’’ to be a slow growth. The devil, too, was then an actual and extremely active entity among us. The generation before mine believed that he posse ssed the bodies of certain persons, driving them to incessant crime. We have records of several oc- casions in Philadelphia when numbers of zealous Metho- dists or Quakers undertook to exorcise him from his victims. The man possessed was strapped down on a bench, and organized bands of pious folk took turns in praying aloud over him. The invocations went on night and day until the devil was vanquished. Sor are told, he went out the mouth of his vict as a snake or a crow, or a whiff of black, nauseous smo xe, leaving the poor wretch weak, but innocent as a babe. The most noted case was that of a certain sea-captain who lived in Colonial days. The demon in him had made him a terror in almost every port in the world by his crimes and blaspherny. His mother, as his ship came up the Delaware, prayed that he might be released from the grip rae secure, to tea-parties. mes, we (vaclnded His Grandson has Built a Stately Colonial Mansion on the Site of the Old Farmhouse

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 5 HOW TO GET TO SLEEP HIS micht he called the Aw or = Nature, Not Drugs, as a Cure for Insomnia thie Sleeplessness. Undeniably t insomnia, one of the most dis- \ 7 1 one or two ex} tressing afflictions that assail h iman- By Dr. John ‘ Shoemaker I ! r For « ity, Is far more common to-day than ‘ f i ‘ t | ever before in the history of the world Presi ‘ } not mer People think harder and study more } ! ott than ever before; they pursue both pleasure ! and business with more intense eagerness re their nerves are overstrained, and their brains driven as by whips; and last, but not least WI ens When one goes t the race has developed an appetite for drugs \ ! ‘ vent which grows by what it feeds on, and which } he blood while acquired largely in the seeking of sleep, t ! } he eyvebu ‘ has, when indulged beyond a certain point } | f the ‘ the effect of banishing healthful slumber for- ‘ t cl ever from the pillow. Most of the ills that i tha I " i er, the make mankind miserable are afflictions of th« i f beir ignorant and, chiefly,of the poor. Sleepl en one i ness, however, is the curse of the inte llectual ike Ap ! ve ¢ e ol man, and a haunter of the bedsides of the ikir ‘ bra rich and the otherwise fortunat: 0 I } ‘ n is troubled But it has come at last to be realized that } ‘ by which the drug-cure for insomnia is worse than a } i wa m the brain failure, and people are beginning to look to t 1 whatever Nature fora remedy — not, I may happily add ma he « { f, too much in vain. Of this new idea it is that | would I nthe br ‘ intable for speak: of Nature as a sleep-bringer, and of the wakefulne \ f h will ofter how her means may be used instead of chloral wcomplish the 7 ‘ Mu n; or a opium, aleohol and other poisons, which all Nar 1! t} ile mia over this broad land have filled asylums and oact upon the nu ! ic lation ast Sanitariums with their victims eh he brain of t r} ndeed Why do we hear so much about Lakewood, \ put a re leep, or a New Jersey , as a resort for rich people? Be- \ niort! ma cause (for one reason at least) it is a place of The u f de of the sleep. It is in a region of pines, the emana- i ! 1. Th i leal in the tions of which are sedative and somniferous i-fash I h charlatar hus it is that millionaire folks have built nee br } ! ‘ The next among the trees palaces which are designed ‘ iffer i take a hot as homes for the sleepless. Worn out by bath, and er hot a social dissipation, or by the nervous strain ur her 1 mal inseparable from the business of rapid money- reulation, lull getting, they go to Lakewood to seek among nd q ne v the blood its piney woods that soft repose which else- f i iH lie dow: where is denied them r i { shee Certain volatile oils and ethers contained Phe Sy I he backs of the in pine-needles are accountable for the per hildret t is a good fume which is so agreeable to our nostrils i Often, ir La rou Their sedative effect, when one breathes air ibt i tl ! ! en and the charged with such emanations, is marked and head Lust ill into slur unmistakable —so that in hospitals nowadays ‘ lha hile undergoir pillows of pine-needles are commonly used to t ‘ I i he Prictic I put patients to sleep. It is on the same prin- his | k of my nec} ciple that, in the hop-growing regions of this ; 7 2 ~ ud a tenue i it country. pillows are filled with hops, often When the ul ind whines in the mixed with salt or with bran. They contain night, it id of ng it I e (upsetting an alkaloid, called “‘lupeline,”’ which is strongly soporifi: Mechanical locomotion has mad ilking t rreat t ligestion) rub its ba rpu toa warm bath On one occasion, not very long ago, I was called upon t unnecessary, and machinery has done away th h will take all the congestion from its brain and sp presc ribe for what was supposed to be a hopeless case of physical labor Yenelope, the wife of Ul ‘ I ttw 1, and the little one ! t he momet t me insomnia. It was that of a manin public life. Heexpected women busy grinding grain day and night to supy H ich I expedients than me to try some new drug upon him, but I said to him food a household of not more than thirty peopk -d iresort to drugs! And wh rd for hile {fora ‘Senator, it is within my knowledge that you own a with the help of modern contrivances, the same amount rown persor \ hot-water | t the feet may pr piece of rural real estate on which there are thick pine of work will produce flour for five thousand person erviceable in some instance remember a to lie woods. I want you to go there, withan axe anda sawhors« Incidentally to act exercise, the tem imbibes ox h the head high, and 1 t f fresh air to the and spend as much of your time as possible cutting down — gen, the circulation of the blood isstimulated, and moderate — bedroot pine trees and sawing them for firewood.” fatigue supervens f which conduce to eepine Me I alte inner 1 led It causes a He followed these instructions literally, and within less But of all forms of exercise the best for th purpose f f blood to the | nterfe digestion, and ha than a fortnight he was entirely cured. He told methat he horseback-riding. Pursued for two or three hours da nsequent tender to brir ey ne trong eme slept “like a dead man.” it promotes all the functions of the body and quiets tl tior anxiet Orr rwhat-not — havea like effe Brain-workers are particularly liable to sleeplessness. nerves. For sleeplessness there is no better remedy, and Actors and stocl er ntain too mucl Their occupation brings overstrain of the nervous system, for weak children and weak women it is particu to | é r ire par ila le nia I he and, when they go to bed, they toss upon restless pillows. reeommended nancier —tha pe of the modern human engine run This drives them to a physician, who suggests a little whis- Distractions of the mind are excellent rem« f I I re ‘ Ly} I ! eep key before retiring —the result being, in many instances, somnia. It is often a good idea to send a nervous patient 1 he most serious of proble His nerve-centres at that the victims become slaves to alcohol the play, the opera orthe minstrels. Hisattention is call ‘ vusted, and, when the time cor for quiet, he cannot The best thing in sucha case is to keep away from whiskey away from himself and his troubk he comes |} ei mmand rey and other drugs and take an ocean voyage If that be roes peacefully to sleep. Nor is the effect of mu rt nfortun: py r} he d rn he impracticable, the next best expedient to adopt isa visit to despised. It has a tendency to sooth irritable brain-c vive hem prescriptiot ‘ ep-pr cing dr the seashore. Sea air is a wonderful nerve-to seda and in mar nstances I have known it to } i ! i ‘ he p er it hel} I tive and soothing effect being so marked invalids, happy result } th ‘ ! fT wheeled along the beach boardwalks, often fall asleep One need hardly sav that this question of sleep e of ist be er tant ncrease ( It is probably ozone that does the good work. Incrowded — the highest possible importance. We give one-third of our ep becomes impr ‘ thout tl f th cities there is little or no ozone, which may be called a con- lifetime, precious as it is to us, to sled Wit! centrated form of oxygen, but at the seashore there ismuch allowance of sleep we cannot be well, and if dey edofit Dr indeed, are th iu of it in the atmosphere, and still more in mid-ocean, far altogether we should soon die. A case n recor herea People are fed w th ‘ away from the land. Not a very great deal is known _ person got no sleep for nine days, dying at the end of that f common-sense govert about this colorless gas (though it has been reduced in period. In China, long ago, deprivation of sleep was used ild be taken. the 1 n reliance the laboratory to a liquid), but of its healthfulness and as a form of torture, and even of capital punishment. | B ileol { t quieting influence the nerves there is no question, have known people who were actually afraid to go to bed ntres and render them irr th Exercise of all kinds is admirable as a cure for sle« p- for fear of the dread spectre of insomnia hict r mn I Imy i lessness. People nowadays do not take enough exercise. to haunt them through long hours of the nig} H

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6 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

March 24, 1906 THE STUBBORN MEMBER WWwo men sat in the inner room of

the Committee on Public Works, on the ground floor of the Senat« wing, re ‘ding each other in a manner that betrayed considerable latent heat Senator Merchant, fronting the ample mahogany de lank of person, with a vray chin-whisker and ecclesiastically clean upper lip He had, in phy sical fact, rhead which friends and enemies Congressman

Vari in the early thirties and his first term, was smooth-shaven and stock th heavy eyebrows, stiff and stubborn , vell-developed jaw f he situa vas a somewhat delicate , ( I} 1 next Presidential elec- ‘ t A vo and a half years off, it was - an om ecret that the senior Senator from Illiana had fixed a sagacious and lesiring ¢ ipon } Senator Billings, of Michcon n, Wa looking in the same adirectior t to mention a score or so of otner Kach aspirant was exceedingly nye to inherit tne pre ire of the ? current Administration. It had occurred to Senator Merchant that it would bea

ng u he were able toa ire the President that the L ‘ House would vote for the Administration ship subsidy bill— before the Senator from Michconsin ild give a like a irance with regard to the

represent es of his sovereign State Po bly lam a sucker at polities, as you sugge st.” tie \ ma is saying warml but I have a conviction or t ibout a ship subsidy) I} people in V district are wainst it, too. At the district convention a plank in favor of subsidie as prot sed ] opposed it, and we knocked it W hat kind of I look like if I stood up in the H and ed ra subsidy bill Why, Senator, d i he cor ed with great earr ‘I'm sure urd my boots th tbad bill. Why should I bon Cree te The I t thinks it nece replied the Senator \ 1. “Well, the I lentand I that a he 1 If he Dau to pass the bill him come over and vote for | had President rammed down my throat until I can taste him in my oatmeal He spoke dejected! but at once fired up agatr And why does he think it ne Wh Di onand Wilcox tell me Wt that this bill was a sop to the big financial interests that the Administration | ‘ knocking right and left I hir to please t} put proy es to e Wall ‘ t i t } nmer! Pr i hat g . ; lee? nded } P ma I t teil ‘ d mor lr} ! hor f it r, I for the ¢ i bill alt} hId t, but I bless f I'll f +} | i i | Ba harbor I i tr r ( l ul ed Congres Of « I the ha r roved. The el | t. | fld ( r +} } Ad ’ ll get } eo } ' n ¢ 1 hi priation. 1 matter how t ( to it “pr u local bills will ered hout re their merit Now I in ’ SOT } esti ist man to mar i i tha iny t ol awa t y 1 < ’ . “and 1, either tituents

I'he Senator is vexed. ‘“‘If vou should serve several tern here, whic] ; not likels and get the atmosphere of government, you wouldn't talk so much about your con-

bigyver things.”’ inquired the per was injured. The Senator turned partly away and ruffled his chin- whisker Ye that I gave you a lift.” A lift Varney repeated, at a loss You spoke to me about Burton.” Why, I merely said I hoped he wouldn't be disturbed,” the Congressman answered in surprise uent There are victions and your constit Your President frressman, Whose poor ten ial boom, do you mean u forget

a A Freshman in the School of Politics By WILL PAYNE be ® TP €: Pay), Ar ww bh "

‘* Well, he hasn’t been disturbed,” said the Senator, ‘* but he’s likely to be.” Varney’s face changed to a uniform dusky thick eyebrows moved together. His gray eyes “Do turn the old man out?”’ he demanded. ‘Major Burton,” the Senator replied coolly, ‘‘ has passed the age of efficiency. He keeps his place by sufferance—my sufferance, I may add. I want your vote for the subsidy bill.” Varney “That's all,” hesaid. ‘I wouldn't vote for the bill now, anyway. Fire the old man if you want to, and be—blessed! The Senator turned to his desk and rang for the next caller. Varney went out, encountering the suave smile of the private secretary who was holding open the door and singing, ‘‘Step right in, Judge; the Senator will see you,” like one ushering the elect to realms of bli It was very being late in March. The warm rays of red. His Snapped ou mean to say that if I vote against this bill you will arose slowly. agreeable outside,

“Mr. Varney!" Sang the Clerk

the descending sun struck against the west front of the Capitol. Birds were singing inthegrounds. The breeze bore the balm of spring, and the flag at the base of the dome rippled bravely in it. Varney glanced along the immense sun-bathed pile, and recalled the Senator's words “This is the Gov of the United States!" he thought misanthropically; ‘‘] mud.”’ to the ernment could make a better one out of The city in its pride lay at his feet great white shaft of the monument that pointed into the cloudless sky. He sur il veyed it with an unfriendly eye, and looked beyond to the Virginia slopes, peopled with patriots who, being dead, were not thinking of jobs. His hat was still in his hand, and he ran his muscular fingers through his stiff hair = Well,” he sighed, ‘‘I suppose I’ve got to go now and tell her that I’ve corked the Major.” preen i AJOR BURTON, Commissioner of Stamps, awoke abruptly, and looked about in sheer terror The pleasant room was quite still and empty, filled with soporifie spring sunshine and the twittering of birds on the mall outside. The Major gave but his nerves were still quiv- ing found himself spacious, however aspasmodic gasp of relief ering from the shock of hay duty at a quarter past two. He arose—a short, dumpy, old figure and shuffled noiselessly across to the swinging screen in the doorway The top of the fg on tiptoe, he desk aslee p on which led from his officeinto the ante-room even with hi Stan The fine lines over a ;evyebrows aged colored citizen on ¢

screen peered was drawing i sheet of official paper with a pencil and ruler. Major Burton’s took in the drow sily bow. a back and droopir v he ad bald over the crown and fringed with white wool. The pencil faltered, paused; the nodding head sank lower—then shook himself; took a fresh sheet and began drawing lines across it in a great burst of ard at the understanding eve

i slac ke ne d, came up with a jerk. Sam energy It was all r for the time being. Sam was awake But even as the Major turned away his doughty heart sank Some day, he thought, he and Sam would be asleep at the same time and some body would drop In to report it Then, so far as concerned the office of Commissioner of Stamps, the deluge would happen. He had held the office nine years 3efore that he had been postmast¢ r, or collector of the Port of Long Bay, or inspector of coast defenses through five Republican Administrations. Grant had first appointed him. He had tasted the joys of private life when the Democrats were in power—and only recently had suc- ceeded in paying off the indebtedness contracted during the last taste. His son was dead—departing from life as inoy portunely and unluckily as he had remained in it. There s wife and three children and an aged, ¢ altogether four females and a boy went with the office

twice

were the son’ z maiden sister depend ent upon the f of Comn And hi ive thousand a year that issioner of Stamps s world was passing. The val were no longer current. Only the oth a pretty girl—one of Anne’s friends—a worn little memo randum book, curiously perforated, and said reverently, “T picked it up at Shiloh.”” ‘‘Shiloh?”’ she had repeated h the de ‘I’m awfully dull on He told “Well, He never lost his 1es he ] had lived by r day he had showr and added wit arest smile Palestine; we didn’t get farther than Greece an old boy about it ruefully, and the old boy replied she did better than the man in the White House. got farther than Cuba.”” The old boy had just place The Commissioner of Stamps toddled over to the lava- tory, bathed his face in cold water and carefully brushed his sparse hair, which, like his mutton-chop whiskers, was of The dye he used to make them He then a singular greenish tings look iron gray did not work very successfully. took to pacing resolutely up and down the room. The chances were against any interruption at that hour. With- out any express understanding, but guided by some sym- pathetic property within itself, the sluggish stream of department affairs had taken to other channels than the one which ran through his office. The assistant commis- sioner and the chief clerk handled it mostly. The fine sun- shine flooded in. The birds sang. The comfortable easy chair invited; but the Major trudged on At a quarter of three he seated himself at the desk, fixed the eyeglasses on his bulbous nose and began turning the leaves of the bureau’s last annual report with a judicial air.

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chief clerk , Smiling, and The door to the right opened noiselessly. The peered cautiously in; then advanced briskly laid a sheaf of papers on the desk. ‘“*A small grist to-day, Towne \ ane said the Major, as though that dissatisfied him, and dipped his pen in the ink As his pen approached the pape sought to steady } tremulous } and, but without success “We ll, shake, blast you!” he apostrophized it mentally, and affixed a jagge signature. At three o'clock, cars Dr hed t b S: m, ne left the office and entered the waiting carr furnished by the Government; one of the many incidentals that mad it so agreeable to be Commis ner of Stamps. He observed the gently nodding leafage of the mall; the monument with its changeless figure pointing to the splendid sk) and snuggled cozily into a corner of the seat, drew the curtains and fell asle« p. W HEIR bench ir parked circle, near the bronze horse and his general, commanded the entrance to the Major’s flat down the street, and Anne key okir that way. **Have you noticed, then—do you think he failing—a little?”’ she asked eagerly, yet very softly, bending toward vy, her blue eyes y serious. In his emba ent Varney ran his fingers through his hair. ‘‘Why, I thought he was looking quite replied with an overdone the way he had n her companion slight] rassn robust,”’ he heartiness, ‘This was not at all +? all . eant to talk to her It had never ocet um that she saw the Mai ditferent "p ——— evyes—not as an outworn old | grandsire She drew the gloves nervously through her slim hands, looking away. ‘‘He keeps up his physical she murmured; and gaspe d. When she turned exercise,” Varney to again he saw that her lip trembled, and he swelled with compassion. ‘It isn't like him to use hair dye! He's bought a wig, but he hasn't worn it yet.” Coming from her—in a white dress, her hair done low on her tender neck—these little details seemed to the young man to take him into the heart of her confidence and trouble, as the vine enwraps the oak. “*Well, the Major's getting on in years, you know,” he replied, with a bungling attempt to meet her confidence, ‘“‘T wished to send for mother,” she said; ‘“‘ but it would be difficult for her to leave—with Lucy and Fred in school.” “Why, I wouldn’t worry he bungled on. ‘‘ Of course, it could be arranged for your mother to come. But I wouldn't worry. Why, the Major looks tip-top to me! Hestill goesout. I saw himat Mrs. Spe neer’s the other evening.”’ Her color heightened. ‘I think he goes out too n “*T wouldn't worry,” he repeated with helpless earne , Anne,” ness—for that she was deeply troubled was very evident. come Oo! ‘**Of course your mother coul **Not very well,” she replied and looked away, and faced him again. ‘Late ly ter; if mother ay She laughed mirthle Ssiv, and took tl “i know where he spends his ever wishes to take me there. It—if ¢ I'd want to die “Marry Anne, ble Ss your sou you worr! He wished tosay:” he’s been introducing me his daugh so, appeared, where woul !’”’-hestammered. ‘‘ Marry! 1! Bless yours Don't you worry foran é Don't y , the old boy ing to appear young in order to hold his job! He goes to Mrs Spencer's evenings to drowse in security!” But this was so far from her point of view that all he could actually say was: ‘‘Bless your soul, don’t you worry! You take mj word for it!” On his way to his hotel he repeated to himself: ‘‘ Well, bless her soul!’’ And in his room, smiling ecstatically at the wall, he said aloud, ‘* Now ain’t that the woman of it, all over!” He perceived, howeve rf. that the problem before him was different from what he had thought. ‘“‘The old boy is fool ing them, too,”” he mused; ‘‘making them think he’s husky and gingery and able to hold down half a dozen jobs—wants the bread they eat sweet to ’em. Good old Major!” Only a little while more, he knew, and the Major's race would be run. How good if he could finish it as he wished! Varney walked about the room, his hands in his pockets. No doubt, one obscure young Congressman’s vote for a bill that his party backed was a small enough matter. He could go over to Merchant and give the Major a life tenure oO? nt ou Se€ ly I THE SATURDAY EVENING POST of his jot Sut the re i t ed i 1 orator fer r \ complained Politically he When he sold ou Bay, being fe prea the ! it e fa Tr his« s inde i \\ The dk t } ! Ma; hold uy his } N friendly « rh pe Y ‘ ! ( ( \ gress re 1A \ school; “Of « el'mt ae ind st nly \ thre erat ‘ M Otherw " and Mrs. Spencer—bless her soul! \ He didn't see how he « id vote tor the ft or agalr l If he Was going Lo vote against It, common decent required We that he should warn the Major—and stop br brea with him. On his way up to the Capitol the next mornir R \ he was told that Applegate, who wa iding the fight mea } against the bill, had deserted to th Administration reasor } \ bought off with the chairmanship of eat comr t« t! which put him in line of succession to the Spe hip itse } l Hi That ought t be alx i t ! | } t ‘ ' ‘ »e | M j ti | y I i , , it “Do You Mean He Would Lose His Place he Demanded | | iw. That rnoon when I ! Commissioner of Star I ! i I W agreeable and ge ! I ! ! sion. But when Sa r I oy } i | screen, his heart stopped beatit Anne sat t } } her } hat. } M Pe t er. L¢ 4 t bour I'll have to pu off 1 M M stood by the wind | Ant idulgent smile ] I \ “T) - te il painful trut} ‘*Maybe there isn’t much use f he old guar ! } when the army is breaking up,” replied the M ‘ é I I i In the paper this morning I 1 ed ! I noth those who propose to vote against their party on the sul r He ought to have sa ‘ h to make ” So it was out, plump ! 1 ar " and 1 the ‘ } he Varney worried his bristly topk: Yes, I exp V He T vote against the bill,’’ he said sim} 1 be a } \ ! | t | ‘A good many of us thought Sherman’ ch to tk f the « aril his hat a bad project,”’ said the Major; ‘‘but we went alor | r opened Ant those days great things were done because m« ere I of | plai I , th spired by loyalty. When the colors were raised they ra me Ace art I to them. Otherwise there would be no United Stats l never was in sucha hole, Anne! Neve he to-day.” c hely ‘ Ova ! ‘“‘Of course, in case of war’’—the young man began; and t And Ica vote against the M 1 } halted ineffectively. Phat’sit, Anne u! I neverd invthineg ine “It wasn’t all done on the battlefield by a longwa vasn't square lhe dumpy f the Major, ec said the Major. ‘‘ We see now that Lincoln did as much a brushed by Sam, hat in hand, appeared the de Grant. Itisstill the party of Lincoln and Grant; the part hind } “Oh, w tid Varn us thou that freed the slave and preserved the nation. Loyalty i ttled it, and hi nt down the stai: t t wai the same now that it was then —and will be forever.”’ Wit} the elevat out raising his voice the Major had struck up a spark of ar i t ~l

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R. EZRA STACKPOLE BUTTERWORTH, the founder of the Bureau of Abnormal Litigation, frowned impatie ntl fidgeting decisively we cant on his rough voiced, repeated I tell you, We do not go in for criminal practice, and visitor and No, no; take the case! our man, my assistant informs me, ha The fact alone known in police circles as ‘Slink; t undesirable record hei is enough to convict him Butch” McCarty, ward heeler, and at »y for Mr. William Bilks, bur- vn his coarse, red face sorrow to meet the ver, murmured ! To think his record must ithout attempting raze of the old law Slinky » down him whin fer wanst he's He ha record no one but himself to thank for ! Those igainst ar his things usually do count Mr. Butter- imons and an, commented worth, turning to his plaint sun com- in a civil action sighed Mr. MeCarty, rising slowly, th’ best aliby in th’ vit if a good legal guy cud have , Slinky og aint wud go fr-ree rey ol V ed his swing-chair until he faced the politician, and with curiosity th slowly in his voice, thinly disguised atone of pettl hness, demanded ‘Stone Huh! me What do you mean, sir nas ne Mr dog Met arty li y, as he moved alibi? ked apple aid the Mr. McCarty,’ orice fly fo ON but n ether or not Bilk ill, server of sé invited er the fact 4, self-confessed veral se f looting the ted on the charge of npany in Bloomville, o netted somebody ilt of this : Mr loss the « Bilks was seen ward the Wan with blud on his head, toward the I will accept your burglar, twenty ne, the prosecution maintains opened VAS tin a baked apple, with a glint of adn irati Do | understand rincipal witn company good manager ind th money An to think an e, | mean Misther Bilk Misther coat an ip comes ack his l beg par His medal, his Possibly you Well is pinched, ir Shure aiar d, indicted, an’ now old in the ind you, without my THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By HUGH PENDEXTER Twenty Thousand Dollars o manny jobs he cud conscientiously do time fer, he must tr-rip along, wan-two, wan-two, fer a job he niver touched I've heard say that even th’ divvle has some r-rights, an Slinky — Misther Bilks —ain’t no divvle. Why, that la-ad cud be left alone all da-ay in this dump No,” broke in Mr dwelt fondly on several bronze , and if I take t my office is.” “Oh, that’s all r-right, iv his heart if he knew cudn't thrust him McCarty Sut can I tell th’ gang ye'ré th’ modest little fee we Slink Misther Bilks shake? “Hm! Really, I am inclined to say ‘No,’ old lawyer. ‘‘I wouldn't consider it for a I could be convinced of his innocence He as I be!” cried Mr. McCarty Possibly,” agreed Mr. Butterworth dryly But will he prove it? What about this A dog and you say?’ Butterworth hurriedly, as his eyes he must never he must never know where pieces ; come here he case course; though it wud br-reak Mr * will take yez said "ve ser-rimped an’ ss jist to give a square mused the moment unless as innercent alibi? Some fruit, did Baked apple,” reminded Mr. McCarty Strangely | v inanimate for an alibi, vet smacking of odd- mused the lawyer ll call on Mr. Bilks in his and ith hin orrow and bring the retainer I sion tirement talk w you will drop to In announce Thar ks,” to ily now would ye think eried Mr. McCarty hea be fair an's ar th ve blush that th’ Jack iv Spa-acde kman's hat band, wud help , Wor-rn pr-roudly th’ case anny “An' I Strikes a Flicker, an’ if it Wan't Covered wid Blud!” an opportunity to wit March 24, 1906 THE BAKED APPLE ALIBI In Which the Stone Dog and the Jack of Spades Establish the Innocence of the Guilty ‘*Why, bless me, d the old lawver, mechanically seizing his pencil, ‘it sounds ing! Some more of the alibi? “It is At first I thought not a wurr " gaspe conving say Jack 1V Hear-rts “What difference ¢ cried Mr. Butterworth A hear-rt shows up so much betther th’ early hours I wish it was that l begged Slink —Misther Bilks—to char it hear-rt. | but I’m hone prefession, but I ain't opa-aces an ke? in ve an S-ay ! Sez he, ‘I’: I’m a burgl’r cto deceit Was a tough, yit spa-ade’s a spa-ade I will Mr. Butterworth sounds Why, to pr-rove it wud be th aig f’r ye,’’ said Mr. McCarty he backed humbly to the door and bowed himself out Mr. Butterworth, once his visitor was gone, pursed his lips in doubt interview repeated His defense sincere to me yolk iv th admiringly, as shook his head several times as he overhauled a file of news- papers and read how seemingly and conclusive was theold cracksman’sguilt his Bureau of Abnormal Litigation and win- ning considerable renown by methods, he had been del 1 with petitior to take up the de Hi with this line of work, however, and |} : hunned it as far But ana the very novelty of the unusual legal poi that he was much civil pract Since creating his eccentric fense of inal cases snot ir * occasionall\ brought old lawyer as possible , when risoner protested his innocence forward s hing unusual in lured on by the a connoisseur of the busy brought frightened exoneration had relente a, situation i and his sign, ating to elor at Eces ice, the echanical : er, he took } street him away his more n When, howe prosecution It wa Cour ntric Law,’ nature of which had 1 prosy fellow-attorneys up the defense in a criminal whe re his perate traits of the asafvru ‘ ted by ! le tance 1 lefend li ein nicide Case sympathies had been enli pri ous safe-blower, a n soner. But in this in int Was a notori- ilks of life, who company’s safe an from th doubtless would have if given an opportunity. demanded he resist the glamor of Mr. MeCarty have nothing to do with it robbed the lumber No; the dignit his bureau s appeal and He would not take it, and pen ‘iled notes, whers Then his eves fell or stone dog,”’ +t} t is the baked apple,” p and held him. The ities of, say,a baked apple Jack Of spades caught his gaze of it »p leds velty the inherent possibil- lination he perjured i WNO Was eager to of yearning vial and com- at nis in¢ 4 common doer of evil would have relied on t word of his mates substantiate But here was : his assertions of innocence by a group inanimate objects I of the artist, appreciated monplace. And an unusual time and place was the with the value of the tr as this introduction who, the unconscious 1 the insignificant of the old the character- were ( ee at Ke note lawyer's many successes and had won for him ization ‘‘abnormal,”’ the penciled notes carefully pocketed and Mr. Bilks was called upon an hour later ‘The mat er red Mr. Butter- worth, a emerged into the with a sharp spark his eyes ‘What An villain! I'm almost sorry I accepted his case Yet what a unique Then h sting ut poss i "mutte ight tainly innocent in an anomaly honest chain of exonerating evidence! ought to console ibly it reform.” ned betore DY si will Yet his Page| ans of teaching a lesson. as Mr. Bilks’ s ‘ stul ‘ he i ; be the m orn face inner eye, prisone rs history plane ot ‘ounty court prosecutions and had furnish important news story for r only needed the intell he Bureau o } al Li yn was fense to revive ed for trial eircumstalt Ivence to conduct and double when the casi was mov ine that the itial evidence District Attorney But when one al Butterworth was on the other side a wave of activity through the , With the D. A what guise the inevitable surprise would com« onclusi\ with seant informed him Mr approached Nis task of his assistants Swe pt office dumbly wondering i The trial ope ned before a crowded courtroom, the majo portion of the audience being lawyers, who never missed ness the old practitioner at bay.

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s) Although incisive and interest- N ing when appearing for either ide ina civil action, he at his best in defending a for- ( lorn hope Some of tl f \ present had refused ne retainer, and now were ‘ g What abnormal thread had Mr. 1 been discovered to cause he eteran exponent « l \ V tO take It up The judge, alwa é n dlefendar ¢ one ¢ 1 ‘ annoy hit dinte re h his dinner hour, frowned il nti re Pe) ne ! vu Inte a t bench and looked down on tt defendants table And Mr Bilks was not one who ¢ d be expected to excite I Short and thick of figure, his I rong frame as surmounted \ I a heavily-thatched head, M | vhich, when close cropped in penal institution, Would be ! characte ed inthe verna lar “as bullet. he hair was now i long and wiry, and, like the ( eve et black The iW i thrust well forward, was of the \ popular bulldog style and f } showed blue-black from the ail barber’s morni effor \ | lhe slight form, the delicate features and white hair of ri | j old lawver showed in deep econ- ! t trast, as the two bowed the ! \ heads over the table and held f eleven ar ‘ } hear ar hispered consultations d, « I I fT } srowled M1 The Old Lawyer Paused and Daintily Dusted with arn It w ' ul , \ | voice meat to he His Handkerchief the Fingers that Had Been s - 7 hushed. but really resemblis Employed to Restrain Mr. Bilks in His Chair ; “or \ , ne ed plant of nor ere tne ! ! ( | does dem guys ind ury box look good ter yous¢ t ‘ | cemen, and f ( i N Lroces Mr. Butterworth nodded his head slightly and murmur hea record of convictior } ‘ fe i \\ nue for his client to keep silent as the District A ‘ va eputatior hi nd } nw Ir. | about to open for the prosecutior ely to be sentenced for but 1 the pr \ The People’s case was simple and direct The lumber on's ca company had been robbed of twenty-five thousand dollar If the ¢ rt ple i M B I ona night when the defendant was seen loitering about the ndeavor t eas brief t t er is | office, and later seen scurrying toward the cit cumbered arne I | proof With a gripsack or parcel Mr. Jame H e, Manager nter on? it } ould swear to rece ne ti umount of ba er nthatr ! he ( \ ‘ notes of various denominatior ndto} ! he sa } } on the night of the robbery rhe mone is Intended t t t 5) he 4 be used in paying off the help, and as a consequence of it eputat And | 1 desire t ? ‘ disappearance the compar could not meet t other } othir ? nse ‘ ail ar t apt 1 ‘ ligations and might be foreed into bankrupt Phe crime he case’ that in iv te he defer was the more abhorrent as it struck at so mar N ild not } ey portion of the money had been rec ‘ he , efense } | | was reminded that the defendant had had ar time te ll the more pre ‘ reach the city and conceal his loot With t loreword tt! 1 Why didn’t you tell me thev would tr t pr e seelng sted th } handkerechn } t } you leaving the scene of the robber ! pered Mr plove to restrain Mr. Bill } } } Butterworth sharply. lentified as the mar th the bur M S’long as I’s innercent what differ does it make h tioned to the witne many swears ter seein’ me?”’ growled Mr. Bilks indignant Mr. B here were Mr. Hekle was the first witne called. He told of the nee?’’ Mr. Butter rth | company ‘s method of paying off a } t of workmen ever I ina nt called Epl en! es I two week } .] he twent ‘ } j Wher | aollars not ¢ iV-roll, bu is to have Wel net ] i been used it ng bill He had placed Witt I iske e in the safe in the presence of an aged clerk, and the two had He says he was on the pre es of the Insane as) left the office together to attend a secret society meeting nterpreted Mr. Butterworth On their way to the hall they had met the defendant at the Hul Go or entrance of the yards, a few feet from the office At mid What did you do there night the witness had been summoned from the hall by the “T's sort of weary wid walkin’ round town ar et \illage watchman, who informed him that the door to the ma daw company’s office had been found ajar. An examination er, did the ne log or d ‘ quickly revealed that the lock to the safe had been picked Y d igre and the money taken. The robbery must have been com- broke in Mr. Bilks confident mitted prior to twelve o'clock. ( angwige of de poet, a pup, at ‘Well, say, Bo, but he certainly is de slick ’un,”’ admired “What kind of a dos interrupted Mr. Butterworth Mr. Bilks in a husky whisper quickly, as he detected a storm hovering over the fa You have told all you know about the affair?’’ was Mr. istice. Butterworth’s first question in cross- xamination. “A stone “ur I believe so.” Stone! I believe he said stone,”’ murmured the ¢ What about the tobacco coupons you kept in the safe?” removing I pectacles and breathing heavil Me The witness reddened, but replied: ‘I wasn’t asked Dat’s wot,’’ agreed Mr. B ger about them.” . What happened ther hurriedly asked u Yet such coupons were there?"’ Well, den I puts down 1 mit Ser An’ | rhe witness answered in the affir he had told the District Attorney overed wid blud! But as their discovery in the defendant's possession ** Blood!” reéchoed the Court idder impit would be almost positive proof of his guilt,and as they have — eral inches in his high-back chair never been found, you did not remind my opponent of Dat’s wot,”’ retorted Mr. Bilks stout An’ them in your direct examination, as a bit of evidence, on de tail of my coat Den I quits de place on de jump “Now an’ Den He'd Licht o Match en’ Lock futer a Bia Milk-Can ealizing he would have asked about them had he wished ‘Did the dog bite you?” asked the Court anxiou Ter See de Time 0’ Day’

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10 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST March 24, 1906 The PacKers and the Future HE interests of the private car line and the packing industries are so intimately connected that the future of either must involve, to a considerable extent, the future of the other. Broadly speaking, they are equally the objects part of mistaken or malicious agitators i ght seems to be focused on the private lines, and, therefore, | shall place emphasis on that acute line of campaign. legislation now aimed at either or both of becomes law, there is no question that the a ushing it will have the sati rd and perhaps fatal blow to the packers and to I believe, than ; to give the whole peopl the car- good living: wholesome fresh meats and But the ir satisfaction will not nd with crippling these agencies of administration to the needs of humanity. They will also awake to the will be the credit of dealing a staggering scores of other to the cattle-raising ealling of the fruit and the vegetable vrowers, entire agriculture of the country, and, fi- nally, to the scores of other industries which are sensitively and ‘ir varably inter-related with the animal, fruit and necessarily faction of having industries which have done more, ther two industrie dina! comforts of fresh fruits and vegetables. ommon fact that theirs blow to industries business, to the to the egetable industries Believing this, it seems to me that whatever threatens e future normal and legitimate development of the busi- ness in which the private car lines and the packers are en- ly concerns not only every business man of this vidual in the United States. There- pology for attempting to meet in this harges, attacks and criticisms which have certain mag: periodicals and newspapers and in the public utterances of the enemies of the packers which have been put publication of my earlier Tut inc Posr. Although the assaults have, in personal and bitterly so-—and the in kind and to sho , they will with sufficient deti- aged direct country but every indi ore, I shall offer no a tinal paper the ween made public in zines, the private car lines and of forth since the articles in pre ati strong to deal with them their perso is (as I can in every instance be met in general terms, but, | believe in this closing fer Drief necessary ters touched upon earlier in of giving a clear and that h are indispe nsable to the Amer- their future a record of strugglk and hardship of purpose of the war is being waged to idicap force rates rowers and ship} per ir exclusive contract etter busines he has had w S man the Ir for : the hand] most eading eompariso rand railroad refrig ce would ar n made ches, say, t or fifteen dollars a car successful grower is Whe I woul r poor extra well invested r fifteen dollars a car will mean money 18 in almost By J. Ogden Armour

—_ SS. > ~ ‘ 1 See SS sy? ae ee e,—S , = — >. = Se =~ x SS SS E22 = about extortionate complaint to make along this n that the } be disastrous to peach asserti ] y scores from evrower it and from War in the Open TOW just a tinal word on the re the priv: atau hey are trying t them if slation is th all comn on men, but son have 1and toe — tile leg 1¢ chief arguments they have used in enlisting the tatives, senators, writers and other men who nent and legislation is the ery that the private stic In character, grasping in purpose, seek to control the handling and refrige Portraits of the leaders of this band of public- rited commission men adorn the pages of magazines and ration per pessaoniy in which appear the arguments inspired Chey are hailed as the champions of anti-monopoly, the protectors of the people in general and of the fruit growers n particular. Their mission is to get the oppressed grower out from under the heel of the private car line magnate to liberate him from the control of the monopolist. Please keep all this in mind while you read a few extracts taken from the address of President Streight, delivered by then before the Annual Convention of the Western Fruit Jobbers’ Association, held in Omaha, on December 28, 1904. My quotations are made from the pamphlet sent out by the Association as the offi- cial report of its proceedings. The italics are my own. Here is the significant declaration made by the oflicial head of the Western Fruit Jobbers’ Association The great perce ntage of the commodities we extremely perishable. On this account our bus more hazardous nature than any ordinary merchandizing The perishable nature of our — odities alone is sufti- ciently hazardous without the aid of fluctuating prices, overstocks, un/ri« /, illegitimate and unprofitable com- petition. We should have an organization which would take in every legitimate and honorable jobber of fruit and produce in the Middle and Western States, with the object of reducing the hazardous nature ofo ir busine to the gr reat- est possible extent. We cannot change the commodities we handle, but we can collect and disseminate information for the benefit of each member. We local and district organizations and eliminate to some extent uN- FRIENDLY AND UNPROFITABLE COMPETITION, lessen the overstocking and fluc ‘tuating of local markets, and bec ome business and social friends instead of simply competitors throughout the territory. » handle are iness 1s of can jorm unjriend ly The Fruit Jobbers’ Campaign NOTHER member of the association also addressed the Omaha meeting in the following significant lan- guage: But conditions are changed. A large part of the busi- ness is now done on the f. oO. b. plan, or else, if consigned, the shipments are confined to a few reliable houses who have the absolute confidence of the shipper, and the shipper feels that by loyally standing by the receiver through thick and thin he will achieve greater results than in the ‘‘old rainbow-chasing days.” One of the greatest drawbacks of the present method of buying f. o. b., especially has it so prove f the pa ust season, is the disposition part of our re prese¢ ! es to outbid I have a case in mind that occurred in Louis- iana last spring. Two representatives of Minneapolis houses, actuated by their jealousy, wanted all the straw- berries from a well-known point. The result was that prices advanced from $3.25 one day to $4.25 the next day, thas without increasing the production one i . Another case is the Van Buren deal exas is practi- cally through shipping when Van Buren begins, and, as the latter is the first in Arkansas to move, their berries are eagerly sought after. Last season there were probably ten men for every car the first week, and, of course, the took advantage of our necessi on the ne another, p m S300 to $5 CONCERTED ACTION ON OUR PAR as berries could have lhis is a point we should seriou ay con sider T, not that I propose a combination on prices, so much as I do —— LITTLI many been secured at probably / a ye g our men at one partic ul: ir point ar k Moreover, ( ? j one iraged among our i yers and solicitors Le derstood that when we cannot land a shipment ourseives, or else have all we can use, we se othats wemharel the Caste Fruit Jobbers’ Association is favored. Now let me put the question right here: Will every member of this association to instruct his field man, as well as do it self, to use his influence to advance the interests of our anil among shippers and, when it is impossible t ecure a shipment for his own house, make an effort to s¢ 1er house in our association avored side concern? bunchin — it a point tnat ome « preference to an out combination against the grower s offici: appeal for more clear than thi ingenuous and unsophisticated t fail to understand Could any ind shipper be not. The most il declaration ? rower cann the hostile intent of guage li this And age ind aut work of the Could there be a clearer, a more definit¢ verification of my statement that the private in I ask itative ear lines in briy J com pe huaye there to hustle for bustr te l each her, has bee n of inestimable benefit to the wer and shipper? It is an official confirmation of my of an avowed enemy of rt tatement made out of the pr . lished in the part of the ate car lines he p rte verator car mouth It is a confession, compet! brings him far higher the domination of the There is not a grower in any district private refrigerator car -at least none in the fruit business before the coming of the car — who will not admit that the buyers followed /, and that the private carrevolutionized the commission business, bringing the commission man to the grower, whereas the grower had before been obliged to seek the commission man served by the who was there the car into the el

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST iI and accept his terms All of this was, I think, made clear nspection, cant verformed t ! mit ym mercha pea rower; and I bel In my first and second articles; but the real attitude of tt ra ther agen vetu fice, u ! ‘ ‘ ‘ ke him, wh uso commission men toward the growers and toward the itana lal kk \ he tru at \ nt question of on” for the purpose of squelching Bu th all theirs t LOS mi ! unfriendly competition ’’ can only be fu appreciated in fr this fact: They desire to drive \ N t | N A the li of these utter: es of the official heads of the he} ( hat furnish ¢ \ Western Fruit Jobbers atior The er f‘'mor | ince in tk t | } | j " ol : id “combi tior cerlainiv comes nh rare grac t i re wl h alwa from this organization! el f in the t h,a ra Some of these commission men lost ill nse of pe time for ichacampaligr 1time wl t? pective —and of humor, too— when the ndertake to een | i by “ve w"’ agitation aga explain how they love high-class refrigerat for its ow! ear he nat f corporation ar " i sake but are nobly battling against the n poly Onc for | al effect All this was ad ( ‘ spokesman, In a recent Geliverance TOW eloquent W n ) t hen the pre dent of the Nat | ; \ virtuous rage when he cont es t! t Die Cor n Mercha conve M ditions mposed uy refriger r « | 1) ! p the re | ised Armour monopoly Ina few rapt irther a f 1 these w he avers that Armour car are t the I T rator cars 0 the whole country ifa if Ita But I ur t t : drop in the bucket l ask, how can it beat rm pol that ' , nar Ged and \ strangling the fruit industry Again, the sp sman | : of th particular commission-man cote! make th aie e hicher ra ud + } pecious plea that he and his associates are not t t \ ‘ r good drive private car lines out of the business, but are onl) ( lid a contes n be plainer seeking to ‘regulate’ their rates; then to prove his word But 1} that I shall not be misunderstood ! rt ‘ he quotes a lawyer-like statement to the effect that ‘* leg ll « ! en with the ones I have | ' lation cannot be framed,”’ under Co tutior ) N ( i be 1 er f ' prevent formation of independent car lines for hire of ca M ith ! hou the ide } — bh icrh to railways ; Quite so, but these very men who are ’ ththehght t made in the name of \\ P } } “ sure of what cannot be done under the Constitution, are Jobb. \ n and the Natio ( . ee aaeelel working night and day at Washington for a law that will 1 n Merchar Me ers of th ’ t t their ra \\ restrict refrigeration service chargé to the actual cost of not hesitated tukea and against tl \ ice, pound by pound. Sucha law would put the refrigera- is J. D. Hendricksor f Philadelphia, a for | We bel ‘ ! there i tor car lines out of business as effectually as would a law — of the National | 1, Who went to Washit n flatly prohibiting them Ethicient rejri e service and testified that private car line service Was a nece with adequate car supply, ice supply, icing, re-icing and the perishable fruit busin Mr. Hendr 7 ! i N I ; ( xt week The Incomplete Amorist eatrmweunes BY OE. ON E S B I T__ zitistim tn ainetosons waste four at a time, and caught Betty as ‘ nderstand she was stepping into a hired carriage. ) ‘“‘What is it?” he asked ‘What is the matter?” “Oh, go back to your friends!”’ said Betty angrily and showed me where to go for meals and e1 rood | tol nt hotel, | **My friends are all right. They'll amuse each other. advice oh, she did everything for me! And 1 he I asked ! ii ddre and Tell me.”’ ron And I don’t know what to d Par wh a | t } t toa hotel ‘*Then you must come with me,”’ said she “If try to horrible plac Perhap he been kidnaped tell you here I shall begin to cry again. Don't speak to thing. And I don’t know even how to tell the police And B me, I can't bear it.’ He got into the carriage I I was not till Betty had let herself into her room and he had followed her in —not till they stood face to fae ‘She was living with me here ol he found the roor Sh aske \1 iS PASSI! in the middle of the carpet that he spoke again 1 her ‘*‘Now,” he said, ‘‘ what is it Where your aunt, \ ! } ; ul and - “Sit down, won't you he said, pulling « her hat . and throwing it on the couch it'll take rath i long t time to tell, but I must tell you all about it, or you in't help me. And if you don’t help me I don’t know What I shall do.’’ Despair was in her voice He sat dow Be tty, in the chair opp te } , Sat with hands nervou ly locked together Look hert he said abruptly, ‘‘yvou're sure to at everything I've done is wro but it’s no saying so.”’ ! I won't say so.” | | Well, then that day vou know, after I saw youat ! the Bét« Madame Gautier didn't come to fetch 1 e, ! and I waited and waited, and at last I went to her fla and she was dead—-and I ought to have telegraphed to my stepfather to fetch me, but I thought I would like to have one night in Paris first i know I hadn't seen Paris at all, really.”’ . Yes,” he said, trying not to let any anxiet his voice, ‘‘Yes—go or ad f And I went to the Café d’ Harcourt What did you say?” H RB Nothing se HH t I I thought it was where the art students we And } VA ; ] met a girl there, and she nd to m | ma ! } , What sort of a girl? art student I No,” said Betty she isn't an art WI student.”’ ' | | “Ves? “And I I don't think I should have done it just for - “a he kne bempl \\ me alone, but —I did want to stay in Paris and work go to her and i wanted to help her Oh, I know you re hor- don’t know the addre ribly shocked, but I can’t he Ip it! And now she's “My Dear Little Betty ” No, aid Betty | amt tines } gone —and I can’t find her.”’ night, and I don't even know t! ‘I’m not shocked,” he said deliberately, ‘‘but I’m Now, look he extremely stupid. How gone?” held them fir You arer t | do

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1 ? In that case You Perhaps she has been taken ill find her, she'll need you to look after her I'm certain to find her. You must eat some- dinner. And then lie down.’ said Betty, looking at him with the cried it Lie down, and make yourself everything vnen we I'll send you in some 1 couldn't sleep,’ eves of a child that ha heart out Of course you couldn't read. I'll get back as soon as I can. Good-by.’’ There is something further that wanted to get itself said, but tt ords that came nearest to expre ing it were ‘‘God and he did not say them (in the top of his staircase he found Temple lounging | till here? I'm afraid time gone, but Mi I don’t want to shove my oar in,"’ said Temple, ‘‘ but I came back when I'd seen Lady St. Craye home. I hope there’s nothing wrong with Miss Desmond?”’ “I'll tell you the whole thing with the disorder of cattered plate s, With crumbs of cake I've been a devil of a Desmond ; aid Vernon, Thev went into the half-empty « ups al d ‘Comein room desolate on them Miss Desmond told me about her meeting you. he gave you the lip; what’ She didn't course?” ‘But she did know that’s the knew, and she wanted to l'emple was ‘I say, you know, though Well, she went back and got that woman I and took her to live with her.” Lotte her name know, of knock-down blow. She ave he Sg moment that ilent a ; rather fine,”’ he said presently “Oh, yes,” said Vernon impatiently, ‘‘it’ and all that Well, the disappeared to-day Mi about her **So she took her up, and ‘And the probably gone off with her watch and $s very romantic staved a fortnight and ; Desmond is breaking her heart woman voman’ chain and a collection of light valuable Only I couldn't tell Miss Desmond that. So 1 promised to try and find the woman. She's a thorough bad lot. I’ve run up against her once or twice with chap I know She's not that sort,” said Tempk I know her fair well.” Well,” said Vernon, ‘‘the thing is: we've got to find the womat ‘To get nnocent girl No bolted, and to make « t live with that innocent Do But she t She had ome Dact pa her r effect It was at the Cafe Wha he f t asked gayi It i dred year } e| i vou, Bobt ind at least 1 ol nee | saw your friend.” The Il saw you lemple said vas the nigh Va ; ' \r did N 1 Ts she w lelt let ‘ SI vent 0 «seen her avait »} on ( econ oO r! ‘ She rose, knoch er a chair I) t iid Vernor That not wnat we want | he turned fieres n | f re ra deputa One and ’ t ) iid Ver i] nw 4 to ] Ar ire mpany S} itu if head awa \ ir t ngytot crue Vernon a ( Wi nd ' ff, ther I won't be bullied " vd of I ple took off |} hat and went I tanap ntn t I've no time for fool ta } aid sit d uid Vernor First I want to thank ou for the care ’ e taken of Miss Desmond, and for all your maclone and liens ta hor Oh! “asa hing differs re th } an tha } KI bf Ps: aot ail that \ I did it said I la ea time | 1 to f; } Ye sid Vernor Ww t must | e been amusing I just for the fun of the thing. But I couldn't ta er I came awa I was bored to ck Ye } have beet Just playing at cookir ind } ewor reading aloud to her whilk he drew - ye he told me that And the flowers and all her ittle trumpery odds and ends about Awfully amusing it t t have bee THE SATURDAY EVENING POST « He Shut the Door as Though He Had Seen Betty's Ghost Don't,’ said Paula ‘‘And to have her loving you and trusting you as sh did-—awfully comic, wasn’t it? Calling you her girl- friend ‘ , “Shut up, will you?’ “‘And thinking she had created a new Heaven and a new earth for vou Silly, sentimental little schoolgirl! Now he said, turning furiously on Vernon, *‘ will you fro? Or shall I? I don’t want any more ol you.”’ ‘Just one , he said with an odd char ge of expression that made him look young ft her She’s erving he “Why I left her? Beeause | Don't Let me tell you \ th her because one and friend You found her rooms, you r et her in the way of making friend word more Tell me why you reyes out for you \ 1went Ww And when you saw at she was in a fair way to be happy and comfortable, be Caust **Because?"’ she leaned forward eagerly. Because you were afraid.” Afraid ‘Afraid of handicapping her. You knew you would meet people who knew you You gave it all up —all the ew life, the new chance for her sake, and came away Do IT understand Is it fool j Paula leaned her elbows or table and her chin on her hand You're not Ke most mer he ud youn ike me out better tha l an Phat not the usual 1 take lé i that, partl And I should have liked t i for t eT and ever! if I co ild But SUPPoOse | ildn't Suppose I'd begin to find myself wishing for ill sorts of thing T) what I was afraid of And you didn't long for the old life at all?”’ She laughed Long for that But I might have I might have It was safer Well, go back and tell her I wasn't worth saving. But I did try tosave her. If you'r you won't undo my one little bit of work.’ He leaned fe rward and spoke very earne stly Look here I won't jaw But this about vou and her well, it made a difference to me that I can't explain And t own that to any one friend. I mean to good friend. No nonsense.”’ half a man .’ he said, * I wouldn but he be a friend to her, Swear it!’’ she said fiercely I do swear it,” he ‘*And I can’t tell her von've sone —back write to her. And you can't too, a said tell her that either.”’ “What's the good of ‘*A lie or two isn't much, writing?” when all this for write to her there vou've done Y ou Can Paula wrote her Come up to my plac This was the letter that among the half-empty cup them in Vernon's studio and the scattered plates with cake-crumbs on I must leave without s grood-t ind I shal never see you agai! M\ ier has taken me bach I wrote to him and he came and found me He ha ! I to promise never to speak to any one | knew in Paris It is all your doing, dear. God bless you. You have saved me. I shall pray for you every day as long as I live Your poor Day March 24, 1906 “Will that do?” she laughed as she held out the letter He read it. And he did not laugh “Yes —that’ll do,”’ he said. ‘‘I’'ll tell her you ve to England, and I'll send the letter to London to be posted. , “Then that’s all settled! **Where are you going now ?”’ “Back to the d'Harcourt. It’s early yet She stood defiantly smiling at him. “Til go a bit of the way with you,” he said At the door he turned, took her hand and kissed it gently and revere ntly. “That eves at him. gone astonished ‘*T always used to think you an awful brute.” theatrical of me,’ he told himself later. ‘But it summed up the situation. Sentimental ass you're growing!” Betty got her letter from England and cric was glad over it. “T have done one thing, anyway,”’ one really, truly good thing. Paula. Oh, how right I was! very sweet of you.”’ She “It was very d over it and told herself I've saved my poor dear How I knew her!” she XV—ON MOUNT PARNASSUS A LONG BARTON the Reverend Cecil had strayed into Betty’s room, now no longer boudoir and bed- chamber, but just a room, horrible tidiness of a room that is not used swept, dusted, tidy, with the Phere squares of bright yellow on the dull drab of the wall-paper, marking the old hanging-places of the photographs ¢ pictures that Betty had taken to Paris. He opened the cupboard door: one or two faded skirts, a flattened garden hat and a pair of Betty He shut the door again quickly, as though he had seen Betty's ghost The next time he went to Sevenoaks he looked in at the order, and chose a wall- paper with little pink roses on it. When Betty came home for Christmas she should not find her room the fade it was now. He ordered pink curtains to match the rosebuds. And it was when he got home that he found the letter that told him she was not to come at Christn But he did not countermand his order If not and whenever it was she Since she were ‘sold shoes builders and decorators, gave an ad desert as at Christ- should find had been away he had felt or He had ne her mas, then at Easter; her room a bower more and more the need to express his affect expressed it, he thought, to the uttermost, by I go at all And now he pink wanted to express it in detail, | curtains, satin-faced wall-paper with he paper cost two shillings a piece, and he gloated over the extravagance and over his pretty, poetic choice Usually the wall-papers at the rectory had been chosen by Betty, and the price limited to sixpence He would refrair rom buying that Fuller’s Church History, on t boards and rich } last three came upon it in the rag and bone shop in the litth street in Maidstone When the rosebud paper curtains were in their place, the shabby carpet was an insult The Reverend Cecil bought ar ‘arpet-—of the bright-patterned beautiful brown folic ellow paper hi ived in hi weeks, ever since he bach dthe pint to their rht prettiness Oriental « Jute variety } and was relieved to find that it only cost a pound The leaves were falling in brown dry showers in the rectory rarcer the ehry santhen ums were f arly over the dahlias blackened and blighted by the first frosts. A ms still clung to the gaunt hollyhock sten e camomile flowers medicine daisies ill ther hen she 1 tthe their whitenes ved among bent drv stalks of flowers dea found Betty's window the monthl ind pink amid disheartened f igre 0 show on the north walls of the rooms \ fire in the study now daily, for the sake of the books: om n the drawing-room, weekly, for the sake of the piano and Paris, a fire of crackling twigs and long logs in the rus ire-basket, and leaping to lick blue and vellow flames France on the wrought iron fire-back The rooms were lonely to Be tty now that Paula was gone She n ed her ine pre ssibly But the loneliness wa lighted by a glow of pride, of triun ph, of achievement Her deception of } stepfather was justified She had brief interview { f ving Paula In the which Vernon took to teli her that Paula had gone to Eng been the means of s: land with her father, Betty noticed no change in hin She had no thought for him then And in the next weeks, when Life as she saw it in Paris was le of the he had thoughts for him, she did not see him \ The darker good to see grimmer student life was wholly hidden from Betty She saw only a colony of young artists of all nations but most of England and America—-all good friends and comrades, working and playvins with an ¢ qual She saw girls treated as eq s and friends jual idents. | short from the first friend one met, and quite usually re paid when enthusiasn by the men st f money were t was borrowed the home allowance arrived. A young man would borrow from a young woman or a young woman from a young man ach other. Most girls hada Betty thought at first Miss Voscoe, the as freely as schoolboys from special friend among the boys that these must be betrothed lover

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l pu le que who had ist leit the iurant ) t nouncement that the e! t } \ the af noe Engaged Not that I Wi “ sne ud i I lapse in the pu he q ’ he f We now, in England peo] ibout together +} he . Ye aid Miss Voscoe het ottle of weal hits "ne : threepet I've heard tha n I 1 ’ marry the ror man, d t thev, beea ind o one tne t ! itr pr leg vith Not quite always, I hope,’’ said Bet Now, in our count M Voscoe we iround so as they Car ‘ here mor i bovs than there are of s ish het married to a husband it's bec ise the i the ike his dollars, or lor some reason tha he’s the only one they've ever said five Phere something in that sett \ iunt sa men never ant be Imend \ I ri tne A 4 al To f Our men dor inywa But if the i doe t want to flirt th von t get erv tangled up I don't | Voscor but | isin the prett sheltered home ( Now I'd bet you fell in love th tt hr man that said three polite ords 1! I’m: t et sald Betty I cal nd 1t ‘ I arle O} ean 1 hink nobod had tir those three ] ‘ et You come I ht alo to my\ l il ntroduce n I is to it three oO you get nine polite words at t i ite, car su Bett ent h e and put on her pre tie ) Aft t ne is Ti El a ale i | I ! “al » le ind ( t night as Well ¢ i ict Ir ita ne i And one i idat t tir of hen cle dre Het I Ss ol i t et Vitt een ul eT ‘ ‘ rie 1 red and green ¢ t ‘ M \ ‘ t ttt ) r) ey 1 het h nd } j » her. 7 { he it hina ar he dued tinkle of a1 i she pen ‘ ther ned l of pe } ‘ t One was Ver ) ind the ther ’ lremple Betty fur resent } ht ! iV ¢ ered ne eal i lace Here 1 are! rie M \ t st Vas } na I ‘ ne leet glance the blush and her art n Bet | her 1 ’ the roo ] ple ere bei t iced to het Pleased to Kn 1 it i i ince And I ‘ f dening her bet« i par nat degre tart o $ « ree 1 entrar SI} arew ? rqu 1 ind led Ne poster where a young woman in a big red } table, and under cover of Betty's purely aut nition of the cor ms taler mu Which of then t I beg your pard Be mecha eferent detense Which was it that said the three | te ldever meta © else Ah!” said Be “vou’re so cleve loo clever to live, I die —which was it?’ ‘**T was going to say,” back into itself its nat yes,” said Miss Vos« said Bettv, her face ural coloring that ure THE SATURDAY At Her Little Desk Among the Flowers I ky th 1 Vernor hit I You Be r ense If lL kne t | nate love iid | ; Yes, 1 Ve | he T ‘ ' \ i\ ‘ i na I If she wer and 1 could be friends: I should Let us be friend rid EVENING POST

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14 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A°D' 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 421 TO 427 ARCH STREET HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR PHILADELPHIA, MARCH 24, 1906 GEORGE 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 | Gold Bricks by the Ton WE BELIEVE we are well within bounds in saying that th e people of the United Stats without regard to race, politics or religion, are moved by one deep, anxious, universal hope that Mr. Rogers, Mr. Heinze having agreed to make a vast copper combination, will pro- very slowly and carefully wn best, maturest thought, but taking and weighing | have helpful ing the new consolidated concern ative pet ple We have the poetic In- rn toward perfection. Moreover, we are ild hate to see asuperb, matchle and associates, not only giving the subject ions of al atter of forn apin who may suggestions --in We sho , unprec edented opportunity of this kind wasted in any degree The mind thrills and reels in thinking out of a I il al the were wrought of what could be made ation of Amalgamated ( opper ar d Heinze rful potentialities of such nbination Ever wonde vith proper care and intell ignoring all outside contributors, including { Boston, and taking only what Amalgamated has charged Heinze with Heinze has charge¢ ni ni a with, we see stretching before us, in fairly net afield th t n I's to corrupt the polities of an entire State, son, O and what opu- once entices and staggers the ita ! imagina- » Wali Street, to sell gold bricks |} bune to ow odvnamit yu te vour neighbor's n new cor a famous In Hencoop and Watchdog QEVERAL years ago ES ae: b tence fo been in « They } net re a ; } ind embodied neriy 1 of the ¢ n ‘hi Rapid T : ‘on ISS1ION WA cre ntrusti ited ! a good while remember, have been, qu in ably, gentlemen of the highest probity. It bodies that everv ons is memi SO lar as We neake « n tert pear fin ter THE SATURDAY EVENING POST of respect. Probably it never did a dishonest or indecorous thing or missed a committee meeting. Meanwhile, Mr. Ryan, Mr. Belmont and their industrious predecessors have thoughtfully loaded the public with a few hundred millions of watered traction securities which actually constitute a mortgage on the traveling public of Gotham for a genera- tion to come. No blame attaches to the wardens, but the hencoop has certainly been looted—in view of which the simple-minded, irreverent and illogical Bowery is scratch- ing its head and wondering how it could have been worse off without so eminently good a commission. This is merely by way of parable. There are other unim- peachably honest and diligent bodies that command thx highest respect — but if one pauses to put the plump que tion, ‘‘Should we be any worse off without them?’’ the rather confusing. When Your Mare is Doped b could, recently, have found many persons in the United States who had no time to think about railroad rate regulation, the New York traction merger, or the prob- able execution of Mr. Hoch, of Illinois; to whom the Pan- ama Canal was a matter remote and inconsequential; who could not have guessed within a week when the White House wedding was to be. Something vastly tant engaged their attention—namely, the momentous question: “ Was Lou Dillon doped?’ Lou Dillon is a crack trotting mare. some body else dishonorably introduced a foreign and dele- terious subject into her system on the eve of a race. A crack trotting horse is of the same intrinsic importance to mankind as one of those costly toys that Sir Thomas Lipton brings over to sail in the yachtrace. Yet a positively large number of generally harmless men live their lives around her. Nothing less than an earthquake would distract their attention from the alleged doping of Lou Dillon. It is important to keep this in mind, because it is so illustrative. When a rotten bank failed a while ago, ruining some politicians, one of its officers said: ‘‘This is the end of the Republican party.’’ His mare had been doped, and he thought it as important to everybody else as to him. The New York tax on stock transfers was denounced by brokers as a body blow at American finance. They thought so. Propose to raise saloon licenses, and the brewers, aghast, will assure you that you are ruining the business interests of the country. It really seems that way to them. Who- ever looks over the surface of affairs will see strange, unex- pected objects continually rising to view, like Venus from the sea, or, if you prefer, like alligators from the mud, being special interests which, having been touched in their abodes, bob up to proclaim a universal debacle. There are a few railroad men left who think a rate bill will be the beginning of our commercial downfall. ‘“*The Lowest in the World” HE Interstate Commerce Commission finds that the railways of this country last year, taken as a whole, earned 6.09 per cent. on their entire capital stock outstand- ing in public hands. There is some water in this stock Moreover, in recent years railroad stocks to the amount of some hundreds of millions have been withdrawn from public hands and converted into bonds and other new securities on an inflated basis —for example, $108,000,G00 Burlington ck converted into $216,000,000 four per cent. bonds $75,000,000 Rock Island stock converted into $75,000,000 ynds and $137,000,000 new stock Louisville and N: ville, Chieago and Eastern Illinois and other stocks have been put through a similar process. At thi answef 1s more impor- Somebody said average price of forty dollars a [hese ported rat The i f ft coal, in which the railroads them es are largely inter- ch they haul at a ver OW rate It has beer Phe average e per tor biggest any other country f ons of | gh railroad authority that mill pounds of re hauled for the packers at rates below the ce These t} gs go far toward making the | -expre , Sleeping included, as the comparison with er been It has nev their railroad The Liars’ Premium ( YOVERNOR FOLK proposes to abolish } nal prop- I Vv taxe for State purpose in Missouri —whict naturally leads one to suspect that the Go man anvbody has gi pers’ ert ] ernor is a bigger rbeing. The attempt in the United States produces a en him credit fi © tax personal property March 24, 1906 mass of perjury that makes Ananias’ performance look like the output of a country blacksmith shop in comparison with that of the Steel Trust. Also, here and there, incident- ally, it produces a very little public revenue. Properly speaking, pe rsonal property is not taxed. The owners of it So Governor Folk’s proposition is merely by way of making it unanimous present. Experience has shown that personal property cannot be properly taxed; that the attempt to tax it resuits in a fares except that it is g astly Everybody but few men in politics have the real honesty to accept the logic of it. It is more popular to introduce fool- ish bills to ‘catch the millionaire tax dodger,’’ as they are doing at Albany. No doubt, Governor Folk’s proposal will be demagogically criticised as favoring the bloated bond- holder and burdening the poor farmer and hi to time experience inexorably demonstrate see to that. instead of almost so, as at instead of funny. knows it; use-owner From time that there are certain things the Government cannot do however admirable and beneticial those things might be theoretically. Very often they appeal to a popular sense of abstract justice. So it takes courage and high, genuine honesty for a man in politics to stand up and say, ‘‘ We sim- ply cannot do it: let’s be sensible and stop trying.” For twenty years or more the National and State Governments have been trying all sorts of legislative devices to stop the through combinations and and industrial All such ave been even more futile than the attempt to tax restriction of mergers of efforts | personal propert competition railroad concerns. The centralization has gone on steadily t would be quite inspiring if Governor Folk or some other would now arise and say **Let us repeal our anti-trust laws, since demonstrated has The sensible thing is not vy tostop combinations, for we cannot do that; but te accept them and try to regulate them. experience their uselessness. Heroic and Hungry Statesmen LTHOUGH there is much harrowing uncertainty as to what Congress will do in certain respects, we rejoice t» see that the old, elemental, basic laws which govern that important body are still operating with unimpaired eth- ciency, so that one may yet proceed upon firm ground it forecasting results as to that considerable part ol the field of Congressional action which falls within the lines of these ancient polities For example, the Senate has passed the ship subsidy bill This is a measure to give public money to a special interest namely, the ship-owners. It proposes to build up one more infant industry at the general expense row and sow the ground for another prosperous trust. Any possible benefit to the public is exceeding remote, theo- retical and problematical. There is no doubt, however, that it would be a good thing forship-owners. Hence, by all rule and precedent, it should be an object of tender care at the hands of the Senate. This bill is the first piece of legis- lation worth mentioning that the Upper House has achieved and in noting its passage after all, the Senate can be quite thoroughly depended upon within certain known lines tly, the House of first effective to plow, har at this session we renew a sooth- ing feeling that, Coincider Representatives made its with the proposed number of the ex- penses of which largely exceed their rec eipts and which exist ses of patronage. The House may meekly * Payne's potent voice in such incidental mat- ng a Statehood or Philippine Tariff bill; but mands it to abolish certain Government jobs plendid pap for hungry constituents, it heroic rhere is no difficulty about telling what either do when the issues are thu stand against a measure that came This measure customs districts dministrative approval to abolish a goodly chan and there 1 re popular clan or to contuse ber will clearly defined a Statesman 8s ldgment Ad Quos Haec Praeses SC! NDRY thousands of young men and young women will soon be investing in frames wherein to display a bit of parchment, elaborately engraved with Latin words rhe purport of these words is that so-and such and such a number of years at this or that university or high school, is entitled to the degree of whatever la re The 30, hav ing passea > ] collet of honorary degrees has been expose d time rain. But ho What il value have they? except the possessors, ever think of them, unless at them? And who would ever take at a young man or young who took his or her degree ; A degree never proves anything to the poss tage And nowadays, look critically « ven the solemn and accredited traditional fakes, the degree most often serves to give the lie and the laugh to the graduat« and to his “‘institution of learning A man must speak for himself a farce siiline w about these degrees in course ? Who, to smile all seriously woman seriousl or’s advar when we A title of any kind is

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M Making a Protectionist <bean ; lai ae ees The Stormy Petrel of the Senate OBERT J. WYNNE, former Postmaster-General and The stenographer went to Uncle Sessend Sound the esl YENATORCULBERSON of 7 aera \ now Consul-General to | dor is a newspaper bler to be a1 ! ‘ i man, witt v » wal correspondent for years in Washington. He had a great whiskers anda pale: t blue eve 801 } ’ reputation as a tariff writer on the Protection side Unele J 1 he have him, and he g tara It is curious how that came about,"’ said Wynne I andashaving: l td nachair H was not particularly interested in the tariff, but one night, and leaned bac He , when there was nothing to send to 1 paper, I sat dowr i? nwWa { i | i ishave ' } f oy . - and began a dispatch by savyir Grover Cleve d t Was nece " " hago tariff policy ‘ost the United States more than the Civil barber Wa mt tn he (y r i !

War —in money around i Ihe ite o “That looked pretty good to me, f ! paper was Wel the bs t dor them mur Tr } letective in th ardently for Protection. So I set out to prove and I di der Howsome | ! ! f thi t . prove

tai ergs =F Pe sess The Standard’s Reason Why wi

tp JAMES B. ANGELI of Mic} ! i Just What Taft Wanted sar entrmgrsee ae a ese poh 29) ; pppoe ELROY CURTIS, the author and traveler, table slid out of his chair and under t} was invited to deliver a lecture at Columbia Univer thought they were making ! f nd pr /

sity, in Missouri, on the Panama Canal My dear sir aid the } Mr Curtis accepted and began the preparatior of the ! nesi ¢ piiment We can lecture He decided to make it comprehensive and up to Teel € barrassed over the the minut So he called on Theodore P. Shonts, the the me hay we ar roth president of the Panama Canal Comr n, and sul The Hall of Fame mitted a long list of questions to him, covering every it W. E. Chandler, Publicist oo OF € portant point about the canal. Mr. Shonts promised t . ‘ , Compost get up the information and asked Curtis to call in a few ks SENATOR WILLIAM E. CHANDLER h days 4 Han hir h ; ‘ : , . : r | J erand, fror Curtis went back Chairman Shonts looked rather Preaty Claims Comr ! ‘ tul f . heepish. ‘“‘I'm sorry, my dear friend,” he began, eT Sena cu | i 2 was " sorry about that requently to the news] DO! « ‘* What's the matter?"’ broke in Curtis Can't I have What are loing C} the information ?”’ asked | the other da “Well, vou see —-the fact is Shonts floundered I O} Chandler ret a got up the information all right, but, of course, I had t A publicist Wh; p f take it to Secretary Taft, who is in charge of all can: Ct rgrinned A} he work, and ask him about giving it out.” ittends to everybo } I | ) t, of Ne Well?” asked Curtis f hal “Well, he looked at it and said: ‘By George, Shonts, no has 3 that is the very thing I want! Iam going to: e aspecch - ‘ut in Missouri in a few days and I can use this to great + i advantage.’ ch | ' ( — And he did use it in his speech at Kansas Cit —= - [ f : a , : | 4 Herher \ The Communicative Barber CRN Ne pene ATIVE and self-important voung court ster at n £1 ographer went with a detailed judge to one of the feud j 4d Vl ’ t i 1 \\ owns in the Kentucky mountains to do his part in | t Fr a term of court. | fford Pinchot It was a small place, far from a ra id, and the inhabit \ J R ( } ( ants were all feudists of one clan or another Aftera . nthe ID el ( or two at the little hotel the stenographer said to the hotel- e! he WI Keeper ‘*Where's the barber shop ? Pre r A Ain't no barbe r shop here the boniface replied. ‘* We t 1 1 t Pinct I all mostly lets our hair grow.’ enty-seven time hile ¢ re

But can't I get shaved any where ?”’

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prings nevet frame neve! twists out of A‘Garvy olutel hape. IS LDS Ol ele and pertectly sanitary » Makes / the bed \ / comfortable " ‘ | Garvy Bed Spring iW we a Chicayo. The Garvy Co., 75 Norton St., | | last and all the time, I New Spring E ‘ASTE R SPOON] ecial Easter De FREE The Warren Mansfield Co THE SATURDAY EVENING POST March 24, 1906 PLAYER AM going to1 Life you It protection has beet welfare of that I th a the thinks more surely Candidly you dwell on it life according to the p the unt MSUrANCEeE as doesn't know won't know it 1 And I minds to Walt to and then WI ado w! Charles Klein ’ can-do aren't them back of their with not a The The Age of an Actor perso CTORS are like women in one respect they do not always welcome reminis- with the datetothem. Charles Klein of how —— W artield fe “1 in ith Frank Daniels at The Lambs The first time I ever saw gfe: * said Warfield, ‘was when you were playing in The Jolli ties, on the Pacifie coast. I was a boy, and had got my first job as an usher, and I ; It is probable that Mr. Warfield was intend- ing a compliment; but no one ever knew, for with a broad burlesque of rage Mr Daniels fell upon him and grappled his col “It is a lie!’ he cried, in dramatic accents. ‘‘ A grizzled old veteran like you!” Laughing frends separated them. Mr daniels’ hair, it may be remarked, is white nan is only as old as she looks, and young as he acts. Those who families w bit of nobility - cences in tells a story low lal insur has been ti I want to inter nk —-in ite lat nally nake a very plain, firm assertion ince isn't designed to make money for but for your family ilked as an investment so long that its 1 lost sight of entirely. est the manhood that wa ot love d be than of himself, fact I srow, \ moment—that the man who considers to ee how an ones ¢ and 1e something speculate with, to buy rospect it has returning real CoOOoU Ss considers l he men of-the-family on it they'd -do direct me wh: they thin! 1e) vn do. Ike -t lar I'll relative protection SO apart as uid think write to a plan for hich in start with and keep up they c CONV ¢ mence of manhood is loving lite and pro risa en Mr. Daniels in Sergeant Brue will i he hada grievance or Is It?” Annie Russell and Sa smca, ‘stave. (ne? supper Ns art r ‘Am I, PRIVATE life of humor N sense that came 3 Is called Culebras iided in a bi ch W's wisted tra Waset e Spanis ar, at Mr | ? inna aan Dept. EB, ‘ he National Guard, paper When he came » Miss Russell the staring head Dewey Enters Manila the Spanish Fleet.’ But Russell ich read and Sinks wert i quietly , Or is it? Harbor The speechle 38. Mr. to Miss pa Acting and the Family N ONE rv mor Spect, at least vaudevil al tl | 1 the so-called ‘‘] e pre ference geth ugg ll them » Bervl Sis rs, dancers ] se] 3 ft eS ¢ ers, the lv, though ‘elated than anv t no theatrical manager and and a wife in the inder — est \ Julia Marlow Was Broad- if Robert P hi Soap pre sales. I prize tne Ott¢ Same 1 INCGUCE self, a for were ‘ , lexion Known { VY never Will be the rea Charles Frohman ,one ot ons parted Wits. drift upto a 1AVe t tie- makes. S$ WACHUSETT SHIRT COMPANY LEOMINSTER, MASS Trcrnieshaceset FASHIONABLE COMFORTABLE Nnevel to ls : 4 the In COMm>- CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS 928 Chicago Opera House Block, Chicago, Hl. — ees oe with Annie Russell was that she married her leading man, Oswald Yorke. E. H. Sothern will probably never again act with Virginia Harned, though since their professional separation Mrs. Sothern has p. oyed very lit tle Since Nat Goodwin parted PL AYS AMATEL labor, was her busban f the truth r FREE success THE PENN PUBLISHING CO., 921 Arch We have any Pie FRUIT BOOK Street, Philadelphia OLORS a 210 varietios STARK BROS., elie Mo f

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pany with Max | } ha " not one real suces I \ il pr ably not reunite on the stag fhe managers are firmly convinced that people do not want to have visible evidencs hat hero or heroine is already married i nto whom he is already married Special Mattresses

than in it wp) peectobecte Annual Clearance Sale of Surplus Stock ¢ ae - ile “zB | ; ey. a te ‘Y> Make Your Home a conditio ragreement with t = More Attractive toe ee eee oe oe \ ¢ Ba In this year’s piece, The Fascinating M1

imi Regularly « he had been less fortunate in } priva 1 at ‘ $30.00 Reduced ~ sia > “oe ie ‘ Nie “

sist ” $18.50 es 7 Ae. 4 Oe a oe ae 4 WY ’ 4 P,

Alabastine The Sanitary Wall Coating Pw Lie ME A OPT NY

BREE Tear

. ~S as f ; , + ‘ BF aa, aA s u i ne ing I a : we * ae 7 \ 14 which had beenas sig? 4 Inca t gont i a i. = ‘-— Wea ~ ‘Sac ~ on, ; for a speech, Bronson Howard, the ; a “ aie ~~. gan Phy \ k \ t t t # | master, said: “* we ; 2 Vom a 4 ls | mired you. t i, i ih rr J A hae ‘ ia s ~~ he 8 recog? tha e of Ae be ae eet tate’ eam oe Y Gens vepreers = } Pi William A. out t SOROS ket ae raoe eeeeoe - a 7 PE Bla f } ‘ RA. as aot CAPPED: de Ask vour dealer ni = : he , O'S a: OO RUB 1G . SFR TENA 4 i ’ F f { a : seas RECO A r to show you the e +} on ad + Alabastine Prize Designs & es ; i hedl coil: ies , 4 = 1 rt T 1 qr i 1 She .a y , Se ookir al a t lap i When | B r a ; . wr ) _ ila ieicn ) Facl | = Price, $18.50 Each f The Alabastine Company nt 6 b- sib voor ae We pay Transportation Charges anywhere in the United States df $rand Rapids, Mich h b . j ; ‘ ralr Offered only while they last; first come, first served. The supply is limited J Tat sear » \l . geese . Terms of sale: Cash in advance; none sent C. 0. D = - ¥ Order direct of us or through y our Ostermoor dealer hat . ke l Mr. | cut dow ‘ ind ott } i 1 Mr. Brady read | ised It wa ! ' t too parad i | . ‘*T think 1k hing a df ind I * he concluded, ‘*} } I know best is that most ol 1 ke I n ant If t (

ud all be Carnegi Premoette sesieciitiaiai lita Is one-third smaller than any V ADAME BERNHARDT has long bi i : other camera ever made for

kno ; her own most effective } 21 314 pi . OWN ¢ | -'4 X 3l4 pictures moter of publicity ; wherefore it is ewha = —— Ma lation t 1 i to be wondered at that she has neglected a recent opp of no sma i a YEN) ’T IS ALL IT COSTS I} ‘ } y Y _ < : Fonesxte Perhaps this is a case where silence is | iF 1s) } } } =e “re PPO” } a WERNET DENTAL MFG. CO. — rhe “1 — — IS 2808 rete ahaa ae - a ee, 7 EE 1401 Arch Street, Philadelphia ke Maver, anc the Critic Das since HEC = —

conspicuous by his presence

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1s . One of the Best Dressed Ww omen in Your Town n Write for it to lay . otentir i with the garment SPRING SUITS $4 to $25 New York Styles SHIRT-W AIST SLITS, $6.00 to $20 TAILOR-MADE SUITS $7.50 to $25 SILK SUITS $0.75 to $25 WASH SUITS t $4.00 to $15 SEPARATE SKIRTS $3.50 to $15 SILK COATS, $9.75 to $20 RAIN COATS, $8.00 to $20 JACKETS and COATS $5.75 to $:5 WE MAKE ALL THESE GARMENTS TO ORDER ONLY We prepay expre on these garments to any part of t Mr States, which means at aving to you We Send FREE New York as charg Spring and Summer Book of Pashions Sample Write for them to-day you will get them by return mail National Cloak & Suit Co. 119 and 121 West 23d St., New York City Maii Orders ( No Age uts or Branches Est. 18 Years

NO STROPPING NO HONING The World-Famed Blade of Finest Steel

12 Blades 24 heen Edges Ke vour own bar her and save time moncy and werry “ The Gillette” blade is of fine, flexible No water stee! that chan | shaves. 28 to 40 ened qvick and comfort able shaves from brewh each blade Blades Ex- ged or Resharp Ne hinges that Neo clasps that No springs that weaken

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GILLETTE §S Times Building > COMPANY New York City $4.6 © RU IBBE RTI TIRE Murray” Driving Wagon | | a | tic Sk | boy ~ 1S | | an Wilber H. Murray Mig. Co Cincinnati, , Ohio THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ODDITIES @ “NOVELTIES Of Every-Day Science REFORM AMONG THE BACTERIA— OuR FRUIT AND VEGETABLES ARE PLENTI- FULLY POPULATED WITH FLOATERS. M° tE important even than pure food clean food. At all events, this idea is being urged at the present time, particu- larly by the women, who in New York Stat have formed an organization which has for its object the doing away with dirt in con- nection with things edible. People, it would seem, are just waking up to a perception of the unpleasantnesses which are intimately associated with every- day food supplies. For example, it has not been realized until recently that there was any objection to exposing fruits, including even strawberries and raspberries, on street stands, where dust filled with all kinds of germs could be freely sprinkled upon them by the breezes. And it is only within a short time that the Board of Health in New York City has obliged venders of candy and cut fruits to cover their merchan- dise with glass, Generally speaking, fruits are not washed before being eaten, because the process is supposed to injure their flavor. Hence it follows that the dirt which accumulates upon them while offered for sale is eventu- ally transferred to the internal economy of the consumer. With vegetables it is much the same way. Some of the latter, such as lettuce, are sprinkled from time to time with water, to freshen them. And such water! The greengrocer finds that dirty serves the purpose just as well as clean, and one might imagine that he pre- fe rre d it. Cakes are sold in the same way on open stands; and bread is sometimes put out to cool on the street, where it catches all the dust ina may chance to be blowing about. ce cream 1 frequently manufactured in cellars under most unclean conditions. But it is need ss to multiply instances, Reform in such matters is urgently needed, and it is beginnin ig to arrive At the present behind Europe in y! ahem off the importance of clean food. Feunie on the other side of the Atlantic are much more dainty in such ways than we, and, for one example, the meat and cake shops in German cities are lined with vitri- fied brick and tile—the idea being that everything shall be white, to show dirt, and h: that the dirt may be promptly water ime we are our ap- Washable, SO CUPID AND THE WHY THE ANGEL Houp Her Jon “ipaeceset LLY TRAINED oe or Mercy Dogs VERY LONG. GATHERED $s statistic appear to show that the » ngest of all women are trained Though ympilete tigures have not as vet been com led, from a considerable mass of data the 1 is drawn that nine out of ten ed nurses n during the first seven f their occupation as such that the demand for yam n and m idd le-ag rKe t ll TRADE MARK | ale nl $70 all WARK / |_RAIN __PRooF booklet FREE ° B. PRIESTLEY & CO. Mohairs ravenette Cloths, E.t« is by circular trade - mark fe" stamped on the ( loth

and this label at the coat collar or € lsew here.

Wit for inte resting Aq lanufacturers of Black Dress Good Woolens, (

/ / 3 GRAND ST., or te GREENSHIELDS, MONTREAL, NEW YORK, l imited, CANADA at PL UME« D FEATHERS

A NEW OSTRICH CAWSTON “OSTRICH FARM & FACTORY P. O. Box 1045, South Pasadena, California

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« Patrol Patrol Patrol Extinguishers

= the Patrol Desirable Territories Reliable AMERICAN-]AFRANCE FIRE ENGINE [ 0. Bui! F Apparatus in the Wor General Office 124 Erie St., Elmira, N.Y Several for Efficient, open Avents. =

Largest lers of Fighting

T F MAR® REGISTLRED Liquid Court Plaster “ New-Skin” relieves ( Abrasions, Hang-Nai or Fingers, Burns. Blis hieve Chilblains. Fr ated Bare St Chafed or Blistered Feet, Callous Spots, ete., et«

ME HANICS SPORTSMEN, BICY CLISTS, GOLFER a NEW SKIN" « will not wash off “NEW-SKIN’ ‘ Pa t with New-Skin’ ani forget it CAUTI IN WE GUARANTEE NEW SKIN ina teatil santagrainy- ll *New-Skin"’ s 10¢ 4 “ar THE DRUGGISTS Douglas Mfg. Co. 96-102 Church Street Dept. R = New York

THE When a bachelor patient is brought through an illness by a trained nurse the

chances are one in six that he will her. If he suffers from typhoid fever, and i not already « ged, the chances are tw out of three he will propose to her This, in fact, h: me ‘ be lized as asymptom of the disease an off being t ally forthcoming at a certain stag of cor vlescence Looking her prettiest in her picturesque costume, {mir t ( tantly to} he Iple sness, the trained nur ! the bact elor patient at a serious disadvanta St appears to |} n pruise that of a1 iste t N wonder, then, that tt ‘ to secure for himself the a ‘ ‘ And, < \ } reading with whicl lire husbands, it “ert iw that so t if be seized with an ambition to give 1 lives to the good work WHAT O’CLOCK ?-- THE Hours Can No LONGER CREEP, PHEIR HANDs, THEY HAVE Los! FOR HE newest thing in the way of a clock has neither hands nor dial As 1 many timepieces of the kind are being sold, ind, though doubtless rt tent chiet] ‘ curiositi es, the eem to be quite as accurate as ordinary clocks There is no reason, indeed, why the should not keey as yood time @s any ‘el The me hanisn l mpl enoug h, « ns of two eviinders, one above and one which slowly revolve Sometimes, | ever, the cylinders are side by side Ina case, one cylinder tells the hour and the other indicates the minute Encirecling each cylinder is a series thin plates of celluloid, bearing numb For the minutes, of course, there are sixty ich plate As the cylinder revolves, a mall steel spring, like a tiny finger, hol n position the plate which shows the nu ber of the minu The spring, as the inute passe retreats plate, which, being released at on of the minute, flies ¢ number for the next minuté terminat exposing the

So sw ftly does the mechanism operat th at one ean h: ardly ee the nun be TS ¢ hangs It is quite like magie. Of course, the hour shift in the same fashion But, \ even hour arrives, the minut shows a blank, and only one p i played, bearing the words ‘11 o'clock or the of whatever hour it mar hy designation CRUELTY TO TICKS A CONSPIRACY EXTERMINAT rHE ENTIRE RACE OF THESE LITTLE ENEMII eds nee A GOOD mans ears have elay ine i was discovered that the dreaded cattl

disease known a exas fever is caused | the bite of a tick Since then a great deal of oney has been spent in immunizing ar and in other complaint, but it only Way to getrid exterminate the a is entire measul are ado "One plan that h: known as attle, horses and mals

autions against the »w realized that the for good and all isto insect his, it icable, if prop _—

hy pract pted. is been found very eff “rotation of pa ] Mules are Ke} until the ticks, depr tain areas of land | ed l "y fe irve te £ ticl mn I pl rs turn hem into the tick-free pasture 1 the trouble, barring the po itality of accidental Ry this method the ticks have been en tirely exterminated in twelve dunties of North Carolina, at a cost of only $1 and in no case ha there been a re-infe

of land once freed fromthem. In one« where a detailed account wa kept ol ost ol eradication, the ex] ey { tainly not a hea y figur If the plague of ticks can be done a with daally, then will no longer | in ‘exas fever. As a result, traffic in catth tween North and South will beco1 fr

and unrestricted. demand for Ne South, with a con Southern herds, ar number of catth production of beef be largely augmen But it is very hi rt} raised

Phere will be anil ern-bred animals in the sequent improvement ol reat increase in the Incidentally, and dairy products will ted. ard on the aay ticks.

SATURDAY EVENING POST

“It Winds Itself” Here’s a clock that you won't need to wind. Keeps accurate time, doesn’t cost much, and we'll send it to you to prove, for thirty days, at our expense. \ WW ( I N { , N 4 ( \ 11 ‘ a

oY It “It Winds Itself” National Seli-Winding Clock Company Bristol Place, Champaign, Ul

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FREE neering Archit Electrica Mecha . ar hanical Drawing, Structural Draft American School of Correspondence, Chice ago, Il

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( t con ned witl instantly, a / ow ->s- LITERARY > @- & SS THEIR WAYS AND THEiRg® Wort rt

John Luther Long ~ in a Midsummer Mood The Letters of Mr. Long N THIS telegraphic age, the letter has become a lost art even to most literary men, and John Luther Long is one of the w contemporary writers of fiction whose good as their stories. Yet is a modern note about Mr. Long's too. He does not, it is true, callin astenographer and dictate what messages he has to send to friends or pub- lishers, but the letters are one and all type- written. In fact, Mr. Long uses a pen only for the task of correction, even in the most erious moments of narrative composition He sits in an armchair with a typewriting machine on his knees and thus produces all his ‘‘copy,’’ whether correspondence or fiction. Nor is that the only peculiarity of the letters: they are written in a narrow ide of the page, the other two-thirds of which remain a virgin white (Andat the bottom istheonly lineinink: Mr Long's signature in characters of ar oddly indappropriately — Japanese appearance r | purposes, however, Mr Long has a signature thoroughly American. letters are as there corre sponde nce,

} column down one \ Fine Epa *RAHAM PHILLIPS is. the POSSE Or I cannot tr the pro ; Italian Hand uthfully say of a typically “ liter- writing, j id possessor hand His except to those whom long familiarity has made clear peculiarities, is, to all intents and pur- poses, indecipherable. It is so small as t« and, when the writer is gy rapidly, the letters are frequently 0 welded together as to make each word i like one enormous diphthong Never- theless, Mr. Phillips scorns a typewriter One speaks of the machine, not the opera- tor He always has his stories and signed articles typed, of course, for the book or m: ine publisher, but he believes that the only natural way to do literary compo- ition is with a blunt, soft pencil on narrow pieces of pale yellow paper. And that is a little hard on the typist be almost minute, VOPKIT ar When Homer Nods tie: man of science is, in the very natur of things, an exacting critic of literature Most of us have, as children, marveled at Defoe’s feat when he has Robinson Crusos about to abandon the wreck, first take off all his clothes and then fill his pocke ts with biscuit; and those of us who, at a later day read Trollope hi manner that deligh ave wondered in what ghtful novelist would have explained how his Andy Scott could ever coming whistling up the street mouth.”” But your further. Said one

have been with a cigar in his scientiie man goes recently ‘Shakespeare was anything but aslearned as his admirers would have us believe. He ves a coast-line to Bohemia; makes a clock strike in ancient Rome; puts a bil- liard table in Cleopatra's palace; talks of cannon in the reign of King John, and has vl | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

March 24, 1906

" { f/f & A

way does it go In either direction! Yes, in every direction, reaching out like Pantasote to all parts of the world. Pantasote d ed { Greek eat lo ve purp S i ‘

1 Pantasote { | | i “THE OLD MAN IN THE COACH,” pre t 1 by leadi rtist n ten « " It | n f t x | THE PANTASOTE CO.

| New York | - -_ Dept. S, 11 Broadway

== a i Why Your Trousers Wrin

THE PRESENT ~"Nufansl rf ‘ pe PRESENT AND COMPANY, 592 Broadway, New York City “This is What Counts” | BAT ES Automatic Hand Numbering Machine Made only at Orange, N. J

\. 1 SOLD BY ALL STATIONERS AND OFFICE SUPPLY HOUSES Bates Manufacturing Co., 18 Lakeside Ave., Orange, N. J. New York Office, 31 Union Square Chicago Office, 304 Wabash Avenue

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printing invented far ahead of tim« Did | . . ” h ‘ n regaining consciousness, talking and thet | eA 1. | 1 g of that same d smothering li : | ’ nebo did -in real life And out of it | F Desdemona is the or Case n reeord | ee Hvis That's aln tas bad as the : “A ! 4 } Lourdes, has the ‘deaf and dun ! ! ; “their hearing and ht,”’ or as the iV ir } | whict Phackera ! Va uso To! f confusing the name f his character | Fea TRY CICAARS buries Lady Kew in one part of The Ne } comes and calml bring her 1 t | another | FIRST! |e el Z ra Ht Haggard hing S : _ M on ecliy he C | I - puts a star be e cresee I | ime | ROBERTS Mies hn the east. and Wilkie | * please, just has it rise in the w | , ro his own fancy ii Smoke Talks - | ia ‘To What Base Uses ! ro Here is the Second

te Jobber HERE all sorts of ways of offering 7s iscript to a p } he! Come | gc of thesn ts from a letter received les ALO, Taise si i ) A N K . ’ dl ed be 4 Nante some ; | @Ever and anon there still raises it The* \\ t | | seo” POCKET | : fs | puzzling head that ancient questior | a i 1 @eSS CIGAR LIGHTER " | } ERLANGER BROS } Which results in the better worl : KB | 70-72 Franklin Street New ¥ | and painstaking writing, or tha THE SMOKER’S DELIGHT See} Fx J @y 3. ee te heat of what ¢ - hh : : . : : ee ee the whit hes ory ; Throw Away Your Matches } | } _ , | or *0" NG MAN The Great fathers called ‘inspiration Stevenso i i ; = a | ‘ af RAILROADS WANT YOl it appears, employed 1 now one method : k ' RK 4 now another, but, in the biogr . : Sy ‘ | y Good wages Mein: if his works. his wife N | T7778

Z - % S.H. SCHIFF & CO., Dept. P, 150 NASSAU ST., NEW YORK (

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST o> ui © Ff TA LA Collecting an Overdue Account

ma ; COMPETENT enitic declared that this AST summer the firm that employs me 4 had an account due from a man who player-piano “presents an irresistible was known to be in Springfield, Massachu- strength and is an attraction which setts. He had given his address as ‘‘ General Delivery,” and letters addressed to him , s requesting a more definite address were not isting combination can. ans re The Zon 1o Snr - ‘ : answered. They sent me to Springfield to He did not overstate the fact, and how find out where he was living and to collect ld J the account, if possible. cou xe : Vhen I arrived in town I went to the product of the two companies — Wm. Knabe post-office and asked the clerk if he coul & Company and The Wilcox & White tell me where our delinquent had ordered : his letters forwarded, for we knew that he Company — occ upying the foremost positions must have left some such order, because in the manufacture of pianos and_piano- our letters had apparently reached him. The clerk informed me that it was against ; the rules of the postal service to give any The touch and incomparable tone of the Knabe The Knabe-Angelus information whatever about any one’s mail Piano are not impaired by installing the ANGELUS Ready to be played by hand A matter and he could tell me not hing. I went entirely within the plano case, so the instrument is per | Wo Gr at to the postmast« r with the same result. I fectly satisf ictory to the trained musician of the highest had to think of ct sated way of locating him, so artistic standard and is a never failing source of delight TQ > ~ P . » inclose yme Ces improv ements I bought an envelope, inc lo ed some piece and entertainment to everyone who plays it by means : of newspaper in it, stamped it special deliv- . . : you ¢ t tho ut what it . of the ANGELUS. ery and addressed it to our man, care Gen- F he ANGELUS has | eral Delivery, and then went around to the or ten years the ANGELU)S has been constantly rear entrance of the post ottice and waited. deve loped by its inventive originators to its present point S are Very soon a special delive ry messenger, of superiority. It possesses pec uliar and original me- Warner's Rust-Proof whom I recognized by his uniform, came chanical advantages such as the wonderful melody but- the imp \ out. I followed, saw him go to a house and tons and the famous phrasing lever and the diaphragm : u ; deliver my letter. I was right at his heels when he handed the letter in and got a good look at it, so I knew that it was mine Bann and that I had at last found our man. | re the fame wired the firm and they told me how to * SECURITY” me proceed H. BOR Rubber Button Kind : { 1 must appeal to the public as no other ex- , for this instrument is the combined playing devices. 2 — pneumatics produc ing the human touch. These give the pertormer the means to produc e truly artistic music ind obtain effects not possible with any other piano player The case of the KNABE-ANGELUS is of elegant design and beautiful finish and is made of most « arefully »- selected veneers of choicest figure. Bond Salesmen Write for handsome booklet and name of our The Knabe-Angelus nearest local agency Ready to be played by ANGELUS Roll

ke IS a fact not generally known that Wa ae 7) Bee Who travel over the country. seling THE WILCOX & WHITE COMPANY i Price, $1.00 to $5.00 per Pair ‘A bonds very much as drummers sell tea or . Established 1876 coffee. Some of the largest banking houses : ony Sica eeiiaiaiiemt titi — employ from twenty to thirty salesmen, and MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, U. 5S. A. altogether more than three hundred are em- ee — —- ployed in Wall Street. Another three hun- 9 dred are emploved by Boston, Ph ladelphia Oug as t Ss . ’ ae rd + e a Baltimore, Pittsburg, Chicago and St. Louis bond house These six hundred salesmen $ 5( & Of SHOES‘ ll from &$300,000,000 to S500,000,000 of 3 ) $3 ) MEN ry ar, W. L. Douglas $4.00 Gilt Edge Line ‘ool the pioneer in the employ- cannot be equalled at any price ment of salesmen to dispose of huge security I ’ 000 What a Young Husband | What a Young Wite f to undertake out 1 AS MAKES ND SE , . s yo Ought to Know Ought to Know MI N’ a “ee SHOES TH AN ANY OTHER | What a Man of 45 Wee Sree oe 20 MANUFACTURER IN THE WORLD Ought to Know Ought to Know $10, 000 REWARD to anyone who can ¢ hyp e. Sen disprove this statement ir to — thre e naa . Pwr sie 3 Vir Publishing Co. 944 Land Title Building

Philadelphia, Pa

r n j vaiue th an iny th to it the moti inanci: : nt Prag str P 4 ‘ wil estes Strong Made Shoes for ‘ Investing the money in Men, $2.50, $2.00. Boys’ School and c or hoarded in a six per cent. Dress Shoes $2.50, $2, $1.75, $1.50. rnment bond at par. The manner in SAUTION t.1 6 which the loan was sucee floated, and how the pro¢ ] f the loan carried the war to a successful conclusion, is now a part of histor : ‘ edd AVS \ ood positions se-

. Dot GL AS, Dept. 7, Brockton, Mass. ssion, quickly ande isily

New Haven Clock Company Jay Cooke's successful flotation of the red for gra tes lege of | Aas Hamilton Street _New Haven, Conn Various Government loans was a veritable “4 : = enomneenned . so } “2 ; sanaiitiets ta: UIGEE Eiaaet: “aint Ghee eden, "TPEWRITERS yey terprising banking houses quickly began efficie SOLI YOR RENTED adopting his methods, At the present time No Grease, Smoke, Dirt or Odor ANYWHERE at fully one-half of the bonds underwritten and ql oe sees fe ILLINOIS COLLEGE OF PHOTOGRAPHY ed w sold by Wall Street banking houses are dis- vies. Hove The Best F , : Write for ata levi ' SS — 4 pauses ar dis Light Co. 5-23 E Sth at af Be 0 : : 952 Wabash Avenue, Effingham, Ill. r Emporium, 207 LaSalle St., Chicag posed of by salesmen directly to private

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ; investors. As a class, bond probably the high« Cramcnuatentosee cen “The Lean Meat and a number drawin ilarie f ind three times that amount ” Wall Street banking houses use the gre | O eat. est care in selecting bond salesmen, and no ‘ oung man whose characterand anteced are not perfectly clean could possibly ire . al one of these prize positions. Usually, ba { = ing houses prefer taking young men who ar \ * fresh from college and who have no busin ¥ training whatever. They are genera in the office about a vear, learning details of the bond busines , during wt time they draw a salary not much than that paid the office boys, and are given a certain territory and started out salesmen. Their salary thereafter dep: wholly upon their ability. The opport for advancement is practically lhe head of one of the largest | houses in Wall Street, wl t How I Lost My First Job | | fuer seephane world was vet so new to m« , y that my eye had no cast of suspicior N } ; A ~ 3 if \ ri\ ) ) nt In iooOKINg On it, I was given « Oy ‘ rf I ata i My pul r a ba | which f } boiler During the t day I began t } Du he second day 1 ¢ dr | o the gs,’ On th i al » work them as ou oO ! mitted, and by noon of the fourt 4 little world was a realization: a long pol | pivoted in the centre to a post, with one end | connected by an arm to a crank on the er | of the shaft that drove the i ay } the other end being connected to the suc . . tion-rod of the pump t worked to perfection, and it was m) own child oO great engit proud of h emel! iternoon I \ with \ mv hand and i neal ) with the « 1 of atehir C of on hiner ‘ rl] \\ it rude 2 o'clo k never come? Thea I a id run | RALSTON ¢ home and tell my mother of my wonderful ? creation, and what a jolly time I should | $ | have all vacation, just watching it make | ! HEALTH ) Welch Grape Juice Company At six o'clock the “boss” came to me_ | ¢ | Westfield, N.\ and said: “‘ Billy, our contrivance seems § | to work all right I'll not need you any FOOD ) longer.’ 5 1 leath would have een more 7 + SULT To Your ~ Measure ‘ a sau? , ,r S ie oh 4 Since then T have put in several tabor- | #%% EW YORK CITY sets nly: my ever 5 the styles for the country. , S' ND us your name and we'll nd Se J you FREE our handsome i = structive Spring Style Book illustrat CLEVER NEW YORK FASHIONS How to Help Yourself f QOME time ago the head of a large whol n ale shoe | ness W n need of t Du t t or i r manager lf he } f i : he usual practic vould have gone ou for chops aks, 0i | site Ge howe ant bieed & prdieatconl cutlets, etc..addto §@ ad. manag But he | I N | a the man who knew enoug! y the gra) ; ship and about his special , 1th two tablespoonstul of on the road could “‘make sentiment” f those same goods by the use of printer an . , 2 a . ala . nk. Therefore he put one of his cracl THE NEW YORK TAILORS Lea & Pet rins salesmen into the position and now } Dept. C, 729-731 Broadway, City of New York om him $6000 a year And the mar ; ; Sauce es j op with pro- L/L ~——---— -~---~ — THE ORIGINAL WORCESTERSHIRE I f } : . - tie : izatio in in his house » HOCOLATES belore pouring it over the mo ago - " fastens him to the meat to him shares of good By Mail Exclusively dividend-paying stock He knows one thir g¢ that too few me! isiness do know: That a man can best help himself by helping others! ie? teel picket f “tt er. Cat WARD FENCE CO MELLINGER, *S2792-2GiR8® | [industria Sevings Times Bidg , Broadway, Rew .» Box 90, Portland, Ind.

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SPOOL END LOOK FOR KODAK ON THE The picture depends on the film, far more than on lens or on camera. “KODAK” FILM has 20 vears ofexperience behind it—it is not in the experimental stage. Make sure that you get the genuine Kodak Film by examining the spool end. EASTMAN KODAK CO. IR KODAK ON THE SPOOI Balance a Dollar A .L. IDE & SONS, 444 Lincoln Ave. Springfield, Hlinois How to Get nelu ‘ to Sleep There is too much late eating and drinking Fashionable people, after the play, go to a restaurant and indulge in a hearty generally indigestible— supper. At balls nowadays there are two suppers, one early and one late. Naturally, as a result of such abuse, the digestive functions are up- set, the nervous system is forced into an unwholesome activity, and sleep is made difficult At the midnight hour the cafés of a big city are full of gay people eating lobsters and salads, and washing them down with champagne and burgundy. Many of them will not be able to sleep without a dose of brandy before going to bed. The next morning they wake up with an inactive liver, a feeling of lassitude, and a great de- sire for a cocktail as a “‘bracer.”” Nature will not endure such abuse beyond a certain point, and these people, who have such a good time while it lasts, drift after a few years into asylums and sanitariums. During slumber nothing is asleep except the brain, and certain elements of that organ appear still to remain awake even in such Marie de Manaceine, a writer of high reputation on this subject, speaks of the fact that a sleeper will change his position whenever he ahi ns to be uncomfortable, and, without waking, will assume an easier posture. He will brush a tly off his face, or draw up the bedclothes which have left his person partly exposed These are rational acts. It is an old story that soldiers frequently sleep while on the mare h, and dangerous feats are sometimes performed by somnambulists. Not only does the be dy remain awake during sleep, but it is beyond question that the brain-centres connected with hearing, smelling and tasting retain thei rable extent at all and some circumstances seeing, activities, to a conside ents else how, in dreams, should we even have visual and other sensory impressions ? What is it, then, that sleep in the brain? The spinal cord and nerves are awake, and arts at least of the 1 are alert \\ here are we to suppose that the‘ leepe r”’ ] i? This is one of the most interesting ques- tions in all the domain of psychology. Some lay, in all likelihood, we shall know a great deal more about such things than we do to- day. Science is making a special study of the phenomena of sleep, and, for one point, it is said to have been ascertained, as a re ind organ sult of recent experiments, that the deepest lumber is reached about an hour and a into unconsciousnes quarte rafter one fall t sin soundness gradu and that diminishe ally from this time on. Youth Talks in Its Sleep When one leeps, beats more feebly hand, Impurities bedroon an that of li heart slows down and rhe skin, on the other vy, throwing off which is the reason why the air foul more rapidly ng-roon Young people leep than do their elders hundred college students i | ago, showed that cent. of them were more or less sle« p. important phenome non the outtlow of blood brain, Which seems to be not only the acts more energeticall becomes t} A study of two 1 sexes, not long forty per addicted to talking in thei But the connected with s from th ‘ an incide! most } icep is t of slumber, but actually, ina certain sense, the cause of it. If we were able to examine the mind organ of a human being under such conditions as has been done the case of a dog, by removing a piece of the skull and replacing it with a watch-glass —we should see it grow pale and diminish in volun the pers under observ Such being the case , itis trying be directed to getting eas slumber fell upon ation. evident that, in nia, our efforts should rid, by one means or r, of the tendency to congestion of the brair whatever the cause of it, is usually the real mischief. Drugs may serve for a while a palllatives, but their eTiects are only ter in the long i us. {look to Nature , if one remedy does not serve, another will prove success- ful. Of such natural remedies there are a good many, and in these few remarks I have endeavored to suggest some which afford a choice of methods whereby sufferers may hope fully and safely seek the blessed boon of peaceful and refreshing sleep. on to cure inson anothe whic I good , and vy are har ven danger For which reason vy for a cure, connident THE SATURDAY EVENING POST March 24, 1906 1, sey ‘HERE is a system of careful and con- ® sistent development, followed by rigid tests under most severe conditions, that is peculiar to the @gwwer factory. The result that nothing is presented to the public in an untried or experimental state. is Main Ortice and Factory, Kenosha, Wis., U. S. A. Branches: Chicago, Milwaukee, Boston, Philadelphia, New York Agency, 134 West 38th St Thos. B. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 29 So when Betty passed through the outer room of the restaurant and along the narrow little passage where eyes and nose attest strongly the neighborhood of the kitchen, she was attended by a figure that aroused the spontaneous envy of all her acquaint- ances. Inthe inner room where they dined it was remarked that such a figure would be more at home at Durand's or the Café dé Paris than at Garnier’s. That night the 9 first breath of criticism assailed Betty To 7" Beech=Nut ‘ icher one’s self with a fellow-student a “type,”’ Polish or otherwise—that was all is the trade-mark which guarantees — very well, but with an obvious Boulevardier, to you a pertect food product in | 4 ee the other —— — ; : = . itsell against the conventions of the Artisti SLICED BACON, SLICED Quartier. And conventions—even of such BEEF, and CONSERVES of all the quarters — are iron-strong ** Fiddle-de-dee,”’ said Miss Voscoe to her : companion’s shocked comments; “they P riect be CAaAUSe cCacil has t dis were raised in the same village, or some tinctive, delicious flavor, is ready for | thing. He used to give her peanuts when he was in short jackets, and she used to halve

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immediate use, packed in the most | her candies ‘with him. Friend of child cleanly manner, and scaled in vacuum | hood’s hour, that’s all. And besides, he’s Oo « : re one of the presidents of our sketch elub.” = en : : But all Garnier’s marked that, whereas . Think what this means to 4 the habitués contented themselves with an q to be able to depend on the famous | omelette aur champiqnons, sauté potatoes | EE ry tags ee aE and a Petit Suisse, or the like modest menu, | OOS ProcUucts <8 Pua Gal Betty's new friend ordered for himself, and 5 | nus relieves you of all the worry | for her, ‘‘a real, regular dinner,”’ beginning - S| of breakfast or luncheon and helps | Wt8 fer eu and ending with § B| : : nts.’ **Mendiants”’ are raisins and nuts, Y * | a practical Way t Mane you! the nearest to dessert that at this season you ‘ als varied and appetizi: could get at Garnier’s. Also he passed over 7 i ; ; with smiling disrelish the little ¢ of i I'ry aa andy Will weak wine for which on pays five sous if | i lwavs welcome these fam prod the wine be red, and six if it be white. He r | eae : went out and interviewed Madame at her A € t « | | t | Cts Into 5 little desk among the flowers and nuts and na ura WwW 11 eness ‘ sles Grocers. butche d provision special sweet dishes, and it was a bottle of by only a few days’ use of S tol Tooth | eS eas ; real wine with a real cork to be drawn | ; ; ; men st Beech - Nut Products that adorned the table between him and _ | I Pyar eee ye \ ca Send 2-cent stamp for Beecl Betty. | oni sanitol, t Sanitol Tooth | | ee To her the whole thing was of the nature — | other vader iS a | Nut Cook Book f.f oe . Tew ai | : : of a festival She enjoyed the little sen- breath of \W Beech-Nut Packing Company sation created by her companion: and the ‘ : ‘ A ay knowledge which she thought shehad of | | | 14 Beech-Nut Street, Canajoharie, N.Y. pojations to Lady St. Craye absolved her | , | from any fear that in dining with hin téte-A-téte she was doit rr anythir vr St. Louls, Mo | quite nice.” To her the thought of hi | engagement was as good, or as bad, as a ! chaperon. For Betty ’s innocence wa - 7 ane rent deeply laid, and had survived the shock of all the waves that had beaten against it since her coming to Paris. It was more than innocence; it was a very hon straightforward, childish naiveté It’s almost the same as if he was mar ried,”’ she said: ‘“‘there can’t be any harm it having dinner with a man who's married or almost married.” So she enjoved herself Vernon exerted es at ™ ye tose, himself to amuse het But he was sur ee Wt CHS “gaketS prised to find that he was not as happy a Improved Incubators for 1906

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As letter on /@t impresses you, our book so our SO will your letter on # impress your customer. nee a Post-Card Size Three (3) Frames for 25c Six (6) “ * 50¢ One Dozen for $1.00 Eugene Carraine 1618-20-22 Mifflin Bt I ‘ BOOKKEEPERS | HAPGOODS | \ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE BAKED APPLE ALIBI (Continued from Page 9) even ifin te ling his story he does fly in oppo- sition to the incling ition of my learned and inopportune friend.’ The Court coughed behind a pudgy hand and frowned judicially for a few seconds, and then compromised by commanding ** Proceed.” *‘What happened at the fair?” resumed counsel. “‘Why, when I steps in, kind of soft-like, an’ sees me clothes don't match up wid de rest of de guys’ fixin’s, I picks up a baked apple an’ skidoos.” ae cried the District Attorney tri- umphantly, “ you do admit, sir, that at least you are guilty of petit larceny?’ ‘That's what he has sworn to, the judge loudly. “Wid all recommend: itions fer de merce y of de Court, I’s done nut’tin’ of de kind,’ croaked Mr. Bilks in hoarse anger. “Why, fer de love of Say, Bo, is dey goin’ ter spik e me good nk ume like dat ‘There, there soothed Mr. Butter- worth. ‘That will do, sir.” Then to the judge he added: ‘‘I know this Court is so big, so magnanimous, that it will not heed the strivings of an untutored soul, eager only to assert its innocence.” “Dat would certainly sound punk from any gent but youse,” observed Mr. Bilks doubtfully. ‘ But wot I was goin’ ter say was dat over de apples was a sign, writ large, dat read: ‘TakeaChance.’ Dat was me ter de finish.” ‘Your Honor,” "" declared bubbled Juror Number Six eagerly, forgetting his recent rebuff and now leaning far out over the rail, ‘‘I] was there, and some unknown, roughly-dressed man did snatch an apple from the guessing booth, which bore the placard he speaks of. And in one of the apples was a gold ring and the chances were ten cents each, although not so stated on the placard.” Then he added sorrowfully: “The ring was never found in any of the apples sold and was prob- ably contained in the one snatched by the stranger.” “T demand the privilege of asking the juror if this is the ring taken from the fair and contained in the apple,” said Mr. But- terworth gravely. The juror, who now greater than the Court, broke silence by crying: ‘‘If it has a narrow, oval band with the initials ‘L. A. F.’ for ‘ Ladies’ Auxiliary Fair,’ engraved inside, it is our ring!” “It has such an inscription, and I offer it in ey said Mr. Butterworth. ‘I conte nd the defendant entered the church vestry on the night he is represented as Naren busy in blowing the lumber com- pany's safe. 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That he did not know of the presence of the ring is self-evident, as we must assume the guessing contest was to be a fair one That he di d not sell the ring 1s evidence of his honesty.’ “The contest was certainly ua I'm a deacon in that iror Number ore. }ut he was cut off by the Court's irascible considered himself 1dence fair and ” began ice cryin “Will vou refrain from taking over all y in this trial, sir? r Honor,” cried the District Low awake tothe fact that he had overlong, ‘I want to interpose t to what?” asked the old rumpled his hair rival for a few qualitied: ‘To t Attorney ng will be returned to the Ladies’ wiety,”’ said Mr. Butterworth ‘t or not.” iled openly ther you obje ber Six sn at this now ask the witness if he * said Mr. Butterwe th i kid I's a wise ¢ wid any bound game,” was the rum- ever vu know one card from an- ust protest!"’ cried then sarcastically: your Honor, I m the District Attorney; No. 203. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 3! “Unless you intend to show he lost the stolen money inwomesamedt chance An; Faammer the Hammer we to understand he frittered it away at the church fair?” of an Iver Johnson without fear “Fer de love of * ejaculated the Pa pepe ki but indignant witness, when his attorney him and explained to the Court: ‘It do not venturs merely intended to pave the way for perfect other revolvet ing our alibi.”’ matter what ‘Then we must receive it,”’ moaned th ‘

Court, now openly evidencing his perturba tion. ‘But er —kindly keep as close to the bounds of normality as ble, Counsel.”’ \ Mr. Butterworth promptly t exception to the last remark and ther allowed the defendant to state that he did know every card in the pack and knew them intimate “Did you meet a playing card that night, after leaving the church fair?” At this question Juror Number Thre displayed symptoms of hysteria and caused the Court to demand: ‘‘What are you laughing at, sir?” Number Three denied the imputation and tected that. io bnleing ayes aes cod ton | ver J O h nson

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and rambling in his charge, and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. While Mr. Bilks was busy returning the felicitations of ‘‘Butch’’ MeCarty and other friends, the old lawyer gathered up his papers and quietly made for his office He hi id done his duty and acquitted an innocent criminal, and now he wished to see him and his class no more. Sut if he thought to escape thus easily he erred, as an hour after he had reached his desk the door opened softly nay, almost slyly —and Mr. Bilks stepped gently In. “Jest dropped round ter say t’anks,” he explained gruffly and almost sheepishly, as he exhaled a heavy cloud of smoke from a big pipe. ‘Not necessary, Mr. Bilks. I have been yaid in full and it’s all right. By the way, never smoke a pipe, you know. Some- times I think the smoke chokes me up,” said Mr. Butterworth stiffly. “Say,” declared Mr. Bilks impressively, removing his pipe, ‘I ain’t so low down but wot I can take a hint when it’s kicked inter me, Sut how a new pipe, sweet as Heaven, can stuff a guy up gits yers truly. Look at it, ” and he held it from him in pride. ‘I's bettin’ dat joy producer cost ten plunks Mr. Butterworth : ked up his ears a bit and carelessly said “Fully as much as that. You g ave Jest t’ree hundred cowpons fer it. “What!” cried Counsel. ih An d then you did get them, after all?” Vhy, yes, Bo,” grinned Mr. Bilks; “T's putt me hoof init, Ireckon. But wot’s de odds? I’s acquitted. An’ I’s did git de cowpons

‘And the money?” gasped the old law- yer ‘**Never had a smell at it,’? mourned Mr. Bilks sadly. “Say, dat manager is a smooth ‘un! He smooc he d de w ad, after temptin’ me ter do de job. De loot was ter be in a fat wallet an’ we was ter go cahoots. See? An’ den I wakes up an’ finds me prize is only a mess of cowpons Course, if I blowed de gaff no one would believe me, an’ he was wists enough ter know I'd say nitto. See?” But how could this man of business meet and know you and put himself in your power by making any such a deal?” de- manded Mr. Butterworth icily, his eves seeking the we j Why,” explained Mr. Bilks easily, ‘' his porter use ter be a ol’ pal of mine. He reformed an’ got work wid dis guy’s com- pany, an’ dey got thick at last, an’ when de manager decided he'd frame up a clean-up he reached me t’ro de porter. I was ter pinch de stuff an’ divvy. See? An’I gits a new pipe out of it. See?” **Butthealibi!”’ expostulated Mr. Butter- worth. ‘“‘The juror substantiated that Wi asn't any of it real?” ‘De t’ings was all hunkey; real scenery, youse know De apple an’ de dawg an’ di Jac k was all on deck, but it wasn’t me dat was in Eply tertwig’em. Butch is de only harp in de city dat can handle a tough ward Say, he’sslick! One of de boys put up a ring fer drinks in his dry house, an’ when he was busy gunnin’ ‘round ter dig up a aliby fer vers truly he remembered

it an’ framed up a few more t'ings dat was bein’ pulle d off in E p rly on dat — An’, when I could show down dat I \ 3 de ruy wot -see ‘em, de gitaway was eas\ uy * I se Mr. Butterworth ‘ And he is the retainer I received from ur cultured friend, Mr. MeCarty (rive yo k to him. It is tainted. The door s right behind you. Good-day.” “Why, Bo, I certa nly wants youse ter keep dis reward of merit fer holdin’ out a helpin hand ter me ” remonstrated KS earnest] but he was cut short ther curt * Good-day.” \ forty- eight hours the creditors of 1-Hung Lumber Company were surpri: ed to learn they would be and yet another day saw anew later Mr. Butterworth awoke to

1 ( « had been felor entered ‘ 1 And or ry table in pe containing a sum of money and a rough-scrawled note, which read ; Youse certainly was good to me this money haint tainted see it comes clen an fresh from the house of the judge wot tried to jug me I always remeber my friend Sunxy Brut.

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