The Saturday Evening Post 1909-11-20: Vol 182 Iss 21

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THE SATURDAY _ EVENING POST » : ; ? ey > 4 2 7 oe More Than a Million and a Quarter Circulation Weekly

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“The Tire That Lasts” Personal Safety The First Consideration in Buying Tires Comfort comes next; wearing qualities next; then convenience in taking off and replacing. If every owner of a motor car will investigate a little and insist on the tire that comes nearest to all these vital essentials, his sclec tion 1s bound to be “The Tire That Lasts” Because in Duniop construction the workmen are enabled to work the layers of fabric up ally a ind mould with no sharp angles to strain or break the fabric The tensions are equal. : i Because the Dunlop is positively the safest tire in the world, being held to both sides of the [hese wire cables are naturally non-extensible, and ' , + Wire embodied tn its edges as so the tire begins to become tntlated, a pull or pressure is exerted which locks it ecu e rim Lhe edges being non-stretchable, they cannot lengthen or yield in any wa ' 1 Therefore, it cannot creep It must grip the rim all around nerely at intervals. ‘he greater the pressure the firmer the grip Pheretore the Dunlop ‘Tire cannot blow off the rim. | he two steel cables in the base of the tire are made of five or six strands of heavy im- ‘| music wire of the very highest grade. Each of these strands has a yoTTE ' rstrain of 650 pounds, or 350,000 pounds to the square inch. Com- tton mn of the clinchertire are thiswiththe principal container whichbreaks at about 350 pounds to the square inc " Tl he “Hart tt Dunlop Vire ts the easiest and quickest operated tire in the world. Hartford Dunlop Tires are made in standard sizes, with plain tread, and with the fame Harttord Wire Grip Non-Skid ‘read Mid riey patent ff A we 2 Specify biaioud Tires vow j The Hartford Rubber Works Company Branch Houses: HARTFORD, CONN. Agencies:

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Waltham Watches at The Poles FOUR INTERESTING LETTERS PEARY WELLMAN THE SHACKLETON RELIEF EXPEDITION ir. E. A. M Wa im Watch ¢ ny LEFFINGWELI The Quadrangle Clul N.B.—In buying a Waltham Watch always ask your jeweler for one adjusted to temperature and position

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tN THE SATURDAY EVENING POST November 20, 1909 Buyers of Guaranteed Hose Please Be Careful None but the genuine Holeproof Hosiery bear this trade- ty mark on the toe. If you don’t see it, the hose are not the original uy “Holeproof”—the kind you want and are paying for — the kind , that have 31 years of experience back of them. The genuine “Holeproof” were the first guaranteed hosiery ever made. \ Now there are any number of “ guaranteed hose” offered. SS But please don’t judge “Holeproof” by them. The kind you want bears the trademark below. Note the Reasons \q Look for this trademark on the toe. | 1 year for inspection \Q Then there can be no mistake. 4 Q() ae . i , , fare yveople are employed tor | he real Holeprool Hosiery tig a ee ‘ . ; ° a no other purpose. It Is evx,penh- is soft, comfortable, stylish. , wie , of sive, but it insures you good hose. You can get “ Ploleproof’’ in all the attractive ee: and fa Bi for fall and winter Wear. Ask your dealer to show them to you. We know of no other hosiery that offers so wide Hach pair will wear for six months without a hole. ‘Vhe guarantee coupon m= is your insurance policy. It means a new pair if you wear through Holeprool Hosiery in six months. a choice. We Pay 63c for Yarn That is one reason for ‘*] loleproof’s”’ stu- pendous success. ‘Phe cotton from which our varn is made is imported from Egypt and from the Sea Island district. So there 1s no need for darning. And with ** Holeproof’”’ there is no need iti proof wear coarse, cumbersome hose. ‘They are TRADE MARK: as comfortable, as casv on the feet as any 3 hosiery, hosiery you ever wore. ; . 31 Years Experience We could buy yarn as low as 25¢ a aaa pound, but cheaper yarn would make heavy, clumsy hosiery, not the soft, com- fortable ** Holeproof’’ kind. ELole proot” Is hota ¢ hance discovery. \\ € experimented for years betore we pertected it — betore we telt safe in offering hosiery | | ras ’ ° that we and our dealers could guarantee Look at the Toe Don t Be Misled tor six months, om You can get the genuine ** Holeproof”’ No amateur maker with less experience We cannot emphasize too strongly mar" “Aap aad pe for the yellow box ; i" . : . . see With the red a Wac ‘ttering, On your can make hose even one-halt so good, the importance of looking tor our ; dand black lettering, on your \ , aT , : : dealer’s shelves. ow we sell tour nN pairs a vear trademark on the toe. = 4 , _. | | four million pairs a year. , 4 On request we will tell vou the deal This alone is one of our strongest Once you have worn “ Holeproof, ers’ names, or where we have no dealer arguments. For no goods would reach interior makes will not satisty you. we will ship direct, charges prepaid on this enormous sale if they did not please The trademark also means that these Tce Pt of remittance. . rit lL... “Tt cn?’ . Lie . See the price t he ™ Vrite f { k *§* bow the purcnasers, Isn't at likely that the parti ular hose have passed our keen- to Mie Veet Sen @ . ji } } } | ] : , ! hosiery that have satistied so many will eved inspector Wiese are 7” S. ) a ip to the > +o -. ee , : pods pecto cy are up t HOLEPROOF HOSIERY CO. yease VOu, Too oF epr st ar i i oleprool tandard. 372 Fourth Street Milwaukee, Wis. This is hou q Holeproof Sox $ M Holeproof Silk Sox : | the box 4 \ ‘ f } k | should Holeproof Stockings | look t Hole proof Lustre-Stockings ca SST fleghtahttasery Holeproof Lustre-Sox $ ! ; Boys’ Holeproof Stockings FOR MEN WOMEN D CHILDREN Misses’ Holeproof Stockings } k jtan. ¢ . Holeproof Full-Fashioned Sox ; and t t | l Ss t t ade t } }

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cones 5] | | | | | THE SATURDAY EVENING POS os Copyright.1909, by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, Founded ASD’ 1728 by Benj. Franklin Entered atthe Philadelphia Post-Off: inthe United States and Great Britain. as Second-Class Matte Published Weekly at 425 Arch Street by THE CurTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY London: Hastings House.10,.Norfolk Street, Strand,W.C. Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Post-Office Department, Ottawa, Canada Bscive TS ae | Volume 182 PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER 20, 1909 Number 21 The Health o Working-W omen By Woods Hutchinson, A.M., M.D. i) ‘ of t © he ol ! I f he at 1 I " I . ly ltl At ume 1e tha , p 4 1 « i gr plane ot truth wa Oo \ 4 i ely la i wi KS t } has othe depending upon |} ! co! tha I more a } ‘ TI es her in the embarrassing positio! , : : : 1 the embarrassing | Women's Hours Compared With Those of Men . } he ry aritl problem, which fell back eight } ! t ling } i MM! m} pr 4 are 1 it in al e 3 1 I for | he | , hen we p 1 ( rt ‘t ep ffa her | i t } th ma i i ) | l at 7 if a t 4i a t 4} ! | iV | t tI i al ( | I The Long Hours and Scanty Rewards of the Housewife i WOULD be sheer presumption for a mere doctor to attempt to pronour the econon ispects of the problem— for doctors are inpractical. But he hygi de there are facts and factors of much weight that are not CK ir va ( ss1o! the Lt f A to col I S not whether emp I I let i } } th of wo rac hours ar ally } but he p comp t ork th on lid and the cor l re i istria mplo} I ir to which the } I r f hould withdraw from it It may be, and unfortunately often is, tr i the factory, the shop and the office hours are t oo long and work too exhaust or ind hygienie conditions abominable; and thest isti lied and are being remedied year by year. But = real probler how mpare with the hours, wages and conditions in the homes in wh these women I would otherwise be compet lled to live and work? recl} pl He would certainly be a rash man who would assert that the hours of any factory or So far e! than those of housework, or that the wags were ionger

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the health of women than those 4 + 1+} ‘ t i t ? " } ) ' il lithe t i me ire j thr he i I Het 1 i ‘ ito | ‘ ‘ I 1 cy The Horrors of be i ran irr¢ t 1 th the Wash-Kitchen to immemorial that vhether the conditior in the con THE SATURDAY EVENING POST necessary that there should be light enough to do work ble in every portion of the room; another as nearly as po | pride of appearance and the same recognition ] of the advertising value of display that operates in the | rh ceiling The most ventilated factories and direction of targe rooms and fh crowded, worst-lighted and worst workrooms are the sweatshe ps that are housed in living- rooms and private dwelling As regards ventil opening of these large ion, when it comes to the ‘tual handsome windows, shops, fac- tories and offices have little to boast of ove r private hous¢ many of them, in fact, are so arranged t only a single pane out of thirty or forty can be opened for the admission of air. On the other hand, by the greater height of their ceilir the much more frequent opening and shutting of doors to permit the ingress and egre of customers, or the raising of hatche o allow of the passage Of raw materi ils or manufactured goods, there is apt to be in proportion to the individuals present a larger circulation of air per capita than in the average home, living-room or bedroom. The tore, the ilesroom and the office make no intrinsic addition to the of th to compare with that made by the kitchen, the wash-boiler and the cellar n the private house; and only the factory or the hop equals or exceeds the home in this respect of the air, especially those that throw quantities of dust or lint into circulati« is do certain of the woolen and other textiies factorie t off poisonous or othe r- Wise injurio uch as match factories certain dye works, and 0 forth. But these do not form a very large percentage of the places where women are employed The greed of capital is, of course, unlimited, but peopl are | r to discover—with the assistance, in a good many instances, of strikes on the part of the workers on the one hand, and factory-inspection laws, passed at the demand of the thoughtful element of the community, on othe! that a reasonable regard for the health and rt of its employees is, in the long run, a good, paying nvestment And though, of course precise and accurate lataare lacking, I think it would be fairly safe tosay that the average progr ‘ tore, office building or factory of today, constructed for the purpose, compares favorably in Pp L t tion and p ol average of the average home of the class from which il i I Ar 1 i yi rto i th it ome het I id-minded and progre manufacturers 1 merch rovide surroundit for their workers hin} nD tof ] penne lunchr pe | ‘ ‘ or lunchrooms i sanitar onveniences, are distinctly superior to those ‘ rage p te house In fact ev f the p ence eneral, and of that ' mar 7 ilar. in regard to the 1 } c right f those ho, because of sex ' ‘ t te I tT Dar ecuri’ iy ring I t place cupa ! nd hfe that are } t the eye of the pu or regularly t he pI ted representative re rap ¢ ] lay like th y 1 +} eT ‘ r t r is toa f +} } hor ban yy i t Ve t ‘ I i il iT t eat the pr ’ Rut th j } atom +f ' no worse. that ’ h } ; nd the stra } ’ eater , , } r such a or hat the labor } p Lore , , ‘ P rl f batts n the race ( h certa exceptions t! have hed } ir imirable labor eat? he tasks done by womar I or the torv do not severely tax ngtl y violent or st ng ae . hem i her rapid and repeated er the nd arm; t can be car r 1 ou tting and after a time almost without mental {f en cor isné Their p rawback t } eadly monotony, th hey call I i ill group m les and nerve é and a fraction of the total activities of the body, ar in some cases they involve a somewhat crampe unwholesome position ol the chest or abdomen, ints with proper breathing or circulation, or the stra continual standing. Though the tasks themselves are monotonous are usually carried out in the company of a m other and their very automatic and acter permits of a certain yunt of f } of conversation and gossip their fingers, or of the achines that they tl turned out at the rate of hundreds or 10U day, and all exactly alike, yet the counting numbers, the coming of other workers to materials or take away the fi ied product, t ment ¢ compet y this be kept witnir limits hat it ll end at time ¢ oon and be i definit the hours and the more tolerably tl rht, at first si be Dp fact is \ be idered later oI ot ne reasons usua irged by girls and men to ex} preference for industrial occupatior t monotonous and wearing i opportunities for acquaint ind for keep with what is going on, with definite h recreation. Though the strong tendency of 1 toward industrial occupation may be denour social one as regards me, it Is ¢ t of this as regards the } r intere ( communal life The very publicity of industrial occupation has become a safeguard. The conscience of the has revolted not only at the length of hou ventilation, but also at the { woman at tasks that are obviou physically, or even degrading mentally, such a mines and brickyards gart and slaughter-house lighter ties of organized phil beet all but a few benighte eitl limiting or absolutely emi women at such tasks Household Labor the Hardest nd bitterly ironic as itt N FACT, paradoxical the home and the farm have become no “AC places where women can be ibituall ! ently overworked, overstrained and underfed, nterference of law. Though a I: part of ! ‘ farmwork is wholesome and healthful exercise ifford to forget that such work habitua my} upon Wo en and \ ul } } rea overtaxlr ind injurk to ther ph ] ! inything which they wv 1 bea 1 to n the factory or the shoy Phough fac ‘ nave tewer ey! I i ul pu ed for ind hours at a stretch than any in the home, ye ery few of them that in severity « ! many every-day and fan } ehold tas} rving ivy tray cuttles of coal or bu rural districts « at the present habitually employed, not merely in the most dit eable ta f the house, but in those den and the field a milkir chur hoeing vesting, re ind even drag plow --one cannot help feel trif ( about the ru to be produced by the physical strain of mode vus effects upon her hea trial occupations. If it comes t between the sexes, man has good cause for unea Though it may possibly be that modern industrial condition asa o industrial con ke} © CF rn it ni net pet nes cor tend © eX } i det | yloyr pa ca | } ‘ eve mut ! November 20, 1909 that 1 or riy I A t a ' pe}? } ies pare al

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST aN Ir Dp A Ky, (. { TE Gouger, twenty years before, he knew that the Gouger’s jaw was only four months healed after having been broken in a Newcastle bout. And he had played for that jaw and broken it again in the ninth round, not because he bore the Gouger any ill will, but because that was the surest way to put the Gouger out and win the big end of the purse, Nor had the Gouger borne him any ill will for it. It was the game, and both knew the game and played it Tom King had never been atalker, and he sat by the window, morosely silent, staringat hishands. The veins stood out on the backs of the hands, large and swollen; and the knuckles, smashed and battered and mal- formed, testified to the use to which they had been put. He had never heard that a man’s life was the life of his arteries, but well he knew the meaning of those big, upstanding veins His heart had pumped too much blood through them at top pressure. They no longer did the work He had stretched the elas- ticity out of them, and with their distention had passed his endurances He tired easily now. No longer could he do a fast twenty rounds, hammer and tongs, fight, fight, fight, from gong to gong, with fierce rally on top of fierce rally beaten to the ropes and in turn beating his opponent to the ropes, and rallying fiercest and fastest of all in that last, twentieth round, with the house on its feet Good Luck, Tom. You Gotter Do ‘Im The last two ha’pennie ind yelling, himself rushing, striking, ducking, raining howers of blows upon showers of blows and receiving rickety chair that pro howers of blows in return, and all the time the heart te mechanically he put faithfully pumping the surging blood through the adequate nto the side pocket of hi veins. The veins, swollen at the time, had always shrunk n 1 mir i t down again, though not quite each time, imperce ptibly f é he } tl at fir remaining just a trifle larger than before. He low, almost hulking, a tared at them and at his battered knuckles, and, for the he hea eight of | moment, caught a vision of the youthful excellence of those lid-l man, and hands before the first knuckle had been smashed on the m be erp! é head of Benny Jones, otherwise known as the Welsh Terror nd slouct r per mpression of his t ime back on him the hea ha me but « in't ce of steak!” he it- hirt, a cheay t loud, clenching hi fists and spitting out a hered oat} I t { Burl in’ Sawk his wife id } \ ildn't he demanded Vota i pe Burke id She faltered GG i W i \ t \s | n’ Sandel ud ht,an'’a { mforta gy as I} | iN nted, but not He was busy | I } errier he had kep h inger day i fed ste vithout end. B vould ed itl n. B om k ! 1 ; d-1 atest : - he mort ‘ longing for a piece t ! nad t ibated He had not had \ t ht. It 1 drought ve ' \ re} land ever n regular work ! lie had had no rring partner i y - ai } ithe Domair he early 1 t B as ha A ae heoaad i wile and Kick hat must be ( Jesmen had und ne very sligt hed h Sand r ‘ November 20, 1909 By Jack London ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGI GIBBS ““They’ll be startin’ the first bout in a few minutes,” he said. ‘‘Only a try-out. Then there’s a four-round spar ‘tween Dealer Wells an’ Gridley, an’ a ten-round go 'tween Starlight an’ some sailor bloke. I don’t come an hour.” At the end of another silent ten minutes he rose to | feet “Truth is, Lizzie, I ain’t had proper trainin’.” He reached for his hat and started for the door. He did not offer to kiss her—he never did on going out —but this night she dared to kiss him, throwing her arms around him and compelling him to bend down to her face. She looked quite small against the massive bulk of the man “*Good luck, Tom,” she said. ‘‘ You gotter do ’im “Ay, I gotter do ’im,”’ he repeated. ‘‘ That’s all there to it. I jus’ gotter do ‘im He laughed with an attempt at heartiness, while sh pressed more closely against hin Across her shoulder he looked around the bare room. It was all he had in the world, with the rent overdue, and her and the kiddie And he was leaving it to go out into the night to meat for his mate and cubs~—-not like a modern workingman going to his machine grind, but in the old, primitive, royal animal way, by fighting for ‘I gotter do ’im,”’ he repeated hint lesper- ation in his voice. “‘If it’sa jula in ican pay all that’s owin’, with a lu left over. If it a lose [ get naugh not ever me to ride home on the tram. The secretary’s give all that’s comin’ fron a lose r’s end. Good Dy old womar I'll come rn home if it’s a win * An’ I'll be waitin’ up,”’ she called to him alot all It was a full two miles to the Gayety, and as he ced along he remembered how in his palmy day he had ones been the heavyweight he would have ridden in likely some heavy Voul d ridden with him ere 1 tl Yankee nigger Jack John i i ears. And he walked! And, as any man knew, a hard ) miles was not the best pre nary to a figh H is al old un, and the world did not wag well with old un He was good for nothing now except navvy work, and } broken nose and swollen ear were against him even in that He f nd himself nir tnat he nad ned a trade. It would have been better in the long run. But no one had told him id he knew, deep down in his hear that he would not have listened if they had. It 1 be har hg pe Veen rol eager fl ( the shakes of the hand, tl ff I r privilege of five 1 it, tl elling nouse tr 1 iN y ns! ind hi na ‘ I ng columns next d 1ose had been times! But he realized now, it ruminati iv, that is the old uns he ha een T ting awa He wa Y iu! I ind th 4 inking No wonder it had been ea hey \ | vollen veins and battered knuc ind weary in th r of them from the lor i hev had already fougt I remembered the tit I l l d Stowsher B Rush-Cutters Ba n tl hteen ind, and Bill had ed rv the dre room | Perhaps old B rent had er ie Per per! ip B ! i { if ! } a for a } | hod { ind tak: neredil p He cou after he had gone tt 1} If, that S Bill had 1 f ‘ ht twent ago, than had young ‘| iN ind easy money No | » i id afterward in the dre ! We 4 mar 1 onl yt hit ‘ witl It ! One nave i nundred nara err r i ! I twer Cal ce i t ! ( j

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issed, and they voiced the eon Sandel. But there were of old time and who cov-

money one-sided, with Sandel 1 the punishment ed when Sandel, ov , ( 1deTed Casy reontident ight arm flashed in the with and with all It was like ut a lightning felled like irmured real blow a hook the ile yf ne i Was ithe ichie rasped and m awe- t mat not muscle-bound, after Ke i triphammer and attempted to <e the count Knee eu At the ninth he rose in figh me to the ml sar f its three minute pectful of his opponent and yed as ever. As the sing, warned of the fact by sight of the spring in und to his own \r l uf pony truck he sat down hile Sandel had to walk all nal ot the juare to his own corner. um of little things that compelled to walk that many more ich energy and to lose a part of the At the beginning of every round oppo- end of every out le ready for rked the fight ar Imme- forcing | The

multitudinous blows showered dogged hotheads for Sandel rht flashed out to the young sixth round Kir fearful righ

| , he knew He never missed . " n effectir n ¢ of th. thy the , ind ‘ x pe eff \l PI i i by Sand ¢ He « iy refr i } must ‘ } a ec} tril 1 , nder Sande } rig} ehind ce It w ici ‘

we that muck ‘ iu vare ol ~~, . ! I i té who appre | ' e to the other's ne | Va rue, U! ‘ j time it was robbed of it len nute. Kit rot ed it visted i ‘ sance Dody heavy a ‘ } ‘ Kach time he took the nine ‘ his fee iken and jarred THE SATURDAY EVENING POST trong He had lost effort much of his speed and he He was fighting grimly; but he con- upon Nis chief asset, which was Youth chiel asset Was experience, As his vitality had i vigor abated he had replaced them with wisdom born of the long fights and with a Not alone had he learned never to make a superfluous movement, but he had learned an opponent into throwing his strength away. Again and again, by feint of foot and hand and body he continued to inveigle Sandel but still wasted le

tinued to drav King dimmea ¢

careful shepherding of strength how to seduce into leaping back ducking or King rested, but he never per- mitted Sandel to rest. It was the strategy of Age. countering Karly inthe tenthround King began stopping the other's rushes with straight lefts to the face, and Sandel, ponded by drawing the left, then by ducking it right in a swinging hook to the side of too high up to be vitally effective; but vrown and delivering hi

vhen first it landed King knew the old, familiar descent of the black veil of unconsciousness across his mind. For the instant, or for the slightest fraction of an instant rather, he In the one moment he saw his opponent ducking field of vision and the back white watching face in the next moment he saw his background of faces It was as if he had and yet the rround of

again opponent and the lept for a time and just opened his eyes again interval of unconsciousness was so microscopically short that there had been no time for him to fall. The audience saw him totterand his knees give,and then saw him recove r and tuck his chin deeper into the shelter of his left shoulder. Several times Sandel repeated the blow, keeping King part ially dazed, and then the latter worked out his defen e, which was also a counter, Feinting with his left he took a half-step backward, at the same time uppercutting with the whole strength of his right. So accurately was it timed that it landed squarely on Sandel’s face in the full, down- duck, and Sandel lifted in the air and backward, striking the mat on his head and

weep of the

houlder Twice King achieved this, then turned loose and hammered his opponent to the ropes. He gave Sandel no chance to rest or to set himself, but smashed blow in upon blow till the house rose to its feet and the air was filled with an unbroken roar of applause. But Sandel’s e were superb, and he continued to

1ockout, seemed certain, and a cap- police, appalled at the dreadful punishment, arose to stop the fight. The gong struck for the nd and Sandel staggered to his corne r, pro-

testing to iptain that he was sound and strong. To prove it he v two back air springs, and the police cap- tain cave in Tom King, leaning back in his corner and breathing hard, was disappointed If the fight had been topped the referee, perforce, would have rendered him the decision i the pur ild have been | Unlike Sandel, he was

He Could Understand Now Why Bill Had Cried in the Dressing-Room November 20,1909 not fighting for glory or career, but for thirty quid. And now Sandel would recuperate in the minute of rest Youth will be this mind, and he remembered the the night saying flashed into King’s first time he had heard ‘- away Stowsl served

when he had put

who had bought him a drink after the fight and patted him on the shoulder had used those words Youth vill be served! The toff was right And on that night he long ago he had been Youth. Tonight Youth sat in the opposite corner As for himself, he had been fighting for half an 1our now, and he was an old man. Had he fought like Sandel he would not have lasted fifteen minute But tl point was that he did not recuperate. Those upstanding arteries and that sorely-tried heart would not enable him to gather strength in the intervals between the

And he had not had sufficient strength in him to begi with I cramp hgnt

ing for t morning. A great and terrible hatred ross up in him for the butchers who had refused him credit. It was hard for an old man to go into a fight without enou to eat. And a piece of steak was such a little thing, a fe pennies at best; yet it meant thirty quid to hit With the gong that opened the eleventh round Sandel rushed, making a show of freshness which he did not really possess. King knew it for t it w a bluff as old the game itself. He clinched to save himself, then, goir allowed Sandel to get set This was what Kir desired. He feinted with his left, drew the answering duck and swinging upward hook } ward, delivered the free, uppercut full to the face Sandel over to the After that he never let him rest receiving punishment himself, mashing Sandel to the ropes, ho mat

OK ‘ i ng manner of blows into him, t rir i y Irom! ( ne or punching him out of attempted clinches, and « when Sandel would have fallen, catching him with one uplifting hand and with tl ther immediately smashit him into the ropes where he could not fall The house by this time had gone mad, and it } house, nearly every voice yelling Go Pon Gi im! Get ‘im! *You’ve got ‘i m! You ‘im!”’ It was to be a whirlwind finish, and that was what a ringside audience paid to s¢

And Tom King, who for half an hour had conserved } strength, now expended it prodigally in the or reat eff he knew he had in him. It was his one chance —now or n

at all. His streng Was waning fast 1} hope " that before the last of it ebbed out of he would ha beaten his opponent down for the count. And as he co tinued to strike and force, coolly estimating tl eigh of his blows and the quality of the damage wrougl 1e realized how hard a man Sandel was to knock out Stamina and endurance wer his to an extreme degree and the y were the virgin imina and endurance of Youth Sandel Was certalu ly ac n if i’ TY in He n id it n him Only out of such d fiber were cee il fighte fashioned Sandel wa ind staggering, but Tom King’s I were cramping : is knuckle ng back on him. Ye he steeled himself to strike the tierce blows, eve ne of which brought anguish to his tortured hand rhough now he was receiving } tically no punishment hi t weakening as rapidly as the other. His blows went home but there was no longer th eight behind ther ind each blow was the result of a severe effort of will. His legs were like lead, and they dra ed bl nder hin Vnil Sandel's backers, cheered by this symptom, began calling encouragement to their man King was spurred to a burst of effort. He delivered two blows in succes n--a left, a trifle too high, to the solar plexu ind a nt cr blow ye » weak al down and lay quiverir houting the count of t! house stood

mortal d1zziness

before | eyes the sea ol laces sagged and swayed, while to n ear as from a remote distance, came the count of the referee. Yet he looked upon the fight as his. It wa impossible that a man so punished could rise Only Youth could rise, and Sandel rose. At the fourth second fhe rolled over on his face and groped blindly for the ropes second j | he had drs self to his knee, where he rested, his head rolling groggily I ree cried “ Nine!’’ Sandel proper stalling position, his left right wrapped about his points guarded, while he the hope of eff gged him-

By the seventh

s shoulders. As tood upright, in wrapped about hi face, his

on hi arm stomach. Thus were his vital lurched forward toward King in cting a clinch and gaining more tim¢ At the instant Sandel arose King was at him, but the two blows he delivered were muffled on the stalled arms The next on desperately while the referee strove to dr moment Sandel was in the elinch an

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} | led hir B R , her j , . for « ( 1 \ hile his own best eff it if nf | iT t \ t! 1 hi M 1 \ © at li rK iS ¢ ned N ood a rope al ( re B ti quicker in a er rice I i il extraneou matters _ si I ! ning, acquiren vi | r nchaller la tH ()} ‘ by] } Pr ! ‘ i college mar ‘ \ t i r lable n he ( bent a rollir “jot He Ip f it it was rathe I ‘ I And ther be indulgentl t d I 10W bel e! It } Not } ‘ Billy grieve Men ] n Rai \ O ick make ‘ I rd wer Billy s \\ t ( John W Pr vrinkk j (; Ballinver he 1 i ! I did not lke hi H ! lap nexpected] d } ) , } New Er ric ‘ iXl ¢ } hy rie of ( r Gls} t bee I Pha | i } I | man of action ‘ ‘ I i Lar lt n some sense Pr Vie i} yal inde el ‘ H _ i Ib na t ( reflec i hp e up tl ne Range WW hie B i Th 1 the sl As | d he ! led the maze t nd canor ea e Pec ( | yt » A , t M ! <l i

They drove their string of thirteen horses each Let's Keep Him Here for a Hostage ' WV)

t ‘ Vise cu t sedate nigt horse nd patient old Steamboat, who, in the performance As if the 1 not \W b . ‘ dropped f proper de ot I ri- W ‘ ! 4 ‘ na the W n mor W } , i rough the hear the Lis Count) col \ I r y ind pine-clad S I ‘ ( ‘ be nit ith th I ir-off sea | hel tl il 1 » Ver elde t if N As I \\ o} LD} | I ire the i th sha I midday lr} Mr. R leisurely, for an empire was to be worked. It would be sentiments t r-Y —t He ; months before they crossed the divide at Nogal, ‘‘threw I I I I 1 n vith Bransford and Ballinger, now representing goodsa Rainbow with the Bar W, and drove home together down’ with no whimperit I Rolando he t we de at i ‘ W hil | ponde 1 } r= for t ) j histled tirelessly ld tune g g line hard, |} ‘ ( rom Naney Lee and Auld n Tl f \ ‘ Azul or the Nogal Waltz b r Pioneer out me y DroOK OFT pa n paused to tell of deeds there befallen in pawn, and you throw aw \\ irs of old war, deeds violent and bloody yet half we a ( a wild } med hasdihood and unflinching courage bron it may look ¢ Prir low and unemphatic; his eyes were Even when we win We nearly on the | horizon. Trojan nor Tyrian he favored, — wir And that forms the t, as he told the Homeric tale of Buckshot Roberts, well habit. Se hile they splashed through the broken waters of Ruidoso **So, we mostly size a nd held their winding way through the cutoff of Cedar trouble man. Any kind Creek, Billy began dimly to understand fightin’ kind. If he goes th Between him and Rainbow the difference was in kind, _ he’s enlisted for the war not in degree. The shadow of old names lay heavy on the _ hin land; these resolute ghosts yet shaped the acts of men ‘*Now, take you and Jeff. M or Rainbow the Roman virtus was still the one virtue edge on hu su i | Whenever these old names had been spoken, Billy remem- law Ther bered, men had listened. Horseshoers had listened at omebody to! i Y their shoeing; card-players had listened while the game mental r it t i i on; by campfires other speakers had ceased their improper; a ) p to listen without comment Not ill-doer: these lickin B ff I ners, Dut quiet men, kindly, generous; yet the tales and he 1 es up h tl this tribute were too often of ill deeds. tf N r

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST was late when the day’s “cut”? was thrown in with the herd, sunset when the bobtail had caught their night horses and relieved the weary day herders The bobtail moves the herd to the bed ground —some distance from camp, to avoid mutual annoyance and alarm—and holds it while night horses are caught and supper eaten. Athankless job missing the nightly joking and banter over the day’s work. Then the first guard comes on and the bobtail goes, famished, to supper. It breakfasts by starlight relieves the last guard, and holds cattle while breakfast is eaten, beds rolled and horse caught, turning them over to the day herders t sunup. Bransford and Bal- linger were two of the tive bobtailers, hungry, tired, dusty and cross With persuasive, sooth- a ng song they trotted around the restless cattle, with hasty, envious glances for the merry groups around a Warning Glance From Squatty to the Stranger the chuck wagon. The horse herd was coming in; four of the boys were butchering a yearling; beds were being dragged out and unrolled. Shouts of laughter arose; they were baiting the victim of some mishap by making public an exaggerated version of his discomfiture Turning his back on the camp, Jeff Bransford became aware of a man riding a big white horse down the old military road from Nogal way. The horse was trotting, but wearily; passing the herd he whinnied greeting, again rhe cattle were slow to settle down. Jeff made several cirelings before he had time for another campward glance. horse herd was grazing off, and the boys were saddling staking their night horses; but the stranger’s horse, I adi Was tled toa soapweed Jeff sniffed O} lomon was sapient and Solomon he crooned, keeping time with old Summer- was marvelously idy fox-trot. “And Sol between the eyes!” He s 1, one eyebrow arched, one corner of his mouth agall nis nose pulled vn; he twisted his mustache and looked sharply d nose for consultation, pursing his lips. ‘*H’m! That ny! ‘ iid aloud ‘That horse is some tired. Why don't he turn him loose? Bransford, you old fool, it up and take notice! ‘Eternal vigilance is the price He had been a tired and a hungry man. He put his y asa garment, keyed up the slackened strings, i le on with ‘ n the f; } ] { : ‘ rd } \ r pushed a Saree ( her back t bunch behind ( re Not ( vas a tne NI the new ( Jeff Cla irned his nead sure Clem When the first . , guard came at last Jeff was on dim horseman ov dismissal. guard and not of them, the starlight he not staked his reg He from the east Coope r’s horse was not stak fiown fa throat t took almost an scious flamed sagel\ ] Pringle has been doing : stunt vigorou they clatteri: “Gee! to bedding saic unrolled the Jeff st he Three Rive sound remor loud into our bed You use yours,” said Crosby. November 20, 1909 * Kee p quiet !”’ said

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ~ s yours right-hand road There's Any Fighting I'm Already Dead Continued on P.

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What the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST poet: Taritt D November 20,1909 oes for the Trusts—By Will Payne 4 5 ) \ wi 4 a ‘ ¥ 4 : . és 5 Pas ee j \ La ce ' ” ot - * { | Ut ~— verve y Mdse-e ee. - a er TN THI mn of the tariff the Steel Trust—which Holding that to be as true now as it was then, it appears Hope and South America, and in washing and scouring | materials, nails, wire, tin plate and that the Steel Trust's common stock is, in good part, it shrank two-thirds or more. Therefore, the manufac- her ¢ irticles that every man uses, as wellas merely a capitalization of its tariff benefits—of the turer’s compensatory duty was, and is, three times the hardest of all. Reductions of duty in profits which it has made and expects to make largely duty on raw wool, or, if the goods are valued above 40 decidedly more sweeping than in because of the tariff, over and above a reasonable return cents a pound, four times the duty. These ratios of three bill. lron ore was cut from 49 cents upon its investment. The market valuation of this com- to one and four to one were put into the tariff on the n from $4 a ton to $2.50,and on many mon stock-—-originally thinner than water—is now four theory that in order to get a pound of scoured wool the ( were lowered 25 to 50 per cent on September 17, defending ntial revision downward, President re iry articles which the people of billion dollars was the grand quarter of >the amount of five been reduced. That And, by the President's figures, one billion and a quarter of dollars’ duties were reduced are found in the Steel Corporation, or Steel Trust, in ind iron. Of h as wire and tin plate, it has a much | Upon its I {, then, fell the brunt of this tariff revision. production March, when ( ‘ess met to revise the St Corporation's common stock was selling i As tariff revision proceeded this common By July it ld at $69 a share t finally passed, it sold at $75 tl after the bill had passed, at Meat Steel preferred advanced from When the Trust was formed! in 1901, the Morgan syndi- j § one-hundred-dollar shares of thi bonus or promoter’s fee, besides a ] he preferred. A bull pool was formed to } ock on the Exchange, and under the f James R. Keene it presently boosted $55 a share But with the exception of that t movement in 1901 the common ast vear ld above $51 a share not | tw mak gy iorty e million na \ ple average ‘ tk ‘ 19 to 1908 ‘ $ i , b he pr | March was by 1 ‘ard lua I On the eo a e of the highest i 1YOS tl on had ever reached Che Steel Trust's Thirty-Foot Pole was a period of if ce r i t il « the n he Ex nange we nd M ( ber pe anced por r 113 per cent hat dur his period the Ste } reasit output better iT 1 1! hing to do with the advance wenty-tive years ago Mr. (¢ creature ( the hundred and seventy-fiv e million dollars. You can believe it wouldn’t be that if this tariff revision were going to interfere in the slightest degree with the Trust’s exorbitant profits Suppose you were a boy in a farmer’s orchard where the tallest trees were twenty-five feet high, and you had a pole sixty feet long; and the farmer came in and said if you would consent to cut your pole down to only thirty feet in length you could stay in the orchard as long as you liked. You wouldn't consider that proposal inimical to your interests. That is just the position of the Steel Trust under the new tariff. It gets all the protection it can use and freedom of the orchard for several years to Incidentally, it was announced the other day that Steel common is to go on a four per cent dividend basis It used to be said that steel, wool, cotton, sugar and tobacco formed the grand central arch of protection. If those interests were satisfied the bill was as good as made. Four of them are represented by trusts, and the New England cotton mills are so closely organized for all polit- ical purposes that they operate with trustlike efficiency. “The Senate Finance Committee, on the wool sched- ule,”’ said Senator Aldrich, ‘‘followed exactly the act of 1897 —-the Dingley act. They have not changed it.”’ “That,” replied Senator Dolliver, ‘is just what I am complaining about Essentially, of course, come the wool schedule is much more It dates back about forty-t Wo years, when re p- resentatives of the wool growers and the woolen manu- facturers met and framed up a scheme upon which they would unitedly stand. They have been standing upon it victoriously ever since, In this last revision the onerous burden of defending the wool schedule was borne almost entirely by Senators from the Westerr Wyoming, Montana, ancient wool-growing states | and Idaho. This arrangement gives the schedule a blike appearance of being mostly for the benefit of agriculture, Yet it is clear as daylight that in the matter of wool duties the Trust gets the great bi, end of the stick Going back to L800 when the highly-protective McKinley | was passed, we find that the domestic production of wool ha creased scarcely at all For tariff purposes wool is divided into three classes On raw we ‘ 1 the duty is 11 cents a pound; on rn f cla it is 12 cents. This is the protection te | er. The duty of 4 to 7 cents a pound on class 3--carpet wool erely supererogatory, for none We import is produced in the United States ear 10 per e of all the wool we use. Because of this aut tr American manufacturer, of course has to pay a high price for his raw material. So he gets a compen- satory duty intended to cover that difference Now, wool first washed, then scoured, in which n i i When this wool scheme was framed up the clothing wool which was imported into this country came from the Cape of Good ks much, some little mills would have to buy three or four pounds of raw wool Listen, now, to a bit of testimony quoted by Senator Dolliver: * at that time the largest worsted ‘This will not do for me Canadian wool English and Canadian wool Since about the time of the of class 2—the English and in at the same duty \ while the old, heavy g duty if washed And the washed English wools—coming in at 12 cents a pound duty — shrink com- paratively little in the further process of scouring. The estimated shrinkage, indeed, is about one-fifth instead of the two-thirds or three-fourths contemplated by the compensatory duties 4 gentleman, who was treasurer of what was mill in the count I must use Engli said: come to market washed declaration have hether they were washed or unwashed, ] bear do ible and Canadian above wools Canadian sorts come -shrinking wools of clas only A Joker in the Wool Schedule AMUEL S. DALE, of the Textile World Record—a staunch protectionist, by the testified that at present no wool shrinking as much as two-thirds is im- ported into the United States; that ‘the duty on first and second class wool importe d into the United States varies from 14 to 24 cents a scoured pound, and nearly all of it is used in the worsted —the Trust —branch of the industry In other words, instead of havmg to buy three or four pounds of raw imported wool in order to get a pound of scoured wool, as the tariff law Trust has to buy only a pound and a half or two pounds. It pays 14 to 24 cents a pound duty on its imported wool after scouring but its products are charged with a compensatory duty of 33 to 44 cents a pound on the false theory that to protect the American wool grower it has paid that much more for its raw material American wool does shrink, in washing and Hence 200 pounds of it would produce about 80 pounds of scoured wool, or the amount as 100 pounds of washed English wool on which $12 duty was paid. In that case, obviously, the real protection to the American grower is only 6 cents. Senator Warren, of Wyoming, said, in fact, that when the shrinkages wer taken into account the protection to the American grower was only 7 or7 It seems, then, that the Trust col- lects 11 or 12 cents of compensatory duty and hands about 7 cents of it over to the grower, for whose sole benefit that duty IS Suppose d to be levied Moreover, the tariff act Say ** All every description made wholly or ir manufactures that are only nt with the full compensatory duty as though they wool. The wool in the article may be rags or shoddy, yet it carries the full compensatory duty as though it were pure new wool A good de al of so-called woolen cloth women’s and children’s dress goods and coat linings—is way assumes, the scouring about 60 per cent Same 2 cents manufac of wool Ma rin part part wool are thus charg were all such as

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about half « n, the p bei f that material. That picture I ut cloth th cl i nd « isine ry duty amou ibout half i 4 e, ANG So far I have ve! peat nly i the compensa which f I N duty tk poser pl reimburse the ma I} t I ! t } Vnicn, de sé pre . @ \r I I ! if t i\ ri ‘ t 1 ‘ I } the p ion he ip f ‘ Imitted free wi ! W if ‘ nat i ne compensator Loe Lt . } © th that the manufacturer n ade ' \ ¢ per h ' : nai 1, pr ( i oO mat facture i i mpensatory t r duty of 33 or 4 ! ind r percent to the r his latt ect the mar ina Wi 1 he | to enabk hrinkir him to pay the luxurivus wages which so notoriously worsted tain in our textile mill Yet it was shown and admitted or unwa that about 65 per cent of the cost of a piece of woolen After scouring goods is in the raw material and only about 3 percent in — fiber illed ! fr hort fiber ( d labor. Thus, on a piece of woolen goods worth a dollar Wor ey a manul turer n addition to hi compensatory auty caracd ! int » the new tariff | ! } O cer pecial protection to enable him to puts a pra prohibit ity of cel i pound on S pa cents in wage n which theory the pauper labor 10i] The House educed it to 18 ] of Europe must work for 15 cents less than nothing Senate put it t ) cent Ifa led I The woolen manufacture ire of two classes, with no © noil love lost between them. There are the worsted manufac by-product they a Hia } t rs, largely organized in standard trust form, and the from or } i ecard uC r lor the most part compara- ve t t Ly il epende ™ \ | Ihe 1 | Senator D t ( \ ‘ / { - j | | ( | ( a | a -_. | d ” _f | d HH} A a | 4 y | | } Te oot: Potash & Perlmutier Move Uptow i: in September, “that weain't in an up-to-dat. P.. | / WN’ | i \ 1 Ir ] | \ ‘er & i ! hbort i. Weshould get it th ¥ ye By M () NX d (, UU Lo ( uv 4 SS j of them buildir ip in Seventeentl ight- bu : eenth or Nineteenth Street, Mawruss. All [LE USTREATEO 684 HENRY RALEIGH M io the tr j ip in that r hborhood ee head for figures like you got it 4 \ | r rer ind » 1 am content ‘or ’ \ Nir Y } Sure, I | \ Abe went on, “but the way it is with P Mawru the OE where the crowd I ¢ nered to ¢ ne Wa \l ‘ ’ \1 ' . i IN & K it a fine loft on Nine- Let nes ( Abe » } Well, Al Mi ( ( “Klinger & Klein, like j I I ict Ke MoONnKe A be Ihe me t ' } t to do | a H I ‘ ido tt ! vhat Klinger & Klein done Mawr I ng | sh ld ae ‘ ! key \ at ‘ ( ic I We rt perator q hime \ i you can t Na a imp ol 1 oom and hines all in one Ain't \ + it \ . ‘ . VV ! ye lolt \la i her ( | pst nd < } VT in : , of a I ed

~ ; I nM H ch n yesterda M $ | and he told it me Klinger & Klein ain't paying half the re t I p n here So, if we ynuld gre tw i ine our expense M and ( id i Yi he | } Mar H i real ite Abe Morris ’ i Y ' rY tr 7 if 1 kn Abe cried but we dont lr ‘ hire no : © Gol int to, Maw Henochstei And She Got a Fine Young Feller W \ ‘ mn ou LO pay vicet as much what we're paying Marry Her and Wants it O Five H fred : M S now. Ain't it? So what is the harm if we should maybe < him to find a couple of lofts for us? Ain't it?” Mawruss, agreeing strictly that f All right, Abe,”” Morris concluded, ‘‘if I must go crazy ing, as he gets a comm ” f ning to you talking about it I sooner move first So Morris received tt ian r d do what you lik For a feller wh = y old Marks Henoch- A be he declared | for us this morning, such a poor salesmat I i you. | t

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} a) ma lear } 1) et S 1 "i | i \ per | r } } } j \ Ti} Vlight he vf i got machir want zal n Or 1 hur fic S'er rh He banged a mat mpe iit ‘That ‘4 like Hama Haman wa rn Abe deel ti Come Sar acy ta ut Wait!” M } e thir i nus | i} ; i] isu ephed firm] | Y ll y be pu He turned or M1 n ‘i Le nut Jo the shipt MI Pot } nar the |; nim THE SATURDAY EVENING POST I n you got it Potash,’’ Mrs. Mash- Five hundred dollars to you is to me like k no more of five hundred dollars than life, la Morris broke in with a raucous Abe cried, ‘‘and tend to het = th the urned all I thought »fO

the rear of tore, while Abe piloted the sample-roon it 1 want from me he asked ny she got it Mrs, Mashkowitz declared tea! ‘‘And she got a fir e young feller her and wants it only five hundred Mrs. § Li vai be exclaimed Sheikman moaned

“If you think 1undred dollars out of me, r wet spell ahead of you. That’s all I got vould take two hundred and fifty dollars Sheikman suggested hopefully through her do no favor. Abe said; son my account,” vas two hundred and fifty buttons it no difference to me eller Mrs. Mashko hundred dollar sobbed. “He aved up and wit ad two

I the cloak and suit contracting busi- r dolla if the poor girl hi Mr t } iin; ‘‘maybe he would be satis- Abe roared I heard enough already.” imple table h his fist and Mrs. Sheik- her seat eart what you got it she said bitterly i pretty good feller lready compared to ired; “‘and also got business to attend th M Sheik n cried What ne i bloodsucker like him! Mashkowi pleaded; ‘‘T want to ask me If Miriam got it tl young feller n ht vo 4 ild e him sor ot your iM T t ‘ i T ) rT} to mh t ay \ t And also will you get out of n re, or his he hout itine for an answer and later } ipologetica pproacned | I 4 Tr I Jah 1 t idies in the want rn ‘ 1 maybe ‘ y talkir it a recommendation f e Ko 1 Bank

“Tell 'em,”’ Abe said, “I'll give ’em a recommendation to a policeman if they don’t get right out of here. The only way what a feller should deal with a nervy proposi- tion like that, Mawruss, is to squash it in the bud.”’ ei N MATTERS pertaining to real estate Marks Henoch- stein held himself to be a virtuoso. “If any one can put it through, I can,” motto, and he tackled the job of procuring a loft for Potash & Perlmutter with the utmost e ‘In the first place,’ he said when he called the next day, ‘‘ you boys has got too much room.” 3oys!”’ Morris exclaimed. ‘Since when did we go to school together, Henochstein?” ‘** Anyhow, you got too much room, ain’t yer? Henochstein continued, his confidence somewhat : diminished by the rebuff. ‘‘ You could get your workrooms and showrooms all on one floor, and besides i Morris raised his hand like a traffie police- man halting an obstreperous truckman **S’enough, Henochstein,”’ he said S’enough about that. We ain’t giving you no pointers in the real-estate business, and we don’t want no suggestions about the cloak and suit neither. We asked it you to get us two lofts on Seventeenth, Eighteenth or Nineteenth Street, the size as here and for the same what we pay it here rent. If you can’t do it let us know, that’s all, and we get somebody else to do it. Y’understand ?” **Oh, I can do it all right.”’ ‘Ss he can do it,”’ Abe said encouragingly. I'll ou a list big as the telephone tomorrow,’ Henochstein added as he went out ‘But all the same, boys—I mean Mr. Perlmutter don’t think you ne ed it all that space “That's a fresh real-estater for you, Abe,’’ Morris said after Henochstein left. ‘* Wants to tell it us our business boys yet, like we was friends from the old was his n uptown ynfidence business Same “I Got ‘And directory bring y as I and calls us already “Oh, I don't it much of our work out give the whole thing out and be done with it as well have nd . and a I country “He we give so know, good, I guess; Mawruss,” Abe replied and anyway, Mawrus by contractors, we might as well We might loft with the cutting-room in the back ick for piece goods. Then the whole front could fit it up as an office and sample-room yet, and we means one we would have no noise of the machines and no more trouble with garment-makers’ unions nor nothing. I think it’s a good idee sending out all the work.” Them contractors makes enough already on what we Morris replied give them, Abe, I bet yer Satinstein buys real estate on what he makes from us, Abe, and Ginsburg & Kaplan also ‘Well, the fact is, Mawruss,”” Abe went on, [I ain't at all satisfied with the way what Satinstein treats us Mawruss, nor Ginsburg & Kaplan neither. I got an ide« Mawru we should give all our work to a decent, respect- able young feller what is going to marry a cousin of my wife, by the name Miriam Smolinski.” Morris looked long and hard at Abe before r ply Ing “So, Abe,” he said, ‘‘ you squashed it in the bud! them two women goes right up and sees my Rosie Mawruss,”’ Abe admitted; y Ro wouldn't do us no harm that we should maybe young feller a show and so nr ir wife Rosie punning thi busines rris asked Mawru tion what Rosie thinks explained; ‘it’s what I think, too. I think we should give the young feller a show. He's a decent, respectable young feller, Mawruss.’ How do I know that, Abe?”’ Morris replied ‘I ain't never seen him, Abe; I don't even know his name What « rence does that make i

rus said © be 1 ain't neither, Maw and I don't r)

russ ni too; but he could make up our ust as good whether his name was Thomassheffsky or Murphy Also, what good would it do us if did see him first I'm sure, Mawruss, we ain't y < Lein DecauUsé I d nsburg & Kaplan so far what I

ir That ain't the lee Abe Morris broke ir he idee is that we got to give up doing our n our own shop and send it out by a or ist arting in as a new beginner idy —a young feller what you don’t know d I don't know, Abe-—and all this we got to because you want it A be Me, lam hing here, Abe, and you are everytl Walking Delegate by the Opposite Side of the Street You are the dawg and I am the tail u nd Makes With His Hands Motions ire the oite ile and I am the smell, and

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roe ‘*Who Mawru ter ay t pose it i “You it, Abe on put it just the i’m goin you diff am conte move, Al 1in't goir unless we two lofts {

he way it ays that ’ A} ‘ ’ I didn’t didn’t say Morris went ou K r chow re! I nt that we e, ¢ Vy we gy to move ean find it orul im¢ pay iin t } iA t if got it room than we here

neither, z because if we move we're going to do our own busine just the san i e dao it here and that flat.” For the ret oO the d ivoided any re - it the Very Thing What You Want, bie to their imp¢ : Mr. Perlmutter ing rem il, and VW i n n Henochstein entered tl mple-room — the V morning that the di ion Was rer 1 ‘Well, boy he said greetin I got it a fine | for you on Nineteenth Street with twicet as much fk space what you got her ‘**A loft!” Morris cried “A loft Henochstein repeated One loft Morris asked ‘““That’s what I said,” Her ein replied ne loft with twicet as much floor space, and it ot light on all Morris waved his hand lene ** Abe,” he said, his here Henoct i friend of yours; ain't it Abe nodded sulk ‘Well, take | t here Morris ad d, *‘ before I kick him out He banged the sample-room door behind ! nd repaired to Wasserbauer’s Café and Restaurant a th street to await Henoc 1s departu **Mawruss is ri Al li | \ i distinctively we inted »] not or nd } ou come back with a or 710 prof on Henochstein rose t ‘Tf you think it you | p-to-d ’ Se VE nte enth Kk rh ent NX er } ~e] 4 what you p here in th linky place i got another t} co ) He opened the m door ““And also, A h ided I t partner e | ter d 1 1 ill { ‘ | A} pre } t] to the sample-room a n hour later “Well, Abe Morris ¢ i t vi turr here movir usil tr hand it « ‘*Go ahead, Mawru \} \ earily Ye 1) get your own way anyr \ 1 i ur 1 t Mawru id you are tl | L gue 1 t th wrong way r d. | t lis on th t Morris shr d That omething at | alread \l } replied a o- l to W rt 1leT ne got it a iriend wt a rt ¢ rea i-t ter young feller by the 1 S S n. H S r couldn't 1 it usa couple of k body « I'm sa ed, M Abe said If Si in get lof ve! ot ev t her So far we made it alv a living he Mawru ind I gu wi al i ir ¢ even il e Gor U and tl all there i Wl \ R. SAM SLOTKIN was doubtless his own ide 4 well-dressed man All the ¢ estants ir tournament could have played his clothes at r and the ox-blood stripes on | hirt exactly ma I color of his necktie and He had concluded | interview with Morris on the morning following H h stein’s fiasco, before Abe’s arrival at the offic nd | just leaving as Abe can n Who’s that, Mawru Abe asked, staring r the departi ng fh

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f KICK Kickers Who Complain and Those Who Just Grumble By JAMES H. COLLINS ONES is the averayve con- sumer. Smith is the average mer chant. One of Smith’s clerks sell Jones something that prove defect- ive Smith and Jones know each other well So Jones step Into Smith’s on his way downtown and ina few moments, by explanation, the righted Again Robinson Johoany Bull Stuck Doggedly . to “the Principle of the Thing aes Don't Yer Know who is the average that howl ill night annoying Jone Robinson, calls on her next after- nuisance is also stopped by direct dealing | I Jone gas bill sudde nly doubles ? 4 ll probably be quite different ri , ed } i corporation Jones doesn't know the gas company and, therefore ke a direct, civil complaint as ne Hobson Instead, he gets to thinking ny as something strong, rich, impersonal } 'o have h grievance righted, he to use a p l] He hasn’t got . i ‘ In view of the fact pe tor plain justice he must make a t i robber No protest can rhe he think because he ij fight- evervbody else who burns ga | irts out on the warpath and writes a letter pe det iIncing tne predatory vas com term ind a ! how long the peopl t ! n rule I tne ga ! ! t t ir that Jones is on th th h tl ne paper letter signed Indig- t J i no ad et channel to trouble the company has no ering that Jones thinks hi eeling of helplessne in the telephone, express, railroad el e companies, together having his grievance righted I rvice-commission method of panic The commission is effective J mplaint is aired and righted, for one iS important, it help the com- wwe public-service corporation reall { investigate his complaint before A Gas Company That Wanted Good Will \ EW year » tnt tatement would not have weer 4 I Public utilities were largely in th culative interests that had consolidated Wall Street profit The man with a lerstood, dreaded and avoided ‘ he t unwieldy consolidatior control of thee capable ol \ nas water ha er jueezed i er ew ready the ellir t " e ¢ And as soon as the ‘ t J ‘ iw ! alue and form } enr ' vod will, Ones i i nsul r Walke he company a pre} it hrash somebod\y ‘ t h ' e de him away madder | he man who er } lin} ‘ met by a swee He can’t thrash he She l he ompat wrong she } vro! he expla He comp I ips ! y yomar ell new . ntil about three ted by crowd of high financiers who the consumer, but to manu- the innocent investor Many ul gy management, together with shameful THE SATURDAY EVENING POS A ¢ xploitation of the public, made its name a howl- ing shame and a byword all over the country, while at home, where it sold gas, the company stood as the last word for all that was extortionate and unjust. \ reorganization was effected, finally, and the new set of directors sent for a man who had succeeded in building up a run-down railroad and making it popular with the people living in its territory at the same time that he made it pay. The gas company had a monopoly, but was being pressed hard by the electric-light company, an aggressive competitor, The directors got the railroader to take the presidency with the understanding that he should create good will as well as make money One of his first steps was to hire forty inspectors, dress them in uniforms with the name of the gas company on their caps and send them out into the city, ringing door- bells. No door was passed “Do you burn gas?”’’ asked the inspector when the housewife open d her door If the re ply was affirmative i tematic inquiry followed Was service sati factory Any complaint Were bills considered reasonable? Did the lights burn well? Did the gas range do good work ? Good Service and Pleased Patrons {ae nspector examined lights and in many cases recom- mended a change in tips. This isa prime cause of com- plaint where bills seem unreasonably large, for there are certain kinds of tips that consume gas out of all propor- tion to the illumination actually rendered. One of the largest gas companies.in the country gave its customers three hundred thousand new tips of correct type last year, ree of cost, reducing the consumption of gas for the sake the better service and good will that followed; and it These uniformed inspectors also gave especial atten- tion to the gas range in each home. The housewife was asked to light and run it as she ordinarily did and was shown where her methods wasted gas. One point of prime importance was to ascertain whether a box of matches hung close to the range If matches were in was probably being wasted by being turned low when not in use, instead of turned out and lighted again. ‘‘ Keep the matches handy,” advised the ‘for matches are cheape r than gas.” If the range did not bake well it was found, pe rh ips, to be choked with grease In many instances the inspector sent a trained woman instructor—also employed by the gas to spend an afternoon with the housewife, showing her how to get the best results from her range and cooking a batch of biscuits for supper another room ga in pe “tor company In about a year, under its new president, this gas com- pany was made highly bills fell off, and the consumer Complaints of excessive a kick wasted no ime straight to the time writing to the newspapers, b The er yment an nopoly is often a temptation » corporation officials to neglect the man with a grievance Inasmall Western city, as an instance, the same company controls both gas and electricity For years Its director paid little attention to the small civilities that ire observed where there is competition **We get all the business there is,”’ they said ple either take gas or current, or go with- But a new manager was engaged and he organized a selling department. Canvasser ent out to cultivate good will and they let it be known that the company Was anxiou o hear complaints and adjust difficultic In 4 sir ye the susine of the company In- cr ed twenty-five per cent over! il Ever h the best of intentior n the part ‘ i } hard to find rhe custor e grievance may not compl ll take it out i imt wspapers If he doe write is letter may be mere denunciation, cor gy nospecific fact Then there are chronic kickers who complain of troubles that arise from their own careless- other people w which the company is not at all responsible Where one grievance comes to the complaint department in definite form for action there are, perhaps, a dozen that never do; and for He Said, r November 20, 1909 y customer who has a genu- ine grievance there must be at least a dozen persons who indulge in the luxury of grumbling at service without patronizing tt company at all. With every one of these kickers, however an aggressive complaint department tries to deal fairly This is now recognized as part of a public-se rvice corps ration’s regular routine hs near-complaints and mere growls makes good will and Tactful handling of complaint business The kind of kicker who doesn’t come to headquarters is shown in a story about an Englishman and an American who spent a morning riding about New York in a cab The Englishman paid the bill, but there was a di about the fare, the cabman demanding twenty-five cent more than the legal fare. The Englishman proceeded just as though he were at home in London, taking the cabby number and starting for police headquarters to lodge a complaint. His American friend tried to talk him out of it, being ashamed to make a fuss about a quarter, bu Johnny Bull stuck don’t yer know latter protested that But he w: doggedly to ** the principl of the t ged the Yankee along ild pooh-por h so trifl ey took it up as soberly a matter : as the Englishman, found the cabman and m refund the overcharge Chey also told the American that they were glad to get det Much profanity and denunciation are leveled at the efinite complaints to act upon York cabman every day and many editorial seoldings ar But formal complaints, backed | administered to him | spe cifie details overcharges meekly and then take it out in police graft. This is the experience in many other Ameri- can cities and with most public-service departments The man with a misdirected kick is often an ng One day an irate gentleman walked into the offi the general passenger agent and demanded to know I in thunder he had been compelled to wait more thar hour at Smithville for a Central train and, finally, to tramp over to another station and take a paralle road lh and then said: ‘*We are sorry you have been put to this trouble and it passenger agent listened patiently is well you waited only an hour, because you m waited longer. Our road doesn’t touch Smithvill The German Who Wouldn’t Go Ahead ISUN DERSTAN DING is responsible for a large per centage of the complaints that actually come in, as in the case of an elderly German who appeared one day at the office of a te lephone c ympany to protest against outrageous treatment overthe wire. He had beeninsulted, he said. He was a philosophic German of the old slow to anger ool, gentle, kindly But now he was filled with wrath oO angry, in fact, that every time 1e started to explain what had happe ned indignation choked him The traffic mana- ger talked courteously until the old gentleman had got his temper under control, and then found it easy to explain matters in a way that cleared up the tr The German, it seems, had gone to a publie tel caeposite d his dime, and asked for a certain numbe he couldn't hear very well and kept asking Central Vot iss der matte it rirl had told him to go ahead I can't hear vot wrong ?’ **Go ahead,” the girl repeated go ahead, go ahead And then the German had hung ip the receiver in boiling rage, for he thought Central was telling him to go to hades! In another case a carriage drev ip before a telephone company itfices one afternoon anda fat old lady got down, leaving a fat pug doy on the seat with her fat coach- man She was covered with elab- orate beadwork which jingled as she walked, and she carried a large lorgnette through which every- was carefully scrutinized she was shown into the manager's office the old lady asked authoritatively : ‘Are you tl The manager said he was. He is a little man. The fat old lady ¢ manager ? os “Sure, Mike!"’ and Got It

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| | } | | \ i went over him most attentively, as though he were the first manager she had ever seen and had to be magnifie d to be visible. She lorgnetted his hair, } and, finally, fastening on the top of his head, announced decidedly : his tie, his socks ‘I shall sue your company for ten thousand dollars.” 1¢@ Manager asked upon what grounds T rou ‘For conspiracy,” declared the old lady Then it appeared, according telephoned her regular expres the telephone ¢ to her story, that she had an to move a trunk, and 1 Central, had connected her with some unknown expressman who had ealled for the trunk and stolen it Central had been in league with this s an rherefore, the company was res es and jewel value ten thousand do Investigation by the manager disclosed, in the first place, that the dowager didn’t know the name her own expressman; then, that she had written a wt adare on her trunk and that the strange expressman had deliv- ered it to that address in good faith. This expressm sought out and asked if he could get the tru nd he said, ‘‘Sure, Mike!” and got it. So the fat dowager didn't sue She didn’t even thank the manager f pullit her out of her muddle. To this day. prob- that the telephone company was at fault ably , she believe Patrons will sometimes try to us¢ the complaint department of a cor} ration for strange purposes, as was the case where a woman telephone sub- scriber asked the company to fine one of her neighbors for calling her a liar and no lady, over the wire Another woman subscriber, hearing that a new manager was taking charge of her district, called to welcome him to the district and to say that she hoped he would give her better servi than the old manager, who didn't understand the telephone business at all and, besides, was no gentlemar Something in her effusive good ‘ led the new manager to look into het account with the company, whereupor he found that she hadn't paid her for several months and that unl re Was to be taken out The chronic kicker is ty} lar in most complaint ac ment When Anthony Trollope wv 1 the British postal service the officials we pestered with frequent letters from a gentlema ta rer e ¢ ntr plac } ? } Weer i\ 4 LAT t T I district. The letters were so lengthy and bitt hat last Trollope he wanted and give it te ! possil f t} peace Trollope found the kicker a heart hos} bye eountry squire who put him up for the nig his best wine and had |} daughter sing f the po office official \t eVve;Tr re ere! ‘ ne IT i ‘ I - ever, he turned the conversation, refusing to talk of | ness until next morr ing Vnen his visitor nad t leave and it was absolutely necessary to take the matter up. Then the squire confessed that, living alone there h nothi to occupy his time, he had busied himse riting com- plaints to the post-offics Really, he considered the serv- ee very good and promised to write no more Constant Kicker and His Methods i i INSTANT KICKER,” as he occurs in present-day complaint work, is not a man who grumbles for pas- time, but usually one who, by some fatal gift, is always getting into difficulties in his every-day dealing Ninety-nine men in the hundred will do business with corporations and seldom have anything go wrong ; gas meters never run fast, their shipments: always a safely. 3ut the odd man is Constant Kicker. His gas meter races Other peopl s tek phone messages are charged on his bill. If he has a single box coming by freight along with ten thousand other boxes, and only one box of the whole lot is lost, that lost box will be Constant Kicker’s Other men may have an occasi ial difficulty of a simple ature, such as can be righted by a little civil explanation n But when Constant Kicker gets into difficultic ire usually of the most complex character, and all h rts to have them righted, and all the company’s efforts to explain and clear them up, merely el e that much more. Constant Kicker is not a grump and d t go through life looking for trouble, |} a thoroughl earnest person whose normal existence seems to be the abnormal, and who kicks wholly in the interest ¢ cipk THE SATURDAY EVENING POST } in trur r Wa the ir n u did not ¢ nee Sk } ent f earir aga T Lo { Dp WICKET { Han nant } War to nd whe urance nar kL ki 4 usiness man the Reformed Corporations | tgpebeoses re - attention, ?

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST VT OF THI Fh November 20, 1909 OU

ry Reminiscences of Famous Stars—By Charles Burnham

TRING the sea- ‘ae son of '86 and *87 when I was Stetson Fifth Ave- he was arranging ra production at the Globe Theater. He iphed me to find diately Richard eld, engage him vhatever salary he d, and have him to Boston at It took me some locate Man l | illy found } j ry ina small ! | TY 1 i ing-house Ove 4 tor in lower Sixth 4 \ T ‘ it was one thing to find his living place, but Was quile another matter to find him i rhe landlady told me

| would be sure to meet him if | eame about ten o’elock in the Sarah Bernhardt rr i ne Wie ways in bed at that hour. The next morning | was there ten and after considerable knocking and calling roused tim from his sleep. He called out What the devil are making all that noise for On aequainting him with

errand and asking if he would not open the door that | might talk business with him, he replied: ‘‘I don’t want ilk busin iam sleepy. Please go away and come ‘ mex Knowing the peculiariti f the man and that he might d but not driven, | did as he suggested, and at ime called iin. On arranging my business with i Kked him if he would take the one o'clock train, Stetson w very anxious for his presence in Boston ! nin i ind at ivance of tary nine o'clock that night I reeeived a wire fro: hereabouts of Mansfield and saying he had not shown up in Boston. I scurried around ano trace of hin ind it was not till ten the xt morning that | ayain found him taking his morning p, with but little thought of Boston or Stetson ter he got t! roughly aw ike he gave me several ! not hav gone to Boston, the principal one that he ntended to go when he felt like it, and he if 1 i at at st te 1a | ‘ ild be absolutely eless to argue with him t my t pr sx 1 just ied him, and finally he nd start once I told him that as he renea il n Boston had been going on for two day he piece was to be produced on the following Monday Was then Wednesday —there was no time to be lo His answ wa No time to be lost and none wasted. J] yne rehear and think of all the time I would ind lost roing there neariy a week anedad o] Mansfield Off at Last

QIMPi ) agreeing with him, I finally persuaded him to b tart, and handing him some more money that he had ke for and receiving his positive assurance that hs ld leave on the first train, I left

saying that as it wa ing'l would send 4& cab to take him to the station 1 wired Stetson that Mansfield would surely go over on noon train that day. But he didn't. The cabman that nt after him waited there for two hours, and never even caugnt @ gimpse of lansfield Well, the result was more telegrams from Stetson, more ut this time I aited for him, accompanied him to the station, saw him ifely on the train, and watched that train till it left the tation. He also received another advance on his salary

h for Mansfield and more promises. f My first acquaintance with Mansfield began when he was playing an engagement at the Park Theater in Boston with the Union Square Theater Company. I was to be the ecipient of a benetit at the time and had received Mans- field's promise to appear at the pertormance in a mono- logue. I had given wide publicity to the fact because it } was to be ich a novel character, and was very proud to

think I was enabled to have Mansfield appear for the first time in Boston in such a character. On the morning of the day of the perform- ance I received the following letter from the erratic Mansfield: My dear Burnham : | am sorry to say I shall not be able to appear at your benefit today. I have rather a bad throat and regret I cannot use it in your behalf. Were it not for this I should be only too happy to oblige you. Believe me, with sincere regrets, Yours very truly, RICHARD MANSFIELD. . This was disappointment and, while brood- ing over it, a friend came inand I told him what had occurred, when he informed me that not ten minutes before he had met Mansfield in the street and he seemed anything but ill. ‘Take my advice,” said my friend, ‘‘and go see his friend he will make him appear.”’ This man was the senior member of a great business concern, was an old acquaintance of Mansfield's and was deeply interested in his eareer. When I called on him and showed him the letter I had received from Mansfield, he told me to go right ahead with my plans, add- ing: ‘‘He will appear, all right. And, by the way, you find me a box if you ean; I would like to have my family come down and see Mansfield in thai sketch.” It is needless to say he received the box and Mr. Mans- field appeared. Charley Hoyt, in writing of the perform- ance ala:

And then followed the gem of the afternoon's entertainment, Mr. Richard Mansfield, in his character sketch, The Italians, which was not only extremely amusing, but which showed off Mr. Mansfield's great versatility to the utmost. The sketch isa light one, and is a description of a concert given by a troupe of French and Italian artists at an English watering-place. In it exam- ples were given of the style of vocalization of the two nations, which were very lifelike, there being nothing trespassing in the slightest degree on the realms of bur- lesque about it. It further included an Italian aria sung by a French tenor, an English ballad sung by an Italian prima donna and a cello solo by a lady performer, and these were interspersed with comments on the individual performances by an English officer of the old school, who was supposed to be one of the audience. Mr. Mansfield was certainly great in it, and his admirable delineation convulsed the audience. The fun, however, was at its climax when, after the concert had been concluded, the party sat down to supper and getting into a wrangle all tried to talk at once. Here the audience was fairly carried away and the laughter was uproarious, ¢ in the whole, The Italians was about the finest monologue we ever heard on the stage and a marvelous portrayal of character acting When Joseph Jefferson was playing one of his engage- ments at the Star Theater in New York, his sons, Charley, Thomas and Joseph, generally spent the ater portion of their time in my office I happened to have at the time a miniature toy race-track that had attracted their attention ind to which they devoted themselves most assiduously Many of their friends joined them in the ime, and here of an afternoon could often be found (in company with the Jefferson boys Billy Florence, Roland Reed, George Nash, Glen MeDonough and generally one or two newspaper boys. The little tin horses they various names, such

Rola Coffee”’ and ‘* Liver Pad ! in a race for all the world like the and placing their bets in tsmanlike fashion. The Jefferson tried hard to coax their father into the when he happened into the office one day in the midst of a highly-exciting race. I thought at first that his presence would put a damper on them; but instead, one of his sons called out: ** Come on, Father, take a horse and try your luck; Roland Reed is running fine today Mr. Jefferson, with that kindly smile of | shook his head and answered: ‘No, I guess not boys; I don't believe I would like a horse with a comedy nose.”’ It seems that just as Mr. Jefferson entered the room some one called out, ‘‘ Roland Reed wins by a nose.”’ |

the room Jefferson said to Florence, with a merry twinkle in his eyes: ‘‘ Billy, 1 am afraid you are leading my boys astray.” It was while Jefferson and Florence were playing their engagement at this theater that I had placed in my office a phonograph, and would often entertain the two with the various records that I had taken. It was quite a while before I could induce Mr. Jefferson to talk into the machine, he seemingly having a strong aversion to it. Finally he consented and, with Mr. Florence, repeated a scene from The Rivals and then gave his famous toast from Rip Van Winkle. While Jefferson and Florence were making their record together, Florence momentarily stumbled in his lines and Mr. Jefferson prompted him in his every-day voice. This ‘‘prompt’’ went on the record and is repeated every time the record is reproduced, making the cylinder more curious as a souvenir than if it contained only the words of the scene. One more record Mr. Florence made, the last of his life, but it has passed out of existence. Mr Florence thought it would be a novel idea to talk to Mrs Florence and send her a message to Europe in his own voice. He spoke a long and tender message in the phonograph and, after having the record repeated to him, carefully wrapped it up to take to the Fifth Avenue Hotel, where he was living, and pack to send her. On the way uptown, however, the cylinder was accidentally broken and the message destined for Mrs. Florence was never sent During Mr. Jefferson’s last engagement at the Star, the season before it was turned into a low-priced house, I happened in the auditorium at the conclusion of a rehearsal and saw Mr. Jefferson standing alone on the stage looking out into the dim emptiness of the house without speaking Then I heard him say, as if he were addressing an audience: “*You dear old place; how I love you!”’ I walked back to the stage and, going over to Mr. Jefferson, told him | overheard the exclamation he had made, and asked him why he used it. He replied: ‘‘ There is no playhouse in America where I can play and feel that I am doing myself such certain justice as here. Here I know absolutely that every one in the audience can hear every word that I speak and see every change of expression on my face. | cannot say that of many theaters. Besides, it holds many pleasant memories. Upon its boards so many of my friends —now, alas! all gone—have appeared. And now that I know it is to pass out of existence it makes me feel that I am losing another old friend Sarah and the Sofa ~ ARAH BERNHARDT, when playing at the Star Thea- ter, gave the audience an extra scene not down on the bills. She required for use in the play she was presenting a sofa of an especial design. We hunted high and low to find one to suit her, and finally compromised on one that was considerably the worse for wear. At first she refused to accept it, and declined to go on with the performance unless it was changed. She insisted that it was too weak and frail; but as it was essential for her to have a piece of furni- ture similar to it, and as none other could be had, she finally con- sented to use it T property man was in structed by her stage manager to place the sofa in the center of

the stage and brace it with a piece of wood When the curtain went up the audience was rather surprised to se in the middle of a 1andsome drawing- room scene an old carpe t-covered sofa with its back to the au- dience and braced up witha piece of board, nailed to the stage. Bernhardt did not see what they had done until she came on. It looked for a few mo- ments as if the curtain would be rung down,

And Reed's nose was somewhat of a nose when it came to noses. As he turned to leave > vom but she finally smoth- Richard Mansfield ered her disgust and Rae < en ia Td

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POS proceeded with the play t 1 i At the conclusion of the hope of ri t a T p > performance, and before her to the box e, and it i era D Mr } all the audience had left , oi S lard $1s ' the theater, the curtain : , ; ‘ ( ' Was rung up and dis- , : : : ° ys closed to the astonished : Ns it th ) $ f auditors Madame Bern- On one point Irving w I particu irly 1) hardt seated in a chair, that w that there sl ld be empty x ‘ with elbows on her the house the ever performance l wou } a. knees, and her face rather,”’ said he, *‘see the seats vacant than to hav on tl | grasped tightly in her those black empty spaces staring at me acre i openit i $ ) | two hands, with a look footlight rhey depress me, and | would bepleased — | e for th t | upon her face that would if you will see that they are properly disposed of We compare the re \ | have made Medea look when not sold It was a pleasure to watch Irving those days with what . likeanangel. Standing direct a rehearsal. He was the first on the ‘ i nowaday They show } | before her in a line the last to leay Though he had | ve! ave made today An stretching clear across ger, he always took the most active } t nly i the stage, bowing and ; ing affairs, for his was the master hand that ‘ tl scraping, stood all her t_ eee - a the members of his company the right note, that were } | various stage attaches, gave his productions that wonderful lightin n f $ ‘ ; Sothern as Dundreary : : with evident anxiety which respect he had no equal Give the public Ss ‘ written on their faces. Just then her treasurer, un t t he woul ften s evel on i $ \\ of the trouble, stepped up and hand+d her the st: if it lies in your power to prevent ich a ‘ $ . of the afternoon’s receipt She fairly snatched i it blizzard of ‘S88, the Star ‘ I the same A play writte: him and, tearing it in shreds, gave him a sound box ¢ vas opened, and Irving and | mpar Central Park, which wa the ears, and started for her dressing-room, whil le rm in order not to « point their AS presented twelv« ‘ army of servitors bowed lower and lower. Thefewremain- audienc: $57 revived in the | t ing auditors were enjoying the unwonted scene quite as In 1859 the Wallacks, b ither and began t rmances to a i much as they had the afternoon's play. Bernhardt consider that thei er at Broome Street and Broadway of $4626 for retired to her room still boiling over with rage, and sent was too far downtown, and that it would be ad e to n six times t S687 ent a messenger to the front of the house for Maurice Grau find a location farther uptow: Phey selected asa proper last time in the tl who was her manager at the time. Grau, who had seemed ite Thirteenth Street and Broadway Ihe ation had t mit f 3 to scent the danger from afar, had left early, leaving word at one time been the h f Nixon's late | for the Madame that he had been called uptown on impor- nad Deen occupied as a ible Che friend of tt | \W tant business. Madame Bernhardt had w her larly graceful, | a maid, an American, | believe, of whom she w They fitted hin per | very fond, and to whom she had never spoken an : ae . at th I unkind or cross word. This maid seemed to have i hundred a a soothing effect on Bernhardt, and when her t unprec ‘ ! temper had resumed its normal state, the great in avera é $ actress turned to the maid and, with the most I ba gracious manner in the world, took from her finger roi a diamond ring that she had been wearing, hand- ing it to the maid, and told her to wear it a ‘ | keepsake: adding that she was the only person in \\ her employ who had not caused her to lose her temper during her whole season in America One evening, when she had a particularly en- Che Rise of Lester Wallack ? thusiastic audience, Maurice Grau spoke of it . She smilingly told him that she did not believe [' ER LLACI they understood what they were applauding 4 Possibly not the language said Grau k your acting speaks in all languages If that H so,” replied Bernhardt, ‘*I might go on the stage and repeat any lines from any play And she t did, giving a speech from Adrienne in the midst : , { tor of Cy i\ of La Tosea, much to the astonishment of her ® EAT ; | | er W company, who did not know what to make of a ae ey ie har ! the seeming torgetfulne ~ her memory And nd lt how she would act that interpolated y th mbers of tt } r ; audience between acts would discuss de them from t the | ‘ I Never saw the Madame p better n their part ur I ymnly artist to do this | have known wt i n the box hice of the I i A ntroduce long speec! e tror Othello int s0T tn % P Sz M one of the tew NI 1d VIs¢ t eve Shaksperean parts that he was playing trot n ia ror tl pt ni! ement Mr. M I \' k, | \ Memories of Irving and Miss Terry ind irom the ¢ rs bet hen the elder W I ente t } . \ . eng ul ‘ | geet notwoartists who have appeared attheStar « i t iry of $6 a vy idgmer Theater were ever more welcome visitors to the “* fror busir matters hadal eceived mark t \ } of the house” than were Ellen Terry and Henry Irving. It The new theater pened on We i had been my good fortune to make the acquaintance of September Is61 Y us to! ptown W | / both of these artists while they were playing at the Globe — lac} mpany } held eral mee rheater in Boston. When Irving made his second trip to he conclusion that, as they were pr p this country he honored me by writing and asking if I responsible for the W ks’ suc ind as tl H would look out for many matters connected with his forth- Wallacks had determined upon the suicidal p f } coming engagement That kindness and cordiality on of moving ‘‘to the wood ink they re« . Irving's part lasted as long as he lived, and during his mere salary and were allowed to pick tl ' | many other return visits to this country he always took parts, they would secede from the compar h W | particular care to call upon me or to ask me to visit him, hoping bysuch a movement to con he W ind during the holidays I would always receive a letter or to accede to their demands telegram of good wishes from hi But they counted without their host. Wallack Irving was always anxious to know what his audiences quietly ignored them, and when he reopened had to say of his performance, and there was scarcely a uptown but one or two of the seceders were with morning that he did not come around to the office to hear him. In looking over the salary list of the time I \ what had been said the night before and to discuss other find the amounts paid then were as follows: Lester matters connected with his engagement At many of Wallack, $100; John Brougham, $75 these morning talks Miss Terry was present. She would Hoey, $55; Miss Henriques, $40; an ‘ } t ; come flying into the office in that breezy, jolly-good-fellow Holland, $40 | : way of hers, and seating herself on a table or desk, say: In addition to their salaries the leading mem- t ; ‘I prefer this seat-one can move around so.’ Her bers were entitled to one or two benefits. In Mis ! : additions to the conversation were delightful, and it goes Henriques’ case, for instance, she was to receive eal ! without saying they were always entertaining. One _ in addition to her salary, the full receipts of two presenting the ma morning the conversation turned on speculators, and on _ benefits and the privilege of having the second and } f the ; this subject Miss Terry was particularly vehement in her _ third benefits of the season. Holland was to receive the public ir atisf i denunciation of what she termed ‘‘the very worst, the two clear ‘‘one-third” benefit W. R. Floyd J ymanr Alt 4 most annoying, exasperating nuisance I have met with in stage manager, received $35 a week; and Charles I Wallacl Concluded on Page 44 ~~ Ras

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His Client Would Prove THE SATURDAY EVENING POST LOSING GAME The smile first step, said Mr. Totherow with an exasperating would be a suit to set aside the recent decree of divorcee. His client would prove, for one thing, that the divorcee was procured by collusion. What other steps his client would take he did not feel bound to disclose In fact, in inducing Pound to settle Mr. Totherow did not go an inch beyond the strict letter of his instructions He had no doubt that if Emma should codperate with the ‘‘regulars’’ the path of the bucketshop man would be made very stony. This constituted the dreadful weakness of Pound's position. And with a suit in the courts attacking the validity of his divoree—spun out intermi- nably by postponements, appeals, rehear- ing and such legal devices—his marriage with Eileen might be put off a year Finally, therefore, he gave Mr. Totherow a check for a hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars—together with a collec- tion of hearty but silent curses which the attorney, considering how much baffled wrath they expressed, would really have been delighted to hear. Pound hoped fervently that Totherow would charge not knowing with, thriftily ig that point Emma an extortionate fee that Emma had, to begin made an agreement coverit

« taaeoes He learned that Emma and her sister left St. Paul the fifteenth. Then Mrs. Lester had a line from her at New York, written the day before wrote Mrs. Lester ; only a picture She he sailed. Afterward, at intervals, she Irom various place s in Europe postcard, sometimes a letter of several pages seemed ted in what she saw, and quite happy. Along in noticed by the published real-estate transfers that Emma's agent had sold the tract of land which she had bought the year before. The price mentioned was sixty thousand dollars, so evidently she had made a comfortable profit on the transaction. She wasa thrifty person. Pound that she must be worth about three hundred thousand dollars. The week in which se land was sold Mrs. Lester showed him a letter from Paris in which Emma poke of her plans to visit the after that, thought she would return to Paris to live—she sometime Intere April he calculated Orient: she

liked it there I don't uppose, he added, ‘‘ I'll be able to keep May with me much longer. She writes a pound of letters a week to Toronto. I guess she’s got the marrying bug.” Pound had suspected as much 3efore the final breach between himself and Emma it had occurred to him that : Tommy Watrous and May were on very good terms indeed Emma shy, slender, gentle, younger r evidently found something very congenial in blue- eyed, curly-haired Tommy An odd tenderness for the girl—-a sort of vague veet regret —lurked in Pound's n agitated heart. It was the sort of sentiment for her vhich made him feel generous toward Tommy as het presumptive lover. During the fight with the ‘regulars hen he and Emma had found themselves reéstablished

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November 20, 1909 ILLUSTRATED BY F. R. GRUGER unsentimental coéperation, she had She thought Pound ought to in friendly but brought up Tommy’s case. give him a boost. He surmised that she was speaking more for May, as Tommy’s prospective wife, than for Tommy himself. He complied at once. It pleased him to be, in a way, a fairy godfather to the young pair Besides, Tommy was capable enough in a business way So Pound invested him with the managership of the important branch office at Toronto, where he had been giving a very good account of himself ever since There remained, therefore, this very tenuous little thread between himself and his former wife—her pro- spective brother-in-law was one of Pound’s lieutenants been on the account word in new life than half a year Emma had world. He considered the ever closed. Of Hamilton he had not heard a months. The old life was dead and buried The claimed him wholly He and Eileen were married St. Paul. For two months they traveled, combining business with pleasure, for Pound visited his principal offices at Seattle, Chicago, Toronto, Buffalo Returning to St. Paul he had a surprise in store for his bride. He had purchased a handsome res paying sixty thousand dollars for it. Eileen was as delighted as child. With happy enthusiasm she pointed out what a charming place the house would be with a little altering They took the best suite in the leading hotel, and Eileen joyfully to the house. She made a great consulting the architect, the landscape gardener, the the furnishers—often, in her pretty tripping sunnily into the bucketshop to take Pound away and show him a plan or a sample of moved But for more other side of the for- a month after Emma left some idence,

devoted herself business of decorators, impatience, upholstery. It was the middle of May before they into the house. The total investment had then risen to a hundred and five thousand. But Pound paid the bills good-naturedly. In fact, this new notion of being the

proprietor of a rich, spacious house secretly appealed him hardly less than to Eileen It his patent of aristocracy the sign and seal of his success Few local tes had a eller session of the than his house house magn: Taking pos they gave a dinner

party, inviting the Lesters, the Mullenses and a dozen other The guests, especially the be jeweled women, admired the house and grounds lavishly, showered con- gratulations upon Pound, drank gayly to his further success. Pound, in the evening dress which he could now wear without any sense of strangeness, received the con- gratulations with urbane composure. It was, indeed, a swell house-—the indubitable habitation of a nabob He

examined it , his gh: d-dollar gown, diamonds had arrived! glanced comp about as the guests lacently from top to bottom. Often especially ince turned wife in her thousar her fair, to his young pretty a rope of pearls around tering in her coppery neck, Yes, he soft

i verything proclai ned hi pl succe ! His heart dilated with pride That same afternoon two women, neatly but plainly dressed, debarked from a French liner at New York, drove toa small hotel and reg¢ istered under assumed name About the time Pound’s ruests were sitting down to dinner : lank, round-shouldered man with a heavy red mustache dropped inat the modest hotel, scratched *‘Hamilton” on a blank card and asked that it be sent up to the ladies. In the somewhat shabby hotel parlor the younger of the ladies, entering first, greeted him with shy happiness. Her brown eyes shone. Giving him her hand, faint blushes played over her cheeks; she turned her head and slightly changed the posture of her hands and body with nervous movements of a fluttered bird The lank man’s eyes glowed down upon her. Presently, hearing a brisk step, he hastily under his breath most like those said and ‘Six

solemnly months, May--not a The young lady sw htly toward him; brushed his. ‘‘I’m she whispe red. drop! aye d her hand o glad!

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older, shorter also, demure-looking eyes nesslike In fact, she had returned } " ) carry outa | rgé ul lerta ing ol i t nature Pound's dinner v expe! ‘ The l ‘ twenty-five dollars a plate. But if the | re large } could stand them It was flood tide with him H bucketshop was operating one hundred and_ sixty-tw ottices in the United State ind (Canada \ niele fT that at Toronto nad over three hur la patror He was paying the telegraph company eight hundred dollars a day for wire rental, and so on. And the game the whole, was going his way The money poured Notwithstanding Emma’s alimony and the disburse ments on account of the house he could command i million four hundred thousand dollars in cast or good as cash —for he still kept the five hundred thousand dollars 1 } bought dazzle wit They had proved could be converted Into ¢ But Pound had another motive for keeping them. He was aware that a consider: element ! ittend his business game mi some time or ot} t against him stocks or grain or both n nd conti ly when his customer i ’ great ties of then It would be very pleasant to have, in all circumstances, that half a million of Government bonds tucked s1 away, removed from the hazards of the busine If the very worst should come and the bucket shop itself go to pot he would have that ha million and the hundred-thousand-dollar |} ‘ ting in Eileen’s name. Converting the ds and even the house into prime securities bearing a fa rate of interest, they would have, at least, twenty five thousand a year to scrape along on. The house and the bonds, indeed, gave him a pleasant sense of beingimpregnably fortified against chances In July they went to the seashore Pound had not ¢ xpected to go It was quite Inconvenient But Eileen’s health, it seemed, demanded it Her physician said so. She didn’t wish to go alone, so he accompanle d her He had no particular fault to find with his wif Almost always she was amiable. And he was st under the strong charm of her pretty person, her many little coquettish, cuddling, enticing ways But he began to perceive a certain defect in her character. Already she had rather lost inter: in the house The new gree! house and the orchids had amused her for three weeks, then she had left them to the gardener. It was when Mrs. Mullens announced her intention of spending the summer at Mount Desert that Eileen began to dro¢ par | pine for the sea In short, she was a dear chi but she soon tired of her toys and if new ones were denied her she felt hurt Pound had been three weeks at the seashore and was finding it quite a bore. He was thinking that he would be glad of any plausible excuse to get away, when a reason of a most valid but un- welcome kind recalled him in hot haste to St. Pa Subject to his daily instructions by wire, he had left the head office in charge of a faithful | somewhat slow lieutenant named Patterson. For a fortnight the stock market had been rising, so the bucketshop had been losing, but not enough to distur Pound The combination of ‘regular once harried him had been perfectly quiet for nearly a year. Pound was thinking of anything but danger as, with the deliberateness of a bored man, he went throug! duty of dressing for dinnerin their spa Iss He was interrupted by the followir brokers Whi te at the sea- side hotel telegram Office raided by sheriff as common gambling-house, Some books and papers taken Furniture smashed Think you better come home PATTERSON Pound, his collar in one hand and the telegram in the other, let out a string of exclamations which so electri- fied Eileen as to inter t even the beloved rites of the toilet. She came hastily from her room, half dressed her eyes wide with reproach and alarm, and shut the door THE SATURDAY EVENING POST sin Teamemmceeneeser 4 Sallow Young Man With an Unusually Long Chin These papers e hac disclaimed ny Kr He had bi ) from Eileen read ‘ ening meet re curtness of the me what could be brin He had seen | IT In violent anger harrowir y ‘ene W For s uly } tainir the tul had been abstractec the st } their marvriag Yet they t ed |

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FOUNDED A? D PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 421 TO 427 ARCH STREET GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR By Subscription $1.90 the Year lo Foreig PHILADELPHIA, NOVEMBER Canads 1 Subscriptions Remittar For ountric Made Five Cents the ¢ By Subscription $1.5@ the Year sin the Postal Union 1728 opy of All Newsdealers Singl+ copies, five cents Single Subscriptions by International Postal Money Order 20, 1909 To Heckle or Not to Heckle? IN ! 16 Pod at iuthentie report, which was more hu } if If we knew how they str jent of much value for suffragette upidity, did the gods heckl I t ri ring. dinner-bells, set off fire neerting remarks at trembdlir lawns and besiege the doors of di che r did they try what enlighter persu iid ado , ' ent aga t ving the franchise r t here is merely a prejudi p defense mainly upon the ser m ipable of bearing arms When ntly mobbed, hustled d { ! in rmy i may aiscover tnat it mar martial capabilit ‘ have | I ted TI militant method may ! (in the other hand, mere turbulence er pted evidence of political intel- t nt the lack of it; and there is , } e prejudice, the n int " her We don't belis the m men in this country for ten been ck demonstrated that a i | Ww ! That want [ be thout a and battery The Mystic Science of Dollars at a ‘ \ “Ax met The ¢« t ibl a r ad il ter 1 ar probably ted , ‘ r Am hip i {ie d. For L ‘ t has tac a , . j 3 \ ‘ v between ] pert inead t I essors lat ! i vmhenome r +} ar, settied opinion I the } li ems to it a that f departed Littk right t Bu oO What it real ita A round silver dollar mpt 1 ODM t t ‘ nd n because } t indi vered We ( iled within the Railroads and Other Roads t t United States is nir © one: but to keep the fourteen hundred dolla i mile nt? pubie rr 1 or

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST thirty-seven dollars a mile. Fer each inhabitant one dollar a year is spent to repair public roads and four dol- lars a year to repair railroads—-each inhabitant having nine times as much public road as railroad. This ratio of one to thirty-six is not right. What we commonly mean by good roads comprises pretty much the whole modern science of railroading. What Harriman, for example, did was to go in for a good- roads movement—to build up a roadway that would carry the heaviest load with the least friction. Asa result we find that on the Union Pacific last year the average trainload was five hundred and forty-eight tons against two hundred and seventy-nine tons ten years ago. Every time the wagon was hauled to town it carried two tons where it had carried only one before. And even in 1898 Harriman had no such opportunity for the trainload as now lies before the farmers of the country In railroading, hardly any amount of money is too much to spend if it will bring a materially-better road. But a dollar a head, or thirty-seven dollars a mile, was all we were spending on public roads at the last account. Slowly, without doubt, we are doing better; but the subject, con sidering its importance, still gets too little attention Increasing As to a Republican Split De ERY one has heard of the tail wagging the ! 4 no one ever heard of amputating dog in order to ve the tail. Consequently, we take no stock in ¢ reports that the Western insurgency will bring permanent split in the Republican party The of mind that now exactly the one that actuated the party for seven ye: prior to March last and in which the party developed by the state is styled insurgent is irs far its greatest strength. During the extra session of Congress, it is true, the Bourbon tail once more supplied the oscillatory momentum; but there were no popular part \ { rto\ elections to be won or lost in that period. The mu finally consist of those persons who are willin Republican ticket, and there i indicate that the effective contingent of ©} less insurgent now than it has been for nearly a de When it comes to an election it will be the

s nothing in ide state of mind of the electorate that counts. If the electoral mind ha changed since it gave Roosevelt seven and a half million votes in 1904, and accepted Taft as his legitimate suc- cessor in 1908, nobody knows it The insurgent Senators simply expressed that revolt against Bourbonism which made Roosevelt popular and which, in the West at least, will make popular whoever Ss express it Only one of them —Senator La Follette ld be ealled radical rhey were fer Protection, even for high Protection. All they asked was some decent regard for the public H that is to be made an issue and the party is to split upon it, what splits off will scarcely be missed. The Badness of Uncle Joe PEAKER CANNON, like the rumor of Mark Twain’s death, is greatly exaggerated. From many quarters we learn that he is about the livest political issue of the doe co me

hour; to down him seems, at the moment, the most cherished ambition of the insurgent West Now. how bad i he The House pu n <« ( ind coal on the free list cut the lumber dut n half, arr ed a p lule th t f « ] S i nearly the old ¢ ‘ on hides i coal, put nty-five cents a ton on ore 1 tl H e | Der tifty per cent, scouted the demand tl ewspap ( he country for rehef in respect of | A e Senate th “aised duties on ¢ yplied st of the * joker Phe Hou of Cannon and other grave

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r er The Senate e! ely unresponsive to the Its cool flouting « he newspapers show especiall perviousness to public opinion Phat the real issue —a codrdinate branch of the legis- i art ( eT nik the public can exercise no effectual control whatever With the Senate constituted as at present a Daniel in the Speaker's chair could very little, if atall, advance the democratic ideal of a government Dy

The Dearth of Diplomats | iy AS a hundred and thirty-three go in in the country’s dire need, that Ben Franklin slipped Marcus Hook and clam- as Envoy to the Court of year in October, out of Philadelphia by night to bered on board the Reprisal Versaille And our diplomatic service is still to be made What trouble the present Administration had to discover a proper minister to China; how it thought it had finally

November 20, 1909 discovered him in the person of a well-known Chicago business man; how at the last instant it was beset by grave doubts and gracefully kicked out the appointee before the astonished eyes of the world, is still fresh in public memory. A successor to Ambassador Reid will be appointed, it is said, as soon as the State Department can find a man who, like him, is willing to glorify republican ideals in the face of monarchy by blowing in a quarter of a million a year on noble social entertainments, or whose personal ability will make good the deficit in that respect. Other highly-.mportant missions are mentioned as await- ing a change What able what well-known lawyer, what successful editor, what accomplished civil engineer should be selected to manage the special business of diplomacy at Berlin or St. Petersburg? This difficult question, which confronts each new Administration, is practically unknown to other countries, because when they want a diplomat they pick out a man who is trained and experienced in that profession. Every other nation has a waiting list of pro- fessional diplomatists. banker, President Roosevelt made a beginning in this direction, it is true. The lower consular posts are now filled, not by broken-down party hacks, but by men who, upon examination, seem to have qualifications for that busi- nes But we still go on the pleasant theory that, for the st important posts, experience is quite unnecessary.

The Melting Pot ie ENTY million immigrants have come to the United States since the Civil War, less than a quarter of them They have from countr having the most different institutions and political sys- tems. But in all that time, in this country, there have really been only two political parties, with very little dif- ference between them being English-speaking come ies Broadly speaking, political opinion the country over been pretty nearly uniform. At there h expression on any Important scale of a radicatiy-d Nobody, broadly Government anything

been no ifferent le ast, asked of the different from opinion, speaking, has materially wl every body else asked Meanwhile, in England —or the United there has been a radically-differing third party. In Parlia- the Irish me have stood sharply detached, with their Own very special interests and demands. For them, very often, the questions between the other parties have been me rely strategic Opportunities for promoting their own particular interest of home rule In Germany, France, Italy and elsewhere the Socialists have had in the national legislature a strong party oecupy- ing much the same detached, sharply-contrasting position, with ultimate views so different that in the main they have merely played upon the questions between the other parties for their own strategic advantage. As compared with the sharp divisions that appear in most European parliaments, our own political differences are family quarrels Looking acros Kingdom ment mbers

only little the water we have our doubts about the We speal] politically we all seem to be ne thing alleged heterogeneousness of our population. many languages, g pretty much the s pood

A Horrible Example rs ratified the next to the last amend- nstitution they thought for liberty and were insur- 5 ee our fathe ment to the Co that the were making a capital stroke ing for all time exact political equality between whites and blacks What they actually did was to plant an ama leval cheval-de-jrise for progressive k gislaition to in pak Itseil upon ‘*Nor shall any state they enacted ‘deprive iny per- son of life, liberty or property without due process of since d leer a ever hardly any alert has been to mend a culvert An y corporation ore it or take s packing~ SES ¢ sidewalk without setting up a claim that it wasn't I of law” and invoking the protection of the F< teenth Amendment Following Oklahoma and other Wests Some pre CESS rn states Nebra passed a deposit-guaranty act banks didn't thi measure They at once invoked the Fourteenth Amendment — just as they would have done if their taxe had been raised. A Federal court found, in course of time that the act was not ‘‘due process of law its entorcement The framers of and enjomed this amendment, of cour thinking about protecting banks tax They were thinking of As everybody knows, the amendment has been utterly against a one-per-cent something far different impotent to accomplish the object that was intended put it has been exceedingly potent to accomplish objects « which the framers never dreamed and never could have dreamed except in a nightmare As horrible exampk the history ol! the efully studied by all constituti Fourteenth m- a Amendment should be car make!

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THE SATURDAY lO’S WH The Mover of Hills HEN old Mr. Yesler if it wa started his sawmill where stands in Seattle—if that is for we must have local color— it \ t ut the troubles of the hustling fol who were comir after him, nor half a hoot about the fact that he pic} isn t itn out one of the hilliest places in the country for the cit) that was to be. Old Mr. Yesler’s job was to saw lumber which he sawed in quantities, leaving municipal probler to those who have a taste for them, and a fine street named Yesler Way, as a memorial of his pi Well, the hills were there, and people built a city on their steep sides, hanging houses and stores on their prec Ipice and climbing wear ly ip or liding tumultuous! down whenever they wanted to move about. Kansas ( d to be strong on hills, but about t pretty go Seattle made Kansas City look like a billiard table Kat as LUlty s h lls were nice nou t Ken I i running one way —which was up! of cours t Seattle's | frequently stood at right angle vith one another mostly terminated in glacial morain Any city can tolerate hills in its earl la but no longer They are not desirable municipal im OW eve they may be for coasting, and as it rarely snows r fine ; tle those hills in Kwa Were ho good reupon as the city expanded and became great, the citizens used to say What shall we do with these blamed } The I Va or ly on answer ind that ‘ ( It t m aown So they worked at it for a time, but d t ¢ iny- where much until eighteen years ago Then Kh ld H He Looks Like a Fighting Man and He is One Thomson was made city developed into one of the most remark ‘ “ Sd able hill-cutters we have The way he Se i{ treated those ; Was something scan- dalous He | d and batted them around A ~Z Y ge » ¢ | N . ( ° 4 A I haved them of'and filed the mvimeven ire §=6C RE Great and the Near Great | . shaving Talk aboutaman’'s job! If Engines t Thomson hasn't done a man’s job in the past eighteen Me e, he me re ret ( one } 1 i ny a years nobody on this continent has. He I made Seattle great er eer he t 7 he gre | ‘ over, or will have made Seattle over when he gets through pal engineer Ra a | with it need engines like Thor 8B » t? When Thomson took hold in May, 1892, Seattle had no to leave Seatt nd ¢ I I re i pavements and pumped her water from Lake Washing } had char ! Thomson had prevision. He saw that one day the city iry, whick evel irs 3 would be big and he conceived his plan of great Wa} Each time he ha i N [ t Welcome to Our Citv unning north and south, to accommodate the immense finished Ther d | nta F trathe south finish this work He realized that the passing nort and hilh would come traffic h: from all must Knew western Washington, through the h and move narrow Puget Sound on the west and Lake Washin n the H real d t east That strip is twenty-six miles long, a few milk ositions through the « cour Sor wide in spots, and not n re than two miles wide in som S ) posi place s The ground wa broker filled with hill ind t been publ Pp} I a ‘ t ravines. Travel was obstructed. Thor aw th no n t H I l ld stop ying r Seattle d he \ ther Phos , proje ' nite shape H vho get th , ist | et ' ; fy th ay +} eta « Hy 1 he \ feet and a gra hree per cer toget I , ‘epeere Ee ¢ 1 +} nd : ' | re made eigt four feet wide and the ‘ | ? cent. Stull, even those five-per-cent grade Or ‘ that were ab Y rd perpendicular d ( compla | nged from a hundred t hundred fee ptt wo learned that ra Flattening Out Seattle ’ \ tr i it down to figures, Thomson has removed mors want t any rate He J than fourteen million cubic yards of earthand stonein } ind he d not n't making the changes alr completed, which amou © twenty-one miles of street surface, to say nothing of i ¢ He I i ‘ the change in the abutting property. When he mplete be tified } work he will have moved thirty-four millior i} Thomsor ‘ . ds of dirt and stone and changed sixty-one miles « 1 B. A. degree from Ha IS77. H ets, lmecluding the east and west streets, of which a moved to Ca rnia e Vi rt reasonable number were changed as a comn reial nec i 1 tf mid ¢ t ty. The work has cost six million dollars thus far, and and got sor rk vill cost six miliion more before it is completed ! ed to Seattle in 18s] Perhaps other engineers could have dene th Like r two i esign ‘ snot. That isn’t the point. The big fact about Thomsen — for the Seattle, Lake S i t that he has held on like a bulldog for « tee 1 he . hghting for his plan to remodel Seattle, and has put n 1889 he returned t i r t] igh. There have been changes in mavors since he mining nd nsultir e! H gan, and many different kinds of city cour He ‘ eer Seatt n 1 had good support, indifferent support and 1 pp nee all. He has heard city-council oratory by the week 1 Ir lition to adit has pounded members of street committe over the a sewer syster ha levelope ‘ a heads with his plans, specifications and estimate He has ster »y which fort A bulldozed, threatened, coaxed, cajoled, fought, temporized brought to Seattle ever la Cle taken what he could get, got all he could; but he ne twenty-eight miles awa ) r stopped hammering, and the people had so much faith ir treets, and has done mors him that no mayor or council dared remove hir Seattle the marvel EVENING POST ~ N _ ND WHY Charity by Proxy Honest by C \* { 4 N a 4 tt ious and Frivolous Facts About r Phe Hall of hoice Fame

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST JED BROOKS, REPRESENT- ATIVE—By R.W. Hofflund le Buys Insurance NE of them insurance fellers caught me in the south field today,” said Jed, ‘‘and he sure reminded me of the good old times.”’ ‘“‘How was that?’’ I asked. We were lounging on the be - h in front of the cook- house. Inside, the Chinaman was washing the dishes and singing, “I wish I had a girl-ee,”’ through his nose. Down at the stables a couple of Mexicans were doctor- ing a cut on the hindleg of a bronco mule a pleasant job to watch from a distance. But, for us, work was over for the day; we had eaten our beef and beans and had nothing more laborious ahead than to roll cigarettes and smoke them ‘Why , explained Jed, ‘in them old days you read about, all gents that were associated in business with cows wore six- hooters at their belts all the time, instead of only Sundays when they go to town.” He glanced at young Martin, who blushed. ‘Now, if I was one of them oldtimers,”’ resumed Jed, ‘‘whenever an_ insurance agent come around and got anxious about what would happen to my widder if I was to die sudden, I'd pull my artillery and notify him that it was his widder, not mine, that was goin’ to need help from the neigh- bors. I sure do hate them six-cylinder, high-speed talk artists!’ “It's funny, though,” said old Pete, the straw boss, “that pretty near everybody except ranch hands needs insurance, and nobody ever takes it until he’s been pes- tered half to death by a poor sport in a white collar that can show you how to save a million dollars in twenty years and has to keep on the jump to get away from his landlady. It's a curious thing.” *But,”’ said Jed, ‘‘they’d ought to pick their men. What's the use of showing me a column of loan values and such, when I ain't got a soul in the world to leave money to if I had it?” You could leave it to the Whisky Trust,” suggested Pete. ‘‘They’ll suffer terrible when you're took off.” ‘But that ain't really the point so much with me,"’ resumed Jed ‘It’s because I abe that insurance game all the way up. 1 got bit once ‘How did 1 cet bit >” T asked. “Whe at Jed, ic was this way. I was workin’ for Old Man Ballard and he'd ust made me foreman, so I was feelin’ kind of big an’ chesty, anyhow. One day a fat little feller dressed up to kill come along in a red automobile and asked forme. He was a sure sport — not cheap nor flashy, but the realarticle. One of the boys sent him down to the corral, an’ before I really knew it he had me sittin’ on the fence, looking at his papers **T don't want to take up your time,’ he says. ‘Just give me eleven minutes: ten to talk in and one to keep my face wiped. Your country is hot!’ It was hot, so I just laughed an’ let him go ahead. Well, sir, that chap had a gilt-edge proposition, for certain His company was a new one, located on the coast, and they wanted to insure everybody west of Pittsburgh. What they needed, this man tells me, was influence. So they had the hull territory mapped out in districts and in each district they was goin to appoint a representative—some feller that was prominent an’ well liked an’ could herd up the rest of the bunch to protect their families at so much per 1.

iam And in this district,” says the agent, ‘I am going to offer the representative's contract to you I have looked the ground over carefully and I believe you are the 1 we want. You know all the boys, and m our regular agent oo 1es down here allard’s foreman,

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and Also Sells Some ““T've just been telling you,’ he says. ‘You have one of these twenty-year policies for five thousand dollars. The first year you pay the regular premium on it —next year you get a big rebate —after five years you won't have to pay a cent pond you own the policy. Man,’ he says, ‘let me tell you something. In the world there's nothing like insurance—for making big money, I mean. Look at the Eastern companies—look at the millions they've made!’ he says. ‘Why,’ he says, ‘the day you get in with us is the day your grand- children are going to celebrate every year. I wish I could get one of these contracts,’ he says, ‘but I can’t. The company pays mea salary, and a peach of a salary it is they buy my influence for cash. But you listen to the knoc king on the door, man; it mi iy not come again! ‘He sure was a good talker. I begun to see myself, with the money all piled up in the banks, writin’ out checks whenever I needed a stack of blues. It felt pretty good, too. He give me a cigar, an’ I lit ‘er up and puffed a while, important-like, to enjoy bein’ a capitalist. Then I says: “Well, Mister, I'll tell you. I ought not to turn down a chancet like this, but I’m kind of hard up. Right now I ain't got the money, for a fact. You come around in about two months an’ I'll talk to you.’ “*Rats!’ he says. ‘Two months from now I may be dead! I never looked that far ahead in my life. We want you with us right now,’ he says, ‘and we're willing to help you all we can. You give me what cash you can spare and your note for the balance—ninety days, no interest. Is that fair?’ “Well, sir, I done it! He had me locoed with his talk about me being so all-fired prominent. Why, great snakes! It took pretty near all | earnt in a year to pay the premium, but I happened to have some cash comin’ in later an’ I figgered on the big rebates to help me out the next four years You see, for every thousand written in the hull state me an’ the other representatives was to divide one —_. He showed me how some of the big New York companies had growed, an’ it looked like, with any luck at all, I'd ought to make a pile of money out of it.”’ “Well,” I asked while Jed rolled a cigarette, ‘where does the bite come in? That looks good to me even now, provided his company was all right.’ “So it was,” said Jed. “Good enough for anybody that wanted insurance, but I didn’t want none. I was lookin’ for profits, an’ I didn’t have sense enough to see that this feller was makin’ a noise like a phony faro-box. I didn't even have sense enough to read the policy — just took his word for it that after five years my troubles would all be over an’ I could begin ordering automobiles. “The way I learnt about it was this: About a couple of weeks after I got my papers I happened to meet, in at Fritz’ bar, a man we called Snoddy. Snoddy was a poor, discouraged, lazy, shif'less, hard- drinking rancher. He owned a few acres, an’ a dozen cows or so, an’ a bunch of dirty children, an’ a overworked wife. Well, sir, he was standing up at the bar, boasting that he was.the representative of this insurance company. He was telling the boys about his good luck—how he was goin’ to be rich, all bee: use he was prom- inent an’ influential an’ had been picked ol at for a high-class job

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your little bunch of cows. Charge it up to education, Jed,’ he advises me, ‘and for- yet it ‘Did you do it I ked ‘Why, not exactly Jed inhaled a deep puff and ble it out slow W he Ll’? up against a brace me 1 most gene try to do a little fan ork myself. So I went up to see the feller ‘With a gun ‘No said Jed “That i T had a gu but I didn’t aim to use it. I just found out where he put up an’ then bumped up against him accidental-like he hote ODDS ‘Why, hello!’ I lo ‘ re ember 1e I'm eprese i é down Japatul w: sure he iVs, S t ! ‘Sure 1 remember you. But 1 meet many men in the course ot the says, ‘that your name | pped my mir tor the moment Let mm : ‘Jed Brooks,’ Isa Old Man Ba T ‘That's it! I had it ont tip ! ‘ Well Mr. B : he | had more to sell, but the represent are all selected I ppose re fe pretty rood abe

nderstand y« } ‘ ) ) id ¢ ome C lst l ‘ h much , tl net \ a ¢ i i nd cd il I ead i me ea ( me Say, you'd ought to ‘a’ seer I reckon nothing like tl ‘ ppene to him before he got purple e the of so aurn many thing \ AY alLat oncet In one jump he had me in a | eathe chair an’ he was straddlin’ a e one n’ his forefinger like it was loaded ‘ me hx out Man,’ he says didn't l me I had no idea you could carr tl I uct and I didn’t want to load vou ip “Why a Sa} ‘Il didn't think much about it at the time mys« t imm I pre tty good money now Nit mi\ Vat and a few head of cattle I I HO since then I've been wishir I'd made it ( Meetin’ you reminded me of it d ab made up my mind to take five the more in another compan) ‘Why another compan) 1 he vast quiet-like. I see he thought he had the thing in his hands all right ‘Oh,’ I says, ‘no use to put all your eggs in one basket; separate ‘em and make it harder for the storekeeper to tell wh brung in the rotten one Anyhow, | wouldn’t much care to have two in th Same company. It would look kind foolish.’ ‘Well. hes tarted right I n ve me regular —s ot talk I had to set there ha an hour, listenin’ an’ askir yuestior we wound ip right where we rted —} anxious to get me tot é inother nd de 4 me it 1 cer | didn’t want it ‘Well,’ I says, ‘I'd better be goir | hadn't decided to take it. anvh« and | aont want to do nothin to n Ke mpany sore, but it kind of looked goo t But I we ant ant another one with the same outfit, for sure. It’d lox too foolish.’ ‘; could see he wanted to choke me SATURDAY word, Jed, or EVENING POST

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talk real friendly to’em. Don’t get excited or nothin’.’ ‘Brooks,’ he says, ‘you get me out of this and I'll promise not to say a word about your tearing up the note. It’s illegal penitentiary, Brooks—but I'll give my word. Shall | make a run for the auto?’ ‘I wouldn't,’ I says. ‘They couldn't miss you at that distance. Anyhow, we haven't considered Snoddy’s case yet. It’s him the boys are riled up about—not me.’ ‘Oh, Lord!’ he says. ‘I'll send the money to you—they’'ll be here in a minute. What are you going to do?’ ‘Why, nothing,’ I says. ‘ But if you had happened to have Snoddy’s money with you and had been anxious to pay it back, mebbe I could've talked to ’em. It’s too bad!’ “He dug into all his pockets at once and handed me a roll of bills, a bunch of keys, some loose change and a box of cigarettes ‘Count it out,’ he says. ‘Quick! I’m too nervous. And take out the forty dol- lars you gave me, if there's enough. Hurry!’ ‘All right,’ I says, ‘I'll keep the forty, because you won't want to be carryin’ weight, anyhow. Now,’ I says, givin’ back his belongings takin’ my time. THE TROUBLE

THE SATURDAY EVENING POST and one twenty-dollar bill, chancet. Walk with me to the machine The boys won't start as long as I’m with you. When we get there jump in an’ let ‘er out for all she’ s worth. i she bucks stay with 'er an’ dig the spurs in the gas- tank,’ I says, ‘for most likely you nt to beat out some bullets.’ ‘Well, we walked slowly over to his car, an’ when we got close enough he gives a jump, turns his crank, an’ mile a minute, never lookin’ him at the turn an’ it looked like he never hit ground again. I never saw a airyplane, but I bet that’s what they look like.” “Did the boys shoot at him?’’ I asked “No,” said Jed. ‘They didn’t know who he was. I wouldn't ‘a’ told ‘em for all the money there is. They were just goin’ out to brand some calves, but, of course, they come in handy. No, I never told no one but Snoddy’s wife. I went over an’ give her the money an’ told her what to do with it, and she says: ‘You get to blazes out o’ here, Jed Brooks, an’ mind your own business!’ But she was cryin’ when she got through,” said Jed, ‘‘so I knew what she meant.” MAN Continued from Page 11 earnestly. ‘You can't make nothin’ by fightin’, cause you lose your point, anyway. And then, a majority of twenty to one ain't that a good proof that you're wrong ? “Now, Billy, you can’t get around that. That's your own argument,”’ cried Pringle, delighted. ‘‘ You've stuck to it right along that you Republicans was dead right be- cause you always get seve ‘n votes to our six. Nur vomica, you know.’ Uncle Pete rose with some haste. “Here's where I go. I never could talk politic 8 without gettin’ mad,” he said. ‘Billy, you're certainly making good. You're a square peg. All thesame, I wish,’ said Wes’ Pringle plaintively, as Uncle Pete crunched heavily through the gravel, “that I could hear my favorite tune now.” Billy stared at him. ‘‘ Does your mind hurt your head ?”’ he asked solicitously. o, no—I’m not joking. It would do me good if I could only hear him sing it.” ** Hear who sing what?” “Why, hear Jeff Bransford sing The Little Eohippus—right now. Jeff's got the knack of doing the wrong thing at the right time. Hark! What's that?” It was a firm footstep at the door, a serene voice low chanting: There was once a little animal No biager than a for And on ve toes he scampered —— Good Lord!” said Billy. ‘‘ It’s the man himself.”’ Questionable Bransford stepped through the half-open door, closed it and set his back to it ‘That's my cue! Who was it said eavesdroppers never heard good of them- selves y H« WAS smiling, his step was light, his tones were cheerful, ringing. His eyes had looked on evil and terrible things. In this desperate pass they wrinkled to pleas- ant, sunny warmth. He was unhurried, collected, confident. Billy found himself wondering how he had found this man loud, arbitrary, distasteful Welcome, question, answer; daybreak paled the ineffectual candle. The Mexican still slept “T crawled around the opposition camp like a snake in the grass,” said Jeff. There's two things I observed there that’s mightily in our favor. The first thing is, there’s no whisky goin’. And the reason for that is the second thing —and our one best big chance. Mister Burleson won't let ‘em. Fact! Pretty much the entire population of the Pecos and tributary streams had arrived. Them that I know are mostly bad actors, and the ones I don't know looked real horrid to me; but your Uncle Pete is the bell mare. ‘No ; liftin’ one finger; and yooze!’ he says, that settled it. I reckon that when Uncle Simon Peter says ‘Thumbs up!’ those digits’ll be elevated accordingly. If I can get him to see the gate the rest will only need a little gentle persuasion." “I see you persuading them now,” said Billy. ‘This is a plain case of the irresist- ible force and the immovable body.” “You will,” said Jeff confidently. ‘ You don't know what a jollier I am when I get down to it. Watch me! I'll show you a re gular triumph of mind over matter. i ‘They're coming now, announced Wes’ pi acidly. ‘‘Two by two, like the animals out o’ the ark. I'm glad of it. I never was good at waitin’. Mr. Bransford will now oblige with his monologue entitled *Givin'a bull the stop signal witha red flag.’ Ladies will kindly remove their hats.”’ It was a grim and silent cavalcade. Uncle Pete rode at the head. As they turned the corner Jeff walked briskly down the path, hopped lightly on the fence, seated himself on the gatepost and waved an amiable hand “Stop, look and listen!’ ful apparition. The procession stopped. A murmur, originating from the Bar W contingent, ran down the ranks. Uncle Pete reined up and demanded of him with marked dis- favor: ‘‘Who in merry hell are you?” Jeff's teeth flashed white under his brown mustache. ‘I’m Ali Baba,” he said, and paused expectantly. But the allusion was wasted on Uncle Pete. Seeing that no introduction was forthcoming, Jeff went on: “I've been laboring with my friends inside, and I've got a proposition to make. As I told Pringle just now, I don’t see any sense of us gettin’ killed, and killin’ a lot of you won't bring us alive again. We'd put up a pretty fight—a very pretty fight. But you'd lay us out sooner or later. So what's the use ?”’ “I'm mighty glad to see some one with a leetle old horse-sense,”’ said Uncle Pete. “Your friends is dead game sports all right, but they got mighty little judgment. If they ‘d only been a few of us 1 wouldn't ‘a’ blamed 'em a mite for not givin’ up. But we got too much odds of ’em.”’ “This conversation is taking an unex- pected turn,”’ said Jeff, making his eyes round. “I ain’t named giving up that I remember of. What I want to do is to rig up a compromise ‘If there's any halfway place between a hung Mexican and a live one,” said Uncle Pete, ‘‘mebbe we can. And if not, not. This ain’t no time for triflin’, young fellow.” “Oh, shucks! I can think of half < dozen compromises,” said Jeff blandly. “We might play seven-up and not count any turned-up jacks. But I was thinking of something different. I realize that you outnumber us, so I'll meet you a good deal more than half way. First, I want to show you something about my gun. Don’t any- ody shoot, ‘cause I ain't going to. Hope I may die if I do!” “You will if you do. that,”’ said Uncle Pete. ‘And maybe so, anyhow. 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Just to manifest my entire disapproval, if any one makes a move to go through that gate 1 ise my one shot--and it won't be on the man goin’ through the gate, either Ne ton vou, Uncle Pete. You're the leads So if you want to give the word, go it! I'm not goin’ to shoot you. Nor I ain't goin’ to shoot any of the Bar W push, They're free to start the ball rolling.’ Uncle Pete, thus deprived of the initia- tory power, looked helplessly around the Bar W_ push for confirmation They t — d in conce rt. “He'll do whatever he 3."’ said Clay ¢ Sooper. ‘Thanks,” said Jeff pleasantly, “ for this unsolicited testimonial. Now, boys, there’s 10 dare about this. Just cause and effect All of you are plumb safe to make a break but one. To show you that there's nothing personal about it, no dislike or anything like that, I'll tell you how I picked that one. I started at some place near both ends or the middle and counted backward or forward, sayin’ to myself, ‘Intra, mintra, cutra, corn, apple seed and brier thorn,’ and when I got to ‘thorn’ that man was stuck. That's all. Them’s the rules.” That part of Uncle Pete's face visible between beard and hat was purple through the brown. He glared at Jeff, opened his | mouth, shut it tightly, and breathed | heavily through his nose. He looked at his horse’s ears, he looked at the low sun, he looked at the distant hills; his gaze wan- dered disconsolately back to the twinkling, indomitable eyes of the man on the gate- post. Uncle Pete sighed deeply. “That’s good! I'll just about make the wagon by noon,” he remarked ge ntly. He took his quirt from his saddle-horn. ‘Young man,” he said gravely, flicking his horse's flank, “any time you're out of a job come over and see me.”’ He waved his hand, nodded, and was gone. ' | Clay Cooper spurred up and took his | place, his black eyes snapping. “I like a damned fool,’ he hissed; ‘‘but you suit me too well!” The forty followed; some pausing for quip or jest, some in frowning silence. But each, as he passed that bright, auda- cious figure, touched his hat in salute to a gallant foe. Squatty Robinson was the last. He rode close up and whispered confidentially: ‘*IT want you should do me a favor, Jeff. Just throw down on me and take my gun away. I don’t want to go back to camp with any ¢ such tale as this.’ “You see, B lly,” e aph ruined Jeff, “vou mustn't dare the denizens—never! They dare. They're uncultured; their lives ain’t noways valuable to society and they know it. If you notice, I took pains not to dare anybody. Quite otherhow. I merely stated annoyin’ consequences to some other fellow, attractive as I could, but impersonal. Just like I'd tell you: ‘Billy, 1 wouldn’t set the oil can on the fire it might boil over. ‘Now, if I’d said: ‘Uncle Pete, if any- body makes a break I'll shoot your eye out, anyhow,’ there’d ’a’ been only one dignified course open to him. Him and me would now be dear Alphonsing each other about payin’ the ferryman. “’Spose I’d made oration to shoot the first man through the gate. Every man Jack would have come ‘a-snuffin’’—each one tryin’ to be first. The way I put it up to ‘em, to be first wasn’t no graceful act playin’ safe at some one else’s expense and then they seen that some one else wouldn't be gettin’ an equitable vibration. That's all there was to it. If there wasn’t any first there couldn’t conveniently be any second, so they — home 3-r-r! I’m sleepy. 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28 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST November 20, 1909 Double-Disc F YOU own adisc talking-machine—ofanys thisone thing: Send 65 cents (stamps or mon« prepaid, safely packed, a Columbia Double} machine and make one definite and final decis Since we announced the first Double-Discs one year ago, Columb] Disc Records at 65 cents have almost entirely displaced all the single sid of all makes. We tell you here and now that the Columbia Double-D is a better money’s worth than you ever bought before, under an# any price —and we only want a chance to prove it. We are su that once you have made the test yourself, in your own hon own machine, our nearest dealer will have your reco right along. We are sure you will buy Columl Disc Records —not because they cost you ies they do) but because they please you be solo ln Itehen PROLOGUE FROM ae Ge -7.\ 5) 0) 0. \ 0 08 Oe LEONCAVALLO Sung by Tourino Parves A531 ad em ’ USTICANS onc The World’s | a een \ ° MASCAGNI! Greatest Tenor ; sag. ty Bomee Bert FS 5 . sings exclusively forthe Fonotipia Company of Milan—and the Columbia Phonograph Company is sole selling agent in America for all Fonotipia Grand Opera Double- I Jise Records. Cee mar will The Graphop Grafonola t ime de versatility and ** Grafonola Re table-surface ar measuring 28 x IJpera House; am, ¢€ most distinguished vocal artist America has ever produced; Van Rooy, supreme in Wagnerian roles; Gilibert, t! best Fre iritone f the present dav; Parvis, from Covent Garden and the Metr " ! lassare, favorite of La Scala audiences; Campanari, known to every opera-lover in Europe and America; Arimondi, Castellano, Didur, bd ’ Dani, Journct, Parsi-Pettnella, Berti, Blauvelt, Claparel, Destinn, Krnsceniski Columbia Phonograph Company, Gen’l, Dept. Le inn, Russ, Sembrich, Trentini, Vincent and many others, includis , Se greene asin ghittintan Dis) Dan ssiailiing: Cranial Opera Record Manufacturers of Grafonolas, Disc and Cylinder Gray »phones, Doul until you have seen this catalog. Seventy-six pages and supplement — sent free. Dealers everywhere Headquarters for Canada, 264 Y Dealers wanted. Exclusive selling rights g

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lor mbj ia Double- because they last twice as long as the other kind (although they do, and you can > Sid led records prove it) but because their tone ts better from the start Double-Discs, double > "use Record value, double wear, double everything except price any y name, at Go to the nearest dealer—and then don’t take “‘no’’ for an answer Cet es ire enough Columbia Double-Discs or go elsewhere. re, ON your At least send in for a Columbia Double-Disc Catalog and the name of the rd business nearest Columbia dealer. And when you have it, make a bee-line for his front ia Double- door and ask him to “‘show you.’’ We wouldn’t be paying $6000 in real money 3 (althouvh for this one announcement to you if there were the slightest chance that Columbia tter. Not Double-Disc Records would fail to make good on every claim we print

rafonola “i: Grafonola marks the culmination of human inventive genius in the ice of sound-reproduction. Here indeed is the one ideal and perfect ‘al instrument, long sought for and much desired —the evolution of s of costly experiment, and the crowning triumph of mechanical art

in the reproduction of musical sound. With the advent of the Grafonola th ie past and current traditions of the ‘‘talking-machine’’ industry become ( bsolete, and new ideas and ideals supervene to remove the last possible remaining atom of prejudice against the principle of the sound-reproducing instrument, as exemplified in this perfect type. The Grafonola “Elite” is the first hornless machine ever offered at it price, $100; the smallest perfect cabinet machine eve troduced — the beginnit f a new era in sound-reprod ng instrument When is considered the volume of tone the instrument gives forth it must be universally acknowledved that the Grafonola ‘* Flite’’ we h perfect and perfectly unique The 1 ed fron the record through the reproducer and aluminum tone-arm downward into an acoustically perfect sound-chamber, there amplified and reinf {to a very high degree and projected through a of elliptical openings in the door at the front of the instrument. By sliding the modu . lator-panel controlling these openings, the volume of sound may be reduced or aug Sali, jade a =: mented at will If a maximum volume of tone be desired the entire door may be let “eal “4 . . downward. The cover is usually closed when the instrument is playing and every de: The Columbia vestige of friction-sound from the needle on the surface of the record is eliminated c f | Phe instrument is built of the finest selected, genuine San Domingo mahogany, hand “De Luxe” rubbed and piano-polished. The cabinet measures 20 inches across the base and is 1 Price $200 inches high. We have a special advance descriptive catalog ready to send you, (with Optional Regina attachment $225) 5 j j The Grafonola “De Luxe” embodies entirely unique principles of nd-reproductiot The added $25 in the $225 instrument secures you a Regina equipment, incl iding twelve Regina tune dises, that in a smaller casing 1s being placed in thousands of drawing-rooms at 3100 The instrument stands about four feet high, and is as fine an example of genuine mahogany cabinet work as you have ever seer The volume of sound is controlled by the sliding door n front of the sound chamber Space for records is amply provided t1 t. .e lower portion of the cabinet by a series of indexed albums sage ' ‘ «< ce nveniently placed and easily accessible. There are ** cor ce: led horn’’ talking-machines of this general form on the mar Ket already, but if you will make just one comparison you a wn a Grafonola. Let us send you a fully ilustrated catalog. e rafonola “Regent” is not merely a ‘‘concealed hom”’ hoy hone but a completely concealed Graphophone. The nola **Regent’” is a complete table for everyday use in exactly : e de gree as it is a complete musical instrument of unexampled and matchless tonal qualities. The musical equipment of the : a Re gent’ being entirely concealed, the instrument presents as it i ear expanse of strongly marked, dull-rubbed mahogany, the top ’ 8x #5 inches. By the opening or closing of the small doors over ; the end of the table, the volume of tone pouring from the sound j ay q@ ve rey ilated at will. Space for 180 twelve inch Columbia j icc R ecords is provided. Write for illustrated catalog ; : t. MP, Tribune Building, New York Youl vle-Dise and Indestructible Cylinder Records. A ¥: mge Street, Toronto, Ontario. iven where we are not properly represented.

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30 A Double Layer S ugar Wafer 1 ‘Sunshine’? Clover Leaves you t a litthe more to each wafer thar the common sorts. Yet you pay s little as tor any other, The extra thickness of ‘Sun hine ( er Leaves is due to the Cris} tak double layers Be tween the layers 1s an exquisite cream it and enticing. | Dar vafer 1 i Sweetmeat in ch. O i tt 1 extra oO \ I el oO back to the old kind again iit Clover Leaves are r Sunshine ”’ bakeries t t cerics in the world, Phey t leal tor luncheons or il functions. ‘They are r vrocer’s, daintily packed new l0c tins-—-also in 15¢ tins. I Vv al all ready to se rve, and they keep indetinitely SUNSHINE After y re **Sunshine”’ Clover Lea ve want you to try ll th Sunshine ’’ daintse } (ow 9 » r | Dpillopeaa re In the form «fa nut— | ni nd t n | | | PERFETTO tj | kd a Joose-WILES BISCUIT CO. | Kansas City St. Louis Boston Omaha Minneapolis THE SATURDAY EVENING POST OUT-OF- DOORS | The Highways of the Air F IT were not for the migrations of our furred or feathered game we should not have much sport in America today. | The great per cent of our wild fowl and many other birds, for instance, would be massed in certain definite and well-known where their slaughter would be only a matter of detail. It is very well for the gentlemen who believe that Nature is going to take care of things somehow that | Nature does take care of them in her own way, and so prevents the intentions of the men who would kill the last game-bird for fifty cents, or the last game-animal for the ‘aie of half an hour’s sport. In a loose way it is often supposed that only our wild fowl migrate. As a matter of fact, however, almost all of the birds of the North are migrants, as well as many of regions the South. Quail migrate irregularly, and grouse migrate mysteriously, but the two seasons of heat and cold in our upper latitudes cause a general shifting of our birds twice a year. Robins, blackbirds, bluebirds, jays, thrushes, practically all the sony-birds, as well as the more sought- for occupants of our woods and marshes, move north in the spring and south in the fall. Generally speaking, we suppose that the seasons of warmth and cold make the only reasons for these migrations, but, as a matter of fact, a great many species could spend the entire year in the northern latitudes if they cared to do so. In parts of the North some of these do winter, while in others they migrate. If good shelter and food offer, robins, bluejays, even bluebirds pass the winter in the Middle States, although they shift their habitat slightly in the spring and fall. Of course, if food faiis the migration occurs at any time of the year. The wild duck does not find its food easily when the lakes and marshes are frozen, although the hardy mallard will hang about the last open water sometimes until midwinter. These ducks and others frequently pass the whole win- ter as far north as upper Missouri and Arkansas, only going below those latitudes under stress of heavy weather. Many others of the same species, none the less, go as far south as the Gulf and winter in Mexico, Central America or even South America. In these latter countries they are less persecuted in the winter than in the Lnited States, where, indeed, they have no rest at all in any season of the year How Birds Helped Columbus The for xd tion alone These these question or the climate ques- does not determine migration. migrations are customs, but back of customs are what you may call a habit, and that habit dates far back beyond the memory of man. We make toothpicks of the splint bone on a deer’s foreleg, but few of us reflect that a foot once grew there We cannot remember the time when the horse had several toes instead of one for each leg. Neither, for that matter, remember the time when the Gulf of Mexico stretched north practically to the foot of Hudson Bay. Yet such was once the When the division, which was made by a mid-continental upheaval, came | can we case there were some species which had their origin in the North and others which had their origin in the South. Their original short food-migrations became strengthened and lengthened into the great transcon- tinental flights which represent, according to some s an ancient instinct for rentvists, ; going back home. This habit has been kept | up long after the original necessity for it has passed away, but in view of modern condi- | tions it isa good thing that it has remained. | Also, the ports man can thank his stars for the same reason, counting as he does upon seeing the birds pass almost any part of } twice a year ‘h wular thing about these migra- tions is that they apparently cling to certain lines, as though the birds had cer- tain highways of their own up in the air. Any plove hooter will tell you that so nere were an‘ plover they always appear in the springtime along certain high on either side of which ndge Ss, they were not apt to be seen, except in their feeding flights, after they were located in the country. Wild pigeons also had such definite highways, and there are other species which, even in these days when civilization has wholly changed the appearance of the land, keep to the lines that they have followed from prehistoric days. Take the case of the golden plover, which once moved in millions across the United States. It breeds in Labrador and the sub-Arctie countries, but passes its winters in South America. Curious and interesting enough is the habit of this bird, which, twice a year, travels more than a third the circumference of the globe, passing country where it well might better itself, but im- pelled northward and southward by some Colles t stronger than breeding and feeding, stronger indeed than dislike for warmth or cold. The southern line of flight of a good part of the golden plover, or “‘frost-bird,”’ as it is known in the East, runs east of the Atlantic States. Literally it passes over the high places of the sunken or showing, which lie east of our lower coast. Observers show us that there used to be land heve; and they further point out that had it not been for this north and south Atlantic flight of migratory birds Colum- bus might never have discovered America Vave KeYS, or any of the islands east of it. Passing westward by water he intersected this highway of our earliest aviators, and so figured out that land could not be far away. But, according to scientists who have gone into the matter, these birds were only following the places where land used to be until the sea engulfed it. One of these scientists points out that there are two lines of flight, one running east of the Gulf and one west of the Gulf; and he even shows that some species, like the bobolink, which ranges west across the continent, go south to the eastward of the Gulf. The bobolink did this, no doubt, long before the rice fields of Georgia and Alabama were planted. The Route of the Golden Plover Our birds do not migrate now in the large numbers they once did, but even in the ‘ta much of the flight was not noted vecause the birds traveled at night. Very interesting indeed it is to hear them in the night, calling, whistling or honking, as they travel all unseen. Sometimes, unerring as is their instinct. they go astray, though this is mosc often when they are confused by the evidences of civilization. Once, on a foggy night, in a Mississippi Valley town, some twenty years ago, there was a great flight of golden plover which, for four or five hours, passed above the town. In some way the lights seemed to confuse them, and although, without any doubt, the flight was an enormous one, some birds seemed to circle and hesitate. The air was full of their calls, and so curious was the phenomenon that all the inhabit- ants were out on the streets, and the next day the papers made much comment. This was in the spring migration. Such an experience, curious as it was, is not apt again to come to one in those parts today. You may, on some moonlight night, hear the honk of the wild goose passing over the unseen trails, or perhaps, if very fortunate, on a brilliant moonlit night may see some dark shadows passing high up in the air against the moon. The journeys of the plovers, the snipes and woodcock,’ the coots and lesser ducks and many of our song-birds, take place at night, but we are most apt to become aware of the great migrations by seeing in the daytime pass- ing flocks of geese or ducks bound one way or the other. One of the cheeriest sounds the Western farmer ever heard was the honking of the wild geese going north. The spring migration is more apt to be noisy and demonstrative than that of the fall. In the mating season, when the plumage of the birds is most brilliant, they are most vociferous and, for that reason, perhaps, most easily captured, although the spring duck or goose, to use a paradox, is der than those that going south in the fall and should be warier. In the fall the birds are more methodical and more sober, and the plumage of the new young is not yet so brilliant. Even in the city parks you may, fall, notice the numbers of robin birds or blackbirds ~ you see in the blue- not so many bluebirds 20,1909 November Speaking of Clever Xmas Gifts! | The Wonderful, New VACUMIRROR The Mirror that is always where the light is best! The useful toilet article in- years. People who nary mir rr don’t really know whattheir face looks like. | this mirror most vented for many ws wit ‘ 1 | Line clearness | and minute- ness of the full light of out-of use ff doors, Its lation a reve a delight. 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as formerly, for that specic v becor ing scarce. It is the sport ho goes abroad in autumn, however, say in ear October in the mid-latitude vho | the best chance to see the migrations of the birds. Sometimes the crows begin to band ip then and the blackbirds are ery I ind Dusy getting tog r their rT In me strange Wavy the woods have become full of robins more ] . flitting ‘ +}

e spring. Perhaps three-quarters of the birds you see have come from mie point farther nortl They 1 proceed eisurel f the weather be pleasar but

ld snap approach the covers are bare and on the nex ya and deserted he birds have gone south in the night time; just when, no one knew Behind them a few stragglers may linger, perhaps some cripples abandoned on the mars perhaps some foolish individuals, for b some | let a cc day ll he times make mistakes, as early robins and bluebirds do in the spring when they get caught in the snow. But the bulk of 1e feathered life will between two days mysteriously have vanished What line did they take? We should have to go back far into geology to answer that question We only know that in a general way the seacoast and the great interior river valle) as they exist in this geological age, are natural highways for them

Good Shooting in the Rockies We speak of the migratory line of wild fowl as moving farther to the west, but Is quite likely that this line existed in the remoter regions even before we knew about it. The old skin hunters found ducks in every water hole of the great plains The Mountains may seem, offer some of the best duck-shooting in the country. One or western Kansas, the old McPher ! and the Flats, both once famous ranges, in lat } famous wild-fowl marshes At Greatbend, Kansas, ir the Chey Flats, a minister of the Gospel, disgusted at the lukewarm financial Rocky strange as that , wet flats ir two Cheyenne buffalo “ became

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A duck can fly a thousand mile ida i necessar ind our spring ducks are lear and Ut! not beca e the ) ! on the wir but because they | too long to poo food petor the irted Most of stop to take n gasoline 1 me to time here the find good marshes wl he no } ‘ known to be full of food rhe tart ! the northbound flight is not fror i to fly, but from inabil » feed. Th the line of the ! na t pass north ors h in the da me il a-lowier ¢ Ww oO fas Marked the travelers coming dow: long spir ne upper air to examin n } tie ilso travel at ! and the 00 i n ther seem to travel ex IslVe nig rr at least are not seen p ny i the d ime To wat th low ind cium bird flapping ilong in the ende to take wing ahead of your boa ou W not think it could fl far or ist vet it eems to get ip into he urand ve soutt n t fall with a longer and more dete n i flight than almost any other sort of W oodcor t night, not usual] birds that have fre ; ‘rs .or marsh lands will lessen in number, little by lit

| at las 10t find one lef ‘hey do not band up, iike the blackbirds begin to go north from the Gul coast by the middle of February, or earlier The first flights reach the region north of the Ohio River by the middle of February, though the heaviest flights are in Marct The state of weather ahead and behind the flight determines its rate of progress either in spring or fall The fact that land or water game has a definite line of travel, whether on the earth or in the familiar to most sportsmen, who know that the deer of a forest will have local runways cut deep in the soil through immemorial time, as well as known migration-trails, whether they are

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the gunner will near alwa nd the geese going out fr the salt te lland offered \ , | } one ‘ } mn t i ilw care i led her he hid i For your ows tion tip the ct look under the sea r ty tal o> a & The Flight of Crows and Gees« > ~~ This Trade-Mark st , ; (7T ‘ ? > FREE BOOKLET of Turkish Rocker Tall *) to and fror i idhere to one r y} n their belie , . You ild find it difficult t : be . | 4 , : ° ’ ) i » 1 na } ’ . : T , ’ 4 . | . Ps One ther nt ! $ ‘ . ' n Tex } da s ‘ } ‘ i from M 8 : 4 ‘ and marsl nd r : : . Ant n the ever ‘ ’ ’ } } mY nterine é FeSUesaccceucessesncuccesnceuceceucseseeeesseusl DO re rt tothe tul ‘ ‘ ‘ | ot sang bert nile in le a coy °ane * Shavin ee iat Rachcarcnetent Williams ‘ farther than the eye car Stick black legion of flvine bird ill f Nickeled Bex —Hinged Top <4 q one restr ted pa ( ‘

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Overdoing a Good Thing ty FREDERIC THOMPSON HE stage is the land of make-believe, and in it nothing is so unreal as the things that are real. A year ago I produced a play in which there were and are two unusual scenes, one laid in the wireless-room of an ocean liner, the other in the furnace-room of a steel plant. Each furnished excellent and exceptional oppor- tunities for the practice of a wide variety of the tricks of stagecraft. One of the dramatic moments in the forging scene came with the lifting from the furnace of a twelve-inch marine gun of the sort used on our battleships. For five years I had had this stage representation in mind. My boyhood had been spent in a stee center where my father was engaged in the business of moulding and forging heavy contrivances out of molten iron and ste¢ so I was perfectly familiar with the looks and the details of a great rolling-mill. My eye for color and pictorial effect is, I take it, as good as any one’s—at any rate, it has made me a comfortable living for a con- siderable number of years —but to make sure that the scenic investiture of this par- ticular part of the play was absolutely correct, several months before the date of production I took a number of my assistants to the great steel works in the outskirts of Philadelphia, there to make drawings, photographs and notes of a real blast furnace in the act of turning out the very thing I was about to picture. Besides a photographer, there were my general stage director, my chief scenic artist, my head property man and my master car- penter. Upon our return we set to work building the ‘* set,”’ of October produced and about the middle the play. Unappreciated Realism Certain details of the criticisms next day surprised me, and I was even more dum- founded, two weeks later, after the metro- politan opening, to find much the same extraordinary remarks in the New York review The tenor of the criticisms was enthusiastic praise, but the majority of reviews called attention to the fact ‘that the big, molten gun when it emerged from the furnace was white when it sho os have been red! It did not occur to the ise men that steel is not malleable at [ wrote a “etic gre edit r out to him the advisability of r himself with the fundamental of the steel industry before he attempted further criticism of them. But it had no effect. I stood in the lobby for several evenings after the opening, and as the playgoers roamed and out during the intermi on I overheard conversations which convinced me that the public be- lieved steel, when about to be taken from the furnace, to be red instead of white with a slight opale scent tint ‘*What's the use?”’ said I to myst a they mistake a blast furna ‘e for a black- shop 1 may as well cater to their belie f. a ll let the colleges educate the rlow, am

So I changed the gun-glow from white to red, thus reducing its apparent temperature of thousand degrees, and there was never another criticism of the effect. To the public, the real seemed unreal, so I gave them the unreal and they applauded it as rea ver since I built my theater in New York I have given a great deal of time and study to oy" lighting, with the aim of perfecting the production of natural fect "‘bediee to every one a co iple etlects which are who can see or ever has seen. A great many of the results of this experimenting iré now in use on most of the up-to-date tages of this country and of Europe. To explain the why and wherefore of many of them would be to indulge in a technical sion Which would be not only unin- ng to the ave age reader, but also out of keeping with the purpose of this artick the thesis of which is expressed in the ntence. One successful attempt reality however, furnish an interesting case in point. Play seen Polly of the Circus will re- member that the second act takes place in the back yard of John Douglas’ parsonage

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vyoers Under foot there is the lawn; scattered about are trees and shrubs; to the right and rear one gets glimpses of the parsonage roof, a veranda and the village church, and overhead is the leafy foliage always abun- dant in a country town. The action of this scene lasts some thirty minutes, and th ye a bright summer sun is shining overhead, casting flecked shadows on the roofs, the love n and the people who move on and off as their presence is required to carry on the drama. Now every one knows that, with the movement of the universal spheres, shadows change, and it was my idea to increase by a slow and almost im- perceptible movement of light and shade not only the realistic effect of my scene, but also its apparent duration. The experiments were successful, the play was produced, the scene was ex- quisitely natural. I was as happy as a small boy with a new, red wagon, when I noticed that throughout the act in the parsonage yard people were constantly nudging one another and calling whispered attention to the fact that the shadows were moving, that the leaves of the maples overhead were softly rustling in the faint breeze, that the very scenery seemed alive with the dreamy, hazy life of a hot, mid- summer country-town Aon My effect was too real; it was attracting attention to the scenery when every eye and every mind should have been riveted on the play. So I cut out one of the best light effects I have ever devised, and now when you watch ‘olly of the Circus you find a stationary sun, casting through the leaf-laden trees precisely the same shadows at the end of the act as it cast when the curtain rose A somewhat similar incident, so far as the audience was concerned, oe irred several years ago while Madame zimova and Paul Orleneff were giving a series of benefit performances in Russian at the Criterion Theater in New York. The first play was Ibsen’s Ghosts, and in it Orleneff impersonated Oswald, while Madame Nazimova—or, as she then called herself, Nazimoff — played the calculating servant- girl, Regina. In the dining-room scene, when the young son of the house falls to opening bottle after bottle of champagne, the usual procedure of usual ac tors is to resort to the usual stage subterfuge of opening pop or some other charged water, with or without the uncorking assistance of a property man in the wings. He was laying -and playing tremendously well fore a house packed with the cream of New York society at five dollars a seat, and he was not going to appear in the light of a tank actor. So he opened three pin ts of an almost extinct vintage of extra-fine juice of the grape, and for five minutes every- body in the audience was saying to his or her neighbor: ‘*Did you see that! champagne In a restaurant he would have attracted attention if he had been uncorking any substitute, but on the stage he was open- ing the re: al thing, and was all but spoiling one of the best acts of a great play because he was not fooling his audience! he’s drinking real The Episode of Sarsaparilla Soup This reminds me of a funny incident that happened in a New York manufacturing town some years ago. \ play called The Official Marriage was the attraction, and in it there occurred a scene that re presente dthe border line between Germany and Russia. There was a split stage, one-half of which Was set as a room on the Kaiser's domain, while the other, not dissimilarly arranged, belonged to the Little White Father. In each room there was a small café table on which, at a psychological moment, a plate of consommé was to be de posite d. On the night previous, the property man who petge eled with the company had succumbed fumes of a quantity of che: » liquor, added to the late arrival of the show in town, well-nigh diated the players, the manager and the man who ran the box-office. Now, in place of consommé or any other soup of similar looks, it is the custom to use on the stage a mixture of brown sugar to the pate h fact, stage

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led me to issue an order recently may have been bad As only one side of juestion was ever demonstrated it is impossible to determine which might have been the better, but I am still of the opin- ion that my decision was right. While A Fool There Was was being rehearsed one f assistants was approac hed DY i florist, who offered to daily American Jeauty roses provided the messenger who carried them aboard ship—in the }

t f basket. of second scene, first act of the play—wore the uni- form of his establishment with the name on his cap, and that a line of acknowledg ment appeared in the theater program. I refused to acce pt this offer because of my experience with the sunlight eff effect: in Polly, and because of what I had noticed at the Orleneff-Nazimova performance of Ghosts. 1 thought and still think that the genuineness of the blossoms would have attracted attention at a moment when sh principal a ild have been riveted on the | an effect that was not brought the substitution of the wonderful artificial flowers which are now ily procured every eye tors, about by SO eas Real Roses Unreal Those who have seen this play will re adily recall that Miss Kaelred, as The Woman, videncing her light and care- free temperament by blowing the petals of red roses in the and finally over the inert body of her victim. When the is constantly « lace piece was first acted real roses were used; in fact, for the initial performance at Albany, on March 18, 1909, a messen- ger rushed from New York on a fast limited express with a great bundle of American Beauties, because none could be procured in the Empire State capital. He arrived in time for the performance, just ust and as he had to purchase a through ticket to Chicago at a cost of thirty dol lars, the total expense of Miss Kaelred's fiower-throwing was a little more than one hundred dollars. But for some reason or othe would not work; the could not blow them with any but a soggy effect, and by the time we arrived in Ne York. three days later, artificial flowers had been sub- r real pe tals actress stituted with excellent result The real seemed unreal. T | did not And now I wis e an incider

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In Brewster's Millions I had had experience with make- believe seafaring men and, because the maritime scene in Via Wireless required little or no acting ability on the part of any one except the operator, I decided that I could heighten the realistic effect of the act by introducing real sailors who would move about the rocking, reeling vessel in the way sailors might be expected to move, rather than in the landlubberly fashion of the average twenty-dollar-a-week actor whose knowledge of the sea is gained from an occasional trip on a Staten Island ferry- boat. At the time Via Wireless was pro- duced I had lying at anchor in New York harbor a big steam yacht, and when I decided on the use of marine reality in this scene | moved the captain and most of the crew of the yacht to the theater where rehearsals were bei ing held. The rehearsals done, we opened the piece for one week out of town, laid off a week because there was no suitable theater open, and came to New York the following Monday. On Tuesday morning two of the best-equipped reviewers of plays of which our national metropolis can boast devoted ink, type and much white paper to calling attention to what they thought was the principal defect of the play, ey, the amate — unse% imanlike conduct of the men I had selected to impersonate sailors. “Sailors never acted like that,” said on “They never looked like that,” re marked another ‘Where did he find them?” wrote a third “Truly the art of Booth and Irving is lost along with the secret of building bendable glass.”’ And yet these were real sailors acting in the most realistic sailor fashion imaginable or rather, not acting atall. The answer? It is simply this: They were completely ‘‘out of the picture,”’ to use an expressive phrase which may or may not be slang The rest of the players in Via Wireless were not real; they were impersonating various types; and despite their unreality were giving a veracious and accurate impression. The sailors, being real, appeared by con- trast unreal. A more striking example of the topsyturvyness of the stage can scarcely be conceived, nor one which de- monstrates more conclusively my conten- tion that the theater is the land of make- believe. Of course, it was the easiest thing in the world to substitute a clump of small- salaried actors who did not jar. The play ailed triumphantly along after that. Distractions to be Avoided The reason, nine times out of ten, why realism on the stage hampers the success of a performance is that, appearing as a small i of truth in an ocean of falsity, it Apne ie . 1 +] ntion Dy 1 realit Vv and there- tracts from the impression of the Anything that drags the auditor's mind away from the play and the playing ind makes hi im cogitate It should be cut out immediately upon a" play aS a hole is wrong e! In one of my productions a lead- r had a speech in which he multi- plice » not the product ol h mult rreat deal od h I ! tion of the er It so ! the mathe Y ir t 1 five or six f res, i nt arsal | eee the r ve him a sum total which was near enough and in round numbers. No one ever questioned the correctness of the ! because no one ever stopped to t the problem. If the correct re- } I “sp 1 the whole audience ould ft wi ed il it : corre nd the action of th play er iW r at al pe t dT e Deer rre d until th had react a cde or ] a ge deal ¢ t nee an i tna h y meé 4 op- posed to the h is right than it to make hem eheve that a great AC points are not false. In the y: ene of Brewster's Millions the vessel lifts hor and gets under way with the main ail set-——the Flitter, you will remember, 18 a steam yacht. Such a thing simply wouldn't be done, and yet it was passed over unnoticed because the audience was too much interested in the to pay attention to mgging and sails. If She main- sail had been lowered at the natural time THE SATURDAY EVENING POST the scene would have been spoiled to a considerable extent. The business of making the unreal seem real, of fooling the public eye, of creating imitations that appear more perfect than the actual, is the most expensive, the most difficult and the most highly-developed part of play-building. Only a few years ago one gasman handled all the lighting of a stage. At every performance of one of my plays I use fourteen electricians con- stantly, from the rise of the curtain until the end of the play. Water effects used to be created by means of a painted ground eloth under which perspiring stage-hands rose and stooped in an awkward attempt to simulate waves. Now, strips of scenery of various heights are placed across the stage and streams of light from a dozen stereopticons are thrown on them, while other electrical machines project moving clouds onac ye lorama in the rea Not so many years ago the sound of th salen was produced by rolling a cannon-ball across the rough parts of the stage. Now ex- pensive and complicated machines create simultaneously the effect of thunder, wind, rain and lightning, with results that are startlingly realistic Realistic Shadows [ have spoken of the moving shadows in one of the scenes of Polly of the Circus. As an example of the care with which stage illusions are built, let me tell you some more about this effect. The old way and the easy way was to send the light down through the hanging scenery; but to bring about a more exact copy of Nature I re- sorted to a new trick. I had photographs made from the ground looking up through the leaves and branches of m: ip ple trees, and these photogr: iphs, transferred to eicht stereopticons on the floor of the stage and backed by electric lamps, controlled by clockwork, were projected on the hanging scenery from the side instead of fromabove, with the result that the audience watched an exact reproduction of Nature— moving leaves, shifting shadows and all the other gradual light changes of a sunny, summer alternoon The average play goer, watching a scene played in a room apparently illumined by sunlight from without, supposes that the light comes through the windows through which the unreal sun is shining. It doesn’t. These windows are necessarily facing the audience and in the rear of the actors. Light thrown through them would not only cast shadows of the players in the direction of the footlights, but would leave their faces in the dz irk The real would be too unreal. The trick is simple and per- fectly effective Sunlight is sent at an angle against the ivy, the curtains and the sashes of the w die vs, illuminating them with a warm glow, but stopping at that Lamps in the wings between the actors and the audience throw shifts of light across and through this make-believe sunshine, re- vealing the features of the pavers, and fostering the impression that all the light comes from the direction of the sun. The result in this case isa perfect illusion. The audience see and accept as true a thing that does not exist. They see sunshine coming toward them when it is headed in the op- posite direction. 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THE SATURDAY THE WALKING DELEGATE Concluded from Page 15 “Might you wouldn't have to pay him Goldman suggested What d'ye mean Abe cried \light if you would take it the loft he | call off the strike,” said Goldman. Phat o, Mawruss,’’ Abe murmured, th h this phase of the matter had just | to him for the first time Maybe Goldman is right, Abe,’’ Morris od ‘Maybe if we took it the loft tkin would call off the strike.” After all, Mawruss,”’ Abe said, “the t ain’t a bad loft, Mawruss. If it wasn’t ich a good loft, Mawruss, I would say it o, Mawruss, we shouldn’t take the loft; it the loft a first-class A Number One hing, maybe S'enough, Abe,’”’ Morris replied. ‘ You n't have to tell it me a hundred times eady | ain’t disputing it's a good loft; » if Slotkin calls off the strike we take ft \t this juncture the store door opened i Slotkin himself entered ‘Good afternoon, gents,”’ he said. Morris and Abe greeted him with a wl ‘‘T suppose you come for an answer it that loft, huh?’’ Morris snorted. slotkin stared at Abe indignantly Excuse me, Mr. Perlmutter,” he said I; t here as broker I'll see you later bout that already I come here now as rking delegate “Sure, | know,’ Abe replied. ‘* When call it a strike on us this morning, that rot nothir ytodow th our tal ny the Wel th Slotkin; so go ahead ai th ‘ It 1 me! differ vhether ry or don't | it Nir tash Slotkin wer n “All 1 got to that you signed it an agreement with t rriedd it iid Abe, “and t pt it, too Wi par m aiwa unior rices and we keep it union hours.” Prices and hours is all right Slotkin but in the agreement stand i n proper pla ) Wel Mor ed ‘ir L prope h to th ho I I 1 il ! a ] t arend ! if hop wl re our operators \ n j j Wi oO ! t ri r nside ol Rn (:01dar ] it fror } ( de m tt ¢ idy ind vart o «ce wate t 1 to call o ’ is Ke ILKIT What the matter with tl work- \ it b \\ } rhood t } eX] re lt 4 narrow ‘ It ! tree N\ ‘ th St He paused to note the effect and Morris t nvoluntar siot Lt need \ l I cha loft \} ut 1 will call it off the strike.” he ired It would be my duty as va r delevate I moost call it off the strike \ right her Abe iid call off We made up our minds } , i V4 1 loft iwreen il or and } p | ten U Slotkir ected Dn jualitV ol Walking dele I \ near \ bee pied WI then, that loft what I called to th mort xactiv what nu Would need it!" kin exclaimed, in the hearty tones of a tious man, glad that for once the rmance of his official duty redounded in-handed personal profit. Sure Abe grunted Chen, as broker, | tell it you that the ises Is ready down at Henry D. Feld man's office,"’ Slotkin replied, “and as soon they are signed the strike is off."’ \ te EEK later the Fashion Store’s order Ps was finished, packed and shipped; and on the same day that Goldman, the fore man, dismissed the hands he went down to Henry D. Feldman's office. There he signed an agreement with Potash & Perl- mutter to make up all their cloaks and garments in the contracting shop which he proposed te open the first of the following month “Where are you going to have it your shop, Goldman?" Morris asked, after they had returned from Feldman’s. ‘That I couldn’t tell it you just yet,” Goldman replied. ‘‘ We ain't quite decided yet “Wel” Abe cried excitedly. we?” “ Well, I expect to get it a partner with a couple of hundred dollars,”” Goldman said; ‘‘but, anyhow, Mr. Potash, I get some cards printed next week and I send you one.”’ “All right,”’ Abe replied. ‘‘ Only let me give it you a piece of advice, Goldman: If you get ita partner, don’t make no mistake and have some feller what wants to run you and the business and everybody else, Goldman.” The thrust went home and Morris stared fiercely at his partner. ““And you should see it also that his wife ain't got no relations, Goldman,” he added, ‘‘ otherwise he'll want you to share the profits of the business with them. Goldman nodded “Oh, 1 got a good,smart feller picked out, and his wife’s relations will be all right too,” he said, as he started to leave. ‘* But anvhow, Mr. Perlmutter, I let you know next week.” About ten days afterward, while Morris and Abe were in the throes of packing prior to the removal of their business, the letter-carrier entered with a batch of mail and Morris immediately took it into the samp! «room Here, Abe he said, as he glanced at the first envelope this is for you Then he pro eeded to go through the remainder of the pile ‘Holy smokes!" he cried, as he opened the next envelope “What's the matter?”’ Abe asked “Ts it a lallure He had read his own letter and held it between tre mbling fingers as he inquired **Look at this,”’” Morris said, handing him a card It was a fragment che “ap pasteboard and bore the following legend: “Who's Abe read the card and handed it back in * Well, Abe,”’ Morris cried, ‘‘that’s a 1eSS We not only vot to take it the loft what Slotkin picks out for us, but we also got to give Slotkin our work also Abe shrugged h houlders in an indif- ferent manner ‘You always got to run things your way, Mawruss he said wal | you tet me do it my way, Mawruss, we wouldn't of had no trike nor trouble nor nothing, and it would of been the same in the end What d'yve mean Morris exclaimed “Look at this here,’’ Abe replied, hand- r him the letter. It was printed in seript on heavily-coated paper and read as ollo M ik‘) \\ iv ” REQUEST THE HONOR OF YouR Co AT THE MARRIAGE OF THEIR SISTER MISS MIRIAM SMOLINSKI TT SAM SLOTKIN On Suenpay Oct 3 1400 at 7 P M SHARP New Rica Hau | ALLEN STREET BRIDE'S RESIDENCE CARE OF ROTHMAN’S CorseT STORE Vanrson Ave EVENING POST Ne bain »vember 20,1909 * There’s a Sincerity every sort of climate. Your dealer has chosen fabricsheavy enough for any local weather— thick, 47 cloths, which good tailoring has rendered shapely at lapel and collar and shoulder, without burden- ing the garment with 4u/k and padding. Your undercoat : can’ tshow above a Sincerity great coat. It won't work away later on, because it has been ‘‘felled’’ by hand, keep pre- cisely as you find it the day you Avy it. Look for the Sincer- ity label. ‘The label is our stoned rr sponst- Ability. You see, we know how Aonest/y Wwe make our gvoodss 1 book chout young men's he Aions (and other men's) 4 voars for the asking MAKERS CHICAGO Kuh. Nathan 6 Vischer Co. + otetbneedhs overcoat for « ie “as Fo Sts ee . a ' | RUBBERSET Construction | defies destruction—there can be no other like it. | } We have patents that guarantee this i ere leeply into a e ts ever to part ~ RUBBERSET Shaving Brushes Price range—25c. upwards to Tr BERSET SHAVING CRE AM — ‘ nfte e bear nd soothes the RUBBERSET sShav Crew ure eat RUBBERSET COMPANY, fatcratories, Study the a FACTS” $6.00 Quicken i BERSET Sh Br Drussis ts Hard ware and General Mor Newark, N. J n Pictures, Talking Ma an r ‘ Provan go My: Pid d st t tures, ir ban colors, from vie sold ata price any onecan afford. We have one of the practical ma for entert ng. Sendt ay for our illustrated catalogue No. 6 t spe tars for hom CHICAGO PROJECTING CC “ar Benge: he ir P Pr es, clippings from papers, books, etc. Our machines are t yer WS, he ertainment or N $ for traveling exhit * ork , 225 DEARBORN STREET, DEPT. 122, CHICAGO

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You have no doubt heard it said that ‘* the Cadillac never goes out of commission.” And now the Cadillac product is acquiring another distinction. The old tribute of praise is being supplemented by another. This latter says that the Cadillac of 1909 commands a higher (proportionate) price today than any year-old car on the market. And the more you analyze that fact the more will its impor- tance grow upon you. Why should this be true of the Cadillac “ Thirty” in par- ticular; and what special superiority does the car possess over others that makes it as good value in its second year as in its first ? The answer is almost disappointingly simple: Because no other car in the history of the industry has ever been built with the same thoroughness and care. Is that all? Yes, that is all—but how much it means to you! The length of time your car will last —the duration of service it will render you—is in direci proportion to the degree of skill and knowledge exercised in its building. Almost any car nowadays will answer reasonably well for a time. How long that time will be depends entirely upon the extent to which the liability to wear, repair and friction has been reduced by correct methods of manufacture. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST is the most economical car to buy It is conceded that no plant in the world surpasses the Cadillac plant in that respect. An examination of the chassis of the Cadillac “ Thirty” delights the heart of the expert engineer. His trained eve discerns master workmanship at every point as ; I y | the eye of an artist detects the handwork of ue nius He will point out to you the parts and the surfaces upon which the long life and service of the motor depend and show you how scientific methods of manufacture have ex erted themselves to the uttermost to ward off friction and wear. _— — ~ > will tell you what is unquestionably true—that with ordi- nary, intelligent care, the Cadillac ‘ Thirty” should keep continuously in commission for an indefinite period. And the same elements that make for long life the safe- guarding against friction and wear by scrupulously close and fine workmanship — are an assurance also ol the low est cost of upkeep in any motor car. The Cadillac “* Thirty” is undeniably the least expensive car you can buy because it will last longer and cost less to And it will last you longer and cost you less to maintain for the simple and most excellent reason that it is the most skillfully constructed car in the world, regard- maintain. less of price. Four Cylinder, 30 Horse Power Three Speed Sliding Gear Transmission $1600 (F. O. B. Detroit) Including the following equipment: Mag- neto, four unit coil with dry cells, one pair gas lamps and generator, one pair side oil lamps, one tail lamp, horn, set of tools, pump and tire repair kit, robe rail, tire irons. Cadillac Motor Car Company, Detroit, Mich. Manuiscurers. Licensed under Selden Patent

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FOR THE TRUSTS (Continued from Page hnicalities final i no matter or ¢ eT (cent we must stick Immoy- } irrangemet \ iid the wool schedule é icle or protectior And a re itis! The wool sched- d President Taft's stomach a bit, i ( ed at Winona. Yet he Ihe t—I ng regard l t to the ‘final n n ! n ld be ood, chic make the commoner It ne ell-orvar ed Nev } nd mills that uppls the typical trust f tures of that industry. When t re ' t se cotton ! ke ! I rley rate ( th be maintained There was a mpre m that duties running up H d 50 per cent were quite high ‘ I I mmodity in producing the ! h we lead the world nd had prospered. In Fall River mill besides payl rage ( } cent in regular divi tiene d some handsome extra ‘ one case 100 per cent, in one by ‘ U 0 per cent, in per cent anothe pe I nere i YT l ‘ ‘ j } LUSeS ¢ e cf ol ched ‘ repre of the mill ) H W 1 Me Committee mpor or re ) that ’ ‘ ‘ es ‘ muct i I t ‘ n ne ' i i t ( tT? }) 4 t / ore 4 ed ut ird ¢ ‘ ! ents ar » ol B ‘ ‘ rif 1 e >er é ' { T ‘ ’ he ‘ | j ‘ t ‘ ry i ] , ’ i i th er ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ rhe ‘ ‘ I { ‘ } rr a I t [he Pretext and the Facts He | mr re ‘ ‘ ‘ . ed spe ‘ rk out I'} Il) ‘ \ ('¢ n cloth, ne ‘ t id ¢ ¢ ed’ or p ‘ ied at r pe ‘ per ce iW { ottor hr 1 dve ' nte , ens he nc} er 7« ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ r mported cloth ed at 7 " ler the old law you we | per cen ) 4 ( 0 but under the new | el It r h 4 Vara i er the old per cent, ¢ cent ! e me | ou would pay t Wi t highest- t ( } r } it ry ilued at © } { nder the « ‘ ew | i be ar \ ‘ ‘ } ne en ‘ i! ‘ t he rhe 13 Here, of bleached cotton to undery ah 1ation was far stronger lor examp le, isa piece cloth. If it is valued over 12 cents, but not over 15 cents, the duty is 5 cents a vard:; but if it is valued over 15 cents and not over 16 cents the ard. If thet duty is 6 value is 15 cents a . cents a yard and the importer can get it undervalued by only that eighth of a cent he whole cent in duty, whereas to save a cent a yard in duty under the ad valorem Ding- ley rates he would have to get his cloth indervalued full 3 cents a yarg The temptation to undervaluation in that case ild be twenty-four times as great under new law. That the changes was to evident that hifted to new moment which du rue Saves a the purpose of these Senate increase duties was so the defense of them largely ground, as we shall see in a Sut this was not the only way in ies were increased years a process called merceriza- tion has come much into vogue in the cotton trade Briefly, it consists of sub- jecting the goods to a caustic bath to add luster. Most of the imported cloth is now merceri also, is a good deal of the product except of the cheaper however, not the whole only two or three threads of it ed zed; SO domestic vrades Otten h but are mercer A Gift With Compliments The new law says that cloth which has been mercerized shall pay an additional d of one cent a yard. It was shown by . emen from the dve houses that the ( { mercerization is,from one-eighth to en- ths i cent a yard, depending m the whic " the former case, of course, thi extent to i proce s 1s pplied. Ir t} ‘ ddit duty would amount to eight mes the cost. Moreover, the process of ! tion adds to the value of the oO that ould come in under a I é ( ) and pay a higher duty, ever t irtax of a cent a vard had not been added. In short, this additional duty ( centa rad a plain, out-of-hand gift he cotton mill with the compliment of the Senate Finance Committee After Dolliver, Beveridge, Cummin Follette had pre thoroughly vent he | ance Committee benevo- ( n this regard and shown that the col ee i ra ! on ¢ ton ‘ er { 1 Tt fa { ! d ld the. ( no PeKIT a Talise a brand-new nse ¢ he e« yn schedule was brought It w eged iat While the new d é n } than those that ere collected » Dingley law, they ‘ not h the duties that ( ‘ had nded to impose by that ( erta cision it was said, } cr! pple rlv eviscerated the on sche n on ngley law, letting i ile oft pau] = cotton at I et ower ad e than Congress had meant to prescribe, so that the new edule mere repaired the damage w h these nous court decisions had w igh I} looked e a facer—until the in- irgent curried about to discover just hat those ruinous court decisions actually Vere I wish | had space to give Senator Dolliver’s own minute and picturesque thev found rraph 339 of the flax » Dingley law says that laces, ls and a long V-curtains, net vells a duty of 60 of other things shall pay per Among the other things enu- me 1 — bet weer ‘ “and ‘“ruch- ire etamines frages " Some or three vears after the Dingley law iS | sed eems, a fine old io. t wheelhorse, who had landed i 1 ‘ bert! ne New York Paton He ‘ contem} 1 this paragraph ot t ux neculk r then discovered i textile a nat an e ‘ ott ( ent! the ad } S rule hat ke oO ye We t ‘ a cs we t ‘ id t cent ( THE SATURDAY VHAT THE NEW TARIFF DOES EVENING POST November 20, 1909 Benen WOE AAA 53 DOWN Burrowes ome Billiard and Pool Tables $3.00 Down puts into your home a Table worth $30, C ia Mot more We supply all cues, balls, etc., Free. - BECOME AN EXPERT AT HOME Bal ince aid 33 monthly. tables at $1 down. e expensive es tor $5 or down. 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| taxes on cigarettes and little cigars were increased, and the tax on smoking and chewing tobacco raised from 6 cents a pound to 8 cents. Again, the tariff bill provides for admission from the Philip- pines, free of duty, of 150 million cigars, a million pounds of filler tobaeco and three hundred thousand of wrapper That looks like a Waterloo. But let us see. In the first place, the Conference Committee— whose mighty services in res- cuing imperiled interests we have hardly yet begun to appreciate changed the regulations as to the size of packages in which tobacco may be sold. The law now says that smoking and chewing tobacco and snuff may be put up and sold ‘in packages containing one-half ounce, three- fourths of an ounce, and further packages with a difference between each package and the one next smaller of one-fourth of in ounce up to and including four ounces, mind packages of six, seven, eight, ten, twelve, fourteen and sixteen ounces."’ Also cigarettes and little cigars may be put up in packages containing five, eight, ten, fifteen, twenty and so on Tobacco Leaf, a recognized organ of the trade, observes: ‘“‘The Conference Com- mittee made important changes in the provisions regarding new packages, the object being to enable the manufacturer of tobacco, snuff, cigarettes and little cigars to pass the increased taxes on to the consumer The increased tax on ciga- rettes amounts, according to the same authority, to se venteen-one-hundredths of a cent ona p iuckage of ten Nearly eight billion cigars were made in this country last year. So the free importa- tions from the Philippines will come to rather less than 2 per cent of the domestic output This glances only at the five big trustified or trustiike interests that Nave beer ) conspicuous in tariff history here are te a lot of others in the family, but the reader may rest assured that none of them I been hurt in the smallest degree

evres Senator Cummins, of lowa Republican insurgent and Senator Heyburn, of Idaho Republican standpatter--were debat hat the margin of protection should be ind how it should be determined * That brings us,” said Senator He “to the iestion as to who is to determin: vhat the m vin of pr } h our pro aucer, whether he | Luce he Taw m I ( he finished a hould have as t the fore compe or d who ( 1 fix i contend thet the peed I A lhereir replied Senator Cumn es the difference between the Senato from Idaho and n f. Isay it isthe dut of t Senate to fix that differer A | le later Ser or Heyt na hat when a dome ind a fore ima f rer met in this mar irticls We are vyoing to say il

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en apar King helped to force himself H vy tl ! i h which \ r t land he new that Sandel is his if he 1 prevent th ‘ Cir ff p \ aot ear n bital He had outg im } oa od (} } t a ‘ i 4 t al T t 1< ne t ar er dk a or _ irs al On »~ blow would topple him over and down at And Te k na h of bitterness remembered the piece of steak and wished that he had it then behind that ne essary punch he must deliver. He nerved himself for the blow, but it was not heavyenough nor SWIIt er igt Sandel swaved but did not staggering back to the ropes and hold- ingon. King staggered after him and, with THE SATURDAY EVENING POST © COAL BILL Revised % oe gi F er “Saved

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,. . ™ a pang like that of dissolutior ielivered — — — a “YOU just do PC pally a . " , : ; z ay i . ‘» ‘) sy SY —w Y © Seon ae ¢%) Said Mr.R cena Ey etlenea henge y= Agredige KM Wea a Aa fe fe ee eed ood waffles are of Avalon, Pa um ii that Was left of him was a figt ianale baked > -# . ng ntelligence that Wa limn ‘em on an ‘American’ Waffle Iron”

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must of nece ity be i want the audience to think that the lead- rest, yet what is called the ing man of Wallack’s has but one pair of tem has done much to de trousers ? iteand ruin the theatrical profession An item that had appeared in one of the reseml i painter who lavishes all his daily papers asserted that Charles Dickens por e central figure, and roughly had neve r written a play. This item was tches and daubs in the rest of the pic- in a London paper, and copied in the New t r self-display may York Times. I remembered that among er i id sed conceit of the letters Mr. Wallack had given me was me ergrown egotist, but it is fatal to one from Dickens, regarding a play. On ¢ { the drama looking up the letter I took it wi it v 1 seem a strange answer to h newspaper clipping and asked Mr. Wal- but Wallacl appearance lack absut it He said that he was unable the Grand Opera House wa to remember the exact circumstances, but beginning of the end of his success on that he knew Dickens had sent him a id For after that engagement play to read and that he had written the what might be called a play It was unsuited to Mr. Wallack’s vn theateragain, or at purpose, so he wrote and asked Mr. ri h any financial succes Dickens if he would not rewrite it, offering some sugvest

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ma ypeni In reply W “He Bs, r app WESTMINSTER Hove! peepee B+ ogi aon Thursday, Ninth January, 1868 tho Hag Scan tr Vy dear Mr. Wallacl Probat tt or time that Lester l have been absent at soston Wall i part for which his fa In re ply to your note receive d last had « hin i hen the play of Cam night, let me beg you to be so good as to 1s | He had been chosen for send me the play back, and so make the cha \ 1. but declined the an end of the matter pa t co ler t as suited to him Faithfully yours always, At th n I a young man con CHARLES DICKENS necte th I col ny} who some time Le ster Wallac Esquire before, had been appearing with the stock P ompany ] ng in the Lecture Hall. as it Apropos of the same subject, I found as t imong letters given me by Mr. Florence en him | poke very highly of him Mr. Ch: ermed, in Barnum’s Museum, Broad \ k, and through th to M. Har recommendation he became a member of ville, a let the W Ser, ae H name . lat re \ | nan a transiati | \ Sothe It was he who was cast for to request Armand, after Lester's refusal thanks to their assistance in the repre

the following irles Dickens has addressed mant, director of the Vaude ter of which the following is on: “Sir: | have the honor you to present my sincere the artists who have lent me sentation

Wallack and Sothern in Mischief of L’Abime, and to assure them of ' my high appreciation of the powerful i distinct | d erpretation they have furnished to I rt it wi he my drama Permit me also to thank i from Sotherr ou for the liberality with which you t I his h ther would ha placed at the service of an Eng h writer the resources of your excel- rh lid not it r ver | theater l hope before long to hip tha express i rson my gratitude to you een the m When So ) ved and mv t ks to your artists. But ‘ iwement i star with Wallac k's compelled to return without delay to mpal i Thirteenth Street Thea London, I could not quit Paris with the t met ere almost Inseparable out addre ng to them or to you my mM i dagyment ind the a irances \ ! he New W i ick Ss no parjait devouement he . = 4 “d vat Signed) CHARLES Dick! | ip} fh is a pl is one in which Florence had oO lo I one of h noted successes, and was t | here behind the ‘ 1 No Thoroughfare ' no“? B vded h it Wallack’s Last Day 1 Soth rmed ta chunk of Lester Wallack, a short time before his her ve W r death, came down to the Star Theater to } n led the witness a performance that was being ! i ippened ome river At the conclusion he came into the i si d char ) a victim to office and for some few minutes lived over ag , ht of the “two ti past | ry of the house with h Mr. Wallack tok ori He was quite lame, and as | ' | ird Je meand offered to help him haking the cane with mone the prom vhich } A ed and bending over like an } h y shir high hat old mar » he epeated those lines of Jacque { all our avents seat r contract. The Only Oysters with the full Sea Flavor The Only Oyster Insurance “Seaside Oyster Dishes ""— FREE r The Sealshipt Oyster System, Inc. \Formerly National Oyster Carrier Co:! General Office’ and Factory: Sealshipt Oyster Stations South Norwalk, Conn. Sealshipt Groceries and at 80 Coast Points Members of American Associ Markets Everywhere on fot the Promotion of Purity in Food Products licensed

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Co., 723 Rese Bldg , Cleveland, 0 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE LOSING GAME | Continued from Page 21) lumpy-nose, elderly person who for some time had been known to him in an inci- dental way The colonel was a sport and a lawyer, but his reputation in the former capacity was much better than in the latter. He was commonly known, in fact, as more or less of a shyster, whose princi- pal business consisted of dealing in dirty politic The colonel mentioned the anti- bucketshop bill, and his own abilities ina line that would prove profitable to Pound. He came, in short, seeking employment th the utmost frankness His idea was t certain statesmen, who were amenable to his sapient advice, should be permitted to deal in stocks or grain at Mr. Pound's shop, and should also be permitted to win appropriate sums at the proper moments, In his usual reckles contemptuousness Pound was well enough inclined — the proposal If Colonel Yew could delive ites he \ vas perfectly willing to pay a fair, going e therefor Pound foresaw that his bank roll was ind to igh the question of {Te and thon ng with him, it vas ct nly pe for with the stock market boomir is, and a trade as exter i } ( he } ‘ss eit Wen I proporti espe although Tom: worked | up a fine busine boasted that he had nearly customers, the losses wer In a | eek, at allytl | reached eighty tho i dollars. I eemed not improbable that Pe d wi ! i te lall ft por Government bonds, which he had re 1 to cl to at all | ls But at thi incture luck — signally favored him; and the good luck came pre cisely from Toronto where his luck had been rather worse than ar ivwhnere else Before the Legislature had. been in ses- Watrous wrote him sion a month Tommy l nelosing a lengthy clip- a iong letter ping from the St. Jude (Ontario) Daily Intelligencer. ‘T of tk ipping was that the contest over the will of the late G. H. Wyn had been decided, the will having been set aside and the estate awarded to Mr. Wyman’'s two sor Alger non G ind Henry M The estate was l entoried at one million eight hundred thousand dollars, mostly in cash and prime securities “The estrangement between Mr. Wyman and his sons,” the Intelli- rencer added discreetly, ‘‘continued for everal ye prior to his lamented decease during whic me the youn ntlemet who now come into this princely inherit- nee, lived ir ‘aitened circumstance on G. Wyman, it appeared from ny's letter, had been sheen endl the ger of the bucketshop’s small branch at St. Jude In his impecunious day s 7" had occasior ally borrowed twenty doll and bought ten shares of something or other, and had usually lost the mon ‘ He appeared to bea fi rhty, addk pated young mat ( 1 iddicted to Scotch wl and follies, whom the elde in, presumal had ¢ inhe rood reas But tk ma ' “ ~ tk it \ nor Wa ' fatuated with the bucl hop | ne thought it the finest possible opening for 1 capita t He has be about a qay Tor } big wad of mo i him dizzy He wants to | Canadian offic right a toid h n to go ht ip tos vo and gave him a k r of He has gone t cto St. Jude to get h brother Expect you w ee both of them about a day after yo res etl You can size up Algernon in a few minute I don't believe he and his money will stay together very long. Don't I get a com- mission or his rhat same afternoon Tommy wired: Algernon is still in town; says he has written you. Don't you think it would be best to run down here and see him with app 1X10 The next morning Pound received a typewritten letter on the stationery of tk King Edward Hots Toronto Dear Sir: Making reference to the conversation had between the under- signed and Mr. Thomas Watrous, The world’s November 20, 1909 oreatest singers make records only for the Victor. The world’s the greatest sopranos ; baritones; the greatest bassos. but Ae greatest of all Caruso, t Dalmores, t Scotti ) Battistini Ruffo peraperan, Renaud, Homer, the great Schumans- Heink, Ge rville- Réache, hese famous artist and commanding ereatest si the greatest contraltos: ngers! 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The LonelyBaby | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Bank at Toronto, to the effect that A. G. Wyman had deposited there one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the use of John Pound in case certain stock was delivered by Pound to Wyman in a manner satisfactory to Wyman. It seemed to Pound high time to strike. The fruit, indeed, was falling into his lap of its own weight; but dexterous Lawrence e 1 a QUICK, little shake now would bring it down at once, and he was naturally impatient For the moment things were quiet at St. Paul. He resolved to slip down to To- ronto and meet the brothers on Saturday. He could easily invent a plausible excuse for turning up there. Begirt as he was it was obviously imprudent, advertise his movements, and faith in Eileen’s discre- tion. He told her, therefore, that business called himto Chicago. It was only ashe was about totake the train that he wired Tommy Watrous of his coming In his own office by enemies, however, he had no great to only Patterson knew his destination. But at Toronto Tommy Watrous met him apologetically. On Thursday even- ing, it appeared, Wyman had received the long-expected word from his brother Henry, who was in a hunting camp far up in the Province of Quebec. The word was unsatisiactory ; Henry had me rely said that he couldn't possib ly come to Toronto then. Algernon, thereupon, in his impa- tle nce to < lo “ the bucketshop de al and not knowing Mr. Pound was coming, had set out pellmell to get Brother Henry and showed the note, , which bring him back in Algernon’s usu Tommy al meandering styl Wyman had mailed him from the tr Thursday evening; and the telegram from Brother Henry which was inelosed in the note. This, of course, was rather disappoint- ing Having told Eileen that he was going to Chicago instead of to Toronto, he used the bucketshop’s private wire to inquire the Chicago office, whether any message from Eileen to himself had been received there and to send her, under Chicago date, a di patch of conjugal greet- ing. For this purpose he went to the rear of the office where the telegraph operators sat. To notice and remember faces was fairly an instinct with him. So he noticed instruc- who carried out his young man with the operator tions suany a sallow an unu- long chin Leter in the day Edward Hotel, he s climbing into a cab tained another ipant had a_ suffic glimpse--a chubby, looking litt] LILLie recogni: returning to the King aw this same operator The vehi le con of whom Pound swarthy, man, whom ed as Billy Br operator in who had then oc’ lent io Pound at once formerly a_ telegraph employ of the bucketshop, been a chum of Han Pound turned shar look after the cab, wh away He iw the like people on very good The incide brought a vague unres to his mind, because Brewer sugges Han ind Ha Sug sted Emma It irred to hii m “that the swarthy, chi little tele graph ope rator must have aa k if he could a a hotel le liton

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THE HEALTH OF WORKING-WOME Continued from Page § NX bp fort wut vf r rrom tor ive to sixty-lou t ast is ¢ striking ven more

for women of all ages is 20.1 per th nd while that of women employed ir fu occupations ranges from 12 per tt ind 10 for dress-

iorm ind factory ope ratives makers and seamstresses, 14 for bookkee} ers, clerks and copyists, with the appalling pitch o 3.4 for domestic servants In short, every gainful occupation in whict woman is employed in the United States shows: ilower mort ality than taat of thetotal 1umber of females for the same age period, with the gle exce ption of domestic serv-

ants Fapananene st between the women who work outside of the home and those who ork for wages inside the nomne bart s vely ppall r. The general aver: weed

classes 1s 8.3 per thousanc i. - all age and17.1 I pert! ousand for domestic servants! The employment of women in com- mercial and pu ions is “nea has ubject to an enormous amount ith ropic of abuse, and energy and 1,1 blc occupat peer the various philar that have fought with

against such abuse and exploitation led to the greatest credit for the essful issue of their fight. No one who ws anything about the conditions of men workers and child workers in actories, mills and shops would propose a

moment’s relaxation of the gor of lactory vomen and child-labor legislation In fact t lards ougt to be steadily raised all along the line , However the } neni tment ivainst ment ol en il ndustrial oc s remains vet to be met, and ect upon the vigor and ] renera ms 1 upon the birth rate. There can be no question that the general birth rate ‘ i cdecreasit ll er the Civ | ed rease more rapid he classes of women employed it publ But there are twe admission which ring upon the future ‘ e race The first of these most ( s and can be readily dismissed mely, that it Is an axiomatic statement ( rder he truth that no one body ean occupy two different point n space i the same time, and that, therefore, aw cannot successfully and satis act y both earn good wages in a factory ind bear and rear children. The employ- met 1 factories of married women who ing children to rear is certainly from every point ol and moral nave yo undesirable VIEW hygienic, economic A Simple Remedy The remedy is a comparatively simp] Pay the husband a wage that will enable him adequately to support his wife and rear his children without having to demand the the wife and mother. Or aire ady being propose d in Frances Germany pay the widowed mother for staying at home and fherchildren. It is gradually tno ligt ver ver\ 1OW LY e one assistance of as IS and a certain pension taking care ¢ e minds of our leg ators al t mmunity can allow its chil- ormed or kept normal possibilitie disease « one thing no ce vossibly afford to de to are? to.gren p stunted, def I full | level ‘of ation, <t, Stary r overwork

id the most remun¢ ve occupation at ommunity can devise for a mother the ire ol her children She will earn least three times her factory wages at it A large majority ol the women ¢ mployed in industrial occupations marry with the

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OUR years ago the Cornings, father and son, both poor health, and with no practical experience, took up eoo-raising, on a few acres of land at Bound Brook, N. J., beginning with only thirty hens. “To-day they have one of the greatest egg-producing plants in this country, and 4 a business that, with 1953 hens, paid last vear a clear profit hoof more than teelve thousand dollars. Next year they plan to What do you think their profit I Get the Farn | i The have 4000 hi were Corning Egg-Book ‘ q36. 41 Lend ten per Year’ EE == HOW ese TW i casties, ! expe sted a4 ed y eX tf } \ et ch e 4 Ice Tt t ( \ ] | \ isin sumn i ( XA

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? it rry n more form p 4 Y it lucements to many girls and men to enter these occupations 18 them 1 wnat they believe ili a sort of social tal out of the class lomé servant the class onducted under conditions € I y the slave labor of ntury ago than any other ! principal value of this position to them is that them to make a more desir- tayeous Marriage an am- is desirable and praiseqorthy t can be imagined. wer birth rate of women who ployed in public that is only a part of the t een eF ment toward what might be nt parenthood, which is class of society and every he civilized vorld The same ed to be brought against oman, and the woman with n boatmen of Jaffa, the port of rkatior r Jerusalem, are so r aen nd tor l VSHeesl the rd for tips— that on more yn the consular authorities 1 illy quite in vain, to the me Ne nere wes of Suc Z, a more lawless or danger- ler Banded together in a sort have long jeered at all efforts em, have put the local officials iuthorities at defiance, and the disembarkation traffic of the Syrian coast ecessary for vessels to lie a milk the shore at Jaffa, the pas- ed from the ships to n small boats manned i dozen or more lusty ruffians their defects, are mag rmet lo reach the port the h an opening. searce nwhat ot 1er ( reef, and against this comparatively calm weather It ee. alor h r , ener ’ } h to o | ptr har ence of the to land pas- he ship being cor to | Sa | oT ‘ ct It her o he early mai } ed ht j m that the boatmen f ea all } t} issenger them out to | pI menting ! I on the I 1 land, | ! i pound is not , i t t il be Cap it the yt cat t ] ‘ . his a n he best 1 ep i , heeal } wit} } Son he boatmen ¢ | i 1 mi whor m . vith | of ed it i th ed il mail T chore. ed , ) imft y THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Your Christmas Gift To be appreciated must be durable, substantial and lasting. There is nothing more suitable for a Holiday Gift than Hosiery for Men and Women. the higher education and new woman generally. 3ut_ the point of these criti- cisms has been very largely dulled now that time enough has elapsed to show that of the smaller number of children borne by the intelligent and thoughtful mother a far larger percentage survives to reach matu- rity; and that this percentage is of a height, weight and physical and intellectual vigor distinetly superior to that of the average of the larger family of less adequately- supported and carefully-trained children. In other words, a high birth rate always meant and still means, wherever it occurs, an enormous infant mortality, a lower general average of height, weight and physical and mental vigor at maturity, a higher disease rate and death rate at all ages. Therefore, modern civilized nations, with their distinctly falling birth rates, are with the exception of France—-actually increasing in population, in mental and physical vigor and in influence upon the world at a more rapid rate than ever before. Calling a Syrian Bluff steamer day after tomorrow.”’ ‘ Impossi- "asked one of the tourists, a clean-shaven, brown-faced quick-spoke n American. ‘‘There’s no such word. I’ve got to get out of here today or I'll miss my with the P. & O. at Port Said Five pounds to the boat’s crew that puts me aboard that ship.” There was a mo- ment’s hesitation, for it was really danger- ous weather with a terrific sea running, but five pounds is wealth beyond the dreams of avarice in that part of the world, and an ex muggle r, named Ali, followed by a crew as disreputable as himself, volunteered. It was easy enough pulling until they go beyond the natural wall formed by the line of reefs; after that things looked decidedly ble _ did vou Say connections + serious The water reared itself up in mountains instead of waves, but the boatmen, pulling in rhythm to Ali’s ** Ya hoo! Ya hakk!” made progre notwithstanding Two- thirds of the way to the steamer and the head man, as though at a prearranged sig- nal, dropped his oar and came clambering aft to where the American, soaked to the kin, clungtothe stern with his bag between his feet. “‘Hard work, effendi,”’ said the boatman, “too hard for such poor pay My men are asking for backsheesh—you must give them ten pounds me ; Absurd!”’ said the American angrily. ‘Put me on board and you will be tak care ot : pound f t! d the ex-smuggler len pounds, here and now!’ nd if I don’t give it?” inquired the lor enger nerve ‘The waves are high, ejfendi, our boat is frail, and witt it ich encouragement my men may not be able to keep it from rning over. It is a long swim to the nn. allen , “You are ht,’’ said the American, “it isa lor n to the shore and I don't to take It Leaning forward he ned his valise, the boatmen fixed expectant 1! \\ ipon or \ I six shot r na he sa I on tot hip I"} ! 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wa th BEAU TIF YING COUNTRY PLACES—By David Buffum Doing Much With Very Litile Money THE SATURDAY EVENING POST November 20, 1909 We speak of the good old days—the charming oraces and courtly ways. —But do we forget lhe Old Buffum Homestead ear Newport, R.I These Grounds Were Never Graded, but Simply Smoothed, in the Manner Recommended in This Article is by no means necessary to MAN n comfortable though rather bank account y I ea : \ moderate circumstances who had just the satisfactory beautifying of their coun- bought a country place and it had try hom: in fact, that such beautifying that they did not know The Soda Cracker that is the de- light of this day and generation. NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY r \ kl EASY PAY MENT PLAN De AMERICAN BOX BALL CO., 1315 Van Buren Street, Indianapolis, Indiana W rite r trated t klet ex; P Page Woven Wir ire Fence Co., Box 212-H, Adrian, Mich A Sample of Page Fence FREE! MAKE | MONEY EASY Now velty Knives Chr ston as Gift Agents Earn re SR 5 to $3 300 a Mo NOVELTY CUTLERY co 17 Bar St., ¢ t oO hee the dream of his life to own a little often involve no more expense than the { the country — recently said to me labor of the owner himself during his sum- W i've got my country place at last mer vacation and need never be in exce L nice rm of twenty-five acres where of what any one who is able to buy a coun- [ can not only live in the summer but have — try place at all can well afford. The only ‘ Keep poultry and a horse and thing needful is that requisite of every i it I've always w anted economical and well-ordered undertaking me ¢ hirty e | to know hov ‘ nave t! In the first place let me say what not hape, making it at- todo. However small the grounds imme- | rance and laying out my diately around your house, alway avoid Il tind that it will take the appearance or suggestion of restric- t h mone to vet it into tion The great cost of laying out grounds ave it le is if be in the ordinary way naturally causes this i l had @ iit taste cram pe d look in the grounds of many coun ito buy it. And, to be quite frank, try dwellers of limited means; for at the I can’t afford usual rate of expenditure one must stop What ere the main items of expense somewhere, and frequently not very far off, I a i either. So the grounds are small and th We n the first place, the buildings dividing line between the ornamental and imght the barn and woodshed outlying land sharply accentuated. Now house. Butl findit will thecountry, of ag + ces, should be suggest- ’ i move them and fill ive of amplitude, of plenty of elbow-room, iterate the cellar as it would to rather than restriction, and ornamental i Then there's the grading grounds should harmonize, rather than con- t I want to trast, with the irrounding land The the house into transition from one to the other should r { hrubber never be too sharply defined ! ) ‘ mps and hollow ! ed out ) now The lowest Substitutes for Grading eigt hundred To carry out this scheme one must first d lr { i that if | trv to do it realize that it is the general effect that n Y ood land tells, and not contine his efforts too closely ‘ I n mat © the par r spot where his d cil i ort t i and Her i » know that, for large r i place law? do not necessar need to be raded, nor ever pt down with a lawn Undesirable Improvements mower cutting twice a month with a field mower j {Tic ‘ d Tr t man 1 r ‘ clipped 1 me have ‘ expanse n the plaint now « nd undenialt i bea 1 thing, is only T t! ‘ art 2] NT nN IT perative ‘ i ied tor in ground ol small dct ‘ To la out a large lawn, in all ordl- t ur ountry grounds, all that is needed tot the ttle hollow vith earth and roll hal roller. If there chances to be ome hillock or mound that seems a littl out ot armony with th eneral sweep of the land, plant it with bushe This trar form t [rom an eyesore to an attractive feature ar far le than to level it down. In like manner, if there be an out roppin ive or boulder, it is not neces ury t ‘ t out Plant running vines around it and treat it as a permanent fea- ture, It cannot look bad thus treated, and in the right place may prove even more ‘ iu than 1 unt Ke lav ist er d obstruction, perhaps, for your arivew: t veep around thu riving it n effective curve, or just the thin gy to add at pl isingg Variety to its particular loca- In fact “ail iccess nm landscape eatment depends upon the turning to ac count of existing feature rather than in creating new ones. The country dweller who bears tl law in mind and carefully tudies the lay ot fis land may be sure DO YOU LIKE TO DRAW? | sample lesson plate | The WL. 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that he can have, at but litth that are more harmonious, effectiv

gnores it though the latter spends four times the amount of money upon them lhe majority of people of moderat: means who acquire country places | hem with the buildings already upon them. It very often happens that thes either of tasteful design nor nd to remodel or move fether too much. Bu intry places, even the s in these respects iigent i ng the most of the nto attractive home

studv of the pos I know, for instance, of a charming country hom i home which cultivated peopl when driving by, are very apt to pause dmire Che house, itself not of the best hitecture, stands much too close to the hway, probably not more than six feet ntervening Detween its tront and the road 1) 1 j i

( vall, while the rm buildings, all ole mmedtiate back of it When tl vo er 4 t st od ! ism: oorvard he ove ra } farn tead, wit! pig-pen, hen-roo ma nure heap, was far too much in ¢ ! Phere are er t people who, on aca i examinatior i not have said that, a lar as a count? home Was concerne Tered about as little encouras 1 ce 1 well be But look at it now! The hou t 1 near the highway as ever, it is true, | who thinks of that It is no longer cramped for room he ine ng door ird Ttence is gone iliowing the ad nin farm field to become a part o e home rounds A mass of fruit and shade trees lilac t ne a“ I t ceal the farm buildi: dull red now l es south eat, sunny iforetime farm

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cre d trees, which firewood for cost of removal. The screen of foliage or the r tead w formed by merel ling to th rees and bushes alread there a fe rrape trellises and | hrut The little front i t immediately opposite th nt door is Walled up, the only t | nther de Ww en a handsom irr ‘ e near the end of the! it mt p a hich [¢ ‘ ) on r it the impression of | 10st in the road itself, is now cl re ed by lat e work and a dense rrowth vin As to the t of the whole metamor pho mir t some Nnave illed it I nnot speak with accura It is safe however esp ally th ilue of the ewood is taken into consideration ‘ d not have exceeded three } four hundred dollars at the Had it been done a little more gr vould not have cost that One of the most obvious lessons t gray he stud fa place like this th it is not possible to have the house

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The Alaminum Cooking Utensil Co THE SATURDAY EVENING POST well back from the road, proportion of its grounds in front of it, equally good effects may often be had by having the bulk of the grounds to one side in certain cases, at the back. In- I know of at least one case where the rear of the house was so obviously the right place for its frontage, and the lay of the land so clearly favorable to this reversal of the original idea, that the new owner had the great, old-fashioned kitchen trans- formed into a living-room—and a beauti- ful living-room it' made, too—while the fortunate location of the outbuildings at one end of the house, instead of in their usual place at the rear, enabled him to lay out his home grounds with reference to his new front. But the keynote of all these changes so effective and yet so inexpensively made — is the obse rvance of the law alre: ady alluded to—the seizing upon and turning to advantage of existi ian features. It is, perhaps, needless to multiply exam- ples, but the wholly successful landscape treatment of a farm which I recently owned and where I lived for many years prompts me to add it to the examples already cited. The house, though ample in size, was of the plain, ordinary type of farmhouse its front yard a jungle of trees and _ bushe and the fence against the highway a tottering affair of wood. Anum- ber of people said when I bought it: ‘‘ Well, the farm lands are id the location beautiful, but you can never do anything with that old house and that cramped-up, shut-in wilderness of a dooryard.”’ sut the obliteration of the old front yard and the removal of several other useless in- closures ample grounds around the house; and all the trees and yushes were cut grubbed up. or even, deed, rood ar rave unnecessary down and This left me a fine lot of very handsome trees in just the places where they were wanted. The ground was now smoothed and seeded, a driveway laid out, and in place of the decrepit wooden fence a sub- stantial stone wall wa from stones already on the farm. The addition of a rather simple but around the roof of the lifted it from. its ordinary char gave it a dignified and even distinguished look The gateway which I designed for the front entrance was, perhaps, a little too costly to come prope rly ider the head it must be 1 gateway in the rail ng old farmhouse quite li acter and appropriate of inexp remembered that the wall and were the only really expensive things whole scheme of nd seemed to t nanded by the general ch: the rest of the place. I have n design iteways u it A much d looked really better in the places \ » they were put than this one would; for a gateway should be in keeping with the and grounds to which it isive DeauUutliving treatment, a times cost very house gives admission. Amateur Wall-Building It may be said here that the cost of wall- building may be much or little, accordir to the way one goes about it It is cor nonly considered the most costly of all fer ind tr case of he one descr may ea run into conside able mone. But on a tract of land tl we recently bought on Prudence Island my son and I laid up with our own hands a considerable strip of wall, including t rateways with high-built posts. This w snot, of course, equal to that of the be protessional buliders, but it is f is that p t rf t? i t " I j t tar r Ve All th ( r Owr abor Wedor ( il extrao dinar mechar i Y t I ( ner of a « nt place lo the hing he ¢ ‘ All s needf carefully t erve some good workn en vo anead wa derive I ont ai ut if of work that has , hourch ne« i alwa t r ace should ive a Dstantl 1 ‘ ne if wall again he nignway it need it or not. It is true that, in very many does not need it. But it isa fitting f a landed domain, and it gives a certain impression of privacy and proprie- } cannot otherwi be had Grounds ly ing open to the hishwas are in good taste in villages or suburbs, but never ht in the country. a 1 look quite rig with a suitable | Deep sea with GF atest ( are omake and are and are The y conk Pints (guaranteed { ‘f y eS “ais, ewe print ted on ever tastes Pe: at, A These Farmers of the Se ect and sow y Three Year® JOOTH'S GUARANTEED Booth’s Guaranteed Oysters posse centage possible gathered from the pure, deep waters, are culled, sea-s Booth’s of stakes, our "oyster farms" ar as carefully tended as any farmer's rarest stra away fish of prey Cans containing Booth’ t ysters are use you buy Booth’ ing to your needs. | 3 ozs. (less than a pint), 24 ozs. (less than a a Full s Gr aranteed an | Jumbo Counts, king of all y can. 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