The Saturday Evening Post 1910-04-02: Vol 182 Iss 40

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ee ee THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Ihe retail merchant who is so eager to make his own profit that he forgets his customer’s proft, isn’t d r business in a fair way Ihe best merchant is one who ts as careful about the value he vives as about the value he gets KAD that paragraph OVCT 5 it is quoted from a book sent by us about a year ago to all] dealers in Hart Schaffner and Marx clothes. It expresses our idea of our business and our merchandise. This giving of value is the main idea with us; we believe that it is the main idea of all merchants who sell our clothes. In these days of steady deterioration in clothes, our all-wool security, fine tailoring, and style supremacy are at a premium. - . Our dealers realize that a merchant who sells five suits at more than a fai pronht could easily sell ten if he were fair to his customer; ten fair profits are better for the merchant than five that are too large, because ten satistied customers are better than five uncertain. If you buy Hart Schaffner & Marx clothes, and are not fully satistied at any time, yout dealer wili make it right; we speak for all of them. Every dealer in our goods understand our policy in this matter, and that we will go to any length, as a matter of self-respect, to justify the confidence of the public in our quality. Hart Schatfner & Marx Good Clothes Makers Chicago Boston New Yor! SS

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—— ee gS ee | Copyright.:9 :0,by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, } in the United States and Great Britain. 0 ARE! ci llc Re Lad Volume 182 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 Posi-Office Department, Otawa, Canada | ~ PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 2, 1910 Denes O08 | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Founded A’D' 1728 Sy Benj.Franklin Entered ot tne Phitadetphia Post-orve: | as Second~-Class Matte: INSURG. HE Republicans of Indiana are on the warpath in a prudent, Hoosier way. Occa- sionally they let loose a scream of defiance when assembled in one of their numerous nventions, but, normally, they are insurging with Imness and deliberation, which, political history records, is the manner that usually gathers results Out in Kansas, when they insurge they insurge all over, but in Indiana they insurge with cireum- spection, throwing no fits, but sticking to it until the fateful end. Do not think from this that the movement of protest in Indiana has frills and furbelows on it, is a sort of a dilettante revolt That is far, far from true. It is blood-raw, but it isn’t noisy. Whena Hoosier gets his mind sot his mind is sot. That is what has happened The bulk of the Republican party in Indiana much more than the majority —is firmly convinced of three things: The first is that President Taft isn’t living up to his advance notices; the second is that Nelson W. Aldrich is an incubus—only they don’t call him that exactly; and the third is that Uncle Joe Canon must retire to the rear and ce Ca cease cluttering up Congress with himself as Speaker. Coupled with these firm impressions is another, namely, that the revision of the tariff perpetrated under the names of Representative Payne and Senator Aldrich and signed by Presi- dent Taft, is a betrayal of party pledges, a direct playing into the hands of the interests, a swat for the ultimate consumer, and an outrage on the body politic Now, when a Hoosier gets ideas like these firmly fixed in his mind there is but one thing for him to do. He is not like many of his Eastern brethren, who think of politics only during the last weeks of a big campaign and never go far enough into motives or results to form a decided opinion on anything. The Indianian thinks of politics all the time. He rarely thinks of anything else. No matter where he may live he mixes in the local, county, district, state and national contests so faras he can. He debates and dis- cusses. He reads and forms conclusions. He does not delegate his political powers to any boss or set of bosses. He is an individual in the game, not a pawn. Usually, he is a good party man. He believes in organization, but when he is convinced that the organization wrong, when he thinks he could do things better himself, he rises u then proceeds to try Indiana is largely an agricultural state. The farmers read and reflect and talk among thernselves. They keep posted. Thus it is folly for any set of machi: Y T | x | By Samuel G. Blythe nim chee a newspapers ha ‘ } ‘ ‘ | reate public opiniot ae —___—_— _ —__—__— EE — | can foster put pir r ihat nat they did , ‘ y nd Senator Albert J. Beveridge vith the tariff que nin I I not so hard Ind ngit the great pluralities given for Roosevelt, went for Taft by « ew tl i n I r to influence them against their convictions, just as it is folly for any leaders to try make them see the error of their ways. There is complaint among certain of the k of the Indiana Republicans that the new spapers of that state devote too much to a discussion of tariff matters. They say it keeps the farmers all wrought up } ) and says so, an nists to try utter futility of this complaint is found in the fact that the newspapers of Indiana like the new spapers of every other commonwealth, know what their readers want : print it, being business institutions,,in a sense, and not entirely educational How Indiana Feels About the President OWEVER, that has nothing much to do with the case. The fact is that the |} of the Republican party in Indiana is opposed to the revision of the tariff as was accomplished by the present Congress. There Republicans, principally manufacturers, who are high protectionists and who claim th under the high protective system much of Indiana’s prosperity has been attained This may be true. Still, it does not influence the farmer, himself : are, of course, a large number } f at this m prosperous in Indiana than he ever has been, nor does it affect the other divisions citizens who can be widely classed as consumers majority, have it firmly in their minds that the latest tariff revision was a swindle and a confidence game, and they deprecate it and say s Leaving the tariff for the moment, let me return to the other three items that have caused discontent among the Indiana Republicans is not one of aversion or anger. The President is liked for his many e qualities and for his acknowledged ability. The truth is that Indiana is disappointe in the President, is sorry he has not done what was expected of him, regrets sincerely th he has felt compelled to align himself with Aldrich and Cannon, and hopes —-somewh: Indiana Republicans, by a | The feeling against President Taft igaging pe rsonal a ; . 1] en to Aldr I ind { r n ‘ ’ 7 ’ , | pea el i i tatl l l ais ¢ Phere i " re no aspe P ‘ p { } } i eT be ly 1 ( } ( ( kindliest manner | eve! ‘ ippol ent a l ‘ r ctly wh he | | expe expected the Preside It wa ‘ pressed to me tl he ‘ | He h peen é } } | ccom hed } ex t ; no nave é ‘ ne « I hat he } I ‘ me | h peeche r I p Indiana, while re t ! re riff | t tt i pert he } j ed it il eme ! would take st emeé ‘ I | he could rt en the | ‘ es t Aldrich the pat or | ble | r n he wa i ( ‘ ‘ he Indiana people ea ed ‘ e Pre aent in hi W ere ] | | ul t they ere toes ng radical sk | Wir 1 spe I 1 ilism amor he Ke ird Well, we he I , is ¢ le ‘ er I It i gre: ] pl ! \\ ' Aldrich the Target | get oeesnctenen 1 ] ! the tariff | the : governorship and legislature were turned over to the Democrat tions had something to do with this, but not all. There was a certal ( Re lican unrest Thus, with this cor n, it is ea r the | " Rey land sufficient for be ng rer I} Re r, M Be veriage e i rauging th er t ! ( é Then, too ff dis nt | They sav ae py t ( | no sudden n. It came ] t é It is hard to | er ol ‘ ; } held to represe ne € i ( | t l icquaintance h Al W) f j years ago Aldrict } more in issue Dé re ¢ t ( Senator Ther ¢ } ‘ nse juenth) t . I ! popular mind a de ble pe masses, but rkir ¢ nt} ‘ he ‘ to the tice « } . 1, t in mar her | = ne t is elsewhere Probably 1 fi This opposition to Aldrict hick 1 onl .ction with his part rapidly d culminated during the tariff discussior Indiana pointed out that Mr. Roosevelt had never found with Aldrich to get results, an entirely specious } f | I enter into a combination with Aldrich. Ergo, Taft \ r Ited | th n Ir } par There ne

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li think so, all are opposed to him and, incidentally, coming into opposition to his party. As Kin Hubbard sapiently remarked: ‘‘ There is gettin’ to be a hull lot of former Republicans around here.” It is the same with Cannon, to a lesser degree. Indiana nows Cannon, He has spoken in the state time and time again. Indiana used to like him, but that was in the days before the shift came and the publicists ceased referring to Uncle Joe as a shrewd, kindly, homespun, Abe Lincoln sort of a man, and began calling him a villain and a traitor to the state It isn’t very tangible, either, what Cannon done to inflame the populace against him, but there is no doubt the populace is inflamed. He is coupled with Aldrich in the denunciation. He is a twin incubus, so to speak, one of the horrendous Incubus Brothers. From liking, they have come to detest and protest against this benign—or malign—citizen; and they demand his head on a charger It isn’t all personal with Aldrich and Cannon, although F lof it is. Indiana Republicans think Cannon and Aldrich type a fault in the Republican party, that which they are—and that Indiana, being a progressive state, wants its party leaders to be pooen ive ndiana wants some housecleaning done. The bulk of the party desires to have Aldrich and Cannon Pande out on the line and not taken in—not all the party, mark you, tor there is still a considerable element of reactionaries in Indiana among the followers of the old Fairbanks-Hemenway machine, but any candid observer 4 Indiana polities will tell you that the large majority of he party is disappointed in Taft and disgusted with Aldrich and Cannon. Therefore, Indiana is insurgent i good de they are reactionaries Beveridge the Main Issue TINUUS, largely outside the regular breastworks, the Re- publican party is preparing to go into one of the hardest fights in its history rhe asset and the issue of that fight is Albert J. Beveridge, present Republican Senator from Indiana and a candidate for reélection for a third term. | Phere may be-injected into the cz umpaign a phase of the liquor question or other questions, but the main issue is the reélecti« f Beveridge and, as I have just stated, the main asset of the party also is Beveridge. A few minor tate officials are to be elected next November and one hun- dred and twenty-five out of one hundred and fifty members the legislature. ‘There are twenty-five hold-over Sena- r Of these the Democrats have the majority The present legislature is Democratic on the joint ballot, and the present Governor is a Democrat. In addition to the elec- 1 of Beveridge the control of the legislature is supremely mportant, for it will have charge of the redistricting of the state under the apportionment of the census to be taken this year The control of the state, so far as future eyislatures go, depends on this legislature; for Indiana | al Ke e politi ns of every other state, and hey get a chance to gerrymander a bit they will do it sy the same token, they will have the chance Practicall the result of the present campaign will hinge on the question: Shall Beveridge be returned? He Nill be the Issue Republica will be elected or defeated on the straight-out question of whether they are for Beveridge or against him. It is the intention to run all candidates for the islature on that platform. Thus the personality, the complishments, the record of the itor will deterr the question of regaining the legislature from the De mo¢rats and carrying the state Like every other positive man, Beveridge has friends Not one of these is deluded into the thought that the fight that is coming will be an easy ne It | be war--bitter, cruel war-—-with Beveridge leading on one e, and his enemies in his own party and the Dem ‘rats on the other. Beveridge’s position is a terribly «i ‘tone. Not only has he to contend with the Democrats, weil organized and hopeful, but he hasreason to expect opposition in his own party. He has never admitted this last fact no ‘harged it, and is in no way responsible for this statement, which | make personally asa result of my own investigations and on my own responsibility a a. Pl ~~ > oe ~~ . “~y i oF ~ ——> THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Beveridge is in accord with the majority of his own party in Indiana. He opposed the passage of the Payne- Aldrich tariff bill and voted against it, in company with other progressives in the Senate. There are in Indiana those —mostly affiliated with the old-line leaders or what is left of them—who declare that Beveridge, after opposing the bill to the extreme limit, should have retained his party regularity by voting for the bill on the ground that it was a party measure and that he was thus bound to support it in the final showdown. You do not hear the great bulk of the party men saying this. If Beveridge had not voted against that bill, which they con- sider to be iniquitous, not in consonance with party pledges and not in stride with the spirit of the state, he would have been dropped like a hot potato. As it is, he is the most popular and the most powerful man in the state today, in full control of the organization, and will be the unopposed candidate of his party for Senator. He has elected the majority of the State Committee, will undoubtedly be indorsed by the State Convention, which had not been held when this was written, and will go into the campaign as the choice of most of his party and, nominally, of his entire party. No man acquainted with Indiana polities but will say to you, if he talks candidly, that without Beveridge the party would not have a ghost of a show. Many men with whom I talked said if there is any criticism of Beveridge it is not because he is too radical, but because he isn’t radical enough. All admit that he is the issue in the state of Indiana. When Beveridge completes his present term on March 3, 1911, he will have served his state for twelve years as Senator. In that twelve years the Fairbanks-Hemenway machine has disintegrated. Formerly all-powerful, Fair- banks has gone out and Hemenway has been retired. Others in the machine, notably Watson, who was defeated for Governor in 1908, have also been retired. Many Republican Representatives were defeated in 1908. Beveridge remains, by virtue of his position in the Senate, the leader. This does not mean that the old machine, which always looked with disfavor on Beveridge, is now for him. The remnants of that machine have been fighting him ceaselessly. They tried to influence the mind of President Taft against him and deprive him of the patronage that was his by right. They failed in that, and it is unlikely that they will stop trying to defeat him during this campaign. The Foes of the Progressives HE leaders of the opposition to Beveridge are Hemen- way, who was defeated for Senator after having been promoted from the House when Fairbanks became Vice- President, and Watson, who was in Congress, was named for Governor and was beaten, although Taft carried the state at the same election. These men never have liked Beveridge and they never will like him. The principal danger to Beveridge lies in the attitude of these men and their followers. They are politicians and they play the game. If the defeat of Beveridge can be accomplished ws James Hemenway and James Watson it will be accomplished. That much at least seems certain. It seems improbable that the antipathy of these two beaten politicians should accomplish the defeat of Beveridge, for a great many men who formerly belonged to that machine are now honestly and avowedly for Beveridge. Ninety-nine per cent of the men who were prominent in politics in the old days are for Beveridge. Here and there there are men who will not be reconciled. Combined with these men are high protectionists who are opposed to Beveridge because of his course on the tariff bill, and, also, there will bean effective and vigilant Demo- cratic opposition. Thus, it can be seen that the fight that is coming in Indiana will be more thana local one. It will be a fight for reélection by a man who stands for the pro- gressive policies of the Republican party in a state where those progressive policies are held to be the only right ones, typing the whole progressive movement and entailing a last and desperate struggle of men of the old school of polities to hold the progressive movement in Indiana in check. No man who knows Beveridge is insensible to his faults, but no man who knows him will honestly contend that his faults are not largely temperamental. He is something of an egoist, given to vainglorious conversation and declama- tion, and has an extreme faculty for irritating many with whom he comes in contact. ‘However, when you consider the intrinsic worth of the man, his splendid mind, his large grasp of public questions, his faculty for looking out for his people, his great skill as an orator and debater, and know that after the froth and fulmination he can get to the bottom of a proposition quicker and more sanely than almost any other Senator, and that after a certain amount of byplay he is sound as a nut on public questions, his limelight-seeking can be overlooked as temperamental, as I have already said, and his other fine qualities freely acknow ledged. April 2, 1940 There has never been any question of Beveridge’s cour- age, nor of his integrity. He could have made things very comfortable for himself in the Senate by voting for the tariff bill, even after he had opposed it up to the last ditch. He might have secured the aid of powerful influences toward his reélection. Instead, he voted against the bill and now goes to his state for justification and indorse- ment. So far as being the unanimous choice of his party for Senator and so far as being the issue in the campaign are concerned, he will have that measure of justification and indorsement that comes before the supreme event of the elections. It isn’t likely there will be in the country a clearer-cut chance to demonstrate the exact feeling of the insurgent Republicans against the present conduct of affairs in the Republican party than will occur in Indiana. Here is an insurgent state, with the bulk of the party dissatisfied with Taft and openly antagonistic to Aldrich and Cannon, displeased with the tariff law, in favor of honest revision and at outs with many of the announced policies of the Administration, and it will have the chance to reélect a Senator who represents the sentiment of that state on all vital points. There will be no other large issue. Candidates will be for Beveridge or against Beveridge. It will be, in a sense, a national campaign. The Line-Up Against Beveridge ONSIDER the situation and its difficulties: There isa legislature to elect. It is now Democratic on joint bal- lot. More than half of the twenty-five hold-over Senators are Democrats. The Democrats will make a hard fight, for Thomas Taggart, present Democratic leader in Indiana, has senatorial aspirations. The burden is on the Repub- licans, and the insurgent Republicans at that Thus, Beveridge’s problem is to win by changing the complexion of an already Democratic legislature, and to win notwithstanding such opposition of whatever kind as may develop in his own party. It must not be thought that his own party opposition extends to the rank and file. It exists only among former leaders, and discredited leaders at that, to be put into force through such political manipulations as they may contrive. It is said that it is the intention of Watson, a man of great personal magnetism and of much power as an ora- tor, to go into the state during the campaign and speak from the stump, with the argument that any man who voted against the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill is nota Repub- lican, that the vote for or against that bill, which was a party measure, was the test of party loyalty, and that the Republic an party cannot elect any man who is not a Republican. It is stated that he intends to say that opposi- tion to that bill was opposition to Taft and that Taft is the leader of the party, the titular head, as Taft put it him- self, and that non-support of Taft predicates treason to the Republican party. I hardly think Mr. Watson will attempt to enunciate this fine old Bourbon doctrine on the stump in Indiana He is a smart man, not a chump. If he is chump enough to do it I am of the opinion that he will get a response from the Republicans of Indiana that will make his head ache. Indiana Republicans seem to be thinking for them- selves these days, and they are long past slavish adherence to party and what the party proposes; nor will they let any person decide for them on the quality of their Republicanism. Returning to Beveridge, who will be the central figure in this fight that is bound to attract the attention of the entire country, the great mass of the Republicans in Indiana believe in him, have faith in his future and sup- port his attitude on public questions. Indiana, being insurgent for the reasons mentioned, will have the oppor- tunity to prove up this fall. Indiana political methods have been classed as devious for many years, but if Indiana Republicans let Beveridge go to defeat this year as the result of anything but a square-toed fight the progressiveness of Indiana’s Repub- licans will be labeled by the onlooking states ‘* Bogus.” ——— or

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| | ———— 5 ar rm * | OU TC. HIS part will have to be told our best, Writer, or else Janie will outshine us in her part of the story. Of course there’s nothing in the world like money and I didn’t blame Father and Mother for discussing it. She needed all she could get and he wanted all he could keep, so 1 got a good many pointers from their arguments, which began at breakfast One morning Mother concluded by saying: ‘For the last time, am I to have money to meet that debt ?’’ ** Certainly you may have it,” he replied politely, and produc- ing his pocketbook he shook out billsand coin before her on the table * Take it all, to the last cent.”” Only onearticle he picked up and re- placed in his pocket; this was his railroad ticket to thecity. Then he dropped the empty purse to the floor. She took the money, study- ing him meanwhile in a shrewd way; then she rose and passed from the room without another word. But I was seared, and after she’d gone beyond earshot I laughed a little. “What's the joke, Bob?” asked Father, looking up and lighting his cigar. ‘“‘Why, that’s a good one about its being the last cent.’ He looked me over and let the cigar go out. ‘‘ Fact is,” he said, ‘“‘ your mother has the deuce of a temper and it requires a joke like that to take the edge off it. But in spite of her extravagance she’s a good woman at heart, Bob.” “Sure,” I told him. ‘‘That’s what makes her extrava- gant.” He twisted a little in his chair. ‘‘I hadn't thought of it in that way,” he said. ‘‘Say, old fellow, suppose that wasn't such a joke—about the last cent, you know? You'd not mind; you'd stick to the old ’un? What a dunce I am to ask such a question; you'd swear by me to the very end of things,’’ he went on, as I looked around the dining- room, That was a cloudy morning in late November and I remember thinking how splendid it was to sit like some old lord in his castle hall, with the glare of silver against the black oak, and colored stars shooting among the glass when the grate fire licked out its tongue. “It’s like this,’’ he said, dropping his words more and more slowly, as I walked to a window and looked over the estate to the hills beyond: ‘‘ You'd stick Then sud- denly he became quite still. “You never can tell,’’ I said, turning on him, for I didn’t want him to think I'd joke about such a thing He passed his hand through his hair and there was a curious look about the eyes, as if they had sunken quickly into his head. After a moment he repeated: ‘‘No, you never can tell; that’s right, Bob.’’ He felt absently in his pocket, as though making sure that his railroad ticket was safe Then he rose, and, though like all Southern gentlemen I knew he wasn’t afraid of anything that breathed, I saw him glance quickly about as if wary of some danger that couldn't be seen. “Why, it wasn’t worth while, after all,’’ he said to himself, and left the room without taking further notice of me. I felt something pulling at me, this way and that. There was one sharp pain, and then my whole heart set in toward the splendid things around me; I seemed to take them all into my arms. ‘“‘Outeasts,” I thought of the world without, particu- larly of the Peacelanders down the valley Then I walked out past the terrace and through the beds, pretending not to see the under-gardener. But when I glanced back along the path of trampled shrubs I THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By CALVIN JOHNSTON G rir Sa Baa Se The Empty Purse and the Savings-Ban It Was a Laugh, but High-Pitched and Weird, Like saw him watching me; not angrily, but in a half-smiling, sorrowful way. I thought of this a good while afterward, it so happened I didn’t care, though, and whistled as I went over the wall into the lane. Somehow I wished to have a look at the Peacelanders and so struck into a path along the ridge. Those people were only native of course, we were born Cumberlanders, too, but not natives as I took i & under-gardener, was the head of the brood Pretty soon I saw Janie, the Peaceland girl, standing in the path. I thought of whooping to se look so little—just a brown thrush with feathers—that I felt it wouldn't be quite the thing; so I only said, ‘‘ Hello! She started a little, anyway, and turned with her hands *y lived on the edge of our estate and Jeff, our pressed tightly to her breast. Janie has very dark eyes and they seemed so full of something she'd been seeing that I believe she hardly knew I was there for a moment ‘*What were you staring at I asked She looked at me steadily a moment answered, and then blushed a little “T didn’t kn anybody real was so close **T don't see anything “T wish I could point ’em out I said, staring out over the hill ’ she said with a sigh; ‘‘but they ain’t ever where you point. Graciou my hair’s blown down and I forgot I was cold all over Of course I pitied anybody who talked and acted so unreasonably and I wondered if all outcasts were like th ‘Maybe that ‘‘Do you natives ever get down to your last cent ? ‘‘Not quite; we aiways keep three for luck what makes them out answered Well, this was prett down and see how you get on,”’ I told her ‘I just wish you would,” replied Janie. ‘‘ There’s more down to Peaceland I guess youd Iké Granny best. She interests me more every day I grow up nearly as t id nterestin thing I can beat you down the valley She went down the path and among the rocks like squirrel and I was pl well blown when I iughnt with her at the gate ‘We keep this tied up so the Fambly won't break out and scatter,’’ she said, pulling out around the post A boy about six years old, with his thumb in his mouth was on the watch. He took it out to yell that Janie had come home to ‘em again, and then put it back ‘*This is the Fambly,” explained Janie, and she tried to lift him up to show him to me “T can see him on the ground,” I told her. ‘“ You’ll break your back **He can lif’ me up,’’ mumbled the Fambly, and Idida little ways Then we went into the house which i ED BY W B STEVEN S&S | aN W t F er i ne ‘ ur x iJ é ind ner ne if i’ me eri t ‘ i ‘ x Granny needed tha we or bu th nin ing a old yoman coming o1 rf i corner, she told | ‘There's more way thanoneo raisin tam blies,”’ the old woman begar **Some raises ‘em 1 a skely ton in that closet I was surprised, but opened the door Do you see any kelyton No! Well there ain't any in this fambly, ex ep me ihat ou aint, either cried Janie, cla ping her | ind, while the Fambly sat down where he was the Howl of a Strangled Dog and began to moanand rock back and forth “Who? Me?” said Grann ‘*T reckon I know what I am, chile. A ole skelyton. Boy, did you ever look into your ¢ loset at home **No, ma'am, I answered, for I was a little starth _ and could feel her eyes running ro over me in the dusk of the ym ‘Well, don’t you ever; you might see me inside.” she as much satisfied with this and lit a’ little stone pipe without once taking her eyes off me Then her fresh-ironed calico dre rustled, as, picking up her stick she hobbled to the door spryly ny boy could have There she beckoned me to the light Eyes, hair and shoulders all Sumner,” she said. ‘ But where did you get that mouth I shook my head, and Granny added: ‘ Well, we can t expect the airth ind tapped me across the should with her stick Secrets! he whispered there judgment in luggin’ skelytor nto the open da here everybody can stare Hor bright Honor | | repeate kr I ! that I v n't t ell what I he i e clapped her hand Love her Granny was ber r} it her ey¢ ed like spark ul he mea ' hic lanc j ke ab re th e } erhe ed } sth la bi i he like } pere J c one € the } ‘ i neve t t é t na } We | 1) er 1 t i l fresh tl et t m at ( ik t ! t ilr A ea W t to k it Pe ( nad 1 i | é Phe ter e J ( ! he he Jef] é rdene I lled me } n Bob ho ¢ he he eT t } the « ¢ | } ( t il hette t l ed t nner he he l ! t hand I couldn't | t el 1 Jeff, | nt a | ne ig ‘ lenh nd ll ened ! | f no ad | n ( J ! the re, but 1 } ce n crack int! t me [rol r ( ( dinner I thought Jani ! but eff | hol the « i hee ( t

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 2, 1910 and was laughing and blushing in a most unaccountable way “Why doesn’t she get mad, y?” Lasked Janie “The Fambly will ‘tend to that,”’ she whispered. “If you want that money you'll have to beat me,”’ said Jeff. ‘“‘Now, ready! I ain't goin’ to let anybody break into my bank.’”’ But she jerked away from him and they both made a wild rush at the old clock, on the chimney shelf. There they cuffled a moment while we were all terribly ex- cited But Mrs. Jeff got the best of it and broke into the clock where the money was hidden; then she counted it on the table--forty-eight cents “Put three cents back commanded Granny. ‘ No- body in this house would ever look at a clock if it wasn't full oO money.” ‘*Umph,"' I said; *‘ I thought there must be a thousand dol- lars in it’; and then the Fam- bly raised a howl because his | father had got the worst of it But that was the only voice I heard and soon I realized that they were all watching me or ery ‘Oh, it was only a piay game, said Janie | I couldn't help laughing. ‘I | guess you folks ain't used to money,’ I told them, “or else you'd know it’s the only im- portant thinginthe world. You shouldn't make a play of it They looked at me ina puzzled way; all except Granny **The mouth,” she said, and pointed with her stick I didn't like this, for I knew my mouth was like mother’s; so I turned around and went out But as I started away I remembered that I'd eaten dinner there an wouldn't do to go without a word; so I nodded through the door with my cap off and called: **Had a piping dinner, Mrs. Jeff, and a good time.” “Shoulders!” cried Granny, and, without knowing exactly why, [ held them braced back as I climbed the hill It was now about mid-afternoon and I didn't feel like going straight home. People on the neighboring estates had seattered away before the winter~ why we stayed on was a mystery and our house was lonesome without visitors. So | cut a stick and walked around by myself Pretty soon I began to feel angry toward the Peace- landers. ‘‘They try to set ‘emselves up,” I thought; “but they're only snobs— making such a fuss over forty- eight cents! And Granny ought to be taken down more than any of 'em here was something about her I couldn’t understand, and I wondered over and over what she meant by saying that I might see her inside my closet, like a skeleton. It couldn't have been a joke, because she looked mischief, and she seemed to be hitting at my Mother in calling ** Mouth *‘Well,”’ I wound up, “that’s all I could expect of people who live in such a contemptible house. It’s neat enough, but they have to keep it that way to live in it.” Thick twilight came on, almost before I knew it, and a mist swept in before a driving northeast wind I'd walked a long ways and was near the boundary of the estate, wnen tt lng back along the ridge | saw a man’s figure below at the head of a little gulch. In this spot wa a wide deep pit which had once been sealed up with heay 5 boards, then long timbers thrown across them, as if a giant had been playing jackstraws there The man seemed to be peering among the timbers for a glimpse of the Black Pit, part of whose covering had rotted away and fallen out of sight As I watched he straightened up and raised his hand toward it, while a curious broken sound came to me through the wind and mist. It was a laugh, but high-pitched and weird, like the howl of a strangled dog I stood shivering and then ran a little way in sudden fright. This was strange, for there wasn't much to be afraid of, even in that lonesome epot, and feeling ashamed of myself I returned a moment later. But the man had disappeared, and after looking all over for him I started home. It was black night when ] vot there I was the only one at dinner, for Mother sent the maid to say she had a headache, and it seemed that Father had gone to the city, where business took him two or three imes a month rhe lights seemed very bright inside; the log fire very cheerful. For I could hear the wind piping through the This Purse Ain't Any More Empty Than His Savin's-Bank Will be to Him” big pine near the window and little flaws of rain bursting against the glass. So I took particular pains and a great deal of time to eat, wishing the outcasts could see me, and frowning at George Third, the butler, and the other splendid things as I had a right to do, being brought up to it ‘**That shabby, little brown thrush wouldn't dare cheep here,” I thought; ‘‘and those people whose only bank is their old clock. But the Fambly would burst himself.”’ This was so amusing that I came down and told old George about them all —that is, all except Granny. When I came to her my tongue stuck, and I could see her, quick- eyed and withered, standing before me with pointing stick, while the wind made a noise like the rustle of her fresh-ironed calico. I didn’t like this a bit, but having so much the best of such people I could afford to be satisfied, anyway, and pushing back my chair I walked toward the fireplace. Now it was only a few steps from my chair to the fireplace, but I was much older before I got there. I saw something lying on the floor and stooped to pick itup. I held the leather pocketbook which my Father had dropped there that morning after emptying it on the breakfast table. And with a scared, sickening feeling I looked into the folds and found a penny stuck fast —one copper cent was all it had left. Then, in a flash, I saw the gulch that ended in the Black Pit; the wanderer peering among the old timbers; the despairing way he had thrown up his hand; the laugh- ‘Father!"’ I exclaimed; then I caught George Third watching me from the corner of his eye and, putting the last penny and the purse into my pocket, I whistled and went to my room. After a time I crept to bed without looking into any closets, for I had more important things to think about. Next morning Mother asked me where I'd spent all of yesterday, and when I told her she forbade my going near the Peacelanders again, or’ even‘ speaking to them Particularly that wretched old woman,” she added. ** They are outeasts,’’ I said comfortably, for I had once heard her use that word in speaking of the Peacelanders. ** Yes,” she cried angrily; ‘‘yes; outcasts!” She dropped the subject here, but soon after I saw her summon Jeff to the terrace and speak to him with a quick gesture and a few sharp words. He nodded, and presently putting on his coat went away for good and all Well, he was a snob, anyhow, with his forty-eight cents, and I didn’t care much Several times I went to tell her that I had seen Father near the Black Pit, but always changed my mind, for she was very cheerful that morning and I liked to see her smiling, and fresh and beautiful, without any look or sign of trouble But I was troubled in a vague way, with the picture of that solitary, wind-beaten figure always before me, and had hard work to hide it from her The wind and rain drove in again from the north- east and I passed all the day close to her side, while she em- broidered and planned travels abroad before the drawing- room fire. With that last cent and the empty purse in my pocket, however, I didn’t ven- ture near the fire in the dining- room. ‘Father must be on his way to the city,” I thought. ‘‘ Still, he might be standing out in the rain by the Black Pit”’; and I wasn’t quite so comfort- able as I had been. But all the incidents of the day ran cheerily enough until evening fell black and chill, with gusts like blows of a giant's fist falling against the house. Then the mail from the village was brought in and I noticed that Mother, after reading a certain letter, sat frowning and holding it. At this moment I laughed a little to myself for worrying about Father. ‘‘As if he would stay at the Black Pit in such weather,” I thought. Mother stared at me. ‘“‘Is it a great joke, Robbie?” she asked, just as Father had done when I laughed for him the morning before This was all she said, but from that moment a kind of blight seemed to settle on our household and it began to wither in a dismal though very splendid way When the next morning Mother ordered out the auto and went down the valley to say good-by to the last remaining friend of the autumn colony, I was left to myself and wandered out along the path leading to Peaceland 1 felt in higher spirits for the clearing weather, till, suddenly, I came across Janie, who sat perched on a big boulder in the path with an old shawl around her. She did not speak at first, but looked at me in a solemn way; her eyes seemed bigger than usual and her hands were clasped in her lap ‘‘Are you goin’ down to look us over again, today?” she asked. ‘‘ Weil, it ain’t worth your while. Everybody but Granny is sky-blue, and Papa Jeff has gone away to hunt another job. They're pretty skurse, too, now.” ‘That so?” I said, for I'd forgotten that Jeff would have to get another job of some kind. ‘*Your mamma said we were outcasts,’’ she went on; ‘but you don’t think so?” I sighed, but nodded “ Yes.’’ ‘‘ But you can’t help that, you know, being born that way,” I added. This didn’t seem to comfort her much. “It’s like this, said Janie, while her eyes flashed: ‘‘I didn’t s’pose you were proud, for all your fine clo’es and house; but I’ve found you out now and don’t care about you any more.” This was twisting things about. It was my place to tell her that I didn’t even care to speak to her again; but now she'd said it first, so all I could do was to get mad and stare. But with her bright, angry face and the way she came to stand straight before me, I couldn't help thinking that Janie carried herself with as fine a manner as anybody [ wouldn't answer and was turning away when, all at once, the bright look died out of her face and in another moment she was draggled and tear-stained, and hiding her face against the rock I didn’t know why, but I simply couldn't leave her this way. I was miserable, too, and spoke her name. Janie didn’t answer and I touched her arm, but she drew herself away a little farther. ‘‘Janie!’’ I shouted in her ear, “let up. Be a good fellow. Want me to tell you about my pony ?’ I was pretty anxious for a bit till, thinking she nodded her head, I went on as fast as I could to tell her every- thing I knew about ponies. Then I started on my other things and, growing interested, she dabbed her eyes with her shawl and turned her face toward me It took a good while to finish,but when I did she thought a minute and said in a low voice with her head drooping: **You have a right to be proud with so many splendid things. We ain't nothin’ and have nothin’, too—excep’ hard times. Oh, well, I ain't felt this way long, ‘cause I didn’t know I wasa oute¢as’. But I ain’t happy any longer I wish I had everything fine, instead o’ raggedness.”’ She jerked at the old shaw] until it tore across, then she looked sorry, but satisfied. ‘I s’pose I'll have to mend it tomorrow,” she told me, ‘but I’m glad I tore it today. Good-by! And she ” SE ee en

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valked off with her head in the air and I didn’t know what to make of her, though I must have sat there ten minutes figuring it out By next day something strange had come into our house, like a thief. I could feel it stealing things away from us the obedience of the servants, whose faces became hard and sneering; the grandness and comfort which had made our home all The color of our lives seemed to pass quickly, and in a single day we were moving a home should be Wad still dusk like gray, threatened figures in a thick | wandered all through the house, but this dusk came on from room to room and I retreated before it ifter door behind me. That evening all the ent away, and Mother, taking me into her arms, said with quiet bitterness **Hereafter you and I are alone in the world.”’ ‘*Where is Father?” I asked ‘I do not know; he has deserted us.”’ I left her and thought by myself a long time. But when I went back and we sat before the drawing-room fire I looked at her proud, pale face and thought she had trouble enough. I could not tell her of my last sight of Father peering into the Black Pit and all I asked was: ** Are we down to the last cent?” “Yes,” she answered in contempt, and since we had come to that, anyhow, I was now sorry I hadn’t kept my Father along with it. I never knew days to slow up as they did at this time A single one would stretch out till it seemed to cover half a lifetime, while, hour by hour, a terror grew on me that my Father had fallen into the Black Pit. I could not speak of this to Mother, and only go near the spot. Then it was by playing hide-and-seek ‘**There’s no use hiding any longer,’’ I shouted through the timbers: ‘I see you there.” Only silence in a dreadfu voice of n answered me, and I tried again though stiff to my very throat **O’ course I'll stick to the last cent; me Come and see.”’ Then I ran away and stayed close to Mother's side the hardly realizing who

closing door servants but one were once did I summon courage to

its Ow I have it here with rest of the day. She would pet me was there, and mutter over and over to herself ““What was he about? What could he have done with all of it? She was still thinking of the money, uspecting that than its loss could happen, and | thought it her mind of this trouble to tell her what | But when her pride seemed to break suddenly and she came into my room in the early morning with ‘Bobby why doesn't he come back to us with what he has?” Then I had to Keep the secret from her never anything worse would relieve knew her hair disordered and cried, sobbing: THE SATURDAY EVENING

as the Fambly h: would forgive me, and wa over to her made her tremble it had been eaten al

wing, I found the door locked. The doors of both the upper and lower halls were locked; the north wing was cut off Well, I wondered some at this, but as I'd only wishe to take a peep throug! the key! iv? l isnt T cl aa ed 1e la ‘ ant left and the tl o happer For Mother ho had idenly become i still, frightened k al ( hit ul LAC what Va left T r meas if i certain pantr And every morning a great part of it wa ne She couldn't eat so much in the middle of the night [ thougt *‘It’s something else and she pretends 1 notice 1 ear ol Irightenin t Butt V nae ne i I scared and stops to listen eve minute That eleton had cé iinly come ut of it loset t the wrong time, for we didn't have ar much to « as Il Was Grant ot somethir ) vith th Itoldr el I navel I 1 st iT th n in that I rtr \ I i lt l | jown to Peaceland and take a look If she’s eaten all that ood ipl SI WwW « ner t me > thinkll i fine ex ri roing down there | stole away from | é nger De re If rye ne way I ne vy i ind with t ta ’ t the wav to the , e he At the do I < e face to r \ new her Instead of | her face was alm white, and she t me sil th her big, black eye I didn't kr it to di t I remembered too late that I’d explained she was ar outcast the last time we met, and pernay} he had come to hate me for it I r down and I suppose stood ir le Janie stared without a word ust

I felt t fairly ready to bolt

e neve! when she

iddenly tl said ‘‘Come it in a very little voice, and touched the fingertips to the black eyes as if feeling tears in them “Come, look us over, Sumner Granny called me by my last nan from the far side of the room, and going 1 could only mumble that I'd brought her sometning Mrs. Jeff was there, looking on with an anxiety that Her face wasn't as round and rosy a and I was puzzled t see Granny herself a thin anc She could never have

held i then opened it Granny took it in her hand a moment, hesitated, an

We used only four or five rooms now, and ali the north wing of the house was Though | didn't believe in such deserted things, | kept think ing of Granny’sskele- ton, and wouldn't have looked in the north wing for or money. The thought took possession of me that love I must see Janie once more, but when I mentioned the Peace- landers Mothe rspoke of them witha hatred that made me shiver; and this in the midst

of her distress seemed almost wicked Of course I wanted to do my duty, began casting around for some duty that would take me to Peaceland, and this is what came of it In the middle of one blowy night I half dreamed that something moved softly about my room. This might have been my Mother, but when I woke suddenly in the strangest excitement and called, there was no answer. Next morning, happening so |

to go through the hall toward the north

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C v WW, rt umer’s e Que 3 ponents soa i THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 1i0n From a Con- By Clifford Thorne DECORATIONS BY JAMES M. April 2,1910 PRESTON f . 4 HE tariff question from the consumer’s standpoint has been a favorite topic for many years. But where hi T ‘ Doo! ne iper or speec h can you s the rate question from the ne p t e been content to " il isumer pa) and then we pro- ceed to let him do so, without giving any thought or con- sideration whatever as to what might be his interests The relat nportance to the consumer of the tariff rauy 1 iZINng Lhe t l« toms revenu f the Ur 1 States last year w nrour umbers, three hur I a while tl total lr dad earnit i n it r t four hundred million « The exa l for the ear endir June 30, 1909 V ( ms revenue, $300,0977,438 ilroad earn- ings, $2.4 1012 he same items for 1908 were: Cus- to re t Pid LS A JSS I lro. a earning $2 424,640,637 Ra ad earning for the year ending June ere ¢ piled from Bulletins Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Revenue and Expense f Steam Roads in the United States, prepared by the Bureau of Statistics and \ ints of the Interstate Commerce Commission; those the Twenty-second Annual Report elIn ( nerce Commission. The amount of the ton ‘ was secured from Government offi- ils. In connection with the foregoing comparison it must be distinct emembered it the evil of excessive tariff rates is not simply the charge paid on the artic le imported, which is ultimately paid by the consumer, but also the idditional amount paid directly to the local manufacturer because of excessive or prohibitive tariff rate For ge eral purposes, however, the comparison used is justifiable in order t e some conception of the magnitude of the railroad tax which we pay Freight Paid by the Consumer HE consumer pa i to tan ent tm larger than his tariff tax. We have been talki alia out all phases of he tariff for centurie but the mag aliaiies f the railroad est t 4 OF Ss lr ‘ e Congressional committees con- cernil r uci le ition innumerable shipping a socia- ons have been represented, but I have been able to find or re i er umers were heard from am i { itive, a Yi; ! ' nteer A nm » gentler he |} in it one h ‘ ence lar gi i tes From the orgar tion of the Interstate Commerce Com- ion in i down t he present time there have beer i and col t ed, the Commission has ren- dered lred f decisions and prosecuted nume nvestigat in not one of these cases have the inter- ‘ of th nsumer bee he controlling factor A] hese ! ive itural effect With ‘ i tf ate our te li \ % cor it oO pre petit t if ‘ yi ng frozen ‘ ex ence ! ra lat we pay t is of abso- e learned from the remarkable investigations that have been con- What is the important fact we consumers hav ducted by the Government during the past few years? re i at irrent comment seems to be about the dishonesty of justrial leaders Be honest !"’ ‘* Obe the law!” are being thundered daily. But after all is said and done you will find that these capitalists are just about as honest as the average politician or yellow journalist who is yelling about them. Nine cases out of ten they are doing exactly what he would do if he were in their shoes and had their brains. So far as we have been able to discover most of our industrial leaders have used precisely the same busi- ness methods on a large scale which are, and always have been, practiced in the corner grocery store on a small seale. The disclosures about graft and fraud and rebates and trickery have lent spice to the work. They have served their purpose; they have sounded the alarm, awakening us, arousing us to action; and now, afterall the moke and stench and turmoil have passed away, there loom up before us some real questions to decide. The great problem lying back of all the astounding facts that have been unearthed during the past few years, from one end of the continent to the other, is purely a business juestion, A Clear-Cut Business Proposition HAVE no panacea, no cure-all, no solution for the grave situation confronting us in connection with our public- ervice corporations; and nobody else has. But there is one simple, clear-cut business proposition in connection with this controversy which I believe you will accept, regardless of what happens to be your particular financial relation to the subject. On many matters the interests of the railroads and the people are common. But railroads are built to make money; they secure this money through the rates which they charge; and upon the question of the size of these rates the interests of the roads and the people are diamet- rically opposed to each other. It is to the interest of the ay companies to charge just as high rates as they can, re with gen- railw as long as such rates do not serious ly inter eral business activity; and, upon the other h ind, it is to the interest of the consumers of the United States to secure this transportation for the lowest possible rates that are consistent with the reasonable prosperity and further growth of our railroads. There is nothing dishonest about this. It is the same old situation of buyer and seller. It is good business, that is all. We are the purchasers of transportation. The railway ‘ompanies are the sellers. It is to their benefit to have h rates, and to ours to have low rates. How are they ooking after their interests, and how are we looking after hi | The railroad companies are organized. I have before me 1 publication of the Southwestern Tariff Committee which announces rates between many thousands of towns. In this one paper-bound book there are several million rates, all issued by one man, Mr. F. A. Leland, who acts as agent and attorney for two hundred and ninety railroads! Whenever any of these rates are attacked the shrewdest ind best-trained experts that money can hire are prepared to defend them How are the consumer's rights being protected? You pay these rates; do you know whether or not they are reasonable? And whom have you employed to take care of such matters in your behalf ? It must be conceded at once that our rate law is of great value to the shipper for he can afford to prepare a com- plaint, go before the Interstate Commerce Commission, commence suit and prosecute the same, when large sums of his individual money are involved. And it may be noted that the Interstate Commerce Act was largely framed to meet the demands of the shippers. The consumer and the shipper have entirely different interests at stake. The consumer is interested in low rates, while the shipper does not care whether the rates are high or low. The following statements are typical of the attitude of shippers in general Mr. John D. Kernan, one-time chairman of the New York State Railroad Commission, and credited with being the author of the original Interstate Commerce Act, said before a committee of the Fifty-seventh Congress on April 17, 1902: ‘*The Commission never had any difficulty about lowering rates. The shippers do not care what rates are charged. It is the relation of rates between competi- tors; that is the thing they want fixed.” Mr. Kindel, of Denver Colorado, who is said to have had much experience in rate affairs as a represt ntative of shippers, » Interstate Com- merce Law Convention held at C1} recent 1endment of the Act to Regulate Commerce: **Now h all the controversies I have had with the rail- roads, I never once contended for low rates.” All the shipper insists upon is that his competitor shall pay the same charges demanded of him; then the freight can be added to the cost of the article, and the consumer foots the bill. But wae am I protected ? Where do I, the consumer, come in? Iam the man who pays the freight The shipper will not protect me. What would be the practical inducement for a man shipping cattle from a town in Nebraska to Chicago to complain against and assume the extra burden of proving the unreasonableness of the rates on cigars or calico, or any of the other eight thousand articles in the different classifications, between any of the thousands of towns in the United States? His case will be confined to cattle. tated in a speech before tl 1icago just before the Why Shippers are Slow to Act HEN a man brings a suit in our civil courts, does he attempt to settle the legal troubles of his friends and neighbors? He may have money enough to do this, but he simply does not care to do so. The average shipper is very loath to take the initiative even in his own affairs The reas ons for this have been tersely stated by the late Justice Peckham, of the United States Supreme Court: There is such an infinite variety of facts entering into the question of what is a reasonable rate, no matter what standard is adopted, that any individual shipper would, in most cases, be apt to abandon the effort to ay the unreasonable character of a charge, sooner than hazard the great expense in time and money necessary te prove the fact and at the same time to incur the ill will of the road itself in all his future dealings with it. (U.S. vs. Trans-Mo. Freight Ass., 166 U.S. 290 The Interstate Commerce Commission has had occasion to observe the same thing: An extensive shipper is dependent upon the railroad company. That company may completely crush him before we can afford him the slightest relief and in spite of any action which we can commence in his favor. If it doesn't openly discriminate against him there are innu- merable ways in which it can annoy and injure him. Ship- pers fully understand this. Complaints received by us are often accompanied by the request that the name of the complainant may not be made known to the carrier (11th Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission, page 32 Many of the reasons that deter the shipper from acting on his own behalf, such as the complexity of the questions involved, apply also to the consumer. These reasons are magnified a thousand-fold in the consumer's case because of the multitude and smallness of the claims. If a railroad has a monopoly of transportation to my section, or if several railroads can combine —and they have combined for a quarter of a century in all parts of the —— : : |

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= —— United States so that they can fix the size of this tribute, I am liable to suffer. What protection have I against this contingency ? Today there is not one man in this nation authorized to take the initiative on behalf of the consumers of the United States in connection with railroad rates; and yet the consumers pay all these rates, which amount to over two billion dollars every year The simple fact that there is no machinery in our system of government to protect the consumer, and the fact that the shipper does not care what the rate is so that his com- petitor pays the same, make it possible for the railway companies to cause uniform advances in freight rates all over the country, on thousands of articles, without a hand being lifted in opposition It has been suggested that the power to initiate ings concerning rates should be given to the Interstate Commerce Commission What could we re expect to accomplish by this method ? It was intended and it was generally understood that the Commission had that power for a number of years in its early history, until the Supreme Court held that the Commission had authority only to pass an opinion upon the reasonableness of rates, but not to fix maximum rates pre weed- ~asonably The Limitations of Commissions HE original act was liberally construed, no complaint being required to give jurisdiction. See: Matter of Grand Trunk Railway Co., 2 I. C. C. Rep (‘The statute confers jurisdiction, with or without a com- plainant who has sustained damage, both to ascertain whether its prov isions have been violated, and to deal with actual violations." Id. ‘‘ Neither a formal complaint, nor direct damage to a complainant is necessary to give juris- diction to the Commission,”’ Id This continued to be true up to the amendment of the Act in 1906, which gave to the Commission the power to fix maximum rates, but specifically withheld the initiatory power so far as fixing rates was concerned During all those years the authority to take the initia- tive concerning rates remained a dead letter on the statute books. Over thirty states have given this power of initia- tive to their railroad commissions, and most of them have had such authority for a generation. Yet these commis- sions originate practically nothing. All their important rate cases are commenced and are prosecuted through to the end by outside sources be: it is right all this judge 504. This is precisely as it should There is a good and sufficient reason for You cannot expect a man or body of men to act as deciding a matter at issue, and at the same time act as prosecutor, bringing the action and fighting it out before himself; also, incidentally, being the star witness and jury. Can you a judge, jury, prosecuting attorney and witness all rolled into one? Such a glomeration is certain to bea failure. It is contrary to the entire legal history of the English-speaking race It is doubtful if there has been a solitary case, either in civil or criminal law, on English or American soil, since the days of the Star Chamber, when any judge ever prosecuted a case before himself. Since the foundation of our Govern- ment the only attempt to form such a tribunal for this nation was when the Interstate Commerce Commission was organized in 1887; but this attempt 1 with utter failure because of the wisdom of the members of that Com- mission. Early in their history they saw the futility of being both prosecutor and judge, and whenever they have passed upon the reasonableness of rates, they have, without exception, exercised solely the functions of a judge We have public prosecutors for violations of our crim- inal laws, our bankruptcy our corporation laws our insurance laws; and the framers of the Interstate Commerce Act correctly felt the necessity for some public official to take the initiative in the prosecution of violators of that law, because the evil results were of such a public character and affected the people at large. The error they fell into was combining prosecutor and judge in one tri- bunal. Experience demonstrated this folly, Commission totally failed to act as prosecutor The providing of a special court, which will take the place of the Federal courts in hearing appeals from the conceive of con- laws because the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Interstate Commerce Commission, may serve t matters under the present system not improve the situation of the consumer, for there will still be no one to champion his cause The authorizing of the Department of Justice to bring Suit to enloree the orders of the Commission a ) defend it in the courts dos not tend the least relieve thi itua It ha been proy ed t horize he Comr siot ) establish a schedule of maximum rates for the re country, a plan followed in England and in certain st n America. We will pause only rrest that the condit in different parts of the United States are far more varie than conditior 1 England; tl here are a vast numl of rates in the United States Mr. Stickney has estimated tne I 1! ber , trill mn | t I ] ed n i I r the Commi on at present Is overworked; and that 1 probable that the Commission, with its present personnel nd ns, would simply adopt the rate re today and thus rivet the present is Thereafter, a party seeking in transportation charges would not me | blished nd the public but ng-esta rates accepted he would have the r the burden of overcom additional presumption of reasonableness attached to a commission-made : has been the actual in almost every stat that cou has been wed Wherever comn ion have established state schedules we find that nothing more of any consequence has been accomplished for a quarter of a century or so, and then only after a long and bitter agitation in newspapers and on the stump The Commission establish maximum rates for thousands hundreds of towns. It may be that in this way we shall . . 4} has already exercised the power to of articles between gradually build up a new scheme of rates for the entire ommission has from both the railroads and the shippers But methods ? nation n such cases the ( always heard what is the consumer to gain by either of these There is no attempt here to provide any means of presenting his side of the controversy Some one has suggested that the Commission be given control over the capitalization ol The practical effect of this would of the individual purchaser of stock railway companies be mz 1inly for the benefit enabling him to act more intelligent ly on the stock market Dividends on Watered Stock HE permission of the Government to overcapitalize, it is claimed by some, should estop the Government fron reducing rates althou unreasonably high, on the ground that the to dividends on his h the given rates are 1ocent purchaser is entitled watered stock here can be littl practical force to such an argument, for the fact is, there is no real connection whatever in a purchaser’s mind between the par value of a stock and its actual value Stocks vary on the market from a few cents to several } hundred dollars for each share which has a par value of one hundred dollars, That purchaser who is so extremely innocent as to rely upon the capitalization of a compar or, in other words, upon the par valueof a company’s stocl to tell him the value of that stock, needs a guardian to take charge of his affairs Overcapitalization does not affect me 4 company 1 not entitled to charge unreasonable rates in order to eart j tarad ] dividends on watered stock Our esteemed ex-President has very truthfully said that the people ‘will not tolerate efforts to make the pul pay dividends on watered stock Quoted in The Out look, Vol. 85, page 314.) And our Supreme Court ha ruled: ‘If a railr vad corporation has bonded its property amount tnat t for an exceeds its fair value, or if its cap talization is largely fictitious, it may not impose upon the pul lic the burden of ich increased rates as ma re required for the purpose of realizing profits upon sucl excessive valuation or fictitious capitalizatior Smytl vs. Ames, 168 U.S. 171 So, what matters it way com a hundred or four per Steel ‘T f ois CA u if aita ul al } t steel } 1? ‘ } r manr At t i are ! t i tior Dp and 1 ind by sor Ipene tril id traffic the fray; t} tney u l] | , p r ne r involved, aggregatir hund would justify the employm«e men, who should be pr é all kinds and el cter tl We should be represented be Commission by me ho are and just as well-trained a t people who are tallv affe rates are the consumer The t the consur 1 clear | Le ; e nex rr competent presentat r f ti this tribunal At present tl } é ( ommiss ( wih be ise ¢ | ‘ capable f effec é I own behalf We nsumers aré nvthing t al le article ¢ mencir p I ’ hick the fu y I i Ar tl everal } ired th complaint pia , protec t ‘ re T¢ i Ir} } } } r ! 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10 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 2,1910 Marrying and Giving in Marriag M VERY funny that way,” Louis Fishbein admitted I would sooner give it a law- yer two hundred dollars than paya sucker two cents which I don’t owe him at all.” ; you got to admit, yourself, Fishbein,’’ Max Blintz rotested, ‘that we did give an order for the piece goods.”’ Supposing wedid,”’ Fishbein said. ‘‘ Must we got toac- cept goods which we know beforehand we are stuck with?” “That ain't Mendelbaum’s fault we are stuck with em,”’ Blintz declared. ‘‘We 1 the piece goods from ordered By MONTAGUE GLASS ILLUSTRATED St BARTIN ‘‘Well, there’s a difference in being fresh and being fresh, Blintz,’’ Fishbein said sagely, ‘‘and this here Markie Gubiner is fresh, y’understand, and that’s all there is to it.”’ A scathing rejoinder had just suggested itself to Blintz when the door opened and the mail carrier entered. He JUSTICE gestures had cracked every table in the mu- nicipal courthouse on Madison Street, and it was, therefore, generally acknowledged that he had a great future at the bar. Unfortunately, the legal profession in New York is much overcrowded, and Markie’s practice was still too small to warrant his marriage. Accordingly, his attentions to Hattie Blintz had not yet crystallized into an engage- ment, although he had a client in the children’s clothing business whose affairs were in a critical condition, and in the Mendelbaum to makeup them d for Simon Horowitz, and just because Horowitz sends us a cancellation, Fish- bein, ain't no reason why Mendelbaum should lose money Mendelbaum orders ‘em from the mills, Fishbein, and he’s got to pay for ‘em, | and you got to remember ndelbaumi anew beginner, who couldn't stand it so good Horowitz. Also, Mendel- baum would sue us, Fishbein, | and we would got to defend it wt « A\lx j | in court, anyway. My idee is that we would sue Horowitz | and m: ke him take the goods oi Fishbein stared at hi part- ner indignantly A fine chance we would t with Simon Horowitz,”’ he said. ‘I guess you forget that Horowitz got four daugh- ters and three of ‘em is married to lawyers. That feller ain't ck us enough for cut glass and sterling silver engagement and wedding presents that he uld send us cancellations yet event of a catastrophe Markie expected to buy Hattie Blintz a diamond ring from the re- tainer. ‘Popper wants to speak to you,”’ Hattie announced when Markie arrived at Blintz’ Lenox Avenue flat that even- ing. Markie grew white. “He'll never get an exten- sion, Hattie,’ he said, ‘‘and right now I’m drawing a peti- tion in bankruptcy to be filed by his brother-in-law as soon as the creditors close down on him.” ** Take yourmind off of busi- ness oncet ina while, Markie,” said Blintz, who had emerged unnoticed from the living- room. ‘I want to ask you an advice.” **Fire away,’’ Markie said “*T’m ready.” Blintz led his prospective son-in-law into the dining- room and handed him a cigar. ‘* Meand Fishbein gota little trouble,” he explained after they were seated. ‘‘ We bought Well, we ain't out much,” slintz r plied ‘We give the two oldest daughters plated ware and the other one, which married Harry Taub, we give it an olive dish which we got it cracked from Teitelmann on Division Street.”’ Sure, I know Fishbein rejoined; ‘‘but we give Mawruss Tickman sterling silver coffee spoons.”’ That was your idee, Fishbein,’’ Blintz interrupted “I told you for that shyster, Mawruss Tickman, nutpicks was plenty good enough, but you got to send 'em sterling . poons yet.”’ This had been a vexed question between the two part- ners and Fishbein made a conversational diversion “ Tick¢nan ain't no shyster, Blintz,”’ he said. ‘‘ The feller is a wonder. He's got an office in 320 Broadway like a bank already. I bet yer he makes an income at the very leastest twenty thousand dollars a year. Simon Horowitz was telling me or y last week already that Tickman’s pot © much to do, either he must get a partner or he must get nervous prostration. That young feller, Gubiner, which is engaged to your Hattie, should be such a shyster That all I got to say.’ *“Don'’t worry yourself about my Hattie, Fishbein,” siiver collee sp Blintz replied. ‘‘ Markie Gubiner is young yet and, any- how, Fishbein, my Hattie didn’t got Simon Horowitz for a father, y understand. Sheain’t got all them extravagant idees which Horowitz’ daughter got it Her mommer ain't brought her up that way. I bet yer them daughters } from Horowitz couldn't cook a potato already, Fishbein; but you take my Hattie, Fishbein, and the Kreploch which that girl cooks it, you we uldn't believe at all. You give that girl eight dollars a week to keep house, and Vanderbilt couldn t sé i better table “I'm glad to hear it Fishbein replied, ‘‘because if Markie Gubiner don't make out in the law business he could open a restaurant.” “That bey ild never got to open no restaurants, Fishbein Rlintz went on “He's got a headpiece, y understand. I came downtown with Leon Sammet yesterday and he says he was called for a juror in the city court last week, and Markie tried a case there. Leon ays the front that boy puts up is something Three times the judge is got to call him down I tell yer, Fishbein, that boy o much noise from nobody lon't got to tell me that, Blintz,”’ Fishbein } : er’s father from the old country 1) fresh, one worser as the other fresh Blintz protested. ‘‘ A lawyer Fishbein, otherwise he ain't no lawyer. “ That's a Mistake From My Wife's. handed Fishbein a blue envelope, which the latter burst open with his thumb. ‘‘ Here’sa letter from Mendelbaum,”’ he said. ‘‘I wonder what that sucker wants from us now Fishbein was not long in doubt, however, for Mendel- baum’'s letter had a simplicity and directness that appealed to even Fishbein’s limited intelligence. It read as follows: L. MENDELBAUM FINE WOOLENS AND WORSTED FABRIKS ESPECIAL Y ADAPTED FOR THE SUIT AND SKIRT TRADE 642 ELORIOGE STREET, NEW YORK . Sept. 24, 1909. MEssrs. FISHBEIN & BLINTZ el Gents: Your esteemed favor of the 23rd inst. to hand, and in reply would say what do you take me for, anyway ? Either you would accept the goods as shipped or either I would sue you in the courts. Such suckers like you I wouldn't have no mercy on at all. Yours respectfully, L. MENDELBAUM. “That's a fine loafer for you!’’ Blintz commented as he handed the note back to Fishbein. ‘‘ Calls us suckers yet.”’ ““What could you expect from a sucker like that?” Fishbein asked. ‘* But, anyhow, it wouldn't do us no good to call the feller names, Blintz.”’ “‘T bet yer it wouldn’t,”’ Blintz agreed. ‘‘I will write that feller a rotten letter which he wouldn’t forget in a hurry.”’ “Don't you do nothing of the kind,’ Fishbein said. You shouldn't go writing letters to a feller which makes bluffs he would sue you. Otherwise you would get your- self into all kinds of trouble, Blintz. Why don’t you see it Markie Gubiner when he comes round to call on your Hattie tonight, and get from him an advice?” Blintz slapped his thigh with his hand. ‘*That’s what I will do, Fishbein,” he said. ‘I gota lot of confidence in that young feller, Fishbein.” “Sure, I know,” Fishbein replied. ‘‘ And besides, we wouldn't spend no money on lawyers till we got to, Blintz.” Il ATURE had bestowed on Markie Gubiner a deep bass voice, and Markie helped Nature out by wearing long hair, an impressive frown and a flowing black tie. He was essentially a jury lawyer and, if necessary, could weep genuine tears in presenting the defense of non-protest in an action ona promissory note. Moreover, hisimpassioned All of a Sudden She Gets Them Fancy Idees About No Cards” some piece goods from a feller called Mendelbaum, and he writes us this letter.’ He handed Mendelbaum’s ultima- tum to Markie, who read it over carefully. ‘*Why did you return the goods?” he asked. 3ecause we bought ’em to make up an order which a feller canceled on us,”’ Blintz explained; ‘‘so naturally we returned the piece goods.”’ ‘‘But that ain’t a legal excuse for returning ‘em,” Markie said. *“No?” Blintz questioned. ““What you should have done was to have the goods examined by a sponging concern and return them as defective,”’ Markie continued. ‘‘As it is, you ain’t gota leg to stand on.” Blintz nodded. ‘‘That’s the way it is with Fishbein, Markie,”’ he said. “If I told him oncet I told it him a hundred times he shouldn’t do things in such a hurry. What could we do now ?”’ Once more Markie read over the letter. “Why, it’s very simple,” he replied. ‘‘ Write Mendel- baum it was alla mistake and ask him to return the goods. See? And then you could have them examined by the sponging people and, of course, they prove to be defective.” ‘But suppose the sponger should say them goods is all right?” Blintz asked. ‘I’ve got a client, B. Gelb, in the cloth-sponging busi- ness,”” Markie answered, ‘‘and if he don’t find them goods defective I'll eat ‘em.”’ “‘And then what?”’ Blintz inquired. “‘And then you fire the goods back at Mendelbaum,” Markie elucidated. ‘‘And the very next day you serve him with a summons and complaint in an action in the city court for damage for breach of contract because he didn’t send the piece goods you ordered. Then, the first thing you know, Mendelbaum will be glad to call the whole thing off if you will discontinue the suit.” Blintz looked at his daughter with tears of gratitude in his eyes. “Hattie, Leben,”’ he said, ‘‘me and Mommer seen it a parlor soot on a Hundred and Twenty-fifth Street last night, and if Markie and you would be going out tonight just give it a look.” ‘But ” Markie began. “But nothing,’’ Blintz interrupted. ‘‘Teitelmann, from Division Street, showed it me a solitaire diamond ring yesterday which he wanted to sell me for a hundred and fifty If youcould get it fora hundred and twenty-five, Markie, take it. I will pay for it, and when Mendelbaum ' t Se, aan Seinen nay el

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k i ———— calls off the whole thing you should send us a bill for a hundred and twenty-five, and when Fishbein sends youa check you should turn it over to me.’ Markie seized his future father-in-law by the hand ““You've got a big heart,” he said “Don’t mention it,’’ Blintz protested “Sure not,’ Markie replied. ‘I'll just send in a bill in the usual way to Fishbein & Blintz for a hundred and fifty. Like as not Fishbein’ll trim it to a hundred and twenty-five, but if he shouldn’t you'll get the benefit of the extra twenty-five, anyhow.” Blintz embraced his daughter enthusiastically ‘*What a head that boy got it!’ he exclaimed should positively advertise the engagen Sunday's Herald and the reception will | Sunday Aint it?’ ‘But supposing if Teitelmann wouldn't let have the ring for a hundred and twenty-five suggested, ‘You next Markie Hattie “Then give him a hundred and fifty,’’ Blintz “and I will pay the other twenty-five out of eried my own pocket.” il AT NINE o'clock the next morning mailed the following letter: L. FISHBEIN w Fishbein & Blintz ERE QUALITY IS PARAM NT M. BLINTZ FISHBEIN & BLINTZ COSTUMES, DRESSES AND SUITS 450 UNIVERSITY PLACE CABLE Ac “FISHBLINTZ, DRESS TELEP NE NEW YORK" L. MENDELBAUM. NEw York, Sept. 26, 1909. Dear Sir: Your favor of the 24th inst. to hand and con- tents noted, and in reply we beg to state we must say we are surprised. We thought you was a gentleman, Mr Mendelbaum, as our shipping clerk through mistake sends you back the goods which was intended by for a Giffer- ent party as you. Please return goods at your earliest con- venience and oblige ’ Truly yours, FISHBI At twelve o'clock a short, dark person room of Fishbein & Blintz. His face was distorted into a smile of such amiability that his mustache was completely engulfed between his nose and his under lip, while his eyes were mere glinting slits in his ruddy, fat face “How do you do, Mr. Fishbein?” he said breath. IN & BLINTZ entered the show- all in one ** Ain’t it a fine weather ‘**So we are suckers, what ?"’ Fishbein exclaimed. ‘‘ You wouldn’t got no mercy on us, Mendelbaum. Ain’t it?” **Couldn’t you take it a joke like a joke, Mr. Fishbein?” Mendelbaum said pleadingly “ Jokes you are making it,’’ Fishbein retorted. ‘‘ Well, all I got to say is if you was writing us jokes, Mendelbaum, you are lucky we don’t make you a couple blue eyes yet.” Mendelbaum’s amiable smile disappeared “You shouldn’t talk that way, Fishbein,” he said. “Take it from me, if anybedy is going to make blue eyes around here it wouldn't be you, y’understand.”’ “* Blintz,’’ Fishbein called, and in response his partner en- tered the showroom. He had overheard the conversation THE SATURDAY EVENING POST irom se his desk in the firm's pri- vate office and he hastened to smoot.n over **Hello, Men- delbaum! he exclaimed Ain't it a fine wea her?’ **ITdon matters Your partner here wouldn't lel me open my mouth al a little too fresh, y under- stand.” ‘Well, I got reasons to write was hat letter : ~ = ‘ Your Partner Here Mendelbaum uid If your shipping clerk makes a mistake, Blintz, that ain t my [auilt, and ‘““We wouldn't talk no more al t Blir replied Have a cigar, Mr Mendelbaum rhe nex me N¢ wouldn’t none of us be in such a hurry “Certainly, I admit I don’t got to call you boy suckers,’’ Mendelbaum contim tell you I ain’t g “That's all ri ‘** Let’s forget 1ed ot no hard feelings against you Fishbein d, extending his all about it How Dusiness hand It could be better,’’ Mendelbaum answered but I ain't kicking ‘Sure you ain’t,”’ Blintz commented \ single feller like you aint got no family, y inderstand, and even if business was bad, y’understand, you could al make out Mendelbaum smiled. “If 1 was a single y feller right. But | ain't exactly single.” ** Not exactly single,’’ Blintz re peated ** Either a feller is single or married, Mendelbaum, ar ain't no exactly about it Mendelbaum shrugged his shoulder **He could be engaged. Ain't it?” he sugge “Is that so?” Blintz said young lady?” ‘* Never mind,”” Mendelbaum sai ing I am engaged exactly, y Herald Sunday hands with the two partners and a Mendelbaum said, ‘‘all ne ung ‘T ain't say- unde look in the some time soon later tl ent later the mor door sl immed behind him ‘“That’s a { MA il dangerous fel- [abun QOGi, Markie ler, Blint: / Addressed Fishb the Court . as Though clared, wag- it Were a Popular ein de **Mind you, he Assem wanted to make blage iplel Wouldn't Let Me find out charge Thi alter we sue Sur “CEE Si. u it MS ton feller waenints h I be that he Ope them nothing uld Mende Blint baum's piece pe ‘ soul Alre ady

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bought it for Sunday it would of been a pleasure to smoke ‘em, I could assure you.” “Well, I noticed you carried a couple of handfuls away with you,”’ Fishbein replied. ‘‘ My Beckie says to me at he time it was a lucky thing for us you couldn’t get champanyer bottles into your vest pocket, Blintz “T wouldn't watch every mouthful you eat, Fishbein, hen you come to my house,” Blintz exclaimed Fishbein slapped his partner on the shoulder.

**T was only making jokes,”’ he said selieve me, you was welcome to all the tchampanyer you could drink **All I could drink at your heuse wasn’t much, Fish- ein,”’ Blintz replied, ‘‘ because four bottles among twenty ople don’t go such a terrible long ways, y’understand.” rot your moneys worth, anyhow,” Fishbein ‘You got to remember, Blintz, that that ormolooy arrangement which you give us didn’t bankrupt

you ¢ xactly, neither.” “It didn’t, hey Blintz roared. ‘* Well, all I got te y is that you never bought it a suit of clothes which cost you so much as that ormolooy figger and cut-glass ase ‘ Fishbein laughed maliciously ‘What's the matter with you, anyhow?” he exclaimed. ‘**Couldn't you take a joke like a joke, Blintz?”’ Blintz nodded “That's all right, Fishbein,” he said. ‘‘A joke is a joke, but this here engagement party is no joke, I can ssure you. Gott sei dank, I only got one daughterto marry off, otherwise I would quick be in the poorhouse.” Nevertheless, Blintz spared no expense, and on the following Sunday afternoon his Lenox Avenue flat was completely transformed under the skillful hand of Gins- burg, the florist. The gas fixtures were draped in smilax, and potted ferns tripped up the unwary guest in every corner of Blintz’ front parlor. Atin- tervals, roses and carnations peeped THE SATURDAY EVENING POST background. ‘‘ My Hattie, neither. Either we would buya brand-new article, otherwise we wouldn’t give no present.” “‘T give you right,”’ Fishbein agreed witha grin. ‘‘ Who did you get that olive dish from?” Blintz looked at the card on the piece of cut glass in question and started visibly. Well, what d’ye think of that?’ he exclaimed. ‘*Mendelbaum sends Hattie that thereolivedish. Honest, Fishbein, that’s pretty decent of that feller after the way we treated him.” ‘*What d’ye mean, the way we treated him?” Fishbein exclaimed. ‘‘ That sucker don’t know nothing about what we're going to do to him yet. The piece goods only came back from Gelb yesterday.” Blintz regarded the cut-glass dish with almost lachry- mose tenderness. **Say, lookyhere, Fishbein,” he said, ‘‘ain’t there some way we could fix this up? Suppose we suggest to Mendel- baum that he makes us an allowance of, say, a hundred and fifty dollars, and 4 At this juncture Fishbein broke into a loud laugh **Let me in on this joke, too,’”’ Blintz cried. “Why, sure,” Fishbein said. ‘‘The joke is on you, Blintz. Just look at that olive dish again. Look at the crack right on the middle of that sunburst there.” “What of it?” Blintz asked. “What of it!” Fishbein repeated. ‘‘Why, that’s the selfsame olive dish which we gave it to Harry Taub, Simon Horowitz’ son-in-law. It stood us in seventy-five cents last spring.” ‘‘Dreams you got it, Fishbein,’’ Blintz declared. ‘‘ Do you think that there couldn't be two olive dishes with cracks into ‘em ?” ‘Look underneath it, Blintz,”’ Fishbein said. ‘‘There’s a little piece of paper which I pasted on to it, and in my own

April 2, 1910 **Read it and see, Mendelbaum’s store. For ten minutes L. Mendelbaum sat in icy despair. Not only had Fishbein & Blintz returned the piece goods, but another and more poignant misfortune had befallen him. For about a year he had been paying attention t Mrs. Fannie Taub, relict of Morris Taub, and he intended to wed her just as soon as his woolen business commenced to show a profit commensurate with housekeeping and clothing for two. But apparently Mrs. Taub had grown impatient, for to L. Mendelbaum the term “breach of contract’’ could have but one significance. It was useless for him to read the summons and complaint, since his knowledge of the English language did not extend beyond the arbitrary characters which represented ‘‘L. Mendel baum.” His brother Nathan kept the books, attended to the correspondence and drew the checks, but there are some things that one cannot confide even to a brother, and one of them is the complaint in an action for breach of promise of marriage ‘‘Nathan,” he shouted. ‘Ring up Harry Taub. I want to speak to him a few words about something.”’ Nathan looked up from his ledger. **What for do you want to speak to Harry?” he asked “Tf it is about that cut-glass dish which you give it Fishbein & Blintz’ daughter, it was cracked when Harry sent it here.” ‘“‘Loafer!”’ L. Mendelbaum cried. ‘‘ Must you got to know everything?”’ He glared malevolently at his brother, who hastened to obey, and a moment later Harry Taub had answered “Hello, Harry,” L. Mendelbaum croaked. ‘‘ What is the trouble with Fannie?” ‘Trouble with Fannie!”’ Harry Taub repeated. ‘‘ Why, I ain’t heard nothing since I left the house this morning She said she’s going to ring you up about coming up tonight.” ’ the clerk replied, and stalked out of

out of the greenery with the fre- quency of oysters in a church-fair stew, and from the chandelier hung a huge bell in pink and white im- mortelles Blintz himself answered the door- bell, and his moonlike face was hathed in a gentle moisture of hos- pitality as he greeted the incoming guests **Hel-lo, Fishbein,”’ he cried when $ partner entered, ‘‘and Mrs ishbein! Come right inside and take off your « lothes.”’ ‘“‘T congratulate you,’’ Mrs. Fish- bein exclaimed, and while she was bestowing kisses on Mrs. Blintz in loud, staccato smacks Fishbein was unfolding the tissue-paper from a bulging object which he bore with him ‘**Blintz,”’ he said solemnly and Mommer was wonderi hi k

we would give it your Hattie for an engagement present andwecouldn't make up our mind So I got an idee that we couldn't do better as to get one of them « rmolooy

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ments which you gave it Here he pulled away the last vest- ment ot t e-paper ind expe sed the ornament in question He handed it to his partner “We vot to look around a long time before we could get one exactly the same, y'understand,”” he ex- plained, ‘‘and at last we found one

<r “eh “Me!” Mendelbaum cried. “*Coming up?” “Sure,” Harry went on. ‘‘She wants to get a remnant of Kersey for a skirt.”’ Mendelbaum wiped the beads of perspiration from his forehead **Well, lookyhere, Harry,’”’ Men- delbaum said, ‘‘kersey for a skirt, that’s all right. She could have melton, too, corduroy, anything she would want it, Harry, but what is this here all about that she should send me a paper by the court?” ‘‘A paper by the court!” Harry Taub exclaimed. ‘‘ You're crazy “All right, I’m crazy, Harry,’ Mendelbaum continued, ‘but if am crazy or I ain't crazy, Harry, got the paper in my pocket now ‘““Some one’s been kidding you Mendelbaum,” Harry rejoined tead it to me.” Now, Mendelbaum had never ad- mitted his educational deficiencies either to Harry Taub or to Ha Taub’s sister-in-law, M

Taub, and he was obliged to enlist the services of his brother “Nathan,” he shouted, ‘‘ couldn't you do nothing at all? What's the matter with you? Why don’t you come here a minute when I call you?” Nathan took the five yards be- tween his desk and the ‘phone in two jumps. ‘Here, read this to Harry,’’ his

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re bh wk of th r Lh nd vase t ne I hbein exclaime We knocked the thing over a hundred times already and \ couldn't bust it wi i meat xe et Tha to l mean we knocked over the one you gave. it to us, Blint and that’s the reason why we bought your Hattie on like it It’sa first-class, A Number One article, if you re looking for something real durable Blintz picked up the e and led the way int hat ordinarily his bedroom, | which was now en up toa display of Hattie’s engagement present ‘That nice assortmer Blintz Fishbein com- mented to his friend. ‘‘One or two duplicates, bi that don't do no harm, Blintz. You could always pass em on.” ‘Me, I don’t do such things,’’ Blintz replied, and he ; ly t r ar + put the ormolu figure and its conical vase in the extreme “As it is, You Ain't Got a Leg to Stand On’ handwriting, mind you, is four dollars for a price mark.” Fishbein examined t rt

he price mark and grew convinced. you!” he exclaimed. ‘*We Fishbein. We will positively sue it sucker the first thing tomorrow morning.” it’s a fine cutthroat fo

Vv | Sgt atl at nine o’clock on Monday morning Fishbein & Blintz returned the piece goods to lk ‘ rdly had the latter recovered from

) Mendelbaum, and hi his indignation and surprise when Markie Gubiner’s clerk rived immons and complaint Mr the young man said

‘You got it right L. Mendelbaum replied. ‘ That’s a summons and complaint in the city court, for breach of contract,”’ the clerk continued in al tones which implied that anything Mendel- Say would be used in evidence against him elbaum’s ruddy face grew white. ‘What d'ye mean, breach of contract?” he said

brother commanded; ‘‘ my eyesain’t So ge od no more.”’ Nathan took the document in one hand and seized the receiver with the other. “‘ Hello, Mr. Taub,” he said ‘Never mind ‘hello,’’’ Mendelbaum cried. ‘‘Go ahead and read it.’ “The City Court of the City of New York,’’’ Nathar announced, ‘*‘ Louis Fishbein and Max Blintz composing the firm of Fishbein & Blintz plaintiffs against Lawrence Mendelbaum. The name Lawrence being fictitious and used to designate a person whose real Christian name is unknown to plaintiffs. The plaintiffs, complaining of the defendant through Marcus Gubiner, their attorney, respectfully allege and show. First, that’ 24 **Hold on!”’ L. Mendelbaum cried. ‘‘S’enough, Nathan; don't read no more, Nathan.” Nathan thrust the receiver into his brother’s hands ‘*Here,”’ he said, ‘‘ he wants to know what’s it about.” **Schafkopf!”’ L. Mendelbaum cried as he took the receiver. ‘‘ Must you tell everything what you know? You got me in a fine mess here.”’ **Why, you told me to read it,’’ Nathan began Continued on Page 48)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST STEST PROFITS Standardization—The Best Things and the Best Ways ~ By James H. Collins DECORATION BY C. D. MITCHELI on another. Eventually it was necessary to standardize - from equipment, t repaired il ke down on another And so, for fort } ; ilroads have been rking toward } URING this generation American industry is going y sell standard through-ticket Within five minutes the sales ma er had that sampk to save some handsome profits by stoppi waste iblish standard freight « type ter on tl ‘ ie in making goods and carrying them to market, ndard account with she f n th 1 bee hre ‘ I | turning by-products into revenue, operating on more finished. Masterear-builders stenographe | f ‘ pped ri t accurate knowledge of costs, and the like fication, have r le D ‘ f cor pat itive et ple hir In these economies the word stat ver s to rer rad ed Ore r " a ! ¢ i j t | import r f ‘ y re qd nas dillerentt ‘ I il? Ti ‘ me ne It embodies many big betterments and innt tock in its own ¢ pme manufacture ‘ t ' little ones all carrying neglected ma repairs f é t l F hir e] é i ion is a long word, and its ¢ standard n « id be brought al tor Vt € N tnat t isi! er Cor tnat inost people begin thinking of crews, nuts, would be vast economie fronted with a ' ter eXpé ‘ chil 1 not ‘ bearing-brasses the moment Amer n mar i rer ifter eve nderstand ‘ ‘ ( } ad | 1e industrial world is beginning t ent effort to see ho « i} ljacar ment ‘ ‘ | ‘ neerit } ation Is more than a process hers, even the n ‘ own last vear } ed hit pie t pape } mechanical part Standardization is very d at ur m standard many thir ind the mar pe here human and is being applied to methods as w plug rials in ways that were not dreamed of ye tion is an enormous task, never finished A Problem in Typewriters The father of old-fashioned mechanical standardization because indu try grows faster than cla fication. Industr | was Sir Joseph Whitworth, an English inventor, who grows like language s it were, and standardizatior YONTRAST h this the ] r i large corp ' brought exactness into machine-building and developed making a dictionary of new mechanical practice and elim ( tian which lat the : modern machine tools. When Whitworth went to work in inating the ephemeral and the slang ment and } | a London machine shop ibout se venty-five year igo tnere The slang elemer in material like teel tubing, tor rt I j was little exactness in anything mechanical Each instance is revealed in a standard ng proce like that n e than thre te | ( ( erent : machine-builder had his own standards for screw threads, recently undertaken in the automobile industry Mi make Its } so that bolts from another establishment would not fit than twelve hundred different diameter and strengt { the machine t I ! ‘ ( I} t his apparatus. Metal-workers had a few hand tools the r were being used by manufacture After th } ire high-} hammer, file, chisel, foot-lathe and a crude screw-cutting study and sorting e number was cut t bout three rebuilt 1 } ' apparatus. Machine parts were seldom made to g hundred. This re es tl veight of car hile ‘ ‘ , smaller thar one-eighth inch sometimes tnis tainn trer t r ice cost of cor ( ! é was split by some unusually skillful mechanic, but his investment in materials, expedites construction and bring he Le val | work was a feat in personal adroitness. Such a thing as an ibout economies for makers of both auton ‘ he i absolutely flat surface or true plane, like the bed of a teel tubing. But standardization is r being cart ley I printing-press, was known only approximately. Workmen far from these mechanical channel é ‘ f he 1 nade it as well as they could with hand planes, but it cost One afternoon the general sales n er of ( ‘ t ‘ three dollars a foot and was far from true t) vriter compal ff the tr 1 Tennesse¢ ‘ Whitworth perfected a planing machine that turned out facturing to nd d the ‘ é nage true planes at a cost. of two cents a foot. He worked out Maybe I ean sl ou some point , screw-thread standards that were adopted by the whole machine he 1 Is there anybody here ire | manufacturing world. He made it possible for machinis trouble t} \ to gauge work to the forty-thousandth part of an inch Yes,” replied the local man; ‘tt Nowadays we measure variations of one eight-millionth there uses thirty typewriter ther j of an inch by light from glowing hydrogen or cadmium get the president to | { ' vapor, but Whitworth’s refinements were far more wot ‘Get ir sample machine and take me derful in his generation Walking into the nufacturer’s office ver introduced é pl Mr. S$ j Railroad and Automobile Standards * Are 1a Lennessee mat asked the mal I , & GREAT industries arose, one by one, there has alway ‘Ne was the reply I'm a typewriter r twelve diffe : come a period at which mechanical standardization Oh, pshaw! Id t nt to talk al t tv] ‘ ed was necessary. Take railroads as an example “Well iid the general sales manager, sett In the beginning railroads were small local lines, each fortably in a chait what do you want t W here é having its own running time, signal code, rolling stock then r nd When two or three roads grew out far enough to connect **Look here! iid the manufacturer juaring 1 1 re ned o1 \ with each other a common system of running time had to determinedly I h you'd tell me why we're alway here showed pe adopted by all—-the railroads gave the world standard spending money ! bon paper isi! " time. Where one railroad crossed another it was necessary “All right; |e talk about carbon paper. Will for both to give trainmen the same code of signals tor ve some used et ir n br i what meant ‘Go ahead” on one road might mean “‘ Stop it | n exar her ( ed Pag )

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST LUCK AGIN H April 2,1910 Ole Reliable Plays Oliver to Win—By Harris Dickson F LUCK’S agin you in’t no use to squirm an’ twist.”” Ole Reliable put a quintessence on that mouthy nigger from Saint Looey who had raised an 1 argument in the Hot Cat eating-house A black nakedness ran across the top of his head, which left two frizzled tufts of hair standing stubbornly on either side—like grass-clumps on the edge of a burnt field. He put on his dilapidated derby and rose to signify that the controversy had been settled Aunt Fanny flopped a piece of catfish in the skillet and paused with spoon in hand. Greasy odors curled upward, filled the stifling room and sneaked out upon the street to entrap every passing negro that had a nickel \ town nigger would have known better than to open his mouth—except to put something in it —for Ole Reliable was a powerful hand at argufyin’ on the Scriptures. The venturesome stranger lifted a bite of catfish and rested his elbows on the red oilcloth that covered the table. ‘‘ Who is you, anyway, dat knows so many facts what ain’t so?”’ Ole Reliable stooped to condescend. ‘‘Me? I reckon you don't live in Vicksburg ef you ain’t acquainted wid who 1 is. I'm Corp’ral Zack Foster; but everybody, black and white, calls me Ole Reliable. Ef luck’s agin you you might jes’ as well lie down on yo’ back an’ say: ‘ Here | is, Luck —what you gwine to do wid me?’’ rhen he wafted himself toward the door. Jes’ look at ’im,” jeered the stranger; ,“‘wearin’ de white folks’ second-han’ clo’es. I let you-all know I's a genterman,’ “Huh! Starvation’ll gentle anything.” With this sockdolager she Corporal moved on in majesty and halted at the door Luck was agin him and immediately proceeded to play horse. He had no business in the catfish stand and he had ne business out of it. It would have been immaterial whether he stayed in or came out. Yet he came out. In full view of his audience he ponderously reflected upon nihility, then passed leisurely toward the nearest unoc- cupied space. He faced to the right and marched up the street. There was no reason why he did not turn to the left and march down the street. Directions and destina- tions were not of consequence to Ole Reliable; he had no particular place to go, and he had plenty of time to get there in. His wife wouldn't tote vittles home from the white folks’ house until late in the afternoon, and this was the only pressing engagement that he had He suppressed his ene ‘gy in front of the pawnbroke r’s shop, not that second-hand p tols interested him, but t to bring him face to face with iver since the day he had hired as the Mis 125 Tre Ve ly in gardener to these trusting ladies Zack had not laid eyes on them but once. Upon that nimble occasion they did not lay eyes on him because he saw them first It must have been the glitter of gewgaws in the pawn- broker's window * to observe Miss Bet y Trevelyan Standing at beside a basket of veve- tables. She was al vas unusual but entirely proper. Zack squinte There was no mistak- ing that tiny luminous black skirt and primly-folded hands Her face w turned toward the reet; no- body had a prone as Miss Bet Zack sidled off like a crab, intending dodge into the Italia: fruitstore. Hedid 1 walk or run or glide or A fly, he merely ed th \ be in the place where he had beer . remained nailed hard ; and fast to Miss Bet Luck was agin hin If he had been looking where he went he would . not have bumped int Miss Savannah Tre Kew ccasiensio’: ee ed —— ee lel ~ he me one ree ILLUSTRATED BY EMLEN McCONNELI He Just Naturally Reached Out as Innocently as the Baby That Grabs for a Gold Watch **Lordee, ef here ain't Miss Savannah! I was jes’ a-goin’ in to see ef dat warn't you.” Miss Savannah composed herself. ‘‘ Uncle Zack, I’m 8o glad it’s you.’”’ She bore him no resentment; she had for- gotten, and so could Zack. “Oh, dear! Uncle Zack, we are in such a predicament. Sister and I have bought a basket of vegetables, and the man cannot send it home. We are to have company and must carry it ourselves = Zack glanced at the heavy basket, then at the two little ladies. A job had found him. Miss Savannah unconsciously caught him by the sleeve and was leading him toward her sister. ‘‘ Betsy, here is Uncle Zack —I am sure he will help us.” “T can't hardly spare a minit, Miss Savannah, but bein’s it’s you Zack took up his job and walked. When the Trevelyans left their street car Zack labored up the hill behind them, for his burden had grown heavy. He hung back at the gate and lagged along the walk which led through their formal garden. There was the ragged hedge that he had promised to trim, and it sug- gested awkward situations when they should remember to question him about it. But the thought of company excited them and they forgot. The fat poodle waddled out and snarled, then snapped Zack's trousers in a tentative sort of way. Zack hated these smear-eyed dogs with blue ribbonsaround their necks, but he did not kick at him merely set the basket down asa polite precaution. Miss Savannah patted Edward and administered fitting re- proof: ‘There, there, Edward! Don’t be cross with Uncle Zack.” Edward sniffed, disdainfuland unconvinced. Then he trotted down that long, straight avenue between the cedars Blind luck had hold of Zack, and he was thankful that it towed him around the corner Zack Hung Back at the Gate and Lagged Along the Walk and anchored him in a kitchen. But he didn’t enjoy the way the cook nodded at him. The ladies hurried through the house: ‘‘ Mammy, here’s the marketing. Uncle Zack will stay to dinner.” ‘‘ Dis is a pretty time o’ day fer you to be fetchin’ things home fer a cump’ny dinner. How you reckon I’m gwine to cook all dis?” “But, Mammy, we are not very late. Sister and I will help.”’ “You chillun git out o’ dis kitchen an’ lemme ‘lone. Set de table—dat’s all I wants you to do. Dinner is gwine to be all right, but you gotter cook a heap when de preacher comes.” Mammy Liz unpacked the basket and handed Zack a couple of shiny pans. ‘‘ Snap dese beans an’ hull dem peas. Nobody can’t eat in dis kitchen widout workin’.”’ Zack eyed the liberally-built cook, who had come from the Trevelyan plantation to help out temporarily. Every movement was a reminder of the favor she conferred. She stirred and stirred at something in a pot. When she opened the stove door it smelt so almighty good that Zack hulled peas and kept a-hopin’. He crossed his legs and rested his back: ‘‘ Here I is, Luck.” After a while Miss Betsy ventured into the kitchen She was the littler sister and lacked the mature discretion of Miss Savannah. Without preliminaries or warning she turned upon Uncle Zack: ‘‘Why didn’t you come back and trim the hedge? We got everything ready and waited for a week.” Mammy Liz wheeled from the stove: ‘ Miss Betsy, is dat de ole nigger what lef here to get dem clippers an’ neber showed up no more? Huh!’ That was all sh said, but she could have added nothing. Ole Reliable knew that she read his very soul. With a disconcerting view of her back he made a stagger to explain: “Yas’m, yas’m, I had bad luck. My wife tuk one o’ dem faintin’ spells de minit I gothome. She’sa weakly ‘ooman, and Oliver is been sick so continual it jes’ nacherly wore her out.”’ **Who is Oliver?”’ **Dat’s my son-in-law — married my gal Calline.”’ “I’m so sorry,”’ Miss Savannah sympathized. ‘ You can trim the hedge another time. Come in the dining- room and help put a leaf in the table.”’ Mammy objected: ‘‘ Honey, you go on out o’ here an’ let 'im hull dem peas *‘ Just a minute, Mammy —he’ll come right back.” Zack was so anxious to escape from the kitchen and the cook that he proved very efficient in the dining-room. The sisters deliberated in executive session and Miss Savannah announced the official result: ‘* Uncle Zack, we have thoroughly decided that you must wait on the table.”’ *Yas’m, yas’m ‘Sister will give you one of the jackets our butler used to wear —and —and some other things ‘i Miss Betsy nodded. ‘‘Now come with me, Uncle Zack.” He followed her to the attic, a spacious room lighted through those curious little tunnels that terminate in dormer windows. Each trunk and chest held its personal position in adefiniteline. Miss Betsy opened the third chest, thought a mo- ment, then reached in and pro- duced a white linen jacket accurately folded. She extracted collarsand cuffsand a black choker necktie, without disturbing another garment. There was no confusion in that garret until Miss Betsy’s fingers began to fumble and fumble with- out bringing anything to light. Presently she suggested without looking up: ‘‘Uncle Zack, sup- pose you go over to the window After he had turned his back she lifted a mysterious ar- ticle and wrapped it in a non-committal pack- age. It was a shirt. When Uncle Zack ambled toward that window the first thing to catch his eye was a gold-headed cane Then he could see oe ee owes

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST nothing but a glittering, sheeny, incomparable cane that | fascinated him. He just naturally reached out as inno- cently as the baby that grabs for a gold watch. Edging | closer, he touched it with the tip of a long forefinger, | caressed its tapering length—and shivered. ‘* Lordee! | Dem niggers sho will be 'sprised when I marches into de “Here they come, Sister Miss Betsy's \ betrayed Zack lodge-room wid dat walkin’-stick.”’ her agitatior ‘Shall I open the door you, as the tray or | Luck was agin him. Miss Betsy burrowed deep in the older? Or should we send Za roing to give him aw chest, preparing the shirt for a masquerade début. The It was a detail they had not thoroughly considered Nevertheless, | é window stood open, and Ole Reliable borrowed that gold- Being undecided they went e? sse, the two ladies in gue i] headed cane. With one movement swifter than the slap front and Zack stopping midway of the hall Then Colonel S} ‘ of a cat he dropped it through the window into a tangled Luck was agin him. Zack did not k at the preacher led the clergymar if rosebush a second tim | T mm. ““Now, Uncle Zack’’—the old man jumped and started woode, whom i toward Miss Betsy —‘‘here is everything you need. Go Lordy,” he groaned, then melted away into the down to the gardener’s house and put them on. Brush There h Ya your clothes and polish your shoes—we want to feel proud _ ing in the presence of these ladies —not even intimate that When Miss Bet I're of you.” he had ev I *Yas’m, yas’m. Dis sho is one nice coat.”’ never se¢ When Zack issued forth from his toilet the wife of his entry when Ole Nehable n and wheeled into position behind Miss Savannah lid not know it was there. SI bosom would not have recognized him—for Zack was chair, he kept his eyes rigidly to the f arrayed. Tall white collar, self-evident cuffs, dustless Mr. Harlowe glanced up at the stiff-necked pattert fel trousers and elaborately-polished shoes. The choker had propriety who had stepped out of a glamourous romance Misfortune had done her vw exasperated him, and he wrought a diabolical revenge. It toserve their dinner. It was what he had expected to find relent. Miss Savannah, mor writhed in agony around his neck. He strode into the inthe South, yet the fact pleased him. Zack wasasuccess. up the decanter kitchen, half suspecting that his cru- produced a e,m i elty to the choker might cause com- gimme j i e dra} \ { ment. It did ‘ “In de name o’ Gawd!”” Mammy Liz exclaimed, ‘‘what is dat you got on? Come here, you po’ ole fool.” She jerked him and shoved him pulled and tugged, untangled the knots and smoothed out the folds; then patted it flat against his chest. **Now! dat’s de way Hiram useter wear it. Go ‘long an’ tend to yo’ bizness.”’ From the other side of the door she heard Miss Betsy say: ‘‘ Doesn't Uncle Zack look nice?” Presently Zack took particular notice of what Miss Savannah said: *‘Now, Betsy, get some whisky for the mince pie.”’ Miss Betsy looked questioningly at her sister: ‘‘ But the clergyman?” ‘Yes, we have quite decided on that—quite. It would be hypocrisy if we did not. We invited Mr. Har- lowe to a home dinner. If we had no whisky in the pie he would think we never used it. I should feel that we were guilty of a small deceit.” Zack and the poodle dog followed Miss Betsy into the old-fashioned library which had been occupied by Doctor Trevelyan for more than fifty years. ‘‘Huh!” he remarked, ‘‘dem { books puts me in de mind o’ Jedge Foster. He war my ole marster.”’ } Miss Betsy, overborne in argu- ; ment, but not convinced, opened the black-walnut case and Zack saw an array of decanters and glasses that gladdened his heart. ‘Jes’ like ole Jedge Foster's.” j Miss Betsy selected a decanter and } wiped the dust away with her apron. She bad misgivings, but was not stingy, and, pouringa generousallow- Ole Reliable Made His Grand Entry and Wheeled Into Position Behind Miss Savannah's Chair not « mine nimsed | lm and ance into a cup, took it to the pantry. austere rd Gardening? Doe The cup of whisky and Miss Betsy’s purse — two- With a single-minded clerical appetite Mr. Harlowe Oliver know about gardenir } ‘ ht to see dem thirds of human temptation—lay there seductively kept his eyes on the plate, duly conscious of an impressive vegetables down to our |} e, | t everythir exposed, and Zack's main line of travel passed them. dignitary who passed the potatoes hat grows in de grou n’ det more besides dat Being a man with a hanker, it wasn't fair to beset his path **Miss Trevelyan,”’ he remarked during Zack's absence This fluttered the dovecote; t) rs deluged hit with pitfall and with gin. He might jes’ as well lie flat on in the pantry, ‘‘ these family servitors in the far South are th que t * Dos t his back and say: ‘‘ Luck, hereI is. What yougwinetodo so very interesting. I can imagine how that old man ha R e smile wid me?” stood 1 that chair for several generation They Misses Trevely nor Presently Mammy Liz hegan rattling a pan, Miss _ really g t | Savannah was arranging flowers in the hall, and Miss’ in America —of institutional stability, so to speal ich as lar an’ drag ntodinner. Dat “¢ 3etsy had gone upstairs—cursed opportunity! we have in England I ft f ‘ ‘ The fumes from that uncovered teacup rose into the Colonel Spottiswoode chuckled to himself; Uncle Zach N Betsy ! M ~ air, and Zack only meant to smell it. did cut quite a figure. He broke into a laugh. ‘‘M lor Let Unck r t to eat | Luck moves in mysterious ways its wonders to perform. Savannah, is that the one that everybody, white and dinner; then west Mammy had just fed dear little Edward. Swelled up with — black, calls ‘Ole Reliable’?”’ Z, had made pot-licker and purposes he ran into the pantry and Miss Savannah nov rabbed Zack by the trousers’ leg. Down smashed the ‘**He works ‘kin and can cup, and down sprawled Zack with a dish-cloth, sopping ‘** And pray, how is that?”’ broke in Mr. Harlowe both ends he up the whisky. Edward backed himself under the table The Colonel fitted his words to a British explanation: garden. Hap} and yapped at Zack’s bald head, for which nobody could ‘‘He means that he begins to work just as soon as it 1 \ Savanr blame him light enough so he can see; and he quits work when it ‘ lropped tl The crash drew a crowd. ‘Oh! Oh!” dark that he cannot see. Works ki What is broken ?”’ ‘“‘Ah! Ah! How very remark: ‘Dar now! Jes’ look at dat!” that. Zack mopped and scrubbed and explained: ‘‘I warn’'t book. ‘That gives you the advantage over us—our know it when he studyin’ dat little old woolly dog. He grabbed me by de help Continued on Page 66 + na 7 noted th fir j \\ nt i 14ackK noved i€ . t l We ee ee ee ree eS LC ONL tnt ne impre 1on Of a fixed aristocracy ul mmon i ¢ rc me and he ma lean entry in! note Uliver sf

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I | € ir Py ait eral manager is king in modern railroad operation the division superintendent is not less than prince. His principality is no mean state. It may consist of some five hundred miles of what he modestly admits is the “‘ best sort of railroad in al! this land,” or it may be a little stretch of a hundred miles, or even less, losing its way back among the hills; but it isa principality and his rule is indisputed. If ever it be questioned, it is then high time for him to abdicate. ision is the physical unit of railroad operation, so is its superintendent the human unit. By him the transportation organism stands or falls. If it stands he is able to go forward; the path from his door leads to the general manager’s office. If it falls well, there is today in Central Illinois a gray-haired held his own principality, with four thousand men to take his orders ‘We only discharge for disobedience or dishonesty,” said the president of that railroad at the time he signed the order reducing the prince to the ranks. ‘‘ When we fail to get the real measure of a man it is our fault, not his. We never turn out a man who has done his level best ation ent who once This man is superintendent of one of the most prosperous of the trunk-line railroa that reach the metropolis by stretching their rails across New Jersey His is a ‘‘terminal division,” so called, and he has assumed command of one of the busiest « gates in all America His railroad day begins almost as soon is a telegraph out- f his bedroom, and as he 1aves he listens mechanic- asheisawake. There fit in the corner « dresses and ally to its seoldings —to the gossip of the division, It comes as casually to his ear as the prattle of his children the key be- gan to be mysic to him long before he left the little yellowdepot, where he first began to bea railroader. lhey're in pretty good shape this morning, John,” laughs his wife. She, too, has been listening, half uncon- sciously, to the gossip of the wire—years ago she “‘ stood her trick” with her husband back in that little yellow depot “Got a in the ditch up the other side of Greyport,’ ply. ‘We by rip out that nasty cross- over up there s me da hen the big boss wakes up to the ! at GP casn we ve put out in v morning, Maggie,”’ he laughs. “I’ve a ym the firemen coming in to seeme. They're for a raise He lowers his voice as if he almost thought that the walls had ears t's beginning to grind the boys, too -butter forty-eight cents, eggs forty-five, and all their hungry kiddies But the big boss—whew He whistles, goes to his key, cuts in and begins to give orders to the wrecking-boss up at Greyport Steady, Jim,” hetaps. ‘You've got all day on that job if you need it nly watch out for the number two track with your crane. We can't risk a side-swipe on one of our We're detouring the eastbound passengers over the Central How : Hinckley f He closes the circuit OLLly. “Poor Hinckley! he says. ‘‘Do you remember Maggi He was married the same summer we were The Superintendent's Morning Callers — )UGH with his breakfast, he hurries down to the station, and before he steps al woard the suburban train that is to carry him in to his Jer ey City office he has had the wire again into Greyport rhey are getting things cleaned there it; a baggage car has been sent up vith a special engine for Hinckley. The superintendent turns from these One of the little trains that come ut from town in the dusk of early dawn has brought a leather bag filled with mail. He runs through it as his train slips across the meadows. By the time he is in his omy office it is ready to be answered. A_ penciled memor im on each itlicient guide for his chief clerk. Throughout the morning his calendar is a crowded Chere i constant line of restless men sitting on the long bench just without the guarded rail of the outside office. One|} ne t they disappear behind ng ‘ ind in front of the superintendent THE SATURDAY EVENING POST rince an —By Kdward ail He is Hot. He Cannot Get Cars For the first of these there is a smile. The caller is a big shipper—big enough to go to the head of the line and have instant access to the boss. This shipper is the sort who gives the railroad tonnage in trainload lots. He is hot. He cannot get cars. He will begin to route over the Triple B—even though his siding facilities are wrong for it. They'll dig him out the cars he needs; they have folks over there who make it their business to find cars. And while he is on the subject, it seems pretty bad to have stuff coming twelve and fourteen days through from Chicago. Perhaps he'd better be getting after the Commission. The shipper is very hot. He expatiates upon his wrongs, hammers upon the superintendent’s desk, grows scarlet in his heavy face. The superintendent’s smile never wavers. He gives close attention, does not grow excited. A few orders over the telephone, a word of explanation—the shipper smiles now. Down in his heart he begins to be sorry that he made those threats about the Triple B. That is getting traffic, you say, and the superintendent is an operating man. You are a bit wrong there. The superintendent is a railroad man, and that means that any part of the railroad business is his business. There isa man, by name A. H. Smith, today operating vice-president of the New York Central system, who held to that idea from the beginning. In the beginning Smith was the superintendent of a little side-tracked division of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern that centered at Hillsdale, Michigan. It was a strong competitive territory and Smith found that the traffic that came to his road was so light that it did not take a great deal of his time to move it. The superintendents before him had had a lot of time to speed their fast horses and fuss around their gardens. Not so with Smith. He went into the business of making tratlic. It was a decade that took keen delight in singing societies, and Smith’s robust voice allied itself to every choir of importance in three counties. He sang himself into personal popularity; he sang traffic into coming over the Michigan Southern. After a while the folks in the general offices over at Cleveland began to take notice The traffic folks were the first to notice, after that —well, a long story’s short when you know that Smith found himself on a short cut to his present big job. The superintendent's smile remains while a delegation of solemn-faced commuters files into his office. These grave folks have been coming into town on the eight-fifty-two almost since the road first laid its rails. It is part of their April 2,1910 His Hungerford lives, and they fondly imagine that it is a big part of the road’s—that the twenty-hour train over the mountains to Chicago is a matter of considerably less importance than the eight-fifty-two. The superintendent broadens his bland smile and rings for his train-sheets. There are other trains besides the eight-fifty-two coming into that terminal almost a train a minute from a little before eight o’clock until half-past nine. The svperintendent’s finger runs for corroboration over the train-sheets. Twenty-five days this month when ninety-four per cent of his suburban trains came under the protection of the big shed of the terminal right on the scheduled moment—how was that for consistency of operation ? The commuters’ committee seems a little dazed. Indi- vidually, it is expert on a good many things—printing, indictments, breakfast foods, patents, wholesale feathers but consistency of train operation is a bit confusing. ‘The eight-fifty-two has been late a whole lot recently,” doggedly affirms the chairman. ‘‘ Last Thursday we were pretty near fifteen minutes late es A gleam of triumph comes into the superintendent’s eye. He fumbles anew among the flimsy train-sheets His forefinger lights upon a line of the typewritten copy ‘Last Thursday,”’ he comments, ‘‘ you can see that we were laid out by the Hackensack River draw. A schooner filled with brick got caught by the ebb tide and laid down on usin the open draw. What you want to see, gentlemen, is the Treasury Department down at Washington. It is outrageous that the antiquated navigation laws should be allowed to hold up business in that way.” The Blaze at the Bridge HE committee confers within itself and decides to make the life of the Secretary of the Treasury uncom- fortable for a while ‘You cannot hope for anything better with that Hackensack bridge,’ urges the superintendent almost malevolently. He does not tell them, but the boys out on the line know his own experience with the Hackensack River bridge. Last December, and just in the evening rush hours, they found that the cabin that stands perched at the top of the trussed draw was afire. The trains, bringing home the tired suburbanites, were beginning to pile up back of the fire. The tired suburbanites were saying things about this particular railroad. It chanced that this superintendent was a passenger himself on one of the trains. He went forward to the blaze. The towerman had beat a retreat. The superintendent started to climb up the ice-covered ladder toward the burning cabin. The towerman halted him. The wiry superintendent turned upon him with a look of infinite scorn: “*We've got to hand-signal these trains across here— there’s thousands of folks out here that we can’t let miss their suppers “T’ve got a family ’ began the towerman., “That's allright. I'll signal these across.” ‘*That ain’t it, boss. Pack o’ th’ cabin are the gasoline tanks, the stuff for openin’ th’ draw.” The superintendent gave a low whistle. “That settles it,” he said. ‘* We've got to put this fire out. I can’t risk cutting this draw out of service.” It isa matter of record on that railroad that he climbed alone to the top of the draw and began to put out the fire with his own stout endeavors. He was not alone for long. Inspired by him, the men who gathered there—engineers, firemen, trainmen and conductors—crawled up on that freezing cold draw and lent him their efforts. In half an hour the fire was out and the stalled trains moving again. This, then, is the measure of the man who sits across the wide office-table from you. The mollified commuters are marching out. **You don’t encourage kicking?”’ you ask. “We don’t discourage it,’’ he replied. He is reminded of a story and tells it to you. ‘*When they made Blank superintendent over at Broad Street, in Philadelphia, he went in to make a clean record. He called his chief clerk to him. ‘Mind you, if you hear kicks, don’t let them get in one ear and out the other. You bring them in here and we'll investigate.’ In three days the chief clerk was busy. ‘Lots of trouble with the suburban traffic today,’ he would say. ‘Wilmington train laid out at Gray’s Ferry— third day that’s happened. Ugly trainman on the Main Line. Wouldn’t close the rear doors. That fellow’s unpopular. Not enough equip- ment on the Central division. No fire in the stove at \

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Lenden Road’—a lo After Blank had hear nervous He called } he demanded, ‘ what’s t ' 1] are all these kicks c looked at him—never the kicks,’ he replied barber downstairs sha commuters He get ng string of commuter troublk d this for a week he pegaun to ( is chief clerk to hin See here he matter with our servics Wher ming in from? The chief cle a snicker. ‘You said 1 want ‘Well, I’ve been lett the he ve me alter he was done wit! every one o! tne i Sometimes the kicks represent a seriou le superintendent’s problem. A while ago a man came railroad superintendent, in Boston, and demanded tl certain ticket examiner in the passenger termir be d n ed There had been some sort 1 a dispute ar man insisted that the ticket examiner be dischargs nothing less. The ticket examiner, or s rt, to pretty fair sort of a stor More he l the heat of the dispute he had transgressed y sorry, and that it ild x manners he was frankly pen a n Back of ce mplaints had ever The superintende nt th t complained and stated had been reprimanded and not be repeatea That did not satisfy of the sort that is sup} ened to use his pull if charged He refused He said he was hot kee niy resented anyt hi his discipline an | Das 2 _— . I ressure Was exer rm . . lhe superintendent was— like every other railroad supe ntendent In this land from the train gate in tk 1 jobina city a h He flattered himself th it he had seen e la l he ma with the pull.’ A Conductor With a Price eee That brisk soul chanced t»} thre thedistant town and gasped at sight of the former ticke examiner still drawing } from the railroad. Hel ent into the supe rintendent’s office in Boston and de il that the subterfuge end—t} the man be | charged from t The ern nae looked at him e n ne. The man threatened his pull. The railroad boss looked at } through slitted eye It was a real cr for hi H diplomatic smile was ré He pr his lear forefinger to the door “The case is closed Good-morning ne 1 After that he began ndering hat 1 i ld ha him after that pull Was exerted He wondere for a da! for a week, then fora month. Then he fo e « ir rence. The pull, like many other sorts of threats, was th air Of a different sort was the problem that confront superintendent in Chicago. On a certain suburban t for many years the conductor had remained with ar unchanged run. Gossi} office that this condi stealing from the com} quiet investigation. T all that he had a good record elore Deen registered against n wrote a letter to the man who |} } that the offending ticket examir + ¥ ] nd t the offense would probat the man who con »« sed to have a p he tnre the ticket examiner was not d oO accept ap logic r explanatior so Was the iperintender He ig that ipproached intertere ( fused to discharge } employee the } ill was doing its fine work a fine diplomat. He ik ther ie terminal and gave him ane | indred miles distant from Bo ») had come into thesuperintendent ctor was syste! any The boss starte he conductor, with appar- ently no other income than his three dollarsa da had purchased a neat had sent his boy to Yale ital T rhe superintend was Thrift, with a cap ent took the case sharp the conductor before older sort, gray-1 “Johnson,” said the the road a long time and never had a vacat a month and run ove I want you to lay off either coast. I'll get th Johnsor protested tion of railroaders that tions The superinten Way, as super ntendent started on his vacatior ing nothing of the rea The returns from th: the superintendent kne } home in tk burbs, ar his girlto Vassar. TI ly in hand and summoned him He was one of the e transportation ft He belonged to a genera- was not ¢€ vacia- dent insi 1} s generally m 1 and a substitute, know- 1 situati hin daily r ind w that he was right Nowadays, when a railroad finds that a con ductor is stealing, it Interstate Commerce la him off toward a Fede they were content to sufficient disgrace to th could not begin to get been trickling away thr But Johnson showe portant train in the ( vokes the majesty of W and prepares to scu \ ral prison. In that day fire Johnson—that ‘ old man. The railroad t had ighout the long years 1 fight. His was an im- hieago suburban servic« back the money and his passengers were important merchants and manufacturers —t together, under Johns ig shippers n’s supervision, and made } opera Tok ne ! ‘ } \\ r ; ri n } per ( e « in que } } he en | p en I able t n t } r } ‘ n r nte i¢ ro r Ne) tive ] ? } r é oO ne if j ’ a ty ry} aa ihe time-tr tim pre e ol e | The Eight 1 ne \ hort re re cor ‘ il nds be ? } nor enve her d ie shold } i phoid nfhve da t irye There A erintender t een CI ied f ¢ j r Nowa h } } r e SX lb hat referer } nar ema ‘ ‘ 3 ed I} ( rd does! ¢ ie TY } . rd | e 1« le ¢ i enve t I ele Tt I cle a hee i id ( sr ! Ss 5 | ‘ ilroad ndent 1 } le and modern r rep n tnat « es « ra d Iwo Has Been I ite ¢ } ne re n aW THE SATURDAY EVENING

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18 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Rebellion of Ki By GEORGE PATTULLO SCHOONOVER HEN Pink Goins ran away with Jed Hildreth’s wife everybody was very sorry for Pink. But when he sent her back from Doghoie, without a by-your- leave or a word of thanks, all agreed that he had gone too far, and Jed was extremely angry. Indeed, he never quite forgave Goins. Doghole and adjacent territory discussed the elopement a8 a nine-day wonder and then settied down to pretend nothing had happened. Their strategy was to address Mrs. Hildreth in an un- necessarily loud tone of respect- ful indifference when occasion arose to converse at all, and to gaze off into space w hen Jed interpolated a word, muttering brief replies to his geniai queries “He was a doggone fool to take her back ( pined old man Lisby, at the family dinner-table His daughter-in-law paused in the act of placing the bacon on the board and her lips trembled with a retort, but she sniffed in stead and returned to the stove ‘‘Amanwhatisa manwouldn't never let her into his house agin 1e continued irascibly *‘It was like she had good reasons tor run- ning away,” put in young Mrs. Lisby over : ball her shoulder JW ¢ “A man what is a Rag a *‘ All right, Pa,” said Joe in his slow voice His fierce old sire snorted disdain, but guve over the discus sion aftera glance at him. The son ate huge out squandering conversation, shoving an empty plate or cup toward his wife in mute appeal whenever his appetite demanded more. Having finished, he pushed back his chair with a sigh and passed out to the corral dragging his spurs at each ponderous step. While her father-in-law sucked on his pipe, stretched on a cot on the porch, where he would presently slip into the easy sleep of the aged, Mrs. Lisby sat at dinner alone. Through the saw her husband ride away on the Rat, sit- and solidly in the saddle. There was a drowsy hum of insect life among the vines of the veranda, and from the hard-baked earth pulsated shimmering blurs t hurt the eyes. In the yard a windmill clacked ang after shé had completed her meal Mrs. Lisby con- tinued to sit at the table, her hands clasped under her chin, staring m odily at the sugar bowl Perhaps she was thinking of Jed Hildreth and his wife. Why had she She scarcely knew At last she shook herself and rose, thrusting back the hair from her ,eyes with an impatient hand. The snores had ly and with- open door she

defended the foolish, slack woman’? ceased, and wisps of rancid smoke drifted in ve an’ wash your neck,” she called oT aid Pa resolutely * Brother Ducey s coming she pleaded ** Don't you see him down by the tank ? “‘Another doggone lazy parson. Recollect, you don't kill any of my chickens for the like of him, Kitty Bell “You're all alike you Lisbys Hard that’s what you are -hard. You won't never do anything,’ she j

complaine **Uh-huh,”’ said the old man It was not Brother Ducey who pulled up twenty feet distant and whistled a noisy protest against the heat **Phew! It’s some hot, Uncle Hank,” observed the rider **Huh-hul “Got any water in the well? *T reckon so **Get down an’ cool off, Bud,” invited Mrs. Lisby Mr. Parker alighted very coolly and accepted a stool near the kitchen door. He was a lank, self-possessed per- son, with a complacent ease in the society of women that rendered him an eyesore to the youth of the region Uncle Hank nodded vaguely and emitted a grunt that might mean anything. Then he resumed his noisy smok- ing, rolling a cold, fishy eye on Bud whenever that young man tried to do the civil thing by bringing him into the talk Uncle Hank always grew furious if any one hinted he was becoming hard of hearing, yet for the life of him he could glean little of what passed between Parker and his daughter-in-law. Strain his senses as he might, most of the confidential undertones Bud employed toward Mrs Lisby reached his ears only as confused murmurs

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FRANK E. “What did that feller want?’’ Uncle Hank jerked out, after Bud had reluctantly departed on his way. ‘‘Want? Nothing, of course. He was just riding by, that’sall. Bound for Willhoyt’s, I reckon.’’ She hummed an air as she reéntered the kitchen, but next moment banged a pot on the stove, furious with herself and him because she had red- dened ‘*Bud Parker done dropped in here this evenin’,’’ remarked Uncle Hank at supper. ‘Uh-huh ?”’ responded his son “Third time this week,” the old man added Joe looked at him in contemplative quiet for fully a minute. ‘‘ Yes?” he said, and went on with his meal. His wife did not let the proffered informa- tion pass so tranquilly. Because it was volunteered in a casual manner wholly free from personal imputation she hesi- tated at showing resentment, though her eyes darkened and her flesh tingled with a feeling of helpless shame. Uncle Hank was watching her with a surly mien *““What have you got against Bud Parker?’’ she broke out after an inter- val. Sheplanted herself in front of him, her hands on her hips. “Who? Me?” countered theold man in dull surprise. ‘‘ Nothin’. He ain't worth it.” ‘‘An’ you? I suppose you've got something to say? Whatisit?’’ There was a slight diminution of her aggressiveness when she turned to her husband. Joe did not reply fora second or two, but raised his eyes steadily to hers ‘‘He beats his horse over the haid,’”’ he observed deliberately **There’s no call’’—Uncle Hank cleared his throat ‘there's no call to git mad, Kitty Bell “Then you keep your tongue off of him an’ off of me both of you, ‘retorted Mrs Lisby Joe rolled a cigarette and sauntered down to the corral gate, on whose bars he leaned with the nerveless immo- bility peculiar to him. A soft, luminous, purple haze filled the cafion, and the line of cap-rock glowed yellow under an opalescent sky. Down the steep trail from the plains above a string of cattle picked their way, making for water; one stopped to cry a greeting to her kind in the valley. They rumbled contentedly, breaking into an ungainly trot when they neared the cottonwoods of Lobo Creek. Some of his horses cropped mesquit-pods close at hand; the tinkle of the bell-mare was music in his ears Now long shafts of gold barred the pink and crimson of the sky-rim. Joe drew in a deep breath, the majesty of the infinite, the calm of the eternal, soothing and uplifting him. ‘*Pink done said there ain’t a God.”’ He straightened and flung outanarm, ‘I reckon Pink's a liar.”’ The long shadows crept down the cafion and still he leaned against the gate. He did not move his head when somebody plucked at his sleeve. ** Joe,”’ whispered a voice, ‘‘I didn’t mean to be cross.”’ **T reckon that’s all right.” “Oh!” Kitty Bell dropped her hand from his arm and pressed her cheek against the post; valley and cliffs and Said Chokingly —

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t Vy sky blurred mistily to her vision. Without noting the change Joe unexpectedly swept his hand toward the west. It was an awk- ward gesture, broken off short by shyness ‘Look at that .”’ he began huskily, and could go no further. What she saw him indicate was a wide tract of yellowing corn to the left “Yes,”’ gulped Kitty Bell, ‘‘it’s sure a good crop.” At that she shrank a little from him, gazing unseeing at the chalk cliffs. What a difference! Her blood ran hot at the disloyalty of the comparison—and yet — Bud had been very bold. For, standing together on Lime Peak watch- ing a sunset, the glory of it had opened her soul to an expansiveness she was fearful of baring to her husband's cold scrutiny. In that moment she had turned to Parker, her eyes suffused, her face alight. ** And His wonderful gifts tothe childrenof men. . . . Oh, isn’t it a glory ?”’ ‘*Ay,”’ Bud had said lazily. ‘‘Ay.” After a decent lapse of time: ‘‘ But that pink ain't near as pretty or as soft as the red of your cheeks, Kitty Bell.”’ ‘“‘Hush! You must stop saying things like that,’’ she reproved. Yet she had thought of his words many times since then and she was revolving them in her mind now. She ven- tured a glance at her husband. His face, strongly out- lined, was grim. What did he think of the red of her cheeks? Or had he noticed that they were red? Kitty Bell sighed and, turning away, walked back listlessly to the house. That was on Tuesday, and on Saturday he called for his breakfast earlier than usual. ‘‘I’m going over to George's to see about pasture for them steers,” he announced, while she was rubbing the sleep from her eyes. **How long will you be gone?” “Back Wednesday.” After eating he took his rope and strode away. Kitty Bell remained in the doorway of the kitchen, rumpling her apron. ‘* Joe,”’ she murmured; then, louder,“ Joe!”’ **Ma’m?”’ ‘‘Haven't you forgot something?” ‘Forgot something ?’’ He was frankly puzzled. Immedi- ately his face cleared and he slapped his boot with the maguey. ‘“‘Sure I have. I swan I clean forgot my slicker.”’ Kitty Bell turned into the house and threw herself upon her bed. They had been married a year and she was twenty. Jed Hildreth encountered Lisby on Wednesday morn- ing on the Doghole trail. Joe would have ridden by with a curt greeting, but Hildreth was bursting with news “Hello, Joe,” he cried gleefully. ‘‘1 done passed Kitty Bell an’ Bud Parker drivin’ to town an hour back “Yes?” returned Lisby evenly. ‘‘I rode with ’em part of the way.” Hildreth blinked and, as heambled homeward, scratched his head frequently, mumbling oaths of bewilderment Here was the bottom knocked out of a very pretty scandal; his disappointment was so submerging that he even neglected to mention the meeting to his neighbors or his wife The Rat was dripping sweat when his master jerked him to a stop in mid-gallop at the Doghole station; but Lisby’s step was deliberate and heavy as usual when he crossed the platform to the tiny office where the agent clicked traffic orders on a telegraph instrument “Is the train done gone, Tom?” ‘Five hours late,’’ vouchsafed Tom, repeating the daily formula without removing his eyes from the flimsy Lisby’s great chest rose and feli in a long breath. He extracted a cigarette paper, filled it with steady fingers and deftly twirled it. Then he walked through the red dust of Doghole’s single thoroughfare to Hous Perry’s eating- house ‘Well? What's the good word, Hous?’ he inquired Mr. Perry eyed him askance from behind the bar ‘Now, Joe, we don’t want no eae ‘Say, Hous, Bud Parker an’ Kitty Bell was to meet me here for the 12:10 train. Seen anythin’ of ‘em? We aimed to go to Plainview this evenin Lisby lounged against the rail ‘Sure,’ responded the eating-house man, vastly relieved. ‘‘ They're up in the parlor now. You-all goin’ over for Sam's weddin’?” **I reckon so.” Mr. Perry wiped a glass meditatively In considerable friendliness he requested Joe to take something. Truth is, he had been much agitated by the arrival of Bud and kitty Bell. It was none of his

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business—and they were only waiting for a train—and it might be all right He hovered near the foot of the stairs in an endeavor to catch some of the conversation yet he hesitated to send word to Lisby. It might be all right; and he entertained a very wholesome fear of the cowman Joe finished his glass in leisurely fashion. ‘‘I'll go get ‘em. We'll take supper before the train pulls out, Hous Slowly he ascended the stairs. Half 1 hear a man’s fretful tones. He neither ened his pace. Kitty Bell was sitting in : doorway of the parlor, one foot tapping the of her Parker paced forward and bach window and drummed on the panes with restless fingers

His voice was argumentative, nervously pleading, and he flung himself irritably into a chair as Jo ached the heac of the flight Kitty Bell face blanched at sight of her husband, but she met his look with prideful rebellion Bud broke off in the mid Quickly he crossed his right leg over the left, t thrusting the right hip forward within instant reach Joe stood on the sill without removing his hat, and stared at his wife soberly “Well?” said Kitty Bell with a ghastly titter. Her hands fluttered to her hair and she adjusted a hatpin “Why didn’t you tell me good-by Saturday?” she quavered suddenly, pulling at her gloves ‘Are you-all ready to come home?” Lisby did not glance toward Bud, but he included him in the query ‘‘Home? I’m not going home. Are} Kitty Bell’s voice rang shrill in her tense fear. Parker

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cougned “Kitty Bell, are you still an honest we His wife raised herself unsteadily to her feet, gripping the arms of the chair for support. Her eyes never wavered from her husband's “You you ear k me that, Joe Lisby “Then what for are you here?”’ “Lookyhere, Joe

** Be quiet, you,”’ said Mrs. Lisby, in a tremul hush **Then what for are you here, K tty fe]] For a moment his wife did not reply but scrut ed the

impenetrable mask of his face with pit ful any ety Li i did not appear to see Parker at all, or to be aware of hi presence **I’m going,’’ she said abruptly, her expression harden- ing. She advanced, but her husband did not stir from the threshold. Parker jumped noisily from his chair to fol- low, and she whirled on him **Not with you,”’ she exclaimed. ‘*‘ Not with you.” Hous Perry was droning a ditty in the bar below; the clink of glasses sounded loud in the stillne

“*Did you think I came away just because of him over there? She stood tensely opposite her husband, her clenched hands at her sides. Lisby did not give answer, continuing his impersonal stud) It was as though an unconcerned second y within him was striving to explain the woman t “Did you?” “What for did you leave, then? Haven't I always done right by you?” he questioned his wife stolidly **Done right by me? Ay—done right by me. And is

that all you have to give, Joe he eeling the old Lisby ?” : t he put no in Her husband slowly re- [ao - — - ri ned from any moved his gaze and took off he ‘ efer his hat, turning it in his hand | ann trip “T reckon I don’t take you, | hat had oc Kitty Bell.” e* , **You’ve done right by me ‘ he her roon oh, I'll say amen to that her not You’ve fed me, and given me } a ial aw a few clothes and a decent , } i home. You've been good that } ; - way,Joe. Isthatall you have | , . e } to do? Is that the best you pre e. T can give? Why, you’re good P 1} to your horsesan’ cattle. I've | } } el ee « 5 I i ‘ “Ves?” | **T’ve seen you ride a bron on aie f most to death just to break his er he spirit, an’ then treat him right kind afterward. Oh, you've done right by me.”’ ‘*What did you want, Kitty J Bell?” “Want? Nothing I wanted nothing.” With an abrupt abandonment of he attitude she threw herself int the rocker and, sinking her face upon her arms, wept con- vulsively Joe contemplated herin silence. Then he crossed to the stool in front of the ‘ cottage-organ and sat down ' ‘*T want for to get to the bot- , a tom of this,”’ he said laboredly.

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His ‘ te 4 ler ‘ t i t ne t ‘ and st er head | I t pack 1’? u iway l nt care Vhere st so long ts some p é nere I a 1 K? re I'll neve be reminded Wh e I done Done? You haven't doneat if is t \ e me Ui ae eat: everyb Vir € 1! ! \ ¥ Tee s CA t | \ t I 1 me ‘ ou ire t< \ rT ] r ‘ ’ t } Rowe But ¢ me You don't e color of my |! I'n ‘ part of your property, that’sall. What t u care if t 1 th nt \ 1 Knew said Joc l 1u \ ul gt you knew, kK y Bell r | f Mr. I **Kne Knew what t ! **T done told you when we married e | ‘ went on the ! man hesitatir rly I ( ne A i didn’t allow as you'd want me to keep Pink Done Said Ther I vy. Ne on telling you. I thought you'd know Ain't a God. I Reckon é ta word that you d sense it, Sometimes Pink's a Liar t ‘ ‘ I done nursed you in sickne nh? ul \ ed Kitty Be con pletely unstrung tenade petite 1 t ! irnity to ey healt! An’ I brought you in myself out of the northe ] ‘ nee | lherefore, Mr, Per nter. You would have died then, only forme. Yes, 4 loubt ere d and, be nj tisfied that the would. They wereall scared to go but me. An’ you 1 party is a pleasu int of friends, he sauntered over an’ your father—all you've ever been is hard —hard —hard everal times to exchange ideas on S mminent rt She rocked backward and forward, her face hidden ir t Hou to the belef that Sam was maki he her hands leg } he , vell off Kitty Bell %~ “It ain't t he had I ! h it he An ou done left me wit! itevena od-! » | ntead

rea * Don't forget. ¥ be lr ! | here, Joe On the } ‘ ) | r bi if Go where His wife pped r t ed he hen 1 Ci ‘ l H inted t he tear-streaked face eat é ! he statior ‘We're to r ( f t ] r ( I ct ! I | ‘H Bud here rhe e re r home he three 1 iid List "ark ! ( n the mid ** Lan here, Joe dle and eided “Hurt Lisby heavil He waited for ther tl In tl fashion the é | I husband a ern patier rY e ¢ pe ! that nrea nd einil M nt ‘ vith Pete ** Lookyhere Joe I ! t ( Pete did not like You'l mé the husband, wheeling on him for 1 1 did not « er that | ‘ I ations to the first time Parke epped ¢ et iws rir } lk Uncle Hank 1 er t ( il té ih n resentment, and so they faced each other. Kitty Bell |} 1, his pipe in his1 th. His manner was blamelessly held her breat! non-committal and | leared eye betrayed no surprise or OT ( Parker it li é ed ! { Wi ( time do e | We a mail ( T ‘ oT ed Joe Inan hour. We'll eat here first, Bud **Huli-l | e Hank between his teet! Rufe I meet you-a t pper uid Bud He wv ‘ lone rode é etter from the room and down the stairs. Before entering the Well Ton hen supper ¥ er and he and bar he paused to wipe the perspiration from his forehead Parker were eo! e porch, “y in go Bud and neck An’ you ¢ \ nly eighteen mile Gimme a drink, Hous he requested He spilled i Kitt he { I e! e the humarum « er life goodly portion of the contents of the bottle pouring it out For mat ‘ eque y shivered he moved You -You Can Ask Me That, J Lishy Concluded on 1

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ARMING in [ America has two uncles who et a wide swath in their chosen fields— Uncle Henry and Uncle David Uncle Henry Wal- lace, of the Roosevelt Country Life Com- hand at telling the farmers how to do it; 1d Unele David Ran- kin does it 1a scale that would tagger any man who is not calloused to American igures of the size Secretary Wil te THE SATURDAY EVENING POST cas Greatest son uses in his annual reports, when he takes his pen in hand to sum things up and make every other industry look like small potatoes. Just at present Uncle David Rankin is farm- ing a modest patch of twenty-four thousand acres down in the richest section of Missouri, in the region of Tarkio—not to speak of some six thousand acres across the line up in lowa. Though he doesn’t dispute the state- ment, that he farms thirty thousand acres “in round figures,’’ he doesn’t count the Iowa tract as a part of his regular farm system, which revolves about the hub of his little eight-by-twelve office back of the bank in Tarkio [t's a poor year for corn in Uncle David's patch when have eighteen thousand acres in that king of American crops, V itha yle ld of a million or more bushels He feels that he is running light when he doesn’t feed at least thirteen thousand cattle and twenty-five thousand he doesn’t hogs in the course of the year. And it takes a power of work ck-mostly mules--to turn the furrows and drive the listers and cultivators and to haul the stuff on Uncle David's fat acre Right now he reckons that six hundred and forty head of mules and horses are in his tables, and he knows that a thousand sets of harness are in commission on the place. A battalion of fifty corn- binders takes care of the corn harvest and, though he loesn't ‘make much of meadow land,” thirty mowers ¢ 10t too many to cut his clover and hay. He has son mm thing more than three hundred farm wagons in use, and 1e same number each of double-row plows, double-row listers and planters. Every year he buys twenty-five hun- dred bushels of the best seed corn he can find with which io do his corn-planting ‘Uncle David certainly does farm it on quite a scale” as one of his townsmen modestl Imitted Uncle David's School of Farming | yA there are a good many men down in Missouri and elsewhere who hold that Uncle David himself is bigger than any farm he has —or than all of them put toge To understand the Rankin way of farming rst getting a line on Uncle David, the man, is not in ks They go together Although th greatest farmer in America” is now eighty-five years « ld, he in the harness every day and pushing his shoulders hard against the hames from sun-up to dark-—and then some! He's as spry as a colt, and ir behind a pair of his using, ne en ce in about as many p! the st in ) roll. If the work agging or lagging, or things are ina tangle anywhere on the eleven r n the home syster there is the spot where Uncle David is sure to turn 1 nd put into action the shrewd generalship that has made him the sucee il master of thirty thousand acres of farm land. I 1 ne his hands: ‘‘ Uncle David sure de the pike like a cyclone, and wherever he goe t fo | i 1, KIN 11s it old face, as he is laying d 1 foreman or buying a few thousand head of feeders in the yards at St. Joe or Kansas City, one would be al t in failing to figure his ancestry r wha S I non le and Quaker on the other. Therei et true to type” in the man that proclaims his breeding. Back in 1825, the year of his h, Sullivan County, Indiana, had a well-earned repu- tation for wildness which was too strong for the upright f David's father. ‘* This is too lay declared, ‘‘in which to bring and I'm going to pull out for in ‘abin sixteen feet the time David was six years old By FORREST CRISSEY and there he formed those impressions which impelled him to become the most extensive farmer in the United States. He remembers hearing his father ‘‘ talk land’”’ and declare his faith in the future of the rich prairie soil, when he made a trade with his wife’s father for two hundred acres on which the old gunmaker had entered. Perhaps the fact that young David was literally raised on ‘hog and hominy”’ might have prejudiced him against corn and pork, had it not been for the delicious smoked hams which were seasoned and flavored in the smoke of hickory bark. This was the family delicacy and made the boy a lifelong friend of the porker. He now feeds twenty- five thousand of them a year and is probably the largest individual pork-producer in the country. There was plenty for a boy to do in those days on a pioneer farm—at least, enough to teach him to do things and give him an appetite. As his father put in corn as fast as he could break up the sod David formed an early and intimate acquaintance with the art of corn-raising. The simple life as the Rankins lived it imposed a good many labors now obsolete—if the fire went out he was sent a mile to the neighbor's to fetch live coals, and he was sixteen years old when he first saw a match. But he built up a constitution in the simplicity of his early living which has lasted him a good while and has stood heroic train. He doesn't regret now that he did not see a summer until his twenty-ninth year when he did not put away his shoes until they should be needed in the fall. The elder Rankin did not tarry long in Parke County, but pushed on across the border into Illinois and settled in Henderson County, where he put up a sawmill—and piled up debts about as fast as he did boards. To help him ‘‘pay out’’ young David dressed hogs, hauled them to the nearest town and sold them as low as a dollar a hundredweight. And the corn on which those hogs had been fattened had come hard, for the land had been turned with a plow having a wooden mouldboard that had to be scraped clean with a paddle every few rods, as it would not scour. Wheat brought only twenty-five cents a bushel and only a quarter of this in money —the rest in trade. Calico was then forty cents a yard. In the days when President Jackson played hob with the currency money became about as scarce as diamonds, and the elder Rankin was driven back to farming again. He traded a colt and a cow for a quarter section of land on which he could at least raise food for himself and his family. About that time David decided to strike out for himself. The question was, should he become a storekeeper or a farmer? He had seen the hardest farm life known on American soil--and still the soil looked good to him and he reasoned that there were better times coming in which the man with land at his back would nave the best of the bargain. So he traded lumber for one ox and labor for another—at a price of eight dollars each—and went in debt for a plow-point. With this outfit he began his life as an independent farmer. When he was twenty-five and had eighty acres of land, a few cattle and five dollars in money, he married. He kept the land and the cattle, but gave the money —all of it to the preacher. But he had begun to show good trad- ing qualities and that fall he contrived to buy three hun- dred and twenty acres of rich land. This is the school in which Uncle David was raised and seasoned ! As his wheatfields and his cornfields grew larger and larger another quality was called into action and developed feeding Fa April 2, 1910 by much exercise. He began to study how to lessen the cost of pro- duction and ‘‘do things faster.’”’ Ashe laboriously cultivated his corn the thought came to him: ‘‘ How a man could get over the ground if he only had a cultivator on wheels which would straddle the corn rows and work both sides of them at the same time.”” This was in 1853. Having been schooled to meet emer- gencies from his own resources, he promptly fell to working out his new problem. With two single cultivators and the front wheels of a farm wagon he rigged up a double-row cultivator which did as much work in the cornfield with one team as he and his hired man had been able to do in the same time with two teams. And today, whenever Uncle David hammers away at his farm friends to work on the principle that has made millions for the packers, the railroads and all concerns run in a big way —the principle of keeping down the cost of production—he always illustrates his point by telling how he saved a man’s wages by building a two-row culti- vator Young Rankin always had his eyes open to an oppor- tunity that was strictly in his line, and closed to those that were out of it —his line being covered by four items: land, corn, cattle and hogs. When the panic of '57 swept the country like a cyclone David Rankin had a little ready money at his command. Corn could be picked up for as low as eight cents a bushel, and men would haul it ten miles and put it in the crib for ten cents a bushel in real money. He saw that corn was “‘the best buy in the world”’ at that price, so he built cribs and bought every bushel he could pay for. In two or three years he sold it all, in the crib, at eighty cents a bushel. Corn Coined Into Dollars 'MNHE beginning of the war saw Mr. Rankin’s real start 4 in the feeding business. He picked up likely steers at $1.50 to $1.75 a hundred at the Chicago yards, drove them down to Paxton, fattened them on his corn and finally sold them in New York at $6 to $6.50 a hundredweight. His lean steers almost literally coined corn into dollars and this money was put into rich prairie land as fast as it,came into his hands. He soon, had five thousand acres, bought at $6.25 to $7 an acre—land which is now selling at $100 to $175. But he didn’t wait for it to touch this figure before he began to scout around for a rich corn country in which he could repeat his operation on a larger scale. When he was able to sell out his five thousand acres of Illinois land for many times what it had cost him he knew just where to get the kind of land he wanted and get it cheap. The land was already spied out, and it was as good corn land as that which he was leaving. He bought it dirt cheap and has kept on buying ever since. It is his pride that practically every acre of it has been taken care of in a way to protect and maintain its fertility. In the creed of David Rankin soil depletion is sin. He regards land in the same light in which a shrewd and far-sighted manufacturer looks upon raw material of which there is a comparatively limited supply. Uncle David made up his mind a long time ago that this kind of raw material was bound to go up and keep on going up indefinitely, and that the first thing to do was to lay in so big & supply that he could never be caught short, no matter how sharp the demand might be Next he decided that if he could handle this supply, bought at a low price, so that the process of its use, of its manufacture into corn and steers and hogs, would make comparatively a small demand upon it, he would have a mighty resource left, a huge profit in the land itself, when it came to a final clean-up. This is Uncle David's theory of farming, of land-holding and land-using. Every opera- tion in the management of his monster system of farms is based upon this theory: ‘‘ Make the difference between the cost of operation and the proceeds from the output as big as possible, but never do a thing that will pull down the real productive value of the land—then every year will add to the great undivided profit or surplus in the increased market value of the land itself.”’ His land is’ \

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his savings-bank, and he would as soon think of starting a run on a bank in which he carried a big account as of countenancing any system of cultivation that involved an intrinsic depletion of his soil In the theory and the practice of this man whose acres would make a very respectable European principality the first essential of economic production is having at hand everything that will contribute to the certainty of production. In a country that is unirrigated the fate of the crops depends upen the weather. The right time for putting in the crops may be of only a few days’ duration; if the corn is put in within that brief period it is taking the tide of fortune at its flood. Again, this crisis is repeated in the matter of cultivating the crop in the various stages of its development. One day, perhaps, may spell all the difference between success and defeat, between a bumper crop and a failure. Your Uncle David Rankin realizes this to a degree that only the man with eighteen thousand acres of corn can realize it. Between furrows, when the land is plowed, and between the rows, after the corn has been checked in, he can read, without spectacles, the words: ‘‘ Time is the essence of this contract.’’ Consequently, he takes no chances; instead, he takes out insurance against crop fail- ure by having the best machinery, the best seed and the best working stock that money will buy —and he takes good care that the supply is unstinted. Then he pays top wages and gets the best men that money will hire—and feeds and houses and cares for them so that they are on their mettle, and always ready to let out a link or two in the time of strain and emergency Modern Methods of Crop Insurance ib OTHER words, everything is cocked and primed to take advantage of the weather and put the whole great crop safely into the ground at just the right time — no mat- ter how short may be the period for propitious seeding And so with critical stages of cultivation. If the weather gives Uncle David half a show —he has the machinery the teams and the men to clear out the weeds and stir the soil before the fickle weather god has a chance to change his mind. It isa simple matter of economy, after all. In his mind, to have cheap teams, cheap machinery and cheap men is to save at the spigot and waste at the bunghole He must know—so far as foreknowledge is humanly possible in the situation—that his immense fields are going to yield a good crop, and experience has taught him that any machinery that will materially increase the quick- ness with which a crop can be put in or cultivated is so cheap that he can afford to throw away his old machinery and buy thenew. He figures out the cost of an equipment of new machines by the acre and strikes a balance against the results obtained. In a single day he has one hundred and twenty-six two-row cultivators in the field. If a new machine should appear which would increase the working power of those cultivators by twenty-five per cent he would send the old ones to the scrap-heap, buy the new ones and be glad of thechance. ‘‘ One day in the field at the right time is worth a month at the wrong time is his motto This matter of being able to crowd things hard and fast in the field when the weather favors is considered in every feature of working equipment. His thousand har- nesses are all equipped with trace chains instead of tugs, and the man in the field has with him a bit of smooth, strong wire which may be instantly twisted into service for a link, should a chain break. No time to go to a harness shop or even back to the barn, when the pressure of planting or cultivating is on! The same consideration is found in his method of feeding his working stock. His motive power is mainly mules~for the mule is a safer feeder and less liable to get out of gear than the horse. The feed troughs of his work animals are always kept full, and they are expected to ‘‘ havesense enough to quit when they get enough And it is his experience that even horses soon learn not to overfeed The danger of overfeeding is less from the full trough, as he has found it, than is the danger of slumping at a time of high pressure be- cause of too little strong feed. His animals are all in condition to be crowded to the limit at the time of emergency. The question of his seed is looked upon from the same viewpoint of the economy of whatever will THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Master of Eighteen Thousand Acres of Corn Seed-raising, in his opinion, is a science in should be left to specialists who make it a For that reason he buys all his seed He bother with testing-plots.’’ This might to be very careless and unbusinesslike, but your of a crop itself and life study doesn't even seem t Uncle David is shrewd enough to know that no grower of seed corn is going to give an inferior seed to a customer less than twenty-five hundred bushels who never buys a year and sometimes goes as high as four thousand bushels To command the trade of a customer of this kind, year after year, 18 a great consideration and one not to be trifled with, and the grower, for his own protection, is going to subject that seed to all the tests necessary to satisfy himself that it is the best he can offer and up to standard However, in this matter of seed corn Ir Rankin does take the precaution of planting several varieties; he does not consider it safe to put one basket After Uncle David has provided the best motive power the best implements and equipment, the best seed and the best labor that money and ripe experience can secure, his one big job is to watch the weather and the ground like a hawk and pass the word to his foremen when to plow, to plant, to seed, to cultivate and to harvest judgment, ripened by long experience, counts for its full value -and Uncle David is long on that sort of which is a blending of natural intuition and of years of practical training. In crop-raising the question of when to do a certain thing is quite as important as how to do it all his eggs in Here is where idgme nt contribute to the certainty plowed or plants i ite as next! t \ ese ‘ eeds and A He e, ir ‘ David Rankir I ‘ } a) ttali ns corn-harvesters re i } daivision of ralliroad re After the ré jue n ( \\ ee! rty or sixt I t be recc 1, fr | that the land |} byen ‘ btained, and that t ‘ u pos e po N tne eld j t } ee tril ed so that t I lo turn a herd e ul ! é t} work of conve ac nto fe lizer, a pre ‘ ‘ clear the most « " P t ne 1. While fa e are ‘ re markets ar n De 1 year ne ct re t the I i he time whe ‘ e reache I x ( ion t ell the ‘ ‘ et ‘ in an int that 1 t t est i net | é transaction « he a Here ‘ é t ence rf ne « i i he ‘ r | ern? comes into pla I here | er consider ! At the mom« whit e stee ‘ ‘ p weight and er fe i be tl , i rn the r eu! ‘ 1 the price le iV represé ..4 I e lee perat How the he heage a 1 { ‘ Wi ‘ it will | 4 nie} , Ss answer to this que I reat the I wonder! i ‘ ( ind profit-insurer ever invented! Without the hog the busine f cattle-feedir wuld he precarious—at least, far more precarious tl but with the hog as a waste-saver the profits of fe over any reasonable period of year ire about ire the seasons. At least. this is the experience of Mr. R The hog is the professional gleane nd three of ther ill fatten on the corn that one teer ‘ n the kind feeding that obtains on th fart It the aim of Mr Rankin to keep at least twenty-five thousand hogs on | home system of fart ‘“*] never had enou hog never!’ he declare but on ac nt the cholera it hard to get the stock much al e the twenty ‘ } iIsand mark In the estimation of Uncle David the } is the gift of Heaven to the American farmer How Overworked Fields Are Rested ESPITE all the fertilization resulting from the drop- pings of both cattle and hogs and of the decay of | not consumed by the feeder the fact re ns t t eries ot five or Six Ieee é r croy ‘ tell or field and cause it to fly the al of ‘ e of ij minished yield. This me } } ade Z ! And tl timplies crop rot r Butinther f Mr. Rankin rotatior t witl H por i leave fe est ‘ Clove the , ind yields a pr | ! !

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to give the pigs a start calculated to carry them through the stock scales without an attack of cholera or other hog disease—for nothing is quite sc good and healthful for pigs as an infancy spent in a clover field. In order not to impair the rejuvenating effect of the 1 the soil, as well as to get the most out of the crop itself, three precautions are carefully observed The clover is not pastured until it is about knee-high; not more than three pigs to the acre are allowed to fatten on it; and the moment it shows signs of dying out in the fall the to elover or swine are taken out and assigned to their final task of following the steers in the cattle-feeding fields or yards, Mr. Rankin figures that an acre of clover pasture produces, on the average, one hundred and fifty pounds of pork worth six dollars to where they are finished on a corn diet ter llar hundredweight, according to the market rhis, however, is de lly a low figure. In the corn country of Central Illinois an acre of clover pasture in od condition is expected to bring six pigs up to a weight of a hundred pounds each before the well-being of the pasturage necessitates their withdrawal. ymething left in the clover field ttle 1 a dollar a month to the acre while the ¢ pasturage, however, is the only use n field the third year, asa good growth must in the fall plowing, for the sake of the year the field goes back into corn again will be seen that the clover field may be de ay its own fixed charges and gener- illy t nug profit. And all the time it is inde of rejuvenation When asked why he did not raise alfalfa Mr. Rankin replied Alfalfa is not for me; it doesn’t fit into my scheme of things. Corn ismy main crop, and anything that interferes th corn asa first consideration has back seat with me. In get the good of an alfalfa eeding it must occ Ip) the pre und ora en longer e tnan I can afford to leave it there Again, it cannot be pastured to advantage raise corn, and when the corn most needs cultivation the alfalfa is just ready ior cutting I can t stop to bother with 1 No doubt it isa great fertility restorer; but I must have 1 iert i i! y cr pt lat vets out of the yr ickl that does not demand attefition and labor at e tl critical and exacting In the corntield ihen, loo, my ter- tilizing crop must pay me a little ometl righ iY the bat. Clover col nearest to filling all these re- quirement ind so I stick to clover Corn Maxims on matter of crop rotation, A however, is subject to the emer- gencies he season; and here again, the judgment of Uncle David come nto pla In f the whole game of farming is one of deviation from an esta hed system in order to meet special ryencies If THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Plant your corn at a uniform depth. Early planting should be shallow, late planting deeper. Harrow thoroughly before the corn comes up, once at least —twice is better. Cultivate as soon as possible and as often and as thor- oughly as you can. Never cultivate less than four or five times. Corn should be gone over with a cultivator at least once a week. This is especially urgent in a dry season, as stirring the top of the ground conserves the moisture. During the month of August go through the fields and cut or pull every cockle-bur, buttonweed and other obnox- ious growth. If I am going to use the lister I disk the land once or twice before going in with it, so that the weeds may get a good start before planting. In other words, cultivate the weeds before planting the corn, so that you may kill them while cultivating the corn to make it grow, thus killing two birds with one stone. Departures from this method are made to meet the exigencies of abnormal seasons, but these are David Rankin’s methods of corn cultivation. Organization is a strong hold with this master farmer. In fact, it isa first principle. Without system of the rigid, semi-military sort he would be in as bad a mess as a great city department store should it attempt to do business on the methodless methods of a slack country storekeeper. He is somewhat in the position of a manufacturer who is near enough to being a trust to have one big parent factory and ten smaller ones. His farms in the ‘‘regular home system” lie in eleven groups, and each is numbered. Number One, for instance, lies nine and a half miles northwest of Tarkio, while Number Two is three miles -———_—_—_- ———- eonptanmanenemnatianiteg April 2, 1910 And especially is he enlightened as to emergency matters in which his judgment is needed. After he has heard each foreman’s story he gives his orders for the day—and generally in fewer words than the foreman has used in presenting the situation. In the evening Mr. Rankin again makes the rounds of telephone calls and learns from his foremen what has been accomplished during th and any especial happenings which the day has brought forth. Like most good generals, the night is his favorite time for laying plans and figuring things out. He holds that the best scheming as well as the best courting is done by moonlight and starlight. But there are many things that cannot be done by telephone. There is not a day in the life of this busy octogenarian when his personal presence is not demanded by emergency calls on six or eight of his farms. Although he is not yet ‘‘automobile-broke”’ he travels like a cyclone behind a span that can cover the country roads to his satisfaction. Certainly they never ‘‘breathe their own dust,”’ for he keeps them flying from dawn till dusk. His grasp of details is almost instantaneous and he can straighten out a tangled situation with astonishing quick- ness. Something moves wherever Uncle David stops. Moreover, it is never safe for a foreman to figure that “the Old Man will not be around today.’’ Generally such a forecast is almest sure to bring disappointment and chagrin —in the shape of Uncle David himself The foremen are paid from forty dollars to sixty dollars a month, according to the size of the farm in their charge and the responsibilities of the position. The ranchhands receive twenty-five dollars a month and ‘‘keep,”’ as an average wage—and their keep is the best that the country affords human nature, Mr. Rankin will not ] permit a man cook on any of his farms; all the cooking is done by women ‘‘who know how to dish things upina kind of homelike fash- ion.”’ As these women receive forty dollars a month and their board and comfortable lodgings, and are fur- nished with all the hel; is not strange that about the best plain-cooking talent in Missouri is \ to be found on the Rankin farms Uncle David is a firm believer in the doctrine of good feeding for men, for horses and for cattle; any- thing short of the str yngest rations day Being a shrewd judge of » tney need, it they will stand is poor economy, in his opinion The Merit System HEN there are ot! sides good mothe rly cooking to } make the Rankin farmhands con- tented with their lot. They all have good beds and good rooms, and in every farmhouse is a big lounging-room ample for the accom- modation of all the men employed on the place Lights and fuel in abundance are furnished, together with farm papers, story papers, magazines, checkerboards, domi- * things be- the season happens to be unusually dry it may be wise to keep the hogs out of the clover altogether; if the season is uncom- monly wet it necessary to resort to pecial measures to keep the weeds down in the cornfields And one of the clever eme tricks of Uncle David — when the weeds get beyond the ntrolofn hinery and hoes, and tl ten to seed the field with a ‘rich crop of pests to fight another season —is to tur floc heep into the corn when it is too [ I rthem to ¢ found shee p ex ellent substitutes for hoe ind » regards them primarily as work animals they thrive on their weeding task, and he finds it profitable to fin judgn It requires good to meet emergencies on the farm as well ag in ness; and this is Uncle David's own spe¢ial bon |} reat farm. As an emergenry- ht on his own ground. And his years of rience count with cumulative force in ‘this } raises more than a million bushels of corn something of!an entitled to be considerec i e ind if he has worked at' it re than half a century he is practically i definite system worked out to fit the Uncle David has one, and here it is: und rich. Feed cattle and hogs on it, aind t thout stint i | » ground completely over ledve 0 ip Have the ground well pulveri ed before planting either by liberal use of the harrow or the disk Waiting for Their Feed south of the little town and Number Seven is fifteen miles to the southeast. In all the eleven farms there are exactly 23,960 acres. The largest contains 3460 acres and the smallest 690 acres. Each farm is’ handled as a unit, having its own foreman, its own buildings and its own equipment of work animals, implements and hired hands. Excepting in times of special emergency on some of the larger ranches, when the call for extra labor and machinery is urgent, the teams, implements and men of one farm are not shifted to another. Every animal and every implement has its own place and if it is found else- where the man who has charge of it is called to an account- ing. In so great an enterprise as this confusion is costly; it wastes time, and Uncle David considers the time of his hands and his foremen as about the most expensive thing he has on the place. If the working equipment were shifted miscellaneously from one place to another con- fusion would be the order of the day and it would generally happen that one farm would have a surfeit while another would have a shortage Although these farms are rather widely scattered they are knitted together with a telephone system without which their operation would be discouragingly difficult, if not impossible. Each of the eleven foremen knows that he is due to be called up by Uncle David at a certain moment each morning and evening. Almost invariably before seven o'clock in the morning Mr. Rankin has talked with each of his foremen and received a condensed but very definite report of the situation on each farm noes and other means of amuse- ment and recreation. The chairs and benches are comfortable and ample in number to accommodate not only all the regular hands on the place, but their friends who may drop in for an evening’s chat. The men are free to smoke to their hearts’ content, but drinking is strictly barred Still another consideration, which undoubtedly makes it easy for Mr. Rankin to keep his pick of farmhands, is the fact that every man who knows how to use his privi- leges without abusing them hasa horse and saddle at his command. Then, too, there is no petty “ choring”’ for the regular hand. Each foreman has his regular force, large or small, of chore-boys who look after the cows, the poultry, the small pigs, the brood sows, the mares and colts, and the repairing of windmills, gates, fences and all the tinkering that needs to be done. While civil service is not a written law on the Rankin farms, it is a settled practice, and the good farmhand knows that he has a solid expectation of promotion before him if he shows the right mettle—for a good many foremen have been given the opportunity to take land from Mr. Rankin and operate t on shares. Some of them have made as high as twelve thousand dollars a year in this kind of partnership. Each foreman is expected to raise enough potatoes for his force of men, and generally there are enough cows and chickens on each farm to supply it generously with milk and eggs. Butter, however, is bought in town or from neighboring farmers more often than it is produced on the ranch. 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i ig : ; ; { A | ' q | : tg / ! ; j 1 | ; | THE SATURDAY EVENING Ix EFORE Sam had his break- fast the next morning he sat in his room with some figures which Blackrock and Cuthbert had. provided him the evening before He cast them up and down, and crosswise and diagon: balanced them and juggled them, and sorted them and shifted them until at last he found the rathole, and, smiling grimly, placed those pages of n figures in a small letter file that took from his trunk. One thing Was certain: the Meadow Brook capitalists were highly interested in his plan, or they would never go to the trouble of devising this early a scheme for controlling the Marsh- Pulp corporation. Well, they were the exact people he wanted. Immediately after breakfast Miss Stevens telephoned over to thank him for his beautiful roses, and he had the pleasure of letting her know, quite incidentally, that he had gone down to thé rose beds and picked out each individual blossom him- self, which, of course, accounted for their excellence. Also he suggested He Would coming over that morning fora walk No, she was very sorry, but she was just maki to go out horseback ri ling with Mr. Hollis, who by tne way, was an excellent rider: but they would be back from their canter about ten-thirty, and if Mr. Turner cared to come over fora game of tennis before luncheon, why “Sorry I can’t do it,’”’ returned Mr. Turner, with the deepest of genuine regret in his tone. “ My kid brother is sending me some samples of pulp and paper which will arrive at about eleven o'clock, and I have called a meeting of some interested parties here to examine it.” “ Business again ?’’ she protested. “I thought you were on a vacation “I am,” he assured her in surprise. “I never lazied around so or frittered up so much time in 1 life; and I'm er joying every secor d of my freedon too I tell you it’s fine. But say, this meeting won’t take over an hour. Why can’t I come over right after lunch She was very sorry, this time a little less regretfully, that after luncheon she had an engagement with Mr Princeman to play a match game of croquet ut they were getting up a hasty, informal dance over at Hollis Creek for that evening. Would he come over? He certainly would, and he at once spoke for as many dances as she would give him. “T’'ll give you what I can,” she told him; “but I've already promised three of them to Billy Westlake, who is a divine dancer.” Sam Turner was deeply thoughtful as he turned away from the ‘phone. Hollis was a superb horseback rider Billy Westlake was a divine dancer. Princeman, he had learned from Miss Stevens, who had spoken with vast enthusiasm, was a baseball hero. Hollis and Princemar and Westlake were crack bowlers, also crack tennis players, and no doubt all three were even expert croquet players. It was easy to see the sort of men she admired Earning the esteem of young ladies was evidently a profession. In the mean time, Miss Westlake and Miss Hastings were waiting for him. Miss Hastings, however, saw him first, and before Miss Westlake arrived Sam had somehow or other made an engagement to go “‘ferning”’ that afternoon, téte-a-téte. In between he had a game of clock golf, sent two telegrams and received his express package, and immediately upon the latter event held a full meeting of the tentative Marsh-Pulp Company upon the porch of Meadow Brook House. In that meeting decided upon four things: first, that these hard-headed men of business were highly favorable to his scheme; second, that Princeman and Cuthbert, who knew most about paper and pulp, were so profoundly impressed wit! his samples that they tried to conceal it from him; third, that Princeman, at first his warmest adherent, was now most stubbornly opposed to him--not that he wished to prevent forming the company, but that he wished to prevent Sam’s having his own way; fourth, that the crowd had talked it over and had firmly determined that Sam should not control their money Consequently, at the close of the meeting he went to the telegraph offic and wired his brother in New York: g on with pulp company stock subscriptior How are you cor The telegraph office was in one corner of the post-office, which was also a souvenir room with candy and cigar d looked ‘ _ , e1 , er ited ‘ r i How rt | ? t ( } I 1! ‘ i een rr ! he lad H ( ‘ H pon the ltwod M We i M fia it lad VT ! i il ] ul each } me Rather Deal With These Progressive People Than With a Lot of * Sapheads v¥hom he had not met at all He ‘ t} hye ! counters, and as he urned away from the tel graph des} ally and stilt] ent tl ivh tt { t three dances ith he saw Princeman at the candy counter thr ng lad V re r nd then came } “No; I don't care for any of these Princeman Vv first dan h M ; ens! The i not talk ve saying. “If you haven't maraschino chocolates I don’t nuch, but it r el tit bn h her want ar kr t t ‘ t} it } ‘ Sam immediately stepped back to the telegrap! ae i erstood He r } h. that } DI and sent another wire to his brother: ther gown, The pr nade, wl had se ed qui | ‘ in Be hor enougn with t ( ll ‘ ‘ F r for Sar p he p } | Wi cal ‘ per r my d t M Josephine H fen th ! rilloug! came I hir i ' 1 hen he went upstairs to make ready f nch, Imr lasivy is me diately aiter luncheon he received tne LOW t I med that } nm the his brother: | out of th —- " our but no hurry wl 11 for this dat t! h M hby and Mr. Turner ( ratulate } nd M | l had l Would Mr x Turner kir ‘ ] bel r her ND so the 1 d was finding the same trouble with which y it lad) wil M i ntrod ‘ thi 4 he had met. They had been too frank in stating that voung lady was on Sa ( { next danes ving they intended to obtain control of the company without — this one, but it should be the « th d e, and we ] any larger investments than their patents and their Mr. Turner ] e ly, which scheme Sam wandered through the ha revolving tt Mr. Turner obligit aid nad fiat he hould do matter in his mind, and out at the rear door h when it came to the « lar ! } 1 find } framed an inviting vista of greet He strolled back past elf obligated to two \ ne fle the barn toward the upper reaches of the brook path and, no doubt the other ! for eighth itting amid the comfortal narled roots of a big tre dance th eone « if tl had tl ! 1 Of he lit a cigar and began tr lence to snap little pebble oO! hin ( t tent} t th M into the brook. If he were promoting a cr ed scheme é He | t I n of he reflected sa‘ igrely he would have no diff vVhat ‘ t r ! ! | hat she n fi ting 1t upon almost ar terms he inted WW ¢ t ri t I } " , there was one thing certain: at the finish, control i t , | be in |} own hands! But how to secure ind ’ | } ' 1 ‘ the company promy nd advantageousl Phere the pr lem He | att Cc! d The ere ¢ 1 on \ I N en rorou enterpr I mer fine men wit! I t a I \\ i busine men who would snatch control away fror mif point ou br nd they could, and throw him out in the cold in a n te ] ! 1 tl I it they deemed it necessary or ¢ xpedient Qf course t } ! t r } } \ to be expected It wa } t of the me I I I ‘ r n vould rather deal with these progressive peo] | t t r he I their tendencies than with a lot of ‘ phead ( ! he tt ! , How to ge ntr Confound it ere M Pher f her iH Hasting nd her fern basket! Obedient he hered ps, f nd red i i ) ‘ Ter il aiterr n and evade 1 per ” é 1 re l t ! What uC ind other blandishment nevert hele a) \ Ke time they returned to the house Miss Hastir ‘ H t ! in mor my ! him Sam and ap« ing prettily for it, and doing it aga \ Stever | r ) I the last time in the presence of Miss Westlak« te, outstanding is if he It isa pathetic thing to see bosom friends become dead I enemies We whatever happened, Miss West ‘ le | her du pla before her She had roduced Mr | I r ‘ r Turner to Miss Hastir ind she was respor I ul ted Mr. ‘I i her moral duty to rescue him from the elute f that himself to tur I I ning young person, and she immediately manceuvered Visior I to secure é t » the dance that night one icceeded mut mp I t I but she had a very dull partner, for Sam did r le porch ar t light up in any way until he saw Miss Steven LW from dancit He might well brighten, for Miss Stevens, char ! I every guise, a revelation in evening c " we by tir Mr. & ravishing revelation; one to make a man pause and wot ( rved I think I | i der i stand in awe, and regard himsel i a ¢ ! ! POST By George Randa yi ph Chester ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN

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i ‘Glad to have you any time, Sam,’ responded }Mr Stevens heartily, ‘‘but there is no time like the prespnt What's on your mind?” “This Marsh-Pulp Company,” said Sam **Sit down,” invited Mr. Stevens On and en went the music in the ballroom; on went’ the shutfling of feet, the swish of garments, the gay talk and laughter of the young people * and on and on they talked r strain of music penetrated into Sam's the Home-Sweet-Home waltz. until one familia inner consciou ‘By George!” he exclaimed, jumping up “That can't be the last \ ‘Sounds like it,’’ commented Mr. Stevens, also ris‘ng ‘It is the last if they make up programs as they dié in my young day { don’t remember many dances where the Home-Sweet-Home waltz didn’t end it up. It's jate enough, anyhow. It’s eleven-thirty.”’ hen I have done it again!” said Sam ruefully. . ‘I had the number-ten dance with your daughter.” Mr. Stevens closed his eyes to laugh ij You certainly have put your foot in it,’’ he admitted “Oh, well, Jo’s sensible,” he added, with a father’s fond iwnorance ‘She'll understand “That's what I'm afraid of,” replied Mr. Turner rue- fulls ‘You'll have to iatercede for me and soften the case as much as you can. Frankly, Mr. Stevens, I'd be tre- mendously cut up to be on the outs with Miss Josephine * There are shoals of young men who feel that way about it, Sam,”’ said Mr. Stevens, with large and commendable pride. ‘* However, | am glad that you have added your- If to the list and he gazed after Sam with considerabk approbation as that young man hurried away to dis- play his abjectness to the young lady in question Three times, on the arm of Princeman, she whirled past the open doorway where Sam stood; but somehow: or other he found it impossible to catch her eye. The dances ended when she was upon the other side of the room, and immediately, with the last strains, the floor was in con- fusion. Sam tried desperately to hurry across to where she her in the crowd. He did not see her again until all of the Meadow Brook folk, including him- self, were seated in the carryalis, at which time the Hollis Creek folk were at the edge of the porte-cochére and both gabbling pandemonium j of good-bys He saw her then, standing back among th crowd, and shouting her a vociferously as any: of then He caugnt her eve and he nodded to him‘ as 0% which was really worse than if he had refused to acknowledge him at all! was, but he lost parties were exchanging a Z pDieasan as t invbody XI N' ), MISS STEVENS was sorry that she could not! go walking with him that morning, which was the mo;n- ing after the dance She was ve ry p lite about it, too; almost too polite. Her voice over the ‘phone was as sus ve and as | mpid as could pos ibly be, but there was a sort of metallic glitter behind it, as it were ‘ No, she could not see him that afternoon, either. She had made a series of engagements, in fact, covering the ' a “Remember, Jack, 'm Going to Marry Her” THE SATURDAY EVENING POST entire day. Also she regretted to say, upon further solici- tation, that she had engagements covering the following day. No, she was not piqued about his last night’s forget- fulness; by no means, certainly not, how absurd! She quite understood. He had been talking business with her father, and naturally such a trifling detail as a dance with frivo- lous young people would not occur to him j 3 This was the ex- act point of the con- versation at which F) Sam, with his ear glued tothereceiver of the ‘phoneand no necessity for con- cealing the con- | cerned expression j upon his counte- | nance, thought, in more or less of a panic, that he must really be getting old; which was a good joke, inas- much as nobody | ever took him to be | over twenty-five | Heretofore his boy- | ish appearance had worried him be- cause it rather | stood in the way of t April 2, 1910 ‘I find I have some pressing business right after luncheon,”’ he said, bending over that gentleman’s chair ‘I can’t possibly meet you at two o'clock. Will four do you?” “Why, certainly,”” Mr. Blackrock was kind enough to say, and he furthermore agreed, with equal gracious- ness, to inform the others. Sam ate his luncheon in worried silence, replying only in monosylla- bles to the remarks of McComas, who sat at his table, and of Mrs. McComas, who had taken quite a young- motherly fancy to him; and the | amount that he ate was so much at variance with his usual hearty appe- tite that even the maid who waited upon his table, a tall, gangling girl with a vinegar face and a kina heart, worried for fear he might %e sick, and J added unordered * delicacies to his “I'd Rather Trust a Woman Than a Man, Any Day, With a Secret Business | or Personal" business, but now he began to fear that he was losing it. Well, pleading was of no avail. He had to give it up. Reluctantly he went out and took a solitary walk, then came in and religiously played his two hours of tennis with Miss Westlake and Miss Hastings and Tilloughby. Was he not upon vacation, and must he not enjoy himself? Just before he went in to luncheon, how- ever, there was a telephone call for him Miss Stevens was perplexed to know what divine intui- tion had told him her obsession for maraschino chocolates She had one in her fingers at the very moment she was telephoning, and she was going to pop it into her mouth while he talked. Being a mere man he could not realize how delightfully refreshing was a maraschino chocolate Sam had a lively picture of that piece of confection between the tips of her dainty fingers; he could see the white hand and the graceful wrist, and then he could see those exquisitely-curved red lips, parting with a flash of white teeth to receive the de licacy : and he had an impulse to climb through the telephone A little bird had told him about her preference, he stated He had that little bird employed to find out other preferences Really,” he went on, ‘I should like you to believe that I am not altogether absorbed in business; that I can think of other things. Have another chocolate.” ‘I am,” she laughingly said; ‘‘but I’m not going to eat them all. I’m going to save one or two for you.”’ **Good,” returned Sam in huge delight and relief. ‘* I'll come over to get them any time you say ‘All right,”’ she gayly agreed. “As I told you this morning, I have an engagement for this afternoon, but if you'll come over after luncheon I'll give you half an hour or so.”’ Great blotches of pe rspiration sprang out on Sam’s forehead “Jinks!"’ he ejaculated. ‘‘You know, right after you telephoned me this morning I made an engagement with Mr. Blackrock and Mr. Cuthbert and Mr. Westlake to go over some proposed Incorporation pape rs “Oh, by all means, then, keep your en- gagement,”’ she told him, and he could feel the instant frig tone A zero-like wave seemed to come right through the transmitter of the ‘phone and chill the perspiration into a cold trickle No; I'll see if I cannot set that en- gagement off a couple of hours,” he hastily informed her “By no means,” she protested, mort frigidly than before. ‘*¢ i I don't believe I'd have time, anyhow. In fact, I'm sure that I would not. Mr. Hollis is calling me now. Good-by ‘Wait a minute,” he cried into the phone but it was dead; and there is nothing in this world so dead as the tele phone from which connection has been suddenly shut off Sam strode into the dining-room and went straight over to Blackrock’s table that returned to her yme to think of American-plan meal. He wentover to Hollis Creek in the swiftest conveyance he could obtain, which was naturally an auto, but he did not have 'Ennery for his chauffeur, of which he was heartily glad, for ’Ennery might have wanted to talk On the porch of Hollis Creek Inn he found Princeman and Mr. Stevens in earnest conversation. He knew what that meant. Princeman was already discussing with Mr Stevens the matter of control of the Marsh-Pulp Company. Princeman arose when Sam stepped up on the porch, and strolled away from Mr. Stevens. He nodded pleasantly to Turner, and the latter, returning the nod fully as pleasantly, was about to hurry on in search of Miss Josephine when Mr. Stevens checked him **Hello, Sam,”’ he called see you " “Allright,” said Sam. “I'll be around presently.” ‘**No, but conie here,” insisted Mr. Stevens Sam cast a nervous glance about the grounds and along the side porch; Miss Josephine most certainly was not among those present. He still hesitated, impatient to get away. *‘Just a minute, Sam,” insisted Stevens. ‘‘I want to talk to you right now With unwilling feet Sam went over **Sit down,”’ directed Stevens, pushing forward a chair. ““What is it?”’ asked Sam, still standing “T have been talking with Princeman and Westlake about your Marsh-Pulp Company “Yes?” inquired Sam nervously “And eve ry body seems to be most enthusiastic about it. Fact of the matter is, my boy, I consider it a tre- mendous investment opportunity. The only drawback ‘I’ve just been waiting to there seems to be is in the matter of stock distribution and voting power. I want you to explain this very fully to me.” ‘“‘T thought you were quite satisfied about all that from our talk of last night,” returned Sam, glancing hastily over his shoulder. ‘Tam, in so far as investment goes, Sam. I’ve promised you that I'd take a good block of stock, and you promised to make room for me in the company. I expect to go through with that, but I want to know about this other phase of the matter before I get into any entanglements with opposing factions. Now you sit right down there and tell me about it Despairingly Sam sat down and proceeded briefly and concisely to explaiu to him the various plans of incorpora- tion that had been proposed. Ten minutes later he almost groaned as a trap, drawn by a pair of handsome buckskin horses, driven by Princemanand containing Miss Josephine, crunched upon the gravel driveway in front of the porch Miss Stevens greeted Mr. Turner very heartily indeed Princeman stopping for the purpose. Sam ran down and shook hands with her. Oh, she was most cordial; just as cordial and polite as anybody he knew! ‘“*T did not expect you at all,” she said, ‘ but I knew you were here, for I saw you from the window as you came up the drive. Pleasant weather, isn’t it? Oh, papa!”’ ““Yes,’"’ answered Mr. Stevens ponderously from his place on the porch ‘*Up on my dresser you will find a box of candy which Mr. Turner was kind enough to have sent to me, and h PE Ee Nee }

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rt ; ' | | } } Be. a | | ws confesses that he has never tasted maraschino chocolates. Won't you please run up and get them and let Mr. Turner sample them ?”’ “*Huh!” grunted Mr. Stevens. ‘If Sam Turner insists upon running me up two flights of stairs on an errand of that sort, I suppose I'll have to go. But he won't.”’ “You're lazy,” she said to her father in affectionate banter; then, with a wave of her hand and a bright nod to Mr. Turner she was gone! Sam trudged slowly up on the porch with the heart for business gone entirely out of him; and yet, as heapproached Mr. Stevens, he pulled himself together with a jerk. After all, she was gone, and he could not bring her back, and in his talk with Stevens he had just approached a grave and serious situation. ‘“*The fact of the matter is, Mr. Stevens,”’ said he, sat down again, ‘these people are the very people I want to get into my company, but they are old hands at the stock-incorporation game, and even before I’ve organized the company they are planning to get it out of my hands. Now it is my scheme, mine and the kid brother's, and I don’t propose to allow that.” ‘‘Well, Sam,” said Mr. Stevens slowly, ‘‘you know capital of late has had a lot of experience with corporate business, and it isn’t the fashionable thing this year for the control and the capital to be in separate hands—right at the very beginning.” This was the signal for the struggle, and Sam plunged earnestly into the conflict. At three-fifteen he suddenly arose and made his adieus. He would like to have stayed until Miss Josephine came back, so that he could make one more desperate attempt to set himself right with her, but as he “Bravo!” exclaimed He reached up and shook hands with and just as naturally and simply she his for an instant. how grateful the touch of it! “What a pleasant surprise,’’ sh you played.” ‘I don't,”’ he confessed, smili to listen you would have kn: kid brother play, though. “ But I did listen,’’ to his “kid brother.” thought it beautiful He flushed guiltily “Tt was myself,”’ he told her “Oh, and you compose, too?” “ Not at all,’’ he hastily assured her wh. she insisted ‘I stood there 1 thing, and it seemed to just sort of naturally come to me suppose because I never play it exactly as I did the last time I do wish that I had You see from time to time. I don't always seem to add a little bit to it had time to know more of music play I learned from a piano-player.”’ “A what!” she gasped. a gentle voice and he turned, startled, to see Miss Stevens standing there She did not explain why she had slipped away, | directly into the room and stood at th e said In end « te cl let | How soft and warm her ‘I di ‘Tf vy You oug He's a corker a long time and I What was that last s« oh, just a little thing I sort of “ This is the only its He laughed in a half-embarrassed way “Yes,” he went on. “You see, hungry for music, and while my kid brother was still in I've THE SATURDAY EVENING POST the doorway, 1 had stopped he it ignoring the reference Lec pu finished always there was that deferred en- gagement with Blackrock, and reluctantly he whirled back to Meadow Brook. XII HE rest of that week wasa worried and an anxious one for Sam. Hesent daily advices to his brother and he received daily advices in return. The people upon whom he had originally counted to form the Marsh-Pulp Company had set themselves coldly against the matter of control, and on com- paring the apparent situation in New York with the situa- tion at Meadow Brook, he made sure that he could secure more advantageous terms with the Princeman crowd. He spent his time in wrestling with his prospective investors, both singly and in groups, but they were obdurate. They liked his company, they saw in it tremendous possibilities, but they did not intend to invest their money where they could not vote it. That was flat. This was on the business side. About the really impor- tant matter of Miss Stevens, since his most recent bad per- formance, the time when he had made the special trip to see her and had spent his time in talking business with her father, he had not been able to come near her. She was always engaged. He saw her riding with Hollis; he saw her driving with Princeman; he saw her playing tennis with Billy Westlake, but the greatest boon he ever received was a pleasant word. He industriously sent her flowers. She as industriously sent him nice, polite notes of thanks. On Monday night Hollis Creek came over to the bowling tournament. Miss Stevens was as nice to him as she could possibly be, but she walked away with Billy West- lake, and every time he joined a group of which she was a part, sooner or later she drifted away from it and joined some other group. Confound bowling, anyhow! It wasa dull and an uninteresting game. He cared less for it as time went on, he found; less tonight than ever. He crept away into the dim and deserted parlor and sat down at the piano, the only friend in which he cared to confide just then. He played with a queer lingering touch that had something of hesitation in it, and which reduced all music to a succession of soft chords, The Maid of Dundee and Annie Laurie, The Banks of Banna and The Last Rose of Summer, then one of the simpler nocturnes of Chopin, and, following these, a quaint, slow melody that was like all of the others, and yet like none. She Was Glad That She Had Decided to Wear His Roses college I began to be able to afford things, first luxuries was a piano-player has a little lever which throws the keys in engagement, so that you can play it as a regular piano you wish, and if you leave the keys engaged while playing the rolls, they work up and down; and si learned to pick ou ing those I gradually tunes by hand. I couldn’t play them the rolls played them, but somehow or other they more satisfaction Miss Stevens did not laugh. Sometl made a difference in Sem Turner ence—and she felt quite justified in to the bowling alleys; ‘* Your favorite tunes, was the first one, I wonder? just been playing’ ‘The first one?” he ret gtime jingle. I the One oi t urned \ } SO WE Wo nose th a smile and one You know the machi i a considerable h: Ving l slipped away from the others as they were all in having come back she repeated musingly that tna if but I pl ived it over the other da‘ é time ears and I didn’t seem to like itatall. Ir I nd v I ever did like it Rag ime! Ww, ie el ‘ vnd | f his own plea e, he pDiay ( I Ye le quite a diffe ein Sal i é She Wa he had decided to wear | roses, glad ever he re ed them. At her solicitation Sam played again the plaintive little air of own compositior ind plaved better than er he had playea 1 before rh ne walked out n the porch and ed down t t ‘ bx I sh Half-way there i il f e pat lea off t ough an arbor into a snac rv t ed the brook on little rustic bridge ae t wound abi between flower be nd st ( ad back by another little br i that ler hene the vav to the vlir hex ! r times the d and they OK Ut patt r ne they reached the bowling shed they were not quite ready to go in What did Sam Turner care about bowling! What did he care about the Magnificent victory of Princematr who, by a brilliant series of scores, saved the day for Meadow Brook! What did he care that Princeman w he hero of the hour! Mc re power to Princeman tor m the bevy f flushed and « wer girls who flocked about the ndsom ing paper manufacturer Miss Josephine stevens Was absent She w there with him in Paradise! Incidentally, Sam made an engagement to drive th her in the morning, and when, at the close of that delight- ul ev ing, the « carrie er away, she beamed upon him uve I WO ¢ ree beams in fact, and said good-by personally and ed her hand to him per- = onal nobody else was there in all that crowd but just them Sam was just about to retire in a strange and nebulous elation when he received a wire from his brother t ved patent pa et e at Re ew early mor trait XU i be morning train was due at ter o'clock it ten ‘ lock also San le at Hol Creek to take s lon deferred drive with Miss Ste e! It was a slight conflict, her engagement, but the I tion to that was v Continued on Page 61 ery easy As eal In the morniny dared Sam called her I have had glori ne ud hopetull \ other ll arrive Re ‘ he ten 0 ciock t } l ire tu t lated M steve +} nec } But i know ‘ é igement t { en cloc} he remit trembling in spir ihere Was or alt ’ he ti n Don't let that inte he said m«¢ L prac n defer our drive ‘ ime But that doesn tall,’’ he ed | nt 1 be read it place ten, let me call it that time i al vith me to mer Jack “Is ! name asked, in | re e never spoken OL! i t WW ot ¢ ifse L'il ds et er ve } be delighted. I'm er é ( 1 ner Vn lear J t be Ke pal i y ] he a r T eT 1a r I ne it nen | ; eve ds J rr tl l'y ‘ ‘ hat 1} e be é na ne I Nap} ft [ t it ne t I ¢ ‘ , : P ’ ini ' Y Torry er T ! ‘ Hol ises!"’ she cri¢ e drove uy H r} e bird must have beer

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26 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST pat. OFF A? D! 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY FOUNDED THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 421 TO 427 ARCH STREET GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR By Subscription $1.5¢ the Year. Five Cents the Copy of All Newsdealers. To Canada —By Subscription $1.50 the Year. Single copies, five cents Foreign Subscriptions: For Countries in the Postal Union. Single Subscriptions, $2.75. Remittances to be Made by International Postal Money Order PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 2, 1910 Will Congress Please Cut the Cards? E SYMPATHIZE with the Postmaster- General's desire to make his Department show a profit, and we believe, with men of leng experience in postal affairs, that it can be done, though not along the line of his recommendations. If Mr. Hitcheock regards the Post-Office as a business that should show a business profit, his first concern should be for its reorganization along business lines. If he regards it as a non-business Department, which must be more loosely and so more expensively organized than a private corporation and perform non-remunerative services for reasons of public policy, he should make a clear state- ment to that effect, and take account of it in his caleula- tions. But any theory of postal affairs which is pure business at the profit end and pure politics at the other end will not hold water with the public and the pub- lishers who would be wiped out by that kind of com- mercial heterodoxy We looked in through the General's recent utterances for any reference to the real causes of the deficit, or any indorsement of the compre- hensive scheme of reform now pending before Congress. Instead, at this writing he is still arguing in the same old circle and coming out at the same old fallacy—that it costs the Departrhent more than nine cents the pound to handle and transport the periodicals. Though we do not .question the Postmaster-General’s perfect faith in his excellent authority, question the soundness of his premises. The mere admis- sion that it costs the Department over nine cents the have vain Postmaster- conclusions, we do, on most pound to get the magazines through the mails is the most conclusive proof of the necessity for postal reform that could be offered, Happily, the weight of opinion of those longest experienced in postal affairs is against Mr. Hitch- cock's conclusions The present Postmaster-General has been at the head of this great and complicated business but little more than a year. During that time politics has demanded a good share of his attention. No doubt it from one point of view, that the Republican National machine should be kept in good running order, but the Post-Office Department is too important to be handled as a side line to politics. It needs all the time and the undivided attention of the biggest business man who can be found for the job. That is why the Carter Bill, now before Congress, provides for a non-political director of The Department needs radical reorganization. That is why the Carter Bill provides for the installation When the and every friend of economy and efficiency in public affairs should be on the alert to see that it is passed at this session—the foundations of postal reform will be laid and the first step toward showing a surplus will be taken is desirable, posts of a business system and modern methods bill is passed Will Congress please cut the cards and give us a new deal in the Post-Office Department? So far as we can learn, every one who is at all familiar with postal affairs THE SATURDAY EVENING POST is in favor of the Carter Bill. Though we have no direct knowledge of Mr. Hitchcock's attitude, as we have been unable to find any public expression by him either for or against a business reform of his Department along the lines of this bill, we feel sure that he must be favorably disposed to it. To believe otherwise would be to doubt the motives behind his recommendations, and though, as we have already said, we cannot accept his figures, we do not doubt his sincerity of purpose. But in all his arguments he overlooks the basie fact that if the Post- Office Department is a business institution it must be reorganized on business lines before it can be asked to show a business profit. A barren fruit tree cannot be forced into bearing by cutting off its roots. The publishers feed the trunk. If Congress will cut out the dead wood and prune back the useless growth, in a few years the Department will show a profit that will look like a Hood River pippin. Who Pays for Ocean Freights? HEN American cotton goes to England, an English ship carries it and collects the freight. Over ninety per cent of our foreign trade is carried in foreign vessels, to which we pay an immense amount for freight. We should, say the advocates of ship subsidies, have our own ships and thus “ save”’ this great sum. Every now and then it is announced, with much satis- faction, that a large issue of American railroad or other bonds have been sold abroad. This gives us the use of that much foreign capital, at a low rate of interest, and is held to be a fine thing for the country. But when we get the use of a far greater amount of foreign capital, invested in ocean transportation, at a low rate of interest that trade being but moderately profitable—it is held to be a very bad thing for the country. Not so long ago Mr. Hill was pointing out that our railroads alone ought to have something like a thousand millions a year of fresn capital for proper development, and that it was doubtful if there was that much fresh capital available in the country. Should we, then, divert our capital to the comparatively-unprofitable field of ocean transportation ? Without subsidies, it is said, American ships cannot compete, because many of the foreign ships are sub- sidized, which enables them to make low rates. In other words, other countries are paying ships to do our carry- ing at less than cost, plus a reasonable return upon the capital—and we ought to deny them that privilege! The Unwritten-Law Hero OWADAYS, we suppose, Othello would have reasoned it out about as follows: ‘‘ The way my wife and that Cassio are carrying on humiliates me exceedingly. If my friends found it out they would secretly jeer at me, which my sense of honor could not endure. Therefore, I will take steps which insure that the newspapers all over the country shall publish columns and columns about the case, dragging out every little circumstance which can possibly reflect upon Mrs. Othello or myself. They will print her picture and mine and the children’s across the front page. At every saloon and corner grocery of the land men will be haw-hawing with zest over intimate details‘ that make her appear in the most shameful light—published on the same page with virtuous denunciations of some immoral play or novel. “Thus my self-respect will be restored, my sense of honor made whole, and the jury will sympathetically acquit me as a chivalrous defender of the home which I have publicly dragged through the gutter and made a byword from coast to coast.” These reflections are applicable to all our delectable unwritten-law heroes. There are certain domestic mis- fortunes which persons of a retiring disposition would wish to have discussed as little as possible; while others — perhaps of a more chivalrous and sensitive nature —insist upon getting them on the front page under scare-heads. Mr. Taft and His Party eg! us take the case of a manufacturer of crackers. Formerly he went to the wholesalers and tried to persuade them that his brand of crackers was the best one for them to handle. If he succeeded in persuading the wholesalers they, in turn, went —or sent their drummers to the retailers, inviting them to handle the manufactur- er’s brand. Now, the same manufacturer goes direct to the consumer, persuading him with large, attractive advertisements. He knows that if he can get consumers lined up at the country grocery, demanding his brand of crackers, he needn't, relatively speaking, bother much about the wholesaler and the retailer. They will fall in line because, under the consumers’ demand, they have to. That is the modern method. The really successful politicians—Cleveland, Roosevelt, Hughes, and others — are those who employ it, going directly to the consumers April 2, 1910 and depending upon their pressure to bring the interme- diary organization into line. President Taft’s mind is still too much occupied with the jobbers. Anxiety about the party organization has been the proximate cause of most of his trouble. It was loyalty to the party, no doubt, that moved him to assure Mr. Tawney’s doubting constituents that the new tariff law was near perfection. Too much he regards his mandate as coming from the party. Nothing is more certain than that a great number of those who voted for him have little prepossession for either party. To them the very notion of a President as the servant of a party is repugnant. That isn’t the brand of crackers they want to buy. The ‘‘American Plan’’ HE new telegraph rule by which a night message of fifty words may be sent for the same charge as a day message of ten words promises enormous trouble. It is trying enough now, when your message really consists of three words, to think up seven superfluous words so as to get your money’s worth. Imagine the case when you have to think up forty-seven superfluous words. Why ten words, or fifty? The message, as you would naturally write it, always comprises eight words or twelve. In the former case you add two that are not needed. In the latter you strike out two, trusting the addressee will guess what you meant. Such is the ‘American plan.’”’ The luncheon, with seven courses, costs a dollar. Your just and honorable ambition to get a dollar’s worth, although you wanted only the soup and fish, costs indigestion. Or, if you take nothing but the soup and chocolate, you must pay extra for the chocolate—just as a dozen messages of three words each cost the ten-word rate, and the thirteenth mes- sage, containing eleven words, costs extra. A Blow at Old Masters N AMERICAN aartist of distinction, Mr. Paul de Longpre, raises a rather harrowing question. A majority of the thousands of so-called—but often spuri- ous—old masters to be found in the United States, he says, ‘‘represent commonplace, wooden, stupid subjects, full of faults of drawing, with the dead coloring of mummies.” Usually when a person feels the laudable ambition to cultivate correct artistic appreciation he goes to look at an old master. Now, if he usually sees one of these ‘‘old horrors’’— Mr. De Longpre argues—and dutifully accepts it as his standard, must not the effect upon our national taste be very much what the effect upon our mathematical capacity would be if most beginners in that science were taught that two times two is five and a quarter? In short, are not a great many of us, artistically speaking, getting shunted off, at the very start, in a direction diametrically opposite to that in which we wish to travel? Mr. De Longpre’s remedy is simple and rather persua- sive. He would have opulent patrons of art, instead of spending their money for dubious old masters, buy the works of talented, but neglected, native painters. They would thus be sure, at least, of getting a genuine work, for nobody is faking up paintings by neglected American artists. And they might be fostering art in the United States instead of the picture-selling trade in Europe. Blessings of Competition te ANGELES has been trying to induce her two telephone companies to exchange service, so that a subscriber to either one of them will get a whole telephone instead of only half a one. At present, whoever wishes a complete telephone—one, that is, by which he can reach all other telephone subscribers—must rent an instrument from both companies, and not only pay two rentals, but be driven distracted by running to the wrong telephone, or discovering that the number he is clamoring for in a hurry belongs to the other system. The money loss to the city through maintaining two systems which in part merely duplicate each other, and which together furnish a much less satisfactory service than might be had from a single, comprehensive system, has been estimated at a large sum. The city thoughe the first telephone company charged too much. The only remedy it knew was the ancient panacea of competition—to get up a second company that would fight the first one, with duplication of plants and much waste generally. We should not feel called upon to mention Los Angeles’ case unless its moral were pretty widely applicable. We read, with pain, that some good Senators are suspicious of the Administration railroad bill, because they think it may lessen competition among the roads. Of course, the improvement of railroad service in this country has been exactly coincident with the decline of competition. We have got better service and lower rates just about in proportion as the roads have stopped fighting and sub- mitted to public regulation. In that way only will still better service and lower rates be had.

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WHO’S V The Man With the Cards UNNING for Governor is one of the regular and recognized industries in Georgia body always is doing it. They begin running a year or two years before election, and run by day and by night. Georgians are wont to get peevish and sigh for the good old days if some willing patriot does not leap boldly into the arena ¢ yell defiance at all and sundry, and begin running for Governor. When Hoke Smith and Clark Howell and the others who participated had their race it seemed to those outside the state that they began to run about four years before election and continued for about six years afterward. There was in the neighbor- hood of a decade when there was nothing much else in the Georgia papers than accounts of jeint debates or grand rallies or stump speeches ‘‘on the issues of the day,’’ in which the candidates ripped the burning stars out of the eternal heavens and cast them in golden glory at the Georgia proletariat Then, five minutes after Hoke was sworn in, having won handsomely, Joe Brown let loose a loud whoop and began running for Governor himself, thus mak- ing it imperative for Hoke, who wasn't cooled out from his race even, to get out on the track again and go to making dust. Of course, when I say that Joe Brown let loose a loud whoop I am merely using the bountiful imagery of the Sunny South. Joe Brown never let loose a loud whoop in his life. He'd turn in a fire alarm in a whisper. However, Joe Brown took a long running jump into a campaign and confided to Hoke Smith that he intended to go out and wipe up the floor with Hoke, or words to that general and interesting effect. Owing to the fact that the Republican vote in Georgia is coy and shrinking, the fighting for such a job as Governor is done before the primaries, and the man who wins in the primaries gets an O. K at the pollsasa matter of course. It was exactly at that point that Hoke made his grave error. You may remem- ber that our warm and personal friend, G. G. Byron, Esquire, poet, once made a few remarks indicating that Italia O Italia—odd name that, but probably one of those ancient retainers of the House of Savoy—had a fatal gift of beauty. Never having met Mr. I. O Some- very so otten, Italia I cannot pronounce as to his pulchritude, but I am here to say that, however nifty he was as to looks, it goes double for Hoke. His beauty is more than a gift. It’san endow- ment, a benediction, a poem * Hence, when Joe Brown hopped in, the Hoke Smith partisans took one look, laughed behind their hands or up their sleeves, or wherever it was convenient, and let go the taunting inquiry: ‘‘Have you him?” They hurled that question from every stump. ‘‘ Have you seen him?” and business of looking condescendingly superior and intimating that if you—meaning the voters of Georgia ever did get a glimpse at him it would be all over Well, that inquiry had some justification, provided the campaign for Governor had been a beauty show; for Joseph Mackie Brown, not to put too fine an edge on it, is no Adonis. A Georgia farmer who visited the Brown head- quarters during the campaign was asked to describe the candidate. ‘‘Oh,”’ said the farmer, searching himself for a word, ‘‘he is jist ornery-lookin’ He didn't go on the stump during the campaign, but those who did see him found him a little man aged fifty-seven, near-sighted, not more than three inches over five feet in height. He is thin and frail, with a narrow chest, a piping voice and stooped shoulders. He looks and is the student. And out on the stump the big, virile Hoke Smith was whirlwinding around —Hoke, the big, ruddy, handsome campaigner seen

The Mysterious Sealed Letter | ples JOE kept to-his headquarters. It is likely that ninety percent of the men who voted for him never had seen him. All they knew of him was his principles as put down clearly, incisively and logically in his cards printed in the newspapers. The opposition kept up the ‘‘ Have you seen him?’’ cry. Then the people of Georgia began to intimate that they were not electing a Governor because he measured forty-eight inches around the chest and had an eagle eye and raven hair, and the Hoke folks explained that they intended no reference to the physical appearance of Brown, but put out the ‘‘ Have you seen him?” cry asa criticism of the non-appearance of Brown on the stump Whatever it was, it didn’t work, for Brown kept to his headquarters, handing out, from day to day, his cards for the newspapers. In the campaign when Hoke Smith won, Brown had been active against Smith. He had written many cards to the newspapers criticising Smith's views on THE SATURDAY EVENING POST —AND

He'd Turn in a Fire Alarm in a Whisper public questions. After the fight Smith a letter which became a } Smith campaign. It was in 2 plain e envelope was written the campaign not Here is one Covernor Sn th retu the inner envelope unbroken Whereupon he discharged Bro road commi have ¢ xpired ssioner three week

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By a Piano Dealer-N°t" “Decided to trade in your old piano for a player ? “Well you're sensible—surprising how many are doing it. “Players are selling like hot cakes but a good many buyers will be disappointed getting these cheap combination players. “| won't sell ‘em. 1 want my trade to get dollar for dollar value and they can’t when they buy on a price basis. “ Now here’s a player that is better than anything | can say for it The Rrell AuteGrand PlayerPiano Player and piano are made for one an- other in the same factory. Just look at this mechanism—See these individual pneumatics—one for every note. In any other player if lint wears off the rolls and gets into the pneumatics it may take days of an expert's time and cost dol- lars of your money to locate the obstruc- tion. On this player if any pneumatic did not speak | could tell instantly which it was. I pull it out, blow in it, replace it and in two minutes the trouble is remedied at no expense. “Next note that this pneumatic system is not crammed into the small space above the keyboard as in cheap players but is placed in the one correct position for good results —close to the bellows. “These individual pneumatics cost three times as much as the ordinary—require three times the labor and material to build. These metal tubes likewise cost three times as much as rubber—examples of how vastly superior the Krell Auto-Grand is. | | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Sir Arthur Pinero—Play- wright—sBy Charles Frohman HEN Sir Henry Irving returned to England after his last American visit, and when two hundred repre- sentative men of England gave him a dinner at the Savoy Hotel, it was Pinero who was selected to speak on the drama. He was ready to make what would un- doubtedly have been a brilliant and thor- ough talk, but unfortunately it was Mark Twain who was selected to introduce him. Twain said: ‘I present to you Arthur Pinero, the great dramatist, but not as yreat a dramatist as Iam. I understand Binero has written nearly fifty plays. I myself have written over fifty plays; so he merely possesses the quality which my modesty does not allow me to exercise—of being able to coerce managers to produce his plays.’’ This jocular turn was quickly accepted by Pinero, who at once discarded his carefully-prepared literary speech and met Twain with a short, humorous reply — outwitting the wit of the evening. Effects Secured by Details | Pinero has a remarkable memory and an unfailing vision for the kind of actors and actresses that he wishes for the inter- oretation of his parts. I know of one of bis plays that has a character drawn after a woman rather notorious in London society. Pinero not only duplicated’ the character on the stage by lines, but searched and searched until he found an actress to play the part who was almost an exact replica of the original woman in looks and manner. An exclamation went all over the house the night the play was first oroduced in London. Of course, before yndon audiences his plays in this way have a local application that is not appar- | ent outside of London. He gets these effects by a scrupulous regard for the minutest details. He knows exactly what he wants, not only as to the reading of the lines, but as to the personalities and types of his actors. Actors regard him with | terror when he directs a rehearsal. His custom is to sit at a table in the center of the stage, with a stenographer at his left and another at his right, both of whom he keeps continuously employed taking down notes on the rehearsal that mostly consist of additional stage business, points in | acting, or technicalities in the readings of the lines. Before the next rehearsal every- body in the cast is furnished a typewritten copy of the additions, corrections or sug- | gestions that have occurred to the play- | wright with regard to the performance of | instructions. | actor who was “No other player has the individual | Pneumatics—no other has the Accessible Bellows at back, the Human Touch Stnk- ing Principle, the Extra Storage Reservoir | to aid expression—twenty other advantages equally important and a hundred hardly less so. “The piano is just like the player—built for worth—not to come within a price limit. “You can’t go wrong on this player, | especially as the 5 year guarantee backs up all its demonstrated advantages.” Krell Auto-Grand Piano Co. Dept. 82, Connersville, Indiana Mcekers of the Celebrated Albert Krell Pianos * There are 12 Talks—an education in player buying. They will be sent com- plete and neatly bound, free on receipt of your name and address. his or her part. Pinero is relentless in his insistence upon the carrying out of these No man is more helpful to an intelligent, ambitious actor than he, but no man could be more rigorous toward idleness and stupidity. I remember an floundering among the lines that he should have memorized, but, instead, had hoped to master during re- hearsals. Finally losing even his own amaz- ing assurance he stepped forward with the remark: “I know my lines, Mr. Pinero, I really do.’ To which Pinero quickly answered: ‘* Yes, but not mine.” It was in the smoking-room over his drawing-room that Pinero said to me some months ago: “You know how fond I was of seeing Sir Henry in all his plays, and of my cus- tom of dropping behind the scenes for a chat with ie. Well, once I remember attending one of his performances and espying in his cast a new actress. She had a small part to do, but she acted it with a simplicity and naturalness that were as remarkable as her youth and _ beauty. Between acts I went back to see Sir Henry | and I met this girl, who seemed to be in | one simple, a great state of nervous disappointment because she felt that she had not succeeded. I knew that among all those actors, some of them acting as hard as they could, was unaffected performance that stood out, like a fine cameo, because it was not acting. I felt that the girl had great possibilities for the future. cought her out and told her so; so that when you | told me that you wanted Ethel Barrymore to play the réle of Zoe Blundell, which I | was designing as the strongest character within my powers, that was why I agreed so readily. I had no fear about her per- formance of the part, because she was the girl that I saw sobbing that night among Sir Henry Irving's company at the Lyceum.” | comingness of my | clothes, and while I RE As a workman Pinero usually foliows | the production of a serious play by turn- ing, as a relief from the strain, to the writ- ing of a very light comedy or a farcical play. the same man wrote the Magistrate, and the tragedy, The Second Mrs. Tanqueray. Sometimes when the It is almost difficult to realize that | farce, The | strain of spy serious works is telling | too heavily on him he will drop it tempo- rarily and turn to formulating acomedy. I have known him to divide his days between the writing of a comedy and a tragedy. Pinero is fondest of London during what is known as the London season, and of all parts of London he most likes the Garrick Club. When the London season is over he leaves town for a little bungalow about twenty miles from the city. And then begins his real work. His holiday season in London has been devoted to play-going, club life and a few social gatherings among friends. But all the eas be is thinking out lays, and when he gets to the bungalow he | : eV re sj or a sav as io | as evolved either a comedy or a straight | $yfry) kind of Fashionable and Bo drama and is ready to write it. Men like Pinero, Barrie and Maugham regard the labor of playwriting to be not the construction of the = hey the imagining of the characters or the evolution of the story; the real work to them is reducing to paper the play that has grown within them. There are two aspects to play-building play-thinking and play-writing—and of these the second, putting thought to paper with the least possible loss of thought in expression, is the more difficult. When the date comes around on which a play should be delivered and you inquire for it, any of these men whom I have mentioned will calmly tell you that it is done, but when you ask for the manuscript they will likely enough just tap their lesdhente and say: ‘* There it is!”’ How Plays Differ From Novels That is the chief difference between a novelist and a playwright—and also the chief reason why the successful novel is so rarely turned into the successful play. A novelist sits down to his work, free at the beginning from any arbitrary limitations of space in which his work may be done, or of time in which his effects must be achieved. But a playwright knows at the beginning that he not only must have something worth saying, but that he must say all that is in him in the least possible amount of space; that he may have to draw charac- ters in a single line; that his dialogue must be swift, his action cumulative within a given time, and that there will be no in- troduction, foot-notes, preface, indices or illustrations to help him. The novelist may be at his finest the more copious his style is; but abundance or repetition of thought in expression is fatal to the play- wright. Of course, it is always difficult to get at the beginnings of plays. You cannot very easily look into a man’s mind and detect the first seed and then the growth of a plot. But from what I have learned from their own lips I should say Pinero and Barrie belong to that class of playwrights who are first struck with the possibilities of a play by having a powerful dénouement taking | hold of them, and upon that climax, central idea or catastrophe they build the whole play. Pinero, of course, works much more systematically than Barrie. But I believe | the first thought of Mid-Channel came to | Pinero in the image of a woman, who, despite fine instincts and a real wish to be good, erred through selfishness and ended by throwing herself from a baleony window. From that terrific climax Pinero undoubt- edly next sought a reason, and with the emerging of that reason at the same time emerged its natural characters. And so he really worked out his plot by working backward. Editor's Note— This is the conclusion of a sketch of Sir Arthur Pinero, begun last week. 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SS ee ae ee Ps Home-made Gas from Crushed Stone and Water ’ AWENTY years ago the oil lamp had already bee iven out of the ¢ ity into the country home where gas could not follow In those days we would have laughed a ibility of so we thought. gas beir shting and cook in a country home 1e telephone and ‘ delivery gas has finally left the city to become a common rural conve nience In the year 1910, the up to-date villager or farmer not only lives in a gas lighted house, same as his city cousin, but when he drives home on a cold, wet night he a lights up his barn, his yard or porches on with this same gas light by simpl little chain attached to the fixture. CRUSHED STONE his ho ise 1] pulling a * * &* And this change seer like magic when you consider that this rural gas is home 1s quite made—made by tie family right on the premises. Takes fifteen minutes once a month to make all that can be used in a large house The magic is all in the strangely weird, man ufactured stone known commercially as “Union Carbide.” j This wonderful gas ,vi/ producing substance +? Mit - “Union Carbide,” looks _ : and feels just like crushed granite. For. country home use it is pac ked in sheet steel cans containing 1 pounds shipped from warehouses located all over the country 5 ee. A LIGHTING and is Union Carbide won't burn, can’t explode, and will keep in the original package for years in any climate. For is. reason it is safer to handle and stor premises than coal. ll that is necessary to make “Union Carbide” give up its gas is to mix it with plain water—the gas, which is then instantly generated, is genuine Ac etyliene Acetylene makes a white light sun- light and the gas is so pure that you might blow out the light and sleep all night in a room with the burner open without any injurious effects whatever like On account of its being burned in permanent brass fixtures attached to walls and ceilings, Acetylene is much safer than smoky, -smelly oil lamps which can easily be tipped over For this reason the Engineers of the National Board of Insurance Underwriters called Acetylene safer than any illuminant it com monly displaces In addition to all these advantage s, Acety lene is inexpensive An Acetylene light of 24-candle power ts less than the wicks, chimneys, kerosene, et isumed by an oil lamp As a summer fuel for light cooking Acetylene is of equal volume very economical, considering the fact that it is delivered right in the ooking appliance, is con- trolled by a thumb screw and burns without soot ashes or dirt * . > Consider this carefully and you will hardly wonder at the fact that there are today more than 176,000 town and country homes using home-made Acety- lene for lighting and cooking > member of the family must s nion Carbide in a small nachine which usually sets in one corner machine Is automatic it does all the work—i 2 aoe makes no gas until the = » burners are ted and stops makin when the burners are shut off No city hom as brilliantly or veautifully illun nated as any one of these 176,000 homes now using Acetylene Won't you let us tell you how little it be COOKING will cost to make this time-saving, money-saving. beautifying light and ideal fuel at your own home? Write us today how many rooms you have, and receive our estimate and free books giving full intormation Just address UNION CARBIDE SALES CO., Dept. A—155 Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ill | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST OU T-OF- DOORS Furs, and Where They Come From F COURSE you know that the bear- skin overcoat of your neighbor's coachman really is made of Japanese goat, dyed; but did you, perchance, know that two out of the three yellowish-looking muffs that you saw on the street car the other morning were made out of dog, and Chinese dog at that? The other muff, whose owner calls it beaver, was made of muskrat, as you might have seen by exam- ining the edge where it was worn. There are varieties of fur used today that were unknown a few years ago, and the nomen- clature in the fur business is far from de- scriptive, as any expert can tell you Moreover, when it comes to prices in these days imagination is further staggered. A country physician out in Iowa last year undertook to get himself a cheap driving coat by buying his muskrat skins locally and having them tanned himself, leaving the rest to his local tailor. The coat cost him eighty-five dollars. Had he bought it in the city under a different name he would have got off easy at twice that price Dyed black, ratskin is sold under a dozen different names The mottled, grayish-yellow fur coat worn by the motorman on the grip car was made of wombat skins from Australia All these recently advertised pony coats, black and just a little curly, are made from the skins of young horses, which are killed for that purpose in Russia and Siberia This market is recent and has raised the price of horses in those countries. The horse and the dog are going to be our next fur-producers. It is very possible that a good many bearskin overcoats will soon be made of the robes of black Galloway cattle. Nothing was ever warmer than a genuine buffalo coat, but those are out of the question today Sweeter by Another Name The young girl with the red hair and the bunch of violets and the set of black furs, who sat across the aisle from you, talking to the young man who looked like the picture from the back part of a magazine, wore what she thought was a set of black lynx. There is no such animal as a black lynx. These furs were probably gray fox dyed black, but the fur was so short that one actually might suspect plain tabby-cat, which produces a great deal of commer- cial fur these days. Three seats down the aisle is another muff, also black, and bought as ‘‘ Alaska sable.”’ It is made out of plain skunk, dyed, as you could tell if you smelled it when it got wet. A great deal of skunk fur, dyed, is sold under various names. The pelt of this strenuous animal is handsomer before it is dyed, but it sells much better as ‘Alaska sable Sometimes you see a muff or a scarf of natural lynx, long, blue-gray and fluffy, a handsome though not very durable fur Oftener you will find this fur dyed; and sometimes the fur of the red fox, also dyed black, is sold as lynx. It is rather amusing to see the long, round tail o toa “‘lynx”’ skin, but the salesman does not always know the difference, and not all wearers do. Blue fox from the far North- west is sold in the natural color, is some- times fashionable and nearly always very expensive in spite ol the fact that nearly all of the blue-fox farms that were estab- lished on Alaska islands ten years ago have pretty much gone out of busines The simple collaret of the girl opposite looks just a little fuzzy to be otter, for which she bought it. It really is muskrat Not far off, however, is a dark, smooth, shiny-looking muff whose like you do not see on many street cars—not fashionable, but very beautiful and durable. This is the real unplucked otter, among the hand- somest of all furs in the opinion of at least afew. The lady probably paid seventy- five dollars for it. Plucked—that is, with the long guard hairs taken off —it would a [ox appende i look a little lighte r, be less durable, mors fashionable and more expensive The iobber who sold the furrier tt dark otter skin got thirty dollars for it. The trapper got eleven It was worth more Dark otter comes from all the northern pine country of thiscontinent. The thinner and lighter skins come from the wilderness country of the Southern states and are so valuable. Of course, tl s not the sea otter, for none of these animals has been killed on the Alaskan coast for son year now, and a pelt from one of them ild be worth two thousand dollar Furs Not What They Seem This thin blue fur is squirrel from Asia, and this fuzzy white, of course from South America. The looking, full-e1 t coat on the lady who paints too much will this season, perhaps, pass as seal is chinchilla long, stylish- It was made from the fur of conic or rabbits or Be Igian hare and sold a “electric seal.’"” The genuine seal is higher priced, and then some. Of course, it is plucked and dyed. But this pure white set of furs, muff and stole, worn by) girl, is made of Arctic fox, one of the pr ucts of the North which sometim old undoctored. There are three and they cost about seventy The collar on the at sporty-looking gentlemar and the lamb that produced it never walked. Astrakan comes that same country; but some near-astrakar plain dog, which, maybe, produces a bit of caracal once in a while A good deal of bearskin is made out of racc« and the humbk the author of many something els overcoat without also, you see a foreigner wearing guised sheepskin as lining to his jacket Time was when ladies who wore muff and marten fur rode down on The a marten ived black raccoor l a muff sold as anonymou bear or Sometimes it gets into ar sometime undis- doctoring stoles of street cars, the same as you and I go in automobiles now, becaus¢ W he I Heave Spring a mortilyvu A Damaging Confession 1 house-cl ¢ She admits th she illowed het ier, month by m just tw ( ive times h ive been i \\ iH h J. W. DUNTLEY, President 400 Harvester Building meee © uf Duntley Manufacturing Co 40( Harvester Bidg Chicago

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BIRD & SON Main Mills and Generali Offices, 1 Neponset St in Walpole Mass. Ore ier a zy 3 $i ba oo ea - £448 j . 5 ™ Paroid } | has become “‘ from British Columbia, Brunswick once brought the trapper two or three dollars, but now would bring him ‘yellowish, sable.”’ A prime dark marten Visconsin or New thirty to sixty. Naturally, we sell such skins as ‘‘ Hudson Bay sable,”’ as ‘‘ Russian sable,’’ or even as ‘‘ Russian crown sable.” When a coat is made up the stamp on the flesh side of the skin does not show, and neither does its absence show. Many a wealthy man buys for Irene Russian crown sables that never saw Russia, and maybe, also, a bottle of Imperial Tokay, although no such thing ever came across the sea. Most of these lighter-colored muffs with | dark streaks on them, ur the stoles which show from ten to twenty-four little heads hanging down, with spots of white on the throats, are marten. Sometimes you will see a set of marten fur of beautifully matched stripes and a handsome dark color. A set really as dark as that would be worth any money, but if an expert bought these furs not so much would be paid, for when pressed the dealer will admit they are blended, which means dyed. Of course you know that the rather black-streaked, three-quarter coat worn by the old-fashioned elderly lady yonder is mink. Mink fades, and so does otter, if exposed too much to strong sunlight. The old lady paid seventy-five dollars for her coat. It would cost a little over eight hundred today, still more if made of handsome, dark, well-matched mink skins. Two hundred and fifty dollars was cheap for this narrow stole and the muff of the demure-looking young lady, who sits over there with eighteen heads and tails dangling from her person. Mink is fash- — le and expensive today. Each year the buyers collect some millions of mink, and still other millions of muskrats, pretty much all over the United States, Canada and elsewhere. The farmer boy produces an enormous amount of mink, rat and fox. Nutria fur, from Central and South America, you will not be so apt to recog- nize; nor would you this handsome black fur, which only an expert would tell you to be the native coat of the ‘“‘fisher’’ or ‘* black cat,"’ an animal for which the trapper would have been willing to take six to eight dollars a skin, not long ago. Rhi- noceros fur is not yet fashionable, but leopard is sometimes worn, though not so much as in ancient Rome. But Irene Will Never Know The most expensive furs are the genuine dark sable, for which the price goes into the thousands, in two-piece sets of muff and collaret. You can hold twenty thou- sand dollars’ worth of that fur in your hand and not feel its weight. Blow deep down inte the fur and you will fall in love with it. No man can imitate that in pile or color. Neither can man imitate the silver- gray fox, for you yourself can detect the white hairs pegged into the skin. A genu- ine silver-gray fox may be worth from sev- enty-five to a thousand dollars. One has seen three small skins sell for two thousand dollars. A perfect pelt of a fine black fox, with the white tip on his tail, and the occasional white-tipped hair, may bring the trapper as little as one hundred dollars and the dealer ten to twenty times as much. The ‘‘cross fox,”’ so called because of the band over the shoulders, also runs dark and valuable sometimes, though you can say, on the Alaska coast—get a lot of them for six dollars, ten dollars, twenty dollars, as the local collector happens to fancy your looks. It may be seen that the fox family contributes a lot “« fur, although the fox, in settled countries, is, next to the otter, the hardest of animals to trap When you make Irene the present of a little collaret, just to show her a sort of beginning of what she is going to get after you two are married, it is not necessary to advise her that the sable is marten or that the little white tails on it with black tips came from weasels and are not really ermine. That is to say, all ermine is the weasel in its winter coat, but it is not sold Five years ago a trapper could as weasel not get over five or ten cents apiece for the best of ermine skin. He can today. If Irene should lose one of the white spots off her ermine collaret you would have to pay about one plunk, case or simoleon for the end of a weasel’s tail to replace it. The royal ermine which we see in paintings of coronations is only winter weasel, and the black spots are the ends of tails Allthe world iscombed for furs today, and in spite of Senator Aldrich human beings THE SATURDAY EVENING POST keep on buying and wearing furs, no matter where the prices go. In no way better | than this love for furs is our wilderness genealogy to be traced. The trapping of | furs or the killing of fur-bearing animals | is a practice as old as clothes-wearing man. The native tribes used nooses, snares ve largely, and it is likely that the deadfall was first perfected by the white man. The Hudson Bay Company made most of its money out of deadfalls. That form of trap is merciful, killing at once. The steel trap, an invention of the white man or of the Evil One, is the most cruel and abominable instrument of torture ever invented in the history of the world. It is from this source that most of the better-class commercial furs are obtained. The otter and the beaver and the muskrat must all be taken in steel traps, in what is known as the ‘‘water set,”’ since the keen nose of these animals would detect the trap if it were not under water. The pole which holds the trap is usually so arranged that the animal gets into deep water and drowns itself, which is relatively merciful. The raccoon, the skunk, the lynx, the mink, the marten, the weasel, nearly all the foxes—indeed, nearly all the fur-bearing animals of lesser sort—are taken in steel traps, where they starve or freeze to death or suffer from one to eight days before they are put out of their misery. On the Rounds With Jimmy Take a round with Jimmy, your guide, some time in New Brunswick, Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Britis h Columbia, Ontario, anywhere north where ine trees grow and the snow lies deep vo 1 go on snowshoes and you carry a heavy pack of bait, traps, grub, and so on, and your line of traps will run forty to sixty miles, perhaps, which means, since you must stop to cook and eat, and “skin out” your catch, a round, say, once a wee k, or, in very bad weather, not so often. You note the line of big, round tracks par- alleling your trail and know that a lynx is looking for trouble. The magazine lynx is a wise and ferocious animal, but the lynx of Jimmy, the trapper, is simply a big, foolish cat, which is ten times easier to catch than even a young fox. You bait for him with a piece of rabbit. If you want to you can hang up a piece of red flannel right by your trap —it will not frighten but only arouse the curiosity of your lynx. At last, half a mile down the trail, you see, floundering about in the snow as you approach, a lank, draggled, wet and weary creature. It is your lynx, and he has been waiting for you, perhaps four or five days, his foot swollen full to the size of the steel trap that holds him. Jimmy taps him lightly on the back of his head with his snowshoe pole. His skull is thin as paper, and this tragedy is - last concluded. Jimmy is much displeased in the next mile or so, for the ueta times traps furnish nothing better than a jaybird or a pair of weasels. Of course the traps must be kept out of the snow and are placed back under a leaning tree, a pile of brush, or in a hole under some root. The scent of these little fur-bearing animals leads them long dis- tances to your trap. Jimmy increases this by using just a drop here and there of oil from his “‘scent’’ bottle, own secret formula. He may put just a moistened twig of this in the bark of a tree, just above the crotch where he hangs a small trap fora Bos k ora marten In countries of heavy snowfall trappers often set their marte : traps by cutting off a a small tree about the height of a man’s head and building a little shelter or house on top of it of chips and bark, to protect the trap, over which the animal must pass to get at the bait. Again, a marten trapper will sometimes set his small steel trap away out at the end of a slim pole which a leans in the crotch of a tree. The snow does not hang very deep - so slight a support, and the marten smells the bait, runs out along the pole, steps in the trap, falls off into the air, and hangs there by his imprisoned foot until he freezes, or until Jimmy comes along say, in three or four days. Jimmy's eyes brighten at last as he stoops down and peers under the brush after one trap which he has called the ‘“‘lucky”’ one. You also peer in. 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simply a little circular coil of fur, frozen hard and stiff. The marten curled its head and tail around its imprisoned foot and died that way in the snow. It is, perhaps, not necessary you should tell Irene these things Besides, Lrene is so constituted that it would not make much difference if you did Mink trapping is rather similar to marten trapping Aw: ays the snow must be taken into consideration. Sometimes Jimmy has little light ends of logs or board troughs made, with a little house on one end to cover the trap. He sticks this up on end in the snow, so that the trap will not get buried. The mink climbs up the side and gets into the sang Whereas the marten is a great traveler, but hangs mostly to the high ridges of hardwood, the mink is more apt to be found along the streams and in the cedar swamps and thickets. He also is a great traveler, but is more local than the larger fisherman, the otter, which, some trappers say, will come around every week or so after making a circle of fifty miles, crossing from one river to another and never “‘locating.’’ The otter is after trout, the mink after trout or rabbit All these animals—and you will have been lucky if you have three or four by night, these days—Jimmy takes home with him in his packbag, and he skins them at night in the shanty or tent or lean-to, by the fire. He explains to you how to judge fur, which is never to look at the fur side but at the flesh sid February fur is prime —that is to say, the white of the flesh side is clear and even. A skin bluish on the inside is not prime, but, perhaps, was taken too soon in the fall or too late in the winter Trapping the Otter The way to set an otter trap is not right at the place where the otter comes down the slide, because he slides on his belly with his forefeet doubled back under, and thus will spring a trap with his breast and not get caught by the jaws of the trap Jimmy knows that the trap should be set at one side, where the otter climbs out of the water to go up to the top of his toboggan- slide. In this case Jimmy determines to put the trap in the narrow run where the spring hole drains into the river. Not ever a shaving does he leave about the place and, of course, he does not touch the tray with his hands, and leave it exposed for either otter, fox or wolf He sets it at the end of a long pole, drops it under the water, drives his fastening stake deep into the mud, and cuts it off under the water, or breaks it where it has already been nearly cut off. With another pole he stirs the moss and slime until it settles all over the trap and chain. Then he half cuts in two four or five long willow wands, which he sticks in the mud around the trap, breaking them off so that their ends are under the water, but projecting above the trap ‘When Mr. Otter comes swimming along in here next time,’’ says Jimmy, “he'll feel one of them little sticks hit him in the breast, and he'll put down a foot and stick it in the trap.”’ So saying, Jimmy gathers up all shavings, splas hes a litth water in his tracks, and gets away If the otter gets in the trap he will not be drowned. The best he can get out of it in his fight with the relentless jaws and the winter's cold will be a foot torn off. Other- wise he must die. If he drowns, his glossy hide will keep for seven days under water without any “slipping ”’ of the fur. At least we do not see this tragedy. The story of the woods in wintertime is full of interest. The art of the trapping trail itself is curious and interesting, if only it were not for the tragedy of it, the terrible suffering of it. That is where the furs come from. It is difficult in the limited compre- hension of a plain person to tell why Irene does not wear a necklace made of these little gnawed-off frozen feet, as supple- mentary ornament to the garments made of the original coats of woods-dwellers that died a little at a time, say for a week starving and freezir But then, human beings freeze and starve to death in the alley each cold snap in the cities. This never was so in Indian villages, so long any one had food or fuel; but then, civil- ization is so much more civilized than the ways of the wilderness. Tell Irene a woman and baby died in the cold two blocks away last night, and she says: ‘‘ Too bad!’ Show her a set of sables and she says: How lovely! say Enjoy yourse If on the street car if you can. Although a sports- man all his life, the writer never does.

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This is all the more remarkable because money rates are low, and ordi- narily, when the money market is very easy, the price of bonds g goes “~ Yet this cheapness in bonds comes at a time when it is most useful to the average man, because it enables him to get a very satisfactory return on his money. This may serve him for two distinct purposes. One is that it facilitates the safe employ- ment of his money, and the other is that it serves as an antidote for the high cost of living. One of the most striking facts in the whole present-day investment situation is the increasing demand for bonds of high yield and return. Ten years ago the financing of the great railroad corporations was on a three and a half and four per cent basis. The three and one-halfs were eagerly taken up. Today such financing would be impossible. Even good four per cent bonds put out by railroads today sell at a dis- count, as was shown in the recent issues by the Chicago and Great Western first mortgage fours, which brought ninety-two and one-half and declined to ninety, and the Delaware and Hudson fours and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul fours, which had only an indifferent market Should You Sell Your Fours? The investor now wants a bond that pays a face interest rate of five per cent, that sells around par, and that not only yields him around five per cent, but pays 1im five per cent each year during the life of the bond. It is with this type of bonds that this week’s article is mainly concerned. You have only to ask any prominent investment banker today in order to find out that daily inquiries are coming in from investors who have four per cent bonds and who want to exchange them for five per cent bonds. Here is a kind of trading that every investor should know about, espe- cially one whom the high cost of living is pinching. But in order to avail himself of what seems an opportunity to increase his income he is liable to sacrifice the profit of a well-established investment—and here is the danger Let us assume that a man owns five one- thousand-dollar four per cent bonds for which he has paid ninety. They have ten years torun. This means that the yield on this investment is 5.30 per cent, providing he keeps them to maturity. The annual income from the bonds, however, is $200. This man has a moderate income and he sees five per cent bonds selling around par Shall he sell his fours and buy the fives? EVENING POST April 2,1910 AV IN G s Write for Our List of Cost of Living but let us see how it would work out. Assuming that the fours are selling at ninety, they would realize approximately $4500. Yet it would take $5000 to buy the fives, or just $500 more, which would be the entire first year’s income from the fives. Now look at the question of yields. The man would lose his yield of 5.30 per cent on the original money employed and would get ine xchange a yield of five per cent. It is at this point that an old investment fact, often repeated here, may be empha- sized again, and it is well to keep it in mind in the present situation. Yield is the re- turn to the investor on the amouzt of money invested, and it is figured out through bond tables, on the assumption that the bonds are held to maturity. Yield is often con- fused with bond income. Income is the amount that the bonds pay each year as represented by their face interest rate. But there are many instances today where it is wise and profitable for the inves- tor to exchange his fours for fives, and increase his income accordingly. This is in cases where his four per cent bond, if it is of the very highest quality, is selling around par. There is no reason why a business man should pay an excessive price for security. What he wants is a good, safe bond. Therefore, he can pei Hoth his four per cent iron-clad security for a railroad or a public-service five, with a margin of security ample for all his needs. Yet do not lose sight of this fact which is worth tucking away among the investment axioms: When you ascend the scale of income you make some sacrifice of security or marketability. The higher the yield the bigger the risk. This is true of every kind of employment of money. But it does not mean that the well-selected, five per cent bond exchanged for a four is not safe. Some Typical Fives Another fact to be remembered in the exchange of bonds is the matter of the in- vestor’s business and the particular needs | he has for his bonds. If, for example, he is in the habit of using his bonds as col- lateral for borrowed money, he must have bonds with a quick market. The more marketable his bonds are the bigger the amount of the loan. If, however, he simply buys bonds to put them away in a safety- vault box and draw the interest as income, it really makes no great difference whether he has listed bonds or not. For the man who has money to invest now there is ample opportunity to invest in five per cent bonds around par, and the following list, with ‘‘and interest” prices ruling at the time this article is written, will show the various types: Kansas City Southern Refunding and Improvement Mortgage 5s, due 1950. Interest is payable January and July. The price is 102!., which would make the yield about 4.85 per cent Denver and Rio Grande First and Re- funding 5s, due 1955. Interest is payable February and August. At the present price of 94! the yield would be about 5.35 per cent Western Pacific First 5s, due 1933. The interest is payable March and September. The present price is 97!5, which makes the yield about 5.18 per cent. Cheasapeake and Ohio General Improve- ment 5s, due 1929, interest payable January and July. At the present price of 105's the yield would be about 4.70 per cent Central Leather First Mortgage 5s, due 1925. The interest is payable April and October. At the ruling price of par the yield would be 5 per cent. United States Steel Corporation Sinking Fund 5s, due 1963. The interest is payable May and November. The price is 105, which makes the yield about 4.60 per cent. American Agricultural Chemical First Convertible 5s, due 1928. Interest is pay- able April and October. The price is 1027%, which would make the yield about 4.75 per cent. Virginia-Carolina ( ‘hemical First Mort- gage 5s, due 1923. The present price is 99, which would make the yield about 5.10 per cent. Westinghouse Electric and Manufactur- ing Company Convertible 5s, due in 1931. 6% Tax Bonds Not dependent upon the success of any enterprise, upon personal ability, or even upon honesty, but payable from 7axes levied and collected by counties, under state laws, for permanent public im- provements. We recommend: Woodruff County, Ark., Levee Dist., 6%, $1,000 Bonds District contains about 60,000 acres of pro- ductive cotton land valued at $1,250,000, with a total debt of $160, ooo, Various maturities— prices to yield 54% interest. Calhoun County, Iowa, Drainage, 6%, $500 Bonds District contains 4,120 acres of high class and improved farm lands worth $200,000, with a total debt of $12,600. These bonds are tax exempt in Iowa and legal investments for lowa Savings Banks. Various maturities—price to yield 5%% interest. Bowie County, Texas (Divisional Improve- ment), 44%, $1,000 Bonds Actual Value . $15,000,000 Assessed Value 8,008,136 Total debt, this issue 250,000 Population, 15,000. The city of Texarkana and 320 square miles of rich farming land is included. Price 99 and interest 4% Municipal Bonds $250,000 City of Chicago, 4%, price 100 and interest. $200,000 City of Milwaukee, 4%, price 1oo and interest. The Rich Southwest brings us many choice issues, often small, but always gilt edge, for we buy only after the most painstaking investigation. We also offer Corporation Bonds and high class securities to suit every careful investor from the $100 Saver to the largest Bank or Insurance Co., on the most favorable terms. No losses in our 21 years of business, which now covers 40 states Let us add your name to our mailing list. Write today. William R. Compton Company 234 Merchants Laclede Bldg 334 Home Insurance Bldg, St. Louis, Mo. Chicago, lil. 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The present time also seems an oppor- tune one to call attention to what is called the “‘specialty”’ bond. It grows out of the underwriting of public-service and other issues by large bond and investment houses. When a certain house takes over an issue it becomes one of the “‘specialties"’ of the house and is identified with it Bankers speak of it as ‘‘ Blank and Com- pany’s bond.’’ Hence much of the char- acter of the bond depends often upon the | stability of the house behind it. A con- servative house will only underwrite issues when it has made a careful investigation of the property behind them. In the case of a traction company engineers are sent to inspect tracks, equipment and power- houses, lawyers search titles and franchises, and accountants go over the books. So it is, also, in the case of a power or lighting company. It is only after the most exact- | ing requirements are met that the reliable and experienced house will underwrite the bonds. In many cases a member of the banking firm becomes a director in the board of the company, and thus the inves- tor, buying the bond of the corporation through that house, has a sort of personal representative in the property. Sometimes the ‘ spec ialty’’ happens to be of a com- pany in your home town, and thus you can see the corporation in action yourself and know just what is going on. ‘‘ Home invest- ment”’ is desirable The public-service bonds, and most of them are ‘‘specialties,’’ have gained in popularity and stability each year. One reason is that our cities are grow ing in size and prosperity, and the people in them need more heat, light, power and trans- portation all the time. Public Utility Bonds In view of the fact that many specialties have a face interest rate of five per cent and lend themselves to safe and desirable investment, the following list will be given to show the type and yield. They include some large and representative issues, with prices quoted on the day this article is written. Detroit Edison Company First Mort- gage 5s, due 1933. The interest is payable January and July. The present price is 1011's, which would make the yield about 4.90 per cent. Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany First and Collateral Trust 5s, due | 1937. The interest is payable January and | July. At the present price of 99 the yield would be about 5.05 per cent Tri-City Railway and Light Company First Collateral Trust 5s, due 1923. Inter- est is payable April and October. The price is 99, which would make the yield about 5.10 per cent. Cleveland Electric Illuminating Com- pany First Mortgage 5s, due 1939. The interest is payable April and October. At the present price of 103 the yield would be about 4.80 per cent Laclede Gas Light Company First 5s, due 1919. Interest is paid quarterly—that is, February, May, August and November The present price is 103, which would make the yield about 4.60 per cent People’s Gas Light and Coke Company (Chicago) Refunding 5s, due 1947. The interest is payable March and September. At the present price of 104 the yield would be about 4.75 per cent. New York Gas, Electric Light, Heat and Power Collateral Trust 5s, due 1948. The interest is payable June and December. The price is 102!s, which would make thr yield about 4.85 per cent Pacific Gas and Electric Company | General Mortgage 5s, due 1936. Interest is payable January and July. The price is | 96, which would make the yield about 5.2 per cent. This word of caution must be added in relation to the buying of ‘‘specialties”’ Never buy one from a house that has not made a searching investigation of the | property, that cannot furnish complete, satisfactory and comprehensive statements of the earning power and the business con- dition of the concern whose bonds are being offered. A depreciation fund for replace- } ment always adds to the stability of the | investment. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST How We Select Our 6% Reclamation Bonds Our experience with Recla I 1 covers 16 years. During that time we have bougt and sold 8 eparate es of en ool and Irri n ! All have been secured by first liens « good farm land, and no nvestor ha | t i dollar through default in terest or pr pal We are the larg: t] Nase { Reclama tion bonds, and tl ind | 11 ‘ place confidence n our selectior \ i result we are constant! otftered the pick of many project Phus ire able toselect for our customer©nrs the cre Our Competent Staff We employ I vest ti gineers and at r tf al ore te, and of wide’ experience reclamati projects. Certified copies of their report and opinions are supplied to our « ‘ The Vice-President of I Compa almost constantly travels in sect where land is reclaimed Thu we kee Im close touch with the best undertal We buy no i e of Recla ition bk until all ofheers of our Company, and all engineers and attorne employed in the matter, unanimously agree on the tety ol the bonds in que The Exact Data In irrigation projects water supply is now determined by Government records covet ing a number of year Government surve show the area drained by the treal m question Government records tell the minimum raintall When fertility is in question, soils are easily analyzed. 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34 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Senator’s Secretary cock has his troubles. One of them is a large President named William H. Taft. When an agile and active young P.-M.-G., who was a political manager before a campaign that resulted in the nomination of the person he was polit- ically managing and who was a political director during a camps 1ign that resulted in the election of the person he was directing, having made various pledges and promises for support needed and acquired, tries to fulfill tea promises and pledges with a President who “‘loathes patronage’’ the result is bound to be woe on ene side and weariness on the other. Naturally, when Hitchcock was scurry- ing for convention votes for Taft he got those convention votes by making certain pledges of patronage to the men who could deliver them. If a man in a state—any state—could control a convention and deliver a few Taft delegates to Chicago, warranted sound in wind and limb and guaranteed to stand without hitching, and that man in a state—any state—thought he would look well decorating the office of collector of internal revenue or of customs or as a marshal or as a “nee ge and while not making any demands should intimate to a campaign manager that such was the case, perchance the campaign manager, anxious to get the delegates, would promise to see what could be done about these ambitions after the successful outcome of the endeavor That is what happened. There have been instances where men delivered dele- gates without hope of reward in the shape of offices for themselves and their friends. There have been such instances, but they are so few they belong in the scattering column. Politics is a game of give and take—give as little as you can and take all you can get. The ordins ary patriot who has or can get delegates gets them for one of two reasons Either he has a job and wants to keep! it, or he hasn't a job and wants to get one. If there ever was a man who played politics without an ulterior motive his name is not enrolled in the records. Anyhow, it wouldn't be polities he played. It would be old maid Hitcheock, in garnering his delegates and in garnering Taft’s election as chairman of hao Republican National Committee, had to make promises. His patriots would not perform without them. It is all very well and high-sounding fora man who has been elected to say he made no promises or ple .dges. He has been elected and can say it then; but there never was a man elected to anything worth w hile who did not have to make some arrangements with those who gave him their support— with the leaders, I mean, not with the rank and file. That goes with our system of ge It is a part of it. It may be sordid, but it exists. Piece nas is trou ENERAL Hitch- The Unhappiness of Hitchcock In many instances the man for whom the promises are made, after he has been elected, thinks his election was a dispensa- tion of Providence, and forgets. He de- ludes: himself into thinking his intrinsic merit won forhim. This has not happened to Hitchcock. His chief is willing enough to make good, but he doesn’t like to be bothered with it When it comes to patronage President Taft is a great mafiana artist. He'’can put off consideration of offices longer andl with better grace than any man who has been in the White House in years. The scramble for place makes him tired. He never had to scramble very much for any of his places, and he doesn't understand about it. Hitchcock, who does understand about it and who is flat up against it, has had a most unhappy year as Postmaster-General. Now, that word unhappy is used in a broad and general sense Personally, Hitchcock is not unhappy. At least, he should not be. When a young man starts in in the Government service as a biologist at a few dollars a year and, before he is in the middle forties, gets to be chairman of the Republican National Committee and Postmaster-General, he has every reason for personal happiness. What I mean by being unhappy is that Hitcheock is “tigen unhappy. He is trying the best ne can to get the places his clamoring henchmen want, but almost every time he dashes impetuously against the President he is dashed back, not so impetuously, perhaps, but effectually, and told to come around another day. The President has no idea of repudiating any of Hitchcock’s arrangements, but he wants to take his time about ratifying them. As it is, Hitch- cock has got in some of his men, but any day youchoose to go down to the Post-Office Department you can find lean and hungry statesmen and patriots waiting outside the P.-M.-G.’s office for a chance to go in and inquire the precise time when they will be connected with the payroll. The Postmaster-General cannot tell these anxious inquirers that it is his chief who is procrastinating. He has to make the best of it, and, in many instances, the best isn’t very good. Thus, there are many stories afloat that Hitchcock isn’t coming across as he should, that he is not | taking care of his people, that he is hard to see, that nobody can get to him; and Hitchcock has to listen to these stories with a sad, sweet smile, and all he can say is that he is doing the best he can. Hence, this is a doing-the-bést-it-can Adminis- tration. Mr. Taft said, in his little side- winder at the press in his Newark speech, that he is doing the best he can, and, cer- tainly, Hitchcock is doing that same. So are we ali. ‘Don’t shoot the piano- player,’’ ran the legend in the mining-camp dance hall, and you know the rest. The Seven-Cent Fable At that, the Postmaster-General isn’t so swift. It took him a long time to get out of his system that reply to the publishers about his proposed increase in the postage rates on second-class mail matter, and when it did come out it was more of a special plea than areply. The trouble with ie Postmaster-General on that second- class postage business is that he inherited a hoodoo. Away back in the days when Charles Emory Smith was Postmaster- General some clerk or other strolled into the Postmaster-General's office and told Mr. Smith it cost a whole heap more than a cent a pound to carry and distribute second-class matter. Whereupon, Mr. Smith fixed it in his own mind that seven cents a pound, instead of one cent, would be a proper figure and so recommended. Postmasters-General are frequent episodes in our Government. We have new ones very frequently. We have had ten in the last twenty years, each one striving, in his little term, to master the tremendous and intricate problems of the greatest business institution in the world. Succeeding Postmasters-General took a hack at this business, using Mr. ss figures and expanding or contracting, the case might have been. When the Penrose-Overstreet Postal Commission had its hearings Mr. Smith was asked where he found the figures on which he based his recommendation for a seven-cent rate. Mr. Smith was out of office at that time and couldn’t remember much about it, but the figures hung on, just the same. Where- pe geo dbe the Postal Commission put a force expert accountants into the Post-Office Department and kept them there for seven or eight months, at a cost of seventy-five thousand dollars, and those accountants couldn’t find anything to justify such an increase in the rate of second-class postage, and so reported. The Postal Commission, in its bill, did not change the rate. However, this is a des ‘rsion from what I started out to say. It proves that all Postmasters-General think alike. The real object of these few remarks was to show that the Postmaster-General, as political expert of this Administration, is not having | owing to | certain circumstances over whic h he has no | such a grand and giorious time, control, one being W. H. Taft, and to lead up to the plan of the Administration, as lately set forth, to discipline the insurgents in the House and Senate by declaring them no Republicans and by depriving them of patronage if they dare to oppose the so- called Taft policy measures in Congress. It is a job of some magnitude to read a | man out of a party. Individuals rarely accomplish it The task properly belongs to the . ople, who are responsible for the man who is to be disciplined. The mere fact that the President and the Postmaster- General and the leaders of the Republican April 2,1910 Grape Juice with Lemon Ice Shown in the illus tration. Serve the Grape Juice very cold with a spoonful of lemon ice on top. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST mt wd in Congress do not think a man is a $$) ; Xepublican does not de-Republicanize that — ees —, : y man. Like as not, the man in question i does not think the President or the Post- master-General or the leaders in the House and Senate are Republicans, and while his opinion may not have the circulation or the from-high-quarters trademark as does the | opinion of those opposing him, it has just as much authority. . The only correct definition of what is a | A at Republican or what is a Democrat is the | opinion the people deliver at the polls. If ’ a man is at variance with a wing of his j party, and every party seems to have as | many wings as a fiock of pigeons, he isn’t | | necessarily without that party until he puts | | the proposition up to the people back i] home Tf they refuse to elect him on the ground that he is or is not a Democrat or a Republican that settles it, although it | cannot change the personal ideas of the man himself, who can go on calling himself | a Republican or a piece of custard pie or anything else, so long as he breaks no laws f the report is true that President Taft r has been advised to go after the insurgents Announcement of a New Musical Instrument | by depriving them of patronage, by reading | them out of the party of which he is the B ; 7 ] ae , : } . = } | s Write Today for Our New | titular head, it would be a good thing for Vmutua arrangement dC tween thehouses | Mr. Taft to change his advisers. I know ahaa ‘. ‘ . cate , b 1910 Style Book 1910 of no surer way to help reélect an insurgent ot Steinway & Sons and | he A eolian ( 1On, sae a. nip than ee to read him out of the party f ? Cre} | >: ‘ , t gives an interesting istory of Arts and Crafts at Was hington, to harass him, to deprive > ¢ © " > ¢ ¢ } S ) ¢ - furniture from the | 5th century up to the pres- | him of patronage, to say he is nota ee t 1¢€ am JUS & te nwa \ 1ano IS NOW ¢ yt wn cra aliases lowed ce nice | lican, "There are mighty few Congressional able with the PIANOLA built into it. | of the best ete and ¢ nelle furniture - ade districts in this country where the people . ‘ ‘ ti . | Every piece is the handiwork of experienced would not resent this procedure, and where TN : ; c, c Holland-Dutch Craftsmen they would not show their resentment at -. ew mstrumi znOow einway & m ‘e the polls by sending back the man whom the STEINWAY PIANOLA PIANO ciated t fact ar 1 who uee theit heads. hearteand hands.andim- | | the powers at Washington tried to destroy. ||} | and The Aeolian Company con- ingly made a most careful and | registered Trade Mark branded into the wood | trol the sale forthe entire wor thorough investivation of the | CHARLES P. LIMBERT COMPANY Back to the Kindergarten i ceca Atel ame Se ee of ol th | Grand Rapids, Michigan ( Dept. S) Holland, Michigan f wie ‘ig ae. pis. eader otel : ms oe = | I do not know who is responsible for | has alwa I n synonymot different Piano iver | this plan of reprisal, but I do know that with the highest artistic idea rheir ¢ on was that the those who are responsible for it should be ra fees, Py : | : ins sent back to the kindergarten of politics | Me : > : and taught their political A, B, C’s over players, t aA A, CVEF SINC wuld be used in combi again. The scheme isn't worthy of a grown its introdu da px with their piane Phe decision The man, much less of men who have grown tion of un: tioned leadet wa based not only on ‘ e up in polities, like Aldrich and Crane and Therefore. tl a al la | os rder . musical and Slipeasy Cannon and Hitcheock and the rest. If I , ee ee eee ye. = : “ibis “4 + a ° were an insurgent I would ask nothing instruments is properly regarded — artistic effects for which the | Slanting better than a certified statement that as one of the most significant = | \ is celebrated, but also Crane and Aldrich and Cannon and Hitch- ‘velopments that the musical « ts construs nal superi Button Hole cock, or Taft, even, had declared that I was - ts e . ae: ' A them fontie weil ; areal The only real and important feature in a collar nota Republican. It would be a certificate inaust as C\ me ret n n an Ure tel ra ) ™ K since the introduction of Barco Shrunk Linen. of election in any insurgent district I have In a Player oO, the Player manship and material that it 4 p-- Slipeasy Slanting kes | been in, and I have been in most of them. | is fundamental represents j mci Cialtive un aeaiie end | The trouble with the men who are , : styles. No more fussing, pinc! | advising this reprisal is that they all, with Important Features of the Steinway PIANOLA Piano No more pulling and tugg | the exception of Cannon, know very little } The PIANOLA , ; ‘ . D ae back and loosen the collar. The | we | about the te mper and the habit of thought | the latest mode nt g é é yutton hole is downward, which ) a | of the collar together at the top and holds then of the people in the West, where most of | the f ving im] t there. No more “ gaping ts the insurgents live, and Cannon is be a —s Boll: ste on ork fold collars’ he S come : ‘Sianting B Button | | the political times. Crane and Hitchcoc ing the « e ke ard of tt n ent, thusove | } Hole insures a pertect fitting collar—ea »put | | are from Massachusetts, and Aldrich Sram | the pian re t the most notice on and to take off Rhode Island, for example. That sort of The always important e detects in other Player note music | You will find The Slipeasy Slanting Button ere “Bosker thing might work in their country, but it | ea itowivets PIANOLA “igh nap peeties PIANOLA | Brand’’ 2 for 25c Collars only. '4 and 4 size | will not work in the West. It is puerile | its | ats standion in the w seeuad tor the * oO 1A? | Sashes Beene Oeiers pag ees singe Seslpeepege Meantime, it becomes more and more | Sica) world and caused it t t ' ’ Barkers. Look for Wm. Barker Co.. Makers apparent that the man who is getting to be | j | this trade-mark Troy, N.¥ ihe ood venetionaey power ia the Beaste ntti is Senator Crane, of Massachusetts. This | THE AEOLIAN CO., Aeolian Hall, 362 Fifth Ave., New York | silent, affable little man, in his few years in the Senate, has shown such a genius for The Largest Institution in the Musical Industry of the World. | organization that if Aldrich should step out tomorrow I am of the opinion Crane would instantly become the real leader of the Senate. He never appears on the surface, | but he is big now and growing rapidly There can be no objection to the leaders in Congress, at the direction of the Presi- | | dent, oppos ng to the last ditch all amend- The K. B. K. Solves te PIPE Question ments a ered and urged by the insurgents STRAIGHT STEM, $1 Saliva can- | to the measures the President wants made | J CURVED STEM, $1.2 not reach | into law, such as the railroad bill, the pan | ey the tobacco, any | conservation bills, the injunction bill and orders prompts tiled afi “erica tg ~~ di tem | others. That is fair le gislative practice i ecu a4 poker ‘a an | But w aie on it comes to the announcement sorbed. No nicotine | that efforts of the insurgents to amend the reaches the tongue, be- | bills will be considered unfriendly, un- ing absorbed and side- | Republican and hostile to the Administra- tracked in pass ing tion and, accordingly, punished in the only | | through the airciamber | way punishment can be meted out—which | | before entering the stem. | js the withdrawal of favor and patronage, | | Sweetest pipe in the world, | 244 by virtual if not actual reading out of and remains so. Stem never he master aie aes ; ; tagged clogs, pipe needs no cleaning. the party—why, then it Is time for the Push out soiled wad, insert new | Fool Killer to begin operations one and you have a new pipe without “‘dreak- | Meantime, did it ever occur to you ing in.’’ 25 wads free with each pipe. | that the allies of the President in Congress, These pipesare Frenchbriar, with push rubberbit emountings. | the men with whom he consults and who * The K.B.K. PIPE CO. Commonwealth Building, Phila. Pa. | are supposed to be doing things for him, in | each individual instance opposed him for INVITATIONS | the nomination for President and fought EDDIN pert 50 gam | him to the last, even going so far as to try Announcements, etc., da nted. | | to get Roosevelt to agree to a stampede ill rn ag best guaity.necpaidanyhere Monogram | of the convention for himself, Roosevelt, THE ESTABROOK PRESS, 181 8. Tremont St., Boston, Mass. | Whom they all hated? Look over the list. J

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 2, 1910 item ~*~ A Dodge Dealer is More Than 200 Distributing Centers We_ Show, on These Two Pages,# Pictu Dodge Service O matter where your plant is located, a Dodge dealer is nearby. We show photographs of some of these dealers here. With more than 200 distributing centers—and.“_» agencies-—everywhere—you can always get emergency orders™ for Dodge Power-Transmission supplies delivered promptly. ~~ | ! 7. Note the map depicted above. You will see that the Dodge Get the Deli Plant is in the manufacturing center of the United Sates. a oa By this location freight charges are minitnized. Speedy deliv- Write for our Cata eries of the largest installations to all pojart$ ate insured. guarantecing delivered. 2 . C ) Besides our nine branch houses iftthis country, notice that an exact price On transmalssior nearly every city of importance has a Dodge® — All down in good conditior at y carry large stocks constantly. | If you want this informatior | These representatives are most capable men. The Dodg fact when you write. j Agency is a plum sought by the foremost mill supply men. » This is so in every community. We select the best of all. Hence, each, Dodge dealer is competent to give advice on Power-Transmission® _ needs—-as well as to supply your wants quickly. + f ¥ Dodge Service likewise means this. The scientific advice of ——- our complete Board of Expert Engineers also is yours for the asking— now and any time—without obligation. They are ready to help you D d ; M { on every point of installation and maintenance. oO ge an a ©OD®@ | No complete mill outfit of Power-Transmission Machinery ever Largest in tl leaves the Dodge plant until it has been thoroughly fested and peal proved perfect. Power-Transmission . . ad Py Each outfit is given a gruelling try-out by Dodge engineering of the Dodge Line Pow | heeabet » Monier ‘gi : bn Og , nv By Sapte Sic foto. Te ot up, Sted aac mun, josten it 10 be Main Office «i : actualoperation. latis another funde e Z . Station D-1, Mish ) This is the day of shop-standards. "The Dodge Line should be your shop-standard because it embraces everything for the mechan- Branches and Distri | ical transmission of power—the split feature and interchangeability Chicago Boston Brooklyn Pit wherever possible—maximum reduction of friction in transmission, New York Philadelphia Cincin saving every possible dollar of power-waste—the immense economy And agencies in nearly e of self-oiling bearings—and friction clutches to control departments We carry large and complete stocks at all « independently. quick service, communicate by long-distance tel

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The Railroad Prince and His Principality ‘amie . (Continued from Page 17) a Samuels, BRUSH system, and last week a New York paper THAT HOLDS ITS BRISTLES a firm hand at its reins. Another superintendent has his division four hundred miles away from New York, a clean stretch of busy railroad, a link in one of the stoutest of the transcontinental chains, three hundred miles of line making traffic and handling it. The superintend- ent is a personage in the little inland city where headquarters are located; his opin- ion is eagerly sought by the local reporters each time a new civic problem is tackled. If he were in the metropolitan district he would be unknown except to a little coterie of railroaders—up here he is the voice of the railroad. He is far more real to the folk of half a dozen populous counties than is the president of the road—a stuffy gentle- ™ man who comes up in a private car once in For Sale Everywhere a dozen years to the dinner of the local 35 Cents Each chamber of commerce and tells the towns- Send 4e fer e people to thank God that they have the Dolly's main line of the K. & M. running through Kleanwell iam their Basi | little city.” : You may listen for the clatter of the tele- | graph key in this superintendent’s house | and be entirely disappointed. “IT should have poor system if I had to | listen to all the gossip of the wire,” he tells you ey. ‘** We've organization on this stretch of line,” he says; this with a bit of . ‘*We have men and we have system. My trainmasters are in effect assistant SOLD INA SEALED BOX That's the Kleanwell way. Your favorite shape is handed you sealed and unthumbed. Buy a Kleanwell to-day and know what real toothbrush satisfactionis. The Brisco Kleanwell seal on the box and "Kleanwell"onthebrush the 1 superintendents; they are expected to ) ‘ —_ »\ organize beneath them.” { , =F Watch this sort of man—he is the kind | y that American railroading is oe for | made each year. He enters his office in the morning and gets a few brief reports of the situation on the line—first weather, then congestion conditions in the big yards. After that he talks over the long-distance | telephone with the general manager, four hundred miles away. He gives a summary of the situation to headquarters, just as the | summaries came in to him from his train- masters at junctions and terminals. He are best for the hair. Make sure that the name "Brisco" is on the brush you buy and you can rest assured that it is the standard. Prices from $1.25 to $5.00 ALFRED H. SMITH CO, 84-86 Chambers Street, New York The telephone is rapidly coming into gen- eral railroad use since the telegraphers made Congress pass a bill limiting their / | working-hours to eight each day. Presidential Specials Geta DIAMOND ata His sunshiny office is at ground level— th : S ecial the main-line tracks pass close to its win- | 4 N dows. As he rises to his feet to change his | position a long time-freight is rumbling by. | \ Discount and he salutes the boss—with a smile. The superintendent salutes—with a and at tt smile. It is the regular salute of the rail- wes | road army, only this salute is different ee from that of other armies—not from supe- S ohaete | rior to inferior, but from equal to equal. caren erortend ot | The superintendent must read that in your ‘i ° | mind, for he says: ‘‘In a dozen years that Guaranteed Quali | boy may be crowding me for my job.” The telephone calls him. He hangs up Every Marshall diamond covered by a signed | | the receiver and speaks to his chief clerk. sighed guarantee is backed by one of the oldest || 19, .W- H. T, is coming up the line this houses in the business, Geo. E. Marshall (Inc.). No one | | afternoon. Tell the boys not to get cos Oy setae ee So any. eons “ter S | | rattled,” he anys. That isall. The passage of the President | of the United States over his three «hun- | dred miles of well-ordered track makes no flutter in this superintendent’s heart. If it were Europe the troops would be drawn Marshall’s “F” Grade “P'irst and fine as for ‘ years been 7 t | out, all other trains brought to a standstill, Seahens cad Ctanand eneaan. 7 | pilot engines run in advance of the royal } t per ‘ - d train—a powwow over the railroading of ttaire ring, a dias nobility. But it is not Europe, it is this ener the pa Ferg n approval, not acentdows. | | Dlessed United States; partly blessed be- cause it differs so excessively from Europe. “se, CATAL Go Request . Only the military aides of the President ‘ end name and ant ame > : . te nr ~ vidvecs Gh +4 oh RL = BM nge > 4 Bone a . COUNT SHEET Some time since ort rat e e fers, Me, Men pte EW Be sure to get this | | was making the familiar loop throughout Rage Ss “Ny on all! nr Py salience the West. The superintendent of a divi- pein eg 200, shipment otter defore| | sion of line the far side of the Missouri was @, ou, .* j are ewelry. Wrue today.) | & WOrrier and was personally watching the . a7 ay, “Ap A Geo. E. Marshall (Inc.) | | a. In order to facilitate rear plat- 44, pve S We Manca v'p. | | form oratory the President's cars were “ey, Moy tae My 5 tome. Ses. placed at the rear of a train that hardly Me,te oe, apne, Sos onne | | ranked as express. Between towns the | 4 "ey "ee o> Mo My Chicago, delays grew frequent, and some one pro- &%,, %, 0 6 % “sy, | tested to the superintendent. ve ~~ 4 eg “‘Lookyhere, sir,” he said stiffly; ‘why b yy, e *'%, Gg “%J | don’t you let these other trains up the line | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST , THE said that he was going to take charge of | one of the big transcontinentals that needs | today. Of him the big executives are being | holds the telephone receiver for a minute. | lhere is a brakie on the top of the caboose | April 2, 1910 PE EPEE?S) > \ 1 q ‘2 4, 73 Li Pre wey ERYIEYEP YE SEMOVAL of pistons without withdrawing cylinders or breaking water connections, is a detail in design that is found in Stevens-Duryea motors. To accom- plish this, it is only necessary to take off the bottom part of crank case and cap on the lower end of connecting rods. The claim for distinction which this feature pos- sesses, is the rapid yet thorough overhaul thereby made possible. The Stevens-Duryea is a car of refinement and of exclusive mechanical excellence. P .) Send for Our Literature Makes clear the why of Stevens- Duryea superiority, which lies in the car itself, not merely in the advertising. Stevens-Duryea Co., Chicopee Falls, Mass. Licensed under Selden Patent a ee ey , = 7 ‘ “b AyS _—— , ere ES SEES 2. Ss GIVE HIM 15 MINUTES And Address Meetings— He Will | Make After-Dinner Speeches— —" Propose Toasts— Howto \ Tell Entertaining Stories— and all without fear and trembling. Every professional and business man is frequently called upon to speak in public. Political meetings, fraternal gatherings, dinners, etc., make insistent demands upon him, and afford endless opportunities and requests for appropriate speech. Are you able to appear to advantage upon such occasions? Can you *‘ say your say’’ in earnest, concise, and convincing language ? Grenville Kleiser's Personal Mail Course in Public Speaking Actually Teaches You How Simple! 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wait?’’—the division was single track ‘*You know this is the President's train A twinkle came into that superintend- eni’s eye **You’re wrong,”’ he said in the positive tones of a real executive. ‘‘ This is not the President’s special. This is train number sixty-seven of the B main line and she hasn't many more rights on the time-card than a gravel limited. Now, if you were snitching along on our crackerjack Nippen Limited—there’s some train, sir. They wouldn't lay her out. She's double-extra, first-class all the w: iy through to the coast The point of that was not lost An instance of a different sort occurred some years ago when Mr. Roosevelt, then Governor, went up into northern New York to make a speech. The superintendent of the old Black River Road was pretty proud of his stretch of line and invited the Gov- ernor to ride in his neat inspection engine. **Dee-lighted!”’ said he of the gleaming teeth, and he climbed up into the big | cab. The superintendent wondered what | thought. | horns over one great question. he'd think of that nifty stretch of track just north of Lowville As soon as he was settled in the Roosevelt never cab he picked a_ well-thumbed copy of | Carlyle’s French Revolution out of pocket and read it every inch of the way from Utica to Watertown. The Republican party had to worry along thereafter with- out that supe rinte nde nt’s vote. Buffalo is nO mean prince cipality in the railroad world—it is nearly a kingdom in itself. For years there reigned there a man who was entitled by every virtue of the word to be called superintendent. They called him the ‘‘lion”’ and did not misuse that word, either. When the Real Prince Came But time aged the man, and the day came when the clerks in his outer office began to talk in whispers—they were hav- ing the audacity to wonder who the new prince would be Two men thought that they were capable—one an assistant superintendent in the great yard at East Buffalo, the other holding similar rank over at Rochester. Each of these men was prepared to assume greater honor, to sit in command at the lion’s great desk That old fellow sat aloof. His ears were not too deaf to hear the whisperings of his clerks in the outer office, and sometimes when one of them would creep in upon him unawares he would find the lion sitting alone there, head in hands, holding the fort The two assistant superintendents locked It was not operation that set them at odds—not a vexing practical question of how some con- gested yard might be lanced so that traffic should flow the more freely or a main-line section be aided to give a greater daily tonnage. Nothing of that sort. A new pony inspection engine, with an observation-room built forward over the boiler—just the sort that Colonel Roose- velt had once used as a reading-room — was to be built for the division, and each assist- ant thought that he needed that engine for the dignity of his job. Each in turn went before the lion and stated his claims for the possession of the pretty toy. The old man listened with grave dignity. A week later he sent down to the master mechanic at the big Depew shops and had | him deliver a brand-new handcar, with his compliments, to each. The pony engine went into the round- house until the real prince should come Then he sat long hours alone at his desk once more. Finally they brought a man to him, a fine, upstanding man. The lion rose from his comfortable old chair and gave greeting to the newcomer. ‘‘I’m glad to see you,” was all he said, but of the general manager, who had come up from New York, his eyes seem to ask ‘You've brought the right man here at last?’’ He turned to the stranger ‘Would you like a pony engine to get over the division ?’’ was his question “I’m willing to go to hell-and-gonein a caboose,’’ laughed the stranger The old superintendent grasped him by the hand. ‘Thank God, they’ve sent a real man to be superintendent at Buffalo!”’ was all he said—the only recagnition that he gave to one who since has become one of the mas- ter railroaders of America. But in that moment the act of succession had been consummated. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

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The alarm-clocks on the Rankin farms raise their strident voices at four in the morning—and no beauty-sleeps or cat- naps allowed! minute and harness and water their teams the feed-troughs are always kept full by the barnman-—and by that time breakfast is steaming on the table. Then comes the day’s work. All the work animals are looked after with the most scrupulous care. The moment a horse or a mule with a sore | shoulder or a lame foot is spotted it is taken out of the harness and given a lay-off and the treatment that it needs. There are always plenty of extra teams and harnesses for emergencies of this kind. Notasa mat- ter of calculation, but rather of oversight or default, little attention is paid on the Ran- kin farms tothe breeding of horses or mules. The land and the crops so dominate the activities of this great enterprise that there | is little time or thought for secondary matters, however worthy of consideration they may be. Farming here is done on such a = been de basis that, in the words of Mr. Rankin, ‘‘there is no time to bother with breeding or things of that sort; and, _ way, mules and horses can always be bought about as cheaply as they can be raised.’’ No veterinary is regularly on the pay-roll of Mr. Rankin, but whenever one is needed he is promptiy called from the | village — which is only another way of say- ing that the leading veterinary of Tarkio is a very prosperous individual. The Work of the Cattlemen The cattle are cared for, on each farm, by one man who has “‘cattle sense.”’ In- variably he is a man who likes cattle and is ifted with the knack of ‘‘ knowing” them. f a steer were t« be slipped out of his feed- lot over night this man would instantly note his absence on making the rounds in the morning, and he has a quick eye and a subtle sense for detecting any change in the condition of his cattle before it would be apparent to the eye of the average onlooker. He does little else than shovel ear corn and cottonseed meal into the feed-bunks of the steers and keep a watchful eye over the herds of cattle and the droves of hogs. Especial vigilance is at all times required in order to protect the swine against that | always imminent scourge, the cholera. The moment a dead hog is found in the feeding- yard its carcass is immediately burned and all trash about the lot is raked into heaps and reduced to ashes. Salt and ashes are constantly kept in ground-boxes. Any animal that shows the slightest symptom of the cholera is promptly isolated and the hypodermic syringe brought into play. Mr. Rankin has seen years in which he has not | turned out more than 14,000 hogs, but it is | his rule and aim each year to finish not | fewer than 25,000 porkers. In the matter of cattle his low mark is 13,000 steers ready for the block; but here, again, his calculation is to increase this number by several thousand and when he fails he feels that he has not done a year’s full work. All seeding, cultivation and harvesting are done under the eye of the foreman, who acts under the intimate supervision of Mr. Rankin. It is a cardinal rule of the man- agement to let the requirements of the corn crop take precedence over all other consid- | erations. For example, if the small grain on Number One needed cutting at the moment when the work of corn-plowing was | most urgent and opportune an effort would be made to draft an extra force of men and machines for the grain-harvesting from some near farm which could spare them from the cornfields. crop were to suffer or take the chances of delay on Number One it would be the small grain, not the corn. 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FOR INFORMATION ABOUT LOS ANGELES ADDRESS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, Department A. ! his farm and the wage due him. Then and there one secretary enters these data in a report-book, while the other makes out the checks and Mr. Rankin signs them. All the farms have the same pay-night, and as there are at least two hundred and fifty hands on the payroll, and all of them waiting on the outside for their checks, the occasion is generally lively and picturesque. September 1 is the end of the business year of the great Rankin system of farms, and then a summary of the pay-reports is charged up to the respective ranches, along with the cost of kitchen supplies, harness repairs, implements and all otherequipment and items of expense. The salaries of the foremen, the cook and the cook’s helpers go down against the ranch’s general ex- pense All expense chargeable against Number One, for example, is divided by the acreage of that farm, without regard to whether a third ora half of its acres have been in corn. The credits from that ranch are from three sources only: the sale of cattle, the sale of hogs and the sale of old or surplus mules or horses. No grain is ever sold! No crops of any kind are ever sold These sale transactions are always made in Chicago, St. Joseph, Missouri, Kansas City, Omaha, or some other big livestock markets, and the records of the transactions are on file in the office, as are the records of the first cost of the cattle and the hogs The difference between expense and credits is again divided by the acreage of that particular ranch, so that the profits or the very rare losses—are apportioned per acre. Results are the only things that count in Mr. Rankin’s bookkeeping, and no footnotes of ‘‘ bad break in catt le mar ke ad “hog cholera scourge,’ ‘‘drought,”’ or “flood”’ are found to shed excusing light upon the bad showing. But one or more i these misfortunes is always responsible wherever a farm shows a loss. However, this happens so infrequently as to be a decided nov elty. Uncle David has no cocksure rule for buying feeding stock~-no ideal steer that is a sure winner. He looks at this matter philosophically and seems to trust as much to instinct as to cold calculation -in which he differs little from many, perhaps most, successful buyers of feeding cattle. How the Hogs are Handied ‘‘Sometimes steers that look good turn out badly,’’ he remarks, “but I try to get good-boned and good-colored cattle that are well matured and in fair flesh. It isa mistake to get cattle that are too young.” While each farm has a full complement of hoghouses and a man especially detailed to look after the breeding of hogs, it is comparatively seldom that any farm in Mr. Rankin’s system is able to raise pigs enough to follow the steers that are fattened on it and the number of steers is, of course, regulated mainly by the amount of corn which its acres have produced. Therefore, to make up the quota, he sends a hog-buyer into southern Missouri and Arkansas to pick up the required number of barrows, which are turned into the feed-lots along with the native-bred pigs. But, of course, | all the sows that can be spared from the business of following the steers and picking up their waste are taken out for breeding purposes. No attention is paid to breeding fine swine. Any likely male is taken into service and, after one or two breeding seasons, is fattened for the market. The sows, however, are kept as long as possible. But the demands of the feed-lot are insati- able. Even under this broad-gauge system it is seldom that Mr. Rankin has hogs enough to go round and utilize the waste of the feeding-lot. In winter all the hogs run with the cattle. Corn is seldom fed directly to the swine. The exception to this rule is when the hog market is phenomenally high and the quota of cattle on hand is low. He has never yet seen the time when he had too many hogs, or even enough. He declares that two hogs to one steer on full feed will get fat from the waste without a pound of direct feeding On the question of condition powders and hog-cholera cures Mr. Rankin is both a yessimist and a stoic. In his mind, a hog has more than a family resemblance to a gasoline engine—it gets out of gear and goes to pieces, or gets out of gear and rights itself, and no man is the wiser as to the whys and wherefores of either result As to the science of steer-feeding, Uncle David is a man of few theories. 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He studies the reports and bulletins of these,institu- tions carefully and then tries out their scientific wisdom on the steer and on the hog. In his experience, some of it works and some of it doesn’t —and when it doesn’t work he charges the failure to his own in- ability to give the theory an adequate trial. | He once made a brave attempt at getting | the business of om down fine and work- | ing out a scientific balanced ration, but he declares that it involved too much bother and fuss in the weighing and mixing of the feeds and the weighing of the cattle to apply to so big a wholesale feeding busi- | ness as his, and that ‘‘the man who does my feeding works for twenty-five dollars a | month and shovels corn and juggles sacks of cottonseed like a stevedore on a Missis- a River steamboat from morning until night, and is lucky if he gets through the job in time for supper. The only science e knows is to keep his muscles moving. There isn’t much chance to ring in any science on him, and as his kind of feeding has served me fairly well I don’t quite see my way to weighing everything out, as a man with only a small bunch of steers may do to advantage.” In the lexicon of David Rankin, scientific agriculture spells The Preservation of the Land —that and that only. If Mr. Rankin’s system of bookkeeping dealt with anything beyond the broadest general results its showing would be far more interesting and instructive. But it does not. Take the matter of corn yield, for example. The reports of foremen on this score are vague and indefinite. Asa matter of fact, thousands of bushels are husked and hauled out of the field to the cattle, and no account is taken of them. Apparently, no corn in the crib is ever measured unless the foreman suspects that a certain field has made a yield of a hundred bushels or more to the acre. Some of Mr. Rankin’s fields, in banner years, have yielded as high as one hundred and eighteen | bushels to the acre For the year of 1906 Mr. Rankin’s total profits on his eleven ranches in the home system of 23,690 acres were $123,851.58, or an average of $5.22 per acre. He isn't saying what they were in 1909, but he seems to be cheerful about it. It must be admitted on this showing that the average profit per acre is not high. But in this particular year more than 4000 acres of his corn lands were flooded just when the corn was coming into the ear. The crop, together with the labor expended in fighting the floods, amounting to hun- dreds of dollars, was all swept away. The expense on those acres that year was great just as great as if the crop had matured. There were no net proceeds from these lands because there was nothing left on which to fatten cattle or hogs. That expense went into the general budget just the same Other ranches had to eae the loss in the general distribution. Mr. Rankin is a firm believer reclamation of low lands. ent with his theory that increased land value, rather than crops, is his ultimate aim, his accrued profits and savings. While these drainage improvements have made him great profits in the increase of the value of his lands, above the expense of drainage added to first cost, the reclama- in the This is consist- tion work has not yet had sufficient time in | These farms often make much money, be- which to demonstrate its full value. low cause on them a special effort is made to | raise pigs and as much corn as may be safely planted. But on lands where only a few years since cattails grew ten feet high and muskrats built their rush houses in water three feet deep, and where, to get drainage, it was necessary to leave the many twisted channels cut by Nature and dig a drainage canal with regular drainage dredges, it is unreasonable to expect that good corn crops may be secured from over- flow at once. But when the ditches have eroded enough to bear away the flood waters as they fall there is no doubt that | these bottom ranches will leap at once into front rank as profit-makers, Kr the simple reason that bottom lands are rich and that they neither wash away nor lose their fertil- ity appreciably as do those of the hills. If Uncle David Rankin ever does around to make a final clean-up of undivided land profits, he certainly will have a snug little nestegg! Then is when he will be a the land is the basis and the aim of his operations, ee ble to make his real showing, for | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 2,1910 Poste Book Free on Request. “Fashion Clothes” young-fellow garments. ild find a full disy your town if not, kn pend sho store in pi ed. 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mission Mrs. Lisby remained with euence prices hands folded in her lap, the musing smile are far below what your local taik still on her lips. She flushed, and once or would charge —in fact, no higher | } twice, when she looked at her husband, she 4 r} i**t wie — iH h I than so-« e¢ tine stock clothiu trembk d. = i ‘Joe,’’ she said softly, breaking the 1 . F P } , | t : Back of every garment ordered quiet. ; Ais eal . i } ‘Yes, Kitty Bell?”’ ; Stands our dealers and our guarantee a} Come here.”’ | . . \ Lisby reluctantly left the eps and | J Don't delay calling onour | } . i > > , | came and stood squarely in front of his | ff saa telnet etctelad } t wife's chair ( } V/ oil ‘Do you remember, Jo don't stand : : = 1) lookir ig at me that way~-do you remember | ff 2) - SSS —— ait) | isking me the other day aket what I was 2 Art Portraits of Champion Athletes and Spring Fashion il | 9 r Pe) Magazine, Edition L, sent FREE on request H | sewing / | Sure,’’ was the wondering reply ‘Well, I'm going to tell you. No, I | can't with you like that. Put down your | ear, please. You won't tell your father j ti yet ? | ti] Joe inclined } head to lister H wile } encircled his neck with both arms and | whispered. A moment of absolute silence, {f | and then Lisby droppe d to his knees be- | _ { > e ch: me arr act ahont er {} = \ side th chair, one arm cast about her fj TAILORS FOR THE NATION SINCE 1877 iil shoulders, his face press d against the ie =a Se : a { clustering ringlets at her nec! arsuatitoae ‘Kitty Bell,”’ he said chokingly, “ Kitty " * oe J ee ry ~vee “ ‘ . 1 Joe . I do believe ee bee er ea nae Look at me. Let me se« a S L “7 uel damn fool Jed, tered Joc b 6 , bs « le ‘No, said his wife swiftly," ‘that’s notit k / f é " jf Iknow . . . Joe my own Joe ns ° b . / The Mistaken C . he ista | oF Cue »” , , -/ a) } ( * Ae d € ¢é ( Cu Scrim Pp Short, th’ banker, tells some stale ol’ ~~ ; nd joke ~ } } i? ; + ie . — ee v, ic/ ¢ CUlitd tj (¢ »” An’ Abner Watkins laughs nigh fit t’ choke, n ed An’ Peleg Hawkins lets out a wild screech A . =~ An slaps his knees an’ says: ** Ain't that a . MPLA Gd Sidi é¢ P< Lid CHF a4 peach!”’ : ‘ » Hod Griggs, th’ grocer, hollers like his craw b Is all choked up, an’ Pike Botts says: ‘* Haw, haw! t I’ve heered in many a day, An’ holds his sides an’ snorts like everything KKK sh eh a by ing AAC 4 Kin almost tell from hearin’ of ’em snort 4 Which one has got th’ biggest note with Short! Ne | —_ . , ee , nA Scrimp Short says sich-an’-sich is so-an’-so, ~ : , . ; ; ba An’ Abner Watkins drinks it in as thoug rd It’s gospel from St. Luke; an’ Peleg says, ‘* There's common-sense to that, Hod Griggs, I guess !”’ An’ Hod Griggs says: Hawk, Sc rimp Short could got’ ¢ ‘ongre ss in a wall), ie An’ Pike Botts sets up in his cheer, an’ he AAA OSS “T allus told you, Jist looks at Scrimp, an’ looks admirin’ ly a4 pA Kin almost tell from hearin’ of ’em speak i | Which ones can’t pay their interest next week! | nd An’ one time when Scrimp Short was layin 4 law »* 4 Down hard, Pike Botts come in an’ says ‘yf | ** Haw, haw!” ws An’ busted out a-laughin’ cuz he thort ry Scrimp’s tellin’ of a yoke an’ that he ort ~ 4 T’ come in on the haw-haw good an’ strong, x, But he seen in a minute he was wrong, i~ ( Cuz Short was talkin’ fie-nance, great an’ small, An’ never had a joke in mind at all An’ when Scrimp went I heered Ab Watkins

snort: oe By gosh, Botts, you hev queere ad yerse lj with Short!” J. W. Foley.

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The Rate Question From a Consumer’s Standpoint (Continued from Page 9) 1908, $127. Such an amount becomes an important factor in the accounts of most of the families in America. In view of the millions whose annual expenses are exceed- ingly small, the probabilities are that the present reader of this article would have to multiply that average several times in order to equal his share. The average an- nual railroad charges per family increased 10 percent during the ten years from 1890 to 1900, while it increased 38 per cent dur- ing the next eight years. The same rela- tive increase in the future will be of grave consequence. During the same time the tariff decreased from $18 to $15 per family. The data from which the foregoing fig- ures were compiled are as follows: The customs revenue of the United States was $229 ,668,584 in 1890; $233,164,871 in 1900; and $285,680,653 in 1908. The gross earn- ings of the railways in.the United States were: $1,051,877,632 in 1890; $1,487,- 044,814 in 1900; and $2,424,640,637 in 1908 The number of families in the United States in 1890 was 12,690,152; in 1900, 5: and 18,985,763 —esti- 16,187,71 mated —in 1908. Authorities: 22d Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission; 3d and 13th Annual Reports on the Statistics of Railways in the United States, prepared by the Statistician to the Interstate Com- merce Commission; 12th Census of the United States It has been widely asserted that these advances, and others to be made soon, are necessary in order to meet the heavy in- creases in operating expenses which have been forced upon the railroad companies during recent years. These claims are not substantiated by the facts. There has been much said about their operating expenses, and nothing has been said about the in- crease in their earnings. We now have the complete reports of the Interstate Com- merce Commission concerning the statistics of American railroads from June 30, 1887, to June 30, 1907. These reports show that the earnings of American railways from operation, above their operating expenses, in 1907 were $40,589,764, as compared to $424,352,345 in 1898, and $315,626,564 in 188% Authorities: Ist, L0th and 20th Annual teports on the Statistics of Railways in the United States, prepared by the Statistician to the Interstate Commerce Commission Thus, during the last nine years, the in- crease in annual net earnings was four times the net earnings during the prior decade This enormous increase in net earnings, approaching a half billion of dollars per year, has not been the result of increased rates so much as the result of increased volume of traffic which could be handled per the same unit of transportation. Larger cars, larger engines and better roadbeds have made it possible. This is shown by the following figures: The net earnings have increased over 40 per cent for every train hauled one mile, and 50 per cent for every mile of railroad in the nation The figures, in detail, are as follows NET EARNINGS AVERAGE REVENUE reER PEI PER PEK MILE OF TRAIN-MILE TON-MILE PASSENGER LINE ents) (incents) MILE (in cents) 1888 $2307 1.001 2.349 1889 2087 929 2.165 1898 2325 753 1.973 1899 2435 724 1.978 1907 3696 759 » O14 1908 8226 754 1909 3558 The marked advance in the net earnings from operation per train-mile is indicated by these statistics for each year (in cents): L888 -50.669 1895-44.118 1902-64.390 1889-44 32 1896-45.729 1903 -64.776 1890-48 225 1897-45.276 1904-62.585 1891-47.638 1898-49.814 1905-65.766 1892-48 .069 1899-52.046 1906-70.487 1893-45.957 1900-58 .433 1907-71.727 1894-43 480 1901-60.646 Authorities: lst to the 20th—inclusive Annual Reports on the Statistics of Rail- ways in the United States, prepared by the Statistician to the Interstate Commerce Commission; 22d Annual Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission; Ist, 2d, 3d and 4th Bulletins of Revenue and Expenses of Steam Roads in the United States, prepared by the Bureau of Statistics and Accounts of the Interstate Commerce Commission, During the past decade railroading has been revolutionized—any experienced traf- fic official will tell you this; and this con- clusion is substantiated by the remarkable figures just given. It may not be practical or feasible ever to try to reduce the earnings of American railroads; the genius and courage which have made them possible should have their reward. But it is entirely feasible to take ali the steps that are necessary to prevent any more advances in our railroad rates without a careful investigation as to whether or not such advances are justifi- able. Railway men have shrewdly taken advantage of the present situation; they have learned that there is no one to fight uniform advances over a large territory. Such advances have been going on all over the country during the past few months, and others are scheduled to occur in the near future. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The machinery of our Govern- | ment at the present time is entirely in- | adequate to cope with this situation. There is no one in the United States today looking after the consumer’s interest. At the present time, when we are paying over four million dollars every day for freight rates, there is positively no one authorized to take the initiative on our behalf, no one who is investigating this subject from the consumer's standpoint, no one who knows whether the rates the ae happen to be paying are high or ow. Is the cost to me so small that it is not worthy of consideration? Consider a few facts The net earnings of American railways during the past ten years —above operating expenses—amount to over seven billion dollars. The exact figures to 1908 are: 1899-$456,641,119 1904-$636,277,838 1900-$525,616,303 1905-$691,880,254 1901—$558, 128,767 1902-$610,131,520 1903-$643,308,055 Authorities: 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th Annual Reports on the Statistics of Railways in the United States, prepared by the Statistician to the Interstate Commerce Commission; Bul- letins 1, 2,3 and 4 of Revenue and Expenses of Steam Roads in the United States, pre- pared by the Bureau of Statistics and Accounts of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission. It would take almost all of the gold and silver coin in circulation in the United States to pay the net earnings and income of American railways for one year. The latest year for which these statistics were obtainable was 1906; for that year the items were as follows: 1906-$788,887,896 1907-$840,589,764 the $668,656,075 Gold coin in circulation United States Subsidiary silver coin in circula- in tion in the United States 111,629,504 Standard dollars in circulation in the United States 77,001,368 Total $857,286,947 Net earnings and income of rail- roads 848,836,771 Authorities: 19th Annual Report on the Statistics of Railways in the United States, prepared by the Division of Statistics and Accounts of the Interstate Commerce Com- mission, page 82; Statistical Abstract of the United States—29th Number—pre- pared by the Bureau of Statistics, under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, page 111 The value of the railroads and their equipment in this country in 1904, as esti- mated by disinterested Government offi- cials, was greater than the combined value of all the livestock, all the farm imple- ments and machinery, all the gold and silver coin and bullion, and all the manu- facturing machinery, tools and _ imple- ments, added to the total capital of all our national banks. Statistical Abstract of the United States (29th Number), prepared by the Bureau of Statistics, under the direction of the | | will appeal to all men of good taste. April 2,1910 Scene in ork Yacht ¢ New } reg Bros. & Co L.. Adler and Blues The work is all done by masters of this craft It is done in a model shop—all cement and Adler-Rochester Grays Find the dealer in your town sells Adler-Rochester clothes. It is sure to be one of the best clothing stores. glass; a shop where the air is changed every Go there and see the new spring fabrics eight minutes. shown in these famous clothes. It is done and Our beautiful patterns in gray, blue and brown _ stinting on time or cost. As a result, we are selling Adler-Rochester Clothes to the well-dressed men of six nations. Yet the price clothes—$18 and up cent profit. who slowly carefully, without is the same as for other good for we add only six per We have spent forty years in making clothesfor men who demand the best. 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And yet our great-grandfathers never saw a railroad. The men who framed this Government did not dream of such a stu- pendous industry, reaching out into all the avenues of human activity, wherever public utilities are bought and sold. Here we are face to face with the greatest problem of modern times. The human race has been studying about the regulation of banks and tariffs and navies and colonies for thousands of years. In the regulation of railroads we are just beginning to learn the alphabet. Instead of going at the railroad question spasmodically, like a child or like a mob, acting largely upon our passions and emo- tions, and reducing rates because we can, we should build up a well-organized system. We should act intelligently We have tax ferrets, bank examiners, revenue collectors and custom-house in- spectors by the hundred. Our freight bill is a greater tax today than all the rest put together Every stitch of clothing you have on, this sheet of paper, the chair you are sit- ting on, the floor, the walls, everything THE SATURDAY EVENING POST about you has paid its railroad tax. When- | ever you ship a steer to market, and every time you buy a pair of shoes or a hat or a new handkerchief, you pay a railroad tax. These trifling contributions, collected every day last year from ninety million people, made the enormous revenue of two and a half billion dollars which the railroads received. You had nothing to say about the size of that tribute. This is a ¢olossal ex- ample of taxation without representation. The greatest public question of our time, the question that comes closest to the every- day life of all of us, is the rate question. Tt greets us at every turn tn the road, in every avenue of human industry, whenever we buy anything, whenever we sell anything, whenever we go any place. This needs no apology. It is not demagogy. It needs no explanation. It is true. And yet we con- sumers have given no thought to this sub- ject. Why? Simply because the old adage is still true: ‘‘ What is everybody's busi- ness is nobody's business.” The interests of the consumers in the United States demand that some depart- ment of the Government shall be provided with ample facilities and shall have power to act on its own Initiative In prosecuting investigations and filing complaints on be- half of the consumers of the country, before some tribunal which has power to fix rates and schedules The magnitude and importance of transportation matters justifies that we demand of our national Government a de- partment that shall be second te none in the nation and that shall be represented in every trade center in the country. When- | ever an advance in rates is proposed let the railway companies present their side before the Interstate Commerce Commission; then let the Department of Commerce and Labor, or some other department of the | Government, be prepared to present the other side of the controversy; and after both sides have been heard the Commis- sion can decide whether the conditions justify the raise. We need have no ill will against the companies whatever. We should merely see to it that our side of the case is heard from. These vast interest must be guarded, or else we are fools This is a matter that requires immediate action. While you are waiting changes are going on. Notwithstanding the marvelous increase in the net earnings of our railroads during the past decade, approaching a half billion dollars every year, thousands of rates are being advanced, and other thou- sands are announced for the future, with no effort whatever by any one to prevent them or to test their reasonableness. The rate question from the consumer's standpoint, a question which has hereto- fore received no consideration, must take rank along with the tariff question as a vital problem of public importance

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 2, 1910 The Investment Oppor- Buy NOW—While Prices are Low —Ten Choice Building Sites in Ten of the Fastest Growing Young Cities in America for $5. a lot Down— Balance on Easy Payments— No Interest, no Taxes— Option of Full Cash Refund. E, the Northwest Townsite Com- pany, a permanent land-develop ing organization, present to readers of THE SATURDAY EVENING Post an investment proposition unique in the history of Real Estate. So certain are we of its soundness, so confident of the profit it will pay investors, that each investor is given the option, at any time within 6 months, of cancel ling his contract and receiving cash in full, and release from further payments. Our cash refund offer is plainly stated. It means, your money back any time within 6 months if you want it. Our responsibility may be ferring to the Merchants’ Philadelphia. Che Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, officially represented by Mr. Geo. B. Haynes, Immigration Agent, is coéperating with our Organization in building and developing cities along its new line. Investigation will sively prove the merit and soundness of the investment we offer readers of this publication. The Properties Offered The properties being sold are choice building lots in ten young cities situated on the new Pacific Coast line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway. Each of the ten towns selected is a center of rapid industrial growth. After thorough investigation of the best new towns on this line, we bought land in ten of the most promising ascertained by re- National Bank of ] conciu selling a part of those properties it a price far lower than equal land values can Pod iy we are be secured elsewhere. Our interest in the growth and development of the chosen towns is perma nent Equalized Profits for Investors Not only do we safeguard investors, but, so far as possible, they shall share equally in the profits of this enterprise. For we have intro ; . . ‘ duced a new plan of investment, based on a scientific principle upon which many great businesses stand —the Law of Averages own, not one lot in one town, but one lot in Keach investor will town, nor ten lots in one each of ten towns. The merit of this plan appeals to the most Life insurance and fire insurance large dividends, vet they owe their stability to insuring many persons or properties. No life insurance company places a large per cent of its capital upon the life of one person, of that person's health and strength; no fire insurance company excessive insurance in one city. So, in this case the investor while his pofit is conservative companies pay rey irdless Ca§&ries is safeguarded, assured by securing choice properties in a number of thriving towns. Amazing Growth of Northwest Astounding as is the recent development of our Northwest states, but few people realize the exceptional opportunities they now offer for investment. Only the American farmer has been keen to grasp the situation and to act. The more one learns of the great Northwest, the more evident its wealth. Those who can do so should see the country and observe its unlimited resources. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Co., owning and operating nearly 9000 miles of railroad, has recently completed its line to the Northwest Pacific Coast. Its eastern terminus is Chicago; its western terminals are now Seattle and Tacoma, Wash. Freight trains and local passenger trains are already in opera- tion. On July Ist, of this year, fast passenger train service will be given. The new line is the shortest, most direct route between the Great Lakes and Pacific tidewater. The freight haul from Chicago to Seattle has been lessened by more than 48 hours. The new passenger trains will clip 13 hours from former schedules. But—shortening the haul from east to west seaboard is not the most significant feature of a railway project costing more than $100,000,000. lor in laying railroad steel across. the Northwest states, a vast, new territory has been opened. In undeveloped resources, it is the richest region in the world. The State of Montana outranks even Pennsylvania in mineral wealth; lands and farms along the new railroad rival in productiveness the soils of Lowa and Illinois; the great Northwest boasts the greatest lumber and mining industries in the world. A Tide of Immigration \ Tide of Immigration has followed every trans-continental railway. History records not one exception. Yet, in no instance has the territory opened been so rich in natural resources as that tapped by the new line of the C. M. & St. P. Ry The United Government has just opened up millions of acres of land for homestead farms along the new railroad line. Inormous sums have been spent and are being spent to tell American farmers of this new land of Opportunity. astern and middle-West farmers are selling their high priced lands, rushing into the new districts, and securing virgin farms of unexcelled richness. They are using steam plows and other up-to-the-minute machinery to overtake older agricultural sections of the United States. states In ten months the newly-settled country has undergone a transformation quite inconceivable to those not familiar with the Western spirit to do things. In three years the new country will have grown beyond recognition to those who see it this year. Young Cities Mean New Fortunes Flourishing cities are born and developed in a decade along new trans-continental lines. Agri- cultural, mineral and lumber industries insure them permanent, rapid growth. On the line of the new Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway—1399 miles long—two hundred and twenty-nine stations have been established. Around them, towns and young cities are springing up. Already many of them have banks, stores, hotels, churches, newspapers, schoolhouses, grain elevators, lumber yards, water-works, electric light plants, telephone ex- changes, and other civic improvements—all are progressing and growing Those in touch with industrial conditions along the new railway line quickly saw the unusual investment opportunities offered in the young cities and towns—investments as secure as farm property, much more profitable than bonds or mortgages—and, if desirable, easy to buy or sell. Northwest Townsite Company an Early Purchaser The first passenger over the new line, from Chicago to Seattle and Tacoma, was Mr. George M. Bailey, of the Northwest Townsite Company. Clad in overalls and jumper, riding freight and construction trains, he reached Seattle May 27, 1909. He had spent two months examining lands and townsites along the route. Every help was given him for getting information—rail- road officials, agents, contractors, government land agents, surveyors, old settlers—all were consulted. Finally, after a consultation with the General Land Agent of the Land Depart ment of the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Railway, Mr. John Quincey Adams, and with their Immigration Agent, Mr. Geo. B. Haynes, certain choice properties in ten towns were selected. Desirable building lots were bought outright ata price so low that they could be sold very cheap so cheap that they may be sold again and again and each time at a profit to the seller. Many of the lots here offered have a local, open market value today of $250. Each Town a County Seat or Division Point Of the ten young cities (picked from 229 stations along the new line), four are county seats and six are railroad division points; each The Northwest Townsite

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could endure no longer his partner’s omi- nous silence. ‘Say, lookyhere, Fishbein,”’ he said at last, ‘‘ what do you want from me, anyway ? I acted for the best. Ain’t it?” I ain’t kicking,” Fishbein said. ‘‘I don’t say a word, Blintz. When I got ita partner like you, Blintz, what is the use I should open-my mouth? What I say don’t got no effect on you, anyway, Blintz, so I dont say nothing I told it you from the first we should get ita lawye r, not a kid.”’ ‘“Markie -done his best, Fishbein,”’ Blintz retorted ‘What could the boy help it if that sucker decides against us? I Tickman and him good friends already and that’s why he done it.”’ ‘Sure they’re good friends,’’ Fishbein re plied. ‘TL seen 'em walk out of the court already, arm in arm, like brothers.” ‘Not. Tiekman and Markie,”’ Blintz cted, “‘ but Tickman and the judge.”’ “The judge you shouldn't blame at all,” Fishbein said. ‘If I would be the judge I wouldn't decide no different. If we got the ext Monday, Blintz, we are bet corr same judge 1 beat for fair ‘Not if we got a decent jury, Fishbein.”’ “Don’t put no hopes in the jury, Blintz,”’ Fishbein replied. ‘I bet yer Tickman will fix it so that our competitors gets on the jury already, and that's the way it goes.” The next three days Fishbein spent in preparing Blintz for the worst, and when at length the fateful morning arrived Blintz avoided a final discouraging interview with his partner by going direct from his home to the Fishbein arrived first, however, and was standing in the corridor when his partner entered. He greeted Blintz with so malevolent a glare that the latter quailed. **Well,”’ Blintz said, “what's the trouble?” **No trouble, Blintz,’’ Fishbein grunted “Everything's fine and dandy. You should go back to the store That's all We ain't needed here ‘*Whatd'ye mean, weain't needed here ?”’ Blintz cried. ‘‘ Markie gave a subpeeny to B. Gelb Friday, and everything is ready.” “Sure, I know it is,”” Fishbein replied, drawing a paper from his “I bet yer everything is ready. Just look at this.” He handed his partner a Sunday paper folded at the advertised announcement of betrothals, and Blintz seized it with trem- bling fingers courthouse pocket. “ Righ in the middle of the page, Blintz,”’ Fishbein said, and indicated the spot with the butt of a moribund stogy. TOlLOW MENDELBAUM Mrs. B f The item read as TAUB > Madison Mr. and Avenue, Gelb, of 364 announce ti engagement of their daugh- ter, Mrs. Fannie Taub, to Levy Mendel- baun Reception three to six, Sunday next. No card x Maybe it ain't the same Gelb,” Blintz murmured “Maybe it ain't, Blintz,” Fishbeir retorted, ‘‘ but if you would stick your head inside the cburtroom door you would se« Tickman and Simon Horowitz and B Gelb and that sucker Mendelbaum talking together like they was brothers already ** Horowitz!" Blintzexclaimed. ‘‘ What's Horowitz doir g here?” Before Fishbein could hazard an answer Markie Gubiner came down the corridor “Well, Fishbein,” he cried, “sorry should have come all the way down here for nothing.’ you Fishbein wheeled around and stared at his counsel “Tl know I t down here for nothir Gubiner,”’ he d, ‘“‘but I don’t see what you got to be happy about it for “My partner is ht, Markie,”’ Blintz idded “What are you trying to do, Markie make a fool out of us? Hold.on there,’ Markie replied. ‘I've ot a surprise for you “Weg urprise for you, too,”’ Fishbein st look at this here paper.” entered the courtroom, whence he emerged a moment later followed by Tickman, Horowitz, Gelb and Mendelbaum. ‘* Popper,”’ “‘T want to introduce Mr. Marcus Gubiner.”’ ‘‘Pleased to meetcher,’’ Horowitz said. “These other two gentlemen, I already know ’em.”’ Fishbein and Blintz nodded. “You shouldn’t look at me so sour, Blintz,’’ Horowitz went on. ‘‘ You and me should be good friends already.”’ Blintz shrugged his shoulders. ‘Because a feller sends me a cancella- tion,” he said, ‘‘ain’t no reason why I should be such a terrible enemy of his, y'understand. But at the same time, Mr. Horowitz, it ain’t no reason why I got to be a good friend of yours, neither.” “Cancellations is nix,”” Horowitz replied cheerfully. ‘‘ You and me is got to be good friends now, Blintz, because our son-in-laws is partners already.” *‘What!”’ Fishbein and Blintz cried. “That's right,’’ Markie interrupted. “Mr. Tickman has invited me to join him as a partner, and we're going to start in from today on.” Tickman nodded and smiled. “And the first copartnership transac- tion,”’ he said, ‘‘ will be the settlement of the suit of Fishbein against Mendelbaum | Mr. Horowitz | upon the following basis: recalls the cancellation of his order and Mendelbaum will send you back the goods. | Ain’t that right, Popper? ‘Pretty near right,”’ Horowitz agreed. ‘Only, instead of fifty of them garments, Fishbein, make me up a hundred, and so | Mendelbaum will send it you back the piece goods and ten pieces more of the same sty le.” Mendelbaum grinned rapturously. *‘ All I need it is a confirmation,” he said. ‘You can consider that you've got it already,’ said Fishbein, beaming his de- ght. As for Blintz, he wrung the hands if Markie and Tickman by turns. “Say, lookyhere, boys,” B. Gelb broke in, ‘‘ain’t I nothing here? You bring me downtown for a witness for a trial, and all I got to witness is a regular love feast already. Ain't it?” ‘Don’t kick, Gelb,’’ Horowitz replied. “You marry off a daughter which got the misfortune to be a widder, to a decent, respectable young feller, and, besides, Gelb, we are all coming to the party.” It was now Gelb’s cue to smile, and he fairly glistened with good humor. Don’t come in the afternoon,” he said. **Come in the evening after the young folks is gone and we'll fix up a couple of games auction pinocle.” ““Why,”’ Fishbein exclaimed—‘ Why, I thought the announcement in the Herald says ‘No cards.’”’ He handed the paper to Gelb, who exam- ined it with a frown. “That's a mistake from my wife's,” he aid. ‘All of a sudden she gets them fancy idees about no cards. We'll play cards, anyhow, the same game like we always play, ten cents a hundred.” ‘Well, Fishbein,” Blintz said as they sat in the elevated train on their way uptown, ‘‘I hope you're satisfied now.” “Sure I’m satisfied,’ Fishbein replied, ‘but I always come out at the small end, anyhow. I got to buy Mendelbaum’s in- tended an engagement present, while you and Markie could pass hen along some of them duplicates in cut glass which your Hattie got it.” ‘You shouldn’t kick, Fishbein,’”’ he said. “The way the case is settled we wouldn't got to pay nothing to Markie Gubiner for what he done for us, and so you are in half what the bill would of been already.”’ **So are you in half Markie’s bill, too,” Fishbein retorted Blintz remembered Hattie’s engagement ring and sighed heavily “I bet yer lam,” he said. 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Rome, J 7] } * le , ; } ; The steel-worker's sure to be there ‘Hey you!” (So the joreman said ‘Watch the way you're doin’ there ; Use your bloomin’ head Lower her! Now--let 'er go! Ram the rivets through.” (That's the way they do the job, Do it proper, too This week you will find him on Broadway Some forty floors upward or so, Where the men seem to crawl on just nothing at all When you watch from the sidewalk below Next week he'll be starting for somewhere, This viewer of cilies and men, With his money all spent he is fully content So ler g as he's imovir g again ** Hey you!" Hear th fore man call “Swing her over hold her there 4 Hoist a bit that's all Drop he T now, but drop he r slow Now you’ ve got her true (That's the way they do the job, Do it proper, too His pa sport's the card of his union Wherever he happens to land His home is the spot where a job's to he got, kill of his head and his hand For the

No task is too distant to tackle, No chance too outlandish or dim He carelessly goes like the u ind as she hlows, And the world has no terrors for Aum ** Hey you ets Hear the joreman shou Watch that girder overhead! Clear the way— LOOK OUT! Hi, you fool, get out o’ that! {/most got him— whew!" That's the way they do the job, Li » af mraoner i u proper, too F ' Brale The Will-o’-the-Wisp JIGHT here is Fashion, fickle dame, \ who no two years is quite the same; her parentage nobody knows: perhaps, like Topsy, she just grows; her other names are Vogue and Style, and she keeps busy all the while devising things so strange r what she did last year; she's old as Time, yet always new; she’s busy, never through; she says mbs up’’ and up they go, and vice sa, as you know; your wife and my wife ithe wives of all men chase her all their

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live with breathl eagerness to see what yles are hers, and so do we; she darts | y valley, hill and pe ak, capricious and wit any a freak; what she may say or she o, no matter—all the world does, too!

[i IS a merry chase she leads, and what heeds; how she may travel, where may stir, the thing is to keep up with her; her moods are never twice the same, but we just grir next week she make the distance no one Say ve re game throw away the lay; today we rip things last week

Kind Of hats we buy ‘ t Ul and change and tear

Nonsense she bade us wear; the hatters wait for her to speak before they trim another freak; and women watch her as the Sphinx to speak and say what quips and kinks shall be the rage; all her decrees are absolute; the bended knees of millions crook in homage meek and breathing’s hushed that she may speak! See women stout with diet slips and thin b) ones buying forms and hips; see waist- lines moving up and down to make last week's to this week’s gown; the switch that made puffs yesterday is braided now another way, and what was Himalaya’s veak of hair is now a squatty freak; that Soonet we adore today tomorrow is a castaway, and women dressed in style and vogue at noon find Fashion such a rogue, if they get home a little late their dresses are all out of date; the hat that was a dream at dawn may change the while you pin it on, and half an hour on the street may see a change of styles complete; for somewhere Fashion sits and smiles and ordains new and freakish styles, until no low, descending sun sees woman’s ward- robe ever done! —J. W. Foley. The Champion Optimist OWN in Florida, where Ponce de Leon sought the spring of eternal youth, there is an old Confederate colonel who has regular replies to salutations of morn- ing, afternoon and night. “How are you this morning, Colonel?” “Tf I felt any bettah, sah, I'd be ashamed of myself.” In the afternoon his answer as to his state of health and mind brings this: ‘‘At the present moment, sah, there’s only four drinks between me and Mr. Vanderbilt, sah.” At night he declares with great dignity and solemnity: believe, sah, that in my next drink I shall catch the germ that will make my condition permanent, sah.”’ One of These Days Say! Let's forget it! Let’s put it aside! Lije is so large and the world is so wide, Days are so short and there's so much to do, What ij it was false there's so much that's true! Say! Let's forget it! Let's brush it away Now and forever —so, what do you say? A/] oj the bitter words said shall le praise One o} these days. Say! Let's forgive it! Let's wipe off the slate! Find someti ing better to cherish than hate There's so much good in the world that we ve had Let's strike a balance and cross off the bad Say! Let's forgive it, whatever it be; Let's not be slaves when we ought to be free. We shall be walking in sunshiny ways t One oj hese days Say! Let's not mind it! Let's smile i away 4 Bring not a withered rose from yesterday Flowers are so jresh by the wayside and wood, Sorrows are blessings but half understood ; Say! Let's not mind it, however it seems; Hope is so sweet and holds so w any dreams All of the sere fields with blossoms shall blaze One oj these days. Say! Let's not take it so sorely to heart Hates may be jriendships just drijted apart; Failure be genius not quue understood; We could all help Jolks so much i we would! Say! Let's get « loser to somebody's side, See what his dreams are and know how he ried Learn ij our scoldings won't give way to praise One of these days Say! Let's not wither’ Let's branch out and rise Out of the byways and nearer the Let's spread some shade that's refreshing and deep, Where some tired traveler may lie down / ; ] and sieep Say! Let's not tarry! Let's do it right nou So much to do if we just find out hou We may not he here to help f

s or praise One oj these days J.W. Fo THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

April 2, 1910

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/ } H A | ) A i- Continued from Page 7 better than the splendors of our house, for I’d never ached this way on leaving them behind. I climbed the garden wall and, standing a minute in the dusky, frost-withered shrubbery, saw a light moving about the deserted north wing. AS TOLD BY JANIE HERSELF we , if Robert is through and it’s my turn to tell, I'll keep that light in the north wing till it comes more handy I had thought that I wouldn't be to home if Robert Sumner ever called to look us over a second time. But I didn’t expect he’d come so forlorn and shrunk up in hi clo’es, after he’d always gone about like a prince, with all the buttons on his jacket I don’t think he suspected himself of bein’ forlorn, for he seemed as proud as ever; and not darin’ to be sympathetic I was as rough in playin’ as I could be. I believe the Fambly cried out of sympathy to him Well, the next day, we were all sitting in the kitchen, sayin’ how nice it was that we could be together around the fire while it was burning; and not payin’ the slightest attention to the cupboard, whether there was anything inside or not—at this time Robert came back He was even more pale and hollow-eyed, and it hurt me to see the way his clo’es were rumpled, with another button off his jacket He spoke to us in a low tone and sat down in the rockin’-chair. But he didn’t rock —only sat still with his hands together and lookin’ at us “Now the best thios for dead-tired folks,”’ said Granny suddenly, ‘‘is to go to sleep. I allus said so and I allus will.”’ He drew a deep breath and seemed very thankful to learn this “If he'd only take off his jacket and put this shawl around him,”’ I said, ‘it would make a regular sleepy nest and he could have a nap.” tobert answered that it wouldn't be quite the thing to visit folks and go t sleep, but his blue eyes winked in a tired way, and I just told him: “Come, what are you talkin’ so much for!’’ And I pulled at one sleeve and then the other, while he only smiled and then with the shawl around him fell asleep To think that Robert, who had never known what a torn place was, should wear such a jacket! I stitched it up and sewed on the buttons, while Granny, sitting by the sunny window on the bright rag carpet, hummed Rock o’ Ages *‘Sumner’s like a messenger sent out from a town ruined by war,”’ she said As he slept on his face twitched, and he moaned softly to himself. Oh, we knew there must be somethin’ wrong at the big house, and to see Robert goin’ downhill, with his hair half-brushed and his shirt rumpled, was sad enough! He didn't know the risk he was runnin’. “We're poverty folks, and used to it,”’ I thought; “but it would be an awful thing for him to be an outcas’, too.” As Granny was busy knittin’, I combed his hair so lightly that he never stirred, while the Fambly wondered that he didn't row about it. Then everything fell quiet, and I looked at him feelin’ that I watched over him and was a very brave, strong person “There’s a light in the north wing,’’ he said suddenly, in a low even voice; ‘‘and that man in the shrubbery is watchin’ it He must be a robber.” At this I did not fee! so strong and brave, and gave a little cry, but Granny said: “Hush! Don't wake him too quickly”’; and I saw that Robert's eyes were glazed and still, though wide open “Skelytons! Skelytons!”’ he cried out shrilly; ‘‘and my Father is dead in the Black Pit.’’ Then he set his feet to the floor, and being wide awake by this time started for the door. But as if somethin’ we couldn't see halted him and twisted his head slowly around, he hesitated and looked squarely at Granny Now, durin’ all this time, from Robert's very first visit to our house, Granny had taken notice of him only in a careless- friendly way, as she might of any other lit- tle boy. Even after her bitter words on openin’ the empty purse, she did not seem very interested. And believin’ that she hated his Father and Mother, Robert looked at her now, afraid to go near, and yet feelin’ that she alone of all the people in the world could comfort him in troubk Granny's face, which had become so wrinkled from laughin’ at hard times twitched with pain, for 1 p 1e heeded more than any one the words Robert had s] in his sleep ‘*Come, Sumner,” she said “You hate him; and he is my Father he whispered, tryin’ to walk away ‘No! She does not hate him, I said, and held fast to his arm Come, Bobby; come over to Granny she held out her arms as if invitin’ him to cross some dividin’ lin Then he passe over and presse d against her s ho der arawing deep, sobbin’ breath though he d not ery After a time he told what had happe ned even to seein’ the light in the deserted wing and a man watchin’ from the shrubbery “Did you tell your Mother of all this, ] Robert answered “No, and Granny thought a long time ‘Your Father is not dead; he has gon to the city,”’ she said. ‘* Things are not so bad Now, when folks are worried the 5 must play, and play their hardest Robert's face brightened “Why,” went on G play among the very you. A boy can break in anywhere — ever a locked north wing!”’ ‘**IT know a window on the lower veranda which I can unlock with a wire, sald Robert “IT knew it! Janie, put on your shawl and go with Sumner to play in the north wing. Leave the window open if you want to, and play everywhere on the lower floor I don’t say about the upper, where the closets should be looked into **Not by me,” said Robert ‘Play on, right into the dusk, which will come pretty soon. You will not be afraid with Janie?”’ Robert, who was puttin’ on his jacket, looked around I thought, pe rhaps, he would notice the new buttons, but he didn't **Nothin’s goin’ to touch Janie when I'n there,’’ he said, as if ready to quarrel over it, while Granny's eyes sparkled on him for the very first time I was proud of him, and knowin’ he meant what he said put on my shawl and was ready to follow anywhere Mother had sat quietly in the corner with the baby, all afternoon, thinkin’ of Papa Jeff huntin’ one of the skurse jot She looked up now, but Granny raised a finger, and everybody at Peaceland knew that meant either plans or magics So Robert and I played tag to the big house and went in through one of the long swinging windows which we didn't clos: behind us, either. Of course, there wasn't any particular reason for our talkin’ in hispers, but we could hear this way as well as any and ste ppin st ftly IL ke pt « lose to Robert The rooms still held all the furniture, yet they had a queer feelin’ of bein’ empty, and were already drifted with dust in the lreariest way like a desert island I was surprised to find everything so splendid; it all fitted in with Robert exac’ly, and seemed already to have started downhill with him. We stopped in the center of the second room and stared nto the corners “I thought I heard a noise,’’ whispered Robert; but he wasn’t in the least afraid and let me stand on the side nearest the open window. When I got my breath | said out loud: ‘1 ain’t afraid o’ whatever Robert's here.’ After that he stamped around instead o teppin’ softly, but somehow we couldn't find the heart to play in a house that echoed I knew Granny wanted somethin’ goin’ on, to keep Robert from worryin’, so I walked to the curtain which hung over one end of the room, and said ‘*Behind here is magics.”’ ‘*Throw 'em back,”’ he answered My heart beat faster as I slowly drew back the curtains, and I looked at him as if expectin’ the little ery which he really gave. He clenched his hands and makin’ a tremendous pull on himself, said “Don't you be seared, Janie; ain't I here?’”’ Then he walked boldly into the next room, pullin’ me after him This room, curtained at one end, and with all shades drawn close, was dark and asked Granny THE SATURDAY EVENING OUTCASTS POST Young Men: We’re Different Let’s understand that all clothes ma i the same pure wool cloth, shrink cers can get It |x ric tly. make it Into good hitting, well tailored clothes. Important . 5 | ' features? Yes. absolutely essential. No maker would dare advertise without them. But yet most clothes are made in a mechanical way—and show It. Intend d lol old, middle aged OT young mech, the are a sort of col }PTrOMIS¢ hey can’t be distinctive, individual. “Vhey don’t appeal to you as made for you. ‘They're not. If they fit your figure, they fail to fit your ideas and tastes. Ederheimer-Stein Clothes Don't have answer for Our purpose is different. tO plan our sults so they can be are different. made to either a young fellow or his father. Don’t try to do this. It is impossible. We live and think in the Young Men’s world, and only make clothes for others W ho do. You'll like you. our clothes best because they're like very style distinctive, every garment with a Man. We've } caught the spirit of the Young Men’s world and put separate personality like every Young fy it into our clothes. That makes them youl clothes. And that’s why we're different. Poster Free i ls ie i Be hacite conee Send ae COP) of OUT Kderheimer-Stein dealer and | tind 1 poster waiting for yo (); clothier to write u nd }] ly mal him one to give you. Ederheimer, Stein & Co. Young Men’s Clothes Chicago

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A Bungalows and American Homes anes No, 2, Built in California and lowa — Cost $2,800 oO icome 112 page, 8x11 book of Bungalows, N ( , Kng Ti ered and ¢ cret , exteriors « fr 81,00 t FREE THE ACME School Kalamazoo, Mich For 120-Egg Hatcher, Delivered of Drawing, 3317 8 Bt $750 +n laa oO ‘ . re er ‘ aoe oe: ae , . 2 , FREE | I k J W MillerCo.. Box )20, Freeport, Ill TYP y 3 $i x srt t. ATCHISON, 4152 W. 2ist St., CHICAGO THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | dismal as a robbers’ cavern. | fire, with cold ashes scattered all over the hearth and a tiny thread o’ smoke twistin’ up the chimney And on a table open book. It was the room o’ some old witch who had flown up the chimney, leavin’ her light burnin’ and riddle book open; and I must have been enchanted myself, for I crept along, soft-pawed as a cat, and turned the leaves. “‘Here’s what I suspected,” I told Robert, noddin’ my head in a solemn way; Goblins and castles. Maybe we can find the riddle o’ the skelyton closet.” He stared as if I had changed into somethin’ wild and hauntin’, but again he wasn't afraid, and when I sat down in the big, deep chair he huddled on the bearskin at my feet as close as he could get. Then I explained the book, while the fire and the candle leaped in little jets and thin banners o’ colored light wavered through the room. So we forgot the time, which ran like sand in Granny’s hourglass still and quickly. Once on a time, we listened again, but we were enchanted far into the witch's stories and were not sure of anything. ‘That was a real noise,’’ whispered Robert in doubt. “That was in the story,’’ I answered, and though knowin’ it was very dangerous for us to meddle in such adventures we rose and, close together, tiptoed into the hali and up the dark stairs. We never could have done this excep’ as haunters in a castle. Through the wide and creaky upstairs a man with a lamp in his hand came on from room to room; he wore shaggy clo’es, with a red comforter knotted around his throat, and carried a heavy stick ‘It is the robber,” Robert gasped, we crouc hed low on the stair. **T saw a light—a movin’ light,’’ declared the robber. I wondered that he should speak so crossly to himself; but on his heels a lady followed, keepin’ in the edge of the ring of light as if it had been thrown around her like a noose. Her hair was disordered where she had pushed it back with her hands, and I endl cay catch the light of her dark eyes. “TI am sure you are mistaken; there is no one here,’’ she answered, in a voice that should have made even a robber cry. “It is a captured princess,”’ I thought, and with my body tremblin’, though otherwise I wasn't myself, I crept on after to see the end of a story so real as this. Into one of the large rooms they led, and Robert and I peeped in from the hall. “Here it stopped; Iam sure, I tell you,” cried the man. They moved like shadows, for the light of the ~~» 4 was faint in that great room, and then the robber walked up to the door of the closet and struck it with his stick—a hollow blow burned a candle by an “Now I have you! Come out!” he commanded. Robert and I took one quick look at each other; we couldn't speak, but each understood that now the man would get it for meddlin’ with those closets. He laid his hand on the knob and threw wide the door. Inside quietly sortin’ some clo’es and linen by the light of a lantern hung on a hook, stood Granny. Her eyes were sparklin’ straight into the robber’s face ‘*Are these war times agin?’’ she asked in a cold, quiet voice. The man fell back a step, while the lady clasped her hands with a little cry ‘Are these war times,’’ asked Granny once more, ‘that ruffians break into a peaceable household o’ women ?”’ “Where is Sumner?” said the man roughly ‘Two nights I've seen his light here. Iam an officer of the court.” Granny laughed ir a quiet, weird way *Merey on us! she said “T've been sortin’ and arrangin’ things here in the evenin'’s so the folks can pack and move away Must I do it in the dark?” “Sumner ” began the robber. “Oh, he’s somewhere in the city. Ain't you gone yet? she went on, stoppin’ work and leanin’ on her stick to face him *“Now, you bushwhacker, I'll tell you what's goin’ to happen if you don’t clear out o’ this country tonight. I knew you were spyin’ here, and this evenin’ sent word to one of my old war friends back in the hills He and his boys may be here at (Continued on Page 57) April 2, 1910 In the center | of the wide fireplace burned a sickly little | A Wondertul "“AMEO PLATE is ! vithout gloss. rinted page wholly unattainable A booklet that has an ordinary shiny coated paper, AMEO APER Let us send you specimens which will t adding to the a new Its ettect way oO White or Sepia printed matter. CAMEO half-tones, dignihes type. PLATE Write for D. WARREN & COMPANY, Makers of Fine uF vated and is transtormed : ' ; enriches illustrations, Paper half-tone paper entire ly , : | is to give a richness and beauty to the I elore. look. on the best | on when pi inte for Printing show you ! f Dusiness vaiue of your deepe ns Samples and Name of Nearby Dealer 162 Dev onshire St eet, Uncoated Book Papers Boston iS A! 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 55 wee Ask the agent: “How heated?” —— People are fast learning the dif- — ference between a house equip- “a ped with old fashioned heating methodsorinferiorapparatusand / the home-making qualities of a house fitted with modern Hot Water or Low Pressure Steam heating. They shun one and seek the other. The living, renting and sales value of any building, large or small, is vastly increased by | %.I all classes of buildings that buyers RADIATORS BOILERS insistently demanding them. Boilers and AMERICAN Radiators save so much in coal and cleaning, in time and happiness, and without rusting or repairs, that they quickly repay their cost. have no equal—hence the wide use by and high endorsement of all eminent engineers and architects in every civilized country where heating is nee ADVANTAGE 16:—The phenomenal success of IDEAL Boilers is sly due to the fact that they are made in sections so that even their largest parts can be carried through an ordinary size doorway. For this reason they can be quickly put in old buildings without disturbing the occupants. In fact, in unmodernized or old types of houses they can be erected, including the necessary piping radiators, without the necessity of removing the stoves or hot-air furnace the new heating outfit is ready to fire up. They can be Look into the Heat ically, cleanly, ded. also large and until quickly erected in wintry weather when the old, crude heaters get badly worn or collapse. Ask for catalog “Ideal Heating” which tells all the advantages. Prices are now so attractivet! n longer it t or run the ks of i Tell us kind of t old oI 1eW Jarm wel ne al put to buy. Every prominent ar A , ALE 4 V IDEA heating engineer recommend ex $11 : 82 bina IDEAL Boiler and AMERICAN Ra ‘ They cost no more than i ‘ ipparat = 3 Accept no substitut Write to Dept. 8 282-286 Mic an Avenue, Chi Public Showrooms and Warehouses | ere a Saree Ne York, Bostor : ia, Was t Buff I Omaha, Min , St. Louis Kan sas City, Denver Ss at k I soeseereeasgegsees SeEeeegeaeess SSSSeee and renters These and temper, ng Question before you The several hundred thousands of these outfits installed all over America and Europe are so comfortably, econom- and healthfully warming the occupants of are now IDEAL in health outfits of In all the world they ry “3 te

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(Continued from Page 54 any time and they'll bring their rifles—and they'll shoot on sight —to kill.”’ The man drew out a paper anxiously. I ain’t interested,” said Granny; ‘‘only I'll warn you that old man_is dangerous to strangers and to court officers in particular. Ain’t you gone yet?” But he had; slow and grumblin’ at first, then movin’ faster till we heard the door slam in the hall below and his feet runnin along the gravel walk. Quickly Granny opened the window to let in a man who had been standin’ on the veranda ““My Father!’’ whispered Robert, a tremble through his whole body. ‘See, Mother has him by the arm!” “Hush!” I answered; ‘till we see how real they are. It may happen this way in magics.”’ “Sumner!” cried the old woman to Robert’s father; ‘‘stand out and explain what one of our fambly means by havin’ a court officer ambushii’ him.”’ ‘No; you need noi explain,’ * said the lady; ‘ ‘this is our own affair!’ “Tt is an affair of the fambly.”” Mr. Sumner spoke in a firm voice, and his wife drew slowly apart from them. He went on quickly: “* Years ago I was given control of a large estate. I was care less in business and this estate was looted by anagent whom I trusted. Then came the time o’ settle- ment and I promised to make regular payments till the amount stolen was covered. This took a large part of my income; we hadn't enough to live on; | sold land—all but the land we stand on which can’t be sold out o’ the fambly ‘ “Still it wasn't enough, declared Granny, her eyes runnin’ over him like a hawk's ‘That's so. I missed the payments and now the heirs have pounced on me.”’ He had explained all this in a clear, bra‘ voice; then his words hurt, they stumbled so, and a gray trouble smeared over his face. ‘‘My wife has been hidin’ me here; I couldn't leave her and my boy, it seemed Now I must go at once. Robert! Bobbie! Where is my boy, Bobbie? He came in with a little girl a while ago.” ‘Remember; you are down to your last cent,” cried Granny harshly, and he stoed fixe d and starin’ at the w vall ‘True,” he said, and laughed a little. “Why, they don’t want to bother with me now Good- by to you”’; he held out his hand to Granny “You've saved th name from disgrace, thank the Almighty. But how did you happen “Oh, I he ard of the locked north wing and the movin’ light. So 1 came up to warn you and move about with my own light.”’ ‘You got here in the nick of time.’”” He was still holdin’ out his hi and, but Granny did not take it. Instead, she turned from Mr. Sumner to the lady who stood apart, lookin’ on with her face set and white. Dearie me; and she wouldn't forgive you?” asked Granny in a curious, gossipy way ** Certainly not,” answered Mr. Sumner half angrily; ‘‘why should she? or my boy, either? I've made beggars of ’em.” The lady 's lips didn’t move, but a terrible word floated from them: “ Beg- gars!”’ Her husband's voice dropped to a whisper: “If I can only get away’’—he looked around, half stoopin’ as if expectin’ an enemy—“If I can only get away! I'll make good somewhere; I'll send money.” “Ha, ha!” chuckled Granny. ‘And him down to his last cent!” It was a dreadful moment for anything like this; as if some one had cursed wicke dly in church. “You know him,” she said over her shoulder to the lady: ‘‘and bein’ a Sum- ner, I know him.”’ She pointed with her stick in mockery: ‘‘Do you think to fool us? Who pillage »d—those — heirs — but you —— Thief! She let fly the word in a quick yelp, and before I could watch the change that lady who had stood so stony and far apart was on her knees at Mr. Sumner’s side “T forgive! forgive! There is nothin’ to forgive!’’ she sobbed over and over as he raised her gently in his arm **Robert, she does not understand; you mustn’t mind.” She seemed to forget Granny was there at all, and so changed was she by this one moment that she whispered and smiled to him anxiously, while drawin’ his head clos¢ to her own ‘Why, I’ve been wasteful, husband; that’s all. But we'll go somewhere into

the world with Bobbie; and we'll be care- ful; and we'll get along. Now listen, dear: forget all this. You can lead and we'll follow.”’ She laughed a trembling laugh The old woman step yped softly into the hall. ; gone! begone!’’ she muttered to herself, but we heard and scurried down- stairs and into the witch's room like mice, for we hadn't gotten over the shock of seein’ her come out o’ that closet We listened to the click of her stick on every stair; then crouchin’ behind a big chair in the chimney corner saw her peaked face in the doorway. She turned her head this way and as - — d the candle and studied the 00k ¢ 10ldin’ out her wrinkled hi and s to the p _ in the ashes, grumbled: ‘‘Skelytons! elytons!”’ At this moment the othe rs followed her *‘They’re not in the story now,”’ whis- pered Robert, so hoarse ly that I thought Granny should have heard ‘Hush! They ‘re in and out. Granny wasn’t a okel lyton upstairs. Remember what she said about the Black Pit and the money closet Wait Mrs. Sumner came forward quickly. ‘I know my husband better than any one, she said; ‘‘after a while you'll feel he’s not guilty. Why, look; he’s the noblest fellow!’’ As Granny did not turn the lady hesitated, and then ran back to her hus- band’s side. ‘And then,” said Granny, “when it wasn’t enough, you looked into the Pit.’ “I looked,”’ answered Mr. Sumner grimly; ‘‘but there's nothing in the Pit for mk The lady looked from one to the other as if not understandin’ this. ‘‘We are so gratef il to you,” she said in a low voice “I’ve been proud toward you and didn’t wish to recognize you as a member of my husband's fambly; but that seems a good while ago. You can’t refuse to forgive me now—when we are fugitives, outcasts But that doesn’t matter to me We'll be together; my husband and I and little Bobbie, ‘oan steal away to some furrin country ¥ ‘I don't like furriners in my fambly,” complained Granny. “Ah, — Bobbie! Mr. Sumner, who had looked at his wife so proud and hi ippy to be stuck by, turned his head aside ‘Little Bob,”’ he gr: with a great sigh; ‘‘he can't stand this; I know. He told me once F ‘That Black Pit was a mine which held more money than any old clock,” inter- rupted Granny sharp sly, and | had to clap my hand over Robert's ‘mouth to ke p him from cryin’ out that he stuck, even though there wasn’t any last cent ‘Magics now,” I whispered, and as I held his head he shook his whole body. No; he didn’t believe. Then I hid my face in my arms, and he wanted to know why. ‘ They’ll take you wi th ‘em to be an outcas’.”’ “We ll, that ain't - ythin ig to be ashamed * he whi ispere d; but he folded his arms ve Ty proud and gloomy. ‘‘Janie, please don't er-r-y. I'll never go without coming back to see how you get on.” Mr. Sumner had answered: ‘I've heard it was a rich mine, but your sister and my aunt had it sealed up and forbade my workin’ it in her will--as you know. If I did, the whole estate was to go to you. I don’t know why she willed it this way and often intended askin’ you; but you always seemed proud and angry, I s’posed because the land was left to me i “Well, whatever's this,” cried Granny, surprise od into turnin’ clear arour nd ¢ on him ‘I thor ight you was the proud one; and I wasn ‘t seekin’ ch: arity. ‘That’s my fault, too,” said the lady in a piteous tone *T don’t know about the mine—that doesn’t matter—but I didn't wish Robert to recognize poor relations Of course, you didn’t want for ¢ anything “No, ma’am,”’ agreed Granny. ‘‘ You know I let my farm go seven years ago."’ ‘[ hope you got a good price,” said Mr Sumner. ‘Yes, indeed; we've always had a plenty 0’ money in the clock.”’ ‘Poor, poor Bobbie,”’ said Mr. Sumner Now the Sumners stood as if just re- memberin’ what they'd come to, and we were all woe-begone beyond tears. “Hark!” said Granny,whoalwaysseemed to change at the right time, and graspin the candle she fluttered the leaves of the open book. ‘We're all a play game,”’ she croaked in a funny way, while the others were puzzled and stared hard at her face “The book was all I had to read,’ explained Mr. Sumner, to quiet her. ‘I THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

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wearily, | ) Idren came in. the times, and those boy ’s tales seemed true and dear to a ruined man.” “You dare say boy’s tale: Granny sharply; “‘when here out truly the riddle o’ ske ‘lyton closets “‘Magics after all,” I hare ily bre athed, but Robert never unfolde d his arms. ‘A broody old woman,” she read from the book—‘ Listen all’; and she pointed with her stick into the four corners, ours as well as the rest. ‘‘A broody old woman had a nephew who was a true prince to everybody but his own kin; to them he seemed selfish, anyway. Mz iybe that was because he'd be n eddic ated to it, for the old woman had found a buried treasure and had broug ht von up as head o’ the fambly which had been great in General Jackson’s time. Aenea ac was to make it greater, and little by little his aunt took money from the treasure to buy a great estate,” “Then all at once the nephew fell into a kind of sting ry disease, and ~ in to scrape money together and put it away secretly. The old aunt filled his pockets time and again, but the bulgy side was never turned toward anybody who was the least run down.’ Granny read on: “The broody Says: ‘I’m soon to die, this miser ne phe w the best savin'’s-bank possible.’ So she sealed up the mine and put her sister into it as a skelyton. I was to get the estate if he ever opened the mine. ‘Robert Sumner must learn that money hoarded below the ground is worth just as much as money hoarded ‘called

woman and Tl leave above tig says she ** Here’s the riddle! get out the skelyton very well? “Why, his own little boy called one day into the pit: ‘Come out; I'll stick to the last cent.’ Wait now; wait for the answer, I tell you! That little boy had a dreadful secret; he thought his father was dead in the pit; but he kept it and bore with it like a little soldier, for his mother had trouble enough. Only he knew there was one person who should be told; he tk % me, the sister o’ the broody v voman. , he must have felt me to be a Sumner. He said: ‘If I had _my father back, I'd stick to the last cent’ Mr. Sumner gave the ry I ever heard, an his arms “Then the ske lyton came out,”’ went on Grarny, but the others could not pay attention just then. ‘I say the skelyton came out,’ she repeated here ‘ely, and kn ocked over the candle with her stick, which left only a little glow from the lante mn. But in the moment of doin’ this I saw her face. It was covered with tears, which was a wonder after she'd spoken so crossly. * Don’t sen d’ em away jus st = ause you ve come out o’ the money closet; don’t send ‘em away,” I begged, hangin’ to her hand. “TI don’t like furriners in my How did the ne phew who didn’t like him clearest, happiest d Robert rushed into fambly.

Tomorrow, Sumner, I make the mine over to you; it ought to pay the debt.’ For a moment there was silence; then “No,” cried the lady; “I know you are generous: but we'll go on away; we do not mind or you don’t believe in my husband “And hima Sumner!” ‘Was there ev ner body?” The y § tood there still and ghostly in the lantern light, and then slowly, with a little sob, the lady came to Gran “a 's have found you out now,’’ she said softly. “You only pretended: and \ so you drove me to take his I’ve been the outcas’: demanded Granny. er a dishones’ bone ina Sum-

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SAM TURNER Continued from Page 25 “Honestly, it was the little bird this time. I just had an intuition that you must like them because I do so well,’’ upon which naive statement Miss Josephine merely smiled and, calling her father with pretty peremptoriness, she loaded that heavy gentleman down with the flowers and with instructions concerning them, and then stepped briskly into the tonneau with Sam It was a pleasant ride they had to Rest- view, and it was a pleasant surprise that greeted Miss Josephine when the train arrived, for out of it stepped a youth who Was unmistakably a Turner. He was as tall as Sam, but slighter, and as clean- looking a boy as one would find ina day 's journey. There was that, too, in the hand- clasp between the brothers which pro- claimed at once their flawless relationship. Miss Stevens was so relieved to find the younger Turner so presentable that she took him into her friendship at once. He was that kind of a chap anyhow, and in the very first greeting she almost found herself calling him Jack. Just behind him, how- ever, was a little, dried-up man with a complexion the color of old parchment, with sandy, stubby hair, shot with gray, and a stubby gray beard, shot with red His lips were a wide, straight line, as grim as judgment day. He walked with a slight stoop, but with a quick staccato step which betokened great nervous energy, a quality that the alert expression of his beady eyes carried out with distinct em- phasis ‘*Hello, Creamer!” hailed Sam to this gentleman. “I didn’t expect you down here “You had every right to expect me, snapped the little man querulously ‘After all the experimenting I have done for you chaps, you had every reason to keep me posted on all your movements; and yet I reckon if I hadn’t been in your office yesterday evening when Jack said he was coming down here, you would not have notified me until you had your com- yany all formed. Then | suppose you'd 1ave written to tell me how much stock you had assigned to me. I’m going to be in on the formation of this company, and I’m going to have my say about it!”’ “Will you never get over that dyspep- sia!’’ chided Sam easily. ‘‘ There was no intention of leaving you out.”’ “Just what I told him,” said Jack turning from Miss Stevens to them I have been telling him that as soon as we had found out today what we were to do | would have wired him at once.”’ ‘You were quite right, Jack,’ approved Sam, opening the door of the car for them “‘and as a proof of it, Creamer, when you return to your office you will find there a letter, postmarked yesterday, telling you our exact progress here, and warning you to be in readiness to come on telegram.”’ “All right, then,”’ said Mr. Creamer somewhat mollified; ‘but, since that letter’s there and I’m here, you might as well tell me what you've done.” Sam stopped the proceedings long enough to introduce Miss Stevens to Mr Creamer, after he had closed the door upon them and had taken his own seat by the chauffeur All right,”’ he then said to Mr. Creamer; “T'll begin at the beginning.” He began at the beginning. He told Mr. Creamer all the ste ps in the develop- ment of the company. He detailed to him the names of the gentlemen concerned and their complete commercial histories, pausing to answer many side questions and observations from his younger brother, who proved to be as keett a student of business puzzles as Sam himself “That's all very well,”’ said Mr Creamer. ‘“‘and now I'm here. I want to get away tonight Can't we form that company* today? At what figure do you propose offering the original stock?” ‘“The preferred shares at fifty, with a par value of a hundred,” returned Sam promptly **Common?” asked Mr. Creamer crisply. ““One share of common with each two shares of preferred.” ‘Eh! Well, I’ve twenty-five thousand dollars to put into this Marsh-Pulp busi- ness if I can have any figure in the manage- ment. I want to be on the board.”’ ‘It’s quite likely you'll be on the board,”’ returned Sam. ““We shall have a very small list of investors, and the | not be unwieldy if every investor is a director.” ‘Voting power in ‘In the common stock ‘Do you intend to buy any ‘Ten thousand dollars’ wort ‘How much common do you expect to take out for your patents ‘Two hundred and fifty thousand **Never!”’ exclaimed Mr. Creamer. * Th time for that’s gone by, young man, no matter how good your proposition is. It’s too old a game. You won't handle my money with control in your hands. I have no objection to letting you have two hun- j worth of commot board will the common stock repeated Sar dred thousand dollars stock out of the half million, because t will give you an incentive to make th common worth par; but you sha’n’t have or be able to acquire a share over two hundred and forty-nine thousand; not if I know anything about it! Can you calla meeting as soon as we get there “*T think so,”’ said Sam, with a more or less worried air. “I'll try it. Tell you what I'll do. I'll run right on over to get Mr. Stevens, who wants to join the com- pany, and in the mean time Mr. Westlake can round up the others For the first time in that drive Miss Stevens had something to say, but she said it with a briefness that was like a dash of cold water to the preoccupied Sam ‘Father is over there now, I thin] he said “‘Good,” approved Mr. Creamer. ‘‘ We ean have a little direct business talk and wind up the whole affair before lunch What time do we arrive at Meadow Brook?” ‘**Before eleven o'clock.” “That will give us two hours. Two hours is enough to form any company when everybody knows exactly what they want todo. Got a lawyer over there?” **One of the best in the ec : Miss Stevens sat in the center seat of the tonneau. Sam, in addressing his remarks and in listening to those of the others, was compelled to sweep his glance squarely across her, and occasionally in these sweeps he paused to let his gaze rest upor her. She was a relief to his eyes to them! Miss St« vens howe ver, Sé ldom met any of these glances. Very much pre- occupied, she was looking at the passing scenery and not seeing it There had begun boiling and bubbling and seething in Miss Stevens a feeling that she was decidedly de trop, that these men could talk their absorbing business more freely if she were not there. Nobody seemed to give her a thought. Nobody seemed to be aware that she was present They wer absorbed in’something far more important to them than she was. It was uncon plimentary, to say the least. She wa used to playing second fiddle in any com pany. She was in the habit of absorbing the most of the attention in her immediat vicinity. Mr. Princeman or Mr. H would neither one ignore her in that way to say nothing of B lly Westlake She was glad when they reached Meadow Brook Their talk all the way had been of Marsh- Pulp and company organization, and pre- ferred and common stock, and who was to get it, and how much they were to pay for it, and how they were going to cut the throats of the wood-pulp manufacturer and how much profit they were going to make from the consumers; and with all that not a word for her. Not asingle word! Not even an apology! Oh, it was atro- cious! As soon as they drew up to the porch she arose, and before Sam could jump down to open the door of the tor neau she opened it for herself and sprang out “I'll hunt up father right away for you she said courteously. “Glad to hav: met you, Mr. Creamer. I presume I shall meet you again, Mr. Turner,” she said to Jack. ‘‘ Thank you so much for the ride she said to Sam, and then she was gone Sam looked after her blankly It couldn't be possible that she w piqued about this business talk. Why, couldn't the girl see that this had to do with the birth of a great big company, a million- dollar corporation, and that it was of vital importance to him? It meant the apex of a lifetime of endeavor. It meant the upbuilding of a fortune. Couldn't she see that he and his brother were two lone yuntry a blessing THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i 1 : our f Kvery | trace it al ret It’s the w that vive i = Trunk of Cente! = } - i hol \ i Le 7 Dela ne W i! ‘ i \ \ CXTVM l k steres romptly t u co uct I we S th supe } sot tit 1s rt i pert r ¢ eq ste he iVvily S i I 1 spl hid W h T we 1 There 1 i | ‘ r Indes t s i { 4 i nspe n ort | tri | K No ther « { r ( I K I rice he | 5 his « 5 Mishawaka ’ Indiana e Strength and Service a Wiwin

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youngsters against all these shrewd busi- ness men, whose only terms of aiding them and floating this big company was to take their mastery of it away from them? Couldn’t she understand what control of a n-dollar organization meant? He was not angry th Miss Stevens for her apparent attitude in this matter, but he urt. He was not impatient with her, I hae tient with the fact that she was imps could not appreciate. Now the fat was in the fire again He felt that. Under other ( mstances he would have said that it ch more trouble than it was worth ti ep in the good graces of a girl, but under the present cirecumstances— well, his I r 1d down about a foot out of place, and he had a sort of faint feeling the region of his stomach He was just about sit He followed her in, just in time to see the flutter of her skirts at the top of tl airway, but he could not call V it making himself and her ridiculous. s in general! joined him while he was still blank hole in the world Contound thing Mr. Stever lookir 1 that into tnat Glad I } appe ned to be here, Sam said Stevens “Jo tells me that your brother and Mr. Creamer have arrived and that vou want to form that company right away Ye admitted Sam ‘Was she sar- castic about it Mr. Stevens closed his eves and laughed {ot exactly sarcastic,”’ he stated; ‘* but he did allude to your proposed corpora- t is ‘th old company '!”’ I was afraid so,”’ said Sam ruefully Steve 1im in amusement for a moment In pit Never n 1, my boy he said kindly. “You'll get | to these things by-and-by. It took me the first five years of my mar ad ot wil M "Stevens that t s a rival her affections her I'd have only } wn the recipe I could 1 col d her at the start How d aly doit asked Sam, M I cor inte and ad er { St miling reminiscentl } ead \\ t t ae” ed Didn't } le our secret it? R i Stevens ‘I'd rather r a woman than a man, any day, with et—| ess or personal That goes 1 mother sister, wile, hter or enographer Just them a chance to get interested in your game, it ! rainst the world I ds pu r that bit of t aside for future pondering By the Mr. Stevens, before we join thers I'd like to ask you how much *k Ve ‘ to carry in the Marsh- Pulp Comy \ t rned Mr. St lowl I « th the tl looked good ] I'd invest twenty Lh and ) Can't i stretch that to fifty thou- Car ‘ think vou’r \\V | sary \ i fr ' ’ em } t tr cou It is \ fol _ A Por t ‘ mar aon t you r cs wreed Mr Stever We t stands » Treason t f I have two } nd xtv iousand dollars of ee that isn’t a picayune ess | ( h par, Pd i ind ‘ | t ’ t r I'm n Tat ‘ eT ‘ 1 a ( { } from of @ share heir com fron I t a hune i i Sar Mr ‘ ' I \ r ‘ «A ‘ a} I wth par if y only i t i and t ‘ t part I « il All rigt i \ n't argue tl now but will you ‘ 1 | t pr S ‘ valked on out t | Muct - er { . , with 1 ! ng ‘ roduced Mr. Stevens to his brother Jack and to Mr. Creamer. The prospective organizers of the Marsh- Pulp Company were already in solemn conclave upon the porch, with the single exception of Princeman, who was on the lawn talking most perfunctorily with Miss Josephine. That young lady, with wicked- ness of the deepest sort in her soul, was doing her best to entice Mr. Princeman into forgetting that important meeting, but as soon as Princeman saw the gather- ing hosts he gently but firmly tore himself away, very much to her surprise and indignation. Why, he had been as rude to her.as Sam Turner himself in placing the charms of business above herown! Imme- diately afterward she snubbed Billy West- lake unmercifully. Had he the qualities that would go to make a successful man in any walk of life? No! XIV NV R. WESTLAKE dropped back with iVi his old friend Stevens as they trailed into the parlor that Blackrock had _ se- cured “Are you going to subscribe rather heavily in the company, Stevens?” asked Westlake, with the curiosity of a man who likes to have his own opinion corroborated by another man of good judgment “Well,” replied the father of Miss Josephine, ‘‘ I think of taking a rather solid little block of stock. I think I can spare twenty-five thousand dollars to invest in almost any company Sam Turner wants to start.” “He's a fine boy,” said Westlake. ‘A straight young fellow, a good busi- ness man, and a hustler.” “He's bound to make his mark,”’ Mr Stes acquiesced. Do you fellows intend to let him secure control of this company a a -arcely think so,” replied Westlake. ‘Of course, that all depends. I’m taking a le larger block than you are I see him playing seems course, you know square ens to think a lot of him, and of well, a man has to look out for his fami! ‘onsidered as a straight business propo on, however, I wouldn't let him have control.” “Huh!” grunted Mr. Stevens, and to- gether the two heavyweights—-Stevens, with his aggressive beard suddenly pointed traight out,and Mr. Westlake, with his placidity even more marked than usual—stalked on into the parlor where Mr Blackrock, taking the chair pro tem., read them the preliminary agreement he had drawn up; upon which Sam Turner immediately started to wrangle, a pro- ceeding that proved altogether in vain The best he could get for patents and promotion was two thousand out of the five thousand shares of common stock, and h in to that, knowing that he could not the right kind of men on better terr Mr. Blackrock thereupon offered a subscription list, to which every man present appended his name opposite the number of shares he would take. Sam, at the last moment, put down his own name a trifle more ails e gave ecure for two hundred and fifty shares of the pre red, which meant a cash investment of twenty-five hundred dollars more than rinally figured upon. He cast ul } st | urriedly Five hundred shares were still to be subscribed. With whom i he combine to obtain control? The man who had subscribed enough for that purpose was Princeman, who was of the question. The next highest man wa Westlake, who would be in f ony Sam were to take two hundred and fifty more of the preferred, which carried on hundred and twenty-five of the common The highest of the others were Creamer ( bert d Stevens. Sam would have t ribe for the entire five hundred in order to make these men available to him McComas and Blackrock had only sub- ed for the same amount as Sam ould do him no good, and he knew nope less to attempt to get two men to join with him He looked over at was smiling all innocent without Westlake That gentleman like a placid cherub and ndliness and good deeds: but there wa everthel something fishy about W > We ‘ ‘ 3 eyes, and Sam, In Memory, cast i list of maimed and wounded and crushed who had come in Westlake's business way. The logical candidate was Stever Stevens simply had to take enoug! tock to overbalance this thing, then he ply had to vote his stock with S rt ll re Was to it! Sam Continued on Puge 64 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 2, 1910 — HARMON >) « HARBORD >) NN A A Collars 2 for 25c Quarter Sizes With Linocord Endless Eyelet Buttonholes “The Stle can be copied —but Se Ae Not the Buttonholes. Durability in collars is mostly a matter of buttonholes. 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(Continued from Page 62) did not pause to worry about how he was to gain over. Stevens’ consent, but he had an intuitive feeling that this was his only chance ‘Stevens,”’ said he briskly, ‘‘there are hundred shares left. I'll take half of you'll take the other half.”’ His broth *. uk looked at him startled five it if Their total ho sidings, in that case, would mean a net stment of twenty-five thousand dollars cash. It was more money than they could spare from their other operations. It would cramp them tre- nendously t Jack ventured no objection. He had seen Sam at the helm in decisive places too often to interfere with him, ther by word or look. As a matter of fact ich a proceeding was not safe, any- ho ‘I don’t mind,” began Westlake, slowly fixing a beaming eye upon Sam, and cross- ng his hands ponderously upon his per phery; but before he could announce his benevolent intention Mr. Stevens, with ght almost have been considered ialevolent glance toward Mr. Westlake, I'll accept your proposition,”’ he said vith a jerk of his beard as his jaws snapped. Thani said Sam, and shot Mr. Stevens a look of gratitude as he altered the subscription figures “Stop just a moment, Westlake. ‘‘ How many tock does that give you yur bonus?” o thousand two hundred and fifty, Sam,” put in Mr. hares of common in combination maid Sam Oh! said Mr. Westlake musingly; not enough for control by two hundred and fifty-one shares; so you won’t mind, nee you haven't enough for. control any- rw, if I tale up that additional two hun- dred and fifty shares myself.” Sam once more paused and glanced over the ibscription list As it stood now, ide from Prineeman there were two members, Stevens and Westlake, with 1iom, if he could get either one of them do so, he cou ld coal | us common stoc k. If he allowed Westlake to take up this additional two hundred and fifty shares, Westlake was the only string to his bow No, thanks,” said Sam. “I prefer to keep them my self. It seems to me to be and equitable division just as a very tair In the end it stood just that way. Xt FTER the meeting, Jack took the first i pportunity of a quiet talk with his brother I don’t like to worry you while you're resting, Sam he began; “but I'll have to tell you that the Flatbush deal seems likely to drop through. It reaches a head tomorrow tu know.” sam Turner grabbed for his watch It can’t drop through!’’ he vigorously declared. ‘I'll go right up there tonight F look after it But you're your vacation,” pro- tests | at's no way to rest.”’ Vacation snorted Sam “Of course Iam. I'm not losing a minute of my vacatior The proper way to have a vaca- tion is to do the thing you enjoy most Dor se I'll enjoy closing that Fi: 1 leal (ertain! mitted f DY ner ind I “nt y do it. I } v you Ca Of course | ca B you're to stay I It t my turn f acation,”’ pro- ue ed Jack “T haver t earned one yet.’ Y ou're to work,”’ explained Sam. ‘* You Jack, in ne week I can't become a bowling expert ora baseball pitcher enough to beat Princeman, nor a ten: expert or iancer enough to outshine Billy Westlake, nor fancy horseba rid or croquet sharp e! ! t make a deuce out of Holl | il f l could You can do a id I want you to give th tinguished amateurs a shy if you ever worked for atl or now is the time to do and in between times stick t M Stevens like glu Monopolize her 1) hese ree or any other con tend of her time. Keep her busy LA me K every da \ yr ma i don t stoy t I remember, Jack, I'm goi her. | got t Well tl ! y Pt TY iT y “T don’t think she’s quite sure of it,” returned Sam, with thoughtful analysis “Of course she’s thought about it. Some- times she thinks she won't, and sometimes she thinks she will, and sometimes she isn’t quite sure whether she will or not. Don’t you worry about that part, though, and don’t bother to boost me. Just you take the shine out of these summer cham- pions and leave the rest to your brother.” ‘Fine,’ agreed Jack. ‘ Run right along and sell your papers, Sammy, and I'll wire you every time I put over a point.” Sam hunted up Miss Josephine ‘I’m sorry I have to take a run back to New York for two or three days,’ he said She bent upon him a glance of amuse- ment; the old glance of mingled amuse- ment and mischief “T thought you were on she observed. your vacation,” ‘And | am,” he insisted ‘I've been having a bully time, and I'll come back here to finish up the couple of days | have le ft.’ ‘Then the ride that we were to have this morning, and which was postponed until tomorrow morning, will have to be put off again,’’ she reminded him. “By George, that’s so!’’ he exclaimed. ‘In all the excitement it had quite slipped my mind.” ‘I presume you're going up on business,’ she slyly peop “Yes, Iam,” he admitted. She oe d and gave him her he and. “Well, I wish you good luck,” she said. “T hope you make all the money in the world. But you won't forget us who are down here in the country dz awdling away our time in use ‘less amusements.” “Forget you!’ he returne sd impetuously. ‘Never fora minute!” And he was insuch deadly earnest about it that she hastily checked further speech, although she did not know why. “*Good!”’ she hurriedly exclaimed. ‘I'm glad you will bear us in mind while you're gone. Are you going to take your brother along?” “No,” he said with a smile. ‘‘I’m put- ting him in as my vacation substitute and I'll give him special instructions to call you up every morning for orders. You'll find him in perfect discipline. He'll do whatever you tell him.” Jack approaching just then, she took his arm quite comfortably. ‘Your brother te lls me that during his absence you are to be my chief aide and attaché,” she advised that young man gayly; ‘‘that you'll fetch and carry aaa do what I tell you; and the first thing you must do is to call for me Mr. Turner to the train.” It is glorious to part so pleasantly as that from people you have persistently in mind! when you take TO BE CONCLUDED) TheAncient Manager The Baseball Fan sat on a stone, He could not choose but hear, And then s pake on that ho pe jul man The Bri ight -E) jed Mi ina geer Although it’s early, it would seem,’ The / modes manager Ww ill say, ‘We have the very finest team The diamond's seen in any a day y és, I im fee ling pre ity gay, And you can take my little steer That we will put "em alla We ought to get the flag this year ‘Our stat of pitchers is Our catcher 3 ld supreme; a veteran gray Our fielders are ti veru cream The nest in the l S. 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into the | |'WITH LUCK AGIN HIM (Continued from Page 15) Lordee, Miss, I don’t want to low-rate yo’ chickens; dey’s fine chickens, but you ought to see dem fat white ’uns what him and Calline raises."’ Gently, step by step, Ole Reliable led them from the fatal rose- bush — just as a thrush feigns a broken wing and flaps away from its nest. The sisters sat on the steps of the gar- dener’s house and made their contract for the moving in of Oliver and Caroline: The house rent free, with light and wood and water; Oliver's wages twenty dollars a month and Caroline's ten. ‘‘It’s so much better to have a business understanding,” said Miss Savannah. ““Yas’m; dey needs a good home like dis.”’ Ole Reliable felt that his works were running down and the wheels needed another oiling; so he charmed the sisters back into the house and escaped long enough to hide the cane in the front hedge. Then he stood before them, hat in hand: ‘““Now, Missy, I gotter be goin’. My ole ‘ooman is so po’ly I hates to stay out late I has a heap o’ trouble tryin’ to keep dat po’ ole critter warm. Missy, couldn’t you gimme a little whisky in a bottle?” The sisters looked at each other. | ‘Oliver and Calline, dey - That decided the waverers; two souls with but a single thought, the 2y went for the decanter. Ole Reliable followed into the pantry and hung upon their discussion as to the particular kind of bottle they should fill. Ole Reliable was not fastidious as to the shape of it, but he kept an eye on | the size. oer This will do ve ry nicely; that ought to | last he ra long time Yas’m—she ain't touch dis.’ Miss Betsy rushed out of the room. ‘*Wait a minute,” she called back. Zack heard her enter the garret and went cold, thinking of that gold-headed cane. Miss Betsy came down with a quilt across her arm. Miss Savannah stopped her. ‘No, that’s too good a quilt; we can use that ourselves Betsy asserted herself: ‘Charity does not consist in giving away what one does not need.” She folded the quilt and laid it in Zack’s arms. ‘ This will keep your poor wife comfortable. We shall expect Oliver tomorrow morning.” **Yas’m; he'll come up here tonight ef you say so.” The sisters held a whispered consultation. es,’ agreed Miss Betsy—‘‘a dollar would be about right- send him away satisfied — Oliver and Caroline ie Miss Savannah opened her purse, searched and thought and searched again one dime, a five-dollar bill that was all ‘Uncle Zack, I'm afraid we can't make the change.”’ Then, seeing his disappoint- ment: ‘But I'll se end it to you at once where do you live? Zack po nted down the hill. ‘‘ You see dem two trees jes de tops close toged- der? Go straight down dis street into de bottom; soon as you pass de brickyard you'll git to dem two cottonwoods. Dat’s my house, right dar.”’ “Of course,”’ Miss Betsy volunteered; “we wou'd know the place by Oliver's garden and the flowers and the white chickens.” Zack caught a quick breath. ‘No, Missy; don’t pay so much ‘tention to dat garden and flowers—keep yo’ eye sot on dem big trees. Neber mind—I’ll come back tomorrer far dat dollar.’’ But he looked so mournful that Miss Savannah asked: ** Have you no money?” ““No, ma’am,” he answered simply. It had been a red-letter day for the Misses Trevelyan. They began it on a liberal- minded, if not a lavish, basis and Miss Savannah played the string to a finish. She thrust the five dollars into Zack’s hand: “Get that changed--keep a dollar for yourself and hurry back.” If that bill had been a block of boiler iron it would have crumpled in Zack’s hand. ‘‘Yas'm, yas’m, I'll come right back At the rate he started he was due back in less than one minute The Trevelyans stood on the gallery with their arms about each other and watched him go. Half-way to the gate he began to slacken, debating whether it were more risky to get the gold-headed cane or hardly gwine to

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FERRY & CO Detroit, Mict THE SATURDAY “Ts his wife any better?” they demanded | in one breath. ‘‘We brought some nour- ishment for her.” ‘His wife?’’ Selina gave a backward glance into the house, where Zack was peeping through the window. _‘‘ Now, Miss ‘Vannah, didn’t you know I war Zack’s wife? ‘You!’ they exclaimed; ‘‘but you are not ill.’ ‘*Me—sick!’’ She burst into a laugh. “No, ma’am; I ain’t never been sick a whole day in my life.”’ Dazed and bewildered the Misses Trevelyan set their basket on the gallery. ** Oliver ?— how is Oliver?” Selina quit laughing and looked into the house. Zack shook his head vigorously. “Oliver? He’s dead.’’ ‘Dead? Dead?” They had come too late. Charity lagged on the way, while Death outstripped her. ‘When did Oliver die? Poor, poor Caroline!” It was Selina’s turn to look bewildered. “Oliver? Lemme see. Oliver died de year o’ de yaller fever—dat’s been six years ago. Calline, she married dat same fall. We don’t know whar Calline is at.” The sisters stood mute. Faith as strong as theirs is difficult to destroy. ‘‘ You must be mistaken. Uncle Zack Foster came to our house on Thursday last and agreed that Oliver was to be our gardener and Caroline the cook. They were to begin the next morning. Is there any other Zack Foster in this neighborhood?” ‘Now, Miss ’Vannah’’--Selina laughed outright —‘‘’twouldn’t be no room in one neighborhood for two sech niggers as Zi ick He come home dat night wid a quilt an’ She had almost mentioned e gold-heade d cane , but Zack's luc} k had changed and the w om: in held her tongue. ‘Miss 'Vannah, is Zack done hired Oliver to you-all, an’ him dead fer six yet ars? \in't dat de beatenest nigger trick? Zack! Zack!”’ She stepped within the house just as Zack squeezed through the back door. The Trevelyans wheeled like indignant mocking-birds, marched out and forgot their basket. Selina followed them as far as the gate, apologizing that they ought not to blame her for Ole Re liable’s busi- ness operations When Zack became assured that they were gone and nobody was looking he darted out of the house and snatched the bas ket. Selina strode up so wrathfully that the ste ps cre aked. Zack backed into a corner with half a chicken in his hand. ‘Zack, you's = out-lyinest nigger hirin’ Oliver an’ Calline to de m ladies. You oughter be ” Selina caught a whiff of mollifying odors from the basket. Zack saw that his luck had turned and boldly played the limit “Shut up, Seliny; don’t come skull- * wid me on er empty stummick. Miss Savannah she say, jesso: ‘* Uncle Zack, you been so good to us I'm gwine to send you a bas ket an’ dar ’tis. Dat’s what comes 0’ knowin’ how to treat quality folks. Try some o’ dat soup . Selina took pase ssion of the basket, lifted it to the table and sat with her mighty arms around it. Zack edged into a chair and moved up, inch by inch. Full of chicken broth and charity, Selina smiled as he asked: ‘‘Zack, how come you tole ‘em all dat * issel o’ foolishness ?”’ Lordy, chile, I war jes’ runnin’ on *bout Oliver x hen dey got deir heart sot on ‘im I nacherly couldn't deny ’em nuthin’!”’ } . ravi dragg Newspaper Etiquette we Grizzly Adams, who writes novels under the name of Frederic Upham Adams, was working on a news- paper in Chicago he went into a restaurant one night to get some supper. He had an evening paper with him After he had finished the paper he laid it down on the table and a little man, who was sitting on the other side, asked if he might see it Adams told him he might, and the little man read the paper. When his supper ar- rived he laid the paper down, and a big, rough-looking person, who had a third seat at the table, grabbed it. The little man was indignant, but afraid to say anything \dams saw what had happened. He reached over, grabbed the paper from the big man, thrust it into the hands of the little man, and the n turning fiercely on the big man, said ‘The re, dodgast you; I'll teach y Wu etiqu EVENING POST April 2,1910 “Don't Envy a Good Complexion; Use POMPEIAN and Have One” | | . OU will never know the reasons for Pompeian popularity | how deus you can be and look — how refreshed, healthy | and wholesome in appearance — until you test Pompeian. | Rub it on your moistened face, well into the pores; a few moments and out comes the cream many shades darker than You are astonished — never suspected that so much skin, despite soap-and-water scrubbing. | of massaging when ay | I | “es 1 your mirror — the old sallow ‘‘ dead skin’’ appearance | has gone, and in ae is a skin with the freshness and smoothness of perfect health and youth, POM PEIAN cream **The Standard Face Cream’”’ “Don’t envy a good complexion ; use Pompeian and dave one. | | If you wish to try before you buy, send 6c in coin or stamps for a trial jar. Or read poster-calendar offer below, and send 16c for trial jar and a copy of ** Pompeian Beauty.”’ Send for 1910 “Pompeian Beauty” Poster-Calendar Our lavender-and-gold 1910 Poster-Calendar panel is 3 feet high and 714 inches wide. The small reproduction of ys gone seauty,’’ as shown on the right, gives but a faint idea of the ex- | quisite detai r of color and costume. No matter is . = ted on front of i anel just the artist's name pate as you see It | in the small reproduction herewith. 1910 Calendar is printed on rear to permit of artistic framing, but the panel effec viates tl necessity of framing. A loop at top permits easy har TI | ** Pompeiar auty”’ girl will be the Poster-Calendar sensation of } IQ! pply is limited -send t cinieitecnindainendill intment. Write now before you lay this magazine aside. Enclose 10c in coin or stamps, For 16c we will send a trial j f Pompeian Massage Cream, th ** Pompe Beauty,’” 3 feet high and in lavender and gold. You may order either or both Pompeian for Men READ WHAT USERS SAY es A 1.H.M 1 e standard face cream, anc 4 A have imitations on w h b the barber no skes me re money at your expens Pompeian rubs 12 s ansing the p as ¢ Pn soap i wa The dead-skir i man” k A TRI AI JAR se n Wh tsend 16c to-day to r-cale a ial jar Read description above. Sold by 50,000 dealers— used in 40,000 high-class barber shops. Dealers Everywhere; 50c, 75c and $1 THE POMPEIAN MFG. CO., 49 Prospect Street, Cleveland, Ohio See Poster-Calendar Offer ) DELIVER THE MAIL RIDING A YALE] eaten Ss suset mall entviecs | rave discarded the motorcycle within the last year They are finding the cost of upkeep far less than the maintenance of a horse; that they can cover less time and give better service. They find, too, that the to go at all times and over all roads. 64 H. P. 32 H.P. Twin cylinder Single cylinder $300 F. O. B. Toledo $200 F. O. B. 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We Urge Conservative, Lon THE SATURDAY EVENING POST jThe B ? - | Fl its Owner ‘7 year tree) & Celery Farm South of Largo At Largo is the best grape fruit section in all America. The profits in grape fruit growing are amazing. To any who have not investigated they are almost beyond belief. The most careful are urged to find out all about our grape fruit land. We have issued a handsome book, telling the facts. today. It is FREE. Grow the Golden Grape Fruit RAPE-FRUIT growing presents the greatest in the country today—tor persons of either | means—for the city ma truggling to live cient pay for the farmet Five years ago less than one million grape fruit supplied entire country Last year more than nillion grap were consumed Yet even these fiftv million { led 1 the demand. It greatly exceeds the supply ind grape fruit increases In popularity daily We now offer you land at Largo, on the Pinellas Penin- sula, Florida, as low as $20 an acre—at terms of only 25c a week peracre. No “deposit” is required. Your money back with 8% interest at any time within 30 days if you’re not wholly satisfied. Get Our Free Book About LARGO “America’s Golden Grape Fruit Garden” Between St. Petersburg and Belleair, Pinellas Peninsula, Florida A Bond for Your Deed The area where grape fruit can be grown is very small Most of the choice fruit comes from this Pinellas Pt Last year more than five hundred solid carloads of ¢ and oranges were shipped from the town of Largo. Thx secured have made the growers ind pel dent Commission men do not get all the profit | five buyers for every man’s crop. They buy the f All the picking, hauling and marketing th It is nothing unusual for grape fruit groy it I $1,500 a year per acre clear profit S. Hi. h refused $27,000 for his 10 icTe vrove Iie I | . | an allotment in the tract we offer you will | hi Mr. Coachman. Yet your land need cost y $20 acre—on long time payments All about Largo are other groves, huggi! our tract. They are heavy with the color, golden in commercial value It is all tl n same climate. Mr. Coachman’s grove set out his grape fruit trees, was such land \ Oranges can be raised here, to But the in grape fruit. Yet it costs no more to bring ype fi bearing than the commonest appli rd. For. —for huge percentage of profit on the investment yrape fruit is the wonder of tire day. 25c a Week per Acre—No “Deposit” Money Back With 8% Interest if Dissatisfied JOHN MAGEE, Sole Selling Agent Pinellas Groves, Incorporated, 1129 Ist National Bank Building, Chicago g-Headed People to Investigate this Land No one questions this. Send Coupon Today For Handsome Free Book ‘ ‘ ’ ‘ ’ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ’ s ‘ ’ ‘ ’ ‘ ’ ‘ ‘ 1 ’ ’ ‘ ‘ , ‘ ‘ ‘ ’ ‘ “ ‘ , ‘ Pinellas Groves, Inc. SSSSSS Seer ee eeeSeSeseeeeseneesaaear

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Typewriter "Emperiam 92-94 Lake Bt Chicago THE EASIEST PROFITS (Continued from Page 13) per cent divided between blue and purple copying ribbons. So, instead of a possible two hundred different styles and colors of typewriter ribbons in stock, there were just three when the standardization was fin- ished, and the outcome has given uniform- ity and dignity to the correspondence of a great corporation. Carbon paper furnished another pretty study. This was being purchased like rib- bons, each office getting its own supplies and having individual preferences. Prices ranged from one dollar to two dollars or more a hundred sheets. Very often Tillie, the stenographer, favored a certain brand or way of wrapping, and these cost the company as much as the paper itself. Lab- oratory tests were made to settle upon a atisfactory type of such material, and a kind costing seventy cents a hundred sheets became company standard. There were naturally complaints from some quarters when the purchasing department reduced all these supplies to dead uniformity, for standardization always looks like an in- vasion of the rights of the individual when it is first effected. “That new carbon paper won't make as many copies as the kind I was using,’”’ pro- tested Tillie. “Well, use two sheets where you used directed the purchasing department ‘You paid two dollars a box. We pay seventy cents. Use as much and we still save thirty per cent.”’ In getting employee s to accept standard supp lies the purchasing department adopted a device suggested b y astationery salesman one,”’ twice who had long sold pe necils to draftsmen and artists, handling a line made in this country. Customers had strong prefer- ence lor an imports d drawing pe neil cost- ing twice as much. Argument would not meet this prejudice. So this salesman took the wood off both his own and the foreign pencils and handed half a dozen naked to a cus istomer, askin gil f he could tell was which. Without the familiar le ad which trade-marks tect ld not tell, nine times in ten. The purchasing department applic d that trick, and after it had been worked a few times in connection with standard supplies people around the company’s offices were afraid to coul have ar y preferences A Big Saving in Pencils This company uses half a million pencils yearly, costing about six thousand dollars Pencil-sharpening machines were installed save time and pencils, yet it was found at stubs of about three and a half inches re being thrown away as too short to use. This is exactly half the pencil. Soa couple of hundred dollars’ worth of holders were distributed, making it possible to write with the stubs down to nearly an inch. That effects an economy of two thou- sand dollars yearly, cent return on the holders Large savings have been brought about by reducing the number of printed forms employed in various departments, making it possi ble to getec lose price or one thousand per investment in pencil- 3on great quan-

tities of stationery, envelopes, blank and the like. Pens and writing ink yielded rot 1 margin A waste-basket censu was taken in the main office one night to se« what was being thrown out carelessly, and the waste in rubber bands in that office i unted to a hundred dollars yearly. The r It « | ardizatior us been to thirty thousand

aotlan ( ipplie 5, and at the same time the investment in such material been cut almost in two through simplification of forms : This company is only one in hundreds with as large an office business, and these economies, it must be remembered, were effected in its mere accounting detail have no reterence to manulacturing When it comes to

standardizing mechan- ur like materials and processes, ortunit for saving profits are to be uund all thr vugh our industrial system Here, it is a little opportunity such as drawing up spec fications for a certair 1 kind of cotton cioth There, it is something rigantic, such as determining standard measurements and nomenclature to be THE SATURDAY EVENING POST to guide him an artist or archi- |

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UL ill tl fit | a HE task this company set for itself was to give the utmost permanent value in a motor car that could be produced for $1500. Not the largest-looking car, but a car that would represent tried and proven mechanical principles, developed and refined, both in design and materials, to a point hitherto seen only in what are known as “‘high-priced’’ cars. Naturally this was not a task for any but the most experienced men—men whose knowledge of automobile construction has been gained in the school of long service, and proven in the success of their past productions. It is Important to Know Who Builds Your Car It means a great deal to you, if you are considering the purchase of a car for the coming season, to know the men who stand behind your car— who they are, and what they have done in this big industry. To design the car we saw the public wanted—a car that would not only meet the demands of this season, but of many seasons to come—we selected the best designer we could find in America. Mr. John G. Utz, designer of the popular Chalmers “*30,’’ and formerly head of the Engineering Department of Autocar Co., and before that with the Olds Motor Works. Mr. Utz has been right in the heart of the livest part of the industry. He had his part in the experimental steps made in the early days of motor car construction and has achieved some of the most notable successes a designer can achieve.

perintendent of construction, we secured Mr.

r hn B. Phillips, who held a similar position with the THE FACTS sia tna Dhamas Pa. ak tedloes Ghee oon 1 tro otor Co. a betor ia About the Abbott-Detroit prominently connected with the construction de- “BOILED DOWN” partment of the Ford Motor Co. and the Old Pang ‘Motor—1 four Abbott idea is refinement in every part. This | “quipment—Sp|it areside " ° ° 1 . light, combinati re eae policy is apparent in the perfect w« ey oe ae ghts, ¥ ra in design, in the selection of materials, in the balance ents rs 4 e of mater ist weight, and fin ae. in the luxu- 1 pump and jack. Diamond tires. Q. D.. 34x 3 rious design ~— es body, its finish and equipment Weight — About 2,100 pounds empty Have a mechanical friend read over with you the a gt f speci ficat Write ust for the nam f our nearest representa t It is really y r duty to give e ttention to this car, v hex certs have called t rt thas y Available territory for relia aler all assig af

be taken care o wri ‘ABBOTT MOTOR CO. 611 Beaufait Street, Detroit, Mich. April 2, 1910

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