The Saturday Evening Post 1910-04-23: Vol 182 Iss 43

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The Original, Time-Tried and Reliable Straight Side Auto Tire

Half-Section of the Bothersome Old-Style Clincher Type Auto Tire of

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Note these special Goodyear features which can Each Size in Goodyear Straight Side Tires is be secured in no other Tires until our broad, Oversize. This straight side construction makes it " 7 basic patents expire possible to make Goodyear Tires larger than any ba Goodyear Straight Side Tires will not Creep Clincher or Hooked-foot Tire sold for the same Hee ‘ or Come Off the Rim in Use, even though tire size, without danger of tire coming off in use. So a. be ridden for long distances absolutely flat, a sometimes necessary. each Goodyear Detachable (Straight Side) tire is larger than its rating i No Tire Bolts are needed (sk how our patented Piano Wire Tape In Goodyear Tires alone you get Extra Size as well as Extra Quality. ove mes t Hooked-foot or clincher type tires, held in place Goodyear Straight Side ‘Tires are Easiest Removed or Replaced i: “ eral bolts, come off in use, as evidenced by hundreds of fatal n case of need There a big space between the toc or feet u ent They were a ight for bicycles but are unsuited for The Wa pr inward easily so that detachable m unlock witom t r without tre r In Hooked-foot " er tires the 1 binds « Gi ear Straight Side T will not Rim Cut under the same ‘freeze the channel, and often must be pried Phe vere conditions, no atter how rough or rugged the road toes must toucl the cente i precaut waist co" oft face may be Phe broad, rounding rim surface, possible only They must be pried until they overlap before a Quick Detachabl wit the Straight Side Tire, hon away with all sharp edye Rim can be unlocked It ibig job both to loosen a clincher tire There is nothing to cut the tire. and to unlock the detachable rim when it finally is ened. Note the half-section on the left. See the sharp edge of rim Goodyear Straight Side Tires are the Best Tires Procur- flange. The entire load of the automobile is carried on able, irrespective of price or any other leration, a these sharp edges. continually demonstrated by the severest pract tests. Al Une the Hooked-foot tire is kept inflated to the a vely evidenced by contract from practically titw Rim Cut ey iker of al a i the United State Big, broad, g Weight of car carried , aT rounding rim : Q)ur v ye b ‘ia o Sele ‘ ire rive > "Ss ¢ lddn tn ur valuable book ‘‘How to Select an Auto Tire’’ gives the whys and surface; edgesmakerimcutting cer wherefores of every statement we have made. If you intend buy- will not rim ta i aped . } . cut,eventho’ nin enless tire is pampe ing acar or already own one, this book will show you how dden deflated up hard continuously i : ‘ ridden deflate —K to decrease tire upkeep amazingly. No matter : cite what tires you use. Ask for it. II’S FREE. The Beaded Hook : **freezes’’ tight er in this pocket, r making it necessary to pry it Feet almost meet, Feet are wide apart, push loose before QO, must overlap inward easily to permit Tapes of pi- Quick De whenpushed unlocking the Quick anowirecontract . dD hable Ri with inflation tachable inwar etachable Kim and make creep Rim can be ing or coming off the rim unlocked P Ai ° impos- NN 4 r sible ° & R C Factory and Main Office, Seneca St. The Goodyear lire ubber O., AKRON, OHIO BRANCHES AND AGENCIES ! . 4 A 4 ALA A ‘ y A ' ' J A ALK r 4 AN : 5 ‘ A MI A A \ LA A EN

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Care Beara 2: Dae ta gi igs ay ue ore fe A ke ge & 7 ass , ‘ eae ‘ ‘ . ° : i RANKLIN AUTOMOBILES are built in three chassis sizes, four- and six-cylinder, with bodies covering the whole range of touring cars, runabouts, close-coupled cars, limousines, landaulets and town cars. The features which distinguish the Franklin automobile are light weight, air cooling, full-elliptic springs, large wheels, large tires, wood chassis frame. ‘hese features give the Franklin its superiority in comfort, reliability and economy—the prime qualities on which the merit of every automobile is finally determined. You settle the tire question when you select Four or six cylinders a question of horse power. your automobile. Kor small horse power the advantage is with the four. If huv is hard on tires or the tires you want thirty horse power or more the six, if properly Having trouble or designed, will serve you best. A properly designed six-cylinder automobile is lighter per horse power than a four. The gain in horse power in the If the automobile you are too small you will have tire trouble. no trouble is a result of both tire equipment and automobile construction. With a rigid automobile or one with excessive weight in the axles the tires are bound to give out sooner than they ; red ; ought to, no matter how large tires are used. ‘The Franklin, climbing and road ability are greatly increased; the upkeep is light and resilient, is easv on tires, and the tires used are much less than the upkeep of a four-cylinder of equal power. Franklin forty-two horse power six, as compared to the four, is thirty per cent greater than the increase in weight. Hill In four-cylinder construction as power is increased the and ot all other parts ot the automo ] weight of the fly wheel } so large that heavy loads and fast driving do not weaken them. So well is the Franklin desi -d and so well tired is it that it 1s the only automobile in ich tire trouble 1s + Pha ule has to increase more than the power in order to s strength sufficient to withstand the shock of the heavy « x] sions. Weight cuts down the ability. \ heavy tly whe hard on both the mechanism and the tires. not a factor. On the average automobile the tires are overworked and overloaded; they blow out and go to pieces. On the Franklin the tires are not overworked or overloaded; they The Franklin owner does not have to pay any give four times the mileage of the ordinary tire equipment attention to cooling. on the average automobile. Wi saat caidas veuslons conntent stecualens, tet the Bean bags owner can forget, and does, that ther . ! a thing ; adds to the pleasure of . . COOHNYg system. It 1S so simp Reliable tire equipment does more than save tire expense. It saves on the whole automobile; it motoring. You are not hindered or annoved. ; 5 ‘ ; concern whatever ur cod Comfort the greatest essential. its body and its proper proportion of a tthe Franklin meets the most exacting 7? | In the beauty of size, power and weigh ~ mechan ; get out of order requirements. In the foremost requirement comfort, the Franklin 1s the leader. It of all automobiles; you go farthest in a day and make the Three in number, they m« oft The Franklin touring cars. orfhyt | fastest time. powertul and a Its full-elliptic springs have double the elasticity and shock- seating seven passer absorbing ability of semi-elliptic springs. Its wood chassis mobiles. Mod frame, lighter and stronger than the pressed steel frame com- the ideal city and monly used, absorbs instead of transmitting vibration. “The is the only Franklin ts easy for its passengers and easy on itself. For business The charm of rapid motion, the delight of winding roads, the fascination of graceful speed on hills, exhilaration of responsive power, the jovs of long trips—all of this finds highest expression in the There are ease and security with no thought ot tire or other trouble. FRANKLIN MANUF "-TURING COMPANY Syraci Se ]

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2 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 23, 1910 as y> t f f [es ee | 31 | fr pr) PX ; i if > \ j i; wo ae Ha %,) & \ pV \ J | a | ie (nr h ‘4 43 ¢ ed} aie ae I } ) . 2 } P iy f % }! ro jX SS a . AG 4 york i } And £,07-% ~ é é ‘ + 2 i sve i r i. 3 4 Ny hy 2 , + } Pia 4 f Fy AS 1 ¥\, t ee | 1 ! j bo : ty x 1 A™ all Th ih yar Egyptian and Sea Island Usual Coast the toe as it is shown in the illustration. Insist athe A You Get “a nade with three very e strand Six pairs of Men’s ** Holeproof*’ guar on that r ~* t rn of th me “~orht 7 . ° re ee - _ sik: Wear Six Pwo-ply ya . ie one wou s anteed for six months cost $1.50. The Sold i in Your brveyee ens “s eer 60 ent ; ; . a: Months New scan — re t. extra light weights cost $2. The mercer- The ger ‘Ho of’ are sold in re “ ” finished like silk cost 33 One your tow! We’ | tell vou the dealers’ W ithout Hose The Holepr of Process roor the newest colors a rted The names on reque t } } | rect where we Our methods are also expensive \ weights are the very lightest made for have t lealer harce nr j ret Ho : : hghte } nay no Geaier, Charges prepaid on receipt les or Free ngie dyeing apparatus cost us 35,000.00 the warmest imme wear f remittance Write for free book, ‘‘How to Make Your Feet Happy’’ THE HOLEPROOF HOSIERY CO., 436 Fourth St., Milwaukee, Wis. Ce Your Vase Orantat?

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Copyright 19 10,by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, Founded A°’D' in the United States and Great Britain. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 1728 by Benj.Franklin Entered at the Philadelphia Post-Ofifice as Second~-Class Matter Published Weekly at 425 Arch Street by THE CuRTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY London: Hastings House.10,Norfolk Street, Strand,WC. Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Post-Office Department, Ottawa, Canada Volume 182 PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 23, 1910 Number 43 THE LORDS AND M4 The Question Which Has Turned England Upside Down HE crisis that England is facing, a crisis of seriousness, of gravity, of deep moment, has been caused mainly by DEC its system of taxation. That the House of Lords will be altered in form and reduced in power, not only temporarily but permanently, seems assured, for the majority of the people have come to the conclusion that the Lords, through their great privileges, are responsible for much of the unprosperity that has come upon the country, or at least are the principal beneficiaries of the system under which it has come It would be very unfair to blame them for the entire present condition; and yet had it not been for their long-continued, long-established privileges, had it not been for the heavy inequalities of taxation in favor of their great wealth, it is probable that the nation would have been so strong that the condition could not have come Last year the Liberal party leaders made an attack upon the Lords and upon their land—a slight attack, so far as revenue for some years to come was concerned, but enough to put the Lords fiercely on the defensive. By the challenge of the Commons and the resistance of the Lords the land question, important and vital though it long has been, was made to appear of still greater import; and with the land question set thus before the nation there came with it, on account of the opposition of the Lords the question of reducing their power The Lords are the head of the Unionist party, a name now used in place of the old-time familiar Conservative, in the hope that it would be more popular with the But, somehow, Unionists are opposed by Liberals as keenly as Conservatives ORATION S BY masses. ever were There has been a really extraordinary condition in regard to the taxation of land or, rather —and herein lies the gist of the matter —its non-taxation. So preposterous is the system that it could not have continued to exist had it not been for the long and gradual adjustment of the nation to it; the gradual assimilating and balancing of interests; the immense vitality of the English as a race; the prosperity that has come through commerce and colonial expansion; the tremendous power of the peerage and the awe in which they have so long successfully held the rest of the nation; and the instinctive opposition, so profoundly ingrained in the English, to any change of what has become established, and especially to any interference with vested rights of property. But at long intervals even England rises Taxation on Valuations of Two Hundred Years Ago HE most important class of men in England are the great landowners. No other class compares with them in wealth, distinction, power. And the greatest of these landowners are members of the peerage and hereditary legislators of Great Britain, its Upper House of Parliament. Yet in England land is not taxed! Only the rental value is taxed—a very different matter, especially because the tax does not fall principally upon the owners By ROBERT SHACKLETON «: Budget puttir rt bitter! ontested ided for the t year pro 1 i land-taxatior in of the thin edge of JAMES M. PRESTON wedge. And, worse than this in tl eyes of the peerage, it provided for luation of the land of the nation, and in land val n the peer saw the handwriting on the wall. The Englishman |! to prescriptive practice Whatever is, is right \ itever has beer Is De ri ileve has been fora lor me, is be { li LU nde ordinary circun ances 1 had led an Englist n tl her iad t beer a valuation of land since the reign of W im and Mary ‘ indred he would merely have wondered hey ever made a t her r tl had been getting along ver’ wel | uta new one nee the Dor re ! { William the Conqueror Under William and Mary they puta sma x on land, based hat? but before long the Governmer needed r¢ i ‘ ner were give! the pr Vilege oll re t ires ne lar j t iXi ! i money payment equali ‘ iX Practic ll 1 freed fron t ixatior The little that has never beer edee ed ! { national revenues, negligil The Poor Taxed Heavily, the Rich Lightly HE rental taxation is ymething different I knowt rate nd collected by local authoritie nd le t be tl ht that inno d ra on rentals of land and houses are 1 1 in results, I should ment n | i and Wales alone, in the last f ear, rates wert llected t he total of tlh hundred million dollar Rates are paid | he t If land nds idle, producing 1 ! here no rates. If it is occupied by the owner himself he pays on const ‘ Small proprietor nd the tax evere hile large prop i sked, when asked for lI I ns a ishir } } domain « eat propr ! er oO ed | enal t ‘ { anything approaching their a | val and the rented portion he " by the people vho live on ther What is termed the inhabited-} the central government ilso fa lirectly upon tl ( ! It was the pani tricker lear ot an\ ch nee i! lar i { xat ! their hasty and unprecedented refusal, a few mont! ‘ the Budget, that had passed the Commons It had long been held to be \ rought into the very fabr f Er mer ! the I pper House could neither originate a revenue bill itself r r eve ‘ bill that had passed the Comm« ind there had come from tl he cu n considering such a bill to be a law ithout waiting for it em! he and, in the case of this Budget, r ind tax collectors were | t its provisions for month ynly to find, when the Lords thre t I

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collected great sums under a law that was not a law! In no country but England cou!d such a comic-opera condition come to pass with such perfect gravity. That the Budget concerned not only an innovation in land taxation but also chanyes in the taxation on incomes, on succession, on beer, on tobacco and on tea, made the confusion extreme. But land taxation and privileges con- tinued to be the center of concern and of argument It is a saying in England, so true that it is not a mere jest with words, that the House of Lords is really the House of Landlords Closely bound up with the peers are the other great landowners, and in addition the Established Church and many of them of great prominence, who either are dependents of the peers or have interests inextricably intertwined with the interests of the peer- age. The power of the Lords has countless and unseen ramifications The great peer, owning miles of territory, owning towns, and villages, and farmland, and forest, comes under the previsions, as does every Englishman, of the income tax, which is meant to apply to every income, whether from land, or business, or profession But if the landowner merely holds his land, whether for a rise in value or from pride in a great possession, he pays nothing! If the land is used as garden or pasture it pays a trifle. On Aldersgate Street, London, a business block covering ten thousand square feet pays over four thousand dollars a year in rates. Adjoining it is a vacant lot of twelve thousand square feet that pays a host of men nota cent Land Monopolized by Lords M' CH of the charm of England comes from the great 4 i stretches of fieldand common, of pasturage and wood- land, unbroken by houses, with only here and there a vil- lagecompactly built. And the villages are not closely built from the continuance, as on the Continent, of the custom that originally arose from the necessity of living together as a protection against marauding bands; these English usually closely built because the landowner would not permit more lard to be used. Often the great landowner titled—owns the entire village and all surrounding it Recently, in a town of poor coalminers, the men raised i sum to buy land and build a reading-room and recrea- tion hall, and then were met by the refusal of the owning duke oO There is a little town called Alnwick, in the heart of the the Duke of Northumberland The ‘rowded, asked more space for cottages, but the duke would heed They also wanted a better water supph to buy acres of his tax-free land for a re ‘ nd dollars an acre, a if p tent villages are niall usuany to sella single foot great possessions of people over not and asked some ‘ whereupon the duke demanded two sed that ‘rvoir erting tnat it posses il building value Alnwick from a more : to look at ttractive But point, there is, near the town, a plot of land to be used view- forever by the Alnwick folk in common for pasturage or hn, seven hundred years ago, as a reward for his having been gardening, because hing to the villag extricated m floundered as he traveled by Another titled landlord, owning land on which he paid rates of fifty cents an acre, demanded twelve thousand five hundred dollars an adjoining wanted to buy of him gave it by them from a bog into which his horse had acre when the city The dazzling glitter of great rank should not blind us to the fact that title anxious for money as other folk men of are just as sordid, just as and often more s« THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The area of Great Britain and Ireland is seventy-seven million acres. The population is forty-five million. One million are landowners—about one million and fifty thou- sand, to be precise. Five hundred thousand own in patches of less than an acre. That is one side; here is the other. Over fifty-two million acres belong to men, principally the nobility, who own more than a thousand acres each. The Duke of Sutherland is believed to own one million three hundred and fifty-eight thousand acres. According to the best figures obtainable, twenty-eight dukes own four million acres. Thirty-three marquises own one million five hundred thousand acres. One hun- dred and ninety-four earls own five million eight hundred and fifty thousand acres. Two hundred and seventy viscounts and barons own three million eight hundred thousand acres. In all, five hundred and twenty-five peers, members of the House of Lords, own about fifteen million acres —over one-fifth of the land of the kingdom. Or, taking just Northumberland, Sussex, Bucking- hamshire, Hertfordshire, Wiltshire, Suffolk, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, eighty-five peers own one-quarter of the land of these counties As the land is held under a system which guarantees special taxation privileges to the owners of great tracts, it is seen what a privileged body the House of Lords really is; and what a potent body, when not only its wealth and its legislative strength are considered, but the vast power which law and custom give it over its tenants. How many of the people are actually tenants of the Lords is not known—it is one of the things in regard to which ignorance is desired and maintained. But it is known that the total is tremendous, for the possessions of the peers include not only glorious and solitary stretches of moor and mountain, but also much of the finest agri- cultural land of England, much that is closely built over with houses, and even a great part of London itself. The Duke of Norfolk owns the most important part of the famous manufacturing city of Sheffield, and his land there is covered with factories and homes. In London some half-dozen titled folk possessions. The Duke of Norfolk owns heavily along the ancient Strand; the Duke of Bedford owns a great tract in the Thackerian district of Russell and Bloomsbury Squares; the Duke of Westminster owns some hundreds of acres in the vicinity of the Abbey; other men of title own other portions. A country member of Parliament, one hundred and twenty years ago, bought a piece of land in what was then the outskirts of London, so that he might keep his own cow and have his own milk when he came to attend sessions, and a descendant, a recently-created viscount, draws a great revenue from that one-time pasture have great London's Ducal Inn-Owners UCH things put the titled folk in a new light. So many WJ of the hotels of London are owned by dukes that an American, learning this, may find difficulty in deciding which duke to patronize. I decided in favor of the Duke of Bedford. I presume that neither he nor his fellow hotel-owners would deign, out of their haughtiness, to answer questions regarding terms or elevator service, but, of course, it is the Americans who should really be the haughty ones, contributing as they do to the upkeep of the dukes and the maintenance of their families To the landlordism of the nobility should be added that of the Church, with which it is closely affiliated in interest In England and Wales the Church owns a million acres, out of the revenues of which it pays its own expenses April 23, 1910 A system is tested by its fairness or unfairness, but also by its results. And on the results of unequal! taxation, so light for the rich and heavy for those not rich, we see that at length there have come unmistakable signs of growing and deep-based distress and dissatisfaction and depression. In such a matter it would not be wise to trust to the statements of orators of either side, inflamed as they are by the fierceness of conflict; but the latest official Govern- ment returns show that the area of land under cultivation is steadily and largely decreasing, and that the totals of the various agricultural crops raised in Great Britain are also steadily decreasing, in spite of the fact that improved methods of agriculture are making a better average yield an acre for acres that are tilled. All this is grave enough, though it might to some extent be considered offset if there were increased prosperity in business and manufacturing; but the contrary is decidedly the case. In the manufacture of textile fabrics, always a vital factor in England’s prosperity, there were no more people employed last year than were employed fifteen years ago, and this in spite of an increase of six million in population. And this year, in the great mill districts, the situation is gloomy and discouraging. The totalof national exports for the last fiscal year showed a falling off of nearly three hundred million dollars from the total of the year previous. Paupers are increasing; so is the total of unem- ployed; so is the total of emigrants. The Evil of Secret Assessments OT all of this can be charged to unequal taxation, but unequal taxation, combined with a general system of special privilege, is responsible for a great proportion of it; and even those who would deny this admit that a great mass of the people put the responsibility on the peers and privilege. It was the desire to make the great landowners begin to pay their share of national expense that led to the intro- duction in the Budget of what is called the ‘‘unearned increment’ clause, under which landowners were to pay as a tax, on land leased or sold, twenty per cent of its increased value over what it was set down as being worth under the valuation system which the Budget also pro- vided for. But, the peers say, they are paying the income tax, and they ought to pay nothing more. But, assuredly, that does not touch them in respect to land that is standing still; it touches them very lightly for their huge park- kept estates; it touches them with seriousness only in regard to property for which they receive an income from rents or leases. And even this isa matter entirely between the peer and the tax inquisitor; I should say between the peer and his conscience, were it not that the conscience of neither peer nor commoner can be implicitly relied upon in the matter of taxes. It is a matter between the peer and his assessor—and around the assessment the utmost secrecy is thrown. The public is not permitted to know anything of what income is declared or what assessment is made. And although income-tax inquisitors are harsh toward ordinary and untitled folk, no one thinks of it as possible that they are ever harsh or prying toward the mighty —officials cannot make themselves disagreeable to the heads of all officialdom, dignified as those heads are by the grandeur of title and wealth The secrecy regarding a man’s income and his assess- ment that is ordained out of kindness toward the man of ordinary means is extended to the great owners of the soil; and that the peers, who ought to pay so much, really escape paying much that they ought to pay is firmly believed Continued on Page 49 ro’ et

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FOUNDRY in Ohio had been so busy for two years that, despite overtime work, it was con- stantly behind orders from a month to six weeks. Conservative advance estimates of the busi- ness that was being done placed the volume at half a million dollars, easily, and when the next annual accounting was made the gross output ®xceeded that amount. Yet it was learned that the profits for twelve months had been less than twency thou- sand dollars. This discrepancy was so surprising that the concern called in a firm of production engineers to make a study of the business and find out where the profits had gone. Investigation showed that most of the losscamefrom congestion in the moulding shop, where castings were turned out This foundry makes a wide assortment of machine parts for other manufacturers. Its business was secured chiefly on bids. The latter were based upon rough estimates. With no accurate cost system for following each order through the plant it was neces- sary to use averages calculated from last year’s general cost of labor, materials, and so forth. The prices at which work was secured usually afforded a fair margin of profit. But that margin was frittered away in the processes, and for lack of a cost system which would show actual expense on each job it was impossible to locate the leakage. As each job came in it Was numbered and sent through the plant in the order of itsnumber. Thus, a lot of small castings would be followed by some very heavy ones, and those in turn by a dozen miscellaneous parts intended for a certain m ichine, a handled together under the same job number Asa result, the moulders worked ona hodge-podge of stuff big and little being cast side by side, and there was loss through confusion. The production engineers laid out a system by which orders for several days were classified according to size. That made it possible to work the men on about the same-sized castings each day, giving the dD

n 1] il facility that comes in handling uniform work, simplifying the handling of flasks, pouring molten metal, and so forth. This immediately relieved the congestion that had put the foundry behind its orders. Overtime work became unnecessary. Quality of output improved. Most impor- tant of all, it was possible to keep accurate cost records on each job, giving a surer basis for bidding For several weeks after this system was installed the engineers supervised its workings. The first definite information it yielded sent them to the management with suggestions about a certain kind of castings ‘You are losing money on them; raise your prices.”’ “Oh, we wouldn't dare ask higher prices for those,’ was the reply. ‘‘Our competitors crowd us too closely. It would put us out of business.” ‘*Well, then, go out of business,”’ said the engineers. “This work will put you into bankruptcy eventually, for you are losing money on all you turn out Why There Were Flaws in the Castings NVESTIGATION in the sales department demonstrated that contracts during the past two or three years had been made below actual cost of production, a condition brought about by lack of knowledge of true costs, coupled with timidity in the sales end. By sharp tactics customers had scared salesmen into meeting purely fictitious bids alleged to have been received from competitors. When prices on these castings were eventually raised little busi ness was lost, showing that the competition had been largely imaginary, as a good deal of competition always is. At the end of a year this foundry was turning out three- quarters of a million dollars’ worth of work. The plant had not been enlarged, nor was overtime labor necessary. Yet profits under the new system had been brought up to more than a hundred thousand dollars a year. Some months after the system was running smoothly the production engineers were called in again. The foundry’s percentage of defective castings had suddenly begun to assume alarming proportions. In the finishing- rooms many flaws were revealed despite most careful inspection of work turned out in the moulding department, while some of the costly machine parts sold to customers under guarantees of quality were coming back almost

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With the Production Engineer—By James HH. Collins CORATION BY I I rET WH I daily, showing failures. For two weeks the engineers studied the establishment’s whole routine, yet did n find anything that seemed to be out of the ordinary. The character of work was ji ‘ \ BA fact Inspection of rawe

piece that revealed the slightest le a soon as it left the fla The engineers were puzzled. Finally a young chap on their staff, lately out of college, was told to stay at th foundry until he ran the trouble down, and he made it a point not only to work with the men in var depart- ments, but to come down an hour or so before the whistle blew in the morning. One day he asked the superintendent a question “Mr Walker why did that moulder overthere take some castings from this pile before he started work and place them on that pile ? “Did he do that asked the superintend prised ‘*Yes—and other men did the same thing The trouble was cleared up immediately several moulders, coming in early, had adopted the trick of lifti

rejected castings off piles set out to be weighed and deducted from their day s W rk, reduci pieces charged against their wages detective

castings had gone into piles of work inspected and passed and a number had been shipped to customer This a typical instance of the production engineer's work it simplifying routine and saving profits The business doctor has long been familiar to the general public as a man called in when something obviously wrong in a factory or mercantile house. Ver often his service went no further than clearing up some fic trouble. Usually his chief interest was in acee methods, and he departed after installing a card

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m of bookkeeping But the production engineer the whole business as his provinces He tests flue gases and coal, installs systems in the boiler-roon Saves cost In the engine-room he saves on lubri I In the lactory he tests material syne hronizes process¢ ferrets out costs, trains employees to better method At the executive end he takes routine work o f the management, and at the same time gives them

ut their busine from day business doctor 1 ht be « physician who is called in a hurry once when some memb the family is si production engineer is like the Herr Doc Germany, who visits the family at least once a mont} spends part of the evening chatting with its vari members, and makes quiet studies that enable him to keep the family in pretty good health One of the best-known production engineers in tl country began applying card systems to business year ago, when cards were hardly known outside of libraries At the outset he adapted his ecards chiefly to accounting 3ut soon he became interested in extending their useful ness. Making card-system payrolls, for instance, led naturally to recording miscellaneous data about labor and its costs on cards with different contours. That led, in turn, to gathering information about materials, processes POST PR

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6 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST be of such unlike character that the labor cost of one may have actually been twice that of the other. This foundry was operating under a cost system that made it dangerous to raise the quality of its products, for its high-grade castings were being turned out below cost, and sufficient increase in the sort of patronage that should have been most desirable would have sent it into bankruptcy. The difficulty was met with a simple cost system that kept time, wage and material records on each job. In a few months the old margin of profit was not only restored, but increased, for the foundry secured more profitable con- tracts by being able to bid with absolute knowledge of costs, and thus had decided advantages over competitors. These are typical accomplishments of the production Yet they are merely details. His study of a business extends to every department and function, and his conclusions are embodied in a complete report, usually a large, typewritten book with blue prints, forms and diagrams, each department having its separate chapter, with suggestions for economies. Such a report was pre- pared for a Government bureau at Washington. It con- tained so many suggestions for saving time, work and expense that the bureau chief had to ask Congress for a special appropriation to put the more important sugges- tions into operation, While he was waiting for his appro- priation, however, he saved two hundred thousand dollars a year by carrying out some of the minor suggestions. in another case the production engineers went through . large mill, making their report, and when it was sub- mitted they called the president's attention to a little detail of accounting reform, the loss-and-gain account. “Shortly you are going to be very much interested in this account,” said they, and the president found it true Up to that time his plant had been operated wholly on information derived from an annual inventory, as is the engineer “tor HE young doctor had been jilted, and didn’t like it. The first case he had lost ince he came to Carthage was his own. ILLU He could find no anodyne for a broken heart, no splints for a compound fracture of his trust in humanity. He woke each morning to another day of iseless existence-——for what was the use of existing out Her? Each morning he dawdled down the boarding-house stairs to his soggy oatmeal with its and its blue cream—and they tasted like But one morning ust before he reached his cold ind woolen omelette he was called to the door and eized in the bone-cracking grasp of a young giant from an outlying farm. John Bogen hardly released the doctor long enough to:fetch his equipment, and pringless wagon and lashed the } then haled him to a horses toa gallop The old furrew-plodders were just shedding their vinter coats in spot and they had a moth-eaten look They did not realize that they were racing with a stork and they made the worst possible going of it. The débutant the ranks of fatherhood suffered acutely from stage-fright, but stood up to beat the horses better, nd, between cracks of the whip, yelled to his jouncing passenger that he had tried in vain to get three other physicians end finally in desperation had come to him a last resort Doctor Merrill hung to the iy seat for dear life and, above the rattle of his teeth and the clatter of the rut-tortured wheels, heard only enough to humiliate him a little further When he had safely added one more to the modest census of Carthage he felt like apologizing to the little purple protestant It seemed a dubious favor to bring anybody into a world where in time he would fa!l in love with some girl who, having no heart of her own, ld break | The idiotic young father was excited beyond offering ve the now useless physician back to town, and rill preferred his own feet to another voyage in He picked his way through lanes and vistas whose beauty would have almost moved him to poetry a week a for spring was playing the midwife to every tree ish and meadow, and the air seemed t be filled the inarticulate chuckles of happy babies But all seasons are winter to a cast-off lover town, led him past what was generally admitted to be the handsomest place in Carthage Merrill had seen it often enough, but had taken little Eventually the road, as it entered the note of it beyond a resentment of the fact that the people who owned it -they were known as “the rich Rolstons”’ had called in every doctor in town, except him, to case with many other concerns. This mill turns out several different kinds of goods. Going in the dark from one year’s end to another, the president might be under the impression that he was making more money than last year, only to find that he had made less. Even if he gained in profits it was never definitely known which kinds of goods had earned the extra money, while if a loss was shown he could not certainly put his finger on the item that caused it. The year is too large a unit upon which to transact business in these times—there are only twenty or thirty of such units in the average business man’s life at most. When the production engineers gave him a loss- and-gain account he had definite knowledge of each class of goods from day to day. Reports came from every quarter of the mill, were tabulated, and he could compare a given day’s output with that of any other day, not merely in quantity, but from the standpoints of labor, raw materials, time consumed in processes, and so forth. If he wanted it this information could be presented to him in such ways that he alone knew the whole story. At the outset this system was regarded with suspicion by foremen. Those exact reports, calling for detailed statements of each minute of time, every ounce of materials and every item of completed work, seemed a sort of spy system. But when results began to come in to the presi- dent and go back to the foremen in the shape of orders and suggestions the latter became as interested in the loss- and-gain account as himself. In the old days, after an annual inventory, if there wasa gain in profits the president would, perhaps, increase each foreman’'s salary, going largely by the number of years Tom and John and Bill had been with the mill. If there was a loss he called them all together and gave them a lecture on the importance of economy, diligence and other abstract virtues, and sent them back to work to find the STRATED BY LESTER Cicely Tansey Singing Like a Seraph on a Sunny Cloud prescribe for their only child, a bedridden sufferer these six months from some baffling ailment It was a homey establishment, the Rolston place, neither town house nor country house, and of no special architecture. Humble as it would have looked in a city, it seemed a bit too splendid for Carthage. It was the char- acteristic mid-Western residence of its period, a red-brick April 23,1910 cause of trouble and correct it. They had no means of finding it, naturally —he couldn't find it himself. But the loss-and-gain account changed all that. It showed definitely that on this batch of goods, made last week, the cost of manufacture had been three cents per hundred higher than the cost of identically the same quantity and kind a month before. The foreman respon- sible for those goods could be called in and given a chance to explain matters. ‘‘Why, Mr. Smith, that low cost last month was on account of the way our enamel worked. We never had such a fine lot of enamel. Everything seemed to run like a dollar clock. But this month we're having trouble. The last job didn’t go through as smooth.”’ ‘‘Well, now, suppose you experiment a little with your enamel. Send down to Biggs’ laboratories and get a chemical analysis. If we can get that kind of enameling right along it will mean a good deal to us in the way of contracts.” This gave the foreman something definite to work upon. Under the old inventory system there were a thousand or more ratholes down which that three cents a hundred might have disappeared and nobody have been able to locate it. But the loss-and-gain account showed precisely the rathole to be investigated, and usually the foreman succeeded in plugging it up and trapping the rat. If he set a standard of quality or economy he was held to it. But the president knew how great an advance such new standards meant, and knew who was entitled to credit. Soon there was a different spirit in that. plant, because the men knew they were now working on accurate infor- mation and that credit for good work or blame for bad would fall exactly where it belonged. The engineers had planned a loss-and-gain account, but what developed (Concluded on Page 48 ) Merrill’s Miracle By RUPERT HUGHES RALPH house with a mansard roof and a square frame porch in front of a double center door In its youth the type was thought hand- some, and it is less ugly now than the most of the Queen Anne spatterwork that displaced it. There is a dignity in smooth walls, big windows, big rooms, high ceilings, and simple masses that time handles ruthfully. Nobody criticises a pair of old slippers or a faded armchair, and this school of architecture soothes and disarms rather than defies criticism But now there was a gloom about the big house. It vas this that made it attractive to Merrill. He slack- ened his pace to a slow walk, for today it gave him comfort instead of pique. The father and mother, whom he remembered seeing so often on the porch, nodding back and forth in their rockers, were there as usual, bundled up to breathe the new spring air. As usual, they seemed neither to heed each other nor any passer-by; their thoughts, no doubt, absorbed by their one child, wasted and imprisoned in some room upstairs A great tree bowed across the walk and the breeze made it dodder with senility. The shrubs set here and there had a cemeterial regularity on the cemeterial lawn. An old man at work digging flower-beds in the soft ground seemed a sexton rather than a gardener. Even the dog was a morose and decrepit animal, re- clining on the porch and staring into space with the saddest of eyes. Merrill realized that he had never seen the dog at play, never heard it bark. If it ever wagged its tail it was like waving the plume ona hearse Young Merrill took a melancholy joy in the general gloom. It suited his mood as weeds suit a fresh grief, as elegies delight young poets and tear-compelling pickles enrapture girls. He loved it because it was bitter. It seemed so much worthier than all this im- becile hysteria of springtime frolic in the air, in the leaves, in the peopie, in the very dust that went pirouetting in tiny whirlwinds down the streets for no particular reason. As he neared his office he lifted his hat with magnifi- cent coldness to Miss Cicely Tansey. And she, too, was giggling to herself as if she were the very muse of spring. Everybody seemed to be idiotically happy about some- thing, except the Rolston place and himself. Cicely Tansey was a nice enough girl, no doubt —and looking unusually well today, he thought parenthetically —but she was the boon companion of Enid Layton, and it was Enid Layton who had jilted him, broken her engagement because he had been called away from a party to save a life, and she would have had to go home alone if Ralph Wickham hadn’t beaued her. And they were engaged before they parted at the gate!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The more Merrill thought of her treachery the more he thought he hated Enid Layton. He was through with lov- ing her--he was sure of that—but he wondered why he could not stop thinking of her. If only he could stop meeting her! But there was no avoiding these ordeals by confrontation. In a town the size of Carthage the inhabitants pass each other incessantly, unless they are sick abed. When Enid Layton was not lolling about, tittering at Ralph Wickham’s inanities, she was pretty sure to be in the com- pany of Cicely Tansey, and the portion of their talk that Doctor Merrill heard as he passed was practically always: **And he said to me,” or *‘ And I said to him.” He wondered if they never thought of anything but Him-and-Me topics By-and-by he noticed that Cicely Tansey was smiling rather pleasantly to him when they met; and sometimes as his eyeball ran to the corner to peek at the indifferent Enid, his glance would find Cicely Tansey’s eyes stealing a glanceathim. And now he began to think a good deal of Cicely Tansey. Day by day his estimates of her passed from ‘‘ not so bad-looking”’ to “‘ rather good color”; from ‘‘nice eyes”’ to ‘‘sweet ex- pression’’; from ‘‘regular features’’ to ‘beautiful profile’; and on up the ther- mometer via ‘‘ good-hearted, good-looking, pretty, charming, exquisite, fascinating, most beautiful girl in town” to ‘‘most ravishing creature in the world.” i T WAS difficult, during the efflorescence of these symptoms, not to stop fora word or two, to walk part-way home with her, to see her all the way home, to take her to a party, finally to go ** buggy-ridin’ As the local druggist, Mr. Coakley, com- mented one day: ‘‘In smali towns, Doc, you'll find that folks is slow marriers, but quick engagers.”’ Before the young farmer’s brand-new baby was able to sit up like a full water- bottle Doctor Merrill and Cicely Tansey were affianced. And she took an interest in his profession that delighted him. It contrasted with Enid Layton’s resentment toward his career as altruism contrasts with selfishness In fact, Doctor Merrill found that Cicely and Enid had been whatever is the feminine equivalent for ‘‘ chums” —if there is any feminine equivalent — Cicely differed from Enid in nearly every point of opinion and character Cicely would listen for hours to Doctor Merrill's accounts of his problems, ask the most intelligent questions, show the live- liest interest It was a long time dawning on the young doctor that his sweetheart’s curiosity was less academic than personal. It was not the malady so much as the patient and the patient's home life and personal affairs that kept her alert Cicely Tansey, however unconsciously, was using him as a sort of glorious gossip and —whether ingenuously or ingeniously he could not tell—pumping him of the most intimate family secrets in town The realization horrified him, and he blamed her for a dangerous creature. This, of course, made her all the more fascinating Then he ceased to blame her and blamed himself not only for what Carthage calls a blabmouth, but for a traitor to his professional ethics He tried to avoid talking to her of his patients. Cicely would not give up the fat subject. At length he told her flatly that he must not discuss such matters with her She did not storm and upbraid him as Enid would have done. She just snuggled closer, rolled her wonderful orbs his way and sighed: ‘*“You’re right, dear. I wouldn't interfere with your duty for worlds. I'll be just your sweetheart, and soothe you when you're worn out and comfort you in your dark hours of trial. But I'll never ask a single question.” It is a promise that women have given before. Fairy stories and histories are full of it, but there is no recorded case of the promise being kept. The men, however, always believe it. Perhaps the women believe it, too, when they make it. But Cicely Tansey was no revolutionist. She could not be the first woman to annihilate curiosity. She continued as before to show an intense interest in Doctor Merrill’s patients. And he learned from one or two hair- raising incidents that she could disseminate gossip as well while as acquire it. He realized again how dangerous it is for a man to love, how more than dangerous for a physician. But even the best of doctors were once young and human, and Doctor Merrill was as yet hardly anything else The fascinations of Cicely Tansey more and more enmeshed him. She would have seemed winsome and pretty and many things attractive in any city In the small parish, against the limited competition of Carthage, her charms were multiplied by their rarity till * became and ‘attractive irresistible She had a demure, domestic, hearth-rug, ar fancy-stitching sort of appeal that suggested ho a center-table with a lamp and magazines on When Doctor Merrill thought of her he thought of her as his helpmeet, his cozy housewife. She was willing, too winsome ‘ bewitching,” ** pretty ** divine and ‘*I'm homesick for the home we're to have,”’ she said “If only I could get a littie more money! ‘But your practice is growing wonderfully. You're on the go all the time ‘*But nobody pays, the grave, and when I ‘I save them fron bill they're he TOW led present my terian rhey're na\ they'd just love to say burning gut the Rolstons « est in the re I'n No, but it yet into the ct chi Maybe I'll stra take Sunday n the hymnbo« Mir he'll \ nerse ind she'll en mi t And I'l i hte And she mewhere befor« nothir PET } l | t eve | Ippose very bod And | D Mi la he i Wi 1 ] (ot t en ne t I \ I Guess a Doctor Has No Right to i ‘ I rme Love Anybody people hink e n | ‘ danger and my work is ancient hist Besides, I don’t young mar i} he ve late seem to get the best people really ought t rv } nd I’: ‘*But you're so young, dearie,”’ she pleaded, defending daughte or d Ar he him lovably against himself. ‘‘And you've been her I see iD Merrill ltr short a time “If I could only get a chance to do one big piece I il I'd show ’em who's who in Carthage he r led t - CICELY TANSEY had ‘ was not the technical language of Galen or Lister religion as a « rp he she grasped his meaning the belief that she ' he t Suddenly she dug her exquisitely-tended nails into inder a steeple and by the lief tha wincing arm and cried: ood I ht come the sich I've got it!” heal ild get a home H , What have you got? et to rr} make it d ‘The very idea!—an inspiration! The Rolstor é rhe ever rived I risit the richest folks in Carthage, and the hter has beer cheme. She is We me eve ill for months and months. Nobod hat’s the Presbyteriar hen espec matter with her. If only you par ilar ‘ i ' he “Yes, know. But they'd never call me t f the ext Sunday mort ne ‘ did I'd fail Why, thev'’ve had eve aoct for mule nd é r ‘ around! } he aisle She reached © eT ] “They're all old fogies but ; ind k sh n the farthe rner He kissed her for that, but he shook his he pause , nea , ** And they've had big specialists here S ! int pe ! ‘ Chicago if none of ther a cure t U ae i ( ‘ ‘You couldn't fail, m ilove! he? rl ¢ | th rh the 1 gaze of idolatry Ir ! Ir He kissed her and hugged her ag ‘ p t arms hard about her delicate boc | ‘ ne Y } i resolution. Somehow, her blind ‘ ( nd } belief in himself, as a little shining e thr ilm« to prodigies of valor Our daughte ‘ ‘Tf I could see her I might cure he ere he } } t} “*T might! “ e pastor , } ‘You would!” she insisted ped through the bi ‘It would bea glorious thing to eed where big fel- pec cle 1jmost ¢ t lows failed It would be the making of me He DOKE nd nterfered I with the exalted hunger of for fame and victory rt the ground It id be the mat They're rich. They'd pa It would estat h me Do Merrill dreamed i a In the ite he en But he was flutte I ex d move ir a ‘ ‘*And you could rent tt me Fx ] he had é ect the tall timbe to the le dea But é i nde I . aril i Ihe d I tina tl Che € t { her han convitr I can't nack al would be ur ‘I'll man ‘Why, yv bow to ‘No, but church ‘But you're a Uni d k ther | e 1 : il ted Pre spea the two churches don't ' I'll go over and dally with ~J 4 vr e place in n Then niee girl e bened dear et t Oh Ar e tried " ‘ ildn'teve he Al 1 Ayal i 1 m ! ‘ h that me r ik t ne iad ! { ] herself | intrigue ‘ ne t? 1 ind the phe i | cerry a) he e a

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number a slim, white, smooth young hand passed an open book across their withered hands, and a gentle voice said: ‘**Won’'t you take this?’ Then she found the place for herself in another book; and when the organ prelude was over, and the choir was well under way, and the old couple were making certain sad squeals and grunts which they meant rather as religion than vocalism, suddenly they heard alongside a silvery thread of girlish song. Stealing a glance askance they saw Cicely Tansey looking her best in her Sunday clothes and singing like a seraph ona sunny ¢ loud Again, as they realized how fair she was, slender, erect, wide-eyed, with a round breastful of song pouring from her red lips, the old couple stopped sing- ing and, when the hymn was ended, sank back to their cushions, miserably covetous. ‘Can our Dora ever be like that again? Will she ever stand here with us—and sing?” Mrs. Rolston whispered it to her husband. And he only cast his eyes upward as if the sole hope were from there The sermon was about the raising of the daughter of Jairus, and the preacher made it almost intolera- ble with his insistence that such miracles might be every-day experience if only souls could be found with faith as large asa mustard seed. The old couple blamed themselves for their daughter's helplessness upon her bed, and they tried to have faith as one might try to make his heart beat faster by just deter- mining that it should When the service was over and they turned to leave the church Cicely, who had thought that the preacher would never have done, waited in vain to have them speak to her. Then she made bold to ask after the ailing daughter and with crafty carelessness to insin- uate Doctor Merrill's name and fame into their minds So well did she play her part that the mother went all a-flutter. The sermon had made her hungry fora miracle and she wanted no delay. She proposed to her husband that they stop at Doctor Merrill's office and take him in their carriage immediately to the bedside Cicely could hardly believe the runaway success of her plan, and she was upset by the knowledge that Doctor Merrill would not be at his office. He would be loitering near the curb, waiting to walk home with her She followed the Rolstons down the steps, then gathered herself together and volunteered a statement: “If you'll excuse me, I think that’s Doctor Merrill standing there now He's very young, isn’t he? little sickening of hope *That’s why he’s so successful!"’ Cicely explained with a desperate boldness. ‘It's his youth and his courage and his —his new methods ‘**T wonder how we can meet him?" said Mrs. Rolston. Then she turned to Cicely. ‘Do you know him, my dear?’ ‘S-lightly,”’ Cicely faltered Would you mind ? “Not at all!’ As all three moved upon the unsuspecting young man Cicely was heliographing wild messages to dissemble by working her eyebrows. But Merrill advanced with only lovelight in his eyes. Fortunately, both the Roistons were shortsighted and never dreamed of suspecting the pretty young girl as a sort of drummer for the young doctor Oh, Doctor Merrill,” said Cicely with her coldest tore, ‘ will you come here a moment?” As if he were not already coming his fastest! She made the presentation in the best Carthage form Mr. and Mrs. Rolston, Doctor Merrill Doctor Merrill, Mr. and Mrs. Rolston Pleased to meet you,” said Merrill, befuddled by Cicely'’s manner. The old hands of the Rolstons took his and clung to it asif it werea rope of rescue Mrs. Rolston drew him aside to the grass of the lawn while the congre- gation jostled by This young lady has been telling us that you are a very clever doctor He flushed with guilt They took it for mode ty Before he quite got his bearings he was in the carriage, the old Rolston horse was stumbling on the way and the old Rolston dog following like a pall-bearer Merrill cast a hungry look back at Cicely, but she was beaming with triumph and waving him good-by and good the mother said witha luck Iv H* SAT on the back seat with Mrs. Rolston, and Mr Rolston sat with the old driver, but he twisted around and the two parents recited antiphonally the story of their daughter's change from a beautiful, joyous, hale and vivacious girl to a wan, living corpse that had lain in her bed for half a year, unable to move her limbs Knowing Carthage, Doctor Merrill knew that “limbs” did not include the arms, for, in Carthage, if one must refer to such things one refers to ‘‘the arms and limbs.” THE “T'll Never Ask a Single Question” By the time they had reached the solemn old house they had succeeded chiefly in reducing the doctor to a state of profound uneasiness and distrust of his own resources. The parents had plainly given their lives to the attend- ance upon their only child, their stricken dove. The sick- room was as luxurious as a sick-room could be. The wall-paper was a riot of trellised roses. The windows were many and blazing with the noon sun, tempered by swaying curtains like whipped cream. A woman, evidently a nurse, who had evidently been reading, closed her book and rose respectfully: “This is Doctor Merrill, dear—and Miss Lang. The bed was a noble structure of an old wood, and on the pillows a young woman’s head turned drearily to greet the incomer. The eyes, wide with languor, widened farther as if with amazement. Doctor Merrill supposed that this was because he was so much younger than the other members of the vain procession through that room. Sick people were constantly greeting him with a look of disappoint- ment and distrust on account of his immaturity. It was one of his great handicaps. But it flashed across him that Miss Rolston was not exactly disappointed. Still, her eyes were so dreary and her voice so faint that he could hardly be sure The parents had called their daughter's ailment “ creep- ing paralysis," and they could not image the slow climb of death with such philosophy as Socrates revealed while he watched the hemlock annul him from the feet upward Doctor Merrill expected to meet some form of motor paralysis. He had dismissed any idea that it was of cerebral origin, because paralysis of such origin generally affects one side of the body and follows an apoplectic or epileptic attack. The case, as he had extracted it from the parents, showed no such history. The girl, in a doleful whisper, which he must bend close to hear, said that she could not remember just how the trouble began. All she knew was that she found herself, one day, unable to move her feet or her knees When the doctor prepared to make an examination the father left the room, the mother went to the farthest window and the nurse stood half-averted. The physician forgot his youth in the solemn, impersonal intensity of his research, but the girl could not forget, and she hid her face in the hollow of her arm Doctor Merrill found no sign of atrophy in the muscles. This banished the theory of peripheral paralysis from a mishap to any of the nerve trunks. There was left the theory of spinal origin. The fact that the legs were involved tended to support this. The absence of atrophy in the muscles was neither proof nor disproof. ‘I should like to confirm my diagnosis with further tests,"’ he said. ‘‘I will come back with electrical appa- ratus.”’ This was partly an excuse to be absent and think; to consult his books and to brush up his memory of what he had learned in school and met in his hospital ap- prenticeship. Mrs. Rolston insisted on his taking the SATURDAY EVENING POST April 23,1910 carriage to and from his office. In the driver's opinion he spent an unconscionable time finding his machinery, and he showed small inclination to chat. When he returned, the electric shocks he sent along the nerve wires produced the normalreactions. Some- times this was the case with true paralysis; yet he preferred some cther diagnosis. But what? All his tests deepened his confusion and as fast as one symptom suggested a theory another contradicted it. Merrill felt chagrin and failure, and he longed to get away from the hungry espionage of the parents, the critical cynicism of the nurse, and the unrespons- ive presence of the girl, who kept her eyes closed and blushed to her lashes To confess his ignorance was bad medicine and bad business. At every turn he was met with a blank wall. The girl had all the look of health save its roseate glow, and that lack could be due to seclusion and immobility. Her muscles were too mellow, even for a young woman of indolent habit, but here again the lack of use was explanation enough. The flesh was wholesome, the skin fine, the muscles palpably sound, the nerves carried electric impulses without reluctance. He could see no reason why the girl should be help- less. He could see no reason why those shapely legs should not have carried her about the house,through the town, through the violet-spangled woods; why her exquisite feet might not have fluttered in the dance; why she might not have raced with Atalanta. Yet here she lay, here she had lain, ina torpor, answering the thrill of youth no more than the dead logs in the woods answered the call of spring. What was he to do? In his murky ignorance he suddenly felt more respect for the physicians of the town. He realized why they had retired in defeat and confusion. He wondered no longer why the ex- perts from the cities had gone back to their trains with purses fatter, but with humbled pride. Still, hope springs eternal in the doctor's breast as else- where and Merrill felt that, somehow, or somewhere, he would find a cause and, finding that, devise a remedy. He took refuge again in evasion and, forcing a smile of confidence, promised good results from a course of treat- ment which he would prescribe. One of the first steps was to encourage that faint spark of interest which seemed to darkle in the ashes of her soul With that brisk cheerfulness which is known as a good sick-room manner he said: ‘Instead of lying cooped up in that bed all day we'll have her by the window for an hour or two at first. This spring air will’be a tonic in itself. You might roll that big armchair up, Miss Lang.” The transshipping of the meager frame from bed to chair involved no great exertion, and he asked Miss Lang to lift the feet. He raised the body from the bed and stepped back. As he did, his heel caught in the rug; he lost his balance and toppled In spite of his violent effort his burden escaped his hands, and her feet slid from the nurse's grasp. It wasa short fall and no harm was done, but it confused him to be so awkward, so inexpert. He flushed and bent to pick the girl up; then he paused as he crouched, for her posture on the rug amazed him. She lay frightened and helpless, but her knees were flexed as if they had uncon- sciously relaxed to break the fall. A thought sank into his heart like the plunge of a knife: If she were truly paralyzed no such primeval impulse could have flashed along those useless nerves; her legs would have flopped like a doll’s. And yet it was just possible that the twist of her body and the shock of the impact might have jarred her into that position of defense It was just possible. The idea that had brushed his mind with its wing did not linger. He raised the girl to the chair, dispelled the alarm of the parents and trundled the chair to the window. “Well, Doctor ” the father asked tremblingly. “T think I can cure her,”’ he said in a rash impulse. ‘Oh, you can!" the mother cried. “When? When?” ‘Eventually,’ he said, with a return to caution. He prescribed a tonic of equal parts of cinchona and gentian, with a trace of strychnia. It could not hurt and it was bitter enough to be convincingly uncomfortable He was about to disguise its acridity, but on some fleeting whim left it raw. “T'll come tomorrow,” he said and, taking the limp, cool hand, looked deep into the wide eyes and said: “‘ We are going to get well — with each other's help Her eyes seemed to point with a little will-o’-the-wisp of light and again he felt that curious, that uneasy idea that she was interested less in herself than in him. But the light vanished and she lowered her lashes till he was gone. ‘ ‘ V E LEFT the house, feeling an irony in the almost affectionate manner of the father and mother, and turned back to town. He would call upon Cicely Tansey. She at least was hale and unquestionably alive.

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He was wakened from a troubled reverie by the ay ing clatter of awagon. He looked back t 3 »see John B THE pail Fen, Senior, uncomfortably Sundayed up, standing in his ratt] box and lashing his amazed plow-horses to a secular rur “Hey, Doc!” the fellow yelled. ‘ You're the very man I want to see Hop in and come home with me, for the Lord's sake. Baby's dying, I guess.”’ He got in and endured another bone *King gallopade into the country The child's voice was audible from i and its s scarlet wit! pain of Vv hich it made 1 ecret Bogen, Junior, wa ifferir ma distres ctor greeted almost with delig! Its cause ¥ primitively simple and y the least pra i of parents would have fetched a doctor for it It was worth the journey, however, to find an ailment he could end at once It gave him new confider himst though it was a plain question of infantile physiolog d not a riddle in the hyper-eccult physio-psychology of a maturing woman. Ina few minutes the new Bogen beaming like a little moon after an eclipss The new mother wa » grateful that she tried to the doctor but he dodged. This time the new father remembered t offer him a ride back ‘If you'll drive slow,” said Merrill, and Bogen promised But slow riding in that wagon was slow torture On the way between fresh-plowed fields where the flowers had been topsyturvied with the weeds ther a few shabby farmhouses One ol these Was Dut a hollow and blackened shell “When was the fire ’ said Merrill * Last night “ Anybody hurt? “ Nope Funny, too. It cured old Mrs. Merklin “Cu-cured o-old Miss-2z M-Mer-k-k-lin!” said rill, the it of him words glugging ol “Yep Folks thought she wouldn't never move again. Laid there in her bed two years, a | less paralettic i iral; ed G 1e W is ossified! Ye \ though, Pop Merklin had to g ‘ook his daughter with him On the way back, late is the made that rise of ground vonder tne nougnt the In W ett walt Come to find out it wv their owt aunty afin all hemloc “They run Roof fell piece off and they gave up Maw Merklin for expectin to find any more cinders Bu out br In White vy vod ind lo t he want of her than a few there she ors wee gate with |} as a-sevclin er nightgown flappin’ in the wind * Pop Merklin tho he ghost fust off, but sl ays, proud as a child ist learned to wal ‘Hello, Pop!’ He halts a safe dis tance away and s kind of Phat yoi ul ever git out here (luni through the winder; how'd you : I And he says ‘How d\ ju ever manage to do ; And Says she: ° Well, I just nache 1) had to eautious S$ pose SAVS she “When Pop ed that she'd been ] these years and Ise work and payin bi and doctors and thi It] givin’ her a larrupin he whip. If his daughter been there he'd ‘a’ dons But old man Merklin’s so all-fired mad at her he can't git glad she cured > 1 +] ) nal Bogen laughed till the clatter o is diaphragm drowned the wagon but Doctor Merrill was with thought. The miracle in the least improbable solemn was not ] | An old doctor in his home town had vitalized an « t several years lying by nate pseudo-paralytic of and her bed out into the yard and setting the bed, tress and all, on fire It flashed across Doctor Merrill’s mind that Miss Rolston was nothing more nor less than a malingerer condition was the result of a tremendous perversi magnificent patience wasted on an idiotic ambition, fanatic stubbornness of a balky be flayed alive than budge He saw through it all. No wonder he had been my) fied. In his hospital practice he had met enou Mer- ybst aking her mat- Dora Her V a the nuie tnat would rather } i I SATURDAY EVENING POST the most ncor table mr r ri t ceivable excuse ind | i 1 but the mecha ‘al Tes] ‘ \ ne ! id a , a 4 it n t t r i her de-« is id a 4 that le-~eve : , the ir! LD af i nd ed i Ss i phira n é en ad i He gre t 1 t i é had been duped. Ther ey} ‘ in good compa Me | ‘ tl experience had » bee of this extraordinar ‘ Then Mer lost th ever at « 1’ rr Lhe I id me | T ‘ ‘ t r act poohed misery and lered her i one declined ( f¢ i re it refuted eir theorte b ema Bu nad the pare ed a seemed so m vorse t ni i Vi IS outraged pride w t agit hen he escaped from J n | r ragin NW fhe he i ne do ell the i t me ( ‘ came I ) m and dr ivyved nin pari i complete antithe f il she led him wit! hese questior see her What doe @& LOOK IKE Cant VE What is hone ne matter t er Ca cure ne n he found himself forbidden to answer, for bidden | i dozen reasor It wa mp imp YT js Hi } She Stood Erect, Amazed, Enchanted him to describe what he had seer hat he had decided {fe had been taken into the famil ‘ citade not a blindfolded enen but as an all rr. His dut u name He nque t y byl t nrot t } . ‘ nrot ; 9 stliIonaDbil >D ca n t » pl ‘ t t less patient from public } hielded mse rom C ice annor 1, Cal lé ist veé er e pressed him further 1 i thre hin to confu ! ( il mu He ed eve He B iu Hi | he ! j M i ) ! Continus i , l ‘ nd If j ‘ 1 the entence el rhe ‘ } he i « ew i j hor ind werse don l 1 towr marent para pital where nd he had Te | re I re i imme nd laid or ne? LIne! eT! t¢ 1 marching ! \ } i rm i at wi ‘

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HE LA O, SIREE, sir,’’ Abe Potash ex- claimed, as he drew a check to the order of his attorney for a hundred and fifty dollars; ‘I would positively go it alone from now on till I die. Noble- stone, I got my stomach full with Pincus Vesell, already, and if Andrew Carnegie would come and tell me he wants to go with me as partners together in the cloak and suit business, I would say ‘No,’ so sick and tired of partners I am.”’ For the twentieth time he examined the dissolution agreement that had ended the firm of Vesell & Potash, and then he sighed heavily and placed it in his pocket **Cost me enough, Noblestone, I could assure you,”’ he said ‘A hundred and fifty ain’t much, Potash, for a big lawyer like Feldman,” Noblestone commented Abe flipped his fingers in a gesture of deprecation “That is the least, Noblestone,”’ he rejoined. ‘First and last I bet yer I am out five thousand dollars on Vesell. That feller got an idee that there ain't nothing to the cloak and suit business but auction pinocle and taking out-of-town customers to the theayter. Hard work is something which he don’t know nothing about at all He should of been in the brokering business.”’ : ‘‘The brokering business ain't such a cinch, neither,” Noblestone retorted with some show of indignation. ‘‘A feller what's in the brokering business has got his troubles too, Potash. Here I've been trying to find an opening for a bright young feller with five thousand dollars cash, y'understand, and also there ain’t a better designer in the business, y’understand, and I couldn't do a thing with the proposition. Always everybody turns him down. Either they got a partner, or they're like yourself, Potash, they just got through with one which done ’em up good.’ If you think Pincus Vesell done me up good, Noble- stone,’’ Potash said, ‘‘you are mistaken. I got better judgment as to let a lowlife like him get into me, Noble- stone. I lost money by him, y’understand, but at the same time he didn’t make nothing, neither. Vesell is one of them fellers what you hear about which is nobody's enemy but his own “The way he t Noblestone replied ‘*he ain't such a good friend te you, neither ‘He hates me worser as poison,’’ Abe declared fervently put that ain't neither here nor there Noblestone i'm content he should be my enemy He's the kind of feller what if we would part friends, he would come back every week and touch me for five dollar yet The feller ain't got no money and he aint got no judg ' ment, neither But here is a young ft ller which he got lots of com- mon-sense and five thousand I eash,”’ Noblestone went on. “Only | one thing which he } aint Abe nodded 1 seen lot them fellers in my time, Noblestone | he said ' Every thing about em 1 all right excepting one thing and that's alway a Killer ‘Well, tl ne thing ain't a killer | at all Noblestone rejoined He as knows the cloak I Don't Want to Buy No Blue - busines Ring Neither THE SATURDAY LY With Morris Perlmutter in D EVENING POST ILLUSTRATED BY G. C. April 23, 1910 By Montague Glass WIDNEY the Réle of the Glowworm ‘*Well, Noblestone,’’ Zudrowsky cried, as the broker entered the showroom of Zudrowsky & Cohen, ‘‘ what did he say ?”’ ‘‘He says he wouldn’t consider it at all,”’ Noblestone answered. ‘He ain’t in no condition to talk about it, anyway, because he feels too sore about his old partner, Pincus Vesell, who done him up to the tune of ten thousand dollars.” In Noblestone’s scheme ‘of ethics, to multiply a fact by two was to speak the truth unadorned. ‘“*S'enough, Noblestone,” Zudrowsky cried. ‘‘If Potash lost so much money as all that, I wouldn’t consider him at all. One thing you got to remember, Noblestone. Me, I am putting up five thousand dollars for Harry Federmann, and what that feller don't know about business, Noblestone, you could take it from me, would make even you a million- aire, if you would got it in your head.”’ Noblestone felt keenly the doubtful- ness of Zudrowsky’s compliment, but for “I Should of Ordered an Umbrella Instead ef a Glass of Water Already" from A to Z, and he’s a first-class, A-number-one feller for the inside, Potash; but he ain’t no salesman.” **So long as he’s good on the inside, Noblestone,’’ Abe said, ‘‘it don’t do no harm if he ain’t a salesman, because there's lots of fellers in the cloak and suit business which calls themselves drummers, y'understand. Every week regular they turn in an expense account as big as a doctor's bill already, and not only they ain’t salesmen, Noblestone, but they don’t know enough about the inside work to get a job as assistant shipping clerk already.’ “Well, Harry Federmann ain’t that kind, Potash,” Noblestone went on. ‘‘ He's been a cutter and a designer and everything you could think of in the cloak and suit business Also the feller’'s got good backing He's married to old man Zudrowsky's daughter and certainly them people would give him a whole lot of help.” **What people do you mean ?”’ Abe asked ‘*Zudrowsky & Cohen,” Noblestone answered. ‘‘ Do you know ‘em Potash?" Abe laughed raucously **Do I know ’em?” he said. ‘‘A question! Them peo- ple got a reputation among the trade which you wouldn't believe at all. Yes, Noblestone, if I would take it another partner, y'understand, I would as lief get a feller what's got the backing of a couple of them cutthroats up in Sing Sing, so much do I think of Zud- rowsky & Cohen.” ‘* All I got to say to that, Potash, is that you don’t know them people; otherwise you wouldn't talk that way.” ‘*Maybe I don’t know ’em as good as some concerns know ‘em, Noblestone, but that’s because | was pretty lucky. Leon Sammet tells me he wouldn’t trust that combination with the wrapping paper on a C. O. D. shipment of two dollars.” Noblestone rose to his feet and assumed an attitude of what he believed to be injured dignity. ‘Il hear enough from you, Potash,”’ he said, ‘‘and some day you will be sorry you talk that way about a concern like Zudrowsky & Cohen. If you couldn't say noth- ing good about ‘em you should shut up your mouth.” ‘* [could say one thing good about em, Noblestone,’’ Abe retorted, as the business broker opened the 't ashamed good old-time names like Zudrowsky and Cohen.” This was an allusion to the cir- cumstance that °° Philip Noble- stone” had once been ‘ Pesach Edelstein and the resounding bang with which the broker closed the door behind him was gratifying evidence to Abe that his parting shot had ore door. ‘* They of ac iple of ite Diamond i i Sta cet lack of a suitable rejoinder he contented himself by nodding gravely ““So I wouldn’t want him to tie up with a feller like Potash what gets done up so easy for ten thousand dollars,” Zudrowsky went on. ‘‘What I would like, Noblestone, is that Harry should go as partners together with some decent, respectable feller which got it good experience in the cloak business and wouldn't be careless with my five thousand dollars. I don’t got to tell you, Noblestone, if I would let Harry get his hands on it, | might as well kiss myself good-by with that five thousand dollars.” Noblestone waggled his head from side to side and made inarticulate expressions of sympathy through his nose ‘How could you marry off your daughter to a Schajs- kopf like Federmann ?”’ he asked “Tt wasa love match, Noblestone,”’ Zudrowsky explained. **She falls in love with him and he falls in love with her. So naturally he ain’t no business man, y’understand; because you know as well as I do, Noblestone, a business man ain’t got no time to fool away on such nonsense.” ‘Sure, I know,’ Noblestone agreed 3ut what makes Federmann so dumb? He's been in the cloak and suit business all his life, ain’t he?”’ ‘What's that got to do with it?” Zudrow sky exclaimed. ‘*Cohen and me got these here fixtures for fifteen years already, and you could more expect them tables and racks they should know the cloak and suit business as Harry Federmann. They ain’t neither of ‘em got the brains, Noblestone, and that’s what I want you to get for Harry some young feller with brains, even though he ain’t got no money.” ‘Believe me, Mr. Zudrowsky,’’ Noblestone replied, “it ain't such an easy matter these times to find a young feller with brains what ain’t got no money, Mr. Zudrow- sky, and they don’t need no partners neither. And anyhow, Mr. Zudrowsky, what ts five thousand dollars for an inducement to a business man? When I would go around and tell my clients I got a young feller with only five thousand dollars they laugh at me. In the cloak and suit business five thousand dollars goes no ways.”’ “‘It don’t go no ways if you are going to open up asa new beginner, Noblestone,”’ Zudrowsky replied; ‘‘ but if you've got a going concern, y’understand, five thousand dollars is always five thousand dollars. There’s lots of business men what is short of money all the time, Noble- stone. Couldn't you find it maybe 4 young feller which is already estai:lisned in business, y'understand, and what needs doch a cle money ¢ Noblestoue slapped his thigh “T got it!” he said. ‘I'll go around and see Sam Feder of the Kosciusko Bank Half an hour later Noblestone sat in the first vice- president’s office at the Kosciusko Bank and requested that executive officer to favor him with the names of a few good business men who would appreciate a partner with five thousand dollars *‘I'll tell you the truth, Noblestone,’’ Mr. Feder said, ‘‘we turn down so many people here every day that it’s a pretty hard thing for me to remember any particular name. Most of ’em is good for nothing either for your purpose or for ours, Noblestone. The idee they got about business is that they should sell goods at any price. In figuring the cost of the output they reckon labor, so much, material, so much, and they don’t take no account of

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST rent, light, power, insurance, and so forth. The conse- quence is they lose money all the time, and they put their competitors in bad, too, because they make ‘em meet their fool prices. The whole trade is cut up by them fellers and sooner as recommend one for a partner for your client, I'd advise him to take his money he ponies with it.”’ Here a boy entered and handed Mr. Feder a ecard “Teli him to come right in,’’ Feder said, and then he turned to Noblestone. ‘‘ You got to excuse me for a few minutes, Noblestone, and I'll see you just as soon as | get through ] As Noblestone left the first vice-president s office he encountered Feder’s visitor, who wore the air of ft apprehension characteristic of a man making his initial visit to a pawnshop. Noblestone waited on the bench outside for, perhaps, ten minutes, when Mr. Feder’s visitor emerged, a trifle red in the face ‘““That’s my terms, Mr. Perlmutter,’’ Feder said ‘*Well, if I would got to accept such a proposition like that, Mr. Feder,”’ the visitor declared, *' bust up first. That's all I got to say.” He jammed his hat down and made for the do **Now, Mr. Noblestone, I am ready for you,’’ Feder cried, but his summons fell on deaf ears, for Noblestone was in quick pursuit of the vanishing Perlmutter. Noble- stone overtook him at the corner and touched his elbow ‘*How do you do, Mr. Perlmutter ? Perlmutter stopped short and wheeled around ‘*Huh?” he said **Thisis Mr. Sol Perlmutter, ain’t it ?’’ Noblestone asked ‘“‘No, it ain’t,’’ Perlmutter replied. ‘*‘My name i Mawruss Perlmutter, and the pair of real gold eyeglasses which you just picked up and would let me have as a bargain for fifty cents ain't no use to me neither ‘I ain’t picked up no eyeglasses,’’ Noblestone said ‘““No?” Morris Perlmutter rejoined. ‘Well, 1 don’t want to buy no blue-white diamond ring neither, so if it I would sooner he exclaimed all the same to you I got business to attend to.’ ‘*So do I,’’ Noblestone went on, ‘‘and this what it Is Also, my name is there, too He showed Morris a card which read as follows PHILIP BUS NOBLESTONE BROKER “GET A PARTNER" 604 EAST STON REET NEW YORK _— ——— - **Don’t discount them good accou he added; ‘‘it ain't necessary Who told you I want to discount some accounts? Morris asked “If I see a feller in a dentist’s chair Noblestone answered, ‘‘ I don't need to be told he’s got the toothache After this, Morris was easily persuaded to accept Noblestone’s invitation to drink a cup of coffee, and they retired immediately to a neighboring bakery “Yes, Mr. Noblestone,’ Morris said, consulting the ecard, ‘*{ give you right about Feder. That feller is worser as a dentist. He's a bloodsucker. Fifteen hundred dol- lars gilt-edged accounts I offer him as security for twelve hundred, and when I get through with paying DeWitt ( Feinholtz, his son-in-law, what is the bank’s lawyer, there \ Bird Should Be Early, Y'understand, Otherwise i ( ‘ n t elves red dollar operat ina he \ ner short of mone Nobk Now, if “ With { Kin iders I uldn t neve be snor With this i luc t Noblestone launched « por of persuasive argumeé ended when Mort Perlr t pron ised ] ch with Z Harry Federmann and Noble Wasserbat S Cale ind est the follow ifternoon ne For the re under otf the ¢ Noblestone interviewed as n he cloak nd suit ide as he cove with respect to Mort mutter’s antecedents, and the s entirely satisfac He tained that Morris had \ up fron up irom Various § cutter, and ni had emp capital th had met wit! closing me tha ilternoon, ne outdid himself ext ! Mort he painted I n- ed aeprecat if t ine t r —— lookyhere, Noble ( enoug! All Iw i wi ild ¢ I t t ill. J t expect no! é I understan { m you, tl f at ti head like Ar t shape like ohn Dre I neve mer ned | name st ep! ‘ and he es ft id replic t olde lothe er nd i you Would be ar nd here I will see that H ets here W assert ler s 1O€ the It is precisely one o’c] Morr erin te ¢ ni Wasserbaue café and resta Ye sir, I ta La dep sited plate 1 | Kle which sat a st middle icked 1n I ne oe? eT r Klops f ‘Pushing he ( lu said “You ¢ et me custome left on the late believe ) f ! it Don't Get No We rms SI Falls in Love With Him and He in Love \ ‘) i Hy ' | With Her

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12 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Insurgency in the SAMUEL G. BLYTHE INNESOTA Republicans are insur- RB ; gent, but they are calm about it. DY With them it is more of a state of mind than an active demonstration of hostility to the Admin- istration, although there are plenty of radicals there who erupt language intended to shrivel and scorch Nor need there be any fear that Minnesota Republicans do not hold views about Speaker Cannon and Representatives home with a banquet and other exercises to their glory. Preparations were under way, and several of the newspapers were supporting the idea, when the old-line politicians went to work. They did not want a reception and they threw cold water on the plan. There was consider- Senator Aldrich and the two isms com- pounded out of their proper names into issues of insurgency that are on all fours with the views held by the insurgent Re- publicansin the other tates near by Minnesota is, its people claim, a low- tariff state. Senator Knute Nelson, when he was in the House ol Repre sentatives voted for the Mills bill, a Democratic low-tariff measure although he was a Republican, repre- senting a Republican constituency, and there was no protest at home. Conse que ntly when Sen ator Nelson declared against the Payne Aldrich bill, and worked and voted rainst it,demanding yenuine revision downward, and when he was followed by Senator Clapp, and by ail but one of the eight Republican Minnesota Representative who also worked and voted against the bill, all were held to be in harmony with the predominant sentiment in the state, iva and all are candidates again for reélection, with the excep- tion of Senator Nelson 1913 The position of the bulk of the Republicans in Min- ward revision and were cheated out of it rhey hold that Cannon and Aldrich and their followers did the cheating, and that is the reason they are so bitterly opposed to Cannonism and Aldrichism, combined, of course, with the firm belief that Cannon and Aldrich repres ! al interests that are held to have been fi stered bv the Dingley tariff and not injured tariff. So far as President Taft is concerned they think he whose term does not expire until nesota is that they were promi ed dow lacked the political sagacity » cope with Aldrich and Cannen in the closing days of the tariff-making, and hasn't shown any political sagacity since. They do not berate for this. There no aspersion and no c are all sorry they have been d ippol n ther r selected by (4 lonel to yo velt to { rik \ him in « tlice ind t igh holding Taft to be a man of the highest honest) and integrity they regret he alk wed himself to be deceived and mar pulated and that he has seen fit to continue in ance With Cannon and Aldric} foreing those esman to do what he war rds, i 1 ng them work rhim he VOT} r with ther The Standpatters Far From Powerless Yigg ed the general feeling. It prevails among more nan a majority f the Republicans of the state rhere ire, however, many old-lin in regular de the ir ent sentimer not s or | red hy he newspaper ind re ndpatte , ever ace y i the In spe of the es of the Republicans of Minne n Congress, on the T bill ne t ese me 4 i lead ndpa te Ld I have latmed j i « I u na few year j Taw y who voted r the P. e-Aldrich | f ynly ¢ that « t who will r be apolk rt vote r} e mer ll have I vere strong et t r 4 lla plan to hold a |} for the Minnesota insurgents It was decided to weleome the insurgent Senators and Senator Knute Nelson able communication between the | insurgents and these old-line lead- | ers, and the opposition became so great that the plan was aban- doned. The reception was not held. That did not mean that the people of Minnesota were not and are not in harmony with the votes and views of the insurgents, but it did mean that the old-line politicians had enough strength to prevent a public demonstration of the fact. These men, the regulars, hold that the Minnesota Representa- tives, or some of them, who voted against the tariff bill were not en- tirely sincere in their final oppo- sition, but wanted to vote ‘‘No” for home-consumption purposes It is claimed that several of the } Minnesota Representatives had given pledges to vote for the bill, | on final passage, if it was found their votes were neces sary to pass the bill I have no knowledge of the truth of this charge, nor any proof of it. It is merely set down here as showing the frame of mind } of the regulars in Minnesota and | as illustrating their idea of the | sincerity of the insurgent move- | ment in the state. | There is no disposition, except among the most regular of the regulars, to underestimate the op- position in Minnesota to Cannon- ism and Aldrichism. That is generally admitted. The rank and file do not like Cannon and do not like Aldrich They think these men and their followers stand for every- thing in politics that is held to be inimical to the rights of the people and they will hold the men who are elected to the House of Re presentatives this fall pe rsonally responsi- ble, and insist they shall vote against Cannon and all his projects There is no difference between the tempers of the Minnesota Republicans, in the bulk, and the protesting Republic ins of the other insurgent states of the Middle West and of the Northwest They are enraged at Cannon not for any specific reason, but because they hold Cannon t be the representative of the special interests They f The real basis of the have the same opinion of Aldrich nsurgency all these states is Cannon and Aldrich Ni igainst Taft. Everybody is sorry for hir he has not shown any independence or They admire him personally and hey hel? .mon probation for a year. Now that his year ver they have settled into the conviction that Taft is 1ot up to the job, and express their sentiments, generally with rie ved Loo bad All of the present Republican members of the House of Representatives from Minnesota are candidates for tate has nine members, of which one Hammond, of the Second District, isa Democrat. Seven of the eight Republicans are insurgent, so far as voting t ff bill goes, and two of them, if I remem- ber correctly, are real insurgents and voted against Cannon at the outset. These are Lindbergh, of the Sixth, and olstead, of the Seventh \ Minnesota has a primary law So far as I could learn there will be no opposition, among I tepublicans, to the renomination of these men, except so ir as district and local causes may bring out other candi- date There is a candidate against Lindbergh, but not he + an insurgent, and there is a candi- date rson. These candidates are in no sense ‘ lar Republicans as protesting against the course of these men in Congress. The regulars hold to their regularity, and will not make issue against the insur- gents by running men against them The one reg the one standpatter of all the Min- nesota Republicans in Congress who voted for the tariff bill and who is running for renomination is James A Tawney, of the First District, chairman of the great Appro- priations Committee, right-hand man of Speaker Cannon } biggest Minnesotan in the House, if and by all odds the Northwe April 23,1910 not in the Congress. Tawney fought for free lumber when the bill was up, and free lumber was wanted by Minnesota. He opposed other features of the bill when it was under discussion, and when the time came to vote voted for it asa party measure and on the ground that, having done all he could to secure the kind of revision his pet ple wanted, he could not, con- sistently, as a Republican holding high place in Congress, vote against the bill Tawney 's district has a good-sized Re publican plurality. He was elected last time by a plurality of twenty-eight hundred and the normal plurality is more than that. He has been in every Congress since the Fifty-third, elected by varying pluralities for eighteen years. The people ol the state are proud of Tawney asa man. They knew him when he was a blacksmith, and they have watched him grow into a big national character with interest and affection More than that, they admire his courage There will be a Republican candidate against Tawney, probably, but it is the general opinion that Tawney will win out. Several of the papers in his district are opposed to him and say he will be defeated, but among the men outside the district who keep close watch on state poli- tics, have good sources of information, and are not biased by the local surroundings the opini n is that he will win Tawney’s Fight the Big Fight AWNEY’S fight will be the big fight in Minnesota. Indeed, it will be national in its character, for Tawney, having voted for the tariff bill, and being chairman of the Appropriations Committee, is a peculiarly shining mark for insurgent opposition. Moreover, Taft is strongly for Tawney, for it was in Tawney’s home town, Winona, that Taft made his speech defending the tariff and, incidentally ’ defending and approving *y’s course. There is no doubt that great efforts will The regu matter, will b r hi tion in his district—due, primarily, to the Roosevelt hostility to Tawney, which was based on Taw ey fight be made to return Tawn all over the state, and outside, for More ver, despite the opposi- against four battlesh ps and other pet Roosevelt projects, and various secret-service and other slants, and intensified by Tawney’s course on the tariff bill—the people of his district like him, are proud of him, and when it comes to the primaries that feeling will have great weight. Asa matter of fact, Tawney is one of the big men in the House, and his district has every reason to be proud of him It was the Winona speech that cemented the insurgent tariff opposition to Mr. Taft in the other insurgent states, as well as in Minnesota. The tariff revisionists were shocked when Taft patted Aldrich on the shoulder, at the beginning of the long swing around the circle, and blew up when he made his Winona speech. Taft made that speech in Winona to help Tawney. He went there and stayed nearly all day to show the people of the First District he Representative J. A. Tawney 0 a

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thoroughly approved of Tawney and hi he helped or hurt will not be known but claims both ways can be heard a-plenty in tk

district. Tawney is making an active fight. His opp ust as active. From the viewpoint of the ir the standpatte rs, either way, this fignt Is one important of the year, at d the outcome will t ith great interest. The political opinion on the fight is like opinion to be ind ever a fight of similar intensity. The Tawney met are sure to win and the insurgents say they } beaten Both express

Of the other Republican candidate Davis, Stevens Nye Volstead and Miller seer reassured of their renominat Lind Steenerson may or may not win their f chances about even it Lindbergh's case na Steenerson, These men are all insurgents sense Some I nem are not Oo AVOW now as they will be before the t a ure people in Minnesot ! I ne larme men, who think one or two of these men

tion, after they are nominated, because regular Republicans to the Democratic cand far as I could discover there is no movement defeat these men in this w i) OT « irse ul faction grows, the regular Repul ins n instances, support the Democrats, but, on the there may be a Den ratic shift to the dates, on the ground that it will be pre the Republicans, and the Democrats can ge it by supporting the insurgents and helping d Taft Administration and Cannon and Aldrict than by wasting votes or Dem«e

The Sentiment as to Clapp NENATOR MOSES E. CLAPP comes up for WJ and will be a candidate for renominatior

maries. Clapp is an insurgent for fair. Since reservation in the wake of Nelsor n the t T been radical, joining with Cummins and sing any Administration measu O} nisd

whether Clapp is helping or hurting himself by led but there entiment that he is going too far Many Rey

‘tion is applauc Minnesota do not like Clapp’s tying up and La Follette It seems that me time spoke in Minnesota and assailed both Nelson while, recently, Clapp made a speech at Milw laudatory of La Follette. A good many Republi state did not like thi

date against Clapp. There \ an opinior that Frank B. Kellogg, had it in his mind to until his work in the Stan who live

finished to announce himsel not be a candidate He has not expressed ! mally and there are leaders who think he has de long Others say there is plenty of time i Honorable Frank B. Kellogg

lh Tt THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

tl Ke } 1 ) al re ta , } € In the Stand rd © St SE he G@ ri mie i ‘ ‘ ( ppat raer r other Minne hor , t Senat p lie we “dd t Minne ¢ e, I mar nd i e¢ ed ever vnere M \ t It e elected n e pres Gover \ () bert be a lidate t ( he vill have op} ! 1 Eberhar Ss lie ena! ‘ ( en Gove rJohr lied, He Republican and Johnsot tf aDemocrat. Jol n’s deat } t ce r ‘ ‘ ite imi r n t e | é it Ji » ri d me ‘ Lp i I ! pee pit wy ‘ ek ( \l é i politic Eberhart S { Swede } ri t ‘ r Ad ph 1 } } ‘ I e be 1 ( e tnere f ( Ad ( n the ‘ . I ! ! i 1, level-headed «¢ er Lhe Senator Moses | Democr t name ! eitne Rey ese! W elas I | f the Second ind } 1) ( Jot i | ( ai ! e n Amer i I von Democr rie Re blican Minnesota d I re r be ‘ ‘ ! h the pene ) scandi S There e campaigt ( mplicated by the r ul é ed } ! ! n M t I r ur optior e be p tecer W isi there w saloon or cout ption convent é St. P 1 Governor Ebert 1} rel p te | tt hir he ¢ , het he ¢ p ' , he S ’ Eberhar Dos ’ exe ‘ » , } e his d Il € ree tne I rn He 1 « t t P} he leg ire si ld } ‘ u A 1 e Mid hly sign it and « ree he did dee é the for hi ot r i he matte ! ne i t Ger entin eemed t 1! it} p } h the « inty ! } é porter nd the! mer i anu re il In Minne elsewhere throug he ny Middle We here j nXle t lone A q ‘ | hen he 1 é ‘ t ‘ present Ad: I tne re Pinel 1 the other a Ta his review. 1 nowledged if Mr. R elt O. J be bad] I led ind the re ! ! | i ! thought tl Mr. Rooseve ; rel ’ ai ? I ‘ before M | eve it ths nok | eo he | ed er Mr. R eve Ir ’ event ref } eT ind ll t be mething. An O. K. for 1 wi" | f rye ise A « ‘ And her 1 there ea i 1 r ! | | | ‘ el R ‘ | kno | bette } ne else vould |t per nd ! t n, ¢l e i Sul t ‘ I I I j I t c R President I ther is, did ( r Rooseve \ tha ift would 1 n i 1 1 th ‘ ( i oper R t ‘ } ! ‘ ue t m act rdir ot cle it. Meantime remeé ed eod 1 ne est | t I le the past y vear been in er lor I K Follette, 1 V Oe 1 I i tl -called Stal ere led f nd ideas <¢ John ¢ » ne ] La Follette rallied around me ed fied with the old order La] \ rs and f nt us to Corpor r nd ! he ¢ himself as Governor and Unites es S Indeed, t} pr t € heer La |} ¢ \\ ? r | no he re } ‘ . j y Car 1A } e\W n Ide La Follett

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They Were Soon Absorbed in a Highly Mirthful Tete HAT time do we feed?" inquired Dunster *“We dine at six o’clock, your lordship,” responded Mrs. Healy, tiie housekeeper, primly. said his lordship up from his chair stiffly and ascended to the re he was quartered When he entered the m again, about one minute of six o'clock, he felt » himself ; be sure Or course His hostess was reading a magazine of nonths previous, and she lolled in a wicker chair, e ina short riding-skirt iy AL Ca ‘For the love of Mike he cried, with engaging , lor, ‘run and take off those clothes. The boys would take a fit if they saw you. Positively they'd start shoot- ‘Oh, I say now, Miss Crosby, you're spoofing me,” ster. ‘‘But that’s not half bad; what? Fancy hootin’ at these. Rather good that Haw!” Miss Crosby sprang to her feet with the lithe ease of twenty and piloted him tenderly by the arm to the door ‘*My friend,”’ she said, with kindly seriousness, ‘‘ run protested Dur on the very oldest suit you have, if you Riding togs would be better—even if A dinner-coat out here! Why, nobody town dare wear onein this country; tne\ buta waiter ina ind the waiters are just as uncertain what they ought to do in them as the rest us **Oh, I say now, Miss Crost Lord Dunster. My aunt and Leah will be “Hurry own in a jiffy. Besides, this isn't dinner. It’s supper S-u-p-her — supper The visitor gave to his | pitched, musical lai nd de parted in gr od hur r to make the suggested change. He was back in a surprisingly short space of time but then he had done little else in thirty years but hange his clothe The other of the house party were athered rawing-roon ind as he pas ed through the hall to join them the Englishman said ‘What an extraordi: guide t day Miss (¢ Fact, I couldn’t.” that was you gave me as ) I couldn't make him out How that asked Agne rancy that. You When we started, you know, I remarked on the Ihy ther were having It pa be civil, you know I va im nhmy wn people | Ink a fe wes it to them, by Jove What ) irse And what did Jim say He i Ye We have lot i weather out here I tr ightitr her asinine what I wonde what he could | eant exclaimed Apne making a frantic grab for ndkerchief They joined the guests and dawdled about, awaiting the summons Besides Mr the afore- ( mentioned, there were present Leah Fuller, a former schoolmate of Agnes’ in St. Louis; young Mr. Pete Gifford, who owned the neighboring ranch, with twoscore thousand head of cattle, and entertained a yhawing desire to annex the Lazy L; and a large individual whom Dunster THE SATURDAY EVENING POST y " N 4 had no difficulty in recognizing as his guide of the afternoon. If he was sur- prised, not a trace of it appeared in his manner **Howdy-do?” ding ‘*How are you?” responded Murray as briefly A horrible clanging in rear of the ranchhouse apprised them that the meal was served, and they trooped into the dining-room in any sort of order, though Dunster mutely insisted that Mrs. Leland and Agnes should precede them all. It was a long, low-ceiled room, almost bare of furniture. Down thecenter ran a pine table, flanked by chairs on one side and by a rough bench on the other. Dunster had experienced astonishment at meeting with Murray among the guests, but his amazement was staggering when he took the place Agnes pointed out to him, for gathered about the board were nine or ten cowboys —coatless, their sleeves plen- tifully besmeared of the blood of calves and the dust of the corral, because the branding of the thoroughbred herd at headquarters had been going forward for three days. But their faces and necks glowed gloriously red from scrubbing, and their hair was plastered down with a beautiful, alluring smoothness he said affably, nod- -a-Teéte ‘*Mr. Dunster,’’ said his hostess, pur- posely dropping the title out of consider- ation for the boys—‘ Mr. Dunster was telling me that he enjoyed his ride immensely, Jim.”’ **Yes?”’ said Jim heavily. ‘‘H'm,” he added, feeling that the occasion, perhaps, demanded something further. Tom Zeigler, the cook, waited on table, assisted by Mrs Healy, who, in the pauses, took her place next to Mr. Gifford and contrived to snatch a measure of nourishment No maids could be kept in that region; they either married or assumed an attitude that proclaimed they held their present jobs as an interesting study in sociology; so, being unbearable, Agnes had long since dispensed with them, and relied on the faithful Tom and Mrs. Healy. Mr. Zeigler never permitted his office to cloud his democratic spirit, but kept up a pleasant conversation with all the diners while he ministered to their wants. “Try some of them frijoles, Mr. Dunster,’’ he urged. “They're right good. Take to ’em.” ** Aw, thanks,”’ said his lordship vaguely. Miss Fuller tittered and besought Tom to bring her another cup of coffee. In a few minutes one of the boys glanced helplessly about the board and, failing to see what he desired, was for going without, when Agnes ran to the kitchen and bore in another large bow] of flour gravy. **Much obliged, ma’am,”’ said the puncher, covering a hot biscuit with dripping spoonfuls Dunster shoved back his chair and hastily possessed himself of the bowl Agnes was offering to the other diners **T say,”’ he expostulated, in a shocked tone, “let me, you know. I'm awful good at this sort of thing. What?’’ Several of us sniggered, but Murray reddened to the roots.of his hair and looked decidediy uncomfortable. It would never have occurred to him to take such a task to himself. In his world women had always done such things yes, the best of them. It was a woman's place to wait onaman. Yet suddenly he felt clumsy and loutish “Have some of this what? Rippin’ good stuff,” said Dunster genially to the man opposite him { i Mr. Dunster,” spoke up Tom Zeigler reproachfully Sometimes I cain't hardly understand you myself. It’s your funny way of pro- nouncin’ words, I bet. Don’t you reckon ?’ Aw, perhaps my accent is a bit rotten,’ admitted the Englishman, grinning Whatever his accent may have been, his generalship April 23, 1910 By George Paitullo ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE GIBBS was excellent, for he bore off Miss Crosby immediately after the meal and they were soon absorbed in a highly mirthful téte-A-téte in the most remote corner of the sitting-room. Mrs. Leland beamed approbation of this arrangement. With whispers and knowing shakes of the head she enticed the others to group themselves near the piano —an absurdly simple maneuver, since Mr. Gifford and Murray were so far removed from ease that they would cheerfully have adjourned to the blacksmith shop, where Mr. Murrav knew ofan especially comfortable bench whereon to while away anidle hour. Yet from time to time Mr. Gifford could not forbear to glance askance through the wide doors in an effort to discover what produced the sounds of revelry proceeding gustfully from the room opposite. Once he was heard to remark that this coun- try was going to the dogs; so many foreigners flocking in. ‘‘T beg your pardon, Mr. Gifford?” interrupted Mrs. Leland in her best manner. ‘‘Nothing, ma’am. I was just trying to think of some- thing I done forgot,’ explained the cowman, recovering himself. He glared at Mrs. Leland suspiciously. For the last two years she had called him Pete and had been glad to do it Why, then, this change to ‘‘ Mr. Gifford”’? ‘*The old woman ain't been the same since she took that trip across,’’ he mumbled to his neighbor. ‘‘She aims to be like the effete East, now Murray smiled and made no response. He did not appear to begrudge the absence of the pair, but devoted himself to informing Miss Fuller of the work of the range ‘** And do they really put those dreadful hot irons on the sweet little calves?’’ she demanded. ‘‘It seems so cruel And I saw the one they call Pink dragging one at the end of a rope yesterday. It was really brutal.” ‘I sure must speak to Pink about that,”’ said the range boss gravely. ‘‘He ought to be more polite to those Do you reckon, ma’am, they’d feel easier in mind calves. if we put em in baskets to carry to the fire? *‘T believe you’re joking, Mr. Murray. But why can’t they tie ribbons to their horns, or to their ears, instead of burning them that way ?”’ **A cow,” explained Mr. Murray carefully, the most ornery creatures that survived the Flood Would you believe it, ma’am? Once when we tied pretty pink bows—such nice ones they were, too—about all our calves’ ears, every cow on the range came trotting in and hung around headquarters three days. Eleven thousand of them, there were.” **What on earth did they do that for? “Just jealousy,” said Mr. Murray, with the calm of truth. ‘* Nothing but plain, common, every-day jealousy. They wanted pretty bows, too, and raised ructions round rere until it wasn’t safe to stir outside the horse pasture. We had to take ’em off the calves.” **How very extraordinary,”’ murmured Miss Fuller. ‘‘They’re vain creatures,’ the boss assured her; *‘awful vain. No, ma’am; a cow is a cow and has to be treated assuch. Anda calf is a calf,and worse. They ‘is one o haven't got our feelings; and branding is the only method we've learned in fifty years of distinguishing property.’ In the other room, Agnes was just as deep in an ex- planation ‘ f cattle-count ry Why, the Lazy L Wouldn't be the Lazy L Without You, Jim. Where are You Going

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST conditions There was a distinction, however. She told l t Dunster what to expect, with fair accuracy cal Now, you saw all our boys eat with us tonight,” she him, ther uid. ‘*My father made me promise to do that always. him dis Most of the large ranch-owners espec il those wit! ine othe ’ families Keep a separate home while the mer sieep and repiy W eat in a bunkhouse. But father was a cowboy himself whistleshr you know —started that way—and I like to be among to the dé them. But Aunt Mary —did you see how she squirmed in Instant her chair? It is positive torture to her Rags aba They exploded into laughter again at the recollection of doned Mrs. Leland’s expression. ‘‘Do you know, I think it’s chase ‘ delightful; simply splendid; rippin’,’’ Dunster e oughly ar “Sort of medieval, you know. The lady of the manor his rope, \ feedin’ among her s. What and pulle ‘I should like to hear any one ¢ ill them h horse sals,’’ she replied, dimpling. ‘* Why, they call me Agne in the direct i |) e De t ‘ ) n ne ‘ Lord | ) t be | } D n the \ » yY t ne ) ‘ produce so fair a flower. He is not an enthrallir for every ‘ companion, and there ere time hen M Crost Gra I ic! ’ ‘ é I i ‘ problet ur ny ine ] el mh t ‘ ! ‘ t 4 \ he hat no ' re ‘ ‘ é ne t \ ‘ r é Ss | } over } mn | I no n ‘ erec mer ! ‘ tior a t Ir ne of } a ‘ ‘ hat he \ly G hur nit he nt ‘ horas ' em,” he replied. Then, in swift realization of his blunder i You see, I weigh three stone heavier thar yu ' ’ She turned her face awa fur t t her haty that he might not see the telltale flush. Considerat her horse was not a sentiment that her eny nment dad tended to breed in her, and she felt the justice of hi Chat was it ne W iVs so falr ‘haps Murray also perceived this qualit y . , rimly } ae hound That Followed ‘ ' ; r Heels Roused Up a his Ow! e to be diverted by a new viewpoint er Ie ) r | tnrust ce Phe ere journeying t etne ! ( el rather mpank ) a n camp that Dunster might inspect an imported Hereford bull, when assumea gruff and repellent exter er the pre ~ revhound t their hee roused up a n that tl esset t ‘ t rged, sleeping coyot Before the wolf could get ir rible im] be if é } tride had noosed hir Wl i uch ( nad Murr st ed ‘ H ¢ Was dI ving the animal to deat! Dl i litor pett ( ‘Oh, I say, Murray!”’ shouted the Englishman, spurrit teb raised a lau e Er passed e. | alter him eT Ve ‘ « € « ‘ . ‘Well? What is it?” tilled the tun Give him a chance ou know I dare s he bad R é j é lot and all tha Dut give t! egyval run i I ne I ‘ ¢ ‘ What's your idea demanded Murray r mare ‘ ‘ ‘ to a wall int ( ¢ t } é rhe sorely battered coyote embraced the opportur Vith th ea ‘ I I to grip the rope 1 his teeth, and ret iner mat N ne , he was away before the hovering | ind ¢ ld get infor tne rane et iare mile n ¢ ent the ! death-grapple efforts 0 t I I ‘That's what happens when you give him a chances and mprove the breed ts I e hir continued the boss sharply. ‘‘Come on extra lal eep the register the thorough! I Nothing loth, his lordship joined in the chase, hallooi1 ‘ r eepe P like a wild man as they tore across country close behind multip] of dut hat made | the g r skulker and his silent enemy é or é ‘ t **That’s the way,”’ he panted, when i rse brought vi niu e the ne i 101 r ! 1im beside Murra ina drav ‘Give the beggar chancé more wunrul retainer erna} Ur the 1! I Continued P

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HERE isan evening paper in New York which prides itself on its superior intelligence and makes a pecialty of omniscience. In discuss- ing the resolution of the directors of the New Theater to abandon the two operatic performances, which have every week interrupted and interfered with the sequence ol the dramatic performances, an editor of this paper deigned to express his high approval ‘**Opera in New York is cultivated ona grand scale and is amply appreciated,”’ and then, with characteristic complacency he added: ‘‘ The dramatic stage, on the other hand, is in a very bad way, and the public taste for the drama is in an extremely backward conditior The absurdity of this emphatie pro- nouncement is patent to all who have any real understanding of the present condition of the drama in the United States It stands revealed at once as he said the remark of a very young man who has acquired the trick of talking glibly about things he has not taken the trouble to master It is an echo of the parrot-cry about ths declined he By BR ANDER MATTHEWS drama—a cry heard in every epoch since Thespis first ‘‘ went on the road DEC with his cart and hi ti phanes raised t s company. Aris- ery while Euripides Was yet alive and Sidney voiced it just before Shakspere came forward Looking back over the years that are gone the yo ing are always prone to sigh over our present condition and to east longing glances back to the golden ag away forever These juvenile philosophe rs are swift to bemoan our degeneracy. They ery aloud that those days’; and when they assert this they are the vic- tims of that self-de eptlion which leads them to lump there were g ters of any art, carelessly a iming together the dead 1 that these departed gt mat men all adorned the same ! period rhis is only ar optical delusion makes us think that the re closer together the farther they are We are tempted to believe the present because we don't know the past and wing the , ; present We judge the pa t terp! es and we judge the present by the mass of inferior work which thrusts itself or mn. In no epoch of the world’s history fias the high —not even in Greece in its greatest day iny art ever been very Great Dramatists Who Wrote for Tired Business Men ND yet there is a certain justification for the brash 4% remark of the youthful editor which is serving as a text for this sermon ighted observers of life who trees, The drama is always inseparably connected with He is evidently one of those near- cannot see the forest for the the show business; and often the flaunting vulgarities of the show business obscure our view of the drama itself There are today a host of spectacle ; devised to please that insistent patron of the theater who is | ; Business Man, a very ex brains at home when he , wn as the Tired glad to leay es out to en y i one- compounded of mirth and music and laughter But although the likings of the Tired Busine lan may differ today a little from what they were yesterday, he i no new figure It was to please the Tired Business Man that Sarah Siddons and John Kemble were thrust fron the stage of Drury Lane so that a rea waterfall might intensify the popular appeal of an empty melodram “i The Cataract of the Ganges It was to allure the Tired Business Man that the gruesome of-blood was elaborated by Kyd in tragedy- the days when Shak- spere was serving his apprenticeship to the stage. It was to delight the Roman ancestors of the Tired Business Man that gladiators fought to the death in the Colosseum while vestal virgins looked on placidly ORATION BY THE SATURDAY EVENING POST IE DRAMA T April 23,1910 ODAY wrote, and the third which is best worth seeing in the theater. The playgoer could also witness performances of Sheridan’s Rivals and School for Scan- dal, of Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Con- quer, of Bulwer’s Money, of Marlowe's Doctor Faustus, and of the medieval morality play, Everyman. It is true that some of these performances were barely adequate, but yet again some of them were unusually interesting. It is true also that there was a failure to revive any of the more significant plays written in our language during the past half-century; and it is to be regretted that the New Theater, for example, did not seize the opportunity to make a pair of double bills and to give us on one evening Gilbert's Sweet- heartsand Pygmalion and Galatea, and on another Bronson Howard's Old Moliére composed comedy-ball ts for the Tired Busi- ness Man in France under Louis XIV, decorating them with song-and-dance and with every spectacular effect possible to the theater of his time Boileau reproached Moliére also for descending to almost acrobatic farce, devoid of any purpose except innocent laughter, and devised to delight the unthinking play goer of that day. Arist ist and of a lofty lyric poet, dec ness of humor to amuse the Tired Business Man of And the compilers of the medieval passion- vut of their way to gratify the tastes of the ation of a bold humor- ned to incredible PToss- ines, that strange con iness Man of those remote ages by needless episodes of vulgar fun and by scenes of the crudest It cannot be denied that there is much, far too much, and even of cheap vulgarity in our theaters now But the rood old days were no better: indeed, in many ways they were worse. We ignore or are orant of the failings of the past, while we cannot help ac juainted with the failings of the present It sy enough for all of us to see the multitudinous mani- festations of the show business; and it takes a little trouble to discover the more serious de velopment of the real drama which is to be seen also in our theaters. There -called musical comedies which are many violent any exaggerated farces, full of horse-play and often full of vulgarity also; and yet, along- side these, there are also a few real plays dealing honestly and appealing to those who want to see that life handled in this fashion » theater, nowadays, has a double duty nN ey nor melodious; there are melodramas; there are ma and sincerely with our own : it must bea ibrary for the present and a museum for the by a constant succession of ust keep itself alive play taken out of conte mporary existence and mirroring our own lives, seriously or humorously as the case may be And it must also pres earlier day nt to usa selection of the best pieces the dramatic masterpieces of the dead centuries. It is this double duty which the Théatre Francais accomplishes in Paris, and which the New heater was expected to accompl sh in New York It is t these two duties to which the ordinary man- ager devotes himself; and yet the second duty is far less reless observer might suppose. In for example, during the winter of 1909-1910 w Theater, to the Sothern-Marlowe com- Ben Greet —the playgoer will have had a ol Shakspere acted on the rd of all that Shakspere i ] JAMES M. PRESTON Love Letters and Saratoga, amusing pieces almost unknown to the present It would be interesting to see again certain of the best of the more recent plays, Pinero’s Magistrate or Benefit of the Doubt Jones’ Liars and Shaw’s Candida, Bar- rie’s Admirable Crichton, and Clyde Fitch's Girl With the Green Eyes. The Comédie Francaise makes a point of re viving the past successes of the leading contemporary dramatists even when those pieces were produced originally by another company. By so doing it keeps on enriching its repertory; and with all these plays always on hand it is not at a loss when one of its own pro- ductions chances to fail. But although much that might have been done has not been done, there is no cause for despair; and there is no warrant whatever for the youthful editor’s assertion that ‘the public taste for the drama is in an extremely back- ward condition.” It is true that a majority of playgoers today prefer spectacle of one kind or another, the flippan- cies of the song-show and the violences of melodrama 3ut the same accusation would lie against the majority of playgoers in almost every other period. And there is today a large minority of playgoers who take their brains with them when they go to the theater and who are swift to welcome the serious treatment of a serious theme. It is an austere pleasure which we find in the performance of The Servant in the House and in The Passing of the Third Floor Back, for example; and the long run of each of these two plays is evidence, were any needed, that there are other types of playgoers besides the Tired Business Man. And it was not for the Tired Business Man that Sir Arthur Pinero composed Mid-Channel and The Second Mrs Tanqueray, both of them tragedies of modern life, searching in their analysis of humanity, even if a little sordid in their subject-matter generation of playgoers. Plays That Draw the Stay-at-Home Public N FACT, there is an obvious fallacy in the assumption that there is any such body as ‘‘ The Public,” only one public, with uniform tastes. There are as many publics and as many tastes as there are different kinds of plays The majority of the ordinary theatergoers prefer inex- pensive fun and vigorous sensation, as the majority ot ordinary theatergoers always have done. Yet there is now a group, and not a small group either, which prefers to see life treated honestly and sincerely and directly, and which will flock to a play without fun and without sensa- tion. They keep away from the theater when there is nothing that attracts them; and they come out freely whenever the manager offers them the kind of play that they want. They were quick to respond to the appeal to their intelligence made by Mr. Augustus Thomas when he put advanced ideas into The Witching Hour and into The Harvest Moon; and they delighted in the humor and vera ity which they discovered in Mr George Ade’'s College Widow and in the charming fantasy which they appreciated in Mr. Barrie’s Peter Pan. ———

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST What is at once significant and encouraging is that we

as done i IN ( have now not a few playwrights who are striving to write reveal ar expected deve me I pieces in English which will interest this intelligent I be acted | \ ‘ ‘ minority of playgoers. This is a new thing, since the more the mod \ drama of the English language in the middle years of the mise ‘ ‘ ‘ nineteenth century is almost beneath contempt. Fil medy of genuine e. | years ago the intelligent playgoer had to satisfy himself e Green Eye ‘ as best he could with the ludicrous artificiality of Sheridan r mode ! Knowles’ Hunchback, with the absurd falsity of Dion Even though B H nd ( e Fiteh have \ Boucicault’s London Assurance, or with the bald aday been taken cl ‘ tions of French pieces, arbitrarily twisted to conform to nd is expand é ( We English conditions. It is difficult to say which w he younger men wl e learned é t ‘ more unreal, the imitation comedies of Knowles and stage and who have itgrown the pet prentice ‘ Boucicault or the misfit alterations of Scribe and Sard hip. They have: ‘ rie ‘ ‘ ‘ It is easy to see that both types of play were hopeless! to treat. Their play eresting as p unreal and hopelessly unrelated to actual life and informed I ualit he I} ‘ : he last half-century has see Ay t Divide M M The W Mr ing. Once again the English lar ‘ Thor the Paid i Mr. W r ( something that it has lacked since r \ Chairman of Mr. Ade Ter in mar last the play Is re vealing itself a i orous I il of the ll honest endea r the life ’ ( ] novel, It must be admitted frankly that even 1 ere our own ¢ ! ees it I eve t ‘ is no dramatist of our language who has achieved the To compare t ese | h M M largeness or the significance attained j rd j Fash NM | el I Ss vith H ‘ bere ( Mr. Howells, by Mark Twain and Rudyar r Americans in Par erceive at once |} e} ‘ ‘ are the chiefs of our prose-fiction. Yet it to de idvances he ht dire t 4 even ! pe ‘ | that intangible but unmistakable quality v we te factory is a « p est é ‘ venius to Mr. Barrie and to Mr. Shaw, or e to see earlier Iccesse ( ‘ lose ! ‘ in Mr. Jones and Sir Arthur Pinero men of very remarkable Solon Shingle f el Selle he e ¢ ! \ ifts, both accomplished craftsmen in the danger I Bardwell Slote, al é ‘ of the drama and both f ideas of their own to all set in plots « hir ‘ \ hich they can give drama m. Only a little infe Wen ke or I est W he Wit ‘ \ rior to these leaders is a group clever ! ! Hour or The Faith-} é t we ‘ e ther H M | young playwrights, Mr. Galsworthy nd M is we should find es de | Ss Vhe é ‘ Barker, who have not yet done all th pe for Shingle The ¢ er | ‘ ere reed ar ‘ Here in the United States the or ! later dramas are ( rkmanlike he ‘ We » lost Bronson Howard who h nto genuine In conte ( ‘ ( he tne right path; and we are still lamer eat ng drat e! ed l ‘ ‘ of Clyde Fitch, taken off untimely whil was still riper blar erse in accordance } ‘ Pe ‘ ing Bronson Howard belonged to the era of transition ire n¢ itu literar ! re! t hey ha e! eve ‘

The Genus Homo in Foreign Parts—By Emerson Hough

iLL Ss CRA TED BY M 1 BLUM ENTHA E AMERICANS i boast that we have in ‘ ‘ nation the best " r tt wl blood of all the peoples of e Old World. Yet all our tl regime different races come from I ee Europe, where the country t he Seot o small that folk cannot n < out of the iV ol eac! | ] ! other without falling over \t 1 themselves. There is hardly | a pure race left in Europe in Lnese days of travel and (y interchange, unless it may be found in the Caucasian vhere the Turk- é come trom y you meet de- scendants of parents English and French Engl h and

German Dutch Scotel Italian, French and Irish and Austrian, and Scandinay lan and Irish, Irish New Jerseyish, French and Bos- tonese Racial lines are ana breaking down today in this sort of progress in most advances of civ And as 1 Vill- zation man,and not woman is the first to pay the price,

as in ancient Troy. Rome, Athens and other seaports 2 of the world gone by. If I were an American girl I would neverlay down my armsto have had good food, good air and exercise; but if » Er art any European man—never, never; and if that be treason upon the streets and look at the average I I would let them make the most of it. The reason forthis you will feel that you somehow 1 the can be shown to Alicia beyond a peradventure, if Alicia) mens which, from reading Mrs. W Mr. Kk be ready to listen with her perfectly geod ear you had supposed generally to obt prevail 1 dor Suppose we consider the case of Great Britain, where inate in that land. The Er ner as we are advised from British sources, dwell the most than any other crowd, : metime re you ild rther ng ( \ f perfect specimens of the human race ever produced, the expect to find their finest specimens thi r picuou r ind, and there boldest, bravest, tenderest, best-bred, best-looking and by their absence. For that matter, the | h race t No one } best-dressed men of the whole wide world. It is true growing mixed today, like every other r Hurop that there are some good specimens among the English. — especially is t! case in th h ¢ The best-fed men of any race are apt to surpass in stature Military statistics are interestir ' those who are ill fed. Some Englishmen, relatively few, — st

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18 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Englishman are the Scots and Picts and west of him are the Celts, with all of Ni ~ whom he is wise in uniting and taking their marbles away from them. = America owes very little Sill al to England except the Rev- olutionary War, but she So owes more to Scotland and Ireland than all the rest of the world combined, because there is where she got most of her best frontiersmen in her early days, as well as many of her best and most aggressive cit- izens in later days. There is a sturdy quality in both of these strains, an unwillingness to lay down either arms or opinions, which persists even today 3oth Ireland and Scotland are poor, but that mear work, and work is good for people. Even we Ameri- cans, hyste rical and hy poerit ical as we are, have been known to go batty over the simple life. Oatmeal ha recently been declared by some physicians as worth- less as a food, and potatoes have always been known to produce fatty degeneration of the abdomen; but look what oats and potatoes have done in their day ! Many of the old fur-traders of the Hudson Bay and Northwest companies were Scotch, and the y were the braw boys. As to potatoes, look at the police force today on Manhattan Island, or even in Greater Here surely be arguments for oats, pota- toes and the pure and simple life England's best generals come from Ireland and her best fighting men come from Scotland. NoScotchman can make a great general, because he hates to spend the money; but get him up against a rock and thoroughly interested in an argument and he will scrap without any His very costume, although invented to save the expense of pressing trousers, would kill any but a hardy man. Tall and gray-eyed, bony and hard, youcan find many a man in Scotia today who would wear well on a long and hard trail. Indeed, he would be more apt to last than the Irishman, who is more disposed © brilliant. performance than sustained endeavor Chicago special leading or urging The Distribution of Good Looks HERE are few great cities in Scotland or in Ire land, and that is, perhaps, why we owe them so much for their contributions of genuine citizenship. England sends us few city men whom we can use, and, indeed, all cities are exterminators of the human species. Women seem thrive better than men in large communities. You c¢ prove this fairly well for yourself, if you would care to look into the matter, in a general American tour, whicl perhaps, you will make some time all your European trips. The women a better-looking as human specimens than do the men As you go West the average quality of man rises d tinctly Of course one would not say that all the good-looking ladies live in the East for that is obviously untrue; but t bigger, longer, stronger men alway itate to the newer lands. Witnes State of Oklahoma, which er both as to stature and good looks lies as a decree of basic law that all bedsheets in all Oklahoma hotels shall be eight feet long The West got much « South, more of its beef fron and North got much from Scot getting the men of the old Palatinate, who came over here its leanness from the and invented our American squirrel rifle for us and so put A Prize-Fighter is Nearer Ready for Heaven Than Many a Fat Man Banker us in condition to make a living while the corn was getting ripe; the early American diet being largely composed of squirrel i and corn pone. Many of the best Scotchmen and Irishmen, as well as many of the best Englishmen, drift to the colors; and we naturally look to the army of that country indeed, of any country —when seeking an esti- mate of the aver- age physical quality of the country’s man- hood. One morn- ing I was watching guardmount at Buckingham Pal- ace, in London, a very formal and pretty ceremony participated in by a splendid body of troops “They're the finest soldiers in all the world, as well as the smart- est,”’ said an Eng- lish gentleman to me. I smiled at that and told him my money would have to go on certain American regiments. We fell into discussing the German invasion, because England is always in a funk over Germany. “Of course we would beat them,” said the Englishman, sighing. ‘‘Germany has not had a war in almost forty years.” ‘*Neither had Japan,” I suggested. ‘‘And as for wars in less than forty years, how about your own experience in South Africa?” ‘There's something in that,’’ admitted the Englishman, to my surprise. The truth is that we get a great many of our ideas handed to us by a biased advertising point of view. A cold and dispassionate reason should teach us that Ward, Kipling & Co. are what in this country we should call boosters, if not boasters. Customarily we discount such lines of conversation, even though we love the conversers. Tt average of English manhood must take into con- tion the back streets of her great cities, full of hope- le ill-fed or starving unemployed. Last year there vere ninety thousand applications to the Government for tate aid on the part of the unemployed; this year there were one hundred and ninety-six thousand. There is an army of three hundred and seventy-six thousand persons in England who do not eat except with Govern- ment help. That total is larger than the total of the American fighting army, but the individual stature of these men is less than the average stature on this conti- nent. We still have a better environment, more to eat, more air, more exercise, more hope, more of all the things that go to makea real man. Let Alicia turn her perfectly good eye on these pe rfectly good facts. The armies of the Old World are to a great extent officered by the aristocracy; but it takes something more than a nice red uniform and mortgaged ancestral halls with bridal boudoirs all ready for Alician Yankee heir- take the money in a toe-to-toe encounter with ind the records of the aristocracy of any ss w-- oT ¢ -— - a April 23,1910 country do not prove a continuous fitness for leadership Again, it is the custom to refer to the fetish of “* Anglo- Saxon” bulldog bravery, and that sort of thing. I one got licked by an Irishman for speaking of “‘us Anglo Saxons.’ It seems to me now that he was oversensitive because there is no such thing as a Saxon race today and even if there were it would be nothing much to brag about Our old English forebears, or partial forebears, red- headed, clean-skinned, blue-eyed savages from the tall woods, were noted above all for two things —brutalit, and intemperance. The English love of law, just lil the German respect for law, is founded upon fear and nothing else If you will read the life of Sir Henry Hawkins, long a judge on the English bench, you will see that only about fifty years ago they used to hang a man for stealing a sheep or transport him for killing a pheasant. Those things linger in the British memory and throw a permanent scare into the Britis Britisher away from British brutal justice : j on a cow ranch or ind he swiftly becomes as lawless as any body else on the police force Facts are rather disillusionizing things. We may as well dismiss from our mind the old fiction that this sort of system produced either the mest invincible, the most righteous or the most impeccable heroes of the world British soldiers will fight yes. So will almost any other soldiers. Fighting is the com- monest animal attribute. The strongest and healthiest animals fight best. Color Due to Climate and Ale HE ruddiness of the average Englishman is not due to beef, for he doesn’t get beef. It is partly due toale, but mostly to climate. If you will observe the humanity about you on the streets of a moist day in the fall, when the air is a little cool, you will see much more color and freshness in the complexion both of men and women than in hot, ary weather. The complexion of Europe, or at least Northern Europe, averages better than that of America. Of course, you will see many English gentleme: accustomed to walk and ride or to play polo or tenr who up to thirty years or even later have good, bony lines Comparing the average Englishman with the average German, however, the latter is apt to be far the more ‘‘Saxon”’ of the two. He is apt to have a better carriage, better back and shoulders than the average Englishman, although in middle age he begins to take on waist, owing to his continuous flotation in beer. In legs the average German is not good, and his feet are yet worse, being mostly set on at about forty-five degree On the average, he does not ride as much as the English- man unless he be in the cavalry service. In that branch neither German nor E shman rides w hat reference annexation or personal attachment to the horse that we consider useful in our ranching or our cavalry seat. The best English riders are Australians, and the best German riders are South Americ: In those countries, also, the finest specimens of men of the two nations respectively may be found. At home, the ‘British type”’ is produced mostly by the affirmative mental process, it being gener- ally agreed in Great Britain that it is greatly to the credit of a Britisher that he is an Englishman. On the other hand, in Germany everything is verboten, and personal liberty is unknown. The German type is the success of the negative process The Frenchman is another European type and one quite distinct The private of the French army average dark and small, but makes a durable soldier. As for the middle-class Frenchman, as soon as he can afford it he begins to eat and drink,and so becomes heavy. The French mn

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army rarely has fought without a certain distinctior usually has fought without allies at its side; but as to t

average of the French populace today, its physiqu not remarkable in spite of the fact that once in a while Francs turns out a wrestler ora runner of distinction. The average Frenchman of the cities is not the Frenchmar ot the stage any more than a stage Englishman is t rea Englishman; but it is just to say of him that he ear much for his dress, and is apt to be foppish in mann and more apt to fight an afternoon absinthe frappé or amer Picon than to care for a boxing set-to at his club of un aiternoon or morning Some of the best male models to be found r studios have come from the lower classes, wl el are hard-working and not overfed Austrian ul and German districts have produced many men who have gone into the model business as a profession The Sv although a race of mountain climbers and _riflem« average heavy and blowzy The main ndustry i Switzerland is hotel-kee ping This cour try ha ometh like two thousand hotels, with a total of one hundred and twenty-five thousand sleeping accommodatiotr I Americans and other tourists Italy, poverty-smitten and hopeless, turns out, es} cially among the poorer classes, some very fine specime of male humanity. The street laborers from Ital I we see in America average short, dar and unpreposse ing; but even among these once in a whilk you see a man of stalwart physique As between the two sexes the men of Italy are better endowed and hold r endowment better than the women of that count Hard work keeps them down to their lines, and a great many of them cannot afford enough drink, even of the cheap wines, to ruin themselve But, be this as it may Alicia does not want to marry a peasant. This restrict her choice, and when it comes to marrying into the Italian aristocracy Alicia, to put it mildly, might do quite as well somewhere else It is the workers and earners of the world who measure the real stature of the world. The producers of a country represent the humanity of that country The non-producers, although for a time they cling to the social structure, do not serve as representative units In it The whole soc of Europe and allits ity, are dragged down by the immense dead weight of non-

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bandbox Phe re spl ! nd if after thirty they mewhat s corsets in order to keep their figure but their ow and that of the ( nt Vant i fine-i« ng body i ( é re tenets and n i 1 Europe of whi our ‘ I iving these out i ! j 1 ! Lhe pl Vs appear ‘ t ‘ to be admitted that any « ‘ ipny ii fitne wi cr ‘4 i pride in bodily conditior ; man’s personal creed ] cel eate n are ind, on the whole ance to those of the Italian army, « army — both of which ru cockfe Exception should be mad f mountain corps, of the Ita pody ¢ me e found i rope these troop ) tne tree thei gir ba ingle 1 t for itest ep known I th ! i’ makes the blood ting] They are be e their alert and agile fit: th private, with his doll-like mancwuver almost a laugh But ta three or t ( ental n ta taking the handsomest of the your Alicia would p out of a summer aft t would he better if Alicia should letting her hear itt the caft of Vi " ‘ edd ‘ er ner ‘ £ ed lad and there pride on tl ntenance « who ha ‘ ia ‘ i wrne } } ‘ l ter kor “ I own I was one day ta pr ite of th Austriar time ‘ t t tter } ( I tar I of } Oo equired in the ser he sau tt COCKS the our a iny one of those oft

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ot cause of the poverty of Europe. When poverty and taxe mean a struggle to get enough to eat as they do in mut of Europe they mean a depreciation in the qualit t} average human unit. This depreciation, by reason of th European conditions of life which prevail regard t the army, IS far greater abroad than it Is on tl! ide ¢ the water But, very likely, if iould go a y the stree of Berlin or Vienna or ‘ he would or i her heart, or think she had lost it, to any one of a hundre handsome German or Austrian officers who look as t ig they had just come out of a Howard Chandler Chri

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2 “ THE VAI VI INK, under the influence of the new emotion, made a fairly full confession to Butsey White, merely over- looking the shoes that Flash did not carry over the Princeton goal line, and suppressing that detail of the Foundation House’s supposed contribution which had lent such a peculiar value to the souvenir crockery set. By four o’clock Butsey had sufficiently recovered to remember the afternoon baseball match Ten minutes later Dink, lost in a lapping baseball suit lent by Cheyenne Baxter and reénforced with safety-pins stationed himself in the outfield behind a catcher’s mitt for preliminary practice with little Susie Satterly and Beekstein Hall, who was shortsighted and wore glasses The result of five minute frantic chasing was that ink, who surprised every one by catching one fly that omehow stuck in his glove, was promoted to centerfield; Susie Satte rly who had stoppe d two grounde rs, took left; while Beekstein was ignominiou ly escorted to a far position in rightfield and firmly requested to stop what- ever he could with his chest he Cleve cohorts arrived, thirty strong, like banditti oicing their derision for the nine occupants of the Green House. The contest, which at first sight seemed unequal, was not in reality so, marching to sack a city, openly Tough MeCarty and Cheyenne Baxter being an unusually trong battery, while the infield, with Butsey White at first, the White Mountain Canary at second, Stuffy Brown short-stop and the Coffee-colored Angel at third, quite out- classed the invaders The trouble was in the outfield where the troubles in such contests are sure to congregate. Stover had never been so thoroughly frightened in his ife. His imagination, boylike, was aghast at the unknown. \ great question was to be decided in a few minutes, when his turn would come to step up to the box and expose iimself to the terrific cannonade of Nick Carter, the lengthy vitcher of the Cleve The curious thing was that on this yoint Stover himself was quite undecided. Was he a coward, or was he not? Would his legs go back on him, or would he stand his ground, knowing that the stinging ball might strike anywhere—on the tender wrist-bones, tering the point of the ¢ lbow, or landing with a deadly ght over his temple, which he remembered was an His first two innings in the field were a complete success not a ball came hi Way With his fielding average juite intact he came in to face the crisis “Brown to the bat, Stover on deck, Satterly in the hole,”’ came the shrill voice of Fate in the person of Shrimp Davis, the official scorer Stover nervously tried one bat after another; each seemed to weigh a ton. Then Cheyenne Baxter joined him, crouching beside him with a word of advice Now, Dink,”’ he said in a whisper, keeping his eye on Stuffy Brown, who, being unable to hit the straightest ball, was pawing the plate and making terrific preparatory swings with his bat. ‘‘ Now, Dink, listen here Pick out $ and bang it on the nose. Hi-yi! good awethen. All he in easy or waiting, Stuffy vot 1s a tast outeurve Now, what you want to do is to dye up close to the plat and let him hit you Oh, robber! That wasn't a strike! Say, Mr. Umpire, give us a square leal, will yo Walk right into it, Dink, and if it hap- pens to hit you on the wrist rub above the elbow Above the elbow aid Dink in a hollow voice ‘That's it. You've got a chance to square yourself with he House What Threestrikes? Say, Mr. Umpire u're not taking Nick Carter’s word for it, are you? Amid a storm of execrations Stuffy Brown retired »ypealing frantically to the four quarters of the globe for tice and a judge Behind Him, Shrieking and Murderous, ~* Came the Vanquished, Thirsting Body of the Green THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 23,1910 y OWEN JOHNSON a | NT ILLUSTRATED BY FE. R. GRUGER Impelled by a resounding whack, Dink approached the plate as a balky horse tries his hoofs in a pool of water. He spread his feet and shouldered his bat, imitating the slightly-crouching position of Cheyenne Baxter. Then he looked out fora favorable opening. The field was thronged with representatives of the Cleve House. He turned to first base —it was miles away. He looked at Nick Carter, savagely preparing to mow him down, and he seemed to loom over him, infringing on the batter's box. ‘Why the devil don’t they stick the pitcher back and give a fellow a chance?” he thought, eying uneasily the quick, jerky preparations. ‘* Why, at this distance a ball could go right through you.’ ‘*Come on, Nick, old boy .’ said a voice issuing from the iron mask at his elbow. ‘* We've got an umpire that can't be bluffed. This is nothing but a Statue of Lib« rty. Chop him right down.” Dink shivered from the ground up, Carter’s long arms gyrated spasmodically, and the ball, like the sweep of a swallow from the ground, sprang directly at hirn. Stover, with a yell, flung himself back, landing all in a heap ** Ball one,”’ said the umpire A chorus of taunts rose from the Green House nine “Trying to put him out, are you? **Mucker trick!” **Put him out!” **Good eye, Dinky!” “That's the boy.” Stover rose, found his bat and ruthfully forced himself back to his position ‘*T should have let it hit me,”’ he said angrily, perceiv Baxter's frantic signals. ‘‘It might have broken a but I'd have shown my nerve.” Clenching his bat fiercely he waited, resolved on a martyr’s death. But the next ball coming straight for head, he ducked horribly 3all two —-too high,” said the umpire Stover tightened his belt, rapped the plate twice with his bat, as Butsey had done, and resumed his position But the memory of the sound the ball had made when it had whistled by his ears had unnerved him. Before he could summon back his heroic resolves Carter, with a sudden jerk, delivered the ball. Involuntarily Stover tepped back; the ball easily and slowly passed him and cut the corner of the plate ‘Ball three,”’ said the umpire hesi The Cleve catcher hurled his mask 1 cast down his glove and trod on baseman fell on his bag and wept When order was restored Stover dodged the fou ball and went in a daze to first, where to his amazement he was greeted with jubilant cheers “You're the boy, Dinky You've got an eye like Charlie De Soto.”’ “They can’t fool Rinky Dink “Why, he’s a wonder.’ **Watch him steal second.” Stover slapped his foot on first base with the joy of unhoped-for victory. He glowered about his new posses- ions. The perspective had suddenly changed; the field was open, all his, the Cleve House representatives were a lot of dubs, butterfingers and fumblers, anyhow! Under Cheyenne Baxter's directions he went plunging down to second, slid, all arms and legs, safel to a wild pitch, and rose triump from his mouth y on to the bag, thank itly, blowing the dust as Susie Satterly and Beekstein There he rem: methodically struck out But the joy of that double voyage was still on him as he went back to centerfield, ready to master the hottest liner or retrieve the sky-scraping fly. It was a great game He felt a special aptitude for it and wondered why he had never discovered the talent before. He began to dream of sizzling two-baggers and long home-runs over the fence. “‘T wish I'd get a chance,” he said, prancing about digging vicious hole s in the glove, that looked like a chest protector ‘*T’d show ’em what I can do out here.”’ But no chance came. The battle was between pitchers, and to the surprise of every one the Green House came up to the last inning with the score of 2 to 1 in their favor, the solitary run of the Cleve being due to a fly that Beek- stein had failed to notice The Green House nine went jubilantly out into the field for the last half of the ninth inning, determined to shut out the Cleve and end the season with at least one victory Dink ran out on his tiptoes, encased himself in his mitt and turned, tense and alert He had gone through hi first ordeal triumphantly. No chances had come to hin in the field, but at the bat he had accidentally succeeded it being hit, and though he had struck out the next time h had hit a foul and knew the jubilant feeling that come with the crack of the bat ‘Give me a week and I'll soak ’em out,” he said, mov- ing restlessly, and he added to himself: ‘Strike ’em out Cheyenne, old man! They’re easy.”’ But the Cleves suddenly woke up and began to fight One man beat out a grounder, and one struck out another error of the temperamental White Mountain Canary put a man on third and one on second. Then Cheyenne, pul himself together, made his second strike-out Two out, play for the batter,” came Cheyenn axter’s warning halloo, “Two out said Dink to his fellow-fielders “One more and we spink ‘em. Come on, now! > 3oth sides settled for the final play, the man on second leading well up toward third “Steady!” said Cheyenne Stover drew in his breath and rose to his toes, as he had done thirty times already Suddenly there was a sharp crack, and the ball, meeting the bat, floated fair and free, out toward centerfield He did not have to move a step; in fact, the ball rose and fellstraight forthe massive mitt as though it had chosen his glove from all the other gloves in the field. It came slowly, endlessly, the easiest, gentlest, most perfect fly imaginable, directly for the large brown mitt that looked like a chest protector Stover, turned to stone, saw it strike fair in the middle, and then, irresistibly, slowly, while, horribly fascinated he stood powerless, slowly trickle over the side of the miti and drop to the ground He did not stop for a look, for a second thought, t hesitate or deliberate He knew! He gave a howl and broke for the House, and behind him, pell-mell, shriekin; and murderous, like a pack of hounds in full ery, came th vanquished, thirsting body of the Green He cleared the fence with one hand, took the road wit two bounds, fled up the walk, burst through the door jumpe d the stairs, broke into his room, slammed the door locked it, backed the bed against it and seized a chair Then the Green House struck the door like a salvo « grapesh rt. “Open up, you robber!” ‘Open the door, you traitor! ‘You Benedict Arnold!” ‘Open up, you white-livered pup! ‘You quitter! ‘You chickenheart! “ey ' you coward Stover, his hair rising, seized the wooden chair con- vulsively, waiting for the door to burst in All at once the transom swung violently and the wolfish faces of Tough McCarty, the White Mountain Canary,

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Cheyenne and the Coffee-colored Angel crowded the * You're fine specimer he said \ e town. H opening Nad a bea ul day **Get back or I'll kill you!” said Dink in frantic fear Yes, i i INK I if i | and, advane y swung th cl r murderou ( ! twinkling the transom was emptied Butse \ } ' \ x The storm of voices rose again but an in { S “The freshest yet! absolut heiming desp Yet B { i “The nerve of him!” uffered, and profited by th iffer ‘*Let’s break in the door!”’ “You better rare th Tough M transom, Wi { of th Lin ! I ! I ! T ~ Noa r “You let me in: t Wi t ‘ oO Still r nswet! St I ! ! \ eer It’s roon i let me rool { ’ of a hear ‘Id Stover continued silent ‘R ! } t ht } | t | Dink iid Butsey in his 1] est t ly r he bed lie face d 1 keer » right ¢« r the transom. Dor l It un I ! Stover again seized the chair Butsey White, sup] d from behind, carefu ip one foot ind ther nvulsivel lisap- SEE tem- EE em ma ene ae ae aaa a " peared as St r charged ( I I} \ a vh pere . 2 \ then the battling face l Me | i | ippeared witha r nreat ) ‘You | hand on 1 ! » th Wy hide off n “Keep b Stove rsel “Put de t I ch I l \ t do you | r me ** Don 1 come ¢ r! y I'm coming over, a \ lon’t dar to touch me! Y ont a her cornered d delivered irty barel \ MOT ingered 1] for a_ bri \ ! ‘ [Il ge yu he said, pointing a finger it le ¢ battled Stover yourear fia low-dow T, in every sense of the word! Then succeeded the Coffee-colored Angel Wait till I catch you, you Rinky Dir Followed the White Mountain Canary “You'll reckon with me for this! i Down to B ein Hall, with his } | raged nine clin 1 tl transom r j expressed his unflattering op I i HSLoOVe itd t t ni } t eyes on the great, lumberin dishonored on the floor I’m disgraced,” he said slowls j It’sallover allover. I’m queered— queer } ‘ forever! vi : come es Bites dusk, like Gilliatt in Victor Hugo I'll Get You Yet. You're a Muff. a Low-Down Muff. in Every Sense of the W { Toilers of the Sea, waiting for the tide to wallow him up, Stoversat motionless, brooding. There wa have been over; now you've got to square irself. Well I'll get you tod | only one thing to do —to runaway. His whole career had brush up and come down t pp ind for the | I been ruined in a twinkling, he rhere coul no mile future for him in the school he had done ) Bu W timer neith iwful that it could never be forgivenorforgotten. Whyhad vineed. Stover is too firmly p If only he had made a quick dive at the ball as it f his offense and the depth of } ckled off the glove and caught it 1 In all 1a er ‘ I instead of standing there, ri , hypno- thar But t ! Yes, he wouid escape, run off to sea somewhert the disd | nee ere! But he wouldn't go home; no, neverthat! He — latel would sh ound the Horn, like the hero in that dreadful H ‘ mer } Terir book, Two Years Before the Mast. He would run away or pla that night before the story had spread over the whol ch ! ! I | J school. He would never face them. He hated the school him how he had er ed the day H iumbled t | he hated the Green, he hated every one connected with it! reply, he never knew that, hea r ire th \A A tap came on the door, and the voice of Butsey White snicker that ran the ta He aid coldly: left the table It } eer “Open up! Fuzzy-Wuzzy’s in the Open up. I’ve got to get ready for supper.’ tains his fe mping al Stover drew back the bed, unlocked the door and waited — of b rhe | } with clenched fists for Butsey to spring at him. Buts¢ of thir the ‘ is te r More I I) White, whose tempestuous ! pent it tl } } It th in hilarious laughter th wit d | t, thought it best, however, for the purposes of author- If he « five dolla ity, still to preserve a grave face reached Trenton and rked

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22 THE Somewhat astonished and unutterably relieved he } gazed down at the body of , ‘é the school marshaled be- ’ 4 low, at the enormous fifth-formers who seemed r ? and never would the j j illusion fade—the most terrifically immense and iwevome representatives of manhood he had ever seen The benches were hard, decidedly so; but he lost himself pleasantly in A the vaulted roof, and gazed with respect at the i distant pulpit The Doctor ascended and swept the school with that glance peculiar to head masters which con vinces each separate boy it is directed at him Stover felt the impact on his own forehead and dropped his eyes uneasily When the hymn began he looked curiously among his classmates, located Doe Macnooder and caught the eye of the Tennessee Shad who winked at him to show him he was still his friend Somehow, his awful dis- grace seemed to slip from he him —the Green House was The Awful Wreck of the but a grain in the sand There were friends, undis- covered friends, in the mass before him, to be won and held An easier feeling came to him. When the school shuttled out he sought the Tennessee Shad and, holding out his hand, said: “Say, you are wonders; and I’m the only living sucker! ”’ “Dink, you're a real sport,”’ said the Tennessee Shad pleased; ‘‘but we did come it pretty strong. Now, if you want to turn in those shoes Not on your life!” said Dink but look out for next year! ‘All right,”’ said the Tennessee Shad with an approv- ing look. ‘‘If you do us we'll take you into the firm. Tack on to me, and I'll pilot you to The Roman's.” Following his lanky guide Stover went in the churning lagging mass across to Memorial Hall, rubbing elbows with the heroes, who stalked majestically in their volumi- nous bulk, with the coveted Varsity caps riding on the eir cropped heads, or being jostled by the who ran **T deserved it, but backs of freckled im g. shrieking chases past him At the steps they divided, some surging upward and others crowding into the lower corridor 3elow for us,”’ said the Tennessee Shad, pushing his way forward Dink found himself outside one of a dozen classrooms ina throng that waited lope fully as Other classes waited hopefully every hour of every day in the hopes of an improbable cut “The Roman,” said the Tennessee Shad wisely, “‘ is the one master you want to standin with. Study like the devil the first two weeks; and say, get up on the gerund and the gerundive — they're his pets I will,”’ said Dink “You can't bluff him and you can't beat his system continued the Tennessee Shad If you guess don t hesi- The only thing you can do is to wait for his jokes, and then grab the desk and weep for salvation it’s his one weak spot I will,”’ said Dink A cry of dismay went up from thi tate; jump at it Oh, rats! Here he come re Oh Oh, melange holy ! * All in! Dink modestly took a seat in the back, at the end of the row of S’s where he must sit. On four sides, like prisor walls that no convict might hope to scale, the slippery blackboards rose up and bound them in. On a raised stand was the master’s pulpit where presently The Roman would come and sit, like the watcher of the galley slave in Ben Hur, with his eagle glance sweeping the desks that in regimentat} file, ran back from hin Outside, through two open windows, was the warn forbidden month of April, and the gateway of sy: defying dream At this moment Dink's copy of Cesar Gallic Wars slid on to the floor He bent down, labori- ously collecting the scattered pages and straightened up , Chen he glanced at the pulpit. Directly in front of him, Coffee-Colored Angel Limped Up Dink looked down and_ blushed his eyes on his, sat the big, consular bulk of his stage companion of the day before. Dink gazed in horror; twice his hand went instinctively toward his lip, stopped half-way and dropped. Then his mouth opened, set, and galvanically he rose to his feet, while the room seemed to tip up. He grasped the desk to keep fror. slipping, never taking his eyes from the Ciceronian coun- tenance and the twinkling orbits above the slightly twitching lips. Dear me,” said a low, mocking voice with a curious rising and falling inflection, ‘‘who’s here? Another delegate to this congress of scintillating intelligences?” ‘Yes, sir,”’ said Dink in a whisper ‘Quite a valuable addition, I hope. Yes? What is the name?”’ ** John.” Well—well?”’ ‘John Humperdink Stover,”’ said Dink with difficulty ‘* Ah, yes, Stover: the name is familiar—very familiar,’ said The Roman, with a twitch to his lip and a sudden jump of the eye- brow. ‘‘ Haven't we met before?’ Dink, suffocating, nodded. The class, at a loss, turned from one to the other, wateMing for the cue ‘Well, Stover, come a little nearer. Take the seat between Stone and Straus. Straus will be better able to take his little morning nap. A little embarrassed, Stover? Dear me! I shouldn’t have thought that of you. Sit down now and—and try to put a little ginger into the class, Stover.” until it seemed as though his hair would catch on fire. The class, perceiving only that there was a point for laughter, burst into roars ‘“There—there,”’ said The Roman, stilling the storm with one finger. ‘‘ Just a little joke between us .wo; just a little confidential joke. Now fora bee-ootiful recitation. Splendid spring weather—yesterday was a cut; of course you all took the hour to study conscientiously —eager for knowledge. Fifth and sixth rows go to the board.”’ While The Roman’s modulated accents doled out con- jugations and declensions Stover sat, without a thought in his head, his hands locked, staring at the green and yellow necktie that rose on Pebble Stone's collar “Oh, Lord! Oh, Lord!” he said. ‘* Dished! Spinked! He'll flunk me every day. I certainly am in wrong! He raised his eyes at the enthroned Natural Enemy and mentally threw down the gage of battle with a hopeless, despairing feeling of the three years’ daily conflict that was to come. For, of course, there could be no question of The Roman’s mortaland unsparing enmity. But after the first paralyzing shock Dink recovered himself. It was war, but the war he loved —the war of wits The Roman, having flunked a dozen by this time, had Channing, the Coffee-colored Angel, on his feet. “Top of page, third word, Channing —gerund or gerund- ive?” said The Roman. **Gerund, sir.’ ‘Too bad!”’ said The Roman musically, and on a lower octave repeated: ‘‘Too bad! Third line, fifth word—-gerund or gerundive?”’ ‘Gerund, sir,"’ said the Coffee-colored Angel With more conviction ‘No luck, Channing, no luck Tenth line, last word —-gerund, Channing, or gerundive? **Gerund —ive,”” said the Coffee-colored Angel hesitatingly ‘Poor Channing, he didn’t stick to his sys- tem. The laws of probability Channing ‘I meant gerund Angel hastily Dear me! Really, Channing? Yes, sir Positive? Absolutely, sir.”’ It was the gerundive, ( hanning The Coffee-colored Angel abrupt ly sat down Don't want to said the Coffee-colored speculate any more, Chan ‘No, sit No feeling of confidence -no luck today ? r'ry the gerundive tomorrow ‘ The disc uraged be gan to return from the I y writ in water ‘I Roman passe d over the rows and, from n individually, mowed them down from the Davis House today ? Anything from the Rouse House ion? Nothing atall? Anything from the Jackson twins? Alas! How about the D's SATURDAY EVENING POST “Its All Over April 23, 1910 this morning? Davis, Dark, Denton, Derr, Dickson, nothing from the D’s. Let’s try the F’s. Farr, Fenton, Foster, Francis, Finch? Nothing from the F’s —nothing from the D F’s! Nothing at all?” Dink burst into laughter, and laughed alone. The Roman stopped. Every one looked surprised. ‘“‘Ah, Stover has been coached — well coached,” said The Roman. ‘‘But, Stover, this is not the place to laugh The D F’s are not a joke; they are painful, daily facts Well, well, it has been a beautiful recitation in the review not exceptional, not exceptional at all. Has any one the advance? Don’t all rise at once. Strange what trying weather it is—too sunny, not enough rain—every one rises exhausted. Will Macnooder kindly lead the massacre?’ Macnooder disdained to rise; one or two faltered and tripped along for brief spaces, and then sat down. The Roman, counting his dead, hesitated and called **Stover.”’ ‘Me, sir?’’ said Dink, too astonished to rise I’m unprepared, sir ‘‘Unprepared?” said The Roman with a wicked smile ‘“‘T never thought you would be unprepared, Stover.’ The smile decided Stover “‘T'll try, sir,” he said “Very kind of you, Stover.” Dink rose slowly, put the book on his desk, tightened his belt, buttoned his coat and took up the prosy records of Cesar. Pebble Stone showed him the place. He straight- ened up and, glancing at the first line, saw: ‘* Ubi eo ventum est, Cxsar initio orationis ‘Cesar,”’ began Dink in a firm voice. ‘Excellent!’ said The Roman. ‘Cesar, wherever the wind blew him, initiated the Dink continued smoothly, after a rapid “Why orators glance. The Roman, from a listless attitude, gripped the desk, pivoted clear on one leg of his chair; staring at the familiar text as though it had suddenly taken on life and begun to crawl about the page Dink, resolved not to be bested, gravely and fluently continued to glide on, without pause or hitch, building syllables into words, building sentences wherever he met an acquaintance. On and on he went, glib and eloquent, weaving out of the tangled text a picture that gradually freeing itself from the early restraints, painted in vivid detail a spirited conference between Cesar and the German envoys. Theclass, amazed, resorted to their books; many of the unprepared, quite convinced, stared at him as though a new rival to the high markers had suddenly appeared The Roman, fascinated, never quitted the text, marvel- ing as the tale ran on, leaping adverbs and conjunctions, avoiding whole phrases, undismayed by the rise of sudden, hostile nouns, impressing into service whatever suited it, corrupting or beating down all obstacles. Once or twice he twitched spasmodically, twice he switched the leg of his chair, murmuring all the while to himself. Finally he rose and, slowly approaching to where Stover stood, glanced incredulously at his book. **Shall I stop, sir?’’ said Stover. “‘Heaven forbid!” Stover completed the page with a graphic, rushing account of the athletic exercises of the ancient Germans, and sat down without a smile The Roman, back at his post, wiped his eyes with his handkerchief. Continued on Page 64 All Over, I'm Queered—Queered Forever!"

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Ic] som _d . ie “=< + J ww TK / i: sellin 1 ‘ rorce's By Gouverneur Morris acaseoflove |TLLUSTRATED BY at first sight. And Miles, too, had fallen in love at first sight—but not

a person It was h the sight of love itself tk he had fallen in love He saw the m racle of two your people, strangers all their lives, becoming in a moment say, inextricably bound, eact

you may 1 to the othe What if parting at the end of a few weeks should brir the miracle to an end and they should relapse into strangerhood? The miracle was the great mirack the same, which varies, each particular manifestation fr ome other, not in degree, but only in the length to wh it endures. With this miracle, then, that had exploded into bright fires right in his immediate experience Milk fell in love. Love has two dismal phases: to love so

one who loves some one else, and to love love itself an not to have any one in part the second case He had be rather, which is much worse And he denied that the world

loveliness of face and grace sho ( was a something about her left his heartstrings untouc} and charming and beautiful en million one was she et, ve fortunately, she

seemed to lack some one quality that could have caused Miles’ restless heart to beat to a given tune Perhaps tnis was no quality inherent in her, but the mere fact that her heart had already been touched by another. It too, had fallen in love with Miss March his life must have become complicated by jealousy, which is a monster and

green. Who can say what disastrous effect this mig have had upon a nature that had not yet blossomed? It might have blasted the buds, like a black frost in spring But Miles was not to go scot-free from jealousy; onl his was not to be the monstrous green kind. Are you not ometimes a little jealous of your friend's successes? | im. You are made jealous a little, gently and harmlessly though your friend’s suce lines t your own interests and ambitions. And it patible to be sincerely glad of his success at

tne same time Anyway, it was so with Miles. He would have liked to be traveling through the Rhéne Valley—on the way to Rome-—in a trance of the feelings such as that which so Miss March ne just like it ery apparently surrounded his friend Hedid not covet their part icular trance

And, instead, he must view the Swiss mountains, which thrilled him like sudden trumpets, not even in an intimate bond of impression with his friend and traveling compan- ion, but in the company of a middle-aged woman, friendly and agreeable, it is true—but, but, but! And what if meals, excursions ss and famous points of vie continually brought uur together, so that, as you may

say, their elbows tou as if the Bosporus had flowed between them. To Miles the mountains furnished the most thrilling, The pairs remained as separate

-expand- ing experiences that uf had ever had To Miss Derby hey were mountains, very large and very good of their kind. She had seen them before and more clearly, she

*membered, when her eyes had been younger and she had |

corned a green vé But to Miss March and George the mountains were invisible--the mountains, the pasture and the gleaming snow, and the hosts of Alpine flower and the k haired idiots sitting at the r

their ears were deaf to the herder’s oyous clinking of the cowbells. The best part of I dare say, was going through the St. Gothard Tunnel

nto Italy — when the lights went out. And I suppose that even then they saw each other as in a bright f Miss Derby had at 1 no serious thought to the sudden attachment

she confided to Mile r seven senses

The dear child,” has posi no rent but me. And I thought it was just delight at being with a young man of her own age, more or less, and of her own country But, merey sakes! This isn’t one of Maud happy-go-lucky flirtations, which were fun for everybody

it’s very serious. And I that I could scream.”’ " atherly way. ‘‘ He's a good boy. But I don’t for the life uu needn't be afraid of George,’’ said Miles in a of me see what they are going to Marry on ‘Of course, they can’t mar Derby. ‘‘And, equally of course, any young man wh really determined to make enough money to support a wife can do it any young man

“Even if George is certain to succeed said Mule “and honestly, I think he is —it won’t be soon, and there’s a great big dismal meanwhile to think about.

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ravel h ‘ ‘ ~ « ‘ ¢ ‘ } 1 i ; l ie-aved e-t f pit é - I pends 1 } me ’ Grod the ple ( a take it \ Miles smiled ve , a Theoretically,” he said, ** you make mé Q eel very si f t But prac . sy Miss Dert ou are me as a tows -_ built I She | hed i methir | hopit } he ‘ n ‘ bad as th bu cret! e 1 ' ( Never nele re I nw : erable A t il a nter j \ . ~ ingered him t 1 iv-! ! t Kept flowi nye r ri ne He did not mear be ungene 1 he é hated ungenerousne " ur ve ungenerous tl t Ke} I ipon their dark and en corner } mind, and therein st ldered into a ger ine resentmer! Ceoree Cre ‘ ri Lool if) I is not playing f nd Miles kne Man in Dead Fa i ally ell he ( t} ein Ge , state « mind ! et I e expe ‘ ( ( » ne ¢ he ( | \ \ e, Git ei him to bear malice; | pract ‘ | ‘ er } raged himst etur! M off ed to | expense ( cer I he x ‘ in be e¢ he And he G ¢ } 1 Irie 3 Ol € ( he ‘ \ ( t I S nat But Ge ¢ B he ¢ } to | r He « spare time do the chore r VI graphing about accommod ! e t ‘ ( FOR | Rome « right and Kee} yt K OT t I ind t \ I | t these pet \ 1 e thr y n Mile } nt tion, and he resent¢ Not be e he ere ‘ ‘ ed ( nulsance, | be ISs¢ e ¢ ‘ hat elt ‘ l than George re le e que \ ‘ r ‘ time of George nfatu yn M I done } ‘ I I vas be é ‘ estion Mile I ( ! f ( Ge e had et f er ¢ he which he ld find I ravels in wi I ind reall rnal. B he , ( in this he no ] er showed the « ‘ good re n, pel I his ¢ ‘ ( | l r about people nd places, | } ‘ I a e. George, ther s negle } We ind there I ! ( ble ) ¢ ‘ heart tnis Miles 1 le | ( benefact but he « | t e « e the to a degree, he was I Mile trove nobl h himse B ‘ Ar Weorge er re { tt é selfishne re fore } r ire Tile ( is hal eifishr nd hall ger \ U together, never lett j ‘ In Rome Miss Derby had 1 vas thrown upon | n re | ‘ ‘ ‘ selfishne } had been bred } \ n nsee na} ( ( Wha S ¢ t not in gre v ! VI Col eum | moonhgt ( sick and miserable Che ( ( Here were unifo ety mer and a sens H kinder con I I f I ! Ut rese ng t ex \ he er came ine | , ot a love girl ! r gone, trying mile } ‘ 1 er frie that Mil came ne ez t ! thing out not r t I talk w Geort Miles found George just coming into the hotel, and suggested that, as it was t é en, they have little

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friendship and obliga- tions don’t seem to count. They don’t seem to count.’ ** But, George,’ said Miles, ‘* what are you going to do about it? if I give in and stay here a week longer, a month—till Christ- even—will you be ready to go then or will you: be any nearer being able to marry and support a wife than you are at this minute?” “No,” said George. “But Miles waited “Nothing,” said George hopelessly ; “fonly, but nothing more. |] suppose you're right. I sup pose it’s a fool busi- Tomorrow, mas ness. then.” He stood up and looked a little as if he were going to be elec- trocuted Miles, too, stood up and thrust a hand through his friend's arm “TI think . it’s best, Geordie,” Sa id ° ‘*No use going on this way. And if she’s the girl I think she is she'll wait and be faithful; and, meantime, you can get everything straightened out. As long as you've got to move on, why, ‘the sooner the better’ looks best to me ne “sy guess so,”’ ** Not tomorrow, George, day after.”’ Miles. left alone, felt like a bully. But reason told him that his decision was for the best, and early the next morn- ing he bought tickets for Naples, and he could feel them bulging in his breast pocket and annoying him with the insinuation that the decision he had made was wise, per- haps, but, perhaps, unkind George, of course, would be spending ey George assented dully, and turned away. Miles called after him. ‘* The ery minute of that last day with his heart's desire, «nd because the weather was urusually warm and lovely Miles walked out of the Eternal City and sat down at last in the sunshine againstatomb. It was not f that had weakened his It was rather more than a sudden thought. It was the dawning in him that all his views of life had hitherto been, if not from one single point of view, at least immediate neighborhood, and that there were a thousand others, and all different **Why thought Mile | wanted to, and instead of that plotting to make two young people fact th igue, but a sudden thought knees from its a Colosseum if been carefully wretched, taunting George with the t he can only stay or go at my pleasure. And I've ordered money to life And I've thought it bred to live quietly and let the n Father and Grandfather thought and did money, instead of was fine and well oney roll up, just as and now, well, »w I'm not so sure of that settle all this me of ‘I could unhappiness with a troke of the pen,”’ he thought presently ‘What have I ne that I should be so damned rich, and what has George ne that he should be so damned poor Ss ip} el got ate and fi that the money had « r because they thor l'dd e things with it i that I hadn't, and it they ere a ed nd ildn’t let me ir Whew Miles laughed, but he wiped the swe from | brow I've alwa wanted to be quiet and erved like linary people. But it isn't right for me be ordinar | oo rict I must do tl I've powe nd I « ight ti t go into the whole of Miles’ tl ht on tk ‘casion r the vague, if rather noble, conclusions to which they brought him. But picture him as rising from that sunny corner of the tomb, and the fragments of the type that had been there completely shattered falling from him. He was a man expanded for the moment to a real n ility of dimension and proportior i quiet, gray tree that had sudde nly burst into a cascade of blossom A Stranger Could Only Have Told the March Twins Apart by an Application of the Bertillon System THE SATURDAY EVENING POST There was never a more triumphant or conquering foot Romeward upon the Appian Way. Andas the young fellow strode with his head high he took the rail- way tickets from his pocket and tore them into fragments. And he took out his old watch and opened the back, so that the rubies and sapphires with which the inner might set case was set delight his eyes. Vil iY ILES went di- 4¥i rectly to the quiet little hotel at which Maudand Miss I erby were stopping. He wanted to get on the young people's track, to come up with them, and to convey to them, somehow— he did not know how the fact that all was to be well with them. But, to hisastonish- ment, in the little reading-room just off the hotel office he saw Miss March aloneand deep in a bound copy London paper. She was the only oc- cupant of the reading- room, and Miles spoke to her. ‘*Hello, Miss March!” he said. ‘‘ Where’s Geordie?” The girl looked up with a dazzling smile **T’m sure I don’t know,”’ she said Miles had avoided Miss March and Miss Derby, lately; he had been too engrossed with his own tortuous thoughts And the girl’s beauty appeared to him now like a new revelation. There was a gentleness and a kindliness, for all the archness and mischief of the eyes, that seemed to him to be new to his memory of her “But didn’t he tell you that we are going tomorrow?” She nodded. “Yes. He told us.” ‘Well,” said’ Miles, “I thought ——” a blush ‘You thought?” ‘I thought,”’ he blurted, ‘‘that you and he would spend the last day together.” She sighed and said: ‘*No such luck! Geordie, as a matter of fact, had some something else that he really had to do; and as I couldn't help why, here Lam.” Well, it doesn’t matter much,” said Miles, ‘‘ because we're not going.” ‘Really!’’ Miss March’s whole expression flashed and lightened. ‘‘I am so glad!” ‘But Geordie doesn't know,” decided not to go when he wasn't present to tellhim. He'll be so glad She shook her head ‘Not before dark ‘*But where is he? of a He paused with said Miles. ‘‘He and I And I want so Will he be back soon?” she said What the deuce can he be doing?” **Honestly,’’ she said, and she looked a little grave and anxious, “‘I don’t know. But, perhaps, if you were to jump into a cab and drive about Rome you might find him— by accident “Will you come?” But aren't you bored here? She said Miles. ‘‘I know it Will you?” &% moment and yielded suddenly with a Miles’ seemed to isn’t done thought heartstrings him And it occurred And hesighed. like brothers makes it re pectable for you and me to drive about together,” said Miles But he viewed with misgiv ing the w retched little Roman vehicle that the head porter had called by lifting a haughty forefinger with a velvet-edged nail And he wondered why he had not hired a motor during his stay in Rome, with a liveried chauffeur, as befitted his station f But then it occurred to him that his station in life was a new thought dating from that very day. ‘‘I will +1 incog. a little longer,”’ he thought; but it made him I the creaking of the springs of the little iage in which he was to take Miss March driving gay, happy little laugh that warmed she had Somehow oughly companionable never before and appealing love had softened her being almost so thor- os ae to him that perhaps and I rd Geordie to hear April 23,1910 “Our plan,” she said, “‘as I understand it, i all over Rome with our weather eyes open. S cabby, or will you?” For Miles had hesitated when it came to giving orders “Tt will be funnier if I do,” he said. ‘‘ But ——’ She laughed. And Miles listened contentedly to charming sounds that came pellucidly from her lips and that caused the cabby to scowl and sit up very straight and look very s to drive 2 hall I tell important. It had*never before been so easy for Miles to talk with Miss March. Hitherto they had never gone deeper into each other's minds and predilections than a common liking for banter and the absurd had taken them. But now she chose to be rational and really companionable. And Miles thought: ‘‘ Poor child; no wonder she’s sobered, being engaged and no marriage in sight for years and years, and facing Geordie’s going away and leaving her and all, and having him neglect her on this last day and all! . . . What the devil can he be up to?” Whatever Miss March's inner sufferings may have been, she was outwardly enjoying herself. And when Miles wasn’t stealing looks at her out of the corner of his eyes she stole looks at him, her eyebrows rising at the inner lids into an amused and engaging little pucker Now and then Miles felt tempted to tell her how lucky he thought Geordie was. And finally he did. ‘*But isn’t that rather new—for you?” She looked at him in a way that called for an honest answer “I somehow,” he said, ‘didn’t get to know you very well, did 1?” Helaughed. ‘I didn’t have much chance And when we were all four together you and I did nothing but joke and say foolish things ” He turned and looked her straight in the eyes. ‘I always,”’ said he, ‘‘thought you were the most beautiful thing in this world; but it’s suddenly dawned upon me that the beautifulness is only —a little bit of item —I—TI don’t know how to put it. You're different from what I thought.” “Do you really think I’m different?” she asked. “It must have been there always,” he said. ‘‘ But I think I was always a little afraid of you and embarrassed. And now I’m not.” “‘Don’t you think,” she said, ‘‘that a girl has to be different —until—until she’s sure?” “‘T don’t know anything about girls,” he said. if I thought that you’d ever get over it I’d find myself wishing that George had drowned himself.” ‘*This attitude,” she said, ‘‘from you—is a new thing.” “¢ 14,” Miles. ‘‘I never felt that way before about you or anybody else. I used to tell Miss Derby that I was in love with her, but wouldn't believe me ee ‘‘Anyway,” said Miss March, ‘‘it proves that you and I are no longer to regard each other with suspicion, but to be firm friends. And that’s a blessing. But I think you shouldn’t have neglected us so. Auntie is really hurt. She thought you really liked her.” **I do,” exclaimed Miles, ‘‘and she knows it; and I’ve been a regular cub. I'll tell you honestly why I've kept away; it made me lonely and jealous to see two people so happy. And I’d counted so on doing Rome with George, and, of course, that would have spoiled his game So I moped by myself, and was ashamed, too, and couldn't seem to stop And then you honest basis, I can say it 3ut said she now we're friends and on an you didn’t seem to care a rap about meas George’s friend. And I got to feeling sore at you. There!” He smiled his sweetest and most engaging smile I didn’t value you,” because didn’t give me a chance to know you. He shook his head ** Well,” she said, ‘‘I can't say that you have changed very much so far as my personai observation goes. But I felt, all of a sudden, when you came into the reading- room, as if I knew you, and that you were fine and manly and sweet. There!” “‘And that,” said Miles, ‘‘is why you've let me see what you're really like *“You poor soul,” lonely time of it **Oh,” said Miles, ‘“‘I didn’t make the best of it, and so I mustn’t even be forgiven, let alone comforted.” She patted the back of his hand with her little gloved But Miles was really troubled in his heart **T felt so-and-so when we started,”’ he thought ‘TI feel this way now and, blast my reputation as a friend, I’m getting worse every minute. First, I wouldn’t go around because I thought she didn’t like me; and now I won't be able to because--I—I’'m getting to like her too much And they drove up and down hills-—-and up and down, and saw no And at last the afternoon changed into dusk with wind and dust, and lights began to be lighted; and Miss March sighed and said that it had been very sweet of Miles to put up with her company and that she must go back to her hotel According to Miles’ recollection this was reached altogether too soon, but he tried to prolong the happy “ec she said, *‘ because you Did you? she said, ‘‘you’ve had a miserable ingers. because Rome is built on seven sign of George

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 25 time that he had had, and went with her to the office to ask “All dav long!” repeat Mil H — ; l lav | { epe ed \i rie |} i ¢ hee attera nga | ( t 1 if George was in the hotel—he wasn’t —and to the foot of _ half listening. but that phr had startled him int , he began then and ther . ‘ : , . nail i ing, Dut thi I ‘ i sta ea! ( ) wa er the stair—it was an old-fashioned hotel having no lift plete attentior \ Maud |} | ther force it ter t pi t 1LIOT i la i ia | Ve a re r ill , indton er the n ¢ | they call them that abroad because their kind has to mak« ja he sa i ‘ \ ! a terrible effort to do business, and it sounds more app: “Of cours 1 Georg Where v we be which he differed 1 os fr priate—and there he shook hands with her. And instead Apart n this last d = of his happy time being prolonged it was then and ther “re iM changed into tragedy nothir Dan Cupid had been hovering about Miles, hangir Then, indignant at fire He chose the moment when she reached the land Dut without h - and turned and smiled. Then the god drew his bow t he had spent the afternoon rf i t! se of t ‘lor t ear and drove his mighty shaft into Miles’ heart it ) | ch to the feathers hands and The poor fellow walked back to his own hot Sorrow has driven him mad,” thought M “that victory | strange state of exaltation happened to him and he must from its very circumstances be tra nd griet The mir ‘ | ertain And it’s: mer — = ‘ +} grief and the numb pain and the sense of des y iid 1 é he that had gone forth from the tomb upon the A) nd Miss Derby ta hout ti ter— Marv. SI n lic ; Way to bear glad tidings was going home wit} ( ith friends from Paris to join them her 2 2 ny steps t I md He full of evil news ‘But hut Lid Mik R nd thought M ‘I want her, I want her,” cried the wound in his heart ‘“They're twir ried Georg *fand she’s George’s, George's, George's son The sounds of lamplit Rome seemed to merge a h reverberate with the burden: except They told him at the office that George had just come he ¢ “* George’s, George’s —not for you —George’s in and that he had gone up to their room. | ‘ h first and had a drink and a think, at a little table in a far ind took a chance [——f ind he laughed ! ror f M ton amar , corner. And he came to the ’Y ' ss conclusion that he was being 2 * ail punished for unkindness and a _ = 9a . . uncharitableness and wrong- mindedness, and that this sud- denly seeing life from a new point of view had happened too late for him But not for other. “Now,” thought he “that I know what the pain feels like and what the Joy might feel like, it’s up to me to take away as much of their pain her pain, her pain, as I possibly ean. And I won't eat out my heart—I won’t—I won't. I'll othe it with being kind; I'll comfort it with being generou and even if can’t heal it why we'll get along—we'll get along.”’ He went upstairs and, hi hand on the door, heard George singing and whistling Miles went in “Well, old boy ” he said **I’m glad to hear you so cheer- ful.” ‘* Miles,” said George, ‘‘I'’ve got to be cheerful. And I'm going to be. We made up our minds to that . and Oh! man, she’s so won- derful “TIT know—I know,” Milk interjected ‘“*Know!”’ exclaimed George “You can’t know! She'll wait. And I'm not t be unhappy or troubled becau we'vegottowait. . . And love isn't a petty thing, Mi It’s great and glorious. It’s the sacrifices —the being separ: and taking it manly, and worl ing like a dog, and having all end well—that make it glorious ease, “The having it end well, said Miles. ‘‘ Yes—that’s the great thing.” He walked to the window and looked out. Should he tell George that it was to end well sooner than he, George, had knew anybody that loves as much as Mary does to amus« Sire i Mile _— a = a _ - —_ = And We've Gone and Presented Eternity With Seven Whole Days ti We Can Never Get Bach expected, or wasn’t George in so buoyant a mood that herself at other people's expense \ if vould be better to hold that little happiness until the morning, and to announce only th Yesterd j postponement of departure? ‘“When yesterd George, meanwhile, went on talking, with Miles lf A ILES le é the dark, his f elation over t? listening to George, half engrossed in his own thoughts 41 faceda new com] n. He meant to dog the twit wre of the future sister's ster int f y throug! eer earine he i ( “‘Tt’s been the happiest day in my life,’ said George promised to be to him. That he, like George, had te ‘IT remember three: the day Grandpa gave me a gu! fallen in | it f ht was a sufficient miracle Mile ed becor and the day she said she cared, too, and this da) ‘ oincidence \ there was no use even hoping, he i First,’’ he said, ‘‘we thrashed it all « what position and disposition we'd take and hold, and falling instant n love with him as her sister had done oe dM after that we walked on air and sat on cloud nd not with George. She would have to be won by a campaign B ‘ 1 Ge once all day long did we let our hearts sink because of penitence in devotion and thoughtfulness. In medic because we have to say good-by tomorrow. terms of human probabilit h ald pitulate or Continued ! ut, and

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t THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A‘D' 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 421 TO 427 ARCH STREET GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR By Subscription $1.50 the Year. Five Cents the Copy of All Newsdealers lo 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 25,1910 A Corpse That Winks VER since last autumn, like prudent journalists, we have had our obituary notice of Cannonism all set up and ready to throw into the forms at a moment’s warning whenever that fatal event should occur which would make its publication appropriate. Early in January, and again the middle of March, with greater emphasis, we were assured that the patient was no more, and might definitely be spoke n of in the past tense. Almost immediately, however, deceased sat up and winked violently -a phenomenon which the newspapers described as a Republican caucus to name the majority members of the new Committee on Rules—and ever since then we have been in an uncertain frame of mind. Fora corpse, ready for the funeral, the subject shows unbecom- ing signs of activity. Cannonism is merely another name for blind following of party. So long as hidebound party rule obtains, and members styled Republicans or Democrats feel obliged to surrender their convictions on important questions in deference to the decisions of a caucus, we shall have governments by a minority—consisting simply of a majority of that party which has a majority of the House and government by a minority is Cannonism. Beginning with the mugwumps, who first supported Cleveland, almost every step toward political reform in this country, whether national, state or local, has been taken by breaking party lines. The insurgent Republicans who voted against Cannon in March stepped boldly and well in the right direction. And yet to kill Cannonism will require persistent stepping We're still a little uncertain as to whether it is time to print that obituary notice Lines for Truthful Tablets WE HAVE forgotten precisely how many million dollars, derived from profits in the steel trade, Mr. Carnegie has given away in the last nine years, But exact figures on the other side of the ledge r are at hand. During the last nine years the Steel Trust has paid yperating expenses, taxes and interest on bonds which represent more money than stockholders ever actually paid in for the construction of the various plants; it has et aside many millions to cancel the principal of the vonds, and has deducted from earnir s enough money %t only to keep the plants ‘n full repair, but also to mprove and extend them, Last year alone, for example, xteen million dollars was charged out for “ extra rdinary replacement.”” And after doing all that its net surplus profits for the benefit of stockholders have amounted to $539,463.867.1 i oF That would build quite a number of libraries and pen- yn a good many college professors. While these profits have been accumulating the price of steel rails has been pegged’ at twenty-eight dollars a ton, rema g at that figure regardless of upply rr demand, because the Steel rrust and its allies of the Rail Pool arbitrarily fixed it there If that isn’t the essence of m nope ly we would like omebody to point out what is. To make the monopo effective, of course, a practically prohibitive import duty n rails was essential—which the Government thought- fully prov ided Mr. Carnegie’s otherwise admirable character is marred by a slight strain of egotisn Che dedicatory tablets in 6 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST his libraries should read: “Donated by the Various Republican Majorities in Congress that have passed Tariff Bills.” We hope the gentlemen who, ere long, will be building libraries and pensioning heroes out of the present enormous profits of the Steel Trust will state the case accurately in their tablets and deeds of gift. High Tide in Pittsburgh F‘ YLLOWING the newest graft exposures a large wave of reform has struck Pittsburgh, we hear. The wave probably will produce much commotion and foam; then it will subside, after the manner of waves. As dry land reappears graft will wipe the salt spume out of its eyes and thriftily prepare to resume the old trade at the old stand. That has been the history of numberless reform waves. If a man had an engine that blew up periodically, although he frequently changed engineers, he might, in the course of time, begin to suspect there was something wrong with the engine itself. No matter how often our engine blows up that suspicion never crosses our minds. The basic trouble is that, however badly our political insti- tutions may work in given cases, we stick to the fond belief that the institutions themselves are all right and will work perfectly if only we elect honest men to operate them. The cities that have accomplished lasting reform are those, like Des Moines, which have had the courage to sit down deliberately, reéxamine the political machinery itzelf, and reform the faults in it. So long as Pittsburgh goes on with the old bad institutions that scatter power and responsibility among a great number of persons the old trouble will break out afresh. Politically speaking, all people take “dope.” An Englishman is hypnotized by a lord; a German fervently Hochs der Kaiser; to a Frenchman the army is a fetish; and we Americans, whenever anybody mentions the Fathers and the Constitution, fall on our stomachs and wriggle reverentially. To say that the Supreme Court, with its power over legislation, is an absurd anomaly in a government supposedly democratic, is not merely trea- son, but sacrilege. A blind refusal to examine the political machinery itself, in the light of experience and of modern conditions, is what, more than anything else, makes re- form transitory and ineffectual. Cheaper Gold and Higher Prices MINENT economists agree that what we are suffering from is cheap money. In two years the world’s mines have yielded nine hundred million dollars of gold, which is about as much as they produced in the five “ hard-times” years, 1893-1897, or in eight years preceding 1893. Owing to this increased supply the value of gold has fallen, so that it takes an ounce and a half, or approximately thirty dollars, to buy the same quantity of food and clothing that one ounce, or twenty dollars, would have bought ten years ago. In short, dear commodities and cheap money are equivalent terms. Some of our most noted political campaigns in behalf of the poor man have adopted a theory that the more abundant and the cheaper money was the better off the poor man would necessarily be. We haven't yet heard from any poor man who thinks this era of cheap money and high prices improves his condition. What that con- dition would be if the supply of money, in ten years, had increased from twenty-five dollars per capita to forty-five, instead of only to thirty-five, as it has done, and com- modity prices were correspondingly higher, may be left to the imagination. Farmers have benefited from high prices; but, generally speaking, only in proportion as they were capitalists, too, owning land. In central Nebraska, for example, where dollar wheat and sixty-cent corn have raised the price of farmlands from thirty or forty to one hundred dollars or more an acre, it certainly isn't any easier for the really poor, empty-handed man to make his way farming than it was ten years ago. To figure out schemes of beating the capitalists, in favor of the non-possessing man, by monkeying with the cur- rency system, has always possessed a fascination for some minds; but it is doubtful if anybody can figure out such a scheme that will work. Paternalism and the Palladium HE Government owns a steamship line plying between Atlantic ports and the Isthmus of Panama. It ownsa railroad across the Isthmus. People of the Pacific Coast ask that it complete the chain by establishing a line of steamers between Panama and Pacific ports For the haul from Panama those people are now dependent upon ships controlled by a transcontinental railroad. They say the ships, in arranging rates and schedules, think twice of the railroad’s interests and only once of developing water transportation. Senator Flint’s bill for a Government line on the Pacific meets with the usual objections—chiefly, that it April 23, 1910 would be rank paternalism. In the statesman’s dictionary paternalism seems to mean a father who refuses to be thrown out by the boys whom he has set up in business. It was not paternalism, for example, when the Govern- ment granted this transcontinental railroad subsidies almost sufficient to build and equip it. Neither would it be paternalism if the Government guaranteed a profit to privately-owned ships by liberally subsidizing them, ac- cording to these gentlemen. The Government, it is urged, has no right to compete with any private enterprise—such as the railroad’s Pacific steamship line. One Senator observes that the Govern- ment undoubtedly will soon sell its Panama ships, having bought them merely as an incident to building the canal. The Government, that is, being temporarily engaged in a large undertaking, wished to protect itself by controlling the means of transportation. But the Pacific Coast people say they are permanently engaged in a large undertaking. They are, so to speak, building Panama Canals all the time. These hustling Westerners would like the same protection which the Government, in its own business, found expedient. Suppose, as a very extreme case, that the Government should go a tenth as far in aiding a million farmers and merchants as it went in aiding the several persons who built the above-mentioned railroad. Would the palladium of our liberty really be upset thereby ? Science the Best Fertilizer EXAS farmers in the cotton belt used to raise cotton andalmost nothing else, because that crop brought cash, Very often they bought vegetables, eggs, milk, feed for their horses and like products of the soil. Of late years the Farmers’ Union and other agencies have been persist- ently preaching diversification of crops, and with some measure of success. To that the lifting of many a mort- gage is attributed—although, probably, the farmers are still too largely simple specialists in cotton. Specializa- tion, of course, is the word nowadays; yet the packers turn out soup, extracts and toilet soap as well as steaks and chops. Now comes President Jordan, of the Southern Cotton Association, to say that the American cotton crop is “worse handled than any other great product in the world.” Cotton from India and Egypt comes to market in much better condition than that from the United States. He points out in detail how bad baling, indis- criminate sampling, unnecessary freight on bagging and ties, marine insurance one-fourth higher than that on other cotton, local insurance in ordinary warehouses at two to four per cent against one-sixt h of one per cent ina standard warehouse, and country damage from improper storage and exposure to weather entail upon the growers yearly losses of enormous proportions. Cotton growers by no means stand alone in failing to get as much as they ought out of their plant and prod- uct Here is the only 3ack-to-the-farm”’ campaign that will win—back with better knowledge, higher tech- nical skill. As a matter of fact, every year nowadays young men are finding in farming ample opportunity to apply all the brains they possess and all the scientific training they can acquire. Bigness and Betterment 4 XCITEMENT over the new census begins to arise. Signs of it already appear in many quarters. With the lapse of time it will become more acute until, at the climax, it fairly vies with the baseball scores. But this absorbing interest in the census applies, of course, to only one feature of it-—-that feature which is connoted by the eager inquiry: “ How big are we?” How much has Los Angeles cut down San Francisco’s lead? Is Dallas almost as big as San Antonio? What is the relative population of St. Paul and Minneapolis? Just what ratio of growth does Oklahoma show? To these questions we breathlessly await the official answer of the census In the fif deciphered answers to other questions which touch not ty pounds or so of census figures may be upon size but merely upon well-being. Such answers, as only possessing an academic interest, the specialists may duly dig out at their leisure. What we’re really wanting to know is: “ How big are we?” : We suppose there is no self-respecting American city that would not rejoice more generally and more keenly to know that it had beaten its rival in the number of inhab- itants than to know it had beaten the same rival in the comparatively dry and uninspiring matter of providing good government. Indeed, a strong motive for providing good government is that it may prove a valuable means of attracting more inhabitants. If an angel should offer any live American city the alternative of growing in size or in grace, that city would be very unhappy. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Paid in Paper He Stuck to His Post and Was Stuck Serious and frivolous acts About " ~the Great and the Near Great Thanks to Lucy Bees and Bars

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THE SATURDAY he Return | As Day Was Breaking the Liner Drew Alongside FOREWORD THE expression Back From is used fre juently in this v narrative Elba eracious , It seems fitting to explain the outset that the person rete rred to in onnection \ he phrase will not from | é He been The words f of speech Africa, politic all he Minister: come to ya historical He will really come back that doesn’t mean any- or otherwise It might or of the vacation, or an exposer o! © atrocities in the Congo who Gibraltar. The explanation of the term by those who invented its present applic a century ,Mr J. Napoleon, who had spent questered season ina place called Elba, from the busy marts of trade, re- go into the emperor stand and was warmly torical as well as the in the two events this point. Any y, pedant or critic who ents the fact that Mr. J. ted only a hundred days , will merit and will receive has never rm merely f a missionary, got as far as ‘ation hat once, about Jame . a Se to to France at the old The hi mhoiance » cease at story, By SAMUEL ILLUSTRATED BY the severe displeasure of those in charge of the ovation here described, and will be set down as willfully attempting to crab the game. I— BACK FROM ELBA AR to the east of Sandy Hook lightship a giant bellbuoy tossed in rhythmic unison with the mighty waves. Boom! clanged the bell, boom! And as it rose, shuddering but secure, to the top of a great comber, there appeared the figure of a man clinging to the framework—a man tall and lender, in whose drooping mustache there glittered pearly drops of water and whose hair was silvered by the salty spray. High again the great bell was tossed, and the tall and slender man swept the horizon with eager eyes. Suddenly he discerned a black speck far off among the leaping waves, a black speck that rose and fell as often as the waves themselves and, as it rose into the full glory of the setting sun, displayed momentary flashes of a line of pearly white ‘Tis he!’’ shouted the tall and slender man. “’Tis he! He comes!” Time passed, and the speck grew bigger and bigger until it took on the aspect of a man’s head and shoulders. It was a man, a man swimming vigorously in all the weltering waste of water Battling bravely with waves man progressed. It was to served that the pearly line of white was teeth, and that between them was clamped a trusty rifle The passenger on the bellbuoy leaned far forward and shouted: Bwana Tumbo! Bwana Tumbo!” The swimmer stopped, dashed the water from his eyes, changed his course and, with a few tremendousstrokes, reached the be lIbuoy Grasping the frame- work he pulled himself up beside the first occupant ‘‘Hello, Gifford!’’ he shouted ‘I'm glad to Set you ‘Theodore! Gifford’s voice for it was n other than Gifford Pinchot who sat astride the bell broken with emotion *“Good old Gif,” said the swimmer, and they clasped hands there, with the limitless sea swirling around cla ped hands as two wherever met “*T had to come, replied Pinchot “5 felt that I must be first to « lasp your hand to hear your voice, your teeth, but I had not expected this Where's the hip? “On It was I the be ob- the soon one was them— men will, strong to see , back there a hundred miles or so too slow for me and I jumped over- oard, taking my trusty rifle, and swam n. Where's Jimmie?” “IT left him back on the next buoy. I tied him there and came on alone. I felt I must be first.”’ **Oh, well, let’s get along to him.” Together they plunged into the waves and swam, side by side, toward a buoy that tossed in the twilight a mile or two away EVENING POST G. BLYTHE M. L. BLUMENTHAL As they swam they talked. ‘‘ You know,” said Pinchot, ‘‘that I am no longer Chief Forester of the United States. I have been separated from my job a ‘So I have heard. So I have heard, but let me tell you of the time I shot the white rhinoceros. It was like this’’—and, turn- ing on his back, he raised his trusty rifle and took careful aim at a circling gull. Bang! and the gull dropped into the water “Pick that up, Gifford, and take it in. It will be another specimen for the Smith- sonian Institution.” So they swam, the mighty hunter telling of his deeds in Africa, and the enraptured listener often forgetting that it is no time to listen in open-mouthed wonder when one is swimming, and embarking, from time to time, large quantities of sea water. Presently they reached the next buoy. Tied securely to the bell was a man of high brow and serious cast of countenance. “Hello, Jimmie,”” shouted the mighty hunter. ‘‘What’s the matter? Seasick?” The man on the bell groaned **Mollyeoddle!’’ snorted the swimmer “Theodore,” replied James Rudolph, “I am recovered now. The sight of your face has revived me.” ‘‘Huh! that’s better.” And he and Pinchot climbed on the buoy and disposed themselves comfortably, talking long into the night on what had happened in the United States since the mighty hunter left our shores. The full meaning of the Back- From-Elba movement was explained, the various political moves described, the scope of the celebration outlined. Just as day was breaking the great, gray liner drew alongside and lowered a boat. sturdy II— BACK FROM ELBA ACK from Elba! All night long the streets of the Mighty Metropolis of the West- ern World had been filled with hurrying throngs, all with a common ob- jective point Long before the rising sun gilded such of the tops of the skyscrapers as had not thoughtfully been gilded before by the owners thereof, the Battery was packed with a seething mass of people, and scores of hundreds of thousands stood in serried ranks along the shores, from the Narrows to Governor's Island, while half the popu- lation of the United States seemed to be on Staten Island Waiting—and for what? Waiting to greet with glad acclaim Colonel T. Faunal Roosevelt, merely a private citizen, but first in such war as came his way and first in the hearts of his countrymen who haven't been able to get or retain jobs under the Taft Adminis- tration It probably never occurred to him to be first In peace The great, gray liner poked her nose past Sandy Hook. Standing on the bridge, with irriaye Would Not Hold the W hite Khinoceros and the Beardless Bongo, and Garfield and Pinchot, Too

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At the last 1 himself either in his uniform or it all observer iventional dress affected by the wel The first d mn of the par ‘ommittee namely, silk hat, frock gorical and symbolical t was led striped trousers and a look of eager band playing My Country, ’t f Me, and xpectancy then followed various floats, each ha ‘I want my people to greet me as Iam, especial significance Numt ud simpl ip i ol ind three dey } \ ( “Tam or 1 faunal natural ngl On t t " ' 1 a middle-age literary ma a tation . 2 | ! ( i hall rema char } nt } rreat, gray liner anchored and, whik a clever device the elephants reache uns thundered a salute, the highest pitch of ferocity in their char; 1 his two faithful friends were exactly in front of the reviewir tand to the enormou idewheel Then the intrepid hunter ind it took no Policies, wiih had been econd glance to discertr VhO Wa repre i especially for the occasion by the sented taking careful aim, kille tee of Greeting them, dispa ater was alive with craft of every turdy blows with the butt of his gui he tion, all jammed with enthusiast ext float was somewhat ! flags and chanted unceasing family of bloodt tv lie back back from Elba! There They crouched as if to spring on the same y disputes, both on the boats and intrepid hunter, who at regular interval over the ba, some holding rushed forward, sé d one by the jaw some kind of a mineral spring, and tore it asunder a ! f others contending with equal vigor that it indered halves about his head was a place where elephants are plenty a club to kill the other lhis was loudly | cene in New York’s magnificent cheered along the line of marc} rhe third r made the return of any other private float was intended to interest the ladies en to this country look like anattempt and children. It showed : I mugg (Chinaman over the border which many gazelle pe, I leer ins, the ind other timid creature iZ1 tles, the The tre were led i iV-} aged ts, toge bird rhe |} r appea ind t prey hrough the gra ind ited if Waves made it a spectack vith great effect the method to be forgotten these animal es of citizens were present both rt count } Hee I ! i and on 1d ind iduals nex ai pla It w i pa a th each other to give warmth to awarl marct i wenty ! I welcome A legal holiday had been each and cart ! i large banr It was ge nerally observed, ex- Was prociall | We are the Short-and Wall Street district, where the Uglic After the dwarfs came some of Finance and their hireling more float he ! hn great dramat idly at work, having refused to effect and nicety of detail the Unqualified ticipate, and stopping only in the Falsehood the False and Mendac ind of taking money away from Statements, the Sheer Inventions and the als of half an hour or Willful and Deliberate Misstatement ’ ‘Curses on him! Then came one of the great hit { nany meetings of boards of | parade A large delegation of the Ar also, of corporations owned by ( lub marched by, wearing vellow high hat inal rich, held in richly-furnished and fro cou hes ere I] if re the blinds were closely drawn battalion of the Undesirable Citizens and voted to the passing of resolutions these by a company of M yrecating the Bac k-From-Elba move- tired 1n Da niusienl to the busine interest Phere ere imerous other tloat act ntry 3 ng a familiar scene or illustratir ! vat on which the Colonel came episode There is the Dear M the dock the welcoming choru the You and I are Practical Mer anti ph onal It swelled in a fren \ claim. | ( t efforts of ber of police t way to the t Finall boats I Colonel came seat In an Of drawn by They Crouched as if to Spring on the Same dreaded by children thar about by the use of AMERICAN RADIATOR (WMPANY Sith fs os os os oe

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30 float with the editors of the New York World and the Indianapolis News in chains, and many more. It was a most imposing display. ° Following this division came a Jong line of trucks carrying eight thousand African specimens, mostly in pickle, and at the end of this magnificent display a humorous scene showing the directors of the Smithsonian Institution in a _ kle themselves to know what to do with the eight thousand. Next came the Rough Riders. The first division contained all but two of this famous regi- ment and had a banner which read: ‘ The Colonel put us on the payroll.’’ The two marched in the rear with a banner: ‘‘ We didn’t get on the payroll,” and at the end there was a gigantic cipher rolling along which was k ibeled: ‘‘ This shows how many of us will stay on the payroll under Taft.”’ The ¢ “olonel was noticed to scowl when he saw this The parade lasted four hours, the latt part of it being made up of soldiers, sailor marines, militia and so forth, and not particularly novel or interesting After the parade had passed Gifford Pinchot and James R. Garfield stepped forward and in a few well-chosen words introduced the Colonel, saying: ** Inasmuch as the man we all delight to honor needs no introduction at our hands, we hereby have great pleasure in introducing Colonel T Faunal Roosevelt, lately returned from Africa, where deeds of prowess on plain and in jungle have astonished the civ i Zed world and such of the uncivilized as he had with him The cheers were deafening Colonel Roosevelt, removing his hat, fired his rifl rapidly into the air seven times and then, clearing his throat, said ‘My friends for | know I can call you all my friends and those who are not my friends would better get on the outskirts of the crowd before | catch them at it word fail to express how grateful 1 am to you for this weleome. Words, I repeat, fail to express how grateful I am, but, | may say, if you hadn't given me this weleome | should have had a few words in stock that would have expressed what I thought ‘I am, as you know, merely a private citizen returned from a scientific expedi- tion into Africa and a few hours of consort with the crowned heads of Europe. It is hardiy necessary for me to say that | apprecii deeply this tremendous out- pouring in my honor, but I am free to remark that if it had been held in Bronx Park it is quite likely more people would have been on the spot. However, this no time for mere person pndirr eaprtpenae lam aed I accept this reception at your hands, not because of my intrin ie worth, but because I know it is from your heart I went to Africa more than a year ago having been for seven years your President When I left Washington at noon on the fourth day of March, 1909, I turned over the Government to the hands of my friend I shall oon require an account olf I stewardship, and until that time I shall prefer to say nothing much about public matters ‘‘As I was saying, I went to Af than a year ago You are all ¢ successfully I have kept my movements hidden during that time Not a word has what I have 4 mere private

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citizen, tha ‘omir vere of no inter If, an endeavored cur

as much as possible | proached on the project of returning to New York I refused to do so until I had heard all the details of the was to be commensurate, I accepted My friends, ours is a would have £ t eturned to a Southern po ! 1 all know, I proudly boast n y Southern hy ht given me hen, as it seemed riven me gr

ineage. Then again, it would hav great deligh to me to have ent country ata Wests rn port, forla all know, of the West -- Western lI, seemed most fitting that I should return to New York, for there are more peopl here, and the news-distributi are ample r Thus, I come. back to my native city, my native stat y nat land, and I come back refreshed by my trip, ready to do whatever you may bid me to do, and ready, also, to do some bidding myself, — your bidding not seem Spiritec d en ough to me ‘Of course, you « xpect me to tou h or public questions. At this time I can only

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THE SATURDAY go into them briefly. Still, every man should have an interest in public questions, and, as I had comprehended them all in my various public speeches and messages before I left, all I can say now is that woe be unto those unto whom I confided this country when I left, if one jot or tittle of My Policies has been cast aside. As the inventor of all prosecutions of trusts and combinations in trade, as the discoverer of the conservation of natural resources, as the promulgator of various other reforms, I have no more to say at this time than that must have results along the lines laid down by myself, or know the reason why ‘IT neither make nor imply a threat in this. I simply say that if any person is trying to stop any of my reforms, on the one hand, or to get credit for anything I laid out, on the other, that person will have me to reckon with. So far as accept- ing public office at your hands again is concerned I have nothing to say at this time. It is some time until 1912, and I must investigate the trend of affairs. Iam appalled at the increased cost of living under my successor, for which, of course, | am not to be blamed. I was striving for legislation which had for its inception a great and stern moral movement to bring our conduct and our ideals into measurable accord ‘You will observe, my friends, there was no revision of the tariff, with its glaring inequalities and its utter disregard of the ultimate consumer, during My Adminis- tration. I thank you.”’ At the conclusion of his speech, which was received with loud applause, the Colonel was escorted to his town residence, where he spent the evening in consultation with Post-Office officials in relation to the most direct dispatch of mail to persons traveling in Alaska

III—AN ODD CIRCUMSTANCE NHORTLY before six o'clock on the evening of the great day a mounted policeman, who was stationed at Broadway and Fourteenth Street, observed a group of nine distinguished-appearing men, clad in ilk hats and long coats, toiling painfully up the street **Who are you? he asked Whereupon a short but most impressive gentleman, who seemed to be the spoke s- man, stepped forward and said: ‘‘ We are ol ing for the ee ¥ bration in honor of the return of Colone | Roo evelt * hy,’’ replied the mounted policeman, iat has been over foran hour. It seems strange that you should have missed it Wi did not miss it. It missed us,’’ re- plied the short but impressive gentleman ——- n “We are the Taft's Cabinet sent who acted as members of Pres here to pavilelnate.’ y The Red Spot i supe rintendent of motive power on one division of a large Eastern railroad has combined an efficienc y standard with the general idea unde rly ing secret societies He established some time ago an “‘ Order of the Red Spot Nothi y but a locomotive can belong to this secret society. If an r r demonstrates that his locomotive can make good runs, show few failures and ” economical in operation, the superin- tendent, who alone knows terms of admis- sion to the order, places a red — on the engine's front. This a badge of honor ‘ ing more. It sivas that enaiine ‘onsideration at roundhouses and, in case of accident or misfortune, is a val- uable credit mark for its engineer. The president of a Brooklyn trust com- pany has also set effective standards for his fot ree of clerks. In handling exchanges the number of errors for the day is recorded each error charged to the clerk respon- sible At the end ofa year the clerk who has made fewest errors gets a bonus, and so does the clerk who has made the most progress in cleaning up last year’s errors Thus, the clerk who was at the bottom of the class last year may be at the hez ] year. The time of *‘ prov ” is also kept each day, with a view to cutting it down, shortening the day’s work Such is also the case with depositors’ passbooks, which were formerly carried ove r from one day to another when left to be balanced, while now, under the system of di aily records, the bookkee ping stz iff tries to clean them all out before the day’s work

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 3 WANAMAKER “Pines Gonator’s Secretar Oo ‘e NI Q SS ( \ ‘aN , N Leather Onford Bag | ut Senator's Secretary Cow Hide Suit Case B old ort You will surely need a vmod t ‘ R ‘ , or iit Cast t imer Hye typical Wanamaker off Russet Cow Hide Suit Case $599 jc have beat heation from theme. ‘Gana Rarely do you f i y suit « non-nhatu pact t \ for $5.00; but this tin vou do | 1a ) e crude i ( ed In workmanship, mater t y e that the wav ti : ‘ hip in the H surprise you Every det care ace all aad Ratna 9 " 1 ‘ . 14 , as the only genult artick Uncle Joe's Tactics Bas } } th ~ ormdheas he prevrande pb tae nye lp geen ge eigen ga rin mped | rtyv. 1 ppr able 1 are , rs ent } lay et met a nes ae See be better dressed Sole Leather Oxford Bag $1150“ “onvinee the toll ae ee ee ee ee ee hin to wear distinct ré n the Spea y ' ot t ‘ —_——— The bax. th rowal hea country if all legislation were delayed for him to eliminate himself in order that. th ive clothes—to rislation “ to' say the cowards who wanted pay no more but Conair tan ane aabsaaetia tke Seeks Ge ae ee get better —you | egret Wana ae . pth ye fe otlllinor rated magnesia tcee Prces ste should wear the Write today nwo eit It’s FREE ie ii iia ee eee Young Men’s ¢ ‘ N Ihe Inside Story of the Big Fight 4% course he Was I t i i P ( rr | he S ocner JOHN WANAMAKER, New York achat , ie mast cold-blooded game it aI, 1st yes ‘The first Derby made in America was a nst Cannon al tne time up vo | man in i rapt laces ee es f } } , } most vital time, and then voted for nowhere. The men who advised Uncle . ve the Clotl "R ik ates a enviable distin r] [EN «paeemcnmape e the votes to keep them it ghey ima, mg alps to resis tion. ‘They are +4 } f irreconcik na thy former enator Her f Ind | es Of pe ee Eee ae ae THEW SYSTEM "1 ‘ in: of Unele J ind o1 2 : a bee 1 i Inner ¢ tf poct e cs wet ‘ ~s ewer — : we leu veadee Qhand €4 ld] le ey i not e reduced the insurgent part L cei + gn cig aaa = ‘ ‘jn Prince Gao eo H. M. Lindenthal the best dealers t ‘ they began cast " itfora ont final test i an it Write for THE HATMA | certa before ge & Sons THE CROFUT & KNAPP GO. UO ee tion providing fora =| Ap Style Originators $40 Broadway, New York ind iving A Ti ’s Press| dy | their | rouser Ss ress e 3 ‘ t} tsa n vo Hurt P he iT For ONI Anna y An t é : n cat to Speaker. Hind Guiax 58 puta eine What course shall Cannon take? Hy the House. H PRACTICAL NOVELTY CO., 142 S. 4th St., Philadelphia, Pa. Certain to be humiliated. A clear majority by th

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| Hinds is one of the most expert parliamen- ! THE SATURDAY EVENING POST tarians in the world. He has compiled a | book ealled ‘‘Hinds’ Precedents,” a neat little brochure of eight or nine volumes of five hundred pages to a volume, in which precedent for anything can be found, from | what to do when a member climbs the chandeliers to the proper way to cut the Speaker’s hair—if he hasany. This would be a reversion to the English method of making the Speaker merely a presiding officer and parliamentarian. If they can do it it will be a sort of a way out for the insurgents. It will surely eliminate Uncle Joe and will not put a Democrat in as Speaker. Hinds isa candidate for Congress himself, in Maine. Mayhap it would be more logical to turn in and elect him to | Congress and then keep him there as per- manent Speaker. That course certainly would not jolt the precedents so hard. However, this Hinds business belongs in the realm of speculation. It may or may not happen. The cold, hard fact concern- ing the situation is that the people, as a whole, are more insurgent than most of their insurgent Representatives in Con- gress. They have their thumbs turned down permanently. They want an entire new deal, and if they cannot get it from the men who are at present in the House they will put men there who will give it to them. Also, the melancholy regulars have sur- rendered, foot, horse and dragoons. It is a total loss with them and no insurance, either, at that. Referring to Roosevelt It seems we have narrowly escaped an- April 23, 1910

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other tariff war. One of the best things this P Government does is narrowly to escape he American re- tariff wars. We have become expert at it a i Cane oe sordid and Americanized that We can narrowly escape a tariff war almost turnin v t rom | they beg any time the tariff sharps of the Govern- ‘ - This is quite a change from the day ment think it is necessary. The attitude Kurope likely as not when the rich American, buying here of our administrators on the tariff business “~ at home, insisted on a European watch. is one of constant apprehension. We are brings home a Howarp. _ Per- I always on the verge. Germany or France or England or some other country is con- : stantly ready to put the everlasting kibosh American Watch when he finds jnall countries, on our foreign trade by means of a tariff it the finest practical timepiece U-5.< nn scape tie ety Fn ARD war. There was Canada, just panting to pO SE wreak eternal ruin on us. It was a parlous to be had in London, Rome, Paris or Berlin , watch is for.

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situation It boded evil. Everything Phe price of each Howarp is fixed does bode evil to the tariff sharps. They at the factory and a printed ticket are the permanent pessimists of our gov- To be sure, it has no chimes, no — attached—from the 17-jewel (double- ernmental scheme n ¢ box, no cuckoo attachment, but roller es They put out their gloomy predictions. t is marvellously accurate in recording or ** Crescent”? gold-filled case apement) in a ‘Jas. Boss at ) They get the business men all wrought up time—and the American is just hard ois the 23tewel in a 14k. soll wold

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and howling for concessions. They can see nothing but blue ruin ahead. Then, a few days before the se — catastrophe, things are arranged, and the sun peeks out from behind this horrid cloud and all is peace and happiness until another possible tariff war comes along. It is a queer pro- fession, this being a tariff sharp. They are the same the world over. If I may venture an observation it seems to me that the most essential part of the educa- tion of the men who foresee and prevent tariff wars is schooling in the noble art of making a man with three tens lay down before your two deuces——in short, bluff 3oth sides in a tariff war bluff until the cows come home. Then, when the cows do come home, they milk them impartially and calmly As this is written, the important and significant news is to hand that Ambassador Straus, who represents us in Turkey, was sent for by Colonel Roosevelt to come to Cairo to talk over things with him, and that Gifford Pinchot, former chief forester, was sent for by Colonel Roosevelt to come to Naples to talk things over. Important and significant as these announcements are, it may not be amiss to point out that the most significant feature is that the tory that Ambassador Straus was sent for by Colonel Roosevelt was given out at Constantinople by Ambassador Straus, and not in Cairo by Colonel Roosevelt, and that the announcement that Gifford Pinchot was sent for by Colonel Roosevelt was given out by the friends of Gifford Pinchot in Washington, and not by Colo- nel Roosevelt lam nota betting man, but I should like to wager a bag of peanuts that the corre- spondence in these cases was similar identical, in fact —except as to names. If it ever is revealed it will be found that Straus and Pinchot said to Roosevelt by wire or letter, ‘It is very important that I should see you Where can I meet you?” and that Roosevelt replied to Straus and Pinchot, * Always vlad to see you,”’ and named meeting-places headed enough to think that is what a ca value to the watch buyer.

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Quaker Oats is the one best food tor all T is the one oreat builder of body and brain that is within the reach of which gIVeS the biggest 55 every purse and return in vigor, health and strength. differ- it; It makes ence who is to eat no infant, laborer, athlete aged it OT i 5 p erson ; makes no ditterence whether he is wealthy Or poor, it matters not if his health is delicate or robust. Every nm vh by nee sv ch } t exp 1 ‘ Quaker 0 I ery ire ‘ k cl n x« ch i il Q O | k Eve athlete w i a ind it ge € treely of Quaker O Ey AT n nu \ n, W h Quak 0 ~ I th i a) Oa 7) Vv ! hea , as with I who war } i ik them by i t y of Q aker Oat I who wants foo I i i gives whol ‘ Qua Oats the best f 1 ! ~ Served with milk sugar and (or cream) it pleases your palate | and makes a most satis- | factory and strengthen- ing dish. } Oats ! better Eat more Quaker You'll all the health for doing so. be in Regular size package 1 The Quaker Qats @mpany CHICAGO He TY tur ur lo« sir I JT HEN the Ge ernors / in Washington Pre hem ( er THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 33 aw | AAG \T ? ry « 1; Nonsense he Red Badge of Identity Sense

eathies he W H manded a nee {a sir said th War The ¢ ernor searched } had Toft i at the hotel sist “Characteristic’’ Clothes I'm Governor Stubbs, of Kansa 1 “Just a minute,” requested the ! I in, and he disappeared He soot . ned and walked around Stubbs and He w *ked him over carefully. ‘This way, Roe is ft ey he said, most respecttully icjeaigs What did you look at me likethat for His thes n asked the Governor emphasize the vou if you had red hair, and you h This w ay 4 of Goldfield, Nevada mining stocks, CIS “What Why, sir, they told me you would be is it sir Almost Honest PROMOTER, who had been chased out for selling bogu Cam} sat m rodily in a San Frar Burt ' , \ o hotel i Hello, Bill!’ saluted an acquaintance s the lay now “I don't know yet. They canned me ir fone Goldfield, and I guess there ain't nothin in them minin’-stock games any more. I’m Can Dogs ar thinkin’ of goin’ up the coast and goin’ into : | ( | the real-estate busines That's almost honest | Brothers l / vill swear a rother On the faith and honor of ma . \y e others Each will do for th The little o u ill render } is nea To the f According to his Witness good he car hoard oj the comn Chas. Kaufman & Bros., Chicago trea our hand Ours is the task of te The new-borr No halt for us or re We're marc hing in the van We feed the sacred fires, We guard the sacred springs On us are d the ires OF tre mbling Lords and K ings In every breast the heart oppre ssed Leaps when our war-cry rings auh Oo] man sting, furne

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{nd make our Dives wiser Than Dives was of old, Till kindling unto pity ] ned fitt Ask your for Got N J $3.50 $1.00: 2 € cP Ppt de tah, Bee. At tales of Lazarus’ woes, Lk ™ ‘< »9 sin kepeuee slventn the Olly ] = The Underwear of a Gentleman Of what makes Lazarus’ sore : a ' , , a) aa P C) crisp. roomy. full-fashto Till, shamed at heart, he plays his part, ‘ ( OOL, hd ie ,. ; - , A ments of ) if k And pays the debt he owes x, ys ; special Tadrics, “nite, fat? ¥ pongee, linen, Sik, ct ad more ary We will not follow doubters { - B 6sviich and comfortable @ the ’ We will not give our votes ' ‘ - ; , 1) To de magogs and si outers, " ] ; = Who'd set us at the throats at € me, : \ 1 $1.50 ‘ ! Book ie

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ee », Se THE SATURDAY EVENING POST SESE! on! hia ans Ho MR ee Oi wees aS Di Fe EES Sa | $500,000,000 for Rats HAT’S what it costs to feed them in the United States alone. In the duel between man and the rat neither has yet succeeded in exterminating the other. There are five rats to each human being, and they are gaining on us. Rats are a menace to other things than money. On the back of the rat rides triumphantly around the world, spreading death in a terrible form, the flea that France has bubonic plague. rational destruction of the rat. These are some facts picked at random from that remarkable article, “Our Duel With the Rats,” in McClure’s for May. What are we going to do? “The 19th Hat” Arnold Bennett says in the course ot a short but clever sketch: “ You are aware of the ticklish things honeymoons are and how much depends on the tactfulness of the more tactful of the two parties.” Whois Arnold Bennett? He wrote that play, “What the Public Wants,” recently pub- lished in McClure’s. He is the author of “The Old Wives’ Tale,” which reviewers say is the most noteworthy book that has appeared in the last twenty years. Another Hat This hat was a dirty, cheap derby which Thorndyke, the Anthropologist-at-large, tested with microscope and chemical re-agents, and from the results deduced the man who stole the art objects and also the kind of art objects he stole. This story is by the editor of the London “Lancet,” the most frequently quoted medical journal in the world. It will remind you strongly of Sherlock Holmes, but nevertheless is good enough to have been one of Doyle’s. carries in itself the germs of the an international society for the The McClure Kind How an American city has been successfully governed by all its citizens in other words, “Government by Com- mission’’ is described by George Kibbe Turner in the May McClure’s. This article belongs with that memorable series of articles which have made history — the Chicago article, the Navy arti- cle, the White Slave article, the Standard Oil series and “The Shame of Cities.” It is not a brief for the theory buta record of fact. These are but four items from an unusually interesting table of contents in May McClure’s. On all newsstands now —15 cents.

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yF-DOORS Tenis and How to Use Them N ALL likelihood the particular room I of your flat which, when you are away from home, you call your drawing- room, has for portiéres a pair of Oriental draperies which you understandingly call Kis Kelims. It is less likely that you know the original use of these fabrics. If an old one, your Kis Kelim probably came out of a tent somewhere in the far East, where once upon a time it was used either as a door or a partition. Its loosely-woven fabric allowed the air to circulate more freely than a piece of matting would have done Probably the roof and walls of the desert tent in which your drapery originally hung were made of mats woven from the hair or wool of camels, sheep or goats. From time immemorial men have lived in portable houses made of such fabrics as lay at hand mats, rugs, reeds, rushes, bark, hides, cloth of cotton or of wool. Time out of mind, too, the essential thing about the tent has been portability, combined with a certain sufficiency to turn the weather Not all men are anchored. Indeed, the boldest, most courageous and most inde- pendent men of the world have been those who have dwelt in portable and not in per- manent houses. A home is a confession of cowardice. The animal that seeks shelter and dreads combat is the one that digs a hole in some bank, whether the hole costs two dollars or two million. The creature that is at home at nightfall, wherever it may be, is apt to be as happy and fearless as it is foot free. It does not pay either rent or taxes Civilized man has really not improved very much on nomad man in the matter of portable houses. The Arab of the desert, with his thick brown matting, invented a very good tent many long years ago, and one suited to his warm country. The North American Indian, in his teepee, devised the best of all tents, although the one that today is least used by the white man who goes out-of-doors. The Sibley tent, used to such good effect by our army in the early Indian campaigns, is an adap- tation of the old Indian teepee, made of canvas instead of buffalo hides The circular tent with a wall, also used in the army, is an adaptation of the Sibley. In winter campaigning, the old Sibley tent sometimes had a sort of cylinder stove in the middle. This also was an Indian idea, for although he had no stove the Indian built his fire in the ground in the middle of his teepee, the smoke going out at the top as best it might and as humored by the squaw who adjusted the ‘‘ear,”’ or project- ing wing, of the lodge, which was supported at one side or the other of the aperture by means of a long pole The Well-Ventilated Teepee The form of the teepee is that of a cone, the average diameter of the circular base being something like twelve to fifteen feet, and the height of the poles supporting the skin being rather in excess of that; from twelve to fifteen poles are required to pitch the teepee A part of the theory of such a tent is that it carries a draft of air from the bottom upward, and out at the uncovered aperture at the top. That sounds colder than it is. There is no draft felt by the inmate of a well-pitched teepee. The savage always had an inner lining stretched around, reaching a little higher than a man’s head when he sat down. This inner wall was usually drawn in under the robes that made the bed, so that neo air came directly into the teepee itself. There was, of course, air _— between this inner wall and the actual skin of the lodge. An ignorant white man would usually peg the outer skin tight down to the ground, in which case, of course, the teepee would become unbearable from smoke. It is said, in fact, that no white man ever could pitch a teepee, and that only an Indian woman ever could do the trick. Of course, in a properly pitched teepee the air comes in under the outer edge of the skin, passes up over the inner lining, meets the rising hot r above the fire, and carries the smoke on out at the top, the occupants not feeling any draft and not suffering from smoke, unless they should be foolish enough to stand up You could not devise a better scheme of ventilation for any tent or any house than this of the teepee. The Indian lodge is never close and stuffy like the interior of the white man’s tent, which usually is made without any reference to ve ntilation Used as it was intended, this aboriginal house of the North American savage is the warmest, coolest and best-ventilated tent in the world It enabled the Western tribes to live out in the plains country when the thermometer was thirty degrees or more below zero. Eventoday on the reservations you will see the teepees used as summer houses, in which case the entire edge is lifted free of the ground, the fire being made outside of the lodge. Most Indians now live in cabins in the wintertime, and hence they die like flies of consumption, which was an unknown disease in the old teepee days. This form of portable house was typical of the horse Indians. The plains tribes dragged the teepee poles along as travaux. For a permanent camp in the mountains there is no form of tent which in comfort approaches the teepee, which today, of course, is made of canvas. White men do not nowadays generally use the lodge for a camping tent, because it is bulky and hard to transport even if the poles are not carried along with the pack train, which rarely is feasible; but those who have once camped out in a well-built Indian lodge always prefer it afterward to any other form of tent. It is also the most picturesque of tents.

The Faults of the Wall Tent The best the white man seems to have been able to do by way of inventing tents is the clumsy wall tent with ridge pole and wall, the commonest and least comfortable form of tent ever invented by any color of man. The wall tent is clumsy to carry about, hard to pitch and easy to blow over It is hot in summer, cold in winter, full of ropes, poles and pegs, and usually impos- sible to ventilate. Probably these are the reasons why it is so generally used. Fora permanent camp, W here you have wagon or horse transportation, this is probably the sort of tent you will have along with you. Perhaps the worst fault of the wall tent unless it be the innumerable guy ropes that are always tangling has the legs of wandering horses—is the lack of ventila- tion. The wall tent provided with a good window at the rear is an exception _ not the rule, although there should be good window filled in with cheesecloth in every such tent. This window should be protected by a little flap to keep out the rain. Without such a window, when a wall tent is pitched tight down to the ground, with the sod cloth pulled in lee the bedding and the tent flap shut in front, almost no air can get in, and in such a tent you would sleep very badly indeed, and wake up with a headache in the morning If you raise up the edge of such a tent you will get a direct draft of air, as well as a direct inlet for insects—neither of which is desirable Although a wall tent is bad any way you look at it, it is most nearly desirable when made of balloon silk or Egyptian cotton, light and well waterproofed, of a size say twelve by sixteen feet, and eight or ten feet in height. Such a tent is big and slow to pitch, but when you have it up in a per- manent camp it gives a lot of house room In it you can use cot-beds and arrange the whole interior comfortably even though you carry a great deal of personal luggaze Such a tent can be lined entire with cheese- cloth, or fitted with a cheesecloth drop with a shotted hem, to drop down over the entire front of the tent. Such big tents are sometimes made in green, or again they are built of khaki, either of which colors makes a tent cooler and darker than sheer white. Such a tent is best used with a large and long fly that can project in the form of a porch. Plenty of canvas for use as flys is a great aid to tent comfort, as an air nt breaking the direct ra ys of the sun makes the tent very much cooler. Some of the northern fishing camps at times show two or three of these great wall tents, hand- somely pitched, with the walls held up with side rails, with large flies stretched for dining-rooms, and with smaller tents

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Such a camp plenty of transportation, of cours not meant for very much change The Indian made his house cone -shape d The white man's modification was the wedge shape of the so-called A tent, with ridge-pole and no w since this need no g walls. it is Cask tent, and less ap d. The A in a sleep s raining Therefore. if vou al your tent everyUning is sure to get we rau | canoe t sometimes uses such a tent ind the s rin the Civil War used a modified form of the A tent in his little ‘‘dog tent made of twe trips of can that buttoned together Of the two bun } \ uch a tent, each man or f +} nail carry le tent, along Vithout ridge-pole and usu- walls. The typical ‘‘ miner t the bottom, conical, and le in the middle there > the side You can balloon silk 1 you can get it made with the AT 3? ena, 158 ] ¢ Wall lf you like You will find such a tent teepee fi ventilation and still h: 10n, Vou Wol of protec- tion against the weather. There is no us¢ ng around a lot of head room which is not going to be used, as is the case in a wall tent rhe same weight of canvas put pole tent will give you a larger ise, With plenty of room where middk in the 4 eeu tha S lO Say, If you ha tent. provided with a lot I g l hoods and ears l get something that old Nokomis ( ild not have pitched comfortably Sewing in Your Floor tent, It is a com- There is still another compromise which is really a clever thing bination of the cone, the wall and the A tent, and is pitched with a single pol which goes up at one side or end, the tent thus being cut off flat in front like the end of an A tent. T is the open end of the tent, which is provided with flaps. At thi end the walls run down straight from the pe ik, like the sides of an A tent The back » tent, however, has a low wall. The roof runs from this wall to the peak in the form of a long \ used i different forms, especially when provided with a good fly, which latter can ? Such a tent can be 1 n many re spread above the tent or stretched in asanawning. There is no other form which the weight of canvas can be made to cover so large a floor space, bined with so much head room and sleeping room tent should tloor Front l Same com Such a have a cloth, to be fitted down on top of the sod cloth. It should also be provided in fl) ull front of cheesecloth, the bottom Ventil by stretching it In this pen-face camp, as well as together with an inkling A tent combined tent which is which ought to be, a I the teepee, i tent and is another form of » market, but nce it so well solves the important ques- tior ntilation rhis is made like an A tent has no closed ends at all Each vided with flaps, which are cut hey overlap. rhe that of the E t at igloo, which has a covered entryway set at theory of this tent 1 KIMO angle to the axis of the ho wind and weather cannot enter direct such a tent has a ridge-pole, with a supporting pole at each end. Sup- pose the weather is too cold for a direct ise proper, so Or course, EVENING POST arait t De mn ible i mply t t the t the windward side i streti it an angle, so that the wit does not come in direct Che opp« et ot tne tent \ 1 can leave ope hut leaves you more independent t vhicl way jy r tent na ace Ord i you do not want the wind to blow directly int your tent that carries in the smoke and the wind rise ve high You can pt le ha tenta } vith cheesecloth lit 9 or nere 1 i ve 1 like ind I all cal et lite a range I use ym it, at the ure t I T ng aiong the “Ame Velgntol car ist! ‘ lid be Gemanded in iWa ent t rspace ini a very healthy tent, although not quite » comfortal as the | \ ter that metimes are seen in he h-resort camps n the Western mountair where board floors and board wal ire olten used, witha rool projecting out Vide é ver al open space at the top of the Phere still another form of tent — the 1d IS vhich Nessmuk tent, the coming from the pet tenteof an old woodman who wrote over that name (ne m of tt tent is made wit a juare ope! tIront ind as juare loping roof that drops to a low wall behind vO poles support a flap front which erves as an awnil Sometimes the floor is se case it tr to be t re the lik ent was tretched over a permanent frame and was ntended simply as a shelter, warmth being had from the log fire in front of it proofed waterproofed with lir , or th linseed oiland alum. An alum atms tends to make a tent flireproot almost as desirable as having it rair proof One has seen several camps burned out | park which fell on tent roofs rendered very dry by the heat of a near fire A spark that falls on a properly t ed tent roof burt only a little round hole at rst A third desideratum of the tent is that it should be insect-proof, and in me countries, such a Ala h the one imperative thing No man who ha not experienced the pest of mosqui in Alaska can have any idea of what it mean rhe railroad engineers of that country are sometimes obliged to use a tent which ha the floor sewed al VI has no door it all, Only a round ! e With a ba ved iround it, like the entrance t ap nd-net for fist The man condemned t« eep il ul tent crawtis thro h th bag and pul t in after hin He would, of course mother to death except for th nd vhicl let into the front of the tent above the opening and is protected by cheese cloth Nothing can be more horrible tha ich a tent as tl and nothir more desirable, when the mosquitoes are bad as to render sleep impossible , her tent hed er bent hasan tant rr but the r r ag 1 Tre- ae f tant een introduced t customarily vhose frame- k | nd or made in the ope Che pe le problem comes up in any sort of tent. 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It is not enough to set up a tent in any hurried fashion, and it is all the better if you can have the proper appliances for pitching your tent true and taut, in which case it will turn wind and weather much better than if just loosely slung together. Yet any steady camper comes to despise complexity above all things, and to prefer a tent which can if necessary be in part, at least, fitted with material found in the woods. This seems to spell a sine’. -pole tent whose ends can be left open ‘losed as desired. Such a tent is heavy .nough if made of eight- ounce army duck. The larger a tent is the heavier is its material a yard, as a usual thing. You can make your own tent out of drilling, and waterproof it with water and alum if you like, but out of the wide range of well-made tents now in the market you can easily get an inexpensive one of almost any sort and as cheap as you could make it yourself. The Necessary Tent Bag Having selected the style of tent best suited to the purposes of your trip, your handling of it should always be methodical and workmanlike. You should have a tent bag, and its contents should be so arranged that the first thing you take out of the top is the floor cloth of your tent. Spread this out on the ground. It is the ground plan of your house. On this lay your poles, which should next come out of the bag, if you are using jointed poles. If you have a wall tent you should learn how to measure, by your tent poles, the entire space to be covered by your tent and the guy-ropes. Having determined this, drop your pegs for the corners of your tent and for the corner guy-ropes. Drive these pegs home, put up the poles and sup- port them in place loosely by the proper guy-ropes. Then drive your side pegs and remaining guy-pegs, stretch everything taut, pull your sod cloth inside, tighten your floor cloth, and put up your fly if you nave When you take down your camp put back these several articles in the reverse order from that in which you took them out of the bag. Don't be mussy and sloppy in your camp system, any more than in your business or domestic system You should be prompt, neat and soldier- like in your work of making and breaking camp In any small tent of the open-face or ingle-pole variety you can use your floor cloth as a mattress, straining it over the hay, straw or browse In the morning, after you have aired your blankets, it is neater and better to roll your bed up and leave it in the back part of the tent, just as a soldier would. It is, of course, better to have a canvas cover for your bedroll, just as you have waterproof bags for your sugar, salt, coffee, dried fruits, and the like. Kee p your food and bed neat. 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40 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 23,1910 It’s then the realization comes that quality— absolute accuracy and dependability at all times —is the one great requisite in aspeed indicator. And it is just this subordination of price to quality that has given the Warner Auto-Meter its proud title—‘* The Aristocrat of Speed Indi- cators.” Price is not a factor in its construction. It is constructed on the principle—mag- netic induction with circular magnet— whichabsolutely in- sures continued ac- curacy, no matter how long the instru- ment may be in use. It is put together by trained mechanics, under the supervision of experts. It is put through the hardest service tests before leaving the factory —every instrument must prove itself absolutely perfect under all conceivable working conditions. The Warner Auto-Meter is not nearly Think Twice Before You Buy a Low Priced Speed Indicator Sometimes a motorist—especially an inexperienced one—considers But when you want to know how fast or how far you've gone- miles per tire or gallon of gasoline—or any one of the thousand things a speed the speed indicator problem from the standpoint of a low price alone, forgetting entirely that the instrument — not the price-mark—tells the speed. how many indicator is supposed to tell you—the price-mark will not help you much. always right, or always nearly right. It is always all right. Is it any wonder, then, that the Warner \uto-Meter is the important tests or races, where accuracy of instrument considered in speed indication is necessary? Is it any wonder that the motorist of expe- realizes that rience— out of his experience knowing is_ better than guessing even if it costs more, and puts the Warner Auto- Mete ron his You can buy cheaper speed indi cators than the Warner Auto-Meter. You can get them for almost any price you care to pay. But do you want to? Are you really econ omizing if you do? We issuea very instruct ive free by oklet on speed indicators and their uses, which you will appreciate. car? Write for it, or call at our nearest branch. Warner Instrument Company, 835 Wheeler Avenue, Beloit, Wis. BRANCHES: ATLANTA, 116 Edgew 1Av ie CLEVELAND, 2 Avenue PHILADELPHIA, 302 N I BOSTON, 925 Boyl tree DENVER, 1518 1 PITTSBURG, 5940 Kir BUFFALO, 720 Main Stre DETROIT, 870 \ \ PF LN FRANCISCO, 36-38 \ - CHICAGO, 2420 M \ . INDIANAPOLI . t t SEATTLI 1 | i CINCINNATI, 807 M ~ t OS ANGELES, 7485 ‘ LOUIS, 4928 O NEW YOKR, L#o2 B + Oy Aviation Note American aviators, as a rule, have best results with biplanes. Curtiss machines are of this ty pe. he acc ompany Ing abroad. last picture is a view trom : ihe ; monoplane, made famous by Latham. Warner's Pictorial Record of Aviatian attained their Both the Wright and illustrations show four other types of aeroplane which have proven successful At the top is shown the Bleriot monoplane — probably the most prominent of the French ma- chines in the public eye. The next picture WS the Vanniman triplane—the first machine "its —— kind. he third picture is Santos-Dumont’s 60m 5 “ Demoiselle,’ with which he made a world’s 19494 {2} 'f5) record of 5 miles in 4 minutes 55 seconds. The “3 ] beneath the Antoinette AP CV anrvrerx. Model M res The Aristocrat of Speed Indicators Ten Models, $50 to $145

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 41 i , | DOCTOR MERRILUVS MIRACLE See dW a 7 Continued from Page r W 0 ¢ : ‘ } i e, a S Sample) \g 4 T | As This Little Money Mill ” hed we Go tay Gone Ce i: nen rie tet te ; Has Earned $10 a day for ; u others—Why not for you? | | A twe ve 1 l i i . » than the D ” . Vi ‘ , tr pie ver é é Itiseas mak \ requ x pe 4 Ww“ \ ] i Paroid Roofing he ; z 9 — ! . on Hn carry ane epee | ae Came phe een er Eo | Duntley Our Offer: )"°.." miesages are st nthe Vaid OS science on an errand of mercy, be eet’ Pye@umatic Cleaners Bird Neponset Product : reg a “eaasetegigy Are You Building or Repairing? 0 B wx ¢ ‘ i) F.W. BIRD & SON 21 Neponset St., East Walpole, Mass. — = adi: anew laiabieie ts be the labonaton rr t for her t : A Business of Your Own ( HENE Y i Pa a * bad dream I : en | ok tol fe ; Let Me Prove This to You CRAVATS, Seer eee Ide ntify the genuine by the 1 ~ ir nanads in reguiar ! stamped inside the neckband. He breathed deep with joy at fee yrove r al tubul amless versible, 5 I , : a oe Ae / k z, al ilk tie i i > ’ a , p 32 Colors, Stripes and Fancies, Price 50c " All dealers b t t PONCET & ¢ NEESER, Selling Agents But how was this to be manag rr erage s now 58 Greene Street, New York , 4 shock might accom] t ' 1 W. Duntley, Pres., 460 Harvester Blde.. Chicago he " H EARN 5% pped h orrocks a clock into motion. examinations and tests of such elaborate *****= Cut Out and Mail This Coupon To-day S*=ees r it ne na i l ! Da Man turir 460 H Chicas g fn te wd \ than the a | el \\ She must ed, ! g He l i | out t As sunlict ai , Assets over $2 000,000, Surplus and Profite$150 006 f klet in a but | r He ik i Industrial Savings & LoanCo., | Times a dreamed 1 et at whicl r ] Bidg., Bway & 42nd St., New York dinner speaker had re enti 1 fa 7

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42 question. He answered with unusual vac ity: ‘Your daugh ter is suffering from a form of pi iralysis ‘Then you admit it is paralysis?’’ the mother interjected, but he went on: ‘A form of paralysis only recently dif- rentiated from the others It is not encephi lic, It is ich- neumonal lhe father echoed the word with blurred accuracy. The mother came to the more pract ical point: ‘Ts --is it curable?” For some time it was considered hope- less; but an eminent German physician spinal or pe ripheral. working in India isolated the specific bacillus and evolved a serum by inoculat- ing a small animal known as herpestes nungo. This has proved to have an almost st miraculous effect.” the girl was lean- instantaneous, an: aln ni Merrili noticed that ing outward from the bed and listening eagerly to his words. The parents sank back and exchanged glances of disappoint- ment. India was a long way off ‘Is there any way of getting the serum in this countr the father asked, and idded: ‘Price ‘is no ob ject.” ‘I have a small quantity of it here. One ff my professors told me of it-as a bit of news just as I was finishing my course in ar inti toxins. He gave me a few drachms of He displayed a tiny phial containing a rless liquid ‘It looks like distilled water,” .said the father aid the doctor. The parents regarded the minute bottle th reverential awe as if it were a miracle- They implored him to use it at once and they were panicky with new hone Merrill cast Doesn't it vorking relic a sidelong glance at the patient, She had sunk back to her pillow, exhausted by the faint outpour of interest His heart fell. She was not ready for the iwakening. He took refuge once more in in evasion, feeling that a few more lies ild not mate rially alter his large score s serum till ] hould not dare apply thi e patient's system is prepare d for it ‘How long will that take?” the mother ailed, heart k with renewed deferment He answered shiftily There is no telling. Patients differ so A preparatory course of treatment i iry. The moment your daughter's con- ripe I shall use the serum. And rise round this room on neces- dition | walk clutch the The father's went out to each What elo- the whiter hands iite sheet for one instant. hands and the mother's other for a rapturous grapple juent instruments, hands! Merrill, thrilled with the bliss he might iuse to descend on the house of dole, ote with trembling fingers a number of yrescriptions notorious for their loathsome taste and known to be without effect. He rdered massage, alcohol baths, hours of rest by the window, calisthenics of all the muscle to the Knees, and every form of busine he ild think of, and took his ive But his backward glance was met Dy no show of interest by the patient He retreated in discour agement The next d he arrived and made the same ind the next and the next. He made his custom to sit and talk with the girl. eemed to er hearing | Voice He left her one day heartened with a i encouragement The next day she i despondent again be eggs 4 rousing, ut when he made ready to go * put out her h fand said (ant you stay a while and tell me bout your poor patients? No, tell me bout irse| He It fort at tl but she i him ns and he told her e lighter history. She smiled ly, and once she almost laughed | 1ust be wonderful to be a doctor,” ned There's a great need of women doc- tor he Sark Why don't you study I i ine What ast hopeless cripple do?” You're a ; baoel less cripple I tell vou, you'll walk with me round this room or of these day And later we'll prome- le down Main Street I'd rather go into the woods,”’ she said “They must be beautiful now Why have y never brought me any more locust bioon Are they dead : They're fading fast. But if you hurry you ¢ pl ick them yourself THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Will you pull down the can reach them?” she asked, at the request. ‘“Of course I will. And the of violets. You can reach those my help.” ‘I’d rather have the locusts,”’ and closed her eyes in shame at wardness. One day, to test her, he drew a sorry face and said that he had lost the phial of chimeraine. She blanched with dismay and fell to trembling. He promised to keep up the hunt for it. The next day her first question was: ‘Have you found it?” And when he said ‘‘ No” her head shook with such despair that the next day he cried ** Rureka!’ The parents were racked with impatience for the wonder to arrive. The father had told the family doc torthat Doctor Merrill's diagnosis was “‘pneumonial paralysis,”’ or something like that, and the old physician, fearing to admit that he had never heard of the nodded and said: ‘‘ Maybe it might be He had also “‘ heard chimer- aine spoken well of.” Meanwhile, Merrill his situation. Cicely and more inquisitiv moss is full without she said, her for- dise ise, was tormented by Tansey grew more e, more and more urgent to know what was going on at these inces- ant visits And Merrill found his serial lie more and more irksome. As he grew to know Dora Rolston better and better, the anger that had softened to pity sweetened tosympathy, contempt grew to respect, and professional interest in the patient modulated into a personal zeal for the woman. Her own attitude was nothing short of alarming. Lacking in egotism as he was, he could not but feel that she was falling in love with him. His elaborate mummery had far less weight with her than his per- sonal ministry. His eloquence over her possibilities in an active life stimulated her far less than an almost childish eagerness to please him, to help him, to go about with him He kept away fora day, and she sent her nurse for him. The nurse’s manipulations seemed to be without effect in his absence. This made the doctor intensely uncom- fortable. He utterly lacked ambition for conquests among womankind. Besides, lansey was his, and he hers. This extra adorer humiliated him. Her belief Cicely in him shamed him. And his conscience was wrung with a feeling that he was not entirely true to Cicely Tansey. He had given her his troth. She had taken his wounded heart and healed it, and it looked to be rank treachery to permit another woman to concern herself with his self Yet here he was encouragins g that inter- est, fearing to dispel it, fearing to deny her hopes, lest she sink back again into leth- argy. She was in the stocks, and though they were not padlocked she would not rise without coaxing If he walked away she would stay there forever. Duty to his sweetheart urged him to repel the advances of Dora Rolston, to avoid her pre yer or to rebuke her communions Duty to his patient urged him to neglect no least help to her revival isa dan ence § It was horrible to endure her young enthusiasm. It would be terrible to tear away her clinging hands and let her drown in the deep waters of inanition t last she reacheda point of such frantic pi. hag to be well that he thought it might ell t oO proceed to the climax of the game d risk all on the throw of the dice ie time Cicely Tansey reached the I stra n he r patience, How much longer is this Rolston case going to last? she demanded He brightened as he answered: **T hope to be able hg ue mer poets that she is cured Sut he sobered again as she retorte (ured of w 4 **Please don't ask me All her stored-up snows came down in one white avalanche, that still, moony should have beer quarrels calling on that girl every for wee} aid ‘I've learned that very pretty. Her nurse, that Miss Lang, told a friend of mine that your Dora Rolston was getting bette r-looking every day, and that all you do when you go there is to sit and talk, and promise that you'll cure her some day, and then keep putting it off. When I ask you about it whe n love rs better engaged than in You've been evening day sine she's branches so I | and flushed April 23, 1910 HE smartest and most effect- ive plaids and checks are to be foundin“‘Sampeck Clothes.’ They’re lively, fashionable and decidedly appealing, and are re- inforced by the adroit workman- ship of “Sampeck”’ tailormen. Moulded to fit the form and fancy of business and professional chaps, who demand Gotham style. Samuel W. Peck & Co. 806-808 Broadway, New York ‘ Booklet A“ Clothesof To-day” am \ Sent Free on re quest. j x1 A Handsome ¢ ol ege Px ter in many colors mailed on re ceipt of 2 5 cents. , Le 1, Ph.D. rz | De Fos Mr. Lee De F f ; ter you ask hin tropping razor ver= P ) j W hat plated), 12 | ind Wireless ‘I D Z ts ret t R W I we ex I : i l h gz eXx- i i i ne ria t $1x \ I hs to one year, ; “Sp Sib “The Slaughter of I the Innocents” H 4 S VR M (2) S. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 43 you get confused and tongue-tied and put children who should never learn more of me off as if I were a meddlesome outsider. this world and without him wot uld have You have no right totreatmeso. Idemand gone shrieking back to the sleep they y came 5 } that you tell me what s the matter with from—he felt glad to be a doctor. He felt that creature—if anything is—and when that bein g a doctor was better than being fi you're going to cure her and quit calling anything else or following any other trad on her and collect your fee and go about in this grisly world : your business. Now tell me, or you'll be It was nearly morning when his work sorry.” was done as well as he could do it, and i ‘“*T guess you don't understand me or m y was the milkman who found him where he work as well as I thought you 1 did, ¢ icely,’’ had fainted trying to drag his feet up the he said with a funereal resignation. “‘I front ste ps can’t discuss my patients with you, now or X ever. That's got to be understood once HE next day he did not find time to for all.”’ hea t Dora Rolston He woke from } “Oh, I understand it all right. I under- late sleep with a start and beg: } stand that you want to shut me out of your rounds. The whole town was he life and your work ] m good enoug h to be children’s ward of a hospital ! ( your toy”’—he thought what a pretty toy other doctors were busy, but now the she was, but did not dare tell her—‘and were called in to help him. Because he ha your housekeeper, but A must sit at home happened to be on the ground, and twiddle my thumbs while you gad mothers and fathers and neighb« about town and visit women in their bed- seen him in action, they loved his blistered rooms. And I’m never even to ask you is, ¢ the children talked to him and what's the matter with them—if anything. for his sake No, thank you!” eventually, he reached Dora Poor Merrill felt like a prisoner haled s home he found that the cata before the bar for a second offense He re- clysm that had struck the town in the pe ated with the sullenness of a confirmed tends rest flesh of its heart had reached criminal his former cynicism: this cloistered gir] a guess a doctor has no right to be She had seen the horror in the faces of human, or to love anybody, or to have a her father and mother, the nurse and the wife.”’ servants, and had overheard the mutterings Cicely relented at the sight of his de- inthe hall. She had to be told jection, and her rosy hands went out to W he n Doctor Merrill arrived she would him. hear of nothing but his experiences. She “You poor boy,” she murmured; “I'll quivered even at his cold, physicianly promise never to question you again he = des¢ riptior raised to her the eyes of eestz asy, but she ‘*Whata hero you are!’’ she cried. ‘*To snuffed their gleam with her provi o—"“if think of anybody wanting to be a soldier you'll only tell me this once.”’ when he might be a doctor!”’ When he continued stubborn the re- This made him uncomfortable. He wa buff drove her to a fiercer reaction « mented jealousy and tantalized curiosit -- in no mood for bouquets. But his resent- ment vanished when she said: and she broke forth into a tempest of re- **There must be so much to do, so many proach and accusation. more nurses must be needed than there are Here was another case of hy steria for 1 town The poor mo thers must be drop him to cure, but in a violent form, and ~ ig with fatigue. If only I could go out when he attempted to restrain her in his a i met thing to help to help them arms she struck his hands off like chains and you! and dashed from the room. He stared at her. The miracle had been He heard her pretty feet making an wrought in the recesses of her soul It 4 4 ‘ e) , astonishing clatter up the stairs, and the wanted only to be made manifest It was F > , I¢ slam of a door silenced her wails with a_ time to have done with leisure IS a4 C Ps Ve } € .) large final exclamation point. He retained composure enough to make € As he walked into the hall he ste ppe don his routine tests, though they nauseated » the ring that she had torn off and flung be- him with their hypocrisy. Jrom hind her. He put it in his waistcoat pocket “Now,” he said with a sudden resolu- and the soft oe ing of the front door of tion -“* Now I think we are ready for the 4 » To hat house put : olemr eriod to his ure.’ Ps betrothal with Ci ely Taney. He had lifted her from her chair by the Hnrcherbocker OW? He felt like a topsyturvy Monte Cristo window and carried her to the bed “) as he murmured with an inverted triumph: cautioned her not to move till he gave the “*Number two.” vord. When all was ready he found he N e V e ry part of A meric a the best He felt himself the loneliest, uselessest had neglected to bri ng the little serum. He , , thing on earth, a Pariah in society, guilty must go back to sa house for it _ d ¢ ¢ SYA ata by trade, a Wandering Jew with no abso- And there he found other calls waiting dre OT men admit that New Y ork lution possib le unless he gave up his ac- fer him so urge A that he let Miss Rolston . t d $ ak . cursed profession. wait. She had waited so long, she could = t h e 4 ul in g S t @arin § t y | Cs And then as he walked back to his _ standa little further delay eternal boarding-house the black cloud of The sunset was incendiary throughov yut M his depression was split and fired with the west when he got back to the Rolst« BENJA I N CLOT H ES thunder and lightning. place. The father and mother were on fire REFLIECT NEW- YORK STYLE. Somehow the schoolhouse —- ght ~ , With impatience, and the girl herself was ; and the droning cells where the A, B, struggling with a mania to be free dd ; l. — ‘ aie and the atrocities of English spe fine ae And so he took out the tiny phial. Its “ A high Class fabr cs the shiftiness of the decimal point were pellucid clarity was tinged by the sunset | FUROPEAN AGENTS : . =. the only excitements, suddenly became an __ red as he held it up till it seemed to glow io H dd Sebs exclusive patter ne adroit infant inferno, a crowded hell of shriek- like a precious wine. ; : ptt Read ~ ] y ing children, burned and trampled and He lifted the cork with caution, rr a Leadon, England tal | ori n g, to N e W \ oO! k smothered, spilling from smoke-belching in the needle and filled the cylinder. doors and windows he said once more: ; ee E. Musee POses S t V | e and VC yu hav e the He was first the man darting here and “It is very powerful. You will feel it at saat Gnaead , ’ : c there to rescue what could be saved from once in all your veins But don't move " Paris, France d 5 es % ble | } _ 4 } . the shattered ant-hill, trying not to tread don’t breathe till I give you the word. Then ws pa most esita £ clothes in the on the little bodies, trying to catch hurtling do what I say, at once 5 19 Keretherenpens : | d Sj . ; Tie bodies flung from windows in mad terror He took his watch from the chain and Vienna, Aus : WO! ; oti _e 1ey are Before that horror was over he wasdrawn laid it on the chair close at hand. Then he M. Neuntaan from the common task of fire-fighter to the drew back the cove T from the pardone d slemde emg | moderately priced. duties of his special e: alling Here were no_ feet, bared the idle knees, and ert above Buda Pesth, Hungary. aa ; ; : : longer the hysterics of a jealous girl, orthe them thrust he enclie de into the wine- A. Wertheim Invalmost every city in this country and in all ng gers Ae Ta rh li af 7 ade “/—— a hi hand ir rning and kept Lespziger Strasse. the greater cities of Europe, Benjamin Clothes to be soothed with les and mummeries e raised his hand in warning and kep Berlin, Germany » S Here were tiny frames, blistered and his eyes on the little watch whispering the Hotel may be obtained by those discriminating persons, torn, to be appeased of their wild fever; seconds away. When the silence and the ettiage who prefer the inimitable “air” which , here were little bones to be retracted and waiting had lasted till he saw the moth r MT found only in garments ‘‘Made In New York in ace: he \ > yu il , ise } hand to her wan lips to check , set In place - here was the hideous mutiny raise her hand t her a if Giewand : fe } of the flesh, the real, the materialanguishes the cry of intolerable suspense he spoke Our Spring Booklet, “New York Fashior to be soothed by real, material means, with suddenly: the craft and the lotions, the chemistry and ‘‘Now! Take my arm and walk to the the physics of actual science. window with me.’ When he could give to the twitching And the feet came wonderfully —almost lfred henjami n a (o hands of some wailing mother a little wonderingly from the to the floor, bundle that had been and would be again and the body rose till she stood erect, achild; when he could silence to murmurs amazed, enchanted F yo fe> of ron the shrieks of little girls whose Then her neglected knees weakened, but e Ne W ec O7* iF future beauty he had saved; when hecould — she slipped her hand into his arm and take away the agony of mere lads grimly walked beside him. Her feet were beauti- struggling to be Spartanand makeno noise; ful upon that floor, and the sunset from or when he could ease the torment of pitiful that window was like a sunrise nailed for four cents Ask your dealer for a Father Kaickerbocker Poster

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44 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Simple Law That Every Motorist Ought to Know By Xenophon P. Huddy INCE the advent of the automobile we have learned a great deal concern- ing the nature of regulations which are most fit to control automobile driving for the protection of all concerned, and the automobile enactments are no longer 76 | upon as a joke, as was done by the Kansas Legislature in 1903, when, as a part of the motor-vehicle enactment of that state, the law-making body actually en- acted the following provision, which stands today on the statute-books: looke Nothing in this section shall be con- strued as in any way preventing, obstruct- ing, impeding, embarrassing or in any other manner or form infringing upon the pre- rogative of any political chauffeur to run an automobilious band-wagon at any rate he sees fit, compatible with the safety of the occupants thereof; provided, however, that not less than ten nor more than twenty ropes be allowed at all times to trail behind this vehicle when in motion, in order to permit those who have been so fortunate as to escape with their political lives an opportunity to be dragged to death; and provided further, that whenever a mangled and bleeding political corpse implores for merey, the driver of the vehicle hall, in accordance with the provisions of this bill, “throw out the life line see Kan. Law of 1908, ch. 67, p 113 Automobilists realize that the motor- vehicle laws have been enacted for their protection as well as ihe safety of other users of the pt * thoroughfares. A speed maniac is as much a danger to motor- vehicle users as he is to pedestrians and tothose who drive horses; therefore it is for the best interests of motoring that auto- mobilists are in favor of legislation which tendency to eliminate and dangerous conduct On the other hand, motorists feel that it is not fair to interrupt automobile travel on account of purely technical and frivolous has a reckless

violations of the law, such as exceeding the speed limit by a few fractions of a minute in cases where an automobilist is taking a pleasure ride with his family and no person or property is endangered Persecuting automobilists should be condemned and the law should be administered justly Such conduct as aiding and abetting auto- mobilists to violate the law should also receive the severest censure Hard Not to be a Criminal In the city of New York at one time decoy machines were sent out by the r0lice department through the residential dis- with plain-clothes policemen in them, impos ible for an that the machine Automobilists tricts so that it would be know of the law automobilist to contained officer would not, of course, object to sending out plair r a brake, which is a common us¢ of the motor, does not come within the meaning of the law providing for two appliances of this nature. Automobiles must be equipped with proper lights. The number of lhghts and their location are prescribed by the statutes of the particular state. The law also prescribes the kind of lights which must

April 23, 1910

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 45 be carried I ially two white lights forward and one red in the rear are all that necessary, but in some states the regis- number of the machine must ron the glass of the forward white nd the number tag on the rear must inated. The usual requirement is lights must be displayed one hour ndown at night to one hour before 1 the mornir g

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and the ‘ { able horn or other s gnal must be j rhe statutes do not say what kind patent y : device must be used, so it is . . at the discretion of the automobilis porcelain g . ide his machine w itl i V ° t dasher me 4 horn has very 1 Some machines Youcan — ) ioe a : h the use of a bell . le oT . : ut-out, which makes ; ° ELLOGG'S Toasted Corn Flakes make butter loud noise and, as a matt A fact, : So packed for no one but the consumet a ver vyood signal, would cor P

; who buys it in the Kellogg carton, which ° ° ore a compliance with the statutes. J] L 3 in 1 minute rovided 1 “ ; rnal tote were ; Message i bears the signature ol W. K Ke llogg 1eT Sit ei : at carried, is a question concerning which No. 4. 1a a with the TURN-A-MINIT churn there may be some argument I should ; | This guarantees the consumer the quality

——pure, sweet, real butter— butter | xy, however, that the muitler cut-out in Uses °F. ; and the dealer a “ square deal.” He gets sez -d to your taste ld | ch a case would not comply with the law ss Em . } seasoned to your own taste— not cold | fot csaiege sor Aen, Bacterial All ¢ it in no other brand of corn flakes, for other storage butter. English case concerning brakes Aljbe H Bs flakes are sold to S¢ IME de ale rs lowe! than 4 tee « ——from either sour or sweet cream Number tags and a registration seal must to him . ° 7; -erried "he t« itor yrovisions Wro- _ ’ . Sour cream makes quite as good butter pags J ME SLMUTOT oa a - 3 ire . Vide how al ber tags should be ‘ - llogg s ste S as sweet cream and by using it you can placed. Many “—— ,- sing that Pe Kellogg Toasted Cor Flakes ha nut save from 10 cents to] 5 cents per pound. th hall be from mud and one price to the trade and one quality to The TURN-A-MINIT churn is built oblit of the states pro- the consumer. vide that they must be carried a certain

upon a new principle — of solid remov- able parts that can be thoroughly cleansed. It is perfectly sanitary. That's what “KELLOGG” means in the corm flake market. al jirements appertain- ee 8 ment, and we now come to the Made from selected white ial and important one, which - t} : corn. > to use the machine on the —whipped cream in 20 seconds state's highws iys. Without ‘hine TOASTED . z oy. 4 being leg rally registered an —— mayonnaise dressing in 30 seconds cured to operate it the auto The Gentiné Lae ahts Panttd Signature —— ice cream, ic ings, beaten eggs, a legal traveler He has no rig] to use his , souffle —in a few turns of the handle. machine on the public foe ae s. In . deter ‘ secu jlanni ng our in th nited States it is You need the TURN-A-MINIT Fe ea ee eee al solutely necessary, therefore, to ascer- the ground and mu ttoswir The foreg« ll of tt

le Te’ It is the only practical home churn. Besides butter you can have

churn —every housekeepe r needs it— tain what the req nts are of the laws for convenien¢ e, hygiene and economy. of the states through which the motorist ° rc " expects to tour. ¢ 1e of the states allow Quart size $2.50, delivered anywhere; a non-resident automobilist who is duly Made of Selected White Corn Gallon size jar of porcelain instead of registered and licensed in his resident ANE TT ; glass), $7.50. Dairy thermometer state to pass through the state WithOUt qm a

> ny r \ } y “<9 t . . ee : complying with the local registration and \ furnished free with each churn. iecniing teaeideiatie. Wate other date do not allow this, so it will be seen that it is necessary for th automobilist, before he he Attractive terms to agents e

When you see a sign that says: |

Send a postal for descriptive booklet. starts, to investigate and ascertain whether 3 he is compelled to take out a license in the |} =) ‘ Chocolates THE TURN-A-MINIT CHURN CO. particular state through which he expects 6 af enc N jilman. ete 288 Metropolitan Tower New York City to tour, if he desires to be free from inter- £ 7 / U Cc f : ) ruption and annoyance Moreover, if an H on ections automobilist is not duly registered and ¢ ‘ licensed, and if he uses his machine on tne you have the one store in that locality that } pub lic highways and isinjured, the fact that he is not a legal traveler might prevent him is selling the best in the best way. Atthis |} Ths aulccio: tes of te shits teeta store you can buy the Famous Fussy Pack- automobile laws shows whether an auto |i) age, Mallo-Caros and a hundred other dis- | tinctively Whitman packages. , in his home jurisdiction may enter wit hout The Fussy Package Mallo-Caros ies obtaining a local license: Alabama, not exempt Poe. ke er Calife rnia Connectic i i Delawar nr x District of te

, lowa, exempt kname kory.” 7 r trademark Kansas, exempt F “OLD HICKORY Haase Hand-Made Furniture faryland

ma x wan a ad POEL a BIT SORE RAS RBA VP

A recog l) t I i 1 rit P . t | ee ; ‘ Massachusetts, exempt ten day ; M park. tn 5 om nies catanah Gia ene wediebesite P wes STEPHEN F. WHITMAN

1 sty i : ss _ & SON, Inc ; : Missouri, ex i ® Nebrask xempt } f ry y t 5 he & Nevada ie er pt. THE OLD HICKORY CHAIR Comnny New Hampshire, exempt ter Martinsville, Dept. B5 New Jersey, must obtair special license for eight | Ree indian . ivs | New York, exempt | N rth Car ina vat mpt Moving f Picture Machines ¥))) jai. ens | ) Make Big Money (bio, exempt t no limit t Oregon, exempt | bh Natheatre s, | Pent 4, OX t ten days, based upon r ; J | pr : FIVE CEN Bp lpn vat t Jove | fre sho k ten da | = CHO z fet t none t poutt

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Chicago Projecting Co, 225 Dearborn St., Dept. 163, Chicago | Tennessee, not e*

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Money Commands Respect HE MILL will never grind with the water that is passed.’’ The money you spend is gone. The money you save is the | reserve power to help you on | to greater things or to keep | you from misfortune. |

Are you close fisted—do you Save money naturally or does it run through your fingers ? We do not take your money to spec- ulate with it. We our fees by lending our own money on mortgage in New York City. We sell you these | mortgages or guaranteed mortgage | We have a plan that helps you save. | | | | make certificates based on them, in amounts of $200, $500, $1,000 and $5,000, and so get back our money to loan again. | The mortgages are all first mort- | gages, the best in the world, and the certificates. have all the advantages | of the guaranteed mortgages. The | payment of the principal and in- | ! terest is guaranteed absolutely by the | | Bond and Mortgage Guarantee Com- | pany with its Capital and Surplus of | $7,500,000. We stake our own repu- | tation on the satisfactory character of these mortgage certificates. Our cap- ital and surplus amount to $14,000,000. | 1y the $200 certificates on nonth is told Way to Save Send postal or coupon below for it. TiE GUARANTEE | AND TRUST C9 | 176 Broadway, New York How you can b the instalment plan z in our bocklet — The

Please send ‘‘The Safe Way to Save, } advertised in The Saturday Evening Post, to | | | ! i] 175 Remsen Street, Brooklyn | 350 Fulton Street, Jamaica

SMERUsOne KEISER GVA be and SCARF PIN HAL Te Match ~ sats THE KEISER CRAVAT AND SCARF PIN COMBINATION (With Old English Engraved Initia! Enameled in Color to Match the Cravat)

' . $1.00 post paid for Cravat at KEISER E cosench egg

Greens Viol ete, Reds Graye, Bre $1.00 “KEISER CRAVAT PIN COMBINAT! SEND FOR THE BLUE BOOK WEBER and DAVID of NEW FORE HABERDASHERY SCARF Pree BLUE BOOK { KEISER CRAVATS WEBER &*= DAVID New York's Foremost Haberdqshers Broadway & 32nd St. New York:

8% j TEXAS LOAN & GUARANTY CO Houston ' | | | | Mortgages ex I 8%" “8% Texas

oy a | | Dag | y °) 5O | = Gel : | | R. 5. & A.B. LACEY, Dept. 35 ; Washington, D c. Estab. 1869 L THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | Texas, exempt. Utah, exempt. Vermont, exempt ten days, based upon reci- procity. Virginia, not exempt. Washington, exempt. West Virginia, exempt. Wisconsin, exempt. . After being legally equipped the automo- | bilist is ready to run his machine on the public avenues of travel, and the legal as- pect of automobiling now has to do with the method of travel. The manner in which a motorist must run his automobile is pre- scribed by law. He must not exceed the speed timits, which vary materially in the different states of this country. The rates of speéd allowed are a matter to be ascer- tained: before entering a state. Where the autompbilist is allowed twenty-five miles an hour in the open country in one state he my be allowed only twenty miles an hour i anothe r jurisdict ir ion. For example, the State of Alabama the maximum speed limit is placed the ridiculously low rate of eight miles an hour. Usually in the, outlying districts not built up an automobile may lawfully be operated at a rate of speed of between twenty and thirty miles an hour and it would be practically safe for the driver, while operating in any state, to comply with this rule; but when driving through cities, villages and towns ‘care should be exercised and seldom should the speed be greater than ten miles an hour. In many states, like New York for example, the law provides two rates of speed in cities, villages and towns. In the closely built-up sections the legal limit is ten miles, while in the sections not closely built up fifteen miles an hour is allowed. Of the authorities do not always arrest those who violate the speed limits by greate course a slight excess of the rates prescribed, as is the case in New York City, where fifteen miles in hour is really allowed in the ten- mile limit. In other words, the police usually allow some leeway, except when a specia! crusade is ordered against speeders. Zigzag Driving Unlawful The automobilist must also be on the lookout for municipal and local speed regulations. In many states municipali- ties are authorized to enact ordinances prescribing speed rates lower than those yrovided for in the state law. Seldom isit, out ‘r, that these speed limits are than ten miles an hour. In certain locali- ties, however, eight miles an hour has been prescribed. In some states municipal authorities are prohibited from reducing the speed limit established in the state law It is the tendency of modern automobile legislation to make the automobile speed rates uniform throughout the state, and it is quite likely that in the near future local regulations will be entirely eliminated No matter what the speed limit may be in any state, an automobile driver may not lawfully operate his machine at a danger- ous rate of spee “d or in a dangerous manner less If the law provid es a speed limit of ten miles an automobilist may get into trouble f he operates his machine at a rate of only five miles an hour if he does so care- lessly or negligently, as, for example, if a chauffeur drives while being in an intoxi- condition or zigzags his machine gh traffic in such a manner that other not know what course to pursue A recent Engli has held that zigzag driving constitutes a violation of the law Then again, an automobile driver should

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sh Case not be guilty of thoughtless inattention while operating his machine. It will be seen that the speed lim are not the only les to » be complied with by automobil r operating their cars. Before lation was ever thought it was a common-law misdemeanor to any kind of vehicle at a great speed, ig other rs of the public avenues ol vel to danger Now as to the results ch may happen if a proper speed rate i exceeded The speed tn of modern inventior

vile legi user

ap is decidedly a contriv ’ whic h has come a result of the deve _—_ and general use of the automobile It may be defined as a method em] loyed by police authorities to test the automobiles and to catch or entrap and arrest drivers thereof who have exceede« the speed limits. An automobile driver who violates the speed law is very apt to be caught. But where speed traps have existed in the past, the operators thereof ance into existence ment as speed oO t i April 23,1910

15 QO) Tapering Round

ou must soften your beard to shave with R d R comfort r the reason that a softened beard offers e u er less stance to the razor therefore le ‘pu ling very barber demonstrates tl by rabieng in the lather. HE DOES IT WITH HIS Fin e FINGERS this is always mussy and often unsanitary. g rs You have imitated the barber’s method in spite of its uw tidiness and then have had to wash the lather from your hand Beat before you could use your razor. Neither your fingers nor the barber’s can soften the beard quickly, neatly or thoroughly. Your Phe Luxury Lather Brush has 150 Tapering Little Round Own Red Rubber Fingers, sterilized and sanitary, which take the place of the five Iman fing ind work the lather into the beard far more t ) 5 1 effective because thei \ | ittle taperit ends penetrate tiveen and around the \ hau . vhile the bre id-| nted human fingers merely ae pass over them. These velvety rubbe ft ¢ otten the beard sctentific lly they et the ithe cht dow! into the beard UNErE the razor 4 it I} > €3 the

It make

Worth everal times its price because the LUXURY Lather Brush

is an article of the highest quality which accomplishes better than has heretofore yossible three important results LATHERS BETTER year YOUR OLD BRUSH: Made of ct Beau Blanc Fret I blended with PUR y proportions t pvr peg Bi 4q ie Bristle ire V anize in hard rubber can't i ut. Open handle ot hard rubbe gt ngrle \ ndy asa t bru ind i g it uy SOFTENS THE BEARD BETTER THAN YOUR HAND: The little rubber fingers are mad best ret *ara as velvet W juickly ften the mo wiry ard ut Annot irritate tendere kin Makes jx 1a omit MASSAGES Ri.. J FAC F Not D 4 a i re ir t ; ngtt ack ‘ exio n d it wv tick - vder, cream or mug, the LUXI RY giv more satisfaction in shaving th n “ ” “BOOK— Well Lathered i is Half Shaved ’—FREE the vay to apply 1 use a raz If vour dealer ! t the UXURY I ATHER B RUSH ! $3.00 an we w prey dw vil refund your mot Wr ; ; ee Luxury Sales Compens. 382 River Street, Troy, N. Y.

Specialties Novelties For Men $10 to $30 ForWomen $10 to$30 |

Ken rein Rain Coats Kenyon Utility Coats n Ove rcoats le-P One -on Coats Triple y Slip-On oats Rubberized Silk Coats | Kenyon Han wil Trowers Summer Coats and Capes | Many Styles are Motor Coats and Dusters, $3 up Quality, Applied to Men’s All-Wool Suits 3 An exception lo the A Reduct high cost of living cost of

n of the high froing

This suit is a refinement of the prevailing fashion, for those who take pride in their cloth- ing; who expect shapeliness and wear; who usually pay more for a suit. We make one perfect model only (of specially selected fabrics). | This simplities work, saves greatly in the cost making and marketing The savings go to you. The price is $15, coat vest and trousers. It is a Kenyon ‘** Specialty,’’ which means that our distinctive manufacturing methods, with our enor- mous factories and equipment, have produced a suit value that can not be equalled. Basic superiority is incorporated in every garment befor we class it as one of our *‘specials’’ and affix our lab

and guarantee. For Sale at Good Stores. Your dealer can get voua Kenyon Suit totry on Look for the Kenyon Label Don't he 2 ples and we will seethat you are supplied c Keira Company 23 Union Square, NewYork { Wholesale 611 Washiagton Sireet, Boston | Salesrooms } If necessary, write t for san 200 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago 132 Sansome Street. San Francisco,

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i Use This Cooker | isi" itetinvesten treed — ae |

activi ne mar ! ravi? t i) 4 ti th | i ari cr | t | m auto D t . | All th col n i t the legitimate sp ip I a nec rae t ‘ i X ( pe spect i r ‘ ] and ’ tT I t the «Al i te ! i lk il " r ‘ i ca val cu ya ‘ i You can use tl A After it has dem ‘ l the exc ence ) 4 you can d k } it. Wewill se u k iy showing how you ca ‘ S : , This couoke i 2 Pe. t « care 1 A ] wa . . ' 1 rdivar n t i . nlike any o I I n ! 1 t ‘ aS an automat p 1 ir eX t pe nents and f t : i iy ’ 4 I i It } I} l your | n it ts I ay three-quarte t 1 | ; ¥ a lot of time Your su \ t 3 | May consutul ‘ go ore : prise you Write t v for the person causing the deat ‘ he of the Acme Au c ( r exercising due care It na Deel ! H.M. SHEER CO., Dept. 101, Quincy, Illinois rane isd onsen: he 1 peg BR: Ob... et i aie peed of twenty-five I t in! i¢ Test it with a Hammer \ ) i ¢ ! lf ne t I ira t \ I In | i t ina na i chat ‘ a ch The Rules of the Road

Mot } ‘ he rn I ‘ 4) 1 @XALTE iv‘i iT I li Ol tne ile y of other per ns using the publie highway n order to 1l ire ther sely.e against the I LOOR VARNISH ay oS Ce eee fF ae & is flat, dull finisl ! f pri does not r r ro | r ry ‘ , ’ y ‘ , shies ’ — . . . . ’ . i i ad ae th eriou harge I cide, Vv lay x ; , } or , , i to be the n ; er iut P . ru oT, ¢ iCK nor i Fe Send for Free Sample Panel T It 1 t r i, | eve lr ittractiy } ¥ : ty al econ V it istar aneaqd n New or City cl fleur wh | ed e l r in New Y y a chaulleu a unt ill paper or ka } \ ( l ‘ e cr { PRATT & LAMBERT VARNISHES oe — he eps ih roy a ~ a = ei . Alabastine is more artistic than wall paper—More buliaic, N.Y EStablished 6l Years seis life. | A con viction of manslaughter wa permanent than kalsomine—More beautiful than paint

= ea ained and a prison i f DD ! 4 . “ 7c” years Was 1m] ed riease d not contuse \ With Ka mine, unde whateve ime A Big $1 Offer—“KEITH’S caligee | gn nang ee oo ce ee artigo dg ge connie adhe pr , ype : ad. Eve — ¢ ould be, au lia A labasting t is of the hichest ind most su qualit Unless ioe meeting and pa , should | the package has the Cross and Circle in red with Alabastine ungalows . ~ e — . ° 2 2 . Cottages to the rig each other, which is cot plainly lettered on the cross, it is not Alabastine. | $100. to $3000. J | trary to the rule in England, and that wher \labast apypancte esp put ¢ pea ae _s > J Vvertaking and pi ng ar 1uton ‘ " } +} ] n | ‘ > hould to the left of the precedit use When mixed with cold w n No. 85. $2300. One of the 100 : should pa © tne fer OF Lhe precedh ‘ee oe ; De i § ar. Ne 7 A prece vel ri } | ds e ¢ , = pag ie gns by leading however, give way and allow an automobik with the soft, velvet \ e ¢ 3 termix a myriad of My other books for home-builders are pak ee " . ; | signs for Atts . P § $ approaching Irom the rea to pa exe ent tints can b : I for ; $ rule has been sanctioned by the Court « tif tH Appeals of the State of New Yor S d f O Q . i eer ree rem ncs ae | Pee S Sec icors cheald tren to thy end for Our Question Blank Today, Please All 5 of these books and ‘‘ Keith's'’ one year 4.00 SP gpamasiahes ; ch ‘ i. 1 . M. L. KEITH, 534 Lumber Ex., Minneapolis, Minn. oom right of the center of the hig! Yy and W ¢ ask \ to sé { ‘ } | that w , k , —_—- never depart Irom if 31 lle Unie emer! about ve RS ns | nant retu t WV enev requires it f t rule ted | DP hae vho was on the wrong side of the ro hand \labastine so you may eo | t .. Wi

| AIR RIFLE “The Gun that Shoot be deemed responsible for resultir will supply suitable tem t the t free to all ts throug ' {nore uries unk he n show that he ° ‘ Taso om : eee users of Alabastine. And we \ - compell { ‘ ‘ T le of f ‘ highway for some ¢ 1 cause duce the efrects we ! I f Pri pe r preca itor if ild be takel I N ch cw econ If t! | I t P ‘ § | aetna ¢ + tn Srtntton ine nal ie , a ’ = , ! Benjamin AirRifle& Mfg.Co.,502LeaderBidg.,St.Louis,Mo. |} | 2UCtON not to Ingh I and that Ala ‘ used w rm ‘ o ===> : other animals. This is a duty wh not t RE ’ ‘ m ee Se Oe ee ee The Alabastine Color Chart, FREE ms common law rivers of 1 tor ‘ 1 An Education Without Cash common tas; (Dever of motor vehi BP eens 4s, . ' ; P. THe SaTurDAY EveninG Post offers a f become frightened and the } la ae e, all expenses paid, in any p the nes if the n iuses fright t Ay ' - the We have fa , o : lon So : f return for a little work done tn leisure “J . - 1 << @ or e pu higt \ I re If you are interested addre . ~ . ates ae ag = : FREI : ‘ ‘ , : now consid 1e relation of em] < The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia | ojo (fyr B of Ac ybil oe irive . : TINE eg for hauft THE ALABASTINE : a p . 7 y * Y r Artists Art Students of All engag ti COMPANY i” i. : inv 952 Grandville Road a mts. mobil employer ; Grand Rapids, Mick ’ a. ina i I } Fact fice ah ’ G. H. Lockwood, Editor ae " ‘ 1 W ate N t a r. Kalamazoo, Mich liable to pay heavy damag Lor nike ’ the chauffeur is act t a = — ———————

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os go SPSEBRESSEESES ESS HZS@e#eeeeseeene LOOK FOR NAME IN SHOE (RE REE ER EEE ERE E REE ET Style A 1647 The Azby is different EB A new raised toe in Tan Willow Calf What You not how and Get = | 1 you pay hou rete I eyo shoe purchase **Nat be) ipe’” last are your as- irance ( ifort **Hugtite’® con- uction means positive fit at ankle, heel and e} And t ime ‘*Florsheim’’ on every shoe i puarantee of iong serv- ice and lasting good look $5 $ a a i t ) et i Ask your dealer about the Florsheim Shoe or send $5.25 to cover cost of shoes and express charges, and we will have our nearest dealer fill your order L/ t Styles g The Florsheim Shoe Company CHICAGO, U.S.A TITTITITITI TTT TTT -" ) i¢ y) UU and J0.UL EPs Seeoeseescesenseseansssesasasasserereensesssag The Modern Wall Finish SSNs b ieepefontamety Sherri § KEYSTONE VARNISH CO. Brooklyn, N.Y. GENUINE RED CEDAR HIGHBOY SENT ON APPROVAL aa GUARANTEED MOTH, DUST and DAMP PROOF 4 PIEDMONT RED CEDAR CHESTCO. , Dept. 86, Statesville, N.C Why Pay Extravagant Hotel Rates? THE CLENDENING 190 W. 103 8t., N.Y. Select, Home-like Economica SHIRA AMM MA THE SATURDAY EVENING POST of the owner the owner is responsible for | his negligent conduct. If, however, the chauffeur commits an injury while he is driving contrary to the authority of his employer the chauffeur only is responsible. The owner of an automobile should investigate thoroughly the chauffeur’s record, and mere letters of recommenda- tion should not satisfy the owner of the chauffeur’s qualifications. If a chauffeur has been convicted many times of over- speeding this alone should be sufficient reason not to employ him, because it shows a disrespect for the speed limits, and a man who will not respect the law is very apt to take chances. Moreover, if the chauffeur should again be arrested and convicted and the employer should pay his fine a very substantial penalty would have to be paid, since third and subsequent offenses gener- ally entail fines of from one hundred dollars to three hundred dollars. Owners, however, are to a large extent responsible for the present conditions with respect to chauffeurs. They have allowed chauffeurs to purchase their supplies and parts, and this has created opportunity for graft. Many owners do not go over items of expense and ascertain whether proper charges have been made by garage Shenens and supply houses. It is very generally known that garage keepers and supply houses allow chauffeurs a certain commission on supplies purchased and services furnished. This is not for the best interests of the employer and it should be discouraged. A chauffeur who will take secret commissions should not be employed. Other forms and species of graft also exist among chauffeurs. One instance of fraud which a chauffeur committed and which stands out conspicu- ously as an example of carelessness on the part of an owner happened in New York City not long ago. A chauffeur in need of money went to his employer and stated that the transmission in his car was badly worn out. He called his employer over to the garage and pointed out to him a worn- out transmission which was then on the floor beside the car. The employer, con- vineced that the transmission was worthless, drew his check to the chauffeur’s order for four hundred and fifty dollars and told the chauffeur to buy a new transmission and put it in the automobile. After the em- ployer departed the chauffeur took the worthless transmission and threw it in the junk heap of the garage. It was not taken out of the car at all and the one in the automobile was in perfect order and always had been THE EASIEST PROFTTS (Concluded from Page 6 when it was put into operation was a broad human principle that facilitated management from top to bottom The capable production engineer is far than a systematizer Nine times in ten, after making his study and drawing up a scheme of administra- nore tion, he stays with the latter until it i installed and running smoothly If the new-fangled routine were all drawn up on paper and handed to Bill Jone in the boiler-room, with the statement that by following that method the company could save three per cent of its fuel costs, Bill Jones might not'think the matter impor- tant But when there s somebody right on the job to insist that about forty dollars a week is being wasted up the chimney Bill Jones is interested He may also be called upon to take charge Of business enterprises on behalf of creditors or heirs, to lay out large plants where capital is creating them from the ground up, to apportion different kinds of manufacturing among a number of plants following a large consolidation, to advise as to increase of cay tal, or find the valua- tion of property in disputes or settlements So he is more than an expert in account- ing, costs, industrial chemistry, systems, or any other restricted specialty In the course of the year he employs many such experts, and supplements their work with broad administrative experience drawn from manufacturing, trading, banking, Gov- ernment business. For in dealing with pro- duction he is dealing with pretty much all dustry Editor's Note—This is the articles by Mr. Collins on busir of a series of omies last ess econ April 23,1910 I TS = 7 NTEED Kirschbaum Clothes ALL WOOL Aan mae mite Will You | Play Fair? |) HAND TAILORED IR & UPPOSE we told you that we have made the best suit that the same money can | buy. Would vou goto your dealer, and ask ) for it,—and “| accept none ff otners The ¢ Kirschbaum $18 “True Blue” Serge “A New Suit For GHOWING prominent bet the 1 teal Any That Fades” Thi “ vs 1 ee oe eee eee \\ € will prov e our eee a 1 ve the KIRSCIIBAUM “Dixie” M : ft) and the “West End” Two-Button Sack Suit (right claims. unshrinkabl Guaranteed fadeless standard, and Aw ‘ Al 710n AIGA Ask your dealer for this suit. 's Sor the Kirschbaun —the identification mark of the best clothes made at the price. If your dealer hasn’t this suit, write us to-day. We will forward ; ‘ ‘ the Kirschbaum “Book of Fashions,” showing complete Spring and Summer styles for Men and the for Young Men A. B. KIRSCHBAUM & CO. fA Hv PHILADELPHIA AND NEW YORK “Student line’’ § roe —_ _s ‘ ’ 2 — . oh. | (2ogmme we cmames ae 200: Crash!!— another wax record gone to smash! os yh See Cx VRAD ‘ ow a ‘ a 4 ATTY at a ; i et, r ‘| ' : Columbia Phonograph 4-MINUTE INDESTRUCTIBLE Sold by Dealers P Company, Gen’'l, RECORDS 50c Everywhere — Dept. A, Tribune Bldg : et | DEALERS WANTED New York right! al

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Garden ie cle ee Le 4 | ~ Hose belongs on the place—large or small— person who takes a pride in « tailsand anacx ountorexpenses Its appearance indicates high standards; Its durability and ef- result in the { degree of economy. Manufac ture of ELECTRIC’ Is protected by basi hciency It is made of al f pure rubber and f d e, Vulcanized bytremendous pressure into a unihed fabric PTERIESE BEV eCE FO Electric Hose & . Rubber Co. Wilmington, Dei SPEED Is Not the Only Advantage of THRALL ’ Refined Motors . “VERY tor 4 } tist 4 speed. Butthat

Thr M t — t t I K M re per e . si icity, streng ri il P, Thral els OO | 1 . - 4 or 5-H. P. Motors weighing 3 to 5 time Write For All Facts The ra s that g ’ wer, streng ” A Bul)” ‘H r 8 O eautif ta gw ¢ ‘ THRALL MOTOR COMPANY 9-31 Twenty-first St., Detroit, Michigan superior

| $400 . | fer Four by Mail Postpaid y/ & ~<t

—- GOTHAM athletics, sports, outdoor country ' b natty stylish fabrics white, tan and light blue F Ask f WEBER AND DAVID a _e Broadway and 32nd St., NEW YORK

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Running Water for Irrigation and Home Use If there’ t und NIAGARA HYDRAULIC RAM NIAGARA HYDRAULIC ENGINE COMPANY e? 140 Nassau St , New York. Factory: Chester, Pa THE SATURDAY THE LORDS AND THE LAND (Continued from Page 4

_ From the total ownership of land and houses which includes the large numb« of small landowners who own not the land —last y enue Was only half of Lt bu as well as the grea and those

s and the prof

The mall incomes \ t t hundred dollars a year, ar law OCTS hed

reason for the awe ' 3

the preser n do not tra al . Nave Vanished ind new imilies Nave

» all the Lords lordly from other The bre Wing interests are and the advertisements of the

peers stare us In the lace on New York streets Heavy ampaign contributions at opportune moments ex- plain the creation of certain lordship a

while ago two hundred and fifty thousand dollars vas sulficient A considerable number are peers as a heritage of frail I le friendliness th r ite Num

who are descendants ol men enrolled for real public services are without personal distinction of character, or may possibly be known only as the men married to or divorced from American fortunes But at least such a body should be small Privilege needs a limitation of numbers But peers are really common There are thirty-two dukes, thirty-seven marquises, two hundred and thirty earls, eighty Vis- counts and four hundred and twenty-four varons, besides twenty-four bishops, two archbishops, and three princes of the blood Really, American heiresses s} t fine the market price of peers so high as they do bers of those snould not find A Means to an End In England one must always go back to the beginning. When Wiliam the Con queror seized England ne . ne doubted hi chose; and he gave it away in great sections, with accon panying great titles, to his followers who in turn, parceled out considerable of it thus established, still con- families go And the right to dispose of it as ..¢ The system, Families come and tates go on forever tinues but huge es

system of entailing these great estates to the eldest son Is an Important factor The Budget is not, in all its parts, upheld by the mass of even those who believe in in taxation; and, although the ve belatedly agreed, for the sake ent revenue tor the ! to offer no opposition to

chequer, becoming a law, it will not in any case lor remain a law, but will be re plac ed DY some- thing more statesmanlike~ if the Liberal party can fi } aoe fh . r nd a really statesmanlike leade ts new taxes on tobacco, Deer and tea are oppressive to the common peopl it death duties, so prospective heirs be lieve are calculated an die

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Not all the peers are cruel or corrupt; many are excellent and kindly landlords; but they felt that they were fighting for their lordly lives. Such things as election a and oppression, it may be mentioned, it is not deemed good form to say muc h about in England. The highly respectable news- papers that print long stories of alleged corruption at Albany or W ashington woul 1 unpardonably shock their readers if they should detail such methods as are freely followed in England when they are deemed needful. The Englishman cannot help be- ing a bit of a Pharisee. He thanks the Lord—and with difficulty leaves the ‘‘s’ off the word—that he is not as Americans are Never before, so I learned, was the sys- tem of plural voting so widely taken ad- vantage of. The privilege of voting for a member of Parliament is granted, in the counties, to each owner of a freehold estate of the annual value of ten dollars, and any man may legally vote in many parliamen- tary districts if he has the needful property in them. Wealthy men have, therefore, obtained many election rights, either in their own names or those of trusted agents, and at this last election trains and auto- mobiles were unceasingly used in carrying repeating voters from place to place, the custom of spreading the election out over some three weeks or so giving ample oppor- tunity for this scurrying of voters from point to point The Perquisites of Dukedom Some of the richest members of the nobility were not ashamed to write letters to this or that society or charity stating that, in view of the intended land tax, they must really reduce their gifts; one duke thus cut an annual subscription of twenty-five dollars in two; another, owning six vast country estates and one in London, refused a usual small subscription altogether on account of the threatening Budge t; and it also turned out that, because the nation had begun paying old-age pensions, this great peer had reduced a few personal pensions to old retainers from a three- dollar-and-tifty-cent rate to one dollar and seventy-five cents A few examples will point out some fea- tures of the land system under which the Lords have flourished and for which they are hated In the heart of Cardiff are the magnifi- cent castle and grounds of the Marquis of Bute, rated at an annual value of one hun- dred and fifteen dollars less than that of a tailor’s shop a stone’s throw away One of the seven magnificent and costly palaces of the Duke of Northumberland, with two hundred and twelve acres of land, pays rates on a valuation of only thirteen thousand five hundred dollars but he recently made a demand of twenty- two hundred and fifty dollars an acre when land was needed for the expansion of a near-by town; and in that town is a thirty- five-acre patch, with homely and ordinary buildings, valued for rates at fifty-five thousand dollars Recently, in the heart of London, a leass expired on property for which the Duke of Westminster had been receiving two thou- sand dollars a year, and, of course, this sum was the only basis of tax upon the duke for that land, although it had become of enormous value. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST WHICH WAS GEORGE? (Continued from Page 25) “Rats! breakfast. George smiled provokingly. “Got a date with—-er— Maud today” ’ he asked. ‘* None of your business,”’ said Miles. “T bet,” said George, ‘“‘that you stil think it was Maud you ‘took drivi ing. “ ‘I bet I don’t,” said Miles. ‘' Directly you know there are two of ’em it’s a cinch to see the difference.”’ George in his turn blushed. ‘Not so easy as youthink. . . i . " and he went into a paroxysm of mortifie d laughter at the recollection ; tig day Mary arrived in Rome,” he aid, “‘Il went around as usual, and there 0 was in the reading-room writing, and I thought she was Maud, and sneaked up behind—there wasn't a soul about —and put my hands over her eyes, and made a terribly gruff voice, and said ‘Who is it?’ . . And she'd never seen me, didn’t know me from Adam, and hadn't even been told about Maudandme. . . . It was fri ghtful What did she thoroughly interested. “She jumped up and gave me one look shaped like a pair of Louis XIII rapiers and then she saw that I was onlya blimmed idiot that had made a mistake, and she sat down and laughed until I had to get water for her And then Maud came in and Miss = rby. . And it took me most all day to square myself with Maud She said that either I didn’t fancy her enough to know her when I saw her, or that I had an incurable habit of making up to strange women, and that she’d never have any peace if we got married and I was out of her sight fora minute.”’ ‘“*T don’t see how you ever did square it,”’ said Miles. George smiled knowingly About eleven o’clock George and Miles drove to the hotel where Miss Derby and the March twins were staying, and sent up their cards. The ladies had a tiny parlor on the see ond floor, and here the young men found them. But George hung back, for he wished to see Miles put to confusion. A stranger could only have told the March twins apart by an application of the sertillon system. And on this occasion their identity was perfected by an identity of costume and expression Mary, of course, had told her story to Maud and Miss Derby, and the eyes of all three twinkled with mischief and amusement George, immediately behind Miles, mum as a mouse, was prepared to make himself thoroughly obnoxious. And Miles knew all this very It was perfectly plain, like good black print on very white paper. To nfusion as certain as possible, the sisters were not standing close together, and each stood with her back to the light But..as luck would have it, the moment Miles entered the room his eyes had lighted said Miles, and rang for his do?” asked Miles, well make ct on Mary. He went straight to her, holdin out his hand “T owe you an apology,” he said, and now it was Miles who was brimful of mis- chief, ‘‘for ever having mistaken you for anybody else.” j “'That,”’ exclaimed Maud; “is positively the last straw to my feelings.’ Miles ti irned to her ‘* Maud,” he said, “ people like you aren't affected by straws. I know that—now, anyway.” Something in this enigmatic speech must have had a meaning for Maud; ne ex- pression softened. And she gave him her 1and And be stood talking with her, easily and seriously, an experience they had never before had together “Why,” thought Miles, ‘‘they’re really exactly alike, after all. That is, Maud eems to George exactly as M: iry seems to me And the reason I didn’t see it before was because I was ie alous and a fool Then and there he resolved to “‘make it up” with Maud by every means in his power Meanwhile, Mary, George had withdrawn chatting volubly —at least, George Derby were. Mary was smiling, a absently, perhaps, but with a tran guilli ty and sweetnes Miles did not know it at the time, a matter of fact, the garrison which Miss Derby omewhat and and were and Miss little wonderful but, as he was 23,1910 April

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J NEWSPAPER WORK ©", BAY PATH INSTITUTE, 8 uf i, Ma 1 | |} a one. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST easy for you? . . [—I0 adopt you if necessary. . Couldn't you” —and he chuckled, though deeply distressed and disappointed —*‘ ¢ ‘ouldn’t you forswear your horrid parent, Geordie, and become my ‘Beamish Boy’?”’ **Couldn’t do that,” said George. “‘T’ll found all kinds of a magazine,”’ Miles, ‘‘and make you editor.” ‘But I’d be a wretched editor.” “Why?” ‘Because I don’t want to be any kind of You can’t do a thing well that you don’t really want to do at all—can you?” “But,” said Miles, ‘‘ I can’t stand by and see my future sister-in-law, whom I love like a sister, go hungry in her affections while you're learning how to write, or otherwise hungry when you do finally get married.” ‘Why should she go hungry?’’ said George. ‘She's got oceans of money.” ‘What!’ exclaimed Miles, ‘‘you know that?”’ ** Of course. me long ago.”’ ‘Then you knew all along that there was enough money to get married on.” “She told me when we were first en- gaged,’’ said George. ‘‘ But I told her no girl had enough money for me to get mar- ried on—unless I had some myself.” ‘*Well, there’s one thing certain,’ said Miles with confidence. ‘You'll make a success at literature.” “Why is that so particularly certain?’ “Because you're such an idiot. Here,” said Miles, ‘are two people, a girl that loves you enough to marry you, a friend that oves you enough to do most anything for you —and you make us both miserable.’ ‘The only check that poor people have upon the predatory rich is pride,” said George. ‘It’s intolerable to think how smug and self-satisfied the rich would be- come if they were allowed to play Provi- dence whenever they felt like it. Aren’t you finding that out? Finding that you can't do what you want to with your money be- cause I—humble, poverty-stricken, insig- nificant I—won't let you? And don’t you see how wholesome a series of such checks must be for you in the long run?” “I can understand your wishing to dis- on me,”’ said Miles. ‘“‘But why make Maud toe the mark?” ‘Would you have a man—a man,” ex- claimed George, “take everything from his said Why shouldn’t I? She told wife? Railroad tickets, smokes, pocket- money--every blessed thing? When I’m able to support her-—-why, then, if she’s got something over it doesn’t matter and wouldn’t be humiliating.” “Oh, of course,”’ said Miles “a you consider nobody's feelings but your own! The fact that you are denying the girl you love—and have, doubtless, sworn to pamper and cherish—the one privilege she would really like to have, and that while you're merely engaged to her, doesn’t argue well for your keeping your promises when you do get married. It isn’t once in a thousand years that a rich person has the chance that she has to be happy to pick out another person and give that person everything . But then, of course, this sort of thing runs in your family,” and he hummed very provokingly: Georgie, Porgie, Pudding and Pie, Kissed the girls and made them cry Meanwhile, George had fini * Re ady ?” he said shed dressing Miles stood up and they went out together While they were waiting for the lift Georg » looked up suddenly. ‘Mi Ses he said, “it would be awful if you were right.”’ I am,” said Miles, “absolutely.” “1 do sort of see,” said George, ‘‘that the question seems to have another side, and that, maybe, I am pig-headed and an ass, and selfish and Miles took a coin from his pocket and poised it on his thumbnail ‘**Geordie,”” he said, ‘‘my old grand- father used to say ‘There’s a time to shet up, there’s a time to evade and there's a time to toss up!’ He looked inquiringly at George George nodded assent Heads,” said Miles, “you are a noble, righteous, beautiful and generous man Tails, you are a priggish, self-centered, unenlightened, stupid, selfish ass “as Here he tossed the coin “Well,” said George eage rly, which am |? 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 55 E insist that the Ostermoor is the best mattress made irrespective % of price. If this is true—you 2% want it. If you want it, be sure you get it. Without fear of successful contradiction, we base OSTERMOOR SUPERIORITY on these Four Very Pertinent Reasons: Every genuine Ostermoor has the name “Oster- moor” woven in the binding 1. Most Comfortable bed ever slept on—soft, yielding, but springy and resilient—never packs or gets lumpy, or loses its feeling of newness That is because it is made up of hand-laid Ostermoor sheets; u:/t— not stuffed. We have scores of letters from doctors and competent judges who declare it is the only 2. Absolutely Sanitary mattress because dust cannot work into it; and this no vermin can live in it; an occasional sun-bath is all the renovating it ever needs; it will not absorb dampness, disease Trademark label germs, or any poison from perspiration or the atmosphere. sewn on the end It is always Hie to Osterm — 15. 3. Perfectly Dry because non-absorbent. If the ticking is dry, the mattress is dry. No taking cold from it, no rheuma- tism, no musty ecdor about it; always fresh and sweet Testimonials in our free book bear witness from those who have used it for forty years or more and who do not hesitate to say that it 4. Lasts a Life-time and stays in perfect condition. it never needs or costs a cent for remaking or renovating. You may remove and clean the tick as often as you like. f No other mattress in the world, of any ery i = poe don’t take chances with imitations at other stores — make sure rom any maker or through any dealer, can truthfully make and ee : : rt prove all these claims as can the Ostermoor. Do not take our you're getting the genuine Ostermoor — our trade-mark label word for it—our word is good—but send for our 144-page book is your guarantee. and samples of ticking. Read how to get the genuine Ostermoor. Where we have no Dealer or when the dealer has none How to be Sure to Get the Genuine Of an Ostermoor dealer. The Ostermoor Mat- tress is not on sale generally, but there’s an Ostermoor dealer in most places —the livest dealer in town. Write us and we'll give you his name. But — in stock we ship you an Ostermoor mattress by express ® prepaid same day check is received by us. Thirty nights’ > free trial granted. Money returned if dissatished. Make no mistake. Let nobody hurry you into buying a mattress which isn’t an Ostermoor. It will take but a day or two longer to get the ) genuine Ostermoor from us, spree Prag | if it isn’t on sale in your Best blue and white ticking | town, and the Ostermoor | | | [ i MATTRE SSE S Cost | Built — Not Stuffed | 4'.6° 45 Ihe $ ”) e ° ° ° will give a life-time of com- fort, whereas imitations give discomfert and short service. ts, xtra rofl sat ust pi 3 ame, 144-page Book and sSuomre | Samples Free Our book “The Test of Time’’ — contain er ZUU illustrat ons about beds and sleep Tells all about the various style Ostermoor Matt esses, Church Cushions, et Free, includ ticking samples, for a postal OSTERMOOR & CO., 101 Elizabeth St., »New York * TRADE-MARK Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. i om

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INSURGENCY IN THE NORTHWEST (Continued from Page 13) up an organization that shall defeat La Follette and his nominees this fall. La Follette must have a legislature that will send him back to the Senate. A state ticket is to be elected, and Representatives for Congress, some of whom are insurgent, ‘ as it stands, and some of whom are The Complete Kit }] 22st. | [he man who has been picked to make this organization and to make the fight against La Follette is W. D. Connor, an experienced politician who was formerly a

No matter how fine the car you own, or drive, or manufaciure; no matter how thoroughly it

malig A Your cute ws not en ae La Follette man. Connor is planning a you own the new, revised and down-to-date campaign that shall have for its vital Cyclopedia of principle the indorsement of Taft and the - E : . fetish of party regularity. Indeed, the Automobile ngineering campaign, in the Republican party in Wisconsin this fall, will be predicated on Four large, handsome volumes bound in E ee eee ee a the record and personality and _ political half morocco, 1200 illustrations, full page acts of Taft, on behalf of the Stalwarts, plates, diagrams, etc.,1500 pages 7 x 10 inches, and on the record and personality and crammed with interesting and very necessary political acts of La Follette, on be half of the information conc erning aut »mobiles, aeroplanes, insurgents. 7 he j issue ths at will be raisec lis and motor boats; knowledge that you've got toget that if the voters of Wisconsin indorse Taft pit way or other before you can thoroughly they cannot indorse La Follette, who is understand or enjoy the automobile “game. Taft's bitterest enemy in the Senate, and CONDENSED TABLE of CONTENTS if they indorse La Follette they must be VOL. 1—Gasoline Automobiles: Running Gear, opposed to Taft, Cannon, Aldrich and the Power, Operation, Repair; Automobile Mechanisms : rest. ga on —- er — Oddly enough, many of the ” n who are = —Meam utomobiles ‘lash oer, n » PES oe yang, Rat momen do at sana he ading the move ment against La Follette tion, Delivery Trucks, Upkeep, Mileage, Capacity ; are men who were formerly ardent sup- Types: Selection, Price, Demonstration, Speed porters of La Follette. Among these are VOL. Hl —Electric Automobiles: Battery, Motor, Senator Stephenson, La Follette’s colleague Transmission, Control, Tires, Driving; Elements of . Uni 4. aa " haart dectricity; Electric Current; Automobile Driving in the nited States Senate; J. O. I avid- Starting and Stopping, Gear Changing, Use of Spark son, the present Governor; Connor, before ay — te ~ yn Road oe sid mentioned, and several others. It is likely . ~ Aeria sVigation inigible Ualloons, h- Javide of _ we idate 7 Aeroplanes, Airship Motors; Gas and Oil Engines that I av idson will be . the _candidate ol Ignition, Care and Operation, Testing; Motorcycle the Stalwarts in the primaries against La Construction, Operation; Motor Boats: Types, En Follette for the Senatorship. La Follette gines, lnctallaticn will have a candidate for Governor and so You can examine these books for hve days will the regulars. Also, there will be regular in your own home or office, free of ali cost and insurgent candidates for Congress in Don't risk m sing this offe by stopp to actically every district. think i over now- Order now and do your ff | Practical every distri ALL OUT-DOORS AWAITS areful thinking with the b oks before you. The Influence of the Administration That costs nothing. Here's the coupon. Onder promptly and we will include for ope year, as This new Stalwart organization, being a monthly supplement, the TECHNICAL WORLD | . MAGAZINE, a regular $1.50 monthly, full of inter- built on the foundations of the old machine esting scientific topics written in popular form which was all-powerful for many years American School of: Correspondence until La Follette put it out of business, has The vacation days on the farm, the canoe or fishing trip, the campin any nm W are ij » same class 4: ae: CHICAGO, U.S.A in it many men who are in the same class party, the hunting expedition, the ball game and the swimming hole as Stephenson, Connor, Davidson and the . “ss @ eae Ge ee eee eee eee ee . J ’ * ‘ ‘ he are jects - ‘es e “very oe r or I al rest that is, former La Follette men who in all of these are sul jects for the camera. Ev ry out door s port ana

CREE REA MIS ATION COUPON have been alienated from La Follette by pastime becomes doubly enjoyable for those who Kodak. American School of Correspon ence his arbitrary methods. With La Follette it And picture making is both simple and inexpensive with a Kodak *. . fA Engines has always been the idea to rule and brook or Brownie. They have efficient shutters and lenses, are well made | X : $ no interference. If men, no matter how in every detail and load in daylight with the light, non-breakable ‘ powerful, in his organization opposed him Kodak Film Cartridges ’ rev t eT > Was ¢ “4 , thon ; Mec gh all oe aS er Kodaks, $5.00 to $100.00. Brownie Cameras, $1.00 to $12.00. \ Vates He is the only officer, the « aptain- Catalogue of Kodaks and Brownies, free at the dealers or by mai vr TT ¢ S ) Way > Ss yong lLé ~ fhe coming feb SAY he 80m Imo 1 EASTMAN KODAK CO., Rochester, N.Y., The Kodak City E . So far as the ge neral sentiment in the Hy W state, among the Republicans naturally) ee ** insurgent, is concerned, it does not differ from any of the group of states where the HEALTH MAKES —_ insurgent movement is strong. There is HAPPY, the same distrust of Taft, the same an- MERRY GO ROUND HEALTHY J tipathy to Cannon and Aldrich, the same a CHILDREN | resentment over the tariff bill. There are . ae Bi if eleven Representatives from Wisconsin in ‘ ‘ the House, ten of whom are Republicans >» Sa > , 1 a Of these Republicans three, Cary, Len-

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root and Nelson, voted iinst the tariff = : bill In the Senate, La Follette voted rr ay. : ist the bill and Stephenson for it. The mn autitul lu tre of lron Clad No, 188 is not a si i : fos f fioht promises to be very bitter. The op- face finis t'szzthe yarn. Washing after washing } ' ; position to LaFollette has a thorough does notchanye it—it stays s7/kyas long as you wear it understanding with the Administration, | 7 el age Mag le Pe and all Administration influences will be free brought to bear to defeat « very La Follett / HEALTH MERRY-GO-ROUND CO., Dept. N, QUINCY, ILL. | man who is nominated. When this artick ; He ; wiih was written it was the intention to oppose i Co Dark Gt every La Follette man who announced Ne of the mselfasacandidate. Of course, after the TRU-FHIT Shuron the great fight will be for the which shall have the naming of P s successor in the Senate The | - Pe Jol -tota-leti-F oe

vill be held in September, b Remember § | the fight will not stop there. It will be The Name a cut-and-slash affair, with no quarter rranted nor aske¢ f there is any po Different from oth- 1 rein —— b. il ‘ peg * | ers. The “difference Wiseonsin but in the Congress and in the | Cooper, Wells & Co. is the improvement Administration, can defeat La Follette, h | “ ‘ sin Hid Reis en tices will be defeated | 212 Vine St., St. Joseph, Mich. Te Will Not Cut Behind Ears There are active contests between the a $$$$_$__——— Cannot Slip Down sereneens na rogulare in hot nsurgents and the regulars in both Dako- SECURED OR OUR se a Moo Angra AE oy tas, — the same division of sentiment AT E N T S FEE RETURNED Folding Puncture roo Canvas Boats ’ To ft « Sata ‘ ‘. is < 100 | E KIRSTE IN SONS COMPANY as to Taft and Aldrichism and Cannonism . te How to 1 ! vings 6 ce Dept. B Rochester NY exists A full state ticket is to be elected want bats 8 Patent r What to invent nt "iat of inventions King Folding Canvas Boat Co. 672 Harrison St., Kalamazoo, Mich.

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Tire Protection can only be obtained in « way. We discovered th hice ® afew years ago and the result was Standard Tire Protectors Standard Tire Protectors have the greatest * Standard Protectors do Protect”’ STANDARD TIRE PROTECTOR CO. 803 South ~ — ——~t Ww ss souh IT DOES S4cis4 ROTES | North Dakota Porter J. McCumber two terms, IS a candi- The Only Carter Without Objections Men prefer it because it will not tear the stocking and will not bind the leg _———_—_——_——_ HOOT MO NI 25cents will convinceyou ple pair _ mail ster’ CLARK MFG. CO. 246P Summer Street, Boston, Mase . ee + THE SATURDAY EVENING POST las been Senator for reélection rhe two South | esentatives, Burke and for the tariff bill, but : be insurgent on the Ca There will be ins 1! i late i these men, h « i re¢ ulars Ir 1 & ne t he insurgent lea i steps we iken t i insurgent car i nt ne man ea aga B i Mi: the prima Ss Hanna Gri Ni Dakota R esentat he ta Tt vote, Hanna votir conference port T Gronna ag st i I tive Thon Ma all i at ilé rt sena a Me er. Tl ur Se Da YUU ne lar t 4 Ga ind ( i rd, ol S Va i i 1a d as in ents al i ‘e again > Teg ya Spoutn LJ ta,a Senator A. B. Kittre : r} en ei Da 1 and reguiars i W: i 1 e Dak ist n n the Phere e Sa Taft a ar riff ana ( rritant are | again, t Si i p and ret irs W d ayy I I ir Se me ( t ent stat t ar iS Ser I ea ( the « y t it ‘I people thint Lit et Wa ana are ite th va There ‘ litie Mid West t ea Indiana, I i, Kar Nebr: M \W I and t Da a I ha rn ea al I nu I t sk s f Mr. Bly es rey I Western s € A Provident Parent AHE mother of two boy who kept then at work while they were still at school was more than repaid for her self-sacrifice When the older lad left high school, at hittee! oO" 1 a typewriter and vi } bbl Y kne d | re wi ett in ¢ tore. he s wit he ag the first six months, living at |} ‘ The her agreed to board hir 1 Ll he coul into business for him Cany 1 »bbling jobs, he did tl mpk ‘ home nights and took the har store, where the worl as d " lf il hoe I laKer At xX nonths, however, he had oa | vork himself, and i ! iler egan paying fn week he was ir! its In two ne 1 dollars, in it, with busir tance, enal ios {him te up a iT Today his store clears apart from living expe nses acquail himself dollars yearly, a the yusand j i We Preach the Doctrine of PROTECTION N Life Insurance savings—nolt prohits- - all good In thei —not investment not way—bul subordinate minol rela tively unimportant in comparison W ith the one big—important —essential feature of life in surance for the benefit of women and little children- W ho need it and need its benefits most w hen then bread ¢ Let us call it the policy of protection—the substitute bread- winner no longer stands guardian over them. winner—the volunteer who steps into the breach call it what gel it when the regular has passed on his way you will—but above all —don't nevlect to NOW !—TO-DAY! already be too late for you to get the benefits. while yet you may—it may @ Strange, but the average man thinks it the easiest thing in the world to get life insurance—and then is staggered oftentimes to find that he has waited just one day too —See THE EQUITABLE SOCIETY man to-day. long. Suppose you try. LIFE ASSURANCE @ First: Let him find out if you are eligible. ¢ Second: Then let cost to put around your family his armor against the him tell you how little it will rapid firing guns of hunger and cold—and want—and the other shells whi h destroy unprotected families. ¢ It will be very muc h worth your while—but thinking about it won't do you—or your family—any good — Action is the word which brings relief The Equitable Life Assurance Society OF THE UNITED STATES “Strongest in the World The Company which pays its death claims on the day it receive them PAUL MORTON, President, 120 Broadway, New York City AGI NCES EVERYWHERE! Nom your t not rec« re mmen me ¢ Ima \ is, t | iH] Hi i

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58 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 23, 1910 ERE is a rug at a modest price that 1s es . equally desirable for bathroomand bed- room. It is rich and artistic in design—something that ordinary bath-rugs # lack. It is washable, reversible and long-wearing—features not found in the oA and designs, in retail stores everywhere Ask your dealer for the “4 setae 3: aetye ; e al cam tor ede Y vain bem take | we. chance of colors “ usual rug for bedrooms. ou can buy this rug 1n two sizes, choice of colors fe iy - Esmond Rug | | For Bedroom and Bath | The Esmond Rug 1s made in the same mills as the celebrated Esmond Blankets. It is woven thick and soft and fleecy and is delightfully comfort- ing to bare feet. You will never go back to old-fashioned kinds. The Esmond Rug is fully finished on the reverse side with a different rE coloring, giving double wear. It washes without fading, without losing its ie 3 Pape shape or its softness. For City or Country Home, Cottage or Bungalow, the Esmond Rug gives comfort, beauty and picturesqueness at small outlay. 3 There are designs in key-tones of soft browns and greens especially suitable a for such surroundings. Six Colors, Two Sizes, 24 by 48 inches, $1.00; 30 by 60 inches, $1.50 OL ey we oe dw te eet > ‘To Retail Dealers: You can buy Esmond Rugs in the MANUFACTURED BY carpet and bath furnishing departments If you do not have the Esmond Rug of leading stores Vhe genuime THEESMONDmus in stock, write us for the names of job bers who can supply you without delay. ‘This rug is making such a hit that every dealer in this line is certain to have many calls for it. You will want to be in position to meet them, of course. Write to-day. CLARENCE WHITMAN & CO., Se Makers of the well-known “‘Flaxon”’ 39 Leonard St., New York. White Goods, ‘‘Soiesette,’’ etc. bears a woven label like this: 3 PATENT APPLIED FOR Look for it before vou buy If ‘i your dealer cannot supply this rug, write us and we will see that you are supplied

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his eve, coming from the South Hello Murray,” he called cheerily through the window. ‘I'll be down pres- ently Wait a bit.” Then he pe received that the range boss was not regarding him at all, but that his gaze was fastened on a window closer to the ground Therefore he did not descend for some minutes, and whe n his foot touched the to yp step he caught a murmur of voices that sent him back to his own quarters in a : eante r. There was a sound between a laugh and a sob, a distinctly feminine sound, and it was cut off short in he middle, but it sufficed It was the hour of midnight and all the household had long since sunk to sleep His lordship took the candle M Leland had always insisted on placing in his room regarding it as a sacred British institu- tion and stationed himself in front of the ylass. He was in his pajamas, and his lean, stooped fig did not show to the best ant in that costume hundred years of thoroughbreds he muttered, regarding the an impersonal disfavor, while lle flickered and cast shaking He suddenly snuffed the light And he is the better man.” **Ay,”” he added in bitter self-reproach, as he crawled into bed, ‘“‘and as gentleman ire

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62 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 23, 1950 HE MAN QUES 7 BASE BGR) THe Man ovee- (7 yy omit SCHEDULES _ cmt ron ree» aOWIhOra = Send 6c in stamps for sample copy Sporting Life and we will send you FREE SPORTING LIFE’S 1910 Official Playing Schedules of both the American and National League Base Ball Clubs.

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The raising of good men, like the rais- ing of good vegetables, is a question of environment, heredity and care. The en- vironment of Europe. is little and over- crowded. Life there is dog-eat-dog even more than it is as yet in America. The the world, able to roast in stoking the furnaces of ocean liners or to freeze in the igloos of Arctic exploration. But all the time men are just animals, and all the time a species begins to deteriorate when its environment begins to be overcrowded. The first herds of Texas cattle that were Washington. Our American range is rap- idly getting overstocked. Just as the price of eattle food or range land went up, prices for human food and farm lands are going up. And our human product soon will deteriorate. To be perfectly frank with Alicia, there- fore, we would suggest that she look at this thing in a purely scientific manner, and ask herself, when she starts out to secure a specimen of the vanishing genus homo, what is the best range for men and where the good ones are most apt to be discovered. What is the man-producing environment of Europe and European life as compared with that of this country, and, if there be a difference in type, what form does that difference assume? Improved by Transplanting As a matter of fact, we are importing Europeans so fast that we are losing our American type. But at one day and age of species, whether animals or men, have improved distinctly by transplanting from Europe to America, and this improve- ment is frequently noticeable even in the TRADE MARK Motors The always-ready power—running only when needed. You can Machine Tools Ventilating Fans Sewing Machines, etc.

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If by any chance he should fall by the wayside in the hot race of American business life Alicia will be taken care of, let us hope, by her sturdy sons—that is to say, unless she shall still insist on taking heralimony or inheritance and going abroad to buy her a nice little duke to manicure. = “| ) . yry. THE VARMIN’I Continued from Page 22) “Very well run, indeed, Stover; excel- lentiy well run. Take your breath. Very fluent, very vivid, very persuasive—a trifle free, a trifle—but, on the whole, a very creditable performance. Very! I was sure, whatever you did, Stover, you wouldn’t bore us. Now, let us see how the same passage will appeal to a more prosaic, less ric tp adh ab mind.’ Then Red Dog rose and, unfeelingly, brought the scene back to Rome and the deliberations of the Senate. But this was a detail that did not interest Dink in the least. He had clashed with The Roman and not retreated. He had his first moment of triumph, attested by the admiring glances of the class he the muffled whisper of Straus, saying: ‘“*Gee, you're a peach!” The session ended with a solemn warning from The Roman. “One word,” he said in his deepest tones, ‘“‘just one word to the wise. We have journeyed together for two whole terms; there is only one more between you and reassignment. Candor forces me to say that you have acquired not even a flunking knowledge—not even a flunking knowledge."’ He turned and raked the awed ranks with the sweep of a pivot gun, and then took up again in cutting, chilled, spaced syllables: ‘‘I have, in the course of my experience as a teacher, had to deal with imbeciles, had to deal with mere idiots; but for sheer, determined, monumental asininity I have never met the equal of this aggregation. I trust this morning's painful, disgraceful, disheartening experi- ence may never, never be repeated. You may go. n And Stover, who had brazenly planned to remain and converse, went swiftly out with the rest, little imagining that he whom he had ranked as a deadly, unfor- giving foe sat a long while chuckling over the marvelous route Dink had gone, mur- muring gratefully to himself: “Wherever the wind blew him, Cesar initiated the orators.” vill N THE hallway the Coffee-colored Angel jabbed him with his elbow, muttering: “You laughed at me, you miserable Rinky Dink. I'll fix you for that.” He disappeared swiftly. Before Dink could frame a reply he was surrounded by an admiring chorus. The Tennessee Shad and Macnooder shook hands with cere- mony. ‘You'll do,”’ said the Tennessee Shad. “You certainly will!” said Doe Mac- nooder “You've made a hit with Lucius Cassius,’’ said the Tennessee Shad. Dink shook his head; he knew better. **You must always recite —always,”’ said Doc Macnooder, from his great knowledge of the nature of masters. ‘* Whether you're prepared or not~— recite.” “*T will,” said Dink. “And sg ay, Dink,”’ said Macnooder, “keep that outfit we sold you. There'll be more hayseeds in the fall.’ Dink had thought of that; he had thought of something else, too, which he craftily hid in his own memory. ‘‘Next fall I'll show them a thing or two,” he said gleefully. ‘I'll make souve- nir crockery sets the rage.”’ The Coffee-colored Angel and the petty annoyances of the Green House forgot, he THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 23,1910 PE POWDER THAT SMORTENS THE SHAVE ee ae The “Safety Lather’ ‘ For Your Face The Crest of the Shave Rapid-Shave Powder is both the best and quickest beard-softener and a safeguard against skin-infection. 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| | a quivering, senseless pulp. | Then the unexpected happened. day, cutting across fields to avoid his perse- cutors, he was suddenly shut off by the White Mountain Canary, who rose from | the Green, Dink returned | Angel closed in on him. Only one way of

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Canary should catch him and beat him to | One Cut off from ost-haste up the | village, when all at once the Coffee-colored | ambush, jeering horribly. escape was open to him, down an alley between two houses. With the Coffee- colored Angel at his heels he dashed ahead, turned the corner of the house and found | | himself caught in a blind area. | and thither with terrific | him head over heels, caught him by the | | dust, tore his clothes, blacked his eyes and | left him beaten and supinely, | inert. Then he turned on the Coffee-colored | Angel and slathered him, drove him hither blows, knocked throat and beat him against a wall, rolled him on the ground and rubbed him in the passively He walked out on his tiptoes, like a ter- rier, head erect, his che st out, fists still fixed, tears in his eyes—tears of pride and relief. He had fought a fight, he had received terrific blows and minded them not. He had thrashed the Coffee-colored Angel: | he could thrash or take a thrashing from any one. He had his first thrill, the thrill of conscious courage, comparable only to | first love and first sorrow. He had licked the Coffee-colored Angel—he was not a | coward! At this highly-auspicious moment the wae: ting White Mountain Canary per- | ceived the despised object of his chase and, raising a shout, triumphantly bore down upon him. With a rush he cleared the intervening space and then, catching sight | of the new Dink, stopped as though he had | been Je tke din by a rope. A fe w moments later the group on 1 the Green House steps were lazily working out a French translation, which Beekstein, the Secretary of the Department of Education, was reading to them, when suddenly, in the fields opposite, two figures appeared, zigzagging wildly. ‘*Here comes Stuffy Brown. time.” sd Who's after him?” said Tough Mc- Cc arty. ‘He's a pawl to the House.’ , ‘Tt's the White Mountain Canary,” said Susie Satterly. ‘**Hello!”’ said Cheyenne. “What?” “T'll be darned—no—yes—dinged if it isn’t the Dink chasing the Canary!” As they sprang up, amazed, Stover dove | at the fleeing tormentor, caught him, and | the two went down in a heap, thrashing | to and fro “Well, I'll be jig-swiggered!”’ said this the Dink They'll again,” get him said Chey- enne “T'll eat my pants!" “The Dink!” ‘*Who'd have thought it?” At this moment the awful wreck of the Coffee-colored Angel limped up. A c horus broke out: ‘The Coffee-c olore d Angel!" “Shot to pieces!’’ ** Massacred!”’ “Kicked by a horse!”’ “What hit you?” ‘**Dink,”’ said the Coffee-colored Angel, taking a tooth out of his muddy mouth. “*T caught him.” Presertly they saw Stover arise and loose the battered White Mountain Ca- nary, who broke wildly for shelter. “Well, anyhow,” said the Coffee-colored Angel, “‘ Dink’s swallowed the Canary.” | ‘**What’s he up to now?” said Cheyenne. | They watched him approach the fence, deliberately take off his coat, remove his collar and necktie, tighten his belt and methodically, slowly, roll up his sleeves ‘Here he comes,” said the Coffee-colored Angel, moving swiftly away. ‘‘ Why, he’s erying!”’ Dink came up the path, choking with rage and the knowledge of his own tears, and in front of them all threw down his | coat “You thought I was afraid, You thought I was a coward!”’ he sobbed. “Well, I'll show you whether I’m afraid of you, any of you, you big bullies! You big stuff, you, come on! | And suddenly advancing, he squared off | and struck Tough McCarty a wild blow, crash on the nose. | did you? (TO BE CONTINUED) |

April 23,1910

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“SOR fifty vears Destiny busied | } developing the tarms of lowa vrethoug! it i! the Nes She } »pulated the state witl advantages on ear tiny, at the Ippon finds that Des Moines has beer 1 , CC MOINES I i herselt Wit ht she placed art of this fo wha yunt planne a eral ile e live i ty I n 54 jyuare 1 es of and I mea that there are tront vards and bac vard ind breat £ ie, and flowe i irae Pe e cit how the effect o the imp home and « unpe l t The ive e appe ince of people w = Des Moine people rk like po ple w t Phe iv lwa Des M n t rl I r yw wWa mm And a | one | ew ( eul almost a up i bu i the Lo i 4 : r r t w wa ce ECAUSE uC The inayeme i ¢ 0 i ce because e paid adm ered expense and si weda The show i told me t re Wi must amplify we enlarge perspecti 1 ike Des Mo » acd I the 1 \ ited ‘ ( pa et it } Na irt in ¢ elle n tele} rie ervice that ri ce that asks what Des M ees that it gets it ill tl the Des Moines spi A Des Moine thusiastic about his city fident. It is this that impre immediately. The Des M not romp in a wild orgy o town lots and bank rolls ar you four town site. He sl ow and his fellows raised the 1 miles from nowhe the Coliseum, that they raise lildthe Y. M. C. A. house, ( 4., too. He show

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 23,1910 The day is gone when Style wasn’t Style unless im- ported from Europe. Today the opposite is true—the smartest clothes on the streets of Europe are those of American business men. The Art of making clothes for men reaches its highest pinnacle in the work of the Merchant Tailors of America. The essence of this Art lies in fitting, not alone the Man, but also the Man’s Personality. And this is the secret of perfection in dress. Do not try to adapt yourse/f to a suit. S. STEIN & Good Clothes Demand Good Fabrics The wise Merchant Tailor knows very well that he America Makes the Best Merchant Tailor Clothes CO. Woolens it the merey of the fabrics he offer For, if these advanced and most reliable woolen mills in eank a. o not please, he is sure to lose trade —no matter how Abroad, our permanent foreign organization keep killed he in his art ’ in equally close touch with the best mills of England, This is one of the reasons why one can find $§. STEIN Scotland and Ireland O loo in near own . ox ( Ww ens in nearly every city and tows As leaders in American patterns and styles, we main For 46 years the tag of S. STI AN & CO. on a bolt tain our own staff of desicners. oth has beet 1 dby ailo proof positive of : : ee re . . 2 ' , : ines dha Ta sil iat Ihe rich and fashionable fabrics designed by these men ‘rian Juéality ’ . , 7 , . k are absolutely exc/usive with us. You can identify them t wort! re - to you he cor mer oO . © a89 tis worth a great dea ‘ -_ ss a Mia by the word ‘‘Special’’ on the tag these splendid woolens by name. ena aA ' } Our monogram ‘‘SS&CO is on the coat of arms They bespeak sincerity on the part of your Tailor. A — “1 7 : ,/ on our tag. Your Tailor will be proud to show it to you They mean / ng wear and lasting satisfaction f k © = : . if youa im. For our tag means all pure wool and our fabrics are Always Ask To See This Tag uaranteed absolutely fast in color weaving, the tailoring. 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A Remarkable Announcement and What Came of It: @ Imperfect as any illustration must necessarily be, even the picture of the Hupmobile shown below furnishes you with an answer to this question: — @ “If I had $750 to spend, where could I possibly find a car ? that would match the Hupmobile in value ? @ Keep that thought in front of you for a moment and then study the facsimile of an announcement which we made some nine months ago @ We are told that this advertisement elicited more replies than any automobile announcement ever published Be that as it may, more than ten thousand people wrote to us, ! I making eayer inquiry about the Hupmobile @ Apparently the vast majority had asked themselves the sam question :— @ ** Where can I possibly get a value like this for $750? @ Prior to the appearance of the advertisement of nine months ago, the Hupmobile had proven a superb selling success ¢ The advertisement was one result of this success @ It was intended to inform the public that instead of building five hundred cars, we would be compelled to build five thousand @ Then came the terrific influx of ten thousand inquiries —and once more we were compelled to increase our production @ Instead of the five thousand Hupmobiles which you will see that we promised less than a year ago, the public has forced us to build 7,500 —and still their appetit ot satiated e Is dre . ind H July p09 fifty pp UPMob, ee ist from, inned 5 ©S for 1919 @ Some five thousand Hupmobiles have passed from the factory into the hands of satished owners in every section of the country @ The Hupmobile has crossed the seas, and attracted the en thusiastic notice of foreign experts. It has even brought them t t Detroit to witness the building of the Hupmobile, and ‘to inspect the plant capable of producing a car so wonderful 4 cylinders 20 H. P. | Wan! a ll we Sliding gears A ee . ' 5 Bosch magneto f | ‘ $7 0 (F.O. B. Detroit) including three oil lamps, horn and tools. H lreds of people were doubted! presse , t In its cla t won the six | ce ar B t Bea I r wo by the mere smartne f the Hupmobile beauty ( ng the desert the Phoenix-] Angele . iH ts yenerou ze, the ) encth of it H e took its pla " the large ’ the clean-cut appearance of the pow plant, the very ev It « 0 foot evat the ¢ ! dent use of the best materia to] peak f the A ack was the se . It took very little motor judgment or experic e to see that Ane t Gre k, Massa ! t i , $750 had never bought such value etore In the dead of w F f the 4 ee | But in the nine months that have elapsed t first judgment and erest cold three Hupm« ve has been supplemented and confirmed i series of per Detroit to New Y k ‘ e in the West at t 14 ; tormances which are ttle short of remarkabte condittor equa evere, wa t { The Hupmobile has repeatedly shown itself t e the peer of North Dakota into Canada "Speen ci pee lc a cars of twice its power and even four and five time ts price Phe Hupn ¢ t iv wit tan ¢ i t i : Hupp Motor Car Company ; It won cups and perfect scores, tor tanec the Balt tne tne tH : a tD ' Dept P, Detroit, Michigan ; and Detroit reliability and endurance rut It rema the most remarka ir the 5 ‘ It carried off the palm in the Buffalo fuel economy contest It prize like the in Ww 4 k l New York § At San Francisco it made the fastest time ar i perfect ore Hupmobile ind the man whose } it rage ‘ ‘ ‘ in the 200 mile annual mud plug costliest type f American and foreign manufa ( 4 HM . 4 ’ MPANY, D P, D it, Michi i HUPP MOTOR CAR CO , Dept. P, Detroit, Michigan ; Licensed under Selden Patent emeucemccmecnnecesecneccncuscecsscenssensemansnesesscesscesse!

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Fairy Soap Fairy soap looks and 7s whiter than any other soap; moreover, it will retain its whiteness long atter other so-called white soaps have turned yellow. Fairy Soap is made trom edible products and has a clean, delicate, refreshing smell; many other soaps have a strong, greasy, soapy— and, oft-times, rancid odor. Fairy Soap is the best soap you can buy for the toilet and bath-—no matter what you pay. Yet its price is but 5 cents. Order Fairy Soap—the handy, floating, oval cake— today, and learn by use why it is the soap of soaps. Fairy Soap was granted highest possible awards at both St. Louis and Port land Expositions. “Have you a little ‘Fairy’ in your home?” Gold Dust Several so-called ‘‘wash- ing powders’’ are only sal soda. You can buy sal soda at your grocer’ s under its real name for much less than you can these powders. Others contain naphtha, ammonia or some other liquid cleanser which evaporates the moment the pow der is exposed to the air. ' Gold Dust is a “rue washing powder. It is a mixture of vegetable oil soap and purifying ingredients which insure prompt and efhcient cleansing action. It softens hard water, does its work quickly and well, and injures nothing. GOLD DUST will do more work-and _ better work than any other washing powder on the market For washing dishes, scrubbing floors, cleaning woodwork, oil cloth, silverware and tinware, polishing brasswork, « leaning bathroom pipes, refrigerators, etc., softening hard water, washing clothe and making the finest sott oat “Let the Gold Dust Twins do your Work” Sunny Monday ) Laundry Most yellow soaps con tain from 20 to 40 pet cent. rosin. Sunny Monday *(N.R.) is white, and contains not an ounce of rosin. Which would you prefer tO use on your clothes—-a soap containing about one-third rosin (a cheap ening ingredient) or Sunny Monday *(N. R.) wherein the cheap rosin element is replaced with expensive tats and vege- table oils? Sunny Monday *(N. R.) does the work with scarcely any rub bing and actually does double the work of any yellow rosin soap. Its dirt-starting quality is perma nent and lasts until the cake is worn to a water. KN. R. means ‘*No rosin.’”’ Sunny Monday Laundry Soap contains no rosin, Rosin cheapen S04] but in jures clothe “Sunny Monday Bub bles will wash away your troubles” THE N. K. FAIRBANK COM PANY—MAKERS—CHICAGO