The Saturday Evening Post 1910-06-04: Vol 182 Iss 49

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST abundante of jewels as I had read of, but had never seen or ever expected to see. No wonder that I, a young man of twenty-six who had spent almost all of my life in a little Maryland village, was temporarily dazzled by those gen- tlemen and ladies and by the officers of the Army and Navy who immediately followed them, these also being in full-dress uniform, and for the most part accompanied by ladies likewise most beautifully dressed! My moment of bewilderment was brief; for near the hour of nine the doors were thrown open and in the Blue Room, a few feet beyond the threshold, stood Ward H. Lamman, Marshal of the District of Columbia; just beyond him was President Lincoln, with Mrs. Lincoln by and next to her the wives of the Cabinet officers in the receiving I at once took my position just inside the Blue Room directly opposite the President, and turned so face every person who came up to the threshold of that door -for my business was to see that character should come within reach of President Lincoln, and that no person, even though well known, should cross that doorway with hands concealed or covered in any manner whatsoever. It should be remembered that in guarding a President or any other man the first consideration is to watch the hands of those who harm. Empty hands can never accomplish his side line as to no SUSPICLOUS might do assassination As each couple reached Marshal Lamman he intro- duced them to the President, who, turning slightly, introduced them to his wife; and then they passed down the receiving line bow- ing to each of the ladies there. It was all very simple, very dignified and, if I may use the term, very American. Presi- dent Linco!n smiled and grasped the hand of each man presented with a heartiness and cordiality that admitted of no doubt as to his sincerity. There he stood, tall, lean and broad of shoulder, with a noble countenance; and for the time being the lines of care had left his face, and his eyes were lighted with the cordiaiity of a host who is really glad to meet his guests. And Mrs. Lincoln, standing next to him, her head barely reaching to his shoulder, was equally cordial, equally gracious, as she greeted these who were presented The Reception Guests SHALL never forget the picture pre- sented as [ first saw her that evening. She wore a low-neck dress with the hoop- skirts which seem so funny to the young people of the present generation; around her beautiful throat work, and encircling her head a of white roses such as she invari- ably wore on such occasions—a smiling, cordial little lady, graceful although so plump, bowing to each of the men and women as the President introduced them, and evidently enjoying moment as the As the guests reached was a necklace of fuigree wreath

every evening passed the end of the receiving line they strolled around the farther end of the Blue Room were scattered members of the Cabinet and others high in official life, friends and greeting each other and gathering in groups for a few minutes, then drifting on naturally intothe Green Room and from there into the spacious and magnificent East Room All the time that the people were going in and giv- ing their names to Marshal Lamman, and passing the President and Mrs. Lincoln and the ladies of the Cabinet, I remained standing opposite Lincoln, alert in every nerve of my being, and with my eyes searching every man and woman as they approached the Marshal. To those accus- tomed to the formality of receptions during recent Admin- rations, that levee away back in 1865 would have been an Ail sorts and conditions of people, from of the country, came up to be presented. Of where acquaintances amusing contrast every section the private citizens some were in full evening dress, of urse and among them were men and women occupying high positions in finance, commerce, professional life and n society; but also in that long stream, slowly wending its way to where the President stood, were men and women from the country districts and backwoods, and from farms in New England and the Middle States, and from what ow call the Middle West. It did not seem strange to me then, although I cannot help smiling now as I recall that many of those humbler folk whom Lincoln whom he loved so well and in whom he placed implicit faith as the strong bulwark of the nation it did not then seem strange that many of the women wore dresses and bonnets most unfashionably made, and of anything but expensive material. Among them were hearty, sturdy farmers arrayed in their best Sunday-go-to-meeting frocks, some of whom wore mitts, wer the scene thought so much of wives, others who wore gloves fitting none too well; and many a woman put forth a hand hardened by toil and worn in the service of husbands and sons who were then at the front. You may very well believe that no hands were grasped by the great President and his wife more cordially than these. Once in a while a young daughter would accompany her father and mother, but it made no differ- ence whether she were a débutante from Philadelphia, Boston, New York, or a tired schoolma’am from some little red schoolhouse, or a hard-working farmer’s daughter the President and Mrs. Lincoln were glad to see her. And then a few came along in that slow-moving line to whom the President seemed especially grateful for what he considered the honor of their presence; and these few, scattered here and there, were old women—women with bowed shoulders and white hair, dim of vision, feeble of step, whose sons and grandsons were somewhere south of the Potomac carrying muskets, or wandering in the swamps, or suffering with wounds in hospitals, or under- going the terrible misery inseparable from some of the military prisons in the South. Such women as I have mentioned particularly, were usually accompanied by husbands or brothers, vastly different in appearance from the well-fed, well-dressed men of the great cities who formed a majority of those present. I wonder what would happen now at a Presidential reception if a dozen or twenty or thirty men should enter the White House, as a matter of course, wearing negligée ~- om — yt hn SS ee-7 A Typical Day ae HE daily life of Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln usually commenced at eight o'clock Immediately upon dressing the President would go into the library, where he would sit in his favorite chair in the middle of the room and read a chapter or two in his Bible. I think I am safe in saying that this was President Lincoln's invari- able custom —at least it was such during the time I was on duty with him. At about eight-thirty he would join Mrs Lincoln and little Tad for breakfast in the small, unpretentious dining-room, where a plain but sufficiently hearty meal was served by two waiters, who were white men and who were paid personally by the President, who also paid the wages of his cook and his coachman and footman. There was little of formality about the meal, the President loving to joke with his wife and son, and for the time being laying aside his anxiety for the country As soon as breakfast was over the Presi- dent would go to his office and begin his ceaseless toil. Mrs. Lincoln was not merely an excel- lent housekeeper but a practical one, and she busied herself about the White House—then called the Executive Mansion — much as any other housekeeper would busy herself about her private home. She would go from room to room, seeing that the work was satisfactorily done, looking after the innumerable small details, especially those which had to do with the comfort of her husband and her little son Then, as a general thing, Mrs. Linco!n would attend to her personal correspondence in her own boudoir, where she had a desk. Afterward, like as not, she would go down to the old conservatory, long since removed, which was a favorite resort for her. She loved flowers and understood them and knew their needs; and she was able to give the one gardener exact directions as to what she wanted done

and also how to do it Because of her love of flowers and her knowledge of plant life, the old conservatory during President Lincoln's time was a model of its kind If, at any time during the day, Mrs. Lincoln happened to think of something she wished to tell her husband, she did. not hesitate to go into his office as she would have gone unhesitatingly into his law office in Springfield. For, first of all, Abraham Lincoln was her husband; she his helper and comrade, and the fact that he was a world figure, occupied with some of the gravest problems that have ever confronted a man, did not overwhelm and blot out the fact that he was her husband. I do not wish to be misunderstood by any who might think that Mrs Lincoln would intrude upon the President while he wa deeply engaged in his office, for she was very careful never thus to interrupt any of the countless conferences with officials of the Government, or with representatives of was

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| | foreign Governments, or with humble THE SATURDAY EVENING POST citizens in private life who constantly called upon President Lincoln careful, as became a woman of intelli- gence and common-sense, not to inter- fere; but when the President was not occupied with such matters she would come into his oifice and ask him a ques- tion about some matter of common interest, to find out if he had some en- gagement for that afternoon or evening, whether he could go to the theater or take a drive, or to speak with him about something or other that little Tad wished to do Looking at their lives in this aspect it was all very beautiful and homelike A great many people have had the idea that Mrs. Lincoln did not realize at the time the gravity of her husband's position, and what an extraordinary influence he wielded in the world; and certainly many of them sometimes thought that she was not so solicitous for his comfort and his happiness as she might have been. But I wish to go on record as saying that during the time | was on duty Mrs, Lincoln looked after her husband's welfare with the utmost consideration. She was of a cheerful, lively temperament; she had a sense of humor that enabled her to appreciate the President's droll stories and homely wit; and certainly in this regard she aided him to ease what was an almost insupportable burden during the darkest days of the war. People have thought Mrs. Lincoln frivolous and thoughtless She was not. She knew, for example. what the President liked to eat and what was good for him to ¢ and she saw that he had it. When the weather was cold she made it her business to see that the President did not go outdoors unless he had about his shoulders a warm gray shawl to protect him. She was Mr. Lincoln’s Fondness for Apples O' COURSE, there must be two sides to the life of any Pre one, that of public life and affairs, concern- ing which the world knows more or less; on this side of his life Mrs. Lincoln did not attempt to exert an influence ich as history records on the part of many women in the courts of Europe during days gone by. Mr. Lincoln ate heartily, but not to excess, although he was particularly fond of certain things, especially apples, and Mrs. Lincoln always had a sufficiency of this fruit chosen carefully and ready at hand. The President never used tobacco, so far as I know, and I never knew him to drink wine or other aleoholie beverages, not even at the state dinners where ssident of course, wines were provided for those who wished them I am quite sure that neither he nor Mrs. Lincoln worried about the possibility of assassination. Certainly, if Mrs Lincoln was worried she did not show it, and the President exercised the calm philosophy of a stoic in this particular Mrs. Lincoln occasionally had old friends from Illinois and elsewhere visiting her in the White House, but there Vas ver little of social gayety there as compared wit! that obtaining under later Administrations and under the Administrations of earlier Presidents, when, for instance Dolly Madison entertained so brilliant Again I remind my readers of the fact that, duri torn apart with Lincoin’s Adm tration, the country w the most terrible warfare; death was on every hand, the black badge mournin is seen on every side, and those connected with the White House, where centered the entire ne stem of the nation, felt the strain of cor flict, tl f and sorrow, so intly and so constant that it is no wonder gayety and lightness of spirit were tor the most part absent Then again, the President's second son, Willie Lincoln, had died o both President and Mrs. Lincoln unquestionably felt thi loss while I was acting as Mr. Lincoln's bodyguard. Robert Lincoln, the eldest of the three sons, was a young man, a two vears before, and captain serving on Grants staff, who came only occasion- ally to the White House During the latter part of the President's life, and long death, a great many persons held an entirely *‘t opinion concerning Mrs. Lincoln's character a it related to her family and her every-day routine She Vas a woman ol mple domestic inclir ations; her n in life lay in being the wife and mother that she inquestior ib ywed herself to be From some cause little Tad’s speech was interfered with by an unusual impediment, which made it extreme diificu onounce certain words and rea inciate clearly a name like Smitt Perhaps it was partly owing to Ul attend a school while living in the At any rate, he had a tutor 1 fine tchman named Williamson who « ! to teach the little fellow I le t of the time Tad spent in playing, in re iding and In investigating except he was with his father for whenever it was possible Mr. Lincoln had the little fellow with verily believe that this child’s prescience ater influence with the President t sina fact lac It may h HOPE I a if, interested ot his an uniform thereto, i ‘ , ‘ p } ‘ WW i ‘ ‘ le i iN i hie ‘ " om had ‘ ‘ | , , irr eda I ( ill ‘ ed As | en ‘ l'ad was a rhe Col j j t ‘ but I 1 think t i in ine t ! ‘ ed { lew ure his fathe ill about « lidn't matter muct { \ hate T ! atte tever! far i,t i e sprang eagerly ind ind he War a master tineve ce be ( ind effex Like tl reat Presid lad hada heast nkeawoma l liffered from othe ny one ti til 1 iT iT ed d ret L 1 i in that i Lincoln was never cruel t living creature ive been thi indame il trait in his childish that formed t ba f it nderful bond thy and understandir that certainly existed n ather and mst Little Tad's Team of Goats I am not giving the impression that 7 nN or anythir appr I Except for | of heart and his endown it i extraor tellect, he differed in : ( m the avera ergetic American lad While he lived in tix yuse the militar 1@ ¢ ‘ Via ppermost one mind ‘ t 1 ‘ lad wa ir der lo bea aie Wa the height bition, and he had a re iat leutlenar with epaulets nd i Line otner Lcce rhe n which he often would dre p and hivh feather ea dre ‘ ws Ver ite thneatrica ind ade ‘ i I pia n the White H | rhim a ire theater ind ere f mar ) ( hour I é As | b r near tur I ca ee il | enest i { t Vil I al ! 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ba aS all ctor ib I T WAS Easter of the year 1889, in Tupperville well as elsewhere in Christendom. Dr. Harold P. Buller stood in the doorway of his little office contentedly absorbing the Sabbath sunshine. The day was warm. The winter, indeed, had been unusually mild and dry. Already dust lay quite thick in Main Street, and across the plains one could mark the course of a publie road, running along section lines, by the hazy dust-

clouds that blew above it Doctor THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Magic O By WILL PAYNE ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN uller’s

before. He and Doctor Buller soon became fast friends. As a scientific man, the doctor naturally took a deep interest in Pliny’s cereal phenomenon and planted some of the seed on a plot of ground north of town. Nearly everybody had seen the grain

Buller noticed, ig with amusement, that Charley Vance's newly- pl ywwed oats fie ld, half a mile south, eemed to be trying to stand on end The doctor just filled the doorway He was not fat, but huge. He had laid aside the broad- brimmed hat and Prince Albert coat which he usually wore His immense thumbs were com- fortably tucked in the armholes of his white Sunday vest, ind his mighty legs were as far apart as the door- vay permitted He was what is known as dish faced a defect which the short, coarse neavly trimmed brown beard only partly cones ale j and he . hada pair of large > dull gray eve

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samples of which now hung in the office window actually growing on the doctor’s lot. Not only Doctor Buller and Mr. Leffingwell, but James A. Rose who described himself asa banke-, while others de- scribed him as a chattel - mortgage loan-shark — certi- fied that the yield was forty-two and a half bushels to the acre. After harvest Doctor Buller had deliv- ered a number of lectures at coun- try schoolhouses, explaining in sci- entific terms why Midnight Sun Oats grew without moisture; why they yielded so bountifully; and why the culture of them was bound to spread like fire in stubble overthe entire United

The office was is new and simple s the rest of Tupperville's architecture — a one-story frame tructure containing the professional-room in front and a modest sleeping apartment at the rear. On the wall of the office proper, above the desk, hung a very large gilt-framed diploma certifying that Harold P. Buller was a graduate of the Tomlins School of Medicine and Surgery of the city of Baltimore. The body of the diploma was in Latin. When Doctor Buller felt morally certain that a patient knew no more of that tongue than he himself did he would read and translate the diploma with great unction, his pronuncia- tion of the words and interpretation of them varying as his cy of the moment might dictate. The doctor, in fact, had never in his life been east of Chicago, but had pro- of remitting filty ted in the school's circular Other professional furniture consisted of a leather- covered Operating chair; a large highly-colored chart r the interior of a skinned gentleman of Grecian cured the diploma by the simple process

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a plaster skull, and half a dozen suspiciously lical works. The office contained also the doetor’s library of general literature, but in that direction was neither extensive nor frivolous. The books \ rimes Committed by the Thugs of India, Horrors of the Inquisition Unveiled, History of the Bender Family, and The Borgias and Other Famous Poisoners Of late Doctor Buller had not been banking much on his profession. The plate-glass front window of the little office was decorated with long yellow stalks of grain and a neatly-lettered sign which read

2 SAMPLE OF MIDNIGHT SUN OATS Grown on LAND OF H. P. BULLER, ) Mice Nort or TupPervILLe From Seed Brought From Alaska by Pliny Leffingwell, Esq. Yield 42 } bu. per acre. Guaranteed Price of Midnight Sun Oats This Year, $5 per bu. Will Grow in Any Climate, Regardless of Rain Reasons connected with the sign, rather than the diploma, made Doctor Buller regard his flat, treeless, bone- dry, homesteading, frontier world so complacently that Easter forenoon Pliny Leffingwell, Esquire, mysteriously possessed of the secret of Midnight Sun Oats and a strictly limited supply of the seed thereof, had appeared in Tupperville the year Phey ‘ll Lynch ‘em; and They Ought to, by Jiminy!"

States and Eu- rope The great difficulty obviously would be to get enough seed oats to supply the tremendous demand which was sure to spring up as soon as the merits of the grain were generally understood. So the Midnight Sun Oats Com- pany, selling the precious seed to Tupperville farmers at ten dollars a bushel, guaranteed to purchase at harvest at five dollars a bushel in cash all the oats the farmers could raise which it could well afford to do since it would immediately sell the oats for seed in other localities at ten dollars a bushel Naturally there were skeptics, such as Judge Toller, who pointed out that Doctor Buller had seeded only a quarter of an acre with the oats and

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of, hadacent in cash. In return for the rare oats at ten dollars a bushel, he took the farmer’s not payable after harvest. Thus the oats would not only pay for themselves, but yield a handsome profit. If there is any article whatever that cannot be sold to homesteaders for notes payable after harvest, that article had not then been discovered. During the winter and early spring Pliny had been very busy selling oats and taking notes payable October 1. It was hard work, not so much because farmers were reluctant to buy, as because in that new, dry, sparsely-settled country the ones whose notes were presumably good for anywhere from fifty to two hundred and fifty dollars lived far apart Doctor Buller maintained a detached, scientific attitude while Pliny did the selling. He knew perfectly well, how ever, that the company had sold four thousand bushels oi oats, which came to forty thousand dollars in notes. Also that the company had discounted every one of the notes at Mr. Rose’s alleged bank. Of course, if the company itse! held the notes at maturity, and a farmer's oats turned ovt badly, he might set up claim of fraud and so avoid paying But with his note in the hands of a perfectly innocent purchaser—namely, Banker Rose— the farmer would have to pay, whether his oats turned out well or not Now, Banker Rose’s regular rate of discount was three per cent a month. But as this was a large transaction he made a special rate for it that is, he discounted the notes at five per cent a month, cutting them squarely in two, which, perhaps, indicates his own private opinion as to how much fraud there was in the transaction Thus the forty thousand dollars in notes yielded only twenty thousand dollars in cash. But whenever Pliny and the doctor discounted a note they did not leave the pro- ceeds on deposit in Rose’s bank. On the contrary, they drew the cash and carried it away with them. The whok twenty thousand dollars in currency now reposed in the stout little safe in the doctor's bedroom — which, perhap indicates his and Pliny’s own private opinions as to the character of Mr. Rose's bank The nice little heap of greenbacks and gold coin in the small, stout safe was very present in Doctor Buller’s mind as he stood in the doorway contentedly absorbing the sun- shine; and he laughed good-naturedly as he observed that Charley Vance's oats field was drifting away, before a dry south wind, toward the land whence his precious seed oat were supposed to have come Some people were coming from church and dropping in to get their Sunday mail. Others were going for the mail without having been to church. Thus the little street with its uneven plank sidewalk and straggling frame stores presented at the moment a lively appearance From the neighborly group in front of the post-office four figures presently detached themselves, moving lei- surely down the street toward the doctor's office. They were Pliny Leffingwell, Banker Rose, Judge Toller and Editor Bascomb, of the Tupperville Palladium “Fine day, gentlemen,”’ said the doctor with guod natured dignity, as they came near * That's what you call it!’’ snapped, or snorted, Judge Toller, who derived his title from holding the oftice of

might have been out of nights refreshing the tiny field with a watering pot during the dry And if the Midnight Sun Oats Com- pany Was guar- anteeing to pay five dollars a bushel, who, the Judge asked, was guarantee- ing the company, which seemed to consist simply of Pliny Leffingwell and Doctor Bul- ler? But Pliny had an irresistible argument He didn’t ask any- body to pay him a cent in cash possibly because season

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tt a = —————— a _—— THE SATURDAY EVENING POST justice of the peace. He was a small, dry man of fifty, smooth shaven and swarthy, with sharp black eyes. He wore a brown glazed straw hat and black alpaca jacket, in the pocket of which reposed a large, official-looking letter just taken from the post-office. “ Devil of a day, I call it!) Dry as a bone!” the judge declared, with a sort of wasplike belligerence, his black eyes snapping at the doctor of about four times his bulk as though he defied him to fight it out on the spot. ‘No rain for months, nor sign of any! What are these fool farmers going to raise?” “Many will raise Midnight Sun Oats,” Buller gravely “Rats!” said Judge Toller, with sententious derision. “If they don't raise oats,’’ Editor Bascomb put in pacifically, “‘we'll say: ‘O-at’s too bad! He smiled broadly under his drooping mustache and twinkled in cross-eyed anticipation, for he had thought of the pun several days before and carefully saved it up; but it fell flat. Doctor Buller, ignoring alike the judge’s doubt and the editor’s diversion, turned to Leffingwell. ‘‘ How are you today, Pliny? Feeling some better?’’ he inquired, with almost fatherly solicitude The discoverer of Midnight Sun Oats was a youngish man—hardly past thirty--and rather under average size. His head was shaped like a foreshortened egg, running off too quickly into a small, pointed chin. A scant, uncertain sort of mustache grew on his short upper lip, and when he smiled, which was often, he showed a set of uneven upper teeth and a rather startling expanse of red gum above them. A slight shade seemed to pass over Mr. Leffingwell’s face, and there was a barely perceptible hesitation in his answer. “Yes, I believe I am, Doc; I believe lam,” replied Doctor “You see, I been thinkin’, Doc,”’ he began quite cheer fully—“I been thinkin’ it’s about time for us to cash in seek pastures new as the felleh says Witt his awful dry weather and seed blowin’ out of the ground about as fast as they put it in, some blame fool's bound to get nervous and want us to take back his oats and give him his note and if he finds we've sold his note —well, I'd rather be hence, as the felleh says.”’ “Plenty of time, Pliny; plenty of time,” the doctor replied serenely. “* You've got anyhow a couple of weeks more to sell oats in You air worked those Dutch Creek fellows at all yet. I been talki I know they're ripe. away?” “T don’t feel much like workin’, Doe,” Pliny re plied “T ain't up to it. I guess it’s my state of health.” He with some of em What's the use of throwing anything really brightened at that happy thought. “I want a change of climate. I want,’’ he added more positively “to clean up and get away. Life’s uncertain, as the felleh says.” “That's very true, Pliny,” sophically; “life We're here today and gone tomorrow. Life,”’ he added, under the impression that he was quoting Scripture, “is hay and the sparks fly up in it.”’ He took the plaster skull from the top of the desk, com- passing it with his large hands. ‘ No man can tell what day he’s going to get his’n He suspected that the quota- tion hadn't ended just right and added, on safer ground “T've seen ‘em die before they knew it. Do you carry any life insurance, Pliny?” In spite of the doctor's careful preparation the question made Pliny’s nerves tingle No!” he answered shortly “In some ways it’s a good thing to have,’’ Doctor Buller observed casually, replacing the skull on the desk replied the doctor philo- S uncertain re ‘alled tne doctor's some insurance ¢ and analyzed h books that he had not The Borgias and Other Far is | r the one entitled ers rhis title, in fa é pra 1 igi "een ¢ eT sjeneath it was the br red pietur a young woman, wearing a diad ‘ outstretched hand, standing over the trate form of a young man in doublet and hose. | id an indetfir notion that it Was possible »>p t i I fuse, so to speal ving him stu? tha days or weeks after he had taken i Abrupt he seemed to feel a strange iwin ensa ! le t | up he rushed to the kitchen and minutes later, bearing a quart pit« r full « ewarn water and a handful of salt Que ri Lne tit | the water he juaffed the potion breathk he re was perfectiy satisfactory len minutes later he wi ‘ the edu ! lite pale and 1 replaced i ’ r is I i I 1 essed a it I irt i i it I I ( mpanic tnat rie mnie i fellow inside He recalled, also, one of tl iced in the doctor tie LDral e fhaste ( ? Dar rT ne 1 ’ h j er had pre ed ! I ! lunta idered a i ) ew i bu ‘ } i nia ar 1 t ! l n aa » P i ! ed ( id 1 eT emt ed ‘ low r} he said and smiled, show- ing his gums. Doctor Buller drew his legs together and elevated himself deliberately on the balls of his feet, while his large dull eyes rested in kindly solicitude on Pliny ‘You was threatened with encardosis of the heart,”’ he said, in his deep and harsh voice; “I saw it before I'd known you a But, of course, I didn’t want to offer any advice be ore you asked it. ’Tain’t professional Now that you've took it in plenty of time you're going to come out all right What you want is to be careful about your diet and get plenty of outdoor air and exercise and stick to the tonic. It’s bound to pull you through all right.” There seemed no partic- ular reason for this little professional lecture, and the unpleasant subject somewhat disconcerted the group. Doctor Buller, week. however, stroked his beard thoughtfully and added: “Strychnine is one of the finest heart tonics we have.” To the unprofessional ears, apparently, the word had a somewhat disagreeable sound. - Even the editor was temporarily at a loss. “My dog didn’t think so when somebody gave him a dose of it,’’ Judge Toller snapped Doctor Buller laughed indulgently; but his laugh, like his voice, was unmusical. ‘Of course, you don’t want to take too much of it,” he said good-naturedly. “ Pliny, here, gets about — just about one-hundredth of a grain.” That certainly was reassuring; yet Pliny’s eyes were fixed upon the sidewalk, He laughed nervously, then absently raised his hand and felt of his throat as though there were a slight constriction inside Banker Rose had said nothing whatever. He was a lithe and spare man of forty, his fair face thickly peppered with freckles, his hair and beard light red and his eyes pale blue. Putting his slim hand to his close-cropped beard he regarded Pliny in a very thoughtful manner. In a moment the judge, the banker and the editor strolled on toward their several Sunday dinners; but Pliny remained. Doctor Buller led the way into the office, closing the door after them, and seated himself ponderously in the stout wooden chair before the desk, while Pliny climbed into the operating chair. Clearing his throat, the younger man felt of the large diamond stud in his shirt-bosom. “No! | Won't Take it!"’ He Fairly Screamed lropping the “The com- panies will do you out of your money if they can “Well, that’s true; some of ‘em will,’’ Doctor Buller Some of ‘em won't leave a stone digging a man up after he’s Pliny breathed easier, since the doctor wa subject “I never cared for it,”’ he said assented judicially unturned to get out of paying dead and holding post mortems and anal) and all that. I don't believe I'd care for any When I'm planted,”’ he added firmly, “‘I want to stay planted : At this remark Mr. Leffingwell and a slight perspiration came out zing his insides of it myself “Go see the Dutch Cree fellow Doctor Buller continued kind| ‘Get what you can out of ’em. There's no hurry Che money's all in there He nodded toward the bedroom “Go see the Dutch Creek fellows and be careful of your health, Pliny Don't eat no fat meat, and stick to the tonic Pliny judged that it was useless to pre his point further. But on his way over to the Hotel Tibbetts, where he lodged and boarded at seven dollars a week, he indulged bitter thoughts. ‘The old hog!”’ said the discoverer o Midnight Sun Oats to himself. ** He don’t mean to let me havemy money! He thinks he n’todome! Strych- elleh, that Is Oh, ve Goin But I'll do him! If he won't afraid of him, either nine! Fine stuff to gi to do me, the old hog! me my half I'll take it all! I ain't vive eared, Water eve \ time i he th PP ery Beng ’ Casi I i I xed } i i d m! s I dor He tta p wv thi Ihe ve ind a la TY t ! ] red i I e ado POSE lor net i ule Ye ind himse 1d } tine ( ice and I N Une rT bina he sale Chat Wi ! i ne ber partner Me e Jud lol ler, Ed Bascomb and Ba er Rose st lled d the reel I he igre Kept nar nh the i ( envelope pocke As the ed tl ( I het t ithiu () | n } id itsarot nd be n head ‘ tulf either ) ll or is nm 10” ‘ ! He eemed I ) uly t hye etl lr R t i ed al T i t Vaner 1 i Rats! Grow when the i ‘ ‘ Judge Toller snapped angril vain ute a louy Mr Rose had contradicted him Editor Bascomb, unable to tl n the sy of the moment Dser a B he mon and won't get ar t er ha Phe ‘ for the oats And what I'm afraid retorted é rt pointedly at t! i ‘ i iid those te mie l } I } nr ct t purer iseT | if ‘ Mr. Rose, t f 1 1 Jud | ‘ irect, ¢ lenyit é ‘ m ad suite bl: | re j ‘ Fi ‘ , He merely put | ! ind ed beard thoughtfull I hey have cried the } vindle, they'll be lyr 1 J Che ed home eaders ] it em j tne nt to, t Jir W ith ent nd final bell rer } ( r ‘ Judge Toller turned aside f ‘ led to his office and courtroor » he Martin’ urne p It was a violent speech, and Editor B owed Banker Rose a hundred and fift d was no immediate spect of pa

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 4,1910 of gloomy and nettled i ad amiably Mr. Rose, feeling some assurance of the editor's discretion because of the hundred and fifty, replied firmly: “ If a farmer was fool enough to sign a note for oats that ain't any good, and an innocent purchaser holds the note, he’s got to pay it. That's the law, plain as day Judge Toller can’t fool me on the law Nevertheless, in his unimpeachable char- acter of innocent purchaser he was far from happy. In fact, he had got into this Mid- night Sun Oats mess much more exten- sively than he had really meant to. At first, the heavy discount had proved an irresistible temptation; and it is a well- known fact that when a man once yields to temptation he places himself, so to speak, on a slippery down-grade. What with his appetite for discount and Pliny’s wheedling and Doctor Buller’s bluffing he had slid on and on with increasing momentum until nearly all his capital was invested in Mid- night Sun notes. He foresaw that there | was likely to be a tremendous row before those notes were collected. Judge Toller’s friendly suggestion of a lynching caused an unpleasant prickling sensation at the base of his skull Walking homeward he felt bitterly that the partners had’ taken a base advantage | of him and were leading him to ruin. He knew that any appeal to them would be vain and he shrank from appealing to any- body else. As a matter of fact, he had a very wholesome respect for Doctor Buller, by no means putting it beyond him to | wring a virtuous banker's neck. } But he saw a certain ray of hope. The this morning,”’ he observ Charley dubiously surveyed his dusty acres. ‘‘If We don’t get some rain pretty soon, Judge,’ he said in his mild, trou- bled way, “I reckon them newfangled oats is about all I'll raise this year.’’ He turned to his caller with the candor of a large, perplexed infant, and added: “I'll be ding-swizzled if I know how I’m goin’ to make ends meet, either; I'll be ding- swizzled if I do. You see,’’ he explained patiently, plucking his curly beard, “I’m owin’ some hereandthere. Seems to mount up, the debts does. Me and mother’s been figurin’ it over. Of course, them oats is goin’ to help out powerful. Still we'll be ding-swizzled if we can see how we're goin’ to come out.” Judge Toller hesitated a moment. He was really loth to raise a doubt concerning the one powerful help. Then he suggested gently: “ You think the oats will turn out all right, Charley?” “Oh, they guaranteed ’em!”’ Charley replied, with perfect confidence. ‘Of course’’—he looked across at the bone-dry field with a touch of bewilderment —“ it don't seem like anything could grow with the ground that there way. But then,’’ he added modestly, “I ain’t no scientific man.” “Suppose the oats shouldn't grow,” Judge Toller suggested. ‘“* How would you stand then?”’ “Well, sir,” Charley replied judicially, “T'd sure be mighty disappointed.’ “You gave your note for them, didn't you?’’ the judge inquired. “So far’s the note’s concerned,”’ said Charley deliberately; ‘‘So far’s that note’s concerned—you see, she stands just this events of the morning had turned his mind, ke Pliny Leffingwell’s, in the unaccus- tomed direction of literature. He was thinking, in fact, of a book possessed by his brother-in-law with whom he ived. Entering the house, he found the book in its usual place on the lowest shelf of the what-not in the parlor. Taking it in both hands, for it was of the bulk of an inabridged dictionary, he carried it up to his room and carefully shut the door The thick volume’s dull brown cover bore the title Old Doctor Gummer's Complete Family Guide to Medicine Consulting the index, Mr. Rose turned to the chapter on Poisons. Finding the subhead Strychnine, he began reso- lutely to read It was an unusual exercise for him and he was not ex- pert at it. He followed the words slowly along the line with a slim forefinger and moved his lips as though he were pronouncing them He knew that the partners possessed twenty thousand dollars in cash and felt certain that the money lay in the safe in the doctor's bedroom As to who would inherit Pliny’s share, in case anything happened to Pliny, there was no doubt whatever in his mind; and as he read on it seemed to him that the chances of something happening to Pliny were excellent. A moral responsibility on his part in that connection never occurred to him. He regarded it simply as Pliny’s own private affair But if anything did happen to Pliny, his own prospects would be improved by having only one enemy to deal with instead of two. That one, undoubtedly, was very formi- dable; but that some of the victims of Midnight Sun Oats might take the law into their own hands, Mr. Rose con- sidered rather likely. For example, there was Old Bill Thompson. Upon him the banker's thoughts rested with satisfaction. Bill was a passionate man, especially when in liquor. Only a fortnight before he had chased the butcher a mile with his own meat-axe merely because the butcher, in a mistaken spirit of pleasantry, had put raw sausage in Bill’s fine-cut pouch. Bill had bought twenty- five bushels of Midnight Sun Oats, giving his note for two hundred and fifty dollars. He would certainly be exas- perated against Doctor Buller if he happened to learn that he had been swindled Mr. Rose's chief wish was simply to get out of the mess with a whole hide and pocketbook. Yet it occurred to him that if anything should happen to Pliny, and then something should happen to Doctor Buller, there would be twenty thousand dollars in cash in the doctor's safe of the existence of which nobody but himself would have any Under those circumstances it might turn out that he would become the residuary legatee, so to speak, of the cash, and if he possessed both the cash and the notes he could look forward to the autumn without misgivings. So reflecting, Mr. Rose ventured to take a somewhat more hopeful view of his position Still another mind, about the same time, found occupa- tion of a literary sort. Judge Toller, entering his modest know leage * Bet Yer Life We'll Have a Reception Committee All Ready and Waiting for Him’ office and seating himself at the pine table, drew the large envelope from his coat pocket and swiftly broke the seal. The inclosed sheet was typewritten and bore the neat blue letterhead of the Department of Agriculture at Washing- ton. It acknowledged receipt of Mr. Toller’s letter and sam- ple of grain. The grain, it said, was practically worth- less, and the claims which Mr. Toller reported as having been made in its behalf were utterly preposterous. Judge Toller gave the impression of an impulsive man. His manner was sudden and waspish. But, in fact, his passions were controlled by the deliberative faculty. Upon reading his letter, for example, his black eyes snapped and sparkled with wrath. He struck the table with his fist, gritted his teeth together, and gave vent rapidly to a series of expressions that were highly unsuitable to Easter. Then the judge settled down to study the situation intel- ligently. After dinner he tramped a dusty half-mile across the dry plain to Charley Vance’s. The Vance family occupied a long, low sod house — the walls, that is, were constructed by piling tough sods, a foot and a half across, one on top of another. Fierce summer suns had already warped the rough board roof, so that it would have leaked if rain had ever fallen. The stable, at the rear, consisted of rude posts supporting a roof of straw, while thick breastworks of sod partially excluded the winter snow Of the six willow saplings which Mrs. Vance had ten- derly planted in the bare dooryard, all but one had yielded up the ghost, and now stood as mere dry sticks, like melancholy little corpses. The sole survivor gave but feeble signs of life. Charley sat on a bench beside the front, and only, door He was a large, fair man, with a thick red beard that curled tightly. He wore a calico shirt and overalls and one sus- pender. His neck and hands were tanned a brick-red His large bare feet looked impervious to anything less formidable than harrow teeth or mower blades Te was not thinking very much, for that was not among his faults He was simply contemplating the steady northward drift of his oats field and the bright, perfectly cloudless sky. In a poet that clear sky might have evoked many beautiful thoughts. In Charley it evoked merely a dumb, patient sort of wonder that a fellow with a wife and seven children to feed, and always ready to work like a horse, couldn't get even a sign of rain The youngest and next to the eldest of the seven were in the house, the latter holding the former on her lap as she wiped the dinner dishes. The next-to-youngest sat under the bench driving a horse made of a corncob with four sticks for legs. As Judge Toller approached, he peered out with bright, nervous eyes like an apprehensive wood- chuck Charley rose hospitably and gave the judge a thick, hard hand. They passed the time of day and presently, as a matter of course, began talking about crop prospects way.”’ He bored his right forefinger into his tough left palm, as his habit was when grappling with an intricate problem. “I took twenty- five bushels of oats off’n them fellers and give ‘em my note fortwo hundredand fifty dollars, and they give mea written guarantee that them oats would grow and that they’d buy ‘em back off’n me at five dollars a bushel. So, says I when I signed up, says I to myself, I says: ‘She's just as broad as she is long whichever way you take it. If them oats grow I git my five a bushel and pay the note. If them oats don’t grow,’ says I, ‘ they’re owin’ me on the guarantee as much as I’m owin’ them, so I don’t have to pay the note,’ I says. In that case all I lose is my work; and I'll be ding-swizzled, Judge, when a feller’s been homesteadin’ here three years he gits so used to losin’ his work that it comes natural as eatin’ to him.” “But suppose,” Judge Toller ventured further, ‘that those fellows sold your note to somebody, so you'd have to pay it anyhow, and that you don’t raise any oats. How would you stand then?” Charley scratched his head in amazement over the new problem. ‘ Why, I reckon, Judge,” he replied, ‘1 reckon that would plumb bust me. Yes, sir, I'll be ding-swizzled if it wouldn't plumb clean me out. .But say, Judge, them fellers couldn't do that, could they?’ The judge had not the heart to answer the question “You know a good many other men that bought oats?”’ he inquired. “Yes, sir, lots of 'em did,’’ Charley affirmed. ‘ Why, say! My father-in-law, Old Bill Thompson, bought twenty-five bushels, same as I did!”’ He brightened visibly at this recollection, in which he seemed to find reason for reassurance. “You know Bill, Judge! If them oats didn’t grow, and them fellers tried to collect that note, Old Bill’d plumb gut ’em, sure! Yes, sir, he’d plumb gut ’em!”’ Charley seemed to regard that as a sufficient guarantee of good behavior on the part of the Midnight Sun Oats Company. But without doubting Bill’s capability in the line mentioned, Judge Toller mentally passed him by. He was seeking oats-purchasers of steadier temper. By comparing notes with Charley he presently made up a list of such men. Ei DITOR BASCOMB nervously swallowed his Adam’s apple. One of his cross eyes was fixed apprehensively upon Judge Toller, while the other dejectedly surveyed the meager plant of the Tupperville Palladium. That journal occupied a simple, unplastered frame structure which had been built for an agricultural imple- ment warehouse. A Washington hand press to print the newspaper on, a foot-power press for job work and two compositor’s cases comprised the outfit—which looked lonesome in a space much too large for it. The editorial desk stood near the door, for the editor was also business manager, advertising solicitor and circulation department Judge Toller, in his customary black alpaca jacket and brown glazed straw hat, sat at the end of the desk holding ee —

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a a literary composition for which, like all authors, he craved type and printer’s ink. The judge’s composition ran as follows: RANK SWINDLE ON FARMERS MIDNIGHT SUN OaTs ARE A FRAUD. LETTER FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AT WASHINGTON SAys THEY ARE No Goop. (Here followed a copy of the letter Every Farmer Who Has Signed a Note for Midnight Sun Oats is Urged to Attend a Mass-Meeting Which ‘Vill be Held in the Opera House at Tupperville at Two o’ Clock Saturday Afternoon The names of eight well-known farmers, who styled themselves Protective Committee, were appended As an author Judge Toller was modest. He proposed to publish the composition at his own expense in the form of handbills. But he stipulated that Editor Bascomb should keep the matter a profound secret, even setting up and striking off the bills with his own hand—as Sandy Maters, the compositor, pressman, janitor and reporter of the Palladium, was given to drink and loquacity. Now Editor Bascomb couldn't afford to offend Judge Toller and the farmers whose interests the judge repre- sented. As a matter of fact, to offend anybody whomso- ever was a luxury beyond his means. He suspected that Banker Rose held the notes which had been given for Midnight Sun Oats. The banker would know that the handbills had been printed at the Palladium’s shop, and he might take it ill that the editor had not given him friendly forewarning of what was coming. He held a judgment note against Mr. Bascomb for one hundred and fifty dollars, which was one hundred and forty-seven dollars more than the editor's entire cash resources. Therefore, while an ocular infirmity enabled Mr. Bascomb to look in two directions at once, he could see nothing but trouble This happened on Wednesday. Early that day Pliny Leffingwell started for the Dutch Creek neighborhood, as Doctor Buller had insisted that he should, in order to sell | | 4 ty i | Wy L' XXI NE Wednesday afternoon, as Dink was _lolling gorgeously on his window-seat, sniffing the alert air and waiting for the moment to go skipping over to the Varsity field for the game with a visiting school, a voice from below hailed him: “Oh, you Rinky Dink!” Stover languidly extended his head and beheld Tough McCarty “ Hello there, Dink.” “ Hello yourself.’ “ Come over to the Woodhull and meet my family.” “What!” said Dink in consternation “They're over for the game. Hurry up now and help me out!” Dink tried franticaily to call him back, but Tough, as though to shut off a refusal, disappeared around the house Dink returned to the room in a rage “What's the matter?” said the Tennessee Shad “I've got to go over and meet a lot of women,’ Dink in disgust. “ Confound Tough McCarty! That's a rotten trick to play on me. I'll wring his neck!” said “Go on, now; make yourself beautiful!’’ said the Tennessee Shad, delighted “Remember, the whole school will be watching you.”’ “Shut up!” said Dink savagely, making the Grand Toilet, which consisted in putting on a high collar, exchang- ing his belt for a pair of suspenders and donning a pair of patent-leathers. “The place for women is at home! It’s an outrage!” He tied his necktie with a vicious lunge, ran the comb once through the tangled hair, glanced at his hands, decided that they would pass muster, slapped on his hat and went out, kicking the door open. At the Woodhull, Tough hailed him from his window Dink went up, bored and rebellious. The door opened, he found himself in Tough McCarty’s room in the vortex of a crowd of fellow-sufferers. Over by the window-seat two fluffy figures, with skirts and hats on, were seated. He shook hands with both: one was Mrs. MeCarty, the other was the daughter, he wasn’t quite sure which. He said something about the delight which the meeting afforded him, and, gravitating into a corner, fell upon Butsey White, with whom he gravely shook hands “Isn't this awful?’ said Butsey in a whisper. “Frightful!”’ “ What the deuce’s got into Tough?” “Tt’s a rotten trick!"’ “ Let's hook it “Allright. Slide toward the door.” confidential THE SATURDAY EVENING POST a few more lots of Midnight Sun Oats before the campaigt Kelle ‘ closed This neighborhood lay about twelve 1 Bu ‘ ( of Tupperville; but Pliny never even drew rein there. He va et r drove to the hamlet of Ora —a mere flag station on the forty-five es upp O.D & W. Railway, twenty-six miles north of Tupperville he ey, Was nor r Ora was in the edge of the cattle country, period D You see aid Pliny, a e lod ments of cattle being its only ticular re é you send it off at cloc ence. Pliny had been there before and remembered the Doe al il , n station agent well Also, the station agent remembere« il i is t \ in bet him, being a naturally sociable man with a lonesom« t the von't ‘ ul With an air both confident and jocular, therefore, Plit Kelle in n We produced the telegram he had prepared the night before f i at old D eal “You see he explained to the agent Doc Buller whe e we ( d he ave a great josher. He's put up some pretty good ones i before he ca me b So pr fellehs down there to Tupperville this wint« S Puppe ‘ other night we sort of got our heads together, as the fe ! life we navear ( mn et says, and figured out how we could get even with him for } \ ‘ i be there The station agent himself deat loved a joke and Che more the station agent tl regarded himself as a humorist. In happier days, when he inn d i eT “lived in God's country, where there real folks funnier the telegram seemed G namely, in Arkansas—-he had taken a leading part in) spasm of mir Ippose d inventing ‘side degrees"’ for his lodge The chief feature r ht! Probat Pat i of the “ side degrees’’ was to make a candidate stoop over ho Somebody 1 t take a sh and then hit him violently with a board, orto blindfold him doubled over and w ‘ my kr and cause him to fall into a tub of water, or to tie him from his eye hand and foot in a dark room and sick a savage but mu Pliny clapped him affectionat zled dog on him. In his present forlorn condition his ou could come over and see the w principal pleasure in life was derived from relating these declared heartily. “ But triumphs of humor to an occasional loafing brakeman or fun you can have some of our beer cowboy nowed y iwa it spor d ne Holding Pliny’s telegram in a pudgy and unwashed he comes in on this as far,’ the hand the spirit of the jest penetrated the agent’s sym ist keep the change Saying t pathetic vitals. He slapped his fat knee and opened hi i i I t ure! mouth so wide that the lower lip appeared beneath his th rapidly calculated 1 huge red mustache. The message read cases of bottled beer t ch | Have broke my hip by being thrown from horse. Seem &Teat as Tor humor to be internal injuries. Come immediately, ready to Gosh! You Tupperville feller operate Fee, five hundred dollars cash if you get here by exclaimed, between j: nd regre midnight PATRICK KELLI Continued on Pag MINT. By OWEN JoH I USTRA he w ‘rossing the campus, actually wal n full view f the school, at the side of Miss MeCar Her unconsciousne wis para perf ara ing! Dir r ng f ‘ d I t desert of | t ver elmed ! tne ¢ ew vhich mi ! il He stole a ‘ e float izure ve and decided rom the i t! riiiiar i ( parasol swung trom her hand, tnat si I t bea omal tne wor d t rt ‘ i He extracted his hands precipitately from the trous¢ vockets in which they had been pl ind but ed the t tt ! coat Some ! hand emed t vander ali over his anaton e jib at had broker loose He tried t isp them behind i he Doctor, or to insert e betwee f t 1 second b t I ! il ' I re it { I il 4 i I histor He 1 re I lipy hem, ki ushion, int ( " bn r} wir detected thu e Tennessee Shad Vv ther though he had st cK a hornet ne The meanwhile, had gamboled pa ll snicke n yt at I predicament In thi ite itt miser n irT aa ist al he tield, where n ment ite group of Fifth-Former i? 1 led M MeCa att the n ler er. Dink seized the oy r to drop ba ira il h, reach mad ‘ i } bed l isl ir the eage ni ‘ a si it ( 1 H ‘ Lé ne 1 1 Der le Brian de B hin n e d, a ed ther ‘ +7 ‘ Ihe ‘ Y t ind f ( M \l ( ‘ vat t¢ , id ! ‘ ted ent re ‘ t t ! m | | ur fferir “Nothing in Your Career Has Indicated to Me Your Fitness he tement r n ive n for Such a Place of Responsibility an opportun id mpanl H rst estim doubted|lyv corre« he pia , ma ‘ But at this moment, when deliverance seemed near rid. N ne else ild " pe ease, tl Tough bore down and, taking Stover by the arm, dre c\ e ot »>ma eve H i De \ aer him aside creation, from Par i t ut iw “T say, stick by me on this, old man,”’ he said desper al 1 and e for isant pe ately. “Ts em to the game with me, will you The more he i ‘ ‘ ed. She “To the game!” cried Dink in horror. “Oh, Toug! was quite unusua t She had ‘ Live mpre . come now, I say, I’m no fusser. I'm tongue-tied e style. He had never before rer ibered ar } pigeon-toed. Oh, I say, old man, do get some one else! held herself quite so well, or se head carried ‘ But as Tough McCarty kept a firm grip on the lapel of — regally Chere was nething Spanish, t his coat Dink suddenly found himself, with the departure — black hair and eyes and the fi f red f of the other guests, a helple Ss captive rhe first painful Having perceived all this Dir ‘ r scraps of conversation passed in a blur. Before he knew panic and, with a desire to w p rE D BY k R t i ina ( 1 } made i é the ‘ d ‘ rie 4 iT pt AY ‘ he d ‘ if t m > MAKE ‘ pre vel rl ‘ 17 he com Frida Bet ill ready and and set I vf tt ‘ th of the dad ” i (ra tl t he ra ped ina t nder tna nN it place at m rhe ager ‘ ped the water he bac Wist nd-up, old n he ca ™ if I told the 31 i All r t I he i pe it So | ily thrust i! i l © chat is m it least three {Te is quite » HVE nie he 40

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began busily to search for some subject with which gracefully to open up the conversation. \t this moment his eye fell upon his boot carelessly displayed and, to his horror, beheld there a gaping erack. This discovery drove all desire for conversa- tion at once out of his head. By a covert movement he drew the offending shoe up under the shadow of the other “You hate this, don’t you?” said a laughing voice. He turned, blushing, to find Miss McCarty’s dark eyes dancing with amusement. “Oh, now, I say, really ” he began. “Of course you loathe being dragged out this way,’ she said, cutting in. “Confess!” Dink began to laugh guiltily “That’s better,”’ said Miss McCarty approvingly. “ Now we shall get on better.” “How did you know?” said Dink, immensely mystified Miss MeCarty wisely withheld this information, and before he knew it Dink was in the midst of a con- versation, all his embarrassment forgotten. The game ended -it had never been really important—and Dink found himself, actually to his regret, moving toward the Lodge There, as he was saying good-by with a Chester- fieldian air, Tough plucked him by the sleeve. ‘I say, Dink, old man,” he said doubtfully, “I'd like you to come over and grub with us. But I don’t want to haul you over, you know ——” “My dear boy, I should love to!’ squeezing his arm eagerly “ Honest?” “Straight goods!"’ ‘Bully for you!” He had three-quarters of an hour to dress before dinner. He went to his room at a gallop, upsetting Beekstein and Gumbo on his voleaniec way upward. Then for half an hour the Kennedy was thrown into turmoil as the half-clothed figure of Dink Stover flitted from room to room, burrowed into closets, ransacked bureaus and departed, bearing off the choicest articles of wearing apparel. Meanwhile, the corridors resounded with such unintelligible cries as these: ‘Who's got a Gladstone collar, fourteen and a half?”’ “Darn you, Dink; bring back my pants!” “Who swiped my blue coat?” “Who's been pulling my things to pieces?” “ Hi there, bring back my shoes! “Dinged if he hasn't gone off with my cuff buttons!” “Oh you robber!’ “ Body-snatcher! “ Dink, the fusser! “Who'd have believed it! Meanwhile, Dink, returning to his room laden with the spoils of the house, proceeded to adorn himself on the principle of selection, discarding the Gutter Pup’s trousers for the gala breeches of the Tennessee Shad, donning the braided cutaway of Lovely Mead's in preference to an affair of Slush Randolph's which was too tight in the chest The Tennessee Shad, the Gutter Pup and Dennis de Brian de Boru watched the proceedings, brownie fashion, across the transom, volunteering advice “Why, look at Dink wash!” It’s a regular annual, isn’t it? Look out for my pants! “T say, Dink, your theory's wrong. You want to begin by parting your hair—soak it into place, you know.” Stover, struck by this expert advice, approached the mirror and seized his comb and brush with determination But the liberties of a rebellious people, unmolested for were not to be suddenly abolished. The more he brushed the more the indignant locks rose up in revolt. He broke the comb and threw it down angrily “Wet vour hair,”’ said the Tennessee Shad “Soak it in water,” said the Gutter Pup * Soak it in witch-hazel,”’ said Dennis. “ It will make it more fragrant Dink hesitate d: “Won't mell too much?” “Naw. It evaporates.”’ Stover seized the bottle and {;nundated his head, made an exact part in'the middle and drew the sides back in the fashion of pigeon wings said Dink, a ixteen years Now clap on a dicer,”’ said the Gutter Pup approv- ingly, “and she'll come up and feed from your hand.” “ Are you really in love?” said Dennis softly Stover, ignoring all comments, tied a satin four-in-hand with forget-me-not embossings, which had struck his fancy in Fatty Harris’ room, and inserted a stickpin of Finnegan's You ought to have a colored handkerchief to stick in your breast-pocket,’’ said the Gutter Pup, who began to yield to the excitement Up his sleeve is more English, don’t you know?” said Dennis Stover stood brazenly before the mirror, looking himself over. The scrubbing he had inflicted on his face had left THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Are You Really in Love?" Said Dennis Softly red, shining spots in prominent places, while his hair, slicked back and plastered down, gave him somewhat the look of an Italian barber on a Sunday off. He felt the general glistening effect without, in his innocence, knowing the remedy “Dink, you are bee-oo-tiful!’’ said Dennis. “Be careful how you sit down,” said the Tennessee Shad, thinking of the trousers “How are the shoes?” asked the Gutter Pup solicit- ously. “Tight as the mischief,” said Dink, with a wry face. “Walk on your heels.”’ Stover, with a last deprecating glance, opened the door and departed, amid cheers from the contributing com- mittee When he arrived at the Lodge the dusky waitress who opened the door started back, as he dropped his hat, and sniffed the air. He went into the parlor, spoiling his carefully planned entrance by tripping over the rug. “Heavens!” said Tough; “ what a smell of witch-hazel! Why, it’s Dink. What have you been doing?” Stover felt the temperature rising to boiling. “ We had a bit of a shindy,” he said desperately, trying to give it a tragic accent, “and I bumped my head.” “Well, you look like a skinned rat,’’ said Tough, to put him thoroughly at his ease. The angel, however, came to his rescue with solicitous inquiries and with such a heavenly look that Stover only regretted that he could not appear completely done up in bandages They went in to dinner, where Dink was so overwhelmed by the vision of Miss McCarty in all her transcendent charms that he was barely able to swallow his food withou mishap. Afterward, Tough and his mother went over to Founda- tion House for a visit with the Doctor, and Dink found himself, actually alone, escorting Miss McCarty about the grounds in the favoring dusk of the fast-closing twilight “Let's go toward the Green House,”’ she said. “ Will you take my cloak?” The cloak settled the perplexing question of the hands. He wondered uneasily why she chose that particular direction “ Are you sure you want to go there?” he said “ Quite,”’ she said. “I want to see the exact spot where the historic fight took place.” Stover moved uneasily. “ Dear me, what's the matter?” “IT never go there. I hate the place.” “Why?” “I was miserable there,”’ said Dink abruptly. “ Hasn't Tough told you about it?” “ Tell me yourself,’ said the angelic voice Stover felt on the instant the most overpowering desire to confide his whole life’s history, and, being under the influence of genuine emotion as well as aided by the oblit- erating hour, he began straightforward to relate the story of his months of Coventry in tense, direct sentences, without pausing to calculate either their vividness or their June 4,1910 effect. Once started, he withheld nothing, neither that isolation. Once or twice he hesitated, blurting out: “Tsay, does this bore you?” And each time she answered quickly: “No, no—go on.” They went back in the fallen night to the campus, and there he pointed out the spot where he had stood and listened to the singing on the Esplanade and made up his mind to return. All at once his story came to an end and he per- ceived, to his utter confusion, that he had been pour- ing out his heart to some one whose face he couldn't see, some one who was probably smiling at his impetuous confidence, some one whom he had met only a few hours before. “Oh, I say,” he said in horror, “you must think me an awful fool to go on like this.” “No.” “You made me tell you, you know,” he said mis- erably, wondering what she could think of him. “I never talked like this before—to any one. I don't know what made me confide in you.”’ This was untrue, for he knew perfectly well what had Jed him to speak. So did she, and, knowing full well what was working in the tense, awkward boy beside her, she had no feeling of offense, being at an age when such tributes, when genuine, are valued not scorned. “T can just feel how you felt—poor boy!” said, perhaps not entirely innocent of the effect of her words. “ But then, you have won out, haven't you?” “T suppose I have,” said Stover, almost suffocated by the gentleness of her voice. “Charlie’s told me all about the rest,’’ she said “Every one looks up to you now-—it’s quite a romance, isn’t it?’’ He was delighted that she saw it thus, secretly wondering if she really knew every point that could be urged in his favor. “T suppose I'll kick myseif all over the lot tomorrow he said, choosing to be lugubrious. “Why?” she said, stopping in surprise “For talking as I’ve done.” “You don’t regret it?’’ she said softly, laying her hand on his arm Stover drew a long breath —a difficult one “No; you bet I don’t,” he said abruptly. “I'd tell you anything!”’ “Come,”’ she said, smiling to herseli, “we back —but it’s so fascinating here, isn’t it ? He thought he had offended her and was in a panic. “Tsay, you did not understand what I meant.’ “Oh, yes, I did.” “You're not offended?” “Not at all.” This answer left Stover in such a state of bewilderment that all speech expired. What did she mean by that? Did she really understand or not? They walked a little way in silence, watching the lights that fell in long lines across the campus, hearing through the soft night the tinkling of mandolins and the thrum- ming of guitars, a vibrant, feverish life that suddenly seemed unreal to him. They were fast approaching the Lodge. A sudden fear came to him that she would go without understanding what the one, the only, night had been in his life. “T say, Miss McCarty,”’ he began desperately “Yes.” “T wish I could tell you “What?” “T wish I could tell you just what a privilege it’s been to meet you.” “Oh, that’s very nice.” He felt he had failed. He had not expressed himself well. She did not understand “T shall never forget it,’’ he said, plunging ahead She stopped a little guiltily and looked at him “You queer boy,”’ she said, too pleasantly moved to be severe, “You queer, romantic boy! Why, of course you're going to visit us this summer, and we're going to be good chums, aren't we?”’ He did not answer “ Aren’t we?” she repeated, amused at a situation that was not entirely strange “No!” he said abruptly, amazed at his own audacity; and with an impulse that he had not suspected he closed the conversation and led the way to the Lodge When at last he and Tough were homeward-bound he felt he should die if he did not then and there learn certain things. So he began, with Machiavellian adroitness: “I say, Tough, what a splendid mother you've got! I didn’t get half a chance to talk to her. I say, how long will she be here?” “They’re going over to Princeton first thing in the morning,” said Tough, who was secretly relieved she must go the agony of his pride nor the utter hopelessness of _ or es ao SA An cinta

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th \ button on the borrowed vest popped with Stover’ emotion. “ How did you get on with Sis “ First-rate. She's “Oh, yes, I suppose so.”’ “T say,”’ said Dink, seeing that he made no pregress, he’s been all around — had lots of experience, hasn't she ?”’ “ Oh, she’s bounded about a bit “Still, she doesn’t seem much older th Dink craftily. “ Sis —oh, she’s a bit older.”’ “ About twenty-two, I should say,” said Dink hopef Twenty-four, my boy,”’ said Tough unfeelingly. “B I say, don’t give it away; over the map for telling.”’ Stover left him without daring to ask tions—he knew what he wanted to know. go to his room, he could not tace the Ter nessee Shad possessor of the trousers. He wanted to be alone—to wander over the unseen earth, to gulp in the gentle air in long, feverish breaths, to think over what she had said, to grow hot and cold at the thought of his daring, to recon- struct the world of yesterday and organize the new He went back of the chapel and sat down on the cool steps, under the impenetrable clouds of the night “ She's twenty-four, only twenty-four,” he said to himself “T'm sixteen, almost seventeen difference.” she’s awful sensible,”’ said Dink.

“ she'd bite and seratch me all

1y More ques- He could no that’s only seven years’ XXII HEN Stover awoke the next morning it was to the light of the commonplace day. He thought of the events of the night before and sprang up in horror. What had he been thinking of? He had made an ass of himself, a complete, What had possessed him? He looked at himself in the glass and his heart sank at the thought of what she must be thinking. He was glad she was going. He did not want to see her again. He would never visit Tough McCarty. Thank Heaven, it was daylight again and he had recovered his senses! Indignant at every one, himself most of all, he went to chapel and to recitations, profoundly thankful that he would not have to her in the mocking light ol day That he never could have done—never, never! As he left second recitation MeCarty joined him “IT say, Dink, they both be remembered to you note from Sis.”’ “A note?” “ Here it is.” Stover stood staring at a violet en- velope, inscribed in large, flowing letters: “ Mr. John H. Stover.”’ Then he put it in his pocket hastily and went to his room. Luckily, the Tennessee Shad was poaching in the He locked the door, secured the transom and drew out the note It was sealed with a crest fumed witha heavenly scent. He held it in his hand a long while convuls- ively, and then broke the seal with an awkward finger and read: Dear Mr. Stover: Just a word to thank you for being my faithful cava lier. Don't forget that you are to pay us a good, long visit this summer, and that we are to become the best of chum egregious ass face

rough vanted to and heres a village and per- \ our very good frie nd, JOSEPHINE MCCARTY P.S. Don’t you dare to “kick your- self about the lot,”’ whatever that may mean When Dink had read this through he immediately began it again The second reading left him more bewildered than ever It was the first time he had come in contact with a mani- festation of the workings of the feminine mind. What did she intend him to understand ? * Tl read it again,” he s chair. “ Dear Mr. Stover! once

id, perching on the back of a He. stopped and considered My dear Mr. Stover Dear Mr. Stover that’s all right 3ut what the deuce does she mean by ‘faithful cavalier’--I wonder now, I wonder. She wants me to visit her-—she can’t be offended, then. ‘Your very good friend,’ underlined twice; that sounds as though she wanted to warn me. Undoubtedly I made a fool of myself and this is her angelic way of letting me down. ‘Friend’ underlined twice -of course that’s it. What a blooming sentimental, moonstruck jay I was! Gee, I could kick myself to Jericho and back!” But here his eye fell on the postscript and his jaw dropped. “ Now, how did she guess

well it? That sounds different from the rest, as though—as though she understood.” He went to the window frowning, and then to the mirror, with a new interest in this new Mr. John H. Stover who received perplexing notes on scented paper

Well, You Look Like a Skinned Rat “T must get * How the deuce does Lovely Mead mine's changed his collar, having detected a } aiways effect of part

n nis ull le side She's a wonderful womar nde taking up the letter again “What « Lorna Doone. Josephine » tl ! i beautiful name I vy nm the

what she did mean by 1 peen torn up 1n a panic as determined that the craftiest way w his remembrances by Tough — that thing, as well as show her that he c« and dignif Ir

the afternoon he wardrobe and had to his exami counter of Gents’ Bon-t och DI at Bil Appleby The « lars, the latest cut They were uncomfortable an there was no question of the new element in the L vely Mead, Jock Ha tailor-made clothe immaculate, and whose No sooner , rainbow cravat

was this some decent collars,’ slipping down, showir he had written a dozer school came to his n« rouk and Due

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magrved at Lhe knee m than he wa appalled at the state of | He had « rown everything. Everything he had baggy t the « Ws a well as the knees His neckti e fr d i} socks were all ¢ irthy-brow! ind gra Hi first step was to buy a blackir brush and } next to press his trousers under | mattress, wit ‘ result that, being detected and diverted Dennis, the appeared next morning with a cross-g At nights, especially of insomnia, he sentimentally into the suddenly dis What Tennessee Shad on the first mooniugnt r the deuce are you moonir ocCaslon I'm studving astronomy drew his bed to the irtered effect riit unde window r pretense and gazed vered starry Ssvsten about said the

Said Tough, to Put Him Thoroughly said Dink with dignity The Tennessee Shad gave a snort and soon went loud!

Dink, unmolested oared away into his own domair Is true that gy read Peter Ibbetson, he tried for week to emulate that favored dreamer, throwing his arn up, clasping his hands behind his head and being most particular in the crossing of the feet only discouraging, tantalizing dreams magic summoned up was not the a ably the elfish eyes and star-p Brian de Boru Finnegan But the faltering eyelids and the shut were re dreams all the difficulties were swept away; ni back to stay the words that rushed to tions to defy the periodically saved her from a he continued each night novelist

anew the

inting that lay like shadows al and magic were spun out 1undred m heroic W He dreamed, but and the figure hi lic one, but invari- nose of Dennis de between tl Ther »cold chill ran ip ni his lips Conversa and, 1ant deaths rk of rescue having

with unsatiated delight At times, in the throbs of the sacred passion, he thought with a start of his blackened past and the tendencies to crime within him

rd ‘ d w ul the or T \ i i t ‘ ‘ . lence I l i ‘ it a what a 1 ence she 1 I'd i adn't1 1 ‘ By i idva ‘ mic } , . ‘F eve ne a id wl { iD M , folded ‘ ever , ! ‘ ead W ( he | S} ‘ , 1d n re ‘ cor a e |) Bea t t | eprese at i ‘ i Mr. J H S ‘ Phere Napok eda man 1 i ‘ N ‘ Wit ‘ by lropy ear | egal ) 1 4 i rhe wa with ‘ d ‘ i | rid, | ! ives were ispected y masts t ‘ it ild Ww ! nit ne a t insto ‘ ! i! class mat who secre credited him w e new method eribbir Meanw t t ear eared t entive ! ds Le 1 I in de Bor Finnegan and the I é e Shad ¢ elved the lea 1 monster ma meet ing il itive parade, whic i down th hered “ eal 1 Uy t he « ' | | , ‘ { e! flooded w cor t ( i } i nst Ca demand vy I \ ) ? t La Vrence ! t A id I i! if it t 1 v ! id 1 « il 1 « ind ( lia ! i it ‘ ne Ww t X-(le t Phi il il ea i m d i ial by H = e! yn ‘ the arrival < ( et | ( | ‘ tal é head ront But ¢ ‘ ¢ school hether al e had i mped it ences or whether the ‘ I lesired De 1 , ‘ n t ! iv h t h laundry retur 1 t I et] the | ec to the d Wind ere I yu ind indig ant | appeared i white shred in hand, and eT ly appealed to ve ‘ er i eand tl een lands below for justice and indemnificatior A me letermined spirit 1 eed eld und he leaders! I lent e Shad 1 | Vacnood and vas d led that a den st tior d ta place nter, tl H n form and mare with com plete exhibit the | pper H ( vhere the I Former ild \ LIS] ( ‘ il | nem ma moun pr ‘ Dir i t 1d mar ganization, } ed up his ears and mn 1 the ‘] nesse Shad and ) i | rian de | Kj rhe ' i } } { ‘ t Why have we ke uid the Tent ‘ ud lig W hay i t tt " three w y ‘ id a I ! dared u en | ib ith | n ir inder at His Ease Seer ecret peri i med mela ed You dor I I've i vorry 1 he lool yut d ul ! er nan reve { i LD 1} ud e Tenne ‘ id tr , i me ul ! it 7 keep from cor t ext t Le i i () Dir | lrather r il it 1 ud St er len De ind id we erwhelmed h ren tne fered I i nee the Grand Marshal | I he refused } ffended d t I promise ertile brain to e comm ‘ N Dir entimental educatior hich had p ressed 1 rush, had be { ! h or ciency of foodand ateelir { stalenesson havu i ed the tl and and one possible method ! é ine’s life and wringing the consent of her pa He felt a species of guilt in the accu mate, and a sudden longing to be bac ! mant pursull In an hour th ade hted ¢ e | i Continued on Page 4¢

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DECORATIONS BY THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By Samuel Scoville, Jr PRESTON JAMES M. June 4,1910 1h I J ric OME years ago there lived in a large Eastern city one whose pen-name shall be Leo Hochstein In i900 Mr. Hochstein believed that he had met with Opportunity in the person of Mr. Charles Jaffe-—-another pen-name. Subsequently he classified the latter as Expe- rience. Mr. Jaffe was engaged in selling jewelry on the installment plan. Jaffe conceived the idea that he might extend and ramify his jewelry business by establishing Hochstein consented to become one of his agents, and signed an agency contract Under the terms of the contract Hochstein understood he was to receive a large salary and a share of the profits amounting to more than the salary As a condition to this promised prosperity, Jaffe required a deposit of fifty dollars on general principles. With some difficulty Mr. Hochstein procured and paid the amount and was directed to wait for further instructions. He is still waiting. The salary and profits he understood he was to get, and his fifty dollars likewise, tarry with Mr. Jaffe In the latter partof August, 1901, Hochstein commenced iit against Jaffe for damages. Then he found that the waiting policy was still in foree. Nearly every month, as agencies the years went by, he clamored at the doors of his attor- ney's office for immediate action ‘he latter’s unvarying reply was that he could not control the court and that the case must wait its turn. Finally, on December 9, 1903, a judgment was obtained, and Hochstein felt that at last the courts of law were about to justify their existence to him Jaffe, who, it is declared, had been profitably occupied during these two years with other similar business ven- unobtrusively faded away from the city and the tate. All of his personal property went with him. Hoch- stein, by attorney, filed his judgment and, in person, bewailed the emptiness of American justice Swifter Justice in Little Russia the surface again, this time in another city. Undis- couraged, to that ciicy went Mr. Hochstein. There he found that, in order to take advantage of the hard-won judgment, another suit must be begun Accordingly he entered, on the thirtieth day of June, 1908, another lap in the istice ‘Marathon Jaffe filed an affidavit of defense h he averred that there had never been any per- yy years went by and, finally, in 1908 Jaffe came to nal service on him in the first iit and that the judg- ment obtained had been obtained in his absence. This was sufficient to necessitate a jurv trial, and the case was rdingly ordered on the trial list and Hochstein again besieged another attorney ifiee, this time by mail, with the same results, to wit, the receipt of information that In March, 191 the case finally appeared on the trial list and fortunately was reached for trial within the two d ty which are all that irt of the city allow for the disposal of fifteen case Jaffe did not defend and another judgment was obtained His attorney filed a moti ra new trial, which postponed any execution on the judgment for several weeks. Jaffe made good Before the judg ment could be enforeed, foreclosure proce¢ dings were ise of this breathing SI} begun on his real estate under ostens bly valid mortgages As in order to test the validity of these mortgages another suit would be necessary, involving more expense and more delay, Hochstein reluctantly dropped out of the justice obstacle race Aiter nine years ar d the expenditure in time and money of an amount nearly equal to the claim itself Hochstein still saw his recovery, like the limit of an algebraical variable, ever re ‘eding in the distance “This is jollying, not justice,’ was his farewell to his attorney; “things are better even in Little Russia that I ran away from.” Dara Merkowitz— a pen-name, too— is another Russian who is convinced that there is something wrong with Amer- ican justice. Dara worked for a sweatshop ina large city Her hours were from seven in the morning until ten at night. The rest of the day she had to herself. She earned sometimes nine dollars a week and saved a large portion of this toward a dowry which would enable her to indulge in the somewhat doubtful luxury of a husband. One evening in 1908 she started to cross the street near the house where she roomed. A car was passing, and Dara waited for it to go by. Just behind the first car came a trailer running at a high rate of speed. The motorman failed to sound his gong and Dara was struck. Whenshe came to, she found something wrong with her left hip. She tried to work, but the hip became worse and Dara finally went to bed, and the precious dower-hoard was broken into. A notice of the accident was sent to the traction company, and friends tried to make some settlement of her claim. The traction company, however, does not believe in settling claims. The fact that it often takes from two to four years fora case against the company to be reached for trial may have something to do with this policy. Time, which cures all ills, is also pretty apt to settle all suits in favor of the defendant. Especially is that the case when the defendant is a corporation. Parties and wit- nesses may die. A corporation, however, is immortal and can afford to wait. Dara finally retained counsel and suit was begun on February 25, 1908. Up to May, 1910, the case had not even appeared on the trial list. In the meantime Dara is no longer a worker, nor has she any dower, Tuberculosis of the hip has developed. She has not the money to pay for treatment, and the probabilities are that there will be no Dara Merkowitz to harass the company when her case is finally called for trial. A delayed case with a happier ending was that of a brakeman against a railroad company. He had lost an arm through the alleged negligence of the company. As the arm was of value and the company refused to pay for the same, its former owner brought suit. Four times he recovered verdicts against the company after years of waiting. Four times did the Supreme Court reverse his judgments on various technicalities. Three times did that body send the case back for a new trial. On the fourth appeal the appellate court evidently felt that the railroad company had been bothered long enough over a mere missing arm, and not only reversed the judgment but also refused to allow him a new trial Now, the brakeman lived in a little town where he was much liked and respected. His townspeople had watched his long, single-handed fight against the company witha very considerable amount of interest. When the last decision of the Supreme Court was handed down the editor of the town paper wrote-—not wisely but strongly —an editorial which voiced a firm conviction that the Supreme Court was not only in the pay of the railroad company but also had well earned its fee. The outraged Supreme Court at once haled its venturesome critic before it. The alarmed editor's contempt was immediately changed to contrition, but too late. That editorial cost him just five hundred dollars, which, as space rates go in that part of the country, was high. With some difficulty the editor procured and paid over to the injured court the price of his scorn and departed to his own place sadder and poorer These conditions of mind and estate were short-lived On his arrival at the station he was met by the assembled citizens of the town with a brass band and a barouche Seated in the latter and clangorously preceded by the former, this high-priced writer of editorials made a tri umphal progress of the town. In front of the city hall the procession paused long enough to present » editor with five hundred dollars in gold. In divers and sundry other ways the town indorsed the original contempt and added a few extra touches of its own. The Supreme Court was in a quandary. It was manifestly impossible to hol« entire community for contempt, and the court at last wisely decided to treat the open contempt with silent contempt The ending of this story was staged at a political con vention held shortly after the reciprocal contempt of the town and the Supreme Court The convention w called by the party in power to nominate a state ticket One of the coveted positions to be filled at the next electior was that of railroad commissioner, an official who had general supervision of the railroads passing through the state and who received a salary of some four thousand dollars per annum. To this convention came the brake- man asadelegate. He arrived just as the slate was being madeup. Some joker caught sight of him and shouted “IT nominate for railroad commissioner. He ought to know about railroads.” The delegates, who knew the story and saw the brakeman with his dangling, empty sleevs In an instant the convention was stampeded. In spit: verything which the chairman and the various whips could do, the brakeman was nominated by acclamation At the election he ran far ahead of his ticket, the voters of both parties combining to elect him, and he made a fair and efficient railroad commissioner the shout turned A Thirteen -Year-Old Lawsuit NOTHER Western case of deferred justice is that of Vickers vs. Buck, reported jn volumes 60, 65 and 75 of the Kansas Reports. From a common-sense stand point the significance of this case lies in the fact that at the first appeal the defendant requested the Suprem« Court to decide the case then and there on its merits the court had the power to do The appe llate court, how ever, decided to send the case back fora newtrial. Beeauss of this the case has been before the Supreme Court Kansas several times since and is now pending before thi Supreme Court of the United States, having reached th ripe age of thirteen years } Another almost interminable case brought about by our system of unlimited appeal was that of Ellis R. Williams, a 1882, by the neg brakeman. He was injured in July of the company and brought suit for damages in that | The case was pending from 1882 to 1904, some twenty-tw years. During that period no less than seven new trials were obtained. Williams finally obtained a recovery of sixty-five hundred dollars, but the record fails to show what portion of that was required to pay for these year of expensive litigation. The law’s delay is no modern invention. In the four- teenth century we read of one Wat Scoresby, a freeman who was wrongfully seized and sold as a serf by the Lord Mortonness. After securing his freedom Wat brought successful suit for damages against his captor, but com plained bitterly that he was compelled to wait four year from the issuing of the venire to the awarding of the verdict The experiment of Richard de Anesty in deferred justice was even more disastrous. In 1148 he laid claim to certain lands in England as the heir of his uncle, and in a et en cl mere tJ } if | gS Se I i i i k

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ams ——— =" ee Sa ET — o Ta = Ea Rie em se, that year sued out a writ of mort d’ancestor through the King in Normandy. From the King’s Court he was sent to the Ecclesiastical Court. From that court he finally obtained a writ to the Court Christian. Three had appeared in the latter court without results and finally he appealed to the Pope. After due and prolonged con- sideration the latter awarded him a favorable decision Richard's case was then specially referred to appointed by the King, and a final decision was at last rendered in favor. Some before, Richard de Anesty had become a bankrupt which often dilutes the value of legal triumphs today An examination of the dockets of any of our large cities shows that to obtain a trial matter of years. In progressive Boston, for example, a jury case takes at least two years to be reached for trial In March, 1908, there were between ten and twelve thou- sand cases on the general and special jury lists in that city waiting to be tried In Pittsburgh a committee of the County Bar Associa- tion submitted in 1909 a despondent statement, in part as follows times he justices his years however, an occurrence by jury in a civil case isa As the number of jury cases awaiting trial is 7274, and the four courts together have tried only 783 cases in 1908, it would seem at first sight that it is a hopeless task to try to recover a position where jury cases could be promptly disposed of—say, within six months after being put at From careful investigation we find that the courts are behind with the jury trials as to time about as follows On January 1, 1909: Common Pleas No. 1 Common Pleas No. 2 Common Pleas No. 3 Common Pleas No. 4 We find that a majority of the jury cases are either settled, nonsuited or abandoned in way or another is lair to presume that the become wearied with the delay or, perhaps, die, or the witnesses die or d sappear before the case can be brought to trial. The bald fact remains that there are now 1 cases at issue awaiting jury trials, with this amount at the rate of twenty percent perannum. Atthis rate there will be in 1912 about 10,000 cases awaiting trial by jury. This incubus, this heap or mountain of 7274 cases, now lies piled up right in our path and must be continually pushed ahead of us. This accumulation, lying as it does in our front, ke ‘ps back fora period of three or four years all suits that may hereafter be brought, and the heap in our front is increasing every day Issue Three and one-half years Three years Three years Two and one-half years one parties increasing Reforms in New York City N NEW YORK there have been a number of procedure reforms instituted in the interest trials Among these may be mentioned the consolidation of the majority of the city courts; the introduction of preferred or short-cause lists for certain classes of cases; of speedy the insistence that all cases involving less than three hundred dollars shall be tried finally by the Municipal Courts seattered through- out the city; and the introduction of efficient and time- list practice. Yet with all these reforms it still takes from a year and a half to two years to try the average jury case in New York, and more courts are greatly needed In Philadelphia a jury case must usually take two and may take six years to be tried. The fault lies mainly with the procedure in force in that city. Philadelphia has at Common Pleas Courts, which, outside the Federal courts, try all civil jury cases. These courts, though located side by side, are separate and distinct, each with its own judges and, to some extent, its own peculiarities of practice. One of these courts may adjourn because no cases are ready for trial, as happened in No. 1 on April 9, 1910, while across the width of a corridor a sister court of identical jurisdiction is thronged with coun- sel, witnesses and suitors anxiously waiting for a chance to be heard; yet no cases can be sent from the crowded to the empty court This same anomaly was remedied in New York many years ago by the consolidation of its Supreme, Superior and Common Pleas Courts into one great Supreme Court, divided, for the expediting of business, into numerous different parts. All of the Courts of Common Philadelphia have clung to an archaic custom known as saving calendar or present five Pleas of THE SATURDAY EVENING POST the “two-day ru de stem fifteen case ! assigned to a court for eact t tour da t vee} If a case is not reached for trial the rst i i ther chance on the following day If not reached then it goes off and may t again appear ‘ i t r sever months As the trial of a nye int Iter Di me evera days, it isevident that a case may frequently not each for trial the first time it appear n the trial list As a matter ol fact, it may take vears alter it Nas fina ippeared on the trial list before it ictual tried Each time the parties and their witnesses must spend t da n So the unfortunate suitor, compelled to « ree his 1 ina Philadelphia co irt ‘ mniir nted Vit! at lea t tw vears of certain dela betore his case comes before the court at all, and the pe t t tw r three year further delay before the case i tried lo exam ne specific examples nm Ma os ‘ the irt « Common Pleas of Philadelphia ¢ int No the case Morris vs. Christensen ippeared as No. 1 on the trial list It and on that day was set for trial turned t to be long and involved case, and consumed the time of tha court for nine successive da As a result of this two-da rule, all of the cases set down for trial in that « rt durir those nine days, numbering no less than seventy-nine, went over, and under the condition of the lists of that court did not again appear betore Januar | i delay { fror x months toa year. Counting the litigants, their attorne and witnesses, the time of at least five | the money of one h a result of the tw | hundred people and indred and fifty-eight were was -day rule Conditions in Philadelphia Philadel and the HERE is another reason for the phia besides the effect of the law aelay it two-day rule unconsolidated courts In that city there are twenty-eight magistrates, very few of whom are members of the bar or may be s Ippose d to have any special knowledge of law Their usefulness to the political“ Organization ”’ is declar f to be the general test of their electior These magistrates have juri diction over does not involve whict indred dollars such case must be brought before a magi an amount of over one | and every strate before it } can be tried elsewhere Either side can then appeal, asa matter of right. to the Court of Common Pleas unless the claim is for not more than $5 in which case the decision of the magistrate is final. On an appeal to the Court of Common Pleas the case is ning, er magistrate tried over again itirely regardless of what has been done before the The result of this system is that whatever the facts, is very apt to f for who pays the costs, since the case i ire to be court above and there retried anew "he this civil jurisdiction of the trates of Ph that litigants delay and expense, and the Courts of Comn mag are compelled to compelled to try with a jury petty cases in twenty dollars which in other citi ire trie magistrate or Justice of the peace TI same tem once existed in EF abolished a The Municipal Court League in Philadelphi revolt of bu men behalf of the league legislature which will allow the organiz pal court on the same busines inst present ¢ a bill will be introduced at next ition of a munk principles as exist in the court in Chicago of the same name The condition of standpoint is most interesting. In trials in Chicago from that metnods jury the results side noe anotner centur city of modern common-sense business by side with The appear the outworn system of Municipal Court of that city was organized |

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f One Received the Impression of Light Streaming in Upon His Higher Nature Through a Keyhole [LLIAM never made but two long journeys away from home. One was to visit a brother minister in the North; the other was a sort of involuntary excursion he made away from God in hisown mind. And, as the first trip led to the second, I will begin with the story of that There was a young man in William’s class at college named Horace Pendleton, who entered the ministry with him. William had that devotion for him one often sees in a plain, simple man fora more brilliant one. He placed an extravagant value upon his friend's gifts, and Horace Pen- dleton was one of the heroes of our younger married years, about whom William talked with the greatest affection. And there is no doubt that among his other gifts Horaée Pendieton had the gift of rising. You might have thought he was in the world instead of the church, he went up so fast. He had been ordained searcely long enough to become a deacon before he was well enough known to be preaching cemmencement sermons at young ladies’ seminaries and delivering lectures everywhere. He had that naive bravery of intelligence which enabled him to accept with dignity an invitation to lecture upon any subject from Sunshine to the Psychology of St. Paul. I remember him very weil in those days, a thin, long young man, with a face so narrow and tight and bright that when he talked in his high metallic voice one received the mpression of light streaming in upon his higher nature through a keyhole I specify higher nature, because Pendleton never addressed himself to any other part of the spiritual anatomy. I always had the feeling when I heard him that he inflated each word, so that some of the weight- est and most ancient verbs in the Scriptures floated from |} is lightly as if they had been the cast-off r-feathers of agrowing angel. His grandest i he was as full of them as an egg is of meat monkeyshines and to make faces back at he uttered them. Personally, I never iked t >m th about sacrifice and was ate himself. Maybe I was jealous of him. The contrast between his career in the ministry and that of William was certainly striking. He had been made i dD Divir and was filling the best churches in his Conference, while William and I were still serving mountain circuits And it was not long before none of the churches in r Conference was good enough for him, so he had to be transferred to get one commensurate with his ability. Even then he had enough surplus energy to run no. | have always thought that if he had been 1 land agent, instead of a preacher, he could have sold he whole of Alaska and the adjacent icebergs in one quadrennium And I reckon I may as well admit that there was an invincible streak of meanness in me which prevented my admiring him, for, from start to finish, he was a man of impeccable reputation, and undoubtedly irreproachable character, as we use those words, and I could have admired him as anything else but a preacher It was his talent for success that revolted me. To this day the Gospel, the real * lose-your-life-for-M y-sake"’ Gospel, + t RCUIT RID! There is no doubt that Horace THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 4,1910 WR?’S Wik Some Stray Chapters From Her Experiences ILLUSTRATED BY sounds better, more like Gospel to me if it is preached by aman who is literally poor. Maybe it is because I learned to revere this trait in William. But in every way, always, William could surpass me in the dignity of love. So he went on loving Horace Pendle- ton. He believed that the Lord was lavish in favors to him because of his superior worth, and this accounted for his good fortune, and I never interfered with any of William's idolatries; they were all creditable to him. At last the time came when he received an invitation from Pendleton—who was now pastor of the leading Methodist church in a flourishing city in another state to visit him. They had always kept up a sort of desul- tory correspondence, and I am sure Pendleton never received finer laurels of praise than William sent him in his letters. We were in a small town that year in the malarial district, and William’s health was not good. It was early spring before the revival season opened, and it so hap- pened that there was some kind of political convention on hand which enabled him to secure special rates on the railroad. So, one morning in April, I plumed and preened him in his best clothes and sent him on his happy journey to the North. When he returned a week later William was a changed man. He talked with a breadth and intelligence upon many oid and new subjects that I had never observed in him before. Yet it seemed to me that something great in him had faded. He was stuffed to the neck with ethies as loose-fitting to him as the sack coat of woridly-minded- ness, and he did not suspect it. His very expression had changed. He looked—well, to put it as mildly as I can, William looked sophisticated, and it is as belittling a look as a good man can wear. There is a Moses simplicity about goodness that has never been improved upon by the wisest ape expression of the smartest man that ever lived, and William's simplicity had been blurred. “ Mary,” he said to me as we sat at our evening meal the day after his return, ‘I must read and study more This visit has been an eye-opener to me. I am sadly behind the times.” “Yes, William,” I replied shrewdly, for I had never heard him talk so ‘‘fresh’’ before, ‘you must read and study more, for a preacher has something bigger than the times on his conscience.” “What do you mean?” “ That the timesare so transient: that a preacher iscalled to deliver a message about what is far more permanent.”’ “I think, Mary,” he went on, assuming the reasoning air that a man always takes when he thinks he is trying to make a woman think, but when he is only trying to make her agree with what he thinks—‘‘I think one reason why Pendleton has got on in the church and been of so much more service there than 1 have is because he has kept up with his times. He is a very learned man, and he preaches right up to the pres- ent moment I'd scarcely have recognized some of the Scriptures as he interpreted them in the light of modern criticism and conditions.’ “You are right, William Pendleton has risen in the church and been of more serv- ice to the church than you have been, because he knows so much better than you do how to make it ‘timely’ and how to intone the Gospel to thesametune. But you, Will- iam, are you going to begin to interpret the Scriptures just to suit yourtimes and modern conditions? I thought Scrip- tures had nothing to do with mere times--that they be- longed to the everlasting “T fear you are preju- diced against Pendleton and the House Sl a A Spiritually Sick Preacher is Order of Things About the Most Depressing Thing a Woman Can Have in WALTER EVERETT incapable of seeing the-good in what he says. Yet he showed a great interest in me, and he talked to me very seriously about the limitations of my ministry.” ‘What did he say?” ‘For one thing, he said I was identified with a view of God and man and the world such as no intelligent, healthy disciple of Christ after the fashion of John Wesley ever held.” * Could you tell what his view of God was?” “No, [could not. That was my ignorance. I could not keep up with him. He preached a very powerful sermon from one of the best texts in the New Testament the Sunday I was there. He couldn’t have done that unless he had had a very plain view of God.” “Oh, yes, he could,” I retorted a little warmly. “You can preach a much more satisfactorily powerful sermon in a fashionable modern church if you don’t see God than if you do.”’ Still William persisted. He began to read strange books that Pendleton had loaned him, and the more he read the gloomier he looked. His vocabulary changed. In the course of fourteen days, I remember, the word “ salva- tion” did not pass his lips and I could have prayed as good a prayer as he prayed any night as we knelt together. The time came, indeed, when I seriously considered making him the object of special prayer on the sly, only William was so really good I was ashamed to show to the Lord this lack of confidence in him. Meanwhile, the Sabbath in June when the protracted meeting usually began approached, and I knew if things did not change it would be a flat failure. For William was in a blue funk, spiritually. “T cannot think what is the matter with me,’’ he com- plained to me late one afternoon, as we sat on the parson- age steps waiting for the prayer-meeting bell to ring ‘You have backslid, William. That is what is the matter with you! You went up North and listened to the voice of Horace Pendleton till you cannot hear the voice of God. You no longer have the single eye. It has been bunged up—put out!” That was the first and last sermon I ever preached to William. It was a short one, but it brought him forward for prayers, so to speak, and for the next few days we had a terrible time at the parsonage. He was an honest man, and he was not slow to recognize his condition, once it was pointed out to him. It is not so bad to lose the “witness of the Spirit,”’ because you can still believe in God, and presently the witness is there again; but when you begin to read books that curtail the divinity of Jesus Christ and make your Heavenly Father just a nat- ural force in the universe, when you bud and blossom into rationalism, there is a good deal of mischief to pay. I do not say that Pendleton went thus far, in fact I am very sure that he did not, but the books he read and loaned to William did, and they uncon- sciously had a profounder ef- fect upon William than they had on Pendleton. But to be without one immediate Almighty in our lives is to experience a frightful tragedy If a man never recognizes this diviner part of himself he may live and die in the com- fort or discomfort of any ther mere creature. But once you realize your own immortality—I make a dis- tinction here between the self- consciousness of immortalit and the loud preaching of it that a man may do just from Biblical hearsay—you are a lonesome waif ina bad storm This was William's fix while he was reading those books. He was exposed all at once to the inclemencies of the Infini- . tudes. But I ceased to worry 4 once he began really to pray and scourge himself, and I

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did not interrupt the chastening. Usually. when he in- sisted upon fasting all day Friday, I provided little intelligent temptations to food at the earliest possible moment. But this time I let him starve to his heart's content. I reckon I am a worldly-minded woman and that I always shall be; but I know a high-minded man when I see one, and I have always been careful not to drag William down. Once, during the dreadful time, he came out of his study and looked at me vaguely, pleadingly, as if he wanted some direct help “Don’t look at me that way, William,’’ I cried. “I can't do anything but kiss you. I never did know where your God was, but you knew, and you'll just have to go back the way you came to Him. All that I know for cer- tain is that there is a God—your kind—or you could never have lived the way you have or accomplished the things you have accomplished. You couldn't have; you haven't sense enough. And for this reason you'd better not try to think your way back. If God is God He is far beyond our little thinking. You had better feel your way to Him It is what you call Faith in your sermons!” Something like this is what I said to him, standing before him with my head on his breast, wiping the tears from my eyes. Really, a spiritually sick preacher is about the most depressing thing a woman can have in the house, unless it is a man in the remorse state of recuperating from a spree. And when I looked at William, pale, hollow- eyed, with his mouth puck- ered into a_penitential angle, I longed to lay Horace Pendleton across my knees and give him what he deserved for dis- turbing a better man’s peace About the middle of Sat- urday afternoon, however, I knew that his clouds were breaking. I heard him in his study, singing: How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord, Is laid for your faith in His excellent word! And later, at bedtime, he chose a cheerful psalm to read, and I heard the happy rustling of his wings in the prayer he made The next night had been chosen for the initial serv- ice of the protracted meet- ing, and I remember his text: ‘I ceunt all things but loss for che excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung that I may win Christ, and be found in Him.” I remember it because I a dias aie o remember William so well thatevening. He fitted into it as if it were his home. The great words seemed to belong to him. They were his experience, literally. They had the authority of another simple, faithful, brave life behind them, besides that of St. Paul. And the people who listened knew it. If William had made a great name and fame for himself out of preaching, if he had earned fancy salaries as the pastor in rich churches, it would have been different. I don’'t* know, of course, but it seems te me in that case they might have clanged a little like sounding brass and tinkling cymbals He stood in the little dim pulpit, the summer evening was fading, the lamps in the church had not been lighted, and the faces of the village folk were softened, sweetened in the gentle Sabbath gloom. He drew a picture of Paul in prison at Rome, old and in anticipation of his end William never knew how to use words fancifully; there- fore they used to gather together truthfully in his sermons, as if he had woven them in. And so now we had not an elegantly painted portrait of St. Paul, but we saw him really, the man who actually had counted all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus, so out of his bonds in the spirit. It takes a rare preacher to portray one “found in Christ.”” He cannot do it with the best theological vocabulary, nor the finest scientific terms But William —I cannot tell how he did it. All I know is ie THE SATURDAY EVENING POST that every time he put his again the image of the Saviou him. He stood like a m: latchstring of the door of hi one by one, the things t ing remained but a few another. He removed the set our feet in the way of life children If Horace Pendleton had put all course, garnished it with a new theology, he could not simplicity and the high sweetnes But one thing I must remember t lived William loved and h devotion. That is the wonderful thing ab You see it always. On the learn after William's death with good-natured tolerance man, bound down to the earth by even wrote an obituary notice of William that must h made his guardian angel long toot to show the contrast between a preacher like himself and a foolish old stutterer like W rid and the cares of that Pendleton regarded him = se = Man Who Has His Hand Upon the Latchstring of the It is curious what things : along I used to wonder where, in what year, Paul did this or th in Acts. I remember how commentaries and squint everywhere dates to discover exactly wher of 54 A.D. At the time: it was pas no exact record of dates w: ! of a man who occasionally as he went through it. But Those who wrote never specified whether or second Sunday that Paul said tl The reeord was merely of because Paul and the rest ture making and doing back time in their consciousness making the great journey by Since I have been writing thi is not time that matters to me in each chapter, or to describe ance. The things he did, the he exercised, these crowd the as one day resembles an r resembles another pray ¢ faded from my mind. 1 cann his shoulders first began to Door of His Father's Hous« r ‘ » ¢ i T t t im ‘ ( re | i vords ¢ ! y 3 bea t eu \ \ é Id n } eve . Vs ur ena t It 1 new t uwa rT 1 with ( e he in for ip tur 1 lor mprovements ul int they give of their ship is not very from that of any sine man. And Lhe ire needed They do the eater part toward eep thechurch housed nspicuously steepled and ie t ! vorld that passe I'he are the preach i every Coon ference ho ire sent to \ I ere 4 new hurch or a new parsonage needed And some of them have heroie records in collecting for these pur poses 1 would not take a single dollar from the im of their renown. But tn is a memorial to Will iam and he was not one if these He was really an excell preacher 4 (it ted pastor, but he had more pir il tut thar mmon-sense al mat ny the pra cal ad tal the pastorate l in hin is we went a toyvether he itinerar ind = feeli that Was mp int T ne pre a ny elder to |! ea Od pi 7 nim nm ever mysel to ¢ I rie them ear ear in I Willian tises a } re mat hen | kne ne isa nn er it i e ange He ! If he had been the kind man | ented hin » te ‘ if e beet t iilt il ind t i L) We r. Jot lL ! nen il I elde | l ‘ ’ | } eved ‘ e! rlarand ed i r i eT t rie } leard { It i er ‘ i id ft ) I ! \ dollar-mar et i i] pr lau t 1 dilig ind ne mear ivar 4 n i not i! i I} me ‘ erat i he I r r S ' mone etter; but he i r rec ied il it! ( practical cl I nil

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NLY a few short years ago the automobile manufacturers, in disposing of their product, wrapped up a compulsory course in applied mechanics and electrical en- gineering and concealed the package in the motor. Ira Miller, the lead- THE SATURDAY EVENING POST RKETING A MOTO June 4,1910 the only kind of support worth hav- ing, he must go beyond the letter of the manufacturers’ guarantee and charge the resulting repair-shop deficit to advertising expenses. Three years agoa wealthy Western stockman bought a five-thousand- ing merchant of a small town in the heart of the western Kansas alfalfa belt, had to open this package within a week after the first auto- mobile owned in the western half of the Sunflower State had made its triumphal entry into his barn early in 1902. Tired of the week’s strenuous life the engine had decided to take a long rest, and, since the repair shop of the dealer, at that time the only garage within reach, was three hundred miles distant, Miller called in the village blacksmith and together they attacked the problem. Dissecting and reassembling the engine was a job that required the better part of two months. To the first screw taken out the operators attached a tag numbered Al; a tag bearing the same inscription was tied to the nut through which the screw passed, and the hole in the bed- plate was tagged in the same manner for identification purposes. Every part of the engine down to the washers was duly tagged and numbered in its relation to other parts; but even with these elaborate precautions the experimenters had two or three unmatched pieces left on the floor after the engine had been put together, and the tedious task had to be commenced once more from the very start The first dissection of the engine kept the two men busy for weeks at a time. A year later the merchant had mas- tered the course in mechanics. When the engine had a fainting spell he rolled a barrel alongside of the machine and into it dropped the parts of the engine helter-skelter in a steady stream. In reassembling the engine Miller needed no numbered tags to guide him. Frequent practice ibled him to dip his hands into the barrel, blindfolded, pull out a part, identify it and place it solely by the sense of touch, the entire operation lasting but two days. The Automobile’s Best Advertising HE dealer giving away a technological scholarship with a 1910 model is headed for the rocks. The first buyer obliged to make use of the scholarship would ruin his busi- ness, Eight years ago buyers of automobiles expected trouble and grappled with it single-handed, without assist- ance from the dealer, who was too busy waiting on new customers to bother with machines already paid for ‘Today the buyer of a new motor car does not drearn of dis- secting the engine a week after delivery. When trouble comes he passes it on to the man who sold the car. The dealer must make good if he wants to retain the buyer's good will, for in the automobile business this good will is even more important than it is in most other lines of trade Beilliant salesmanship and thorough motor knowledge ars important requirements in selling automobiles nowa- days, but greater than either of these is the recommenda- tion of a satisfied customer It was a satisfied customer who saved the day for the dealer in the Daisy line when a dozen rival salesmen took ip the trail of a prospect he had worked up. Though Williams, the prospect, a cigar manufacturer of modest means, had enjoyed his first taste of auto intoxication in the Daisy touring car of his friend Smith, who insisted that the Daisy offered greater value for the price than any other car, the prospect was holding back. The price of the By WALTER V. five-passenger Daisy model, twenty-six hundred dollars, was six hundred dollars more than the limit he had set himself. He liked the Daisy car, liked it immensely, he assured his friend, but and he turned his right ear to the siren song of the salesren offering less expensive five- passenger models, offering free tops, free windshields, free speedometers; offering to split commissions with him if he would only sign up. The competitors, however, had not taken into account the full weight of the satisfied customer’s recommendation. Smith, the sincere Daisy booster, kept on arguing into his friend’s left ear, and Williams could not make up his mind. He cut cards to decide whether he should exceed his limit and buy a Daisy or close up with the salesman who had offered to divide his commission on a nineteen- hundred-dollar car. The Daisy lost, but the friend would not accept the decision. A second time the perturbed cigar manufacturer appealed to chance; he cut cards with his wife and the Daisy lost again. Still the friend insisted. Once more he accompanied the prospect to the Daisy agency, where the entire selling staff went to work on the case in relays. At the end of the session the prospect, thick drops of perspiration covering his brow and his hands shaking with nervousness, signed contract and check. “T really believe my friend would have felt hurt if I had not bought a Daisy,’’ he said plaintively when the ordeal was over The history of transportation offers no parallel to the magic transformation of the vehicle propelled by a gasoline motor. From the chrysalis stage of the short, squat, top- heavy “one-lunger”’ it developed in less than ten short summers into the lean, racy 1910 greyhound. In 1900 the ungainly, asthmatic automobile was the popular joke; in 1905 it was an unpopular nuisance, the abhorred play- thing of the predatory rich; in 1910 it is the popular idol. Everybody dreen s of owning one. Any one expects to drive one sooner or later. The manufacturers have made the operation so easy that no one need hesitate to learn the trick in half a week, to try his skill at the steering wheel without preliminaries and let the dealer and the maker pay the largest part of the tuition fee. Because the manufacturers have so perfected the automobile, have made its complicated mechanism so reliable that it needs little attention, few buyers consider it necessary to spend more than two or three days learn- ing its operation before opening the throttle wide and “letting her out.’’ These men, women and children would not dream of running a locomotive over its steel-bound, immutable route after an apprenticeship of only three days, but they show no hesitation in hurling the intricate machinery of a motor car over rough country roads at more than locomotive speed a week after the purchase. As a result the dealer runs the repair department of his establishment at a loss. Every month the shop deficit sneaks into the salesroom and taps the till. He cannot lock the cash drawer if he wants to build up his trade. To gain the unqualified, enthusiastic support of his clients, WOEHLKE dollar machine, gave his horse wrangler six days to become pro- ficient in the handling of the steer- ing wheel and started for home in the car at the expiration of a week. Going down a twenty-per-cent grade at high speed the new chauffeur threw in the reverse-gear lever to make a sudden stop and succeeded in stripping the transmission. The stockman, ignorant of the proper method of changing sliding selective gears, planted both feet upon the manu- facturer’s guarantee and lifted up his voice in a deep, reverberating roar until the dealer explained that no factory was turning out a transmission that would drive a car down and up hill at the same time without tying itself into a bowknot. Having made the buyer realize that the damage was the result of the driver's carelessness, the dealer put in a new transmission and handed the stockman a receipted bill for a hundred and fifteen dellars. The new transmission proved an excellent investment for the dealer, who has since received more than ten thousand dollars from the cattle baron for additional cars. Liberality That Finally Pays VEN experienced buyers, men who have driven automo- biles for years, may get into expensive trouble through unfamiliarity with a new model. Last fall an old customer of the agent for a well-known car, having waited two weeks for the delivery of a 1910 roadster, jumped into the machine half an hour after it arrived on the floor of the salesroom and drove off in it. Five hours later the car was in the shop and an inspection showed that all of the four cylinders and pistons were scored and burnt beyond hope of repair. Further investigation revealed that the oil feed, the location of which had been changed in the new model, was almost closed, allowing the cylinders to burn out with practically no lubrication. The buyer admitted that he should have examined the car before using it and that he would have to shoulder the damage; but his manner as he made the admission con- vinced the dealer that he had to choose between the cost of four new cylinders and the customer's continued pat- ronage. Though the immediate outlay was heavy, the dealer did not hesitate to put in the cylinders gratis Courageously he cast his steel into the water, and it came back to him twofold. Remembering the liberal treatment at the hands of the dealer, the buyer sent in several good prospects, and the factory, after a correspondence of six months, decided to reimburse the agent for the cylinders as a matter of policy. This radical change in the attitude of the automobile dealer toward the buyer is by no means local or confined to a few centers with strong competition. Out of some sixty selling agents visited a few months ago by the assistant engineer of a large motor-car factory only one was making money out of his repair shop, and he had been in the business but a short time. All the others were barely meeting expenses or running the department at a loss, an indication of the large sums spent in advertising automo- biles to the man who will not need another one for years The day when the circus rider, the actor and the auto- mobile salesman were segregated in a pasture all their own le es a PIO * a

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4 manne deinen a SS SS —— ——~ ss —— by the really good people is rapidly passing away. Whiff by whiff the spicy haut goat, the strong gamy flavor, is being blown out of the automobile industry. The unscented air of straight business methods is rushing into factory and salesroom, and the effect of this pure draft has astonished even the staunch advocates of the fresh-air cure At the convention of the agents for a certain make of car, last summer, the owner of the agency in the far south- western corner of the country was called upon to explain why his territory with its scant half million population absorbed a larger portion of the factory’s output than any other agency, the New York branch house with its field ten times larger not excepted. The selling ability of the Westerner was a mystery to his colleagues. They knew that competition among automobile dealers in the leader's vicinity had a sharper edge than in almost any other city Disappointment awaited them Put your nose to the grindstone and keep it there until the stone is worn smooth, was the substance of the leader’s story. He had graduated from the bicycle shop into the garage, had learned the automobile business from the bottom up in factory and shop, he told the audience. He had stuck to his car when other agents dropped their line to chase the butterfly of a season's extraordinary faddish popularity, and had paid just as much attention to his customers after as before the sale. In his opinion joy rides, wine suppers and similar arguments were of little value. If he could not seli his allotment of cars without stimulants, he said, he would hitch up with another maker “T always assume that the prospective buyer has ordinary intelligence,"’ he continued; “that he is not paying out several thousand dollars without having informed himself as to the relative merits of the various proposed investments; and I infer that his attention proves his knowledge of and interest in my car. There- fore I do not, as a rule, try to show the buyer what the Harnessing HE auto rumbled over a bridge which spanned a noisy stream, climbed a small wooded knoll, and the country home, ablaze with electric light, lay below us “Where in the world do you get the electricity from?’ I questioned with astonishment, for I had expected no such convenience so far from the city ‘Get it out of that brook we just crossed, answered my companion indifferently “Out of the brook!” I cried, suspecting that he was trying to have some fun at my expense Sure, out of the brook,’’ he retorted convine- ingly. ‘‘ We've harnessed the stream down ther in the valley and are making the water do a large part of the work on this big farm nowadays, when hired help is so scarce and high-priced.” That next morning I hurried out to watch the new hired man, Electricity, milk the cows, prepare the feed for the stock, pump the water, separate and churn the cream and do most of the other chores about the farm buildings All this was on the magnificent country estate well named Heart’s Delight, and owned by Mr. W H. Miner, at Chazy, Clinton County, New York This estate covers an area of fifty-one hundred and sixty acres, surrounding the old Miner homestead of one hundred and fifty acres. Twelve hundred acres are under cultivation and a like number are used for pasturage. The remainder is pretty woodland, cloth- ing hill and dale, fell and fen in majestic foliage There are many things of interest about this won- derful country home, from the elk, deer and buffalo in the pretty little park to the fine herds of pure- bred shorthorn Durham and Guernsey cattle, the Dorset sheep and the registered Percheron and Belgian horses. The bird-fancier could profitably spend his time looking over the different breeds of choice fowls or the squab industry, and the sportsman would be more than interested in the well-equipped fish hatchery where trout are propagated. But for me, with an engineering bent, nothing was worth noticing until I had studied this wonderful electrical power which I found on every hand so busy with the farmwork. Nearly three years ago it was when Mr. Miner decided to provide his farm with electricity for light and power, and so successful was this initial installation that the plant has been added to from time to time, resulting in a most complete and novel application of electricity to farmwork For hundreds of years two streams had noisily traversed the Miner farm, the smaller known as Tracy Brook, the THE SATURDAY EVENING car will do, but rather how it does its work ride of a few hours, with a hill or tw and an invitation t lunch if it happens to be the noon hour, is usua ly sufficier to convince a prospect who is really interested never hesitate, if he wants more proof, to duplicate any of my competitors’ stunts “a keep no special cars ik The model the customer wants is tak salesroom and tried out. If I were in the drvyg ness I expect my customer would become suspicious should I quote him a price on one bolt of silk and cut hi other bolt ear is sold | impress upon the buyer the order from ; desirability of making speed slowly, of learning the opera tion of the car thoroughly, and of studying the effect of every lever upon the engine and transmission before venturing far from home. Should something happen despite instructions and warnings, I always have time to help. In one case I dropped all business in the midst of the season and drove two hundred miles into the desert where a new buyer's car was marooned through fault. He had to pay for the repair job, but I did not charge him a cent for the four-hundred-mile trip. He has been a good income-producing friend ever since nis own This agent is one of the fow eutom le ilesmer beyond the reach of the fake prospect Phe ne bought annually for these mosquitoes of the motor-car trade could float a torpedo boat; the cigars they consume would supply i thousand candidates with election arguments and a whole factory could be kept busy turning out machines for their exclusive use. Only a few months ago the auto- mobile dealers of a Western city, stung so often that they were eXasperate d beyond endurance, determined to make f a well-to-do professional man, the worst of an example « the city’s fake buyers, who had twice made the joy-ride round of the agencies and was starting on his third iap the Home Stream—By Donald C. Shaf + * pr Pee —- his Five-Horse-Power Motor Drives All the Farm Machinery streams had been « ver called the Chaz River, and all this while these loing littke more than make a merry noise over the rocks and pebbles. Investigation proved that they offered cheap and reliable sources of power, and the engineers decided that it was time they went to worl if they were to continue “‘living”’ with Mr. Miner. Three small concrete dams were thrown across the Tracy Brook giving a reservoir area of one hundred and seve acres A concrete penstock, forty-four inches in diameter and six hundred and seventy feet long, carries the water from the lower dam to a tiny power-house, under a nineteen-foot head, where it dashes against the blades of tw« powerful reaction turbine water-wheels. On each water-wheel shaft POST A reception committes Va ready when the prospect, t appointme \ ea ext ad stration It was a | i and e fake r settled back complace y int he cus} en the Id p ed i er rhe yered Wine eid Lhe peed Car ind fanned | wee 2 i range e ca n dropped d r | eep descent ir \ t bare ele Valle ind, alter \ . i engtn entered thie ot! of the main range \ few mile tne ear sever ther mac nes carry rece t committee caretu ept out I yt { t id car stopped in a cafion blazing with the heat reflected m Lhe ilis of roct I was just about to sugge hat we turn ba remarked the passenger as the a vung around I am satisfied that your car is an excellent hill-climber and rides smoothly over rough road Now let see What speed she'll develop on the park boulevard Without re} lying the ilesman completed the tur et the handbrake and, a sardonic grin hovering about hi lips, faced the fake buyer. When it came, his answer wa short and to the point Get! Che Passe er stared at | pee ( wonder Get ou Q ra r 1 out i he viesmar wd Ut rabbed t! prospec ‘ iu ind acceler ed his exit > the ar e-deep d t 4 the otner cars art d or rhe ene Look here!’’ he said triumpha vhen the protest ing passe ‘ began to demand explana rr { just fifty-four miles from home by the speedometer, and walking good. It's afineexercise — much healthierthan riding i sutomohbilk ou ne er expect to bu Step e] vhen ut é We'll mark the way for y inc dor you ever how your face again in any salesroom asking for a demor tratior Continued on Page 62 MAN er is fastened the revolving armature of an electric dynamo, one of forty horse-power and one of seven een horse-power, generating direct current at a pressure of two hundred and twenty volt Phi electrical energy transmitted over a pole line one mile and a quarter to a small distributing station located in the main group ol farm building Such was the initial equipment but the new hired mar did hi wort thor hl and 0 well, never complaining about early risir never objecting to serubbing the milk car vr turt thie ‘ etting mad al jul t five acres of hay were ir! that it was decided nt on the © hazy cat ! »ever’r pol mn dan ilt to hold a second dam Was con ‘ the Vat r vheel ne bene ( ithirt 1 il T ne We DI vater in falling that ites its power. Th Vater irried t e Little Cl p r-hou throug i concrete | ‘ f eight by sixty inc ne and x hundred and thirty tee in length where it pour int conerete tlun Through tee] pipe tne pent p wate ith the f r nea three hundred ( I NNvUY rbine ind generator nt e potentia er tne ter iiternatir current pre re venty-three indred t if ( | carried ( Wire rur nt ke ind three jua tothe same little cet il distributir i I No expense wa pared t n e these powe house the most pe t mod f their kind Be le eiIng a nr ed tne elep mM re tne ire equipped wit! t indanda mati ver ors and ntr r >the se car t be interrupted | accident and can be ea ( 1 under i conditior In the central power! ire ited tne t board from which the electricit controlled er irious distributing line transformer for lowering the oltage or pressure and the motor-generatin é ) change the alternating current from the little Cha power-station into direct current for farm us¢ There also a storage battery, so that the electricit rie i not stop even if some accident should happen to the generat irces Thi batter With a Cay t x hundr ampere-hours, is also used as a “ balancer” to keep

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18 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST voltage steady and for lighting and power after 9:30 P. M., at which time the hydro-electric plants are shut down for the night. This storage battery is merely a reservoir for storing electricity for future use At Heart’s Delight farm the wiring from building to building is all concealed underground in conduits. Besides the lighting of the homes and farm buildings with hundreds if incandescent lamps, the yards and roadways are lighted with flaming are lamps. There are numerous motors on the place, ranging all the way from the tiny fellow that grinds the food for the growing trout to the twenty-five-horse- power motor which prepares feed for the horses and cattle In the main dairy barn a ten-horse-power motor unloads ind handles the hay. With this apparatus a ton of hay may be unloaded and stored in either end of the large loft by two men in less than five minutes. On the main floor of this barn is a feed-cutting machine for preparing fodder r the cattle, run by a smaller motor, and in the dairy ection a one-and-a-half-horse-power motor operates the vacuum pump for the milking-machines. There are five milking-machines in use, milking ten cows at the same time, the suction being applied by an automatic valve on each device, imitating perfectly the effect of hand milking, with the added assurance of absolute cleanliness, asthe machines areallinclosed. After being tested the milk is run through notor-driven separator in the milk-room on the same floor and the cream taken to the butter-making section This cream is “ripened” in a covered tank before it is churned by electric power. Near the dairy is an electric ice-making plant and refrigerator with a capacity of twenty tons of ice every twenty-four hours, the ammonia and brine pumps being operated by electric power This ice is used for domestic purposes, for cold storage and for hipping perishable pr ducts The large motor used to drive the grist mill in another building is so arranged that it can be readily taken into the fields for threshing purposes. In all the other buildings where power is required there you will find a busy little electric motor doing the work that formerly had to be done by hand, horse or steam power. In the house the laundry has been electrified with motor-driven washing-machines, wringers, centrifugal dryers, mangles and electric flatirons. Among the other auxiliary electric devices at the cottage are an electric piano, complete electric heating and cooking devices, meat choppers, buffer and grinders, motor-driven ice-cream freezer and numerous electric fans. On top of one of the fire-tank towers is an electrical instrument which automatically records on a chart in the house a continuous record of the speed and direction of the wind, the amount of moisture in the air and the precipitation Flectricity Everywhere at Work N THE fish-hatchery a small motor runs the grinding- machine which prepares the food for the trout confined insmalleoncrete ponds, A seven-horse-power motor drives a centrifugal pump, automatically maintaining a large supply of spring water in a steel tower tank for use in the refrigerator plant. Water for fire protection is forced by two hydraulic rams to a sixty-thousand-gallon tank one hundred feet above ground on a steel tower. There is also a complete sausage-making plant, including a meat cutter and mixing-machine driven by a four-horse-power motor, which also supplies power to the machine that prepares the waste bone and gristle for chicken feed lhe time and labor saved, the insured safety and sani- tation, the well-lighted buildings express more eloquently than mere words the enormous value of this electric service. Electricity is the genie that accomplishes the hard work and the wonders about this model farm. It does a hundred things and on every hand greets one with a new and novel ap- plication Gf this mysteri- The plant is as modern engi- Vu forces periect. as neering met ods can devise and has-been in successful operation forsever al yeals, each month's record show ing the vast amount of labor saved by harnessing the streams and the elec- trical conveniences en- joved by those who live on thi estate. By night t ngs and the yards are ablaze with elec- t lights and by day the | uildings busy motors doing the work of scores of hired men. This plant, one of the most perfect of its kind, cost thousands of hum with many dollars, and yet it can truthfully be said to be a paying investment, the annual cost of maintenance being far below the actual saving in labor and farm costs for other and inferior power and light “We have had electric service for a period of about three years,”’ said the foreman enthusiastically, ‘and I think we have proved that the electric motor can be suc- cessfully and economically applied to all the machinery on a farm. The electrical machinery is especially long-lived and our yearly bills for repairs are very small. ‘Formerly we had both traction and stationary engines and a host of horses and men to do this work, but thanks to those busy streams all that old bother and fire risk has been eliminated. Today we can have the power where we want it, scattered all over the place, always ready and willing. With a reel of insulated cable we can carry our twenty-five-horse-power portable motor anywhere about the farm. It does more work than a traction engine and requires no engineer to tend it. In cur machine shops elec- tric motors drive the band saw, circular saw, boring mills, lathe, wood planer and the drills, and our blacksmith shop will soon be completely electrified. In the sheep barn the electric power does work very similar to that done in the dairy. There are in all twenty-seven motors on the place, aggregating one hundred and thirty horse-power; such flexibility of power would be out of the question with steam or gasoline engines.”’ A Small Plant That Makes Money OWN through an old pasture on the farm of Jared Van Wagenen, Junior, at Lawyersville, New York, flows a very little stream which one can easily step across unless the water is high. A little over half a mile from the house is an old mill-dam covering about three acres, built long ago when tiny sawmills dotted the East * About eight years ago I began to figure on how to get this power to the house where it could do a little work,” said Mr. Van Wagenen My first thought was to carry it there by belt cables, but figures proved that the friction would eat up the five horse-power available. Electric power, easily transmitted with little loss, was the only solu- tion. I talked with many who understood electricity and its engineering features and most of them laughed at the idea of such a small installation. Had I wanted to con- struct a million-dollar plant there would have been whole libraries of advice; but a small plant to run entirely alone and be controlled by a seven-hundred-foot wire was evi- dently anovelty. Aftera good deal of studying and feeling my way the plans were made and the work begun ‘The stream being so small the most rigid economy of water had to be observed, so I installed a nine-inch upright turbine in an upright wooden case, building the case myself, where it would get the most benefit of the fifteen- foot head. This turbine, furnishing about five horse- power, I belted to a three-kilowatt or four-horse-power, one-hundred-and-twenty-five-volt direct-current genera- tor, which would easily take care of seventy-five metal filament incandescent lamps. I next installed a water- wheel governor to insure a steady flow of electricity. It took about seventy-four hundred feet of weatherproof copper wire, strung on wooden poles which were cut on the farm, to carry the electricity to my home and the farm buildings and to the house of a neighbor. As it is more than half a mile from the house to the plant it is out of the question to go there every night and morning to stop and start the machinery. Of course it is possible to let this plant run night and day during the wet seasons, but in dry times it is best to save the water when the power Is not > fone ae oS we . , = ee WS nis “ag REO : "SEF ae : : forty lights from dusk till midnight, and after that wm Milking-Machine Operated by Vacuum Pump Driven by Small Electric Motor June 4,1910 needed. A neighbor living about seven hundred feet from the power station kindly starts and stops the machinery with a wire stationed at his bedroom window. This wit controls a valve and counterweight. At five o'clock in the morning he pulls the wire and the lights come on and at a certain hour of the night he releases the wire and they go out. In payment for this service I light his house and barns free of charge. “Our maintenance charges are very small —almost negligible. I think our water-wheel behaves better every year. Carbon brushes for the generator last a long while and oil isa very smallitem. Each year I am improving th plant, and very soon I expect to install a motor-driven washing-machine and wringer to prepare the clothes for the electric iron and to put a vacuum cleaning outfit in the house * Although I consider the cost of our plant about $500, it was installed under the most rigid economy in every respect and mainly by my own hands. The dam was already built and needed only some trifling repairs. Tt gate control is my own get-up, and while the cost is trifling it took considerable study to get it to work right. I did most of the house wiring, using concealed knob and tube work for the living-rooms of the house; moulding and open wiring for the other rooms and forthe barns. This mate- rial cost me about $40. Of course I do not in any instance figure in my own labor as the work was all done at odd times.” his little plant, with the dam already built, cost Mr Van Wagenen about $500, as follows INSTALLATION Dynamo, 3 kw. (second-hand) . $ 50.00 Water-wheel, 9 kw. (naked wheel) 55.00 Governor (new) 75.00 Wire (7400 feet) 210.00 Labor (installing water-wheel) 10.00 Fixtures: lamps and the like 38.00 One small motor, 2 h.p. (new 10.00 Total . $518.00 PROFIT AND Los Interest on investment S 27 Depreciation 66.00 Repairs, lubricating oil 5.00 Improvements annually 30.0 Total... $128.50 Hired power saved: threshing, ensilage, sawing and $ 45.00 Oil fuel saved . 10.00 Labor saved —one man yearly ; 350.00 Total ° ° P . i 5 $405.00 Yearly saving . Ds 2 ell $405.00 Yearly cost . 128.50 Net profit annually $276.50 A Busy California Trout Brook 0" COURSE Mr. Van Wagenen’s home and barns are well lighted with electricity and those of his good neigh- bor likewise. About the barns a small but powerful elec- tric motor of about three horse-power drives the milk separator, grindstone, milling-machines, feed cutters, runs the hayfork, fanning mill, and furnishes enough power to milk the cows, cut the ensilage and do a hundred other things about the place. It will do the work of one hired man the year around and saves countless steps and endl chores which are the bane of every countryman Not more than fifty miles east of Sacramento, California near the hamlet of Colfax, Mr. Ellis Franklin owns small farm. A little trout stream, rioting among the foothills and across the farm in a series of falls and rapids, en route to its de tination in the Bear River has been detained a little while at this farm, whe it cheerfully dons the in- visible mantle of electricit and does most of the m« chanical worl ibout the premises, heats and lights the building, and does the ti ing, Ir cooking, wast and numerous chores rhis little plant is as nearly fool-proof as it was possible to make it It re- quires practically no atten- tion and the power-house need not be visited more other small than once a week with a supply of oil. Every night in the year the plant car- ries an average of thirty to Continued on Page 60 ‘ f

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eae — ee ae Pit ek eee | XII HAT was the remembered. Old-time drill-runners ‘‘ driving tunnel”’ around stoves of far- off camps still tell of it: the winter of the forty-foot drifts at the summit, of the pneumonia epidemic, the falling rock and the big free fight. Gray clouds hung low among the hidden peaks and the air was heavy with flakes for days at a time Trains stuck in foothill cuts and the camp was out of the world for long intervals. Chinook winds swept lazily inland and ate the snow in a night Right after them came zero weather, and the damp air, suddenly congealed to sharpness, left sickness in the bunkhouses. It was the winter of which they tell when the carelessly-buried dead appeared in the camp’s little graveyard among the hemlocks on the mountainside at every thaw. Shaking rock masses peeled away from the heading roof three times that winter, crushing men as they fell. A heading-runner, mucking out after a shot, thrust his pick point into a stick of unexploded dynamite and vanished utterly, taking half a dozen others with him. A somber, gray winter of fatalities, and there was no sun It was a winter of restlessness and disorganization Men growled over the quality of the food and quit good jobs for no tangible reason. The lust for mov- the curse of the hard-rock men, the sary affliction that made them ready to go anywhere where progress called for labor —-descended upon many. Twenty drill-runners disappeared one pay- day, and it was three months before the first of them drifting back. By bunkhouse these prodigals told of work in sunny California, of work in Alaska where wages ran to eight and ten dollars a day, and of work at Galveston where Gulf breezes had fanned their cheeks. The their auditors restless. Rumors of other jobs were spre ading constantly and getting serious discussion jobs in far places, inviting because the distance was great; jobs with fabulous wages magnified by those who discoursed upon them Tom heard the talk; he listened to it many even- It made something stir within him, something which he did not understand, a vague blood move- ment that kept him restless at night and aroused dissatisfaction when he was at work. He wanted to go somewhere else; he had been here too long Twice, when he drew his check, it was only the acci- dent of snowbound trains that held him to the camp That winter Jerry Morley got a shift of hard fisted, reckless runners and left the job with the most of them to loaf for weeks in the Gem dance- hall, until they gave the place so hard a name that Jack Tarpy, the walker, led a storming party to drive the revelers back to work. In Mexican deserts and beneath the shadows of Alaskan glaciers they sing epics of that fight today. It was the big payday, the one that came two weeks late because of delayed trains Other paydays stood out in Snowslide’s history; above them all the one in March of that year. The hemlock forests were black below the glistening summits that after- noon; in the cafion soggy drifts had grown dull gray. The breeze from the seaboard carried with it damp warmth; it was heavy with that mournful laziness of air that makes the blood stir in the veins and brings memories of places which one has never seen. In the darkening afternoon it sighed among the hemlock: and the shift, emerging from the tunnel’s depths, stared vaguely off into the whis- pering branches above the gray snow. One or two of the men halted and lifted their faces, snuffing as horses smell the air They were big men, strong with the animal within them They were close to the earth. It moved them subtly; they did not know how. This first touch of spring, lower- ing from dark, damp skies, fell over them and enwrapped them like a blanket. It was the call of grasses in their first stirring to uncurl beneath the unborn flowers, of fair skies still uncleared; the summons of the season, that had always bidden their forebears, but little rougher and little hairier than themselves; to pick up their spears and wander. The earth called, and as the call reached them they became vaguely discontent Tom strode among them, his big face to the breeze, his eyes set far away. He was uneasy; the feeling that had over him in the winter when he harkened to the tales of other places was with him now: that and some- thing more. He walked in silence, and suddenly he caught his breath without knowing why. The stirring air carried by a faint whiff of balsam. High overhead came the call of wild geese, speeding northward ing on neces- came stoves tales made ings snow, of come which Snow vaeetctines A S tory O f { h © | | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By FRED R. BE BAe Arms a Light Burden She Lay in His the There were sixty of the shift, walking together to and as each man depot where their checks awaited them left the station window he went straight toward the town The Old Man with the the office, heard the tramp ol their passing feet and looked gossiping Doctor in post- around at them. He knew them as they did not know themselves. He turned to the Doctor ‘There'll be the devil to pay tonight,”’ said |} He was of their breed; his body had grown big living their life. He stepped to the door and the soft, warm breeze came to his nostrils. He sniffed Looking upward suddenly, *‘ Wild geese,”’ he said. He stood there in the doorway while the men trooped by. ‘* The devil to pay,” he repeated to himself. The heavy air fanned hi cheek, carrying damp odors of the hidden ear He looked in at the Doctor I’m goin’ to stay downtown an watch ut,’’ he muttered The row of flimsy. wooden buildir hat comprised the town showed like a yellow scar agal the gray 10W 3efore them the sidewalk shook to the tramp of heavy feet Overhead the cloth gns billowed lazily and ragged streamers from their edges flutte relessly Withir the wide doors the long rooms wert ing Groups of mer talked noisily before the unpainted pine bar The bar- tenders polished their glass¢ teadily, getting ready for the long night’s work; they were beady-eyed men wit hair plastered tight over low foreheads At the greet clothed tables the lead-faced gamblers ran stacks of chi together between long, white fingers, m: noise; the sound came ceaselessly, sugge 1V that made it, alluring. In the rear, where the raised floor extended back beneath acetylene lamps knots of dance- hall women were laughing mirthlessly at nothing At the station window the last of the waiting line was melting before the agent’s swift payment He was a RA ard-Rock Men rE D BY H ‘ wt ni tl ul H tr \ i hi p it and dep ul ke acl last, | help ul hel pe \ H n in nr i thing Hi i had er felt the heavy within him, the aceur heat and strengtl It p his limbs leads ea demanding that be ‘ male animals wer rubbing their 1 u the hea il I Vill to fight one a t } tinctive ! t wave ol! di l lor for the blac } camp the cook} here bunkhouse where | He yawned a ! ** Lookin’ fer tro isd He took his pla kin’ fer throut ‘ shoulder Kennedy iid the h tellin’ ye, he rom turned with h wit’ Kennedy he vled He valked i he and Kennedy had rut heading Sometime Lo ! the Dynamiter As tl forme r had 1OWLY tor ed n it had been he wl a rr And i there remained oF ority between ther rh it had growr Phe close to elbow, 1! r spe taking sidelong note « there had {rT wr it t the innate difference made each antayor th ing. The mer it the because these the camp had come to thing that mu me for this thing — the ultimat« le ority, the testing of man ag But Tom was not thinkir camp lay ahead of him, t} bunkhouses and the cookho going there; he intended p I hap he might see son I this month But the th him he was nT tne From the upper air brant, leading his floct laggard where the lespr halted in | ract 1} n in soft car Then he | anced whence it had vooden bu In th Man ing up lat th H board sidew t n the cu ] n it of laughte H itche nem a 1 el indow at h I suddenly the gue I became a lor Hest I his back tl mp; he | The Old Man and the p tfice door as he passs thei rds came to hin \W with you,”’ the D We e'n we Ne) | han Ar lhey'll be thre hru tl And have a little di I 1) Doctor said He can | | back here My wife awa I wisht mine i rr hear

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The sidewalk before the dance-halls was lined with the men of Snowslide. Many still wore the garb in which they had toiled —oilskins, rubber boots and squam hats, the squam hats tilted back from their lined foreheads. They leaned against the sidewalk’s rail, talking in groups; their laughter boomed; their faces were alight; recklessness blazed from them. Now and then a knot of them swag- red away together into one of the wide doors. Again one “ame forth from a saloon, riding aggressively; another followed, leaping, eaperu heavily in his rub- ber boots, whooping. Al- ways from within came the babel of mngrues, the click of the hips, the metallic beat of the pianos. Before the ilk the ¢ now Was li tere i W n he ips of broken bottles; overhead the cloth signs billowed lazily, their ragged edge ing in the u Dreeze ‘ar-tender m the ine at the rail. He smote t with his gnarled broad face was expanded. to a laugh; his big features reeked with happin ss. ‘‘Comeon!” he ered ‘Come on, an’ have a drink! He struck Tom again ind piled epithets him, endearing each upor appellation by the word “Old Where you been ? he demanded as though they hud not seen each other for months. He repeated the question aggressively at in- tervals. They went together to Riley's dance-hall. It was the rendezvous of the older drill-runners, the hard- rock men Among them it was whispered that the Old Mau had an intere n the The Heavy Breeze Touched His Cheeks in Soft Caress pluce ind so they clung to it inste f the others Rui yy, Dimseil, Wa behind the bar, at the end by the safe,cashing pay checks. As he got his money every man moved a few feet to one side and slapped some of it down, calling for a drin| hen the bartender, pushing forward ossed the coin into the cash register; and the was begun. Giving out the money, Riley smiled : non-committal smile. He was a big-waisted rewd-eyed, imperturbable. Always he kept one eye roving between the bartender and the cash register The car-tender introduced Tom to him, and the three of them drank togethe? Then Riley pressed cigars upon them and insisted that they remain in the place. ‘* Enjoy “1 his cigar upward and puffed aggressively. Tom clenched his between his teeth so that it slarrted downward, and looked about the room. Already the heaviness was leaving his limbs; the vague uneasiness was departing before a fierce warmth. The liquor was beginning to work. He thrust his big hand into his pocket. Let have another he said them the hard-faced men of Snowslide were moving restle vy like milling cattle, shouting, muttering, exploding oaths; the gamblers were droning their ceaseless invitation in singsong monotone, clicking their celluloid chips in long accompaniment; on the raised dance-floor the women were smoking, laughing lrearily. He watched iem, puffing slowly at his cigar, listening gravely to the ar-tender now grown enthusiastic over smali things ikwennedy's down to the Gem,” said the car-tender wally He says he’s goin’ to hammer yer head off.” rom scowled lis aisy ter Kennedy to talk,’” he rrowled Lave him blow if he likes ut; I ain’t huntin’ hroubl As they roamed around the room many spoke to Tom; he seemed to be enter of attractivn. Men with whom he had never had words hunted him out, and every one of them had something to say of the Dynamiter, some repe- tition of threa or the most part wildly exaggerated Although he responded to them lightly or not at all, Tom felt | inger rise, and he felt, more definitely, the grim an hat had grown during the winter. Finally, after an hour, he turned away irritably from two drill- runners who were harping on the subject. ‘* Let’s go eat,” he said to the car-tender ‘I’m hungry ; Riley called to them as they passed toward the door. They nodded, and he resumed his placid Coming back THE SATURDAY EVENING POST demeanor, watching the bartender’s treatment of the cash register from the tail of his eye. In the door they collided with Jack Tarpy. The walker was hurrying in as though he had been called on business. His face was set with determination. ‘‘Come an’ watch me,"’ he said. ‘‘I’m goin’ to bust that crap game. Ill get back what ut’s got from me. Come on!”’ They shook their heads. ‘‘ We're off to eat,’’ said the car-tender. ‘““Come in when ye're tru,” called Tarpy after them. ‘‘ Ye’ll find me here, gettin’ that tinhorn’s roll.” At Dolan’s, Jerry Morley andthe Gunner hailed them joyfully. ‘““We lukked fer ye at the Gem,” grinned Jerry. “Yer friend the Dyna- miter’s over there.” The four of them were sitting together midway down theroom. Inthe rear they saw the Old Man and the Doctor dining with two of the civil engineers. The table was resplendent with white linen and silver knives and forks At its head the Doctor sat, white-collared, his loud- patterned tweeds neatly pressed. His manner was punctilious. The engineers were badgering him about some escapade in Spokane which they had invented. He smiled, half liking it ‘Really, now, gentlemen!”’ he said. *‘ My word! What rot! Absurd!” The Old Man drank his wine at a gulp and joined in the chaffing. His wit set them all into a roar of laughter. “The ould divil,”’ said Jerry “He's billed fer a jamboree tonight. I know the signs.”’ The Gunner looked at Tom quizzically as they went out. ‘Want to go to the Gem?” he asked. Tom shook his head. ‘I'll hunt no throuble,” he asserted. They followed him to Riley The place was full now. Men stood in a long line before the bar; they danced on the raised platform with listless women; they moved restlessly about the middle of the room, hunting companions, hunting enemies, jostling one another, laughing, cursing. The pianos were thumping; the gamblers were droning their ceaseless singsong invi- tations, clicking their stacks of chips. Through the wide doors the sounds went forth where the flare of the acetylene lamps fell on the gray snow, hardening now to crispness in the clean, cold air of night Riley greeted them with his non-committal smile. They drank with him, and while they were raising their glasses a man shouldered his way roughly among them, throwing a yellow-backed bill upon the bar. It was Jack Tarpy His face was grim; hard lines crevassed it. He did not look atthem. ‘* Your dice are crooked,” he cried to Riley. ‘* I'll beat them yet.”’ He burst into curses ‘*Have a drink,” said Riley calmly. The walker guiped down the whisky and stamped back to the crap- table They saw him there, half an hour later, bending over it as he threw the dice, watching them as they roiled, swearing at them, talking to them as though they were alive and would obey him Late in the evening the Old Man and the Doctor came; with them were the two civil engineers. Riley gave them chairs behind the bar, and they sat watching the crowd The eyes of many went toward them. Then a nipper boy rushed in and shouted something excitedly. The Gunner turned to Tom they were standing at the bar's edge **Kennedy is comin’,”’ he said Outside sounded the heavy tramp of booted feet, and a dozen of the Coeur d'Aleners trooped in. The Dynamiter was among them; he loomed above them all. His deep- lined face was aflame with ferocity; his bleared eyes gy’ “nated beneath his frowning brows. The noises of the long 1 om died X11 HE Coeur d’Aleners advanced straight to the bar. The tramp of their booted feet was the only sound in the place. Rough voices stopped in mid-syllables; the piano halted on a high note; the women ceased dancing and stood, abandoned by their partners. Even the lead-faced gamblers dropped their shuffling chips. Every eye was on the invaders The y gained the bar and stood, backs to i June 4,1910 their faces toward the room. Twelve men, they held their places as though this were to be a stand against the crowd They were not popular. Good drill-runners, each and all, they were of a strange breed, miners among hard-rock men. Pariahs in the mountains whence they had come, blacklisted by employers, feared by many of the working- men whose cause their violence had hurt, they had wandered here to find sidelong looks and rivalry. And they had met both boldly. Always they had hung together, a minor faction. As they stood, shoulder to shoulder, their reckless eyes swept the silent room. Their lined faces, deeper lined this night from drink, challenged those on whom they looked. Then Kennedy moved toward Tom and the silence passed. The crowd surged forward. Its center now, the point toward which its members were pressing, was the spot where these two giants stood, side by side. Each of them was facing the bar; the elbow of each was touching the elbow of the other. And neither yielded ground. Kennedy slammed down a coin. ‘‘Give us a drink!”’ he shouted. Behind their white obscuration his eyes shot fire. Though the Dynamiter was pressing hard against him Tom did not move. He was ignoring Kennedy elaborately too elaborately. It could not last. The situation was pregnant; the fight was there, about to burst. It needed but one slight movement from either man, a single word of direct address. Kennedy prepared to speak that word. He tossed his liquor down his thick, corded throat and turned toward Tom, a sneer upon his lips. At the same moment the Doctor leaped up on his chair. Standing on this eminence he raised a thin, white hand. ‘Gentlemen! he cried. The eyes in the room went toward him. Tom and Kennedy raised their faces to stare at him. He stood straight, tall, high-collared, immaculate in his loud- patterned tweeds, his hand upraised. His voice was elaborately formal as though this rough crowd were a polite audience. He paused a moment in this attitude, and then: **Gentlemen,”” he repeated, ‘‘in behalf of my friends, Mr. Ryan and Mr. Riley, | have a few words to say to you.”” Those who were near heard a muttered oath from the Old Man and saw the Doctor's hand sweep toward him in a silencing gesture as he continued in impressive tones: ‘‘In the first place I have an invitation to deliver. lL ask you, each and all, to take your places quietly at the bar and have a drink on me. And whilk you drink, gentlemen, | would ask Mr. Morton and Mr Kennedy to step behind the bar. We have a word to say to them.” He paused. A babei rose, voices raised in exultation at the invitation, voices raised in anvger, cries of disap- pointment. These last rose above the others. He heard them, and raised his hand. ‘‘Just a moment,” he cried loudly, and the silence fell again. *‘ There will bea fight, he shouted. A whoop of joy rose from the room's four corners, and the crowd shoved forward en masse upon the bar The Doctor bent down and whispered a word in Ryan ear. The Old Man looked up in astonishment, then admi- ration. Then he beckoned imperiously to Tom and Kennedy. As they came he turned again to the Doctor “Ye saved a merry free-fer-all,”” he said. ‘‘And nawthin else wud."’ The Doctor's eyes were upon the two approaching giants. ‘‘Look at them!” he said. ‘* My word! Think of the fight this will be!’’ He rubbed his hands. The Old Man turned to Tom and Kennedy. ‘‘ Now,” said he, ‘‘listen here, ye two, to what I'm tellin’ ye. Ye want to fight. "There's no need to talk of that. And, anny- how, ye ve got to fight We're goin’ to let ye do ut right, understand? We'll have no rough-house ere. It’s ye two fer ut, see? Stand up and knock down. I'll see fair play meself; and who fouls has me to deal wit’. Get back now to yer friends and sthrip. We'll call ye when we want ye.” Big Jerry and the Gunner met Tom as he came from behind the bar. With them was the car-tender. His face was no longer wide with mirth; he looked anxious. ‘* Doe told us,”’ said Big Jerry, ‘‘’tis London prize-ring. Fine business!” **Come on,” ordered the Gunner, squinting abstractedly as though he were thinking of many details. ‘* Back to the dance-floor. Kennedy is sthrippin’ be the sthove. Ye c’n lick him to a frazzle.”’ The car-tender followed them in silence as they went, his grave eyes fixed on Tom. ‘*Now,”’ said the Gunner as he unbuttoned Tom's shirt, ‘get to his shoes, Jerry. Listen to me, lad. Ye're two av a build, but ye shud tear his block off, bein’ as the whisky’s got him years ago, and his wind has gone. All he has over ye is the science. This is London prize-ring. That means stand up and fight fair, no bitin’, gougin’ or foulin’. When ye knock him down ye get a rest~-and not until. And yé cannot hit him when he’s down. Understand?” Tom nodded absently. He looked at Kennedy strip- ping by the stove, surrounded by his fellows, laughing with them; and then he saw the car-tender staring at him, and he smiled. The car-tender smiled faintly back “Stay wit’ ut,”’ he said as cheerfully as he knew how. as ‘ ‘ ¥ ea H iM (

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ee ’ h) h ‘ ; it fl q ¢ ie by & Down in the center of the room the Old Man looked up from superintendence of half a dozen drill-runners who were roping off the ring. ‘‘Where’s Jack Tarpy?” he cried. There was no answer. He repeated it, and some one pointed to the crap-table, deserted now by all save the walker and the dealer. Ryan made the distance in two strides and returned, his hand in Tarpy’s coat-collar. ‘I thought I had yer promise that ye’d stay on the work this day?” he was saying slowly. ‘Now, Mr. Tarpy, in the marnin’ we make that trip to Leavenworth on the freight, me and ye, and ye sign the pledge fer wan year. Mind that. Here, get half a dozen men at the ropes, and keep back the crowd!’ A moment later the Gunner, hustling Tom into the ring, whispered into his ear. ‘‘ Remember this,” he said: ‘he’s full of whisky, and has not the wind. Keep yer eye on his eye always, and make him move round.”’ Looking up he saw the Doctor, a gold watch in one hand, signal to Ryan with the other that the time was up. He bent his head close to Tom's again for the final word *He’s been tellin’ all over town how he’ll hammer ye.” “Stand up!” The Old Man’s voice came sharply. Tom rose, and saw the Dynamiter coming toward the center of the ring. He felt the push of the Gunner’s hand, and went to meet him. Ryan stepped between them. “Shake hands!” he ordered. Their big palms met; their eyes were on the ground; it seemed as though they could not look into each other's face and refrain from striking The Old Man back; Tom found himself facing Kennedy. And then it came over him that he did not know how to fight It appalled him for an instant; whelmed him ' stood the realization over- All other things became as nothing. He could not fight! This was no rough-and-tumble mélée in a bunkhouse —this cold-blooded arrangement, where he must fight by rule. It made him feel uncertain. He stood, his big hands clenched at his sides, and his eyes went to Kennedy The Dynamiter was leaping toward him swinging his huge fists. Tom raised his hands and Ken- né dy s fists shot forward, the left and then the right. The floor seemed to rise and strike him heavily He was up in an instant. He did not hear the roar from the crowd. He did not feel the Gunner’s arms about his waist, the push of the Old Man’s fist against his chest. He only felt the sting of a blow that had come full and fair upon his mouth, and the trickle of warm blood upon his He mad with it They dragged him, , to his seat now; lower lip was struggling Aisy, he heard the Gunner saying finally. “Ye young fool, aisy and listen to me. Do ye hear me now?” Tom nodded and stopped struggling. He saw the Gunner's puckered face close to his, while Big Jerry clung to his and the car-tender gazed at him anxiously) He nodded iin and turned to the Gunner. “ How soon do I get at him? “Soon enough,” growled the little man. “ Listen now to me. Ye must kape yer head, and watch him yer eye on his, right on his to Never take ut off When strikes at ye —dodge ut wit’ yer head. aisy, aisy,”’ 1 1egS8 * he asked Kape Then ye see W hen he is poing hit he leads-- when he THE SATURDAY Instinctively Tom raised his fist \ roar came from the crowd the Coeur d’Aleners mack ull 4 roar of derision. Tom did not hear it: } va Kennedy's eyes. They met, foot to foot, and at once he saw the eyes flash a message, the message of a cor blow. Then he struck out with all the mad anger that was in him The movement brought a mighty changes His mind centered upon it, upon the fact that he was reach a mark And he became confident. He hard the blow that crashed agains t H Vn fis vent wild, glancing from the Dynamiter’s s le He d t é ep ‘ t Nhe again, and again he f He or ly The crowd was bellowing now, a deep-throated Was getting the savag The roar dee per ed, it ened and remained fixed upon these two, standing t to foot, strik Savage men watching tw fellows fight cry of g blow on | ¥, giving and taking; taki leasure te ve eagerly for the p Thus t Y sound of the hey stood a full thre minutes raining Diows bare, hard knuckle triking naked flesh came in regular, sharp punctuations of the roar about them Their huge, bare bodies t« ed. Tom felt the ‘ flesh of the Dynamiter’s chest press hi He heard gasp of its indrawn breath And he struc Sudden! ne felt the shock of Kennedy's fist against s cheek and he knew that he was falling The Old Man was standir over him counting when his dazed senses came back. He saw the hand upraised above him and he scrambled to hi feet His head rang as he walked to his chair “That was hting,”’ he heard some one say Big Jerry was throwing water on his body, rubbing him The Gunner bent his-head Ye’re sure to wi I iid * He’s out of wind already, lad. Can ye wrastle Tom nodded * Sure he said “When ye get hispered the Gunner rrip him round the waist rip him, but do not use yer legs to trip; t’row him wit’ yer arn (nd e cannot grip kee clost in and rough ut a e did that time lake all he gives ve fer the luna rl “ Time The D ct ‘ happy as he looked up from his watch This time Tom leaped to his fe ,enned ing toward him, a straight 1 vith ir \ the Dynamiter can t ‘ re a bor ducked his head and they flew past He closed beneath them and gripped the naked wa vitl i For an instant the two men st led desperate! cked in the embrace Ther is Wit i heave, and Kenned We} ir a cl ed down on the floor The Dynamiter was breat} ‘ etl vhen approached ea er at the | the nex j did not seem eager for the meeting. Tom ran ir \s He he closed the Dynamite t pped il ) ¢ idk p whirled and str th al ‘ The | ant P Tom's face; he f the breath of Cate ! r the middle of a stride he turned and struck ba EVENING POST Kenne arew pom mm } wT t B I iC é hed } it he had ga t rt i is Tor I i led tl eve ‘ é n i 1) umiter and sudden! stretched, Ton and inward \ body crumpled al l mply to th t ind counted sl re nar I ne t Ve ind helped him d } rt t iw t ‘ car-tender it \ He was himself The Doctor can rd!’ he cried nh 4 en ndaer He m ed And ( Old Ma came now t! ( [was i 1 ved \t ( ar J ear The Old Ma he led Ye | I WAS six hour van { ( t j ! Vu ir’ W cium the eep. H id ir i none satisfied It w the satia m spent energie her environment Never mind yer belly; yer arms will care av that. Kape clost to him, and hit him whenever ye can That’s what ye're there fer—to hit him take Do ut like ut was a day's work—like ye had to “Time!” the Doc- tor called. The Dynamiter was coming toward him on the balls of his stockinged feet. He was poised, half- crouching, stepping lightly, springing with bent knees, con» ing closer. His shoul- ders bent forward ahead of his waist. His huge, knotted fists were moving constantly, rhythmic- ally, swinging to and fro in front of him, now advancing, now retreating. The great cabled muscles were slipping and writhing benezth his white skin like thick snakes His face was set, deep- i * at. a s lined, ugly; the white- filmed eyes gleamed I , i _ A nd hen wet ‘ \ } ( l H ! i \ t Hi u ‘ ti nh \ nd 4 ‘ \ , t de i Ay | H ‘ I rd augt ‘ n } i " I t ‘ | t itr Ke ‘ ( i | eside | ‘ hould | ' ; : | ( ut j ] i] i y th ( i \ ! I ! it uC a i re , e hand M i iM L eve i I e, Mr. M and be a n What bec t M i ed Ca ‘ iker. He ad ‘ rp) PVE t Jeffric I We ead 1 m | n ! NVa 1 at ead N pot | XI} ry ‘ rile In ‘ il lowed i ! fhe e pil t et ! ( and He ary | med drinki The b r But | cha the re hich com 1 had his playtir M j } ‘ i I ch j th oo la n ld p The esthet nse ( S , ft } ‘ ed ruder ex ( i ! r bi t hit lem led a I 118s nusem | | ‘ rl | mp t ird t moutl | ‘ /p had j d | I e da iM lle eager t ) WOT | {) Wau he i ) ire ul ird ‘ de ) i rhe Dynamiter Was Among Them; He Loomed Above Them All I i, tne maii mar l the grasp ol! companiot It Ryan and Jj lary Phe Old Mar ! 1 eptl t | ere ! I to i ! freight for Leaver rt here t il el! ) I the pledge before the priest l'om looked il em and I a It ! i ma il 1 Oo ‘ i inne erant. H Aad no Continued on Page 49

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST PAT. OFF 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 To Canada — By Subscription $1.50 the Year. Single copies, five cents. Foreign Subscriptions; For Countries in the Postal Union. Single Subscriptions, Remittances to be Made by International Postal Money Order. PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 4, 1910 The Big Explosion Now Due M* ROOSEVELT'S learned addresses -at several foreign capiials have been absorbed in this country with the highest. interest and pleasure. His opinion of tritish rule in Egypt occupied the place of honor on yur newspaper pages for two days, while his statement detining the proper attitude of a prospective visitor to the Pope furnished a sensation that has hardly been exceeded in extent and intensity since the San Francisco earthquake. We were glad to know his views, as unfolded before the University of Berlin, upon early German history and Greco-Roman civilization. But The universal and unflagging attention with which we have hung upon these academic utterances is not due to any general idea that Mr. Roosevelt is qualified above other men to discuss them. On the contrary, the country listened most attentively to what he had to say about Rome in the time of Marcus Aurelius, precisely because it was profoundly interested to know what he had to say about Indianapolis, Des Moines and Fort Dodge at the present moment lo this writing, very properly, he has said nothing whatever about home politics. But about now he should be on the high seas, homeward-bound, and it will scarcely be humanly or Rooseveltianly possible to preserve very long, within a hundred miles of Washington, that silence concerning American political affairs that he maintained for fourteen months on the other side of the Atlantic. And if his opinion of affairs in Egypt was good live news, the country will certainly await his opinions of the tariff and f Republican insurgency with the almost overwhelming emotions of a small boy who sees the fuse of the giant cracker begin to smoke. The Nations’ Pawnshop YRANCE, for years, has been the world’s “uncle.” When a nation gets desperately hard up it runs to Paris, figuratively speaking, and hocks the family clock for a supply of ready coin. In the “ Baring crisis,’’ and since, the Bank of England has turned for help to the wonderful financial institution that Napoleon founded. In our monetary agony of 1907, when we were eager to sell prime securities cheap and to pay a premium on gold, the Bank of France kindly helped us out. It always has some hard n to spare~— on satisfactory terms. England has taken some thirty millions of gold away from us this spring, needing the coin to strengthen her reserve. Coincidentally, London has been indulging in a wild rubber and oil speculation. Largely as a result of this speculation, the issue of new securities in London during the first four months of the year reached the unprecedented sum of six hundred and thirty million dollars , Meanwhile, the loss of so much gold to London left us a bit hard up, and there was great rejoicing in Wall Street the other day when it was announced that we had trimmed the ship, so to speak, by placing several large issues of first-class railroad bonds in Paris. The terms were not stated, but every one knew they must have been entirely satisfactory to Paris At nearly the same time some vaguely pleasurable anticipations were evoked by an announcement that a certain issue of Mexican railway stock had been listed on } the Paris Bourse--the point being that this was the first THE SATURDAY EVENING POST time the Bourse had ever listed a stock that was also listed on the New YX urk Stock Exchange. The zealous but futile efforts of last year to induce the Bourse to list and deal in our Steel shares are still remembered with pain. France, on the whole, prefers the humdrum role of buying prime bonds at about one per cent under the market price and selling gold at about an eighth of one per cent pre- mium, which probably is one of the reasons why France is the world’s ‘‘uncle.”” For a sure supply of ready money in a pinch, it isn’t the friend who plays the races that you can depend upon; but the one who prosaically sticks his money in a savings bank. What Insurgency Means T IS recalled, with pain, that ten years ago the stock of the Metropolitan Street Railway of New York sold at two hundred and sixty-nine dollars a share. For some time the concern has been in the hands of a receiver, and recently its assets were put up at auction. Investors have lost a great many million dollars, and the non-investing public has lost vast sums of time and comfort; for, while the Metropolitan management was juggling securities, ancient horse cars lumbered along important lines. At present the New York street-car equipment is decidedly inferior to that of Chicago and other cities. The persons who were most prominent in ruinously manipulating the street-car system were also most prominent in manipulat- ing city politics. Pitiful old arks that might have been palmed off for street cars on the populace of Red Dog ten years ago now lurch through the heart of Philadelphia. Their decrepi- tude is so extreme that it seems a shame to ride in them. Along with the losses of time and comfort entailed by a wretched service, the people of Philadelphia have lost some millions of money through depreciation of inflated and manipulated street-railway securities. There, also, the family relationship between traction and politics was notorious, Other cities have passed through the same harrowing experiences of a politico-financial partnership. On the broader field of national politics, the trail of the partner- ship, generally speaking, is less clearly defined; yet it always runs to the place that the silverware disappeared from. Business and politics never get together, except for loot. To keep politics out of business—as in the ease of the Post-Office Department —is desirable. But to keep busi- ness out of politics is even more desirable. That, essen- tially, is what insurgency means. The Wrong Way to Educate S MENTAL wood-sawing useful? Are the intellectual faculties of a child strengthened by sheer drudgery ? Does brain-muscle increase by dogged pegging away at a task that fails to excite the slightest interest ? These questions are not new, but the judgment of Chicago's school superintendent against compound interest, compound fractions and memorizing historical dates in the elementary grades naturally raises them afresh. The conventional answer is that the exercises named, while admittedly useless in themselves, furnish splendid mental discipline—the harder and drier the task, the more benefit a child derives from mastering it. The pupil will certainly soon forget how to work compound fractions, for nobody ever does work com, nd fractions, but he will have gained much brain-muscle. Is the mind of a child, we wonder, very different from the mind of a man; and what intelligent man ever seeks mental improvement in a task that does not interest him? What adult, for example, will deliberately read an abso- lutely uninteresting book? The old-fashioned educational theory was a sort of continual driving of an unwilling horse to water; and it is still suspected that the impression that a given task makes upon a child’s mental faculties is in proportion to the effort that the child puts forth to master it—easy come, easy go. But every reading adult, we imagine, knows that the book to which he drove himself with a club was precisely the first one to fade from his memory, and that his mind retains things about in propor- tion to the pleasure experienced in acquiring them. You can drive the horse to water, but can you make him drink? Raising Freight Rates WO years ago railroad revenues were declining sharply a result of the trade reaction that followed the panic of October, 1907. For example, consolidated returns from all the roads showed that in February, 1908, net earnings fell off thirteen million dollars as compared with the year before, and subsequently an even greater shrinkage appeared. For months, as revenues dwindled, the roads insisted that they must be permitted to raise freight rates. It was intimated that such action would be viewed with disfavor by the Government, and although the railroads suffered losses that compelled many of them to reduce dividends they did not venture to fasten upon the country a wholesale increase in transportation charges June 4,1910 For over a year the cloth has been of a quite different cut. Trade revived and railroad earnings expanded In February, 1910—the last month for which consolidated returns are available at this writing—the roads showed a gain of twenty-seven million dollars in gross, and of more than seven millions in net, while in the same month of 1909 they had gained thirteen millions in gross and twelve millions in net. The Pennsylvania, in March of this year, gained nearly four millions in gross and over a million and a half in net—on top of a substantial gain made in February of last year The roads are not only earning more money, both gross and net, than ever before, but they are paying larger divi- dends to their stockholders. In this flourishing season the Western roads give notice of a pretty general advance in freight rates, running to ten per cent and upwards, and it is taken for granted that the Eastern roads will follow suit. They say their ‘cost of living”’ is higher; but their own reports show they have a !arger net income than ever. They have increased wages somewhat — perhaps five per cent — but the evidence suggests that they could well afford to. Two years ago, with shrinking revenues, the roads did not venture to raise freight rates. What has inspired them with courage to venture now, when their revenues, already great, are expanding? Why is Illinois Disturbed ? E CAN’T for the life of us understand why Illinois should be particularly interested in the charge that her junior Senator procured his seat in the upper House of Congress by bribery. In that state voters are privileged to express their choice for Senator at a primary election, and the choice as duly declared at the polls, is supposed to be binding upon the legislature. A primary election was held and the Honorable Albert J. Hopkins, the incumbent, received decidedly more votes than any other candidate. For reasons best known to itself, the legislature disregarded this popular mandate and, by a combination composed about equally of Re- publicans and Democrats, elected the Honorable William Lorimer. Now, indubitably, the state itself, inasmuch as existing political machinery gives it an opportunity to express its will, handed the senatorship over to Mr. Hopkins, and our point is that when a state has done that it loses all moral right to take an interest in what subsequently happens to said senatorship. Whether Mr. Lorimer gets it away from Mr. Hopkins by superior political strategy or by the use of greenbacks or by beating him at a game of pinocle is merely a per- sonal matter between themselves. On a broad view Mr. Lorimer and Mr. Hopkins are only two slightly different symbols for the same political system, and it is impossible to understand why the state should care particularly which one of them gets a senatorship that it was willing to hand over to either. If the people of Illinois had taken a keener interest in their senatorship, and placed a higher valuation upon it when that primary election was going on, there would have been no disagree- able charges as to how Mr. Lorimer took it away from Mr. Hopkins. We say this not to hurt Illinois’ feelings but because even now the same opportunity that Illinois had when she negligently voted her senatorship to Hopkins is presented to the people of several other states. In Michigan, for an illustration, the Honorable Julius Cesar Burrows is asking the people to kick their senator- ship over to his corner again. Those Wicked Country People HE New York police of late have stopped one or two immoral shows, and from the New York press we learn that such vulgar exhibitions never would pollute the chaste stage of Broadway if it were not that hordes of rural visitors, sojourning in the metropolis; create a demand for them—to which demand well-meaning but more or less mercenary metropolitan managers reluctantly yield. We are pleased to have this fact established by such indis- putable authority, for we have always believed that our large cities would shine in-pristine innocence if only wicked country people would let them. The peculiar pathos of the case arises from the city’s helplessness. Every tyro in economics is acquainted with the city’s dependence upon the country. If cities should fold themselves away from contaminating intercourse with the country they would promptly go out of business. Their only hope lies in raising the country to their own moral altitude. One of the best ways of accomplishing this, we should judge, would be to abate the flood of scandalous reports of divorce and crime poured into the country by the metropolitan press, which, most likely, infects the rural mind with thoughts and images that react in a demand for the vulgar shows that the metropolitan press so severely and justly reprobates | |

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WHO’S THE SATURDAY EVENING POST WHO-AND WHY Serious and Frivolous Facts About the Great and the Near Great

Gene—The Foss Boys— George HE old ladies of West Berkshire, which is in Franklin County, Vermont, used to say those Foss I oys would come to no good end, and here they are in Congress, both of them; and that, in the minds of some people, stamps the old ladies of West Berkshire as fair to middling prophets To be sure, it took Eugene longer than it did George to make the predic- tion good, but Eugene finally landed This delay was through no fault o his own. It was merely because the free and untrammeled—what means that ribald laughter? free and untrammeled voters of Massachu- setts couldn't see it the way Eugene did, nor did they care, particularly, about establishing the old ladies of West Berkshire as seeresses. Still, Eugene kept patiently at it; now foraying for Congress on a reciproc- ity issue, now trying it for lieutenant governor on a general-good-to-the-

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community basis until, in a bye elec- tion, down in the Fourteenth Distr of Massachusett

running as a Democrat, he landed a short time ago. Thus, Gene and George are both in Congress, one a Republican from Chicago and one a Democrat from Massachusetts, but both Fosses from Vermont, and not much more alike, except physically, than Sereno E. Payne and William Sulzer. Physically, they are |} upstanding persons, each at least six feet tall and each weighing more than two hundred pound fine, open countenance, but Gene's is kind strapping George has a dished in and he wears a mustache to add to the general effect George is smooth-shaven. Gene is nervous, active, unea when he isn’t working or talking, and George is slow moving, sedate, perfectly calm and easy hen he is Nor does George talk muc} except when he Still, he doc a lot of work ir working has a naval bill to pass committee when the naval bill is in preparation —a lot of hard, grinding, grueling work They are very fond of one another. George thinks Gene is probably the finest piece of work that ever came out ot Vermont, and that, too, with a full knowledge of the Hon- orable John Barrett; and Gene is firmly of the opinion that when George gets to be President the people will probably make him King and keep him there forever George has been in politics almost since he graduated from th

law school and was admitted to the bar, and he is filled with the complaint of the high cost of living, having no income but his salary. Gene, on the other hand, has a cartload of money, is a captain of finance in Boston, owns a lot of big manufacturing institutions and street railways and all that, or has stock in them, to be more exact, and just wallows in it. A Joke That Miscarried HEY both began in the West Gene is about five years older than George and when he had finished his sopho- more year at the University of Vermont he quit and went vith head- quarters at Chicago. Presently, in 1882, Gene went to Boston to be a manufacturer. He had married the daugh- ter of B. F. Sturtevant, the blower man, and when the Sturtevant company was formed was made treasurer of it. After that he branched out and now he is in various manufacturing concernsand mills and steamship companies and banks and street railways, and is disgustingly rich for a champion of the rights of the plain people George graduated from Harvard in 1885 and studied law in New York and Chicago. He was admitted to the bar in Chicago in 1889. He was a big, fine-looking young chap, with a taste for politics, and as there were not so West to represent a manufacturing concern

many clients that his entire time was occupied he made political speeches and fussed around in the game out there A few years later, in 1894, there came a campaign, and the bosses picked out Foss for a forlorn Republican hope He was nominated and began his campaign. In a few weeks the bosses found there had been a big switch and that it was a good year for Republican nominees for Congress. They went to George “ Now, look here, young fellow, you have got to ngressional Foss accepted

and said t George Edmond Foss, Representative From Illinois (‘Republican Fugene Noble Foss, Represe Massachusetts (Dome et out It was onl i joke non iti ) i } A \ uhave nor tt >to Lonere { m ©} ul \ dra there il | ind ke is put up one ra vho needs ( ‘ Gentiemer replied | Il am a serious mar Please dot make me la | dod ! We n ¢ leery ui 1 W here ipon, Ce e told them to Mil ikee, or whatever other piace he happened to think of at the moment, and stayed ir He is elected and he has been elected, regularly, ever since I] now serving his eighth term and is chairman of the House Committee on Nava Affairs, a most important positior Last time his majorit vas al it ixteen thousand The bosse n e never for given him, but that doesn’t seem t rry him any He lights them, and beats them regular! 1 good-natured, even-tempered, conservative He worries his « cit n mn ee aln t to deat! because he will never make } I iuntiit ! te He has two hobl One is the Nav ind the other the [ ited States ite He has had his ve on the Senate for me yé and ran in the primary year before last

But being a prudent and cautious Vermonter he did not h his hold on his Congressional district He

polled something over a hundred thousand votes, and wa in the fight until the combination of Democrats and Republicans in the Illinois legislature more or less tri umphantly placed William Lorimer in the seat left vacant by the retirement of A. J. Hopkins It is different with Gene He makes up his mind fifteer times an hour After he got his | n on the | busine ind had | out in his inio rt he enterprises he bec 1 t Bostonese He had energy left an it energy to so r the

problems and curing the ills that infested Massachusett

Nothing came 1long that did not have a | ivene NX ‘ Foss remedy. suggested | tnat celebrated put t physician, Eugene Noble Fos He whanged around ir polities, ran afoul of the Honorable Henry Cabot rd gre campaigned a a Rep iblican for ir is office and finally, became a Democra i few tin n that ticket W hen Repre entative nomination in the Fourteent! did to the Re publican majority tt cal part throughout the state ar me historic Now that he is in Congress he is restle is he was ou for he has nothing to do. He was assigned to a place on the Committee on Manufacture which is a! ornamental committee that rarely manufactures anythir in the shape of law. He said, if I remember correctly, that he did not want to return. He just took a protest, and he protested all right. There is no doubt of that. They may run him for Governor next fall in Massa- chusetts on the Democratic ticket his nomination a Probably he will not return to the Republican party before that time

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Ww! lH Campbell’ s lomato Soup at hand, no matter what happens, you are sure that the most critical course of ‘your dinner will be exactly right. No bother about it. No uncertainty. No delay. A mere nod at the last moment if it happens so—and you haveasoup that the most fas- tidious guest will appreciate. Its piquant appetizing favor makes this soup ap- propriate for any but the heaviest dinner. And no function is too formal for Camblelis. Tomato Soup No chef can produce a finer sot We use only the el toes, put up fresh in perfect coa- roicest to - dition, and blended most. daintily and skillfully with the highest-grade ingredients, regardless of cost We have unusual advantages — of location, experience, equipment, ind in other ways Our formula and methods are exclusive with us And the result is peculiar to itself There is nothing else like Camp- bell’s Tomato Soup lf you have not already demon- strated this fact on your own table why not do so today? Campbe II's Noups are guarant ed satisfactory in every part ular; of noney refunded 21 kinds 10¢ a can josepH CAMPBELL COMPANY) Ca N ] 1 , i ule \ e Laurie, But Cam} Soup not I I'd rather ry Wi the wa ws homeward fly A FARM-— HE owner of a newly acquired farm, with visions before him of sleek cat- tle dotting the sunny pastures; of waving grass and tasseling corn; of red- combed hens that simply have to cackle and sing because of the eggs they lay; of contented porkers that sleep and grunt through a year that, at least as far as they are concerned, is sure to be crowned with fatness, is apt to go a little too fast. He is in a hurry to buy his livestock, get his farm into operation and see it work. But there is no time when a little careful de- liberation and thoughtful reviewing of the whole situation will pay him so well. For, although the farm may have been used by others right up to the time he purchased it, the chances are that the barns, stables, dairy-house, henneries and other buildings all need more or less remodeling, or at least readjustment, to fit them for his needs I was furnished some time since with a rather unusually striking illustration of the unwisdom of undue haste in getting a farm into operation. A city man of large wealth, whose laudable ambition was to become a good farmer, purchased a large tract of land and soon after contracted with me to lay it out for him. After examin- ing it | drew up a plan for the arrangement of the farmlands and buildings; and work upon the latter was immediate ly begun. To finish them, however, required some little time and the owner became impatient He wanted to see his farm in operation, he said; and finally, despite my advice to the contrary, he had the cows purchased and an improvised dairy set up in a little shed. The First Things to be Done The cows, purchased thus hastily, were not chosen with the care that the case required and undoubtedly would have received had there been less hurry. With- out suitable fencing — for the fences on the piace were allin disrepair —they constantly strayed and, moreover, acquired a way of breaking through old and weak fences that became a fixed habit and led later to their breaking through new and strong ones The improvised dairy was ill-ventilated and hot and it did not work very well. With the buildings in an unfinished condition it was necessary to do all the milking out-of- doors; and although it was summer and this arrangement quite good enough or- dinarily, it was unsanitary as well as unpleasant in rainy weather. The whole thing was so unsatisfactory and disap- pointing that finally the owner became discouraged, lost his agricultural enthu- siasm and abandoned his first plan which was to have a two-hundred-cow dairy -and decided to have only a small dairy for his private use The decision was the more to be regretted, as the land was THE SATURDAY EVENING POST GETTING STARTED ON @ By David Buffum well suited to the project and the new buildings erected with reference to it This was an extreme case, but scores of new farmowners have made the same error in greater or less degree, and by starting before they were ready have pro- vided themselves with disheartening ex- periences that otherwise could have been avoided. Roughly speaking, the order of work on a newly purchased farm should be somewhat as follows: 1. Lay out carefully your scheme of farming and its resultant apportionment of the lands for tillage, meadow and pasture. 2. Repair fences or build new ones, as the case may require 3. Get your buildings into shape for the stock you intend to keep 4. Buy your livestock The Importance of Fences In the matter of fencing, it should be remembered that poor fencing is one of the greatest of all nuisances on a farm. It has been said that a ke aky roof on one’s dwell- ing-house is one of the worst of human ills; but weak and insufficient fencing where livestock is kept is about as bad When you turn a herd of cows into a pas- ture you want to know where they are; and to go to bed or leave the farm for an hour or two, not knowing where they will be when you wake up or return, is a con- dition intolerable to any man with decent agricultural instincts. The fact, now well known to all country dwellers, that three- fourths of the quarrels and disagreements and lawsuits between abutting landowners grow outof poor boundary fencing is signifi cant, but the annoyance that such fences occasion the owner himself is enough. The best, handsomest and most per- manent of fences is a stone wall. This, to build new from the start, is rather expen- sive; but on many farms the fields are already bounded by stone walls, and, if these are in a dilapidated condition, they can be pulled down and rebuilt at a rea- sonable cost. But, fortunately for those who have to build new fences, the y need not. be costly to serve their purpose and also look well. The most unpretentious of all fences, for instance, is the zigzag rail sometimes called *‘ Virginia worm’’— but it nevertheless makes a remarkably good one and, if nicely laid up, is by no means offensive to the eye And the barbed-wire fence, which is cheapest of all and usually considered far from ornamental, is an excellent fence for service and can be made to look very well if a little good taste is bestowed upon its building. The posts should be small cedar, about four inches in diameter, are best. They should be all of the same height and equidistant from each other, and the wires should be put on June 4,1910 Sensible Talks = By a PianoDealer-N°3 ‘I’m just an ordinary music dealer but | have some business ideals that are extraordinary. ‘My clerks say I’m so par- ticular I’m finicky about the goods I sell. Want to have ‘em night. Want to give the best values in the market. ‘l was a long time looking for the player-piano I wanted to handle. ‘| investigated every make but wasnt satisfied until | saw the Krell AuteBGrand “It was a player after my own heart and d’y’know | found the man- ufacturers were just as partic ular about making a superior player-piano as | was about selling that kind. “They build the unseen parts as carefully as the seen—yjust for the satisfaction it gives them, although they could make more money by put- ting in cheaper wood and cabinet work. Even the carving is done by hand. It could be done by machine “An individual pneumatic for every note takes three times as long to make—requires three times th material. But think what it saves the purchaser in ultimate troubl and expense. * Just compare this mechanism with that of any other player. No noisy chains on this silent motor. No rubber tubes. Every one of durable metal. ‘Tracker bar of aluminum which does not wear lint off the rolls and clog the pneumatics. Metal used wher- ever practicable, because it does not Pneumatic system below the keyboard, close to the bellows. walp. “I could talk for hours, pointing out advantages like these which no other player has. “If you want the utmost in players, you will buy the Krell Auto-Grand.” Krell Auto-Grand Piano Co. Dept. 98, Connersville, Indiana Makers of the Celebrated Albert Krell Pianos *These talks—-12 in all neatly bound, mailed free on request ——__—_—_ a « omple te anc a Oe ee

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ee oe | } | : ; | } i i P ynounced Kleek O Club “= Ginger Ale rr particularly fine flavored, per- fect ginger ale, made from the best ginger ale water in the world, and without the sting and atter-burn common to ordinary ginger ales. The best Jamaica Ginger and the best confec- tioner’s sugar are used in Clicquot Club (no saccharine or coal-tar chemi- cals) with a dash of lemon flavor. It re- tains carbon- ation per- fectly; and retains its customers equally well. ** Clicquot Club’ is served in the best homes in leading cities and its great sale attestsits finenessand purity. Ithasa spicy, tempting taste. It isnon-astringent SPECIAL OFFER S3F~ Order from your Grocer, if possi- ble. But if Clicquot Club is not sold by grocers in your locality, you may order direct at $2.50 per case (24 bottles) east of Mississippi River; $3.00 east of Rockies, $3.50 west of Rockies, we to pay carriage charges and guarantee satisfaction. Write for booklet. Address orders and correspondence to THE CLICQUOT CLUB CO. MILLIS, MASS. West of the Rocky Mountains: The Clicquot Club Co., Los Angeles, Cal. | will not be pulled out of place. | know what is needex Catchers’ Mitts and Fielders’ Gloves are without Equals It is made rig in everydet de and material by experienced workmen. ry it this year. All D & M Base Ball and Athletic Goods are guaranteed. no A H 180,340.00 MAD Y MY CLIENTS you Should Have My TREE BOOKS wf ing HOW OTHERS will do the same IN THI Fl TURE "WHAT and HOW to INVENT” BOOK FREE E.E. VROOMAN, Patent Lawyer, 856 F, Washington, D.C. THE SATURDAY “*hand-taut”—that is, as tight as they can be drawn by the hand, with no lever or other device for the purpose. This gets all the wires of the same tension and the posts Barbed- wire fences built in this way, with regard to their looks as well as best method of con- struction, are not very common; but they cost no more, and whoever builds one will doubtless be surprised at its neat and tasteful appearance, especially when com- pared with the slovenly kind most com- monly seen. The question of building: hether to build new ones or to refit the buildings already on the farm—is an important one and always comes up for consideration If the owner can afford new ones and also has a sufficient grasp of the situation to j which is assuming considerable sagacity on the part of an inexperienced farmer—he can, of course, have a better equipment in this way. But | while, as already intimated, the existing buildings are hardly ever just what is wanted, they can almost always be adapted to the uses desired without very much trouble or expense, and, for all except the rich, this is by far the best and most economical plan. Nor is the work by any means devoid of interest. Indeed, I have sometimes thought that the refitting and rearranging of buildings, with the ingenuity required to turn them to the best account and the opportunity afforded for the exercise of good taste, is, if any- thing, of more absorbing interest than the building of new ones As to the feasibility of such readjust- ment I can speak from experience. As a breeder of horses I have all my life made use of barns not originally intended to hold horses. And in the changes I have made I have never found it necessary to deviate so far from the original scheme of the buildings as to weaken the structure or occasion any inordinate expense Modern Cow Barns Let us see what are the chief requisites of a farmstead; and as dairy cattle on most farms hold the chief place, assume that our barns must be arranged with a view to their needs The cows, for sanitary reasons, should stand on a platform raised a few inches from the floor, and of such length that their droppings will fall behind it. Tokeep them snugly up in their places they should be fastened by stanchions. These are of two kinds, the old-fashioned fixed stanchion and the swinging one. Both are good, although the swinging kind is doubtless a little easier for the cows. The droppings should not be thrown into a cellar beneath the cows—a common but very bad prac- tice—for then the fumes come up through the floor and pollute the air; but they should be carried entirely out of the barn to an adjoining manure shed. In small stables this is easily done by hand; in large ones an iron hod is used, which is suspended from a truck on an overhead track running the length of the stable and thence into the manure shed. The stable should be reasonably light, warm in win- ter and well ventilated Now all these features can be very easily introduced into almost any building that is large enough for the purpose It will be seen, as the b: irn cellar, once deemed so important as a manure pit, is not used under modern methods for that purpose, that a building either with or without a cellar will serve our purpose equally well The successful adaptation of an old fashioned building to present-day needs often depends, it is true, upon the amount of thought and study that is brought to bear upon the subject; but the opportu nity usually exists. Thus, in a certain barn that I refitted there was manifestly no suit- able place for the manure shed. The only possible wagon-way was from the cellar 3ut this did not mean that the manure must be stored in the cellar in the old way. From the trap-door in the cow- stable floor I built a wooden chute and under it had a large wagon always stand- ing to receive the manure. This held all that was made in two or three days and it was then hauled out into the fields. In this short time it would not heat or ferment, and thus the ordinary objections to a cel- lar were obviated and the impossibility of building a manure shed successfully met In another barn, which also had a cel- lar, there seemed no good place for the horses, as the cattle occupied all of the EVENING POST i } } } z For the spick-and-span“sum- mer man,” there’s nothing like “Shackamaxon” Outing Serges. In a large variety of plain and fancy weaves +} pure white and with many delicate Stripe effects, these fabrics are refresh- ingly seasonable and attractive Thev are far better than flannels in everv wav—cooler; more distinctive in appearance ej keep their shape better; will not ba nor shrink; and after cleansing they are fine and fresh as new \W hy not be , ‘ tailor to show you these handsome serges toda : “summery and also summary Ask your Two things are positively necessary to make the well- } essed man. High-grade fabrics and a Men are not ten-pins. Every man has his indi- vidual proportions. His clothes, to fit properly, should be shaped to his figure by a competent tailor, on the spot. gut without high-grade reli- able fabrics the most skillful tailor c: our make clothes that will 4eef their shape and style; nor look even presentable after you have worn them a little while. You have to think of all this when buying clothes. ‘Tell your tailor you want FOr od tailor. 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No better fabrics are made inthe world Dol t doll no foreign fabrics can compare with them We sell them from the n t t so that the tailor and the wearer both rece ve exceptional Valu Any good tailor will get them for you nsist on havi them And look for the name S max on every suit-pattern. “That is your guarantee of permanent satisfaction If any fault de sho at any time in any Shackamaxon fabric write to us and we will make it good. JR KEIM & COMPANY, Shackamaxon Mills Philadelphia i

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THE BRUSH THAT HOLDS ITS BRISTLES ty any user of Kleanwell toothbrushes why he prefers them, and he will answer “Because bristles don’t come out in my mouth.” * Because | can get a Klean- well shape that suits me.” “L alway handled brush, Kleanwell is SOLD IN A SEALED BOX” The Byrisco-Kleanwell seal on the box and the name Kleanwell on the brush, guarantee the genuine f of sale evetyYwherc the get a clean, un- because the risco BRUSHES ARE BEST FOR THE HAIR poe O Hai Brushes are made in every style and women and can't get a Though the h the style ot the shape tor men, childrer You better brus! price vanes w brush and br high qual ty is in all, The name BRISCO is on each brush \LFRED H. SMITH CO A486 C New York 1 tle, same hambers St GliarButton [nsurance\ means that ifa Krementz Collar Button is | ¢ i ( tre 4 cause, vi can take to the rest deale vho i auth ze ex inge it for a new one “Free of Cost We insure all Krement Butto peca they are so we made that not one m tet thou lever breaks. Solid gold and rolled plate, at te When dealer tai to supply you write piving dealer's name Booklet showing Tape and sizes free Krementz & Co., 40 Chestnut St., Newark, N. J. 1 Easier Quicker N Better 1 ‘ \ Day Free Trial American lroning Machine Co., | are | stand at the |} 18 cream, 1 B24 E. Lake St., Chicago | main floor fixtures were removed and the space trans- formed into a horse-stable, with a large adjoining room for wagons and carriages. Then, in the cellar underneath—the erst- while manure pit—cement floors were laid, new windows cut in the south walls and the whoie floor fitted for cows. At the end of the barn a new manure shed was built, and this received through a chute the droppings +— the horses and by hod and track those from the cows. The walls of the cellar were now whitewashed; and the result was a great, sunny stable, unusually attractive in appearance and fulfilling the most exacting sanitary requirements. Now both of these barns were old-time farm buildings, having antiquated live- stock accommodations and in no way more promising than the generality of such structures. The simple and comparatively inexpensive changes by which they were made to conform to modern needs show the ease with which this can usually be done. Of course, it need hardly be said that some old farmsteads offer better oppor- tunities than others, for this is self- evident. But, in some way or other, the needed transformation can almost always be made; not, perhaps, in just such manner as we would have chosen, but still so as to prove satisfactory both in working and in appearance Of the owner's dwelling, whether large or small, new or old, only this need be said —that its exterior should be in keeping with the other buildings. This does not mean that it should match them, as the term is often used. This is entirely un- necessary; but it should harmonize with them. On one of the most attractive country places that I know, for instance, the house, which is new and which stands quite near the farmstead, is of brick; while all the farm buildings are old and built of wood. And yet the house so fits its sur- roundings that it seems essentially one of the group: there is an indefinable, homo- geneous quality about the assembled buildings that shows they are all of the same family and on the best of terms with each other. This impression of relation- ship is not alw: iys obtained in the same way: often it depends no less upon the grouping of the buildings ment with reference to each other—than on the style of the buildings themselves. But, however obtained, it should always be present. Selecting the Stock With the completion of the buildings and the fences the farm should be ready for its livestock. It is impossible to say how many head a given area can carry; for there are one-hundred-acre farms that can carry only a dozen head or so, while others of the same size carry forty or fifty. Most of the farms that are offered for sale in the market are not in a very high state of cul- tivation and, as a rule, cannot carry any- where near the amount of stock they can be made to carry later. But the kind of stock jually important and can be de- cided irrespective of the farm’s capacity. The breed 7s cows chosen must depend is e¢ partly upon hat is wi vanted whether butter or milk—-and ae r upon the char- acter of the land The | olsteins stand at the head of all breeds bes the quantity of milk given; but they are also the largest in size, and on the majority of soils other than rich prairie or river-bottom a smaller breed, like the Ayrshire, is generally more satisfactory The astonishing milk-records and splendid qualities of the Holsteins, when under right conditions, are very apt to mislead the novice, and, if his aim is milk-production, tempt him to decide in their favor, regardless of other considera- tions. But, in choosing a breed, some thought must be had of its natural environ- ment. The Holsteins were pe rfected in the rich, level meadows of the Nethe rlands, where they had no hills to climb and could shove their noses eye -~deep into the lush = The Ayrshires, on the other hand, were deve loped in a rougher country where the y had toh ustle for a livir se FF he y a more active breed and are used to hills and rocks and short pasturage For butter the Jerseys and the Guernseys top: both are suited to all conditions of land and both are so good that the between them is entirely a matter of individual preference. They are not large milkers, but in butter-making it not quantity of milk, that is choice | | wanted From this floor all the cattle | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 4,1910 r A Single Blade Shaved Mr. C. H. Ingersoll, member * Robt. H. Ingersoll & Bro., ma- kers of the well known Ingersoll Dollar Watch, permits us to publish the following : ** Atter several years trial of the AutoStrop Safety Razor, I have decided that it is all right, finding it prefer- than to I find very tew blades are led Have present blade nearly able to strop change a blade that nee used my two year Lalso fi t ex- tremely simple to strop or clean, and your claims for its shaving accom- f ally justified Try It Free (Dealers Read This, Too) No anvthing by selling deale can FAR QUICKER, Nearly Two MR. C. H. INGERSOLL \ should have any razor returned, we _ one self-stropping ra eavily Vv lated, 12 H fh blades and hor n small h ! c Price $5 \ ur tota nav gz ex for wens + x i] mont or 4 }! “The Slaughter of the Innocents” } 4S Hundredsofthousands I »f men have tro ‘ SABER roag g | they haven't read } book. Will you keep q - on having 100, 200, Ouick il 365 shaving tro year, or will you send tor N **The Slaughter of ¢ Innocents’’ now while | you're thinking about it i Men who ‘‘do things act ict quick Lively Free ; ‘ No delay No procrastinatior No ) AvutoSrroe Sarery morrow’’ for their Razor Co., 341 Fifth Don wait to 1 Ave., New York; 233 4 Phone 4 j 1 ¢ tine Bld Mon \utoSer Satety Razo And treal; 61 New Oxtord hon r write r ( ts of S t, London { HANDIER THAN A NO-STROPPING RAZOR } { } SN Strops, Shaves, Cleans without Detaching Blade —their arrange- | ot the fe arches broker correct m artific arches, Being in lation. Ib no dis¢ con aiarch st but mos uild she the fallen arches are CAS frequen but w 2 me {number CASE Royal Worcester Arch Support Shoes for Women. PRICES : 1 ar erted loosely in omtort to the wearer, the fmypatrent Single Sole Index Kid, $5 Single Sole Index Calf, $6 Walking Muscles the bon, lost art. relaxed and has almost become a becoming down. 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this is t case, the milk breeds can beat the butter breeds on the NI round because of the greater quantity o m milk which can be fed to pig I hat little inclination to argue this questior but, as a horseman, | should not think of entering a trotting-bred horse in a runnir race, nor a thoroughbred to compete wit! trotters—and the breeds of cattle were developed with the same reference to their respective purposes that horses wert It often happe ns that, 1n starting a tarn pure-bred stock, from Its cost, inaccessi- bility or some other reason, is not available at first. It may, therefore, be a comfort to the beginner to know that, while the best stock is never any too good, the inability to procure registered stock often makes very little difference to the result in the dairy. High-grades can always be had, as well as good cows of unknown breeding, and it is needless to say that if a cow is good individually it makes no difference what blood is in her veins. In the matter of expense, high-grades cost about one- half to one-third of what pure-breds do And if a cow has, for instance, seventy-five per cent of Jersey blood she does not differ very much from a pure-bred as far as her qualities at the pail are concerned. Two of the best cows that I ever owned were, one of them half Jersey and half Ayrshire and the other three-fourths Jersey and one- fourth Holstein And while, generally speaking, I am an advocate of pure-bred stock, I have no hesitation in saying that one of the very best ways to start a good dairy herd is carefully to select cows of high individual merit, regardless of their blood, and then, by keeping a pure-bred bull, gradually work to the breed that is desired Sheep and Poultry Whether sheep shall be kept or not should be determined by the size and character of the farm, and the extent to which other interests prevail. According to the labor bestowed upon them they pay bet- ter than any other stock. But they are not very well adapted to small farms, or to pastures that are fenced by stone walls, as it is as natural for them to go over a stone wall as it is to eat. They do best when given a fairly large range of short, sweet grass, inclosed by fences that they cannot go through or over, and they are to be recommended only on farms where these conditions are present The profits of poultry keeping have been so largely discussed of late that I think I need say little more here than that the owner of a farm will always find it to his advantage to keep hens. But it should be added that, whils poultry, rightly managed, is very good stock on a farm, the inordinate profits claimed for it by many people cannot be realized under any ordi nary circumstances The question of farm help is, unfortu- nately, one of the most serious on a farm and one of the hardest satisfactorily t settle. Good farmhands are not ple ntiful For, with the variety of work to be done, almost all of it requiring more or less judg- ment on the part of the worker, getting a man who will do it even passably well is a very different thing from getting a man to work in a factory where only one kind of work will be required of him and even that done under exactly the same conditions every day. Even if under pretty constant supervision, there are minor matters every day that the farmhand must decide for himself; and the ability to decide is not a conspicuous feature in the average worker The farmowner must set it down as an assured fact that he cannot be fitted out with farm servants as easily as he can with livestock. Still, the matter is not without hope: it is simply a condition in farming which has to be met; and patience and the waiting, which cannot be escaped ultimately bring about a more satisfactory condition of things. For among the farm- hands that are hired there are always a few that are much better than the others and these should be encouraged to remain It should be remembered that the differ ence in value between a good farmhand and a poor one is very great; often a good one, with no greater capacity for hard work, is worth twice as much to his employer as a poor one

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When, six months later, Prince Ito, the Japanese statesman, was murdered by a Corean fanatic, you will remember that the same thing happened again. Hardly was the ink dry on the cablegram announcing the death before Prince Ito’s biography was in print. Probably these journalistic achievements were generally accepted without question, as is the daily rising of the sun; for such achievements belong to that class of every-day miracles, like the standing of unhitched horses, that are so familiar as to cause no comment. But had any one paused to ask how it was possible to print such stories at such short notice, he would have raised a very interesting ques- tion indeed. Each of these men was killed in a foreign land. Naturally, neither man had prepared any obituary notice for himself. The pos- sible sources of biographical information that suggest themselves in these cases are the dead men’s families, biographical libraries, and old magazines and newspaper files. To get a story from any of these sources would have required time. The newspapers had to have the story at once. They got it. And they got it from that journalistic compendium of biographical knowledge —the newspaper morgue. The newspaper morgue is a combination rogues’ gallery and hall of fame. It is a Who's Who and Why, with especial empha- sis on the Why. It is a kind of unofficial police bureau for recording pedigrees. It is the means by which the newspaper in times of leisure prepares for times of stress. And the keeper of the morgue is a mun- dane counterfeit of the recording angel. Specifically, the newspaper morgue is a collection of clippings. These clippings come from newspapers, periodicals and biographical bureaus. So great is the thirst for publicity that many pe rsons are willing to pay such bureaus for sending out information about themselves to any yublic — that might print it. So these li ttle *‘ bio-bulletins,”” as they are called, find their way into the morgue along with the more usual clippings. Of the latter, at least one hundred thousand are cut and filed away annually. There may be many more. To cut, arrange and index them requires the services of from one to a dozen persons It costs one New York news paper fifteen thousand dollars a year to | IEUTENANT JOSEPH PETROSINO, | Maintain its morgue. A Democratic Hall of Fame Alphabetical indexes, cross references and card catalogues make every clipping in- stantly available. These clippings are | either pasted in books or else kept in | are seldom lost strong envelopes. The envelope system has the advantage that in a pinch the clippings themselves can be used as copy and sent direct to the compositor. The book sys- tem has the advantage that the clippings For these clippings are like collections of rare editions—once gone they can never be replaced. Hence the most elaborate precautions are taken to safeguard them. Every clipping taken out is charged up to the man who gets it If the clipping is not returned within a certain time the offending reporter is fined Where the book system Is used, every book taken out is charged to the taker, Just as books are in a public library. In one New York newspaper office the morgue staff sits inside of a steel cage, like tellers in a bank The morgue itse if is made of sheet iron as a precaution against flames. Easily the most precious thing in a ne Wwspaper office is this collection of clippings; and whenever a newspaper office 4 fire the ery that first goes up is: ‘‘Save the morgue!”’ Unlike its prototypes, the rogues’ gallery, the hall of fame and the Who’s W Pho, the morgue is not exclusive. On the contrary, it is as democratic as the grave. It is the one place in the world outside of the United States Constitution where all men areequal. Naturally, then, the standard of selection for morgue items is a broad one. To get into the morgue it is not necessary to be either famous or infamous. To object to the flavor of your prunes and in consequence be ejected from a restaurant will answer the purpose quite as well. Any- thing that directs public attention to one serves the ends of the morgue keeper. He considers that almost any item of news that is worth collecting and printing is also worth keeping. Like the Irishman with the shillalah, who hit a head wherever he saw one, the morgue keeper clips a name where- ever he finds one, and stores it up against the day when its owner shall marry, be divorced, be arrested or die. The Choice of Material Nothing would seem easier, at first sight, than the task of clipping and filing morgue items. Yet, like many another apparently easy task, the work of keeping a newspaper morgue calls for rare intelligence and judgment. A morgue has physical limita- tions as to size, and the keeper of the morgue must put into it only those items that are likely to prove of use. It is according to how well he distinguishes the useful from the useless that he is of value. The wider his experience, the more extended his editorial training, the better will be his work. He must have a wide acquaintance with names and things. He must have a keen nose for news. He must have the sixth sense of the trained newspaperman which makes him see news where none is apparent. He must exercise continual vigilance against the misplacing of clip- pings; and he must have a memory like fly-paper, to which every news item sticks fast. For in such a complicated reference library as a newspaper morgue clippings are certain to be misplaced; and when the city editor sends to the keeper of the morgue for the ‘‘dope” about any particular per- son, the St. Peter of the newspaper office must know that person’s record, whether it is in its proper envelope or not. I recall one case in which the misplacing of a clipping led to a paper’s printing a story of a young woman’s marriage to a man who afterward proved to be her grand- | father. Such mistakes may easily lead to costly libel suits. Above all, the keeper of the morgue must be incorruptible and loyal to his paper. There are persons who would give thousands of dollars to get their pictures out of the rogues’ gallery. There are others who would give tens of thou- sands to get their names out of the news- paper morgues. Nothing could be easier than for a morgue man to deceive his city editor as to what is in the morgue, or to destroy entirely any record that he chose to destroy. It is an interesting commentary on the loyalty of newspapermen that the doing of such a thing is unknown. Perhaps you wonder just what is in a newspaper morgue. Everything is there, from Halley’s comet to Doctor Parkhurst’s Thanksgiving Day sermon against woman’s suffrage. It would be easier to tell what is not in the morgue. On second thought that statement must be retracted. It would be extremely difficult to tell what is not in the morgue. There are stories of crime, wrongdoing, self-sacrifice, heroism, success, failure, hatred, love—the entire gamut of human emotions exemplified in concrete acts. Here are filed away the stories of Galveston, Johnstown, Marti- nique, San Francisco and Messina, with their horrors and their heroism. 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Count Boni are here stored away. Pre- served for future use, also, are the sordid stories of the murder of ‘*Cwsar’’ Young, of Stanford White, of Grace Brown, of Ruth Wheeler. And if such reading shakes one’s faith in the good in human nature, to get that faith back again it is necessary only to turn to other envelopes and read of Fireman “Jack’’ Howe, the hero of the Windsor Hotel fire; of that beloved old hero, Chief Kruger, who died while leading his men at a Canal Street fire; of Fireman Seufert, who lay for four days beneath tons of dripping débris; and of Policeman Coyne, who in the blackness of a winter's night swam out into the freezing currents of the East River and brought a drowning mantoshore. And finally,there is the record of those magnificent philanthropies, Trow- mart Inn, the Sea Breeze Hospital with its famous inmate, Smiling Joe, the Sage Foundation, the St. John’s Guild, the Tribune Fresh Air Fund, and scores of others, the very memory of which brings tears to the eys It would be equally interesting to know why people get into the morgue. The best exlanation is given by the clippings them- seives. Of these the following list is taken from a morgue at random: Bishop Blesses the Bottle (Opening f the Sub way Tavern) Mary Johnson Wears Pants Receives Degree of Doctor of Commerce Tom Johnson's Son Married in Secret Gives City of Philadelphia Paintings Worth $100,000 Big Minister Resigns Pastorate Millionaire, Broke, Lives in Barn Minister Gathered Slum Dwellers and Parishioners Complained Dentist Denies Woman is His Wife Jersey Gelatine Works j alem Swindle Handsomest Member of Democratic Party in the United States. (General Ben LeFevre is his name) Edwin Lefévre Writes a New Novel Says That Colors Affect U Defends Symbolism in Modern Painti Will Try for the Pole Invents New Kind of Electric Car Groceryman Systematical e Last Night of Leggett’s H. tel Process Server After a Poe

Seeks Re-Divorce From Wife, Fearing Dakota Decree Invalid Legion of Honor Dinner Art Treasures Bur Ethel Leginska t With a Futu

Hayti Left to Hippolyt Oscar Hammerstein Says Mary Garden Was in a Tantrum To-Fly Slow is Now the Problem From this abbreviated list it is easy to see that the morgue man has adopted for his own the motto of Terence, the Latin poet “‘T ama man, and nothing that concerns a man do I deem a matter of indifference to me.”’ Such a wide range of subjects, like politics, sometimes makes strange bed- | fellows. Side by side are found the stories of * adopt John Burroughs, the naturalist, and Burr Brothers, the promoters. The late Dr James H. Canfield, librarian of Columbia University, and Richard Canfield, the dead gambler, rest side by side in the newspaper morgue. With them is Frederick W. Can- field, the artist, who got into the morgue by marrying an Indian bride. Close to the army canteen is found the name of the Princess Cantacuzene, the daughter of General Fred. Grant. The history of the Legal Aid Society is filed away beside the story of the anarchist who tried to kill Premier Crispi of Italy. Filed away near each other are the histories of Cassie Chad- wick and of Andrew Carnegie. Here, too, are Cook and Peary, but fortunately not inthe sameenvelope. Even Messrs. Jeffries and Johnson are intimately associated in the morgue. So little gets into print about the averag: man that clippings concerning him can easily be handled. Many a morgue envel- ope contains but one tiny clipping, and very seldom is an envelope uncomfortabl; full. Yet there are certain men whose names are so continually in the newspapers that it taxes the ingenuity of the morgus man to know how to file his clippings = yut them —for the first essential of a morgue is that every clipping be instantly av ailab le The newspaperman seldom has time to read through scores and scores of clippings to find the item he wants. He must be able to lay his finger on any particular THE SATURDAY

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The clippings about Mr. Rockefeller, for instance, are thus divided in one New York newspaper morgue: Biography Pair Autobiographical Home Comment Miscellaneous Fortune Standard Oil Gifts United States Steel Golf Rockefeller Foundation Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research Then there are separate envelopes for Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, for John D. Rocke- feller, Jr., for the Rockefeller Family Association, and for the other Rockefellers. Mr. Carnegie is another man who has to have separate envelopes for his different activities. He is classified as follows: Biography Peace Author Politics Civics Skibo Gifts Speeches Imperialism Spelling Kiss Steel Labor But it remains for Mr. Roosevelt, here as in so many other things, to excel all others. He is at once the joy and the despair of the morgue keeper. As one morgue man put it: ‘‘We had to choose between running a Roosevelt morgue with the world on the side, or a world morgue with Mr. Roosevelt on the side We finally chose the latter.” Mr. Roose- velt is thus classified: Biography Miscellaneous Administration Navy Africa Negro Ancestry Panama Canal Anecdotes Peace Athletics Peace of Portsmouth Author Police Commissioner Comment Politics Dangers Presents Fads and Fancies Race Suicide Hunter Railroads Sagamore Hill Spanish War Governor Harriman Episode Home Life Labor Third Term Mayoralty Tours Vice-President Speec hes Messages One of the things that is to be found in Mr. Roosevelt's file is, I think, not gener- ally known. When Mr. Roosevelt formed his Ananias Club he gave expression to that now famous phrase, ‘‘ A short and ugly word.”” That expression was not new to Mr. Roosevelt, although everybody sup- posed it was. The morgue shows that on October 19, 1895, when Mr. Roosevelt was Police Commissioner of New York, he was asked what he had to say in regard to Mr. Perry Belmont's statement that he, Mr. Roosevelt, was using his office for personal aggrandizement and was trying to wreck the Republican party of New York City. Mr. Roosevelt's ‘“‘Short and Ugly”’ ‘“My reply,” said Mr. Roosevelt, ‘‘ is that the statement is the kind of willful falsehood which is best characterized by a short and ugly Anglo-Saxon word of three letters." The phrase passed unnoticed Mr. Roosevelt treasured it in his wonderful memory for ten years until the psycholog- ical moment came to employ it again To go back to the Roosevelt classifica- tions: it might be stated that since the above list was compiled another envelope has been added to the file; it is ‘‘ The Pope Even this long list of subjects under which Mr. Roosevelt is classified will hardly sug- gest to the lay mind the enormous mass of material stored away. For twenty-eight years the newspapers have been clipping “dope” on Mr. Roosevelt. If all this material were to be reprinted in book form it would make scores and scores of volumes, and probably hundreds. So you see why Mr. Roosevelt is such a problem to the morgue man But if Mr. Roosevelt is a problem, Mr Bryan is a complete distraction. From the morgue keeper's point of view he is entirely beyond the pale. There are clippings about him by the hundreds, but it is impossible to classify them, because, as a morgue man explained to me, “Mr. Bryan can’t be classified. He is on all sides of all ques- tions.’’ And so Mr. Bryan's clippings are put in envelopes marked 1900, 1901, 1902, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 1903 and so on. You can picture to your- self the frame of mind of a reporter who has to find some particular story about the Nebraska Colonel, especially if it is near time to go to press. In the Carnegie classifications you may have noticed the Carnegie ‘‘ Kiss.’ A while back the statement was made that some persons would like to get certain items about themselves out of the morgue. suspect that this item falls within that class. The kiss in question was given during a reception in the Carnegie Library at Atlanta. It would hardly be fair to Mr. Carnegie not to print his side of the story. Here is his version, as given to the press by a close friend: ‘* Mr. Carnegie was holding a reception in the Carnegie Library at Atlanta, and a great crowd was filing past him, shaking hands and offering hearty felicitations. Two well-dressed women stopped, and after exchanging some ban- tering compliments one of them put her hands on the astonished laird’s shoulders and kissed him. The act was quickly followed by the next woman in line. Mr. Carnegie laughed and blushed, and then raised his hand in good-natured but firm protest, and checked any further attempt at osculation.” Some Strange Neighbors Far more serious are some of the things that certain other people would like to get out of the morgue. There are the humili- ating records that tell how a_ business man was swindled out of $50,000 by wire- tappers; that tell how an absconding bank cashier lost $350,000 of his stolen money in the same way. Then there are stories of crimes, and swindles, and get- rich-quick schemes, and so on, without limit. Where arrests have been made the same facts are on record in the police blotter that are hidden in the morgue. But many and many a man who has escaped the toils of the police has been less fortunate with the newspapers. The only earthly record there is against such men is in the newspaper morgue. That record they would give a good deal to expunge. With some of these men the desire to get their names out of the morgue is more than a natural desire to bury the story of their own disgrace—they fear that the news- paper record may get them into trouble. Sometimes the newspaper morgue becomes an unofficial police record. It has often happened that the police or the Pinkertons, arresting a man of whom they have no record, have called the newspapers to their assistance and got from the morgue in- formation that enabled them to make a case against their prisoner; for in a news- paper morgue there are sometimes in- criminating items, which, though certainly true, cannot be proved to be true, and so remain ———. The real reason for the existence of the morgue, of course, is that it is invaluable to the aoener in the preparation of its news items. What the compass is to the mariner and the official clock to the rail- roader, the morgue is to the newspaperman. A disaster occurs in the Cherry Mine. To the story of that disaster must be appended brief histories of other bad mine disasters. The reporter finds them in the morgue. A criminal escapes from prison. The reporter must tell why he was imprisoned. He finds the reason in the morgue. Mr. John Smith is appointed consul to Germany. What other offices has he held? The morgue will tell. Half an hour before presstime comes a cablegram with the brief mes- sage, ‘‘ Vesuvius again in eruption.”” The story in the morning paper must tell some- thing of the history of Vesuvius. The cable editor finds that history in the morgue. So it goes day after day, the newspapern man squaring his story with the T-square of the morgue. The oy ol that has the best morgue naturally has an advantage over its rival publications. Thus one city editor, unable to find anything in his morgue about the person he is investigating, discontinues his investigation. 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Mr. Field was at none them. ‘‘ Boss” Clarke, of the Sun, the nigh city editor sans pare l, began to search his morgue After a long time he found a little item saying that Mr. Field had one ti m¢ stayed in New York with his brother in Fifth Avenue ‘That's where - hn aid Mr. Clarke to the reporter cover g the Field assignment “Go up there aad you will find him.” That is where he was, too, and next day the Sun had an exclusive interview. Mr Field had changed cars at Newark, landed at Hoboken and had slipped into the city without being observed. The morgue found him out After all, the ultimate end of the morgue is to furnish material for obituaries, and practically every morgue item becomes sooner or later obituary material. Every person in the world must die and about every prominent person that dies a story must be printed. This the city editor never for one minute forgets. He watches the great ones of the world as a hawk watches chickens. They make him as nervous as a pocketful of dynamite would make the average pedestrian. Always he is afraid that something will happen and find him unprepared. So, at the first hint that a prominent man is not feeling well, he sets a reporter at work writing the sick man’s obituary notice. It has come to bea yroverb in newspaper offices that this is a ife-saver. So many men have recovered from sicknesses after their obituaries have been written that every morgue is full of these unprinted annals. For instance, | came across the “‘obit” of a prominent educator who is still hale and hearty. The story was written February 7, 1910. An examination of the envelope revealed the fact that the morgue keeper had been fol- lowing this man’s history since February 22,1890. Twenty years’ work to write one story! Recently Senator Thomas Platt died The “obit” that was printed by one New York paper was written ten years pre- viously by a man who died two years before Senator Platt Forehanded as all this is, it is not fore- handed enough to suit the city editor When a man dies a natural death this + if l |} method may answer well enough Sut when a man meets a violent death it will not do. The dead man may have a long history and his death may occur just before presstime. It is not enough that his “obit”’ be written. It must also be kept set up in type. Thus there may be found | in the office of every big newspaper bio- graphical articles concerning every crowned head of Europe, the “ big” men of America, and every great figure the world over that is subject to assassination. Probably every New York paper keeps enough such stories set up to print an entire edition of a news- paper. And it is by methods such as these that the papers were able so quickly to print biographies of Prince Ito and Lieu- tenant Petrosino. Unlike the people whom it watches, the newspaper does not need any obituary notice. At least, it is mercifully seldom that it does. Like the brook, it goes on forever. One morgue man may pass, but another takes his place. And so the generic morgue man comes to be the nearest earthly approach to the all-seeing eye. He may be wacching the crowned heads of Europe. He is also watching you To paraphrase a famous rhyme of child- hoed: ‘The morgue man will git you if you don’t watch out.” A Friend onthe Bench MAN from the West was looking for a friend in New York who had gone to the bad. He heard his friend had been sleeping on the benches in Bryant Park and went over there to look for him There were a good many unfortunates on the benches, but the particular friend the Westerner wanted to find was not there | However, the Westerner did find another man from his own town, whom he knew and who knew the man for whom ne was searching. ‘Where's Jones?”’ asked the Westerner, ne the man he knew replied the hobo slee pily, ‘ come in yet. ‘he ain’t THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Nero Fiddled while Rome was Burning RIMINAL indifference”’ A are But what you are doing every day? 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We are even ignorant of the total figures covering the use or enjoyment that other people in our own or other countries get out of the outdoor world. We Americans ought to be the most out- of-door nation in the world because we have more out-of-doors than anybody else. In old and supposedly outworn Germany, for instance, there are six hundred thou- sand sportsmen, or about one gun to each one hundred inhabitants. These sportsmen kill each year four hundred thousand hares, four million partridges, half a million rabbits, one hundred and forty-five thou- sand woodcock, two hundred and fifty thousand pheasants, twenty-two thousand five wndred deer, fourteen hundred wild boars, and a great many other game ani- mals. This amount of game weighs about twenty-five million kilograms and is worth over six and a quarter million dollars, and it cost in licenses about a million and a half dollars for the privilege of shooting. What would be the corresponding figures for America? No one seems to know. It is certain that more than one man in one hundred owns and uses both rifle and shotgun in America. But, so far as is known, no tables have ever been compiled number of our sportsmen, the total cost of all our game licenses, or the total value of the game that we annually kill. As to the total value of the out-of-doors to us in other forms, which we have had or might have had or ought to have had, we are yet more ignorant. T: E slightest reflection on the part of The Smoking Revolver We profess a ready-made military quality as a people, yet in our newspaper stories, in our conversation and even in our litera- ture, we show astonishing ignorance and tolerance for ignorance in matters of fire- arms, or the like. On the front page of almost any newspaper, almost any day of the year, you will read of a suicide or a murderer detected while ‘clutching a smoking revolver in his hand.’’ Sometimes the hand is described as ‘‘cold in death,” and very often the reporter artlessly adds that the suicide evidently had been dead for some hours. But revolver still smokes. No good reason is ever assigned | for this rash act on the part of the revolver. As a matter of fact, no revolver, even a long-barreled, black-powder revolver, ever did smoke one fraction of an instant after the discharge, in spite of the fact that the newspaper artist always makes a pic- ture of the revolver with a nice thick curl of smoke running out of it. Generations hence city editors will be telli smoking revolvers clenched in co 3 | before you forget it. us of | hands | that have driven bullets crashing through | — Not long ago a certain prominent nov- elist of this country, in a piece of vivid description which told how the hero was attacked by a band of robbers, told how the besieged one bravely waited, ‘with his thumb on the trigger of his rifle.’ It is almost impossible even for a hero to sit with his thumb on the trigger of his rifle. The novelist probably meant the hammer and not the trigger. Nature-Faking in High Places Sometimes odd bits of misinformation creep into columns where they do not belong. One remembers a state ‘ment in a sporting monthly not long ago which, in describing a part of South Carolina, said: **Wild pigeons are numerous in this coun- try. They flock in December and afford | good shooting in cornfields and cotton | rows. They are rather tough, more like rubber pads than meat.’’ There have been no wild pigeons in America for many | years. No bird ever was better to eat. There are none in South Carolina. They never did flock so much in December as in the spring. The same writer in the same article goes on to say: “‘ In the low swales, where the ground is soft and the boring is easy, the woodcock makes his home. He surprises you daily when you do not sus- pect his presence, as he wobbles up and zigzags away with his derisive scaipe."" No woodcock ever made a sound like that. The jacksnipe very aes does. But, if we find these things in the accredited sporting press, where shall we look for accuracy ? It is this deep-seated ignorance, or carelessness, that bids fair to nullify all our late campaign of back-to-Nature and back-to-the-soil. We know little of our open-air country and are careless of the fact that it cannot long endure or long furnish its present attractions. A species passes away, exterminated by our ruthless- ness. Who misses it? Posterity manages to get along without that which it never knew. The wild pigeon and the buffalo onal not indispensable. Also, we now ate sand and sell it for four hundred dol ars an acre, whereas once any man who liked could get a farm of the best soil in the world for nothing. Sir Ray Lankester | thinks the horse once lived all over this continent, and that man once killed off the - ies. He thinks that man used to hunt t mammoth and was the prominent cause of its extinction. From these things it seems that the faunal naturalist was not unknown in prehistoric times, although | his trophies were not collected in any per- manent form. The elk was exterminated June 4,1910 To Every Woman One Box Free We want to send to every girl and woman a box of assorted dainties. They are biscuits that are better than bonbons—different from anything that you ever saw. 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The larger apes are doomed; the giraffe, the elephant and the eland are doomed, although Africa seems far away to the average mind. We do not know or care about these things Now many of these old species wer: exterminated in days when there were other pl wes to go hunting Few stop today to reflect that there is no place \ ft to We no longer have any West, and the world has no wild country. Most of us are quite ignorant of the extent of wildernes travel done by European and Amer sportsmen. Alaska. India, Africa and the remotest parts of Asia are pretty well combed out today. In spite of this fact, we take only the most lukewarm interest ir the remaining great game of our country; although Great Britain gives strict legal protection to elephants, giraffes, and many other species of large game in far-off Africa. We admire the manhood requisite for the chase of dangerous big game; but we face with perfect equanimity the fact that our own manhood soon must have entirely different training grounds, indeed, none at all of the old sort. Our percentage of illiteracy and our average intelligence re- main about as satisfactory as those of most countries. Yet we are so ignorant as to believe that the past is the present, that the out-of-doors of yesterday is that of today But even yet we print as attractive illustrations pictures of inordinate kills of fish or game. The writer remembers the photograph of a pile of prairie chickens higher than the top of the prairie shack near which they were stacked up. Four men killed these birds, which numbered many hundreds. It was a few years ago Today you pay three or four dollars for a prairie chicken in a café. Similar instances abound for every species of game. We are ignorant or careless about it. Geronimo, the Apache, killed men, but had a vast con- tempt for American shooters who slaugh- tered more game than they could use Reckoning the Slaughter We do not stop to think. Thus, in Cali- fornia, let us say, there are more than one hundred thousand gun licenses taken out each year. Suppose each gun killed the limit of thirty-five birds, of only one species and on only one day It doesn’t sound so large until you figure that it is three and a half million birds on one day. Divide that sum by any figure you like, and multiply it by the total days of the legal and illegal shooting, and multiply that by several different species Then you begin to se« that millions of pounds of game are killed in one state and that nobody knows or cares about a product so very valuable. In California four men not long ago killed seven hundred geese in one day In Mexico one hunter killed over a hundred ducks at a single discharge of a heavy swivel-gun. Who knows or cares about these things? Our factories turn out half a million guns each year, one year after another, at an average price of less than twenty dollars. Multiply each of these guns by ten days’ shooting per annum, or tive days’; and extend their field over all the older and the newer states. How much do they kill? How long will they have any- thing to kill? We do not know or care We are ignorant and careless of the bal- ance of Nature, and we add all sorts of killing agencies in our attempts to wipe out certain species that interfere with civiliza- tion. We put bounties on wolves, wildcats, cougars, bears, raccoons, gophers, prairi« dogs, jack-rabbits, owls, crows, eagles. As illogical as we are unscrupulous, we attempt preservation with one hand and extinction with the other For the average American it is enough to believe that we have a Government at Washington, the best Government in the world and quite able to take care of every- thing that needs attention. We are sure that in some way those highly enlightened citizens, Aldrich, Cannon and others, will do about what is right for the salvation of the country. The average American cannot tell how many departments there are in the Government at Washington, or THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘ liv ; wits i? what es OT activity are assigned to each department. Few, for instance, know that the Department of Aj upervision under its charge culture has game As a matter department ft fact, the work of th to be known and approved. It is edg along and doing a little something ir of our ignorance and carelessne long ago this department printed a résumé of the game situation in the diffs t states From this we may learn that « ght shooters from Alabama were fined ning hundred and seventy dollars tor not taking out licenses in Louisiana. Illegal shipment of game in Illinois cost one man six hundred eventy-tive dollars; ; her in West Virginia five hundred dollars; another Oklahoma three | ired dolla Fine f one hundred dollars ar ery commot Colorado and Maine are credited with fine of over five hundred d« s; Mict in with one ol two hundred and I Ity Penr v] Vania with one of two hundred and twent five lowa with one of two hundred and sixty; Connecticut three fines of over one hundred dollars each A hundred dollar fir . no , , | r | tine tor breaking a game law Is not nusual The Waning Wild Population We cannot hunt all over the country a once We could Pennsylvania now bar aliens Arkansas does as much with her statutes, at least, although there ar loopholes of local invitation Within two years the entire iLuation as to gun taxe and licenses has been revolutionized and the cost of shooting licenses has steadily mounted At the same time the daily bag limit has grown smaller in ave rage over all the states. Grouse, deer, ducks, all upland game, will soon be extinct or allowed to be killed only in very small daily number Illinois cut down her quail limit to fifteen a day, then to twelve Last winter was ar exceptionally severe one on game birds all over the North. The coming fall will in every likelihood be one of great scari ity Once we could go South and be sure of good shooting, but this last winter, as the writer very well discovered, marked the beginning of the end in Southern upland and cover shooting. Scores of localities that were excellent for quail a few years ago are now reported as snot out But who knows or cares about these things? Is it not the business of the Gov- ernment at Washington to give us plenty to eat, plenty to wear, plenty to kill? Is this not America! An annual increase of a million population surely cannot much affect the re ources Ol so pre al a land as the West! Yet from all parts ol that West from Utah, Washington, Wyoming, the Panhandle of Texas, eve ry corner ot what Was once known as the Dry West— come now countless prospectuses Inviting us to come out and till the *‘ most fruitful soil iz the world,”’ and incidentally to kill the last remaining auroch, jack-rabbit orsand snipe Meantime we go in for airships and automobiles, and in general gear up in our national tastes. We put a tax on sport a tax on the out-of-doors and outdoor pleasures. Incidentally we tax ourselves and our coming sons, but are too ignorant or careless to reflect on that We pe nd a lot of time arguing on what our Constitu tion is or ought to be, and we even do a stunt in conservation talk once in a while but the great body of the American peopk is ignorant or careless regarding matters that in the belief of governments older and quitg as wise as ours have been of the most vital importance. 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‘‘Course,” Pliny suggested, rising, ‘‘if any questions was asked, all you’d have to say was that a stranger handed in the message.” “Sure! Sure!” touch of reproof. before!” Driving away from Ora, however, Pliny’s thoughts were far from jocular. “The poisonin’ old hog!” he muttered vengefully. ‘I'll show him! As though Pat Kelley would send for him when he’s got a horse-doctor right at home! But he’s too conceited to think of that—the old hog!” On that same Wednesday Banker Rose as decidedly uneasy. Of course, if Doctor Buller should poison Pliny, and Old Bill Thompson should shoot the doctor, and Mr. Rose should get half a chance at the little safe in the doctor’s office, all would be well. But suppose the doctor or Pliny should run off with the money and the enraged farmers should come down on Mr. Rose? There were enough uncertainties in the situation to make a prudent man watchful and unhappy. Editor Bascomb was no less disturbed. He had set up the handbills and struck off a proof, which Judge Toller had corrected. Nothing remained but to print the bills end thereby invite upon his devoted head the vengeance ef Banker Rose. Or if he propitiated the banker by telling him about the handbills, he might suffer the no less fatal vengeance of Judge Toller and the farmers. Pondering this dilemma throughout the afternoon, the editor swal- lowed his Adam's apple enough times to have made a meal for a harvest hand. At iength the thought that there was no moon at that time of the month cunningly tempted his upright mind. About half- past eight he nervously climbed the fence that surrounded the residence of Mr. Rose’s brother-in-law, stole through the dark yard and tapped at the back door ‘I thought you ought to know it,”’ he said under his breath to the banker as they stood tog rether in the doorway ‘* Person- ally | don’t approve of any such inflamma- tory proceedings. It’s likely to hurt the tow! I thought you ought to know about it. I trust you not to give me away. Remember, Jim, it might ruin me.” Nobody had ever called the banker ‘Jim”™ before, although many had called him other names. But perhaps nobody had ever been quite so anxious to secure his good will and good faith In hisown room Mr. Rose carefully read the handbill, a proof of which Editor Bascomb had given him. It increased his easiness tenfold If Doctor Buller or Pi; ny got word of this mass-meeting, prob- ably one or both of them would instantly decamp with the money; and if the farm- ers, in mass-meeting assembled, learned that he held their notes, consequences of an impetuous and disagreeable sort would probably ensue. In this dilemma he really ‘ lidn't know what to do said the agent, with a ‘I’ve took part in jokes About noon Thursday, however, he received intelligence which opened up a more or less promising course of action to him. He had secretly set a watch on both the engmies, and he learned that Pliny Le fing we ll would not ride into the country as usual that day because he was sick in hed at the Tibbetts House. Mr. Rose naturally concluded that Doctor Buller was about to make away with the cash and had prudently poisoned his partner J in the excellent quality of being : Banker Rose was hardly excelled bit All thought of violence was nt to him Sut, obviously, if he ish te see the money get away he omething Carefully shutting himself in the back room of his little bank, fore, he took the proof of the hand- bill and penciled on its margin, in a dis- guised hand: ‘‘ Doctor Buller has got the money for your note.” Inclosing the handbill in a nog en- velope he ummoned Johnny Bane, upon the contents of whose livery and feed stable he held a chattel mortgage He told Johnny to send the note that after- noon by one of this hands to Old Bill Thompson, without letting the hand or Olid Bill or.any one else know who the real sender was Strange as it would have seemed to the other persons involved, Doctor Buller him- self was much disturbed that Thursday. of his little office and stroked his short, coarse beard in an earnest attempt to think. Twice at least he got down one of the little- used medical works and slowly read over a certain chapter in it, puckering his brows and occasionally gnawing his nether lip. Never before in his professional career had the doctor so genuinely regretted his in- ability to comprehend what the book meant. His uneasiness was caused by the con- | dition of his friend and partner, Pliny Le ffingwell. Being notified about eleven o'clock that Pliny was ill he had hastened to the patient’s bedside and found him very pale, with bloodshot eyes, feeble voice and irregular pulse. The doctor had pre- scribed calomel and quinine, as usual in all cases, and gone back to his office to con- sult the cryptogrammatic medical work and pace the floor. The day wore on. Soon after four o'clock Pliny arose and shoved his chair in front of the one window in his room. This window commanded an_ uninterrupted view of Doctor Buller’s office, half a block away on the opposite side of the street. The sick man fixed his bloodshot eyes on the doctor’s door and waited. At twenty minutes to five he saw Tom Tobin, the assistant station agent, amble loose- jointedly up the street with a telegram in 1is hand and enter Doctor Buller’s office. Pliny’s heart leaped. In about fifteen minutes, he calculated, the doctor would drive rapidly away toward Kelley’s ranch which would be the last Tupperville would see of him for at least twelve hours. By seven o'clock it would be fairly dark. The key to the doctor’s office was in his trousers pocket, the combination to the little safe was in his mind. The eastbound passenger train reached Tupperville at 8:45 that evening, and by 8:45 next morning Pliny expected to be far away with an ob- scure trail in his wake. Engaged with these thoughts, Pliny stared intently at Doctor Buller’s office while his pulses tingled. He thought the doctor stepped to the back door of the office and shouted across to Johnny Bane’s livery to have the tough little buckskin broncos harnessed to the light top buggy. Two or three minutes passed. Then the doctor came to the front door of the office and looked over at Pliny’s window in a doubtful, inquiring sort of way. Pliny saw him tug at his beard like a man unable to make up his mind. He withdrew into the office, and after a couple of minutes reappeared —stepping out upon the side- walk and striding toward the hotel. Unquestionably he was going to make his patient a visit. Pliny realized it and was panic-stricken. For a moment he thought wildly of fleeing, even in his night- gown. As he sprang into his bed and pulled the sheet over him, he attempted, with demoralized faculties, to reassure himself by thinking that the doctor, after all, was me rely drop ying in to see how he was. He tipped his head as far back as the pillow would permit, then half-opened his mouth like a person struggling for breath, half-lowered his eyelids and tried to make his eyes look glassy. Thus Doctor Buller striding in without the formality of knocking-—discovered him. The physician briskly pulled a chair to the bedside and bent over the patient professionally. How you feeling, Pliny?” he asked solic itously. “Pretty bad,” and rolled his eyes. ‘I been reading up on your case, Pliny, said the doctor with kindly gravity. This here encardosisis, in acute attacks like you got, upsets the stomach. It’s a reflex action, you understand.’ Pliny nodded feebly and held his breath. ‘I got a call out of town,” the doctor continued; ‘long drive—to Kelley's ranch. So I brought you up some medicine to straighten out your stomach, Pliny, and that'll fix you -» fine Pliny’s heart stopped beating and his eyes became glassy poly In a kind of nightmare he saw Doctor Buller step delib- erately to the stained pine bureau, pick up the tab lespoon beside the bottle of whitish medicine, return to the chair and take a vial full of red liquid from his coat poc ket Say, Doe—I'm feelin’ some better’n I was,” the patient managed to gasp. Pliny muttered weakly ” THE SATURDAY EVENING POST DOCTOR BULLER’S MAGIC OATS — (Continued from Page 9) With ponderous motion he paced the floor June 4,1910 To Every Advertiser we wish to send one of the finest examples of advanced printing ever issued. It is a booklet on CAMEO PLATE, a fine half- tone paper, absolutely without gloss. It opens up possibilities of beauty in printing that were urdreamed cf before its introduction. 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FENCES 7 TA- FRE X HIGHGRADE % FOR PUR ¢ & bed $2 ALL WF POSES We mks > AAAI atte site Sea jibdebied Besbetatlcetebetitabititins flabebtAy I ENTERPRISE FOUNDRY AND FENC E COMPANY 272 South Senate Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind THE SATURDAY “Sure! with steady into the spoon Pliny’s struggling will half br 1¢ paralysis that bound him vividly that a life him Just put the Doe,” he said more by-and-by.”’ “Better take it right now, Pliny,’ Doctor Buller said, poising tne level-full tablespoon the sooner the better ] want to get action on that stomach of yours just as soon as Iean.”” He bent over nd placed the vial on the floor without spilling y a drop from the spoon ‘No us I couldn't keep it down, cried Pliny in a frightened voice “| been omitir n’ allday. Ill wait till my stomach’s settled.’ This’ll settle it all right Come on, now,” the doctor replied firmly, and ad anced the mouth Vith wide and terror-stricken eyes, Pliny threw himself back from the fatal instru ment. ‘No! I won't take it!” he fair ‘reamed. Lifting himself a litth hi left elbow he started to draw his right arm defensively from under the sheet The next moment he lay sputtering on the pillow had firmly seized his nose with a mighty Sure!" the hand he doctor replied poured the liquid ‘ke through He realized por as Upo! t th or-deat CTisis W medicine on the bureau, steadily Tl take spoon toward the patient : thumb and forefinger ‘liny had tinct vely opened his mouth, into which the physician had briskly ps pp wed the dose Under the conditions one performs the allowing automatic alls Pliny heard Doctor Bu iller laugh hoarsely and SAY ‘That'll fix you all right.” \ moment later the physician The patient almost swooned from pur terror He regarded himself as a dead man, and scarcely knew what he was doing when he sat up in bed Then an awful commotion in his vitals racked his soul with neept of fear. He sprang from the bed and rushed down the sta toward the kitchen ir sis sikahaeanead: tall ing at th e top of his voice for warm water and salt But he never reached the bot tom ot the stair By the time Doctor Buller regained his office the team was standing in front of it Gathering up his medi and the fev urgical instruments which he possessed, he climbed into the buggy and shook the the tough little broncos A regards Pliny, with that red dose inside him, th doctor felt decide dly reassured \ doubt that Patrick Kelley, being in would send for him had never irred to his essentially and egotistical mind It meant a hard night’s drive; but there was a cash fee of five hundred dollars at the end of it Also there was twenty thousand dollars in the safe at the head of his bed Even if the twenty thousand were divided by two Doc- tor Buller felt himself in possession of a fortune fairly equal to his dreams. Per- haps the doctor had first caught the dreaming habit from the ruminating act ot sw Vas gone a more definite cx ine Case reins over need of a surgeon, even remote ly occ) simple creatures upon whom he practiced while serving his surgical novitiate in a modest butcher shop in Wisconsit At any rate dreams, like theirs, were exceedingly concrete so many acres pasture; so many bushels of fodder Ple isantly en ploying his Imagination with translating ten thousand dollars into concrete terms of ider, Doctor Buller sped on, giving littk heed to his surroundings, but keeping the broncos at a brisk pace to make the most ol daylight and good roads Presently he was aware that the sun was getting low and that a team was approach ing; but neither phenomenon really ar rested his attention until the approaching team, instead of turning to the right of the narrow roadway, halted full in the midi of it, fairly blocking his progress. 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headed away from town the doctor would have attributed his unconventional greet- ing to that cause. But William was headed toward town and seemed ominously sober. He was a tall, lank, very round-shouldered old man, with a thicket of tousled iron- y beard, a beak rather than a nose, and “a V eves ‘Yah!” he observed dispassionately, but as though he were biting off somebody’s head ‘*Midnight Sun Oats! I been thinking them oats wasn’t any good for quite a spell, and now I know it. So turn around, you usifort’nate he-sow, and go ith me.” Doctor Buller calculated that he stood a good show of making a sharp swerve to the right, across the weedy ditch, without up- setting He pulled the lines, to back the ponies for this mancuver, and replied mildly: ‘‘Can’t do it. I’m going to set a patient’s leg.” Mr. Thompson the reupon stooped and ifted a double-barreled shotgun from the yottom of the buckboard. ‘‘ I'll set legs on you wher here ain’t never been none be- fore,’ he said decisively and cocked both varrels Doctor Buller slackened the reins ‘I'd like you a heap better, anyhow, bac to town W with a couple of handfuls of buckshot inside you,” Mr. Thompson assured him impar- tially. ‘*So turn around, you skunk.” Yes ir,”’ the doctor replied promptly respe tfulls Hit ‘em up now We don’t want to be all day gettin’ there,’ Old Bill directed when the doctor had turned The little broncos, being headed home- ward, responded cheerfully to the hitting d the two sped toward Tuppe rville gathering tw ilight Before the lights village appeared Doctor Buller’s as an undefined bulk above the buggy —rather dim, yet offering a rK [or a double-barrs led shotgun range, as both himself and Mr at close Thompson calculated Doctor Buller hopeful Although disappointed, was engaged with somewhat thoughts As the first village light twinkled ahead, without venturing to check the horses he called into the gloam- ing: ‘‘ Your note was for two hundred and fifty dollars, wasn’t it, Mr. Thompson ? It were,”’ Mr Thompson’ ; voice pro- nounced grimly by pee: him “T ain't got the note, Mr. Thompson,” “but I'll give you the doctor calle ze again the cash for it.” “You bet you will,” Old Bill replied ungraciously the note or the cash.” he doctor felt relieved. If Old Bill would simply take two hundred and fifty dollars and go home, the loss would be trivial. lt was at his suggestion, therefore, that they drove down the alley, hitched their teams to a back fence and entered the otfice by the rear door for he was mod- estly reluctant to appear on Main Street entleman carrying a accompanied by a snotgun iere Was a handlamp on the wash- tand in the corner of the bedroom The doctor lighted it while Old Bill stood in the doar way, his weapon under his arm. _Lift- ing the turned to the safe at the head of hi bed and seemed stricken with paralysi His jaw dropped; from his head —for the little safe was wide open and empty Mechanicalh . dre ‘ Miechnanicaiy, as one In a dream, the ’ placed his doctor knelt i amp on the floor and stared long and silently into the vacant interior Then, volishly, he put his hand to the knob of he safe door and slowly worked the bolts lamp, Doctor Buller he head of his eyes alinost popped front of the safe vaCcK a tn Old Bill was pe rple xed Doctor Buller’s amazement seemed perfectly genuine yet Mr. Thompson was somewhat sus- piclous At any rate, there was evide ntly no use in the doctor's spending the evening vacantly working the bolts of his empty safe back and forth Mr Thompson closed the office door behind kim, doubtfully pawed his tousled beard, then stirred the kneeling physician with his foot Doctor Buller merely looked up- with an expre ion so dazed and woebegone that Old Bill was more perplexed than ever Sitting back on his heel the doctor clasped his enormous hands in his lap, again staring at the vacant safe. ** Bill,’’ he said heart-brokenly, ‘‘such is life! Such is life!" This observation, however true, struck Mr. Thompson as irrelevant He was naturally impatient to extract some more lucid and detailed statement that would | be helpful in the practical matter of recov- ering his two hundred and fifty dollars. So he was about to assist the doctor in col- lecting his wits by poking him sharply in the ribs with the muzzle of the shotgun when the back door opened and Charley Vance stepped in, grinning broadly. ‘‘T was watchin’ for you at the front door, Doe,”’ said Charley with irrepress- ible good humor. ‘‘Guess I wouldn’t ’a’ knowed you was here at all only I hap- pened to see the light. You're wanted over to the bank right away. The doctor stared at him as at one more amazing phenomenon in a_ world turned topsyturvy; and Old Bill glowered forbiddingly. ‘They’s a kind of oats’ caucus in session over there,’’ Charley added. At that significant word the doctor rose in bewildered obedience, and Mr. Thomp- son, although impatient, judged it as well to go along. They proceeded silently to the bank. The drawn window-shade of the bank’s parlor showed there was a light within. Charley opened the door without hesita- tion, leading the way. The small room hada crowded appearance. At the farther side of the table in the center sat Judge Toller, who seemed to be presiding. At one end of the table sat Banker Rose, who was paler than usual and who started like a frightened gazelle when Doctor Buller’s formidable figure appeared in the doorway At the other end of the table sat Pliny Leffingwell, who also was pale, but whose chinless face wore an air of sullen defiance. Fight farmers stood gravely around the wall. Judge Toller surveyed the group that entered and bestowed a frown of open dis- favor upon William Thompson’s ntoen. **Sit down, Buller,” he said crisply to the doctor, nodding toward the chair at the side of the table opposite himself. The doctor removed his hat ne yng and took the chair. He noticed that a number of objects lay upon the table, one of them being a neat ‘pile of handbills fresh from the press ‘Midnight Sun Oats are a rank swindle,’ said the judge in his most snappy, business- like tones, laying a handbill in front of Doctor Buller. ‘‘There’s the copy of a letter from the Department of Agriculture about ‘em.’ The doctor took up the handbill and stared at it with the same air of solemn deliberation which he used to impress a patient when he consulted one of the medical books that he could not under- stand ‘**We’re going to wipe the slate,”’ Judge Toller continued brusquely. ‘‘We would have called a mass-meeting; but I didn’t want you fellows hung except by due proc- ess of law. We decided to give you a quieter chance. So we called on Rose, for I knew well enough he'd discounted the notes. Rose told us the money was in your safe.”’ Mr. Rose, without venturing to look at the doctor, clapped his hand to his beard and gurgled an inarticulate appeal ‘We went over there oe found this fellow robbing the safe,"’ the judge added, turning to Pliny; ‘‘so we brought him and the money over here.” The other objects on the table which the doctor had noticed were a familiar-looking pile of greenbacks and gold coin and a stack of notes payable to the Midnight Sun Oats Company Pliny Leffingwell stirred in his chair “You wouldn't ’a’ got me or the money | either if ‘I'd had a gun,” he declared sullenly Judge Toller’s severe face litth “He's mad,” he explained, ‘‘ be- cause he got gay and Tom Pomsten properly choked him a spell.’ A large the wall, grinned modestly at the com- pliment, and Pliny mechanically felt his smi arting neck ‘So Rose gets back the mone y and the farmers get back their notes. You under- stand?” the judge demanded “Yes, sir,” said the doctor respectfully It seemed to his dazed mind that this simple assent was scarcely adequate. ‘‘I was always intending,” he said gropingly; ‘lL always calculated — it was our intention to give bac ‘Kk the notes if the oats wasn’t satisfactory Several farmers laughed and the un- fortunate physician dropped his explana- tion relaxed a’ | young farmer, standing against | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 4,1910 This is a clothes advertisement without a pretty fashion picture or an empty adjective. 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A gar claimed lhe judge eyed him with calm disap proval ‘You ought to have found your tongu earlier,” he said. “If you'd told us whet Buller Was and come along like a get th man, you wouldn't have got choked.” Pliny sprang up I’m going to have my money back! I won't stand it!" he cried defiantly. ‘‘lain't afraid of you! I'm out no ind face a thousand dollars. to say nothing of n time. So’s Buller. We had to pay fe them oats, if they ain’t any good. Bu can set there like a cow that s been hit the head if he wants to, but I’m going have my money hack ‘ll William Thompson, theretofore silent set his against the door stepped forward | got a suggestior he said hopefully “What's th ood due process o’ law when we can gel a Trop in two minutes , , ' I'll zo to law snotgun An elderly farmer in the corner spol up firmiy. ‘‘I’m set aginst vi'lence,”” he said; but I dunno he lo tat th others, as one willing to majority —‘‘as I’d draw the line at ta feathers and a rail.’ The meeting seemed to silence upon this moment Doctor Buller seen his power of speec! J ig satisfied, gentlemen,” he hastily; | was going to leave Mr. Thompson thrust h 2 like, into his bush: beard ( ile gestively ard Pliny ‘I'm goin’, said Pliny turned toward the d Doctor Buller nervously } p | hat I think, he said apok cally “Tl be going also.” No objection was offered, a he cle followed Pliny out Mechanically the twe turned toward the little office, walking on in dead silence. The lamp was still burr ing in the bedroon Doctor Buller brought to the office prope it i sat down dully he ch | From mere force of habit Pliny bed Into the operating chair tempiat the doctor's formidable bulk irprise perplexity increased in his mit “Doe,” he said fi ally, in an almost impersonal way, ou plumb beat me! When it come to a show-d have any more nerve ‘na shee] Yet } had nerve enough to poisor : The doctor looked tartied “Why Pliny, that ain't ich thing!”’ he exe laime d re proact ly “Stryehnine,” Pliny reminded him, wi touch of sarcasi “ Stry hnine is all right, Pliny, "the do tor’ assured him earnest] It od it lots of case Me vo to poison 5 u! he continued, with greater emotion. ‘* Wh Pliny, I never thought of such a thing. I vasn’t real sure what ailed you lethel "twas your heart or you! | I And I wasn’t real sure how much of the blame stuff you oughta take. Why, Pl when | heard you Was sick th morning | “a real worried. Yes, sir, I was some scairt! Why, Pliny,” he appealed convincingly, “didn’t I go over there, before I left te and give you a good dose of eppycac, so’s you'd throw it allup’ Didn't I now?” ‘*Eppycac?” Pliny repeated lously. Then he recalled the consequence which had ensued as he was hastening downstairs to get salt and water. His sur prise increasec, and he no med to perceive, in the doctor’s fear-inspiring bulk a mere inert side of beef “Why, Doc,” he exclaimed, almost affectionately, ‘1 wasn’t sic At ke I just swallowed a cud of tobacco to make me sick Incredu ‘What for?” the doctor asked blankly “Don’t you see said Pliny, with a touch of pride in his superior wit. ‘Pat Kelley didn’t send for you at all he telegram was bogu ‘ 1 to out of town And I thought likelier to go if you thought I w last legs so’s I couldn't get up and swipe the mone) The doctor considered ! pa fully “T never thought of your swiping the money, Pliny,”” he confessed sadly a never thought of it any more’n I thought of poisoning you.” *Doc,’’ said Pliny earnestly, ‘‘you oughta be honest You ain’t got sens¢ enough to be anything else For Social Refreshment there's nothing like grape juice in its universal accept- ability. E.vervone likes it. 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Ver high-spirited —-excess of energy too much agiatior that's all There's nothir Vicious about the boy ‘But not as president, Hopkins; not as ' president No one bette Ff. said The Roman firn l lhe boy is bound to lead. I know what in him he will rise to his responsibilit Doctor, you will see I have never contidence in hin The Doctor, unconvinced, debated When he finally gave his ratilication he added with a smile Well, Ho >t do thi on your juds ment You om : right Né hall se« By-the-way, Stover must an led you quits a dance over in the Kennedy What it you like in him? The Roman reflected and then, his eyé twitching reminiscently ‘Fearlessness,”’ he said, ‘‘and and a diabolical imagination When The Roman returned to the Ken- nedy he summoned Stover to his study. He knew that Dink misunderstood his attitud: and he would have liked to enlighten him But unfortunately, complete confidence in times as embarrassing as length before acceding such cases is some the relations between father and sor The Roman, pondering, twisted a paper-cutter and frowned in front of him **Stover,”’ he said at last I have talked with the Doctor. He has seen best to ap prove ol your ¢ lection Dink, of courss perceiving the hesita tion, went out glee fully, persuaded that the decision was gall and wormwood to his inveterate foe The last day of school ended He drove to Trentonin a buggy with Tough McCarty as befitted his new dignity He passed the Green House with a strange thrill The humiliation of a year before had been well atoned, and yet the associations somehow still had power to rise up and wound him 8) you've changed!"’ said Tough, following his thoughts Improved!”’ said Dink grimly I was an infernal nuisance myself wher I landed,”’ said Tough, President of the Woodhull, evasively. ‘‘I say, Dink, next year we'll be licking the cubs into shape ourselve “5 That's so, said Stover “Well, by this time next year I probably won't be so popular Why not ‘I'm going to put an er d to a lot of nor sense,’ said Dink solemnly. ‘“‘I'm going to see that my kids walk a chalkline.”’ **So am IJ,” said McCarty, with equal paternity. ‘*‘ What a shame we can’t room | together, old boy is “That'll come in the Upper, and afterward!” ~ They drove sedately, amid the whirling masses of the school that went hilari usly past them : Good-by, old Sockbuts, said Tough departing toward New York. ‘‘Good-by, old geezer! : Au revoir.’ ‘Mind now — fifteenth of July and you come for one month You bet I will! ‘Take care of yours If! ¢ say, Tough, said Dink, with hi heart in his mouth. 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A CIRCUIT RIDER'S WIFE (Concluded from Page 15) I used to get tired of being poor in spirit There came days when I wanted to inherit the earth, the real earth, you understand. The figure of speech might have been better for my soul, but what | hankered after was something opule nt and comfortable for just the human me. And this brings to mind an incident that happened when | was in one of these moods We were stationed that year at Celestial Bells, a place where the people had some kind of happy beam in their eyes. They were not « nly willir ig to be Christians, the “y were determined to be But they were equally determined to enjoy every other good thing that was in sight. This led to many social occasions, afternoon teas, recep- tions, innocent entertainments, to no end of visiting and to a fashionableness in every- body's appearance that was scandalously fascinating to me. Now and then I have heard some stupid stranger refer to Celes- tial Bells as an ugly little town, but in my memory it is spread forever in the sun, sweetly shining like a flower-garden wing of Paradise. It was there, after so many years, that I came in contact again with simple human gayety, with women prettily gowned, with the charming clatter of light conversation, and within the sound of music that was not always hymnal. I do not say, mind you, that I did not listen alws Lys revere ntly and gratefully to William’s higher tz lk, or that | have ever ceased to enjoy good church music; but I am con- fessing that, in spite of long training in experience-meeting monologues and organ tunes, I was still eestatically capable of this other kind of delight As the minister's wife I was asked eve 7 ed where. In all well-bred communities the reache wife is given the free moral agent’s opportunity to draw her own line between the world and the church. If she refuses a series of invitations to teas and clubs and receptions, it is understood that she is not of the world, will have none of it, and she is left to pursue her pious way to just the church services and missionary meetings. But I refused to draw the spir- itual line between tea parties and the Bible- class study evening I accepted every invitation with alacrity. There was noth- ing radically wrong with my heavenly mind it simply extended farther down than that of some others in my position One circumstance only interfered with my pleasur This was the curious sag and limpness and color and style of my clothes. It is no mystery to me why dress fashions for women connected with the itinerancy tend to mourning shades. When you put the world out of your life you put the sweet vanity ok rout. You eschew red and pink ast tender sky-blues, and present your bodie living sacrifices in black materials. I do not believe that God re- quires it. -The Maker of the heavens and the arth, of the green boughs and of the myriad-laced flower must be a lover of color But I have never seen a circuit rider wife in my life whose few garments were not pathetically dashed with this gloom of mourning darkne So, when we came to Celestial Bells, I say 1 had a black sateen waist and a gray cheviot kirt till worthy to be worn to chureh and prayer-meeting services, and a idder, blacker gown that had done service for four vears upon funeral occasions, and other equal lly as solemn, like weddings These were al, except the calicoes I wore at home I'he result was that I must have looked like some sort of sacrilegious crow at every social function in Celestial Bells during the first few month But as the pring advanced | took my courage in my hands and resolved to have a blue foulard ilk. It was frightfully expensive, seventy- in fact, to say nothing of a White lace yoke and a black panne velvet belt. But no bride ever cont mplated her five cents a yard, going-away rown with more satisfac- 101 I pictured my elt in it, befor l even purchased it, attending Sister Z's tea party, lookit Ke Other women! “Te lo not recom- mend this as a high ambition, but those preache Vives in the remote places who have worn drab and sorrowfully-cut clothes for years will know how I felt I think there is something pitiful in women just here No matter how old and consecrated they get, they do, in their secret hearts, often long to be pretty, to look well-dressed and~— yes, light-hearted rhe latter is so becoming to t m But it is in the itinerancy as it is in other walks of life. Just as you think you are about to get your natural heart’s desire somebody slams the Bible down on it, or gets an answer to prayer that spoils your pleasure init. So it was in my case. It was the first foreign missionary meet- ing of the new fiscal year, one day in March We met at Sister MacL’s house. Sister Shaller was presiding with her usual dignity. She was a beautiful woman, childless, and much praised for her interest in church works. She was rich, and enjoyed the peculiar distinction of wearing very fash- ionable gowns even to church. Upon this occasion something reserved, potential and authoritative in her manner made me nerv- ous. I had a premonition that she was after semebody’s dearest idol. And I was not left long in suspense as to whose it was. Fixing her wide newt eyes upon us with hypnotic intensity she said she had felt moved, unaccountably moved, to tell the auxiliary that we must support a foreign female missionary this coming year. The silence that met this announcement was sad and submissive. We were already | paying all the dues we could afford; this | meant fifty dollars extra. She went on to say, in her deep mezzo- soprano voice, that she knew it meant sacrifice for us, but that it was by just such sacrifices that we grew in grace. ** Suppose each of us resolves to do with- out our spring gown for Easter. Oh, my sisters! we could probably send two instead of one missionary then. And we will have at the same time curbed the weak- ness and vanity of our female natures!”’ The rich plumes in her hat trembled with the depth of her emotions, her pretty silk skirts rustled softly. But the silence con- tinued. If she had asked for the sacrifice of any but our Easter things I reckon we could have borne it better, but probably there was not a woman in the room whose imagination had not already been cavort- ing under her prospective Easter bonnet. As for me, I never felt so circumvented and outraged in the whole course of my life asa preacher's wife. I had the samples in my bag at that moment, and was only waiting for the meeting to end to go to the store on my way home to purchase my foulard. There is one thing we have all noticed about a silence, especially in a company of friends—if it lasts too long it gets sullen and pregnant with the animosity of un- spoken thoughts. When the silence was approaching this stage Sister MacL., who had a sort of cradle heart for soothing every one, murmured in her crooning voice: ‘ Let us take it to the Lord in prayer!”’ And we were about to rise and kneel like a set of angry children before our smiling Heavenly Father, when something either moral or Lemapensen stiffened in me, and | artled even myself with these words that seemed to come of their own accord out of my mouth ‘lll do nothing of the kind!” I was oblivious to the horrified gaze of my companions. I felt some spirit strengthen me and give me courage [ had a quick, tear-blinded vision of the years behind me, and of the figure I made walking always down the aisle of some church by William in my dismal black dress, or sitting at a funeral or even at a feast, always in thi ut ugly black garment Sister Shaller I said, looking steadily at her, as a child looks at another child who is trying to take some cherished plaything from it, ‘you can do as you please about sending that missionary. You are per- fectly able to do it without new Easter clothes. As for me, I have promised the Lord to dress better, more like a human being and less like a woman-raven, and I intend to do it. I am tired of sitting in retired corners at parties and receptions because I look as if | belonged to a funeral. It isa matter of conscience with me, just as the missionary is with you.” I never told William what I had done It was one of those good works that he could not have measured or appreciated, And I never knew whether Sister Shaller sent her missionary or not. She was a good woman and perfectly capable of doing it Sut the other women were as grateful as if I had rescued their Easter things from a highwayman Editor's Note This isthe first oftwo additional hapters taken from the experiences of @ circuit ler's wife THE SATURDAY EVENING POST June 4,1910 New York Style— HE worth of your not alto- gether depend upon their style. But you'll have to admit that clothes without style would not satisfy you. Then why not have style— authentic style—New York Style? Benjamin(lothes Made in New York are renowned for their New York style, their individuality and their excellent tailoring—they are standard ail over the civilized world. Everything else being equal, you certainly prefer New York Style. 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— aroer en a appetite. And his youth made him confi- dent of moral strength where temptation had never attacked He had a feeling of security, of surenes in himself. For he had grown; he had developed in a night. As he walked hi head rang, but it was back; his eyes ached, but they looked straight before hin masterfully. He knew he wasa leader wit! a following. Bully of the camp, they cal im. It meant that the camp was at He had pre Stig’ 1 this day he toiled in the heading a apart from the men about him. He walked to and from the work among the hift, a figure of distinction. In the ever ngs, when he nt downtown, men asked him to drink with them and he knew that they had pride when he accepted the invi- tations. Heading bosses nodded familiarly to him now and called him by his first name Men asked him to arbitrate small disputes; his word had weight in the bu houses Once or twice off th WOrk Old Man questioned him terse ly reg arding the rock in the heading le answered the q tions with wisdom For he was learning many things still, as he had learned them under the Gunner's tutelage le was absorbing what others had to give him, watching always what they d d Even when he loafed about the machine-shop and timber-sheds he was picking up knowledge while he gossiped with the mechanics When Jack Tarpy gave him the bench gang, three months after the fight, no one was surprised. He took it proudly with a leap of joy in his heart, but he took it as his due Kennedy got : ilar position at about the same time preceded Tom's When they met at the change of shifts the y had to consult regarding details of the work. Responsibility had not taken any- thing from the Dynamiter’s recklessnes But it had made a change; it was as though there had been a tempering process, and the absolute wantonness was lacking now Meeting him on the jumbo every day Tom learned to re spect this man whom he had fought The two of them d found a new rivalry, a rivalry of emu- ition, each of them trying to make his gang do all that there was in them. And although this competition was a big thing ith them, they found themselves dealing with fairness in their conferences, gen h ] i ously giving to each other every necessary bit of information. They had grown bigger with their positions om stood these d: the fourteen-foot she vs near the edge of f of rock with the reeling tripods thundering about him, and beneath his feet the crew of sweating muckers shoveling the broken rock. He supervised it all. Occasionally he gave an order, shouting it deep-toned from his chest. And as he shouted he saw men leap to obey him. His assertiveness grew and with it his self-sureness There de veloped also vith the knowledge that what these men did would be charged to his account a tendency to make up his mind upon sure premises, and a gravity ie was boss; but there was no wantonness in his autoc- racy Fall , and witl t h -oncrete all came and with it the concrete fan A igs Far in the wake of the roaring ling they lined the tunnel with a thick ing of crushed rock and cement. There were more than one hundred of these men, wandering craftsmen, members of the same great army of fioaters ,o which the hard- rock men belonged. They had something the recklessness that belonged to the ( coat of drill-runners, the lack of care of homeless men The y riote d on vdays and among them were fi ivalries sprang up between them and tunnel workers Fights followed I'y Big Jerry and Kennedy came back to the bunkhouses bruised and battered by a new champion, an unknown fighter. The fame of this man grew and his name became a byword. The camp began to mention it along with Tom's, to compare them, speculating on what would be the outcome of a battle be- tween them. Finally, drawn by public opinion, the encoun came, and Tom went back to the camp with additional prestige That winter they made him heading boss, and some of the best runners in the camp the older men who had worked in every corner of the continent where there was THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 4) TOM MORTON Continued from Page 21 rock to rend, came to him-—a hard-faced big-limbed crew. During the month tl bent their energies to toil beneath his hard gra) eyes nd the y ke ved the mastery the eve Spoke Cy paya the VOT ruffians They'd go to hell fer him Tac Tarpy told the Old Man one afternoor The Old Man growled Thev'll go to hell wit’ him some day if they don’t mind he said. ‘* Riley tells me they tore his ne pianny up by the roots and throwed u through the dure the other night and fhe was wit’ them.” Twas one af them canned-n plannys , explained the valker “And ‘twould not pla The Wearin’ av the Green They. can pull the rock, tho they do more than the other two shifts put together.” During that winter Tom came to a | lief in hard men and giant powder. Har them both, coming in contact wit aul them daily, he looked upon their sort ol strength as all there was of might Xt a EVE fell with Yuletide softness upon that portion of Snow lide across the cahon from the boarding camp—the little space occupied by the cottages where the families of the Old Man and some of the more responsible mect ies lived Here there was talk season, happin : mystery of hi ; In B bunkhouse Christm: little more than three we payday and one week beh was a quiet night and cok in their bunks or around t driving tunnel, and if any of the date they spoke o being the easiest way to pass a subject not belonging to their world their heavy voices went h the door into the foreman’s office where Tom sat He did not hear them; he was going over his timebook H th | ] with a stub pencil. Now he raised it to wet it between his lips; then wet I t r } thro licK fingers were | awkwardly, breathing heavily with the ex cess of mental effort, scowling nto tl book. It was a large room; its floor bare On the board walls hung half a dozen pictures from a sporting pap portraits of prize-fighters crouching with their gloved fists upraised before them, and f women clad in tight There was a photograph of two men standing side by side, a table between them; on the table a bottle and glasses; the two men held cigars in their mouths Some previous occupant had left it; dust covered it and it hung askew In the corner was a bedstead made from undressed lumber; the blanket lay in a knot upon it; the pillow hung limply half over the side. Under the bed showed a corner of the vooder che St v here Tom still kept his father’s hat and coat i There were two chairs the b: ot one was broken Tom sat on the other before the pig onholed desk made irom two goods boxes On the walls his oilskins and squam hat hung from nails. He was “t sleeved and in his stockinged feet Hi } was in uncombed rio Occasional labored over the timebook, he ran hi hand through his lock ere Was a knock on the door. ‘‘Com«e in!’’ he cried, and turned to face the mar car-tender fom swore in ‘ the car-tender was dressed up a round-rimmed hat of black felt, flatc-crowned, stiff as it had eome fron the bandbox, undented It was tilted bac] from his forehead, that one carefully combed lock of hair might show His clothes were black the sack coat showed det p creases from long pac king inat He wore a glistening celluloid collar, and a pattern-tied four-in-hand of lilac tint thrust itself outward beneath his bronzed throat; the strap had slipped up over the collar in the reat His square-toed shox with polish His y prow! ng straight down, as though the were trying to escape the relentless pursult ol a pair ol ce lluloid cuffs He stood in the doorway, all his teeth showing in a s¢ conscious smile. ‘* Merry Christmas! said That's so,”’ Tom said. ‘* How did remember ?’ The car-tender came in and seated him self with some care upon the edge ol th As a life companion— ad Ww South Bend Watch ill serve you well l ( pin ds It row to y¢ t tr te com nion that 1 ulat out f % ore than von may ti r Discriminating pet crin gy pers choose th triend th utmost care \ watch sho } , . ve as caretuily selected Ih i I ra rood watches is but a trifl ‘ d tn ! yea nT } } ¢ ’ tT ¢ ideship tha le Wearer and watch form, th ( ra co Is forgotten SO 16 vith an idea of their ma tall thn I id curacy for veat Lhe shghtest tail, possib of discovery by the best experts wh ke Watch I ssembled, may seriously attect the t k ng pring Value 1n a year or two hence. 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Murphy’s goin’ over to the other portal New Year's, an’ I’m to bi motorman.” ‘Motorman! first trip!’’ do ut?” ‘I’ve been car-tender Murphy an’ avenin’s. ‘Tis a fine Moran’s.”’ ** Moran's must have a hot dump to let the likes of ye and Murphy board there,’ said Tom irrelevantly “Ye shud see ut wance,” cried the car- tender. ‘‘Grub! Man, ye never get the like of ut in that there hash-foundry.”’ He waved his hand toward the cookhouse “And 'tis like comin’ home of a night. The Old Woman lets us have the parlor, and we get to see the others on the hill. There’s two girls lives over there now besides tyan’s Nora. Man, ut’s civilized! Ye shud see the room I have; it’s nate as a Ye'll ditch Tom’s face relaxed. the thrrain ‘How'd larnin’ all winter,”’ said th ‘Gettin’ what I could from takin’ correspondence school chanst I have at = ” He looked around him compre- 1ensively. ‘‘Ye could bring a gang of them muckers in here wit’ their number two shovels and do this hole no harm,” he said “So?” said Tom ’Tis the girls.’ “The girls nothin’!’’ said the car- tender. ‘“‘They don’t trouble me. I'm too busy wit’ the electrical engineerin’ course to bother me head wit’ girls. Some day I'll be drawin’ me easy salary whil ye're poundin’ tarriers on the backs or runnin’ a slugger again in the headin But ‘tis good to see them; and that’s what I] come fer. There’s to be a few friend there tonight fer Christmas Eve. Ryan’s Old Woman will be overand Nora and on or two others Come on.” Tom flushed. ‘‘I’'m not made fer yer high society,’’ he growled. ‘I’m no saft talkin’ dude. Go get some av thim en gineers; ‘tis thim ye want.” ‘Come on! the car-tender insisted ‘None of them girls is goin’ to bite ye Why shud ye stick in this hole when there's the chanst fer a good time and dacent foll to talk wit’ Tom frowned heavily said But,”’ the car-tender was beginning he had secured the privilege of inviting ‘Not me,” he Tom by asking Mrs. Moran, and he held it too dear to give up easily —‘‘ But, man ye Tom rose ‘Listen here!” he = said sternly. ‘‘ Raymimber the night I wore me father’s hat to the depot, knowin’ nx betther? There was some av yer fine folk there that night, and they laughed in me face because I was too grane fer thim Raymimber the night I tuk that umbrelly to Ryan’s house? And who was ut at the dure and slammed ut in me face? Answer me that! Go there? I'll see thim in heil first!”’ “They meant no harm,” said the car tender ‘That night it was the Old Woman. She was sore at Ryan, not you. I got the straight of ut some time ago.”’ Tom silenced him with a gesture ‘Well,” the car-tender rose; ‘I wisht ye wud come.’ He looked about him at the room, reeking of disorder, uncouth like the men of the tunnel. ‘ Ye shud see where I live,”’ he said Tis alright,”’ said Tom; “alright fer ye, but not fer me I'm glad ye've quit the camp Tis good to be wit’ womenfolk nearby, and the larnin’ is a fine thing. I wisht I had more ay ut. Luk at that!’ He held the timebook before the car tender ‘Chicken thracks, but ‘tis all that’s naded, and I have se time ter more The min kape me busy; thim an’ the rock I don't know which ts worst. But I can handle thim both: dhrrive the wan, an pull the other. And that’s phwat I’m here fer, phwat I like. 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( EARN $25 to $100 PER WEEK easy, fascinating work Practical, nee ual Home Instruction per struct i ‘ t z "Financial returma uaranteed « ARTIST'S of t nts and : ; i,4 FREE OUTFIT pplies to each student Write for part oO Handsome Art Book. ;... SCHOOL of APPLIED ART = . ’ suze A 46 Fine Arts Building ow teed = BattleCreek, Mich THE SATURDAY Merry Christmas!’’ He departed, walking stiffly in his square-toed pi lished shoes strap of the lilac tie high on the back of his ce lluloid collar. Tom sat alone over the timebook. After an hour he went to the outside door. It was snowing heavily. He shook his head ‘Half an hour lost in the marnin’,”’ he muttered; ‘‘half an hour lost helpin’ th outside gang shovel things out.’ He went back to the room Before he turned out the light he looked about him -at the rough, unfinished walls with the gaudy pictures of the women and the prize-fighters, the floor with dirt heaped in the corners, the riot of disorder the muddy oilskins hanging from nails. H« thought of what the car-tender had said of | his room ‘Nate asa pin,” he muttered He re membered what that meant snowy linet and a floor that was immaculat: The memory took him far back And then he reached beneath his roug! bed and brought forth the chest He open d it, and he took out the coat with the two narrow tails and the row. of larg buttons. He held it in the crook of his arn for a moment, groping with the other h for the hat. He found it and he brushed his cheek against the high crown It seemed to him as though he could sme the peat smoke. He replaced them bett and turned out the light XVI HRISTMAS morning saw the contour of the whcle place changed It had snowed all : ight, and the wind, sighing up the cafion, had drifted heaps where pat] had been *Gaine to breakfast the shift waded to their On the blacksmith shop platform Tom commanded them to fall to work with the outside gangs wher« speedy clearance of way was demanded He took thirty of them to the dump and set them to uncovering the main artery of travel by the timber-sheds They were strung out in a long line, their black oilskins in startling relief against the white snow. It was sport for them this brief half-hour in the open, this han- dling of feathery flakes. Tossing the snow from their shovels they shouted with laughter. They capered roughly in the drifts and threw great handfuls down one another's necks, or wrestled, t ying to Was sh one another's faces like si he ee. Their voices boomed among the mutiling flakes as they indulged in the rude horseplay Tom stood at the rear of the line, watching them. And suddenly their laughter died and the y were silent At the other end of the line Nora Ryar was standing in the pathway facing them She was standing still, puzzled; and the drill-runner at the head of the line was standing with his shovel thrust into thé snow beside him, puzzled as herself. She had waded this far, fighting her way through the soft snow, enjoying it. Round- ing a corner she had come upon this plac« on one side the timber-shed, on the other a ten-foot drift; between—a_ two-foot interval at most—the path, filled now by the men. There was no space for her to pass them She faced the drill-runner. It was Big Jerry, relegated again to toil among the sluggers, and she saw the long line of giant behind him staring at them. Her cheeks grew redder. Je ITy broke the silence under the spell of an inspiration. ‘‘ Merry Christ- mas to ye!” he said She laughed happily. ‘Merry Christ mas!"’ she replied ‘Il don't see how I’m going to get through Jerry scratchea his cropped head, tilting his squam hat forward. He had memori of the day when her mother had sweated between the boarding-house stove and the long table where he and other crop-haired giants ate. It seemed like only yesterday when he had seen Ryan wheeling the baby carriage on a Sunday afternoon. ‘‘Ah yes,” he said. ‘‘To get by. Ye were after goin’ to the commissary ?”’ Nora Ryan nodded, and he looked back over the line. From his place Tom watched these two waists | facing each other and the others staring at them. Usually quick in an emergency, h« was at a loss to solve the dilemma, and he was still trying to make up his mind when he saw Big Jerry begin to act. 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across the interval toward him. her coming closer, and he frowned uneasily, and then she arrived. He took her from the last man. He was ” 1ist-deep in snow. She lay in his arms, briefly, a light burden. He felt the softness of her, the quick, half-startled breathing; it came against his cheek with a brush of auburn hair. it had a strange effect upon him. It made everything else go from him, and he did not really know that he was wading heavily the few feet that separated them from the timber-shed platform; that he was setting her down upon the planking. He only felt the softness of her, the pres- ence of her close to him—the sacred presence of a young girl dence surged over him. Then, through it came the knowledge that she was smiling down upon him from where she stood, thanking him. He raised his big hand to hissquam hat. It lingered there, and he removed the hat a little clumsily. She smiled again brightly. **Merry Christmas!”’ she cried He smiled back, holding his squam hat in his hand. ‘Merry Christmas to ye, Miss,’ he answered gravely, and she de- parted. The memory of that incident used to bother Tom. Often, when he was alone in his rough room or standing by himself in the roaring heading watching the sluggers, he thought of it. Sometimes he coupled it with what he had said the night before, talking to the car-tender. ‘I'll see thim in hell!” And then he grew hot with shame. Sometimes it brought a little wistfulness. But the wistfulness did not endure for long. It was like the memories when occa- sionally he opened his wooden chest and touched the old coat and the hat—-memo- ries of another world than that in which he lived, a gentler, softer world, with soft hands and faces alight with love. He lingered briefly over these things. His world was hard; and the hands that strove against its ringing rock were gnarled and rough. It was a world of mighty muscles and reckless deeds. Living in it, | he loved it His life was full during the months that months that stretched on into another year. It was full of action. He drove his hard-faced men and, driving them, grew harder. Sternness came upon him. But there was one thing that had stopped growing, the responsibility. It had developed for all the calls there were upon it. He drove the men, but he lived their life. Heate in the bare-walled dining-hall. He slept in his rough room. He captained the assault upon the heading’s breast in the reverberating tunnel, where they beat the living rock. with steel and tore it with dynamite. And off the work sometimes he played as the men played. He caroused and he fought those who crossed him. Always he was on hand for duty when morning dawned after paynight. But there was no gentleness to temper his actions. His world was hard. (TO BE CONCLUDED) ~, . . A Crop of Ruins ERE and there throughout the Cana- dian Northwest are groups of young Englishmen, the shiftless sons of noble parents, who for the most part play polo, cricket and golf, while keeping up the pretense of ranching. They are much more dependent upon the quarterly allow- ance from home than upon the products of their industry The other day an English tourist was riding over the prairie section of the Canadian Pacific. To a Canadian, who happened to be in the smoking compart- ment with him, he found fault with every- thing Beastly ‘Nevah saw these prairies Ve ry good for observed the Canadian Grawnted; but wheat isn’t everything. Why, in old England, don't you know, you couldn’t travel hawlf a dozen miles with- out seeing a pawk, a castle or some inter- esting old ruin.” **We have some very fine English ruins country,” he kept saying anything so monotonous as wheat growing,” a little farther West,” replied the Cana- dian slowly. ‘‘ When we reach Calgary you will see plenty of them. We call them ‘remittance men’. He saw A wave of diffi- |

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SLOW JUSTICE (Concluded from Page 13) rogressive judges, stands as the leader of the world in justice. The late Lord Justice Bowen spoke no more than the truth when he said: “Tt may be asserted without fear of contradiction that it is not possible in the year 1887 for an honest litigant in her Majesty's court to be defeated by any mere technicality or a slip or mistaken step in his litigation. . Law has ceased to be a scientific game that may be won or lost by playing some particular move.” The Supreme Court of the United States has the undoubted power to pass rules which will remedy the delay in admiralty and equity. In the District of Pennsyl- vania the admiralty court will not allow the testimony of witnesses to verbally in open court. must be taken by deposition, reduced to typewriting and then printed. The same rule applies to the Districts of Delaware and New Jersey, except that in these two states it is not necessary — the record. This system has been abolished in the Districts of Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Maryland and Virginia, and the Supreme Court has the power to pass a rule making this reform uniform. The present equity system, with the requirements in regard to the taking of testimony before commissioners and mas- ters and the printing of the same, which now is a counterpart of the English equity system before it was reformed in 1852, aptly characterized by a commission as a ‘‘compound of expense, delay and vexa- tion,” can be simplified merely by a rule of the Supreme Court. The same thing applies to our system of patent laws, which involves the taking of ‘‘a monstrous quantity of trash and a great deal of stuff,’ and under which patents are being granted of which sixty per cent are almost worthless in whole or in part, according to a recent statement of the Commissioner of Patents before a committee of the House of Representatives. In Philadelphia, where justice is more delayed than in any other city in the world, the judges have it in their power to have more than seventeen weeks of jury trials out of the fifty-two; to increase the hours of the court from ten o'clock until four o'clock instead of from ten o'clock until three o’cloc *k; ag September, as is done in New York; to do away with the reasonless two-day rule, and to establish modern list proce- dure. The Supreme Court of that common- wealth shows what can be done in speedy justice, the interval between argument and opinion averaging less than sixty days. Lord Melbourne, an affable and use- less Prime Minister of England, used to exclaim in great irritation whenever his attention.was called to an existing abuse: ‘*Why can’t you let it alone?’’ So soon as every judge abandons this policy of letting ab in F nage ge and procedure alone, then the day of reform has dawned and the ques nian is answered which President stated as follows: use Taft has ‘The greatest question now American public is the improvement of the administration of justice, civil and criminal, both in the matter of its prompt dispatch and the cheapening of its use.” before the

Romeo’s Luck JYOMEO JOHNSON is the business man- | \ ager of the Indianapolis News. He doesn't fit his name very well, for he is short and fat and florid and a bully chap. ‘How,” asked a friend who met Romeo in New York recently, ‘did they come to call you Romeo?” “Well,” said Romeo, “it was this way: I was born down in Indiana, of Quaker parents, and my father kept a_ store Along about fifty years ago my father went to Philade Iphiz 1 to buy a bill of goods, and while there he saw his first show It was Romeo and Juliet, at the old Walnut Street Theatre. I was born about the time he came home, and he named me Romeo.” Johnson lighted a cigar I shudder to think,” he continued after a mome . ‘of what would have happened to me if the show my father saw had happened > be Pygmalion and Galatea.”

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Y VERMONT ACADEMY for Boys An end ure spring water Tat All outdoor and indoor wholesome training and th« Certificate to leading colleges GEORGE B. LAWSON, ye supplied from sch« sports cial courses ywed school in the foothills of the Green Mountain vol farm Special attention to rough education of boy Lower schoo A. M., Principal, Saxtons River, High elev Extensive campus life in the open. An i s. College Preparatory for younger boys

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The Groff Coun try School. Deal Beach, New Jersey Summer Term, July 1 to September 15, to coach young men for fall college examinations. ff School has had for years ar It is regularly placing in cc ts system of individ s of work in a year or less The sct w has to offer also an u the magnificent estate of the late Daniel O' Day The new | tion provides not only adequate > of the most modern home, with =. utdoor sports, ed. As of the conve te it is lin cparate department for b JOSEPH C GROFF (A.B. wabGhe 1893, U.S.N.A.), 28W. 72nd St., N. Y.—or*

ial instruction, having no gr Students received for one month or longer. and th valed school plat class room and surf bathing, boat Stomyears. Fall *Kildysart,”’ Deal Beach, N. J.

Semaae School of Law Department of will be held Expenses low Arts, A regular session of the Law, University of Michigan July ‘sth to Sept. 10th, 1910 Delightful location Iso courses in Sciences, Engineering, Pharmacy and Li- brary Methods. For particulars, address University of Michigan, Box 13, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Waynesboro, Virginia A school for manly boys. Modern equipment; beau- tiful and healthful location near the Blue Ridge Moun- tains. Altitude 1300 feet. Prepares for University, etc., and business life. Rates moderate. For catalog, address JAS. A. FISHBURNE, A. B., Principal, Box 267

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———— F. : all t “1 ! 5 JOHN C. ‘SHARPE, A. M., D. D., Principal, P. O. Box T. N H pnectr ses School all Summer | Day ening. Int ‘ ¢ B y t b nog Ralph eae Rasbaneas The Art Institute, Box 1 13, Chicago Heidelberg |)": 1860, Chg = 4 e cational. Nece ry ex- | University pence. si 55°. “s300. es Music, Se f Orat Art. ¢ | College. Confer g fA. B.B t BI for | Rev. Charles E. Miller, D. D., President, Box as re ACADEMY see peony MASS. Young men and young women find here a ™. mme-like atme sphe re, th gh and efficier training in every deoustmnent ofa ele cul ture, a loyal and helpful s« he ol spirit. Liberal endowme nt pert nits liberal te eps nang d ea For catalogue and information address ARTHUR W PEIRCE, Litt. D., Princip al. Dentistry = y moderate cost, for 1 at the Sesudoncek. Catan’ W rit t gue. Adds INDIANA DENTAL COLLEGE INDIANA DENTAL COLLEGE [eae The § Stearns ‘School ere Mont Ver nan N.H. Situated in the picture l ‘ Ifamy re. Prepares for P il p 9 erand rl sca ] - B sliveing ttag Address, = F Ste -arns, ys 23 Main Street WEST JERSEY moo FOR BOYS gr He N. J Ne A GEORGE HE a epg ag oF on on THE ALLEN pte tt — vod Jones, Headim Sate Rect We st Newton, Mass = DR HOLBROOK ee ywrer 00 York. Pre; \ r 1866. Situated « ria ( Ne Reg ab ve sea level Sat isfactory refere to «¢ racter are nece ry for enrollment For istrated catalogue, addre THE DR. HOLBROOK SCHOOL, Ossining, N.Y RUMSEY HALL y for young boys. Address, IfkEAD MASTER MAK: = for BOYS RALPH K. BEARCE, A.M. Prin.. Box K, Con necticut Literary Institution, Suffield, Conn THE PHILLIPS EXETER _ACADEMY HAR LAN P AMEN, Principal, eee NewHa am en Alabama Brenau College ™, Eufeule, Ope fires Electric light rot rr xpense for year, $200 For catal “THOS. G. WILKINSON rt r Central College for Women °,*: Art, Ex THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ae Shois of Well-Known Illustrators at Work and Play Frank X. Leyendecker = r oaaeeae / Stanley M. Arthurs Worth Brehm Weor ge Brehm ir = 7 | Sweet Briar College Sweet Briar, Va. arr | DR. MARY K. BENEDICT, President, Box 137 Ht Re ideal College for Women, \= kford, Illinois \ JULIA Hf GULLIVER Ph. D, President, Box K Miss C. E. MASON’S SUBURBAN SCHOOL for Girls. THE CASTLE, Tarrytown - on - Hudson N.Y \ LN Pennsylvania College for Women, "t=" Dilworth Hall Campbell-Hagerman College Lexington, K t 1 re ! G. P. SIMMONS, Associate President. GRAHAM HALL, Minne polis, ( Lf FORT LOUDOUN SEMINARY, Ks \ $ M188 KATHERINE R Gass Principal Science I Hill School, ar mtcky Mrs. W.T. P nter, Principal POWHATAN COL LEGE | Tharies Town $ ‘ A _5.P HATTON A M.,. LIL. D., President CHRIS’ TIAN ‘COLLEGE "2 ,xour@ Columbi MRS. LUELLA WILCOX 8ST. CLAIR, President Harcourt Place School for Girls LAISE- PHILL IPS | ssrets Ave , Washi fa \, Southern Female Col College ( welt i r 8) . : . Art,t #2hK + ArthurKy avis, A.M., Petersburg, Ve Box210 LINDEN | HALL SEMINARY A Home 8 Rev.Chas. D Kre ‘der Prin., Lititz, Pa Bowling Green Seminary {, Rev. C. K. Millican, A.B Pris., SOUT HE RN SEMINARY f)

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ar ae for Girla ° ‘ Ar Miss Lillian M Resenhrans, f WASHINGTON SEMINARY and Day Sci THE HOME LIFE OF LINCOLN (Continued from Page 5) trot along as directed, and sometimes they would decline to move, or move in the wrong direction, or try to move in two directions at once, as goats will, neither being in the right direction. But didn’t mind much. He would simply wait until the steeds were ready to go where he wanted, and then they would start on. Vhen I accompanied Mr. Lincoln to Petersburg, during his memorable visit to the front, little Tad went with us, and slept in my stateroom so that I could be sure no harm came to him. I doubt if I ever felt greater responsibility in guarding the President himself than I felt when he placed his boy’s hand in mine and said |] was to keep him from all danger. The death of his father almost broke Tad’s heart—I say this literally—and not so very long afterward he died while in Europe with his mother. Vhile I saw much less of Robert T. Lincoln than of Tad, yet the older son I remember as a fine, manly fellow, every one, and wholly lacking in snobbish- ness or self-conceit. I am sure that all of those who came in close contact with the President and Mrs. Lincoln would agree in saying that they were a happy couple, and that they led a peaceful, quiet, happy life, understanding each other, sympathizing with each other, doing their very best to influence Robert for his own good and to bring up little Tad so that he should lead a life truly ful. I never knew President Lincoln to lose his temper on any although [ have been present when I[ could only wonder how he could sit still in dignified calmness when any other man, unde ‘r equal conditions, would have risen up in right- eous wrath, and when most men would have been provoked to physical violence — this when some reckless man would occasion, of course, meet him face to face and denounce his policies or question his motives. As for the domestic relations between the Presi- dent and Mrs. Lincoln I do not recall ever witnessing a discussion between them. Lincoln’s Treatment of Bores At that time, it must be remembered, any one who wished to talk with President Lincoln could walk up to his office and, after speaking with the doorkeeper, go in and meet Lincoln. Excepting when en- gaged with his Cabinet, President Lincoln never denied himself, at any time, to any man or woman who came to the White House him, When I remember the numbers of people who came there on all conceivable errands, for all imaginable purposes, it seems extraordinary that he could get through with his work and then grant them interviews. But then, Lincoln had a most effective way of dismissing those who trespas sed upon his time, for he realized that it belonged not to himself, but to the natior Let me give an illustration of what ioe in Some morning an would come bustling into the White House and want to see the President, not for any real reason, but just in order that he m go back to his constituents and tell hov was received by the President, he said to the President, and what the President said to him, and so on. Lincoln would size up such a man in half a minute and he could get rid of him in about another half-minute; not brusquely, or by him aside, or suggesting tnat he busy to be seen at that particular tin on the contrary, before the upstate poli- tician would have a chance to start ir on the information he had to give, or or his views of the President’s policy, Mr Lincoln would begin to tell a droll and when he finished the politician would laughing so heartily he would forget all about that which he was going to tell the President. Then his hand would be grasped by the President, who would at once turn to his desk, and the politician would find himself leaving the Whité House more than satisfied with his call wh ich had lasted two minutes instead of wo hours as he had e xpecte “] So great was the to see

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Home He enjoyed, moderately, a re ally good performance by competent actors but to no such enthusiastic degree as Mrs Lincoln, who was very fond indeed of the theater. When the President and his wife | ——— went to the theater they would step SCHOOLS & GOLLEGES|

into a carriage at the White House and

| . o “ve directly heir destination ist : dvive directly to their destinati n, just your daughter has |]} FOR GIRLS { as a gentleman in private life would do ; : \ On arriving in front of the playhouse, 2 ambuition for an education miles} INSTITUTE Burke, the big, burly Irish coachman, that shall be complete and from Boston iH Founded 1842 would pull in his horses; and the footman, _ | } { A preparatory and finishing school 4} \ | - ve ny iustratec » 50 | | and Mrs. Lincoln, followed by the body- new, Ul te Ye rl ; k; }| j guard, led by an usher, would quietly walk it shows why this school , : _ the — von we been -_ rved el is better than the ordinary MISS MATTY L. COCKE, Presiden, Box 314, Hollins, Va, them; and as they did so the audience would ‘eases Decent aaataccii rise and stand quietly until the President acknowledged this mark of respect with a dignified bow, in which recognition Mrs L col joi b a grace ul i hlination of Belmont College Lincoln joined by s graceful inclination of

f For Young Women and the audience woul 17 resume their seats } Nadkeilie, Tenn. During the progress of the play the Ira Landrith, D.D. LL.D attention of the audience was centered on aes the stage, and not upon the President and Miss Heron, Principals his wife or any guests whom they might Beantif tion i have with them in the box; for Lincoln was : so near to the peopl of his be loved country that they felt no desire to stare at him a from motives of curiosity At the con- | Th | h rest I he | M ‘s Tar, clusion of the play Mr. and Mrs Lincoln e E y Sc ool : ! = “lena h ~ | and their guard would quietly leave the

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made way forthem. They would then step into their carriage, Forbes would close the door and regain his seat beside Burke, who would speak to his horses, and away the carriage would roll toward the White House.

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College Prepar : : ! uM bee 7 a ee Mr. Lincoln, of course, never wore full st é I D ce evening dress nor any decoration or in- i a € t t y addon | signia whatever to distinguish himself from | - i and New ¥ e | the millions of his countrymen with whom | J Wm. W. Smith, A.M., LL.D ; gecer wes. J he stood on a plane of equality; for as President, Box 250 ‘ ee He "~ much as he believed that he was living r cDuffie = ~ : ; | Mrs. John MacDufie, A.B (> LE and breathing he believed that God had ’ -— = ~~ created all men to be equal, and that any 1 b j Ss —> | | difference such as creates caste or even (4 exclusive impenetrable circles of society so A — , | , . : ? , 2 nee =t | | was purely artificial and, therefore, in his opinion, ignoble. Mrs. Lincoln, when she —— = ——

Siemans — ‘i | attended the theater, usually wore a gown | |/ : | | | cut low in the neck, but did not wear full | | “A H O M E SC H O O L | | The Weston School | | dress excepting at the opera. Neither she | | ban For Girls Desiring Individual Attention | | nor the President was a musician, but both | a , ~ : were very fond of listening to music. I do I for Girls | | not think that Mrs. Lincoln was in any | 43 St. James Strect, Roxbury, Boston, Mass. || | Sense a woman of strong literary tastes | | ] but she read the newspapers most carefully Rev. Thomas Bickford, Miss Faith Bickford, Prins.. HI Situated on a quiet hilltop street in || | and kept intelligently informed, not merely Boston. The purpose of the school is to of the great war then in progress, but of | fit girls for /ife as well as for examinations. |} | the changing political conditions, and of EE PT ea the other important events throughout the | nat cee "* $5 : world. Those who have thought her : | It is ditferent, better and worth investi r “ , . 1a ough , a : tia era re woman of almost childish gayety of tem- gatil || | perament were vastly mistaken in under- MRS. ELISABETH MATHEWS-RICHARDSON, A.B., Princpal || | estimating this side of her character. She Rev. S. §. MATHEWS, D.D., Dean and Treasurer | | kept well informed on many subjects and : Address F. MENEFEF. | he Ee le had very clear ideas concerning them fa nha

———— —— Mrs. Lincoln and the President usually | | attended the morning service in Doctor Teel Seminary Gurley’s church, which still stands on New | York Avenue near the corner of Fourteenth | Auburndale, Mass. Ten Miles from Boston || | Sj reet. Sometimes they would drive there,

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but as frequently they would walk, being s : attended, of course, bya guard.. They were Tradition: ANI yy yV ER. M ASS. Town always punctual in attendance and ta Kightiet may be sure that Doctor Gurley never had ‘ \ to delay the opening of his serv soe on their t | account. They would go to church with — = —_———} = | the same simplicity and dignity and quiet- i : : — ness of manner that the President evinced 9 l BRADFORD ACADEMY . in every other walk of life. Out of respect AN ENDOWE!

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= ; Sal ae alt » ores fice that he occupied. those a i g i ge i g. | for the great office that 1€ ( ul , th ; r } Cooking, D Making, Millin Pent ! who were in the church when the President Bradford, M nyt -F. 7” ; ee eT oe ee | arrived would rise from their seats and he Ag t ged 2 il : ae » eal " nals . eS, <a |G. M. WINSLOW, Ph. D., Principal, 121 Woodland Road | remain standing until he and Mrs. Linc In ai * Dai Se ees, Led \ —1| | had passed down to the pew reserved for morticanaygconmsoniong: alge sear

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For Catsiog THE PRESIDENT, Box ©. | J incoln and his wife would walk along 4 F SOUne ye ; For gl slowly, surrounded by the rest of the con- , The Elizabeth Mead School «i Fars | SOWly, |! led by the W liside, Norwalk, Conn IRs gregation, speaking a few words, the Presi- omen te adem dent shaking hands with many of those he As Numb 1 | knew or any others who wished to speak to Margaret R. Brendlinger,A.B.,Vassar,Principat | him. On reaching the doors of the church | John W. Million, A M_, Pres, 1102 College Place, Mexico, Mo. JANE SHERZER, Ph. D. (Berlin), Pres., Box 20

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f A COL. 0.C. HULV ‘EY Superi nten Rent “Fine Mental Discipline and Good Home Influence” Kiskiminetas Springs School * “a Penna. Btahiahiae SWE Institute TEN © terms $300 THE CITADEL The Military College of South Carolina Charleston, S.C. | | | | tion fee Shosakine nt F William and Mary i HERBERT L. BRIDGES, Registrar, Box P. MILLERSBURG MILITARY INSTITUTE Millersburg, r ' t . Ideal pped buildings. Aaa A C, M. BEST, Principa FOR THE DANVIL LE SCHOOL BOYS DANVILLE t t t The Money School Campbell. Va MONEY Headmaster W.E Box 24 University Military Academy A HOME SCHOOL FOR 30 BOYS THE SATURDAY the President and Mrs. Lincoln would start homeward as they had come, quietly and reverently. Occasionally little Tad accom- panied his father and mother to church, but not very often. During the time that I was serving as personal bodyguard to Lincoln he and Mrs. Lincoln usually dined at seven o'clock in the evening—a leisurely meal, well cooked, well chosen, with special reference to the President's dislike of elaborate dishes and frills in general. In those days the White House had no regularly-employed house- | keeper such as has been necessary for a | number of years past, because, owing to the natural evolution of social life and cus- toms in this country, the President’s wife is now called upon to give much of her time and strength and thought to entertaining, largely semi-official in nature, which was unknown in Lincoln's period. I have no | doubt that some of the ladies who have | graced the Executive Mansion during the last forty years may have been Mrs. Lincoln's equals as practical housekeepers; but I am sure that none of them was her superior. She had a steward to attend to special duties which would naturally fall to such a person, but she oversaw and directed everything herself. She knew just what kinds of food should be provided, what cuts of various meats were the best, how vegetables should be prepared, how bread should be made. And what is more, her cook and her waiters and her few other servants knew that she knew. In consequence, the domestic affairs of the Executive Mansion ran along their way smoothly and serenely and most comfort- ably After dinner, at about eight o’clock, the President would rise from the table and go at once across to the War Department to get news from the front, excepting on Thursday nights, when he waited until the regular weekly levee had been held. If happened to be on night duty I would accompany him, of course, and while we were absent for an hour or two Mrs. Lincoln, after seeing that Tad was safe and soundly asleep in his bed, would go into the living-room, as the Red Room was then called. Sometimes she would spend the evening in reading the newspapers of vari- ous cities until the President returned; but she was not fond of embroidering or other work with the needle. Generally, how- ever, some of the wives of Cabinet officers would drive to the Executive Mansion to yend an informal evening. Occasionally th 1ese ladies would be ace ie * anied by their husbands, but not always, by any means. For, let me repeat again, those were war times —war with its terrible news of crush- ing defeat, of death, injury, starvation, of discontent with the Administration in many quarters, of apprehension regarding the action of certain foreign Powers. Somber Days at the White House Neither the President nor the men chosen as his Cabinet advisers could call an hour their own in advance of its coming. Day and night, night and day, they were -“arry- ing a burden of anxiety and responsibility almost of crushing weight. And as a result the Cabinet members did not often | go with their wives for an informal evening in that old living-room. The ladies, how- | ever, seemed to enjoy meeting each other thus and chatting about a thousand things. In cold weather there was a comfortable blaze in the big fireplace, around which they would gather. And while a fine iano stood ready at hand I do not remem- ti r having heard any music, either vocal or instrumental, on such occasions. At the time 1 sometimes wondered why the ladies did not play or sing; but afterward I understood that music, with its gayety and lightness, is not born of times of grief and mourning and dread. there was no hilarity in the Executive Mansion in those days; all was sadness, for the Presi- dent and his official family and their wives knew better than any of the public what the country was passing through, and felt accordingly I will amend that slightly. There was no hilarity excepting where Tad was con- cerned. Time and time again have I seen Tad sitting on his father’s shoulders, his little legs securely twined about his father’s neck, while President Lincoln galloped up and down the long corridor outside their private apartments, the boy laughing and shouting with glee, and the great, grave President, by sheer will-power, resolutely throwing ‘aside the burdens of his office No, EVENING POST in order that his little son might share the | joys that are childhood’s heritage No refreshments were served during the informal evenings spent with Mrs. Lincoln, nor, indeed, were refreshments served at the Thursday evening levees. When ten o’clock came, or perhaps eleven, the ladies would drive home alone, unless their husbands were able to come after them, which was sometimes the case. And then Mrs. quietly wait until her husband should return from the War Department. time there were no telegraph wires in the Executive Mansion, and he had to go to the War Building to obtain news at first hand and to talk over developments with the Secretary. Lincoln usually was able to return to his wife, waiting in the living- room for him, by eleven o'clock or a little later, and he would tell her what he had heard of news from the front. They would discuss the battles, the retreats, the vic- tories, the defeats —all the main develop- ments of the day and evening—with calm thoughtfulness; and although they were generally able to finish this concluding part of their daily program shortly before midnight, yet sometimes it was quite late when they could do so and retire. As he went upstairs and entered his own room Lincoln’s last act was to turn to the guard on duty in the corridor and wish him good- night. Then he would enter his room and close the door, and I —if it was my turn to stand guard—would settle down for eight hours of duty. A Premonition of Death My chair stood in the corridor, within easy reac h of the door opening into the President's room, and so situated that I could see every inch of the whole length of the corridor, which was lighted in such a way that no shadows could even partly conceal any one who might try to slip through the corridor. During most of the night I would rest comfortably in the chair, constantly looking this way and that, and listening intently for any unusual noise. Every once in a while, however, I would rise and quietly obtain rest of position. I never read a book or a newspaper, of course, for fear that my attention might become fixed so closely on the printed page that I might not hear or see the approach of assassins whom I al- ways expected at any moment. Needless to say, I never even thought of resorting to any of the common means of keeping awake during those solitary vigils. The responsibility of guarding Lincoln was so great that dozing, or even drowsiness, was unthinkable. And when relieved by the day guard at eight o’clock in the morning, I was always as fresh and wide awake as when I had gone on duty twelve hours before. The only time that President Lincoln failed to say good-night to me when we parted, after having been together for the day, was on the evening of the night he attended Ford’s Theater, where he was murdered. As I mentioned on another occasion many years ago, Mr. Lincoln had told me that afternoon of a dream that he had had for three consecutive nights, of his assassination. Of course, the constant dread of such an event made me somewhat nervous, and I begged him to stay at the Executive Mansion and not to go to the theater that evening; but he would not disappoint Mrs. Lincoln or others who were to be present. Then I urged that he allow me to remain on duty and to accom- pany him; but he would not hear of this, either. ‘““No, Crook,” he said kindly but firmly; ‘you have had a long, hard day’s work already, and must go home to sleep and rest. I cannot afford to have you get all tired out and exhausted.” It was then that he neglected, for the first and only time, to say good-night to me. Instead of doing so he turned, with his kind, grave face, and said: Good-by, Crook,” and went into his room. This was the only time he ever said good-by to me. I thought of it at the moment; and a few hours later, when the awful news flashed over Washington that he had been shot, his last words were so burned into my being that they never have bee been forgotten, and never can be forgotten. ~ Editor’ s Note—This is the first of a series of articles by Colonel Crook on the Home Life of Our Presidents in the White House. The second will be published in an early number. 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B te Among Indiana Hills—Elmhurst » CAMP KINEO Eighth Sersor r Maine Woods I y Camp Wake Robin, WOODLAND.N ¥ HP Urrtu, iverdale School Riverdale ‘x Y THE NEW HIRED MAN (Continued from Page 18) time a lesser number. With the other serv- ices it performs during the daytime, the amount of electrical energy used on this farm, if valued at the rate of ten cents a kilowatt hour, would be worth more than $700 a year. When we consider the fact that the plant did not cost more than $1500, which includes the fixtures, the waterworks system and all appurtenances, and the cost for maintenance being less than $50 annually, we find that it is pay- ing a handsome profit on the investment. The pleasures and conveniences it has added to farm life cannot be measured by dollars and cents Frank Casper, of Howe’s Cave, New York, invested $50 in a small dynamo and some other electric fixtures more than fif- teen years ago at a second-hand sale. He installed the dynamo in his sawmill and wired his buildings for electricity. This little generator, now of obsolete pattern, has been running continuously every night since, producing a steady current of elec- tricity for house, barns, garage, a near-by church and the village street. It requires no further attention than an occasional oiling and is controlled from. the house. This plant costs less than $5 a year for repairs and lubricating oil. In the past, engineering and invention have improved manufacturing; but today they are turning out trustworthy and eco- nomical machines to do the hard work about the farm, eliminating most of the back- breaking, discouraging chores and hard work which have done more than any other thing to drive young men from the country districts to the city shops and factories and to cause the present scarcity of farm labor. In the past few years the wages for hired men have jumped from $16 a month and board to $30 and $35 a month and board, and very hard they are to find even at this price During the command almost any price. The scarcity of labor was the strongest factor in devel- oping powerful g rasoline engines for farm use and in the more modern electrification | | | No one ever heard of a ZU ZU that wasnt good | Never !! of farmwork from waterpower sources. Reckoning Horse-Power The power of water is greater than any one without experience can imagine. Many of us, when in swimming, have aoa the water a sharp blow with the flat of the hand only to learn the liquid is not so yielding as we supposed. A stream from a fireman's hose will knock a man down. The jet from a nozzle in placer mining in the West toys with great boul- ders as if they were pebbles. Water-power represents the energy of moisture drawn up into the clouds by the heat of the sun and de posited on the distant mountains in the form of rain. This acquired force is pent in racing back to the sea. Water- wheels are but devices to catch and utilize this wasted energy. Water acts as a mov- ing power, either by its weight— which is over sixty-two pounds to the cubic foot or by its pressure or impact. The power of a fall of water is equal to the weight of its volume times the vertical height of its fall. To compute the power of falling water it is recessary to multiply the volume of flow- ing water in cubic feet per second by its weight, sixty-two and one-half pounds, and 3 product by the vertical height of the fall in feet, and divide by five hundred and fifty-the number of foot-pounds repre- senting one horse-power for one second. It is easy enough to weir a small stream. A rough plan] k dam is made between the ban One end is fixed with a slide so the rectangular aperture can be widened until the water flows justa foot deep over the edge of the topmost plank. Knowing the width of the aperture in linear feet and the velocity of flow, one can figure out the number of KS, cubic feet of water flowing over the weir a second In larger streams the cubic-foot flow can only be computed by soundings for the average depth and by using floats to determine the speed of the water. These measurements should always be made when the stream is of average A transit in the hands of a surveyor will quickly give the number of feet of fall available for any distance. ‘The surveyor also ascertain the number of acres in the watershed, and by writing the Weather size Can harvest seasons hired men THE SATURDAY EVENING POST y fo No! NATIONAL Rain! Rain!! Rain!!! BISCUIT June 4,1910 SIMNMSER SNAPS | All in vain! IF you lack snap and want ginger, use the old established countersign ZU ‘20 7” VY to the grocerman fy COMPANY TABOR ACADEMY MARION, sarang rards ba y Modert wed sch Co —— g for ege and siness Har N.C. HAMBLIN, Principal Williamsport Dickinson Seminary 1 eP educati epar x mercial, Sei enti, Cl ic * irse M ie Art $300 per y Noext I ( i . Termopens Sept. 13th WM. PERRY EVELAND Ph. D., Box 911, Williamsport, Pa Chappaqua Mountain Institute » N. ¥.—A Co-ed tional wc Friends’ School ne i 1. Homelik r F Principal Abington Friends’ School Music. A Jenkintown, Pa KIMBALL UNION ACADEMY Meriden, W. i ys. A f $ Addr CHA A ig +5 “toned Ashbursham, Sass. Valhalla, Westchester Co B H "Ss ‘ e g by re f itse w " . wy ft . of ahigh price f the ar xpense of $ ) semaine A Fath; Semaai-Feelaiaer, se pan | islum., Athletic. Seid. Co-educati For cat xz en. $300-5 > rCamp. Address Box W tlogue, address, H. 8. COWELL, A. 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Then any one with a head for simple figures can determine the amount of power available and the probable cost of the equipment What Power-Turbines Cost The building of dams in rivers and stream is a very simple matter now, compared to what it was a few years ago All the new dams are made of concrets Rough board forms are constructed where the dam is needed and the concrete made ol cement at forty-three cents a sack mixed with sand and gravel from the stream bed--is simply dumped into the moulds and allowed to harden. These dams do not cost nearly so much as stone masonry and can be erected by a novice in a compara- tively short time The small water-turbine is a very effi- cient device, utilizing as much as eighty per cent of the theoretical power of the water, and will run the year round without atten tion. These turbines are made in all size costing from $50 to $500 and more. But water-power is not flexible; it cannot be transmitted over rough country and to all the farm buildings where it is most needed so it must be changed to electric the medium of turbine and generator For small plants the best ty is the direct-current machine hundred and ten volts, if be situated near the farm f the plant is some distance away an alter- nating current of two hundred and twenty volts will be necs ssary, SO as to take up the loss of pressure, expressed in volts, in transmission —less of the expensive copper ( wire being required to transmit electricity at high pressure than at low pressure. The small dynamo is a wond } lerful machine, being self-oiling, and will run for weeks without the slightest bit of attention. In order to keep the dynamo at constant speed a waterwheel governor is neces sary The simpler and cheaper types of governors are slower in action than the more expensive ones, butare otherwise justasefficient. The cost of the transmission line will, of course, vary from a few dollars if the plant is near, to hundreds of dollars if it is miles away Electrical Machinery Farms there are in this great country whic cannot boast of noisy mountain streams or meadow creeks big enough to harness with turbine and generator to supply a steady flow of el ctricity for the farm and home. Some of the farmers living in the Middle West have ingeniously harnessed the vagrant currents of the air to serve their purpose, driving small generators by windmill-power and storing the current against the calm days. But by far the easiest way for the countryman who de- sires electric power and cannot secure it from an established central station in a near-by town or village, or has no water- power to harness, is to install a gasoline- engine-ariven € lectric generating set, of which the engine and generator are espe- cially designed for this kind of work. The latest types of these generator sets tor country estates take up very little floor | space and run almost automatically. The | small size of three kilowatt —or four horse- | power costs approximate]; 100; the five kilowatt, $1060; ten kilowatt, $1800, and the twenty-five kilowatt, $2800. In this outfit the generator is mounted directly on the engine shaft without belts or gears, and placed solidly in ore compact frame. A four-cylinder engine insures a steady flow of electricity for lighting purposes, and the direct drive avoids all danger, « xXpense and inconvenience incidental to the belt-driver combination The five-kilowatt machine re quires only five by two feet and a half of floor space, and when running full speed makes about as much noise as a sewing-machine, and even this noise can be lessened by exhaust- ing intoacinder-pit. A machine of this siz will operate two hundred twenty-candl power metal filament incandescent lamp every night for fifteen cents, will do the cooking on the electric stove and run nu merous motors about the estate. Such an outfit would cost within $2000, complete with wiring, fans, motors, cooking devices, lamps and storage battery ( xr Ot Ve EVENING POST 10 Shots Quick One Pull For Eac A Shot Womans Turn Has Come Ten women of Noroton, Conn., on April 15th, tried shooting a Savage Automatic Eight of them had never han a fire arm before. They shot at am shaped tar ht women made vital hits, each with her first shot The get thirty feet away Eis other two made vital hi those women novices found that they were dead shots First shots are the shots that count Next they tried a comn revolver, one of the finest built Not one made a hit with her first shot; only one scored on the second Could there be any better proof that the Savage does not require practice? Any one can shoot this wonderful arm accurately, because it points instinctively, as you with their second shots Thus, with the first trigger pull, steady, without do your forefinger. No other arm-—-we want to emphasize this—no other arm h¢ jerk or recoil at each shot, until the bullet is out You pull the trigger for each and every shot With each shot it reloads and cocks itself. It cannot be discharged except by pulling the trigger The Savage 32 cal. is the only absolute protection for your family THE TENDERFOOT’'S TURN” FAMOUS SAVAGE RIFLES Bat Master the Dodge City ex Ask y uler to show y the ne s! has written a book for people who need Repeater, 1909 te Pri hI Als fir protecti ed “The Te t's power Feat eight taked Tu Me ‘ ei s and homes cha 1 n 8, § 4 ‘ are w h ti t i write for it toda Send f ect " Savage Avenue, Utica, New THE NEW SAV, GE AUTOMATIC Savage SMOOTHEST | TOBAC GO, Res ale ‘di ; + The more you smoke Velvet the keener 4 ; your: appreciation. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST MARKETING A MOTOR (Continued from Page 17) The victim, appalled by the prospect | of a fifty-mile walk over shadeless, dusty roads and steep grades, with the ther- mometer close to a hundred degrees, ex- | postulated, pleaded, begged and threatened | alternately, promised to pay all expenses, past and present, and buy a car; but the jeering chorus of the salesmen remained unmoved. With horns screeching and mufflers wide open the eight cars passed the raging faker well to windward, filling his nostrils with oil smoke and alkali dust while empty wine bottles and cigar boxes rained about him. “Don't worry, and keep a stiff upper lip,” the occupants of the last car shouted at him. ‘“‘ We'll blaze the trail for you. Just follow the bottles. One of ‘em will have water in it.” And with a last toot they left the wanderer to his fate Still another ordeal awaited him. Barely two miles from his standing start, at a sharp turn of the cafion, a battery of cameras confronted him. Click—click click went the shutters before the pedes- trian could dash back to cover; once more the horns shrieked and away the cars sped, straight to the newspaper offices with the illustrated story of the fake buyer's undoing. Only four states give woman the right to cast her vote in the election of candidates for office, but when it comes to the selec- tion of a motor car, woman has the undcis- puted right of suffrage in forty-eight states and territories. Even in the motor primaries she exercises a strong influence. Recognizing the strength of the victorious suffragettes, the automobile manufacturer year after year has put up candidates ap- pealing more and more to the female vote Knowing that the final choice, in seventy- five out of a hundred sales, rests with a woman, the manufacturer has so subdued the noise of the mechanism that, in some makes, the wee voice of the speedometer makes itself heard above the purring of the engine. The man may put power and speed above all other considerations, but the easy-riding qualities of the modern car, its graceful lines, its roominess, the refinement of its details—all these are more or less an appeal for the votes of women. 3y the same token the dealer must, in the fall, consult the fashion journals to famil- iarize himself with the colors that will be in vogue in the spring if he wants his allot- ment of cars to be finished in the tints that will harmonize with my lady's gowns. The Paint That Sold the Car How important a part the intelligent selection of colors plays in the selling of automobiles was meet te by the experience of a manufacturer who had a touring car finished in soft cream and subdued red for his traveling exhibit. The combination of colors mse ned to coincide with the fash- ionable shades in outing gowns that spring, and at the first two shows dozens of women offered more than list price for immediate delivery of the ear All offers were gently but firmly refused until, at the third show, a woman climbed into the tonneau and held the fort seven hours before the agent capit- ulated and signed a bill of sale for the car. Fe \ sale men ever succeed in subduing a pros pect who becomes violent, rears and plunges at the sight of an automobile sale

contract. Ili they are wise they will turn the breal king -in _— ss over to the ge but persistent hand of a woman. The first day aces abandoned shift-ke vs and visible writing in favor of carb ureter troubles, the sales-manager of the ( ‘oyo te agency sé lected from the eard inde ot pros spects the name of a frugal sdikanaien ‘Go and cut vour eyeteeth on Old cinflint,” he told the new salesman. Don't spend more than a week on the case, though. If you land him I'll raise your salary.” The millionaire lived up to his reputa- tion At first he balked and snorted at the idea of entering an automobile, but re- lented by-~ and-by and seemed to enjoy the rick All the salesman’s arguments, how- ever, he answered with homilies on the virtues of thrift, with bitter denunciation of waste and extravagance and with remi- niscences of the time when he, a barefooted boy, was trotting behind the plow The allotted week over, Robertson changed his course bandoned the mil- liona in his office and went to head- quarters. After two days he had induced

the millionaire’s wife and two daughters to leave fat Peter and fatter Paul in the stable and try instead the power of fifty horses concealed under the hood. Then he retired from the scene while his three assist- ants undertook to make father put the gasoline can to his lips. Peter and Paul are permanently pensioned today. Two tour- ing cars, a light roadster and an electric town car occupy the quondam stable, and Old Skinflint is exhibiting the most violent symptoms of motormania. No piece of machinery has ever cast such a potent spell over its votaries as the automobile. Once under the spell the vic- tim will put a mortgage on his belongings to raise the cash for a car. The woman victim will get along with ten rooms instead of fourteen to have six cylinders instead of four, will dismiss two servants to hire one chauffeur, speed up the husband's busi- ness to have more speed in the motor, stretch human earning power to the limit to have more horse-power in the engine. Even those who have sworn off, who thought they were cured by the pills of bitter experience swallowed in the early days of motoring, still feel the steering- wheel itch in their palms and become an easy prey to the persistent salesman. The Surrender of the Teuton A middle-aged German owning a small tannery had taken the anti-gasoline pledge when he broke down on his first trip in one of the early single-cylinder, low-priced runabouts. When the machine was stalled he had to walk three miles to the nearest telephone; and, to make matters still werse, he had to earry his portly figure over the distance twice more, as the dealer from whom he had purchased the auto was too busy selling to pay any attention whatsoever to the irate German’s long- distance woes. With Teutonic obstinacy the stung automobilist refused to have anything further to do with the machine, leaving it and his first payment of three hundred dollars on the road, where the dealer found it the next day. Three years later the salesman who had closed the original deal decided that the time was propitious to sell the tanner another car. At his first call the German could not hear him, would not see him, waved away a proffered cigar and seemed to pay no more attention to the salesman’s words than a wooden Indian. The second and the third visit had no better results, but on the fourth day the German, glaring at the salesman over the rim of his spec- tacles, asked with heavy sarcasm: ‘**V’at mage you robbers selling now? You tink you can play me for a sucker two times, you— you ” Words failing him, he brought his fist down upon the desk, muttering imprecations into his beard That was the opening the salesman was waiting for. Immediately he launched into a description of his two-cylinder, five- passenger, chain-drive car. The tanner, who had stopped work and was listening shook his head. That miserable outfit wouldn’t fill the bill. Four cylinders and shaft-drive were the real thing and, any- | way, he was through with automobiles. Still the salesman persisted. The next morning the tanner was weak enough to accept a cigar. Perceiving the favorable omen, the salesman requested, as a per- sonal favor and without any intention of selling, that the tanner step into his car and ride around the block, just to con- vince himself of the difference between the ancient vintage and the modern motor cars In his shirt-sleeves the tanner boarded the car for a ride around the block that lasted two hours and was continued in the afternoon with the tanner’s wife The deal was closed a few days later, and the tanner has never repented of his bar- gain since It happens once in a while that the automobile salesman has to use the horse- trader's tricks to satisfy too sharp a buyer. For the benefit of a hill-climbing fanatic Oliver had driven his demonstrating machine over an endless succession of grades for two days, and still the prospect hung back. He was willing to buy, but he wanted the salesman to duplicate the offer of a competitor and supply a double rumble-seat, costing ¢ ighty-fi ive dollars, free of charge. Remembering the firm’s strict June 4,1910

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rule against reb: ites, Oliver saw his lal ously built- up hances skidding rap downhill when a “brig rht idea struck hin ‘You know that twenty-seven-per-cent grade on the Yorktown road?” he asked The prospect nodded “Til tell you what il do,” Oliver c

tinued impressively ‘T'll take you over that grade on the intermediate and )y pay list price for the car and seat. If | It’ fH = 6can't make it clear to the top on the inter a §6omediate I'll throw in the rumble seat fre h ilk / Is that a go?” ‘t ' | The customer, remembering that no on

had ever taken the full distance of th grade without changing to low gear, ed and bright and early the next morning th test Was made On the level the car be haved strangely, smoked and boiled, but the salesman’s steady stream of livel anecdotes diverted the prospect atte! tion until the foot of the long grade wa : the tired 1 fabr

: y ** Supe is 2 Wh ) reached With never a change of gea ’ ES i “ete sted, : steady as a tug in smooth water, the car ' vodied, v ool-surtaced, puffed up the heartbreaking hill on the K her ‘ intermediate gear and the deal was cor if \ el { ; vtewer pin ; ! ( ded o e spo The buver, however. . | Pie Wrinkle L Sicees, myn wait thn Ra Ae ns oa the , baal ee fa S u mM tite r i nN rumble seat on, explained the salesma before he obtained his car The sale man failed to mention the efforts of two mechanics who worked all night to bring rice el k the doctored gears, reduced especially H.C. COHN & CO for the occasion, back to their original , the internal-combustion engine on wheel Electric Block Signals. Perfect track. to the task of moving the enormous traffic Low round trip summer urist rat that rolls over city .streets and countr' For Colorado be write H roads every day in the year. The time not far distant when the motor vehicle will E. L. LOMAX, General Passenger Agent ] rer ers. ” 7 hi “a fhe handl the largest hare of thi train Unien Pacific R. R.. Omaha, Neb Farsighted dealers and salesmen are turn- i iac- ff | ing their attention to the motor truck and : - I T wt Ta wot Pr pal A . rv wag bon Sanan oh * tech- ee = ee + + SS fratoed S SOE 20un Street, New Yoru City motor delivery wagon, studying their t t nical features, care, operation and mainte-

nance, lor they re alize that, in the selling of commercial vehicles, a branch of the auto- mobile business with great possibilit es, he will have the advantage who can show thx business Man down to a fraction of a cent, down to the last nut and washer, what his saving over animal power will be and why Here’s Comfort for You! OXFORD Underwear. Made of the good old-fashioned, long-wear- ing balbnggan. lt jus Roomy Never

| . The highest efficiency combined with the | sy at t g t pr y ‘ i . ‘ mm lowest cost of operation and maintenance \ an t halting i fea, 0 Correspondence s } . pe . aes | ' Schools, 728 Chicago Opera House Block Cc) a @) will be the key to this scarce ly touc he d Do " k wa ' —— field, but it will require men trained in solv- stord it th tyles knee drawers; ing transportation and technical problems ’ vel \ it button to turn this key. ] Editor's Note- This is the first of two articles by Mr. Woehlke on selling automobiles. Roxford Underwear

We sell direct, saving you $20.00 on a canoe npn re : - » For Men and ! | . ral reat edar and copper fastened. Have you seen our new Ma- | . re Fay I . i iv hogany Finished Canoe for 1910? he f OC , t oO; S V\eCOrK c ma ' ht bet e . —o 1 purcha nderwe fs well g priem win ecteter's peeaeN aut. We sre ons LEADING doctor in a big Western rth writing f Detroit Boat Co., 118 Bellevue Ave., Detroit, Mich city has a dash of Indian blood in him : ; and is very proud of it While walking ‘ | with a friend one day he said: ‘I have just ; 8 —=—=———=] | found a book about a chief who was one of $ \ my ancestors. He was a great man. He was a Warrior, a man of mighty prowess in battle. Why, I learn from that bool that he, personally, | tilled scores of h foes. He killed noatty % a hundred person himself ‘*Well,”’ said the friend, ‘he hasn't got nyth ing on you ‘Perhaps not,”’ replied the doctor thoughtfully, ‘‘ but we must give him credit f — ust the same. You see, he never had my “<" eas iC Magee CC = ge, SAVE MONEY || opportunities.” “SS “How to Shave With Comfort [Homesw4y | AW DEPARTMENT] 50c., 75c., $1.00 Send your name for the Book and please yourself Roxford Knitting Co. Dept. K Philadelphi a

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open Porpiteg vce ate ta, VHE photograph of Senator Clapp, of Satisfaction guaranteed. Loc Minnesota, published in our issue of April — a State agent ted 3, should have been credited to Golling, { ‘ Western Maple Syrup Co., Los Angeles, Cal. Photo Studios, St. Paul, Minnesota C, KLAUBERG & BROS., 171 William Street, New York ice President I. C. U., 1401 L St., Washington, | L ~

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June 4,1910 Sense and

| . oe Nonsense eA aN Fe 4 4 ¥ isc ‘S ‘ — j The Rooster That Saved the Game j HIS ‘shawnty-clay’ business we read fz. : — SS banat hb shnbarabsibnnnasansih abe T $i of so much today,” said John S.) c->=> A a 7 (Muggsy) McGraw, the famous base- = . = ' = e AS LN s ic h ball player and manager, “reminds me of | §¥£ At the selling points listed below, you can see s *% — iil wive atc the time that a rooster saved a close game Yin fp h S D ll | d | EE R he ; itself to eve and he wasn’t a game rooster either. Aan h the tevens- uryea in a its atest models. Just *s 'g a “It was back in the old and glorious tN oN tena! ; as bs P g! : k AA tafe Oriole days, when I managed the nationally > examine and test then compare. } > e victorious Baltimore team. } , 1 etsy f “vc M- c Clasp 9 iter ie water ge? linge ell Basten, Man... The 1'W. Bowness Ge Montgomery, Ala., Black & Hobbie ps. | or RRA a es I had heard that there was a good | } ¥% Stl Recktce Stott Mieatresl, Coneds. ( Motor Co, Ltd Xe Either ite llest. team at S ring Gre We. s Me al | 1m we 4 ; iss pyiston Street [Viontrea!, ( anada, Comet ! tor Co, Lk AI ae. ay ‘ * wunfasten oF eam at } g Grove, an insane asylur Men's New York City, A. G. Spalding & Bros., Muncie, Ind., Clark & Ganter ese Leg near Baltimore, and just for a lark I took Ans 29 West 42d Street yashua N. H.. Pollard Automobile Co wi the team up there to play the nutty nine. ‘ac | Chicago, Ill., Lewis Gayle: Co ee Nashville, Tenn., Southern States Sales C. 4 The Onl te It was going to be easy picking, but we ex- |} ¢ | Michigan Avenue Newark, N. J., A. G. Spalding & Bros . ‘ - Bone San Francisco, Cal Pace Motor Car Co., New Orleans, La., Oliver B. Brown . pected a lot of fun out of it anyway. 376 Golden Gate Avenue sighs Without Obj ections ‘““We were hardly prepared for what yt + Albany, N. Y., C. S. Ransom Oakland, Cal., Pacific Motor Car Co u) really awaited us. It chanced that there ys Amsterdam, N. Y., Kas! Isburgh Senin, IGS. A, eee Men prefer it because it were a lot of husky rips in there, some of im Atlanta, Ga., C. H. Johnson Paterson, N. J.. The Auto Shop . will not tear the stocking a ss them former professional ball players and yee a emo nee. Snes oe ee Mie CuO Phe Poa Ve ~" M Rrant hei 2 . me aa 1" : inghamton, ! , Binghamton Motor Car le sourg, F enn., Vc nor at 0 and will not bind the leg greedy for exercise, I hey had been prac- — Ssladheen, Ala., ome G 0. se Pittsheld, Mass., Central Auto Station Co. - ‘ ticing up until they were in fine form, and \y2" Bloomsburg, een . C. W. Funston Plainfield, N. J., Laing Machine-Auto-Rep'r ¢ 25cents will convince you we had seldom been opposed by a team *) Brattleboro, Vt., E. D. Whitney Portland, Me., Maine Motor Carriage Co sam mm : fk Bridgeport, ‘ e ~ ace 11 you hina YStt ate ele te Stevens-Duryea Company, re _ Chicopee Falls, Mass.

power Do not stay at home and grumble by the aE Dagan ad me conan | MOT som | DON’T HAVE A DAMP BASEMENT! oa a ES ae vial ational Nor, in feeble spite, turn on your neighbors ° ri Eng limbered and Concrete sour Damp Basements breed insects and germs that spread disease. Food and articles of 1910 " eriors, ra vl ms , Hye Go and vote, man, vote! value stored in them spoil and decay $ rT I s are photos of harkens Stop all this by u . Trus- Cc on Waterproofing «: d Finishing ie wr baseme t etical V . ’ Make new buildings peri inently dry Overcome dampnes ld lding Simple Inexy peci thor mi detail {con Wh 3 ee a ” } Effective — Make your home sanitary and turn w rthle Ss space int ful y climate. Price of } ven you cal the ring” in any jraud or Have your archit city Trus-Con | Waterps o ofin Ps f : b x — ve ou ‘ “ y u roo ec aste £1.00 pre eaves free trick, WATERPROOFS rooting concrete; Tras-Con Floor Enamel r« ¢ Trus-Con Wail Brown Bros., Architects, 919 Security Bank Bldg, Cedar Rapids, lowa = [f you do not vote you have no right to — for masor “ ates yr ‘ : rite aby r ement, stat condit - e, a RUCh = : ——— FINISHES floors and walls. we will give y« etailed advice it You can break it up; then go and knock it Send for free booklet, “ DRY BASEMENTS,” and standard specifications quick, op a: i With a vote. man. vote! TRUSSED CONCRETE STEEL CO., 401 Trussed Concrete Building, Detroit, Mich. |

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‘ N on 2 : . Pie on AUTOMOBILE ___ Vole, man, vote ( We Will Sell You at Wholesale 5 THE: BEST LIGHT. Where there is a wrong there's sure to be a Agents Price, one e SOFT SPOTS { leathe de right A M t 1 / ORT r ah - b poten When you do not vote 'tis but yourself you merican se) orcyc e SOFT SPOTS ‘ , " -idlin agent in your city, We want he tr spue es intron ed in every town, V bs) tf nforming n-metalli sanitary — venti Do not be a sneak and keep out of the fight so want live agents ar ne | ~ ate | t t ‘ G iS aaah ote! . 0 ‘mn American Motorcycles | i nd ‘ ; #0 ONE OE, THAN, VON American Bicycles. Write us—do it now S THE BEST LIGHT CO. H J i Are hc eh ns $1 a pair Vole — grenent Motorcycle Co. 5-25 E. Sth Street, Canton, Ohio fee! Cushions 2c the pair ; ote, man, vote! — 1346 Wells St. ‘ Chicago, Il. MAKES AND BURNS ITS OWN GAS laternational Specialty Co., 511 Sansome St. , San Francisco, Cal. Do not call yourse Fi a live American, Nor prete nd to love your country or your If NORWICH Aut vat 7 E N 7 SECURED OR OUR clan Poultry Page * xerc iser ind Feéte A FEE RETURNED . > - n, Sparr 5 f Vever claim to be a “decent sort oj man Fae. ‘Ghost cuiecden, ane od la ketch for fre ? o Tin wit what reas ens growt revent 1 tops loss Gotesn 0 Patent What to Invent t list of inventions Till you vote, man, vote Sar . Py vee wanted { prizes offer . Saeenneneneieee RIVER HOME POULTRY. YaRDs. $19 Clair Bt. TOLEDO, © vertised free VICTOR J. EVANS & CO., Washington, D. © D.c

’ vote orse owners HUNDREDS OF DOL L ARS SAVED Vote, man,

Tis the noblest thing that any man can do For himself and home and all that’s good and tric ; If you are a man—a man all through and through orse Sense

Bridgeport Fasteners [[>4 Hold gc a grip that never can slip till you lift the little le ‘ver and release them. You will vote, man, vote!

HOLDER. for sellir t LEAN C Jig moor y manera Vote, man, vote! At ill haberdashers and stationers. Hf your dealer doest th ep thet klet and ree gagents. CLEA IME MFG.CO 3348t Racine Wis . “ N I-plated Watch G 1 itor 10 ( ! t Watch rdon -_—— It’s a sacred trust that you must never break ; Nickel-plated Watch Guard mailed tor 10c.; Gold-plate suard n EUGENE H. FERREE, 46 Market Street, LOCKPORT, N. Y. BEEKEEPING vr For your cou niry's good, and jor your honor’s sake,

NG : ISD WING ged =) GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE six Never sell yoursel{, nor any bargain make , eee « When you vote, man, vote! cU- Z SAE. FGF oe SILLS YIGSE3 “GUARD THE A. I. ROOT CO.,, Box 76, Medina, Oni

— Wayne Whippl

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idichattcthedechchtcAcheadccehee SRT Sa ee are / | SH A‘'T old chair in the atti not used because of its dilapidated ee :, ean or fed to the fur appearance, still not relegated to the ash hea grace any room 1n the house an antique. Its but one of the many things in your home that you can JEINIEW p= WITT Gob AG ba M6 th oe Redbedeteadeded rx I NX ’ xO ( Glidden Varnish 8g Glidden Bldg., Company () Saha AHR AREAS SO eee PrP rt ee we Pre re Are Known By the Necco Seal Wit LENOX CHOCOLATES. Ihe NECCO fect t ~ NEW ENGLAND CONFECTIONERY CO., BOSTON, MASS. SEE A Hawkeye REFRIGERATOR BASKET If you ever take your lunch out-of-doors on motoring, fish ing or hunting trips x just in the shade of the park you should know about the Hawkeye Refrigerator Basket You can try one for thirty days expense keep your luncheon fre« If your dealer cannot show you one write to us. st our from dust, cool and fresh Keeps Contents Cool and Fresh 24 Hours a 4 BURLINGTON BASKET COMPANY, 31 Main St., Burlington, lowa PIPE REPAIRING | NEW SQUAB BOOK FREE ery descript Te , $ ‘=? ‘ \ mt ber, Meer K ARTI tm Om » | FICIAL COLORING. | 3 = me | Silve ri aa a Grea t . > s . \ sc ul « | Estab 1899 DAVID ELLIS, The Pipe Man ; d votes PS | Devt. F, 168-108 Maing __—s Bufialo, B PLYMOUTH ROCK SQUAB CO .425 Howard St, Melrose. Mass » 9S ALARA RRCHReARHKRARARKARSRAK A SAKRKEKRHRKKKKRARAKSKRAAKARKAAHRSHKRSHEAAKEKRHAHRHHKSHRAKKRRKRAKKRHKKREBRRERARHRREKREREBEEE t nace because ot the tender memories surrounding itt ‘oT indtath ; — . ; » chair”—can be transtormed into a beautitul piece of furniture fit to OOOO OOOO a a aaa a a a a 5; | m 2 ,* | | | | aw - | a. itis ECE if fh to ' a aye '/ aad es! This or This? Robbins & Myers standard er we SERRE UR RHR aet eevee ete Robbins & Myers x ‘STANDARD Fans mecmacmecmege :e ee The Robbins & Myers Co. 1405 Lagonda Ave Springfield, Ohio yom ot ee Ww Or we me ee VRRP REESE KS EKER EM BREE SKM Ee Hee ow ww Michaels-Stern Clothes \l Michaels, Stern & Co., Rochester, N. Y. a

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aaa; 5 Shavin Williams “scx® The kind that won't smart or dry on tas face A wiry beard is made wire- less by the use of Williams’ Shaving Stick, the soften- ine quality of its lather is so great and it remains moist so long. - m ; - 5 d; 4 é Willia WS Shaving Powder as much better than other kinds as Williams’ Shaving Stick 1s superior to others, in the thick, creamy qual- ities and the body of the lather it yields. Both Williams’ Shaving Stick and Williams’ Shaving Powder are put up in the Williams’ Patented Hinged-Cover box. Samples of either Williams’ Shaving Stick or Williams’ Shaving Powder mailed on receipt of four cents in stamps. Address The J. B. Williams Co., Dept. A, Glastonbury, Conn.