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PerePreepePertes i | ELE} a o Automobile Buyers Congratulate Themselves that the Automobile of Today is a Perfected Machine It Isn’t Wholly True fault Look over high-price cars and observe that By our own reasoning, the Winton Six made in 1907 we ntal ' hel \ ? : fact for yourself was experiment Don t nshedial leve it—in & DI mud sense Phen look at the 1911 Winton Six. Because it was experimental, we cut the output d Hardly a car on the market today but ha me sin Me nll alee Seiad amelie ck es iture incient as to require continuous apology tor Pk Re ahh hy all as bs Saini. ‘on thke ta Mlnaieaeebel and denienncnd P . ook double time to make ea : Fig ale eng slings ascin~ tppecdccoag ptt Nothing Obsolete or Experimental i a vhich means that it is a possible irce of trouble to . 1 the 1 I ut x every buyer of that car Not a single element of this car is obsolete or experi ee ing kill to av fa ae mental Sold these cars at $4500 - Not a single feature but is up to the minut dged Changes Mean Experiments from the highest standard of automobile engineet = peg caiman hehe inal ape ae" Nae a Success From the Start ) Rate, fe , - tinued in some cars because previous seasons and proved in ir own desig t Those experimental cars were a gre ing own materials, our own work: hip, ou \\ 1s« We p | Tht iron tl k | , ent. and the experi ble that it is trustworthy and dependab! ractical ch ener We in lt t ial | vould lain hotl And, sharing our suces with our buyers, we put } n risk experiments, some makers stick Must Have Six Cylinders price at $3000 the fy wheel clutch or th essit For tl © cat had marketed experimental these have. — d If there is any other car on the marke { which tl + S4500 . | ime statement can be truthfull ! 1] a eae o see that car } We'll admire it as a car in the class of the Winton Six Only Car That Cranks Itself ‘, A Confession of Failure If there is such a ear, it must have six ¢ for We have been making that same car ever sinc * is itis Pree in aa thi anything less cannot produce continu powel i+ tn now on the market for 191% \ ide ) a maker Is me feature of i i : apes Ae A ( ‘ lostitute i . . _° Ss iis oe age ee Fourth Consecutive Year ~ tegen epaeliagh ettege oa taae™ Send ‘, ! ! Nd teat \ neerned Phe Winton Six for 1911, with its powerful but vel The r that holds the world’s lowest upkeep re | to my ‘, But, worse than that, it i present ex vety six-cylinder motor, is the same 48 H. P. car we 77 cents per LOOO mile address I criment Ynd he doesn't know but have made for three years continuously, and are now « * * . , at it, may fail making for the fourth vear, without a single radical ae” arerma- \, But, as he can’t help himself, he change Get Our 1911 Literature tion about the ‘ ] ul Tish con Une cl { his N uch change, because none w needed Are. shinthic yee . car for 1911 LYLL Winto ‘ A *“* * rl EE ee rea a ie ‘ l igg i * , M | +} t ther 1 uever | rd Six ‘., High Price No This is Our Confession ane ore eee eae wares ee See eer e pol r | \ he 1 1 *% Protection When we discarded four cylinder nd bewar k g ne) Bs % Even high pri ; n sixes lnaiwvel sm the anmmer of 104 ee f j Our 1911 cata a j t hit i ht f e \ iy price 1 no ixes exclusively, in tl imme l “ essed 1 ll ca n ea Ml L ‘ prot ton Against these the failure of the four-cylinder 1 tor h ! SI \ ‘, ? 1 % ‘. The Winton Motor Car. Co. ono. , Branch . Licensed under Selden Patent Houses ( To The Winton Motor Car. Co. ‘121 Berea Road, Cleveland, U.S.A. 121 Berea Road, Cleveland, O. ,

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t } THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Be Sure Your Clothes Have I WASTING S7yle and Shape Permanence Poor workmanship or poor materials are visible faults which you can guard against yourself when buying clothes. ‘The greatest enemy of “‘style’’ in clothes is the warping of imperfectly shrunk cloth caused by changeable weather. A suit or overcoat will look well and fit well when you try it on—but after you have a ; worn 1t 1n a rainstorm 1t May pucker, twist and Warp. The trouble is that all woolen goods, as they come from the weavers, will shrink. Ordinary processes fail to take out a// this shrinkage, so that the first rainy d stylishness out of the garment. ] lay takes the You can assure yourself of LASTING STYLE and SHAPE PERMANENCE in your clothes by 4 earing Keulenen |Pre -Varumlk Garments For Men and “Campus Togs ” for Young Men Therefore, consider carefully when buying your next suit or overcoat, and bear in mind that in style, in fit, in workmanship and in material our clothes are equal, if not supérior, to any other made; and, what’s more, you procure additional guality—LASTING STYLE and SHAPE PERMANENCE. These are assured by our exc/us/ve ‘* Pre-Shrinking’’ proc- ess, applied before the cloth is cut, which removes every Ait of shrink tendency and prevents wrinkled coat fronts, puckered pockets, drawn-up trousers legs and sleeves—all the defects common to ordinary garments after the first rainy day wear. Much of the price you pay for a suit or overcoat repre- sents the appearance, the style and the fit. If these depart CHICAGO Chas. Kaufman & Bros. with the first damp weather—as with ordinary garments what value are you getting for your money? Give thought, then, before you buy: vour next suit of overcoat, to the question of how it will look in a month—three month ra season. For it is there that the test of real value Ite There is a clothier near vou who has a full line of Kaufman “Pre-Shrunk’’ Garments for Men and ‘*Cam; Povs’’ for Young Men, in the fabric and style you like Lest. Call and examine it and ask about our ironclad guaranty of LASTING STYLE and SHAPE PERMANENCE. And don’t fail to see our attractive Stvle Book of Men’ and Young Men’s Fashions for Fall and Winter. You can yet it from the clothier or we will mail it direct for the a king. It illustrates Fashion’s decrees for this seas NEW YORK

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Seated | niin? oa . mth. 7} THE SATURDAY EVENING POS | | ‘ : | Copyright.1910.by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY, Founded A°D' 1728 by Benj.Franklin Entered atthe Philadelphia Post-Office | | inthe United States and Great Britain as Second-Class Mattes | Published Weekly. at 425 Arch Street by THE Curtis PUBLISHING COMPANY || | London: Hastings House. 10.Norfolk Street, Strand,.WC. || Entered as Second-Class Matter at the Post-Office Department, Ottawe, Canada | Les ait satiate — = poate - i} Volume 183 PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER 1. 1910 Number 14 | mercial Side of Aviation sO BUSINESS POSSIBILITIES . THE } ’ iE USINESS POSSIB IES OF THE AEROPLANE weve Bw GLENN H. CURTISS §BpewsonwaSate“th cost? How ID N44 J . A } I\ a eroplane has many fast can you idvantages over other fly? Is it easy to learn to operate an aero- methods of locomotiotr It may be used as freely over water as over ‘ d pl e? These questions which I am required can also surmount natural obstacle where the automobile or ther ehicie would to answer many times a day, illustrate the be useless. Each day | am becoming aware of new tields of usefulness for the aeroplane serious interest generally taken in aeroplaning in fact, there seems to be no lit to the hic} ' ! ‘ from the practical and commercial viewpoint. applied ir ! er The y not only indicate the nature of the interest A year a one mile Ww r ng ridt j t } taken, but, when supplemented by the hundreds an event wa play type by the ne ‘ I gh he w l,l wa of letters 1 have received from embryo aviators approac nec \ ( tr int etortr t } and hopeful inquirers for machines to fly between | He « ‘ } he intrv mad tions to fill, these questions c with t € t ‘ ) ‘ ire ! ! ‘ yet trom ¢ conviction that the aeroplane has a commercial mine to the othe though the e le | ‘ le he e Glenn H. Curtiss future offering vast possibilitic So much that Why couldn't I use an aeroplane to get from one ne to the othe e asked is improbable, however, has been promised for *T could cover the distance one hour instead of taking several da the future utility of the a roplane that a conservative estimate of its possible com- Ihe yer that ma thoug! over the propositio the more cony ed he becar mercial value may prove inconsistent, if not disappointing. When we consider that that ar yplane would prove valuable to him. His plat feasible and, whe the aeroplane has become more widely used in its short history than has any other lered ! he indy t of saving time, he could not make a better investme mechanical invention, not exce pting the automobile, we are prone to predict for ee er ee eee : ; A Little Surprise Party for Hostile Indians As a manufacturer I believe the tendency of the development of the aeroplane will ‘ be principally in speed, reliability and strength. The flying machine, in my judgment, ew RE are her uses to which I believe the aeroplane will be applied and in wl never become commercially valuable as a means of sportation except in sper l t rt he ré rade {tt rt I} t will take a pro nent] t cases, That the aeroplane can ever take the place of the railroad or steamboat seen the development of remote sectio vell a the ex t of hitherto too absurd a statement to require consideration. regions there can be The commercial world has marveled at the strides made by tne automobile ind istry. I was recently requested to ipmit a bid tor the purchase of te eropiane t hen the first horseless vehicle Was put on the market it had little to recommend it Central American state, not for military purposes on account of irrectior but speed. There was no inducement to offer aside from the novelty of a self-propelled lor exploring a reg ul t re ulne le ve ¢ e¢ lin nicl vehicle and the ability to travel at a faster rate than had previously been possible with Known because of the hostilit f the India who inhabit that regior pleasure vehicle; in fact, very few dared to venture the opinion that the horseles Che country, which these Indians « ler their doma ipposed to include a rich arriage would result in an industry equal to the proportions of the autor le mining district, and it is with the object of locating these supposed mines that the ‘ business of today. relerred to wants to bring the aeroplane into use It | 41SO Dee! iggested t! the The first few years of automobiling saw considerable improvement in the reduction flying machine excellent moral effect « he native ho are steadfa of cost and maintenance, and in the methods of construction. And yet automobiles opposed to the their provinces were not used for trips of the length and duration of those which have been made with To follow f he o the future ht be said that tl oved the aeroplane so early in the period of its development. aeroplane of several years hence will not only overcome the barriers of rough country and high mountains, but al vill actually be used in exploring regio hat are difficult Speed the Spur to Competition by Manufacturers at “ps -magend = — ) ; Wi iy In reg >the po € iture pra l ne e snoul HE time consumed in making the various aerial cross-country flights has been, in not be construed into a statement that aviation ha reached this stage of nearly every case, materially less than is possible with an automobile, even today. development or that an aeroplane can be operated today under any and. all condition This fact is especially significant in that it brings to mind the human craving for speed. in perfect safety. Ignorance, impracticability and lack of caution summarize the The automobile industry, like other industries which preceded it, has been built up dangers of aviation today. We cannot control the winds; therefore it is as foolhardy largely through keen competition resulting from races where the relative speed of the for an aviator to fly in a high wind as it is for a mariner to start to sea when there different makes of machines was determined; but there are physical difficulties a storm raging. Some day, however, the aeroplane have bec » perfected which limit the speed pos- that winds will not prever sibilities of the automobile. Ee ts operation When the flying machine Roads are not always straight. There are hills to reached tha ag climb and vehicles to avoid. npro ent it ) There is nothing, how- ever, to limit the possible eans ¢ fe-saving development of the speed the « t r of a flying machine. In its | ) infancy it has equaled the } hing rate of travel of the fastest ‘ i be used to express train. Who can say ‘ i d m what it will do in the way | ‘ of fast traveling in 1920? y ‘ r The aeroplane has been ‘ a marketable product for et expe e tl less than a year, yet it is of i he more practical value today than the automobile was } ‘ he he after several years’ use. h great The aeromobile, as it might | eq be called, is speedier, can ‘ travel greater distances, ‘ herefo is more fascinating as a le h sport, has real military I lered value, and can be adapted Berar . 7 snpneemiemmsnnanstensos : In fact, it would not be to many commercial uses. ae Getting the Machine Ready for the Flight irpr ng uo steamships

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST October 1,1910 should carry aeroplanes as part of their life-saving equipment. Acci- confined to under aeroplane value in dents at sea are not weather, and even aitions an stormy existing cor would prove ol case of emergency » from the speed capabilities [ ne, the most interesting my laptabili yt use over I have to experiments and al development to devoted much time in starting from ighting on the water. Though it takes greater power to rise from the surface of the water than to skim off the ground, by means of a specially constructed machine I have found it compara- tively easy to start from the surface ofa large body of water. I have on ions made successful drops to the surface of Lake Keuka, where all Taking into consideration the excellent wind conditions which prevail over the water, I would rather fly over the ocean or over a lake or river than over a rough or rolling country. I have become so fascinated with the idea of over-water flights that I am planning to establish a camp near some body of water over which to continue my experiments during the coming winter. I am firmly convinced that the waterways of-the country will become greatly enhanced in value to the public through their general use for intercity flights. A watercourse isthe logical route for the aeroplane. In making my flight from Albany to New York I found he advantages of a watercourse to be twofold. If the wind conditions are bad, high up in the air, it is possible to fly more safely close to the water than it would be close to the land, where trees and other obstructions would pe a constant source of danger. When flying high above the water there is no diffi- n finding a suitable spot for alighting. When high the land it is difficult to distinguish between a open and one which is dotted with bushes that cannot be detected when flying at a distance from the ground. d a bad twister in coming through the highlands, I was able to prevent the capsizing of my machine through my ability to plunge it downward until urface of the water. If I had been flying over the land there would have been no way in which I could have prevented a smash-up. several occas my experiments have been made. culty above clear, space ir trees I receive ana only it grazed the s Big Prices for Famous Flyers O DISMISS the problematical and consider the actual, the value of the aeroplane today is chiefly in its adver- tising worth, its scientific interest, its moneymaking possi- exhibition, the increasing interest in the sport by aviation enthusiasts, and its proved 1 Each of these spheres of activity is in an extremely healthy condition. Despite the fact that there are estimated to be over ten completed or in course of construction by experimenters in this country alone, the prices of the tandard types have not diminished. As with ngs, the demand governs the price i of aeroplanes, and the demand in this country is steadily bilities as an and compet thousand machines other th Increasing. I was offered twenty-five thousand dollars for my Hudson-Fulton flyer within twenty-four hours after flying from Albany, and the machine with which I won the Gordon-Bennett cup in France was worth ten thousand the surface of the ground, in order to become familiar with the move- ments necessary for balance and steering, will prepare the student for his first flight. The first mistake made by the novice is to turn his machine up- ward too suddenly. This usually results in a drop to the ground with perhaps a bad jar. The next mis- take is made after the machine is i the air and the student attempts to negotiate a landing. It that a beginner does 1 earth with exaggerated force. A number of my pupils who are making excellent flights were given to the fault of making turns too sharply. Unless a machine has power enough it should not be used now Ihe Curtiss Aeroplane Rising From the Water at Lake Keuka dollars to a large department store for a two weeks’ exhi- bition. Neither of these machines would ordinarily sell for seventy-five hundred dollars at the factory. Aviation as a means of advertising various kinds of busi- ness is extremely valuable. This method of advertising has already been taken up extensively by automobile and real-estate interests. The first aeroplane agency in this country was that of one of the largest automobile concerns in the city of New York. A member of this firm recently told me that, by undertaking the agency for flying machines and spending several thousand dollars in adver- tising the fact, his concern had made its wisest advertising investment, in addition to having received publicity which could not have been bought. Another instance of the value of an aeroplane as a spec- ulative venture is that of a prominent automobilist in a Western city, who bought one of my five-thousand-dollar machines. He placed the aeroplane on exhibition in the automobile show in his city and obtained sufficient money from the admissions in one week to complete a fund for building an automobile roadway. Though entitled to the term “‘popular,”’ the aeroplane must be considered as a scientific product. I apply the term “product” because it cannot be called an “invention,” since it has been produced as the result of years of pains- taking experiment combined with the opportunities af- forded by modern invention for obtaining a maximum of power with a minimum of weight. This modern product, therefore, being in its infancy and offering the widest possible field for improvement, is arresting the attention of the scientific world. The flying machine offers for solution fascinating and intricate problems, and it will not be surprising to find every large institution of learning equipped with various types of air machines to be used in connection with special courses for those desiring to study the science of artificial flight. The Harvard University aviation meet and the estab- lishment of aviation courses in foreign universities, as well as various prizes offered students in scientific schools in this country, indicate this growing field of interest in aviation. Risks Run by Foolhardy Amateurs HE importance of the public demonstration of the aeroplane in flight should not be underestimated. As in all things which involve risk of life and require a certain amount of daring, there is a great tendency for people with reckless instincts and a love for the sensational to take up public exhibition flights with an aeroplane. It is perhaps difficult for the novice to realize the danger involved in flying without first becoming thoroughly proficient in to make a sharp turn, as there is no bank in the aerial track to pre- vent the machine from sliding sideways and losing headway. Loss of headway is the principal danger to which an aviator is subjected, and nearly every serious accident has been traced to this cause. The extent of the general impression that aeroplane operation requires no study or thought is alarming. I am constantly receiving letters from people who have no con- ception of what an aeroplane is and who seek an opportu- nity to fly one. For three weeks after I made the flight from Albany to New York I received letters from aspi-~ rants to fame who offered to fly machines for me without recompense or for practically nothing. “*T know I can fly well enough to satisfy you,”’ wrote one man from a small town in the West. “I will take your place and you can pay me a small salary, and then you will not have to do any more flying.” I must say that this proposition to relieve me from the necessity of making flights was pleasing to me, and my only regret was that he could not do so. I have endeavoring for nearly a year to retire from the field of public exhibition flights in order to devote more time to experimenting and to the manufacture of aeroplanes, but my etforts have been unavailing. been When the Public Blames the Aviator ROM the amusement manager’s standpoint, exhibition flights have been profitable. Beginning with the Los Angeles aviation meet in January, there has been one unbroken series of aviation exhibitions and contests. It is true that weather conditions have been responsible for making several financially unsuccessful, but these have been an exception to the rule. In one city where I made some flights the receipts amounted to over thirty thousand dollars in two days. From the aviator’s viewpoint, the exhibition is not so satisfactory. If conditions are against him the aviator’s efforts are not appreciated. The public has been educated to the balloon idea. The general impression is that an aeroplane goes straight up for several thousand feet regardless of wind or air conditions. Therefore, when the aviator’s experience argues against the flight because of dangerous conditions in the air, the spectators are disappointed and believe they have been duped. It is not an uncommon thing to be approached on a day when the air currents are treacherous and flights are impossible, and have some one say: “Why, Professor Smith made a parachute jump here last year in a greater wind than this.” The fact that a balloon was used by the “ professor”’ which, by the way, is the title by which I am frequently addressed, illustrating the tendency to confuse ballooning business at the manipulation of the machine ir and without being conversant with the various laws of strengths, weights, resistances and balance, to say nothing of familiarity with the of the air currents. Aeroplane manipulation is, therefore, an acquired art, and not an acrobatic accomplishment or the result of natural instinct. It is vitally important that the pub- lic should be educated up to this fact; that those who witness aero- plane flights should not become obsessed by the opinion that they can operate a flying machine without preliminary training. With the proper machine it is difficult matter to learn vagaries not a Curtiss Ready to Fly 1e operation. Several days spent in running the machine over aeropla Taking a Last Look Before Starting

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THE SATURDAY Et had been enti lost to view. The aut] With aviation “ut i it ex t t ' of the remark did not seem to realize that the aeroplane clul v! é ( ‘ é estate and weighed nearly a thousand pounds and forced its way muniti¢ It is tl h these « that the future | e experience } through the air instead of floating by means of a gas of developme should be directed ‘ ine n lighter than air itself. There car » doubt that the sensa f fli, ‘ Vhile \ early in the The exhibition flights that are being made throughout ich that the sport will find a very lar; er, | ‘ 1 of mine the country are having a far-reaching effect in overcoming Devotees of automo g indou tur ‘ eu 0 ‘ ttage he these false notions. Wherever flights have been made the attention to aviation, and aeroplane race é ‘ \ chat | public has learned that weather conditions are as essen- greater interest t la other form of « l tial to successful aeroplane contests as a quiet sea and must be remembered that, so lar t A re ca ive ‘ i ( id ! ir good conditions are to a yacht race. But, as with any no limit to the speed with wl ut ine I he g cr friend Aeropla thing that is new, the } ublic must be trained to receive future, be driven through the air la eve u! r ‘ r ope rex ition disappointment without becoming agitated. eems to depend upon the phy il endurance of ‘ exercist itom« ng As a means to this end we have introduced “wind aviator Ra ily resort to the checks” which correspond to rain checks at a ball game The stra 1p i in operating Le! t ‘ t etween their These have been very well received. Reece ntly I con according to the weather ¢ i I ‘ ducted an experiment in New York by arranging a in flight. If the air cali and he ympelled to ‘ ‘ t would not aviation meet at the Shee pshea l Bay racetrack, and Ww K I balancing planes to a inusual extent ( t » he used al although flights were made on each day for which they pleasure of the fligh greatly « ine [ é fact, o had been advertised we issued wind checks on one da ‘ operate T é se to because stormy winds prevented lengthy flights. Thoug! I 1 be erate I ‘ hitting the crowds were disappointed there was not a murmur hh the re te yy i ‘ | equ t he regarding the failure to satisfy their desire to see a real ‘ | ) | \ eed 0 ove a demonstration. i hIt ‘ ‘ ere y ) One of the brightest indications of the future com- he be 1 ene f he H | ‘ ‘ been mercial development of the aeroplane is the continual is so famou issed pro and co exp ind itary ¥g th of aviation as a sport. Suppleme g the public Aeropla y pre t do ‘ é ) é | ha: interest in exhibitions is the interest of enthusiasts who hield himself from 1 wind, but ev ler these « vive eas é sure ‘ various want to fly. Aero clubs have been formed in all the large ditions I have found it practicable t zero Weat! Continued on Page 61 The Innocence of Father Brow Why The Truc Fishermen Always Wear Green Evening Coats sattnvecdhs Ea Gs, i. CFR BRUER RIL | Sel Serene tinct Fishermen, entering | eee eee ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGI GIBBS nner the Fisher i ou will observe, as he takes off his overcoat , ere the hal exp . ill the / that bh evening coat Is green d not black If sup- t ‘ ( ‘ ‘ esper | posing that you have the star-defying a idacity addres cele ‘ ri ynich ere j uch a being—you ask him why, he will probably answer ere, tl é being exq that he does it to avoid being mi en for a waiter. Y« é ‘ h and each ¥ ‘ will then retire, crushed ou will leave behin« led ~~ rhese were al f rg mystery as yet unsolved i tale rth | 1 « ‘ ' he } rse If to pursue > sam ein of impr e conjecture ! mia ‘ repa ’ 1 were to meet a mild, hard-workir tle priest named f had ‘ ere rie e! father Brown, d were to ask him what he thought wa ‘ i | th i the most singular luck of } life, he would } bably rep] é i } j } é j } that ipon the whole, } best stroke v it the Vernor t ‘ ! ne ‘ her { i} Hotel where he avert la me and pernhay ived ‘ re | i ( i neve even i ; oul merely by listening to a few footsteps in a passage enee abou elve ] H He is, perhaps, a little pr 1 of this wild and wonderful M Aud | | ent if of hi ind it i possible that he n nt reter to 1 he D ‘ (*} ‘ But since it is immeasurably unlikely that you will ever If I have ‘ ‘ } e of rise high enough in the cial world to find The Twelve ppa ‘ t mii il rul nder rue Fishermen, or that you will ever sink low enoug! | I came hit I ! even mong slums and criminals to find Father Brown, I fear é | ! r ‘ isl end you will never hear the story at all unl Iron ither | me himse } ler : The Vernon Hotel, at which The Twelve True Fisher As f erne mple men held their annual dinners, was an institution such a eve Chet he ' ed can only exist in an oligarchical society which has almost ‘ le e wl he one mad on good manners. It was that topsytury efine etrea I ‘ ‘ nformation product, an ‘‘exclusive”’ commercial enterprise. That ull me é é erever this lt it as a thing which paid not by attracting people but é ( ! e hor ! eri tually by turning people away. In the heart of a é One ers, an Italia plutocracy tradesmen become cunning enough to be more ' 1 be ha fastidious than their customers Phey positively create { ‘ ‘ nh er f difficulties so that their wealthy and weary clients may e! I | spend money and diplomacy in overcoming them, It } I t { there were a fashionable hotel in London which no man he r ‘ could enter who was under six foot, society would meekly ( make up parties of six-foot men to dine in it. If there ¢ ! i were an expensive restaurant which by a mere caprice of te ‘ I its proprietor was only open on Thursday afternoon, | her me would be crowded on Thursday afternoon. The Vernon . u Wal Wi hat Dieth Ne er | t me ~ Hotel stood, as if by accident, in the corner of a square in , ie ee a er ee ‘ he ‘ 3elcravia. It was a small hotel and a very inconvenient n | be | led one But its very inconveniences were considered as _ his enterprise the most care | I t r m al ‘ eve is torr walls protecting a particular class. One inconvenience The wines and « ig were re ‘ ‘ t He | that bad in particular was held to be of vital importance—the fact Europe; and the demeanor of the er ts ex ition of |} é é ‘ lifticul that practically only twenty-lour people could dine in the mirrored the fixed mood ne fl pe i ene At the ‘ Ont ‘ e unusua place at once. The only big dinner-table was the cele- proprietor knew all t ‘ e the rs on his | nyer his | peck of dir brated Terrace Table which stood open to the air on a sort ther of veranda overlooking one of the most exquisite old easier to become a member of Par me! nto? r rant \ eople alting gardens in London. Thus it happened that even the a waiter I r I I Cher twenty-four seats at this table could only be enjoyed in _ terrible sil I hne ‘ ‘ I ul warm weather; and this making the enjoyment yet more _ servant 1 difficult made it yet more desired. The existing owner’ waiter to every gentleman who din to find a new br er t real r tea in one of the hotel was a Jew named Lever; and he made near] The club of The Twelve True Fisherme ild not mily. Moreove e priest's appearance was second a million out of it by making it difficult to get into. Of have consented to dine anywhere but i 1 place te and hes mu mere pst him afar t course, he combined with this limitation in the scope of for it insisted on a luxurious privacy and ild e bee f might pre t Ir. Lever

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST occupying about the same time. The moment the last echoing stamp had died away, would come again the run or ripple of light hurrying feet, and then again the thud of the heavier walking. It was certainly the same pair of boots, partly because—as has been said—there were no other boots about, and partly because ~ they had a small but unmistak- able creak in them. Father Brown had the kind of head that cannot help asking questions; And Reappeared With a Third Waiter hit on a plan to cover, since he might not obliterate, the disgrace. When you enter — as you never will—the Vernon Hotel you pass down a short passage decorated with a few dingy but important pictures and come’ to the main vesti- bule and lounge which opens, on your right, into passages leading to the public rooms and, on your left, to a similar passage pointing to the kitchens and offices of the hotel. Immediately on your left hand is the corner of a glass office which abuts upon the lounge—a house within a house like the old hotel bar which probably once occupied it pl we In this office sat the representative of the proprietor nobody in this place ever appeared in person if he could help it—and just beyond the office on the way to the servants’ quarters was the gentlemen's cloak-room, the last boundary of the yentlemen’'s domain But between the office and the cloak-room was a small private room without other outlet, sometimes used by the proprietor for delicate and important matters, such as lending a duke a, thousand pounds or declining to lend him sixpence. It isa mark of the magnificent tolerance of Mr. Lever that he permitted this holy place to be for about half an hour profaned by a mere priest, scribbling away on a piece of paper. The story which Father Brown was writing down was very likely a much better story than this one, only it will never be known, I can merely state that it was very nearly as long and that the last two or three paragraphs of it were the k exciting and absorbing. For it was by the time that he had reached these that the priest began to allow his thoughts to wander a little and his animal senses, Which were commonly keen, to awaken. The time of darkness and dinner was drawing on; his own forgotten little room was without a light, and perhaps the gathering gloom, as occasionally happens, sharpened the sense of sound. As Father Brown wrote the last and less essential -part of his document he caught himself writing to the rhythm of a recurrent noise outside, just as one sometimes thinks to the tune of a railway train When he became conscious of the thing he found that it was only the ordinary patter of feet passing the door which, in a hotel, was no very unlikely matter. Nevertheless, he glared at the darkening ceil ng and listened to the sound After he had his feet and listened intently, with his head a little on one side. Then he sat down and buried his brow in his hands, now not merely listening vut listening and thinking also The footsteps outside at any given moment were such as istened for a few seconds dreamily he got to one might hear in any hotel; and yet, taken as a whole, trange about them. There were no other footsteps t was always a very silent house; for the few familiar ghosts went at once to their there was something very 8 I i own apartments, and the well-trained waiters were told to be almost invisible until they were wanted. Qne could not conceive any place where there was less reason to apprehend anything irregular. But these footsteps were so odd that one could not even decide to call them regular or irregular. Father Brown followed them with his finger on the edge of the table, like a man trying to learn a tune on the piano, First there came a long rush of rapid little steps such as a light man might make in winning a walking race. Ata certain point they stopped and changed to a sort of slow swinging stamp, numbering not a quarter of the steps but ~- and on this apparently trivial question his head almost split. He had seen men run in order to jump. He had seen men run in order to slide. But why on earth should a man run in order to walk? Or, again, why should he walk in order to run? Yet no other description would cover the antics of this invisible pair of legs. The man was either walking very fast down one-half of the corridor in order to walk very slow down the other half, or he was walking very slow at one end to have the rapture of walk- ing fast at the other. Neither suggestion seemed to make much sense. His brain was growing darker and darker like his room. Yet as he began to think steadily the very blackness of his cell seemed to make his thoughts more vivid. he began to see as in a kind of vision the fantastic feet capering along the corridor in unnatura! or symbolic attitudes Was it a heathen religious dance? Or some entirely new kind of scientific exercise? Father Brown began to ask himself with more exactness what the steps suggested. Taking the slow step first, it certainly was not the step of the proprietor. Men of his type walk with a rapid waddle or they sit still. It could not be any servant or messenger waiting fordirections. Itdid notsound likeit. The poorer orders—in an oligarchy—sometimes lurch about when they are slightly drunk; but generally, and especially in such gorgeous scenes, they stand or sit in constrained attitudes. No; that heavy yet springy step, with a kind of careless emphasis, not specially noisy yet not caring what noise it made, belonged to only one of the animals of this earth. It was a gentleman of western Europe, and probably one who had never worked for his living. Just as he came to this solid certainty the step changed to the quicker one and ran past the door as feverishly as a rat. The listener remarked that though this step was much swifter it was also much more noiseless, almost as if the man were walking on tiptoe. Yet it was not associated in his mind with secrecy but with something else—-something that he could not remember. He was maddened by one of those half-memories that make a man feel half-witted. Surely he had heard that strange, swift walking somewhere. Suddenly he sprang to his feet with a new idea in his head and walked to the door. Hisroom had no direct outlet on the passage, but led on one side into the glass office and on the other into the cloak- room beyond. He tried the door into the office and found it locked. Then he looked at the window, now a square pane full of purple cloud cleft by livid sunset; and, for an instant, he smelt evil as a dog smells rats. The rational part of him—whether the wiser or not— regained its supremacy. He remembered that the pro- prietor had told him that he would lock the door and would come later to release him. He told himself that twenty things he had not thought of might explain the eccentric sounds outside; he reminded himself that there was just enough light left to finish his own proper work. Bringing his paper to the window so as to catch the last stormy evening light, he resolutely plunged once more into the almost completed record. He had writ- ten for about twenty minutes, bending closer and closer to his paper in the lessening light Then suddenly he sat upright: he had heard the strange feet once more. This time they had a third oddity. Pre-_ viously the unknown man had walked with levity and lightning quickness; but he hac walked This time he ran. One could hear the swift, soft, bounding steps coming along the corridor like the pads of a fleeing and leaping panther. Whoever was coming was a very strong, active man, in tearing excitement. Yet when the sound had swept up to the office like a sort of whispering whirlwind it suddenly changed again to the old slow, swaggering stamp Father Brown flung down his paper and, October 11,1910 knowing the office door to be locked, went at once into the cloak-room on the other side. The attendant of this place was temporarily absent, probably because the only guests were at dinner and his office was a sinecure. After groping through a gray forest of overcoats he found that the dim cloak-room opened on the lighted corridor in the form of a sort of counter or half-door, like most of the counters across which we have handed umbrellas and received tickets. There was a light immediately above the semicircular arch of this opening. It threw little illumina- tion on Father Brown himself, who seemed a mere dark outline against the dim sunset window behind him. But it threw an almost theatrical light on the man who stood outside the cloak-room in the corridor. He was an elegant man in very plain evening dress; tall, but with an air of not taking up much room. One felt that he could have slid along like a shadow where many smaller men would have been obvious and obstruct- ive. His face, now flung back in the lamplight, was swarthy and vivacious, the face of a foreigner. His figure was good, his manners good-humored and confident A critic could only say that his black coat was a shade below his figure and manners and even bulged and bagged in an odd way. The moment he caught sight of Brown's black silhouette against the sunset, he tossed down a scrap of paper with a number and called out with amiable authority: ‘‘I want my hat and coat, please; I find I have to go away at once.” Father Brown took the paper without a word and obe- diently went to look forthe coat, it was not the first menial work he had done in his life’ He brought it and laid it on the counter; meanwhile the strange gentleman, who had been feeling in his waistcoat pocket, said, laughing: ‘‘I haven’t got any silver; you can keep this for yourself.” And he threw down a half-sovereign and caught up hiscoat Father Brown's figure remained quite dark and still; but in that instant he had lost his head. His head was always most valuable when he had lost it. In such moments he put two and two together and made four million Often the Catholic Church (which is wedded to common- sense) did not approve of it. Often he did not approve of it himself. But it was real inspiration, important at rare crises When whosoever shall lose his head the same shall save it. *] think, sir,”’ he said civilly, “‘ that you have some silver in your pocket.” The tall gentleman stared. ‘‘ Hang it!” he cried, ‘‘if I choose to give you gold, why should you complain?” ** Because silver is sometimes more valuable than gold,” said the priest mildly —‘‘ that is, in large quantities.” The stranger looked at him curiously. Then he looked still more curiously up the passage toward the main entrance. Then he looked back at Brown again, and then he looked very carefully at the window beyond Brown's head, still colored with the afterglow of the storm. Then he seemed to make up his mind. He put one hand on the counter, vaulted over as easily as an acrobat, and towered above the priest, putting one huge hand upon his collar. “‘Stand still!” he said in a hacking whisper. ‘I don’t want to threaten you, but - “I do want to threaten you,” said Father Brown in a voice like a rolling drum; ‘‘I want to threaten you with the worm that dieth not and the fire that is not quenched.” ** You're a rum sort of cloak-room clerk,” said the other “‘Tama priest, Monsieur Flambeau,” said Brown gravely, *“‘and I am ready to hear your confession.” The other stood gasping for a few moments, staring at Father Brown, and then staggered back into a chair The first two courses of the dinner of The Twelve True Fishermen had proceeded with placid success. I do not possess a copy of the menu; and if | did it would not convey any- thing to anybody. It Was written in a sort of super-French employed by cooks, but quite unin- telligible to Frenchmen There was a tra- dition in the club that the hors- d'awu ‘Tes should be various and manifold to the point of mad- ness. They were taken seriously since they were avowedly useless extras, like the whole dinner and the whole club. There was also a tradition that the soup course should be light and unpretending; a sort of simpleandausterevigil for the feast of fish that Like a Man Trying to Learn a Tune on the Piano ———— ————————

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\ fF } | } ae, | f i } } | a was to come. The talk was that strange, slight talk which governs the British Empire, which governs it in which yet would scarcely enlighten an ordinary Englishman even if he could overhear it. Cabinet ministers on both sides were alluded to by their Christian names with a sort of bored benignity The Radical Chancellor of the Exchequ P. whom the whole Tory party was supposed to be cursing for his extortions, was praised for his minor poetry or his saddle in the hunting field. The Tory leader, whom all Liberals were supposed to hate as a tyrant, was discussed and, on the whole, praised as a Liberal. It seemed some- how that politicians were very important. And yet anything seemed important about them except their politics. Mr. Audley, the chairman, was an amiable, elderly man who still wore Gladstone collars; kind of symbolof all that phantasmaland yet fixed society He had never done anything; not even anything wrong He was not fast; he was not even particularly rich. He was simply in the thing and there was an end of it; no party could ignore him, and if he had wished to be in the Cabinet he certainly would have been put there. The Duke of Chester, the vice-president, was a young and rising politician. That is to say, he was a pleasant youth with flat, fair hair and a freckled with moderate intelligence and enor- n pub- lic hisappearances were always successful and his principle was simple enough. When he thought of a joke he made it and was called brilliant. When he could not think of a joke he said that this was no time for trifling, and wascalled able. In private, ina club of his secret, and he was a lace mous estates, own class, he was sim- ply quite pleasantly fr: and schoolboy never polities, t little me Sometimes he even em- Mr. Audley, ‘ : having been in nk reated it a yre seriously barrassed t! by that there was ecompany phrases suggesting some ice Detweena k and a Conserv- ative. He himself a Conservative, even in private life. He had a rollof gray hairover the back of his collar, like certain old-fashioned statesmen, and seen from behind he looked like themantheEmpire wants. Seen from the front he looked like indulgent bachelor with rooms in the Albany ; As has been remarked, there were twenty-four seats at the terrace table and only twelve members of the club. Thus they could occupy the terrace in the most luxurious style of all, being ranged along the inner side of the table with no one opposite, commanding an uninterrupted view of the garden, the colors of which were still vivid though evening was closing in somewhat luridly for the time of year. The chairman sat in the center of the line, and the vice-president at the right-hand end of it. When the twelve guests first trooped in to their seats it was the custom —-for some unknown for all the fifteen waiters to stand lining the wall hke troops presenting arms to the King; while the fat proprietor stood and bowed to the cub with radiant surprise, as if he had never heard of them before. But before the first chink of knife and fork this army of retainers had vanished; only the one or two required to collect and distribute the plates darting about in deathly silence. Mr. Lever, the proprietor, of course, long before had disappeared in convulsions of courtesy. It would be exaggerative, indeed irreverent, to say that he ever positively appeared again. But when the important course, the fish course, was being brought on, there was—-how shall I put it?—-a violent shadow, a projection of his personality, which told that he was hovering near. The sacred fish course consisted —to the eyes of the vulgar—in a sort of monstrous pudding about the size and shape of a wedding cake, in which some considerable number of interesting fishes had finally lost the shapes that God had given to them. The Twelve True Fishermen took up their celebrated fish knives and fish forks and approached it as gravely as if every inch of the pudding cost as much as the silver fork it was eaten with. So it did, forall know. This course was dealt with in eager and devouring silence; and it was only when his plate was nearly empty that the young Duke made the ritual] remark, ‘* They can’t do this anywhere but here.” a mild, self- which he was. reason THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Nowhere,’ said Mr. Audle lee] é turning to the speaker and noddi his venerable he number of times Nowhere ir Grace, except here. | was represented to m¢ that at the Café Angl Here he was interrupted and eve igitate I in n by the removal of his plate it he recay ed the able thread of his th rh It w represented f that the same could be done at the Café A N like it, sir,”’ he said, shaking head ( hanging judge. ‘* Nothing lik ‘Overrated place s a certa 1 P speaking — by the look of him —for the firs é “Oh, I don’t know!” said the Duke ( neste It jolly good for some things. You can't beat A waiter came swilf along the room and the ppe dead Hi stoppage Was as en is his trea those vague and kindly gentlemen were so used utter smoothness of the un machi! which rounded and supported their lives that a waiter dk anything unexpected was a start and jar. They fe you and I would feel if a chair ran away from us The vy er stood staring a few seconds, while the deepened on every face at table a strar ge shame W is wholly the product of our time. It is the com} tion of modern humanitarianism with the horrible mode abyss between the souls of the rich and poor. A genuit hist ric aristoc! \' ld ha t nr A ne 4 “LI Send My Waiter to Take Away the Plates and He Find Them Already Away beginning with empty bottles and very probably ending A genuine democrat w with money with a comrade-like clearness was doing a poor man near to them, ei That something had gone wro embarrassn merely a dull, hot to be brutal and the Vy They wanted the thing, was over. The waiter rigid like a cataleptic, of the room W after standing for turned around and I t lat of speect But these modern plutocr her asa ent dreaded the need ever 1 When he reappeared in the room, or way, it was in company with another he whispered and gesticulated with Then the first waiter went away, le and reappeared with a third waiter. P waiter had joined this h vuld have asked | 1, What i o be over necessary to break the silence in the interests of tact used a very loud cough and said: “Splendid we Burma. Now, no oth have A fifth waiter had sped toward hit was whispering in his ear, * the proprietor speak to y The chairman bering quickness indeed his usual gait; bu Generally it was a genial copper-brow! sickly yellow turned and stare saw Mr. Lever coming toward them with his lu The gait of the g t Uf 1 So in } “You will pardon me, asthmatic breathlessness Your fish plates, they are and fork on them! “Well, I hope st Ril warmth, Orry disorder nd with a vod iis face was | y no meat \ Ir ‘I have gr leared Audley reat appre he said wi But t He has had a pr est Sa Phen, as to the clang of d tior For a fe veird ne TLe¢ h waiter n i r They had been « hosts were to them ar he remembrance of tl rac broke it abrupt i et i ( t nis evegia } ( é } ne Sa i Vaile +} he Colonel flung over there wa i t fifteenth fellow and back doors ; Phe enty-four Mr. Audl eemed ethe entlen , } oe } ith! ener ne tol At the same 1 de ired ne | a let ird The d of ‘ er ‘ j the } the |} ‘ m to de t! i¢ ! ma ne r larted do ‘ ‘ i re t the , ed , , n Wy hor ille il Hu here lhe short f ed mere 1 r ny r gent rie Che Luse ‘ et ‘ Continued on Page 14 t ‘ ! x Ls , } or t I th the oO ut d Lever, m, they eco! the e the vl inde a e ( ¢ ne 1O an Mr the Dul el aite ind the e thar I ’ i j 4 ed Wha ‘ na rid er i ‘ t i pea tire he Du 1 said it! kindne 1 is tl ( hed » the wn al t i ead man ppre t re pe he | t ul he the the ' té ia | re su th

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tail Reco THE SATURDAY EVENING POST struction Servic October 1,1910 OR, GETTING OVER TO THE PUBLIC’S SIDE OMEBODY is always worrying about the hard lot of the retail merchant. A good deal of this worrying he does himself; so it is done very thoroughly. But manufacturers, wholesale merchants, bankers and credit men give their time and effort to helping him be anxious. Trade journals and trade gatherings discuss his business as ‘‘the retail problem,”’ and delicately refer to his future by asking, ‘‘Is the retailer doomed?” Great department stores are assumed to be ruining the individual retail merchant by their bargain methods. Trolleys and. suburban trains are reckoned among his enemies because they help drain his territory of customers. Mail-order houses exert a similar influence. Chains of small stores backed by manufacturers are now invading his neighborhood to fight him on the spot. His lesser competitors cause as much apprehension as the large ones. The rival who sets up on an opposite corner may have slender means and little experience, so that he will end by going bankrupt after he has demoral- ized prices. The mercantile faker who opens a “‘sample stock” emporium in the next block hurts legitimate trade by unloading tons of shoddy. Even the immigrant, ped- dling from a pushcart, is viewed dubiously because he has the apparent advantage of paying no rent. Take it all in all, the retailer seems to have plenty of reasons for worrying when his field is surveyed in this general way. Yet retail opportunities have probably never been better than they are at the present time, and the whole industrial world is developing along lines that will steadily widen them. It is the retail.habit of mind to regard business chiefly in figures. Many a merchant studies price, discount and profit as the only essentials of his trade, and in his efforts to make sums in arithmetic work out to better purpose he brings pressure upon the manufacturer to pare materials and skimp quality. The logical outcome, with a great many merchants doing this, has been to fill the mercantile world full of junk made to sell at a price and not worth the purchaser’s while to carry home. Gloom usually settles down thickest on the trade outlook when it is found that goods cannot be made more worthless. The Failure of Old Man Smart “YUT prosperous retail establishments are being built up > today on another idea —that of service tothe consumer. Practically every mercantile success of the past ten or fifteen years has been grounded on this policy of service, and there is ample room for further development; because, when a merchant makes prices and discounts secondary and begins to study the great American consumer he is dealing with some magnificent possibilities. For more than a generation things have been happen- ing to the great American consumer tending to make him the most liberal customer on earth. From 1870 to 1905 our population a little more than doubled, but in the same period our output of manufactured goods increased from four billion dollars’ worth to nearly seventeen billions. In effect, the consumer spends twice as much for food, clothes, amusements and material comforts. This increased consumption is due, not to higher prices, but to higher grades in staple goods, together with a more general distribution of things that were luxuries a generation ago, or perhaps unknown. In clothing, the consumer now pays ILLUSTRATED BY GAYLE P. HOSKINS for fashion. In foods, seasons have been abolished and quality and packing are infinitely better. In 1880 a zinc- lined bathtub was a banker’s refinement, whereas today enameled bathtubs are found in working-men’s homes and in farmhouses. In 1890 our output of photographie ap- paratus amounted to about six hundred thousand dollars; today it must be near fifteen millions, and this is only one item in a similar development. Much of this merchandise reaches the consumer through retail hands, and there is little reason to complain of retail conditions when the merchant works in harmony with the new order of things. Back in the early eighties there flourished, in a certain Middle-Western city, the Red Star Clothing House; Tom Smart, proprietor. The Red Star was a typical clothing establishment of that period. Tom bought his stock strictly by price and discount, and the manufacturers put it together on the same basis, sweating the poor immigrants who sewed the garments at home. The underlying creed of the trade was, in effect, that, if a customer had more than twelve dollars to spend for a suit or overcoat, he would probably know better than to buy one ready-made. Tom Smart’s stock was heaped up in mounds on long tables, accumulating dust and wrinkles. His two clerks, when not busy, kept close to the front door, watching for the profitable country cousin. Much of the art of the clothier then consisted in putting a suit on a customer, deftly gathering in the slack at the back while the cus- tomer inspected the front in a pier-glass, and taking up the slack in front while he looked at the back. If anybody objected to the fit the clothier was grieved. ““My dear friend, you are a man of judgment. Go all over town, go to St. Louis or Kansas City; if you can find a suit like this for twice the money, come back, and I'll give it to you.” For ten years Smart did well, and hundreds of other clothiers of his sort prospered over the country. But about 1890 conditions suddenly changed. A department store was opened in Smart’s town, and the advantage of its large stock as an attraction to the public led one of the younger clothiers to adapt the idea to ready-made clothing. In those days and in that section a large stock of merchandise was sufficient in itself to draw customers for many miles. When the Mammoth Out- fitting Company opened, selling everything needed to clothe men and boys, buying favorably in large quantities, and advertising liberally, it soon dominated the trade in that community, driving most of the small clothiers out of business. Smart complained bitterly when the Red Star was sold in bankruptey proceedings. He said that the individual retail merchant no longer had any chance to make an honest living. About this time young Tommy Smart, his son, finished school. Instead of stepping into a snug busi- ness, according to his father’s plans, Tommy had to get a jobclerkinginthe Mammoth. Hewasa bright, industrious lad. The workings of the Mammoth interested him immediately. In a little more than two years he was first assistant to the head of the furnishing-goods department. In less than five years he gave up his position and, with the aid of a little capital and credit got together by the Smart family, opened a small furnishing shop in a side street, off the growing shopping section. It was only a hole in a wall, but Tommy had some excellent ideas about furnishings, picked up in the Mammoth. He had seen that, though the latter had put the clothing business on a more advanced plane than his father had occupied, it was at the same time teaching many of its customers to expect even better service. In the elder Smart’s palmy days furnishings had been a neglected side line. If you bought a suit he threw ina pair of suspenders. Socks were knit at home, and nobody paid much attention to the color, because long-legged boots were the footwear. Shirts were mostly home-made too, and underwear was still in the red-flannel period of evolution. Paper collars were staple. Neckties were funny little made-up bows glued to a bit of cardboard and snapped in place with an elastic loop—not one man in a hundred could tie a cravat. The Success of His Son Tommy UT Tommy had’seen the furnishing business expanding enormously. Shirts, collars and knit underwear came on to the market in great variety, everybody tied cravats, and there were many young bloods about town who gave scrupulous study to the color of their socks and bought much of their wardrobe in Chicago or New York. Even- ing clothes were now common. Tommy opened his shop with the general policy of carrying a small stock of fash- ionable novelties from the East—exclusive things in shirtings, cravats, underwear and hosiery which would sell to customers willing to pay fancy prices for choice goods. The time was ripe for such ashop. Soon Tommy was getting as much for half a dozen pairs of silk socks as his father had formerly asked for a suit of clothes. His connections with Eastern manufacturers and importers were good, and his judgment in matters of dress worth having. People left it to him in such delicate points as what sleeve-links were appropriate for a church wedding, and he could create as much interest for an exclusive new cravat as the local theatrical manager aroused in a new show. In two or three years he had al! the fastidious patronage in town. Young bloods who got away to New York occasionally reported that it was hard to find any- thing in the metropolis that you couldn’t get right at Tommy Smart’s. Customers began to ask why he didn’t handle other clothing, until, to meet the demand, he put in fancy waistcoats, bathrobes and similar sundries; then a line of raincoats; and finally, almost without giving it thought, he was back in the paternal business with a con- siderable stock of suits and overcoats. Instead of the ten or twelve dollars his father had asked for a suit, however, Tommy carried a line that ran up to fifty and sixty dollars; and instead of the piles on tables, familiar in his boyhood, he kept them individually in wardrobes. Tommy Smart now owns a retail business much more profitable and agreeable than his father’s ever was, and the future holds plenty of possibilities for him so long as he continues to think and give service. His success is quite typical of a new order in retailing. On one hand, manufacturers of clothes and accessories have modernized the American’s dress, adapting it to our seasons and locali- ties and broadening it to meet our expanding social life. On the other hand, the consuming public appreciates every genuine improvement or refinement and puts value before penny-saving. It only remained for the retail merchant to drop the old idea of buying cheaply, and to A Nes Ret AP NCEE eng ne nee

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‘THE SATURDAY EVENING POST step in between demand and supply with intelligent serv- ice. Success came because the retailer who could think and investigate for his customers was necessary. The rise of the present-day haberdasher has been one of the most interesting phenomena of retail reconstruction. ‘Gents’ furnishings” were formerly a side line in the old- time clothing store, comprising socks built on the model of the potato sack, red bandanna handkerchiefs and cheap suspenders. But in the past five or ten years these acces- sories have been developed with new materials and new i s, the element of des utilized, and factory processes od to give goods accuracy and uniformity. Where the clothier threw his furnishings together in a fly-specked and dis plays his goods like jewels, with an intimate understand- ing of simple arrang Indeed, the president of a jewelers’ association lately suggested that merchants in his trade might well go to the haberdasher for suggestions in displaying and selling stock. Something less than ten years ago a small haberdashery shop was opened in New York by two young men who laid down a service policy. The town was full of cut- price furnishings. With the standard price for a cravat fixed at fifty whittled endeavor to sell at forty-five cents, forty-two cent eight cents. Inst newcomers put le ign ] showcase, the present-day haberdasher handles ne ements and color values. na values s, thirty- cents, merchants ead of trimming value off, however, these it standard price for such goods, and this ten-per-cent margin gave them marked advantages in buying stock. Upon that general policy, acked Dy close personal attention to their business, they have e panded to meet the demand until they now own a dozen shops in different parts of the metropolis. na large Bos dren’s clothing, this idea of carried out in another way. so known in the trade, tity. The banker’s wife HH) on. Fifty-five cents was set as their and chil- intelligent service h on store, devoted to womens f as been Women’s washable gowns, are a various and doubtful quan- who wants a few house dresses They Settled Down Face to Face for a Heart-to-Heart Talk WOMAN screamed, a clock struck seven, a dog barked; running footsteps crossed the bridge and died away. The dog hushed, the clock ticked on; the steady drizzle continued without a sound. Water collected beside the slanting roadway and gurgled past the body of the dead Cindy Badger had been murdered and thrown into a gully at the edge of the road. Many people must have traveled that way, but none saw her body in the darkness Next morning a hackman found her lying in a pool of water with her head brutally crushed. Then neighbors began to inquire and to remember; everybody knew exactly what everybody else knew and no more. ‘Cindy had been killed precisely at seven the evening before with an iron spike fourteen inches long, wrapped in wet cloth deadly and noiseless. Such spikes were used in the construction of barges. One man, perhaps, had run south across the bridge; another, perhaps, had silently escaped to the north up the muddy road; a mysterious hack had passed and the darkness swallowed it. Everybody knew this much, but that was all. Ole Reliable toted the news to Colonel Spottiswoode, with whom he now had an irregular job with regular meals Negroes talked of nothing else but ** Who killed 'Cindy Mh CHK Ole Reliable Helps a Young Man and Wi of cotton pri to be put into the tub and soiled, usually takes her cloth t ‘ In that way she gets fit, styl r wa int, oa dressmaker and hast] made up. quality at a total cost of rhe + al twelve t garment. mechanic’s wife, prices, buy a store | sold at hree to fi were trade. an average of t ve made by “‘wrappermen,”’ as All the competed with each other to st ments were cut individ wrap haunt ermen, ip} part ther hastily. in every « il. If the first lady } , 4 he r look like } ( icul ind sewed loge it would The Boston iple vay. ma awa nged thes manufacturir tore 1 sin il establis season, when became known, stylish prints were } 1 lakers to De made up in the best way possi When ent took the Eastern dressn what the cost. garments delivered the new depar m used th as models for cutting hundreds of othe of colors and patterns adapted to siz mined by special measurements and f the cut preserve models. kni taneous +x] yie oO , ] used Oo several ana other economies are eli marred. iV, results Will ! oe € xactly What t! wy are, a prices not exceeding seven trade has been ilt up in two ort the apperm dress witl bu W ens ¢ price ol >a wast some sna has beer who say ] simular oncluded on Page FUL SWEARER ns the Medal for Long-Distance Liars By Harris Dickson ILLUSTRATED BY EMLEN McCONNELI And Zack retailed their g ISSIP, with embellishment shaving time. Every morning they had the same dis¢ sion over again with such additional facts and fiction the day brought forth. ** Well, Zack, anything new?” the C Then Zack would stop in the middle of lather and swapping guesses with the Colonel ““How come ‘Cindy ‘way out dere on de Hall Road when she lived ‘way down yonder by de river niggers say dat one o’ de lodge sisters war sick warcomin’ to nuss her; but dat ain't so. Den o’ dat money what she got frum de lodge when died? She always toted it in her bosom robbed, ‘cause her dress warn't nowise disturbed. ( you reckon somebody follered dat gal more'n a mile de rain jes to knock her in de head wid a spike? Must been somebody what knowed her mighty good. C did you ever see one o’ dem barge spikes? Dey’s more'’n a foot long an’ a inch thick; you could kill a bull wid Every morning the same discussion conclusion ] } nwonei woul the flo She em went on, to no Late on the night of the killing the potice arrested Bud Lowe, proprietor of the Hot Cat Eating House. He wa his room, ‘“* Waiting for When the offi Hall nd down he ad been killed on the ‘What 1 a at home, walking up a ‘Cindy to come home told him that Lucinda |} Road he dere?” “Now den *quainted wid Bud, an’ dat makes me think he don nuthin’ ’bout dis killin Ef Bud had kilt ‘Cindy he v de onliest man what knowed how come she wuz out ders an’ he don’t need to ax nobody. Ef Bud ain't k ‘ind den dat’s de fust thing pop in his head —* How come ‘way out dere in de rain?’ W for he t to anyhow? He war her step-daddy an’ done raised her a little gal.”’ Next morning Ole Lime | pe So aid er i ) Ferry W he n exclaimed wa he oin Cunnel argued Ole Reliable ne atemen ilt ’Ci an vt \ irom teliable rushed into the (¢ running over, rioting with new ‘What Peers like dey gwine to vit Bud she's cook at de Hot Cat nus de y ne! room, reeking you reckin, Cunnel’ Aunt Fanny 00 the intec are Aunt t r ore yund t Lion fidgeted ar Bud did ked de had wid been ed the the I

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10 popular with her lodge. Bud Lowe kept a warm stove in the wintertime and his cronies refused to believe. Both sides grudgingly admitted that there were some things on the other side they couldn’t explain. Then both sides packed the courtroom from the iron railing around the bar to its massive walls in the rear. They sat in breathless silence while District Attorney Griscom developed a chain of evidence that drove nail after nail into a gallows for Bud Lowe. ‘Ole Gris sho is raw,” they commented on his savage prosecution. The jury twelve white men —fastened their eyes upon each witness; grim, unsmiling, attentive. There was no glancing around the room and nodding to friends. They rarely looked at Bud. Jurors hate to watch a man whom they are making up their minds to hang. Bud himself, stolid and indiffer- ent, listened to the evidence; occasionally he bent forward and whispered something into Billy Marion’s ear. This was Billy's first capital case, and he was keyed up to the highest tension. The hostile atmosphere affected him deeply; sometimes he flinched as the grizzle-haired Gris- com hammered on circumstance after circumstance that looked mighty black for Bud. Griscom had almost concluded the evidence for the state; Billy felt that he was saving his strongest testimony for a powerful impression at the end. The case had been full of surprises and Billy dreaded each witness that went upon the stand-— perhaps a bromide, perhaps a bombshell Griscom called Aunt Fanny and four other witnesses in succession to tell about thespike. They trailed each other like ducks going to a pend; cross-examination failed to shake them. Billy drooped back in his chair, having done his best; the testimony was probably true. Bud Lowe listened vacantly as if he did not comprehend the effect of these statements. Griscom arose and announced with dramatic emphasis, ‘Your Honor, we have driven home our last spike. That is the state’s case Billy drew a long breath; bad as it was, that was the end. The jury stared at the floor—a sinister omen. Judge Meredith glanced at the clock. ‘‘Gentlemen, it is the dinner hour. We shall suspend until four o’clock. Mr. Sheriff, take charge of the jury A mass of black humanity bulged through the door Court officers and lawyers passed out through the con- sultation room. Billy Marion found himself crowded beside the District Attorney and they went down the street together. ‘ Billy,’’ Griscom remarked, ‘‘ you can’t save that fellow, and I hate to see you worried. My first client got hanged; I know how you feel.” “That's all right, Mr. Griscom,” Billy answered with assurance. ‘* Maybe we'll blow you out of the water yet.”’ Griseom shrugged his shoulders and changed the sub- ject: ‘Billy, I've got to take dinner downtown; won't you join me?” ‘Thanks; it will save time. They were about to enter the Garden Restaurant together when Henry Parker, a friend of Billy’s, caught him by the arm. “Hello, Billy, how’s your case coming on?’ “Fine, Henry, fine—nothing but a lot of nigger new: and suspicion. There's no real evidence against my man.” Griscom smiled. “Billy, I’d give a million for your appetite and your enthusiasm.” The District Attorney stepped into the restaurant, took his seat at the table and said, ‘‘ Billy, shall I order for you » ag “Yes, go ahead,”’ Billy nodded, and went on talking with Henry Parker in plain view of the man at the table. Griscom could see everything that happened ‘Howdy, Mister Billy, howdy!” Ole Reliable stepped up and took off his hat “Hello, Uncle Zack!"’ Billy nodded familiarly. As Billy was the lawyer for Bud Lowe and was talking about the celebrated case, Ole Reliable frankly stuck in his ear. It was no harm for him to listen to what the white folks said “The fact is, Henry,”’ Billy Marion went on, ‘‘ Grisecom has put in some mighty ugly testimony. You remember that woman was killed with a spike. Griscom proved by five witnesses that Bud Lowe had a spike just like it, if not the same one, in his coal box. There was the weapon, ready for him to put his hand on it. I've got to meet that evidence someway or other.’ “Shucks, Mister Billy, dat don't signify nuthin’! interrupted Ole Reliable, so positively that both white men wheeled and Billy Marion demanded, ‘‘What do you know about it?” **Anybody could git a barge spike. Dere'’s forty cords of ’em stacked up on de levee — scattered aroun **Where “Everywhere, all up an’ down ‘longside de river. I kin go down dere right dis minute an’ git you a wagonload.” ‘Come on—show me —right now.’ Billy caught Uncle Zack by the arm and was leading him away when he remembered his dinner engagement ** Wait here,”’ he whispered, and ran back to the restaurant “Mr. Griscom, I'm sorry, but I've got to go and talk with some witnesses; afraid I won't have time for dinner.”’ Billy was gone. Griscom watched him through the window THE SATURDAY EVENING POST until he and Zack disappeared down the steep hill toward the steamboat landing. Billy Marion had scarcely dragged Ole Reliable out of sight before Colonel Spottiswoode sauntered up to the front of the building and looked around. He seemed disap- pointed and irritated at not finding somebody. Presently he stepped to the door and called a waiter. ‘‘Steve, have you seen Ole Reliable?” ‘No, suh; he ain’t been here.’ “Yes, he was,” corrected Griscom from the table; “ just this minute gone down the hill with Billy Marion. Come here, Colonel, and sit down; maybe they'll be back in a little while.” The Colonel lounged over to Griscom’s table. “Gris, I’m going to change Zack’s name, and call him Ole Slippery—can’t hoid him. Told him to meet me here; wanted him to go down to the boat to get a pair of mules.” Colonel Spottiswoode sat there crosslegged, smoking and chatting while the District Attorney ate his leisurely meal. ’ For once Ole Reliable had accurate information. He guided Billy Marion to the steamboat landing and proved every word by an ocular demonstration. ‘‘ Look yonder, Mister Billy, dere’s a pile o’ dem spikes stacked up same as cordwood; dere’s annuder pile, an’ dere’s annuder. See ’em scattered all ‘long de bank same as chips in de back yard. I tole you it didn’t signify nuthin’, Bud Lowe havin’ dat spike in his coal box. Hit warn’t de onliest spike in de whole world. I don’t never aim to say nuthin’ what ain't so— ef I makes no mistake.” He stooped and picked up one. ‘ Dey’s all jes alike; ’tain’t nary one o’ dem niggers kin tell de difference ‘tween de one what Bud had an’ all 0’ dese.” That put a new idea in Billy Marion’s head. Why not produce a dozen of them in court, show how easy they were to get and how impossible to identify? None of the witnesses had testified to any distinguishing marks. ‘Zack, I suppose there must be a thousand of them.’ Ole Reliable squinted up and down the river; his lips moved. ‘‘ No,suh, I don’t spec’ dere’s quite a thousand but ’most.”’ Billy took his seat on a dismantled hulk. Within a stone’s throw were half a dozen wrecks—huge-timbered barges that bring coal from western Pennsylvania down the Mississippi River. Some lay rotting where they had stranded. Others had been taken to pieces, the timbers saved, and those enormous spikes piled crosswise. Any- body could get a spike; everybody could get one. Marion sprang to his feet. ‘‘ Look here, Zack, I'm going to make you a witness in this case. Come w-th me and keep your eyes open. Pick up six or eight spikes at different places and remember where you got them.” ‘Yas, suh, I'll sho do dat. Ef dere’s one thing I loves more’n annuder it’s to he’p a young man along.” They tramped half a mile along the riverbank; Billy stopped several times and had Zack count the number of layers in one stack and the number of spikes to a layer. From that they estimated the total number. They then counted the stacks in sight. ‘‘Now, Zack, can you come to the courthouse at four o'clock and tell that jury what you have seen ?”’ ‘Shore kin, Mister Billy; I knowed your pa all his life, an’ I'd sho do anything fer you. I believes in he’pin’ a young man along.”’ Ole Reliable went into a warehouse and begged an oat- sack in which to wrap his spikes. It made a heavy load for the long hill At the foot of Clay Street they fell in with Mr. Adams, manager of the compress. ‘Hello, Billy! hello, Zack! ain't you two out of your bailiwick? Plotting against the whites ?”’ Zack grinned and Billy answered: ‘‘Uncle Zack was just telling me that the riverbank was full of these barge spikes and I came down here to see. Mr. Griscom has been trying to prove that there was only one spike in the world and that Bud Lowe used it to kill that woman with. Uncle Zack's testimony will knock him out.” **Sho will!"’ Zack nodded his head with determination Mr. Adams smiled at the negro and asked, ‘‘ Ole Reliable, are you a cheerful swearer?”’ ‘Don't know, boss.” “Hitch up your galluses, spit on your hands and wade in. Don’t let Griscom catch you in a lie. Keep him chasing you around from one to another until it makes his head swim.” ‘He ain't gwine to ketch me.’ ‘Look here, Mr. Adams'’— Billy tried to laugh, but couldn't —‘‘let Uncle Zack alone; he’s my witness. Don’t be putting notions into his head." “All right, Billy -what are you going to do with your client? Hang him?” Billy flinched. ‘I hope not, sir.’ “Don't let ‘em hang Zack; give him about ten years.” Zack kept grinning—white men who talked that way to him would stand a touch for a quarter. Zack set him down in his book It was a long pull and a strong pull to the top of Clay Street hill. Just before their heads showed over the crest October 1,1910 Billy nudged Zack and they stopped. Mr. Adams puffed on and crossed to the restaurant where Griscom and the Colonel were chatting over their cigars. “‘Good you are here!” he exclaimed when he saw the Colonel. ‘‘ Are you going with me to the courthouse to look over those deeds?” “Don’t tear your shirt, Adams; plenty of time. Gris is going up after a while and we'll take the climb together.” Billy Marion and Zack had halted beyond the hill where they couldn't be seen from the restaurant. ‘‘ Zack,” he suggested, ‘‘you go around the other way. I don’t want Mr. Griscom to see you coming up with me. He might suspect something. It is just as well not to let everybody know your business.” “He ain’t gwine to git nuthin’ out o’ me; I ain't tellin’ nuthin’ to nobody what ain’t on my side. I believes in he’pin’ a young man out an’ keepin’ yo’ mouf shut.” “That’s right; you keep out of sight and be at the courthouse at four o’clock. Tell the truth about everything we did.” “Yas, suh, I never aims to tell nuthin’ what ain't so ef I makes no mistake.”’ Billy Marion hurried over to the restaurant where he made the fourth at the table, and ordered a quick lunch. “Well, Billy,” Griseom observed, ‘‘ Adams tells me you and Ole Reliable are putting up a job. Going to knock me out of the box, are you?” Billy smiled and said nothing. Then the Colonel asked, “‘What became of Zack?” ‘**He went off somewhere.” The Colonel whistled softly, ‘‘ Whew! You lawyers are so infernally secretive!’’ Then they said no more about it. At four o'clock the court reassembled. Billy Marion had no misgivings as he called Ole Reliable for his first witness. Respectably dressed and respectful in his man- ner, the old man came around to the witness stand with the air of one who knows exactly how to move among white folks. In a plain and straightforward way Zack told about those spikes, effectively and truthfully as Billy himself could have done, using homely expressions and apt illustrations that relieved the somber tension. For the first time Billy saw a juror smile; Ole Reliable had made an excellent impression. Zack knew what he was talking about, and had told the truth; there was nothing to fear from the cross-examination.’ “Take the witness, Mr. Griscom.”’ I contentedly in his chair. Griscom pulled himself forward to the table. ‘‘Old man, what did you say your name is?” “Zack Foster, suh; but everybody, white and black, silly leaned back calls me ‘Ole Reliable ‘You work for Colonel Spottiswoode?’ “De bes’ part o’ my time I do, suh—an’ de bes’ time, suh.”’ His reply brought a chuckle from the jury. ‘How did you happen to go down there and examine those spikes so carefully?” There was no danger in this question. Billy naturally supposed that Zack would say he had gone to the landing with Mr. Marion for that purpose; but Zack remembered how Billy had held him back at the Clay Street corner and cautioned him not to let Mr. Griscom know their business. Zack was not the man to betray a friend. “How come I to go down dar?”’ He sparred for time, and from long experience the District Attorney knew what was coming. “‘That’s what I asked— how did you happen to go down there?” Zack’s answer came without hesitation, clearly and candidly as he had answered all other questions. ‘‘I jes happened to go down dere wid de Cunnel—ef I makes no mistake.”’ ‘Colonel who?’ *“Cunnel Spottiswoode.’ Billy jerked himself straight and gripped his chair like aman having a tooth pulled; for the life of him he couldn’t help glancing at Griscom Griscom stiffened up likewise, but more in‘the manner of a terrier who sees a rat. He glanced at Billy with the sorry-for-you expression Both of them knew that Zack was lying, and each one saw that the other one knew it. It was up to Griscom to catch him, to utterly discredit him before the jury —and Griscom had a reputation The cold sweat stood out on his forehead and Billy Marion nerved himself to watch the chase— with much the same spirit that a friend of the rabbit might watch bunny with a pack of dogs behind him in an open field—even the dodgings and twistings giving no hope of ultimate escape. Zack smiled blandly at the District Attorney, who smiled back. Then they settled down face to face for a heart-to-heart talk. Ole Reliable sent a glance of comfort to the younger lawyer. Out of his twinkling eyes came the message, ‘‘Don't worry, Mister Billy; I ain’t gwine to tell nuthin’ on you.” Griscom cleared the table in front of him, as a battleship strips her decks, shoved aside the water pitcher, the ink- bottle and a pile of lawbooks. Billy knew what that a er ne oernemceng oe

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meant He sat and e ¢ I na lie ist t ee} ‘ | ' trembled while Zack ng him from one to another t e mad | \ miled benignantly at head swin Well, he loing i \ them both Here, Gr m, here Waitan ‘ ‘ Now, Unele Zack mix me up in mie | car fT \ when did you go down iround this c¢ I f ed e D \ \ } to the river with Colo- Griscom le the mic é ( nel Spottiswoode ently and sincere He ) | ‘Today, suh.’ e ‘ ‘ ‘*What time today em be ‘ ** Maybe’ bout di Ie eI ‘ ‘ time or a little it d | e! i ‘ ‘ to be reel sure e « r I ‘ t tole me to meet him to | ‘ j M ’ ( yu are de Garden.”’ 1 ed | < V ** And you did so?” i Uncle Zac ' \l Adal " “Yas, suh; I alway Mr. Poindexter Adan ‘ e } do what de Cunnelsay . ‘How did you happen vhat mends watches at de jewelr ' to go down there with No; tall gentlemar I 1 I I 1) \ t ‘ : the Colonel —strolling man at the compre Ole Re e | ‘ ( trie about for your health ? Ole Reliable begar aking | ead i B M gh I “One a “No, suh; Cunnel “Don't you remember walking up the ¢ moment, Your H ? | gre hat 1 have the jury was spectin’ some mules Street hill with Mr. Poindexter Adams and M brought The « ; ry was made in their on dat steamboat. He Villiam Marion? Didn't Mr. Adams tell you presence. If they « e back and t see this witne

' er } i} say to me, ‘Zack, you not to let me catch uu in a he ust to let me they might natur ppose he had bet taken into | come ‘long wid me, an chase you from one to another until imade custod) That would grea rejudice our case | if de mules arrives here my head swim? Quite rig M I I ‘ the jur Mr you kin jes light in an : * Lordee, Mister Griscom i's done dribbled heriff ~ oa in

drive 'em home out a whole passel foolishness! I don't Court oflicer ‘ ed to fecl relieved H ; “Where were those to say nuthin’ cept jes what I kr ef | hey had reached a breathing Phe Cou is prac | ; mules coming from makes no mistake cally at ease while they 1 ed fre bout the roon { ; } St. Louey Pair o’ ‘Who have ou bee i t 1 it it (;riscom rose disgu i retehe | r I'he i it big black mules. Dat’s Cast ed at hir ‘ ‘ ed th inequal ' Hf what Cunnel say; I Nobody hich a shrewd | ( Juror f ti don't like to say nuthin Never talked to anybody, white or bla are human beings and the mpathize wv the under dog 1] cept what I knows.’ », sul Do i} ( ered ‘ herifl \ ‘ y i i y i ' “What boat were “Me an’ Yo’ Pa Was Good Friends, an’ I ** Never talked to Mr. William Marion, that ‘that old fool has beat me fa verd Che defense j they expected on : Believes in He'pin' a Young Man Along” young gentleman there the attorney for the ha tarted off with a hurral (‘an’t convict inybody

**On de Carroll, suh.”’ defendant ? before a jury with the giggle In which he was correct “You went down there to see about some mules, and Ole Reliable gazed blankly at the defendant's counsel Billy Mar felt like ho} been first reprieved . were not paving attention to spike You weren't study- ‘‘Is dat de gent’man you calls Mr. Marior I bee ind then pardoned. He { ron rail which ing about spikes, were you?”’ knowin’ his favor a long time, but ain't never heered | Ke a levee, held ou i ‘ ! black faces Ole Yas, suh, | wuz; we sho paid p'tickler ‘tention todem name yit.”’ Reliable left the ‘ ! ed reluct | spikes,”’ Billy winced at this denial of their ancient friendship hrough the er ystenta eaking to every get “Very well; why did you and the Colonel pay such “Zack, look me straight in the face and look at the tleman he ew. He } the star performer, and particular attention to those spike jury.” would gladly have re in e. At the gate he ‘Well, mister, it war dis-away: whilst we wuz waitin’ **Can’t do dat, boss; I ain’t crosseyed pped and wl red to |

fer de boat, Cunnel he set down on a ole barge, an’ de **Look at me, then. Is it not a fact that you met Mr Done ft in’t I, Mister B I go eegar argument ‘bout dese spikes come up Cunnel ‘lowed he William Marion on the corner of Cla ind Wa tor t é war gwine to build a new gin house on Sherwood Planta- Streets in front of the Garden Restaurant, where he wa Mect I hand rice Zack i tion, and he say to me, jesso, ‘ Zack, dese big nails would be talking with Mr. Henry Parker? Didn't two go dow! he de very thing fer dat gin house—I wonders ef Icouldn’t git the hill together to the riverbank, where Mr. Mar I tole il t ‘ { t what I enough of ‘em.’ Den me an’ him raise ‘spute ‘bout how called your at those s] Didr 1 ¢ ‘ I » nig many spikes wuz dere. Cunnel he reckons dere must be a back up the er, and did \ \ I é in’ I thousand, an’ I cast my eyes over dat bunch, jesso, an’ I you- says, jesso, *‘Cunnel, I got a good eye an’ I reckon, jes Ole Reliable kept haking his head I dor by lookin’ at ‘em, dere ain't more’n ‘bout nine hundred an’ none in my sleep, Mister Griscom, an’ | eighty at de mos’—ef I makes no mistake.’ We argufied none in de daytime. I don’t see w dat could be— ef bout dat fer de longest, an’ directly Cunnel say, Dere’sa makes no mistake way mighty quick fer to fin’ out. You count de spikes in Griscom had started after Za vit a ray one layer an’ count de number o’ layers in a stack, an’ den keen white blade of knighthood — it be long we'll know ‘zactly how many’s in de stack.’ Atter dat we make a witness angry, tangle him up and perforate hin went trompin’ up an’ down de riverban . | With open mouth and staring eyes Griscom listened never find a joint in Ole Relial through the lucid and convincing explanation. — Billy Then Griscom substituted force for skill and tried Marion did likewise. Involuntarily the two lawyers meat-axe. After an hour of cajolery and browbeating Oli turned to each other; their eyes met and Billy heard the Reliable had drawn the redoubtable Griscom out of h old lawyer mutter, ‘‘ Don’t that nigger beat hell! For several moments Griscom toyed with a strip of — blindly with a club p2per, tearing it into bits Billy hoped against hope that Zack leaned forwar i, Innocent i il ble ee t rently, delicately, complete somehow the ra

k countin’ spike {

chair, gesticulating, waving hi nand and thras!

| he was going to give up and quit; but Griscom wasn’t a regretful that any gentleman should get so “het u oo quitter; he arose and addressed the Court. ‘‘ Will Your Long before this the jury had lost sight of the case t Honor indulge me for a moment ? I wish to confer with were trying, and had given way to a inreserved ¢ = a witness.”’ He hurried out of the courtroom and dowr ment of the spectacle good-natured ignorance defending the stairs. Billy knew that Colonel Spr ttiswoode and itself against the or iughts ol! learning and ratt B Mr. Adams were in the chancery clerk's office. Marion’s sympathy had shifted from the ral ’ ‘It’s all off,” he thought ‘I’d like to break that old Sorry for the hound “Thatisa y ir Honor.”” Gr fool’s neck.”” He glared at Zack, who returned a sweetly spoke with | nead do ympathetic smile Quick as a flash B Marion let well enough alone a Griscom broke in upon Colonel Spottiswoode and Mr. motioned the witne » stand le.” He felt limy Adams who were ¢ mparing a deed "i lionel, did you draggled when the protracted stra Was OVveT go with Zack Foster to the landing toda lo get some “One moment, ple ‘ remarked Gr oO! ie had mules off the Carroll?” another gun to fire. ‘‘ Your Honor, I feel my duty to ‘“*No; never could find the old rasca ask that this man be held } **Did you and Zack ever make any observations about Billy Marion bound ed his hand ) those spikes on the riverfront ’ Honor, let the jury be ret **T don’t know what Zack did; I did not The two men faced each ot ke frozen image * Did you ever nave an conversation with him about twelve irors filed out and loor ye spikes at all?” Zack regarded the nole proces ** Never thought of ich a thing compla cy, bean vy impart ** Did you count any spikes on the riverban!| “T will hear Mr. Griscon **Never did; didn’t know they were there Griscom spoke rapidly and h « eral I'll need you fora witness He's the cl Your He rr, | int th ‘ he ( re distance liar of the world and I’m bound t woode \l | exte Ad ‘ P he'll ruin this case. By the way, Adams, youcame up the Grand Jur They are bot! the ust I sl h Don't vou remember = also use them a esse t \\ \ tH Ole i ) i ‘ ‘ m

hill with Billy Marion and Z laughing about it in the Garden You told Zack not to — hear their state { Out of His Cl ‘ ng, Waving His Hand

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12 THE SATURDAY EVENING e-Differenc Vhat’s -th POST October 1, 1°10 Kitt: a Jim Hands Wins a Hat—By Richard Washburn Child ‘ILLUS T PTNHE leaves on the maples along the river bank were beginning to turn; all the valley was aflame with color. Jim Hands surveyed this display through a window opened to the sharp October breeze; then he Wheeled around and looked along the lines of workers thoughtfully. ‘You see a lot of queer folks, bein’ a foremanina factory like this,” he said, “I was thinkin’ of Martin time of year. Great gui It was along this ' he was a specimen I remember the Old Boss called me down to the office that mornin’ an’ because I won't ferget it when the Old Boss take you into his confidence he means business, a@ i’ you can always tell when he’s goin’ to do it because he'll sit back in that old leather desk-chair an’ bite that gray mustache of his, an’ look at yer a long while as if he didn’t want you to tell anybody ’ didn’t You understand? im,” he says to me want to say So. “we ve got to get a good man cuttin’ vamps in your room. We've e Confounded Heathen Idol } lot of orders that are behind an’ you're short-handed. Well, a man came He has just asked me for a job. He's sittin’ down in the next room. I've hired him. I had to do it. If you don’t want him in your t I'll take him off your hands and put him on the train this morning. he’s had ten years’ experience at ‘In the Wareham State Penitentiary,” he says. I looks at the Old Boss an’ he at me. By-and-by he says: ‘‘Jim, he ain’t a man; I'll tell yer that before you an’ every emotion,” he He’s all metal,” says live art in the feller. out.” ‘I ain't seen him yet But I've seen a lot of men come an’ go, an’ some bad in’ some queer I don’t never expect, though, to have a openin’ somewhere I bet before we get through with this one he'll how that he’s got one, too, someway or other,” little hole,”’ I says. | a: ‘some he old man run his hand over his gray hair an’ ruffed it all up an’ give a laugh. Jin he ivs, “il you ever eatch this feller showin’ anythin’ tender you come to me an’ I'll tr ou know a lot more about humanity than I do An’ more than tha hes 8 ll buy y the best ha ‘ I it on yer head With tha he up in’ opened the door an’ poke to somebody, an’ when I looked up I seen this Martin Leeds standin’ there, an’ I guess I lost faith in ever wearin’ that hat a giant He didn’t over thirty He was tall an’ big, m } look very old. He mig all right, but there was gray hair all along above } ears an’ he stood with the big bones of |} houlders stooped forward an’ his big, long arms hang. like monkey’ his kind Ihe an lift an’ carr it des that it take vo men to har Maybe s¢ time may make na r sick an’ bre } health, but it don't break h trength muc Nothin’ does. But that ain’t important. It was It was his face, I’m tellin’ yer. I won't ferget It was white —white like the und it. He had toad, an’ hard an’ no movement ir } eyes under them thick black eyebrows, an’ they hadn't got no more life in ‘em than his face. It till was all still —still an’ hard an’ sullen an’ tellin’ Still an’ Hard an’ Sullen, Like a Big, Sullen Face Carved on Some RATE D BY AN TON ct you to go to hell—like a big, sullen face carved on some confounded heathen idol. I’ve seen pictures of ‘em. He never said a word, an’ I can remember of thinkin’ that maybe the Old Boss had made a mistake hirin’ this feller—-one of the old man’s tender-hearted mistakes. But I knew what the Old Boss wanted, so I nodded. He seen it an’ he smiled an’ spoke to the big feller. “*Leeds,”’ he says, ‘Mr. Hands is goin’ to have you on his cuttin’-bench. I’ve told him about where you come from an’ that you were there ten years fer shootin’ a man in a hold-up. Mr. Hands oughter know this, because it’s fair to him. But, Leeds, there ain’t goin’ to be anybody else know this from us. When we hire a man in this factory he belongs to us an’ we belong to him. We're goin’ to back him up. We're goin’ to treat him as if he was Ours an’ we was his. You've come from a long way off, an’ there ain’t any reason why you can’t begin here with a clean slate.” I seen the feller look up quick an’ move his hand an’ shut an’ open his big fingers. He was strong! “Clean slate,”’ he says, an’ his voice was kinder dead, too, just like his face. “Oh, all right!’’ he says with a kinder of a growl. That was the way he come an’ that was the way he stayed. He was a good worker an’ he worked like metal, just like the Boss said. I guess he’d got to be a machine in them three thousand days, an’ started himself up in the mornin’ an’ shut down at night. I've seen plenty of ’em who'd served time that had their spirits broke an’ hadn’t no pride an’, got out, wanted to snoop around an’ talk to people like they was tryin’ to get people to like ‘em, an’ pretend that they was pretty important fellers after all, an’ then show Leeds weren't like that. [He was just sullen an’ hard. I can see him now comin’ to work. He came down from Maple Hill, where he had a one-room house built because he didn’t want to any of the boardin’-places - Mrs. Jordan’s or the one of the best just as soon as they someway that they knew they weren't. * he'd go along with them short steps of his, like a manthat hadn’t been used to walkin’ where there was much room, an’ he never spoke to nobody on the road or on the factory stairs or in the washroom, You've seen ist right to touch. The big feller dogs that didn’t look } An’ He Went Off With It the Way a Animal Goes Off With Somethin’ That Belongs to It ISCHER was like one of them think it must have been hard fer him to walk up Turner’s woods so much, all alone. There weren’t many in the factory that weren't afraid of him. I guess nobody knew just why they ri r though I remember when a new heelin’ machine come an’ was backed up to the door, an’ the teamsters couldn't ge it by themselves, this Martin Leeds was standin’ near an fillin’ his pipe; an’ he whipped off his coat an’ went fer that big machine just as silent an’ vicious as if it had bee! somebody who'd called him somethin’, wrestlin’ with it, knees, long arms, knotty hands an’ big shoulders, until he’d wrestled it on to the elevator. Lots of the men seen that; an’ once he was comin’ out of the door after we'd closed down fer the night. There was a half a dozen lasters there, an’ whether they were laughin’ at him I don’t know. Anyhow, they laughed, an’ Leeds swung around on his heel, slow an’ deliberate, an’ them black eyes of his only he was a man, an’ I used ter got narrer an’. shiny as if they was comin’ to life, an’ he lifted his long finger as if he was goin’ to point it at "em. But none of ’em said a word. So he walked on an’ you could see they was relieved, especially Bill Terry, that feller that’s always talkin’ about knockin’ people’s blocks off or givin’ somebody a clout or a wallop. The women was afraid of him too. I guess they didn’t like it because he wore them rubber heels an’ didn’t make no noise, an’ slid along the walls wher stairs. I heard some of them stitchir an’ he’d been here near a year then, an’ they oughter got used to him by that time if they was ¢ Of course there was one of them gi! anyhow. You never seen Kitty Rogers? She was a pretty little thing, an’ she lived with her aunt an’ uncle—Joe Rogers, the piano tuner-—after she run away from her own home out by Turner’s Mills. She was wild too. I don’t believe she was regul: only wild. She went off with a theatric weeks, an’ she had to quit school before she finished he passed on the room giris say so, ‘ 1) in to at all. s who didn’t care ir bad al show once an’ was gone two because both she an’ the teachers couldn’t stand it any longer. An’ she was sassy and bold, my Annie says—out on Main Street till all hours of the night, an’ in summer rollin’ her sleeves way up her arms to show ’em off, an’ jumpin’ in the river one night from the railroad bridge on a dare. An’ once when she was about eighteen she hada fight with another girl in the stitchin’-room, an’ nobody ever forgot to tell about it. an’ a nose that turned up an’ a rough way of talkin’. If I remember right, she must have been twenty-two or three when Leeds was here. She didn’t look that old But she had a bad name, like many another in a small town, deserve it or not; wild Ways, an’ no feller had ever thought he could anythin’ that would cure her an’ there sure wasn’t any thin’ that would scare her If anybody’d say, “If you do that, why, then so: 4 say: **What’s the difference? got the name a good many called her, ‘ What’s the-Difference Kitty,” to show that in speakin’ they didn’t mean Kitty Gordon. She weren't scared of Martin Leeds, she said. "says Nellie She had a quick way with her an’ she still had them manage her. There didn't seem to be so,’’ she'd always That's where she ‘He might grab yer by the throat, Conroy. “IT don’t care,” says Kitty. him a bunch of carrots done up like flowers an’ An’ that’s what she did. An’ he was comin’ across this room when she done “Tm goin’ to bring present ‘em to him.” it - with a bow, an’ droppin’ her skirt, an’ a funny solemn expression. I was sorry, bedause I knew about Leeds what the others didn’t; but that iror face of his never changed any more than the of that wall. He just stood lookin’ at her. Ther he laughed. What a laugh she had! An’ says with a sniff: ‘Oh, what’s the difference Leeds kind of looked after her as she walke iway, an’ toward night he sald the first word he ever said to me outside of answering questio? “Who's that girl?’ he says, sharpenin’ h pattern knife. ‘Kitty Rogers,” says I. “Ts that so?”’ he Says, al *then he growls, kind of sullen, “‘ All right,’’ an’ shifted them big, bor shoulders of his an’ went back to bein’ ugain. I guess it was along about that time that t} Old Boss an’ I was makin’ out work tickets on some samples that we had to make up. It wa in the evenin’, an’ I'd left my Annie an’ the kid —— eee Se a ee a NR NE a as a omen m ones : ' ) i} ; ; 17 ; f i>

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST appen very often, but I was finishin’ up to go home an’ I seen a funny smile come on to the Old Boss’ never mouth an’ he kinder shook a little as if he was laug} n’ look an’ seemed scared \ tne tlie thing gave a the i | if An’ the kid smile ) ‘ ‘ : No, Tair I say I ain't sure you Vv a enough. Lee \ 4 I ain’t sure the feller’s go vn ] ep there KI t b , any live heart. He does his work fine,” gut hed him o ne ( 1 ‘ | : he ma I has been et out, I guess,” say An’ when Leeds got u I \ | Tha what I said, but did yer ever not Old Bo ( ed t \ hings are It ain’t often a man can talk s Leeds wl re : g } without a lot of events is arranged to give him Listen to n he I \ he he } An’ when I spoke all I could see was the picture of the big I don’t care. Listen to me mine I he sh } feller, dull eyes, straight mouth, thin lips, scowl, an’ his both his hands s; 1 open toward that basket. “*M ' =6showe et We there whe y } deadness — deadness inside—all dead. I hadn’t any way I'll take it! It’s mine! Don’t you ferget it! ivs he I heard ( ' You kne . to know what would happen on Thursday. I remember An’ he took it out of the basket an’ held ose to | iy fer 5 \ is What’s-the | t Was a Thursday because when we are turnin’ out ar an StI d his big ind ) I K, , t ) t Dit kK y amount of stuff I get cleared up Wednesday basket in the other hand. An’ he went off with it the w: dré | \ histlin’ like ” tht, with everythin’ taken into the stitchin’-room, a animal goes olf ymethin’ that belongs to it. I ; y é, in’ we start on new lots Thurs- ’ y. An’ Thursday I come dow: I ‘ ttle earlier than usual an’ I \ em i een a crowd of men, a dozen é " i! or more, standin’ around the i 1} door, an’ I thought probably the \ \ i i watchman had forgot to unlock in while that mornin’. An’ then I seen be runt a that the fellers were slappin’ \i et t their legs an’ lookin’ an’ crowdin’ zg ) he in’ laughin’ around the step, an’ I il {| 1 heard Joe Bent, who’s since got . : ae i| i to be foreman of the packin’-room, S eet lameie ‘ say: “‘Who found it first? Was syed 1} it settin’ right there?"’ An’ some- ‘ " I body says: “Ain't ita snifty little : H thing? Don't take no notice of } ‘ ) | wa 4 i yboay. Here’s a note goes 7 re 1 | 7 with it.’ t ) ‘ nes before i) I couldn't make nothin’ out of e go It was like a | i ' what they said, but I pushed my fe vho kee} Op] ii way in, an’ right there on the he pap i doorstep of the factory, all done : i} up in a basket, wasa baby. An’ I ud re i it weren’t a poor baby either. It es, an h was a good one. ' I didn’t say nothin’. There ? weren't nothin’ to say. I just ; waited fer Joe Bent to finish readin’ the note an’ then I grabs it. It didn’t tell nothin’ much. It just said: ‘‘ Somebody give this ‘4 baby a bringin’ up. Everythin’ i about it is all right, only its i} mother is dead an’ its father ain’t able to do nothin’ for it. : Nobody’'ll ever come back to i claim it.””. An’ the note was all a i} scrawl an’ was signed “Bird of TT Passage.” ‘‘Where’s Passage?”’ says the feller who was lookin’ over my shoulder. ‘“‘I ain’t ever heard of it.” “It ain't a place, you big stuff,” suys the watchman; “it’s one of them anonymous names,” he says. ‘*But I seen the feller who must i] have left it here when I looked out the window this mornin’ early. I never thought of it then. But he had a buggy an’ an awful sweaty horse, an’ the rig weren't from this town,”’ he says. Then I give a second glance at the kid. ‘Hello, youngster!” I says, leanin’ over; but it just 1 Thought fer a Minute She Didn't Want to See Him looked up with them big blue eyes an’ shut its hands over its thumbs an’ looked kinder see him now, with them s! tired an’ turned its head away. Everybody laughed, an’ work an’ all, an’ goin’ over the bridge up Maple Hill an’ “this afternoor he Si I borrowe 0 ee rn Joe Bent says: home. “You don’t belong to the lodge, Jim,”’ he says, “an’ He never come back to the factory that da it all — the lar aS a Quarter throug rea ‘ nar i! one of the rest of us either.” irst day he’d missed punct n’ the time clock s e he'd ‘ iys, lool I t He hadn’t more than said it before Martin Leeds, who’d been here. Nor there P t come up behind, put his big hand on my arm kinder day but talk about the kid, an’ who to rough, an’ then he stepped forward, scowlin’, an’ says: it belonged to some poor family or to some ! ) ‘‘Who does this belong to?’’ an’ somebody told him all people who maybe were stayin’ over at the Lake give the n ‘ about it. Sadie Willis stood in the door of the stitchin’-room, I But, m t ) Well, I can see him now straighten up an’ stand there remember, an’ give her head a tos “T sha’n’t say any he sa I I with his dead face an’ dull eyes, an’ them long arms thin’ more,” she says, with a bundle of vam n he You'r i MI hangin’ down most to his knees, an’ his shoulders stooped, arms, “but all I have to an’ sullen an’ ugly all over. He stood there lookin’ at that fer a sensible person to think the baby be longs to rich I baby, an’ the kid lay on its back on its little old sofa pillow people. Any fool an’ looked back at him. I know it very well, fer my aunt was very, ver! An’ then all of a sudden the young one hauls its arms’ with a rich family,” she say i loose an’ stuck "em out toward Leeds an’ give one of them But that ain’t the way they'd do,” says Nellie Conro i ri he sa vu't 1 Wh laughs an’ gurgles. lookin’ around at the other girls; “they wouldn't leave it Continued on Page 66 3 , ' | , ’ knows that rich people dont lke en

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eV HE difference between the working girl of a big city and the working girl of a small city is like the difference between a city lot and a suburban kitchen garden. The city lot is clipped to a line, formal, set about by other equal plots; the garden is often irregular in shape, individual in pattern, and hedged about and impinged upon by other individual gardens, The girl of the great city has, as a rule, no personal relations with her employer. In a large concern he does not know her by sight in or out of the office any more than he would recognize one of his indi- vidual office chairs if he should chance to come across it in a hall- way. And, though she knows him by sight, he is no more real to her than the President of the United States; he is just asymbol, like the flag —he stands for power and iso- lation. He is the remote and awe- inspiring source of her few weekly dollars. He is the Boss. To the girl in a city of thirty or forty thousand inhab- itants, her employer is a familiar figure. She may have known him all her life. He may have shooed her off the street-car tracks when she was a little thing, or taught her to ride the bicycle. If their relations are not so personal as this, at least she has seen him many times, and not in hi workaday moods only, but socially. She has seen him at church, at church sociables, driving by to the country club, in the theater. Her mother can tell her exactly how his father looked when he first came off the farm and was so unsophisti- cated that he didn’t know enough to walk on the sidewalk. Her mother to be engaged to, and why they broke it off.

In the Metropolis an Incompetent Girl Soon Meets Her Waterloo an tell whom he married and whom he used Neighborly Conditions of Labor yew girl has a personal feeling toward her employer, and the moment he becomes her employer he has a personal feeling toward her His office or shop force is small enough so that he soon knows the names and faces of all the girls, and his managers supply the personal details. In the big city the employer has no idea who his latest assist- ant bookkeeper is. He may notice that she is pretty; he assumes that she is capable or she would not be kept. She is just a cog in his machine—unusually burnished and bright, but nothing more. The employer in the small city asks his manager, who grew up with him: that girl with curly red hair who is helping Mary James with the books?” “Why, you ought to know her, Jim,” says the man- ager. ‘‘Say, you remember old Pop Matthews who used to hold dow i chair in front of the old National Hotel ‘. and tell us kids stories about the war? He was the oldest

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man that enlisted from the town, you remember. Before he got through he was the oldest man in the war—the lying old cuss! Don’t you e was in? Well, he had a big gawky son who supported him

remember ali tne Db and key the lies ge yp VY 1 remember him? ‘Let’s see,” says the employer — “the one that was always the first to be con victed olf n at the revivals? Sure, I remember.” “Well, he married old Sam Cole’s daug} ter. You know the old fellow that had the Halsey farm onthe Plank Road? She used You remember to sing at all the funerals. “IT guess I do. She was the first person to introduce Lead Kindly Light to the tewn, and you couldn’t hear anything else all day Sunday. Every piano and organ in the place had a whack at it from break- fast till the last courting couple turned in at her gate.” “Well, this red-haired girl is their kid Jennie Matthews; a corker, she is. Her eyes send out a trail of fire like the tail-end of a comet. My wife thinks she trots THE SATURDAY EVENING POST y Woman and Her THE WORKING GIRLS LOT IN THE SMALL CITY By Maude Radford Warren = =," around to the vaudeville too much; afraid she’ll pick up with some worthless rooster that sings, You Said You Loved Me in Those Dear Old Days, to moving pictures.” Half an hour later employer Jim is talking across her desk to employee Jennie, and it would not be at all uncommon to find him, when they know each other better, using his influence to wean Jennie away from cheap vaudeville. He has a million dollars, and she will never save a hundred; but they both belong to the same town. The girls who work in the average small city, unless it has become too much factoryized, are usually of a better class than those who work in the large cities. They are no more efficient, and in some cases nothing like so efficient, but they are more wholesome. Most of them live at home; they have all grown up in the spaciousness of a little city, which is a very different thing spiritually from the con- tracted area of a large city. They are better off morally. To be sure, they may suffer from the unfortunate influ- ences so often found in small places where what is unsavory may be concentrated and organized; where the micro- cosm is too easily controlled. On the other hand, they do not suffer from the countless insidious harms of the macrocosm; they don’t breathe in, as young people do ina great city, from newspapers and posters and people, thou- sands of dangerous suggestions. They have a greater respect for religion and law, a more lasting faith in the goodness of people, and a sounder fear of public opinion. This is one of the healthiest of benefits due to living in a place that New Yorkers would call provincial. So it is that the girls who stand behind the counters in the shops of the small city are of about the grade morally and socially, and perhaps intellectually, of those who go into offices in a great city. The telephone girls and the stenographers, as they walk along the street, are scarcely to be distinguished from young teachers, and the factory girls are rarely of the lumpish or hip-swinging sort. As they walk along, chewing gum, not arm in arm—for this their big hats will not permit--they make quite as good an appearance as the average shopgirl of the great city. There are four kinds of work open to the girl of a small city: the factory, the shop, the telephone board and the office. A city of thirty or forty thousand inhabitants usually has some manufacturing —a glove factory, a box factory, a knitting mill or some binderies. These will give employment to perhaps twelve hundred girls. They are probably the children of Germans and Poles, and perhaps of native-born Americans; never the Irish, who always go to shops. These girls are generally obliged to pay board at home and to buy their own clothes. They are nearly always of good moral character, and perhaps more thrifty, in spite of their gay dressing, than the girls in the shops. Shops in such a city will employ as many as eight hun- dred or nine hundred girls, from the big department store requiring a hundred, to the little notion house where the place is run by the owner and one young assistant. There are few stenographers and telephone girls some of the time, though perhaps in the long run there may be many of them, for they are constantly leaving to get married. Of those in the offices and shops some come from the very best families in the place, the families who really ILLUSTRATED BY

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AVS KILVERT who are so thoroughly “in” things that they prefer not to be mentioned in the social columns of the newspapers. These girls or wome work in a friendly way with their less distinguished fellows, looked up to and envied, of course, and equally of course feeling the difference between themselves; but no bish, because they have no reason to be. It goes without saying, however, that only absolute lack of money sends such girls out to work. The great advantage of the working girls in these s cities is that they do not have to force their way into these four kinds of occupation. They are badly wanted. Many a shop or office manager, teaching in a Sunday-school, will gratefully consider it as a source of supplies for his busi- ness, and think complacently that some girls he has in mind will come to him rather than to Smith across the street —which is what Smith gets for not doing his relig- ious duty by the country. The demand for girls in such cities is always greater than the supply. B. CORY

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Girls Happy in Shops T FIRST blush it would not seem so, for there are many girls working who really do not need the money at all This is especially true of shopgirls. They have < able homes and plain clothes. They go into the shops partly to have more money for clothes, partly because their friends do, and partly because it is en‘erteining. The same pleasant relations that they carried on with their friends, between classes in the grammar or the hig school, they can carry on in these shops. There is plenty of time for agreeable exchange of gossip. They occasion- ally see things that are going on in the streets. If there is a street accident, long before the newspapers have it up the shop people know all about it. It is gratifying to watch the country people come in to buy; they look envi- ously upon the sales-persons as superior beings, and cat be patronized or neglected or even browbeaten with impunity. If there is a pathetic side to all this the shop- girls do not see it—at least, not the young ones. Many of the flirtations begun in the high school mature behind the counters into lasting marriages. It is more exciting to have a courtship going on all the tims

than it is to have it occurring occasionally at home. At times the work is, of course, taxing, and some of the girls who carry it out uncomplainingly at home; but it would not interest them, for it is often dull ina kitchen. They welcome the chance while they are yet in the high school, when some manager in their social set asks them if they will not help out during the Christmas rush season. That is usually how they get into the work and, liking it, they decide to stay till they get married But, though most of such girls do not really work away from their homes, it does not by an follow that they spend all they earn for clothes ar ments. They do dress well, and they do go out to and parties, but their expenditure for clothes and ple

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need to yY mean lan a amusé t t neater ures is much less than it would be in a large city. M over, they are encouraged to save money. No fish is too small for the nets of the banks, and employ get their pay in envelopes ft the banks, with advertisements printed on them. The emt elr people to save, and are re

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ployer wants to keep his trained ¢ his reason for tal onal intere them is not the tl will leave Yet, according to nature, they do leay constantly to get married. The stenogra pher marries her employer or a gramm school teacher. The shopgirl marries fellow-clerk or a smaller Neither of them comes back to work. The home that seemed so dull when it to mother and father is now a very different proposition. But this constant depletior by marriage is not the only reason why the demand for girls continues. Part of the blame rests on the shoulders of the young men of the town. The girls consider their work temporary, to be ended by marriage.

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—w Penn ge use presently they are going t« If the girl considers a great city to make their fortunes. the limits of her par- ent home as too narrow and seeks the wider world of the shop, no less does the youth long for the wider world of the metropoli And even when young met have ! . no intention of leaving their homes immedia position alter position ~sometimes fora li money, ometimes to find out what they really like to do best, ometimes for sheer love of change. Usually there is ple of work for them, and therefore they are independ- ent, hard to manage-—not nearly so docile as the girls. rhe girls have serious deficiencies; they do what they are but they lack initia- ve Yet they do try to please rarely do anything else; they though they the manager and run along in a conventional rut, the employer. If they ure reproved for poor work they try to do better. The young men feel that they can always leave if they du "t neal months sooner than hke what the manager says to them; it merely seeking their fortune away home a few A girl’s o leave till irom they had orig aly intended, interest is in her little city; she does not want gene rally she is married, and she is willing to have a reasonably long engagement, for young married people in ir unmarried Youth such a place are dropped out of things by the friends in a fashion not followed in the big world. would seem to end at the door of the home, and so the girls stay contentedly enough in the office and the shop till Dame leave, and the manage Nature becomes too imperative. Then they goes back to the Sunday-school for r some more of them; but when the young men leave the sure to fine manager is by Sunday-school,. no mean Incompetents remain long in these happy fields. In the nt girl soon meets her Waterloo other symbol metropolis an incompete in the shape of a blue envelope or some which warns her that she is not to come back; but girls ure so hard to get in the smaller places that the employers t and managers are willing to train them with th patient care, and gone they give possibly be retained. retained— but most hope of even when adequacy seems them trial after trial to see if they can Sometimes it seems as if the gir cannot be somehow they must be. Why Katy Resigned E tag A,” an official of the telephone company says to his wife, ‘“‘Katy Clark must be dismissed. I’ve had the head operator try her again and again. She has explained away the frightful blunders Katy is always making, she has given hours of time to helping her, d The girl’s just addleheaded.”’ “Qh, you simply cannot do it,” tion, “‘when she goes to all the parties our own boy Fred goes to, and he takes her to some of them! Why, we can- Katy’s mother would never forgive me. She and I have always worked on the same committee in the Woman's Club. I can’t tell you how many things I’ve told her that I wouldn’t have her repeat for the world. If Katy left everybody would know she had failed. It can’t it’s all no use. ’ ] a re Says Clara in consterna- not! be done.”’ ‘It’s got to be done,” says her husband firmly, ‘unless you want the head operator to be fired. Katy Clark are enough to demoralize the whole force. 3esides, she inherits her mother’s talent for gossip. She tells what goes on over the lines, and she’d talk the head off of any one who would listen.” “*T suppose there’d be no way of changing the regula- tions and making the height of telephone girls five feet three instead of five feet two?” asks his wife hopefully. “‘Katy is just short of five feet three.” ‘Change the regulations!”’ exclaims her husband disgustedly. ‘‘ For onegirl? Even - if you could carry out such a silly plan, think of the good girls that would have to go, and think of what high heels can do anyway. No; at the end of the week Katy will be fired.” Sut by the end of the week Katy resigns and the official’s wife wears an enigmatic smile as long as she feels her husband wil endure it. Then she reveals how, by that indirection which only women know, she persuaded her son Fred, Katy’s admirer that telephone work was very bad for a girl’s nerves and hearing, and spoiled her good looks quicker than any other occu- pation. Fred advised Katy to leave, and this she did, and blithely entered the cir- culation department of one of the news- papers, where pretty girls are essential, since no irate country subscriber can speak to her so violently as he could to a youth about the fact that his paper has been arriving irregularly. ‘Thus, inasmall city, discharging a girl has managed with great circumspection, for it not only concerns the business but is frequently with all sorts of The mistakes of sometimes to be here entangled phases in the mar agement of an offic or a shop, and a good many embarrass he ee eS =) nel phases. There car O pett tvrar tne I ir ol Some ne ‘ clerk, for the girl may — —— r given her she ma on account of her per Oh, I Beg Your P Onal acquaintance, appeal over his head to the general manager or eve her employer. Likewise a ipordinate May ome exercise ar authority almost ¢ jual tO that o| the ¢ In a certain city, which grew from twenty tho to thirty-five thousand inhabitant le ‘ middle -aged Woman Wa bookkeeper i large offices was handsome capable, hot tempered 1 hyperct she thought she owned the place and evs ry one el as if she did. Years before, when he t | i Wile hac bee n small ‘ hil iren, Lhe two ha 1 Lole U t rowboat on the river. The bookkeepe ever their senior, was approaching the t ne ne capsized \ good swimmer, she sprang lt and re them both. Husband and wife were glad to be alive ( of gratitude to her for sa g them for ¢ ‘ i a pleasant life in their little city; but th lid not live with her all day long as did the office forces delighted in catching any of the latter mistake she would reprimand them before eve one else knock-down-and-drag-out fashion that was extren galiing. Now and then she would stalk into her employer’ office and lay down the law to | about | busi Sometimes she was right, lai ne re embered t THE SATURDAY EVENING POST she had saved his life At any rate, he alway S00 her and never discharged her. The growth of the city and of its business enabl to buy out another firm in a neighboring city, the I ea which became his manager The new manager arr and in three days he decided that he would st y the bookkeeper out.”’ He called her into his office to have plain talk with her about her dogmatic and tactles impossible ways. A few minutes after he sent for her strolled in to find him blazing angry because she had | him waiting. Unwisely he stormed, and told her the he had marked out for her, and offered her the alterna of doing precisely what he told her, or else of leav The bookkeeper was too amaze » lose Ne em pe “YW hy, you little whippe r i : ne would have thought it of you You lit-tle t-Lie man from the next town!” In Spite of dis¢ pline ! te f the effect i} ottice force, the bookkee per « ld ! discharge Head ¢ Appeal io the Department Manager Tyranny on the Part of Some No Petty Girl May Can be lerk inde I Thought You Were Ready for Me to Come ly l ‘ r rn ‘ CAUSE he ¢ ( l one be tha ew he ob here are ne imber of older me no whe il ( ‘ e entire pro portionate to the K the lo and the pay they receive their employers’ w ‘ a y tl ‘ the « yw Ss iller ind suunyer nd whe | clio were perhaps the ¢ er of a shop used t e engaged to a sale wo! If ot, there are the old s¢ mit issociation not o on | part but on the | ! f a There re nail 1OZze ld-time be t ! ed, perhay] cing the y pe ‘ partic who used t ad ce h these ( ( ! ere mad of them ind ho k the er ve the How Personality Counts QO! CH wom re Kely LO be strong personalities in more b/ than one wa Ihe usua lo their work ell and I ve a large pers¢ following ( I 4 pine no on ha g su " eswoma 0 other to attend to their wal They will wait t he free nd then they will demand that she go about with them frem depart ment to de} irtment selling then hatever the t rhis is more or less demoral g to the departments, but be hel pe i- the custome ! have what the aSK 10 Ihe reputation of ict 1 ( gro re e from the country t« wl have neve ‘ her yme in and ask that she wa he ind Luke ) one ervice but her All th of course, adds to her portance ll the hoy She ipt to be } us of her pr ilive ind orders the ne W gir i ind generally I manager would discharge he f he dared 4 man bred to business in a large city wh ome >a l one nd hard to get used to the fact that the employees are not mere parts of the macl e, but real humar peopl to be reckoned With a cl The head of a big manufacturing concern needed a manager For social re Ol it Was not wise to promote any ol! re t¢ wt exalted position over the heads of the others. He choss a city manager famous for making mone he office force consisted of a ore ol ( girl all high-school graduate None I them was in the exclusive s¢ of the bu the kne i ) evel ! ere well thoug! rf Che new 1 wer , bre ‘ ed to ther looked ther ver } ! 1 appra 4 f ere to se } eir working , .3 } r rie lu ‘ he yt iressed thet Here ou! On tl eet at noon hour he it one the | »wed to hin mpl it recog ng he During the afternoon he smoked pr ite office v Diue rhe ‘lied e of the ( graphe 0 i i Ihe moke ct ( t rie gghed Here, here! go ou ‘ ther on people Afts 1 yh P her entered ' he manag epared to d ‘ eet on the top of the desk and | ! net K Ol head he promi irned her bach ying Oh, 1 beg your pardon; I thought the vu ere ready tor me to come u Continued on Page 69

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16 OnaNnZ HEAT farming in the Northwest is the art of hitting the high spots witha broad, swift stroke; of doing big things with a slap and a dash, and leaving the rest to take care of itself. It is prodigal in its methods, spectacular in its magnitude and the absolute antipode of the careful, intensive agriculture of the older states. To the farmer from Illinois or Indiana, where the one- hundred-and-sixty-acre farm is the standard, the way things are done in the wheat country looks very much like giving the land a lick and a prom ise in the place of real cultivation. Up in the Red tiver country of North Dakota there is a tradition that ev ery new- comer from the central statesstarts into wheat farming with the conviction that he’s going to show the natives how to farm with out wasting about half the output of the land —and ends by becoming as enthusiastic a strawburner as the olde settler. —_— 13 oie Though no land- Clark Dalrymple Ready for looker from the Fast can witness the burning of thousands of tons of straw without wincing, or can see mountains of manure unapplied to the fields and not feel that this is a wanton and wicked waste of fertility, the big farmer is not at a loss for a very plausible answer to the indictment. Simmered into a sen- tence, that answer is this: About the biggest lesson for a man to learn when he starts into bonanza wheat farming 3 what to waste and what to leave undone; not to learn that lesson at the outset is to discover that he’s too small for his farm and that he belongs back East on a hundred and sixty acres instead of up here where the man with a section is considered a small farmer. The Beginnings of a Great Farm JECAUSE a farmer puts the torch to his strawstacks and J jets his pileof manure grow to the size ofa country rail- road station without a thought of distributing it upon his fields it is not altogether safe to set him down!as a man with- out regard for his balance sheet or without a system in his farming operations; in fact, he may have a very shrewd and level perspective on things in general and on final results in particular. Go into the Red River country be- yond Fargo, ask for the best wheat farmers of that section, and [ you are likely to draw the remark * Well, the Dairym ple boys are about as good farmers as we grow up here; year in ind vear out they gen- erally manage to put it over the rest of us by several bushels to the acre. Then they seem to have tne faculty of selling at just about the right time. Somehow they appear to have a heap of market sense an¢ they contrive to un load their crops at the ht time with great } regularity. What P more, they kee p thei land and their build ings and their stock up to just about the right pitch—a little more and they’d THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Wheat-Farm Method By FORREST CRISSEY too close. There’s a great knack in knowing just where to draw the line in building up a big wheat-farm property so that the annual profits will not be torn down—and the Dalrymple boys have caught that knack. They’re not fancy farmers—not on your life!—but their properties are in better shape with every year and they have more money in the bank with each season’s clean-up. They’re just good, sound, progressive wheat farmers, without | any frills or nonsense.” | And yet these same Dalrymple boys burn thirteen thousand to twenty- five thousand tons of straw a year and waste enough manure annually to fertilize a fair-sized county in the East. When the late Oliver Dalrymple exchanged the vertical scenery of western Pennsylvania for the broad reaches of the Red River Valley he bought land at prices ranging from fifty cents to two dollars an acre bought it by the section; and every square foot of it was as black and rich as a plum pudding. After he had turned miles of sod and began to be known as the great bonanza wheat farmer of the Northwest, his nephew, Clark Dalrymple, decided to follow in the footsteps of ‘Uncle Oliver” | and go where farming was done on the level instead of on a hillside angle of forty-five degrees. He borrowed the money with which to get into the new country, where the land iooked like a rimless billiard table. He was sure that his uncle would give him a job, and he was not mistaken. Almost before he was thor- oughly acclimated he found himself in the position of superintendent of the great bonanza wheat farm; for he caught on to the art of farming in the large, to han- dling lands and crops in great masses, to thinking in big figures and farming with a wide sweep. Incidentally he learned that some sections of land were better than others, and he also learned where the best of them, in that entire region, were located. His eye was ever alert for bargains, and when an absentee-owner offered him a choice section at twenty dollars an acre, with plenty of time in which to pay for it, he promptly accepted the offer. Steadily since then, as the right opportunity has offered, he has increased his holdings. Some of his later tracts have cost him as high as thirty dollars an acre. Today he operates five thousand acres, most of them his own property—the heirs of a brother having an interest in the Number Two farm of about sixteen hundred acres. An exact book account is kept of this Number Two farm. Last year its tota! income was $17,436.83, while its expenses were $7040.95, leaving a profit of more than the Field October 1,1910 ten thousand dollars. The yield of wheat was eighteen bushels to the acre, while the year previous it was twenty-one bushels. All things considered, the year of 1909 was probably a fair average, and therefore its figures are typical. Wheat, of course, was the main source of revenue, the harvest of 14,072 bushels bringing $14,448.82. Barley came next, in the amount of $1670.41. Among the expenditures, the labor account led all the rest and amounted to $4144.16; supplies cost $529.85, new machinery $300, machinery repairs $259.81, and freight and express $216.63. “Tl haven’t kept books so closely on the Home farm,” confessed Mr. Dalrymple, ‘‘because I didn’t feel that I had to; but the results may be put in a few words: the farm has paid for itself and doubled in value, besides yielding a good living for a family of five and an active automobile! For a considerable part of the time two of our children have been away from home in private schools, and we have spent all our winters in Minneapolis or some other city, or in traveling. The first land was bought in 1890 and the last eight years ago. It could be sold today at sixty dollars an acre, but it isn’t on the market and will not be for several years to come, so long as it continues to do the handsome thing by me and I’m on earth to operate it. It’s a big, roomy, pleasant kind of a life, and I know of nothing that looks half so good to me. Of course, if I had to stick by the farm through the winters it would be a different kind of a story; but with the whole winter for a vacation and freedom to go anywhere the working season has no terrors to one who enjoys work.” Farm Life a Perpetual Party IFE on a bonanza wheat farm, from spring plowing until the clean-up in the fall, would not be an intolerable existence even to a confirmed society woman of the city, judged by the standards of the Clark Dalrymple Home farm; in fact, it might compare quite favorably with the attractions offered by many an alleged summer resort, especially in the estimation of a woman of out-of-door tastes. It is a dull week with the bonanza farmer’s house- hold when there are not city guests under his roof, and often the screened porch—where all meals are eaten —has the appearance of sheltering a very busy house party. Then there are many transient guests on business‘ mis- sions—crop experts, agricultural investigators from the East and from abroad, representatives of the big mills and grain commission houses, machinery salesmen and editors of agricultural papers. These business visitors are numer- ous and are not without their social value to the house- hold. Guests of this character are housed in the chambers of the office building in the same yard with the house. Telephones, a piano player, an automobile, horses and a pony rig for the smaller children are among the accessories of the bonanza farm that go to make its daily life devoid of the isolation that tradition connects with existence on the farms of the great Northwest. The quarters for the hired hands are so far removed from the house that when a chore boy is needed a bell, large enough to do justice to a country church, is rung. hreshing time does not stir a ripple on the surface of the house- hold routine, for the appetites of the threshers are appeased —— by a professional cook and his assistants in a ““chuck house” which s well outside the home yard. A thor- oughly modern ice- house, with a room for hanging meats, is the latest addition to the place. Meat and plenty of it is the de- mand of the hands, and the bonanza farmer who does not kill his own meat on the place is behind the times, The stock equip- ment of the Home farm of three thou- sand acres comprises overdo it; a little less re and they'd beskinning Threshing on a Clark Dalrymple Farm about seventy-five horses and mules, ae tie ae oem ere = ———— aes a

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" > ee ea A A oR SNL Ne RNR eae oe THE SATURDAY EVENING POST forty cattle and one hundred and fifty hogs ali I i kept to furnish milk and butter for the family and the If he can't keep from put work force. A seventy-f various barns and buildings. The water supply wells, which flow almost to the surface. A windmi ive-barrel tank is piped ting his hand to the manu b*} work on the place he’s out “ ol his Class, and ougnt to be gasoline engine are used to elevate the water into the tank back where a one-hundred The big machine on the Home farm is a thirty-five and-sixty-acre farm is the horse-power, double-cylinder steam engine, which pull rul sixteen plows and turns forty-five acres of stubble-ground ““When it comes to laying a day. To operate this jumbo machine requires an down rules for runn ng a big engineer, a pilot, a plowman and a waterman—a daily farmit must beremembered iat farming Is a game ol labor cost of twelve dollars. Less than a ton of coal will tl run the big steam tractor for twelve hours, and this brings emergencies, and that prol the maximum operating cost up to seventeen dollars a ably the most important day. On the Home farm of three thousand acres twenty _ part of farm administration wagons are used, the allotment for the Number Two is that of making exceptions farm being fifteen. to the cut-and-dried rules One of the most important adjuncts of the farm is the However, there are many blacksmith shop, the main work of which is repairing and points of operation that plow sharpening, as few of the work animals are shod. may be reduced to rules The handy man is the presiding genius of the black- that hold good in the main smith shop, and the bonanza farm would be a helpless and from which there is ; ' institution without his services. He must be able to deal seldom any need to deviate L - : with any mechanical emergency from improvising a Those rules, as] understand Off to a Dinner Party, Forty Miles Away broken separator part to fitting flues into an engine’ them, are about as follows boiler. **Labor in spring should be kept off hig ges as long germinating tests that | eed is what it should be. No Pointing to a header that cuts a fourteen-foot swath, as possible —at least, until seeding begin Chat is right wheat should be sown later t} April 34 Mr. Dalrymple declared: and reasonable all round. Then, good teamsters should be “A five-section div f thirty-two hundred acres *There’s an illustration of the fact that if a farmer will hired by the month for the season, and the balance of tt should be handled as f do a little thinking on his own part he may be able toturn _ help at one dollar a day. Provide a foreman to be alwa wheat . KX) acres a trick that is not down in the books. Up here we are with men and teams, when there are six men or mort barley : : 1) acres » troubled with kingweeds and with volunteer rye in our Drunkards and gamblers should be d harged Create ats and r 400 acres wheatfields. Looking over a field of wheat one day, I was rivalry among the foremen to see who can get the most! rt r 400 acre discouraged at the sight of hundreds of kingweeds waving work done and done in t] t1 nia aU acres their heads several inches above the wheat. At first “Working tock should be kept i off gra ind : t , ' wu acres thought there seemed to be no way of preventing them furnished with farmwork six days a week throughout the UU acre from going to seed and growing a bigger crop next year. season. They should have half rations on Sundays and “Dry cov hould be rey ed often with fresh cows and Then it occurred to me: Why not gear the sickle of the rainy and idle days. Teams can go twenty-four miles a old hors¢ leach winte header high enough to pass above the wheat and low’ day on two-and-a-half-inch plo ‘ 1 eighteen 1 “Pigs should come in April and be fed from thre enough to nip the heads of the kingweeds and the volun- on seven-inch plowing times a da 1 wet short 1 other teer rye? By doing this before the stuff was mature “About one-quarter of the land should be laid out eacl food, turned » the corntield about August enough to seed, the pests could be practically extermi- year to be cleaned and enriched Vv barren summer fa " marketed abo ( hristn i vo hundred to two hundred nated. I triedit and the results have been great. The old or its equivalent. It should be plowed from two to three and fifty pounds « header now does splendid service as a wholesale weeding inches in fall, then plowed a second time after wild oat logs ca tt be wintered on a hard floo They will machine, and I’ve got the kingweeds on the run.” are from two to four inches high, and again plowed the = get rheumatism and shrink \ house should be made for last of May. In July, either plow it again or deepdisk it hem by turning hayracks ag t strawstacks and cover Heavy Thinking and Idle Hands As much barley land as possible ng the racks well with strav Che location for th and August, as that is equal to: helt hould be ! 1 dry as possible, and the LTHOUGH the bulk of the plowing is done with the “‘Crops should be diversified, gr 1 should be thickly bedded with straw Fresh 4 big steam tractor engine, Mr. Dalrymple finds it of | so as to be harvested earlier with cheaper labor and | water should be at all times aces ble Hogs require good advantage to keep ten gangplows on the home place. expense and in the period of the long da; About half a feed, care and attention to become real mortgage-lifters Fach of these plows turns a double furrow and is drawn — section should be sown in oats near the buildi nd by five horses. Around all fields plowed with a heavy threshed in the barnyard, and cut on the green side for Matching Competition With Small Fconomies tractor engine it is necessary to leave a wide margin winter hay and fora One section or more shi 1 be unplowed, as the tractor requires generous elbowroom in sown in barley early and on the best land, to be harvested =‘ | igee cow and hog pastures should be enriched and ved eed l which to make the turns. Again, certain soil conditions with one-dollar labor in July, and then summer-plo 1 near each bar rd, and should have plenty permit of plowing with horses when a tractor of the Corn to the amount of eighty acres should be put ir wate Corn fodder should alwa ve stacked dr heaviest type cannot be used to advantage. the buildings and harvested by hogs and horses without learly on ad tra ed, and fed s] ngly until June Mr. Dalrymple’s ideas of how a big wheat farm should expense, beginning August 15 comes are be run are clear and definite. Here are the rules of opera- **An old-fashioned corncrib be buil tion as they have been evolved by his own experience: the fallen-off ears picked up from ground. Corn land fall plo g and alter seeding. Roads and ditches should “There are two purposes always before the eye of the should be plowed last in the fal be made rounding in order to withstand the wear and tear farmer: to reduce expenses and to increase income. To “Seed grain should be thoroughly clean and of the best of automobile Roads, weed patche he edges of streams keep the right balance between these two lines of effort is quality. The progressive farmer will know by actual and Ww spot ould be mowed twice each summer the thing that makes We must be onthe the difference between ert for cheaper and a good farmer and a etter method poor one. It’s like managing a canoe: if higher iltivation you fail to trim the eaner seed, cleaner boat right you’re nd bound to have a upset. This, of course, is true of any business. I emphasize it only because so many fail to realize that farm- ing at least, on the big scale of operation out here in the bo- nanza country—Is a large manufacturing industry that cails for the application of up- to-date business prin- ciples every minute of thetime. It takes busi- ness administration to make it go and come out on the right side year after year. The man who isn’t big enough to keep him- self busy with the administration end the thinking part —of i ie oe se ae ae running a bonanza { farm is of too small : Harvest on the Home Farm of Clark Dalrymple rgin land pauper 1 r of Russia, Ind Argentine, and the if anada ind Australia —espe illy as our labor equipment and mate a a ee rials are now ata iximum of cost rhis is the way I mapped my course

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18 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST several years ago, and these rules have worked out well in actual practice and paid good dividends. The principal de- parture that ] have lately made has been in the adoption of what might be called a modified summer-fallow system which does not leave the land idle for so long a time, and still seems to give the same results to the soil. f course the theory of barren sum- mer fallowing is to turn up the soil where the s ind air can get action on it and liberate the plant food, which is not avail able for the growing of crops until that chemical action has taken place. It is not fertilization, but it takes the place of fertilization up to a certain point. In other words, all soi] experts are agreed that almost all soils contain much more plant food than the growing crops get out of it, simply because that surplus is not in chemical shape to be available in October 11,1910 formaldehyde bath, asa protection against smut and to clean out the weeds and kingheads which, being lighter than the grain, rise to the surface of the bath and are brushed off by revolving paddles. The bath solution is made of one pound of formaldehyde to fifty gallons of water. This kills the smut spore on the seed. Mr. Dalrymple has a direct telephone line into the office of a big commission house, and from the moment that he is able to form a clear idea of the amount of wheat he will harvest the line is kept busy. As he hung up the receiver after a con- versation with the commission man, Mr. Dalrymple remarked: “‘Here’s where the work of the whole year is sugared off. There’s about as much in selling right as in following the right methods of tillage. A man may have the faculty of coaxing big crops from the soil, of outwitting adverse conditions, of keep- ing expenses down to the lowest line of the growth of crops. This is why you can take land that has been condemned as 1 by turning and returning it you can get a fairly good crop. The adage that ‘tillage is fertilization’ is based on this principle. To be sure, with every soil, no matter how rich, there is bound to come a day when constant cropping and consistent tillage will lib- erate practically all the plant food in it. Then tillage ceases to become fertilization, and. the only thing to do is to put in the fertilizer and build the soil up by restoring its fertility. “But that day is a long way off for any land like that here in the Red River Valley, which has been pronounced by scientists to be the richest and most fertile, in its natural state, of any in this country. In fact, practical experience has taught me that one decided drawback to barren summer fallowing is that the first crop of grain fol- lowing it has a tendency to make such a prolifie growth of traw that it does not stand up well, and does not fill with exhausted, ¢ kernel plump and hard as they should be. Again, a barret immer fallow takes the land out of commission for a full year ‘ The Air Bath as a Crop Tonic “( YONSEQUENTLY Ihave modified this practice by putting in a crop of winter rye or winter wheat in the fall after the land has had quite an airing, having been turned immediately upon the heels of harvesting. This produces a good crop the following July, and these winter grains have e added adva cleaning the land quite thoroughly. hen, too, it doesn’t leave the farmer in the position of | nlage ol having absolutely all of iis eggs in one basket. After he winter rye or winter wheat is harvested in July, the and is promptly plowed and left open to the sun and air und snows until the following spring, when it is put into pring wheat again. And almost invariably I have found that this crop of wheat filled better and stood up more lirmly than that following a year of barren summer fallow.” Each year Mr. Dalrymple seeds a half section to mixed timothy and clover, which is kept in sod for two or three years and then backset or broken under, when the grass tarted for the season. The last of July this broken s replowed at least an inch deeper and left fallow following spring, when it is put into wheat. well about one hundred acres of corn on each farm. This crop is all fed to the stock on the place. All t Usually he raises Unburned Straw Stacks in the Distance wheat, as the great problem in wheat growing is to keep down the weeds, and the cultivation given the corn leaves the ground remarkably free from weeds. Aside from putting the land into a corn crop, and the ingenious use of the header for beheading the tall weeds before they have reached the point of seeding, about the only method of weed fighting left open to the wheat farmer is that of turning the ground over as soon as the harvester has done its work, and repeating the operation as often as may be necessary to prevent the weeds from reaching maturity. Help is a big problem on a bonanza farm, and is grow- ing more difficult and expensive. Only four men are required to take care of the stock in the winter on the Home farm of Mr. Clark Dalrymple. When the season of plowing and seeding begins this number is increased to about eighteen. Harvesting brings the number up to about thirty-five, and threshing sometimes sees it reach fifty. In addition to their board, harvest hands receive two dollars and threshing hands two dollars and a quarter a day. The engineer is high man on the daily wage scale and gets his eight dollars. Harvest and threshing hands are floaters and most of them are technically known as hoboes. They quit on slight provocation, and, in the main, their prevailing attitude toward work is submission under protest. There is nothing in their movements in the field to remind one of the eager alacrity of a boy who has been promised an afternoon at the circus as soon as his stint is finished. Mr. Dalrymple’s main dependence in holding his har- vest and threshing help is placed on the quality and abundance of the food provided at the chuck house. All farmers in the wheat district pay the same wage, but there is a difference in the commissary provisions, and the farm that maintains the highest reputation on the score of its grub holds the winning hand. To the men who are retained to look after the stock through the winter is intrusted the important task of cleaning the seed wheat for the spring sowing. Like many of the progressive farmers, Mr. Dalrymple has adopted the practice of breeding up his own seed wheat. Between chores the barnmen enliven the winter days by putting the seed grain through a hand fanning mill. Often it is sub eed corn must have been subjected to a thorough ger- jected to this process three times. Then, in the spring, minuating test A corn crop is invariably followed by just before seeding, it is put into a floater containing a safety—and then fool away in a minute all the advantages gained by his good farming if he hasn't a broad grasp on the market and fair understanding of what certain market conditions signify. If he isn’t up on this end of his business the wheat farmer had better post himself. “Just now I’ve heard from all the principal grain mar- kets of the world, and I’ve made up my mind what to do. Here’s the situation as I see it: Today cash wheat in Duluth is one dollar and twenty cenis. In a few days the big threshers, or separators, as we call them up here, will be running in every field in the Red River country. In my opinion that is going to make a sag in the market. It ger erally has that effect when the first tide from the tors flows into the markets. And this year the er likely to pan out better than the public expect ‘**Now one dollar and twenty cents is a good price, and e as I see it this morning it’s going to be about the best price of the season. On the other hand, I can buy May wheat in Chicago today at a dollar eight and three-fourths. Of course the May option can be closed out at any moment Therefore I have sold my crop at one dollar and twenty cents, taken out a May option at a dollar eight and three fourths. What is the result? I get a premium of eleve1 cents for my cash wheat, have the use of my money, and save storage, insurance and interest charges on my crop. It would pay me to sell my cash wheat at the May price Getting In First All Round 7 F COURSE I sometimes make a mistake in failing to sell in this way at the moment of greatest market advantage, but inthelong runthis method of marketing my crops has paid me handsomely. But there is one thing that I invariably aim to do, and that isto get in early at every point of the game, from plowing tothreshing. It pays cially does it pay at the market end. Many a time it has been a big advantage to me to have my grain ready to ship to the big mills in Minneapolis before the other wheat and espe growers of the valley had fairly begun to thresh. The most important thing I’ve learned about wheat farming may be put into these words: Do it early!~ and that means, do everything early. Get in first all round.” “Doing it early” into the market before the rush. It adds about three thousand dollars a year to Mr. Dalrymple’s income. His Concluded on Page 74 has advantages other than getting Teams Taking a Noon-Hour Drink Tre ere st i y |

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| { FTER the dep returned to Nis VelloW cabin and remained [ol rie minutes, silting Upon the extreme ed s bu his eves fixed ipon intinit Like many men who spend muct the ne alor Mr. Applebo had acquired the habit of audible selt communing, this custom being rendered more spot by reason of his practice of reciting his poetic efforts the sake of euphony and meter. Audible self-communit Was also a favorite employment of the Finn; so that any one approaching the yawl at any time of the day or night might have been surprised to hear two monologues pro ceeding with the tireless monotony of a phonograph — one the from forward in Danish, the other in English from cabin As though to relax his Mr in were very apt to be curt colloquially idiomatic Which mind after the lofty height t Applebo’s unotftlicial self-commut poetic ullerance is a hieh-sounding way of saying slang\ and even ua times profane. Mr. Applebo pouring out his soul over onnet or madrigal and Mr. Applebo commenting with himself on topical events were scarcely to be recognized u the same person On the present occasion the subject of his soliloguy wa the visit just received Phat have She looked like a sassy young thing Hermione with the If I'd seen her face The old man He ll vo pop must been I'd never have wasted good verse on her a sun-blister in red paint-work ome day So he’s going to try him. Since l've met Cécile I'd follow him over Niagara whether I had a chart or not Cécile! He dwelt if loath to leave it. ‘* Doesn't lend itself tu verse like Hermione, but the girl is a wonder. Harold ve got yours at last look like to lose me out I'll fool Cécelia! upon the name as my son, I’m afraid you For some minutes he remained in silent this reluctant admission, and to look at h ould have thought that he had just discovered himself infected with malignant smallpox. Presently he contemplation face one gave a sigh that suggested a porpoise coming up to blow ‘She is a wonder, and I am not surprised tnat every man who sees her goes off hischump. It is their own sill) to raise their eyes t goddess. I shall not raise my eyes to her, but I shall raise my voice and send her a drool. And this time it will be the truth.” One long arm went to the locker beside the bunk and writing-block of corn-colored paper and a For a few minutes Mr. Applebo scratched awa) then flung himself back on the bunk and read aloud and sonorously what he had just written ‘Pretty rotten, but I have no time to monkey with it Her proud parent has given me a dare and honor compels that I gird myself for the fray. He is going to lead me an offshore chase, I fancy. I must now get busy and grub up I had better fake the address of this drivel or Hermione might get sore. All women but one are cats The note addressed in an utterly characterless copper- plate hand, Mr. Applebo lifted up his voice in a melodious yowl, whereat the Finn came scuffling aft and stood in the cockpit, peering into the cabin like a gnome looking into a fault for presuming » such a young drew out fountain-pen industriously Cave ‘Come down here."’ Applebo spoke in Danish. The two always conversed in that tongue when they conversed at all, which was seldom he Finn hooked his strong fingers over the rim of the hatch and swung down hi squat body to stand before his master, cap in hand and with an expression of doglike devotion in his great brown eyes. Applebo, busily making out a list, did not look up. Presently he said: ‘We are going on a long voyage ‘Fill the watertanks and the icebox, and take this list to the store. Bring off the stuff with you, but first mail this letter. No dvink Dost thou understand “Yes, master.” rhe least sign of liquor and I leave t thy place. Remember.’ hee on the beach and ship a clean man in master.”’ Very well. Go.” The Finn swung up through the hatch like a chimpanzee Applebo sat for a moment thinking. Then he flung his great frame back on the bunk and reaching into the book- locker took therefrom a copy of Rostand’s Cyrano. This was his favorite of modern poems. He began to read aloud, in sonorous tones and with careful regard to the scansion: ‘* Je t'aime, je suis fou, je n’en peux plus, c'est trop ton nom est dans mon ceeur comme dans un grelot ss Which, when one considers that the name at that moment tinkling in the heart of Applebo was the name of the wrong girl, made his pleasure in the verses a delightful irony ! ‘X Yes THE SATURDAY ee OPM a I Look Like a Pussy-Cat He was still half reading, half dida ‘ there came the splash of oars alongs le and down the poem, arose and through the hatch to behold a small and rhtened b Vv In a Doat The youngster handed him a e and appeared loath to linger for the tip v e poet tossed him Applebo tore open the en ( pet iwitlhinasnes ol paper with the Shar} heading On it were the words Sailing tonight for Halifax. Cr The middle of the following forenoon found the Sharh well on her course across the wide Fundy. The schooner t becalmed and smot} ered in a thick white trying to burn its way On the starboard rail were leaning Paula and Hunting ton Wood, trying to look into the cottor The yacht had been threading her way fishing-boats and from all sides there loud, but always mutiled an dong of the fishermen’s bell From the t'gallant out at half-minute interval foghorn. A few minutes befor of a steamer'’s siren as moutn of the Was aimo fog, throug vyhich the sun was blanket of mist through a fleet ot came the faint or d elusive, d ng-dong-dong forec there blared herautomat ugn the ft Directly it had come agai » aboard: so close, indeed, that peopl lking on he decks and a gruff voice, apparent] m the bridge, had rasped, ‘‘ Lookout, wha'ar d’ye make that foghor The Shark had answered the juest I ( vher the same voice aboard the steamer said a sharp tone arboard! He’s plumb under our ba Everything was adrip. There was arcely breeze enough to keep steerageway, and the knowledge of the suthern extrem ffect swift tides and eddies and the treacher Nova Scotia did not ) tend to have a soothi \ er > the nerves of Captain Bell He was standing on the st, muffled to the ears ity of ng ¢ on just abaft the mainma in a heavy ulster with a deer-stalker’s hat pulled down over reminded one of a weather side his eyes and a very long cigar, whic spinnaker-boom, sticking straight out from his damp, rubicund face. Altogether he looked contented British tourist than an ex-naval offic his yacht through the fog. At sea, Bell always stood watch- and-watch with Heldstrom and did his own navigating “This is the sort of weather that makes you more indulgent toward power!’’ he growled, waddling up to more like a dis- er conning EVENING POST ILLUSTRATED B ) bb ed I that Apple t ‘ hie ed ) ‘ lout that | sal ‘ event ‘ t ! ! i \ I ! ‘ the ‘ i ‘ essel, But | ea t i ‘ on ‘ Don't try ’ in ht No dange ld t inh ne t ed He inced j | \\ t Whatad me I er | \ nap} read I ( ’ ‘ ad ‘ \ Id 13 1 « I } i A ‘ 4 COZ i impe a Line Lile ’ it} va nd | hed Papa's wisl that | ! ind spoil d i 1 ge id, Hur A ¢ e intim ed And what is tha She declined ‘ reterence to ise Paula did not imn liiate the scnooner hig rail é water eddying igpisni i l ind his fine eye kindled } x} had taught the y ny IT I character d he was begu t from the alloyed meta Neve Cécile Bell to be as ra at his dinner par nor had he « sympathetic But 1 ne fla been rekindled His eye I wit! Pa shed that i the eT 1 piqued and turned her attent peed reduced t ibject i Paula wa it nt pre Her chart i t, y ¥ ne Cl i either he er nar ! h held dee , } my ' general type ‘ hy \ ait 4 4 conver t the } ‘ a d anin rapid and vehement, a rrenchnwoma | vt ( her She mised he co yred ‘ t re ihere was ala the for ‘Iw vonde became jealou ! (¢ lt na re I offered her all t I had declined it, but desired to honor w Y CLAI LENG By Henry C. Rowland UNDI a i ‘ em ird i the ¢ 10 RWOOD try to make ‘ ex ‘ Tra | eep al tne ! tulf will ‘ et a bit , at the vishir it he might nu the ind 1 1 rephed it ‘ , j I accepted I iu

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20 THE SATURDAY EVENING “Of course,’’ he went on, “‘it is one thing to offer to be a sister and another to consent to be a sister-in-law “Don’t speak in that flippant way, Hunt- ington Wood stepped to her side and laid his hand upon her gloved one as it rested on the rail ‘“* My dear,” he said, ‘‘I do not mean to be flip- pant. Ofcourse you know, Paula, that I was very much in love with Cécile and took it very hard when she told me that she did not care for me in the same way. I did not try to argue the matter, but started in to forget my own troubles in try- ing to interest myself a bit in those of other people who were much worse off. The result was most successful, although all of my friends seem to find it most amusing.’ ‘You mean your charity? That was splendid, Huntington.” “The motive was originally selfish, but I don’t think that it is so now; because I am cured.”’ He paused, as though thinking of how best to ro on “What I wish to say now, Paula, is rather difficult. Perhaps I had better not try any com- plicated self-analysis. When Cécile refused me I thought that my life was blasted, and that I should never love again, and most of the things, I suppose, that young men usually think under those circumstances. I don’t claim any origi- nality. It has not been so. My life is not in the least blasted, and I do love again, and very, very deeply. I love you, Paula, and I want you for my wife. Will you marry me, dear?” Paula appeared to have some difficulty with her breathing. Perhaps it was the fog, which, at any rate, had very evidently got into her eyes. She turned slowly to Wood, her face very pale and her sweet mouth quivering. They were standing near the main rigging and Paula steadied herself by gripping a lanyard. This movement may have been due to the very slight heave coming in from the sea “Huntington,” she said in her soft contralto, “do you think that you are quite sure?” lhere is no longer the slightest doubt, Paula.” The girl did not seem able to speak. As if seek- ing counsel she turned again to the sea. Wood waited, his eyes upon her face. He was impressed POST by the sweet purity of her profile, cut like a cameo against the white fog. There was the family like- ness to her sisters in the short, straight-bridged nose with its seductive tip; a frivolity of feature corrected by the straight, pretty mouth and decisive chin. Paula's face in repose had sometimes a hint of melancholy not to be found with her sisters. There was a touch of the Madonna of the Italian painters ‘Paula,”’ said Wood, with the tone of one who offers not a compliment but a simple fact, “‘ you are a very beautiful You will grow even more beautiful as you get woman older.”’ She turned to him with a faint smile I please you, Huntington, but ‘ag He stepped forward quickly and took her hand. She twisted it away, almost impatiently. “Oh,” she cried, “if I could be sure! Cécile rejects you, and you come to me! All of Cécile’s rejected suitors First they want sympathy, then—more! I'm sick of being consolatrice!"’ Paula had passed with startling abruptness from her breathless silence to an almost passionate vehemence, and as she talked she made fierce little gestures with her hands. Yet her voice was low in pitch and volume. ‘‘It is so easy for a man to fall in love with the woman who pets and Hermione has the right of it. I heard her s ago to one of Cécile’s despairing swains: ‘I am glad that come to me pities him! say a few we You had better go to Paula and have your cry out. You can't weep on my shoulder; I've got troubles of my own; and besides, this is a clean shirtwaist!’’ Paula laughed semi-hysterically Wood looked rather hurt, but not at all irritated by her attitude That's not quite fair to me, Paula,” said he. ‘I did not try to weep on anybody's shoulder, nor am I coming to you for consolation. I don't need it. The want of it dis- appeared long ago. It is precisely as if I had never been in love with anybody “Oh, Huntington, are you sure?’ * Positive.” ‘And you really love me?” I love you with all my heart, Paula. Can't you believe me? And don’t you think that you could manage to care, yourself, just the least bit?” Paula threw a swift look forward. Her father, a bulky figure half-swaddled in the fog, was rolling aft in their direction. Behind them, alas, was the ubiquitous man at the wheel So you W ill tell me nothing ?'’ Wood asked rhe Finn Paula turned to him quickly, caught up his ungloved hand and squeezed it between her own so tightly that it gave him a stab of pain “T adore you!”’ she whispered, then dropped his hand and fled to the companionway. x \ HILE these agreeable events were transpiring on the deck overhead, Cécile, warm and luxurious in her bed directly underneath, had been doing some very busy thinking, and had finally, aided to some extent by the muffled but agreeable tones of Wood's voice as it came intermittently through her ventilator, arrived at her decision. This decision was that she had better be a sensible girl and marry Huntington Wood By this time she had come fully to realize that the undoubted attraction that Applebo could have for her came through an appeal made neither to the heart nor to the mind. It was merely a physical attraction hold was only upon her material senses. Cé however, very much alive in her senses. If not the slave to them she was at least a very indulgent mistress, and the things that they brought her she valued more than the higher attributes of mind. She reveled in all five: bright pageants of color, exquisite perfumes whether natural or artificial, music of any sort from a gipsy band to Bach, a terrapin or canvasback and an old amontillado, a cold bath on 2 hot day ora hot bath on a cold one Her visit to the Daffodil had catered to these senses and contour; Applebo was pleasing to the eye in coloring the odor of late roses perfumed the cabin of the yvawl, for the poet loved flowers and always had them about when procurable; his resonant voice rang in the ears of Cécile and stirred more sympathetic chords than had ever an opera; the touch of his hand as he helped her into the gig had set her pulses pounding like old wine. As for taste, there had been certain moments when in her vexation she had felt a strong desire to bite him! Cécile was no fool, and she was quick to realize that these were not precisely the emotions upon which to lay the foundations of lifelong happiness. Moreover, Cécile was both luxurious and socially ambitious. Her husband must be a man with money and position, and she much doubted that Applebo had either. Wood possessed both, with many other desirable qualities. Cécile, though not in the least in love with him, liked and admired his person- ality. She found in him a great improvement over the October 1,1910 aie idle and rather aimless young man whom she had rejected some months ago. His disappointment and its manly method of treatment, followed by a real, philanthropic interest in his work, had matured and sweetened him. Cécile thought i possible that in time she might grow really to care for him. Also, he would make such a creditable husband; clean-cut, good-looking, thoroughbred of type, popular with all who knew him, well connected and very rich. Cécile had observed a certain disposition on his part for her sister Paula, but she was too accustomed to seeing her rejected suitors turn to Paula to put much importance on the fact. She had not the slightest doubt that she could whistle Wood to heel whenever she so decided. Cécile wanted to marry. She was twenty-four years old, a full-natured beauty with plenty of high vitality beneath her luxurious laziness, and she found herself becoming bored with her spinster- hood. She was tired of the Shark and her family as a steady diet, and she wanted the big world and a definite individual position in it —which is to say, she wanted the fullness of life, and she decided that under the circumstances Huntington Wood was about the most fitting and available person to furnish her with it Searcely had Cécile arrived definitel; conclusion when she heard the rush of on the deck above, followed by steps flying dow the companionway. The next instant the door of her room was thrown unceremoniousiy Open and Paula dashed in. “Oh, Cécile! Cécile!” she cried, ‘*‘ Huntington has just asked me to marry him! Cécile raised herself in bed and stared wildly at her sister. It was a bit trying, and for the moment it took her clean aback. Paula was too excited to notice her sister's expression, which was changing from astonishment to a dismay not } unmixed with resentment. Paula’s cheeks were like Jacqueminot roses and her eyes sparkled like the sun on deep-green water. As was habitual when she was greatly moved, her speech was swift and torrentia!, and she gestured with quick hands, shoulders and little nods and jerks of her head. —_ **He was so darling and manly; he said that | when you refused him he was sure that his life was blasted and that he would never love again Then, instead of moping or traveling or drinking he went to work with his charity, and that healed the wound, and now he is deeply in love again.” She gave a nervous little laugh. ‘‘ With me this time, and oh, Cécile! I just adore him, and always have! “What?” eried Cécile sharply. “Yes, dear. Even when he was in love with you.’ Paula's rich color deepened. ‘‘ Because it was plain enough that you did not care forhiminthat way. Butif he hadcome to me at once for consolation I would never have married him. Never, never, never! It might even have killed my love for him. But now that he has gone away and got over it and come back heartwhole Cécile! Why do you look at me in that odd way?” Paula’s eyes opened very wide. She stared at her sister, and slowly the color faded from her face, leaving it as white as of one drowned Cécile stared back without answering. In the course of Paula's rapid recital she had made up her mind. Wood had told her when she refused to marry him that he would love her always nevertheless, and Cécile chose to believe him Under these circumstances she did not think that Paula should be permitted to marry him. So she stared at her sister with a set, pale face “Cécile!” cried Paula, her voice trembling so that she could searcely speak. ‘‘Do you—are you-—do you care for him— yourself ? Cécile’s eyes filled. The color flooded her face. Sh« was one of those natural actresses of whom the very reflex emotions lend themselves to the réle. Paula was clingi to the foot of her bed, watching her sister with a white anguish-filled face ‘**Do you?” she cried despairingly. Cécile nodded. ‘‘Yes,"’ she whispered, then twisted upon her side and buried her face in the pillows For several minutes she remained in this position, dur ing which time a choked sob and the rustle from Paula raincoat, followed by the gentle closing of her door, told her that her sister had gone. Cécile then raised herself, glancing instinctively in a mirror at the side of her bed There was a hot flush on her cheeks; her hair was in dis- order and her gray eyes heldasullen look. Altogether, her appearance was not pleasing to her. ‘I look like a pussy-cat!"’ she muttered, and slipped out of bed. Standing before the mirror she gently mas- saged her face with her hands. ‘‘ And I rather think I am one too,"’ she added under her breath She rang for the maid, who brought her tea and toast Cécile was thoughtfully making her petit déjeuner when oe owe nae + 8 RT es Ss

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there came a tap at her door, and Hermione, fully dressed in gray sweater and a green homespun skirt, entered “What have you been saying to Paula?’’ demanded Hermione. ‘‘She’s in her room sobbing her heart out Ceécile’s face bore the keenest sorrow and sympathy “Oh, Hermione!” she mouth | toast, and then went Hermione tell had occurred black eyel on to listened with her rows drawing a Her vital straight line above her deep, violet eyes hardened in a manner not ple girl. Cécile, glancing at her, grew actually Hermione!” she protested; **why do you look at me in that way? I did not tell Paula that she was not to have Huntington! No doubt he is really in love with her and no longer cares a snap for me! But when she asked me it 1 cared for him what was I to tell her * The truth,” said Hermione shortly ** But I did, did I not Hermione thrust out told her !” Then and went on deck The first person whom she saw was Captain Heldstrom, he having relieved the owner, who was joyously disporting himself in the galley which was thinning out on all sides » See her chin. ‘‘ No,” said she; ‘you a lie she turned abruptly on her heel Heldstrom was peering into the fog, The big Norwegian's be ard and mustache were beaded with the moisture he looked like a hero of Wagnerian opera “What are you looking for?’’ Hermione demanded For der Bilot-vish Der lookout reported a little yaw! on der poort bow; den der fog closed. I hope it vas he W hy ? On account of your bet ?”’ “No. Der bet is nodding. But ve haf a good offing und der tide iss setting like a millr-race on to Cape Sable Der glass is dropping und it looks like a soud’easter, und it vould not be vell to be much nearer in.”’ ‘First time I ever saw you worrying about the Pilot- fish,”’ observed Hermione “That is true. Since I have seen him in der vater, svim- min’ mit you~ dere is somet’ing about that yoong man.”’ He passed his hand across his eyes as though to clear his vision. and THE SATURDAY EVENING “T am going to,"’ said over and have come t will tell Paula so Don't ashamed What is going Fog and > Une calm,”’ said | | e Chr he Pilot-tish il an anxiety Ik felt that waters “What are yi ‘I don’t like to out here little tub. Weare in a silly business, I think ** No sillier than he is “It's undignified Papa gives him a dare and he tak« it. Suppose he were to come to grief; how feel **T don't see that we are to blame if a silly she yu worrying for, Hermione think of pplebo would Wwe young man with a big seagoing I think Hermione knit her brow l like Applebo Besides man | ever in a thirty-foot yawl tries to stay schooner. It's rather cheeky of him “it's 6 one that ‘and her to yame I care for deepened a trifle ‘he’s the only met me a thrill.”’ ** Hermione!” “It's nothing to be ashamed of I like him too. He is something between a tiger and a great boy. When he leaped on the pig of was the tiger—tawny and fierce and swift and strong Hermione’s eyes kindled and the light in them found it reflection in those of Cécile. She breathed quickly ** And the boy ?” Cécile asked Hermione laughed and her color spread to the tip her little ears **When he kissed me goodby He fascinates me ‘ and a keeper he POST itiona An Hermione laughing in 3} Oddly, in spite isappro idden envy of h uunge sister Hermione had found most ag But Cécile little thing ag ynt to yphistry been kissed under cir and she did not ll that Hermione before she would older reea ble Knew we pretty tight Still, as ar inh I read Hermione a litt there was a certain eleme which ( ecile be ny ua very feminine unable Lo apprecial ‘You surprise course couldn't that this unde dear child well help yourself it my and But our 1 th ht you are merely a very ired appendage of pay. I would have told him what seem to think that it was quite rig and all that, but me 1 ventlemantly ort of performance had done that t thing t ‘Rats! sort « said Hermione, going Paula It was two days after that Shark sailed into Halifax harbor, arriving about noor these unpleasant incidents the blowing was sighted in with adamp “Well,” said Hermione. ‘* What about him?” “That is yoost vat I cannot tell. But his face clings in my mind like a gr-reen hand in der r-rigging.’’ He glanced at Hermione; and some- thing in the girl’s face caught his attention and held it ‘*Vat is der matter?” he asked This was exactly what Hermione wanted. She led him to the break of the quarterdeck, and there, out of all earshot, she told him of the complication between Cécile, Paula and Huntington Wood, frankly con- cluding with her own forthright observation to Cécile. Captain Heldstrom listened with his heavy brows knit ‘That iss goot und bad,” he said, when she had finished. ‘1am glad und sorry. Q-varrelsbetween sisters are very bad. But Mr. Vood is der von to settle der business. He in love mit Paula und he vill marry mit her und dey vill be very, very happy. Cécile does not care for him, but perhaps she t’inks she does, und for that reason you haf done very wr-rong to say vat you did. It vas unkind und unjust und unladylike; und you vill go down at vonce und ask her par-rdon.”’ E a if ISS *T won't!” “*Go, Hermione!” And Hermione turned without a word to descend the companion- way. As she entered Cécile’s room she saw that her sister had been crying This softened Hermione and made her apology spontaneous. “I'm sorry, Cécile,” said she. ‘I was angry and spoke without think- ing. Will you forgive me?” Cécile nodded and her gray eyes filled ‘You don’t Hermione?” “No. If you say you care for Huntington I believe you. But I do not believe that you care one- hundredth part as much as Paula does. Oh, Cécile, why don’t you keep out of it?”’ really think it, that had backed the | into melled of trouble Exactly four hours later the Daffodil ~ ‘wand. "| east and Get under way! hee p the coundr lhe Shark had al addres Comfort, a little ru hundred miles. She shortly the Daffodil had dropped her owr It is pre able that Applebo follo and hung or } I forwarding nine anchor after wed her out her heels through the night, whict sufficiently clear for at daylight the news the schooner that the ya the starboard quarter, an and as the day ip abeam, about half All of that iwhtol *hother evening the ind Bell swore ! = iid he him with a bit of but this sort of thing is just hi Wait, tho rhe is not always to the Which Wid pre id overt advanced a mile distant were in Toward bree dropped light We «x wind Dammit yvuld leave and sea weather race lucky for the Sharh At midnight the wind dropped to aim Daylight sh the Daffodil wallowing wsily the long, oily 4, almost Was almost a ¢ wed in the same position i she was chump doin demanded der vind vill back into und J right ud east am not sure of der ason und der vind isa little crazy it he vas r It is late Cécile looked thoughtfully at her sister and nodded. “ Of Course it is One Thing to Offer to be a Sister and Another to Consent to be a Sister-in-Law Continued on Page 65)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST October 1,1910 ome Lite of Garfield and Arthur Personal Recollections of Colonel W. H. Crook NE of the first I LLU S&S evidences I DISBURSING OFFICER OF THE WHITE HOUSE [RAT & DP B Y P. Rs G > 2 Cc kf BR Colonel Rockwell, Superintendent of had that President Gar- field’s family had taken up their home life in the White House oc- curred a few days after the fourth of March, 1881, when the new President was inaugurated. On the third of March President Hayes had given a great banquet in honor of the incom- ing Administration, and the office force was trying to settle down to routine when I happened to go on an errand that led me intothe great corridor run- ning through the main floor of the Executive Man- sion. I was walking rapidly, thinking hard about the errand, and looking neither to the right nor to the left, when suddenly, justas! reached the foot of the grand staircase leading to the living-rooms Publie Buildings and Grounds, who was an intimate friend of the Gar- field family. Each day their tutor arrived, Dr. W. H. Hawkes, who later practiced medicine in Washington and has since died. James and Harry were both of studi- ous habits and paid close attention to their books, as did young Donald tockwell. All of the boys and their tutor were punctual to the minute and worked hard from nine o'clock until lunch was served, and most of the afternoon, as well When a Presi- dent is inaugurated he is usually so taken up with new duties that no formal entertain- ments of a social nature are given by him until the fol- lowing New Year’s Day; consequently of the President’s family on the floor above, I was startled by a shrill ery of warning shouted in a boyish voice: foop-la! Get off the track or you'll be run down!”’ Without an instant’s hesitation I sprang to one side, and as I did so I quickly glanced upward. And there, perched on one of the old-fashioned bicycles with a high wheel, was President Garfield's young son Irving, coasting down that staircase like lightning. In an instant he had reached the foot of it, zipped across the broad corridor and with skill little short of marvelous turned into the East Room, the flashing steel spokes of his wheel vanishing like the tail of a comet. I stood still for ‘a moment and gasped. I confess that for a minute I was paralyzed. That any small boy, evena son of the President of the United States, should dare to start at the head of that great staircase on a bicycle and coast down it was almost unbelievable; and that he should do so as successfully as a trained circus performer was beyond my comprehension. These thoughts flashed their way across my astonished brain in the fraction of a second, and the next second I sprang forward to the door of the East Room to pick up the dismembered remains of Irving Garfield; but it was not necessary. That enter- prising American youngster was still on his high wheel, and was treading it around and around the great East Room with evident gatisfaction to himself, wholly regardless of two or three attendants who stood with their backs pressed against the wall, their faces gray with horror and apprehension as the young human comet flashed past them in his orbit around and around the most magnificent apartment of state in America. The Bicycle Track in the East Room EFORE many weeks had passed I got used to such innocent boyish pranks, and so did the doorkeepers and the servants of the Executive Mansion. Occasionally when the President was surely engrossed in some protracted meeting in the Cabinet Room or elsewhere, and when Mrs. Garfield was away—driving into the country, perhaps— young Irving Garfield did not hesitate to bring three or four of his boy friends and their bicycles into the East Room, where they would hold a series of races. The room was eminently suited to such purposes because it contained little furniture and was very spacious. The carpet, too, was firm and smooth, although soft enough to prevent the wheels from “skidding It is needless to say that The Young Human Comet Flashed Past Them Around and Around the Most Magnificent Apartment of State in America such pranks never came to the knowledge of either President Garfield or hiv wife, for no member of the White House staff would tell tales out of school. Furthermore, young Irving Garfield had precedent for such pranks, although he did not know it. At about that time bicy- cles were coming into general use in this country, and when President Hayes’ family were away for the summer several of the clerks in the Executive Office purchased machines and learned to ride by practicing in that same East Room. That such a thing could ever have happened in the White House seems almost incredible today; but it is a fact, and only shows what great changes for better discipline and more businesslike conauci of affairs have taken place in the last three decades. President Garfield was fifty years old when he came to the White House, and Mrs. Garfield was but one year younger. Both had risen from humble stations in life and, like so many other young men and women of that generation, they had studied as hard as they had worked. They had absorbed unconsciously the atmosphere of progressive culture while Garfield was making his way to the presidency of Hiram College—at the age of twenty- six —and then through an increasingly important political and military career. Consequently, when they came to live in the White House they stood on perfect equality with personages of the highest social station in Europe as well as in this country. Mrs. Garfield was at the White House for only about three months before she became ill. She was removed to Long Branch in June, because the heat of a Washington summer already had commenced It was only a month later that the President was shot. For this reason there are comparatively few details to be told concerning the Garfield family life in the White House; and for the same reason it was not my privilege to become as well acquainted with President Garfield's family as would otherwise have been the case. Mrs. Garfield was rather slender than plump. She hada sweet, pleasant face and dark hair and eyes. The Garfield children were James Rudolph, Harry, Mollie, Irving and little Abram. James and Harry were then preparing for college, and a small room at the northeast end of the White House was set aside as their study. I had made for this room a large desk seating four people, with a set of drawers on each of the four sides—the only desk of its kind I ever saw. And there the boys went every morning and every afternoon together with Donald, the son of there was no elabo- rate entertaining of guests during Presi- dent Garfield’s short occupancy of the White House. The children invited their young friends there, and a few inti- mates of the President and his wife called on them and sometimes stayed to lunch or dinner. Other than these, however, there were no attempts made to entertain. | never happened to see Mrs. Garfield, the President's mother; but his love for her was shown in many ways during his life; and when she came to the White House feeble because of age, she found that her son had built an elevator for her use, as she was unable to walk upstairs. This was the first time an elevator was ever put into the White House. The Shooting of Mr. Garfield N RS. GARFIELD had nosecretary, and her correspond- ence was attended to in the usual way. She was very fond of driving, as was her husband, and they used to drive together whenever possible; and both were interested in the flowers and shrubs in the conservatories and gardens of the White House. The President never hesitated to walk around the city alone, unaccompanied by a guard or other attendant. When Mrs. Grant left the White House her old housekeeper, Mrs, Mullen, went with her. Mrs Garfield, like Mrs. Hayes, had no hovisekeeper, although President Hayes’ steward, W. T. Crump, stayed on under Garfield’s Administration. Crump was devoted to Garfield, and after the President was shot helped to care for him in the sick-room. Once in lifting the President, to ease him while lying in bed with that terrible wound, Crump injured his own back so seriously that he never got over it. The story of Garfield's assassination by Guiteau is too well known to need another recital here, but several little incidents of White House life connected with that tragedy may be of interest to my readers. Mrs. Garfield had been ill and was recuperating at Long Branch when the President arranged to go on an extended tour through , New England, leaving Washington on July 2, 1881, and going through New York, where Mrs. Garfield was to join him. The party that was to accompany him from Wash- ington consisted of his children, Harry, James, and Miss Mollie Garfield; Colonel and Mrs. Rockwell, and their children, Don Rockwell and Miss Lulu Rockwell; Dr. W. H. Hawkes; the Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs Windom; the Postmaster-General and Mrs. James; the ee = ai = J it i | it i i i 2 aie SaaS eee RY ATE AN Rae oT SRE g ee nw

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Secretary of the Navy and Mrs. Hunt; the Secretary of War; Judge Advocate-General Swaim; and Colonel Jamison, of the Post-Office Department From New York they were to go to Hudson to spend Sunday; on Monday to Williamstown, Massachusetts, there to stay until Thursday noon in order that the President could take part in the commence- ment exercises of Williams College thence to St. Albans, Vermont, spending Friday there and going on Saturday to the White Mountains for a quiet Sunday, intending to ascend Mount Washington on Monday. On Tuesday their intention was to go to Portland, Maine, and to Augusta, where the Presidential party would be the guests of the Seers tary of State. Mr Blaine had obtained a revenue cutter, on which the guests were to sail along the Maine coast, visiting Mount Desert and other places of interest; thereafter returning home by way ol! Concord, New Hamps! ire, Hartford and New Haven, and two or three other places [rvington-on-the They were to journey When the President Turned a Handspring & MAY be readily imagined all who were fortunate enough to be included in the Presidential party looked forward eagerly to this extended outing, younger members, who had thought about it fe President Garfield was especiall; wife had so far recovered her strength that she would be able to leave Long Branch and join him in New York proceeding from there as has been outlined I shall not forget that morning of July 2, I left my home very early and went to the White House to see the President, and also to attend to a business matter with his secretary, Mr. J. Stanley Brown, who was starting for Curope. As I reached the Mansion I saw Guiteau coming down the steps leading to the main entrance, and hurrying past him I said to the doorkeeper: “T thought we'd got rid of that fellow! want here today ?’ ‘He came as usual to ask how the President is this morning,’’ the doorkeeper replied, and I went to the office more disturbed inwardly than I cared to show The President and his children were to leave the White House in pler ty of time to eatch the limited express for the North which was to start from the old Baltimore & Potomac depot at half past nine o'clock. Before breakfast was served, one of the doorkeepers, Ricker, went from the main floor to the living quarters of the family to find Mr. Gartield. Hearing shouts of laughter in a room occupied by Jim and Harry Garfield, Ricker went directly there to ask where the President was, and as he approached the open door he saw the two boys turning handsprings on the bed. Garfield himself was in the room, and said to his sons: *T think I can do that as well as you can!" Whereupon Ricker saw the President of the United States step forward without an instant’s hesitation, spring up into the air, land on his hands, and without apparent effort turn a perfect handspring, coming down lightly and firmly on his feet, to the surprise of his two young sons and to the amazement of the doorkeeper who had been sent to find him An hour or so later Garfield left the White House for his summer outing, as other Presidents have left it year after year, without a thought of impending danger. I was not sorry to see him go away, for although Guiteau had been refused admittance to the White House for some time, he especialls the r days pleased, because his 1881 What does he He Was THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ke pt calling ing to ask al health I tried to reassure n self with the general convict held in the Executive Offic this man, tho a crank, was: ar one of the familiar t partly resp msible people are always trving to see every President Yet experience while personal body guard to Lincoln, I was ible although frequently lau, by my friends for because of m alw i\ dange: hed at so doing l was greatly relieved, therefore to know that President Gartield was on his way out of Perhaps while he was gone thought, Guiteau might so cor duct himself that he could be legally locked up in an asylum Word reached the Executive Mansion, only alittle while after President Garfield had left there, that he had been shot. A message was flashed at once to Mrs. Garfield, who started for Washington as soon as she re ceived it; and from then until the wounded President was scenting poss the Pp ssible was done at the White When he had been carried within the Executive Mansion a force of police was rushed there thrown around the { admitted without a special permit that it was absolutes ly necessary f and leave the grounds and the Exe the first permit that was issued and dent’s secretary, Mr. J. Stank the police to permit me to go it When the surgeons ascert dent was necessary for the transaction of Gov The President was unable, of cot documents, and very soon I received ar stamp made, signature, this to be attached to I think this was the only time ever been made for the use of any bly in the case of William Henry lying ill in the White House, where he died One day I received word that the cor thought the President's strength migh he to have some squirrel soup, of and I was notified to be ready, should send word, to go out and sho This intention was communicated t commandant of the Soldiers’ Home, over to me a permit to shoot squirrels surrounding the home, for the purpose think this was the only time that permitting any one to go gunning in those grounds sut 4 I never used the permit, for the do word to go out after the squirr One of the members of the Exec an intimate friend of Garfield Mr who was in the Treasury Department inaugurated. After his inauguration Mr him to the Executive Office, k gt ipon him at any time to carry out the most As soon as the President was taken to El House to save his life Both Were Inter strong extensive uunds, I My dutie rmet | » be able ive Man signed by ained how serio wounded certain steps were taken ernment containing a facsimile portant which he wheney » Gener: who i mentione an order was ever THOUGH now tnere sent for go rfield die Was remained until G: A moment into the pape Always Well Groomed; Almost Faultless in His Dress onsery atoties t the aper orre spond and think ng it mber of the staff of rt ult t at arr: ind spons *t kn i wide ce ot c f Mr er al! the W hite tru or inging for preparing ible work Ww ledge ol and abso the many r} who Temporary Dwelling on Capitel Hill ind Mrs

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A°‘D' 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 421 TO 427 ARCH STREET GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR. By Subscription $1.5@ the Year. Five Cents the Copy of All Newsdealers To Canada— By Subscription $1.50 the Year. Single copies, five cents. Foreign Subscriptions; For Countries ia the Postal Union. Single Subscriptions, $2.75. Remittances to be Made by International Postal Money Order PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER 1, 1910 The Tariff as Its Friends See It UPPOSE the directors of the Union Pacific Railroad \ should say to Congress: ‘‘ When this road was being built the Gevernment aided it to the extent of forty mil- lion dollars; the road has long been built, is very rich and profitable, paying ten per cent dividends on its common stock; therefore we demand that the Government now grant it another subsidy of a hundred million dollars.” Or suppose, when the Elkins Law was under considera- tion, the directors had said: ‘* For a great many years the railroads have systematically granted rebates to big shippers, thereby oppressing small shippersand building up monopolies like the Standard Oil Company. During these years the country’s wealth has increased enormously. Thi> increase in wealth is due to the rebate system. If ycu stop rebating you will destroy the prosperity.” woch are the arguments for high protection which an apologist for that system gravely advances on another pae of this issue of THe SATURDAY EVENING Post. The founders of the Government were protectionists That is, when the nation was young, small and poor, almost wholly engaged in agriculture, with very little manufactur- ing, Hamilton advocated a protective tariff. A duty of about seventeen per cent was the measure of protection which he deemed necessary to encourage the upbuilding of infant industries. Now that these industries have grown huge and rich beyond all precedent we must give them still more protection or we shall be flying in the faces of the Fathers True, the nation has had a high-protection system, and its wealth has increased amazingly. This wealth came from the development of its rich natural resources. What schoolboy will believe that the wealth is due to a system which made all the implements used in that development cost more than they were worth? We meet again the hoary and defunct argument that the foreigner pays the tax. But we shall not meddle with it. That would be too much like digging up a graveyard Also, the argument that high protection lowers prices. Of course, the favored trusts insist upon a high tariff because they know it will lower the prices of their prod- ucts, thereby enabling them to pay their workmen high wayes! The Government deeded many million acres of raw publie land to homesteaders who settled upon and cul- tivated it. And it has licensed manufacturers to over- charge the homesteader for his lumber, tools and clothing To put these two governmental acts in the same category is strictly typical of the protectionist mind Our apologist quotes some Scripture. The case might be rested upon one familiar quotation from the same admirable source —to wit: ‘* Thou Shalt Not Steal.” Workmen's Compensation TEW YORK is now at least abreast of Turkey in AN dealing with the important problem which was stated to Congress a few years ago in the following language: “Exactly as the workman is entitled to his wages, so he should be entitled to indemnity for injuries sustained in the natural course of his labor.’’ It is still, in this respect, somewhat behind nearly every European state. On the other hand, it is well in advance of many states in the Union. Important amendments to the law governing compensa- tion to workmen for injury received in industrial accidents THE SATURDAY EVENING POST took effect this month in the Empire State. The bar- barous old rules of “contributory negligence,” “‘fellow- servant” and “assumed risk’’—under one or another of which it is so often possible to jockey a crippled workman out of any compensation—are greatly restricted. For example, instead of assuming that the man was negligent because he was hurt, the employer must now prove that he was negligent or pay damages. A superintendent who sends a workman into a dangerous place is no longer a “‘fellow-servant,’”’ whose carelessness absolves the employer. Moreover, the new acts introduce a fixed scale of damages based upon the earning power of the hurt or killed man—thereby adopting enlightened usage. But the great fault of the new acts is that the victim of an accident must still, in practice, go into court and suffer the expense and delays of a lawsuit. It is here that Europe, with her system of prompt, inexpensive settlement of damage claims, is so far ahead of us. Direct Primaries in Practice OMPARATIVELY speaking, not much was heard of / insurgency in Michigan before election day. There was no such strong leadership and aggressive organization as the movement enjoyed in Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Kansas and California. But when it came to a count of noses insurgency swept the state. This is clearly a result of the direct primary. Without such a direct expression of opinion by the people Burrows undoubtedly would have been returned to the Senate —to stand pat with the New England oligarchy and for the Payne-Aldrich Act —although we now have indubitable proof that an overwhelming majority of Repub- lican voters do not want him returned to the Senate. Under the convention system, probably, that gubernatorial can- didate who was said to be the heir of a discredited state machine would have captured the nomination, although a great majority of Republican voters did not want him to have it, and said so when the opportunity was given them. Opponents of direct primaries, and of initiative and referendum, twaddle fatuously about maintaining ‘our historic and Constitutional system of representative gov- ernment.” The twaddle, we think, deceives nobody. What they really want to maintain is a system of govern- ment that is not representative. It they were anxious to represent the will of the people, why should they be afraid to let the people say what their will is? Twaddle About the Fathers HEN Colonel Roosevelt, for example, innocently remarks that the Constitution ought to be inter- preted in the light of the spirit and needs of these times, certain deeply conservative critics talk about it as though he were trampling under foot something for which our forefathers devotedly shed their blood. But the plain fact is that only a handful of our forefathers had anything to do with or about the Constitution, and only a few out of the handful had any particular enthusiasm for it. When the Constitution was adopted there was only about one-third as many voters in the United States as are now found in the city of Chicago. In every state the suffrage was restricted by property qualifications, and the total number of voters in 1790 has been estimated at one hundred and twenty thousand. The best opinion is that, had the Constitution been referred directly to these voters, it would have been rejected. In the New York convention, after a year of diligent campaigning by its friends, it was accepted by a majority of only two voters. Virginia would not accept it at all save with recommenda tions of immediate amendment. At most, it became the organic law of the land by the sanction of fewer voters than may now be found in three or four big city wards. That sanction of the Fathers, to which conservatism now so eloquently appeals, came into being long after the Fathers were dead. The Farm Population P origoge ons the new census is to contain little com- fort for those enthusiastic admirers of farmlife who are themselves engaged in railroading, manufacturing and banking. Such items as a growth of thirty-nine per cent, or over a million and a quarter souls, in the population of Greater New York are discouraging, and, as a whole, city population, relatively to farm population, seems to have maintained the lead of the preceding ten-year period. The greater part of Michigan’s growth, for example, was absorbed by her leading city and the number of rural inhabitants probably remained stationary. From 1890 to 1900 the price of farm products did not advance at all; but from 1900 to 1910 it increased sixty- five per cent, which was a larger advance than was shown by any other great group of commodities. It should be noted, however, that to 1908 this advance was quite gradual. The big bulge occurred in the last two years of the census period a time too short to produce any perceptible change in the drift of population. Another October 1,1910 decennial period, with an honestly revised tariff, may pro- duce a different showing. Yet, if the farm is to compete successfully with the city in attracting the young man, it must, on the whole, pay rather better than the city does, because it holds out no grand money prizes. To be sure the city merely holds out the grand prizes—just out of reach, in fact. The instances in which it actually hands them over are so relatively few as to be negligible. But their presence is a powerful attraction to the young man. William James’ Sealed Letter WE HOPE the sealed letter which Professor William James left to be opened a vear after his death con- tains some quotations from his book The Will to Believe; for, whatever happens under the test conditions which he so carefully prescribed, few people will be convinced who were not convinced beforehand. We have heard two very intelligent and candid gentlemen—either of whose words we would cheerfully take for a thousand pounds if we could borrow the money —describe their experiences with a very celebrated medium under fine test conditions. One came away convinced the medium was a fraud; the other as fully convinced that the manifestations were geniune and inexplicable by any known physical laws. Whatever test conditions anybody may devise, this conflict of opinion will probably continue until—if ever that time comes—some manifestations take a form which is beyond the intellectual plane of an ordinary, earthly stable boy. Even Professor James’ test implies that, at most, he may possibly be able to recollect something after death with which he was perfectly familiar before death. Popular indifference to the whole learned and unlearned controversy is sufficiently explained by the complaint of a scholarly German that the spirits, even if genuine, are frightfully stupid. That doesn’t make a good pun in English, as it does in German, but it makes good sense. The Certainty of Crops A THE end of a summer somewhat more harrowed with doubts than usual, barring the chance of a heavy frost in the corn belt, the grain crops are now made. It is in order, then, to remark that year in and year out, in spite of all alarms of drought, flood and bugs, the grain crops do pretty regularly manage to mature. The Gov- ernment’s September report indicates a corn yield only a little below the record and well above a five-year average. Only once in ten years--in 1901-—-has there been any really extensive damage to corn. Then the yield, as com- pared with the average of the three preceding years, declined about twenty-five per cent. One must go back to 1894 to find the next “failure.’””. The year’s wheat crop is only four per cent under the average of the last five years, and only once in ten years— in 1904 —has the yield fallen below six hundred million bushels. Oats a more vari- able crop — break the record this year and exceed a billion bushels for the second time. The year of the last corn crop “‘failure,”’ 1901, was the year that produced the great- est wheat crop ever harvested in this country; and in 1904, when wheat production suffered a big shrinkage, the yield of corn was above the average. Cotton production, it is true, fluctuates rather more violently than grain pro duction. Beginning with 1904, the following numerals, expressing millions of bales, show the successive yield 315, 1034, 1315, 11!'4, 13's, 10'4. But a failure of the crops is pretty nearly an unthinkable calamity. The Cry for Popular Government " NE of the sensations of the primary,” says a dis- patch from Wisconsin, “‘appears to be the wiping out of the Democratic party in this state’’; for a party which fails to poll, at a primary election, one-fifth as many votes as it polled at the preceding general election forfeits its place on the official ballot. In 1892 Wisconsin gave its electoral vote to Cleveland on the issue of tariff reform and general disgust with the dominance of big business in Republican councils. In 1896, when the Democratic issue was free silver, it returned to the Republican column. The number of voters in the state is four hundred and fifty thousand, and to retain a place on the ballot the Democrats would have had to poll thirty-three thousand votes. There is some doubt, then, whether seven per cent of the voters are now suffi- ciently interested in Democracy to keep alive the party. For many years the electoral vote of Ohio has always been Republican, but we do not hear any doubts as to whether the Democratic party in that state is alive. On the contrary, there is a rather general expectation that the Democrats will carry the state this fall. In Wisconsin, Republican insurgency has stepped for- ward to lead and absorb the aspiration for popular govern- ment, leaving the Democrats not much to do except look on. In Ohio the same aspiration turns to the Demo- cratic organization. Probably, if there was as much Republican insurgency in Ohio as in Wisconsin there would be just about as little Democracy.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 25 WHO’S WHO-AND WHY The Triumph of the Toilee SN’T it the clammy truth that the poor workingman never gets a chance? Ever since they built the Pyra- mids we have observed that the iron heel of the employer has clutched the scrawny throat of the laborer in the vineyard, and laughed at the toiler trying to rise from the dust of oppression and soar to the heights of freedom, to emancipate himself from the shackles that gag him, to place his hands on an equal footing with the heads of those who crush him. Every time a workingman has attempted to soar it has always made the employer sore. This, of course, is a universal condition, worldwide, old as time. Still, we had been led to hope that there might prove to be certain communities in this fair land of ours where the people would resent the continued triumph of the employer and would see to it that the employed were given an opportunity. If, before a recent event, we had been asked to select a commonwealth where the public would rally to the standard of the employed our first choice would have been Nebraska, enjoying, as it has for twenty years, the preaching and practices of the Peerless Leader, and on various occasions responding thereto as one man. Here, we should have said, is a state wherein the rights of man are predominant, where the hideous autocracy of plutocratic power cannot raise its venomous head, where the plain people never fail to indorse the toiler as dis- tinguished from the toilee, where the man in the ranks wins over the man in the banks. Here is a state where the unterrified proletariat always marches to the polls and casts snow-white ballots for the lad in the trenches; for the chap behind the gun instead of for the man who owns the ordnance. We should have said all these eloquent things, and many more that do not occur to us at the moment; but we should have erred. We should have been off our twittering trolley. We should have been four down and three to play. We should have beensmeared, sloughed, slaughtered. For, what happened in Nebraska? Did those untrammeled denizens of the broad and fertile prairies march up to the polls and cast their snow-white ballots for the working- man? Did they seek to rebuke the employer when they had an opportunity to hand a peach to the employed? Of atruth, gentlemen and all others present, they did not. ‘‘And what did they do?” asks the lady with the hobble skirt. They did this, and it makes the type- writer stutter to put it down —they did this: They marched gayly to the polls and put one over for the employer. They slipped a sour one to the employed. Oh, Nebraska, Nebraska! For what has the Peerless Leader peered? Let me recite the sickening details. It so fell out that there was a primary, not alone to determine who should be the candidates for the various state offices in either party, and for the Congress, but to designate which Republican and which Democrat should go before the legislature next winter and, by virtue of the majority of votes therein cast, wrest from Burkett the senatorial toga he has worn for some years and has decorated with shoulder-straps and other insignia by his heroic efforts to have Nelson W. Aldrich, Eugene Hale, Julius Cesar Burrows, Weldon B. Heyburn, Stephen B. Elkins and all others of that sena- torial band wear white carnations on a certain occasion that he designated as Mothers’ Day. On the Democratic side there were two candidates, Richard L. Metcalfe and Gilbert M. Hitchcock, Metcalfe representing the employed and Hitchcock the employer. You see, for years Metcalfe worked for Hitchcock, whe owns the Omaha World-Herald, a prosperous newspaper in a prosperous town. Also, in those earlier days William J. Bryan worked for Hitcheock during a portion of the time Metcalfe was there. There are a lot of us left who remember Bryan reporting the St. Louis convention that nominated McKinley in 1896, only to go therefrom to Chicago, where he was nominated to oppose the man whose convention he wrote about. Stirring Up the Land Office ffm Bryan became a National Figure—capitals, please— Metcalfe succeeded him as editor of the World-Herald, and remained there until he went to Lincoln to write those editorials in the Commoner that make the people who subscribe for that valuable periodical say: “ Doesn’t Mr. Bryan have a fluent and convincing style?’’ But that is neither here nor in Omaha. The point is that Metcalfe, the employed, ran against Hitchcock, the haughty employer. Moreover, Mr. Bryan came out for Metcalfe. Thus the people of Nebraska had the choice. Whereupon they selected Hitchcock, showing there is something umbrageous in Nemaha, Keyapaha, Sioux and other counties therein. Of course there is no intention here of casting any asparagus at Mr. Hitchcock because he happens to own

He Set in Motion the Ballinger-Pinchot Investigation Serious and Frivolous Facts the Great and the Near Great ye ee Soand Se the and edit two newspapers. The deep, poignant regret is that the people of Nebraska should have shown such a reversal of form when they had such a chance to come marching to the front and convince the world that they vote as they converse, which very few constituencies do. Mr. Hitchcock is an able and accomplished gentleman. He has been in Congress several terms on the Democratic side, and has made his mark. He is well fitted to be Ser ator. All that now remains to bring that elevation about is the election of a Democratic legislature. I fancy, too, that Dick Metcalfe is just as happy in Lincoln as though he had won. I fancy, too, that it wasn’t Mr. Bryan's particular year for indorsing candidates out that way, which may have had something to do with the general result. Hitchcock was born in Omaha in 1859 and established the Evening World in 1885. Later, he bought the Mor ing Herald and put the papers together, running them since as the morning and evening World-Herald. He was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress, defeated for the Fifty-ninth and elected to the Sixtieth and Sixty-first. ’ The largest splurge he ever made was on the question of investigating the General Land Office, whereby he set in motion the machinery that finally ground out the Ballinger-Pinchot investigation and took flesh off our revered President faster than golf, riding, walking or banting combined could Soon after the dismissal of Glavis, Hitchcock introduced a resolution calling for an investigation of the General Land Office. This was on December 6 of last year Secretary Ballinger immediately blew up with a loud noise. He had been Commissioner of the Land Office for a year or so under President Roosevelt, and while he was

there the famous row between himself a Pinchot had its beginning. . Ballinger insisted that the Forestry Bureau of which Pinchot had been chief, should be included in the investigation, and said it was his opinion that the per nicious activity of certain officials of the Forestry Bureau

had resulted in the charges against him. Hitchcock made his speech in the House ten days later. He criticised Ballinger for suggesting that the inve gation be made along lines suited to Ballinger. He drew the deadly cuttlefish parallel, claiming Ballinger was trying to imitate that celebrated ink-producer and infuscate the water that he might escape unnoticed, or words to that general effect. Nevertheless, the House passed a joint resolution calling for an investigation of both the Interior Department and the Forestry Bureau — or, really, Ballinger and Pinchot. There were man rguments bot} for and against this resolution, but it was finally passed About Jina

Even though Hitchcock did not get his singlehanded nvestigation of Ballinger, there no doubt he started something that has not ended yet Hitchcock is a handsome, scholarly man who speaks well, is inte: sely n earnest and has hig ideals of public duty. He was a loyal Bryan n ny years, but has rather drifted away from the Pe late He has a fight on his hands to get a leg iture that will elect him instead of Burkett, who won his primary but if he does land in a toga he will be a most serviceable Senator, of advanced ideas And he defeated Dict Metcalfe, who worked for him for many year The iron heel of the 7 employer still of the employed. Nebraska, | take it, has failed signally Nebraska has weakened Nebraska is infected with the virus, especially those Nebraska Democrats. First thing we know, Nebraska will be electing a predatory plutocrat Oh, the customs!—as the gallops roughshod over the prostrate form

to something. Oh, the times! people say when they come back from Europe. A Realistic Picture j FRIEND of the editor of one of the evening yellow newspapers in New York happened into the editorial rooms soon after Mayor Gaynor was shot “Did you get a picture of it?” he asked the editor “Did we get a picture?”’ repeated the editor, straighten ing up and patting himself on the chest. “I should say we did. We got a picture showing every drop of blood." One Too Many ( N ONE of his frequent trips to Europe the owner of a New York paper engaged an Englishman, who came highly recommended, as an editorial writer. The Englishman went to see the publisher at Nice and satisfactory arrangements were As the Englishman was leaving, the publisher called to his private secre and give them to him “What for, may I ask?"’ inquired the Englishman stiffly. “Why,” replied the publisher, * and get a knowledge of our style and manner of treating so you may read them questions, and so forth “No, sir,”” said the Englishman; ‘ paper, but I'll be hanged if I'll read it I will write for your aoe Some Kisses From Sarah NAM DAVIS, the Nevada journalist, brother of Bob \) Davis, the inventor of wooden bait for bass and also editor of a flock of Mr. Munsey’s magazines, is a great friend of Sarah Bernhardt. One time when the immortal Sarah was in Nevada, where Sam lives and edits the Carson Appeal, she stopped

over to see Sam As she was leaving she threw her arms around Sam's neck and kissed hin ‘That,’ said the divine Saral s for the Carson Appeal.”’ She kissed him agar hat is for the San Francisco kx She kissed him a third time “That is for yourself.” “There's a lot of small papers through the state I repre sent as well as the Examiner said San and | am ire they would all like to hear from you rr . The Hall of Fame @ Ser r Thomas H. Carter, of M haat tate’s first Representative in Congres er the state is admitted He had been a delegate before that € Don C. Seitz, publisher of the Ne york W i, | gone to Japar He w write exh tive he returns on the differences be ‘ J I o Connes i Ch: B. D har ‘ | eer never wore an overco } Now he ow! xteer 1 overcoat uu ‘ € Vice-Preside She } i der hat 1 shape nie v he ‘ ‘ ‘ ears gi ruck hin ‘ He wo one evers ce es i | Big B Ed New Y er i gy com- Gaynor, isn’t so t is President ift; but it takes just as much of a tape ne to go around I \ t as it does to encompa he Pre ! il o

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26 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The New Tariff as Its Fri ort man wno oO RAT I ON S BS F EMULE N M oun By CHARLES HEBER always take a D small view of a large subfect If you shall speak to him of the glory of religion, of the splendor of sacri- fice, of the beauty of holiness, of the sweet- ness of Christian love and of the inspiring heroism of the noble army of martyrs, he will answer: “ Yes; but it costs me ten dollars a year for pew rent Turning from spir- itual things to mate- rial things, you may point him to an economic policy framed by one of the most illustrious of the founders of our Gov- ernment, sanctioned : i ¥ ¥ , Evlen by Washington and a Tonrel long line of mighty statesmen, Lincoln among them —a policy with which this nation has grown to industrial greatness without precedent in the history of mankind--and our narrow friend will answer: ‘ All very well; but it makes me pay a cent a pair more for stockings and ten cents more for a hat.”’ I shall not contend that the costs of living are too despicable for attentive consideration. I do contend, however, that no man can estimate a vast national concern by looking at a single aspect of it. If you would perceive the beauty of the architectural proportions of a noble building, do not glue your eye to a single brick. It will be denied that the protective policy has helped this nation to unequaled industrial power. But no man can prove that it has not made this achievement; and I can prove not only that all forward movement in this country is coincident with the existence of this policy, but that no nation, at any time, has acquired true industrial strength without the aid of tariff protection I challenge contradiction of that declaration. Our Double Role of Producer and Consumer ps BEGIN with, let me protest against the oft-repeated attempt to div ide the pe ople into separated classes of producers and consumers. There can be no such division Every man not a mere tramp is both a producer and a consumer The brakeman on a train, the man who drives a cart the clerk in the bank, are producers. Even the idle rict man is a producer, for his money works, and must work for hir Should some tremendous cataclysm suddenly destroy every manufacturing industry in the great stat: of Pennsylvania it would hurt in his pocket every honest man in the United States As the Apostle said, long ago ‘We are members one of another.’’ Ali of us are more or less de pendent upon eac h of us The vital need of our Government is assured revenue he Government is not a producer. It is a protector and cherisher of the interests of the people. The revenue must come from the earnings cf the peopl itis an excise omething cut off from the earnings of those who do produce wealth This taxation may be done in several ways. Great Britain, with less than half our number of people, collects as Much revenue as we do Her method is to tax the people directly reaching far down into every pocket and, meantime, letting in free om houses, the products of the industry through her cust of other nations Our method, which takes from the people fifty cents where England takes a dollar, is to make the levy largely by requiring the foreign producer to pay for a license to enter our market for the purpose of competing with the domestic producer The result is twofold. First, the tax is taken in part indirectly from the citizen and often without his con- sciousness; second, the foreigner is compelled to pay a part of the tax for the privilege of admission here. It is a not uncommon delusion that the customs duty is always added to the American price. The truth is that in many cases the American price, with duty added, is no higher than the foreign price. Here are a few proofs of this fact. Last spring Congress removed the duty from hides. At once the exporters in Argen- tina advanced the price of hides to the extent of the withdrawn duty. A few years ago, in re- sponse to a popular cry for ‘“‘a free breakfast-table,” the duty was taken off of coffee. The Government of Brazil instantly added it as an export duty. In both cases our Government surrendered rev- enue which was pocketed promptly by foreigners, and the American consumer had no benefit of any kind. The McKinley tariff first imposed a duty of 24s cents a pound on tinplate, which then was selling for $5.34 a box. The foreign price at once dropped to $3.30 a box. Who paid that duty? In 1871 steel rails sold for $102 a ton, and a duty of $28 a ton was laid. In 1894 the price dropped to $29.92. Who paid that duty? In 1883 the duty was reduced to $17 a ton, and in 1898 the price fell to $17.62. ,Who, also, paid that duty? An importer whom I know paid $1 for a German linen article when the duty under the Wilson tariff was 35 per cent. Dingley put up the duty to 50 per cent, and the German exporter, rather than lose his trade, lowered his price to 90 cents. Who, I ask, paid the increased duty ? I assert it to be the rule, with exceptions, of course, that the prices of European articles are lowered so that the American market may be reached. The result is that, in many cases, the American not only pays little or no more here than he would have to pay in Europe, but the European actually relieves him from a part of his taxa- tion. The tariff, then, actually saves money to masses of the American people I may extend this matter a little further. The duties upon steel rails have indeed been high But, under those duties, we have built one-half the railway mileage of the world; and whereas the average freight rate per ton in Great Britain is about 3 cents a mile, in the United States it is--conducted over those very rails--four-fifths of a cent a mile, or the lowest rate in existence In what manner, then, has a high duty upon rails hurt the American citizen ? How Tariff Figures Mislead | DO not intend in this article to deal largely with per- centages. I prefer exact final figures. Resort to what has been called ‘“‘the percentage trick"’ is a favorite practice with those who would mislead plain people Percentages do not always, by any means, indicate prices. You tell a man that some common article of necessity bears a duty of 129 per cent, and he is startled and angry He will not reflect that as percentages go up prices may be going down. When the price of tinplate was, say, $5 per 100 pounds, a 2!» cents duty was a 50 per cent duty When the price of tinplate declined to $3.30 per 100 pounds the very same duty became a 76 per cent duty If stockings, valued at $1 a pair, had a specific duty of $1, the tax would be 100 per cent. When—the duty remaining fixed —the price of the stockings fell to 50 cents a pair, the duty would be 200 per cent. If the stockings should fall to 10 centsa pair, the fixed duty would be 1000 per cent. The important question, of course, is not at all what is the percentage of duty upon stockings but what do you October 1,1910 nds See It CLARK e CGR NWN EE EL EL have to pay fora pair! You can buy, today, two pairs of good half-hose for 25 cents, and there is no peril in the assertion that never since the world was made could you get, tariff or no tariff, so good hosiery for so little money. The reasons are first, that the home supply is abundant and excellent, and second, that the Americans, solely be- cause the industry and therefore the incentive—was here, have invented the most wonderful and productive knitting machinery. A part of the con- tention of the free trader just now is that prices have, of late, seriously ad- vanced, and that the tariff is to blame for it. But how shall he prove his case? Rubber, within two years, has gone up from 69 cents a pound to $2.15, but rubber is, and always has been, on the free list. Cotton, within the same period, has risen from 8'4 cents a pound nearly to 16 cents; but obviously no tariff duty can affect the price of cotton The price of hides advanced as soon as we took the duty off. Iron duties have been reduced 40 to 50 per cent, but iron prices have gone up. Sugar duties have been cut, but sugar prices are greater. If the prices of these things have gone up without influence from the tariff, why should we believe that the tariff has lately advanced the cost of woolens when there has been no change of any kind in the duties upon woolens, excepting to lower them ? Manifestly these increases, noted the world over, are not produced by our tariff legislation. We may seek, perhaps, for the impelling force in high prosperity, stimu- lating consumption, or, as some wise men do, in the extraordinary development of the world’s supply of gold. Our Old Friend, the Farmer B' T why should the Government give aid and comfort through the instrumentality of a tariff law, to a single class of citizens—the manufacturers ? The aid is to be given, of course, where it is needed suilders, lawyers, retailers and so forth, are sufficiently pro- tected by Nature. The manufacturer gets help where it is required. The farmer also, let us note, gets it far more abundantly when he requires it. Do you ever reflect upon what our Government has done, and now does, for the American farmer? Millions of farms were given, years ago, to the farmers absolutely without charge. The Government never gave a mill toa manufacturer. Other millions of farms have been sold by the Government, and now are selling, at the lowest of low prices The nation maintains an Agricultural Department the manufacturers have no department—which costs from ten millions to twelve millions a year: This depart- ment not only distributes vast quantities of seeds, but also it instructs the farmers, analyzes their soils, improves their animals, destroys at great cost the cotton boll-worm and injurious insects, and helps them to stamp out diseases in plants and animals Hundreds of millions are spent in constructing irriga- tion works so that poor land may be redeemed for the farmers; and in divers and sundry other ways the Amer- ican farmer is assisted, encouraged, upheld and made the object of incessant large expenditure. No man may complain of this. It is well done. That is what a Government is for—to do for the people the things they cannot do for themselves. We are the Government! The money is ours. All these toilers are our brethren. All are Americans. Their welfare is our welfare. The soil feeds every man of us. The huge expenditure for the splendid development of agriculture is an investment of a common fund for the benefit of all. But, if this be true for the farmer, why is it not true for the manufacturer? The farmer, rightly, gets enormous sums of money as a gratuity from the Treasury, and he SS OS | eR SE TE ae — — TEI sommes

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ultention What does the manufacturer ye but shelter for hi highest felicity Armerican ¢ ompetitor Absolutely nothing bu re | oreivt rival Irom a& powertul i would be the annihilation of ha W Tidese If it be worth while to spend hundreds of millions every year for battleships, in making ready fora yunpowder war that is likely never to come, why is it not well to employ for our protection oul law machinery for service in a com mercial war at this very moment raging the world over Commerce is indeed war, and merciless war. No tidings could bring to E iropeans a thrill of Oy equal to that which would come to the Old World if announcement should be made that one-half the manufacturing power of the American nation were wrecked and ruined, and finally

and forever wiped out of existence Now let us consider a few specific cases of articles concerning Which tariff protection has been complained of The Case of the Universal Sweetener peeertsaye upon sugar has given much offense to the advo- cates of free trade or of severe tariff reduction. What justification is there for continued imposition of that duty It was laid not only for the sake of obtaining needed revenu

but also for the purpose of promoting the produc f Many Eurepean rectly to the growers and tion of beet-root sugar in this country countries now give bou

manipulators of that for which the world ] indebted to the intelligence of the first Napoleon The question for us was: Should the farmers directly and the people generally, have the benefit of the develop- ment of the industry in the United States? Clearly it could not live and grow in open competition with the bounty-fed sugar of Europe \ duty Was impo ed in the seventies, with the result that now we produce at home, annually, beet sugar to the value of nearly fifty million dollars. Thus the farmers had a new and profitable crop, and the nation came nearer to independence in an important food artick Before the Civil War I disregard war prices as unnat urally inflated — ordinary household sugar cost, say, 8 cents at retail. Nowa better sugar may be bought for 5! a pound. Some day we shall grow all of our sugar sup- pli s. W hy not, if we would deal fairly with the subject, instead of scoffing at the small saving to each person made possible by the recent reduction of the sugar duty, look at the matter in this way: The difference between 8 cents cents a pound and 5!» cents is 2'. cents. What is the worth to the nation of a saving of 2!) cents a pound on all the sugar consumed by 90,000,- HOO of the most prosperous peopl on earth Beet sugar t Were there now as in the old time nothing but sugar from the cane, the price not ‘0 cents I made that reduction in the price unlikely would be 15 cents and, perhap lhe duty on paper and the wood pulp from which paper is made has been made the subject of

nuch acrimonious ( anada, that an export duty upon paper-making wood, is simply striving to compel us to let * make all American We are asked to permit her to foree vufacturers to go out of business, or to move T complaint So far as the matter involve country, by imposing

our paper paper mart their machinery across the border Who is willing to allow Canada to control in such a manner our business affairs or our fiscal policy ? An attempt is made to scare us by the declaration that Canadian discrimination against u in taxing wood and pulp for export will compel us under the new tariff law to impose the heavy maximum duties upon all Canadian products This would ruin our import trade with the Dominion The truth is that, as Canada’s export duty is levied upon exports to all lands, there is no literal diserimination against us; and | have the authority of a member of the Ways

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thiat position of the maxXimu r retaliatory duti upon Cunadian products ts an impossibility Bu t interest has our dear old friend the consumer hie | ind wood-pulp controversy We must consider | What happens to the consumer because the ed ind semi-barburou pauper und pulp | } actually vets | daily pape ilu lower pric tha by any other man in at land upon th oll ‘ } Nowhere but here the one-cs ily nal iccessful, large existence Who, then, suffers Not the consumer Doe he newspaper publisher suffer? If so, why does he r up his price to two cents, or to five cents Nobody car hinder him His blank white paper costs him more you please, than he gets for it How, then, d come out with a profit His advertisers save hit sometimes make him rich But are the advertisers complaining Not that any body hear rhey are satisfied, the buyer the int are satisfied, and the publishers have prosperity if the deserve it Shall we under such circumstances KICK @ hole in the protective system, bankrupt papermakers and force a domestic industry to emigrate We ma intrust that question to the sound

common-sense | l come mn | vt ut t 1 ne I 1 ! played tr ne triving surprisi! i Miinchausen and Count Cagliostro are not he ume vith the delimous free trader whe nh et ‘ t consider the homely article of wool Recall the fact that the Government must have in Then take the further fact that import duties upor vol and woolens have put two hundred and ninety-thre million dollars in the United States Treasury tl elk ven year and you have an apology tor the we | dut that might be regarded as about covering the case Now take another fact of no contemptible iwniticances The presence in this country of millions of sheep mear not only wool but mutton chops, and hind and fore leg and all the other sheep-meat requirement Phat the presence here of this great supply ol flesh food tend keep down the prices of other flesh food beef, pork, poultry, and so forth—will not be questioned, Dear Wool and Cheap Mutton HERE ar believe that thi level-headed economists who steadfa tly depression of prices produced by the domestic mutton supply has, throughout the long year fully compensated for all the duties paid at the ports for wool and woolens In fact ill of the wool tax has beer offset completely by the decrease in the price of flesh food 1 am bold enough to assert that on my own account a a practically incontestable fact hould have had the sheep Sut, says the free trader, we if wool had been upon the free list. It is always fairly safe to guess about might-have-beer Let grapple th some solid facts. Mark thisone. The number of Americar sheep has always increased or decreased as the wool duti were sufficient or insufficient in size I must inflict some figures on the patient reader et us take a period of forty-two years, from 1867 to 190% \ TARIFF OF 1867, last 4 years , . 124 cents 4h) reuse 1883, 6 vears : - ; 10 cent lé . 1890, less than a year ' Il cents 10 increa 1804 less than a year : Free wool 4 | ist 1897, 12 years : 11] cents 16°), increase These figure how, beyond controversy, that whenever the duty on wool went below eleven cent a pound SATURDAY EVENING POST It i war con pon tk i} } ‘ ew } , Wt } that he Ar lina ( , fror Phe dut icha irl ng poor mat pay +} il ry n his beloved ' mutton bute} old cause genera [ put the tax indeed if een reaching long-dr which it has br complainant racket made, th of the afflicted pe na year to what I} i he a elon that cor +} forn \ profit of » cent ber portio ire clot! that pr l i hree-ple th $33 trade | never cottor dealer no i prod ‘ ! The AT Dimensions of the Wool Tax \} ’ hi l } j , } } i Y } t y ! ! " ntit ‘ | ‘ ‘ ita i > } | } i 1} oi iT 4 iret ‘ er i! a nd 4a)ff } } i } ) price | ‘ } ' ‘ l bheose

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the cause for the difference in cost between the cloth and the completed $20 garment? It lies, in my judgment, with the retailer. This gentleman, with a perfect right to do his best for himself, and requiring margin for the familiar late-season ‘‘marking down” of suits anywhere from 25 to 50 per cent, appears to make a handsome thing of it I learn that he pays, say, $7 for a suit that he sells for $10, which means that his ordinary profit is somewhere about 43 per cent on that one transaction Sesides, if he is a prompt payer he probably gets a discount from the wholesale dealer On suits retailing at $18 and $20 he probably makes a profit of 50 per cent, and the profit will go higher as the price rises I find no fault with this. The suits are in most cases worth to the wearer what he pays for them. But I do protest against the injustice of holding the wool-grower, the spinner, the cloth-maker and the tariff responsible for a matter that lies solely between the suit-seller and the suit-wearer. In any case this fact may be noted: the American workingman wears better cloth- ing than any other man in the world of his class, because, under the protective system so fierce ly denounced, he earns more money with which t pay tor his neces- sities. It would not be, indeed, hazardous to conjecture that American workingmen wear more unadulterated woolen stuffs than all the other workingmen of all other races put toge ther Thus, when you look this wool and wool- ens monster in the face, he is not such a hideous creature after all!

The Cost of Living A familiar complaint against the tariff is that it increases the cost of living, making that cost much greater than it isin Europe But what kind of living 4 European laborer, who lives in a mud cabin, wears wooden shoes and eats meat twice a year, does indeed live cheaper than an American workman who -as multitudes do -owns a brick house with a bathroom, a Brussels carpet, a piano and electric lights, and who wears fine clothes on all idle days The American pays more, maybe, but he gets more; and that, dear brethren, is the only way in which any man can account for the stupendous fact that within eighty years 23,000,000 Muropean laborers have come over here to live. They know what the difference is. The y have learned where the poor man’s good things are, tariff tariff But, indeed, is living here so very much dearer than it is in the best European countries? I doubt it, quality for quality Take a brief glance at the subject. More than 40 per cent of a workingman’s ex- penditure is for food; and that food, by and large, is cheaper here than in Europe is finally proved by the fact that all Europe comes here to buy food House rent consumes about 15 per cent of such a man’s income. But there is no tariff duty on houses, and the rent is higher because the house is better Clothes take another 15 per cent, but the larger part of men’s, women's and children’s clothing is cotton, and we beat the world on the three fourths of the world’s supply of cotton that we grow in American fields Fuel calls for “per cent of the man’s in- come, and we have coal in illimitable quan- tities, the laborer’s supply being unaffected by the tariff. Light consumes 5 per cent and our oil is the cheapest of all lights About 16 per cent Is spent for sundries, car- fares, church and club dues, newspapers magazines and personal enjoyment, with none of which has the tariff anything to do I take the liberty, therefore, of doubting whether living here really costs more, surely not much more, than it does in Europe, if you consider what a man gets out of it in this better country. If the world holds a poor man’s Paradise, assuredly here it is in this tariff-afflicted, solidly protected but rich and glorious and surpassingly happy country of ours I say that the theorists who never come into contact with industry, who have never penetrated below the skin of the facts, who would rather find fault than be fair —the academic people, the people who merely work it out in their minds with their eyes shut—these are the folks who scoff at and denounce tariff protection and make all the stir and fuss about the injustice of a splendid, century-old national policy Finally: The accusation is urged that the Republican party promised to revise thie tariff downward and failed to make good.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST No such promise was given. The plank in the platform is too long for insertion here, but I will let President Taft —in his speech at Winona —tell the truth about it. “The promise of the Republican plat- form was not to revise everything down- ward. . . . I did not promise that everything should go downward. P The proposition of the Republican party was to reduce rates so as to maintain a difference between the cost of production abroad and the cost of production here, insuring a reasonable profit to the manu- facturer on all articles produced in this country. . . . Idid not agree, nor did the Republican party agree, that we would reduce rates to such a point as to re- duce prices by the introduction of foreign competiticn.” The Tariff an Artificial Device The plank referred to promised to consider the “difference in the cost of production”’ between this country and other countries. 3ut who shall with precision determine that difference? There is one difference as between us and England, another in the ease of Germany, and quite another in the case of Japan. And all the time these differences are fluctuating with costs of material and other cost: What we require are duties high enough to cover all cases and all upward and down- ward movements. We want the protective principle firmly established and in continu- ous operation, so that our own producers may conduct their business in peace and with decent profits. Judging by the successive Congressional elections, that is what also the great majority of the American people require Often I have heard the objection made to the protective system that “it is arti- ficial.’’ It is indeed! Artificial! W hy, civilization and law and government are artificial! The only unartificial and per- fectly natural people are the naked Afri- cans at this moment running about the torrid zone eating one another and having, one would think, a mere minimum of fun All the arts and sciences, all books and pictures and vehicles and machinery are artificial. Our railroad trains, telegraphs, telephones, electric lights, our houses and clothes and churches and other comforts, are artificial. Fertilization of the earth, improving the quality of fruits, breeding fine animals by selection in short, all the things that make life secure, pure, progressive, uplifting and happy, come to us not by nature but by artifice The tariff is indeed “ made ground.” It is not unlike the Holland dikes, which also are artificial. The dikes keep out the sea, and the law keeps out anarchy, and the tariff keeps out destructive foreign competition. Were these defenses not in existence, the sea would flood the Dutchmen, anarchy would swamp our nation, and the foreigner would shut our mills and force our people into idleness, as millions are at this very moment idle in the free-trade Eden of Englanc The American free trader, who abhors artifice and who wants to live the life of a simple child of Nature, will have to go off to the African cannibals, or hie him to a des ert island where he can have his own sweet will all by himself. Money in Milk GROCERY clerk, earning only ten dol- £4 lars a week, but industrious and ambi- tious, began putting away six dollars a month with the help of his wife. Presently there was a chance to make a little extra money by acting as secretary for a secret fraternal order, and the money earned in this way he put away too. When he had one hun dred and Sixty dollars saved he saw an opening for a new milk route. There was a good barn back of the house he rented, so he drew his savings, bought three cows, paid a boy something to drive them to pasture every day, and sold his milk in the neighborhood, he and his wife milking and delivering while he still held his grocery job. In a couple of years, by saving their income from this business, they had enough capital to enable them to move farther out of town, taking a rented farm and increas- ing their livestock. When they became established here he threw up his place in the grocery shop and developed his milk route. In two years more the business grew so thriftily that he got help and built up a second route.

October 11,1910

We Bring the Oyster Beds To You From the famous oyster beds of the Atlantic Coastand | Gulf of Mexico come Sealshipt Oysters—with the tang of the sea. These we ship straight from the sea-shore to a Sealshipt dealer near you. Every mile of the journey under refrigeration. Every mile under seal. |

Wherever you live—in Maine o1 Oysters, you get oysters as fresh

in California—you can now always and pure as the moment they It have genuine Sealshipt Oysters—in the shell your favorite variety When you don’t get Sealsh But please bear this in mind Oysters, you get deceived Sealshipt Oysters are sold onl) So we urge you to be vigila from our beautiful Blue and White | Look for our trade mark in the cen Sealshipticase n every genuine — ter of the Sealshiptica See t Sealshipt dealer's store name and addre of the Sealshipt Inferior oysters with names that Oyster Systemenear the bottom sound like *' Sealshipt’’ may be of When vou have once used Sea fered you. Guard against this fraud! — shipt Oysters, you'll thank us for When you get genuine Sealshipt telling you how to vet them Sealshipt Oyst nd From Sea-shore To You = Under Perfect Refrigeration Salt water is naturally pure Impurities legmed rege ahdleed, never originate in sea water sealed containers So any oysters are purer than nine-tentl t e the water and milk you get ¢ } Besides the supervision of State and Federa MASEALSHIPTORE) Government, the waters where out | ———eorv located are analyzed by the Lederle Laborat j | ‘Ser 4] ries—the famous food experts. Why Oysters Have a Shell rh, jo lo protect the oyster during its growing tes ee er = i stages, Nature has provided a shel § - > Tm 1 Ten Y B But the shell, mind you, has no more to Te momWwa. KICON™ with the taste of an oyster than the shell ha do with the taste of a nut Patent Shipping Refrigerator lel , ‘ sealshipt Oysters are removed from t which keeps Sealshipt Oysters fresh in transit at the oyster beds. They are pack 1 ( air-tight containers These containers in turn are i ( n —_— “ > itented Sealshiptor—a pertect — a 9 ae <r + irigerator which conserve the ce ness and

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‘ . § PaulRieger - it ind so or list The net saving on all was $188,015; | fe been given to savu made ided for under list and disco. ance made for the eased a rdered over what had been estimate he total saving \ d have excee TI i i Ve handsome I AY the first vea when the many f tinst low price ire ¢ the unsettled « liti rin the tariff d sé ! the price ¢ ( y-five per cent in the

* this latter fact, the iten rubber bands would have shown a sa\ $21,081 instead of a loss of $10,289 skepticism of the business world as t« intention of the Government actually use bids, and the necessity the deal »wing for the costly met

under of all j fractional delive ry Waste in Methods of Buying Now . ™ Ike General Supply parent was, and is, the a word about the family tres This is a supervisory body consistir one assistant Secretary of the Trea assistant Secretary of the Interior ar assistant Postmaster-General Ihe of the board is, as Stated, te set ire Tea able uniformity of price and practice tl +} he purchase of Government supplit recommending this board the Dox (‘ommissior iby President ¢

I 1 ir SO estigate tne i met} is of the aepartment De the grandfather of the General S Committe The confusing, and costly prices and qualities of material the Doekery Commission ha bene nessed every year since by the Board Awards Witnessed” is used ad

for the board had only the pr ey comparing the awards made by the sey department The yco ! better prices be obtained, award; they could not rescind S as late as 1906, such conditior “a prevailed: one department gh eit a dozen quarts, another depar ght the same nk at $3 ad I Fc paid $3 > a vr for per another paid $2.27 a gro for the q iality There were one hundred thirty -three kinds eigh t kinds of in eight pen- points, ¢ lever typewriter ril and so on It took three different of paper to describe the specificatior leadpencils for one department alone schedules and figures that were ann submitted to this board ene n use, tWwe

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30 a direct relation to the electrical condue- tivity of the metal, The man who had Called for the test had opened hi book at the wrong place The majority of appli- Cations tor test under the old ysterm were vague simply becuuse they were perfunctory Lhe importance of a material being true lo specification was iunpressed upon one anaiyst who objected that his assistant vas wasting time worth about ten dollars on linseed oil that cost only twenty dollars a barrel. He saw things in true propor- tions after it had been expiained to him that the life of the paint depended upon the quality of the oil and that the total ost of the job for which the oil was required would be something over two hundred dollars The work of completing the list of pecifications is a matter of years. If it ended in the case of each item with the determination of one quality perhaps a year might dispose of the task, but it is evident that a single specification for a pencil or blanket or an oil could not cover every use and application of the article It is the multiplicity of uses based upon actual requirements that complicates the drawing up of specifications and lengthens the task Occasionally the entrance of the personal factor upsets specifications though ever so carefully made A complaint was made last year of a certain twine. The bundle- wrappers declared that its rough surface chated their fingers painfully and they howed the marks on their hands where blood had been drawn. A sample of the twine was tested, compared with the original sample and found to be identical with it. The quality was first-class and only under microscopic examination was the trouble discovered. Slanting along the length of the fiber were sharp, rigid points like barbs. These were the instruments of torture The condition that must work a loss on either the Government or the contractor is the one of fractional delivery The bidder should understand clearly the prac- tical consequences of the clause in the con- tract reading Articles furnished under this proposal and contract must be de- livered in such ‘quantities as may be ordered from time to time by any of the executive departments or independent establishment mentioned above, to be delivered at and within the doors of the toreroom of the department,”’ and so on Otherwise he may come to regret the low bid that won him the contract He will see his estimated profit shaved with every shipment he makes by express of a dozen brooms, half a dozen bottles of mucilage or cans of paint. If his headquarters are remote the shaving will be a close one. So the bidder inexperienced in selling to the Government must often secure the con- tract for the reason that in making his price he has not allowed for the loss this requirement will put upon him Gambling on the Weather The ideal solution to thi difficulty is a large central storehouse to which the dealer might make but one or two ship- ment Until such a central point is established the Government and the dealer must agree to compromise on an allowance for this faulty system. The matter of a torage plant is remote in the minds of the committee for the reason that the senti- ment of Congress is strongly against increasing the number of buildings and permanent offices In reforming the methods of the Government it has to be considered that the Government is not in business for a profit, that its reason for being is paternal, and its policy in buying must be to spend the public money econom- ically and to the best advantage There- fore, in the nature of the circumstances, a contract with the Government must b« more one-sided than one between two private individuals, each in business for himself and so spending his own money The item of forage is one that has always viven trouble to both the Government and the dealer, and upon the latter has worked much injustice The proposal for bids calls for an opening in June, a time of year when the condition and size of the crops are yet uncertain. Consequently cases like the following happen. A few years ago a certain dealer was the low bidder and was awarded the contract. The summer was u ary one, forage crops shrank and prices mounted Ky fall the luc ky contractor THE SATURDAY EVENING POST who faced a considerable deficit decided | that he had been unlucky in getting the contract, The following year he was more cautious, and bidding a littl higher he lost the award. His fortunate competitor wa blessed with a bumper year, prices dropped to the bottom, and in the end the con tractor cleared a handsome profit’ that would have more than balanced the other man’s loss. The fair season for opening bids for forage is September. It is within the power of Congress easily to rectify this error that requires the bidders on forage to gamble on the weather A conflict with trust greed over the ice item last year led the Government into the business of ice-making. The depart- mental estimates called for about seven thousand tons. The annual ice bill of the Government has in recent years never been far from forty thousand dollars. A tidy sum, you might think, but the ice interests, reasoning differently, decided that this was too small a plum to be divided; so they consolidated. For the fiscal year 1908- 1909 bids had been received to the grand total of seven. Last year the committee got three bids, which quoted prices so fancy that a readvertisement was called for. The second advertisement. brought forth one lusty bid. The bidding party bore a name of national significance, which spelled monopoly in large letters. Uncle Sam and His Ice Plants The figures were only a shade less saucy a cent a hundred pounds for less than a thousand pounds on plate ice, the kind of which the largest amount was called for The sub-committee on fuel and ice did a little reckoning on its own account and found that the ice for the current fiscal year cost $35,374, ‘‘or less than the aggre- gate cost on the bid received for the ensu- ing fiscal year by the sum of $6,913.90, an increase, according to the bids just received, of nearly twenty per cent over the cost for the current fiscal year.””. Also that, though the average delivery would be nearly eight times as large as the average of the deliv- eries made to private houses, the price was the same; and that many stores in the city were being furnished with ice at twenty-five cents a hundred, or five dollars a ton, even in quantities of less than one thousand pounds What should be done? Why, there were ice-making machines in the market, and though the first cost of them was great they were Money-Savers Also there were in the basements of the big department buildings engines, engineers, storerooms and, be- sides, delivery wagons to spare To shorten the story, it may be stated that the Post- Office and Interior Departments installed ice-machines and have for a year manu factured their own ice. The Treasury De partment is at present installing a machine, and the State, War and Navy Building will follow suit this year. The result in the case of those departments that have manufactured their own ice has been that, instead of costing the Government an average of six dollars a ton, ice has cost less than a dollar a ton, calculating labor, material and interest on the money invested in the machines The plan of the General Supply Com- mittee is, in its effect, analogous to the jury system. Before its fourteen members ome six hundred manufacturers and deal ers voluntarily place their goods and themselves on trial. They submit their evidence in the form of bids and samples, the evidence is accurately judged and impartially compared, and the verdict in favor of one Man means much more to him than half a dozen contracts with the departments meant under the previous individualistic system. The patronage of the General Supply Committee is adver- tising of the best sort It signifies, first, that the sample was of good, serviceable quality; second, that the price was reason- able; third, that the shipments were prompt and in good condition and that the quality of the sample was maintained As compared with dealing with the General Supply Committee, doing business under the former system was similar to pleading before a judge of the lower court A con tract under the new conditions is a certifi cate of excellence that carries authority wherever it may be displayed. The temper of this committee is distinctly judicial and on a high plane Ultimately this com mittee will be placed under the Secretary of the Treasury, who will have the power to sign all contracts for general supplies October 11,1910 Every “South Bend’’ Watch Gets 250 Inspections Now—while you are reading this advertisement—there are 1,200 “South Bend” Watches in a single rack in our factory running together in a six-day test. They must make a perfect score before they are sent to the jeweler for his customers. This means that their balance wheels must vibrate 20,000 times without the loss or gain of a single one of these tiny pulsations. This means that every one of these watches was put together so Care- fully and every part fitted so nicely that it ran without a hairspring be- fore it was deemed good enough to send to this testing rack. It means that every watch on this stand received 250 inspections to make sure that it was eligible to this test. There are fifteen thousand differ- ent operations in the making of a “South Bend” Watch. It takes as long, usually, to build one “ South Bend” Watch as it does to construct one of our largest sky- scrapers, for many a “South Bend” remains in our factory a full year be- fore it has passed this final rack-test. The making of the watch alone requires six months of intricate labor by the most expert mechanical arti- sans in the world. These are the reasons why a “South Bend” Watch costs more than ordinary watches. The lack of this care and exqui- site workmanship is the reason why ordinary watches, like “mail order The “South Bend’’ Watch Seld by 14,534 Expert Retail Jewelers watches,” never give the satisfactory service that is guaranteed in a “South Bend.” A common watch like a “mail order watch” isn’t capable of the fine “personal adjustment” that a “South Bend” Watch gets from the expert jeweler who sells it and while the owner is wearing it. Why “Personal Adjustment” Is Necessary A watch has a tendency to run faster lying flat than when held upright. Jolting, quick movements, etc., affect it. Some people move Qui kly, lean over a great deal or jolt about in motor cars much of the time, and their watches need adjustment to those peculiarities. A “South Bend” Watch can be ad justed to meet the average of those condi tions so it will keep pertect time all the time. A cheap watch never can be so nicely regulated. When a person gets a cheap watch that keeps good time it is pure luck. It pays to get the best watch you know about. Send for highly interesting book, “How Good Watches Are Made,” and learn all about “South Bend” Watches Don’t send any money—just say “Send me your book.” The South Bend Watch Co. Dept. B South Bend, Ind. The Newest Railroad Watch A “South Bend” Watch Called “‘ The Studebaker "’ “The Studebaker” is a “South Bend” Watch that has been passed upon favorably by the most critical inspectors in the country the railroads’ chief time inspector Ask your dealer to show it to you. Price of 17 jewel movement, $24 without case ; of 21 jewels, $35 without case If your jeweler hasn't it, se nd his name and we'll wr give you the name b of one who has it / Perfect ' Time y All the a

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7. iN an Mt il AM Fe New Model 81 for 1911 Ride in the Waverley Brougham Luxurious Before You Buy an Electric You who nide in carriages will find in this new Waverley Model each particular point of excellence demanded by the ripest judgment, largest experience and most critical taste. The utmost refinement of elegance and ideal comfort for passengers combine with silent Waverley mechanical perfection to produce the supreme achievement in electrics for 1911. Increased width of body is a feature of this 191 | Model which adds materially to its roominess, giving just the proportions approved by the masters of coach building. In doing this an additional curve has been introduced into the swell sides of the extension front, faultlessly completing the graceful lines of the body in ensemble. Great luxury of upholstering is a pronounced factor in the supremacy of this Silent Waverley Model. The same latitude as before is allowed for individual taste; but the choicest broad- cloth and goat morocco the markets of Europe afford and a broad lace of special design have been imported for this car. Additional pockets have been provided for small articles. The furnishings include a hand- some flower vase, two toilet cases with watch and salt bottles, a match safe and cigar holder, and a convenient umbrella holder. A shaft-dnven odometer is supplied with each car. The Waverley is the only Electric specially designed for either solid or pneumatic tires. She Hitent ‘In Third Year of Qwners’ Test The luxury of motion— [hough the Silent Waverley is one of the lightest electrics manufactured, 178 pound: of steel are used in its extra long full elliptic springs. The main leaves alone have a combined length of over 31 '> feet. The specially selected matenal and the Waverley working out of the design and principles of spring construction make this the easiest riding vehicle ever produced. Perfection of control. The Waverley side lever steering system and Waverley Controller (endorsed by Edison) ar and perfect in their simphe ity and east e faultless In construction High-Efficiency Shaft-Drive of handling. High-efficiency shaft-drive. The Silent Waverley is the orly Electr: carnage with shaft drive in its third year of actual service and with gears of a tested efficiency of 98.7 There is an agent for the Silent Waverley near you Let him take you for a nde in the Silent Waverley, demonstrate its mechanical perfection and show you the beauty of its design and the luxury of its silent, easy riding Exide, Waverley, National or Edison Battery used. You have not seen the handsomest car—you have not ridden in the most luxurious car—you have not learned the meaning of Electric carriage satisfaction UNTIL YOU HAVE TRIED THE WAVERLEY. Beautiful Art Catalog fully illustrating and describing the Waverley Electrics sent free on request 141 South East Street THE WAVERLEY COMPANY Builders of Electric for 15 year Indianapolis, Ind. | ‘ '

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST October 1,1910 HE engineering supremacy of America is now firmly established. No one agency has accomplished more toward, this end than the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company. Wherever civilization has penetrated and electricity is used the Westinghouse name and products are known. Built up inside of twenty- -five years to be the world leader in the electrical industry — today the We estinghouse engineers ” seal of approval on anything electrical makes that thing standard in electrical practice everywhere. The steady growth of the Westinghouse industries, through good times and bad, is one of the big things of American commercial history. Today they employ a twenty thousand a The rINGHOY ELEC CTRIC — = " & name Is on ev erything electrical — from the largest generators and motors ever built down to all sorts of household cooking and heating devices, and the most accurate, jeweled measuring instruments. An important section of the Pittsburg, works is devoted exclusively to the manufacture of electric locomotives and equipment necessary to railroad ele ctrification. Seven hundred fifty carloads of We stinghouse a Electrical produc ts are shippe d eve ry month. Four hundred engineers are on the Westinghouse staff and the men who direct them have achieved world-wide reputations in the electrical profession. Whenever you buy a piece of Westinghouse electrical apparatus for any purpose w hatever — remember it is backed by the best know ledge and experience in electrical practice and construction | dle and able qu o “Easily installed and to be found. Look for the Westinghouse name. 32%, ! sith sommouty wader mom ever condi Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company Offices in 40 American Cities Pittsburg Representatives all Over the World =

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SATURDAY EVENING POST taal - a er Seer oe we rae ° a Ree . pr ' . . . \ _ a — AGWOUSE ELecrRic «¢ MANUFACTURING co. ern ma nN Ss ~~ | . Stoke 414458 ANY a manufacturing plant in these days is paying dividends solely because waste and lost motion in pro- duction have been eliminated, and the efficiency of its machines has been increased by individual electric motors. The individual electric drive—the motor forming an integral part of the machine—is the ideal method of applying power. Thousands of users of Westinghouse installations have proven this form of drive to be a paying investment. It gives full and positive power at the machine. |t does away with cumbersome shafting and belting and permits lighter construction of factory buildings. Its speed control is even and eas sily manipul ited, incre asing the capacity of the individually dive machine. On certain classes of tools and machines the output has been increased twenty- five to one hundre d per cent. and quality of product has been improved by using Westinghouse electric motors in place of mechanical drive. Westinghouse motors are automatic in their regulation, requiring and delivering power in direct 8 ining proportion to the demand on them. In cases of emergency they will sustain large temporary overloads. 2ST) Done 2 2U é: oz. re motors and controllers are in use in every line of manufacture where the use of Electric Power is possible. They range in size from the one-fiftieth horse-power motor to the great special motors developing upward of ten thousand horse power and are adapted to all classes of service. Nowhere in the universe can be found more special knowledge of electrical matters based on world-wide experience than is centered in the Westinghouse Electric organization. The only way you can form an intelligent opinion as to the advisability of using electric drive in your own plant is to put it up to Westinghouse Electric to show you. If there is anything electrical you want to know — from the best motor to run your ice cream freezer to the proper one to drive a steel mill; or what’s what in heating devices—put it up to Westinghouse Electric. Write to “ Westinghouse Motor Application Department, Pittsburg.” Your letter will be answered directly by our experts. Are you interested in any of the motors pictured here? Tell us which one and we will mail a booklet, describing what it does and how. A postcard will do. These are the successful small -px »wer motors for po pen current. They are used on th "s, such as washing m va 7 wing rachines, coffee ‘etude, envelope sealers and stampers, and so on. One-twentieth to one-fourth ‘ee wse- px t i ype DA Single Pha

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34 Sense and A Reverie of Autumn HE parloris strewn with burnt matches; there’s dust ankle ae: i the hall; the furniture’s all over scratches; big cob- webs have frescoed the me there isn’t a nook or a corner but something is care- lessly thrown; for five or six weeks as chief mourner I’ve run this whole household alone. I think how I manfully told her she never need worry at all; she wasn’t to fret or I'd scold her; and when she came back in the fail the house would be kept just as neatly, I'd air all the chambers each day, and have them all dusted completely each week that she might be away. And now that I’ve had a note, warning me she was about te. return, I’ve aired it and aired it all morning; I’ve set sulphur candles to burn; the doors have stood open for hours; the windows I’ve had up all day; I’ve scattered the place with cut flowers and squirted cologne and sachet; but still it smells rusty and dusty and smoky and clammy and stale, and there is an odor that’s musty which camps every hour on my trail. And I don’t mind easing and baring my whole. troubled conscience to you--I wholly torgot about airing the house as I promised to do. Pgs that’s not the only bad blunder. I've thought of a worse one than that while airing the house out: I wonder what- ever became of the cat! She told me to be sure and feed him —and say, she just doted on Spot ! But I didn’t happen to need him and so { forgot —I forgot! I got him some milk I remember along in the last of July; let's see, it’s the first of Sept ember; poor Spot — he must be really dry! I went to the back door this morning and called him with tender regard, but he must have heard me with scorning or else he was not in the yard. It’s been some six weeks since I fed him; I guess he resolved not to wait, and maybe his hunger has sped him away to some hor- rible fate I hope he comes back, but I doubt it; I'd feed him of milk to his fill; and what will I tell her about it?) I’m blessed if I know what I will! ND that reminds me the canary, who 41% hasn't been singing of late, I found on the cage floor, and very deceased, I am orry to state. I gave him his seed as I told her | would when she left him with me; I kept both those iittle glass iolders as full every day as could be; and I shed a tear when I found him, his little toes sadly ipturned, with all of that foodstuff around him, and it was just then that I learned that one of those things was for water, and for some few weeks he had none, and so when the weather grew hotter he turned his toes up tothe sun. I noticed him drooping and pining and looking quite down in the mouth, but I only thought of his dining and never once noticed the drought. I’m sorry his music isended; I wish that hissong could be heard: but what has been done can’t be mended and I'll have to buy a new bird. ] T LOOKS sort of lonesome and dreary and smells sort of musty and stale; for Dick's warbling used to be cheery and Spot's purr used never to fail; and th ings and everything used to be fresh and airy spick, span and clean; I tell you, I've missed you, Sweet Mary, as sure as my name’s Henry Green. There's grease on the range in the kitchen; the clock stands i a unwound in the hall; but when you get home we will ~% in and both do some cleaning that’stal I know that the whole house looks dizzy and smells from the lack of fresh air, but I'll tell her 1 was so busy I just couldn't find time to spare. I’m sorry that cat, Spot, is missing, and that poor Dick gave up the ghost, but I'll stop her questions with kissing, and Spot may come back to his post. It may look some mussed up and lonely about here, but after you roam well say, after all, there is only one place for your wife and that’s home! IW. bo | Wisk I Were Home I] sit in the mids st of the claite VU dishe The shrilling of orders, the chatler Of} undreds who talk as the y eat, The waitress says kindly, ** More turkey? i choke as I answer her, ‘* No’m,” s, the tattoo of feet, {nd my eyes they are misty and murky I wish 1] were home THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Nonsense "hoy I wish I were home, for I’m lonely; A lump’s in my throat and it chokes. T want to go home, to be only This day on the farm, with the folks. With turkey that never knew storage And vegetables fresh from the loam Real, glorious, countryside forage I wish I were home. I’m not going to quit, for the struggle Is good for the heart and the head; But I wish I had Her —just to snuggle Up close, as she did when she said: “T'll wait for you, Dave, till you win it; I'll wait for you, boy, as you roam.’ And it’s just to see Her for a minute I wish I were home. Berton Braley Expert Testimony HEY were discussing, in the club, at what uncertain stage a man may fairly be said to be intoxicated. One of the com- pany, perchance to justify some reminiscent delinquency, began to quote the old lines: **Not drunk is he who from the floor”’ and so forth ‘I can beat that,”’ said one who spoke with the voice of more recent authority ‘**A man may be said not to be intoxicated so long as he can lie on his back on the floor without holding on.” The Same Small Boy HE rattle and creak of the same old tent; the trunk on the same old ele- phant; the same old tusks and wrinkled skin, and the same old trunk with the peanuts in; the same old cage where the lions roar and the same old mange that they had before; the same old barkers, the same old stunt, and the same gay streamers out in front. The same old swindles, the same old beats, and the same old freaks in the sideshow seats: the bearded lady, the rubber man, the Albino—why, their lives must span full fourscore years, or maybe more, for they’re just as young as they were before when I was a boy with a guileless brow, and I’m coming close to forty now. f pom same old tunes that they used to play on the steam piano the same old way; the same old bands in the street parade and the same old airs that the old times played; the same old clowns and the same old smile, from right to left in the same old style; the same bandwagons, the same old blare of brazen horns on the summer air; the same old snake that used to curl in sluggish folds round the same old girl; the same old roar of the lion’s rage and the same old chap in the lion’s cage **Please hold your horses’’—the same old ery —‘‘for the elephants are coming by!”’ HE same free show near the same big tent; the same old cries that the barkers vent; the same old camels, gray with age; the same old stop at the monkey cage the same old tigers, tired and thin, with the faded stripes and wrinkled skin; the same old brute friends here I see, all caged in the same menagerie; the same old words ‘Is the lion cross?"’ ‘* Does the elephant really know his boss?” ‘Will the monkeys bite?”’ ‘See the camels pout!" ‘* Would the tigers fight if the bears got out?”’ ‘‘Is it just raw meat that the lion gets?"’ ‘Is it really blood that the hippo sweats And the same old march in the same parade to the big main tent where the rings are laid HE same hard seats and the same old ery of the lemon man as he passes by; the same old clown with the same old jokes, and the same old steeds and circus folks; the same old rubes from the same front row who dare to ride bareback—oh! oh! and the same old clothes that they cast off there toshow the spangled tights they wear; the same old acts that we always see, and the same old jokes that will always be; the same old things that Barnum knew of the human kind that are always true. And I’m on the grounds when the music plays with the same heart-throb of the old, old days; I'm down in front with the same old thrill, and the same old joy delights me still; for it seems like the same old show, | you see, that thrills the me! I, W. Pole same small boy in | | October 11,1910 weoetn Wiyjuy, ———— ty ee mT Ys ~ 4 Z Me “ GY /] + 4 % to —that’s it! Bully old phrase that sure does hit off the joys of smoking Prince Albert tobacco in your old jimmy pipe. Why, say! a pup’’ men yearned for tobacco without teeth—tobacco that wou/dn’t, and couldn't bite. Now, here’s the answer— PRINCE ALBERT Cut out pipe fussing, pipe grouches! Don’t take any slack talk on this pipe Don’t back water! Long ‘‘before Hector was tobacco question! Men, what we say is blasted out of solid-rock facts. Now, listen— Prince Albert is the grandest smoke ever pushed into a bowl. It’s vot the Indian sign on ’em all—no matter price or reputation f/ Won't bite yur tongue——nor anyone else's Just can t! Holds its fire long and close; cool, fragrant—hooked up any old way you want to play it. ’ Y That’s ovr say-so! What's your Game to uncork a dime and / tind out something 4 that’s “good tor what ails you! These days, all live dealers sell Prince Albert. They're wise If you can’t focus on 3 a ‘‘live’’ one, send us 8 cents for a liberal how-de-do tin. This offer good only in the United States R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., Winston-Salem, N { a

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36 THE SATURDAY THE MEN WHO GET ON IN THE WEST By George Frederic Siration PTE assistant superintendent of a great Connecticut manufacturing corpora- & tion recently said: “‘ During the past two years over forty of our young employ- ees got the Western fever and went out to get cured. Up to date eighteen of them have come back and applied for their old jobs. It’s the same old story—plenty of ordinary men for ordinary jobs, and the newcomers have to take skimmed milk until they can show that they’re worth cream ig A verbatim account of the experiences of one of the returned and disappointed new-world builders was obtained. He had been a timekeeper in the Connecticut factory for four years when, dissatisfied with the prospects and drawn by reading of the Golden West, he had gone to Denver. But timekeepers were not in demand and ordinary office clerks were as plentiful as in Hartford. When down to his last dollar he got a job at driving a team for a local truck gardener. A little later he changed to the job of checking weights in a coal vard. There was no improvement in his condition or, as he viewed it, in his pros- pects; therefore, as soon as he could scrape together the money, he bought a return He had entirely failed ticket to the East. to grasp the fact that the West orthe East Missouri or Massachusetts Colorado or Connecticut —have to be shown; that a man’s bald claim of ability is not instantly and unreservedly accepted. The foregoing is a case typical of the experiences of thousands of others wh lured by Western prospects, follow the sun until they see the gulden snows on Pike's Peak or the glaring plains of Idaho or Nevada, or, still farther out, the apple- ind-orange-blossomed slopes from the foot- hills of the Sierras to the wash of the Pacific And wherever he may stop to prospect the bookkeeper fails to find the position of business manager waiting for him; the retail drygoods clerk who has left the steadiness of fourteen dollars a week finds the twenty-five-dollar positions ap- pare ntly full to the brim. The mechanic looks in vain for the immediate foreman- ship which his expertness and his estimate of the needs of the West have led him to expect. For, urgent as the need of the West is for capable, energetic executives, it insists upon first being shown the qualities before it hands out the salaries. However,

the majority of such men, either deter- mined to win out or forced to stay by lack ot means to return, often awake witt astounding suddenness to the fact that though the West has to be shown, its re sponse W hen it is shown characier and ability is marvelously quick and gratifying An Engineer Whe Made Good A yi ung ¢ lectrical er gineer, trained one of the largest manufacturing plant the country, went to Montar ce to Nevada, trying it Vaintog oi He struck Salt Lake City ane i ob as lineman for the street-railway compat He was a good worker and stuck on mar fully, watching keenly for an opportur to make use of his knowledge and abilitic One day, after four months of the work, he was eating lunch with the gang loreman | modest restaurant At the next " sat a husky, prosperous-looking ranchma talking with a friend ‘There’ a hur ired horse-power runr to waste down t d, i if I knew eno a turn every galior “ There's ered foreman to th Acting on ea ove toward the ranchman and said It isn’t my custom to listen to strangers conversation, but what you said about that

water reached me without listening. I'm un electrical engineer and looking for a job. If you'll give me a chance on that I'll make good.” The appeal was short, crisp and direct enough to reach the Western heart and head. There was a keen, comprehensive rutiny of the young fellow, followed by a score of questions as to his knowledge, experience and present occupation, some of which the foreman answered with com- plimentary comment. Finally the ranch- man said: “If you want to go back with me to- morrow and show me that you know what you're talking about, with all the dips, spurs, variations and right angles, I'll let you tackle the job. I'll give you the same grubstake as you’re getting now, and when the machine’s running all right, if it comes inside your estimate of the cost, I'll throw in a bonus of a couple of hundred or so.”’ The engineer glanced at his foreman, who said: “‘Go to it!” Four months later he had a hundred- kilowatt generator driving motors pumping water for irrigating a high level, and light-. ing the ranch buiidings. The rancher handed him a check for three hundred dollars. **That’s your bonus,” he said. ‘‘ You've done a good job, and there’s another like it waiting for vou at the Red Warrior Mine, sixteen miles up the cafion. They want a thousand horse-power, and nachully they've been watching your work. I’m on the stock list for a couple of hundred shares and I've told ’em you assay all right.” From Groceries to Power Plants A few years ago a young clerk left Boston o seek a Western fortune. After some weeks of drifting and failure he secured a job in a Denver general store. A month later he was wishing he was back East. The opening conditions were the same as those he had left, and he assumed that the sueceeding conditions would be the same. Denver was to him but a small edition of Boston: Se lling groceries at retail, handling the same goods in the same old way, with the same old amusements vaudeville, picture-shows and ball games for recreation. During that summer he saw neither cowboy nor pony-—except a small bunch at a modest Wild West show on the fairgrounds. He did his work well, but after a few months concluded that, if he was to be a grocery clerk for life, he'd prefer to be back in good old Boston. So, one morning, after a specially blue Sunday, he went to the store determined to give notice of his intention to leave the job and go back East, but the employer got ahead of him. Calling him into the office Said: Silly, how would you like to go to Placer Flat? That’s up in the Opex Canfion, sixty miles from here. It’s a new town—mining--with a sure good sheep- country adjoining, and some farming. I put a few hundred into town lots when it started, two years ago, and I’m going to open a store up there. The prospect's all right. good pay streaks and sheep feed and | want you to go up and run it.” The young fellow was astounded. In three minutes his whole perspective of life was changed. Promotion! fairly settled in his job, and a transfer into the very cenes for which he had come West, but failed to find. He gasped his before he was

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store, mine and ranch within wiring dis- tance? A year ago we had six hundred inhabitants; now we have sixteen hundred. Next year we'll reach four or five thousand; and you can bet your finai dollar that some of the newcomers’ll stake out that water- claim if we don’t. What are we doing, anyway? There was a howl of appreciation, and as it subsided a burly sheepman, who had that season cashed in a big clipping of wool, growled: “That’s a pious idee! I've got five thousand to chip in on that! Any one talkin’?”’ Inside of an hour twenty-six thousand dollars was pledged for stock in an electric light company. The discussion and deci- sion were absolutely informal, but were held with the fine orderliness of a Western meeting the outgrowth of the days when gun-to-heart talk was considered as effect- ive in maintaining order and fairness as a Cannon incantation of rules. The next day the ranchman was on the train for Chicago, to interview agents of the several manufacturing electrical com- panies. In thirty days the company was organized. Forty thousand dollars was subscribed and the promoted grocery clerk appointed secretary and treasurer, with the understanding that his office would be in the Empire General Store, of which he would remain manager. His employer went on his bond.

Men Like Horses “Sure! When we’ve been shown char- es ability and enterprise we take it ght up and use it,’”” was the emphasized comment of an employer of several hundred men, when told of the foregoing incident. Ve calculate to hire a young fellow on a moderate salary until he shows the right color; but we see that color the moment it shows, and go deeper for more without losing any time and pay for it.’ We don’t talk about a dollar a week raise at the end of the year if the work is satisfactory, and another dollar raise at the end of another year if it continues satisfactory; with various and sundry hints at prospects of promotion during the succeeding ten or tifteen years if the work continues satis- factory. We wouldn’t hire a man who'd listen to such terms. If he doesn’t know enough to take care of his own interests he doesn’t know enough to take care of ours. We look upon a good man as we do a good horse -to be used now, while he is good, upon the right shift. If he shows the least sign of snap, style and pull we take him off the freight work at once and put him on the fast express and develop him.” This vigorous asserter is a contractor, and one instance of his methods will show that he backs up his statements. A work- man of twelve years’ experience in one of the large Indiana wagon-building shops went into the intermountain region to seek promotion. As usual, his first experi ences were disappointing. At Cheyenne, Helena, Ogden and Salt Lake City he found openings only in repair shops, at wages no higher than he had previously received And, from his point ol view, the prospects were not so good, as there was not a wagon factory in the entire section After six months he wrote to inquire if he could go back on his old job. One day, before an answer } irrived, the contractor came into the shop where the young mechanic was working and gave nstructions about some repairs He growle d because he had to send back East for new outfits, and mentioned the eight charge he had just paid on a ship- ment olf ten wagons. The wagon-maker grinned and said “That check you gave for freight would buy enough lumber in Oregon and pay the freight on it here to build forty wagons.” “What’s that?’’ demanded the con tractor. The young man took out his pocketbook and showed some notes on lumber quota tions and freight rates. There were a dozen questions asked and answered, when the contractor finally said: ‘Let me copy those figures. I want t look into this.”” Three weeks afterward the young man was on the way East to purchase an outfit of machinery for a new wagon-building firm, of which he was the junior, but active, partner. A year afterward the contractor said: ‘‘I’d seen, by his repair work, that he understood wagons, and I learned that he had saved a hundred dollars out of five

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40 FARM SAUSAGES Real country sau- sages, with the true farm flavor, are no more than a fond, childhood mem- ory to most folks. \ helping of breakfast or luncheon will bring Jones Dairy Farm Sau- sages tor again to you a pleasure of past years. sausaves are really made on These f our farm, in the good, old farm fashion, especially for folks who yearn for coun- try Satisages We use the coms and shoulders of 1 litle, milk-fed pigs, mixed with pure home-ground spices and salt, from a recipe written in an old-fashioned hand with a quill pet No adulterants or pre- servatives we wouldn't know how to use them if we hadthem. The result iS a delicious sausave meat that makes everybody who tries it want it again. Even our neighbors sell us their pig anc buy our sausaye If your grocer sells J s Dairy Farm Sausaves, we will be glad to express his orders so that you can have perfect fresh ausages on Whatever day ot the week you want them delivered We make only enough each day to hil that day's orders. If he does not sell them, write us We'll take care of you Write anyway for our free It contains I arm Cook Book recipes the French never heard of P MILO C. JONES Jones Dairy Farm Box 605 Fort Atkinson, Wis. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST YOUR SAVINGS How Postal Savings Banks Will Work Y THE first of the year, and possibly before that time, one of the most — and effective agencies for saving will be brought to the very front doors of the people of the United States. This will be accomplished through the long-awaited introduction of postal sav- ings banks. The act authorizing them was passed by the last Congress and, at the time this article is written, practically all the details for the operation of the system have been arranged. Here is a work that not only touches all citizens but provides a constructive and economic opportunity of which everybody may take advant ag The big question everywhere is, How will the banks work and what must the depositors do? There is a worldwide significance in our postal savings system. Although we are the last great nation to take it up, our plan differs in many respects from that in vogue in any other country. Under the terms of the Postal Savings Bank Bill, the con- trol, supervision and administration of the postal banks is in the hands of a board of trustees consisting of the Postmaster- General, the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney-General, acting ex officio. The first board, which comprises Mr. Frank Hitcheock, Mr. Franklin MacVeagh and Mr. George Wickersham, with Mr. Theodore Weed as secretary, named a subcommittee, of which Mr. H. Thompson is chairman. This committee has worked out most of the details of the plan that will now be set forth. There was very little in the act itself to aid the Post-Office Department in estab- lishing the system. It was a general measure directing the postmasters to ac- cept savings up to five Sandee dollars, to record the deposits in passbooks and pay two per cent interest. The problem, there- fore, was to devise a system that would be simple, efficient and economical. The first task was to find a suitable record of de- posit. When the committee turned to the systems in operation in foreign countries they found that the passbook was in uni- versal use; but the passbook requires an elaborate chain of accounting. In England, for example, where one out of every six persons is a postal savings depositor, more than two thousand bookkeepers are re- quired to keep track of the passbook accounts. The introduction of passbooks in the United States would have required, so it was estimated, four thousand book- keepers. It is decided to cut out the passbook and issue certificates of deposit. The Certificate System The certificate will be about the size of a dollar bil! and will be issued in the form of an original and a duplicate. The original will be kept by the depositor as his receipt and the duplicate by the postmaster as his record of the transaction. Each certificate will be numbered and will be in that if a depositor loses one the payment on it can be stopped. On the certificate will be er iwraved, in addition to the state- ment of the Government’s indebtedness to the holder, an interest table for five years. Thus no bookkeeping will be required. The postmaster or his assistant can figure up the interest at any time, because the interest will not be compounded and the calculation will be a very simple matter. The deposit« r will be required to sign both the original and the duplicate certificate. When he comes to withdraw his money he will be required to duplic ate this signature Likewise, as in a bank, he will have to be identified. With the issuance of the first certificate, which corresponds to the asked lar to that required by banks. Any person over ten years of age may become a depositor An account may be started with one dollar or multiples of one dollar; not more than one hundred dollars can be deposited in a calendar month and all accounts are limited to five hundred dollars. Each depositor is limited to one account. According to the original plan, the amount of the deposit was to be punched in the certificate of deposit. This method, a series, SO opening of an account, he will be to fill out a card sim New York savings however, offered the danger that a dis- honest postmaster or his assistant might punch the original certificate for one amount, and the duplicate —which is the office record—-for a smaller amount, and keep the difference. A plan has therefore been devised to get around this danger Two kinds of certificate will be issued: one is to be punched and the other is not to be punched. The punched certificate will be for deposits ranging from one to nine dollars. It will be issued when the first deposit is made. It is contended that, since the amount that would be stolen on this certificate is so small, no official would jeopardize his position or liberty for it. When the tenth dollar is deposited by the holder of one of these certificates his old certificate is destroyed and he is given a new one with the denomination of ten dollars. The depositor can then start his dollar-saving with a punched certificate again, and when he has saved ten dollars more he can get a twenty-dollar certificate, and so on. For those who want to start with a flat deposit of ten dollars or twenty dollars or forty do!lars, certificates of the denomination of their deposit issued. These certificates will be in multi- ples of ten dollars up to one hundred dollars. The duplicate certificates will be kept at the post-office in heavy manila envelopes, which have been especially made for this purpose. On the outside are spaces in which to write the depositor’s name and the amount of his interest as it comes due. Interest Not Compounded The certificates of deposit will be non- transferable, non-negotiable, and will not be available for collateral security. Like- wise they will not be regarded as legal tender in any sense. This will prevent a laboring man, for instance, from passing his certificate of hard-earned savings, or that of his wife or child, over the counter of a saloon. The Government will pay two per cent interest annually. It will be credited once a year. There will be no compounding. This means that if you deposit one hundred dollars January 1, 1911, and keep the money in the post-office until January 1, 1912, you will have one hundred and two dollars to your credit. But if you do not make any more deposits during the year 1912 your interest for that year will not be on one hundred and two dollars, as it would be in a savings bank, but on one hundred dollars, the amount of your original de- posit. If you want to draw out your two dollars’ interest at the end of a year you will have to cash in the old certificate and have a new one for one hundred dollars issued. Interest will not allowed on ractions of a dollar. The interest periods have not been worked out, but will probably be January 1 and July 1. Having dispose d of the passbook prob- lem, the committee faced another big question, which was: Shall a postal savings deposit be payable at any post-office in the United States on presentation of a certifi- cate or only at the office where the de- posit was made? In England a depositor can withdraw his money anywhere on the presentation of his passbook. Thus a man away from home on a holiday who finds himself short of cash can simply go to the post-ollice at the resort or town where he is staying and get financial relief. It was decided that though this could work suc cessfi illy ‘in England it would be imprac- tical in the United States, where there are sixty vane post-oftfices, or three times more than in the United Kingdom. Hence, money can only be withdrawn at the office where it has been deposited. Now for the disposition of the deposits. The Post-Office Department is authorized to deposit the postal savings bank funds in state, national or savings banks and trust companies that do a general banking business. These deposits shall’ bear inter- est at the rate of not less than 2!,4 per cent a year. Most of the ee will earn more, as there will be competition for these deposits. Five per cent oi the deposits will be withdrawn by the Treasurer of the United States and held in cash as will be | October 11,1910 You Do Not Need A Financial Education to invest your savings safely. Whether you have $10 a month tosave oracash surplus of $100,000 to invest, you will make no mistake if you buy the guaranteed first mort- gages that we furnish you on New York City real estate. Back of these mort (1) The most valuable and productive real estate in the world— New York City. gages is (2) Our 26 years’ experience lending money on mortgage on New York City real estate. (3) The absolute guarantee of payment of principal and inter- est by the Bond and Mortgage Guarantee Company with its cap- ital and surplus of $7,500,000. (4) Our guarantee of title with our capital and surplus of $14,000,000. They Bear Interest at 442% Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in guaranteed mort- gages in New York City and not one dollar has ever been lost to an investor. These mortgages are in amounts from $1,000 up, and the guaranteed mortgage certificates based upon them are $200, $500, $1,000 and $5,000. The $200 certificate can be paid for in amounts of $10 per month Write us about how much you might be willing to invest, and we wil! send you our booklet ‘‘The Safe Way to Save,’’ or suit- able information. TLE GUARANTEE AND TRUST Co 176 Broadway 175 Remsen Street 350 Fulton Street NEW YORK BROOKLYN,N.Y. JAMAICA,N.Y PARIS GARTERS TRADE MARK REGISTERED NO METAL can touch you 'YEAR ROUND COMFORT 25*, 50% $1.00. 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INCHES oH ASPHALT CEMENT-WELDED —- HE patented wide-weld means a con- tinuous, one-piece roof without a nail-hole. The smooth, under surface of each sheet is lapped over the six- inch, ungraveled mar- gin of the next sheet below, and welded in- separably to it, cover- ing every nail-head. g Eads | Pe 9 a BN , " , S VM \\ I X= i i! e ally | ff eh I t ve la ‘ q gra wooi-f sg . A c 4 iV aspl « and avy i i il-a r i if lia \ i-y } ‘ N 1 Security Wide-Weld Roofing (save t Coa I ispar, a I A t Ko a There is a Security Agent H uN Hl Write for free book, “1 GOOD Roof.” Itt i tail w mects these rer a at i, six-inch Roofing and Paint 202 Filmore Ave., Tonawanda, N.Y. (NP The National Roofing Co. Manufacturers of Asphalt od a reserve fund. No bank ean act as depository without first giving security in the shape of Government, state, municipal or other high-class bonds. These have not yet been specified. Various restrictions are placed on the deposits. The amount deposited in any one bank shall not exceed the capital or half of the surplus of the the amount of institution The banks designated as depositories shall be located in the town where the post-office is If there is no bank in the town or village a bank in the nearest place may be amed. If no bank in the community is willing to take postal deposits the may ed with the board of trustees ir Savings system and counted as e leg il reserve ot five per cent The trustees may withdraw thirt) cent of the deposits at any time and inve it in bonds or other securities of the United States Sixt) ve per ce hic with the legal reserve of tive per cent com ! ‘ ( pletes the t al deposits must be kept or depo it This balance may be withdr ‘ by the President of the United States, and only, to quote the words of the act, **when, in his judgment, the general welfare and the interests of the United States so re- quire " This means that the y will only be used in some gre to maintair our national cre y Government which can sold otherwise. All interest or profit accruing from the deposit or investment of postal saving funds will be applied to the payment of bone 8 - t due to iVings bank deposito he excess will be put into the Treasury of the United States us rt of the postal revenue. The Government can dispose of any of the bonds that it holds as postal savings Investments at any time, and the proceeds to pay withdrawals of deposi Government Bonds for Savers 4 plan is being considered by which the postal savings depositor may exchange h’s certificate of deposit for United States bonds bearing two and a half per cent terest, and of the same denomination a his certificate. This is like the English system, which enables the depositor to buy consols with his deposits when they exceed the legal limit of deposit, which is two hundred pounds or one thousand d The British Government buys the consols for the depositor. The proposed bonds in exchange for our certificates are only to be issued when outstanding bonds of the United States are to be called or when the Government desires to replenish the Treasury. If carried out this plan will mean a ready market for the various new issues of Panama Canal bonds which will be required, and would likewise provide for the retirement of the six hundred and eighty-five million dollars of bonds now owned by national banks as a basis for their circulation in case we ever decide to start a central bank of issue Any post-office may become 4 postal savings bank. Although no formal ap- plication 1s necessary, the department at Washington has already rece:ved more than six hundred requests from pos They masters who want to act as bankers } ve come from every il Alaska and Porto Rico. M: postmasters write that people ready bought money orders with the Savings, awaiting the establishment of the banks. In one Western city these mone orders aggregate one hundred thousand dollars. One more question remains answered: Will the postal savings banks be rivals and competitors of the regular savings banks? In tl tat thi i no rigid safeguards about the operation of savings banks they will be welcome sub stitutes; in states like New York, Ma sachusetts, New Jersey and Connecticut they will be feeders to the savings bank Where absolute Salety is to be obti “doin each case there is no competition between a return of two per cent, such as the Government will pay, and three and a d four per cent, such as the highest But the p 10se states that | SS savings | banks will serve the big and beneficent end of starting the depositor in the right w: and when he gets a few hundred dollar can put it in a regular bank, where it will earn more money, until he buys his first bond or mortgage. The lesson of safet that he will get from his first postal savings deposit will be of benefit to him in all hi subsequent depositing and inves THE SATURDAY EVENING THE “WEEKLY CATALOG” OF THE fect fil ans ct ¢ from th > mome! \ tnem or Ralston mound and ch line , curve of the as well as the top > Ralston shoes fit no * AS i OR, Authority Styles” RALSTON HEALTH SHOEMAKERS 985 Main Street, Campel'’o (Brockton), Mass ? ANOTHER STYLE NEXT WEEK eS a ee he a TP Let Our Power Experts —.,,) Advise You Free lines in which Rob : a ; turing estal ment or | e bins & Myers Stand my Pasi j ' n vee yin ol ines isa] ard Motors are used , oht t vith its economy of oF ition, will: wee Addressing u t productior e many dolla year Machines a - Aprier ‘pe > Blacksmiths saath . 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42 Amount! Purchas: 9° inches wide, 1554 inches deep, 20'% inches high 17% inches wide, 16% inches deep, 22'/2 inches high THE SATURDAY EVENING POST October 1, 1910 STOREKEEPERS CAN NOW BUY Cheaper Than Ever Before So well have National Cash Registers proven their value to storekecpers that we are now selling over 10,000 a month, whereas two years ago we sold only 4,000.a month. We are able to make thislarger number without a corresponding increase in expense and therefore think it fair to reduce our prices to the public. \WUR detail-adding Registers are $20, $30 and $40, according to the size of sales to be registered. ‘These Registers indicate the amount of the sale to everyone in the store, ring a bell and record the sale on adding wheels under lock and key. ‘They have an adding wheel attached to each key, and the total of all keys is obtained by taking off the amounts on a piece of paper. ‘Tells you also how many customers were waited on during the day. This Register is so simple to understand and use that a child can operate it. Comes in a pleasing oxidized copper finish and looks handsome on your counter. Although this Register is very low in price, it is made by the same skilful men who make our highest priced Registers. Our Registers are guaranteed for two years and should last a lifetime. Some have been in use for twenty years. Haven't you noticed that most of the successful storekeepers near you have long been using National Cash Registers ? UR total-adding Registers are $35, $50, $75 and $125. Do the same things that the detail-adder does, with this addition— instead of hi aving to add up the totals of each key, so as to see how much the day’s business has amounted to, you find this already done for you on the adding wheels, which are under lock and key. ‘There itisataglance. Helps you to balance your cash very quickly at night. Like all National Cash Registers, this Register is very simple to un- derstand and use. Finished in three attractive ways—bronze oxidized, nickel plated and natural bronze. Handsome enough to attract your customers’ attention, durable enough to last a lifetime. Every National Cash Register is trustworthy and the best value in the world at the price. Our workmen, from necessity, are of the highest type. This is necessary because we insist that our Registers must be accurate and durable. UR total-adding Registers, like the picture at left, do the same ( things as the cheaper Registers, and do this very important thing besides—they print the amount of each sale on a strip of paper inside the machine for the store keeper’ rs information and protection. This helps you to find a mistake quickly. Also, since everyone who uses the Register in your store knows that you will expect to sce the amount of each sale appear on the strip, they feel bound to use the Register every time a sale is made. ‘The prices are $60, $75, $100, $125, $150. This Register has a very rich appearance and 1s finished in the three styles before mentioned. We own our own big factory in which our machines are made, and make nothing else but National Cash Regis- ters. We sell at low prices because we are content with a very small profit on each Register, and also because the demand for them is SO great that a complete Register is finished every minute and a half inthe day. In fixing their prices we do not take into considera- tion the fact that they are a patented article. THE NATIONAL CASH ainsi uit mei des. “tr DAYTON prices are quoted free on board the cars at Dayton. ne Na mas Ranma on TN:

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 43 NATIONAL CASH REGISTERS Big Value at Small Cost Every storekeeper knows that the National Cash Register is a good thing and wants one. Now, when he examines them and sees what he is buying, he 1s amazed at our low prices—less than the price of any machinery sold } ; , in the world, considering the material, labor and what they do. | ( UR Check-Printing Registers, like this one, do the things the cheaper Registers do, and also print and cut off from a continuous roll of paper a RECEIPT showing the amount paid by the customer. ‘This guarantees to the pro- prietor that the proper amount of money is put into the Register. You can also print your advertisement on the back of this receipt (or check). Each clerk may have his own ‘Initial Key’’ on this Register, the effect being that you can tell how much each clerk has sold in the day. When you get a National Cash Register you will find it an end- less source of profit and delight. Simple to work, elegant in appearance, very durable, it makes a strong personal appeal to you and each one of your clerks to be systematic, careful and | enterprising, since the work of each of you can be separately | noted on such a machine as this. Give your clerks the benefit of it. Give your profits the benefit of its protection. You will gain a freedom from care that will surprise you, with a National Cash Register looking after your interests. 1s) 4 inches wide, 15°4 inches deep, 2654 inches bigh Cap be operated by electricity f ( UR latest model Cash Registers do all that any | other Register does, and in addition—have a ; separate set ot adding W heels to show the sales of each clerk or each department. ‘They also show | how much money has been paid out, and how much money has been paid ‘‘on account’? by your cus- tomers. ‘These Registers may be equipped with a sep- arate drawer for each clerk, then they show what each clerk does as faithfully as if he had a separate Register of his own. In fact, this style really gives you two, four, six or up to nine Cash Registers in one at a very low cost for each. ‘These Registers can be built to print on a clerk’s sales slip instead of issuing acheck. Prices are $290 up to $715, according to size. We make styles and sizes of Cash Registers that all other manu facturers make. We make many that no one else can duplicate We make them for all places where money is handled and records | kept between proprietor and customer, and take care of all trans ] i actions between clerks and customers. Our Guarantee to fur 30’) saches wide, 20°4 inches deep, 32 waches hugh Can be operated by electricit nish a better Cash Register for less money than any other concern sree eeeeeeeeeeensessensasemene COUPON avenseeccnenncccnccnncnnsenss * in the world means just what it says. Visit us at Dayton and ; . ( rh ; see how we do our work. You will be cordially welcomed. In ‘ ~ : the meanwhile, if you would like to know more about our ’ Mt { ’ Registers, fill out and send us the coupon his commits yqu H . to nothing but to be informed H - ’ Diktneseenseennine ; ‘ ‘ 8 ‘ ; ‘ 1 4 ‘ ® ‘ H OHIO More than 883,000 National Cash Registers have been sold to date. Rs : . . . . ’ ’ . . Can you afford to ignore that fact? Investigation costs nothing Ricewinterensnntqnnmienbniiinnsainebeett é

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44 HERE is just as much prospecting done in politics as there is in mining, and one of our most eminent pros- pectors, at the present time, is Colonel T. Faunal Roosevelt, who, having struck a rich lode some years back, is out again to see if there is any more ore where that came from, and hoping there is. It must be reasonably clear to every- body by this time that the Colonel has aspirations leading up to, touching on and appertaining to the Republican nomina- tion for President in 1912 >. Being a wise politician--as wise as we have, by the way, and as politic, in all that that implies-he will not become a candidate openly. But his friends will stir up the demand, and then, when the time comes, he will be on hand with the goods and supply all comers with the justly cele- brated brand of T. R. policies, to say noth- ing of the justly celebrated T. R. himself. It is an established fact in natural history that you cannot keep a squirrel on the ground. Presently it will be acknowledged as a fact in political history that there is no way to keep Roosevelt from trying to get back where he once was—to wit, the White House. He had seven years of bossing, and the lust for it is in his blood. To be sure, he is about as much of a power as an ex- President as he was as President, so far as popular acclaim goes, but he has not the seal. What he needs is the sure-enough authority. It is not important what happens in the state of New York. If he wins he will triumph over the men he has been assail- ing—recently. If he loses it will merely be the incentive for further fighting and will be construed in the West as a plutocratic victory, and will make him stronger. This is written some weeks before the New York state convention, where Roosevelt is ex- pected to be somewhat of a figure and to make somewhat of a fight. Whatever hap- pens you will find that the Colonel will garner some glory in those parts of the country where he is strongest. Suppose, for example, the old guard in the Re- publican party in New York nominate Rooseyelt for governor or turn over the campaign to him, the plan being in either event to knife the ticket and bring him ina loser. That will not hurt Roosevelt any in the country, for ail he has to do is to point out that the corporation influences, the old bosses and all the rest conspired to defeat hirn, either as candidate or manager, or as the man responsible for what may happen at Saratoga, although he may not take an active part in the campaign. They will yell for him all the louder out West. The Line-Up Against the Colonel It is likely there will be a good hard fight against him in the East, but if the West is solid that will amount to nothing. Also, there may be opposition from La Follette and his men and Cummins and his men, because he is stealing their thunder. And it is a long, long time until June, 1912, and politics is moving faster in these early days of the new century than for fifty years. All the former enemies of the Colonel will concentrate for Mr. Taft, who will bring to bear, also, his tremendous power as a dis- penser of patronage as well as the influ- ence of his office in other ways. Then, too, there will be some Democratic opposition that will be noteworthy. Mayor Gaynor, of Presidential aspirations. He wants to be the candidate in 1912. He may be named for governor of New York by the Demo- crats, or he may not. This was in the future when this. was written; but, whether he is or is not, he will take a few hard wallops at T. R. William R. Hearst will oppose Roosevelt, and he may pro- duce something. Joseph Pulitzer, with his New York World, is preparing the heaviest ammunition he can collect. Also many other powerful newspapers, that formerly were perhaps deterred because of the office Mr. Roosevelt held, will now get into the fight. Indeed, Mr. Roosevelt must realize by this time that an ex-President is easier game than a President, and that criticism is much more general, although not relished any more than in former years, as witness the Colonel's heated denunciation of a New rk newspaper that printed an editorial about him that he did not like. New York, has POLITICS. Holding back in Ohio, also, is Judson Harmon. Mr. Harmon has some ammuni- tion in his magazine, consisting of a certain correspondence that passed between him- self and Roosevelt, at that time President, concerning the rebating cases. Harmon and his associate, Judson, wanted to pro- ceed against Paul Morton and others, and were restrained by Colonel Roosevelt, Morton then being in the Roosevelt Cabinet as Secretary of the Navy. Har- mon retired from the case, but he hung on to the letters; and those close to him say that the real reason Harmon put that “personal guilt’’ plank in the Ohio Demo- cratic platform is because he wants to use | these letters whenever there may be a suit- | It will not be all beer | able opportunity. and skittles for the Colonel, and he knows it. Moreover, the Crane politics that caused President Taft to cancel his many speaking engagements is plainer as the days go by. They didn’t want President Taft skyhooting about the country, play- ing opposition to the Colonel, and they induced the President to remain quiet and do what he could to conciliate and con- serve. That document of President Taft’s, discussing the tariff and other issues, clearly showed how the Taft managers are working. They have suppressed the Wickershams and others who were reading folks out of the party, and are trying to keep as good a front as they can. Of course they slipped a cog when the Presi- | dent put out his denunciation of Vice- President Sherman and the methods that were used to defeat Colonel Roosevelt for | temporary chairman of the Republican state convention at the meeting of the state committee. The President will not stand without hitching. for an open break with Colonel Roosevelt, and when the open rupture comes it will be | found that the Colonel and not the President is responsible. The Strong Hand of the Insurgents Any way you look at it, any angle you view it from, it is perfectly apparent that the present skirmishing will wind up in a pitched battle between such people as are now in support of President Taft and such people as can be rallied to his banner by Colonel Roosevelt. The battle may not come for months, and probably will not. The Colonel is too good a party man to wish or desire any such aid, but a sweeping series of Democratic victories this fall will help him amazingly. For example, if Harmon is elected in Ohio, and a Demo- crat chosen as governor of New York, and a Democratic House of Representatives returned, together with such incidental senatorships and other offices as such an overturn would mean throughout the country, it will be patent—at least to the friends of Mr. Roosevelt—that he is the appointed Moses to lead his broken party out of the wilderness in 1912. All that will be required will be to point out the tre- mendous Republican successes while Mr. Roosevelt was President, who left the White House with his party entrenched everywhere, and the demoralization that two years under Mr. Taft has brought, and it will be all over but the shouting— | they think. Now, there will be some merit in this contention, and at this writing the prospects for wide Republican success this fall are not excellent. There is a great deal more to this Insur- gent movement than the Old Guard will admit, even after the drubbings the regu- lars have had in various parts of the country. This has been shown in the Democratic party, notably in Georgia, where Lon Livingston and others were defeated for renomination on the issue of Cannonism. Although the attitude of President Taft, who was once fast for read- ing all Insurgents out of the party, has changed and he is now for conciliation, the man who will get the most benefit from the spirit of unrest is Colonel Roosevelt. President Taft can never get anywhere with the men who are protesting against the tariff, notwithstanding his concession on the subject in his letter written for publication in the Republican Congressional Campaign Book, where he went so far as to say that it might be a good plan to change sched- ules one at a time when the occasion de- manded it; thus, in a way, indorsing the He is not looking | October 1,1910 == se — — = = America’s Greatest Violinist heard the Apollo and thought it Was some great artist In Syracuse, N. Y., Francis Macmillen, the world-renowned wioliniet, visite ~d a large musical establishment. Ashe entered the “Apollo Room”’a gentleman seated at one of the instruments was interpreting the Turning to his com- “What awon- * He thought the performer was some great artist. 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Some ready roofings would burn like tinder in a few minutes if subjected to such atest Fifty years’ experience and unsurpassed natural resources are in J-M_ Asbesto Roofing. It has demonstrated all over the country, in actual service, that it is ina class by itself If not at your dealer’s, send us his name and we'll tell you where it can be obtained and send you a sample of Asbestos as it comes from the mines Write our nearest branch for Sample and Booklet D 49, H.W. Johns-Manville Co. ASBESTOS Tariff Commission demand of the Insur- gents, notably of Senator Beveridge. There will be a vast amount of politics between now and the elections, and more to follow after the elections have been de- cided. It is improbable that there will be anything more formal about Colonel Roose- velt’s candidacy for 1912 than there is at present, but he will be no less the candi- date. What happens in the State of New York will be interesting but incidental. What will happen next spring, when the Colonel gets to swinging round the circle again, will be more to the point. They are skirmishing now. The heavy firing will begin in about six months. When Competitors Pull Together Pp ns associations of com- peting retailers are, in many big cities, accomplishing wonders in the way of fur- thering common interests. Formerly it was thought that the ideal retail location was one at as great a distance as possible from competitors. But today it is recog- nized that people prefer to shop where stores cluster together. Taking a leaf out of THE SATURDAY the experience of the department stores, | small merchants in many communities are creating secondary shopping centers by working in harmony. The main shopping avenue in a certain Western city is so restricted in area, and the rents so high, that a few years ago some of the lesser merchants moved over to another thoroughfare, two blocks away This was a run-down section of the town, and to get to it shoppers had to walk through a slum. When about a dozen merchants had settled down there, how- ever, they formed a local association, gave the new shopping center a name, raised a fund to pay for lighting it with arches of electric lamps, brought pressure to bear upon the aldermen to have their two blocks paved and the connecting street cleaned up, and accomplished other improvements. The difference in rents more than met all these changes, and today good store prop- erty in that new center is becoming scarce In another case the retailers in a fac Lory and farming center were keeping open unreasonable hours. The factory people insisted upon doing their shopping in the evening, while farmers who drove in from the country would sit around the stoves gossiping until after the factory employees had finished purchasing, when they bought their odds and ends of supplies and drove home. A local early-closing association was organized in this town by a new hard- ware clerk from the city. He simply went around and got the merchants to agree to a month’s trial of a new schedule. Stores were to be shut up promptly at six o’clock with the exception of two nights each month when the factory people were paid, so that they could have no excuse for not settling bills promptly. The experiment worked so well that this new schedule was made permanent. Every August it is customary in the retail haberdashery trade in most cities to conduct a charitable institution. At that season business is naturally dull, and sum- mer goods are being closed out at low prices to make room for fall stock. When the soft shirt came into use for summer haberdashers set up the practice of selling off their remainders in August. After a time the demand for these remainders became so large that they went further, and bought newsoft-shirt stock to make August sales attractive. Then the stiff shirts worn in winter began to go out of fashion, and with soft shirts suitable for all-year wear customers made a practice of waiting for these August sales, and haberdashers, fearing that competitors would outdo them, bought great quantities of stock to sell at net cost, throwing in rent, light, clerk hire and other fixed charges for nothing. In one city this charity trade has been abolished by the formation of an in- formal lunch club among haberdashers As long as each merchant was dominated by fear of what the fellow down in the next block might do to steal his trade he went all lengths in conducting his business at aloss. When, however, he got into the habit of sitting opposite the fellow down street two or three times a week, passing him the pickles and sometimes paying his lunch-check, his fears evaporated. And that principle is working reforms in every line of business today. EVENING POST 45 D BURNHAM& MORRILL roe COD amo man 0c FISH BALLS. CREAMEC il 108 (MME DIATE USE PACKED IN MAIN YRNHAM 6 & M FISH FLAKES 10c and 15c Sizes (Except in the Extreme West) Is Really Fresh Codfish cau cooked t ted and packed the same da It entirely different from the dri¢ Ove tilted, °° ik I t fist nad ou anitary —— Phe pertect a een nt ed, he tically sealed without acid, ret Sali ther ite flay ot the tre t fish Codfish iii Fish —Fish Hash— Fish we and many other dainty fish dishes t e re le t f fresh Codfish. W he tevert e, ve B \ MI t I ! ‘ t fresh Codfish ‘ How To Get Ae “%y ppt esny - Burnham & Morrill ! x 3 ‘ Fish Flakes - ' Sooo EAT! 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48 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Concluded from Page 23) came to the Executive Mansion every evening after dinner, and made a thorough inspection of the offices and state apart- ments, and the living-rooms above them. Night after night he would go from room to room and corridor to corridor giving orders for changing this and that according to his own taste, and in the daytime upholsterers and others were busily engaged in carry- ing out his wishes. However, President Arthur’s repairs were not very extensive. If Garfield had lived he also would have made certain repairs, for, owing to the semi-publie character of the White House, the wear and tear of furniture and hang- ings is considerable. When President Arthur finally came to the White House to live his family con- sisted, besides himself, of his sister, Mrs. McElroy; a son, Chester A. Arthur, Jr., who was always called Allan; and his daughter Nelly, a pretty girl of the bru- nette type, who was about fourteen or fifteen years of age. Mrs. McElroy was a widow, of medium size, sweet-faced and pleasant, but of decisive manner when giv- ing orders. Like her brother, she knew ex- actly what she wanted, and how she wanted it done; and she never hesitated to express her wishes clearly. During Arthur’s term she was, of course, known as the Mistress of the White House. Allan Arthur was a student at Prince- ton—a tall, handsome young fellow with piercing black eyes and white skin. He was very slender indeed, and bright and clever. Like his father, he was extremely fond of horses, but unlike the President he en- joyed driving by himself as well as riding in the saddle. I have always understood that he did well at college, but every once in a while he had an irresistible desire to escape from the classic shades and academic groves of the quiet college town, and on these occasions he would suddenly appear in Washington without notice. President Arthur used to be surprised every once ina while by unexpectedly seeing Allan at the breakfast table when he supposed the young man to be delving away at his studies at Princeton. But that never bothered Allan to any extent. When the spirit moved him he would simply hop ona train at Princeton and bolt through to Washington as soon as he could get there. He had many friends in the city with whom he was a great favorite; and it did not make any difference to him whether he arrived there at four o’clock in the after- noon or at ten o’clock at night. The first thing Allan would do would be to order his horses from the White House stables. Then off he would whirl to call upon some young lady if it were not too late, or to ring up some of his young men friends. He was of a happy disposition in those student days, and when he was home on vacation did much to add to the gayety at the White House. The White House in Mourning The usual period of mourning after Gar- field’s death was strictly observed in and around the Mansion, and there was no formal entertaining until New Year’s Day, 1882, when Mr. Arthur gave his first public reception. Then, as now, this New Year’s Day affair was attended by several thousand persons, all of whom met and were greeted by the President. The re- ception commenced at about one o’clock, and lasted during pretty much of the whole afternoon. Notwithstanding Garfield’s as- sassination, Mr. Arthur had no bodyguard while he was President, and, so far as I am aware, no attempt was ever made to do him harm. After the beginning of the new year the usual state dinners were held, and also a larger number of private enter- tainments of various kinds than I had ever known before in the White House. Mr. Arthur was a different type of man from any who had preceded him during my experience there, and he was accustomed to that lightheartedness and effervescence that have long distinguished social life inf New York. The new President was a large, heavy, tall man, strikingly handsome and possess- ing the Chesterfieldian manner. He de- lighted to entertain his friends, he wanted the best of everything, and wanted it served in the best manner. He was the first President, so far as I know, to have a valet, and one was needed, for Mr. Arthur dressed fashionably, and his clothes were | generaliy made in New York. He was always well groomed; almost faultless in his dress. In the afternoon he was fond of driving around the city or through the country near by, and always had a gentleman with him, for he positively disliked to be alone. | Sometimes he used his victoria and occa- | sionally rode in the saddle; but most of all he enjoyed his four-in-hand. These horses were bays, almost perfectly matched, and when they started off through the White House grounds, driven by William Williss, a colored man and a very fine | horseman, and seated back of him the President of the United States and several ladies and gentlemen, the equipage made a brave showing indeed. Mr. Arthur never drove himself, and he did not walk | a great deal or take much other exercise. What he loved to do was to drive out as I have just related, and then bring home a merry company of ladies and gentlemen to dinner, which would be presided over by Mrs. McElroy. Afterward the party would spend an evening of lightheartedness, chat- ting, telling stories, smoking excellent cigars, and winding up with an elaborate supper at midnight or later. Mrs. McElroy had her afternoons at home, following the usual custom of the ladies of the White House, when she would receive intimate friends as well as those in official life who were entitled to be present. On such occasions the Marine Band rendered fine music, and the same atmos- phere of gayety was present that always distinguished social life during the Arthur Administration. Miss Nelly Arthur was too young to appear at formal affairs, but she had a number of congenial young friends who were welcomed by Mrs. McElroy, and who thoroughly enjoyed their visits at the White House. At the Soldiers’ Home A considerable part of each summer President Arthur and his household spent | at the Soldiers’ Home, and there he main- | tained his usual mode of life, that of a man who possessed an intensely social nature. “‘Aleck”’ Powell, his colored valet, always | went with him when he was called out of town, and, of course, attended him during | the summer sojourns at the Soldiers’ Home. Arthur, by the way, was the last President to use the beautiful house built out there especially for the summer residence of the Presidents. This house, in the grounds of the Soldiers’ Home, is built of brick, covered with a form of stucco that Wash- ingtonians call ‘‘pebble-dash.”” It is large enough for the use for which it was in- tended, and completely furnished. Owing perhaps to the increased ease of communi- cation between Washington and summer resorts far distant it has not been con- | sidered necessary or even advisable of late | years for the President to spend the hottest | months of the year in the official summer residence at the Soldiers’ Home. Mr. Arthur spent his summers there, however, and there Mrs. McElroy also was | in charge. She had no housekeeper and no social secretary, and was a very busy woman. As a rule, the Lady of the White House is not supposed to go out into | society as freely as if she were not a mem- ber of the President’s family; so Mrs. McElroy used to go only to the homes of her few intimate friends. She had excel- lent judgment in matters concerning White House affairs, and some of the china of the Arthur Administration is an evidence of it. It was not necessary for a full set of china to be purchased for the use of President Arthur, but a great many individual pieces were ordered to replace those which had been broken. When March 4, 1885, arrived, the in- coming President, Mr. Cleveland, drove to the Capitol accompanied by Mr. Arthur; then they returned to the White House. The outgoing President did not remain for the elaborate luncheon he had ordered prepared for Mr. Cleveland, but bade him goodby and went from the Executive Mansion to the Frelinghuysen mansion, on Eighth Street.

Editor's Note— This is the fifth of a series of articles by Colonel Crook on the Home Life of Our Presidents in the White House. The sixth will be published in an early number. | Home Life of Garfield and Arthur |

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———————— THA By JOHUN H. WALSH A Day’s Work Aboard the Salurian thoughtfully, after dinner one night “T don’t know about this matter of having people so strong and so husky. I don’t know whether it’s necessary or not” and he gulped off a cup of hot coffee at a mouthful, while we waited and while the old Yellowstone took an unusual number of the sea’s thumps on her bows. The old Yellowstone shivered and squeaked a little and pitched rather much, and once her screws raced for two seconds;, then she set- tled into easier motion again and the fat doctor proceeded. “*T don’t know,” he repeated doubtfully, as he lighted a fresh cigarette; ‘‘ you fellows have been talking with a lot of the exuber- ance of youth about being nine feet tall and about having a stomach that could handle pigiron and the like, but a fellow can do a day’s work once in a while without such equipment. Darwin used to get seasick on the Beagle and Huxley never was well any- where. Did any of you fellows ever know little Naval Constructor Riser? No? Well, when I knew him he was a small, weazened, thin-chested shadow of a man with a chronic cough and with the cigarette habit worse than any one that lives worse than I, even, whichis bad. He used to drink too, and keep irregular hours, and altogether treat himself as inconsiderately as he could. “Riser was queer and he looked queer. His features were pinched out and sharp, his hair stood erect on his head and his voice squeaked as though it were broken somewhere—yet it was not unmusical either. The man only had two treasures, his eyes and his mind. You couldn’t forget the flash of Riser’s eyes if you wished to. They were blue-green and phosphorescent, and they could flash like chain lightning, or they could shine softly and with a diffused sort of gentleness. He was remarkable enough every way, I suppose, but you noticed his eyes more because they were set into such a pale, wan, bearded, pinched and deathlike-looking face. His mind was the other thing. I used to fancy that he knew everything and understood every- thing—certainly you’ve all heard of his stream-line equations? I thought so they’re classic, of course. You should ask the men in Riser’s own corps about him. You’d hear all sorts of opinions, deifica- tion to damnation, but they all know he had a day’s work in him. That’s why I say a man doesn’t need to be strong, but he needs sand, grit—courage, that’s the thing. Don’t you think so? “Riser never had the appearance of working much either. He used to sit around and smoke and listen to people talk mostly. Occasionally he’d come into the conversation himself, land a good con- versational blow and slide out. He used to play poker a good deal and he was a master hand at it too, as I know pretty well. I suppose he did his work while the rest of us slept. “T started out to the East once with Riser in the old grubship Fearless, lot of Navy people as passengers. We had a good deal of fun on the way out; poker game going pretty steadily, also bridge whist, loafing and so on. Riser was going to the East to inspect a shipload of teak, and he had three or four mechanics with him who were slated for jobs at ‘Cavit.’ There was a_ big shipfitter’s foreman among them, a red-headed, thick-necked chunk of a man. You see the like of him only in iron-working jobs—had been all over the world in one kind of construc- tion work and another—bridges, ships, anything iron. ‘*When we were about a day’s steaming beyond Honolulu we picked up the old Salurian—you remember her, Wild Bill Chambers in command. She’d been on the China run out of Frisco for twenty years, I fancy —anyway I had come home on her fifteen years before. “The Salurian was in trouble—always had been in trouble. She’d smashed into a derelict, Chambers said, and she had a big hole in her forward compartments, which were bilged so that she was ’way down by the head. She not only was far down but I DON’T know,” said the fat surgeon she still was making a good deal of water. The bulkhead between the fireroom and a bunker adjoining was busted enough to leak water faster than pumps could drag it out again, so of course the fireroom was filling. I suppose the people aboard be- lieved the ship to be sinking for good — and indeed she did have a start. It wouldn't have been such a loss—-she was pretty old and about worn out —but she had a few passengers and she had a crew, Chinese, to be true, but a crew. And she had some cargo, rice perhaps--I don’t know, except th: at if it was forward it was ruined. ““We hove to on the Fearless at Cham- bers’ request and waited to see what luck the Salurian would have in stopping her leaks. Riser asked permission to take his mechanics and go help with the repairs And as they'd just signaled for a doctor some Chink had broken his leg on the Salu rian—they sent us all over together, Riser, Blerot and me. I remember it all quite plainly yet: little Riser coughing parox- ysms in the stern sheets of the boat; big Blerot, the shipfitter, heavy and, in repose, apparently cowlike; the rhythmic thwack of the oars in their locks; the Salurian amazingly much down by the head, her crew with rather scared faces strung out along on the rail; the Fearless effulgently white, immaculate; a long, powerful sea going, trade winds ablowing pretty strong, rising, falling. “I set the Chink’s leg pretty quickly, a simple enough fracture, and than I went to see Riser, who was down with the leaks. **As I hove in sight he puffed his ciga- rette with enthusiasm, his eyes blazed, he rubbe d his thin, serawny hands and he said tome: ‘Doc, this is a very interesting acci- dent. I want to rig sort of a diving-bell effect and go down to the hole in the floors in the forward end of the fireroom and plug ‘em up some way. We'll need that little electric air compressor the Fearless is taking out to Cavite. We can get the juice right from the dynamo here and we have a big oil drum we can rig so that it will do for the bell proper. Of course we'll have to cut out a plate from a bulkhead to get the drum into the fireroom, but that won’t be any trouble to us. We'll get all the iron- workers on the ship together and we'll fix it up quick. I’m going back to the Fear- less now to get the gear we need—come on.’ And he was gone like that, quickly, silently. ‘**Well, we went back to the Fearless and Riser got what he wanted together, and just before he went into the cabin to make his report he says to me, ‘Doc, how'd you like to go back to Honolulu on the Salurian?’ | think he’d just decided to go to Honolulu that was the way his mind was always afire anyway. I said, ‘Fine; I'll go any- where with you.’ “Riser came out of the cabin a few min- utes later, coughing and smoking a ciga- rette as usual, and he was keen for the trip. ‘It’s all right, Doc, it’s all right,’ he said; ‘we'll go on her—the captain says it’s all right. We'll go right back— you're to go, too, to take care of the broken leg; also Blerot stays with us. It’s to be bully.’ ‘*T was delighted. In seven minutes we were all on the Salurian again and in fifteen minutes the Fearless had departed with Good luck’ in the International Code fly- ing from one of her yards. I don’t think now that the Fearless ought to have left just then. It was, however, Riser’s fault that she had gone so soon. He was san- guine when he talked to the skipper of the Fearless. No reason to wait, of course not; just a matter of time to make the repairs Why delay a big ship like the Fearless? Certainly there was no danger of founder- ing. We on the Salurian could go back to Honolulu and take the next steamer out we ought to go, in case anything happened later. That was the way he talked to the captain. “‘When I had my bearings aboard the Salurian I decided that this was about the condition —the forehold was bilged beyond the hope of repair. While Chambers and I had two drinks and a smoke Riser got started. In a couple of hours he had the drum into the stokehold and a little while , THE SATURDAY EVENING POST T MAN RISER fs $18.00 fora new chair This new kind Caementium . 7 wilewe t Of adhesive —- mends everything about > the house, and it mends things ‘e to stay because it isa MINERAL ~ paste—not a fish glue, nor a $18.00feranew fertilizer by-product like set—Caementium . ‘ / ordinary adhesives. A priceless vase that money can- not replace Caemen- tium will restore it will save it I~ Let the mended article stand until / thoroughly set—and it will stand the test of its former usage. 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later he was smoking a cigarette in his improvised diving bell, while he applied a jury leak-stopper to the seat of the Salu- rian’s troubles. Our troubles then tem- porarily ceased, for the pumps commenced to gain on the water. ‘In three or four hours we had the fire rooms dry. We immediately made a better job on the patch in the floors and then we yot steam up and started for port, Bill Chambers first dancing a hornpipe on his stiff old legs-—he’d been crazy at the thought of losing the ship. “Riser and I promptly started playing pinocle in the cabin, for we know what to do with leisure as well as any one, and pin- ocle is a good game. Along after we'd been playing two or three hours and were just getting warmed to the work the chief =gpee heaves in sight. “*Captain,’ says he, ‘there’s something busted loose in the bottom of the star- board bunker which is about empty of coal; we're making a heap of water and the pumps can’t clear it away. Water's rising; got a foot now in the bunker and ship's listed two degrees more already— d’you notice it? After a while it’ll get to that hole through which Mr. Riser got his diving bell into the fireroom and then the firerooms'll fill—and with firerooms plus bunkers filled I guess the Salurian won't float hey, Mr. Constructor?’ ‘“‘But Mr. Constructor Riser was gone. By the time I could get my frame, which never was small, inte the fireroom, Riser had the ship’s mechanics there, Chinks for the most part, and had started to work. But the bunker was pretty far flooded already and the pumps were certainly los- ing continually. We counted it up and de- cided that in half an hour longer water’d come into the fireroom unless we got the plate up and finished it first, which we couldn’t reasonably expect ourselves to do. ‘But we'll try,’ said Riser. ‘There was some fast moving around that fireroom. A rivet forge was got started to have rivets ready and we at once hoisted the plate part way into place on the bulkhead. Riser and Blerot, before the plate was hoisted, got inside the bunker and stood on a rough wooden staging we'd put up for that purpose. They were to stand on this stage and drive up their rivets—the rivets had to be driven from the far side, you see. ‘Il took a look into the bunker myself before they got the plate up. I judge that the water was about eight inches below the edge of the hole and it was rising constantly about an inch in three minutes. Riser watched it rise for a second, lighted another cigarette from the fire of the last one he’d smoked, and then he called Blerot and me to side and talked to.us for a few moments. **We've got,’ said he, talking rapidly and puffing his cigarette vigorously —and then he coughed —‘ we've got to rivet this up right away and two fellows have to be inside the bunker to do it—-you can see why —-holder-on stays in the fireroom, riv- eters in the bunker. Now look at this bunker~—nice thing, ain’t it? Regular pocket at this end, can’t escape through the scuttle when the water's as high as it is now — do you see that? Do you see what I mean? The only way to get out of this end of the bunker, now that the water's high, is through the hole by which we came in but we’re going to rivet that hole up to keep the ship from sinking. What we'll have to do is to wait inside till they can cut out a plate from the deck over our heads, and we're going to do that, Blerot and I, see?’ ““T looked at the bunker that it was a trap just as he said. sickish and white one and I could see I felt then I turned away. **Blerot never winced, though I looked to see if he would, and of course Riser didn’t. His eyes were unusually bright, that’s all. It seemed wrong to put men into that hole and I asked Riser to stay out, but he only smiled and emitted some beautiful smeke rings. ‘He soon went on talking: ‘I've been counting it up and it’s this way. You see the water’ll rise slower as time goes on, for the head will be smaller as the water rises inside. Long before the compartment is full I think the pumps should be able to prevent further rising. I’m having two three-quarter holes drilled near the top of the bunker. You can blow air into one hole from the air hose of the diving bell and we'll use the ot her for the exhaust. The ventilation is good, we'll be all right. Run along, Blerot, let’s go; there ain’t any THE SATURDAY Doe, you sort of watch out Don’t let him do anything time to lose. for Chambers. foolish.’ “That parting injunction appalled me. I wasn’t sure that I’d know a foolish thing if I saw one. I felt pretty responsible, or too much responsible. “Riser and Blerot went into the bunker, and the plate with infinite delay, as it seemed to me, was hauled into place and after a time bolted there. I know now that the men outside were working like well, like men—and that they were making good time; but it looked to me that day that they moved more slowly than snails. I looked downward into the bunker through rivet holes and I could see the twinkling of water. It was pretty nearly up to the edge of the hole; we had no time to lose. “The rivets were ready when the plates were, and the chief engineer himself was | Everybody | They slammed the incan- | descent iron into the holes and then the | running the rivet forge. worked lively. roar and clatter of Riser’s and Blerot’s hammering began. good a job; speed was the thing. One rivet was hammered before the last one was black—go, go, go! I could see them inside a little at first through the holes in the | plates, both stripped to the waist, dripping with sweat. Blerot was working tre- mendously —that was what you’d expect of Blerot— but so was little Riser too. Howhe learned to drive rivets I’ll never guess now, nor can I guess where in that crabbed, moribund body he found the strength for the work, but he did find it. Oh, man, but he flung his hammer till you’d think he would die, but die—not he! “IT think we were almost done with the plate; anyway the remaining holes were so high up above the floor of the fireroom that I couldn’t see through them, when they suddenly stopped riveting inside. They lighted a candle and I could see the light of it through the still vacant holes. We wanted tosee what had stopped them and oh, it was sickening again! Riser soon spoke out clearly and coolly: ‘The water is rising faster inside here now, a good deal faster; looks like it would fill up pretty quickly. Doce!’ aroma of the cigarette he was smoking inside drifted out through the remaining | rivet holes. “**What is it?’ I answered quickly. ***Go tell Chambers that I think he had better head for the shore. He ought to be so close now to the beach that he could get his vessel ashore before she can sink.’ “‘T started to go on his errand but I saw something that stopped me short in my tracks. It was as though I’d met death on the street. I was looking at the bottom of the bunker bulkhead, as it happened, and as I looked an appalling thing happened. The steel bulkhead seemed to soften and disintegrate there before my eyes. A flake of rust like the leaf of a book rolled off and | the iron seemed to | melt over a space as wide as my hand and | dropped on to the deck a stream flowed gurgling and purling into the fireroom. “Strangely enough Riser on the other side of the bulkhead really understood what had happened before we did. ‘Chief, keep her going as long as you can. Doc, get her headed for the beach!’ he bawled, and the odor of cigarette smoke drifted pleasantly out through the rivet holes again. forget the pungency of that odor. smell it yet; I can see the blue rings coming out. ‘“*T went to the bridge quicker than could any other fat man that lives. *** Chambers,’ said I, head her ashore.’ “*Chambers thought at first I was insane, afterward he thought I was a fool. But I didn’t have time to explain. I reached into his desk drawer, picked out his own gun, shoved it in his face and said: ‘Cap- tain Chambers, head for land right away give her four bells — we'll talk later.’ ‘He did what I said and we talked pretty violently, and then he went below to see | for himself. as death. “*Ratsinatrap! Ratsinatrap! in a trap!’ he whispered nervously himself, and I could see his hand shake. Then he went on: ‘Water five feet from the top of the bunker, and the fires are He came up looking as white Rats about gone and we're a mile from shore | yet. a hat’s he doing?’ asked I. ‘Lying on his back on a raft he’s made | | DENWORTH from his staging-—-and he’s smoking and reading poetry by the light of his candle, They didn’t make too | he called me, and the | EVENING POST a HERE was a time when everybody bought roofings that required paint- ing. It was the regular thing to do. In fact, there was nothing else to do, for all roofings were ‘* surfaced’? and required painting regularly to keep them from deteriorating. Now there is Amatite, au improvement over painted roofings, having a rea/ min eral surface imbedded in pitch — making a kind of flexible concrete. smooth This mineral surface needs no painting Coal ‘Tar to water The waterproofing material, Pitch, is the enemy known. It of many proof paints. is diluted and whereas the Amatite waterproofing pure Pitch —two layers of it. It take something like a dozen coats of pitch paint to equal in thickness that sheet of pitch in which the Amuatite And laver of yreatest water- pitch film, is solid would is the base Only in a paint the thin made into a upper min that the eral surface is buried, under heavy sheet of pitch is a toughest felt and under that another sheet of pitch, just as thick as the outer one. 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NL and Blerot is crying. I could see them through the top rivet holes. Man, man!’ “The vessel was steadily sinking and she now was taking a heavy list. The list had already looked frightful enough and the Chinks were growing uneasy, jabbering and moving around in the weather gang- way a good deal and looking frightened. The appearance of their eyes interested me—something kind of wild locking about the way they rolled their eyeballs around. I suppose they were comme neing to feel the insanity of fright —it really is an insan- ity, you know, and good roast beef resists that insanity stronger than anything. Rice is poor food. “Chambers got number one Chink up on the bridge and told him to kill the first Chink that put his hand on a boat fall. Number one Chink smiles blandly and says: ‘Ol’ light, I klill ’em quick!’ I guess he’d have done it, too; those Chinese are earnest sometimes. “*I got together all the jack-leg mechan- ies in the ship and started ’em to cutting out a plate in the deck just over Riser and Blerot. It would take two hours at least to get off that plate and we must be busy. Then I went below to the fireroom again. The Chief was there, waist deep in the water. He and two Chinks were nursing the fires and the water was rising, rising, rising. They had a little steam left and the engines were still turning, but they couldn’t turn much longer at this rate. It was a desolate sight, that boiler-room; the water swashing listlessly about, the fires fainting, two panting Chinese stripped to the waist, the Chief swearing and crying and sweating. “TI elimbed to the upper grating and looked through the rivet holes in upon Riser and Blerot. Riser was humming a snatch of a music-hall song and of course he was smoking. He was reading as he lay on his back, but Blerot lay on his back with his hands over his eyes and sometimes his shoulders would heave and then he’d lie still again. There was about three feet of space now between them and the plates of the top of the bunker, and the water was rising faster than ever. Overhead soon commenced the infernal rattle and clatter of the rivets which were being chipped away by the Chinese mechanics so that a plate might be taken out. I managed to make Riser hear that we were headed for shore, then I left again. Chambers was standing outside of the cabin on the bridge when I came up. I was carrying I think by this time the elephant gun that I'd picked up, without permission, I fear, from a passenger’s room. “*She’s sinking fast,’ says Chambers. ‘I don’t know whether we can make the beach soon enough. What d’you think? I suppose we ought to let folks stand by the boats so’s they can get away if she fills fast toward the last and we can’t make the beach.’ “Just then I did and said things that I didn’t expect of myself. I don’t under- stand yet. ““*Captain,’ said I pretty earnestly —I guess I was white but I tried to smile and be pleasant —‘ Captain, it ain’t any use to talk like that. The only thing that’ll help Mr. Riser is to jam the ship’s nose on to the beach, and that will keep her from sinking till we can cut out a plate from the deck. Now there ain’t any one going to leave this ship till after Mr. Riser gets out of the bunker, leastwise if any one does I shoot the captain simultaneously.’ “*T was really earnest but I don’t see why I did it. Drowning three hundred pas- sengers and Chinks wouldn’t help Riser, but I could see as I talked the figure of Riser lying on his back on the wee raft. I could see his thin, pinched features and smell the smell of his smoking, and I had to say what I said. “IT thought we wouldn’t make the beach ever, fires were pretty faint once, engines barely were turning, everything gasping and wheezing, when some one opened a manhole and temporarily lowered the water in the fireroom three inches. That gave us a new lease. Riser laughed through the rivet holes at the Chief Engineer who was crying again and driving his Chinks till I thought they would drop, and then Riser blew smoke through his rivet holes. ed all the world he was like a boy on a ark. ““We got to the beach on the dying gasp of the steam. We thought we were safe there and we thought that Riser was safe, but the wind came. Its rising was heart- breaking, so fast it came. And the plate in the deck wasn’t out yet and Riser had only six inches of air in the bunker. He lay half in the water toward the last, and his body bore hard on the plates above him—it was pushed up by the floating power of the raft from below. The seas were breaking over us heavily all the time and I thought the ship must capsize soon indeed she might do so at any time. But the plate soon would be out now. holes—cigarette smoke, and I shall smell it forever. We were all forward watch- ing that work on the plate—passengers, Chinks, Chambers, Chief Engineer, every one. I was standing just ahead of the plate, elephant gun in the crook of my elbow — guess I looked earnest, for the peo- ple gave me plenty of room, and I kept room for the men with the tools. Clank, clank, that was the chisels, and then the hammers would roar hollowly when we backed out a rivet. A big Chinese smashed out the last rivet and we pulled on the plate and got it aside. The crowd gave a wild cheer and surged back and forth. Riser stepped forth nimbly, cigarette ready lighted, thanked us in his smart, alert way—we were all crying now except him, and he seemed not to notice. “**Blerot has fainted, Doctor,’ said he gently, in his high- pitched yet sonorous voice. And it was true—it had been too much for Blerot; he had strength only in his stomach.” ““How did you get into port, “Doctor?” asked one of the mess. “Oh, easy enough. Riser patched us up. Went down in his diving bell again five minutes later and stopped up the leaks. We pumped out the firerooms and the Salurian came afloat and steamed into Honolulu in style. He was a man, that old boy, Riser! Haven’t seen him in ten years now—saw him last in Singapore, Iremember. The last look I had at him he stood at the end of the pier smoking and coughing and beating his chest, which hurt him a lot all the time. Yes, he suffered a great deal always. But you see he could do a day’s work.” Talked Too Much T HAS been said that some men talk | themselves to death, but in the following anecdote, told by a fire insurance adjuster the garrulous one talked himself into prison: ‘“*T had gone to a small interior town to look after some land investments. I arrived there about six A. M. and found a barber shop open, and knowing such a place generally furnished a fund of in- formation I dropped into the solitary chair and feigned sleep. Besides the barber there was only one other man in the shop. The stranger soon broke the silence and I was startled by hearing him say: insurance fellows are easy; the agent has allowed my claim in full, and the adjuster will be here soon to give me a check.’ “Then he proceeded to tell how he had arranged a candle in a box surrounded by excelsior, in an upstairs room on a Sunday morning, a splied a match to the candle, and then bidding his neighbor goodby had driven off with his family to a country church, returning in the afternoon to find that his house had burned during his absence. “The barber having completed his job aroused me with the remark: ‘You must have been upall night ’—to which I replied: ‘Yes, and I enjoyed this nap. But what town is this?’ “When he told me I expressed surprise and abused the train crew for not taking me to the next town. I then inquired if there was a livery-stable handy, and he directed me to one across the street. My purpose was to get to the next town quickly and wire an agency to hold back the check This I did, and the company was soon advised of the fraud. Later I was instructed to go back to the town and | investigate the fire. “There I met the be one who was easily scared. He said that his restaurant had proved unprofit- able and he decided to get out of the place, after burning his house and securing the insurance. He even told me how he had experimented with candles and knew to the minute when the flame would reach the danger point, and hence he knew the very hour that his house had burned. He is now serving a term in penitentiary.” THE SATURDAY EVENING POST There | was smoke curling up through the rivet | ‘These | man and he proved to | Y . Ke 4 t S How an ingo S b watch chai . t Si ecomes a watcn cCnain > SS This is half the exact size of an ingot. S\ : : 2 si - An ingot consists of a thick shell of solid gold with So an alloy core. . 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “*These two gauzy ribbed fabrics knit inseparably together make this smooth, warm Interlock underwear. To show how these fabrics would look if knit separately it was necessary to pull out the stitches on one side of a piece of Interlock underwear. If you do that with ordinary underwear it will leave a hole, but with Interlock it leaves this other complete fabric just like the one you take away.”” Interlock the lightest-for-warmth underwear Thick, bulky underwear is not necessary for warmth. Take two of the finest and filmiest pieces of ribbed underwear that you can find; give them a wizard-touch and cause the ribs of one to become completely interlocked with the ribs of the other into a single garment. ‘That will give you the smoothest and softest underwear you have ever felt next your skin, and the lightest garment in proportion to warmth that has ever been made. | But you don’t have to play the wizard. The same wonderful result is a splendid reality in Interlock underwear, knit on the patent Interlock machine. You needn’t labor under heavy, burdensome, coarse-ribbed garments to keep out the cold. Interlock underwear gives you perfect protection; and because of its satiny smoothness, sympathetic softness, and buoyant lightness, you are not conscious it is next you. Another thing: The interlocking of the fine, invisible ribs produces a firm, close texture that makes Interlock underwear 331 per cent stronger than underwear knit of the same single yarn on any other machine. This is the verdict of the Government testing-machines. Interlock is more genuinely elastic than ordinary ribbed under- wear. It has enough ‘‘body”’ when stretched to cause it to spring back and keep its shape. The interlocking of the fabrics makes the garment wear better and last longer. And that means true economy. Leading underwear manufacturers have been quick to realize what a wonder the Interlock machine is, and many of them are now licensed under Interlock patents to knit this underwear which gives you greater winter-comfort than you have ever had before $1 a garment and up Union and two-piece suits for men; and two-piece suits for boys. $1 a garment and up for men; 50c. and up for boys—according to material: cotton, mercerized cotton and merino. Interlock garments correspond in warmth to medium and heavy weights of ordinary underwear. Also infants’ shirts, pants and sleeping garments in cotton, merino, wool and silk, 50c. to $1.50. Interlock Underwear is sold by dealers everywhere. Look for the name INTERLOCK on the garment-label, or the metal lock attached. If your dealer hasn’t Interlock underwear write us his name and address and we'll see that you get it. Write us for sample of fabric and illustrated booklet. General Knit Fabric Company, Utica N Y a a f iterlock ab +

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v \ Stocking the Farm By David Buffum for his farm, if he be new to the busi- ness, is rather apt to believe that the chief likelihood of his being deceived is con- fined to the horses, and that buying cows is a comparatively easy and simple matter. But human nature does not vary much with different occupations, and the farmer or dealer who has cows to sell is—to put it as mildly and charitably as possible—very often disposed to give his customer a chance to learn a littie something by expe- rience if he shows some signs of not being very well up on cow-trades. Years ago, when I was a young man and had not yet gone through with that doleful experience known as cutting one’s eye- teeth, which is said to be and actually is indispensable to the proper finishing up of a New England farmer, I bought a cow of a man who was active in the affairs of his church and said to be very honest and fair in his dealings. It was said that, though he was ‘‘good on a trade,” he was never known to lie about a cow—surely a recommenda- tion as alluring as it was unusual. In view of this conspicuous honesty and a doubt of my own ability to judge cows as well as he, I let him select the animal for me. She was chosen from a lot that he had just brought from the Brighton cattle mar- ket, and she was very handsome. Cows fresh from market cannot be judged very much from the appearance of their udders, and their long journey by rail, with its heat, discomfort and irregularity of food and water, entirely checks, for the time being, the flow of milk. I asked the seller if the cow was all right and sound in every respect. “‘Well, she appears to be,” he replied cheerfully as he bit off a fresh chew. .“‘ Looks to me like a real nice cow. O’ course,” he added, with great candor, “I’ve only owned her three days, but I’ve ben ob- servin’ of her, and if she’d had any defect or shortcomin’ ’twould ha’ showed up by this time, wouldn’t it?”” This seemed so very probable that I was at once convinced and the purchase was made. A day or two later, when she began again to yield milk, my man informed me that she was a “‘three-teater’’—that is, she gave milk from only three teats. The fourth was useless and gave evidence of having been long out of commission. [Mer man who is purchasing livestock From Bad to Worse I repaired to the honest vender, whom I found sitting in his barn doorway appar- ently at peace with all the world and contemplating the feeble remnant of the herd that he had brought from Brighton a few days before. “All sold but these few critters,” he observed blithely as I ap- proached. ‘An’ how’s the one I sold you? Givin’ plenty o’ milk?” I stated my grievance. “A three-teater, hey? Well, well, who'd ha’ thought it! It’s astonishin’ how them defects develop when a cow begins to pick up. But come, pick out another cow from the herd and we'll shift. I want you to be satisfied.” I looked over the half-dozen melancholy quadrupeds that stood in his barn. They were certainly a sorry-looking bunch, but I wanted a sound one and finally selected a red three-year-old—gaunt, wild-eyed, and looking more like a racehorse than a cow; but I reasoned that she at least had the adv antage of youth on her side and might possibly improve. It was certain she could not deteriorate. This animal proved worse than the first, as she gave milk—and very little at that from only two teats. She likewise had a way of kicking over the milk-pail, usually waiting till the milking was nearly done. Moreover, I was mortally ashamed to have such a looking animal on the farm. So I traded once more, but with no better luck, and then gave it up, convinced there were no cows to be had from that source that had not something the matter with them. And, looking back now, I am certain I was right. It was, perhaps, a couple of years after- ward when I again saw my honest friend. He drew rein abreast of my pasture, got out of his wagon and, leaning upon the wall, critically looked over the cows. I had long since parted with the treasure that I bought of him—selling her to a man who ‘laid, as I did, undue prominence on the fact that she was young—and she was replaced by animals of which I was not ashamed. “Quite a likely-looking bunch,” he ob- served. I merely nodded by way of reply, for I wanted him to do the talking. I felt sure that something well worth hearing would come out of so honest and pious a man, and I was not disappointed. “The trouble with you, when you bought them cows o’ me,” he said reflect- ively as he fed himself from a piece of tobacco the size of an egg, “‘was that you didn’t examine ’em close enough. A man buyin’ cows must not only look ’em over but feel "em over—for ‘seein’ is believin’,’ as the Scripter says; but feelin’ is the naked truth, accordin’ to my experience. A young man ought to know the p’ints of a cow too.” Then, as he glanced at an adjoining field where some of my colts were feeding, he continued: “Ef you'd studied cows the way you've studied hosses you wouldn’t ha’ got stung —that is, you'd ha’ ben better qualified for tradin’. Hosses is all right, I s’pose, though I never liked "em much. But cows is pretty impor- tant critters on a farm, and as you grow older you'll realize that they’re well wuth studyin’, as well as hosses.”’ How to Judge a Cow A little thought on the function of milk- giving and what it implies physiologically will give the key to what is needed in a good milch cow. Asit is strictly and essen- tially a feminine function, the cow that is most feminine in appearance —the furthest removed in her conformation from that of a bull—is the best. This general rule covers all the ground and is so all-compre- hensive that it holds good in every par- ticular, even to the expression of the countenance. For its details and application a cow should be, roughly speaking, shaped some- thing like a wedge—large and well- developed behind and small and fine in front. She should be wide between the hips and low in the flank, with hind quar- ters set a little apart, so as to allow suffi- cient room for her udder. Her belly should be large and well rounded, but rounding outward rather than downward. Herrump should be straight, not drooping; in other words, the point where her tail is set should be on a line with her spine. Her chest should be reasonably deep but not very broad, and her shoulders thin and narrow at the top. Her neck should be small and thin; her head small, narrow rather than wide, and fine in the muzzle. Her eyes should be rather large, not show- | ing much white around them, and mild and | gentle in expression. Her horns should be small. Her skin should be soft and rather loose; her coat fine and silky. The udder should be well developed and large; but an overlarge udder, sagging down halfway to the ground and swinging unpleasantly as the cow walks, is not de- sirable. It should stay up properly in its place. If unduly large its walls are often too thick, thus leaving no more room for milk than a smaller one of finer make. 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54 the essential points of a good cow, and so are applicable to cows of all breeds. They do not, it is true, enable the buyer to judge of the quality of the milk, but this is mainly a matter of breed. If, for instance, the buyer selects a Jersey or Guernsey he may be absolutely sure that the milk will be rich enough; if he buys a Holstein he may be equally sure that it will be poor enough quantity, not quality, being the specialty of these phenomenally ‘large milkers. He will, of course, have his own special end in view—whether milk or butter, and choose accordingly. I think it is right for me to add that neither the strictly butter nor milk breeds furnish a milk that is the best for feeding to infants; the former contains too large a percentage of the butter- fats in proportion to its other elements, and the latter hardly enough. The best cow for this purpose is a cross between the Jersey or Guernsey and some one of the milk breeds; indeed, this is generally more satisfactory in all cases where both cream and milk are wanted. When the cows are once purchased it should be remembered that “a good thing is worth keeping good.” In one way or another a cow will surely deteriorate if not properly cared for. Apart from her proper feeding and stabling, one of the most im- portant things is the milking. If she is not milked thoroughly, and no milk allowed to remain in her udder, she will soon dry up; this once done, the habit is very likely to be formed in her system, so that thereafter she will always dry up in a comparatively short time after calving. I have seen new milch cows that yielded twenty quarts a day giving less than half that amount three months later, the chief reason for it being the one I have mentioned. Close atten- tion is also needed at calving. The cow is always more or less feverish at such times, and her udder is hard and inflamed, requir- ing bathing in hot water and gentle rub- bing with the hand. This is the time when, if neglected, cows may lose the use of one or more teats. It is always the good cow, too, that goes wrong; poor ones, in which the milk-giving function is less per- fectiy developed, rarely have any trouble. The Care of Milk For the care of the milk itself, the first and greatest requisite is absolute cleanli- ness. Simple as this is, it is the hardest of all things to enforce, even in a good dairy. But it must be enforced if any good and paying business is to be done. To learn the other rules there is but one practical way for a beginner, which is to visit some first-class dairy and note carefully how everything is done. Whoever does this for the first time will undoubtedly be greatly surprised to find how very simple all the processes are, and how few in number the rules that must be followed. There is, in fact, no magic or knack whatever in the making of fine butter. Any one who will attend closely to the requirements can do it. The only difficulty—and this diffi- culty is a veritable boon to the makers of top-quality butter, as it keeps their output always scarce in the market—is that the requirements are inexorable; and such is human nature that in nineteen dairies out of twenty some requirement or other is not observed as implicitly as it should be. The result is a butter, good, maybe, but lacking that exquisite flavor—that scent, as it were, of the fields, the clover and the honey-bees--that distinguishes the very best. On the majority of moderate-sized farms where cows are kept there are not many sheep; choice is usually made between the two. Of course a herd of cows will bring in a great deal more money, in the gross, than the sheep that could be kept on the same area, but they also necessitate a great deal more labor, and there is no question that, according to the labor bestowed upon them, sheep pay better than any other stock. Personally I have always been a great believer in sheep and have usually kept large numbers; but the farmer should always take his situation into considera- tion before deciding to keep them. In many localities, especially in the near neighborhood of towns and villages, the danger from dogs is a constant and serious menace. On farms fenced by stone walls there is never any assurance that sheep will keep within bounds. On all farms where mixed farming is carried on, lambs for the butcher consti- tute the chief profit in sheep husbandry. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The wool, though an important adjunct, would never pay in itself. This fact set- tles, within certain limits, the question of breed, as the several Down breeds— Southdown, Hampshire Down, Oxfordshire Down and Shropshire Down—are, beyond all question, the best for mutton. In fleece they are classed as “‘middle-wools’’—that is, they stand midway between the fine- | wooled Merinos and the several long- wooled breeds. Of all the Down breeds the Southdowns | are the most ancient type, the other Downs | having been evolved from them. They are also, though smaller, the smoothest and finest in contour and, in my opinion, the best for all ordinary soils. On rich pas- turage all the breeds do well and the choice becomes purely one of individual prefer- ence; but the Southdowns will thrive and keep fat on rocky hillside pastures where the larger breeds would find it hard to make a living. The Points of Southdowns As to the points of the Southdowns, they should be very compact and round-bodied, and their backs should form a straight line from top of shoulder to root of tail. Their legs should be short and placed rather wide apart, giving to their hind quarters that conformation known as “wide in the twist.” The wool should cover their bodies, sides of head and forehead, and should grow on their hind legs as far down as the gambrel-joint, but not below. Their faces should be either light brown or a sort of silver-gray—I find it a little difficult to describe the best shade, “‘grayish-brown” word I could use. Their ears should be short, small and very fine. A well-bred Southdown is a handsome and aristocratic- looking animal, and I know of nothing that | better illustrates the vast difference be- tween blooded and common stock, as the common sheep, of no particular breeding, | is about as homely and plebeian-looking a | creature as can be found. The cost of pure-bred Southdowns is so | great, however, that a great many begin- ners in farming will find it expedient to buy | common ewes, unsightly as they are, and | breed them to a pure-bred Southdown ram. In the half-bloods resulting from this cross the Southdown will predominate and, to one who has not before tried the experi- ment, it is really astonishing how superior they are to their dams. If the half-blood ewes are again bred to a Southdownthe next | generation —three-quarter-bloods—will be | very handsome sheep, as good in every | way for practical purposes as the pure- bloods, and resembling them so closely as to be taken for them by the majority of observers—though, of course, a breeder of Southdowns would know the difference. I | have raised hundreds of sheep in this way, | breeding them up until, in the fifth and sixth cross, it was impossible to distinguish | them from my pure-bred stock and only the marks in their ear-tdgs told the story. And when it is considered that in the fifth cross there is only one part of common blood to thirty-one parts of Southdown— in the sixth cross one part of common to sixty-three parts of Southdown ture cannot have much effect either in out- ward appearance or hereditary tendencies. The rams used in this breeding-up process should always be strictly pure-bred. Concerning the care of sheep, if they run in a pasture that they cannot jump out of there is no stock that gives its owner so litle trouble; if they can jump out there is none that can give him so much. Still, they require care even under the best of conditions, and at certain periods —as, for instance, at lambing time—considerable of it. Indeed, there is no farm stock that can be made to thrive and yield a profit with- out both care and attention, and whoever thinks sheep an exception to this rule will find flock-keeping a losing game. 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{ t | F ; The Innocence of Father Brown (Continued from Page 7) both hands full of shining silver, which he laid out on the counter as calmly as a salesman. It took the form of a dozen quaintly-shaped forks and knives. ““You—you ” began the Colonel, quite thrown off his balance at last. Then he peered into the dim little room and saw two things: first, that the short, black-clad man was dressed like a clergyman; and, second, that the window of the room be- hind him was burst, as if some one had assed violently through. “Valuable things to deposit in a cloak- room, aren’t they ?’’ remarked the clergy- man with cheerful composure. ““Did—did you steal those things?” stammered Mr. Audley, with starting eyes. “If I did,”’ said the cleric pleasantly, “at le ast I am bringing the »m back again.” **But you didn't,”’ said Colonel Pound, still staring at the broken window. lo make a clean breast of it, I didn’t,”’ said the other with some humor. And he seated himself quite gravely on a stool. But you know who did?” said the Colonel. **I don’t know his real name,” said the riest placidly, ‘“‘ but I know something of bis fighting weight and a great deal about his spiritual difficulties. I formed the physical estimate when he was trying to throttle me, and the moral estimate when he repented.” “Oh, I say—repented!”’ cried young Chester with a sort of crow of laughter. Father Brown got to his feet, putting his hands behind him. ‘Odd, isn’t it,’’ he said, ‘‘that a thief and a vagabond should repent when so many who are rich and secure remain hard and frivolous and without fruit for God or man? But there, if you will excuse me, you trespass a little upon my province. If you doubt the peni- tence as a practical fact, there are your knives and forks. You are The Twelve True Fishers, and there are all your silver fish. But He has made mea fisher of men.” ‘‘Did you catch this man?”’ asked the Colonel, frowning slightly. Father Brown looked him full in his frowning face. ‘* Yes,”’ he said, ‘‘I caught him; with an unseen hook and an invisible line which is long enough to let him wander to the ends of the world and still to bring him back with a twitch upon the thread.” There was a long silence. All the other men present broke away to carry the recovered silver to their comrades, or to consult the proprietor about the queer condition of affairs. But the grim-faced Colonel still sat sideways on the counter, swinging his long lank legs and biting his dark mustache. At last he said quietly to the priest: ‘‘ He must have been a clever fellow; but I think I know a cleverer.” ‘*He was a clever fellow,” answered the other; “‘but I am not quite sure of what other you mean.” I mean you,” said the Colonel with a short laugh. ‘“‘I don’t want to get the fellow jailed; make yourself easy about that. But I'd give a good many silver forks to know exactly how you fell into this affair and how you got the stuff out of him. I reckon you're the most up-to-date devil of the present company.” Father Brown seemed rather to like the saturnine candor of the soldier. ‘* Well,”’ he said, smiling, ‘‘I mustn't tell you any- thing of the man’sidentity, or his ownstory, of course; but there's no particular reason why I shouldn’t tell you of the mere outside facts which I found out for myself.” He hopped over the barrier with unex- ected activity, and sat beside Colonel ont, kicking his short legs like a little boy on a gate. He began to tell the story as easily as if he were telling it to an oid friend by a Christmas fire. *“You see, Colonel,” he said, ‘‘ I was shut up in that small room there, doing some writing, when I heard a pair of feet in this passage doing a dance that was as queer as the dance of death. First came quick, funny little steps, like a man walking on tiptoe fora wager; then came slow, careless ereaking steps as of a big man walking about with a cigar. But they were both made by the same feet, I swear, and they came in rotation; first the run and then the walk and then the run again. I won- dered at first idly and then wildly why a man should act these two parts at once. One walk I knew; it was just like yours, Colonel. It was the walk of a well-fed or gentleman waiting for something, who strolls about rather because he is physically alert than because he is mentally impatient I knew that I knew the other walk too; but I could not remember what it was What wild creature had I met on my travels that tore along on tiptoe in that extraordi- nary style? Then | heard a clink of plates somewhere; and the answer stood up as plain as St. Peter's. It was the walk of a waiter; that walk with the body slanted forward, the eyes looking down, the ball of the toe spurning away the ground; the coat-tails and napkin flying. Then I thought for a minute and a hs lf more; and, I believe, I saw the manner of the crime as clearly as if I were going to commit it.”’ Colonel Pound looked at him keenly; but the speaker's mild gray eyes were fixed upon the ceiling with almost empty wist- fulne SS, “A crime,”’ he said slowly, “‘is like any other work of art. Don’t look surprised; crimes are by no means the only works of art that come from an infernal workshop But every work of art, divine or diabolic, has one indispensable mark. I mean that the center of it is simple, however much the entourage may be complicated. Thus in Hamlet, let us say, the grotesqueness of the gravedigger, the flowers of the mad girl, the fantastic finery of Osric, the pallor of the ghost and the grin of the skull are all oddities in a sort of tangled wreath round one plain tragie figure of a man in black. Well, this also,’’ he said, getting slowly down from his seat with a smile ‘this also is the plain tragedy of a man in black. Yes,” he went on, see sing the Colonel look up in some wonder, ‘‘the whole of this tale turns on a black coat. In this, as in Hamlet, there are the rococo excres- cences—yourselves, let us say. There is the dead waiter who was there when he couid not be there. There is the invisible hand that swept your table clear of silver and melted into air. But every clever crime is founded ultimately on some one quite simple fact; some fact that is not itself mysterious. The mystification comes in covering it up, in leading men's thoughts away from it. This large and subtle and, in the ordinary course, most profitable crime was built on the plain fact that a gentleman's evening dress is the same as a waiter’s. All the rest was acting; and thundering good acting, too.” **Still,” said the Colonel, getting up and frowning at his boots, ‘‘I am not sure that I understand.” **Colonel,”’ said Father Brown, ‘I tell you that this archangel of impudence who stole your forks walked up and down this comme twenty times in the blaze of all the amps, in the glare of all the eyes. He did not go and hide in dim corners where sus- picion might have searched for him. He kept constantly on the move in the lighted corridors, and everywhere that he went he seemed to be there by right. Don’t ask me what he was like; you have seen him yourself six or seven times tonight. You were waiting with all the other grand ae in the reception-room at the end of the passage there, with the terrace just beyond. Whenever he came among you gentlemen he came in the lightning style of a waiter, with bent head, flapping napkin and flying feet. He shot out on to the terrace, did something to the tablecloth, and shot back toward the office and the waiters’ quarters. By the time he had come under the eye of the office clerk and the waiters he had become another man in every inch of his body, in every instinctive gesture. He strolled among the servants with the absent-minded inso- lence which they had all seen in their patrons. It was no new thing to them that a swell from the dinner party should pace all parts of the house like an animal at the Zoo; they knew that nothing mark the smart set more than a habit of w: ke ing where one chooses. When he was mag- nificently weary of walking down that particular passage he would wheel round and pace back past the office; in the shadow of the arch just beyond he was altered as by a blast of magic and went hurrying forward again among The Twelve Fisher- men, an obsequious attendant. Whyshould the gentlemen look at a chance waiter? Why should the waiters suspect a first-rate walking gentleman? Once or twice he played the coolest tricks. In the roprie - tor’s private quarters he called out breezily THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ACME A. QUALITY, THE Paint is not only a dress but an overcoat—it must protect your house from weather and decay as well as give it beauty. 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Of course, it could not have been kept up long; but it only had to be kept up till the end of the fish course. “ His worst moment was when the waiters but even then he con- the waiters thought entleman, while the gentlemen im a waiter. The rest went like If any waiter caught him away from the table, that waiter caught a languid aristocrat. He had only to time himself two minutes before the fish was cleared, become a swift servant, and clear | it himself. He put the plates down on a | sideboard, stuffed the silver in his breast | socket, giving it a bulgy look, and ran | ike a hee—T heard him coming—till he “ame to the cloak-room. There he had only to be a plutocrat again, a plutocrat | called away suddenly on business. He had | only to give his ticket to the cloak-room | attendant, and go out again 5 - antly, as | Only —only I appened to be the cloak-room attendant.” | “What did you do to him?” cried the | Colonel with unusual intensity. ‘‘ What | him a thought winking. ” “TI beg your pardon,” said the priest | immovably, ‘that is where the story ends.” “And the interesting story begins,” muttered Pound. “I think I understand his professional trick. “T must be going,” said Father Brown. They walked together along the passage | to the entrance hall where they saw the fresh, freckled face of the Duke of Chester, who was bounding buoyantly toward them. “Come along, Pound,” he cried breath- lessly, ‘I’ve been looking for you every- | where. The dinner’s going again in | spanking style, and old Audley has got to | —_— — in honor of the forks being saved. We want to start some new cere- mony, don’t you know, to commemorate the oce: asion. Isay, what do you suggest ?” “Why,” said the Colonel, eying him with a certain sardonic approval, ‘‘I should | suggest that henceforward we wear green coats instead of black. One never knows | what mistakes may arise when one looks | so like a waiter.” “Oh, hang it all!” said the young man. “A gentleman never looks like a waiter.” “Nor a waiter like a gentleman, I sup- | = ?” said Colonel Pound with the same owering laughter on his face. ‘‘ Reverend Sir, your friend must have been very smart | to act the gentleman.” Father Rowe buttoned up his common- place overcoat to the neck, for the night was stormy, and took his commonplace umbrella from the stand. “Yes,” he said, “‘it must be very hard | work to bea gentleman; but, do you know, | | I have sometimes thought that it may be | almost as laborious to be a waiter.” And saying ‘Good evening” he pushed — the heavy doors of that palace of ie pasures. The golden gates closed behind im and he went at a brisk walk through the damp, dark streets in search of a penny omnibus Editor's Note—This is the third of a series of detective stories by Mr. Chesterton. The fourth | story will be printed in an early issue A Husband Feeder HUSBAND-AND-WIFE combina- tion in vaudeville, with the husband as the feeder and the wife as the real at- traction, worked for Lew Fields in one of his summer shows. The two were popular and -got much | newspaper space. Also,they hadathousand dollars a week. 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Dept.S. 560-562 Broadway, New York SALADS and get that piquancy so often lackin ei —_ LEA& PERRINS SAUCE insalad dressings. Use THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Between Now and January | | attention of all those who have faith in the future commercial value of the aeroplane. To my mind the imperative step that should be taken is the establishment of ‘air lanes,’”’ where watercourses cannot be used. These lanes should consist of what might be termed a roadway entirely free from obstructions and from which all other forms of transportation shall be excluded. These roadways should connect the large cities at first, and later all cities of importance. These aerial highways should be so con- structed or arranged that an aeroplane may land safely anywhere along the course. The maintenance of these intercity courses could be made comparatively inexpensive by producing upen them certain crops which would not be a serious hindrance to the landing and starting of aeroplanes. Eventually, as traffic increases, systems of signaling could be arranged to aid aviators in foggy weather. Of course great progress will be made in the development of the attachments and improvements on the machines themselves as the necessity arises. Just as occurred with the automobile, so with the aero- plane there will be headlights, mufflers for the motors, taxi-aeromobiles, and so on along the entire list. Safety devices for machine and operator will probably occupy the greatest attention for the present. Operating Expenses Low Not only is the aeroplane more practical than the automobile was in the same period of its development but it is more econom- ical. In my flight from Albany to New York the cost of gasoline consumed was at the rate of one cent a mile, notwithstand- ing a speed of over fifty miles an hour. Taking an automobile over the same dis- tance, the cost for the motive power would be about fifteen cents a mile. If given proper care an aeroplane would average a repair cost of perhaps ten per cent of the repair cost for an automobile. The life of an aeroplane also compares favorably with that of an automobile. As long as the motor of an aeroplane lasts the machine itself continues to be of value. An aeroplane can be bought today for five thousand dollars, a price which must be paid for many makes of automobiles at the present time. Unquestionably as the demand for aeroplanes increases the price , will become lower. From appearance the aeroplane gives the impression of involving very little cost in its manufacture. It appears to be constructed on very simple lines—a wooden frame covered with cloth and held together by wires. A biplane has been said to have more nearly the appearance of a side view of an open trolley car than any other thing in existence. The appearance of the aeroplane is very deceiving, however, and upon close inspec- tion it will be found that a well-constructed machine is made of the finest material and that every detail displays the finest workmanship. This is as it should be, for it isthe care that has been exercised in the construction of the machine that minimizes the danger to which the aviator is subjected. Even the construction of the wooden framework of the aeroplane permits of practically nothing but handwork by the most expert workmen. Again, time figures as a large part of the cost. The framework must be covered with a strong material having the properties of lightness, durability, strength and flexi- bility, and must also be weather-proof. No metal lends itself to this use and the aeroplane constructor is confronted with the necessity of using a special patented rubberized silk material, which combines all the requisite properties to a large degree. 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Early one morning the old schooner pushed in sluggishly against the four-knot tide racing out between Old Point and the Ripraps, and came to anchor just beyond the can-buoy opposite the hotel, on the far side of the swash-channel leading to Hampton. There was no sign of the Daffodil, and Captain Bell was anticipating a pleasant if unhygienic sojourn with certain’ whisky-drinking, poker-playing friends from the cruisers and battleships lying in the port when, to his intense disgust, he received a letter from his lawyers requesting an interview for the current week. ‘*Marblehead!’’ he snapped to Held- strom. “I’ve got to be in Boston the end of this week or early the next. Dammit!” So the Shark got up her anchor, scarcely wet, hoisted sails still unfurled and slipped out with the same tide that had so stub- bornly contested her entry. Saddened eyes from the men-o’-war followed her departure. An old crony with three lovely daughters and a taste for vintage wines was a serious loss to his friends. Halfway across the mouth of the apeake the rheumy eye of Captain Bell, which was one of the quickes’ aboard to pick up objects at sea, discovered a diminu tive fleck on the drab wall of the sky. **Here comes that Pilot-fish!”’ said he. “T thought we'd lost him!” Wood, sufficiently keen of sight, mar- veled. There had been no question in Bell’s voice; he was merely stating a fact. Wood’s glass revealed it as a fact. Like most men who have certain talents that excel and some lacking faculty that can never be more than an object of ridicule Bell was unconscious of the former and fought hard for recognition in the latter In the same connection he was a profane man, yet an authority on the Bible. At heart he was religious. The news of the Pilot-fish brought all hands on deck more quickly than an alarm of fire might have done. The wind had got into the northeast and Bell, scanning the weather conditions with an experienced eye, told Wood that it looked to him as if they were in for a hard “‘easter,’’ and that the follow:ng morning might find the Shark behind the Delaware Breakwater, there to wait until the weather improved. The Daffodil was coming up with the fresh easterly breeze, valiantly bucking the strong ebb tide. As the two vessels rapidly approached each other a peculiar quiet fell upon the deck of the Shark. The little yawl looked very tiny and very much alone upon that broad expanse of gray water, and the knowledge that she was coming in from the sea at the end of a run of nearly a thousand miles insp‘red some admiration “Stand by to give ’em a dip o’ the ensign,’ ’ growled Bell to the quartermaster of the watch. The courses of the two vessels would bring them abreast of each other at the distance of about half a mile. Hermione glanced at her father. “Why don’t you speak him and tell him where we're bound?”’ she asked. “Not a bit of it!’’ snapped Bell. “Let him find out for himself at Old Point.” With everything taut and drawing the Daffodil drew abeam and through the glass Hermione saw the Finn scramble aft and run a small packet to the peak. ‘There goes his ensign in stops,” she. “Dip!” ordered Bell. The Shark’s en- sign came slowly down. At the same mo- ment Applebo broke out his own at the mainpeak. The Daffodil held straight on her course toward Hampton Roads. “*T’ll bet he hasn’t had much sleep, Bell grimly. From the forecastle of the Shark there came the subdued though vehement sounds of a lively altercation. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST W hat’s-the-Difference Kitty (Continued from Page 13) are ye goin’ to do with it when yer go to work?” saysshe. “You know it’s foolish,” pr says. Then I seen the old sullen look in his fac e an’ he kinder growls, an’ he says: ‘There ain ’t nobody can take it from me,”’ he says; ‘‘he’s mine!” At that Kitty Rogers laughed right out. “Maybe so,” she says, “only I'll bet it ain’t a boy at all. Did you think it was a boy? » “Gee!” he says with a silly | grin, “I never thought of nothin’ else,” an’ he stood there pickin’ with his big fingers on the edge of his coat until Annie spoke to him again. “T believe,” she says, “you need a guardian as bad as the baby needs one,” she says. ‘“‘Tomorrow mornin’,” she says, “you bring it over here,” she says, “‘an’ leave it with me daytimes,” she says, “till you can make other arrangements,” she says. “I ain’t goin’ to see the little thing die just because you’re fond of it,” she says. “Tt has mighty soft hands!” he says, smilin’ thoughtful as if he didn’t hear. “It’s strong too. It tries to talk an’ it knows what I say. Gee!’’ he says, “them eyes!”’ he says; “ain’t they clear! They watch yer like a Pinkerton all around the room. Say, him an’ I has got it all fixed,” he says. ‘“‘But I guess yer right, Mrs. Hands,” he says, an’ then he looks at me an’ I could see he thought maybe I might not like the deal. ‘‘What do you think?” he says. ‘Can I bring it over tomorrow?” he says. “Sure,” I says, grinnin’ an’ ready to tease him. ‘“‘ Have you give it a bath yet?” I says. “A bath!” he says, like he was struck with a bullet. “Gee,” he says, “that’s right,” he says; “‘I’d forgot,” he says. ‘I didn’t read that far in the book,” he says. “I don’t believe she’s very dirty. She don’t look it.” **How do yer know it ain’t a boy?” says Kitty Rogers, with her devilment, but my Annie got up out of her chair kinder brisk, the way she does when she’s got her mind made up. “T guess I’d better go back with yer,” she says, ‘‘an’ fix the poor little thing fer the night,” she says. ‘‘I never heard the beat of it,” says she; ‘‘no bath!” she says. At that Kitty Rogers played a couple of them bars on the pianner an’ she jumped up too. “Sit down, Mrs. Hands,” she says; “let me go. “What would people say?” Annie asks. ow hat’s the difference?” says Kitty. ‘Come on,” she says to Martin Leeds, an’ she grabs up her hat, an’ he looks at her kinder stupid, an’ out they went. It was near an hour an’ a half when she come back. W e could hear her singin’ over the edge of Maple Hill, an’ yet when she come in she was kinder solemn. “There ain’t anythin’ the matter?” says my Annie. “No, I should say not!” says Kitty. “Oh, that certainly is some baby, Mrs. Hands! It likes me too, but it sure likes him! It’s just as I thought. It’s a girl. Ain’t he the big fool! He’s kinder glad at that,” she says, ‘“‘an’ it’s asleep now. It looks awful nice layin’ there. I always thought before it would be a big bother to take care of one of em,” she says. ‘‘ Well, I must be goin’,” says she. “T suppose you'll be Street,’’ says my Annie. “*T will not,” s says Kitty. “It ain’t very late, but I'm goin’ home,” she says. It weren’t till the next day we seen Kitty again. Martin brought the kid over inthe mornin’. You'd laugh to see him set her down. You'd thought she was full of nitro-glycerine, sure. An’ Annie, who oughter know somethin’ about ’em by this time, told Martin that she was a good one. An’ he was that pleased he grinned all the way down to the factory. An’ I thought it must have hurt his face, it had been set one way so long. An’ when he was goin’ home that night he left a few minutes early, as if he couldn't wait any longer. I can see him now with his coat over his arm, an’ Kitty Rogers come out of the stitchin’-room an’ met him on the stairs. “I’m goin’ up after supper,” she says, fer I heard her—“‘I’m goin’ up after supper to see your kid. You don’t mind?” she says down on Main He stopped an’ steady fer a while, an’ then he says, ‘‘No”’ like that. An’ so she come that evenin’, an’ the next but one, an’ so on, just droppin’ in as if she wanted to make somethin’ of the baby. An’ sometimes she’d play on the pianner a minute or two, an’ Martin would stretch his big body down in my new rockin’-chair an’ hold the kid an’ grin at it. An’ he always thought somethin’ was goin’ to happen to it. I remember one night he run a mile an’ a half down to the other end of Main Street at two o’clock to get the doctor. somethin’. head out the window, rubbin’ his eyes, an’ says: “‘What’s the matter?” An’ Martin says: “Doce, the kid is goin’ to.fly the coop!” he says. ‘It must be,” he says; “hurry!” says he. cold!’ “So is mine!”’ says Doc Turner, an’ shut | the winder. An’ then Martin put his shoulder against the door an’ bust it open, an’ got hold of the doctor somehow, an’ was goin’ to pull him out of the house, bare feet an’ all. He was that crazy about the kid. He’d called her Patience. Ain’t that a whale of aname? An’ when the Doc got there she was asleep an’ breathin’ easy an’ regular, the way them little machines run when all their bearings is right. Anyhow, it seemed to me as if the busi- | ness of leavin’ the kid with my Annie daytimes was goin’ to keep up a long | while—maybe till Patience wore puffs in her hair, or the like of that. “Annie,” I says to her, “this has got to stop,” I says. with this baby any more, “Sh!” she says, he comes,’ " she says, turnin’ the egg-beater very soft so’s not to make too much noise. “To tell ye the truth, Jim,” she says, “I like to have it here,” she says. “Since our little Mike has got so he can undress him- ” T says. self, our own ain’t half enough trouble to | keep me happy,” she says. We couldn’t know then what was goin’ to happen—something that would take the young one away from us. I won’t ferget that night. one of them days like this, an’ like the day Leeds had first come to the factory. toward evenin’ it was warm an’ we was sittin’ out under that tree there in my yard, an’ Kitty Rogers had come the way | she sometimes did, only she had got so she | weren’t so perky an’ crazy-actin’ as she | An’ we was sittin’ there just | used to be. as it was growin’ dark, an’ the baby was in the carriage that used to be little Mike’s. I'd got it down out of the loft in the barn. Nobody seemed to have much to say anyhow. comin’ toward us. You could see it right on his face. There was somethin’, yer that it would be best to let him do the talkin’. His face was kinder set an’ he looked tired. “T’ve been walkin’ ever since I left the | “‘T ain’t had no supper. he says. “I I’ve got factory,” he says. You've all been nice to me,” ain’t afraid to talk to all of yous. to say it,” he says. a week, thinkin’ an’ thinkin’, I've got to say it!” ‘“What’s the matter?” says Kitty, grabbin’ one of her bare arms with the other hand an’ lookin’ frightened. ‘‘ What’s the matter?” she says. an’ I know An’ with that he walks up to where she was sittin’—I can see his big shoulders now—an’ he says: “Kitty,” he says, ‘I’ve always talked pretty short to you,” he says. ‘I had to,” he says; “but you listen to me, Kitty!”’ he says, very savage an’ rough. love to you,” yer how I felt,” breath. “You ain’t married?” says Kitty, an’ he says; you could hardly hear her ask it, it was that weak. **No,” he says; “‘Jim knows,” he says. “He knows I'd do the square thing,” he, ‘“‘an’ not make love to no girl till she knew,” he says. “‘Look at me!” he says rough, an’ she stared up at him. “I'll tell "agi he says very slow. “I’m a jailbird!”’ esays. “I near killed aman once. Now listen!’’ he says ; looked at her kinder The kid had the colic, or | An’ he made a big noise out- | side the house, an’ Doc Turner put his | “Tts feet is | “T won’t have you bothered | “you'll wake it before | It had been | But | An’ all of a sudden I heard the | gate click an’ I looked up an’ I seen Martin | an’, whatever it was, it told | “T’ve walked a lot fer | “Tf I’d had my way I’d made | “T’d have shown | he says, an’ caught his says | I've served ten years | | October 14,1910 An artist cannot gain or hold his reputation if he does not destroy his poor work Sincerity Clothes have and have held a sincere reputation for thirty years because we won't deliver an imper fect suit or overcoat to a dealer, and because we do guarantee every garment to the wearer We can’t make ’em better—you can’t buy ’em better. Supplied anywhere. men wearing actual Sincerity clothes, and we'll send you the dealer’s name ask your retailer, Sold almost everywhere. Clothes for men and young men. 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Dept. Y, Worc: ster, Mass in the pen!” he says, gaggin’, an’ kept right on lookin’ at her, an’ neither of ’em never moved. An’ after a while he says: *That’s me! How do you like that?” She'd been starin’ back at him, an’ then she put her two hands over her face, an’ | thought fer a minute she didn’t want to My Annie just sat mighty still, an’ I seen her jaw was shut near tight enough to break a tooth. an’ she watched the girl An’ when Kitty took her hands down you could see her cheeks was wet, an’ she seemed ashamed of it. ‘I guess I'm a fool,’’ she says to us, an’ then she got up an’ looked at him out of them gray eyes of hers an’ pointed a finger at him. ‘““Now you listen!” says sharp. “People has called me wild, an’ I’ve run away from home, an’ I’ve had a bad name; but I ain’t bad,” she says. ‘“‘Listen!’’ she says. “I wanted you to be nice to me,” she says; “I thought maybe you would. I thought it wouldn’t do to be called wild or nothin’ if you ever wanted me. I kinder thought, too, it wouldn’t do if I was goin’ to take care of any baby or anythin’. An’ I cut it out. Now I ask you straight —you know me—do you think what you've told me has got me goin’? Do you think it would jar me loose? I ask yer! You know me! What’s the answer?” The big feller tried to speak to her, but he couldn't. So she went over to him an’ caught the edges of his coat an’ stood close to him, an’ looked around at Annie an’ me with that old fightin’ look in her eye. **What’s the difference?” she says, an’ then I guess she seen that Annie an’ I stood all right on that question, fer she hung on a little tighter an’ looked up at him an’ laughed an’ says again, but not like the first time: “‘ What’s the difference? An’ whenever I hear anybody say them words I think of the day the Old Boss was up in the stitchin’-room an’ I pulled him over to the window an’ showed him Martin Leeds pushin’ a baby-carriage down there by the railroad’s covered bridge, an’ how he looked a long time an’ then grinned at me very sheepish, an’ says: ‘Darn your picture, Jim! What kind of a hat do you want?” he says. ‘* You old believer!’’ he says. “If I had my way you'd have a crown,” says he, ‘‘fer yer faith,”’ he says

see him. she ( » q . k r ii as a cans ™ VPiucky Boys HE young heroes of boyish fiction are not without parallels in real life. <A son of a ne’er-do-well was fortunate in having a mother who worked to keep him in school until he could get a decent ele- mentary education. When he was eight years old the boy, who is exceptionally bright and ambitious, began selling news- papers in their little town by way of help- ing his mother. He was very genial, willing and enterprising. Everybody liked him In two years, by selling magazines and Sunday papers as well as the dailies, he built up a business that netted him nearly three dollars a week, which is considered unusual in that sort of community. Half »f his earnings were given to his mother, and the rest went into a home bank, to be deposited at the building and loan annex The boy’s school principal, who also had charge of the annex, used to give him en- couragement as he sorted out the large number of pennies he brought in, and by the combined efforts of his mother and himself he is to be kept in school until he graduates. His father’s death and other emergencies have interrupted his savings at times, but he now has two hundred dol- lars to his credit, and when he gets a job, upon leaving school, he means to purchase a lot and place his mother in a home of her own before he is twenty-one Another boy, fourteen years old, goes to school, driving a delivery wagon for the local laundryman after hours, and deliver- ing groceries on Saturdays. His mother earns money by washing, and tries to keep the house going as nearly as possible with her own money. All that the boy has left each week after expenses have been met goes into his savings account, which was started when he first began to earn money for himself. His surplus now exceeds two hundred and fifty dollars, and as he pos- sesses considerable ability at drawing, and likes that work, he aims to continue saving until he has four hundred dollars, which will cover the cost of a course in a school of design. Since his juvenile account was opened he has drawn out money on only one occasion, when three dollars were spent for a Christmas present for his mother THE SATURDAY

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| | cS New Fall Book on Home Beautification it Ui. Be Free! Astonishing Beauty of: Won- derful Moorish Roof Amazes Nation’s Home. Owners! New Discovery Works Wonders in Beautifying and Increasing Value of Simplest and Grandest Homes! Delightful charn nd dignity of appearance ns with an air of dis- y this wonderful, inde- ization of the wonderfully beautiful Spanish ec a } aking this r z—left behind by the fleeing Moors driven out of Spain centuries ago — until 1910 could not be made practical for the modern home, despite its alluring beauties. After years of experiment we at last hit the solution, That is why today we are able to cffer American homes the amazing attractiveness of Metal Spanish Tile Roofing n ely wind, weather, storm, fire a No special tool as apply No soldering. mechan an apply it t is guaranteed non-breakable. Home Builders and Home Owner i . | Carpenters! Builders! { Contractors! | Write today for full partic. The Edwards Manufacturing Co. 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You can see and examine them at ‘our dealer's, If he : appens not to sell them, write us, we'll send you the name of a nearby dealer who Mlustrated Booklet Mailed Free It fully quien the Larter idea, eae and pictures Larter Shirt Studs and Vest Buttons, indicating the immense variety in which they are made, and tells from fashion authority what is proper in shirt studs for every occasion. Larter Shirt Studs and me AA Buttons can be identi by this trademark plainly a Goes In This Way A Larter Vest Button stamped on each one. Note the Automatic Back Larter & Sons, 2.M921. Ets PAT E N ¥ Ss Send sketch or model for FREE SEARCH, Books Advice, Searches, and Big. List of Inventions wanted WATSON E COLEMAN, Patent Lawyer, F R E E ee a4 3000 GUMMED LABELS, Size, 1 x 2 inches, printed to order and ‘postpaid. Send for Catalog. Fenton Label Co., Philadelphia, Pa. AND HER WAYS (Continued from Page 15) The thrust penetrated, and because he was new and not willing to discharge a | clerk on the day of his arrival, the manager lowered his feet. By the time the owner arrived, however, he had worked himself into a state of indigni ition. “Look here!” he said; be some changes in this office. “That’s just what I think,” the owner returned. ‘‘The whole force is going to leave if there are not changes.” It was some time before the manager could be made to understand that if the girls were a part of the machine, so was he; that if he had the right to put his feet on the desk in the presence of a lady, they felt that they had the right to resent it. “Why, they only get ten dollars a week —ten!” shouted the m: anager. Just business girls at ten dollars!’ Patiently the employer explained that there are human values that do not come under the head of ten dollars a week, and that as long as the manager stayed with him he would have to take off his hat to the office force; if necessary, fasten his feet in the wastebasket while dictating, and smoke before and after the girls were taking his letters. It was only because the man- ager wanted his own salary badly that he was finally driven to act on the assumption that there is still democracy in small cities, and that the little as well as the great may share in it. Everything conspires in the small city to make the personality of the employee count for something. If a man of German parentage owns a factory he gives the preference to girls of his own extraction. If a man of a certain religion has a shop he hires preferably girls of that religion; and his most important customers are of his own creed. The daughter of a G. A. R. man, however useless she may be, can always find something to do. Anybody whose ancestors were first settlers in the place a hundred or two hundred years ago will always be given a chance to work. So much that is religious and social, and so much that has to do with sentiment counts in the small city in a way that it never can ‘there have got to | in amore populous place. | went for their hats “‘ Miss Joliffe’s ‘Trade And the employee’s personality is not by any means sunk in the glory of the firm’s name. A certain milliner in the largest department store of a small city was a very beautiful woman. She came from a coun- | try family and she was personally very little known, but an air of romance hung about her. Once a man had shot himself for her sake, and for his sake she had practically withdrawn herself from the world and always wore black —an exceed- ingly becoming color to her. This at- mosphere was the more piquant because before the tragedy she had been a glowing, dashing creature, a little venturesome. So all the women went to her for hats and stayed because she made them so perfectly. And always instead of saying, “T got my hat from Baker & Brown,” a customer would say ‘‘I got my hat from Miss Joliffe.”’ When she was tolled away from Baker & Brown by Hawley & Smith, women still down to Miss Joliffe’s.”” Such a woman may be invaluable in drawing trade and may finally win a place in the firm. One such was a young woman of good family, but poor, disinclined for housekeeping, and interested in business. She got a position in an art and jewelry shop, the owner of which was an old friend, and from the first she brought him trade. For one thing, she knew all the exclusive people in the city and all the moneyed people in tne whole county. She knew their tastes in jewelry and art and she bought her stock accordingly. She would remind a young man friend with a large | surplus of sisters and aunts whenever the birthdays of these were approaching, and would advise him as to what he should select for presents. When young Ames, | engaged to Miss Lee, tried to buy her a new art bracelet, the saleswoman gently | propelled his mind toward an ornament for | the hair, partly because the latter cost more, partly because hair ornaments were a new fad and had to be sold quickly, and | partly because Miss Lee’s former fiancé | had bought her a new art bracelet. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST |THE NEW WOMAN | Light Making Machine with a Strange Appetite Oncea and it will supply you with enough home-made gas to run thirty-five lights Just the thing for a farm or a country place of any sort. Make Sac he ap, light — more ec exceptionally brilliant onomical than kerosene and quite as convenient as electricity. Already there are 185,000 of these ma- chines furnishing light for asmany home * > * You can set one in one corner of your cellar or in an out-building rhen all you need to do is to feed it the curious crushed stone known as ‘*Union Car- bide,’’—a few pounds once a month, The machine does the rest — automat- ically it brings the carbide a little at a time in contact with plain water, The water liberates genuine acetylene is stored in the carbide, This it does nat when the lights are burning. Makes just enough acetylene to supply the lights in use and stops working when the lights are shut off . * , You can have a cluster of lights in every room in the house,—one in the cellar,—one in the attic.—one on the front porch,— one at the back door,— one in the shed,—one in the barn yard, —two in the horse barn (or garage, if you have one), and four in the cow barn, With an installation of this kind, you rushed’ Stone and Water Month would have positively the and safest lig! most efficient equip mie nt money can buy The **Union Carbide which com to you in sheet steel hundred pound drums won't burn and can't explode The fixtures are permanently attached to walls and ceilings—the light flame is so stiff, wind does not affect it. Every burner can be equipped to light with the pull of a chain—no matches re- quired, and in addition to all this, the gas is not poisonous.— You could sleep all night in a room with an open burner and suffer no harm . * * Considering these advantagt -— 2 any wonder that the engineers of the National Board of Fire Insurance Un- derwriters have pronounced modern Acetylene Light Sater than any of the illuminants it is displacing? The cost of a plant depends upon the number of rooms, barns and buildings you wish to light. Write us how many and we will send you an estimate free, together with an intensely interesting booklet telling all about the light for home use and how it has been used successfully by Cornell University to grow plants—same as sun ight. Just address Union Carbide Sale: Co., 157 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Ill., Dept. O-55 Perfect Sweeping with practically ho exerhon an: no fatigue, may be accomplished by going over your floor ONCE with the NATIONAL Roller Bearing Carpet Sweeper No matter whether a carpet or rug has long or short nap, the National adjusts itself to it automatically by slight handle pressure, and the genuine C hinese bristle brushes (the kind that never lose .. *sap'’) get every scrap, speck and ravelling. Ideal for quick Bees up’ in dining roqm or sewing room; saves strength for general house cleaning. Moat convenient, because it has individual dump levers and instant brush release Arnti-tipping device prevents spilling The rubber tires on the brush rollers insure thorough and constant sweeping—no ‘skipping’; at the same time the improved roller bearings and perfect construction make the National the easiest running of all sweepers. Handle cannot split or loosen; special dust pans will not rust. Every appliance for utility and convenience is found in the National Sweeper. Ask your dealer, Free booklet, “* How fo Double the Life of Carpets and Rugs,” t& worth writing for National Sweeper Co., 96 Warren St., Newark, N. J. Such | Amateur Photographers 23°, 2n°sourt® oP —— Write today for PHECO PLAN LAFLIN COMPANY Devt. K, OMAHA, NEB. W. L. DOUGLAS Werocess» SHOES MEN'S $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 WOMEN'S $32.50, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 BOYS' $2.00, $2.50 and §3.00 AA THE STANDARD FOR 30 YEARS Theyare absolutely the most popular and best shoes for the price in America, They are the leaders everywhere because they hold their shape, fit better, look better and wear longer than other makes, They are positively the most economical shoes Y for you to buy. W. L. Douglas * name and the retail price are = stamped on the bottom —-value guaranteed TAKE NO SUBSTITUTE! If your dealer can- not supply you write for Mail Order Catalog. W. L. DOUGLAS, 179 Spark St., Brockton, Mass. 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THE SATURDAY | knowledge and tact would be useless in a | "COMFY. 14 Footwear fs 4.) 6 ~-« = The Eureka

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large city. It brought directly and in- directly hundreds of dollars a year to this shop in a small city. A few such good business women there are in any small city. They are no longer in their first youth, they always need the money, they frequently have others dependent on them besides, and almost invariably they have little interest in the lighter phases of life. Sometimes chance decides what they shall take up, sometimes deliberate choice. They do not suffer from the keenness of competition they would meet in a large city, and they are aided by that village-like community of interest which seems to belong to any city under fifty thousand inhabitants. Catering is an extremely popular occu- pation, and it is surprising how many women of exclusive family take it up. One such, | who was perhaps more typical than the women of the average small city would care to admit, really did much to educate her city socially. She was the daughter of a general of such excellent standing all over the country that she could afford to be democratic. beautiful daughters, she made an unfortu- nate marriage, and came back a widow to find her home not just as she had left it. A married daughter is usually a welcome visitor, but she can rarely become again the integral part of the family life that she was once. This woman was independent and a born leader, and so she made a home of her own, and as the city was rapidly growing, | she set up as a cateress. A Stewardess in Society There were a few old families in the city, and many who were trying hard either to | be old or ‘“‘in’’; nice worth-while people, but perhaps provincial. The democratic cateress who had been all over the world, and had been presented in two or three courts in Europe, interested herself, while she was earning her living, in delicately bringing up her customers in the ways of the sophisticated. People from out of town never quite understood her position. She would serve a perfect dinner, and afterward she would mingle with the guests in the drawing-room, always treated with the utmost deference. Gradually, under | her influence, her customers began to set | their tables formally for every-day use, and some of them began to have dinner at night. By-and-by she had a number of their houses redecorated according to her own taste. She introduced bridge lunch- | eons, and it was through her influence that | a country | she club was founded; naturally | became the stewardess. She made plenty of money, and, what she liked better, she had plenty of power with high and low. When the proprietor of the chief hotel had to discharge his negro force because he could not control them, she took them on, and soon there was nothing that they would not do for her. Few of the ladies who sat | rocking on the porch of the country club | realized that she was really their social mentor, and she was content to be the | | unrecognized power behind the throne. The women workers in the little cities have every reason yet to believe in democ- racy. It is true that with the increasing prosperity of the times that brings country clubs and automobiles, social lines are being more closely drawn and snobbishness is adding to its hydra heads. But all this | has not a very serious effect on the worker; | at least, it does not make a machine of her. | She counts in her little business world, and she knows that if she should drop out it would make some difference both from the | business and human point of view. Doubtless in the big cities there are many men and women who came away from the little places to make their fortunes, and who wish they could go back. They sit in their mechanical offices and their crowded shops, animated Things, valued impersonally for what can be got out of them. Their fortunes are yet to make, yet they cannot go home lest they be accounted failures. But who can say how longingly | they think of home, where one had time to look out of the windows and see what was going on, and where what was going on had | some personal meaning. How many little cities, with their wide shady streets and familiar faces in the doorways, turn at | last into El Dorados for the people who left them so lightly. Editor's Note — This is the fourth and last ofa | series of articles by Maude Radford Warren deal- | |} ing with The New Woman and Her Ways. i One of a large number of | EVENING POST Zharpen October 1,1910 Ston es oe i No. 107-A. The Round Combination Stone for carpenter's use Carborundum is the only Sharpening

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Other stones rub. They bend the edge of the tool back and forth until it finally wears away. It is very difficult to get a keen,even edge by that process. and very sharp— as sharp as a diamond. the steel—gives the tool an edge on Stone in fo. 108-A. Oblong Combinat 75 box, §1.25 aluminu Ox, $2.75 ; without Carborundum is very hard as hard and It cuts so keen and smooth that even a microscope will not disclose any ‘‘wire.”’ There is a Carborundum Stone to sharpen any tool that is made, from a razor to an axe, and to No, 78-A, Knife Sharpener, Octag ith stag a a n fine quality, su v0. do it better and » quicker than ° om any other sharpening stone on earth. 149-A. Pocket Stoneinr Ask your dealer—don’t accept a substitute The Carborundum Company , Dept. A, Niagara Falls, N. Y.

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We Give Away a Complete Outfit consisting of Tool for Stippling. »01- ished maple combined Mal | Modeling Tool, Package Coloring Powder, Steel Wool and Polish - ing Plush, to everyone sending asc tor this Brass-Craft Calen- dar, (worth $1.00 when deco- rated). It is Brass with stamped design (see illustration) and per fectly spun over 3 By Basswood Panel; includes Brass Hanger, — Round Head Tacks, Calendar Pad . and full directions, all prepaid. Write today Ask for FREE Catalog P-10 Illustrates hundreds of new Brass-Craft articles suitable for Home Decoration, Gifts, etc. Shows how a little investment in materials and time can produce liberal returns in both pleasure and profit. THAYER & CHANDLER 737-739 Jackson Blvd., Chicago Ask your dealer for Brass-Craft

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girl reduced to one-fourth actual size. photo from the same arm, magnified four times. Your arm What The RUBDRY Will Do reason for after-the-bath colds. The RUBDRY wi// clean the skin. _ Its surface (see cut opposite) is a series of firm, absorbent nubs. It kneads, presses and manipulates the skin, pressing the water and impurities from every crack, crevice and pore. It manipulates, dries and purifies the skin imward/y as well as outwardly and there- fore stimulates and preserves skin and body better than any other towel that has ever been invented. Rubdry Towels are more durable than turkish (we guarantee them 1'/ years), and unlike turkish towels, don’t shed lint.

— > — THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Your Skin. also, i is like ~ The RUBDRY bath towel is made to dry and clean the pores and fissures. The picture below is the smooth arm of a The enlarged section is a entire body is like this, full of pits, pores, crevices and fissures. A towel that wiil c/an and dry your skin must clean the fissures. The turkish, with its mass of soft, bending loops, can only brush over the surface—it doesn’t get the moisture and matter down im the skin—that’s one need some towels.”’ , id Get a RUBDRY today. You Il be better wa right; but a few weeks’ use of Rubdry will abundantly convince you otherwise goods, men’s furnishing dealer or druggist doesn’t have them re 1434, in. x 20 in. Demonstration Chart free. One Rubdry Washcloth for 4c to cover postage RUBDRY Towel Company, 167 South Angell Street, Providence, R. I.

No Tufts! This is the Mattress of Comfort. It’s the SEALY Tuftless Mattress Pure, Long-Fibre Cotton. No Layers or Sections. The Only Successful se Tuftless Mattress. ——_ paw ir finger ve along the respor e, d resilient, surface of the Sealy Mattre it indulates ‘like a billowy sea. It is t undu ating quality of the Sealy that \ not comfortable mattress in the world. W1! 1 lie down on a Sealy it wwdu/ates to meet the tor

your body. When you move about on a Sealy it avdu/ates to accommodate y changes of position, The chief reason for this is that the Sealy i without a tuft Putting a mattress means fastening about fifty cord rivets through it Phese tuft 4 mattress rigid, unresilient and without the property of accommodating itself to the irregular for pressures of the recumbent h in body But in hair, layer-felt and cheaper mattresses, tuft re solutely necessary to retain the shape of the mitress for Any length of time. Phe Sealy Patented Pneumatic Process avd the Sealy Quality of pure, long-fibre cotton filling prod tirst and the only successful tuftless mattres We raise the cotton for Sealy Mattresses on our own 14,000 acre plantation in the finest cotton ¢ ection of the South, while the average “ cotton-felt ” tufte ittress is made, not of real cotton at al cheag gin waste and mill- waste N only is the filling of the Seals Mattre sen ppere bear te ea apace cates dic vicatic itt 4 the « the i fibres are left with their full natural curl and ¢ Read How The Sealy le Made : Sealy filling t I x th its neig r ‘ ake 1 cottor “ i i ghly parated fibre sta 1 ‘ pt A I ! t ke H 4 { fe i k it That ww t i

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To the + age poultryman that would seem impossible, and when we tell y« that we have actually ne a $1,500 poultry business with 60 he t corner in the city garde 40 feet wide by 40 feet long, we are simply stating facts. It would not be possible to get such re by any one of the systems of poultiy keeping ended and practiced by the Ameri people, still it can be accomplished by THE PHILO SYSTEM The Philo System is Unlike All Other Ways of Keeping Poultry Don't Let the Chicks Die in the She The New System Covers All Branches of the Work Necessary for Success Chicken Feed At 15 Cents a Bushe Two Pound Broilers in Eight Weeks Our New Brooder Saves Two Cents on Each Chicken Our Six month-old Pullete Are Laying at the Rate of gee Each per Month r j ° Send $1.00 for one year's subscription to the . Special Offer: Poultry Review, a monthly magazine devoted to progressive methods of poultry keeping, and we will include, without charge, a copy of the latest revised edition of the Philo System Book J E. R. PHILO, Publisher, 2517 Lake St., Elmira, N.Y.

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Retail Reconstruction Service (Conciuded from Page 9) age and general character, the length and width of the shoe he wore, style and leather chosen, price paid, and so forth. Several months later, when it was time to change low shoes for high, he wrote Mr. Lonesomehurst a letter, mentioning his THE SATURDAY EVENING size, and stating that he had kept him in | mind in ordering the season’s stock. Mr. Lonesomehurst’s fall shoes were waiting for him. That the shoeman had taken pains to remember his size in shoes im- pressed Mr, Lonesomehurst, because this was something that he could not remember himself. In a year this dealer was sending shoes direct to the homes of unseen com- muters, and Mr. Lonesomehurst put them on and paid the bill, fit and style being sat- isfactory eight times out of ten. Naturally, no city shoe store could compete with such service, and the information on these cards was so valuable that the merchant ex- tended the system to every man, woman and child who bought shoes. In a couple of years he knew practically every pair of abnormal feet in his community, as well as the averages in normal sizes, and his unsold end-size stock was brought down to almost nothing. A somewhat similar system was installed by a coal dealer who had the details worked out by a production engineer. This coal man visited every house in his community, looked over stoves and furnaces, noted ex- posure and winds and made an estimate of the amount of fuel needed to heat a given house, as well as the size of coal adapted to the apparatus. Many customers were burning wrong sizes. Most of them could heat with less. A few suggestions as to management of furnaces often cut down the coal bill. Four or five double windows on the exposed side of the house might effect marked economies. This service has brought him all the best trade. A Manufacturer's Experiment Much of the retail business thus far has been conducted from the merchant’s side of the proposition. That is why the aver- age retailer is deeply involved in prices and discounts and margins. But the service that characterizes the new kind of retail- ing demands that the merchant get over to the customer’s side of the counter and think from that standpoint. The difference is neatly illustrated in the experience of a wealthy manufacturer of women’s suits in the Middle West. His product, of high quality, was being sold by prominent merchants all over the country. At the same time he was a prophet without honor in his own community, for not one of the large retail establishments in his own city carried his goods. All bought stock in the East and his salesmen made no head- way with them. As a matter of pride, this manufacturer opened a retail store there himself under another name. It was put in charge of the most capable manager he could find in the East. For a season or two this manager obediently sold none but the backer’s products; but presently his instincts as a buyer and his knowledge of feminine preferences led him to stock a few gar- ments fron Eastern houses. These sold so well that he bought more and more, until soon he had got into the way of putting the boss’ goods side by side with competitors’ | in making his decisions, and the latter were getting most of his patronage. The manu- facturer’s retail enterprise was thriving and making money, yet at the same time he was selling hardly a quarter of the goods car- ried in his own store, and his manager stuck stubbornly to this policy for the sake of giving the best service to cus- tomers. The manufacturer was bitterly chagrined for a time; but eventually wisdom prevailed, and he entered upon a study of conditions and improvements of his own product which greatly strength- ened his trade. Editor’s Note— This is the first of a series of ar- ticles by Mr. Collins on New Wrinkles in Retailing. The second paper will appear in an early issue. Aud . Stand

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THE SATURDAY Bonanza Wheat-Farm Methods (Concluded from Page 18) plowing is out of the way about the time most of his neighbors are beginning to turn their soil; so with seeding, harvesting and threshing. His big force of working stock, tools and men are at his command, and he is always able to hire them to his short- handed neighbors at a profit. He also operates one or more farms for absentee owners, taking three-fourths of the pro- duction for his share. This work is always done after his own is out of the way. In threshing time Mr. Dalrymple issues a little local newspaper called the Daily Sheet. Though it is done on the typewriter instead of on a printing-press it is read by all hands as eagerly as though printed on the finest book-paper. It is really the score sheet of the Home Threshing League, and gives the number of bushels of grain turned out by each threshing gang. Its effect is to stir up competition between the ‘“‘teams” and to inject the spirit of baseball rivalry into the prosaic work of harvesting. The mammoth Dalrymple farm, founded by Oliver Dalrymple, now dead, has twenty-two thousand acres under cultiva- tion. It is divided into seven sections —all but one division being located near Cas- selton, North Dakota. This great enter- prise is under the direct management of John Dalrymple, a young college man, who spends his winters in Europe and is a student and a man of the world. His rating among his neighbors is expressed in the words: “A better farmer than the old man and that’s saying a heap! eT ‘My system of cropping,” said this young bonanza farmer, “is to take three straight crops of grain, mainly spring wheat, and then change to barley or winter rye, sown in the fall. Each year our manure spreaders cover about three hun- dred acres. There is plenty of manure available, as we keep five hundred horses and twenty-five cows. The mark we try to aim at consistently is clean land—high cultivation—and make it pay as it runs. I am satisfied that every year’s clean-up leaves the land in better shape than it was before, and I am willing to own that the farm as a whole pays us good, generous interest on a valuation of one hundred dollars an acre. The land that has been hardest worked is subjected to a rigid barren-summer fallow. In other words, we give the land we are going to fallow a shai- low plowing in the fall. It is then plowed twice the following summer and in the fall is sown to winter barley or wheat.’ Short-Changing the Dalrymples *‘Generally there are two or three sec- tions in clover. Clover is always followed by wheat in the spring. We use the blue- stem strain, although we are making field tests with Alberta red. Also we are test- ing certain varieties of flax. All seeds are subjected to germinating tests. This year the crops of the old Dalrymple farm were nine thousand acres in wheat, twenty-five hundred acres each in oats, rye and barley, seventeen hundred acres in flax and nine hundred acres in corn—the remainder being in grass crops or summer fallow.” The young manager of this bonanza estate believes that it is cheaper to raise his horses than to buy them. From extensive experience he has determined that it costs him eighty-five dollars to raise a colt to the age of three years, when it is ready to be broken and put to work. As the pre- vailing price of good working teams is from five hundred to six hundred dollars, he would seem to have the best of the argu- ment. Besides, he believes that in doing his own breeding he is able to get far better stock than he would generally be able to buy in the open market. His drove of horses is headed by four choice Percheron stallions, and he has fully two hundred brood mares. Today there are at least one hundred and twenty-five unbroken colts in his pasture. His reason for choosing Percherons is “because they stand grief better."’ He declares that his brood mares are not out of the harness more than three days at the time of foaling and that the | colts learn to pick their feed more quickly when they are not allowed to run with their mothers. Colts are first fed oats and bran. Corn in the shock and oat straw is all they get after their first year until they are broken, with the exception of summer pasturage. Hay is fed to horses only in the working season. Mr. Dalrymple’s books show that his working horses eat fifty dollars’ worth of grain a year each and that his barn feed bill almost equals his yearly expenditure for labor. The working equipment of this famous bonanza farm is expressed in large figures: there are two hundred and fifty sets of harness, two hundred wagons, eight huge steam tractor engines, eight separators that thresh twenty thousand bushels of wheat | a day, one hundred and ten binders, and | one hundred gangplows, each able to plow five acres a day of stubble land. More than three thousand carloads | of grain—or about eighty-seven average trains—were shipped, from this farm last | year. When the yearly yield is less than | five hundred thousand bushels John and | William Dalrymple think the farm has short-changed the family. The summer force of the farm is about | two hundred men, while the payroll in the busy season carries four hundred to five | hundred men. Thirty hands comprise the | winter crew. The full-season hands receive twenty-five to thirty-five dollars a month, and the harvest and threshing force two to three dollars aday. All hands are Scandi- navians. The advantage of this is that- many “‘green”’ hands are attracted direct from the old country and have no difficulty in getting along where their own language | is the prevailing tongue. The Rough-Riding Automobile According to John Dalrymple’s records, the average cost a meal of the raw materials eaten by a farmhand is seven cents; the cooking and service brings the cost up to thirty-five cents a day for each man. About fifty tons of flour, twenty-five barrels of coffee and fifty half-barrels of salt fish are used in the chuck houses on the farm each year. In the working season the average meat consumption of the hands is about a steer and a half a day. These cattle no doubt could be profitably raised on the farm. A dairy of twenty-five cows is maintained to furnished the milk con- sumed on the place. Hogs are considered an incidental by-product, and three to four hundred porkers are raised each year. Each of the six divisions of the great farm has its own buildings, teams, machin- ery equipment and foreman, and carries a separate account on the books kept in the big office building. All time accounts, however, are handled at the central office, and each laborer’s account is kept posted ‘up to the minute.”” Every night each foreman calls the manager on the tele- phone, at a given time, and makes a com- plete report of the day’s doings. The Oliver te ee farm had a complete telephone system before one had been installed in the city of Buffalo. One gen- eral superintendent has direct oversight of the foremen. There isn’t a busier automo- bile in North Dakota than the one that whisks John Dalrymple from one farm to another. It is broken to plowed ground and is expected to go anywhere that a pair of workhorses can pull a load. The essence of all the volumes of figures in the central office of this big bonanza farm is this: It costs an average of eight dollars and forty-five cents to produce an acre of wheat. To this might be fittingly added that the fields in this year of extreme drought — only three-fourths of an inch of rainfall in the crop-making period —give substantial evidence that the average yield will be about fourteen bushels to the acre. Look at the present price of wheat and you ean hardly escape the conclusion that being a bonanza wheat farmer is far from the worst fate in the world! EVENING POST October 1,1910 ot ed Oe byereyi olo: ya Underwear. Tecate a sheep wears his wool on the ouzside. That’s where it is in Duofold. The inner fabric hasn't a thread of wool in it. linen or silk touches you. Only fine cotton, The outer fabric is of wool, pure silk or silko- line, as you prefer. — Two light-weight fabrics in one; with air-space between. You feel none of the crawly, prickly sensation induced by an all-wool garment; none of the clammy feeling that a solid cotton garment gives. Duofold is as easy as your skin. and evenly warm all the time indoors or out. You feel no weight. It keeps you dry And as to style, it is the leading fashion among well-dressed men everywhere. Single garments and union suits in all weights and various shades. Money back if not satisfied. Your dealer will supply you. Or if necessary write to us. We'll arrange for you to get what you want. You don’t have to. with something else. Shall we send you the Dwofold style booklet? Don’t ‘‘put up” It gives facts about hygienic dress that every modern man should read. Duofold Health Underwear Co., Mohawk, N. Y. Loe 0 Robischon & Peckham Co., Selling Agents YS 349 Broadway, New York ie Nature’s Way Is for man to walk on the earth and not on hard surfaces. Bailey’s way beats Nature's way by making a// surfaces easy for the wearer of Bailey’s “Won't Slip” Rubber Heels The tread, constructed with flexible **U** shaped ribs, together with flat- ended rubber studs, make these heels positively non-slipping on ice or other slippery surfaces, insuring ease and safety with every step Mailed upon receipt of price 35 Cents Per Pair For Men or Women When ordering send a correct outline draw- ing of the bottom of the heel of your boot. Dealers, write for prices Bailey's Rubber Heels were invented by Mr. . Bailey, the inventor and patentee of Bailey's Rubber Brushes, ** Won't Slip’ Crutch Tips and “ Won't Slip” Tires. c. J. BAILEY & CO. 22 Boylston Street Boston, Mass. For Instance PECIA Discounts on Diamonds \ | / / The Discounts RY from Our Regular “ Catalog Prices— NS 7 Gems of High- : : — est Quality __ WRITE for our special offer on the choicest quality of diamonds. Special Discount Sheet and price list, together with complete Geo. E. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST October 1,1916 Several thousand people in this country are running their cars at a much lower cost, per month or year, than you are. They are getting the same turning effort out of a four-cylinder car as you could get out of an eight—if there were such a car. The car they drive runs more smoothly than yours—it will run more slowly on high gear and climb grades with vastly less effort than your car. If you care to know how and why they are enjoying this advantage over you, it will pay you to read this Elmore advertisement. The product of the Elmore plant has gradually been increased from 150 to 3,100 cars per annum. And we are just as far away from satisfying the demand today as we were ten years ago. Valveless Two Cycle

Advantages Enjoyed by Elmore Owners Which Are Denied to You A lower cost of upkeep than any other car in the world. Continuous power and all that it implies in smoothness and economy. A power impulse from each cylinder, every time the fly-wheel revolves. More power in our four than you get in your six. The same turning effort in our four as you would get in a four cycle eight. A vreater overlap of one power impulse over another in our four than in any four cycle six. More power at a lower speed than you get with your four cycle six at high speed No engine trouble from one end of the year to the other.

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