The Saturday Evening Post 1914-07-04: Vol 187 Iss 1

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POST : ~ S > 7, mR x EVENING

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Ue ia | ’ fl on . St . res = - et ~ i Ps on fs . > 2 Ge a ~~ The National Drink for the National Birthday 2: Welch's helps you celebrate the ais without storing up any regrets for the fifth. Drink it at the picnic, at the game. after the game, at the rally; serve it in your home; order it at your club. You get the Nation’s best and Nature’s best AT its best in Welch's “Che National Drin&k™ It's the pure unfermented juice of the choicest Concords grown — Chautauqua Concords > 1 . ° suggestio with all the fine flavor, high quality and richness secured with purity unimpaired. This is A suggestion , . To extend the use of Welct accomplished by the exact, sanitary Welch process. Welch's is constantly increas 29th to July 4th is Welch V\ ing in popularity because it satisfies the Nation’s thirst. Order a case for your home So aeeee Se eee Heteeen | of eich s

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THE SATURDAY EVENING

I opposiice appeared in i Saturday ] ening P sf Nole ? , & thr start Franklin has emphasized light weight which mec above all « light tire cost > i : Heavy Tire Expense is Not a Necessary Evil’ : It Can Be Avoided by Sound Engineering Design ] ERE is

a strange ar d important con Michelin, the tire expert, says that every kind of | tw ht a k dition. Ask the average man what is ,) increase in the weight of the car add j w alter vear tor t t \ the one big thing left to be done to pertect 15 to the wear and tear on the tire have been demonstrating t! the automobile. He will tell you “find some Hudson Maxim shows that every 25 decrease in weight adds 100 in For example, gasolin way of cutting down tire expense and t rvice trouble.” obtained from the tire mn It Has Been Proved weather, over all kinds of routes, 94 In 1910, 1911, 1912 and 1913 we That it is pos ible to use an automobile illon of gasoline each. Scores of | imuitaneous run mad t Fra kK [he average man—with all that he know bout automobiles does not know NEE NT ang oe 5 ome a { , ent out blank tir orts to | ranklin owne : without the consta recurring annoyance , 1 . a run t the arne haract ved : , in all sections of the country The report i and expens« f tire punctures and tir ular result bi - for the four years 1OW aN average muleag owouts } ’ ' per set of tires on the cars of Franklin owne (Al consumption } n ‘ Frequent tire trouble and heavy tire ey under all sorts of conditions, of 8,996. Tl 400 to YOO miles per : pense he meekly ac epts as necessary evil highest average for one year was 10,74¢ If he gets from X00 to SOO00 miles out The ¢ ‘planation of this is that tl Th * ye ; : e Easy Riding, of a tire he thinks himself fortunat | ranklin is a screntih ally igat weight y & , equipped with large tit Easy Driving Car lhe reason for this modest expectation is <n } mo } ' j . : . mply that most car owners have averaged _—— ° The Frank ca py i in to get about that mileag {nd the reason The Original Light Car nding, easy driving car. With its light we for this low mileage has been the preva The Iranklin has always been a light it stnkes ruts and obstructions in the 1 lence of big, heat y cars and rigidly cor veight ca len years ago, a shown by with a minimum of shock. Becau tus helt structed cars with tires too small the advertisement reproduced above, it wa ubove, the axles and the other unspru being « xploited is a light car veight are lighter. [thas full elliptical An 8000 Mile Average 1s Through years of experien therefor the frame ts of laminated wood 1 tea i Possible we have learned how to build a car that 1 teel, specially constructed to absor! h : lexible and light in weight not ordinary rl ' It of all tl ,; ; But not on a car too heavy for tl tires hgeht weight, but scientific heht weight oon , - = - , : miort tor the ssengers juicker st Not « f too ngid struct vith a constant increase in efhciency, rather . . ae : ve nh a car of foo Mgid construction - ing and stor ping, qui ker! king up ol sy , , he} than a sacrili in efhmency \nd today wal I , i} j ires ve astic evo uch F easier control rain of driver en = = —_ = ” I rar klin ownel: ire among the few wl . it is not safe to work them } | | realize that constant tire trouble and heavy Cars can be so designed that tires are not tire expense are not ne wy evi Send for catalogue to tressed beyond this elastic limit and thus has d Proghite Autessshiie Commons will give the same factor of reliability as other nd Beside . pé parts of the car The other advantages of the Franklin Syracuse, N. Y. ‘ Weights and Prices Touring Car, 2725 pounds, $2300 Roadster 2630 xs 2300 Coupé 2788 5 2950 Sedan 2924 5 3200 Berlin 3121 - 3400 Tires 4% inch all around Prices are F. O. B. Syracuse, N. Y. Ask your dealer to weigh the car for you

(Engine and vehicle patented July 2, 1908) Franklin Six-Thirty Five-Passenger Touring Car, $2300 FRANKLIN SIX-THIRTY, 2725 POUNDS, 4% INCH TIRES

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Put Crisco to this Test SEVERE test for any shortening is its use in hot bread. Make some Crisco biscuit ; A they are delicate—in looks, odor and taste. ‘They are light and daintily brown. Break one open and you will be delighted with the appetizing aroma, free from any suggestion of lard. ‘They are just as wholesome and digestible as their delicacy promises. You will find equally as attractive points about Crisco in other branches of cooking. For instance, you can fry without smoke and odor. You can use the same Crisco for frying all manner of foods and all will have a new wholesomeness. You can make a light rich cake with Crisco which will keep fresh and moist longer. You will obtain delicious, digestible and economical foods by knowing Crisco better. (RISCO Below is a good biscuit recipe, or you may use your own favorite recipe by using from 's to 44 less Crisco than you would of lard. Note how Crisco stands the test. Baking Powder Biscuits 2 cupfuls flour ‘2 teaspoonfuls baking powder 2 tablespoonfuls Crisco Milk 1 teaspoonful salt (Level Measurements) o with ft quid to flou vill be much 1 New Cook Book and “Calendar of Dinners” vy Marion Har Neil, give ory pes, i sable facts about ' t or Frying For for Cake Making July 4,1914

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| a I ry LOT re ee ee vn | Published Weekly | The Curtis Publishing Company Independence Square Philadelphia London: 6,Henrietta Street Covent Garden,W.C Volume 187 PHILADELPHIA, JULY 4, 1914 THE SATURDAY VENING POST Founded A’D' 1728 Sy Benj. Franklin Copyright.1914, by The Curtis Publishing Company in the United States and Great Britain Entered at the Philadelphia Post Offic« as Second-Class Matter Entered as Second Class Matter at th« Post Office Departm ont Ottawa, Canada Number ! DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH RS. SERINA PEPPERALL had called her husband twice without succe It was at that hatefullest ho week when everybody that } iro the whole 3 to get ip is getting up and realizing that itis M aay morning, and rain or ing besides, It is bad enough for t to be Monday, but for it to be raining is t cusable. Young Horace Pep perail used to say tha ihat Was the reason the orld didn’t improve cl People got good Sunday, and then it had to go and be Mor inday could he ed by some othe prelerat i ‘ there would he re happine ans t i the rid , ph'l »pher } i Mr. Peppe | id he wa hope i ler and ent me ¢ e deciding Ne r ne dougnt todot that thanit udt ‘ taken to do * tM twice W here ( M eppe ‘ i" iden 1! ne WU ld ret her husband tl ! is only I ‘ ter all, while | “re's Easy. Just Watch What I was at least! B Whereupon her hus} 1 ild remind her of certain things about the Boodys. And o it would go. But that othe gs. Tl iS this mor A rm l th es that tl 1 upo or ld have looked upon if it ild have looked upor ni i it had been raining and the Pepperall rool had not been impervious to light ugh not to moisture-— among them all, surely the Pe perall re ) ina ty eit t H mer neve ) } ture « I ngered A ‘ ol eco I t ror } t the Pepperalls’ in ¢ ag erina Wa inlike Aurora as po e. Aurorais usually poised on tiptoe, with her rY ured } i race il ( ed notl ry ! t ner exce 1c i more or le hiffo ording te he e picture is for families or he erina ¢ re ] ed ol simy i pilile yet lesiy hole at the top for her he to go ignandal yer ore the « er extreme I eet t out at | 0 bor ! mu couldn tl e Set her lee i ! hee there And Pap Peppe ) here i i t terested 1 yt exciting ankies. They nad been more interes gy when there had been ik oi Ul But we'd better talk about the sleeve The sleeves were so | t ‘ kept falling into the ter nere erina ma i ha toilet at the little ‘ ped altar to cleanline which the Peppe the “worsh-st i hat the ht » as Mrs. Hippisley lied it a he me ick tror ‘ pombe t trip to king i But then Se ‘ l bet all I ids, and ever since sh ri d remember she had r it ' h that peculiar motion with which peoy roll up sleeve TI morning, having failed to el pupa trom the bed by persuasior he made suchar et about her ablutions that he lifted hisdreary lidsatlast. Herealized that it as mor Monday, and rair y. Itirritated him so that he glared at his faith! ife with no fervor for her unsullhed and unwearied—tf not altogether unwearisome devotion. He watched her roll up those leeves thrice more somenow he wunted to cream at the futility of it. But he checked the impulse partly, and it was with ftr that he made a comment he had choked back for year erina he be HENRY a Do and Do the Al Same’ By RUPERT HUGHES ILLUSTRATED Br RIGH ) tol ‘ p ol o ‘ é the 7 } re ¢ } } ai f tt er emp } ret ed, pa e hand. He t x elie i the pa ‘ r ed n y too lo t Ne : red to r ewe have t ed o have ex pended, « b i those eve v Lal » eevVes ( \ ‘ ugh energ t iled the § x Ser A prised that she ttt pper soap U i t na She right alter I m be nyt! ulh Cake ler ua } j pruce but ert one ot the le indolent spouse othe ( | ment Dor do i hoOK Like ti (20d ‘ of Laberty trying poet to Lhe DW I he did ! hiry he i w ing for tl mi} i i i wer to ! r re " \ ‘ } emerged \ ! vl Well, 1 ‘ t ux j i good iit he } } i } tte j " ory nd besid | ‘ me » | 1 i] ) W } } t ‘ ' ‘ } , } ‘ ) ep trom ge } hetter to d j ‘ i I time i l¢ } j bed } ‘ ) | ) } ! nis Me ‘ rul } l i \ i I ‘ t ‘ } } °® tow? he prowl i ed } wr Lhe |

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST plashed over and struck the bare feet of both yowled and danced like Piute Indians, and chother as they danced. They glared in anagged id have turned into an ugly quarrel if a great not suddenly overswept them. They saw them- were and by a whim of memory they remem- they had been. He laughed bitterly: first time we've danced together in a long » began to quiver and swell quite independ- i} hed: i like the dances we used todance. Oh, dear!” I a chair and stared, not at her husband » bridegroom of long ago he had shriveled from. remembered those honeymoon mornings when they d like eager children and laughed and romped of the new day. The mornings had been , for it was a tragedy to let him go to his shop, tival to watch from the porch in the evening | he came round the corner and waved to her. he looked from him to herself, to what she could see of elf—it was not all, but more than enough. She saw her red hands and the coarse gown over her awkward » dismal slovenliness of her attitude. She remembering the slim, wild, sweet girl he And she was ashamed before his eyes, because years prey upon her and had lazily permitted eauty to escape from her—from her body, her face, her notions, her thoughts » felt that for all her prating of duty she had com- 1 a great wickedness lifelong. She wondered if this the unpardonable sin,’ whose exact identity id seemed to decide—to grow strangers with eauty and to lorget grace Pei W# ATEVER her husband may have been thinking, he had the presence of mind to hide his eyes in the water he had poured from the pitcher. He scooped it up now in double handfuls. He made a great splutter and soused his face in the bowl, and scrubbed the back of his neck and behind his ears and his bald spot, and slapped his eminent collar-bones with his wet hand. And then he was bathed. Serina pulled on her stockings, and hated them and the coarser feet they covered She opened the wardrobe door a sereen, less from modesty for herself than from sudden disgust of her old corset and her all too sober lingerie. She resolved that she would hereafter deck herself with more of that coquetry which had abruptly returned to her mind as wife’s most solemn duty. Then she remembered that they were poorer than they Now they could not even run into debt would give them further credit, since their id been canceled by nothing more sat he grim “Received payment” of the * her to reform. Her song was sung. r frills and fallals, there were two daugh r and a son who was growing into the With a sigh of dismissal she flung wrapper, whose comfortableness she suddenly pised, and made her escape, murmuring: “I'll call the childert She pounded on the boy’ deor, and Horace eventually wered with his regular program of uncouth noises, like ne one protesting against being strangled to death. se were followed by moans of woe, and then by far off-sounding promises of “Oh, aw ri’, I'm git’nup.” Serina moved on to her youngest daughter's door. She had tapped but once when it was opened by “The best girl The Prettiest Thing of All Was the Nead Half Smothered in the Tangied Skeins of Hair that ever lived,” according to her father; and according to her mother: “A treasure; never gave me a bit of trouble plain, of course, but so willing!” Ollie was fully dressed and so was her room, except for the bed, the covers of which were thrown back like a wave breaking over the footboard. In fact, after Ollie had kissed her mother she in- formed her that the kitchen fire was made, the wash boiler on and the breakfast going. “You are a treasure!” Serina sighed, She passed on to the door of Prue. Prue was the sec ond daughter. Rosie, the eldest, had married Tom Milford and moved away. She was having troubles of her own, and children with a regularity that led Serina to dislike Tom Milford more than ever. Serina knocked several times at Prue’s door with- out response. Then she went in as she always had to. Prue was still asleep, and her yesterday’s clothes seemed to be asleep, too, in all sorts of attitudes and all sorts of places. The only regularity about the room was the fact that every sin- te Ge ht PO ee) gle thing was out of place. The dressing table held a little chaos, including one stocking. The other stocking was on the floor. One silken garter glowed in the southeast corner and one in the northwest. One shoe reclined in the southwest corner and the other gaped in the northeast. But they were pretty shoes. Her frock was in a heap, but it suggested a heap of flowe rs. Hair ribbons and ribboned things and at rumple d sash bedecked the carpet. But the prettiest thing of all was the head half fallen from the pillow and half smothered in the tangled skeins of hair. One arm was bent back over her brow toshut out thesunlight and the other arm dangled to the floor. There was something adorable about the round chin nestling in the soft throat Her chin seemed to frown with a lovable sullenness. There was a mysterious grace in the very sprawl vaguely outlined by the long wrinkles and ridges of the blankets. Serina shook her head over Prue in a lovir Zz ck spair She was the bad boy of the family, impatient, exacting, hot-tempered, stormy, luxurious, yet never monotonous “You can always put your hand on Ollie,” Serina would say; “‘but you never know where Prue is from one minute to the next.’ Consequently Ollie was not interesting and Prue was. They were all afraid of Prue and afraid for her. They all toadied to her and she kept them excited— alarmed, perhaps; angry, oh yes; but never bored And there were rewards in her service, too, for she could be as stormy with affection as with mutiny. Sometime she would attack Serina with such gusts of gratitude or admiration that her mother would cry for help. She would squeeze her father’s ribs till he gasped for breath. When she was pleased she would dance about the house like a whirling menad with ululations of ecstasy. These crises were sharp, but they left a sweet taste in the memory. So Prue had the best clothes and did the least work. Prue was sent off to boarding school in Chicago, though she had never been able to kee p up with her classes in Carthage; while Ollie who took first prizes till even the goody-goody boys hated her stayed at home. She had dreamed of being a teacher in the High, but she never mentioned it, and she studied book- keeping and stenogra phy in the business college so that she could help her father. July 4, 1914 And Prue Came Home. She Was Alone! And in Tears! } Prue had not been home long and had come home wit bad grace. When her father had found it impossible borrow more money even to pay his clerks, to ay nothi of boarding-school bills, he had to write the truth to Prue He told her to come again to Carthage. She did not come back at once and she refused to explain why. Asa matter of fact she had desperately endeavored to find a permanent job in Chicago. It was easy for so attractive a girl to get jobs, but it was hard for so domi neering a soul to keep one. She was regretfully bounced out of three department stores in six days for “sassing”’ the customers and the aisle-managers. She even tried the theater. She was readily accepted by a stage-manager, but when he found that he could teach her the usual figures or persuade her to keep in or line with the rest he regretfully let her go It was the regularity of it that stur could dance like a ballerina by h lf count “one-two-three-four’’ tv second time it was ‘“o-o-one-t't would be “onety-thry fo-o-our.”” Prue hung about Chicago, getting herself int by her charm and fighting her way out of them ferocious pride. Finally she went hungry and came } When she learned the extent of her father’s financial col lay she delivered tirades against the people of Car + d she sang him up as a genius. And the she soug! ar from the depression at home by se¢ r what gayet) Carthage ; rdes She made no effort to master the typewriter and she declined to sell drygoods Serina stood and studied the sleeping girl, that strange wild thing she had borne and had tried in vain to contr She thought how odd it was that in the mystic transmissio of her life she had given all the useful virtues to Ollie and none of them to Prue. She wondered what she had been thinking of to make such a mess of motherhood And what could she do to correct the oversight? Ollie did not need restraint, and Prue would not endure it. She stood aloof, afraid to waken the girl to the miseries of existence In a household where every day was Blue Monday now. Ollie had not waited to be called. Ollie had risen betimes and done all the work that could be done, and stood ready to do whatever she could. Prue was still aloll on a bed o ease. Even to waken her was to waken a March wind. The moment she was up she would have everybody running errands for her. She would be lavish in complaint and parsimonious of help. And yet she was a dear! be a pity to She did enjoy her morning sleep so well. It would disturb her. The rescuing thought came to Serina that Prue loved to take a long hot bath on Monday mornings, because on wast day there was alway a plenty of hot water in the bathroom. On other mornings the hot-water faucet suffered from a distressing cough and nothing more So she tiptoed out and closed the door softly, mr AT BREAKFAST Ollie waited on the table after com 4% pelling Serina to sit down and eat. There was little to tempt the appetite and no appetite to be tempted yee ana Opies POT OCR i TTT

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Papa was in the doldrums. He had always complained 4d ed with a peculiar savagery, then the dance was ¢ n the grou ervics After } before of having to gulp his breakfast and hurry to the dently quenched and subdued. Awestruck yowls fr ished the ‘ e st ; hop. And now he complained because there was no hurry; above indicated that Prue is hot water typewriter she ha rrowed t " her I deed there was no shop. He m set out at his time of “This is the last straw!"’ groaned p " " eg ‘ ‘ { years, after his life of independent warfare, to ask for enlist- wretchedness of a father irning that his daughter id t é As Ollie 4 ment as a private in some other ma ompany\ in a g eto thet ! tow where vacal es Tareliv oO irredi a 1 her Pepperall would not be welcome pe E did not appear belowstairs for so Prue , (or ee cain Caption FTE ri el geo Krupt ! lt i De ed from the ‘ uughtso rad t to t , gi ! otu p ld Di 0 ena I or ‘ munts r i whispere ito W t ‘ er? ve he ‘ \ ‘ ‘ seri is as d ul f ! he faced he and Olli ym Prue e the lathe ‘ ‘ ‘ th the prospect of g her n ! y bout the floor { ing si i t her 1 1 i rH ‘ la A wife ‘ office ho a i e, ere possible tha eet a thing ‘ i ‘ ‘ ; I iman at home USE 1 otlice hour i pest. T he would have to be ‘ ( I was the vest | yt the least of Serina’s woes Whe he had ired | late and é ‘ t Horace Seve rt mmer than ever i wry as I ow t! i 1d ce cna©r her la er 4 to r ‘) t Hi ’ ‘ } é eal, At best he me of those bre t brui throat a tirade. He bega h the relucta | f ‘ eve He w 5 N he 3a bear t has been hit on the nose. He, too, a young attorney ss-eXamining his first Prue e ho o th ‘ n t seek a job. School had seemed con g before, but Prue I want to—t ¢ Prue, do you ] ume ‘ ) toch 0 t\ ¢ ! that he must go to w hool seemed lke one ng eve Thi er this tango busine I Itg ! erve é i ) ati i—do you~--er What do vou know about | { Ollie upstairs wor} y her y in 7 Even Ollie wa ael ed Her ne n er Oo Well, of course papa, the change it sol to ‘ ) i i} ‘ " wo he ‘ r ve perso ae ( she had prepared hersell hard to Kkee¢ ip with it, but I was about three day hea ing us! io tl k that one o ir daughte ; n 1 aid in her f ( isine d m e had no busi- of Chicago when I left ther I met with aman who had x i ‘ f ness. In this alkali desert of inanition Prue’s vivacious ist stepped off the twenty-hour train and I learned all he I can’t believe that our e Prue temper would have be elcome knew before I turned him loose,” Where’s Prue?” ud p 1 r the fifth time. Serina In a strangled tone the father croaked: Lé r ao go | vas about to say that she was still asleep when Prue made “You dance it then? groan | mor ‘ up ts asermon about the her presence know Everybody v pprised that the You bet! Papa and up and I'll show you the ver tango. Reverend Doctor What's-His-Name, tl d iter had been turned on in the bathroom; it resounded newest roll. It’s a peact Put your weight on your right New York newspaper preacl ears the whole t ) wa throughout the house. It , leg. Say, it's a shame we haven’taphonograph! to piece He points out that the tango the e of the ed to fall about one , Don’t you suppose you could afford a e one present-day kedine the r of the home! el ; ’ ; { ta. Sne is humming ime preacher used t« re ' range tune over t m the automobuie and the ‘ de like another Min- , ‘ \ yw it’s the nana And from the tango It'll be ma behavior of the dining cl ‘ ext (| r I lelier and th Papa was used to fight t on the mMenhoara th mamma ral Ne iSs€ le | ia? edwith! . ed J Wt it t! tto ! he i) Ar vu a le i 1 gy i } ipaada Kea r lau hte a’ era while ‘ Deo ) ip} I don’t know,’ id ‘ e tang € i ] ene r see I never heard it 11d The itn t Ollie be ise you Al rowled Horace courage " r the Argentine it n author | + 0 ever co j eD ‘ The go!”’ gasped e because i , papa ] t that the ht , | new dance I've hee re ‘ t the 1 ing about,that’smakinga ey their father, to \ ( itior Ne \ ) | ‘Ah, e up, pop! he chante id Horace, “Ica she el | In¢ I They're t | da ing the tango » . aoe , . ! home tow! P Surest thing you e. Ollie ; | know, pop. The whole ewrote he ‘ | yurg’s goin’ bug over it.’ Pr } ‘ | ‘*‘How is it done hi ' he | What i t like?” 1. M.¢ \ r lle | something like t | id Horace ir , é ae. é lulged the pre , he ' igo, tn b f } e¢ ( f 3 p ind po - ‘ ' His Roar Wat Heard for a Biock ' ard scrapil ol the iire Hult Stop it! pa tl lered It’s loathsome! Do Don’t be for yu dear old bump-o ) M ‘ “ Lhe i ‘ > te e that n ighter does tl rt of thing I forbid you to danes ever aga : } Sure! She onder at it he hee proark I ‘ t the I | ‘ ; undre!l t nt? “ 1 } ks! Get up here and ho yu the itest d ‘ ( } i WI ht her, | When at last he grew a her re ) ! A | ‘ ] f i. iffed Horace lo eed te he ired into a tur toln e hi | t the rest of ‘er They'r be her rain. He spent the d ’ gf ) I i r I Tea g others! My g oodne here did she one Horace came home et a é ‘ ‘ And | é 4 lear - ime new Ollie the ‘ ire ‘ t \ eu ! ( igo, I guess.” he had obtained 1} t “Oh, the wickedne ol these tle ind the foreigner Hippisley’s office, at a iry ol thirty d i i ynit Vv | A that are dragging our American home ljown to their o William was overjoyed, but Serina protested tter PAPA er t t level!” e and Mrs. Judge Hippisley had been bitter il? A ead t ‘ “1 guess the foreigners got thin’ on u said Hora for twenty years. They had fought each other th tea lirectio the hat tree and stumbled up the ‘It’s a Namerican dance.” and euchre parties and receptions from young ehood to Her mother “What are we coming to Go te Prue to come here at middle-aged portli ‘ . And no rhe i ! rw to r W t the te no once. I'll put a stop to that right here and now.’ in that hateful Anasta ia Hippi ley’ old lool olat pand Prus re ed yt l Serina gave him onesearing glance,a d he understood that office? Well, hardly! rather mother stare her, then at « the ‘ he could not deliver his edict to Prue yet a while. He heard It’s better than starving,” said Ollie, and for e the it the flo Mach read the same unspeal ‘ her singing even more barbaric strai The chandelier ould not be coerced though even her disobedience 4s «an the other oul erina ran up the stairs as fa

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he I THE SATURDAY could. William automatically locked the doors and dow turned out the lights and followed ie paused in the upper hall to listen. Prue was explai) that Orten Hippisley,”’ Prue sobbed what has he done?” Serina pleaded, and Prue he got fresh! Some of these fellas in this town think use a girl likes to have a good time and knows how y can get fresh with her. I didn’t like the way held me ard I told him. Finally I wouldn't y more with him. I gave his dances to Grant idle till the last: then Ort begged so hard, I said all right i like a gentieman. But on the way home his arm round me. And when I told him to take wouldn't He said I had been in his arms half the before folks, and if I hadn’t minded then I oughtn’t nd now. And I said: ‘Is that so? Well, it’s mighty nt when you're dancing.’ And he said: ‘Oh, no, it and I said: ‘Oh, yes, it is.’ And he tried to kiss me d I hauled off and smashed him right in the nose. It wdied all over hi dress soot, and I'm glad of it.”’ ymehow Papa Pepperall felt such an impulse to give that he had to put his own hand over his tiptoed to his room, and when mamma | to announce with triumph, “I guess Prue hasn’t ie bad yet,” papa said: “Who said she h ul? Prue nest girl in America!” 1 thought you were saying " Why can’t you ever once get me right? I was saying t Prue is too fine a girl to be allowed to mingle with that go set. I’m going to cowhide that Hippisley cub. And rue’s not going to another one of those dances * ( re 7 ‘ y ‘ Hi; tut he didn’t And she did, vi LLIE was up betimes the next morning to get breakfast ind make haste to her office. She was so excited that droy ped a stove lid on the coal scuttle just as her ther appeared For mercy’s sake, le Serina whispered ou'll wak« poor Prue!” lie next dropped the tray she had just unloaded on the ile. Serina was furious. Ollie whispered: ‘I’m so nervous for fear I've lost my job at Judge pisley’s, now that Prue had to go and slap Orton.”’ Always thinking of yourself,’ was Serina’s rebuke. Don't be so i jut Ollie’s fears were wasted. Orton Hippisley might » boasted s he did not get, but not of the slaps did. He had gained a new respect for Prue, and at opportunity pleaded for forgiveness, eying her the while. He begged her to go with him to a his home that evening ive him for the sake of the invitation—and she { dipped at the judge's house while Ollie spent the his office trying to finish the day’s work. Her yet up to requirements. Prue’s speed was. itched Prue manipulating her members in inisms of the jatest dances, They ach them, but she laughed and said: “It’s } V ch what I do and do the same.” 0 Rapt iel told his pupils and N ipoleon his subordinates. rht Ollie and Prue reached home at nearly the lie told how well she was getting along in the Prue told how she had made wallflowers of in Mrs. Hippisley’s parlor. Let those who ‘s heart decide which daughter Serina was prouder ol the good or the bad. he told William about it how Ollie had learned to type both | is and how Prue got there with both ‘She’s a great gir!! ir vil r Judge Hippisley stopped William and spoke in his best bench manner: peak about your daughter, but I've got to.” vhat's Ollie done Isn't she fast enough?” sht. I’m speaking of Prue. She’s entirely you to tell her to let my son alone.” be * ng in Beadle’s hardware store, learn earning twe lve dollars a week And time dancing with that dam Beadle is going to fire him if he ess better.”’ to Prue,”’ was all Pepperall dared to say. many powers over him to be talked i spoke to Prue and it amused her very much. She t old Mr. Beadle had better speak to his own boy, 's fiercest rival at the dances. And as for ‘d better take up dancing himself. sunday three of the Carthage preachers wo. One of them used for his text Matthew i the other used Mark vi, 22 Both told how sJaptist had lost his head over Salome’s dancing. “Five Hundert Thaters!t I Sett You de Whole Shop for Five Hundert Thaters"’ Kaa Doctor Brearley chose Isaiah lix evil . . their thoughts are thous and destruction Mr. and Mrs Brearley Prue t ) late to be p nt Doctor Brearley blamed so mar y ol the evils of the tango craze that if a visitor from Mars had dropped into Doctor world on the a pew he might have judged that the world had been an Eden till the tango came. But then Doctor Breark y had always blamed old things on new thing It was a ferocious sermon, however, and the wincing Pepperalls felt that it was aimed directly at them. When Doctor Brearley denounced modern parents for their own godlessness and the irreligion of their homes, William took the blame to himself. On his way home he announced his determination to resume the long-neglected family custom of reading from the Bible. After the heavy Sabbath dinner had been ea was up in time for this rite—he gathered his littl the parlor for a solemn while It had beer choose the reading of the day at random “letting the Lord decide.” The big rusty-hing open with a loud puff of dust several year adjusted his spectacles and read what he found before him: “Nehemiah x: ‘Now those that sealed were, Nel! ih, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah, Azariah, Jeremiah, Pashur, Amariah, Malchijah, Hat- tush’’’—he began to breathe hard. He waslo tin animper etrable forest of names, and he could not pronounce one ol them. He sneaked a peek ahead, dimly made out “ Bunni, Hizkijah, Magpiash and Hashub,”’ and choked It looked like sacrilege, but he ventured to close the Book and open it once more. This time he happe ned on the last cl apte r of the Book of Judges, wherein is the chronicle of the plight of the tribe Seraiah, of Benjamin, which could not get women te marry into it The wife famine of the Benjamites was not in the interesting to Mr. Pepperall, but he would not tem; Lord again. So-he read on, while the children yaw shuffled, Prue especially. Suddenly Prue sat still ar d li tened, and papa’s cough grew worse. He was reading about the “feast of the Lord in Shiloh yearly,”’ and how the elders of the congregation ordered the children ef Benjamin to go and lie in wait in the vineyards. ‘And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to d nee in dan \ th en come yeo it of the vine y ards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh or And the children of Ben did so, and took them wives, according to their number, of them that danced, whom they caught: and they went and returned unto their inheritance, and repaired the cities, and dwelt in them. “In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did that which was right in his own eyes.’”’ He closed the Book and stole a glance at Prue. Her eyes were so bright with triumph that he had to say: “Of course that proves nothing about dancing. It doesn't say that the Shiloh girls made good wives."" Prue had the impudence to add: “ And it doesn’t say that the sons of Benjamin were good dancers.” EVENING POST July 4, 1914 Her father silenced her with a scowl of horror. Then he made a long prayer, directed more at his family than at the Lord. It apparently had an equal effect on each. After a hymn had been mumbled through, the family dispersed Prue lingered just long enough to capture the Bib carry it off to her room in a double embrace. Ss William tried to be glad to see her sudden inte they were a little afraid of her exact motive. She made no noise at all and did not come dow: to |} elp get supper the sad cold supper of a Sunday ning. Sheslipped into the dining room just before the fan alled. Papa found at his plate a neat lit bearing each a carefully lettered legend in writing. He picked them up, glanced at them and flushed “T dare you to read them,” said Prue. So he ‘To every thing there is a season, and a time purpose under the heaven . . . a time to mour He hath made eve ry thir Ecclesiastes iii. time to dance in his time.’ ‘*Let them praise his name in the Lord taketl plea the timbrel and dance. : cymbals.’ Psalms exlix, cl. “*Q virgin of » in his people. l Praise him upo rgin of Israel thou shalt go inces of them that make merry. joice in the dance, both Jeremiah XXXIl. “We have piped unto you Matthew xi, 17. **Michal, Saul’s daugt ter, looked through leaping ind saw King David d she despised him in f i and dancing before ecaping _ . Therefore unto the day ighter of Sau l n Il Samuel vi, 16, 23.’ 1 did not fall back upon the Shaksperear can quote Scripture to his purpose ind filled his hand with the appk preading on his cold biscuit. Then he said not that I don’t believe in dan ing 1 dor lan are immor’l.”’ “You better not,” said Serina darkly. “ You met me ce We used to dar ll A e tin etl Ly yt "t And you got clum y and I began to ike on flesh, and ran breath like.” “Oh, the William « tion every ince Nas encountered in it “The waltz vy, or the lancers or the Virginia reel all right. But this turkey-trot busines it’s goin’ to be the ruir ou got so 1dn t take me to parties any more knowing the history of $ younge the two-step was fit for decent folks to look at, let alone let their daug do. I want you should quit it, Prue. If you need exer help your motl th the housework. You go and ta round with a broom a while. I don’ try to help your sister, I tell you, able to earn her own yourself. good position in; would.’ Prue wriggled her shoul guess I’m one of those SI} while, and maybe me and take me off your han viii Q* E ever ing Prue came home la l alte sion at Bertha Appleby’s 1 informal gather convened under the disguise of 1 society meeting only t o degenerate into a dan t ing-bee after a few perfu tory formalities Prue had just time to seize a bite before she went for a frankly confessed dancing bout at Eliza Ex ate with angry voracity she complained: “T guess I'll just quit going to dances I don’t hay ‘it of fun any more.” I r started from his chair to embrace the returned rodigal, but he dropped into Ollie’s place as Prue explained ‘rybody is always at me for help. ‘Prue, is tl teach me that.’ ‘Oh, what did you d the inside foot or the outside you start o1 ‘Do you drop on the front knee or the hind?’ *Do you do the Innovation?’ Why, it’s worse than teaching school! “Why don’t you teach school?” said William feebly * There's going to be a vacar cy in the kindergarte “oe Prue sniffed. “I see my And went to her roon to dress Her father sank back discouraged. What ailed the girl? She simply would not take life seriously. She would not lift her hand to help. When they were so poor and the future so dour, how could she keep from earning a little money? Was she condemned to be: altogether useless, shiftless, unprofitable? A weight about her father’s neck till he could shift her to the neck of some unhappy husband? He remembered the fable of the ant and the locust Prue was the locust, frivoling away the summer. At the first cold blast she would be pleading with the industrious ant, Ollie, to take herin. In the fable the locust was turned Se ema eas 8 Screen

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iway to freeze, but you couldn't do that with a humar cust The ants just |} o feed ther Poor Ollie! Munching this quinine cud of thought he went up to bed He was footsore from tran ping the town for work He had covered almost as much distance as Prue had iuanced He was all ir She wa ist going out She kisse rf Te, gnt, but he would not a ver e& went to k ern her d Ollie d Horace Ollie pract ng shorthand 1} ed Prue with sorrowing patience Horace dodged the | bu illed her atter tion t in article in the ever y paper Prue, if you t to get rich quick t yo harge for your tango idvice Says here that teachers are springing up all ove Noo York and Chicawgo, and they get big immense price How much?” said Prue lifferently Says here twenty-five dollars an hour. Some of ‘em’ earning a couple of tho nd irs a week ifs iniormation went igh the room 11Ke a projectile om coast-ce e g ser stened with bated reath as Horace re the confirmatio She shook he It beats all the ice pa n th world Horace read o art é ‘ ribed hov me of the rn prominent womer! metropolitan s¢ t were spo ng the dance A group of ladi« whose names were nore familiar to Serina than the Cl tian martyrs, had t ( i Whole dwe gr e ior dal } couple tod port in, so that the universal amusement could be practiced ex isivel) e mother of the Duche Oo lidw right It was swell

Prue’s frown now was the fr« of meditatio ‘If they ge twenty-five dollars nou New Yor nat ight to be the price in Carthage About I ve cents i S id ™ whno ad | not ipprove of Carthage ] n th town would } ything for anything.” “We used to pay old Profe or lurand to teach us to

tz and polka,” said Horace in the good old da fore pop got the bankrupt nabit That night Prue ‘ experiment She danced exclusively with Ort Hippisle ind G t Beadle he rest oted bipeds in the to W he members ol tne ward lad pile ed to l 1 she danced away im} y will-o’-the-w pl ] When the girl lifted their kirts her to correct their footwork she referred nen es the r ‘ She pestered | ene Brearle daughter ort nda his chit ros Fi irley tore Prue from the arms of Ort H ppisiey, backed her to a corner, and 1d may, Prue, you ve got to listen! I'm invited to visit the swellest home Council Bluffs for a house party. The call it a week-« t ows how swell the y are rhe; re going to dance all the time When it comes to these new lances I'm weak at both ends, head and feet.”’ She laughed numete iy at her own )OKe, as Women Co I don't want to go there like l’d never been ar place or like Carthage , up to date I’m just beginning to get the hang of the Maxixe and the Hesitation, and ] t! ht if you could give me couple « real hard work I wouldn't be l yumpD Could you? Do you ip pose you could? Or could you?” Prue looked ch astonishment at tl that Idalene ha O’ course I’m not asking you to kill urself for nothing. How much would tened to say:

ived up; but I thought if I took two k ‘ a da ou couid n ce mea pecial te. How much would it be, d’you s’pose? ©) t do you thi mndered. This was a new and thrilling moment for her A boy is excited enol over the first penny he earns, but is brought up to earn money. To a girl,

> ] ce Prue, the lu iry was almost olerably intense. She finally found “how much you gettin’ Idalene had, for the sake of pin money, been giving a few alleged lessons ir e, water colors, bridge piano whist, fancy

tching, brass hammering, and things like that. She answered Prue with reluctance I get fifty cent an hour. But o’ cours I make A speciaity of those things.” I’m ma g a speci ol dancing d Prue coldly Idale was torn between the bitterly opposite emotior of getting and giving Prue tried to peak with indifference, but she looked as greedy as the old miser in the Cl of Normand

THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Prue d t see |} e cou Teaching ere so With her an ements } ] Idalene i Oh, we all rig Ca ft ent r \\ n I come over t » i ’ lo my house?” gasped Prue. “Papa doe in aa v ] eT o OF ) i t pe ] ¢ Mf oesn't dre I e. I'm going to let }

} +} pause ureade of ples to practice é id bes omposing the k of her he He was an apt puy ‘ hev had re omeward stroll she neg ed t ike } ke } } 0 uged, ne t ( : < t t! ‘ ‘ y ite She iffe | , wa } ‘ i a ey iS almost a ire ( re l yt . I it Vu yt 4 t Ye She Wal t o te nh he Nhe ‘ Don’t you dare! And Vn ‘ e asked ltr i Do you think I et ‘ Wel } rd ' Oh, so what I do isn’t good « gl 1 don’t mea ist th I i @ ste on |} atretchad ‘ 0 1 ] ed the | ora hon not st | } i ’ le ! I It il dt 1 t , .“t nur I eT i belore t he Prue would have felt sorrier for him if she id not | so exalted over her earning She had not let on at home about her cla t é ) lay the prooi of her Icce on the ipper table W he tacked up the entire two dolla hat she had earner only a few miles of trotting, it looked like the t mercenarie i ed that Carthage wl e me “What in Heaven's Name are You and Poppa Up To?"

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THz BO Jones Day im Verbena—By Charles E.Vam Loan “Please, Mister, Re Se MATHEWSON can vet ple nty of credit and pr mar i lot of thing know my tubhouse . Ju the frest tv w Kind and Condescending' Pitch to Me, if You'll afford to be modest, ls like it or not, because it’s a cinch blic recognition vho makes me tired is the swelled up n't done anytl ing yet and ain't sure roud of it just vigger a man is, the les »and the le ile for me to be modest. t ‘tte up nmy claim the same. It has been s he thinks s liable he is to get l ‘little fellow who is likely to run he is there with a million, as we besides baseball too, I know my ven if I don't a tight game. veak ones, too, e alter lose thar we l am and a lot more are any leagues with my hitting or Arc ontract every year her's feet, but the boss ke« ps and he ought to for myself, except that I'm aft) r everything that comes down my vhether I think I can handle it or not. to see how many of those tough chances the fellow said who tried to kiss every rot in bad with me from the jump. in the the Coast from those organizations much what an A a step is golng on sociation and he bird with the Class D League repu inor-league vwelleve a look at raining. old Murphy. into fast company wearing record is a poor thing to They have to be shown, and it even then. Jones was down in Texas, I was sitting on a bench Murph used to be the al League, but he’s so fat now dle, and he coaches the young fat is above his shoulders, t more out of a kid pitcher than any there Whenever the boss gets r climbing an umpire’s family tree ng ime a big, good-looking chap dressed that vi ked hi team, and he can think faster and we hadn’t done While we and chewing over the t into tow! y of the new stock. andal yu could play checkers on, and ill diked up with a lot of cheap e across between a small-time a hick hotel clerk. You could tell right Say r sit up nights hating himself. leaf lard!” party?” e to Murph, and passed on. says |. ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR “Oh, him?” says Murph, kind of laughing ‘That’s a recruit pitcher. He'll stiffen u; heaving staff quite a considerable.” “Huh! Who says so?” “Why, he does. His name is Jones and he hails from some little town in Ohio. He tells me he was a curly wolf in the K. K. B. League last season.” I said what I thought about Jones and the K. K. B. League; and I didn’t put the sofc pedal on, either. There are people who rub me the wrong on sight and Jones is one of ’em. ““Ye-es,” says Murph; “he’s allofthatand then some. You stick here a minute, Jim, and I'll go get him. He’ll hand you a-many a laugh.” “Oh, yes,” our Way says Jones, nodding kind of careless when he was introduced. “Jim Garrett, hey? Garrett? Seems to me I’ve heard the name, Let’s you're an outfielder, ain’t you?” I’ve seen bushers licked for a lot less than that; and I would have gone back at Jones strong, only I couldn’t think of anything tosay. I’m not very handy with that quick repartee stuff. “Jones, here,” says Murph, helping the play along, “‘had a pretty good season last year.” “Oh, I don’t know’s I’d say good,” says Jones, shooting his cuffs down over his fingers. “‘ | worked in forty games and they beat me fivetimes; but the team laid down behind me, Pitcher can’t do it all, you know.” see; “Of course not,”” says Murph, or stepping my toe, “With decent support,” says Jones, “I through the season with a clean record.”’ hould |} ive gone “Tough luck!” says I, meaning to be sarcastic. “Yeh,” says Jones, not getting me at all. “Oh, pose 1 oughtn’t to kick. It might have the season’s strike-out record I Sul been worse. | got eighteen men in nine im pitched one no-hit game, was lucked out of another by a scratch single, and put over nine shut-outs. With a regular team behind me I might have hung up something for ’em to shoot at for years to come.” “Uh-huh,” I says—‘“‘in the Class D Leagues.” Even that didn’t fetch him. “Oh, I don’t know,” says Jones. ing “Baseball’s the the same situations; the same plays. There ain’t such an awful difference between the major leagues and the minors. Little more speed—that’s about all “Yes,” I says, “‘a little more speed, a little more brains, same wherever you find it and a few other things like that. “They play brainy ball in the K. K. B.,” says he. “They pull all that inside stuff that you read about in the maga- zines, When it comes down to hitting there’s mighty little difference. I don’t know but what we had batters last season than there was in the National.’ “But look what they was hitting against!’’ I thought that one would set him back on his heels, but it didn’t. He went right along. “Batters are pretty much the same anywhere you find ‘em,”’ says he. “‘They either hit you or they don’t. You let me get one of *em in the hole and I don’t care. how good he is. He should worry, not me! A whole lot is in having confidence.” “Yes—confidence, control, a change of pace, and a few more trifles,”’ says I. “I'm there with all that stuff Jones, “Well,” says the old boy, cautiouslike, “ there with the confidence!” “That's half the battle. Lots of ball teams may be able to lick me, but you bet none of ’em are going to scare me. Well, I'll see you later. I got a date to play Kelly pool with the newspaper boys. I’m giving *em some good stuff. Glad I met you, Garrett. So long!’”” He went inside the hotel, whistling. *“What do you think of him, Jim?” asks Murph. I guess I was explicit enough. I may have overlooked a little language here and there, but I don’t believe I did. Murph grinned. “ The joke of it is,” says he, “that this bird has really got something in him besides conceit. He’s got an arm there like braided rawhide and he’s the makings of a swell pitcher.” “Don't swell him up no more than he is now,” says I, “or he'll bust on your hands.” “Well,” says Murph, “we've got to get him over that. We've got to cure him. I’m hoping that the regulars will more .300 ain’t I, Murph?” asks you're certainly WILLIAM CTOR BROWN be able to take him down a peg or two says. “I’m goi the we gto] rd to the gang.” im ie WASN’T any time at all before body it every the camp had s number. people are puffed up in a quiet sort of way and it in thinking about how good they are. Jones Some take out The soft pedal was left out entirely. of Jones’ make-up He made more noise about himself than a minstrel band. The boys were pretty rough with him in a conversa tional way, and some of the cracks they made at would have nocked the paint off a cigar-store Indian; but, bless you, the fellow had a rind like a rhinoceros! at him with anything less than a sixteen-inch gun was simply wasting ammur armor-plated with conceit from end to end Jones to make himself popular gang, "em. He wa ith doing a good thing and leaving it there look at and admire; he had to turn the spotlight o1 start He wouldn’t wait for people to give hi: it. Jones Shooting had chances but he booted every one ol a ballyhoo. credit —he took , one night we got to talking about fight He wa every gab fest that started, right up to the ears To hear him tell aol ig less. For instance ng hters, and Jones horned into the discussion. Jones began three-cheering himself as a fighter. it, he was the White Hope of the diamond Joe Duffy was sitting there, with his hat pulled down taking it all in. ked nearly all the fighters in the league. nothi: Joe is our prize scrapper. over his eyes, ip} When he He’s lic a kid he started out to be the middleweight c} If his war record tring of knockouts Timbuktu, mostly cab drivers and all-nig! ball players have got more. He hits too hard. “Well,” say witl Was I but something delayed him. piled there will be as so they won't Jones, “this big lumberjack his head down, roaring like a bull and swi: 1 always take care of a slugger. mes, straightened him up and t They thought } on the chin witha right cross, going to come to again.” There was considerable silence after that Duffy took the cigar out of his mouth. ““Where do you bury your dead? It so much what he said as the way man who couldn't understand English would | the insult i word. grinned. The same place you bury yours, old top,” say “Huh!” ‘You're a great fighter mouth,” “Um—well,” says Jones, “maybe I can fight some with my hands too. {t’s no trouble to show goods.” He’d said enough. The preliminaries were arranged on the spot. and the word was quietly passed round for the gang to meet in the big bare sample room on the third floor of the hotel Jones picked me and Murph to go in his corner and second him. He didn’t seem the least bit worried while he taking off his things and getting ready. “Can this fellow fight some?” he asks. Well, we told him about Duffy. “You want tolook out for that right hand,” “ Joe hits like the kick of a mule.” “So do I,” says Jones. Stackpoie, the outfielder, volunteered to act and the hotel clerk held the stop watch. “You won't need that,” Duffy when he saw the watch. “This won't last a full round.” ” says he. wasn't n every Jones looked sneers Joe. Duffy had some five-ounce gloves in his trunk, Was as reteree says

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of q t * ‘ q " ' q] boxing a little. He heard what Duffy said ghte Jones wa ‘ R ( Isla ‘You never can tell,” s: Jone Any of you gentle pieces with a right “ M4 men want to bet on Duffy?” ‘Be reasonable, old horse ays Jones to ' “Cheese!” whispers Murpl “Ty t be foolish! Duffv when Duff ri ‘ | All the same Jone ‘ ed bear ‘ \ é t W ( ‘ ( ne noteil ile \ mir ‘ ‘ | ‘ i i ras thet t 0 il take fifty o D I like your ' , , The two hu red ii ed 1 Ever rT ‘ ( ‘ Wel ‘ ( re Jone ( ! ‘ wOoKE ba rr event! ev int get i Time! Sta rhe t knoch He neve »T I You ca ays take e 4 ) iggled an ear after he en carried | bOt We 1iook Out ior t ! o his corne d pr ‘ r lone He came wit! rior ‘ ent ove and |] t hi the | I ind the figt ould | é over | one thi omplimented hit ene Duff \ Jone N I ! t He erked neut ir int know what i H I k without mo ng nis feet, wi nis a trick that mighty few till groggy and udnt do a ul y I boxers ever learn Joe whirled round like a top and before mumble It is the first time he'd ever bes ne could get et again Jone ibbed | ii the wa cro ocked out He told ® alterward tt t I the room with a straight left. Duff rted and rushed had an idea that some i eaked up behind wit! ind Jones clinched and blocked nin nd lar ‘ ni I t We “Leggo and fight!” grunts Duff You can imagine ho ur ed ever r B ‘Take your time,” sa jones ind e | r wind \ We had exp. ed to set me ot the cc t! 1 i You're going to need i ceit knocked o Jone ! ead ¢ peed All through the first round Duffy rushed and swung 1 he had n v) ey « the tough ised to be right, but he couldn't land it nes neverstopped pop] fighter in the league a ipa I ! et R ) in with a straight left ould have been a credit to @ cracking good trol ol a ‘What do you think you're doing parringforpoints?”’ professional. We all got round him and told emerge That w hat Joe j hen he ent t } F ‘ t m that he wo } On the No end of the r 0 j “Wi oO 1 pla g ex yl inmat Vv the time ? t M i game ‘ ‘ i Jones « laughed at have helped him a he | } the Jone hich r} tsa eat lett ‘ é there Sa Mi pn vo im} ed Pp like t pigeor He He 4 J ‘ in't more t r ear hit pa littie ‘ tted tt é iv e, but 1 SOK it t. Don't ever use or ed our te Oo » a few good g yu I I'm sa gu Sa I ¢ rie it! nt ! io é carried } 1 The second round pre ict e tne t. Joe Kid MeCo ' al He Made More Noise About Himself 8S beginning to grunt whe e missed hil raz haymaker ne ne “ i Joe Ga 1ao too Than a Minstret Band You . ! ~p* nd Jones’ straight left I ging inuandou ea pist | rt of comes 1 oO me nov i ling ciean ever time, | not doing tI ( damage W what »>wit! ( Ke nat We went ile ire alW Ww len seco more! e hots ert ind left hin tal d abn ‘ leag ut i t! wt OT é { thats é é jones and | He re is a fighte s ckpole . ‘ ! 1 the itel a ibbir be oO le Duff ir ped | le ‘ t he kn t t ho Kre 1 he expe i ilder d Jones cut ‘ ! oss for the It was old Murph wh t ptt H ed e@ tie i ! e first he’d used ir e fight. It car 0 that Duff Pay re rie ) é I H hoved th never had a chance to a t at ! hie or V nha i ike r mY i es. w } , bump that cracked the } ering below ‘ er ory! est I V cr “Time!” says tl ler mi ; rll neve expression on Duffy's face as he sat YELL, it didn’t tak to have thought | i never s t chal nad v*ked at Jone He i t! t I n Ww "ts bet t t ei at t he was dazed A i eit o hin permanent pest Nor tter what é t © St ‘ i everyt gu } Keno!”’ says Jones t I’ve got him loaded on my onal ve had to admit that as ay é ‘ t ‘ es bloat ttle wagon No use in boxi with this bird ar more he thought he } t é | em { rd From now on I'll trade wallo ni the ‘ ) ( ‘ ‘ And that I he d tw t really a trade { 1 bush he ho § lé ed r be e Jone i Duff was! ing Before i eague pay re ort ed i? t He rhe ele I the third 1 } ere me ho had bet or g to take advice fr ) fr t 1 he , the er Hove « ] } | to nat the i i i i ! ‘ Ke nt — iff iH ‘ I f é

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST We figured to have a burglar’s chance to first division that season and we couldn't Joe Duffy said that a licking might nobody seemed anxious to take the con- n the middle of the discussion along came Freddy h a letter in his hand. game? 1} good, but away d, our club secretary, with noble athlete ** Here’s some good news The Chamber of Commerce of Verbena, Ohio, to come over there and play an exhibition game. it fills the open date a week from next Tuesday.” a general roar from all hands. We the playing season without barn- country on our open dates, me is like inviting ductors to go for a trolley ride. iys Freddy ‘Verbena is Jones’ home y says he course there was ugh baseball in ind the to play an exhibitiong Asking a it boost it any with me!” Mit Shield but they say they'll close all the stores and declare day,” says Bullard. ‘ They want to see Jones pitch t their home team. They want to give us a banquet with a gold watch or a dia- ! It » they'll present Jones ing. They'll guarantee us a thousand buck ought to be worth while.”’ Haale I'm agin’ it 15 Jone Bug Bellows, the first baseman. can't hardly keep his hat on his head now. After hand that Verbena’s-favorite-son stuff, t be any living with him!” !” says Joe Duffy. All of agsudden Murph began to laugh. tears ran down his face. rubes him you are He laughed until Vhat’s the matter with you?” ‘Oh, nothing,” says Murph. “I think I'll hunt up the ind have a little chat with him, that’s all.” went iy till laughing, and he was laughing when says I. g is all right, boys,” says Murph is going to spare me enough ball players to make we'll fill that Verbena date.” says Arthur Powers, the catcher, “that and It strikes me,” uu've got an awful gall ribbing up exhibition games for ' Don't ‘ f tean we work hard enough to suit you?” 0 calm yourself,” says Murph. ou'll promise to be good I'll let you go along and see fun, but you won't do any work. The battery will be ind Murphy Why Calm yourself, my boy; “you haven't ume since Hughey Jennings played short!” " says Murph, yeu old tub of lard,” says Powers, ‘I may be good enough for ime strolling across the lobby, a cane pulling on his gloves like the villain ina “Did you hear the news, Jonesy?” asks Murph. “ We're going to play an exhibition game in your home town a week from Tuesday.” I've had a letter from the Chamber of Commerce,” says ‘I suppose they won't be satisfied unless I pitch, Chen he went out into the street, switching his cane. Old Murph looked after him with a grin. An exhibition game,” says he, “does not count in the He rolled his eye round the circle, looking at every one of us while he let that remark sink in [t's just possible,” says Murph, “that our friend Jones overlooked that point, eh?” eason's averages,”’ ‘I don't know what you've got up your sleeve,” says loe Duffy, “but I'm going to Verbena, Ohio, if I have to pay my own carfare!” iv |‘ INES pretended to be bored at the idea of visiting Ver- e but his stall didn’t fool anybody. We could all see that he was pena tickled to death at the chance of showing off While we were in Chicago he touched Freddy Bullard for forty bucks and full-dress suit and one of those wrinkly, soft-boiled shirts that ‘ In Cincinnati he e enough to give the suit a work-out and wore nto the dining room at the hotel As he swelled up and not knowing whether to notice us before his old friends and neighbors. mself to a hand-me-downs, of sare wearing this season, up ner passed our ble, all or not, we began to snap our fingers and yell: Garsong! Oh Waiter, where's that soup?” ervice here, Emil pe s never turned his head, garsong!”’ but his ears yed pink for the rest of the evening Shields, who roomed with him on the road, said that *n sitting up nights, writing a speech to deliver ia banquet went pink and onest Injun, fellows,” says Mit, “Il emptied the waste ket and it was full of pages beginning like this: ‘Mr l'oastmaster, ladies and gentlemen: Unaccustomed as I am te public Spe aking And right there he broke down every time We went over to Verbena on the morning accommoda- tion train, about fifteen of us. The boss passed it up and that left Murphin charge. Thelast ten miles Jones couldn’t sit still in his seat. He was all over the car—looking out the windows, asking the conductor whether the train was on time, and generally behaving himself like a kid on a holiday. There was an awful mob at the depot, which was deco- rated with flags and bunting, and we tumbled down into the hands of the Reception Committee—a flock of rubes wear- ing white satin badges with gold letters on’ em— Jones Day The crowd began to yell: “Where is he? Where's Jones? Fetch him out!” Well, that was Jonesy’s cue. He didn’t have any idea of getting off with the crowd; he was going to wait until there wasn’t anybody in the spotlight but him “em yell for a while and then he hopped down on the plat form, with his hat in his hand, bowing first to one then to the other. An actor couldn't ny better The brass band busted loose, the crowd cheered, and the women waved their handkerchief Jones handed Jones let ide and have done it his suitcase to a member of the Reception Committee and away we went for the carriages. It was only three blocks to the hotel, but those Verbena folks did the job up in style. First went the brass band, whanging away for dear life; and behind it was an open faced hack , with pink ribbons in their tails. In the hack, :eaning back like the lord of all drawn by four black horse creation, was Jonesy, smoking a cigar with the president of the Verbena Chamber of Commerce and pretending not to notice the common people on the sidewalks. The rest of us piled into the hacks any old way. Just before the procession started, a lanky, freckle-faced young fellow eased himself into the carriage with Murph, Duffy and me. ““My name’s Cassidy,” says he, “‘ Mike Cassidy. I’m the manager, first baseman and team captain of the Ver bena Stars. I guess I know who you are from the pictures in the Guide. Murphy and Garrett and Joe Duffy, eh? Oh, I keep pos ted on the big league rs, you bet!”’ “What kind of a ball club have you got?” asks Murph after shaking hands with Cassidy. “Tt ain’t so rotten,” says Cassidy. have all the fine points, but they’re away back. We'll give you a battle! “You're giving Jones a grand blowout,” “Huh!” saysCassidy. “I’mthemanthat taught him all he knows. You ought to seen how raw he was when I first got hold of him! He used to telegraph his fast ball with his foot, and he couldn't hold a runner on the bag to save his life! It took me the best part ol one whole season; but I stayed with him morning, noon and night until I made a pitcher out of him ! Huh!” ‘You did a good job,”’ says Murph ‘I don’t whether I did or not “Look at there in the front Joe “The boys may not fence-busters from Don’t worry!” says I. Jone know him up A Stranger Would Have Got the Idea That Jones Was Mathewson, Ty Cobb, Theodore Roosevelt and Napoleon Bonaparte Rotied Into One < _ — ld antwon Wielka RRO ATi” July 4, 1914 tuff on old man Sherwood, that never conquering-hero knew Jones was on earth when he used to live here “Well,” says Murph, “‘a fine reception like this is liable to swell anybody.”’ And he winked at the rest of us “It oughtn’t to make a man forget his old friends,”’ say Cassidy. *“*And who's he got to thank for this whole bus ness? Nobody but me! Who was it looked up the schedul and found that open date? Me! Who tipped it to the Chamber of Commerce to invite the club Me! I’m res} now what gets my goat Is that Jone Sy meany more. When he was through the « over to Verbena? onsible for the entire shooting mat« don’t hardl to the hac! 1} ind wi know climbing it isted rowd to shake hands at does he do but nod his head at me kind of careless and go right on chinnit with that old ‘Hello, Mike!’ chip, in mummy ot a banker! Never ver nd On the level, he } all the “You don’t say!” “If I had couldn't have slipped it to me any assed me up like a white front of crowd too!” been trying to borrow money fron y stronger. I sup thinks that because I run a poolroom I ain't for him. I alw ays knew Jones was a I didn’t think he’d have the nerve tuff on me! good en swelled-up pu to pull that higt mighty “He ought to be ashamed,” says Murph; “an By the way, ¢ assidy, with me, won't you?” ashamed of him you'll have *T’'d be proud -,” “All right. Bring along some of those fer I'd like to meet , it made he hotel! He didn’t have a minute but the bigbugs of the town; and pl to drift in he and the frozen eye. They nation meeting 1a corner, al Says Cassidy "em." me sick to see the way Jones : to spare I when the fishy har her and held ar ayers be van yave ‘em got toget d what they Jones was su “And round town we're the suckers,” a gold resent it to him to-night at the ‘ollecting money to buy him Old Sherwood is going to p I chipped in two bucks pay, Whit of that guy anyway? Ain't hea fright?” We dressed at the | otel: the park, Murph got the bun: talk. He had a party lawyers and bankers up in his room, telling "em all abo the Great White W ay and lifein the big league. I heard} through the transom and he was surely laying it on thi “Now, says Murph, “the time to jab a hole ir valloon Is ; bust it get “We got you two weel Louis,’ ays Bug Bellows; “but what I want to know is, how we're throw this game without the banquet at do you think and, just before we left to go to h together and gave us a littk Jones wasn’t there. of doctors ar boy nag } it’s so swelled up that a little more air will wher 3 the or ly chance to save the balloon. me? ago in St going to crowd getting wise? If we make a flock of errors everybody will be on in a minute And suppose these farmers can’t hit 3! How are they going to get their runs?” Murph shook his head kind of sorrowfu Jone * Bug,” a grand ball says he, “you are neck down! Your arms and legs are all right. W} d you suppose I persuaded the boss to let us play this date for? I’m going to be in there catching, ain’t 1? Well!” “Huh! What’s that got to do with it?” says Bug. “It the pitching that these yaps have got to hit — not the ing! We can keep from making runs without much but how are we going to force "em on these farmers?” Old Murph can be sarcastic when he tries. “Mister Bellows,” ‘I don't think we’l many errors to-day. I've got a little plan of my own arrangement between myself and me— that ought to do work. feel as though I'd like to try it. It ought to he these Verbena fence-busters quite a considerable. It’s possible that it may make Mrs. Jones’ little boy lool an awful bad pitcher. I designed it with that notior view. I'll try it out; the rest of you go ahead and ball. If it doesn’t get results I'll confer with the rest of y: strategists and we'll switch the system. “IT would give you all the details, Bug, only I left n brace, bit and cold chisel at home. Nothing softer tha steel will ever drive an idea into reénforced concrete. We will now adjourn to the ball yard, and while I try my litt bone-shrinking experiment I want the rest of you to } the game. Understand?” “Well,” says Bug, pull it single-handed.” For that matter says he, ‘I don’t see how you are going neither did I Vv N AYBE a few bedridden people missed that ball game but the rest of Verbena and the surrounding country was on hand. Talk about your big-league baseball fans! If you want to meet the real red-hot article pic! about three thousand inhabitants, where every body KNOWS everybody else, and a baseball game is a personal matter When it comes to rooting for the home boys the small-town fans can trim a big-league crowd to a hoarse whisper a town ol Continued on Page 32

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THz PRINCESS FREDEGONDA wissen reins totem meee By RICHARD MARSH — ,-¥:x0-sswiines som got out of the iin on to the platiorr TLLUSTRATED BY z f NIK 2 OLAKI . per co n pocke ind rt pocne was m . . Oo WI | iw what leoked to like a H ise, an excelle exampie of its Kind, on the | tiorm at my feet inattended I do not know | ‘ at induced me to do it, but I picked it up and l lked off with it carelessly toward the barrier at l e end. ‘ | walked right through the barrier to the « ib ’ ! hailed a taxi, put the suitcase inside—that i i ase would have to produce ymehow the herewithal h which to pay my fare—got in i ter it, and was about to tell the driver, who was It t t at the door, where to t ike me, when some her r ne touched him on the sleeve. He moved away, I t " ia lady got intomy cab. She placed herself on ! nor of the ‘ seat next to me and said to the drive r, who er | } hat t rhe we t ) e Mr } S ed} hg ‘ " " 0 lown? eve t} gh | t t ” ) ( he \ tl I d d said ‘ f r I i far M e! t rhe ’ A 0) Inst t on Wa kward for me I ‘ t put 1 e bet i tenar he co i " eT 1 e fe er nd Iam more tl } ‘ nret l 0 eX it Was absurd to suppose tl | ild l my o il hat I je \ re a i! ecause it ¥ ! eve t hI had not the Are ! : I one range wo! t | Her rm to he « ‘ | to e me to Not tl make i nine | ened! ! } vere, | mul mart to start f ) And the ent I got } th ema eithe i ‘ F me hour } > ) »>me! ‘ ‘ th ‘ flere t 1 to Ral ve he t ‘ leserves to} pu hed Hote Babbi t H t one KnOV / l ‘ ‘ ‘ Tere ' he . here r ‘ nd people o What Did She Say When She t I did no ! he o Kind i t nco t Found Hersetf Back Again in Her Imperiat Father's Palace PISt id mar me, eve one re r é ) em ) | | e do ! r \ he port " t to « ! It seemed to me that the moment for « ! f Db, tt I er; | ‘ the door t ‘ ¢ ht } ¢ e¢ ' tar of r ed bu he would not have it he repeate | ‘ e witl ) ? er the chur Oo odne me out o é eemed to me to be her previous offensive obs« tic She ot thoug ! mot he rte é i ened the door o “Do not speak to me; | lo the eal D> } ‘ a fon i 1 thing our--t ! f esc I descended open your mouth unk I te l She placed hers« ‘ r 1 have se 0 Do Cor " I it t ( | her ¢ ! i going or ! rmect r,cTo g her leg othat I ld help see ense | ‘ es] be here I i t here | ed tk } ¢ ething her hy ‘ eller he ho bu hen 1 t to ‘ ‘ } ! el t ! ha 1 have ited cha h the obje tting d ne pped me ‘ he I He rT } L} ilre ! 1 also ended. Do not dare low! ‘ he yme: “Come!” A the per Had an ordinar hree spoke ews to me to learn t ee th ! \ f ‘ ye \ to me like that I sh« i! é en rea ! inswe be pr ire Doctors’ ( that I « There ! } ) ’ t mack t in thi ise | t. I sir co f ) stand pr | pe put I lif! | » OX H er ee hand he You stole n he erved, [| t 1 to ire eturned Hie |} led |} ‘ glanced | lirecti ! er tl lent ! I had do notl r of the t he inotlet§ glance i the ‘ t ed i I thre » the rie I do t h to} } i are li 1 ell the smile that I d hote \t I rst t f e third. I fe i thief! That ‘ he had a disagreeable th hich |] i his pene ! ’ } pea ‘ ( o st 1 where 1 are and ‘ et } | eri hotel in wl thing! " ogett \ rte i ( thie ‘ i ! ot tl f re I igt ] i She let me i ed | i ) t ! 1 there, mumetl ‘ ! enter he roon I l I I We ente i the thre ) e hotel porter hat one } ly he other hile she | | \ vere ed ’ ‘ ‘ t t ent t i ‘ ta irned her } I \ } ge f l | ed tt 1 | me tarted $ I i a riting wi ne i e™ } izh I | he to ce } ‘ remar t me ‘ ! eT the \ prese ! ‘ wi e ey ou tl k I t i e! I ad t evet ' j ,a r ¢ roo! } ¢ rmed F t} ome ich le } i t ‘ j the re t ! ‘ ‘ ¢ e ‘ ( } oment tactle is a I ‘ he ¢ ‘ ‘ ve satan thats taints. Ge ed. “Perhaps I e shall I In any case I th irge r ‘ bt f Hote The } but to touch a | ! ‘ he Jj el 1 he pe I i f f ‘ the ! ¢ eT e and I fou 1 Quite what she me t t i } } ‘ r ‘ il ¢ t the Id oO vhat the } et r he ‘ ! tuch l l ? Y ho } Pen CO » be alone two note the he did tou il t r pus! that he yme one bie ime tot th id [ think I ma that without fear of con- piece of I presume ‘ ‘ i } | } radk ) but Iw ’ ent 1 ‘ e with that ooner Nad she touched it tha the do ed iu it t t ! i on wa ¢ r ne i »>me aire personage came i Withou i r t i the » ( the i wethe note he had writt« hout 1 he ther e; he had seen me the I ‘ ight! Do not 1 What you ti 0 without a word he ed himss« | he é er ind me re P What is your name? t like the iks of me. He accustomed to be addressed like that by Being allowed for the first time to speak, I told r bjected me to a most impert ; ve my family is as good as any family in that my name wa avile, Jack Avil ind | iS gong motioned toward me with the biue | eT England, and—well, she practically admitted as much. on to give her a few particulars about my family and the I} he remarked is M vile l “Your clothes are all right; your boots are good; your distressing circumstances that had placed me ha it to marr face is not bad. You appear to be a gentleman.” Shesaw momentarily unfortunate position, but she would not I thought he v } e@ eX] ed! Her ' ised that in a giance Ther he added Yet you are a thief! ‘ have it. She topped me t t ‘ iT When he ould ene he

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST a harsh voice in the same dissonant him in the eremonious fashion in which she addressed me: I wish the man I am that is omething mn gon. She interrupted, addressing same English, if you please. jing to marry to understar ] Her } ao Speak all Said. Lo noxious seemed him the remar? generate in some ‘ ro fumes of which he was so overcome as I He could only splutter: madame jests!”’ 3, by | ) ve rendered incapa le ol speech. Madame same he li ed tand it wa ma to him as she had done to me I began owing to no special disqualifications had treated me as I had been that she though nder her feet. My poor Dolgouruki, vou're a fool!’ She had called fool; it w now that in her of the kind. He did try to drive into your thick head the how “You have had top my ! ea ome satisfaction to } idgmer Wi ot the only creature she continued, upplies, idiot that are aid »>money. | you thing or omething to the bank; must have money.” 1! to madame you be stil Whoa ked you to explai: } ‘ — i. ) the only one to explain, I tell you io get it I am going to marry— thi Jack Savile.” , . ' one getting money by marrying me. surprising as I listened to that remarh Dolgouruki spoke next. were a millionaire?” only that I may not hand him over liceman that he marries me.” I should like t ave assistance of a camera to e somethin i} faint idea of the expression on Dol- ible statement He contrived e lady made this remark en, to marry a thief?’ juestion of proposing. I am going to marry Perhaps already a priest is wait In ck Savile. » church. This is the marriage license. are easily proc ured.” yroke into what sounded to me like a torrent his She just smiled. liked to listen to that kind of language—-she being the sort of woman who would. When giand these thing Dolgouruki | vf bad language in native tongue. Perhaps she had enough of it she said: t ask you to speak in English? I tell you I am become Mrs. Jack Savile in a very few minute he thundered. s you bring here to me in this room, before I start ten thousand pounds in English gold.” You stop my supplies! I Unless you let me ha the idea! »>no money. | want money. a thief! Y ourimperial fathersends this morning a me Tell my | protest and de ney | will marry very quickly.” ize imperial father to stand on hi head! re that those word ibly he was a he did not » their enor Yet I doubt whe ) L1Usé mUurUuRK cont LOUr imper il end this 1 me heart upted him wit howing emotiol i " aid. dreadfui that prt ' a young could be so 3! “ His heart \ KO he hears that I have married a thief! It Womat cunou crack when im my will teach } I lather a les peri on and other He replie his guage —] aiso i to her own lan } fancy he in was more fluent in that. Also, | have I Was Absolutely Penniless no doubt he realized that it was difficult to himself of what he wished to say with me standing t!.ere with my ears wide This time s answered in the same For suine minutes they were at it hammer and tongs. When you hear a man talking in a strange tongue it sound so awful that you are apt to think ising language he ought not to use. deliver open. tongue. he is I dare Say they were not swearing at each other all the time; but if they were then I wonder what it would have sounded like if they had been. After a while the seemed to wax less warm. Ap- had never once asked that ‘Iderly man—he was old enough to be her grandfather She kept him tanding as she had done me. Presently Dol- gouruki moved himself backward the door and got himself somehow out of not not discussion pare! tly she to take a seat. toward the room. She touched the ivory button-—-in came the personage; she gave him what I judged o be an order; and almost instantly reappeared with a decanter and He placed the tray ona he withdrew a glass on a tray. table by her side, filled the glass and we out. Then she had a drink. I think that was the most trying mo ment I ever had. My longing refreshment had reached a point at which lor liquid it became intolerable; and to see her sip at that glass and then swa | it and place it aguin at her a even suggesting so much as a moistene to me, was almost more than I could bear This is what the modern i must drink and men must die of thirst! cigarette out of a great gold box, lit it woman 18 comu mueh as a suggestion to me; and while asked: “Would you not like to marry me? I do not wish to be vulgar, moment but coming at that the question was a crowner. I was dead tired of standir but I not only did not to move. My tongue was dry ystem was weak for want of Re dare to sit down, I scarcely dared some was a decanter full of a comfortable-look I was suffered to do was to watch her dr The only possible alternative, which might to soothe my very real sufferings, wa clearly the only person who was going enjoy a cigarette was that young womar d you, [ never } ot women » mil ave been quite clear in my mind I approve And while she these tortures— that is moking. was l ling on me all what they amounted to—she cl that moment to inquire whether I th« it I should li omet think that kind of man.” “You used the epithet of ‘ TTL 1Ool are a he seemed to be fi uma woman worth! ao you not think it I did not know what answer. If I said “Ye did not know what sugge I di ’ 3 lwa m I do not see, even now, what else I tion might follow; notsay “‘ No” diplomatic still. could have been. ‘Lam not a man who i in a position to think at all of a woman who is so lovely as you.” She might havesuspected me of sarcasm; she might have thrown something at my head. I would not have hesitated had the idea occurred to her; but so mysterious is that actually swallowed what I said as if it were meant. “Sometimes a am sure she woman she woman does not ask who a man is if he is a man.” It might have been true enough, but the sentiment was an odd one coming from her. She went That is My Excuse July 4, 1914 “What a Beauty! I Believe She Knew You" I am of a most romantic ituation that a} T ' le + ry speais Lv every hen we diffe red, that was all 1¢ + -t * + } to me il Was cerlalmy not icked her cigarette in the cor! at me in a Way that set me tingll! “Do you not know me not honest ime si} LODINS( She tool Lerest out of a drawer in the table : hich s il h it!’ she said. It wasa the portra as attired in r fashion, I rec Underneath were some lir some s ov! of the Emperor I do no the resence resence possi! lumous and, woman who Robinson carpet to tr: | “You think “It does not do you justi it is like me in some oI my wits. 1e dl he iT in whi h it Was meal ‘I know that I am better looking, of « of my rank no portrait can do justice.” } ter than I did. *My father wished t portr ne KnevV to become iamiliar with my face; so my | alt to all the papers in all the countri« and, olf course, they were all of them only too glad She lighted another cigarett “Tt was insolence on the part imine. It was t I have my He thinks he so he takes liberties. and; cousin's portrait witl the subject olf marriage own is a presumptuous fool. marry; He spoke to me can possibly as though he were alrea 1) as tr ugh, in my case anyhow, a husband was anything at all! lv is I who will be the empress; he will mer husband. So I then I ran awa) | had ton had him arrested—and She took another sip at neT g lass. lips with my tongue as I watched her. “My father is a man of violent temper; in y we all have violent tempers. I knew that when he learned I had had my cousin arrested he would probably have me arrested; so J escaped to the coast and went by a little 7 where I found a steamboat to Constantinople, steamer

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14 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST July 4, 1914 THE FLOATING LABORIER The Need for Teamwork—By Will Irwin emplo Irie ige of society Progre does in America periods } period more violent t conserva- bu il German Frar man 1 ipers, the report are extremely inaccurate In Industrial of which may be and often William Leiserson, of the Wisconsin Commission, cites an example: A certain Western city was going through a period of industrial depression. A reporter attending a Chamber of regard Commerce meeting heard an employer say that he saw no f he had been trying to get men that morning and had failed. Now it happened that this ma was a manufacturer of a peculiar product. He needed me trained in his line of manufacturing; no others would do At that very moment there were fifteen thousand ortwent) thousand unemployed men in the city. Nevertheless, the reporter, trusting to this informatio and liking to say pleasant things about his city, printed the news that there was work for all. This news reached signs of unemployment:

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Chicago and brought about a small stampede abor into Commis I la ippointed afterwar tuc a town where the market was already glutted. Such recommended { hanges so radical that lorie i timpedes occur cont jall Fach one takes its toll of them lalist tality from the laboring ss of Amer ind, therefore lhe first ste they thoug) he i be to est abor om the stamina of th ind the next generation in Amer- exchanges that should be under government No one ere to gather i ¢ curate d, a t lustrial ¢ t ! I r? tion about the der i ior labor—the employment egulation of empl ! t the ‘ encies least of yovernment | irt! ! The (Ger ir] i 1 ‘ t t l e last cen- I t 1 tu et about re i i r iting t! busine rhe go i tt ' i rhe bet i ! il ‘ t NOW a tem ot! Ure ) t na , | ’ ‘ ‘ ¢ ers the whole er r tart j ‘ } ve ; V} h the cities 1 ta hem and } their expense the t 4 It the i gover tes tl e } Private age e pe ed o those cities and rhere are ten d ) ‘ ided to ive et « " ia? j } uve b « @ « } | i these pr t ‘ ‘ t t trol of exchange sends, t ‘ sad Most im} t « the government ies regular to hurry m her ex ‘ bulle on the demand for labor is parts of the Daily the district off ts a bulletin, circu ‘ empire t is comprehe ve d urate as the ill his exchanges, x ‘ irate j mat " egular off ck-1 I t. Ther itofajob movement of the] r ket. All the di in at any time get from these ‘ the exact chance of and exchange ) t in the é ‘ | finding employment part of Ge As a conse The law aut! es the exchanges to adva quence of t} em Germa has less trouble with float ire j es where t a) ant | ) I ind casual | is probably a smaller percenta, ppl or his « er, as the agreem¢ é em] f i ‘ er justr ? ymin the lorced | iw to re burse the exchange for tt ad The law | vides that tl sd Vance be x ‘ lhe } lis} i I} ive i, 7 ddled alo g for nearly 4 case « ist e-breaki vy 10D or A Case V e the ‘ tury with old and u philanthropic schemes to offered are lower than the prevailing rate ‘ re u ite the i r et 1 } at WOrrR ati times I I 4 I} exc! s art t lo ‘ t t lustrial stre In one period of employment the breaking place it they must te pI t ted reli ! Imype i,a irity that mere) exact ite of aff re ed paupe ! Ata other per i the government it matter of | r movement t I x hought fart d set the unemployed to work. This art t M the world. ( parative e of a pia ! 1 almost the ul t t as direct ha lute no use t g to prove Vhethe r t i hve ‘ no acee ed lt Tels ' begyar nota tem as the I German Nas bee 4 i t i ' é orke however, the of ‘ ! t dis] lonute Observe that It é in 1909, under the Liberal government, that the English te has already reduced em] t t the empire copied Gerr he need for some scientific nd lustrial ‘ ! ire 1 by this ti ‘ er it England Having perfected the first me e the I ee Though the | h Ish e not subje to such sudden h the t 1. Thes of lubor exc) es, though it ist t the | te tate the gradual can reyulate unempl entin nor al time t ite orption of the i by the aristocracy and the use of bs in hard he Ger had al adopt t ) rodu e] oases | e give uch indu the plan ol sav publi K t ig! he er e lor t ent Lond I und Manchester alarge just such emergencies In that, also, the British have hod of casual laborer ho, suse England is more fullowed During the | t se nm of | ilument rhe cupied t Ame i e miserable beyond any Opposition reproached the Roads Office with neglecting f rer ‘ o the highway hey were piling up a | ott 1 the treasury at a time w the roads of Great Brita England's Government Labor Bureaus were last deteriorating the tires of a bile Phat is perfectly true uid the Roads Office in effect i ip Liberal government realized, as the English ari “but it is a matter of | y deliberately adopted. Wes tocracy Will never realize until its downfall, that th have good times now in Great Britain ihere a ! niserable, half-pauperized a powder mine which paratively few unemployed. We are waiting for the ne might take fire eand blowup the Empire. Hence period of hard time When that ‘ ‘ ' the law of 1909 ich practically abolished the private once to spend our surplus on the road employment-bureau em in Great Britain and put the The British municipalities, under the advice and cour to the hands of the state. of the gove ment e ¢ perat Water sy n The British Government had already a little machinery municipal lighting tems and street paving await the t work witl ] the | 1 time f 1905 distre com- time when labor shall need the mittees had be ippointed in all cities of fifty thousand or Industrial education, the second measure in the British more perso r mittees established the first pub progran i little aside from the present discussion. Eng lic labor exchange vhich proved a succe The Royal _ land has, as yet, done little in that direction. The Gern Ferryboat Used as Annex to Municipal Lodging House THE SATURDAY EVENING POST River Pier Converted Into Midwinter Sleeping Quarters ' , ‘ » pive ‘ i et I " t ' ‘ i \ | ( I r ; ‘ 4 y ‘ { ‘ j il i) Ye nN ( I la ‘ Phe ‘ ‘ ent. ( ure he | ed | \ i wid va bee xg a ee ¢ ‘ burea odeled r F the Gs , It ’ , of Ls Aue ae ‘ t rr refu gt ! ‘ ‘ 4 ‘ ili int y het he t ‘ j y ‘ to . ‘ Ne . t . : et ¥ ‘ ‘ aS One 4 gre ‘ ‘ ‘ kd ad to forty-els ou I y f Lhe ‘ ¥ \J ‘ ‘ easpo , ' \ 1 here i e Tru act the re j t! much the tate labor | eau } j ; ment in M husetts; but, as in Ge I i partial observe helieve t ‘ Other it have i ed ihe etl has varied, It e the appr r ilou ifficient lr there th ‘ 1» h ma e | Mi id ‘ a ‘ wort s! yuld be | re ‘ | mact f i Ipreme Court ‘ The M bureau 18 uNndeT Civil-ser ce al pu } } , ucceed without some ch pr to set t m Continued on Page 45

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST July 4, 1914 The Gay and Festive Claverhouse vir OULDN'’T it be better to wake Mr. Claverhouse?” e butler suggested to the valet between serving i salad and the ice. I wouldn't dare,” said Conrad, shaking his head. “It’s as much as his life is worth. But we must manage to get there to poor Mrs. Watson. The trouble is it’s so hot inside that it lets in the cold terribly te open up th th omething in ivK t straight in, you see The house t in under oy who did the hrass and coals volunteered the draperies and convey sustenap<e to 't thank ‘onrad grateful vou, because he’d wake easy now,” when the boy returned empty-plated; y rhroughout the l iollowed Lady Wythe and her daughter sat in the drawing room wondering when iverhouse would wake At half after ten the butler uppeared with a tray of bedtime preparations. The gentleman—I Mr. Claverhouse—is | aid with a cough, ong evening that mean still asleep, my lady,” he My lady fel 1 loss what to say. “His man thinks that for him there'd better be a hed made up in the front hall, your lady ship. Then he'll be on the spot if needed,.”’ “By all n ut in the po We've managed to get some pillows in to her, my lady, ind a woolly for her head and a hot stone bottle.”’ “Thank you, Parkins.” “I'll make up a cot in the servants’ hall for myself, your dyship, so that if I'm wanted Lady Wythe simply bowed her head in acquiescence. After they were alone Madeleine arose and went to the window, leaning her forehead against the moist pane and looking down on the strange black mass below. A little later she and her mother went upstairs. In the hall Parkins, Conrad and one of the maids were busy making up a bed. The two ladies passed quickly by and sought their rooms. Che mother said nothing and the daughter said nothing either, t at Parkins. 9 ear: eans, But that poor—that poor woman Oo , ” ial Conrad and the butler followed up their labors in the entrance hall by going through the house and making up the latter’s bed in the servants’ hall. Then Conrad returned and retired. * Parkins put out such lights as should be put out and also retired. Peace reigned and reigned profoundly until about one A.M. Then with a wild screech of fright the nurse burst out of the motor, and likewise out of the screens, which fell tumultuous and tangled behind her. “He's gone! Her cries awoke the echoes. She was now on the steps in the moonlight, frantically trying to find the push-button amid the gloom thrown by the portico roof, He's gone!” Before she had ended the second cry Conrad was out of his bed in the hall and had the door open wide. “Oh, Mrs. Watson!" he demanded. ‘‘What is it?” “He's gone!" “Gone!” The valet echoed the word in a sort of grim dismay. Ina flash he had switched on the hall and portico light Then “He's under the car!" he cried, running down the steps. The crash of the falling screens and the nurse’s shrieks had awakened both Lady Wythe and Madeleine, who ran to the upper windows, Parkins, who had hurried to the front hall and on seeing Conrad's bed empty and the door open had lost not a econd in following the valet’s course down the steps, now found both him and the nurse routing madly amidst the tangle of fallen screens and hangings. Lady Wythe, by this time successful in opening a case- ment, cried out: “What has happened?” “Mr. Claverhouse has gone, your ladyship,” called back the butler. Madeleine, unable to bear more suspense, burst into tears. “We must go down,” decided her mother, hurriedly eeking slippers and dressing gown. The daughter sought well. In a few seconds both stood on the gravel beside the car, “He must have been gone a long time; his side of the eat is quite cold!"’ wailed poor Mrs. Watson. “You ought to have pinned him to you like you had him in London,” reproached Conrad. “JI did have him pinned to me iwo safety-pins. He must have undone Oh, he is such a one!” “The lodge gates are locked, my lady. Mr. Claverhcuse must bein the grounds. I'll wake two of the men and we'll get lanterns and hunt,” said Parkins, very pale. ‘“‘Not actually crazy, is he?” he whispered to Conrad. And Conrad whispered back: “Not generally considered so; but you never can tell.” “Wake the stablemen, Parkins,” said Lady Wythe, her teeth beginning to chatter; “‘and search thoroughly. Come, Madeleine, we'd better go inside.” By Anne Warner ILLUSTRATED BY CLARENCE F. UNDERWOOD

“Hope You'll Pardon My Japanese Dinner Dress. Just Had a Beastly Chill, You Know" They went inside. The butler roused four men, instead of two; secured lights and scoured the grounds until day- break. During all this time Madeleine sat by the open window, her ears strained to catch the slightest sound. She was almost ill with the racking, painful shock of it all. Sometimes her chest heaved nigh to bursting, and some- times a tear rolled slowly down her cheek. Each instant shedreaded she knew not what. It was an awful experience. When day broke the searchers were able to declare posi tively that Claverhouse was not in the grounds. “*He must be in the house somewhere,” Parkins— terribly scratched from feeling among blackberry hedges and much disheveled from trying to peer under foundations with a lantern—reported to Lady Wythe on the stairs. “‘He couldn't get over the wall.” “We'll have to go very softly in the house,” said Conrad, “‘because if he’s in the house he'll be in bed somewhere asleep. And he mustn't be disturbed.” This was an ertirely novel view to the searchers; but no one disputed Conrad’s superior understanding of his remarkable master’s remarkable ways. And so boots were pulled off, and to the general amazement Claverhouse was promptly discovered. He was in the bed assigned him, where his inimitable valet had put out his night things ten hours before. And he was fast asleep. “T’'m afraic it wil! wake him if she tries tu go to bed in the room meant for her,”’ Conrad said to Parkins, who stared open-mouthed and limp at the bedroom door. ‘So can’t you fix up some other place for poor Mrs. Watson?” The long-suffering butler went mechanically to work and soon made Mrs. Watson comfortable in another room. Then Conrad moved his own cot across the doorway of Claverhouse’s suite, and the household again grew quiet for what was left of the night. ~ to his searfpin, Lady Wythe and Madeleine had been informed of the outcome of events but were too unnerved and emotion except relief. In fact they exchanged no word concerning the affair, but went wearily back to bed. It was full dawn, then, and it seemed no time at all elapsed before the early cups of tea were brought didn't I Say I'd ring " moaned | And then her blood froze uddenly at Parkins’ voice tne ““My lady must know. “My lady’s just having her tea,” “She'll have to be told,” Parkins proclaimed sternly “On, what is it?” the from her bed. The door was opened and the butler stood there at once; too tired to feel any “Oh, why a Or. now at once She'll want to } expostulated the 1 aid poor woman demanded loudly “He’s gone again, my lady!"" Claverhouse become “he” to everybody. Lady Wythe sank bach Gone where?” “We can’t make head or tail of it, my lady. slept across the door of his rooms. the window.” “Parkins!” It was a sharp cry of two syllables. The butler advanced into the room. ‘ We're hunting in the grounds and everywhere, my lady. He may be on the roof and come down anywhere. I thought that ship ought to know. One can never tell an old house like this.” among her pillows. “‘Gone! Conrad He must have got out your lady anything about “T’ll dress at once and see what can be done.” “T thought you ought to know, my lady.” “You were quite right, Parkins.” vii HE intense absurdity of having again to set servants to hunting one’s to the last degree. There are situations in life their most trying aspect all one’s guest annoyed Lady Wythe that find in the fact that they have never been tried on any one else. Madeleine’s mother disliked Claverhouse, as has already been indicated, and was glad to see that his behavior was not such as would tend to a deepening of her daughter’s infatuation. But still she would have chosen that the disenchantment had proceeded along less eccentric lines. ““There’s the leads, my lady,”’ Parkins had reported ten minutes later. “‘They’re all stone-walled, with the holes between for dropping things through in ancient times; and the head gardener says he can put up the ladder he uses to clean the leaves out and make sure Mr. Claverhouse isn’t up there. One of the grooms will go with him, and they'll go about in opposite directions so he won't slip in again when no one sees,”’ Claverhouse’s hostess bade assent. “And, if you please, my lady, there's the old cellar an the new cellar. Forbes wiil go down make sure he isn't there. ’ 1 a lantern and i Mrs. Watson says he’ s all dressec and wherever he is; look about the grounds Lady Wythe bowed. “Mr. Claverhouse’s man and me \ house ourselves.” again too.’ go throug! Parkins paused and coughed. can’t make out what he does it for. It’s most unusual.” “Mr. Claverhouse is ill,” murmured Lady Wythe, too used up to resent her butler’s criticism of her guest, but still speaking in a tone that ended the matter. The butler went out and the mother sought the daughter. Madeleine was sleeping soundly, thoroughly exhausted from the night's experience, and her mother decided not to disturb her. She slept until ten o'clock, up to which hour no sign of Claverhouse had developed. It was very mystifying. The house had been thoroughly ransacked inside and out and the gardens and stables as well. “He couldn't climb the wall,”’ said the head groom to Conrad. “It’s broken glass or spikes the whole way.” Conrad shook his head. but still he shook his head. At half past ten Mrs. Bawle-Derry, the rector’s wife, and her daughter came to call; and Lady Wythe, not having rallied to sufficient realization of the exigenci of ordinary conventional possibilities to have instructed Parkins that she was “not at home,”’ was discovered in the drawing room and forced suddenly to reénter the circle of ordinary life. ‘We're very informal,” said Mrs. Bawle-Derry; it’s quite a walk, and we can so seldom get the pony.” Lady Wythe declared herself delighted and begged them to sit down. And just at that moment a fearful shriek and the crash of broken glass resounded through the upper hall. Parkins, who was placing chairs for the visitors, turned pale and hurried from the room. His mistress also turned pale, but managed to take a seat with its back to the light He didn’t seem exactly worried,

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friendly of you, I’m sure.”” She hadn’t the least idea what thetically But perhay you d ike yine ghtene he was saying, because she kr vuse had ones and look on.” M Bawk ve Mr. ¢ } fl | been found. The next inst ant the added clatter of a suit of Claverhouse tipped | t i ADOUT and eer i to i armor going over in the hall test resence consider | \\ e put } ~e ¢ " i of the gentleman; and tive sec ired Deo you i? t ! I 1 rict t ne querie ( rere ‘ H the drawing room hoste | minutes later her trap a l’d ve it of g wheel ounded departure you see, I'r ini i the gravel outside An i lid! eried Mi Claverhouse, returned fro I D ne Ww oung eeing the visitors off, proceeded { i ther prett ind quite to light a cigarette During |} I ut en tor a clergymal absence but one remark had be ‘ hter made, Madeleine had said | Yes,’ he nodded in a melan- I had married him!” and he : choly manner. ‘Too bad, isn't mother had not answered a word | r 1 shall never play The daughter was Ww Sun} t y a deep chair, her fa overed | The eyes of both the rector’s her hands. Lady Wythe stoo vife and her daughter swept him byawindow. ( ver} e, afte over atag e. a deep inhalation, turne “‘Impossible!"’ they burst and said fe together “Well! Is the game progre Ni true | Claver ing well hou y isk Lady Wyt!I “What gar inquired hi A 1 matter ¢ I t, the whole lady hip cold house wa p with me most of He pointed Mad ne i t ght. I’m very bad at came on her int,”” he gai . til ery bad.” On n ount Che gi We knew that there wa raisea her he i ) my a tr e here last night,’ uid yunt You ‘ ium ) Mr Bawle-Derry, calculating ee i rest i et. and he ibtly that even ill he would cause perhay ve could nurse till be eligible, and very likely l kK to he } e spoke ep a nurse and a valet too hitter vr ' ? For Claverhouse was one of those Ah! Did I rea queried tunate bei gs who look really iver! ‘ rich. ““Weknewthere was trouble That's what you hy here last night, for all the trades The ga ind lestive Cla people passing through early saw house was thoughtfu é ; ‘ hts. And it was you who i briel r ent Me r 1 were Dear me ing he ud at lengtl i

Although Madeleine’s mother feit al olutely outraged he knew not what to say.

“M+ M«M+Madeteine!'' He Got Through Rattling Tevth. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST oN, i: ty ORE M** pari pred ae hs “Hotd it FPef+for Met" j tj na acceptance before

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST leaving, Lady Wythe and Madeleine took it for granted that she understood they would not think f going without their guest. Even had they accepted, they would in their present mood have honed their regrets. For both were im- i bly upset by Claverhouse’s performance. was quite easy to see that the rector’s wife and sughter had been shocked beyond words; and what would form the ef topic of gossip at the afternoon gathering. frnest’s behavior with Miss Bawle-Derry had been most unconventional, to say the least; and Madeleine, as well as her mother, was thoroughly mortifed trembled to thi For the rest of the morning they kept to their room There each struggled to regain a emblance of composure; though it must be admitted that the struggle was constantly inter rupted by conjectures as to what their guest ' » doing now. Every moment, in fact, trepidant expectation of a to cope with some new But the morni wore itself away without further disturbing incident; and when lun heon was served the appearance of Conrad with the tutement that his master was sleeping quietly and could not be disturbed caused both ladies to draw a long breath of relief. During theearly part of the meal, with Parkins nt, the conversation between mother and hter was limited to the barest common When, however, the sweets had been i butler withdrew, their masks and in a little while they were peaking without constraint. ‘Madeleine, you have been weeping.” In this wise Lady Wythe began it. ‘‘ Your lids are ery unbecomingly swollen and they are hid eously red,” M her and viewed her reflection in its highly polished adeleine drew thesilver compote dish toward side, “I have en very miserable, mamma,” she returned, XXIII ICKS and Rollins spent the afternoon in consultation with the editor of the Chronicle. It was decided to continue the regular line of attack in the Chronicle on Sunday and Monday mornings, and to prepare a special edition of that paper for circulation on the streets imme- diately after Hicks had made his speer h. Hicks insisted on this, although the Chronicle editor pleaded for permission to spread the story all over his paper on Sunday morning. Hicks pointed out that this would give Roscoe time to make a denial and a defense. Also, though he said nothing about that phase of it, it would deprive him of the privilege of making the exposure and getting the credit. He went to his office on Sunday morning and wrote on h typewriter a long speec h, in which he exposed the plot, branded Roscoe as a briber, upheld his own great honesty ity of purpose in taking the money in order to mvict Roscoe, and urged all citizens to repudiate at the this villain and traitor to the free suffrages of Rex This speech he gave to the editor of the Chronicle. Monday morning the Chronicle carried a page dis- advertisement of the Hicks Monday meeting, urging ens of Rextown to attend, as it was the most impor nt meeting of the campaign. Hicks secluded himself til half-past eleven o'clock, for fear Roscoe might try » find him, and arrived at the vacant store used for a hall a quarteroftwelve. The place was jammed and hundreds and sincer of people were on the street trying to get in. “This will never do,” said Rollins. “Get them out on the street.” A loud-voiced young man shoved his way to the plat rm and announced that Mr. Hicks would talk from the aleony of the Metropolis Hotel so that all might hear. The people surged out and stood in the street in front of Rollins and Hicks and a few others went up 1) the baleony. As Tommie stepped forward he felt that wad arrived. This was by far the greatest crowd he had r spoken to. He was cheered enthusiastically when he ppeared. He began his speech with his usual references to the umpaign for the rights of the people, and scored the «opus, dilating for ten minutes on the iniquities of that corporation and its management. He made his plea to the people to go to the polls and elect the fusion ticket on the day following He referred to the various candidates eulogistically. aes + AX Ww The Rector's Daughter and the Eari's Promising Nephew Were Sitting in the Drawing Room July 4, 1914 ‘He is not worth crying over.”” Her ladyship poke through compressed lips. “‘ For me there is but one consolation in all that has occurred since he came to Yewstones. It may convince you that your affection for him is misplaced. You may realize that as a husband he is utterly impossible.” For a moment her daughter continued to gaz into the side of the compote dish without turing a rejoinder. ‘Tamglad you are coming to my wa} } ing,’’ Lady Wythe continued. ‘‘ As you observed in the drawing room this morning: ‘What if you had married him?’” At this the girl found voice. She pushed the improvised mirror from her, lifted her tear swollen lids and announced ‘It is over that that I have been weepi: g, mamma.” “Why mourn over an escape?”’ The question was shot at her. For to Lady Wythe her daugh ter’s observation was cryptic. ‘But I don’t wish to es ape. I was very wicked to lose patience. Ernest isill; and Ishould have every consideration for him. My tears were tears of regret that I should have let expression find voice.” Lady Wythe had beenr With her it was no less exhibit even to her daughte r the emot stirred within her. Otherwise she woul then and there expresse d exasperation. only straightened a trifle in her car backed chair, while her cheeks p il vivid coloring seemed to run into aristocratic nose. ‘Ernest is quite ur worthy of was her carefully guarded retort. Madeleine thereupon dared she had already heard tha the same source. Adding mother, is it, that in spite help loving him? Continued on Page 49 SAMUEL G. BLY TEE THE AKERS ee eee Then he raised both hands and said: “And now, my friends, I come to the most important portion of what I have to say. Not content with its control of the cor- rupt Paddy Ross organization, that in turn controls the corrupter Republican party in this city of Rextown, this venal organization that seeks to steal our streets and to impose its greedy monopolistic clutches on our people; this gang of financial pirates who have no thought other than to fill their own bloated purses with money wrung from the honest working man, knowing that it is beaten, knowing that the day of reckoning will come as surely as the sun rises to-morrow, knowing that it is at last to be brought to account and its special privileges taken from it and a proper levy laid on it, has plotted nefariously to defeat the will of the people. “My friends, I stand before you as the humble instru- ment of an all-wise Providence for the defeat of this plot, this heinous conspiracy against the good people of Rex town. J discovered and I now announce to you that this plutocratic corporation that has squeezed the people of Rextown in its horrid toils, has stolen our streets, prosti- tuted our elections, defied our authority and looted our treasury, conscious that it is to be called to account by the votes of the free men of Rextown, has plotted to disfranchise a great portion of our citizens, and especially those who earn their bread by the sweat of their brows in our factories and mills, They have conspired to deprive those honest working men of their honest, God-fearing, anti-street-car- company votes,” Tommie paused. The people were vastly interested. “Go on, Hicks!” they shouted. “Go on! What's up?” “What's up?” repeated Hicks. ‘‘ This, fellow-citizens, this: These arrogant, purse-proud robbers who own the street-car company have plamned to have a fake accident in their powerhouse to-morrow afternoon just before clos ing time in the factories and mills, thus throwing all the crosstown cars out of commission and making it impossible for the hundreds of voters in the factories to get to the polling places in time to vote against them. It is the only way these men can win. They are beaten. They know they are beaten. But, thanks to the intervention of Provi- dence I stand here and announce this plot to you, and steps can and will be taken to prevent its consummation. It cannot be carried out. You are all warned.” There was a roar of rage from the people. “Let them try it!"’ they shouted. ‘‘Let them try we'll tear down their powerhouse and burn their “And,” shouted Hicks, “more citizens of Rextown, when they cognizant of their heinous undertaking of the people, they tried to bribe me fellow-citizens!’’ His voice rose to a He reached into his pocket and | He leaned over the balcony and the faces of the indignant crowd. * Here is the dirty, the rotten money remain silent about this plot, our people; here it i tive corrupt Roscoe tried to force or and as a bribe for my betray: » people Here is the proof! Here are the ntical handed to me. But, my fellow tize he now He now knows that however dishonorable he may innot buy my honor for the p rs nor for any other sum. bloated face, now that I hi further evidence of his corruption, control of our streets and his lack of civ \ “Go to the polls to-morrow, my fellow-citizens, and \ to support the men who have made this fight for you rights and your streets and your comfort and your welfi and your treasury. Rebuke this corrupt corporat its gang of corrupt politicians, and, more than all, rel this monster, Roscoe, who tried to bribe me to ra) you—you the people for whom I[ am fighting and the people I love.” The Chronicle circulation manager released his news boys just as Hicks finished. They swarmed up the with copies of the special edition of that paper cont: a full account of the plot, the attempted bribery, the dis play of the money by Hicks and his speech. There was LIning great indignation and much threatening by the crowd Hicks took his congratulations with the air of a man who had done a great thing and knew it. There was a hurried conference of the street-car people, and the Globe and the Leader carried denials in big type of every charge Hicks made, signed by Roscoe, Jenkins, Paddy Ross and others. They said Hicks had faked up the whole story, and was merely trying to get a little cheap notoriety at the expense of a highly moral and public-spirited corporation. ~

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- BAA ee CEE AO gata cman emneem asin Hicks,”’ the Republi papers own a dollar’s wort : ‘ here only a year or two, who Is a se li Lhis money Was a Dribe, which it “Why ho t the peo; e of Rextow? heheve tr man screamed t h of property in Rextown, who has been ibetaker, was not, for Mr. Roscoe contessed never spoke a word with him in his life nor did any of the n the street-car company. Undoubtedly this money was supplied to Hicks by Perk Rollins for this scandalous exhibition. We trust, and ha full co ence he sober second thought of the people ol Rextown wil ebuke at the polls to-morrow this upstart and braggart VNO Seer is to defame the char- acter ol one of our ¢g est and mos Dlc-spirited Insti- tutions, the Rextown Tr m and Power Company Hicks discovere during triumphal wress dow he street, and not a li é o fis chag tha he tact he had and d yed five thousand d bills was neid to be the clin t ng prool 4 ‘ te! t Ler had been made. lhe money overweighed his statements. It w held that Rollins would not stoop to such a subterfuge having a deserved reputation for hones and that Hic could not have sex ured 8O much mor excepti Ros oe, against whom the people had been mu ense y the ady fight ol the Iusionists a Chronicle, Next morning ments about the incident, stateme I Hicks and his speech, statements by Roll that he did not pply the money . al | “all 1 e dé ta is U ne afl I t ‘"': ny ng ipplied by Hicks wit ich OmiIssi is he fe to he lesirable. ] paper fled at it all, called Hi i ir, a phneiad tne reet ir mpany nor i God-learing, n Vi | 10ts ho 1 ot toop to su h a trick. Roscoe wa almost } f il in his denials 1 what Paddy Ross said to him eir meeting after the speech y classic in profane denunciation for political idiocy based on arrant fear of detleat. The factory owner fearing trouble with their men, closed down hal ay to allow all their employees to vote and the fusion ticket carried the ele ‘ DY a close margi! winning in the Fourth, Ninth, Tenth and Sixteenth wards nd in enough of the dov town Wards to give the Tusionists i majority of one on the be ard lermen, beside getting the city ticket ir Dy smal pluralitie Hick wo! Y about hundred in his ward. He telegraphed the news to Ser a congratulatory reply. Later he ’ newspapers, ecstati in his delight. was on the winning side In a pol to think he was winner with a fus a few others were Democrat i! “Me ROLLIN id H s\ ‘what shall I do with tl “Where is it?” asked Re “Locked in my) ‘ “gee Leake tn, I ou must it yours. Roscoe won't t t li he doe it I ! But,” persisted H he fession that he ed to brib 1 a his denial ind urged Go over and eluse it le e it on hi and @ 1 desk and go ou t isnt ours na u uu hold it muc e people will thin) tu took it with a view tokeeping it. Get rid of it, I tell you,a of it rignt away nd get rid Hicks thought over what Rollins had said but he knew he More than he deprecated handing back the five thousand dollars to Roscoe he disliked the idea of handing it back with- out any publicity for himself because of the virtuous act. The plan Rollins proposed hadn't an advertising feature that ap] ealed to Hicks. money, must. Dut neard nothing a! ator Paxton, and re« eived ; + ; ll ¢ st ne senator ali the yout them. Rollins was For the first time in many years he ical fight. It grieved hin Ket but Hicks ar i he interpreted it all to lay was approaching. 1 iter ele Tor ‘ of course. Ii’ ee r relused n does take it that will be e me, and a repudiation ind m stick in the minds of the people that Ro é H ‘ reauy 7 to yr re ‘ ‘ “We lidn't } ‘ em H “Of course he it il to be gaine r ‘ t ‘ t throwing the money in his face? L eas ; of it.” “A sensation !"’ ex ed the ed R W! “% eri do you ’ é “Ol do the open. It’s too ' Som en ki to be los MH poe ‘ “ie to me pe ed Rollins, “that the sce H tr tr is Over al rygotte the Detter it Ww i ) cones What ne ee of rubbing it , ‘ ** Lov Ro iid Hick ou Vv i I i N that bribery episode was a big lactor in helping us Vv the ot election, t you?’ ‘ . : we lg : he “Well, that wv is due to me, to my sel g 0 i H t d and knowing how to act in it to our best advantage. >} ‘ he here er chance to do something, not o > the ‘ represe . ‘* : ise ! ‘ I’m going ’ \ elve ‘ er o do what é é ‘ an er re ) Mr R oF ind ! rie t t ‘ l ‘ nunare ir re Twe eo¢ i M K “ ‘ ‘Hov giv e ites’ § “Oh, I'll find The people pu ' “ All right,” consented Rollins. “Only be . ' " or the ‘ Ling erw ist Hicks called o Fetra, the managing editor of the 4 Ar , Chro do ed a plan he !} ! t} You he explained to La Fetra, “there's no use of e} eared our ta Rose o the corn fa ‘ t a H t ghnet read 1 y Please, Mr. Roscoe, her rfive thou- « ro econd pushe : nd K ke eech, waving the , more a ne fla roscoe and t ret ! i ri ed La J That afternoon the ‘ place ul ed i the big WI ~~ the (} We , pose write t o be tex I e off repeated next d lH t t ve ‘ rpose he } t me rther r ] ‘ } Re t} ipt corporati ! , t most violent de H nd " en the property « he cor ‘ er i ind ag isserte that 0 t >a tan te ours ‘ t ma who nad ent t tile ae hy it ye f the 1 " be i ‘ ) ‘ ni rtune 1 ested | ert t! eC] ' on, and that Mr. Hicks wil time had spoken to Hic! be gl d it Mr. Roscoe if Mr. Ro it nd give receipt for it Ci l betr \ ’ the ivert | t | We | 1 ove ! THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ! ‘ reporter { ace in the paners that w eR DALIT) Roscoe wo reiluse t ‘ . ) j t \ much of the spectacular in g tothe hold the off ient ol the traction compan) l t ¥ out ol ina t } he president was not r i s to se re irther Cire | } } t the money ne r ( ‘ ( it in the inner office of Rosco te that afternox ) } ' hat 4 F pia . k : ‘ ‘ re \\ You don't ‘ to kee ‘ é ‘ f t e use 0 T gy tog i I ‘ ‘ La Fetra “Acute Indigestion, I Aimost Died What Happened le

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST and had his name in the papers He sent a big bunch » Senator Paxton and a week or so fortnight i note which said: have read the clippings with g ago I knew you as an apt practical politics, but I jump from the freshman emester of your senior year. look the fact that the pas- ends against the middle nued success on the talent the or Keeping the middle uninformed of it the ends. Yours, PAXTON. about the but Hicks peculatively at him i to nothing to g Hicks nis hi > In it, looking went about his duties as lly, and he soon discovered idered him their spe board. After that he gallery. time to time, and 0 the to the work ingmen’ tings Irom rofitable end to his popularity. t factory and mill men to and their and before the er the firm of Chittlings & Hicks om, hired Gudger away from ind put him in charge r personal-damage case ers’-liability claims, isionally Hicks went out into ilked to the farmers, and he e a Monday Evening Club that k and the were constantly getting richer The club discussed causes ought for mean not only of the ubmerged tenth, there er hard-to-find but submerged frac- not exactly a tenth, was prosperous and busy, : idle sort veloped into orator. ch phrases of the real lover end and he never yndition, ociety; always quite an 0 gue’ to talk an address to make he or what he considered the of it, to the stenographer, typewritten and sent copies portion neatly tors of the Rextown papers with king that some use be made of on dull days, he was gratified of his productions in the papers introductions to the speeches, Often, especially ragraph \ ' if as a brilliant young orator and of the ierly effort He didn’t expect much of the editors, but he always supplied the ie hope that hi nes, Lo his gratification, portions of it did. point to write congratulatory letters to ibility ce, and was particularly strong on felic ; self-praise might slip any po could claim even as a tie events that offered him a possible a flowery If a man was announced first to wish him well. note to a la 1) 4 good stroke of business, or g, Hi share *ks was in some new enterprises and When the pastor of ittended preached an espe ; wrote him a note, praising him torate or two the one he Hic! he was doing in spreading the light. in a sort of ecstatic haze by his ful flattery a book or one of the Hicks looked over a copy of %kstore and then wrote a letter, praising au rs wrote ied a poem intly and telling the author how delighted iluable work of genius a permanent He always asked the poet when he nfer a great boon on literature by book form. When Charley ler, sold a New York maga Corbett his friend for life by ader, and telling him it had touches Harte—of Hicks Also he congratulated the reporters whose work ne to time and constantly wrote t papers commending them in for their stands on local and national litors, being human, promptly printed h was why Hicks wrote them. nage anda li ibility sults were a great nothing about terminating the con Hicks broached the period, and pagreementexpires Dawson Shook Hands Limply and Hicks Left the Room ‘So it does,”’ answered Chittlings, who had been fighting shy of this interview. “I'll have a new “On what basis?” “Why, same as if surprised Hicks should thi form of arrangement. “Oh, no,” said Hicks calmly. “That won’ “What won't do?” blustered Chittlings “That thirty per cent stipulation.” Chittlings gave a fine one drawn up.” the present one, of course,’ answered, as imitation of an ant mar Do you mean to say that?” * Certainly “Well, 1 like your ne rve! something out Here I grab you and make } up and ask division. What do you think your of you, and now you swell for an increase in the services are worth?’ “Fifty per cent,”’ said Hicks: “half a won't that arrangement for either, for by that time I shall probably that basis.” “Great jumping “Do you mean to sit there and s make more nan need you or Jehos} apl at !”" l 1 Chittlings. » that Let's quit now. in to me th it? | faney I can worry along without you.” , t with the idea you can get away wi ** As you please,” Hicks answered, rising to leave the room “Hold on,” “Listen to you? How'd forty per cent strike you?” “Fifty per cent or nothing—share and share alike.” Chittlings protested he never would give that much, but ended by having a new agreement, running for two years, drawn up, Chittlings didn’t want to lose Hicks. He saw possibilities in that young man that, he had an idea, Hicks, even with his inordinate egotism, did not suspect. But he was wrong. Hicks knew as much about himself as Chittlings did, and more, for Chittlings, keen as he was, said Chittlings. reason, can't and both signed it. merely surmised Hicks’ greediness for applause and for power. xxV CCASIONALLY Hicks found himself thinking of Mrs Lester. He wondered where she was, whether he ever would see her again and what was her conditioninlife. When he married, he said to himself, he would marry a woman of Mrs. Lester’s kind, for she appealed to him as the right sort of a Mrs. T. Marmaduke Hicks ance, fashionable in attire, bright, vivaciou striking In appear lt cultured, vivacity and her stylish appearance, and who invited July 4, 1914 woman who would win admiration for him because she was his, because she was Mrs. Hicks, his wife. Once he wrote to Mrs. Lake, asking about some books he thought he had left at her house, and saying at the end of this letter, which was written for that purpose, as he had left no books at the boarding house: “By the way, I was reminded of Mrs. Lester by a very beautiful woman I saw on the street the other day. Is she still with you?” Mrs. Lake, being an astute woman, understood the object of Hicks’ letter. matter of the books with a line, but devoted a page to Mrs. Lester, telling Hicks that that lady was in Europe, but would be home in a few months. She was the guest of some very fash ionable people in Trouville, Mrs. Lake said Moreover, Mrs. Lake did more than that, { in her next letter to Mrs you remember Mr. Hicks? him the other day, Evidently you made an impression on him Mrs. Lester had to go somewhere each sum She dismissed the Lester she said ? J had a letter fron and he inquired about you mer, and she was well aware that it was cheaper Amer She as she went, than to visit ] } class s to go to Europe, ican resorts of the e would visit Paris, but eacl she took tea at the most fashionable places wrote her letters on her own embossed statior lived ata pen ion in alternoon She y, and told of the people she was meeting at All me yrnie the big hotels and in the great restaurant etter this helped her to keep up appearances at | She smiled when she read Mrs. Lake’s | “ Hicks,” otistical Tommie I must send him a card.”” And she ture of Napoleon’s tomb with Hicks of writing to he she said. ! casual greeting on it. the card, and thought she had given no address he couldn’t. Mrs. Lescer’s dearest ambition was to marry some one with a title; but her opportunities for meeting titled persons, except in her conversa tion, were limited. She was of necessity put vo it to make an elaborate persor al showing on a small and although watched for opportunities, she knew in her heart that her trips abroad were of most value in a matrimonial way because of the opportunities they gave her for impressive talk at home. Also she could live cheaply in Paris and elsewhere and so could replenish her wardrobe to a greater advantage abroad than in the United States. She met a Russian womar who was much taker income, she constar tly by he her Mrs. Les thereby deriving to come to St. Petersburg to be her guest went to stay a month and stayed six, much information and local color for Ker future ref ee to her close association with the high personages of Russ She maintained her figure fairly well, and was n the conservation and cultivation of her excellences siduou other ph She made a constant appraisement of the ris eligible men she met, but never found exact! However, she enjoyed herself immensely often considered herself carefully in ized that she must be making haste if s ambitions through the medium of her charms Totally devoid of sentiment, her whole attitude toward men was to use them for her personal entertainment and for } what she could get out of them in the way of attention social advantages and company for her idle hours. Wit! cold and calculating; but she could 10us air that g sex. She was always bright and vivacious, wit! Was ingen was of a certain value wit! supply of small talk a a knowledge of inte social affairs that she kept fresh by When the time came she was assiduous readir society publications. I fident she could play at being in love with sufficier to answer whatever the requirements were; but of really falling in love never crossed her mind. outside of her plans and purposes, She gravitated between Washington and Eur next five years none of these n ardent ad She was not without irted as n } with whom she f er to wi suit little as the circumstances seemed to enough position or enough her deman When she was in Washington she went to every big sociai function she could. Her acquaintance with the statesme iving with Mrs. Lake generally secured her cards for the White House receptions and for other affairs of a general kind. Two or three impressionable young men had offered her their hands and hearts; but they had n ng in their e ignored what they said they had in their hearts. but eacl year found the keeping of it a little more laborious. This increase her desire for a marriage that would give her if not so much money, at the trail. But the money to hands and : She kept her pose as the years went on, position and mor ey, or, leas position, and sne wi relentless on quarry remained elusive

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Oe gene ) She heard of Hicks occasionally through Mrs. Lake, for Hicks always went to Mrs. Lake’s when he visited in Washi: gton. Two or three times he had sent her papers containing reports of his speeches, and she had acknowl edged these in short, almost impersonal notes that gave Hicks no chance for replies, even if he } iad wanted to open a correspondence. He thought little about her and she thought less about him, but she was much interested when Mrs. Lake told her H was getting o Rextown and ; almost sure to make e for himself politic Hicks was busy during those five years and busier during the two or » that followed. He grew to be an accom plished protagonist « f the rights of the people and had taken part in state campaigns. He never lost his hold or the workingmen and he never ceased trying to establish himself with the farn T He did not attempt to mix in e fashionable society of the city, although he had a idea that if he should determine to become a social he would soon be received at the best houses among the ocially elect. He felt that one day he would in his position to take his rightful place in the select society of Rextown, and had firm faith that he possessed all the attributes that would make him the courted and féted be sure en ugh favorite should he really devote his energies toward that phase of endeavor. He read the society news in the papers avidly and watched the comings and goings of the personages. He was obsequious to any social leader he chanced to meet, and at heart would have been extremely gratified to be mentioned in the social news as “among those present ” at the great functions. } For business and political reasons he scorned the frivoli ties of the day, and frequently deplored in pu ‘ he said, were lea young people far away from the ideals of He preached prohibition, but refused to ident with the political aspect of that movement it was a social reform; and, in order to keep himself right with his workingmen constituents, he emp! t that men should have a reasonable meas liberty. He came out emphati- cally for woman suffrage, was for the full extension of the popular government and indorsed all anti- vice crusades. Rollins continued to believe in Hicks, scoffed at stories that came » him about the lack of conviction and the self-seekingness of hi friend, and considered him a bril liant young mar the tendencies of the times, wl who was willing to sacrifice self for the sake of hi principles. He made a combinati m vhereby Hicks was nominated for the state senate, which gave Hicks another opportunit to go out and pose among the peo] le as the peo ple’ frie i When Hicks was the empty honors of nominatior for Congress in the Rextown d trict. The Rextown district had been represented by 2 Republican ince the Civil War, and there t peared to be no cnance of any but > a Republ But Hicks had long before learned in ever representing it the value of claiming } hip is politi , and he trac d out for him self several advantageo lineage which he used discreet Senator Paxton, who was speak- ing in the state, heard Hicl cia grandfather fror Kerry and a grandmother from the R e. Tommie,” he said, “you seem to have an unusually variegated et of ancestor ‘Isn't it so?”’ Hic replied. “I ive tied up with Ireland, Ger many, England, Walk ind Hol- land; but when I first got down i: the mining district I thought I wa st. IT hadn't provided myself with y Polish blood!” “What did you do?” “Oh, I said a few kind words for Kosciuszko, and that helped alot It’s lucky for you you're not running up in the N laughed Paxton. “ You'd be put to it to organize a Scandinavian an- rthwest cestry I don’t know as I would, when it comes to that,” Hicks replied. “The Hickses are a great people and have lived in many land ‘You'll lose this time, of course.” Mrs. Lester's Dearest Ambition Was to Marry Some One With a Title THE SATURDAY EVENING “Yes, but not man ing, senator, sure as you are standing t Paxton became serious are right,” he said Hicks was right votes the second tir ) time. He claimed the n Rollins gave it to hir and cut down his Repu more than a thousa! Political sent Sever 4 where Congress was Ri President was a Repu ing discontent in the cou ind arr gantly repudiat forms for the purpose , lating for the spe claims of the people } } SKilllul agitators a agitators but were ¢ p domination of a gre Rollins and other the state felt certai ticket could be elected at the was to be held in th work of organization and preparation liberaily to the fund meeting with hi leadir £z Democr absolute integrity, some wealt! regard by the peo Peter R. Dawson iment wa states had passe or tw had adopted the oligarchy that controlle who wou e following Novemb« dates for governor of Enos G. Mulford, a Dem western tier of countie } and who was held In sincere pie of Yorkvill > you loyally can't it be done have pa because l il le ear ( e « y tf rey ‘ D wi and iv mive Li 1 iffers es be “away rr wove yr ‘ ilty——a m i sweep ed Rollins with mild as incredulous Marmaduke indidate yet proy state to the oth an than either Mulford or Dawso: hose rig hts we m done?”’ asked mysell lor y altar of Democr he thankk the heat an I ] hi ve given the be I have held the have kept the fai It be done will step in behind me hind the man wh« } aw Bex “aUSE lowly and to another mar honesty ar politic “ul ol Phat's wh and there it further tf } iu 4 candid j hange } ( i ha j rict } I live 1oUu ‘ na f I r ) AMARC] Tr it every p I » , ‘oO Ro it no y t t \ must for M rT su I Not for Not ) 10uU cant | governo are poling & ind that t yet Continued on Page 36 ed our you al ford to wait; pledged our

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A°D! 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE SQUARE GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR cription $1.50 the Year. Five Cents the Copy of All Newsdealers iy sthbscription $1.75 the Ye Five Cents ar (iL xcept in Toronto, $1.50) wide ly Concentration in big institutions is far less advanced here than elsewhere. Even after the new system goes into effect, with its twelve reserve institutions, we shall still be a country of big banking and small banks.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST WHO’S WHO-AND WHY

AX ° a = a 4 en “ on = 4 Serious and Frivolous Facts About the Great and the Near Great HERI are nu the absence o! the Necretar yt } 1 t stand ( ‘ I merous methods’ cient to identify the person who v be Acting Secr r eal | ( I 1 no \ | i | St ite lor le the it i become a diplomatist, and so on ‘ oO " ‘ nd the method chosen Mr Lar ing icceeded that e1 ent author. Mr. Joh ti t tobert Lansing ol Bassett Moore, who retired to emit Irom hiss tem a litte t t ‘ W itertown, N« \ ork On some phase I ter i ) | relatu j not more \ ) 1 pre D n ten vo nie t t i ex ! it Ss ul M notes and glo I t ‘ e the select ‘ ( l ] g is a diplor Mr. Lansing be ed othe in as a ‘ t marr ‘ ebuff to the | ‘ fo ) Mr. Mo ly l ite |} é hus de ) if seve M t ( te oud | i ! one iume ind } ( neeril W ytor w he rae Acting Secretary of State prevailsin thispresent Mexico, and ences at Vera | over the repr of this count Bri if ( r 1 the i ol! t it ti ‘ yf | t eer ‘ lea to ‘ om isl . ed t t I 1 SC Hence I Mr. | i 1 il} ) ne ,

I e Se ~ t / e | possessor ‘ r fine ‘ ' I \i ‘ { : é rt i Lyx le : ! riat twisted { f hiskers on the 1d¢ but whe ] pienipotentiar . } my ric iO! re | t ili¢ ol rest he twisted those on the left side However, Mr. Robert

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24 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST July 4, 1918 AN AIMEE RICAN VAIN IDEAL HEREVER irope I v tly or TLLUSTRATEDO Br ‘: Beit Ever So Humble—By . Irvin S. Cobb JOHN . ec CU be scraped away But and sh ened his TCHEON It outspread his how eloque nt alian shoulders a entior then decoy him off to pot and there and secluded the hope of cutting down the ard the Continent, I caught up with him ome quiet breed. fag-end of our zigzagging but you him, in At length, across alo ig tow the lew not; for some countries iicky in the matter of protecting their this. exterminating the object of my hom- rstand, are so fir that the y would protect e earful lest, by | should bring on international complica no matter how public spirited ven suc h a one as lal desires tior with a friendly Power, and bi! m nak my intentions might be. It 1 Vienna, and the hour was late. We » just le after having listened for some hours to a playing waltz tunes and a in a café, \ avin K Hur n assemblage of a dispute at the wraps were checked turned our faces in that In a thick and plushy short, f highly vulgar aspect was arguing with the young had charge of the check Judging by would have said that the nap on his tongue an inch long; and he punctuated s with hiccups. It seemed that his excitement had to do with the disappearance of a neck muffler. From t he sed rapidly to threats, pounding a fis warian band natives drinking eer, when the sounds of booth where direction person voice a square yvoman who room. his tones you is at least a quarter of his remark argume! on the progres counter American Varmints Loose on the Continent | po AW ING nigh I observed that he wore a very high hat u very short sack coat; that his waistcoat was of a combustibie plaid pattern, with gaiters to match; that he taken his fi: many times to the jeweler, but not to the manicure; that he was beautifully jingled and ilcoholi boastful of his native land; and that—a ng touch— he wore, flaring from an upper pocket of his coat indkerchief woven in the dc sign and colors of his country’s flag. But “twas not our flag he wore thu It Jack. As we passed out into the damp Viennese midnight he was loudly proclaim- g that he “ Was’‘h Bri'sh ch!” And that, unless omething were done mighty quickly, he would complain s Majeshy’s rep—hie—shen firsch thing ‘n had igers ally rown a silk h praises be! was the Union subjes ’ Ally sorry he was a cousin, he was ough I was selfishly not a brother. Since, in the nysterious and unfathomable scheme of creation, it seemed ary that he should be born somewhere, still he had America~ and that thought was very Iw ily inleignec id is ] hi f ihe x ! ces been born in asing to me the tourist breed whose desired to I refer to the st be close ly wat ~ to prevent him— or off valuable relics as souvenirs, and defacing monuments and statues yh disfiguring holy places an eeprom ¢ ntial signature. In the flesh d such a person must be all flesh and no soul—I never caught up with him, but more than once I found his fresh There wa trail [ 1 reature snother Variety ol incerely rost cTOSSs, who mu from carryl with spveor Nearer and Nearer Draws That Blessed Dark«Blue Strip In Venice our guide took us to see r prisons of the Palace of the Doges Sighs afte r another, until we had pa » bodies of state prisor killed at night, + ares d out into waiting gondolas, and had passed also the room pincers and thumbscrew once hideous work, until we came to most cells, fashioned out of the solid rock and stre a corridor that was almost as dark Here, so we were told, countless wretched béings, awaiting the tardy pleasure of the torturer or the headsman, had moldered in damp and filth and pitchy blackness, knowing day from night only by the fact that once in the twenty- four hours food woulk i be sli ipped through a hole in the wall by unseen hands; lying here until oftentimes dea cruel mercy of came on them before worked executioner found time to rack their off their heads. Also we were told that two of these cells had been pre served exactly as they were in the days of th no alteration except that lights had been swung from tne ceilings. We could well accept this statement as the truth, too, for when the guide led us through a low cage and flashed on an electric bulb we saw that the place where we stood was round like a jug empty smooth stone walls and rough stone floor; and th con tained for furniture just two things—a stone bench, on which the captive might lie or sit, and, to the wall, a great iron ring to which his chains were made fast, that he moved always to their grating accompai and the guard listening outside might know by the telltale clanking whether the entombed man stil “ lived. There was one other decoration in is hole more incongruous even than the modern Rehiien and this stood out in bold black letterings on the sloped A pair of vandals, man and wife—no doubt with infinite pains—had smuggled in brush and marking pot, and somehow or other—I suspect by bribing guides and guards— had found the coveted op pereanaty of inserib- ing their names here in the Doges’ black With their names they had written their address, too, which was a small town in the Northwest, and after it the “Send us a postal card.” I imagine that then this couple, having accomplished this feat, regarded their trip to Europe as being rounded out and complete, and went home satisfied and rejoicing. Send them a postal card? Somebody should send them a deep-dish poison pie! Looking on this desecration, my companion and I grew vocal. We agreed that our national lawgivers, who were even then framing an immigration law with a to keeping certain people out of this country, might better be engaged in framing one with a view to keeping certain people in. Our guide hearkened with a quiet little smile on his face to what we said. “It cannot have been here long ceiling,”” he explained for our benefit. From the level of the Bridge of , one flight hole gh which we tramped down flights of stone stairs sed the } secretly throu er were where a row of innermost, ching along Sg EN th or the madness the over lj r | limbs or lop t e Doges, with and bare as an with jug, at it let i so iment, a thir fixtures low- ceiling. dur geon. leger d: view that writing on the ‘Presently it will fan-fashion ¢ at is the Others like them wh come and do have done. and here if you pleas He ai loret . and that, looking where pointed w how the wal! scarred with scribbled 1 many visitor gret exceedi: have to re por e Saw majority o names had a) ican sound t Indeed Signatures coupled mal wit names ol tow! states of the There fewfromCana What, I steps for discouraging the « were ask you utworn n our Government permit and poll tchings, and giv n of what the moth whe rmints to go abroad freely places with their scra a per ntinent are ] nat hate verted notio 1 } ne n 7 Hil Iman beings lui int For battlegrounds Is co i ol ists provides a y of passing many ertain of the notably European coun Britain, and cheerless exterior tedious hour some interestit whicl male 1 lachrymose plods solemnly : across the Continent his own digt ity, person g types biped wrapped i mantle of “aking an ur And Germany who us never spe word to any whatsoever Germany comes a stolid gentlemar ually a pickle nd is so exter the appe rved sous « like mounted on legs, a convexedly eyeglassed as to give him something that is about to be se loche The Gentleman of the Celluloid Cuffs \PARISONED in strange g ance or Italy w suried so deeply the irments, he st lla ilks through C : his arm, hisn being to waste ose ith an umbre book that he has no time in his guide t on scenery or the peo} le; whilst, some t pace the staggers along i ike, e dust and her arms pulled weight of the heavy when skirts dragg bundles and |} ing, rather, he Contine their socket the This person, travel always his wife and much ba his wife and she takes the baggage; tandards being regarded as an equal division of buri However, for variety and individual peculiar land offers the largest assortment in the tourist perhaps being due to the fact that Americans ‘ traveling than any other I think that in our rambling we must have encountered pretty nearly all the ranging from sane and ser who had come to Europe to see and to leart clear on down through various ramifi had left their homes and firesides to be uncomfortable and unhappy in far land e told them they should travel abroad. They were in Europe for the reason that people run to a fire—not because they cars for afire, but because so many others are running to it. I remember, with especially vivid distinctness, individuals, one an elderly gentleman from somewhere ir the Middle West, and the other an old lady who plainly hailed from the South. We met the old gentleman in Paris and the old lady some weeks later in Naples. Though the weather was moderately warm in Paris that week, he wore red woolen wristlets down over his hands; and he wore, celluloid cuffs, which rattled musically, with very large moss-agate buttons in them; and for ornamentation his watch chain bore a flat watch key, a secret-order badge big enough to serve as a hitching weight, and a peach carved to look like a fruit basket. she is bearing r ggage with him thesame by or, race known species of tourists 3, tudy “ations to at wie who s, merely because somebody two } aiso, stone

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Everything about him suggested chewing tobacco and fried mush for breakfast. His whiskers were cut after a pattern I had not seen in years and years; in my mind such whiskers were with nappy and long- distant days of chiidhood when we yelled Supe! at a stage- hand and cherished Old Cap Collier as a model of what—if we had any luck—we would be when we grew up. By rights he belonged in the second act of a rural Indiana play of a generation or two ago; but here he was, wander- ing disconsolately through the Louvre. He had come over to spend four months, he told us, with a saddened heave of the breath, and he still had two months of it unspent; and he did not know how he was going to live through it. The old lady was in the great National Museum at Naples, fluttering about like a distracted little brown hen. She was looking for the Farnese Bull. It seemed that her niece in Knoxville had told her the Farnese Bull was the finest thing in the statuary line to be found in all Italy, and until she had seen that she was not going to see anything else. She had got herself separated from the rest of her party and she was wandering about alone, seeking informa- tion regarding the whereabouts of the Farnese Bull from smiling but uncomprehending custodians and doorkeepers. Those persons she would address at the top of her voice Plainly she suffered from a delusion, which is very common among our people, that if a foreigner does not understand you when addressed in an ordinary tone he will surely get your meaning if you screech at him. When we some distance farther and were in another ga could still catch the calliope-like 1 as she besought some one to lead her to the Farnese Bull. That she came right out and spoke of the Farnese Bull as a bull, instead of referring to him as a gentleman cow, was evidence of the extent to which travei had enlarged her vision, for with half an eye any one « ould tell she belonged to that period of our social development when certain hon- est and innocent words were supposed to be indelicate that she had been reared in a society in which the ideal of a perfect lady was one who could say limb without associated those ad gone ry, we otes of the little old lady thinking leg! I hope she found her bull; but I imagine she was disap- pointed when she did find it. I know I was. The sculptur- ing may be of a very high order—the authorities agree that it is—but I judge the two artists to whom the group is attributed carved the bull last and ran out of material, and so skimped him a bit. The unfortunate Dirce, who is about to be bound to his horns by the sons of Antiope, the latter standing by to see that of it, is] ally than the bull. You can picture the lady carrying off the bull, but not the bull carrying off the lady. the boys make a good, thoroug! job is larger re The Domestic Relations of Apollo Be'vedere UMEROUSLY encountered are the tourists who are doing Europe under a time limit as exact as the schedule of a limited train. They gc through a country on a dead run, being intent on seeing it all, and therefore seeing none of it. They cover ten countries in the space of time a sane persor gives to one; after which they return home exhausted, but triumphant. I think it must be months before some of them quit panting, and certainly their poor, misused feet can never again be the feet they were. With them adherence to the time card is everything. If a look at the calendar shows the day to be Monday they know they are in Munich, and as they lope along they get out their guidebooks and study the chapters devoted to Munich; but if it be Tuesday, then it is Dresden, and they Studying Other Tourists Provides a Pleasant Way of Passing Many a Tedious Hour THE SATURDAY EVENING POST give their attention to literature dealing with Dresden, seeing Dresden after the fashion of sitting before a runaway moving-picture film. Then they pack up and depart, galloping for Prague with their tongues hanging out, for Wednes day is Prague and Prague is Wednesday——the two synonymous one terms are and interchangeable Surely to such as these the places they have visited must mean as much to them afterward as the labels upon their trunks mean to the trunks— just flimsy names pasted on, all confused and overlap ping, scraped off in time, and certain to be ] , a leaving iothing but faint mar on an indurated surface There is yet another type, always of the female gender idle iged and school-teacherish in aspect, who, in company with a group of kindred spirits, is i + and generally mi very viewing Europe under a contract arrangement by which a worn and wearied-looking gentleman, a retired cle rgymar u ually, acts as es« rt and mentor for given price I do not know how much he gets a head for thi ob: but wt ever it is he ear it ninety and-? e times over rh i touris t is much given to missing trains and getting lost and having disputes with natives, wearing rubber over hoes and asking strange questions—but let me trate with a story I heard. The man from Cook's had cor voyed } party throug! the Vatican until he brought them to the Apollo Belveder As they ranged them ly about the statue he rattled off his regular patter, without pause or punctuatior “Here we have the far-famed Apollo Belvedere, found in the fifteenth century at Frascat ; Julius the Second, restored by the great Michelang: taken away by the French in 1797 but returned i: made of Carrara marble, e#ives holding in his hand the bow with which he slew the Python. Observe, please, the beauty of the pose, Belvedere; being known also as Pha bus, the god of oracle the god of mu and medicine, the s {f Leto | Jupiter r Here he ran out of breath and stopped. Foran ent no one spoke. Then from a flat-chested littl pinster came this query in tired yet interested tone “Was he He who is intent on studying tie effect of foreign clim« on the American temperament should by no means over look the was he married?” colonies of resident Europe an cities, parti ‘ularly the colonies in h citie Paris, Rome and Florence. In Berlin the American colony is largely made up of music students, and in Vienna of physicians; but in the other places many folks of mar minds and many callings constitute the groups Some few have left their country for their good, and some have expatriated themselves because country purchased by Pope the realistic attitude of the limbs, the noble and exalted expression of the face of Apollo Americans in the larger Tt Must be Months Before Some of Them Quit Panting they explair n bursts of confidence, livi: g is cheaper France th in America. I suppose it is, too, if one car oO become reconciled to doing without most of the com forts that make life worth while in America, or where else. Included among this class are many rather unhappy looking old ile who somehow impre you as having been st ed « to fore parts becau there ere no places for th e homes of their children a i grand children. So no é re spending their last irs among trangers, trying Ww desperate eagerne to be interested people a vs for which they re e 1 a tig » home exce] cheerle t Kind Inquiries for Uncle Champ Root wT ), there are certain folks— products, in the main, of f the Eastern seaboard who, from having originally lived in America ¢ and spent most of their time abroad now progressed to the point where they live mostly abroad and visit America fleeti: gly once in a blue mo As a rule these persons know a good deal about Europe and ve little about the country that gave them birt! The stock ta of Eure pean literature at their tongue’s tip rhe speak of Ibsen in the tone of one mourning the passing of a near, dear, personal friend; and as for Zola—ah, how the IY tne i at . olt compel y personality ! But for the moment, the i ot re ll hether Richard K. Fox r the Police Gazette or wrote The Trail of the Lor rm Pine The ire up on the history of the Old World Fron memor they trace the Bourbon dynast irom the first copper-distille i Charle to tl last sour-n } i Loui but, as regards our own Revolution, they are not really ire whether it tarted | he Boston Tea Part Yr Mrs. O’Lear Cow Languidly the nquire whether that quaint lowa character, | e Champ Root, is still peaker of the Ho ( And th pre ent \ President is named Elihu Underwood Or ji he Anyway, America } bore! B ‘ i ready, at moment’ t t | rr ! mu the rane lat S und details of all the marriages that have ing the last twenty years in the Roy Denmar}h

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And it will be mailed free on request. |} a fountain } when a fountain pen makes up its mind to EVENING POST | Continental courts until the Administration | at Washington had a lucid interval and en- | deared itself to the hearts of practically all | Americans residing in that country by | throwing a net over him and yanking him | back home; and this same young woman | was so fearful lest some one might think she | cherished some affection for her native land that once, when a legation secretary man- | ifested a desire to learn the score of the de- ciding game of a World's Series between the Giants and the Athletics, she spoke up in | the presence of witnesses and said: “Ah, baseball! How can any sane person | be excited over that American game? Tell | me—some one, please—how is it played?” | Yet she was born and reared in a town that for a great many years has held a membership in the National League. Let | us pass on to a more pleasant topic. Let us pass on to those well-meaning but | temporarily misguided persons who think | they are going to be satisfied with staying on indefinitely in Europe. They profess to be amply pleased with the present errange- ment; for, no matter how patriotic one may be, one must concede—mustn’t one?—that | for true culture one must look to Europe. After all, America is a bit crude—isn’t it? Of course, some time—say in two or three years from now—they will run across to the States again; but it will be for ashort visit only. After Europe, one can never be en- tirely happy elsewhere for any considerable period of time! And so on, and so forth. As you mention in an offhand way the fact that Cedar Bluff has a modern fire station now, or that Tulsanooga is going to have a Great White Way of its own, there are eyes that light up with a wistful light. And when you state casually that Polkdale is planning a civic center, with the new county jail at one end and the Carnegie Library at the other, lips begin to quiver under the weight of sentimental emotion. And a month or so later, when you take the ship that is to bear you home, you find those native sons of Polkdale and Tul- sanooga on board too. Returning, a chastened spirit pervades the traveler. He is not quite so much in- clined to be gay and blithesome as he was when going. The holiday is over; the sight- seeing is done; the letter of credit is worn and emaciated. He has been broadened by | travel, but his pocketbook has been flat- tened. He would not take anything for this trip, and as he feels at the present moment he would not take it again for anything! Time for Casting Up It is a time for casting up and readjusting. Likewise itis a good time for going over, in the calm, reflective light of second judgment, the purchases he has made for personal use and gift-making purposes. These things seemed highly attractive when he bought them, and when displayed against a back- ground of home surroundings will no doubt be equally impressive; but just now they appear as rather a sad collection of junk. His English box coat does not fit him any better than any other boxwould. His French waistcoats develop an unexpected garish- ness on being displayed away from their native habitat, and the writing outfit he picked up in Vienna turns out to be faulty and treacherous and inkily tearful. How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have pen—that weeps! And why, | ery a spell, does it crawl clear across a What One Federal Truck Is Doing In Express Work The illustration shows a Federal now operated by J. W. West between Idaho Springs and Alice, Colorado. The road is a rough, mountainous trail, used principally by pack-horses. The rise from Idaho Springs to Alice is 2,700 feet in a distance of eleven miles, the maximum altitude being 10,500 feet. The truck carries seven passengers, and about 2,700 pounds of express and mail. It is the standard Federal, having been driven right off the floor of our Denver dealer. And it actually paid for itself from its earnings in less than nine months. Incidentally, Mr. West was advised by many truck dealers that no motor-vehicle could handle the work; and he purchased the Federal on our direct recommendation. FEDERAL MOTOR TRUCK CO.

104 Leavitt Ave. Detroit, Mich. | the Italian moonlight, steamer trunk and bury its sobbing counte- nance in the bosom of a dress shirt? The picture of the Colosseum, bathed in will ever abide in his mind; but he would give a good deal for a large double sirloin suffocated, Samuel J. Tilden style, with fried onions. Beefsteak! Ah, what sweet images come thronging at the very mention of the word! The sea vanishes magically and before his entranced vision he sees The One Town, full of regular fellows and real people! Somebody is going to have fried ham for supper—five thousand miles away he sniffs the delectable perfume of that fried ham as it seeps through a crack in the kitchen window and wafts out into the street— and the word passes round that there is going to be a social session down at the lodge to-night, followed, mayhap, by a small sociable game of quarter-limit upstairs over Gilbert's drug store. At this point our traveler rummages his Elks button out of his trunk and gives it an affectionate polishing with a silk hand- kerchief. And oh, how he does long for a look at a home newspaper— packed with |

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| wrecks and police news and municipal | scandals, and items about the persons one | knows, and chatty mention concerning con- gressmen and gunmen and tango teachers and other public characters! Thinking it all over in the quiet and pri- vacy of the empty sea, he realizes that his evening paper is the thing he has missed most. To the American understanding, foreign papers seem fearfullyand wonderfully made For instance, German newspapers are much addicted to printing their more important news stories in cipher form. The German treatment of a suspected crime, for which no arrests have yet been made, reminds one of the jokes that used to appear a few years ago in the back part of Harper’s Mag azine, where a good story was always be ing related of Bishop X, residing in the town of Y, who, calling one afternoon on Judge Z, said to Master Egbert, the pet of the household, aged four, and so on. A German newspaper will daringly state that Banker , president of the Bank of : at —, who is suspected of sequestering the funds of that institution for his own uses, is reported to have departed by stealth for the city of the wife of Herr And such is the high personal honor of the average Parisian news gatherer th: Paris morning paper, which specializ y actual news as contradistinguished from other Paris papers which rely on screeds to fill their columns, locks i and disconnects its telephones at eight o'clock in the evening, so that reporters coming in after that hour must stay In until press time, lest some of them sucl is the fear— will peddle the more exclusive storie off to less enterprising contemporaries.

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if matter where his steps or his round-trip ticket may have carried him, he has seen in every country institutions and customs his countrymen might copy to their benefit, immediate or ultimate. Having beheld these things with his own eyes, he knows that from the Germans we might learn some much-needed lessons about muni i} ail con trol and conservation of resources; from the French and the Austrians about rational observance of days of rest, and rational en joyment of simple outdoor pleasures, and respect for great traditions and great mem ories; from the Italians about the blessed faculty of keeping in a good humor; and from the English about minding one’s own business, the sane rearing of children, obe dience to the law, and the suppression of unnecessary noises. Whenever I think of this last God-giver attribute of the British race I shall recall a Sunday we spent at Brighton, the favor ite seaside resort of middle-class Londo: Brighton was fairly bulging with excursion ists that day. A good many of them were bucolic visitors, but one could plainly see that the majority hailed from the city No steam carrousel shrieked; no bally hoo blared; no steam piano babbled; no barker barked. On the piers stretching out into the surf bands playe d soothingly softened airs, and along the water front sand artists that, no and so-called minstrel singers plied their arts Some of the visitors fished, without catching anything; some listened to the music; some strolled aimlessly or sat stolidly on benches enjoying the sea air. To an American, accustomed at such places to din and tumult and rushing crowds, dange rous devices for tah ing one’s breath and sometimes one’s life, it was a strange experierce, but a mighty restful one On the other hand, there are some thing wherein we notably excel entirely too many for me to undertake to enumerate them here; still, I think I might be par doned for mentioning here one detail in which, so far as I can judge, we lead the whole of the Old World- dentistry. Prob ably you have seen frequent mention it English publications about decayed ger tlewomen. Well, England is full of them lt starts with the teeth. Arrives a day when you develop a grow ing distaste for the company of your kind; or, in fact, of any kind. "Tis a day wher the sea, grown frisky, kicks up its nimbk heels and tosses its frothy mane At such a time the companionship of others palls on one. It is well then to re tire to the privacy of one’s stateroom and recline for a while. I did a good deal of reclining coming back; I was not exactly

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POSi ‘*__we want more KELLOGG’S! Since they came in that new WAXTITE package, daddy and mother eat two bowls a-piece every morning an’ Bettie ’n I aren’t getting what we used to. An’ KELLOGG’S tastes better ‘n ever now—um-m-m!—so crisp. If this outrage keeps WK Kell UGG up we'll write to happy while reclining, but I was happier than I should have been in doing anything else. Besides, as I reclined there on my cozy bed, a medley of voices would often float in to me through the half-open port; and i could visualize the owners of those voices as they sat ranged in steamer chairs along the deck. I quote: “You Raymund! You get down off that rail this minute!” . « “My dear, you just ought to go to mine! He never hesitates a minute about operating and he has the loveliest manners in the operat- ing room. Wait a minute—I'll write his address down for you. Yes; he is expen- sive, but very, very thorough!” .. . “*Stew’d, oh stew’d, bring me nozher brand’- *n’-sozza!”’ “Well, now, Mr. — Excuse me! I didn’t catch your name. Oh, yes— Mr. Blosser. Well, Mr. Blosser, if that | isn’t the most curious thing! To think of us | meeting away out here in the middle of the ocean and both of us knowing Maxie Hock- | stein in Grand Rapids! It only goes to show | one thing—this certainly is a mighty small | iWalnat” » « « “Raymund! Ayn hear what I said to you? Voices From the Deck Chairs “Do you really think it is becoming? Thank you for saying so. That’s what my | husband always says. He says that white hair with a youthful face is so attractive and that’s one reason why I’ve never touched it up. Touched-up hair is so arti- ficial—don’t you think?” . “Wasn't the Bay of Naples just perfectly swell—the water, you know, and the land and the sky and everything—so beautiful and every- | thing?” | watching for whales?” . . if you’re askin’ me I must say I didn’t care “You Raymund! Come away from that lifeboat! Why don’t you sit down there and behave yourself, and have a nice time ‘a . ““No, ma’am; so much for that art-gallery stuff—jest a lot of pictures and statutes and junk, and things like that, so far as I noticed; in fact the whole thing—Yurupp itself—was con- siderable of a disappointment to me. I didn’t run acrost a single Knights of Pythias lodge the whole time, and I was over there five months straight, hand runnin’!” “Really, I think it must be hereditary; it runsin our family. Ihad an aunt and her hair was snow-white at twenty-one; and my grandmother was exactly the same way too!”’. “Oh, yes; the suffering is some- thing terrible! You've had it yourself in a mild form; and, of course, you know. The last time they operated on me I was on the table an hour forty minutes—mind you, an hour forty minutes by the clock! And for three days and nights they didn’t know whether I would live another minute!” A crash of glass! “Stew'd, I ashidently turn’ over m’ drink—bring me nozher brand’-’n’-sozza!"’ ‘ “Just a minute, Mr. Blosser; I want to tell my husband about it—he'll be awful interested. Say, listen, poppa! This gentleman here knows Maxie Hock- stein out in Grand Rapids!” .. . “Do you think so, really? A lot of people have said that very same thing to me. They come up to me and say: ‘I know you must | be a Southerner, because you have such a | true Southern accent.’ I suppose I must come by it naturally, for, though I was | born in New Jersey, my mother was a mem- | ber of a very old Virginia family and we've always been very strong Southern sym- | pathizers; and I went to a finishing school in Baltimore and was always being mis- taken for a Southern girl!” “Well, I sure had enough of it to do me for one spoll. I seen the whole shootin’ match and I don’t regret what it cost me; but, believe me! goin’ to look purty good to me when I get back there! Why, them people don’t know no more about makin’ a cocktail than a rabbit!” . . . “That’s her standing yonder talking to the captain. Yes, that’s what so many people say; but, as a matter of fact, she’s the youngest one of the two. 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Dead ahead lies a misty, threadlike strip of dark blue, snug- gling down against the horizon, where sea and sky merge. You think it is a cloud bank until somebody tells you the glorious truth. It is the Western Hemisphere — your Western Hemisphere! It is New England | Nearer and nearer draws that blessed dark | blue strip. Ah! | poised. Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hat! said, This is my own, my native land! Cer tainly not! A man with a soul so dead as that would be taking part in a funeral, not in asea voyage. On your lips a word hangs What a precious sound it has! What new meanings it has acquired! Forward on the lower deck the immi grants cluster, chattering a magpie chorus In many tongues. The four-and-twenty blackbirds that were baked in a pie with | out impairment of their vocal organs have | among us; | ask chatty, nothing on them. Most of the women were crying when they came aboard at Naples or Palermo or Gibraltar. Now they are all smiling. Their dunnage is piled in heaps, and the sailors, busy with ropes and chains and things, stumble over it and swear big, round German oaths. Why, gracious! We are actually off Sandy Hook! Dear old Sandy—how one loves those homely Scotch names! The Narrows are nigh; and Brooklyn, the City Beautiful, awaits us round the second turn to the right. The pilot boat approaches. Brave little craft! Gallant pilot! Do you suppose, by any chance, he has brought any daily papers with him? He has—hur- rah for the thoughtful pilot! Did you notice how much he looked like the pictures of Santa Claus? We move on more slowly and twice again we stop briefly. The quarantine officers have clambered up the side and are and to some of us they give cunning little thermometers to hold in our mouths and suck on; and of others they intimate questions, with a | view to finding out how much insanity without a pang. there is in the family at present and just what percentage of idiocy prevails. Three cheers for the jolly old quarantine regula- tions! Even the advance aap of the customhouse is welcomed by one and al! or ne arly all. The Song of the Home-Coming Between wooded shores, which seem to advance to meet her in kindly greeting, the good ship shoves ahead—for she is a good ship and later we shall miss her; but at this moment we feel that we can part from her She rounds a turn in the channel. What is that mass which looms on beyond, where cloud-combing office buildings scallop the sky and bridges leap | in far-flung spans from shore to shore? | That’s her, all right—the The Edison Dictating Machine | eats up work. You dictate with- out delays and the typewniting department does the rest. “Getting the Bulge on Summer” is a booklet telling you how to do it. THOMAS A. EDISON, Inc. Orange, N. J. 236 Lakeside Ave. high-picketed gateway of the nation! That’s little old New York! 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Of course Jones had to make another grandstand entry, so there couldn’t be any question about whom they were applauding. It wasn’t possible for him to come in with the rest of us. We were all on the field be- fore he came in sight, and marching beside him was a tall, long-haired man in a shiny frock coat and a slouch hat. I never saw him before in my life, but I recognized him right away—would have recognized him anyw here. He was the local orator, the of- ficial bazoo of the village. Every little town has to have aman like that toread the Dec- laration of Independence on the Fourth of July and do odd jobs of talking in between, which is about all the man is good for, as a rule. Usually these silver tongues get started wrong when they are kids and are named the Boy Or: ator of the Something-or- other, and it ruins ‘ern for life. This long- haired, limber-jawed specimen was called the Boy Orator of the Scioto, and he was Verbena’s best bet in the windjamming stakes. To hand him all that is coming to him, I must say that when he got the eight parts © f speech against the ropes he gave ‘em an awful belting. There was considerable cheering when Jones appeared, and the Boy Orator of the Scioto marched him out to the home plate and stopped. Of course we all gathered round in a half circie, the way ball players do when anything is coming off. The silver- tongue waited for the cheering to die out you never saw one of ’em that really wanted it to stop— and then he passed his slouch hat to the bat boy, laid his right hand on Jones’ shoulder, hoisted his left hand in the air, as though he was going to make a catch, and let fly with both barrels. A stranger listening to that address would have got the idea that Jones was Mathewson, Ty Cobb, Theodore Roosevelt and Napoleon Bonaparte all rolled into one. In between flowery references to Jones yes, he called him Verbena’s favorite son— he gave us the history of baseball from the Garden of Eden down to date; and every little while he would slap Jones on the back and the cheering would bust loose again. The tough part of it was that the rest of us had to stand there and listen until the Boy Orator ran out of language, which he did about half an hour after he ran out of ideas. Jones took nine bows—I counted ’em—and we went back to practice, thankful that it was over. The Verbena Stars were a rawboned, husky lot, and what they lacked in style they made up in main strength and awk- wardness— fair fielders, but tremendous hit- ters. When they swung at a ball and landed they nailed a fence ticket on it. When the game began I was still wonder- ing what Murph had up his sleeve. Of course we all understood that some way or other Jones had to be trimmed for the good of his soul; but it bothered me to figure out how we were going to double-cross him with- out playing a rotten fielding game, and that would give him the best pitcher's alibi in the world— poor support. You can’t say a whole lot to a losing pitcher when he starts telling you about the errors you made be- hind him. He’s got the box score on his side and a box score is a powerful argument. We went first to bat and the Verbena pitcher was good enough to make a goose He was a big, flat-footed, left-handed farmer’s boy, with a neck about a foot long; but I’ve seen worse than him in the big league. He pitched more with his arm than his head; but he mixed em up pretty well, didn’t tip his fast one, and had sense enough to keep it inside and across the letters. He fanned me in the first in- ning—fanned me on the level too. I went after the third one just to see what I could do with it, and the break fooled me. When we went out one-two-three I thought the crowd would go crazy! They expected a slaughter from the start and the goose egg set "em to rooting for the home team as well as cheering for Jones. Up to that time they had regarded the game as a walk-over for us; now they could see that we were just ordinary human beings. Well, Jones strutted into the box, cheered to the echo; and every move was a picture. Pose? He posed all over the place. Every- thing had to be fancy. He couldn’t even catch a ball without slapping it into his glove, a trick he learned from Pete Bogan, who is something of a grandstander himself. He laughed at the batters, joshed the um- pire and kidded the crowd, and otherwise made a fool of himself. Along with every- thing else he had a sort of high and mighty air—superciliousness, I think they call it. I can’t describe it any other way than to say that Jones looked at those Verbena bat- ters as though he was just about to yawn and sort of blamed ’em for keeping him up. It’s a trick that can be done with the nose and one eyebrow, and it’s more insulting than a slap in the face. Two of the Verbena Stars twinkled out in succession and then Mike Cassidy came up to the plate, lugging a thick black bat behind him. ‘Please, mister,” says he to Jones, taking off his cap, “ pitch to me, if you'll be so kind and condescending. I'll try not to show you up. The crowd couldn’t hear what he said, but they laughed and that made Jones sore He got the sign from Murph and then shook his head. You understand that the catcher signals the pitcher whether it shai! be a fast ball ora curve. Murph called for the curve but Jones shook his head. He was stuck or his fast one, anyway, and he wanted to use it to make Cassidy look cheap. Well, Jones ste-rted to wind up and Cas- sidy was setting himself for his swing almost bi fore the ball left Jones’ hand. Cassidy didn’t exactly tear the cover off that ball but he did the next best thing—he hit the center-field fence with a line drive; and if it had been three feet higher it would have been a home run. He took a triple on it but didn’t score, for Jones fanned the next man. “Murph,” says Jones, when we got back to the bench, “it’s been so long since you caught a game that you've forgot how to cover up your signs.” “Gwan!” says Murph. “I was covering up battery signs before you was born.”’ “That's $ just the point. It was so long ago that you’ve forgot how.” “What makes you think so, son? I don’t think. I know! Cassidy was set for that fast one before I let go of it. He knew it was coming and he hit it a mile.” “Rats! These rubes ain’t smart enough to steal battery signs.” “Well, be more careful, “Sure!”’ says Murph. I'll have to explain about this sign-tipping business and why it’s important. The main advantage that the pitcher has over the batter isn’t in his speed or in the break he can put on the ball. It’s in the fact that the batter doesn’t know until the ball has left the pitcher’s hand whether it’s a fast one or a curve; and that leaves him mighty little time for thought and action. He's got to judge the speed of the ball and figure whether it wil! break or not before he dares to swing at all. Any time the batter knows in advance what sort of a ball the pitcher intends to throw him the advantage is on the other side. The best pitcher in the world can’t beat a lot of men who know when to step in on a curve and—what’s more important when to dig their spikes in and set for the fast one. This is why we use coachers who have the knack of getting battery signals from the opposing catcher and flashing ’em to the hitters. A pitcher always knows by the way the batters act whether his signs are being tipped off or not; and when they are it’s customary to switch to another code in the middle of an inning. Give me a coacher who can steal battery signs and I'll beat a good pitcher with a weak-hitting club. It’s the biggest advan- tage a team can have. I didn’t pay much attention to the argu- ment between Murph and Jones. Itsounded to me like the usual pitcher's alibi for Cas- sidy’s long hit and I didn’t take much stock in the theory that the rubes were getting thesigrs, but in the third inning I saw some- thing that opened my eyes. We hadn't made any runs thus far and neither had the Stars. Jones had set "em down one-two-three in the second inning and was pitching like a wild man. The Verbena catcher led off in the third with a fluke bounder of the sort that looks will you?”

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bad but is really as good as a better one. He reached first base on it and Jones = me a bawl-out for letting it jump over m; head. Then up came the flat-footed farmer- boy pitcher with the turkey neck and a bat like a telegraph pole: One strike. (Curve One ball. (Curve.) Two balls. (Curve At this point the catcher started to steal. Murph juggled the ball just long enough to make it close and then whizzed it down to me. The umpire called the run which he was. I saw to that and the and yell to the pitcher to win his own game. Up to this time Turkey-neck hadn't offered at a ball Murph gave the sign for the fast one, and that turkey-necked rube was winding up for his wallop before : ball! He hit it, too, with everything he had, freckles and all. I heard it buzz as it went ner sale, Jones crabbed some more, crowd began to stamp Jones ever let over my head to center field; and but for the fence it would have been going yet. Verbena catcher went tearing home with the first run, and pretty soon Turkey lumbering in to second, where he stopped. He couldn't run any better than most pit hers. ‘That wa ow did you know the fast neck Came some hit, boy,”’ says I; “but one was coming?” Turkey-neck looked at me and pulled up vants. Then he winked. ‘A little bird told me,”’ says he Jones and Mu . the middle of the diamond and 1 strolled up to see what it was about. ‘They're tipping the signs, I wedens. “Youde ‘We'llswitch, ther ‘em yourself after vl t cross me } rph had their heads t gether in tell you! sake, don good finger on ; y! Well, the v« hanged the code g a bluff at giving The ‘em from Jones. on toy of the plate ened a curve ball; and the n Oo m set for the fast one and nocked a leg off Bug Bellows with a drive down the first-bas« A blind mai ting the could see that they were get- signs and Jones stoy ped the game again while he told his troubl » Mu l The crowd jumped the floor. out the grandstand and asked him why he didn’t get a telepnone. “Three runs! Three runs!” they yelled. Then, when it was finally fixed up da third set of signals was in operation, along came Cassidy to the bat he switch in the signal code didn’t bother him a bit. He let the curves go by, but he nailed the first fast ball for a double, scoring anotherrun. Cas idy arrived at second base feet first and grinning. ‘You'd better gag your cat her,” says he, “‘or we'll run ours Well lves to dea _ of course I knew Murp! was mixed up in it somewhere, but I never thought he would use a method so simple and direct as that one. Theold rascal had been squatting there in the very shade of the bats and t ell- ing those fellows what to wait for and what a slam at! No wonder he wanted to make the Verbena trip! No wonder he ing the game ! No wonder had been so chummy with the Verbena ayers at lunch! The rest of the body but terics on the bench after the and in the fourth, with the bases full and two runs home, he swallowed the ] lump which was all that was left of his pride and begged Murph to take him out of the box— yes, begged! “This is Jones Day,” it looks like they that you'll remember. yet half over.” “But what’s the use?” “They've got the signs again! “Stay in and take it, says Murph. “It’s bitter medicine, but it’s good for what ails you. I wouldn’t look round for an alibiif 1 was you. Stay and take it!” And the crowd! You know what baseball fans are like. They’re with you and for you just so long as you're winning, but the min- ute you hit the toboggan it’s th: nbs down and the sole of the foot for yours; and the more fuss they’ve made over you as a win- ner, the harder they hand it to you when you lose. to take nsisted on catch } YD } pu game was a joke to« ery- He nearly went third g; into hys- Jones. little says Murph; “and ‘re going 1S make it one The big show is not whined Jonesy. ' my son. THE SATURDAY when the Stars had In the sixth inning, enough runs corded up to win a World’s Series, the fans begar Jones, booing and hootit g and “Take him out Give us pitche or! He’s rotten! Take him out! Ph ew!” Just to make it more bindir e Boy i Orator of the Scioto was standing « shaking the wire netting and makir noise than anybody else, which goes to show you how far a public idol can fall in an hour and twenty minutes. It was the last straw. The hostile der stration against him upset Jones extent that he eo pt with alantern; ar al and one of the wild lest of wild pitches ever een in this —. bench—and di in st ni reer: Ped hy Het never As a bone Murph no stingy little doses for h Oh, but it was leaving the caved in against his lip hanging like Everything shrunk. have found the plat ‘rtwo bases 0 alis doctor was certainly an allopat! a be au diamond with his chest backbone and his lower a red unde about him He was a foot shorter; his s} his spikes dragged in the dirt seemed » have aers sagyge d; and if it hadn't been for his ears } iD would have fallen down over his eyes. He was the most pitiable looking wre l ever saw, and there wasn’t pride enough left him to stock a flea—a Javori te son wit! a relation left Pete Bogan in tow! went in and struck out the next three men it wouldn't do to let t} e farmers get toc ) saw that he rt of faded out of ind nobody knew we We gave the Mel | I i“ innings and the en to thirteen in lay i t make any ru! H t We rather thought the crowd wo | i some conclusions from that. When we left the park the one ed ha with the four black horsé wa i waiting for Jones but as he di now up and nobody knew where ‘ i ind even the driver didn t seem to ire, ( sidy, Mu 1 me rode back to the hotel in it. We agreed that it was too good a Ke to We found Jones later. locked in hi nd it took Murph Recep t he re room, and sever mittee to pe rsuade him th: to att Heay i end the ba handled didn’t wear as though he wa inconspicuous as possible. ol speech-n aking, of course and-elbow stuff in glorification of the team. The Boy Orator of the Scioto had to scratch his entry; he was so hoarse he cot barely cToanK ar ] I didn’t real y id Sherwood wg obbered over } : him not to be down-hearted about his lic ing. He said it ought to be a com to Jones to remember that he came a town where real ball players were ve oped; and that if he persevered iso on. Anybody can pour vinegar on a raw but it takes a well-meaning foo! to rul tO TUuUD spot, it in. Poor Jones had to respond. He swallowed hard and began to mumble somethin gabout every pitcher having a bad day once in a while. “Yeh,” says Mike Cassidy who was pretty we ll illuminated by this time; ‘‘we knew this was going to “be yours, so we named it after you!” Everybody roared, and Jones turr and sat down without thanking ‘em watch, which they noticed and commented on afterward. We can’t tell yet, of course; but we think that Doc Murph’s bone-shrinking treatment will be a success. There is a wonderful im- provementin Jonesy. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST WILLIAM B Detr CHARLES B. WARRED sel Paige-Detroit Motor Car july 4, 1914 The Story of the Ten Associates Three and a half years ago Ten Men of great affairs organized the Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company. They were ten men of character and standing in the community— Men whom you can readily look up through your Banker or any Mercantile Record. Each in his respective line was a leader and many had won national reputations. Each had builded solidly and enduringly upon the firm foundation of business integrity and fair profits. They said, ‘“‘ Let us pool our resources; our manufacturing, merchan — and general business experience.”’ They said, ‘Let us pool our capital—$20,000,000 if it is agg i They said, “‘Let us be content for a period with no profits, and, best, small profits.” They said, “‘Let us combine with our own experience the best en gineering talent—the most expert knowledge—that the auto mobile field has developed.” They said, ‘Let us build a motor car and a company that will outlive each and all of us.” They said, ‘Let us build slowly and well quality at the lowest price.” The PAIGE of Yesterday Ten Associates made 300 Paiges three years ago. s year they will build 13,000. let us build the highest “36” Glenwood Model—Gray & * Davis Large Unit Electric System complete equipment. $1275 ~ $900 aie ting and starting--$975. Paige sales have increased 167.9 per cent in the last two years. This is the greatest growth in the history of the automobile industry for the past two years. In three years Paige employes have grown from a mere handful of workmen to a veritable army. In three years Paige dealers have increased from 39 to 1026. In three years the Paige has grown from a small leased plant to the present mammoth factory with a capacity of 25,000 Paige cars a year. In three years Paige sales have grown from $44,000 to $1, a month. Today the Paige-Detroit is operating (as it always has operated) on ample capital backed dollar for dollar by tangible assets. There is no issue of “‘ good-will” or preferred stock on which divi dends must be earned. 250,000 There is not a dollar’s worth of bonded indebtedness upon which interest must be paid. The Ten Associates are putting Paige dividends back into the Paige car. The astounding growth of the Paige undisputably proves Paige quality. The Public does the buying. The Public, alone, must determine whether sales shall increase or decrease So the story of the Ten Associates—the story of the Paige—is more than the victory of ten men. It is the triumph of a great principle—the principle of sound judg ment, of sound, conservative business. Paige-Detroit Motor Car Company Detroit, Michigan

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The Paige ‘‘36”’ in many ““Price Class’’ standards principles and equipment $3000 mark “The best of automobile engineering practice is, ways, a found in no that has been the keynote of Paige construction Paige The Ten Cardinal Points of PAIGE Sup . rigidly adhering to this principle Paige Motor Paige motors have earned a reput that To appreciate this power plant you must ride behind it—up hill, down dak through I 1 road , smooth, oiled boulev ition is absolutely unassailable. To heavy, san Under all conditions, thi, clinging ads and ov ard , Silently and will the Paige motor runs smo ingly. This motor is the crowning achievement of the Paige engineers —the result of year of develop ment Rear Axle Our axle is built experience of Paig arkably free gy There the no and experiment. and the s that it has been It is the float of is running with excess strength; owners prove from troubl 1 no me

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He felt injured, abused, slighted. | He thought his preéminent abilities were strangely underestimated by Rollins. He | wanted to bolt, but prudence restrained | him. He said no more about the matter; | but he thought of it for several days, and with thought came astronger sense of i injury. *‘What will Mulford do for me if he is elected?” he asked Rollins one day. “TI don’t know as he’ll do anything,” “We haven’t asked him for any pledges, and he isn’t the kind of man who would give pledges if we did ask him for them. That must abide the event.” This reply increased the sense of personal injury felt by Hicks because of the refusal of Rollins to espouse his cause. He brooded over it for several days. His pride was hurt. He was positive he was the strongest man who could be named for governor; that he could sweep the state. Rollins continued firm for Mulford, and Hicks knew that without Rollins he could get nowhere in a revolt. He could not understand why | Rollins had taken no pledges from Mulford, | or why Rollins said Mulford wasn’t the kind of man to give pledges. in the circumstances he would promise anything to anybody for votes, and do as he pleased about keeping the promises afterward Hicks felt his own importance. He had grown to be the dominating factor in the law firm of Chittlings & Hicks, and Chitt- lings knew it and did not protest much when Hicks insisted the name and style of the firm must be changed to Hicks, Chittlings & Wilson, to provide for a lawyer Hicks desired to take in, a good lawyer, who, however, had not proved much of a success in business by himself. Gudger was re- tained, because between sprees he was of tremendous value. Hicks was kind to Gud- ger, and Gudger thought Hicks the most Hicks thought | wonderful man in the state. Hicks’ friends in the outside wards stood by him. He was vigilant in pursuing actions against all sorts of corporations. He had es- tablished a reputation for this sort of thing, aided by the brilliance of the law work of cases outside of Rextown. He had grown to be and though his fellow practitioners despised his lack of legal they envied his skill at securing He was streng in criminal work, too, and was locally famous for being powerful be- fore a jury, where his consider-the-helpless- mother-and-her-babes oratory was most effective. He usually was retained for the defense in big criminal cases, and he ex- torted fees to the last dollar for his work in saving thieves, murderers and other mal- efactors from justice. xXxXxVI WO weeks before the primaries to select delegat»s to the state convention Hicks, his grievance against Rollins still rank- ling, went over to Yorkville, Dawson's He announced his arrival by He gave the reporters an interview that dwelt at length on the day of reckoning that surely was coming for the corrupt Republican party, prophesied sweeping Democratic suc- cess—‘‘It’s in the air,” he said—praised Mulford and asserted he would be nomi- nated, although no one could feel greater ad- miration than he did for Peter R. Dawson, whose standard he would gladly follow should he be nominated. Dawson saw the interview. = What's “Dunno,” that person replied. “Why don’t you drop down to the hotel and sound ph Dawson walked to the Mansion House where Hicks was stopping. Hicks knew he would come, and was waiting to receive | him in his room. “ Mr. Dawson to see Mr. Hicks,” the girl at the telephone notified Hicks. “Ask him to come up, please.” Dawson went up and Hicks received him with great cordiality. They talked about general political prospects for a time, and then Dawson said: ‘“‘Any particular import- ance to your visit at this time, Mr. Hicks?” “Oh no, I just had a little business here; I would July 4, 1914 have called on you to pay my respects, only I was afraid those political reporters might misconstrue mv intentions. They are very quick to print stories of deals and plans and schemes and all that, you know, when of course’’—and he smiled broadly at Daw- son—‘‘ne deals could possibly be in con- templation, unless you should come out for Mulford.” “‘T could hardly do that,” son, “ laughed Daw- for I’m going to beat you Mulford fellows you know, beat you hands down.” “Don’t be too sure,” cautioned Hicks. “You haven’t enough delegates yet, and you know it and so do I. You have deals to make before you can win.” Dawson regarded Hicks closely. “* he driving at?” he thought. Then, as if to put it to the touch, he said: “Maybe you could put me in the way of getting what I need, Mr. Hicks, if I made it an object to you.” Hicks got up, walked over to the door, turned the key, looked into the closet and pulled down the window shade. His whole manner changed. were co'd and narrowed to slits. hardened. ““How much of an object?” he asked. “Depends on what you can do,” said Dawson. ““Suppose at the proper time I can throw our delegation to you?” ‘That is worth considering.” “Well, consider it then.” “What would you want?” “‘Dawson,”’ said Hicks, “‘let me give you a few thoughts. Mind now, I am making no promises or propositions, but let me state a hypothetical situation: Suppose there is a deadlock in that convention, as there will be. Suppose you pick off some of the favorite-son votes, as you can, for you have shrewd managers and plenty of money. Suppose you need about twenty or thirty votes to win. Suppose it should be ranged that at the psychological moment those votes should come to you and in- sure your nomination. Suppose you should be elected. Suppose, along in your term, Henry M. Filkins, the present United States senator from this state, or one of them, and now in most feeble health, should die, and die at such a time that you would have to appoint a senator ad interim—sup- pose all this. Now, then, in case all these things happened for you, would you appoint the man who brought them about to the vacancy in the Senate caused by the death of Senator Filkins, or, if that vacancy shouldn't come opportunely, would you give him something equally good?” Dawson chewed on his cigar. “‘I take it, Mr. Hicks,” he said finally, “that your in- terest in this hypothetical situation is based largely on the identity of the man who can do these things.” “It is based on that entirely.” “And it is fair for me to assume that man might, in ecrtain circumst ances, be re _Marmz iduke Hicks, of Re xtown. ’ ‘That is a fair assumption.’ “Well,” said D: awson slow!y, “‘if that situation should exist, and should be met in the manner you describe, and that con- tingency based on the vacancy should arise, I would name T. Marmaduke Hicks.” “And what assurance has Mr. Hicks that this will be done?” “He has the word of Peter Dawson, which is as good as his bond.” Hicks looked fixedly at Dawson. “Mr. Hicks will accept that as security,” he said. “And of course, Dawson,” he con- tinued as if it all were a joke, “nothing we have said is to be repeated outside of this room, for the situation aay not arise and ok 1 Filkins may get well.” “* However,” Dawson replied, “if it does arise, Mr. Dawson will do his part if Mr. Hicks does his.” They talked for half an hour about dele- gations, the strength of various candidates and such matters, and Hicks returned to Rextown on the evening train. Hicks had a considerable personal follow- ing in Rextown and the county. He had fostered that adroitly, while pretending to subordinate himself to Rollins. In making up the slate for delegates to the convention he so manipulated things by flattering and cajoling Rollins that, out of the thirty dele- gates for Corliss County, eighteen were men Hicks knew would follow him instead of Rollins. Hicks relied mostly for aid on Mike McGinnis, a labor leader, who was What's His eyes His face

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I friend and der n o} hir but he saw all t gals I sonally and made them to re him. He asked as a special r Rollins allow him to make the no ating speech for Mulford. He apparent); recovered entirely I tme x prepared ry read-~ t speech, two-thirds about the sterling iples of the party and the Reput criminal maladministration of state a national affairs, a few | about the ‘ he had been waging | f, and a sounding eulogy of Mulford The convention had a confident we'r going-to-win air, vastly different f{ mer Demo ‘state gatherings, and thers seemed to be no doubt of the As Hicks tol he reporter York ‘ was he air The delegates ind the s e lor m keen because of this u t of triump! anent irr ! I ect i nomi ons were order. 1 t we “dl. W ne { ‘ ed T a eH rose t led to the plati He re ( t ie Was NOW eT! 1080 ] 1ed | } e light nis t ! gl ! ‘ Was ¢ t di Waiting d er, gaz g ‘ o regarded him w j ed one other who the chairmal i eased pounding with his ga Hicks held up a right hand as if to still the n esa began: “Fellow Democrats a} deleg e assembled He made an excellent impress rato

y was tervid, his voice carried W ind his gestures were graceful and timely He was appalli nearnest. He ¢ ear to those delegates that unless they umed Enos G. Mulford they | ince to win, and some of them wonder w So ¢ inent ! Mulf l H to be oncealed | irai s ke y H 8, SKI wailing until e end me his man, sh Phere yre er pat t, no pu al more ¥ citize no more powe lawyer ere o higher exemplar of all that is be Americar ize ip; no Der : higher i tne par Fellow Ds oO the eve of tor | pra you ) make that ct lou ire yn ga ior é hatlable prig! American and De ‘ Gilman Mulford, of Spe ae * lhe Mulford delegates rose and cheered ‘ Tho e on the platform shoo} t 1s vith the perspiring Hicks and « ratu lated him ona ed masterly effort his whk

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and each of half s01 had votes, foresaw a de aqciock them in the running after a few more ballot There was an adjournment after the enth ballot. Dawson still led. He lacked forty-two votes of enough. Mulford was steady. He had gained a few from shifts from favorite sons. Al) that night earnest and excited partisans of Mulfor« and Dawson sought to get additional dele gates, to coax them, to buy them, t them by any means in their power. Hi met Dawson at two o'clock in the morning “T see by the papers,” said Hix ks, “that Filkins is failing.” “*So I see,” said Dawson, and passe d on The convention met at ten o’clock in the o secure morning. There was another ballot, with no result. The twelfth, thirteenth and four teenth ballots showed few changes. On the h Dawson gained ten. These Mulford on the fifteenth b meeting adjourned until Hicks had i elg sted oF

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Dept. “A” NEW YORK “The Story of Nancy Gay’ It throws question of consuming interest. a brilliant light on a burning A limited edition has been printed and you can have your copy sent you free by writ- ing atonce. Write today. A postal will do. N.C. G. A., 29 West 39th Street, New York City EVENING POST he said. inasmuch as he had faith that all the Cor- liss delegates would stand for Mulford until the last; but Hicks persisted and Rollins consented. The unit rule made it impera- tive for the Corliss delegation to vote their thirty votes without division and as a majority of the delegation should dictate. There was another ballot at eight o'clock. A break to Dawson was expected, but it did not come. But there were rumors of deals and more excitement. The delegates were tired, hot, dirty and anxious to get away. Dawson, sitting with the gation, received a note, handed to him by an assistant sergeant-at-arms. He read: ** Move for a recess for an hour after the next ballot for caucusing. Then I'll perform.” There was no signature, but Da looked across at Hicks, who was watching him intently. Hicks nodded his head Dawson nodded back, and told his mana gers to move for a recess for an hour after the seventeenth ballot. This ballot showed no change. lock was stubborn. The convention took the recess, and Hicks, calling McGinnis aside, told him tio go to the Corliss County caucus and move that Coriiss drop Mulford and go to Dawson on the next ballot. “These are our boys,” said Hicks, “and they will stand.”” He handed McGinnis a poll list of the Corliss delegation, with the names of his seventeen followers checked. “Of course, McGinnis,” he continued, “T can’t take part in this. It wouldn’t do after I nominated Mulford, but there’s no sense in staying here and endangering our success by this deadlock. You round up the go into caucus and put it over. Say I’m sick.” McGinnis had never favored and had been at heart for Dawson. quite willing to throw the Corliss County for the eaucu ful fellow delegates. ‘All right,” he said, “I'll put it over. But don’t let Dawson think we're doing it for fun. Get some promises out of him.” “T'll attend to that,”’ Hicks replied. “You go in there and shove it across.” “Mr. Rollins,” MeGinnis tired leader, “‘the boys want “What for?” asked Rollins “What have we to caucus about?” “Come in and see,” MeGinnis replied. ‘They want a caucus.’ “You can’t have a caucus,” Rollins. ‘There is no need of one. going to stand by Mulford until the home.” ‘They’re coming home now,”” McGinnis answered. ‘“‘I tell you the boys want a cau and you'd better come in or we'll caucus without you.” Rollins was much disturbed. He went into the caucus room, looked round at the dusty, dis heveled, we ary delegates asked: Where's Hicks? W here’ Ss Hick KS he him here. Where is a he ? “IT saw him a short time answered “He Monroe dele- iwson The dead- boys, Mulford He was dele gates from to Dawson and was eager He was a big, brawny, force and had full control of the Hict ” a caucus, We're OWS CON cus, and houted. “I need ago,”” McGinnis wasn't feeling very well.”’ Rollins, standing de fiantly be fore the del- egates, glared at McGinnis. “‘ What do you want a caucus for?” he demanded agai: * Because,”’ McGinnis answered, “ there’s a lot of us done all that can be expecte d of us in standi ig for Mulford this far, and we want to get out and get home I move that on the next ballot Corliss County casts her thirty for Peter Dawson.” Rollins, greatly agitated, made a speech urging the delegates to be loy al to Mulford, a passionate, imploring speech, telling them a break was sure and that their man would be nominated. McGinnis followed. He pointed out the dangers to party that would ensue from this long-continued, acrimonious deadlock a they had supported Mulford as long as necessary, and renewed his motion that th e vote for Corliss County be cast for Da on the next ballot. Rollins begged, pleaded, implored. He cursed and threatened, but McGinnis and his followers shouted: ‘‘ Vote! Vote!” The was taken, Seventeen dele gates voted to go for Dawson on the next ballot. Twelve voted to stand by Mulford Rollins was amazed “W hy isn’t Hicks continuously The convention reassembled. call for the next ballot began. Continued on Page 41 feel we've votes to come sucee wson vote here?"’ he asked The roll July 4, 1914 tollins didn’t think it necessary, | said to the | sharply. | protested | oe Howto make your skin fine i in textu re If the delicate The heait mooth-tex of the Woodb y treatime! 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(Continued from Page 38 “Corliss County!" shouted the secretary Rollins arose, pale and trembling. “Corliss County casts thirty votes for Peter R. Dawson,” he said in a voice that was barely audible. The secretary heard. “Corliss County casts thirty votes for Peter R. Dawson,” he shouted. Instantly the upon their feet. rocked against Dawson delegates were Their cheers rolled and the walls. They formed into a procession and marched up and down the The Mulford was allover. Rollins He was beaten. ame astampede. Mulford counties came tumbling to Dawson, after the other. Dawson had a majority before the roll was two-thirds finished. They made it unanimous. At one o'clock next morning Rollins sat in one of the and Hicks occu pied. The door opened and Hicks came in, pale we “Where were you?” asked “Where were you?” Hicks stagger gasping on the bed aisles screaming with joy. delegates sat silent It \ crouched in his chair. The break be« one two rooms he k, disheveled Rollins. *Sick! he moaned Deatl s ’ Acute indigestio: 1 almost died. What happened?” “Dawson was inated,”’ said Rollins bitterly, looking at the moaning man on the bed, “‘and Corliss County started the break for him.” Hicks struggled to his feet: “Oh!"’ he said weakly, wringit his hands “Or oh--I am appalled! The irony of fate, th this should have happened when I wasaway! I might have helped you prevent it! , “Go to bed,” said Re and it can’t be helped.”’ And he left the room Queer guy, that chap who came ou here at half-past eight,” said Billings, an interne at the Mercy Hospital, to the head nurse ‘Landed yelling With pal and a aoubied up I couldn’t find a thing the matter with him, but he insisted on havir the stomach pump used and xxvVII the m I ICKS looked ir ing and found |} He endea and ill when he had breakfast with Rollins There was conversation at table Hicks tried several times to interest Rollins in the story of his sickness, but Rollins ap parently had a line of thought of hisown and refused to be concerned in Hicks’ After breakfast Rollins before the t away rror next mor normal inh ap vored t imseil o seem weak little remarks he had some train left for Hicks hurried to said men to see noon Rextown and wer Dawson’s room He greeted the nominee manner “Good morning,” said Dawson. “Can I see you privately for a moment?” Dawson led Hicks into a rear room and He turned to Hicks and “What is it?” “Good morning, governor.”’ in his most effusive dot yr. shut the iarply: asked 5 “Oh,” said Hicks, “‘nothing of impor tance. I merely called to pay my respects to the next governor ol the state.” “Is that all?"’ asked Dawson rather col temptuously **No, since you speak of it, it isn’t all Hicks, droppir I diality and speaking with slow distinctness in a voice that was cold and hard. “It isn’t all. I assume you are under no misappre hension as to how you were nominated.” **None whatever.”’ Dawson replied. * And you realize your obligation to me?” “I recognize obligation and the responsibility,’” Dawson replied, “‘ although I am not particularly proud of either; and | have passed my word to you That is all there is to it.” “Very well,” said g his pretense of « the continued Hicks, “I sider that settled. Now, then, as you can readily appreciate, I am not anxious to have my part in this publicly known, for though my action was dictated by the necessities ol politics and the good of the party, there are people who might not understand my motives.” “That is quite possible,”’ replied Dawson with a sneer that made no visible impression on Hicks. “But you need not worry. I shall say nothing, nor will the one or two men whom I took into my confidence on the matter.” “In that case,” said Hicks, assuming his unctuous air and extending his hand to Dawson, “I wish to atid my hearty and congratulations to you your well-deserved victory, and to Say that | col sincere on THE SATURDAY EVENING POST shall take an active part in the campaign and do all within my power to accelerates the glorious victory that is sure to be ours Jawson shook hands limply and Hicks left the room The political reporters wrote long dis patches about the shift of Corliss County to Dawson, endeavoring to explain it and furnishing many reasons, which was correct. They saw Dawson and he said the only explanation he could offer was that Corliss County saw Mulford was beaten, and naturally wanted to get on the bandwagon. He spoke highly of Mulford and of the sterling Democracy of Corliss and said some kind things about Rollins The reporters saw Rollins. He had nothing to say beyond the statement that Corliss worked under the unit rule, and majority of the delegation decided Mul coula not be nominated and went to Daw son, who had the greater strength The Corliss delegation went home that Hicks again cautioned Ginnis to say nothing of Hicks’ to him, and McGinnis said not! MeGinnis,” asked Rollins, as the train nearing Rextown, “why didn’t you wait a while before you advocated that floy to Dawson? What was the hu “What was the use of waiting?’ M« nis retorted. ‘*‘We were tied up to a dead one, and you know it We got in first to Dawson, got the credit for nominating hin and we'll cash in on it after he is elected Rollins sighed But, McGinnis, the flop? . ‘I don't “He wasn’t none ol alternoon. instructions was **I suppose so he said how did Hix ks stand or McGinnis lied I guess he would have know ba there consented though, just as you did, after he saw the majority of the delegati was r Dawson F “Didn't he talk to you about it?” “He wasn't there,” evaded McGir “He was sick and at the hospital.’ Rollins was disconsolate He high hopes of winning with Mu cent developments had aroused or s, and he resolved to keep ast on Hicks. He was shrewd enot : not to change his attitude, and 1 heartily into the elaborate plans Hicks wa making for carrying on the campaign for Dawson in the Rextown District. Daw son established headquart« rsur ille. The state committee had reorganized ind the Democrats claimed a confidence which the Republicans admitted private was justified Hicks was extreme at tir He wrote long articles for the Chro icle, made speeche $ whenever get a chance, and arranged wi the head of the speakers’ bureau quarters, to go out over the st l October. He thought his services would be worth a hundred dollars a night to the cause, but the headquarters people laughed at that and he consented to go for his ex He saw Dawson frequently; never failed to give him the conduct of the campaig series ol with general situation, one of which he hande every reporter he met, and if he met he sent copies to the editors, as most worthy penses copious advice as to prepared a interviews himself on the ito of publication, inasmuch as they gave the views of T. Marmaduke Hicks, “ whose ce is hailed from one end of the state to the other.” The most political event in the history of the state up to that time, so Hicks thought, was his contemplated trip to make campaign speeches for Dawson He went to Yorkville frequer y and sought every to impress that fact or the candidate, the state the newspapers and the general public. Whe he learned Dawson was to have a private car for his campaigning fhe private car for himself, and fuss that the committee compromised wit! him by promising him a car for his last week's work He spent hours in the of Haley, the chief of the speakers’ bureau, haggiing with him over dates and tryi be assigned to every big meeting. He flat] rejected minor assignments, and changed hi route to suit himself, until in desperation Haley went to Dawson. “Dawson,” he said, “if you don’t « that confounded nuisance, Hicks, I'll quit the job right now.” “Cail him off?" asked Dawson. “How can | call him off? 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R EVENING POST no denying he’s got a lot of strength with the laboring people and the farmers and can talk like a house afire. Give him what he wants.” “Give him what he wants!” shouted Haley. ‘“‘Great heavens, if I give him what he wants you'll be standing outside his meetings handing out bills for them. He'll have a special train, let alone a special car, will be billed like a ¢ ircus and newspapered like a prima donna.’ “Oh, well,” said Dawson, “fix it up as well as you can. Don’t bother me. I’ve got troubles of my own.” Hicks fought Haley for days, claiming everything and getting much more than any other speaker except Dawson. Finally he started out on his tour. Suspicious of Haley and his clerks, he had supplemented a announcements of the speakers’ bureau by long and eulogistic notices about himself and his abilities as a ¢ ampaigner and orator which he had his stenographer prepare and which he sent to the newspapers in every town on his route. Also he wrote personal letters to the chairmen of the local com- mittees, apprising them of the date of his arrival in their cities and villages. He out- lined the sort of a reception he desired in each case, demanded the best room in the best hotel, and urged them to see to it that his appearance was properly billed and that the newspapers were kept full of his coming. His procedure at his first stop was typical of his procedure at all his other stops, ex- cept that as he went along and found him- elf well received he grew more exacting. He telegraphed to the local committee, charging the telegrams to the account of the state committee, apprising that organ- ization of the exact train on which he would errive, and urging them to have a gathering of representative Democrats at the station to meet him. When he got off he found the local committee there, and such represent- ative Democrats as they could muster. He advanced in a dignified manner, greeted the chairman of the committee, and then stood beside him while the others filed past him and were presented and shaken by the hand. He was too good a mixer to carry his dignity pose to the extreme, and after the presentation he became genial. He shook hands again all round, joked with the Democrats, told them they were sure to win this time, and then asked to be shown to his hack and driven to his hotel. He held a little reception in the lobby of the hotel, announced he would see the re- porters at a certain time, and after he reached his room asked for an hour to him self for rest. During the hour he telephoned to the newspaper offices, for fear the re- porters and editors might not come to see him, and granted private audiences to those journalists who called, explaining to the committee that he broke in on his rest only because of the insistence of the news- paper people. Later in the day he asked to be taken for a ride round “your fair city,” and astonished the natives by his correct understanding of the importance of their particular metropolis. He had been at great pains to inform himself concerning each place on his itinerary before he left Rextown. He had the information all tab ulated, and refreshed his memory at each place by referring to his notes. Hicks took with him his stenographer and a bright young labor leader from Rex town named Mortimer. These men, when approaching a city or village, shifted to another car from the one Hicks was in and went to another hotel. He had prepared two .speeches, and had left places for references to local questions and candi- dates which he learned about from the lo- cal committees. These two speeches were interchangeable, and were both the result of long study by Hicks. They overflowed with dear-people stuff, and were unsparing in their denunciation of the corruption of the Republican party. Also they touched lightly on national topics, but they were loaded with references to the state govern- ment in the hands of the Republicans. The stenographer and Mortimer went to the a. Each had a part to play. When Hicks reached a certain place in his denunciation of the Republican party he raised his right hand, and Mortimer jumped up and shouted: “Will the gentleman answer a question?” “Certainly, my friend,” Hicks would reply. “I want nothing more than a full and free discussion of the issues of the day. I welcome all questions. What do you desire to know?” Mortimer would ask his question, which generally ran like this: “Did not the July 4, 1914 Democrats in the state legislature vote to indorse this asylum system which you have just attacked?” “*T’ll tell you about that,” Hicks wou shout, whereupon he would go into a de - tailed explanation, showing how the Dem ocrats were exactly right in their actio and Mortimer would look much chagrined while the Democrats cheered. There were four property questions of this kind, two asked by Mortimer and two by the stenographer. Hicks was a good stump speaker and he had big meetings. He carefully saw to it that the newspaper mention of each meet ing was sent back to headquarters, and each night he wired in to both Haley and Daw son glowing accounts of his success. Wher his private car for the last week of his tour was sent to him at Newton he refused to accept it, and wired Haley to use the money it would cost to aid in the campaign. He announced this eeaemaaioen in a high flown interview, in which he said that a friend of the people had no right to be riding in a private car when the money might be used legitimately—he came out hard or that word—to help bring about popular and honest and efficient government, which would come with Democratic success. Al- though he had made elaborate stipulations for drawing-rooms and state-rooms in Pull- mans and parlor cars, he always trans ferred into a day coach when he was coming into a town, and rode in in that humble mar ner, taking great care the local committee should see him alighting from the common coach. Haley tore his hair when he rece message about the private car. “What do you know about that stander?” he asked Dawson, who was in Yorkville between speeches. “‘He fought with me for a week for that car, claiming he was entitled to one if you had one.” Dawson made no reply. The last rally of the campaign at Rex- town was on the Saturday night befor: election. Hicks was there and was the principal speaker, as Dawson had already spok en in Rextown and was needed in York ville. Hicks, fresh from his triumphs on the stump, with his speech elaborated to a most resonant and fervid effort, discour aged all preliminaries for the meeting. He would not have a chairman of the meeting, or another speaker, or a committee on the stage. He spoke in the rink, and after the place was jammed he made dramati entrance on the vacant stage, having ar- ranged for a spot of light to follow him as he came in from the side. He posed for a moment, then held up his hands and begat He was at the top of his speed. He spoke for two hours, combining the greater parts of both speeches he had used on the road He was eloquent, flowery, and was loudly cheered. He piled one peroration on another at the end and then stopped. The crowd began to cheer. He held up his hand, there with his arms outstretched, and in a voice shaken with emotion—but not so shaker th at it could not be distinctly “ ird— said ‘Friends, friends of my years in Rex town, friends of the city where i have lived I came to man’s estate, where I have labored, where I have exerted the best that is in me, I beg of you to consider what | have to say. This is not my fight; this is not the fight of Peter Dawson; this is not the fight of the great and glorious Demo- cratic party. It is a far higher, purer holier, more important fight than one or all of these—it is the fight of the people, the fight of the people crying out to you for relief from oppression, from corruption, from the slavery of plutocracy, from the iron heel of the Republican party tha presses them to the dust. It is the fight that voices the desire of the people to b The ery I make to you is the ery of the people, the plain people, the helples enslaved people, bound to the chariot wheels of greed and arrogance power and plutocracy—the voice of the people. And, oh, my friends, the voice o! the people is the voice of God!” He stood for a moment, then he turned and walked away, his shoulders heaving le } ived the grand passionate stood since iree, hope less, ind convulsively. The next day the Chronic said this was the greatest political spee ever made in Rextown. Hicks went direct to the Chronicle office after the meeting, revised the story written about the meet- ing, and added a few touches of his own, of which the principal one was the remark about the greatness ol the speech (TO BE CONTINUED)

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Essex Rubber Soles and Heels are Dependable The leading Shoe Manufacturers will tell you thet the reason most all the rubber soled shoes worn in the United States are equipped with Essex Rubber ‘ is because they have proved by test that they are best in quality of matecial, excellence of yotknes ip, and in style pecify Essex whenever you buy n ie soled shoes f you want last- ing satisfaction ESSEX RUBBER COMPANY ay Monafes trvers of Soft Spot Heel and FOR GENERAL WEAR a ch Cushions ond Essex Rubber Heels TRENTON, NJ THE SATURDAY THE FLOATING LABORER Continued from Page 15 ul of the recent y estab lished public is that of Wisconsin. Doubtless, as we work out the probl that organization will be our model. In its present form it has existed only since 1911, when the State Industrial Commi sion took it over and, with the advice and of the State University eled it on scientific lines. It does not differ vastly in theory from the Massachusetts bureau-—-only it operates in a state that ha wider and more lively movements ef labor, and a more pressing seasonal problem Under William Leiserson, lef who left a chair at the Univers ity of Wisconsin to di The most successf bureaus lem, assistance remod rect the work, it is trying to develop a corp of experts— not, seetarabier, universit educated sociologists, but men of all-round intelligence, trained to understand the prob lem. It tries impartially to guard em ployers from incompetent employees, and employees from bad working condition insecure pay and false representations. As a side issue it has been inve the labor cam ps of the state and making publie re ports on their deficiencies. It at tends to the important matter of distribut ing accurate information on the deman id for labor. The four offices of Milwaukee, Supe rior, Oshkosh and La Crosse send daily to the newspapers a labor report, ) ? in brevity a market report. Stigating resembling and accurac Vv Just as in the case of — Massachusetts bureau, it is impossible to say how much this Wisconsin bureau he as done to reduce unemployment. It is only another tea spoonful of ink. But the laboring publi has certainly made use of the bureau. I: the first year of the Milwaukee office appli cations for employment rose from sixt three hundred to twenty-three thousand, and applica for employees from sixty two hundred to twenty-nine thousand. Of twenty-four thousand persons referred to employment, eleven thousand four hundred were actually hired. The next year the business increased forty per cent. And for each position secured ss than fifty cents. tions cost to the state was le Public Works as Safety Valves Neither Massachusetts nor Wisconsin, nor any other state that has a iree labor bureau, has able to next step—regulating public work to act as a safety valve in time of unemployment. A things stand at present we have the classic example of the Barge Canal in New Yor! In 1906 the East knew great prosperity Labor was in demand. The metropolis was been take the sending to the Middle West for buildi: y trades men. The state authorities chose that period to rush work on the Barge Canal, which employed laborers by thou sands. In 1908 came the panic, with hard times and unemployment. The state au thorities chose that time to drop work on the Barge Canal. A few American municipalities have per ceived this public duty — as, for instance, Duluth. That city is bisected by a huge rock, which must eventually be cut through. The authorities try to do this work in those periods when the unemployed crowd into the « ity. Yet here, too, we cannot do much effective work without nation-wide coépera tion. Pittsburgh discovered that in the hard times of 1908, when the philanthropi Pittsburgh millionaires tried to invent work for the unemployed at their doors. The news flew abroad; there was a stampede of labor to Pittsburgh, and the newcomers had only their labor for their pains. Though the Federal Government not, as things now stand, take charge of the labor-exchange system, it can do one thing immediately; all the experts on labor prob lems are unanimous On this point. At pres ent the casual laborer needs accurate and general information on the labor market. If it is within the province of the Ge Government to distribute weather reports for the benefit of farmers, it seems just as well within its province to distribute ac- curate labor reports for the benefit of the workingmen. The Federal Department of Labor, or some like bureau, could, for a comparatively small appropriation, issue a daily or weekly bulletin, to be displayed in post offices, which would give information regarding the daily and weekly demand for labor. 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Chicago, Ill. and lena cent the } EVENING POST time those headless stampedes that have done so much to harm the condition of our casual and floating laborers. As a matter of fact, the Commission on Industrial Re- lations has drafted a bill for a Federal sys- tem of labor-market reports. Yet, though the state must take the lead, it cannot make any system of labor ex- changes effective without some codperation from employers. There is, after all, a lit- tle in the theory of the educated heart, especially when that heart is guided by a well-informed head. To prevent the de- basement of our common labor is to the ultimat. interest of all classes; and in the provision of extra legitimate work for hard times employers can help mightily. Those prosperous and established con- cerns that are little aflected by financial de- pression have always more or less work of expansion to be done, such as the erection of new factories. When employers really understand this problem it is not too much toexpect that certain of them, with a philan- thropic bent, will save this work for panic years, This is a piece of practical philanthropy far more useful for the purposes of the commonwealth than ordinary welfare work; but it must be done inteliigently. To in- vent work for hard times, to start some project at a dead loss with the sole object of giving employment to the unemployed, hurts rather than helps. It has the taint of charity on it. The work must be legitimate, must be paid for at the usual rates for labor and entered into with the normal expecta- tion of profit. The casual laborer himseif might prof- itably take a hint from a no less unen- lightened country than Russia. In all our towns and cities there is a certain amount of work that must be done, and yet is in its nature casual. No kind of system has ver been put into this work except the padrone system, conducted to swindle the new immigrant. They order things better in Russia. There the medieval guild idea survives. The men who perform casual city labor in St. Petersburg and Moscow have organized themselves into what are called cartels-- coéperative bodies that dis- tribute this work as evenly as possible among their members and kee p all the profits. The Vacations of the Poor The odd-job man of the United States is a casual laborer of the most casual class, looking on each day's work as possibly his last. The odd-job man of Russia knows that, though his employment may not be continuous, he will have a certain number of working days in the course of his year. The casual laborer of America has not the ambition or the initiative to start such a ystem for himself. Here is a task for s tifie philanthropy. The last stage of the English and Ger- man program -- unemployment insurance is still so far aw: ty In Ame ‘rica that it seems hardly worth discussing at all. We have only lifted a foot for the first step of the foreign program—a_ scientific system of labor excha to unemployment insurance we may in time; for there is no one who expects that we shall ever, before the millennium, continuous work for every one. Indeed, a certain amount of leisure, an occasional unexpected vacation, is almost the right of every man. To work at the same mechanical job every day and every year is in itself a doom almost as hard as to work irregularly and in ipprehen- sion of the future. Unemployment insurance gives the cas- ual laborer relief of mind in his idle day His feelings are like those of the policeman on reserve, or like those of the established physician waiting in his office on a dull and healthful day. He can enjoy his periods of ease without the anxiety and the degrada tion of soul that come nowadays when he finds himself out of work. cien- nges. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 47 —_—_——, r— of insurance risks of accident insurance insurance explained in detail all that you want to knou Consider that of "lime and Money, the Accident. ” You do not carry accident insurance because you believe that your occupa- tion doesn’t take you into the paths of danger. You say that you live an even-running life, with today’s events an automatic repetition of yesterday's happenings. You are sure that you run almost no chance at all of meeting injury or death by accident—but statistics, and actual settlements of accident claims, prove that your conclusions are all wrong. It is a fact that most accidents happen on the street and in the home. The traveling man is considered a “select” risk by accident insurance Companies. Only and twelve per He is a better risk than a clergyman one “drummer™ in 8,765 is killed in a year cent. of all accidents happen in the, streets One man in seven is hurt every year. Accident insurance, you see, is not only good for any man, but it is necessary to you as a matter of protection against the loss of time and money from un expected injury, of which happening you are running a chance of one to six Just leave death by accident out of the question and consider the proposition of the temporary loss of income from a broken arm or a spraine d ankle—a probability that matures in an instant and upsets the scheme of life Your home and your furniture and furnishings represent so mu h You insure them. is the asset that bought them— your earning capacity; but it is unpro Assuming that your salary goes on, whai provision have you against the increased ¢ rpense ol accident ? cash value. Greater than all of these tected against disability and lose of time Your savings Now, then, how thoroughly will you protect yourself against acci dental injury? What sort of policy will you buy, and in what company ? Naturally, the one with the least frills, that pays the most indemnity at the lowest premium cost. That policy is_ the brand-new Equity- Value Accident Policy issued by the Maryland Casualty Company, of Baltimore, Md sound, well-managed, known to its poli yholders for meeting its agreements in spirit a well as in letter If you are in the preferred class, a premium of $35 per year" buys you protection of $10,000 in case of death by accident, or th loss of both hands or both feet; or the sight of both eyes; or the $7,500 for the loss of either hand or foot, and sight of one eye; either leg or nght arm, $5,000: either foot, left arm or nght hand, $3,333.33; left hand, $2,500; either eye, $2,000; thumb and index finger of nght hand, $2,000: same, left hand, $1,666.67 loss of one hand and one foot The Equity-Value Policy provides for an indemnity of $50 per week for total loss of time tume unlimited; or for partial loss of time, 26 weeks, $20 per week demnity of $50 for 30 per cent. less than the premium charged It pays full It pays full or loss caused by freezing, hydro Lhis policy pays a weekly in I I for other poh les giving the same weekly indemnity indemnity dunng entire period of total disability benefits for accidental death phobia, gas, porson oF blood potsoning If you like, you can buy an Equity-Value Policy for $5,000 for half of the above cost, at a proportionate reduction of benefit, ot a $7,000 policy at a yearly premium of $25 with benefits in pro portion to the larger policy. here is just one time for taking out that time is before disas'or overtakes you. No Sign and mi It will Don't let accident rob you accident insurance medical examination require d the coupon bring full information without obligation Maryland Casualty Company Baltimore, Md. * This rate applies to all states excepting North ¢ Tennessee, Arkansas sas, Okla s aod M To Insurance Agents and Brokers: Every agent and broker in this country who sells insurance should familiarize himself with this new and unusual de parture in the writing planned, practical and sure solution of rec ognized and difficult problems The new Equity-Value Policy is a most carefully | Here is a plan which prot ides more insurance for less money to the party insured, which pays a better income to the agent | and which largely eliminates many of the selling difficulties of accident We have prepared a special agent's booklet in which Write for it uth Car a, Georgia, F da, Alabama, Mississ n wh the rate is $4 $ , f MARYLAND CASUALTY COMPANY, | Maryland Casualty Building, Baltimore, Md Please send me, without obligathon on my part, complete inf maton rega y i ’ vi july - Vv alue Policy as acivert Name \ddress Age | | | Occupation Riedie —————_ ic thief

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The HUDSON Six-40 For 1915 $1,550 This Year The extra tonneau seats disappear when not wanted Our Gem Car The New HUDSON Six-40 Described by Howard E. Coffin There are 48 of us—each a skilled designer—in the HUDSON corps of engineers. All are quality men—men of high ideals; so we never have aimed to make the HUDSON a cheap car. Engineering reputations are not gained in that way. Prices have dropped because costs dropped —due to multi- plied output and standardization. ‘This year—with a trebled production—the new HUDSON Six-40 will sell for $1,550. But we engineers have naught to do with this price matter. From our standpoint —as a piece of fine engineering—we consider this the gem car of 1915. We are proud of it. With- out respect to the price-mark, it's our ideal of a car. ‘ The Evolution of Sixes The best engineers have for years aimed at Sixes. Con- tinuous power Is essential to a smox th-running, flexible car, and Sixes alone afford that. But the early Sixes were heavy and wasteful, so this logical motor was confined to high-priced cars. European engineers first solved this difficulty. They con- ceived the small-bore, long-stroke motor which reduced fuel cost immensely. It also reduced explosive shocks by 50 per cent as compared with our same-powered Fours. This per- mitted lighter construction. In the HUDSON Six-40 we have worked out the ultimate in this type of motor. The result is, an operative cost nearly 30 per cent less than we ever attained in a Four of like power. How We Attain Lightness All of us formerly built heavy cars. We used iron where we now use aluminum. We used castings where we now use drop forgings. Instead of proper designing and costly materials, we employed mere size. ‘Those heavy cars were not nearly so staunch as the light HUDSON Six of today. For years we have worked to combine lightness with strength, but every pound saved added cost to construction. This new HUDSON Six-40, constructed on old lines, would weigh at least 4,000 pounds. We have made it weigh 2,900 pounds. Thus we save you the weight of seven people all that extra tire cost and fuel. Yet last year this Six-40, in thousands of hands, failed to develop one weakness. We never built a stauncher car. Our 31 New Features We devoted three vears to this HUDSON Six-40 before we shipped the first car. Our fourth year on it— the year just past —has been spent on refinements. We took part by part and studied ways to improve them. This new model shows 31 important betterments. They are mostly in comfort and convenience. Among them are bet- ter carburation, automatic spark advance, locks on lights and ignition. All wires are run in conduits. Seats are wider and higher. There is more room for the driver. We have here now one of the handsomest, one of the best- equipped cars in the world. In no way that we know of can any car ex¢ el it. And many of these attractions are exclusive to the HUDSON. Men’s Refining Tastes The evidence is that motorists are turning away from ex- tremes. They want sufficient size and power, but not excessive. ‘The pressure on us for years has been to bring down upkeep cost, and to do that in a Six. Here is the final result. Here is all the power, all the room you have use for enough for seven passengers comfortably. Here also is a matchless lightness and low operative cost. The fact that no car can be built any better is shown by this record lightness. A car must be built of the finest materials, in the most skilful way, to attain such staunchness with this weight. The HUDSON Six-40 has met modem ideals. Last spring there were two buyers waiting for every car we could build. We have trebled our capacity, yet we cannot hope to keep up with demands. Men who see this car won't be content with cars which fall below it. We know that every car sold will win new converts to our gospel of refinement ) Sewnrwt} FFL. FG 7 Phaeton, seating up to 7 passengers, $1,550 f.o.b. Detroit. Standard Roadster, same price. The New Hudson Six-54 We build on the same lines a larger model with one-third more power and a 135-inch wheel-base. It is for men who want the HUDSON features in a larger, more impressive car. Thisnew HUDSON sells for $2,350. Hudson dealers everywhere have these new models on show. Go see the new features. New catalog on request. HUDSON MOTOR CAR COMPANY, 8038 Jefferson Avenue, DETROIT, MICH. July 4, 1914

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CLAVERHOUSE ‘ontinued from Page 18 Wythe ‘But don’t vou see, dear ! » has done pressed, “‘what his self-indulge for him? His mind ly

ened. He is a madman. “‘He has always been more or less like that.”’ ‘In a way you are right,”’ her ladyship wreed. ‘‘He has been like it less like it His brain himself that he though. Never more. ing. He admits remember.” But the girl was as fixed as the Rock of Gibraltar. ‘*That’s all the should l for him. He told me the day | saw him at his rooms that he i t How de perately And I rough

more reason we 10 everything we can desypx ra ely in need you and | now both know. promised him then that I would go t] tire and water for him. He put his life in my hands. Those were his exact words. And at the first hedge I shied. , ; pressibly ashamed of

I'm inex Her eyes of s deepest azure had become dew mvs he: n

Lady very like Wythe was guilty of something a f a iIrown. “Wait!” was her laconic injunctior Just wait!” The afternoon be g fine, mother and laughter, heavily booted, went for a wa

a direction that wot < + mo ear + taking care to choose by no chance carry them in the neighborhood

ot the rectory. Before leaving the mar house they had take pains to Inquire Claverhouse, and had beer ired Conrad that his master was still wrapped in slumber. In the cours ot the 2. mit . they came upon an ideally picturesque spot. Inci dentally they came upon a red-bearded rtist sketching it, a bona-fide R. A., whose name when they heard it they re at once. For who had not heard of Wi Wimbridge? The R. A., thatched cottages on a informed them that it —_— ’ ' indicating the loveliest of

near-by ei was his temporary

dwelling place; that his sister was within it at that moment brewing tea; and th: he himself was actually famishing for the cup that cheers but leaves no head in the morn- ing. He would be charmed to have Lady W ythe and her daugt ter join him and at the same time look over his sketches.

Lady Wythe and her daughter were delighted. Everything was perfect—the thatched cottage, the sister, the tea, the rvice, the sketches; likewise the R. A. and his ideas of his art. They spent more time than they had the faintest idea of spending. When they reached the yew drive at Yewstones dusk was already descendi: They would have barely time to dress for dinner. Therefore they quickened their teps. They were almost running when from behind them there came to their ear the unmistakable clamor of a motor car driven at high speed I to turn when it thundered past them, and sweeping round a in the avenue was lost to sight in the of the Scarcely were they able curve 1 house. Lady Wythe for aninstant seemed rooted to the spot and Madeleine but less affected. As their gazes met they ga ped. “Fancy!” Lady Wythe murmured. “You saw him, then?” her daughter managed to enunciate. aire t was “Of course “He was driving the car himself. It might kill him!” **No such good luck,” snapped her lady ip. **Mother!”’exclaimed Madeleine. ‘You are needlessly cruel.” He was in flannels,” tinued, ignoring her daughter's rebuke. He has been to the rectory.”” Her tone was the one she would have used had she wished to say “‘ He has killed a man.” The young woman was silenced. was too busy with her thoughts— wretched, unsettling, jealous surmises—to say word. The roots that had held Lady Wythe having relinquished their grip, she caught her stride once more, and Madeleine, mo- rosely musing, kept pace. But when they came in view of the manorhouse there was no sign of either the gay and festive Claverhouse or his car. It was not until they stood within the hall, looked down upon by their

Lady Wythe con- She one great smoky-faced ancestors in time-blackene frames, and encountered the solemn, dis tressed visage of the waiting Parkins, that they sensed perhaps something further of catastrophic character. “Mr. Claverhouse just came in kins?”” asked Lady Wythe, dissemble her fresh anxiety. The butler wet his dry, drawn lips with the point of a pale tongue before speaking It was all he could do to maintain his cu tomary air ol Then he said quietly: “Mr. Claverhouse was just carried sur } } ’ my iaqay.

Par striving o composure.

‘Carried in!” exclaimed Miss Wythe. But her mother was discreetly silent. “Yes, miss,” answered Parkins _ ‘elped carry him myself. He had a ver I id chill, miss. He was shaki g so bad he couldn't walk two steps.” Had a chill!” Lady Wythe seemed relieved to find it was not wh he had surmised. “Very bad, your ladyshiy the butler contirmed. ‘It seems he fell into the four the j | tain at rectory

got quite wet tI our ladyshiy Begg most

ough, my lady. he wa awfully messed uy 1 ‘ I don’t know that I ever saw a gentleman more so The episode was not permitt terfere with the conventions neverthe . Wythe and Miss Madeleine wer pre sently in the hands of their maid t as the Honorable Er nest was in the hands of his valet. And at three minutes of ¢ t precisely mother and daughter, eacl proachable dinner regalia, met under the ( light of the red drawing room. Would or would not their guest appear That was the tion each was mental! posing, but that neither made bold to put into words. One minute ticked away \ second followed, more slowly it seemed. A third had become apparently endless, whe Parkins snipped it off by appearing in the broad doorway and announcing as usual: “Dinner is served, my lady.” The two ladies, who had been sitting i strained silence, rose simultaneou t the same moment of muffled patter penetrated from the hall. The paused, listening. The sound came nearer. their turned toward the entran Then as though by signal their eyes and mouths opened in concert. Between the long, dark-red velvet dra peries that masked the doorway appeared an object wrapped in a flame-colored satin robe heavily embroidered in med: andlelight que

a sor led two ladies eyes

hining yellow gold. Unquestionably a costly but vivid importation from the Orient. “Sorry if I kept you waiting,” drawled Claverhouse with an irritating nor N lance Hope you'll pardon my Japanese dinner dress too. But I’ve just had a tly chill, you know; and the hall is brutally drafty, now isn't it With which, smiling irresistibly, he pat

dining tered a few steps forward in his clogs and gallantly offered an arm to each of the ladies, x Madeleine could do to onceal her chagrin. She felt that she had been shamefully misused. It was vex ing enough that Ernest should have gone to the rectory, thus admitting that Hermione Bawle-Derry, that frumpy little red-haired creature with weak eyes, had been able to persuade him to act independently of what he must have known were her own and her mother’s wishes. That Claverhouse should presume to ay pear now in the drawing room was certainly straining the limit of hospitality to the snapping point. His chill she regarded a no excuse whatever. Too ill to dress properly, he had far better have dined in his rooms. She felt very sure |" WAS all that that her mother would not brook this insult and that he would be requested toleaveYew stones in the morning. A quick, stolen glance showed her that Lady Wythe’s lip were very closely and ominously pressed and that a red spot flamed on each c heekbone. Neither one nor the other, however, had opportunity to get in a single observatior during the march to the dining room. For Claverhouse’s tongue was loosed and he was com

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July 4, 1914 ‘it’s very much my business. So much so that I mean to smash your jaw!’”’ Claverhouse paused to n.oisten his lips from the fresh glass. Madeleine was now weeping convulsively behind her handker- chief. Lady Wythe did not look so pleased. She scented something spectacular that woul " probably wind up in a county-wide scand: Nor was she disappointed. 3ut Squiller didn’t do what he meant ’ the speaker went on, pride echoing in his voice and reflecting in his smile. ‘His long arm shot out; but I dodged and it we clean over my shoulder. At the same mo- ment I uppercut him, and he would have gone down had it not been that I grappled him about the waist. The fountain basin was convenient and I lurched him that wa} In another second I should have shot him clear over the brim, but just then he recov- ered and his ropes of arms came round me like binding chains. He held fast to me and we struck the water at the same instant. | heard Hermione scream as we went under I am under the impression that we killed one of the swans.” He drank some more whisky, for the recollection seemed to make him shiver. ‘Ugh!” he gasped. “It was very cold water. It went straight to my marrow. See,”” he added, “I’m shaking yet.”” And he was. His whole frame was violently vibrating. His arm sent his glass spinnin This time it flew wide of the rug and sh: tered to atoms on the floor. ‘Anotl ver!” he cried through chattering teeth. “‘Another! Neat this time!” the butler sprang to obey. But no soo: was it placed on the table than the convul arm sent it flying after the other. Twice this was repeated. The chill ( rea se od in viole ee *M-M-M-Made le ine!” he got through rattling teeth. “Hold it f-f-for me!” The appeal was pitiful. But the girl, now white with terror, did not move. On the contrary she stood stunned, horrified “Parkins!” screamed Lady Wythe, who had risen too, shocked out of all composure and in mortal terror lest her = then and there give up the Conrad at once! Make haste ake, make haste!”’ Claverhouse was trying to control tl muscular twitching by gripping the e of the table, which, solid and heavy as it was, shook under the onveyed impulse u til every dish and glass upon it was dancing Parkins, watchful toavert damage, did: turn his head. Every second he storing a waltzing wineglass th to pitch floorward. But scanning the damask to a erystal and china, and hovering in rea truth. “Conrad isn’t here, n Lady W ythe here!” ‘No, your lad; car to the railway a careening pickle dish he saved destruction. ‘The nurse then! Get her! It’ to look after her patient.’ The butler, still intent on the table tango fired another shot. ‘‘ Mrs. Wats son 1s on he r way back to London, my lady Lady Wythe considered this the climax But it wasn’t. Barely had she time it in, when the grip ol the fant garbed paw opposite her from the edge of the table tically to the cloth. ong effect may be imagined. Even Parl assiduous and nimble as he was, couk 1 a) stay the ter. Everything went. Venetian glas eggshell French china, the tlower from the centerof the table, the silverca sticks with the ir lighted can — and fra beautiful shades, the latt bursting int flame as tor ‘sole d The two ladies— Madeleine’s gown was dripping from an overturned decanter prang to their feet and ran one way, whil: the butler shouting for help ran in anothe When, less than a minute later, Parkins returned, accompanied by two footmen to assist in clearing away the wreck, the shiver- ng, shaking cause of it all was not to be seen. Once again Claverhouse apparently had vanished into thin air. v stone sive nould phe “Get t For he aven's vas busy re at threatened with eyes alertly void collisions of with both har diness, he broke the ilmost ship. *s gone in tation.” r it from her duty to take istically Silppe but « lung irar man al TO BE CONTINUED)

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Cantilever “‘Comfort ’’ Springs Eliminate Jolts -and Hold the Car to the Road THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 51 $1075 Famous Ward Leonard Starter and Lighter $90 net additional Prices F. O. B. Detroit 30-35 Horsepower Touring Car and Roadster | (| i! A | ip il | a ‘ TAMA Mm iH Mm ‘ m7 -_ rer é tit, au Ta Hl \ i Mil Wa mars \ WV i ANT TTAANA | . a il | NN) WAI Nina NN QUNCEMENT ¢ oF MODE uu | | i) tq ‘ at C i nN AG an a . have etme | Me il i i L He ily HANI | Aa | Hh i Ni Nth ih me ws UT WL GS hae CAR ¢ OF NO REC REGRETS — Pure European stream line body. ; ~ ee price, new body, SSN Flush “U” doors—No moldings. AS , new chassis refinements, but ay True ventilating, rain-vision Concealed hinges and latch retaining all the sturdiness, reliability, SG A wind-shield. and special mechanical features that made the 1914 model a success the world over. ii MA Multiple disc cork insert clutch. handles. Full floating rear axle. Extra deep tilted cushions. Silk mohair one-man top. Combination head lamps. The KING chassis has always been built to give many years of Option on two gearings. faithful, economical service. Now it comes with a body of a type pronounced by the majority of engineers to be the ultimate motor car design. In Model C you will be buying for a decade. All stock of the KING MOTOR CAR COMP AN is owned by the active Instrument board. . Flush-top upholstery. : VV . ; Special crown fenders. ( Gemmer steering gear. Gasoline tank in cowl. Stromberg carburetor. . executives of the Company. ‘These stockholders prefer solid, successful growt! 215) 0 cn Hyatt roller bearings. rather than large, immediate profit lo this ond they insure careful, h f 3Xhe X 9" motor. Honeycomb radiator. manufacturing by including every aed yee in an annual distribution of profts. TI Extra heavy frame. KING was hist to do this. With this painstaking and responsible ma Oh . : . " ctoari hae 1 13 wheel base. materials of such hig th ae: that only by cash buy: y and n st | H 18 stee ring whe ‘ l. Center control. a price as $1075 be made possible. Full equipment idle Should Not Del..; in arranging for territory yet unallotted. The KING’ S 1914 about to be re pe ated mani ifold. A han dsome, dep ndable, econ»mica of popular name and — produced by a financially solid factor generously advert ,1s acombination that will mean big 19] ~ King Motor Car Company 1300-1324 Jefferson Avenue, Detroit, ee New York Agenc y and Showroom, Broadway at S2nd Str New York Service Department, 244-252 West 54th Street

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Bt! TW ae ¥ - es, * THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Ne ‘N PA, he Note the Goodyears (Q% As You See Tires on the Street Gey, You can see for yourself how fast men are coming to Goodyear No-Rim-Cut tires. And this comes, remember, after 15 years of tests. After men have used over three million Goodyears, and marked their mileage records. Now more men buy Goodyears than buy any other tire. More buy this year than last year — by 55 per cent. We have just built in one month, to supply this demand, more than 216,000 motor tires. Why This Rising Tide? The only reason is that Goodyears show lowest cost per mile. That's what all tire buyers seek. And, in these days of odometers, they know when they get it. No illusion—no chimencal advantage—can long mislead in this field of reality. Tire upkeep is a visible, provable fact. Goodyears lead because they deserve to. We pay the price to give you here the best men know in tires. On research alone we spend $100,000 yearly — just to test new formulas, methods and ideas. Just to make sure that Goodyears always shall mark the limit in good tires, Cost of Leadership “On-Air” cure — $450,000 per year. It is done to save b!ow-outs —the count- On one extra process —our we spend less blow-outs due to wrinkled fabric. We final-cure on air-filled tubes, under actual road conditions. And no other maker does that. We create mn each tire, dunng - vulcanization, hundreds of large rub- hg >@ v » 4 ~ > \Y method which we control. It re- quires in each tire base six flat bands of | 26 braided piano wires. And we alone use the double- thick All-Weather tread. This tough, enduring tread is as smooth as a plain tread, yet it grasps wet roads in every direction with countless deep, sharp-edged grips. Note that these four features —the four greatest in tire making —are found only in No-Rim-Cut tires. They combat, in exclusive ways, your four major tire troubles, Yet They Cost You Less With all these advantages, No-Rim-Cut tires now sell under 16 other makes. Numerous makers ask for three tires what Goodyear asks for four. Not because the tires are better. That is unthinkable. For we have new factories, modernly equipped. We have efficient methods. We have an output exceeding any other plant. These things immensely cut cost of production. And we sell at a profit which last year averaged only 612 per cent. These facts—and these alone —account for Goodyear prices. They belong among our countless efforts to lower cost per mile. No-Rim-Cut tires — though still rulers of ‘Tiredom — cost half what they used to cost. Remember Goodyear prestige. > Remember this verdict of users. July 4, 1914 i ber rivets. This is done to combat S NY Se Rescuer eae tems Gecleave feo- OOD ‘Yy EAR tures when you are asked extra er by 60 per cent, and no other yw ‘ cn ee : 8 ) : : AKRON, OHIO prices for tires. You don't need to . ° » tre employs it, No-Rim-Cut Tires With All-Weather Treads or Smooth pletely impossible, by a faultless : tires. Our dealers are everywhere. THE GOODYEAR TIRE & RUBBER COMPANY, AKRON, OHIO Toronto, Canada London, England Mexico City, Mexico Branches and Agencies in 103 Principal Cities DEALERS EVERYWHERE Write Us on Anything You Want in Rubber loose treads. It reduces this dan- pay that extra. Any dealer, if you ask him, will supply you Goodyear , . . We make rim-cutting com- (1624)

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THE PRINCESS FREDEGONDSA THE SATURDAY Continued from Page 13 She hurled the question at me as she had hurled the other, an equally delicate one, at Stephanie. I could have given her a hun- dred and fifty reasons, but I gave her none. “Speak!” she cried. I still said nothing. “Tf you do not speak x Shestopped short. I do not know whether she was reluctant to assault me again in the presence of her ambassador; there was cer- tainly assault and battery in the way looked at me. Dolgouruki observed in a paternal tone: she “Be easy, madame. I will have him punished.” She emitted a sound that I can only describe as a snort. “* Do not put yourself to so much trouble! I will attend to him. Where, then money?” Dolgouruki handed her a fat leather case, which he took from his pocke Ke ‘These are banknotes.’ The fact that the case seemed stuffed with them did not seem to afford her the slightest pleasure. ‘Did i not tell you to bring gold?” “If madame will permit, ten thousand pounds in gold would not only weigh a great deal, it would occupy much space. Bank- notes are as good, especially as those that madame has are mostly for small sums. Besides, here is English gold.” He unlocked the metal case the personage had placed on the table. It seemed full of sovereigns. I had never before many of them together; even at that mo- ment the sight made my mouth water. “Here, madame, are a thousand sove- reigns.” She took out in front of her. , is this seen so a handful and held them up “* After all, they are pretty coins. I have never seen so much money in my life. One perceives that it must be fun to pay for things with what they call here ready money. With these I will paint the town red.” “Madame!” Dolgouruki’s voice sug- gested that he was startled. ““Well?”” Her tone could scarcely have been softer; she did not look at him, yet he took the hint. She “Have you ever painted a town red?” That respectable, elderly gentleman was smitten unawares. He endeavored to cover himself under iow of dignity. “‘What is it that madame is pleased to mean?” “*Dolgouruki, you are old fool—once you were a young fool. In those days did you not love to be a fool, to a gre ater fool even than Nature had made you? Do you suppose I do not know I am a fool? that I do not know that to love things I cannot have is folly? Yet I love them all the same.”’ She gave a little sigh. “You see, there are so few things for which I oughi to care.” “There is the commi and.” ‘No, Dolgouruki, no; else you would not have about you some'\ where my father’s command to take me back, with or without my will—if necessary, gagged and drugged and pinioned— to where I do not wish to go.” **Madame knows that I have no such went on: a si You are an a fool! be whole world at madame’s instructions.” “I do not believe you, Dolgouruki. I know you are a liar! One day, perhaps soon, you will catch me when I am not on my guard; and all will be over. I shall not have a chance of running away a second time. I know! So in all probability I shall not have much time in which to paint the town red, and I would so love to!” “How would you begin?” There was that in the old man’s deferential tone which stung her. She pressed the tip of her finger against his chest. “Take care, Dolgouruki, that you do not go too far!” “I but question.’ “Then do not askaquestion. I will begin to paint the town red in my own way. For instance, by marrying you.” This was ad- dressed to me. With her beautiful eyes she subjected me to a sort of valuation. The way in which she did it made me shiver. It was a positive relief to learn that, for some reason, I fell short of the standard she had set up for herself. ‘“‘No—again, why should I? There are plenty of men like you to be got for two a penny.” “For less than that,”’ said Dolgouruki. “You find them in the dirt-carts. His pres- ence is a contamination. Permit that I send him away.’ ventured, madame, ask a to The lady hesitated. full of sovereigns; she held it out. “Would you like a handful?” I said nothing. Remember, I was penni- Her pink palm was less; I had not even anything worth pawn ing. I dare say she saw it written on my face. She laughed right out. Her laugh was very musical; it lingered pleasantly in the ear even when it had ceased. “No!” she cried. ‘I will not give it to you. They are so pretty! My sovereigns my golden sovereigns!” She took handfuls up out of the box, let ting them fall back in yellow cascades. Then she saw the fat leather case. Picking up some of the notes she threw them toward me ‘Take those.” “they are good enough for you.”” They came unexpec t she said; I failed to catch the m; they fel ll to the deer. “Clumsy!” she exclaimed. “Are you not used to catching alms? Dive forthem! Go down on your knees and pick them up.” 1 did told me; to this moment I do not know why. It was not because my need was so urgent. I would have left the room if I could and left them there but I could not. From the instant I hi into the room it had been the same—the slightest expression of her wish had | my law. I knelt and picked up the notes. ‘There were quite anumber. As she watched he laughed. She tossed another “One more,” said. “Pick that Stay as you are!’’ She came so « that her skirt brushed against my I wondered what was the next trick she was about to play she said: I kick him, Dolgouruki? He is a thief “Permit that I have him thrown down he stairs.” Crossing the room she touched the ivory button. The came “Show this gentle man out into thestreet To me as she een she up lose As tantastic “Shall al also. lace. personage in. she said: ‘Go! I was only too glad to get the chance. At the door she stopped me. “‘One moment, Mr. Savile. The next time too rapidly. do not let your mind move One day we may meet again.” **Madame!” exclaimed Dolgouruki. She paid no heed to him. “IT say that perhaps one day we may meet again. Dolgouruki, you are a fool! Shake hands with me, Mr. Savile, in the English way.”” To my surprise as well as confusion she advanced her right ha 1 touched it She smiled, with the tips of my fingers this time bewitchingly. Do not be afraid, Mr. Savile. Take my hand in yours and press it.” I did as 1 was told, but she pressed longest. She held me. ‘“‘For a thief you are not ill-looking Good day, Mr. Savile!” I bowed and went out. When I was out the door of the room adjoining wa opened and Stephanie looked out— only for a second, for just one peep; but she caught my eye—there was that in her glance which turned my head. I stood still until the person: age touched me. “Come this way!”’ His English was nearly perfect. I went that way. At the end of the corridor he again put his hand on my shoulder and remarked very softly for so big a man it was strange how softly he spoke, but he was quite audible—to me “If you breathe a word of this morning I shall hear of it and you will pay for it with your life. Make no mistake! Miss Letitia Robinson isa lady who does not like to have side, her affairs talked about, or her name men tioned, or her existence known. Wherever you go there will be some one watching you and listening. You understand? I did. I did not tell him so, because it was unnecessary. He knew I understood. He took me down what I presume were the service stairs, through a part of the build ing I do not think was known to visitors, to a small door that opened into a side street. We exchanged no parting greet- ings; I just went out by that small door and ‘shue the narrow pavement of the mean street to the ec rner, where I found myself in a great square. It was only when I was seated in the taxi I hailed that I gave a sigh of relief. I took off my hat and ‘elned my brow. After all, 1 was not so sure the time had come for me to congratulate myself on having escaped from between the upper and the nether millstones. I took out the slips of crinkly paper that, at her bidding, I had picke d up from the floor—took them out furtively as though ashamed. I was ashamed. How ever, they were genuine banknotes. The numbers were consecutive, which I did not EVENING POST Throughout Toronto, Canada London, England Write Us on Anything You Want in Rubber Lawn Hose The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Lawn Hose Dept., Akron, Ohio Mexico City, Mexico Sweet Briar —— ~— WOMEN. Sweet Be jar Ne ivid ‘ : oy na : i a DR. MARY K. BENEDICT, President, Box 137 vee \i ; . % q = a A . sanevel { LASELL SEMINARY | Auburndale, Massachusetts Ten Miles wt D1 pal 116 W liand Road Bradford Academy "°"*°."* Yon" M I , A. t SEMINARY CHEVY CHASE. Washi noon Dc Heal i i i ur su water Barker, Prins Mr. and Mre 8.N W illi im Woods ¢ ‘ollle ve n t 66 ¢ . OWT HORPE SC HOOL API t I SEA utd o life 1000 1 ; School ®:" Home Distinctively De voted to Deve ieping Personalities C,enuine hapt lit (x I s and nd atl ‘ except ally ta for Girls Rev. THOMAS BICKFORD, Miss FAITH BICKFORD, Prins.. P.O. Box M, Brewster, Cape Cod, Macs From Boston

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54 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST July 4, 1914 fancy. They were all fives—twenty-two of them—a hundred and ten pounds. Saf fe mil K y I had told the driver to take me to Piccadilly Circus. I descended at the Cri- > terion, giving the porter a five-pound note and telling him to pay the taxi and bring or . oes me the change. I went into the room on a7: F the right of the great entrance hall and ordered the waiter to bring me a bottle 7 1 ; of oy ae _ sont — yo “> 2 F e named a brand, haphazard. was indif- V ) Ll { it ) “ai DY : “ ferent as to the brand; at that moment all c c -: : I wanted was champagne—enough of it to taste. F aiatitetads +, _ ‘ ; The porter brought my change—the Carnation M ilk Is TCCOM-— waiter my wine. As the fellow drew the mended and used exten- >» = \ “ cork a man came in from the hall. It ; . . a ~ seemed to me he had a horrible resem- a s SI\ ely as a foe »d for infants. = blance to the personage who had Sane me i + jenny cone so seed ape } into the street and whom I had heard ad- Be Be yg ney fire | t IS Clea7/ 9? WEE "4 and pure er dressed as Nikol. He caught my eye as I na wand SEMINARY for Young Ladies (50th yess) ; ti » : "| was raising the glass to my lips—and took TRA LANDRITE, Pres. J. D. BLANTON, Vice Pres lw ays rm ady if oT USC the taste >a of the wine. “He came in and 2 ee 1 ur sat at a table opposite mine. I heard him oO oO : order a small bottle of sparkling ry > ITA 1 >» ] cloth. > as ¢ -] sic | Freche! Kindergarten = bicwgen Scheel — on the cloth. He was at the mu

I do not doubt it, though I did not Gun ant tue wens see him. | Fannie A Smith, Principal, §71 Lafayette St. Sthement Conn - W hom are you looking for?”’ asked Kathleen, apparently struck at last by the Select Bchoo! for Girl FOR WOMEN . se . namannst rae! THE LOUDOUN “23 $2222.81" | Wheaton College? "92020 atu {3¢t that'T kept serewing myself round in n, D4 tare combination of ad (30 wiles from Reston.) ear course with A 8 my sea . ro 1 those of the n ne | deg Prais x, = eH ms — 2 “Noone,” I told her; “‘at least no one in

Health up ry < -repa ar ' particular.” tye: emonn aan “Then I wish you would keep still. You terms. For t _ udder do seem fidgety. Don’t you think that was GEORGE L PLIMPTON. Principal, 34 Schoo! St., ilton,N H ‘ DEAN AC ADEMY, . Pramblin Mass, pher CUSHING ACADEMY splendid? And isn’t she pretty?” Technical ARTHUR W. PEIRC3, Litt. D., Principal fgg pape eg, age hanced tock had just been finished. I did not think it ANT te senascugsiomeeniiapeneemeseminnpaiteneapniseantsomimsiteasite was splendid or that the lady was pretty. ROCHESTER. N.Y. . j Defiance, 0. High grade I had but to close my eyes to see a face that li aa Ne KIMB, AL L UNION | ACADEMY — Dass COLLEGE « clemtisnal, “kane oh Art, Home Feo rity entionn . ce olgraduates. 17 buil ing 100 acre Rev. G. L. Allen A M Ph D Pres., Box 581 inonent Va alow Rev. Samuel V. Cole, D.D., LL. D., Pree

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a ago A indeed was ravishing, which was hard on v¢ High ek t build ollegi domestic Science Kathleen. en ert ie hak Schroot tore ores tO ene ‘Mi een oe gene As we were going with the crowd through ¥ Teacy, Principal, Mer N ent and tuition talogue. P. W McRETNOLDS, Prest. the great doors into the street some one slipped a scrap of paper into my hand, COL BY ACADEMY Lesley Normal School For rome _— ie I a —— = Unusual Opportunity for Young Men and Women to , ‘ y hi as being tickled anc P New London, NH. In the New Ham educa ners Grade * Teachers paim of my a ing was bel ; college certificate. General cours Iture eer Sone ™ and Pe ,. | Closed it quickly—there was a scrap of paper. Equip Themselves to Teach A ' Moderate terms. Kadowment. 6let year. | ¢ er ot res I looked quickly round. We were hemmed Public School Special Subjects JUSTIN O WELLMAN, A.B., Princip: pops serebetth Lockey Welter ‘20 Bverest ft. ‘Cambridge, Mass in on all sides: I could see no one I knew, A one ye oe com urse 4 Mu Pes awing Domest ee Domesti aR or who looked as if he or she had done ing. Devoted ‘excl BRENAU contititim MONTICELLO SEMINARY i,t FS ee CONSERVATORY af oy “‘Now what’s the matter?” inquired my mation gradual he Secretary GAINESVILLE, GA. P.O. BOX F , th Abome | landlady’s niece. Thomas Normal Training School, 2750 W. Gd. Boulevard, Detroit, Mich : the foothills of the Blue Ridg oung won I suppose in turning I had given her arm health resort. College of first tN” a wrench. I told her that some one had -RRY HALL © ollege preparatory f ils Junior thliation. Special courses paratory | trodden on my foot, and I slipped the ae Galil to Ga Ven Waleier, ‘ oa we nee ease St : Art : bine ~o paiviteges. Well equipped laboratorie scrap of paper into my waistcoat pocket. Holyoke, etc Art, music, expression < . dents tt tes sam imer term, June 30. Fallterm | .cenaan. Yepmecpurte, archery range taskettailand | Kathleen would have supper—she said it | Sstrvemscmeat. Forturthe information. wit Sept. 15. Completestory in illustrated catalog on request Miss Martina C. Erickson, Prin. Godfrey, ul. | Would be so lovely to have suppér; so she MISS FRANCES L HUGHES, Bos 201, LAKE FOREST, ILLINOIS Tue Recrstrar, 36 Plyn

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had it, while I pretended - hall of the restaurant as we Nikol’s friend, looking r Ae The sight of him inflamed m the entrance ‘ame out was 1 on the floor. e; if l had not been eating I had been drinking. I went up to him: “This is the fourth time I to-day, or is it the fifth? I sir, for an explanation.” He took off his hat with have seen you must ask you, a most courte- us gesture, met my eyes with his great black ones, and said with compre hensible foreign acce an aimost in- t: ‘Pardon! No ur derstand; no speak English Wha t could I say to a mar tone ded as though he dic giare, while he stood i charmingly apologetic Aren't you coming?” as touching me on the arm; so you know that gentlen “No, I don’t.” My man i was fingering the scrap of ing whether he knew I had ‘I thought you spoke to } ‘We'll take a taxi home soon as we were in the cab I about the evening’s performa t got all about her questio ne who de lared did not spe ik Ex ig lish, who looked inot? I could n tront of me bowed head and a smile that was ked Kat ilee n, l went “Do she asked. r was brusque. yaper, wonder- if im.” I said. As began to talk nce She for- it was only when I was in my bedroom that I felt at liberty to satisfy Y my curiosity as to what was on that scrap of paper. It was just half a sheet of not note size parchment I belie 1 the shops. I fancy my fi t epaper sma ve they call it gers trembled ] as I opened it, then I found it was blank. There was nothing on it. I turned it over and over; no, there was nothing on it; it was blank. I thought a t played on me. Why did any amuse himself, or herself, by blank half sheet of comm k a match and touche the corner It began to bur it. When the flame had a ge thing began to I ippen to tl ing became Visible words name—Stephan I tried to extinguish the too late; the 7 paper blazed, « let the ash fall. Where I been, where I held it in Iro rick had been one wish to giving me a ym notepaper , d the flame to I watched wd hold some e paper—writ one word u nt of my eyes, hough there was no longer anything there, I saw the name staring at me— Stephanie! I do not know how it happened—but it di I offer no explanation; stand; I set it down for tru I do not believe my imagina a trick no, I do not beliey In the morning there was man in the street-— Nikol’s sight of him inflamed me that I would not have } ¢ out the front door to tell reacned the pavement round the corner. When I ¢ ner he had qu kened his pa ready at some dis em ae hin I had no |} he ide I returned nit ist een hin since The five-pound note flung at me were hateful ir they were all I had to live on me | had to live. While I of them Carruthers died— Ga On than forth ight alter my HH had forbidde n me ever t again yet he left me practic Life’s little ironies! I coul it—even after I had dashec lawyers’ and they told me it ‘The thing is impossible! breakfast table one I do not inder th, as I saw tion played me e it even now the d low 1dov suld not « ise i was abs 1 | have never hat had beer ! Yet d to till } venty mort visit to Bab vidge’s Hotel, I found a letter to tell me so. 0 speak to him all he I ad. al i round to the was true. I said to the senior partner, who sa on the other side of the table and ed. ( ithers swore I should 1 ver toucl = eennaltaae ‘Possibl y None the less, four days be fore he died he made a new will in whicl he left you most of what he had.” ‘Then, in that case,” I shouted—my brain was in such a whirl that I had to shout—“‘if that is true perh aps you'll ad- vance me five hu There was nothing i! ae that he thous “Certainly! You inherit 1.9 ndred pounds? nanner to show tion monstrous. at least eight thousand pounds a year; here’s a check for ve hundred.” He handed it across the there, an open check. I took fast as ever I could. I added table then and it toa bank as two fives to the twenty I had in my pocket, slipped them into an envelope, inclosed 1 Mr. Jack Savile’s Complime it to Miss Letitia Robinson, ny card— With nts— addressed tore round with it to Babbidge’s Hotel, and handed it across the counter to a clerk “Be so good as to send that up to Miss xobinson at once.” That clerk—-he was a dapper little mar with a waxed mustache-eyed me, then the envelope. “No Miss Letitia Robinson is staying here.” “She was here ten days ago.” He referred to a great ledger and then smiled. ‘No Miss Letitia Robinson has stayed here at least, during the last month. This contains the names of all our visitors — you can look for yourself if you like.” I did not want to look. I was re uly to believe that that name was not inscribed in his great volume. A man came through a side doorway. He took my en\ elope from the clerk’s hand. His manner was precise, even curt. He said ‘You have made some mistake, sir No person of that name was ever amor g our visitors.” He passed me my envelope with a look that made me slip it into my pocket almost as though | had been proposing to do some thing of which I had cause to be ashamed Three weeks later it was in all the papers, columns and column For d i\ the topic in the jour als was The Balkat M irriage. The Princess Fred gonda, the world was informed, had recovered from her severe influenza. And her m rriage to her august cousi! the Grand Du ke Michaelovitch, was to take plac e at the earliest possible moment All the great folks were hurrying to the wedding So the y were married! How had it been done? Did Dolgouruki do it?) Had Nikol ler and, or the dark eyed man—and St > Had they put omethit gin the Prit offee, slipped her into a bag, borne her away on one of her ther’s ships, and so home? If that was the way it was done—that it was done it some such w Ly I have no doubt what did she say when she found herself back again in her imperial father’s palace? There were ome stirring times! Somebody iffered Did she ¢ re to beat Stephanie? I should ive liked to beat her if she had! She — ibly said some plain words to her in perial father—not the fear of instant exe cution could have kept her from doing tl it Yet persuasion W as brought to bear she did marry her august cousin. The wor informed that they are ) wonder! In the fall of the same ye ar-— that was my) wonderful ye ar! I met Miss Isa Frar had heard a deal about Americar I had met a few; but so soon as I set ny eyes o1 her | knew she was the one or out, the first and the la ng, the middle and the end Pretty soon, one morning in an avenue i the Bois— we were in Par told her s« I just quick Sere er ven when she said what she did say to me We were ma ried at the “ined Embas The day before 1 saw Stephanie in the Avenue du Bois. She was an ope! motor car—and she saw me She had passed before I had time to get my hat off; but she nodded and put the side and looked back as the grea sped on. ‘Why,” said Isa, with whom I happened to be strolling, “what a beauty! I believe she knew you.” Then I told her this story. When we had been married and had lived in America two golden years we came back to Europe for atrip. I met Prince Dolgouruki at a rece; tion in the Avenue Kléber. He looked at me hard. I looked at him and said clun sily—-the meeting was unexpected and tool me aback: “‘Unless my memory plays m« false | have met you before.” He continued to look at me as tho igh | were not there. He replied: ‘“*Memory sometimes does play one false it is safer to have no memory, @s is the case with me He passed on into the crowd. At the mo- ment Isa was at the other end of the room I said nothing to her—at least not ther but the next morning I saw in the pa- pers that the Emperor of all the Balkar was dead, and that within two hours of his death the Grand Duchess Michaelovitch had borne an heir to the Balkan throne The Princess Fredegonda was a mother and an orphan, and Empress of all the Balkans Did her august cousin and well-loved con sort make any remark on the situation that would have been of interest to the world at large ; I wonder! + ] THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (With Alba and Decora Glassware) 4 Homes Department Stores Restaurant Stores 5 6 & y Offices Clubs Hotels Banks Macbeth-Evans Glass Co Macbeth-Evans Lighting Equipment Hospitals Churches Pittsburgh Tri-State College of Engineering ss Worcester Academy 102 Providence Street, Worcester, M $ A ‘ W. 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST DAUGHTERS OF SHILOH He managed to hold back and tell Tawm Kinch that this was kind of sudden like and he’d have to talk to the wife about it, and o’ course the girl would have to be considered. He was good salesman enough not to leap at the first offer, and he left Tawm Kinch guessing at the gate of the big house. To Tawm it looked as lonely and forlorn as it looked majestic and desirable to Papa Pep perall, glancing back over his shoulder as he sauntered home with diffic ult delibera- tion. His heart was singing: “What a place to eat Sunday dinners at! Once out of Tawm Kinch’s range, he broke into a walk that was almost a lope, and he rounded a corner into the portico that Judge Hippisley carried ahead of him. When the Judge had regained his breath he seized papa by both lapels and growled ‘Look here, Pepperall, I told you to keep your daughter away from my boy, and you didn’t; and now Ort has lost his job. Beadle fired him to-day. And jobs ain’t easy to get in this town, as you know. And now what’s going to happen?” William Pepperall was so exultant that he tried to say two things at the same time; that Orton’s job or loss of it was entirely immaterial and a matter of pe rfect indif ference. What he said was: “Tt 3 material of perfect immaterence to me.” He spurned to correct himself and stalked on, leaving the Judge gaping. A few paces off William’s knees weakened at the thought of how he had jeopardized Oliie’s position; but he tossed that aside with equal “‘im materence,” for when Prue became Mrs. Kinch she could take Ollie to live with her, or send her to s¢ hool, or something. When he reached home he drew his wife into the parlor to break the glorious news to her. She was more hilarious than he had been All their financial problems were olved and their social position enhanced, as if the family had suddenly been elevated to the peerage. She was on because pins and needles of impa- tience Prue was late for supper. She came down at last when the others had heard all about it and nearly finished their food. She had her hat on, and she was in such a hurry that she paid no attention to the flutte ring ol the cove y, or the prolonged throat-clearing of her father, who had diffi culty in keeping Serina from blurting out the end of the story first. At length he said ‘Well, Prue, | guess the tango ain't as bad as I made out.” “You going to join the class, poppa said Prue, round the spoonful of preserved pears she checked before her mouth. Her father went on: “1 guess you're one of those daughters of Shiloh like you said you was. And the son of Benjamin has come right out after you. And he’s the biggest son of a gun in the whole tribe.” Prue put down the and turned to her poppa, momma? He talks feverish.” Serina fairly gurgled: “Prepare yourself for the grandest sur- prise. You'd never guess.”” And William had to jump to beat her to the news “Tawm Kinch wants to marry you.” *What?” “To. “What makes you think so Ke He asl ed me.” “Asked you! Serina clasped her hands and her eyes filled with tears of the rescued: ‘‘Oh, Prue, ain’t it wonderful? Ain’t the Lord good to us?” Prue did not She sniffed ‘He wasn't very good to Tawm Kinch William, bitter with disappointment, snapped: “What do you mean? man in town. as worth TT) followit v poonful mother: “What ails or catch fire from the blaze. He's the richest folks say he’s as good hundred thousand dollars.” “Well, what of it? He'll never learn to dance. His feet interfere.” “What's dancing got to do with it You'll stop all that foolishness after you've married Tawm.” “Oh, will 12 Ort Hippisley can dance better with one foot than Tawm Kinch could dance if he was a centipede.” “Ort Hippisley! Humph! He’s lost his job and he'll never get another. You couldn’t marry him.” ‘I’m not in any hurry body.” Some 9 to marry any Continued from Page 7 The reaction from hope to confusion, the rejection of the glittering gift he proffered, infuriated the henpecked, chickpecked father. He shrieked: “Well, you're going to marry Tawm Kinch or you're going to get out of house!” ‘Papa!” gas ‘pe ~d Ollie. “Here, dad! growled Horace. “William!” cried Serina. William thumped the table and rose to his full height. He had not often risen to it. And his voice had unsuspected timbre: ‘I mean it. I've been a worm in this house long enough. Here’s where I turn. This girl has made me a laughing stock and a despising stock long enough. She can take this grand opportunity I got for her, or she can pack up her duds and clear out—for good!” He thumped the table again and sat down trembling with spent rage. Serina was so crushed under the crumbled wall of her air castles that she could not protest. Olive and Horace felt that since Prue was so indifferent to their happiness they need not consider hers. There was a long, long silence. The sound of into the silence. my a low whistle outside stole Prue rose and said quietly: “Ollie, would you mind packing my things for me? I'll send over for them when I know where I'll be.”’ Ollie tried to answer, but her lips made no sound. Prue kissed each of the solemn faces round the table, including her father’s. They might have been dead in their chairs for all their response. She paused with a prophetic That low whistle shrilled ag iin She murmured a somber everybody,” and went out. The door closed like a dull ‘‘Good-by They heard her swift feet slowly the porch and descending the steps. They imagined them upon the walk. They heard the old gate squeal a rusty: ‘Good-by-y Prue-ue!”’ loneliness, Good by, cTOSSINE xT T WAS Ort Hippisley, of course, that waited for Prue outside the gate. They swapped bad news. She had heard that he had lost his job, but not that his father had forbidden him to speak to Prue. Her evil tidings that she had been com- pelled to choose between marrying Tawm Kinch and banishment from home threw Ort into a panic of dismay. He was a natural- born dancer, but not a predestined hero He had no inspirations for crises like these. He was as graceful as a manly man could be, but he was not at his best when the hour is darkest. He was at his best when the band was pl avin. In him Prue found somebody to not to lean on. But his distress at her dis- tre Was 80 comple te that it endeared him to her warlike soul more than a braver quality might have done. They stood a while thus in each other's arms like a Pierrot and his Columbine with winter coming on. Finally Orton sighed: “What in heaven’ come of us? What Where can you go? Prue’s resolution ‘The first place boardin’ house we can go on to the that'll give us an idea.” ‘But maybe Mrs. Prosser won't want you since your father’s turned you out.”’ “In the first place it was me that turned me out. yh me second place Mrs. Prosser wants most ybody that’s got six dollars a week comin’ in. And I've got that, pro- vided [ can find a room to teach in.” Mrs. Prosser welcomed Prue, not with- out question, not without every question she could get answered, but she made no great bones of the family war. ‘The best o’ families quar'ls,”” she said. “And half the time they take their meals with me till they quiet down. I'll be losin’ you soon.” Prue broached the question of a room to teach in. To Mrs. Prosser, renting a room had always the joy of renting a room. She said that her “poller’’ was not used much and she'd be right glad to get something for it. She would throw in the use of the pianna. Prue touched the keys. It was an old boarding-house piano and sounded like a wire fence plucked; but almost anything would serve. support, to bi to do, Prue is goin hame you goin’ asserted itself, Mrs. and get me a re Prosser’s vom. Then and maybe to go is dance July 4, 1914 So Prue and Orton hastened away to the party, and danced with the final rapture of doing the forbidden thing under an over hanging cloud of menace. Several more pupils enlisted themselves in Prue's classes. Another problem was solved and a new dan ger commenced by Mr. Norman Maugans. The question of music had become seri- ous. It was hard to make progress when the dancers had to hum their own tunes Prue could not buy a phonograph, and the Prosser piano dated from a time pianos did not play themselves. Prue could ‘tear off a few rags,”’ as she put it, but st could not dance and teach and play her own music all at once. Mrs. Hippisley was afraid to lend her phonograph lest the Judge should notice its absence. And now like a sent angel came Mr. Nor- man Maugans, who played the melodeon at the church, and offered to exchange his ser vices as musician for occasional lessons and the privilege of watching Prue dance, for which privilege, he said, ‘folks in New Yor} would pay a hundred dollars a night if they knew what they was missin’.”’ Prue grabbed the bargain, and the ne morning began to teach him to play such things as Some Smoke and Leg of Mutto At first he played Girls, Run Alongs that you could hardly tell it from Where is My Wandering Boy To-night? and his waltzes were mostly hesitation; but by and by he got so that he fairly tangoed on the pedals, and he was so funny bouncing about on the piano stool to Seems Tingle-ingle-ingle-ingle-ingling So Queer that the pupils stopped dancing to watch him. He rather fancied himself as a com bination of Paderewski and Maurice till he unwittingly spun the top of the stool off He might have been impaled, if he had not had the presence of mind to attempt a backward somersault. The tango was upon Mississippi at flood time. going over one by last they round from be low. In Carthage as in both Portlands, Main and Oregon, and the two Cairos, Illinoi ind Egypt, the Parises of Kentucky and France, the Yorks and Londons, old and new; inGermany, Italy and Japan, father irchs, mayors, editors stormed agair the new dance; wl en Something } the world like a The one; or if the stood alone, for the water crept and backed up levees were stood above from mons societie ; passed resolutio police interfered; ballet-girls declared dances immoral and ungraceful. The ar of the dance went right on growing. Doctor Brearley called a meeting of chief men of his congregation to talk things over and discipline, if | members. Deacon Luxton wa mind. He dared not vote in favor of the dance and he dared not vote against He and his wife were taking le from Prue urreptitiously at their home Judge Hippisley’s voice would have been loude for war if he had not discovered that vife was secretly addicted to the Old Doctor Brear rley walking rehearsing a sermon happened to enter a room where Idale Was practicing. ~He wrung from her a « depth of her iniquity knowledge paralyzed his enthusiasm Sour old Deacon Flugal was loudly favor of making an example of Prue. Hi wife was even more violent. She happened to mention her disgust to Mr Deacon Luxton, and she, after listening without protest, finally was driven from ment by Mrs. Flugal’s grim phrase ‘I guess this'll put an end to the ta Carthage!” “Oh, I hope not!” “You hope not!” “Yes, 1 do. It has done my husband no end of good. It’s taken pounds and pound of fat off him. it brings out the prespira tion on him something wonderful. it’s taken years off his age. He’s that sp and full of jokes and he’s gettin’ righ spoony. He used to be a turrible cut-up, and then he settled down so there wa livin’ with him. But now he keeps at me to buy some new clothes and he’s thinkin’ of gettin’ a tuxeda. His old disp’sition seem to have come back and he’s as cheerful and oh, so affectionate! It’s like a se honeymoon.” Mrs. Luxton gazed off into space with rapture. Mrs. Flugal was so silent that Mrs. Luxton turned to see if she had walked away in disgust. But there was in her eyes 1 not expel, all uit ss0ns own one-ste Wis about against It when fhe fession of the conceal- Mrs. Luxton cried s no ond

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and she tomato red as she mur- that light that lies in woman's eyes, turned a delicious mured: ‘How much, do you erm of lessons cost for my would a husband? spose, xi church failed to take There was loud criticism still, but phonographs that had hitherto been silent or at least circumspect were heard to blare forth dance rhythms, and not always with the soft needle on. Mrs. Prosser’s boarders were mainly past the age when they were liable to tempta- tion. At first the presence and activities of Prue had added atang of much-needed spice to this desert-island existence. The Vv loved YOMEHOW the WO official action. to stare through the door or even to sit in at the lessons. But at the first blast of the storm that the church had set up they scurried about like old dead leaves. Mrs. Prosser was informed tl at her boarding house was no longer a fit place for church- fearing ladies. She was warned to expur- gate Prue or lose the others. Mrs. Prosser regretfully banished the girl. And now Prue felt like the aw from ant hill after walked the streets disconsolate ly. Her feet from old habit led her past her father’s door. She paused to gaze at the dear front walk and the beloved frayed steps, the darling need of paint, the time gnawed pore h furni- ture, the empty hammock hooks. She sighed and would have trudged on; but her mother saw her and called to her from the sewing-room window, and ran out headed in her old wrapper. They embraced across the gate and Serina carried on so that Prue had to go in with her to keep the neighbors from having too good atime. Prue told her story, and Serina’s jaw set in the kind of tetanus that mothers are liable to. She sent Horace to fetch *rue’s baggage from “‘old Prosser’s,”” and she reéstablished Prue in her former room. When William came slumping up the steps, still jobless, he found the doors locked, front and back, and the porch wir dows fastened. Serina from an upper sill informed him that I back, and he —_ 1 either t or go somewhere » to live. locust turned ant hill. She bare-

accep ” William yielded, salving his conscience by refusing to speak to the gi rl. Prue settled down with the meekness of returned prodigals for whom fatted calves are kille d. Accordil g to the old coll song, “The Prod.,”” when cand tether end he got back, “ brother for time while away.” That was

the sort of prodigal Prue was. Prue brought her classes with her. Papa Pepperall gave up the battle. He dared not lock his daughter in or out or up. He must not beat her or strangle her with a bowstring and drop her into the Bosporus. He could not sell her down the river. A modern father has about as much authority as a chained watchdog. He can jump about and bark and snap, but he only abrades his own throat. There were Pe] One by one the most recruited or silenced. William Pepperall. however, still fumed and and Judge Hippisley would have authorized raids if there had places to raid. Thus far the orgies had been confined to private walls. There 4s, indeed, no place in Carthage for public dancing except the big room in the West- cott block over Jake Mey er’s restaurant, and that room was rented to various secret ocieties on various nights all over town. ervative yperall feud cons were at home abroad been any Prue’s class outgrew the parlor, spread to the dining room and trickled into the kitchen. Here the growth had to stop, till it was learned that if Mr. Maugans played ery loud he could be heard in the bedrooms upstairs. And there a sort of University Extension was practiced for ladies only. And still the demand for education in The benighted held out hands pleading for help. oung men and old offered fabulous sums, a dollar a lesson, two dollars! Prue decided that if her mother would stay upstairs as a chaperon it would be proper to let the men dance there too. “But how am I going to cook the meals?” said mamma. “We'll hire said Prue. And it was done. She even bought mamma a new cTeast d. a COOK, and established her above-stairs as a sort of grand duenna. Mamma watched Prue that now and then, rush downstairs, vea problem for as she called them. dress, with such keen- when Prue had to mamma would sometimes yne of Prue's “scholars,” Pess

THE SATURDAY One day papa came home to his pan- demonium, jostled through the couple cluttered hall, stamped upstairs and found mamma showing Deacon Flugal how to do the drop step. “You trot four short steps backward,” mamma was saying, “then you make a little dip; but don’t swing your shoulders. Prue says if you want to dance refined you mustn’t swing your shoulders or your your—the rest of you.” should Papa was ready to swing his ‘ the window, and drop the Deacon through but as he was about to protest, the Deacon caught mamma in his arms and swept bac} ward, dropping his fourth step incisively on pi apa’ s instep, rende ri ig papa hors de com f By the time William had rubbed witct zel into the Deacon's heel-mark, De ~acon in a glorious “ prespiration”

gone home with his own breathless wife ditto. William dragged Serina into the bathroom, the only room where dancing was not in progress. He warned her not to forget that she had sworn to be a faithful wife. She pooh-poohed him and said “You'd better learn to dance yourself Come on, I'll show you the Media Luna It's very easy and awful refined. Do just lik e I ao. ‘¢ She put her hands on her hips and began = sidle. She had him nearly sidled into the bathtub before he could escape with the cry of a hunted animal. At supper he thumped the iable with another of hi and cried house was not resolutions, My hi allt” ‘That's right, it shakes so I'n us. I've hire me the Block. I can He refused Deacon Flugal and several ger were on the waiting list arrange it for her, And now all day long Westcott Block. The interfered with business—with lawyers and dentists and insurance agents. At first they were hostile, then they were } yP no tized. Lawyer and client would drop a title discussion to quarrel over a step The dentist’s forceps would the built for a dar poppa,”’ said Prue; “‘and afraid it’l down on been thinking that you'll have to room in the Westcott give classes there all day.” So persuaded itlemen who of her pupils to | come lodge she : hk fatiy. she taught in the noise of her music dance along teeth, and many an uncomplaining bicu pid was wrenched from its happy home many an uneasy molar assumed a crown Id have been tend to be asses certain The money Prue made wou scandalous if money did not come self-sterilizing after it p aimensions. By and by the various lodge member found their meetings and their secret rit stupid, compared with the new dances, that nobody came. Quo rums were fare. Important members began to resign. Every body wanted to be Pas t Grand Master of the Tango. The next step was the gradual postpone ment of meetings to permit of a little in formal dancing in the evening. The lodges invited their ladies to enter the precinct revel. Gradually the room was night and day to the worship of Saint Vite us. to be so almost an riven Oo xr HE solution of every human always opens another. People themselves into enormities of appetite and thirst. It was not that food was attractive in itself. Far from it. It was an interrup tion, a distraction from the tango streak of r-xterialism in th Te ecstasy. Bux it was necessary in order that strength might be kept up for further dancing. Deacon Flugal put it happily: “‘ Eating is just like stoking. When I'm giving a party at our house I hate to ha the compat y l problem danced

e to le ave and go down cellar and throw coal in the furnace. But it’s got to be did, or the party's gotter stop.” Carthage had one good hotel and two bad ones, but all three were “down near the Almost the only other plas e to eat Jake Meyer's Place the food was ill and served ir deepo.” away from home was “ an odious restaurant where and ill cooked, of primeval shapes as if slightly hollowed out. Prue was complaining that there was no place in Carthage where with their meals and give “teas donson Horace was smitten with a tremendous idea “Why not persuade Jake Meyer to clear a space in his rest’runt like they do i Chicawgo?’’ Prue was enraptured, dispatched to Jake cho en 1cnina stone had » people co ild dance and Horace wa the { wit} With EVENING POST

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ELECTRICITY i in 1 One Year ELECTRICAL SCHOOL ientifi urse Every BiIss ___ Washington, DC 410, Wenowan, N ight Actual matruct a and te ting 1 yea t for olustr i] Opens Sept rd 109 Takoma Ave. shin, WENONAN MIL seARY ACADEMY \ ‘ » factories or saloons in town army detail Specal school THE SATURDAY magnificent opportunity. Horace cannily tried to extract from Jake the promise of a commission before he told him. Jake prom- ised. Then Horace sprang his invention. Now, Jake was even more bitter against the tango than Doctor Brearley, Judge Hippisley or Mr. Pepperall. The bar an- nex to his restaurant, or rather the bar to which his restaurant was annexed, had been almost deserted of evenings since the vicious dance mania raged. The bowling alley where the thirst-producing dust was wont to arise in clouds was mute. Over his head he heard the eternal Maugans and the myriad-hoofed shuffle of the unceasing dance. When he understood what Horace proposed he emitted the roar of an old uhlan, and the only commission he offered Horace was the commission of veurds *r upon his person. Horace retreated in disorder and reported to Prue. Prue called upon Jake herself, smilingly told him that all he needed to do was to crowd his tables together round a clear space, revolutionize his menu, get a cook who could cook, and spend about five hundred dollars on decorations. “Five hundert thalers!"’ Jake howled. **T sell you de whole shop for five hundert thaiers.”’ “T'll Prue as she think it over,”’ said - | walked out. She could think over all of it except the five hundred dollars. She had never thou: ht that high. She told Horace, and he said that the way to finance anything was to borrow the money from the bank. Prue called on Clarence Dolge, the bank president she knew best. He asked her number of personal questions about her earnings. He wassurprised at their amount and horrified that she had saved none of them. He advised her to start an account with him; but she reminded him that she had not come to put in, but to take out. He said that he would cheerfully lend her the money if she could get a proper endorse ment on her note. She knew that her father did not endorse her dancing, but perhaps he might feel differently abovt her note. ‘I might get papa to sign his name," she smiled. Mr. Dolge exclaimed: ‘* No, thank you!” without a moment's hesitation. He already had a sheaf of papa’s autographs, al! duly protested. She went to another bank, whose presi- dent announced that he would have to put the very unusual proposal before the direc- tors. Judge Hippisley was most of the directors. The president did not report exactly what the directors said, for Prue after all was a woman. But she did not get the five hundred. Prue had set her heart on providing Car- thage with a café dansant. She determined to save her money. Prue saving! It was hard, too, for shoes gave out quickly and she could not wear the same frock all the time. And sometimes at night she was so tired she just could not walk home and she rode home in a hack. A number of young men offered to buggy-ride her home or to take her in their little automobiles. jut they, too, seemed to confuse art and business with foolishness. Sometimes she would ask Ort to ride home with her, but she wouldn't let him pay for the hack. Indeed he could not if he would. His devotion to Prue’s school had cost him his job, and the Judge would not give him a penny. Sometimes in the hack Prue would per- mit Ort to keep his arm round her. Some- times when he was very doleful she would have to ask him to put it round her. But it was all right, because they were going to get married when Orton learned how to earn some money. He was afraid he would have to leave Carthage. But how could he tear himself from Prue? She would not let him talk about it. XIV hr the fame of Prue and her pranc- ing was not long pent up in Carthage. Visitors from other towns saw her work and carried her praises home. Sometimes farmers, driving into town, would hear Mr Maugans’ music through the open windows Their daughters would climb the stairs and peer in and their taste for the old dances, and wistfully entreat Prue to learn them them new-fangled steps. In the towns smaller than Carthage the anxiety for the tango fermented. A class was formed in Oscawanna, and Prue was bribed to come over twice a week and help them. Clint Sprague, the manager of the Car- thage Opera House, which was now chiefly iose EVENING POST devoted to moving pictures with occasional interpolations of vaudeville, came home from Chicago with stories of the enormous moneys obtained by certain tango teams. He proposed to book Prue in a chain of small theaters round about, if she could get adancing partner. She said she had one. Sprague wrote glowing letters to neigh- boring theater managers, but being theater managers they were unable to know what their publics yy They declined to take any risks, but offered Sprague their houses at the regular rental, leaving him any profits that might result. Clint glumly admitted that it wouldn't cost much to try it out in Oscawanna. He would guarantee the rental and pay for the show cards and the dodgers, if Prue would pay the fare and hotel bills of her- self, her partner and Mr. Maugans. Prue hesitated. It was an expense and a risk. Prue cautious! She would take no- body for partner but Orton Hippisley. Per haps he could borrow the money from his father. She told him about it, and he was wild with enthusiasm. He loved to dance with Prue. To invest money in enlarging her fame would be divine. He saw the Judge. Then he heard him. He came back to Prue and told her in as delicate a translation as he could manage that it was all off. The Judge had bellowed at him that not only would he not finance his outrageous escapade with that shame- less Pepperall baggage, but if the boy dared to undertake it he would disown him. “Now you'll have to go,” said Pru grimly. “But I have no money, tested miserably. “T’ll pay your expenses and give you half what I get,”’ she said. He refused flatly to share in the profits. His poverty consented to accept the rail road fare and food enough to dance on. And he would pay that back the first job he got. Then Prue went to Clint Sprague and offered to pay the bills if he would give her three-fourths of the profits. He fumed; but she drove a good bargain. Prue driving bargains! At last he consented, growling. When Prue announced the make-up of her troupe there was a cyclone in her own home. Papa was as loud as the Judge. “You goin’ gallivantin’ round the coun- try with that Maugans idiot and that young Hippisley scoundrel? Well, | guess not! You've disgraced us enough in our own town, without spreading the poor but honorable name of Pepperall all over Oscawanna and Perkinsville and Athens and Thebes. . The worn-out, typewritten-out Ollie pleaded against Prue’s lawlessness. It would be sure to cost her her place in the Judge's office. It was bad enough now. Even Serina, who had become a mere echo of Prue, herself went so far as to say “Really, Prue, you know!” Prue thought a while and said: “T'll fix that all right. Don’t you worry. There'll be noseandal. I'll marry the boy.” honey,” he pr xv ND she did! Took ten dollars from the hiding-place where she banked her wealth, and took the boy to an Oscawanna preacher, and telegraphed home that he was hers and she his and both each other's. The news spread like oil ablaze on water. Mrs. Hippisley had consented to take lessons of Prue, but she had never dreamed of losing her eldest son to her. She and Serina had quite a ‘“‘run-in”’ on the tele- phone. William and the Judge almost had a fight-out—and right on Main Street too. Each accused the other of fathering a child that had decoyed away and ruined the lifeof the other child. Both weresoscorched with helpless wrath that each went home to his bed and threatened to bite any hand that was held out in comfort. Judge Hippisley had just strength enough to send word to poor Olive that she was fired. xvi HE next news came the next day. Oscawanna had been famished for a sight of the world-sweeping dances. It turned out in multitudes to see the famous Carthage queen in the new steps. The opera house there had not held such a crowd since Wm. J. Bryan spoke there—the time he did not charge anything. According to the Oscawanna Eagle: ‘This enterprising city paid one thousand dollars to see Peer- less Prue Pepperall dance with her partner Otto Hipkinson. What you got to say about that, ye scribes of Carthage?”’ July 4,1914 Like the corpse in Ben King’s poem Judge Hippisley sat up at the news and said: ‘“‘What’s that?” And when the figures were repeated he “dropped dead again.” The next day word was received that Per- kinsville, jealous of Oscawanna, had shov- eled twelve hundred dollars into the drug store where tickets were sold. Two sick peo- ple had nearly died because they couldn't get their prescriptions filled for twelve hours, and the mayor of the town had had to go behind the counter and pick out his own stomach bitters. The Athens theater had been sold out so quickly that the town hall was engaged for a special matinée. Athens paid about fifteen hundred dollars. The Athenians had never suspected that there was 30 much money in town. People who had not paid a bill for months managed to dig up cash for tickets. Indignant Oscawanna wired for a return engagement, so that those who had been crowded out could see the epoch-making dances. Those who had seen them wanted to see them again. In the mornings Prue gave lessons to select classes at auction prices. Wonderful as this was, unbelievable indeed, to Carthage, it was not surprising. This blue and lonely dyspeptic world has always been ready to enrich the lucky being that can tempt its palate with something it wants and didn’t know it wanted. Other people were leaping from poverty to wealth all over the world for teaching the world to dance again. Prue caught the crest of the wave that overswept a neglected region. The influence of her success on her people and her neighbors was bound to be over- whelming. The Judge modulated from a contemptuous allusion to “‘that Pepperall cat” to “my daughter-in-law.” Prue's father who had never watched her dance, had refused to collaborate even that far ir her ruination, could not continue to believe that she was entirely lost when she was so conspicuously found. Perhaps he was right. Perhaps the world is so wholesome and so well balanced that nobody ever attained enormous prosperity without some excuse for it. People who contribute beauty, laughter, thrills and rhythm to the world may do as much to make life livable as people who invent ele« tric lights and telephones and automobiles. Why should they not be paid handsomely? Prue, the impossible, unimaginable Prue, triumphed home safely with several thousands of dollars in her satchel. Orton bought a revolver to guard it with, and nearly shot one of his priceless feet off wit! it. They dumped the money upon th shelf of the banker who had refused to lend her five hundred. He had to raise the stee! grating to get the money in. The re teller almost fainted and had to count twice. Clint Sprague alone was disconsolate He had refused to risk Prue's expenses, had forced her to take the lioness’ share of the actual costs and the imaginary profits. He almost wept over what he might have had despising what he had. Prue ought to have been a wreck; but there is no stimulant like succes In boat race the winning crew never coll: apse Iler mother begged her to rest, her doct warn owe her that she would pa dead. Bu t she vile d: “Tf I can die dancing it won't be 0 hon Even more maddeningly joyful than thé dancing now was the = apsedy of in come To be both Salome and Hetty Green! Mr Dolge figured out her income. At any reasonable rate of interest it represented a capital far bigger than Tawm Kinch’ mythical hundred thousand. Mr. Dolgs said to William Pepperall: “Bill, your daughter is the richest mar in town. Any time you want to borrow little money, get her name on your note and I'll be glad to let you have it.” Somehow his little pleasantry brought no smile to William’s face. He snapped: “You mind your own business and I'l] mind mine.” “‘Oh, I suppose you don’t have to borrow t,”” Dolge purred; ‘‘she just givesit to you.”’ William almost wept at this humiliation Prue bought out Jake Meyer’s restaurant She spent a thousand dollars on its decora tion. She consoled Ollie with a position as her secretary at twenty-five dollars a week and bought her some new dresses. Her mother scolded poor Ollie for be- ing such a stick as not to be able to dance like her sister, and having to be dependent on her. There was something hideously ‘eLVINE

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immoral and disconcerting about this suc- But then there always is. Prue was whisked from the ranks of the resentful poor to those of the predatory rich. Prue established Horace as cashier of the restaurant. She wanted to make her father manager, but he could not bend his pride to the yoke of taking wages from his child. If she had come home in disgrace and repentance he could have been a father to her. The blossoming of what had been Jake Meyer's pl ace into what Carthage called the “‘ Palais de Pepperall’’ was a festival in- deed. The newspapers, in which at Horace’s suggestion Prue advertised lavishly, gave the event headlines on the front page. The ar- ticle included a « omple ‘te ¢ atalogue of those present. This roster of forty “‘Mesdames” se as thereafter accepted as the authorized beadroll of the Carthage Four Hundred. Mrs. Roa. was there and as proud as Judy. But the Judge and William Pepper- all were absent, and Prue felt an ache in a heart that should have been so full of pride. She and Orton rode home in a hack and she cried all the way. In fact he had to stick his head out and tell the driver to drive round a while until she was calm enough to go home. cess, xvir FEW days later, as Prue was hurrying along the street looking over a list of things she had to purchase for her restau- rant, she ran smack into old Doctor Brear- ley, who was looking over a list of subscribers to the fund for paying the overdue interest on the mortgage on the new steeple. He was afraid the builders would remove it. Prue saved him and herself from falling by clinging to him violently. In trying to pass each other they fell into an involun- tary tangostep that delighted the witnesses. When Doctor Brearley had recovered his composure, and before he had adjusted his spectacles, he thought that Prue was Bertha Appleby and he said: “Ah, my dear child, I w as jt ist going to call on you and see if dn’t contribute a little to help us this very worthy cause.” Prue let him explain, and then she said: “Tell you what I'll do, Doctor: I'll give you the entire proceeds of my restaurant for one evening. And I'll dance for you with my husband.” you coul out in Doctor Brearley was aghast when he realized the situation. He was afraid to accept; afraid to refuse. He was in an excruciating dilemma. Prue had mercy on him. She said: ‘I'll just announce it as an idea of my own. You needn't have anything to do with it.” The townspeople were set in a turmoil over Prue’s latest audacity. Half the church members declared it an outrage; the other half decided that it gave them an opportunity to her dance under safe auspices. Foxy Prue! The restaurant was crowded with familiar faces, terrified at what they were to witness. Doctor Brearley had not known what to do. It seemed so mean to stay away and so perilous to go. His daughter solved the problem by telling him that she would say she had made him come. see un- He went so far as to let her drag him in, “but just for a moment. He really must leave immediately after Mr. and Mrs. Hippisley’s—er— exercises.” He trembled with anxiety on the edge of his chair. The savagery of the music alarmed him. When Prue walked out with her husband the old Doctor was afraid of her beauty. Then they danced and his heart thumped; but subtly it was per- suaded to thump in the measure of that unholy maxixe. He did not know that out- side in the street before the two windows stood two exiled fathers watching in bitter loneliness. He saw a little love drama displayed, and reminded himself that after all some critics said that the Song of Solomon was a kind of wedding drama or dance. After all, Mrs. Hippisley was squired by her perfectly proper and very earnest young husband though Orton in his black clothes was hardly more than her shifting shadow The old preacher had been studying his Cruden, and bolstering himself up, too, with the very Scriptural texts that Prue had written out for her stiff-necked father. He had met other texts that she had not known how to find. The idea came to the preacher that, after all, since God made everything He must have made the dance, breathed its impulse into the clay. THE SATURDAY This daughter of Shiloh was an extraor- dinarily successful piece of workmanship. There was nothing very wicked surely about that coquettish bending of her head, those playful escapes from her husband's embrace, that heel-and-toe tripping, that lithe elusiveness, that joyous psalmody of youth. Prue was so pretty and her ways so pretty that the old man felt the pathos of beauty, so fleet, so fleeting, so lyrical, so full of Alas! The tears were in his eyes, and he almost applauded with the others when the dance was finished. He bowed vaguely in the direction of the anxious Prue and made his way out. She felt rebuked and demned and would not be comforted by the praise of others. She did not know that the old preacher had encountered on the sidewalk Judge Hippisley. Doctor Brear- ley had not heard or had forgotten that the Judge had not yet ordered his own decision reversed, and he thought he was saying the uns avoidable thing when he murmured: “Ah, Judge, how proud you must be of your dear son’s dear wife. I fancy that Miriam, the prophetess, must have danced something like that on the banks of the Red Sea when the Egyptians over thrown.” Then he put up the umbrell carried and stumbled back to hi under the starlight. a trifle, and he escaped the scene of that broke out as soon as he was away For William Pepperall had a lump in his throat made up of equal parts of desire to cry and desire to fight, and he said to Judge Hippisley with all truculence: ** Look Judge ! I unde been jawin’ round this town about my daughter not being all she’d ought to be Now I'm goin’ to put a stop to that jaw of yours, if I have to slam it right through the top of your head. If you want to send me to con- were a he always $s parsonage His heart was dan ing wrath here, rstand you jail for contemp’ ol court, sentence me tor life, because that’s the way I feel about you, you fat old rt Judge Hippisley put up wide-open hands and protested: “Why, Bill, I—I just been how I could get your dé ry ter to make up with me. I been afraid t her for fear she’d just think I was conden’ to her. I think she’s the finest girl ever came out of Carthage. Do you suppose she’d make up wor! deri " and and come over to our house to dinner Sunday?” “Let's ask her,” said William, and they walked in at the door. xviii ARLY one morning, about six months morning bankruptcy, -4 after the first dismal Monday after William Pepperall’s last Serina wakened to find that William wa already up. She had been oversle¢ ping with that luxury which a woman can experience only in an expensive and frilly nigh bined with hemstitched linen opened her heavy and slumber-contented behold her husband in a suit of partly-silk pajamas. He was making strange motions with his feet. tie com- sheets. She eyes to “What on earth you doing there he yawned, and William grinned. “Yestiddy afternoon the Judge was showin’ me a new step in this Max Hicks dance. It’s right cute. Goes like this.”’ Mamma Pepperall watched him cavort a moment, then sniffed contemptuously, rolled out like a fireman summoned. “Not a bit like it! It goes like this.” A few minutes later the door opened and Ollie put her head in. **For heaven's sake be quiet! You'll wake Prue, and she’s all wore out; and she’s only got an hour more before they have to get up ind take the train for Des Moines.” The old rascals promised to be good, | as she had gone they wrangled in whispers and danced on tiptoes. Ther their enthusiasm carried them away and it was not long before Prue put her head in at and as soon the door and gaspea: ‘What in heaven’s name are you and poppa up to? Do you want to wake Orton?” Papa had to explain: “T got a new ste p Prue. Goes like this. Come on, momma.’ Serina shyly took her place in his but they had taker only a few strides Prue hissed: Sh-h! Don't do it! “Why?” “Tn the first pl ice it’s out of date And in the second place it’s not respectable.” arms when Stop it os THE END EVENING POST TYOHOOLS AOebata. oY ve ; ; am 2k CL At SA A AR AA ee he Ah Scientific Training vs. Guesswork Md \ ' * } : ; ’ e t t H M t} | M I ‘ \ The Sunes s Secretary, CULVER MILITARY ACADEMY, Culver, Ind. (0 Masinkuckee) oa in . ——_ —__—— all pare ‘ ay R | Established 1824 or agri ‘ Ha Ya ensselaer far. n v. || ssteties outing colleges 6 nes th fi - eer i j E nee | cfésens Institute | | OOMIS i I I EI ( I ‘ i | ace(! ‘ 100 j | } | t \ M . , new ¢ O00 000 . " ial Ee S . wW L JOHN P. 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