The Saturday Evening Post 1917-08-25: Vol 190 Iss 8

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ~~ —_ George Weston—Mary Roberts Rinehart—Cipriano Andrade, Jr.— Rob Wagner Ida M. Evans— Calvin Johnston — Carl W. AcKerman—Clarence Budington Helland

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Published Weekly | The Curtis Publishing Company Cyrus H. K. Curtis, President C. 1. Ludington, Secre Trea P.S. Collins, Genere! B ness Manage William Bord, Advert 2 D | Independen« e Square, Philadelphia London: 0, Henriette Street | Covent Garden, W. € i Volume 190 Wille MUEIDAUL T WAS just before the luncl moiselle was’ seated a Moulin, and M. Moulin, her staring out of the window at an aérop] gliding its way up the slopes of the Vosges. I was sitting at the little table by the side But of that will tell you later. Before the war Bains-en of mademoiselle’s desk Vosges had been a fashionable health resort—a favorite loung- ing place for kings, potentates and many other persons. They oH came attracted by the fame of the baths, but after their first visit to the castellated restau- rant on the Avenue des Am- bassadeurs I think they stayed because of thegenius of M. Moulin. t But war had changed all th The larger hotels of Les Bains were filled with the wounded. The Pavillon des Princes, situated across the avenue from the Res- taurant Moulin, and once dedi- ; cated to the mysteries of rouge ¢ noir and baccarat, was now used the headquarters of the general of the \ osges sector. The smaller hotels and 7 preserved some measure of the former gayety of the I “wy ons alone ace—a gayety tempered by the presence of many a veteran of that affair of 1870 who had come to be as near to the war as possible; and also by the presence of mothers and wives who had come to be near the bed- sides of those they loved. But even anxiety and grief must have their moments of relief, and there were times and places, especially the evening at the Restaurant Moulin, and particularly if the wind was blowing from the south, when hand in the immemorial manner. My story, however, doesn’t start in from the north. It was just before luncheon hour, and M. Moulin, his enor- } } mous figure looking like a statue of de- ing out of the window aown the slopes of the \ osges. From the jection, Was sta distance, like never-ending thunder, sounded the guns of the firing line. Sudd toaw ide, deep sig his person—a sound of sorrow that, Gabrielle under her breath. “He is at it agair | “La la la!” said Mademoisell will give himself Made- vestaurant the war seemed temporarily forgott and Love and Pleasure walked hand in the evening, and the breezes were coming lenly M. Moulin gave expression h—a sigh that matched for the moment, quite drowned the distant g f aseeckness. I can I was sitting, as I have said, by Gabrielle’s « THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Founded A°D' 172 opyright, 1917. by The Curtis I PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST Ol Mi. MOULIN 1 it in my bone.” esk a mark of honor reserve« I think, because I happened to be the only American doctor and the or Ar blessé in Les Bains, my blessure consisting of nothing more dangerous than a fracture elbow, which interfered not at all with my health. Indeed, that week, being on night duty at the Hotel des Invalides, I had passed many of my daylight hours in lear from Gabrielle some of the more delicate nuances of the French language, return I had been teaching her, English tongue. her earnest request, a few American “‘What’s the matter with m’sieur?” I whispered, as another remarkable floating from the window. ‘Poor Oncle Victor!” murmured Gabriell PT) over and speak with him “Leesten, m’sieur! Why “He isn’t mad, is he, because I sit here so long talking to you?” George Horace Lorimer | 8 Sy Benj. Fran By George Weston Lwas TILLUSTRATED “Por Fortee Years I Have Foreseen This Day —and for Fortee Years I Have Prepared Myseif to be the Man of Destiny"

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST I remarked ts keeping one eye, nevertheless, upon his sword. He said nothing. Indeed his frown deepened, but I ed that he breathed with a proud noise through his i've certainly got some room in here!” [ ever saw a better collection of shells,” proprietor of the Restaurant Moulin said I couldn’t help noticing that he breathed a more proudly through his nose. ” I as lor that map concluded in open moments the breathing of M. Moulin that I feared apoplexy, last he burst into speech. began, frowning more than not : i e next fe tertorous and was when at a médecin,”’ he r, “and a what you call a gentleman told him I hoped he wasn’t far wrong. what is more, you are un Américain, a man of per- ees it so the witand discerning; ees it not so? I have lived too long in the I havea brain, m’sieur, a would surprise you, even as me to the cup! For fortee years, par exe mple, this day—-this day when France, would be overrun with her enemies A quick on No »> be mistooken need to tell. vdne which metime it me! tolahi foreseen urprises even ysuntree, or fortee years | have prepared myself to an of destiny sut—jarnibleun!— a man and while I waited for the hour to hef trangle her! lve, Genius mon l became au you cannot not so? [ told him that in my opinion he it far being right. Moulin, for he grandly continued, mak- flourish with his ve heard of him even in that far-off gt stuff’ truffles, half roiled, and then cook’ to a ravishing brown! Eet is to water the mouths the BE calope Moulin that too And the Salad Dressing Moulin, i fragrance, of a delicacy, and yet of like a fascinating woman who from heecken in- sword, “you with Liner And me! pice ver on, and on, and on! d the Asperge Moulin,” he contin- d in rising enthusiasm, “‘that too And the Sauce Moulin, and ie Géteaur Moulin—\leetle m’sieul adorn’ with con- fections— by which I try with all my oul to translate the poetry of Victor Hugo like jewels studded in the gates of paradise.’ All these, and Victor Moulin—me, In his excitement he a you € Trit ! th cakes, confiserue many more, are me and no other!” had risen. I had never and IL perceived with half an eye that emotion was shaking his een him 30 close before, gigantic diaphragm as though it were a big drum being beaten by a passionate drum- mer. He was in truth a whale of a man, shaped ke an His eyes were set deep “st enormous pear. He Was cheeks, his jowls pushed up the lobes of ears till they stood out horizontally, and, like nearly ill the fat men L have known, he had at times—and he had it that moment, for ins an expression of wistfulness that | can the look of a child beginning to doubt the existence of fairies, the look beginning to doubt the efficacy of tance never quite hope to defin« who is of a devotee who is prayer But even anished, and | is I glanced at him this engaging expression saw M. Moulin as I had nearly always een him, somber, an Atlaslike figure weary with the weight of the world, as though he had been intrusted with wise, ecrets so important that they weie beginning to tell upon ! mind But enough of that,’’ he continued with another flour- “| became a chef only that I might live And while | worked I studied. idy the fence, | practice the shoots, and the tactics of all fresh air to me. Slowly, but Of these I can- oh, grand military secrets, I assure you. between the sister republics sh of his sword to be the man of destiny. | at the generals; they are irely, | evolve new methods of warfare tell you yet Buta! in of honor to another ear. mas lint, perhaps as one He lowered his voice and ut his mouth to my “As the army advances,” he a beeg iron pipe is laid, like a water pipe; and you onderstand?— hot soup is pumped hispered, “* rough this pipe three times a day! He took his mouth from my ear long enough to give me ither of his wistful glances, and remembering Gabrielle’s njunction I shook him warmly by the hand. His mouth vas back at my ear again in no time, In front of the trenches,” he whispered, “a powerful estem of magnets is buried in the earth. The enemy hoots. My magnets draw his bullets from the sky!” Again he gave me one of his wistful glances, and again remembering the injunction of mademoiselle I shook him warmly by the hand. “Oh, but I have a brain, m’sieur!” he earnestly assured me. “Only this morning, as I watch an aéroplane, I con- ceived a truly tremendous thought. Oh, truly! We cap- ture a German aéroplane— you onderstand?—and in the German uniform we place a flyer of our own—a man per- haps from your own countree, skilled in the use of the long las-soo, like your admi- rable Buffalo Bull. He flies behind the German lines to where the Kaiser reviews his troops, and Be- cause of his machine and uniform, they think he is one of them.” The voice of m’sieur began torise toastirring crescendo, no one shoots him. “Oui, Oul, Mam'setie! Telling the Young Monsieur of a Pian to Fly Over Germany" “And when he sees the Kaiser on his beeg black horse,” he continued, “‘my aviator suddenly swoops and swings his long las-soo! You onderstand? The ver’ next moment, Kaiser Beel is dangling in the beeg fresh air, and no one dares to shoot at my gallant flyer, for fear they hit their Emperor instead. Half an hour later we have the Kaiser a prisoner back of our lines—the war is over, and I—I—I who conceived the plan—it is I at last who am the man of destiny! It is I who wear the medals on my chest!” In his emphasis he smote the desk such a blow that the shells shook, and for the second time the beating of his heart became a demonsirable affair. He pressed his hand against his side and sat down, gasping a little but trying to hide it. For the last few minutes I had been wavering between amusement and admiration, but I wavered no longer. ‘‘ M’sieur,”’ I said, ‘‘you shouldn’t get excited.” “Que diable!”’ he half exclaimed, half groaned. ‘‘ How can I halp it? I spik of my plans to the officers of the general staff across the avenue and they—they wait till I go away and then they wink their heye and make me a joke with themselves, even as once they made a joke of the Little Corporal. Especially one, with his detestable re- marks about my seestem of magnets—lI will live to put the mustard on his nose, and on the nose of all his clique! I swear eet! I go to join my regiment, but the docteur he shakes his empty head and can spik of nothing but my heart, even as once they spoke of the heart of De Lesseps.” He sorrowfully laid down his sword, as one who relin- quishes a symbol. “And I,” he concluded, “I, who all my life have lived for this, I can do nothing— no medal on my chest — treated like a child who cries for the moon.” Two fat tears, indeed, stood in his eyes for a moment and then rolled down his cheeks until they disappeared in his August 25,1917 fiercely spiked mustache. For the next ten minutes I did my best to cheer him, as a doctor must sometimes try to put courage in a patient, and when I returned to the table by Gabrielle’s desk M. Moulin was importantly moving round among his arriving customers with that wise, that somber look which at last I was beginning to understand. ‘“*My poor oncle!” said mademoiselle when I had made my report. ‘‘He will surely give himself a seeckness if something isn’t done—though how to get him a medal is a thing I cannot tell. Everything he knows, he whispers it to all the world. So the officers tell him nothing—or they tell him foolish stories with a vis- age straight, and heswells with so much pride that he has to tell the secret to all his friends who meet him—that or burst! Eh bien! Some day, perhaps, the war it will be over and everybody in their But mean- time—la what is all the noise out- side?” sen once again An aéroplane was descending on the lawn by the side of the restaurant of the new Frencl one fighting machines and from the rocky manner of its con- trol it action. was evident that it had been in M. Moulin hurried outside and over the grass with an agility surprising in a man of his avoirdupois. At the time I thought he was simply going out in his eagerness to hear the news, But, looking back at it now, I can see that Fate was guiding him, and that M. Moulin hurrying the lawn-— a man of destiny —to earn that coveted medal for his chest. was over mi E RETURNED room with a mar The latter was a tall young mar with a fresh color and a hawklike face to the in aviator’s cos dining tume having one of those noses that are com They seated themselves at a little table over- looking the view, but suddenly m’sieur came to the desk with the air of a man who is bursting with news. “Que diable!”’ he began at “What an adventure! He will surely get a medal for this day’s work!” **Who is he, and what has he done?” asked Gabrielle. And to me she a glance that seemed to say “‘ Medals again! You hear him? He has them on the brain!” “He is Lieutenant Thiers,”’ replied m’sieur, looking at the card in his hand, “‘attached to General Poli’s division. Last night he and nine others crossed the German lines on a bombing expedition. Flying low the lieutenant blew up a large ammunition depot near Metz, the explosion bringing his own machine to the ground, though fortunately in a meadow surrounded by woods. All night he worked on his damaged machine all night and all morning. Two hours ago he left place of concealment, but instead of returning direct to his own division he was forced to descend here because of th overheating of his engine. A grand adventure, truly! will introduce him to yeu before he goes.” With increasing importance he returned to the lieu- tenant’s table, and a moment later we heard him calling Jean-Baptiste, the dean of waiters. Meantime the dining room was rapidly filling, and for the next few minutes my attention was on the arriving guests. “Look!” suddenly whispered Gabrielle. “‘ I wonder what it is my oncle is telling him!”’ M. Moulin was leaning over the little table, as far as his embonpoirt would allow him, and from time to time he lifted his hand above his head and made strange circular flourishes. The young lieutenant was watching him in- tently, and it seemed to me that he had lost some of his color. From another table one of the guests spoke to m’sieur, and when the proprietor turned to answer him I saw the young aviator give his host that look of enmity which is generally reserved for poison ivy in a picnic grove or a flock of crows in a cornfield. I looked at Gabrielle to see if she had observed it, and in the same moment she turned to me, her eyes round with wonder. “Did you see eet too?” she breathed. “He is the first man I ever knew to hate my oncle at such a leetle notice. Wait! I will call Jean-Baptiste.” She rang the bell on her desk three times, and Jean- Baptiste the Imperturbable, with a face like a tragedy actor of old men’s parts, came hurrying over to the desk. Jean, I had learned, was one of the institutions of the restaurant, and Gabrielle could remember him, just as he was, ever since she had been a baby. monly associated with royalty once. gave 11S

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“Jean,” she said, “‘you are waiting on m'sieur and that young man who sits at the table with him. Is it not so? Oui, 0 i, mam’selle!"’ Then tell me what m’sieur has just been telling him. Could you hear “Oui, out, mam’selle! He was telling the young monsieur of a plan to fly over Germany and catch the Kaiser in a sort of a hang , slipped over his head, mam’- elle, when he wasn’t looking,” continued Jean-Baptiste with his imperturbable expression, “and brought to France.” “What you know about that!” mused Gabrielle when the waiter had disappeared. ‘‘And the way he looked at oncle, just forsuch! One would think that our yo’ng friend was a German in disguise and had come over the lines to wing a rope round one of us!” Lieutenant Thiers was again engaged in earnest conver- sation with M. Moulin—their heads nearly touching over the table, in the immemorial attitude of those who have secrets to tell and to hear. Again I looked up at Gabrielle, and again I found her looking down at me. “I do not like it,” she said, shaking her head and thought- fully tapping the bell. “Though all the world knows well what oncle knows, I donot like that yo’ng man’s face. Well, Jean, what are they tal and the young man with the Roman nose? ing about now m'sieur For a moment a glance that was almost signifi flashed from under the heavily lidded eyes of Baptiste, I cannot hear it all, mam’selle. They speak so low. But the young man is asking mar juestions about the yeneral staff here at Les Bain and once I heard him ask ! eur whether the iers in this sector re ally think the y e gi g to w the war J thered away, the jerk of excitement in his rheu- . 1 knees i Gabrielle looked over at the unsus- pecting aviator, Who wa till in earnest conversation with our You are a fonny fellow, Meester Roman Nose,” she ightfully remarked; “‘but perhaps you push it forward a dangerous beesiness, and perhaps you get it caught in jeutenant Thiers’—isn’t that what he calls Gabrielle THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 41d, Slipping I headquart« Willi mind the de tomers to lly lhrough the w that pavilion headquarters. breathless anc “Well?” her desk. “Well, m’si “What did y “Li eute! Poli’s divisio n the telep! ‘ und the l 1 I Lieutenant Thiers we a bombing exped r I the German lines la t, ar has t yet é g “Then it’s him, all r I said with a fir ef grammar “Exactly what I thought,” nodded Gabrielle; but it Poor man!” s} ghed W I eemed to me that her eye ir ! I ¥ I over at the able where ne v ) \ when I remembe how he ‘ ‘ ‘ \ il, “Ia 1 tne i ¢ The ‘ ] ‘ w , fre ( ‘ nd e le | ga 1, it’s him ‘ ly I e la Long i he leg peated tra ‘ raly M4 I pens for the third time And the b e he i ~w ed em pa ed 4 ie alte t t ‘ ‘ ‘ not ible i t ‘But this one d t,” Ire ed after a l I i pause No, m’sieur! 7 ne doe r und I te yu t \ M. M Thiers, and the fix Lieutenant T they find hi ca photograph, and ne and clever there so still whe eT t gt l ‘ é t take the r ‘ t I re r j te iv lou l aw her cr , ‘ ] \ r he ther ‘ { ea ye erve he \ ue “ ‘ Nas Da 1 lew ‘ l | eT | ve W i egan to straignte f ‘ I ( raze he ed with her innoc« f ‘ , take ! inuiorm trom Lieu t give tha ne er Ar , VU ( acl et t le ‘ i n? Ke i ‘ M I he ¢ ‘ ‘ hing ’ , . But he, the real Lieute I ever he t er me that he smile ! A an thint to amuse themselve nm the when Jean-Baptist« ne he thir to himself H rich it Continued on Page 37 “M’sieur Moulin,’ Said the Marechal, Smilingly Choosing His Words, ‘‘the Other Day You Served Your Country Better Perhaps Than You Will Ever Know

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 25,1917 Learning How to Blow Up Railroads and to Hide in the Long Grass When the Enemy is After You le I took up the , his camp, his work nds and his enemies, oming through. ] nands am going to take my life in my tem itself, with its strengths and its appear to an outsider who is vitally ay here that the strengths are many few, at least from the outsider’s riticism at the beginning by granting I shall go further and admit that I t comes to military rank that I frequently isa ol nel at I now and then call a colonel a major of a diplomatic error. I have had to ell “maneuver” in the dictionary, and weard of close-order formations until I where, by the way, they are without serious offense, how- in war of alternately warm and shivering way o camp, I, too, was studying. I carried that en-backed literary torture, Studies in Minor and steamboats, so that after a time I eing a Red—and a nevice— of sending srushtown, b ym and rounding up the Blue army on the ir | id nes I could start at a steady roads 609 and end up with a headache, in sight. And I could, book in hand, men- vwmy, which had taken up a strategic a barn, indicated by barking dogs and an and defeat. * reconnaissance” battle hit clearly does not ed that war is a lot But I as a military one day, a friend of an officer in the British dent of military he had warfare for lear nooting a 2 elf gun ing m been new didn’t pretend to know Making American Officers he added, ge have tenth salted down new comes up, and thrown into the te the textbooks x months,”’ tatutory law ina gislature is quite hange the statutes ind so wipe out ssed away checking of and the beginning h warfare. Serried hen the although the ip reluctantly. It sense of fashion w Teutonic By Mary Roberts Rinehart order and military precision. It was Von Moltke’s scheme for keeping the line straight, as well as the old British idea of ‘ Feel the touch.” Near where I am writing this General Braddock fell amid a stricken army, a victim to that fetish of close order. Strange to think now of those days, when to take shelter even from a skulking enemy was cowardice, and the brave man was one who died for his country, clad in the brilliant panoply of war and being a mark like a bonfire at night, rather than the man who saved himself to fight another day. So the American, who has fought Indians and learned to take shelter from them, faces nothing so very strange in the open order of the fighting abroad— indeed, is very probably the parent of it, just as the sniper is our old friend the sharpshooter under a new name. But there is a very distinct question, beyond his natural aptitude, as to how best to prepare the American officer, and through him the men he is to train so soon, for the new conditions of warfare abroad. That he must be specially trained there is no doubt. Onto the foundation of the technical service manuals there must be built, some- time, somewhere, before he leads his men into action, the superstructure of the new warfare-—-the modern division of that complete infantry unit, the platoon, into its specialists; the construction and uses of the various trenches; the new tactics of the charge from the trenches, with its successive Men walk to the charge in Europe to-day, at three miles an hour, walk five yards apart, keeping their new waves. - Rinehart and Some Candidate-Officers at One of the Training Camps alignment, walk in each, sixteen men and an ,ombers and bayonet first line, behind them men cons four In the se« are the Lé and the adiers. Two platoons head each company’s adv: Lewis gunners so placed as to protect t So each company goes forward in waves second platoons lead, the third and fourth foll the same formation. The behir the company co : orward time comes. blocked out emerge men, runners, messengers, and so on. wis gunners with their guns, the flan} reserves are sis the present arrangement, It is not complicated in its taught. Later on we shall have i specialists, but now we must train of those specialist Trench Work Versus Theory and Tactics RANKLY, the experimental schedule of the first one hundred per cent old tactics, did not meet tl It was good, but it did not go far er There was not enough in it to tie it up with actual cor under the new We had to go experimental stage. Every nation in the and that ours has been so short is to the our American ability to acknowledge we were quirements. conditions. throng} war hs eternal « second camps, beginning this month, are t« we have learned to do and not to do Canada had our experience, almost exactly. § at first the conference-the ory system, and ended b it up To-day she gives her off training eight hours’ work in tl and two of theory and study most reversed those the camps at first In our second officers’ tra we are to have instruct over from Europe for the pur} acquainted with field conditi« and able to reproduce them ms there here for training purposes, in close association with ing officers of the with the Nation: National Army. lr no poss ble way Guard and y do I intend reflect on the splendid officers of the Their hands tied by schedule, they allowance nor tl early camps. experimentai neither time instructors necessary to take t that one step further whicl first student officers must the new army that they are mand. But the big thing is gi We are going to take America. It done. step here in and humane. Here and not in France is our | i We have gr¢ intensively cult training ground. plenty; France is vated even to the last We have food in has not fence corner France abundances

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST So we have learned early what to do and what not to do these men, under And soon, I dare say, we shall be adapting the ve ry organi- supervision of Lic j zation of our army to the new condition. That means, I ant Colonel Azan, who } am told, increasing the size of the ympany trom one hun- Va taker / dred and fifty men to two hundred and fifty men, approxi- ork as comma! ) mately, and of the battalion in proportion, because in the officer of the Frer j . new warfare from thirty to forty per cent are always on Officers’ Training detached service. If we do not do this, which the armies ind st here at war have always done, a lieutenant it arge of a pla- ove t i toon may find himself only nominally with his thirty-two out v ou men and two serge: while he has really hardly mor roblem. Da than asquad. In other words, our paper strength and our after day these off real strength may have a difference of forty per cent spend out on the¢ 4 If we do both these things, move forward the training of ground, blue pr ( our new officers, under men from Europe, so that they will their hands and the get their training under modern combat cor and love of | t provision is already being made to do this f we hearts. Rainand \ enlarge our infantry unit, the platoon, also to meet new cold and heat, t combat conditions, we shall have removed the last hand nave I ( caps that our long peace has left us. If for any reason we war lt 1 | should not, if we are driven to sending men forward wit} That the extra | out the best of preparation, the results will be horrible I speak of do { beyond word an either the ne i | happened to be near Neuve Chapelle when the new lor extra time r , ; Onty the Bayonet Will Serve at Close Quarters an troops went forward, many of them to the first I hing of importancs hat the course at Cambrid So Cal 1 ad A edulk t of actual fighting cond be iu W ’ I I ea é I ‘ h except by men who have ‘ ‘ i 1 \ i of the paper we all t i i ind old had, a long experience of tre ghting £ ‘ ‘ ! | tactics, and it es! ‘ gh " { f su U r ste ! i ‘ hillet . f line of march; « ' plato 1 section ‘ { mander . trench \ , l e attack, ed i! ( t e latel i ed H — BUSGE I Duties at the Front i tea ench o i rganizatior ! TMHESE Fr ] pea ef , 1 | Car igre nd iting ol r | par nd listening f be } ip] £; Snip ‘ e of grenades, bom! le j her stem { ‘ ig ippl 1 lime ol co | ‘ , ; billet life } a iLl¢ All new ll } a ‘ luable, all tying u it conne e are teaching with actual em] itor t the Fror ng o ‘ ing! ( French Lessons exactly a the We | ee oe f Iso tl is included in our i ear] edule. Yet thati i y can be done, and with the | loss of nothing of value, is hown by the experience ol Harvard University. ! The Harvard Reserve Keeping Count of the Hits and Misses Officers’ Training Corps I \ i , consisting not only of Harvard men but of men from many The Harvard unit, working directly under t e exper of each ex i ’ of the large universities, has had the advantage of a mod-_ enced officers from the Front, gives eight hours a day to officer in charge , 7 e, expla ern edule of training from the beginning. Five French =} tical work and two hours to theory. The result of t was done right a office yt not derelicts who have come to practical training, with its one day ea veek given over As an exam] America because their usefulns had ended abroad, but’ entirely to sham battles under actual combat conditions, and its po itraining is that these men are being taught to take out their taught, when I it Cal fa Target Practice Without Firing at Fort Niagara the modern adaptatior Continued on Page 69

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porch till two A. M ty dre om THE SATURDAY EVENING POST LWIHAT fl ENRY old ible, @a plur in rose-pink gingham morning He was out He hi reasons, any other paterfamilias would ROW DRICK Ellena, breezed in his eighteen-year- to the breakfast scowled as daugnter ip Tose iegligee. id three reasons vertectly of temper. justiniabl The day before, his older daughter, Laura, hildren, aged four and six respectively, had stantly admit ith her two « rived home for her usual annual seven months’ visit while er husband looked round for a better position. the trim back yard overlooked by he had planted three pec ks of only to behold every morning since that The week before, in he trim breakfast rc d po ird was covered with a smug taunt of glistening frost. While, the evening before, Ellena and Edgar Anderson, haired son of the Reverend Ander- Church, had sat on the Rowdrick front , an hour unseemly in Amitytown, as in communed with each other in a low annoyingly audible to Henry Rowdrick, who, with Ellena’s mother, occupied the three-windowed directly over the hydrangea-bordered porch. Henry disliked having his night’s repose interfered with. i lulgent father, and a fortnight before adily given Ellena eighty-five dollars to buy ynned wicker furniture for that porch. And all dislike having Laura and her clean omely children round the house. And if the entire potato crop of the world froze and rotted blackly, the Rowdrick coal-and-feed yards, situated just off of Amitytown’s Main Street, was doing well enough to insure the Rowdrick family tarchy substitute for many years to the principle he objected neiples, rather. om, aloes ( urly the good-looking, n, of the Baptist her towns, and eerful murmur! He was an ind pink-cret« he did not at the main corner me excellent But it was three pr He could not vould burst anything to Laura. She Say ’ { ears and threaten to leave into the } He could not say anything to the potatos But he could say plenty to Ellena—a irl, by the way, with round preity g peu hy cheel and bright blue eye And so, 0. irked tartly that he would be is well pleased if she ceased er toast and eggs, he ard young Anderson as a ble husband prospect I'm sure, papa, | don’t know got against Edgar!” Ellena coldly to scrambied you've helping her ecg her passed the platter. as oLne’, ‘Haven't time to tell you all him,” said her tly “But thingisa hunch that m I'll he to ipperting you.” idea!”’ said Ellena ‘I guess Edgar allowed to He has only } | obs got against r, quite as col Lhe main if you marry h ive show an do! ie mly held five since { from high school, two "cut in Henry tartly , Ime he coul and Judge Free- ‘Joe dn’t learn law susand years; said he was a darned sight more round the Amity and Dave Brann said than use ting interest in dry Conner said Sheepishty, Running a Nervous Hand Through His Upstanding Black Front Hair, Harvey Brann Came Forth Ic August 25,1917 ON WILL DO By Ida M. Evans ILLUSTRATED Br FRANK STREET There Came a Time When That Purple Make-Up Was Dearer to Edgar Than the Light of Dawn With cheeks unfilially red—more, in fact, like tomatoes Ellena dived into Amitytown history and brought up inconvenient facts: “I’ve heard you say yourself, papa, that Joseph Bailey is a numskull! And that Judge Freeman left the bench and started a bank because he’d have been put off if he hadn’t left! And everyone knows Sam Tonner furnished his real-estate office with his wife’s money! And he’s so stingy That’s why he won’t keep an assistant, except half the year!” Her father ignored her outburst as ancient history and trivial, and glumly eyed the beautiful but ruinous irides- cence of frost outside. ““Dog-gone it! Dave Brann told me I'd better wait another week or so before planting.” ““Maybe they’re not all spoiled,”’ soothingly suggested Mrs. Rowdrick, a stout placid woman, as she replenished his coffee cup. Pessimistically the planter refused to be soothed. “Maybe they all are!” And again the vials of his glum humor were opened toward pretty Ellena. “Why on earth don’t you take up with Dave Brann’s Harvey? There’s a young fellow that’s worth while! Steady and reliable and smart. Dave's always bragging to me about him. And Brann’s Dry Goods and Furnishings, let me tell you, young woman, is about as solid a retail proposition as this part of the state can show. It’s conservative, money-making 4 “Oh—money than peaches i vy!” scornfully sighed Ellena as she reached fora third portion of egg. ‘‘What’s money?” “Oh, nothing much!” snapped Henry. “Just a trifling little thing that pays for wars and dry goods and church roofs and beefsteak and shoes, and med- icine when you're sick, and”’—the sarcasm became acidulous—“‘and seed potatoes.” Ellena shrugged round pink-clad shoul- ders, with the fine scorn of a young thing who, having never yet lacked beefsteak or potatoes, or medicine at her few and light illnesses, naturally was incapable of vi- sioning herself lacking them. And that evening at the I. U. U. V. monthly dance she was most mannerly to tall athletic Edgar Anderson, with his curly brown hair and gay gray eyes, and most unmannerly to square-built, square- jawed Harvey Brann, with his stiff, straight, shoebrushlike black pompadour and glow- ering gray eyes. This merely by way of teaching a pre- sumptuous father the fu- tility of giving advice; an act of tutelage to be ex- pected from a true-to-type American daughter. It was a great pity her father was not present to get the benefit of the lesson. But he was at home, snoring hard, oblivious of spoiled potatoes and spoiled daugh- ters; though subconsciously thankful that Ellena, in her pale blue crépe de Chine gown, was away at the I. U. U. V. hall and not down on the porch below his windows. Only Harvey Brann suffered. And he suffered sulkily, as Adella Thomas learned the next day when, buying ciel blue silk chiffon for sleeves for the next dance, she teasingly giggled across the counter at him because he had been heard to ask four times for a fox trot and was four times refused. Adella was twenty-nine years old and sharp of bones as well as of tongue and nose. “I'd advise you, Adella, to get something thicker sleeves,” Harvey Brann the visaged Branns, father and son, were counties for courtesy to customers. “T asked for chiffon—not advice!” armed Adella. for snapped though square noted through five snapped the But a year later Ellena Rowdrick and Edgar Anderson admitted ruefully to each other that they were not likely to marry for a while. Quite a while! They loved each other. Absolutely! theirs seldom happened. But existence in munities is exacting. Folks must live in houses. don’t happen to own a house you have to rent one. with a house go lots of other things—furniture, ance, and so on. To be sure, plenty of newly-weds have demands and the urgencies of their own roof by going to live with his or her folks. But Ellena and Edgar di care to do anything like that. In the first place, they were independent. he was. And Ellena said she was too. In the second place, Ellena’s sister, Laura, and her chil- dren, now three, had lengthened their annual visit from seven months to ten, and Ellena feared that her affection- ate but sarcastic father might wax ill-bredly jocose over another resident married daughter. The things he might say to Edgar! While, at the Baptist parsonage, a cramped house of six small rooms, Edgar’s older brother, had already installed a pretty, peevish wife and their two children. Ellena frankly admitted that she did not love Edg: enough to live under the same roof—and that a small one—with his sister-in-law, Ethel. The Reverend Edward Anderson had tired gray-browed eyes. When he delivered his bi-yearly sermon on Efficiency, the Crying Need of the Age, they were inexpressibly mournful ey But it was his most effective sermon, Amitytown mented. So far, Edgar had net found any work that yielded him over ten dollars weekly and the future promised nothing more. Together he and Ellena sorrowed and sulked over the flat industrial condition of their home town. Ten dol- lars! A few months later Edgar packed his clothes and went to Chicago to try his luck. He departed cheerfully enough. “Nothing doing here; so I might as well hike,” he Ellena. “T guess so,” fair degree of brightness Chicago.” Before leaving Amitytown he had a dozen cabinet pho- tographs taken of himself—three-quarters left profile Ellena, too, got some pictures of her pretty self—watcl size. Edgar took one away in his silver-plated watch. Coming home from the depot after seeing him off, Ellena stopped in at Stampson the jeweler’s and bought a silver- plated frame for Edgar’s likeness for her bird’s-eye-maple bureau. She set it there tearfully; and on the evening of the next I. U. U. V. dance, though a brand-new pale pink crépe de Chine gown, unworn as yet, hung temptingly in her closet, she sat pensively on the front porch with her mother and Laura and Laura’s children, and, till it grew Love so intense as civilized com- If you And 1 j ir ood, insur- i 4, Insul evaded the Edgar s Laure nce, ar well very com- told she sighed sadly. “Anyway’’—with a “T’d like very much to live in

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girls’ lus there was the new pale pink crépe de ( eg wastefully. It was a shame to let it go out of sty not wear it. But it was strictly and ; unmistakably a dance gown. Nothing to be appropriat f worn to church sociable or to movie. é Ellena liked to dance, mightily, It was har the E first few weeks of E tos ym tr r and monogram t: vels while the the town, in pale silk s 1. U.U. V. hall, o a swift embroiderer lich } with embeiisned wilh ner mother commenter »o In tl e eighth month of his absence Ellena put on the pink gown and went to a dance n periect proper and THE SATURDAY EVENING POST -

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rame THE SATURDAY EVENING POST And the way and wrung her hands! Gee-whizz! f world-wide importance whether her profile ikishly blurred in a close-up! arried to him ten year er trifles rorn But when that purple—or green, or ip was dearer to Edgar than the a daub! Perish the word in con- little chunky ore reasonable than statesmen’s or There hed ithletic, when that director’s came a time when he stood a leading her, registered bitter wonder as to why, holy and wise and just, Burhap strident-voiced that. was imera man who knew how to use a camera! when the world war, and the face of his of Ellena and of his home town the fact that on the morrow his released to a waiting, impatient re side ould be good—rather, was good. In the film different. There is little making. You It was almost at once discovered that adorable three-quarters profile that irup to batter cakes; ng, cl : that can fade away camera like little Eva to heaven; the beautiful nose that any audience can per- hapely a tender close-up lik« arming eyes d either society girl or working girl leav- the full, mobile, shapely lips that can instantly ion, ge ntility, hope , pain, blue blood, red ardor, innate nobility of serenity utions, noble dig- manly vigor, amid persec r, and all the other qualities of lip that in nation demands in its heroes of the had muscles and tendons; also, inches. he had been the star on more than one \igh-school years. A] oO, he could wear cely as his father could wear the The Wallawoollograph or any no more, Amitytown Weekly Herald gave ng lines of comment. And four of these ut of re spect for his father. me when the Associated Press recorded s leaving Los Angeles, and hundreds of bbed at the item. that Ellena kept in the silver-plated mn her pretty bureau There came a time when Kdgar Anderson collected twenty-five cents apiece—minus lacK., " \ could asl the picture e dealer ommission—for many thousand replicas of and many thousands of t frames and set them round where their could frequently look deep into those gay at sn ng three juarters pose; len fans be li the way to fame when he wrote narkable seventy-five-dollar was still too unsophisticated to wage, n an acrid leading man, met at a servile press agent at San Diego, iim. Presentiy news of his success home town like a bomb from a Zeppelin. in Amitytown had calmly disdained to among them Harv Brann, sister, Laura. And Edgar’s Ellena at church, had said certainly hope he’s making all that eventy-five: and Ellena’s meeting money!" So Ellena, for one, at least, was effervescently triumphant when Ab Lawson, the young-old spectacled bookkeeper in the Brann Store, returned rather excitedly from a week-end in Chicago to report that he had actually seen a picture with Edgar in it! “‘And, believe me,”’ said Ab with a grin, ‘“‘it picture! Say, you’d think the fellow had been born with was some a valet That night the I. U. U. V. orchestra found its best hesi- tation disregarded while erstwhile dancers busily discussed Edgar. Ellena was one of the busiest discussers there; and her cheeks were as pink as her crépe de Chine gown, while her chin was uptilted at an angle that was forty-five degrees pride and forty-four degrees I-told-you-all-so! She had Edgar’s last letter with her. Ostentatiously she pulled it from the V-bodice that was like a pink calyx to her round white shoulders, and read news extracts. Had anyone Harv Brann—but was—it could have been seen that his square face seemed And the curve, you know, is the line of been noticing no one to get squarer. beauty. But finally Ellena replaced the letter and the crowd called to the orchestra to go on. Ellena hummed happily while she danced. “Please don’t!” peevishly requested Harv last. “‘When you hum you get me out of step.’ “Dear me!” said she coldly. Brann at It was several weeks before Cy Bernstein, who owned the only moving-picture theater in Amitytown, got a five- reeler containing Edgar. Sut the day it came Amitytown came on the run; so long a waiting line had never been seen, even when an expurgated, denatured, dethrilled Is This Your Daughter? was shown. And Amitytown sat through The Wronged Husband— the same picture Ab Lawson had seen in Chicago some weeks before—rather solemnly, its first anticipatory amusement having vanished. It was positively uncanny at first—this watching one of its own people moving round nonchalantly in strange surroundings and alien and dra- matic environment. Lifelike, familiar as Main Street itself, was Edgar. Everyone involuntarily gasped more or less distinctly as, smiling, debonair, perfectly at his ease in a sumptuously furnished little villa, he strolled into view. The house, of course, was dark; so no one knew just what expression Ellena Rowdrick wore while he was kissing lingeringly the pretty face and hair of the dainty little girl who was his wronging wife. Everyone, as well as Ellena, leaned forward breathlessly when a close-up brought his laughing face and curly hair down closer—closer—till he actually seemed to be there in the flesh, laughing gayly at every one of them! **My goodness gracious!” gasped Adella Thomas; and it was conceded that Adella expressed everyone's senti- ment as aptly as it could be expressed. The Reverend and Mrs. Anderson both wiped their glasses carefully and staye:! to see the picture the three runs. So did nearly everyone else, for that matter, includ- ing Harv Brann. Cy Bernstein made all—except Edgar’s parents—pay three times, though. He went right through the house and collected the extra dimes. Cy was not a sentimental person. Henry Rowdrick did not stay for the three runs. But he saw the first; and when his younger daughter breezed home, her eyes glowing with excitement, he admitted good-naturedly to her that he hadn’t realized how good- looking the boy was. He didn’t know as he blamed her for cottoning to him. However August 25,1917 “Oh, yes!” ironically and unfilially sniffed his daughter. “Now that Edgar has made good, you are ready enough to recognize his worth! Such is the way of the world!” “Well, I never denied that I’m a terrible sight more partial to folks that make good than to them that don’t,” retorted Henry Rowdrick mildly. “And I was about to say this: That I dunno but what that young man is a lot slicker at kissing than I'd really like a son-in-law mine to be. That fourth reel ——” But Ellena did not stay to hear what he the fourth reel. look carefully at decided that it could have been taken from one night’s reels. He hadn’t, it was evident, changed a bit Before she went to bed she wrote twenty long, enthusiast pages to him. As for the kissing—Ellena was wise enough and broad-minded enough to know that Edgar couldn't be a film star and not have to kiss a few folk. And she tolerantly told Adella Thomas so when, a day or so later that young woman cattily asked her whether such scenes didn’t annoy her. A few weeks later Cy produced another picture cor taining Edgar. Cy did so unwillingly. He did not all care to pay the price asked for a picture so ' released. But he surlily yielded to popular demand. Som of the boys who had gone to high th Edgar threatened, if he didn’t, to club together and open another movie theater. This second picture was a Western appeared, in jaunty leather leggings and a becoming brimmed sombrero, as Handsome Ned Dana, of Dana's Ranch. With him was associated a slim, pretty little person in tattered gingham gown, tangled curls, a Kansas sunbonnet and a Broadway smile. In a close-up Edgar’s lips and hers, pressed together, came down to wide Amitytown eyes closer until actually it seemed as if the two smiling faces were right there in flesh. Of Amitytownites had many close-up kisses, but never one in which participated. As Adella Thomas certainly seemed queer to watch it And during it a great many heads turned curiously toward Ellena, sitting in the sixth row Laura. But, of course, it not dim theater to see her expression. Anyway, immediately after- ward everyone forgot her; for just then Edgar, in the person of Handsome Ned, was surrounded by Indians, who proceeded to tie him in a bunch. And as what was supposedly his helpless body went hurtling down a horribk precipice his mother sprang up from her seat and screamed till Cy had to turn on the lights and turn off the film, while people sitting round her composed her. Ellena joined in the furtive irrepressible laughter that followed laughter that almost spoiled the effect of the picture. And she joined in the applause that followed the last a pretty little domestic fadeaway, wherein Edgar and the little lady of tangled curls cooked and ate their first meal in their own little sod cabin. “Nice picture!’”’ observed Harv Brann later when he uninvited, attached himself to her side as she walked home “Wasn't it just fine!’ enthused Ellena “Huh!” said Harv, rather contradictorily, his former observation. “What?” said Ellena sharply “T said it was a hot night’’—-defiantly. ‘‘Want a pea and-marshmallow sundae?” Ellena hesitated, but finally cooling dish at his expense (Continued on Page 43 thought She skipped upstairs and sat down to Edgar’s picture on her bureau one recent 1 school w drama. Edgar wide- close r closer the course seen other one of themselve said afterward: ‘It 900 with her sister was possible in the scene 1 consented to consume £ That Night the Orchestra Found its Best Hesitation Disregarded While Erstwhile Dancers Busily Discussed Edgar

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PIGS IGS started the and pigs may end it! It was aquestion of import and export duties on pork that caused the political disputes between Austria-Hungary and Serbia. The Magyar farmers and the Serbian peasants were competitors in the pig business. The Hungarians wanted to keep the foreign product on the other side of the Danube. The Serbs insisted upon selling their livestock in Bosnia and Herzegovina cheaper than the Magyars. Quite often pigs were smuggled across the border. So between Belgrade, Budapest and Vienna there was always a dispute. Pigs were at the bottom of the whole controversy. Intermingled and confused with this economic problem was the question of influence in the Balkan states. There were business jealousy, court intrigue and political hatred. Count Stefan Tisza, working through the late Emperor Francis Joseph, and the former Czar Nicholas were the chief players at this little international chessboard, while the other Great Powers looked on. Serbia was the pawn. An international quarrel could be stirred up at almost The assassination of the Austrian heir and his consort in June, 1914, brought the dispute between Serbia and Hungary to a head. Thus the gan. Pigs have caused trouble in Germany during the war too. At the beginning of the war and for nearly a year afterward Germany had sufficient pork for all her food needs; but Herr Delbriick, who was then the Minister of Interior and Vice Chancellor, t blunders of the war war be made one of the biggest economi war. What he did seems incredible, but he did it; and when the people saw his mistake the Kaiser had to ask him to resign. Two years ago Delbriick read in his reports from all parts of Germany that there was a shortage of fodder. He saw that without food the cattle and pigs would die. At that time there was an abun- Germany had so much sugar she was exporting it to Rumania in an effort al exchange. The mark money markets. Pota- were being used to With ndance of sugar and potatoes Delbruck ordered the dance of sugar and potatoes. to keep up her internation: was on the toboggan in all toes were so pile! that they tute gasoline for automobiles. mal this ab farmers to feed some of it to the pigs as a substitute for fodder. The pork that came on the German markets in the summer and fall of 1915 was indeed sugar-cured. But this policy of fattening pigs was proving expensive, and the supplie Ss ol potatoes and sugar were being de ple ted. After this blunder there was only one thing for Delbriick to do if he wished to save the remaining stock of sugar and potatoes. He had to order the farmers to kill the pigs. And he did! other reasons for the food ‘ There are, of course, many hortage in Germany to-day, but these mistakes of Herr ck were so colossal and stupid that Germany has wen able to ove yme ther German Officials Living in Luxury F IT were not for the food blunders of Germany it is very doubtful whether that count be faced by the The so- called marvelous organization of food supplies that has been boasted about throughout the work as a matter of fact, been crippied by two evil not been able First, ‘there behalf of the authorities to stop hoarding, until there were no supplies to hoard; and, second, the government has not } ry wo ild to-day greatest economic crisis in modern history. has, s that the government has t was no effort oO prevent: on succeeded in harvesting the big crops, of potatoes and fruit ially, that the fields And in cases where these foods have been gathered tl ey have not espe and trees have produced. been preserved The hoarding of food began in Germany of Belgium. Many families with sufficient funds to buy stocks of food filled their cellars and pantries. Even with the in- Vasion some of the cities hoarded food. Cologne, for instance, which is one of the chief for- tresses on the Rhine, stored enough supplies for the entire civil and military popul But over a year ago, when food became so scarce that the city could ition for two years. not pur hase supplies enough for the people, the store- d, and to the ties much of the food was spoiled. Street Commissioner Schmidt, of Cologne, who was placed in charge of the food kitchens feeding ¢€ ighty thou- told foreign correspondents, when they the city last October, that thirty per cent of the houses were ope! amazement of the authori- sand people daily, were in potatoes stored i 1915 rotted in the bins because no Al THE SATURDAY EVENING POST VD VICTORY By Carl W. Ackerman “ provision had been made for the potatoe » breathe. Pota toes, in order to keep, must have fresh a but, in the fall of 1915, when the potatoes were gathered and stored basements of the forts the city they were piled from six to ten feet high on the floor, and all the potat the bottom spoiled. Though there is a scarcity of food in all large cities of Germany to-day, there seems to be pl ‘ towns and on the farms. This is because t rs a the owners of large estates have been ho f G man offic ials of prominence, high army al d naval ! have estates that supply them with food. In Aus ] I was invited to the summer home G i] Kluck, who, before he was wounded, was the German First Army, on the Wester lives on the Von Caro estate of W ensdor!t Bra burg. These land ver eleven hundred a I seven hundred head of deer and roebu lore There were four cow hundreds of chicket " ‘ pigs. This estate supplis x people— the \ Kiu and the servants. The former chancellor, Doct n | mann-Hollweg, and former chief of the genera iif, H von Falkenhayn, have large « intry place it le B that supply them with ali the lood the need. people are the government they are rt « with others People who have land have mel, Nd be I know of familie ving erlin apartment ‘ no have as much as a yea ip} f food red and rooms Many fan es fa worked togethe ering Supplies, Ther mt D nu , cooperated to hoard food. One of the mem! j canning factory where he made Though the government forbade him to sell ir tities to private ind luals, he “gave i members of his church in exchange for oth« ‘ food that any other member might have. Marma exchanged for geese, chickens, eggs, coffee, flour a supplies. Because no money changed hands t} violation of the governmental order! The potato cr » Crerman i ear Wa i nor before the government bega to colle the of farm labor the potatoes Because of a shortage be harvested before an ¢ arly frost, and thousar | ishie of potatoes froze in the ground Last year’ r r il Werder, the big fruit center ou le Be The trees were b irdened with fruit, but there wa ) ir ana i gagea £ : ed at That wa e Cast ‘ lf Germa g t fy 18 CAUSE ere ag ind now eve i e war supply. Tha I rg’ I orae t aictat« It is true that G I her disposal 3 vea doe meat ! Last year one ead ! papers offering typew ! e in exchange ! ha ! ich adver ements be Rumania, wl uf I solid i ! army collapsed. B man ¢ en be i (rt | t food tro eR | to Germany. I wa Lumar Army invaded the manding general . would react eG io 1 Long-Continued Food Shortage — Ll asked General Krafft whether tl! livest ‘ replied tt because ( i probably none of ‘ no Rumanian food has re wa ‘ » Au i D cond 7] n that are those in Germa After I the Be pape there ind é y the ive all | | Bat pre | inced off at " er ez As ediat ‘ a ‘ ¢ Ru | ‘ t | R t t to t ‘ ‘ Lé ‘ ee] ‘ (5 Atte G A a aile { it ‘ | ‘ i { I ‘ ‘ ul ‘ | the ‘ ‘ "7 ine a had P | pu i i ‘ Impe il C} Ir. ¢ } it . s Und ‘ ) ppl ‘ ‘ and Lat eve ( ear a ana re ate ‘ at ‘ ‘ } ‘ eni é ti ‘ a ‘ arm Continued on Page 65

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do dang THE SATURDAY EVENING POST t men to work in thi of scene; directors who will those rous stuff without warn- retak e of that scene yester- i fight picture that ever reached but to-day I'm doubling Bull i gun that comes met der—so there is a real bat- 1. I've told Bull toclean in the room; lle six or eight of you fel- another fighting man at the an} like to horn at this are willing to mix it?” invited to play red flag in n, the most ferocious man in ame time Bull th one accord up shot sixty miled wanly ending for a rival rough buck int of this unanimous accept- prefer the altitudes of a giant redw re it is necessary that one till, felt gull in ; enough to make better im i ood, t like a socialist cartoonist’s symbol of great torso de pend arms like those not for his undershot blue jowl and lar to fit hi all he ad, tremendous neck would val in Nature so sinister in appearance protecting, Bull tle child heart of a gentleman and the Had it it to kill him as a social menace has the been otherwise ‘ ary ll knows exactly what i pictures, and the sixty heroes who laughter appreciated his artistic raised his hand, and each of the or the sacrifice earned every cent of nan ‘and full pay during convalescence. cially those on post cards—but I that I cherish, because it isn’t so ment German, but its spirit bellicose cit Freely \ people that does not to war t ye are is our most izens. Oo Fighting Under General Hunger e corrugated philosophers would wander ld and pick a few quarrels they would find i and ghborow Ww y race pri dies of the Boxers. wert a fight in him if you get him right. I | operators of Colorado will subscribe the allied generals in the relief to ty centuries of Chinified peace had General Hunger is he fighting spirit than either Hinden petite for beans has made no end of reading a magazine article by a spec- to that The fact remains that a good many hghnters are of Jewish blood I once lf from a softy named Mike Cohn. t out show the Jews are Medieval Fighting is by Far the Most Dangerous. ~ Sx a and Awkward, the Weapons Cruet—Even When They are Biunted— and the Fighting is All Hand-to-Hand These literary warriors are now expressing surprise at the fighting qualities of ‘“‘England’s contemptible little army.” I’m not. I saw that bunch of shopkeepers in action in South Africa. Even a pacifist is that only in spots. We have a little laboratory chap here whose opinion of war is something too awful to repeat; but when Hawkes, an extra man, called Satoff a coward he his right lamp beautifully trimmed in absolute disproof of that statement. No,’ sir-ree—if I hadn’t learned, from biting round the world, that war hasn't a thing to do with the fighting spirit I should have learned it in the pictures. If any Junker motto maker doubts this fact let him come out and see the mushy men we have been breeding for forty years in this peaceful old land of ours. The quick comeback now is to blurt: “ But all the fight- ing in the pictures is faked—nobody is ever really killed.” As to the faking and the element of chance, I will only say that I went through South Africa and Cuba, and spent a year with Madero in Mexico, and came out without any serious injury. It took the Battle of Vicksburg in an eight reeler to put me on the pension list. Our fatalities are not staggering—still I have been in battles in Mexico where the mortality was less than ours. I am not minimizing the dangers of real warfare, but if I were gambling in chances I'd take the trenches. In actual war perhaps the Boches will get you and perhaps they won't; but in the pictures, though death may not be so imminent you are sure in for a fight. I came into the game in the early days when good riding furnished the punches. Fighting was mostly between Indians and cowboys, and the great danger of those scenes came from making falls. The battle stuff consisted largely of maneuvers or charging in close formation or in extended order. It was spectacular, full of action and smoke, but particularly dangerous. Occasionally some fellow broke his leg, or was burned when a bomb exploded under his feet, but that was all. It was nothing likeso dangerous as the impact of several hundred horsemen in heavy armor ripping right into you. That is the kind of stuff that is demanded now, got my way not The Armoris Heavy August 25,1917 My first job was with the Mammot} hundred of us worked for a dollar an day The latter, a play on words, for the cars stopped thr side of the to be and carfare. howeve studio, and the rest and. We we riding our fool heads off; ar doing the At noon they would made re by } ing, all afternoon, work, same give without 1s and coffee made of frijoles, To double for the Indian stuff we hac to our birthday cl of cal barrel of bole Armenia. +} thes and then file by miners with whitewash brushes and a With afew grand swashes y would give us magnificent Next, an exterior decorator would sten I paint. A bree« helout, a bunch of fe athers, and behold Dan Macy as Man-Ashamed-of-His- Name! Real Indians were used for the close we were nothing but atmosphere in the af After three days of this stuff some yurned they could hardly get A big Swede named Gus turned u [ ide h beneath. war -up were so sunt their clothes. D t massacre looking like a leper, for his h ad peel He sheets, revealing his nice blond skin like the wall of an abandoned tenement. How the Dangerous Scenes are Staged VEN the 4 five dol on the * we | Indians had it softer than we lars a week, board and a tepee had to work onl) cow Sesides they t waddies, cay ad to appear ; the ve dollars ¢ ot Loo, pome oO bov falls, f s got fi ] i but a of us made falls without intention. Hawkeye, one of these same Indians, has since become famous as a daredevil, and he sure | for while riding a lay-down horse in one scene out threw the beast into a bed of cactus; and t there full of stickers for fifteen minutes, playing When the battle was over the other Indians began pulling the things out of him, and when I tell you that six hundred ust like that many fishhooks, guess that there was some pain in the operation. Hawkeye was well named never batted it once. There is one point on which together, and that is their attitude toward a good priz fight. How two perfectly good fellows can get in and w lop each other for sheer sport is utterly beyond a woman. Even when it is shown that they are good friends, tl nobody is forcing them in, and that they may stop at any time, the women refuse to see the point. I remember once when I was a lad in the Navy I had won the heavyweight championship of my ship and fought it out with a fellow on the West Virginia. After the bout I was called before the admiral. “Dan Macy,” said he, “you are hereby officially repri manded for engaging in a prize fight.” ““What’s the idea?” said I; “‘you were there yourself, clapping as loud as any of them.” “Yes,” he replied; ‘“‘and I congratulate you. You did splendidly. But some day some old woman is going t 1as earned his celebrit there he fellow lay at dead! cactus stickers are ) you may But he he sexes will never get al » get

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up in ¢ brutality No, gir riously ‘ongress and say that we offici and you can see for yourself that it isn’t so.” fighting without hate is jus enough you love it in the pictures, and it is this ime sporting instinct that permits us to get ich good ghts in film stories. The fe who n't take a good wallop for the sake of the picture won't last lor g in this business—he would be too lonesome 1 often hear the leads roasted for I dangerous scenes; but it is not alw directors won't let them go or If ascene absolute ly demands that t always made last, so that in case he gets a black eye rand e sets | 1 pl ol a big feature 1 a sleepless nig} vorrying over the sa welfare o cast. After the , . ‘aie st scene in a big product he feels like the forest ranger when the first rain comes in the fall and the great danger er The curious thing about real fighting is that sometime the ble truth oO more aked t in bad actir | ree 1 one ene in wi om Sand r Art (y vorth a fearful blow on the chin. and ir 1 of falling he ist stood there | king f int space beyond the camera Rotten, Arthur. Tl not 6 sed to be a drunker brawl! houted the direct ; the poor mar heard nothing, for the blow had turned out his light When he came to he received another jolt, for he was t that a retake was nece¢ r On the legitimate stage no two men could do a thout earing each othe oot Gohting ‘ ve y SO VE ] T ol nee owe cana ture used, but to be hit on the head with a breakaway table no love tap. Rehearsa ire rare attempted in the fight pictures. The director will simply say: “Here our location, boys, and there are uur camera lines. Figure it out to suit yourselves. I'll call out your footage; hen you have gone a hundred feet, finish down here.” A Star Who Never Fakes or Doubles 'TT.O0M BOXER is perhaps the greatest athletic star in . . Ame a It is his boast that he never fakes a fall or dadoubies a fight or two famous pr ol = ] ‘ tr phy il t result that ca t strenuou ene On the other hand we havestar ho have no business to subject e physical strair Take Gritworth, for nstance he is fift et ne os ere an irtist that his directors get even with him. when he had been tipped off that ey were going to beat nim Ip in a certain “T’ve been pretty rough with cen e said: 1 boys at times and Il know that some of you have been waiting for a chance to get even. Well, here it is. But remember tl ve of you all young. I am an old man and I've only one pump, so have a heart and let me last out the footage.” There are fi A Poputar Star Keeping in Physical Trim for His Athietic Stunts rie " app. t t the ! } er tunate for! t he { her ‘ t g toc! ‘ i tolG ind gave hin e bea g {} fi | all according t | a 1 mm Natura ine } i ‘ Stirs me ipat t top wit! ‘ ( It r among ali MOvié« ‘ i nat gos entirely apart Ir ‘ othe ‘ some outsider who dos t understar carry his fighting be ye i the pictur shown the ht in the way he seen ) THE SATURDAY EVENING POST NANCY DARING » | ‘ ‘ (ys \ W The Director and Camera Men, Armed With Masks for a Bear and a Beehive Scene Nancy and the Real Fireworks Continued Page 33 o a

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ppened along in the spring German official reports because when the y at Berlin heard of the Prussian divi- iad permitted the trenches to be dug rLLU point with the whole Higher Com- iped out the recollection of all earlier, and file of the Germans who it, for reasons that will rank * told about nce permits you to wander through to h records likewise are silent, but for somewhat iT rhe fact is, ector the thing developed had rather the French division com- ary powers, and never said a word about it accomplished fact; and then Joffre gave him out of the files, for the thing was too valuable to the proper topograp! ical hould develop again it to keep the story that the roperty. If june y reason become common p onditions might mean a In such matters Joffre to his own memory and to the memories of ay or the other. mide these memories being repositories ingenuity of the German spy system has as yet found no method of prying. With this « ptic beginning, ative shores and contemplat he graduating class of 1914. are now invited to a senior at you senior will be an object of more or less ; so we may as well look him over with yw, before things start moving so fast time for it. tion was il to the state He stood and weighed one hundred and nh in que digenou name was Caldwell Smithers r four in hi ocking pounds. Whenever he went in to buy a pair of shoes re, the routine was for the salesman to of his head and that that size wasn’t a regular thing the stock in the cellar maybe it might be ves as young Smithers had to go uur stores before they up anything big enough. too, would have didn't omewhere between lor of faded coil on baat i piove jue tion, ) bothered him--only he wear His hair wa alfalfa and well o he r than on the pictures talks; al wore it con iderably long of the crack polo players in the illus rs Indeed, a certain well- and well-beloved pianist had anred corns KNOW! on Smithers in the matter feet, hands and hair, he her outstanding attribute mgenital ability to struse problems of applied u tive ct Instead of resting on his natural gift in the matter, he eagerly lf of every opportunity Aima Materto broaden knowledge of the sub al ail ad hin alforded by bh and deepen hi iis natural gift, plus his hard work, m the highest honors in that ewhat exacting cradle of learning, ston Tech. Indeed, stional authority who held the chair when the in ular sidyect finished reading on The Irri- ms of China as Related to f Ancient Egypt and Meso- tha Few Cognate Considera- ing the Dikes of Holland, the and Niagara Power suthority in question leaned and remarked to the just sheer lation thesis ul *“Geniu before graduation a flattering offer to technical work on an and hydroelectric Mexico, and went Lion New mediately after he received his He was just getting into his stride on | f 1914 arrived her thunderbolt asulimeyr By Cipriano Andrade, Jr S TRA TEDO BY F. R. Having no home ties and being a lover of adventure, Smithers hit the high spots for Paris, arriving late in August. He carried his diploma and a few certificates of special excellence with him, and they put him into a company of French engineers. He had picked up some of the language round New Orleans in his boyhood, and got along very well. He managed to last until the early spring of 1915 without being shot or mined or gassed or burned or poi- soned or otherwise strafed. By that time he had worked up to a lieutenancy. He was then transferred to a new point toward the southern end of the great line that stood from Switzerland to the North Sea. He reported there after dark one night—at a point about a mile to the rear of the first trenches. Bright and early the following morning he set out for the Front and, as required by his duties, began a minute inspection of the first-line trenches, beginning at the extreme northern end of the part his report was to cover and working carefully south. He reached the southern end of his territory about luncheon time and was invited to mess with the junior officers stationed there. About halfway through the meal Smithers suddenly laid down his knife and fork and cocked his ear, like a setter dog flushing a bevy of partridges. “Is it that this is the sound of water that falls?” But certainly! Could it be that Lieutenant Smithers had not heard of the picturesque Falls of the N Liver, which lay between the German and the Frenc h trenches just tothesouth of them? No; Lieutenant Smithers had not heard of them. Was Lieutenant Smithers in- terested in waterfalls? Most assuredly! Then clearly it was the social duty of the i The Scrutiny Smithers Bestowed on That Waterfall Was Mostly Through a Little Hand Periscope —Frit2a Was Rather Pert With His Sharpshooters Thereabout GRUGER August 25, 1917 ULI junior officers to afford Lieutenant Smithers the opportunity to felicitate himself in re- garding those Falls. It should happen at To that end of junior officers rose at the conclusion of the meal and, with the suave courtesy of his race, guided Smithers to the object of his desire. They had well called it picturesque. It sight to delight the eye of the poet and artist, whether his medium of expression was the written word or painted canvas or so dry and prosaic a thing as hy and the higher mathematics. On the southern horizon, far in the hazy distance, wer dim mountains; and the middle ground was filled wit! gently rolling foothills. At the point of the Falls the river bed took a sheer drop of thirty feet down the face of a rocky precipice. The banks on both sides of the stream followed the contour level of the riv exactly at the fall, the bank on the east side side once. one those was indeed a drodynamics ‘r bed; only, instead of making a sharp drop the German sloped down in a gentle incline toward the north, a distance of maybe a hundred yards, to absorb the thirty- foot difference in level. At the lower end of that incline the side followed the down grade of the German river with a gentle, almost imperceptible, slope toward the two miles. Nature had indeed been kind to that ch The si rutiny which Smithers bestowed on th: thy mostly bank on the north for a good irming spot, it waterfall Fritz was After a full and every other was through a little hand periscope rather pert with his sharpshooters thereabout. hour of perisc oOpic, telescopic, microscopic kind of scopic examination of the fall from all conceivable angles, position water and viewpoints, material and intellectual, Lieutenant Smithers was seen suddenly to swing his periscope over to the German lines and sweep them from abreast the waterfall, carefully and anxiously; as far to the north as his field of vision extended a distance of | He narrowly studied the French and the Ger man trenches, with the river flowing | After that he sigh and stood abstractedly a moment. Then he brother officer, thanked him profuse ly for about two miles tween. breathed in thoug! wheeled to |} his courtesy, and they parted Smithers made a bee for mental headquarters and was admitted to line the reg the presence of the « olonel, astern martinet mustacne and a waistband that belied any thought of short rations. asked whether he might be invite the colonel’s ; of the old s« hool, with grizzled Smithers saluted and of some interest th: under his observat that he Monsieur the Lieutenant and invited him to be seat« After the Monsieur the Lieutenant, the ord Giliz Whisker lable would be hone had to « d. first sentence or ty duty observed led his ch Smithers was sitt air up to the acros ng and regard hin a degree of interest that was a unusual, What afterward transpired the was unable to observe, for Grizzled W hi ers waved a { orderly hand in his direct without looking round, grunted a that ord peremptory ly to retire and t no one to disturb the cor snould until the colonel him. As soon as the orderly was gone the colonel leaned back in his « with hands folded across the buck on the front of his belt, himself uw sideration of the observat were falling from the lips of Mor the Lieutenant. After about five colonel held up his hand for silence, and gave to ireservedly a cor ions t minutes of t} and started to rummage under his cot am¢ roll of topographical maps. side, went down on his knees, yng al Smithers hastened to | and dug under the for everything that was there. sorted over the maps, selected what they Between ther Vanted

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oo THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Then for a good hour he two sat there, elbows on the tab] y with divider le rules, distance tables, and all the deft tools of their e end of that } | leaned back it eir airs and agreed that even tl e official government maps ere not enoug Those maps ett i the que I if eis am] ly well for purpose f artiller er lacement, it when it came to the very particular work in hand the lonel conceded that the maps i ‘ When r ose maps were plotted and d t no hu d or imagination had conceived the busine now afoot At length the colonel 8 Ps —_ . } Kt i « i Maa arte and 1 e our The ariver oi t it car had won a fe long-distance races in his time, and the en- uing twenty minut vere nat wholl 1@- void of interest Pe- ng that in the f twenty minutes the tl ( I } f tne knowledge of Smithers, or even ol ] } ] + ; the colonel. Bu he £ | f ? vast plan of « raveled exactly enty-five miles. It as not the driver's est by any means; it it sufficed Jivision Headquar- asked for the ral commanding, 1 were Now it so happened at this ermal seTmié shown i stretch of i trenches just elow the N Falls vas a position of great importance a key position toa f rategic t am- align though that act ! was not wit! ling } reneral commanding new those nm trenches or just exactly wha ney were W t \ When the talk started the three men were tting Vv ! stiff military formality about a small table but grad u as they conversed, they bent forward more and more until their heads almost touched } general , and gave an explosive At length the leaned back, pressed the button r) r his order! order for the instant appearance ol the head of hi engineer staff. Fortunately for that latter he happened to be in the officers’ mess room, whence he arrived with excessive promptitude This head of engineers was a big enoug! » re ognize ability when and where he saw it. H ers talked, while the colonel and the general listened; and, th all the latters’ technical training in mathematics—a itine part ol every army officers educatior th were ard put to it to keep up with these two specialists, talking diate and to ther to their conclusi S nical integrat 8 general, with the wisdom tha id put him where he wa eeing plainly that it was a job for experts, turned to the enior engineer officer, with a question In his eye; and the enior engineer officer answered ‘“‘ Whatever he says and waved his hand toward Smithers Then ‘I should think,” said Smithers, “‘that a dozen tra And, of course, we ougnt That part of it ought to r and checked up to three places of decimals inside they nstruments would be enougn. to have a few artificial horizons } be Ove of a week. You see our profiles and levels will be worth- less unless we hold them to the very minimum possible error. On the plan maps a yard—or five yards, for that Between Them They Sorted Over the Maps, Selected What They Wanted, and \ \ bly me FRG Vv6.e Rw . Spread Them Out on the Tabdie I lt T i 4 1) Continued on Page 64

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Twice a Year the Two Went Picnicking in the Borrowed Cart of the Oid Metal Man FTE tragedy of Grimshaw, who fell in love with the hade of the person he had put out of the world, is best understood by practical people. Grimshaw him- elf was eminently practical, and, though as a little boy he had believed himself a sort of refugee from a dim, happy playground, it may be shown that sentimentality did not irvive in the man of thirty who devoted himself thought- fully to a phantom The boy was always disappointed with the prairie town where he lived, but bore up for the sake of his mother, who worked hard and invested her savings in a sandy little farm; twice a year the two went picnicking there in the borrowed cart of the old metal man. Sometimes, frightened the white, shadowy look in his mother’s face, the boy wished to explain that if they had only lived in the happy playground he would have worked for her and carried in he wood without grumbling, and fed the two chickens vhich died of starvation. These things which he couldn't io here would have been only play over yonder. But he t off telling her, and about the time their sandy little farm was bought by an oil company for a large sum of money he ceased to be a little boy, and it was forever too The widow Grimshaw put by the money in the Hamp- len Trust Company, New ent appeared in the county papers, and they lived in such mmfort that Grimshaw was puzzled by her mentioning the ist at all When you were little,” she York City, whose advertise- said one day, f wishing to tell a great “you often you must oKed at me a secret; emember It wa Kut toh uu do for not so long ago.”’ m it wa sago; the playground where work like play was forgotten, and the boy uge others i half mythical person identified with cabalistic on trees and furniture or scrawls in old ok not a desitable party to discuss with one’s mother. sinister irimshaw answered her sensibly that they would better enjoy talking about the present, and his mother agreed, it continued visiting some battered relics of the little boy in the attic without anyone’s ever suspecting it, and vas lonesome for that secret till the day she died. Grimshaw never thought of the matter again until long ifterward, when he had lost his money and was as poor as h born. It was only a fleeting thought then, and of sentimentality which ever showed in his ynen °’ Was the last trace but strangely enough it happened on the night hen his tragic jife story really began. Grimshaw lost | haracter; He had a contented, prac- il life with a company ef good spenders, when the great witors’ the Hampden Trust was organized Hlaving the luck to pass on his way to the money in a peculiar way. been living in New York several years, raid on overnight theater as the line was forming, Grimshaw left his chauffeur to hold a place and, though not alarmed for the solvency of he Trust, very sensibly went down next morning to see how things were As the doors swung open and the line thrust for ird into lobby, Grimshaw observed the president of going bronze SATURDAY EVENING August 25, D I By Calvin Johnston ILLUSTRATED the company standing behind the teller, in a group of offi- cials. Grimshaw knew him and his daugh- ters well, and was certain that the president caught his eye and recognized him, though he gave no sign of it. Grimshaw averted his gaze, embarrassed, and the president came forward to the teller’s cage for amoment. “T ought to show loyalty instead of join- ing a raid against him,” reflected the young man. But suddenly remembering that his whole fortune was tied up here, he began to calculate how large an amount he could decently withdraw. “The deosit alone is about twenty thousand; now if the company should go broke I’d lose all my holdings, a hun- dred and seventy-five thousand.” This time the president’s gaze countered his own fairly; steadfast and lurid as a ray from metal, it confused Grim- shaw, who nodded two or three times. Still ignoring him, the president, who was now standing by the teller, tapped meditatively on the blotter with his pencil, and retired again to the group of official-looking personages. The man next ahead was at the window, and his with- drawal amounted to one hundred and fifty dollars. Grim- shaw smiled at the way the poor devil clutched his savings and was presenting himself in turn, when a little old woman in black who stood behind gripped his sleeve. Grimshaw glimpsed a wrinkled face, wide, frightened, appealing eyes, and courteously stepped aside. ‘ Another poor devil with a hundred and fifty savings eg The little old dollars. woman drew thirty-eight thousand “Payment is suspended!” exclaimed a sonorous voice from somewhere. The teller closed the window in Grimshaw’s face. The old woman glanced back maliciously and hobbled off, clutching her bag stuffed with bills. Grimshaw, who had not stirred from his tracks, frowned abstractedly upon the pandemonium that had broken loose in the lobby, and the president of the Hampden Trust came to stand in the empty cage behind the wicket. “Fool!” he longer ignoring Grimshaw, and pointed to the markings he had made with his pencil on the teller’s deskpad while holding his young friend’s eye so significantly some ten minutes before. These markings had conveyed strictly private instructions to the teller the number fifteen standing out boldly. Grimshaw would have been fifteenth at the window had he not stood aside for the old woman. The president, balked in a trick which was not so unsel- fish as it might appear to Grimshaw, now turned his back, and the young man picked his way pensively through the mob. “Fool is right!” after. said, no he said, and repeated it daily there- Grimshaw’s friends were a pretty decent set of fellows, good spenders all, who did not hesitate to spend on him in his adversity. He was told to make himself at home, and was even sought out when there was a party. So Grim- shaw lived on them for a while, but could not do so forever, and the good word and handshake imparted no hope of the future. “Somehow they look on me already as a thing of the past,” he thought, and presently told them “Adieu!” to go out into the world after a job and so build up his for- tunes again. They gave him a send-off party. “Suecess, old man!” said the good spenders with one voice. “You are a hero to go in for economy. We are proud of you and with you, and good-by !” Br HAWTHORNE HOWLAND Nevertheless, the meager young man in the top floor back of the Third Avenue rooming house, who three months later sat with his head between his hands and a loaded revolver on the dresser, was not thinking of these friends and his days of splendor. His great adventure had turned out to be only banishment; he was now shabby and underfed, but instead of regretting what he had lost he was thinking of the boy’s secret which his mother had spoken of. “T wonder what it could have been,”’ thought Grimshaw “* Mother, who already had almost everything, believed she would be happier if she knew.” For a moment he wondered if there could be some sort of happiness which he did not know about; but he was far too sensible a fellow to court illusions even in a desperat: moment like this. “Nonsense!” he said, recalled to the realities by the tolling of a clock over the city. “Life is only a curse with- out money. I have been rich and poor, and I surely ought to know.” So Grimshaw wrote a note to one of the good spenders, requesting that he be buried decently, and had turned to his revolver, when suddenly he was conscious of being watched. Ever since the day of the Trust Company’s crash, when he had failed to catch the meaning in the president's glance, Grimshaw had instinctively sought some hopeful message in every eye turned his way. But not one of those thousand windows of the soul had burned a candle for the outcast, so that now he was resentful of an interest which came all too late, and stood defiantly holding his weapon and scanning the ceiling, the door, the walls, for the human eye he felt upon him. With a shock he encountered it in a corner just above the floor. Fixed in a crumbling socket of plaster, the eye glittered brightly under a tattered brow of wall paper. Grimshaw, spellbound by this phenomenon, was sum- moned by a faint irregular knocking on the wall. “It is a message,” he affirmed and, laying asid revolver, nodded to the eye and went out. The phenomenon, however, turned out a commonplace incident. His neighbor, a sick, half-paralyzed old man, while lying on a cot in the corner, had discovered the chink in the wall and spied through upen Grimshaw with a graver motive than curiosity. He did, in fact, seek a trusty messenger to do him a last little service and, being satisfied with Grimshaw’s honest appearance his , begged him to take an envelope from under his pillow and deliver it to an address downtown. “Very well, if 1 can go with it at once,” stipulated Grim- shaw. “The envelope is addressed to my niece and heir, and contains securities. She will receive you,” assured the sick man. Grimshaw nodded and, disappointed that nothing more had come of the incident, turned to go, when the other halted him by adding enviously: “You ought to be a happy man.” Grimshaw laughed involuntarily, and then replied that only a stranger to his affairs could envy him. “Bosh! You can die when you get sick or tired of liv- ing—you have no fortune to part from. And what is the breaking of any other tie? What is friend or relati-* compared to money?” “Nothing!” assented Grimshaw. “I felt, dying this way, that I was being robbed by inches,” said the paralytic, ‘“‘so I assigned my property these securities — all at once and then lacked the courage to send ’em. My niece wouldn’t care if I lived on a year, in beggary. But now I want this last parting over with.”

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—— He urged his messenger to go and, on the verge of collapse, hispered that he was ready to die poor and happy. The fact that his old ne ignhbor seemed to be something of a miser did not make his message less impressive to Grimshaw, who departed with a light step. ‘I have not a possession in the world to part with,” he jeclared, rubbing his hands, “nor a tie to break. I am a happy man after all.” His mission took him

Chatham Square, where he located the address at an old

vement, and read the heiress’ name on the mail box in the entry by the light of a ma “She'll rejoice to get out of is,” thought Grimshaw, mpressed by the noises and smells of the neighborhood Miss Cordy Carnes was busy ironing when he knocked, but she placed one of her two fragile little table chairs for tality, and listened pensively e Visitor with an air of hos}

as he explained that he had come as her uncle’s executor. She was a slender, wan young woman in a black dress with vhite collar and cuffs; her hair, parted on the side and swept in a dark wave across her forehead, gave her a boyi h look, and a boy’s thoughts gla

ced in the fine, inquisitive nazei eyes But Grimshaw did not notice her attractiveness, being fascinated by the room itself. At this end stood the tiny range and the cupboard h dainty dishes set up in rows; at the other were an easy-chair and a book-shelf; and the hning table stood between wit! snowy linen cover i Are you a friend of my uncle’s?” asked Miss Carnes Only a neighbor called in at extremity; he’s made you

his heir and here are all the papers.’’ Grimshaw rose and laid them on the ironing board. Suddenly his heart went t to this little fellow exile who made so much better of verty than he himself had done. “And I wish you long fe and happiness with your fortune,” he exclaimed in his almost forgotten manner. ; > +} tit aaa 1 of vei ne. } } hin But the eiress, i ead of rejo i, looked at hi

t light and then pinned then ip uw the « velope agalr bser ng that e had seen too mal ves made miserable lisappointment to risk it herself. “But this fortune a sure thing!” Still she ¢ not re ‘ I’ve gone along here contentedly,”’ he said levelly, without my ur iid or good will. Even money can’t be depended upon to buy everything ” Grimshaw ave ich signs of impatience that she defended her stand ither venementl 1 shed chet “1 don't need or sh to hope; I kr better contented I like to believe that this roon r t country where I visit en I'm through the day’ work and meet with every- hing I wish for.’ For an unknown reason the mention of the far country as peculiarly exasperat ng to Grimshaw. ‘Well, well!” he sa i, “your dreams have been endowed th reality no The tremendous wistfulness of tl tuation inspired him to persuasive eloquence. “With money you will et yourself sanely; this imagining is nly a delirium born of longing. But a rich person's every h takes substar \ i will have, best of all, friend ho will create for i paradise unimagined, because 1 do not know wha After a moment she contes i I can only imagine frier ind the pleasant things I've really knowr e} ! You will kn« them all You are truly representing my unck

gay ly “When a year or two ago he ferreted me ou ollect the last payment on an old note ather had give him, I deseribed my ousehold here as | have to you. ‘And can you Imag you have money e asked, and I told him: ‘Oh, yes amount; and I can take my fortune friends with me when I di aid; but he was furious.” mn asort ol lillery but, never meage oung man had d shadowy in } mar not fail to impres one t

nig k t. The doubter wavered. And you really believe, sir, that a ma who dislikes me so would give me his for tune?” **He has done so.” She sighed, looking round the room. ‘But these paper they mean nothing tome. Can you arrange to turn them into the money which will doso much? Anyhow,” with a faint mile, “‘ you should have a commission for wishing me hap- piness; and you wor "t ask a fee in advance and some body else might cheat me.” Surely I'll do it,”’ agreed Grimshaw.

From the door he glanced again round the room, which did not seem so cheerful n and the girl was visibly depressed. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Remember me a e messr ‘ \ monished, t be a gioor t ‘ ( The g sughe i 7. é ina et sho ing ( I feel dis ent Te does atter é é You have é real Swi ike i t | ‘ magine here. | ‘ Mr.G | get the mone i " 1 “Yes, ye he ed her,’ and le N hurt i All the wa t t iered what he resolved to discuss the gent ‘ arrival he fe al i i ‘ \ over some ft ‘ i | 1 pope clipped advertisement of a twent e-d r func I ; ild be more neighbor had died the meantime l have de Grimshaw, a re I nis room, heard the i | tu ead a t \ funereal footfal] ext door and then the ar ila ‘ t ol be rf Though not unimpressed by the evening lid the Half a ter he arama, he wa ne throw! DacK Ul k which had been complicated by the promise he had 1 t M Carne to Miss Carnes ' 7 must attend to that Dusiness prompt n tne ! r i t { ura wi ing he sajd, because he ilready g t nN id ‘ ‘ (y i I two and did not know |} long he could i t. H result a is] As if ' regretted now the dime that he had been sa gsoa { ‘ < ie to be found dead with empty } K For a1 ‘ ‘ ‘ speculated on what he would have bought for breakfast if ri the dime had not been frittered aw; on cartare t ex ‘ ther standing in the ‘ { é l i et envelope from his pocket, musing sterr {M ( ! : Carnes. If she mistook th ‘ca , playground, he had no such illusion The life had lived He glanced at the papers neentrated, ther ilked licide, } I

. ist Compar ind a ild eY ed ‘ ‘ price he was automa P , de ‘ e , N , He could i! Lose ne \ nile Nl ‘ ’ ere ‘ et an explanation, and end hims« is } ‘ The ‘ ‘ " ie A Grin iW begal ng ne sughed r t ire | ‘ t r r } gradually he came to a pause and studied the me either to re a ing! Malicious old iuin!”’ he exclaimed, refe oO ened Grir aw came : his late neighbor, and re led M Carne it { ct t ‘ of it the latter's visit to he ear ago wher ked if ewa could imagine she had P money. eT nephe However, the girl ( n : ired . | | would not be disap | u t disa pointed, having all ‘ Ha or le ‘ { \i along been skeptical of n and noted y the old skinflint’s ger n, ¢ erosity. And she wa ‘ ] ted) . ‘ \ t ‘ her r country \ the t memory rose slowly of et ( the room which had ‘ turned so gray and de ‘ olate after G I M f nad beentheret NM ‘ ing a while, thoug something ol sur { ‘ passing cheerfuln *% ‘ ‘ had filled it A fiet hep hie first moked 1 { (sy aug! for many a day Grimshaw was icK at la oo ext morning t t!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST all And Miss Carnes, blinking the tears and looked out of the window. from his tracks to rescue the “How reflected. spark of scarlet, which remained in the evening, being the only evidence She set ar, and more when stocks go up ned away hed stiffly ching she appreciates that etic,” he not been wholly subdued. ith potatoes daintily browned, and this for myself ‘| that I cooked all hoped that you would bring your re interest in the appetite of her guest, he had swept the board. Grimshaw for- that feast, which wound up with a pud- insmuted from common bread crumbs. ran on business while she washed the dried them incle left a will; I locked it up at home before k this my office. I'll attend to the filing of it in bottom drawer, aving aid deliberately indeed spoke a few words a possible ur ng ittend to collecting the dividends too?” she relieved; “but whether I'm ed Grimshaw, much | know much about me, And I will have power of attorney.” k in trusting you than I would in trusting * she replied gravely; ‘“‘or the men I ress of the undertaker so she could go then Miss Carnes il, and it wa ilsively: >» know about me? made wi Well, I found a place hop when father died, and I noticed that the ng girls | knew, who struggled to make a show, worn thernselves out; they were faded and fierce and ointed,. I was I didn’t want to be like that. tled right down here to the slums without making t all scared a and here I am safe and sound.” meditated on this charming biography. d even to imagine your friends down here?” he Tile SOUR xV ud come now, to stay until spring. By the of January there was a depth of seven feet in As Sim-Sam said, “A feller’s got to dig a ut down a tree,”’ which expressed the Spruce was too valuable to stump above ind hardwood, though customarily stumped ice Owing to imperfections common to the ist above the roots, was certainly not to gion } i feet above ground. So the snow shovel was as but the presence of the snow, ion of smooth, level roads over which he skidways, more than made up for it. lumberjacks cast ily had. rations themselves began to take on a setting in of winter, rd the woods and men were more eas and to show adequate results for had To bucka of feet once in a while is an easy mat- its work cut out for it. r twenty or thirty miles of track when is quite another thing. } ugh miniature Before lor g white, On both sides of had hurled and packed the } canons, smooth, Vhen the sun shone. now plows nd dh cular walls and twelve, When ot! ly be asked of a iffs ard as ice, er snows came it was } snowplow to toss t i on the snowplow, and there were rather a big red-painted affair of inside ; Was to be measured in yard nowplow, is equipped with a sheet-iron There where necessary attendants warm. was ghted by four windows, i indeed, one ist heavy fall Yard had accompanied the plow. ad been coupled behind it, for with uld not go. gines would proceed as they could through drift loomed ahead. quarter of a mile, The mode of operating was a huge Then they and with engineers But she answered reminiscently. Plainly her far country was a thing of the past; and when they went up into the library, where the bright rug was and the easy-chair and the bookshelf, many subjects were discussed with never another hint of that. In profound quietness that was not abstraction, for she answered Grimshaw clearly when need be, the girl was settling herself among the realities which he had promised the imagined things taking substance. Grimshaw felt this in a way and was very glad that even this little legacy would enable her to enjoy life sanely. He did not ask him- self what this girl, who had herself been one of the bright, shadowy unrealities of life, would become when she also harshened into materiality. He drew up the power of attorney in such solemn phrase that they were both a little awed. After signature was affixed he buttoned the dread document closely under his coat with two buttons and, thus bringing the evening to a logical conclusion, rose to depart. Of course Miss Carnes hoped he would come again, but when he referred uneasily to the responsibilities of business which might keep him going weeks at a stretch, she under- stood as a business woman, and they parted amicably, to meet again when the dividends were paid at the end of the quarter, On the following morning the foreman on one of doc} ; young man whom he had once refused a job. “Come out o’ that!”’ he bawled, and Grimshaw brought ruck along to explain. ‘You see, I'm down to bedrock; there’s only one way to look at it.” ‘Nothin’ affirmed the boss. ‘‘ You didn’t eem so hurt when I turned you down the other day.” “Then I had a way out of this. Now I’ve along here at bedrock, right on the job.” “Oh, I guess your way out is still open.” the was astonished to discover in a trucking gang a doin’ here,” got to stay Grimshaw looked him seriously between the eyes. “It’s still on my dresser, loaded. But I had to take up a certain responsibility, and now I can’t make use of that.” After a moment he went on with his truck, and at noon the boss hunted up an old pair of gloves and overalls for him, “How you eatin’?” he asked, and Grimshaw, marveling at such insight, took a dollar advance on his pay and limped madly for a lunch wagon. He invested a dime at a drug store that evening, and while applying the arnica decided that the times now Je By Clarence yLELEVU cs Tea @& vs @& and firemen giving to each locomotive all he could give it, they would seem to crouch like football players lunging at the opposing line, and charge. would carry them through the drift; sometimes the snow- plow would be driven out of sight in the dune of white for a gain of twenty feet. When the narrow places were reached —the gaps—it often became a matter of shoveling, for not even three sturdy locomotives could drive such a plow through half a mile of snow blown in by the winds to depths of fifteen or twenty feet, or even more. Sometimes such a charge Day and night the men labored to keep the ways clear for trains of hardwood—it was mostly hardwood that went down during the winter—to rattle and rumble and grumble to the mills. But Yard kept them going. They had to be kept going. He grew leaner; his eyes looked out at the world from shadowy hollows, and there was a steely glitter inthem. Men watched him at his daily business and shook their heads. They saw a man driven remorselessly by his will, driving others remorselessly. His cheekbones stood out prominently over thinned cheeks. Somehow his ap- pearance was not that of a laborer, of a man pitting the strength of his will and his body against Nature, but of an ascetic, of one whose soul was fired by a zeal that fed upon the fuel of the body. By word and act he preached his dogma, and his dogma was sulphate pulp. His men worked for him, admired him, but feared him. In the days before that dawn upon the mountain top when he had looked on the world and found it wonderful, when he had perceived his own smallness and the futility of his problems and griefs as weighed against the greater ends of the universe, there had been a warmth, a whimsicality about him, that had drawn the affections of men to him. Now he seemed apart, a man driven. The joke, the laugh, the hay retort were not for him. Men could marvel, could, perhaps, feel the stir of sympathy, but they could not love him—save Sim-Sam alone, who, knowing nothing of the matter, guessed at the presence of some black blight, and manifested with pitiful eagerness such tenderness as he was capable of —and it was in no mean measure. After that last big snowfall Yard sat in the snowplow, alone at the far end of the little space, elbows on knees, somber eyes peering out upon the snow. They had fought August 25,1917 demanded he take counsel with himself. “‘To get up and go to work and come back and go to bed is not accomplis! ing much,” he said. “‘A man must also take his leisure and think.” Having absorbed all the arnica, he wrapped up in a comfort and seated himself gradually, to consider first of all his condition as a man of poverty, and next his responsibilities— puffing on a new corncob pipe. But now he could not concentrate on his condition at all, though it was much worse than it ever had been during the months when he could think of nothing else. So he turned to his responsibility. “Nearly three months to hoard up a hundred-and-fifty dollar dividends,” he said, snapping his fingers, asleep almost before he could climb into bed. Every morning on his way to work Grimshaw pass« and wa old German woman, saw in the window a faded little plush « neighborhood shop kept by an ase containing needle and thread and thimble and scissors; it \ wife, he learned. On Saturday he was able together with a flatiron, and late the laundering in the bathtub down the hall, and mending and ironing. Sunday morning he called on Mrs. Sloan, wh¢ nized him with distrust; but as he made no demand justice the shrewd old woman became interested in into curiously mended, curiously ironed young man who coul not be disappointed. He wished a position and sl business interests, and finally she offered him a position : salesman in an automobile agency which she had boug for her nephew to manage. “That is the one article of commerce I know all ADOL Grimshaw had assured her; | and after some ha salary was fixed at eighty-five dollars a month, w to one hundred when he was worth it. Ordinarily Mrs. Sloan would have turned dowr tute young man but about tl people began to treat Grimshaw differently. Asif traveling back to the country which the boy had known of, |} t only children on the way; however old or crab might seem, they were only children who liked to jour a little of the way with him, and would refuse him nothing He had a particular kind of success at the automobile agency. It was not long before the nephew i Mrs. Sloan: “Grimshaw gets the tough customers; he has: ng, a knockout which he starts from somewhere as of no account, } j bed Continued on Page 61) Budington Kelland BY Se @&eavs DU NWN well that day. From the junction up the East Branch to the trestle across Big Buck Brook they had charged and slashed, and now the trestle lay before them. At that point the brook flowed parallel with the railroad for a quarter of a mile, then suddenly cut across the right of way scudded for the river. At the right of the trestle, ter from the tracks, the mountain rose precipitately, wit great outcroppings of granite. The brook passed under track a dozen feet below, and it was thick with bowlder A great drift, starting at the mountain wall, filled the course of the brook and mounted ten feet above the trestle, barring the way. “Better take that easy, hadn't we, Mr. Yard?” asked one of the men. ‘‘ Might git dumped off that trestle there where the drift peters out, and them rocks good to me.”” Rocks, swept bare by the wind, were visible below. Yard, glancing down apparently without interest, sai sharply: ‘‘ Back off and let her have it.” Accordingly it was done. The plow, with the three locomotives behind it, rushed the drift, sank its in it, then halted with sudden shock and impac ) of splintering and rending from beneath! Men were flur The stove toppled from its snowplow rose a little at the front and, still driv ¢ , . iorce ¢ t si headlong to the floor! The the locomotives behind, veered as though to av impassable obstacle, then crashed headlong over tl of the trestle to the rocks below. As the plow wavered on the edge Yard sprang tol i tive action. With one swing of a chair he demolished the window Almost as the f same movement he dived headforemost through the opening and fell upon the trestle, clutching the farther rail. Instantly he was on his feet, bruised and bleeding Only tl sash and glass. completion of t irom ; gash on his forehead, but feeling no pain. plow had gone over. The engines, their momentum lost by the shock, had happily been brought to a stop. Yard leaped down to the plow, now lying on its side, its fighting ram splintered and crumpled by the obstacle it had met on the trestle. Smoke poured from it, and from the three men within it there came a confused shouting mi with cries of pain. ngied

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This thing than doing , giving it dollars some- to it some- new ter- American. r position, ir comes from owe it alle- probably you wouldn't ell one of our fortific: them. Tl yuld be too obviou Rut } m to eis a situation America 1s at cial war ‘ where lina? Sweden; only ce and you not ert, you he enemy wit! You and ur board of directors are your power! to America as any association of hy phen is dangerous ates, because you're more powerful, because you can yur purpose tense of We iest fora re going for a American here must n't—if ! ‘ i then ike ou | i go smaso, matter it will be proves we and small If that to be true then it is land got down the guns that are rusting over their mantels and marched. don’t forget that. they'll see v “No, I'm Not Insane; But I Couldn't Stand it to Hear That time the people of this Man Make Love to You"’ For the people And the day will come hen hat you fellows are up to, and demand a koning oney hi It has the notion it is inviolate; that, like the king, it can do no wrong. But blind, Mr. Waite. Because it is powerful it can see no ther power. But there is a force, and that force is in the people— the common men, laborers, clerks, farmers—and cannot be resisted. It never has been resisted. A few more f this sort of thing, and you financial men will bring elves.”’ ure American re grown reckless. whoon your in paused and Beaumont looked at him anxiously, for oung man had spoken feverishly, with eyes that ttered; had gestured with hands that quivered, so tense re hi nerve “Come, Mr. Beaumont,” Yard said presently. “I had to get that off m Huh! Li tter, | expect a job like that y mind.” to have done it myself, but you did it lakes the fire and enthusiasm of youth Good morning, Mr. Waite.” out of that bank and into another. It ey were known men, that their request for had been refused before it was put; but they did No bank they faintest encouragement aid Big John wearily, as they tur » they passed | banking hours were over. them the ip unt t , > ned eized his arm with nervous clutch. Now we've got to fight.” eeper to New York t n New York?” to block little million Fifty million | go to New York to get half a billion y night og you come along to bed. This stuff ur balance ” Beaumont. I've been thinking thi poke about it first. I've le man, and to-morrow we'll make w. He's as big as they make them nfluence behind us we'll never have lnee you Angus Macken * said Yard sumont stoppe istill Mackenzie!” he said. “‘By Jingo, boy, you're either But we'll try it rive Mackenzie a whirl. fageniu On patriot He's the only xvVI YARD’'S intense, Beaumont fanatical enthusiasm carried Big John to New York, but as he lay wakeful in his hope chilled and he realized the futility, the their errand, They were journeying to ask THE SATURDAY EVENING POST financial backing of one of the great money monarchs of the United States, and they were uncertain even of obtaining an interview. They were without in- troductions, had nothing to help them but their necessity. “We're making fools of ourselves,” he said to Van in the morning. ‘‘Mackenzie’s footman or butler or whatever it is will never let us see the inside of the door.” “We'll see Mackenzie,” said Yard with lips com- pressed, “‘if I have to use scaling ladders.” **Come on back home, boy, and take our medicine. Or better, if you think there’s a chance let’s try a couple of New York banks.” “Mr. Beaumont”’— Yard spoke as men speak who have made an unalterable resolution—*‘ you can do as you please, but I’m going to Mackenzie’s house this morning, and I’m going to stay at his door till I see him or the police drag me away.” Beaumont began to wish he had left Yard at home. He had come to try to borrow money, not to be keeper to a lunatic. “Don’t you see the brass of it, Yard?” he asked. “I haven’t the nerve to tackle it—it’s too darned cheeky.” “Cheeky! What do I care? What does it matter what Mackenzie or anybody else thinks of you and me? We're working for sulphate pulp.” “All right,” said Big John with resignation and some admiration. “If you stay I'll draw eardstoo. Let's get breakfast. We can’t tackle him before nine o'clock.” They breakfasted without appetite, prowled about the hotel for an hour, and took a taxicab to Mackenzie’s Fifth Avenue palace. Van ad- vanced on the door as he would have advanced on a spruce tree he was about to fell. Before him were double gates of upright iron bars, with iron bands weaving in and out in artistic manner. These folded in front of huge bronze doors, one of which opened presently in response to Van's ring, opened grudgingly, and a portion of the body of a man in livery was visible. “We want to see Mr. Mackenzie,” Van said. ‘We have no cards. Will you say Mr. Beaumont and Mr. Yard, of Vermont, must see Mr. Mackenzie?” The man stared at them and closed the door, leaving them standing on the broad step facing the iron grilling. He was absent some time, then a smaller door at the right, at right angles to the bronze doors, opened, and the foot- man motioned them to enter. “Mr. Mackenzie's secretary will see you,” he said, and led the way down a narrow passageway which Beaumont felt must be mined to guard against sudden attack, and was undoubtedly under the muzzle of one machine gun at least. Up a narrow flight of stairs the footman preceded them, and into a bare, austere, inauspicious room. “Be seated,” said the footman, and withdrew on the opposite side, closing the door after him. Yard and Beau- mont heard the snap of a spring lock. “Sort of cautious, ain't he?” said Beaumont. ‘“ We're locked in. If they forget us or don’t like our looks we may be left here to starve.” It was a long twenty minutes before Mr. Mackenzie's secretary, a smooth-voiced, handsome, ladylike person, appeared, rearguarded by the footman. “You wished to see Mr. Mac- kenzie? Will you state your busi- ness to me?” He stared openly at Van. Doubtless he had never before seen a man in woodsman’s attire. “It is necessary for us, to see Mr. Mackenzie in person,” said Van, and both the secretary and Beaumont recognized the voice of a man who was aceustomed to footmen and private secretaries, and was not to be awed by them. **We are not asking donations for any charity. Mr. Beaumont isa manufacturer of lumber and pulp in Vermont. I am his woods fore- We came to Mr. Mackenzie I read the address he recently delivered at the laying of the cornerstone of an electric- light plant he had presented. That address read as if it were sincere. If it was sincere Mr. Mackenzie will grant us a brief interview, for we come, not as private individuals but as Amer- ican citizens, to lay before him a condition which will work a con- siderable harm to this country. We are not cranks. We believe man. bex ause “what are You Going to Do?" Hotmaquist Panted, in a Panic August 25,1917 Mr. Mackenzie, standing for what he does, will want to know what we have to tell him.” “Are you known to Mr. Mackenzie or have you intro- ductions?”’ “No. Our only introduction is that we are citizens of the United States, and are in its service as surely as if we were soldiers in uniform.” ““T am afraid,” said the secretary, “‘that Mr. Mackenzie will not see you. However, I will tell him what you say. Pardon me.” Shortly he returned. “Will you step into the library?” he said. ‘“‘Mr. Mac- kenzie will see you presently. It is very unusual.” They proceeded to the library, a great room with walls hidden by bookcases to a height of six feet. It was an impressive room, but comfortabie and even homelike, a room designed for use and evidently much used. “Be seated,” said the secretary, motioning to a huge tapestry lounge. Then he disappeared. Yard waited eagerly; Beaumont with half-concealed trepidation. He felt he was being made a fool of, was apprehensive of what Van might say or do. In a few minutes there appeared through the archway which they faced a man far on in years, with white hair and a smooth-shaven face. Blue eyes, undimmed by age, twinkled under heavy brows. He walked with a springy step and held himself very erect. The face of Mr. Mac- kenzie was well known to Yard and Beaumont through presentments in the daily press. They arose. “Gentlemen,” said Mr. Mackenzie. “This is Mr. Beaumont, of the Green Mountain Pulp Company,” said Yard. “‘Iam Van Twiller Yard, his woods boss. He did not want to come to see you, because he felt it was a wild-goose chase and an unwarranted But I insisted— because I believe in you.” Mr. Mackenzie's eyes twinkled, and wrinkles formed an intricate network round them. “IT have employees who boss me round, too, Mr. Beau- mont. They are good to have—good to have.”” His speech did not conceal that his birthplace was Scotland. The great financier motioned them to be seated. “‘T was readin’ Bobbie Burns but now,” he said. “I was on the line, ‘Then gently scan your brother man,’ when my secretary described you, more especially this man you. "Tis a mornin’ of leisure with me. What is it wantin’?” “‘T want to talk about sulphate pulp,” said Yard. “Sulphate pulp, eh? I know the stuff. I will any nor sell any nor deal with it at all, errand.” “Mr. Mackenzie, I have read many of your address¢ and interviews. I know what the papers say about y« and they say you are a man who loves his country.”’ “Aye!” said the old man. “Let me tell you why we are here—from the beginning; what we are trying to do, and why we think it is your affair.” Mackenzie bobbe d his he ad, lear ed back and closed hi eyes. Then Yard, his lean, tanned face glowing with enthu- siasm, his voice timbred as the gospel, told Angus Mackenzie about sulphate pulp. As he told it, it was no business story, though he did not know it, but the story of a man—himself —converted to a new He told about lf, a bum from Bos- intrusion young Obeyin’ Bobbie’s injunction, I let you in to scan you're no buy voice of one who carries a religion, hims ton,and Mackenzie opened his eyes and peered twin athim. He told the story in full, and made good hearing of it. “It isn’t for the Green Mountain Pulp Company or for Mr myseif that I’ve come to you, Mr. Mackenzie; it’ for America. We are the entering wedge of a klingly Beaumont or for new industry. If wesuc ceed others will fol low. Wherever the spruce tree grow sulphate mills will springup. Millions of capital will be in- vested, thousand of men and women will be supporte d by the industry, and by so much our country will b nearer to commercial inde- pendence. We are trying to annex a new and rich state to our territories it like that. We are fighting a for- eign war. It is foreign capital and influence that have arrayed look at

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—kurco— - om — ~~ —T — — ’ \ } ' } i ‘ i { ‘ Day and Night the Men Labored to Keep the Ways Clear American capital and influen a younger man, Mr. Mackenz you would shoulder a gui ‘Aye, lad,’ said Mr. Mackenzi “but I’m a Scotchman. I might give my - try; but my money—aye—there’s a far : “It isn’t your money we want, but influence at our back. We have fifty millions against said Mr. Mackenzie. ‘“‘If the st ye, then get for yourself the luence of f idred. Eh? Boy, you've a grand nerve **Mr. Mackenzie, judging our affairs simply by business standards, those banks had no right to refuse our renewal. We are sound. We have the timber, th nanufacture it of the Swedi want to see us ann when an American banker can be d by a crowd of Swedes.” ‘Aye! Referrin’ to such men, I quoted a verse from Bobbie Burns in a certain addres He closed his eyes and tilted back his head in an effort to recall it to mind: *** While sordid sons of Mammon’s line Are dark as night Tho’ here they rape, ¢ queeze, ¢ Their worthle nis “ofas May in ne future carcase } ; The ¢ rigi Or i € day-de ng ¢ wl May shun the light “Bobbie could hit ’em off, man. Young f you ow! Bobbie Burns and Shakspere, you need no other books to make you an educated mar At that moment Mr. Mackenzie's secretary came into the room. The old man turned on him abruptly ‘Go you and telephone for a report on this Greer Mountain Pulp Company, and let me have it at once,” he ordered Then he turned to Yard ’ 'm no doubtin’ our word y ing mar l'r gettin’ evidence in su} Presently he said “I knew you'd be wantin’ money. Everybody comes to me wantin’ money.” ‘We don’t want money. All we ask is for you to use your influence.” ‘Influence that is no backed by the e f real mo isn’t worth a pig’s squeal,” said Mr. Mackenzie su Then he quite st ied a way from the subject of suly late pulp to talk about himself, an individual in whom he seemed to hold a great but naive and in no manner offensive interest. ‘You think you’re havin’ hard times, aye? My mother took in washin’, lad—and there were nine of us. Well I remember my first raise. I was workin’ for ten shillings doze 1 pre her thir xd suck 17 n il I'm a’ for the haver ich i to make he more comf stems for +} and elec to "¢ the u lig for ‘t of Great We no a mait fac f it cost: e like ng young veh - sain %% expe r me wit i Yard's he “But you the words ol « ol cn a leetle speeche l a” the s 1e of é He led Ww i V phlets. Fror - g out Vas tnat stand i Listen we "On 4 Long Be ble Ay O)} Fr Then. } { y And “Is that n fe or Trains of Hardwood to Rattie and Rumbie and Grumbie to the Mills It atl Be au a rit THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘ ‘ af \ ike \ 1 I 4 j ‘ vf 4 i \ lara i " Continued on Page 53

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A‘D‘ 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A. GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR Hy Subscription $1.50 the Year By Subscription $1.75 the Year Five Cents the Copy of All Newsdealers lo Canada Single Copies, Five Cents Single Subscrip Remittaaces to be Made by International Postal Money Order Foreign Subscriptions For Countries in the Postal Union tone, $3 25 PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 25, 1917 The Western Front years we are justified in regarding the war test human effort. Never before was any volume of human energy directed to And to date the result of all this effort is upon which a three same igiven object ‘ ah nostly zero There is nothing in sight indid person can base a prediction as to when or how will be reached icularly to the Western Front. effort power the us War ince’ the ] isa wl If one to a common denominator it would probably appear that Western Front equals that in all Middle Age But nothing that i ion ce velop war on land init d, but in is applies part hd reduce warlike omany nh a expe neliture ol The most vital theater not only stands deadlocke view of three years’ experience and of nobody can say definitely what may be ak the Only purblind optimism a million American soldier h could absolutely do it insisted that A layman i ule the tion lock landed in the war will be won on the privileged to doubt it. Ex German attack on Verdun, there i the ittrition in mass push against mass is a more probable that the end of the it where onnel of anything like equality of armies and the supply of reliance. It seem ill develop in a manner as unexpected as its begin or at sea, or just psychologically, It may be in the air, { uddenly Russia's ipheaval which paralyzed tands after three years the only certainty is Tolstoy said mad that most wlogie one in a generalization every battle was won by the determined to win it. Given the , With a decided strategic advantage, and , With a decided advantage th in resource side that when or how nobody can pre war will be won by the ito win Glory and Carrots ATURALLY it has even as remained for a German professor the stands, pecially Germany —is decidedly richer be to dl ve situation now or admits that the largest item in this accre- of an intangible nature—-consisting of a heightened spirit of self-sacrifice and devotion to the State Yet he counts up a good many delectable items of at material kind hr nstance, that is t envlaily new labor power has been developed to an extent equivalent to the discovery of many rich on and copper mines. This new labor power has been old men ‘ miy of no account economically but a positive leveloped by taking women, children and tnerto not tnd putting them to work have been great gains in economy People have un maintain bodily vigor on a diet that no amount of mere persuasion could have induced them to adopt, and have discarded innumerable indulgences of taste and luxury that formerly sapped the economic strength of the nation. If the problem is “How much work can be extracted from a given population at how small cost for sustenance; what can a given body of people be brought to endure?”’ then no doubt the professor is right, and the war, irrespec- tive of its outcome, has been a fine thing. His ideal would be a population living on carrot soup and potato parings, with everybody from nine years of age to ninety working twelve hours a day, and death the high- est felicity in sight. Just about that is, in fact, the militarist ideal that the State may be properly glorious. Pooled P TO very recently financiers looked at our huge gold hoard; at our foreign loans, amounting to nearly six billion dollars and sure to increase as war went on; to the fact that we had bought back from Europe the greater part of the American securities formerly held there; and to the rapid expansion of our merchant marine, which would keep in American hands the freights we formerly paid to British, German‘and Dutch shipowners. Looking at these things they said America not only had changed position, from a debtor nation to a creditor nation, but after the war it was sure to be the premier creditor nation, with the whole world buying American exchange for the purpose of paying its American debts. Recently, however, American exchange has dropped to quite a marked discount in Spain, Switzerland and Den- mark —ten per cent in the latter case. We are still selling vastly more goods than we are buy- ing; but we are selling on time and buying for cash. Goods sold to the Allies, for which we take their I O U, represent more than the excess of our exports over imports. The imports we pay for; and, for the purpose of paying foreign bills, goods sold to the Allies on time do not count. This situation is likely to prevail to an increasing extent a War goes on. in order While the United States was neutral one might predict a preéminent financial position after the war, with Europe haunting Wall Street, hand. With the United States at war, all that is beside the point; in fact, we go hat in into the common pot— we are pooled for all we are wort! in men and money. Guessing about relative after the war will be beside the point until there better grounds for an opinion as to when and how the war will end. After-the-war is up in the moon at present. The sensible to forget it, A Question Mark pad that a country has no real government, old but positions are far course | It has just overthrown an régime; ne new régime ha emerged From day to day nobody can say confidently where authority really lies, pr what decree by what putative au- thority is worth the paper it is written on. Say it has no credit, is torn by fierce civil strife, by jealousies and sus picions. Say the army is demoralized, its leadership largely disloyal to such government as there is, its ablest loyal general deposed, Say it is confronted by a great, well-disciplined mili- tary power, and that its soldiers fling away their arms and flee at sight of the enemy vanguard, mutinous troops even murdering their own general. That summer of L792 the situation of France through the up to September 20, when the Duke of veteran army, very leisurely and very con- Paris, Dumouriez’ levies stood firm; the astonished duke was about Brunswick’ tick ntly Valmy promenading on to met Dumouriez at retreated; and for twenty years thereafter whoever met a Wrench Army pretty generally retreated and thought him self lucky if he saved his baggage train Do not check Russia off the list yet. back to Soldiers have run uway before now-— and come make the enemy apologize for it. he Russian case looks dismal enough just now; but it It would be somewhat discour- aging if a people that has submitted to a rotten dynasty for centuries with unmatched patience, fighting all it battles with uneXcelled valor, could not finally submit to a rule of its own. For some time to come Russia must be taken simply as an unknown quantity, is yet all a question mark. The Once: Dismal Science M*: VANDERLIP some time ago told a WeStern audience that we are a nation of economic illiterates. That is true enough, and teachers of economics are partly to blame Political economy was a wholly dismal science when it existed wholly in books closet. philosophers and spun August 25,1917 theories in a vacuum, which other closet philosophers criticized in a vacuum. It did not begin that way. The greatest book on political economy ever written was derived largely from an alert man’s first-hand experience and observation of the workaday world round him. It still sticks too closely to the printed page. It is rather rare, for example, to find a professional writing on political economy that mentions advertising with any understand- ing of the force it is trying to deal with and the rdle it actually plays in economics. There is still a tendency to test facts by the books instead of testing the books by facts. Perhaps something of that tendency is inevitable, for it is always easier to master the books than to master the facts. The first feat may be accomplished in an easy-chair; the other requires much diligent looking round. Events of the last three years have made the teaching of political economy more important than ever. Teach it close to life. Take the books always as more or less val- uable hypotheses that are to be tested at every step by experience. Remember what an imposing structure of hypothesis has been swept into the dust heap by the facts of the last three years. The War Biil OME gentlemen at Washington have been talking glibly of twenty billion dollars for the first year of war That is nearly as large a sum as England, by a prodigious effort and by quite extensive of foreign credit raised in three years of war. It is at least half of all the wealth produced in the United States last year—and after the Government’s war are met more than a hundred million people must be fed, clothed and housed out of the wealth the country pro- duces. Some gentlemen at Washington, fascinated by the huge figures of European war finance, have taken to talking of Government disbursements as though an endless stream of money could be produced out of a conjurer’s hat or by rubbing a rabbit's foot in the dark of the moon It would probably be impossible for the Government to raise twenty billion dollars for war in a year without a vast inflation that would double the actual cost of the war, and lay a burden of high prices on labor that would endure for many years. uSt needs If the Government is to spend anything like twenty billion dollars a year American life in all its phases must be reorganized on a war basis, substantially as the national life of the big belligerents has been reorganized Our united ¢ nergy must be bent to economy and efficienc yina way we have never known. We want that reorganization to begin at Washingtor The friction, the lost motion, the large degree of irrespor sibility, the powerful ddulterant of party politics that day-to-day functioning of the Government now discloses must give place toa thoroughgoing war organization. When people are presented with bill after bill running into the billions, and at the same time get daily reports of squab bles, palaver, pork and _ politics, they ure to patience presently, ure Responsibility T WAS like the Senate to insist upon a board of food controllers rather than a single food controller; like it also to insist upon shackling the advisory committee of big business men whom the President called in to help organ ize industry for war. Because of its constitution, and shies away from responsibility a experie nee Congres instinctively as a colt shies from the ash barrel, which possibly may contain an ogre. Because of its constitution and experience Congress’ basic idea is so to disperse and circumscribe authority that nobody can be really responsible for anything. A situation in which there is no convenient means of passing the buck instinctively shocks it, finding a capable man, giving him complete authority and holding him strictly habits. Every war act by which Congress has posited authority shows its anxious care to put as many strings a possible upon the authority. This attitude on the part of Congress is inconvenient and expensive in wartime, when the powers of Government must undergo a vast extension. Recently, for example temporarily at least — it cost the country the services of the builder of the Panama Canal. Men of the type of Goethals naturally and properly chafe under the imputation upon their ability and integrity which the congressional plan of divided, circumscribed authority implies. It is axiomatic that the abler a man is the more he will demand a free hand. In this emergency the Government must finally adopt the sound business rule of consolidating authority and responsibility in the man best able to manage the particular job in hand. The business idea of responsible is foreign to Congress’ mental

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— a ee Se an eEeEE. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 3 WHO’S WHO-AND WH Serious and Frivolous Facts About the Great and the Near Great Stephen T. Mather Grace Parker—Hereelf o— he became assistant to Secretary Lane, of the By Herself Department of the Interior, Mr. Mather set out to oe woe I was a small child I have love prove to the American people that, like many other things, My ancestry is Eng] a long line of it « ‘ te sightseeing should begin at home. The photograph of of the house. My father and mother caring much for the him with his mule, shown at the foot of this page, was genuine things of life, I was brought up with my « taken during one of his many trips through the national brothers an rs to love the ¢« tf do ‘ parks. things of out of doors. My natural love for t e led It was because he believed that Mr. Mather knew as_ me into social work, and I have run the gamut from re much about the parks as any other man in the country form work, when at an early age I was passing through the that Secretary Lane selected him to undertake their ad stage of wishing to reform the unive t elping deve ministration, and Mr. Mather hasspent liberally of himself playground systems throughout the country, then w and his money in the work. To-day he holds the office of | ing with leaders in the field of immigration in deve Director of the National Park Service. He sees in the Concluded on Page 78 parks a great national economic asset, and it is his aim to make them self-supporting and . ; . ble to people of all degrees ol t graduating from college Mr. Mather ne a newspaper reporter, and later went nto business. A few years ago he turned his attention to social service. The work he is doing to-day is social service of the biggest kind. nN Pr. 2 on Te mre 7 Herbert Quick—Himeelf By Himself MMHE subject of this sketch was born some fifty-odd years ago in lowa. Owing to the carelessness of his parents in s¢ ttling in a tree- less region he was denied the boon of birth in a log cabin. Logs were too expensive, The falling of the curtain here indicates the ipse of se veral years, Guring w! nh the a i ve audience may hear the Hero behind the curtain growing At an early age he was a pioneer in science, When three years old, for instance, he had a , dreadful case of infantile paralysis, although this disease was at that e unknown to the medical profession. This initiative and en- } I terprise on his part valked him of several ambitions. It narrowed his usefulness as a baseball player, for one thing. Though a good batter, it was only with the greatest difficulty that he was able to stretch a home run into a base hit. Also it prevented him from entering West Point, whic he essaye d to do at the age of sixteen. Had it not been for the poliomye- litis germs which played havoc wit! his legs and | Cenciuded on Page 58

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ra Brackett. Two years into the little desert 0, with a weak droop to d a hopeless cough. At years the only differ- an added pallor upon the mild, and a more frequent cough, which bowed two nan wa r toward the waiting earth. f Tanko, to tell the truth, had not h about Brackett. There was noth- to invite curiosity. n had grown used to seeing old pros- o the place, work a while and acquire a n drift to no one knows where. But stayed, fitting quietly into the obscure niche that for himself, coughing his way back and forth desert road, hauling base ore from Yellow Butte the cars at El Tanko, whence it went personality on i loading it upor smelter was too hard for him, and the yellow alkali chest and hung about him like a pesti- he did not complain on that he was grubstaking a partner, who ing somewhere over towatd the Panamint. ved in a little rough board shack out on the and nobody ever thought to discover if he here was no need to inquire if he were sick; advertised the fact. urd the end of the two years Brackett’s daugh- » from the south and joined her father in it on the edge of town. Her coming rest in the Brackett history, but it soon in the desert and, in un and the hot winds and the great dry and, there is born into the desert man ng strictly weak Once or twice he let coug! Along tow is a constant battle; to his own business. as a pretty girl—pretty in a pitiful sort They were the eyes of a th frightened eyes reature that has long been accustomed to blows. ng of Harvey Lang, the eyes began to ghtened look. is the sheriff of the county. Just a boy sed of energy and character that had ‘s leading citizen. And to be the leading hard-bitted desert far unity of men is to owner of attributes beyond the to the little shack to see He was in a great hurry. and his hurry vanished. He came out s matter came again and more Elsie’s eyes lost their fright l even sang softly to herself in the eve ibout the little kitchen, listening while ed it de the door, conver! low tones, sitting upon to bed his team supper The had taken ona uptown one evening, Elsie and Lang washed the te an event of the homely duty. now, and her eyes » transformed her face » con the joyous the it as the foam which plays But Nature world turns ivial nonsense of recogniz pths underneat} knows! ping and the upside dripping plate to Lang. The two hands Che plate crashed to the floor, but Breathless, overcome by the wonder of it even as Adam and have gazed, awed by a mystery that is as old as vod and gazed at each other, , but that never becomes less than a mys » discover it anew. Then slowly a cloud .on of the girl's mind she whispered. “Father is sick. He needs said Lang. girl hesitated and the troubled look grew. A moment later the entered the room, greatly excited We've made our big strike, Elsie!"’ he cried, half inco- feller named Humphrey—I met Placerville— happened to run He came down through the mito Gulch day before yesterday. He saw Carter | look after him together,” <ett's step sounded outside rent! “Humphrey ago, up in uptow! just now year August 25,1917 By LOWELL OTUS REESE TLELCVUSTRATE DO Jelson there. He says Carter has struck a rich ledge in the mouth of the San Ramonito. I went over to Judge Craw- ford’s and seapched the records, but Carter hasn’t recorded any claim. I guess he’s been too busy. Maybe he’s been keepin’ it for a surprise. But he better not risk it longer—somebody might jump the claim. I've couple of location blanks and I'll sign ‘em and take ’em along. I’m goin’ over to Runyon’s to burrow a couple of burros. Wish you'd go over with me, Harvey; I'd like to have your help!” He hurried away and Lang followed, scarcely less excited than Brackett. Half an hour later they returned with the donkeys, and Brackett proceeded to pack with feverish haste. He refused to wait for the morning. “It'll be moonlight,” he said, “and all I'll have to do will be to head straight across the desert and watch out for cactus patches. Besides, it’ll be cooler travelin’. I'll be back in four days, little girl.” He threw the last diamond. Lang shook hands with him and went home. Then Brackett went back to kiss Elsie good-by. “Our bad days are over, dearie,”” he said. “‘We’ve had a hard time, but it’s all comin’ out fine. Remember, I'll be back in four days! And maybe Carter’ll come along and visit with us a spell. It’s been a long time since I saw my pardner.” He drove the reluctant beasts forward toward the east, where the night was coming up from behind the sullen Panamints. Out at the edge of the open sand he turned and smiled. Red spots flamed on his cheeks. He waved a hand at the lonely little figure that stood in the cabin any got a door. Then he went coughing away into the brush and the night closed down. El Tanko was a railroad division town, and this was its main excuse for existing. Originally it had been a mere water station, appearing upon the maps as The Tank. Later a railroad man had changed the name to El Tanko, thereby gratifying a certain amorphous sense of humor and at, the same time giving to the place an appellation having the peculiar Spanish flavor indigenous to the Soutt seven saloons and one west, It was a typical desert town ] large general store; also a rambling structure which com- the hotel, railroad restaurant About this structure the railroad yards thrust rusty side- tracks far out into the bare desert, all cluttered with box These and a bined in one and station. cars and a disreputable old switch engine dozen up-and-down board shacks where the aristocracy and that was El Tanko. It was near midnight on the second day after Brackett's departure. All evening the air in the saloons had been blue with the smoke of evil pipes and the sinister reek of cigars which were past all hope. But the population had now Last of these, the clerks in Jensen's General dwelt gone home. Store carefully locked the great safe and left, locking the door after them. The safe in Jensen's store served the coun- try in place of a bank; for the surrounding mines used it as a repository, drawing upon it when paying off their Consequently there nearly always was a large accumulation of gold in the safe. The town fell quiet. The midnight express roared down from the pass, paused a moment, and then roared on again. Its clamor was lost across the desert and again the place was quiet. One would have said that El Tanko was sound asleep. And yet, three minutes after the dull explosion in the back of Jensen's store the sandy street was alive with running men. A crouching figure jumped from Jensen’s door and fled down the alleyway toward the rear of the building, feet ahead of the foremost runner. There was a medley of yells and the darkness coruscated with revolver flashes. operators. scarce twenty; BY HARRY WicKeEerY Straight the open ground back of El Tanko led, and intothe brush that across the chase surrounded the town. Six wicked splashes of fire spat back from the edge of the greasewood, and then the chase was over. The brush was too thick for trailing, even in the moon- light. The excited crowd turned back and began getting ready forthe day. In the short time that had elapsed between the explosion and the flight of the robber it seemed incredible that , could have Yet, after the first brief examina tion of the broken safe Jensen turned to the crowd with a white face “*A little over five thousand,” he said, “ A noted old Indian trailer was summoned from ¢ boring town. He arrived on the early morning pas train, just in time to join the pusse as Lang led it out edge of the brush by the Brackett cabin. sanguine forethought Lang had included the coroner in his party. All were on foot. Horses are an dry trail. It was growing light. As the posse neared the brush, Sheriff Lang drew ahead of the party and led the trailer to the place where the robber’s tracks lay along the sand. “This is going to be easy!"’ he said. ‘‘See that left foot All the hd@bails show plain. But notice the right one! The right heel is full of nails, but the sole Look, onl nails left, right in the middle of the sole; the res print is smoot} It'll be the easiest job I ever traile« we got to do is watch for a flat sole with three nail pr in the middle of it.” He started away briskly and the posse fell in behind. As he entered the brush the young sheriff looked wistfull) back at the Brackett shack. A thin blue smoke curled from the chimney. At the a little hand turned away to the stern work anything been taken. to the Grimly and wit! encumbrance on a plainl; ] A glance and the old fellow chuckled window waved ahead ol good-by. Lang him, a smil e on his face. mu E WAS a bad man. Not of the bad men who bull: rough villages on some rougher frontier, for these have their human intervals. Moreover, they are gregarious and no one having this instinct may wholly hate his kind But this one— in his hot black the civilized being who has thrown the feet his fellow men and gone Chagrined desert man hunters called him the Weasel. It was on the far edge of the desert. Eve ry where the land spread away, a waterless expanse of sparse, decrepit vegetation. Heat waves wriggled and writhed above the place like vague spirits of agony. Overhead the sun flared } down upon the man, hot, implacable and fierce as the eyes was the anima vgiare ol gage of hate at the of all back to savagery relentless hate with which society pursued him. Here he was at for he was a part of the The stunted cactus held its knobbed, vicious stalks aloft as though claiming kinship. Everyv dry bar of the land epitomized the arid emptiness of his own life He was a pariah. H had taken up the gage. The Pariah was half crazed with thirst. He had had no water and no food since his narrow escape from El] T und he had had no rest. Ahead of him a low black pile of rocks and brush lifted a hundred feet above the | the desert. This was Black Point Butte. The P that at the foot of this butte lay the Black Point water hole, and he strove savagely to force his deadened muscles int swifter performance. Savagely he cur they failed to obe y. He cursed the dead weight of the lay upon his shoulders. foam-flecks blew across his cracked, swollen lips. rasped in their dry sockets As he neared the butte at last, the man’s animal instinct, quickened by the years of solitude and watchfulness, gave him a subtle warning. In spite of the thirst and exhaustior that consumed him, he made a painful detour and forced himself up the difficult slope of the butte, site the water hole. Creeping stealthily across the summit, he peered over the rim. In the scant shade of a yucca tree beside the water hole a man lay upon a blanket bed, flung clumsily upon the sand. Near by stood two burros. secured, home, desert here the renne » had broken society's laws and society anno ariah knew sed them wher goid that He staggered as he walked, and His eyes on the side oppo- They were not Continued on Page 26

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i Continued from Page 24 f the man upon the blanket bed. roa ‘ , ouUuL men vering to meet a pos vas no fir € The comprehending ad.” i desert Avain f +} ire ol ie rt ng eye THE SATURDAY EVENING POST though plainly this had Pariah searching fora his gaze went water hole to the Then, over the desert, he started down. hed the water hole, revolver in hand ard ( id tne t for food. H long, f entire nov stir, inquiring @ indifference ars, and ible surprise. The then The figure fugitive sat for some minutes Then he upon tne by the bed \ closed eye iddenly the eyes opened and looked hed like a wild beast, tell | yack, crous aid the gasped. tne ed from the face « nt again, » the mn f i Wt OF to rest till said nothir he man. . In the top. I began to feel hunger. quiet hgure of the ; quest led him finally came up he The Pariah reached aying no word with the day and i t he dy ing Black Point, ndifferently r man, t ) upon k man began to talk. His eyes had Parial ¢ on a

ce, coming from the hardly mo sounded hardl errrye from the < Point, opped ar ore beg! or te nad me Sometime ne But I ne } i v1 d rie was alway ) was and I felt A feller can “Carter Laughed When I Asked for My Share. d not to not out into the } ke the voice te face e sat i toma failing ud and for } ind a lot f orry ver quarre ke d Wi f and | thre brush and motior ticate voice th m pardner. I went down there into the fog and done the best I could. Sometimes I hadn’t much to eat, times I'd lose a week or two at a time when I was sick; but Carter got his grubstake every month. I saw to that; and it helped a heap to know I was makin’ good, when I got to feelin’ blue over my lung and a lot of other things. “For two years it went on that way, me workin’ in the and some- hay fields in summer and cuttin’ wood in the winter, every day that I wasn’t sick. My lung had got pretty bad and I couldn’t work every day. But still I managed to keep Car- ter’s grubstake goin’ in regular. Then, when the doctors told me I couldn’t last much longer down there, I came back to the desert and got a job in El] Tanko—haulin’ ore across the desert. Not a very healthy job for me, but I done the best I could. “Did I tell you I had a daughter? I forget. Her name’s Elsie— named after her mother. Red ribbon in her hair When her mother died, I sent the little girl down to live with her aunt in the Santa Clara Valley, me havin’ to live in the high country on account of my health, you know. That’s why I started prospectin’ in the first place—to make a stake so I could bring Elsie to the hills to live with Ain't it how motherless child? And “Her aunt wasn’t good to Elsic trange ome women can be to a h a crippled lung, tryin’ aked, and at the same time save enough my little girl away from there. The woman used to beat I sent for Elsi for mein El Tanko. We been mighty happy little girl, stranger, like her mother.” 1e W to Keep my pardner grub t so I could bring a while ago, and she’s been kee ner. The voice was silent. Th ari: unfeeling small eye flitted from the face, into the up to the top of Black Point, out into the brush and back. He continued to indifferent as eve out bru eat, his eyes incurious, “Four or five days ! pering now, “I ran across a feller named Humphrey at the El Tanko. | just come down through the ago,’ the sick man resumed, whis livery stable in Humphrey told me he San Ramonito Gulch mouth of the gulch he found a cabin. While he round for the owner, he came to a shaft. He ‘There was | was a big vein of ore,’ he said, ‘free-millin’ all of the shaft, Humphrey judged workin’ it way.’ From the Zt man must have beer two or three year “Up on top he found an arrastre, and it looked as though it had ground out a tremendous lot of rock, jJudgin by the amount of tailin’ Then Carter Jelson came up. He wasn’t a bit friendly. So Humphrey didn’t tell him they'd Placerville Cart \ I K 1] , er Ville, ! De;T met before, up in wher we met Humphrey in Placer Catied Me a Lot of Things That a Man Hadn't Ought to Call His Pardner’’ August 25,1917 the man. He didn’t tell Humphrey he had a pardner He told Humphrey his name was Smith and that he from the Coeur d’Alene. He seemed anxious to get Humphrey. Didn’t even invite him to eat. So Hum} lit out across the ’ desert, though it was nearly night or three years! r Why, he must have struck this y a few weeks after sendin’ me down into the vall work for him! “Can you get hold of it, stranger? Me, a dyin’ workin’ for three years, sendin’ my heart's blood pardner—and him calmly takin’ it! And all this tims this time he’s got this rich strike! “I borrowed these two donkeys and got San Ramonito Gulch somehow. Before to the recorder’s office and searched the recofds. Carte hadn’t recorded the claim. Afraid to, I guess. Afraid I'd hear about it. But I supposed he just hadn't had time, or had neglected it. them out the best I could, and signed my name as I thought that when I got over there ¢ would sign as the other locator; then we'd post one claim and I'd bring the duplicate in and record it. ; So I got two location blanks and filled the locators pocket ye in my “IT found Carter yesterday. He had mad just as Humphrey had told me. Peacock blue, A five-foot blue! Eno enough for a dozen. It’s right in about three miles from here d for my share. of the peacock Called me nat a mat hadn't ougnt t » call believe that he really meant I hare. I couldn’t. But, when I finally came stand, I made a mistake. I r ened that back to El Tanko I'd cus ne said he'd to El Tanko The some m me a thousand dollars I'd never Then he knock ne dow j n to break and grow in¢ r much after that I found t remember exactly how I got here I'd ome bad and some good. Son good turn out t jut to be good lost in a deser t appe: I } j 1 iging twolocat Both h the ni Brackett rial were put t his own po en took tl man’s canteer ‘ it with wi slung it Si oulde r Continued on Page 28

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ii : | # ‘ | a THE SATURDAY EVENING POST a All leather is not good enough to use for soles bearing the Armour Oval Label. For in- stance, that cut from neck, belly and legs—about 60% There is ZOav-a way to know Best Quality LEATHER SOLES JERE is an announcement that is highly important to every = “© man and woman in America who wears shoes—to everyone who sells them. ~~’ dealer and his customer. sole value, to indicate quality and wear-resistance. Armour has taken the guesswork out of shoe buying for both the A way has been found to visualize and identify Look for this mark when Remember, when you find it, you may be sure the sole is cut out of the solid, tight-knit leather you buy shoes ‘ of the hide—is not at all suitable. t ior week 7 from the middle of the back where Nature grew the hide As a matter of fact, only about 40% of each hide is really top grade sole leather, properly speaking. Unfortunately, soles are sometimes cyt from other parts than the back. And, with edges blackened and grain hidden, even an expert cannot tell whether the leather is close knit and fine-textured or spongy and porous. Only wear will disclose the sole’s guilty secret. But, with shoe values as uncertain and shoe prices as high as they are today, you want, more than ever, to know that you are getting full value for your money. This is why Armour is now embossing the famous Oval Label—the top grade-mark—on each pair of frst quality Armour Leather Soles. heaviest to protect the animal. But the name, Armour, in the Oval Label signifies even more. It is a proof you art buying oak-tanned soles—-Armour-prepared fot you to walk on, by the best process of tanning that man has yet discovered. Of course, Armour Leather Soles cost shoe man ufacturers more than inferior parts of the hid But their use is an indication that such manu facturers are striving for utmost quality through out. The other part ; ol such shoes art likely to be better also! Shoes of Jeading brands—probably the make you now wear—are made with Armour Leather Sole Ask your own dealer for them. cucsco ARMOUR LEATHER CO. 10

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST (Continued from Page 26 e thrust into the besom of his shirt. of his tracks, with the telltale the smooth surface of the right sole, ig of gold and set out through the urve iead over Brackett’s trail, toward San le walked carelessly, leaving a plain trail. t the water hole the burros ever, waiting for their master to rise ross the desert. The master lay very still, faded old blanket, beneath which he and lept so many years, dreaming so many at strike which some day should be theirs, liet camp by r ‘ iép mr Carter Jelson sat at the rude little one-room cabin, filling out two location unexpected appearance of his long-duped ad decided | He would hurry across the d his location. This was too valuable pardize by further delay. Jelson had y, but a series of accidents had pre- yvurro had strayed, and it had taken nearly Then the man discovered that had nearly ruined the straps on his pack- n at last everything was ready the day o he staked out his donkey in order to for an early start. illy Jelson wrote, for he understood of the document. He knew, more- rly all mine litigation arises from On the opposite side of the chair—a crude thing, eat made of rawhide id belt hung upon the chair the open door and the rushy cafion wall outside. except for the night y and then an insolent wood rat amper across the roof, to stop fora his feet upon the boards in an insulting tattoo. At regular interval unded the sobbing wail of an Indian grave- i so far away that it the ghost of a cry ina, majiana, mafiana”’ r midnight. im. | ~Ca he beast. quiet , rit noment and slay arose the of a rwill. A pot of pink beans dutch oven among the coals Moreand More Eisie's Eyes Lost Their Frightened Look crawled his name at st paper and looked up. ood in the open doorway. AsJelson gazed, petrified ment, the visitor crossed the room and sat de chair opposite. Jelson sprang to his feet. aid the Pariah. He spoke haltingly, with intonation of a deaf man, or of one who peech with his kind. d. With the quickness of light the Pariah gun from its holster on the chair back, and } seat with a numbing fear at his heart mg his sealp. you?” he asked, and he did not rec- tt answer. Ir hed his left h the volver in his table and jtook ink was not yet dry, One glance twisted into a cruel grin. lar lawyer!” stead, the re across the he said, the sinister grin He felt in the bosom of his Brackett’s location “Let's see you fill ume descriptions,” he said, and spread Jel hook as with a hard chill. his fellow Brackett?” he asked with a He looked up with what he challenge, and encountered a face from and from which two hard black ke the devilish eyes of a cobra. uur old partner,”’ said the Pariah; and vice sounded more terrible than any- iheard. “ Brackett’s lying over by the ole,”” went on the awful voice. “I just He said you hit him and busted his e sheriff is on the way here.” Jelson's face went gray r dead partner. ‘he cried. ‘‘We had some words and } ns iS ps. ] rth Ezra dead partner’s name, notices, on. bravado. gone as gray sure, I know!” “IT saw the marks of your hobnails on usted his lungs and now he’s dead, That’s but plenty. Don’t worry!” n resolved desperately to bluff. proof.”’ } when he was down re’s no said. “Anyway, this is my prop- 1 I'll keep by ” ‘ ‘s patience ended with a snap. t! I will, A ferocious animal face, and the hand holding the revolver flashed suddenly across the table toward Jelson’s breast. Jelson flung up an arm and knocked it aside. “Wait!” he cried hoarsely. “‘Wait! Don’t do that don’t ——” His shaking hand clawed insanely for the pen and he began to write. When he had finished writing the descriptions into the new blanks he lay back in his chair, the sweat running over his face in streams, his fascinated eyes clinging to the muzzle of the revolver. “Sign ’em,” said the Pariah—“not as locator ness !"” Jelson signed and fell back again, breathing stertorously. Then began a period of silence which lasted for several hours. Both men sat motionless—Jelson with a mounting hysteria which increased with every moment of the horrible silence. He felt that he must shriek or reach across and grapple, but he never dared. The Pariah was resting, relaxed like a wild beast. Only his eyes were vigilant, flitting about the cabin, his alert ears ana- lyzing every sound from the night outside. Out in the brush a mountain jay awoke and called sleepily. The Pariah sat suddenly erect. When he spoke it was with what seemed star- tling irrelevance. “What size do wear?” he asked casually. Jelson strove with his tongue. ‘*Number whispered. **So do I,’’ said the Pariah with satisfaction. “Let’s trade. Mine hurt my feet.” Still fearfully watchi the revolver, Jelson tore the shoes from his feet. In si- lence the exchange wa made. The Pariah stood uy and stamped tentatively try his new footgear. He reached the table, gathered up Jelson’s first two location paper pled them into a ball and threw them upon the fire. They smoldered, caught and blazed. In a moment they were gone, “Now if you want advice,” said the Pariah, “I'll advise you to go away from here and travel fast. I’m sure the sheriff camped at the Black Point water hole. You know what hefound! His men are crazy mad. They’ll shoot on sight!” “Give me my gun!” begged Jelson. “Give me my gun!” The Pariah considered. Then the wolfish grin shot across his face, though his eyes remained the hard expressionless eyes of a cobra. He broke Jelson’s revolver open and tum- bled the shells from the cylinder into his hand. “Sure!” he said, and gave gun and shells to the panic- stricken man. “You can load her up again when you get up the hill a way.” He handed the canteen to Jelson, who took it without observing that it was marked with the name of Ezra Brackett. This fact seemed also to amuse the Pariah. Menaced now by the Pariah’s own gun, Jelson stumbled outside. He glanced with scared eyes down the dark gulch. “Try to keep ’em off!” babbled Jelson. “‘ You tell ’em I didn't do it!” “Of course—of course!” soothed the P: won't listen tome. They want you—mighty bad!” A fresh access of terror seized the unlucky man. He fled up the broken mountain side, his feet scrambling among the brush and rubble. The Pariah listened until the noise disappeared in the distance. Then a spasm shook his lean body and he rocked about in the half darkness, uttering uncouth animal sounds of unfamiliar mirth. Still chuckling, he reéntered the cabin and quickly bound the squares of saddle blanket about his feet. He would leave no more tracks in the earth. He then upset a chair, swept a plate to the floor, and with these simple things established apparent evidence of a hasty flight. As he turned to go the two location notices caught his eye. One he picked up. The other he left lying beside the ink bottle and pen. The first faint light of day was stealing over the moun- tain to the east when the Pariah stepped out. He went to the shaft mouth and tacked up the duplicate notice, which announced that the claim described therein was the prop- erty of Ezra Brackett. It was made out in the handwriting of Carter Jelson. It was witnessed by Carter Jelson, in his own hand likewise. For a moment the Pariah stood look- ing down toward the desert, where lay the water hole. “‘Good-by, old-timer!”’ he chuckled, apostrophizing the quiet figure of Ezra Brackett. “I wish you could be alive for a few minutes and help me enjoy this joke! Mr. Jelson was no good; he couldn't see the point of the joke. He got disgusted and left. And right at this very minute he’s mak- ing tracks for some place else—my tracks!” as wit- shoes you nine!’’ he across , crum- “But they riah. August 25,1917 Again the uncouth figure rocked about over the ground, racked by convulsive laughter which actually pained him. Suddenly he froze and stood motionless, ! cougar. Far down the cajion, it seemed to him, a stick had snapped. He seized his bag and slid into the brush, going toward Hell’s Pasture. His muffled feet made no sound. There were no tracks left to show where he had passed. like a startle iv T SEEMED almost unbelievable that a company of men could have approached so quietly. Fifteen m after the Pariah’s departure, Sheriff Lang stepped from behind a bowlder and ran stooping toward the oper of the Jelson shack. Simultaneously a dozen men appeared, closing in upon the cabin from every side. It was : in silence. A moment later the room was full pointed men. Almost immediately Lang dis location notice lying beside the ink bottle and pen. He picked it up and studied it in puzzled silence. Then he called the attention of his posse to the document. “This is one of Brackett’s locations,” he said. “ Brackett had two of them, signed by himself, when he star here.” “The other one is tacked up on the windlass called a man who had just comein. “I saw it.” “But why isn’t Jelson’s name here also?” wildered sheriff. “‘It seems to be made out it and his name is signed as a witness. But th ners; Brackett told me they were partners, an wonder where Jelson is.” Here the old trailer camein. “I’ve just trail again,” he said. “It goes ri the cabin. Fresh too; I'd jud old. The El T: trailer cast hi “Fire still but open—things all over the He went out and ran up with the eagerness of an ancient | 1. yards he stopped “What's the matter with this fellow?” he « “His tracks are acting funny. All the way from to this cabin he walked heel-and-toe like a p But—look at this! He’s toeing out nov, spr: like a fat Siwash!” “Maybe he’s drunk,” suggested Lang The old trailer inutes door | lone f di sap- yvered the ted over frame,” asked the + up the hi isn’t over half an 4 resuming hi After going a few and studied the trail with per **Maybe,”’ he said doubtf He shook his head as he pondered the problem. tracks undoubtedly were the same that he had followed all started on. Still appeared the left sole full of hobnails. i thesmooth sole of the right foot. Once the old mar stopped Still the three nz istered ir and made a careful measurement. There could Absolutely it was the same track. “a guess you're right,” he call least if he ain’t drunk I am.” For three hours the trail led suddenly at the top of a |} abruptly and went sprawling at bottom of a gulch on the opposite “There you are,” he grinned, point crippled deer always runs downhil man. This feller’s done. He's P farther.” distance. **He fell here,” said the tr: , along the ground. Down in the gulch ¢ raucously. The trailer listened. “‘Old jay bird sees something!” he an excited child. ‘“‘You better get rea It was Lang who saw the man first, bottom of the gulch, among the scattere: The young man cailed to him to surretr the terrified fugitive sprang up and emptied his gun and continued snapping the it was useless, his eyes red and glaring, like the of a trapped beast. “T didn’t do it!” he screamed. ‘I didn’t The old trailer fired and Jelson slid down an The mountains were very “A nice easy job of trailin’,” gnawed off a chew of tobacco and began working uj} with great satisfaction. He cocked an appraising ey squinted wisely at the sun. “Nine o’clock,”’ he guessed. “I figu to the cabin just in time for dinner. be done by that time.” brush-grown bowlders. said the old man. Vv ZRA BRACKETT had come home and ent his long rest in the little cemetery away out in the sand. Round the board shack nearly the whole of E] Tanko’s population was gathered, discussing the mystery in low Inside the Brackett cabin Sheriff Lang comforted For heart blessed k ‘tion of voices. the stricken girl with love’s futile sophistry. suffering, after all, may be healed by the time and forgetfulness alone. (Concluded on Page 78

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FILM FIGHTERS Continued from Page 13

oft parts. We never have any real trouble long spear, I wonder if these fellows think ne side must retre | iniess we empioy outsiders tnere is a Dunch of sty ‘ t ‘ u { " t ‘ ‘ 4 while ago we were making some dock hind with a bed of violets for the rider t ittle might not fit the st Ire scenes at San Pedro and rounded up all fall into? cene wherein thirty Confederate ‘ our extras right on the spot lt was a Mr M: ann, who has directed some of the were told to defend , v labor stor and the strikers and scabs got greatest fight picture s white h me against the ener to mixing it so sincerely that they had to ous ferebodinan until the big ene made indred i . mm ated by the marines from a big “I expect accidents,” he said t lav bu ipture ar bring ; : 1 ruiser that lay near by with every precaution and foresight, | ar Where the direct ace take w "The b dete) dal In another story, made up in S that some day we si have a n failing to te he rebe ere su al , cisco, | thought I would get som ly. I wish there wa me safe way posed to rhe fa 4 é elatiial that really ‘ | types for a den of thieves on the rbar) f making pictures Next wee | have to ich a sincere g that a | Glar Coast. They sure looked the part; in fact, send three hundred horsemen galloping up | yrant’s me 1} ' cleans between most of them wer We found this out a hundred and seventeen steps to an Azte pr ithatecar. | f ret when we turned in forty real motor cops to temp! It will be a thrilling and magnif he necessa n dire Ste teeth clean out the buncl When the bulls’ cent sight, but if one of the lea g rider } ‘ R battered in the doors and saw that crowd should stumble, fall, and begin rolling dow: " me at { they began to recognize old enemies. Some those steps it would start an avalanche of he en of the yeggs and dips also figured out that men and horses that would be mething fighting took place the this was a swell time to pay off old scores. awful!” drawbridge and in the tower Dat So dynamic was that scene that the direc- Whenever we are about t tage such a Mr. Mann one day wher ere r had to cut it in the middie to save picture as this the men are called togethe tart recruiting the ca | i the action doped out, the hazards and rishi elect the tw armic ! are explained and the men warned 1 Get all the Frencl goin unless they ing t ike cl t kre nh arn t rn t Everyone signs a re Saying tha e La andl ur Eng understood the nature f the ture and th rou head ' ’ } that he went into it voluntaril A poor we can t get me good fight stuff we hire j ride for instance, would be a perfe | tong ol tone ) to sigr r that temple ture se VE wren } . , mospheres aboard the rubberneck wago! Field Hospitals for Wounded Actors \" instilling th wit A } and then shot them back to their old of patriotism and prid M | haunts Perhaps the best way to emphasize the not unlike those e rulers have a My countrymen are the only ones who dangers of our war pictures is to te f the ised the English army | e thu seem to like to fight just for the fun of it preparations that we make for handling Men, you know as we | Take O' Day,thep rity ma instance asualties For a big medieval storv take Englis} ire the greatest ‘ ‘ } 3 at ita ar ago the held } tal Vv ‘ I ‘ lele ‘ i sincere and ymmpiete as one y that the | t wits the Western Front to-da Eve he I ‘ he | from first it ‘ g tables w ‘ S t 1 le to handle the wounded. Mot amit ance t as i ‘ W) i vere stationed at var is | 1 the I t { Be eve that i battlenheid ] were nce t I if gee ' i I i Irom the eye i the came : t t the eb Wa \ ‘ t ig re It is pathet what some of these poor camera lines were the stretcher bearers and Wi S Africa? Wh the devils will do for a few dollars nurses, while at the hospital awaited four Engli f course; they are the boys that 4 short time ago Mr. Mann was shooting company surgeons and three from the , n’t beat. because the . scene in which a Mexican bandit had irance mpanie when they are licked imag it locked a captive girl up ir a room and then The optimisn i the men before the iff Nar ‘ 1 f¢ haven t ar had thrown the Key to his men to quarrel! battle was a strange thing As thev rods that’s why vou an fight N ; ver. The tion was not satisfactory, so by the hospital they joshed the 1 ‘ | t have got t ef t t é he director substituted a five-dollar gold facetiously picke 1 out the ‘ the mre from a lot of excitable Fre hme? ed } t iece for the key and told the men thatthe ferred. Or illed out so that M M g ' Defend the ‘ et one who had it when he called “Cut” could heard hin Oh, I say, Bessie, | ead the j vn eve ‘ f the i keep it The fight was pitiable, but not hall charge on the stox ade if l ira | ‘ i ‘ the 1¢ lr} P © tragic as the motive that prompted a nurse As that seemed " pe t t } No, we need not worry about the deca fair ambi the ‘ gave ! g t é ff the | ence of the fighting spir while the Have der a dir i the fe y } Dose N ‘ One Nots ympose ninety per cent of our I \ hope It is g Bessie g Kk weeh Y nursing with him, f né she Is stuck f Training Armies for the Films i t in ea te 1 wor ! L f t t get hir 4 ner ar t lt the picture il $ ( ng Now f Nur t I | uid | ; y will often that’s safe to the ‘ f Chark he ‘ { eofart. A In these moving on, en bo dogs cand conan for thale delawed tench ! f tupon thei real W e, the wounded n exp dor need to be told that uu have a el i ! en they are’ help until¢he bat er, f ve cannot ! e jol uur hand Che Englis} } grifo,”” look out for Neronian realism crab or st 1 picture for a broken leg iy you are a lot of frog-eating rabbits and rhis delightful state of mind is achieved by tw I w i ene once where tl he eg g to dror l over the king manhuana, a harmiess-looking fellow ahead of me was beating in a door fence And from things I’ve heard, the | ttle plant, but tremendous in its results with the butt end of his rifle when it went mean it. But remember you are to be the \ marihuana cigarette is like a shot inthe n his face. We all knew he beet vy ind tha u are fighting { arm: The mouth goes dry, the eyes be killed, but the action of the scene j t i You k1 that whe comes to ye bloodshot, and the future ts entirely even hesitate rhea lent w sused | fighting for ideas the French are the most mmaterial the victim’s carelesst We had beer ’ rior the 1. And r ising Dall cartri SA t se-up stul t ir cniva } e hgnting Mexicans as Shooting Stars where we wanted to show the door s} fora girl. Mr. Mann has pleaded with he tering i mar he We | to let herself be doubled t ene. She . Most of our soldiers and cowboys who been ordered to empty our g alte says If those | ‘ g to take have met the Mexicans in battle are not but this chap was too tired, or else be ved ¢ 1 bea g im with them up to the last impressed with their effectiveness. They it wasn’t loaded—the most mortuary of a litch—-and then some; for I intend to be beco! fearfully rattled and ther ist human beliefs the first one in those towers if I } shoot, shoot, shoot any old place, so long hghting ist far el t dar ne hole Eng ! : ! me they make a big noise. But | never saw rmor is hea and awkw ‘ i t he a man in any vocation who didn’t want to el —ever he the ( ‘ ' give a Me xican all the room he desired id the fighting is all | t va f when he was “grifo.”’ clash of six or sever dred 1 so successf lid it operate tl On the few occasions in the pictures full armor nit I f gE essed t . , when these lads have been smoking mari- thing. With swirling 0 nd <« tre gly common it big lew huana the results have been disastrous. In DdDiIng lances, excited a ging ! t | therwise perte r { a certain war story they got it into their even if the men were all trying to avoid one men were » Stirred wit ne ttle pride addled heads that blank cartridges were a another— which they are not—the tua that the in’t to x : 1 swindle, so they promptly loaded tion would be about as hazardous as one ther. I'llsay thisfort however, the un \ tr and if Ail at 1 at the first ‘ ld cr yOSt ‘ ‘ . ur } \ shot one fellow in the stomach, Rehearsals of tl Kind 1 fighting are most batties, lor t gnting I r VA wrecked the set, and br Ke twenty-two win- quite impossibie, so that everything ist and ne flr ) dows in the glass studio. Their extraordi- be planned perfectly in advance As the } ves i ! yt aim made us almost love then most important action must take place lv Every fighting I wish all these smart Aleck fans who sit front of the cameras, the principals ride endar from that 1 ire Fig ] i their girls and tell them how this is over the field many times to gauge their riot! The stuff pull faked and that a double exposure W ule distances, so that when the ride toward \ ild have made \ I 5 t t come out on the lot some day and repeat one other their simultaneous arr il at write their patter to tne fellows who do the stunts. the point to be disputed will be the ne And from the entel f + — y The vould instantly wish their remarks indicated by the director tumuit of highting ! bye ra * were back inside of them When a man The victors are—or should be aeter voice aliing t ner me t I r

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34 One Pipe-Smoker’s Letter That We Can’t Publish Alaska, and a map of the | j ostmarked Salchaket, ritten on the back of on ¢ ntr ter told us in language of an intry which he thought ripe smoker He had red a worthl eworth Tobacco and the from me tor hty thousand dollars ind what I didn’t know riter of the let singu- incident vhat he consice ss claim ickage of Edg igh what ¢g t the claim eworth took eig was | letter from a real man makes us uracters in the Alaska ire drawn pretty this man, like a regu- it the little trick Fate vile 1 lo prat 4 the ud ‘traded 1 Valuable raise | Ig worth ed pretense that ind in t tobacco he does transaction, 1 the Ivertisement and lug in y 0° ind “ mellow-fragrance. a ( PAG ce lobacco e of its lo in the write they facturers get letters from too And loubth s they are mack m, but the letters we kers certainly do ave never smoked Edgeworth, we lad to send you samples of both samples th h it is mack once or keep nearby in whic it you and use oves vou ent for thes« e, he decide " pleased with his old man we | thev ca now brand, les in his desk drawet working late, and lle was iter he wa serabl sucking away at his bethought himself of les in his desk ther because he wr because Edg tobacco, he that send At any h, and your was eworth liked it so brand ever since, you may ive rate they can't ay like them Plug slice ‘s the same tob e ts prepared for ho “rubs it up” in Rubbed is, all ready for the pipe. ol both suits in two forms, cco Ready and decice iy have a sample l you better { which form ut ‘ of Edgeworth Ready ire 10c¢ flor pox ket-size tin, 50c¢ for $1.00 for handsome humidor pack | Shice 5 is 1Se, 25, 50k dealer isolated paid where no a tew ee Bro. nond, Va, ple ase, To Retail Tobacco Merchante: \{ \ y i t La & Br THE SATURDAY girl fought and struggled and took her bumps, and when it was seen that a blow had rather staggered her, that she was soaking wet and plastered with mud—she had been working in this nasty fight stuff for two hours—the director called through a megaphone and asked her if he shouldn't cut until she had had a rest and got warm. “I should say not!” she called back; “I guess if these fellows can stand it I can. Don’t worry about me. Worry about those fellows up there, for we will be throwing them off the top of that tower in a minute!” When a breach was finally battered through the wall, and the men boosted her in, she called for her soldiers to follow her with commands that would have stampeded a fellow with rain water in his veins. Odds on the Allies have doubled since the news that a regiment of women has been formed in Russia. In one of the smaller scenes in the attack on the towers thirty Frenchmen were sup- posed to go up sealing ladders and dislodge eight Englishmen who were put in defense. As it was particularly dangerous we used professional daredevils. The fighting men of the Eureka were put on the baleony and our fighting men were to do the storming. We thought the rivalry between the studios would insure a good scrap, but through some mutual understanding or lack of spirit the action was not at all satisfac- tory to Mr. Mann’s high artistic demands. Sending for Ben, a stage carpenter, who though net a professional daredevil was rougher in a jam than any other man on the lot, he said: “Ben, I want you to go up and throw those devils off that balcony. It seems that the Filmart has a lot of dead ones, and I’m depe nding on you to save the honor of the studio.’ Making Super-Patriots While Ben was getting into his costume Mr. Mannsent me to theoffice to get a bunch of fifties. These he pinned on his breast, and when all was in readiness he called out: “If you Eureka fellows keep these men down, you get this money—and they are all fifties. And if you fellows get up there it is all yours.” I said somewhere that all most men need to make them fight is an incentive. With some it is pride—with professional fighters it is likely to be money. In any event the urge to action was electrical. The first few men up the ladders were pried off and pitched headlong into the moat, but soon the defenders were overwhelmed by sheer num- bers, though they fought like fiends. But what's the use! Nine-tenths of the smart-Aleck fans po explain to their girls just how the scene was faked. With all that it ae mean to have our stars hurt, the work of the girl in this story shows that we often permit them to take excessive risks. In this same picture an- other of the principals was hit on the head in an interior fight and went completely out, and had it not been for Gritworth, who saw him drop and bent over him protect- ingly with his heavy armor, he might have been hurt worse. When I put our film warfare on the higher plane of wsthetic expression I do not mean that we have all become supermen who have suddenly outgrown all human pettiness. Our warriors often develop per- sonal grudges, and in some of the rough work they have corking opportunities to ease them off. Gritworth is so darned sincere that he sometimes doesn’t realize how rough he is. He was a ferocious knight in black armor in the big battle scene, and so enthusiastic was he that he charged all over the field in utter recklessness of the safety of others at least some of them thought so—and they planned to get him in the attack on the towers. When finally the black knight took the count from the swing of a big battle-ax on his armored head, a muffled cheer went up from several extras who were watching out of the corners of their eyes. But alas, when his visor was opened it was found that they had felled one of their own bunch. There were two black knights, but these chaps didn’t know that. Another lead, who is a corking actor but who is likely to lose his head in the excite- ment, cut some fellows so badly with the edge of his sword that the studio had to fur- | nish him with a bodyguard until his victims came to the realization that it was a mis- toke made by an overenthusiastic artist. For two weeks after the big scenes, and while we were using the same French and EVENING POST English armies for the remainder of the story, we had to keep the police on the lot to break up incipient riots that were an aftermath of those battles. These fights, however, were all among the extras that we hired for the story. Our regulars do not permit their feelings to extend beyond the engin If those extra men stick round ong enough they will forget how to spell “*hate.”’ The great advantage that we of our world enjoy over outsiders is an international amity and respect that comes with com- plete understanding. Our nationalities are so ephemeral and everchanging that racial and national hatreds are very much blurred. Cosmopolis itself could not contain more of a mixture than we possess. Russians, French, Japanese, Americans, Indians, Mex- icans, and what not, mix and work day after day in perfect accord—our loyalty to our studio and our pictures our greatest pride. One’s artistry is respected whatever his race. Once in a while some pinhead will bring his other-world prejudices to the studio, but he gets thumbs down if he makes them too manifest. A short time ago a camera man left for another studio and a camera kid by the name of Soto was advanced to his posi- tion. The kid who was assigned as his assistant, believing himself a superior ani- mal, came to the director general and said: “Mr. Mann, I don’t think I ought to be asked to work for no Jap. Dol have to?” “No indeed!” replied the boss; “the fruit growers are howling for help, and you can get a fine job up in the San Gabriel picking apricots.” So out he went into his petty world of hates and prejudices. It would be a good thing if the jingoes could be cempelled to work in the pictures for a while. One of our Oriental pets, whose sense of humor would be lost on our yellow-newspaper perils, one day asked the director if he could speak to the bunch during a rest in a big scene. ‘‘ Boys,” said he, “‘I want to invite you to a Japanese field day out at Arcadia next Sunday. There will be things to eat, lots of sport, and you'll have the excep- tional chance of see ing two thousand Jap- anese spies at play.”” Everybody howled at his joke, and most of them went. The political internationalist would be tickled to death or mightily bewildered at the delightfully impartial way we fight and serve under any and every flag. A fellow working in a story may this week be carry- ing a banner of Mexico through Arizona, . hile on Tuesday next the same chap may be defending Sweden from an invasion of Peruvian barks. The fighting men of the movies are the super-patriots. They have learned to hoch, viva, banzai and cheer in every language. They are not, however, supermen, and in their private lives they react quite the same as other less perfect humans. The Unpopular Prussian Role For instance, a while ago we made a modern war story, and the fellows who were picked for German soldiers—because of certain feelings in the outer world—were not nearly so happy as those who were to fight under the colors of France. They went about for several days with a rather hangdog manner, and had to stand a lot of gentle joshing. Meantime the poilus were the cocks of the walk. But to show you the strange psychology of the artist-fighter, when it was announced that the Germans had three times as much work in the picture as any others the whole spirit of the men was reversed. The Prussians became almost as cocky as they afe in Berlin—not quite. Our only trouble in this picture again came from the outside. In order that each army should be perfect in the military technic of its own country, a French and a German reservist were secured to teach the men the manual of arms. For weeks they drilled round the lot, but on several oc- casions when we were crowded for room they had to drill together on one of the big stages. It is just as well that the men were merely artists, for had they shared the feel- ings of their instructors the war would have been carried into Hollywood. As it was, the collisions on that stage resulted only in the vocal fireworks of the reservists. The thing that these two poor fellows couldn’t understand was the fine rivalry that existed between the two units, but which refused to go further. Between scenes the absence of any hate was most manifest, for no sooner had the director called cut than both armies mixed with the August 25,1917 utmost fraternity. At the men’s eating, smoking and fox-trotting together, th e re- servists were in turn horrified and bewil dered. Occasionally one would even see a German with his arm round a Frenchman, but he was only consoling the poor deso- lated chap because his ‘‘ ticket’ wouldn't be so big on pay day. Before the present war our military technic was often very questionable, but because of popular ignorance we could get away with all manner of blunders. We used to show our generals leading their troops in person and pulling all sorts of heroics on the breastworks in the close-ups; but now the fans are too wise. They know that the high officers are not the camera hogs that we made them. Furthermore, we have had to revise our whole technic of violent death. In the old days of the pictures if a fellow was shot he clutched his throat, heaved and gulped and then, grabbing the flag, staggered into the foreground and died like the lithographs of Nelson. But from the grim pictures that come to us from the Front we find that such is not the case. We have learned, for in- stance, that if a man is shot through the head he falls like a plummet; if through th chest he goes up in the air and then fall face down; while the man shot in the abdomen simply clutches himself and slowly drops to his knees, and then rolls over. Thi may all sound very gruesome, but art deals with death no less than with life, and the verities of life and death must be familiar to the artist, even though he violate them for artistic effect. Hawkeye is always artistically outraged by the way directors ask Indians to die. He insists that an In- dian kicks and jerks right to the gate of the happy hunting grounds. Real Dangers in ‘‘Fake”’ Fighting In this same war story of which I have spoken we got a fine example of how the wounded behave, for we had a gun explo- sion that was cruelly real. In passing through a Belgian village the French had stopped to fire at cepceorns Germans, and the breechlock of the big French fic id gun blew out, wreaking real havoc among the French soldiers. One man, struck in the face, wandered about dazed and dizzy, and finally sank down in a doorway; an- other, shot in the abdomen, just crumpled up and melted; while a third, fearfully burned about the face, bumped first into one person and then another before he fell Though everybody realized that a fearful accident had happened, not one man de- serted his duty or changed his business. A few of the soldiers looked about, as they might have done in real life, and though a stone paving block was blown right past the director’s head, and nearly hit his most famous star, who was watching the scene from behind the cameras, he kept on shout- ing his directions, and the cameras kept cranking until the bugle blew to cut. And not one effort was made to reach the wounded men _ | the action was all over All of which shows the training these mer get in the e tique tte of social action when a great picture is at stake. Fortunately none of the men was killed, and the physical distress of all three was not greater than their wzsthetic disappoin ment that they were probably out of the picture for good. As one of them lay swathed in bandages in the hospital that night,with his hair, brows and beard burned off, he looked plaintively up at the director and said: ‘“‘Mr. Mann, do you think I'll be able to finish the picture?” I do not wish it +b seem that we claim more physical oe in the moving pic- tures than in other walks and _ indus- tries—we simply ll more opportur to discover this almost universal— though often latent—human attribute. History to the contrary, the fighting spirit is not peculiar to the aristocratic classes. Do not imagine that we discover no yel- low in our ranks; but it is so rare that its discovery is celebrated with a very quaint ritual. Last week Mr. Mann called for volunteers to mix it up in a certain and every man on the excepting one. “What's the matter, my man; are physically unfit?” called the director. “I’m as fit as the next guy,” responded the delinquent; “but I don’t want any of that stuff in mine. I didn’t come into thi game to get m’mug punched.” A curious hush came over the crowd, while at the same time two great brutes, at (Concluded on Page 37 scene, set raised his hand, you

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST lle olin / Better than Leather [| | j wi [ Mr. Rubincam’s Son Fr ; Wore His Neodlin Soles | | 7 4 | Eight Months— His | : Leather Soles Five Weeks | TEOLIN Soles last longer than sole-leather. Always noticeably longer. Often twice longer. And if your | shoes are what most Americans can pay for, frequently ; longer than that. Of ourselves we would hesitate to make } such claims. Nedlin wearers happily relieve us of this by 5 making these statements themselves. j We have reproduced many letters from men which show that there is no sole-wear quite like NeSlin sole-wear. Let- : ters from women-wearers show the same thing, too. And } to the scuffling, pounding, sliding kiddies Nedlin gives the / same unequalled super-wear! Here is a letter which tells f of even a six times greater wear for Nedlin Soles over leather soles: — The National Petroleum Corporation Offices: Colorado Nat'l Bank Building Denver, Colo., April 18, 1917 Gentlemen :— 2 “IT have a boy who was fifteen years old in February. He is a ‘regular’ boy. Heis a Boy Scout, indulges in hikes and all the various boyhood pastimes that play ! havoc with clothes and shoes. “IT bought him a pair of shoes with Neodlin Soles and he wore them almost continuously for eight months. At the end of that time the soles were still good but the uppers were gone. His next pair had leather soles and lasted just five weeks. “I cannot refrain from advising you of this remarkabl | illustration of the lasting qualities of Neolin.”’ Yours very truly, (Signed) H.C. RUBINCAM. Secretary -Treasurer of The National Petroleum Corporation Nedlin Soles are not a substitute for They won't crack like rubber, won't leather shoe soles The V are ter- stretch out of shape ke rubber, w t ally superior to leather shoe soles tear loose like rubber Look They are more resilient, more the name Neodlin underneath each springy, more foot-easy than leather shoe sole. That w protect you ; ever 1S They are waterproot, as against quickly deterioratit soles ul leather never ts They grip the made to look like NeSlin. In black, } ground securely even in wet. white, tan, in all sizes ar I ’ They’ re easy OI floors shoes Lark that mark , _ ' , on your memory: Neolin— And Nedlin Soles are not rubber yet near-rubber They are as flexi- the trade mhol for } } }} ble, Dut yet ghte r than rubber. guaility pr The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Akron, Ohio

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 25,1917 Twelve months ago my associates and I began preliminary work upon a motor car which would embody our ideals. You will be given the first view of the finished car in this periodical three weeks from today. Cw Tack Below is an exact view of The Nash Motors Company plant where the new Nash car and a line of Nash trucks were developed. You will recall that last August Mr. C. W. Nash announced his resignation from the presidency of a group of America’s largest companies manufacturing motor cars and trucks. The notable success he achieved at their head is directly attributed to his genius for manufacturing a great volume of motor vehicles upon a quality basis. Immediately following his resignation he formed The Nash Motors Company and purchased the hundred acre Jeffery plant, 31 acres under roof, which employed 3,000 of the industry's finest mechanics. New buildings were added. Over $300,000 worth of new equipment of the most advanced design was installed. And the ability and experience of the entire organization, headed by Mr Nash and his personally selected groups of associates, was focused upon the development of a new motor ear and a line of trucks that would express their ideals as manufacturers - ‘ arp ee WORE * " VALUE CARS AT VOLUME PRICES

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Concluded from Page 34 ‘ yme mysterious signal from the director, ernment encouraged the use re vould throw up her mtr unit that we might desire: in f t ( : f serv One

, i i ‘ } é away of regular troops as a popular mear i t i dollars a week if the dio name?” went on Mr. acquainting our citizens with the servic release her. However, we have tried ' Ma Well, Mr. Blank, we and of stimulating recruiting ’ how er that she has a greater d ha little fade-out for fragile huskies like ever, we should have to fake everyt} g, met n the trenches and the ho 1 ' you. It will be your chance to be in what with almost prohibitive cost and great Europe, by supplying them wit | you fellows call a swell close-up, for we al- danger is we know from the lett get what a J Ways Keep a rec ord of these gentle scenes.” 1lread near mat ODE pert t godsend are t | ire t At this point, to the | fa bugle, the , then, are all these fig g men piritually and physica ! litter arrived and was placed down stage doing, now that their country has gone to the Front In spite | fi right before the camera. The tender crea- war? Are they slackers, preferring to w é t, this dear little star ted ' ture immediately sensed something humili- as German soldiers rather than Fr imbulance, bought a bar rz A iting to his spirit or his person and started imply because the pay is high« No vonds, and has given lil t Red

‘ to beat it from the scene, but Bull Brown indeed; their art eir é 5 And ‘ r of | } and Ben restrained flight and carefully apart. Some of our greatest villains are I ra in t placed him upon the litter. In spite of gentlest pets. It is amazing the number of dollars in one day, right or 7 M Blank’s strug ind distressing men who have left—or intend to leave Artists a ‘ | loud language Al managed to shoot a few the happy world of make-believe to go to actors perhaps the 1 | leet of the pathet scene, the Front. So full were the studios of t \\ t i unt ior With the bugler leading, so that none _ stuff that soldiers are made of that recruit I ry Red Cross fu A f , hould miss the impressive ritual, a pro ing officers from the regular serv topped our irs f ssion bearing the recumbent f f nilitia, and ali is of volunteer org p for every litt arit rtlag ra Mr. Blank, Captain of Refusaleers, pa i zations—w e latter were still volling t calls were too man) Now, how round the lot through Richmond Vir- combed the studios of every available man i rules nave gone im} and ‘ ginia, by the way of the Rue de IO; of military age. At ourstudio not one man mummers have been perfor , yn | back round by the way of Sitka, stopping of military age without dependents has _petual series of benetits for the Red (

for a cheer from the thnement dwellers of failed to enlist: and for each of the latter It is no easy t gy wher re 7 vorke th d East New York and a colorful reception by who have joined the service the ympany hard ali da ind perhaps may ( e ay the peons of Lima. On the procession is paying his family fifteen dollars a we port at the studio at eleven P. M. fo é ° wended until Mr. Blank’s courage wasknown And just to show that we are not dead night stuff, to run out to town and Z with a from one end of the world to the other ones, those of us who are be yond the age mg or stand on one’s head Ihe er. , ° ) And then reluctantly the tired Mr. Blank limit have organized ourselves into a h don’t seem to care much what we d bracil 1g , ~ ° was deposited without the gate of that guard. Though we shall not be ordered t “anything will be acceptable so ya f } } mysterious city where, for a consideration, the Front, our various units release just is a movie actor.”” But just the fag of ru > | as Dae Be ee S vee; | GTS OF men actually permitted other men to punch _ that many men from state duty. ning irom one place to anot } their mugs! With so many ex-army men in our ranks irain on the nerves, even for film foll Vi = li = Now even Blank was not really a coward. it was an easy thing to organize our forces I saw our handsomest star asle na ita 1CcS

He did not know the studio game i got In this single studio we } 4 compa yuunge in a drawing-room set a off on the wrong foot. Next day he te infantry, a squadron of cavalry, two ma o'clock this morning to Mr. Mann that he would tackle any old chine guns and crews, mot t Ha, ha, b i night, ¢ \ Lil Ant \ assignment if he would let him back on the — searchlights, wireless, signal servic and have to it out that bea tuff if i 4 wil t lot to live down his disgrace. His offer was » I n ur ne , ‘ 10 1young ‘ good friend M ‘ He whispered a f words t greeting, and made |} vay to tl - i i to tl Vitalic Brigadier ! rn eve and i Se t the table where the ger i tT w a t f

efore?” murmured Gabr Oh-h, standing ready to spring at the least | man who dos \ ' _ , \} hv! It is his | . nt +} eetof MM : i . . , . now ae. 7 a mut Che ge a. a Send for Testing Section vdyguard! Mo D f the Grand stood as stiffly erect as a f them, a the l of the J ] VW ! is here at Les Bains, what next though to my imagination it seemed that foram t ibout to happen!” his eyes were nearly popping out of ! 1 was on the point of asking for enlight- head. é ent when I noticed a movement in M. Moulin had sprung to the em; and re é = = the restaurant First one rose, facing > chair at the taff-officer table ind draw- N t << —- ~ . } r 1 stood at the salute—the an- ing it out he stood the A g tor De L + fo we nd another.. Old veterans and distinguished vi The ta f $4.50. «ee =< irming young ladies, nvalesce in the restaurat i ed ind ) é i Ea ~— - 4 4 ] ers, Ut! r wives ‘ ‘ 4 e aaa

CONTINENTAL RUBBER WORK 1904 Liberty Street Erie, Pennsylvania

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST j J 43 AS * ie “Oh, J-I-M-M-Y, come on over, were goin’ shootin’! Your pretty neariy him boy’s summer vacation is over now. Don’t let miss a single day of real sport. Remember the fun you used to get out of your Winchester on those early fall days, just before school opened. It’s the boy’s turn now. Give him a Winchester and let him have the same fun you had He's old enough now to have a Winchester of his own, to know the joy of trigger-magic. at his age What a gun will do for your boy The sport of shooting is the greatest de mental quick ness, fair play, steady nerves, control, and the ability to mix in manly competition with It will develop in your boy the invaluable qualities of self-reliance, concen veloper of mental resources companions tration and perseverance. A boy's natural interest in a gun is going to make him get his hands on one sooner or later, so the sooner you teach him the cor rect use of a gun, the better. Remember that it is just as important for every boy to know how to handle a gun safely 4s it is that he should know how to swim. Let your boy earn a Winchester Medal To encourage marksmanship and the MODEL 006 fle, 2 berr caliber r correct handling of a rifle among boys and girls of America we are awarding Gold Plated and Silver Plated Medals for skill with the Winchester .22 caliber rifle. These Medals are awarded by the Win chester Junior Rifle Corps, an honorary club with membership among the boys and girls all over the United States. There are no dues and no military obligations involved. There is only one thing a boy could show his chums with more pride than a beautiful new shiny Winchester—and that is one of these Winchester ‘‘ Marksman’’ Medals or a bright “‘Sharpshooter”’’ Medal. Get your boy a Winchester rifle. Let him have the benefits that a gun will bring to him. Get him in on this Winchester com petition which will teach him the correct use of a gun from the start. When you see the sparkle a Winchester will bring to your boy's eyes, you will be mighty glad you got it for him. Every boy knows the traditions behind the name *“Winchester,”” so get your boy the gun he can be most proud of, iti ° ” What the name “Winchester means The name ‘ Winchester” stands for the best traditions in gun making. For over half a century, Winchester has been the standard of pioneers and sportsmen. Winchester Take-down Re nih round 6 smmuniiion epeater ever place MODELO3. Automatic hammerless take-down rifle Handles only its own 22 Automatic cartridge Shoots ten he trigger can be pulled 9999 rifles built the West. As the need grew, Winchester originated a model and a caliber for every purpose. Today the Winchester Company makes a greater variety and volume of small arms than any other manufacturer of firearms Every gun or rifle that bears the name “Winchester” is fired over 50 times with excess loads for strength, smooth action and accuracy No Winchester barrel varies one one- thousandth of an inch in thickness or di ameter. By the Bennett Process all Win chester barrels are given a finish that lasts a lifetime; hard to scratch and resists rust. The same care that is taken with Win chester guns is taken with Winchester ammu nition. The two are made for each other. This care in manufacturing explains why Winchesters are used by experts everywhere. Let the boy have it now Don't delay any longer giving your boy the bene fits of a Winchester. There is a place near you, either in the open or at a club, where he can go shooting. If you do not know where to shoot, write us and we will tell you where and how you can, or we will help you organize a club Take your boy down to your dealer today and look over his stock of Winchesters. You will be surprised what a fine gun you can get for a low price. Ask for our catalog and booklet on the proper use of a gun. If your dealer cannot supply you, write direct to us. WINCHESTER REPEAING ARMS CO Dept. 53 ew Haven, Conn. WIN CHESTER World Standard Guns and Ammunition August 25,1917 BOYS AND GIRLS Winchester Medals for skill with the Rifle The Gold Plated ‘‘Sharp shooter Medal goes to any boy or girl under 16 who makes the first grade score with a Winchester .22 rifle and Win chester ammunition The Silver Plated ‘‘ Marks- man’ Medal goes to the boy or girl who makes the second grade score Go to your dealer today; he will give you a sample target and booklet explaining the full conditions of the contest. This booklet also tells you how to get the best results from your Winchester. The dealer will also supply you with plenty of targets. If your dealer cannot supply you, write to the Winchester Repeating Arms Co., Dept. 53, New Haven, Conn

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Concluded from Page 37 way, M’sieur Moulin,” he { enly remarked; qaidar I nee heal ald that you were borr Aubreville “Oui, oui, M’sieur | The ) now the i N pre ere Like the f my ha m’sieur! \ Like the end of 1 se! } C'est bier rhen tell me this—I should ‘ ike you igment on the point—do y th we could hide half a dozen d ns | f ntry behind the Aubré e hills d { } spring them as a bold surprise upon the ‘ enemy?” c mm. The hand of M. M e! t 1 ttle as he continued tof the glasse So i his studies i nis dreams, were ea}: ing fruit at last. In a matter of the firs importance he was Deing suited by tne Maréchal de France he who had always known that he was to be the man of destiny, was to be V1 ] “ Half a dozen divisions, 5 1 Say ” he stammerec he who had always felt that he the sa i “Yes I K 1t migi t done, though I am frank to tell you that some of the gentlemen of the staff are rhtfy! UDLIUL M. Moulin permitted himself a pr proud look at the officers r nm i the those officers who had always he lightly, even calling him be } I “Old Soup Pipes.”” Olds Pipes! M Dieu!—to say nothing of their detestable witticisms about his grand tem of ig- nets. Oh, but verily every man has his day. Verily! Verily!! Yet even in his hour of triumph M. Moulin did not t t I t “a. f + 1 a ; f nceeai SIX e Aubré ( ri Iteer ? I 107 " ‘ i Z a n " r ’ ‘ Y ? j I f , ne i} i t i gua ! ntee t i€ ‘ ir? { | i ¢ } i j is t { é I t ig vee Barapa Hp tage mgr ro aioe On yh That Were asked Gabrielle, he e trembling a littl f eye he sa \ i Pointed SATURDAY EVENING POST Bent he plav is a i te | ( M h : r iu nt ‘ Bones traight | Bones | That Grew Straight in Educator Shoes ‘You are leaving us so soot te t?” He was thus engas , Bent by Shoes Why Haven't You Soldierly Feet? — - : | wi 'Now then 7 (sy rie é passing sol é ite 0 ‘ ma re ye ‘ \ sible i ‘ ‘ ‘ K Mi \W 1EN, Ch DREN | ‘ ‘ ‘ , ; , | har | t % t \t \ f t ‘ he we ( Bent Bones M bras } | | RICK A HUTCHINS, I , . 14 High St., I n, Ma pieieln ss EE Te| PODURTOR Se SHOE ® And aga ’ make e | EE —_ a

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EPS >E r Art THE SATURDAY EVENING POST lel Phe Ac al iV all tand N ~~ Hk 4 g St. Louis, 1 kin } August 25,1917 Progress has made Cmpexative, the coming of this gral new SL honogiaph ] lian-Vocalion had to come. at fundamental race for self decree The and devised for to be developed ! sor lor also playing and Lie { the human dictated tl most ure is the available neans ever music, incomplete all history lor per il ex pre mn no mu 1 onal recognition or taken its up ol accepted musical of knowledge, \eolian Company was virtue this higher development id spring tered self-expression in musi than Hlan Company d more 1 quarter ot a ryan, the pipe-organ and the by this company, carried far tandards and made available honograph fundamen- It may d makes of records, and will a | he better class be THE AEOLIAN “VOCALION play these with no more personal att ention t il thet phonographs require In tone and architect tandard ol ill \ hath ol at It l revolutionary h» parture esSsion By »\ records using fancy every Words cannot this added | interest tt comes the nd { : ’ art ol yrea their « to make tl wre mus lem compr Che had to take Organ, the the Weber ment Aeolian Vocalion had t } place | And cor Xe ol in Steinway its \eolian Luo-Art musical eside the great Orchestrelle, the planos-——as the supreme achi among instruments x Conventional styles of the are priced from $35 to $90 to $350 Its Cy} Vocalion without Graduola $75—Graduola styles from Many beautiful art models An interesting descriptive booklet 5 | at moderate cost sent upon ddress Dept. C-s AEOLIAN COMPANY 007 Olive St LONDON ~ PARIS AFOLIAN HALL, NEW YORK request. A Cincinnati, 25 W. I SYDNEY yurth St Indiana pe

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—-= “i THE SATURDAY EVENING POST YOU NEVER CAN TELL WHAT A MINISTER’S SON WILL DO Continued from Page 10 “Heard from him lately?” asked Harv as he put his spoon carefully under a piece of marshmallow “Yes,” said Ellena briefly, putting her spoon under a yellow wedge of Elberta She did not add, as she might, that the letter was short and that her ‘‘lately”’ meant two weeks before. But meeting Ethel Anderson on Main Street the next day she was not permitted to reply so briefly to the same question “What do you call lately?”’ demanded Edgar’s pretty, peevish sister-in-law. “I'll bet he’s treating you the same way he’s treating us. Two stingy lines every three weeks! But that’s the way folk who go up in the world usually treat their old friends’’—tartly Color flared into Ellena’s pretty cheeks; for Adella Thomas had come along and was brightly listening “When are you and Edgar thinking of getting married, anyway?” asked Adella vivaciously “‘Oh— presently,” replied Ellena curtly. ** Does he tell you all about his work and the people he meets, and how much he is making now, and— and everything?” asked Adella interestedly “Oh— mostly,” said Ellena briefly. “Then, would you mind letting his mother read a few pages?” cooingly in- quired Edgar's sister-in-law. ‘She'd be so grateful to you.” There was a very decided color in Ellena Rowdrick’s cheeks as she said: “Oh, certainly—if I haven't mislaid the last one.” It was the following week that a Sunday newspaper gave Edgar a whole page of its supplement. Amitytown read it greedily and solemnly “I admit I’m stumped!” said Henry Rowdrick, raising smiling eyes from his young townsman’s favorite dietary, favorite color, favorite literature, favorite pitcher, favorite brand of underwear and favorite form of jewelry. “‘I never expected a son of the Reverend Anderson to corral quite so much of a Sunday edition. Heard from him lately, Ellena?”’ “Yes,” said Ellena briefly, reaching for the page her father grinningly laid down; though already she had gone over it three times. “Yesterday I saw that Brann’s front window had a display of Anderson Neck- ties,”” laughed Laura “Trust Dave Brann to take advantage of anything!" chuckled Ellena’s father At that display Ellena laughed scorn- fully the next time she passed the store which was the next day Harv, who happened to be in the door- way—which might have been the reason Miss Ellena laughed so audibly —looked a bit sheepish. But he said stoutly “Business is business. Already we sold seventy-six. Nothing like a name’ with some spitefulness of tone **Oh—business!”” Ellena’s plump shoul- ders shrugged and her pretty heels clicked seornfully against the pavement as she went on her way The next week came another picture. The Wallawoollograph Company was un- usually expeditious in keeping their latest star before the public. This picture wasasociety drama. Edgar, as the neglecting husband, lounged elegantly in perf2ctly fitting clothes in a great white palace set amid California palms. In the first reel his lovely wife and two little chil- dren gazed sorrowfully after him as he lounged, every little while proffering gentle kisses to him. In the second reel he curtly let them know that these gentle attentions bored him; and then he put on an elegant fur-lined overcoat and went away to call on a large lissom lady, who wore four-inch earrings and a black lace dress that showed more of the lady’s anatomy than Amity- town considered in any way proper In the third, fourth and fifth reels he con- tinued to call on this lady, and evinced a familiarity with wineglasses, evening clothes and chauffeurs that rather dazed Amity- town. In the sixth and seventh reels, though, he tore himself from the large lissom lady's clinging embrace—several times this tear- ing took place; once in a close-up, then in a fadeaway—and went to cast himself on his evening-trousered knees before his sad young lovely wife, who forgivingly drew his handsome curly head to her bosom. ‘ve Now there was noth this pi ture that most of Ar ytowr hadn't seer done in many other pictures, by other film actors and actresses “But when our Edgar's doing it, it seems so—so funny!” gurgled Ethel, his sister-in law, at the close. And everyone who heard feltthatsheexpressed the common opinion except the Reverend Edward Anderson, who was not so familiar with screen actior as the rest of the town; he had never gone to the moving-picture theater till Edgar was to be seen ‘I don’t call it funny,” he now stated sharply. “I call it unseemly.” “Oh, no!” Ellena, behind him, felt obliged to protest prettily “And, any way, Edgar can’t do what he pleases. He has to do what the director * “Don’t talk to me!” sharply returned his father. “ Andif you have any influence with my son, Ellena—though I doubt whether you have, after seeing that woman to- night—I wish you would urge him to get into different work.” “But, really, Edgar can’t help doing what the director says,”” argued Ellena, her cheeks very red at part of the Reverend Anderson's Spee “Oh, I guess ig aone rdgar don't hate } ob,” murmured Harv Brann, who happened, as usual, to be beside her ‘I don’t know as you know anything about it!"’ flared Ellena. “Huh!” said Harv, his square face squarer than ever before. ‘‘ Have a cherry- and-walnut sundae on your way home?” “No!” said Ellena with more energy than the courteous query seemed to justify “Don’t, then!” snapped Harv in the tone of a turning worm, and strode off In his next picture Edgar Anderson took the part of a young reforms His reforn ing netted him a beautiful society heiress as wife. In seven reels this girl wore seven dresses of an exquisiteness and cost that made Amitytown gasp gut, of course, the theater was dark, and so no one could very well know that several t du seven reels Ellena Rowdrick glanced dowr peculiarly at her own neat voile shirtwaist and third-best cloth skirt But Adella Thomas, for one, at least, noticed that to the next picture— entitled Clinging Arms Ellena wore a brand-new white crépe dress under her raincoat Ly good: ess, you re certainly togged up some just for a movie!” Adella wonderingly “Trying to outshine the girls on the film?” nastily asked Ethel Anderson. “* Ed- gar isn’t real—he can’t see you!"’—with a little laugh Ellena’s pretty face turned a red that can only be compared with the hue of a ripe ripe beet. Edgar’s peevish sister-in-law was reported to have a nasty knack of read ing other people’s minds Perhaps it soothed a ruffled temper that Harvey Brann was not so acute of gues and merely succumbed to the enticing ef- fect of the low-cut lace-frilled white dress, and humbly begged her, apparently forget- ting her last rebuff, to please have at least a part of a cup of hot chocolate with him on her way home—if she wouldn't have a whole one. She consented. Adella, at a civil but weak invitation from Harvey, went along with them. It was while she was scraping the last brown spoonful from her cup that Adella deliv- ered herseif of the following: “Do you know”—thoughtfully—“ I'm frightfully tired of Edgar’s pictures! It seems to me we've seen him do everything under the sun that a human being can do We've watched him eat and sleep, and dress and undress himself, and die, and get married and divorced, and be led astray, and intoxicated, and drugged and and tempted and above temptation, and suicidal, and pious, and villainous. Say, El lena’’—with a giggle—‘“‘have you thought that life with Edgar will hold mighty few surprises?”’ ““How you talk, Adella!” cold response “Heard from him lately?” asked Adella “Not long ago’’— briefly “It must, though, be awful interesting to be engaged to him,” rather plaintively conceded Adella. ** When’s he ever coming back for a visit?” “T shouldn't be surprised to see him any day,”’ said Ellena, with a certain hint of defiance in her tone. commented reformed was Eller a’s Is that so?” Harvey Brann’s square face seemed to get square! But Cy exhibited three mor ture f Edgar Anderson before An young celebrity (ne ‘ " rhe drama; Edgar wore shabt i ; tried to support a wife and six rer a pittance “Oh, you poor Edgar!” giggled A in the middle of the secor re R doesn't that look Ke the he wore wher he went away The next was a war-and thriller I this picture Edga wore pat i fur ne overcoat, and smoked monogramn M arettes A close-up made plain the e1 twined letters on the white paper tube “Huh!” remarked Ab Lawson. “That don’t look much like the itht he owned when he went away! In the last he was a great young gover nor, and walked about and through a great white capitol as nonchalant is though he had been born ir * Pretty soit ret f t ‘ ! | Cy himself, after watching The next day ime a tele ! } gar saying that he found it pe ble to drop off at Amitytown for a night — bars a night, that is He would reach there at eight-thirty P. M. and would be obliged to hurry on his way at four-thirty A. M Part of Amitytown took the news ex citedly Mostly, besides } mother, this was the younger part i who had seen more history in the making, remained tolerably cool. Old Dave Brant did not even postpone his regular bimonth)) buying trip to Chicago; and Henry Rowd rick cold-bloodedly did I of putting aside his participation in the Coal Men's Convention at St. Louis that week He said—abstracted thoug! that noon as he kissed his younger daug} ter good-by ‘I suppose you'll be one of the chief bra band bearers at the depot to-night?” Hlow you talk!” protested Ellena, her neeks a bright pint Asa matter of fact, Ellena was not one of the gushing, gaping, handshaking crowd that met Edgar at eight-thirty rp. Mm. P sibly because the only telegram announcir the young mar *s coming had bee ent to his parents and none to her In a daint new pale blue gown, fashioned by accident or by aesign a great dea ike a gown W ! by a giri in ( nging Arn he remained expectant on her own porct There, about nine-thirty, came young Edgar Andersot A big bright moon made the evening nearly as light as day, and the are light just in front of the Rowdrick resi dence assisted the very capabie moon Through the gate, up the hydrangea bordered path, briskly he walked; very much, indeed, as he had walked up the path to The Wronged Husband’s trirm porch ‘Hello, Edgar!” said Ellena, putting out her hand **“ Ah— how d’ye do, Ellena? taking it. Then he leisurely sat himself or the top step; very much, indeed, as he had sat himself on a top step of the porch in one of the movie pictures. ‘I didn’t see you at the depot with the rest of the crowd,”’ he said with some reproach, as he took out a cigarette *“N-no,”’ admitted Eller 2. curiously watching him delicately hold the gold banded cigarette between graceful thumb and foref nger; just as he held cigarettes on Ned Dana’s Rancl “Seen many of my pictures?” he asked ts! The re fine = sald she politely ‘Il had rotten backing in The Wronged Husband,” he told her with retrospective gicom “Oh, no!"’— polite Surely you saw how that leading woman action?” he protested indig draggé dr nantly 4 pression that she remembered he had cast in his film I—I didn’t notice,” she confessed. He shrugged his well-set shoulders Oh, I dare say most of the fineness of a chap’s acting goe over the heads of these small towns,”” he mu ed toleraatly leaning his curly head back against a pillar just as he had leaned it against a pillar of The Governor's porcl “Perhaps,” admitted Ellena uncomfort- ably. “‘But I’m sure everyone here has admired you frightfully He ‘ he Re eofaSs A! ! ‘ ‘ s By the wa of Hor re WW ‘ Ar WW He “ai () I ar | A grace t | as t pa \ far r Kt et I ‘ ‘ _ ‘ vie ( Arr " ‘ (et The Herald na ‘ 0 | ‘ . I t t j he set ‘ hat ex ‘ ‘ The Lure of a Sire , Betrayed by His Best Fri I w wha her kind of 1 ive give re Ol f ree! TI 1 meant tk a hast ‘Were r ‘ ( ng Armes clear? ne aske he ciga rette Wi 1 gus ! ‘ ud } ena The vere i! “ The ougt ‘ iy rked like a aog ib gy eT Then there w i ef ‘ } igar broke afte g it Eliena prett pered teet | ‘ ue Ankle which shows ‘ Irant te ‘ he ! ale | b \ I—er—I haven't v © you ver regula 1 believe I got the la er just a ye if aid Ellena med \ ee, 7 \ slimy ti t} hts, energ ngtl he sad I e! e when I rea me I understar i I tel And | decide afte Kg struggel ' j t " ' me é feel | id a rig et my 4 py il desires take prece e of 80 ma I ! vt ' me ft © greats pleasure hat can eve ito tarved ‘ I'm afraid Id lerstand just what you mean,” puzzled Ellena He leaned an elbow on the floor of the porch and cupped his chin in is strong graceful hand Ellena involuntarily rn called that just so he had leaned, just so } cupped his comel hin, in a scene with the vampiring lady Marriage terse he explained: ** We who lay our live n the alta f Art feel that we must foreg he h ' ate life that lesser men ma Ohl’ n red Elle g queer it a distant i Edgar Andersor ke er Fror the low-cut pale blue ke ‘ Ami towr had an exe ‘ maker mM flower-soft neck and I me as [ror A CALYX Even in the mo« I paier \ a Amit owr D i ! ged the arms of a igrar 1, Ellena Rowd r prett heeks were peach-pink And ne t at ‘ ‘ : . ’ vt 1arr hire ba Impetuou Edgar started from where he sat Ellena ret ber that in The ] t la ‘ he | Lime ted from where he i me impetuous tragi way But it is too n f an!” he exclaimed rebe \ yrar } ul! Wh t | I Appine i ell as othe ‘ Eller with a ‘ change ol e trot t t ordinarily ea I is pret A VnetT ] wer i B I ena pre eee } lena, deftly elude he just a def i ight i done oO} r Eds ‘ l we take if But she had to reps e shar ‘ before he w belie epi She watched hin to t gat the gate, down the treet And ther Then she picked uJ ‘ hor Mt Ken Conciuded on Page 46

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 25,1917

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mand has doubled in the past three months. passing cars on dark roads one’s full light is needed. And then More than 700,000 cars now light their roads with this is when the dimmers shut it off. glareless, all-revealing light. You meet them everywhere, and But that was only one fault. Those shaft-lights which are are always glad to meet them. disappearing threw light straight ahead. The nearby roadsides Now 19 famous car makers equip all their new models with and the turns were dark. the Warner-Lenz. The Franklin began in Curves were left unlighted. So were July. And other fine cars will adopt them as oan = downgrades, until the car was on them. The fast as conditions permit. On All New Models lights pointed with the car. Think what that means. At present rate of These 19 Makes The result was tense night driving. Onl: one-third of all cars running, by the year’s end, Packard Reankiin on stretches straight and level was there will be Warner-Lenz equipped. Yet the Warner Lenox McFarlan satisfactory light. . ; . . Marmon Singer ; Lenz was one year old in May Never before 7 ‘ ° r¢ 4 Murray Ohio Electric has a motor car improvement met such quick, Hal Twelve Daniels 8 Join These 700,000 Now widespread success. Stutz Pathfinder Now those faults are ended—all by 7. , othe dete ee White Doble Steam It has revolutionized night driving. It is so Fiat Fageol right and so essential that motorists Peerless Moon add it in a moment. And one hour « Cunningham :

single lens. It costs but a trifle ist it. In no other way can a trifling driving will amply repay you so much to motor car enjoyment. Note the cars which have them, new old. Mark how their roads are Old-Type Lenses Doomed And remember that $3.50 to $5.00 will light your car for 2 1 that way. Discard your old lenses now. Soon a car wit! + will seem a strange exception. Long evening n who knows can question that the old-type A multiplying number of traffic laws ferbid it, And dimming quells the light. laws were hardly needed. Every mot 1 -oming. This is the time to bring your headlights u; urteous and unsafe the . <8 bows ; aiaie they must an | ) \y “ais «| (te) WAR RG / x E& )

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—— ——— —______——,__ __ —--___ __ THE SATURDAY EVENING WARNERIENT This is A. P. Warner, of the Warner Auto-Meter Fame, and Inventor of the Magnetic Speedometer ry 17 Note how the Warner-Lenz lights the road- sides and the turns, as well as the road ahead. With ordinary shaft lights that is never so. Their narrow beams always point Each Warner Lenzis 176 lenses with the car. in one. 7 nd a len-Fold Better Light Now, as you know, whole States forbid the glare-light, as Rise and fall of the car lifts and depresses ordinary shaft do countless smaller communities. In the many laws there are lights. The Warner-Lenz floods the road with light, whatever nany requirements, but the Warner-Lenz meets them all the car’s position. At a hill-crest it lights the downgrade. At It makes your full light legal anywhere. the foot of a hill it lights the upgrade. Going straight ahead But there are other requirements which are equally essential lights the road which you intend to turt They should also be considered. The laws are for protection, All these things are important but ideal night-light is important too. } The Chief Necessities Warner-Lenz light is wie snitiila Wales Snaiiah First, a glareless light which any eye can the same in any position. out some scores of new-type lense dane face. The Warner-Lenz light is as soft as Turning of the lens in any type that’s offered by requirements oonlight. ) al 76 lens in o c . hich we cite moonligh There re 1 ses ne, so the lamp-rim does not which w the light rays are diffused Next, a fairly far-reaching light. The War affect > ner does rise page compared many types of lens n ner-Lenz lights the road ahead from 300 to and fall of the car. That scientific w Now all equip with Warner 500 fect. is vitally important. olin aii deotene diedie elke aeade ens ae Then a widespread light. That is to light cost the curves and curbs and corners. The War Note also the verdict of uset oO r-Lenz lights the whole field of vision—almost a full half 100,000 users monthly adopt the Warner-Lenz. Note the light circle. Close to the car and far away, it lights everything about they get. Five minutes in a car thus lighted will convert And it makes objects seem as they are. to the Warne! Constant jar is likely to turn a lens in the lamp-rim. With See your dealer or write to us. But be careful not Warner-Lenz, that doesn’t matter. The light is the same, how misled. See that the name Warner-Lenz is embossed on the edg ever the lens may turn predenper-acnarp You are missing much every night rive without the Warner-Lenz THE WARNER-LENZ COMPANY 918 So. Michigan Avenue, Chicago Prices of Warner-Lenz 5 t y S350) 10! to 1) S45 ‘ ) Q! st tibee 100 West f R k 5 er p PLEASE NOTE—If your dealer hasn't them and will not get them for you, write us and give name and model of your car It Lights the Dou ngrades and Upgrades Regardless of Car's Position pees coocesreeey TIT TeoErEr SECT : mo ram PUREE CERES PRETTY 7 11 SR 6 SS 08 SYS 8S 1S 1 5S 6S 1 SN 8 SR 8 8 5S SS 0 a Sh SS SS 0S SS Sa SS CUCECIAEL AC AXAESSLTUIIC IIIT CL ATE TEC ELERLIS ESTES EEEEAE SESEESILELAT Tas CREE TET

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Conctuded from Page 43 r cross the dewy lawn to a indignantly. ‘What culking there behind that hand hair, running a nervous ipstanding black front came forth mean by wrathfully ’ to see whether he gave you kl so free with in his belligerently i what-if he had?” hotly demanded this, Harv dao you kisses he’ A Fair Exchange * a NeW York magazine edi- _ for convenience, we shall call last winter down in her colored cook came k the news that she was about to spent One day I thought you were al- iid the mistress in some “: 2 the domestic, smiling pleasantly black nigger Gawge you’s n hangin’ round yere—he’s my present husband. De one Ise aimin’ to marry dis comin’ time is name’ Henry.” Well, when do you expect to get your divoree?”’ asked Mrs. Blank ‘Lawsy, lady, we ain’t pesterin’ wid no '’’ explained the prospective bride, and Gawge is done lost our An’ so he gwine marry wid a gal yere in town dat he’s tuck a shine to, an’ Ise gwine marry wid Henry e night. Dat’s all dey is to it!” She een hal livorce “ lel peem lak me taste for one ‘nurer on de san r Mrs. Blank was properly shocked ascertained that there was a colored lawyer community, and, through the cook, gave orders that he should take steps at mee to procure a legal separation for the agreeing to stand the expense, was told, would amount to in the pair, she which, she dollars mornings later Mary appeared at breakfast time, all grins, to ask for con gratulations and a wedding present. The it seemed, had taken place the tore eventeer A fe \ ; ceremony, evening lv orce decree so quit kly Mrs. a div he re ‘ “Can you get as al! that down inquired Blank The bride giggled in embarrassment I'o tell you de truf, Miz Blank,” she ‘me an’ Gawge an’ Henry, we hit over together. An’ it seem eventeen dollars wuz a lot of money to be wastin’ on a nigger lawyer papers. So we put wid it an’ bought a confessed, all talked lak to us dat fer divorcement dollars lamp jest three mo’ hangin’ The Climbing Clubs Most of the mountain-climbing clubs i planned to hold their annual vacation trips as usual this year in spite of the exist ence of the war. This and ia helpful thing to do, all things con idered. Those who are left behind, un- uckK\ enough not to find service, could not better employed than in doing good, stiff The Sierra Club of the Slope, a body with large member t cards to all its members call to the fact that the regular work would be carried on as usual; ipposed that most of the other would follow the same luring the current year the way, speaking of outdoor outfit- there is something half military and practical in the rules and regulations own by some of these mountain clubs tfits of the members taking part regular climbing trips. We read a good deal of writing about practical , how to camp out, what to use, this or that advice regarding what to do and Sierra Club sends out structions to its members before was a wise indee yuntain wor ent 7 ntion orvanization outhttin to wear The inted ve members are allowed to take part in a p. There may perhaps be value for the utdoor man in reviewing some of these regulations Leggings are recommended “unless high " There are some members boots. The regular or boots are worn who will } wear hig THE SATURDAY “Then—then I was going down to the basement of the store and hang myself!” hoarsely declared Harv. ‘“‘That’s what!” “Harv Brann! You're not in any movie!” “Who said I was?” ‘You act like you are!” giggled Ellena. “T don’t care how I act!” Ellena regarded him demurely a second before she said: “He didn’t.” **Ellena She picked up her short silk skirts again and scooted back to the porch. Harv ran after her. “Ellena professional mountain climber is apt to wear heavy shoes instead. Women find leggings with light shoes desirable round camp. Especial emphasis is laid upon the desir- ability of having plenty of heavy and serv- iceable The Sierra Club wisely points out that two pairs of medium-weight socks are better than one pair of equal weight. Women find a pair of stockings and a pair of boy’s size woolen socks very prac tical Again, this club brings to notice some- thing that this writer has always found extremely practical—the roll of zinc-oxide sticking plaster. Chamois heel protectors, or a strip of this plaster, will protect a ten- der foot against chafing. The Sierra Club instructs each member to have a five-yard roll of one-inch adhesive tape as well as a small package of cotton. It sounds very gruesome Women on trips wear broad- brimmed hats like the men’s. Quite often they use large blanket safety pins instead of hatpins. Each member is expected to take his or her toilet articles, soap and towels, also mosquito net and gauntlet gloves, as well as colored glasses to protect the eyes Women are advised also to carry heavy dark veils, as the sun of the high altitudes is very trying. No sunburn is worse than that acquired on a snow field. Men are instructed to carry one extra pair of khaki trousers or overalls, one extra lightweight flannel overshirt and sweater. No overcoat is tolerated. do not take any coat at all but if one is car- ried it is of light weight. Women are asked to have an extra lightweight skirt and waist for camp wear— short, not many below the knee. Under the skirt bloomers of the same color are worn. Skirts of any great length are dangerous in the moun- tains. Underclothing is of winter weight, or at best of medium weight; one change should be taken The shoes worn should be stout, and by all means should be broken in before the trip is started. The shoes should have heavy soles, well hobbed. Tennis shoes or mocca- sins are allowed round camp. Fach member is expected to take a small lunch bag. The canteen and drinking cup are not considered as absolute necessities Bathing suits are sometimes taken, but would seem not to be worth transportation for the most part. Tents are not taken in the outings of the regular mountain club. Sometimes women combine and use a tent as a dressing room The lightweight seven-by-seven A-tent with ridge rope, without poles or pins, is recom- mended by the Sierra Club. Any tent must go inside a three-foot dunnage bag, so that it can be packed on horseback. This club suggests a piece of dark-green percaline or silesia, about six feet in width and twenty feet in length, strung on a heavy cord, as a practical dressing tent, total weight about three pounds and a half. One would do for several of the women members. This club suggests a pocket roll for the care of one’s camp effects. It is made of denim or drilling, three feet square in the back, with three box-plaited pockets, each a foot deep, extending the entire width. These are sewed to the back and bound with tape. The upper pocket may be divided into three parts to hold small arti- cles, and all pockets are closed with flaps and tapes. This little housewife can be hung up on a tree in camp by means of an eyelet and cord. Nota bad thing at all. The dunnage pack allowed to each mem- ber is only three feet long and eighteen inches in diameter when packed. It may socks. these one Some inches EVENING POST “*Maybe he didn’t want to,”’ said she. Harv Brann iooked at her— pink cheeks, blue eyes and pretty white neck. “Huh!” said he. It was some thirty-five minutes later that he inquisitively asked her two pertinent questions. To the first of them Ellena’s reply was a return query: “Do you remember one night Adella Thomas said something about seeing Ed- gar so much?” Harv shook his head. “T never remember anything she says. But I remember you said you expected him back ’most any time.” have canvas handles riveted on the sides or bottom, and the owner’s name and address may be printed on each pack. A knapsack or pack harness is suggested by the Sierra Club management for those who want to take side trips, but the dunnage bag limit is inexorable, for transportation in the moun- tains is difficult and expensive. Two or three candles may be indulged in as a luxury. I have even seen a beautiful display of Chinese lanterns in these big community camps. The club instructs each member how to pack his outfit: ‘“‘The bedding should be laid on the ground, extended full length and folded so as not to be more than three fee in width. On one end of the bedding lay the packed pocket roll, and then roll it up inside the bedding. Fasten the entire roll with a stout cord or straps, and pull the dunnage bag over it. The packing of the outfit is an important point, and reference is made to the rules and regulations regard- ing the dimensions of the pack. The weight and size limit specified will be rigidly en- forced. If packs are overweight or over- size the excess will be left behind.” In its little pamphlet the Sierra Clu prints the following itemized table of arti cles and weights, which may very well kept in mind by the amateur camper it portion of the country: The club management considers the fore- going a very liberal allowance. The total weight is twenty-seven pounds, which leaves a small balance for fishing tackle, writing or sewing outfit—all within the limit of thirty pounds Of course the foregoing has reference only to one’s personal equipment, of bedding, clothing, and so on. The cook tents, stoves, utensils, grub list, and so on, and the corps of cooks and dishwashers, packers and gen- eral camp help, are handied under the judg- ment of the club management. A Lame Joke EORGE GOULD recently went into a J fashionable restaurant with a friend who is very lame. When they were ready to leave, the friend asked the waiter where his crutches were. The waiter looked round wildly for a moment and then said, naively enough: ‘Are you sure, sir, you had them when you came in?” August 25,1917 **[—er—just wanted to see him again,” said Ellena. Which was her reply to Harvey Brann’ second question. ‘‘Just to be sure,” she added. Henry Rowdrick, returning Coal Men’s Convention, remar lena’s stout, placid mother: ‘I must say I am surprised you?” Mrs. Henry Rowdrick rep “Oh, not very! About a} began picking out the mor embroidered so carefully on of linens.”’ A Case of Calculus AN INDIVIDUAL who had all assurance in the world was being g amined on Governor's Island for enro ment in the officers’ training Plattsburg. The officer in charge of the inquiry gathered from the ot} manner that the applicant ex; jor’s commission at the very cially as the candidat knowledge of milit: *‘Have you had hig your education?” “Have I? answered the | “How about algel “Oh, yes, indeed! “Have you had cak “Well, **but I’ve had appendi school at er’s confident ected a ma- no,”’ said the Pity the Poor Buoy YOUNG man who w in an inland comm i land community—and who made good i: Chicago, moved to New York to] many persons do who have n Chicago. He bought himself home in one of the suburbs or Long Island Sound After he got East to visit him. The been near tidewater before. On the night of her arrival, paused, with her fork as born ar nity a ver settied his good |: Pood lk poised, ar her sor ““What’s that ringing sound I hear? *‘That’s a bell buoy,” he expl: ‘stationed o re il he channel warning of a reef.” The old lady lk nothing more. The nex and the mence “What's the m the head of the | } wked bell rang turbed loo} “ I'm poor boy weather upor thinkir ~ Ni out ther vor An Honest Confession HARLEY TOWNE say / Ireland Protestant to Catholicism and went to to make her first confession. her thinking he recognized communicant, and noting she seemed embarrassed undertook to start her off. “Well, my child,” he “what have you be time I saw you?” *Gineral housews penitent. inquired None in Good Repair PERSON nounced German a: the Domestic Relations Cour to answer a charge of 1 ipport prefs by his American wife, who against him as the princips The accused explained that, b possessor of who spoke w cent \ appeared | witness. education, rather above doing manual labor. ‘You know, chudge,”’ he air of pride, ‘myself guages besides Englist “Five languages!” said hi ingly. ‘‘And what good do they do you? Five of ‘em dead and the other on wounded!” ] a Classica stated with an I speaks five lan- s wife sneer-

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+5 THE SATURDAY War Work Among What Women Can Do Y AN ADA has a population very much ss than tl of New York, only rger than New York Yet, roughly speak- tered four hundred thou- hom she keeps one hundred the size of the before the enforced draft Canada; one hundred thou- more or less in England receiving pecial training for the special work at the Front: one hundred thousand more going back and forward, convalescing or resting; d one hundred thousand on the firing line; she has lost to time of writing peas the total and figure the percentage firing line, not the total enroll- ‘anada has lost to time of writing, nine thousand men. regime one thousand plus, dical and commissariat ve been wiped out or reduced to y yunt on one hand. Other regiments like the Higt landers, from the Northwest ave gone in one thousand to ll and come out sixty-five men to the muster. And when the of the regiments double up with nnants of other units and go back to and hurdle cut of those trenches Man's Land against withering and gas and flaming atmos- ry hell, the boys run for There isn't a face the length inverted side ie state cent la subt . or less gainst the ment ( ort, m you ct the trenche : No to ru tion on the them. boys: for I don’t know ; that Lam becoming older, but growing younger; and stabs you to the heart is that ff these fighters—not offi- They are youngsters you ibout as having had scarlatina or the last time you met their mothers. youngsters whose biggest event but yesterday was the football match r key age of one freshman team against er freshman team. They are atthe place where the childhood lines haven't ind the manhood lines haven’t come; and their experience is a cross between the deviltry of a boy on a lark and the fire of a though they would guy you out of if you said the word crusadk The young monkeys are chasing glory with both hands and both feet; but they would knovek anybody on the head for saying so. And Canada has given four hundred thou and to the crusade of right against might. How do you feel about it?” [ asked the other of a Toronto boy whom I remember in knickerbockers. ft acai i the reties poon amo I Hod caller +} wl whet them er iti eem to be that cent oldier the fact per boys gone i rusader ountenance is but yesterday When the Fit Die for the Unfit hat would have “of no di ave bowed my head in if he had not wanted to orgive my committing alto youth. I could forgive but | couldn’t owr ellow streak of a skulk in | hat this boy, not yet lying squadron on the post in the of nothing t wi ~ I ean think more,’ she an would | than son him most dangerou another mothe r, who 1 I thought of he draft bill She was wringing her Wo’ you think If it doesn’t, civi ‘Then if my hu bar d's me when t was being hands conscription will pass? ' 1) *” zation will pass son is called I shall simply revolver and shoot my) the Then er and shoot sooner both I did not f her you take your elf and have the courage to n does not go, some other your re will have to go and die to save orth saving. me explain the apparent olunteers in Canada! The lian tempest in a teapot is too It is the dregs of the rance e Xpe - d re ligious to Canada with a The sud anada outside results from precisely the tude of these two mothers. here en F and th came natic bittert apy bee den slacking f volunteers in C Quebec Pro he confi I ne i At Dorval, on the road between Ottawa and Montreal, the crowds were surging out from the race track one Saturday. Though Canadian mothers do not parade their mourning and have never once slackened service to mourn, there is a great deal of black worn in Canada just now. You are careful what you say wherever you go, for you know someone in every group has lost friends. A woman in mourning stood at the railroad station, where the crowds were surging from the races. She nodded her head as if thinking aloud. What she was overheard saying was this: “ Yes—yes—I have lost my husband and given my two sons to serve at the Front, that these gay crowds may have a safe holiday !”’ You see the point, don’t you? It can’t be explained; but there it is. The man who has conscientious objections to killing could help in factory or on farm; but he doesn’t. He is making merry on a holiday. Volun- teering will resume in Canada just as soon as the skulker and the dodger have been forced to toe the scratch and do their part The fit do not purpose dying wholesale that the unfit may perpetuate their kind. too. A Volunteer Army at Home And it was for the care of the four hun- dred thousand men more or more, chiefly; the numbers vary—that Canadian women set themselves to war work, and forgot social distinction, petty jeal- ousies, in a universal sacrifice on the altars of patriotism. The whole face, the sum and substance, the mainspring motives of social life, have forever changed. The old frip- peries have gone. I think they have gone forever. ( cara | they he ave gone as ty pi- fying the best in the nation’s social life. The svette porcelain fellows who deco- rated teas, with fine china and other useless bric-a-brac; the young-old dowagers who kidnaped kindergarten officers for parade drill at social functions and really very often made a pet monkey of what might have been an officer’s career; the parasite dolls who would suck the best blood of a man’s ideals and work for the price of a new hat—awakened and found themselves on the scrap heap. They didn’t count any more. There was a pretty buzz in a lot of little hornets’ nests. But that was only for the first few months of the war. The pretty carpet knights found themselves guyed by the men under their command or, in some cases, pony od ducked in the horse troughs. They got leave of absence for reasons of health, a go to Switzerland. The idle women somehow found they were being left out. To count you had tc do something the only passport became the one word service. Everybody got busy. How did they get busy? That is exactly what fifty million American women and girls want to know. The United States is at about the same stage now as Canada was in the fall of 1914. We are wallowing a bit; but we are going to swim out on the other side all right. What had the Canadian women to do? They had to arrange to take care physically and spiritually of four hundred thousand men. The government took care of wazes, soldiers’ equipment, training, transport, commissariat; but to the women remained the work of assisting at canteens; of caring for the so:diers’ families; cf providing re- lays of clothing — socks, mitts, shirts, under- wear sterilized against vermin, sleeping robes for trenches and hospitals —parcels for the wounded, provisions for the prisoners; of sending letters regularly to every man in rank from the highest to the lowest, so that no boy would be forgotten or neglected in hospitals; of making up comfort kits for every fighting man; of keeping Red Cross supplies going out in literally an endless stream; of training in first-aid work to the injured out at the home Canadian camps; of teaching indigent families left behind thrift and sanitation, wholesome living; of caring for returned soldiers; of working up plans of enthusiasm for recruiting; of sup- plying ambulances; of supplying reading; of sewing supplies, packing them and ship- ping them; of purchasing supplies whole- sale, sorting supplies, making them up and sending them out; and of seeing that no less caste, EVENING POST August 25,1917 Women in Canada to Help—By A. C. Laut work overlapped or crisscrossed; of equip- ping hospital and motor ambulances; and above all—please write the last in letters of fire on your mind—of raising the money to carry on all this work! All woman’s work was volunteer and all money needed voluntarily given; but if you will please multiply the total of four hundred thousand men by a pair of socks a week for three years, or hospita! robes for the wounded, or comfort bags for lonely men, or suits of underwear sterilized against vermin, or felt slippers needed for feet swollen and sore from trench service, or sheets needed for hospitals, or pyjamas needed for men who came from the trenches caked with slime to the waist, or — rs sent out by the sixty thousand, you will re: ize, though supplies were bought at w hole sale, and though knitting machines and sewing machines and cutting tables and packing boxes were donated and an endless stream of work given free, a pile of coin was daily needed. At the very first, within a few weeks $150,000 was collected in one city for a hos- pital ship; but this was changed to motor ambulances as more necessary. Within two years, eighteen million dollars was collected and carefully apportioned to soldiers’ fam- ilies. We think we have done well in the United States to collect and send ten mil- lions to Belgium. Remember Canada’s population! Remember she was in deep financial depression when the war broke! A system of regularly forwarding food sup- plies to prisoners of war was established and key t open, and is still open to this day A mail system was opened to keep personal! letters going to every man in the hospitals No Middleman in War Relief Because of the terribly heavy casualty lists from the very first and the almost im- possibility of getting Red Cross aid imme- diately on the field of action, the St. John’s Ambulance, or the White Cross, undertook to instruct every boy in training in first aid to the injured, how to disinfect wounds, how to resuscitate the drowning, how to hold fractured limbs, how to apply an an- wsthetic; and this course has saved the lives of thousands of wounded men at the Front who otherwise would have bled to death while waiting for Red Cross aid. It will be recalled the terrible toll gangrene took the first six months of the war was because the wounded lay for days before aid could reach them. This needless loss has been lessened by training the boy at home to prevent gangrene in himself or in a wounded comrade beyond the reach of Red Cross aid Felt slippers for trench-sore feet would cost fifty to sixty cents a pair wholesale; but with felt bought wholesale and cutters’ services volunteered free and sewers’ serv- ices free, the slippers cost only two cents a pair. Similarly of the warmest type of hos pital robe! Even if bought at wholesale it would cost twelve or eighteen dollars—per- haps more, with wool at present prices; but Lady Borden, the wife of the Premier learned that the great paper mills used felt to dry print paper. They were in the habit of sending the discarded felt to the scrap heap. It was obtained by the Red Cross workers of Ottawa under Lady Border A few cents’ worth of dye and a few cents’ worth of thread, the free services of Hebrew tailoresses who had been laid off time—and the hospital invalid had a rebe costing next to nothing. Of late all the dis card felting has been bought from the paper mills at a merely nominal figure, and the stream of warm wraps continues to go out to the soldiers. In one city—Montreal—over four mil- lion dollars was raised for soldiers’ families in five days; and the machinery of raising that four million cost only four thousand dollars. By placing the four million im- mediately in the bank, that cost of raising money, as well as all official expenses— ad- vertising, printing, stationery —was earned by the interest in the bank. Improvident families may waste the money after it reaches them—though one committee ex- ists to prevent that and does prevent it—but not a dollar contributed for the how “paige Slack Patriotic Fund is wasted on the the donor to the recipient How did Canada get her war work among women running so smoothly that it seems a if it were on oiled ball bearings with rubber tires? When I come to answer that tion I want it understood that no one organ ization claims more credit than y other organizati on. The aim is not to claim credit The aim is to deliver the goods All organi- zations have helped. It has teamwork from Halifax to Victoria way from ques been Teamwork Among the Women It was easier beginning in ¢ ida than here. This does not seem true, but it is. No one dreamed of a five-year war in 1914 There were only forty thousand troops to handle for the first year. If Canadians had been told in 1914 they were to care for half a million troops they would have been ap- palled and all at sea, to-day. Bu the work grew as the meaning of the war drove home to every woman in losses ; disasters and heroic victories. It was Duke and Duchess of Connaught who first saw the need of centralization—of drawing in to a center, in every province and every city and every town, nominations, Represent tions were ¢ House— Red Cross, St Women's pire, Canadian as we are all workers of colors and castes ative membe illed to confer at Government John’s Ambulance, Daugh ters of the En rs of all organiza- Counc clubs, ehure “neties They carefully went was likel to be needed, how how the Canadian Commis in London could be house abroad, and how eac} tion could be used as a home. They carefully | rouse and fan and make use of the flaming patriotism in every countryside. Ther traveling delegates were tl country getting country orga line—farmers’ granges, aot rs’ i teachers’ institutes, church clubs. en ry hamlet in every remotest county was raked and combed and stirred and fanned, and a unit of some organization left ning volunteer work —for people to knit, cut, to sew, to ¢ ran, to increase f: irm prod: uc When regiments were f rmed locally the colonel’s wife called a meeting of the officers’ wives, and this association undertake to look after the espe ial needs of this especial regiment. The services of the drill sergeant’s wife were essential as the servic way whe a soldier volur cleus of interest was created; over money cou raised, used sent across iiZations institt to kee} fa to cook, to raise money othe would just as “es of the colonel’s la 1) In rever iteered ar and in some that gavee ethenionn | toe nlistment. & one big Eastern city as much as a million was raised and spent in posters, in advertising, in public rallies, rousing enthu siasm for enlistment. Every cent of that million had been contributed voluntaril In every center some particular organiza- tion is particularly strong: The Red C in Ottawa and Toronto; the Patriotic League in Montreal and T the Daughters of the Empir East; the Canadian everywhere in the West. At the pevenanary meeting in Government House ganizations were asked to get every other organization in their communities in line, and particu- larly not to antagonize but to bring into teamwork all hands—every farmer's wife who came to market with a basket of eggs. Fortunately this was done. The terrible toll of losses earl) obliterated all differences; and very slight overlapping of work. For surgi- cal purposes the Red Cross sent word what was needed. For soldier comforts the men themselves wrote back what they wante “d. For the families the Pa League went out and canvassed fro to house to find what was needed. If you go into the Canadian Club, — a, you will find sewing machines running by the score, knitting machines humming long tables lined with women workers sew- ing. All work is voluntary—free. Even the stenographers are civil-service women, (Concluded on Page 50 parades, l! ross oronto: all th rough the clubs Lhnese ‘ in the war there was sold 1e rs’

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST anaes eel | weit’ AA Raa hacked aes ‘HE best paint manufacturers use zinc in their best paints. They have no prejudice for or against any ingredient of paint. They just want to make the best paint they know how. Long experience and exhaustive tests have taught them that New Jersey IT} O in paint adds much to its appearance and durability. Zine carries paint deeper into the wood it protects, giving ita stronger, tougher texture and a finer, smoother finish. Zinc grips into the fiber of the wood and anchors the paint film firmly down. As a result, zinc decreases the cost of painting in the best and surest way —by lengthening the life of the paint. If you buy prepared paint, get zinc paint. If your painter mixes his own paints, see that he mixes zinc in oil with hisleadin oil. If you want to know the right proportion of each for any painting job,write us and we will send you our painting specifications worked out by an expert. Our booklet ‘“Zine-in-paint’” ne A opy 1s yours forthe asking THE NEW JERSEY ZINC 55 Wall Street, New York PSTABLISHED 1848 Point Zine Co., COMPANY Mineral 1111 Marquette Building, Chicago | has lived for years in Toronto and therefore In August 25,1917 Concluded from Page 48 most liberally of any country except , Here is the scale of pay for the ve their services free, tralia Down at the Red Cross rooms, under Lady ing countries of the world: who come and gi zg Borden, you wi find similar work g ng ahead tor | ul can, perhaps, supplies. One woman afford only half a day a wee! She may be an expert cutter. She is put on cutting. Or she may be an She 1s put or expert sewer sewing. It was Lady Borden who organized the Hebrew tailoresses for ; d the Red Cross. The day I was in the Red Now it will be rec: i that the war Cross rooms I met women who had comein 1914, just when la was in the midst from the country to work; and the day I _ great financial and trade depres was in the Canadian Club rooms I met men were out of work, especially women from outlying country towns; and Englishmen and S« I venture to Say, since ploneer days, when out as colonists farmer’s wife and lady of the manor used t of the come together to defend forts from attack left no such democratizing:influence as thi has touched Canadian life. council assigning half the soldier “Canada,” said a Boston woman who families and dependents. addition the Canadian Gov views changes from a detached point, ‘‘Car pays a separation allowance ada is changed. It will never again be the twenty dollars, and five dollar same. All old thoughtless ld. chmer trade depressior January Canadian Government passed destitute; so, in dle days seem 0 end Besides s, wherever the far away they are like a dream. Now every made from tl body works. There is just one motto— Win ind the War!” r onsequence was that many Eight hour day : the workers to six P.M stallment salesmar How Canada, a country of oder: pianos ar talking machir wealth compared to the United States, ha tenem here the childr raised such colossal funds for her soldi i ‘ here were not work is a story by itself. Funds have tf l of the Patr been raised by ol need a grant Is are not known among fa ; came into more pocket hey are at it Leight ; vy had ever before seen in tl street fairs, by tag days, by little busier than the sal bazaars, by lectures, by garden fétes. News- were divided into wards, papers have been sold on street corners b vided into zones: and into tl cabinet ministers’ wives. Newspapers have visit: ry case of been edited and managed by organizations applying f ief that doubled the advertising and took the The rs did not go in the proceeds. ~e , 1 ¥ Department stores have loaned sad) yuntiful seeking cheap | their counters and floors to the women fora T yirit of the work | day’s sales of special goods. poster “hey went to |} | States of home gardening to increase food. | They have been logical enough to see food __ fi | member of the Morgar C Gardens, Gardens Everywhere ” and in one cit) We have made a great talk inthe United ings of the soldiers’ families two hundred thousand dollars Canadian women have gone a step farther. Instead of resenting the fact that the iaries were saving — please production will increase automatically if charity is taboo—the Patriot you can get a good price for it; so the Joice su y Was Ul younger girls of Ottawa hav ‘ ‘ motor truck, with which they peddl at like t ruess how many fam food straight to the open market clean over the back of the poor n who usually grabs the profits. Needle say, the food auctioned by pretty brings top prices; and the proceed turned in for soldier fund Wi planted gardens enoug! ether we n r thrift . idlema on this sid remains to be seen F t much out of them them In Ottawa, t cultivate vacant announced by large sig middleman that hardly net the cost girls’ truck each plot to each bach the idea for Crothers, the but her er through When large four milli llars for tl atriotic Fun over eight dol in Montreal, f garden of the ho probably I ars a mont! state was opulence to t! been more systematized. The best finan- cutting down, the Patriot cial minds of the city have been called to- that the money was saved ¢ gether, just as President Wilson « ‘all educate the growing childrer firm to handle 9 } case helped is per There war heroism > American Red ertain committees, wl none ol the covered by that disgr: their wards perfectly. How ugh the ba wanted? Very well > must | - | subscriptions of f | men who could get these amount | money in the | adequate to cover | has gone to overhead | fifteen hundred women; but they got the | indeed, must have | twenty-seven of cne thousan hundred and f and so on iown toseventy-five cent “he Visiting comm fteen of one hun These are ittees weed out he sawdust heroes then sent to ilect—the interest bank alway s being con all overhead So oft the greater part goes to overhead and is left for the ob) ‘ In Canada only one ith of one per cent the case of the four million dollars, i ok the volunteer work of five hundred and sixty men and forall our victories bigger problem than money. are plu l Considering that the United States n . . . +} have a mill da half mer ) ' icered. Hundreds of of ands are eager to work and only waitir behind b iwhat t . Presently will com In this war Canada’s system soldier’s family left } should be examined. This is the work of t > deman Why not get all the Patriotic Relief Fund Committees. Can- ther now before the demand ada pays her soldiers handling the most liberally,

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—— THE SATURDAY EVENING POST SS e Coming Way — Scientific exactness — materials ana- lyzed and measured — results accurately recorded Once right, forever right. cookery — guessing, tasting, changing. Sometimes right and sometimes wrong never twice alike. Scientists—Not Chefs Why No Other Kitchen Anywhere Can Match a Van Camp Creation New Culinary Methods have formulas —the result, sometimes, of a thousand Ofer Multiplied Delights coat test Iwo or three years are often spent on one formula. : . , t HIS announces, for the first time, a new advance in Ingredients are blended in countless proportions. But cookery. The results surpass the finest dishes chefs when we arrive at the acme of flavor, the formula never have ever cooked. And they will change all your varies. All its pages of minute directions are followed to conceptions of some familiar foods. A To7 e Chefs the letter. So any Van Camp product 1s exactly like th P | finest dish of that kind we have ever made. Our materials are selected by analysis, to fit extrem These Van Camp kitchens were long noted for their requirements. Our vegetables are grown on studi ; high-priced master chefs. We had English chefs, Parisian from seeds of the choicest plants ad Italian, ar d each was famed for some supreme creation. Everv item has a standard such as chefs have [hose chefs are gone now, with their recipes and dishes. fixed. For instance, all our butter 1s made wh | Cheir place ts taken by a staff of scientific cooks. Nowa are at their best corps of experts, trained by famous universities, produce But ease of digestion is the chicf aim of this scientif such dishes as a chet could never cook. cookery. Every tood element is cooked exactly as it Analysis now takes the place be, as proved by laboratory tests, of guesswork. A model labora- That 1s all-important. Yet there, tory directs every kitchen proc- chef methods fail completely, > ess. Instead of recipes we now especially on Pork and Beans. ( a7, ener) The New-Method Pork and Beans SS — a Van Camp’ rk ar Beans, a without crusting, ba every f ; prepared, reveal the resu can digest. ‘I ire bak ' Pork and Beans N ther mmon dis} pends so much whose zest a f ri r mat : " - or ntif k It i t sé , N " H i 1 I n al " y at th t t Fact $ ana The 1y LS i N It i I it t I ta . ( y iter f h y i i 1 have Pork a B ; na I} i Dake th , ask for Van Car , . 2 é . _ , —_ - & \y I ir bur bak } fa Soups aI) eben out ee A La Ay Tomato SAUCE I u THREE SIZES 1 The Van Camp Kitchens at Indianapoli Prepared

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 25,1917 | (ican at Pronounced Klee-ko ° GINGER ALE JN just a few years the popularity of this bev- ‘i erage has crept all over America. Clicquot is a ginger ale that is really made of ginger, pure fruit juices, cane sugar—and spring water that people would come miles to drink if they ‘couldn’t get it in Clicquot Club Ginger Ale. Sold by the case by good grocers and drug- gists, also at fountains, hotels, clubs, restau- rants and cafes. Without exception, it is the quality ginger ale of America. 4 THE CLICQUOT CLUB COMPANY, MILLIS, MASS. U.S.A. Pronounceo Kict-nO ‘ Rec. U.S. Par. Ovsict EXTRA D ' , CELEB x0) \ RY °S | NET MEASURE IS ¢ FLUID ounce ATER | Ww Suny ho CLICQUOT SPRING itt Ht MWY CARBONATED 4 FLavoree T “ve FINESTJamaica f ASHES OF pure # “Sty MINUTE "ge Sicum(PeppeR) FRA WITH THE PUREST sent O- The Clicquot Club MILLIS,MAS*2: J | A | * yi Yes : — —— Pweg, . , e é « Mane =, Be

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*Now,” he said, “I can go ahead in the woods. Your end is safe. It’s up to me “Say, Yard, look here, aren’t you sur- prised?” “No,” said Van, “I thought I could make him see it.”’ Beaumont was about to excl mation, when Mackenzie's words returned to him: ** You have comported yourself this day like a wise man. You ha’ } and let this young man speak.” silent again, reflecting that Van ild not real what am had brought about, Id he be realize it until many his head Because Van was young he h thing no older man ld have thought of, no experienced man would have dared. And he had succeeded wholly be« youth and the faith and theent were in him. itter some

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HE next morni d them in Bostor again Beau Was able to derive amusement from the nonplused banking officials when he presented paper indor by Angus Mackenzie. Yard was not. Sul phate pulp had submerged temporarily his sense of humor. He was business, pure business, and he t eliver ir exact words Macker took to <« There was no pains zie’s warning. declining of this paper,

after its authenticity had been certified over the long-dist hone. There was noticeable in tl rs’ manner a respect, a somewhat sive respect Fifty millions had m undred n lions—with the 1 meeting not

left in doubt That evening Yard was again in |} littl

office at Woods’ Heada tting ir . hands the threads of the ps s CELINE operations; reading reports, studying scale sheets, finding that the railroad had been kept clear for logs to move to the n His door stood s igh hall was the door of the and presently he was disturbed Di us of Svea Nord’s pre voice and a man’s voice centrate or

his work, but S vened. Where his thoughts should have been intent or gures of log measure and cords of | ilpwood, they insistently oc- cupied themselves with a gray-eved gir a girl he worshiped, but who held him as ontempt. ”! He repeater hed his soul to find if unworthy even of « ‘True those words and sear and trustworthy

he were worthy of them. Striving to be honest with himself, he weighe ictions motives, accomp ments He had 1 been untrue to a trust: as he had seer P ght he had acted, and 1 man can be unconscious of rectitude which has a him what Yar nad co He assayed | metals in the fires of suffering. and. ir justice to himself, could not find the dro He had been true and trustworthy. It wa because of his truth, of } trustworthines to his love, that the g ed hin The thought was 1 t erness The only warmth he found to mfort him was in the thought that | anffering had stayed her suffering. He had saved her 1 from the kr owledge of her father’s degra- He far ed he had heen kind to her, not know ng that a womalr

discovering the ness man to whom she has en her heart is the bitterest of all griefs. Svea had demanded that her chosen man be true and trust- worthy. Van Yard had been true and 1 it had cost him his hope ling to lister wit tr i listen, his ears strained

eagerly for the sound of Svea’s voice: but the yparently he voice was the more listinct man’s nearer the

door, and al at once Yard recognized it as th« ice Holmquist. There came a brief silence, and ther Holmquist spoke, his voice taking on a new tone ‘Svea, we’ve known each other a | time now.” “Yes.” she said. “Nobody could know you, Svea, as we ll as you have let me know you, and not come to think of vou as I do You're not sur- Perhaps I have not been so nave been: but me away, at d , prised, are you : hould ntive to you as I should matters have kep was atte business t . ‘ f success business necessary before

THE SOURCE Continued from Page 2! I could say to you what I want to sa I thir 1 } K ave succeeded I believe that y spring things will be in my hands as I

b want them lll be so necessar t Mr Ekstrom that He iused | 1 then went on it ther t ¢ rt less self-satisfact ‘| kept waiting for sor gn that you ht think of me as I thi { 1, but ) always so calm and self-contained that a fellow can’t tell what yo t z about. And now 't wait any nger Svea, you're wonderful! I love i! Car you—will you ‘ : Van did not hear the rest. He was or feet teeth clenched, eyes burning rage rising in his throat to choke t Holn quist was daring to speak of ve to Svea Nord! Holmquist, who had ter ted and tricked her father. Holmquist, who had not in his veins one drop of true or trustworthy) blood. Snatching open his dé e plunged across the narrow ha ark tne ttle parlor He did not see Sv I sole thougnt was to rer ve this man Iron ( resence Holmquist turned, startled by the of Van's entry Atsight of Var ged not a pleasant sight to see. Yard reached out an arm, made powerful | ibor clutched Holmquist’s collar and jerked the little dapper man t rurning, he pro pelled him throug! ir, dow e ha to t outer door ement hurl 1 through the air into a waiting drif nstant he tood her par g, the he returned to the pa r and faced Sve she wa a ng, white as deat! artied but not frightened Are yu insane? ‘ I er \ t tremulou **No, I'm not insane ere But I couldn’t stand it to hea itr make love to you It’s: . one had tried to eak, but the of words silenced her 1 did t end to ten—didt know I was liste ng And then I heard She tried to] m and lea er

but he backed e the door yu shan’t go! You've got 1 ten! I've stood about a l tana thout going to piece M " é n t eT ay < iT ‘ t I couldn't see it and don’t see ! I KnOW W t yout k of me ar think it—and that car be | 1. But you shan't think worse thar » tl hadn’t loved u—if I had beer " friend I'd e seen ré en t mat alien al e to [rue and t worthy —that’s wha {aman be. And Holmqu ising to drag men down from tr ind tru hine He a fixer, a bribe Her lip curled I know what you tl I? i le ‘ ind whether | des« ‘ he question. I know what | y 1 ind tha the quest r I me i ‘ i ever ae good oe

A I I i “ " hip the y not ma he ‘ wors! ed.” He did 1 t e he wa g her the 1 est cor ‘ conceived; but she realize ered how such a thought could come from t heart of such a mar rT know that » fF ke — man would adi him to | r ne gy him as I do. The word ) p was an insult to you that you can’t unde stand—and he’ll never repeat it, | ee 1 that, whether you want m« He paused, chest heaving with the stre of his excitement “If I need protecting my father can see to it,”’ she said biting] Howeve } I needed a protector I would | i I e a man like you.” “IT shan’t defend myself, Sv« I l be useless. Your heart is so true t i ance of evil there may be no « at He was calmer now; had summons pa sort of grave ty. Svea « vt help reflecting that a man with such an exterior with such flashes of good ir m, even of chivalry, could not be all bad But he

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aid “it would be more mar to te tton amps father than to hint at it t : mart) ny THE SATURDAY EVENING JITH grour fa ' a thet ‘ ‘ now + ld be dange Before he Holm his face d ed W n. i hand hi Svea saw ! rst,for \ door, and her eves w Mr. Yard! ‘ Behi yu Ya t ed ‘ en fe S ps araw i ' i Yard | ior irda and st nm rile ‘ tse “ss ‘ a Holmquist’s w i] the ma wou i I me deat \\ Lerrible Dut it mear presence anda nm ging bu rhe re ‘ I t H l va pre t z Put—dow that—g ever we iw ‘ ir VA ofa i g g fo Put—d that—+s } eve Wave y ‘ ‘ Holn is t to lorcet i a < “ | ‘ ' ] \ sweat appeare ) I ‘ ed: t om to him that mat errilying, ciut itt and ! 1 the t ggling against Var that ger | | Svea it ed the ag I e wa a r ‘ She P j ; rd time rhe gun wavers H ' 41 1 i } me yy Dr aid \ fell to t Holmq knec = ‘Ty Yar Y: ”- , ‘ ( I et lad n't uT Yi f | ‘ y ¢ l beheve repeat ya nu He tu »H ‘ { il rhe and hat igo. D no fea it \ iw 1 ol t l . rYve ; H ! of the 4 } iro ! at npe é aid 1 t \ is dared not l iy ert nave it end t had hin ! I She ywoked at } now the emotior knew ved ! power about hi ha i gentiene that dad ot what he wa ns] i ed hir How « such a man as Ya a bye ‘ nte t F ‘ igh ‘ p ‘ } fe ‘ - G iv! r é piease, ZO awa ! Yard turned ' her .

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Driven by Van Yard, with his grim, tireless determination, the men surpassed in accomplishment Big John Beaumont’s and the reports coming down to him made his eyes glow with satisfaction. His judgment was vindicated. He had picked a man. Healthy rivalry sprang up between the camps separately and between the two groups of camps, and nightly the men lounged about the big stove in the bunk- house and listened eagerly to telephoned reports of the day’s cut from other camps. Seven and Eight took the lead and kept it. Yard's Roughnecks were lumbermen. Be- ides that, they realized they were a picked crew, the boss’ own men, and they worked for him and for glory as they would not have worked for money alone. Logs accumulated on skidways; piles of pulpwood multiplied throughout the woods. Yard was able to promise that the winter’s cut would answer every demand of the mill, and more—if it could be got to the mill. The river only could accomplish that, and if the river did its duty --was permitted to do its duty — the fulfilling of Big John’s con- tract with the Corrugating Company would be assured. More than that, sulphate pulp would be established. The new industry would be annexed to the United States. The winter was eventful: no winter in the logging camps can be otherwise, but there was no further attempt by the Power Com- pany to obstruct the work. Perhaps this vas because of a visit Yard paid to Lang- lois at the dam on the day after his return from Boston, and a call made upon Ek- strom in his office. Perhaps it was because Ekstrom was confident of the success of the measures he planned for the spring. At any rate, cutting went forward with only uch obstacles to surmount as were imposed by Nature or were incidental to the work Yard slept the night of his return from Boston in Camp Four. In the morning he found Sim-Sam waiting for him. ‘*Goin’ to the dam to-day, boy ied “Yes.” *Tain't safe. "Tain’t necessary “Don’t argue, Sim-Sam,”’ Yard said, not ungently. ‘Lemme go along then.” \ ard shook his he ad, and set off for the junetion where he would catch the up- bound train for Camp Eight and the dam. Sim-Sam waited for him to disappear down the track, then set out to follow. Yard rode to his destination in the cab of the engine, Sim-Sam on the rearmost truck, unobserved. When Yard walked down the precipitous slope to the base of the dam, where were located the quarters for the employees and the gatehouse, Sim- Sam followed cautiously. Yard met Lang- lois on the path. Both men stopped. “Langlois,” said Yard, “‘the other day you put a bowlder on our railroad. It derailed the snowplow and broke a man’s leg. I’m not here to talk long to you. But if that thing happens again, if there is any interference with our railroad or with our camps which endangers the life of one of my men, I'll bring my boys down from Seven and Eight and we'll get you—and I'll give you to them to do with what they want. You know what that would be. That’s all.” He turned his back on Langlois and strode away. Sim-Sem expected the ex-camp boss to spring on Yard’s back; but he did not move, merely scowled and shifted from one foot to the other. The desire was there but the nerve was lacking. Even with back turned Yard was the stronger man. The ill upon Ekstrom was in similar key. It did not frighten the president of the Power Company, but left him with a greater desire than ever to possess this young man. Later in the week Sim-Sam surprised Yard by telling him he had to go out of the woods fora few weeks, and the old chopper, lugging his paper suitcase and his much-thumbed magazines, disappeared. Yard had long since moved his office to Camp Four. For months he did not en- counter Svea or see her, save at a distance as he passed the house that had been Woods’ Headquarters. But that did not mean forgetfulness. Svea was always with him, lurking in a recess of his mind and ready to obtrude on his reflections. Then spring approached; the sun rose higher overhead; there were sporadic thaws, warning of the breaking up of win- ter and of freshets to come. Through those winter months the mills had not been idle; their output satisfied even Big John, but output meant consumption of pulpwood, and the supply was running low. Before many days fresh cords of it must come down expec tations, EVENING POST from the woods or operations must pause to wait for them; and with profits upon the daily production surpassing what able men would consider ample yearly salaries, to pause even for a day was not to be con- sidered with equanimity. So both Big John and Yard prayed for the melting of the snows and the coming of spring rains. In the woods Yard made everything ready for the drive. Piles of pulpwood lined the river, ready to be thrown in; ac- cumulations of spruce in logs were being gnawed to four-foot lengths by cross-cut and gasoline-driven circular saws. The woods had done their part, were ready. Now the river must do its task, and speed- ily , or all this labor had been expe nded in Vain. “She's the with and listened each morning, as they got out of their bunks, for the sound of rain on the roof, for the rush and roar of the rising river, the booming, cracking, crashing of ice wrenched from its bed by swelling flood water. But it did not come. March passed and still the river was closed; still depths of snow filled the woods. If there was a thaw one day, the next day and for days to fol- low there would be weather that froze the crust thick, or there would be snowfalls making necessary the use of snowplow and road roller. Every day Saw the pile of pee le d pulpwood across from the mill dwindling and dwin- dling. Not weeks now, but days only could it supply the hungry mill. The breakup must come, and must come speedily. Then, on the second of April, Yard awoke to hear the wind sweeping gusts of rain upon the roof, a very deluge of rain. He leaped from bed and dressed— though thers was nothing he could do—for he craved action. Nor was he content to stand by the window and look out at the blackness of the night. He thrust on his mackinaw and rushed out of doors and down to the river. The waters were rising. Already littk streams of water poured down mountain gullies upon the ice, which groaned and heaved, booming and cracking as it burst under the strain. The freshet had come! Back and forth from the house to th river he tramped a score of time Long before dawn the flat space about Camp Four was a sea of slush, knee-deep. The air was warm, soggy. It was the great spring thaw, unmistakable, coming not a day too soon. Yard planted a wand by the river’ and measured the rise of the water. Inch by inch it surged upward. The ice began to travel downward, slowly at first, ther swishing by, churned and tossed by the sullen, irresistible current That it might jam below he had foreseen. Piling on bend or shallow, it might rear itself into a dam ten or twenty feet high, disputing the passage of the pulpwood But Yard had an antidote for that— little yellowish cylinders, innocent enough to the eye, but containing a frightful energy capa ble of rending bowlders and of obliterating mountains. More than one ton of dyna- mite was stored in the East Branch camps ready to be called to duty. The river rose and still rose, a foot, feet, three feet before morning. Ya not wait for dawn, but routed out his men in the darkness and set them to work. “The freshet, men!’’ he shouted into the bunkhouse. ‘‘Out! The river's up.” Other camps were not behind him. Men working madly were heaving bolts of pulp- wood into the stream; o coming, said eagerness in their voices, men belated edge horses struggled through the blinding rain, slipping, stum- bling in the treacherous slush, with sled- loads from the woods. Then with daylight came the message from Camp One: ““She’s jamming in the Horseshoe— fif- teen feet and pilin’ fast.” “Clear it!”’ shouted Yard into the tele- phone. ‘And keep it clear!” Again from Camp Three: **She’s pilin’ in the Notch.’ Again the same frenzied order from Yard. In half an hour, from the direction of Camp Three, sounded a muffled boom! Dynamite was laboring there. Other ex- plosions, fainter, more distant, told of simi- lar upheavals at Camp One. “More men! We can’t keep her clear!” came the cry from Camp One. Already trains were bearing from Five, Six, Seven, Eight every man that could be spared, bringing among them Yard's Roughnecks, each to give such account of himself as to be rated thereafter as the worth of two men. Five hundred men were working to feed pulpwood into the torrent, tearing at the August 25,1917 piles as though they were It was no silent scene. Teamsters’ \ , fluent in profanity, urged their teams; me! shouted and bawled; the river roared back at them a multitude of sounds. And Van! From one camp to another he rushed, dr ing, setting an example of killing labor, and where he appeared men redoubled the efforts, for him tosee. He was a man whos approbation all men coveted, whose dis- pleasure all men feared Those who recalled his face efforts, on that morning— and who saw him— told the tale that he mere man, but the personificatior embodiment of a spirit lentless And then, with the work but the rise of the river halted. It lapped higher spot on its banks, tore witl wave at no further foothold sight of all beholders, a thing against Nature happened. Despite the torrents of rai that fell, despite the innumerable gully washing streams that poured to inflate the flood, the river dropped! sided, the fact proven by the wands planted along the shore to measure its progress, and it continued to subside The veloc ity o diminished, and before noor was left a mere trickle, a mockery wearied men. Subsiding, the river left its ice in ridgé jams, gorges. Upon the banks, buried ir the ice, thrown helter-skelter against the jams, was every stick of pulpwo« hundred men had slaved to put into water. The freshet had been choked at it and none f was no grim, tireless, 1 Six inches it sub the current there those ui the five source “What is it?” men asked each other “What's the matter with the river?” The answer was not long to se¢ “They've closed the gates at tl The dam's shut!” “They're stealin’ gummin’ the drive!” It was true. The day of the Power Con pany had arrived. Those Nature intended should flow river to greater rivers, and eve had been shut off, imprisoned in the voir, behind the rampart of that great dar which to a hundred feet by the turn of ar switch, the starting of a gasoline motor, the gates barring the tunnel through which the water might escape with seet! beneath the dam had been closed and mad fast. The drive was at an The thou sands of cords of pulpwood, essential! triumph of sulphate pulp, lay the river's hed or remained woods. On that day our water! floods wh dowt t! t to the sea reser vered above th valley. Simply elect ng violet g Viole ‘ end mot in the lay d and tospal $s want« miiy enemy) “The dam's shut,” Yard Big John Beaumont, and his Savage. “Come down,” what's to be done “Legally?”’ Yard asked, and heard companied the word ‘Legally first.”’ he banged the receiver in did not try Big John discussed the Yard, neither man in a humor to resort half measures; but Beaumont insisted that relief be sought by legal means before other were tried. “I’m ready for trouble, if they fore« trouble on me,”’ **hut I've tried to be a decent citizen all my life and I want to stick toitif Lean. If the laws will he p me out I'll give em a chance. If it happens that Ekstrom has a private court or so— why, you can go ahead, and I'll back you to the limit.” “We can’t spare the jected stubbornly. **Look here, you're in this game ni me or for money, but for sulphate You’ve spouted patriotism all state. Now when it’s our turn to be law- abiding—which is about as good a brand of patriotism as they make—you kick ove the traces and want to start a private war. “Itis war,” said Yard. “You don’t see fairly to-day. argument’s a dead bird. We try ‘ injunction. The papers are drawn. Now about what's to be done meantime. We'v got hardwood here to run us three days You've got to keep that coming, or we rur out of fuel and the pulp mill shuts dowr We've enough pulpwood for a week, and that’s got to be kept coming as you can get Continued on Page 57 said Big Johr without rancor the sneer to control situati he said; time,”’ Yard ob- t for pulp. over the y

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(Continued from Page 54 ittous. I'd suggest using the East Branch to haul pulpwood and the other branch for hardwood.” “That's what we'd have to do. Most of the hardwood that’s get-at-able is along the pond by Seven and Eight. I'll haul from there.” **Good enough. Now sign these affida- vits, and I'll get busy with the courts. We ought to get action to-morrow. I'll keep you posted i Yard took the train directly to Camp Eight, and what he saw along the way was disquieting. First, as he crossed the trestle over the spillway from the big pond—the safety valve of the dam—he noticed that the height of the gates there had been raised an ample six feet by the addition of flash- boards. This would permit the rising of the water in the huge reservoir to a height never before reached, never necessary. He saw, too, how rapidly the water was rising. With no escape, the flood waters from the East Branch itself, from innumerable brooks, from torrents formed by melting snows, were pouring into the pond, raising it hour by hour toward the former high- water mark one threatening the tracks Before he reached Camp Eight there were points where the track itself was submerged under six to eight inches of water, and with those newly added flashboards a further rise of ten feet might be looked for That night he sent down a train of eight trucks piled high with beech, birch, maple It was the last trainload to leave Camp Eight or Camp Seven for days. When this

rain was loaded and dispatched Van set he crew to launching the gasoline craft which had been stored since fall—the forty footer which Beaumont had sent up at his equest. The high water had been foreseen, d to foresee, with Van Twiller Yard, was to make adequate preparation. Boom logs were ready upon the shore, their ends fastened with a chain. Pike poles had been provided; everything was in readiness for the emergency which Van had feared. With the railroad useless it was impossi- ble to move logs by land; therefore, he would move them by water, raft them to a point where the railroad eme rged to secu rity above high water. There he would load them for transport to the mill. It would be the task of the launch to tow the rafts. Now hardwood is not pleasant to raft Its buoyancy is not great; it becomes eas ily waterlogged and losses from such at tempted operations are high, sometimes But Van's rafts would not be the huge affairs of the Great Lakes or the Pacific Coast 7 smalitet reaching twenty per cent. They would be log of them would be ghbor so that none might anc

r dogged to 1 ‘ aye It was slow ar d toilson é work, ar d meant the handling twice of every log, first to roll it into the water, then, what was mucl more difficult, to haul it out again and place it aboard the trucks But it had to be done. Before noon next day the first raft was on its way to the bay, four miles below, which Yard } ok ches ta 4 aioe land ng. It was a small raft, might have been laughable to a Westerr taxed the strength of the launch, and it was lumberman; but it enough if it could be repeated daily. minor engagement in the war, ive character, but strategically t stood an unqualified victory his heart, that had known little pleasure these many months, warmed toit. He was winning. If Beaumont would let him have his way he could see the end of the war.

xIX ETWEEN midnight and morning of the day which brought Yard to Can ight, large sleighs, denuded of bells to ake their passing silent, and crowded with men, slid swiftly over the road to the lam. There were fifty of them, of the breed Known as profe ssional strike breake rs, and Holmquist was conducting them te their destination. They constituted a garrison whose duty it was to prevent a raid on the house and the freeing of the water jie low,” Holmqui st ordered them. “Keep out a sight. If t ose Roughnecks try anything we'll give them a little party. You see to it, Lang! a Langlois nodded in surly acquiescence. ‘And, Langlois,” said Holmquist in a whisper, “‘you won’t have to depend on these fellows alone. There’s a little express shipment coming to you—and you can put it where it'll do the most good. If you hap- pened to plant it under this man Yard I'll bet I could kee p back my tears iz

THE SATURDAY Pa got a th ing or two agin that bird my oill.” Lenciilacahd “If there’s a mix, a he’s in it anywheres, he’s goin’ to git } And nobody’ll stand round sayin’ how natura! he looks either, after he gits it.” ‘Don’t hold back on m y account I'm going to get a couple of winks of s p. Be careful to keep these men out of sight t they’re needed. Nobody suspects t here.” But Holmquist was not in possess all the facts as to this. Someone did know of the importation of professi and that someone was an old mberjack with a paper suitcase, much given to “‘lit’ry pursoots.”” Sim-Sam knew it, and tele phoned his knowledge to Big John Beau mont, who let it go no farther, for he feared the news of it would be a challenge to Van's Roug! necks not to be overlooked by then He did not want to precip In the morning Holmquist the dam, choosing a fark of the road } led past Woods’ Headquarters, and there he stopped, well knowing that Van Tw

Yard was elsewhere and much occupied His errand was not with Svea, but w father. As a matter of fact, he gr hoped Svea would not become aware of yresence. He stopped his horse behind t barn and went in to wait for Nord. lt early in the morning and Nord was cert soon to come out to care for the stock lr a quarter of an hour he ay peared “Good morn g, Nord,” said He Nord scowled at him *“*What you want here?” ‘I want to talk to you, and I guess the way things are you'll listen like a lar I want something of you t isn’t for the Power Company, but for me—and I hope you'll be accommodating. Not my account as on yours.” Nord glowered at him suller “T’ve been coming to your house f ong time, and you knew why, didn’t 3 You knew I was coming for Svea?’ “Ves, I knew,” said Nord se: , And you didn’t object to me as a in-law, did you?” “Not then.” ‘Do mn w, eh?” }

pleasantly. “‘ Well, i ake any dif ference whether you fancy me or not. I'm not courting you Svea seemed w ng enough to have me come. Now she P She's refused to see me I've written to her and she doesn’t answer.’ “She got next to you, I cale’late She's got a way of seein’ into folks.” “She saw Yard throw me out of the house, that’s all After that she turned against me hard. I'm nota}l Yard, and I didn’t show up to much ad vantage; but that’s nothing against me.” “Yard throwed you out of my house ‘Yes.”’ ‘Um!” grunted Nord. “ Well, w want me to do about a Holmquist, though the thing had been planned out well in advance, found some difficulty in beginning. He had been sure of success before the time came to put the matter to the test, but now he hesitated and stammered I’ve got to have her,”’ he blurted out afteramoment. ‘I never wanted anything like I want her right till Yard showed up i run against him every move I’ve made, and everything was going n the woods. I've everyw here I want Svea because” ne are w his breath thre igh nis teet! oO that the sound of it was audible because I can’t get along without her. But if I could, 1’d have her to keep her away from Yard.” ‘Away from Yard,” repeated Nord slowly, as if the words planted a new idea in his mind ‘You're her father,”’ said Holmquist, ‘“‘and you’ve got something to say abou it l you've got to have some ng ay about it “4 ‘I dunno. I dunno,” said Nord. “Svea hain’t mt + to be influenced in ch mat ters. And if she was I don't calc’late I'd be willin’ to do it.” “Willing or not, you've got to. I don’t care how you do it or what y ou say to her, but she’s got to marry me ” Get that into your head quick. Yard shan’t have her You don’t want him to have her, do you? Didn’t he kick you out of your job? And he’s after her. If he wasn’t, why did he let you stay here in this house? Why did h« p _ your salary out of his own pocket afte

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THE SATURDAY Holm- ‘Tried “Out of his own pocket,” said quist, seeking to make the best of it. to buy her, that’s what! “The money I’ve been livin’ on came from him? He went down in his pocket and paid me my wages right along? He | did, eh?” Holmquist breathed more easily. “Just that. Now will you do what you can for me?” “T don’t cale’late to meddle into it.” “Listen here: Svea doesn’t know why Yard tired you, does she? And you don’t want her to know. There's others you don’t want to know. Well, the day she marries me I’ll give you back that check we —_ you, the one with your name on the back, and a couple of reports in your handwrit- ing. You can make her do it. There's something you can tell her; some way to make her. There'll be a good job with the Power Company too. I’ve done a good job for them this winter, and it’s about finished. When it is I guess I can have about what I want—and I'll see you fixed for life. In a week the Pulp Company will be as good as busted-——and Yard's going to get his, for good measure. You wouldn't want Svea to know what you did, would you? She isn’t the kind to overlook it.” **Not her,” said Nord grimly. “Here itis then: You do what I say and you get the reports and the check—and a job. If you don’t do what I say—Svea gets them. But not till enough other peo- ple have seen them to make this country too unple asant for you to live in. And that goes Nord stood very still, his eyes half shut. He was letting the little man’s words sink in. It was the crisis of his life. Vaguely he realized that. His mind did not work rapidly, but groped its way. His standards had not been high of late years; but before that he had not been without his ideals. In his youth he, too, had had his beacon burn- ing on a mountain peak. But it had been dimmed, quenched. He thought of many things as he stood—of the wife, dead these many years, of his daughter, of this man who wanted her for his wife, and of Van Twiller Yard. It was strange, perhaps, but in that moment he thought more of Yard than of the others. In his rough way he sought to analyze Yard’s conduct toward himself. Holmquist moved uneasily. “Well?” he said harshly. That word, its tone, brought decision to Nord. His mind leaped the remaining gap to decision. It was delivered without words. Suddenly he reached out and grasped Holmquist’s shoulder in fingers that clamped down like a steel trap, wheeled the young man about and shoved him toward the barn door. Nor did he stop with ejecting him, but propelled him, de- spite squirmings and strugglings, impreca- tions and threats, toward the house. Nord uttered no word till he had kicked open the door and stood inside, still holding Holm- quist at arm’s length. *““Svea!”’ he shouted then. “Svea, here! : “What are quist panted in a panic, reply. “Svea!” he called again insistently. “Yes, father,” she answered from the head of the stairs. “I’m coming. Halfway down the stairs she saw Holm- come you going to do?” Holm- but Nord made no | quist and stopped, her hand groping for the baluster. “Come on, daughter,” said Nord. **Hain’t nothin’ to be afraid of.” She came down slowly, and stopped again a few feet away from them. “What is it?” she asked in a low voice, her eyes not moving from her father’s face. “A rat,” said Nord. “I caught it in the barn. I fetched him in to show to you so you'd know what a rat looked like—and so you wouldn’t never have any more trouble from this here one. He wanted me to make you marry him.” Svea’s eyes flashed from her father to Holmquist, and back again. She stood waiting for what was to come. “Daughter, what I got to say don’t come easy. I dunno where it’s goin’ to leave me when it’s said. But I thought it out, and it’s got to be said plain so as to leave nothin’ for this rat to git a holt of.” He shook Holmquist as a mastiff might shake a rabbit. “When I git through you'll see I hain’t much of a man to be callin’ another man names, but much as I’m agin rats, ’tain’t exactly fair to name this here for them. He says to me that if I didn’t make you marry him he'd tell you what he knows EVENING POST about me—that and consid’able more, he said. Some of .it was about Mr. Yard.” At the tone of her father’s voice as he spoke that name Svea raised her eyes quickly. There was something in it that paid a compliment to Yard; something that told Svea her father held the young man in high esteem. “Nothing Mr. Holmquist could tell me would make any difference,” she said. **Not unless he had proofs—and he has ‘em. You're goin’ to think hard of me, Svea. You and your ma before you was always strong on a man bein’ honest and keepin’ faith. Well, I hain’t kept faith, and that was why Yard took my job away from me. You seen him do that, and you didn’t understand it, so you thought he'd done me out of my place to git it for himself. I knew it and I let you think it— because I couldn’t bear to have you thinkin’ your father wasn’t a good man.” ““Mr. Yard didn’t She was un- able to go on; her father declared Yard guiltless of the count against him, and his evidence was conclusive. Color crept up into her face; she did not feel a gladness so much as a premonition of gladness. And it was very sweet to her hungry heart. “Yard acted like I wouldn’t have ex- pected my best friend to act that day. He knew I'd sold out to the Power Company for five hundred dollars, and that I was a kind of a traitor to the company he was fightin’ so hard for; but, knowin’ that, he didn’t go to Big John with it, and he didn’t tell you of it. He could ‘a’ told you, and you wouldn’t have been thinkin’ about him the way you have—and I guess it hurt him bad to see you feel that way. He saved my face and he kept you from knowin’. And then, when I was fired, Svea, he goes down into his pocket and paid my salary to me. It took every cent he got himself, for they paid us both alike. I didn’t know that then, or | wouldn’t ‘a’ took it. It wasn’t so much to give me the money, I guess, keep you thinkin’ he’d done me a wrong and didn’t dare go to Big John with it and git me fired. He did it for you.” “For me!’ she whispered. ‘He never defended himself. He did all that? You're not— not keeping anything back? It’s true: ?” as to ‘As true as Gospel,”’ said Nord solemnly. He was thinking with a little twinge that her thought was all for Yard, for his sacri- fice, and none for him, her father. ‘“* Now I've told you all of it, Svea. You know what I did, and nobody can gain anything by tellin’ you again.” He shook Holm- quist once more. “Your teeth’s pulled!” he said ominously. “Poor dad!" said Svea. “You were afraid I wouldn’t stand by you? Poor old dad!” “You-—you hain't despisin’ me?” he asked, his voice not steady as it had been. “No. It was a terrible thing to do; but to tell now was good and brave. 1 don't know why you did that other, dad, but it wasn’t the real you. This is the real you to-day—telling the truth, and ready to sacrifice my love to tell it. You told for Mr. Yard’s sake, didn’t you?” she asked with a penetration that startled him. “T calc’late that was what made me, even more’n the thought of you marryin’ this rat. That would ’a’ done it. I know I couldn’t ’a’ made you marry him, Svea; but if I could, you don’t think I'd be such a damn scalawag that I'd do it?” ““No, dad,” she said; “but I’m glad the other was the bigger reason. Oh, dad, I saw him when he first came— and watched

August 25,1917 him climbing up. It was wonderful! He grew so big, so strong. Everything he did was done as if he were a man! Then I thought he had done this, and it hurt. I had thought him true and trustworthy and he proved to be a sneak and mean and self-seeking.”’ “You love him, Svea?” “If I do,” she said, “ to hear it.” (TO BE HERBERT QUICK= HIMSELF (Concluded from Page 23 her father asked he must be the first CONCLUDED) feet the story of this war might be different. General Quick, at the head of the armies of the roused democracy of America But there! There! That’s one of the oldest of his dreams. So instead of going to West Point, and training himself for a war correspondent, which was the real object he had in view, he went out teaching rural schools in winter and farming in summer. Sometimes he taught straight through from November to haying, and then plunged right into the thick of the harvest. Farming palled on a man with bad feet, but he stuck to it until he was in his twenties. Then vocation he taught for a while, but on tak- ing stock of himself discovered that would be impossible for a man with ab- solutely no education to become the dent of the state university any of the other educational eminences to which he found his fellow pedagogues as- piring. He had no tail to his name. He did not belong. to the union. Another dream shattered! What should he do? Perfectly obvious. Being too illiterate for anything else, he could go into the law This he accordingly did, and still regar is himself as a good lawyer, and is willing to go into court and prove it on the body of any Counter on any fine day when the other places are all shut up. years he practiced law— but why doing that when there were written and so very, very many the English language yearning to be joined together in the holy wedlock of literature’ Echo answered “Why?” and our author, after becoming one by dint of a book or so, turned the key on the outside of his law office and dropped it into a manhole (Another of those curtain tricks. Duri: the time hereby indicated our comes a conservationist, and proves it by the left-handed method of publishing more writings— newspaper, magazine and book than almost any other man in America. All this was printed on paper made from our forests, which at about this time becam: the peculiar anxiety of Gifford Pinchot and others. Our author drifted into editorial work. No, he was dragged in protests. Once in, he devoted agricultural journalism, ‘ of the law, politics, literature and teaching, he still was a farmer. He f i as his sole presi- or to reach For seventeer keep or books to he words in author ix against ! himself because, in found, too, that pavements are about as hard on the fe: plowed ground.) We now find him on his farm in West Virginia, to which he repaired to grow fruit and raise livestock, and about every eighteen months to publish a book. He has in mind five novels, several plays, poems, and many very elevating nature which he expects to writs and he built this house on the West Vir ginia farm fora workshop in which to create them. It looked like great fun, but he worked himself out of it. As a part of the business of being a farm editor, he had dons what he could to have passed the Federal Farm Loan Act. After it was passed he was honored by a request on the part of the Administration that he take a place on the Federal Farm Loan Board. He could not welsh, and took the place. Gone the dream of bucolic literary pursuits! In its place the asphalt of W ‘ashington, and the most interesting work of his whole career, Ambitions in life: To write the American Novel. To make schools of the world. To see Henry George in every public square ir America. To get “copy” out of every ex- perience. To write that copy out and print it. To see the interest rate to farmers on mortgage loans drop to four per cent. Motto: Not to possess degrees conferred by some colleges is in itself a liberal edu- cation. Slogan: your job some able books of an » Great over the rural a Statue ol Whenever you're resign! afraid of losing

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SE SS Ges ee ee ee oe PLAYGROUNDS DIM Continued from Page 18 “He starts it from bedrock,” stated the old lady grimly One day she even consulted Grimshaw on the advisability of compelling her nephew to shift for himself until he devel- oped some initiative and energy, but he dis- suaded her. “ Poverty’s a terrific experience, and Jim might go down and out,” he explained. ““Now, I never would have been here if it had not been for a responsibility which put me on my mettle.” Nightly, after reading in the trade maga- zines, Grimshaw congratulated himself on this responsibility which kept him on his mettle; and he often chuckled when think- ing of Miss Carnes, though afraid to call lest he be tempted to invite her to dinners or theaters which were beyond his means. But on the evening when the quarter ended, hestood in herdim doorway, peering eagerly; he could hardly discern her. where she sat, all in white, watching out of the win- adow Grimshaw lighted the gas; he wanted to see her face, and in the handsome, assured young woman who greeted him could hardly recognize the demure little home body he had met here three months before. * Proves what even the prospect of mone y will do for a person,” thought Grimshaw, and presently was listeni beamingly to the girl’s sane and definite planning Miss Carnes was going to move into a little apartment uptown with an elderly business lady, and spend her income as fast as she got it for a really good time “Beats imagining,” grinned her financial agent, and she said: “Yes. Of course I'll keep my position I like to talk books; but I wish to wipe out the very memory of this captivity in the slums. I must have been starved socially and mentally into a delirium; how else could I have been living here in actual cor tentment, only three months ago?” She talked without constraint, in a pleas urable excitement which never quite sub- sided so long as Grimshaw knew her. She showed a list made out during those three months, with so much set down against t} rant eaters, dre , restaurants and all of gewgaws, which made Grimshaw scrat ! ear ** Are you sure you have money enough for all th - “Look at the looting hog he answered triumphant Ihe list was a wonder; wit the nicest ca ilation she had arranged for the spending of the last penny of dividends and salary upon herself. “‘ The beauty of it all is,” explained Miss Carnes, “that 1 don't have to save against sickness, and | can live tall up to the day | die and still be buried hike a Christian gentiewoma! She wished to hear of Grimshaw’s expe- nence with money, and he recalled many amusing ways ol spending it “Of course my Income seems small to you,” she laughed, “but remember | haven't your extravagance either.” With tl he reviewed her plans again rather greedily and, upon being assured dends would mmediately by Grimshaw that the d Increase Irom time to time, thought of some other things she wanted, and set them down on the list too, Grimshaw returned home to read |} trade papers and smoke with great satis- faction “This is what I call life,” he said, and chuckled when thinking of the liberated butterfly t} time after all she’s gone through * That girl surely deserves a good It must have been hell! How animated and pretty and sensible ashe was to-night; it shows what money will do.” So the girl of the tenement, the ur ping girl, maintaining a home for body and mind and soul at bedrock, was made away with by these two—-the complacent young man and his selfish little protegée! But fora long time Grimshaw, delighted with the working out of his theory, did not realize his crime. In the course of two years his salary was increased until he was drawing one hundred and fifty dollars a month, and Miss Carnes’ dividends rose accordingly to seventy-five, which she admitted was barely sufficient because of mar y new necessities. Grimshaw, who continued to be Miss Carnes’ financial agent, because she was afraid to trust any other, thought her re markably clever to get by on so little money. She made a number of friends in her neighborhood and had a good time generally, which she liked to tall gentleman’s name came her conversation, but Gr feel jealous, and though the two enjoyed ar evening together four times a year, the seemed to agree tacitly that this was oft enough. These circumstances alone s} ild have convinced Grimshaw, who tl ight inces santly of the girl ir g, that something was amiss. How had he found the g irst? And again on that great evening when he had called with news of the d dends? *T had been walking that day,”” he would recall, “‘and came in the door while she was cooking dinner. She turned away to the window when I told her, and the har might have scorched, only I could reach it from my tracks.” He would carefully review that evening to make sure he had overlooked or forgot ten nothing, and then gaze steadfastly at the walls. Yet he never thought to go uy town to call on Miss Carnes before the end f the quarter! aving home one dividend eve _ a into such depression at he could not help saying “IT wish it were the old t mes, and that I were going to the tenement and she wer there ironing.” , , —— But the girl in the black dress with whit collar and cuffs had vani ned long ag blown out like the flame of a candle, into the great shadow of time “What a dreadful thought,” said Grim shaw, and sat down with his head betwe« his hands as on the night his story began “But it is nonsense,” he declared after a time, and, coming to believe that he had really fallen in love with Miss Carnes, he hurried gayly uptown to see her This evening he observed particular] now lovely she had grown, and she was dressed all in white, as he had seen h ing through the dusky room on the evening of the first dividend. She had now a clear complexion with a rose tint in her cheeks, and her eyes were even brighter; her man ner, too, had improved, being both confi- dent and gracious. Although they were old friends now, the business relation was the basis of their intercourse, and dividend were paid over and prospects of an increase discussed along with Miss Carne increa ing necessities, before they settled down to social chat. Grimshaw had always enjoyed hearing of her good times, but this night he had not come to be entertained, and instead listened intently to the tones of her voice, seemed to have lost a certain melody which he had not forgotten. Suddenly trating on the stor she marveled that it should be so unints resting and commonplace Anxiously he studied her—the disenchanted minstrel of the old far country. which he was telling, he “Those were not such bad tim when you had a home in the tenement,”” he as serted. “There was a sparkle to that room which I remember yet as i some of the things you imagined really came there “1 did use to imagine things, didn’t I? mused Miss Carnes. ““And I suppose they were company, in a way But that wa before I had lived among the realities with money ; This shocked and silenced Grimshaw, who began to feel sorry for her in the queer est way, for he was an unsentimental man und she was a contented materialist “There might have been more to t n things than we understood, he hinted after a while. Miss Carne raised her evebrows “You are becoming a ; clared, and related an anecdote of one of her set who saw things, which ended the subject for good and all During the following weeks Grimshaw became so lonesome that he thought of going to visit the good spenders, buying a new necktie and making all read he took a long, hurried walk ins returned slowly home like a truant, choos- ing now consciously and openly the com panionship of a mere phantom, a memory He could remember his little fellow exile of poverty in her black dress, with the inqul tive hazel eyes and hair parted boy-fashion remember all this with infinite regret And I taught her that money and what it buys ure the mily thir v Ww ru I ‘Fool’ i right! he said THE SATURDAY EVENING POST KEEP PEACE IN THE FAMILY PRINT YOUR CAR YOURSELF WITH Cifecto MUTO.. «- FINISHES AKE Withe happy by giving the old bus 4 coat or two ot kK ffecto. Deo tf your} elt it’s easily applied with a brush. 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Send today for new free booklet on GF Self-Sentering, and learn all about reinforced concrete construction, yreat need ol hre-safe modern j } lich cost of labor and The General Fireproofing Company, Youngstown, Ohio M et fa + of Metal Lath, Concrete Reinforcements, an@ Waterproofings Branch Offices: New York City, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Feanciece, Kansas City, Atlanta, Cincinnati, Buffalo, Utica The leading d cna Aw Ciianthen r town has GF Building Products in stock EVENING POST Even yet he could not quite realize that this girl and Miss Carnes were two distinct identities, and at last broke into open re- bellion against fate, and resolved to tell his protégée all about the fictitious inheritance. Deprived of the dividends, she would be driven back to her old life and her old self! Then he paused. “The mood of old times has left her,”’ he confessed; ‘‘she is quite a worldly little per- son now, and without money would have no resources whatever.” He could not bear to think of such a | bankruptcy as hers would be, and had, | besides, a terrible misgiving that the miser’s niece would reappear in poverty as a mon- strous changeling. So he held his peace. Another evening together passed like the ones before, and they parted without much regret —it so chanced, never to meet again. Grimshaw pursued his long, hurried jour- neys by night, and read in his trade papers, or stared fixedly at the wall with an ineradi- cable wrinkle between his eyes. He had ever the tragic abstraction of a poor young man who has murdered his sweetheart unjustly, but instead of giving way to remorse he admitted the conditions like a practical fel- low and made welcome the phantom which had come to haunt him. One evening he walked down as far as the tenement on a sort of pilgrimage, and climbed the stairs. The well-remembered door was ajar and he looked in. The miser’s niece in the black dress with the white col- lar and cuffs stood there, ironing. Grimshaw scrutinized her closely, but still felt that he was going too far in this | business of the phantom. “How did you get back?” he inquired almost casually. “I have been here all the time, except | when I met you uptown at my friend's apartment.” The same sweet voice, the same inquisitive glance of the hazel eyes, as if greeting a strange guest come to the far country. “Well, well, surely! But the parties and shows and good times?” “T told you I liked to make believe.” Miss Carnes touched her finger tip to the sizzling iron. “I was about to send for you or call at your office with a suggestion, Mr. Grimshaw. Why don’t you buy into an automobile business?” He shook his head: “‘ Not strong enough.” He glanced at the open bank book she gave him, which recorded the deposits of August 25,1917 the dividends for three years with interest; the sum totaled over twenty-five hundred dollars. On the cover was written Grim- shaw; the account was in his name. “*You will remember my looking over the stock in the envelope on the night you came as my uncle’s messenger?’’ she said. *“* suspected it was worthless; the next day I made sure.” “But you can keep—the dividends anyhow,” faltered Grimshaw. “Can't you?” “T’'ve enjoyed playing banker.” Miss Carnes smiled indulgently; the man was her protégé now. “T had built up better with this respon- sibility,”” said Grimshaw. “My life, you understand—on bedrock ——" He was too dazed by the catastrophe to explain further; no longer on his mettle. Their glances met and the girl dropped her eyes, but too late. They had indeed watched over Grimshaw from afar, and in them he read a long-delayed message. “Cordy!” It was the only plaintive cry ever wrung from him. “I thought I'd murdered you!” “You're imagining things,” she said faintly. She was ironing, but slowly a hand was outstretched; Grimshaw took it. Then slowly she raised her face, gazed at him in credulously, and kissed him. After a time, when Grimshaw was sitting by watching her, Cordy nodded shrewdly: “T have known about you all along; you are the patriot of the far country.” Unwittingly Cordy had answered the old question, and the secret that the boy had wished to tell his mother was out at last Grimshaw was the patriot of the far country where to work for others is like play. But he did not suspect this was the answer, and to him the secret forever remained untold. “Well, Iam glad you belong to my coun- try, Cordy; and that we are both practical people,” was all he said, and looked so peaceful here at his journey’s end that Cordy could not help setting down her iron and coming to stand by his chair, in great confusion laying her hands on his shoulders. They planned how they would invest the bedrock dividends and the home they would make with the things money cannot buy which may seem unreasonable tosome. But these two, seasoned by experience, knew what they were about—beth practical people. APPLIED HYDRAULICS (Continued from Page 15) differing from the army instruments as a full-jeweled split-second Swiss chronome- ter differs from aninety-cent tin alarm clock. Two days later the monotony of trench life was relieved by the arrival of a dozen capable young engineer officers, with trans- its and artificial horizons and other unusual paraphernalia. Over these was Dutin. Now to run a level for two miles with a minimum error is a matter of careful tech- nic at the best of times. But when you have to take your sight through small holes in slanting steel plates, to shield yourself from deadly sharpshooters only a scant three hundred yards away, the problem becomes one of real professional interest. In the week that followed only two of the young engineers were carried off with brains and blood oozing from their fore- heads—which wasn’t such a very bad record. Smithers was not one of the two, for he was under peremptory orders not to expose himself to the enemy fire under any circumstances. Those orders came direct from Division Headquas'ters. At the end of the week another meeting - was held with the general. Dutin was there, with his papers. He showed the engineers his graphic profiles, and then—very casually—his field notes and basing figures. For the moment the chief of engineers forgot the military im- portance of the thing in his professional amazement at the marvels of those calcu- lations. Dutin had begun by establishing an imaginary plane parallel to a tangent to the earth’s surface at the upper point of the most southerly station. That point was the protruding tip of the trunnion of a buried German cannon. Working to this plane, he had allowed the necessary approximate eight-inch curvature of the earth's surface for the first mile—about thirty-two inches for the two miles. Such are the vagaries of geodetic precision! On this correction was a further correc- tion to allow for that long gradient which marks the flattening of the earth at the Pole; and this correction was further inte- grated for the precise parallel of latitude on which he was working. His observational figures carried corrections for refraction, and these refraction corrections carried within themselves further tenuous and interrelated adjustments for barometric pressure, humidity, temperature and light intensity. The thing soared into regions of abstract calculation that never had presented them- selves even to the imagination of those officers—and they were no children in their mathematical training. At the end of it Dutin handed the general a certificate, over his own sign manual, to the effect that the profiles of his basing points for those two miles were correct to twenty-five one-hundredths of a millime- ter—about one-eightieth part of an inch The general raised his eyes to the astrono- mer and lifted his hand in deprecation of the unnecessary work all this must have meant. But Dutin’s whole personality became a polite Gallic shrug. “Monsieur le General had emphasized the necessity for precision.” It was Dutin’s little joke— Hesperus re- buking Mars. His work accomplished, the astronomer withdrew. There remained Smithers, the colonel, the chief of engineers, and the general. This time they had the profiles and the maps in just exactly the shape they wanted. More than that, thanks to a few very dark nights and the dare-devil activities of a couple of noncoms with a hastily improvised boat and sounding lines, they also had a very fair chart of the bottom of the river just above the Falls. The gentlemen concerned examined these various charts and maps with much interest; (Concluded on Page 65)

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SS THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 63 Y; WN }) When You Buy Your Fall Shoes 2 N Bond Street, London, there used to be We know that a man can walk into a Regal | \ 1 an extremely high-priced boot-maker’s Dealer’s store right off the street and get better a || ) shop—a narrow place with a low entrance fitting shoes than that London boot shop could | | and a single window. In the center of make him. | | ee } this window on a raised dais of mauve velvet, We know that with our fifty Regal Stores | the awed spectator beheld a single shoe—just in the great Metropolitan centers our styles |} ONE. This was supposed to express the exclu must be up to the minute and we learn to | | | siveness of the place—the high privilege of meet every type of foot with the shape of last 1 i | | paying excessive prices— of having a ‘‘Pur shat heat anite i. i | | veyor to His Majesty” deign to accept one’ ) Ii order for boot. Our business is a study of feet and thei | | “ proper fitting. In our own stores we get our | | | Fifty shops in London made better boots contact direct, our shoe experience at first i | { for less and sold more of them. But this pai hand, and you have the benefit in Regal shoes | ticular shop appealed to the trait of snobbish even if you purchase them a thousand miles | | ness in certain people that rejects whatever away. i | the many find good. You know as well as we do the advantage | | Right here in our own country we see con in purchasing power and economy of making | || stant evidence of this trait as a factor in buying that go with this great business —the first | the tendency to pay for the shop, the location, selection of hides and skins: the special tan- | | | the window, the fixtures. nage; the choice leathers, pliable but tough, | No matter who made the goods some people making a durable glovey shoe. | | | | buy the surroundings instead of the mercha Regal shoes are not sold under any other cise. name. While America goes to war for the principles The Regal Institution is back of every shoe of Democracy in Government why not apply you buy — quite different from a shoe made | | | | these principles in our daily lives, in our ““Somewhere in America.’”’ decorated with a 1 thoughts, nour purchases? Why not root out shoe-dealer’s label and featured as ‘‘Made Ex | | affectation, pretense and extravagant snobbery clusively for This Store.’’ | | In this country we believe in Democracy. Doesn't it appeal to you as good Democratic | | We can prove its virtues any day in the things principle to h ve a popular and reliable known | | | we wear ind use, We have learned that popu maker's name in vout! shoes? } larity is a better guarantee than exclusivene Wass will God Gin Basel Qesves and Thien | The fact that there are two million wearet from coast to coast now are opening a won I} | i of Regal shoes says more for their value than derful Fall season with the new Regal Model 1h | iE anv affected distinction. —and doing a record business. 4 |

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i Conciuded from Page 62 in fact, the conference did not break‘up un- til the small hours of the morning For the ensuing two weeks the sector of the French trenches just above the Falls was guarded with the most extraordinary care, even from the French soldiers them- selves. Only certain picked men were ad- mitted to the forbidden zone, and these men had a special countersign and secret orders of their own. They ate and slept by themselves. An able-bodied ground squir- rel could not have wriggled into that sector. The only outward sign of activity was on the commissary railroad. The little loco- motive that served this road was very busy on dark nights hauling loaded cars in and loaded cars out. But whatever was in the cars was carefully covered with canvas. No one was curious enough to lift that canvas, for the good and sufficient reason that the train crew were under orders to shoot the first officer or man who tried to do so. After a couple of weeks the mysterious canvas-covered cars stopped running and the French began to mass extra troops in the two miles of trenches just below the Falls. This was done somewhat ostenta- tiously. Many aéroplanes came up. Ma- chine guns began to appear in unheard-of profusion. The sisterhood of the seventy- fives was augmented by a large number of debutantes, who delivered freque nt billets- dous to Fritz, across the river Naturally Fritz replied. Whatever his other faults, he is never slow at cannon repartee. By the end of the third day the thing had developed into a regular pitched battle, with the Germans throwing in re- enforcements and packing their trenches more and more to the similitude of a lengthy Wiener Wurst. The French planes kept pretty accurate tab on that part of it Late in the afternoon of the third day the Frenchmen brought up several trainloads of pontoons—the kind used for crossing rivers. Those pontoons were so disposed as to be cle arly visible to the eye of Fritz. “So!” said the German general com- manding for by this time it had got IM yond mere colonels, and the division com- manders of the respective forces were there to see to things personally “Sol” And, turning to his aide, he delivered an order, which resulted in crowding those two miles of trenches with Germans as no two miles of trenches ever were crowded before or ever will be crowded again; and there were three lines of trenches, one be- hind the other, but all on the same dead level with the top of the river bank. That evening at supper the French gen- eral remarked to Smithers: “To-morrow at sunrise!” Precisely and punctually one hour before sunrise the next morning the French forces began certain activities which conveyed to watchful German eyes the clear story that the French were about to attempt a direct frontal infantry attack across the river on pontoons The German officers smiled complacently at the sheer madness of the thing. Word was flashed far back to the German artil- lery to load with shrapnel and elevate for the French side of the river bank, but to PIGS AND THE SATURDAY hold fire until the word came. The German machine guns were also put in readiness Both sides now waited in tense silence Even the sporadic flashes of the sharp- shooters ceased Somewhere along the river bank a lark trilled into song Then, back of the German lines, the thin rounded red of the sun’s upper disk showed above the dim landscape, and the French general turned to Smithers and said *Now— lieutenant!” With the words Smithers pressed the middle finger of his right hand on an electric telegraph key—and as his finger descended a muffled explosion was heard just below the Falls, on the German side. A column of clay shot up from the German trenches at that point. The surprised French soldiers who looked at this clay noticed that it did not fall, as dirt falls after a mine explosion; but that, by some miraculous suspension of gravity, the dome-shaped thing held its form in the air—spreading out like a monstrous mush room ten feet or so above the top of the trench. Then they heard a mighty rushing sound, as of water, but different from the sustained note of the waterfall; and to their amazed eyes the waterfall itself began to dwindle and disappear, and the mushroom at the head of the trenches began to mount higher and to change to the hue of greenish glass. Then a French captain, who was in the secret, caught up his binocular, lev eled it at that miraculous dome, and cried “Mon Dieu! The whole river is running into the German trenches!" What befell in the next thirty minutes is not for brush to paint or pen to write. The Germans had the choice of drowning in their trenches or climbing out to face the hail of the French machine guns. In no proper sense was it war; for in the idea of war there inheres the conce pt of bipartisan conflict, some sort of give and take, a kind of quid pro quo, as it were Not so here. It was simply a matter of careful, methodical, unhurried, imper sonal, scientific annihilation. The Germans who did clamber out of their trenches could not even start to rush the French position, for the river bed still held enough water to stop them. They ‘ould not retreat, for bullets walk faster than men. Thirty min utes with the French machine guns did the trick. Then the French got out their pontoons, crossed the river—foot, horse, guns and all—swung the river back into its normal channel, and established themselves firmly in the German trenches, not forgetting to include about half a mile of the German trenches just abreast of and above the waterfall. A little grim work with hand grenades fixed that part of it Thus was achieved a result the French General Staff for four months had been wondering how to accomplish That’s about all—except that when Joffre heard of it he made Smithers come up to Staff headquarters and permit a cross to be pinned on the left breast of his tunic. But the provoking part of it is that, under orders, Smithers cannot tell just exactly how he did it. After the war he may tell; but not now. VICTORY it Continued from Page 11) “Ocean tonnage for the importation of foreign grain will be extraordinarily short, and will be needed for the import of raw materials for which there is greater need The low state of the mark exchange will make it advisable to import as little as possible from abroad and to exert our every effort in order to increase our exports “Further, we must take into considera- tion how much our foreign trade will be injured by unfriendly unions of our enemies even after the war period. Finally, it must be remembered that in all of the neighbor- ing lands, and even in America, harvests have been greatly reduced, and that in all Germanic lands adjacent to us there will be a terrific lack of necessities of life, especially grain “But if Germany is to be dependent upon herself then there will be great need for bread and fodder; nor will there be any too much of fats, even if all of our available fields are tilled, and with them additional terri- tories. Even in normal times Germany has not been in a position to produce the requi- siteamount of grain forman and beast. The harvest, at its best, will only last if it is doled out in rations. So much for normal times. “But to-day the productivity of German agriculture has been considerably under mined by the present ‘robber cultivatior which war has made necessary. Whatever could be done has been done. Those who remained back of the Front have worled with all their might. But the searcity of agricultural laborers, particularly of the farmers themselves, the restriction in sup- ply of artificial fertilizer, the handicapped agricultural machinery, because of diffi- culty in coal transport—such things as these have limited production so that, even if we have continuously favorable weather, we cannot reckon on full harvest for many, many years. **So, even after peace, it will be necessary to keep our belts pulled in, and the German people must continue to go on rations. The government will have to seize all sorts of bread grains, even less valuable kinds, and control their distribution through the ba- ker to the consumer. “The removal of such restrictions can take place only gradually, but they will meet with great satisfaction. 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If your dealer cannot supply you, ene tin, postage prepaid “Girls (Lub, Please’ J A. EMERGENCY call for help in earning extra money for some f ! 4 special rt quest for information regarding the famous Girls’ Club, organized With One Idea: To ~Ma G -Mloney We are gla if : ‘, ’ need—that’s what is represented by the average girl’s furnish information (for which no charge is made) any girl who likes our plan, as most girls do. Our lues. As all girls do not know just how or where to get Write to us, if he Club, we are publishing our address below. You are a girl—You want to make money You have time for some work ’ 1) . and we'll tell you some mighty interesting things. THE GIRLS’ CLUB rHE LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL, 872 Independence Square, Philadelphia |} on the EVENING POST | will be no immediate improvement in the supply of foodstuffs—at least, not so far as the ordinary sorts of food are concerned. “The longing cry ‘Give us peace. Give us more bread’ has no essential foundation in fact.” Economically bankrupt; eating, dress- ing, riding and keeping warm by card dur- ing the war, Germany faces the future with no better prospects unless she defeats the Allies decisively and takes everything she can get. The Imperial Government, how- ever, is not making its plans for to-morrow basis of a knock-out. Doctor Michaelis indicates this in his article. The future is to be as lean as the present. About a year ago the Imperial Govern- ment began to plan for peace. A Reichstag committee was appointed to study ways and means of adjusting Germany’s eco- nomic and labor problems to peace condi- tions. This was done at that time because many Officials really believed there would be peace by November, 1916. The committee began with the idea of adjusting Germany to normal conditions on the basis of a status quo ante bellum peace. If there was a decisive victory the commit- tee knew the general staff would make peace terms that would solve the nation’s internal troubles; but if Germany lost, or if peace meant a return to conditions as they were in July, 1914, Germany had to make preparations. Returning soldiers will demand work. Factories will need raw materials. People will demand food and clothing. So the committee made its plans. Sol- diers were to be returned from the various fronts in companies. Each company, under an army officer, would be assigned to some special work. Company A, for instance, would be reorganized to include men capa- ble and desiring to work in a certain fac- tory. Company B would be of men who were formerly postal clerks and who wished to resume their old work. This plan had many German merits. The government has always feared that when the soldiers returned en masse they might join their dissatisfied families and cause trouble, because the German hausfrau and her family will never go into another war. The people back at home are against any and all kinds of wars. The military leaders believe that when this war ends the German people will never fight another. But any danger of trouble will be minimized if the government, according to the Reichstag program, can place all workers and keep them under military order. The committee at that time was working on the basis of a continuation of the present method and system of government, which makes the state a sort of divine guardian. How Germany Plans for Peace While the Reichstag committee was working along these lines the government issued an order forbidding any German from selling stock in any shipping com- pany. The government also loaned money to agents in neutral countries to try to buy neutral tonnage. When the war is over Germany will need ships. During the war-—before every available and capable man was called to the colors Germany built merchant ships, but this work has practically ceased. In Hamburg and Bre- men shipping circles there is talk of govern- mental operation of the merchant marine. It is said that the government will pay the companies ten per cent interest on their investment and superintend all sailings. One of the »lans that Dr. Kar! Helfferich, former Vice Chancellor and Secretary of the Interior, was reported to have been working on was for the government to do all the importing and exporting. A general order was to be issued by the Kaiser for- bidding any German from purchasing any manufactured article or any raw material in the foreign markets. The government was to appoint a purchasing and selling commission. The former was to invade neutral countries after the war and pur- chase raw materials and food. This was to be shipped to Germany in German bot- toms and sold to the factories and the peo- ple at a profit. The profit was to be used to pay interest on the war debt. Then any manufactured article was to be sold to the government, and the latter in turn was to sell it to foreign buyers. The profit by this transaction was to be used to pay the costs of the war. These plans were certainly not based upon the idea of a German victory, but they indicate to a certain extent some of August 25,1917 the plans that the Imperial Government had in mind for peacetime. Germany’s biggest after-the-war prob- lem, however, will be the same as her biggest problem to-day. Germany needs fats, and Germany will need more fats. Pigs Germany needs, and pigs and pigs she will need. No one in the world probably realized how important fat was to the human race until the war was months old. When the German people to-day think of a feast the chief food on the menu is pork. When Germans go to Copenhagen, The Hague, Rotterdam or Budapest the first thing they order is ham or bacon. Their systems demand it, just as an engine requires oil. They raise pigs in Germany to-day wherever there is room for one to turn round. I have seen them on balconie of apartment houses and in thirty by forty foot courtyards. Before it was impossible to get pigs in the country, I saw men and women go out to farms by train, buy small pigs and bring the squealing animal to Berlin in sacks, there to be fattened on household garbage. several Pigs May Help to End the War Reports from certain sections of France indicate that there is a shortage of fats in that country too. In Brittany, they say, horse flesh is being sold for food. These same conditions prevail in Germany Horse meat has been sold to the poor wher ever a horse was so worn out that it couldn’t pull a cart. But in the United States, where there is plenty, it does not seem to be realized what a vital and necessary thing tat is. The price of pork in this country i increasing weekly, but there is no concerted move to replenish the stocks. We in the United States are apt to mak« the same mistakes the Germans did. When the first shortages were reported people began to cultivate every vacant lot, and vegetables were planted in flower boxe The government centered its efforts upor the fields. There was a national demand for grain and vegetables. Then when the country had sufficient grain it was realized that there was no fat. Germany has tried every possible sub- stitute for pork, but with little success. Berlin police lieutenant discovered that meat bones could be rendered in a way to produce fat, and everyone was urged to save bones. Then a scientist discovered that fruit pits contained fat, and a national woman's committee was organized to col- lect fruit seeds. Signs were posted in every railroad’carriage, in all stations and through- out every city, urging the people to collect fruit seeds. Baskets were placed in the sub ways and depots for passengers to deposit their seeds. From these last year one hundred million pounds of fat was ob tained, but this was enough to allow each German citizen only thirty grams of seed margarine a week. It was a substitute for pork, but not a satisfactory one. Pigs may indeed help end the war, but not if the United States kills them off and fails to raise more than she is producing to-day. The world demands fats to-day, but the foreign nations, including Germany, France and England, will demand more when the war ends. Europe will not be ina condition to raise pigs aS soon as peace comes. Certainly Germany will not be able to do so without importing fodder. The United States, with its almost unlimited fields, will have to supply the greater part of the world’s demand. When Germany gets ready to make peace with the world her first terms no. going to be demands for territory and indemnities. Germany’s first needs will be food and raw materials. And Germany will have to make concessions to get these things. If the United States and the Allies control the raw materials of the world and have the quickest available supplies of fats, Germany will have to meet their terms, because there is no possibility of Germany improving her present condition without the world supplies. The future food supply of Germany is in the United States and South America. This country is a belligerent, and the Allies con trol the sea lanes to Latin America. The peace that Germany makes will be dictated by her economic needs, and the longer the war lasts the more pressing these needs will become. If we can offer the German people peace on the basis of their own political freedom and promise them food we shall win. Peace for the German people meahs freedom and food. seeds are

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i) 5} Y An Authoritative List /) N rr N who saw actual service on the Me xican Borde I have he lp d » make up this list of articles greatly eded, often hard to get—things not the Government. Send to your sons and brothers and ne of them often THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 25,1917 a Service ‘Overseas Uncle Sam looks after the shelter, the food, and the clothing of the brave men of his Army and Navy—but he can not give many of the little comforts and conveniences. You must do that—and to help you we give a list of use- ful articles to send regularly to your soldier. His supply will be exhausted quicker than you imagine—send often. Start with the week of August 24th to 3lst—designated as “SOLDIE2S GIET WEEK August 24th to 31st Colgate’s Shaving Sticks made entire/y of vegetable oils it “SHE man in Service must is bland and sooth- be clean shaved. Colgate’s ing to the skin. two famous shaving sticks— Soap is a simple lux- the regular and the ‘‘ Handy ury but often hard to obtain over there. Grip’ ’—are long-lasting and Send a half dozen cakes of Colec. convenient to the last de- gree. The regular nickeled Colgate’s Cold Cream boxes are water-tight. After the soap is gone, ambulance I Y no means an effeminate gift. Heat drivers can keep an extra spark plug in and cold, dryness and damp, cause them—and they make handy match irritations which are eased by Colgate’s boxes. ‘‘Somewhere 1n France” two were \ Cold Cream. found serving as salt and peppershakers. | ti seeresa ) Help your bovs to keep ey their skins in good condition under the trying situa- Se LE. Plattsburg Manual tions and the changing weather which «cts that everv soldier they must face. By all means include a Pat talc into his shoes tube of Colgate’s Cold Cream. every day. Colgate’s is Colgate’s Tale Powder soothing and _ refreshing Ribbon Dental Cream and because of its : plentiful boric acid YOOD Teeth—-> it acts as a mild, 3 Good Health yet efficient antiseptic. Veteran and re- Good Soldier— cruit alike appreciate Colgate’s Talc. has become al- . most a proverb of late. Army Surgeons Colgate’s \ Toilet Soaps inspect the teeth very carefully—and in- sist on cleanliness of the mouth. A ()' the many soaps which Colgate toothache will incapacitate a_ soldier & Co. make, Coleo is one of the quicker than most of the smaller ills. best for service use. It lathers plenti- fully, even in hard water, and being COLGATE & CO., New York

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST go FOR THE GREAT ADVENTURE Continued from Page 7 For those who would like to know the know where to go, and in the shelters the duties, at the Front, of even the lowliest soldiers should be

and least important of the newly com- the man lying nearest the doo d be missioned officers we aré going to send the one who has the furthest to M over, here are some notes from a lecture I loophole in case of an alarm attended atjCambridge. It was given by “We must next organize our grenadier Lieutenant Morize, one of the French service in the listening post, and se t officers assigned by his government to the grenadiers are regularly relieve Harvard. It is called the Platoon Leader supplied with plenty of grenades in g in the Trenches condition. ‘I am supposing that we have arrived “We must be careful to place at at that great day when the soldiers of the able points the best shots, th American Infantry shall have come to take supplied with rifles with teles their places in the French trenches. A_ enabling them to bring dow: é at platoon commanded by an officer once a_ distance impossible for ordinary lem student in the Reserve Officers’ Training “We must try in the same way t« Corps has received an order to relieve, on the best stations for the V.B. bombers the French Front, a platoon of one of our’ shoot grenades by means of the appa infantry regiments. For the first time it described in my former lecture Ar ‘ will be necessary for him to take in hand haps we shall have in our se ‘ the government of that little kingdom, a__ those little trench cannon which throw lars section of Front— toknowexactlyitsbound- or small bombs into the enemy line rt aries, its constitution, Its customs and its platoon leader should supervise and dir resources. I am sure that the former stu- the men who serve then dent of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps “The platoon leader should know where will make an excellent monarch, but per to send the wounded, the location of t haps, for the first day, he might consent to dressing station and the boya lead ' accept a guide and an adviser. As it has them. Such area few of the tasks of orga been my privilege to live in that land for zation which fall to the platoon lead , nearly three years, I offer myself to lead “Our service once organized in the him to his new domain and to stay at his trenches, we shall examine the necessa side for twenty-four hours.” matériel, which should be as complete a Then follows a carefully elaborated and in as good condition as possible. We ne+ rather technical des« ription of the relief, planks, gabions, flooring, andbag including the plan of defense, which the need periscoy we need I g platoon leader obtains along with the map we need to des, p iW of the sector from the officer he is relieving; mers and wire pp if there " also the liaisons maintained with the pla the trenches we need pumps and dipps toon on the right, the left and in the rear, and with the artillery Armed Against Gas Attacks **Now when you, as platoor leader, take over a short section of the line you must “On the other hand, we must maint:

remember that you are person respor the supply of ammunition, cartridges and ible for it. This word responsible has a grenades Each day the platoon leade deep meaning. You are responsible for the must see to this supply He sends the human lives that are intrusted to vou. captain a requisition which sets forth hi which a moment’s negligence may squander needs as to ammunition and other mat without profit. And you are further re- that he lacks, At night a detachment from rs ponsible for any human lives lost in a the reserve company will bring up all these ul t etter and counter attack if because of a mistake or supplies to the first line your part the enemy gets into your lines “Finally the platoon leader must re This little corner of earth, captured from member that whenever the wind is suitable the Germans, was recovere d at the price he is exposed to attack Dy asp! MlAvinig O O eC of generous sacrifices; it is as though a &@ Protection against gas requires aj I I \ ' treasure had been intrusted to you paratus that must be constantly kept

| asad wrensn and n order » must have alarm signals, } ] , should understand this yourself and make” order. We must have alarn ; It is possible to build inner tubes from heavy gauge your men understand it gongs and bells—as well as machines f ' " “In the trenches during the day the manufacturing or purifying air, atomizer sheet rubber cheaper than to build them the wa) platoon leader takes with him the n« n-com and other contrivances that w oe at : Good year does, but the results are not the same who will have charge of the work and show scribed to you in a later lecture. Above } tn « a 3 y al he platoon leader should ince . : " them exactly what there is to be done, all, the platoon leade In the single sheet process the tiniest flaw in material

and } cessar ms « n place ane lake sure hat all his men carr the —. pe th weg Maye fat heir An n ane = d , ooeiy t ; to put ther or means a we akness likely to end in the failure of the the dark. It is often useful to prepare quickly and well. Every time he gos tube itself sticks marked with the measurements which through a trench he will make a certa ‘ . should be observed and give them to the mumber of men put on their masks and Goodyear Tubes are built after a method that is — = a ong a ee on ee more expensive, but which offers sure protection iis Haw aids Aidit hid tee Ghien against any fault of this kind. his trench, and these two last tay quire special attention . ; [hey are made up from many thin sheets of the finest aie co J napiore 4 — > rubber which are vulcanized together into a perfect ilready a big job

ervice alr-retaining unit that is only a part of his duty; he

+ j rrange a ; n all act tle " - ~ aS oe ae wae Sere oe 1 of near This laminated construc Good year Tubes do not ts details according to the orders and ir id ofa tl 1 tructions of his captain.” is issued to him tion guards against poros- leak or seep it will pay “We sl The Plat Leader's Kined follow hin 8 “ht _ ity, pin holes, sand pal you to ask for them by e Platoon Leader’s Kingdom TOO » ni and :

from ht iting his dif ti les, defects of any kind. name Insist upon gettin 67M... Fut thing to naslatea ctly the forent +f i " I eh ttl gi en aan ly the 1 e Good vears lower tire service of each squad, and in each squad, of It is me ergea , . : ian. It is necessary that the hours call the roll it eve! ‘ ( oupled with the Good bills will reward you ind of service should alternate resent, or at é e KnO where 2 that sleep and rest should be con- / amon is ‘ ry } 1 and year practice ot vuk an For severe service we pal sidered obligatory for the men, and that the names of the sick, and take note of a izing the valve patches ticularly recommend the r In ir the details relating to the life of the it . ’ 1 W d We report immediately to the ipt in, instead of sti king them | leavy lourist type Lhey ys something like this: First Platoor M on it offers a defense are espe ially thick and r i ‘ t iea , aL any ing none; one sick one rifie dest P moment of the day or night, ought to by a shell against air seepage not vigorous, a trifle higher know who is sleeping, who is on watch, Then we begin the inspectio approximated inany other ) “( common W Wi PI price lan mmon nd who is working erty on our domain. How much there ‘>) make sure it is not obstructed, that it risky to take apart all the rifle f a squad 1} i} \) “ad ru ZS \ = points in a good direction, that it is of the at the same time. It is such details a ~ \} 4 4 fae , 5 SY right height for the man who is to use it. that which assure the security of a trer ¢ AKRON For every loophole should have its pro- “Have all the men got their helmets,

prietor. In case of alarm each man should which may sometimes seem heavy |

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An infected wound is sually a neglected one To: pre- vent infection of -euts and abra- nt promptly» ¥ MS nthe tad 2 PEERS EIS OS An Ideal Gift for the Man at the Front s FITALI Milit FITALI iw booklet "EISEMAN, RARER a ‘COMPANY, Ekco Bldg . CHICAGO ° Ma | the signal for redoubled activity, | which protect them effectively agains st | small shell fragments and flying stones? the shelters are the sacks, the canteens and the blankets arranged in order? Is all the material, such as lumber and planking, collected and economized espec ially economized? “This struggle against waste should be carried on energetically by the platoon leader. One cannot emphasize it too much. Wood, which in this country you consider of no value, when you are in real trenches you will look on as priceless treasure. You will realize then that the smallest piece of board represents not only a part of the resources from the rear but also the effort and the weariness of those who brought it to the first line. And you will understand that all waste is both imprudent and culpable. “Continuing our walk along the trench, we shall go down into the shelters and see if the straw on which the men lie is still clean and dry; we shall ask if anything is lacking—for instance, light, water, grease; and if there is too much of anything—for instance, too much vermin, which we must fight against with the most active means.” Special Dangers at Daybreak - “At the hours of meals we should be busier than ever. That is one of the most important and most necessary tasks of the platoon leader. Troops are worth much more if they eat and sleep well. Of course | it is not the platoon leader’s fault that food jis prepared far from the first line and arrives only after all sorts of adventures and difficulties. But he can successfully take care of two things: the heating of food and the proper distribution between squads and men. And you may be sure that that lis not the worst way of winning the con- fidence and affection of the men. “Tt is the same with water; we shall send details regularly to the nearest water sup- ply, and we shall make every effort to secure for the men water as clean and wholesome as circumstances permit. I dare not assert that it will always be de lic ious! ‘Another rule of hygiene that the men must be made to observe strictly is the cleanliness of latrines and dump holes. We shall be relentlessly severe with those who neglect this and throw remains of food into every corner. “And if it is winter we must be careful to make all the men take their shoes off ;every day, and insist that they rub their feet with grease and taleum powder—the only way to prevent terrible frostbite. “So the day goes by. In the course of | the afternoon we draw up a report accord- ing to regulations to se .~ to the There is no strict rule, but all the used are something like this: captain, forms Company Report of the to the » 19 Ist Platoor I Event Il Information « Ill Work IV Le mn the enemy COMMANDER OF THE IST PLATOON “Now night falls in the trenches. It is for still more vigilant watchfulness; we must be | on the lookout for surprises, raids, the ap- proach of enemy patrols, all sorts of tricks and treacheries. It is the moment, too, for the execution of all the work prepared during the preceding day, and for the arrival in the first line of transport details bringing ammunition and supplies. “@ur first duty and our first concern will"be to make sure of unfailing super- vision all through the night. What must the platoon leader do? First see to it that the noncommissioned officers on guarc go on duty at exactly the prescribed time, then make frequent and careful rounds, making sure that everyone is at his post, rifle in hand, ears alert, eyes striving to pierce the threatening darkness, over which every few minutes illuminating rockets spread their harsh glare. We must regulate the use of illumination and take care that our rockets are not wasted. We shall stop, especially, in the listening post, where our presence will cheer the watchers, who are likely to feel themselves cut off and in danger. Also, we shall direct the sending out and use of patrols. “ These patrols which, leaving the trench, pass through our wire entanglement and go up to the enemy entanglement, are at the same time a valuable source of formation and an excellent school for the in- August 25,1917 men. They are thus accustomed to getting out of the trench, and they get to know the ground they may have to cross in an at- tack. These patrols should be picked in advance, and all night long in every first- line squad we should have a patrol ready to set out. We shall fix the hour and the point of departure from our lines, the route, and probable place and time of return. Above all, we shall not forget to forewarn the commanders of neighboring platoons, so as to avoid mistakes. “So the night passes, more or less calmly according to the humor of the people across the way. And we shall feel greatly re- lieved when the light comes back again. To my mind no time is more dangerous in trench warfare than the last hours of t! night. The watchers begin to tire; on do not see so clearly; often mists hang over the ground; there are general weariness and enervation. The Germans like this hour for making attacks, must be in the trench, waking and rousing all our men. A rule that the French Army ob- serves, and a good one, is to have a general alarm an hour before daybreak. Every- one must occupy his combat station, ready to fire, searching with his glance the dwin- dling shadows. Many German raids have failed because they have fallen upon French: platoons that were all ready for them. **At six or seven o'clock we shall send to the captain our report on the incidents of the night, with all the information the patrols have been able to bring back. “You will ask me, When does the platoon leader steep? The answer is, Rarely. An hour or two at night, between rounds two or three hours in the afterncon— a few minutes snatched when you can; that is all. We must wait for the days when the regiment will move back a little toward the rear and we shall have, if not a delec- table bed, at least a roof and a good layer of straw, where we shall be perfectly happy.”’ That is all! I suppose in the intervals the unlucky platoon leader mends his clothes and writes letters home and settles disputes and administers the summary justice of the trenches according to the book on courts-martial, which he fully studying now. And now he has time to worry a bit enemy just across. But not often. too busy. The actual result of this very practical linking of training with the atmosphere of the battlefield has been not only experience but also the gain of an enthusiasm among these college men that will make them tight for a shovel to dig with. s0 we is pain- and then about the He is Trench Warfare in New England I stood with Lieutenant Morize on the edge of a trench in process of construction. Map and blue print in hand, he was care- fully watching the work. Following his instructions to his men to use what was available on the battlefield, some of the men were making the lattice flooring that covered the muddy bottom of the trench. “T have told them to use the wood they could pick up,” he Then he smiled. “I do not inquire too carefully as to where it comes from.” But some of it looked suspiciously like the fragments of what had once been a New England picket fence. Through long narrow cuts the trenches in a wet part of the field were drained into deep sand pits. Here and there pumps had been installed. The pumps had been neces sary, but they have been doubly useful, for when these men go to France they will know how to drain their trenches, Under the palings that made a dry shallow pits had been dug, also for drair age. Scientifically constructed latrines, de« p and actually bomb-proof dugouts, wood lined, wood floored and ceiled with heavy beams, there were also. Suddenly Lieutenant Morize left leaped across the trench and hailed a man working with a pick in a new traverse. “Just a moment!” he said. “Don’t stand so near the other men.” He moved them along to safe distar apart. ‘Three men in my regiment in France have been killed while digging trenches,” he explained, ** by being struck on the head by the pick of the next man.” If I have written more of Lieutenant Morize than of the other officers it is because he was my field guide. He speaks excellent English, and was at one time a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University. Continued on Page 73 said. fl oor me,

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EE SS qe ee (Continued from Page 70 Once a week these men, who have built their trenches by weeks of grueling hard work, have sham battles—real trench bat- tles that last all day, and often far into the t—and engage nan trench Across No Man’s Land. ily of machine guns being limited, student officers with ite handkerchiefs on their arms become line guns, and are carefully placed. Whitewashed stones are used as hand grenades, and not always withou A grenadier attacks a clump of bushes with great ferocity much throwing of grenades, and out an infuriated ma- chine gun. “Here, what the “Stop that!” “Roll bac k, son,” Says the grenadier cheerfully. “ Roll back and die. You're a machine gun, and you’re out of commission. You're jammed.” So the machine gun sulkily rolls back and the battle goes on. The whole theory of this training by the mac casualties. French officers is that these men shall not Vv only be able to drill their men in infant formations—by the way, in one of the camps I heard the little men alluded to as Small Problems in Infantry, the title of a textbook being painfully studied — but they shall be able, even the least of them, to take a platoon into the trenches in France and I And that, after all, is our problem. On military law the Harvard Reserve Officers’ Training Corps is receiving lec- rof. Eugene Wambaugh, leading 1uthority and adviser to the National Gov ernment. He has also prepared for them a mall pocke ZA ed A Guide to the Articles of War, with here and there Keep it there, t-si book « lank pages on which the men take notes . ‘ iw ad of our rather com] licated e men have nece iry to know in and their heads It isa very human little book, that Guide to the Articles of War, by Professor Wam- baugh. It appears that the articles of war are not guns or bully beef or bayonets or metal helmets. They are laws. Under them every. misdemeanor becomes a crime. The company are to the platoor whose duties ‘sasristoz’,thus becomes a Justice peace as well as everytning eise. The Madness of Private Fish Here is a typical problem—a short narra- e that should be entitled The Madness of Private F It appears that Private Peter A. Fish got drunk in the company’s quarters one eve- ning at seven P. M. That same night, while still drunk, he stole from the camp twenty- five pounds of pork sausage worth $7.62 and twenty-two pounds of ham worth $4.81, or a little less than twer ty-two cents sn. a pou! d . then, following his nose, found seven pounds of cheese worth $1.42, and proceeded to a bake oven. However, this was not madness. It which must be army rate. He conceal the entire booty might indeed, under some circumstances, be considered extremely sane. But he then told the cooks what he had done! Which was mad indeed. Unluckily I do not know the answer to this problem, except that Private Fish’s comrades undoubtedly led him aside and remonstrated with him about letting the COOKS 1N. Naturally the weeding-out process in the training camps has been a slow and painful one. Officers cannot tell a man’s ability or lack of it until he has been under observation for some time. Some men learn readily; | Even physical examinations, with the limited medical force, took time. Some men drilled for weeks, « to discover that » examiner in the r , overlooked a heart murmur or a visual de- fect that automatically disqualified them. There is no answer to this except unusual care on the part of examiners of new re- And even at that, dormant con- ditions now and then become active from the new physical activity, and men who have felt secure have to be sent home. The unfortunate result is that the very young men, less liable to show defects of vision, physically at their best but unaccus- tomed to handling men or affairs, are at an udvantage over the older ones. Yet we others are slow. station had “pit tin crults, hall need all the experienced men we can get for the new army—men in t even in their forties t nake better officers b lege take to the game water— but because age and ex handling men will have their ps) effect on the new army The War Department, rea asking older men to volunteer for officers’ training camps. But in the developing of the 1 we have left a loose end, entai mous waste of training and of « of willingness. A man who has b for two months or 1 country Just now, underweight, for instance, inste: ing him home he could be sent t tion department, where lack of positive asset, two things wou We should gain an aviator, and save that candidate and his frie feeling of resentment Patriotism of the sort that sends :; one of t! ese Camps Is Loo Valuabi¢ asset to be wasted. There are men who are under natur Healthy men are somet An aviator may be | and flat-footed and yet of his kind. One British aviat one leg Two of the best Frer } ©. footed t t weigh ave to be carried to their m ! The Dejected Rejected Can Not very long ago in the adjutant’ of one of the large camps | when a man who had beer ported to be disc narged He ha that it was coming. Naturally I hear the conversation that ens after he had gone out an officer “This is the most difficult } whole thing There aman who Ww be an officer in the world, but he ha special qualifications that it 1 cannot utilize. He speaks Frencl man fluently. He has been an French for years ata leading coll Yet we shall need interpreters ir 5 a All the armies have them And need here, with the new mal structors to give our men a bit of sational French, Just enough to g with over there Here again are men without the of leade rship that officers require, Dt ness men, OF could be used in the quarterm: partment or with the great mo system we shall have to inaug rance, as involved as a trunk-line railroad at hom« the great d one road had forty thousand mot carrying up supplies, routed and, as as possible, scheduled Yet our system sends such men home Yesterday I had a visit fron man who had just, after eight weel on training, been rejects d by one o He is thirty- to managing men, is six feet tall, we hundred and sixty pounds, physical examination, and his ey normal with one exception, He color-blind. He knows the str five years ol age, a passe ers and oO e¢ m and indeed mo i rive on Verdun the Fr didate ye but he is slightly confused on the variations Red and green for him are quite pl and green. 1 tried him out mysel lam not sore,” he sa plaint at all I expect I am the | the two months’ training, for t it But isn’t there some place where useful? I gave up my position; examined before I gave it 1 passed without any difficulty. Now here I am I am an expert shot, free as to far physically perfect, not too young, anda customed to handling me! ar the G ernment doesn’t want me.” Do you remember how Mr. Britling went f j up to London and tri i to find something do, only to decide that his cour need him? “Why, I can’t go home!”’ said one re- jected and dejected candidate the other day. “ My girl cried a week when I left! The point is, I think, that we should ar- range some way to exchange these men and not dismiss them. It is waste the very thing we are trying to guard against. For these camps, in addition to the officers to be selected for the new army, are called upon to furnish them for the quarterma ter’s corps, for ordnance and for aviatior One commanding officer said to me “I have several very desirable ndi- dates, disqualified by my surgeon for all the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST This Faraday in His Famous Lecttre Sai “When a candle burns badly it pro- duces smoke; but if it is burning wet there is no smoke And you know that the brightness of the candle due fo this smoke, which becom igr d. Here is an experiment tw prove this: So long a6 the smoke remains in the flame of the candle and becomes ignited, it gives a ei cae appears to us in the form of black particles.” Candle Principle Cuts Coal Bills % to % RSoms for° JO GUARANTEED These are days of high coal prices — rising prices. The better grades of coal are hard to get. There seems to be no end to price increase. You know that. But here’s a way to use the cheaper grades of coal and so save money. 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Box C. D. Beaver Dam, Wis Eighth grade to first year he ge Academy | ake End oon s $300 Music Stenog Catalogue. Edwina P Brews EVENING POST branches of the army, because of either color blindness or flatfoot or for eyesight not up to the standard in both eyes, and soon. Flatfoot, where not excessive, should not disqualify for aviation, quartermaster’s corps or ordnance. glasses and his right eye is up to the stand- ard and his left eye is not excessively below the standard it should not disqualify him for any service!’ It is this rule of thumb that is causing so much dissatisfaction among the officer candidates who are suffering under it. The emergency is real; time is the one thing we have not got. I have seen, in one company, twenty-three men rejected out of one hun- dred and fifty, for vision slightly below the | corrected by | peace standard, but easily glasses. A rigid adherence to peace standards will automatically eliminate many of the newly drafted men. wearers, given to correcting our most minor defects of vision. Take off a man’s glasses, after he has learned to depend on them, and he will do himself less than justice at the chart. Many a man who cannot see to lace his boots in the morning without his spectacles could, with them on, in many instances, sit in the fork of a tree and knock a German meerschaum out of a Bavarian mouth without any difficulty. Our rigid adherence to a peace standard has worked other injustices with the men in the first camps. Flatfoot we shall al- ways have so long as we continue to hold the ridiculous idea that the normal position of the foot in walking is with the toes out. Watch an Indian on the trail, toes straight ahead, going tirelessly mile after mile. Yet it is quite true that if a man has not flat feet when he enters the army he may end up with them. Why, in the name of : all that is sane, we insist on the position of atten- tion with the heels toge ‘the ‘rand toes out is something difficult to understand. Prob- ably that came into fashion when some splayfooted general in centuries. gone by made it obligatory. Men Who Get on the Skid List And while we are on the physical require- ments, there is another point that is vastly concerning the medical men of the army: Nephritis automatically disqualifies a man, yet, owing to the ch anged conditions of their lives, the enormously increased bodily activities of drill and physical training, fully six per cent of the men in certain camps have developed a temporary nephritis. It is mild, not necessarily chronic. In Europe it is known as trench nephritis and does not disqualify. If no allowane e is made for this condition the first weeks of training of our new army of six hundred and eighty thou- | sand will see forty-one thousand sent back home for a condition that is neither serious nor permanent. These are big figures and they deserve consideration. Much of the injustice that has been done to the men in these first camps has been due to a lack of understanding by ‘the civilian doctors who examined them for ad- mission. If the Army Medical Department would issue to all civilian doctors in the United States, before examinations com- mence for the new army, a pamphlet giving them complete instructions as to the method of examination, the disqualifying factors reduced, let us hope, from a peace to a war footing; and if those civilian doctors are instructed to examine the men more care- fully, an immense amount of waste motion and time will be saved. In a recruiting office not long ago, be hind a screen, a civilian physician was doing his best to examine applicants for the service. The office was on a busy street, crowded with traffic. Even to speak re quired ri rising the voice. That examining physician could not have heard a heart murmur unless it had been as loud as Niagara Falls. Here’s a boy, a rifle expert in the National Guard for five years, put on what the men call the skid list for a bad right eye; while another man, who cannot shoot at all, i afraid of a gun, and has a physical inability to close his left eye while his right remains open, so that he must wear a patch over the left eye, is retained. » Curious things have developed in the course of these examinations. The buyer for one of the largest silk importing firms in the United States was disqualified for color blindness. It is serious because, as I have said, men who have been turned down once are not likely to reénlist, and because, going back (Continued on Page 77) If a man does not wear | We are a nation of spectacle | August 25,1917

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST August 25,1917 {iil (J0L.AUUUU LAH LAHATULU GALA LAUT L ALLURE HAS ANETTA Rt NERO ASHORE ORONO New Ideas on Food Costs A Unique Situation The oat is chief among grain foods, both in flavor and nutrition. As a food for growth and a food for vim it holds supremacy. It has litthe advanced, while other grains have multiplied in cost. And nearly all foods have soared. So today oat food, as never before, reveals an amazing economy. — In Quaker Oats 1s Most other foods, for the same nutrition, cost from twice to ten times as much. The average mixed diet costs four times as much. So the oat, so far as you serve it, reduces average table cost by 75 per cent. Yet the oat is the best food available—the best-balanced food we know. As a: vim-food it has age-old fame. Nature has endowed it with a most exquisite flavor. ~-- —_ Steak and Potatoes ’ - 7 na ' i It supplies ten times the lime that beef oat does, three times the phosphorus, and more iron. It supplies the precious vitamines. . And Quaker Oats—the extra-grade oat food — costs you no extra price. It is flaked from queen grains only—just the rich, plump oats. We get but ten pounds from a bushel. The result is a flavor which has won more users—by the million—than any other brand. All the world over it is the oat lovers’ choice. Yet the usual oat price buys these luscious In Chicken flakes, if you ask for Quaker Oats. enny buys 1 calories of Use it daily to reduce your food cost, to sig conserve our wheat crop, and for your delight. ~ Quaker Oats The Luxury Grade of Oat Flakes The Average Mixed Diet . 12¢ and 30c per package in United States and Canada, except elds only one-fourth the nutrition, Bread and Milk in Far West and South where high freights may prohibit penny of cost, that you get from Quaker So « $1 spent on Quaker twik much Oat ve i average of $3 Oat Dainties 4 = Sweetbits— Oatmeal ' Cookies ' ’ ~ } + breaktast dainty. Use it in bread . - 1 cup Sugar, 1 tablespoon Butter, 2 Quaker Oats is more than a Eggs, 29 cups Quaker Oats, 2 teaspoons and muffins, in cookies and pan- = Paty Ree, lly, permet” Ber cakes. Try the recipe for Sweetbits ¢ ean sabeie in tt ar. Add rt of which we publish here eggs. ‘Add Quaker Quer, to whi h baking Use in place of flour, or mixed — powder has been added, and add \ with flour, for flavor and economy Beat whites of eggs stiff and add | ° ‘ Drop on buttered tins with teaspoon, but Use it to thicken soups. For every | | h wai -chagpacagenicey:* : on I ry 1S very few on each tin, as they spread. | meal there is something you can Bake in slow oven. Makes about 65 | make with Quaker Oats Quaker Oats ear Hig tis Confection THE QUAKER OATS COMPANY, CHICAGO {HMI HOULSAPEDEOAOASNOEAU ETON LOO SONATE REE i on CL ma nied

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me, they are apt to discourage other ap- ants lor t! second camps lhe difficulty perhaps lies tl That mer WW st i ness I i wee! the army for many ye the army becomes an end 1 ne al ins They want a pe rfect rr a e machine But to the civilian, ed to give up everything—his income, his time r s his own life re t t t t that he sees in a ul and Ul to defeat the enemy and ng the rt be qu est possil con- isi ¢ There eem t he then. to the it ler, two solu f this problem: First to lower the pt! i tandards trom a peace t i r pda as eVE ther intry nm the ‘ ass done long ag second to j ize the mate?rial we have when rejected by one department, in another. When me e actually incapable of active service we in Still ca talize their de re to be usetu t ising them as cl

Medical , ‘ na jin its phvs Ir n ‘ peace anda its p! equireme one thing stands out ind disti r i the welter of politi and divergir nior lhe greatest singk tat ae 1 our new ten | t een made by Surgeor ind he mer ho t 5 ' " Washingtor I have recent eon the nart of the department tie It er elming ind it rea iring It vers every phase of pt il disal ! 1 ma t 1 ! ele t ir It 3 , it Spe alist lor every conditio men mav develop The best mer their ne | itrists. orthopedist irgeot ecialists in tube sis, men whose wor he eve hese are i few of ther For ir ince, tubers f, the

tee ust t the pla f the rye general of the irl t elir ate every } eT! CaM here I rhe cul Me go mad eve w here Che condi of warfare tend to a great nereased percentag ol these ise Under mpe te are they often re er. We are going to give them that care And so with « ryvthing. The best doc- tors in the country have lel heir lucrative practice nd have gone y » unif a to he end that tne Livage I ir may be : ele as possible tanians will guard the camps and erset r ys it the trenches. Men whose specialty is the rection of deforn Will perl their n cle Shell sl ga 1 r hye treated by men who know Somenow we ilway think of the ma- cniner f mercy as being the Red Cr Magr cent as is the service it render ‘ inder the Arn Med il Department that t does its work It is but one divi nofa most comprehensive plan. It is the great uring house through which the peopl if nation place their n ney and their serv e at the disposal of the army and the irgeon-general » Ve SE i our boy ask that they be cared for by 1 staff the al aff day and om planning to d And all the time i l aboring under a great 7 at t Democracy in the Camps I want a Medical Departmer t or ot the who Is representative of the Army) the general staff army »o do you So does everyone alizes that zed nt to demand it sending a son or who re he machiner t a‘ et he + } ; } lor a battle We have a ri t mobil

om and we must To-day we » thinking not so much in terms of vict« as of wounded men. We

want every chance for \ The ognition of the Army Medical Department by giving it a place on the general staff is not only its due—i | that when our boys rec-

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desire them as clerks The paper work of an army is enormous In our army the syst vy) of peace, is complicated to the extreme. In some of the camps reserve officers are sit- ting up at night, after drilling and studying all day, filling in a dozen or so reports. In others the commanding officer and his staff are buried under masses of detail. Washington has learned to delegate au- Our army officers have not, in m } em, DL

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THE SATURDAY many instances, even the privilege of d he p—@ ler t whom t lelevu \V not use these rejected andidate re they are willing, for Ut!

Eve aman with flatioot ope iu“ i typewriter! It is a pathetic sight to see a six-foot officer in a uniform, a fig! g? i used to handling the things of war ticing what h te a typewriter, i t growing mass el ore But, after ‘ f that we have ‘ 1 are the minor problems ente ‘ yecessiully er the physical standard or 1 whether we eluminate ol the paper wor ‘ burying ot ers under its! T ce the big, fundamenta! thing being a complished. Democracy with a little the watchword of a tne al \ missioner of the District of ¢ i i 4 grooming horses at one. The President nephew was in another The mn officer did not even know him | Majors, captains and heute reserve corps are on an equ y wit! ‘ privates Already hol i Zz ‘ ri the only difference is they have to make good, whe reas the others Nave tf ike 5 | to get them There is ne on made for pur ! ment in these It not nece i Of course if a man is yellow he doe remaltll But tre t im? it r tor t t cause are practically I The great probiem, the one o wl hh the success of this new system must hang, ! been this: Is this method going out officer r only an extra qua i pr vates? Ihe met ! t Lent I ‘ obey Have they learned how ind And for a time it was really a er There were mar mer No Ite each one be given the hance to commat!

Lo vou remen the squad that, In a spirited t misg ed endeavor t obey a mpo t rae l wound itself up yal it , resembling the third figure 1 the i t 4 Or of that other, which had adopted a formation that piled it up like at é on the veranda of the married larte

Or, again, of those forlorn six files w} advancing In skirmishing orde t lor the ash bin outside the cook! ist looking piteously over their shoulde for some responsibie person to give them an order that would turn them bach nt the fold? Well, such accidents were not unknowr in these camps of ours in their ear Nervous gentlemen, acutely f the colonel’s presence on the le line tied their men up in strange nots \ t usually loud and clear became, before a portly major with a cold eye, mere nerv- < jus squeaks Again let us quote as the correct

when a superior officer stro across the parade ground 1 and platoor have m iTse t ) difficulties j ! \ r face, directing y« t t Then cover your head with gravel and pre tend you are not there.” I heard a man who at home has charge of four thousand men saw t! the harde thing he had ever done in his life was to get out in front of a platoon of thirty-two men and try to tell them what to do. His Another, a Philadelphia law ustomed t knees shook yer, thoroughly act » large au ences, could not command his voice enough to say “Squads right!’ Not that these are at all representative cases, but they do indicate the difficulty that many of the

pupils in this new college of war are facing However, this f safely past. In some ished earlier than in others, owing of insomnia on the part of Major Koehler, physical instructor at West Point for, lo, these j Now Major Koehler has been training men at West Point for thirty-three year Of those thirty-tl ree classes all but one hundred and eighty of the graduates of West Point have been Plebes physical direction. He is a born trainer of men. I have seen him take four thousand men on a parade ground, he himself stand- ing on a platform and giving directions in avy that is, stage of nervousness of the camps it var case many years

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But they did it, not once but many times, and they did it well—though the yell with which they were instructed to descend on the German trench was sometimes little more than a breathless gasp. Primarily this has been written for the people who have already sent, or are about to send, their sons to these training camps. I have tried to give a fair and very frank description of conditions, of the new sol- dier’s daily life, his problems, and the prob- lems that confront the Government. For a moment then, and in this open manner, let me answer a question that has been embodied in many of the letters that have been written to me since war was de- clared. Briefly, this question refers to the influ- ences that will surround our men, officers and privates, but particularly privates, in the cantonments here and abroad. The attitude of the War Department toward this question is both grave and re- ceptive. It is not true that American men need to be protected against themselves. It is true that a certain percentage of young and thoughtless men may need to be pro- tected against others, against the ghouls who fatten on a country’s distress, against those who are always watching for the lonely moment, the hour of relaxation after strain. This protection I am authorized to say is going to be given, by both the War and the Navy departments, so far as government may go. But governments have their limitations. Morality is an individual matter, a thing of the man as well as of his surroundings. There are rotters everywhere, just as there are gentlemen. After all, if parents have failed with their boys it is asking too much of the Govern- ment to expect it to succeed where they have failed. The real question is up to the American people, to the strength of home influence and early years, to the fundamental decency and self-respect of the American man. It is, also, up to the frank knowledge that the soldier is always a mark for undesirable at- tentions. If, for a moment, we would lift the veil which it is our national instinct to draw over the sordid and the ugly; if we could speak openly, to the boys who are going about what is really a national matter the prevalence of disease, the different stand- ards they may encounter as the result of war conditions; and if—as vital as anything we will provide as fully for the hours of relaxation of our men as we will for his fighting and his wounding—we can win this battle. If we do not An enormous element in this fight against loneliness and detachment from home ties is the Young Men’s Christian Assoc iation. | believe the Young Women’s Christian Association is also planning a foreign cam- paign against the twin enemies, loneliness and detachment. All we can have of this sort of effort is not too much. Men must play, as they must sleep and eat. We must provide amusement, athletics, anything that will take the soldier who is off duty and give him a legitimate outlet for his Red Cross work is vital. Pro- viding warm garments and comfort bags is important. But striking home to every family that is making its loyal contribution to our great cause to-day is this one of keep- ing our soldiers happy and well. Under that banner I would enlist to-day every man and woman in the country, to talk to their boys, to give money and effort, to codperate with a willing Government, to inform Washington of wrong conditions here, and to send people to watch condi- tions abroad. Here is an extract from a letter from France. Muay the high-thinking and clean- living men of the new army forgive me for quoting it, because of their weaker brothers. It is written by a woman who has been doing philanthropic work abroad for years: “| think that if the good mothers of America would only set to work to make a clean army and should succeed, they will energies. EVENING POST have carried off one of the greatest vic- tories in all history. If in some way those fifty thousand young men who are pre- paring themselves to be officers could be got to pledge their honor to drink nothing and to keep themselves chaste while on their crusade, like knights of old; if they nana be persuaded to set a splendid example - their own men; if each private could be persuaded to hitch his own particular little moral wagon to a star—there will have been done a greater thing, a far greater thing, than the extirpation of militarism in Europe. Then she wishes some woman—a mother would write a letter that can be nailed up somewhere in the lounging places of the men. I have tried. I find I cannot write that letter. It is too arrogant, that letter to a million men. It assumes a right I do not possess. But if I were writing it I shoulc 1 say something like this: *“*When things get a little strained, over there, as they will now and then, we just want you to remember this: We are here, all of us, solidly behind you. We love you and we believe in you. ‘You have entered on a new life, always strange and often terrible. Home and the things of home must seem very far away. But we are going along in the old way, and some day, we are praying, you are coming back to us and to the old familiar things again. “Remember that. If prayers and high hopes and sleepless nights avail, you are coming back to us, to take up life again where you left it off. “We know things are different, there. War levels many barriers. The very over August 25,1917 proximity of death makes life seem a thing to be lived fully. But war itself is a great adventure. Is it not enough? **Here, back at home, things go on in the same old way, but with this difference: Our hearts are not in the things we do. They are with you, across there in France. Our eyes are strained ahead, to the time when you are coming back. We are wait- ing, only waiting. All of this great country is waiting. You'll remember that, won’t you, when things get going a bit strong? We want you to come back to us. God only knows how we want that. But we want you to come the better for having gone, the wiser, the finer, for having fought for a great cause. We want you, whole of body if it is so ordered, but whole of soul by your own strength. “For war does one of two things: It k a man’s soul or it burns it white with “‘Do you remember how, when you ust to go out to play, we warned you not get hurt? That sounds funny now, doesr it? But there are so many ways to get hurt “We have never preached at you. You know that. We are not a preaching people And so we are asking only one "thing of you a clean slate. We want you to come home from this school of war with a clean slate. And if, in the fullness of a purpose we do not understand, you are not to come back to us here, but must meet us again in a land where there are no more wars, b peace everlasting, then that clean sl: yours will be a fine thing to tak There.” Editor’s Note—This is the second of tv by Mrs. Rinehart GRACE PARKER=HERSELF Concluded from Page 23 domestic policies affecting immigrants, later developing an out-of-doors organiza- tion for business and professional young men and women, with summer camps in addition to year-round activities. | am now in woman’s war work. Through the war work in this country, I believe, women are getting closer together, are coming into a better understanding, just as the women in other war-stricken countries have already done. There are obligations and sacrifices in wartime which all women share alike mothers, wives, sisters, sweethearts—each silently carrying her anguish in her own heart, encouraging, inspiring her men, her boys, as they go forth to answer the call of their country. She gives them up and prays that her sacrifice may not be in vain. Yes, she prays for strength to endure, for cour- age and understanding to serve, for pa- tience to wait with a never-failing hope for the early victory of right. This has alway been woman’s portion in wartime. With changing ¢ onditions—ec onomic, social, mili- tary —-woman’s responsibilities in this pres- ent world war have tremendously increased, not only in the field of medical, nursing and relief work, but in industrial, agricultural and social welfare, and all lines of economic work. In the countries that have been at war for three years great organizations have been developed through which woman’s service is being delivered. Realizing that in our organization work in this country we ml ight benefit by what had been oped in England, I went to England |: November and spent two mont leaders in woman’s work there, close range some of their grea tions. The tremendous need of and training the volunteer forces of a na tion in time of peace for service in time of emergency was emphasized again and again. I was also impressed with n p tance of every wom: in servin place in which she is best fitted aevel ry , organizl i to serve The National League for W omat ’s Se ice, of which I am National Con ndant was organized in Washingt 1917. Its program of activi upon the work required of 1 rs i wartime. Its plan of organization is based upon the most successful plan dey this country and in England. thirty-nine states, in over five peer ninety cities, nearly two hundred ar thousand volunteers are alrea ly org: and rende pre important service. working shoulder to women in jndustry, in offices, in one of whom is doing her part where she is employed by helping the wheels of trade in motion. The wor of America are serving with their mer will serve until the victory ) America and her allies are ioped 1! shoulder THE PARIAM Concluded from Page 28 ‘Brackett was murdered,”’ asserted the coroner stoutly. “And he was murdered by the same man that robbed the bank. The robber’s tracks led straight to the body. Then they went on, passing over the trail which Brackett had made, coming back from the mine. There was no sign of Jelson at the cabin. But the papers were mé ude out in Jelson’s hand.’ ‘It may be a forgery?" suggested a man. The coroner ye softly into the cabin and questioned Elsie. Yes, she ~y old letters, written by ion tohentath . His signature was attached to all of them. The evidence was abundant. The coroner car- ried the letters out and gave them to old Judge Crawford. The old man compared the handwriting with that of the location notice. ‘They are identical,” he said, and passed them about. Unanimously the men of El Tanko concurred. **T think Sheriff Lang stated the matter correctly,”” decided the judge. “The man we killed must have been Jelson. Jelson robbed the bank. On his way home he met his old partner Brackett. They quarreled Brackett. Then haps in remorse—he made the property « to the dead man, hoping that by so he would be making a sort of restit ‘But if this mine was so rich,” a skeptic, ““why did Jelson and leave his tracks plain in the way from El Tanko to tl he was shot? Why a Old Judge Crawford made helpless bewilderment. ‘We don’t know that,” more than we know where stolen gold. The only thin he summed up, “‘is owns a rich mine in t} monito Gulch. As for the you mention, no one knows! But he was mistaken. There was who knew. Away over in the dry wil ness of Hell’s Pasture, hidden away a wild animal in its lair, the Pariah beside a stingy seepage spring, applying strange healing leaves to his blistered heel, mumbling guttural curses at the shoes which were two sizes too lar ge for him, and Jelson xilled

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