The Saturday Evening Post 1918-04-06: Vol 190 Iss 40

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST NOTICE TO READER. When you finish reading this copy of The Saturday Evening Post place a U. S. 1-cent stamp on this notice, hand same to any U.S. postal employee, and it will be placed in the hands of our soldiers or sailors at the front. No wrapping, no address, A. 8. Burleson, Postmaster General. DRAWN BY SARAH S. STILWELL WEBER Beginning Shot With Crimson- By George Barr McCutcheon

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST i PBGH 5 ah f i td rr ; oR Ly : & rae it: i My fi ~~ ) fs A » ; Pres auth n ia /e ™, - : Y fe iS Lge i ee, 4 & a >. yp | f eas inten ie” \ QE Be of estclox HE strongest recommenda- tion Sleep-Meter could have is the family name—/Vest- clox—on the dial. /Vestclox is the badge of alarm clock quality. Sleep-Meter is proud to wear it. Sleep-Meter is made by the Western Clock Co.,—makers of Big Ben and other Westclox alarms—and is easily the best medium-priced alarm you can buy. Like all Westclox, Sleep-Meter has the patented Westclox construction—a better Western Ll B method of clock making: Needle-fine pivots of polished steel greatly reduce fric tion. That’s why all Westclox run on time and ring on time. Sleep-Meter has tal business and household timekeeper, and is tel time in several rooms of many homes today. Sleep-Meter is five il ches tal , Bas a cheerful- toned gong and an easily read dial. You'll want one of these See Sleep-Meter at your dealer’s. Look for the family name—/Vestclox—on the dial. If your dealer cannot supply you, SI ep-Meter will be sent pt of price: $1.75; 1n Canad L Ss: Ie ra "7 CA " direct On rece! 50. Clock Co.—makers of Hestclox La Salle, Illinois, U. S. A.

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i a es Fa ee. item Acie THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Something New for Spring— Mock Mince Pie Mock Mince Pie— Spring Style The Pastry 1 pf pastry fl ri i ast si at lesp. f 1 wate level inea Sift flour and salt and cut Crisco into flour h twe knives until finely divided Finger tips n be used to finish blending material Add gradually sufficient water to make stiff past Water should be i sparingly and mixed with a knife th iwh d ingredients Form lightly juickly into dough, roll out on slightly fl ‘ board ibout one-quarter inch t! Use light motion in handling roll ing pin and roll from center outward nt for one small pic The Filling 1 ful rhubart 1 cupful sugar " ‘ : t 1 exe (w ‘ 1 & crack ‘ ) bs } nf ry nf « 4 level p tl hubarb an ins togethe ngredient x tl ! Bak between tw i Canned rhubarb I a The ‘ d and ved te, Mi FTER being limited to preserved or dried fruits during the winter, there is a natural craving for the earliest fresh fruit desserts. Rhubarb already is here. One of the most tempting ways in which this fresh, whole- some, fruitlike plant can be served is in Mock Mince Pie. The appended recipe is new. Try it. Raisins offset the tartness of the rhubarb and the combination gives a delicate, pleasing and unusual flavor. But be sure the rounds of pastry are made with Crisco. Then you have a wasteless, wholly edible pie, with the lower crust as flaky and tender as the upper; a pie with the real fruit flavors, having no taste of shortening. RISCO for Fry yng for Shortening for Cake Making Crisco is a tasteless, odorless, all vegetable cooking fat. It is the rich cream of edible oil, so pure and wholesome that it makes foods delicious. You will be delighted with the results of using Crisco in all recipes that call for butter or butter substitute. 150 Dishes Prepared Without Butter “Balanced Daily Diet a book by Janet McKenzie Hill king Scho will help every woman diversify her met and still prepare ex build for bodily strength and mental vigor It contains over 150 new recip t er is required Also the interesting Story of Crisco. It is Ulustrated in col i d sell f 2 ents we will send you a copy for t n stamps Address Department K-5, The Procter & Gamble Company, Cincinnati, Oh April 6,1918 eS Te RA. night

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Published Weekly George Horace Lorime: EDITOR The Curtis Publishing Churchill Williams, F. S. Bigs Company AW. Neall, H. D. Walker t. Dinsmore, Associate Edi Cyrus HN. AK. Curtis, President HI ‘ ‘ . Tne _ Walter H. Dower Art Editor rS« Ge 6 M ‘ Walter D. Fuller, $ Williem Boy A rtising Dire ‘ at ih Philadelphia Post-Off ; 4 S nd-Class Matter . independence Squats, Philedeipiue Founded A°D' 1728 Sy Benj. Franklin iniest na 1 Henrietta Street ' Office Department « ent Gard w.« Copyright, 1918 y The Curt Publishing Company in the United States end Gre B ) < che Volume 190 PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 6, 19/8 OT WITH CRIM mitcteed: By George Barr McCutcheon ;:' Number 40 S£&a& t 5 TRA TE DOD aS = F. R. G Rit G &£ R at I e 6 \ rep] We i \ \\ ’ ¢ end \ I He | It 1 \ Gy An ex i 4; ( I W : I re I N I I ‘ ‘ Ne

“See the Glow Coming Up Over the Hilt? She's Afire! And With This Wind the Reynoids'’ Munitions Plant Will Go Like Waste Paper!t"’

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 6,1918 D In Marlborough Street,” said Zimmerlein dr M ng for harbors and farmers all over the land had / . is | a uu can LE me name, and me poor made snug their livestock against the uncertain elements. $ ’ } ‘ er is Irish too. Her name before marriage was it turned out to be true that the vast Reynolds \ K rausshof ons plant had been blown up the plotters could not | r ni t \I ( lace W carlet To cover s confusion he chosen a more auspicious night for their enterprise ed | " ‘ er to the wind ind glared imar ce could at the flames on a night like "} ‘ f | red light that crept sl it of the darkness caught on the d there would be no et ‘ Che crests of the s were beg g to topping them u lay wet and sodden ‘ ‘ © ag tab re ind snot with erin ) where the ght i | the me he muttered | e to see e mer Mrs. Carstairs w away from the 1) t esl I Die for t t € er nere bur ‘ aows one nuadere etty, nervous ung f wife sidled up to her and laid a trembling hand on her arn , Mr. ( | t [ think we can agree on that point at least, Mr. Cribbs,” “Wouldn't it be dreadful if there were a lot of peopl Z erie t t it wo er there wher when it | ed \ W ) n over there th me in 1 car?”’ na tense trained voice Just thir ‘ We é e ¢ er excited | ) i few mil and it Don't tl bout it e dear 4S ek ea nae nt ] nt ( x eve ire ¢ x ugt I nee and Belgium.’ \ ere il are, ( bbs!” 1 Ca nar But e Tea iren t fighting them yet went on the ‘ é W he t} é ¢ begin to go off Wi t ‘ ri t ilntive W i lid the DIOW p our f: | \I ( neve been a thing or he French | that tories’ Oh, these dreadfu ter e Germans! Phe \ i a candle to it! Don’t forget what happened sudde n confusion: “I—TI beg your pardon.” I | K Tor Pier was blowr ip Pra » not he Mr Carst miled ple isant rhat’s all right, n ' ( uci here t the slightest danger here dear. A good mar f us suffer for the sins of the father { ‘ ( he ire making at the Re idS plant are Beside ve are in tne , and have been tor over x f I We're il¢ itotr ¢ mont! ( ( ‘ W hat é he ere ne making, Carstairs? n- We ill hate the Kaiser aor ve? pleaded the ed ( I the me younger woman. I f ! n too Cox, the general mar lined ot us \ se pare elt Germany to escape such as he i the other night. He talked a little too freely, I I hear you say that ’ t d mu, Fri Be said Peter, the it Mrs. ( { ' He boasted, if that is what you mean,” said Mrs. stairs’ elbo I think this i yu dropped it | ( ist now h I \ We ia y, re laced man or he outer edge of nat uu, Pete Salad she taking the rur ed I I ( t ne i} t e some hese bloon r | earned nandkKerchiel e Nal a her I shan’t dr t ! | ; The ' r ’ er t ¢ You never now when goid-mesh bag t is ng ifire! And t i 4 pre Peter is ispler imal t he? ne y | t ze nh the el ve remart I yme time ne ill companior ¢ ne t So much 1 t | ; \ ‘ itching the crimsor ud in the distance, an ever and reeable than old Crosb We're so glad the | t d j I est ed L he ¢ esented the re t j I ( \ ( it had spent the aft t { ' ' nint e | Downs Country ( ' ! H 1 caug ‘ i elu tto go } ne } ‘ ‘ ‘ ol t ] t I r t | ! nt ( 7 enty n rmorea i f ( t ed ( You etwee rhe clock above t ! n Ame é ite r two befo ° ‘ ) ( | t Le iffe the « ) I et or gon ti é ( All but VO off t er a ition not f i t ( T ! é he 10:30 up tr \ e De the rhe late-st ng guest ere i | Metro; i tri i Ca \ ‘ ‘ \ e October gale was wi ( M ( ( el t i ne upl ‘ ‘ the We er Bure | f oad | Mrs. ( ( { M merlein scratched his name a ( ind handed t \ no circumstances ¢ ( ( ip sushle gt fe ’ net tones from his lips inderstand? I ‘ ) Peter’s hand shox I ( His face was “Yes, sir,’” he W ‘ ered. “WI \l I say to M ( iM ‘ ir = f ‘ ‘ I . \W \ | « , ( ng oud ex t \) ( | cases violently. Some | | were excoriating th | Germans, others were | bitter cri ng | ‘ the Government f Ne \ its overtenderness, { i ! ‘ I blaming themselve | ‘ MI for not taking the f ‘ I eee law in their ow ¥ I> tor in a Dingy Apartment in Hartem Three Shifty:Eyed Men and a Frightened Woman Grinned Evilty —in Stealthy y Continued on Tribute to the Hand That Had Rocked the City cf New York! Page 98

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Wide INIEW CZ&UR Ole RUSSIEL! R. tetin’ane up coi By William G. Shepherd | 4 == } ‘ } R t ) t M | Py Keret Minister of J R und tl neonk ‘ ‘ te Kere ae The Laboring People of Russia Begin to Realize That Higher Wages and Shorter Hours and the Control of the Factories are No More Beneficial Than Was the Removal of the Czar ( h to ff the ! dolla and r | | \ é ‘ »« c R in ¢ ! ‘ ( ( | K I Somet i f ilso,a t ! he H ‘ f . ‘ } , i 1 is \ ed le f ‘ N t ! he R é It \ W ‘ t i ‘ ‘ R t f , ‘ | i f ‘ H Lime { | ‘ ber ( bye | ‘ ‘ ‘ nkR Ke , rtments. ) ht found the w barrows and the bag read n 190 t { ‘ ‘ \ Collecting Wages in Wheelbarrows capitalistic parties In Russia, the em} es’ committe inder the bene mal j to the office in the factor i +) } { i . T r WA | the | ‘ 7 | ley ‘ \ i ike I ’ f Kert lL be fror et Universal Cooperative Societies gO a ; f ‘ | f ‘ kK t be e ! t ‘ el ) é al I p ( t ¢ ( ot i } ] ‘ 1 e | ir | i ¢ ( I ) Cal i the eTa i () he g ill yout i ‘ ol ¢ ert spet t e \\ U i I i ” t t H ¢ I 1 . \ he € e ol 1} the He ¢ ] ( ( ( else ere M: en I he l ‘ he ‘ j ‘ back ) ‘ R 1 no soone i r I i 4 e ¢ é rne heir ( J f R 1 I R \ ‘ 1 i t ¢ ( 1 i Lhro { I t ie Te R Ci f ad be ( f ( “ ( é hen t f Phe ‘ ( iled t e imag ( f f i ! f f ed pa | ef A er et be 1 ») a I \ e€ ‘ j er t ( é ( ) te D ‘ ( at r j d ir a ) W « } t } } ( ¢ } » Pete c is the it sno | like il t ‘ t it eve The the ‘ er ( tr) Ve » IT L I he factor ymen tl W f f ! clerks! ! I » ring t k in ever Americar epresentat of a great American firm who (Continued on Page 73

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Al CAIN TIEIENIER JIN IFIRAUNCIE By ELIZABETH FRAZER

The Oid Canteen Idea Has Expanded Until it Comprises a Whole Welfare Center, a Regular Community Piant for Dispensing Food and Comfort and Good Cheer The Barracks of an Aviation Camp What would you like to ‘ A replied | , I u I said | he ar he é t i } r ' ag k I i at m ‘ +t married he rok it { tender sr l f the game ‘ ep the fla ay ‘ ver next month limit But

) ed Ed l } i tne 1 t-bi i peen SICK a n 1 replied | ta- “How old are leep Dlue eye l 104 t ‘Twent) tou the mg, long separation “A bit young hey go into action, not know- “I'll see what I « r hearing Neve J ne I'm? ol to te I rhe R i millior er Ame i There may be ait grin And 1 VE bag while } . to New York to-1 “Bu Loe t ce r I suppose t » know that there’s an ey] ith exciteme e whole civilized world dropped a a smile eep dow in ne vhispered l three vears, the first of our I trotted the entire outside w iw For the next two abstraction the telephone i she said finally. ‘‘And we “For go Jack” Ja s her! over me a t He doe *t have earth a i aw tl “T—l'1

r nere for « r April 6,1918 t » year gy iw da prepare eit Plattsburs He would: ntee en on ac baby. Bu é come t I re He fee whole n dee I’m glad Oh} } I | juec ! ! I et hie ich n ‘ ( A Bare Chance Dh mtr - 7 ght,’ cour self. Itw ege I was | ‘3 ur ng club, and I’ve ne 1 Edith br ta bare « ‘ hand fear 4 As i@< I | ‘ e| t DD I few

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST y wired papa, wht ase and making up there on business, to meet me, and told him to watch out t 4 } . Aa 4 I'd need in France— woolen underwear for a life-size jolt. When I stepped off the train, there he The Index Finger of Destiny veaters and first-aid outfits and what was, leaning against a pillar and looking, as the novelist And e time we didn’t either of us know what I _ say, singularly handsome and debon: [' S inger of destiny, papa,’’ I wou i a going to do when I| got over there any more than the “Hello, Miss Murray!” he said, taking my bag away pointed straight at me— like the maninthead. 1 € i tumbled right out of a clear from the porter. ‘* Now come on with your jolt.” just one hitch.” But once I'd got mamma to see the situation as it ‘Vive la France!” I said by way of commencement “Only one?” observed papa h | gr really wa itside her motherhood so to speak, she was as “Ha! So that’s the bill of fare? With all my heart. smile ena istard for it May she ¢ forever! But what’s that got to do with the “The cable says women over tl We had dinner upstairs in my room. Delia served it on price of winter umbrellas?” “Well,” chuckled papa, “I gue ; POUR LES PERMISSIONNAR re Rivge Amer ee en Wee S. te four, Lecture ef Correspondanre Lp ti ae There are Restaurants and Writing Rooms, Everything You Can Think Of to Keep Men Happy and Safe and Sound, Above: Opening the Red Cross Christmas Boxes

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 6,1918 OLD STUFF ee eee Hugo Relaxed So Far That He Forgot All Caution He Taiked He Taiked as He Had Never in His Life Taiked to a Woman } e! t ° e manne € table i pre ( © ¢ ? é f ‘ ( ere r f } é Mr M tor l ) ‘ ‘ ‘ | t i IT ‘ ( t ( 0 isct e at time aking ! t \\ t y ler he learned to f ike all bypaths where danger hind 0 H iis head if ‘ i » Sa . I tte Att ty-five he had survived all febrile crises. He was Even his hair, in spite of and ( ife! There w no method known to woman—even to luxuriant and touched r} le ed \ ere ) ‘ iroused mpetitive womat! that could lay him low. Or was attractive and set off ni ‘ I ear, he w ‘ ‘ gy the e felt. He was married successfully to himself, and he brow, nose and mouth. f he é 1 the curl of meant to live happy ever after. But Hugo was not thinki his looks. He was gaz M M ‘ I Fate herself had shown him the wisdom of his vision. round his room, as often did, in dreamy pleasure—a \ ye had led him be i the scl Had he not run into that dashing widow, Mrs. Manton, pleasure few perhaps would have shared. It was a n- ‘ for ance ear or so and perceived what fortable room, papered during his early boyhood with 1 ne ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ! youth and inexperience had not fathomed, namely, that Victorian scrolls of m: nta, green and tan. Hugo had ! Vist the vore art | teeth? ot also met that never changed the paper because he had long since ceased ! f tH] é lear friend,”’ Flora S 1 train a while to seé it appropriate background for the fur Lhe m No ‘ y t i iartet ¢ rls, all five wear- nishings he red, e, | er i ‘ f | late exten chocolate, lo his o had : I t I t i t A coiffure and tilted hat besides. with ide ci H ‘ nt ocea ivored to the full that shock blue 1 anket ? | } ‘ é There t t bef most men who meet “that old sweetheart of bookeases; a mahoganize Cer nes W he 1 we ed his flag mine” after a lapse of years. No, he had never renounced loaded now indistinguishably with books, paper ba | ‘ the mer en Flora S er had ted the fter pa yns, but Fate had viséed his decision; and boxes, a pair of slippers, a reading lamp with a cracked Hu ude ut of Lawyer Ma h the years had grown a deep content. shade, some collars, a pair of Indian clubs, a dozen paste ‘ ‘ ‘ f ea t He ild lie in bed of a Sunday morning board boxes and the case containing his Sabbath derby ( eW ind hear through his open window the slavish clump-clump His dresser was a match for it, and upon the complaisar | | si | nale boots beating out a dirge on the sidewalk as their arm of his is neckwear dar its mt n ? ‘ ‘ ™ " t vere led in matrimonial serfdom to the sacred pennons., Ss draped with his garments st ( e and g a rapid-fire exar from new and ¢ ‘ about lending a pleasantly informal men’s-wear j eye ! tent had been routed for the mo r him, instead, the comfort of his pillow, his silky- gents’-furnishings atmosphere ‘ He had dre i refu it ¢ ng and ed setter, Fanny, curled up beside him, the Sunday Nor was thi The wall t efface the me ry of the pea ad gone and called papersspread about, his panetela going comfortably. There invisible to H n ve ( f é r t t to | rew him if he burned his pillowease collection of souvenirs, rangir Ata rate, F ra wore | ege pi tne next vear full of hol or used the long haired rug at his bedside for likeness of Hiram Meeker a CSpor i] ght; Hug receiver. There wasn't a soul to beshrew him for run for president of the ers that bega A Ly I ! al gy: for he lived, monarch of all he surveyed, in his undecorative | Hira t fade } —s | te apm sat at et cn

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f } n thor i i olled a hoop The « t t, Centenr hing rode ar r pe ! ell of s R f es, a of } 1 it 4 Uailt A red to h e dressed ar ici} na Dia fn and smote ‘Hug he n’t go or eu ia and | rv soft] Not tl ] } é st Hug We rthat W Oh, Lad Ne ‘A eavyv “We Hugo’s Phe

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vas his o i menta ne are breakfast ess ep up ar I ticing rT for he expe nar i nicer ace ne e re ] Y A } ion t see W r st he f ly | ht we »} is VU ev t ‘ , r

‘ i keey eve on thu \i g B he a t i ekeeper i \ eKee} t t ne aud 1 mé 1 Ar screamed at betore il. We want someo i advertise and ge S ege ly e othe " Iw \ . oming nt! isekeeper. | } +t i€ erl tl heir uncle + +} Va ne he snow was lt pt j ‘ ‘ (

I ‘ And they’re yo ‘ Vague fore fted the hea n Hug ‘ \ ge " t t ‘ eace led! ] * } i A t ‘ We have a ing one! e announced ver ete gabble would be better tha We H 4 x i! “ you vt \ i t 1 4 i 1 want.” Hug ht he uuld. He inserts ‘ mor ‘ ind to the pr t Housekeeper wanted. Elderly, experienced, f f He gave | hame and adaress, lea g detals to he i three d er she reported succes A la t middle-aged W vw named Mrs. Annette Fairlie ng it e! by t n of Franklin—had plied for the pos ” Her lett 1 Deer genteel that e had been t t sigt insee! ind since the need irgent she na ror ed » arr t I i ming Wedne i B Wednesday came and began tow e and there was no sign of the threatened addition to Hugo's far \t suppe e the 1 aunt had despaired of the lseket ‘ il, and Hugo himself composed seve ius I Ss T ler I il i U! il ol Une USE KReCET ny gu i Nor Wedne night } aved che I Hark I er with the re i it had begun to rain heavy e eave and vine il " gy off F Lice <r) H ivo settled mself in the I I wit a brie! It was very desolate lhe vom telt d } i yhen a mouse the wall began a he t-rending gt ing, Hugo yawned suddenly, closed his brief book and began to wind his watch for the night. Then he stopped as Che gas in the front hall was out of order, so Hugo picked i answered the door. It flew bac th fRonr ng him, as a behemoth figure, a detached a burden from its

ute’s coll ‘ it} maller figur 1ute § COHOGUY Wit a smauer hgure swallowed in the abyss of night

he stage driver, who had brought a Hugo turned his startled a when

it a woman—a young woman! was standing beside i She was small and girlish looking and quite the wettest person he had ever seen, from her soaked hat to her drip ping raincoat. He was aware of all this before she spoke; ilso tha he had very large blue eyes, of the type Hugo lefined as troublesome An umbre i) { nouse atall he said a little bre l ther Hugo still gaped I’m sorry I had to be so

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H ru f, woke ri H eT H int had r Lise tr f 4 , } ¢ re ine ed M | I i rt In f he ] ( yu’d ot Il have no e to Hug | haven't d great many pe¢ “You Can't be Mra. Fairlie. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST lr eggs fixed tnat i 1, Mr. Saun- rn Dook inx to nd it ist | 1 like yur 0 ir lavorite dishe and tnat. t la le h to a man.” irn the before him as a warrior of old thrust his r »> mu )aman! Ye al what toa r Axiom Number One the eter? lemale Phe iy to a man’s heart lies throug! i} generous Im] Ise good » destr budding hopes i his nap is cold is possible fast was excellent, thar ou. Lam? t e and ou ervant e never f me There! Let her have that o his office and did not return until evening yme down by then, and it was ] 1 she had to a besotted infatuation for Fairlie ¢ ype! ibly vhich in excellent pre last Hugo preserved a st t it not ind wer ( iadies | n he vere leaving the table that | i t s t full of old a the the ing when I the cor de her promise to wa t ou came hon Fora want to hear them too turning wish in the w i to hear Mrs. Fairlie sir amazing I but remained unuttered tnat ( much of a voice,” said Mrs. Fairlie, “but a had neve adow ret ipon My Advertisement Called for a Middie-:Aged Woman" mat his afternoon and I promised to su ng some of you But Fairlie at some domestic task ¢ ronted her emotior Why, Mr. Saune wha ter?’’ ly room!” said Hugo b “*Someboay has been in n root nd everything has be ed 1 had your room cleaned t saw such a shocking place Continued on Page 104 April 6,19i8 ) when he iT ilter i, he perceived that the “book of he piano. Plainly the fraternal or heduled to receive some careful stud t A IT rie t t t housekeeper: eve Hugo had t u he ynfessed } ecret ul t finer « r or seen his home ordered There no phase of her profe he 1 not underst 1. Just how e1 ng these phases were Hug oO kt n aiter a few days st ne came to the outrageous episode Hiram Meeker. ng his bedroom | i hat peculiar se ition that a ntervalis toeve neotu ote ter a place pertect lamillar yetol ne i! i st inge It , a lu ute » rally } facultie H was different —« ‘ ! His re had been molested! His room |} d e} i wrong! Gone were g poles and the fe from tl ¢ neous me vear displa ft the « thes tree £ e were ‘ t } ise and the pile of collars fron ce rhe top of t vas arrar veriect ! ed papers and p propertie mixed togethe nea eomet es. Oy } I g he could nave put a ha I ifold on anything he war al Ow chao The tops of dresser and chiffonier matched at Even the bor n the cases tre att tened, the morr ( ns had been beaten, the Na I et refolde the last trace ol en from the rT Chere ( nar Vhere ol that soften I ist to wl hn ne wa i istom All this in the face of established pre that his things were to be ' el Ay has ou e} nd Wi ip} Clate the ‘Y Is ) Hug ed tow nis « er, and the thing came t head. There wasa patch of wall } I tl darker tl n the t Som gwas gone! What him some minutes. but he solv The handbill likeness of Hir: Meeker was missing. Hiran h friend — friend of his yout} his! vod — wrenched from his} this female brigand! Hugo rushed downstairs. He A iy |

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 11 Lille MOTOR TRUCK ENLISTED 74 ff . yo 929 > a5 y) ; - ; ’ 70 TR oT 1 20 lt SGorpmies Om” for e Armv and Helizs Relieve Our D> ” er |) en 4i & Ww Ql 4b US wa 4s Paes 77 e\ GLUG Wks Hi Sb Lb La SS Wi i») NRCLULUS YS Uh ds Wii udidd 4 QWs & * ij i ww ib 7 te ©

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il ; 3 is due { q ; ff O | § = { ( | | A | I D | { ‘ f hie i , } dred e Me e \ 4 t lew tt ive I mit B { exist And | ud, € ul » ) i + i r 1: her cde ence, t mot tru tral ( nt t t pon pi ol ! prac : port upon that | id , 4 4 the ee ee eee q The mat } Amer ’ whe vod by . . Puy be the the inds of Europe The ; thes re iW if 1 { j me ver — =z ~ *- beer | y } t he vantage nd the on . Army War Trucks, Headed for France, Travel From Michigan R . : ' i to the Sea in the Dead of Winter — Thereby Training the Men ese nh; giving ea and Relieving the Railroads the tral t the best 1 i lr | part ¢ t ) Fra { ‘ ( f 1 ( i e red } Gert | t te ? ’ ‘ { ‘ icceedit hy ' \ } VU i I nv t T t ! } ‘ { } ‘ , for the . r mot f ¢ P ‘ ‘ Te t | ‘ t it t ‘ oLT ‘ T ’ 1 ( n | wheneve } curb ‘ sa er } een the ! ‘ ] : el ‘ f rv to ( he the | kK J l ere t t j ; Motor Traffic to Verdun \ eI A \ gle arn | as! ed ) m ba i Weak Links in the Chain

it ‘ no \ M re t ‘ Hohe ‘ esp Ve nandthe the f } \ \ I \ \ i ¢ hese vere i Cat »uD etu ¢ ) ‘ g ! 1 le ‘ ‘ t \ , ene Va f Ver { ea ‘ I ‘ VW ‘ » be efle ed mile ’ ; Phe double processior Not per- tion, f ' e be mitt hinde if e ma < a d bye ‘ ‘ ( eve re t ixt é ! t 1 pa { \ \ ea f ‘ ‘ ! lone rva ta fe ¢ , ; n Fifth Avenue, New ¥ ' honever the 3 scene the pepe Ohio-I ¢ t \ the er id Was entirel LOSt ) raf] 4 1 ‘ . e ( ! ete r corps went I ird t vre t } ert 1 i tx ‘ ho » his ear ed the 1 In this way ther ed its part in the sal-_ citie ( il I f ‘ ] iilroad \ of Verdur ! ! art i s burg} f i n even rate of nine and a ina \ f ( 1 } e te { gle ¢ ¢ " eofA j 0 000 me r \\ ‘ t R £ LO fillet I ihe iast trucks east of the Missi ppi River and north of the Ohio Continued on Page 61

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12 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 6,1918 Coal—Now and Next Winter ey By FLOYD W. PARSONS ges house and’ bunbering Assuming that it is possible EDITOR OF THE COAL AGE to obtain the by-products ries . " from only 25 industrial ¢ cent of the ‘ thr h estab ! electt ! ilso that a {f the domest ( f cal } rst e the ‘ that 195,000,000 ! f { iw should be coked. If but | ed " two-third f this total tor nave can be iccessfull W i¢ F product t ‘ i t vased on pre-v } ¢ ou 1 ty *s S Gpted tebe) | ; } rr « t tha » ot OVU0 000 \J ( t t ! ‘ t ! i A Needless Loss gh RTHER shameful lo f | i t 4 re i from. the ise of P eel e over ud () i rie ‘ ri t Che accom nvl ’ nel e of ce burn in b " ‘ ‘ rr | t ove t 19l¢ | mit ! i Xs of t! i nee vt ‘ il i t or i the ! l ‘ t n hat atte it ential t ' I i ( manu eve i 915 t | ed S ‘ ha . 19,.000.000 tons of coa ! ning rod that w ay! Al Stock Pile Like This Permits the Mine to Work When There are No Raiiroad Cars, But Makes it at $45,000,000, wa : the seeret valu ' i Necessary for the Company to Handle the Coal Twice nto coke as i by-produ Natur } nad ‘ , having a value of $78,000,000 il bstitute for « | ( ‘ ‘ la terfall rious for of ammonia that go into fertilizing, refriger- In 1916, 26,000,000 tons of coal, valued at $68,000,000 le and a su nt ery t close | ind iting, electr batteries, high explosives and household produced coke and by-produc worth $138,000,000 ima est in the mine v t etter cl e of ist for aspirir ilicylie acid and many cures for com- The by-product industr tarted in America in 1892 ( by } I for elements used in manufacturing insulating when asmall plant of 12 ovens with a capacity for | e wood gathered | 1 use fur All tl coatings, phonograph records and pipe stems; for benzol, f coal per day was erected by the or though the ( ‘ re f coal secures | the best available fuel for automobiles and internal or rhe rapid ) th ‘ n one-half the the p ict combustion engine for food preservatives, moth balls y is one of the real r ( Ame delivered hit La erefore e Nature I 1 disinfectant for Prussian blue and aniline blacl business. Its future is assured, for it is not reasonable to our ow! rteomir the fundamental colors in the dye industry. Not everyone intelligent people w mtinue for long t it though the coal in our cellar bins contains burn a te val to se if t f he Invisible Treasures of the Coal Bin ric acid and trinitrotoluol—the highest explosives known when tha ( bonized eld ne i and the ba roducts that at present go into shell manu hea ind ina i e up 10 of tar, 20 p [ W yx ‘ that the ancestor of more facture t also carries locked in itself oil of wintergreen of ammonia and 2 yns of ber i { wl re iseful | tof Nature avail nd the most d te flavorings and perfume lost beyond recove mat Frot rise u t 1 lone Che most | ric practice in our industrial life is our In building up a truthful conception of t by-} t ft ! LW ¢ Let me briefly show the loss it is necessary first to understand that there The leave r bre 1 the gas we A t present susta Of our annual bituminous coal between the recent lack of coal and the scarcity of cert 10) t team or industrial pur- foodstuffs. We have supplied r Alli th a va ‘ pos 4 er cel burned by the railroads, 15 per cent increased quantity of grain, meat, sugar and other nece We ef for the lomest al, and the remaining 18 per cent goes for ties. Therefore we have been obliged to « The Taylor Breaker, the First and Only Ali«Concrete Coal Breaker in the Worid A Typical Aathracite Breaker of the Oider Type, Near Scranton, Pennsylvania

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST demand t eat and meat i s. But i roximate] 1.346.000.0000 r eir / he 1 é) a he | ‘ Ss ’ | i eve et ed 642,978.58 ( | were 77.000.000 to

x d ‘ ‘ ¢ 1 en y? f f t he Ger? r export Were $4,000,000 | ) + ifr + = ¢ } ot ‘. A <u au x " . . Here the Coal Has Been Undercut and the Miners are Driiling the Shotholes Preparatory to Blasting Down the Face of the Coal eet ra ee

{ ete f i 10,000,000 t s foreign YY ! S e per capita coal consu f the people es. In 191 en W t ‘ r 6 t i é é ( I I ‘ e numbe I Ge f ’ : : : ef} t} . } e he st | em oe ne { G . ! t P ( | : ; f { Be \ , Nex eir | ; ; “amas cal ur ? } e 7 P | v¢ ed ; : D +9 i . é il t ‘ ; : ! | y ) ) ") wr { ‘ Natural Distribution Labor Conditions VINCE t my or union that pe _sraraertapiacrranaery in ¢ vorkers, prior to the ‘ 1 est ’ \ ’ t ) 10 now ! t ‘ ' | , helne , ‘ y t : ey ( ( i ‘ e Ameri ( y e) G or r. The fig \ F - . ; . ‘ . The Car Shortage at This Bituminous Mine in West Virginia Made it Necessary for the ; 4 sdiice ; . , : Company to Construct a 1700+«Ton Coal Bin . . ft It is « edit of \ efar 1 1 Kingdor 5.1 ha ten \ ‘ Ira La; & H l | 4; a R ) e | I ‘ g Pre th B r i 4 ! en t ‘ " ta, which f ‘ ‘ eve me i of t 3 i mo Eu ( ¢ e $,000,000 people in B m ! | ‘ ieee APO’ : Ry 0.000.000 pe ein Ru 1. exclu r Che ger } of Pol 1 t ‘ { Li briefly set forth the important — ef ‘ ! ring ne el problem here it ! \ \ : We ive in this yuntr ut i ‘ bh » (Nese t ut yper . ‘ e are ! 12.000 so far ha 4 rade. Ker M f t We \ t 0 » } t he of | ( ( ! © SI openi ( i | i if ! ! tput, the effe f | pe ‘ prepare and ferior e ge ! et } ‘ ) It is further true that a Fron ; ’ rom two to f { T t aeve \ y ‘ i ‘ e® ave igre | x t the efie ft these ( OOU a At This Anthracite Mine the First Thing That Greets the Miner After country openings on the labor situation women ava t I ‘ ‘ r anothe Reaching the Bottom of the Shaft is a Sign Urging Him to be Careful

Continued on Page 53

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I Realized That I Was fi in Taking Pattern From a Sponge i t , ' ) t? older | too} } ‘ 4 ‘ ‘ I I i ‘ it « } le i ‘ ure ( ling t« t t ite In t t me dis ia ser int ple mpt app tment in t f ‘ se of t ) r t} t ] i is ive fa iart a i of {tee er hef ‘ } er of } ) ) I a vas s tech- that recently I g. In my own p tor } 1 ever eed, two life- 1 i ised my | pe sure I} id ind more sedate but a warning of vt ie compli- t ry } e to pre )- f f 4 of reforma ns nwt h was \ din mind- wa 1 I 1 ‘ na ich as rhe point was 1 government of M , e. is the rte his yu lering day- } for the privilege Spending at Least Two Hours of Every Weekday

i4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST NEVER AGAIN

or heard on the agit —~ — tions hs I 1 upon stern moralit ‘Tt ; n rn were bothe yr me as I ( i \ that I was spe gat i t two } of eve eekds n taking } ern from a nge hat 1 ‘ ars | a if three ) i i line of ere here and there d a secret mit t I negte ! t me I | Ve a l te n n tende é I new that I ‘ mist; that I t tape I had to h hour ; y out of the gar toge r be mo { would be pra l t it he { ‘ i} a nagging l 1 or the « el ) choose frot And while I was t] r aby ment and g mse led to delay it } ‘ phone and it . t settled me De \ engager ent made n ge ila Lf yas toturt | tude for another round! e man who telephoned ference and tan exte ! i! i | Good I ! H ! iy idsba leer Nes sheet i A Case of Pure Stubbornness fi i ire to s} the p » that it wa intil we rose from the table it I reiterated intention of going on the ion. The they all offered t ‘ I refused to 1 porting proposition. One ! i me: *‘ Don't damned fool!” \ her I was a f ahead and test the whet I have now tested 1

I s so deep! terested in the result of 1 trial tl i! on the first morning of my blue boning I y could think of anything but the certainty that I wasn’t goir y drink anything at |] h or beforehand. In the pa } }! had been plenty of mornings when I knew that I wa going to drink at noon, but to-day w different. 1] former barriers had been general policy or he h—I} f never jarred the set ties of a luncheor ( no wa ) prohibitionist, and I never dra f I didn’t feel we B { on this epochal n g I oppressed by my « | voluntary firmne I i delivered myself so tremet | a command that it had a mental monopoly over me. I hadn’t by any me

nunciation; I had deliberate ribed vague te to my desert of introspex ! nd ye I was | ed | a sense of finality. My throat went by inverse sugge ‘ tion. I vacillated a | ed I in’t kr wheth my determination would endure for twenty-four hour not. When I eventual vent out to lu I had t xert every ounce of will resist e to get | the b I tiadn’t { a nerve ora | ce } ! é g to me not to be MW an id ogo have tail. Nobody had ar | autor ht to prevent r Lha t beer nverted or | saved e; I 1 do exact I } ed, ar 1 wante that d My ego « edt I ed for it and battered me w 1 exte lations ¢ i catior ; Never in my life have I » bad | expel from my vision the image of a tinted mixture in a y

swelling glass; I could Of eo. momentum behind

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the facts the middle ed: at nine o< ( I wa new that I ' t } Si ‘ 1

f l for lor ri y) ty lom 1001 for adopting martyrdom, I didn’t recant. ide, since, as I have

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Profit-and-Loss Account ethod of advert g a private resolution never discern that I had fallen into the fallacy which the rheto bane enemcegt t plainer food Ihe L f wine i ese a ure pread its lllusio ove cer Ar u " ' t é st k toa ? ~ id lit yr not g to do with my diagnosis he } é t { | . ao , { f ‘ ; Mer » are ' a was the end of 1 conflict with n , ‘ U } ) T t ( ¢ ar nt fl s; and I sl ghtered it In a weet by re ‘ ( t i f vt ive ha ri late nd me dvice The ) r ‘ of ) \ ( \ . I f ! | ) , he Ld l j | lor t, I had I a , wre , | [had rn fi f I at dj ‘e | ; (q ‘ i eX i me ‘ ] y 1 ' r tt 1 ap a ( eSse I ( I ‘ ( * : all t Personal Rules ‘ ' \} ' a ype , nel . ’ the ; S l ar ) ‘ ) , I espe dtoa oO hou | | I ‘ f to w ep ‘ pace tf a i ‘ , ” la ed 4 e I si never take an- , \ ; ui er f } \ ‘ ‘ +} j&. I I eve t > ; . } r kk ( it te ) ( eve ¢ ina ‘ I \ desse ) freque) l an mip { ) en to cor earlic t ( of-d I f l’r never an ml ‘ ( ‘ t I is, but I mea eit I 4. I wor ‘ eve i ne ‘ . na t ri id 6 ‘ ‘ ( u ] r yt f f - iy 1 ‘ ‘ N \ | , r me j J i. f the q ! ‘ i el re ‘ } } | ¢ ( ev! t ! t I qo? = ppt. Haste Am | , I ( ri¢ ss. \ t i eX eso] , ] ¢ | ¢ ) \) | ‘ ; Unk 5 | d l ‘ ] "t me | ‘ | el ‘ B ‘ ‘ | H ( ( ¢ é I r I , ; “ ness x5 ', W ‘) Ang Sa S ir 17 € i ( I a r ‘ \V ] ’ 7) . » | ] ¢ iN 4 & y “ . . Ay { T ra é All | ww 4 I { ese \ Y ‘ Y t t T i At he C | r t t I t t . | int I ‘ I De ate M ere Des ] Socially I am More Critical, and This New Viewpoint of Mine Has Caused Me to Forgo t A hie ng ( lound—and I lent my whoie About Two-thirds of the Functions Which Formerly I Attended Continued on Page 70

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KELLY * Ships Aimost With- out Number Had Been Submarined It Was the Hunting Ground of U-+Boats THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 6,1918 HENRY LEVERAGE STRATE n he hin ur yu ‘ ALTAD « t ‘ ; gone on Number Si > *snapped Micky McMasters. ‘‘Is this the hooke or twice?” queried t-cla enginee the } fron we he thru } t ; There ‘ ‘ ( a ive Salad W ty I can te ndred-pun mar mett about » down on = = @ mit coal hires dnight when MeMasters startec hesitated about It had been i taken his lessor {any mishaps it 1 droppec nfl Gu OnKeY he wate rling wake showed the on record that Kelly d H ER de spread legs and nt ne bobhe ed as } an adde j r 1 he li t ng ands if t t r t } u It b lope, em and drop the deadly presser presen id any of 1 Nobby Di + ¢ cers tnmeenee Rene ot eset atin antilin ett ingat a

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them out Over the ocean.

The face turned toward the tleet ldjed it as the mouth opened: t Aristocratic It was and f V < peach or a ruddy apple, pair ine expre nm, as it soften d inexperience tempered gi ‘ a The eyes were with sullen , } is th pit out of w t 1 dragged

*T’ll bet a penny bloater *’ whispered Mc Masters, “‘that THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

voice he'll tell us it was Kelly who did

Slowed to a Bare Knot of Speed,and

a Small Boat Came Out of the Night Haze asa

A ‘ ‘ t Ww be ‘ x ha ! we rhe id cheert ] have it I t \ W nt to make you you may be su I i ti keep out of the 4 inced aft over the t esitated before the sr n , \ ) i i i -— f wied in an Ox i Vo ened him with an oatl lamn sea pirate hor He's the one t il er a tankard o t f the Pit He I er, the Kaise ontinued on Page 138

Was Thrown Upon It

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST KIGAMTING FOR Al FREE PRESS ‘= er trust is bs By Carl We Ackermann | 1 Wteans Heine who i lawyer practi April 6,1918

1) | ‘ ' < e because the newspapers ol the aliia € people Dy preventing pul ne I ! 7 : , ’ . ace made by ( es the ta If tl i ( ‘ ‘ é Die 7 l H n 4 f pI I f I n e ag ‘ I ‘ ' The I { I t t t le r the al t De ( te! yu ‘ ‘ 36 [he VW ( é I en Frie t f 3 | f J f é S ! f i I Cit t ! fe is CO ‘ W } t ’ epresent the great 1 f G 1 f len? | e he i ! A i ( ‘ phlet by P r Ko ( ( i speak f ‘ { » |} A e | i ie lead ‘ er c were ¢ ed. I ‘ i Vi ) t Tere t Tt t t tye et f ' I i the M i ‘ ere but t Herr Haase’s Charges ( \ i la y lebate i G ( a q R | ete a. ¢< ; | f el iner Tage 1 1example, 4 party is t i I f great le w ‘ ts between War sees V NT ! ' Ge and proof tl the t fo nsorship ‘ | ( } ( i The de U I coneur ( the M P ‘fw ‘ ‘ It ficult f ¢ | | e Ce ! I me hi He H 1) ‘ H f he Indepe s edt ppe ell D S irance . ‘ | 1) I'he ! W I u \» |} } e ol . f Wi I » y ea n t q | L ne ar x eclared forced to he I Me for} \ Independent So ; \ f m ‘ 0 ‘ i ‘ I ‘ t ‘ I to t ‘ i f } ‘ 1¢ ‘ t) 1) | | ( ( ( i I I le i |

( Discord in the Reichstag _ { \ { ) fB { t I t t \ \ \ | a pe ) +, I { ' W a ' ' M rof Wa f N x ( \ ; oT » { ' t i i Fa , Ka \ t ré (y ' , } While Ur Stat \ | I freedor N ' ‘ T t t t } Torday This Organization is f I ¢ i r P \ ‘ | ] +, \\ . ‘ Endeavoring to Make Alliances to Distribute \ ! i ‘ German:Made News After the War, in North and South America, Africa and the Far East Continued on Page 145

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eg I nen ne Pia Ne Wile LIGHT THAT PL The THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ae i Bs. : = y ’ P . nae 5 oes ms er Next Two Hours Was Alia Blur to Admah Hoag It Was Called an Art Luncheon, He Remembered Vaguely; and His Right Hand Became Quite Numb From Continual Grasps of Welcome By Wallace Irwin ILLUSTRATED BY HARVEY DUNN

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“I've Been } ticing Sever New Y My A 1f Years THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

April 6,1918 Don’t you Admah retained the boy by a sleeve. ‘‘ Answer paid!” here in New It was as though he had called upon his divinity and she | a lifetime? had responded with a miracle. “W. A. Gallop’’—the } name had a blunt, forthright man sound. Obviously he "| i

lle I want € uir than (\ na al nd | nt become | or j ~ m } rg | ng ab * ECAUSE Trent , New Jersey, had been Out West } ror Admah Hoag before his latest adventure, let me pio- neer the way, revealing Harnessville and the events w! " covered 1l months and ed in that fifteer ’* she smiled word tele W. A. Gallo; ner ol the message i beaded bag. one Wir \ i Gallop, known as Skinny Win: ) Vanderbilt the younger or disrespectful set, and pul hed as M yut f yu Americus Gallop in the societ imn of the Harne f and | 1 Eagle | at ye ip.” Mrs. Gallop was a lady of de e character, a lus- | trated ! he Se I he aw; and ol iring ideals, as in ] cated |! the occa na Itening ol he erce bDiue eyes | la ood Ame is, husba ind t t Olesslor é ne } that soitening ol ¢ ind had learned to dread what it i mé ou’ll portended; anything in Harnessville might be torn up | You'll feel md r i And it as onal nt in ¢ spring 1 as Ame a n aga n nad settied in I la eM cna nd under the ur { {M I compror ng | e of the bra f ed green-globed H Du rhe eading la » ne » cle ed nce ¢ t q | nee ng edition ight to him disturbing at. bode \ tre d ook it : eve i ] at € ~ Ca »D mie ( ¢ He ng { istorted t i ive e {t i t l t He } | e 1 ; p ed She us te no ¢ to her « ‘ i ‘ A me , \ el en he threatened go the oungest, Ame i t at the piano ! | mir Harne é e? emer mu i ymed vit é a yoned streng | nee he Pan-Heller inve I Innume distingu ed 10 ng!”’ tele r W.A.Ga ( iirmal Amelia offered t ynt it 1 Ame is Gallop ) eacn n e ¢ ixing poring over base itu € ade the note in et Harne e ae ed to be beau ed and it ol his head Amelia would say that! He wa ne « é i here i nend ment, and our father \ e all € iren equ Ve t € it nad a i Tor ‘ ere Vas anu in lalit I iullection tor the ae Ame i Me Vv, a e lar i ed t ( t en or € erge of i ng tor NI h he ould not ¢ er ) Si ea f It e a refuge fror ich tufthunte better-behaved daught« ee! r I F< a at nas escape il é e ine n Me e ( { ( elfin d ng from the ke Quite i e fascit et i i! etted the ng t the r tre 1 fhe ! ir? | é é enoug! he keyboare é nru nk of redd i i ne col. swune into th< e Bug Will Get You juant o1 Some Day, a composition then becoming L nte I lex H ne t ) ‘ ‘ ther h ve Man, the has? ntuit Her e per! f bore r ‘ é veve t t ea ir I i I I that eve i ! L) er, eve gy Ame G i é anced i the ‘ ‘ ‘ I nha pe ! irl us ! \ i! fort I ng room, e! ¢ i tion to H t n ol ible t ' fracture the Y—..., ! e fle of M D mie e had seieiciiniaiihi (eh iiaias Joe Dulcimer, H I ‘ " er} " ! Sweat H ne ¢ f g a Zz ; i aeclion i j ‘ the better part ‘ 1d ple ed | Lhe | 1 lifetime He reme ert ‘

! ] ( b ‘ AU it once Harn« -_ . ' Americus Gallop, Poring Over Baseball Futurities, Enjoyed a Vision of Trouble

Approaching in the Flesh of Mr. Duicimer

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “You've Come Here, You Know, of Your Own Free Will! You've Been Here a Few Hours and Done Your Best to Insult the Whole Town—My Town!" Continued on Page 1z

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sbordination to authority than czarism dos Obedience THE SATURDAY x23e22sc2= over, there was never a real advance that did not build EVENING POST i222 heererinedin a ‘sing theories is like trying to fly without, by pains and tience, nding out how to do it School Victims ire g Ke the same amount | raining nd paid. No other calling that is presumed to require a considerable mental discipline and development 2 held 1 w reg Lor Oo tie ipported by p c , 1dmiratior No other learned calling except the mini try ° meats 1 under conditions that involve so much hun FOUNDED AZ D! 172 8 _ §: pursued under conditions that involve so much humil PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY es are somewhat ameliorated by the fact that in ver i uses he free to take an appeal over their heads, THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY hereas the local board of education is generally a supreme INDEPENDENCE SQUARE [hese are not flattering things to sav of a nation that PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A has been declaring for a hundred years that its hope lay it { ss su t But t ey it t it GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR ist ni phon teacher n an exceptiona inpleasant é é But the w e there ! Det ni’ i ' pt P ’ ' ‘ ews . : + P ' Cents f e re eon the ‘ le of the Ie ‘ he result Foreiy sbe oI ‘ es . gle bscrig lepletior I the } te ! Under present conditior tions, $5.25. Remittances &« e Made by loternat si Postal Money Order ‘ 1 her near ever ther ¢ | f 1 PHILADELPHIA, APRIL 6, 1918 ie cake halk: Cats tale If Your Copy is Late eee for a port ou pn gaged pArshs sin nditior | A 1 t [here langer of its be ! gan accepted notion tt 1 lat I t | THE SATURDAY \ ne the hone of p : att be eects il EVENING PO t rr cat : 1 | r . ‘ t t t j t . . _ , : sai . . nt t pl THE SATURDAY veges ye . ‘ ; ; EVENING Post le T eo cow , es off a t He w —_— t Credit of the Government t rtati t ' t ‘ ee ee eee ee ee \ conspicuously rhe credit of the United St ves oo Meh cad w ble that j00, tw eal fter the Spar . . > * \me in War, two pe er j vere Tered at 1 i The Great Gold Brick netted. 4 : Retell adiaiindias um elles It be | t e bor vere I ght for estment he \ ‘ na 1 Die eye icned » then A r ‘ i { ‘ er cent rate wa eT alr e ; the h it re profitable f : ty ? ‘ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 6,19i8 ng prices in ma cities for many st the plain, subst intial sort, such as alr puts down the figure eighty-two as re yst of food the country over in 1907— wh ipposed living was high. By July, 1 figure had riser i two, or about a quarter. At the en e up to one hundred and fifty-sever reat war began, this So we see that ten years ago, wher } Government has done by he price of food in Great Britain ha 43] ie War, untli nee the beginning of twice as high as in July, 1914. in shows also the wholesale prices of all le: s in the United States. The composi 14, was ninety-nine, and at the end of |: land eighty-one. ' } ] Dbuliding materials have gone up ieas ies, fuel and light ps of commodit bottom. Drugs and chemicals stand rease of a hundred and thirty lothing come next, but farm prod for second place. Ain Experiment lligerent governments—though in different fixed prices, taken control of foodst industry and otherwise projected themse rs that heretofore have been left to fr rivate management. y assumed that this whole prog xtension has been a success ra tto beuna labie; and thatilany ¢ l nereaiter tne ame progral! v l ter of irse ly an assumption It is st fact i is features of the program | ¢ Vhetner nen all the e« lence n ymnale velgned judgment € ourse if Ke ¢ ons sho i the United States, for exampl \ ew of Europe’s lead in tha t nion would } e ak , nh Ope jues n whether ib nformed a » the results of | ‘ 1 emand it agalr As sober a cr r t , mie t TY mat! others Wi + e questioned— can challenge it 1 r In England, where the experir n much longer, there are daily att atures of the government’s interventic yvernments heretofore have left to priv whole policy of government contr lafter the w It is by no means ce I € lence and judgment will app may raise a abie presumptlor es wou na mobilized for the I and eff ency government ter nN ipon the nterventior to iggest a prejudgment of the vernment control But the commor I the experiment nas been demons Leadership e f he hen or the egg? Do g e ¢ t leaders or does the leader re ro i | } ‘

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Gidllg DARK FLEECE xI 2 OWEVER, the outer aspect of Ho J jl Hi | Pe . i Hoevrcinicnsniketewaie By Joseph Hergesheimer ] isual she drove the chi se on afternoons FReEVses Tae Ses DB a ¢ DEAN CHA ere & a - ! tw not t l € ppeared “You Couldn’t Wait to Buy a Pan or Shovel—the Men Jumped Overboard to Get Ashore and Pick Up Goid"*

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘You Whisperer! to Cut the Truth Out of You"’ Honora Said in Her Ringing Voice. April 6,19:8 “*It’s Necessary \ { l¢ f and | ent Ag f ‘ é 1 te \ ‘ 1 spe fl f ‘ eu su f 1 1 \ f I vet preserve ea salted |] ‘ ‘ | ‘ e ba fu f p xii et of ¢ gn ac \ e |e f f Che me t ( f ? I ‘ ince H me gold ‘ ‘ t ! ost t t st! ne t hat \ p r y el ) ¢ ‘ ect ‘ i Phe iff] é | é erst i ind eft Bu I ] eat fa CT ‘ e of ave been f ‘ ‘ H iclic ‘You | e he i é \ ‘ ‘ P ¢ hir P ‘ t { tH es. G ] ‘ ‘ Whateve here She ‘ ) { retted her le ed ) re! t i ca t t 1 nto the ire ol age e “I'm tl I idn ‘ Curiou H » he ‘ ! t r e to ( ri ri } | ¢ ‘ ‘ J f her owt ‘ le \ e i ende ‘ eme he f Ar ‘ it the ne } e. He j x De il el ( 1 be ve f Ja i I t et In | t el Le Mi eturn to San Fra ’ " é “Wi \ I t f ‘ nee ‘ “Gar ere ‘ \ e& OE { sport 4 S i eye ‘ t A I ented I sa when I ne i in ¢ He t ed t! i¢ i mi! f he same l He st l , and the t ecame “yy n come aga ‘If ‘ that ul were “Wi he demande gras f r ) e wrong he de¢ 7 hich had re sed le A J that |} ! ‘ “News from Cal ev i ! r et n ¢ tta r You Se uu are ar t - t ‘ yure I ‘ ‘ Eve é Wi he pe g l nave beer she rose NT il ala mile it ice r ) “No 1 é ch it eve » the exte la perficial t ed ‘ t ) , : aa ee Phe Ta e Was i I ( " He paused ee Her smile ened. Ye f ha a eled wit! descent from the t ‘ Cand s } ee ‘ ! Wi x ence had « ‘ he y the te Mrs. Cozze { f ed | how t t ar t ia ¢ i i! iH T ‘ t ies t e ol I a \ I é ] ‘ ! ~ ee \r t t lr} p idde eare »H i ‘ ist pon | i i er 1 t I Ja 1 ( but | ‘ ¢ e her ar ent ter ! I " nd ag S ‘ ‘ tha ‘ " ‘ I t é t fibers of her ex ¢ t ! ? " t na I et I eid fT t t et Ned | tten 1 cule } ie é ires ol r é ous clothes, the nde cha They fade mM e me f the se v, | indeniable I Wr pe fur she el é ifter dinner: } i lay Was « t hat ‘ che “My Past Belongs at the names he repeated. Tomorrow ‘ ‘ \ ‘ ‘ to Me and I Den't Aim to Ha t Maligned iv 4 ? met ) t t tr Sts t u by Any Empty Liar Back From the Coast"’ t have b horridly rou , Continued on Page 26

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the door of joy tor me eshly fragrant it steams and bubble Making an end of all my troubles

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| ‘ ‘ lad bee \ ( f ri t r i Continued from Page 24 H Kilt THE SATURDAY EVENING POST nexpected thrill, an extraor- There past. The smoke gave heranu nse of masculine proximity ad been no such blue clouds in the house since her father’s death. Settled back contentedly Jason Burrage seemed—why, ; } . 7 + 7 i; ] ' actually he had an air of occupying a familiar place: It was bitterly cold without, the room into which they trailed insufficiently warm, and they were drawn close together at an open Franklin stove. The lamps on the mantel were distant, and they had not yet been full t ] his face was tinged by the glow of the fire ar ense face ‘What are you thinking about? Me?” she led coolly. ‘‘ Nothing,” he replied; ‘I’m too comforta ble to think.” There was a note of surprise in his voice; } ked about if to find reassur: his present tior ‘Bu 1 it would be this: tl you : en- different from ar y woman I’ve ever known before. Ihe ave always been one of two kinds—one or the ot he repeated somberly. N re both together. I don’t know as I ought to f nice. I wouldn’t like to try and explain.” But 1 must ‘It’s your clothes and your manner put against what you re. Oh, hell! What I mean is you’re elegant to look at, An expre n of the deepest concern followed his é He commenced an apology. Hardly launched, H t once conscious of the need for his cont e fact he had never heard a more ‘ em I evident tha 5 me f the aia al Olive § ina and ere CO A Supercitious Individual in Checked Trousers and Lemon:Colored Gloves Announced That They Were Waiting fer Jason Below April 6,1918 but of course that was impossible. All this she concea behind an indifferent countenance, her slim white fingers half embedded in the black mantle. Jason Burrage lighted another cheroot and put his feet up on the polished brass railing of the iron hearth. Thisamused her beyond words. She couldn’t remember when she had had another such vitalized evening. She realized that 1] is Bees Beas lingly lonely; but ' through the last years she had been appa with Jason smoking beside her in a tilted chair the sol was banished. She got a coal for him in the small burnished tongs, and he responded with a prodigious puff that set her inn, When he had gone the house was hatefully vacant; as he empty spaciousness, the to cough she went up to I semidark well of igh hall wi lamp, the blackn her, oppressed her almost beyond end Herriot, already old, must be dead before very long; there + 1 was none other of her connections who could and she would have to depend on perfunctory hired com- panionship. Honora saw that she could never escape from the influence which held her in Cottarsport In her room, the door bolted, it was no better. The ncompromisingly square; and though was burn ill it seemed somber, ig is a lowering void with gusts of rain drivit st the ndows. Mrs. ¢ ens would be away until to-morrow, and Honora sat until evening alone At times she embroidered, short-lived efforts broken by despondent and aimk excursions through the echoing pose herself I elab dropped the book into tove. The satisfactior st into flame ‘ ) the approaching m evening a norror dered what Jason Burrage loing r shing S i—the or ictualit 1 ! t l rl f gs and the lash of tl Paret Fifield uuld ha drift I t r Ist it it Ja not A= t W ina { determina ir} pulled t ed bell rope int! ne . } st A - > ta A he entered, ealr it ‘ | is tire i ot r lor ‘ i 1 ill ‘ entire frankness. | te ) re it wa t had bee the evening Del t t 1a l f t i he tilted ba be her y feet on the You ure a very comio! I n,”” ¢ He ide no re g i quiver crossed ! Then, after a littl I g how get tt s only the t t Have you t 1 i e of ( forr He faced he ‘ ‘ f rise I 1 gone in out « ! I s st rO th h—nothing f e. I ca ! ) see yu everv evening She reserved ein w he } » at . toa dancing! f gusts of rea e the tearing of he f An ext r ea had taken possession of Honor he id beer f she nad ne I out lr I Vv I ‘ i i t yre t at il ed Terent su l vhat she ela i i iS ali that she ] isly p swered long te his ot ed ‘ it her l ye She t t I muct i led F ! nt Jason B and ‘ ar e guessed it,a yn t er fa I'd have a hard time t I a it two more different It’s ces yus! H became seriously animated Here I an well, you kr all about me vitt ‘ e 1 ne perhaps, and a little I the wor my hea but ou re re Honora Car dera rer nae i? Il remember i he admitte h evident I I was drut 9 That's when the truth is often hit on; 1 am quite an ordinary sort of womar He laughed indulgently. “You said last evening I had some of a very common juality.” Continued on Page 84 ~~.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST r- | “The Comfort Car i ES te ; ¥ Owners of earlier Hupmobiles are so well satis- hed that they can scarcely believe that the new Hupmobile is more comfortable and more eth cient than their cars—watil they have taken a ride in the new Car. 1 ; hen capitulation is complete. The old enthu- / siasm is redoubled. ; Ph woes — lhe Hupmobile has always been noteworthy for the whole-hearted endorsement it has : SS Se — ——— received from owners everywhere. | Hupmobile But it is an actual fact that the astonishing power- and-comfort qualities of this new Hupmobile are already building up a broader and deeper loyalty. We feel perfectly safe in referring you to the first owner of the new car that you meet, for confirmation of all our comfort claims.

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> me § THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 6,1918 Confessions of am Opera Singer | xy By KATHLEEN HOWARD wxiewsosvicsmins | ——es — career doomed » oF iin Tatlure, t ere had only tried for chur tiol na iarge f I ty in America, had competed in the open market of the ' é own country, they would have been saved a heartbrea Irie and much good money besides. 4 | | ‘ I won a thousand-dollar position almost at once, over a é the heads of many older and more experienced competi- tors, on the merits of my voice alone. The salary was n | tant financial salvation, but besides this my genera 1 ul ‘ ed ship was much improved DY the practice i ynt reading | p and ensemble singing. I grew used to facing an audience, and found a chance to put into use what I learned in my \ ind I singing lessons. | 1 to The church in which I sang had many wealthy members, f t and the dress parade on Sur ised to be qu te a sight | I might Our place, as choir, was directly facing the congregation, in ‘ a little gallery, so tl our ha 1 are ere 1b j jected to very searching scrutiny. e furnishing of { } ! itional able garments for such an exalted 1} t became quite | yr a problem. The soprano was a we ! n singer | i addition to a good s y, nad mar ( ert and ro | elt, ever engagements; and her furs and ostr feather ere { er te if ‘ despair. I would sit up half the night to cover a last-ye ‘ eif l traw hat with velvet I le ‘ ( t : f M igent ol irt biouses, W is we ere ! l¢ t the t ‘ ‘ | t t by the railing, I wore wv ‘ eu t ! } , ‘ ( t t I const ] é crit i i ‘ ‘ i jabots for then out ot Mita alr l¢ \ church engagemer ) e to an end M M , 1 he first. The thought of turning n the I had ’ e eve made depressed me fearfu I had give l | { ‘ e were } tn | marry and did 1 of wave g. | the letté i] it ‘ 1 and my fiancé and his rare N } helped } rue ‘ to under nd ¢ her be M I ed ‘ he floor longing f 1 ‘ l l When Mar f ladder and now I mu ‘ j i] eve ng t the ¢ The one t ight t , _ t] ild ¢ ‘ t t | oI i Alt i t t I ‘ M ) | andt igh ‘ 1 be ‘ , feos | ‘ ng er and then to use there. it c 1 be , ‘ f ‘ I feeling grew ‘ I me » band. It was ] lf e to ta | Ul ir\ g dow! Ave L ( ' He ‘ ‘ ! nd New ¥ as my Mecca. I talked it all over with 1 ember 1 feeling ere f I the deepest « ‘ i t a year there would do { e,ma r through my repre | ‘ ‘ t ‘ e! f f I ex ed to sing ] ‘ na after « that le of me, and he } | ‘ ‘ [ ! the mu N igre Hie agreed to eve hing and } ! ed t believed him, of irse } gh I ire ¢ ! e played is I ed. H l e objection « ed $ ou ( I learned ed he \ viva \day ‘ e financial ¢ re ned, | g large be ‘ na-painting i f \l i ‘ ) Thiet Lee f ‘ | is col! need ir n é pust \\ ‘ he ‘ ‘ l y i { ‘ ? na cer I fir / irage t eto The Broken Engagement New Y { t isseau. Mira _ lr the M I re e. The e all ‘ ( iwreed is | r ‘ at the i t ¢ i ( ] r ! Early Studies in New York We i e and thought « y future as that of a cor nto his office hours to be there , We l seen ea the ‘ — M ntention of ma ng seemed to , during 1 . a f \ , ‘ ‘ \ ‘ esert of ‘ I e wert ismodiec att ght fit in any case, and I ‘ ‘ ng thatr esses, | ave inies in Eng I no othe I t singing might add ) Phe ) ! B ‘ nst i ntt l e length and brea thousand-dollar ¢ ne | t ‘ ol e 4 I mu nie i eve hat the opera two of the chur é I ( ( f ( to f ‘ I e aud bye nsidera a es in the less cor quartets, and I hoped n to be to ike a ne \ ‘ m that I Lt bonne Une vO 1 ins Ol star ! career, nye eard me ed mine at eratic voice, ar For a little while after 1 re n I ' ' , ed inside me when I saw the Me Everyone was so y me emed [ hed ‘ ‘ é aone rema bie t y ea Ou i | t ? , rire sing a solo the Sunday whe ( Dp Was expected, at ' I nter in New ¥ 1s a revea I held a sort of reception afterward and heard many pl ant things about my progress. After n I 2 lied luc n my estimation. One of the first new things I _ self-denial, the rest, the gentle flattery and the ‘ \ is | I \ ! N e comparative insigt nee of fivehundred home surroundings \ very we ‘ ‘ ] ( I egin a dollars as a provision for a year’s expenses, Only with my things were r oO it ild ea e on the tele of 1 e boarding houses which are called both “‘reason- Something, I did not know what, was the matter: but it J ’ t ! Oh! I'll pra able” and respectable, and had lessons in singing, diction all culminated one evening in } aying that 1 ih ‘ te » be nea i. Im the and French; all of which counted up to a great many dol woman should follow a profe n, that she should find evening ( ‘ ud e all the L wee My five hundred began to shrink at an alarm- occupation enough in her own home. This was rea t ’ is a dance \ e, and I don’t know what I should have done if a great shock to me, as he had promised me his su} I ‘ ng tha ‘ Wil end had not advised metotry fora church position—that my work so often. ( I t ible means of adding to the resources olf I asked him very quie tly if those were his convictior " ‘ | ‘ ‘ 1 } e or n Ame i. Besides offe and on his affirmative answer I took off his ring, returned t i ‘ t ( el nee ia incethechu I t to him and went upstairs w it or t 1, lee | ‘ ‘ ! | t ‘ l n I 4 Les ‘ t t I ne Vi t ol me is il | I id been W i ened out of i I - t t * ‘ ‘ I é ethe H ave I known in Europe still palpitating fr the sho S eX g relief a ri i I ‘ I ed ea r e expensive and dreadi vy laborio pre n lng it over, n ow! 1 stre ed ! I i i i ireer W t possessi! isingie one ol the at e my head $ 1 Free! A is S I } ‘ I ‘ I the t ight ot W it I la 4 I necessary to success, without even an ade freed m opened to me alter the mont I il! I i ‘ idof n \ ‘ é ndred i Va late, t iy nothing of an unusual, voice! Theirsinging of hardly bear to go to sleep, it was so wonderful to plar \ I saw 1 is a singer, and knew that I I ise 1 | e You! has been the admiration of theirlocal I could go ahead and stud ‘ i ‘ ‘ ‘ mu ai tha emselve and this litth Continued on Page 30) ‘ |

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Truck Tires That Welcome Tests Republic Truck Tires have a ten- sile strength of nearly 3,600 pounds per square inch. | This is practically twice the tensile strength of many truck tires. The tests which demonstrated this tensile strength also showed that Republics were wear resisting to a remarkable degree. These same tests likewise showed | that Republics were almost im- mune to road cutting and chipping —an advantage confirmed by every ee user’s experience. Many users of Republic Truck Tires previously used other truck tires. They were induced to test Repub- lics in comparison with others. oe As a result they now use Republic | ‘Truck Tires exclusively. | Republic Truck Tires are made of | Proddium Process rubber, the same rubber that makes Republic Pneu- matic Tires last longer. The Republic Rubber Corporation Youngstown, Ohio

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Continued from Page 28 | | ‘ ‘ | i | ‘ ‘ | ‘ rie } ‘ ! ‘ \ a | } ’ f | i { t | i e de ure ed at i l 1 i that t¢ } THE SATURDAY EVENING POST t , ¢ ( ¢ nT nt f 1 ‘ ng place P ‘ ‘ ed I ‘ nee ri for at that l 1 joadging r ! e Se é aday. M ‘ la ies | 1 é ¢ ! r the Are de | é iT | he ‘ t ? ’ tance I ‘ na ( ! r ind peeped lr ‘ ! r | yht j nl the g ( meet two¢ ‘ ‘ ( ea j or ‘ l é fT at once t 4 ind four eve é na fa ‘ f ‘ nm tne tree | ( i H e¢ er be bt ne le é ‘ iott ‘ r ? n wht ef | ] pon l eu I as! er i é ( I nderfu ¢ ! ‘ { cr oO? rt i ) ‘ ‘ lé na ‘ ‘ ( ire ‘ ‘ ‘ she i I t ‘ ere ( ( } er lodge , y ? ent to r T ‘ t ‘ t f | ea i ne ‘ e, nice ir? ( i? I ‘ t a large | ishstand and I r ive it - ete I I t ai T ' i é ‘ ’ ¢ it} I el vas tor the I i ) i Che OOT | i ! e! ‘ wee i et ! ‘ | ‘ ‘ I t | i i j | ( i ‘ | en bath me ‘ nt vine t | er ‘ ‘ r t ment | , lean w , , ' ter ¢ n¢ | , ’ M: ( ( l ‘ ‘ ‘ j [ y » fe ‘ j i ( 1 hie I Used to Get Absorbed in a Character to the Extent of Becoming Perfectly Oblivious to My Surroundings April 6,1918 and it was to cost me ten frances a month, with eight fran: for carting. They are more expensive now. When it wa installed, my Lares and Penates on to} and my mu on a stool beside it, I felt that my feet firmly planted on the ladder leading to success. Then I began to work. And how I did work that winter! I had two singing lessons a wee and a s¢ n with the opera cla lasting three hou n ¢ ent t ig the dramatl ction ol Ir Tole I ed at r epe toire, working three h« a week v 21 coach, ar pending hours and hours a day learning ! eart at home Of course | pbeyan tn ne ver pigge t { all The personalities of Amne Car n, Dalila, Azucena n turn—all in their Fre? ‘ n, of irse yecupied my mind waking and sleeping Jacques Bouhy was alwa Kind, g e and yurteou th me. The thought of ng created Escamillo and his real knowledge of French traditions thrilled me. He lent me his copy of San ( et Da a ifor to « } the French words. It had an inscription fr Saint-Saéns “AM. Bouhy, grand prétre et grand { He created the role of the Bouhy Rises in Wrath I ever saw him upset was one We all thought him safely out riding, as Mondays. My letter, written at that o my mother, say NHE only time the opera Cla he always was on time This morning in the opera cla ve had rather an unpleasant time. Little N vith the beautiful ter voice, has learned ir ne et the first f I of the Nar duet for me. He has had to learn it froma re wl on y ! vf t part WI itte I He I gl { al a r ! his luc and with the gorgeous voice and spe ng Fre i can't get anything to do, and ha no mone ta cent to his name. We had done that, someone else had sung, and having ten minutes left Valdejo told N t y i i he would. He was tired, but jumped up and began the part Faust. He kept forgetting Sudder opened and ed Bou i hite a hee He nded N ) Dp ring and to learr t} t ! at ciass, Sa p ‘ he 1 tenor, mocked t ‘ i u nr ‘ hat Het ea ni What ex ( ne ‘ t 4 ‘ e ¢ j ! eriou H ed r es, N standing } eve xed on hir [ | t é t l tter ma ‘ ex Of irse Boul ‘ t N there nd ought to kr t he i never sleey he The B ‘ how |} igre I eek he ‘ m he | had f eal I had two Fre f ‘ ind ild é t © ¢ t es, DU I i! ‘ e wl I had er Ne \ These le é erve-ra g experience f{ | ‘ ‘ ‘ with? ‘ r ill r ed ong ‘ t I y m ite the intang ence ¢ een the 3 Fr f But | f een gratel this rigid g, f I first reached Par ind, thoug pe er tle Frenc} lgivea iddres 1 ivi! re t, ur now, when | tha n ! ed ¢ f perfect Lowe nging fore 1 th one ¢ id ? é ele ! than I during t! f f e) n I he in ¢ ! é 1 n th I did no ! e! I 1 cost me too sene and g. | 1 kee irm in bed for 1 zr, and t t i & $ gnt! Det i by é f ill I knew I couldn t bear see ! ne y t nagrate; and ma el é | dr ve ashes in the | no « anionship and ve ‘ recreation, bevond the « -fre le ke of the Paris streets as I saw them in 1 ! ? | tutional One day I ent W i, e! her atelier. I te to my mothe | We sper i long time in the é Sst ! It w is 1 mixed iSS; a ure ong ed w I should think over a hundred stude mostly me | They sat in a circle facing the model throne. The | tr | ff of an : hit! | ls of different ng } rr S room toler truc mos 2 j re , estness one speaks, and there is o the gentie Ib-Tub ol Continued on Page

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} ft 1 it arvia. | | : | y Preserves Roads”

Prevents . etl, ‘

The Roads Must Help the Railroads

) S shipping 1s waiting impassable mile puts the whole in- ‘ RECIOUS shipping t b] le puts the whol ? in the harbor because cargoes terurban route out of Commission. H} are clogged on the railroads. ‘ ti a Don’t wait for the next county to i Factories are laying off their labor act oom they may be waiting for and closing because they cannot yams get raw materials through the rail- It is no time to be building roads road embargoes. for mere beauty or comfort. Che whole internal commerce of It’s no time to tolerate poor roads } the East is in a snarl, and it will that might be easing the overload } be so intermittently till the end — of the railways. of the war and after. , ; Such roads call for labor and ma- 1 Parallel with every railroad run terials that are needed elsewhere. 1 the = a They are Build and treat Vour roads with i 210£ € OSLEC wit 1 tra fine Llurvia. ’ ; But they ave clogged with mud or In England and France that is t with neglect in various sections of just what they are doing: making the through- routes and the great their roads last longer by tarviat- Ht swarm of motor-trucks traverse ing them on a greater scale than f- them slowly and with dithculty. ever. hey hgure that it saves Special Service Department C) i , labor, which is scarce, and public lear Li 10S€ roads, &. he Nation neeas money, which is scarcer. | them! ail the Nation’s plea to our local | rate aa Make your town, your county, governments to refrain from pub- keep up ,its part of the great lic works that can wait till the end ¢ arteries. of the war docs not apply to roads. Don’t let your locality be the Roads were never so vital as right ! weak link in the chain where an vow. They will help us win the war. ,

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ae “ — ee > Continued from Page 30 the charcoal, crayon or pen¢ ainst the paper. The quickly up and and never move their t from their sketch to the model and back " as a very pretty young girl and took graceful half-hour poses. The one interruptior as a quiet voice at the end of a half hour, “‘C’e heure a hey stopped fo a fe W mir ites rest We went into ar ner roon here 1 } resqueé old wretch with long black curls, red velvet waistcoat, long blue cape well tl \ k, black grimy hands clasped rete valloeweinie sty boots stuck out in front ol him, was seated. Later one of thess 1 mode ised to come to my brother. He had a oO! A printed the list of he was prepared tot é The elve ost " il Fathe 1 The God Jupiter I found a little English tea room about a mile away, and ofter ent there fe tea i muffins, which in those day Ss were hardly procurable in French places. The tea habit is only about ten years old in France. The people in the shop on knew me ght, which was just as well, for I would begin going over the words o! s é tinn head and out serenely, quite forgetting to pay for my tea. I still go in there occasionally when I am in Paris and t I a tl em ¢ f ur at. l » me ul t Wer t to th ce t wo opéras nd to the theater, but not nearly often enough, as I could pare neither time nor mone ind the late | ade oncentration on the next mort ‘ iore difficult The oncert w i great d l ent to me I think I ] ged I ! ‘ at year as to hear great orchestral r Vt per! é but the Lamoureux ind Chevillard concerts did e to satisfy t craving, indIw ed at the roughne f the strings and the narrow I the prograr Mar of the great artists avoided the t the reason given being the lack of suitable concert Student Life in Paris alkene yi i, a whole nev | of composition was opened to me that winter by a fellow pensionnaire. Ch: sL effler and Henry Hadley spent part of the winter in our pe? n, and Mr. Loeffler introduced me to the French modert t Later in the te e often talked over their works together. He used to stroll into my room ibout tea time ing he liked to watch me make tea, for I had such attractive finger He used to take me to the odd corners of his beloved Paris, cafés haunted by long- haired Sorbonne students and to cafés chant llot was still at the Noctambules and white and thin, and gaze opposite, while he gestured with his long skinny arms and thoroughly French hands, and delivered himself of } witt} chansons. Another night we went to a famous Montmartre place, Boite a Fursy, In those days Ch: and used to rise, \ at himself in the but it was not at all the had the room above me, and often told maddened him. me my hours of playing Carmen nearly I always studied in bed or at the piano, without singing, and rarely used my voice when committing rdles to memory. Hadle 5 often had Cy! 1S tt, the Englisl com pose r,in his rooms, and I used t ter th j to Scott’s imagina- tive playing. It was like birds sweeping and swooping; all keys and intervals were interwoven. He always said, one hand on his forehead: “I have no understanding for limita- tions of harmony or rules of tempo.” And, indeed, why should one have? He liked nothing older than Debussy, inspeakably bored by Gluck and Beethoven and the though he 1 ed Carmen. Hadley till retained a strong ad ition for Wagner ar for scnool, though he m naj ( ite modern orchestra. I first vy Mar with hin We both sat r ? transported by what is to me to scoring for modern orche form and, most of all, the subtle Mary Garder Her power of suggestion in those days was capable of pectator. That performance has alv iys been and will a s be an ins me journeys . . : t and the Orient, in search of material. His talk was filled with the strangest aps of out- -way i! f I TY li rig - ed ray I a du t ne ). B r lived a door or two awa and I used to hear him practicing and then hear his concerts. A wordy war would rage at our end of the table at ier, While old madame, of honor in the center, would ery, ‘‘ Mais : frang mes enfants! You crush my ears with your English!”’ Of course no attention was paid to her. Joining passionately in the discussions, though not themselves of the métier, were two American girls, living on the top floor, who vosed to be writing a play th together. One or an ie composers was usually more or less in love with one or other of the girls, and they took sides accordins for and against the recognized THE SATURDAY EVENING POST masters of the past. The two were most amusin doing something cr yne time they had an incubator in their room, the gift of a passing admirer, and we engage nate n rais- ing cl ens. Thema ne eat ive kerosene lamp, ar the were A ning oO r ind having it hil the room with ! i Ke ( ng go out altogether However, tw ree cl e strenu ous letermined to e thar hi t, manage STTUg Ele out at length he iver ( led the whole De We had marked n the eggs, one ees each, and when mine ed the ns of life I he I nand a it ‘ L hie e pech nside the she vert ng to feel in one iln As oon a é Ss ct 1Wa é et en I i I e courtyard, alr ‘ itten yra el We t t i { j ‘ the i el t i I i I I t i’ 1eT ina rapt e Of Seve I ‘ One Er hr n wanted Miss Howard as Dalila rather a menace to conduct, but ta rbout sensations seemed to be equivalent in most cases to expe riencing the erthel e of them indulged ir desperate o slack coffee and cigarettes as an invoca tion to their muse ne of t ired me that the great my} poem ¢ it wort } een inspired | iking a bottle of scent in a « ed cab, ar ng f rsinthe B nhaling the perfume The ed to recoun ese Gargantuan excesse ere extravagant in praise of 1 nig a nd ition of ea dawn after nigh of ere drea l neere, and ¢ eemed to me that there was a ng f very littl play. TI tended ‘ i tic development with such nad rer of dying from too much nal l was too busy for either sensa- mm 4 t t na I sup ] Pi ed to “W nae! vhat th is ild be e into which they journeyed and from which they returned full of tales of affaires and love A en and gorgeous houses. It all seemed mo romant ir ntere I t ¢ The other end of e dint t e represented staid cor ventionality in contrast to our anarchism. In the center sat madame, and beside her her lifelong friend, the editor of one of the Paris newspapers. Opposite her was Madame M , an American in the days of long ago, but with no trace of it left exc her pe tent accent. She was reputed to possess one hundred dresses, and certainly the variety of her stumes Was amazing; Dut as sne was at least fifty-five and had preserved every gown for the last expenditure after all was thirty years her annual dre probably not extravagant. Her old husband was never allowed a word when she was present, so he revenged him- self for the privation by inter ring with every game started after dinner in the salon; whist, poker, patience—no matter Wrong al f . t} ‘ t f ' ar gir ri enga \ (dive i ‘ ‘ ere me f Ame ! I i ng Fret fa Lug ‘ ol t | i ’ P | , iste ‘ ‘ ng I ‘ ¢ . ‘ 7 On Sur ‘ mung Ir ‘ to dine the W ‘ ‘ ( tne yl l i t tr ‘ l al ‘ fee ‘ ea J I et ( ng me t ‘ Cher ere was a large Fret man, Madame la Ma e de Que ‘ ‘ t ‘ ‘ ‘ il t nee ewe t t i f t rhe t t Nt t t I ‘ I ive i a} é t t ewe i l l t 1 er orname! ! est yf edet An old Englishwe pleted our list « inencie lr te of twent ears’ residence in Pa he w I { poo i his ( \ ‘ There were transien i mar na na ( Du eSt were yur eygular ile An interesting mar etimes d l Writing n ! era ut I ld Last night H dined here and told us mar yarns about S h Bernhardt. He said once wh in California he wa isked t meet herand theva vent 1hunting pic togethe She « pped he ve wher ¢ got to the island where ‘ t é ! ga le heavy, Egyptian-gold-ar tone belt, and ay peare ittired imal é t r H i he idores to ta i eferred to the ma that f Afte break! f t t i bottles f » the lake her pieces at ‘ | if sh rt ne i l Va AT n ne rf ai her belt ar ne id, and wl ne Kked her if tl e treated such beautiful t he sald that the man who ¢ e it to her was domestic! After a fe ! } f strer endea n rt | began to be al ( it ‘ 1 re ‘ I sa ea that in a yea time ! I e, I have a sufficient repertoire to | n my apprentice pon the stage; but I did not see 1 vay t début quite si clearl I talked witl t ( er put to get at thei idea oly pre n The i i When I make m but at the Opér or “‘the ymique.”” The were all sure of an opening at the t } and en A yuld it notning less than leading esinaw | pital. T vas not idea ata I did not care al l 1 dt 1 | inted to learn to act, to do my big pa er and over again before an audience, to ng them into 1 nce, to learn to make voice, face and 1 VI et i in art ulate ex} € nol that the e had to | Beep find out how the singers of the two opéras had made the areer Some | learned. th y} joing leading Work, st paid lor the erl man t 1KING O-and-so many frat I sea eve e tl ing. Some had gained a hearing the influence of the teache Some were the ‘ ! Che Ru ' gy ] te! a f re t is! é f ted either i r 1 ] ed i ‘ certain mat lhe ! f the it the Cor ‘ it e ha i nee ‘ ! ne t made ¢§ Md to a ce iin ¢ el r na But, It tif eck Conse er t be giver I ! eve ‘1 m f ther ir , f f other ine erie ( ! ‘ ’ f ) t [he t ? ! ‘ ( treme? ‘ I Ger a { t ‘ ‘ t '} y ot he ‘ The ‘ e of ‘ The one f a { , 1] tT} r ‘ ’ ’ tf t! ibeled { a true kre Ihe le 7 | t ! begar é he der ‘ / f + + { feet be set « ‘ f Mi de e |] rule i 1a ted ther the n I M ) | I with n on toe | ping ry ; | | f f , ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ | ‘ ‘ ‘ r r ea ng phr neat f , our x ‘ ¢ ‘ ‘ i ol ee ng up a succe n of u 1 g al novement

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Provincial Audiences e! ‘ | h opera Fau M e ¢ he ‘ ’ We net B , | I : I t " Ay ) ed negl O id I ! | ( N t M ( ) the ( i tine i ‘ l | I e { { ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ { } i thre l} ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ f | | ‘ I SATURDAY EVENING POST e pre ng spring th my brother m that time on I er nd my sister » Metz and has e it harder t P ehind and go I felt it to be ) mv opiect ‘ r a musica and the ad pe n, It the I t Ca ) 1 f ( i t af ’ ¥ ost, and L t! The apy e ¢ tence of ) ( I In vai | ‘ ind tire- no gleam f ne Prussian blue ht a s f Lehmant ; _ f ul el ng ever I found i ' ’ » ha of y ’ f ‘ t es re lired | a I I rma a . l la { it ect ni i i ea t rol t yup i writing ir Ge . ‘ nyed to its t ! vert of yo Ove l ea \ 1 after Besides t for four of article gender and e explore The inted my dreams iced » the ( a quie ' ‘ 1 T a le 1 I e meais ad ne } ind helped ‘ The cotfes ‘ Little t 1¢ is ‘ t ] t G ‘ t D ‘ ‘ } ind ¢ ere ea ] i » be te i i nothing i used tot V ‘ é eln y é (a lua ‘ is and i i mally to ) pon it I ender a fer at April 6,1913 arranged for entence the ect had changed and I could not use it 10other American student of to live there, and in the eveni ised to go to the opera or to concerts to gether. On Saturdays the evening paper announced the program at the opera for the week, and we could hardly wait to look at it. The cheaper seats were in great demand Students waited for hours, sometimes from earlie n, outside the box office on Sunday rnings, when the sale for the week began. We had an arrangement wit! e keeper of a little fruit and vegetable shop, t c irselves the wait. We would decide what we wished to see and go over y evening to order the seats from him. He then went down early ¢€ igh to secure tne mt row in the top galie for us att » marks fift e paid him |! lan for his tre ee n s for ile eats was quite a h price omparison to prices for the nairs cost o eignt mar The top ga é S t d the ba r VS are n cneape it € 1utnoritie t V thelr Sense et g up the j e of el rows, a ] ere is ¢ empt ‘ there Landing a Ccntract B f Dec er I had broke the e Gert ecler a stood a 7 anor convers t 1! icq eda three | 4 « (re I ‘ = ‘ Ka I ol I y rt ? me @ agaln, a! il { i ‘ na me¢ H i you get ' engagement?” This is how: I é et ( ye Berlir il n of the ‘ 1] f 1¢ eal yh ‘ y } fess O the ‘ ‘ of useful \ t ers some main it th ‘ eir good endet ers tel] l that ‘ t tare it l ive et I lhe ) pote P 1 i cares \ ’ SNS CE , ' hen the i y t ‘ A i su He t ) yvhere Vaca r r ely to. Dire rs W e lo f etime ¢ aig} I f ger l ! I age t 1 t He Direktor Soar elf the o ( to y mat the or sever inting the same engagement The agent keeps contract blank ni otfice, and whe nea fa vacar nan opera } ise he t Dia? yur T the name he theate ind tentatively the } é pa r y " re t r t. Thi really } re i cation that there ( be ich a vacancy, and is 1 th the paper it vritten on »engayve me at nee he added, cu ou enough, that I was too good f hit They gave only the older opera Conciuded on Page 42 | | | | | ‘ ‘ | ' }

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— 7 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST GEORGETTE METHODS By Everett Rhodes Casile lool Compar et forth an apo ILLU } { dee é he a : = , ( ‘ nte & & , r : s | ed A ‘ le fy ; f FE ¢ ‘ 00 i get H : ' t i ' ' ‘ n B ecre | t t vv f Wi ! t the ( t i t i \ ‘ ) | ( ‘ LYO, > I bid tt mie We t (C,rosse ' } 1 ‘ é ena ‘ ‘ tt ‘ ) | B i hie ‘ . tl th } t y ie ¢ i I wa ' r ) ike some e ¢ M: é | ( e ¢ is OI t t Tt t i n dri ‘ f ‘ ] \ wed f M I as ‘ ! But ( And ‘ ( i ( Ma é | ( Pe er POF a et Sh om “Mr. Byrd, This is Miss Glaub,. ipany that BY LEJAREWN A HILLER : { ats Mao: 5 "pte rR 4 ; f ras as * aie = iMSix. at a ee ee ee) Miss Glaub is the Greatest Little Salesman We Got in the Town’ } } ‘ ri ‘ ealed patel ed wv ¥iV gu \ m ] t produ It w gv) j the . Yankee and i te tye il r t t ‘ ig t f; ng we ett ‘ th vt 1 J ne if | iv P Aut | I \ I eo M I R } fi hat we B ( f t (y ‘

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| I uA , ( Je VY } | | I Wi i Afr | i i | { } ‘ | \I | \ Phe ¢ i | } | ‘ WN \\ ‘ j } Ni ( ‘ Wa i | \\ Wi ( i ‘ | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ( ’ msan’ paust é g A » Bigburg do |! ( lest 1 to put the thing act Of 1 Mr » 4 | er r the tabl I n | N wn ont yan’ or et y r EVE ry te “ea ; , — A ot thy | \I (ys ( ‘ r Mr. Gr rhed 1 t nalve I 4 e! ( et Sure ! tw tel e! A e Mr. | gainst the twenty-five-cent-straight-« man with |} nsu y , d " it an’ his easy ne I si rt educated ta He He r H Byrd? ; j Not 1 , reed lit Mr. Byt elucta Mr. Gr point of view rood o | ' ‘ \ } ru M B \\ t boob you're ng to send dow » | ene , i be Mai e fa manag G ng ¢ ‘ le t } t l ! Were ‘ nat \ ) iid Mr. Gro iflush with t ’ eve Byrd!’ ; mu MHERI! maxim, const pr ed | ewspaper! | it the length a eadth of t i dade ( that the succe ful tne stor that carrie the } the very first lines of the introduction rhe t the punch the stronger the stor Following ‘ ea ng ther e } } r g thet te e} } Byrd conducted himself in characterist Byrd } that this fashion led, on the second evening of | acquaintanceship of M Adele ¢ ib, buye lammot! PIR PPMal se aria “Barnum Said,"' She Explained Coyly, “That They Liked to be Fooled" April 6,1918 eou I na irved ) the hostelr a ul ibtedly the re tative of the Cur people would e laughit 1ying twent ent straights, Mr. Byrd ighed, thought of the gilded k nd its superciliou ittendants, hesita { hought of ho his worr tle epper-and-sait \ 11d 100K De le the eval garb of all ighedad again and then called up | e Mact e Parts Compar Of course isted « the et ruest oN } ening Miss ¢ t pre is | Mr. S$ rand ‘ d ped tire } accident and was gre lv er rassed to find he ru ama yue But this was at once smoothed by ther te of Mr re) | é t 1 it seemed to set roth parti tnr ind a ‘ is parted tf b ort ere {rar s! ng with then teng e the hite littke Byrd mou was fr , Mr. Byrd, this is Miss ( Miss Glaub is the grea { th ean ve got the , ?) M S1 e-4 ’ mor ce AT i he ) mportant ver? ‘ I ‘ i it I then, t t ecret in’t Byrd? Mr. Byrd to disavow the secre ( e ira when he noticed the gl g eyes at his left **Ahen er es he admitted ind his customary hesitation vunded quite e the whisper of sound militar 4 Once more the lar eves became tender with the most ense admira ul ied, \ n itary n! \ ent mysterio clotnes, no ure, sucn a the Englist 1 England; b Wil ile ' | tired little man merely used this tired 3 and timidne to cover a quicl working razoriike Db I To be sure t clothes looked as if he slept most { the night in ther 8) nauniorn a colonel’s uniform | vably, we Q-o-0-oh!”’ st t} led I nd et the dark and dangerous get in the I etl ol tne fort centimeter itness But the dark and dangerous could be credited with o1 per cent of the havoe that to have been wrought In U! re yn of the concave Byrd hest he greatest little salesman we got in the town.’ \ mat ! \ person that possessed the deep secret of being well dressed and buying twenty-five- centers. A person that could yank ar order book from an inner pocket and without a trace ol b bashfu es or apology murn Quantities very crist ! The ver of pe ) that he was not. Of course she was a woman, but she was the 1o0f woma! i have refused to send it after this order Grosse wouldn't have dared to sneer an nnedest.’ But he had taunted him, I The fat littl Hun—yes, he was a Hur t a Gerr American lo to the land that had given him the good things of life, like most German-Ameri , but a Hun! And he had taunted him, John Byrd, an American, a Ver- mont Yankee—taunted him to go out and try to do his country a favor—because he knew that he couldn't Continued on Page 41

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST a -- ; Continued from Page 38 *O-o-0-oh, Mr Byrd, ple-e-e-se lon’t differently. not that A i ) M | , But couldn’t he? He W selling thingsisthe | ets to herself seh + teBgca eart Barnum said Mr. I ‘ i ness ar t ped “Really?” and showed “t the ed to be f ( damnedest ne l M GiauD s pre is "The f \ p } I ve at first sight “Fre mo 1? hy ‘ ya t Mr. Byrd, it so sim- “Oh! iid Mr. B { W 1 a do get out an’ ge ett { m1 i e« The Glaut ! YARLOR H —— A | 1 get under! Mr. B | tic emula of Carr D I Rig , aa >. us S t " twit ng né f ! t WW ‘ ‘ f - . il 4 ew at ! ent at | ‘ ir © pe > « t { | t ( Let ] il get r Wet f , . 7 yu get ! , sre Oh! ¢ eye taring t M Byrd ecked Five minute ‘ ! ‘ f the M hin ‘I beg—« then, as if the ve ed ( C. Curt \ er— I was thinking ( gently chided t-breathed « M H. Byrd. Mr.B Of course she ! é ¢ i¢ me M G r vha r he or two in the H ‘ I ) e about me I ntere \ ‘ i e ga | y ‘ uiesman rea ead é i inpieas- Salesmar ting of the ; s foolish. “Yes,” he agreed, almost sav- ant ls rec ittered by an- Male? ec pale d M gely for Mr. Byrd, “I was thinking of other, but his “Er—you interest me v “Male,” sober | me to beat the Hur much, Miss Glaub” was breathed wit The dark-brown “ . a : * hale Re ( ealed « ess their elded |} ur ! ed ay} ‘ é e ha eX I er She had nice teeth, N i nk t tas er of the greatest ¢ ‘ i ew eri ‘ ma i the ¢ Mr. Byrd decided ir er to the scent of bat- Mr. Uthas Garbey, pul divector of the 1“ t ( Ar bega B t { ges and be e! ed Allied Wonders of the W ( is 1 er vorse ‘ gue Glaub had pe ( t if 1 eT ! VW l 1? T champion seller of I e Dog-F ed t I ) ( gz i t ‘ for prote from the argued Miss G » rme it 1 car Boy, to a pul it had ¢ \ ise to che neé | c ‘ B ten M ) er ] t ere .-% I M Boskos ten ve bet = \ es] ( And bot iW ed ge M b : at irprised |} G ib epare oO pa erest- and the ttle secretary of ihe G e Ma tne ttie t er-nu ed f M | ! ne Ww erne is p Su ( ne and Toc ( my} t tne nee J B i ne i nil t! ne good act at le What I mean,” she explained with an of the gods and listen ’ , mend iit. Diveenh aieiaiininns Big indu n of greer e to e the taint were to help him beat the Hun, 1 e |} from the a ng adve em i 1 M G r of mere é from the nversa a soldier—even if he v r a t of drawn} ‘ n fted her gree le tior 1 ect the po e unde higher bookkeep« e long table t at the hi € De t mited ¢ i tI eal “He must Vv! ¢ rf ol e bet ( ne nd at i i thas eve ip r eve n go er the Make of the dinner 1 mn” he ‘ e to f The Grosse Machine 17 ( I i ( j i emt I t t the nee l i et it with Ww It 1 « y lid ne ( ng i ( ( t t t it 1 Wal 1 Se ; V mn bu C me ( ( ( esl irg i j | | Of e! ' iB the ere | er er ar ! Ile e of hi ‘ 1} l eep f H ghte é “H e a custome e a gold ( t would he wear f is he ¢ ed | urge ‘ \j Mr. I j I } gy eX ‘ " e ea I v. ‘ he n le t were ht } head ve ‘ feet for g f if 1 t get them I e picture of Garhe itiest Of gut ‘ bu ‘ t lar r! t \ 1 wished fervent , that gO » Bigburg « ‘ M G taid dar e ol ( pet He to himself t! tI e been born do the ulle t inde earne = é 4" ‘ 1 hed that he had ed} ipper ve Dpestow ralg er ive-centers with t i el tall i t r l not too de j i es! pocket witl ht went five ente idied grace east bu che a nice purple handk ‘ for vas the dominating luence I a ret t ure ol the tender I ng aadmira e from the blue ( er oxfords: a nice ( no effort a t them 1 r ¢ retty he had pretty tle eyes and! ised € iarge dart ur le an oid rose d pes; al the board ! enet I ) € € ng he | id pret aa I is on¢ It the same t ed pr piace the plu one ! tor alter esman; Spilker had had come ir e eye I ¢ nel Ar a rd sé i to ed ipper i na ertall ‘) | er ought to Picke g Jeph n of tu . er ne p i I ire here It w ea to see tnat the [ ) n She r yout the other had en of the unbreathed pa n of catior pressed—even the grim drox m h of ' thing ys beside inces and time- purple K, the same fascinated glance that iub thought * There’ ome the old colonel had lightened as they met ! keeper’s records, pens and adding machines. Mr. Nathan Rosewater, of August & Rose- things,” e added, that are personal andtwice Mr. Byrd with an inward ¢ f ’ She water, waist manufacturers, cou not drawt A salesman has gotta find out atisfaction noted the pl nt-face | I f i I e ever ¥ a I ne ¢ iered =; 1d t nat ( e al eeDp i I ! her paz yathir I ny teet! ‘ ad 4 er—if I ma r was glad that ¢ of wash wa two g extra ol t i remembe ! Ba m been right! He } taken the er } ‘I er and ere be nd Ww per} WN crepe de ¢ ‘ It i ud against the e red-faced H ‘ t ( tance t et t had de ¢ t ne i the ny o7 lu And now »>dadominate the 1 M Glaul immed the mall figure up great Beda Tha W 1 trace had ( p, snap] expr t nofth \ uc f the I ifter th fash \ e fella’, kinda of smile Mi G b reflected it there ther Grosse Automatic D Punel He kne | edy, but v ple t da vere more ways of | ra I 1 eve bolt, eve r ise cul ind | nid an’ funr put to death wW putter f her 1C- there qule he i! l ‘ tary man, a! ( ide I busine | f i ed Mr. ] 1 prepare » take ex 1 ‘ ‘ ’ rdan’ eve y el ed mn e t Byr 1 ind 1 ed the} ire he ima ij ul She i et é r nec a can’t | me a girl f r be ng pieasant and I 3 thousand percentage inseiling anything belore then aominating then tney ikKed nie ell ng room entertaining, ¢ ul from Bosko to led vy ] ( nad | irgument the dee} . ghed alluringly and held “Sell is i hy, he t, Mr. Once more the | ye tup t ! old r A languid hand. 3yrd, all you havta do is remember what unconcealed admiratior It was a cinch! He was goi rd } pered back; then as if Ol’ Barnum said an’ you can get them “You’re a wonderful woman,” he part! He wondered what the fat little H i greater than girlish mod- every time.”’ breathed, “and if F who had sneered vould ’ ve night.” “Barnum?” He didn’t seem a bit like An’ if p> he wired the fated a oe é MM (; b, reclining in i tar mat né ne nx 1s, ~s te ou about t fter the f t leed l Ch itra at ide pu 1. But beautif men affect men conference to-morr Amer forever! tered M Byrd on ne or ‘ t t ngue, Col t purple Isr od I et down to} f gery oa old l peaking it i! ile is to Weather or he t Y j gentlemen represent panic } ‘ pment meets our nee our } i i our purpose ‘ 4 ‘ ) need the out f iy t be! I ‘ \ | l eve l ' ( : | W e iid Mr. B i : f ul ig I \ ax ne A et el ‘ e, B ‘ ) 1 “a | \f Cur of pening that seemed Mr. Cu I 7 na iub, i 1] U poke not ‘ of in recent movil f Mr. Byrd, beating ‘ t pi called him colonel e before hi i ert ace, But his blush dmit it Sut it lacked punch. It “The Man Behind the Product,'’ Mused the Old Colonel, and Made a Quick Decision had said that, all other things being equal,

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TH ) ‘ i I [-—] H ‘ W Ca It f enc tne iare | I ne T ‘ ‘ i ait | rer Y Y The d ‘ “ eeu ( Al j | le her fa f | | ‘ ti E SATURDAY EVENING POST I a ert le le t Ve the j Crt e and crepe ie ( ne eaded r lie ne ‘ It ¢€ ¢ Ils ere al yf e des gree! The e mal ‘ ‘ P y I thir ng of the f ‘ ‘ r fama ‘ greeting whe e re per edule ‘ { y y A 4 ‘ t P cade e of ¢ e the pu depa ¢ t ( ild ‘ He \l Gla ‘ l ) ‘ fat ‘ The |} ‘ rht j ‘ ( ed j ] t ne ‘ > ‘ Mr. I 1 ! { ‘ il 1vuabe S 1 ¢ tne é e ex! ed t i G ‘ i ‘ er ! go ou ( { hoped ) x it ’ j , ir i } tu t ymet eof} r ( 6 i \ ‘ s ‘ ‘ ‘ - ‘ t i a Pi * it (y ighed i I | t ge ‘ le Wha ( T ! | t t ita I r mea i M G ‘ em} f the 1 or 1 he the is te 1a irmured d estf Wher l toge r et me ee pe i ( f he t | eu ice ed They're ‘ " ert he said AckizzLep : pleasant-faced ! n ind a eutena I e Vern \ et ibout a la! ng i machine and If I i 1 ed a grea e man whispe ) s ‘ t ‘ t 4 I > ‘ \ Kt re J ed 1 UY De r | L ttle ma ead W ilread ipor ul hand. A pur eve ( t he eda ( i elding to t April 6,1918 rrease-stained hand through a wisp of I beg to report that America has de 1 can’t down a Vermont ‘ 1 | t ‘ un drew aw ‘ handa y ¢ e forehead 5 ent ove i e inquired tl prote nal lifference I hope l emembered ’ ep nu ul i did And w ed off all the d fr ir hand But if t t inwW compelled to Keep lence on a certain occasion this was n You t down a Vermont Yankee! ne ed Miss Glaub yawned “T was born Paterson, New Jerse he observed irre} CONFESSIONS OF AN OPERA SINGER i ! | eX ‘ I one ! t i t i { } | \ l f } ert i e Vv ‘ ( rea ne ‘ a i! , ; re I est ( ; Concluded from Page 34 he . J f \ ‘ ( r you car \ erstand 1 é t enla ered **J é It of man most ex ‘ and tried t nt f ex € (jer t; i and | ’ ‘ ? ‘ thente d I et ‘ l was t t é I l ( nee ! S t 1 1 I \ I ind >» mu ( ent ‘3 t tne ‘ e day betore i ! per t I 1 he et r Marta f f i I t ‘ t f ed for it. I had ‘ paid f ‘ ead i the dea rime of f gs ther ne nee betore that se ind time ve ind et I elect s i l innoyving to x i ia t t ne Manag t t ist Vi it eta f t guest for Faust ar y, and they w 1 be for pe r forced t haste for at er to sing l e da ‘ the Nurse | tation with me wa igh ne eve h equaled, if 1 s issed, by t f the ‘ i to vy re the ter ua t - Ww nose pr lé ”Y il ted nonor ! i been ou iged the last time Dy) rn I er l the t es f i VE ‘ t ne lr clever thro ‘ who lived in the é eto town, and wv e aid I had had the bad é \ t taste to | | Tt owr Between them | ect Germ etween t ipper and nether i ta thing tor ‘ 1 e morning of a e theater sent word that the t that dread ¢ I g buta certil I r or if i fi lownsta t ind the doctor short t the t al 1 ral u al I De 1 le I could t t tify the t ite out loud, but managed to ! the day, perhay 1est that he would write me r f r 0’ k, that l three days. ! t. Your word f t prise he began to hem and Every theater has spe- lly stammered out: “ There is s list, and you have to call ion, why you whether he is your regu- He makes an examina Iw sol I sat up in lasigned tement t bed, and wl ‘You Say I ppea ling, can sing to- get out of my t i I The litth lan Dlushed but prompt ‘ ered Don't you care about tha he comforted You helped anywa yu aid part ym, and I'll go to the theater and sing this evening, with my voice in this condi- tion, and you will be responsible for the ( equence He got up, twisting his hat in his hand ! imme g thing. I simply fixed th ym Then | ‘ ‘ 1 rushe it »t © ( : | } e con ) i! t 1 he il t “Or dear Friiu ' ’ \¢t Vy ired [ rn ous eyes, “ of irse we dk want you to ng when y 1 are oO hoarse, Doctor was quite mistake please go home and take irself. We'll get a guest for , y 2 I will go home if you say s but remember, Doctor slea ng, and I am ready to do so on the end of that time the director nt his secretary to explain and ask me to return to my duty. It was an awkward interview for him, poor man, so I let him off easy, graciously accepted the somewhat disguised and, as | was quite recovered and eager to sing in, signified my willingness to appear t! E t Note— This first f four by Kathleen Howard The second will APT ‘ y s

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Solving the : transportation Problem. This do ible row bearing carries all loads and stresses simult ine¢ ously from whate ver diree - tion they may come with equal efficiency and reduces friction evils to the vanishing point yunttd wii sll rs = 2 \ C93 ? 2 x “yp, Wii, ew Departure aqui \) r Py i> : 7 fy ww // ly / amnt 7, Cay Pan wu / taped —f"* a Mig ES Manin NEW DEPARTURE MANUFACTURING CO., BRISTOL, uN DA Conrad Patent Licens y y hye | JOM, }—_£ =

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14 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘Nobby Cord Solid Truck Tir nited States Tires are Good Tires America has been at war exactly one year. During that time rubber’s part has been one of increasing importance. As the largest rubber manufacturer in the world, the United States Rubber Company is bearing a_ proportionate share in the task of equipping America’s forces. Hundreds of thousands of rubber ponchos, arctics, boots and hats are making life livable for our men in the trenches and aboard ship, all of that high quality typified by the seal of the United States Rubber Company. Millions of feet of insulated wire, rub- ber matting, rubber hose and many other rubber necessities from the same great factories, are in daily use by the army and navy. Rubbers Part in Our Year of War April 6,1918 United States Tires are seeing service on munition and supply trucks, ambu- lances, motorcycles and aéroplanes, —meeting conditions at the fighting front with the remarkable resistance to wear that characterizes them every- where. United States Truck Tires have stood and are standing the test that war alone can give. Give your commercial car advantage of tires that have proved their out-and- out dependability under all conditions. You can get United States Truck Tires in two different types—the Solid Truck Tire and the ‘Nobby Cord.’ For use at home or abroad, in war service or industrial work, United States Tires—either passenger or commercial car types—will give you the utmost in service. Also Tires for Motorcycles, Bicycles and Aéroplanes United States Tubes and Tire Accessories Have All the Sterling Worth and Wear that Make United States Tires Su; SEE AS TE Tw ES

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE SPILLED SALT re always looking at her ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN ; t ‘ | ; edf at Pe j . Meag met hi i t al t = Niu 4 santa ‘ us f Not f t f > ene if ( } ( I ya baseman ; ist Ye i W he ” { He repli e. ( iT wu ' y irom ga 1 e «€ r lang } ‘ Mich ne ; \l e€ ¢ Pet il ¥ € great ‘ I ine ' rh M aatle he wead wi te ~ Va unt ed vit 1 i cold appropria ispla ‘ Ke the local new , ‘ f ec pape ind eve Detroit and Chi Cage Then M ( He Webster eloped wit! ( 1 iuga Ope Hl ‘ ‘ hestra n Italian who w ( ow! » ha } ‘ ‘ ed 1 t red a ! « I i" M ne igo. I } ‘ A ( ea 4 ( ‘ Pete ] Mea i} i con t | : nies , i 1 te! est She ¢ med ex \ « ( ¢ fay mi f 0.00 ’ ‘ re he } ner Ar ‘ ‘ ‘ 4 ‘ nize he t ‘ et f eS the fa f ‘sé ed 1 " nee a ew the ‘ Phere M W ! ; e He f I Ct neg at . + aunw f extreme a — , ’ | — 7“: f 1 g e exclaime er t Sav! W ‘ ‘ noticeabl gy 1t old geezer? He come over 0 al ~~ * cal ‘ Ite eri he te este i We 1 ean ( ( j ere e lig ‘ { € A I quare nin an le pa ! all il I ‘ at ‘ Tr} ( \ ‘ t \ lg tnat r I t Lal t ( \ t i ety } j j | q f f A plaid ulster, which | e gre eage p, as tl r} De ( f » to! Y she be st ‘ eye VETe SE | nst ¢ | I : { another dangled toge eT Her i ( irprised and excited h ¢ ‘ re ¢ \ ’ hat was-pulled down over That?” he ex i. “Why, t Peter J..Mi vanes ' ’ ~ ‘ is farmer or her eager ! er or ne j ‘ r i e. So when Saug Phere : e for ey ent. Not more five ‘ ! r e star i I | W nr Rat} ell ‘ ( ‘ f e ex . \ e re ere! I r t th a sig! er the est é ‘ r 1 Me ; Machine Sho] \ ‘ hir five t} eo th , ‘ f f hat stood a severe ‘ ¢ e de ‘ Y e Made ~Order | ‘ ‘ i tle r inclosed b ha | ‘ r ibstantial } I fe € w here r r of the machine hor e re es. I fronts Lake Michi- had lived for more enty years; where his wife at me s that f ar ‘ ha I ' 1 vf o. Weater Lag e n if e tl hide | 1 " et ry First ai é 1 é é n ‘ B } ’ efore Main Street of the Lake S Boul . ; ; mong rar ckle shops two mile ne ere a great t I é NY Wassermann’s_ stone } f J ‘ G f architectur ‘ le « Ratt elle real ng iuncl I meat, potatoes, greens, with a dozen acre e-gar ed park rour | J a perfectly Peter J. Meagher ! t the big house after the Lake tru é nit ele Lor ted him t t hye

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fact na room\ armcna THE SATURDAY EVENING POST j ir, his short fat legs thrust com- ably out, the bosom of his white shirt wrinkling above rt } paunch and a double chin overrunning his standing ar. As usual, except in the warmest weather, he wore ack Prince Albert coat, spats and patent-leather shoes. thout troubling to change his pose he merely rolled his rve head with a noble brow n the direction of the er and said cheerfully, ‘Hello, Gus! Pull up a chair!” teing seated at the other side of the window the detec- t began with a thoughtful earnestness: ‘“‘Maybe you t remember my telling you about an old friend of mine in Chicago named Madge Browr I thought we ght get her to come ‘ ere and testify in the Merri- ither divorce case, but she v ared of going on a ness stand. Probab iv dn't remember it, since nothing came of it she smart woman, but she’s get fat and she ainta ) ga ne used to be This last r ne bene elling de-lu editions of Dickens on, but I gue tne gral i t any too good She talk with a of "¢ but I guess her fat and wrinkles lin the wa ey] ed up a girl to start ’em going. She and the girl was over here at the beach a week last ng. I guess she and the girl had asort of row. Any- v, the girl come over here n the boat yesterday. This girl, you understand, would knock the eye out of a oden Indian. She lool e the Queen of Sheba. She ain't ty h sense, but with he hape she don’t need much. © Was ji telling me that Peter J. Meagher was on the boat with her and he talked to her for more’n an hour.” The statement evidently roused the lawyer's attention, for he looked round with an interested expression, and with pudgy thumb and foretinger picked up the eyeglasses that reposed on his swelling vest i sign of wakened mental a f | ! et t here was, however, a strong] ymnser vative strain in ga lor g minute he ob- omposition and after ponderir erved dubiously, “I don't see how you tion on the old mar y i see, he hard vhere any more just sticl ip there in | Augustus P. Ellis had modestly realized ind when it comes to lool t? eT Iwo millior ) d rn It wa f irse emendou e that Jenkin Cart r had « en conjectural } } ich Tapping a dirty thumbna h the eamil stranger t! rs have | Sure!"’ cried the detective er r the music ver th j alor It } ingly. “He Li, ( could get any ly ever goes any- his own limita- tior for an ent prise of tl ize and delicacy His only ope lay in enlisting the superior abilities of his companion. lé urged “Well ou kn he fell for the musli¢ teacher: girl can look circles all round g every day.” far bey ond any ought of having, eated his mind. sses he remarked fell her backed off tage for looks.”’ irtwright sense of hu and aside from its other attractions the idea amused him. “It might be worth looking over,”’ he said. “It might be worth taking a chance at.” Presently he added with amusement, “‘ You know Peter goes down to Muckaloo to take those mud baths for his rheumatism now and then.” For more than an hour—fascinated by the idea of two million dollars—they sat discussing the difficulties of the case. mu HE huge hotel and sanatorium at Muckaloo is sur- rounded by ample grounds, which contain many wind- ing, shrubbery-bordered walks and pleasant resting places beneath the trees. The sun had just set and meilow twilight filled the air. The evening star shone brilliantly in an opal sky and lesser stars were beginning faintly to twinkle. It was the latter part of November, but Indian Summer lingered benignantly in that latitude. Richly colored leaves still clung to some trees; more of them gorgeously carpeted the paths. The elder of the two women rose from the bench. With- out the stiltlike shoe heels, the pile of complicated red hair and the black-velvet hat, which stood up very high on one side like half of a steep gable, she would have measured four feet ten. Even with those artificial advantages her girth was wholly disproportioned to her height. Favoring her companions with a sirupy and significant smile she admonished them: “*Don’t stay out late, children. Remember dinner is at seven. I’m afraid you'll take cold, daughter, without a wrap.” Clasping the imitation-pearl handle of her black-and- green parasol with a pudgy hand whose middle fingers were stiff with imitation-diamond rings, she made toward the hotel in a dignified waddle. One of the children seemed about seventy. mustache grew down his square chin and dangled in pendants below, and he wore a thick goatee. But his sal- low cheeks were freshly shaved; a new broad-brimmed hat sat well back on his head; a new overcoat with silk-faced lapels inclosed his spare frame, and a large solitaire dia- mond ring glittered in his red tie. **Your mother’s a sensible woman,” he observed ami- ably to his companion, whose lovely head, crowned by glossy black hair, shone jewel-like in the mellow light. ““Yes, ma’s all right,”” the companion replied without enthusiasm. But that was what “Ma” had strictly forbidden her to chew gum, or speak to strange young men who looked like good fellows, or use slang, or cross her legs, or, practically, to do anything that a healthy young woman naturally would do to relieve the tedium of Muckaloo. Peter stroked his goatee and remarked gravely, *“*My mother was a sensible woman.”’ “That was nice,” Stella replied politely; and at once His white not she was thinking. Secretly she was very sore at ma. “Don't Stay Out Late, Children. Remember Dinner is at Seven" April 6,1918 an idea struck her—the idea, namely, of Peter’s mother. It had never definitely occurred to her simple mind that Peter had a mother. She wondered over that a moment and thought, “I bet she was a sheep!” The faint line down the middle of her fair brow disappeared: her beauti- ful eyes lighted warmly; her red lips parted, showing white, even teeth, and a dimple appeared in each smoot} cheek. But she remembered immediately and looked lady- like again, asking kindly ‘Did you like your mother?” Whenever ma left them—except as Peter regaled her with reminiscences of his career fully apt to flag. Stella, with ma’s copious and energetic instructions ringing in good part the instructions were superfluous. conversation was pain- an enormous restraint. Ir Peter J Meagher had no objections to slang and was as free from her ears, was under prejudices concerning the rules of grammar as concerning the Nebular Hypothesis—for the same reason in both cases But he also was under a great restraint. Naturally a taciturn man, these last seven years—since the Irene Webster episode had strengthened that habit in him. When he looked at the sheen of Stella’s cheek, the white roundness of her arm and the supple flow of her figure his aged heart quickened its beat. He felt that Irene Webster had been the merest patch beside her. And Irene Webster’s family was the merest patch beside over W inans, famili: with her social positior arity poweringly elegant Mrs in Philadelphia and her easy the East. Peter knew well Sauganac over the Web with the élite of laughed at him they ir and that his great stone house was a joke to everybo in Western Michigan. The gall of that knowledge was his constant fare. When he looked at Stella If she happened t touch his hand getting into the car or suddenly turned her But he wa his heart beat up. face to him he swallowed his Adam’s apple seventy, when a sensible man ought to be done with thos« What really drove him on was a concept of ven With superb Stella and her elegant mother in the great stone house the suckers at Sauganac things. geance and triumph. would laugh out of the other side of their mouths. He'd ‘em whether the Webster affair was Waterloo for And yet, was a persistent little show him! deep down, there Continued on Page 49 ~ _ Sg te —. a tae 3. — >

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atm ate ws 2 _. Se NG ng OES AG aa EE CB eR BR eg? OS Lae RS pg ‘i cia Each era of invention, of specialized machinery, of industrial magnitude, has developed its own peculiar demand for Drop Forgings. Kach industry inevitably developed its leaders—its great names. The perpetuation of those names, the expansion of those industries, depended to a very great degree upon the quality of the Drop Forgings they started with. It is significant that Billings & Spencer products were selected by the pioneers in such stalwart industries as the Firearms, the Sewing Machine, the Textile, the Ma- chine Tool, the Bicycle, the Electrical, the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ay grr SAE 3% CHILE: TRAOE MARK Ong oh Ved 2 eS Ba _ i! a J : Billings and Spencer Drop Forgings Have Played A Conspicuous Part in the Growth of Great Names of Industry Automobile, the Motor Truck, the Aéro- plane, the Tractor, and others. Founded on quality, names in these indus- tries have become great and flourished and prospered. And in the very heart of these reputations lies the worth of Billings & Spencer Drop Forgings, whose accuracy, uniformity, and soundness have become essential to carrying these concerns to their predominant positions in the industrial world. / illings & Spencer Dro ammers, All Billings & Sy Drop H Drop Forgings, and Drop Forged Tools bear the symbol of quality—the Billings & Spencer Triangle B Trademark. HE BILLINGS AN & SPENCER CO. HARTFORD. CONN. U.S.A.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 5,1918 Peed Pee ~~ poe ’ e ae) VAM CEIGE Yee Dost Leauti~ul Car in America EFFICIENCY —that is the watch-word of today. It means speed. It means the elimination of all waste in time and effort. It means the co-relation of brain and muscle in making each minute a productive minute. If we are to win the Great War, we must introduce this doctrine into every phase of our daily life. As a nation, we must learn to challenge each tick of the clock and insist that it register Action In this connection, please remember that the automobile is one of the most efhicient Time and Labor saving devices that has ever been developed. It has become the pacemaker of modern progress and to eliminate it would mean to turn back the calendar a quarter of a century In every profession and every field of business you will find the motor car performing its work with economy ind dispatch. It carries thousands of executives to and from their ofhces each day. It permits them to keep appoint- PAIGE-DETROIT MOTOR CAR ( ments on the dot. It multiplies their usefulness and broadens their scope of activities like no other form of transportation. From a purely utilitarian standpoint the automobile is as necessary, and quite as dependable, as the telephone. It is standard field equipment of every aggressive American business man and to employ it 1s, not merely good judgment, but a patriotic duty as well. So, by all means, get a motor car—for yourself and Uncle Sam. Any car is better than a slow, over- crowded “trolley,” but common sense will dictate the wisdom of buying a good one while you are about it. Take up the matter in the same careful way that you select mechanical equipment for your office or factory. Look for enduring quality rather than mere price. Buy a manufacturer's reputation rather than four wheels and a painted body. It you make your selection on this basis, we are quite content to abide by the result. If you search for motor car quality you must find the Paige. ‘OMPANY. DETROIT. MICHIGAN ITT ==> oo GED 0 ¢ GEE so o=-=nn s+ oe oo ) eee: am peed eS

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My Continued from Pa; , lobe } ; - f+ y tat 4 ‘ , « er al eT ‘ rye I i ik i! t ’ ng tnat w

p ¢ 1 | y | ] ere dGarKer, and the ! oY T ¢ stella ice Was ¢ ~ the d Peter j to his go ‘ 1 ole i, ne 4 . , est girl I ever s very iv n¢ re The ‘ ‘ y ng } 4 r , he é ed é i ( i e re ( 7 ‘ if t Or ( the a le t N he ed « t ‘ ‘ | t et r a ne Mi t YT t t 1 et i ‘ 7 ; A i I | N e else seeme dire LHe ( ove i eve i ( it ‘J lire r Ihe the Ear Ket =

7 en ; eared the ' ey i 1 the t 1) a. 1" ( eize Xa a | ¢ e le ij aerT t it col \l + Vie ‘ ( lg F Nf / ente ‘ W ir ‘ « \ te é r the ng ! eqd T re ¢ t T , ied f ‘ M e } r ¢ i r i ‘ ¢ é ( r } ‘ j he a t ea Tt ¢ RB ea U re ‘ erflowed ed | me [he ; Ste ; exace ¢ t ' 1. The ¢ ette ea é ‘ f ‘ ene é te > } evel r gu lulge ’ irettes Ma \ eat ne s t Pete na ss ste a 4 € . t I s ne *

thir g of t aq g her cig: peevisi sniff ar ‘ lid doit there here. If you had brains enough to ir yuld both gc atvered wrap] agi eet Mrs. Winans. was when sit ing.

word “‘fool.”’ Ste

ky and tobacco! ose as the Mrs. Wit

n e unseem out Vigorous art clu fingers and a thumb into ma’s elaborate wig and tore it from her head. The other } i went ou shut tirmly into the

one hand while the other hand held her wig. Peter’s entrance should have brought the ladies to their senses. But for a mont} Ste f In rig in clit ible ad ed t ‘ nad ( wa the re W ns, fear, r and par im} tl he to! te so—tar from repressing en t t t ‘ dait cre t ires took Pete into the scene and continued their quarre al ar t eous height be him. Look at the old slob!”’ cried Stella ir magnificent abandor She’s been booz gy too! she threw the wig lt ma’s face laughing wildly. “You'd be ishing dishes or doing time ou rat!’

hrieked Mrs. Winansir il delirium. : 1: vag , Dut metime saw the cocktail melled the toba He was old-f ! ich matte For a moment he stood spee ( Ihe ne irned and tottered if the door. mr N THE second afternoon following te is in Jenkin Cartwright’s office explaining the misfortune to the er and Augu P. I a ' ew f T t € Start A n't a good,” e said ¢ I t day at dinner ¢ n there led the salt. The i t 1 rainst us.’ Phe me ened in dejection so complete that tne nad even the heart tou d ne [hey realized also that upbr ng her vuld be quite useles Their higl re dashe nd what with railro hotel bills i tume Jer C: vrignt ( nine hundred d il ‘You dicn’t see Pete ivall he en- ired to suggest du No,” Stella replied. “He went back to ere er a: sine chewed her tum a moment and observed—as one re¢ ‘ i tragic experience “Cree If y een old Madge with her wig off and a I t ner W r id have ex pected him to keep on runnin’ till he strucl ( na! Without hope—and with frequent lapses nto gioor Slier the men talked the tual over, while Stella chewed gum wit! a fixed frown and answered such questions as She told them about the t vuund Indiana in Peter’s car, Which had immediate preceded the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST of marriage At tive Jenkin Cartw wht shows

r of i Point,” he repeated an oked his eyeglasses into} mus ( e where the eloner ron } vy where the elope from (¢ igo ¢ married. How long did you stay overnight,” Stella re } : : : > lawyer devoted a silent moment

flectior “It might be possible to marriage on tnat, with conviction,

he suggested, but not

The conference ended with affairs postu but the more Jenkin Cart ht thought it over the less grour

» there seemed to be. Ifa cl

» should be made, undoubtedly Ste her “mother” would be subjected to a scrutiny which the latter, especially, ill bear. Beyond a doze graphs of Stella and Peter together, whic! Mrs. Winans had thoughtfully taken, there wasn't an authentic scrap of anything that looked like evidence to support the claim Regretfully the lawyer concluded it would be alt« Not long after he reache ! sion the Sauganae Daily News on the front page a two-column portrait of Peter J. Meagher, together with a properly displayed announcement that the eminent law firm of Steele, Winchell & Wallin drawn his will bequeathing almost his er tire fortune to the founding of an orphan home snaps} ol photo

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That appeared to settle it The sweet dream of getting possession of Peter’s m ns was laid away with dreams. Mr. Cartwright devoted himself to his somewhat shady and modestly pro law practice. Augustus P. Elli urned to soliciting subscriptions to the capital stock of a mostly imaginary aut: mobile concern. Madge Brown had re turned to Chicago and was conducting a matrimonial bureau, in daily fear of t post-office inspectors. Four differ other lorgone perous

nt photo graphs of Stella Winans, to which four different names were attached, const tuted one-third of herstockin trade. Stella ter some wavering, chose honor

able employment as a cloak model in a department store which specialized in popular-priced merchandi She regarded t j hat as temporary, however, and still kept a small anchor to the windward—-that 1 she had Madge’s promise of ten per cent of whatever spoils the use of her photog

rapl brought the matrimonial bureau, and no one could tell but something better might develop in that connection, More than ever Peter J. Meagher kept to his big empty Jacobean-Gothie house Muffled almost out of human tool a daily ride in his big car, but rarely did the car come to town. Hardly anyone saw the old man, and it was rumored | ing up. A sportsmanly | a wager, in the Occidental bar, that he wouldn't last the winter out. Every time that thought came into the minds of Jenkin Cartwright and Augustu Ellis it smote a keen pang to their hear shape he tov

Two millions, that had once seemed so close to them, now going to an orphan asylum The lawyer was alway) ant idea round in the back of his head and brooding over it in leisure moment Yet noth further would have hap per ed, only 1€ first WeeK 1n

rrying that poigr

| fessional business took Cartwright to the

eastern part of the state. He alighted fron the train at a coul r tow! fron A t was necessary for him to drive five mile a hamlet off the railroad. Phe e roads were hardly passable for ar a } ‘ ust then, so he apy ed al a er tabie lor a team and driver, Phe ery proprietor was at a loss, I the regular driver was off on a trip and here was some doubt about find | titute. He went up street, however, ar oon returned with an elderly and seed person whose stubby mustache was dye rlac k as thou } t

a metalll and lustrously contrasted with |}

haire Cartwright’s impressi t this substitute driver had been discovers in a saloon, and beyond the first carel ance the lawyer would have paid cular attention to him. But it happens that just before the man muffled a thick woolen scarf for the wintr: Cartwright got a look full into his face immediately something struck hin The man was big-f his nose was red. I long, fleshy organ and pecu

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, The mine operators were not to biame ) for the fuel shortage last winter; but with a ' solution of the transportation problem -_ and that desired end is likely of early reali- yy zation—will come responsibility to mine ywners. Two questions rise: Are the coal ] producers ready? Will they make good? A Far-sighted coal-mining men are antici- ps pating the coming test for the industry They are familiar with the story of railroad d blunders, and they know that a repetition 1 of such mistakes by coal companies will land the fuel industries likewise in the lap of government ownership The larger and better managed coal orporations are keeping up repairs and re- newals. The report of one important pro- 4 ducer, Just issued, is typical of all the more responsible companies. This concern in 1917 spent $895,000 for additions and im- yrovements. The 1918 budget sets aside $1,500,000 for the consummation of plans and the pur chase of equi; 1 ment to increase y output further U Perhaps the Pi greatest danger of t i failure in the min ¥ ing end isthe possi- i bility of operators’ permitting their I narrow work entries and haul { ways—tolag. Thi narrow work 1 lutels bsolutely esser to the proper inderground dé velopment of a coal seam, but it is ex = () pensive and pro fr duces but little : tonnage Now y with the demand t for coal so insist \ ent the operator tempted to drive hard for tonnage, Seeeees! SSSeeee| ’ which policy soon places the mine in T a most unlavor able operating f position and it ‘ak? : creases the likeli le ¥ hood of squeeze L y ind falls that mean loss of life | and property This was of green men in the mines and to the loss of so many experienced safety engineers and first-aid in fatalities compared with 1916 f due to the necessary employment a \ mentothearmy. The Fuel Administration will shortly recognize these dangers, and { one remedy will require that at least one- eighth of the tonnage produced by any mine > > + aes | hall come from the development of narrow | work Restrictions on the handling of ex- plosives are being increased. A stick of dy- + namite in a car of coal used for bunkering might sink a transport at sea. ' The Food and Fuel Administrations were hastily constructed they were for months ‘ only mushroom organizations. Such bod- ies must necessarily hinder before they can help. Big business dislikes interference; anything that disturbs the even tenor of . ts ways is objectionable. Doctor Garfield was nota \ had been | without experience in prominent coal operator, Dut he nt ] 1 the coal business and was not the developme nt and operation of mines. His earlier appoint- | ments were open to the criticism that the ¥ men selected were not engaged in the pro bat 1 distribution of coal duction and d No com- mittee, however, could have been appointed that would have of the public or had the interests of the been more representative imers nearer a heart, for the mem- : bers of the committee came almost entirely from the ranks of coal consumers. This situation was disconcerting to the mine wners, but recent appointments, particu- larly 1¢ -partments of coal distribution ‘ and price tion, have included some of the country’s most experienced engi- neers and coal operators, which has tended and confidence of the COAL=NOW AND NEXT WINTER This Diagram Shows the Cars Loaded Each Day During November and December at Mines Located on Three Large Eastern Coal+Carrying Railroads. It is Plainly Evi« dent There Would be an Enormous Increase in Coal Shipments if the Monday Allot« THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Continued from Page 13) The closing-down order of January sev- not exceed your actual nee All re enteenth, and other of ourunpleasant winter tions on household purc} swe t experiences, are now old stories. It may be be temporary If the tuatior \W nteresting, however, to read a few remarks clear and there is pient { fuel for eve made to me by Doctor Garfield the day one the economies and curtaiiments ! before this article was written effect will not be continued. We will, } He said The chief accompli of ever, rigidly carry out ir measur ¢ this administration has been the stim igned to eliminate t irities f tion of production through the stabiliz al shipped Concerning conse of prices I have had before me all the data mportant savings must come trom educa covering prices of food and other necessi tion and voluntary compliance We ties during the period of our Civil War not order or entorce the observance The task of collecting this information was specified household practices the work assigned me by the President ‘The cardinal principle of my ad: when I came to Washington as chairman ) tration is to act according to n Dest it and not sit idle for fear of mal stake.” Further expressions from Doctor Ga field indicated that he is opposed to the Ad ministration’s actually engaging in the f such an investigating committee in June. I mer have been gratified to see that the recent mi price placed on wheat by President Wilson was the price my committee had worked out. This work of research carried on dur ing the summer showed us plainly that the business in any way other than to aid concede preferet tial treatment [fo war work, but the country under Fuel Administra | tion ma expect t t he curtailment ol unessentia Du t ses Only a a n last reso t resort 315 17 19 21 23 25 27 29 Bl | It is certain that | before we enter or ma another winter the rank and file of coal consumers big and little, w Already we are ment of Cars Could be Maintained All Week. The Effect of a Bad Storm on Shipments be edut ate aii | obliged to recerd is Indicated by the December !2th Dip in Loadings method of ecor i that the abnormal omy in fuel com ! conditions of 1917 are reflected in the acci- certain and final outcome of a runaway bustion as they never were before. Suc} dent records by an incre of 21 per cent market in any commodity Is to wreck pro- inte nce will be forthcon The work of the Fuel Administra- time, so I will confine my rem: duction ion has not been so much the reduction of to broad plans that may so coal prices to the consumer as it has been _ tional life as to justify our gi the prevention of exorbitant prices. To attention and discussion. T} what height prices might have climbed if larly desirable, since the Fuel left unrestrained we can only imagine. It tion has assumed to commence its new is therefore impossible to measure accuratel) year April first, on which date important what the administration has accomplished changes in general plans become effective ‘We have smoothed out many difficul- Briefly summarize ties between labor and capital. There is vation Bureau of the Fuel Administratior to day only one district where differences is to effect the following savings during the exist, and that local trouble will be ad- year commencing April 1, 1918 justed promptly. On assuming the role —— . now occupy I said to both operators and ‘ “ ‘ miners: ‘We will have none of your contro te he . versies. Neither mine owner nor workman aaa 1) (MW) ONY nT shall profit at the expense of the other dur 2. In industrial plant ; 7 ing the war.’ I have so far found both ncluding locor parties unselfish and patriotic tives, 10 per cent 400,000,004 40,.000),.00) Concerning the oft-repeated criticism 3 By gsubstitut that I was responsible - slowing dowr . Tr coal production and that I hindered coal reas ( L buying during the summer months let me 4. iy ysing natural ice say that I had nothing to do with fixing the and consolidating first prices established for co: Nor dide artificial-ice plant yO) OM I advise against buying atanytime. I 5. Daylight saving assumed office on August twenty-first, and = ¢ Pjpet silway sav a few days later suggested that the public ne } kip-stop ' purchase coal in the normal y. We did 7 lat of course, aim to subdue hysteria nub itilitic 000.000 LULL ““Looking back, Iam sure the shut-down & at does reduct ? of industry y was necessary. I go ater further and Say now that I believe firmly sO) 16 nt 100 OOK ’ that even a wide embargo--which I could ” not then get — we | failed to accom , : plish the desire« e embargo would There is no doubt that household « have been too tior mme € mies in the agyregate next winter w be relief was vital large; so will the savings in all of our 250 “As to storing coal ti immer and fall 000 stationary-steam plant The st let me say to the public: Get all the coal inspection service now being inauguraté you can buy; provided of course you do Continued on Page 55 HE bicycle beautiful! 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Continued from Page 53 in the various cities will undoubtedly re- sult in the discontinuance or modernizing of many uneconomical] plants, and in the consolidation of other stations when such centralization can be effected to advantage. In the matter of fuel consumed by rail- roads there is a great opportunity for econ- omy. Like other industries, the transpor- tation lines have lost men and have had to employ green hands as firemen. Since the railways consume 27 per cent of the total bituminous coal output, a saving of even 1 per cent will amount to more than 1,400,- 000 tons annually. That a very material betterment in rail- road fuel consumption is possible is evident from results obtained by one of our largest Eastern roads. The company in question saved 541 tons of coal on eight of its divi- sions in one week by increased care in banking and dumping fires at engine ter- minals. The firemen on this same railroad were informed as to just what the saving of one shovelful of coal per mile amounts to in the total of all operations. Other investiga- tions showed that the standardization of exhaust nozzles would save the road 50,- 000 tons per year. The modernizing of old engines by applying new valve gear and superheaters would likewise save 20 per cent in the coal used per 1000 gross ton miles. Thousands of additional tons can be saved by not overloading tenders, by removing all coal from coal cars, by pre- venting the use of large engines on small trains, by reducing the number of stops of freight trains, by eliminating stops at the foot of steep grades, and by properly load- ing trains spect to engine capacity. aring on this last-mentioned conserva- tion plan it has been proved that an engine pulling t irds its load will burn nearly as much coal per train-mile as it will con- sume with a full-] Wwitn res Wwo-t! ull-load rating Railroad Coal Economies Summarizing the possibilities in saving on railroad fuel consumption it is enlight- ening to read the results obtained by this same railroad under new fuel regulations, compared with similar operations one year ago, when less care was observed. Actual performances in a recent month are com- pared with the same month in the

licht is but 1.9 per cent of the country’s total output. Almost as much coal can be saved 10,000,000 tons—by maintaining the tem- perature of the interior of all buildings at 67 degrees instead of 70 de grees as by shutting off every electric light in America. There are other kinds of conservation besides the saving of fuel; we have such things as conservation of eyesight, vation of life and limb and conservation of property —all of which are increased by a proper application of artificial light. Fewer city lights may mean more accidents from collisions at street and it must be remembered that our enemies over here do not fly above us in Zeppelins but walk among us and carry on their depredations under the cover of darkness. Even in London, the partial elimination of street lamps developed the fact that the danger to the public from street accidents was more serious than the menace from German air- ships. Many lights have therefore been restored. When we plan to save even 1 per cent of the coal consumed by steam plants or railroads we are aiming at some thing worth while, but when we set about saving a very small part of 2 per cent of our output it is best that we make sure the economy is worth what it costs. There is no such thing as overillumination by artificial light. The brightest electric illumination in a building furnishes only a quarter the light that is afforded us by the least bright sunlight. There is no doubt that the psychologi- eal effect of curtailing our so-called “‘ white ways” was favorable. It reminded people a are at war; it prompted many to reduce lights at home; and it doubtless encouraged economy in the consumption of other com- modities. But such an insignificant meas- ure must not be permitted to create the impression that large savings in fuel are being thereby effected. A successful out come of our war activities will not follow the diffusion of erroneous impressions. Do not imply that I advocate disregard ing small economies. I am sure it is just as conser- crossings wise for each individual to practice thrift in the purchase and use of light as in the purchase and use of food or clothes. We reading or Suitable or smaller need more light when we are writing than when we are not. reflectors permit the use of fewer

preceding year. a The figures dis- QUANTITY close a possible fuel saving in pas- sepger service of $628,140 a year, and a fuel saving in freight service of $751,128 a year. At this rate the total annual coal saving from better methods of firing and from im- proved equipment VALUE THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Frequently cleaning lamps increases Painting reflect- lamps. the illumination one-third.

ing surfaces white conserves light. A 25- watt lamp will save an ounce of coal daily. A 16-candle-power carbon-filament lamp replaced by a 25-watt tungsten bulb will save at least 2 ounces of coal each da; These are all sensible things to know and

are rules worth following; but we must properly assign to all our efforts their true valt it. The country will be flooded this summer with schemes to conserve Some will succeed. A number of cities report that the skip-stop plan of street-car service is a Cincinnati engineers assert it esults in a faster schedule with fewer cars and will mean an annual saving of 10,000 tons of coal. Other communities are dis- cussing the advisability of substituting win- ter for summer vacations in the public schools. One estimate places the yearly consumption of coal in our 100,000 public schools at 20,000,000 tons, and figures a saving of 12,000,000 tons through the general adoption of the winter-vacation plan. The advocates of the scheme say winter vacations would mean less sickness among the children because there would be open windows instead of airtight school- rooms. Opponents say the children would make less progress in the heat of summer and that in rural districts they are needed on the farms. I leave the reader free to his choice of opinion. . ] CUOal, success, Cheap Deliveries by Motor Fuel conservation is interesting, but we cannot do much in the way of saving unless we first get the coal into our bins. During the past winter most every city has taught a lesson showing the need of emer- gency storage yards. Hundreds of commu nities will take steps to insure against local fuel famines next winter. New York City with its millions of people, narrowly averted disaster from freezing, while at the same moment nearly 400,000 tons of coal were lying across the Hudson River in New Jersey terminals waiting to be moved There was hardly a city that did not pre sent its spectacle of icy streets with horse drawn coal wagons stalled on every block This is an age of motor vehicles and not a time to employ horses to haul coal through snow- drifts. If wedo not provide against a been — Total value of Coke repetition of last and byproducts winter’s coal- delivery experi-

as 11000 ow $ 1077 208

on this one system will be $1,379,268. Think what it will mean to the coun- try if all railroads follow a similar plan and east aside antiquated methods and out- of-date equip- ment. Daylight saving by advancing the clock one hour is attracting consid- erable attention. The suggestion if adopted would re- sult in a more fa- vorableload factor for power plants in thewintermonths. This brings up the question of con- erving coal through the cur- tailment of light- ing. Every little economy helps, for we must win the war; however, in suck times as the present there is al- ways danger of our going to extremes. The amount of coal employed for producing electric 4

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ences we shall be deserving of all the hardships we shall have to endure. It is worth not- ing in this connec- tionthat one of the largest Govern- ment departments in Washington decided to investi- gate the problem of local coal deliv- \ ery. Trucks were purchased and a coal yard was rented. The low- est bid price for delivery of the re- quired coal ton- nage was $1.46 per

_ | ton. The depart- if | ment’s complete ty figures from Au- Ny gust 16, 1917, to N February 1, this & year, show a de- & livery cost of ap- we | proximately $.74 Sy perton. Thetotal ~ be such a problem after all. The zone sys- Li tem that is just now be ing put into operation will afford more relief (Concluded on Page 57)

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(Concluded from Page 55) than is generally imagined. Coals from Colorado, Wyoming and the Southwestern States will be drawn east into the Missis- ppi Valley. These Western regions never ive worked to capacity. While the East as crying for coal in January many mines two Western States were idle for lack of The Eastern coals will supply the and Indiana coals will feed the industries in their own territory. lers. The

ail except by-product and smithing coals ntended for special war uses. Cross hauls W 1 be € mir ated. Fortunately the coal industry is fast rid- profiteers who would damn uld have been more serious that permitted shipments f impure coal last winter. There is no good use that can be offered for the practice. ach addition of 1 per cent ash in the ition’s annual coal output means that 126,000 more cars are required to move the same amount of heat values. Conservative estimates place the ash content in the 1917 oal output at from 5 to 9 per cent above If this is true then the movement of al during the year required from 600,000 to 1,000,000 more cars than were necessary. To the consumer this question of dirty ‘ For example: With coal irrying 6 per cent ash, 8 boilers are re- juired to generate 300,000 pounds of steam With 20 per cent ash, 19 boil- Coal adulteration means more boilers, more firemen, increased fuel lemand and more ash handlers. It is further true that as the percentage of ash in creases the percentage of combusti- ble matter lost in the ashes increases. Coal forms 35 per cent of the total freight han- dled by American railroads. It is easy to ee, therefore, that even a small increase in less impurities in coal is a matter of ich consequence, The remedy for the trouble is to be the establishment of coal inspectors and the osing down of mines that willfully permit he shipment of avoidable impurities. The operator, of course, does not load the slate it the working place in the mine. The ible starts with the dishonest miner. It grat fy ng, therefore, to repeat the words f John P. White, former presider t of the United Mine Workers’ Union and now their representative in the Fuel Administration. He said: “I heartily concur in your impaign for clean coal and have just en- ed into an agreement wi

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here, representing the operators, provid- ing that the Union will back up owner in fining, suspending or discharging any miner who is guilty of loading dirt, bone or slate into his mine car.” The chief aim of the Fuel Administration, aside from encouraging large output, is to { get coal moving direct from the mine to the he mine

consumer’s bin. In any locality where the consumer has difficulty in getting fuel the plan is to have such consumer state his needs to the local representative of the Fuel Admi ion, who will communicate

to the national bureau of distribution. It is conservatively estimated that not- withstanding the many economies proposed the nation’s coal requirements this year ll total not less than 720,000,000 short

wi tons, or 60,000,000 tons each month. This means that we must produce about 13,- 000,000 tons of bituminous coal per week, which output has not been nearly realized any week so far this year. I believe the transportation problem will be solved before very long, and I am confident the How- mines will give us the nece ssary ¢ oal ever, that hopeful situation has not yet been realized, and it behooves us all to save in every sensible way possible. In many plants 16 drops of oil on a machine will save a full pound of coal. The 50,000,000 tons we lacked last year would have been offset if each person would have saved 40 ounces of coal daily. It is unwise, therefore, to ignore the small economies, that mean so much in the aggregate. very house- holder would realize that each small shovel- ful of coal he fires into his furnace is equal in value to one-half pound of sugar or a small loaf of bread, it is likely more care would be exercised. The Fuel Administration has a delicate task toperform. Warindustries must goon. Coal is vital, and should another shortage appear imminent this coming fall many businesses will be curtailed. The danger in

such case is the possibility of setting back by a decade or more the development of various commercial arts that have reached their present plane of industrial efficiency through years of laborious effort. Super- vision of fuel consumed in industrial plants and burned on locomotives will undoubtedly be made effective, but control of waste in households must depend on each individual ry It is the duty of all of us to become better acquainted with the subject of heat, and

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MILLS NLANCING across a beaver pond one day, | saw a big grayish grizzly bear come out into a grassy opening. My presence was not suspected and I at once focused my field glasses upon him. Here and there he went, and when a grasshopper leaped into the air the bear—big, fat, awkward, lumbering fellow that he was leaped into the air after it. He would strike the grasshopper with a forepaw, knock it to the ground and then pick | it up with his teeth. Occasionally he advanced on all fours and slapped one of his forepaws upon the grasshopper before it leaped into the air. Once two grass- hoppers flew up at the same instant. The bear stood still, located the spot where each had alighted and then paid his re- spects to them in turn. About this time another bear came into | the opening within a hundred feet of the scene of activity. He was a dark gray, | almost black in color; but he, too, was a grizzly. After smelling here and there the second bear dug out something; I think it must have been a nestful of mice. A minute later in the edge of the tall grass he found a bumblebee’s nest. This he ate in its entirety. Apparently two or three of the bees escaped, judging from the bear’s rapid defense of his nose. Occasionally, as he walked about, he ate a huge mouthful of grass, taking three or four bites at a time Neither of these bears paid the slight- est attention to the other. Though each must have known, both from scent and sight, that the other was near, they very suc- cessfully appeared to be oblivious of the fact. **As hungry as a bear”’ is a statement of peculiar meaning. About one-third of the year a bear has a devastating appetite; another third he lives on short rations; and during the remaining third he goes on a food strike and hibernates. Waat Bears Eat Perhaps it would be well if we could think of the grizzly as being largely vegetarian. He digs up roots, feeds on weeds, tender shoots of shrubbery, fungi, mushrooms, berries, seeds, rosehips, pine nuts and acorns, and also eats bark like a rabbit and grass like a cow. How- ever, the normal grizzly is an omnivorous feeder. He will eat anything that is edi- ble: Meat—fresh, stale or carrion; wasps; yellow jackets; grasshoppers; ants and their eggs; bugs and grubs. Of course he eats honey and the bees. He also captures snakes, and many a rat and rabbit. He is a destroyer of many pests that afflict man, and in the realm of economic biology he should be rated high. I doubt that a dozen cats, hawks or owls annually catch as many mice as some grizzlies. I endeavored to find out the kind of food preferred by two tame bears. A number of times I approached them with a plate upon which were cake, meat and honey. In my pockets I generally carried either turnips or apples. When close to the bears they usually stood on their hind legs to see what I had. If they caught the seent of either apples or turnips they | thrust paws or noses into my pockets for these first, ignoring the dainties on the plate. Otherwise they grabbed whatever happened to be closest to them on the plate. The food of a grizzly is largely deter- mined by locality. Nearly all those along the streams of the Northern Pacific Coast feed chiefly upon fish, while those in the Bitter Root Mountains and Rritish Colum- bia generally feed upon roots and plants. Those in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and the Southwest have a mixed diet. I frequently followed a grizzly whose home territory was close to my cabin in the Rocky Mountains. One day he spent a few hours in digging out mice. On an- other he caught a rabbit. He ate a bum- blebees’ nest, and with the nest the grass, the bees, their young, their honey and their stings. In a homesteader’s garden he dug out and ate nearly one hundred pounds of potatoes and turnips. The aspens were in bloom—laden with swollen buds and juicy catkins. Many birds were feasting on the catkins; and, looking over into a near-by aspen thicket, I saw a grizzly on a ledge also feeding eagerly. He would reach for a limb, first with one forepaw and then with the other bite off a few inches, and eat the twigs, bark and bloom. Occasionally he seized the top of an aspen with both paws, bent it down and bit it off. A similar fashion is followed in eating wild plums and choke- cherries. The bears will reach up and pull down the top of a plum tree and bite it off, eating the small limbs, the bark, the leaves and the fruit. On another occasion I saw a grizzly browsing in a wild raspberry patch. He bit off the tops of the vines and ate them, along with the berries, the leaves and the thorns. Sometimes the twigs and terminal buds of the pine, the fir and the spruce are eaten. During the first few weeks after coming out of the winter den much of the grizzly’s food is likely to be of the salad order juicy young plant stalks, watery shoots, tender bark, young grasses, buds and leaves. One day I saw a grizzly approaching in a manner which indicated that he knew exactly where he was going. On arriving at an alder clump by the brook he at once commenced tearing off the bark and eating it. On another occasion I watched a bear strip off of a young balsam fir nearly all the bark within reach. I have often seen places where they had bitten and torn chunks of bark from aspens and cotton- woods. Though they also tear the bark from pine and spruce trees, I do not be- lieve that is eaten as frequently as the bark of the broad-leaved trees. Hard Work and Full Diet In the Bitter Root Mountains the spring beauty, the dog-toothed violet and the shooting star, both tops and roots, appear to supply the grizzly with much of his food. In other localities he rarely, and possibly never, touches them, though they grow abundantly. Often in autumn, until the ground is frozen, bears dig out the roots of many kinds of plants. One of these, which they dig in British Columbia, is a wild pea—the Hedysarum. All grizzlies appear to be fond of fish and in many places they are successful fisher- men. I once saw one standing in the riffes of an Idaho stream, where he was partly concealed by a willow clump. In half an hour he knocked five large salmon ashore. With a single lightninglike stroke of his forepaw each fish was flung out of the water and sent flying fifteen or twenty feet. Rarely did he miss. Each of the salmon weighed several pounds. A grizzly in the Sawtooth region, trying to catch some fish, sprawled out on a low bank by the edge of a stream. Holding himself with one forepaw he reached over with the other and felt under the bank beneath the water. He did this very much after the manner of a fat man. Commonly the bear makes a stand in driftwood on a bank, on a log that has fallen into a stream or behind a willow clump. Sometimes he captures fish by wading up a brook and catching, with claws or teeth, those that conceal themselves beneath banks and pro- jecting roots. A huge brown grizzly mother catching trout for her two fat cubs attracted my attention one day. The cubs waited on the grassy bank of a brook while the mother brought them trout after trout. The fish were sometimes caught by thrusting her nose into the water beneath the bank; at other times by reaching in with her paws; and at still‘others she knocked them out of the water as they endeavored to dash past her in the riffes. The cubs watched her every move; but they were not allowed to enter the water. By a little mountain lake at the head- waters of the Columbia I found a pile of stale salmon beneath a number of large logs and stones. The salmon had been caught either in the lake or in a near-by brook during spawning time and stored for future consumption. A day or two later I returned and tracks showed that the bear had come back and consumed them. The grizzly eagerly earns his own living; he is not a loafer. In two hours’ time I have known him to move a mass of earth (Concituded on Page 61)

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Concluded from Page 58) that must have weighed tons, leaving an excavation large enough for a private cel- lar. When a large stone is encountered in his digging he grabs it with both forepaws, shakes and tears it loose from the earth and hurls it aside. I have seen him toss huge stones over his shoulder and throw large ones forward with one paw. Grizzlies show both skill and thought in nearly everything they do. They have strength, alert wits and clever paws, and commonly work at high speed. Much work is done in digging out a wood- chuck, cony, or some other animal, from a rock slide. I have come upon numbers of holes from which a grizzly had literally removed tons of stone. In places these were five or six feet deep. Round the edges the stones were piled as though for a barricade, and in some of them several soldiers could have found room and ex- cellent shelter for ordinary defense. A grizzly I followed one day paused in a grassy space to dig out mice. In reaching them he discovered a chipmunk’s burrow. By the time he had secured all these he had torn up several square yards of sod. The place had the appearance of having been rooted up by hogs. In this fresh earth the surrounding trees sowed triumphant seeds, and here a cluster of spruces grew where grass had long held sway. While watching a flock of mountain sheep feeding down a slope just above the timber line a grizzly appeared on the scene. He came from the woods and was walking slowly upward. Unless the sheep or the bear changed course there must be a meet- ing. But the sheep continued to feed and the grizzly to walk upward. Suddenly the bear stopped and commenced digging— digging evidently for a chipmunk. A stream of earth and stones was sent flying behind him. Occasionally, too, a huge stone was sent hurtling back. This activity roused the curiosity of the sheep and they approached within perhaps ten or twelve feet. They were lined up and eagerly watching the bear when he became aware of their presence; and, disliking their close approach, he leaped at them with a terrific ‘“‘Woof!”” The sheep seattered wildly; but they ran only a few yards, again united, and fed quietly away. The grizzly returned to his digging. The misfortunes of other animals often provide a feast for the grizzly. In going over an area just swept by a forest fire I saw two grizzlies feasting, and there were feasts for numerous others. At one place the fire had destroyed the beavers’ winter food supply and they were seeking home and harvest in other scenes. A grizzly was wading in their abandoned pond and feasting on the dead trout that floated on the surface. Two black bears, despite terrible threats from the grizzly, claimed all the fish that came within reach of the shore, but discreetly kept out of the pond. During the second day’s explora- tion of the burn a bear came upon me while I was eating from a fire-killed roasted deer. When I moved on the waiting grizzly walked up to feast. THE SATURDAY A grizzly knows the location of every beaver pond in his territory. It is one of his favorite loafing and feeding places. Here he sometimes finds a stale fish or a dead bird brought down by the stream. Sometimes he eats a huge salad of pond lilies. Often he rolls and swims about in the water, enjoying himself immensely. But when beavers are gathering the har- vest, especially if it is gathered at some distance from the water, he lies in wait for them and overhauls them. He is ready, too, to seize upon any one of these unfortunate fellows who is acci- dentally killed or injured in gnawing down trees. Many a time I have seen the fresh tracks of a mother and her cubs on the muddy shore of a beaver pond, and some- times the tracks of both black bears and grizzlies. When there is an excess of food grizzlies make a cache of it. nothing is more common than for them to cover a carcass with refuse consisting of They will bury an | elk in the earth. They will cover the car- | cass of a cow with numbers of logs, and | twigs, fallen leaves, grass and trash. They | will cover a quantity of fish with stones and logs. A few become cattle killers; many eat what they did not kill. On the livestock ranges in the mountains of the West cattle die from many causes. They succumb to disease and to accidents. Winds proclaim carcass news and a feast to flesh eaters near and far. Bears have amazingly keen noses and often are the first to enjoy the feast. A grizzly I was following caught the scent of a carcass that was more than a | mile off. He stopped and sniffed; then changed his course and set off for the | and as | carcass. This was being watched; EVENING he was the first animal to arrive after the | kill the owner of the cow concluded that he was guilty of the killing, and accord- ingly proceeded to kill him and to condemn all bears as cattle killers. Yet this cow had | died from feeding too freely upon poison- ous larkspur. I was once trailing a grizzly through the snow when he came upon the trail of a mountain lion, which he followed. The lion had just killed a horse when the grizzly came on the scene. The grizzly drove off the lion. The following day, while having a second feast off the horse, he was discovered by a rancher, who at once procured dogs, pursued and killed “the | famous horse-killing grizzly.” I have not heard of an authentic in- stance of a grizzly’s eating human flesh. Numbers of hunters have been killed by grizzlies, but their bodies were not eaten; they were not killed for food. Many people have lost their lives from storms, accidents and starvation. Their bodies have lain for days and weeks in territory frequented by grizzlies without being eaten | by them. A prospector, his horse and his burro were killed by a falling tree. Grizzlies devoured the bodies of the animals, but that of the prospector was not disturbed. Human flesh appears to be the only thing | a grizzly does not eat. THE MOTOR TRUCK ENLISTED (Continued from Page 11) useless to motor traffic of all descriptions. In the case of the Cleveland-Pittsburgh road some recent improvement to the weak link in the form of the dumping of gravel has made it more passable. But it is typical of the national indifference to the main highroad as a national artery. The fifteen-mile stretch of bad road is almost equidistant between its termini. From the one side of it folks drive in passenger cars or motor trucks to Cleveland and from the other side of it to Pittsburgh. And the men and trucks who must go from the one city through to the other are not a matter of any concern whatsoever to local taxpayers. Recently the Federal Government has made an appropriation of $85,000,000 to be expended in bettering the national high- ways. Ten millions of this is to go to the roads in the national parks, and the re- mainder is to be expended in annual drib- lets for five years, apportioned to and in connection with the highway appropria- tions of the various states. But no definite system of highroads is contemplated under this act; no creation of single lines or trunks or systems which would be of the slightest national commercial or military value. The statute is hodgepodge. It is characteristic of the fine neglect which we have steadily given to a great national transportation possibility. 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EVENING POST of army chauffeurs. It has done even more—it has sought to popularize the use of these highroads for the commercial neces- sities of the land, and it has endeavored to use the motor truck in the solution of the critical terminal problem in many of its largest cities. Of all these things, more in good time. Consider, first of them, the motor truck. Apply the problem of the French transport behind Verdun to that of our own sector in Northern Lorraine. Then bring it more closely home: translate the Sacred Way from Bar-le-Duc to the great French fortress as the National Pike from Cumberland down to Baltimore or the Lin- coln Highway from Pittsburgh across the state of Pennsylvania to Philadelphia. These things have a more familiar sound, have they not? Perhaps you have traversed one or both of these roads in your own little old car. And if you have so done within the past few winter months you may have seen military motor transport in the United States; an orderly flow of trucks, not so close together as those at Verdun but making a far longer run of it; and the trucks themselves war trucks, destined overseas, This truck was born in the mind of a young engineer in the Quartermaster’s Corps of the Army— Major W. M. Britton. Long before we entered the war he was studying the use of the motor truck in the service of the Allies, and was converted to the idea of standardization —a truck with cylinder castings, crank shafts, cams, gears and gear sets, clutches and axles completely interchange sable for each of but two or three classes of vehicles. The idea was appealing. The United States Army, with sixty-five types of trucks in its service on this side of the Atlantic and six on the other, was com- pelled to carry a vast stock of individual repair and wear parts, the most of them not interchangeable between the cars of differ- ent manufacturers. The confusion of these parts was bad enough here; to have to duplicate this confusion over there was out of the question. Major Britton knew what the railroads accomplished long ago in standardization; how more than 2,000,000 freight cars upon their rails were long ago so simplified as to running parts and accessories that a car repair shop of even moderate capacity was able quickly and easily to repair any car of any railroad in the United States or Canada. He knew how the automobile business up to the present time had failed, chiefly because of its enormously rapid growth, to accomplish any real standard- ization; despite the fact that the success of the greatest individual automobile plant in America has been built almost entirely on the sweeping success of its methods of that very sort. He decided that, despite the great success of the various types of Amer- ican trucks in the armies overseas as well as in our own, the highway transport reliance of our own army must rest in a perfectly standardized truck. And he succeeded in winning the support of the War Depart- ment to his radical idea. Progress Toward Simplicity You know how the standardized Liberty motor for our airplanes was evolved; how specialist engineers, who were at the head of their profession—experts in ignition, in carburetion, in combustion and the like were brought into conference and asked to give their best thoughts and best energies for the good of their country; and finally how two engine experts took these ideas, were locked in a room of a Washington hotel—in theory, at least—and emerged with the plan of the Liberty motor—a gasoline-combustion engine without a peer in this country; if indeed with an equal in any other country. Our standardized army truck was evolved in much the same fashion. Committees were appointed from the various manufac- turers of parts and they worked out the truck, as the motor had been evolved. There was a committee on chassis, one on steering gear, one on axle, one on engine cooling and another on transmission. They worked separately at first, and then at the right time in concert. And early in July of last year they evolved the standard truck. Come with me to an army office in a shabby house in a Washington side street, which has been converted, almost over- night, into an office building. We find in one of its front rooms the man who to-day | is charged with the production of these trucks for the army. He is a man whom

April 6,1918 you cannot easily forget. His name is Christian Girl. It adorns one who seems to deserve an unusual name. For he is by no means a usual man. To-day he isa big and prosperous manufacturer of automobile parts in Cleveland; yet from the twentieth to the twenty-eighth year of his life he was a letter carrier. “I liked it,” he says, speaking of his previous service for our Uncle Samuel. ‘For one thing, it made me on time.’ And we thirty minutes late for our ap- pointment for an interview! We hastily change the subject: “The Liberty truck?” we begin. “Call it the war truck,” he corrects. “It’s simpler “The standardized truck?” we begin —. Call it the simplified truck,”’ he again corrects. “It is a better way of putting it. We were called here in September. On the tenth of that month we placed an order for two sample trucks—one to be assembled at Rochester, New York, the other at Lima, Ohio. They were completed in thirty days and rolling on their way toward Washing- ton. They were successful trucks. We decided to build 10,000 more—and as quickly as they could be built. We asked every Mode om turer in the land to bid, and as quickly as possible. It was not a job for corner blacksmiths; it was one for the first production plants in America, and our bids and drawings went to these. In the end we divided the order between fifteen plants which we had surveyed carefully in order to establish their capacity and their capabil- ity. We fixed an average cost of about $4000 a car. The price really is flexible. It includes the overhead cost of these very offices and our drafting rooms as well. We compelled the high bidders to come to the low figures. But in order that no man should lose in making trucks for his Government we provided a minimum profit of five per cent and a maximum profit of twenty Later the War Industries Board reduced this maximum profit to fifteen per cent.” Some Enormous Contracts It is expected that the first 10,000 trucks will be finished by August 1, or soon after. The delivery of the entire order was set down for July 1, but the assembling plants at work upon them have been greatly delayed in getting both men and raw ma- terials. It is believed that this first order will be succeeded by others—perhaps as high as 30,000 or even 50,000 in a single group. In the meantime some of the manu- facturers of established makes of American trucks are calling the War Department’s attention to the splendid records which these machines already have made both overseas and upon the Mexican border. They do not want these abandoned en- tirely in favor of the standardized—or simplified—truck. And I do not think that they will be abandoned. For many army purposes they cannot be equaled. **We could have done as much with the established makes of American motor trucks as with the standardized truck,” says a friend of mine who is a large manu- facturer of them. ‘‘The army has pur chased our trucks, both for its Mexican campaign and toget its flying start in the present war—and it has liked them. Eng- land and France have gone on record as saying that two makes of American motor cars are the finest in the world for army purposes. England tried to standardize motor trucks and failed in the attempt And we stood ready in this country to standardize not only our accessories but many other things—screws and nuts and bolts, for instance.” To which Mr. Christian Girl will reply that if England had only had more time she probably would have been able to stand- ardize her trucks with complete success. In this country we actually have had the time to do this one thing systematically and right. It has been a real economy to do it that way. Girl is confident that the final results will justify the radical step; and he steps quickly to another phase of the problem. “What truck could we have adopted?” he asks you, and then proceeds to answer by calling your attention to the vast differ- ence of opinion as to the comparative excel- lence of the various makes. *‘Suppose we had chosen any one of these,’ he continues; ‘‘would that manu- facturer have been ready to put in ma- chinery for a government order of 50,000 (Continued on Page 65)

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(Continued from Page 62) within a few months—or even 30,000? And how would his fellows have regarded the thing? No, sir, we have done the best. We have evolved a truck foreign to all and therefore common to all. And we shall ask them all to proceed in its building. It is not a copyrighted device, not a patented one; and when the war is over every manufac- turer in America will be entitled to build it—in as large or as small quantities as he desires.” Girl has tremendous faith in the truck. It illumines him. He describes with enthu- siasm each of its details—its double spark plugs, its double gasoline tanks, the great strength of its axles, of its transmission members too—all the essential portions of its frame. And he speaks with real pride of the fact that governed down to twelve miles an hour it has performed 4.86 miles to the gallon of gasoline. The new simplified mo tor truck is made in asmall “AA” type of 1500 to 2000 pounds’ capacity, in the ““A”’ of oneand a half tons’ capacity, and the “B” of from three to five tons’ capacity. Itis this last type that has formed the entire first order of 10,000 cars. It is a powerful truck, the chassis without the body weighing 8250 pounds, and the entire weizht carried upon thirty-six by six single tires in front and forty by six dual tires in the rear. It has worm- driven gear and is propelled by a four- cylinder engine—each cylinder four and three-quarter inches in diameter and with a six-inchstroke. Itsspecial features are tech- nical, but highly interesting to any man who makes a study of the motor car. For one thing it possesses two spark plugs to each cylinder. The danger of missing fire and stalling— perhaps under shell fire from the enemy — is thereby almost entirely elimi- nated. And its accessories—lamps, brakes, carburetors, all of them—are as completely standardized as its other parts. To bring these trucks—and the many hundred that preceded them while the standardized car was still in the making from the factories in or near the Lake district, in a winter when the land was experiencing the worst rail-transportation congestion in its history, was a problem in itself. It was a problem that we have seen specifically tackled by the Highways Trans- port Committee of the Council of National Defense, acting in direct coéperation with the Quartermaster’s Corps of the War De- partment. It was a perplexing question. The trucks had priority orders. But the railroad lines were blocked. That was all there was to it. Priority orders availed You could hardly move coal on t alone even as important And win- nothing. priority orders, le war munitions as motor trucks. ter was already upon the land. Long Runs on Close Schedules was that the Highways Trans- had its opportunity —and seized it. Chapin, its chairman, was posi- tive that the trucks could be brought through from Detroit to the seaboard under their own power. He called attention to the fact that a big motor-tire concern in Akron was running a daily service between its factory and its Boston service station, 740 miles distant. The schedule of that service lies before me. It shows the freight truck leaving Akron at six o’clock each morning, passing through Pittsburgh, 120 miles distant, at six-thirty o’clock the same evening; through Bedford, Pennsylvania, at ten-thirty o’clock the next morning and into Chambersburg at seven-thirty o’clock the second evening. On the third day Lan- caster is reached at five A. M., and Philadel- phia at noon. New York is 504 miles from Akron by this road—in the main, the Lincoln Highway—and is reached at ten o’clock in the evening on that third day. And the truck is due in Boston just twenty- four hours later. In other words, eighty- eight hours, night and day, is required for the trip, including the ten stops of but Then it port Committee thirty minutes each. Two men go with each truck; while one drives the other sleeps. They eat at the half-hour stops, and telegraph their progress back to Akron from various —— points. And the service operates with the re gularity of the Twentieth Century Limited between New York and Chicago. It was the regularity and efficiency of this service that made the War Depart- ment lean toward Chapin’s plan. It re- called that a little more than a year and a half ago, in a practice test, it had sent more than 500 officers and men in thirty-three motors from Douglas, Arizona, up to the Roosevelt Dam and back, a total distance of 655 miles. The test was divided into seventy-mile daily runs, breaking camp each day at noon and pitching it again about dusk. A hundred miles a day could have been made quite as easily. If the com- mand had gone afoot fifteen miles a day would have been a fair average, and thirty- four more days would have been required for the journey. And the trip by rail for the command would have cost, at the prevailing mileage rates of Arizona railroads, $11,- 272.80 for fares, as compared with $641.35, the cost of the gasoline, the lubricating oils and the repairs for all the trucks during the entire test. Before the regular motor-transport de- livery service of the army began between Detroit and several other Michigan cities close round about it, and the seaboard, Chapin arranged for his committee to send pathfinder or scout cars out over each foot of the proposed route. These cars did more: They examined alternative routes. And so thoroughly did they do their work that one car in particular crossed the state of Ohio three times before it found what it was willing to consider the very best possi- ble route for the military movement. This car carried bridge experts and highway ex- | perts in its tonneau. They made careful examination of every bridge and culvert, for you cannot afford to take chances with heavy trucks. And the small bridges, even on important highroads through the coun- try districts, frequently form the greatest problem in the interurban use of the motor truck in the greater part of the United States. A Simple Idea Perfected Some of these bridges had to be shored up, and in some cases— notably the hole be- tween Cleveland and Pittsburgh that has already been described—temporary repairs had to be made to the highway itself. Asa rule these were financed locally by the awak- ened public spirit and latent patriotism of the communities. In the case of a particu- larly bad place on the Detroit-Toledo road, however, the state of Michigan dug into its war-emergency fund and appropriated $35,000 for an improved detour road—for the use of the motor-transport companies. For the idea, once tried out, has to-day become a regular part of the military transport service of the United States. A motor-truck company —thirty cars and seventy-six men, two men to the car and the extra officers and mechanics in a few light automobiles—is now leaving Michigan cities each day; and it arrives at an impor- tant Atlantic port five hundred miles dis- tant eight days later—upon almost exact schedule; and this despite the fact that the service has been performed in Northern States through the hard winter months of the hardest winter that we have known in many years. Sometimes it has been difficult to bring the big war trucks through the snowdrifts—and in zero weather. But Chapin and his associates have found in almost all the states that this military path- way crosses laws which compel the county or township authorities to keep the roads open—no matter how severe the winter. It has rarely been necessary, however, to in- voke these laws, for the patriotic spirit and imagination of the little inland communi- ties, to whom the war heretofore has been a very remote and impersonal thing, have been tremendously stirred and thrilled by | the repeated sight of great, sturdy war trucks, manned by boys in khaki, and mov- ing slowly fprward in perfect military dis- cipline and order. Flags have flown all winter long for the boys in the motor trucks, and there has been comparatively remote necessity of billeting for meals—the tendency in many of the big towns and the little is to offer less hospitality. the boys seemingly bound- | At the seaboards the trucks go into the | holds for transport to France. Not always quite so easily as it reads here, for, as you all know, the ship capacity has not kept pace with our ability to manufacture muni- tions of every sort; and recently the tend- ency toward congestion of materials in our embarkation ports has increased rather than decreased; until some very far-seeing men have wondered if we are not making muni- | tions altogether too rapidly, and if we would not do better to cease fretting about the so-called nonessentials and begin to keep the business pot steadily boiling by devoting more attention to them. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST f meme eae ae on j | mn Mm mt Hi a WA : Vad be: Est | 5 | Jo n ES | p | Whe i | } A | Ee} | oF | i | of ii { HH i 4 A Mh ARAL Nha NN i tt ee . A TX? : . ’ . Q . Buy wisely! Insist on VaLur Firsr. i! 0 —_ ‘ , The war has made it a national duty to make every , Al = dollar bring the outmost return. i | fo 4 For over one-half century the products of Michaels-Stern have ; been distinguished for their greater value. 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These, on.8 wa as well as upright; — and is provided with ~ a \ grooved steel illustrated) tor holding round bloc] MOCK al a. this “YANKEE labor-saver, and irregular shapes. \s a vise is In a time and class with Ratchet Breast and Hand Drills and as feed Bench YANKEI \utomati ind Chain “YANKEE” Vise No. 1993 Price, $6.50 B “i by H t aced No. 993. ““YANKEE” Vise | vithout base Pri . $4.50. : Your dealer can wes you & Ws for fr } e)| ] ;} f dy ng, t | ,t Nort 1 Bros. Mig. Vise (with work) bench to dell press wlutely true. with Swivel Base. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST You can dodge railroad congestion by using the highroad; but there is no such easy way out for dodging sea congestion. Ship space is not only the guiding factor but the dominating one. And you cannot pack a three-ton or a five-ton motor truck in a cubby-hole in a corner of the deck. You will do well to get thirty or forty of the cumbersome things along with the other freight in a cargo trans- port of 10,000 tons’ capacity. And the quartermaster will scratch his head many times before he completely solves the prob- lem, At the worst, however, he will do better than the men who sent several thousand motor trucks to Russia and packed many hundreds of them in soft coal to keep them from bumping and banging round the ves- sel. It would have done them far less harm to have been bumped a good deal, for the soft coal grimed its way into the bear- ings and mechanical parts in a way that made it practically impossible ever to re- move it entirely or to get the full efficiency out of the motor. “We don’t do things that way in the army,” says the quartermaster captain in charge of embarkation, with a little pride in his tone. “Look at that!” The Journey Overseas It is the first time that this particular transport has ever headed her nose over- seas. In another hour the last of the haw- sers that hold her to the pier will be cast off and her new propellers will be churning the salt water. Already they are cutting away the runways in which 700 horses, un- knowing victims of the god of war, have been led to their stalls in the bowels of the great new ship. And because horses must have forage, in France as well as on the voyage, the wide spaces of the open hatchways forward and aft are filled with hay; and in the hay, packed as neatly as a smart boy packs glassware in a box filled with excelsior, a dozen or fifteen big olive- drab war trucks; and within their big boxes in turn much other freight. For from the time they left the West the big war trucks have been in business service, carrying an appreciable load of tires, acces- sories, repair parts, and in many cases army munitions not directly used in motor-truck operation When the big gray transport finally ends her maiden voyage and permits herself to be tamely roped to a new yellow American wharf in an ancient French seaport a heavy unloading crane, mounted upon a railroad flat car—the whole contraption the prod- uct of the brain of a Yankee, and actu- ally manufactured in South Chicago—will reach down into the opened hatch, pick out the war trucks one by one and set them out upon the wharf. The chauf- feurs who crossed with them or ahead of them—our boys, if you please—will dust off the hay and pour into the lubricating cups oil from Franklin, Pennsylvania, and into the big double tanks gasoline from Bayonne, New Jersey. A little water for radiator and batteries, a tug or two at the clutch—and the truck is in motion and ready to be off. The company forms three sections, or rams, of ten trucks each, just as it formed in Michigan, and moves forward over a French road, as we saw a little time ago French motor-transport companies moving up the highway to Verdun. The boys at the steering wheels had their hard train- ing on the Lincoln Highway—each had at Jeast two trips from Michigan to the sea- board before he was permitted to come overseas. And now in place of Elyria or Beaver Falls or Gettysburg, little French villages with huge churches rising from ou of the ancient houses; and poplar trees along the lovely roads instead of the red- white-and-blue markers on the telegraph poles or the maples of the Pennsylvania ll hills, The entire motor- transport service over- seas is in gene rale harg re of Brig. Gen. Harr Vv L. Rogers, chief quartermaster of our Ex- peditionary Forces, and in direct charge of Col. F. H: Pope, assisted by Maj. Barrett Andrews. General Rogers and Colonel Pope were on General Pershing’s staff down at the Mexican border; Major Andrews un- til recently was a New York publisher. All three men have given the motor-transport problem intensive and extended atten- tion. Pershing himself has made it the subject of searching study. It was the com- manding general himself who discovered April 6,1918 that the old-time army practice of having each separate function possess its own transport service would never do overseas under the stress of war. And so he made prompt arrangements to pool the entire motor-transport service of the whole Expe- ditionary Forces under a single responsi- ble authority. Which was good military science, good transportation practice and good ordinary business sense. So that to- day when the engineers are not particularly busy but the quartermaster wishes to haul forage, the services of a lot of trucks are his. Under the old arrangement a dozen, two dozen or even three dozen engineers’ trucks might be resting idle on the very day that the quartermaster was short of carrying for hishay. Theold plan had some advantages. They were more noticeable under a great plenitude of motor transports, but dis- appeared completely under the shortage of transport service with which our forces had to struggle at the beginning. To keep the motor-transport service of an army such as we are sending to France means transportation carefully organized and correlated. It does not mean motor trucks run as taxicabs or private cars. It is a service comparable with that of a railroad whose trains must run in an orderly fash- ion and under the single control of a respon- sible head—only the units operate upon highways instead of tracks. And just as a railroad—our United States Military Rail- road in France itself as a single instance must have shops and many of them, so must our motor-transport service have shops—and many of them. And chief of all these to-day is Interme- diate Number 1—situated approximately halfway between the seaboard and the Front, and known sentimentally and popu- larly to the men of the M. T. S. as Central Park. In this huge garage, with parking space in front, several hundre de xpert mech- anicians are already employed, and some 1200 trucks a month can be not only re- paired but completely rebuilt. The wide- spread garage has tremendous supplies of extra parts and accessories, as well as com- plete machinery equipment, light tools and heavy. It is a source of great delight to such 4 renchmen as have been permitted to visit , for France—as everyone who has had an opportunity to visit her very well knows—is a hand-made country, and we are a machine-made one. And therefore a garage where practically all the repair work and rebuilding is machine-made is going to be an example not lost upon the keen- witted and imaginative French. The Measure of Men For lighter repairs to the trucks in the service of our Expeditionary Forces there are two types of repair shop: One which, mounted on the chassis of one or more motor trucks, can be placed, properly ca- mouflaged, fairly close to the front lines, and which, manned by extremely swift-fingered and capable mechanics, can make emer- gency repz 1irs; and the othe or, generally set up in a barn or abandoned building in some country town a few more miles back of the town, for the prosecution of repairs which may take two to three weeks. If more com- plicated or permanent repairs are needed the truck may go, under its own power, back to Central Park. It all seemingly is very simple; and yet it is the simplicity that comes from almost per- fect organization—and forethought. And it will grow even simpler when our stand- ardized motor trucks in quantities begin to invade France. For at the present time the very multiplicity, of repair parts and against which Major Britton protested so vigorously—because of our American inability to standardize these, has compelled Pershing to zone his section into several districts, in each of which a distinct make of American truck operates almost exclusively. And, after all, one finally must measure motor transport as he measures railroads or aéroplanes or ships—in terms of men. No, not the men who ride in them but those who operate them. For the eighteen men who ride in the ton-and-a-half or the twenty-four who ride in the five-ton af- fair—and ofttimes ride from' forty to eighty miles in a single day—have the easy part of it. The driver must stick by the job. If the shell fire becomes a little un- comfortable he still must stick by the job. 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So with inner tubes. The heat developed in tires, while driving, and the disintegrating effects of time render many inner tubes brittle and porous, thus destroying their usefulness.

The test herein described was made by Michelin engineers to help you determine the durability of various makes of inner tubes.

Each of the tubes shown was made by cement-

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eee ee i ni a (Concluded from Page 66) and he must not desert it. Under the rules of his service he must restrain his uneasy fingers from a perfectly American desire to be forever tinkering with its mechanism. He must be a good soldier—and obey. And he must learn, too, that obedience for him means more than ordinary military re- straint, more than the ordinary strict dis- cipline of the army. It means that he must keep his place in the line as the trucks go forward—the nose of his radiator within fifteen feet of the rear of the car ahead, for that is our American practice overseas. He may have been a taxicab driver at Times Square, New York, or in the Loop District of Chicago, but he learns that in the motor transport service cutting ahead is not merely an offense that brings reprimand; it is much more likely to be a court-martial affair. All he has to do is to obey orders and run his car as evenly and as well as possible. The men in charge of the movements of the troop trains will do the rest. That is their job. They will lay out the schedules and find the freight. They will police the road and keep it free for him. Remember what I told you about the traffic police along the road from Bar-le-Duc to Verdun. The roads which lead to our portion of the Front are similarly policed. And the au- thority of the policemen is law. A moment ago we were speaking of the possible aid which the civilian motor truck might have rendered the nation in the re- cent transportation crisis. I referred to the French and German method of subsidizing these trucks and so having them ready when they were needed. It is a fairly simple plan and wonderfully efficient. In times of peace we had a regular army and a national guard. Recently we have seen th« regular army in our motor trucks—the big olive-drab three-ton troopers marching in military formation to the seaboard, going aboard the transports here, and forming in line again for military service in France. How about that national guard in motor trucks? Why isn’t the plan simple—and efficient? Has anyone down at Washington given it proper thought? The problem has been -given to that same Highways Transport Committee of the Council of National Defense that worked out the routes for the military traffic so ingeniously and so very thoroughly indeed. It is a huge problem—in size ap- proximating our railroad system. itself. But our national system of approximately 275,000 miles of railroad would not operate very long if the right of way were not effi- cient—if roadbed and rails and bridges were not adequate and in good repair. And you know now that the roadbed and bridges of our national-highway system have long been neglected and generally speaking are neither adequate nor in repair. In certain sections of the country—particularly the North and East and California—they are fairly complete and efficient. In many more sections they are not. And until this condition is corrected, until a national prob- lem and a national weakness are taken up and properly corrected it is quite useless to talk of the motor truck as a serious factor in national distribution. Long-Haul Truck Problems The success of the motor truck in inter- city transportation seems to be in inverse ratio to the distances which the goods are to be transported. A motor truck, under normal peace, probably can be operated profitably in ordinary high-grade inter- urban traffic between cities that are not more than eighty miles apart. And the shorter the distance the more profitable becomes its operation, until, as I shall show you in an instant, its greatest efficiency is shown in terminal relief. The problem of the motor truck on long- distance haul is chiefly one of labor. A freight train employing some six men will carry some 3000 tons. It would take from 800 to 1000 trucks—and at least as many men—to carry that same weight upon the highways. And even with return loads as- sured the business in normal times seems to be a difficult and somewhat precarious one. In Germany, just before the war, some ex- perimental road trains were in use—a mo- tor truck and ten trailers—the entire train being operated by two or, at the most, three men. A generator, driven by a gaso- line engine in the motor truck or locomo- tive, created power, which was transmitted THE SATURDAY by a cable to the trailers, each of which had a small motor for its own propulsion. The scheme was ingenious but hardly practi- cable. Yet it would not be fair to say that it might not be the beginning of a really efficient highway idea. At the beginning of this article I asked what 30,000 or 50,000 motor trucks, regis- tered with the Government and correlated and operated by it in emergency, might not have accomplished in the critical conges- tion situation upon the railroads of the Northeast during December and January last. That situation, like most of the rail road congestion during the past few years, was chiefly a problem of badly clogged ter- minals. The roads, despite the handicaps of bad weather in the open country, were able to do fairly well in bringing coal and other freight into their city terminals; the real problem was to unload the cars in those terminals promptly and so send them back for reloads, while making space at the same time for others coming in. This was not done. Hence the trouble. The Director- General of the Railroads took prompt ac- tion as soon as he came into office and doubled the demurrage —or standing time charges which the consignees are compelled to pay for delay in unloading cars destined to them. But it was a situation not to be solved by mere penalties. Few shippers were either carelessly or purposely delaying unloading their freight. Store-Door Deliveries Chapin and his associates of the High- ways Transport Committee at Washington have seen these things, and fully realizing them have sought to bring a national aid to this neglected problem. They have found as still another cause of railroad-terminal congestion, in addition to narrow city streets, frequently without proper traffic regulation, in addition to half-filled trucks and wagons—the time-honored system of this country by which a railroad notifies a consignee of the arrival of freight, generally making the notification by mail and awaits his coming. To meet this last important phase of our vexed freight-transportation problem in the United States they are to-day engaged ina plan for store-door delivery of freight of every sort, in the larger cities of the land at least. Under this plan the city-trucking concerns, prop- erly organized and bonded, would take the freight out of the terminals as soon as it was received and would carry it direct to the recipient. The first the consignee would know of it would be when he saw the truck back up at the door of his shipping room. Impractical, you say? Not a bit of it! It is simply applying the methods of the post office or the express company to the freight service of the railroads, to the im- mense benefit of all persons concerned. Such methods, correlated and intelligently and systematically directed, the substitu- tion of motor trucks of large capacity for horse-drawn wagons of small capacity are certain to bring tremendous reform in the much-neglected terminal situation in this country, a reform which is bound to be reflected in better transportation all the way across the land. Impractical? Was it impractical for great congested cities—such as New York or Boston or Chicago—to institute street-traffic regu- lation ten years ago, on the very eve of the coming of the passenger automobile? Where would these cities—a hundred lesser ones as well—be to-day without such street-traffic regulation? And yet the problem of terminal regulz.- tion is to-day hardly a greater one than that was in its day and generation. The motor truck may and probably will prove a tremendous factor in its solution. It is futile to expect that it will be a substitute for the railroad with its smooth rails, its easy grades and its low proportion of human labor to the tonnage carried. It is not fair even to expect remedies that have served, and served mighty well in- deed in a war crisis, to be efficient or eco- nomic methods in the times of peace that are tofollow. Give the motor truck its due. Recognize its value as a fighter conscripted and put into khaki, utilize it to the ut- most in momentary seasons of rail con- gestion, give it decent highways so that it may develop its highest efficiency and serv- ice to the nation, but do not expect the impossible of it. It still is in the infancy of its development EVENING POST actually BEATS OUT the Dirt! Only beating rids floor coverings of sand and grit deeply lodged therein. Such imbedded dirt wears out carpetings; it breeds germs Only a Hoover Electric Suction Sweeper dustlessly beats out all that grit. 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It has literally paid me to stop drinking. It has paid me in savings through econ- omy of time, and through a startling cessation of interest in various forms of amusement that cost a great deal of money. It has paid me in affirmative profit. And it has cost me, to balance, many, many “friends.”’ To elaborate: In the first place it has saved me com- paratively little in bar checks. I remember a line from the physiological textbook we used atschool: “ Thestomach has a capac- ity of about three pints, and is capable of some distention.” It seems that after I had accustomed myself to drink a pretty regu- - amount of liquid each day the custom had to continue. Following my principle I still buy drinks for other men if they want them. The result of this is that my bar checks are lower by not more than ten dol- lars a month than they were formerly. Call it a hundred dollars a year. No, I wouldn't have stopped drinking to save that much! But when you consider the element of time! Now the use of alcohol is a habit with infinite ramifications. If a man so desired he could get himself beautifully intoxicated in about twenty minutes, at an expenditure of not more than forty cents: but that would be vulgar and disgusting and eminently un- satisfactory. All gentlemen are per se gen- tlemen of leisure. The buyer of drinks may not display haste; the recipient must not. They must be leisurely, for the obligations of the code are sharply defined, and hospi- tality must match hospitality. Two men two drinks; three men—three drinks; four men—diplomacy or a headache. This ex- cepts, of course, the occasional ceremony of drinking on the wing, when all signs fail and the cashier is especially alert. In my day I also stood and burned time at bars, and sat and tossed away time at round tables. I observed all the niceties of the function of communal drinking; for I had seen apparently sensible men take affront at trivial incidents connected with these encounters, and I had learned that almost any man would sooner be bilked of ten dollars in cold cash than have the fifteen- cent drink he has bought for a friend re- ceived too lightly or too indifferently. | had learned that in the routine of convivial- ity there are various stages at which a man simply cannot leave the party without causing resentment to the momentary host. I had learned that the purchase of a drink by someone else is as salt eaten in an Arab’s tent. And I had squandered hours and hours when I| really wanted to go home and so did everyone else—merely for the sake of preserving an ancient formula which is a hundred per cent blather. Six Thousand a Year An hour and a half a day I have saved out of the unmeasured extent of my life. If 1 choose I can go home this much earlier; otherwise, I] have the leeway at my office. And this total time economy, figuring it by mean averages of income and productive hours, has amounted to six thousand dollars in twelve months. I do not put this for- ward as a possible saving; I declare it is an actual saving. It’s on the books, audited and verified. Every day of the year I can see visible tokens of the fact; every night I can survey the sum of what has been ac- complished, and credit a definite portion of it to my resolution. The money has been earned, the tax has been paid. And this is only the item attaching to those regular sessions at lunch time and in the late after- it doesn’t include the time spent at chance meetings. Those chance meetings are a farce unto themselves. Two friends come face to face at a street corner, exchange the usual amen- ities, and regardless of the time or the tem- perature go off together and have two drinks. Frequently it happens that neither of them is thirsty, that neither of them is tolerant of the hiatus in a busy day. They would smile conte mptuously at the sugges- tion that instead of drinking two cocktgils they might much better go into a dairy restaurant and eat two ham sandwiches; but they will allow the wastage of their energy to become cumulative by celebrat- ing in alcohol instead of protein It has amused me to study objectively these street-corner reunions. It has amused noons; THE SATURDAY EVENING POST NEVER AGAIN (Continued from Page 15) me to detect the similarity between a for- tuitous rendezvous of two men and a tele- phone conversation between two women. When the verve of the women begins to flag they take to interjecting the semi- apologetic ‘‘ Well, dear,” and presently one of them blurts out her good-by and hangs up the receiver. When the men grow res- tive one of them, having no receiver to hang up, sighs inwardly and says: “ Well, come on in and have a drink, will you?” The motive is identical—stalling for a get- away! It would be absurd for me to claim any appreciable saving of money from such accidental congresses. But time I’ve saved in bulk; and you wouldn’t believe how easy it is to hang up the receiver, once you get the knack of it. Would I have quit drinking for six thou- sand dollars? Well—that’s different. How One’s Tastes Change From the chauffeur’s seat on the water wagon the world has an astonishingly altered aspect. Viewed from the shifting perspective the color scheme of things grows dull, and the gilt and tinsel look like gilt and tinsel and not like gold and silver. The melodies which passed as the music * the spheres are plainly the strains of none-too-well-trained orchestra. The fabric of ephemeral pleasure shows up thread- bare, and the jokes from the sidewalk are lacking in true humor. During the past twelve months I have discarded entirely the tired-business-man species of entertainment. It doesn’t get across to me. I haven’t automatically be- come a highbrow, but I’ve become acutely critical. I sit in the capacity of an arbiter. Types of comedy that used to affect me with hilarity don’t wring so much as a smile from me. I am no longer sensitive to the cruder situations. I am, however, vastly affected by my neighbors, and I don't like the majority of them. I don't like the spirit of the revues; I don’t thrill to the music; I don’t respond to any intel- lectual appeal, because there isn’t any. And this repugnance wasn’t premeditated; it came with utter spontaneity. My tastes haven't changed; the analogy of the con- diment still holds good. I thought I liked the T.B.M. shows; asa matter of fact when I was drinking I was merely transferring to them the same sort of artificial enthusiasm that I would have given to any other riot- ous diversion. I followed the mob. And now the musical comedy and the Welsh rabbit are relegated alike to the cannery. As a natural corollary I have lost interest in cabarets and in late performances at roof gardens and in cellars. To a man who isn’t drinking the midnight revels are hor- ribly cheap and blatant. Like a faithful metropolitan I used to consider these shows as the proper wind-up of a cheerful evening; I’ve lately come to the conclusion that I must have been both blind and tone deaf. One of the instinctive arguments for dally- ing in the city after the final curtain was that I was hungry and that I didthirst. I used to confirm this belief by eating a supper and lubricating it generously. As an experi- mental psychologist I have lately tried the pleasure of going after the play to a con- servative restaurant, where the food is excellent and the music is missing. And I had to drink black coffee to keep from fall- ing asleep in my chair! Far be it from me to strut as a Puritan, but I have finally got both my eyes wide open. I won’t whip my nerves into activity when I know that I am desperately in need of sleep. I won’t eat a lot of stuff 1 don’t want and pretend that I am being enter- tained by a vaudeville that bores me. I know perfectly well that if I had three or four drinks I should applaud it. But I’m not drinking; and so here’s another thousand-dollar credit over the period of a year. Socially, too, I am more critical; but I am also more criticized. It’s one thing to join in the jollity of a big party; it’s quite another thing to ignore the punch bowl and to watch the crowd. I am fond of dancing and I like to see other people dance; but when four out of every five men and women at a really exclusive occasion start out with a few gills of champagne to enliven them, and I am and remain cold sober, itsets me thinking. Fortunately there are intermittent dances at which the punch April 6,1918 is an incident instead of the chief incentive. I am glad of that, because though I vowed not to indict other men for obeying their own inclinations I forgot to insert a clause about women; and somehow I’m thor- oughly downcast when I see women drink- ing. This new viewpoint of mine has caused me to forgo about two-thirds of the social functions which formerly I attended, and has encouraged me to withdraw from five separate organizations which exist mainly for divertisement of a style that depresses me. Credit—twelve hundred dollars. The remainder of the gross profit is affirmative. Of course it’s a small matter, but I did close one deal that would have been impossible under the old conditions. It was with a rank prohibitionist who won't trade, if he can help it, with men who drink. And the business was highly compet- itive, and the purchaser told me in plain English why he favored me. He held that my whim, as I called it, or my sanity, as he called it, was a variety of insurance to both of us, and he felt that at least I could give him a minor safeguard which the other applicants couldn’t. That completes the sum; I have profited to the amount of fifteen thousand dollars. But assuming that somehow or other I might have gained this reward by some other means, has the cost been excessive? Has it been worth while to suffer as I have suffered, and to lose the friends I have lost? That is the ultimate discussion. A Married Man’s Friends Friends, I suppose, can be most conven- iently divided by a married man into four classes: The first is composed of men who are hardly above the status of casual com- rades—men with whom one is perfectly willing to drink in public. The second divi- sion includes men who are on the whole qualified for one’s own society at all times, but not for one’s home. The third contin- gent comprises the men one is willing to introduce to one’s wife, with the certainty that no apology later to be demanded. The fourth class is made up of the men one confidently invites home to dinner. Early in the year I comprehended that I was about to undertake a reclassification of my friends. I knew this partly by informa- tion and partly from observation. I knew that men were about to reappraise me. | knew that to a few cynics I should seem to be a renegade and a backslider, and that to others I should appear as a deterrent not because my personality or theirs had altered but simply because I preferred to drink my carbonic-acid gas unadulterated by anything but water. I knew that some men refuse to believe that one who doesn’t drink is altogether human. I knew that many men object to the presence of one who isn’t drinking just as much as they are. But I wasn’t in any way prepared for the shake-up which suddenly occurred; and I never dreamed that the choice would be largely my own. I thought that little by little I should be thrust out of the graces of the epicureans; instead, I resigned. And I resigned when I learned, to my profound sorrow, that out of those four classes of friends cme poy d none but the members of the third and fourth groups could longer interest me or hold even the nominal re- spect which keeps men amicable. Within a fortnight I was really staggered to observe how many men, whose com- panionship I had never enjoyed excepting within a radius of ten feet from a bar, ad- dressed me by my first name. Within a month I was conscious that I resented a familiarity which heretofore I had assisted in making grow. I began to be more formal in my own salutations; I was annoyed by what I had once put down as skylarking and now regarded as horseplay. I was re- pelled by the sight of men drinking too freely; I had a feeling that they were doing a shameful and a grossly culpable thing. I felt that they were approaching unclean- liness; and when I saw them ever so slightly under the influence of alcohol I was nau- seated, not in reaction to the individuals but to the condition. And it was this feeling —though I had determined to regard drinking without prejudice—which cut off the majority of my friends. I am sorry that I have lost these men, for I liked them. Nevertheless, I discovered Concluded on Page 73)

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7 } } : a i. | ae DP Ri le Concluded from Page 70 that I had liked them only when we were all jovial together; now that we fail of a unified spirit we have no interests in com- mon. I think they're irresponsible and incoherent, and they think I’m an ecclesiast. We can’t even converse for half an hour; the effort is embarrassingly patent. Grad- ually —and regretfully—I have receded from the old gatherings; and I have written a large number of friendships off the books. It hurt to do this but I had to do it. It was inevitable. A man who’s on the wagon can’t possibly retain his quondam senti- ments with respect to drinking or to men who drink beyond even the very first marker of moderation. Furthermore, one teetotaler can cast a shadow over the fun of half a dozen drinkers. Nobody is thor- oughly happy. Often I have offered to buy a transient drink for an acquaintance who as soon as he understood my own policy wouldn’t drink at all. For no sound reason he was dimly embarrassed; he didn’t like the circumstance. Similarly men who have invited me to drink with them have been either disconcerted or discomfited to hear me order a soft drink. There was a damper on the situation. So in a group of drinking men the one who reserves himself to his own impulses is an utter extinguisher, and he is neither welcome nor content. Consider the Price This applies I have said, only to the men of the first and second divisions. Strictly speaking, they weren't friends of mine or it would matter to none of us what I have done with my volition; but I had counted them as friends, and I had enjoyed their company, and I feel as though the fault of separation is all mine. In place of them I have made a new set of friends; slightly older men, less active and less im- petuous, Suffer! I should say I do! Twice a day, on each of those three hundred and sixty- five days—I never but once took a drink before breakfast—I have sat down to table ind strangled my appetite, and thought of what I might possibly order to ennoble the food I was about to consume, and felt my- self plunged into gloom. I have watched other men until it was an even chance that I should forcibly leap upon them and rob them. I have choked in an arid throat, and wondered how many more minutes, how many more seconds, I could hold out. Often 1] have taken up a neighboring glass and inhaled the aroma. And then I have been baffled and perplexed, because invariably the odor is foreign and a bit unpleasant. in their coéperative societies. They had ex- perienced, it must be remembered, about forty days of liberty in 1905, before the Czar lulled them into quiet by granting them the constitution which gave them the Duma; they had even organized a council of workmen, similar to the present Council of Workmen and Soldiers, and the spec- tacular Leon Trotzky gained his early experience as a president of that organiza- tion The Russian business man or employer who watched his working people depart from their toil on a certain Saturday evening February of 1917, when the demonstra- tion against the Czar was under way, saw a new lot of human beings return the next Monday and Tuesday mornings. Out hrough the factory gate that Saturday here passed a worried, harassed and subju- gated lot of men and women. That they were ill-paid goes without saying. Em- ployers in Russia admit these days that the wages of the working people were far below a living standard before the revolution. All the power of the government, all the force of the police and most of the influence of church were against any independence on the part of the masses of Russia’s work- ing people. The employees who returned work the next week were like newborn For them the revolution was not merely a change in government, it was a change that touched them in the office, in the home, in the factory, on the farm, in their individual relations and in their very selves. It made a different kind of man or woman, boy or girl out of every human being in Russia. While the Russian business man was wondering over the week-end what the l t r rT t if men and womer! THE SATURDAY No matter what it is, it conveys no r cence, It is all 1 can do to distinguish, with my eyes shut, between one spirit and an other; and as for grades of excellence, I am once more an amateur. The suffe ring I speak of is purely imaginative; it’s a sort of ideal torture; it has nothing whatsoever to do with the physical constituents of the drink; it’sa nervous phenomenon. And yet I suffer, but less and less every day. Why? Primarily because I am no longer independent. I am profoundly irritated by the consciousness that I can take a drink if I want it, and that I don’t really want it, but that I want to want it! The taste has gone; the habit stays. In combating the old tendencies I am sometimes burdened by the reflection that I am displaying not strength but weakness; and yet I am posi- tive that if I ever live for a short time in an absolutely prohibition community I shall forget all about the days that were and the evenings that have gone by. I am sure that it is only the sight of alcohol that an noys me, the constant reminder that it is ready to my hand. In my office or in my home it never occurs to me. As it is, the resolution has lasted a brief year and | am not drink- ing to-day. The price in gross is difficult to determine; the price to-day is trivial, and the game is worth it. Consider what is the price to-day. I am awake early, with a clear brain and a clean tongue. I go to town and work until half past twelve. When I go to lunch I go to lunch. If I am alone I lose no time; if I have a friend with me we waste none of the minutes that other men are devoting to preliminary cocktails at the bar. Having finished we go about our business, leaving other men still engaged in desultory con- versation to while away the interval be- tween reorders. At five o’clock I have a solid hour preserved to my own uses; a year ago I should have consecrated it to nullity of thought and frequency of high- balls. I go home without apprehension and without regret. I am not alarmed to meet anyone; no one is going to say that he met me and my breath, both in fine fettle. I have a clear evening ahead of me; I am capable of work as decisive as my work in town. And at ten o’clock lam sleepy! The pressure of alcoholic stimulus has been removed; I am less nervous, less excitable, less tense; and I am normally tired. I want rest. I go to bed and I go promptly to sleep, and when I wake again I shall have none of the demoralizing handicap of a hang- over; I shall have no apologies to make to anyone; I shall have another placid and energetic day. At that price the thing is a bargain of bargains! EVENING POST There is const \ suming a holier-than-t nen who Keep on drink! sort of prohibit yn. r tasted alcohol, 1 restrained by his pri y, I can grant the rig morally superior to so the privile ge of freed regard myself? I have no horror of alcohol; on the contrary I have—or did have—a pronounced fondness for it. I am prevented neither by religion nor by education from continuing the use of it. My choice was made out of a blind -_ th in an unexpected theory. Who am [t “ach or to lecture? I frankly envy men who are able to drink moderately; as for myself, an extremist, I must either drink continuously or not at all. I see no more harm in an occasional drink than I do in an occasional game of poker; but I believe that a professional gambler is just as much a foe to society as a consistent toper. The difference is a matter of degree. But just as it is humanly possil for a professional gambler to be personally a very likable chap so is it possible for a heavy drinker to be a valuable and a de- lightful friend. The analogy, however, holds further—your gambler won't be so likable when he’s actually engaged gambling; your heavy drinker won't be so delightful when he’s had a bit too much and you yourself are cold sober. So that my sorrow on beholding the acts of my old companions is primarily selfish; I am sorry because they have shut me out of their life and | have shut them out of mine. As for their immortal souls I am highly uncertain. I know from experience that advice and warning, except from a practicing physi- cian, are as futile to a normal man as phi- losophy to a bar fly. I don't believe that these old friends are ticketed for hell; I am quite assured that many of them are very useful citizens. My judgment of them is based largely upon my analysis of myself; I grudge them none of ‘the ple asure of drink- ing, but I think that they haven't weighed the price of it. I don’t believe they are eternally to be damned; I do believe they are irrevocably condemned to gout or to some other equally primitive ailment. And mighty few of them realize what is thought of them in their presence or what is said behind their backs. I know a successful young man of thirty- five—a man with a large income, a small family and a taste for the hospitalities. In other years we drank about alike; now, since I have stopped, I am for the first time aware of what is said about him, and | am > of rison of stand: irds to remark and to a ¢ If he laughs heartily at dinner women ex change meaning smiles; Harry has had one cocktail too y. If he makes a slight! a florid remark to a woman she tells how Harry bestowed a maudlir ment upon her on a rug or brus! ! s be cause Harry has passed the b« aga If he is gay he is flushed with wine; if he is solemn he is called sodden. Let seen drinking a half gk of sherry and rumor magnifies it toa cask of amontillado, And I will take my oath that Harry has never been drunk in his 1 When I look back and im people must have said about 1 ' price doesn't seem so very high, after all! Ready for Prohibition I am glad to be out of that class. I believe firmly that one of these days we are to live in an era of national prohibition, and I want to be unscathed by the statute when it passes. In the meantime I don't feel any holier than the other men, but I do feel more sensible. I feel that I have done what is the best thing rg me to do and that | deserve credit only because I realize what I have done, and because I knew in ad vance what I was going to do and why I was going to do it. And I should like to have all those other people follow suit, not because it is righteous and respectable but because it pays. And here is the most amazing fact I have to offer; it has to do with reputation. For a calendar year [ have eschewed alcohol and I have taken some pains to let it be known that I am not drinking. Every day of my life I meet at least one acquaintance who asks me to drink with him—that is, the persistence of a year has hardly made an impression upon my little world. Some men whom I see five days a week don’t even know yet that I have stopped drinking Within a week I have been accused point- blank of excesses, and gravely warned reform. And if this short-sightedness can endure, if a year’s renunciation hasn't erased the earlier record, if I haven't yet accomplished the task of establishing the sincerity of this decision of mine, how con crete must have been that former repu tation? How far did it extend? How was it described? How many friends did it lose me, and how much business? That is what bothers me and makes me gladder than ever that I'm through. THE NEW CZAR OF RUSSIA Continued from Page 5 revolution would do to Russia and to his business, the Russian workingman woke on the day afte . the revolution, pinched him- self and said, “Where am I and: who am 1? The first part of the question was easiest to answer. He was still in Russia. But to answer thelatter half required morethought. It is easy to imagine from what happened later just what sort of soliloquy the Russian workingman with his somewhat Asiatic psychology might have had on that great Oc¢ ‘asion. Wakening from his dream of freedom to find it true he might have said, in wonder: “Who am I? “Tvan Ivanovich.”” Which was only a mere name, He demanded something more definite in the way of self-identification. “Yes, Ivan Ivanovich is my name. But who am | in this new world? What part of it am 1? ‘Why, I am Ivanovich the machinist And right there, when it came to the mat- ter of occupation, the Russian stopped asking questions of himself. He classed himself immediately not as a resident of any particular city, not as a member of any branch of the Russian family, but by his profession, his life-occupation, his form of toil. Washwomen, haberdashers’ clerks, mo- tormen, miners, watchmakers—all seemed to rush forth to seek their kind and to join forces with them in the hope of getting more out of life in the new world than they had gotin the old. It was not in the streets and in public halls that the Russian work- ingman and workingwoman talked over the problems of the revolution. It was at the factory, the office or the laundry, or in some hall where his kind gathered If the average Russian had not had a sense of professional or occupational con- sciousness the Russian business man would probably not have gone through the un- precedented ordeal that all but destroyed him. If the average Russian had been sat isfied with a political revolution and had waited for a change in government to bring more justice and more comfort and cheer into his life and home, the Russian business man might possibly have worked out a means of saving himself. But the average Russian hurried to his factory or his shop or his counter at the beginning of that new week, determined to join something or vote on something, to pass some sort of resolutions about some- thing, to get some kind of committees on something to work doing something; and the Russian business man discovered before noon that the world had been remade. From the very first minute of that first working day the Russian factory owner or employer didn't stand a chance against his employees. They organized with a bang! They knew just how to organize; for years some of them had been preparing for just such an emergency. The workmen, instead of beginning work at whistle blow, began voting; they shortly had elected workmen’s councils in the various factories. These councils took over the factory and notified the manager, the owner or the board of di- rectors that thereafter the factory and the business would belong entirely to the work- ing people. They seized all the records of the company, including the pay rolls, and put committees to work analyzing the finances of the business. As far a 51 ould learn, hy action was taken in every fa tory in Russia The workmen's council usually informed the manager that if he attempted to close the factory his life would be forfeited. This was invariably done in cases where the fac- tory wi as owned by foreigners. The heaviest part of the task of Sir George Buchanan, the British Ambassador to Petrograd, was as he told me in conversation, “‘to attempt to protect the property and lives of British factory owners in Russia.” A primeritelnaya kamera, or workmen's court of justice, was part of the workmen’s organization in every factory. It consisted generally of three workmen, one foreman, one manager and one clerk, the last usually an expert bookkeeper whose serv- ices were commandeered for interpreting the books of the company so that the work ingmen’s committee could get some idea of costs, overhead and gross and net earnings The astonished Russian e »mplo} er, before whose very eyes these feats of organization were pe rformed, had reason to belie » that part at least of his force would remain milena to him. He did not expect, for inst ance, that the white-collared portion of his fac- tory crew would desert him. It was in- credible that clerks, managers, foremen and experts would join hands with the working people in their seizure of the factories. But they did. It became for the brain workers in factories what the issue had been for the factory owner, a matter of life and death They had to join in the great movement Some of them in various great manufactur- ing centers were slain for their refusal. But the leaders of the workingmen were anxious to win over their white-collared colleagues by kindness rather than force, and they finally devised ascheme that was calculated Continued on Page 77)

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ail —— ~~ —_— eae > _— ee ———————————————————— ———_- ete eee ge —— ee =f St Continued from Page 73) to have this effect. This scheme was no more and no less than having the govern- ment order that all income tax imposed on factory managers, foremen and experts be returned to them. This was an easy thing for the factory committee to do, as they were represented in the Council of Work- men and Soldiers, which was practically the ruling power in Russia. The decree was made in accordance with the advice of the workmen and soldiers, and hundreds of the white-collared employees in the great factories suddenly found them- selves in possession of neat little sums which had been returned to them by the govern- ment. I talked with one high-salaried fac- tory manager who had been informed that the sum of thirty thousand rubles, which he had paid out of his salary as war income tax, was awaiting his pleasure. He had not col- lected it and as an Englishman he hesitated to do so, feeling that it ought to go for war purposes. But he did not dare to tell the workmen’s committee in his factory that he had spurned the fruits of their kindness and thoughtfulness. I knew of a draftsman in a factory who had eight thousand rubles in income tax returned to him by the government. The sum was large enough to enable him to break » his home in Russia and take his family back to the neutral country which was their home. He had never before in his life been eight thousand rubles ahead of the game. While the factory owner was standing helpless at one side watching his workmen conduct the factory, raise their own wages and keep their own accounts of the busi- ness, business men in other lines were also suffering through the new independence of their employees. The owners of small stores, for instance, were faced by insur- mountable problems. While the clerks in men’s-furnishings stores, for instance, were striking for a fifty per cent increase in wages, the increase to go back to the begin- ning of the war, the laundresses were strik- ing for higher rates for laundering stiff collars and shirts. The clerks won their strike. Presumably they should have been atisfied, inasmuch as some of them received not hundreds but thousands of rubles in back pay. But a few days after they had returned to work I entered a haberdasher’s shop in the Nevskii and asked for a collar. ‘I cannot sell you a stiff collar,”’ said the clerk. ‘“‘We have some very good soft collars.”’ I pointed to an elaborate display of stiff collars in the shop window and asked why I could not buy one of them. “We cannot sell you a stiff collar,”’ he repeated. ‘The laundry women’s union is asking for higher prices for doing up collars and shirts, and the haberdasher clerks’ union has voted not to sell any laundered articles until the women have won their strike.”’ The Washwomen’s Strike Out of curiosity I canvassed the shops in the business district and discovered that laundered collars were not for sale in the city of Petrograd. ‘When washwomen and necktie-c -ounter clerks stick together in a strike you've got some unionizing!”’ said an American from Philadelphia, who had come to Russia to sell railroad engines. I attended with my interpreter a meeting of laundresses and washwomen in Petro- grad. It was conducted according to Rus- sian rules of parliamentary practice, and I have never seen a session of the American Congress conducted with more regard for parliamentary rules. When the question of what wages should be demanded had been setiled the matter of hours was brought up. ‘I want to work only a few hours a day, said one washwoman. ‘There is more in life than work. I want time to meet my friends and to make new ones. I want time to talk and study and read.” Another woman rose to her feet and was recognized. She represented another school of thought. ‘What I want is not more time but more work to do at higher rates. I want to make so much money while I am young and strong that I can save some every week. When I am old and tired I shall not want to work for a living. Then will be the time to talk and read and enjoy one’s friends.’ We departed before the discussion was ended; only one it lasted far into the night. It was of the thousands of elementary problems— really, fundamental problems of life—that inv ariably came up in all discus- sions in all circles in Russia after the revo- lution. I do not know how the discussion ended, but I fear the short-hour supporters lost out, for a few days later on the desk in my room I found a typewritten note signed by the head laundress in my hotel. We had been without clean laundry for ten days, and any note from the laundress was wel- come, It ran in effect: “We have only partially won our strike. We have gained higher wages but not shorter hours. We will therefore do the laundry, but we will not do it as well as heretofore.” And they didn’t. Labor's rule was ironclad. Not only em- ployers but the public as well were under the yoke. “I want a fire in my fireplace,’’ I said to the corridor man in my hotel on my first morning in Petrograd. “T cannot make it for you,” he said theough my interpreter. He would make no explanation; he adm itted that the mak- ing of fires was among his duties, but no fire would he make. He refused to take a per- suading tip. Why the Printer Stayed Away I hunted up the proprie tor of the hotel. 7 Wood is very expensive,”’ said the pro- prietor. “‘It will cost you ten rubles a day to have a fire in your room.” I told him I wanted the fire regardless of cost, and he called the corridor man. “Please make a fire in Room Fifty-Six,” said the proprietor. The corridor man refused. He was the lowest paid employee in the hotel, and be- fore the revolution he would have scraped and bowed and carried out the smallest or largest orders in the hope of asmall tip. I had offered him the equivalent of a day’s wages for a fire, and he had declined; he likewise declined to carry out the orders of the hotel owner. The proprietor shook his head hopelessly. “He says that your money doesn't make any difference, whether you pay it to him or to me,”’ he explained. ‘‘He says that there are lots of people in Petrograd who are cold and have no fires, and that you are not entitled to be warm just because you have money. I cannot help you.” A month before this proprietor ~_ rally would have kicked this man bodily from the hotel; to-day he only gave a aa ug and permitted the man to remain, But if the possession of mere money did not entitle me to warmth there was some- thing that did. When a Russian socialist friend from New York entered my cold room later in the day and heard my trou- bles he looked up the corridor man and told him that I was an American correspondent who was studying socialism in Russia, and writing about it. “We want him to see socialism at its best, and we want to keep him warm while he’s writing in his room,”’ explained my friend. I had a roaring fire in my room very shortly, made by the corridor man, who was now all smiles. And thereafter fires were a daily occurre nee, though I was not called upon to pay the proprietor’s charge a ten rubles a day. Strangely enough it was to Australia that the Russian working people turned for guidance in trying to set aright the con- ditions under which they had been working. “The Australian system’’ became a phrase that was heard at every turn. Conditions which I have described prevailed for the first twc months after the revolution; they were more or less chaotic, with the labor- ing classes making indefinite demands oo striving for indefinite conditions. Lik Bryan’s silver. plank of “Sixteen, to oma," 2 the “Australian system” was debated everywhere among working people in Rus- sia. Booklets appeared on the streets, purporting to describe the “ Australian system."’ Speeches were made by alleged experts, setting forth the beauties of the “Australian system”’ in factory manage- ment, . The appearance of this general interest in the system of factory management in Australia was a signal of hope to the Rus- sian factory owners. The working classes had started off the revolution by seizing all the factories and trying to operate them themselves. They failed at this. Though THE SATURDAY EVENING POST they were the masters of Russia and con- trolled the government, so that all neces- sary laws were at their disposal, the working people of Russia after two months of seiz- ing everything they could lay their hands on in the way of increased wages and the means of production discovered that they were taking everything out of the business life of Russia and were putting nothing back into it Though they held possession of all the nachinery and though, through the help of the government, they were able to pay themselves almost any sums in the way of wages that they demanded, they came to the realization that there was something in business besides the mere material, tools -_ paraphernalia. That vague, indefinite ‘lusive thing called goodwill; the pe rsonal- ity which successful business men _ put into their affairs to make them a success; ideas which keep a business alive and grow- ing; management which directs massed human effort—these were things that the Russian workingman could not get his hands upon, even though he had the whole seizing power of the government behind him. I knew a printer in Petrograd whose workmen decided that his five thousand dollars a year profit ought to be divided. They organized a committee and notified the printer that they would take over the ene so The printer agreed with apparent cheerfulness; secretly he was glad enough to be freed of his business with the inor- dinate demands of his workingmen. The employees gave a farewell dinner for him on the night he departed for a holiday in the Crimea, which is the Florida of Russia. For a few days the printing shop ran busily. Then came a deadlock; business ceased coming in. Jobs were nil. The workmen held a meeting and voted that they must have some new orders. The entire crew laid off and canvassed the city for printing jobs. Then they discovered the value of goodwill and the potency of the personality which their former employer te put into his business. Within a few weeks they had telegraphed to the printer to return, on a high salary. He declined. They followed this up with an offer to return to him his entire plant. This he declined. A third telegram begged him to return and let by- gones be bygones. e'll be without jobs if you don’t come back’’ was the gist of the plea. Some weeks ago I saw the win- dows of this printing shop boarded up; the printer had refused to return, When Everyone Gets a Raise It was such experiences as this that laboring people of Russia to gin to realize that their efforts toward improving their conditions by force or threats of force were unavailing; that higher wages and shorter hours and the control of the factories were no more bene- ficial than had been the removal of the Czar. They were not sticking together; coherence in a general plan was impossible, When the shoemakers struck for higher wages and shorter hours they jubilated over their new gains. Standing alone as shoe- makers they really seemed to be winners. On pay-day an envelope three times larger than they had ever seen before was a cause for rejoicing. They carried the fat- tened envelopes home rd rejoicing wives and toasted the new day in Russia, Every- thing would have been fine except for just one thing: Other workmen in other trades struck too. When Mrs. Shoemaker went to the store to buy cotton cloth she found she had to stand in line many hours because the cotton mills were running on short hours; when her turn came to buy she discovered that the price had gone almost out of sight. The laboring folks in the cotton mills had beaten the shoemaker to it. They had struck for shorter hours and higher wages, and Mr. and Mrs. Shoemaker, out of their fattened envelope, had to pay Mr. Cotton Miller’s raise. And Mr. and Mrs. Cotton Miller when they came to buy shoes found that a large share of the contents of their increased pay envelope had to go toward paying the raise in wages which Mr, Shoe- maker had gained. Everybody got a raise and everybody spent his raise in paying off somebody else’s raise—that is, everybody but the farmer, who had wheat and who was not permitted by the government to sell for more than a certain price. He, needless to say, refused to enter the game. He had to pay the New-Dawn prices for the nece ties of life, but he didn’t receive New-Daw: prices for his grain. Wherefore he helped to add complexity to the problems of the hungry Russian workingman by refusing to sell at all. Skobelov, Minister of Labor and member of the Society of Workmen, in an address on July 10, 1917, told the Work- men’s and Soldiers’ Council: ‘There are more unorg: A zed than or ganized strikes in Russia. These have dis organized industry and resulted in robbery of the government. For the government itself must pay and is paying for all the increases that you have demanded. You have shut the experts out of the factories You have even killed some of them. You have seized factories and driven away the owners, and not having any money you have had to close them.” The Pravda, Lenine’s daily newspaper, continued, however, to urge these unor ganized strikes. James Duncan, of the American Federation of Labor, member of the Root ——— tu Russia, attempted to tell the Council of Workmen and So! diers something of the organization of unions in the United States and of their success in controlling child labor and gain ing better conditions for workers. “What do we know about union label and child labor?” said the Pravda, refer ring to Duncan’s address, ‘‘ What we war for everybody is two hours’ work a day and no more.” The workers, as their hopes of a millen nium through strikes became more and more remote, began to adopt the motto “Each group for itself.’" Groups in variou occupations began to split apart Industrial Chaos Certain engineers, firemen, clerks and experts in a large plant in Petrograd ae incensed with the workmen because of thei lack of energy in producing rubber goods for the soldiers. They held a meeting and passed resolutions demanding that the common workmen ought to rouse then selves and hurry to Russia's aid. The next morning when these patriots appeared the factory gates they found that their to the factory had been canceled armed workmen, always on guard, pre vented them from entering Immediately five hundred more engi neers, chemists, experimenters and experts in the factory joined the two hundred out side the gates. They declared that they were bourgeois and that the y would not work with the mad prole tariat in the fa tory. Thus one class of workmen struck not against anemployer but against another class of workmen, [ never saw workmen work so hard as those everyday workmen did during those first few days, after the white-collar boy went out,” one of the managers of the plant told me. “They got the engine started in the morning somehow and the wheels to turning. They puddled round in the vats of rubber, and workmen who had seen the chemists and the experts treat the rubber in the vats with various chemicals declared confidently that it would be eas; enough to imitate them. They attempted to do this. They collected various chemicals in what they guessed to be the proper pro portions and attempted to treat the rubber There was several hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of rubber in the vats, which it was certain the workmen would spoil. As it was all intended for military use the managers of the factory, which was under government control, sent for Sko belov, Minister of Labor. Skobelov ap pealed in vain to the workmen to permit the experts to reénter the factory and care for the precious rubber. He told of the Russian soldiers in the wet and mud who needed rubber goods; he told of the dire need of auto tires at the Front. The work men were obdurate, and a quarter of a mil lion dollars’ worth of rubber was ruined before the workmen came to their senses and agreed to permit the engineers and others the right to return to their work and to enjoy without penalty the right of free thought and free speech.’ In the Alexandrey ky electrical shop at Kronstadt the workmen shut out the owner and all the experts for seventeen days, claiming that they were bourgeois. The business fell behind sixty thousand rubles in this space of time, in addition to the loss of material due to the lack of expert super vision. When the workmen realized that the business was dying before their eyes they begged Alexandrevsky to return with the experts; which he did Conctuded on Page 81 passes

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST UST two things make the motor truck more efficient in its field than the horse and wagon: these are speed and range. Just two things bar the motor truck from a far wider field of usefulness: lack of speed and lack of range. Given these two qualities in sufficient degree, the motor truck might very ably supple- ment the overburdened rail- roads and waterways, or even compete formidably with these major forms of transportation. The chief obstacle to such em- ployment for the motor truck now, is the solid rubber tires with which it is commonly equipped. Solid rubber tires—and we make them—unquestionably are satisfactory for slow-speed short hauls through congested districts, but they exclude the truck from high-speed long- distance work. The vibration set up through the imperfect cushioning solid tires afford in such service soon batters even the strongest truck to pieces. This swift depreciation, coupled with high gasoline and oil costs, in most cases makes long-haul rapid-transit by truck unprofitable. Tire equipment which could cancel these disadvantages while increasing speed and radius, would do more for the motor truck than any other one thing. Such equipment sow 7s avail- able for every motor truck user —in the Good year Cord Tires for Motor Trucks shown on the opposite page. These are pveumatic tires made especially for heavy truck serv- ice—with a carrying capacity greater than that of the ordi- nary truck itself. They quicken the speed of the truck, lengthen its range, save tremendously in gasoline and oil consumption, and cut de- preciation to the minimum. They disencumber the truck of every hindrance to full utility, and in the sternest service make it ride like a limousine. Goodyear Cord Tires for Motor ‘Trucks are 1n no way an experi- ment—they are a development of fifteen years’ time. They are the practical expres- sion of an old Good year idea, brought to final success on/y through the perfection of the Goodyear principle of cord tire CONSTYUCLION. The extra speed and range they afford the motor truck means | = — | A =—> UII HICH HUAI ‘Lhe Worth of Speed and Range faster deliveries and more of them each day—more profit- able operation over a greater area. Except in the most constricted service, it means a lower cost per ton mile than now is de- livered -by the solid rubber tire. Goodyear Cord Tires for Motor Trucks are serving in heavy- truck duty in more than 200 cities in America today, to the profit and satisfaction of the men who are using them. A fleet of four transports rang- ing in capacity up to five tons and regularly plying over a 1500-mile cross-country circuit, is attaining speeds in excess of thirty miles an hour on them without damage to the roads or the trucks. They are delivering results in interurban and passenger serv- ice, in the delivery of foodstuffs and of fragile wares, in all manner of safe-conduct rapid- transit, which are little short of amazing. On your own trucks they will make returns to you in speed, endurance and economy not to be expected from any other carrier. The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. Akron, Ohio 79

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 6,1918 An officer of the Mechanical Transport division British W. D., telling of his experiences with tractors in France, said: 7 OU know we use a lot of Holt “seventy-fives’ for snaking up the nine point twos’ and ammunition wagons You cannot imagine worse operating conditions for a tractor every thing from bumpy going over broken stones to soft clay slush well mixed with sand The dust and slush are the worst because it gets into the bearings Occ asionally an upper track carrier wheel would drop off-—shaft cut clean through by the grit which gets into the plain bearings if they are not con- tantly oiled It's marvelous how those Hyatt bearings stand up In the lower wheels They are right down in the worst of the dust and muck and carry the entire weight of the tractor. They are always running and get precious little attention in the field “There is an old man at the Base Repair Shop who takes care of all the Hyatt bearings in all the tractors in service. They bring each tractor in about once in SIX months or so tor a gener al going over The track wheels are given to this old man who removes the bearings carefully scraping and brush- ing out every parti le of grit Sometimes he has to take the cage apart to get at the dirt in the hole through the rollers. After he gets the bearing clean and cage reassembled he swills them about in a pail of parafhn, dips them in heavy oil and reassembles them in the wheels. They're just as good as new. I don’t suppose he has thrown away a pail full of broken bearing parts since the war started and very few, if any, new bearings have been needed for repairs.’ O 0 O Every Holt tractor, models 75 and 120 built at Peoria, has 24 Hyatt Roller Bearings in the ““CATERPILLAR” track rollers. These models have been Hyatt equipped for the past eight years and today there are over one hundred thousand Hyatt bearings in every day use in Holt tractors alone in serv- ice in all parts of the world. Repairs or replacements of Hyatt Bearings have been less than one-fourth of one per cent in all this time. Because of this remarkable record of service the Holt Manufacturing Company have specified Hyatt Roller Bearings throughout on all of their recently developed tractors, most of which are designed for military purposes. HYATT ROLLER BEARING CO. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS NEWARK, N. J DETROIT, MICH hes E > ii eek "2 a ode fk cline . ee

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eee I See eS a ee (Concluded from Page 77) In the Sevrugov spinning mill near Mos- cow the workmen demanded that the plant be turned over to them. The boss complied. The committee, in a spirit of kindness, agreed to keep him on the pay roll for a month until he could find another position. At the end of four days the stores of cotton were exhausted. The owner of course had notified the cotton storehouses that he could no more be responsible for orders for raw material which came from his plant. When the workmen sought to buy new sup- plies they found they had no credit and no cash. After two weeks they called the manager back and, greatly relieved, re- turned the plant and the business to him. They had discovered what all the strik- ing laborers of Russia were learning— that is, the truth of the old adage, ‘‘ Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.”” The brow of the self-crowned laborer was just as sensitive to the sharp edges of the heavy headpiece as the forehead of a royal blue- blood. The pressure of the crown gained daily. Soon there was not money enough in Russia to meet the demands of the working- men in the Russian factories. At the Mos- cow conference M. Nekrassoff, Minister of Finance, made a statement in which he pointed out that after the revolution the cost of the war had jumped from thirty millions to seventy-eight millions of rubles per day. The entire national revenue of Russia before the war was sixteen thou- sand millions of rubles a year: after the revolution the war cost in Russia, owing to advance in wages, was thirty thousand mil- lions of rubles. “The demands of the workers at the Putiloff factory’’—one of the chief am- munition factories in Russia—‘‘alone,”’ he said, ‘‘mean an increase of ninety millions of rubles. At the same time productivity of labor has decreased. The quantity of coal taken from the Donetz basin has fallen off fifty per cent. On the railways in July alone two hundred and fifty thousand freight cars less than the normal were loaded, and twenty-five per cent of the locomotives are out of order. It has be- come necessary to reduce the quantities carried on the railroads even of articles of the most urgent and primary necessity. The taxes are not coming in. The land tax is thirty-two per cent below that of 1916. The tax on town property shows a loss of forty-one per cent; on inhabited dwellings, forty-three per cent; the industrial tax ‘war profit tax’—nineteen per cent; the war tax, twenty-nine per cent; the inheri tance tax, sixteen per cent: and insurance dues, twenty-five per cent.”’ rl- Overworked Printing Presses ‘The excessive expenses of the state are paid for solely by issues of paper money, of which the quantity issued in 1915 was two hundred and twenty-three million rubles; 1916, two hundred and ninety million rubles; and the first two months of 1917” just before the revolution— “four hundred and thirty millions of rubles per month. From March 1’’—after the revolution o July sixteenth the average was eight hundred and thirty-two millions of rubles per month.” Without taking sides on the question of capital and labor one must, after seeing at first-hand the situation as it developed in Russia, declare in all frankness that though the disintegration of the Russian Govern- ment produced one crisis in Russia the dis- integration of the morale of the laboring classes produced in large part the evils which the people of Russia are suffering to-day. For instance, there is the matter of shoes. To buy a pair of shoes in Russia these days you go first to the police station nearest to your home and prove to the policeman that you must have a pair of shoes. If after investigation he satisfies himself that your need is a personal one and that you do not intend to buy shoes on a speculation he gives you a permit to make the purchase. With this permit you go about the town from shoe store to shoe store. Their shelves areempty; often they are closed, the clerks are absent. You are not hunting a pair of shoes; you are only seeking some shoe shop where in the near future they hope to receive a consignment af shoes. When you find such a shop you present your police permit and are given a numbered card. This card shows you your turn in the shoe line. But your shoe line will not form for weeks. You pass the shoe store daily to see whether the shoes have arrived. At last you see a line of people before the door. That's not your line; these are only those who have the low numbers. Each day in the window of the shoe shop is posted a schedule of ticket numbers. At last you discover that a week hence shoes will be sold to the five hun- dred persons who have numbers in your group. It is not on that exact day that you ap- pear in the shoe line; indeed if you are wise it will be the morning of the day before. You will hire someone, if you are well-to-do, to hold a place in the line for you, because you are not sure that your particular size of shoe will be left. There is no way of telling, either, because you cannot enter the shoe shop to ask questions until your turn comes I have seen a line of women in Petrograd wait forty-eight hours-from Saturday morning until Mond: iy morning 4 son. on the sidewalk during the night, to have an early chance with their number cards. If at last you get into the shop and discover that they have a pair of shoes even some- where near your size, you take them joy- fully and pay from ten to twenty dollars a pair. It has required perhaps six weeks or two months to make the purchase. In the matter of cotton goods: I have seen a line of five hundred women sleeping throughout the night on the sidewalks and standing patiently through the day in the Kremlin inclosure at Moscow, waiting one hundred and more hours, for the chance to buy three yards of ordinary white cotton cloth; so desperate were their home needs. And at the same time the great Zindell cotton mills in Moscow were idle; the ten thousand and more employees were on two- thirds wages, and being paid largely out of government funds with money which M. Nekrassoff's printing presses were running off as fast as they could be operated. Up to the Railroad Men Here were working women needing cotton cloth desperately, and wasting thousands, hundreds of thousands of hours, waiting to buy even small strips of it. And here were thousands of mill hands on reduced wages waiting to be called back to the mills to go to work. And in Vladivostok the Zindell firm had thousands of tons of raw cotton, which they had bought at high prices in Egypt, had carried in ships, a fabulously expensive journey, by way of C olombo and had hoped to get to Moscow by rail. In Vladivostok also were thousands of cases of shoes for suffering Russians And what was the matter with the rail- roads? True, the wood choppers had not cut enough wood to supply the Russian roads, but that was an irremediable error of months long gone. True, many locomotives were out of order, but thousands of them were still in good condition. What was the matter with the railroads; what kept these shoes and this cotton from the Russian people? In the main it was the Russian railroad man. Not the Russian railroad man in general; not the union of Russian railroad employees, but the comparatively few rail- road men who operated the Trans-Siberian Railway. When the American railroad commission came to Russia and discovered at Vladi- vostok the huge stores— perhaps the larg- est mound of supplies ever gotten together in any one spot on earth— they determined their first efforts must be directed toward getting these supplies moved into the inte- rior of Russia. They learned upon looking into the Trans-Siberian Railway system that the average division on the line was about seventy miles; that each of these eighty divisions was run as a separate railroad, and that a locomotive drawing a train of cars unhitched at the end of the division and waited for another locomotive from the next division to come and pick it up and carry it along. All railroads are run on this system, but American divisions are on the average almost one hundred and fifty miles long. The American railroads had put their finger on a weak spot in the great transcontinental railroad line of Russia. If the Russians would double the length of their divisions they could greatly increase the carrying power of the railroad and move the stores of supplies at Vladivostok in one-half the time they were taking. When this plan was laid before the De- partment of Railways it was seized upon with delight. The Russian officials promised that it would be carried out immediately. They saw how all the idleness and waiting THE SATURDAY EVENING POST and suffering among the poor in Russia might be decreased by exactly one-half, and they immediately ordered that the Trans- Siberian divisions be doubled in length Then up spake the railroad men on the Trans-Siberian the engineer, the fireman, the brakeman and the conductor. They made their decision instantly and they would not change it. I sat in the dining room of the Workmen's and Soldiers’ palace with Charles Edward Russell! of the American commission while he pleaded with members of the Workmen's and Sol- diers’ railway committee to get them to beg the Trans-Siberian railroaders to think of the women and children of Russia and of the German hordes that threatened the safety of their native land, and to change their decision. But it was all in vain They said simply that if the divisions were made one hundred and forty miles in length ‘‘we'll have to sleep away from home of nights, and we've decided not to do it.” Management in those early days of the Russian strikes was abhorred; to be under orders of any sort appeared intolerable. In one factory in Moscow where the chemists, experts, engineers, firemen and foremen had refused to come to work because of the inordinate exactions of the factory hands the workers at a meeting decided to make peace with all the white-collar element in the factory, with one exception: They were willing that everybody should come back to work except the foremen. **We will have no foremen over us,” they declared. The strike basis “We would have blown up the whole world,’ said a resolution passed by the workmen, “if they had tried to put fore- men over us again.” The foremen, it might be mentioned, were not particularly anxious to return; some of them, however, came back to work in the ranks, for while a foreman in this factory received three hundred and eighty rubles a month the workingman received six hundred. went to the Sestoretz rifle factory, some miles out of Petrograd, late last fall and was admitted to the factory grounds by presenting my press pass to the palace in which the All-Russian Council of Workmen and Soldiers met in Petrograd. This pass was sesame everywhere in Russia, even to the Front; it exceeded a military pass in potency. A soldier of the Red Guard armed factory hands—escorted me to the office. Here, where the manager of the great factory used to sit and where the Russian officers whe conducted the affairs of the factory had held forth in the old days, I met a blond, whiskered man in a black cot- ton shirt and working clothes. He spoke excellent English. was finally adjusted on that A Bolshevik From Broadway Glad to see you,” he said. ‘‘I used to live in New York and I understand Amer- icans very well. I am the president of the Sestoretz Council of Workmen and Soldiers. Is there anything I can do for you?” In the four corners of the office were stacked rifles and ammunition. A_ black flag bearing a Russian motto stood in one corner of the room, ready for use in a parade. As I looked at the rifles he said: ‘Funny thing happened the other day here. A lot of Cossacks came out from Petrograd to disarm the Red Guard. They had armored machine-gun cars and they came out prepared to fight. We didn’t fight them. They came up into the office here and put me under arrest. Then they took all the rifles away from the Red Guard. They let me go free, and off they rode. Wasn't that silly of them to take our rifles?”’ he asked. ‘Why silly?” I asked. “Why, don’t you see, we make rifies here. hundreds of ’em every day. What's the use of trying to take rifles away from us? The other day they took a lot of rifles away from the sailors over there.’ He pointed across the bay to the island of Kronstadt. ‘As soon as the sailors told us they had been disarmed we simply loaded up a boat with rifles which we had just turned out and sent them over to Kronstadt. Whenever we need ammuni- tion we send word to the workingmen’s committee in some ammunition factory and they send us all we need. ‘““We keep in touch with each other, you see. Why, last Sunday almost six thousand SI of us went over to Kronstadt for a picnic The sailors entertained us and somehow they got enough bread to feed us all. We had a fine time. Crowd of fifteen thousand Speeches in front of the cathedral and lots of talk. We've invited some of them over to our factory next Sunday. We can’t take care of very many, because it’s hard to get l » plenty bread to feed them, but we'll hav of cigarettes and lots of interesting conver sation “A lot of the talk,” he added, “is about how factories ought to be run. A committee runs our factory now,” he explained. ‘* We have fore *men whom the workmen have to obey.’ A Lily-Fingered Secretary ‘How many hours do you work a day’”’ I asked as he led me through mazes of American and English machinery in the great shop. “Six,”’ he said. ‘‘ That's enough for any body.” It was ten minutes after three in the afternoon and the shops were empty, the mac hinery idle ‘They've all gone home,” he said. “Isn't this fine? They're resting or working about their homes or playing with their children.” He went up to a peg on the brick wall and took down a greasy hat and coat. I noticed that his fingers were long and slender and his hands white and soft. Here’s my bench and my machine,” h« said as he put on his coat. “I've been too busy to work here for a long time, but I’m ready to work whenever I get a chance.”’ “What is your trade?”’ I asked him as we left the building “Well, my last job was a sec I was a secretary of a union in Cc ity. ‘I'm practically the general of this place and the mayor of the town,” he said “Thousands of Petrograd families have their summer homes out here along the bay. They’re bourgeois. They get the Cos sacks for me, but it’s my job to get bread for them. And I do it too. I don’t hold any grudge against them. They don't have our viewpoint, and that’s all there is to it.” I walked with him to the gateway of a plain frame house, where, he told me, he was “baching it’’ until his wife came from America. “She'll be surprised to see you holding so much power,” I suggested. “Oh, I’ve written her about it,” he said simply, proud as a child. He extended to me a faultlessly clean white hand, and his slender, unmuscled fingers wrapped about mine in a parting shake ‘Are you a Bolshevik?” ing him with my grip “Yes indeed!” he said ‘Why is it that so many of the Bolshevik factory organizations in Russia are he ‘ade d by men who have been in America? I asked. *“We learn practical politics in America,’ he said. “I was in New York politics for years. We're learning how to work this thing out in Russia. We've made a lot of mistakes, but we'll find the way after a while. Well, so long.” taryship. w York ] asked, detain- As I write this I look from my window on the high floor of a Pittsburgh hotel. Below me in the murky haze of a rainy evening the four arches of a bridge stretch four gray lines across a mass of shadow and dull reflection in the Monongahela waters. That bridge was born in a tiny corner of the brain of one man; it was built by many men. Glares of opened furnaces here and there over the city light the almost muddy atmosphere. Those furnaces and factories lived in the mind of one man before they were created and operated by the masses of men who swelter about them this murky evening. That one man! That one brain, where ideas are born! Everywhere I went in the new Russia I found that he was being left out. Things must be born in this world, even great material things like bridges and roaring man-slaughtering factories. Can they be born in the massed brain of thou- sands of socialized men? The massed men plus the one man equal progress. Fither minus the other equals— what? Russia is trying to answer. Will she find out that the two must be partners if either survives? Shall one be king over the other? Our new world is too new to give an answer.

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82 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 6,19145 ‘Tire Dealers: CTRANGE as it may seem, the Sterling Tire Corporation is in business with the pri mary purpose of earning dividends for its stockholders. But we believe that this purpose is best served by giving to tire users the greatest possible mileage per dollar, and by giving our agents (dealers) a proposition which, be- cause it is fair to them and their customers, will result in constantly growing sales and continuously tn- creasing prosperity. To the man who looks solely at the price per tire, we have nothing to otter. We know that low-priced cars, fitted for the service to be demanded of them, may be better for many users than higher priced cars, but no matter what the grade of the car, no owner can aftord to use inferior gasoline, inferior oil or in- ferior tires. We belies e that true tire econ- omy comes from running the very best tire that can be built—and in taking proper care of that tire. The fabric — the rubber — the construction— Tire endurance comes from defi- nitely known things there Is no mystery about it. It depends pri- marily on the tensile strength of the cotton fabric or cord) used tn its construction— and there tis no mys- tery about that. It is a matter of buying the right quality from the spinners and testing each roll be- fore it is used. \ll the grades of crude rubber Known to commerce are open to every tire manufacturer—the strength, resilience, toughness, vi- purchasers. tality of each grade is known. The tire maker buys according to the grade of tire he intends to make there is no mystery about that. The principle of tire construction is about the same in all tires. The fabric, or cord, is built up diagonally like the trusses on a bridge—to withstand strain in every direction, Every wide-awake tire manufac- turer knows exactly how his princi- pal competitors build their tires and the quality of materials they use. So it all simmers down to the question of what grade of tire the maker intends to build. We have the firm conviction that it is impossible to make a tire too good. We buy the best cotton cord and regular fabric we can get, and if the spinners ever find out how to produce cotton yarn of greater ten- sile strength, we will buy that. Sterling Tires are built with extra thick rubber layers between the plies of fabric—with a heavy, practically pure-gum cushion—with a thick, tough, sturdy tread. The extra quantity and quality of the rubber reinforces the fabric, makes the tire last longer, and prevents many punc tures, The heavier tread on Sterling Tires almost invariably outlasts the carcass. It ts this combination of an extra-heavy tread with an extra- strong carcass which enables Ster- ling Tires to yield their higher mileage. Their extra sturdy construction makes it pay to repair them—and we do repair them free of charge whether they have run one mile or ten thousand. They are guaranteed ¢ miles 30 x 3! and 31 x 4—60c miles . and average much more. One cus tomer averaged over 10, miles We are selling 74% of our tires to previous Are You? Would you like to? for a full year on $00 cars—but that is about our best record. We want every Sterling Tire to give the utmost mileage at the least cost per mile, and our hundreds of commercial users who stick to Sterlings year after year, do so be- cause their records show lower cost per mile than they have had from other tires. Lowest cost-per-mile— not lowest price-per-tire. 74% repeat orders 90% in business use 74% of all Sterling Tires sold in 1917 went to those who had used them before. go% of all Sterling Tires now running are on business cars—sales- men’s cars, delivery cars, ambu- lances, trucks—up to 3-ton trucks, on which 40 x 8 Sterling Pneumatic Vacuum Bar tires are used in pref- erence to solid tires, because they cost less per mile and because their greater resilience saves jar on the car and its load. Wanted: like-minded partners ERETOFORE practically all Sterling Tires have been sold direct to the car owner through our own factory sales branches, because we felt that, up to a certain limit of production, we could give better and more intimate service to our customers in this way. Our branches are now scattered from St. Louis to Boston and from Washington to Chicago. This gives us twenty-eight (28) distributing centers from which we can give service to dealers and assist them in giving service to their customers. We are now prepared to give the exclusive sale of Sterling Tires and TRADE MARK Sterlin CORD ng Tires BRIC TYPES EE

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Sterling Seamless Red Tubes to it is just as well that everybody does r | one dealer in each town where we not think the same, because our produc- | , i do not maintain branches. The tion capacity for 1918 will allow for . word “dealer” hardly describes what only a 6 gain over 1917—and we y we have in mind—our desire is to ee than Be - , we can produce. establish a connection which will \ for all practical purposes add to the ' i number of our branches. What we The complete want 1s not simply a man who will Sterling line sell a few Sterling Tires, but one ; ; h who will really join the Sterling Hera, ne are made in both cord 1 ft Soenthe end nice Seals eareion. and fabric types, and with two styles of | : > = tread—the grooved or“ European” tread | reac t pea tread, . i poner and the Non-Skid Vacuum Bar, the i} Sales possibilities of latter being an exclusive Ste rling feature rt Sterling Tires —patented. : | ¥ We seek the opportunity to demon- We also manufacture the Sterling \ } strate to the right man in each town that Red Seamless tube, the purity and quality » 2 the Sterling system of selling tires is the of which is evidenced by the fact that Y right one for permanent and satisfactory a section will float in water. Sterling hy business. We have demonstrated in out Red Tubes are built in a way in which , ie own branches, in cities of various sizes, no other tubes are built—they are made ‘ that car owners are well satisfied with a of a sheet of rubber rolled over upon itself high grade tire sold on a basis of super- to produce a four-ply lamination—the i service and a commonsense square deal. splice is vulcanized, not cemented, the y ! Concrete evidence of this may be given valve patch is vulcanized over the splice. | } in the sales figures of one town of We control the patents on the machines | 102, inhabitants, and in another of and vulcanizers to produce tubes of the yy 400,000 inhabitants. In Springfield, Sterling quality. i f Mass., in 1915, sales of Sterling Tires 7 were $30,916.00 — in IGQ17 they were The Vacuum Bar Tread is a scientific non | $95,135.31. In Newark, N. Ju the STERLING GUARANTEE — ff Sith cl, olds: 1 ie sates | ’ 1915 sales were $81,249.40, and 191! / skid feature will last through the guaranteed $140,308.87. These are neither out HE guarantee on Sterling Tires is mileage 1 best nor our poorest records. as follows | Our experience has proven to us that “The guarantee on these tires is in- we can open a branch in any good sized tended to represent, and does represent, | town and within a few months secure practically unlimited service and satistac- our share of the tire business of that tion to the tire user. For the sake of town. What we have done can be establishing a basis of adjustment and F

qf done as well, or better by a local man replacement in case any tire should prove back his tires for prompt repair as soon j | who believes in quality tires and defective, we hx upon 5, miles as as small cuts or punctures appear, and | ] y vhe . f ! who will duplicate the service we normal average life except 30x 344 and that so long as repair is possible we | | give in our branches. Quality service 31x 4 tires, which carry 6, miles shall have that privilege. Adjustments ' —low-cost-per-mile —~these are the guarantee. What we actually do is to on the 5, or 6, mile basis to be : i‘ , ' | things on which the Sterling business repair these tires free of charge from made when we know a repair to be ; ble.” A! has been built up—these are the things the day they are put on the car until inadvisable. which will give the exclusive Sterling they are finally sold for junk, so long as v ‘ i dealer in any town his share, or more we believe repairs are justified by the TE sol ho tt V | . , ’ ’ 48 it inquiries from dealers who think } than his share, of the local tire business. condition of the casing. If youcut the tire \\ “t, , » they might n i ning busi y We believe that every owner of every the first day you run it, we repair it free. , : : pet , ness, an m ir own hom we wv | car in America would best serve his own “The only condition we make under supply the address of the nearest Sterling i | interests by running nothing but Ster- this guarantee is that the car owner lealer As the busy season t ahead. vw f Notice ad het we honestly believe hall co-operate witl by bringing sia’ Cais neni: alias diese j lings—tNat is what we nonestly believe shall co-operate with us by Dringing sup ye lat you wr us a ' ‘ e | eames i a ogi ? : > _— ’ | § STERLING TIRE CORPORATION | Establishes 1908 } } ! ) Ruthertord, New Jersey ) ) d ' ; We own and operate direct factory sales branches in the following cities: # q ALBANY, N. ¥ $3 Central Aver CINCINNATI, Ohio 1302 R Street NEW HAVEN, Cor 232 Crown §S t ROCHESTER, N. Y. s65 East Main Ser ° } BALTIMORE, Md 17 N. Cha S CLEVELAND, O 18 | 1 Avenu NEW YORK, N. ¥ 234 West th Street RUTHERFORD, N.J.M St.a re A f BOSTON, M 205 Clarend St DETROIT, Mict 940 W iward A it PATERSON, N. ] Ward Srreet SPRINGFIELD, Ma 6 Br Stre ' | BRIDGEPORT, (¢ 240 Fairfield A . HACKENSACK, N.I.M P S PHILADELPHIA, Pa. 1 ¥ Spring Gard ST. LOUIS, M 2824A I 4 BROOKLYN, N. ¥ : Rogers Av HARTFORD, ¢ 286 N Street PITTSBURGH, Pa 40 N. Cr Street SYRACUSE, N. ¥ mS h ¢ t St } BUFFALO, N. ¥ 210 Frank Street JERSEY CITY, N. J. 2982 H B PROVIDENCE, R. 1. 234 Br Street WASHINGTON,D.C. 1621 14th St. N. W CHICAGO, |] 1S.M r. \ NEWARK, N. |] 28 W m Street READING, P. 104-106 N., sth St t WORCESTER, M

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‘Now you mustn’t take that serious,” he protested; “it was pa in a way of peech. I told you | couldn't rightly ex- pla ‘in myse If.’ ‘Anyhow,” she asserted bluntly, “I am onely. What will you do about it?” His amazement turned into a conster- nation which even now she found almost laughable. ‘‘ Me?” hestammered. ** There’s no way I can help you. You are having a ioke,”’ She realized, with a feeling that her knowledge came too late, that she was en- tirely serious. Jason Burrage was the only being alive who could give her any assist- ance yes, save her from the future. Her hands were cold; she felt absolutely still, as if she had suddenly turned into marble, a statue with a heart slightly fluttering. You could be here a lot,”’ she told him, and then paused, glancing at him swiftly with hard, bright eyes. He had removed his feet from the stove and sat with his cheroot in a poised, awkward hand. She was certain that he would never speak, ‘We might get married.” Honora was startled at the ease with which the words were pronounced, and conscious of an absurdly trivial curiosity she wondered just how much he had been hocked by her proposal! She saw that he was stupefied. Then: “So we might,” he pronounced diotically. “There isn’t any real reason why we shouldn’t—-that is ’ He stopped. “‘Where does the laugh start?” he demanded Suddenly Honora was overwhelmed, not by what she had said but by the whole difficulty and inner confusion of her ex- istence. She turned away her head with an unintelligible period. A silence followed, ntensified by the rain flinging against the ‘It’s a bad night,’’ he muttered. The banality saved her. Again practi- cally at her. ease she regarded him with slightly smiling lips. “I believe I’ve asked you to marry me ,’ she remarked. ‘Thank you, said Jason Burrage. He tood up. “If you mean it I'd like to very much,” ‘You'd better sit down,” she went on in an impersonal voice; “‘there ought to bea lot of things to arrange. For instance, hadn’t we better live on here, for a while anvhow? It’s a big house to waste.’’ Honora, you'll just have to stop a little,” he asserted. “I’m kind of lost. It was quick in California; but that was a funeral procession compared with you.” Now that it was done she was frightened. But there was time to escape even yet. She determined to leave the room quickly, get away to the safety of her bolted door, her inviolable privacy. She didn’t stir. An immediate explanation that she hadn't been serious how could he have thought for a moment!— would save her. But she was silent A sudden enthusiasm lighted up his im- mobile face. ‘I'll get the prettiest diamond in Boston,” he declared You mustn't * she commenced, struggling still to retreat. He misunder- stood her ‘The very best,”” he insisted. When he had gone she remained seated in the formal chamber. At any rate she had conquered the emptiness of her life, of the great square house above her. It was definitely arranged; they were to marry. How amazed Herriot Cozzens would be! It was probable that she would leave Coitarsport and her, Honora, immediately. Jason hadn't kissed her; he had not even iouched her hand, in going. He had been extremely subdued, except at the thought of the ring he would buy for her. There were phases of the future which she resolutely ignored. Mrs. Cozzens came back as had been planned and Honora told her at once. The older woman expressed her feeling in con- tained, acid speech, * 1 am surprised he had the assurance to ask you.” Jason didn't,”’ Honora calmly returned. It’s your father,” the elder stated; “‘he vulgar blood I felt that it was a calamity when my sister accepted him. A Cottarsport person at heart, just as you are, always down about the water and those low doc ks ‘I'm sure you're right, and so it’s much better for me to find whe I belong. I have tried to get away from Cottarsport, had some very _ her, for thirty years. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE DARK FLEECE Continued from Page 26) and from the sea and the schooners sailing in and out the Narrows, a thousand times. But I always come back, just as father did, back to this little place from the en- tire world—China and Africa and New York. The other influences weren’t strong enough, Aunt Herriot; they only made me miserable; and now I’ve killed them. I'll say good-by to you and Paret and the cotillons.” She kissed her hand, but not gayly, to a whole existence irrevocably lost. With Jason’s ring blazing on her slim finger she drove, the day before her wed- ding, for the last time as Honora Canderay. The leaves had been stripped from the elms on the hills, brown and barren against the flashing, steely water. She saw that Coggs was so impotent with age that if the horses had been more vigorous he would be help- less. Coggs had driven for her father, then It was too cold for the old man to be out to-day. His cheeks were dark crimson, and continually wet from his failing eyes. Herriot Cozzens had left her; Coggs. . . . All the intimate figures of so many years were vanishing. Jason re mained. He had almost entirely escaped annoying her, and she was conscious of his overwhelming ad- miration, the ineradicable esteem of Cot- tarsport for the Canderays; but a question, a doubt more obscure than fear, was taking possession of her. After all she was su- premely ignorant of life; she had been screened from it by pride and luxurious circumstance; but now she had surrendered all her advantage. She had given herself to Jason; and he was life, mysterious and rude. The thunder of large, threatening seas, reaching everywhere beyond the placid gulf below, beat faintly on her perception. xV N AN unfamiliar upper room of the Canderays’ house Jason stood, prepared for the signal to descend to his wedding. The ceremony was to occur at six o'clock; it was now only five minutes before—he had absently looked at his watch a great many times in a short space—and he was striving to think seriously of what was to follow. But in place of this he was passing again through a state of silent, incoherent surprise. This was the sort of thing for which a man might pinch himself to dis- cover if he were awake or dreaming. In five—no, four now—minutes Honora Can- deray was to become his, Jason Burrage’s, wife. A certain complacency had settled over him in the past few days; something of his inborn feeling of the Canderays as a house apart seemed to have evaporated; and in addition he had risen—Honora wouldn't take any just happen so; Jason was never notable for humility. Yet who, even after he had returned from California with his riches, would have predicted this evening? His astonishment was as much at himself, illuminated by extraordinary events, as at any exterior circumstance. At times he had the ability to see himself as if from the outside; and that view, here, was amazing. Why, only a short while ago he had been drinking rum in the shed back of “ Pack” Clower’s house, perhaps the least desirable shed in Cottarsport. Of one fact, however, he was certain no more promiscuous draughts of Medford. He recognized that he had taken so much not from the presence of desire but from a total absence of it as well as any other mental state. “‘Pack”’ and his associates, too, were now a thing of the past, a bitterly rough and vacant element. The glass lamp on a bureau was smoking, he stepped for- ward to lower the wick, whena knock fel! on the door. A young Boston relative of Ho- nora’s—a supercilious individual in checked trousers and lemon-colored —. an- nounced that they were waiting for Jason be low. With a determined settling of his shoul- ders and tightly drawn lips the latter marched resolutely forward. The marriage was to be in the chamber across from the one in which he had gener- ally sat. Smilax and white Killarney roses had been bowed over the mantel at the farther end, and there Jason found the clergyman waiting. The room was half full of people occupying chairs brought from other parts of the house; and he was con- scious of a sudden silence, an intent, curi- ous scrutiny, as he entered. An instinctive antagonism to this deepened in him; he felt that with the exception of his father and mother he hadn’t a friend in the room. Such other local figures as were there were facilely imitating the cold stare of Honora’s connections. He stood belligerently facing Mrs. Cozzens’ glacial calm, the inspection of a man he had seen driving with Honora in Cottarsport, now accompanied by a pet- tish, handsome girl, evidently his wife. His father’s weathered countenance, sunken and dry on its bones, was blank, except for a faint doubt, as if some mistake had been made which would presently be ex- posed, sending them about face. His mother, however, was triumphant pride and justification personified. Then the music commenced—a harp, violin and bouble bass. The wedding ring firmly secured, Jason stirred with a feeling of increasing awk- wardness. He glared back with a protrud- ing lip at the fellow with the young wife, at the small, aggressive group from Boston; and then he saw that Honora was in the room. She was coming slowly toward him. Her expression of absolute unconcern re- leased him from all petty annoyance, any thought of the malicious onlookers. As she stopped at his side she gave him a slight nod and smile; and at that moment a tremendous, sheer admiration for her was born in him. Honora had chosen to be unattended— she had coolly observed that she was well beyond the age for such sentimentality — and he realized that the present would have been a racking occasion for most women; while it was evident that she was not dis- turbed in the least. He had a general im- pression of sugary white satin, of her com- posed, almost disdainful face in a cloud of veil with little waxen orange flowers, of slender still hands, when they turned from the room to the minister. They had gone over the marriage service together, he had read it again in the kitchen at home; he was fairly familiar with its periods and responses, and got through with only a slight hesitation and _ half prompting. But the thickness of his voice In comparison with Honora’s — decisive utterance vainly annoyed him. He wanted desperately to clear his throat. Suddenly it was over, and Honora in a swirl of satin was sinking to her knees. Beside her he listened with a feeling cf comfortable lull to a lengthy prayer. Rising he perfunctorily clasped a number of indifferent palms, replied inanely to gabbled expressions of good will and hopes for the future unmistakably pessimistic in tone. Honora told him in a rapid aside the names of those approaching. She smiled radiantly at his father and mother, leaned forward and whispered in the latter’s ear; and then they followed the guests stream- ing into the dining room. There champagne was being opened by the caterer’s assistants from Boston. The table bore pyramids of nuts and preserved fruit, hot Cinderellas in cups with sugarand wine, black case cake, Savoy biscuits, pumpkin paste and frothed creams with preserved peach leaves. There were steam- ing platters of terrapin and oysters and fowl. A laden plate was thrust into Jason’s hand, and he sat with it in a clatter of voices and topics that completely ignored him. He was isolated in the absorption of food and wine, in a conversational exchange as strange to him as if it had been spoken ina foreign language. Honora was busily talking to young Mrs. Fifield—he remembered the name now. Apparently she had forgotten his existence. At first this annoyed him; he determined to force his way into their attention, but a wiser realization held him where he was. Honora was exactly right—he had nothing in common with these people; probably not one of them would come into his life or house again. And his wife, in the fact of her marriage, had clearly signified how little important they were to her. His father joined him. “You ms ade certain when the New York packet leaves?” he queried. “Everything’s, fixed,”” Jason reassured him. “Your mother wanted to see you. But she got set and is kind of timid about moving.” Jason rose promptly and, with the elder, found Mrs. Hazzard Burrage. April 6, 1918 I'd like to have Honora too,” the latter told them, and Jason turned sharply to find her. When they stood facing the old couple his mother hesitated doubtfully, then she put out her hand to the woman in wedding array. But Honora ignored it; leaning for- ward she kissed the round, bright cheek. “You have to be patient with them at times,” the mother said, looking up anx- iously. ‘I’m afraid Jason will need that warn- ing,” Honora replied; “the is a_ very imprudent man.” xvi ASON’S mind returned to this later, sitting in the house that had been the Canderays’ but which now was his too Honora’s remark to his mother had been clear in itself, but it suggested wide specu- lations beyond his grasp. For instance why, after all, had Honora married him? He was forced to acknowledge that it was not the result of any overwhelming feeling for him. The manner of their wedding, the complete absence of the eeemen supposed to be the incentive of such consummations, Honora herself —all denied any effort to fix such a personally satisfactory cause. That she might have had no other opportunity Honora was not so young as she had been—he dismissed as obviously absurd. Why —— His gaze was fastened upon the carpet and he saw that time and the passage of feet had worn away the design. He looked about the room and was surprised to dis- cover a general dinginess which he had never noticed before. He said nothing, but in his movements about the house ex- amined the furnishings and walls, and an astonishing fact was thrust upon him—the celebrated dwelling was grievously run down. It was plain that no money had been spent on it for years. The chaise, too, and the astrakhan collar on Coggs’ coat were worn out. He considered this at breakfast— his wife behind a tall Sheffield coffee urn— and he was aware of the cold edge of a distaste- ful possibility. The thought enveloped him insidiously, like the fog that often rolled through the Narrows and over the town, that the Canderays were secretly impover- ished, and Honora had married him only for his money. Jason was not resentful of this in itself, since he had been searching for a motive he could accept, but it struck him in a peculiarly vulnerable spot— his admiration for his wife, for Honora. The idea, though he assured himself that the thing was readily comprehensible, somehow managed to diminish her, to tarnish the luster she held for him. It was far beneath the elevation on which Cottarsport had placed the Canderays; and he suffered a distinct sense of loss, a feeling of the stale- ness and disappointment of living. The more he considered this explanation the more he was convinced of its probabil- ity. A great deal of his genuine warmth in his marriage evaporated. Still— Honora had married him, she had given herself in return for what material advantage he might bring; and he would have to per- form his part thoroughly. He ought to have known that What he must do now was to save them both from any painful revelation by keep- ing forever hidden that he was aware of her purpose; he must never expose himself by a word or act; and he must make her under- stand that whatever he had was absolutely hers. It would be necessary for her to go to the money with entire freedom and without any accounting. This he found was not so easy to estab- lish as he had thought. Honora was his wife, but nevertheless there was a well- marked reticence between them, a formal nicety to which he was both susceptible and heartily in accord. He couldn’t just thrust his fortune before her on the table. He hesitated through the day, on the verge of various blunders, and then in the evening Si uid in a studied casualty of manner: “What do you th ink about fixing some of the rooms over new? You might ge tired of seeing the same things for so aan g. I saw real elegant furniture in Boston.” She looked about indifferently. “I think I wouldn’t like it changed,” she re- marked, almost in the manner of a defense. ““T suppose it does seem worn to you; but (Continued on Page 89) ee eee

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 6,1918 Says the Car-Builder: “Only we whose task is designing and building that highly perfected, powerful thing—the modern motor-car—can fully appreciate what it means to have at our disposal such a material as Lynite. “Few factors in developing and refining the auto- mobile deserve a more prominent place. “In the well-built car, you’ll find Lynite doing many jobs better than they have ever been done. Over forty different parts are now made of it. Lightness “One of the biggest and most perplexing problems in car building has been to get rid of excess weight. Every pound that isn’t necessary for strength and safety boosts the gasoline bills, shortens tire-life, adds to wear and tear and handicaps flexibility. “In the pistons, surplus weight is particularly un desirable. Here a slight difference in weight —a matter of ounces—makes a big difference in the way the car performs. ‘‘Lynite is extremely light—three times as light as cast-iron. This is the principal reason for its use in sO many parts, including such vital ones as cylinder castings and pistons. Strength “It’s easy enough to make a light metal. But to make one with both lightness and strength is another proposition. ‘‘Lynite can be made as strong and enduring as cast-iron. You don’t have to take my word for that either, for it has stood more than three years’ us¢ thousands of cars and has been remarkably successful in airplane piston service—the test of tests. Heat-Conductivity ‘‘In the pistons, Lynite has another big advantage its ability to conduct heat twice as fast as cast-iron eee ie a Because the heat flows from it so rapidly, the head of a Lynite Piston remains comparatively cool long after that of a cast-iron piston would have become red-hot.”’ The Aluminum Castings Company Cleveland, Ohio

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Says the Car-Dealer: ‘*Here’s one thing about this car which should con- vince you its builder was after performance and your satisfaction above everything else—and that’s the use of Lynite in the pistons and other parts. Do you think he would have spent the higher price for Lynite, if he didn’t think it worth the difference in the cost over cast-iron? “There are a lot of reasons why it’s worth it. Jump in. We'll take a ride and see. Flexibility ‘‘How about that for quick getaway? Just a touch and she’s off. Light-weight Lynite Pistons turn the trick. A light piston is bound to start more readily from a dead stop than a heavy one ‘‘Now we'll slow her down. Slow—slower—there, how’s that for crawling on high? Light-weight Lynite again you see. ‘“We'll let her crawl till we strike that hill ahead, so you can see how she climbs from a slow start. Here we go—right straight up on high. No grunting no knocking. You couldn’t get up here with heavy cast-iron pistons in the engine unless you threw her into second. Quiet-Running ‘You'll notice you can hardly hear the engine and that there’s little or no vibration. That’s because cutting down piston-weight has gotten rid of a great part of the pound and shock that come at the end of each piston stroke ‘*Makes a lot of difference in the pleasure you get out of driving, doesn’t it? And it makes just as big a difference in wear and tear on the car. Freedom from Carbon ‘*There’s another thing Lynite Pistons do for you, too, and that’s to keep the engine carbon-free. Car- bon, as you know, is simply oil that’s been burned on the head of a red-hot piston. Because they stay much cooler than cast-iron, Lynite Pistons practically do away with carbon troubles.”

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Continued from Page 84 I'm used to it; there are so many asso- ciations. I am certain I’d be lost in new hangings.”’ Jason was so completely silenced by her reply that he felt he must have shown some confusion, for her gaze deliberately turned to him Is there any particular thing you would like repaired?”’ she inquired. “‘No, of course not,” he said hastily. ‘I think it’s all splendid. I wouldn’t change a curtain, only— but He cursed himself for a clumsy fool, while Honora continued to study him. He en- deavored to shield himself behind the trivial business of lighting a cheroot; but he felt Honora’s query searching him out. Finally, to his extreme dismay, he heard her say: “Jason, | believe you think I married you for money!” Pretense, he realized, would be no good now “Something like that did occur to me,” he acknowledged desperately. “Really!”’ she told him sharply. “I could be cross very easily. You are too stupid. Father did wonderfully well on his voyages, and his profit was invested by Frederic Cozzens, one of the shrewdest financiers of his day. I have twice, prob- ably three times, as much as you.” She confronted him with a faintly spar- kling resentment. However, the pleasure, the reassurance, in what he had just heard made him indifferent to the rest. It was impossible now to comprehend how he had been such a block! He even smiled at her, which, he was delighted to observe, ob- viously puzzled her “Perhaps I ought to tell you, Jason and perhaps it is too late already— that I thought I married you because I was lonely because I feared thefuture. Anyhow, that’s what I told myself the night I sent for you. You might have a right to complain very bitterly about it.” “if Lhave I won't,” fully “T thought that then; but now I am not at allsure. It no longer seems so simple, so xplained. I used to feel that I under- } thoroughly, I could look inside and see what was there; but in the last month I haven’t been able to; and it is very disturbing.”’ ‘* Anyhow we're married,”’ he announced comfortabl “‘That’s a beautifal way to feel,’”’ she re marked “T appear to get less sure of things as I grow older, which is pathetic.” He wondered what, exactly, she meant by this. Honora said a great many little things which, their meanings escaping him, gave him momentary doubts. He discov- ered that she had a habit of saying things indirectly, and that as the seriousness of the occasion increased her manner became lighter and he could depend less on the mere order of her words. This continually disconcerted him, put him on the defensive and at small disadvantages. He was never quite at ease with Honora. Obversely —the ugly shade of mercenary purpose dispelled—close at hand his ad- miration for her grew. Every detail of her living was as fine as that publicly exposed in the drawing-room She was not rigidly and impossibly perfect, in, for instance, the inflexible attitude of Olive Stanes; Honora human impatience; she could found, in the morning, ly felt herself superior

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had a very be disagreeable, he and she undoubted to the commonalty of life. Bu ing of her person there was a wonderfully exact delica and fragrant charm. Just as she had no formal manner, so, he discov- ered, she possessed no ‘‘good”’ clothes; she dressed evidently from some inner neces- sity and not merely for the sake of impres- ion. She had, too, a remarkable vigor of expression; Honora was not above swearing at contradictory circumstance; and she was so free of small pruderies that often she became a cause of embarrassment to him At times he would tell himself uneasily that her conduct was not quite ladylike; but at the same instant his amusement in her would mount until it threatened him with laughter. There was a great deal to be learned from Honora, he told himself; and then he would speculate whether he were progressing in that acquisit - and whether she were nappy no, not happy, but contented. Ig- norant of her reason for marrying he vaguely dreaded the possibility of its departure, mysterious as it had come, leaving her to regard him with surprise and disdain. He tried desperately, consciously, to hold her That was the base of in the orde

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of their married existence, which, then, he was entirely willing t accept. his conceptior xvil OWEVER, as the weeks multiplied without bringing him any correspond ing .increase in the knowledge of either Honora or their true situation, he wa aware of a disturbance born of his very pleasure in her; an uncomfortable feeling of insecurity fastened upon him. But al! this he was careful to keep hidden. There was evidently no doubt in the minds of Cottarsport of the enviableness of his posi tion—-with all that gold, wedded to Honora Canderay, living in the Canderay mansior The more solid portion of the town gave him a studied consideration denied to the mere acquisition of wealth; and the roug element, once his companion, but now re lentlessly held at a distance, regarded him with a loud disdain fully as humanly flat tering. Sometimes with Honora he passed the latter, and they grumbled an obscure acknowledgment of his curt greeting; wher he was alone they openly disparaged hi attainments and qualified pride There were ** Pack”’ Clower, an able sea man whose indolent character had dissi pated his opportunities. of employment without harming his slow, powerful body; Emery Radlaw, the brother of the apothe cary and a graduate of Williams College, a man of vanished refinements and taker of strange drugs—as thin and erratically rapid in movements as Clower was slow; Steven, an incredibly soiled Swede; John Vleet, the master and part owner ofa fishing schooner, a capable individual on the sea but an in- sanely violent drunkard on land. There were others, all widely different, but alike in the bitterness of a common failure and the habit of assuaging doubtfully self-placed opinion, of ministering to crawling nerves, with highly potential stimulation Jason passed “‘ Pack”’ and Emery Radlaw on a day of late March, and a mocking and purposely audible aside almost brought him to an adequate reply. He had disposed of worse men than these in California and on the Isthmus. His arrogant temper rose and threatened to master him; but something more powerful held him steadily and si lently on his way. This was his measureless admiration for Honora, his determination to involve her in nothing that would de- tract from her fineness and erect pride Brawling on the street would not do for her husband. He must give her no cause to lessen what incomprehensible feeling, lik- ing, she might have for him, give life to no regrets for a hasty and perhaps only half- considered act. After this, in passing any of his late temporary associates, he failed to express even the perfunctory consciousness of their being

xviii N APRIL he was obliged to admit to himself that he knew no more of Ho nora’s attitude toward him than he had on the day of their wedding. He recognized that she made no show of emotion— it was an essential part of her to seem at all times unmoved. That was well enough for the face she turned toward the world; but di rected at him, her husband, its enigmatic quality began to obsess his mind. What Honora thought of him, why she had mar ried him, became an almost continuous question It bred an increasing sense of instabil ity that became loud, defiant. More thar once he was at the point of self-betrayal query, demand, objection, would rise on a temporary angry flood to his lips. But, struggling, behind a face as unmoved as Honora’s own, he would suppress his re sentment, his sense of injury His regard for his wife placed an extraor dinary check on his impulses and utter ance. He deliberated carefully over hi speech, watched her with an attention not far from a concealed anxiety, aru.d was quicl to absorb any small conventions uncor sciously indicated by her remarks. She never instructed or held anything over him; he would have been acutely sensitive to any air of superiority, and immediatel antagonized. But Honora was entirely free from pretensions of that variety; she wa as clear and honest as a goblet of water Jason’s regard for her grew pace by pace with the feeling of baffling doubt. He was passing through the public square and hi thoughts were interrupted by a faint drift- ing sweetness ‘I believe the lilacs are out,” he said unconsciously aloud, and stopping. His surrounding was remarkably serene, with- drawn—the courthouse, a smal! block of

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THE SATURDAY rers Bros. is the criterion of value in the heavier qua — EVENING POST brick with white corniced windows, flat Ionic portico and slatted wood lantern with a bell, stood in the middle of the grassy common shut in by an irregular rectangle of dwellings with low eaves and gardens. The sun shone with a beginning warmth in a vague sky that intensified the early green. It seemed that he could see, against a house, the lavender blur of the lilac blos- soms. Then his attention was attracted by the figure of a man, at once strange and famil- iar, coming toward him with a dragging gait. Jason studied the other until a sudden recognition clouded his countenance, filled him with a swift, unpleasant surprise. He had never believed that “Thomas!” he exclaimed. ‘‘ Whenever did you get back?” “Yesterday,” said Thomas Gast. Well, here was Thomas returned from California like himself. Yet the most negligent view of the former revealed that there was a vast difference between Jason and this last Argonaut. Thomas Gast’s loosely hung jaw gave to his countenance an air of | oaiiaiion, which was now heightened by an aspect of utter defeat. His ill-conditioned clothes, sodden brogans and stringy handkerchief still knotted miner-fashion about his throat all multi- plied the fact of failure proclaimed by his attitude. “* How did you strike it?’’ Jason uselessly asked. “What chance has the prospector to- day?” the other heatedly and indirectly demanded. ‘At first a man could pan out something for himself; but now it’s all companies, all capital. The state’s inter- fered too; claims are being held up in court while their owners might starve; there are new laws and trimmings every week. struck it rich on the Reys, but I was drove out before I could get my stakes in. They tell me you did good.” “At last,” Jason replied. “And married Honora Canderay too.” The other assented shortly. “Some are shot with luck,” Thomas Gast proclaimed; ‘“they’d fall and skin their face on a nugget.” ‘How did you come back? ““Worked my passage in a crazy clipper with moonsails and the halyards padlocked to the rail. Carried away the foretopmast and yard off the Horn and ran from port to port in a hundred and four days.’ The conversation dwindled and expired. Thomas Gast gazed about moodily, and Jason, with a tight mouth, nodded and moved on. His mind turned back abruptly to Eddie Lukens, the man who had robbed him of his find in the early days of cradle mining, the man he had killed. He had said nothing of this to Honora; the experience with Olive Stanes had con- vinced him of the advisability of keeping past accident where, he now repeated, it belonged. He despaired of ever being able, in Cottarsport, to explein the place and times that had made his act comprehen- sible. How could he picture, here, the nar- row ravines cut by swift rivers from the a ge slopes and forests of the Sierra Nevada, the isolation of a handful of men with their tents by a plunging stream in a rift so deep that there would be only a brief glimmer of sunlight at noon? And, failing that, the ignorant could never grasp the significance of the stillness, the timeless shadows, which the miners penetrated in their madness for gold. They'd never realize the strangling pas- sion of this search in a wilderness without habitation or law or safety. They could not understand the primary justice of such rude courts as the miners were able to main- tain on the more populous outskirts of the region. He, Jason Burrage, had been tried by a jury for killing Eddie Lukens, and had been unheld, released. It had been months since he had reiterated this dreary and only half- satisfying formula. The inner necessity filled him with a shapeless concern such as might have been caused by a constant, un- natural shadow flickering out at his back. He almost wished that he had told Honora at the beginning; and then he fretfully cursed the incertitude of life— whatever he did appeared, shortly after, wrong. But it was obvious that he couldn't go to her with the story to-day; the only time for that had been before his marriage; now it would have the look of a confession of weak- ness, opportunely timed; and he could think of nothing more calculated to antag- onize Honora than such a crumbling ad- mission 9 April 6,1918 All this had been reanimated by the mere presence of Thomas Gast in Cottarsport; certainly, he concluded, an insufficient reason for his troubling. Gast had been a miner too; he was familiar with the con- ditions in the West. . . . There wasa great probability that he hadn’t even heard of the unfortunateaffair; while Olive Stanes would be dragged to death rather than garble a word of what he had told her— Jason willingly acknowledged this of Olive. He resolutely banished the whole compli- cation from his mind; and, walking with Honora after supper in the garden back of their house, he was again absorbed in her vivid, delicate charm. The garden was deep and narrow, a flight of terraces connected by a flagged path and steps. At the bottom were the bergamot pear trees that had been Ithiel Canderay’s especial charge in his last retired years. Their limbs, faintly blurred with new foli- age, rose above the wall against a tranquil evening sky with a white slip of May moon. The peace momentarily disturbed in Jason Burrage’s heart flooded back; a sense of great well-being settled over him. Honora rested her hand within his arm at an in- equality of the stone walk. “T am really a very bad wife, Jason,” she said suddenly; ‘‘self-absorbed and in- attentive.” ““You suit me,”’ he replied inadequately He was extraordinarily moved by her re mark; she had never before even suggested that she was conscious of obligation. He wanted to put into words some of the warmth of feeling which filled his heart, but suitable speech evaded him. He could not shake off the fear that such protestations might be displeasing to her restrained being Moving slightly away from him she seemed, in the soft gloom, more wonderful than ever. Set in white against the depths of the garden her face, dimly visible, appeared to be without its customary, faintly mocking smile. “Do you remember, Jason,” she con- tinued, “‘how I once said I thought I was marrying you because I was lonely, and that I found out it wasn’t so; I didn’t know why?” She paused. He was enveloped by an intense eager ness to hear her to the end: it might be that something beyond his greatest hopes was to follow. But Fhe. vnc over- took him. ‘“‘T was certain I’d see more clearly into myself soon, but I haven’t; it’s been useless trying. And I’ve decided to do this—to give up thinking about things for myself, and to wait for you to show me. “But I can’t do that,”’ he protested, facing her; ‘‘more than half the time | wonder over almost that same question why you ever married me. “This is a frightful situation,’’ she ob- served with a return of her familiar manner; “two mature people joined for life, and neither with the slightest idea of the rea- son. -— howIhavegivenitup. . . suppose I’ll diein ignorance. Perhaps I was too old “ss He interrupted her with an uncustomary incivility, a heated denunciation of what she had been about to say. “So you are not sorry,” he remarked after a little. ““No,” she answered slowly, ‘‘and I’m certain I shan’t be. I’m not that sort of person. I would go down to ruin sooner than regret.”’ She said no more, but went into the house, leaving Jason in the potent spring night. There was no longer any doubt about the lilacs; the air was laden with their scent An entire hedge of them must have blo: somed as he was standing there. He moved to the terrace below; there might be buds on the pear trees. But it was impossible to see the limbs. How could Honora expect him to make their marriage clear? He had never before seen her face so serene. He thought that he heard a vague stir outside the wall, and he remembered the presence of a semipublic path. Now there was a cautious mutter of voices. He advanced a step, then stopped at a scrambling of shoes against the wall. A vague form shouldered into view, momentarily clinging above him, and a harsh voice cried: **Murderer!”’ xIx VEN above the discordant clash of his startled sensibilities rose the fear, instantaneously born, that Honora had heard. 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Continued from Page 90) solidified intoa recognizable, leaden dread— the conviction that his wife must learn the story of his misadventure, told with ani- mus and lies. Then a more immediate dread held him rigidly attentive: there might be a second cry, a succession of them shouted discordantly to the sky. Honora would come out, the servants gather, while that accusing voice, indistinguishable and disembodied by the night, proclaimed his error. This was not the shooting of Eddie Lukens, but the neglect to comprehend Honora Canderay. Absolute silence followed. He made a motion toward the wall, but, oppressed by the futility of such an act, arrested himself in the midst of a step and stood with a foot extended. The stillness seemed to thicken the air until he could hardly breathc; he - seized by a sullen anger at the ovents hat had gathered to betray him. The cry- ing tones had bee n like a chemical acting on his complexity, changing him to an en- tirely different e nt ity, darkening his being; the peace and mae of the night were destroyed by the anxiety that now sat upon him Convinced that nothing more was to fol- low here, he was both impelled into the house, to Honora, and held motionless by the fear of seeing her turn toward him with her familiar light surprise and a question. However, he slowly retraced his way over the terraces, through a trellis hung with grapevines, and into the hall. As he hoped, Honora was on the opposite side of the dwelling. She had heard nothing. Jason sat down heavily, his gaze lowered and somber. The feeling smote him that he should tell Honora of the whole miserable business at once, make what excuse for himself was possible, and prepare her for the inevitable

public revelation. He pronounced her name, with the intention of doing this; but she showed him such a tranquil, superfine face that he was unable to proceed. Her interrogation held for a moment and then left him, redirected to a minute, colorful square of glass beads. A multiplication of motives kept him silent, but principal among them was the familiar shrinking ee appe: iring to his wife in any little or mean guise. It was pre- cisely into such a <r that he had been forced. He felt now that she would over- look a murder such as the one he had com- mitted far more easily than an intangible error of spirit. He could actually picture Honora in his place shooting Eddie Lukens; yut he couldn’t imagine her in his humiliat- ing situation of a few minutes before. He turned to the consideration of who it might be that had called over the wall, and immediately recognized that it was one of a small number—one of ‘‘ Pack’’ Clower’s

gang. Thomas Gast would have gravitated quickly to their company, and their resent- ment of his, Jason Burrage’s, place i 1 life must have been nicely increa sed by Gast’ s ealousy. The latter, Jason knew, had not washed an honest pan of gravel in his journey and search for a mythical, easy wealth; he had hardly left the littered fringe of San Francisco, but had filled pro- gressively menial places in the less admir- able resorts and activities. With so much established beyond doubt he was confronted by the necessity for immediate action, the possibility of yet averting all that threatened him, of pre- serving his good opinion in Honora’s eyes. Clower and Emery Radlaw and the rest, with neither the balance of property nor that of position, lawless and inflamed with drink, were a difficult opposition. He re- eated that he had mastered worse, but out in California, where a man had been nakedly a man; and then he hadn’t been married. There he would have found them at once, and an explosion of will, perhaps of powder, would have soon cleared the at- mosphere. But in Cottarsport, with so much to keep intact, he was all but power- less Yet th e following day, when he saw the iry’s brother enter the combined i-liquor store, he followed, and to his grim satisfaction found Thomas Gast already inside. The apothecary gave Jason in inhospitable stare, but the latter ignored him, striding toward Ga st.

‘‘Just what is it you’ve brought East about me?” he demanded. The other avoided the query, his gaze shifting over the floor. ‘“*Well?” Jason insisted after a pause. Thomas Gast was leaning against a high counter at one side, behind which shelves

THE SATURDAY held v arious ) ain and paper boxes and scales and a ae ar, powder rs and vividly striped candy in t: ull gl: ASS jars. reason for name calling over my back wall.”’ “You can’t get away from the fact that you killed a pardner.”’ I didn’t shout thief him from the ve of ul e dark;

He had a harried face, ; undera fine brow, a tremulous flabby mouth with white crystals of powder adhering to its corners, anda — nance like low oilskins of the l irkly in the latter's direc- » you or Clower got to do 1e apothecary inter- “but ‘all the other men of the town are interested in keeping it orderly. dressed Thomas Gast: the truth and all the t longs to me and I don’t maligned by any empty liar back from the y And either of you ‘ “See that you tell drunkards or old \ women either. shot one man I « care this much for your muck is allowed to ye kill whoever starts a who -~ brought so much back from hi id the name of finishing whi it I beg: in. pearance af re solution van Hoe oy est, untraceable rumor would besufficient to amen a sh = th at he fe red, di amage him in spirit and wee ; he had passed the tumul- tuous years of living. The labor and priva- the Franklin stove and the spring evenings guttering in the mild lilac-hung air. the old wonderment at their situation returned. must explain her to herself? He tried again all the conventional explanations of mar- e without satisfaction; and the material equally failed. that if he could pene trate this my stery his s a. might with aad bubetiedon successfully defy Th i past which equally threatened to reach out destructively into the future. His happiness in its new state of fragility dwell on at nights, to ponder aware of what overshadowed him, watch such passers-by as spoke, for some sign of the spreading ad his sold Often he imagined that he saw such an indication and he would hurry home in He approached her a hundred times de- termined to end his misery of suspense a face the incalculable we ight of he or dis dain; oo on eac h occasion he f Now his det re e whendhs. too oan roundabout, way forced upon him. insecure, he told himself. reat in the apothecary’s shop would be sufficient to shut the mouth of rumor. had not been empty; His posit ion was too he was still capable

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of uncal ulating ige How closely wa Honora bound to him? What did she think of him at heart? He couldn't bear to remember how he had laid open her dignity, the dignity and position of the Canderays in Cottarsport, to whispered vilification. Connected with him she was being discussed in “ Pack” Clow- er’s shanty. His mind revolved endlessly about the same few topics—he elaborated and discarded countless schemes to secure Honora; he even considered giving Thomas Gast a sum of money to repair what harm the latter had wrought. Useless—his dan- shed on hatred and envy and "eon ver exculpable the killing of 4 ikens had been, the results were immeasurably unfortunate, for a simple act of violent local justice. TI ey were in the chaise above Cottars- port; Coggs had died thr rough the winter, and his pl been taken by a young coachman from the « ity. The horses rested somnolently in their harness, the bright bits of rubbed silver plate shining. Honora is looking out over the harbor, a gentian- blue expanse. “Good heavens,”’ she cried with sudden rgy. “I am getting old at a sickening rate! Only last year the schooners and sea made me as restless as a gull. I wanted to sail to the farthest places; but now the boats are—-are no more than boats. It fatigues me to think of their jumping about; and I haven’t walked down to the wh: irves for six weeks. Do] look a haggard fright? “You seem as young as before I went to California,’’ he replied simply. She did A strand of hair had slipped from its net and wavered across her flawless cheek; her lips were bright and smooth, her shoulders slimly square. ‘You're a marvelous woman, Honora, he told her. She gazed at him,smiling. “‘I wonder if you realize that that is your first compli ment of our entire wedded life?”’ Ridiculous!” he declared incredulously ‘Isn’t it?’ ‘I mean I’m complimenting you all the time. I think ‘You can hardly expect me to hear thoughts,” she interrupted. He silently debated another—it was to be about the ribbon on her throat— but de- cided against giving it voice. Why, like the reasons for so much else, he was unable to say; they all had their root in the blind sense of the uncertainty of his situa- tion. Throughout the evening his thoughts shifted ceaselessly ve one position to another. This, he realized, could not con tinue indefinitely; soon, from within or hout, Honora and he must be revealed to each other. He was permeated by the weariness of constant strain; the peace of the past months had been destroyed; it seemed to him that he had become an alien to the serenity of the high, tranquil rooms and of his wife. He rose early the following morning and descended into a rapt purity of sunlight and the ecstatic whistling of robins. The front door had not been opened; and as he turned its shining brass knob his gaze fell upon a sheet of paper projecting below. Jason bent, secured it, and with a premonition of evil thrust the folded scrap into his pocket. He turned through the house into the gar- den and there privately scrutinized a half sheet with a clumsily formed, disguised writing:

“This,” he read, “will serve you notice to move on. Dangerous customers are not desired here. Take a suggestion in time and skip bad consequences. You can’t hide back of your wife’s hoops.” It was signed “Committee.” Art — “ is thrilling the air with me os above his head. Jason listened mechani- illy as the bird ended his song and me away. Then the realization of what he had found overwhelmed him with a strangling bitterness. He, Jason Burrage, had been ordered from his birthplace, he had been threatened and accused of hiding behind a woman, by the offscouring of the alleys and rum holes. A feeling of impotence thrust its chilling edge into the swelling heat of his resentment. He would have to stand like a condemned animal before the im- pending fatal blow; he was held motion- less, helpless, by every circumstance of hi life and hopes. He crumpled the warning in a clenched hand. How Cottarsport would point and peer at him—at Jason Burrage, who was Honora Canderay’s husband, a murderer; Jason, who had returned from California

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It promised him only sorrow, and now its influence was reaching up toward Honora, in herself se- renely apart from the muck and defilement out of which he thought he had struggled. The sun rising over the bright spring foliage filled the garden with sparkling color. His wife, in a filmy white dress, called him to breakfast. She waited for him with her faint smile, against the cool inte- rior. He went forward isolated, lonely, in his secret distress. xx HIS communication, like the spoken accusation of a previous evening, was apparently without other consequences. Jason’s exterior life progressed without a deviation from its usual smooth course. It was clear to him that no version of the facts about the killing of Eddie Lukens had yet spread in Cottarsport. This, he decided, considering the character of Thomas Gast, the oblique quality of his statements, was natural. He could not doubt that such public revelation, if threat and intimida- tion failed, must come. Meantime he was victimized by a growing uncertainty from what direction would the next attack thrust? He smiled grimly to himself at the mem- ory of the withdrawn and secure aspect of the town when he had first returned from the West. To him, striding across the hills from the Dumner stage, it had resembled an ultimate haven. The seeming harmony and peace of the gray fold of houses about their placid harbor had concealed possibil- ities of debasement as low as California’s worst camps. Now, successful, when he had looked for the reward of his long years of brutal toil, the end of struggle, he was confronted by the ugliest situation of his existence. He was glad that he had always been a silent man or Honora would have noticed and demanded the cause of the moroseness which must have settled over him. They sat no longer before the stove in the drawing-room, but on a side porch that commanded an expanse of lawn and a high privet hedge, while he smoked mo- rosely at the inevitable cheroots, gloomily searching for a way from the difficulty closing in upon him. Honora had been to Boston, and she was describing lightly an encounter with her aunt, Herriot Cozzens. He was only half conscious of her amused voice. Clouds had obscured the evening sky and there was an air of suspense like that preceding a thunderstorm in the thickening dark. A restlessness filled Jason which he was unable to resist, and with ashort, vague explanation he rose and proceeded out upon the street There, his hands clasped behind his back and head lowered, he wandered on, lost in inner despondence. He turned into the courthouse square, dimly lighted by gas lamps at its outer con- fines, and paced across the grass, stirring a few wan fireflies. It was blacker still be- yond the courthouse. He stumbled slightly, recovered himself, and wearily commenced a return home. But he had scarcely taken a step when a figure closed in upon him, materializing suddenly out of the darkness. He stopped and was about to speak when a violent blow from behind grazed his head and fell with a splintering impact on his shoulder. He stood for a moment bewil- dered by the unexpected pain; then as he saw another shape, and another, gather round him, he came sharply to his senses. His hand thrust into a pocket, but it was empty—he had laid aside the derringer in Cottarsport. His assailants grappled with him swiftly, and he swayed, struggling and hitting out with short blows in the center of a silent, vicious conflict. A rough hard palm was crushed against ? mouth, a head ground into his throat, and a heavy, mucous breath of rum smote him. There w was muttered cursing and low, disregarded commands. A cotton handkerch ief, evidently used as a mask, tore off in Jason’s hand; strained voices, their caution lost in passion, took unmistakably theaccents of **‘ Pack "’ Clower and the Swede, Steven. A thinner tone out- side the swirling bodies cried low and ur- gent: ‘‘Getit done with!” A fist was driven April 6,1918 against Jason’s side, leaving a sharp, stab- bing hurt; a heavy kick tore his thigh. Then he got his fingers into a neck and put in the grip all the sine wy strength got by long years with a miner’s pan and shovel. A choked sob responded, and blood spread stickily over his palms. It seemed to Jason Burrage that he was shaking himself free, that he was victori- ous; with a final supreme wrench he stood alone, breathing in gusts. There was a sec- ond’s imponderable stillness, and then all the night appeared to crash down upon his head. XXII E THOUGHT it was the flumed river, all their summer’s labor, bursting over him. He was whirled downward through a swift course of jagged pains, held under the hurtling water and planks and stones. He fought, blind and strangled, but he was soon crushed into a supine nothingness. Far below the river discharged him; he was lying beside a slaty bank in which the gold glittered like fine and countless fish scales. But he couldn’t move and the bank flattened into a plain under a gloomy ridge, with a camp of miners. He saw that it was Sunday, for the men were all grouped be- fore the tents singing. There was Eddie Lukens gravely waving a hand to the beat of the melody: “Don't you ery for me. I’m going to Calaveras With my wash bowl on my knee.” It was undoubtedly Eddie, his partner, but he had never seen him so white and why, he had a hole over his eye! Eddie Lukens was dead; it wasn’t decent for him to be standing up, flapping his hands and singing. Jason bent forward to remon- strate, to persuade him to go back—back to where the dead belonged. Then he re- membered, but it was too late; Eddie had him in an iron clutch; he was dragging him, too, down. Jason made a convulsive effort to escape; he threw back his head, gasping—and saw Honora, his wife, bending over him. The tormenting illusion slowly perished—this was Cottarsport and not California; he was back again in the East, the present, married to Honora Canderay. An astounding fact, but so. Through the window of his room he could see the foliage of a great horse- chestnut tree that stood by the sidewalk; it was swelling into flower. Full memory now flooded back upon him, and with it the realization that probably his happiness was destroyed. It was impossible to tell how much Ho- nora knew of the cause of the assault upon him. She was always like that— enigmatic But, whatever she knew now, soon she would have to hear all. Even if he wished to lie to her it would be impossible to fabri- cate, maintain a convincing cover for what had happened. The most superficial nec- essary investigation would expose the story brought home by Thomas Gast. The time had come when he must confide everything to Honora; perhaps she would overlook his cowardice. About to address her he fell into a bottomless coma, and a day passed before he had gathered himself sufficiently to face his task. She was sitting facing him, her chair by a window, where her fingers were swiftly and smoothly occu- pied. Her features were a little blurred against the light, and—her disconcerting scrutiny veiled—he felt this to be an assist- ance. ‘“Those men who broke me up”’— he be- gan disjointedly, surprised at the thin un- certainty of his voice—‘‘I know pretty well who they are. Ought to get most of them.’ ““Wethought you could say,” she rejoined in an even tone. ‘‘Some guesses were made, but it was be tter to wait till you could give a ste atement.’ “Am I badly hurt, Honora?” he asked suddenly. ‘Not dangerously,’”’ she assured him “You have splendid powers of recupera- tion.” “T’ll have to go on,” he added hur- riedly, ‘“‘and tell you the rest— why I was beaten.” “It would be better not,’ she stated. ““You ought to be as calm as possible. It may quiet you, Jason, to hear that I know now.” “You know what the town has been say- ing,” he cried in bitter revolt—‘‘ what lies Thomas Gast spread? You've heard all the envy and malice and drunken vileness of sots? It isn’t right for you to think you know before I could speak a word of de- fense.”” (Conctuded on Page 97

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Hin The Plug with the Green Jacket yp THE MICR CORE TES. } WOUND LENGTHWISE ‘ —— 7 + E ~ ne 4 | > i 7. | : : The vital feature of SPLITDORF spark plugs is the laterally wound ruby mica core It corrects every fault of PORCELAIN plugs and gives added life and efficiency because, unlike porce- lain, it cannot chip, crack or leak. Being practically indestructible it assures service far outlasting any that can be expected from even the finest porcelain. ! PLITDORF E> rt all others. thin sheets of fine ruby mica are wound lengthwise around a cone-shaped electrode. This conical mica core is then forced into a metal bushing under such tremendous pressure that no gas or oil can possibly escape through or around it. Moreover, by reason of its conical form, every explo- m ti ns it and keeps it permanently leakproof. SP Lan noes In makine SPLITDORF plugs. so different from

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eC Ln ed ‘ 4 4 } and 4}OW that discretion is the better part of buying, 1 i} women should learn the ditterence between this pure silk Luxite Hosiery and adulterated silk hose. The soft effuljence and the grace of Luxite Hosiery commend it to all who have an eye to beauty. And its unrivalled serviceability prompts them to recommend it to their frie So Luxite has become the great American hosiery success —and is, today, an international favorite. Ask your dealer to supp), If he cannot do write for price list and descriptive booklet today Men's Silk Faced 50¢ and Pure Thread ‘ nd $1. Orher styles at 35c up. Women's Pure Thread Silk styles 40c up. Children's 35< LUXITE TEXTILES, Inc., 646 Fowler S Makers of High Grad Chicago San Francisco LUXITE TEXTILES OF CANADA Other e171) ‘ oi.Ul Ms y er par ind t t., Milwaukee, Wis. Liverpool, England Sydney, Australia New York Limited, London, Ont

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~—f - i Concluded from Page 94 N t nly na e LOW ays, Ja him entirely, that she was merely dispens ng a cl t and aut\ and, moving ul € ; gz pr pe up ina temporary ele ] Te yy he Wol ld study her ‘ 1 eve ent in an endeavor to gain her mport pinion of him as he had been lately revealed It wa iseless; he was ilwa Jason felt, in a state of disturbing He determined to end it, however, ir f t Honora had said, on an after he ne ipp ‘ted d wn to the tree ar ‘ I € His wife took her place at his side and they rolled forward into the expansive irmth of summer. Jason was impressed by the eer repet nof ; and it seemed to him that this is the gre est nappiness ! I such a procession of days and drive th Hor i Her t i i 1 | t ed NV Dl ne I led a the mer t ight once ne nN t ¢ That seemed year ! nearer tne of \ thar her He hand vere folded ir he ip } é 1 if ey ere } nea at the é ering ingers were liké 1" \ As he idied f he was startled at the é ee r in a rigid clas her kr ¢ hite j He looked u nd he ere drawing near ] i mé¢ it e the | rte \ 1 ence fe pon the latter as the et r l ‘ there were the vo Radlaw e saturnine and ble the other yree } hattered G ; Vleet f hing sel { ryt a I ive p ed + ’ tenance } t ! 1 ink ba l t he I ! com! tit nmat top I evident th she ut to descend; he put out a hand t n her t she dis regarded him. His astonishment increased to incredulit andthenfear; herose hurriedly, but relax« with a mu Honora had taken the car i ak ier omposed, toward Thomas Ga Polina: seTO and Was WaikKing riage direct ¢ She story a short distance away iry to cut the of you. When you talk again about Mr 1an he shot in Califor? necessi an ex , a movement, Was possibie she had swept the thong of the whip acros Gast’s face The blow was swung wit! force, and »>man faltered, a burning we on the } of his countenance The coachman and Jason Burrage in the chaise the men together on the sidewalk, seemed part of an inanimate group of which t} only thing endowed with life was the wv flickering again, cutting and wrappir bout a lace There was a curiously ruthless imper ali about Honora’s erect presence, he icy-cold profile Memories of old stori of Ithiel ( der the necessary, salt punishment in ships, flashe m’s mind An ‘ e seemed to drag u ‘ A } arse a but the rele perer!’’ Honora d in her ringing voice. ‘“‘You liar and slabbe ny coward! It’ trut! { d the 1 he smallest detail of h Say that he had been robbed f first laws killed a knife in the roke one of the have been } done it ave done i your thought—but a man She flung the whip down on the brick Thomas ( pressed his hands to hi face, and slow red stains widened throug} his fingers. The apothecary stood transfixed; | brother was shaking in a febrile and con- gested horror. The woman turned disdainfully, moved tothechaise: the coachman descended and offered his arm as she mounted to the seat The drawn and the started forward in a w Honora’s gaze was set, looking direct] lap of fl 1 lowered reins were horses ahead; now rel nusiin, en ixed they gave an mpression of crushing wearine Jason’ heart pounded like a forge hammer; a tremendous realiza brain—he need never Honora had married him; answered, stopped—forever. was forced into hi question why his doubts were THE END War and Sport rN f x the in a ( ! ( A nave i t est en alter they are t n that the war will ir i greater admiration for physical | ( i il fitness. If we later ! Y i ervice, whict her hethe we like it ) f i I e % pay more atter U t il t ( nave to the } sical n I hat i? an adjustment of that 1 ol outdoo ing ' st card which contains some ! emer th tend to prove th f the I erlal Germar ( ‘ t in reg 1 to efficier in Wa a n life ell It does not al pleasalr reading tor Americar ind cannot be quoted in full } in brie t the demand of Hinden- burg t it I il ar \A aows remarr\ at once, prefera yunded or oth u Love i honor t the tu of seiection—are noth- ng to Hindenbu It would be difficult even to imagine a doctrine re abominable than the fore- xz ) a race of slaves would a cept the t of it S lestruction raised to the nt Nowe so that even the controlling ‘ which have set loose this reign of tions, that there must be future war »ever!r rative agencie and the end ha As applied } be more terrible Hindenburg, nothought car But it leads up to another anda gentler l€ One ot the yn be not le nt of the a ‘ ) once a é ea that use and dest tion make the le business of a natior will be the advance of a more intelligent idea destruction in the i yul of our ind, t the i we shall adjust and 1 ¢ to European standards in the tter « protect! of game and of forest and the general] ization of wl might be calle« the m property f f-d applied to the benefit of all the people. It is not to be supposed that a people so inte ligent the Am “ consent to see the ef ncy of destruction wipe out all that other side of national and personal life whicl yY in restoration, in growt ast your congressma! abling act of the Ur treaty yrotecting the r ld fowl States Senate already ha enabling ac passed this | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Have Lately Discovered a New-I ype Corn Meal A Superlative Quaker Product This is the first announcement of an exquisite corn mec val. But a million women have already found it. In the past few months the demand has become a sensation. You expect a Quaker product to be extra good, but this one will surprise you see Few people realize this how vastly corn meals ditler are sweet grains of gold —the dust until they serves its freshness Old style corn meal wassimply wholecorn ground In Quaker Corn Meal about 40 per cent is discarded wh The fibrous outer coat is removed, for makes coarse is remove | par ranc¢ Quaker Corn Meal yellow or white the the The yellow looks like Quaker Hominy Grits, wh hominy Serve as a breakfast Or cook it, then it. Use it in griddle cereal rry A corn t soon hominy choicest 1¢ h iS ( akes Or make a side dish of it. Dee pac recipes kage. T he oily germ for g part of Also in Hominy Form nother fancy granulated. fritters, or meal corn that that we rows out Yellow or White " No coarse outer coat, no oily germ includec is puc 15 Cents Per Package wh Except in the Far West yoy As Fancy White Hominy Grits T he S¢ whi h form 1s white know saving doul ly « will ney grits o on the ~MINY GR , "“ANCY i Oats ¢ The best 60% of the corn muthns white like The sealed round pac kage pre The foods smooth and inviting marble it make: \ glance will show n The i ing will change your Quaker 2c ole idea Best daintie Your grocer has it CornMea] 20ers to find it ' i your ask you rst sery ol corn neighbors se it for bread and Idings eatless » are d veryorne In these days sential er miss f this and for porridge pan cakes. Use it to make meal " uimtie hould whe il they ire Folks wheat when you serve hominy } grade Price 15c per package except in the Far West Quaker Hominy Grits The Quaker Oats @mpany Chicago

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SHOT WITH CRIMSON This New Range Continued from Page 4 hands and making short work ¢« ne oap- omber Hudson. Father, mother, daughter moment before, lif 1 her clenched hand Is A Wonder DOXE tne a ts”’ ¢ obstru and sor he first explosion Jarre od the and hissed out a single word: t Little N rit s the most great building in which they were sec urely —/ “hrist 3 F C ki lent of them a zing housed ‘ They, too, had been waiting. or oo ing the old-t ‘ ilar is *Ah!” sighed the old x and it _— Thousands ere we the great « Although s¢ is lese than four feet long n the Far We and equ PI ng enem Witt i h of 1 ef, of itisias rt The ot hers whose eyes f been wait t, thousar 6 r | ‘ ipler ol tar and featne rned to! d smiled for the first time who had not been wai ing, oe thes Not fi i please me more than to n hours. T stent n was over. not! a < the secret that secure and ead such a gang,” he proclaimed Lead Farther downtown two men in one of the safe in » he reasts of the few who were er ght into these foul nests where big hotels silently shook hands, bade each allowed to tah e. Thousan ds who rejoiced, Wha t, judge other a friendly good night for the benefit of for they knew that a great deed had beer I repea Ho id are you, ¢ bbs?’”’ chance observ , and went off to bed. The done! They only} knew that devastation ha Oh, I gue [’r d enough to shoot a waiting was over. fallen somewhere witl ng force gun or pull a rope or carry a bucket of tar,” Two night watchmen met in front of one mattered not to th so long a ‘ ted the ing mar of Sea nee eee York, had fallen in its appointed place! ll put it the other How young within hearing of the bells of Trinity and Many a glass, many a stein was rais« ure you?” almost within "sound of the sobbin ns Wi aters in stealthy tribute to the hand that | I’n twenty-nine of the » bay. Thei r faces, rendered almost rocked the « y of New York! And in tl How did you « ape the draft?” invisible behind the great collars that pro- darkness of the night they hid the [hey haven't reached my number tected them from the shrill winds coming ing faces and whispered a song wit} et,” said Mr. Cribbs with dignity. up the cafions from the sea, were tenseand melody. Well, that’s good. There’s still hope,” drawn and white, but the vd eyes glittered Rich man, poor man, beggar man, t ! id the judge grimls ‘They need just brightly, fiercely in the darkness. They, In spirit at least they touched hands ar fire eaters as you over there in France too, had been waiting. thrilled with a common exaltation! , Pershing.” n a dingy apartment in Harlem three It was after one o’clock when t C Carstairs turned to Zimmerlein, who was _ shifty-eyed, nervous men anda pallid, tired, _ stairs’ motor crept out the ferry] being helped into his fur coat by one of the frightened woman rose suddenly from the at One Hundred and Thirtieth Street and ittendar lethargy of suspense and grinned evilly, not whirled up the hill tov 1 the Drive \ Can't we take you to the « mer- at each other but at the rattling, dilapi- rough-looking i: u lein? There is plenty of room in . dated window looking westward ac ross the molested in the I ered There is absolutely no danger in this No, thank you, ane - : seeing roots money ped = ther ste combination ; trai Mr. al M Pt ‘ " o he squalid and jotted it do hig é ed ‘ at the statior Good night. OF district. One inthe same way the license IT othe Peter. What did you hear? of the men automobil When he was 1, hour | [ could get no answer, Mr. Zimm« stre ed afterward, he had in his little book the Note the two gas ovens above —« cu aid the steward steadily Wire F paquever. umber of riage — chat . ame in | may be down, sir ; hand,and Jersey between half past eleven at night ‘ é "Good night, Mrs. Carsta V hoarse and seven o’clock in the morning. It wa ' enamel Goor, Zimmerlein held out his hand x laugh of not his duty to stop or question the Gold Medal She hesitated an instant, and cupants of these cars. He was merely « then tookit Her gaze was fixed ercising the function ol! the nysteri W as if fascinated on his dark secret eyes of the States Gover Glen ood teady eyes. ment. um Mr. and Mr were admitted rhe large oven below OARS }, Traucous- voiced 4 to thei P: Ave partment by a tall, ind i t Hi wsboy were Cry ng tne 44 veautiful gi who threw oper the door See the cooking surface w soon after midnight. The # instant the elevator stopped at the floor ‘ were doing a thriving busine “Thank goodness!”’ she eried, a re for Che destruction of the gre ? vibrant note of relief in her voice When in a hurry l Reynolds plant, more specta ! , ie ‘ ¢ ‘We were so dreadful be ope ‘ lar and more appalling than an) ‘) % ‘*What are you doing , Louise a ‘ previous deed perpetrated by cried Mrs. Car ! He ; ry I the secret enemies of Amer- husband frowned as with annoyances ‘ ss ° ican people, was to drive ever ‘Where is Hodges?”’ he demanded. Makes Cooking Easy the most sanguine and indilier He stood stock-still for a mome nt be- ent ‘ t vl to a | ai re All Le ti r \\ 14 of the pe tha Weir Stove Co., Taunton, Mass. ' , tel ss . = rughnout the ind Ci piacent ecurity wa il { to su iin a shoc 0 B [| sin. tron } s in thal al Temas ; . a bomtl ent : | Yi asl y had iken ree ' ou aa aa | S$ human to the most vivid descriy Cb 9 tions of she threw off wn fu t. The wor | ear 1S ! | | naceon tied frown deepene fronts of France "i vuld i } ir tne ex} I Huge t here, Louise?” he asked j neadine eam ‘Hear them? WI incle dear, we ) to the fac f “=. thought the city was being bombarded | j quick-breathing warships in the t inded so ne | men and wide-eyed ind so terrible ilran tothe w women the ‘ dows. It was jus I ven, It He tails of the gre called up Central at on wa the ver. Nightfa 1ding so iIrightenead she cou ea e stree paused t ind , Yes, This is Davenport Carstairs. ... Bellevue Hoss didn’t know w I at . ot pleas tog ¢ er pital? Police Surgeon? What? ... Yes, My Butier’s * She Was su the Ger! ( thing tha he Name is Hodges. What Has Happened, Officer ?"* tt rat i y Liied Fe * From nearly eve \ f ysome_ exultatior gers a strange, 1918 Acousticon | ov issv eak-eyed and anxious, crudely shape ect that stood ta} thes . I} i atant nm 4 tahle fted it to his lip ae D ‘ LOGRAPH] os Deposit Tt r of ( , t tne I ; pe 1 k ter it tt p tes 4 aa Free Trial [4 A No Expense Manhatta the frailer fully, ging hing like fear in dwe n é ! f latior It his eyes \\ not the i I heavy art ry scr I tin, pieces of iron and Lane ept u the e wind fr the stra vire, wads of cotton and waste, west that theserene iousdenizens and an odd assortment of tools littered of the greatest ew ieastoffthe the table. Harmle sS-appearing cans a and F mask of liflere ea se as one person bottles and dir y pac kages, with a mortar GENERAL ACOUSTIC CO., 1301 Candler Bidg., N. Y to ask the vital que \rethe U-boats and pestle, a small chemist’s scales, funnels Canadian Address, 621 New Birks Building, Montreal in the [ or at and graduates, stood in innocent array along lerly vo women and a shelf attached to the wall, guarded—so in of t it e windows at t seemed—by sinister-looking tubes and » of a lofty apa ent building on retorts ; I im, per We Side. For an hour they The woman, her eyes gleaming with a Davvy,” pleaded the girl. ‘‘He was so ex gluse ad been sitting there listening, and looking evolent joy that contrasted strangely cited, poor boy, he simply couldn't sit here to the west, ou ver the dark and h the dread that had been in a (Continued on Page 101)

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To America” ‘O writes a learned scientist, Professor \* Garrett P. Serviss, in a New York newspaper. He says: **’The pointed toe shoe is a veritable menace to America in the present crisis. Not only does it render the wearer incapable of marching, but its use produces deformities, extending from the toes to the ankle, causing a chronic weakening of the latter, which cannot be quickly cured.”’ Whatever your work is—whether pro- fessional man or farmer, clerk or student —resolve to conserve your energy and efficiency. Resolve today to banish the pointed, bone-bending, “‘stylish’’ shoes that bend your foot bones and cause fallen arches, twisted toes, corns, bunions, cal- louses, ingrown nails, and other ills, and get into the broad-toed, good-looking FDUCATOR SHOE® REG. U.S. PAT. OFF. MADE FOR MEN, WOMEN, CHILDREN

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100 How Mucha PYRENE Will Save You On Your 1918 Car 15 reduction on fire insurance for all irs equipped with Pyrene Note how 1uch tual ’ i ive n r r each wr. Th ivin n 1918 models a based on the rat pr mulgated b th ba rm and s England Conference Kates in the Centraland Far West are slig atiy lower, » the saving there will be correspond- ingly less Abbott $1.94 American, B 2.06 Apperson, 6-18 . 3.30 Austin, 12 5.63 Biddle, Hi . 3.98 sriscoe, 4-24 . 1.09 Buick 45 . ° 1.19 Buick, 45 : ‘ 1.88 Cadillac, 57 ° 4.21 Case, I ° 2.81 Chalmers, 6-30 2.23 Chandler, 17 2.26 Chevrolet, D 2.08 Cole, 870 ‘ 3.44 Columbia, ( ; 2.03 Crawtord, 6-40 4.38 Crow-Elkhart, 36 . 1.40 Cunningham, \ ‘ 6.38 Daniels, B 4.65 Davis, Hl 2.23 Dixie Flyer ‘ 1.34 Dodge 1.33 Dort, 11 , e 1.09 Klear, 4 , 1.61 kigin, A 1.64 Empire, 50 1.69 Fiat, k-17 ; 8.25 Franklin, 9 3.08 Glide, 6-40 2.09 (rant, 6 1.58 lial, ‘ 5.25 Harroun, Al 1.18 Ilaynes, 38 : 2.59 llollier, 206 1.93 liudson 2.93 llupmobile, R , 1.88 Inter-State, 1 1.50 Jackson . . 2.24 Jordan, 60 2.99 King, kl ° 2.48 Kissel, 6 ° 1.94 Kissel, 12 ‘ . 3.38 Kline, 38 ‘ 2.24 Laughlin 1.58 Lexington, R . 2.38 Liberty 2.03 Locomobile, 38 7.50 Marion-Handley 2.48 Marmon, 34 5.32 MecFarlan 5.25 Maxwell, 25 1.12 Mercer 4.88 Metz, 25 1.04 Mitchell, D-40 1.88 Moline-Knight, ¢ 2.458 Moon, 6-36 1.64 Murray 4.20 Nash, 681 1.94 National, 6 2.99 Oakland, 44 1.49 Oldsmobile, 3 1.78 Olympian ‘ 1.48 Overland, 85 1.40 Overland, 90 1.19 Owen, 42 7.95 Packard, 3-25 5.55 Puige, 6-39 2.00 Pan-American 2.25 Peerless, 56 3.51 Pierce- Arrow, 38 7.20 Pierce- Arrow, 66 9.75 Premier, 6-¢ 3.42 Regal 1.19 Reo 1.48 Roamer, 6-54 By Sakon 1.39 Savers 1.94 Scripps-Booth, G 1.39 Simplex, Crane 10.50 Singer 5.70 Standard, G 3.608 Stearns, 4 2.68 Studebaker, SH 1.34 Studebaker, kG 2.54 Stutz, 16 Valve 3.83 lemplar, 445 2.98 Velic 38 1.90 Westcott, 18 2.91 White, 16 Valve 7.50 Willys-Knight, 4 2.29 Winton, 22A . 4.43 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 6, 1918 r@ KILLS FIRE > SAVES LIFE It Saves 15 Percent Pyrene gets you a handsome reduction on auto fire insurance —15 percent every year. This amounts to no small sum in two or three years’ time. Look at the figures printed here and see just how much you save. he insurance companies know that with a Pyrene extinguisher on your car there’s slim chance of a fire. Hence the liberal reduction. Seldom an injury; seldom a life lost with Pyrene on a car. I here Is no better day than today to get Pyrene, make your car safe, m: ike your family’s lives secure and get what is due you from the i insurance companies. Sold by hardware and auto supply dealers. RENI MEG i FO 52 Vanderbilt Ave P New York— Every Appliance for Fire Protect:

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Continued from Page 98 . : e J she murmured, gla a THE SATURDAY EVENING POST fee tee Paint it this afternoon Run it out zew tomorrow “Hodges should with the latest extra,” we wait just a few minut He has been gone over an hour. The telephone bell ir Mr. Carst: study rang. So taut were the nerves of t fou I m t t ‘ mu not ‘ x y the pr Sce of latur A big, d il boy, mal yr the t turn before t nto fu uinhood. He was } nother st cassia I the DOV His fathe H n, had b \ ted in his de ‘ i e } yn f low him throuch the } } at Car bridge, as he had f ‘ father ind his grandfather t part | m d his 1 n i election eep the Car he eed up Colum|t She frar og oop y eanag org nk gerne dhey Bright—Look Prosperous cussions that took place with her husband —but Save Money for the War ] it rged Columbia becaus¢ i ne ald, | Sextravagant to let the old car get dingy trade it in tor | ilf at Va en ting, pr and t “4 . sp) pulsa £. J ae buy a new car that is no better mechanically [he old car heauty n the end Carstairs gave e wanted : . Rey to he f o both of them. But he was not all she needs is a new dress. Paint it yourself and save $50 to $100 deceived He knew that her chief reasor It's easy its fun ind you can turn out a fine clean, satisfactory job zh spoken soitiy and with almost pa Clean the car thoroughly Saturday and brush on a sparklin tre yf bear the separation from the boy she ved fier t | . not : fiercely, 60 devotedly. He wa Murphy Da-cote Motor Car Enamel calculations. If the situation had bee Next morning as you drive down the street for your Sunday outing, the CTSea ‘Al 1 . ient r reasonal neighbors will Say lixtr ivagant chap buys a new car every vear that Ifre } e chosen H s . ; : lore than half of the finest new car e fir { h Murpl ‘ H 1 4 : . specialized for over fifty years in fine coach and autom le varnist at inge, u ' ' t t opposed _hir in t ) Enamel flows on smooth] ind event lea . ther instances. tl | he« produces a beautiful shee which will hold a perve His 1 her 1u r " inal finist It stands weather exposure. oil. 1 nstant had een supreme She } 1 ey ed it washing { vith ar n-har ry ‘ b.very car {Da € i i ad l ed but g e( f ‘ band of exact shad | ‘ e te r affe n she i I Write { r child. Her word was law. A will look painted with different color i il € er quest ed it, even as a sn } name: we wil! see that 1 are supplied y_ self-willed lad. Paradoxicall; h indulged and disciplined him | M | AV . | C ; 4 ‘ . ‘ 4 f the same consuming force— her WIUPDIy amish OMpany no r love ( = ” , Sn? eae ; Franklin Murphy President we P shows the cole A Newark, N. J Chicago, I! ositiv har * eemtwad tes int t as ¥ eA hr ay ye , ; os Dougall Varnish Company, Ltd., Montreal, Canadian Associate "aslo elt it necessary to emp] pen] him wa the 7 her stepped into the breach She never te porized. She either promptly supported the father’s demand or opposed it. No mat ter which point of view she took the young ster invariably succumbed. In plai: it was her command that he obeys not his father’s : al | ’ TRADI MARI Ast me went on Carstairs came t re 1g C e nize the resistie combination that op} or La k, J him; and, though the re: oon Motor Car Enamels

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Reputation Reputation is the sum of past performance. It is the reputation of Hartford Tires, based on long years of quality-leadership, that means tire insurance when you use Hartfords. Hartford performance, on tens of thou- sands of cars and all kinds of roads, has always been better than Hartford promises. It is this performance, working out in greater satisfaction, in lower mileage costs, that has taught motorists to say: ‘‘You can always depend on Hartford Tires.” Buy not only tires but tire insurance. This insurance is yours when your car is equipped with Hartford Tires. Made in ‘H,’ ‘Plain,’ ‘Strongheart’ treads and Cord. who _ are Sold by selected, reliable dealers making Hartford service match Hartford quality. HARTFORD RUBBER WORKS COMPANY 1792 Broadway, New York res 7 hs 7a » ve THE SATURDAY EVENING POST notning I he clearer than the fact that he was bringing her son up with the most rigid regard for his future. She had her eyes set far ahead; she was seeing him always as a man and not as a boy. That much, at least, Carstairs conceded, and was id of her than he cared to admit, He wat splendid, earnest development of his boy under the influence of a force stronger than any he could have exercised. Sometimes he wondered if it was the German in her that made for the rather unusual strength, which so rarely rises more pri even to himself hed the sturdy, above the weakness of a mother’s pity. Once he laughingly had inquired what she would have done had their child been born a girl. “I should have been content to let you bring her up,” said she, with a cle in her eye. Though she was resolute, almost un- yielding, in regard to her growing son, her attitude toward her husband was in all other respects amazingly free from asser- tiveness or arrogance. On the contrary, she was submissive almost to the point of humility. He was her man. He was her law. A simple, unwavering respect for his strength, his position, his authority in the home of which he was the head rendered her incapable of opposing his slightest wish. An odd timidity, singularly out of keeping with her physical as well as her mental en- dowments, surrounded her with that pleas- ng and gratifying atmosphere of femininity so dear to the heart of every lord and master. She made him comfortable. And she was, despite her social activities, a good al d capable house wife, one of the old-fashioned kind who think first of a man’s comfort and then, though in this instance it was not demanded, of his purse. He was her man; it was her duty to serve him. As her boy merged swiftly, almost ab- ruptly into manhood her long maintained grip of iron relaxed. Carstairs noting the led. He was a long time in arriving at the solution. It was very simple after all another man into her calculations. Her boy had become a man—a nant man; and she was ready, even v change was puz she merely had admitted strong, domi- to relir qui h the ten porary power she hi exerted over him. She was no longer free to command. Alfred had come into his own. He was a man. She was proud of him. The time had come for her to be humble in the } of his glory, and she was content to lay aside the authority with which she had cloaked her love and ambition for so long. His word had become her law. She had two men in her family now. Slowly but surely she was giving them to under tand } : that she was t | eir woman and that she knew her place. She had been for twenty- the wife of one of them, and for - a twenty years the mother of the other. two year Carstairs was ricl He was a man of affairs, a man of power and distinction in the cour of that exalted cla KnOoWN as the leaders of finances He represented one of the soundest vertebrae in the backbone Witha ; amount of the nation in these times of war. loyalty of self-sacrifice he had offe that incurred a tr f his vital ause of the people He was on many boards, he was in energy, touch with all the great enterprises that worked for the comfort, the support and the encouragement of those who went fort} to give their lives if need be in the turmoil of war. Davenport Carstairs stood for all that was fine and strong it April 6,1918 As he stood inside the study door, wate! ing with some intensity the face of his son, he was suddenly conscious of a feeling of dread — not associated with the recent grave event, but something new— that was creep- ing, as it were, along the wire that reached its end in the receiver glued to Alfred’ ear. He glanced at his wife. She suddenly exhaled the breath she was holding and smiled faintly into his concerned eyes. “Yes,” said Alfred impatiently after a long pause. ‘Yes, this is Mr. Carstairs’ home. Iam hisson. What? Yes, he’s here; but can’t you give m the message? Who are you? What? . . . Certainly I'll call him, but Here, father! It’s someone who insists or speaking to you personally.” He set the receiver down on the table with a sharp bang and straightened up to his full height as if resenting an indignity. Carstairs took He real ized that-his hand trembled. He had never known it to happen before, even in mo- ments of great stress. “Yes, this is Davenport Carstairs. Who up the receiver. are you, please? He started slightly at the crisp, businesslike repiy. ‘“‘ Bellevue i9 > Hospital? Police surgeon? What? Just a moment, please. Now go ahead.” He had seated himself in the great library chair at the end of the table. “Yes, my butler’ name is Hodges. ... An Englishman... . What? . . . What has happened, of ficer? Good God! . .. I Why, certainly! I will come down at once if necessary. J can identify him, of course. . . . Yes, to-morrow morning will suit me better. a moment, please!” He turned to the listeners. - - - Hold the wire “Hodges ha been injured by an automobile,” he said quietly. “‘I gather he is unconscious. You ervous and upset, Frieda, so you'd better retire Leave this to ie : s he dead, Davenport?” she asked ricken voice, Louise! Skip off to bed! I’] s and tell ! em ing rhe girl swayed slightly. Her eyes were wide with anguish. , **I—I shouldn’t have allowed him to go out,”’ she stammered. “I Oh, Unek Davvy!”’ Mrs. Carstairs put her arm about the girl’s waist and led her fromthe room. Car stairs looked up at his son. “‘I guess you can stand it, Alfred. He’ dead; instantly killed.””, He spoke into the transmitter. ‘Tell me how it happened pl He hung up the receiver a moment two later Run down at the corner of M: ( Avenue and Forty-eighth Street rhe were two witr es. and ho hat } was standing in the street waiting for a car The automobile was going forty miles ar hour. He never knew what hit n. Pos devil! Have you ever heard him mention y We must notify some- Ve t worry vour 1 er wit} sor She’s had enoug! I should say so!” exclaimed Alfred, ( hing his hands. He choked uy ne a

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Fine S Exclus SATURDAY EVENING POST OLD STUFF Continued from Page 10 “Nor is that all!’’ He went on as though » had not spoken. “‘A picture, a valuable trait of a friend of mine, has been car- I can see no reason why my molested at all, but if so, why my most-prized possessions should be por" ried away room should be removed.” Mrs. Fairlie looked troubled. “I’m sure nothing was taken away, Mr. Saunders— except your wastebasket. Oh, perhaps you mean that old handbill on the wall. I did take that. It was hanging by one pin, and was so yellow and old I didn’t think xe ‘I trust I may be permitted to judge of the value of my own pictures,” began Hugo; then stopped. It was most curious, but the fountains of angry eloquence went suddenly dry looked into Mrs. Fair- , was startling. In all his life he could not recall being deflected from a seri- ous purpose by the mere aspect of the hu- man eye. True, the eye or eyes in this case were large and soft and blue, and just at this minute clouded with contrition. Hugo caught at the idea and saved his own self- fe would make her cry if he said Well, he wasn’t a brute. Not even for Hiram Meeker would he goad a woman “It is unfortunate abruptly. ‘‘In future make a few as he lie’s eyes. It respect I another word o tears that’s all,” he said ” He meant to terse remarks as to future do- mestic pol cy; u stead he me rely made ar expressive gesture with both hands that might have meant anything and turned away under acloud of conflicting impulses. He went violated chamber. He had failed. He had meant to be harsh, and he had merely been foolish. There was back to his something about the woman that was dis- turbing—that emotional capacity he had sensed before, that hint of tears and soft- ness. There was no satisfaction in beating that. The up an adver demanded quite other tacties. Suddenly he realized awful power to conquer the pliant disposition may possess. But al i like situation Vhat loud heartened himsel ‘IT must show her!”’ he said. “I'll have t what I willt Now began a new life for Hugo Saunders, a life made of excellent akfasts, dinners and suppers, the last usually fol- lowed by programs of vocal music in which to teach her jus olerate. neals— b Hugo performed | passive, stone-deaf part After this the ladt isually played ‘ bage or chatted ur e old aunt re tired hen f in inte al Mrs. Fairlie ewed or embroidered under the lamplight nie he lett e | e or sat in his roon Hug co not avoid these moments lt el esence, W h he felt sure would be made the most of if opport Plair t was up to him to w contingency at its firs yroac! to use as Narsnh and u nding a lemeanor as po ‘ Buried in ne papers or briefs Hugo ought lor Nation But he could not f pet Mr Fairlie’s presence acro the table Chere wa ymething irritating in her pres nee nere ometl ng eX it about é t of her at w k with her needle ne T even ne eyvelashe You seen ot yre dea 1 sew- gy to do,” he remar one ¢ ning I'm not sewing this evening. I am cro chneting it ts the samne tl aid Hugo cov Mrs. Fairlie looked startle Oh not quite.” She held up a long nakelike affair of purple sil “Tam ma ng a gentleman’ tie Don’t you tl ils ‘I do not,” said Hugo tf Ot 1 hoped you wou , F at on I vuldn’t wear one n ircumstances. I think the effeminate l’ ta ) those knitted-tidy thing 1 manly mal ring abc M ka é Ked dist Oh. I'n ‘ e man I meant this for is manl ] I thought e’d like Depet n the p on.” He's a bache he the wrong col I er his tials in one end nitials! A man w vill wear his i na ne tie 18 a man WhO Nas his od ered with tat irks,”” scoffed April 6,1918 “Well—if you really think so,’’ Mr Fairlie sighed reluctantly. ‘‘I meant it for a birthday gift and I sent away for diré tions to make the letters—H. S.; they ar very pretty.” “*H. S.,’” repeated Hugo. A birthd: gift! He had a birthday coming on in August, and his aunt had probably tattled. Was the misguided woman making the tie for him? For whom else, since she had let slip this clew. But Mrs. Fairlie had evi- dently noticed her error. “*Yes,”’ she said; ‘‘formy cousin Snell.” Hector Snell! Was there a human being with aname like that? It sounded too thin. ““T am sure,” said Hugo quickly, “that the person you intend it for would be better pleased not to receive such a thing.” Vell—if you think so,”’ she said again, and rolling up the purple snake replaced in her bag. “‘Now it will be a hand-painted cigar box or a satin shaving-mug holder,’ Hugo reflected sardonically. But going to bed that ni his reflection in the Mrs. Fairlie had said the man for made the tie wore the wrong colors. Could Hector ght he stared at mirror for some time. whon he it be possible he was not doing himself jus- tice? He felt he could not cope with the prob- lem alone, so he dropped in on Ben Moffett next day and let Ben sell him half a dozer new ties—a zebra, a couple of brocade 1 two or three on the purple tint. He wore one of the last the following evening There was no fr e of an in- tended birthday offering anything that could be construed as part of an atta Mrs. F: had an entirely hour by the } rlie. Instead, Hugo observed, she new occupation for her From a lor nvelope she w i select a great f little packe r books, each wit r jacket ir ed cryptically. Each little book hi pages ol vi and whe na number had been disgorged upon the tal Hugo noted that they were aligned t rows Mrs. Fairlie would then exar them, beginning at the left and proceeding directly across, would countermarch and return by the same route. Fach littl came in for a lingering study a npanied by small, soft, vague murn ‘ ‘ Hugo, irritated beyond restraint, had a most fallen to the vulgarity of a hat it al ant, Mr Fair OKE Ip and Phe are imple he , choosing a new dress, and I had these sent from the cit ‘I thought you were plaving aig Lid Hugo. “She'll be asking me to help he naminute,” he thought, but instead M Fairlie surprised } “You 1 do not care for womer uu, Mr. Saunde Your aunt has oper onceded Hugo large ce ~) TY thre nore not Fairlie gent .”’ Hugo yearned to nir ere as an excelier port } plat ty et ever at rest ar foolis no nt 1 persisting under the red-gold ff a the tabl I have 1 personal objectior vomar i » tolerar I have niact, every t for such good energ as she possesses. It is only that I have ne | need; as you know, I ha I am not a marrying ma toma He delivered t his tone one be lire ol at ! Mr. Saunde M Fa ge blue eyes ver x e and 1 hi be sure, Hugo explaine e- a ea or ible, re a ! ne ta ture. It was a matter that came under the domain of the intelligence, Woman, in his opinion, hac lical faults. For his part he « 0 look them ““Womatr expanded Hugo, has no sense of hun ¥ s e She ‘ eT ve \ a ’ Is hand successful f ur ear )- jected Mrs. | é Continued on Page 106

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New York Show Rooms—1893 Broadway Or THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Continued from Page 104 Hugo waived this irrelevance. ‘She is not clever at repartee—or spon- taneous of wit.” “Indeed!” “She talks too much.” Hugo warmed up slightly. ‘“‘The Chinese say ‘A woman’s tongue is the staircase to calamity.’ I agree.”” “I’m afraid you’re very hard on us, Mr. Saunders.”’ **Woman isinclined toexaggerateand”’ the memory of Hiram Meeker rushing upon is meddlesome—interfering. I ite examples.” re was only a faint sniff from Mrs. “airlie. She had bent low over her samples. Hugo looked at her with some dismay. Had his argument reduced her to tears? Certainly she dabbed at her eyes with her handkerchief. But a minute later she looked up at him and smiled. ‘I don’t think you’re very kind to us, Mr. Saunders. Or at least you look only at the dark side. We must have some good points. I’m sure men have admitted now and then that women can be a real inspir tion—and help them to their better In my own life’”’—she sobered—‘“‘I like remember that I helped my husband. There was the matter of his tobacco for one thing. Mr. Fairlie had smoked for twelve years before I met him, but when we were ‘i months I had him him-—‘“* she Oo married only three broken of the habit Hugo stared in cold astonishment. To think of anyone’s being broken of anything by the unformidable creature across the table was absurd. Plair the late Fairlie had been an utter weakling, one of those men who are moved by fluffy hair and appealing eyes. It was during the following week that Buck Harley “You and I haven’t had a chess fight in four weeks. Never see you any more, Hugo. What's up that somuch? They tell me challenged Hugo on the street. you stick at home you've got a prett housekeeper at home now. Not getting the ropes on you is she?”’ ‘Not at all,” said Hugo co aunt’s health is not very good and I want to look after her. She’s been a mother to me for a great many years.” Buck had laughed quite rudely at this piece of solicitousness. He had done even more. He had called at the house quite unnecessarily; coming in on one of the song recitals when Hugo was officiating | the piano; getting himself introduce staying an unconscionable time t about dull, uninteresting things. He } been quite insufferable when he left—con- gratulating Hugo in the hall and making remarks about “pretty widows with cork- ing eyes.”’ It was all beside the mark, but it was quite true as Buck had intimated that Hugo was staying at home rather more than he had done formerly. However, he was grow- ing older and, after the dinners he was eat- ing lately, the comforts of an armchair and a good light were more appealing than ever. Also summer was approaching rapidly and the armchair could be placed on the veranda. After the usual musical program the performers could go out and enjoy the pleasant zephyrs that stirred the flowering lilacs near by . It had occurred to Hugo on several evenings lately that after the first unrest and unpleasantness his life promised to readjust itself very acceptably to the rder of things. Since he had elt Idly. ‘*My present, new ¢ el - dated his ph losop} Vv of life to Mrs. - lie—his views on women generally —there had not been the least sign that they were to be disturbed. Mrs. Fairlie let him tinctly alone. And he began to relent toward her—to unbend from his harsh, crit ical attitude. It was true, as Buck hac said, Mrs. Fairlie was young and pretty. To see her hands moving in the growing dusk like fluttering white moths above her sewing or embroidery as he glanced up over his newspaper, W hile a westering wind brought flower scents to his nostrils,was by no means the tax upon his nerves he had fancied it would be. Also Mrs. Fairlie seemed to be a person of some taste. The loitering gallants who swung up the street and ogled in at her even the facetious Harley—sowed only tares. She never seemed tosee them. No; for a space the suspicious soul of Hugo Saunders knew peace—lulled by a sense of comfortable security. It was on a moon-t evening that this peace was slightly disturbed. The little housekeeper laid down her sewing and eyed Hugo thoughtfully April 6,1918 ‘Mr. Saunders,”’ she of the Civie Club in this a picnic bazaar on Satur« tickets. I wonder whether you might not care to go.” ‘“What makes you think I would go toa picnic bazaar?”’ asked Hugo. ‘Well, it is for a public benefit, and sides it will be interesting. It will be | in Ryder’s Park—and the picnic will be out-of-doors, just like the regular kind. The bazaar part—the aprons and all that— will be in the Casino building.” “I’m not sure that my stock of aprons needs replenishing.” “‘Well, there will be other things ook rides on the carrousel and races and—and different kinds of contests. Everybody in town is taking tickets because the money a is to be used to paint the telegrap! poles green. And I thought—well, most of the gentlemen are taking their lady friends.” Ha! The murder was out! Hugo smiled friend,” he said firmly; had I don’t think I should ever egra} I'd ask you. Mr. just thought going t yisg o buy tickets from me.”’ Hugo turned a disapproving eye upon ner. “Buck Harley! I did not know you were so well acquainted. He is not the sort of man I should trust too deeply.’ *m not trusting him only selling him ave no objection to buying some tickets,”’ said Hugo after a moment’s pau **but I shall not feel obligated to attend.” “T think you ought to attend,” said Mrs. Fairlie. ‘I think every man ought to take an interest in the civic life of his town and in the religious life too. Mr. Fairlie used to y you do about things, but when we had been married only six months I got him to join the Citizens’ Improvement Clut and before the year was out he be- gational came a member of the Congre man alter h. He was like a different ‘I can believe that,”’ said Hugo in hi soul. Again he had that vague apprecia- tion of the strength possessed by the weak their merciless power to accomplish what they will; but he only said aloud: “I will buy fifteen tickets, but I do not care to waste my time on an affair of that sort.” Yet notwithstanding this, on the after- noon de signate d Hugo left the house dressed in his best and found his feet moving quite unaccountal ly in the direction of Ryder’s Park. All the town seemed floc there, and Hugo had not gone far be perceived Mrs. Fairlie, who had h a little earlier, just ahead She looked very youthful in a broad- hat and flowered gown and carried a large parcel under her arm. In common decency there seemed nothing for it but to go for- ward and offer to assist her, and having car- ; the parcel to the park gate convoy it farther—to the temple of fancywork where the iron holder and the guest towel reigned. And here Hugo found his escape cut off. A corps of ladies stood about near One of them, a large, dark, mustachioed lady, detached herself and approached briskly: “Mr. Saunders, it’s quite a treat to ve you out to-day. You’re just in time ri st the entrance. the potato race,”’ ‘I’m not betting this year,” said Hugo ‘““My favorite potato was laid up ast a $ pairs | Oo ‘Aren’t you ct you do it yoursel se n »» Mr. Saunders? But you know. Each gemp’- ! a potato on a tablespoon, over to that post, when we give the signal man runs wit The winner gets a free ride on the ecarrousel for himself and lady. Mr. Harley’s coming in. Hugo saw Buck Harley then—aligned with half a dozen other unfortunates on an adjacent stretch of green. **Comeonin, Hugo,” Buck called blithely. ‘It’s quite a feat, you know. A test of to spill tl phy. Beta dollar you can’t con ’ rself. When I win I’m going to ask Mrs. Fairlie to ride the merry-go with me.” “Tf you win,”’ corrected Hugo. “Give please.”” And he found potato and spoon ist into his hand. In a minute he had lined up with the others, and at the signal ‘‘One—two three—go!"’ he spurted lightly downfield. He contined himself to the plain or garden Continued on Page 109 nerve not > mur me an outnt,

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST at damned pie of Blanche’s,’”’ he 1 to eat a great many of Blanche’s weeks, and loaves and f her preparing, and the on him. Though he had endured cooking for years he wondered 10ow that he had ever survived. The strain was telling on the house too. It wore a jaded look inside and Hugo made voluntary comment. ““My room is dusty and needs a clean- ing,” he said testily; ‘‘ but you’d better let it be till Mrs. Fairlie comes back.” ” sighed his aunt. ‘“‘I had a card from her this morning and she can’t be sure about anything. Her cousin was hurt pretty bad, that Mr. Hector Snell.” Hugo started. Hector Snell! Cousin! So he really existed. Then t purple tie had never been meant for him at all; what had been. He could have was all part of the strange- as strange now. For if comforts Mrs. Fairlie r d that he “If she ever does, a conceit groane ness. had created he realiz ilso missed Mrs. Fairlie herself. Coming home was a dull affair now. “You wouldn’t think a wom: just one llw an—could make such an infernal ” he reflected; ‘‘we’ll never get isekeeper like her. in’t have been so bad if he had r in better health. He was not ata € some ops trouble seemed to be threatening him, forcing itself on his attention, destroying his rest, his nerves. When Hugo had suffered thus about ten days he sought Doc Busley yme kind of stomach trouble, 1 Doe. n’t sleep much; r, no appe "hag it coc of) urs,” Doc sug- r you lost your! isekeeper, hy don’t you try somebody else? in Bucklesville wants a r neat, good cook too not 1, but competent. Ugly as all t look at her!” Hugo almost up Doc’s prescription going at was the use of | th and hi \ c ac en | nach, ailed? He obsession. What he needed was a yhilter, an anodyne such as the witches of IS soul, was the victim Look for the lever — controlling old bre wed. Well, it should never conquer him. He would fight to the bitter end. W needed was recreation, a ch: he came to the adventure the stream creel, He decided he would da Ip Sandy Cree Phe vould heip to ettle } nerves i serve to remind him of that other form of angling he believed it » firmly. So having gathered the necessary traps he went up into the garret to find an old pet creel he favored. It hung ina dusty, disused 4 Hugo brushed and } | it rant I"} } } ‘ shook it ge . The lid flew open and spilled a strange hoarding over him y rags 4" Fire may flash Samples! Little packets of bright silks and ind cottons, tiny feminine scraps that had | been stored here tenderly, ra ned upon him. be hard to reach Soft raveled edges of thin silks and sleazy ottons caught and clung to his wrists and 1 | gers, I sleeves, like little loving touches fs overturned kettle of fat a ee from a woman’s hand; and with a queer flashes into flame behind of Gele. $10; | « Oo ng in } 'S throat Hugo went down in $10.50 Colo. and t is deleat the kitchen rangs Itwouldbe difficult in such cramped quar } t il d done _— he “) West. Canada: t Ie 4 groaned. ‘‘ Damn it all, I’m in love with $12 East of Cal- ters to pump a ft ont her and gary; $12 50 Cal- her at th ve tir k om ¢¢ gary and West, Yes, it was the death of the bachelor And th but one ot t mat I | | buecaneer. Fate and a lady willed other- ‘ ; | wise. And this though he had been given a to } A keener insight than most men—had been a foot i le to che ip the moves all through the You can discharge the Jol M i d f ‘ game. There w hat fine coc ng, that Bien Datta > thier lean pumping, The Iohns-Manville Fire Extingui oe | iexter¢ us nou ev rer) the n 7 cal eve- ; 7 he J s-Manville ire Extingul t nings, the hint of tears and need of protec- where ther ‘ vy room, But in an is approved by the Underwriters’ Lal tion and—yes, more than all—the ankle, the emergen you n also discharge it ratories, Inc. Motorists equipped with sprained ankle. Why, he had been caught by air pressure previously pumped up it can save 15 on their automobile ld s him . * et iad lever over and Then t vt t le lever over and fire insurance. It ; Lencd t that in ; To the Trade — T! Johns-Manvill Extinguisl her is sold only through job l k f th ver W you buy ber-dealer channel Write for details. H. W. JOHNS-MANVILLE CO. NEW YORK CITY 10 Factories — Branches in 61 Large Cities April 6,1918 ‘‘Lord, how I want her,” he groaned. “T’ll give her a week, and if she doesn’t 1 pe ¢ come then, I'll go and ge er. } But he didn’t need the whole week. It was on the third evening after that, sitting dis- mally en solitaire in his sitting room, Hugo heard the front door ope n. He got up, with the student lamp in his hand, and looked into the hall. And Mrs. Fairlie was there! “Thank heaven!” said the soul of Hugo Saunders, but he only said aloud in a harsh unnatural voice: “So you’ve come home at last. Well—it’s high time.” hy, Mr.Saunders—are you displeased with me? “Why shouldn’t I be?” Hugo a almost threateningly. ‘“‘You went aw and left me—left me just when I needed you.” Emotion overpowered him. “Oh, I knuckle under—I give in,”’ he said bitter He looked at Mrs. Fairlie and Mrs. Fairlie looked at him, and a strange tremor seized Hugo. “I mean,” he explained in a thi choking voice, ‘I mean—if you force m« to say so—that I seem to have fallen in | with you. Ididn’trealize until you left ““Mr. Saunders! Are you trying to make me gO away again: “Certainly not,” cried Hugo hoarsely, “Why, I’ve been a lis voice breaking. always to marry meé uu told me ntended y,” Mrs. Fair “T didn’t intend to, ing t said Hugo; “‘that is, if i'll give ' me any hope. Why, you've got to!” he cried sharply. Mrs. Fairlie smiled faintly. **And you were so afraid—from the be ginning that I Oh, I could take revenge now, couldn't I? Are you free agent? Wouldn't you alw moaned Hu I e been s all And I’n ifraid—| t you igoa i ivu Mr ra tte—listen to me!’ am listening iid Mrs. Fa and her et grew very pil to come back d-dreadfu and-— wel ol just came, Mr. Saunders.” And it was just here that Mr. Saunder finding he needed both of his hands, set the student lamp carefully on the stairs. ° With You Away oy HEY tell me t} he ome Along her o / \ insomely erly As sprir f yeste The fili De ( fhe poo And Pan among the river ree Still flute h rounde F They tell ne that the inemer ) With ali her throbl That still they watch the ttle r Go by on er feet And see the curling, } : That Kip atong the wie But, love, my lo _ the lver June The wanton gold of May, With you away! The 7] tell me that the a cO ly moh uy ernyst, With clouded, jeweled, sullen day Like opals in a mist; That still the wild geese cleave the sky With yearning, flee And, overstrung, the si ( nap L Ke tighte ned ol : Ice-far jed and lean and fisi r And cruel-cold, the y te ne, too, For fnose ouside the oor, When ruddy-warm the fire ht drip Like wine along the floor.

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FD ea | | = nl THe | PUY A = THE SATURDAY EVENING POST PHONOGRAPHS mmm 1“ LILO rc — NQ mono SS a = rm Now/ The Final Achievement Brunswick introduces a new Method of Reproduction, a real sensation ERE, at last, is the supreme phonograph achievement of recent years ... The Brunswick Method of Re production. It includes two distinctly new im provements, two inventions that a ) t lutely revolutionize old stand ards Some maker was bound to build this ultimate yhonograph, freed I from ancient handicaps. ‘he honor has come to The House of Brunswick, a pioneer in develop ing the all-record idea. The first Brunswicks met with phenomenal showing that we might success, spend thousands of dollars in per , fecting this idea Better Than Ever Now, with the new Brunswick Method of Reproduction, distinctly new, we offer a super-phonograph It not only plays all records, but plays them at their best. This is accomplished chiefly by The Ultona, our new all-record re producer, and the new Brunswick Tone Amplifier Tone values are now given a nat uralness hitherto unattained. Som«e of the gravest problems in acoustics are solved. The Ultona is an amazingly sim ple contrivance. It plays all records according to their exact require ments. The proper diaphragm is presented to each record, whatever make, and the exact needle, the ex act weight So you see that this is not a make shift, not an attachment, but a dis tinctly new creation Simplicity Itself At the turn of a hand you adapt The Ultona to any type of record. A child can doit. Itis practically auto matic. Now your library of records can be bought according to your favor ites For instance, each record maker has a famous tenor. On a one record instrument you are confined to one. Others are barred. And who likes to be restricted? Who wants to be confined to buying from only one catalog, when there are several from which to choose The Ultona, we think, is the great est feature offered any music-lover. And it is obtainable solely on the new Brunswick. Another vast improvement in tone projection comes in our all-wood Tone Amplifier, built like a violin. All metal construction is avoided, thus breaking away from the usual custom W nd rare wood at that, is th ly material that gives sound waves their proj bration With The Ultona and the new Brunswick Tone Amplifier, phonographic art is brought to higher st See and Hear cannot atiord now t Yo »)> make a Choice intil you've heard the latest Brunswick Until u become acquainted with TI! Br wick Method of Reproduction. Until hea his n l nstrument You are invited pa it to ex The Ult 1 and te how simply it japt + + re tr } ) y) Olt AU Oo r tl vy Brun } l be delighted and « i that t phonog in l etofore the 1d but unattained. \ t | I I 1 1 ¢ t te ty] P upe rit t found « whe 4 Br wick r t t 1) Br A ‘ v Brunswick Met Rey 1 Brunswick Models—Price $40 to $1,500 THE BRUNSWICK-BALKE-COLLENDER COMPANY Canadian Distributors Musical Merchandise Sales Co. Excelsior Life Bldg Toronto General Offices: Chicago Branch Houses in Principal Cities of the United States, Mexico and Canada Dealers Write for our Profitable Plan with all the details

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘‘Only one man in 25 makes good in the Miller Plant”’ By Creating Uniform Builders We Created Uniform Tires Each Man a Master— Each Tire a Masterpiece ILLER TIRES are known far and wide today as the Uniform That means wherever Millers are run under like conditions, they wear the same. That 99 Millers in 100 Mileage Tires outrun standard guarantees. Of all the some 429 brands on the market, there is no other we know to equal this. How Miller Succeeded Such uniformity has been the aim of tire makers for years. For who could tell, when he bought a tire, whether it would run 5000 miles or fail at a thousand? Miller found the machines ¢ solution—not in r methods—but in men We discovered that workmen must be uniform or their tires (mostly hand work) can never be. By training crack squads—a regiment of champions—we reduced the t in tires to the smallest fraction. Each Man Rated When tire builders come here, each one must take our training and then pass our tests Then our efficiency experts keep a record of that man and his work. To pass our inspectors, the tires he builds must reach our 99 per cent grade. If ever a Miller comes back, the builder’s score is pen- alized. Under this rigid system, only one man in 25 makes good. But those who do are masters. Their average efficiency is 96 per cent. Geared-to-the-Road There is no excuse longer for buying tires on luck. Miller means certainty. And safety, too, due to the tread that is geared-to-the-road. Mark how the sharp rubber cogs engage the ground. A Limited Number Only about one motorist in fifty will be able to get the Miller Uniform Tires this year. It takes time to train men to Miller perfection. And even so, but few can ever be- come masters. To make sure of securing your season’s supply of Millers, you must speak at once. Only good dealers are authorized to sell them. Find the one in your neighborhood without delay. If you want the utmost air capacity — size for size — ask for Miller Cord Tires. They are truly luxurious — yet not a luxury, because they cost less per mile than any other type. THE MILLER RUBBER COMPANY, Akron, Ohio Makers of Miller Red and Gray Inner Tubes—The Team-Mates of Uniform Tires April 6,1918

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Al CANTEE ( i" it > i t He ' i ‘ H | » te ‘ Re ‘ {I fe | ) ‘ I . ; ( ) N } } y\ I ‘i N I } | u | n / ‘ i | ‘ | i ‘ N j se I \ Old i ; n ks ( Pa one he | N I Place lt I i p y We aq ‘i Family Farewells i | mad ‘ : | | i ‘ . ; amma a , i y Ld / 0 j | \ id i Ar But | 1 1) I I AT IBID NER a i dn i / 4 Tr 4 } i) A ’ LN Continued from Page 7 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST teers aes > > oe ee aoe See eases See ae Se sh ht itp A 4 ee ex mcume Poe eee Seon re ~— oY Cl rhs Ce { ee ee ‘ s >. — eae ain ge ae tl i TT he TA HM 4 * most ; wie iromeos - abeobaintttntniat eect sAiratbthbtttntetee state. tee sca aut th sapiens rete eeaaeeaies seers, mapas +, 1. If things look like this- | 4. If things look like this- (98 C3 HiT » au Ke vy +i) xg es 4x * “ ep >_>, ; othed Py nf: a AY ahi tf a\) ap A A: oy cbse er | a” ees a ] r ar +) ‘pat 7 inh #03 ds Y Mh toe yf iY iP Yh BN ¥h\ ‘| » th =—- See eae Shee +5 kr on F y after youve been smoking - ~ heavy black cigars at | ° , dif |, - switch to Girards ! || a +e Then note the difference. No more fe | mental mist no dizzy sensations, no cloudy mS ' ta ‘ lethargy. No more sitting ‘round, befogged a and befuddled, with an edge on vour nerve Hi but none on your wit No sir, none of these when you ; Cheer and solace, WAY comfort and inspiration, mellow. flay ind ripe bouquet —these things, y« smoke Girard but not a tremor of your nerves; not Oh a fleck on your clarity of thought; not a Whisper of after-effect save the lin vero taste « f » A The | o | irar " Cigar is Never gets on your nerves At | i+) | \ ‘ { k (; | # : he commun ! 44 i public has be t| i 1 ! \ n | AY nok ni Cy q \ terests of their health and if 10c and up f {4 ’ , Me Any « ( \ fF , Hi | \ lf tt (; if | | «i } y them i wy ts Arne } iV" He tp Fp } bie | : G Wie f ee Bt tt MEL Pe.% 4 Antonio Roig & Langsdorf ‘| Established 1871 Philadelphia Fort te at

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tages over and above the advantage of its modest weight It tollows accord. the road almost oft its own It settles down again in remarkably quick time after passing a rough spot. It is as steady and sure without the ballast of passenger weight in the rear as with it. This difference in the way the Liberty rides and drives is unmistakable, LIBERTY MOTOR CAR COMPANY, DETROIT, MICHIGAN % Property Mor Make Your ‘ \ ly | MAJESTIC Coal bs ae ie lor Catalog and e Majestic Company, 803 Erie Street, —_-* e Valuable 4 \ MAJESTIC ¢ ( te can om ‘ ¢ S100 Chute MAJESTI Huntington, Ind. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | onal cards of identity and went down to a shop on the boulevard and ordered bracelets of identity. Had my hair washed bY a pollu on per n and tried out my Boston Frenct m. He understood me better than I I ! Later Lucile and I Saw the “ied over to Nape leon’ tomb, nan airy of the Inva- nes the court de en went on to Notre Dame. It vonderful inside, so high and spacious and old 1 gr vith a scented misty twilight as though dimmed by many praye I made two prayers myself —one pe e other impersonal for our army, 1 I only hope they come true. November 28th. While waiting to be sent to camp I delved nto the subject of canteens in general. And | found that the old canteen idea is as differ- ent I the 1 canteen idea as day is f night. A canteen before this war ! a place where a soldier could I dr nd perhaps procure notic ! nd needlit ind thread But that old idea eX} ded and developed intil I ‘ ‘ i whole welfare ( t community plant for di food omf and good cheer here are restaurants, writing rooms, in la et qu t , [piano pho yray é ertainment everything you 1 possit nk of to keep a collection of men far from home happy and sane and * not all these canteens are ke, for each one caters to some particular need and thus develops along a particular ne. Its location determines its special bent. Different Kinds of Canteens [here are, | is told at headquarters, t I ¢ teen. One hese are the metropoli n canteer of Pa tuated at the big L1iW i he Gare du Nord, the (; e de l'Est ; ithe G e Saint Lazare t ite! troops coming into or eu gy the { Number 17 »: These are the canteens of he ¢ e¢ ( t little tations on the of P: ere innumerable troop pass through daily, carrying thou- nad ol ok from E gland, Italy, America, Saloniki, Portugal, Africa. These t O} never even enter Paris, but are fted on e out rts of the city. Number Three: Cantee in the French zone behind the tual tighting lines in } not 1 é in aviation center in France Six: Cantee for American Lie tted along the lines of commur ition from the coast ports to the final tra ng centers All these canteens are ler the control of the American Red December Ist. I t | at bugie ¢ i ‘ M ed in the ce ire La t kr 4 ) ‘ ‘ when the ! om i wer ‘ ‘ et ‘ y or A long queue of yht l the r \ } 1 could the line wT ‘ Some Wa i to ie i ¢ t. It i, they 1, to see a re e Ar ho « G gre ! t in Frencl I ed out. i ot genuine hones = ' girl for f ths, since he’d me, ar t he liked ’em e Ar | tter than on the do much me r the orders flew ind f | on the e Vv > ¢ vded you n't see f ‘ est of campaign \ t I ( i rattle of dishes; the ne ! the piano banging; a | ‘ ed men trying out Mine Eve H e See e Glor anteeners run- ning | i forth with meals for the ‘ ers se tables were in behind the counter; rail ng down my neck from overhead kk sleet and windy rain shaking the windowpanes; sneezes and ng with shouts of laughter; tinthe oor opening to le opening to] April 6,1918 . . act : , were packed like Sardines In Tow these are my impressions of that first noon hour Suddenly: “Otto, Sie haben etu ’r- TL en!” | heard a low guttural voice peak- ing close behind my ear. ** Ja, ich weiss,” replied another I whirled, visions of spies, explosions and poisoned soup rushing wildly through n brain. *What’s this?” I cried. “German? In an American aviation camp? What are you two doing here?” They stared at me stupidly. One he mop and the other held a broom. they were spies! re Germans Deutsch lenge 1, sure that I had uncovered a \ reg I awkes plot. ** Ja,” admitted the one called Ott 1 jerked a thick dirty thumb toward his wort ne blouse } \ ler wa { t } 1 Prison of i } | P. GC. st ( sorne Ke hat ' over onto him. And ! } that! Lool t the be ! i l help round t i l ‘ | 1 ibt g up the ba ind I obvious re ms the ‘ ed he kitchens Ihe nuve heir ¢ Wu behind barbed t eT t en you just bet t] ery hard away. This is | than 1 hre De eal \ 1 { UCK a\ ¥ ! 2 three thou i i 1 his Allie ly n they ft re tl n re Ul eal lé ere i I ‘ and the I ¢ I t The Fre h are ve ! i el In the afternoor 1 ‘ ‘ er while As it wa till ir ‘ ( the canteen and then in ( ) jum sand cl A] EZ apor e al tremendous rush beg lw ! MY ‘ | e are er ch are constar ed and re from the boiling-1 ts on t I bre , ‘ blue | ‘ | i uy 1 had in hand I d apped t If you lo ) anteen mi we sed, and I w 1 ed » bed i fee Ihe shift is from seven A.M til four P.M i the second from no to nine vy P.M But some of the workers are down wit ere colds. their sul tes have? ve ! ed, and t t me iouble du I est Fro ‘ n yu ea I t me d ‘ J tM e! You ive »> De Na ere l cal ithe pace. A d ut uld crur ul eof awe of e whe e get or ed ! ‘ ked ‘ things will mo ‘ At present we re a brar ! \ } Dee yt} Superb aviat veather! |} ve it’s be ! ng wing, thaw ind t t oO again ¢ ( A t \ € ch iw ri one ( W ‘ er head and slusl inderioot ( moni tons 1S, ¢ 1, £ i t tne enemies ( ‘ ~) i t t lace 1 conquer pe ¢ j red eve , ‘ he haat ce ju ith s hav 1 Wi ! er bottle » build “ } s there’s no water laid on in our barr yet, we’ve had also to appoint a water bearer to keep the jugs filled and on th fire. Each morning the P. the green linoleum floors of and ir G.’s swal our resh and clean side an hour the (Continued on Page 117

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A SMALL NEAT COVERING FOR THE SATURDAY EVENING POST SURFACE noneeeeal WIRING } WIREMOLD SAVES WAR | TIME STEEL and LABOR TREMOLD requ ires only one-third of the steel and ) sts only about one-half as much as the electri 1 its of equal pacit h are t l mm used for su rface wiring. Wiren 1 ut r the many necessary war uses where adthing but ill serve. It makes quicker installations possible f the expense of old methods Splendid f r emergency office and factory work 3700 FEET OF WIRE MOLD SAVES A TON OF STEEL—USE IT WHEREVER YOU CAN eats Men work far more quickly and ac el when provided with good, well directed light on their work. L Wiremold Extensions quickly sup- , ?Y ply such light at the exact point it is neede be very econom ically used for lighting entire | factory floors as well as for exten sions and is doubly valuable because it can be quickly revised to meet chang ing cond 2 ee eet 1tions Time Now Big Factor. Wiremold can Extensions Speed Factory Production | Well Distributed Light Multiplies Output. Quickly, Safely and Economically Places Light Where Needed. Emergency Factory and Office Installations. N THESE days of racing with time; when labor is the most vital item of factory expense; when risks are in- creased and production records broken over night, GOOD LIGHT IN FACTORIES IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO SUC- CESS. Improved lighting greatly speeds pro- duction, and does it safely. Men work more quickly and accurately with good light—it saves steps, labor and accidents. Manufacturers should get the utmost from labor and material by providing their plants with good light night and day. This can be done more quickly, safely and economically with Wiremold Extensions than by any other method. Wiremold is a small, rugged casing expressly made to safely carry electric extensions fri your present outlets to the exact points where you need light in factory, office, home, school or hospital. It requires only about one-third as much steel as electrical conduit of equal capacity commonly used for surface wiring and conserves the supply of con- duit for the many necessary war uses where only conduit will serve. And it also costs much less than metal conduit both to buy and to install. Every lathe, drill press, shaper, planer, miller, punch and shear should have good strong well located light because such assistance is absolutely necessary to maximum production and safety. 1 from which material must be quickly irately supplied; ev shelf where tools are stored must be well lighted. Wiremold Ext: efficiency, in- nsion increase ire safety and help to break production records. And these Extensions can be installed more A safe, conven ient place to connect office fans, adding ma chines, multi i} graphs tating v machines—can >| be q kly and Wiremold Ideal for Costs Half As Much As Conduit. quickly and economically by using Wiremold than by the use of any other material, Wiremold for the Home Wiremold makes possible many necessary and economical electrical connections in your home without cutting walls, fuss or muss—it puts /ight where you need it at very small expense Electrical connections for your wall, floor or table lamp; vacuum cleaner, electric iron, sewing machi: hing machi kitchen sink, etc., can be quickly and neatly installed by the use of Wire- mold. It makes a woman’s work easier in these days of servantless homes and gives her mx time to devote to the _— lid work women are doing to help win the w REE Ww IREMOLD df BOOKLETS »king for increased efficiency and economy in your office or factory, send for ‘‘ WIREMOLD = BUSINESS,” which illustrates its uses for all siness purposes. Or if interes ore in improving your home and saving electricity, send a postal for our new book, *WIREMOLD IN YOUR HOME,” which illus trates many home uses for Wiremold and how extended electrical connections will increase your mestic happiness and comfort ‘ae ree 2 eee rer ~) L J The American Conduit Mfg. Co. Established 1902 New Kensington, Penna. Conduits Company Limited Sole Distributors for Canada Toronto Other “AMERICAN” products include ‘ MW IREDUCT,” an excellent non-metallic, Flexible Conduit; ““AMERICAN," a Ri gid ¢ onduit with a superior enamel finish; and ““GALVAN ITE,” a first-class Rigid Conduit coated with pure zinc. Lit- erature on request Bright, » the work m speed in p many mold Extension will prever } mistakes rected light

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In those happy-go-lucky days, now past, it was quite in keeping with the spirit of the times for a man to drop into a shoe store on the impulse of the moment and say: ‘“‘I want such and such a style of shoe which I just happened to see in the window.” Fancy dictated his policy; weed or guality meant less than sty/e or novelty. ™ . 7 e Not sO today. Style appeal aione no longer sells shoes to men W ho, wisely, spend less and save more. Shoe satisfaction, today, 1s measured in terms of comfort and service, as well as style. The most satisfactory shoe—your kind of a shoe—is the one that combines the three elements—style, fit and wear to tn realest possible degree As to Ralston s#y/e— it is authoritative. It you will be unwise to pay less than Ralston speaks for itself- NUVINCIN And Ralston prices. | qually g 7 shoes cannot be produced t Comfort and Ralston Service — outstanding forless. Itis unnecessary to pay more. And to assure you of value recetved there are 40 years of successful shoe-making experience behind merits that make them so desirable —can be demonstrated by your trying Ralstons on and wearing them. ‘The minute you put your Ralston shoes. All in all, Ralstons are the feet into Ralstons you fee/ their comfort. happy medium for men who want honest Ralstons need no breaking in. The way values as well as good looks and comfort they Lok, feel, hold thar shape and Jast, will . ; “ty ‘ i sai Have the Ralston dealer fit you. Wear a lobahe and eurnrine ae yNnt and surprise you ' pair of Ralstons. Apply the service test to Ralston shoes are made to wear. They give them. They'll prove their worth. If you do extra service because they fit proper/y. Shoes not happen to know the name of the Ralston that do not fit soon lose their shape and quickly go to pieces Ralstons will keep their shape. No chafing at the heel, no pinching at the toes, snug around the instep — that easy-feel all over—which makes for of a shoe. long wear and healthy, happy feet. va Ralston Health Shoemakers Campello (Brockton) Mass. agent in your neighborhood, write us for it At the same time we will send you our latest style book in which you will find helpful sug- gestions in selecting and caring for your kind If you want shoes that will give you maximum satisfaction—the only truly economsca/ kind

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\ I we the direct ri it i ; e we had tea er ar ve rt of t up o1 irre Af Varad ur ed out the Ci ) e < ht and came | the post oftice for the 1 Robert and I off at e side and w hed the soldic } y fror ( ns like con- \ ¥ ? nta i\ I warn t bo ra i re inded to t footstep On and o n eo he d 1 rur It wa \ » See se figures suddenly evolve t v » \ t of s 1 Robe way one } nad of 1 en is the ‘ e ol re f er camps over here Where Sstw ho eXu V the mie perl e ist act nh ! \ ‘ ‘ l t he to get nat vord I nore thats ne end ol he At the other end are ! ind Vives and motne it home w £ ‘ \ h chee ‘ and 1 t 1 sar cs esr nd Man Joneses! between those wo end so far ay big i rope f ‘ They talk al t the nece r of gur 1 effe iv } George, if the ‘ n one of these forsaken li e blige 1 id the | { the ilize tl i ne gu pius t l f the Susie Sm ind M Jonese VI eyo to win var!’

R t rt left Ul il meé nt ‘ eT e I've been | 1} nm tor t e I’ve beer in my life. It lid opportunity to thir he i t il I rtotl ? it. | a t t bothe th this war | thought. B l t the es up d the big Jugs heat for the nd cleaned the g I and ked wit he P. G nd X¢ ‘ ‘ d « nted ‘ ‘ the and made the ten ¢ ifternoor Ne hele I Lieel? nt disintegrate w ess. Th t trouble with the idiers in the t , noth » It give I f e { butter the blue devi he I the hut Chr as Da Rainit galt low] ut 1] ‘ I") ni ir it three ] of he ¥ Wools u ne These frame } he rut le ind the ben ty , , e | of ‘ | ‘ t Red ¢ ( Ké i the sc ; j P ot! You should have seen the 1 Mer ) } e were used to rece from the rs a SIxX- nder gilt nad ‘ rking casu ) t t iwf'lly, old chap!"’ came crow up for those boxes, as eager as kids for

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W. L. Douglas name and the retail price is stamped on the bottom of every pair of shoes The value is guaranteed and the wearer protected against high prices for inferior shoes. You can save money by wear- ing W. L. Douglas shoes. The best known shoes in the world 4) “he quality of W.1 product 1s guaranteed by Douglas ence in making fine shoes. The smart styles are the leaders in the fashion cen tres of America They are made in a well-equipped fa¢ - tory at Brockton, Ma s | Keeping the house sup- for the price that money | nt plied with water from a nearby well was one of ; York. They are the numerous tasks Ww. I . Douglas was called upon to perform while “bound and the inside top facing. Th out” pegging shoes, at OF FRAUD Sold by over 9000 shoe dealers and the age of seven. before they leave the factory. “ more than 40 years experi r the highest paid, skilled shoemakers under the tion and supervision of experienced men, all working with an honest determination to mz ike the best CAUTION— Before you buy be name and the retail price is stamped on the bot your only protec BEWARE 8 is tion against high prices for inferior shoes “THE SHOE THAT HOLDS ITS SHAPE"’ $3 $3.50 $4 $4.50 $5 $6 87 458 _~ 2 r* BOYS’ S uy b i- retail prices are the same everywhere cost no more in San Francisco than the io in HOES Best in the World $3 $2.50 $2 dire« shoes They 5 New always worth the price paid for them. sure W. L. Douglas 105 W.L. Deuglas s If not convenient to call at W. L. Douglas store, ask your dealer for them Take no other make Write for booklet, showing how to order shoes by mail, postage free. Pres v7 ident W.L. DOUGLAS SHOE 155 Spark 5St., tom tores local co. Brockton, Mass. HIS large, old established bank which is a member of the Federal Reserve System invites deposits by mail from all parts of the country and abroad Send TODAY for free copy of booklet venient Banking by Mail is safe, “mM.” private and con Bear ( Carrot Pars Bean n Chard \ R Bear Vax Lettuce S . Rect Lett I at Beet Onior | Tur Cabbage Burpee’s Annual for 1918 W. ATLEE BURPEE & CO., Seed Growers, ow XFFOW BURPEE’S DOLLAR BOX of Vegetable Seeds Philadelphia SATURDAY EVENING POST After a full day we had mess—turkey! with some of the officers, and then half a dozen of us went over to the Y. hut to see the movies. We sat in the front row—six women among five hundred men. These evening entertainments are a great boor the shows are so well attended tnat t ave to A, ssceg two performances each 1 t. Later we danced, overshoes fter th at we tri amped over to the ks of tl e P. G.’s to see their Christ- tree. Altogether it wi — a strange Where shall we be this time ? | those solid husky youngsters who filled the hall with their jolly laughter? All these slim young aviators with their budding mustaches and their straight, keen, fearless eyes? What has 1918 in store for December 31st. I’ve been transferred! There was a call r more workers at a certain canteen, and ome of us were shifted round. Now I am at X , Which is a canteen on the en- virons of Paris, of Number Two Type. Here thousands of troop ss through each lav from all parts of France, carrying the Allied man power for redistribution upon every Front. Ov casionally soldiers lie over a few hours while new trains are being made ly they go straight through, with a ten minutes’ stop for food. Some- times the men have traveled from thirty- y-eight hours without a bite to eat. Thus our chief work is upon the plat- ‘ais, distributing hot coffee, ‘ sandwiches. The heavy rushes come between six and eight in the morning, at noon, and once more at dusk. Often there trains on two tracks at the same time, one full of grim, silent troops bound for the Front, the other filled t ; going home on ere is a sharp contrast of mood between those tw » train! vads of French- men, so close together upon those narrow parallel tracl ~ The ine a ones face home and a brief spell of happiness; the outgoing ones face aot co ar! And the unending weariness of it, the bitter black those bleak eyes you from the windows. TI is to-day’s record—my first day here: I rose and was on the quat by six- i 1 the cold was ap- snowing, and a high \ lapped icy particles against my cheek. The pavement of the qual, where it was not covered with snow, was caked with dirty, l y ice so that one had to step gingerly rof accident. My feet were freezing, despite the customary three pairs of stock- ings and heavy boots. up, but usu: missronnarre nostalgia, is to be read in training out at ng. It had been A Cold Morning's Work “You'll have to get some clogs,” said a white-l aired Americ an worker beside me. Look!’’ She lifted her skirts and I beheld thick wooden -soled boots—sabots with leather tops. “‘Sweet, aren’t they? But better than frozen feet!” train was late. The marmites of boiling hot coffee stood waiting by the track, each with its padded flannel jumper to keep the contents hot. The basket of ham sandwiches, apples and Camembert cheese were covered with oilcloth as protec- tion from the wet. salinan some ans, some French, in‘blue blouses and ils, ithed to the eyes in their mantles, iddled in the sheltered lee of the station d stamped their feet and swung their to keep warm. Those drafty quais in the raw dawns are the native heath of ' pneumonia microbes. Suddenly the captain of the gare blew | whistle she comes!” cried the white- hai i seized her coffee cart and sta » track. The rest of us followed with sandwiches. The long train owed toa halt. Snow piled high upon the f > cars; snow upon the steps and vestil les dripping from the eaves and nobody descended! Not a move ora tir. It looked like a specter train. “Café! Café, messieurs! De scendez, me 8- ’ eurs! You have ten minutes!” It was the gay voice of a little French canteener as she ran from car to car, tap- ping on the windowpanes. And then bang! Some of the windows were let down, 1 gan to poke out, and tin cups stained with pinard appeared at the end of heads be sieurs. Descend if you please. You have time. And we can’t wait on you all up there. Ah, you little mon- ster’’—this to a big giant who suddenly April 6,1918 loomed above—‘‘come down from that low. The coffee is good and hot!” il, laughing voice, so abso- ‘ly French in its intonations, roused the lent train. And then they came pouring out like a cloudburst and almost mobbed the coffee machine. Hundreds of hands and cups we ere under the faucet at once. Nie centimes, messieurs! Dix centimes n'e ST-C'€ pa é a4 The little mademoiselle shook her tin cup, and the sous rattled into it—but still the men did not speak. They drank their beloved scalding hot _beverage in silence. The snow fell steadily, tipping their mus- taches, the visors of the their coats with a powder of white. like And still t uttered no word! Remember, it is the _ y before Year’s—a day dear to eve ry Frenchn heart—and these men were returning Front. The whistle blew. “En voiture!”’ The circle of hands machine melted as if by m: sucked them in. t had been spoken! I t grim muteness of a race sinking into my heart. the spell was broken. I heard a young French voice ] ‘ risk of losing hi r kepis, the edges of suhouettes. { a the white-haired canteener for filling his coffee cup. She was down on her knees in the snow, decanting the last drop of pre- cious liquid from the machine. Her white hair was powdered still whiter with shining crystals, ae face streamed with perspira- tion and Was rosy Ten Minutes for Breakfast “Ah, madame,” said the soldier, “‘it is the sympathy and courage of women like you that give us strength to go on with this dirty war!” She did not understand a word of | rapid lingo, but she patted his arm and smiled. ch comprehended the other! The nex stant the train was a ru shadow on the blinding white lands And then before we co. t refill our marmites anot W us. This time it was turning home. They hoy it ous schoolboys, with a fus of te banter. “Aha! ’Tis the pretty little ns! Say! ou are all right, you w, you Americar “T have an American marraine. Will you be my marraine, mademoiselle? You don know how nice lam! Not ‘naughty bo “Look! Ham sandwiches! My God, "re in Paradise! Thaw bought out the basket and had apple fights. And wl were rush ng the growlers cross-tr s for more coffee they marched up : lown arm in arm and chanted in our honor a trench ditty about a new relative they've acquired. The chorus, loosely translated, runs like this: ahs wen: Bfuaiis Gan. Secs. Boost He a fine copain. He comes from Amérique. And when at length the tr: heads were thrust from the w and kepis were aved, and a ro r Uv Amérique!”’ floated back to us. For these men were going home. January 4, 1918. Aside from the work on the quais we also run a canteen behind the statior where we serve ot ‘ o wait for their on nex month we intend to start counte right on the tracks, hungt soldier passing through with only ten utes at his command may obtain a solid meal of soup, meat, vegetabl The benefit of this kind of service to trooy traveling, someti day and a night without food, « estimated. In our mes In open c never bt an iteen we feed all the sons of earth Yesterday was our | rday. We began with some English rane the Royal ] ; 1 German prisoners. ps Then followed in rapid suce ns Chasseurs; a company of Ist French officer had a tiny baton with which (Concluded on Page 121 Em.

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| | | THE SATURDAY EVENING POST OOPER’ BENNINGTON Spring Needle Underwear $1.50 and up This Is a Time to Buy Underwear by Name MP NODAY, you cannot afford to experiment. The importance of value has increased —it has become vital. Every dollar must be made to produce its utmost in buying power; every purchase must accomplish the utmost in utility. Sustained quality as represented by the Cooper’s-Bennington trade-mark, always the choice of the thrifty, is now the nation’s necessity. Al ask for Cooper’s-Bennington by name. Phe Extra Mile of Ya Cooper’s-Bennington is nota — B ton—the spring needle fabric—V-neck—shoulder tial. It compensat trait ther rt l crotch —-Oxfor h—are features that add year t| \ The | t Coop S NJ Fab toth witha ° , . ] : } Is tne } t \ s yg } \ ) h hil t +] H+ ( } l | 1) t ¢ }) A \ B t ) re h SUMMERWES* Reinforced Hosiery For men, « I h ns towardt h hy ) ther ’ ! th reat t dura bilit vy at Cooper’'s-Bennington Sum- m ‘ i rh } ‘ ‘ mer-wear eth I COST wh n ha 1 - l n L) l W i } iu For women, YIN) e445 h ae?” fine 1 t \ 1 ] 9 are must on ) I a i \] hants wh e stock 1 re i Itt ) l | vith the nat il p I ritation | h 1 f bio b ] l Vit ! ( RB For children, ‘ I i) Phe C nn of Coo ho Ld) yi BLACK CAT TEXTILES CO. °° General Offices: Kenosha, Wisconsin Branch Offices: Boston New York Chicago San Francisco Factories at Kenosha and Sheboygan, Wis., Harvard, Ill, and Bennington, Vt.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 6,1918 The New Empire— Built to Your Standards Your car today must give you the greatest of service, durability, convenience and comfort at the lowest cost. War time efficiency demands these vital elements of motor car value. For ten years the immense resources of the Empire builders have been concentrated on manufacturing cars upon this basis. One glance at the new 1918 Empire cars will show you their beauty of line. The complete equipment assures their convenience. Their specifications, Con- tinental engine, and each mechanical detail, bespeak their careful making. A demonstration will prove their com- fort and ease of operation. And thousands of Empire owners testify to the durability and economy of opera- tion, which makes the Empire the most economical form of transportation. Motor car buyers have come to the realization of the need of efficiency in their cars. The growth of Empire sales season after season shows it. It will pay you to see the Empire and know it better before you consider buying or operating any other car. Write for the new Spring Folder. DEALERS: Empire values are building big business NOW for Empire dealers. If we are not represented in your territory, better gel the facts today. Write or wire for detat!s. Empire Automobile Co. Indianapolis — Established 1908) U.S.A.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Concluded from Page 118 | Completes the appearance of a gentleman Hungry Mavericks eeping quarters, hot ba garde 0 th, a | The Che . eC! ( ey i ¥ ( ‘ . ° ' 4 \ \ / t ire . : ‘ it | ) € rn | ! . om | l f ‘ hat a fe ‘ () | } | ( ! ! ‘ ed \) } ; t H It | | | 4 H ‘ } Hu 1 xf 4 ° ! . > Lor Unconscious Heroes ‘ it the ¢ er e that of a | CHENEY BROTHERS t ! Hest ndr ter thir | ‘ ‘ ’ | rey one but weary pollu can now’ hie rar door ovens the || Agape ‘ r ‘ it} ‘ " face still . t Crava Ss hta bering ] j ; ‘ ‘ Tubular Mw, 75c, $1 | i \ Cc y | Let Them Come!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE LIGHT THAT PALED (Continued from Page 21 “‘America dear, do sit up!” requested art as well the de ‘re she gave e to her anx- tones rest ) ore trumpet not

ar what econom y? ” she at last rding him dimly through the eum-by-moonlight effect. ur electric-light bill?” Not that I am aware,” she replied,

sly ing hers Well, why not switch on a few? lost the way between my plate and my

“Your f cheerfulness, of course, is 1 ‘ all lights g at once and the phono- amp. These wor graph sh« ragtime.” e caught a eth king bac vague f his consort igging been fter, me the m¢ fhershoulders. “That’s. And » Cor

you American men. No eal rspective, No sense of be al valu es,’ doubt ‘The Glendennings,” chimed Amelia, worse. Eve

introducing the name of the next richest days. Style h: family in Harnessville, “are using candles Women had throughout the r house.’”’ dresser ¥s Phat accounts for it!’’ snorted Amer-

icus. ‘Pet e Glendenning was drunk at the | black-walnu club twice last week.”’ remindes The faintest echo of a giggle emanated farther East, from the place wl aeror ques sat; but her arranged every mother’s disapproving eye caught only the family head. int aemure, Gowncast giance of a cat lap] ing had been used as cream whole fami! here came a momentary silence, in after supper, an a which Mrs. Gallop gathered force. father, assuming If you’d only do something with your of repose, had sat mind,” she began cuttingly, “‘inst ead. reading, talking t ng | ness all d long and 1 here hadn't beer pitch with a lot of vulgarians at tage ing round in those may be you'd begin to appreciate the fine home. Or ly re ngs of life. If you’d take the pains read a few pliting books ‘uc ‘“*Inthedark?” asked Americus wickedly. li replied } pouse, snapping the door of logic and f rs in the jam. “It do a bit of harm for you to know ig. imer ask to turn iss that pons,

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ugn tne even tra 1 ar ung irde Mr. Dulcimer doesn’t express himself the big n the terms of dollars and cents. He has chandelier. dedicated | lif ating beauty; to dining roon educating the ople in domestic pour over t t Ve ed the Who, instance?” deeply, for | suppose you have never heard of Mrs. had grown Hornblower Ballymoore, of New York?” took in « “| don’t pay much attention to the side tables; r ny ! re,”’ relics from ( M !’”’ Amelia stiffened at the moth Cave é ! er and prettier Winifred. f Ame *ked on he oup. ‘Aside from her unequaled social posi- lion, explained the good lady as soon as ev able, “‘Mrs. Ba ymoore is one of America’s fe great | rons of art. It is ( hed honor for any artist to be - y ed by he only place « What then?” asked her husband with chair to fit] is mé ness. and could Carlo Du mer decorated her Fifth satisfaction. Avenue hous« hat’s what then!” r nifred speared a sili mericus cou

- ght pressure on his toe; of course \ ¢ Vic nim ne secret sig? ne and two long-—but he had for- ten whether it meant Keep it up! or Go easy! Whatever the motive, the con- I ht comfort and courage to the e defender of Things They Are. After « ner, wher phat and her r er hed retired to the upper realms in ~ ( evening W s, America stayed I nd | ered ove P ’s ugl

‘ “Ame i dear, ple e hurry!” can the | a é Ye I er! rhe care less rirl leaned over and twined a m bare arm round the t < neck of her sire. “‘ Daddy,” she whis- pered, “‘we might as well face the music. e’ve got to be stylish, haven’t we? Carlo Dulcimer’s got all Harnessville going with } lectures on The Sin of Ugliness. Have She stood away and, assuming a back-

eaning curve from neck to heel, writhed as th ! sin an imitation of the uplifter: the heat, th: The crime of garishness Thetired Washingtor ness man demands musical comedy in elf to olives. For a lon I’ve sweeping pa A re trospecti\

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST \WSS. ‘WAR SAVINGS STAMPS ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT mericans! Here is the test! A Our government has asked us for a new kind of loan. A loan of two back up the boys who are doing our fighting. billion dollars, to This time we are not asked to in- vest sums of $50, $100 and upwards in Liberty Bonds. For the government does not want to raise this money out of our regular savings. We are asked to practice, each of us, a little personal thrift—to stop up the little leak in our daily expendi- tures—and to lend to Uncle Sam quar- ters and half dollars thus gained. Germany, banking on America’s reputation as a spendthrift nation, thinks we won't do it. But Germany is wrong again! The thought of thrift is as new to us as was the thought of war, but if thrifty we must be, thrifty we shall be. America has never learned the meaning of the word ‘‘can’t.”’ And, after all, it is not much that is asked of us. A Swift Road to Thrif easy ‘ Swif Pret ly } rf alate 1 Two billion dollars sounds big, it is big. But so is America. The woman and child, if each will do his part—is but $20. share for each of us, man, Forty or fifty cents a week for a period of a year. Is there any doubt that you can find a leak at least that big in your personal expendi tures? Is there any doubt that you will ? To make the saving easy the government has issued 25-cent Thrift Stamps, to be exchanged as accum- ulated for War Savings Certificates bearing 4 per cent interest, com- pounded quarterly. where. For sale every So good an investment are these War Savines Certificates that the rovernment has limited their sale to $1,000 to any one individual, so that banks and big investors cannot snatch them up. $20 worth for each of us—more if we can! Make up personal thrift you will begin to turn your mind what bit of into stamps today. wif ts Premium Comar f Swift & Company, U.S.A.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST GROW TH- Speedy-Sturdy-Ceaseless-— the unfailing sign of superlative merit Day after day, week after week, month after month, for the five years that ECONOMY renewable FUSES have been on the market, the sales have maintained a con- A single order stant growth—not alone in volume, but also in percentage tE F d of increase. This can be accounted for only through the fact 0 conemy uses an ‘ . that the electrical current consuming public, as well as the ‘Drop Out’’ Renewal Links U. S. Government and thousands of large industrial users, shipped toa U.S.NavyYard have proved for themselves the practicability of this means saved the government over of cutting their annual fuse maintenance costs to a small $76 000.00 raction of what they would be if one-time fuses were used. The “Drop Out”? Renewal Link is the heart of the Economy Fuse. This inexpensive little link restores a blow: N fuse to its original efficiency. The fuse can be used over and eS ‘ over. No special tools or experience are required to replace t! OS aDAMPs i ao Oi Shcdiinn. link and renew the fuse Sold by all leading electrical supply dealers ECONOMY FUSE & MFG. CO. Kinzie and Orleans Streets CHICAGO, U.S. A. Sole Manufacturers of ‘‘Arkless’’—the Non-Renewable Fuse with the 100% Guaranteed Indicator aida at Montreal April 6,1918

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Be ! He behe H re i beer e : 1 W ‘ ‘ e% ’ eveg if _ ta é ¢ é f r y € \ ere I ‘ t nave } ‘ W: | ‘ node | t T t e¢ l j | } At t t Tne t t tio? | N ( 4 é \ ‘ re ' ‘ ) ‘ r ‘ i) } } ‘ est ‘ ‘ 1 ' ‘ ¢ t i ‘ ay I ‘ r ‘ ¢ " ( i ( f I ut P ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ { f 4 ! ‘ ‘ ) | ed ‘ ‘ \ ( Ve “T's ‘ ‘ f | , | Ame ‘ ‘ I] f ‘ t Le] y ¢ | NY r he f ( 1 ié ece ‘ ( War t t ttietie Tie Continued from Page 122 ense rex retire THE SATURDAY EVENING POST cient, lifetime service. Three 1918 reasons why you should now invest ina better watch: |—You dress better than when vou bought your old watch. Your ] Cirvv prece should NOW be brought up to your new standards of living. »— Tf it’s good business for you to spend $30 to $60 for a suit of clothes lasting a year or two, it’s better busi- ness for you to zvest $25 to $100 in a watch that will last you all your life. 3 You can’t afford to be seen carrying a wat hy that 1 below your cial and business level. The Elgin is that Jester watch. Phere are three reasons for that, too; I—An Elgin has beauty. Its possession stamps you as a person of judyment, taste and refinement. ) An Eloin v1iVeS honest, efth- Its beauty is more than skin deep. [t endures An Elgin means economy of ! | 4 ] upkeep. Its mechanical simplicity nd its interchanveability of parts, are / f f / l d } LC Moa ve - / 4U“’=“d ( a } a 4 a ‘A / i } j 7 ; a LOM Ca? Zl OUWY a ller Wali fAQH Wo CO. ELGIN, U.S.

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THE SATURDAY | “We Screened With PEARL Wire Cloth” ( , PEA \\ e ( he ‘ were tired { \ \ ] i ( r a roru 4 t for sar s and lite sted in screen materia iddress Dept. N The Gilbert & Bennett Mfg. Co. j New York Georgetown, ( onn. Chic ago Kansas City IRL is made in two weights— regular ar GGBPI i The best hardware dealer in your cily sells“ PI = a ; We Y ATENTS That Protect and. Pay BOOKS AND ADVICI FREE Watson FE. Coleman, Fat yer » Washington D. ¢ N § YOUR MOVE D, 7 TRENCH CHECKERS (The flat pocket outfit) TOWN CANOE CO Old Town, Ma ne 2 i OLD 756 Main St. 5c postpaid C LERT SPECIALTY CO. (net Inc.) 117 W. Harrison St CHICAGO 8 ere or ee —s od be A Better Work Garment THE PATENTED \ Ca nion / } Made Z 1* SENSIBLE a) [ COMBINATION WorRK suit | J “THE MOST COMFORTABLE WORK GARMENT THE WORLD” 1S THI ' | Medern Work Garment oul Comfortable Safe Convenient SEE THAT ‘Ng . POPULAR PRICES BACK . Johnston & Larimer Mfg. Company Dept. SEP., Wichita, Kans. aqcvwe perenne n rete rr ee ts DOT ETTET ET rrere EVENING POST ngravings had again rited away, and they were already *n-and-white furniture of al ee exotic pattern, ch the curtains s patriotic € own mz ne cushions to ms Americus gloated mort y, glorying ir ce one those ytain 1 lves. Anoth nic ] his Morris chair had been shoved is time it was one of those monsters who ol wing themse stitute for into a corner, r} ppery wicker herm ip yhrodites that go by the name of ch aise s longue hing on a long ¥ » pole, with a ridiculous chintz rufile on top, stood for illuminati ‘We had to h his wife t n. people drop in informally in it odd hour ot * Ameri ave an room, OOK t ig and ;¢ r| us Gallop spol e borat x +} not in tl ing e street, but with the fir ty of a broken spirit. “Ame you’re not going to have one f your spells—when I’m so busy!” She looked sincerely worried “Tam not said he. “‘But I am looking for a place where I can sit wn— where | n sit down without having to wear « t | ima You’re a } eless stine!”’ he r} ed I he replied; “‘and I’m being beau- tified out of house and home!’ lr} i ng ng t e food { l- : > nd mar it e¢ e divorce eatened thu nd 1ed alte Wini- ed G vondere wi! e Ww going to do er € her lerd charge « f t house ind ¢ W i nave een Oe eved to kK! \ t Americu vas wonder- ng é i€ ng. H ‘ r turned up in the approved I I ea ene nat ove ears, € I $ igh e ra ye nd wette al laced the grief ol ( ein breath- f t ee! tine id he cl fron ( “a Pig r ir flar , p ’ *What e you esca} ¢ fro ? ld ee I'm t Merry!” he mumbled, nohatins , ed towers he had ’ ed } ‘ Lad ¢ ot the i f ea I If ri t e not r ‘ All la is a f lace ‘ [ lown and read my paper.” He all P the Ay Belvedere the ’ it t ‘ I’ ve : : oe You’rea shape ’ am te nan f ! t ‘ ) e! And t I w ‘ beth OW ( it 3 » to ‘ rt i vel it : Ne t i t eriou ! { im the ) event farthe etre hw ‘Up ‘ , ‘oni | , vnere I e ! ‘ i t r 1 e Ame 1 en ( l ew steps i e te ‘ I ‘ nd see \ be 1 ( ne on!” she ‘ enthu | I t iwi I ! é N i eve e to fe is ‘ ( r it ea t Relucta Ame Gallop doubled his tra er | eof retreat. Am«e be ‘ ! and cannier as e ( f I I t ana 3 é nd she he ed é I é to ey, wnere f 1 p é t gi! 1 wall int the er nts en- We in alway ome this w: vi ere nobo ld v ] \ { e creaky back stairs they e sé thet 1 dow F t é ervants’ rooms, a SS a to outes as Gallo »p elics nder the rafters, Amer- ica st le low white door, to whicl i inserted a latchkey. The myster rious door swt 1! the gi April 6, 1918 and as ister ng open; rl switched on the overhanging cl of ts An us was aware of Paradise! Far above the disturbance of housekeep- ing, out of the way of decorators and domestic uplifters, ng the oards under the € es re ed his cl tT “ “ \ fa Ww nd tharaw rid! the do } | ] e, tear ening e gray eyes Ame Gallop, interior de tor! 1 } ne anne € **Now don't S rt il Tu nary } vl é | he favo ¢ parer nro } elf into the solace of the apple-green c } QO THE Rat's Nest became an establishes h etreat lor the dissenting member i tne Gallop family Here contentment caused the ir to { iver _ } i wheat fi , inder an A t t If Wir ed € tthe Ra Ne he \ t bu é tin he r r ' ( ide of Harnessville quite ed time! idays. The ) t inte r Carlo Dul ¢ e ¢ bas = : ice ) ed he re r ‘ e he S di ere erself e crowned Ar el on med ind} trone i « MM Dul t t t cor lt H rne ewa ecome ‘ Athe e We Mr. Dulcimer fu ing beauty at his ir rate a d Mu i] Auditorium crescendoed to , This grea vhich H : e} owe g me ‘ t he f ve C ee on Art, munitioned by a twe t i ar! co r t t ’ rY i yr Dulcimer ited ment. W } ! ar roll mple er € ( ed G min the ‘ Yo lor mate At point Uncl local ropist, did a n ‘ ‘ He died. H | ‘ ! erinduced by a , lal H ubstan- ‘ ‘ ‘ ll read. w ‘ ‘ ‘ ever: : 7 ri the News p \ t y tT ¢ a ‘ i e to be de ed to f e ne " d been Uncle Harr ae tas r t Ne fan \ { oe Art - € 1 t Mrs. Gallor i ‘ f Mr. Du ‘ f Ceyl nd we to ae ce t le Crree W t f ated expost t isf mm M M ¢ , lecturer on \ tior Ay G D, » he i echoes of . va ‘ ip the back ral c ed ithanked I that t f An et i to ev him; for he er e room, rapidl . penca L page er big portfolio, serene ew! € € f wed ng- n. Who's this Adr r?”’ asked Amer- i t er 1-\ fa ‘ Merry : r the end of a As I 1 } Du mer ! gy peech. He was g Admah Hoag uu ’ ’ ) he ‘ ‘ + ob t or ig? t old dear! Haven't you heard of Sarge ( Whistler, or Miche relo? Hoag all of those. He ge $s med by the barre I think he’s ap e!” “What ‘] cal 4 Nest became an esta 1 imer want of } yut,”’ confessed im?’ Merry, eet over xy to get Ad- does Duk Continued on Page 129

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OUR truck driver is only a man, no matter how big and strong he is, no matter how long he has handled a truck. He may do the best he can, but when that truck slams into chuckholes, bumps over cross- ings, and is jolted and jarred and banged about, it is up to the truck. Diamond T trucks are built by men who know just what a truck has to do —and what it has to do is often more than you expect of it. Simple, rugged, powerful — with a generous excess of strength in its every detail — the Dia- mond T Truck is the dependable truck for con- tinuous and unusual service. At all kinds of trucking, in all kinds of weather, over all kinds of roads, no Diamond T has ever worn out. Nothing better can possibly be said of a truck than that. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST to The truck you will keep “on the job” be JU can’t get away from performance — con- tinuous performance. ‘That spells economy, money-making, lower cost of operating, profit on the investment. Get the Diamond T that is built for your needs. Made in five sizes — one to five ton. See the Diamond T dealer in your territory, or write us and we will send you our handsomely illustrated catalog, and also advise you name of our representative in your city. Diamond T Motor Car Company 4519 West 26th Street, Chicago, Ill. To Passenger Car Dealers: Increased factory capacity enables us to serve a few additional dealers each month. We are making immediate shipments. Responsible truck and pas- senger car dealers are invited to write promptly. IAMOND THE SUPER-SERVICE TRUCK L ee ~ 127 The Badge of Honor Buy Liberty Bonds your limit

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Dealers We have a plan that will introduc« and increase the sale of Sani-Flush to your individual customers without cost to you Whether you sell Sani-Flush or not, write for the plan It a good one — -_ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 6,1918 To Grocers, Druggists and Their Salesmen Here is a Patented Article that Pays a Steady Profit on a Small Investment Sani-Flush is not a scouring powder. It is a patented, odorless, white powder made for one purpose only —to clean toilet bowls. Scrubbing, scouring, dipping, all of the old disagreeable means of cleaning toilet bowls have been eliminated by the use of Sani-Flush. Just sprinkle a little of this magic powder in the toilet bowl, follow directions, flush, and both the bowl and hidden trap become as clean and white as new. Stains, odors and incrustations vanish, and, because it so thoroughly cleans, Sani- Flush makes the use of disinfectants un- necessary, thus serving a double purpose. Through our advertising, millions of house- S keepers are being advised of these facts each month. Dealers can easily take advantage of the extensive advertising by featuring Sani-Flush on their counters or in window s, particularly dunng spring house cleaning. Dealers’ salesmen can increase their sales by merely mentioning Sani-Flush to their customers. Jobbers’ salesmen likewise can largely increase their business by simply letting dealers know they carry Sani-Flush. Sani-Flush is making housekeepers cnitical in their ideas of closet bowl cleanliness. It is meeting the needs of the hour in thousands of private homes, hotels, clubs, and public buildings everywhere. HOUSEKEEPERS Order a can of Sani-Flush from your grocer or druggist today. You will be delighted with results. The price is 25 cents a can. If your dealer cannot supply you, we will send you a full size can direct upon receipt of price, The Hygienic Products Co., 168 Walnut Ave., S. E., Canton, Ohio Canadian Sales Agents Harold F. Ritchie & Co., Ltd., Toronto

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Continued from Page 126 “Working i n a mmiss t { S me € nis rnter } iug 4 the |b) ¢ If he é ‘ ke th LD er ‘ the Tl thi ' I she chee I » é \ e I I t e tire i f iga We Ca irie t i t ‘u | e¢€ e mu ri ¢ ‘ ere sligl é 36 he gre ‘ it Carlo w: I Hoag on Harne f iwi modest t ) t t t eT) Harne r ‘ nd and fathe \ e,ld | t é ‘ ¢ he as ¢ ) é é W A. G } € Admal! | le } H Ame D ‘ ( M t rie f ; } ere H i] ( i) ( I ‘ } ; é i ¢ | I e | ( ( ( De Me Al t¢ é 9 é ( \ \ ene I ut ¢ | é t 1l< ( { \ | r ( ‘ t t | ‘ { ract ' () | eme é had bee ( ¢ Art é Ar neve ind ¢ He it Q j N H v DMA a j Lf eve e¢ ( f te Pa | ti} I e du e Like 1 A e € ( ¢ ri nad the | el t ( | vy he We Vi ew he he t ‘ ted é é t I 1 ne ng ‘ ' ¢ ohte } € A t t t ! il M I eal ‘ ty Per wo he a \ P he had e be I f ¢ gall ereste W t A ig . Amer! prom- re ] r er New \ r | é . t e t t \A me igeme é e t et i’ 4 t He 3s some grateful Admah Hoag la ele Ty rig ‘ T ! | het 1 e ew r in he had been é expe gh he was not e gree wh ok for painted re of Ss ( s, ne

esser é few sombrer motors along the x His spirits rose a é ward Harness é LD e | i KE ‘ ly te ed a me an St ‘ f assured hin i ‘ T tes ‘ t Present] ‘ t v ne D n ¢ il st t t t « é Wresse Ad H Hi numbs ( H ‘ M H \ Er—ha lam Mrs. G n Art ‘ ( ‘ il W as } Ar } ‘ (; inted ( And M M the ¢ tee 4 . ‘ ¢ W i War ‘ ‘ , it ad ! t \ M Gle ! Ar £ vps NT ( i 1 mittes W: i M H ! el Ad 1Oag | nw ; No r ecer I He lize e leered a ( ao ! ne I M G [—] I ! f ] e ir i Hite at ‘ l¢ I I » rro\ t t We r x 1 ( ead t 1X eve } ‘ at t a [|—] € é } Admah fa remembe We are the red ( hin » he S tive ( feeling itt happet ‘ nin THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

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EVENING POST spring zephyr when a small runabout came to a halt by the platform. Indistinctly Admah could see a slender man, with a green hat, and he felt the encouragement that one male can give another in such a situation. Into his presence the young man was finally hustled; and as the spokeslady led him to the proper introductory distance the two opposing males stood gazing at each other, eye for eye. And Admah Hoag saw in the pale seraphic visage, which smiled a little nervously, the much-to-be-avoided Carlo Dulcimer, who had done so much to make New York unbearable for him! ‘How do you do, Mr. Hoag?” The decorator swayed like a lily and offered a dead hand. “Ah, then you know Mr. Hoag?” “We've met before. How d’you do, Dulcimer?” Momentarily the painter lost his shyness and regarded his former rival quite coolly. Dulcimer, too, seemed curiously unabashed. “Tf you only knew what an—impulse your coming has given this town!” cooed the lymphatic one. “This your town, Dulcimer?” asked the genius, noting the air of proprietorship. “In a way A “Mr. Dulcimer is a Harnessville boy, upspoke a cheerful, matronly voice from the background, and it imparted quite a shock to hear this pampered orchid of Fifth Ave- nue mentioned as a Harnessville boy; Hoag had never thought of him as coming from any place except, perhaps, the moon. ** Harnessvil ’ the indefatigable Dulci- mer cooed or you and | ”

» heeds ail we can give it.’ Admah Hoag was wondering just what he and Mr. Dulcimer had to offer in part- nersnip. “We owe so much to Mr. Dulcimer,” Mrs. Gallop was telling him; her manner reminded him disagreeably of Mrs. Bally- moore. ‘Don’t you think his work has been invaluable to the Movement?”’ Admah was quite sure it had. A moment later he was being introduced to Mrs. Gal- lop’s daughter, a pretty, rather insipid girl, ind as this to the side of Dulcimer, obviously under his spell, the artist wondered in a flash whether the

* " a1 ) young thing stuck close

decorator had carried his favorite business methods so far West. He was given little time to reflect on this point, however, for Mrs. Gallop was pulling him out of the affable hands of Mrs. Glen- denning and shoving him toward the phalanx yf waiting automobiles. It seemed that the idies had been quarre] ng over whose car should contain the celebrity. Mrs. Gallop got him, just as she got most of her mortal desires; and, flanked on the right by the lady with the carved jaw and on the left by the lymphatic beautifier, Admah settled himself into the tonneau of the handsomest vehicle to be seen. The chauffeur had just eased in the clutch and warped the wheel to position when a vision swam into Admah’s ken. She was tall and natural, and somehow lovely; and under her little peeped a hank of tawny hair. Hereyes were heavenly, her mouthsomewhat irregular and generous, and her skin was of that perfection which comes to auburns who do not freckle. “Shall I ” she sang out, looking first at Mrs. Gallop and then at an extra seat that was vacant. “Mrs. Glendenning will take care of you,” announced the masterful lady just as they wereslipping away along thesmooth pavement. Instantaneously the artist’s eye caught ig look, which

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one humorous, understandi

pla said: ‘Poor dear! They’ve got you 999 whe they want you. , led away he looked back and caught a glint of her green coat and the strip of fur in her small hat. She was gaz- ing after him; and he was sure her lips still held that same satiric smile.

It seemed as though all Harnessville had ome out to view the triumphal entry. As they neared the center of town he could see 1e residents packed like flies upon the side- walks; the scene lacked only the aspect of waving flags and patriotic bunting to give his casual trip to Harnessville the appear- ance of a Presidential tour. “Since Mr. Kleinmetz left us,” Mrs. Gallop was saying, “‘our string quartet isn’t what it used to be.” Their intention was now obvious. There would be a program. They were going to kill him to slow music.

April 6,1918 “Ah, but the artistry of Chomvitz!” came the echoing Dulcimer At last they came to a halt in front of a pretty colonial building, with a wealth of spindling pillars. “The Woman’s Club,” announced Mrs. Gallop, indicating that he was expected to “We have time for only a short program before lun¢ heon.”’ He could see that their attendant train of automobiles had also stopped. Pedes- trians were packed in front of the colonial s and surging, a dense mass, across the street. One of the dandified new traffic policemen, of whom Harnessville was justly proud, semaphored a white-gloved hand as he roared the foghorn signal, familiar to Fifth Avenue parades: ‘**“Come on, now! Let "em through!” The next two hours was all a blur to Admah Hoag. It was called an Art Lunch- eon, he remembered vaguely; a detaile report was printed later in the Evening Courier. He had a faint impression of being deluged in Saint-Saéns and Debussy by those accorded viols from which Mr. Klein- metz had so inscrutably fled. His right hand became quite numb from conti grasps of welcome. Someone told him that Harnessville had grown miraculously in the last three years. He was sure of this, be cause their illimitable army passed in re- view before his eyes. The art life of Harnessville was, to his ining, what the Russian Revolution like if conducted entirely by t ladies. Everything was on the ¢ step down

mittee pl He was passed nimbly n committee to committee; d at F was seated at the table of r, devote exclusive the comn tee I ld at t! table. O served tl they ce gathu and began talking < Mr. Dulcimer came in very earl remarks, his theme being: Carrying the

rch Into the Wilderne ladies spoke at length ticulating very dis-tinct-l\ poem entitled Beauty Liv With tragic art everythi

ta toward the final cata phe ‘You will be called on for a few re- m * said Mrs. Gallop at last, in a voice th suld brook no denial. “Christians torturing the lion!” said ttle giggly voice directly behind him Mrs. Gallop turned a blighting f: and Hoag, also turning, saw the pretty re li

neaded girl, seated a short space away and looking with some en ssment int ‘ eyes of the disapproving chairlady of chair- ladies. How he wished that this visior naturalness and youth and humor would work some magic now by which he could take her slender hand and fade from sight. Distantly he could hear Mrs. Gallop’s sonorous notes echoing to his doom: ‘“Sel- dom has it been our honor We hav in our midst to-day A few words fr America’s Torch of Beauty, Mr. Admah Hoag!”’ Apparently it had arrived. Doom sat upon his plate and bade him rise. Adn Hoag choked upon a mouthful

uried his face in his napkin and i to his miserable feet He scarce bered what he said, at first, save that he said it splutteringly and inanely. Like the coward he was, he resorted to his timeworn formula, complaining that he had a bad cold which he had—and this would pre- vent his speaking at length. He had a sick- ening feeling that every ear in the room was centered on his pallid lips. The silence was terrible. And in the midst of all this he suddenly found himself heating to a

panicky rage, on the strength of which

he snorted: Confound it, ladies, you’v« eau- tiful town—if you'll let it alone! yu gettin ill the Eastern vices d t you let the West stay West? Y« t - prove the sunset by trimming r tonne. I’m really very much fiattered and

honored; and—and He sat down heavil rious adjective trailir ribly ashamed of I of the momentary sudden vanishment Harnessville saved d equaled chivalry. Someone ap} others took up the noise, a1 the Wom after salvo. The thoughtft the thing moved this 0 almost to tears. Insti ; Continued on Page 133

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Indoor painting saves repairs | _ Promotes health and lightens housework gE orante aa eee ea il ¥ Oi fut-hfun | ——— fi | os __ Ceathioan | 1 saceme san | ' aetna 5 VARNISH } b [Mar-NOT ‘ PITY > — ~ : _ ALUMinum PAINT / / = eed Genii orem, | t } ae “8 4 | Pai 1] pP AINT and varnish are not luxuries to be in- j ed ; i : ‘ : aint walls dulged in when times are ‘good and money is } | that fairly glow with warmth plentiful. They are vitally essential to home upkeep. \ worn tloor will warp and twist from moisture. and color Bare woodwork soon pulls apart at the joints. err , - \ shabby room is more than unpleasant to live in. N vall covering, no matter Shabbiness 1s a sion of deterioration. \ | QS 11) . ell chosen, can give the Don’t neglect indoor painting. It saves repair ch, attractive, restful effect promotes health and lightens housework. tained by painting it with Above all, use materials of quality. Get the right Sherwin- ims it-Ton b hnish for each surface. That is our specialty in 1 vIn Hiiam at i. t al | ar , ST . . . , } ! til 17 ’ wf | Tyr } ] > 1 Ta) 1 2) This 1 an oil pant made tor GIViGauailZins TUuaVINYe a urftace and pl ducing \ eae , finish that wall stand the kind of wear it vets. exclusively at produce t ' a ce . 4 1 We have tested every tinish we make under hore durable tinish which can be ; . rough treatment than Vou can pos bly vive it. We ily cleaned without injurv. we fifty vears of experience to draw on. That \ Flat-Tone comes in ever) surely is proof that we know what you ought to have “| color you can earry out and how to make it. ] ] -_ lesit COLOT Chemie Vou Cesire ) : ; i , "] 1B H Paw Address, The Sherwin-Williams Co., 613 Canal Road, N.W., Cleveland, O. SHERWIN-WILLIAMS PRODUCTS Look for This MARK on the label

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April 6,1918 THE SATURDAY EVENING ; a ef oe Standard” | i a a RS PLUMBING FIXTURES | i F re r ‘ 4 THIS BEAUTIFUL | i oa sATH ROOM COST | bg FREICH’ & INSTALLING EXTRA OTHER BATH ROOMS AS LOW AS BD és) ea *Standard” Plumbing Fixtures in this Bath Room are: “Devoro” Closet, “Pembroke” Built-in Bath with Shower and “Laton” Lavatory. Shown in our Catalogue, “ Standard” Plumbing Fixtures for the Home. 66 t d 99 Plumbing ardard Fixtures “The plumbing is “Standatd”” is a statement which has grown to signify a real hall- mark of quality and beauty. When that is said, a definite value i is added to your property. Then there is “Standard” service, of a character and com- “ptaidatd” ideals have been upheld for two score years, and pleteness possible only with an institution having national they take form in the Green and Gold label which appears representation. Wherever there is a “Standard” Showroom, on every “Standard” fixture. All genuine “Standard” faucets, Wholesale House or Office, this service is at your command. traps, showers and trimmings are stamped permanently ai ” with the trademark “Standard”. otarndard Pluml Ing Fixtures cover a great variety ol - designs at a w ice range ol prices tor Bath Room, Kite he n Our helpful catalogue, - “Standard” Plumbing Fixtures for and Laundry, and are made of porcelain enamel and vitreous the Home,” will be sent you free upon request. It will china. A “Standard” triumph is the “Pembroke” Built-in guide you in your selection. Talk to your Architect and Bath, the approved and popular type now in vogue. Plumber and make your complete installation “Standard” crime siiasiinamcasmueenita we ' Sanit ) . » @ Standard” Wholesale Houses Standard ow anitary ‘ID fo. Co. tandard” Fixtures the cities marked (*) in the cente1 Pittsburgh Increase Factory Efficiency ot this page there are “Standard” Permanent Exhibits in the Following Cities: his is = of the nation s needs . Wholesale Houses carrving in stock NEW YORK W. 3187 t 18 11TH factory efficiency. The efhciency of 5 NEW YORK (EXPORT DEPT BROAD W. WATER : . . 2) complete lines of SUPPLIES and TON 46 DEVONSHIRE BLUXOME | every individual worker, man or ' . - . . PHILADE 41a WALNUT 1 MESQUIT ° “ye a eee |S WASHIN TON BERN BLDO. o 318 W. MAIK woman, counts in these times when Q al Water. ( Si * ' BURGH 106 SIXTH 846 BARONNE | production is a national necessity. a : weit RECT, NING, ECA LICAG( N. PEORIA E )N & SMITH p ioe ~omdit , + | {Oil Industries Write to or call aye L. re are : oe oeare } Ago ye regen Saag par pepe a ; ork, Bye ene h the comfort and efficiency o , | upon the nearest wholesale house of : FRIE | pl c We . ] bl le : 21 ERI RIDGE ARCADE | ployees e have a valuable booklet on | ANTON NDS mt 7 ) E. RICHMOND } this subject I actory Oantitation sent St wdard Sanitary ) Ws. Co. WHEELING = syne DI Mt a Ne a ania free on request to manulacturers. ‘ —— “ERIE 3 W. TWELFTH CHICAGO OFFICE KARPEN BLDG a

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‘Oh! r? Well, he’s too feeble to But | un and yur feeilr ly dont stay out night! It turns cold after ten o And then, I suppose you've got to be at the dinner party? ‘I’m beginning to take interest,”” he cor fessed with unusual bo ess You'll be the t 4 ' + LS no. I ve been especially nvited not ) yme Well the that settles the affair for Do as 1 She turned 1 » tne But, I say, Miss You've me here, you kn of yo oO free will!” | hot r » and a t , town—n

e done ¢ n leasant for you; they're of ney on a hot platter. And g like the spoiled darling He stood wide-eyed, reg: ng tne tne heroic figure that loomed there out of the su at cm Q t A 4 ‘ n ear \ 1 dao ema W l I She clasped his hand! i ed 1 wish i'd re lt tha r i Car ve done! Go she id er ee ‘ iv tror he et } ind whe he ille iter L dk it fey t I’: She « ed and tu her hair glow 9 e the red inthe West, her eyes s¢ is, r face} e and rather trag I e here in a rott funk and I ig I'd | ea few quiet hou » tal ove é iu ! I { ) NI I id there y se curiou r } i I i! ind rece ure ‘ i There wasn't a word of } n what I . lr} vhat n ‘ me mad he ‘ Ev A 1 you iw true it makes me I is to tl nat tarner } me here and te 1 r iven't got eD enou t ‘

‘ yw and turned ) a the river His lungs expanded with the sharp f a prairie winter as he floundered f mong the bare shrubs and little ws Occasiona he would stop and et | $s eve itsell n s oo fer taven and Like WI ne ite 1 ul et te t g ne t mit Nature’s ) mood. Yet to-night ere came a Sa e delight Z ps f t West, whict is myster there n Indian rhapsody out there where the R Mount 1 Mt ming. Some- tunis the rear a r ¥ is in a Kentis} re \ ) e tooted i, nearer yet, an autor ‘ ed After al tnere Va ») ¥ tt 4 away from it I ard dusk he stole through the re er streets f Harnes f lreading Dulcimer at ever ner. Be it t I qulxot i f r art « a scented Dulcimer like a cheap erfurme Harnessville ild never have thought of Hoag without Dulcimer’s inst n. But

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_ ’ ~ i t ist “ag , t 4 j N y s Ni ¥ > tect yur SI ‘ iit ma ny t t t he A and turr me in expe é As the artist walked he noted that there space nd thes The streets ¥ t ea set was dying in the West —how the wastrel Diirtis the Worst Enemy of tree had caught the glow! She was righ The Hair and Scalp Was a quarter past seven when he sere - ked is watch, and he It Is the Prime Cause of Falling Hair et ling | vacant t past irl = crasl lat lons , Your hair and scalp « annot be Kept clean Pre Ser y the universal suburbar 4 ad Ww dirty brushes any more t sy ‘ n wit parcels, ed m at the er, a clean your face with a dirty towel of him Admah made inquiries as to the whereabouts of the Gallop house His guidedirected him truthfu Admal ildn’t miss the Gallop house. He reco; letaieaeetc at WC) BRUSHE f iowed hin t it m xz now a keep your hair and scalp healthy | clean, The only hair brush that can be b washed, boiled or sterilized without the slightest injury Carefully selected Russian ot bristles, hand-drawn into an open metal the back. You can see right through them. No Dp wood to warp. Hair brushes $2. Guaranteed to please and last or mor y back V MU & ive ' \¢ A 1 ~ . the rough, uncouth East. alone and uncor Just the Thing for Your Boy at War fortable in the are lited presence ot t! convenient it fits in the pocket. A gift that is nished West! tt a real neces Suit fors on the d . wa in el I isone lt ‘ ‘ U. we basset “ ts tary eq re ) te and in q t ex f t at war. Hel; in to keep clean a — Seabee "ha Saarinne Siteonp Ale tains 1 Hair Brush behave himself, Admah was amazed to Hand Brush. ¢ tal I r, in khak himsell I i the | the thing f the fror Equal even te raftewa r ( { tort tray and ' Pri ‘ f . ; “ he r dea r write pre ‘ I a 10us! t ! ' . a t 1 we w hip d mildest t nee l I t f Get la I he PT yharcmah toll bara. ¢ SANITAX BRUSH CO icomme te Been ag feet gs oa 2343 S. Wabash Ave Chicago serious every time the guest of ) opin © ‘ e} elf. For a G SOAP e Mrs. Ballymoore! Mrs. M Ey | 0 ind Ad I betwee ood lad 1 his hosts B 4 acTro e table t ig the 4 j : ) at » in the ro y eye f Ame foo On the 1 of an occasional 1 <a } emark Adma ispected \ | n old PI tine le adore W W ] a Pony tay Works Wonders, ‘ ne 1 is he ad ed | f the genuine if God 2 | Mrs. Modderson, it wa | te set entitled Great Masts Easily and thoroughly | 7 re a oe: me Rtgs Ur ; IeEmMoves Ob tinate dirt. st 05, | from Fra Filippo Lippi to 7 et f grease ind grime etto to Mer nd Bou \ " ‘ the rid's art pe coche paidintcgeeer LEAVE a feeling of »one cultured m« \ © * 1 ; Mics : i there on retre 5 clear neoct 1 ing i i I il e 4 ) 1 ¢} ' } ind e ¢ i ta ‘ } , = ayy — uf ‘ . —EEE 4 — ea —a es! Don’t Hamper Your Career gehts on They te y G got a chance to todas. LHE A. N. PALMER CO. ! the ere thr ypecne ! Suite 400, 30 Irving Place, New York City It’s re juite a beautiful lit WANTED NEW IDEAS . Ad } me out prompt t sat i ‘ ve as ain j ‘ OWE BIS EO COuNar es ld 1. Evans & C Ninth, Washington, D. ¢ ! iffering an excellent

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 6, 1918 g comes a lot of women, deter- criminal who finds himself unexpectedly ‘‘No; I should say not. You pulverize ‘emupinribbonsandteach’em torn from a mob and locked away ina cozy them, rather.” It’s like ‘i prison, the refugee advanced and opened ‘Well, I had no right to treat a stranger yp paused for a simile. the little white door at the end. the way I did you. But it got on my nerve yutting a frilled collar on Baby The first object to c his eye was a 1 You see, Mrs. Modderson has ipplied Admal tall brass reading lamp, with a green glass lecturing us on our crudity for three st, you do talk a lot like a shade. There is a comfortabie cluster of then along came Dulcimer. Then i f throwing iy his old-fashioned chairs and glimpses of steel came you. I don’t suppose you real- ippearing in the direction of engravings on the wa The sight gave rson out here can love his town t ning hinge him the sensatior f t d release that id of it and sensitive about it, es of the Har V ins,coming the homely room of the River tugboat Yorkers are proud of the way ma my e, he saw that captain had aiw » ight they re always tear their beloved city v nhuman expression He eased the door a crack wider and to ribbons and never fir ning 1t. Daddy arrowed his soul on that fright- sensed the start the human animal always and I have loved to see Harnessville boom when they had stood him up— enjoys when coming unexpectedly upon and double in size every two years; but we Heller Building and directed another human animal; for settled in the wanted it to grow up to be—Harnessville. Y ork toward his place of honor vivid green plus} s chair, direct Then along comes art.” hat, too, was over and the under the green light, slouched a tall slen- “Arti A eat inthetiers der girl, a hank of red hair braided down Admah: into a cor- her back a e ntently overa large ey « From this portfolio, into which she was sketching in- i, fat man he seemed to gather dustrio with a rp The one it do you sug- 1 mpatl detail he caught in the surprising encounter 7 nada i ere pushed into the was that her qul ensitive fingers were if you ive a front of the bay window. smudged to the knuckles from the pencils 7 yoOmp W h was he had been sh ning vw at the head of fe, Mrs. G » bustled to th Ah—hum!” 1 himself stretch- ed twice for silence he This, I think, is the correct introduction ned at last, as wanes the hum-_ undersuch circumstances. The vision leaped 1, ‘I have a roon rm when the queen has astothe call of “Fire!” Her portfolio went » much like tl er | I one W her s f of pencils another. her and ¢a er I he distinguished guest who I’ he further volunteered, ad- ir com! h his pres 1 there, her penc t] to her breast, her | —) eard the re fused His ) he ear, won- on | etl ! [here was a he ipon him e, Knows ng i e pit of fil tomact His feet n?”’ she asked sud- gray wa sand one rushlight Theu're . we! ) He wa ire he was going to” denly, with nervous ttle laugh. We've been spending several thousand Good” ol | eadache A i “We l yu Lor e me it wasn t year re ng away trom the troglodytes 1 his hand on the shoulde { mn fault this time An elocutionist in- and I see no reason wi e should be ge r t beside him nea d on reciting Gunga Din; and your ting b to them rathering loose ends of the fat Gee! he exclaimed, in a tone of su touched I ed nerve Dear old dad 1’ She was smiling perfect rapture that he is thrilled ab ) é ) ided that M Gallop te natu y | thir he got pe : la ! his | ) I nore sense thar the rest of 1 L thir ou must be some ng of a to be eau n him forthwith. put togethe so Nhe nowed uu to our hypo le nea ised at last . I the program, Mrs. Cadra room?” Tha i new one fo ‘ ( t sy . i a dderson W la r us tr Rudyard “T didi ito ide He assured edged, glancit i m Ove er porti e*%* eee FU pli nmortal ballad, Gunga Din.” me there \ t be a soul here and that Else wl hould you be abu ‘ engage Pt Hoag lay back heavily in | I could lhe down and er my headache i wher lca ) e bee busy peace bee ske g all manner of gs?” Din! Din!! Din!!! And mother? Impu ‘ he re ed t and picked ad ( é ling of a tin Oh, ( pre ng! Ld *t thir he upa eet that I e down, beside ! rve | no more I’ve gone coucl nt t in ent isiast . We l’ll go and let 1 rest : ) please dor t! | si time e chose B by the For heaver lease don’t!” But the damage lone h go \ € A i H ag eda ft e fear that the 1 t be e ne had ited the nee ecite G Din a give pirit of the forest would again escape him, Ske ed f I ind i few good lit i ind! ell leaning on the shoul- a nfinished int ew inflatte £ po t of himself. As repre S | ! der of | pathet It isn’t good fora man witha headache _ sented in the picture he was standing at aliesmen. Mot feakne well?” asked Americus’ to be talking.” she protested: but, to his banquet table, the same being laden wit » ne e, | re ed Ad t 1! t i ol ta LN he ‘ ired Admal gyied ag r e P n ¢ p ted it i ga m a re iof M Gy £ A I i it it I 1 . ne rn ne { t t t | 1 M G p She resumed he the Morris i M Modade forced | ’ i Ve rose a i ee! for ! ) rose the vy. Ina 1 ‘ ‘ d e rear m e himese yr the t 1 i- e page Via eied, \ i it ‘ Sed tm n the f ed . idied him very phant! ! e betwe et t i {r vith eve | nt it 1e ¢ ed s m lampo« D. P. K., Toledo Scale Company, Toledo, Ohio and tl room the helpful gentleman which had deepened toarich violet. Admah lampoonist. She was red as a rose and he SS ae — pped at ed caut *W Hoag had er ved lo g into ey¢ ia eyes were bright with tears ol name es kT ny'd) er me if she ew! But Lunder- great variet iin he surveyed the picture and gave You who own, drive or \| na the limit N rite sag? the vip? spesens he Ba inate ade ee tele ad ae vas 30 ee 8 ee a oe can meee repair automobiles Berm od th Sk anak oie a Geer an 7 i te es Lord!” he bellowed. “It’s co a a nt } ‘ tne e.” p I eye nto 1 ild I didn’t tell you you could do that,” I p ha ‘ ‘ f ‘ Oh. but if e rest are e th The MW. Dunton Com , , Did , ‘ ‘ M G p, you ve g ) mi \ a { | A t 4 g t to Oo il ng!’’ » e I b eccel f of it! ‘ ed { t egal f é » the bu e and he t é ! but I ea e | t reciting at! ‘ He 1 himself standing ove ( ur M e it ; Mrs. Modders \ She’s part of at e which, to the superficial observe ‘ ittes the ht.”’ ; have ] ed me y “ vi 4 The t?” i [ ) ng t 4 Pe : J we L Wa I p I ‘ whee I [ hat ‘ I ¢ ‘ r got a wk to it ‘ e har ne rr nner es — LA blight. M Modde pa f ind of 7 t it expresses ¢ g I’ve We nea the » ‘lve about Mr. Dulcimer—oh, he’s a perfect bag ol leit t lay, and then son ! | M ly pit wi ig sne t tnere i iv € neac er Cut Me Out ( t and was sure that you're not n ily tha But I’ve gotas f t to see th to The tis Pub ~ é ward a of them, because you're more exper The esent wh 1 up aga ( . 1 Independer © a Adn Hoag to wit! t good- Unie larned [ul : ; re . A ae ] t i 1 fe some Se Sit iM i s ) I ne “We t ellow who didt it el W : antanad , , Tas himself.” ’ coe I une ed Adr y 1 There! 1 nent Well, t e began; and, con é P ‘ : : tie dog ag ( so g r iat ahe ‘ \ I ‘ t e W much cut up a i 1 ga re : t ' 1 ‘ this afternoor N vas a heart 4 ‘ L'li fe ‘ ‘ i My 1 what ! \ loves ran red unde ve y 1 are nt ] a 1aa ne gned i ( He turne 1 ega i ring dow : One of ‘em, she admitted he one vig l Y se e the quality that had eqqoquqaneceuwneecece euceccaneeucence e narro tairs. With the feeling 1 who doesn’t patronize the arts.” Concluded on Page 137

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SATURDAY EVENING POST “Every inch of this kitchen is washable” “™~ The Varnish That Won't Turn White ee Here’s a kitchen that is “‘ bright and white”? and washable throughout. This means it is finished with Valspar and Val-Enamel. VALSPAR is the famous water-proof varnish that isn’t afraid of water —that never turns white —that is used for more Aousehold purposes than any other varnish. Valspar is the varnish for all woodwork indoors and out, as wellas for all furniture, because it’s durable, spot-proof and washable. VAL-ENAMEL is an American product that is far better than any imported enamel. Jt starts white and stays white. It has long life and is easily applied. For very many rooms, especially if the popular colonial effect is desired, the best combination is water-proof, spot-proof and durable Valspar and Val-Enamel. Special Offer—1f you wish to test Valspar send 20c. in stamps and we will send you enough Valspar to finish a small sola or chair. VALENTINE & COMPANY, 458 Fourth Avenue, New York VALENTINE'S VAENTRES = Ve VALENTINE’S |-Ename /ALSPAR »

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 6,1918 TELL-KEPT HOME IS THE CHEERFUL HOME-—-THE HEALTHFUL HOME Half a Million Homes Like This PWARDS of half a million homes are Frantz Premier homes. Half a million busy mornings are shortened and made easy mornings the Frantz Premier way. Half a million homes look better and half a million women are happier because of Frantz Premier thoroughness and helpfulness. Is yours a Frantz Premier home? There is no reason why it should not be, and every reason why it should. The price is moderate. ‘Time payments if desired. Free demonstration before deciding. A Premier makes housework easy, keeps everything looking new, affords more time for other duties, saves hours, saves energies, saves money. Nine pounds of smooth-gliding light- ness makes each cleaning task a cheerful one. From rug to curtain, from parlor to bedroom, the Premier works willingly and effectively, helped by the special attachments for special purposes. Covers the ground quickly. The air- driven rubber-tipped brush is an exclusive Premier feature. The unusually wide cleaning nozzle picks up the ingrained dirt at one easy sweep. No nec essity for going over the same spot twice. * * * . . * ‘ . . . . + *. * * * a And, no matter where your Frantz Premier may be purchased, there is one of our service branches nearby ready to co operate with you at all times. In this way you are assured of everyday Premier utility—a further factor of value that will appeal to you in the acquisition of a Frantz Premier. — , Your dealer or electric station manager will riadiy arrange to give you a tree demonstration. If he cannot do this write us direct and we will rrange a demonstration for you upon receipt of you! dealer’ s name The Frantz Premier Co., Cleveland, Ohio Che Premier Vacuum Cleaner Co., Ltd »8 Adelaide St. | ust, Toro to, Ontario, Canada frat ‘2 Premier ELECTRIC CLEANER

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Concluded from Page 134 endowed famous Elektra. And he was t it aga nstant his,”’ said she, ‘is Mr. Dulcimer Put- ) ng Chintz on the City Hall.” The é | shown draping ‘\ € i e \ I st i} is 4 é N F f J ¢ fall , t ea e Venus de M é e Mfr ’ Mr. D Having an E ( le é t ed . ! | u f ‘ é g he Cr ned © V ] \ ! ¢ é insul ¢ I é Hour of Eas ‘ ¢ I ( » read r é f the } | ( ened to V he t ¢ I ¢ ‘ e of Style—Comfort—Economy —~ ' hs nenns R a ORDON | () ‘ Covel \ ‘ ci i } ¢ | ( We S ! ! \ I ' , | | t t he Ar t yy » f | a har \ held i 1aAN | ‘ ¢ | ‘ ! I } ‘ | bev ‘ cleat { ¢ é € “Any r 4 t | ( ‘ | \ ‘ ‘ r p ‘Could I { , 4 I , } | re 1 ¢ ( hea I H H ed r I ) Il ¢ ke 13 ‘ s\ 1 @) ) ick | ( I t title lr t ‘ ix | ] ] t CCE earned even ere Cl \ | ‘ he et the Veil I k f I I , | acco | ( love-lhke fit u No. H | ed | he centra ed ( ( I erla A t He course ( I ‘ ‘ { ible ] | Ne s M ( i i 1 ( ( ‘ en ‘ wl I »p, e1 ! 1¢ ‘ j A , ~— ed eas a . \ e i tii ( L thre , e! ( t vw grou} e far fa ( \ r tight { the | ‘Oo rse \ ( ‘ evel men é e! eX y nee “M 8) ‘ , | f ef Le et roo | ‘ ( nh thy \ eful t t eX- Col T t ! ( ‘ rs ' ‘ \ H f t ) ‘ I e re ind sma ¢ ‘ é | bat ( Cl ul He | re my} t eM 1 ’ Ba ; ha (; | On ¢ will é ¢ of ld ( | " ‘ ( } t ed Y ( I . t | WH) ( l il t ‘ ‘ t- | Tye ] t | | ' , , he ed at or e th You see, la eclavion ‘ ¢ te | VW | I 14 ( ‘ Cul | Are G D 1 once 1 q ’ ed S ‘ 1) \ ( t ¢ I I ' i i > lt ‘ | th f P mounts che e, the artist's verdict o en. 7 aes The J. P. Gordon Company dat oe ad ee aoe ov tone Pn Aen am | 401 Naghten St. Columbus, Ohio , in a . : Somewh New York M j ST ccctaan tis Quen, tock ented ane lhe é g er t nyr 1 1 Engine Robe and other fabric motor accessories | Ir] y i th f Mr. D ‘ at | l | i na ¢ ier oe ( tene lat ma pli ‘ We LD he ir An I ‘ vilir \ ! r like Hoa mt y? r ) ( er tl - ‘ ‘ - | : it] ‘ re ~ lor é t has TEEG “4 | ed nob ce I ‘ -. \ Fa} } ei ch EASY*ON TOP RECOVERINGS “Gordon” Top Recoverings The J. P. Gordon Company j eats ss a s j 401 Nawhten St Columbus, Ohio |

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SATURDAY EVENING POST April 6, 1918 KELLY Continued from Page 17) Arthur blinked, sent a glance of ap- women who live longest in an open boat. t ard Solway, then descended Now, m’ lord, I minds the time i é he stood by Micky’s side “Smoke on the starboard quarter!” i t -house deck. broke in Solway with a dry wink at Mc- By Jove!’ he said into the little skip- Masters. ‘Looks like a part of the fleet, pers ear. ‘It a 1 l I per.” » nit you. It’s a sporting chance that “Or a convoy,” said Mik y after a study Kelly and I'll 1 I'm through the glasses. ‘Convoy, I think,” going to apply for a ec yn as e went on as he rat his hand throug! Sir I see my brother. We Ar irs led U juth to the with a vacht. ‘Horns ( ither ral of e bridge. OU can be sure of juality when you buy The so the officer on the Mike Monkey screwed up his face at th Florsheim Shoe—full value for every dollar . Kelly's worse that wnouver. He stepped close to Sotway / Micky with convictior th’ Old le and whispered: “‘Skipper’s cuttin’ us j you invest the same high standard today as S Man of the Sea, he is!”’ out. Wouldn't be surprised if he was fishin At heretofore—-Florsheim is the shoe that you can Mike Monkey lifted himeclf tothe bridge for a week's end at the castle. Se ll pom , , as .iicKy and sir Arthur disappeared into ; a hero there. He'll tell the ladic } lepend on [for satisfaction. the little skipper’s cabin. about the rescue at sea. I'll bet a ton of Fluct _—eEE “I hear you got a lord aboard,” shot good Welsh he'll be havin’ the poor lad | | " ‘ } uty Navy mnpnasizcr Mike into Solway’s e: 1 e | I sent him at court, he w } { ‘ ae according t sality and out a plug of tobacco is ie ‘What d sei beagle d i l I ul 1 | t nu } “A lord’ brothe » r M M M W Ke ball | tion u t. hy t broke—or the R Honorable rs before he answered He ed th ; é erked Solwi% i ind W ere I'd like } He e sk er?” asked Mike him dov f oyage— I’d ma | , { , Monke r | he plug ! it of vei é . “Yes; M taken a fancy to Why, il t t full f Decent f chap, he seems. Y« e. The > tne es ‘ the cl ‘ He’s got : ‘ hey’re |} vy chested. A - I ‘ e's Mc Master ! ona p is the place ! ‘ Mike M ( ed the sea al 1 ( I ed tl 1 the ell i the gre peak of his « ‘ | He’s fresl m Tri ( ‘ He tu e de St. Alba As! 9 ilted tl I pow Again he » iv leaned er the } | I i m t i i idied a ! e ane He : e a baby eh?” he iz h |} humb, ¢ ved Mike | is bri er? All ne t mer M of the ! ( I n eel W ¢ em | as! eye W the we é The Florsheim , e it easier for us? It’s them ju | toward Micky and the A I i ‘ ti sO ( e Duo} he i Shoe Company on. is all of a ton to make “We'll b nut Any or- "1: . en we ed him Weain’t ders from the nit Chicago, U.S. A. back our speed yet Micky McMasters stopped The Carlton— W p “Ah ~ left . die * , 8 * ; ra f " ¢ “No! } dow ¢ j ! Mike Mon} sure go right ner e! I f I'd kr he if kinned, } 1 some ! ell M M ‘ I san ! ( i It ) S i } ‘ er heart “W 1 see hit I He Mc Maste ned Sir A ir t i he ] r fusfory } } ¢ | | t indred | i r D $10.00 Extra a Week | sirius! pave nt rane techn? it il YOU Wa t Fi ) Piss 1, , Mil M ed | I “Never 1 . 2 gee i S« ! N é ‘ \ i \ oO cautior I have a ta é i | W , é e| er ol a I ‘ kK ! ; ngs Mike M chance came when M I I \ t of ( ih We » ¥ L) nt ed in ed |} harge ‘ where V Af in Vv . SI d t a | | ed over the wild waste of te rwaters. a sub popped up ‘long about three in the ° he first engineer squinted down into the mornu watch, an’ let go two Schwar Ty >» ( . -| ”( ‘| | a With One Idea: face of Sir Arthur as if he was examining kopfs made in Austria. One hits the Brix We ASITIS CULU DS? 70 Make Money new kind of patent gauge. He als ton Arms aft the bunkers, th’ other for ar winked ary! it Me Masters. skipper ge » the bridge i whacth *rul I i A te! I ad wome! ho in these wat ‘Been tendin’ ship, skipper,” he d consigned to Da Ses I , e of use, for clothes, for Thrift “Mr. Solway’s so busy | for Kelly 1 order.” \ | Red ( 7 ; Anv Saturday | Post readet gave him a hand. Th’ engine re runnin’ **I did want to see my brother,” repeated . mi 4 ’ » 9 Sir Arthur wit] y dr oy nt ta ay ee ene Sees Hy We OS 8, Oy See 8 Pa SS es Micky MeMasters cocked an exposed ease his mind, y'know. He’s | it lhe Manager of The Girls’ Club . hen fr ed e Baltin I If you eall t t VOC t ed I asa Box 315, The Curtis Publishing Company, Philadelphia, Pa. he vhen theres a M t . m behir I We i “We \ ‘ he 1 VW M doat ut obe e} \ I 20,000 MILES FROM TIRES \ CUP ANT CCT HIGHWA\ *7ROTECTORS SAVE i t t T i ! it TIRES 2 true ring of the younger SAVE Strange.” said the rst engineer, “that ladder, a wed S KOLT MFG. CO., 31 Second SL, Stevens Point, Wis. MONEY .? : oy , + eae a a agai . then followed with a ches whistle Yo Z pled LEOEE: jee OO saved from a wreck, an’ the poor weak Continued on Page 141)

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‘ ‘ passed tl igh the i { kK ‘ é ‘ ‘ ‘ } ist 15 } M bou ‘ ¢ ‘ ~ \ ere bending over a draw- Mike M ‘ 1 har er har ‘ ‘ h had been tacked the stared at the , ean. He f Southampton Wat me ed f the , \ He dashed t e engine , t : ay nd meat Ss! vd eye Ie r r ene vv ed e } é hen turns ~ \. \ I e des] e all reg i I t t t I The “ pu edu great, « ‘ W a ¢ C P } her i N < Mike M t ed I i | I cabin wit! ft He went! ( ‘ the answe ( f é He ad V Spe K ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘*Man overb d—t ; f ink for a half hou ea ‘ ‘ ¢ Micky McMa with i { \pply a Tew drops of b reez one t ! Feerinthe morning trouble It me emotions I’m not 5 ; r by what aut} - erse—I don’ y whe I é ed and questior i r f K ? 1 coa he d | e had entered the Pe C0] ‘ | ¢ ‘ | } 8) ‘ i M { é he « ided i ile ere i | ister? Id ‘ \ieM responsible ul be av f ‘ ve ’ pa 1 port ‘ S ‘ ( Who wv t we ‘ 1 isked | ed questior t {} é Solway 5 nee ( the t nd mate or ne enginee ! \ H Highne ! The R i é Y M dads Ar Mike M Arthur Mill e! m t! t ist 1 go alt rhe when 1 ( Mike Monkey t ight ol e expe 1 \ e of r F ed e fre hter close S 1 ¢ y a f for res¢ ne the « ed ‘ ‘ ! ey § ed tottl is McM Phe The pint nne ! ‘ ited , ecter oct rt ' Mavhe mar ; \ é n the Gunfle ( { t ! ( ish oO é , , \ huge tu t a gray 1 ( or, blacke Velve I the ‘ ila ee Dit m Ar that fe prese r wa ‘ as oi aiadl a iaait the aie tematic Eten waitin? alee? thn iim Se apt pe peti Binge) dg The Edward Wesley Co., Cincinnati, O Mike M ( nad conserved |! “Keep a little farther t There's 1 ( S iV wv the only « ecte me of the i At tn ST TR ona A ad drop to for ( ed off tt threeseamen. Hereached ar ed Mic pounds. The e had v y tried to | S iy W ered at ler t e whe hand from the engine-room indicator. He E d I a che rY ne after the other of the mat ihe Guntleet ing five legrees, are the little skipper to the after canva i astwoo coal passe They had shaken their head then steadied. Mike Monkey feared the the bridge, ordered the waiting men below with knowing wir itdle skipper would order mere-apeed. The to get to thal stations, then had Micky || © Sag! aaa Hy rmed up the gratings, pulled hin new Irse {for additional ki He repeat everything at had ed be For the Boy whe elf through the engine room companior led up to Mc Masters, touched | on the tween the Right Honorable Arthur M H hoes ‘ ent t e steady clank of a eve cautior ‘Ve eful. 1 e and himself ( en worked f irdand = 7 t eng ¢ Micky, after | Si, ‘ ~ t ere e mate i t € {I U mine irte Vill e re e al t t ¢ to be overhauled in } ec er the deta e a g the For Men W here ppe the ike?”’ MeG é t ( I i He at Work ed t r e¢ i t ( ! ( t I te | I ed DOX y f i re or Play is} ‘ cry | I time of Sir Arthu plea ga " seas Aft R ring out a qua! How about the bonus « the : 1 atthe taffrail. The: n point f 4 Real smoke-tanned leather, f ( ( (

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The crow’s nest hed, the bunkers and boiler been nad room combed, the fo’castle and chain lock- ers peered into—without result sa I covering that Mike M mkey had suffici l the Gunfleet ( hidder take il lfway back to the Bush Terminal polway then examine the waif, with the eye of a sea lawyer anda away to | ] the coat left by detect ive, tained a talio! n Concree, of Bond Street—and an inked name had been effaced by sea water or an eraser, dozen cigarettes were Solway sniffed In one por ket a | bunched in a pa these, spread the tobacco out upon } is palm, and then handed the lot to McMasters. “What kind of tobacco is that?” he asked, grasping at any clew. mass. Micky shook his head. “It’s all the same to me. This looks strong for cigarettes. Why not try Mike Monkey? He's begged, stolen or picked up every kind in the world. Mike Mor key appeared dropped the rubber said the mate as he held He'll know!” as Solway speakil ‘Sample that!”’ out the mess, The chie f eng a big bunch into } ineer of the Gunfleet thrust is mouth, rolled it round with his tongue, screwed up his wizened face to a knot, then spat in certainty: It’s German! That’s th’ only place where you could get any slag iike that. I minds the time we was in Hamburg P Vast!’ The sk ’s volce was com- pelling. “’Vast with your jaw tacl le! Get below an’ nurse those engines up to full speed! Turn them over if it takes the of your damn bonus coal. We're goir at the crack of dawn, remember.” Mike Monkey gulped, and shot a yellow stream down upon the dark waters. He came to the I | strode t dge ladder by degrees, paused, and then started dowr to the deck with both ears strained toward the two seame! McMasters whee led wit a close-bitten oath. “Cet I he | et every ounce of ste n her! ¢ a fig if they pay you two thot I'm captain here, The clank of opening doors and the grate of metal upor little skip} that Mike Monkey understood. \ ruday glow haloed the scree! one funnel, This glow an’ you wall metal told the er ing canvas over the detail of the bridge and caused the enraged captair to blink likeasnappy of fire. He reached and dragged Solway the weather rail. brought out terrier in the presence ‘You keep a sharp eye out here,” he said "lld I don’t trust not even that cinder saver, Mike } “an’ il drop round a piece anybody Monkey. omethin’. The ship don’t act Spee I ns as blact I'm gettin’ nerves I feel as if we're on the lid of right Ss know I'll be seein’ ng you tin lizard crawlin’ he mainmast. Wouldn’t wonder if we're in for something an’ his hump-nosed hem to searching every nook f the freighter. He was taking No one had seen Sir Arthur 1. Therefore it was possible EVENING POST A deey silence brooded over the waters beyond So ind the Isle of Wight as the GWunfiee » » closer to snore ind would be raised at another t were net and the mine fields. Beyond these mine fields lay the Grand Fleet, ready for a flank attack upon any German raiders. The first pale flush of dawn in the east brought the two seamen closer together and erect as the details of the bridge appeared The binnacle light was no Solway snapped off the tiny globe. The side lights had not been turned on. The flag at the stood out in the first of the from off the meadowed had lay one by one. longer ionger loremast morning The headland and it preeze shore. salety “ared. Cowes The Gunfleet inched up like an old cow before a garden gate A signal gun warned McMasters turned and ore to He came bas t WwW CITCle as a yachting € ipon cross- ing tne ne H inshaven tace W set of the bridge canva H ne enyine I l te rapt from the pipe aft the funne nad Nis orders and was Dusy e | speed ahead. He cocked his ear and listened to the sounds below the dec that told of open throttles and jumping engines. The freighter picked up knot upon knot. She shot the channel, passed the net yzagged as directed upon the raity s chart, then wallowed on towar econd net A shot irp and ¢ brought them down to e: darted acro ig Gunfleet’s stern, came a as a port office inds: “R ght woke ceep in our s were changed | ty ides! We’ Set uu in to And you're lucky—let me tell 999 ters shook a fist over the bridge rang for more speed. give good men orders now he » Va ‘I minds the time he'd \ that lur up at th’ Elepl int ar Castle { thats where he gets his half pint he an fis 1 y” remarl Solway was too busy with the whee lar at to the let the orders. The hannel opened to a wide vista of safe ensconced st pping, greet sloping spires of tree-! and white dden KITKS, ‘Southampton Water!” announced Sol wav as he finished zigzagging and motioned ir for two of the crew to stand by the catted ancnor. The Gunfleet, w ha last d ng plume of steam, slid for her bert crTos i the bow | an unknown dreadnought which had mo certainly been launched after the beginning ot the ind ime to re with the enain rattling rough the iwse pipe and Mike Monk tribe of nder ra ind water tende la g a Jig upon the engine room grating First to spring into ‘ e boat wv Me Masters, f ved by Solway and the chief eng et n nree id left the nip in ¢ t I nd n e and ( ynd Millbrooke, no matter who came out to the i at a stone quay, tosse lf crowns and a shillir : . ; hurried up a steep lane that led to the twisted his finger about bird,” he decided w

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nfluence in the tle importance. Because he finar n, faster s } cial backing which the Tagel had, the opinion. It is obvious that as long as this company owning the Weser ung rganization controis the enemy country a forced to sell out to the same interests lemocratic peace is impossible. Can there hat competition would be im- be any doubt to-day as to whicl s in control of Germany’s destinie a final editorial the retiring editors of the remarks made during this teichstag the Weser Zeit ung an nounced tl they debate? Can there be any doubt that there would not be responsible t} e two great parties in one policies of the paper. On the following day favoring a democratic peace, the other an the new editors announced that they would nnexat eace? fight the Reichstag peace resolution of July I t la a wal ness - 18, : eee 1 advocate the platform of the ! e than it ever was betore. F: land party, the chief } k of which because this trust, which I the annexation of the Flanders coast! nave ¢ ed the triple alliance, sees that The rayedy of the Weser Zeitung shows l ni ym e the government wit! that the war-business interests of Germany out contr ! he press that 1t ls Campalgn- ide with the military leaders in making ing to-d e German newspapers. It the war t y a fight for annexation is because this trust is looking ahead tothe demonstr: the methods of the triple period f ir that it is mobilizing the we in Germany and in Austria- export new hannels of Germany to in- gary, forin the Dual Monarchy similar fluence the a er S made And tactics have been used. Recently in I the plat h the ce has made I met an Austrian journalist who had e« trike a e found: ns of the American from Vienna for a brief visit in Switzer and | te press freedon land Germar t move after t} uC The Krupp interests and the Pan cording to t l I nic ty Germanists,”” he declared, “‘own or con Berlin is making, is to be directed against trol, through advertising agencies, every e news-dist ng agencies of England, German-language newspaper in Vienna.” Fr nee ar tne [ ted States Germal é y officers and statesmet Tainted News From Germany ment had spe I ft n for It would be impossible, of course, for ar M n ne nda rs De re the war Germa rear ition to go to the Unit thé . e fighting Germany States or al ther large country after the t | Pe tne think tne world var and purchase a sufficient number of ild |} een af | to fight! ‘Wh newspapel! » influe iblic opinior te | in not ou ‘ ind the triple allian« no “he fact hat the enemy believesthis,and doso,. It has a better method! the est eader f Gert te t ears ago the newspaper expert conque ev 1 after the war w ews German Government and the ] ar ne entatives of Krupp and the b We 1 ! Vy this in be cecor mpanies begal in investigat I ( co! i¢ tL impos e; but out the best means of influenc ef ( that the mone is beer op ym in reign countries. The ed, the foundations have been laid, and which made German propagar the t e alliance is awaiting is a Ger- during the war » considered bad. The T i t end the war so the press Western world, so it was ec nceluded, was ( n1 bhegiz too busy to be interested in long editorial I future of ar a es, but it was interested at all times ir esp , news dispatches Lt igh t new a As an experiment the Overseas News P ' : + } Agency, which was then su | ng the ple of how it obtained control of the American newspapers with wireless new Weser Zeitung, of Bremen, will indicate from Berlin, was bought by the Krupp ir ething of methods. For years one of lay the greatest Ge n dailies was the ir port t ne ind commercia journa calle e Weser Zé Under the d ect I its editor tge I ew Brem«e the surrou ng towns. Upor the p f the « tor. some time last vear l ! ist iCa schuenemal! i } f t he bar he ( I e Wese ZA tung ‘ ind er ( é e death of the edit i t per pp sed the Strong-Arm Prussian Methods p Ir S tze ind to-da there Ss ar ( some me Dece ber deputatior ganizatior corporated in Switze dand f Brer ! nts 1 bankers, under nanaged by Swiss. It serves scores of ence of the triple alliance, called Swiss newspapers, mostly with Germar n the | ‘ nd editor h the news. Most Swiss newspapers consider it a I ng ultimatum: Either the compat German concern because the manager at the t e re g ( a iller ca beginning of the war was one of the tal s r placed under the directior i ‘ ipathizers with the Central Px { ! tee Bremen merchant ( times a day the Zuri¢ bureau ompal to be merged into a 1 chegerdig: eco meine: Hs, ~ ate telephone ! t f he pose of foundir line to Frankfort-« “Main to receive tical new er. Should the publisher new dupabehan ton <n at Os ead g nd ed e the ‘ ropo ne ne rs belonging to the triple i politica f e Fathe i ance til recently this organization v ‘ é ‘ ted rece , through an Englishman at Ge The | iz ise refused the first neva, cable telegrams from a Ne Y ork because the editors declared German-language newspaper. These cable Weser Zeitung were managed by grams wer istributed to the Swiss ne l et i mere! nt W lid [ ) papers. mvp { n f enc ! lependent Jou rhe hese items ¢ ttention of n l | A turned d n beca ( tente aatned ed tt ed r e the consent to vaganda and the t pped ve Me while ( igh one i th 1 ‘ attempted to find a zation is a Pan-German concern, there are ny t t se the nad beer n- evidences that it is being used by the triple ed tee that unless the alliance to lay the foundation for an ex iccepte ‘ ‘ position the change of news on the Continent from , , fuse nal loans ia Switzerland, to France While the ) er was seeking a way Ingland. Though there are no records that ou f } neomfortable position the it sought a connection in the United State I ( nd agents of the war that is not significant, because there are ndustrie ime to Bremen and purchased _ sufficient grounds for the Entente to con Overseas News Agency of the Bremen Tageblatt, a rival newspaper clude that the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

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To get them, address T) ” The Curtis I -ublishing ( ompany a nen ee ddetf d,fen Mad EVENING POST Berlin has already made an agreement wit! a news syndicate that will guarantee the distribution of German news in the United States after the war. The plot of the war-business interests of the enemy is deeper still. The triple al- liance to-day owns two powerful wireless and others in Con- stations in Germany; stantinople; Budapest; Vienna; Madrid; Sayville, Long Island; Buenos Aires; in Central America, China and German Africa. In peacetime Germany will be able t y wireless to any part of ring these stations after ts to distrib- o communicate | the world. By uti the war this news alliance expe ute its news telegrams from Berlin to every country where newspapers are printed. And more! The Overseas News Agency is planning to send correspondents to every important capital to gather news not alone f lication in North and South America, but Western Hemisphere for r pub- news from the publication in Europe. Should the tri uld succeed in its * alllance of the independent pers? Directors of ns, what will be« ome . I news column t les ahead, because he allance set 10 matter who wins the war the newspapers of the world w vant news, and the news telegrams which are distributed f will be printed rhe triple i nce intends to see t t t its news es fir ! Should the i ince succeed it W ntrol the greatest hest and most powerful news-gathering yuting trust in the world. orga! mn do not tne mportant fac- opinion—namely, ters. A few weeks h from Berlin an- Company, with 25,000,000 n The “Ulf. ” | nterest that controi the I trust thi the news of the world. same bv the monopolize With news and movies the new campaign to begin “Why »”” we may ask The answer is simple: To advert I industries and to make it possit | man business men to resume Pcl relatior t enen countries alter the wa ulties a German mer- n England, France, Africa, Australia elsewhere when the the bitter feeling that t Remembering commerce Germany Is wer, one can unde t « pel the tr e the public opi Y ertising of a new ger ile than the thought pos le hen, so the alliance ictorio ther ¢ ‘ ‘ ‘ be cena’ y t ,a or ( LIS€ lor the article made in Cit It e that the German Government 1 interested in this ne campaig! for otner reasor Cire has aiways been ealous of England and France because of t worl wide connec t I f t Re ute r ind Havas agencie should the tripie iillance ucceed Germa v have al orga! i I il ne u } maa eater na 4 the Eng il Ire h, Ru anand Italia igencies combined, Ir e meantime the fight f continue in (ermal C newspapers and the | ittempting not only to maint freedom but the Ose April 6, 1918 as the triple alliance. These free journals realize that if the alliance suc- ceeds abroad the columns of the German newspapers will be filled with biased ac- counts from foreign countries, and the Ger- news trust man people themselves will not be able to form their own independent opinions. The German Government, too, is not blind to the political importance of such a news agency. The officials are relying upon it to win back the friendship of the world for Germany, and they expect it to be an important channel through which public opinion may be influenced to favor moves l which international chessboard in contemplation af on the ter Germany may have the peace treaties are signed. Propaganda by Wireless The fight for a free press the waged in Germany to-day i i first importance , d statesmen have e issue of the and Al i¢ their publi¢e addresses that freedom of business and freedom t seas after the war, but nothing has been said about freedom of news. Still, every f or ite in Knows that the success of open dipioma and of an inte itlonal-peace or on after the war will depend upor the treed 1 of discuss n and news in the ess D ymatk 1iscus ns l not be T I free unless they are } ibe no democracy u relatior nless the people are fully in formed about internal affairs and inter nat il events Granted that this be true, what steps have the united Allies taken to insure their press free channels of communication after the war? Suppose the triple alliance suc- ee r plans; suppose through the | great wireless routes that it will dominate i able to feed the press of the wt ole world with news made in Germany or by Germar agents abroad— where are the possibilities for freed Thoug tions « ited Allies made th the German new From Constantinople to Berlin the ter sound of the ene news venders may be heard. Is it not warning to the world to beware of the alliar Western which to-day smothers the freedom of t press of the enemy? Still the fight continues within German The military authorities persecute the dependent newspapers. The press of th news trust prints what it pleases and the Vorwaerts asks whether the military au thor es are not preparing to ae n Kaise na ¢ al SI im Lar) ship h Hindenburg and Lu e the directors. The Berliner Tageblatt c: the atter f the Reichstag to a sermor delivered Chaplain Heckenroth at Vor Mackenser neadquarte at Bukharest n whicl e7 st¢ juotes God as eak- i in people and ging the ? r peace ] i the govern- me o conclude it. Tl ‘ m att ae t Na nte in } and culated am¢ tne t e time ar t i give ned ¢ e e i sioned Office *Dete ‘ mie f ind confiden- t e names of the ( n » re the Be ner Lage t e Elberfelde

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST April 6,1918 a initiation Cue ‘4 eh} 4 , a at) J DORE Md ‘ OTOR TRUCKS operate for the most part in the places where space is at a premium— West Street, New York; East Water Street, Chicago, ‘THE AUTOCAR Front Street, Philadelphia. In all of our cities trafhe congestion is an ever increasing problem. CHASSIS $2050 The Autocar is that sturdy, short-coupled truck you bi cies see see everywhere. Every possible inch is used to 1¥2-2 TONS CAPACITY ; carry the paying load. The construction of The Autocar is unique; the motor is located under a seat structure so designed that there is instant accessibility without an inch of wasted space. The coal dealer has chosen The Autocar because it means many a load shot in, instead of carried; the manufacturer because space around his plant is congested at best; the express company because short turning circle means many a minute saved at crowded terminals and on busy streets. ween Fon beeen Sees The economy that The Autocar effects in garage space is an trie pote important feature in any business. WUTOCAR MOTOR TRUCI In every line of activity thousands of business houses are using The Autocar for light work and heavy. Over half of our orders are repeat orders from these users; they have come to depend on yes : The Autocar for efhciency, and on its makers for after-sale service. THE AUTOCAR COMPANY \RDMORE, PA. NIT yATY \ > AND SERVI

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Galli-Curct as Gilda in Rigoletto Galli-Gurci makes \iclrola Necords evchist ely “When she started the great aria of the second act she was still an unknown quantity. When she had finished it the first time she was the idol of the house.” Thus wrote a reviewer of Galli-Curci’s American début at Chicago as Gilda in Rigoletto. That début was historic. It was a scene of tumult and wild enthusiasm. Seldom has any singer received such an ovation on her first appearance. And seldom has any singer’s subsequent fame spread so fast and wide as Galli-Curci’s. Galli-Curci makes records only for the Victrola. That was a foregone conclusion when she took her place securely among the greatest singers of the world. No lover of truly great and beautiful singing will long deny himself the pleasure of Galli-Curci’s Victrola Records — true transcripts of her vivid art, ranging from the most complex and thrilling coloratura arias to the tenderest and simplest lyrics of the heart. Ask your Victor dealer to play them for you. Victors and Victrolas—$10 to $400. yf Y hy a ) Victor Talking Machine Co., ( amden, N. J., U.S. A. a F ( i] ~ Victor Supremacy