The Saturday Evening Post 1920-01-31: Vol 192 Iss 31

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THE SATURDAY EVER WOST tad " Beginning: The Possibilist- By George Hibbe Turner

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Published Weekly The C€ urtis Publishing ompany c us H. K. Curtis, President . 4 ad Tre 1 Mar en 5q Pi sdelphi l tH a St c 4 w.c¢ Volume 192 Se. Besant PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 31, 1920 | Ie Coumsel of the Ungoall THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Founded A°D' 1728 Ay Benj. Franklin at George 4 $2 OO THE YEAR i By CHARLES BRACKET LOW iw S IBIRSG CiKI , [ ) | ILLUSTRATED BY MAY WILSON PRESTON » } T | i | | } | | | | j i | | | we \ Lisl He Was Telling an Anecdote From His Experience at the Front — Telling it Like a Man Who is Making Every t Pl i é Phe ps Na ] ad peg ! ye i l‘Angeacs, Barbara Dentor people who met W « e the il fter pi t tior \ ‘ i al {Te th «¢ ‘ Po , f } tered. D t of g ; ; vi Ls ’ Tle ‘ itea | i De } d He } acter t | é t ind aye ai { ‘ Fy ; , p ¢ re é me ¢ e ce f u n erable and i } f somet ? ( y k for profitable sale The ‘ A ‘ ea ‘ 4 ‘ ug: ’ J eve » ef ( escence of I de Horace EOITOK Number orimer ba cchill W Hiams, FS. F A.W. Neall, Arthur Me Me H. D. Wi sk E. Dinsmore hesnainte Edieoes Walter H. Dower, Art 1-« I 2O ‘ Und t \ M S M ) Dey

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 atchers,” é I going to kiss you,” she informed me, and y their things. “‘ will hé a little as an armad ight | one I handed her ' aul and watched mere wanderlust, avenue 3arbara’ vy Vv not one came W loak ) would forn theory would cor reyara y concea rathered from nm tion of : > . BE AFRAID you ai lé e alter Jarbara De Mr. Rotand, the Rector, Came Often to Tea One Afternoon He Proposed Between a Sip of Orange Pekoe and a Bite of Biscuit A 4 W heneve - e concluded, I did well f i\ f had n rPeallz ive ag les ‘ u - tar | t, turned sixty-tw no r people’ nad After ry For Continued on Page 102

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 With Infinite Care Spinner Aimed the Small Arm in the Direction of the Roof of the Car, and Fired By George Kibbe Turner VF TRA TE O ©€¢ £428 & FAY dow Lig illy wher order He had evi dent n drinking; his warm breath came * ner’s face as the latter ‘Pretty soft, hul into Spit tarted flouting him. aid Spinner, a quiet sneer on h thin lips moving. “Sticking up; E > comi upor the blacl l ng. It was a face, he saw, lik y of it weal no novelty to spinner. 1 to him, watching it, that he could ep at least in defiar } iook Came The type wa go Or take on ce, That had beer and their expre peecl By le draw away Lllow acct D if that was the object in the pocket of the mana f him. The man’s body was still taut : sapparet ter indifferen« yut his head st lent] dent "4 lll down, or the edge of : tronger i \ Spi P. wn \ he rest, w: inking. The ! f d rather ) ‘ act 5 de him who had fired hot was gone--had jun i cool skill of a trainec liy ’ ! and to the left. He game. It must be,” he repeated. jisten, Did you ever hat he hir | y i pot take al chance?’ 1 fre ” might impe \ dar gerous ay the most dangerous ‘ the place where the last-shot had been fire« ! At any time a trial that ul ! shot might be sent there the other high jack, dared ramble of a flash of light disclosing his position. g ¥ } N ner saw, a time s of decision—wt mal fractior tion and reaction, for them—in their Two men were in that darkness cooped up wit! a laugh might be five feet of each other, one of whom must d and very probably several others with him. But Spinn was neither paralyzed nor panic-stricken. He knew that too. He reached his man. He was never even armed. But as at times | and he knew it. He saw it in the eyes of the reck- this that hi ll ] \ t} ; excellent min greatest less degenerate boy in front of him. But yet, if he gradu- ness and intensity. ated his words jist right he believed he could speak once more; till hold the man’s attention that " y r y the taking of one ill Spinner >was no gu! limit The man who had fallen in front of him was dead; one more mo-_ had no doubt of that, either from what he had seer his judgment that had faller r from his absolute lack of animation now if he handled his words He lay in front of him, after one or which was 1 . It wa two sp pa modic moti

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ely still. In a way he formed a protection if the g was directed toward himself, ner reached out his hand. It came in the dark into ng warm and sticky—a little spreading pool. He é fumbling with his thin fingers. He oon, the object he had beer ’s pistol, lying partly under him. and, his mind already made up as to The situation was vé ry clear to him. o armed men waited there in the dark—each ur

I e < r whereabout each unwilling to revealing to the other his own location by a e should aim perhaps where his enemy t wo ive his adversary an immense ed gunn 1 an almost certain chance erefore quite clear to Spinner what he would do, re the revolver he now held, his own man, f er v knowing that his enemy was ir t turn and fire backward; on tl e ene i g this direction, peering " i st certainly do so. And then—if his rt 1 ill—_the rest was done! I 1 of spinner took the revolver; with ire he stretched up to the full height of hi he leaned over well to the right, aime 1 the e direction of the roof of the car, and mmediately as he did so the fire of the enem re iver pat e Tart end of the ir passed high into the ¢ ide, as Spinner had ted it would. And almost as soon again a third shot vorad 1 yell of shock and final frigh t! The name 1 person of the Deity—that last cry called of death or fatal injury so many thousand gh the place. And the sound of a body Che first shot had got him! ; r taneously came the following sound of ‘ row heaped upon each other in the e thumps of fists and shoes upon flesh, e!”’ a voice called from the dark. h,”’ said someone in an authoritative which Spinner recognized as that of the man with cealing hat who had slep i phage guess had proved right nm been a member of a bump-off squad the secret police of the I. W. W. It seems a curious thing to the outsider the average bourgeoi , as we are most of us now classed that ar organization like his should have police, Yet iti

imple enough when actual conditions are understood The labor situation west of the Mis ISSIPpl R veT west fact the territory out of whi the Indu of the World has rise entirely different the East. The laborer, whether of native « ue l Engl quite ge very seldom, a held perma nently ir ettlieme ol his own |} a t mixed with others, continually i great share of the labor of the West is done is of sturd homel rest ful me out of il « ‘ tion, almost cont la ym the There are mar y currents in these labor! Ta ! The roughest of all these nomads, the lumberjacks, move along the Northern railroads. But the greatest migrat of all is that of the farm laborer the working or bundle stiff This movement » take an arbitrary division of the year—may be said to start with the grape and fruit croy in California in October or November After two or thre months of labor there the n igratior tart lowly in Janu ary or the first of February to pass along the Southwester? rauway

topping here and there for what work may I. W.W iT ul U free tra These en, th tne ire Calle he te ft r eu tection of the o eve especia ’ ed ot « 1 pe f inds o he We These ‘ earn course ( ( lited tror ‘ to b these ‘ Now ese la bership of the I » organized became ul hy the I. W by so doing. Sor juad the p haped as such | official, half ) fan ir guerr a good part of t the men whom t the Western ra offer in mines or cot truction camp till it strike nonce and thre more in the spring on the first of the grain-harvest seas isked. in Oklahoma and Northern Texa From there on— from clowr mid-May until November—these men follow the harvest being rit to the north into Saskatchewar n Canada with stead that ma work all the time—except, of course, while in transit, tutior This migration carries thousands and tens of thousands rose quit of men. They practically never pay car fare, hopping freights instead—riding a rattler, as they call it; and so work; in strong had the y become before the war, and so dangerous € that spi that a great share of the freight trainmen—outside th

engineers—after tr g with disastrous and many time fatal results to fight them off their cars, began ca . This 1 W to pre

With a Grunt the Youth Went Down Sidewise, His Face Stamped With a Look of Intense Surprise

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Forty Years of XXIV f Port Arthur the beginning ignalized by two events an ominous pre first of these THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Diplomat’s Lite By BARON ROSEN Former Ambassador From Russia to the United States January 31,1920 been running with blood, the day it happened was called Bloody Sunday, and so on. In reality the number of killed did not exceed seventy-odd, nor that of the wounded, 240. I quote these figures from the account of this affair as given in his but 1 policemar tanding ] wi \ mae ia imber of bullets entered Nicholas Hall of palace, where the court and the ymatic body were assembled to view the ceremony, la har li and one of the golden plates Emperor displayed his u ual did nerve and du " how the lightest trace of tement. The ceremony wi meluded without an) ruption, and His Majesty on returning to the palace of the diplomats and subsequently ing the g the opposite w i the usual receptior ewed the troops on the palace square tatement that the cannon shot, had the most fate ful conseque nee ilt of earel in leaving a shotted cartridge breech of a } ifter target practice the public was hed explanation of thi ned to rccept the ] ibli ° dent.” Coming on top of the pre vailing e labor agitation and widespread strike ular affair was rather maul of hav alt of a conspiracy, in any case a managed attempt on the Em- jual initiative of some revolu- r to some military experts indica onsisting of shrapnel bullets aluting cartridge by someone . for had the gun contained a ak scattering charge the im of those it contained would as the gun was pointed have been the true very po ibility of such crack regiments of tl ind most alarming state of line, which did not bode any good ly threaten g deve lopments, ke situation in the capital had At first or ly industrial demands as for the hortening of the hours ase of wages, but instigation by led to the formulation of political pet was drawn up and largely signed beyond the complaints on which the strike based, attacked the whole capitalistic organ- country, bitterly assailed the bureaucracy, d the summoning of a constituent a sembly elected general and secret ballot, a erted that death was ferable to existence under i tolerable cor ditions, and The petition was one of those wordy, declamatory, indiloquent products of propaganda literature, quite be- d the mental horizon of its signatories, with which our lutionists were habitually endeavoring to enlist on ympathies of ds iblie opinion abroad in their vert of Geb own country. It ally to the Emperor, Eclipse of Russia by Dr. J. Dillon, certainly no friend of the Russian Gov ernment. It might, of course, be said that an un armed crowd, however large, could easily have been handled and sub- dued by, say, five or six hundred New York po- licemen armed with noth- ing but night sticks. But then, there were in St. Petersburg no New York policemen experienced in the use of unquestioned authority and consciou of being backed by the maje ty of the law of free people. It can, how- ever, not be gainsaid, on the other vad that the government was justified in having taken such measures of precaution a they felt confident they could re ly « on in order to prevent a riot from being turned into a revolution It would « arry me Count Witte Above — Russian Peace Envoys Leaving the Building Where They Met at Portsmouth, New Hampshire who, it was hoped, would come to the Winter Palace on Sunday, the twe nty-second or the ninth, old style to be present at an immense demonstration of the working classes, It was planned that the workmen of St. Petersburg, some hundred thousand of them, headed by their leader, the priest Gapon—a contemptible personage who had begun his career in the employ of the secret police, had then joined the revolutionary socialists, had afterward reéntered the service of the Department of Police, and ended by being hanged by the revolutionists as a traitor to their cause—should march to the Winter Palace for the purpose of seeing the Emperor and laying before him the needs of the people. The government was aware of the intended demonstration and had taken military precau- tions to meet the emergency. The result was that when an immense though unarmed crowd appeared on the palace square and, in spite of warnings to stop, continued pressing forward, the officer in command of the small body of troops, who was under orders not to let the crowd approach the palace, opened fire, with necessarily fatal effect. Several similar occurrences took place in other parts of the town. The number of victims, as given by the foreign press, amounted to thousands, the streets were said to have far were attempt to give on - ages a de tailed account of all the happenings ar r currents of political opinion which I had occasion to observe in those troubled days, and I shall therefore take up again the thread of my narrative regarding my diplomatic experi ences, the more so as domestic politics was outside my province, and interested me at the time mainly in as much as it affected our position in international politic A couple of days after that fateful Sunday I was hon- ored, from a source other than the Foreign Department, the authority of which could not be questione d, with the first and only intimation I ever had that my appointment to the post of Ambassador to the United States was con- templated in the eventuality of Count Cassini’s removal from Washington to another post, which as a matter of fact took place four months later. This naturally set th current of my thoughts in the direction of what I had every reason to believe would be my field of activity in the near future, and likely enough in connection with future peace negotiations, the beginning of which could evidently not be much longer delayed. It so happened that the post of counselor to the British Embassy at St. Petersburg was occupied by a young and very able diplomat, Mr.—later Sir—Cecil Spring-Rice, whom I had known some twenty years before at Washing ton as second secretary to the British Legation. I had been dining with him and his charming young wife, when some days later I learned that he had just left for Washington at the invitation of President Roosevelt for a brief visit at the White House, and that he was to recross the Atlantic by the same steamer that would land him in New York. This most unexpected news set me thinking and trying to find a plausible reply to the question: What could have prompted the President to invite in the middle of winter a guest from the other side of the world to spend a few days with him at the White House? I knew, of course, that President Roosevelt in his younger days as civil-service commissioner had been on very friendly terms with the young and very popular secretary of the British Legation. I had the very highest opinion of Mr. Spring-Rice’s char- acter and exceptional ability, and I knew that not one of the foreign diplomats at St. Petersburg could begin to compare with him as to knowledge and understanding of political and social conditions in Russia. This led me to ask myself whether the President might not have wished to satisfy himself as to these conditions by inquiry from a source which he rightly considered to be the most reliable; and what, if such were the case, could have been the reason of his anxiety to secure the desired information as quickly as possible at the cost of putting his expected guest to the inconvenience of two crossings of the ocean in midwinter. Putting two and two together I came to the conclusion that President Roosevelt was perhaps revolving in his mind the question whether a friendly mediation might not be resorted to, with a view to cause the belligerents to seitle - ae ~

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] THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 9 i their conflict by negotiation, and that before attempt- ee eae a — taste, graced by t ‘ 1 char ‘ that direction he wished to ascertain ind enlivened | the Pre ' he ich an Initiative on his part would be likely bingly interesting conversat \ vil ; ! tv cce ce all f t marke | whe mise as t f | t M Rice the White House a wiles I ed naturally fromasking ‘| | . ver f | \ ‘ va } e Preside , ‘ ‘ ‘ vi ‘ { Z Ru true light \ ‘ is ¢ I es h co concert ; f ( ( from Wast yy to t \ } ( ible time, and \ { i M that my ppoint ent \ a [ States became an accom a“ . \ I Wi t at St. Petersburg I ® t time t hurried on to M I \ ( y ; aring as q rod Hh ‘ W: I . t « t & i t ed of President ( oer i ind icceptance by ou I A if f f propose 1 appointment of , } \ ‘ ' tr Ne isihnoniee at Ween to tee | 3 oth co é t lor the ‘q \ ri I Count Lamsdorf w 1 have ‘ ( I f Wit t ed witht i t : \ ‘ 1eee he cert is a 1 t } ] ‘ But in the presence ” ‘ ‘ " ‘ ' f e | ealed dishke and d t ted. I fe iv I , ay e natural that His Maje r j ( Mr. Nelidof, the olde Preside R ‘ ir ambassadors, a ; : t . t | ele i A d t The Russo-Jap Peace Conference Envoys on Board the : ! Ww tiat ‘ vever elle ite U.S. S. Mayflower With President Rooseveit ipanese, Dut that the : Ly tment a yunt ‘ gory dl t Lt ! é va ] ispense hee eed the expectat they were do ea ft t ‘ | p \ Va ea, a da} d pI tment i ot iter But tl le me oe trom the A . th, , pay ‘ | ‘ r f t We re 1 New } t I {J ‘ t I | MI j ] r elf ha t ediate M ‘ Ma ‘ whe t j t and second pk ; e| erm Mr. George L.M ' / It | vevi Ame in A i at St. Pe I iviefl ( to make gemeé 1 e for the re ! Ve rece ‘ r, ( tla wi 1 deferred le re a gene ¢ arri ‘ ( 1 pe ( | W he I re hed Was} t I the st De ( , Count Lat f, who had ent harg Mr. Peirce, third et t { | 1 ent he State, t ‘ rt he recent de ed Se f ‘ e be é i ite, Mr Ha tt g bee | H 7 e pe ‘ formed m« Port ith, New H | ‘ ‘ ‘ I ih W ‘ ( en as the ( e the peace ( ey : , | 4 those ‘‘ well-wishe ft Having duly imparted tl to the M 4 ’ ; gleeful expecta- Foreign Affa ed 4 A } tility toward me If su hud mont} to Mag ia-—-that he y the designat {ft Continued on Page 166 [ PAT’ OF Che TOR {Ma 1p Aisa var Pasa A ive W i I I Va t e} nervousness seameaaeaas ting lesirable that the « t ‘ ‘ t \ ” me - Tt f one ! depa ent wiseacres apparent had ¢ Tote ee st Alien alias a eicoees aae , t e from a ( { t | DAES t oS a So thi ece tated a the et ) : ct d} ) - g ¥ n H u i I | > ' : a | | f Takahira and Baron Komura, Japanese Envoys oO e childre wing pres¢ ‘ ed j é ‘ Count Witte and £ nan R € ¥

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10 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 51,1920 THz FIGHTIN RIT By Samuel Hopkins Adams ILLUSTRATED B FRANK STICK ‘What 1 The man’s ap have been hewe would have beer would naturally that of , rather Left Came Up in the Deadly ¢ l as ie med compa His Feet Shifted and His Hatf Circte to the Chin Point 1 1 O' Kane to-1 redoubtable Butch was better now. wot The referee His anno minutes you'd hafta « all it He’ “That and cynics all-wise Providence to the se,”’ said I v tent pose ni pee ct ‘a rst g between tchweight Gillig w hundred and ninety and wa G

then known as Joe y illig, tipped the beam at four pounds and the calendar at nine y Had lisesteem he would i ’ retorted Andy. rbett at New Orlear » mitts is different then risen into popular ¢ called a pacifist, ar d as such was the des pair of ‘ a teamster with a steady job and a shifty style built roun: sn ler boys than Joe y < nock the provoc ‘a mal a jarring left jolt impunity chalk stripes on his back or k tive chip from his at times thrust bellicose fists beneath his retracted nose, bidding him ‘“‘smell o’ that,”’ and even led him ignobly | the ear. Believing piously in the inspirational influence of live set forth in one of the correctest poems eve! hrinking shoulder—and did. They now worked round You know a 1ave been more than : of great men as penned, Gillig, Senior, took his faint-hearted scion to se¢ id him at New Orleans? the great John L., then starring in that highly mora »*? melodrama, Honest Hearts and Willing Hands, an sequently, by spec ial appointment, to meet the famou \ “Wot’s that?” growled the big feller in his guttural heavyweight rumble, scowling ferociously at the palpitant urchin wher You're in wrong, brother—Spike!” the sad case had been detailed to him. “‘Won’t fight jerked with his bullet head and the lone occupant Wot’s the matter of’m?” brown study and te ther kids is mean to me,”’ whined the unf I it a child, would he i ndy cheerfully “He'd hit anything.’ a Even so. for ; y to knock down the hardest-hitting » ing emerged from a profound rtur ver to u

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 11 > ' I the great man was in jovial mood that day Butch O’Kane, middleweight pride of South Boston, following this with a contemptuous and whe stood at his favorite bar in his own ward drinking straight p nthe ja He re \ 1 , iching attitude, he circled round the — gir for he was enjoying a period of pleasance after his ilmost b ‘ f ts pistoning up and down. defeat of the Middle States champion—and discoursing ing benea { ‘ 1) upon heroes of fistiana, present and past, in tern i evening g | f disparage ¢ ippre ted the « qui he ‘ ily ttend , pugilistic st : Tha Jawn I ered the B I W oddid he ‘ e? ‘ ' A rush and a swing. 7 ill. I'd 1 \ . C ( ‘ three ind put iwa e the f ( ! Jo} *. 1 | ‘ eT \ t po Wa ( ice from without tt Oo he eate | | O'} ' f su eve ed X A Phe ttera e was t ed he gay } i ri i r Y pa é ry f i y workma t ! V | ; I ! eve ct { the b The O'Kane caln t R ( ’ I ‘ he pre 1 gloriou Ab i re bluff,”” he } ‘ Used ( | ‘ em to de vith a hard look. That was the bi iia GC } } eful off o? , Hi { } ~ i ‘ ( ( I ) ' if N ( hi It Here é hig ed iwitha | } ! I ! He i I Dou ) “ t yest mal } | 3 \ ( L Se yf whereat ‘ ex »” pe | P f ( + hye guishable yl ‘ { te f e he | ind « mote e ce Mu } ( yrit r N ! t : | p G } Nah-t} ! ‘ a Se " ya cackled « my e 1 forg They were right. A his 9 | ‘ , t v | And en 1 | roping thing purposelull forward % ' ; ; 7 | et gto ry ind O’ Kane Slapped hin ey Gillis ‘ ‘ { K.0O I ] ( se G J -. ‘% “As a ieee PS ! ‘ kK.) | W ~ o: { RI fl | ( rss ) UI ni ‘ ‘ ‘ { 1 ; ‘ , j ‘ 1 | , ( ‘ ( ( B , i eq) tine Wh ‘ ( erme ‘ i¢ ‘ ‘ Ml I , ‘ ey ( ‘ oo ~~ ' mi ? | . D é lv G Wa i I j f the mis if As One Man They Fett Upon the ¢ } Assailant, Bore Him, Still Lunging j ] ()'} t » 4 Ihe i Savagely, to the Floor Continued on Page 152 } 4 ij ‘ | :

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12 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE YOUNG Il By Ring W. Lardmer, Jr ILLUSTRATED BY M. IL BLUMENTHAL PREFACE Ky the Father ryy CHAPTER 2 Starting Gaily W* SPENT the rest of the summer on my granmother in Indiana and my father finley went to the worst seri write it up as he has followed sport all sorts for years and is a expert so he bet on the wite sox and when he come home he acted rarther cross. Well said my mother simperingly I suppose we can Start east now. We will start east when we get father with a lordly neeze, The next thing was how wa my father had bo ighten a ay to get it there was drive deal of our costly bagage but would be no room left for 2 of my brothers always in a car so my you Cal f you think * train my y mother to ou . Fine replied 0 rit | ith a ga nother did not see. Myself and parent en Indiat morning leaveing our nurse and the weak « railway. Our Detroit that night a: top with my the next ever ng take the boat pre ented Connecticu by or so the fir \ was Middleb lH FATHER Elmer Flick t old ball p I to liv aid my CHAPTER 1 father tly i My mothe: comei My Parents and soon we wert Pers acrost the Mich - Well igan line and my i ook uy mother made the Bill i January 31,1920 My Parents are Both Married and 2 of Them are Very Good Looking ! Lact now we » Bill lil, remark that she and got him was thirsty. ] . and my old man We will stop at Coldwater for lunch said my I Notice That When the Rest of the Family Takes Tieir Bath They Dont Make Open House of the Occassion M replid my ant with a ill consealed We will now leave my relitiv some slee p an 1 end this ce} CHAPTER 3 Erie Lake MMHE boat leaves Detroit every afternoon at 5 oclock and reachs Buffalo the next morning at 9 tho I would better exclaim to my readers that when it is 9 oclock in suffalo it is only 8 oclock in Gosher t as lO peaple al e aeer,

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST father the next morn- Yo 9 oclock said the he is all through tl | wander what time we e % . a lordly glum I am afrade remarked my father at lentt ir or the board of ~ = 5 t is too cold for you ese are Wor derfull rep out here, Well maybe it is replid now replid m the fare bride and wit neer and d out farther adieu they went in the spacius par lers. I wander will arskin now is she wi said my mother faint grimace, a loud cough The weather may My mother forced a sn change beforethen rep] 12 wher my father. Crenese Are you warm enoug father afte CHAPTER 5 My Father's Idear oclock all went i now pitch ir supper i when we mornmnng nad brekl wort) CHAPTER 4 Mid MeN raz Buffalo to Rochester 76.4 AS WE was leaving the boat wh« L should I see right along side i t pride and pore rdly glun 1. the worf We hub bub or When We Got There the Entire Party ilady started Was Soping Wet and Rarther Rabid a big crowd at them and made a up roar. to Niagara Falls said my father b seams to know ev } they is a garag No sooner ha - f father and d with a flagrant would of laugl ed out r i name ot a gar ; ’ : . : We Was All More Than drowned int rsty riv ! Go up Ger t biks ane u ft or s« Ready to Get Up When ng up the river thir ! wit ple . 5 : > fhe Wraped on Our Door Long ere Day Brake If Atbany Pays Their Policemans by the Word Ill Say We Were in the Presents of a Rich Man Concluded on Page 4

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Tile IINCOMIEP: the ement in it Svyivester ponsible for fe people His friends, for another woman i! ct Ww Ome another ist. he WOOF rf ~ there « were pertle iré nere was nt ing either faintest gi ARTHUR Wwitti*Am PRowW - Pa ~ “How Much Do You Think There is in My Bank Account After Paying Last Month's Bills? it was temporarily erene ind potent i a nood of self-posse ch is almost ind J ipanese ind wt wife verdone t proper She the ance mar ied to be ILLUSTRATED = ie ~ \ ~ Three Dotlars and Thirteen Cents" Antoinette.” he observed Mona , apropo I suppose, | Li a at ng dre ad dol all, “that this crockery who me out en: lars.”’ ve forgotter returned Something like at. g thi h,”’ ! iswered as to her magazir but why Ic, you Know, Syivest it. Why you mash ’ ter of the lecture on inter At . The Rea Vive must come with ior decoration at the will broaden your mind cesca da Rimini from the collar bone up ibst , one effigy of a highbrow Jane annoys me cor | | ‘ Chi ¥ ‘ s the William-and-Mary bedroom et; and the rare old Jacobean effect in the dining room; and the French Rena And as for my cer Gloster that ied Syl pousse-cafe drawu room So doe ance trimmings of the guest chamber. well, there is a line in Kipling’s Mary describes it. I can't it to you, however, be shocked.” ter was acting the i quote because that Pre-Raphaelite.image might Antoinet used to in te began to think th ay it Sylve the when it was possible for him to » too many cocktails before starting home for dinner. tever has gotten into you, Sylvester? You're so I am st he agreed ‘I am a perfectly Antoinette, much do range,” strange man to you to-night. how you think I am making? Well, you said when you got your last raise that it was thousand dollars a year, didn’t you?” Correct. Now how much do you think there is in my twenty oe account after paying last month's bills ven't the faintest idea.”’ ‘t. There is exactly t BY ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN er dear, this THE SATURDAY EVENING POST LE HUSBE&INID By Charles Collins This information **From this fir safely argue ane may i? There is Exactly al statement,” did merely arched her eyebrows wrong three dollars and thirteer in quick assets, however, is January 31,1920 disturb Antoinette. j and looked ur not sne nterested he continued, “you ving within our are i mear contrast between twent dollars a year and cent ificant that so r with the house met! ng of Jud sor your wings toolar; the bill col office door sill, and I got in St. Louis, when I a gait to correspor d money, but truck ing not and once trace the connectiot mine and your own desire of you to mention it “Five years ago I got and I’ve been goi must admit, but if hard worKer I'll el fast, but you have 5 re more j ion we rented millionaire Shore took another third went wher jazzed up tl the of with decry The g three and a hi: Lure art. cents were, tior title. Y leetors begat to «¢ I landed on 1 ir Mr betweet to fly stepping higher ar d higher. pant, Antoinette: to buy things. I th Your things When I was a cler| keeper. When I was a sal on the wife of the mar ority. you wl general manager you're mat try 10 Wal f social super ymeone else’ e Mr Book ou wanted to put it an sé o outshir over I'm off of that the heiress who married the pre “Tf it was only dresses care, that I cussedness and goes in But this art! Thi because nonsense! completely superior person that breaks the ca of burden, Antoinette, is n Sylvester had never Antoinette could hardly } mel’s back » 1 who voiced his I tion was her easy of tn his remarks did not touch going riit were not theme and hats a I wouldn’t feminine ted art he “is fantastic a makes a straw vyself.” t ilistini husband talked in believe that this strain before, this cold and qi such settled convic Preachment hir nim, m with al a point of irritation.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST nagged; Longfellow and The Angelus f spec ula- any young moon-and-sixpe the piker which will ¢g t, will go; and where thou lodge n them. hy op] f y people.’ Now cor : ner and I will give you the full details - one glance She followed him down the hall wit leadly blaze o thous: S> LVESTER JUDSON, new style, J described his descent tothe depths of the lower dle class to Antoi- nette, ll his wi in the following Dear Friend Wife: Well, here Iam, partly installed in my hermitage. My Georgian bed, bereft of its twin, looks trangely lonesome, and probably is feeling rather blue, but I pay Continued « ““‘We Happen to be Out of Adam To-day Perhaps Something in Eve Might Appeai to You?" Page 161

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST COn 2 January 31,1920 C. Crosby and Edward H. Smith R TH vu R D. F uv L LE R OLONEL NO- VENA [ all i Line colonel Ame seen . wig per od of ten he celebra ell Novena, Alverosa, Antonelli, § ard Murray under variou modest allas¢ us fancy directed, In or oct aa\ just after Civil War thi romancer wa lal in our 1 pre 4 55 angst us * - ¢ “ _s reads a little movi- esque no doubt, but who would strip either the past or the movies of ex travagance? Novena, or Cinquez, appears to have trod our shores first in 1859. So- iety opened ; Fifth Avenue blinds ts door took dow? and barriers; and he managed to insin- uate himself wit] the White Hous« which must have been a bit more democrat in those day discover, not out amazeme! amusement, that this scoundrel got from Presi Buchanan, General Fy . Chief Justice Taney, Andrew Mr. } othersaimosta Johnson, Seward not- able. With such cre- dentials he hardly needed to win the contidence of met d women of ney and position. His Games MAGINE if can how the pi loody sixties fell prostrate before this At first he merely borrowed large sums of money ‘until I can draw upon New York,” or **till my manager in Havanacan forward my dividends.” But loans make both the lender and the bor- rower shy. The cream Was soon off thismilkand Novena turned to other pas- He now went fromcitytocity,ply- ga certain type of The Ladies Doted on Him and the Men—Which Was Regrettable—Lent Him Money B. game forthe first y Nover he bought or Novena’s Work in High Places thI introduce thi of a cor iHartford, Connecticut, fier jut 1 alter iong p lice du McWatters iurge, dart not quite black, eyes and eye lashes, such a would rouse the enthusiasm of the master painters and which gave to those eyes that weet alluring expression so istible to women; or when reflecting the light of anger added a twofold horror to their expression, enough to make the strongest man quail, for the man eemed then a very demon. The colonel was about five feet ten inches in height, ele gar tly proportioned, his form being perhaps as nearly perfect in every respect as any man on this wide globe could boast of. Grace, dignity and trength combined in it, and when at all roused Colonel Novena was as lithe and flexible as a cat, or better perhaps, a tiger - We read also that this nything from the grimace of a pretty simpering girl to the £ g I \ I ge marvelous fellow “could imitate any Falstaffian stolidity of a Dutch judge, ; tallora i Lory eliers it and was one of the consequence - He dre sed He played the avant to pe rfection. The ladies doted lent him most excellent faultlessly and never never overdressed, literary and the men part of the on him which was regrettable So much for the personality of this capital villain as it truck one of the foremost police officers of the day It time so far as I can determine. a played the social game till he was establ 1. Ther optioned eight or ten lots or lac of a prominent but not too developed corner and announced that he would hortly erect or part of this site the great Novena build- ing. Architects’ drawings were soon in evidence, The; showed a building such as the town had never imagined designed to cover the three corner lots. Natur: was wondered what Novena wanted with the ren ii ground. He worked up local enthusiasm with great skill shortly sold his lots, often including hose 1 the building, pocketir g a big profit. the projected Novena structure hi The money in his reserve manipulations peared, leaving the city his magnifi« , but it i borrowed only one of his scheme tive of all. When this fellow ances and failed to pay he was no more than an adven- money of social acquaint- turer, one of the type whose doings fill the records of every time and country. But when Novena turned from this antique deceit to business schemes he made the transition He became the from adventuring to confidence gaming. r of Y | Not that he was innovator, the mi

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| | ee ee ae ct A Ne ee EE re eae - - A e FOR the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST basic claims are made for him. day or slightly before. But He was the adapted to the man of busi turer, the a particular field. money maker nitor of a whole line of the He is father to the perennial of old times I They are not unre- a being whom I need not explain, I sup- ng point of view is not far different pect. Naturally, then, the con man s people will not differ vastly from the the lustrous Cuban ial attention. » aims at bankers lier article, chemes he is likely to exploit will te disparate. They will lack some e game leveled at the banker, but ake up for this loss in color and uld ; the sensitive busi- uld at once jar or f the financier Ain Imitation-Coffee Machine pe mal origins of the con men who attack of bu much might be recounted. But to , I believe it is correct to say that who work in this field were them- re the shadow of the illicit fell over the fact in the cases of nearly all 1 business prey of the The legitimate man man gone harper is inti- commercial gen- past the business th which such a the respectable uperior shrewdness , that criminals } ! are is one thing and an honest hout contact, aloofly unrelated. Most of the higher- in le git imate business. $s untrue. once ecessity drove them astray ance. But it too hard to get back and once off the With time and progress they all gradu- Please remember, | am speal Of the something to say too easy to go on, ated into unblushing crime. ing here of the higher-class men only. fellows of bunko I shall have But all, were not so ordained, “There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford,” said the pious man as he stood in a dirty London gutter And strar gely enough Bradford himself was later burned at the stake as commor when I ame criminals; reach them. high or low, be« and saw a felon being dragged to the gibbet. a criminal heretic Just how the descent from honesty to roguery was made by all of the many men who have changed the “roses and raptures of virtue for the lilies and languors of vice’? would be a most intriguing inquiry, which would be foreign to the present design. Evidently, however, it is not a difficult metempsychosis. Many have traversed this rough road. And while we are on the subject of changing coats from fair to foul it is just as well to remember that the morals of business have undergone a great change within the genera- tion. I say that they have improved in every direction, but in general it is true that such practices as were legitimate with business men of even twenty years ago are now either forbidden by custom or actually criminal. Most men changed with the changing order. But found themselves unable to follow their times and they soon found themselves bankrupts, shady fellows or the inmates of jails. I think of a luminous illustration. About 1894, when I was building machinery in Philadel phia, a man came to me from a neighboring town and asked whether I could construct a machine to make coffee beans out of a flour paste. I built parts of his device, which molded and baked fake beans out of dabs of white flour and water, the same substance used in making macaroni cannot ome or spaghetti. These beans came out of the machine white and crisp. They were later browned in ovens and sold to the trade. The manufac publie and so the y did, turer of these wares intended them to for jobbers, coffee roasters and grocers everywhere mixed this worthless stuff with real coffee and defrauded the American breakfast table. My manufacturer did a thriving business for many years and collected much money. tances created the sharpe r out of deceive the Sut whatever circun the honest llow, we have to-day a country very well A Month or So in the Outdoors of a Carotina Springtime Had other mer Generally tl local character clive price at and the man likes to display devices is of thirty the larger tow: The Ice-Plant Swindle P goicncne AL-ICE plants : communities of any le swere eq upped am till full of opportuni The artificial any community n conti tractiven¢ yung of hr p ewd mer to search for towns wl tha ice out of the general ehnemer newspapers, ought not to commercial clul the aldermer Very Definite Allurements Continued on Page 114

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 51,1920 ousekeeping for the Richest IR Ieln \ TE ARI - 7 - a pps I knew that the A’ : gods had be- friended me. I omitted the long gold chain my early friends dis- played, but lsome- times tucked a rose or a couple of carnations in my belt. and my many keys hung in a bag at my m ichof goodstage setting and of dressi and like the im- mortal Mr. Crum- miles | approve of ng to a part, the actor who blacke« over \ Othell wildered i lordly swee \ 2 ys and far-off blue hills. veiled insole A crowd of people were get a order for the autum knew me for Some were old Va who had been family to me, How obvious was their « fm any—better thar falls for » ho er, t I used to compare the dee — ly from a two i madam’s secretary; OJ a few days trial borhood, requir yf aring 4s “I'd never have come and engage d more | said . fam Ly ,footmen; in fact searcely a week passed w And when in weal in ut ’ ans » help, on table if we all sat wn t her?”’ she replied, *Oh, yusekeeper 2 e990 Ind the most ignorant The standard in madam’s household w: hig! The most anybody could ge é im rou wages of a first ‘ housemaid—a German—ostentatiously handed me She stayed six year ’ 1 excellent servant that ta one summer! } ys of the linen room; the butler quite ankfully anda better friend, ar ave always considered moned thither ave me the storeroom keys. To these symbols of office friendship with Sophronia, whom we called Jane for short, ubject of becom- ng tenaciou ly They were all I] posse ed of re pon- my highest claim t rd plomat c honors. These recollectior ibility just ther stiffened my dignity and endurance not a little. Getting Used to the New Job touches had been given to every perfect room, the gar dener had placed magnificent palms and rare fer At last the day of the family’s arrival came. The final - Morning Boudoir Sessions end-| sent or conte I had spent hour arranging flowers in the variou 4 ing togethe r and all the blood n my body urging rram directing rooms. The gardens were ablaze with autumn bloom, the my hands, I would tap on madam’s boudoir door, my boo Ny ter er Precast adhpon y] nce | passed between her drawing-room . halls and corridors, on verandas and bal- VERY morning at nine o’cloc k sharp, with knees |} i ocial secretary al ] ' nhotogr belated grati lawns mowed and rolled to velvety greenness, the carriage of painstakingly written menus under my arm, the chef and mest counte drive smooth and firm. In distant meadows below and I having composed the day’s list overnight. I would also but I had beyond the wide lawns a herd of Guernsey cattle deco- be armed with a notebook. In it were jotted down thin; ry rously browsed. Our fad was a dairy farm. Business men I thought best to consult with madam about, but ve humorously estimated the cost of our butter to its owner soon I learned that the less I consulted madam the bette at two dollars a pound, and this was long before the war! for madam and me and madam’s household. Chere came the sound of wheels; carriages swept up to Madam in a charming negligée would look at me as I the door and were met by a deferential butler and hovering entered—and I knew from that first look which side of the footmen; the smart omnibus deposited voluble French bed she had got out of. On the days when the left leg had maids and supercilious valets at the servants’ entrance; obviously moved first I restricted my communications to he luggage van brought piled-up trunks and boxes; the yea and nay. Sometimes—I used to think from pur third footman scurried up the garret stairs with Old Glory cussedness—she would slash the unfortunate menu t under his arm: a moment later it floated above the house. bits, jotting criticisms and suggestions all over the page The family was in residence. and margin. It was a Chinese puzzle to make out and About this time I learned how much I owed to my early rewrite before showing it to the exasperated, vociferatins 1 in my youth a sneaking fondness for litera- a ly Herald sort, to the exclusion of such “Mon Dieu!” he would cry. ‘* Madame again wishes z« ene! as those of Charlotte M. Yonge, Jane petits muttons, ze jeune chicken, ze pudding of ze rice, z In the pages I devoured prim house- purée of ze prune! My art! It will ruin wizout ze practice! red butlers, first, second and other foot I will make my congé!” f all degree did the bidding of the British “Never mind, chef,’”’ I would counsel. ‘‘ Madam ha aristocracies. I was therefore saved from refer- dyspepsia. Wait a little and then you will see.” James, the head footman, as “‘the man with the During my daily half hour with madam she would give me any instructions she happened to think of as fast as sh ” wr the second housemaid as ‘‘the girl who squints too, the housekeepers the nice ones wore stiff, could talk, while I scribbled them in my notebook. Some ng black silk. I couldn’t afford the stiff kind on fifty times she would suddenly ask an irrelevant question, sucl 1 month, so I provided myself with a plain soft | as ‘““‘Where have you sent the Brussels-lace bedspread t | wore a white-lace collar ar a. . 7 belonging to the rose suite to b | ned?” Or “ How dor madam repro. ootman for: ueak} ( Continued on Page 177

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 19 The Ammoyance of Being Rich moe Lo-Day —By Edwim Lefevre those ning There i lasses amon poor Among the rict cost « rpri income tax with resig- tic; no two paupers curse alike. The rich are sur] f living is not a there are only deg 3 poor are highly individuali ness of their clubs and the ke in their point of view. There are very many ire of no great consequence? on which all very rich people think precisely the same 1 of 982, per cent of our fellow thoughts; but there is only one thing on which all poor number of dollars needed to people think alike, and that is poverty iin life. But what difference It is not necessary to ade fend the rich by ascrib the everyday life of the ex- them a capacity for the human virtue it meant the retailers in food- they gave of their dollars and their children but people who have been the Government increased the income tax or established \ the draft. Death played no favorites in the Argonne, but ch and poor, is less comfortable took poor and rich alike. On the other hand, Uncle Sam he discomforts of the poor has ce rtainly done his best to pick on the rich. Yet the 31 ywly disappear as the war income tax is the least of the ant oyances of the rich. ould be a cheerful thought In this country making m as always been a wide- r indulge in dreams; they spread vice. But being h has really never developed They are haunted by the vision into a national habit. The business of making money may e in the near future. Personally, at times be exciting or even thrilling; it may be an amu me wretchedly rich people, lhave ing game or even assume a form of patriotism. But the at they fear Bolshevism less than business of being rich is incomprehensible. To desire aris- to which their wealth made tocratic ancestors is at bottom really logical; any stock breeder will understand it. But to wish to be rich in order r dead days not compreher sible . ot so mut h the rich people as to live as the rich have alway lived is rich has become a life habit who _ because it is not intelligent. annoying epoch of their existence. ysusand two hundred and seventy The Revelation of a Plutocrat akers?” mouth of Socrates the most beauti- ‘No. He wa One of the sentences is: ‘‘Let me JY RICH | mean that set concerning whom the excluded when | told him Ith to read. I hap- “What?” I bear oremploy.”” It doubt- pened to meet a friend who is in that set, and the character “He said ch as a strav 1 let me have only rich and the excluded poor alike love To-day even the rich are be- of his grievances amazed me. It led me to seek other ri 1of it. Lam convinced that there friends. I did this less in search of material than to verify ise which we may call gold poisoning. suspicions. ich gold some of it gets into the I will say at the very outset that nowhere did I hear complaints about unfairness or ant oying obscurities in the it almost seems. It causes l bits of nts, gold deaf- matter of taxes. This article merely reproduce nost of the more or less desultory conversations and observatior complain There is no fiction about it whatever. Every incident hearing, they are merely happened; every story is unfortunately true. It would be the tread of their fellow men far more credible if faked As I listened to com} 1 with bombs, bitterness and and to those self-revelations of which people are alway) vise inexplicable grouch of guilty when you look sympathetic, it struck me that scores of millions of Americans woul belies

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST YUTT AND Contempt of Court—By Arthur Train SLLUVU | : 7 girl go, with an knew how this have night specting like, ma’am. ind told her d pained. e turned her ke that ulated, Daw- “Where Dawkins gazed at her large feet embarra ‘I don’t kr mitted, “‘L didr want her her It was juite with the erval But I'm ternoon trom hoping to ge Mi Healey’ teekma wa leased with verely. “Of girl inn s but ) ent away under iret tar It would be quite heart Ye much disturbed!” “T’m so , ms answered the keeper penitently * But I was only of the other girl “Well, it’s too » do anything about it now,” repe tre But I’m sorry, ry hl leed Wi have re people However— this is Thur eal for lunch as usual— and she hou ie 1’am,” thinking ” late t ited her mi Dawkins; very ponsibilitie toward these day, 30 pretty we'll have '’’ she added isn’t it? wa col equently “tH'm We're ome con That was the trouble!” sniffed the hou ekeeper. rid of You'd think ideration for her employer her a girl would have In t in the house and should behave her- well if nothing else. “a pute !” agreed her employer. “Still quite true ‘ or de That will do, vert. ind the curtain of this « acted y of Shal ed Katie O'Connell her to asual conversation had been 1 melodrama as ely vital and elemental as for the day Dawkins had for reasons,” as she said—and told go ba er t ‘ from or anywhere she liked o long t out of her sight, Katie’s the pb I oom of MeManus’ I "a certain op y ed a bullet through his man did not know. Miss Althea was a who never know- rly would have and who did t believe that simply be« d had beer ill her into a state o I t é nree stor } inter pere’ tragedies, for that matter brother Shane gave Red McG tion \ r himself of it, had then and there put neck. But this, naturally, Miss Bee} As may | ready surmised praciou we ntie alr nae? he arted lady it gin palace itt rt an “TeASOT j lir and, the latter having scornfully de« to avail ave been a ing a wrong anybody pleased to higher than her kitchen she was thereby relieved from her duty toward Neverthel , from the altitude of tories she viewed them as essentially different 1 herself, for she came of what is known as “a long line cestor \ however, Katie ‘Cont land Althea pract ‘ omewhat those who Oct upled it t} e three in were MNLeEMpor ifie STRATED “"T Haven't Very Good News for You. Everything —Why He Shot Him. BY ARTHUR . G . if tad i ? eee gh aU Pr " g iy? 0 at! , ’ , a a a ‘ —-™ fe sf - He's Confessed to Me - He's a Brave Boy, Though"’ difficult to understand how one of them could have had a succession of ancestors that was any longer than that of the other. Indeed, Miss friend, Prof. Abelard Samothrace, of Columbia University, probably would have admitted that just as the two had lived in the same albeit at different Fifth Avenue, so their forbears at some prehistoric period had, likely as not, occupied the same cave and had in company waded on frosty ‘e-skimmed swamps of Mittel Europa in pursuit of the cave bear, the mastodon and the woolly rhinoceros, and for afternoon relaxation had made up two-somes for hunting wives with stone clubs instead of mashees in their hairy prehensile hands. It would seem, therefore, that—whatever of tradition might have originated in the epoch in question—glimmer- ings of sportsmanship, of personal prideé, of tribal duty or of conscience ought to have been the common heritage of them both. For it was assuredly true that while Miss Katie's historic ancestors had been Celtiberians, Jeekman’s house levels on mornings the ic clad on occasion only in a thin coating of blue paint, Miss Althea’s had dwelt in the dank marshes of the Elbe and had been unmistakably Teutonic, though this curse had been largely removed by racial intermarriage during subsequent thou- Indeed, it may well have been that in the dimmer past some Beekman serf on bended knee had handed a gilded harp to some King O'Connell on his throne. If the O’Connells were fore igners the Beekmans, from the point of view of the aboriginal American, no less so simply because they had preceded them by a couple of hundred years. Tradition is not a matter of centuries but of ages. If Katie inherited some of hers from the peat bogs adjacent to Tara's Halls in that remote period when there were still snakes in Ireland, Miss Althea had vicariously acquired others from the fur-clad barbarians described by their leisure sands of years. were Tacitu who spent time in drinking gambling or WILLIAM Told Me January 31,1920 other’s mal- On this subject see splitting each skulls with lets. Spencer’s Data of Ethies and Lec ky’s History of European Moral But all this entirely escaped Miss Althea, who from the erroneous impression that because she was a Beekman and lived in a stone mansion facing Central Park she differed fundamentally not only from the O’Connells but from the Smiths, the Pasquales, the Ivanovitches and the Ginsbergs, all of whom really come of very old fami- stone BROWN suffered lies. Upon this supposed difference she prided herself. Because fact, and because the O’Connells s mistaken “ed with the Beekmans and the Ginsbergs a tradi she was, in tion reaching back to a period when revenge was and custom of kinsfolk the only law, Shane O’Connell had sought out Red MeGurk and had him unshriven to his God. The this everyday Bowery occurrence excited ar y justice, sent only reason why par ticularattention was not that Shane was an O’Connell but that MeGurk was the son of a political boss of much influence : f one of the leaders of of young ruffians who wher sary could be relied upon to ballot box or otherwise public opinion. As Red wasamighty man in Gideon, so his taking off wa an of moment, and he was waked with an elegance unsurpassed in the annals of Cherry Hill. ““An’ if ye don’t put the guy kilt me b’y in th’ chair, yer mud informed notorious cohort stuff a to ir fluence event who ; name’ ee?” the elder MeGurk had District Attorney Peck- ham the next morning. ‘I've told the cops Now you do the rest w= who done it. understand? Peckham understood very well. No one the MeGurk’s pur- ple countenance could have f tilled to do so, “We'll get him! Don’t you worry!”’. Peckham had assured the desolated father with a subtly suggesting both the profounde t syn and the prophetic glories of a juridical revenge in which the p and the pie name of McGurk would be upon every | ture of the deceased, his family, and the home in which they dwelt would be featured on the front page of ev- ery journal. ‘‘ We'll get him, all right!” “See to it that ye do!” commented his meaningly. Therefore, though no one had seen him commit the seeing expression on manner visitor crime, word was passed along the line to pick up Shane O'Connell for the murder of Red McGurk. It mattered not that there was no evidence except the report of a mut tered threat or two and the lie passed openly the week before. Everybody knew that Shane had done it, and why; though no one could tell how he knew it. And because everybody knew, it became a political necessity for Peck ham to put him under arrest with a great fanfare of trumpets and a grandiose announcement of the celerity with which the current would be turned through his body. The only fly in the ointment was the fact that O’Connell had walked into the district attorney’s office as soon as the rumor reached him and quietly submitted to being ar- rested, saying merely: “I heard you wented me. Well, here I am!" But though they badgered him for hours, lured him by every pretext to confess, pufa strol pige on in the same cell with him, and resorted to every trick, device and expedient known to the prosecutor's office to trap him into some sort of an admission, they got nothing for their pains. just one of those cases where the evidence simply wasn’t forthcoming. And yet Peckham was aware that unless he convicted O’Connell his name would indeed be mud—or worse, This story, however, is concerned less with the family honor of the O’Connells than with that of the Beekmans, Miss Althea was the last her branch of the family. Though she would probably have regarded it as slightly vulgar to have been referred to as “one hundred per cent American” she was so nearly so except for a affection for “‘the late dear Queen”’—that the phrase in her case would have been substantially correct. Her mother had been the daughter of a distinguished Revolutionary statesman who had beer It was surviving member of reminiscent

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Das- “That O'Conne * father a torted hunted McGurk 1 l of i law without you are trying to protect.” Tutt wheeled hi r his congress boot dow upo! the shipy ing lly exclaimed Tutt from the 6h imal in these parts!” alor 4 violator of the law the or “De You Understand That You are in Contempt of This Court?’ Continued on Page 127

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST MISS CASE HE rear w Day Adve “ugall tne ILL room in and-span could no lly advanced f food Mi m was justified in it the trouble was—well, Mis o had beet | She found, however, She had finally comple t ely lk er from her : By OSCAR GRAEVE | USTRATED BY LESLIE L. BE lunches the was how she the and yet loved for room noted! And now she drank coffee with her meal only every other day. It really a saving, and, after all, too 30 she had read in certain advertisements prepared by Ad- bad pastry which tea made quite much coffee her own beloved Day vertising Agency —wa for the nerves At lunch that day she Angie Carr. In the years that Miss Casey had been employed by the Day met Agency an endless stream of girls had pas ner inspec sed before tion as she the girl desk besice her cases-—pretty girls, girls hair and girls blond hair and girls wit Miss ( from a who nome ly black while asey’ turning a week and beer charged, girls who had For the First Time in married, girl three year and peer had stayed ’ and left to take better position Of all these girls Miss Casey st As Miss Casey expressed ice and sensible about Angi utterly unlike Her Career Miss Casey Loafed Through the two or Entire Afternoon yo i'd want ‘em.’ She was of flibbertigibbets whom Miss Casey so y little things with tight skirts and painted be dressed appropriately for office. Furt Mi ‘asey’s own discipl Angie all she never lermore, It was Mi filing Angie was et been o had taught knew about o well that eight months ago nother job at a tremendous increase of s: Engineerir g Company. that ' Angie. thought Miss Ca had been pretty, noticed immediately omething unusual about different,” but now were a hushed look about her, as he music of muted violins, and yet there was as if a gossamer veil of happiness separated humdrum of ordinary affair \s isey she Jumpe d up from her own table her Mi Casey, 300n as arms round eated Ar pie why “5 hoped I'd see I came.” be wan, you Since Miss Carr’s departure she had { another lunch companion who met her requirements. Those flibbertigibbets were you frightfully by flirting with any man them the ») embDar»rrass wave ‘Yes, we did, You w leaned forward intent. 3efore Miss Casey had any opportunity to guess what had slightest encouragement. and we had a good time together too. Miss Casey Angie stopped, ‘““Guess what’s happened!” »awfully good tome, happened Angie Carr continued, “ I’m going to be married!” “Married!” wef mi thought I'd see Bill, Mi you ought to know him.” “Tell me him,”’ said Miss Casey, frowning at the waitress who officiously hovered too near. Angie held forth for half an hour on the extraordinary virtues of Bill. At the 1 of the half hour Angie stopped abruptly with flushed cheeks and half-parted lips. “Well, getically. too! I—I ought to rried a peach never but No, you ought not only to see him oon, well, you get s Casey! all about I must be going,” she said, and laughed apolo- “T guess I forget my job and everything else when I get started talking about Bill. And I want to do the right thing by the Penn Engineering Company, even if Iam going to be married next week. They've been But, gee! I'm almost forgetting what I particularly wanted to see you about, Miss Casey. It’s tl Why don't Pen: my awfully white to me, take my job with the you NISOWN January 31,1920 LIES Me!” said Miss Casey. It was the most aston- hing question that had ever been asked her. “Yes, certainly you, Miss Casey! Don’t look at I really mean you ought exactly what me in that surprised way! to take it. You never told me Day Agency was paying you, but in one way and another the I guessed—and the Penn Engineering Company will pay you ten dollars a week more.” ““Why, I couldn’t leave Mr. Day’ “The trouble with you, Miss Casey, You should have left long ago. You'd tered yourself if you’d done it. Why, raised left compared to you when it ; employ, Angie.” is that you’re too loyal. have bet look at me! I’ve beer twice since I you and I’m not one-two-three comes to knowing about filing “But I’ve y years with Mr. Day, Angie.” “‘That’s just the trouble! u’ve been | they’ve You're furniture to them there, always to be been so mal there so forgotter all about ilKeé you. a piece othice alway ; \ They’ve overlooked the fact that you nee Mis Ca ey, like eve counted on. more money, rybody el living expenses have gone up so “Oh, Angie, hor an you Mr. Day stop “Yes, but anywhere. lady asks ‘“*How did you | **How did I k1 That’s how I k: know what everytning, y‘ “But my ‘Now, don’ me mory’ of it a good ‘arr patted Mi ‘asey’s hat have you talk that way, Miss Case I ‘ ly foolish of t might get you ou kné now ni othice help, dor t you? The jobi only come down and grab “*No, I couldn’t leave Mr “Then just promise me thi Day’s employ, Ang 3, Miss ¢ Promise come down to-morrow morning at nine and with my boss, Mr. Penn. That won’t commit you thing. Will you promise that?” Miss Casey reluctantly And that was the reason why that afternoor was unable to meet Mr. Day’s eyes A feeling of treachery possessed her Mr. Day’s eye her career Miss Casey nave ; promised. Miss C a he pau ed De ae aesk, She never again could she meet For the first time it the entire afterno loafed throug! tt her familiar one sat there it positior a huge pile of unas ters before her. She attempted to work, but the min letter, noted it Her memory Carr was like a ute she had > contents of a s, these left her agair »>memory of which Angi It refused to function. It hardened, upon which signature, ner keen, was a blank. which had spoken wax cylinder no impression could be made. It had rained all but in the late afternoon the weather cleared; the sunshine threw itssudden momentary gleam through the rear windows. The typists looked up from their machines and smiled; the little girls burst into chatter; the jardiniére flamed into gold. But Miss Casey did not ever glance up from her desk, her battered old desk Miss Casey day, which had seen as many years of service as

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‘ . ‘ - : Ones ‘ ' he MM est e fa fi } ‘ 4 ‘ { ye j t ee t ) i a og ' 1) kK t Jen AVe t | Vi i \ ‘ i M ( é THE SATURDAY EVENING POST t hot. Her sler t,f ] igile hand irred top of the de ‘ cle wall ne } } ] f ot} i re t et ‘ ed | ite ‘ é 1, but it was good fur ne were ol ri t f ed M Casey. Casey had dreamed vn tnat l i no t led respe bilit f the », were respectable er eM Casey —cler it i ing imp Ol a sca lowed art nool ear rigibie tease Well, I read a copy of wy the i > Aa M ( t Phe ve bile ac int. haven't Agency | i t tead of meet- A hery denunciatior ny nodded other place will pay you ten dollars a week more, Leonora, why, for land’s sake, take it! You need the money.” As if that itter-ol-lact ition would a i rive the problen Wi e couldn’t leave the Day Ager mone money! The lea was preposte mus! Practica t tne interests of her life were wrapped up in the interests of the Day Age vy. When the Day Agen achieved a triump was a triumph I he wher yme f the adver turned outa ible succe t was a success for her; whe aichent sent icomplimentary letter it Was a compliment to her. Sne kne tory fthe Da Agency ne Knew all the little incidents that made its | tory w! newa a part of the history! She had given the bu é om n ol erself her tnougt her time, her abilit tha I she left now her ghost would reraatr Rather, it was the ghost that would leave and the very essence of herself that would remal And then there was Hiram heard a new employee a Mr. Da alway top at Mi ( ase y’ ae And she also wer: “Oh, Miss Case How proud she had been when she over Wh; doe remembered the ar has been here so long tha he seems more like a [mend of Mr. Day’s than just one of his clerks.’ How that had thrilled her. Andit wastrue! She wasa friend of Mr. Day’ and year ! This it was, the the feeling had been together year ‘ years \ which Miss Casey's Ang and years spt t gether, that had created sister could not under which even ao ‘ } e the ‘ \ ‘ \ . t | Che ; £ i \ ( it ’ ) There ; é ¥ f 3 f \l ( ( ‘ f est. I } t i \ ‘ f i . \T \1 ( } { ‘ l i ‘ é et i ‘ i é ) ¢ Int ‘ wt } | red. I t r wie \ F “*] Thought Money Meant More Than Anything Else, But Nou Since I've Been Married to Bilt l Knou it Doesn't Continued on Page 7

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24 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 knew. The last time I saw him was a number of ye: later. He was very anxious for me to buy a lot of his land and offered to let me have it for twenty-five cents an acre. I had been with Pogey O’Brien’s show only a few years when I trained my first elephant. She was called Queen Anne and at the time I took her in hand she was about thirty-five By GEORGE CONKLIN mea fm years old, tood some seven feet high and weighed about four and a half tons. When I went into the ring to per- form her I had a _ black- velvet suit with gold stripes running down the sides of the pants. The first thing I taught her to do was to walk round the ring nicely. After that I trained her to do what we called the Spanish trot. lh teaching her this I placed a mar ach side of her with an elephant hook, while I stood in front with my whip. As I moved the whip they would hook into first one and then the other of her legs and lift them up. In a very short time she learned and the moving of the whip or a stick w: all that wa necessary to make her lift her feet. After that had been accomplished it wa simply a matter of practice to train her so that when I walked beside her and beat time with my o mucl : : ® : stick she would follow its motions with her feet that if ; . _ lifting them high in the . As we came into the ring this way the band would strike up Comin’ oper Bailey : Through the Rye and t » the spectators it seemed were better 7” ; as if the elephant was rez dancing to the music, ve him a thou- as a matter of fact the music was being very nt towork and 7 F 5 . aref y played to her dancing much He Queen Anne's Faked Limp pleased . : ying for , ANOTHER act which I taught her was to fake ind : , lamene on first one foot and then another a were no better -| 1 walked her round the ring. The crowd on the ; benches thought she was mal ing the changes to suit herself, but she was strictly following the A Trap for Forepaugh & 4“ cues I gave her by my position. If I walked just , ¢ ahead of her she would go lame in the ht front ~AUGH and C1 d som t word , ae foot. If I dropped back a little by her left side aven went av thout his thousar - she would go lame in her fr oot; if farther p. He waited until ; back opposite her hip, in her hind foot; and *} the road, Then he if I walked behind her she w lame in her ] lhe first thing they did right hind foot. After doing th would tie a to attend one or two of oP) : handkerchief round her ankl } she would and they came bacl , . ; untie and give back to me »wman was boasting to : For a grand finish for the act, whi \ ter his elephants were brought down the house, I had a strip of carpet ould do than those of brought and laid on the ground. I would stretch next move of the lawyer - myself on the carpet and then Queen Anne would two or three witnesses t« | walk over me both ways, straddle me lengthwise performance was over they : x. Pala is and end by’ kneeling down over me crosswise until Pore paugh, engage him in George Conklin and His Baby Elephant Coming Down the Stairs of she almost or quite tout hed me. In tea hing her this part of the act I at first used a dummy, ther got, Mbdnd dean 6b Ghee Ghai after she had become accustomed to doing it | was simply great.” laid down myself. I taught her to do the act very Forepaugh replied. ‘“‘They down through a hole in the floor over him. At last they slowly to increase the impression that it was very difficult those things that Coope r & got Craven to come and see if he could do anythir g with It was not so dangerous for me as it seemed, for I had my { be, too, for I paid good Romeo hook in my hands all the time, and if Queen Anne had set ved and I paid a thousand dollars Craven took a shotgun and went in where the elephant — tled down a little too heavy a touch from that would have Pras elephant St. Vincent's Hospital in 1908 elephants you've e better.” was and began to give him orders. The elephant showed no _ raised her pretty lively. wwyer needed, and it was not very disposition to pay any attention to them, so Craven began When I went to the Cole show he had an Indian elephan is obliged to hand over the thou- to fill his hide with buckshot. Romeo did not care much by the name of Tom. He was an especially intelligent about this either until one of the shots hit him in an eye. fellow and became my second elephant pupil. winter, though, that Forepaugh Then he gave in and Craven could do anything he wanted The first thing I taught him was to walk a tight rope. m out of trouble. Forepaugh with him. Craven taught young George Forepaugh to He was about thirty-five years old at the time and weighed ume of Romeo which began to handle Romeo after that, and the Forepaughs had him _ three tons. help got afraid of him. Finally it gotso for a good many years longer. We were all winter teaching him the trick. It made ro near him, not even to clea Not long afterward Craven gave up handling elephants, quite a hit when we brought it out, and so far as I know i and water had to be put t outh and bought a great deal of land. What finally I was the first man to teach it to an elephant.

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The first step in getting him to walk the rope was having him walk a six-inch if lank we laid on the flox P. It took usa good many days to accomplish this, but after a while he could do it easily and carry a balance pole in his trunk. Then we began and blocked the plank up a little bit higher each day. When we had got up high enough we exchanged the plank for a six-inch timber. Gradually we got him aec- customed to walking the timber at quite a height. On either end of the timber we placed an inclined plat- form for him to walk up to the timber and away from it. After he had become thoroughly trained in the act we took pieces of rope and bound them onto the timber so that at a little distance it looked like a huge rope. When we put it up we set four jacks under t to make it solid. We found that we could have him do the act only in a building where the floor was very solid. When he

a ; } r on purpose f he | elepna Built te one end of was a eroor ( he use of myself a id elepha ee pe Englishn who we by the name f Printer Printe old tobacco to the rest of the me n the menagerie and he had hid den away in the straw of nis mattress hi tock of five pounds of plug One morning when we went to breakfast Printer forgot and left the door stateroom into the ele from the phants’ quarters unta tened. While we were away Lalla Rookh got her. trunk through the door into the stateroom and ate up the straw in Printer’ mattre . tobacco and all 1 did not know about We took her ove to the how grounds with the rest of the elephant and began

attempted to do it on the ground some of the jacks would settle in the earth and throw him off. This hap- pened two or three times. It did not hurt him, but it frightened him and made him holler in great shape. One season in winter quarters Tom was placed just by the door which opened out into the yard and through which the men wheeled out all the manure from the place. He used to watch the men come behind him with wheel- barrow loads of manure, turn the key, open the door into the yard. One day He tried turning the key and opening the door. He found he could do it and he did it so much that we had to stop leaving the and go out key in the door. Tom Would Toss a Playful Wheelbarrow NE day a stable man came and unlocked the door and left the key in the lock while he went out in the yard. When he came in he could find no key. All hands took hold and helped him hunt forit. Finally, after more than an hour’s hunt we discovered that Tom was calmly stand- ing on it and watching us. He had evidently taken it out of the door, dropped it on the floor and put his foot on it.

Fritz and Tom Thumb I always thought that if we had gone away without finding it he would have picked it up again and opened the door with it. Tom was taught a mean trick by the canvas men. For- tunately no one was ever hurt by it, but it might easily How they came to do it or what their object was I never knew, but if a sledge hammer or a large stone or a wheelbarrow was left anywhere within Tom’s reach he would pick it up and throw it at whoever happened to be in sight. We had an amusing experience with Tom once out in Seattle. We had to go to the next place by boat and the pier was large, built out over the water quite a distance, and it shook a good deal when we tried to walk Tom over it. This frightened him so much that we had to coax him to make him move at all. To make matters worse some of the planks broke and let his hind legs through. By the time we got him up out of the hole he had no use for piers and plank floors, so he bolted and ran. On one side of the pier was a great into this he went just as far as the-barrels and sacks would let him. No amount of urging could get him to stir. thing had to be done, for the show had to | travel soon and he | had to gowithit. Ir thinking of some way to get him started I spied one of the boat’s hawsers. I took an end of it across the pier into the warehouse and fastened it round one of Tom’s hind feet. Then I put the other end round the drum of the windlass and had the men turn on it slowly while I went and talked to Tom. He was in his place on board all right when the show was ready to start. Cole kept Tom until after he bought into the Barnum show and then he sold him to Frank Lemon, who named him Rajah I once had an ele- phant that was very sick as the result of eating tobacco. Her name was Lalla have been the cause of someone’s death. sugar warehouse and Some

Fritz, Saraum & Bailey Show, Broken in and Performed by George Conklin the show was travel- ing by train. We had

: « Rookh. At that time a le << ily: eels 2 dressing her for parade. I ot tha he lid not act t and sor he was all atremble and yuld hard tandup. We could ot get her toy. ‘ d | Wa onsiderab a ed i had another ey] int push her into the tent, where he lay dow Her eye were rolled down until you could see nothing but the whites I gave her such treatment as I could and after a time she began to seem relieved and prese over it, but it was not until fall that ] knew what v the matter with her Tobacco as an Elephantine Tonic

E WERE going intow nter quarter S Lours when Printer said to me one da ‘You neve ow t ailed Lalla Rookh that time, did yer, Mr. Cor “No,” I said Did you “Yes, she ate five pounds of n obacce he answered, and then he told me the whole stor The tobacco must have heen a kind of med e for her, for in spite of its making he 0 k it seemed to do her good, She began to pi h up right awa after it and { m then on she was in better flesi general cc lition t he had ever been before Continued on Page 137

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Kitty Conover, ural feminine curi- to the bottom of as far from her as the poles imply a paramount desire ite the incomprehensibie sequence and Harmk old Gregor’s disappearance and the absurdity of that with her na impelled her to seel r. Her newspaper wa into of John Two-Haw! with his impeccable English accent, his Latin ges- need her that it was political; of that broken world over What did that signify had fought somewhere that ind } black eye trical cro urrent out Moribund perspective Johnny ror been spirited away so as to dis power Or reat value in the Gregor wks had pport, to confuse and of resistance? come too late ke a whiff of miasma off d the word she felt the e senses upon being unexpect- Interna e world lind viper } hov wl that lower New eething with this thousands of to burrow But she the result } new pect noimlome ; trying into \ of democracy rticular fear of ng chemicals of American d common sense would neu < at virus Supposing a ripple from this indecent eddy had touched her feet? The torch of liberty hands of Anarch! lohnnv Two-Hawlh if whe he would alway in the Somehow never saw him again he remember him matname. Phases of the encounter hand The mentality \ o be sure, rantoreturn. Fine perhap painted or played oblong 1 of well-balanced int voices Breeding | d laughed ! fan Anybod “ ! ive o idiotic. He that popping laughed had they n because hi What 1 the hope danger? let

ord having igment in her thoughts tool Internationalism— Utopia while iit! Anarchism and Bolshevism offering nostrums for humanit ills! And there f led the intention was sane men who de the basis that the Who can that the rattlesnake does not consider vere eult on honest SAY his intentions honorable? I'he attribute lacking in the ape to make continuity of thought and action in all things save He often starts out well but he him human is never arrives His interest is never aust 1ined turr enmity, savage and cunning, relentless He drops one thing and sto another. The exception is his and enduring, Kitty was She ould not venture to dig into this af On the other hand she did the from the city room—a reporter who would see but If Gregor only a prisoner publicity might be the his death; and publicity would certainly react hardily against Johnny l'o whom might he turn? Cutty! physical trength, his shrewd and alert mental awake to one fact fair alone not want one of men nothing new was cCnuust of

C'wo-Hawks with his great ity and his wide knowledge of peoples ind tongues. There was the man for her— Kitty Conover's godfather. She dumped the contents of her hand bag upon the stand in the hallway in her ILLUSTRATED By Harold MacGrath PRESTON ar JAMES mM. impatience to find Cutty’s card with his telephone num- ber. It was not in the directory. She might catch him before he went out for the evening. A Japanese voice answered her call. **’Seuse, but he iss out.” “Where?” ‘No tell me.’ **How long has he been gone?” Scuse Kitty heard the click of the receiver as it went down upon But she wasn’t the daughter of Conover for no- thing. She called up the University Club. No. The Harvard Club. No. The Players, the Lambs; and in the latter club she found him. “*Who is it?”’ Cutty spoke impatiently. **Kitty Conover.” ‘Oh! What’sthematter? Can’t you havelunch with me?’ the hook ’ ea Og aim Re! ‘4 | owe Cactus... The Whole Affair Must be Carried Off Secretly or Their Efforts Would Come to Nothing January 31,1920 **Something very strange is happening in this old apartment house, Cutty. I’m afraid it is a matter of life and death. Otherwise I shouldn’t have bothered you. Can you come up right away?” “As soon as a taxi can take me!”’ **Thanks.” Kitty then went through the apartment and turned out all the lights. Next she drew up a chair to the kitchen window and sat down to watch. All was dark across the way. But there was nothing singular in this fact. Johnny Two-Hawks would have sense enough to realize that it would be safer to move about in the dark. It was even probable that he was lying down. Tumpitum-tump! Tumpitum-lump! went the racing Elevated; and Kitty’s heart raced along with it. Queer how the echo of Cutty’s description of the drums calling a jehad—a holy war—should adapt itself to that Elevated. Drums! Perhaps the echo clung because she had been interested beyond measure in his tale of those two emeralds, the drums of jeopardy. Mobs, sacking palaces and muse- ums and banks and homes; all the scum of the world boil- ing to the top; the Red Night that wasn’t over. She uttered a shaky little laugh She would tell Cutty. The real drum of jeopardy weren’t emeralds but the roll of warning that prescience taps upon the spine, the occult sense of impending danger. That was why the Elevated went tumpitum-tump! tumpitum-tump! She would tell Cutty. The drums of fear. He over there and she here, in dark ness; both of them waiting for some- thing to happen; and the invisible drumsticks beating the tattoo of fear If he were in her thoughts might not she be a little in his? She stood up She would do it. Convention in a moment like this was nonsense Hadn’t he kept his side of the line scrupulously? Nonchalance. It occurred to her for the first time that there must be good material in a man who could come through in a contest with death, nonchalant. She would fetch him and have him here to meet Cutt this rather forlorn Johnny Two Hawks, with his unshaven face, his black eye and his nonchalance would fetch him at once. It would She save a good deal of time. There were but ten apartments in the building, two ona floor. The liv- ing room formed an L. Kitty's but- tressed Gregor’s. The elevator shaft was inside, facing the court; and the stair head was on the Gregor side of the elevator. The two entrances faced each other across the landing. As Kitty opened her door to step outside she was nonplused to see two men issue cautiously from the Gregor door. The moment they espied her, however, there was a mad rush for the stair head. She could hear the thud of their feet all the way down to the ground floor; and every footfall seemed to touch her heart. One of them carried a bundle. She breathed quickly, and she knew that she was afraid. Neither man was Johnny Two-Ilawks. Something dreadful had happened; she was sure of it. Reénforcing her sinking cour- age with nerve energy she ran across to the Gregor door and knocked. No answer. She knocked again; then tried the door. Locked. The flutter in her breast died away; she became quite calm. She was going to enter this apartment by the way of the fire escape. The window he had of was still up. She had made note of this from the kitchen. In returning he had stepped onto the pringe of a snare She hurried back to her kitchen for the automatic. She hadn’t the least idea how to manipulate it; but she 1 sne

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ee was no longer afraid of it. Bravely she stepped out onto the fire escape. To reach her objective she had to walk under the ladder. Danger often puts odd irrelevancies into the human brain. As she moved forward she wondered if there was anything in the superstition regarding ladders. When she reached the window she leaned against the brick wall and listened. Silence; an ominous silence. The window was open, the curtain up. Within, what? For as long as five minutes she waited, then she climbed in. Now as this bedroom was a counterpart of her own she knew where the light button would be. She might stumble over a chair or two, but in the end she would find the entered hers. Conceivably they would have Gregor’s key. And they had watched and waited, striking him down it may have been at the very moment he had crossed the sill of the window. Her hand shook so idiotically that it was impossible for a time to tell if the man’s heart was beating. All at once a wave of hot fury rushed over her—fury at the cowardli- ness of the assault—and the vertigo passed. She laid her palm firmly over Johnny Two-Hawks’ heart. Alive! He wasalive! Shestraightened his body and put a pillow under his head. Then she sought water and towels, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 27 “Tt is life and death! No talk now!” Cutty, immaculate in his evening clothes, very much perturbed, went along after her. As she passed through the kitchen window and beckoned him to follow he de- murred, “Kitty, what the deuce is going on here?” “T’ll answer your questions when we get him into my apartment. They tried to murder him; left him there to die!” Cutty possessed a great art, an art highly developed only in explorers and newspapers reporters of the first order—adaptability; of be- ing able to cast aside in-

light. The fingers of one hand spread out before her and the other clutching the impossible automatic, she succeeded in navigating the uncharted reefs of an un- familiar room. She blinked for a moment after throw- ing on the light, and stood with her back to the wall, the automatic wabbling at nothing in particular. The room was empty so far as she could see. There was evidence of a physical en- counter, but she could not tell whether it was due to the former or to the latter invasion. Where was he? From where she stood she could not see the floor on the far side of the bed. Timidly she walked past the foot of the bed—and the tran- sient paralysis of horror laid hold of her. She be- came bereft of the power to grasp and hold, and the automatic slipped from her fingers and thudded on the carpet. On the floor lay poor Johnny Two-Hawks, crum- pled grotesquely, a streak of blood zigzagging across his forehead; to all ap- pearances, dead! vir WICE before in her life Kitty had looked upon death by violence; and it required only this present picture to convince her that she would never be abie to gaze upon it cal- lously, without pity and terror. Newspaper life at least the reportorial side of it—has an odd effect upon men and women; it sharpens their tragical in- stincts and perceptions and dulls eternally the edge of 2. &

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tenderness and sentimen- tality. It was natural for Kitty to possess the keenest perceptions of tragedy; but she had been taken out of the reportorial field in time to preserve all her tenderness and romanticism. Otherwise she would have seen in that crumpled object with the sinister daub of blood on the fore- head merely 4 story, and would have approached it from that angle. But was he dead? She literally forced her steps toward the body and stared. She dropped to her knees because they were threatening to buckle in one of those flashes of physi- eal incoérdination to which the strongest will must bow oc- casionally. She was no longer afraid of the tragedy, but she feared the great surging pity that was striving to express itself in sobs; and she knew that if she surrendered she would forthwith become hysterical for the rest of the eve- ning and incompetent to carry out the plan in her head. A strong healthy young man done to death in this fash- ion only a few minutes after he had left her kitchen! Some- how she could nct look upon him as a stranger. She had given him food; she had talked to him; she had even laughed with him. He was not like those dead she had seen in her reportorial days. Her orbit and Johnny Two- Hawks’ had indeterminately touched; she had known old Gregory, or Gregor, who had been this unfortunate young man’s friend. And he had hoped they might never meet again! The murderous scoundrels had been watching. They must have entered the apartment shortly after he had Timidly She Watked Past the Foot of the Bed — and the Transient Paralysis of Horror Laid Hold of Her There was no cut on his forehead, only blood; but the top of his head had been cruelly beaten. He was alive, but without immediate aid he might die. The poor young man! There were two physicians in the block; one or the other would be in. She’ran to the door, to find it locked. She had forgotten. Next she found the telephone wire cut and the speaking tube battered and inutile. She would have to return to her own apartment to summon help he dared not leave the light on. The scoundrels might po sibly return, and the light would warn them that their v tim had been discovered; and naturally they would wish to ascertain whether or not they had succeeded in their murderous assault. As she was passing the first landing windows she sa Cutty emerging from the elevator. She flew acro ‘ fire-escape platform with the resilient step of one crossing thin ice. Probably the most astonished man in New York was the war correspondent when the door opened and a pair of arms were flung about him, and a voice smothered in the lapel of his coat cried: ‘Oh, Cutty, I never was so glad to see anyone!” ‘What in the name of ——” “Come! We'll handle this ourselves {urry*’ She dragged him along by the sleeve “But ——” stantly the conventions of civilization and let down the bars to the primordial, the instinctive and the natural. Thus the Cutty who stepped out beside Kitty in the drizzle was not the Cutty she had admitted into the apart- ment. She did not recog- ible transi-

nize this remar} tion until later: and then she discovered that Cutty, the iave and lackadais ical in idleness , Was a tre mendous animal hibernat ing bel nd a rach le hell Ordinarily Cutty would have declined to come through this shell, thin as it was; he liked these cat nap between great activi ties Sut this lovely crea ture was Conover’s daugh- ter, and she would have the seventh sense livina- tion—of the born reporter, Something big was in the air. “Goon!” hesaid briskly. “T’'m at your heels. And stocp as you pass those hall window No use throwing a silhouette for somebody in those rear houses to see.” . . . Old Tommy Conover’s daugh- ter, sure pop!... “There you go, under the ladder! You’ve dished the whole affair, whatever itis. ... No, no! lust spoofing, Kitty. A long face is no good any where, even at a funeral.... This window? Allright. Kno lights are? Very go d.”” where the When Cutt iw the man on the floor he knelt q kl Nasty bang on the head, but he’s alive, What’ +} » His cap. Poughkeepsis By George, padded with | handker- ¢ chief! Must have known : = something was going to fall Us

on him h all about?’ “When we get him to my apartment.’ “Yours? Good Lord, what’s the matter with this? ‘They tried to kill him here. They might return to see if they had succeeded. They mustn’t find where he has gone. I'mstrong. I can take hold of his kne« Now, what's it , »”

“Tut! Neither of 1 could walk backward over that fire escape. He looks husky, but I'll try it. Now obey me ithout question or comment. You'll have to help me get him outside the ndow and in through your Between the two v j | handle } alone. I only h pe we n't be 1, f that 1 ht prove av rd. N take hold Phat When I'm throu the wir just pusl ‘ ‘ é Panting, Kitty ¢ ed rivht sid Cutt I like your pl You run along ul 1 be re » help me in th } A hea beggar! Here gor Wit! i heave and a hunch and another heave Cutty tood up, the limp body disposed scientifically across his noulder Kitt i juile impre ed by this exhibition of st thi i r m she , lered a lerly Ther Vas an under uught that ich fea if “d rowe er ‘ r r mung With the ive < eeit of twenty-lour e ignored the actual mathemati ” fifty years of clean living and thinking, missed the phy ological fact that often men at fifty are stronger and tougher than men in the twenties. They never wast (Continued on Page 8&9

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FOUNDED A‘*‘D'! 1728 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY INDEPENDENCE SQUARE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR ription $1.00 the Year. Five Cent the Copy of All Newsdealers. subscription §2.5¢ the Year len Cents By Sutra To Canada — By Single Copies, Requests for changes of address must reach us at least two weeks before they can become effective. Be sure to give your old address as well es the new one Foreign Subscriptions: For Countries in the Postal Union. Single Subscrip- dons, $4.54. Remittances to be Made by international Postal Money Order PHILADELPHIA, JANUARY 3&1, 1920 Seize the Government T EVOLUTIONS are all the rage in Europe and they are Vv becoming quite fashior lee } t i ope only able over here Foreigners who are temporarily sojourning ‘ among ome men who were born in America—though ituralized—are displaying follow the fash- since become ul styles to us By all means let u but with due regard for our limitations. For when it to this sort of thing Europe has certain inherited ible for u kee p on importing KE iropean come advantages that it is quite imposs to overcome, unle we For a regular revolution a la Russe we are terribly handi Ameri for a proper proletariat, and rather more in capped by our proletariat. It is sickeningly prosperou ithe clined to oppres lasses”’ than to be oppressed. In this « ‘upper ¢ ountry, where anyone who is willing to be a “ wage slave" for eight hours a day can earn big pay, where any who | ibility in rise to the top, and where every- body who is thrifty car by a competence, we have to fake 1iot to keep up the pry nee of being ground down. Still, it is the only proletariat that we have and we must make the best « There might conceivably be a regular revolution of those who have only six pairs of silk stockings and Hudson-seal coats against those with two dozen pairs and 1 cape or a blood iprising of flivver owners against the drivers of sixes and eight but we shall proba bly have ymmething les ir to be content wit! ‘ triguing, as our best little uplifters f of Yankee reve lution Americar | platfe rm call on the As a preliminary to that we really need we sugye at the flag be and that pre pulpit ar iat to ri and seize the Government at the next pre sidential eleetion For our grt ar ure not against our form of government, which has proved itself the most perfect yet devised, but against the politicians who large ly select and run the who run the Government With the exception of incons met iderable minorities, grouped n tight organizations, that pursue their selfish aims re- gardless of the larger good of the majority, the American , bankers, , clerks, proletariat, comprising in great part the farmer merchants, laborers, editors, manufacturers, poet preachers and professional men, have beer inarticu i The y have, it} to express themselves in cheers, speeches and parades, but quite late politically true, been given a chance the politicians have expressed themselves first in the can didates. The average voter is about as much a part of the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST game as a college cheer leader. And after it is all over he can dance the boola if he craves further expression. The politicians will continue to rule until this prosperous proletariat of ours wakes up to the fact that it is not so prosperous as it could and should be if it would devote a little attention to politics, especially before the primaries; until it rises and springs an American-plan coup d’état on the politicians. Several methods by which this revolution may be ac- complished suggest themselve The one most discussed is the formation of a third party. Three years ago such a party was in existence. Were it alive to-day and standing for what a Progressive Party should stand for in our national life—if it were, as it should be, headed by a broad- minded, businesslike and determined American— it would sweep the country at the next election. But it was done to death by its leaders when it no longer served their political purposes and ambitions; when they thought they saw an easier and quicker chance to win with the old crowd. They could not stand the gaff. They were too short-sighted to see that in holding fast through defeat they would have No doubt they meant to serve, but they were out to win. And so been strengthened and prepared for victory. they lost the chance of a century both to win and to serve. No third party that is formed round the ambitions of any man, or any set of men, or any class, or any interest, can get anywhere in America to-day. The slowly crystal- lizing purpose of the voter is to rid our polities of that The President and the next Congress should take office as one- particular form of unintelligent selfishness. next term men. If they do that sincerely and courageously, refusing to allow their acts to be influenced by the hope of a second term, they are likely to be reélected. But only a President who is willing to do things that will look like suicide to the politicians, only a Congress that is prepared to kick down the Capitol steps any interest or class that demands special legislation at the point of a gun, can give the country the kind of an administration that it wants. We need old-fashioned Americans in office, headed by a grim, determined, business executive—not men who seek office for salary or position, but men who are willing to sacrifice salary and position to take office. We need yes and no men, not the if and perhaps fellows. There is an alternative, in fact two alternatives, to a third party—the Republican and the Democratic parties. Both stand for practically the same thing, though no one seems to know just what it is. Let them continue to stand for the same thing, but make it something worth while, and then the country cannot lose. There are certain very big, very fundamental, but essen- tially simple issues before us. There is only one right policy e issues, with small chance for an honest division of of these on the opinion among Americans. In the settlement questions there will be differences as to details; but these are business details and as such they call for the best business brains and practice of the country, not for poli- tician-made executives and legislators. As things stand to-day our two great parties are simply traditions. Voting for the candidates of one or the other is largely a matter of birth and habit. There is no good reason why the voters should not stick to their traditions, provided they seize control of both parties and dictate their plattorms and the selection of their candidates. The suggestion that one party should become radical and one conservative does not go to the root of the matter. Average Americans of good understanding are neither radical nor conservative in the sense in which the words are commonly used to-day. They stand on a middle ground that demands the application of ordinary common sense to our problems. Common sense is simply that quality that is the out- growth of experience. It is willing to try anything once that sounds plausible, but when a thing has once been tried and failed conclusively it shies away from it. That is why it is through with experiments in government ownership, socialism and communism. Socialists and their ilk are like those short sports who are always failing and ceaselessly explaining that they would have won if they hadn’t eaten something for breakfast that disagreed with them; or if their opponent hadn’t been a rude, jostling roughneck; or if January 31,1920 the judges hadn’t been unfair; anything except the real reason — that they are not good enough to go the distance. Common sense tells us that the treatment of labor as a commodity, the exploitation of men and resources for the enrichment and aggrandizement of a few and the limita- tion of opportunity, are the wrong kind of conservatism. Common sense with courage in office would soon find ways to crimp this brand of conservatism. Common sense tells us that toleration of strikes that hold a gun to the head of the community, of reds who plot against our Government and of the repetition of socialistic fail- ures, is the wrong kind of radicalism. Common sense with courage in office would soon find ways to abate this brand of radicalism. A common-sense, not a conservative or a radical, party is what Americans need and want. The American way has been to hammer from without; or more often to let the other fellow do the hammering. To be proper revolutionists our proletariat should adopt the Foster method and bore from within. With a good job of hammering and a good job of boring both parties can be forced to stand on clear, simple, business platforms and to nominate trained common-sense business executives. Then it will not make any special difference which ticket the voter marks. Our besetting sins have been business and _ political cowardice. Some of our big business men are willing to jeopardize our national safety and the integrity of our institutions in order to pile up dollars that will depreciate and turn into waste paper like the Russian ruble if they are permitted to continue their practices. Some of our big labor leaders are willing to divide and degrade the country into classes in the name of the broth- erhood of man, in order that they may prosper and rule. Some of our big politicians would continue to slap one group on the wrist and to tap the other playfully on the cheek, throwing an occasional kiss to the public, in order to hold office a little longer. If that public wants anything it must start something. We are constantly getting letters from readers in which they wring their hands helplessly and ask what they can Fight. your men and put them into the primaries. do. Do what the politicians do—organize, pick Perhaps you are a member of a civic or a business men’s association, a club, a grange, a chamber of commerce, a Browning so- ciety, a church sociable, a current-events class or some other group of men and women. If not, join one or start one. If anyone tries to tell you that your organization must not mix in polities tell him he’s a fool, and prove it to him by his tax bills or any one of the concrete evidences of rotten business in government that you can find ready to your hand. The work of getting good government, city, state and national, of electing the President and the Congress, be- gins in your block, your precinct and your ward. The time to begin is right now. A few months more and it will be too late. presidential election is already under way. You can send The most important part of the congressional and Bill Jones or John Smith or mayhap Herbert Hoover to Washington if you jump in and take a hand. Judging by his work during the past five years and his article in the Christmas number of THE SATURDAY EVENING Post it looks to a man up a tree as if Hoover were on the level. Formulate your principles and then pick your man to make them operative. Principles are eternally bigger than men, up to the point where you try to put them into effect. Then the man becomes ninety per cent of the job. Good princi- ples, clearly formulated; then competent men. The first can get nowhere without the second. are continually parroting the Well-meaning people phrase: ‘‘We must not mix in politics.” Nothing gives the devil and the corrupt politician a heartier laugh. A Debt to the People HE Department of the Interior now has before Con- gress estimates calling for something less than two and a half million dollars to meet the cost of necessary work that the National Park Service has planned to un- dertake during the next fiscal year.

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, ft Attention is called to the importance of granting this appropriation, not because anyone doubts its wisdom or fears that the money would not be well spent, but because Congress and the country should realize that there is a well-grounded and irresistible popular desire to see our national parks properly developed and made more con- veniently available for the hundreds of thousands of per- sons who wish to exercise their undeniable mght to the enjoyment of this national heritage. Observation teaches that appropriating bodies are never more apt to strain at budgetary gnats than just after swal- lowing budgetary camels. Parsimony follows prodigality as night follows day. It is not to be regretted, therefore, that the gnat which the National Park Service pre- sents to Congress is an almost predigested insect warranted to sit more lightly on the stomach than the tenderest young camel of the departments. The National Park Service estimates that about eight hundred and forty thousand dollars is immediately re- quired for road construction and road paving. It goes without saying that if the throngs of tourists who flock into the national parks in increasing numbers each year are to have pleasant holidays and the maximum of enjoy- ment they must have decent roads to travel over. Earth holds no splendors that can awe or inspire the occupants of a flivver that bogs down in every hollow. Cheap roads and bad roads are bad investments, but well-built high- ways have been the badge of civilization ever since the Romans reduced road making to a fine art. Congress owes these projected park roads not only to the country at large but rather particularly to those states which are spending their own funds so liberally in constructing magnificent approaches to our national parks. The state of Washington has appropriated two and a half million dollars, much of which will be devoted to constructing model concrete-surfaced roads to the chief entrances to Mount Rainier National Park. Cali- fornia is planning to spend three hundred thousand dol- lars in laying many thousand billiard tables edge to edge, so to speak, to make an equally smooth approach to Sequoia Park. The all-year route which the same state will build to Yosemite is to cost a round million. Local public spirit expressed in such substantial terms well deserves national recognition and support. Though Congress made available about seventy-five million dollars annually for a three-year period for co- operation with the states in road building, and three million dollars a year for forest roads, not a cent was provided for much-needed new roads in national parks. This oversight is a pointed illustration of what inevitably happens under a government without a budgetary system. We under- stand that the appropriations just referred to were tacked to the Post Office Appropriation Bill, and the National Park Service, being unaware of the plan to obtain funds in this manner, had no opportunity to make its needs known at the right time. To revert to the estimates of the National Park Service, one hundred thousand dollars is asked for the construction of trails and paths which will make easily accessible a considerable number of striking scenic features in nine different parks. Upon the advice of health authorities one hundred and fifty thousand dollars is asked for a sewerage system for the Yosemite Valley. The number of tourists that now visit this region is so great that sanitary considerations make this improvement imperative. An- other item calls for one hundred thousand dollars for fight- ing forest fires. This charge appears no more unreasonable than that for fire insurance on one’s house or shop. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 29 Such are the chief items, over and above ordinary maintenance charges, which go to make up the sum total asked for by the National Park Service. Its requirements are moderate and it has been kept in a back seat so long that it is high time something really adequate should be done for it. Last summer’s travel demonstrated more strikingly than ever before the popular character of these national parks. Where one saw a single rich man in a high-priced car, one noted twenty or thirty flivvers filled with family parties, mechanics, clerks and farmers, boys and girls, small town people and overworked school-teachers, all out to en- joy the most gorgeous and the most healthful show-places in all the world. Something like three-quarters of a million of these wholesome, hard-working folk took their vacation in the parks and made the best of the inconveniences which it is proposed to remedy. It should not be forgotten that for five successive sum- mers the playgrounds of Europe have been closed to American visitors. During that time we have learned at least in part to appreciate some of our home-grown won ders. Previously to 1914 we spent well over a quarter of a billion dollars a year on European holidays. Traveling Americans constitute the largest and the richest tourist trade in the whole world. Europe thinks it a crowd well worth catering to and Eu rope ought to know. Congress might do worse than to put in a substan ‘ tial bid for a generous slice of 4 that free-handed summer holiday A id 4 ‘ver lollar J _ a Every aoila Wisely spent in / popularizing our national parks \ and in making them easier to get to and ple asanter to go about in will keep at home five or ten dollars that would otherwise go to Europe and stay there, Any policy which deprives our national parks of the support they are fairly entitled to is a policy that will cost far more than it will come to

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0 LOMBROSINE THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By THOMAS JOYCE ’7LLvU January 31,1920 STRATED Br J. Ez. ALLEN Nelly was now herself pen- r Silt An that older at times to seel the office from the Yet, as e knows, the | 1 i prefers the hardest isiest morning of golf with a typi " ily happi than on “( upon r 1 i } t more time the links the | j long a + ie he } that 1s, as tand it arles Brownrigg, ilth will how rh for mar one no work at all, so all hi amusement, he time was spent Wis fact, min pure till hale of body in he was a most enviable lie had health: he had a good had a charming ten per he wife and plenty of money; a clear conscience and a hobbA ich much f hi sorbed and intelligence that rt remained for hi but good-nature tentment Brownrigg was an took up tirne and o much of his energy thing ocial hour and con ama chemist nm true ima teur, for he loved his Moreover, he was considered a very good cl t be he devoted so much hobby emi raft and t pub for e middle of ivenue ould be persons in a hurry through a sho cut of tood Barnton Lodge llere (¢ and Mrs. Charles had whatever it her amused y acee au ) i naing length of one fifty yards in though the house « re hed by } pace laboratory i did not care rta ly took very er husband's pursu he must have had somethir ted and | rtheless, it contet app. woman, ni ry clever or ostensibly re for pent ent formed who time in a gr Oo! udy and v often ab 1 from meal James Martin did not of the work to think that the improbable i especi ally clever peopl , like to fance y that a woman like Nelly Brownrigg should be happy with a husband like Charles, and so James was ready to discover that she was not He went, like a man of experience, to Nelly herself and asked her believe it. Ver the female part y great experience especially of it, ine ned him not so olten true as people, It was improbable sive. She gave a little sigh of self-pity and murmured that nobody could always be in good spirits. “Yes,” said James ear- nestly, “‘but the truth is, Nelly, that you are not happy, and you know you are not happy. What is the good of hiding it? Do you think I don’t see how much you feel your position? How lonely you are? How lack- ing in—in friends?” Nelly made a slight ges- ture of protest. “I know I oughtn’t to be saying these things,’’ said James penitently, “‘but you would forgive me if you knew how I felt about them. Would you rather I went away?” Nelly did not seem to hear the last question, and con- tinued to gaze thoughtfully at her toes. Then she sighed again, still more deeply. James edged a little closer to her on the garden seat. ‘How can you be happy? How could anyone be happy a “Yes, I suppose that’s what it is,’”’ Nelly admitted. “You’re lonely. Worse than lonely.” “IT suppose that’s it.” “Of course it is! Why, what did you think it was?” Nelly looked sadly at her friend. ‘“‘But no one can always be happy.” ““Mypoor Nelly ”’—James, with the daring of practice, took Nelly’s hand—took it firmly, so that it could not be withdrawn without an ungraceful effort—‘‘some people may not be able to be happy. But don’t tell me that you think you couldn’t be happy always if you knew how.” Needless Nelly was quite sure There are not many you to say, of this. people who do not think that they could always be happy if they had the means or the knowledge. In short, everyone is convinced that “Would You Mind If I Said Good+by to Him?" ! Of course I’m happy hy do you ask?” rather amused at the question You see, 4 » are Nelly wa “I’m very glad. old friends now “Nearly “Six months can be a very long time. six months. It seems longer to me than many years before.’ James looked pensive, and Nelly sighed. Nelly’s charms was her sympathetic nature. vrapathize even with Charles in his inhuman vicissitudes She sympathized now very much with Not the least of She could with chemical James, because he appeared to be sad “And I’ve really are happy I needn't say ar y t mell. It’s a good place for them un However, if you How nice your labora- noticed sometime more tocks der the tory Jam eemed to shake off hi social effort. But Nelly was not **What have y: “*Nothir working at “Yes, of that that it’s a sort of medicine ple wanting to be wicked. But what have you noticed?” “Only that you seemed a little out of spirits now and then; when no one was watching —that is,”’ James added in a softer tone, with a tender glance, “when you thought no one was watching.” window.” melancholy thoughts by a to be deceived. yu noticed?” g thing By the or doesn’t he tell you? He’s trying to find out , you know, to stop peo- way, what is Charles Just now course he tells m« the normal intended state of mankind is happiness and that any falling short therefrom, even for a day or two now and then, is due to fault or misfortune, and by no means to the nature of things. ‘But I have everything I want, you know,” said Nelly. **Have you?” Nelly looked inquiringly at the solemn James. *“*A husband?” | Nelly was surprised “Of course. You know I have! “But is he a husband?” “Charles is the best husb “But, Nelly, think! Is he a husband? How often do you see him? What do you know of him, and what interest does he take in you ‘But Charles is the kindest “Why, Nelly, you’re no better than a widow,” inter- rupted the “Worse even than a widow, because you can’t marry again!” The conversation was here broken off by the tea bell. But there were tears in Nelly’s eyes as she gently released her hand from James’ and suggested with a fourth and deepest sigh that he should call Charles from his labora- tory and tell him that it was tea time. It was pretty soon noticed in Tottenham Green that James Martin and Mrs. Brownrigg were on terms of more than friendship, and though all were ready to admit that they were not surprised, that Mr. Brownrigg neglected his Continued on Page 32 » asked. ” impassioned James.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Continued from Page Brownrigg Was an Amateur Chemist ralitie were wa per hed a dinner asked ns who wi 1 dance or vanted asked the Brown As Charles and proved lame were coming hese arrangement » see Nelly than Charles fellow never it was necessary; ould In fact he valuable precept that one’s duty 1 good and ich as he ¢ likes to hear, as one’s so he had no diffi- i Chark himself that fe like Nelly friends He irprise what he " chemistry, Charles was Neither did told me, for that any man her for nuou could desert such for crimi 4 cure , ” at's what it i something of 1 rather prided red from them, which »all about it last night. Whatever it will grad purpose peaple Ww 4 harle ays, ther up, until they re pectable,”’ pe riect! jarne dd agai I felt that a ‘laugh rtain extent, owing tomy d to defend the honor of uruve fnendship | was bour houldn’t be done, as far as s, for instance, is only memory The or worse, but they don’t remember if they can paralyze the mem- ory | don't see why they shouldn't go a tep further os They may, bi ot There's no reason why if twilight-sleep busine paralysis of the | know Th t tempora women feel the pain ju t the ame nything about it afterward harles,”’ interrupted James with tperin Wi He A wh and ised to “uy the fly men, » really fly; the . who t 4) oda, and explained that the world is the flats and the flats are flat and ink they are fly. its that the fly men ] are too shy. then P ale, d know it they are it the calm in darkr e window, us trains wer But this did that Charles in ind blind to outward events as r, be iboratory + deal ause he knev had been 3 n bed James merely took the pre sution of walking on the grass as he passed the window, and came to the garden door of the drawing-room, which ned onto the terrace, without the smallest mishap. he door was wide open and he went straight in. Mrs. ( was waiting, but she did not get up to meet her her, and as the room was large and lighted only by one shaded candle on 1 table by the fireplace he did not see her for several moments, Mrs, Charles knew that she was making a memory. This is always an anxious preoccupation, especially for women, to whom memories are so important. They know that much of their happiness, especially in the old age which is seldom long absent from their thoughts, depends on their memories, harle James. She sat until he should ses Then she looked eagerly to see the dark figure of her lover silhouetted against the bright moonlight, for this she knew would be an unforgettable picture, and for an instant she was disappointed in James, because he seemed unexpectedly large. She did not say fat—she realized that James was not thin—but she had not remembered him so thickset. True, her husband was unusually slim, and James was wearing an overcoat, but she wished that he had taken more pains with his figure on this night of all others. He need not have worn the overcoat, for instance. Nelly felt slightly aggrieved with James for this piece of thoughtlessness and reflected with a stifled sigh that James, ven James, had not that perfect sympathy which can rise to all the demands of a romantic and memorable situation. James heard the sigh, soft as it was, and turned quickly. He raised his hands and smiled, showing his perfect teeth, which gleamed in the candlelight. They were new teeth, and he was justly proud of them. His attitude was most gallant. He looked charming. No woman could have asked for a better recollection than James Martin at that moment, With a glad cry Nelly threw herself into his arms. “Poor Charles!” she said, James smiled at this naiveté and tried to kiss his be- loved. Nelly drew back hastily, Nelly did not wish to have a smallest memory of that evening with which her conscience could blame her. But James, who had kissed Nelly several times before and failed even yet to grasp the difference between this evening and other evenings, was somewhat surprised at this repulse. “Why, Nelly—what have done? Is anything wrong?” “Oh, no, dear, but on the last night—it kind.”” And she added in a mournful voice: seems 80 un- “The last night.’ “So itis. Aren't you glad?” asked James. Nelly opened her eyes wide and gazed at him tragically. ‘You know I never could bear last things,”’ she mur- A tear rolled down her cheek as she glanced round “IT shall never see Barnton mured the room and added sadly: again.”” “But you said only yesterday that you hated the place; that it was inconvenient; that there was no water on the top landing “So I do—but, James, don’t you understand never again! It’s quite awful to think of!” Nelly sank down in a chair, quite broken, and dabbed her nose with her handkerchief “*In fact you aresorry for Charles. Per- haps you'll say you love him after all?” James was justifiably in- dignant. He planted his feet well apart on the hearthrug and looked se- verely at the unfortunate Nelly. Nelly sighed from her heart. James was fall- ing very much short of her smallest expectations. But she reflected dimly that no man has a sense of the ap- propriate; no man can really enter into the least of and that James vas perhaps doing as well could be expected from She had for- gotten the disappointment of her when her husband ‘had been so inconsiderate as to suffer from bad toothache all the first “You know I she said at last. “Oh, do you? Then perhaps I'd better go away. I'm sorry.” James turned toward the garden; in fact he had made a step in that direc- tion, though a very slow one, before Nelly jumped up and caught his arm. “Where are you going?” she asked wildly. ‘‘You can’t leave me like this!” never, a situation; his sex not honeymoon, week do,” a True Amateur, for He Loved His Hobby Netly Knew at Once That She Could Not Part With That Photograph January 31,1920 “T understand you to say you would rather stay with ag “Oh, James, you know I didn’t! I only said I was fond of him and sorry for him. Surely you would not like me to be unkind—to Charles above all people—on a night like this. I could never forget it.” “Sorry for him? I hope he does you the honor of being sorry for himself to-morrow —but I doubt it.” Nelly sighed again, and drew away. “I think he'll be sorry. Charles is really very fond of me, you know, James. And he has always been so thoughtful.” “Thoughtful?” “Not worrying me about things; in fact he hardly ever comes out of his laboratory.” James made a faint noise, which might have been a swear. “‘I thought, Nelly dear, that that was the prin- cipal objection to him as a husband—that you never saw him. And if we want to catch our train we must go at once.”’ “Yes, of course, it is very wrong of him,”’ mused Nelly. **But still it is a great comfort—almost as much as if he went to town every day like other husbands.” “Where is your coat?” James looked about him and discovered the coat hanging on the back of a chair. He held it up in silence before the docile Nelly, who turned round and was just about to put her hands into the armholes when she changed her mind and walked away. “Well?” asked James, staring at her over the coat. “Would you mind if I said good-by to him?” “Good heavens! Say good-by? Nelly dear, do be reasonable!” “I must say good-by!’ head. ‘Perhaps I shali—1 Oh, James, I do feel so wretched!” Nelly burst into loud sobs and collapsed into an arm- chair. James had rather expected a scene of remorse and tears, and was an experienced comforter. He had, moreover, allowed plenty of time both for Nelly’s well-known un- punctuality and just such a scene as this. He sat down on the arm of the chair and took Nelly’s hand. From the arm he slipped gradually into the seat, while Nelly was raised as gradually toward the opposite arm. Thus in a short time she was in James’ lap, leaning her head against his shirt front, and finding much consolation in that sympathetic contact. “You will let me Nelly frowned and shook her shall—never see him again! won't you?” she begged. Let you what, darling?” ‘Say good-by, dearest.” James gave up the point with a desperate grin over Nelly’s unconscious head ‘Very well—but what will you Say ." “Only good night.” “Will he want to—to kiss you?” “Oh, no! You see, he’ll be com ing up to bed—I mean he thinks he will be coming up to Oh, James, how sad it is, isn’t it?” Nelly sighed deeply. ‘‘How aw- fully sad to think that last night was the last night that Charles will ever a ‘You ought to be quick about this good-by,” said James hastily, who feared another breakdown. Nelly gave him a kiss of compunction and jumped off his knee. ““Now you can trust me,” she said, smiling fondly as she went out. “What a woman!” re- flected James. “‘What atime we'll have! But, by Jove, I'll have to keep an eye on her! I never knew such a fickle—she’d jilt me as soon as look at me. Even now she’s in two minds about it. I’m glad I won’t be her hus- band.” But at this moment Nelly re- turned. Her cheeks were wet, and she was in a nervous hurry. “Come,” she said. ‘Let’s go.”’ (Concluded on Page 62) ‘

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THE SATURDAY EVENING ener umat fe, and ve harp and bitter strugg ows If you are trong vuigh to get the better of 1dden! iwi you assailant he gives up and makes I'he attack has beer wilt, inter fierce, and the the ence leparture equally abrupt here are several kinds name hould be leadliest respor fpr eumonia, but the one whose capitalized is Lobar Pneumonia, man’s enemy among the acute infectious diseases. It ible for more deat} is taking more and mor im tol suse it usually begins in than any of the others, and leach year Lobar pneumonia t e lobe, the And though nfine iteelf cks other lobe r both lung ithe dread far tl mh ‘ wel i oO ' , ur a deadly ght lung being a favorite to one lobe it ofter Then it lower x eedingly but 1 persons apparer wcially the rabbit yerm with some ertain animal j much more su eptible than human b n fact Te probably 1 umber get pneumonia e bacteria, but who re nots { ) t re called “carriers.”’ They can give the germ others mor tible ar i themselves remain Like iced ites great | ‘ but tho ‘ ‘ city life are toa tmimune other infectio when intro- mong a peopl 0 1 a stranger ertain extent prote f Ip or o become the temporary carrier 0 ecu were tricken with pneumont muld be« dreaded than all the p i f Pharaoh, because of it About « iarter ¢ il the mtinuance of the me a scourge more high death toil those who have pneu cumb human race that their throats no min suc harbor the requent germ isceptible Seventy-five Per Cent Recover ye NDARD medi L 4 states that ‘* The ninfluenced by ne en it actically hed of the disease four years ago ome are itegoricalls the infection is Imes almost ¢ ch in be used in And fu control treatment rther nt the beyond tend to other t imple measures as ngth of the patient by vrY pton I sele our pare and support the careful nursing and the medi should be ivoil le d That is, the medi al pr yf on pl . wail Make the victim cor rtal hi p Watch unaided —- except allevi Ines to cure iin and other distress wowers of darkne within himself ind friends stand the relative lone and hey must carry on wl he i and endura A blacl vlified by althy persor ue will depen ntir ipon engtl were not that the chance of getting It takes more than other outlook, st ri oul » if it certalr tand imonia th in ore germs to cause thi " th diseases nd cor buting I wl r r not re must be cerning most e conti they shall be ent to help the pneumococcus in his attack upon us we i i de and determine if we know what thev are Che second modifying fact has-to do with quite recent veries in prevention, which were promoted by work The war brought the most skilled specialists It also brought of the soldiers, and hospitals during the war the most it imps together advanced, among the medical men of the country together Many Ili f miunons of young men, removed from their accustomed environment, were taken ill with the various infectious diseases. They had every known disease and every variation of disease. Moreover, were cared for in groups in the great hospitals Also the scientists the ick where their afflictions could be studied were there to study them Thus ingle by was pneumonia observed from medical the members of the hospital staffs and by com every t out by the And so was forged another weapen iwainst the monster, not that it has proved its beneficence in thousands of instances. Of thi more will be said in its proper place One who has had pneumonia will not need to be told how it attacks or what havoc it creates have not had it, and for this reason it may be ¢ xpedic I MiSssior e1 Surgeon General to gathe r facts ind to correlate them yet perfected, but developed so weapor Sut many tto wiftly enter into a somewhat detailed description Probably you have Perhaps you have You may or may not have a cold not been feeling well for been losing everal days leep or overworking or attending too many formal dinners or have been committing any one or any number of the common physical indiscretions, One day you go home feeling chilly and languid. During the next day or two these disagreeable sensations con- tinue, but are too busy to pay much attention to then If you have coughing for several days you attribute everything to the cold Chen like the traditional thunderbolt out of a clear sky come A real chill, ne , that makes you long for all the hot-water bottles in the world. And with it stab; a continued rhythmic And a short sharp increasing the you beer acl it a chillines i pain lot ¢ h but a ; stabbir hing breath infinitely d for the doctor!” He comes, and finds you with a high fever, though you till be shaking with cold. He feels your pulse; it is You are breathing rapidly, much more rapidly because your respirations are may racing than your fever warrants, hallow, caught almost at the very beginning by the rack- ing stabs in He listens to your heart and to your breathing, but at this stage of the disease they disclose little He is cheerful and attempts to reassure you, but downstairs he says: ‘* Pneu- You are in for it, and may you be one of the wventy-five per cent who recover! What is taking place in your lungs? been happening to you for several days before the attack, ind you did not know it. In the first place, there were the You may have harbored them in the throat and ages for many days, but at least you had them for a Then came the exposure to and wet, resulting in Or, whatever it was, occurred to break down your natural immunity, your side However, he knows by inference monia! Something has verm air pas time before you were stricken cold something a cold, our usual resisting power. rhis period between the true beginning and the violent is called the period of incubation A better the period of germination, because the eeds, the pneumococci, are plants, and they must repro- billions of their kind before you are conscious of During this time, lasting from two to eight days, the symptoms are vague. You may feel merely out of sorts. But the poisons created by the bacteria are accu- mulating and are being absorbed into the circulation. In the meantime, though you have been unaware of impending danger, your body knows. It has at once begun to fortify itself, to manufacture a tremendous number of onslaught term would be duce trouble January 31,1920 the opposing forces against the invaders. In pneumonia as in other germ diseases it is the white corpuscles, cer- tain kinds of them especially, that fight for us by destroy- ing bacteria. So, long before your chill, before you are laid low, while the germs are in creasing in number in your lungs, the white blood cor- puscles are being manufac- tured in great numbers and are beginning the fight for supremacy. One of the first things the doctor wants to know when he is called is the amount of your Leuco- cyte is the proper name of the white blood corpuscle. The number of these fight- ers may have increased from two to twenty times the number present in the blood in health. And if you have a large number of leucocytes your chances for recovery are better than if the number were small. But in spite of all this preparation the bac- teria have gained headway, and in their growth, millions upon millions of them, they have created enough disturb- ance to produce pneumonia. The chill, the headache, the muscle pains tressing first symptoms are caused by the have been taken up by the blood and distributed through out the body. In the lung, at the site of their invasion there is This the ordinary diseased conditions as a cloudburst resembles a overwhelming. All the blood swollen and engorged, and they will soon discharge certain elements into the groups of air cells. The inflammation is so violent that it nearly always affects the lining membrane of the lung, the pleura. Pleurisy, causes the catching pain which occurs with every breath leucocytosis. all the di poisons that congestion. resembles congestion of shower. It is vessels are or better, pleuritis, How the Disease May Spread HEN comes the exudate, a sticky discharge that soon will fill all the air cells and shut off entirely the breath- ing space of that lobe, throwing all the burden of respiration upon the unaffected parts. The more lung shut off from air the greater the task for the rest of the lungs. The breath ing is now rapid partly because of this decrease of air space But the blood has not only absorbed poisons themselves are invading the blood stream. they may reach other organs and tissues of the body heart, the joints, the brain. Even the middle ear may be affected. Purulent ir of the middle ear is a fre- quent complication The heart has a tremendous burden thrust upon it. By the force of its contractions it must send the blood stream to every part of the body with sufficient ve locity to insure a of the stream. If there is an obstruc- heart is tremendously which there is Also the the germs Through it the flammatior constant circulatior tion anywhere the work increased. And a large area in obstruction because of the pressure of the exudate. the heart muscle may be affected by the poisons in blood. And the heart must beat faster because of the high fever. The great majority of fatal cases are directly due to failure of the heart During the progress of of the here $ a pneumonia the doctor is chiefly interested in six things: First, the amount of lung involved, whether there’are anv fresh invasions. Sec ond, the height of the fever; if the temperature remains very high the outlook is grave. Third, the condition of the heart muscle, as indicated by the sounds which he hears through his stethoscope, by the rapidity of the contractions and by the blood pressure. Fourth, the leucocyte count; he wants to know how the numbers of the defensive army Fifth, what the other organs of the body, chiefly the kidneys, are doing to the poisons. Sixth, whether there are any complications, especially of the brain, as evidenced by delirium But let us say you are one of the seventy-five who are being kept up. eliminate recover, of every hundred persons attacked. One day —it may be the third, the fifth, the tenth, any day; there is a common but erroneous belief that pneumonia prefers an odd-numbered day to stop—one day there comes a change This change is usually as sudden and wonderful as the appearance of the sun after a hurricane. It is a real crisis. There is a peaceful calm, the world looks as different to you as you appear different to those about you. (Concluded on Page 89)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ODY’S Humanity’s Fabric MI ute ha India ind gypt O00 aere + 000 O00, N 000 000 T} te bor! 000.000 nhabitant ough to of cotton large er ve yard cotton crop nited world’ value the I rd upremacy rests wit! ited State The ipproximately 56,000,000, ite that ly ony 100.000 sindle ' he ted tate number there are Germany ha France 8,000, that the $6,000, 11T O00 000 im Y OOO 000 000 and Ir i 7.000.000 j ority estimate ‘ ‘ of the world tot il 000.000. of wh h th ’ d § has $1,500.000,000 The total ted Ki appre world i. ) roduc amount 000 000 000 and the | 5 000.000 £65.000_000_000 any OO OOO Oo iding iterials tat ( relating to cott duced in the world is et grown in America comprises less than one United ir productior Next to the Sea I oncerned variety state being what is known land cottor produced in Egypt. t are radically different from the large cotton-growing areas of the i cotton , 80 far as ic conditions in Egy] revailing i By FLOYD W. PARSONS _— “Down in the Land of Cotton"’ United State aid of an el grown in a soil that i total water used in the cotton area of Egypt i rainfull of about thirty } } exciusivel The Egyptian cottor iborate system of irrigation : ind and mud. The equi alent a mixture of to a five inche Hand labor and the result is an abundant tapled cotton with an extremely strong fiber crop of long Thi now being used in the manufacture of fabric for pneumatic tires and for produc ing other cloth of a strong and durable nature India first produce having an ideal climate, still produces a short, that is difficult to The as is evident from the small production that is iperior product i tho igh uncertain the country to cotton, staple spir methods used are primitive, obtained fr The cotton that is om a very large acreage. produced in the United States i mall farmers, most of whom do not even own the land they till. The general practice of these renters is ive from one-quarter to one-third of the crop they pro- duce to the landlord. It is estimated that in the United States there are 2,000,000 farmers producing cotton and that the average production per farm is about six bales At to-day’s prices these six bales are worth less than $1000. For years it has been stated that cotton is the curse of the South. The small farmers producing this staple have always contended that cotton has been grown at a loss. The contention has been that whatever profit they have gained from their farming has come from other things. Texas produces about one-third of all the cotton grown in the United States and this question as to the cost of raising the staple has been a matter of interest to the Texas people for a number of years. \ commission was appointed and after an investigation re ported that the cost of growing cotton is now thirty- a pound. If this is true it is evident that with cotton selling round a pound the grower must be engaged in carry- raised by a season. five cents ti irty cent ing on an unprofitable business. Another extensive investigation of costs was completed in the cotton districts of South Carolina and Mississippi. This examination brought out the fact that the cost of producing cotton in the regions investigated was approxi- mately twenty-one cents a pound. It is likely, however, that all of these inquiries are inconclusive, because of the January 31,1920 deficient methods that are employed by the majority of the small farmers in calculating their costs. J. S. Wannamaker, president of the Amer- Cotton Associa- tion, predicts that in a few years’ time the world’s spinning trade will require annually above 35,000,000 bales of cotton. He Says “The supply of cotton goods has been steadily wearing out for years and now the world must be reclothed, just as it must be fed, from its famished condition If the world’s economic life is to be kept on a sound basis there must be a steady and con- tinued increase in the cotton output. The growing cotton crop will be the shortest ir Before be secured ican five the last decade can from the 1920 crop we will face an absolute ex- haustion of raw cotton A small crop in 1920 will mean idle spindles and agreat loss to man- ufacturers. Toincrease the output the work of producing cotton must be made more attrac- tive to the laborer thar work in the production of any other products. The producer is anxious to cooperate with the manufacturer, but feels and adversity i that stand betwee cotton ( harge able to n him and the that much of his trouble the small manufacturer, claiming an enormous toll from his product “The price that the producer will demand will be in the A lower price will more profitable and will mean the cer tainty of small crop. The old day of low-price labor and low-cost cotton has passed forever. The old economic chains have been broken and have gone to the ver again to be forged. As a army of dealer neighborhood of fifty cents a pound. render other crop ar other matter of the scrap heap, ne patriotism first, and next as a matter of necessity, cottor rroduce r jlanted his lands durin y the war li rt I I t t The result has been startling. The Rp producer for the The possi bili in food and feed crops. doctrine that has been preached to the last sixty years has been put into practice. ties of the of the South and the necessity of diversified farming have been startlingly illustrated. Cotton, fabu- beneficences, has been a curse only to the sections which produced it. Cotton brought the slaves from the East to the South and made the South the defenders of slavery, the derelicts of agriculture, and consigned them to a sectional prejudice in the country’s Government “The price of cotton was based upon slave’s labor. To-day the cost of living is nearly eight times what it was twenty-five For instance, a family of four man, wife and two children—under the old régime were issued four pounds of meat a week, mostly for the use of the man. It cost about thirty-two cents. Now they demanding sufficient for all the family—ten pounds. It costs about $3.50. Such a family in that era got two pairs of brogan shoes a year. They cost about $1.50 a pair— total $3. Now they want two pairs of brogans, two pairs for Sunday wear, two pairs for the children—cost, about $25. “Now as to clothing: The man got about one woolen suit every two years in the old days. It cost round $8, or an average of $4 each year. Now he wants at least one suit every year, costing round $25, with the probability of it averaging more. The same ratio applies to the clothing for the wife and children. Such a family under the old conditions lived in a one-room log cabin built without brick, glass windows, screens or ceiling; it cost approxi- mately $50. They are demanding now a house with several rooms, brick chimneys, glass windows, screened and ceiled throughout. Such a house will cost now about $500. Continued on Page 38) lous in it years ago are

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Continued from Page 36 a result of cotton production in the South the pro- has been forced to become a commercial cannibal, being absolutely necessary to enable him to exist yed his forestry; fleeced his soils of their fer natural assets, denying to himself ible hour proper working ind the opportunity to play price paid for cotton sixty years has brought rural of the South that have immigration to the cotton-growing : ted on hil 1 family of work onditions reasor a decent home and to learn To exist upon the by the jlator for the last manip ditions to the sectior ed to attract any driver en driving the negro to-day into other fields t costly ever section and ha the white man to other employ- and 1s ev of work. The gr ed in the nent ywing cotton crop is the mo Sout! Che foregoing statement of Mr. Wannamaker to a cer- extent is borne out by observatior assistant secretary of the United States Agriculture. Mr. Ousley out that # most profitable crop nor the major half of its The The South is now not due to what is of Clarence Ousley Department of neither point cotton } e South igricultural production. He say time was when it was both, but that time has passed tering an age of prosperity which 1 illed the high price of cotton, for cotton is not relatively higt not as high a prewar prices, Cotton at thirty cents is less profitable than nts five years ago, for the cost of wheat or dry goods compared with ym at twely ! has increased in greater ratio than the price of the raw product The pre of the South i from the adoption of a tem of safe farming which is being prac ticed in obedienve to w cott e cf prod iction ! perity coming ound agricultural economics to learn that the South's ly equal the eotton erop in It will surprise most people corn crop this year will near value, Its net value will probably be greater. There at $1.85 a bushel than in cotton at If the South will practice this kind of farming for two or three decade on in all the earth.” olit in corn ents a pound it will become the most prosperous agricultural reg if it is true, therefore, that the world is facing a shortage of cotton, it 1 that encourage the larger If we are to pay m price of our manufactured goods is certain to advance further, some of the method opportunity for saving lies omething must be done to this ore for our raw cotton, therefore, evident production of most essential st iple then the various economies are effected in One in the provision of more ade If there were better ways to protect cotton on the farms before it is houses for sale the farmer would himself benefit and con- tribute toward the saving of hundreds of thousands of dollars that are lost each year through country damage to the cotton crop unles s of handling and manufacturing. quate warehousing facilitic sent to city ware now handling and baling of cotton, The to step up from a bale density The deficiencies in the from the field to the of war caused u mill, are notoriously wasteful. necessities of twenty pounds to a density of thirty-two two pound When propose d thi tep was the pinner were fe il ful that practice would prove tothefiber the new injuriou Hlowever, no ich evil result followed There are still great opportunitse further to reduce and cargo shipping pace (ine author ty states th would use only ing bale compre would uve teen pounds freight on_each bal that 1 shipped, With Ameri port of 8.000.000 rate of $2 at ex weight fror thirty-four bale, or a $2,720,000 a year. What high-density baling means in the handling of cotton is best understood when we remember that one million cars are required to transport an average annual crop of cotton and seeds, One of our statistical sharks estimates that of the world’s population of 1,600,000,000 people, about 800,000,000 are only partially clothed and 250,000,000 wear practically no clothes. Of the clothing worn, about nine-tenths of the raw material is cotton and the popularity of this class of goods is increasing. As an example of this latter fact, he states that China and Japan have doubled their consuming capacity in less than seven years. Shorter hours in the cotton mills of the world has reduced the working spindleage by more than 18,000,000 spindles. In addition, the shorter hours have also worked for a loss of efficiency which has further curtailed output. This authority estimates that the world will require 77,000,000 new spindles in the next decade. This signifies that the machine shops throughout will have to supply 7,700,000 new spindles each year, and this approximately a thirty-four per cent greater production by the machine shops of the world than they were able to turn out in the decade from 1900 to 1910, the most prosperous era of cotton manu- facturing in the history of the business. If this prediction is true we are going to be short of spinning machinery ina period when there is greater need for an adequate supply of mechanical equipment than has ever existed before. As to the future of cotton prices, it is likely that the cost of the raw staple will increase rather than decrease, Farmers in our Southern States have discovered that there is more money in raising other things than in growing cotton. The world needs more of this important staple now than it ever did before. Increased production in any industry will not result unless there is promise of fair profit to encourage the additional effort. In the matter of a new source of cotton supply, many people are now turning their eyes to Arizona, where this year we shall grow something like 50,000 bales of the long staple Egyptian variety, which has been introduced into this region of the United States. The soil and climate of the Salt River Valley in Arizona are similar to those of Egypt. This is a really worth-while event in cotton growing and much credit is due to David Fairchild, Thomas Kearney and others in the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, who pioneered this interesting ven- ture. If we can now turn the dry Arizona plains into a fertile land of cotton, there is at least a partial silver lining to the clouds that hover over the cotton industry of the United States to-day. Still Higher Prices E ARE tired of being good and have started out to A year and a half of war, work and sacri- been too much for us. Saving is As a tne earth means raise Cain fice appears to have passé, Talk of thrift and efficiency now bores us, January 31,1920 nation we have always been the champion wasters of the world, and we seem resolved to hold fast to this title of being the leaders in extravagance. Since the signing of the Armistice people appear to have gone mad in the scramble to spend money. Dealers in luxuries cannot get enough goods to supply the demand. Folks who used to buy an eight-dollar article now refuse the same article that is to-day selling for fourteen dollars. They insist on having a twenty-dollar article that used to be twelve dollars. Not only are they willing to pay higher prices but they also insist on higher quality. The war cost the world $337,000,000,000, but this does not include the effect of four years of bloody struggle on human relationships throughout the earth. Just at pres- ent civilization is running on three cylinders, and ahead of us lie steep hills. Who knows whether the faithful old car will be able to pull over the top? Perhaps a few nations, heretofore oppressed, may be ex- cused for running wild in this day of their newborn liberty But here in the United States there is something vicious and foreboding in the reckless hilarity with which we have started to waste. In certain great areas on the earth millions of people are facing starvation. Here in our own land 3,000,000 children are without adequate school facil ities. In the matter of building we have fallen behind our needs to the extent of 1,000,000 homes, 50,000 apartment 453,000 factories, and 120 major freight terminals. Everyone with a grain of intelligence is aware that the situation of society throughout the earth to-day is the same as would have resulted from a monstrous devastating fire. We came out of the war with distraught nerves which seem to have played havoc with our good sense. We shed tears over the evils of our high-cost-of-living problem, and on the same day enter a request for shorter hours of labor During our recent troubles we worked hard to win a victory; why should we now refuse to work hard to pay for the war? During the past tw lve months there have been in the neighborhood of 2600 important strikes and lockouts here in the United States. Each and every one has cut down production and helped to boost the cost of commodities. Our economic dilemma so far as high prices are concerned has come from our selfish willfulness and not our ignorance The rich man who wastes thousands of dollars in catering to the abnormal desires of his children is one to blame, for he is engaged in the development of professional loafers who consume and do not produce. An inventory of the unnecessary expenditures of some of our wealthy Amer ican families this last year would answer some questions concerning the causes underlying class hatred now ram pant throughout our land. Again, labor demands four things—shorter hours, easier work, more pay and lower prices. In view of the first three, the fourth demand is utterly impossible. Unions are necessary, for history has shown that many employers refuse full justice to their workmen except when persuaded with a good-sized club. For this rea son the unions of employees are essen- tial and area benefit But somehow the bitter always comes with the sweet, and organized labor has made the mistake of adopting a policy that keeps lazy, in efficient people on the pay roll. Under our present system the shiftless individ- ual fares as well as the ambitious capa- ble worker; in other words, good and bad are placed on the same level. It’s all very well to swat the big corporations, for some of them surely need it; how- ever, it should be remembered that a banded group of employees can re- tard the working out of our economical problems just as ef- fectively as can a selfish group of em- ployers. While. we are swatting let us swing the club both fore and aft. “Pullover"’’ Machines in the Lasting Room of a Big Shoe Factory (Continued on Page 40)

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eet a i ee San THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ( YRASH of cymbals and thunder and roll of drums: A exultant shout of brazen-throated trombones and trumpets: it is the music of men who march, the most stirring of all music: it brings thrill to the heart and a red fierce flame to the spirit. The Band of the Garde Republicaine did all that to France—it made the Poilu! There is only one Garde Républicaine Band and today in this country the one way to hear it is on Pathe Records. Listen to “Sambre et Meuse”— or Ganne’s “March Lorraine,” as the Garde Reépublicaine play it; you can hear them at any Pathe Dealer's. V4 COSTS NO MORE THAN THE ORDINARY PHONOGRAPH PATHE FRERES PHONOGRAPH CO. aid CUGENE A. WIDMANN, President BROOKLYN, N )

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Continued from Page 38) ligent men were to examine carefully of a thousand articles of these men would greater production, A fashion, suggests that oncerning the high If a thousand intel the cau for the present high price of common ninety-nine cent that use per report the sole remedy i ider in Texas, in characteristi of economist that the whole prob- that I give that request tood, ve if it a log under and Il go takes us into tigate tl true of tootwe Shoes } and, li } ‘ US SCt wi y material leather industrie Hick are ict Cc laughtered for their hide da of hides are determined by the sales of beef. umption of beef has ion of leather has ubstitute mu ittle are not a consequence quantitie For several years the per-capita cor decreased while creased As for beef as food, and we : ! for leather In upply of whi the per i nsumpt time passes we are finding more ot finding so large a number { substitute other words, we here havea momodity the h does not increase with an reased ce In 1890 there were 52,000,000 cattle in the United State dat the same time our population amounte d to62,000,000, In 1919 we had 68,000,000 cattle and 110,000,000 people During the four leather »> the war years of war we exported $286,131,947 re of ind leather goods than we did the four Year prior te hick and skis are to those countri the United other countr world commodities, and flow auto s where the highest prices pre States ha number of n leather making a larger promine nt atthe thi ul we are forced to in port not le than fifty per cent of the raw material that is needed for our tanneri« During the war the European tanneries were demoralized; to-day they e trying to return to a normal | This is creating a mand and the om of hides throughout the fast own detinitel ‘ rning Te hoes are a iW V ! \ e to th trie of Cor arger «ce vorld are diminishing \ y hope is Russia, but is kt umulations rtv-five Our from lollars a pair in the cour tinental Europe extreme price to-day look che ip to the eager buye depend largely on for hide + market those runtrie Shoe and le ather price Our domestic figures are de rid’ remgn condition mined by transactior the we The latest av ted Stats of the ty-three per cent of the value fleen heep and | iilable figure at here in the hick nd ski cor repre dare « ume, about attle hide per cent are the form tor sole per cent ire imb skir er alfaki ul other er goatskin and horsehides, Cattle hide , 1 are used principally per cent are emaining he basis of eather, belting cunt two per cent are and bag hoe uppers and ipholstery ir are used for shoe uppers, gloves are used almost exclusively hut off from most countries, ind fancy article alfskir for hoe upper but are now is they are chiefly produced in Russia. Goat and kid skins for sho , but are now also entering in the United States to re- Glove ire used mainly ito the upper manufacture of glove place the kid gloves formerly imported from France America i ly an infant industry, and i of importance, Several French only oming a busine ifacturers have recognize i the opportunity here | d factorie in thi and for patent leather tablishe country. ” Upper ind gauntlet much all of bulk of the world’s our chief market g heavy gl ve ces a ' leather as d the shoe and But cut off from their when were now recovering otara hoes are It will be home demands, so everal eat Britain ‘ ner to meet her export lave grown and exportet ner grade of d herself principally to eo ne t kid leathers, She Ve gout and production of } rrade rt likely Iti of leather the I 1300 pairs of shoes annually to become a formidable competitor of America. f g that in the manufacture the leading nation. We " produc ing a total of 300,000,000 However, in the matter of raw materials we are not so independent. India has two anda have, while Russia has evident from the f rego ited States is have hoe factori« half times as many cattle as we nearly as many as the United States. As a producer of sheep we drop to another level, and rank third. We have about 48,000,000 sheep, while Russia and Australia each have about 70,000,000. The Argentine Republic has about 43,000,000. In the matter of goatskins, practically all we use come from abroad, for this country has only a small supply of goats. Perhaps the weakest spot in our shoe and leather in- dustry is our dependence upon the outside world for goat- skins. As mentioned before, no animals are raised solely .or the value of their hides. Citizens of the United States have never been able to acquire an appetite for goat meat and milk, so our goat population is very limited in extent. In India and China as well as in certain countries of South America the natives consume goat’s milk and meat, and it from these countries that we secure our supply of It is further a fact that goats cannot be herded like d cattle. They are capricious and will not graze in one spot like If something attention a goat will immediately go and have a i heep or cows. cts it it the new object, even though it may be only a leaf of paper. It is likewise true that the goat's g are not protected with wool as are young lambs at birth, so that if goats were allowed to graze on a large Western the same way that sheep are herded many of the young goats would be frozen soon after birth. The skin of a goat is quite different from the skin of a sheep. This fact a hair and the 1 wool animal. Due to the difference in the size of wool cells in piece L pie you range in is due to the that one i other the hair and materials make a different grade of leather. It i a fact that the goatskins from India are quite different from those coming from China or Russia. The colder the climate the It is for Goats the skin the two It . likewise coarser the hair and the this reason that the warmer climate of I are often badly more durable the skin. Russian skir srazil have hair of a finer texture ar cratched from mtact with cactus and other prickly vegetation are superior. raised in the i the skins com- ing it uch climates, In the matter of machinery for tanning hides and manu- the United States first. Chrome which makes | native to facturing shoes ranks the skins more durable and water- adding to their beauty, was discovered and This gave us a lead and nations | been able to catch up. Much of the leather goods world is manufactured with our machines, tannage beside ted here in the Units prool 1 States, perfes in the business, 30 far other iave not made in other parts of the About sixty per cent of all the women’s shoes manufac- in the United States are made of glazed kid made from goatskins brought to In order to get land wort id. This leather i d States from foreign countries, ic cause for advances in women’s footwear it 1s that we examine the prices of raw materials, In advance in the cost of goatskins is about 500 from China formerly sold for fifty Skins from India were seven to l are now twenty-seven to thirty a dozen. Argentine skins sold for forty-five cents a pound and are now $1.90 a pound. Chinese skins weigh 17 pounds a dozen full goatskins in the raw, and will y ield about sixty square feet of finished leather. In the matter of tanning the skins here in the United States, the costs have shown an equal ability to climb. A dozen miscellaneous hides give an average measure of about seventy-five square feet of leather, and in former times the cost for tanning these dozen hides was $2.25. A careful investigation shows that the cost of tanning to-day averages twelve cents a square foot, or about nine dollars general the per . Fine ! ire now $2.75 i do enh ani for a dozen hides, The average wage increase of piece- workers in tanning plants, including bonuses, amounts to 155 per cent, The increase for foremen and time workers has been 133 per cent. Tanning materials have advanced about 280 per cent. Finished leather to-day is being pro- duced at an increased cost of approximately 400 per cent, which includes the cost of raw materials and the processes of manufacture. From 3%4 to 4'4 square feet of leather is required to make one pair of women’s high boots, From 2*_ to 3%4 square feet of leather is required to make a pair of women’s Oxfords. The reason for this large use of leather is that the manufacturer must cut the fine parts into the shoe. In leather parlance, he must eliminate the skirts. It is mated that there are 110 operations in the of a I find it impossible to get an showing the percentage increase in the wages of esti- manufacture hoe. average figure sea manufacturing operatives, but taking an average of several individual plants it appears that the minimum advance is not less than ninety per cent since 1913. Bearing heavily on the cost of shoes is the matter of Never before have American women demanded so many rapid style changes. Even in men’s shoes the same thing to a large extent is true. If the predominant style to-day is for gray shoes the dealer selling them knows that he is going to be stuck with dozens of pairs of this shade that will be out of style in a few months. To safeguard himself he feels obliged to charge a stiff price for his goods in order to cover the losses that will accrue when he has to sell the left-overs. This matter of extreme styles in shoes style. January 31,1920 was injected into the business in 1914 and has been ac- cumulating ever since. The women’s shoe business is becoming more and more like the hat business. Five dol- lars’ worth of material goes into a hat, and the dealer charges twenty dollars extra for the style that has been put into the same article. In any business where style is the dominating feature of, the trade the retail dealer has to figure on large losses, and consequently endeavors to obtain long profits. In the last paragraphs I have referred more particularly to goatskins and to women’s shoes. A similar situation exists in regard to most other classes of shoes and grades of leather. The question naturally arises in the mind of the reader, ‘‘Why have the prices on raw skins advanced so enormously during the past two or three years?” India and China are both on a silver basis, and the value of this metal has increased from sixty cents to better than $1.30, or considerably more than 100 per cent. Actually this means that an American gold dollar in China and in India will purchase less than half of what it would formerly buy. Furthermore, the wages of employment in the Far East, though they have not advanced so greatly as in this coun- try, have increased materially, with the result that all com- modities in India and China have doubled and tripled in price. One further fact should be remembered, and that is the 200,000,000 liberated people in the world, who through the outcome of the war have been placed on a basis where they can now enter the world’s markets and become pur- chasers and consumers of goods. If America must go abroad to buy materials she will come into contact with this new buying factor. Even here in our own country this foreign element is now acting to advance the prices of our domestic supplies, for notwithstanding the increased cost of articles here our prices still appear low to other nationals Summing up, the high prices of shoes in the United States have in part resulted from unavoidable causes. The cost of raw materials has advanced rapidly in recent months and the shoes that will be made from these higher- priced materials have not yet been placed on the market. Raw-material prices are not reflected in the shoes the public buy for at least six months after the raw skins are pure hased. There are other disconcerting factors, which I have not referred to. One of these is the embargo of fifteen per cent instituted by the Government of British India upon the exports of hides and skins with a preferential of ten per cent in favor of England and her colonies. The tanners of the United States have taken this matter up with our State Department, but it is not yet known whether their plea to our Government will be availing. The effect of this em- bargo has been to place our manufacturers of glazed-kid leather in a difficult position. For years upward of forty per cent of our imported goatskins have come from India. It is not certain just what American tanners can do in the face of this discriminatory duty. One of our largest companies has already made arrangements to equip a tannery in Canada. If the duty is continued other con- cerns will likely have to follow suit, and the cost of shoes to American citizens will be subjected to another boost. There is little likelihood that sufficient supplies of goatskins for our tanneries can be secured from other countries. Expert opinion estimates that the actual effect of this duty on the price of kid leather in this country will amount to more than five cents afoot. If the policy adopted by the Indian Government with reference to raw hides and skins were to be extended to the British Empire as a whole it would affect no less than seventeen per cent of our cattle hides, thirty-six per cent of our calfskins, and sixty-three per cent of our sheepskins. In this connection it may be appropriate to mention that the British Empire is much the largest holder of livestock in the world. It has more than one- third of the cattle and sheep and nearly one-fourth of all the goats on the earth. The United States holds one-eighth of the cattle, one-tenth of the sheep, and one-sixth of all the horses in the world. A careful government investigation disclosed the fact that the cost of materials entering into boots and shoes is approximately sixty-two per cent of the total value of the finished products, In other words, if a pair of shoes sells at a factory for five dollars, the cost of leather and other materials represents $3.10. The margin for cost of manu- facture and manufacturer’s profit is $1.90. It is not diffi- cult to see therefore what the effect will be on the price of shoes when we figure in an increase in the cost of raw mate- rials varying from 200 to 400 per cent. It is undoubtedly a fact that the increased operating expenses of retail shoe stores throughout the country has been a minor factor in the higher prices of shoes. A careful estimate indicates that the average gross profit of retail shoe dealers is about thirty-five per cent. The average net profit of these retailers, after deducting the expense of doing business, is about nine per cent. There are of course some merchants who profiteer, and there are others who secure a net profit of less than two per cent. The successful merchant will turn over his shoe stock about four times a year, whereas the average merchant will replace his stock but twice annually. Concluded on Page 74)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 41 "Tisose of us who collaborate in the improvement of the Liberty Motor Car, do not delude ourselves that we will ever attain perfection. The point of perfection recedes, of course, as we approach it—but equally, of course, the pursuit of perfection results in greater and greater excellence and beauty. This latest Liberty, for instance, is unmistakably a closer approach to perfection. It does not depart from a single previous Liberty essential—but it has improved upon them all. In its inner excellence, and in outer aspect, this Liberty is undeniably better and more beautiful. » «| The skill and soundness of Liberty design and | construction, find their best expression in that delightful difference in the way it rides and drives, which everyone instantly observes. That fine quality, which is the key to all the rest, you will find more apparent than ever. | Liberty Motor Car Company, Detroit : . t , LIBERTY | 1 LIBERTY S&S

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42 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST HOOQVER’S TRAMPS By HENRY M. HYDE January 31,1920 It is quite impossible for Americans to realize the depth and bitterness of such

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When a glace er a man iturally of the An ica, here and out of ontinent, Irope if the ¢ facts » are this is as good a uc of Hoover's neredible and unex d in the imple vanmpled diffteulty ol t ognize most prac il ind When the thiee wnificatr Amer md Admini nment oft appoir techr closed its of the new tration Europe the everal ate requested Mr American railway engi oO acta ch of them The wrmanent aid of the t t an experienced ical adviser to the and railroad oper ting men who had served them in the emergency And | hope I shall be the first to that Lieut. Col W. B. Causey is already on duty in Vienna directing the of the Austriar 1; that William G, Atwood |} n the same position in the r”iom of the Serb C¥oat ind Slovene Col. W. B 0 and Col. A. B. Barber and Maj n Poland. Eact isted by a staff iilroad men and i ulary. particularly anxious to get ramp engineer announce inagement and operat railroad (‘ol is take ch lovakia of them is as paid a handsome The Dictator From Pittsburgh \ THETHER they have rly earned this recognition one may dge when | ir me details of the dif ilties they encoun re i overcame When the Pari nelet of Central and Easter: e litth hell; of hat { ichine-gun hn t and ; oO r the sur vuunding ountry me very ] acial tarted to conference tempted to unscramble the hurope they set some thirty rot ng hot water, ille group ind all of these tate their exact number ay nothing of their Did you ever hear, for tance, of the Russo-Carpathian Republic, ulopted a revised version of the Constitution of the United ates as its own and over which a lawyer from Pittsburgh, elf-determine if i Ss, ri < her available weapor There were wly born nations that I cannot names which hatred. Between many of these adjacent peoples ran blood feuds, religious feuds, dynastic feuds which had festered for centuries. Now they saw an opportunity to get even—at no matter what cost to themselves. The Mandatory MAGINE that each of our forty-eight states was in- habited by people who for hundreds of years had feared and hated the folks who lived in each of the other states. Imagine that each state seized all the railroad loco- motives and cars it could lay its hands on and refused to let any of them move outside its own boundaries. Say that Kansas had its barns and elevators full of wheat, corn and other foodstuffs, while its people were suffering and dying for lack of fuel, clothing and all sorts of manufac- tured products. At the same time let the inhabitants of Kansas City— just across the

Maj. T. R. Ryan. Above —Cot. William G. Atwood Pennsylvania, ruled as absolute dictator for nearly six month But that incident has nothing to do with this story The big idea of each of the new governments was to grab everything within reach and nail it down; to put an abso- of the country; to set them to an lute embargo on anything going out as possible and much of the surrounding terri mobilize as mar y soldier nexing by force of arms AS tory a lines yet determined, imaginary boundaries as far as possible, believing that when the Three Wise Men in Paris finally round to drawing the red lines on the new map of Europe they would they could conquer. The new national boundary some of them are not Fach state was trying to force out its were of course not determined got be i flue Not a railroad train was permitted to move anywhere ear these imaginary and constantly changing boundary need by what all us diplomats call the fait accompli. across the road would seize T line If it did the new nation the engines and cars and add them to its own store of rolling stock. One new state might have a thousand tons of wheat more than it could use and be starving to death for sugar. Its next-door neighbor might be eating bread made out of sawdust and possess enough sugar to sweeten the temper of Europe. One might think that the provisional rulers of these two states would have negotiated a simple exchange. Not at all. Most of them were so mad and so haughty that they would not even speak to the other fellows line—-be starving to death, with all their bins and warehouses jammed with coal, woolen and cotton goods, and everything that factories turn out. Conceive that the Kansas farmers, armed to the teeth, are spending all their time making certain that nobody buys and moves their crops, stopping only to fire a volley now and then in the direction of the state line; while Kansas City merchants have hired soldiers to protect their stocks against possible customers, with instructions to return in double measure all shots fired across the river. Multiply this situa- tion by ten, fill the whole district with a pesti- lential mist of ancient and savage hatred and mutual fear, add a percentage of illiteracy includ- ing more than half the whole people—and you be- gin to get an idea of what Hoover and his tramp engineers faced. It was a large part of their job to prevent the peoples of Eastern and Central Europe from mutually committing suicide. It was first necessary to get hold of sufficient food to carry the destitute populations through the winter. And here it may be well to say that of the 1,100,000 tons of food which were secured up to the end of March, 1919, all but 38,000 tons came from America, and eighty per cent of it was carried on ships furnished by our much-criticized shipping board, the British Ministry of Shipping providing another ten per cent While the food ships were loading, the most pressing job was to get the paralyzed railroads into such shape that supplies could be moved over them from one country or newly self-determined state into another. That was a job for a combined diplomat, soldier, railroad manager and master executive. When it had to be faced Herbert Hoover did what seems to me the biggest and most audacious thing in his whole'splendidly American career. He went before the Council of Three in Paris and asked that he be made the mandatory for all the tag-ends and bobtails of railroads which still remained in Eastern and Central Europe, includ- ing the rolling stock. The Council of Three agreed. And when the mandate system is discussed it might be worth while to remember that the first mandate of all was given to an individual American, and that with the aid of American engineers and railroad men it was successfully carried out and completed within a few months, the property involved being returned to its owners vastly increased in value. Also, it is worth remembering that neither the mandatory nor any of his agents was enriched in the process—an example which it may be hoped the beneficiaries of future mandates will follow. First of all Hoover called in Colonel Causey and sent him out to investigate and report on the condition of rolling stocks and roadbeds. Now one of Causey’s jobs in the United States had been that of engineer of maintenance on a railroad line that is notoriously run down and inefficient. And if fear Continued on Page 44) state

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Eggs for Locomotiv tt t ‘ olone!l used the gallant co ) ina THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Continued from Page 42 ng literally hi be a damned ent me from quot men at ienst would “are everal inter the repre yraduate from mel objector t large part of the At these tne upplies had been determination of the verything it wanted for itself to pa through to other proved to be kind of compromise. ip. I to say that been known to relap e port there ty tubborn and regret wabulary, in the West omewhat tart and emphatic ld railroading day nterpreter net EN | wee] t t decenti upplie iw eT At Left—Lt. Cot Cot. A. C. Goodyear The atmosphere was not favorable for mak ing trades. Each of them was suspicious of all the rest. Each had one or two special antipathies among the lot at the mere mention of whose names they foamed at the mouth. Yet it was often exactly these particular and heredi- tary enemies which possessed surplus food products or manufactured goods the exchange of which was mutually necessary if widespread suffering and even death were to be prevented. Hoover's tramp engineers and all their taffs started out to hunt for bargains on the old fashioned barter basis. Each of them wa given a special state or district in the inter- est of which he was to act. The young officer who wa Galicia reported that the war had not interfered with the hen industry ir thatsection. The Galician peasant government sent up t« of egg stored away. He wired to ask what Vienna had had millions to offer for eggs, not guaranteed fresh. Now Vienna number of railroad the tracks for trictly there m were a engine which mediate rusting on Colonel Causey saw 1 local He ng how many egg om need wired an wer asi Galicia ( ild give for one locomotive, not guar first-class eggs a teed in condition; sugge two millior a worth-while offer w. mh. Ry Center—Col. A. B. Barber. At Right—Lt. Cot. W. B. Causey January 3/,1920 Now it is noteworthy that when any one of Hoover's men was assigned to a given government he immediately became a partisan of that government, fighting its battles, making always the best deals possible for it, often acting so stubbornly in its behalf that Hoover himself had to be called in to arrange a fair compromise. So on this occasion the officer in Galicia answered that though his be able to a few locomotives the rin exchange was half a million reason- ausey grinned and dropped his demand twenty-four hours—both fore the trade was settled, young government best they c« ably fresh eggs. ( might use yuld offe to a million and a half. It tool governments being consulted — be one ion eggs Atwood, four locomotive against one n sight unseen. Another officer yut by ¢ d that people to whom he was assigned were almost perisning for lack of salt. He that they had prunes enough stored up to endow all the boarding houses in New York permanent i a ton of prunes? It deve loped that mountains of fast a government had not Lif Hoover's gma opportunity for a mutually ] er been discovered, sent ¢ olonel t found aiso dad surpius Salt is ollered for How mucl "wa he wired to headquarters. ryo state not far away had salt. bu s for breal an unimagined been speaking to the salt governn had not come rofitable your ndatories trade mj re A Casey Jones in Khaki S TO the in which Colonel Causey’s agreement A with the variou to let trains run through their territories worked out, I have before me the report of Lieutenant Kreske, U. S. A., who took thirty-seven tank cars and three locomotives through from Vienna to Bul harest and back. When the Germans evacuated Rumania they stole practically all the railroad rolling stock, so the Bukharest government was delighted to trade fuel oil for a couple of Causey’s extra locomotives, Lieutenant Kreske was delayed on the way by Austrian, Fre nch wa) governments Jugo-Slav and Rumanian customs inspections. Once he had to run the engine him self to prevent the Serbians from stealing it. At almost every boundary—imagir or otherwise — he held up from a hours to a weel the refusal of officials to give hin permit. Fre he wa refused coal, be ary Wa few by a que ntly ing several time compelled te tand with a re volver ir hand and ea of bills in other, and mingled threats and bribes per uade the worl men to fill the tender of his engine. Ever little while the native train crew struck for an immediate increase ir wages payable in the spot. At what one ro the by advance the town used to be and on Kar liungary, a ansebes, in lieutenant charge of the train himself, and aided by a file of arrested ot the Rumaniar attempted to take members Kreske } ““a strong argument” men released. A little Rumanians attempted to with ‘the engine, but stopped by Kreske, revolver in hand, who threatened to shoot the engineer f he left the train behind. Possibly the trip might have been easier if Kreske had beer follow the generally accepted rule of When e understood that this coarse soldiers train at crew, ad to he call the the (Tt i make wl to get later rul ( were willing to bribing everybody in sight. it becan and crude American was grossly and habitually violating the traditional and storied customs of Continental Europe other methods were adopted to teach At also in Hungary Kreske and his staff stopped at mid- night to get lunch in the station res taurant. They took every precaution before leaving the car in which they him a lesson. 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= a a tees THE SATURDAY EVENING POST | A rreeservrrererrrer | TT wy f ¥ QS ~ SS : A =: ~ —=s - Above you see the Hoosier's big un work table. Here falls 90 munportant work space ts not cut up by partitions L I fluttered of your work. Notethat this You havea big roomy space where youcancon veniently handle pans of anys ize To really understand what the Hoosierwutl do for vou you must actuall, it in front of it and use its many onvenience Go to the nearest Hoosier dealer and see thi thinet today, With a Hoosier you can almost prepare a meal in the dark The Hoosier Kitchen Cabinet represents all the best that American housewives have learned about cutting out waste steps and unnecessary labor in the kitchen. It organizes the kitchen get-at-able way cooking within instant reach. in a compact, keeps every ingredient for One glance at your Hoosier and you are ready to order your day’s groceries. THE HOOSIER MANUFA Main Office, 120 E. ! Branc! Branch Off tO8 Portage Office, Mezzanine Flo« a hundred hands. get meals and to help clear up after them provement’”’ See the Hoosier at your dealer’s today. If you don’t know him, write us. Winnipeg Nearly two million women who use the Hoosier three times a day say it 1s indispen they claim it is the silent servant with It is always ready to help The Hoosier embodies every proved ‘im all the rest have been rejected URING COMPANY tle, Ind San Francisco, Calif Man., Can HANDS

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quile in keepir { ce new spick-and-span little home had just left for his dail pref breakfast dishe I brick wil 1 oO the ¢ toil, anc ti he made ratior to wa immed while trayed ud t suuld be ret had morning John we irnit Mary her made mut work tl morning ir Januar thought Mar a eves while der who that car 1! I hope approac hed and ugh the eur liminary wit! imerator that to Mary rather easily flu ounded just like Bride ire yway what r— what did you Mar I'm the censu u about all the * queried enumerator and I’ that hay man on tl ‘What is } people in this house.”’ answered the p rtfolio and hi pene l ready, uid Mary ith a semblance « “Why is Mary * And this break, thi f her , my name Jone marned name, agar An Embarrassed Bride A"! you m i » the themselves was old of Mary’ Yes,” an irried?” a job of stuff by now prett swered Mary, neat two Then she stopped, re this stranger was not had left the protecting roof of two mont wo ked the cen yetti and notice embarrassn ‘I've perhaps intereste« that she only “What’ ul house your husband’ John ‘Anyone Smith.’ else live here dren, lodgers or servants? No At thi that the begun to chill her, so just my husband and myself.” Mary January be gan to realize had he invited the cen hall, her first feeling of excitement having worn off under the point sharp weather us gatherer to step into the straightforward business like manner of Uncle Sam’s agent When the man resumed his question “Where was This was easy fo “In Indiana,” “His “ther? “They Mary told him ‘And where were you born? “In Ohio.’ **And your mother and father door was closed the census your husband born?” Mary answered His mother bern in she were Indiana too,” where were they born “In New Hampshire Hadn't Mary heard the westward trek of her of the many, story parents many times ‘And now can you tell me the age of your husband on his last birthday continued the “Why, ves is twenty-eight. But rea mat John —I mear 1. HY Mr. Smith , is all this in the census “Yes, be given. ma’am; the age of everybody must What's your age?” tarting to pen to live ie porch, his momentary flustered her g people to been continued the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Sam Gets Acquainted By MILLER HAMILTON ve come to your name, if returning er I mean forget us man, to talk about who didn't ent married ilizing that din the fact Samuet L. Rogers, Director of the Census. Above—Checking Up the Returns Sent in by the Fietd Force of the Vital Statistics Division of the Census Bureau. These Girts are Busy Over Birth, Death and Marriage Records. More Than a Thousand Clerks Will be Needed to Handle the Filled:Out Questionnaires her fathe r’ The Automatic Sorting Machine Used by the Census Bureau. Periods, Etc., Preparatory to Tabulation. Twetve is Done at One Operation. The Function of This Machine is the Sorting or Grouping of Cards With Respect to Sex, Color, Nativity, Age Sorting Into Any Number of Groups Up to The Thirteenth Stot is for All Cards Which are Inconsistent or Erroneous and Which the Machine Will Automaticatly Reject January 31,1920 “Why, I’m twenty-four,” answered Mary, without the trace of hesitatior often when the asks this from present census more man question mature women—and men! ““Now I want to ask you about your house. Do you own it or rent it?” “We own—that is, we are buying it from the builder on the partial-payment plan. John—I mean Mr. Smith paid more than half on it already.” “Then you are listed as an owner,” replied the enumerator, “with the further notation that the house is mortgaged jut the amount of the encumbrance, if y, isn’t asked about city or town prop- It’s only asked about farms.” has a é rty. Satisfactory Answers N ARY was by this time getting really 4 interested. Answering the tions of Uncle Sam’s census man wasn't so bad after all, she decided. “Only one or two more questions, Mrs. Smith. Are you and your husband both able to read and write English?” “Yes, indeed,” answered Mary. And because she was interested she didn’t smile at the questions. Nor did she feel offended because the census enumerator hadn’t taken it for granted that she had received a rather superior education which, in fact, she had—while John essor of two college dey **What ir husband’s occupation?” the census man. “*He’s a mining ‘Does he work “Wh y, both. mining company, own too.” **Well, which pays him the more money for the company or his own clients? We c: list him for one occupation, and the one which pays is considered to be the more ques- « was the po is yo continued encineer.”’ for himself cr for a company?” he draws a salary from a but he does work for clients of his You see, working in only him the more money important one by the Census Bureau,” explained the enumerator. “Well, I think him more than he earns from his clients. he has really just started in trying to get clients of his own.” “Then I'll put him down as a salaried man and give his profession as that of a mining engineer. And I’m putting you down as a housewife. Is that right? Or have you a gainful occupation? I mean have you other work you do besides your house- yes, I’m sure the company pays You see, work?’ “No,” house.”’ “That’s all, then. And I’m obliged for the good spirit you’ve shown. I wish everybody was as quick and will- ing with answers as you’ve been. Good answered Mary, “I just keep much morning.” “Good morning.”” And as Mary closed the door and started back to her break- fast wondered if had made any mistakes—especially in telling about John’s occupation. ‘Well, I’ve got something to tell John this evening at any rate,” thought she. ‘‘The census man said he wished everybody was as quick and willing as I—?’ll tell John that too. I must have done all right.” And so you did, Mary, my dear. And so did the several million other house- wives in the United States do all right when Uncle Sam’s census enumerators called upon them during the present month, the time named by Congress for the taking of the Fourteenth De- cennial Census. For the questions asked of you about yourself and your family were asked of all of Uncle Sam’s nieces and nephews in his effort to learn the facts and figures about his family. And no one, gentle reader, need have been alarmed any more than Mary was about the se#mingly personal questions the census man must ask. For just as Continued on Page 49) dishes she she

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 19 Continued from Page 46 onr tand y } \ oon as the ¢ rator sent in his dav’s the pr ( wi heet to Washington you became , a number, a pu ed card— just one card a ‘ out of more t a hundred million. ‘ And besid l e Sam is good at keep- G/ ‘ ‘ ing seere | been collecting these ees ; ; facts for one dred and thirty years l ‘ ‘ } 650 a and no neight of yours has ever yet int ‘ 1920 learned your true age from the census ‘ ty 1 me ire y nan—even though you really may have gaged the es It d told | ! nterestiy to ‘ 1790 it But after all, names, ages, conjugal quired ¢ teen 1 ‘ tatist home owner hip, occupational enumera “ ‘ the eighter ad T data and the other information ascer- montt ‘ ed ty ‘ e p t } tained by the census relating to persons fiyure vere read ‘ ince i are in reality by-products. To determine Ima ‘ e-wire chambe f « Ue the number of people living in the United merce ¥ ‘ en { the J yi State and thus apportion the number Gove tt ‘ ‘ t } of representatives each state is entitled fivrure f rw \ to in Congre the original purpose for Cer ‘ he ‘ if which the cer of the nation is taken, the | 4) I The Constitut n of the United State t But | lid) makes this p1 ion, but like most other the Ce Bure ‘ ‘ ; Constitutior rovisions it is left te It ‘ \ Congre to enact the necessary legisla f i ti And Cong o ck I ae to e! { ( iy larged the e of census inquiries to R e ‘ i eet the de ‘ ia progre eci | zation. ¢ elieves in the doctrine hye ‘ y It i wise father that knows his own child,” and g ‘ . icted accord pene 1 A ~talistics al t population other than the mere number, And ‘ e| : and about farn mi ifactures and the natural resoures 1 called uj ‘ 1 te } of the count are necessal f a nation is g« ng to progres fivrure Ir G10 r ‘ t f i That t cou IM id, is the view that Congress has taken the official pe ( t e Middle ti about the censu How well this legislation of Congress is West ‘ } luct ‘ ect . justified wa vn by the world war. When the call to inother cit ¢ ‘ the eCeEiVE f arms came Uncle Sam knew at once how many men of telegrams from the n f erce military ive he could count on and whe re they lived, though, the cor ‘ ‘ ene ‘ 1 t t of course, information about individuals was lacking. He much vehemence the likewise knew it industries could be devoted to war tic gures”’ of the ce wort He knew the amount of farm product raised every } year and where t food supply was concentrated. He Inaccuracy Rarely Discovered new from what had gone on in past years what would like ce it } en in the present and forthcoming VHE dire ! ‘ f ‘ yea! Know the facts,” said a great philosopher. ‘ bureau w be se ‘ ‘ r " Well, Uncle im knew his facts and he proposes always ther the « mit eet t t | to know them. Sly Gk aeeceemnen sak a requested { be at ed he . President Garfield on the Census to work I eo ‘ the retur Hi ed om ; | gyre tect te » more forceful or we put statement con- in the ‘ t hye A ‘ 4 cerning the relation of the decennial census to statistics ‘ ttee 1 we ‘ ‘ ‘ h and the tal need fe such statisti ean be found than } ! tes ish ‘ Pa the one made by Jame \. Garfield when he was President ’ ‘ " . t} ‘ ¢ whe PSE ey { Operating the Tabulating Machine This Machine A 1 , , of the United State a hree we elapsed be the ne etur ere * F Tabutates at One "Run" of the Cards Any Number ‘ ‘ t | ‘ ‘ ‘ t t rye | t | Tt . + f rt ‘ . 2 of Facts Up to Sixty. Its Capacity is Four Hundred . :] The developme: of at es are causing history . P F , ; s | he rewritte | ecent the } a eee tudied r Cards Per Minute. Above—A Corner of the Ships Ww ‘ t * I V ( , . ( i 1a I ‘ | in the vregat na « ‘ or +} ee fy ‘ ping Room of the Census Bureau ‘ { t ( 1 ga l y ‘ Vy « ] ( m ‘ ( t dvr ti ‘ battie OT the pe e themse ‘ , : the eat t ‘ f « ele ent Aan tratior Harvard | ersit ind ! ro) ‘ ' : j e tol is notl ’ p " t of the New Ye | ] ind ¢ \\ J ir I home \ t ‘ ite ) ! t it 1 Vl \ re the ere |} | f ‘| | ‘ ‘ \ ‘ , r ‘ ] t \ 1 | 4 e W ‘ j ex e ser ‘ ‘ 7 r of ¢ "Y ( | ‘ I ! ( ’ f ¢ ‘ ‘ ! ‘ licr Fi ‘4 { b | ‘ ‘ \r e . \ ‘ ( 1 { it } \\ p \ of | } ‘ , ( Mf ( , { ‘ 1 ‘ T r i r ‘ ‘ t . the ele ent e at tre t mer t! ve} ‘ ( e the t gene ecennial c¢ i t pact } +} P dat | ( ( ( | er } t @ But we ‘ j r neighbor 4 vy A | ' ‘ T ys i t i t e ] ‘ ! j I ( t ty i ( \ 1 4 t tL be j eT ‘ 1¢ m of } i e ¢ t t he ad ( ele lt pern ; ti { ‘ \ r e three ‘ 4 ) ‘ al « bn ‘ ( ¢ meratior wo a Ne - ; te In deter ‘ est fc 920 the bureau w ' " ve ple ] ! | ory ¢ eco j WJ ] ’ for ’ y } d« ‘ ‘ ) econ d (ha t t ‘ \ The« irn ‘ committe { 4 V.S. R te pre ent of the Rumford Pre j t } Coneord, New Hampshire. Be ae Mr. Rossite the 4 ert I 1 two otne nem be of the con ttee representing the Reports of the First and Last Decenniat Censuses, 1790 ‘ “ % , America tatist | Association are Edwin F. Gay, and 1910. The Smatt Votume at the Right of the Illus: the t 1 formerly dea . 3 Grad te School f Busine tration is the Report of the First Census f the 7 ty of the ‘ ‘

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST the information to the cards | ans of a punching machine and play the ingenious machinery sus Bureau in its aboratory which count lata gathered by own tne this work is punchi ystem of symbolic a symbol saccore and 1 . here 1 the relationships of the per- ;in a family to the head of that family; ymbols telling whether you are married, widowed or dive whether you born or foreign born; whether ymbols represent- enting single reed: are native an read or write; your occupatior in fact symbols re ting all the answers possible to the contained on the census schedule you happen to be a lawyer? Then your the tabulating scheme is 764 your number Army or Navy? 271. Are you a you become Number more than 9000 designa- , covering 428 occupational groups, ided in the system of symbols used by ; Bureat It is rather unlikely f such a peculiar will be unable tur? to do or lor que tion Do imber Are upervi imerators be in col ! youa bric K Mmasor 214 Are you in the hen your number l housekeeper? Then There are tina mea It i need not be ineffec ation machines first istonist tabulating were intro ts were taken montl I! a man home office of ma ing to the lay- vn these to the expert thei i let us say that enting the more hundred iLhé residents of the re wrted by sex, age, ome OW rie Simply I I n mechani To i illustrate ‘ punched C% porn, Tor ! .o gal relatior ipatior e card ine and they will au » the proper boxe or compartments the next lating machine will count the t« and there you naveit of these ' throug}! electrical sorting tomatically drop tave of the proceedings tals of the v: ! Ihe out ~ u rious group introductior machines into been of the far reaching Without them it uuld be well ible to many statistical chart of the population and re ources In aS many years as it The sorting take care of The tabulating machine has ipacity of 400 cards a If this had to be done by hand figure ome ta owing work ha most and behole this city wi the table con “puence nigh prepare graphs and ImMmpo credited nged to it nation’ é now takes with became forth macnine one 500 cor month plot, operator can cards every u ixt second ilio “ave n the pi a minute e field for padding enun expedient of well agri- illy as ing ce tl us of the nation’ indu ealls for practically as counting the people t rge of the Division of of which Mr. William L. Aus tatist Every farm— more millior had to be visited and lhe agriculture iat are de 1 mah on from cultural large an organiz The Ww rh l Agriculture, tin is chief i clan interviewed rmatior for the cal A great deal tobeexer¢ sed { these ing the t? word umerators v not goastray. For census purposes, therefore, a farm is “all the land which is directly operated or farmed by one William M. Steuart, Assistant Director WASHIN s of the Census January 31,1920 person, either with hi labor alone or with the help of members of his family The farm owner or he the and certal own or hired employees ” The operator the renting all farms or he may own a land and rent additional land or he operate the farm as a hired manager. In is counted in hi may bea which he amount ol be may tenant may every case the land that farm is the land that he actually operates No tract of land, howeve which contains less than three acres will be counted as a farm unless it produced during the past calendar year agricultural! worth at least $250 or unless it required for its agricultural operation the continuous serv- Most of the farms of less than three acres that will be counted by the census will be specialized industries, such as market gardens, nur- series, greenhouses, poultry farms or dairies located in or near a city or town The first count that Uncle Sam made of his farms was in 1840. In that year the inquiries were confined to the quantity or value of the principal products, the num- bers of livestock on hand and the value of poultry Quite different from the com- prehensive inquiries that the Government now calls for! In 1920 every farmer was asked the precise number of acres compos- ing his farm, how much of it was improved land and how much of it was not under culti- He was asked about his ture drainage and about Separate inquiries the value of his and the value that belong to } i product ices of at least one person vation land and tenure of his farm ilso made to show value of the buildings, pa about the were farm, f the implements and machinery him. The inquiries concerning crops were indeed Hay and yrair and seed " irup and sugar crops from the farm garden, vegetables of kinds, poultry, cattle and | came in for specific questions Even by true of milk, wool, wax; in fact there that is m very forage, specific crops, all bees ogs all fruits and nuts are not overlooked The same i and bee farm acti ty covered by the agricultural schedule. Ey and automobiles all varie questions devoted to them Uncle Sam monair, honey l no possible telephor es ’ ties have Industrial Groups Like the information collected about population, the data on farming have their symbols and the transferred from the heets to pi card This allows the comprehensive tabulation of the from which made up the hundreds of statistical charts that will show from all po viewpoints the vast nation’s agricultural industry the census of agriculture has been taken only at lecennial I iods, but the ist Congress provided that beginning with the year 1920 the farm enumeration taken every five years. This was d recognition of the importance to the nation of its farming operations Che cer of manufactures, mines and quarries and oil and gas wells are not take: through the medium of enumerators, are the cer of population and agricul ture, \y agent and by « spondence direct with the Census Bureau in Washingtor In preparation for the proaching manufactures census the divi of the Census Bureau having this arge ha repared a schedule, will | all manufacturing iddition to this, sup y the xty- information 1s inched ystem of return are ible ramifications of the Heretofore and table shall be yne in uses suse ) - special orre work general les covering plemental ) \ groups f manufactur purpose by eignt lassified for will be used There are « oY divisior which rtic he Census, oO contact only eam t [t is a gigantic tas} decennial census. It is | peacetime activity ment engares It Cal tion or that always has been p t in and for which the Census Bureau dently looks in January, 1920. The spirit of the census—that spirit so well set forth by James A. Garfield—enters into employee of the Census Bureau, from the director in Washington to the stout-hearted enumerator in ice-bound Alaska who cov- ers his district on snowshoes and sled. the part of everyone, oOper sent the pas conti every

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| t q — | os J - = me!) ~ = 4 eo = , = : . oa iW = Na ° = “, r ame ; ee > » bbe I! ( ; crew, in diameter much smaller than the head, Mesdtresting adde to steed 2 is made - cutting down the bar. ens - \! I i? 4 \ ! T i thn t . Asa result of this comparatively slow and — treatedtoin inthe stceliteell ma Bob ¢ RR ( J hod, tl I thati lled away nd ductile strength) “The head of the ser fit Hin Motors tedious method, the steel that Is milled away 1 and ductile str I fot the screw i ag practically a dead wast ns ee ee ere ee ae ) Thomas Ferry’s process see ail Canes er eaaaradeird 1M ren Thomas Ferry’s process— perfected out of a PY Patent | hfetime of screw-makin y experienc is illu Screws of micrometer accuracy rated at the right In developing this pro ced Itisa compk te reversal of the old method. be : ; : I} , : - in his mind was absolute precision accur Note that he uses a bar of steel — its size not Oed ' rv | : " ‘ . Ire i ri rn ircement cr not « that of the head, but of the shank inst. ‘The Pavey 4 é ! ie . There is little cutting down to do—the = micro i surement \ product absolut oa ; waste of raw material is inconsequential it ote = sige . os is re set sere ni ! : : qs His principle is simple enough. His real ee Pence! Oe eed Tees “sn e a sea wu 4 problem rested in finding a way to form the iS perfect as modern science can make it senate ecvcihei , : head. As an experienced metallurgist he knew Perfect from the standpoint of economical manu tier reciated =| Tue Ferry Cap anp Set Screw Company, 2151 Scranton Road, Cleveland, Ohi ERRY PROCESS SCREW

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THE SATURDAY OuT-OF Mammoth Cave Park aown houk ‘ your you ] own mother used to have! tt be i | hould now erect » a national parl done it it may be Bill Number Thoma Ir appropr il Ti have not purpose ol ional pari ind tft ght to have be rather a F hioned tine ind-Kentucl t} mur father’ Mamn ott of betlow | 31 gloves wit! ut out. It has long curls hanging de its neck, falling in front over er. And it ah, what eyes What do for this eves hould a fellow vote park EVENING POST - D O Alt About the Old West im IR traceable reasons there has come to hand a great deal of material about old times in the West— material rather hard to lassify and sometimes rather difficult to form little vol recountals of and is in bool “1 circulation, nee ea to read though few le volur tell omething now seventy year a time vhacker in the old Mr. William times could the flour “astern state, who on West, a bully freighting days of the plains Hooker In old is seven yoke of oxen in and-bacon days of the West as well as the next man. Even the title of his nd the pictures of the long trains of West t} e upon tne book bring $ passing soon | War. ° | ’ ' rT » re Au good trangely t, and \ for the ippoint my mother em were The Sequel to Some History WONDER if Doct New ; twenty-three years after the time when | was lost in Fort Stanton cave and a few years before Pat Garrett was killed, I visited him and his family at his ranch near the Organ Moun tains. One of the family was a half-wild slip of a chap whom I would have picked January 31,1920 O ure to grow up a go rd This week I got a letter from that f and it comes fr out into puncher boy —Pat Garrett, the embassy of the United States at Rome Italy It is the letter of a well educated young man and it made me rub bit to think what chans a few make. I think I shall quote from that ist for the sake of Doctor West out ir Oklahoma, if for ‘Sia as ym ny eyes a years cat let ter no one ei hard to gather data o nformation were one of his had never heard before Texas, of and cor people M imma r brother n El Paso New Yor Flotsam and Jetsam a * ADY in Montana te and at ican game and a r of the American West, but said h l has been L hat destroys of it as on 3, 1use Americans coming there will smolder or will flame the old love for ad venture and sport in the out-of-doors Nearly all the old American families run to sport and adventure —it is in the blood on in whose hearts

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Soe : 2S ett ea SMA IL Ignorance E WAS old and bent, and his hands were gnarled by six decades of labor with the soil from which he dug aliving. Hestood at my side as I fed sheets of paper into a printing press, and marveled that such wonders could have existed with- out his knowledge. As I finished the run and threw the belt on the idle pulley he touched my sleeve. ‘1 am an old man,” said he, ‘“‘and yet this is the first time I have seen a printing press. I am very ignorant.” As 1 looked at him it oceurred to me that he had been plowing and harrowing and planting and reaping all these years in order that I might eat. From him and his like 1 had got my living, giving in return a few columns of reading matter to furnish them an hour’s entertainment. He was a collaborator with Nature’s God, and I a court fool. ‘Father,’ I answered humbly, “printing is one of the newer arts, while plowing is as old as the race of man. There was no plowing worth the name before the nine- teenth century, but man scratched the soil and planted eed before the dawn of history. You call yourself ignorant because you have not kept abreast of invention. It is I who am ignorant. I have a smattering of knowledge from books and a little skill in this most wonderful of arts, but I cannot plow. I have never turned a furrow or harvested u grain. Proper education is preparation for usefulness, not the accumulation of miscellaneous knowledge. As there are diversity of gifts and diversity of tasks, so must there be diversity of training for service. The greater part of book learning in schools is but mental calisthenics, an exercise to develop the mind against the day when it may find employment in a useful task. The mongrel dog that can be trusted to bring the sheep home from pasture is educated. lhe stage dog that juggles balls to amuse an audience has no more education than is proved by a college diploma. Our cultivated daughters who know how to pronounce Beethoven but do not know how to relieve an infant trangling with croup have missed the better part of edu- cation. The mission of woman is to rear children. She may hunger for a career, which is but another way of say- ing that she hungers for applause, and she may be en- dowed with unusual natural abilities, but the excuse for her existence is the task of rearing creditable offspring. If he is ignorant concerning this greatest of all duties and privileges, can knowledge concerning the folklore of Lap- land and the culture of the Incas make her a better mother of men? I wonder that it is not criminal to waste the energy of instructors in developing the minds of those whose highest ambition is to become cultured gentlemen and loaf as proof of their gentility. In a world crying for service there is no neutrality. One must be useful or worthless. The worthless are an unjust burden on society, and though they speak a dozen tongues and astonish us with the extent of their knowledge con- cerning inconsequential matters they are but a travesty on education TI ere 18s no ignorance ¢ xcept uselessness. No one n it d can acquire or retain the sum of human knowledge. This man can operate a railroad, this one mine coal, this one build bridges, this one shoe a horse. If each performs his task as well as lies within the limit of human ability he is deserving of honor. Let him who can build a bridge envy him who can shoe a horse, and let neither confess shame that he lacks knowledge of Sanskrit To do one necessary thing well and lack knowledge of other matters is a higher form of education than the posse ion of much information without knowledge of a way to make it useful in the service of mankind Strikes MERICAN citizens may have the right to combine and tie up industry. The strike may be a legitimate weapon. It may be that freedom includes the right of one member of the family to use the weapon against another member of the family. But our foreign element isn’t in- cluded in the family. Aliens are guests here on probation. Until they become citizens they have not the rights of citizens. When aliens combine to strike against our institutions and our form of government they are an invading enemy. Essentially there is no difference between an organized body of aliens that uses stones and clubs to have its way with our industrial’ system and an organized army of aliens that comes marching in column of fours. We are guilty of too much hospitality. Guests have liberties. We have granted them license. One may be a good host without granting guests the right to break up the furniture. “TOWN We are in need of a statute that will provide a means of deporting aliens who conspire against the existing order of things in America. Titles b f-ing te an unusually pretty girl came to my shop to have her name printed on some bits of paste- board. She asked for visiting cards. The business of selecting a style of type for the printing cost her little effort, but the problem of deciding between the printing of her name with and without a prefixed Miss left her helpless, and she appealed to me for expert advice. How a request for advice flatters us! With what gravity we clear our throats and endeavor to do the occasion justice! I said to her: ‘‘ My dear, titles are prized by those who feel the need of them. When men struck off the yoke of princes and declared their solemn faith in the absurdity that any one man is the equal of any other they were yet bound to precedent by the belief that a word confers dignity. They abolished the titles of king and prince and lord and count, but lest they deprive themselves of all semblance of respectability they adopted the title of mister for themselves, and declared a mister the equal of any king who sat on a throne. This was no empty boast, for they were ready to establish the fact by gunpowder. “To call a man a lord or a duke is to compliment him by acknowledging his seeming superiority. There are few lords and dukes. To be either is to be distinguished. But the world is full of misters. He who cannot sign his name is nevertheless entitled to the dignifying mister in front of it. “The value of a title, like the value of a medal or a diamond, lies in its rarity. The Iron Cross conferred dis- tinction until factories put on night shifts to break estab- lished records in quantity production. When all the world is mister the title means no more than recognition of an established standard of courtesy. “Call a tramp ‘Mister’ and he colors with shame or reviles you for making sport of him. But men who attain a conspicuous success outgrow the title as they climb above the level it dignifies. “Great names cannot be glorified by a prefixed word. Pomp and power and achievement are pictured for us by the names of Julius Cwsar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Oliver Cromwell, Christopher Columbus. Can we add to their glory by calling them Mister Cwsar, Mister Bonaparte, Mister Cromwell, Mister Columbus? “The great of our own day, by whatsoever means and in whatsoever particular they have attained distinction, are known to the public by a name unadorned and innocent of arbitrary honors. “Young ladies who have demonstrated their excep- tional worth in some profession or art consider the pre fixed Miss a superfluity if not a positive detraction. A name that cannot confer honor on a’ title can get no honor from one.”’ When I had finished speaking the unusually pretty girl smiled an unusually charming smile and said that she had decided not to use the word Miss. Her father doe draying for the community Whiskers ALL men are endowed with certain inalienable whiske Among these are sideburns, goatees and all-overs. ‘The common or Russian variety is the result of letting Nature rt take its course, and encourages the life, liberty and pur suit of cooties Whiskers may be trimmed to suit the taste of the grower but there is a steady decrease in the number of people who like the taste of whiskers. Occasionally in rural district one sees a mustache forming a barrage that ts apparently impassable, but the greater number of men are now willing to take their victuals without winnowing Whiskers are cultivated by young professional men who feel the need of greater dignity and by bank cas} are leaving the community and feel the need of greater security. Until recently a form of mustache with a rising ler who inflection was cultivated in Europe, but the crop wilted when struck by a draft from America When full grown or trimmed to match the landscape whiskers are respectable. But when immature or running amuck, they are a synonym for villainy. Before the aver age police court a three days’ growth is good for ten day on the rock pile. A man is not a failure while he has the ambition to shave every morning Whiskers are more prevalent among radicals than else where, and one wonders whether these gentry wear whisk ers because they are radicals or are radicals because they wear whisker THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 55 STU Preachers HERE has bee me talk to the effect tl preachers may or should strike for higher By ROBERT QUILLEN sen some tall pay. The preachers have done little of the t ing. To the average lay mind a strike of preachers would seem as reasonable as a strike of actors or brickla There are preachers who are merely profe In They are fashionable, cultured, suave. They talk well i and out of the pulpit and give a fashionable « the worth of its money. They earn as much as other pr fessional men and have as additional reward I dignity that other professions do not confer. Preachers of this type might feel free to strike in a pinch, but few of them have anything to strike for There are other preacher many tt who shudder at the thought of a strike. They ar fashioned. They have a conviction that God i ‘ employer. Congregations are merely the raw material y which they labor. One does not strik« iwainst } ruw n terial. He strikes, if at all, against his emp! To these men hardship is not a new juaint e, Po erty is the price they pay for the privilege of doing the work. They are not preaching in order to 4 Their ambition is to do good. In a sense the ( ty! and like other martyrs they welcome each fre blow test of their steadfast zeal These men are simple and consecrated serva I them turnir g the other cheek is not a | mouth at other pet ople but a pri iple | wt The sophistry of statesmen and the expediency of that fits doctrines to its ple asure ind wa f profit cannot shake their faith in the of gentleness, humility and love Ihe WOT I i Ma not for a salary, and the Master was «i ed | he pr perous, greedy and fashionable of | time l a4 servant is not greater than his Lord When I read some wise or witty comment « probability of a strike by preachers I think of the god paupers I have known, and smile. And I that if I should ask a gro ip of them « they would reply in unison: ‘Juda Neighbors bp R neighbor is the man whose ¢ 1 oy » crave. He may live across the street. He ma another town. Your neighbor makes the hig t of ing. Pleasing his standards, or what i gine to his standards, is the greater part of your! burd That is what puts a crimp in y | If you had no neighbor you could tx ‘a il one-half the size of the one you \ | \ one-half the size would afford you ever eded comfort and furnish less surface for the collecti f You have no particular obj ul to wear “es t have lost their original shape in an eff t shape of your feet You have no inbor ! ke ot p on pants. A car with four cylinders would serve i well as one with six or eight You cannot economize in these particulars, for « would lose you the respect of those you pre Your neighbor has established a sta _ sake of his approva e up toi , of ir own you must t exc Neighb ire ‘ he Me nto a job Some beheve that eon mie ful d é ! } 1 be saved to serve Now that there ' hy d time there ess appre Better to be ed | I dreamer | the ‘ ‘ | deyret ‘ ‘ The ‘ we t ft prices is t ( ‘ booze If I il } t t of aw gy deve ! ‘ ict most of the house Phe leade i ! i things they wi to be for one Inpleasant thing the a When we say that people can’t stand | perity we mean that when the by me prospero ve are they become fully as indepe 's

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ee AA A — ~_ P OO Sain hima I TT AI Ie Bia THE SATURDAY HOOVER'S TRAMPS ABRO£ID Concluded from Page 44 were living. It was parked on the second track directly in front of the station, where the light was brightest. Before leaving it hey locked everything inside and out, and they noticed with relief that both Serbian and French soldiers in considerable num- bers were on and about the platform. Half an hour later when they went into the car again they found it had been entered from the opposite side and considerable baggage stoler Kreske complained to the French officer in charge, but was offered no assistance. Meanwhile the train—at somebody’s or- had started off. Kreske stopped it with his drawn revolver, and found after a personal search what he thought was all of the stolen baggage. Next morning he dis- covered that eight thousand kronen and some toilet articles had remained in the hands of the thieves. Kreske’s whole report to Colonel Causey is a jewel. It is a simple formal recital of bare facts, with not a waste word in it. And it contains enough stories of wild and weird adventure to add half a dozen vol- umes to the saga of American railroading. Other young Americans were ordered to get food through to the starving people of Armenia, who had set up their republic at the southeastern corner of the Black Sea. A United States destroyer took them scout- ing round the shores of that inland ocean, and at Odessa, as had been expected, they found plenty of wheat stored up and rotting. But it couldn’t be bought for money. The Russian owners were in dire need of clothing, agricultural machinery and all kinds of manufactured goods, but they had no use in the world for money. Up in Petrograd Brother Lenine had com- plete control of paper mills and engraving and printing plar ts,and was therefore ableto duplicate exactly the bank notes and other paper money of any and every nation. One of his pet schemes for destroying capital- ism—it seems to me rather Napoleonic was to print Russian, German, French, English and American money in bales and carload lots and distribute it all over the world where it would do the most harm. Since he was able to make bogus money that no expert could tell from the original, the plan had possibilities. And it was easy to pay private soldiers in the red army one thousand rubles a day—or five thou- sand, for that matter. So money was plentiful all over Russia, and it was almost impossible to buy anything with it. | am not a shark in financial matters, but any poor fish should be able to see that too much money is just as bad as none at all. If we all were paid two thousand dollars a day we would probably be worse off than if our per diem was one dollar and seventy- five cents. Not by constantly boosting wages are the inequalities of life to be fairly leveled up! It will be necessary to keep other than the printing press running twenty-four hours a day. Back from Odessa to Paris went Hoover's tramp engineers, with a list of the stuff the Odessa merchants were especially anxious to get in trade for their wheat. A ders machines few hundred tons of army clothing, boots and shoes, and machinery of various kinds were secured and loaded into one of the United States Shipping Board steamers. I think the rate of exchange between this cargo and wheat was about one ton to ten, So the same steamer took on some eight thousand tons of wheat at Odessa and went plowing on across the Black Sea toward Armenia. It happens that only one railroad runs into Armenia, and it goes first through the territory of the nice new little Republic of Georgia. Now the Georgians are a hardy and warlike race who seem to care les for the Armenians—if possible—than for any other of their neighbors. They ex pressed what may be charitably described as complete indifference whether the Ar- menians starved to death or otherwise But it was necessary to land that wheat at the port of Batum and ship it over the one railroad which leads first up to Tiflis if it was to get into Armenia at all. Reluc tantly the Georgians admitted that it might be possible to arrange, but they could not permit all this free food to go through their country without charging a modest toll of, say, two carloads of wheat out of every ten unloaded. Diplomacy, argument, humani tarian appeals, veiled threats—all were in vain. The tramp engineers met more than their match for once. The tribute had to be pal 1. After distributing a cargo of Americar food in another little Balkan state, through the regular officials of its government, the officer in charge reported with affecting gratification that not much more than ten per cent of the total had stuck to the finger of those who handled it. He was so amaz ingly pleased because previous experience had made him confident that at least a quarter of it would thus be absorbed I have what I consider the be t in the world for saying that if the United States consents to take a mandate Armenia as it stands to-day it will assume an endless burden of expense and trouble. “The present Armenia,"’ says my au- thority, ‘‘can never be made to | way. Within its present border forever bankrupt. It cannot population, and no amount of di will make it self-supporting. If, prayerful consideration which warrants, this II lud country finally concludes to take a mandate at all, it should at least insist that enough territory be added to Armenia, under the same mandate, to make success remotely possible.” > ° ~ Oo Bait for Every Fish HE slender young minister, fresh from divinity school, had to Cherry Corners with the consciousness of hi calling heavy upon him. Being a bachelor, he was enthusiastically and unanimous! elected to teach the Bere come in Sunday-school class. In order to keep in touch, so to speak, with the charming coterie of young ladies who constituted his class he devised many innocent little outings for their dive sion. On one occasion teacher and class journeyed down to the river for a picni an innocuous form of amusement—to say the least. They met an old farmer in the woods Desiring to show himself pleasant, the old fellow asked: ‘‘Goin’ fishin’, young f . No, my young divine with disconcerting dig: “I am a fisher of mer The farmer's ey from one girlish face to ar sponded: ‘‘ Well, I ganny, son, you've got the right kind of bait!” good man,” answered the es twinkled he glanced ther a inere EVENING POST To faci we ma tion att Bent San Fran Holyoke, tate deliverie ntain prod hese point Harbor, M co, ¢ Ma Ser Do Your Bookkeepers Do Their Best? \re you sure that the people In your accounting depart you. maxi Phe meth ods and equipment they use have a great deal to do with much they can do for It is the Baker-Vawter representatives to study your business from ment are giving mum etticiency: he r\\ you, object of this angle; usually their re ommendations mean vreater ethcienc VY. BAKER-VAWTER COMPANY cr Af r l P . : Originators &’ Manufacturers Loose Leaf &’ Stee! 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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 cusepaseeanansenenauannes THE SPECIAL INTERESTS ~NEW STYLE i. wh oe Continued from Page 5 economic results of the war on American’ collective bargaining is a present case in business; the Seamen’s Act; the national point. The only large farmers’ organiza- defense; Federal aid for vocational educa tion not a member of this comparatively tion; preventior of strikes and lockouts; new farmers’ lobby is the National Grange control of prices during the war; on the but it coéperates with the national board proposal to discriminate against Germany and will support the national board in its in trade after the war if necessary for self- efforts to make the farmers’ influence or defense; water-power development; war Congress as direct and as strong as the finance; principles of industrial relations; influence of labor and of capital. remedial railroad legislation; and has now These are the big three—capital, labor in progress a referendum on ocean trans and the farmers, owning their own homes, portation and government-owned mer- with nation-wide organizations, and cor chant ship ducted on a big scale. But Washington is These referendums are managed in such also full of little propaganda shops trying a way as to establish confidence in the to make decisions easy for Congress and to value of their findings. The questions tobe manufacture public opinion for the pres voted upon are put clearly and accompa- Jearly every office building houses half a nied by arguments for and against each score or more of these new special interests proposal. The votes are taken by business with propaganda to give away. They run wi ny organizations seattered throughout the in size from the small shop occupying one neand country. It has been proved that they do or two rooms manned by a stenographer veteran member fairly indicate what business menasawhole and a publicity agent, right through to a , r think should be done. The results of these floor or more in a big office building full of referendums are sent to each member of clerks and typewriters and mimeographing Congress with a detailed analysis showing machines. They represent whisky and beer how and by whom every vote was cast. and prohibition and coal and timber and They have undeniably had an influence. At land development and militarism and anti the same time the material is supplied to militarism and peace and war and suffrag: the newspapers, and it is generally printed. and antisuffrage and oppressed national The Chamber of Commerce now has plans _ ities—lots and lots of these —and free speech “t a great modern temple of business and conservation and military rank for Lafayette Square from the White army nurses and contractors and consum on the site of one of the historic old ers and women workers and cotton manu- neces of Washington. facturers and the Plumb plan for taking » heads of the various farmers’ organi- over the railroads and cane growers and ; and unions, noting how articulate prisons and prison labor and aéroplane l; and capital had become at Washing- and government clerks and the protection ton, decided also to establish themselves at of American rights in Mexicoand a big navy the national capital. The National Board and every sort and manner of thing that of Farm Organizations bought and paid youeverheardof. Anda lot more that you $60,000 for the spacious residence on I haven’t heard of, but would if the Was} Street that had been occupied by Fre- ington correspondents prit ted one-half of inghuysen, President Arthur’s Secretary the flood of free-publicity stuff that pour of State: John Wanamaker, Harrison's into their offices every day Postmaster-General, and William C. Whit ney, Cleveland's Secretary of the Navy. Press Agents’ Paradise Though this house has thirty rooms it is o« cupied only temporarily, until the farmers Not only are there I f organiza can find an adequate site on which to con- tions of one kind or another pouring forth truct a modern temple of agriculture propaganda but more and more the great Chey want something permanent and _ industrial concerns of the country are e experience imposing, and on an equal status with cap- tablishing offices in ington, not pri t<

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goeeeeee, ‘ “eu KNICKERBOCKER SHOWER BATH- BRUSH mn the ital and labor. marily to influence legislation but rather ashing ce of the United States, [he member organizations this na- to keep in touch with al » activities of Revitalize with a daily } which r ! ' il and bu tional board are the Farmers’ Educational the Government, many of which concern uUD-dlOW Tl ; come to have a steadily increasing influence and Coéperative Union of America; Farm- them in a business way. The National upon Congres This body wa ab rs’ National Congress; National Agricul- Coal Association, composed of bituminou here quite openly and avowedly t , ural Organization Society; National coal operators, occupies one whole floor ii i legitimate influence upon Congreé ‘onference on Marketing and Farm Cred- the Commercial Bank Building, Fourteenth half of busine interests throug! , 3: mal Dairy Union; Pennsylvania and G Streets. Its publicity, like that of the United States and to take adv: we of the ywress Association; National Milk Railroad Administration, is conducted by ed public tv tacil ch ish ( rs’ Federation: Farmers’ Society a former reporter of the Associated Pre ton offers through the corp ling f Equity; Federation of Jewish Farmers Many local boards of trade and chamber correspondent ! , - of ‘rica; American Association for of commerce—as of Indianapolis; Seatt ’ ces a Washington date lit numb Avricultural Legislation; Intermountain Honolulu, and Portland, Oregon—mai BATHE THE MODERN WAY among the sacred cows tl very W Farmers’ Association; Corn Belt Meat tain Washington offices with one man it | 5 i ea vuaper office cherishe | " 1 paper Produce Association; Pennsylvania State charge, whose busine it to keep hi formed of every governmental 4 + a * s oe ® ' ' ' ” * s ] & 2 s a * ® & ® * ® * « * a 2 a o a * hol « im a = 7 + a s a a J ® a fe : } t : Grange; Farmers’ Equity Union. employers it & ‘ ue when columns of other matter move that may promise contracts. Twenty crowded out for want of space The Plans of the Farmers years or more ago the American Federation is supposed to be a littl of Labor led the procession in removing more important tha ’ The organization all to represent its headquarters to Washington, and it

other gi ! about two million f » approximately example has been followed by the Anti million farmers in the United States. Saloon League, the woman-suffrage asso UNEQUALED for SHAMPOOING hye f r a mailing list of about twelve hun 1 , the American cane and beet sugar persons and newspapers and farm men, the whisky interests and the brewer als throughout the [ nited States to the real-estate boards of the cour try, the h it sends a weekly publicity sheet. It lumber, petroleum, iron and steel and other a gives out from time to time to the trades. Washington correspondents news stories rhe National Canners’ Association main relating to current legislative activities. tains a research laboratory here. Gifford I called, for « xample, an interview Pinchot, father of the conservation move i\ ng Une fa rs the unequlvoc al right collectively tional Conservatior Association in two yropaga

Six Sizes: $2.50, $3.50, $4.50, $5, $6 De Luxe Set $7 ela pending bill in Congress giving ment, is still represented through his Na ) dispose of their products was being sent offices in the Woodward Building. to the resident correspondents. ‘“‘It will The National Civil Service Reforn probably be printed in half a dozen news League keeps a capable young woman loo} } ;,”’ said thesecretary; “‘maybemore.” ing after its interests a room in the he farmers propose to model themselves District National Bank Building. The more or less on the lines of the Chamber Rivers and Harbors Congress, with it of Commerce. They, too, expect to hold quarters in the Colorado Building, is rela referendums and then tell Congress what tively an ancient institution. Since the pends chiefly for its influence upon a s the farmers think. One of their plans is to alcohol war began the brewing interest wessesenssy f referendu imong its business m build up an organization of experts so that already represented by an attorney, have 7 ¢ ny to ong ‘ich when a transportation problem comes up snatched a senator’s secretary away and oY busit men are inter i as or one concerning food prices or one about made him their publicity agent. Dozens of Knickerbocker lucted t gl f t r nd the profits made by farmers they will be former newspaper men, in fact, are drawing 256 a mong ! ntl out t able to present data on the farmers’ side salaries as organization secretaries or pub Chicago of the case. They want to establish the licity agents or both, greater than they ' ! iget; a permanent comm fixed practice and custom of making every ever received in their own profession.

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= (Concluded from Page 58 residence at 1626 Rhode Island Avenue, N. W., which remained hospitably open until the last gun had been fired in the fight for the Anthony Amendment. The militants succeeded the Commercial Club in occupancy of the old Don Cameron mansion on Madison Place, where Mark Hanna died, and later ousted Secretary Lane’s thriving Home Club from its im- mense house at 14 Jackson Place. From these two old mansions all the stunts in- tended to annoy the President of the United States into love for the suffrage cause were planned. Of course all the aspiring peoples see king freedom under the much-advertised prin- ciple of self-determination are on the ground by proxy. The Philippine Mission, whose mission it is to convert Congress to the cause of Philippine freedom, has a fine set of offices in the Munsey Building. The Lithuanian Government has a modest pub- licity room on Fifteenth Street over a drug store, whence issue almost daily cables tell- ing of the abuse of Lithuanians at home by the Poles. Even the Egyptians are repre- sented by Joseph W. Folk, former governor of Missouri, once chief counsel for the In- terstate Commerce Commission. In one evening the writer listed from the telephone book some sixty publicity shops in Wash- ington, and then threw up the job. Many of these new propaganda shops to influence Congress undoubtedly can trace their origin and growth, indirectly at least, to our experiences during the war. It was during that period that the conduct of public affairs by propaganda got its sanc- tion and start. The Germans started it, as everybody knows. They worked on the simple principle that if you say a thing three times it is so. It seemed to work. Then all the other warring nations took it up. Washington engaged in it heavily and spent millions of dollars through its Public Information Bureau on propaganda at home and abroad. The idea took hold, and many of these present propaganda shops to influence Congress and the newspapers are a natural evolution growing out of war days. Their methods of approach are di- rect and indirect. They all keep an eye on Congress. They all watch the processes of legislation. They all seek to learn what they can about the character and per- sonnel and mode of thought of important members of the House and Senate. All the time they gush free propaganda about their enterprises, for the newspapers. Some of them do not seek to approach Congressmen directly at all. They start a back fire in his district or home state, seeking so to fashion it that it will come to the Congressman as an unstudied and spontaneous expression of opinion from the ear ones at home. The Congressman is always listening for this voice. It is this voice that he heeds. The propagandists frequent y tosimulate this voice. Some- times they succeed, but it is becoming in- creasingly difficult, for the Congressman who stays here a long time and comes to a position of power also comes to be a wary bird and learns to distinguish the true and pote nt notes of the voice of the people from the clamor of simulated public opinion. Biologists Take Pen in Hand The propaganda to put over without amendment or reservation or modification the covenant of the League of Nations and the Versailles Treaty of Peace was, in the opinion of all the senators with whom I have talked, not only the most compre- hensive but one of the most highly or- ganized campaigns ever directed against Congress. Yet to this moment it has failed. The propagandists lavishly used news- papers, telegrams and the long-distance telephone. Thousands upon thousands of telegrams came to Washington while the League of Nations was under discussion in the Senate. The senators finally got in- terested in wondering what new form the effort to influence them would take. ‘T got interested and discovered several of their methods of approach,” one senator told me, “but I don’t know that I found them all out. One morning I found letters in my mail from professors in the univer- sities and colleges in my state. They came along day after day. I read them, of course. They were all in favor of the League and the treaty without reservations. Then I no- ticed that all of my correspondents were professors of biology. This continued for perhaps a week. Then I began to get let- o from professors of mathematics, and THE SATURDAY then from professors of something else. Coming in layers this way, and classified by subjects taught, I saw that I had run intoa new form of propaganda. I tried to trace it back to its source. I do not know whether I am right or not, but my suspicion and belief are that most of these letters started in the various faculties of one Eastern uni- versity, and that the faculties in other col- leges and universities were asked to write to their senators. It is perfectly legitimate propaganda, but it ceased to have any effect on me when I found that it was propaganda. ‘After a run of letters from the college faculties a new spigot would be turned and we would begin to get letters from the churches and from church organizations and from church associations and from preachers and from business men who were interested in church work. Some of the letters and some of the resolutions I got from the churches and the church people may have been genuine voluntary actions, but I got the very definite impression that a spring was touched, a button pushed somewhere that started them all going. Somehow I got the impression that some of these church organizations and associa- tions were composed of almost identical groups of men, but associated under more than one name. If they had been business associations I should have said they had interlocking directorates. Their letters and resolutions taken on the surface seemed to indicate a widespread public opinion coming from widely scattered and sep- arated groups, yet I am persuaded that not so many individuals were represented as seemed to be indicated, and that the common spring of motive which brought them into action and caused them to write letters and pass resolutions was confined to one small, highly organized, energe tic group that furnished the stimulus for all.’ Letters in Cycles “These expressions of opinion came to us all in such sharply defined cycles and groups as to indicate inevitably a central organization somewhere. If in my morn- ing’s mail I found letters in favor of the League of Nations from professional men and workingmen and business men and persons of various types and classes and interests, I might hope that I was getting some indication of genuine public opinion and sentiment in my state, but when I get letters one week from professors of biology and the next week from professors of math- ematics and the next week from professors of chemistry and the next week from preachers and the next week from church associations—then I begin to suspect tha somewhere a headspring is being pushed, and know just how much weight to attach to my morning’s mail.” Another senator who had listened to this recital spoke up and said: ‘* Let me tell you of a specific case of another sort of propa ganda that fooled me at first. One morning last November I found in my mail a letter from a good preacher in my state, an ex- cellent man, very well known in the state, and for whose opinions and beliefs I have the highest respect. Here i e letter he wrote me. Read it: ‘‘Dear Sir: We have given consideration in our church to the pitiful condition of Armenia and hope that the Armenian people may be saved from the destruction that is now threatened by their surround ing enemies. We heartily indorse the reso- lution that has been introduced in the Senate for the maintenance of peace in Armenia. I am writing to you asking that you earnestly consider the sad conditions of the Armenian people at this time for the purpose of coéperating in the plan already under way to give them protection until a final settlement shall be made for them by the Alliéd Powers. “*Trusting that you will take action in this matter, I am “**Sincerely yours, “Well, naturally that is the sort of letter that a man pays attention to. It interested me. I knew of the pending resolution in the Senate, but I had not paid much heed to it because I had been busy with other matters. But 1 made a note to look up the whole subject. The next day EVENING POST I got two more letters of precisely the same tenor and almost identical in language. The next day there were two more and a set of resolutions from a church federation. Then more letters and more resolutions; always from preachers or church organizations. I wrote back to one of the ministers whom I knew well and told him I was interested in the subject and asked him how he got his information about Armenia and how he came to be interested. He replied at once that all his information regarding the Armenian situation came through an or ganization established in New York to pro- mote freedom and autonomy for Armenia instead of putting that country under a mandate from the League of Nations.” Senators used to be able to gauge the effects of their speeches in the Senate on the country by the number and character of the letters they evoked; but that is no longer true. One of them told me: While the debate on the League of Nations was on I got up in the Senate one afternoon and made a few remarks about the Shan-tung provisions. I said that it was a shame that Japan should be given a slice of China; that Japan had designs on Chinese territory and wanted to be master of the Chinese. I illustrated my point with a brief story of the Japanese absorption of Korea and how she had deprived that country of its independence while pro claiming at the same time that she had no intention of annexing Korea. The very next day I began to get telegrams from Chinese and Koreans from every part of the ‘United States, thanking me for my interest in their behalf. They came not only from individual Chinamen and Ko reans but from Chinese and Kore an asso ciations; from San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Detroit; from every sort of place where you would not expect there was a Korean or even a Chinaman came these telegrams. Of course it stands to reason that the Chinamen and Koreans in this country do not sit up nights waiting for my speeches to appear. I do not know, as a matter of fact, whet he Tr thi it speech wa printed in Salt Lake City or in San Frar cisco. It may have been, but I think the chances are that the organization § the Koreans maintain here in Washington tipped their people throughout the country to send me telegrams, and that somebody here did the same thing for the Chinese.” The members of Congress never had an) suspk ion that there were so many oppressed nationalities in the world until the League of-Nations debate came along virtually all of the oppressed seeki determination maintain little propa shops here—the Poles the Koreans, t Lithuanians, the Czechoslovaks, the ' tians, the U a and what not V have lacal associations scattered throug}! out the country, which pass resolutions and send them to Congressmen. The Was! ton organizations watch proceedings of ¢ gress and when they find a senator who appears to be friendly to the little people they go to see him and send him propaganda material, so that if a senator does not know who is who or what is what in the Ukrains or Lithuania it is his own fault No Thought for Uncle Sam One curious omission has been noted | many senators that common to virtu all of the written publicity and propaganda matter issued by these little foreign group pom ‘of them, directly or indirect]; pears to take into account the interests of the apes aeieg 1 aagpermcaype pre Phe never argue that the course of : ym the des ire will be good for this country. The whole point of all their plea V they seek will be a good thing for the Pole or the Lithuanians or the Egyptians or what not. ‘What are you going to do for us?” is the burden of their y A senator who was pointing this out to me cited one extreme case in a commu! i from thirty-two members of the fa ulty of the German-destroyed Univer of Louvain, Belgium. The communicatio of these Belgian professors was dissemi } a laime nated In thi country with thi ‘So far as we are aware, this was prepared and sent over without any sugge ) initiation of any nature from Ameri sources, but is the spontaneous act f ——_ Je 6) the body of dis tinguished scholars that constitute this faculty.” The Belgian professors addressed their communication to the American people and after urging the ratification of the treaty of peace go on to say that in their eyes ‘‘the failure of the United States to sign would inevitably mean the end of the friendship, ealed on the field of battle, between the great American nation and the democratic powers.” ‘A series of letters that came to me in August,”’ said the senator who was showing the communication to me, “‘all began: ‘I, the undersigned, an American citizen o Lithuanian descent, take the liberty of drawing your attention to the Lithuanian Polish situation.” They then went on to recite in identic language the situation in Lithuania as they had been told to repeat t, and ended by requesting me to use my influence in Congress so the United States Government would extend to the Lithua nian Government formal recognition and compel Poland to withdraw her army from the Lithuanian territories and that all assistance be denied Poland as long as the invaded terri she continues to occupy, tories ‘Nobody fee] more concerned and no body has more sympathy for these smal! and oppressed nationalities than I have, but I do wish that Americans of whatever descent would not confine their pleas and their interests in the letters they write to ~~ to their old home country, which they have left behind because they found this one a better one to live in, without at the same time paying more heed and giving some thought to the interests of the United States If the Poles are oppressing the Lithuanians and if the Poles are occupying Lithuanian te rritory the y should get out, But it is hardly our job to put them out Mainiy Chaff Our wards, the Filipinos, now maintain an active office in conjunction with a press bureau in Washington called the Philippine Commission of Independence The mem bers of the commissior iv of themselves in one of their pre Halletir We are powerful organization and we are wel! sup plied with money, because we are here or the mandate of the Philippine people 10.500.000 in number 7 wit h we are armed ” appro priation of the P whic] i ymposed of I direct popular suffrage. Itist lippine Archipelago and not a little bunch of Filipino | t ul that is behind us iy this enterprise. There will be no slackening of pace until America learns the truth al the way t 1 bout the Filipinos.” TI comimni Ol ivowed and openly working for Philippine independence. These I iping answer one question hict l matter of surmise and speculation about ome of the other propaganda shops. They tell where the get the mone with whic to conduct their activities lance ome of the others 1 among the mystert of Washington But the all must have ources of income to earry on their work and pay their pre a“ i Now what the effect of all th ava lanche of publicity and propaganda matter on Congress and on the publie mind? Some of it gets into the newspapers, but most of it does not. I tind that some of the ¢ yrre men t yw iit all into the w tebusket thout reading it. Others file it and index it ar attempt to analyze t. but more o of curiosit tod over the vurce of the mpetus that is be lag movement than to at t to ‘ ninds § reading it. Now that the , h e be ye expert lete u i ganda and } ed resolut 1 lette It I Lue t iver it le itio hary on the ‘ I ye dir ra oad bill d prese I ‘ ’ i t whet ind 0 the nation ll reta the i than retu the to t j } t ted a ‘ ea j ind i ‘ What effe t A ‘ ‘ i to tv Meantime, t ecretar f mem ( ‘ have their w K it it fort ep ting the wheat trom tne if! f m yr ma » that the have to ere ‘ 0 to re ett ie t propaganda t e side to be ) ( at sure or throw awa Almost everybod ha a little propa ganda iop except the great norga ed public ° * /

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They crossed the terrace to the lawn and approached the gate through the shrubbery. “He has just come to the most important place,”’ said Nelly in a mournful voice. ‘*Who has?” *My husb Charles. to-night or never. He will never touch chemistry again if Oh, James, [ am so sorry it sh ould just happen to- night —the last nig ght! “On the contrary, hetter mind the gate—he discovery and be consoled parture.”’ This did not seem to comfort Nelly very greatly. She thought deeply for a moment. ‘But I would have liked there to congratulate him. Poor Charles, how pleased he will be!”’ “One would think stay ‘ ** James, how « I have given up for you? said my last good-by to my Charles?” “Sorry, darling are you stopping?” How dri e adful! ‘Go back ‘I haven't left my coat pocket, must 4 ‘But, Nell; barely ten minutes easily post the letter James faced her in desperation. Nelly retreated slowly before him. The moon light showed an expression of much obsti- nacy on her small round face, an expression James had seen once or twice before. ‘I must—I must go back! Think of what will happen when he finds me gone and doesn’t know where lam. It would be too cruel And Charles feels these things omuch, He But dash it, “No, please, James! Don't look that. I can’t bear it. I promise you I will be only a minute. And I should have it on my conscience all my life if I didn’t go. It would spoil all our first days together James had a vague appreciation of this last argument He had had difficulties before with Nelly ’s conscience and was I ledged even then to go to « hurch with her Sunday for the rest of his life, and twice at Easter. He gave way reluctantly. ‘Very well, dear. You know I can’t re- fuse you. But please be quick, and for careful.” Nelly rushed to him and gave him a kiss Her heart was full of gratitude to the kind James as she hastened away in the shadow of the trees. ‘I must be good to him,” she reflected. ‘Il must try and not be a nuisance.” Nelly shook her head as she recollected how often he had been a nuisance. ‘‘ Poor James!” and then again after a few ‘Poor Charles!” followed Nelly at a distance. He ill feared a disaster; and though there was not much chance of missing the train—for which he had allowed in the first place two hours, and still had forty he knew Nelly’s extraordinary powers of delay. After five minutes he began to grow anxious; in ten he was agitated; in twelve he was distraught. He prowled among the trees like a hyena. At last he could stand suspense no longer and plunged into the drawing-room at all costs to tind his Nelly. Nelly meanwhile having arrived in her room deposited the letter on Charles’ pillow ind secured it with a targe safety pin; said good-by to her wardrobe and lingered for a moment over her parting with the was} stand; had spied on the mantelpiece a photograph of Charles. Many associations had gathered round that photograph. Nelly knew at once that she could not part with it. But the frame was too large to go into her pocket, and the photograph was firmly wedged into place. She pulled at it inef fectually with her fingers, levered it with pair of curling tongs and finally cut it out with a pair of nail scissors. This took some time, But Nelly was used to indulgence of time. Moreover, the greater the occasion the greater the indulgence she expected and Nelly had never forgotten that this was the most important evening of her life So it happened that she did not leave the house—and then with no disturbance of He Sa\ s it’s says he could be make his your de- nothing will for to be you would rather an you say that—after all After I have just husb to me Forgive But why I must go back.” the letter here it How awful! No, I sir is in nply We've We can , do be reasonable for the train. is so sensitive.”” Nelly } ike she ighed; minutes: James minutes until withir entry by the conscience, by the front door half a minute of James’ drawing-room. James had told Nelly to look for him on the lawn, as he did not wish to be seen lingering in the road. Nelly thrusting the photograph, which was after all too big for her pocket, into the front of her dress turned the corner of the house, toward the laboratory, and gazed eagerly for her lover Suddenly she received what seemed like a stunning blow on the head. Yet as she fell with a shriek and rolled over she saw the whole of Barnton in a fountain of flame—the walls flying out—the roof up the stars obscured by an enormous mush room of smoke. At the same moment a large heavy body whizzed past her face and landed with a crash among a clump of laurels Nelly was more frightened than hurt by the explosion. But she lay very still, in case, as she feared, her back was broken She knew that in that case to lie quite still was her only chance. “Nelly!” cried a wavering voice Nelly’s Sy mpathies could eldom the sound of her own name. It was only by strong self-control that she did not get up at once “Nelly!” cried the voice again Nelly scrambled to her feet, approached the bushes with great interest, and wa horrified to see her husband, ghastly pale in the moonlight, kicking feebly among the crushed twigs. “Oh, Charles! Are boy!” “IT can’t find my spectacles,” Charles in patient bewilderment. Nelly groped for his hands “It’s very annoying, as I can’t see what's —— ed. What was that loud Ne lly dear? e ‘The house is blown up,” replied Nelly “Now when I pull, you must see if you can stand.” Charles stood very well. Moreover, spectacles were found at once, in : ante and upon his nose. As soon as this was ascertained he used his eyes and looked at the smoldering ruins before him with some perplexity “I’m afraid all your work is spoilt,”’ Nelly sadly “Yes,”’ Charles sighed; ‘‘and it was going very well. I thought of a name for it only to-night. It was to have been called Lombrosine.” “Such a pretty name Tennyson, isn’t it?” No; after the great criminal expert Yes, it’s a pity.”” ¢ ‘harle s sighed again and scratched his chin. “It was a great ideal to abolish wickedness.” “But, Charles, perhaps it w: is on ly little thing which went wrong.’ ‘I’m afraid not.” C harles shook his head with resignation. ‘‘There must have heen some radical defect in the formula I don’t know, Nelly, if I wouldn't be wiser to take up gardening again. You remember my roses But my dear, I hope you are not cold. It is fortunate you have your coat.”’ Charles took the lapels them Nelly’s faces were close together, pathy they kissed ‘Cc ome, * said Charles, tal Nelly arm, “we'll go next door and tele »phor 1e for the fire brigade. Though I hope everything will be burnt. It’s all insured, and some of the furniture was really rather shabby.” No fragment of James was ever brought to light, with the exceptior ibly of a tooth which was found embedded in a brick ind was doubtfully identified by a Harley Street dentist as a portion of a set recently ided for that unfortur young man frequent cause of remark in Tottenham Green that Nelly saved her husband's photograph. Constancy is not an uncommon virtue in that part, but few wives are known habitually to carry their husbands’ pictures, cabinet size, in their bosoms. Charles was much affected by the circumstance. But he gently admonished his wife against sentimental excess, a pos- sibility of which Nelly admitted the danger, as she admits most of the contentions of Charles, and indeed of anybody else She gave up the practice from that very evening of the explosion, and the photo- graph is now an honored relic in the drawing-room of New Barnton resist you hurt? My poor replied noe nis tot aru quo said too It’s from some of the bosom and with and Their sym coat ( rossed over ing pt ss prov ate It is a

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eS PT, le THE SATURDAY THE ANNOYANCE OF BEING RICH TO-DAY Continued from Page 19) “Sure thing!” I said, plagiarizing from the guilty waiter. ‘“‘Hold on! Let me talk! Your greater wealth does not per se confer upon you greater oratorical privi- leges. The waiter said, ‘Sure thing!’ didn’t he?”’ i “If he used that particular phrase he probably said it pleasantly.” ‘He said it!’”” My friend’s voice implied that the crime had been committed and admitted. “Ah, yes; pleasantly. Good-natured chap. Willing to do you a service for which he expected you to pay him. He merely assured you of his willingness. I gather therefore that the crime consisted of speech. Well, that, after all, is the criminal part of most revolutions A speechless revolu- tion 4 ‘A waiter should not ” interrupted my friend impressively ‘‘A male waiter?” I interrupted in turn. Ta ‘Well, then, that mear your waiter v ] ‘ fellow countrymar [| ne aid, +} gt’ Ls ‘ i le i juestions waiter’s p r duties the matter of eech | t hat what use \ missed was t isu ( is that r t An eff nt waiter would not nave id thing.”’ Did he get y yu the bread?” I asked Quick; Ta.” “Did he spill any soup on you?” “No.” ‘*Was heawkward? Did he bump against you or reach across you?” ‘No.”’ “Well, it was good service then “I don't call it so. He said “‘I know what he said. But what I now say is that you merely missed the old silence that went with the smirks and the servile bowing and foot scraping, the un spoken adulation, the soundless degrada tion of a human being into a mendicant The waiter was a workingman working for pay, but prevented from making the trans action a business transaction because you expected him to ask you for crumbs with out using words. The silence that he broke, the silence that you were accu tcmed to, that you call good service, was the old admission of an eternal and merited inferiority on his part. That tacit ad- > mission is gone Whose Fault is It? ‘‘Bosh! The waiters always seemed glad to see me. They knew who I was.” “I know all that Nevertheless what that which made you enjoy isk vou omethir es What i undle of Federal Reserve Bank notes to make a free man beg for permission to breathe?” “Oh, you talk like [ interrupted him again ir order to avoid iring what they all say ‘“Never mind that It is what men do not say that the rich cannot hear. Hitherto the class to which this waiter belongs used to kowtow he fore you; and even if ; l lidn’t swell up it gave you that kindly fe ng of being his superior. The old-time menial used to say You have money and I haven’t any. Please, sir!’ and hold out one hand, palm up. But to-day the man hefore you says to you ‘You have money but | have my hands. See!’ And he shows you It is your business to act so that when he raises his two hands to show them to vou he doesn’t raise them clenched Therefore it seems to me that you don't hear and you don’t see, and for that reason while you are still rich you are beginning not to like to be ri You have so much more left still to lose!’’ I spoke somewhat | 1 enthusiastically “But you are not a workingman your- self,’ he said, dragging me down to his level with a self-defensive frown. “No; but I can get along very well with a waiter who says, ‘Sure thing!’ with a smile, provided he gives me quick action with the bread I asked him to get.” My friend lost his head entirely. “It is you writers,” he said, ““‘who have brought about this attitude.” “And it is you blindfolded men who are shrieking that it is black night.” ““My eyes see clearly what is here and what is coming. That waiter’s remark is merely symptomatic.” I could see my friend liked the last word, but I persisted: ‘‘It isn’t loquacious wait- ers or independent menials who make it so annoying to be rich nowadays, but you rich. I would swear you fellows had begun to prepare for the day when to be rich will not mean to be better, if I were certain the rich had brains; but of course that is an untenable hypothesis. If you were intelli- gent you would either not be rich or not have the annoyances of which all you rich complain.” He left me in a huff, unconvinced and unimpressed, headed for the Union Club, doubtless determined to talk and to listen to echoes, I walked down the avenue toward Forty- econd Street. Before I came to it I met resident of one of the largest financial the p f titutions in the United State Hew miling He nodded with great amial “What's the matter?” I asked him igreeably, on principle ‘Did you get a new depositor to-day?” I'll tell you,” he answered. “But you must not use any name We have got a customer —if you promise not to use it | l tell you his name. I think you know him He gave me the man’s name, which 1 } ] } + ] nown all over the land as that of a manu n" it facturer of a household article found in the homes of the rich and the poor alike, pro vided they believe in cleanliness. I knew the name and the man, though I never saved the coupons. The Indignant Depositor “Well, where is the big laugh?” I asked the president. ‘Now you must promise not to use his name. You know, the war took away a lot of our men. Many of them did not come back. Those that did got their old jobs ag ‘Il can’t give you any free reading notices. Never mind your philanthropy. Come hack to the other joke, about the man whose name I must not use four times.” He took it good-naturedly and went on: ‘Well, we had to engage anybody that we could get to take the places of the absent clerks. You know, I've always preached to our employees that politeness and cour- tesy are just as much a part of the banking business as “IT know; the Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments in everyday business, and so on,” I interrupted It was rude, but what every bank president who talks for publication invariably insists upon using 1 that same argument It embittered my life as a financial reporter years ago, and | now seize every opportunity to avenge my) former defenselessness. However, what I doesn’t hurt them enough ‘*Go on with the story,” I told him Well, Old Blankton came in and went ledger lerk who had to the window of the re of A-B ‘**TLet me have my balance,’ he said. He 1 not been in the bank for months, and the clerk was one of the new men and did not know him So he ar wered plea i? ‘You will have to tell me your name first if you want me to tell you what your bal ar ce js ‘**Blankton.’ ***No init ‘'G. W.’ ‘The clerk turned to the leds , a little and wrote some figures on the usual little slip; then he looked up and told Blankton cordially: ‘You have $34,893.65 Pretty smooth, I call it. Pretty smooth, my bov ! ““Old Blankton was furious, but the clerk merely stared in amazement and shook his head at the lunatic. So Blankton found one of our vice presidents and in- sisted on our discharging that roughneck clerk on the spot. I happened to be passing by, and Blankton stopped me to tell me the entire story. I listened sympathetically.” The president stopped for breat! I said: ‘‘Some of you fellows earn your sal- aries after all. What did you do?” EVENING POST CONKLIN There’s a CONKLIN built especially for the Business Man. 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We have. solved rmany large manufacturer cal way to house lal Wr It will inter vdustr mz Plan » Write RIGHT NOW International Mill & Timber Co Dept. 1841, Bay City, Mich i, == es | ‘I laughed in Blankton’s face, president answered proudly. “‘It must have soothed the old fell I ventured Yes; he was mad as three and a half million hornets in a state of acute irrita tion, and he almost shrieked: ‘I will take my account to some place where there is less humor and more courtesy!’”’ Again the president stopped; and I said, ‘And ‘You know, I make courtesy and polite- ness to clients one of the cardinal “Il know—Golden Rule; basis of sound business and sound morals, and so on. All bank presidents. They think it both original and convincing.” “Well,” he said coldly, * our deposits aggregate ‘I know; Bank of England skinned to death. ‘ it happens that Come back to Blankton,.” ‘It made me angry to hear the old codger talk that way, but I thought I'd be very nice and do Blankton a favor. So I said to him: ‘Mr. Blankton, you are the principal owner of an industrial concern that employs thousands of men and women You can do anything you please about your personal account or about your com- pany’s; but I want you to do yourself the favor to think about this point: The labor situation is such that we shall not discharge any clerk at your behest.’ ‘Do you mean to say ’ began old Blankton. But I cut him short and said, ‘More; I tell you that this is no offense to justify you in asking us to discharge the clerk.’ He got madder than ever and said, ‘I shall certainly take my account else- where.’’ The president paused, basely rhetorical. ‘How did you induce him not to with- draw his deposit?”’ I asked him. The President's Gumption He looked crestfallen, as though he had meant to have the pleasure of revenging himself for my rudeness by telling me he had not lost any deposits. Then he ex plained: “I told him that I was going to my club that night and that I would take particular pains to tell everybody his experience with my big-hearted West- ern clerk.” ‘And so Blankton finished for him ‘Well, he walked away, peeved; re he won’t take away his account ‘He is very rich,” I said. ‘How could ou expect him to see it?” ‘Well, i n’t want to brag, but he isn’t so far ahead of ; my business train- about apologized J but I’m Nonser ’ I contradicted pleasantly Old Blankton has a good business hea nd pler ng. The trouble wi é ond-generation rich quite as rich as he, but you your career by on to bevin lo not wish to be poor mu « o you use your head where he can 1 e never having been poor ne know what that means. If you had being a bank president’s son in- i bar lerk you would have fired assured me, ’ 1 corrected, rich. You prob- V s until you i and even to this day reakfa t in bed.’ know about that,” he said ially Ile held up a forefinger. It looked like a speech to me, so I said to m with an air of finality: ‘“‘ Why, man prove it—that is, the increase since you became president. That stupendous success is due to nothing else.” *‘Yourmay be right,’’ he smiled. trouser ve, your depo its I went to Newport to visit a friend. I had kngwn him many years, and his wife long enough so that she did not feel any compunctions. She did not instantly burst into speech when her husband took me to her; she merely looked on the point of bursting. No explosion came I stood the suspense as long as I could; then I said: ‘*The world has gone mad. I don’t think it is only Germans that need killing. Now who are your present candi- dates for the Celestial Choir?” “Oh, it’s too annoying for anything! As if one didn’t have enough!"’ She looked at me absently, her mind being on her griev- ances rather than on her speech. January 31,1920 ocKed, standing every- 1 bitterly ‘If I hadn't gone week it never would have I went to the Jim Robinsons wedding—she is my cousin, you and I couldn’t get out of it. I was sliged to stop overnight: so, of course, I hed to take Antoinette with me. The first a ing she told me when we got back to Newport was that she had to have fifteen dollars a month more. I reminded her that she was getting exactly twice as much she got when she first came to me and that she didn’t dress my hair any more—none of them do, you know; you have to get a hairdresser from the outside. And as for a needle and thread, you might as well expect her to pick up a hand gre nade nowadays. ¥ hey have to have “And what did Antoinette say to that, my dear?” meekly inquired the husband I cast a look of admirat on at him “Oh, she just shrugged her shoulders and said she was desolated, but she must get it And to think that I have had that girl four years and three months and taught her thing she knows! Why, came to me she couldn't a ‘Four years and three asked, genuinely surprised. “Four years and three repeated; ‘‘and just because my cousin’s maid gets more I have to pay Antoinette what she asks.’ “You don’t have to,” I suggested. “IT do. You don't oi v her!”’ “That French thing,’’ I said with con- viction, “‘is a viper!” “Isn't she? But I don’t blame her so much as I do the Robinsons. They had no business to raise their own help just be cause they decided to stay at Roslyn in Jim’s mother’s cottage to save money.” “Tt her husband } when she months?” months,” she t wasn’t to save money,” interjected, I looked at him inquiringly. If it wasn’t ave money why should people increase » explained. ‘‘Jim’s done very all the worse,”’ said next day my friend told me: ard only the first chapter yester } e not only struck for more money but she told all the other servants what Jim Robinson paid his people. The result is they have all struck for more money.” ‘I gather tha hey not only asked for the raise but got it ' : ntoinett ‘Yes; but that doesn’t mean you are a Sherlock Holmes The High Cost of Vanity ‘Merely to gratify a highly curiosity, would you mind telling me what your servants get igs lr other aenocted the stock broker’ 1 te inte lligrs nt * he said with a ~ approbation, ‘and I jotted down the new wages and a culinary arrange I have it all here.”’ a paper from his pocket and read chef, $125; second cook, $70; two kitchenmaids butler, $125; two footmen, 5 each; useful man, $60; parlormaid, $50; three housemaids, $50 each; a laundress at $55 and another at $60; and a French maid at $55; and a valet at $80; and two chauffeurs, one at $125 and the other at $130; the gardener gets $100 and his cottage, and his helper $80, without board. That means eighteen fiends in the house who are fed not as they would feed themselves but as they make us feed them. I pay out in wages $1515 a month. “‘lasked my wife’s secretary to figure what their food cost. She said it cost me about two dollars a day each, or thirty-six dol- lars a day. This means $1080 a month, or over $2600 a month as an aggregate. That is exclusive of the wardrobe of the chauffeurs, footmen, parlormaids, house maids and French maid.’ He looked at me as if he needed sym- pathy. “Well, of course, at all times and in all countries the rich have found that the greatest use of riches is to gratify vanity.” ‘What vanity?” he asked, puzzled. Continued on Page 68 $50 each:

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f } uy No I i lestion, mentione lifficul 4 good butler,” I Continued from Page 66 I added gly Asab . proposition, l ou want ourse At you have if you rh oug hell you dot” he contradicted, e got ’em, hav "t you me ask you,” * he said, ignoring my “of those servants I[ 1 which you say is the t to get ll au would swered promptly. ‘It is difficult at ir,” he said a ng to get a good butler for reasons I will t r re et tr iluable ed ol k tary form a ul tand he tea r ] rood ] ! + tittle 7 that 1 later. But the hardest kitehenmaid: or my wife's tells That is to say, the low- of tic servant—a woman n't even have to English. | the vegetables and and the like,”’ account for that?”’ gone i ) ner occupa one to get ) me, domes speak does is to pee ou “ave nductorette ticket hopperett« ette and the of that. Wh ng to do for the lo grade like wer table and other of which | kne lhe doing taker bec knowledge of of the bigwe Oh, 3 > 4 000 it well. I of his four hun obs in the ne of the oyvether ine and he 1 very Wit use tate k in fro I certainly ‘ Well, when he left the first tter of mor thir footmar el ip, butler butler | my wife vered that * interrupted Che ervant concerned 1s j e the wal | elf for my old age Dy ythi omfort [ must for | cannot change my In the old ry to my lays it was merely v to live comfortably to talk un,”’ I assured k vou are about to begir intelligent m him but THE SATURDAY le onsequence than the serving of th it at your dinner table, for it very our temper by bad your temper you iat me is easy to make you lose | Service and if you lose your digestion.” ‘That's too bad,” I said. eh you led a more natural life you might not have shat- tered nerves, which are responsible for the of temper, which is responsible for most internal dis: ‘I express myself badly,” he said in a patient tone of voice But are you aware that the keeping up of my town house as well as of this place has become problemati- cal? I enjoy this house Every artic le in it we bought ourselves. We enjoyed finding them and buying them and having them. Do you think I am going to enjoy seeing my own pictures or my own tapestries if I have to give them to the Metropolitan > sliced because I cannot keep them at home because I cannot get help. I do not give a hang whether my servants are Bol- sheviki or Methodist; but they must be trained servants.” ‘Why don’t interrupted ‘Train al irmed ‘Certainly lose loss ” ensions. yu train them, then? them? urprised ; 1 then I the You gr mb be t di loya i mal service, moe ged about their inde- and their demands for higher , perfectly rea desires on thei You expect them to earn their wages, ou do not think you have to earn their You expect them to give you more you pay for. You insist on regarding annoying pieces of household furniture that must, however, have an un- limited capacity for personal devotion, You can get work done for money, but the quest of service is a matter of both wages and personal treatment. There must be several reasons why your problem is a problem at all.” You ‘ few Wee hot- fitall matter of per ime breatl ou grumble pendence wage sonable part but y 1oy than sity. them as ion always reduce a problem rules when you deal with human animal,’ observed That annot simple than t nd; and we de« eased to tall to get at appointed my committee of one | from many people coherent to more one my f lared a truce ‘ we Irving trouble l of tiy the the elf ked n Wi it follows is nota narrative ra résumé of my con but a transcript hom my bottom iting que tior in inve any ion rat! of the rich that are really h--have to life not wealth to or from in think- ase freedom at the every- nd that can be who rie in ects rrow r rich er ast intellirent of he one aim ex] whose »annoyed, Nobody freedom from But most people persist at wealth should purel that ts, th ire of a ki om ant lay tre cured by n "he number ovance es of life oney rich do not i of the tl to annoy then I'he p then ruble te the wer redu ave the pr are helpless independent as ligently ait | theretore t} eives to be as help the houses of w! ! ervants them- a fact that iative of little Also their Is respected The are very great in tae through the indiffer- carelessness of servants who know arerich. This has always been to-day the Newporter has appalling destruction or lose the servant. The master is rich; he can afford it. To whine It is the of tight-waddist which no dome serv- ant can forgive at at the ill the middle class it is more than property aye and los: of the althy Lppre \ in Newport employers’ break 3e8 homes or we ence their masters but he true to ig- nore t is bad form crime ness, atic the top of the hierarchy arly all the butlers are English. They speak the language and have the training. heir greatest recommendation, however, that know their place. Now in Eng- whey r least = id of before the war, a Bahn yb aservant. If he lived in a reputable refined household with well- detined duties and congenial fellow servants Beginning t the EVENING POST he was contented and was a loyal member of the household. In this country the butler serves for money, and he therefore thinks of himself first of all. For some reason or other there are not enough butlers to go round. A competent butler is a foretaste of that heaven to which the poor aspire! The only butler worth talking about is one who really is a butler; he must have butled in some good place. If Mrs. Vandergold is minus a butler and an applicant should come to her who is thoroughly competent to butle in Windsor Castle, she will not employ him if by some mischance he has butled for some unspeakable millionaire on Riverside Drive or some plebeian automobile king of the Middle West. Of course the butler has a profound re- spect for his own social status. One who has honored the nobility in England or the real Fifth Avenue in New York will not feel contented in a rich nobody’s house. The butlers themselves in some myste rious wi ly are veritable card-index cabinets on legs and can tell you everything about the intimate life of every gilded household in Newport and of the better class of places on Long Island. How they acquire the infinitude of veracious details and bits intimate family histor y or pers ynal failir I some F it o7 nows. freema ol ybody course t fi or farm emi | ry lL by the ant trade pal admitt« » front door. The il te gy one appl alway »y ring the bell at the entrance 4 e old butler tells t e what to tell At all events are cer- blacklisted houses in Newport and Avenue, particularly for butlers and Some world-famous are in dis- for good reasons All in all, there are always homes that mourn the butler who is not. And somehow or other there is never the butler’s contentment with his portion in America that there in his native England. Perhaps this happens because there is no American servant class. The imported servants, however, are apt to become Americanized, which obviously spoils them as servants. It is a deplorable fact that in this country servants wish to be better than servants. This is not a sign of brains on the part of the employers to whom good servants are essential for happiness. ne men’ new there 1 there tal ly Fifth chefs. favor is Kindness and Slackness There ho felt that the Eng- lish system was the best. The lady of the house-—it is really a beautiful mansion tells her help that she considers them a part of the family. In England they are not told this; it goes without saying. This New York mistress calls her own doctor when any of her servants are ill; she sends them to church in her automobile and is in every respect most kindly and considerate. What is the result of all this on Fifth Avenue, New York? Her best friend told me it was the most slovenly house, on that famous thoroughfare. Personally, wit the mistress of the inclined to think it is mis- is a family w inside, however, kno hou e, l am management, It never has good ts in nece say tl ha task to get ntry. It un- to-day the problem serious. It is appalling; and ; gloomy. The independence of maids, their demands in the matter of wages, duties and recreation are no worse than the same demands from organized labor. In the case of the house servants there has been need to be organized because the inexorable laws of demand and upply can do more for them than Mr. Gompers or the heads of the railway brotherhoods. The employment agencies now charge six dollars for a servant who gets under fifty dollars a month and ten per cent for all over fifty dollars. My friend paid twelve dollars and fifty cents for his butler. Should the butler last only a week, will the employment agency get another within the agreed time of one month? Oh, no. A new butler may be found, but only after the month is up, so that a new fee can be charged Servants are that employers pay what is asked But it is not alone mounting wages; it is the spirit shown that makes the rich so been this at an cou easy servan 1S sary to is more than the outlook no so scarce January 31,1920 bitter to-day and so apprehensive of the future. Kitchenmaids lowest rank in the scale of domestic service —are particularly hard to get. A friend told me she needed one and sent her secretary to the employ- ment agency. The secretary reported: ‘I went to the agency and I saw one, but be- fore I could say a word she asked where the house was. I told her Newport. Then she asked me: ‘‘ Well, how far is the house from the bathing beach?’”’ The secretary looked indignant, but my friend asked: ‘Well, well, did you get her?” Another girl did not wish to work two weeks in New York before leaving for New- port because it was so hot. A third one had some other reason. A fourth objected to the nationality and religion of her associates- to-be. The importance the » of this cog in the do- mestie machine in this: No kitchenmaid, ! No cook in a big house will put up with one single day with- out one or two kitchenmaids, and it follows that if you cannot keep a cook you cannot kee od house. To- di iy no kitchenmaid whose duty ‘it is to pare vegetables, wash dishes and hel ‘ook the servants’ food bed. There are now upstairs well pol tely, The kit ose of a those of ire the feel- lady *s maid comes consists no cook »to make her own nt LO! ervant as the chen- as Expre ng it iT i Wha ind the id when in forever with raining? upper al for years wher Imagine their fee! after acit \ f the ser may » house the eir feelings to do with the 1e employer? have tl} th What comforts of Ask the —. ntelligent woman who very well indeed to did ry i "‘Vewnent an opinion Legacies to Servants will be a ease of the survival of the l'o-day it is truly an exasperating thing to be rich and to live in Newport. It is perfectly plain that there must be a change in our attitude toward our servants. Heretofore money has bought comforts Henceforth it will require both tact and money merely to stave off discomforts; and by discomforts | mean a disorganized household. Personally I am inclined to believe it is the thoughtless rich rather than the idle rich who are suffering the most. ‘Now let me think of what my friends have done for their servants. Careless kindness is not kindness, because it results in nothing. Good wages to-day are nothing to be grateful for because they can be had anywhere from anybody I recall a very generous man, extremely rich, who was known as a good thing literally to thou- sands of men and women. He had most ssful in finance and the market. When he died his butler had been in his employ about six years. He was a first-rate devoted servant. There was a chambermaid who had been in the house more than twenty years. The will was read. There was no legacy for any servant. The eldest son came into the house and thought he did well enough by the help when he to each of them two months’ 2nd notice “Over twenty ars in a very rich man’s employ at the market wages—nothing but notice to go elsewhere ‘A friend of mine died the other day. Not a penny for the maid who for years we all envied her for having. Eight and a half years in that house! Two chambermaids, sisters, eleven years; nothing! “Of course, some do remember their servants in their will. Mrs. Gillespie, who was Miss Stokes, left her head laundress five thousand dollars, and the second laun- dress three thousand dollars, among others. Mrs. Juilliard left ten thousand dollars to her cook, which was at the rate of one thou- sand dollars for every year of the ten that the cook had been with her. Mrs. Juilliard had a widespread reputation for good- ness and kindliness and I never heard that she had any trouble with her help. The late George Haven left five thousand dollars to every servant who had been in his employ twenty years. There was one who had been Continued on Page 71 ‘It fittest been succe stock gave pay ve

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proac hed the « ouple in the corner, said, *‘Excuse me!” > gentleman and courteously remarked to the girl: ‘‘ Well, Mary, are you going to take this position?”’ The gentleman smiled and began to nod ingratiatingly. Suddenly his head wa halted midway in one of his nods by the girl's reply, calmly delivered: ‘*No, I don’t 2 pp

you tell me so ed the ne not quite so politely ou ed to tall d I didn't have to do.” iid the agency W tu on the gentlen i have meone @isé rto intervie Mar iy ) ine ell to bes ted Lo here the \ 1 | ere 1 | vitit [he interview with my friend le Vv ort L hie had bee too n I The banker’s wife is no l ’ t ectiul as a kKitchenn Lfhasar t to expect from her employe the | eve tual ( ured i t er other t I car t te t Nobod 1 believe it Id t, fo eel The same banker's wife, | mean the sam vife « t ‘ anke te ‘ ) rhe butler he ould rt ge the lt became nece to have a waitress during the deplorabl terregnu he te ed a tre ‘ r } 1 and id and 1 I else I] ke f that had a most 1 te us experience tl ( ese Coo My Irient uld ¢e one ho was hig! recomme ed, He seemed to be entirely pleased with the pr ects of \ that house II t me a eat success Pher iddenly, t it ng, the ¢ t CO A ld go to the mustre ‘ eT Is¢ i Me go!” and nothir ild induce } to sta} Phe next cor vould behave ve much it the same way. This lasted u bout twenty cooks had been hired w 1 wer t one of them lasted over the f t meal It eemed thougn tl yt t I ¢ ucius Wa the | her lex! ed ther to leave while e leavi Wid | EVENING POST € t started in busine Xplar nougt t ' from any t of an old servant ss for hi

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¢ O'::. power \merti Is The) ¢ t cist THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 How FAIRBANKS Serves tor s service. through ricie ful gear ire ca’s pt loubt It be rnctre Nec! PUNIps, supplies Hou Cs = ig, \utomobile and Service Station Equipment duct m recoy SCT VE the door the troll Is on it iT thre hizead oftevery d peach of the Mine, Mill and Railway Supplhes thre nN ch tinh. nation FAIRBANKS COMPANY, . shipment usually ot | LIRBANKA Your ever\ idial drill, a ipphied under piece Of can be si that stakes on fol your fair dealing. anything & call the you. factory kor Branch ‘rompt you and supplie mcdustries to serve Branch Hou BAN KS rir —_ He. A Bs mechanical Want a shafting or ‘ FAIRBANKS O. kK.” Satisfaction a need in nearest FAIRBANKS your entire order cdozen shovels or a factory complete a vuarantee national reputation mechanical equipment Bran h | louse ldministrative Offices, NEW YORK { « see eG Engines and Pumps Machine Tools Power Transmission Trucks and Wheelbarrows N\

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 A metal lamp thre ount ol Household Economies

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 75 Pennsylvania ACUUM CUP j CORD TIRES f SP ——, — ~~ ~~ } . ; J Save that triple waste occasioned by your car if skidding: y! The gasoline consumed in righting it—the devel- q oped power of the engine—the wear and tear on the tires. There is but one tread guaranteed nonskid on i wet, slippery pavements—the Vacuum Cup tread. } ' Whatever the speed, the Vacuum Cup tread grips ; the surface, each cup being sealed firmly against the pavement by the car’s weight. As the wheel rolls forward, the edge of each cup is gently lifted, releasing the vacuum. There is absolutely no loss of power, no retarding of speed. Vacuum Cup Cord Tires are built generously over size with a jet black tread of correspondingly massive Vacuum Cups. Sold at moderate, standardized prices, uniform throughout the United States — Adjustment basis—per warranty tag attached t ach ising Vacuum Cup Fabric Tires 6.000 Mile Vacuum Cup and Channel Tread ¢ iT 9,000 Mile Makers of Pennsylvania Auto Tube Ton lested” PENNSYLVANIA RUBBER COMPANY, Jeannette, Pa Export Dept., Woolworth Bldg., New York, N. Y. — Direct Factory Branches and Service Agencies Throughout the United State ind Canada =e | —e j gy iat 3 i ) ‘Know them by the Jet Black Tread!” = _—— = TT tg eg ee ee

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 Starting. Lighting 6 Ignition HI reputation of Auto-Lite is as far-reaching as the high- ways of the world. More than a million and a half car owners depend upon Auto-Lite day and night, in all seasons, with confidence in its OFFICE AND WORKS rOLHEDO,.OHIO Willys Light Division of Electric Auto-Lite Corporation ; absolute, unerring reliability. Today, Auto-Lite is the larg- est institution in the world de- voted to the production of starting, lighting and ignition systems for motor cars. ‘The one purpose on which all the energies ELECTRIC AUTO-LITE CORPORATION Manufacturers of Electric Light and Power Plants for Farms, etc. 1507 KRESGE BLDG of this immense organization are focused is to maintain the reputation for trustworthiness which has made this impressive growth possible. Be sure your next car is Auto- Lite equipped. DETROIT SALES OFFICE

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ao } ' I aaa ET ms Seg -_ EE a ee a ee 5 ee = CHAPTER 6 Syracuse to Hudson 183.2 S' JON we was on Genesee st in Svracuse J and pules ront of a hotel that I cant ether spel r but soon turned off a blk or pronounce besides witch they must of been a convention of cheese sculpters or something stoping there and any w Ly it took the old man a hour to weedle a parler bed room and bath out of the clerk and put up a cot for me. Wilst we was er joying a late and futile ipper in the hotel dinning roor a mat named Duffy reckonized my father and ime to our t le and arsked him ta go to me xing mat in Svract that night Thanks very much said my father with islite sneeze but vou see w I have got on : hands besides wit I have been drive ng all day and half to start out again erly g t u re ider my old ' lisms nee the man arsked my mother whe e awa) replid my father ) tie i VAY. ‘ Mr y but where "ee aataied ens wnntlune father replid where would i man named Duffy t up the next morning It was purring rain but we eat a ind my father said we would would all walk down to the e had horded the car wit« t € 2 short blks away the t wa nly 2 short blks w ‘ ext door to each other in Syracuse are by no meat neighbor and when we got there the entire part soping wet and rarther rabid We will ail catch our deat f a chuckled my mothe What of it explained old man wit a dirty lo it the sk Mayhe we ild better put up the tains sugested n ther smiri Maybe we wouldnt too dt fatl cordia Well maybe lear uj uid st motner convu ve Mavbe it wont too replid father he caperes t he drive t M fathe r I i t ar elng o1 tranye roads t ig 1 pu nand eve whe through Oneida ind he pror inced ‘ t i it lit neither rt ell I ! tner t ired correct him but f e reached Ut vine ve got to te? T ed pa ‘ le the kerb and got it and ng oursell mut to i ma extent ner 1dae a closed Cal red past u ) he left Why that Mrs. Heywood in that car expla it other wit i fierce ye ture. By thistime it g and we rot ba to the r and prese¢ ‘ took the ed I ped ‘ ne reck ed And } iired Mrs. Hey- wood whe the isua ymmpliment had bee } ‘ rl the third he is named for his father replid my ther for 1 smile He has his eyes was the comment Bill dont remember Mrs. Heywood in the tur vy ¢ ne ne ‘ ) live in Rive le i Dr. He wna te ed fo you th t é } that é ich Ol obesit Wwe es | t te did not ten th f e tasted that ( wr \ Cenesee I or u f Utic the ( on tnese t ! had we reached Herl ls bersed with renude t 1d mar is about top here and have lunct eT ted it hersg f dy er with a « ¢ ro on to Little Fa its and dogs when we tle and my father droped a verb he iid the man that t I iS a practicie joker. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST FPIUTA WAYTTATSS LUE af OUWN 7 We will my mother stepl front of the hotel with a informal lool When we had done so we partoc of a ny i »>a@ mud Leadie meger lunch and as it was now only drool- ing resumed our jurney. They soked me 5 for that roon 11d my father but what is a extra sokeing or 2 or a day like thi I didnt mean for uu to get a room said my mother Where did you want us to change our close on the r violent] register said my old man tur it funny that we should happe to see Mrs. Heywood in Utica said 1 mother at lent! fy ey live there dont the m replid. Why Well then my father replid the real joke we had of } ippened to see yes my mother repiid would of been if her in Auburn. A little wile latter we past a grate many igns reading dine at the Big Nose Mour tain Inn. Rollie Zeider never told me they had named a mountain after } fathe and soon we past through Fonda Soon we past through Amsterdam and I guess I must of dosed off at lease J cant remember anything between there and Schenectady and I must apologize to readers for my laps as I am unable to eth (it ripe the scenery or report anyt t that may of been said between these 2 points but I recall that as we entered Albany a remark was a first time since lunc! Bill said my mother with a mirk tl Albany the capital of Ne York state, So this is Albany I thorght to myself Whoi governer of New York now rsked my mother to my father Smith replid my father who seams to ey rythir (Jueer name said my mothe il I e pulled up alo € a pe el ho father arsked | do we get he river to the New York road and if \ i ] their J ema é 1 lll say we were in the press far ma d by the time he got thr I is d d st lrooling and n ‘ ma int ww the 1 and under those fit | t repete he mnve ito ! CHAPTER 7 Hudson ipered out Irom the side a i hoped e runing board Do U int good garage he ed ithad Loe WI es mv good 1 ¢ j f ¢ Lender pul t where the best hote ] | take uu there i ema | must be a grate favor I ! ither wispered att the oon tolling the ‘ rt © pule ] n front of a hotel bu ne ! lathe er it the re ter he er uwaia l tonight my father tence We ! 4 ‘ ) nor t t ‘ t + paying no ter te ins re ] ere 4 oman a St Lhe that ikes logger Not to exce I hope replid my father t wor ¢ ent acrost the t and the won agrede to hord us for th rhtson ‘ mother went to our ay t father and the 12 year old b rarage W he ve f ‘ t reu ‘ ent ? k to the hotel for supper i ts ock iS a pe nm cou it IT the ind Latter I f i ‘ vain met tne ing a 7 . 7 Hf u ‘ iathner to I ae Chere a Saller ¢ x ( nere ne ila sit if ‘ ‘ ! ! valked all the way fror me ¢ rot non r f he dont get a free ¢ ne wil He is re 1! fathe with a orro anyt Z ‘ today t feel out of place i my co I ‘ \W 1 ‘ t ted i Hudson barrack I will if { an her handker ‘ Latter we i help fror heing mons nd gror vauls and 1 tho we had rose ida f retche ready to get u ma t i real of i i er at racuse i ine we i ! ‘ } yrap or t t alpne 1 ert t stoped nere fathe t Ve l tburst i ! ind ‘ ) t re it ‘ id ! lather 1 1iKed I the disn ipte t i Y the in the door wa CHAPTER 8 Hudson to Yonkers 106.5 padre geen he oO! fath mv mother and I stand in the st w \¢ t to the ga moter. He ret the story that t a Lo ¢ r out ou | m Dal I used e bi fathers thur Sor e rum itv now da e puled up i for brekfu a ‘ ere ‘ j ] t Da 1 | ‘ We Id I We tered P ent j } 1 ‘ t j he Loe t yy t I ‘ t \ ‘ f A . ive got al eve ) ha : , ' ‘ eale | | ‘ ‘ ‘ W ! T ‘ ‘ t TT A MV ‘ Wi if 1la i { ell t lo pe { retained the « ed a nou i I { | ‘ , e 4 id be ‘ n nrons } rt D Ise ow where he ed qu 1 fu ns god gave r is rey ed to RI ebe il t and the rain had sie t of the Bee ! | ! ed ‘ " ative ' erge (y t ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ irse ‘ | ‘ | ‘ { 1) | LW. | f eat the 1 } nif as (ff CHAPTER 9 The Bureau of Manhattan ! i | t ‘ i j f \ ha a! ( I ‘ \ ’ e | ) I ‘ (; t I} i see i 4 I LB meet A; | } et ail f 1) i ‘ What Ir i ‘) r \ ‘ na ‘ ‘ { t sta end CHAPTER 10 N.Y. to Grenitch 500.0 CHAPTER 11 How it Ended 1] 1) ‘ i VV ‘ ) ‘ i \ \ o 1 ‘ | | j 1 i i i l i

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 TA TACEA A j WIBIe >» Coes Wie SV45 db be Qs ALE DIV L&E Continued from Page 2 loo Late. Ilis radiator leaked. Tle didn’t know. So he kepton driving. Soon his engine was a raging furnace. Then he saw steam. Now his motor’s seriously damaged, destructive friction has shortened its life, it’s headed for the scrap heap. Phe most experienced driver can’t tell when his engine is over heating —not even De Palma or Oldfield. But anybody can tell afterward. Phen it’s often too late. BOYCE MOTO METER keeps you constantly posted as to the thermal con- dition of your motor Its ever-visible red ribbon of fluid indicates plainly whether your car is running too cool, too hot, or at its normal temperature. U'nfail- ingly indicates motor trouble 15 to 20 minutes before you can detect it. Hlelps eliminate premature wear, burned bearings, scored cylin- ders, and other motor ills and ex- penses. Over two million in use Concluded on Page 8! Ye garage or dealer carries BOYCE MOTO-METER or can get one for vou. Installed in 10 minutes. Choice of six models for ve rear s radiator cap $2.50 to $15 (in Canada $3.50 to $20) Dashboard type SIS to $50 (Cin Canada $24.50 to $67.50) letson BOYCE MOTO for fieasure cars, trucks nary engines, tractors or motor ire yours for the asking THE MOTO-METER CO., Inc. LONG ISLAND CITY NEW YORK

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“TF re ei BT i” i First night at the Automobile Show. Thousands o color schemes, ing« i people pay admission to sce new models of the year nious novelties in trimming and design. What has he really learned? Aman can go all through the Show—see the neu What can a Man really Learn HERE are a lot of thingsamanbuysthat he intends to discard after a season or so. He ex- pects the style to change year by vear. This is as it should be. But no matter how much money a man has, when he makes a purchase involving perhaps $3000 and up, he expects to get a reasonably permanent value. He usually gets it in every- thing but his motor car, where the habit of style at the Show change year after year may wipe out 27 per cent. of its value over night. iy a car is expected to last only a vear or two, there is no reason why its style should not change every season. But the Packard Company believes that stabilized style is just as mucha part of basic transportation principles as Packard mechanical features and performance. The Packard car is built to deliver service over a term of years. Its style is no more subject to passing moods than its engineering design. HEREVER you go, you hear people say they see ‘so many Packards”’ on the street. That is because the Pack- ard keeps on running and is always a ‘‘new model.” The public opinion about the Packard car is perhaps the most valuable auto- mobile goodwill in the world. “Ask the Man (ay Who Owns One” PACKARD MOTOR CAR COMPANY, Detroit

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 51,1920 heehee wo Recommendation Standard Equipment on 8 Out of Every 10 Cars Built The makers’ Facts About Fan Belts Every Car Owner Should Know \ Gilmer Fan Bel 7 , ” . ’ vel in ; indn ' L. H. GILMER COMPANY, Philadelphia, Pa. ee WOVEN ENDLESS lelphia, Pa North Wak Pa

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 Continued on Page 84 Siowly and Heavily « in Thei Stalls, Their Thick«Fingered Hands Hetd Awkwardly Above Their Heads

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_ aceon ee se cgee Ghe RAN IK PTT aa TRANKLIN performance is | | | showing more motorists every day that shock absorb- ers, radiator thermometers and anti-freeze mixtures are motoring crutches which they can throw away when they buy a Franklin Car. | The Franklin Car needs none of these accessories be- cause it is light, flexible and direct air cooled. These principles also make it so safe and easy to handle that it can gO farther in a day than the average Car with less strain to driver and rider. They also explain why Franklins rarely carry spare tires. For Franklin owners’ records show that with the pound of heavy, rigid weight elimi- nated, blowouts are almost unknown and pun¢ tures average only one in every 4,141 miles. FRANKLIN AUTOMOBILE THE SATURDAY EVENING POST LIN SIKIDAN And the Franklin needs no help to keep its cooling system in order, since it has no water to boil or freeze. It is free from temperature trouble: the year round, and can be used unrestrictedly no matter what the season. Naturally, a car constructed on such simple and thorough-going pring ples costs less to run and to keep in running condition. Just how much les: as . a revelation to those unfamiliar with Franklin own ers’ records: 20 WA es Zz é d ri é 12,5 ” ) ( é ‘4 es om y/ 5 ce} é ( ec Naturally, too, a car thus independent of special accessories 1s mort practle il in every way, and pet . ener forms with correspondingly greater satisfaction to its owners. Any motorist who has owned both dn : - # ras ordinary car and a Franklin will confirm this. COMPANY, SYRACUSE, N. Y.

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Continued from Page 8&2 r ( ‘ r ( ‘ } 4 , \ t W 1 ‘ f hatred ‘ te he A } f ‘ ‘ ‘ ed ‘ I ert I ‘ t ‘ i vdd I f ‘ | i t We i i \ j Wha i y ‘ t ‘ | he om ‘ He found a ne ‘ ‘ He \ j ne \ e fou om | ' ( a \W t i! } ’ ’ \ ‘ ‘ i et Wel ‘ thre et { i] \ i t Hy ‘ ‘ e ¢ | ‘ \\ om tle ‘ " ‘ r ] i ‘ | ] t ‘ ere Ph | ‘ I ] ii, t ‘ \ \ 1 é f m he t { i i! 1 ‘ “ { ‘ r t fal ‘ f O é ‘ l it ( ‘ t ‘ t é ‘ i ‘ te t Yes? I l " er And ther wobbly d He g 7 ng he i } l a the t ‘ ere | ‘ | i i me igre IZINg adi and nquired the g ] hen he the Euro ¢ and re er there wine =t on revolutic t 1 ne yet ) t the f ww G0g the usua iole te t tne é ylutio where tl i the practical He got hi thin that h dor fré th } 3s, thes About »worker! T nat sor} 4b eu THE SATURDAY EVENING POST inman “For , yugnt he would t the quint of re they've got there beside nquired the nt miles Of a A ae of real ey start from.” vay to get it ( 1b m ! e used to talr ym the Frenct " long ag ng bact t conf or i f the itside of all was it leon workel er "| t + wild i sn t} ‘ t \ gy fo vith } i" ro yre we t the ‘ j ed e ol ed red ired Artie od vho January 31,1920 He stopped and laughed the street at night | ment real enjoy ‘Sure,”’ said the gunman, grinning. “I've Spinner now stopped laughing abruptly Who | ‘'t?” he inquired. ‘‘They’v undertoot Oh, the war ssibilism; wonderful hearty boys would sa) vorker. A revolution al most |! tself It added sixt per cent to the membership of the Federation of La bor all radical practically It did more snerations before That poss isn ‘*hat’s what possil ism does taking what comes and using it to the lir Sut that nothing he said signi cant nat will be on now Now tl ar tice end of the war can lust e¢ Not ny to the dea to the car paign ti e ot us that ein the know out the biggest into hi y ster yot a if g now. Worki ill that one |] that time he was over finding out OW ! Europe and wrote wit r lal , a t t he hie new hie mal t Was | 1 bon Tec i N «le rhe int e lal the | te tates for the re it d hold it Just i the i i ive lone I ince Che t ime . t ‘H ¢ le ¢ Pe } U ; ’ ; ol} ; i { j the t eepir mel ‘ the whole it of the ! t is it f l t Shoot,” directed Hecker, watching hin You the tru that $ tne t mm Gel ite ner ‘ t t out recruiting the f the t time f the I. W. W sald SI ne obe g } Ihe ] ) “G,et ther wher the ° a r the ¢ ad 1 be a opt i the gur ising f rt ¢ for the indamental underlying do trine of propaganda W they ever be sorer Spinner asked nin than thev w l be in these next fe wet ind mont! vhen your bloody cay sten throwing the workers ou on the pavement after this war the } 4 eu Probabl not said Hecker, thint ‘It tart now, won't it —this stror arm work? It has already in a lot of things ce mit munition factories, for two Ul Nu will be growing now fierce and er weeks and months and yea pr ibly E er) wee lr every te Wr nd city the ve dumping out more thou and i the workers—-sore ar und re every month, till there of the What'll we be doing t time? Sitting st S i Chat ist vith the griy ve Vv on tt ugh ti var! its what we re r after waiting, letti you! sink ‘Whe r ne went on more persu thinking of the reds as : It might look that way to you probably sticks But they se¢ it inside the red out here it the different tne men fi movement. They see we're all a part of one big thing. All the reds, from the wobblie to these new communists and Russian workers,”” said Spinner. He yutlined the way the reds of all hade et together now for planning and discus in great cities like Chicago And as far as we wobblies go,” he a erted, ‘‘they all got a great share of their Continued on Page 87 Se

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Henin The Success of the Utilitor Has Been Instant \ year ago the world knew nothing about lamachine. ‘Today the big Midwest fac- it Indianapolis are literally deluged with for Utilitors from Russia, South Africa, lrance, Belgium, the Balkans—from the whole hungry world. Great food-raising America 1s ( illing loudest of all. Lhis machine does all the work of one horse lows, harrows, cultivates, hauls or mows, anything that any +h. p. gas engine can Indianapolis, Power | I plu ado The price, S345, f.o. b. } brings it within the reach of everybody. is power, no matter what you do with it—and ‘“Utiitor’ is only another name for general utility power in a small, self-propelled handy power unit that anybody can use. Do not forget, too, that this little power unit is the product of one of the world’s oldest and greatest producers of power; and the fact that it carries the famous ‘‘Dependable Power”’ nameplate of the Midwest Engine Company is a guarantee of its efhciency and durability. Nevertheless, we give you an unbreakable and absolute guarantee. And, on top of this, Mzd- west Service follows the Utihtor into the field. For information regarding dealer territory, or for concrete information on the Utilitor, address sales department B. Midwest Engine Company « ’ Indianapolis, U. S. A. D January 31,1920 pendable Power |

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| : = a (Continued from Page 84 practical working ideas from us. They all idmit it. Lenine,’’ he said, ‘‘took many of his ideas from our American radical-labor movement here; he’s said so in print. And when you come to it, what's Foster's — tactics and his boring from within hat he used to , ilk about and don’t now after all but the old I. W. W. plans of organization we've worked against the ve-driving « ipitalist system ever i we opened up on it? What did that gan do in starting in on the car tunks anc packing houses except work on the old job- delegate system, and our old-time belly philosophy, taken bodily from the wob- blies? What'd they do at the beginning but take their dinner pa € He alluded now, of course, to the cele- of the I. W. W. that ingenious met} 7 a organizing and promoting clas in society by the direct and simple stim brated job-delegate m ion and use of the ha- tred of the individual worker for the man or corporation ps employs him. There are two main points of strength in this plan of propaganda. The first is its eXx¢ elle nt psychology. Large public gath- erings with speech making are counted minor and less successful way of recruiting n embe rs. For real success the individual, tl ey | hold, must be approached, while at his work, by another in oe il worke r—the secret de legate of the I And this delegate is instructed to approach the prospective member only when he is good and sore. Not in the morning, when he is strong and refreshed; never in the evening at home, when he has had his supper and is sitting comfortably w ] his wife and chil- dren; but on the job—late in the afternoon preferably, when he is tired and irritable; 1 always if possible when he is aggra- ed and disgruntled over some run-in or ill-down by his boss. Then the worker ecomes naturally a candidate for the I. W. W., and is shown and is drafted to carry forward the principles of revolution. The second point of strength of this propaganda is that in the organization of the I. W. W. a of the work of or- ganizing be ing done by a limited number of paid profe sional ot inizers as in the older forms of unionism—every new member of the wobblies after a short period is ex- pected to some extent at least to become a job delegate, organizing the other men be- side him on his job—thus theoretically spreading the doctrine of revolution inside of industry after the fashion of the familiar and far-reaching chain letter. “You don’t realize,”’ said Spinner, “‘out here in the sticks in the West how far this has gone—what a field there is for push- ing forward the real red-hot fundamen- tal class hatred east of the Mississippi; THE SATURDAY and how far this new radical bunch in the federation are going to work it through this new steel-workers thing they’re out organizing now.” I he gunman looked at him inquiringly. ‘‘With the low-paid foreigners —thehunks an d dagos.”” ‘Don’t I?” responded Hecker with a reminiscent laugh. ‘I was out East in McKee’s Rocks and Paterson and Lawrence during those old wob bly strikes. It’s a dream what you can do organi boys with the poc kmark s and mu: taches. You can tell them anything ‘Why not?” asked Spinner, looking at “Why not is right,” acquiesced the gunman, warmed to speech now by his memories. ‘‘ You've got them all to your- self. Nobody else ever pays any attention to them—except to gouge what they can out of them.” Spinner, seeing he was talking now, re- spon ded only with a signifi cant smile, ‘And trim them! “Sure,” said Spinner, smiling quietly. “Trim them!” exclaimed the gunman, “‘T come from back East, the way the most of us do—out from round that Pittsburgh district. Trim them,” he said, laughing, “like a Christmas tree in the Salvation Army! All hands—from the gink that gets them at the end of the gangplank in New York, to the family groceryman and the boys that own those black-dog houses they put them in round that steel country. Sore?” he said. ‘If you want to pick them sore—there’s the boys that are sore! You can go to those poor stiffs and tell them anything you want to —after they’ve been here a year or two going through this. You can feed them anything you want about the capitalists d this country.” ‘Well, why not?” asked Spinner, ‘‘It’s all true.” “Sure it’s true,”’ said the now talkative gunman. ‘“‘But I was just thinking how simple it was—if you can only get to them in their own language. When you have you've got them all to yourself. Nobody else wants them—or will take the trouble to contradict you. We've got these birds all our way—we radicals.” “‘How many papers does the I. W. W. publish now in foreign languages?"’ inter- jected Spinner “‘Oh—a half a dozen or so. “That's been one great fiel mented Spinner, “It’s nothing. It’s not a wart on what they're doing themse lve s now—in all these fore ign fri idical benevolent societies—these little halls you see all over the foreign districts round that big manufacturing country. You heard about those Finns round Duluth,” he asked, ‘‘and the way al i!” com- EVENING. POST y teach those roundheaded boys their alphabets—their English, in primers? He stopped to laugh. ‘**TIs there a God?’” he said, quoting, his reckless eyes and round face lighted now with a miscl ievous interest and hu- mor. “‘ There is not, he went on quoting his supposed textbook, **Is the United States on the level?’ 1 is not. The President sleeps every night on a cork re w,, ina spiral staircase with a crooked capitalist on each side of him!’ Oh, that’s the game!” ‘They're all over with that ort of thing,” commented Spinner, “The Rus- sians—those communists are working that kind of stuff all the time.” “The country back East there, they tell me—the guys I run across here lately— is full of those grand-duke stickers from Russia. They’ve got the roundheads all dancing their national dances and singing bloody murder in eight languages in these wild benevolent societies, they tell me, since this Russian Revolution was pulled off.” “They tell you right,’’ Spinner assured “But after all what's new about it? asked Hecker suddenly. ‘What's tl crowd of yours doing but wh rat the wobblie have been doing right along?” “They didn’t stick did they—these foreigners in Lawrence, and Paterson, and McKee’s Rocks? They dropped the I. W. W. cards right off—in six mont} time.” “Say they did,”’ replied the gunman argumentatively. ‘‘They’re radicals just the same. They've got the good old re - tionary bellyache right in them still where we put it!” “Exactly so,” agreed Spinner. **Never mind what membership we may have now,” continued Hecker, ‘‘ we've had inside at one time or another half a million workers and given them the dope! ‘4 Right,’ said Spinner, ‘‘and they’re passing it along all the time now to oth er Scattering disc onte nt—the seeds of revolu- tior y all over! Well, then,” said Hecker, chec] cing his enthusiasm, b: ack again to his original prejudice and skepticism, “what about this new bunch—and you?” “We're gathering up and consolidating all this into one big thing the way it ought to be. We're bringing the discontent of the East back to join the old raw sore- heads in the West—the hunky to meet the Western working stiff. And we're doing it—getting away with it. Because it’s ripe—right here—good and ripe and rotten to be picked! And don’t think,” he said in an again lowered voice, “‘it’s being pushed and financed in this country only!” And then he told him, to a certain ex- tent, in a guarded way some of the main facts « ce g the ‘ I cat \ pe { pre tween the I ed S es and R It’s the East,”” he im! last, ‘joining hands wit! e We finish, that i rhe KU t la hed t bo A general congre f the world,” he | “You've got the ‘ . S] nner told hin ‘Where he ed ‘In ( cago Vv espe hed | t Ane he told hi thy ‘ { pl I ‘ { era j lively expe f he federa ‘ ‘ He That 1 bunch of ed grave ‘ He laughed again with a be ! mischie ( ent “Sitting over lal m aoe “exact! as it did I ‘ \ anar yr f 1 tw years i rhe gunn suddenly went sober t ing ar 1 reflecting. He} ( Spinner’s speaking with an abruy astonished profanity “From where?’ “I'm going on to Chicago now “You're on!” the gu up their understanding. It was in fact time now, they both that they stop their talk. Their fe workers, the bundle stiffs, were gett ready for a move. The train was cor now to a Junction point where it would, the part of wisdom to hop off and w round the town rather than take chances with the town clowns or the ra road bulls, who alway $s get stronger r a settled center. “I’m going to hear from you later derstand?” said Hecker as they | ted **As soon as I look the Chi,” Spinner assured him He had ope ned up ar d tol l } i man me than he would have natural! He iw t sooner or later he would probably } chance to use him. So the company ol strange bedfel] scattered at the junction point; the | tiffs going south, the gunman going again upon his division; and Spinner ke ing on his way into Chicago.

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{ ' mt . , im g 7 i remains; you are terribly has left but a shadow of your former self. But that shadow will take on substance. Convalescence may not be rapid, but it will be an un- speakable joy. Let your joy, however, take the form of passive contentment. If your doctor detects any signs of bodily activity he will caution you: “A pneu- monia patie nt is never out of danger until he is entirely well.’”” The heart muscle must recover its strength before one can under- take the slightest exertion without risk. It is entirely probable that, as you lie there, dreadfully weak but with a clear mind, you cannot remember much about your illness. It is as though your body had lain ill and your mind had been elsewhere. Those who watched anxiously your strug- gle will recall all the details, especially the grave assiduous attentions of your doctor and nurse. They remember some of the doctor’s directions as to your care. “* All the windows up!” he had said. “As much fresh air as he can get. Remember, a part of his lungs is out of commission and the rest has to do the work. He needs all the oxygen he can get.” ‘But the weather is cold. He will freeze!” “Never fear; have a fire to make the air circulate more freely, but cold fresh air can- not hurt him. Cold water is used to bring down a high temperature. Why is not cold air just as good?” And when friends called they were barred from the sick room for fear their presence would excite you. Also, you were not al- lowed to move in bed without being helped, to avoid unnecessary strain upon your heart. And you were sponged frequently, at regular intervals, to keep your skin active. To assist your kidneys in ee off the poison you had to drink more liquid The wreckage weak, the struggle soon especially water, than you thought neces- sary. Your sputum was carefully kept and burned, that it might not infect others. And the attendants washed their hands frequently, that they might not con- vey the infection to their lips. And you were constantly watched, day and night, for fear that in sudden delirium you might attempt to get up or otherwise do yourself an injury. And so, finally, nected because of these attentions, partly because of certain medi- cines which were given for particular condi- tions such as pain and annoying cough and sleeplessness when you were so restless, but mostly because you had the elements of fight within you, you triumphed over the archenemy, and he suddenly fled. It was a glorious victory. Preventive Measures But it is probable that under certain conditions the victory might have been yours in the first place. You might have conquered the germs before they germi- nated to cause pneumonia. To say that the pneumococcus is no respecter of per- sons is an exaggeration. It is no respecter of those who have lost their normal resist- ance to it. Everyone who is stricken has had the germs within him many times before and has not succumbed. But this one time he has lost something that he once pos- sessed and which he might have retained. This brings us to prevention. The first thing to avoid is a multitude of the germs or rapidly repeated infections. Unneces- sary contact with those who have pneu- monia should be shunned. If one’s duties are in the sick room care should be taken to cleanse the hands thoroughly, especially before eating. The sputum should be col- lected and burned frequenily. All vessels energy; their precision of movement and deliberation of thought conserve the resi- due against the supreme moment. As a parenthesis: To a young woman what is a hero? Generally something con- jured out of a book she has read; the un- known handsome young man across the street; the leading actor in a society drama; the idol of the movie. A hero must of ne- cessity be handsome; that is the first es- ential. If he happens to be brave and debonair, rich and aristocratic, so much the better. Somehow, to be brave and to THE SATURDAY EVENING POST PNEUMONIA, THE APACHE (Concluded from Page 34) with which the patient comes in contact must be washed thoroughly, disinfected, and kept solely for his use. Bedclothing and his personal clothing must be boiled. But there are carriers who are not sick and who do not suspect that they harbor the germs. Such persons are a constant menace to others. The danger would be greatly decreased if everyone who has a cold were to cover his mouth and nose when he must cough and sneeze, especially in public places where the germs may be widely disseminated. These precautions will lessen the danger of infection, but they will not remove it entirely. The other element of prevention has to do with the recipient of the germs, the fostering of his natural resisting power. The rules of conduct for the prevention of pneumonia are exactly the same as those for the avoidance of other germ diseases. The pneumococcus is more virulent than most of the other bacteria, but his method in attack is the same. And because of this similarity there must be a certain repetition of what has been enjoined with reference to colds and coughs. Why Horses are Healthy Granting, then, that one is likely to come into contact with this desperate enemy at any time and at frequent times, what may be done to render him harmless? First, we must remember that bacteria cannot harm unless they penetrate the surface. This is just as true of the mucous membrane lining the air passages as it is of the skin. Some- thing must mar that surface if they are to find entrance and a temporary habitat. This brings us first and foremost to dust as an irritant and to mouth breathing. If there remains any doubt as to the impor- tance of dust as a cause of lung conditions let the following evidence from the London Lancet of June 12, 1919, be read dispas- sionately. It is a comparison of the relative frequency of lung diseases in miners and in mine horses: “The horse breathes through his nose, which stops nearly all the dust. Investiga- tions showed that there were no lung ail- ments among horses; they were hardly ever sick, and their average working life was thirteen years. The health of the animals was excellent, although lung dis- eases had been common in human beings. While experimentally the horse can be given pulmonary tuberculosis and develop copious disease, their freedom from the same in normal life is probably due to ex- clusive nasal breathing.’ Whether one accepts this conclusion wholly or not it is at least worth while to remember dust as an important factor in the susceptibility to pneumonia. Breathe through the nose habitually if you can. If you cannot, have the obstructions removed, that it may be used as it was intended to be used. If you have a cold, any inflammatory condition of the air passages, avoid indoor crowds. A catarrhal condition predisposes to pneumonia, and it is safe to say that in every crowd there are carriers of the germ, who may be as dangerous to you as a luna- tic with a weapon. Spring and fall are fruitful times for pneumonia, because of sudden changes in temperature and humidity. But at all seasons avoid undue exposure to wet and cold. Congestion of the mucous mem- branes of the lungs gives the pneumococcus his chance. Other directions are still more general. They may apply to the avoidance of almost any disease that affects mankind. Avoid- ance of worry is one of them. Long- continued worry will reduce the bodily vigor. Overeating is a predisposing cause. The use of alcohol is another. The alcoholic will soon disappear from among us, but for a time he will not be quite so extinct as the dodo. He has far less chance than others against the onslaughts of the pneumococ- cus, and when he is stricken his doctor knows that his prospects for recovery are poor. It is at least possible that more and more of us are succumbing each year to pneu- monia because life is becoming increas- ingly difficult. We hurry too much, we worry too much, we play too little. Our lives are top-heavy and the equilibrium is unstable. This is obvious in theory, but we do not act upon it. Most of us get our fresh air through a distant narrowly opened window, our recreation at the movies, and our physical exercise in walking two blocks to the cars. If you should chance to live in any one of our American cities in certain parts of which thieves and gunmen are wont to ply their trade, and were to ask advice cerning your personal safety, you would get it something after this manner: ‘Don’t con- frequent pl: Aces where you are likely to meet the He “But,” you might protest, ‘‘my business sometimes takes me to such neighbor- hoods.”’ “Very well, then; keep your eyes open. Don't let them get you unawares. And keep yourself physic ally strong. You will st an d a better chance.’ “‘Is there no weapon I can carry? Must I defend myself with my two fists?” “Here is a defense that you may use; it is not perfect, it will not make you abso- lutely safe, but one who possesses it has an immense advantage over one who does not.” What would be your reply to such an offer? You wouldaccept it eagerly, wouldn't you? That is about the situation with regard to pneumonia. One may keep away from infected places. One may fortify himself by right breathing and right living and the avoidance of unnecessary exposure to in- clement weather. But there is another measure that offers much hope in the com- bat against pneumonia. Vaccination for Pneumonia It is vaccination. Vaccination is not a new thing. Jenner, in 1798, used it against smallpox, and the pock-marked face has ceased to be a prevailing style of physiog- nomy. Typhoid vaccination practically eliminated that disease from the army. Vaccination has been successful in combat- ing cholera and plague and dysentery. Is it improbable that pneumonia vaccination will be any less useful? The attention of scientists has been turned in that direction for several years but the war gave a great impetus to me .di- cal investigation because the opportunities were increased. So many men were as sembled in the camps and asso iated together in barracks that pneumonia was rampant. This was especially the case in the latter half of 1918, when influenza broke down the natural resisting power of the soldiers and laid them open to the ravages of the former disease. Scientists studied pneumonia not only at the sick bed but in the laboratory, and science is finally on the heels of the mon- ster. Of the thousands of men vaccinated THE DRUMS OF JEOPARDY (Continued from Page 27) be heroic are not actually accepted syno- nyms in certain youthful feminine minds. For instance, every maid will agree that her father is brave; but tell her he is a hero because he pays his bills regularly and she will accept the statement with a smile of tolerant indulgence. Thus Kitty viewed Cutty’s activities with a thrill of amazed wonder. Had the young man hoisted Cutty to his shoulders her feeling: would have been one of exultant admiration. Let age crown its garnered wisdom; youth has no objections to that; but feats of physical strength—that is poaching upon youth's preserves. Kitty was not conscious of the instinctive resent- ment. At that moment Cutty was to her the most extraordinary old man in the world. “Forward!” he whispered. “‘I want to know why I am doing this movie stunt.” The journey began with Kitty in the lead. She prayed that no one would see them as they passed the two landing windows. Be- low and above were vivid squares of golden light. She regretted the drizzle; no clothes- laden lines intervened to obscure their 89 as a preventive measure not half the num- ber were stricken with pneumonia as com pared with those who were unvaccinated And this in spite of the fact that laboratory methods have not yet been perfected. The difficulty about it lies in the fact that the pneumococcus is not an unvarying type of germ; there are many varieties of the species, But first, what is vaccination, and what does it do? It is the introduction into or beneath the skin, and thence into the circu- lation, of dead germs which, if living, would produce disease. The presence of these germs sets up a local irritation and starts the defensive forces of Nature. At the place of the injection there is a transient inflammation, but throughout the body there is a righteous indignation, an awak- ening of antagonistic forces. Certain sub- stances are formed in the blood that will help the white blood corpuscles in their fight against active, living germs of the same kind as the dead ones that have been introduced. Four Leading Types For a long time afterward—in some cases for several years—these defensive products will continue to exist, to combat success- fully the special kind of germs which they have been produced to fight. And so vaccination, for a time at least, immunizes, renders one less liable to successful inva- sion. But dead typhoid germs will not immunize against cholera, nor pl: as germs against typhoid. Whatever are the defen- sive products which have been manufac tured, in each case they are different and they protect only against that particular kind of germ. Therein lies the difficulty with regard to pneumonia. There are many kinds of pneumococcus; in fact there are four types of which three are constant and the fourth is really not a single type but consists of many varieties, not yet classified. During the war men were vaccinated by the intro duction of dead germs of the three constant types, and were in the vast majority of cases rendered immune. Of the small number of vaccinated men who were stricken nearly all recovered. This marks a great step in advance. But how can the knowledge be applied in civil life? Should everyone be vaccinated against yneumonia? Yes. It is a kind of special be alth insurance. Will many healthy per sons submit to pneumonia vaccination No. It causes temporary physical discom fort, and to most of us the disease does not seem an ever-present menace. It will be a long time before public sentiment will cause compulsory vaccination for pneumonia But it will be useful in the army and in public institutions. And the pneumonia death rate among soldiers, it is hoped, will come down like the typhoid de ath rate. But there is a practical side of the ques- tion which concerns us all. If one member of a family develops pneumonia the others of the household should be vaccinated. It is as important a precautionary measure as taking antitoxin to prevent the spread of diphtheria. At present the incidence of lol yar pneu- reasing U monia is gradually inet 1 America, Sut if science shall advance in the future as it has in the recent past, perhaps at some not far distant day medical textbooks will say: ‘‘Lobar pneumonia. A disease of the lungs caused by the pneumococcus. Once quite prevalent; but now rare.”’ For science is moving with giant strides in the right direction—toward the goal of prevention. Someone in the rear of the houses progress. in ee Street might observe the silhouettes. The whole affair must car ried off secretly or their efforts would come to nothing Once inside the kitchen Cutty shifted his burden into his arms, the way one carries a child, and followed Kitty into the unused bedroom. He did not wait for the story, but asked for the telephone. “I'm going toc all for a surgeon at The Lambs. He’s just back from France and knows a lot phe yut broken heads. And we

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ed off into iame in yund of the owned verflow » good nked imen, m ul ‘But I don't I’m terribly interested, and through Kitty was THE SATURDAY of nonsense about this t not let the situation poke the name oddly was because I this was a bit of 1 Europe, where kicked instead of a good idea Of poor ne | loose we know his life ys the trouble When you in obliga- » Sea on lap can iin here. So, if Harri- | take him up to my diggings vik will ever lay eyes upon indle y might cnow ‘ ! take 1 his feet. And you annoyance believe it’ going to be an moved, out he goes No n’ in this apart- not?” Kitty demanded 1 Kitty.” regor an undesirable? m. What do you say?” godfather, evading the trap. ld! He smiled inwardly. Keer She sensed an under- r first attempt to touch it The mere name of Stefani roused Cutty’s astonish- quite positive that the holly unfamiliar to her ymmething warned her not to press There Was a Brittle Crackling, He would be on the alert. he had forgotten the ew up a chair beside the EVENING POST Cutty leaned against the footrail, his ex- pression neutral. He sighed inaudibly. H delightful catnap was over. Stefani Gregor, Kitty’s neighbor, a valet in a fashionable hotel! Ste fani Gregor, who, upon a certain day, had placed the drums of jeopardy in the palms of a war correspondent known to his familiars as Cutty. And who was this young man on the bed? ‘There oe the bell!” cried Kitty, Jumping up “Wait!” The ring was repeated vigorously and impatiently “Kitty, I don’t quite like the sound of that bell. Harrison would have no occa- ion to be impatient. Somebody in a hurry. Now, attend to me. I'm going to steal out to the kitchen. Don’t be afraid. Call if I’m needed. Open the door just a crack, with your foot .against it Harrison he’ll be in uniform all out his name. Slam the door if it is someone you don’t know.” Kitty opened the door as instructed, but she swur 4 it wide because one of the men outside was a eee gro The man behind him was a thickset, squat individual, with puffed discolored eyes and a nose that re- minded Kitty of an alligator pear. ‘What’s going on here?” the policeman demanded to know vit as ASE, apparently quite irrelevant to the situation, shot into Kitty ’s head Moribund perspectives. Instantly she knew, with that foretasting mind of hers, that the man peering over the policeman’s houlder and Johnny Two-Hawks had met somewhere that day. She was now able to compare the results, and she placed the victory on Two-Hawks’ brow. Yonder in- dividual somehow - stified the instinct that 7 id prompted her to play the good Samari- an. Whence had this gorilla come? He was ae one of the men who had issued in su h dramatic haste from the Gregor apartment “This man here saw you and another carrying someone across the fire escape. Ee a a et a “ ? ». January 31,1920 » rumpus?” The policeman was lligerent, but he was dutifully And though he was ready to t that this girl with the Irish eyes wa beautiful, a man never could tell ‘There’s been a tragedy of some kind,’ began Kitty. ‘‘This man certainly did see us carrying a man across the fire escape He had been set upon and robbed in the vartme nt ac ross the way. ‘Why didn t you call in the polic “Bee ause S might have died be fon e you at 0” “Where's the man who helped you?’ ‘Gone. He was an outsider. He was of getting mixed up in a police ir and ran away.” Behind the kitchen door Cutty smiled. » would do, this girl. “Sounds all right,”’ said the policer ‘ll take a look at the man.” ‘This way, if you please,” said Kitty j ““You come, too, sir,” she added squat man hesitated. Kitty wante d to ch his expression when he saw Johnny Two-Hawks Seed on rocky soil; nothing came artifice. No Buddha's grave was less indicative than the squat ma Perhaps his face was too sore to perm mobility of expression. The drollery of this thought caused a quirk in one corner ¢ Kitty’s mouth. The squat man stopped a the foot of the bed with the air of a mere passer-by and seemed more interested in the inve stigations of the policeman than in the man on the bed. But Kitty knew. ‘A fine bang on the coco,”’ was the po 5 + liceman’s observation. ‘“‘Take anything out if his pockets? ‘They were quite empty. I’ve litary surgeon. He may arrive +? a mi momen “This fellow live across the way “That’s the odd part of it. No, | doe sn’t. ‘a ‘Then what was he doing there “Probably awaiting the return ” real tenant, who hasn’t returned up to this hour”’—with an oblique glk ince at the squat man. “Ki ne do’ queer. Ss ay, you stay he re and watch ‘the lady while I scout round The squat man nodded and leaned over the foot of the bed. The police man stalked out. “‘T was in the kitchen,” said Kitty confidingly. “T saw shadows on the window curtain. It did not look right. So I started to ing) lire and almost bumped into two men leaving the apart ment, They took to their heels when they saw me.” Again the squat man nodded. He appeared to be a good listener. ““Where were you when we crossed the fire ” the yard on the other side of the fence There was reluctance in the guttural voice. “Oh, I see. You live there.” As this was a supposi- tion and not a direct query the squat man wagged | head affirmatively Kitty, her ears strained for disquieting sounds in the kitchen, laid her palm on the patient’s chee k. It was very hot. She dipped a bit of cotton into the water, which had grown cold, and dampened the wounded man’s cheel and throat. Not that s expected to ] anything by th is relieved the nerve tension. This man was no fool. If her surmises were correct he was a strong man both in body and in mind. In a rage he would he terri- ble. However had Johnny Two-Hawks done it beaten the man and es- caped? No doubt he had been watching all the time and had at length and a Rare Violin Became Kindling. A Sob Broke From the Prisoner's Lips stepped in to learn if |} Continued on Page 95

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I . ~— ese a : What we learned 4 mechanics A few years ago, we decided that the mechanics of this country could help us in designing a nail hammer that would be entirely free from faults. Expert workmen in every part of the coun- try were glad to contribute their ideas. As a result we have the perfect PLUMB Hammer. The large striking face makes it easy to hit the nail every time. The weight cen- tered in a chunk above the face gives power to the stroke. The claws have an extra curve and a short split, giving greater leverage. They yank a nail out quickly. Nipper-like edges grip and hold any nail, big or little, with or without head. The tapered eye and special anchoring keep the handle firmly fixed — no _ flying heads. The hand-forged finish gives a handsome appearance and preserves the hammer from tarnishing and rust. PLUMB Hammers, Hatchets, Axes and Sledges are sold throughout the United States and Canada. Get them from your nearest dealer. What we learned “7 woodsmen | Hammers Hatchets THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 91 . | ioe, ee V LD ve a Before the dies for PLUMB ONE-Piece Axes t oO were cut, we sent representatives of our factory the big logging camps, where they remained t months learning just what “‘professional’’ choppers wanted in an Axe. A little inquiry revealed the fact that no NEW Axe was considered fit for use until an expert grindet had reshaped and resharpened it. The information gained from the men who actually ] T live by chopping enabled us to develop the most perfect chopping axe ever made—the PLUMB ONE-Piece Axe. In this wonderful Axe, Head and Handle are bal- anced to a nicety The Blade has just the right flare to give fast cutting with clearance at every stroke; something unknown in an Axe before It is of a temper to hold a fine edge, yet so tough that the hardest hemlock knot will not chip it. The Head will not ‘‘mash’’ nor ‘‘mushroom” in rough work in The Eye will not the camp or around the farm bend nor buckle. Altogether, the PLUMB ONE-Piece Axe is an Axe the woodsman or any other man will find mght for his work just as it comes from the packing case. The extra care taken in de signing and making PLUMB Hammers, Hatchets and Axes has caused tool users everywhere to say of them, ‘‘They’re Worth More.” * FAYETTE R. PLUMB, Inc. Philadelphia U.S.A St. Louis f Ii ciatiieieseserietsentenetereniinieatetieaneinneieneiieeenennetiinmineaiataaaaaimiriaems ; 1 ¥ Sledges and Axes

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a (i La ’ (Continued from Page 90) subordinates had followed his instructions and to what extent they had succeeded. “If he dies it will be murder.” “Tt is a big city.” _“‘And so many terrible things happen like this every day. But sooner or later those who commit them are found out. Nemesis always follows on the heels of vengeance,” For the first time there was a flash of in- terest in the battered eyes of the intruder. Perhaps he saw that this was not only a pretty woman but a keen one, and sensed the veiled threat. Moreover, he knew that she had lied at one point. There had been no light in the room across the court. But what in the world was happening out there in the kitchen? Kitty wondered. So far, not a sound. Had Cutty really taken flight? And why shouldn’t he have faced it out at her side? Very odd on Cutty’s part. Shortly she heard the heavy shoes of the policeman returning. “*Guess it’s all right, miss. I'll report the affair at the precinct and have an ambu- lance sent over. You'll have to come along with me, sir.” “Ts that legally necessary?” asked the quat man, rather perturbed. “Sure. You saw the thing and I veri- fied it,’ declared the policeman. “It won’t take ten minutes. Your name and address, in case this man dies.” “T see. Very well.” Kitty wasn’t sure, but the policeman seemed embarrassed about something. The directness was gone from his eyes and his speech was no longer brisk. ““My name is Conover,” said Kitty. “T got that coming in,” replied the police- man. ‘‘ We'll be on our way.” Not once again did the squat man glance at the man on the bed. He followed the policeman into the hall, his air that of one who had accepted a certain obligation to community welfare and canceled it. Kitty shut the door—and leaned against it weakly. Where had Cutty gone? Even as she expressed the query she smelt burn ing tobacco. She ran out into the kitchen, to behold Cutty seated in a chair calmly smoking his infamous pipe! ‘“‘And I thought you were gone! What 1 say to that policeman?” “I hypnotized him, Kitty.” “The newspaper?” “No. Just looked into his eye and made a few passes with my hands.” “Of course, if you believe you ought not to tell me ” said Kitty, which is the way all women start their wheedling Cutty looked into the bowl of his pipe. ‘Kitty, when you throw a cobble into a pond, what happens? A splash. But did you ever notice the way the ripples have of running on and on, until they touch the farthest shore?” ‘Yes. And this is a ripple from some big stone cast into the pond of Southeastern ” I understand ’s just the difficulty. If you un- ing it would be much easier it you know just enough to want up on your own hook. I know finitely; I have only suspicions. I calmed that policeman by showing him a blanket police power issued by the com want you to pack up and is neighborhood. It’s not ‘ ongenial to you 4g “I’m afraid I can’t afford to move until May.” “T’ll take care of that gladly, to get you of this garlicky ruin.” No, Cutty; I’m going to stay here until the lease is up.” ‘*Gee-whiz! The Irish are all alike,” ried the war correspondent hopelessly Petticoat or pantaloon, always looking for trouble.”” ‘No, Cutty; simply we don’t run away rom it. And there’s just as much Irish in , , % as there is In me missioner. I y move out of tl ' Sure And for thirty years I've gone hunting for trouble, and never failed to I don’t like this affair, Kitty; and because I don’t I’m going to risk my Sam on locks in your lily-white hands. I am going to tell you two things: I am a secret foreign agent of the United States Goverr ment. Now don’t light up that way. Dark alleys and secret papers and beautiful ad- venturesses and bang-bang have nothing at all to do with my job. There isn’t a grain of romance in it. Ostensibly I am a I have handled all the big events in Serbia and Bulgaria and Greece and Southwestern Russia. Boil ywn, | am a census taker of undesirables. war correspondent. ed THE SATURDAY Socialist, anarchist and Bolshevik—I pho- tograph them in my mental ‘fillums’ and transmit to Washington. Thus, when Feodor Slopeski lands at Ellis Island with the idea of blowing up New York, he is re- turned with thanks. I didn’t ask for the job; it was thrust upon me because of my knowledge of the foreign tongues. I ac- cepted it because I am a loyal American citizen.” “‘And you left me because you didn’t know who might be at the door!” “Precisely. I am known in lower New York under another name. I’m a rabid internationalist. Down with everything! I don’t go out much these days; keep under cover as much as I can. Once recognized, my value would be nil. In a flannel shirt I’m a dangerous codger.” “‘And Gregor and this poor young man are in some way mixed up with internation alism!” “Victims, probably.” “What is the other thing you wish to tell me?” “Because your eyes are slate blue like your mother’s. I loved your mother, Kitty,” said Cutty, blinking into his pipe. “And the singular fact is, your father knew but your mother never did. I was never able to tell your mother after your father died. Their bodies were separated, but not their spirits.” Kitty nodded. So that was it? Poor Cutty! “I make this confession because I want you to understand my attitude toward you. I am going to elect myself as your special guardian so long as I’m in New York. From now on, when I ask you to do some- thing, understand that I| believe it best for you. If my suspicions are correct we are not dealing with fools but with madmen. The most dangerous human being, Kitty, is an honest man with a half-baked or crooked idea; and that’s what this world pother, Bolshevism, is—honest men with crooked ideas, carrying the torch of anarchism and believing it enlightenmer What makes them tear down things? Every beautiful building is only a monument to their for- mer wretchedness; and so they annihilate. None of them actually knows what he wants. A thousand will-o’-the-wisps in front of them, and all alike. A thousand years to throw off the shackles, and they ex- pect Utopia in ten minutes! It makes you want toweep. Socialism—the brotherhood of man--is a beautiful thing theoretically; but it is like some plays—they read well but do not act. Lopping off heads, be- lieving them to be ideas!” “The poor things!” “That’s it Though I betray them I pity them. Democracy; slowly and surel; As prickly with faults as a cactus pear; but every year there are less prickles. We don’t stand still or retrogress; we ke p go ing onandup. Take this town. Think of it to-day and compare it with the town your father knew. There’s the bell. I im- agine that will be Harrison. If we can move this chap will you go to a hotel for or the night “I’m going to stay here, Cutty. That's final.” Cutty sighed. 1x A THE precinct station the squat man gave a name and an address to the bored sergeant at the desk, passed out a cigar, lit one himself, expressed some in nocuous opinions upon one or two topies of the day, and walked leisurely out of the pre- cinct. He wanted to laugh. These pig- heads had never thought to question his presence in the back yard of the house in Seventy-ninth Street. It was the way he had carried himself. Those years in New York, prior to the war, had not been wasted The brass-buttoned fool Serenely unconscious that he was at liberty by explicit orders, because the De partment of Justice did not care to trap a werewolf before ascertaining where the pack was and what the kill, ne proceeded leisurely to the corner, turned and broke into a run, which carried him to a drug store in Eightieth Street Here he was joined by two men, apparently coal heavers by the look of their hands and faces “They will take him to a hospital. Find where, then notify me. Remember, this is your business, and woe to you if you fail Where is it?” One of the men extended an object wrapped in ordinary grocer’s paper “Ha! That’s good. I shall enjoy my self presently. Remember: Telephone me the moment you learn where they take EVENING POST him. He is still alive, bunglers! And you came away empty-handed.” “There was nothing on him. We searched.” “He has hidden them in one of those rooms. I'll attend to that later. Watch the hospital for an hour or so, then tele- phone for information regarding his condi- tion. Is that motor for me? Very good. Remember!” Inside the taxicab the squat man patted the object on his knees, and chuckled from time to time audibly. It would be worth all that journey, all he had gone through since dawn that morning. Stefani Gregor! After these seven long years—the man who had betrayed him! To reach into his breast and squeeze his heart as one might squeeze a bit of cheese! Many things to tell, many pictures to paint. He rode far downtown, wound in and out of the warehouse district for a while, then dismissed the taxi and proceeded on foot to his destination—a decayed brick mansion of the 40’s sandwiched in between two deserted warehouses. In the hall of the first landing a man sat in a chair under the gas, reading a newspaper. At the approach of the squat man he sprang to his feet but a phrase dissipated his apprehension and he nodded toward a door. “Unlock it for me and see that I am not disturbed.” Presently the squat man stood inside the room, which was dark. He struck a match and peered about for the candle. The light discovered a room barren of all furniture excepting the table upon which stood the candle, and a single chair. In this chair was aman, bound. He was small and dap- per, his gray hair swept back a la Liszt. His chin was on his breast, his body limp. Apparently the bonds alone held him in the chair. The squat man laid his bundle on the table and approached the prisoner. “Stefani Gregor, look up; itis I!’ He drummed on his chest like a challenging gorilla. ‘I, Boris Karlov!” Slowly the eyelids of the prisoner went up, revealing mild blue eyes. But almost instantly the mildness was replaced by an agate hardness, and the body became up- right “Yes, it is Boris, whom you betrayed But I escaped by a hair, Stefani; and we meet again.” What good to tell this poor madman that Stefani Gregor had not betrayed him, that he had only warned those marked for death? There was no longer reason inside that skull. To die, probably in a few mo ments. So be it. Had he not been ready for seven years? But that poor boy—to have come all these thousands of miles, only to walk into a trap! Had he found that note? Had they killed him? Doubt less they had or Boris Karlovy would not be in this room ‘We killed him to-night, Stefani, in your rooms. We threw out the food so he would have to seek something te eat The last of that breed, stem and branch! We are no longer the mud; we ourselves are the heels. We are conquering the world. To day EF sours; to-morrow, America!’ A wintry little smile stirred the lip of the man in the chair America, with its keen perceptions of the ridiculou it withering humor! ‘No more the dissolute opera dancer will dance to your fiddling, Stefani, while we starve in the town. Fiddler, valet, tu tor, the rivers and seas of Russia are red We roll east.and west, and our emblem i red. Stem and branch! We ground our heels in theit faces as for centuries the ground theirs in ours He escaped u there but I was Nem«e He died to night.” The body in the chair relaxed a littl ‘*He was clean and honest, Bori I made him so. tle would have done fine things if you had let him live “That breed?” “Why, you yourself loved him when he was a boy!” “Stem and branch! I loved my littl ister Anna too. But what did they do to her behind those marble walls? Did you fiddle for her? What wa he when they let her go? My pretty little Anna!. The fires of hell for those damned greer stones of yours, Stefani! She heard of them and that was it? Be ] ] her there I never kne it brought her. But the } as in Er and t ‘ “The breed, the breed!” roared the squat man. ‘Ha, but you should have seen! Those gay officers and their damned master—we left them with their faces in the mud, Stefani; in the mud! And the women begged Fine music! Those proud hearts, begging Boris Karlov for their lives—their faces in the mud! You, born of us in those Astrakhan Hills, you denied us because you liked your fic and a full belly, and to play keeper of those emeralds. The winding paths of torture and misery and death by which they came into the possession of that house! And al ways the proletariat has had to pay in blood and daughters. You, of the people, to be tray us!” “I did not betray you. I only tried to save those who had been kind to me.” A cunning light shot into Karlov’s eye “The emeralds!" He struck his pocket “Here, Stefani; and they shall be broken up to buy bread for our people.” “That poor boy! So he brought them! What are you going to do with me?” “Watch you grow thin, Stefani. You want death; you shall want food instead Oh, a little; enough to keep yeu alive, You must learn what it is to be hungry.” The squat man picked up the bundle from the table and tore off the wrapping paper. A violin the color of old Burgundy lay revealed. ‘Boris!’ The man in the chair writhed. “Have I waked you, Stefani? "’-—tenderly “The Stradivarius—the very grand duke of fiddles! And he and his damned offi cers, how they used to call out—‘Get Ste fani to fiddle for us!’ And you fiddled, dragged your genius through the mud to keep your belly warm!” “Tosaveasoul, Boris —the boy’s. When I fiddled his uncle forgot to drag him into anorgy. Ah, yes; I fiddled, fiddled because I had promised his mother!” “The Italian singer! She was lucky to die when she did She did not see the torch, the bayonet and the mud. But the boy did—with his English accent! How he escaped I don’t know; but he died to-nigl and the emeralds are in my | Karlov held the instrument close to the other’s face. ‘‘Look at it well, this grand duke of fiddles. Look, fiddler, look!” The huge hand ly was a brittle crackl came kindling. A ) r oner’s lips. What to Karlov wa vocket, See al him was a soul. He saw the madman fling the wreckage to the floor and grind |} heels into the fragn ents Gregor ut hi eyes, but he could not shut his ear old demoniacal fury of the the rising of maddened NA EANTIME Captain Harrison of the M Medical ( orps entered the Conover apartment briskly ‘You old vagabond, what hav up to?. I beg pardon! as he saw Kitty emerge from behind Cutty’s bulk. ‘This is Miss Conover, Harrison.” “Very pleased, I’m sure Luckily my case wa n the coat room at the club I took the liberty of telephoning for Mis Frances, wh returned on the same p th me I concluded that your friend A ‘ Let me have a K at ni light ind skillfully the surgeon examined the battered head I caped concussion by a hair, you might sa Probably had |} IS Cap on That bla eve though, is an older affair Who is he “T suspect he’s some political refugee We don't know a thing ab t hin the wise How soon can he be moved? “He ought to be moved at once and give the best of care.” ‘I can give him that in my eag est Hart m, this chap’ fe is in danger i! f we get hir nto n {t ligging be al trace hit Not f { here there’s a private hospital I k1 yoes throug! from one street to é ‘ | I x the docto We’ } ‘ he a l lanes r the patient there, | i F ear | have one of the lice ne tru And after a little wait we the stretcher into the trucl The po will not bother u | ve een to tnat | rather believe it falls in with ! of 1 vorl [he main idea, of course t M Conover of ar trouble Just a l i agreeqa the urs “That ill I can do for the preser | run ¢ n to the entrance and ut f t

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remained ou er to me THE SATURDAY I’m beginning to like you im- ling ‘Perhaps women if o husbands—one young and handsome and the other old and wise urself.”’ wished he were alone in order to the stab Old! When he knew lly and physically he could take a dozen Two-Hawks. Old! He thougnt | mself that. Fifty they had piled up on him with appreciation of the fullness of the ore. And yet he was more than a match for any ordinary man of thirty, in sinew and brain; and no man met the new morn ng with more zest then he himself met it. But to Kitty he was old! Lavender and \ belr aped on his door were Oan lea y ; aughed. ve knob He | “Why do you laugh?” “Oh, because Ha The two of them ran t .e bedroom And then a guttural reached out for a rushing over ragged pered. ‘He is a Rus “There are Serbian Olgas and Bulgarian Olgas and Rumanian Olgas. Probably his sweetheart.” “The poor thing!” ‘Sounds like Russian,” added Cutty, his conscience pricking him. But he wel comed that “Olga.” It would naturally put a damper on Kitty’s interest. ‘‘ There's Harrison with the nurse.” Quarter of an hour later the patient was taken down to the ambulance and conveyed the private hospital. Cutty had no way of ascertaining whether they were followed; but he hoped the y would be. The knowl edge that their victim was in a near-by hospital would naturally serve to relax the enemy vigilance temporarily; and thi vould permit safely and secretly the second leg of the journey—that to his own apart- ment He decided to let an hour go past; then : s was taken through the build ar and transferred to the truck. at with the driver while Captain on and the nurse rode inside with the patient. On the way Cutty was rather disturbed by the deep impression Kitty Conover had made upon his heart and mind. That after- noon he had looked upon her with fatherly condescension, as the pretty daughter of the two he had loved most. From the al- titude of his fifty-two he had gazed down yn her twenty-four, weighing her as like young women of twenty-four—pleasure- ving and beau-hunting and fashion- corched; and in a flash she had revealed the formed mind of a woman of thirty. Altitude. He had forgotten that relative to altitudes there are always two angles of ion—that from the summit and that from the green valle y below Kitty Saw him beyond the tree line, but just this side of the snows—and matched his condescen yn with pity! He chuckled. Doddering what did it matter how she looked it him? Beautiful and young and full of common nse, yet dangerously romantical. To wait for the man she wanted, what did that ignify but romance? And there was her Irish blood to consider. The association of pretty nurse at d interesting patient always afforded excellent background for senti- mental nonsense, the obligations of the one and the gratitude of the other. Well, he had nipped that in the bud. And why hadn't he taken this Two- Hawks person— how easy it was to fall into Kitty’s way of nam the chap!—why hadn't he taken him directly to the Roose velt? Wh y all this pother and secrecy over atotalstranger? Stefani Gregor, who lived opposite Kitty and who hadn't prospered particularly since the day he had exhibited the drums of jeopardy —he was the reason. These were volcanic days, and a friend of Stefani Gregor—who played the violin like Paganini—might well be worth the trouble of a little courtesy. Then, too, there was that mark of the thong—a charm, a mili- tary identification disk or something of value. Whatever it was, the rogues had got it. Murder and loot And as soon as he returned to consciousness the young fel- low would be making inquiries. Perhaps Kitty’s point of view regarding a certain duffer aged fifty-two was nearer the truth than the duffer himself realized. hildhood! As if the drums of EVENING POST jeopardy would ever again see light, after that tempest of fire and death—that mud volcano! One thing was certain—there would be no more cat-napping. The game was on again. He was assured of that side of it. Green stones, the sunlight breaking against the flaws in a shower of golden sparks; green as the pulp of a Champagne grape; the drums of jeopardy! Murder and loot; he could understand. Immediately after the patient was put to bed Cutty changed. A nondescript suit of the day-laborer type and a few deft touches of coal dust completed his make-up. “T shan’t be back until morning,” he an- nounced. ‘‘Work todo. Kuroki will be at your service through the night, Miss Fran- ces. Strike that Burmese gong once, at any hour. Come along, Harrison.” ‘Want any company?” asked Harrison, with a belligerent twist to his mustache. Cutty laughed. ‘‘No. You run along to your lambs. I’m running with the wolves to-night, old scout, and you might get that spick-and-span uniform considerably mussed up. Besides, it’s raining.” “But what’s to become of Miss Conover? She ought not to remain alone in that apart- ment.” “Well, well! I thought of that too. But she can take care of herself.” “Those ruffians may call up the hospital and learn that we tricked them.” “And then?” ‘Try to force the truth from Miss Con- ‘That’s pre isely the wherefore of this coal dust. On your way!” Eleven o'clock. Kitty was in the kitchen, without light, her chair by the window, which she had thrown up. She had gone to bed, but sleep was impossible. So she decided to watch the ror windows for a while. Sometimes the mind is like a movie camera set for a double exposure. The whole scene is visible, but the camera sees only half of it. Thus, while she saw the windows across the court there entered the other side of her mind a picture of the immaculate Cutty crossing the platform with Johnny Two-Hawks thrown over his shoulder. The mental picture obscured the actual. She had called him old. Well, he was old. And no doubt he looked upon her as a child, wanting her to spend the night at a hotel! The affair was over. No one would bother Kitty Conover. Why should they? But it took strength to shoulder a man like that. What fun he and her father must have had together! And Cutty had loved her mother! That made Kitty exquisitely tender fora moment, ilone, at the age when new friendships were impossible. A lovable man like that going down through life alone! Census taker of alien undesirables; a queer occupation for a man so famous as Cutty. Patriotism—to plunge into that seething revolutionary scum to sort the dangerous madmen from the harmless mad- men. Courage and strength and mental resource; yes, Cutty possessed these; and he would be the kind te laugh at a joke ora hurt. One thing, however, was ir delibly printed on her mind. Stefani Gregor—either Cutty had met and known the man or he had heard of him Suddenly she became conscious that she was blinking as one blinks from mirror- reflected sunlight. She cast about for the source of this phenomenon. Obliquely from between the interstices of the fire- escape platform came a point of moving white light. She craned her neck. A bat- tery lamp! The round spot of light worked along the cement floor, vanished occasion- ally, reappeared, and then vanished alto- gether. Somebedy was down there hunting for sémething. What? Kitty remained with her head out of the window for some time, unmindful of the spatter of rain. But nothing happened. The man was gone. Of course the incident might not have the slightest bearing upon the previous adventures of this amazing night;still,it wassuggestive. Theyoungman hadwornsomethingroun ihisneck. Butifhis enemies had it why should this man comb he court, unless hc vas a tenant and had knocked something off a window ledge? She began to appreciate that she was very tired, and decided to go back to bed. This time she fell asleep. Her disordered thoughts rearranged themselves in a dazzling dreang. She found herself wandering through a glorious translucent green cavern—a huge January 31,1920 emerald. And in the distance she heard that unmistakable tumpitum-tump! tumpitum- tump! It drew her irresistibly. She fought and struggled against the fascinating sound, but it continued to draw her on. Suddenly from round a corner came the squat man, his hair 4 la Fuzzy-Wuzzy. He caught her savagely by the shoulder and dragged her toward a fire of blazing diamonds. On the other side of that fire was a blond young woman with a tiara of rubies on her head. “Save me! Iam Olga, Olga!” Kitty strug- gled fiercely and awoke. The light was on. At the side of her bed were two men. One of them was holding her bareshoulder and digging his fingers into it cruelly. They looked like coal heavers. ‘*We do not wish to harm you, and won’t if you’re sensible. Where did they take 9” the man you brought here? xI | ITTY did not wrench herself loose at once. She wasn’t quite sure that this was not a continuance of her nightmare. She knew that nightmares had a way of breaking off in the middle of things, of never arriving anywhere. The room looked natural enough and the pain in her shoulder seemed real enough, but one never could tell. She decided to wait for the next episode. “Answer!” cried the spokesman of the two, twisting Kitty’s shoulder. ‘Where did they take him?” Aw ! Kitty wrenched her shoulder away : swept the bedclothes up to her chin. She was thoroughly frightened, but her brain was clear. The spark of self- preservation flew hither and about in search of expediencies, temporizations. She must come through this somehow with the van- tage on her side. She could not possibly betray that poor young man, for that would entail the betrayal of Cutty also. She saw but one avenue, the telephone; and these two men were on the wrong side of the bed, between her and the door. “What do you want?” Her throat was so dry she wondered whether the words were projected far enough for them to hear. ‘“‘We want the address of the wounded man you brought into this apartment.” [hey took him to a hospital.” .e was taken away from there.” ““H> was?” “Yes, he was. You may not know where, but you will know the address of the man who tricked us; and that will be sufficient.” “The army surgeon? He was called in by chance. I don’t know where he lives.” “The man in the dress suit.” “He was with the surgeon.” “‘He came first. Come; we have no time to waste. We don’t want to hurt you, and we hope you will not force us.” “Will you step out of the room while I dress _ “No. Tell us where the man lives, and you can have the whole apartment to your- self = “You speak English very well.” “Enough! Do you want us to bundle you up in the bedclothes and carry you off? It will not be a pleasant experience for a pretty young woman like yourself. Some- thing happened to the man you knew as Gregory. Will that make you understand?” “You know what abduction means?” “Your police will not catch us.” “But I might give you the wrong address.” “Try it and see what happens. Young lady, this is a bad affair for a woman to be mixed up in. Be sensible. We are in a hurry.” “Well, you seem to have acquired at least one American habit!” said a gruff voice from the bedroom doorway. ** Raise your hands quickly, and don’t turn,” went on the gruff voice. “If I shoot it will be to kill. It is a rough game, as you say. That’s it; and keep them up. Now then, young lady, slip on your kimono. Get up and search these men. I’m in a hurry too.” Kitty obeyed, very lovely in her dishev- elment. Repugnant as the task was she disarmed the two men and flung their weapons on the bed. “Now something to tie their hands; any- thing that will hold.” i Kitty could see the speaker now. An- other coal heaver, but evidently on her side. “Tie their hands behind them. .. . warn you not to move, men. When I say I'll shoot I mean it. Don’t be afraid of hurting them, miss. Very good. Now band- age their eyes. Handkerchiefs.” But Kitty’s handkerchiefs did not run to the dimensions required; so she ripped up a petticoat. Torn between her eagerness to (Continued on Page 99)

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98 A. C. Penn, whe found and developed the Double Bevel Blade THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 1° you know why you're dissatisfied with your shaving? Do you know why you go on trying razor after razor? Do you know why you try to cultivate resignation each day, when your roughened skin shrinks away from your harsh razor edge? I am going to tell you why. It’s because you have not yet used a razor blade which shaves off the beard and nothing else. C1] 10) 10) The difference between a cut, a scrape, and a shave is less than 1-1000 of an inch! The Double-Bevel on the Penn Blade takes care of this 1-1 000th. G] 10} 10} One day, some years ago, in a little side-street shop in a Euro- pean city, I bought a hand-ground razor, When I shaved with it, I could hardly feel the edge. After I had finished, my face actually felt better than before I started. And when I touched my face, the skin felt so smooth that I kept running my hand over my cheek, Penn-azor I went back to that small shop, and asked the owner how he pro- duced such a remarkable edge. This is what he told me: 1G} 10} 0} “When a razor scrapes and leaves your face sore, that’s be- cause it is shaving off some of the skin along with the beard. “The blade is digging into the surface of the skin. The pressure necessary to carry it through the beard makes it dig. ~Ordinary ~One Bevel Blade Double Bevel Blade Comparison showing the reason why the Penn Double-Bewe!l Blade does not d y into the skin “In grinding my razors, I add an extra bevel—very narrow—you can hardly see it—right close to the edge. “This bevel lifts up the keen edge, and holds it flat against the face. Thus it shaves off the beard, but does not dig into the skin. “That's why my edge leaves your face feeling fine.” 0] 10} 2] I saw immediately that this was the razor edge which thousands of men were looking for. When I came home, I started the work of applying this double- bevel principle to the safety-razor With the Double Bevel Blades” Singer Building, New York, N. Y. A. C. PENN, Inc. Newark, N. J. blade— which has to be very thin, and has to be machine-ground. It was no easy problem. Now, after years of study and painstaking experiment, I have it. 1G} iO} C1] Unless you are willing to get a Penn Razor and try the Penn Double-Bevel Blade, you will not believe that any razor edge can actually make your face feel fine after shaving. But when you do do this, you'll be the happiest shaver going. And—like every other Penn shaver — you'll tell your friends about your discovery. 1} Oo Oo Penn Double-Bevel Blades fit all models of Penn Razors. The New Penn Adjustable Razor and ten Double-Bevel Blades, in leather case, $5. Penn Shaving Sets, in- cluding Ad- justable Razor, ten blades,and Honing Strop, in leather case, $7.50 and $10. Note: If the store where you usually trade has not yet stocked Penn Adjustable Razors,writeus. We'll see that you are supplied. January 31,1920

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Continued from Page 96) complete a disagreeable task and her of- fended modesty Kitty went through the performance with creditable alacrity. Then she jumped back into bed, doubled her knees and once more drew up the bed- clothes to her chin, content to be a spec- tator, her eyes as wide as ever they possibly could be. Some secret-service man Cutty had sent to protect her. Dear old Cutty! Small won- der he had urged her to spend the night at a hotel. The admiration of her childhood returned, but without the shackles of shy- ness. She had always trusted him abso- lutely, and to this trust was now added understanding. To have him pop into her life again in this fashion, all the ordinary approac hes to intimacy wiped out by these amazing pag oy the years bridged in an hour! If only he were younger! ‘Watch them, miss. Don't be afraid to shoot. I'll return in a moment’—still gruffly. The secret-service man pushed his risoners into chairs and left the bedroom. Kitty did not care how gruff the voice was; it was decidedly pleasant in her ears. Gingerly she picked up one of the revolvers. Kitty Conover with shooting irons in her hands, like a movie actress! She heard a whistle. After this an interval of silence, save for the ticking of the alarm clock on the stand. She eyed the blindfolded men speculatively, swung out of bed and put on her stockings and sandals; then she sat on the edge of the bed and waited for the se- quence. Kitty Conover was going to have some queer recollections e tell her grand- children, providing she had any. That morning she had risen to face a humdrum normal day. And here she was, at midnight, hobnobbing with quiescent murder and sudden death! To-morrow surlingame would ask her to hustle up the Sunday stuff, and she would hustle. § She wanted to laugh, but was a little afraid that this laughter might degenerate into incipient hysteria. There was still in her mind a vivid recol- lection of her dream —the fire of diamonds nd the blond girl with the tiara of rubies. Olga, Olga! Russian; the whole affair was Russian. She shivered. Always that land und people had appeared to her in sinister aspect; no doubt an impression acquired from reading melodramas written by Eng lishmen who, once bay ng a time, had given Russia preéminence as a politi ical menace, Russia, in all things music, art, livera- ture the tragic note. Stefani Gregor and Johnny Two-Hawks had rouse] the enmity i some political society, wi-h this result Nihilist or Bolshevist or socialist, there was little choice; and Cutty sensibly did not want her drawn into the whirlpool. What a pleasant intimacy hers and Cutty’s promised to be! And if he hadn't casually dropped into the office that after- noon she would have surrendered the affair to the police, and that would have been the end of it. Amazing thought—you might jog a slong all your life at the side of a person and never know him half so well as some- one you met in a tense episode, like t of the immaculate Cutty cros ing the fire escape with Two-Hawks on his shoulders! She heard the friendly coal heaver going down the corridor to the door. When he returned to the bedroom two men panied him. Not a word was said. men marched off with the prisoners and left Kitty alone with her savior. “Thank you,” she said simply. “You poor little chicken, did you believe I had deserted you?” The voice wasn’t gruff now. “Cutty?” Kitty ran to him, flinging her arms round his neck. ‘“‘Oh, Cutty!” Cutty’s heart, which had bumped along an astonishing number of million times in fifty-two years, registered a memorable bump against his ribs. The touch of her soft arms and the faint indescribable per- fume which emanates from a dainty wom- an’s hair thrilled him beyond any thrill he had ever known. For Kitty’s mother had never put her arms round old Cutty’s neck, Of course he understood re lily enougn: Molly’s girl, flesh of her flesh. And she had rushed to him as she would have rushed to her father He patted her shoulder clum sily,s tilla lit tle dazzled for all the revelation in the analysis. The sweet intimacy of it! The door of Paradise opened for a moment and then shut in his face. ‘I did not recognize you at all!” she cried, standing off. ‘I shouldn’t have known you on the street. And it is so sim- ple. What a wonderful man you are!” ‘For an old codger?” Cutty’s heart reg- istered another sizable bump, t} accom- rhe two THE SATURDAY Kitty laughed. ‘Never call yourself old to me again. Are you always doing these things? “Well, I keep moving. I suspected some- thing like this might happen. Those two will go to the Tombs to await deportation if they are aliens. Perhaps we can dig something out of them relative to this man Gregor. Anyhow, we'll try.” ““Cutty, I saw a man in the court with a pocket lamp before I went to bed. He was hunting for something.” “IT didn’t find anything but a lot of fresh food someone had thrown out.” ‘It was you, then?” “Yes. There was a vague possibility that your protégé might have thrown out some- thing valuat ble during the struggle.” is hat?’ “Lord knows! A ~arnad business, Kitty, you've lugged me into—my own! And there is one thing I want you to remember particularly: Life means nothing to the men opposed, neither chivalry nor ethics, Annihilation is their business. They don’t want civilization; they want chaos. They have lost the sense of comparisons or they would not seek to thrust Bolshevism down the throats of the rest of the world. They say democracy has fail led, and their sub- stitute is murder an 1 loot. Kitty, I want you to leave this roost. : “T shall stay until my lease expires, “Why? In the face of real dancer?” ‘Because I intend to, Cutty— unless you kidnap me.” ‘Have you any good reason “You'll laugh; but something tells me to stay here.” But Cutty did not laugh. ‘Very well. To-morrow an assistant janitor will be installed. His name is Antonio Bernini. Every night he will whistle up the tube. Whistle back. If you are going out for the evening notify him where you intend to go and when you expect to be back. A wire from your bed to his cot will be installed, In danger, press the button. That’s the best I can do for you, since you decide to stick. I don't believe anything more will happen to-night, but from now on you will be watched. ‘ver come directly to my apartment. Break your journey two or three times, with taxis. Always use Eleva- tor Four. T! » boy is mine; be longs to the service. So our Bolshevik friends won't gather anything about you from him,” As a matter of fact Cutty had now come to the conviction that it would be well to let Kitty remain here as a lure. He had urged her to leave, and she had refused, so his conscience was tolerably clear. Be- sides, she woul henceforth be guarded with a ceaseless etliciency second only to that which encompasses a President of the United States. Always some man of the service would be watching those who watched her. This was going to develop into a game of small nets, one or two vic- tims at a time. Because » the 3¢ enemies of civilization lacked coherence in action there would be slim chance of rounding them up in bulk. But from now on men would van ish—one here, a pair there, perhaps on occasion four or five. And those who had known them would know them no more, The policy would be that employed by the British in the submarine campaign—mys terious silence after the evdnishment. “It’s all so exciting!” said Kitty. ‘‘ But that poor old man Gregor! He had a won derful violin, Cutty; and sometimes I used to hear him play folklore music—sad, haunting melodies. **We'll know in a little while what’s be- come of him. I doubt there is a foreign organization in the city that hasn't one or more of our men on the inside. A word will be dropped! somewhere. I'm ly active on this side of the Atlantic; and I'm doing now is practically due to interest, EVENING POST sut every active operative in New Yorl Joston, Philadelphia and Chicago is on the lookout for a man who, if left free, will stir upa lot of trouble. He has leaders} ip, this Karlov, a former intimate here of y's. We have reason to believe that he slipped through the net in San Francisco, Probably under a cleverly forged passpor Now please describe the man wh with the policeman. I ha make inquiries at the precin will have a minute description of him.’ “*He made me think of a gorilla, just as I told you. His face was pre up. Naturally 1 did not notice any sear A dreadfully black beard, shaven.’ “Squat, powertl il, like a gorilla. Lord, I wish I’d had a glimpse of him! He's one of the few topnotchers I haven’t met. He’ the spark, the hand on the yj powder is all ready in this land of ours; our job is to keep off the spark until We car spread the stuff so it will only go puff in stead of bang. This man Karlov is bad medicine for democra y Poor devil “Why do you say that?” “Because I’m honestly sorry for them. This fellow Karlov has suffered. He is now a species of madman nothing will cure. He and his kind have gained their ends in Russia, but the impetus to kill and burn and loot is still unchecked. Sorry, ye but we can't have them here. They remind me of nothing so much as those blind deep sea monsters in one of Kipling’s tale thrown up into air and sunlight by submarine volcano, slashing and bellowing. But we can’t have them here any | r. Keep those revolvers under your pillow. All you have to do is to point, Not ody will know that. you can’t shoot. And always re member, we're watchir g over you, Good night.” ** Mouquin’s for lunch? “Well, I'll be hanged! But it can’t be, Kitty. You and I must not be seen in public. If that was Karlovy you will be marked, and so will anyone who travels with you.” “Good gr acious! “Fact. But come up to the roost changing taxis—to-morrow at five and have 7—T) tea Down in the street Cutty bore into the slanting rain, no k ng ra drizzle. With his hands jamme od in his side pockets and his gaze on the sparkling pavement he cor tinued downtown, in a dangerously rumi native frame of mind, dangerous because had he been followed he would known it. Molly Conover’s girl! it had been Tommy Conover yiri now she was Molly's. It occurred to him for the first time that he was one of those unfort That afternoor nate individuals who are always able to open the door to Paradise for others and are themselves forced to ret outside Hadn't heir trod iced Conovert Moll y,and hadn't they f ee 5 old to be He grinne line. Of course it wasn't peculiar cor n in moti her arms and the perfume of her hair. The actual thrill had come from a recrudescence of a vanished passion; any! ¥, a pa on that had been held suspended all these years. Still, it offered a disquieting pro pect. He wa ensible enough to realize that he would be in for some confusion in rying tod associate the phantom Irom the quick. Most pretty young women were flitter- flutters, unsthble, shallow, immature, But this little lady had depth, the sense of the living drama; and, Lord, she wa ich a beauty! Wanfed a man who ild laugh when he was happy and when he was hurt A bull’s-eye like that! For the only; breed wort} ) i 1 hurt rushing into la ighed when The average young woman his arms the way she had, would not have stirred him in the least. And immediately upon the heels of this thought came a taste of the confusion he saw in store for himself Was it the phantom or Kitty? He jumped to another angle to escape the impasse Kitty's coming to him in that fashion raised an unpalatabl iggestior He evidently looked fatherly, no matter how he felt. Hang these fifty-two years, to come crowd- ing his doorstep a He raised his head and laughed. Hesud At nine that night denly rememberes he had been scheduled to deliver a lecture on the Italo-Jugoslav muddle before a dis tinguished audience in the ballroom of ¢ famous hotel! He would have some hener apologizing to do in the morning He stepped into a doorway, then peered out cautiously. There was nota single pede trian in sight. No need of hiking any fur- ther in this rain; so he hunted for a taxi To-morrow he would set the wires humming relative tooldStefani Gregor. Boris Karlov, if indeed it were he, would lead the way Hadn't Stefani and Boris been boyhood friends, and hadn't Stefar betrayed the latter in some political affair? He wasn’t sure; but a glance among his 1912 notes ' r would clear u But that young chap! Who was he Cutty set ! process of logical deduction moving Karlov —always unpodes that yorilla was Karloy—had come in from the west. So had the young man. Gregor’s in- clinations had been toward the aristocracy ; at least, that had been the impression A Bolshevik would not seek haven with a man like Gregor, as this young man had. But Two-Hawks bothered him; the name both ered him, because it had no sense either in English or in Russian d yet he was sure he had heard it somewhere Perhaps his notes would throw some light on that sub- ject too, When he arrived home Miss Frances, the nurse, informed him that the patient was babbling in an outlandish tongue. For a y the bedside, tran long time Cutty stood | lating “Olga! . . Olga! And she gave me food, Stefani, t} arming American girl Never must we forget that I wa hungry, and she gave me food But paid for it You, gone, there was no one else And she is poor. . . . The torches! lam burning, burning!... Olga!” ‘Wl it d " he ay — ked the nurse ‘It is Russiar Isitact ’” he evaded ‘Not necessari Doctor Harrison said he would probal return to consciousne ometime to-morrow But he must have absolute quiet. No visitor A bad blow, but not of fatal ec equence l've seen hundreds of cases much worse pull out in a fortnight. You'd better go to bed, sir.’ All right,” said Cutty gratefully. He wus tired. The ball did not rebound as it used to; the re ence was petering out | gy events were toward, and he most not stop to feel of h ] Three the morning The mar ! the C;revgor bedroom sat down on the bed, the pocket lamp dangling from } hairy finger Not a nook or cranny in the apartment had he overlooked In every cupboard, dr r i he bed and u the nh behind the radia tor the picture the helves and clothes in the closet What he sought he had not found His vengeance would not be complete thout those yvreer tone n ni hand Anna would, call f i her grave Pretty little Anna, who had trusted Stefani Gregor ind gone to herd IY LI] these thousands of miles, by hook and ere I forged passport I im f I ne ee Diess Nig ind t ry day for 1 ' I'he ‘ f ‘ mn | { the bore 1 out { ré 1 thie tone il hed! A que | had taken lod re } bra hie ed tne { ¢ i. I} ‘ f +} ‘4 ‘ ’ ; ‘ 4 rt tr (y it r Gree to for ( ' Green stones for i! e drut { pardy! In } Is the 1 be ta i r) t’ I} t prett yirl acro the po yr hie id trusted the st ‘ to her Or hidde them there without her being a e of it I

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 THE COUNSEL OF THE UNGODLY (Continued from Page 4 apologeti ) yr ity ) IK, however, by tl im i, con ider yoursé f engaged,” Mr mile reach a breathing at ’ r alk, avis¢ clinched the matter, “‘for a mont} anvhow If Mary don’t want you I gue i von t break ] ju, madame for Ameri taking Daggage anc those sort Ww uid doubted! 1b About What Trunks are to Go To«meorro a fs } man Mi You been over here long isked Pourtant ¢ ['wenty years, madame.” | remember I was : am ~ my . for wngland. T per: , g off yngruous You could take n all right,”’ rs as » wolf must | Davison commented, ‘*: t’d | f iding Hood’s peignoir, but iniste e to be able to ? emoriselle.”’ repli 1 after a now and then and ood, moment’s pause, subtly designed to indicate » read to go bac now nowing much do you ask?” that I had been forced to wrest her meaning I named my wage from a strange tongue Got any f ( ‘ia “ Mis’ : Davison’s told me you t , I TI ; pet dowr gathere« * th lL aske , no niy to be agreeah| but because I wanted information “Eight years,” she said. ‘‘ Brought from Altoona.” With that she went from the room a though she were afraid I might be trouble some. She left me with the distinct impres it we could never be trul ve Continued on Page 105

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 105 ‘ ' ontinue d from wae 102 - : She wa 0 ple ised at that it ¢ ews] erp I a , ve ) 1 if it the tru ne pl g of their past that it assuaged he r t ey ‘ | | er whicl I ket ( W be part of elanchol ‘ p i ‘ ven roses spread polychromatic riot. It led, ** Roxie! You’re a man of sense, Jacob ft. TI e fire perhaps the heat wa erson appeared “What'd you d pre ve ’ @ ré what happened. Also I had it trunks are to go As neither Mrs. Davison nor he r Miss Mary w t so enraptured v and with 1 er. “He's our new ter seemed to have the tien. I the m ' ' é me | pose was for } ipport gave ‘ t the p Da t t left me i e, what hay et M t 1CNe . . I ened ha ¢ ee] ed of two ge ire We might as we go up aga t it hye ) I drear t N is protestir t mpanied é M Da nm philosopt ‘ | ‘ pw M 1) 4 tn me t e] yan excellent 1 tne Cant 10 any more tha ‘ t ‘ \ \ ‘ ‘ \ y} he ed being a bell felt a great Hope you'll tell us how things had ought that licated she w | t { was re not | emot | to go. We got the money, but we just he mad é ‘ ‘ | i that t ecome any nd of boy aid don't know.” with Roxie, alwa me t M Da e as a pleasant novelty for a mat Miss Davison seems to be vi nd Miss Davison told me the size of the ecause they printed them pictures in tl } ’ ‘ She gave me a me to wither the house and we worked together on inter real estate note tea t welet A r¢ la ! hh? hea ed impertinence that pre ime ! ist view g underservant he toot i - | t sec f I answered that fundamental an observatio terest in it, and she had some absurd idea I ‘ M DD) ppe t t ( e nin i hold over me M Mar he formed meé i iwout a te ency nme t ve I It a ‘ { ew ! ‘ eve a I ¢ 4 l hen I rea ed lad born.” wa a precaution wt h wo | « ur \ ! Iw ‘ it ew me ng strange about the I was perfect ire ew iotatior have amused my far neat I { 1 ne f i ¢ e } ed exact fitted to the occasi hut \ Finally we gathered together a g1 ip Neve ! 4 M 1 Are lJ smitt t came, and | ome t before | remembered it ‘Let free from Bolshevism, adenoids and dar ind str ed her hand \ ( t ire whether it was the second rocks their silence break.” gerous humors as the nonprescient mind of nice anyway 1) t she ‘ r ist 1 rain remembering ver That woman’s words were more eloquent man could hope to find, and one raw day I 11d e ha ’ M than any tribute I could have pronounced. Miss Mary and I took them to Warm Cove Marv had hee e | | I I 1, groping about ir to put the house in readine for Mr Miss Mar f i t t f | ’ ! Davison’'s Coming Mi M irTVy Was alwa iwa na ! he ‘ ‘ I’y M r Mar Davison,” the fmt amg ine ic al are ed me planning ways t pare a ike ( f her rrié ‘ ‘ . ( nt l¢ five times during the crossing, whict mother, which was a littl e flinging bat! he t tha P ‘ 4 e was at } with a long throat and Wi a long one I ate next her or I could salts In a pus t's tul is Mr D . ‘ ‘ . ¢ p ’ er grave eye She wore a Red Cro not boast » muc! Three of the five ne merely resented any intimation that he ittractior I ar ire Cleopatra he hands were twisting a iid ‘‘ Thanks.” Once, **W ; had to | ooked after rd ‘ ‘ ( wm op f f ‘ I got to my feet wit! nd once, “Think you're don't “IT guess if I stood two winters north of the Nile was a yo ‘ . ty w er and began an apolog uu?” The last remark was the result of Nome he imbled the mo that we I dazzled M Ma , ¢ ¢ ‘ eve ttained I offering her a cigarette, quite inadvert left her, “‘] could manage a night ina Ise gnored me she never failed t ! fest he ¢ ] ‘ of word eeded to entl but to the ¢ eme delight of the rest where maybe the furnace int working hbeher in nm per ae 20 of the table right.” ; \ f wh \ I'n I ept 1 waiting so long,” She lacked a certair oft charm, but It turned out to bea huge place and rathe excu 1 elf D et mie I t to be E there was something dependable about her appal ing WW it Patent-Jacobear wa i-man love wit M M the He tinge tugged at the magazine a that I grew to find not disagreeable and There were traces of fine mid-Victoriar paternal love that cries t igh e¢ totearit. Evident ch made me regret that incident whict woodwork and brasses that the decorator tect, a kind harml \ r ’ how to go or | \ a scar on our intercourse had failed to conceal and that made m« one feel ver l © Tre t me I woul rt ) ¢ Mrs Davisor nor her resent it more than an entirelv new house me doe not ire i ne day be fore our arrival That evening Miss Mary and it Ye M ) ] p for a Ww ly inte ew oO! front of ar pe fire in the brar ind Vv My mothe t lite understand was told we were to install made plans for the conduct of the house ‘Ta. ge people bes I f Ire hn he ¢ ourselves temporarily at the Biltmore I 1 In her timations concernir the 1 that we the erve ‘ | i by eep up wl Once there the Davisor nted the way they had been used t ng M M ercome the French I’ve le ed and thought that problem of what to do next ewasthat was almost as fra is her ther e and it ev but most of all I curious lack of purpose about the ménage “T don’t even know about food,” she L) n it was a social tr , e! omeone who that one sometime ees in families without said “Our idea of a grand d er Ww I hope re it ‘ eece tion—a blessé, you men. It appeared they did not intend to I en and ice cream on Sunday » toher daughter, s return to Altoona. They had uught a yu have t rder, onl; | ‘ pierced er | } place called Rosemount, at Warm ¢ ( yu expla about thir to 1 eve | te capta ( é ( te t vy I Long Island, and made all their plans to ) lay, because I want to learr MI | He t there, but uddenly the diff litle f tal ng Mr Da l edt the , nex the Dig r ‘ Y e—Idon't mw p life ir a new part f the count vomed in the fattest lir e imag ble ‘ t how ‘ me irge ind gave Mr Da ! \ t ‘ | got a p é ‘ ‘ e ¢ el ef er it called ‘the kippies.’ [ ain't going to te he ( tch the clot , I re ild | I d t now wl ve bought he less ¢ [he gave herse er ¢ Doe he Ml M ¢ € i, re ng to the propert ! “ ! i ne w ed é ‘ mot It ise é Iw t ut a Fre r f f eap and a real prett ew Che 1dmiratio treached a vhene And Mrs. I H ‘ ( om é e then muct ! ISt herce We had if its I ‘ pecte i t ! hoe f r et I ld when we get there? That’s what gets me emarked a ne n the ve I I | there w eft f We don't know a sou ) er he had broug} ‘ DI 7 : f ‘ | eT 1 had een sum! ned t tne ipart p te to her 1 ling he ‘ | | ‘ é ne { the ment because if L i¢ lt n Rose tra ) zg, dont uu tl M Da ‘ ¢ ‘ t wa eft { the mount I was to hire the « rp of se ant ‘It € nandsome M M igreed b \ / ¢ ( nt t for n nece ry tor the p € i rie ¢ [he é But Tr ‘ \ gilt table iw from the way \ Da had t's not ht lon’'t vw t M R e re | i ( elf t eep fil tated their p tion thatw t tne want don t, ] ( people ¥ Chere te H for t I t told hera wa me reenforce t of thei tent ething a t it that 1 t ‘ \ I | 1, ““ You will make friends there, | Now don't you be 1 ‘ ‘ | ( é f £ ¢ let i ire the nterrupted It ect f prett t f ‘ Moth ( for the ion’t know,” she answered dubiou ecorator ind I gue ( e gal | ¢ e alway ¢ Altoona, eve ¢ y She € f \“ Hew , I \1 T) I have but I ild take y and me got back from the Klondike mean by real people anyway, dearie? iughed Wi l sa ! tely as I knew how and anyhow We knew evervbody there, but , e me fee p ra | | f it. There happened that different Populat ym changes ever ‘I mean people wl ealvw } +} yy M Ma , tM 1) te ng, which I had hee five years Folks was ti ed to death t and know e people people ‘ with re ‘ igh to put off mending. M know us. I guess they won't break their read about.” | put A ‘ t | delayed me It wa necks out at Warm Cove.” Swe Mr Da ' asked " t ‘ eve me l¢ hat gave M Da They will call most certainly,’ t Her ana if ‘ . , ' ' ' ‘ meé e to recor l¢ vothing! mplicated wit! tietu M ‘ é How he aske Maybe the will—and 1 be not Yes, | suppose M M ¢ \ | t A I vered e | Mary thought it'd be a good f etog house ist e us, I gue f ew t I irmed "- because it » VE fas! ! e, bu l t see a yt \ wat é t I nar t ir we'd get to know 'em easier tl place a i g i t 4 eT like Newport where rn é neve p ( i wit he ‘ (i W hat,” she inter ww.” With this modest ervat e fe L ; fi ( f Y 1 used work I the Ne very del ite a Irance p gy t I he alad , 1 , af i H | n p > Il wa ilent M l) I had observed er treme ) t 4 \ AY 1) emitted a rh that was dangerou like vomen, wt } t} i Fi 1) 8 Lf You Ww a it plate ind thing a sob irming \ fte ‘ tt ri P ‘The folks l! Altoor 1 Wa good e! ug "4 we're a yrit M M iT Vert { ( ne f o Yes, M Da for me,”’ she asseverated but the lidn t m wit leep earnestne We're healt l ‘ The it | been on a long time | nterest Mary no more She wanted to and moral and rick gut I don’t want t ( | ‘ hed for t come East and there was no reasor ne ta eu I want t re met § \ 0 ke a good butler,’ she said houldn’t. She deser es anything she want now people and feel right whe I { | l gue n e we hadnt ought to n Land kr ws we { Na ! 1 the p be e 1] é na e ot getting i easiest time } ody t Ms t t . Miss Davison,” I respond 4 shadow fell over her fact her mothe ed he I's } ' ‘Terrible thing ive uppened t hurrv and eat r { et , , ' 1 r l we were ing to leave e ende ] re was blood on M er the ‘ ‘ cradie What for ner piite ed Continued on Page 108 : | / . ~*

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 And Hudson Also Is <p ermare S oMpe = Of Se etc neanpting moa parities ry we fe ae nO Bee tpi gens lap etgieny mage gen ae ern hpey ARES TAS Sees ei gets te ae se emi, she

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| (A | al 1 (! THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 107 Supreme In Distinction The Super-Six Has Always Set the Style kK have never sought to develop the Hludson Super Six as the greatest speed and power car in the world. It is true that in speed in hill-climbing in quick acceleration —no stock car ever matched it. Official records show that. But they are inci dental They were made in tests to prove Hudson endurance. Surely these great) performance qualities are enough to account for Hudson's five vears of leadership as the largest selling fine car in the world. Any owner would take pride ina car that none has equalled in’ any worthwhile per- 4 J formance record Yet a large class of Hudson buyers selected it for an alto vether different quality A Distinctive Design An Exclusive Motor SHOUSANDS chose it with an eve single to its beauty, charm and notable appearanee, They hold none Can surpass it in distinetion. For the Hudson looks its supremacy Hi every linne But it is idle to think that those who primarily seek fine appearance in a car, do not value the mechanical superiority of the Tludson Super-Six (granted you will never require such vreat speed, vel Hud son's capacity means less than half load in ordinary driving. It insures absolute freedom from strain. crfected Mechanism Makes Such Luxury Possible : AT extra reserve power means much on hills. Tt means much in flexibility. and in, quick response. It saves much changing of gears. It means utter smoothness —due to less vibration than any other type ever achieved. HUDSON MOTOR DETROTT. That. loo. is a matter of record The ofhieral proof are Open to all In the exclusive SUpPer-SIN mObOr | thration as reduced almost too mil and motor eficieney mereased SOC, Mator power is increased 726,, without added size or evlinders. Endurance almost doubled. The Supe Ix prrinne ipole Is priele rrhea Ni one else can use i. Its type VIVES Llucdson every advantave Wh, lece pl i lesser car? All Accept Hudson as the Pattern Car T has always been a leader of coach design From vear t vear it has set the stvle that motordom acc pls lt creator of the stream line body, and such distinetive model the Sedan, Coupe and the Touring Limousine. And vou will find in the Hudson all the beauty and taxes that imagination and skilled worl manship can create Note how it predominates wherever fine car We Seen Outside of the clubs, the opera, the theatre: in the fine residence streets and on fashionable boulevards observe low it out numbers two, three and even four to one, any other make of fine car, And in Murope the Orient and South America also Hudson outsells any other fine car. But while its dppearance I prized hy all Haid On owneyl and even dictates the chotee of mam fo most who kino thie Hudson its chiel appeal Hits aulwavs be | Perhorianes and endurance > . ‘ By every test it ts Supreme The supply of Tfudsons has never been sufficient for the demand. Thousands have waited months for certain wanted models. You can insure yourself against disappointment in delivery only by placing your order well aliead of the you will require if CAR COMPANY MICHIGAN

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 Continued from Page Davison, but d “Whict man make more Major Estabrool that time A] ar indercurrent 1 his tall n about seeing in a cracked ‘Honest » locomo soldiers crowding ight they needed 1ake them believe a charmed, in said. vuntered egg asa print e r fellow now ng Mar nner drew to a close triumphant ior. Miss Ma was flushed wit excitement; is her ten mother They went into the Ing Mrs. Davison could not re wonder that Major Estabrool 11VIN§ a from the more He had come to ay ae arrang¢ and Continued on Page 112

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+): Dp (O f Mhouclle eae | ALANCE ts the dominant characteristic of Jordas This is due to the careful distribution of weight, the length and quality of the springs, the delicate point of their’ ; A ‘ suspension, and the art ingement of the steering apparatus. Jordan bodies are hammock swung bet n the axles with long springs of chrome vanadium ste When a cheap carbon st spring 1s ove rstressed, it reac he if ti limit nad rapid y goes to pieces, The whole tendency of th Jor ian 1s ft ird forwa! mono No ruinous side-sway. Because of its longes ieelbase and pertect distribution of weight, there is no jerky up-and-down action. It progress 1s mooth and flow ng, Phat explains Jordan service, even with al . Imagine a ca like the Silhouette Five. Picture it as it full of lar and al It M of \ k Cia JORDAN 109

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 ©The Supreme cure assures that delicious, mild flavor

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Grilled ham steak / This 1s One / of the most appetizing ways to serve Morris Supreme Ham. You'll be Supreme | | : : delighted with such a dinner; so will Ham : your guests. When you serve Morris Supreme Ham you are always sure of a suc- cesstul meal. You svow this ham will be tender and you know it will be deliciously mild in flavor. It costs you no more to ect these hams wrapped in the clean, white parchment with the yellow and black label. Your dealer will supply them wrapped this way. MORRIS & COMPANY

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Gnery Nek-ban-tab Exclusively n EMERY SHIRTS Shirts Ve You’re doubly comfortable in an EMERY Shirt. There is mental comfort in the knowl edge that your shirt is correct in every detail of design and style There is physical comfort in a shirt that fits all over; bodies expertly drafted and cut on lines that avoid the slightest bind ot1 restriction. Generous armholes with corres- ponding increase of material in sleeves. Neckbands pre-shrunk and cut to exact measure and comfort shape. Your collar always sets right when you button it to an EMERY neckband. EMERY Shirts embody the same fine qual- ities of material and niceties of workmanship you might expect in the most expensive custom-made shirts Ger g

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 at inter ner of selling Agents of the ; » larg n plant il and met! nane I \ llr I ! o1ra the all parts of automati oposition » 1 ma wood } t i » or the water e neither dr why Continued on Page 117

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ERE is a bran that is new—different! Don't think of it as you may have thought of ordinary bran,— flat, tasteless, unpleasant to look at. We've created a new cereal food that doesn't look like bran, nor taste like bran, but is all bran. It is brought to you in our “waxtite” package,-so you haveit fresh, clean and appetiz- ing for your breakfast —just when it does you the most good.

* . . Buy a package of Kellogg’s Krumbled Bran from your grocer. It is made in the same modern kitchens as Kellogg’s Toasted Corn Flakes, Kellogg’s Krumbles, Kellogg’s Drinket, etc.

Demand Kellogg’s Krumbled Bran—each pack- age bears this signature — Ved, /aJ Wh YAM:

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Copyright, 1920, by Kellogg Toasted Corn Fiake Co.

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SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 “delectable dishes, piping hot When chill breezes put keen edges on appetites, delectable dishes, piping hot, are simply irresistible. The certainty with which your Universal Porcelain Range brings out flavors of exceeding charm makes it really a priceless possession. utifully finished in unbreakable, durable UNIVIT Porcelain— Peacock ic or Pearl Gray. Will not chip, craze or discolor. Clean as a china dish. n be washed like 2 porcelain bath. Who would have a tin bath-tub or an nk? Why not a porcelain stove? Burns coal or wood; fits in small e: concentrates heat in oven. Very economical of fuel. At all good lers’— forcashor terms. Dealer’s name and illustrated booklet on request. CRIB BEN&SI XTON COMP ANY, 720 N. Sacramet nto Blvd., Chicago ER PORTLAND if EW YORK i \ WN AYONNE, N ee Cmada sy PORCELAIN. RANGE Finished in Genuine Dry Process Porcelain, Peacock Blue or Pearl Gray—Sanitary and Washable

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(Continued from Page 114) ever grew in the North. No one had ever known him to give a nickel to anyone or anything, and it was said he had left the church because of the collections. Never- theless, Mr. Sealer liked John Hannon. At least he was with him more than anyone else in town. Smalltown did not know it, but these two were talking business. Mr. Sealer wanted to borrow some money—as much as fifty thousand dollars. He was trying to talk John Hannon into making the loan. Hannon disliked and distrusted Sealer along with the rest of humanity and de- manded security. Sealer promptly offered a choice collection of stocks in a great assortment of companies. Hannon inves- tigated and rejected this security. Sealer immediately offered other collateral, which Hannon again looked up and found not to his liking—just as Sealer had expected, to tell the truth. Finally a third batch of security was offered and likewise refused. Then Sealer went to see Hannon in a huff. ‘See here,"’ said the match maker with assumed anger, “what kind of security do you want?”’ : - “Now, now!” soothed the smooth Hannon. “ Don’t get ‘ excited, Mr.Sealer! You know I'd like to make you tl ioar but I’ve got to be careful. 1

it quicl I didn’t want to mortgage my business, but ITsee Lhaveto. M match factory is incorporated for two hundred thousand dollars in stocl and there are one hundred thousand dollars’ worth of bonds. I own them all I'll put up the whole mess of bonds with you if I have to. I've

‘How Long Will the Old Scrap Iron

ten times over. Hannon had been neatly taken in by a great sheaf of bona-fide or- ders, which Sealer had never meant to fill, and the plant had not cost Sealer more than five or six thousand dollars. Add to this the money he had lost on such matches as he did make and sell, and my friend was still twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars ahead. A little later, when the plant of the match factory was sold at sheriff's sale, a junk dealer made the highest bid on the equip- ment, something like five hundred dollars The whole works, except the building, was knocked down to him and he promptly dis mantled the plant and moved it away Two months later he was busily setting it up in a new factory in some other city. The smiling and genial Mr. Sealer stood by watching the proceedings with languid interest and lively anticipation. ‘How long will the old serap iron hold out, Charlie?” asked Sealer. “For years if we treat it kindly, uncle,” said the alleged junk dealer And it did—to the discomfort of two score small-town capitalists who did not understand the match business. Sealer got orders enough to net the inter- Hotd Out, Chartie?’"’ Asked Seater <a est on fifty thousand dollars seven times over and I can fill them in nine told me recently after he had re-

months. Tell me, how does that hit you?’ Gradually, by means of Sealer’s repeated offers of security, Hannon had been worked up to a pitch where he was anxious to lend the money. But caution was second nature with him. He summoned an accountant from the city and went into Sealer’s busi ness. The report showed that Sealer had eight salesmen on the road—one would have been a great plenty. There were bona- fide orders on the books for all the matches Sealer could turn out in a year, according to his own figures. He was now employing a force of seventy people and selling parlor matches to the trade at prices ten per cent under the market. In spite of this he was making a profit of about forty per cent on his business. Hannon read the report three times and went to see Sealer. ‘“* How can you sell matches for less than the trust and still make forty per cent on our business?’’ he demanded ‘“*Easy,”’ said Sealer. “The trust makes That's why I went into

eighty per cent e match game.” ‘You mean to say that ‘What do you think they build trusts r?"’ demanded Sealer “To make les oney than other people? Monopolie ire tended to keep prices up. An Alleged Junk Dealer Hannon made the loan. Aftheend of six months Sealer defaulted on his interest Hannon stormed and raged and helplessly foreclosed the mortgage, while Sealer an- grily hurried out of the town. Then Hannon and Smalltown began to discover things. The factory had been put up in the flimsi est possible way of secondhand materials The concrete in the floor was a half inch thick. The boiler was an ancient affair worth fifty dollars. It had been placed in new brickwork to conceal its age and rust { new front had been put on to deceive the beholder. The engine was equally antique, but fresh paint and metal polish had made it look like new to ignorant eyes. Sealer had been selling matches for less than trust prices, it was true, but he had been losing money on every box. He had orders —and genuine ones — for several hun- dred thousand dollars’ worth of matches, but to fill them would have bankrupted him tired from confidence that there were originally four of these mi- gratory match factories. He had at last junked his own, but he believed two of the others were still on the road. Who to-day does not know of the fixed price institution? It is one of the results of modern advertising and standardization A manufacturer who makes a superior article and pushes it in the market feels that he has a right to protect himself in the matter of price. This he does in two way by forcing retailers to sell at a fixed mark and by maintaining an unvarying wholesale cost. Often both methods are employed, frequently only the latter. Where this is the case the trade finds that it must pay a certain figure for the article, whether the order is for a gross or a million. The jobber does not always take kindly to such ar rangements, since they limit his profits, and he has tried in various ways to break the manufacturer's hold. Everything else hav- ing failed, he has gone to court, but the manufacturer has generally been upheld, And there is nothing unfair about the whole practice. If a manufacturer pays out great sums to push his product into constant general use he facilitates the sales, quickens the turnover, simplifies the han- dling of stock and may thus legitimately expect the dealer to accept a smaller stand- ardized profit. But this plan breeds schemers, as does every other thing in life that promises profit. No one need be told that quick and-easy money could be made overnight out of any standard article in general use selling at a fixed price if one could but get hold of a large quantity at less than the set cost. But how accomplish this? The man- ufacturer will not cut his rates, no matter how large the order, and to sell a substitute for the genuine article means prison. The combination seems unbeatable, yet shrewd fellows are ever trying to beat it, and re- cently several of them succeeded One morning in the summer of 1917 a curt, well dressed, busy young man pre- sented himself at the office of a large concern which manufacturesa widely know! dentifrice. The young man’s card meant nothing to the manager of the concern, but the accompanying message did. The ma said he had come to buy. He was admitted

THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Mr. Blank,” said the visitor, laying aside his hat and taking a chair with calm assurance, ‘““my name is Doe. I am in the army contracting business and | need some tooth paste.” “That’s what we're here for,’ smiled Blank. “And I need it at the right price.” “Our price is as low as making a good dentifrice will allow.” **Let’s not waste time,” said Doe briskly “T happen to know something about the business myself. I don’t want to argue. It would get us nowhere. But here’s my prop- osition: I have a contract for three million army field kits. Each one is to contain a tube of standard tooth paste and a brush. The brand of paste isn't specifies I ean use whichever one comes cheape Sy “But you want quality for our soldiers,

don’t you?” the manager inter- rupted, “That’s why I’m here,’ Doe returned * But there are other good pastes, some of them better know: €

self nd l like if l iM eve in giving the fight ny me i good article. But busin is business, I can’t afford to ure your paste at more money than I'd have to pay for another one just as good. Clearly that would simply be throwing awa) my profit.” He paused The dentifrice maker watched him and waited “Now, my offer is this,"” Doe went on “TF I can sret three or four million tube your paste at a price well under the regu market I'll do business with you on the spot. I'll not ask you to bid against other concerns and I'll pay cash on delivery. The paste you sell me will not compete with your regular output. It will not disturb the market. It’s merely a question whether you want to take this business at a close profit or whether you want me to take ] at someone el e.’ ‘I think we can do business,” said the manager, “but I'll have to see the di rectors.”’ “mina hurry ti Doe objected “Will an answer to-morrow do you?” It would. Doe took his hat and hi eave Before sundown the next day the sale had been made at a price three cents unde the standard whol al were to begin within thirty d The manufacturers of the paste put ona

double shift of worker ran the fact night and day, installed some extra m chinery and generally put the KES O to peed up this army contract On the day agreed they began to deliver the goods, twenty-one thousand gross of paste tubes. In spite of their promptitude Doe seemed to be highly impatient. Si went astray or were delayed and he tele graphed in, wildly demanding that dupli cate orders be sl ipped at once. The re ilt was that original and frequent duplicate hipments went forward to half a dozen points in the East, South and Middle West to fit the kits for the men training in the various camps, the manufacturers believed In this way Doe eventually got hold of about a third more of the paste than I original contract called for He had four million tubes at three cents under whole sale. But if he had tricked the manufa: turers into swelling their order he was a

man of his word in other respect Hi certified checks came in with laudable promptness and the whole busine wa cleared up in a very short time. The mar facturers now laid off their extra help and

resumed manufacturing at the old regu lar rate But suddenly something happened. Sale men found the jobbers in all sections of the country loaded up with the tooth paste Mail orders ceased coming in. Paste began piling up and mounting up in the ware rooms of the factory he place got so choked with paste that the vats were emp tied and the factory closed down A lurid and painful light broke in upon the startled and confounded manufacturers The suave Mr. Doe was just a very modern con man. He had got four mil tubes of paste at three cents under who sale and resold the whole lot to the jobber at half a cent under the usual price. The country was stocked up with this dentifrice for months to come and Mr Doe had in his pocket a cool hundred thou sand that should have lined the and bank accounts of the tooth-past holders. A simple con man with a p y and a shrewd approach had put it over on a first-grade manufacturing firm I know this young Doe person and know

porttolo ‘ | he or him well. His real name does not matter But [| may remark in passing that manutact ‘ fell hefore |} atta For instar he we cde i He e hea f j ‘ il the ne 44 : pl t it inl i » equip t} ! la merchandise and lo enlarge eT ' f ‘ greatly Doe agair it iil po ed out that this market was one which had ne before been reached by the products of the firm he had approached Thus the hat dressing sold from his wagons would compete with the regular output The manufacturers sold | i huge order at a great cut in price— and for four mont afterward no wheel turned in this faetor It is with some reluctance that [ expose this clever game. I have set out to la things bare, however, and the ma turer is as much entitled to my aid. su t is, as anyone else Mulcting the Patentee

All Americans have a great weakness f patent We have read in our school bool of the epochal inventions of some of ou countrymen ve have heen tatught to he lieve that Americans are natural invent we have seen huge fortune reared bef ou ery eye n the foundation of ippare tl tr ial de ‘ We know tl next to natural re es mechanical | i r ‘ hee yur eat t yurce wealt! Just how we y tl 3 deci certain, but we are | t ribet what we ‘ true Tt taid and 1 me ire led ‘ bogs | Lhe le fire ol the pu I } ill | ive to t t iva | isl; ltou t e st J mt the ‘ prime ire en I of eve ‘ ind kind of ¢ ‘ Phe ur entor we a Vand treat witt ind ence The hu ef ww wh ‘ in the stoc of some vw ty t ! the prt f eve ne The | i | ent “ } tol l ew { hy { } : ' But for all this we have ge . t Tairite ea to w { nits the fra lent é I ent ind ent aurive mm me Nor do we ehe u t Nil si py « I i a he af 4 ete fr f the t [hie m man knows tl} ne pire ‘ he ‘ the led | for ese n lul ‘ cle it pate or et rand anothe mo W ich people the sharper i On ut Iw 1 elf ! ia peat from profound (Continued on Page 121

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST \_ Puwe VEGETAB LE SNOWDRIFTS freshness is always sealed in mm For all sacking " SNO WDRIF! For al all cooning Pure vegetable SNOWDRIF! shortenin “ ‘ Pure vegetable ‘ Shortening Pure vegetable ; : ‘ure vegetable , a | . is ortening - iy igen. Never in n bulk a always in really - air-tight cans in 1~2~-4 and 8 pound cans

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ey = : es — SSS S ~ = SSN ~~ FS SSssss:8 SSS WS = Ss 3 Thruout the length and breadth of the land both rumor and verified report credit the Dort with long and loyal performance at a measurably lower cost. bac h suc eeding Dort that oes into use pro- vides fresh data as to the marked durability of the car and the thrift with which it operates. And : @ each new owner can be traced directly the responsibility for further Dort sales in his locality. For the sincere satisfaction he finds in his investment has an obvious and definite influ- ence upon the decision of his neighbors when they make their selection of a car. PRICES Pouring Ca & ORS Roadster 985 Fourseason Sedan 1535 Fourseason Coupe 1535 F. O. B. 1 y W ire extra DORT MOTOR CAR COMPANY Flint*-Mich. " Factory, Gray-Dort Motors, CAatha” January 31,1926

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ea ade EE Continued from Page 117) 4 few years ago I was idly running through a newspaper which lists the patents granted, the names and addresses of the patentees and gives a description of the devices. I really wasn’t looking for trouble, but it came my way. On an inside page of the paper I discovered that John Smith had taken out a patent on an automatic window closer. Smith was known to me by reputa- tion. He was a very wealthy retired mer- chant and landowner living at the time on a large estate, not more than a million miles from the town which I then called home. Naturally, a patent taken out by such a man interested me. What was a million- aire, who had long since given up money- making, doing in the patent game? Surely this was some quirk of the old man. The thing bothered me and I made some inquiries. I] found that Smith was the sort of rich man who refuses to pamper himself with such accommodations as the valet or personal attendant. He lived on his large estate in a great house with as few servants as possible. Ergo, when Smith wakened on frosty mornings he got up and shivered to his window like millions of other sovereign electors. He closed his own sash, turned on his own radiator and went quakingly back to bed to wait for warmth. I could see most lucidly the genesis of Mr. Smith’s patent. Like so many of us, he had dreamed of a device that would lose the window and throw on the steam without taking the cosy yawner from his bed. Smith was a man of action. Cold fioors and icy rooms had driven him to the deed. He had worked out and patented the window closer and steam gusher. No doubt, being a practical soul, he was now anti —— ng great rewards. It seemed to me t I ought somehow to share in them. A Trick Window Closer A few days later a man in my employ, who had been chosen for his ability to play he part, appeared in Mr. Smith’s town and asked for an interview with the inventor. Smith received him and gave him a demon- stration. To the large central window in the rich man’s bedroom was fixed a contrivance of weights and pulleys looking for all the world like the familiar exercising machines ised in all gymnasiums and many homes. That was indeed what it was, but it served louble purpose. At night, when the win- i ¢ dow was opened for sleeping, the weights were drawn up and the cords attached to the ishes bi a convenient hool This hook wa electrically controlled. When a button at the bedside was pressed the ords were released and the weights pulled down the lower sash and pushed up the ipper sash, closing the window. At the ame time a butterfly valve on the radiator was thrown open and the steam rushed nto the pipes. Simple, ingenious and not without humor. Mr. Smith explained that his invention was both a window closer and an exerciser. It could be sold practically for the price of the ordinary weight machine and the cost of electric installation was small ‘Very satisfactory,” said my agent. “I hink there is a great business opportunity in this thing.”’ Every house and apartment in the coun- try will have my device in the bedrooms within five years,” said Smith. My man was somewhat more conserva- tive than that,-but he displayed the neces- ary enthusiasm and wanted to buy the state rights for New York. Smith was delighted. ‘We can do business on that line right off,’ he said. ‘And I'll make you a liberal proposition ‘How much for the exclusive rights in New York State?” Fight thousand.” ‘Pretty steep.” ‘Not for a thing like this.”’ They haggled and haggled, but eight thousand dollar 3 was the price and the rich inventor stuck to his am. Finally my man came into the open. He was willing to pay the price, but he was a poor man who expected to pay for his rights out of his ales. He on ready to pay down a small um to bind the bargain and the rest as he made his sales. ‘How much down?” ‘Well,” said the agent lamely, got with me is about three hundred dollars. It seemed too small to the infatuated in- ventor, but my man pointed out to him that no factory had been built and it would asked Smith. “all I’ve ” be six months or a year before the window closer could be produced in quantities. Finally they struck a bargain. The initial payment of three hundred dollars was merely a bargain binder. Smith was to build a factory at once and begin the de- livery of his machines within six months. Ninety days after the first quantity deliv- eries a payment of one thousand dollars was to be made. The remaining six thou- sand seven hundred dollars fell due at intervals extending over the second year. A complicated contract was drawn, legally witnessed and signed. My agent paid his three hundred dollars and departed in peace. Three days later I wrote Smith a letter and an impressive one. He responded at once and invited me to call on him, which I did. He gave me a demonstration of his device, bubbling the cold enthusiasm of old age as he talked. I wanted to laugh at him, but pretended to be enormously impressed. He finished his demonstration and took me downstairs to a fine library and a good cigar. While we smoked he blew off some additional enthusiasm and I let him rage. “it's like this, Mr. Smith,” I said, when he lulled. “I’m in the promotion line. My firm takes promising patents of this kind, buys them outright and either sells them at a profit to manufacturing concerns or finances them and puts them on the mar- ket. I've seen enough of your device to want it. What will you take for the whole thing?” He thought for a long time, scratching his head and figuring. “‘How’d a hundred thousand in cash hit you?” I interposed. He pretended to be a little disappointed, but I could sense his joy. We haggled a little and agreed on my figure. “Of course,” he said at last, “I don’t have the pleasure of knowing you, Mr. Crosby.” ‘I’m ready to guarantee good faith,” I returned. ‘‘Come with me to your bank and I'll draw on New York for ten thou- sand dollars.” We went to the local bank and I putina draft. It was paid within twenty-four hours and I took Smith to his own bank and showed him the money. His doubts were allayed. We walked back to his house and began to map out de ti tils “You unde rstand,”’ I said at the proper moment, ‘‘that what I’m buying is the absolute, complete and exclusive right to manufacture and sell this patent.” Reclaiming New York Rights Smith suddenly remembered that he didn’t have the complete rights to sell. Almost sheepishly he informed me that he had already disposed of the New York State privilege. I looked apoplectic with ange rand cons ternation ‘What? I cried. heart out of the rights? “T guess I have,”’ he admitted “For how much?” ‘Eight thousand.” I grew voluble with protests and explana- tions. New York State was the very cream of the country. Here it was that there were people with money who would equip their houses and apartments with such devices. New York State was half the country for such an article. We must get back the New York rights. “How can I?” he asked hopelessly. ‘I sold them ten days ago and took the mone} on ‘That s up to you,” I said coldly “All I have to say is that. I can’t buy without the New York rights. I want the whole thing or notning.” With that I left. Mr. John Smith did a lot of thinking. He was a sane business man. He knew that one hundred thousand dollars in the hand was worth the finest patent in the bush. He telegraphed to the owner of the New York rights and asked for an immediate meeting. My man went to see him and refused to give up his contract. Smith argued and bullied, but it was no go ‘In heaven’s name, what do you want?” he exploded finally. “If this contract was worth eight thou- sand dollars to you it’s worth that to me,” said the agent. And they did business Smith bought back the New York rights and sent forme. Strange as it may seem, I had suffered a change in heart meantime. I had discovered other devices similar to Smith’s. There were, in fact, such mecha nisms on the market and one I had seen “You've sold the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST proved to be simpler and cheaper than his. All this I wrote him with the word that I was sorry to withdraw my offer I have never seen the venerable inventor since. But I did see my hired conspirator. He brought me Smith's eight thousand. I deducted the three hundred dollars my agent had paid down, struck the expenses off the sheet, paid my man a thousand for his trouble and put the rest into my bank with the ten thousand dollars which I had meantime redrafted from New Jersey. Not a great haul, but a disingenuous one Whoever has traveled through coal di tricts has seen the huge black mounds thrown up about the anthracite mines in all the coal cities. These great piles consist of the coal dust, or refuse, the by-product of cutting coal to sizes. It has no value and every effort to convert it into usable shape has failed. It is called culm. For many years various people made experiments with this culm, trying by one means or an- other to press it into nugyge r briquettes so it might be burned. The he roble m here is in the binder, which must be some cheap, mucilaginous and inflammable substance Coal tar might serve, but it is in such de- mand for chemical purposes that it is out of reach. Paraffin would be even better, but that would be burning gold. The only practical substance is asphalt and that is none too cheap Again Something for Nothing Nevertheless, many experiments have been made with the culm and an asphalt binder. The lure has always been the fact that the mine owners are willing to give their culm piles to anyone who will agree to move them. They are not only useless and unsightly, but they occasionally burst into spontaneous flame and endanger property Now something free has irresistible — ments to most of the human breed, and so with culm. But culm briquettes made with asphalt have always failed. Put into a furnace or stove, they melt before they burn and form a mass through which no draft can penetrate. They clog the grates with hase molten clinkers and are a delusion and an abomination. The trouble is that most people are not informed on this subject This last fact I knew and I used to make it a rule to profit by such knowledge Accordingly some years back a frien and I set out to exploit the culm piles. We built a small model machine for making briquettes out of « ilmanda binder. It wa worked on an endle belt system and did the whole work automatica rhe culm and binder were fed into a hopper at one end. The machine mixed the constituent molded the briquette , passed them throug an oven, where they were dried, and spat them out into loading cars at the far end We set up the machine at a cit a Short adi tance awa} y, in order not to be too near the mines, and waited for a sucker I was cebeeainen from a trip to Chicago sometime afterward when I fell into « versation with a substantial-looking mar who turned out to be a manufacturer and merchant. He was on his way to New York for a ples isure trip. As the train passed through the coal fields I drew his attention to the great piles of culm. I was interested in them and expected to make a great for tune out of them. He was immediately receptive and I told him a romance of cult It could be had for nothing. The mine owners might even pay something to ha it removed. Coal had alway plentiful that no one had yet devised a way to use this product, but now I had done it He was curious and I mysteriou Finall he confided to me that he had means and might go into a deal of the kind. I went on to New York with him and built him up Without going into all the details I soor beer i) had him in a mood for business and him to the city where I had the machine se up in a rented little factor We made few briquettes for him. He liked the ma chine immensel Most people have a weaknes for an Ingenious plece of me % nism. Itis the toy instinet grown up. Ot man liked to watch the briquettes core popping out of the machine ry He pi ed with the device for an hour. Then he lent us one thousand dollars, taking five thou sand dollars’ worth of our stock—face value—as security With this thousand dollars we were to ship in culm and buy asphalt. He would return home, whither he was bound, and if we could do what we said he would finance us No written contract was drawn side wanted it. Ne ither Our main object had been to get a little of his money into the ente prise, for most men will follow a dollar with ten or a hundred Now we set to work. We bought a few barrels of asphalt out of his money and we shipped in a carload of culm. The expendi tures were carefully recorded so our backer might see for himself the cost of production At the same time I bought a large quantity of unrefined paraftin, paying for it out of my own mor ey and care fully concealing both the paraffin and the transaction. We then made up a fine batch of. briquette consisting of about three parts culm and one part paraffin Naturally, this stuff burned furiously, making a stupendor isly hot flame and leaving only an impalpal le dust for ashes. Such fuel would practically do away with grate cleaning. And well it might. It cost something like fifty dollars a ton to produce. We had a fine collection of briquettes ready when our man returned. He took several bushels of the product to New York with him and tried them out in a friend's » with gratifying result He came back full of glee and commanded us to ship a few tons to Michigan so that he might try them in hi factory Linvested fireplace Then he sat down to figure with us and we did some ground and-lofty gymnastics in mathemati We represented to be sure, that the briquettes were made of culm and asphalt Secondly, we represented that the propor ion of asphalt to the culm used ip i mixture was one in eleven The true pro portior are about one in four Since the culm is free and the asphalt costs the money, this made a very vital difference the cost of production Our friend went over the figures very carefully, calculated the amount of asphalt that was gone —we had dumped it into a convenient creel aw that we had turned out several tons of briquettes and felt satisfied. He demor strated with our aid and to his ow ati faction that we could lay down a ton of briquettes at his factory in Michigan for half the price of anthracite With these calculations in hi turer hurried West portfol o our mat ifac Cashing in on Cupidity He wrote that the experiment witl fuel had been made and proved hig! satisfactor lime wore ¢ ind we ¢ pected him at the factory from wee week, but he did not « P Finall he the term of to ¢ ‘ he ippeared W yv here othice a { our } er ' ’ Well, | 1 he | ‘ , ready tot ‘ t Aren't { 0 igreement and t! t 1 «le manded ‘ What agreement It wa true there \ ert understanding Phe man of money had u and he knew it o did l alony He meant to keep our stoc) five thousand dollars’ worth for | one thousand He saw that we »had a great proj tion and he meant to hog all he eould 1] got up our indignation to the boiling point We repr vached him u every forbidde term and ordered him out Hie went smiling and snarling A passion of corre pondence ¢ ied and wa icceeded by a tornado of conference We negotiated, we threatened, we begyed This was our idea. We had spent yea working it up. We had put our saving into our machine and our experiment Did he mean to rob u but he had a block of our stock and‘he meant to keep it Busine was busine Phat was | iriable and final answe }low veetly it t led yur ears! How wonderful t pr uuncement of greed arid edn N 0 ad m the lip { | ‘ | hen t a thousand t f I men W nt the vere | ‘ iw fact, about to be d i W eaped up at t e pre { j Busine ess! | ‘ tia t l mply toid ou { ! i 1d take t ‘ WM ) not and would not re ! } tnerst Ww ich a pe n It wa ‘ I out or u What our proposition? rid he with an ironic smile ‘We'll give you two thousand d: l] f your stock, twice what you gave for it; or we will sell you the whole thing outright ‘How mucl Concluded on Page 124

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST MOTOR TRUCKS | The truck sensation for 1920! The new Stewart 2000-lb. Delivery Truck—electric lights, electric starter, magneto ignition, five-inch cord tires, chassis price $1595 HE. real event of the year in truck-building; a big, fast, flexible Stewart Delivery Truck—all truck from the ground up, and at a popular price. Not a bit of passenger car construction in it every part designed by truck engineers for truck purposes only Fast for delivery and rush jobs; strong for the heavy hauling from railroad or warehouse; quick in beautifully designed and balanced; no solid tires to rack the car and damage the goods; the getaway; proof against sudden, hard shocks; ready for any . weather and for the toughest kind of going. With all its rugged truck strength, this Stewart Delivery Truck handles and ticks off trips with the ease of a taxi. It has the speed, convenience and comfort of the frailer, half-breed passenger-car-truck. \nd this new Stewart is a wonderful buy. Its cost is low. Price others, add their “extras,” and prove up the claim that this is America’s greatest truck value. And all the famous “ less-cost-to-run ’’ Stewart fea- tures are included—simple design, hundreds of need- less parts eliminated; oilless bushings, doing away with 35 grease cups and the time filling them; heavy truck axles; cast tank radiator; front bumper; rebound spring plates; internal gear drive axle, delivering more than 92°7, of the engine power to the rear wheels all features that have made the Stewart's world-wide reputation for economy. Nowonder that the Stewart 2000-Ib. Delivery Truck was a hit at the national truck shows, and is a truck headliner for the year. It is the response of the Stewart engineers, after seven years of progressive truck-designing, to the demand of business for a double-utility truck, combining speed and conven- ience with durability and capacity—a truck that is ready for unusual needs and conditions, and continu- ally surprises you in its actual performance. Quality trucks since 1912 STEWART MOTOR CORPORATION, BUFFALO, N. Y. January 31,1920

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Z att ly end (A AX \ \ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ~ =" MOTOR TIRUEKS Began with one— now employ fleets TEWART owners are quick to see the economy, the capacity tor work, the actual earning power of the truck. Scores of firms that bought at first one Stewart, soon added another, then three, four, and so on up to big fleets. This fact alone tells more than pages of advertising. It gives absolute proof of Stewart quality. Only this satisfaction of owners could have gained the Stewart Motor Corporation a position among the world’s leaders in truck building in only seven years. Stewarts are paying daily profits today for owners in 600 American cities, on hundreds of farms, and in 27 foreign countries. There is a Stewart for every need of business. Five sizes, as shown on these pages. Quick deliveries for 1920 are assured by a vastly increased capacity for production. See how rapidly these fleets grew: Below are just a few of several hundred firms who have quickly built up Stewart fleets in the same manner: Gomery Bros., Allentown, Pa., own 7 Stewarts. The first is a veteran bought in March, 1913 3 were added in 1916, 2 in 1917, and the last in March, 1918 Rothenberg & Co., a New York City departme nt store, owns 22 Stewarts [hey started with 3, added 3 more in November, 1918, 10 in June, 1919 ind have just bought six more Service Motor Ce. Plymouth, Wis , owns 5 Stewarts Bought the first April, 1919, added one in June, 5 in August, and one in September Dexter’s Bakery, Springfield Mass., owns 27 Stewarts pure hased at different times between November, 1916, and December, 1919 The Buffalo News, Buffalo, N. Y., owns 16 Stewarts. Was one of the earliest Stewart users and has increased its fleet Schlosser Bros., Indian polis Ind , own 12 Stewarts Began with P in February, 1919, and bought another in March, 4 in Apnil, 3 in May and : June prin gfield Mass owns 5 Stewart The first was 7, 2 more were added in August, 1918, and the Mansfield Bakery, 5 bought in December, 191 rest since H. J. Ball, Milwaukee June, 1916, he Soneh t 8 more in 1917, 3 in 1918, and 6in 1919 - . Wis., owns 22 Stewarts Starting with one in Halifax Transports, Ltd., Halifax, N. S., owns II! Stewarts Bought the first in October, 1918, 3 more in November, 3 more in December, one in January, 1919, 2 in February, and another in March Sullivan’s Parcel Delivery, Milwaukee, Wis., owns I) Stewarts. The first was bought in February, 1918, 2 more in March, 9 more the same year, and 2 were added in September, 1919. Quality trucks since 1912 STEWART MOTOR CORPORATION, BUFFALO, N.Y. %4-Ton Capacity Chassis 12-Ton Capacity Chassis 2-Ton Capacity Chassis — $2695 =a ha i ..

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quai { Concluded f con mat A number of year tance who rom Pe ‘ ‘ age 121 THE SATURDAY lay at last and pleasure tom Wa pring The combining ! th a cu hedges wer ilready abloom. migrating north. and the A month na spring- Be- a gold claim. er I had been through this very altered dres I had noted from which my partner and I g out and my appraising d Mr. Green. Liking him as a had gone trouble to »a piece of waste land on both banks about twe ‘ miles from connected with ain at a proper time, was a landowner in North et out to spend a m¢ nth A week after my departure reappe riding my shaky to Greer and a ill were pleasantly warm too chill for comfort outdoors of a Caroli definite allurements. tter of eye to some cree) t how he w: } ired went tore and asked aid Mr. Green the gold into his the bank here and ‘I’m a director ir attend to it for you I thanked him, asked him to credit me on his books for whatever the gold might bring, bought a few grocery items and j e them of another week I returned irt ver a slightly larger bag of e merchant He held the thing up and I could se e was itching to but he contained himself and away, only tor f five gold to tl } tant! tior ur OF live still more | I week i i bag contained al d contain himsse . with our rand a wad, and t j I] ! t ind smahli nuggets job for a pair of to load a couple of dozen shells but it was worth the effort, , no smal EVENING POST fear not. At dawn we were astir. At inter- vals along the creek, where there were perpendicular banks of soil, we stood off a few feet and fired our golden shot into the loam and clay or into the sandy banks of the stream. It was raining slightly and the water obliterated all scars in the soil that might have betrayed the entering passage of the precious charges. Thus Nature as- sisted in the conspiracy. Mr. Green came to visit us, driving a fine team and bringing with him some forbidden liquids. He looked over our sorry little camp with something of contempt. Then we led him out to get some gold. We ex- plained that the gold had been deposited in earlier ages by the stream and that it must be sought in the marl and clay of the banks. If he would take his shovel and cut down a few feet of bank he might convince himself. Mr. Green went to work, cut down some of the soil where we indicated, scooped up a panful and was instructed in the art of panning. He learned quickly and delighted himself by washing out a pinch of gold dust. He tried another location and better results. He put in an hour till the sun got too ardent for him. Then he sat down under a great tree, rked a bottle and grew confidential It did him no good. We flatly refused to put any of his money into That, you may w wa t our game soon got ever uncol ’ . et him terpr erprise our disappointed and I saw nothing of l ill the end of the week, l again appeared and turned over a few ounces of dust. He asked me then if I would object to showing the claim to one or two of his friends. I told him I didn’t like the idea, and I really didn’t, for the calling in of outsiders nearly always ruins even the best of schemes. But th was nothing to be done, so I had to let him bring two For their coming we again pre- pared the creek banks by the nimble assist- ance of our shotgun. In due season Green and his i paid us their visit, panned out enough gold to make their eyes water, tried again to talk us into taking in a partner and went their way disappointed. I saw that Green was Green went awa’ wher cronies associates hot if ever he would be and determined not to go near him till he sent for me Ten day pa ed before I hear om him and then it was from an I was I ed directior uddenly note letter from an attorney that a up to title low ul tand, ee the conte hown to Seward’ and finally had freque it wa for taxe wl owner It was ‘ it this had happened in my case. Well, what do you intend to do?” I ourt nown we intend to more gt ld A Paltry Fifty Thousand o! He knew about the gold! That mly one thing to me—that Seward, rhe might be, was mere inning Mr ld?’ new about the gold y adummy Green. Who ? The merchant hope of pers yed by the « abat iad- ends and was ready now to of my claim or to frighten a more reas » of mind the » made ve vidently me to his me out | ti- rij t. I deci ich a game, | Green was the big m 30 many years sometime Jevertheless, | we ] t LOINgS Gdeve a fe w days Green t mer! } ; + ime lO mane I told him, “I think this 1 ld and I expect to get rich it don't want to sell, and I dream of dividing with anyone. But since you're so anxious I'll make you a proposition. I'll sell you the claim and quit the country for two hundred thousand dol- If the land is what I think you'll make a tremendous profit.” wouldn't lars January 31,1920 Green sat for a time whistling and think ing. Then he made up his mind. “That might be all right,” said he, ‘if you had a clear title.” “My title’s as clear as any in this God- forsaken country,” I spat at him, “and your fake claimant doesn’t cloud it any.” Green grew voluble with denials and prot- I sneered at him and walked away. Three mornings later I appeared at his store and passed another bag of gold dust over the counter. Heseized the opportunity to resume negotiation. That was what I'd wanted. We talked for an hour and I reluc- tantly came down to one hundred thousand dollars in my demand. But we could not agree, quite as I had foreseen. For the next week there were almost daily consul- tations between us. I saw that the old man was more anxious than ever, and I was honestly getting more and more nervous about his fake claimant and the outcome of any contest in the courts. Besides, I couldn't afford to stay in North Carolina and keep salting my claim perpetually With a gesture of weariness and disgust I laid my final offer on the table—fifty thou sand dollars cash for the claim or an end to parleying. ‘Too much,” said Green tersely. “Very well,” said I, “then we're done I’m going to wire my attorney in New York to-night and get him down here.” I went out, the street to the telegraph office and wired my attorney. I had previously written him all necessary details and he knew what to expect. In answer to my wire came a night letter ask- ing me to hold off a few days as he was dickering with “‘some interested parties.”’ I knew that Green would see these messages. estations. crossed Green Sees Some Telegrams Meantime I went back to my claim and spent a few days fishing. The following Monday morning, however, I appeared in Green's store with a bag containing more than twenty ounces of gold — by far the largest haul I had brought to his counter Hestared and wanted to renew negotiatic I told him eurtly that we had closed th: matter While he watched me I again crossed the atrect to my attorney ‘ the telegraph office and York tl r ounces in tw sent is messi days “ady taik Dusit ind show goods Wire f time ol ’ ibble » Greer . felt cert: dragged me i din this wise: P : reet, o get anything out ol your claim you and I have got to do bus ness, that’s all. I want to be fair with vou but refuse to let you skin me. I'll give forty thousand for your whole shooting id not a cent more. t ll take forty thousand and my ses,”’ said I careless] ‘How much is tl} “The trip, my equipment, the trip home, and and all the re hor thousand.” e it and be went to an t stand me ~ damned!” We attorney and drew papers which were signed and witnessed The formalities over, we went to the bank. There wasn't enough paper money on hand to pay me, but a messenger brought it from a near-by larger city by afternoon and I was paid off. I packed the bank notes awkwardly into my valise like any rude prospector and went back t pack up. That night my pal and I departed for New York, leaving the Carolinian land of gold. All of which goes to show that cl still being salted in this vastly enlis twentieth century. And so, my good Colonel ff : Strange 1 ie Keeps up. »>camp to orever in our wake tra washed up marvel urd sir yus flotsam on the shores W ondrous birds your nest. Weare not so beautiful as you in these days, and Fifth Avenue is strangely cold. Still we have accomplish- ments of a sort, and perhaps even some graces which you lacked. ce your time Editor's Note—This is the second of a series of articles by W. C. Crosby and Edward H. Smith The next will appear in an early issue

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A tte “That's a pretty dangerous doctrine,” reflected Mr. Tutt ‘For « very body would be free to make himself the judge of when he ought to respect the law and when he oughtn’t. We can easily imagine that the law would come out at the small end of the horn,.”” ‘lh matter of conscience—which, I take it, is the same thing as one’s sense of got to be one’s own judge “eg Wiggin firmly. plest way,” announced Tutt, position that the law should always be obeyed and that the most honor able man is he who respects it the most ‘Yes, the safest and also the most cow ardly!”’ retorted Miss Wiggin. ‘‘Suppos ing the law required you to do something hich you personally regarded not only a morally wrong but detestable, would you lo it?” ‘It wouldn’t!” protested Tutt with a grimace The la is the perfect of reason ‘*But Iam entitled, am I not, to suppose, for purposes of argument, that it might?” he inquired caustically. ‘*And I say that our sense of honor is the most precious thing we've got It’s our duty to respect uur institutions and obe y the law whether we like it or not, unless it conflicts with our », in which case we ought to defy seq ue nees!t”’ mocked Tutt. ‘“‘And be the stake?” ary; yes!” ghtly get all this!”’ remarked ‘Me for the lee side of the lav ly theoretical,”” commented usual with our discussions.” o theoretical as you might thin pted his senior, hastening to reén W iggin. Nobody can de ny to be true to oneself is the highest prir ciple of human conduct, and that ‘’tis , | LUY haven't anytl ing to do with one another. The courts have constant y pointed that out from the earliest days, though judges like, when they can, to make the two seem one and the same. Chief Baron Bowes, I re member, said in some case in 1743, ‘The court can’t determine what is honor.’ No, Continued from Page 21 no; the two are different, and that differ ence will always make trouble. Isn't it nearly tea time?” Miss Beekman wa ist step gy off the elevator on the first floor of the Tombs the next afternoon on one of her weekly visit when she came face to face with Mr. Tutt “Why, how do you do!” she greeted him cordially, for she had taken rather a far to the shabby old man, drawn to him, in spite of her natural ave of the criminal bar, by the ment of his weather-b you have had a successful d The lawyer shook his head in a pseudo nale , I have i swered whimsically. ‘‘My only client 1 fuses to speak to me! Perhaps you could get something out of him for me.” “Oh, they all talk to me readily enoug! she replied. ‘I fancy they know I'm harn less. What i ‘ia ‘Shane O’Connell.” “What is his offense?’ “He is charged with murde1 “Oh!” Miss Althea recoiled. Her charitable in pulse s did not extend to defendants charged with homicide. There was too much noto riety connected with them, for one thing; there was nothing she hated so much as notoriety. **Seriously,” he went on with earnest ness, ‘‘I wish you’d have a word with him. It’s pretty hard to have to defend a man and not to know a thing about his side of the case. It’s almost your duty, don’t you think?” \ Althea hesitated, and was lost. ‘Very well,” she answered reluctantly, ‘I'll see what I can do. Perhaps he need THE SATURDAY EVENING POST YT AND MR. TUTT > ye medicine or letter paper or some thing I'l] get an order from the warden and go right back and see him.’ 'wenty minutes later Shane O'Connell faced Mi di al table of the counse lenly across the room A ray of late sunshine fell through the high grating of the heavily barred window upon a face quite different from those which Miss Althea was accustomed to encounter in Beekman sul l these surroundings, for it showed no touch of depravity or evil habits ind contine ment had not yet deprived it heeks of their rugged m rimson or its ey of their bold gl He was little more than at { n derer, as handsome a lad as ever swagyered out of County Kerry An’ what may it be that leads you to end for such as me, Miss Beekman!” he inded, glowering at her She felt suddenly unnerved, startled and rather shocked at his use of her name Where could he have discovered it?) From the keeper, probably, she d led. A er usual composure, her quiet self-posse n her aloof and slightly condescending sweet ne had deserted het ‘I thought,” shestammered I might possibly — be of help to you.” 3 too late to make ip fi the harm ye’ve done!’ His coal-bla eyes reached to he! hrinking body as if to tear out her heart l! he gasped [do harm! What ‘ ul n? Did not ister Katie work for yez?”’ he 1, and } vords leaped and curled about her like | ng flame Did you ee after her or watch her coming and Pony, i ! t r l he a mere rea ed that at last he Was in a murder case in spite of herself! This lad, the brother of Katie, the waitre vhon he had discharged! How curious! And |} unfortunate! His charge was preposter ous; nevertheless a faint blush stole to her cheek and she looked away. man’s perdition to be safe when for the truth he ought to dis That’s why 00 reverence the early Christian martyrs. But when it come to choo ing between what e loose } ir v re ght lied 9? + ¢ i Te l ear herin tl onversa t As our hig] . t to the it a mere I ords, in? opinion, to peak of honor as distinguished _ fror law or the obligatior Wiggin. ‘“‘You car find an author ny side of any prop osition you look for. That’s why one’s own sense of honor is so mucl more reliable than thelaw. What is the law, anyhow? It’s what some judge ays is the law—un- tilhe’sreversed. Do you suppose I’d sur render my own pri vate ideas of honor to a easual ruling from a juds \ very likel) the remote what I think ) vy on i honorable? “You'll be jailed for contempt befor you get through!” Tutt warned her. “How ridiculou she manage: “Tt was no part of my obligation to after her! How could 1?” Hi hawk ’s eye tremor Did ye not lock her out the night of th ball when she went wid MeGurk?” I how absurd!” Suddenly she faltered watched her eve An indistinct ac ‘using recollection turned her faint—of the house keeper having told her that one of the girls insisted on going to a dance on an evening not hers by arrangement, and hov » had given orders that the house should be closed the same as usual at ten o’clock for the night. If the girl couldn’t abide by the rules of the Beekman mén leep omewhere else W hat osing she had done so? She could not be ] k held responsible for remote, unreasonable ' sequences and discreditable cor And then by chance Shane O'Connell made use of a phrase that indirectly saved his life, a phrase curiously like the one used on a former occasion by Dawkins to Mi Althea ‘Katie was a member of your house hold; yen ght have had a bit f thought Dawkins had said { have some cor leration fo employer, if nothing els a guest in the house and hould behave herself a ich.” There was no sense in it There was no paral no analogy. There was no obliga tion to treat the girla a gute t, even the igt the girl should have acted like one Mi Beckman knew it And yet there wa sumething! Didn't she owe some sort of duty at any rate toward those in her en ioyment those who slept under her roof? *T would have been better to have been kind to her then than to be kind to me now!” said he with sad convi The proud Miss Althea Beekman, the dignified descendant of a long line of an estors, turned a deep red. Heretofore erenely confident of her own personal tion virtue and her own artificial standards of democracy ne now found herself humil iated and chagrined before thi rough young criminal A® “The fact of the matter is,’’ con- cluded Mr. Tutt, “that honor and law Shane O'Connell Knew That He Could Trust Her. Stowly—Brokenty—Tensely, He Totd Her How He Had Killed Red McGurk, and Why ing with sudden tear My position Isquile pute illogi al. But of course ' had no idea help you if anand Katie too-—-if it isn’t too I Please ple ise let me t } I I Shane O’Connell experienced contri tion. After all it wa not seemly that the kes of him should be dictating to the ikes ol her And he | ver abide eeing a woman particularly a pretty womal cry ‘* Forgive me madam!” ] he begged owering his head “You were quite istified in all yo said!" she assured him. ‘* Please tell me everything that ha happe ned. I have influence with the and—-inot} f No doubt | can be of assistance course you can ab solutely trust me! Shane O’Connel looking into her honest gray eye knew that he could trust her. Slowly brokenly— tense he told her how he had killed Red Me Gurk, and why (Continued on Page 130

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Continued from Page 127 Che corridors were full of shadows when thea Beekman put her hands on Shane nell’s shoulders and bade him good Though she abominated his crime d him for having committed it partially responsible, ed that, by the code of in ome way he aiso perce) O'Connell hane a oO what he ved to be right He his own hane the necessary nalty » would have trie are ing all ver again To ad her re itt waiting for he office taken the law ready to extent at le: he } he found Mr bench by the warden’ Well?” he asked wi r and tossing haven't very goo 1 regretfull told me everythu pect bought tol ! : ad Cum things like \ tive Eddie Con tanding behind lighting | SIOWLY tatiousl\ y mile a he lted O’Brien, the dog of the d attorney's office, in hour later to h ‘What do you think, boss? Eddie Conroy heard Miss elling old man Tutt over in the lombs that O'¢ onnel] had confessed to her! iy, how’s that? Some evidence A es “What good will that do u d Peckham, glancing up with a scowl his desk. “She won't testify for us.” ‘But she'll have to testify if we call her, m't she?” demanded his assistant The district drummed on the lished surface before him Wi ell, | suppose 0,” he hesitatingly. ‘But y 1 woman like that ind put her on the testify. It would be “It’s the only way O’Brien with a sly grin ‘If she idvance that we were think ing of calling her she’d beat it out of tow ‘That's true,” agreed hi as far as she'd go fon But I don’t much like it. Those Beekmans have a lot of influence, and if she she could make us a heap of trouble! Be- sides it’s sort of a scaly trick making her give up on him like that.” O'Brien raised his brow ‘Sealy trick! He's a murderer, isn't he And he'll get off if don't call her. It’ matter of duty % All the has a rotten about lucl Beekman t from attorney admitted subpcena warning ou can t just without any and make her too rough!”’ to do it!" tand retorted knew in chief "That in defying the law, got sore ame tion mell to it. We your sugge may have-to do but risky lied Peckham dubiously,. deal less ri ky than doing it o far as candidacy next sutumn is concerned!” retorted his assist ant We won't let her suspect what we're todo; and the last minute I'll call her to the stand and cinch the case! She won't who called her! Perhaps | can Judge Babson to call her on ome other point and then sort of stumble onto the fact of the asion and examine imself hat out 1 can mear it over You'd better,” unles It would make it’s it I "t ay we won't | i busin 7 I It’s a sued not your von even Know arrange with confe her | would let u omehow.’ Peckham, papers! Althea could commented wl from the a story if Miss Beekman got on the rampage She have your sealp, my boy, if she wanted it! ‘And MeGurk could have yours!” re torted O'Brien with the impudence born of uu want al quite knowledge of Shane have The which guished, life owing to the delivered into prosecution O'Connell, might slowly and languishing died, took on new evidence thus innocently inds of the district attorne in fact it became a cause célébre. he ¢ ential elements to convict were ill there the corpus aorsetl, evidence of threats on the part of the defendant, of opportunity, oo his confes law which provides that the tatement of an accused ‘is not sufficient to warrant his conviction without addi ional proof that the crime charged has been committed’’ would be abundantly atistied though without his otherwise lan- t} } now motive, of on rhe confession there would have been ne proof whatever that the crime charged had been committed by him THE SATURDAY Thus, without her Jeekman was ential fact, the pivot upon which the entire turned The day of the great sporting event came. With it arrived in full panoply the M cGurks, their relatives and followers. All Cherry Hill seemed to have packed itself into Part I of the Supreme Court. There atmosphere some how suggestive of prize fight. But it was a vent which savored of a sure thing— really more like a hanging. They were there to make holiday over the law’s revenge for the killing of the darling of the Pearl Button Kid Peckham person- ally assured MeGurk that everything was copper-fastened. ‘He's halfway up the river already!"’ he said jocularly. And McGurk, swelling with importance ind emotion, pulled a couple of cigars from and the two smoked the pipe of knowing it, Miss witness and, in case an e8s was an the races or a porting ¢ ni pocke t peace But the reader is not particularly con- cerned with the progress of the trial, for he attended many. It is enough to say that a jury with undershot jaws, who had proved by previous experience their indifference to capital punishment and to all human sympathy, were finally selected and that the witnesses were duly called, and testified to the usual facts, while the Pearl Button Kids and the rest, spitting surre ptitiously beneath the benches, eagerly drank in every word. There nothing for Mr. Tutt to do; nothing for him to deny. The case built itself up, brick by brick And Shane O'Connell sat there unemotionally, hardly listening. There was nothing in the evidence to reflect in any way upon the honor of the O’Connells in general or in particular. He had done that which that honor demanded and he ready to pay the penalty — if the law could get him. He assumed that it would get him. So did the Tutt But when toward the end of the third day nothing had yet been brought forward to connect him with the crime Tutt leaned over and whispered to Mr. Tutt, “ D’ye know, I’m be ginning to have a hunch there isn’t any case! Mr. Tutt made an imperceptible gesture of assent ‘Looks that way,” he the corner of his mouth spring the connecting evidence and give us the coup de sig At that moment a police witness was re- leased from the stand and O’Brien stepped to the bench and whispered something to who glanced at the clock and nodded. It was twenty minutes of four, and the jury were already getting restless, for the trial had developed into a hum- drum, cut-and-dried affair. Miss Beekman sitting far back in the rear of the court room suddenly heard O'Brien call her name, and a quiver of apprehension passed through her body. She had never testified in any legal pro- ceeding, and the idea of getting up before such a crowd of people and answering questions filled her with dismay. It was so public! Still, if it was going to help O'Connell “ ‘Althea Beekman,” be llowed Cap. Phe- lan, ‘‘to the witness chair! Althea Beekman! The gentle lady felt as if she had been rudely stripped of all her protective clothing. Althea! Did not the law do her the courtesy-of calling her even *“Miss"’? Nerving herself to the perform- ance of her duty she falteringly made her way between the crowded benches, past the reporters’ table, and round back of the jury box. The judge, apparently a pleasant- . aced, rather elderly man, bowed gravely to her, indicated where she should sit and administered the oath to her himself, subtly dwe ‘lling upon the phrase “the whole truth,” and raising his eyes heavenward as he solemnly pronounced the words ‘‘so he lp you God! ‘I do!” declared Miss Beekman primly but dec idedly . Behind her upon the court-room wall towered in its flowing draperies the majestic figure of the Goddess of the Law, blind- folded and holding aloft the scales of jus- tice. Beside her sat in the silken robes of his sacred office a judge who cleverly adminis- tered that law to advance his own interests und those of his political associates. In front of her, treacherously smiling, stood the cynical, bullet-headed O’Brien. Ata great distance Mr. Tutt leaned on his elbows at a table beside Shane O’Connell. To them she directed her gaze and faintly smiled. has already Was Was answered out of Probably they'll at the end grace the judge, EVENING POST “‘Miss Beekman,” began O’Brien as courteously as he knew how, “you reside, do you not, at Number 1000 Fifth Avenue, in thie city and county?” “I do,” she answered-with resolution. “Your family have always lived in New York, have they not?”’ “Since 1630,” she replied deprecatingly and with more confidence. “You are prominent in various philan- thropic, religious and civic activities?” “‘Not prominent; interested,” she rected him. “And you make a practice of visiting prisoners in the Tombs?” She hesitated. What could this be ing to? “*Occasionally,”’ she “Do you know this 0’ C onne WN? ag “Te. “Did you see him on the day of last month?” “I think so~ if that was the day.’ “Wh at day do you refer to? ‘The day I had the talk with him.” “Oh, you had a talk with him?” es “W he re > cor- lead- admitted. defendant, Shane twenty-third did you have that talk with him ‘In the counsel room of the Tombs.” O’Brien paused. Even his miserable soul revolted at what he was about to do. ‘What did he say?” he asked, nervously looking away. Something in his hangdog look warned Miss Beekman that she was being betrayed, but before she could answer Mr. Tutt was on his feet. “One moment!” he cried. a preliminary question?’ The court signified acquiescence. ‘Was that conversation which you hac vith the defendant a confidential one?” ‘I object to the question!” snapped O'Brien. ‘‘The law recognizes no contiden- tial communications as privileged except those made to a priest, a physician or an attorney. The witness is none of these. The question is immaterial and irrelevant.” ‘That is the law,”’ announced the judge, ‘but under all the circumstances I will permit the witness to answer.” Miss Beekman paused. “Why,” she began, ‘of course it was confidential, Mr. Tutt. O’Connell wouldn't have told me anything if he had supposed for one moment I was going to repeat what he said. Besides, I suggested that I might be able to help him. Yes, certainly our talk was confidential.” ‘I am sorry,” gloated O’Brien, “‘but I shall have to ask you what it was.” “That is not a question,”’ said Mr. calmly. “What did the defendant say to you in the counsel room of the Tombs on the twenty-third of last month?” cautiously revised O’Brien. ‘I object!”’ thundered Mr. Tutt, his form towering until seemingly it matched that of the blind goddess in height. “ object to the answer as requiring a breach of confidence which the law could not tolerate. Judge Babson turned politely to Miss Beekman, ‘I regret very much that I shall be obliged to ask you to state what the de- fendant said to you. You will recall that you yourself volunteered the information that you had had the talk in question. Otherwise”’—-he coughed and put up his hand—‘‘we might possibly never have learned of it. A defendant cannot deprive the people of the right to prove what he may have divulged respecting his offense merely by claiming that it was in confi- dence. Public policy could never allow that. It may be unpleasant for you to answer the question but I must ask you to May I ask Tutt do so. ‘But, she protested, ‘“‘you certainly cannot expect me to betray a confidence! I asked O’Connell to tell me what he had done so that I could help him—and he trusted me!” ‘But you are not responsible for the law! He took his chance!" admonished the judge. Slowly Miss Althea’s indignation rose as she perceived the dastardly trick which O’Brien had played upon her. Already she suspected that the judge was only masquer- ading in the clothing of a gentleman. With a white face she turned to Mr. Tutt. “Does the law require me to answer, Mr. Tutt?” she inquired. “Do not ask questions ordered Babson brusquely, answer them,” feeling the January 31,1920 change in her manner. “‘ You are a witness for the people—not the defendant.’ “Tam nota witness against O’Connell!”’ she declared. ‘“‘This man’’—indicating O’Brien scornfully—‘‘has in some way found out that I Oh, surely the law doesn’t demand any thing so base as that! There was silence. The wheels of justice hung on a dead center. ‘Answer the question,” Honor tartly. All Miss Beekman’s long line of ancestors turned in their graves. In her Beekman blood the chief justice, the ambassador, the great editor, the signer of the Declaration of Independence stirred, awoke, rubbed their eyes and sternly reared themselves And that blood—blue though it was in- stead of scarlet like the O’Connells’— like theirs boiled in her veins and burned through the delicate tissue of her cheeks ““My conscience will not permit me to betray a confidence!” she cried angrily. ‘I direct you to answer!” ordered the judge. ‘I object to the court’s threatening the witness!” interjected Mr. Tutt. “I wish it to appear upon the record that the man ner of the court is most unjudicial and damaging to the defe ndant : ‘Take your seat, sir!’ barked Babson, his features swelling with anger. ‘“‘ Your language r remarked His is contemptuous! The jury were leaning forward intently Trained militiamen of the gibbet, they nevertheless admired this little woman’s fearlessness and the old lawyer’s pugnacity. On the rear wall the yellow face of the old self-regulating clock, that had gayly ticked so many men into the electric chair, leered shamelessly across at the blind goddess ‘Answer the question, madam! If, you claim, you are a patriotic citizen of thi is commonwealth, having due respect for it institutions and for the statutes, you will not set up your own ideas of what the law ought to be in defiance of the law as it stands. I order you to answer! If you do not I shall be obliged to take steps to com pel you to do so,” In the dead silence that followed the stones in the edifice of Miss Beekman’s in herited complacency, with each beat of the fell one by one to the ground until it was entirely demolished. \ ainly she struggled to test her cience by her loyalty to her country’s laws. But the task was beyond her, Tightly compressing her lips she sat silent in the chair, while the delighted re porters scribbled furious messages to their city editors that Miss Althea Beekman, one of the Four Hundred, was defying Judge Babson, and to rush up a camera man right off in a taxi, and to look her up in the morgue for a front-page story. O'’Brier glanced uneasily at Babson. Possible de fiance on the part of this usually unassun ing lady had a entered into hiscalculatic The judge took a new tack. ‘You probably do not fully understand the situation in which you are placed,” | explained. ‘‘You are not responsible fo the law. Neither are you responsible i in any way for the consequences to this defendant, whatever they may be. The matter is en tirely out of your hands. You are com pelled to do as the court orders. As a law-abiding citizen you have no choice i: the matter.” Miss Althea’s modest intellect but she stood her ground, the ghost of the Signer at her elbow. ‘Il am sorry,” she replied, ‘‘but my ow? self-respect will not allow me to answer.”’ ‘In that case,”’ declared Babson, playing his trump ecard, “‘it will be my unpleasant duty to commit you for contempt.” lhere was a bustle of excitement about the reporters’ table. Here was a story! “Very well,’ answered Miss Beekman proudly. “Do as you see fit, and as your own duty and conscience demand.” The judge could not conceal his anr 10y- ance. The last thing in the world that he wished to do was to send Miss Althea to jail. But having threatened her he must carry out his threat or forever lose face. **T will give the witness until to-morrow morning at half after ten o'clock to make up her mind what she will do,” he an nounced after a hurried conference with O’Brien. ‘‘ Adjourn court!” Miss Beekman did not go to bed at all that night. Until a late hour she conferred in the secrecy of her Fifth Avenue library with her gray-haired solicitor, who, in some mysterious way, merely over the telephone, managed to induce the newspapers to omit (Concluded on Pave 13.) clock, cons reeled

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When I went to California the first time with Cole he had a little elephant that he illed —_ Thumb He was a bright, good-natured youngster, but small—so small that Mrs. Cole had made a big tick nd had it stuffed with straw, which we istened under his blanket when on parade » increase his apparent size. It worked all right if it stayed tight, but sometimes the fastenings would work loose and then the pad got out of place and made the elephant f look lopsidec Cole had advertised in Francisco that he would exhibit a trained elephant As a matter of fact he did not have one, but he thought if we just walked an elephant round the ring the public would be satisfied We showed in * ete ird’s Garden and when I saw the great amphitheater crowded to its limit I realized that it was going to hurt the show if we did not put up some cind of a bluff for a trained elephant and determined to see if [ could not make one that would get by. I had little Tom Thumb San

ill brushed up and I told one of my mer John Hadley, a red-headed Irishman fron Pennsylvania to get ready to go into tl ring with me. John had no idea what I vanted and when our turn came to go he went along quite willingly. I walked Tom Thumb round the ring a couple of times and into it I told John to lie lown and taking the elephant by the ear ind trunk I walked him over the man two > times lengthwi e€ and crosswise, | the crowd, but Hadley was a iwful scared man and swore roun ndly ilter

out of the ring and » mé at blood, Mr. Conklin. I'n ire achir elephants to do ) nd acts the t ind prir ipal thing com} h is to make them understand clearly what you want and to associate that par ilar yn with a certain command or cue Once the big fellows grasp ) neani it is seldom that they w le- liberately refu e to do what you wish then to. In fact, the more intelligent ones seen t o take a pride in doing the It will be readily seen, however certain

that it is a problem not entirely free re rplexitie 3 to disc 1 and what you over Ways unders

My method of doing tl was to i ' facing a hig! trong brick wa ‘ ; is front feet secure lastened toa ipie ff stakes driven in the ground. A heavy ype x was put round his hindquarters ind Irom t over a pulle dow? d and t

rour l mn another elep!)

1 would take my I by him, strike him the flank and say, “‘Stand on your 1 as istant Land draw tt l he st 0d ‘ ill kept him from going over forward. After a moment rr two I would tell him to get dowr The issistant would slack off on the rope and et him settle back onto his feet. Then I vould give him a , or something of

[ did tl is two or th “pete 2 ry the kind morning and afternoon and it was not long before it was possi! ile to do away with the rigging and at the word of command he would put head down and throw his hindquarters into the air. Of course the

onger he practiced the more easily and surely he did it To teach an elephant t » lie down, wl h one would expe t to be an ¢ matter, n fact one of the most difficul ings for a trainer to fralied: + » It is usually nece sary to fasten the animal's feet to stake and pull him over on his side with tackle, at the same time giving him the proper com mand, and re peat rey lesson many times before he is ready o do it without help when he is told Sometimes I used to arrange so an ele- phant could learn certain things by elf. I used this method in teaching them to let my I always kept my the menagerie, saddled and ready in case I uddenly for anything. Every time I had a new horse I had to get it and the elephants acquainted with ea¢h

him- horses alone

horse l! needed it THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ELEPHANT AACQUAINTANCES Continued from Page 25

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S r Weighed on FAIRBANKS’ STANDARD SCALE. — | 3) " } &s ae 3} Ht sted e 189 7 ovner and ad ; ait be. tea teach the 5 Load of Ing thi t elephant 8] From t toleave the | 2 neorse 3| To osit alone él Gross lbs. thechair Che first 4 This wa few days I 3 OniveR, ON--OF F Tare, a done by » «| ,. r ‘ tied the 2 Fee Net, I3 CO lbs. placing tt horse tr | hair next front of the Net aos the side of lephant MM le the ly j t ’ ' al ‘ the bay 4 Space for Sgurin - but just q ¥ ei gher | on back ede,” } ng, ba out of their 2 : ens = ing the ther [= SN, I I RIN it ti) Le rea < ‘ imal up Then [ Certificate of Mandarin's Weight. Above—Mandarin, 1890 to it and lengther ed tening his hitch so the elephant could just t his hind feet and then working him dow him with the end of his trunk and after a into the chair with a hook After he day or two so he could feel the horse over. found the chair was solid he willt: When he began to do this the horse would ettled his weight into it. After a few time isually kick and bite him. In this way the he found out what I wanted and then by found out that it was better to alone and the horse d he could master the elepha it did not take the horse long to learn to bite the ele phant if he interfered with him and it was possible then to put alongside of the elephant. After being to- month or two the elephar and horse would become the best of friend One winter in Utica I |} four ele phants to do a military drill— march, halt, wheel and a few things of that sort. Ir teaching them the meaning of the different commands I had a driver by e first who made them go and stop as I gave the commands. After a while the elephants began to understand what was wanted and the - vers had to guide them less and |] until all they had to do wa by hind them and prod them when they did not do their part promptly, and then finally they were not needed at all. While with the Cole show I taught one of ; is elephants to sit at a table and do an act. sefore | went into the ring with him for the a there was placed in it a table. On the table was a fan and a bell and beside it were two heavy chairs. When we reached the table the elephant would sit on one of the chairs, pick up the bell and ring it and then fan himself until a clown dressed as a waiter appeared. I would explain to the waiter that the elephant wanted a drink and he would go for it. While the waiter was the elephant would ring again impatiently The clown l with a big lephant eave the ] horse covered that the horse gether for a ' roke h one at

to walt gone would come bac] bottle made of tin and weighted so it would tand up. This was filled with mo lasses and water and the elephant would take it up and pour the contents into hi iways mouth. He was always eager for this part of the act as he liked the sweet water After he had emptied the bottle he al ways rang again vigorously and | would get up and explain to him that there was no more. As I did so 1 took off my tall hat and put it on my chair. Then I mov oa round the table with my back toward the elephant This was his cue up quickly and si on my chair, crushing my hat, which alway brought down the house to get - warding him each time with a carrot or a lump of sugar it was easy to get him to practice until he was perfect needed to teach him to ring the be place it in his trunk and shake it his he learned in three le ons, but the con plete act took an entire winter training e had an elephant with the O'Brien how « t Don who would run at tl lrop of a hat I was taking the menagerie from the train to the how grounds in Albar once and in some way Don found an op- portunity to bolt and started off down a roatl which led to a rolling mill of half-naked men were bu ind handling great bars of white-hot iron and a lot of red-hot bars lay attered round the coming toward them on the rur they mply ropped everything and got out. Don was not fazed in the least by having the mill left to himself, nor did he stop running, but went in one end, came out the other a’ d ke pt going Ve found him later the yards hanging round the

rolling out floor. Seeing an elephant

on back in animal ears, and the singular thing w that in going through the rolling mill among so much hot iron he had not so much as inged a toe part of the elephant was a when it went to This same Barnum & Bailey show England. Over there he had -veral ugly turns and Mr. Bailey, clined to take any chance killed in Stoke-upon-Trent hoking him. I had found this to be the who ne

easiest and most humane way to bring about the death of one of the big anin In my first attempt to kill an elep} tI tried poison, but he simply ran ! trun down his throat and pumped the | on all out and that w all there was to it In an open field I had two stro driven firmly into the ground. To these I ecurely fastened Dor front feet Three or four rods away on either le of him I brought a couple of ropes an inch and a half in diameter On one end of each of them | had made a strong slip noose and thoroughly soaped it o it worked free! and easily hese nooses I put round the

elephant's throat and carried the ends of the ropes to the takes at eithe ide of hin The one on the left L put round the stake drew up snugly and fastened. On the right I secured a snatch block to the ike and passing the rope through the blo carried the end back to where I had ar other elephant waiting and fastened t rope to his harne When all w ready | gave the word and the elephant began to pull on the rope, which caused both noos to close round Don’s throat with t mendous force As he felt the rope 3 tiphte instead of trying to pull away he threw the vhole of his weight against them. There was nothing to indicate that the sensatior Was eve lisugreeable to him and in a few minute witl no truggle or apparent uffering, he gentl ettled down into a big heap and Putting Fritz in Chains W her | went to the Bar 1 how they had a very by the name of the country at the time

Fritz. He was t and weighed five

largest tor I won a bet by teaching him in three each periods to t up hold ip | forelegs and stretch ! tru traignt upi he air, let me climb up |} back tand or his head and hold on t k One of my most pop wis wit! this elephant He had ; part wit yrrie the elept t in a wait and vrvie pedestal wort ‘after which I lined them all up behind him. Then the one next behind Fritz would put | front feet on Frit hip The next one would pi I nf feet on that one’s ba ind so « ! epl xcept Fritz had its front feet inother elephant W he the were } position I would peak to Irit Ile tl put his head down for n to step o ! tu ind when he had straightened uy a in I gave the word and e whole line traveled to the exit where all went out ex cept Frit He and I would start round tl ring again and ever tle way I would stop lift n hat to the pecta wknowledg ment of the py int it he il tim ving “down” to Fritz, who would lowe his head and raise iwain, making it seer is though we were | hhbow rtothe crowd Fritz had the principal part era ‘ ind I used to ride out of the ring on | i One nignt Mad uare G at | id got tl t of lephant line and was going to Fritz the word to lowe } he if e th t or ty en L noticed that he it to go fo lL did not i st d, but dodged betwer four of his leg 1 made 1 t of the ring. My helper, who 1 bye le the row of elephar t eep them u ‘ iw tha mett y wa nig i! ip to Frit tarted the ‘ moti i marched them out of the r to tl juarters without thing ha 4 qu id | beer dodging betwe rit f 1 so prompt was the help marching the rest of the elept ts out »Or out e the Ww pe ‘ ispect l while he was tied up I gave |} 1 good pu hing and for a long while he beha ! A few years later, howeve displaye } tempe l i t} he got deatl irrant l happen Tou France. The ever how had commenced and I was getting the gerie down to the trai We had at the time some two dozen eley ts and | was sending t Frit i the lead th Babe and Ce umbia chained on either side of | ind charge of driver George Bates, I } ‘ | t ber 1 the ut t ind Wi ere about hallway to tl railroad i just 1 r through a little part t eve thing going e! vyhen all of a sud len | t ! ‘ Bate ws best he 1 1 , the g r two elephants hitched to At once the le band of elep!| ere ina! ip. The road I e th full and tl ) itfit ear to top. Bates ran fe. There wer half dozer ther er th the ele int but at the fir i t ! 1 t i thie ill disappeared, ¢ } ) gt hol The or mat tayed } rie \ t fellow known about the show as Deafy. | rode up infront of Fritz as quicl isl ! and tried to calm him down, | I Continued on Page 14!

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Continued from Page 137) once it was no use, so I told Deafy to get some chains and be quick about it. The chains we wanted were under some other stuff which had to be unloaded to get at them, so it was quite a few minutes be- fore he came back with them. Meanwhile I was doing what I could to keep Fritz from bolting. I had done a good deal of vork with one of the elephants chained to him, called Babe, and she would do anything 1 told her. So keeping Fritz’s attention mn trying to get me, I had Babe pull round

n the opposite direction and in this way hampered him and took up his attention intil Deafy came with the chains Then by the same methods I worked tree and ve Deafy Fritz i chance ind a tree

round near a ‘ to ge

ome } n diameter, but Fritz 1 it off the first thing and I had t him round to a arger one. Deafy d to get a hitch round this and it held. With one leg fast, it was a simple matter to fasten the other one. As soon as Fritz’s hind feet were fastened the men began to appear from variou directions and I had plenty of help. Still keeping Fritz’s attention directed to me, |

had Deafy, with some of those who were now willing to help him, get chains on Fritz’s front feet and unfasten and take away Babe and Columbia. Then with tackle I pulled him to the ground. By time word had reached Bailey of the trouble with Fritz and he ordered him killed. I tried to vince MeCaddon, one of the directors, who had brought the word from Mr. Bailey, that it was unnecessary and begged him to leave the elephant to me. I told him that now I had him down I could punish and regain control of him and would guarantee to have him on board the train before the show was ready to start away in the morning. But McCaddon insisted that Fritz be killed where he lay . As there was no choice in the matter, | went about preparing nooses. I had siderable difficulty in getting them round the animal’s neck, but after a while I got them properly placed. By this time every one had plenty of courage and it was no trouble to get upward of a hundred men to pull on the rope with all their strength and in less than fifteen minutes after I gave the word poor Fritz was dead. Mr. this con con Mr. Bailey made a present of Fritz’s body to a scientifie soc ety of Tour It sent men to take charge as soon as he was dead. The body was carefully skinned and afterward the skin was stuffed and placed in the local museum. I suppose it is still there Fritz’s tusks grew very rapidly and I cut about six inches off them each year. 4 tuba player in the band wanted me to give him a piece of one of them out of which to have a couple of mouthpieces turned for his instrument as the brass ones he used made his mouth sore. I gave him enough on condition that he would have an ele- phant carved for me, and I still have the little ivory image, three or four inches high, cut from a piece of Fritz’s tusk. Elephants Sometimes Forget Not long before we came back to New York from England I was in the animal quarters of the Olympia in London talking with some carpenters who were eating their lunch when one of the elephant men we called Red came in and began to clean up round a big elephant named Mandarin. For some reason the elephant did not feel friendly toward him and suddenly him a blow with his trunk that sent him against the wall and before any of us coule do anything had crushed the life out of the poor fellow with his great head. Mandarin was about forty-five years old, all of eight feet high and heavy in proportion. We brought him to New York in a big crate on the upper deck of the boat. On the way over Mr. Baile y decided to have him killed, so instead of unloading him onto the pier Mr. Bailey had a iyoing tug come alor gside, and the elephant and all, was swung dowr of the tug, which then put When far the « was loaded down with pig iron, swung out over the water and And so ended Mandarin Elephants can be taught useful tricks as well others. I always had at least which I could use for pushing wagons round and helping to lift them out of the mud, and when I wes in Australia, where transport: tion conditions were bad, I used to hitch struck

Dig sé crate, to the deck out to sea enough outside rate let go as one

seven and eight wagons together, put a man on each to work the brake and then had three elephants broken to draw them and a fourth to help by pushing in the rear. I also used an elephant to move cars on the sidings in the yards of the Bridgeport winter quarters. The elephant is the only animal that will make an effort by itself to learn a trick. I have often noticed after I had been show ng an intelligent elephant a new trick and he thought he was alone that he would keep trying it and seemed really pleased if he mastered it.

Most of the various harnesses, hobble tackle and so on used in the handling and training of elephants are either inventior of mine or adaptations of then Ar elephant lives to a great age comes to maturity slow] not beir

grown until from thirty-five to forty old It is a mistake to think an elephant is clumsv beeause he loo so. In propor tion to its size an elephant is much lighter on its feet than a horse and can outrun and there he ly for a short distance one of an ele phar t's four feet that cannot strike or kick quickly and accurate most horse is no with An easy rule to remember to get an elephant’s height is that twice the circum ference of his front foot at the ground equals his height at the shoulder. An elephant can stand considerable cold

THE SATURDAY could not run our elephant car us take one of the canvas on them Onto Pete and another elephant EVENING POST this car Durit y Cole had narrow-gauge flat cars, put stakes up round the sides and stretch we put the night, while we were in the mountai there came on a very sudden 1 unusual storm of rain, hail and snow There w no cover over the top of the r to shield the animals and we were del ed and did not get to our destination a ‘ l everal hours as we expected to lr e mor when we were able to take Pete off the car he wa o cold and stiff that he coul hardl move, and In spite of we he died almost immediate t t Sa the other one did not seem t ! ( The elephant the most t ‘ animal ind will watch ove | { a favorite keeper ind he w © |} grudge against one for some t t for an opportunity to get « vith ! But I do not believe those pe torn of elephants that | e remembered be cheated by ur ! t te over them when they had a1 opportunit after the lapse of year An angry elephant, however, i d gerous thing and an elephant per wl rough Is always running a! A or elephant usually made so by the keep Some men are naturally cruel and are will ing to do anything to satisfy their desire t if he iskept moving. ILhavetakenelephants show off. This i in Bridgeport, fitted bags over their ears men round elephant and tails and worked them up to their = struction bellies in the snow pushing cars without its quite likely in a short t doing them any harm. On the other hand, from some elephant I lost a fine elephant once as a result of them along the grour exposure tet¢tie cold. It anes. 16° M———_--.-+ a 789 in the 1 oO, West near . f <i Denver From. f and had to go over the | To mountains s| Gross, lbs or a Nnar- 2 ORiveR, ON--OFF ; 2 ¥ row- gauge fare, __} bs. road over Fees Net, JO S40 the which we Th o ae Vet, bus 4 - | Space for figuring kL OF ei gher. } Space aoe

Fritz Dressed and Ready for Parade Above They rit ’ trun a | 1 | | | ana apt to be a fault of new j hey i} Obe l sand if nothing worse happe are o get a blow hat bow cal their attention pretty forcibly to their bad manner;r Quiteoften theydonot pet off s« easily. ] knew of the

Certificate of Fritz’s Weight Mabie round show A his shoulders horse and before put one ¢ in two and threw the pieces ove r bac I have also known many instance f me beng jueezed to death between a w and an elephant head or under it for Rut from a keene ( trainer who tre them properly elephant will accept | ishment w he a ive the 1 ( t! \ a the mal w ne | t ? YY l ol great the elepl t q ‘ | A ¢ nit ] i I ‘ t } ap 0) i iH the Ba in Ra pre ’ " jen t pof New Ye ‘ w ea was tol ht ele W ter q ‘ | epor the time , an ne on 1, | ( ! fe the i fit \ ! I'he rte il eal ‘ | he the ecun ‘ ly e Gat i la | me ts in among tl i the were ist fraid « them the ' ot ten ‘ enained tf wholetl he the wi eT iv Abe Goes Taxi-Riding ] ephant re a f tri the ea eft de like oxe The driver tells ther hy when he wants ther go to the rig and says come in” tol gr the t« hin “Mile means to go fast mule up to trot, and whe he want the 1 the driver calls out “tut.” In dri ng elephant or he road it ‘ necessary to look out for their feet « the will get sore If the roads are ‘ ita sandy the driver i metime mpelled put boots on them, other e the motio the foot on the ind witt ® pre © fr the great weight of the animal would grind through the The careful keeper. will also elephant aqaown ¢ { ie? tw ‘ ‘ with a great drawing fe cut the tor Bach pring, to« he 4 ‘ e elephant thick coat of neat | 0 ! keeps t good shape iit there are on the anin I t well elephant ( f r mu maller than t} ewl metimes ge in 1 the live in the i ‘ ‘ of the | 1 the elephant ear The re re , Import elephant ire t i those t ( t ‘ ] aln entire free f é Elephant el le ' i In the old d en tl ere d from town to the ere fed grair leat about a hundred Lfitty | ! a da I ed to give! elephant it ! i M4 t { i of } ’ ‘ j eley It has a heer ilar and ' f t« ‘ e thet il eley nt in its quar ind tt he the ow went ¢ the r 1 the elephant il a dra ne ¢ al imatter oll t ' e there have te Lemier ol won ing elephants ex! ere vere neve ! tt » actuall bor e United State he first one is | n Philadelphia and be ito the ¢ | & Bail how It w imed ¢ I and its mothe Labe The mothe t I} al ‘ ut 1 4 t | i r Brother The father was Mar ri | Keeper became al a ge imi! i! vas killed in Bridgeport in 190 e othe ung elephant ist t the art Ty Barr im ! nl ive pe Dur ng the last ear | ! Barnum & Bail e Ne inimal dealer | t over! the ide i bal ele} t and i t ! It grazie ip to | ly 1 the nou iin the j t hat it } heen be here, Whe he ent d t M e ( Nii y f, on f ; t the tk { He fed ony oer i ily not hes hig We had named him Abe One day | got or r ‘ t. Mary's Free Hospital for ¢ West Thirty-fourth Street, so Ty there I helped | enka the ater then ta yl? ! the t ‘ ry I ‘ ‘ f ‘ Continued on Page 14 foe n elephant in or | pulled leg ut her him he tru off | yone could prevent pulled | r

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 145 (Continued from Page 141) building and then into the wards and up and down between the rows of beds, stopping a moment beside each one. Those of the youngsters who were able to reached out and touched the little fellow and then followed him with their eyes as he ‘vent down the ward. From St. Mary’s we took him up to the New York Orthopedic Hospital in East Fifty-ninth Street and led him through the wards there before we took him back to the Garden. In all my experience I do not remember a more touching sight than the wonder and happiness on the faces of the two hundred chil- dren in those hospitals as they watched that little elephant. During my forty years in charge of circus menageries I have handled more so-called bad elephants than any man in the United States and have killed five of them. However, in my opinion it is a mistake to kill them, for the bad elephant is only bad for a few weeks in a year and a clever keeper can detect the change in the animal’s manner soon enough to make it possible to con- fine him by himself until he is good- Jumbo and “Old Scott"’ } whatever gets in his way, and so Samson threw all his weight and trength against the cars in an effort to crowd through the opening and get at me, but the load of ore was so heavy and the cars stood at such an angle to his pressure that they held and he was blocked. IL let him struggle away for a few minutes and then I began to talk to him. After a little he gave up his efforts and be gan to calm down. Then I told him to back up and lie down, both of which he did. Finding he would obey me once more, | rode round the cars to where he was and after making sure [ could manage him drove him back to the tent and tied him up. Cole was very much disturbed over the matter and wanted the animal punished. 1 remonstrated with him, telling him that it was not necessary, that the elephant had given in and was behaving himself and that it would do no good, But Cole thought he must be punished until he squealed. It was too near time for the afternoon performance to do anything about it then, so we tied him securely and went*on with the show. After that natured again. As a usual thing elephants do not have bad spells before they are twenty-five or thirty years old. The elephant that is bad first, last and all the time exists only in fiction. The liveliest and most serious time I ever had with an elephant occurred in Hailey, Idaho. He was named Samson, and Cole had bought him from a New York animal dealer in the fall before we went into winter quarters at Utica. We had to have a special car made for him in order to get him up to Utica. There during the winter I got acquainted with him, taught him some new tricks and broke in a fellow to drive him. As near as we could make out he was be- tween forty and fifty years old at the time Cole bought him, and he weighed almost five tons. Previous to his purchase by Cole he had been at Coney Island carrying chil- dren on his back. His owners for some rea- son had become afraid of him and sold him. Samson on the Rampage At that time Barnum had a big elephant which he called Jumbo and was billing extensively as the largest elephant in the world. As soon as Cole bought Samson he at once began to bill him as the largest one in existence, I think probably Cole’s state- ment came nearer the truth, for while Barnum’s elephant may have measured a little more in height and had larger ears, Cole’s had by far: the greater bulk and weight. In addition he was much more intelligent, being an Indian elephant, than the Barnum elephant, which was African. Some years later He immediately turned on me and to save myself I dodged behind a cage. He threw this into the air with no apparent effort and I realized that he must be got outside at once or he would wreck the whole menagerie. I shouted to Cole, the owner of the show, who was trying to help, to get me my horse and gun. He was only a few moments doing it, but in the meantime Samson had thrown over twelve cages trying to get me. I jumped on the broncho and started out of the door and the elephant followed me, just as I wanted him to do. A few rods from the tent was a black- smith shop and standing in front of it, wait- ing to be repaired, was one of the huge gondola wagons used in that section to haul ore in. Samson stopped long enough to give this a shove, which sent one end of it crashing through the side of the shop, and then he turned and followed me. I headed for the open fields and as soon as I got away from the horses and crowd I turned in my saddle and opened fire on him with charges of buckshot. I hit him square in the trunk five or six times, but he paid no more attention to it than he would to so many raindrops. Two or three cowboys came following on and fired at him with their rifles, but all they succeeded in doing was to make aslight flesh wound in his back. I have often laughed when I have thought of the spectacle we must have made. I was dressed in a suit of tights covered with shining spangles, had a great leopard skin round my waist and hips and was mounted on a broncho with a Mexican saddle and bridle elaborately ornamented. The ele phant had on all his parade trappings and great saddle and as he ran the colored velvet blanket blew out from both his sides like huge wings. The broncho was going his best, but the elephant was close behind and I knew that he would be able to overtake us if we kept the race up much of a distance. When I found that he paid no attention to the buckshot I began to look round for some means of cornering him. Off across the field, something less than a mile away, was the freight yard, and the possibility of stop- ping him among the cars suggested itself to me and I headed for them. By the side of the yard was a large water tank on top of which were a number of people who had been watching the parade. As soon as they saw Samson and me turn and come toward them they climbed down and ran faster than I ever saw anyone run in my life. As I got near the yard I noticed a lot of cars heavily loaded with ore standing on two tracks which met in a V-shape at one end. toth trucks were full of cars, but at the point of the V the cars did not quite meet. I made for this opening with Sam- son right after me. As I had hoped, the broncho and I just squeezed through, but there was not room enough for Samson. An elephant never goes round anything He simply tries to push aside or crush he became a part of the Barnum show, Cole having bought an interest in it. Jack Shoemaker was Sam- son’s driver and I always had Jack follow in the parade directly behind the cage of lions in which I rode so I might keep an eye on the elephant and tell Jack what to do if anything happened, or even get out and help him if it was necessary. We had had no trouble with him and this day in Hailey we had put fifteen or twenty of the children of the place on Sam- son’s back and taken them round on the parade. Just on the outskirts of the town we had stopped and taken the chil- . dren off. : The parade had reached the show grounds and was breaking up. The other cages of animals had been driven under the can- vas ahead of mine, but the horses had not been taken away. | My cage had no more than stopped and I jumped out than Samson reached under it and threw it over on its side. Jack tried to get him away, but I saw at once that he had lost P | control of him. Samson turned | from the cage to the horses and knocked over four of them. To save the horses I seized a pitchfork and began jabbing the elephant in the hind legs. Fritz as He Lay Dead in Teurs, France was over | had another talk with Cole and tried to get him to change his mind, but he insisted that the elephant must be punished, so there was nothing left for me to do but go about it A Fire in Winter Quarters I had my men drive stout stakes in two rows and made Samson lie down between them. Then with a quantity of inch-and a-half rope I bound him down to the stakes, passing the rope back and forth over his body so many times that he resembled the picture of Gulliver on the old thread boxes When at last he was secured I put several men to belaboring him with tent stakes But though they winded themselves and others took their places Samson showed no signs of squealing. Il went and heated some large bars of iron red hot and held them within reach of his trunk to see if he wa still mad. He reached out and took them, put them into his mouth and tried to chew them up. After about half an hour of thi sort of treatment I was able to convince Cole that the elephant would let us kill him before he would squeal and Cole gave his consent for us to stop When we unfastened the rope it was a pretty thoroughly done up elephant we had. He could hardly stand. His tongue hung out of his mouth like a panting dog’ and he could not bend his trunk. For more than a week we had to feed him by hand and give him water with a force pump. | dressed and cared for the buckshot wounds and the burns on his trunk and the cut on his back where the cowboys had wounded him They all healed rapidly and it was not long before he was as good a ever again I never had any more trouble with him after that, but he always wanted to get out of my way if possible. He used to have spells of want ing to chase his driver, how ever, and once when he tried to do it during the next immer he tipped over a load of hay After Samson went or 1S rampage | got a couple of dogs, one a white bull and the othe a big fellow, a cro between a St. Bernard and an Iri etter, and broke them to stay right round him and keep everyone but myself and the keeper away amson lost | fe j re that burned the B n & ] iiley Winte quarte in Bridgeport, IL Aa t the tir of the eand there wa ’ one else who ; 1 nain hin ind get hi of he bu j » all they could do was let I burn After the fire hi ! ‘ were recovered and ! nted and are now on exhi bition in the Natural History Museum, in New York City I had another lively experi ence with an elephant in Madi m Square Garden in New York City. We called him Concluded on Page 149

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(Concluded from Page 145) Tom Thumb. He was young at the time, probably not more than eight years old, and was not very large. During the winter at the quarters in Bridgeport I had been teaching him to walk on a row of big wooden bottles. Toward spring a clown by the name of Reynolds was assigned to work Tom Thumb in the ring and he used to come up to Bridgeport from New York every day to go through the act with the elephant. One day after he had been coming up for some time I said to him: ‘‘ Reynolds, look out you don’t get too fresh with that elephant the way you give him orders. you do when you get down in the Garden he’ll knock you out. You won't have all these men sitting round then. It will be new surroundings and he will be excitable.” “You leave that to me,” he replied. “I know what I am doing. I’ve got candy in my pocket and he likes me fust-rate.”’ I said no more to him about it. When we got down to the Garden and ready to open up there was a rehearsal for the ben- efit of the reporters and a few others. Rey nolds went into the ring to do his act with Tom Thumb, but had hardly more than commenced when the elephant hit him a blow that knocked him clear outside the ring. If it had not been for the ring bank he would have been killed. That prevented the elephant from reaching him and crush- ing him before he got on his feet. Of course Reynolds would have nothing more to do with the act and it was arranged that an- other clown, by the name of Billy Burke, should take his place. Burke was a sort of barroom clown that is, he was a good deal funnier in a barroom than he was in the ring, but he had unlimited self-confidence. The show was to open to the public the next day and I took Burke to one side and cautioned him about the elephant, but he paid no atten- tion and told me contemptuously that he could handle him. When it came time for the act I put Tom Thumb’s caretaker, Otto Mopus, in the ring, thinking it would help to keep the animal easy. Tom Thumb Goes Wild I watched just outside and it was well I did, for the elephant had hardly got in the ring before he turned on the two men and if I had not rushed in and caught him by the ear with my hook he would have killed both of them. He was so excited that instead of allowing me either to put him through his act or to take him out he simply bolted and, while I hung to his ear with my hook, dragged me into the aisle and, before the spectators had time to be fright- ened, up two flights of stairs and out onto Twenty-sixth Street. There I regained control of him and took him down into the cellar and chained him up. Later Mr. Bailey came down and told me to chain him to an old elephant and take him up to Central Park—that he was going to make the city a present of him. So that night I fastened him to one of the THE SATURDAY old elephants and took him up to the park and delivered him over to Bill Snyder, the head keeper of the park zoo. Snyder had been connected with a show once and he used to take Tom Thumb out and perform him for the benefit of the crowds on Sunday afternoons, but in a few years the elephant grew so ugly that it was thought best to kill him. It is not at all unusual for elephants to break away from their keepers. The longest chase I ever had was after three elephants that ran away from the Cole Show near Green River in Wyoming. We had to move the show a matter of twelve miles and the railroad wanted a thousand dollars just to carry the animals. Cole told the official that he did not want to buy their road he simply wanted to use it— but they would not give him any better rate, so he decided to send all the animals he could cn foot and by wagon. Chasing the Runaways I got them off as early as I could, sending the elephants in charge of a man by the name of Printer, who rode a calico horse. Three of the elephants were fastened to gether by chains and neck straps. When about half the way the performing stallions came up behind them and commenced to make a lot of noise. The elephants became frightened and in spite of anything Printer could do they bolted to one side of the road. He was able to follow them for only a short distance, for in going through the brush they very soon broke their fastenings and disappeared completely I had stayed with the train and the first I knew of it was when Cole came into the car where I was sleeping, woke me up and told me the elephants had run away and that I would have to go and find them. I pulled on my clothes as quickly as possible and started. The first thing I did was to engage a couple of men who knew the country with me as guides. One of these traveled on foot, while the other one and myself were mounted. They would agree to meet at a certain point at a certain time. The one on foot would start off in one direction and his mounted partner and myself in the opposite and just at the agreed time we would all come together. I could not understand at the time and have never since understood how they did it Though we scoured over quite a large region the first day, we found no tracks or any person who had seen an elephant We passed through a number of camps of Digger Indians. The guides knew their language and asked them for news of the elephants, but they knew nothing of them. On the second day we came on their track to go s and from then on followed them, but we could find no one who had seen them, which led us to conclude that they must be staying quietly in some out-of-the-way spot days and roaming round nights. The next day after they escaped Cole offered a thousand dollars reward for their wed @ Jthie EVENING POST capture, so we saw plenty who were out looking for them, even if we could not find anyone who had seen them. Many or, ir fact, most of the searchers had a k apples in their wagons or in bags their horses. It seemed to be the general impression that if the elephants were found they could be coaxed to follow with the apples. But the joke of the matter was that none of the people could tell the heel from the toe in the tracks of the el phant and most of them were painstak ngly fol lowing the tracks backward. We came to places where they had slid down the sides of the guleches into the streams and played in the mud before going on, but still we could not find anyone who had seen them. About five or six o’clock one morning we found where they had gone through the garden back of a little cabin and broken down the fence. We w anted to find out if pos ible how long it had been since they had passed, so we pounded on the door and after a little a big colored fel low opened it and we asked him if he had seen any elephants go past **Massa, dey ain’t no sech thing roun’ in dese yere parts no more he told ‘But what’s the matter with your asked him fence we He looked at it is amazement and at the great tracks through his garden, which evidently had not been there the night before, and with a frightened look ex claimed: *‘ Mah Lawd, man! They i thin’ like that roun’ here!” Jimmie Caught at Last It had been nearly a week now that we had been on their trail without come any closer to them and I had made up my mind that I would go back that night and tell Cole it was no use. During the forenoon we came toa steep hillside covered with manzanita bushes on which I saw bits seeming to of fresh mud clinging where it had been scraped off the elephants as they made their way through. This gave me new courage We found the or ly way in which we could get past the dense bushes was to crawl] under them on our hand nd kne« which we did, and got considerably scratched and torn doing it. But when we finally got out on the farther ide we saw a large clea pace, in the center of which was a burying ground, and standing in the burying ground were the elephant They heard us working o ay under the bushes and were just on the point of bolting again when I called them by name They pricked up their ears and stopped a by working carefully and talking I finally got up to them and fa together again. We found a trail leading d to them tened them

away from the burying ground and after a while got down and out on a road once more. Here Jimmie tried to bolt again and nearly got away from me. I had my hands full for a time to keep him from acting badly When I reached the railr« I was a week behind the 149 to get them into a car and started, but the agent refused to do anything about it u le l paid the freight in advance I had left the show in such a hurry that I did not get any money and all I had was a fe cents in change. The two guides had been furnishing money all the week to buy food and trusting to my honesty to get it bacl But | d do nothing with the freiv! agent, s id to get in touch with Cok by te and he had to take the matt up W uperintendent of the roa who agent order to ac pt the elep! hipment «0 finally 1 got under way with them and overtook the show But I found that even then 1 troubles were not over, for | had poisoned mysell with poison oak and it gave n lot of trouble until fina after | had spe fifty or sixty dollars on doctors and tre ment I found a ve which cured it Elephants in the Cellar I was on n way to the train in Denve one night with a small elephant we call Pete. | was riding a pony by | ide, ( udden something a dog, a noise, a bl ings paper | bly, I never knew what frightened him and he bolted ro i open lot. | was riding after him as fast a 1 could wher iden! omett! f ited ‘ off my pony and dropped me on the ground I got up quickly and on looking round found that it was a Chinamar clothesline that had unhorsed me By the time I caught my pony and got mounted again the little elephant had appeared and it was two hours before | found him standing in an old opening the side of a hill where earth and st had been taken out About the middle of the sea one while I was with the Barnum & Baile show, vhen we were at me ‘ N Jersey, there came up a wae 1 hard thunderstorm. There was | eort rain but a great deal of thunder and ligt ! It got very dark and all at « et wind began to blow a ga i! he tor f the menagerie tent puffed 1 { dow There vere twent “ ‘ { n ti tent at e time, « of ther y Or and 0 { ‘ e tent p be ra et 1ii¢ t take t the g | began to race ind d imipe I"} had ni t ‘ ‘ hefore { rie dowr \ i y , 1? gathered es, drove them down outside “und as fast pn ilple iuy ine eley i ind ed them ag We got all we cou om 1 we A hort Wi < ild hear ther trur y, but were t a i to } ww } i by ne of ther Fina f i od deal « ircl ‘ t ed ( ‘ and tou i that } r Iright ! tur ed i ne ell and ! et ¢ Wi ito build uy ed plane { the t et « ) Ed Note—TI ' id of es of articles t Mr. Conk I n ‘DE

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splendor of fur lining. Butch, having ad- vanced into the light-heavyweight class successfully, was now doing a little in the managerial line. Him Spike morosely pan handled for the price “Nix!” retorted Butch. ‘“‘Nix, Spike! I’d sooner give it to the barkeep di-rect.” “I’m hungry, Butch,” pleaded the down- and-outer, ‘‘Honest, I am.” The other looked him over. “‘Want a bout?” he inquired. “If it ain't too hard,”’ whined Spike. “Turnin’ yellow, heh? Well, they’re after a choppin’ block for a young guy that’s been puttin’ ’em away at the local club down at Scituate. Six rounds. Day af ter to-morrow evenin’. A amachoor. On?” The ‘‘amachoor” fell gratefully on Spike’s ear. But the date--day after to- morrow, **Nothin’ doin’.”’ **Got a date with yer broker, I aid Butch with sardonic intent “| gotta go to a fune ral,’”’ Enlightenment shone in Butch O’Kane’s piggy little eyes, tempered with a touch of sympathy. “Old Jawn L.,”’ ‘I seen it in the paper Got that bug yet have - Gillig nodded, not trusting peal “Then wy doncha do like he done and cut the hooch?” Receiving no answer ” uppose, aid he eh? ' himself to to this pertinent query, the successful pugilist reflected “But yeh can take in the funeral all right and get to Scituate with a coupla tand up to a stiff hours to spare. Can yeh wallop? That's wot | wanta know. ‘Gimme a good feed and a night’s rest and I'll show up any amachoor goin’.” Fed, comforted and enwrapped in an old coat of the lordly O'’ Kane's, Spike wept hi way to and from the grave of his patron aint, taking a long ale each way Ty 1 more for he realized that he must make ufficient showing to avoid being thrown out of the ring rewardle by the referee for to on tent stalling, an experience byno mear ilien to his latter career Hesorely needed that twenty-five dollars premium, @Vve thougt S @ nt ty as Butch had brutally re ted more thar hi prese t wort! 'wo men back of him in the moker going down discussed the evening s entertainment wil a cial reference to Mike the Mi er hi prospective opponent The M osser, he gathered, was a vii lent two-handed rusher wit i knoc!} out in either fist, strong 1 quich but without experience or lence Local pride expressed itself to the effect that the guy from Sout! Roston meaning himself - would be a push-over for Mike. Spike differently minded, wa back in hi staying a come own fervid im conversation turr - ne,” re agination when the in the rear took a diffe “So old John L. is marked one of the cit ‘A grand old boy!” declared rent the other Trained for the Ryar fight right here - “No! Did he? I never heard that.” ‘Sure! At Hiram Hooker's cot tage over to Higheliff. Had a regular ring set out on the lawn facing the ocean.” * Betcha Hiram'll tack thatonto next year’s rent for some seasoner Probably have the old boy’s ghost to | isnt the spot as Boom for come back inducement local real estate.” Spike turned in his seat “How would | go to get there, gents?” he asked polit ly They gave exact nudging each other to call atter tion to his battle-scarred face invested hi last re special ; airectior Having mainin a brace of sand wiches, Spike set out at a trot for Highceliff An or wind had cleared the sky for a blazing moon in whose radiance he had no diffi- culty in identifying the shrine of his pilgrimage. A lamp shone in g capital shore THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE FIGHTING SPIRIT Continued from Page 11 lawn screened by a board fence was a square of sward so even as to suggest artificial lev eling. Never did Crusader step upon the soil of Jerusalem with more of piety than glowed in the soul of the has-been as he lightly trod that sacred spot, rising on his toes and with revolving hands performing a professional caper or two. A soft but per- emptory voice interrupted the rite. ““Who might you be and what'll you be doin’ here?” Whirling and lowering his guard, he faced a fairy creature in a long cloak, who regarded him with interrogative eyes. ‘“‘No harm, miss,”’ he said quietly. ‘‘I came to see the place where John L, Sulli van, the greatest man in the world, trained for the championship.” “He was that!” confirmed the girl “Well my father knew him. Your feet are on the very ground where he did his pra ticin’.” “Are you livin’ here, miss?”’ asked Spike respectfully, drinking in the fresh and fearless sweetness of the young face. “Caretaker,” returned. ‘“‘Me my aunt. And you?” “Just a fightin’ man come to take luck from the spot.” She contemplated him with quickened interest. The kindly enchantment of the moonlight had softened and smoothed the bloat of dissipation from Spike’s features He was straight and broad and supple, and if his face was hard his speech was gentle. The girl-- hero worshiper with a touch of the barbaric, as is every true woman of her race— approved him “You'll be the Boston professional that’s fightin’ Mike the Mosser this evenin’,”” she surmised ** Joey Gillig, she and That’s me.” had he used the old miss, Not for a long time name ‘He’s turrible strong,” said the girl dubiou “You know him?” demanded Spike and there was a touch of a jealous snarl in his tone that both amused and attracted the girl. “‘He’s bigger by half than you. know him well.” “Then you'll not be wishin’ me the luck.” She gave him a glance, half shy, half provocative. “I’ve not said it. bite me, annyways.” “If I had your good wish now She tossed her pretty head. “‘There’s but the one good wish I'd have for any fightin’ man. Why aren’t you gahn to the wa-ar?”’ “Would you want me to?” “If you was brother o’ mine “Don’t think it!”” broke in Spike softly and boldly. ‘“I’d be no brother to you, miss.”’ “Would you go if I bid you?” she chal lenged. ““To-morra!”’ “Then you’re a better man than Mike the Mosser. Almost I’m believin’ you, fightin’ man.”” Her eyes danced at him. Yes, I And you needn’t to She fumbled at a pocket of the cloak. “Take this, then,”’ said she, holding out a small hand to him. The moon glistened upon something small and round and shiny held in her fingers. Stricken with the shame of the penniless, he shrank bacl “I’ve gone bad,” said he hoarsely, “but I’ve not yet taken from livin’ woman.” **D’you think I’d be offerin’ it? lucky bit with more hole in it than silver.’ Jubilant, he pocketed the token. ““Mosser Mike’ll think it’s a length of lead pipe when he gets my left with the silver held in it,”’ said he. ‘*What name’ll I thank you by?” “Katie Hanneran’s the way I was chris- tened,”’ she tossed him over her shoulder. money Tis a , January 31,1920 “The luck go with you—all the way to the wa-ar.”” “But I'll come back to see you first,” Spike called after her, ‘“‘when I’ve licked the Mosser.”’ All that human flesh softened by bad hours and mixed drinks could do to make good on this plan Spike did. Throughout the first round he punched and jabbed and shouldered the alarmed neophyte round the ring, never giving him a moment’s oppor- tunity to get set for a punishing blow. By the middle of the second he was panting from his own exertions and the highly amateurish Mosser was in a state of panic. Now if there is one thing more tricky in a fight than expert footwork it is panic, as many a swiftly turned battle has proved. By sheer wild chance Mike met his oppo- nent’s well-intentioned rush with an aimless slam that landed square. Too late Spike saw it coming. Bang! Plop! Sparks of light behind Spike’s dazzled eyes. Whiz- zing wheels within his thunderstruck brain. A vision of Mosser Mike, swollen to giant proportions, dancing grotesquely across the ring into the embraces of his howling at- tendants. The sound of a great multitude yelling while somebody counted fateful numbers—dimness—the dark. mr UCH can happen, as that experienced scholiast of the ring, Andy Dunne, has pointed out, in ten seconds of coma super- induced by a glove to the jaw; more, in fact, than is dreamed of in Andy’s some- what matter-of-fact philosophy. According as you are a scorner or a member of the So- ciety of Psychical Research, you may re- gard the following account of the second meeting between Spike Gillig and John L. Sullivan—also at catchweights—as a fig- ment in the mind of Spike —and one other or an actual and significant event occurring in the fourth or some even more impressive dimension. Upon rising from the canvas after the knock-out our hero hus- tled his street costume on over his fighting togs and, still clutch- ing the silver piece in his loyal grasp, set out for the cottage on Highcliff to proffer his excuses to his lady. An air of fantasy is lent to the opening of his great adven- ture by the fact that he did not even pause to collect the premium due him, which is professionally improbable in a high degree. As he trotted through the moonlight, his heart sore with regrets, he fashioned explanations for his de- feat and resolutions for the future. What scornful thing would sweet Katie Hanneran find to say to him, returning a loser with her lucky bitin his possession? Would she come out to him as she had before? Or must he experiment with a pebble to the window? De- bating these matters, he vaulted the fence to the patch of hallowed greensward and looked for the light in the window. “Young fellar, wot’re yah doin’ here?” The deep bass, rumbling growl was unmistakable. A huge figure, gray and wavery, interposing itself between him and the uncertain light, materialized into the for- midable presentment of the big feller himself. He was in full fight- ing costume, green tights with an American flag at the belt. His mien was appalling. Somight Jove have frowned upon some blame- worthy demigod caught in the fla- grant act of one of those many unedifying performances with which mythology is richly strewn. No demigoa was poor Spike; only a beaten and discredited mixed-ale scrapper at the end of his rope. He shivered in the presence. “They gimme a raw deal over at the club,” he whined piteously, the familiar excuse coming most readily to his lips. “Yah lie! Yah’re givin’ yerself the rawr deal,”’ thundered the big the rear of the cottage. There was no other sign of life. On the side “I've Gone Bad,"* Said He Hoarsety, “But I've Not Yet Taken Money From Livin' Woman" feller. “Strip! I'll learn yah.” (Continued on Page 154

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Sell a furnace equipped with the “Little Draft-Man’’ Furnace Regulator. We will be glad to send you complete information, with list of manufacturers who include the “Little Draft- Man” as standard equipment. stores in every city carry the “Little Draft- t of price. Hardware, plumbing and heating Man if yours does not we will send you one postpaid on receip SAHLIN MFG. CO. 21 Ottawa Ave., N. W., GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN Canadian Distributors, McCLARY'’S, London, Ont BSI Se i — ¢ — EVENING POST Continued from Page 152 ““W-w-wot?”’ gasped Spike in faction. “Put ’em up!” Glory flooded the soul of Spike Gillig. To him, habitant of the limbo of unpaid try-outs, of cheap preliminaries, of the mixed-aler, the has-been, the down-and- outer, was accorded the unthinkable boon of a bout with the king of them all! It was too splendid to be true; it couldn’t be true. And yet—-there was the big feller poising that hamlike right of his. Spike, thrilling to the end of every separate nerve, cast off coat an d shirt. “All rig ht, om, said he reverently. ‘Time!” called the mighty one, and the strangely matched pair touched hands. At that pero virtue and valor flowed in waves of living fire through the alcohol- soaked veins of Spike Gillig. He felt an in- vincible vigor animate his sodden muscles and in his heart a lightness and freshness and gusto such as he had not known since the early untainted years of his career. That he was in for an inevitable thrashing at the terrible hands of one to whom he was giving sixty pounds in weight and still greater odds in condition mattered nothing compared to the splendor of the oppor- tunity. This, as he at once realized, was not the John L. whom as a boy he had seen, ey pursy, and triple of chin and paunch, but the hardest-hitting warrior of history in the pink of training, as he was when on that very strip of springy turf he had prepared for the fight that made him champion. What was Spike Gillig’s chance against him? Just once to land flush on that Gibraltar of a chin. Or, before he died and probably immediately before—to raise a mouse over one of those lowering eyes. Or—epic and impossible hope—to find the vulnerable spot at the angle and score a knockdown. Should luck attend him thus far He slipped a rush like that of a bull ele- phant and landed hard on the ear, only to feel his own shoulder all but dislocated by the attempt and to find the great bulk bear- ing down upon him anew. Again he slipped and again was almost cornered. Astonish- ing how swiftly and lightly the vast form of the big feller moved! Duck, dodge, side- step and swerve as Spike might, all his newly returned skill and spring barely saved him time and again from the pile- driver blows that split the quivering air about his head. And though he put all his own rejuvenated powers into his counters, they sign ally failed to count. His mind was growing bewildered when there shot through it the luminous idea that this was a spirit, immune to ordinary blows, that he was fighting. How could he hope to so much as mark it with his poor flesh-and-blood hands? Wait! What was it he had heard about the proper counter for ghosts? Silver! That was it! Katie Hanneran’s lucky piece. Bounding away, he whipped it from his pocket, stowed it in his left and waited. The big feller rushed Ducking spirally from a battering-ram drive, Spike came round with a tremendous swing, landing the silver-enforced left fairly up under the jaw. Then _ stood, shaking, mazed and doubting his glorified eyes. The foremost warrior of time lay humped and rocking on his spine on the ground before him. An invisible referee was counting: “One! Two! Thur-ree! Fo -” “Lemme attum!” With an explosive roar the big feller was on his feet epee Fearless, furious and wide open, he charged. Spike met him, right and left, both unavailing, and hugged into a defensive clinch. As he was violently thrust back he saw acrcss the huge-muscled shoulder a face in the cottage window, a girlish face, its beauty stricken into distor- tions of terror. The sight unnerved him at a moment when he needed all his facilties. He side-stepped the awful left that whirred past his chin, saw the following right, sought to duck and half blocked the drive but only half. Down he went in a helpless heap from the impact of the remaining half. Above him the big feller solemnly pump- handled off the seconds, for some occult reason beginning where the invisible referee had left off. “Fo-wer! Five! Six! Sev-vun! Ejigh- “ut! Nine! And ten! “You won, sir,”’ said Spike Gillig gasp- ily. ‘But I put you down.” “Young feller,” rumbled the victor musically, “yah got the makin’s of a champ. Go straight an’ you'll go far an’ you'll go fast. Flag the booze. Cut out the gyurrls. stupe- once more. January 31,1920 es yer trust . yer right an’ yer left to the bread basket. I'll back yah. Yours truly, John L. Sullivan, champion of the world.” Clang-g-g-g-g-g! The bell seemed in- terminably resounding within Spike's ring- ing head. He opened his heavy eyes—not to the peaceful moonlight of Highcliff but to the smoky glare of the Scituate Club’s arena. In the corner Mike the Mosser was grinning happily. The referee boosted Spike to his wabbly feet. “Yer out!” said he. Breaking loose, Spike waved him away and staggered to the ropes to which he clung, swaying uncertainly. “‘Gents and sports,” he croaked. “Speech!” yelled the crowd derisively. “Hear! Hear!” “‘Give’m a show “Say it, cully!” “This guy over in the corner thinks he put me away,” announced Spike earnestly. “It wasn’t him put me away. It took a bigger man than he'll ever be. It took the greatest fighter that ever lived, John L. Sullivan, to knock me out to-night, and at that I put him down!” A pause of uncomprehending silence was followed by a roar of ridic ule, topped by a strident voice proclaiming: ‘‘Wy, you big hick! John L. was buried to-day.” “But his soul goes marching on,” chanted the bedazzled Spike ecstatically. “Ah, go take a run!” “‘Chase the nut!” “Give’m the hook!” “Go fight a bottle of booze!” The final adjuration struck into Spike’s buzzing brain as he climbed through the ropes “*Never again!” he breathed. me John L. Sullivan, never again! ” 0 help ” Stern, harsh and sacrificial is the up- grade which the has-been in the fighting game must climb ere he reaches the first step of a come-back. Everything was against Spike Gillig. To make worse his past well- earned disrepute, a humoristic highbrow re- porter had contrived a story for the Boston papers out of the John L. Sullivan knock- out and Spike found himself laughed out of court as a nut. No manager would look at him. No club would give him even a four- round chance to redeem himself. He hung about a third-rate stable of boxers, working out ambitious ee rs in the hope of an occasional meal, and boxing feebly, for he was hungry ak of the time. Twenty dollars of the Scituate purse had gone to redeem the big feller’s autograph from the grasping barkeep. With that and gray- eyed Katie’s lucky bit for talismans Spike undertook to keep the faith and shame the devil, at what agony of defied cravings only he who has crossed rainy streets to avoid the warm, luring odors from saloon doors can appreciate. Finally he enlisted. Private Joseph Gillig did not return from the war a hero. He did return a man. Like some hundreds of thousands of other mute, inglorious young Americans, he simply did his duty as well as he could, which was wholly satisfactory to his superiors and, feeding well and regularly on Uncle Sam’s excellent rations, he took on weight to such good purpose that first every middleweight and subsequently every heavyweight in his division fell before him. Extracts to this effect from the Stars and Stripes he occa- sionally mailed to Miss Katie Hanneran, from whom came no direct reply. The faith- ful and fanatic Spike, however, chose to believe that the various feminine packages which from time to time reached him through war agencies, derived from High- cliff, Scituate. And he could and did prove upon the bodies of all comers that her lucky silver in his glove rendered him in- vincible. Though honoring him with official fervor as a military warrior, Boston gave him no welcome as a profession: al. The old fighting haunts received him coldly. He was still “Gilly the Nut,” “Spike the Ghost Fighter,” “John L., Junior.”” Nobody would give him a show. Hard as nails and fit as a wild cat though he was, the pro- moters could see in him only a has-been. “They never come back,”’ is the deepest- rooted fetish in the whole cult of the ring. Spike had to come back. He had to come back in the ring so that he might come back to Katie Hanneran out on Highcliff. Some inner faith in himself assured him that she would be waiting. John L. would be watch- ing over her, too, in the réle of guardian angel, as he had watched over Spike’s (Continued on Page 157) ( Sl A

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(Continued from Page 154) victorious fightsin the A.E. F. But he could not return to her otherwise than as a laureled victor. So he sedulously attended ipon the side doors of the boxing clubs, hopeful of an ultimate chance. Once again Butch O’Kane played the part of Fate’s agent. Wasting no time on an unprofitable war, Butch had stuck to his trade and advanced in it. Like Jeshurun, he waxed fat, and also like Jeshurun, he developed a kick, in his case proper to either hand and of sufficient caliber to en- title him, together with his increased weight, to respect in the heavyweight class. Indeed, touring the West he had worked well up in that division and was now back home to give his admiring fellow townsmen opportunity of testifying to their admira- tion in the form of a fat purse for an easy contest. The other party to the ceremony, a New Yorker of mediocre talents, was intended to play the réle of fatted calf. Unfortunately he telegraphed at the last moment, to the dismay of the club manage- ment, that he was incapacitated by an attack of flu. At high noon of the ap- pointed day it looked as if the club would have to violate that fundamental precept of the boxing game which reads: ‘‘ Never give ’em their money back.” While they were in debate over this pain- ful probability Spike Gillig appeared on his daily rounds. ‘Any opening for me to-day, gents?” he asked patiently. The officials stared at Spike and then at each other. Dared they risk it? Or would the crowd at sight of such a substitute as Gillig wreck the place? Well, anything was better than a refund. ““Whaddye weigh?” growled the match- maker. “‘Hundred and seventy-four.” ** Are ye fit?”’ For answer Spike stripped to the waist. The management went into secret conclave. Presently they announced their august de- cision, They'd give himatry. But-—nota cent unless he lasted at least three rounds. In that case fifty dollars, which was more than he deserved. “And what if I put Butch away?” in- quired Spike composedly. “Don’t git fresh wit” us, bo!” growled the matchmaker, and the proceedings ter- minated. General and strident was the disap- probation of the many-headed when with cunningly worded apologies the referee an nounced the substitution of Spike Gillig to fight the redoubtable O’Kane. That hero grinned contempt uously y at Spike, whocame over to shake his hand. ‘I'll let you stay the three and get your dough if you’re nice about it,” said Butch condescendingly. ‘I got nothing against you, Butch,”’ re- plied the serious Spike, ‘‘but look out for yourself, for I’m going to put you away.” “Just for that,” snarled Butch, “ll knock you cold in the first. With which destructive intent he put in motion what had come to be known in sporting circles O’Kane avalanche. To the paralyzed surprise of the assembled club members the has-been not only stood up to the onslaught but met it with as lively a burst of fighting as had been seen for many a day. By the third round Butch was tiring. Before the end of the fifth he knew himself beaten hopelessly. Clinging limpet-close in a clinch, he panted into his opponent’s ear: ‘Spike ugh! Lemme stay ugh— the limit!’’ It was a surrender, but a surrender on dishonorable terms. “*Go on and fight!” said Spike. ‘“*Break away!”’ ordered the referee. On the break Butch took 2 jolt on the jaw, and hugged again as the “*Don’t—-ugh— put me away, Spike!”’ he pleaded jerkily. ‘‘ Remember—ugh—how 1 -ugh—staked you-— ugh-h-h-h-h— down an’ out!” Spike remembered. And his purpose softe ned at the memory. ‘All right,” he whispered. ‘‘ Make the best showing you can. I'll pull my punches.” Seeing him slow up, the crowd concluded that Spike had shot his bolt and was tiring. Perhaps Butch O’Kane deluded himself with some such hope also, for in the final round he devised a scheme to double cross his generous opponent with a right he had been saving for the jaw. It missed by inches. And the now-alarmed Butch spent the rest of the bout emulating the startled fawn to avoid imminent slaughter at the hands of the angry Spike THE SATURDAY As to the merits of the contest there could be no question. Spike was the win- ner by a huge margin. True to the tenets of the game, Butch announced the next day that he had been caught out of condition—hadn’t trained cold in the head—sprained wrist—all the rest of the time-honored, made-to-order ex- cuses which the newspapers obligingly pub- lish and nobody believes. His imaginative efforts received the usual consideration. But the miraculous come-back of Spike Gillig headlined every sporting page in Boston. Swollen with the pride of many clippings, Spike took the afternoon train for Scituate, arriving just before dusk, and ran all the way to Highcliff. But it was not so much the exertion that made his veins pound as the sight of the girl of his heart sitting at | the window beyond the ring where he had fought John L. ‘Katie Hanne ran,’ come back.’ The girl rose slowly to her feet, fearful- ’ said he softly, ‘I’ve eyed. Her cheeks were milky pale. She thrust out her hands, not to welcome but to ward him off. “Go your ways and leave me be!” she wailed. Spike stopped, utterly discomfited. “‘Is that the word you have for me after all my waitin’ and wantin’?”’ asked he sorrowfully. ‘Saints preserve us from all evil!’’ she whispered. ‘‘When was you kilt?” **Killed!” said he in amazement. ‘‘Who told you I was killed?” Suddenly he laughed, and the human hearty sound of it put courage in her and a touch of the rose to her cheek “Then it’s not a spirrut you are’ “Why would I be a spirit?” “Twas so I saw you before.” “Some other lad,’ said Spike positively. *“*T’ve been alive all the time.” “Would I mistake you, is it likely? *Twas you, you, you, in the spirrut, Joe Gillig, on the bit of lahn where you stand now—the evenin’ of the very day you was here in the flesh!” Spike’s battleship jaw drooped. “You saw me?” he said in awed accents. ” What was I doin’?” ‘Fightin’ with another ghost. And you at the very minute of it bein’ knocked out by Mosser Mike over in the village! Go your way, won’t you kindly? I’m afeared of you.” A brilliant and persuasive idea came to the puzzled mind of Spike Gillig. “Listen, Katie Hanneran,” he pleaded “If I was aspirit could I be doin’ with good silver?” He drew forth her lucky bit “There it is and it’s been with me ever And Mosser Mike’ll never put me away again, nor any other man. Look at these if you don’t believe it’s me in the flesh.” He tossed the handful of clipping her lap. She glanced at the headlines and raised her soft eyes to his face. “I'll believe you,” said she. you go to the wa-ar?”’ “I did. And brought back nothin’ but a whole skin and a honorable discharge.”’ ‘I’m content,” said Katie Hanneran. “Will you say you’re glad I’m no spirit?” he wheedled. The color on her cheek glowed a brighter. “It’s a good fighter your though.” “Who did I fight?” “A turrible big frownin’ ‘John L. Sullivan!” “IT thought it was him a-ahl the time. Spirrut to spirrut, you knocked him flat “Glory be to hallelujah!’ cried Spike, paraphrasing somewhat roughly the Salva- tion Army praise. “‘I knew 1 did it! You’re witness to it!’ “And he lep up and bate you down and waved his ar-rm over you.” “No shame to be put away by him. it’s a wonderful thing you saw it. She lifted grave wondering parted lips to him with the ‘What would it mean, us two seein’ gether—like that?’ Slipping a swift and supple arm acros her shoulders, he bent to the eyes that faltered and the lips that trembled. “Tt’ll mean this, Katie Hanneran, gir).”’ Katie Hanneran sighed. “T’ll be hopin’ so,” she said softly. A moment later she added: ‘But I think it’s your spirrut I fell fond of first, Joe Gillig lave you ever seen him again?” since, into “But did little spirrut was, man.,”’ ‘ But and question: it to eyes EVENING \/ POST —a 250-page ~®VERYBODY who plays car we is those play but would like to lear will find the ‘ “The Official Rules of Card ¢ ‘ ‘ plete reference and instruction book It ntai ‘ | f different game written in such a clear, ea to-under that even a person who has never pla 1 cards before learn to play any game by simply reading the rule It many suggestions on good and bad points of pl whi confirmed card players to materially imy i. | , very person who pla care ecds this valuable nd it postpaid for onl 1) cent the act ¢ viling Lise the coupon bel ‘ pnp write addre ona sheet of | vwrandy iit Wi entw asers y You danily QGrele ‘*The Official Rules of Card Games” Card Playing Encyclopedia (Mi BICYC LE carps are too well known b ecard player everywhere t oor tended description Lheu ' i n finish, wh ing and sticking; the large, ¢ ly-reacl mice | qualit which make wy illy durable and | i ide the the world tandard for all general pla “Revelation” —the New Fortune Telling Cards There is no end to the fun that can be bad with these fortune telling card Whether vou are alone, with tl our household, or entertaining gue these card wi pirited amusement that will make forget the time, we everything else heir weirdly accurate prophecie { th will hold your interest as nothing else h ever ecded Send for a pack tod One-color back im tuch ise 0 dec colored back design gold edges, in teles« jx Be sure to send for the book, ‘The Official Rules of Card Games" TODAY. 250 pages— 300 games. ime UU, SP Only twenty cents. 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They are nut-like, mealy, whol The flavor is intact They cost you less than home-baked ln ins They ire ever-re uly to “TVve hot or cold And no such beans were ‘ ever baked outside the Van Camp Nios bp kitchens Go find them out, No har VAN CAMP Soups Chili Con Carne Prepared in the Van Camp Kitchens at Indianapolis Van Camp's Soups — 18 kinds French ‘ nt famous wientifie testa. Pork and Beans Baked With the Van Camp Sauce—Also Without It Other Van Camp Products Include Peanut Butter Chili Sauce, Evaporated Milk Catsup Spaghetti t beans by esca pe. For Baking Beans By the Van Camp Domestic Science Expert have now developed new ways these So modern baked beans can't be to have baked beans easy to them mellow, Phen to have yeneato roleb al ei bbale a) Rules new rules require nut-like, un all flavor imam direct the Bean And im icarning the 2 tsped beans No tmat pe kins ete _ SP Van Camp's Spaghetti The finest Italian ree made vastly better by these scientific cooks Van Camp's Peanut Butter A new flavor due to blended it toasted exactly right » skins, no germa, | lookin’ EVENING POST “*He’s been in my corner secondin’ me,” replied her lover in matter-of-fact tones, “every fight I’ve fought since.” iv UCH is the romance detailed to me by my friend, Andy Dunne, as we waited on the lordly pleasure of Butch O’Kane. He added gene rously that I could take it or leave it as I chose in so far as its authen- ticity went, but wait till I saw Spike in action. That pleasure was now to be mine, as a roar from the impatient crowd signalizing the arrival of the tardy Butch apprised me. He shouldered his way to the ring, but gave no greeting to his opponent, who stared past him stonily. The attempted double cross at their last meeting had left bad blocd. **Ten rounds of boxing,” announced the sonorous referee, ‘‘ between Butch O’Kane, one hundred and ninety-two pounds, chal- lenger for the national heavyweight cham- pionship, in this corner; and Spike Gillig, one hundred and seventy-six pounds, the Boston comeback over there.” Whatever may have been the justice of Butch’s former excuse on the ground of condition, it certainly would not hold now. He was a picture of silky skin and rippling muscles, So marked was his superiority in weight, size and reach that Gillig—sitting there in his corner, serene, thoughtful, heedful of nothing about him—appeared wholly overmatched. To my unpracticed eye the disparity seemed from the first sound of the gong to be reflected in the action to the disadvantage of the smaller man. Moving like a panther, ever wary of that spiky left of his foe, O’Kane pressed him close, raining such a storm of blows in the infighting as it seemed would bring down a bullock. Yet at the close of each rally Gillig was up on his toes, alert, watchful, unshaken and confident. I turned to my mentor for eluci_tation. “None of those punches is landin’ solid,” said he. ‘“Spike’s either blockin’ ’em or he’s goin’ bac kward when they land. He ain’t even jarred.” By the yelling of the multitude it was evident that Butch’s forcing tactics were confirming him as the favorite. Once, using his superior strength, he wrestled Spike to the floor and was warned. “Too strong for him, isn’t he?” I haz- | arded to Andy. “T’ve got a thousand pinned to Spike and I ain’t worryin’,” was the calm ré ply. | “Look at Butch’s feet when he comes up.” In truth something of the spring seemed to have gone out of the pillared legs. Also there were significant bellowslike move- ments of the stomach muscles. Between the sixth and the seventh rounds there took place in the O’Kane corner a hasty con- ference, plainly audible in our box. “Some body’s telegraphin’ my punc ‘hes, “ complained the anxious Butch, e’s | stoppin’ everything before I get it started.” “Yer telegraphin’ ’em yerself,” retorted his worried second. ‘‘ Feint him out more.” “Watch his corner,” adjured the pugi- list. ‘“‘He’s gettin’ tips from it. I see him round for ’em. “That'll mean about curtains for Mr. Butch,” observed Andy Dunne. T he curtains fell with sensational sud- Fighting himsclf resolutely out Spike maneuvered at long range denness. of a clinch, January 31,1920 until he was directly facing his own corner. His eyes, with an expectant expression, were gazing past his opponent into what to my straining vision was certainly va- cancy. I saw him nod almost impercep- tibly as if in ace eptance ofasignal. His feet shifted and, as O’Kane led, his left came up in the deadly half circle to the chin point. Down went the Butch in a heap. Spike Gillig, not even troubling to watch the referee in his imitation of Fate counting the moments of human existence, climbed through the ropes. It was all over. His next fight would be for the championship. “Did you pipe his look for the big feller’s signal?” asked Andy Dunne as we made our way out. “TI noticed that he didn’t seem to be watching O’Kane at all just before the knoe k-out.’ “Well, whaddyou think? “T don’t know. What do you?” “‘Come and see Spike.’ We intercepted the victor at an obscure side door, whither he had gone to escape the swarm of sycophants that press about every winner. “This is a friend of mine, Spike, me boy,” said the professor. “‘Show’m where the big feller landed on yeh.” Gravely acknowledging the introduction, the fighter thrust forth the left side of his massive jaw. On the angle of it was a whitey-gray spot as big as a half dollar. “‘That’s it,” said he revere ntly. “*Right- arm jolt. Didn't travel a foot.” A little car drew up at the curb and a charming Irish-eyed face appeared at its door. With a nod to us the pugilist climbed in. I heard a soft voice with its brogue ex- panded by a Down-East drawl to the vowels ask: ‘‘ Did he ha-arrm ye, dear?” **How could he harm me, honey?” “T know, but my heart’s always feared for you. Was he in your corner again?” “Sure! At the end of the seventh he tipped me: ‘Give’m the full left, young fellar.’ And I let him have it.” **So that’s the girl,”” I remarked as the little car drew away. “Kate Hanneran Gillig, a good wife for a comin’ champion.” “*She’s got her work cut out for her,” I surmised, recalling the glittering but not precisely reassuring careers of other title holders. “Don’t worry for her. She can handle him. Anyway, he’s goin’ to retire unde- feated as soon as he wins the belt.” “Like Willard and Johnson and Corbett and all the rest,’ I suggested sardonically. “On the advice of the big feller,” re- torted Andy with conviction. ‘‘He’ll do it too. He and little Katie have got their little game all mapped out.” “Vaudeville?” I inquired. ‘Nothin’ so common,” grinned Andy. “Here it is—if you’re interested in the highbrow game.” He handed me a neatly conceived card carrying the announcement that Mr. and Mrs. J. 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THE INCOMPATIBLE HUSBAND Continued from Page 15 Rosedale Manor is a young kind of place. It makes me feel as if I were beginning life, like most of my neighbors. We live in little brick bungalows, each with its five rooms in exac tly the same layout, but each tricked ip differently outside. They are very young houses. And young skinny trees have been planted in straight rows along the streets, one to each house. Each of us has his grass plot in front, and his back yard, and vege- table gardenir g is a local pastime, Nearly all the people here are young too. They grade from twer ty-five years down to the infant class, which is numerous. Every evening there is a scurrying of children down the street toward the car line to meet papa coming home from work. Sometimes papa comes back in over ills, with a dinner pall in his hand; and sometimes he is a white-collar fellow of the small-clerk type; but he always looks happy and seems to believe that he is going to rise in the world. I feel as if I were young with them. It’s a curious mood, T should get melanc holy and wish that I were papa returning from toil to be met with a merry clamor of kids and wi mothe r, ir teak h I don’t. I just enjoy Wy : Fourth of July or is ing. There are d mplicity he I get old d that these ill never grow up, and that these young wive 1 husbands will ever get gr 1 we ed and despairing ind that these e red-brick bungalow vill never l j + 1 weather-beater They w ! é I old age of Ross dale M: W ) i traged pu I shall be here to see ce ! newspapt i ou ive rved into the Waveere partment hote Well, 1 ought to feel at me there I reme! havi eard ny career as a Gold (¢ er t the Wavecrest er r t \ e art editor of the ime eV iper announces that you have gone in for eI decorating 2 purel amateur ] Yor Wa of ec irse! and ha e op ad *) ) ir t ca ed 1 t , the ¢ ind Grafts Building >t 1 I iu! yur t el le a 4 t vould | te elf. i} rt I i rea t k ou You certair are ¢ f | Keep oO! t i- the he« I o€ re ars every wet ist the ime to A “ I a im I i¢ ‘ ‘ 1 refuse to wfite to 1 I thougt I would get bored without doing not! y at all by il i e! oul, but I re am ‘ r it I « t meat »say I iven’t t ed you, but I am managing to occup I elf pl i tosedale Ma almost next door toa I selected the place as fit for a retired capi- ] i e, eighteen tal ttolivel It’ a good cours I ' holes, and it isn’t overcrowded. Every morn- ing I go out ar 1, | | , By my or with friends I have made out here. There is, for instance, a nste chool-teacher aged forty-five, whom I meet occasionally for a twosome sine er t! ilmost a skeleton, and she plays a rattl ne. I suspect her to be trying ‘ ve , prove my mind I am regarded 1 great man by the local golfers, for I hold the course’s record eventy-four. I am not boastir gy; it is an easy course, I thir I am working off n high bl od pre ure } thi teady exercise Sometime I be yin } ; ] 4 ] to suspect that it down to normal. In the afternoons I wander away to re- y, which I thought I knew o well and which I find I didn’t know at al It offers many pleasures that can be had for nothing. Sometime you might ever see me at the Art Institute, on a free day, if that museum isn’t too old-fashioned for yur tastes. I have become a library hound too, and am much better educated than when you knew me. I am now working on my family tree in the genealogical department of the Newbe rry. This I find is the favorite diver sion of hundreds of retired capitalists, male and female. Often they are rather frowsy capitalists, and I suspect that some of them, like myself, are crazy. One of them jumped up from his desk beside me a few days ago, with a wild yell of triumph, and proclaimed to the world that he had just pieced to gether the link that hooked him up with Alexander the Great. I am doit g some- thing like that for the Judsons, and am making a chart, a copy of which I shall send you if I ever get it finished. Wonder- ful family, the Judsor Ss. When I exhaust the city I shall take to travel. Oh, yes, I can travel extensive on my income, I can #0 to Springfield, where they buried Lincoln; Milwaukee, where they buried beer; Peoria, to see the ruins of the whisky traffic; Indianapoli to see the soldiers and sailors’ monument; Kokomo, the native city of Booth Tar} ington’s Man From Home; and many other much visited shrines of the Middle West I might even manage a trip to St. Louis, to see if I can find as many Southerners ther as in a Chicago cabaret when the band plays Dixie. But wherever I go I shall always be glad to get back to Rosedal Manor. Why not answer my letters? You're not Vy dear Wife: I have received notice it proper le gal form that you have filed t for divorce, alleging desertion, nor upport and ines mpatibility. [ shall not defend the case, except in the matter of alimony It’s POSSIDIE that you might be able to persuade me f ge to nick me for alimony in in ame hat would wreck my happy home in Rosedale Manor. It occurs to me, e ditt ilt in pro cle erted you or have re yu or have done a th iat I am an i compatible I 1] bee glad to give you a divorce, since sh t, with the least possible trouble, ry ‘ ing nature will not lead m« is » permit you to catch me in the er tuation legally known as in flagrante delicto. I have too much respect for you and myself to suggest so sordid a conspir ac But an idea ha ome to me. Read the hree letters which I inclose and show then our attorney. They were written to me by a foolish little stenographer, very your and sentimental, for whom I had to tind another job because she could not make her eyes behave during busine hour She wrote these letters after she left the office to reéstablish herself in my good grace iI keep them? Masculine vanity, | - => ppose. It is flatteri: tell you, in this romantic way, that she or to be near you and work for you and to have someone p vou. I have cut off the signature oO er name cannot get into the record. I be te ieve that the tone of these letters, which are o harmless but which, in what they do not ay, give the I gal imagination an Oppor tunity to think the worst, will be enoug! lease understand that I shall not permit the so-called statu tory charge to be based upon these letter to complete your case but if they are used as auxiliary to your present allegations they should win you a decree, It’s lucky I kept them, isn't it? I had ' forgotten all about vem until | received this notice from the court, and then I dug them up out of that Francois the Steent! desk of mine. Good-by and the best of luck. Pees \ yITH this letter Sylvester Judson’ communiqués to his wife ended. Fur ther negotiations between them were car- ried on, with much diplomacy, by their attorneys, At the hearing of the divorce suit Ar toinette, looking the prominent North Side omety woman that the newspaper aid e was, saw Sylvester for the first time ce their eparation. She was annoyed to find him improved by what she called hi life of degradation at Rosedale Manor Hi , : clothe were obviously ready-made he wore an old golf cap and a soft collar; but hi lower middle-clas tyle wa rather THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The Tirometer Keeps the Guess Out of Tire | Inflation iiidon it ae it 3 Price in U. S. $1.75 apiece in Canada $2.00 apiece SK any tire manufacturer, any tire dealer, any auto repair man and he'll tell you why tires so seldom live up to their guar anteed mileage. It's not because of detects, o1 misalignment, or poor roads. It’s due in most cases to your failure to keep as much air in your tires as you should. You cannot tell by merely glancing at your tire (except when it is excep tionally deflated) whether it has enough air to prevent fabric strain. You must actually apply i a pressure gauge to know. 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1 ciousliy relused Whereupon Sylvester, the picture of

health, blithel ubmitted medical ertifi cates stating that he was suffering from teriosclerosis, inc nt fatty degenera- tion of the heart, potential neurasthenia writer’s cramp and astigmatism, and so was incapable of steady empl nerit rhe judge allowed Antoinette alimony of eight een dollars a week and called the next case, Months passed; snow closed the golf eason; and Sylvester, having tra ed the family tree of the Judsons bac to Edward the Confessor, and having read all ef Ma- caulay, Hume, Grote, Gibbon, Lives, Bulwer Lytton and Balzac, yearned to widen his « x pe rience of life Antoinette’s

Plutarch’s alimor y prevented him from saving any money, and he needed a new wi coat, so he decided that a few work would be both recreative at He wanted a job where he ould his species and observe the passing throng without responsibility; a job that he could quit wher he got tired of it without any reproaches fro: employer. After conferring with an inhabitant of Rosedale Manor who sold haberdashery he went downtown and offered himself as an extra clerk in a State Street department store luring the period of ¢ tma pping He was received a manna from heaven and mmediately put to wor They started him in on furniture, where the pace of buying would not be too swift for a novice. This did not please him; it was too quiet among the long dim rows of t , chairs and bed the thrill and flas} ewelry would have been more to his

turous taste But he howed ry ing able to d hpetween iscriminate Iwhite and Adam, between Sher:

and Louis Quatorze, and the he lepartment regarded hi is promising material. In the afternoor of } first day, as he pre ided in pres vely over a ma meeting of beds, closely coupled together head and foot for exhibition purposes, a familiar voice spoke sharply in his ear: ‘I should like to see*the latest thing in dining-room suites, if you please.” He turned to find Antoinette fixing him wit! glittering eves a changed Antoinette, too much made up and not well enough dressed, smart and sleek no longer, with hard and bitter lines round the mouth that he had once thought so delicately and prettily drawn. He impulsively held out his hand in greeting and exclaimed: ‘Hello, stranger!” ‘“What are you doing here?” y “Working to keep down the high cost of vy, Antoinette.” ‘You ought to be a A man like you! But I forgot. I'm not almot peaking to you. Still, if you are a clerk you can serve me Show me something novel in dining-room suites.” ‘As you please.”’ he grinned. “If madam would kindly give me an idea of the price 2 ‘The best you have ‘Very well. We are wearing ou 4 tables round thi eason, I believe. Now here i f tudios of” he consulted the tag ‘of Weinstein & Kaplan, Milwaukee. Sub- stantial and chic Solid mahogany—I hope. Six chairs to match. One hundred room something fresh } hty-tive dollar “Atrocious!” she tyle is not round, but oblong, with rounded ends. Show me an Adam piece.” He solemnly rolled out a Louis Quatorze and reeled off this sor g: and elg . snapped. “The new Dining-room suite, eight-foot extension - t with aprons on two sides, five chairs and one armchair to match, with upholstered } i] } +; lly ‘ 1). mack and seat in poplin, seven pieces in a | two hundred and forty-five dollars.”

January 31,1920 But it isn’t Adam! Don’t you know > at 9° a I ek : ’ = He led her » something in walnut, Ital- in Renaissance r} & nou 1 ant T idam. It is be g wht b ir best people; three hundred and t rt 1Olla a i i ilving room a n isn’t in the period

is just as good, I assure you. We

hay be out of Adam to-day. Per- haps something in Eve might appeal to She stared him down and insisted or dan produ verything but lam Adam He produced everything but Ad and everything lining-room tabl

ut a dl tables, hall tables, writing tables, dressing tables. She was relentless; he was Vi dodgir g the issue of Adam roshe nad kept nim on the

Fina jump for half an h

commanding and

contemptuous, she said: ‘‘That tab ver there is exactly what I want, vou idiot! You should learn something your war How much for the suite

Seven pieces: three hundred and twelve ‘Put it aside for me.’ ‘Name please, madam.” “Mrs. R. J. Macpherson, Road ~ He looked up from his order book ir 6790 Sheridan hi amazement

“So you're married a Antoinette?” ““‘No—I mean, none our business!” “‘Charge—of course?” This with sl Do not have delivery made

you. I may change my n 1 away with the Christma hopper’s excited swish, : er, perplexed and curious. Why was A) toinette buying furniture under a name not her own? This question kept his im- } aginatior busy all the w iy to Rosedale lanor and troubled the tranquillity of his evening The next morning the head of his depart- ment, with a frowning brow, had something } to Svivester.

ve got an ur favorable report on you, Judsor omething more serious than the average Christmas shopper’s kick.”” He consulted a slip of paper. ‘“‘You are im pertinent and manifest a frivolous attit work toward

14) nitely middie ¢l

: . 1 you are hopele

ral “You ire ‘ what have you got to say for your- elf?” : . ; Not} y,”’ answered ester serenel It ll true particu the ne Am I fired?” ‘Well, I wouldn't go so far as to say

vester urged. ‘‘Wher comes i ire I am very old scho rhe head of t ¢ department hemme und hawed, and then arranged to have Svly ter transferred to the men’s underwear and

hosiery counter There he did ru ng business in silk socks and unior vit ] , . several hours, and was polite to so many women that he came to realize with disgu that he was beginning to speak with a lisp Along toward noon Nemesis stepped out of the crowd and confronted hin It was Antoinette, of cour dles, and looking like an ar tique 1 k except that she was tight lipped instead of mbracing n\ , embracing many Hbun-

tragedy, Ope n-mout hed. ‘dave you the Apollo Belvedere brand?” **Yes, lady. Silk or soiesette?”’ “Silk. Do you recommend this brand?”

“Vehemently! Ve smart union suits Very intriguing union suits. Very amusing

union suits. elf. W hat size, please?” “Twelve.” “That’s mine too. What a coincidence!” “These intimate details about yo irself do not interest me, sir “Beg pardon, |: How many suit

would you like?” en in a hoarse accus- ing whisper: “‘Who are they for, Antoi- nette?”’ She ignored the question and ordered half a dozer <d three suits of Hercul extra-heavy wooler She next took up the matter of silk socks and bought several dozen pairs to a variegated color scheme Svlvester Kept up his line of

Then she se

brash profession:

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Concluded from Page 162) the charm of the lavender Never-darns and the heliotrope Dancer’s Delight, until Antoi- nette had run up a bill of fifty-four dollars ir d seventy-five cents Then he murmured as if to himself: ‘I wish you would report me again, Antoi nette. I want to get out of this counter.” ““Charge and send,” she retorted. ‘‘ Mrs. William O. Fairfield, 927 Ashland Boule- vard.” Sylvester’s astonishment shattered the point of his lead pencil ‘The plot thickens!”’ he growled. ‘‘ How _— homes and names have you got? Toinette, it’s twelve-thirty. I'll take you to lunch at the Blackstone if you promise to tell me all about it.” ; The topaz eyes transfixed him with an indignant glance. Then she was gone Sylvester found himself reported the next morning for insolence and flirtatious ad- though recommended as a salesman of erudition in union suits He again volunteered to ac- cept dismissal, but was transferred to the stiekpin and cuff-button counter of the y department. Batt g waged bitterly all along the jewelry sector, and at Sylvester’s salient the carnage was dre ful. The women were dd up in close formations before the tickpi ; and cuff nudging and elbowing each other, exchanging glares, n yundles vances to customers, socks and le of Christmas was bein buttons, igging clerks, dropping Arguments between companion shop pers as to whether Henry would prefer the garnet horseshoe for his searf or the gold links with invi le diamonds for hi | vester’s ears He } at last, and it was les — it Roce ese women’ 1 for t » freedom of le M: nor gap in the phalar x custome! Some poor creature had ibiy been t mple inderfoot, thought Svivester, and the rubwomen wouid find t nN ult lated remall wher the y cleane | that night. But until ther would be } t ind TY t } est t t W ; i Vt ‘ ere where e had ft i on the eid of tne next moment, howeve ‘ mn etlec ) faded out ot ! nN i gap wa led by the quick charge im passioned shopper, and Antoinette him face to face sne wa pale and wild, a woman pursued by the Furies of the buying l ou are Mrs. Horace W Higgi Wn, 224 L ake Shore Drive No? Ther you are Mrs. Frar X. Guggenheimer, 1924 West Washingtor Antoinette swiftly seized a tray of trir ets and with speed and precision, asking qué m with every bre he bought e hundred and seve e doll } f mixed stickpir “Name please ‘Mrs. Rudolph 7 sid Antoinett ew back her head fainted she had hard ( peared under the ram} gy higt et ind suffoca vy t ts when Sylvester was out from behind ! inte ed nh the alacr of an old-time ler emerging from hi eiter LO gly tle or to stop a brawl, and ne it behin ismall fortune ir wort (Christma resent to the mereyv of a indred hands ‘Go back to your counter!” shrieked a idylike floorwalker ‘We'll have a doctor flown from the rest room directly!” ‘You go to hell, sister!’’ Sylvester yuted as he plucked Antoinette from inder the hoofs of the herd ‘Get another oy! This woman is my—is a friend of mine! Hey, you, doorman! Grab a taxi me, quick!” And with the life-saver’ her up and carried her away. clutch he bore iv NTOINETTE came out of her swoon fA after a few blocks of taxi breeze, and hen without saying a word passed off int peaceful slumber on Sylvester’s shoulder. it was not until the taxi stopped and he elped her out that she asked the conven- tional questior ‘‘Where am I?” You're at Rosedale Manor, my dear. THE SATURDAY She did not faint again as she heard that ominous name. Fearing a relapse, how- ever, he took her in his arms and carried her into the bungalow When she had been soothed with tea and warmed before a gas-log hearth and rested on an ugly but comfortable sofa she began to talk weakly ‘You see, Sylvester, I was a shopper.”’ ‘There, there! Try to be calm, Antoi nette. Of course you were a shopper. You always have been a shopper.” ‘You don’t understand. I’m in my right mind, Sylvester. Don’t look so worried I was a professional shopper. You see, I was a failure as an interior decorator had to close the studio; I was terribly in debt and I needed money. So I got work in the department store I didn't make Nothing that I ordered was of thane addresses. I just shopped and asked questions and _pre- tended to buy, and then reported on the efficiency of the clerks. It’s done more often than you would think. They pay well for it, too—fairly well.” ‘That’s what I call a fine kind mgt job for a Southern gentlewoman and the belle of the Gold Coast!”’ observed S ylve ster. “In other words you were a spy : “It’s the only thing I could f Sometimes, also, I would get or -ders to shop for la women with lots of money, and then 1 would receive a commission on the re al purchases. ever sent to any nd to do business I br ought to the store.”’ Graft,”’ said Sylvester severely “* La- gniappe. Well, it’s not so bad as I thought, at that. You « iinly had me guessing I began to think you were the q f shoplifters with a lo f aliases I don't vuch for your ia, Antoinette, but you nly followed your natural bent, like £ business woman You were | ighly speci ili red as a si op per. I am willing to grant you the world’s champion hip.” ‘And oh, I’m so sick of mented ‘Sick unto death, Sylvester ‘erti ueen of the Please don’t make fun of me. I am wort to a frazzle, and my feet hurt me, and my n tatter I can't sleep; I can't eat I can’t do anything put ery Il never wa 0 > ¢ iF t store again! Oh, how I hate them! I loathe the Wavecrest Hotel, too, and I want a home.” ‘Good girl.” He patted her on the houlder affectionately. ‘‘Want to stay at Rosedale Manor with me?” “Yes. For a while anyway ‘Do you think you could manage to live ne anced at his collection of \ ia ibom itho I think the re sweet, Syiveste he ighed ‘How about that one of the yuntry doctor and the sick child? Is it the last word in human depray ‘It’s a darling!” ‘You're a lovely liar,” he declared, ‘but you can stay as long a u like [The next morning at breakfast she re membered mething, blushed, and bega to la _ hysterical ‘Wh: s the matter, Antoinette? Is de cam toreit coming On again?’ Or have the pictures driven you mad?” Good heavens, dear, I had forgotten! We aren't married! There is a seandal is Rosedale Man “Ve agreat. aided ne agreed ‘You nave been untrue to art They corrected the scandal that after with the aid of a Rosedale Manor clergyman, and then Sylvester went to interview the head of the Old Firm. He came back with his twenty-thousand-dol job in hi pocket But he never told Antoi nette, who wondered at this miracle, that } esignation had been merely a year leave of absence, and she was sorry wher the lease on the bungalow expire Sesh? DD. Getting Bus F LATE the telephone service ‘po () York na not been all that it hould be During the baseball leagues Mark Roth, one of the . had been assigned the u welcome task of noti fy ing all the new agencies and the various representatives of » recent annua! meeting of all the ( lub ecretaries a sudden change in plan It assumed pro portions of an all-day task After several failure at getting his connection Roth rested a few moments and again we . picker lup the receive! ‘Central,”” he said, will you ple iSO § ‘ me Busy?” | — EVENING POST 1 at If This Home Were Your Home— Would be conten Ol | nt ‘ ‘ ould y not only be living in a beautiful hor but home covered with a beautiful, reliab f You would KR] that your re nn we rade, becauss tf would i Infact vith $ cru h d late sta url roont ‘ ul | {gig over | h ! he ( wh \ enjoy Sta-so’s permanent, non-fading t) Sta-so non-fad ot h | Con i ul ' pra ( { ( iry Ih I | rougn i ist ( Nn Yiat mak the St urta | uly hy tutiful and h f ural Sta-so d root not ¢ t but } ¢ " t ! 1) Lu ; ‘f tr \ ? ind sy fe iV. \ nod Nit} ! 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ewhich at the THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 FORTY YEARS OF Al DIPLOMAT’S LIFE Continued from Page 9 acquainted as yet even with the outlines of our instructions which Witte was to bring with him. But I ventured to controvert the view the President the precarious character of our position on the theater of war and the conse quenturgent necessity for acrifice. I said that as far a were quite willing to terminate an conflict that could not result, but that thi a matter of imper eemed to entertain as to us to conclude peace at any I could see We armed lead to any decisive was not by any means us necessity for us: that ina military I could not consider our position on the theater of war as at all a hopeless one for the following reasons: First, that at the moment of speaking two army corps compe sed of some of our best troops drawn from the western frontier were on their way to the Far East, a serious increase of our fighting force which the Japanese would hardly be in a position to match; secondly, that ince the Battle of Mukde n the Japanese had not undertaken any ous advance, which, given the suffi demonstrated great ability and spirit of er terprise of their high command, could only mean that they did not dispose of ufficient for such an und risked with any expectation “ thirdly, that this surmise to be fully confirmed Dy the fact that the Japa ese had invaded Saghal n Island only after our cor nt to begin negotiations for peace had ired, which plainly indicated that until then it had been in po ible for them from their fighting forces ever the very small number of troops for occupying that quite defenseless island All this, I aid, ippeared to me quite sufficient to prove that we were not by an) means exposed to the danger of losing Vladivostok, let alone the Province of the Littoral, and was in the whole sit is political, nothir M4 tl it could ct } peace at any price Here igain wi already in a preceding chapter, that, not of my papers, not

Sense seri- rently

forces ertaking to be sucee seemed been sec to divert needed whole

being in the po 4 lor

and so on, | am obliged to rely entirely my memory in rela circumstances, conversations, and so on, concerning the peace negotiator I am confident, how ever, that if any note regarding his conver ations with me should be found among the paper left by the late President » found that my > : Roose veit it will be brief references to these conversatior are ubstantially cor rect If I remembe r rightly it Was on this occa ion, having been asked by the President to remain to luncheon, that I was introduced to Mr R ddle, then Minister to Rumania. and later on Ambassador to Russia, who was one of the guests. Though being seated end of the table ition with Mrs erhearing some at the other a live ly d engaged i Roosevelt I of the re marks passing between the President and Mr. Riddle I distinctly convers could not help ov rec olle ct much I was struck by the President's ev dent familiarity with such an exotic sub ject as Rumanian literature But then, I was not at that time, as | learned later ware of the astounding universality of Colonel Roosevelt’s interest in and know] edge of not only polities and literature but of everything else in the world that wa worthy of arre attentl After luncheor coffee Bac or ting | , when we were having our and cigars on the lawn, Mr. Robert , who had just landed from his house joined our party, and the general con- rned to American domestic with sonte ques publiie opinion was muctl peeing boat versation soon tu politics in connectior tion i time my chance to take a conversation I ventured to on the ubject unde rdi interested hand in the make some remart cussion, which caused the President quire how in the world [ managed to know o much about it. I said that the explana imply that, having always beer American affairs, I had @ight years been regu Americar tov tion wa greatly interested i for the last twenty larly taking in two of the leading newspaper When he pers they asked me what particular pa were and I had told him, | laughed heartily and said ‘Hello, the very ones that are alws lys dow: on me.” l’o this I made reply t fT could hay ‘ foreseen that day 1. should I have the ome honor to be accredited to him as President of the United States in the capacity of Am bassador from Russia I should certain! have exercised greater discretion in the choice of my American reading matter It was, I believe, on the day that Mr. Bacon was offered by the President and accepted the post of first assistant Sec- retary of State. In this capacity he brought into close contact with the diplo- same matic body, with whom he became ex tremely popular. His unfailing tact, genial ng peor ay a pony dager ome —— ared him, I make bold to say, to all of us, and it was with sincere grief that I aoc te paid homage to the mortal remains of this di tinguished statesman, whose untimely los the nation has every reason to mourn After my second visit to Oyster Bay | returned to Manchester-by-the-Sea and re- joined my family, who by this time had be come quite settled in Mr. Thomas Jefferson ymfortable cottage near Magnolia Beach The house was large enough to put up our dear friend Prince Koudacheff, who had accompanied us from Russia as a luntary attaché to the em bassy, as we las the Coolidge’ very <

with all it Manchester being within chancellerie paraphernalia

easy motoring distance from Portsmouth I intended, leaving my family there, to take up my temporary quarters at the Hotel Wentworth at hire, where the New Castle Governme! New Hamp had re accommodations for the Russian as well a stot

the Japanese delegatio » peace con- ference, as soon as the conf r = mbled I would remé dentally that though the peace clud led bec ame oft of Port ’ absolutely have a rk here ini wher Cor icially known as the‘ P¢ that town had in realit with the peac inhabitar a day pass through it mouth” nothing to do conference, except that the could see us twice treets in automobiles on our way betweer New Castle, where we were Kittery Island, Maine, where the sitting of the conference were taking place in a lilding of the navy yard, whict had been admirably arranged and furnish by the Government for the aeccommodati living, at vacant bD of the delegations and their offices Having received information to the effect that Witte and his party had sailed from Cherbourg on the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, te to arrive on August second, |

left for w Y in time to make all nece ary arrangements for his arrival and to meet him on landing. The steamer arrived on time and when she had been made fast it the North German Lloyd’s pier at Ho board to we boken I went or leome my future colleague at the peace conference Witte introduced to me such of the mem hers of his party as I did not already know, and among them Mr. Shipoff, director of the Treasury among Witte’s specialist assistants, as well as that of a representative of the Chinese Eastern Railroad, ito lend olor to the expectatior ol those who kind of a finar action in the hape of a camouflaged Department, whose presence may have seem believed that some ial tri i m nity payment was contemplated Witte reception on the densely crowded pier wa quite enthusiastic ind demonstrative, even Americar jolning in the noisy weleome given him by his counteymen and numer thetic Slavs who had joined them behalf the president of the Slavonic Alliance 1ddressed him i: ; h, Witte replying in Russiar policemen piloted — us ife crowd to my automobile ar we drove to the Hotel St. Regis, where had ured for him and all hi party. We went up at once to his room denied ourselves to all callers and | ceeded to study our instructions and t ous sympa and on whose briefly

rooms consider our plan of action at the comir conference Qur full ames, neither of us having the power Ww is in mur Ol ight to

i treaty without the other’s concurrence It was necessary therefore to establish be tween u a complete agreement or ill points detailed in our ons previou to entering upon negoti vith the rep- esentatives of Japar The rest being easily di posed of, two of these points demanded our most serious attention. They concerned the Island of Saghalin and the question of the paymen Continued on Page 169

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Continued from Page 166 of a war indemnity. On both these points the Emperor’s instructions were explicit and categorical We were not to consent to the cession of even the mallest particle of Russian territory or to the payment of a war indemnity in any shape or form. As re- gards the first of these points we had no difficulty in coming to the conclusion that in the presence of irremediable facts and conditions t} point e ild not he 1cce ull carried i t entirety ind that we regard to such conce ns as circumstance might rende CCE 1 We had indeed to ike into co eration the fact that Japanese had ready i ided Saghal that ir small ¢ largely outnun beres had irrendered, and that in case of a continuation of the war we vould ur questi ibly be dep ed of the po il t ol re nquering the lost territ on the the Japanese | g by the destruc tion ol ir fleet secured the ab ite com mand of the sea The question therefore reduced itself to this: Whether it would be just ible » re ier The mel et dependent on ¢ ulhering | ' to th DD t i ir i tructior { que Ne rt rreed V¢ ild « ‘ tio i Ve ( i u Live re ‘ Having settled this point between us it mained to en our deliberate of ) exp! ‘ te neing i é er 1 muste ible to Count Lam lorf for bn to the Emperor ] ve | weeded t i ‘ i there The next qu Ne 1 to discuss con- cerned the war 1 mnit ym the | ment of which the Jay e would p i t. In s erviews given to repr ent ( ol the pre Witte } 1 tu tated that a payment by Russia of a r lel it entire ut of the questio i issertion wt nowever, seemed t be to some extent lated in the eyes of the pu by the fact that he had deemed j ee y to secure view of the f | coming negotiat the a tance ( perts of treasur lroad off H profound ynvict f the imperative n t for Ru I ¢ lading peace Wit! the least | ‘ wa lee firt tremit ey i } e hesitated to pg to the le ‘ g to the payment of a war 1e1 | Lit ¢ 1 be comp ed u ‘ me plau f Isp’ t I endeavored t ! pprenhe that a categor 1 re i our part to consent to the | ‘ fa el n t bring at t tne ire of the ne tiatio and « equ the fal ‘ ‘ eure tne peace t Ru i ) t needed. In argu J t I expressed n firm convict t the Jay ese were even more nx1ous t i ve could be fo i peedy cor ision OL peace 4 CONV ! based, he it othe ( ierath i a militar we iture, on n ISPicl that . ese Gove ment who had solicited ident Roose rt mediat I w D Irseé i m to produce i document prool su having been the ise, but I felt 1 ertain t n Asp salts founded « 1 fact w bot des were obviou bound to conceal Whether I i succeeded i ) £g hi or whethe f ippreciated nm if terminati ( » yield the point, | am inable to sa However, after several } iT oft 1 t earnest 1 unreserve frank and friendly discussion of the mo mentous qu { we were called upon to ment on all points, to which we both. re mained faithful to the end and whict ¢ ibled us to conduct the negotiatior is if e had been one rt with one mind, one vill and one hea ¢ r our country, » be merciiully spared August we were invited President and Mrs. eled to Oyster Bay iced at our disposa by lbs raul i company ne I | the honor of e him a most « l | ed informally and heon was announced M ly in the ifter on, Witte being greatly mpre ed by the power ful and at the ning personalit) In the meant completed for the rst neeting of the plenipotentiaric the peace co THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 169 vr £ of which was to take place on the followir day at Oyster Bay under the auspices « the President himself on board his yacht Mayflower. Promptly at ten A. M. on the fifth of August Witte and I, accompanied by the members of our delegation, arrived at the New York Yacht Club landing, where we were received by Mr. Peirce a repre sentative of the State De partment. On Yr opposite a great crowd of sight assembled, which greeted our » with rousing cheers. In taking the steam launch I remarked hat we should not conclude from Nat we ere enjoying al it cor ng that the stic rece} id evident] the lapanese ple poter d preceded u Hy ar hour, e, who understood Russia r some years stationed at St. Petersburg as secretary to the Americar Legation, i wthatl wa mistaken ind that the ap pearance e delegation had not be nee! he ) ion the Opposite pier I must say in this connection that wher eve Witte appeared in pu he i i treated wit marked espe i I fest friendliness by the people and thi as, I t ¢, the true explanati f the er vhich greeted u Iwhi ere meant personally for | e launch took us to the cruiser Chattanooga, which wa to take us to Oyster Bay, followed by the Sylph with Mr. Peirce and several invited guests of the President We reached a little before noon Oyster Bay, where the ed an |} i ill how the é full olved the Knotty question ol precedence he tween the two ae legations The Japane t delegation having arrived in New Yor about a week before Witte and his suite, were therefore, as first comers, to be the t to be rece ved by the Pre aent on the Mayflower, but from the moment of our meeting the precedence was to pa to u for the following reasor Though bot! delegations were headed by ministers of tate, Baron Komura being Minister of I eign Affairs of Japa 1, and Witte pre dent of the Committee of \ te t Ru i, | is the ranking per age bot delegat according to ternational usage, a issador and therefore repre ‘ it ‘ of t e per fy . erelp? Or il at Oyster Bay we left the Chat { wa ler the istoma ite d ! t cordial received | the President to hom Witte presented the member F } te Then the Jay ese caeilega tir ed int e ( n, the President fo troduced the plenipotentiari to each other and led the iv to the dining i i ere a tand-u iu! « Va pre ired » as to revent i e! i mer é i seats att r pler itentiarie i ting wit u juilte inf vere eated a ina enial } t and ere bel é ed with eatables and I blu to the traditional drinkat After a while the President rose and said Gentlemen, I propose a toast to whicl ] \ there will be no answer and which I a ou to drink in silence, standing. I dri to the welfare and prosperity of the sov of the VO great na entat ‘ ave met one It is my most earnest the interest not only of wers but of all civilized mankind, that a just and lasting peace ma peedily be concluded between them = When the luncheon was ended it wa iggested that a photograph should be taken of the plenipotentiarie bv the side of It was taken outside the cabin, and the light being bad it was not a ucces We all, worst, and as the only, alas, survivor ol ( group I have recently had the agrin of eeing this photograph reproduced ill its unattractivene on the pages of a popu 1 lar magazine The President | ng. presided th ad mirable tact over the delicate cere ’ the t meeting of the ple notentiari« of the yuntr war who re nded to it py i I \ COU t l t lat toward each other, was the first to leave the Mayflower, followed by the Japa ese “\, Che all-year ‘ound nut — best all the year ‘round | ) Th risp a PLANTERS PEN 4s NANT SALTED PEANU] tro | ) 1 i ty \\ " ,. | n Spring. | +} } ’ ¢ ’ ’ Lil hai \ ) ' t ag “THE NATIONAL SALTED PEANU1 v r | I’] {} We . ey 6-oz. jar, 35; 10-o0z. jar, 50c Glassine bag, 5c I Dealer If FEANUTS write t n “) & j ess of t i we ‘ b se } i

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My ambassadorial flag was run up on the main truck, our genial captain took command of our little squadron, composed of the Mayflower as flagship, the cruiser Dolphin having on board the Japanese delegation and as convoy the cruiser Gal- veston with Mr. Peirce, who was to look after the peace conference as representa- tive of the Government, and we steamed slowly out of the bay into the calm waters of Long Island Sound, calm enough so as not to expose Witte, who was a confirmed landlubber, to the pangs of The weather was radiantly fine, were all in a most cheerful state of mind, and every- thing went on swimmingly until sudder as will happen in these waters, a heavy fog came probably filling with gloomy forebodings the souls of such passengers as when at sea, to indulge in dreams of collision s, fires and other maritime disasters. As for me, inured as I was thr rough long seasickness. we on, like experience to the dangers of the deep, I uisked Captain Winslow’s permission to join him on the bridge and stood there by his side with my long cigar all the after- noon in mute and delighted admiration of =; the imperturbable coolness with which he kept on his course at full speed, thinking by myself that with such a captain I would really not mind at all running down the other fellow if such a hapless creature should come across our bows We reached Newport late in the after- noon and Witte declared that he wished to land there and to continue by rail his voy- age to Portsmouth. Captain Winslow took him ashore on his launch and returned soon after to ask me to join Mrs. Winslow's din- ner party in honor of Witte, whom he had left at her house. On account of the fog our little squadron was to remain at anchor overnight and our arrival at Portsmouth would be delayed for twenty-four hours We had a most delis cht i dinner and evening under Mrs. Wir low's hospitable roof, put Witte on board the night train for foston, and returned on board, delis with ourselves and everything else in world. It turned out later that Witte, ac- companied by our financial agent Mr. Wil- enkin, had early the next morning taken an automobile at Boston, had run up to Man- chester to pay a visit to my wife, had stayed to luncheon and gone on to New Castle, where he had taken possession of the reserved for him at the Wentworth, ir rooms tend- ing to join the Mayflower as soon as she should have dropped anchor the harbor, sO as not to miss our solemn entry into Portsmouth. The fog that } overnight at port having lifted vad compelled us to remain the harbor of New- der w ay early or in we got ul on the seventh and reached Portsmouth about nine A. M. on the eighth of August. Witte, who had been watching the arrival of our squadron from the Hotel Wentworth, joined us immediately the Mayflower, commandant of and shortly afterward the the Kittery Navy Yard, Admiral Mead, came on board to welcome us. From the Mayflower the admiral went to pay ilar visit of welcome to the Japanese dele Dolp! after which gation on board the he returned to the navy yard to be in readi- on a sim- ne to receive us According to the es cedence we were the d to be received the officers of his st } tablished order first to be taken ashore Admiral Mead and A few minutes later of pre- we were followed »y the Japanese delega- tion, al i then we all proceeded to the building set apart for the use of the confer- ence. ‘The accommodation provided for u was spacious, extremely comfortable and convenient for the transaction of business, pect. After arrangements, which we were ushered into , where light re- in a word perfect in every re being shown all the we greatly admired, the large conference room freshments were provided and where we met a number of invited guests and the officers of the navy*yard with their families. This func were driven in car- riages over the bridge connecting Kitte ry Island with the mainland of the state of New Hampshire. At the New Hampshire end of the bridge we were met by a regi- ment of the New Hampshire National Guard, which escorted us through the streets of the quaint old town to the court- ' ere a large crowd tion over we house, wl was assemble January 31,1920 and greeted us with enthusiastic cheers. Governor McLane received us in the court- house and in a few well-chosen words bade us a cordial welcome in the name of the state of New Hampshire, after which cere- mony we were driven to the Hotel Went worth at New Castle. There we found everything prepared for our reception and settled down in this very large and beautifully situated seaside hote ij, which was to be our home for the next four weeks. Each delegation was lodged in on of the wings of the building and had the exclusive use of a private dining room, so that we had all the seclusion that it was possible to provide for us in such a large hostelry, which was crowded with people, attracted perhaps by the chance of watch- ing the daily doings of such a number of foreign diplomats eng: eed in a work of historic importance. This it was, of course, that had attracted to the Wentworth a large number of newspaper men—I was told, I remember, that they numbered about one hundred and twenty—not only from all parts of the country but also from Europe. Among them were such shining lights of European journalism as Sir Don- ald Mackenzie Wallace of the Times, Mr. Hedeman of the Matin, Signor Cortesi of the Corriere or Sera; and the ablest of them all, Dr. E. J. Dillon, who had accom- panied his frie = ‘Witte all the way from Rus ia and rendered him most valuable services in keeping him in touch with the American pres All the ger tle me exception bel discre tion, confi from 1 of the press without ed with the utmost tactful ing themselves to watch- afar ing thing without ever seeking interviews and at the same time displaying in their daily letters or telegrams an ex- in informing their traordinary ingenuit progre ss of the ne got la- papers of ce oan _ s, which, of course, we re being ¢: irried on behind the pe of the strictes this connection [| t secrecy remember an amusing incident that took place a few days before the conclusion of peace. I had returned late in the afternoon from a rather pro- longed tting of the conference, and wa veranda of the hotel, enjoy resting on the ing over a cig da mug of beer a humor ous and excruciati gly funny de eriptior of our habits and doings on the pages of one of the leading New York papers from the pen of one of its most talented representa- tive hen a ing gentleman approached me, bowing from afar, introduced himself is a reporte ind said: ‘“‘Excuse my i truding. 1 have come to make a declara- tl hi Delighted to hear it,” said I. “I am ‘I have come to say thi continued he “We are here a great number of newspaper mer , and whe n we came here ninety per cent of us were pro-Japanese and but now the all I have to say I replied smilingly: “Thi anti-Russiar , proportion is s indeed very gratifying intelligence, but permit me to ask whether this complete change is due to fact that you have found out that after all we are white?” Well,” said he, “that’s about the k ng and the short of it.” Mrs. Peirce, the charming wife of a tant Secretary of State, who had charge of all arrangements for the conven ience of the conference and the comfort of its members, entertained us most ho pl- tably in a cottage they had taken for the occasion, and so did some of the old resi dents of the neighborhood. I remember dining with Witte at a house in the village of New Castle which was said to have been built by the first governor of New Hamp Three ti y this house pressed themsel\ on my memory: The fact that though built entirely of wood had during thr escaped the dar shire. S about im- © centuries ger of fire; the surprisingly large size of the irmor in the corner of one of the roon which was said to have belonged to t and the sions of the low-ceilinged meant for original owner; Lilliputian dimer rooms ¥V proportior ate ith doorways seemingly comparative dwarfs rather than for suc! a giant as the original owner of the hous« must have been, The government had placed at our joir dispo an automobile, in which Witte and I could have been seen every day driving together to the meetings of the con- ference at the navy yard on Kittery Island and back again through the streets of Our *‘ well- Port smou th = New Castle. } . Petersbur v who had bee n wisher at Continued on Page 173)

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(Continued from Page 170) figuring on irremediable dissensions be- tween us would have been much put out to see us always in the friendliest attitude, driving, walking or sitting together on the veranda of the hotel, engaged in earnest and animated conversation. “The intimate re lationship between us, brought about by our collaboration in the momentous task we were called upon to accomplish for the good of our country and the consequent opportunity for a constant interchange of views, was a matter of unmixed satisfaction to me, the as on most important ubjects we were entirely of mind, rhere was only one point on which we were not quite agreed, but of course, we only in a, so to speak, purely academic way, ¢ a question that had already been gettled by a higher power in a sense to wh ich our very presence at Portsmouth bore witness—I mean the question of the timeliness of the conclusion of peace. We were both agreed that unle the course of the government’s domestic policy were radically altered—-the half hearted measure of reform devised by the new Minister of the Interior, Boulyguine, in the shape of a merely consultative duma elected on a basis of very limited suffrage having come much too late and having completely failed to satisfy the educated classes—a revolution was bound to come. Where we disagreed was in this: I thought that the conclusion of peace after a series of defeats—without our army being given more so one which, discussed is it concerned ‘SS a chance to redeem the glory of our arms y a victory which the expected arrival of considerable reénforcements already on the way might have placed wit its grasp would hasten the outbreak of the revolution; whereas Dagon: felt sure that the conclusion 1 of 7] as speedily as sible —— a pe oat. of the pr pal cau sof po} ular discontent, be helpful W taving off the danger of revolution at least for some time | remember how on one of the oceasior vnen we were discuss ing th ubject I had pointed to the ex imple of France in 1871 and reminded him f what I believed to be a fact, namel) that France f e statue erected to the me ory of tl eountr greatest t i! Phier tne erator of the terri tory.”’ there would be found ten in honor of Gambetta, whom many had called ° furieux,”” but who, by leading a iT hope, had wor t e hearts of his countr men an imperishable memory as the mar who would never despair of his country. To this Witte retorted that existing cor ditions in both case admitted of no comparison and that therefore if we had po eS eee oe Sai | » failed to secure a following. I shall not attempt to outline the course of our negetiatior mayons mating tins Sey were carried on by both sides wit crupu lous courtesy ar lina pirit of fairne and conciliation. The plan adopted was to deal it r th contentious matters of minor importance, and after having posed of them to mutual satisfaction we were about to approach liscussion of two pr pal points which threatened to become the rock upon wi ich our effort to react il agreement might be stranded— the que tion of Sakhalin and the pay! Var indemnity. It was in the n the night, at two A. M. on the 1 of August, that Mr. Peirce woke me up to read to me the text of a cipher telegram he had received from Oyster Bay in which the President directed him to request me to ome to see him without delay, adding that if I took the seven A, M. train for Boston ind New York I would find the Sjlph vaiting for me at Bridgeport to take me to Oyster Bay, where I would arrive sometime n the afternoon. Mr. Peirce \ of my going to see warned me also that a fact > President was to he kept ecret as far as = ponibie, Following the lications received I left Portsmouth by the first train in the mort ing, accompanied by Prince Koudacheff arrying my « ipher code, On boarding the train I noticed in a corner of the car a j fel] I re cognized a tellow vorth and whom I knew He passenger in whom lodge r of the Went to be not unconnected with the press. confined himself, however, to watching us from a distance. His colleagues who sur- rounded me at the station in Boston as I was about to board the New York express ais} laved a greater degree of inquisitive- ne - they we “_— to know where I wa d w I war ww. I near-truths suct ted to go ar was obliged to tell th as mi! f ¢ ol these isters lr THE SATURDAY EVENING POST parliaments are wont unwelcome inquiries with. On reaching Bridgeport managed, however, to slip off the train unobserved, boarded the Sylph and reached Oyster Bay at about four o'clock. After a couple of hours of a most interesting conference with the the substance of which it not my province to disclose he re, I turned on board the Sylph and had a short message to Witte put in cipher, which Cap tain Evans sent ashore, having instructed the messenger and the boat's crew to say, in reply to possible inquiries by reporter to parry we Preside nt, re who had failed to catch me on landing and on reémbarking, that the Sylph was going direct to Newport. Having taken these elaborate precautions in the hope of elud ing the vigilance of the ubiquitous and watchful eye of the press the captain al tered our course as soon as we found our selves out of sight in the middle of the Sound, and we made straight for Bridge port, where we landed at about two A. M Having about half an hour to wait for the night train from New York we went to the station restaurant and sat down on two high stools at the bar, waiting for the cup of hot coffee we had ordered, when a su piciously quick-witted-looking’ gentleman suddenly bobbed up by my side, serene] stooland mself onthe nearest higt all al seated hi naturally--wanted to know out it If | remember rightly I had recourse or this occasion to the same argument whicl had frequently stood me in good stead when I had to avoid answering similar questions without wounding the feelings of the inquirer. I told him that as an amba sador I considered myself as to some extent engaged in the same reporting business, and that therefore he could hardly expect that some exc] intormat ded in what professior if I possessed ive had uccet securing } ally is called a scoop I ould ready to hare jt with a business rival. He seemed to be satisfied with the evasive reply and said he would simply report that he had se¢ me, that I looked cheerful and seemed to be in a jocose frame of mind, from which he concluded that I had had a satisfactory interview with the President. To this, of course, I could not demur It stands to reason that the President a mediator did not limit his conciliatory efforts to one side only and that he had been all the time in touch with the other de as well. The reader who might wish for some more information on t} ibject ill find it in an article by Mr Melville E I Stone, published by THE SATURDAY E\ NING Post on January 30, 1915 On the twenty-ninth of August a com reached between the the ba of plete pler agreement was ipotentiaries or the ret tion by Russia of the northern part of the Island of Saghalin, which had not bee occupied by the Japane e, and the wit} arawa demnity The ith the Japan of the claim for a war in ng tele sident on the _® grams were exchanged ime day Ww ** PORTSMOUTH, N August 29th ‘The President: We ve the honor to inform you that we have reached ar wrest ment with the ple: potentiari of Japa To you history will award the glory of having taken the generous initiative of bringing about this conference whose labor will now result in establishing a peace hor orable to both side Signe d WITT! I ED WO Aug. 29 I cannot ions t Long Island, Rosen congratulat “OYSTER BAY, ** Mes ; Witte strongly express ) you and to the entire civilized world upon the agreement reached betweer d the plenipotentiaries of Japan and upon the fact that thereby ecured, just and honorable Signed ) and too my you an a‘peace has been to both sides. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.” It remained for us next to draft the final text of the articles of the treaty i proper form in both languages, French and Eng lish, to have the instruments in duplicate prepared for signature, and so on. All th required some time and it was only on the fifth of September that everything wa ready for the final act. It took place in the conference room at the navy yard in the pre ence of the governor of the state, the mayor of Portsmouth, the commandant of the navy yard, the captain of the May flower, the officers who had been attache to the conference and several represent The arrival of an tives of leading newspaper the respective plenipotentiaries $] i| ot Neverleek horde top But not now Pop ually the coming the ob CuUrity FORT B Nlaterial, te ded Motor car They SUuITIMer.r, evening. The Neverleek aut Wal ul are exhibited at the Show run with “top rhap a ith ‘‘t » wint lit | ana June up.’ are up,’ except, pe ma moon well tailored, oracetul, flexible top of contrib in ntegral part of thre car, uting to smart appearance I] to service. 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plenipotenti- hands across the table, a ates. The description of what quote from the columns of a newspaper of the period: Rosen was the first to break the Rising from his seat, the Ambas- Jaron Komura and M. Tak- the eye, said: act which will ‘Baror t ct ador, looking ahira straight in ‘“**We have just signed an have forever a place in the annals of his- tory. It is not for us, active participants in the conclusion of this treaty, to pass judg

its import and significance. ‘As negotiators on behalf of the Em- pire of Russia, as well as the Empire of Japan, we may with tranquil conscience say that we have done all that was in our power 1 order to bring about the peace for which the whole civilized world was longing ‘“** As plenipotentiaries of Russia we ful- fill a most agreeable duty in acknowledging that in negotiating with our hitherto ad- versaries, and from this hour our friends, we have been dealing with true and thor- to whom we are happy to and persor al ment on

ough gentlemen, express our high esteem » earnestly hope that friendly rela- tions between the two empires will hence- forth be firmly established, and we trust that His Excellency, Komura, as Minister of Foreign Affairs and one of the g statesmen of his country, will apply tre ngth ening of these relations the Jaron leadir to the wide experience and wise statesmanship he picuously displayed during , which have now been so aus- ’ so col these negotiation piciously ‘Baron Komura replied that he shared the views of Baron Rosen. The treaty of peace which they had just signed was In the interest of humanity and civil- ization, and he was happy to believe that it would bring about a firm, lasting peace be- tween two neighboring empires. He added that it would always be pleasant for him to recall that throughout the long and serious negotiations which they had now left behind them, he and his colleagues had invariably received from the Russian plenipotentiaries the highest courtesy and consideration, and finally he begged to assure Their Excellen cies, the Russian pler ipotentiaries, that it would be his duty, as well as his pleasure, to do everything in his power to make the treaty in fact what it professes to be in words—a treaty of peace and amity. “At the lusion of Baron Komura's remarks M. Witte arose and said he de- red to see Baron Rosen and the Japanese plenipotentiaries alone for a few minutes. The four retired to the Russian office and were closeted for ten minutes. What took place in that final conference of the peace makers the world may never know. The plenipotentiaries have refused to discuss it even to their secretaries, “While the conference was in progress the secretaries were affixing the official seal to the treaty, there being four seals to each of the four copies. Upon their return to the conference, the plenipotentiaries signed the protocol of their last meeting, which records the signing of the treaty, September 5, 1905, at three-fifty P. M., in the Portsmouth Navy Yard.” concluded. con

January 35/,/920 We left the navy yard shortly before five o'clock and drove through the festively be Portsmouth filled with enthusiastically cheering crowds to Christ Episcopal Church, where the rector, Father Brine, with the priests of the Russian Or- thodox Church, had arranged a joint serv- ice of thanksgiving. flagged streets of ‘Every was filled some time before seat in the body of the church the service be gan, shortly after five o’clock, and fully two thousand persons stood outside of the building. Among those in the congregation re Governor McLane, of New Hamp shire, and the third assistant Secretary of State, H. H. D The entire Russian suite, numbering nineteen at- tended “The last to arrive were M. Witte and Baror Thé@ two envoys were es- corted to seats reserved for them just within the chancel rail. “The clergy present included the Right Rev. Henry Codman Potter, Episcopai Bishop of New York; seven Russian priests from various cities of the United States, and four of the Epis« opal body. “The service began with a solemn pro- we

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cession about the church. Headed by the cross bearer and acolytes carrying lighted tapers, a Russian and American choir of sixty voices passed up the center aisle of the sacred edifice. After the priests, aco lytes, and choristers had been attendants

seated in the sanct lary the service proper was in by Father Brine, who intoned the yer Book passages and prayers throughout, the choi: ing the re At the singing of was censed., “*A brief sermon in Ex ry Rev lexander A. ng r ponses Magnificat the altar 1:01 ' gush was preached Hotovitsky, arcl riest of Saint Nicholas’ Russian Orthodox ity. Father Hoto e, emphasized the said, was and Japan prayer, he Russia garding the dangers Russian

priest attendants took positions be fore e high altar and chanted a Te Deum in Russia M. Witte and Baron Ross left the eats and stood in the hancel la £ ind were irrounded Dy the Ru ts during the s ng ol the sole The was the most solemn and impress service While the hy of thanks was being sung smoke from censers obscured at times the light from half a hundred candles. ‘Father Hotovitsky offered prayers for the a prayer for all those who lost their lives in the war was chanted. The service ended at six-fifty-five P.M.”

army and then Thus was ended one of the greatest war of history by the conclusion of justice and of cone liation, e ‘ solid foundations for future friendly rela tions two great nations whose rulers, aided by the wise and generous me diation of Ame great President, deciding to put a stop to further } a peace of tablis} betweer

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and strife were guided solely by the di tates of reason and of far-seeing state manship. Editor’s Note—This is the thirteenth of a series of articles by Baron Rosen. The next will appear in an early issue

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920

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l her time be- , he second kitchenmaid employ tween three o’cloc! d a quarter to four” I might and us y did know the an- wers, but I would stammer and stutter, while my hands continued swelling and my zrew weaker and weaker. All the I was in her madam never eemed aware that I possessed hinges. At my first audience in that boudoir I had waited politely to be invited to sit down, but the invitation never came, and I men- tally resolved that when I changed to an- other household I would take the initiative and the handiest chair. Sometimes madam would be charming, and at first I was betrayed into many conti- dences of household workings ervants’ id1osyn rasies or my own that later would be used against me with telling effect. But I soon learned the safeguard of a silent tongue and an impassive manner, such as Boggs, the English butler, wore, and I i trenched behind a counterpart. One day when madam had been particu- larly difficult the governor—as the butler of the master of knees time service in and his men always spoke the house-—-who had been present, came a few moments later to my office. After glancing apprehensively round he patted me on the back and whispered, ‘Don’t worry, you're doing splendidly,”’ and van- ished. But the person of whom I stood in real iwe was Boggs— with the family thirty-six years! Other people—the mi iests, servants—might an occasional faux pas; but I ed and incorruptible, never! magine his tal t 4 ; eould ving dedicated him iel of old was ded Bogg Was a power ll One mother to the butlerhood as § ated to the temple the household. A perfect John Bull type lorid high straight nose little white mu n-chop wi er he ruled the mer under hin li e the autocratic old general he was, and his men adored him. He and the ernor had beer g together before ! im was, and for his master’s sake Boggs erated ever e¢ ( But the rule of he household wa who? TI poiled child, the French chef! We ilways laced t! dang oft wrec} v i meal, no matter hov tant or what ne occasi r net temper! ir t did not follow that the consequences would on him, therefore it behooved u le er lights to keep him unruffled. The Chef's Artistic Temperament On one occasio mething had yone Lorage somett gz he cold storage o € ( { iling combination of t now it was the beha ng ca ] n ¢ eer and all hings undone hin Toward Lne fF tcher The he ble with people 3 demanded, ‘Eve y day a man. He / d rag peak; I want to make a busine I point to ze door, ‘Make your busine zere,’ I say, and he goes.” ; ““Chef,”’ I cried indigr tly, for once forgetting my role of family oil can; “that man came all the way from the city about the cold storage and you took it upon your- nd him off like that! Madam will be most annoyed.” I was anyway; phoning id del: with apologies to be ior elf to se he writir g and tele throug be gone gain, added for the hef’s outrageous behay We were giving a most important dinner the next evening. Madam had been more than usually particular about the arrange ments and it was after five o’clock when I flung my tired self into the easy-chair be- fore my fire, thankful that every last detail was complete and my share in the festivi- ties over. Suddenly a frightened kitchen- maid stood at my door with a message from the chef to the effect that the fishmonger had left a short order of lobsters and unless he had one more right away the menu must be changed. I knew the chef was lying merely to get even for my scolding yesterday. THE SATURDAY EVENING POST HOUSEKEEPING FOR THE RICHEST RICH Continued from Page 18 chef knew that I knew, but I also knew he could spoil the dinner, and he knew that too, Moreover, we both knew that this was no time of day to find out such a catastro- phe, even were it true. Down I went in wrath—which I craftily dissembled—to the kitchen. The che f, his cap cocked triumphantly on one side, wa ornamenting a green candy basket, de tined to hold ice cream, with pink-candy apple blossoms. I admired the basket and then spoke casually of lobsters. **You get my message?” he cried. “Ri away, I say,” and he dived into his par and shut the door. There was nothing for it but to go to madam and explain as best I could. Re luctantly I tapped on her dressing-room door, where she was in the hands of her masseuse, “Oh,” she exclaimed at sight of me, “I was Just going tosend for you. What about bonbons? I didn’t like those last you had. I hope you have something different.” Being a successful housekeeper in the making, I did not remind her that she had bought them herself; instead I said that I was sorry she didn’t like them, | as they were very expensive bonbor were enough I had would do—with just enough opposition i: my tone to decide her firmly against them I added reluctantly that there might ye be time for me to get a fresh supply if she really wished. Madam did wish and said I was to use her own car and chauffeur, I Spe d to a tele phone and called the garage i came I was waiting on there decided the and when the car the doorste p. The Lobster Hunt Unfortunately we dealt with a fis! a town four miles to the east and to the we monger in 1a confectioner three mile old my difficulties to Slack, the chauffeur, who had helped me through similar serape “Can you make it in time, Slack?” I asked. If you care to do a little peed ng, don't mind me Slack grinned and we slid quietly down ne ave le and Out the gates, ‘Where to first?”’ he inquired. Lobst« * | answered, thi king I I ht I 1 yme sort of bonbons in the ime t Over the oiled roads we sped up hill and down dale, I crouching in the flying car hanging onto the rug holder lest I be spilled out We were at the fishmonger’ na flash ind I tumbled into the shop, erying, “‘A lobster quick!” l e the last vor ust Id. ] others to-morrow mornings haf.” I fled Slack,”’ I wailed, ‘‘what can J do? He nas mnie,” “There 1 fish dealer near the confe tioner’s,” ud Siack, taking charge of the ituation. ‘‘We'll tr there out of the town before I | climbed to my seat. The lamps lit up lon, stretche of hard shining road that rapidly gobbled up. Slack was enjoying himself thoroughly. We came ti an »a stand before the f hop and I darted in, erying: ‘‘Lobst« } ¢ cana ‘Surely, madam; how many will you have?” on 1.* ” wo big ones I was so overjoyed I could have bought up the shop The man lifted a marble slab and thru his hand into the depths, bringing up two live lighters He rnade them into some ‘of a bundle and shoved it in the ear. By t time I was recklessly buying Fret bonbo next door. Scrambling into the arms full of boxes, " car with my too hurrit to have them tied up, I stumbled over the lobsters and with a yell gathered both my feet up on the seat. Slack lammed the nd we were off. I could hear the lob ter bundle and a couple of boxes I had dropped rattling rour d on the ear floor We reached the gate and round to the we raced homeward. and lipped up the avenue kitchen door Slack,’ I said insinuatingly, ‘‘do you know which is the safe end of a lobster?” " Slack came round and groped in the car “All right,” he i 4 the bundle, and opening the suid when he had grasped The Continental Cgont will call on You — ry SHOR IS only one ’ i , ’ Continental Casualty ( OP DGQHNY | Ft writes Service $ ‘ f f/le following kinds MSM 177 W hat is Your Age? W.H err ee TR Gus tt a month vedas It doesn’t matter whether you are this side of twenty or beyond fifty, you can make money as a sentative of this Company. repre- If you want a spare-time opportunity, our proposi- to make salaried job, we tion offers you a chance If you want a regular waiting with fifty or sixty commission, as the reward. 1, , nave The men on this page, and hun- dreds like them, are making good with us. 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The Field of Dishonor 5 Richard Harding (First Uniform Edition) Booth Tarkington ¥ A » Never Again at ) This Price Charles Scribner’s Sons Charles Scribner's Sons, 597 Fifth Ave., New York DAVIS THE SATURDAY he thrust the poor creatures under the he! astonished nose, while I h ypped about on the good firm earth to get the cramp out of my feet and legs. later from a vantage point in hall I watched—as I often did y party going in to dinner. Could the is, stately hostess, with the smiling lips and sparkling eyes, her beautiful gray hair held in puffs and curls by jeweled pins, a rope of pearls swinging to her knees, her silk train sweeping the crimson carpet could this be the little, fretful, voman gray hair rolled in a bun or toy of her head, who had sr apped so quer- = elderly wit! l it me in the seclusion of her bou- » much,” thought Z. “for a French land clothe Madam was particularly pleased witl dinner. She said the chef was invalu- e, but | found the two lobsters in the ‘ x next morning whe I made my ind I looked the chef in the eye and | ted. He blushed—he really did—but he turned away humming a little French y | It came about that madam went visiting ind | OK Nn menus to the oung ladie boudoi I'll do the menu Cg announced the | Cert | t! aid the elder, who was ve like her mother. ““When mamma is awa I'm the head of the house.”’ ‘But,” retorted the other ou've g 7 given he gardener and coachman orders. You might let me do the meal “T will ‘Not at all,”’ replied her sister. 1 tretched Zz And she | a long white hand for the book attend to everythir ‘Dear me!” she cried. “Of what use is a French chef? This everla ting lamb-and milk-pudding diet! Can't he cook ar rp for Lamb for luncheor Lamb luncheon. Chicker thing else mnceken for dinner. for dinner * Just o father cat ay, ‘I rom the farm of course,” and look at Bogg , and Boggy i Ye ir o | understand ir,” when he A he’ lyiv If 1] ne lal ane cl er we e eall these | { IX We@r vere off the farm there wv l hea r thing on the place.” he dashed an avenging pencil thr inches ind ¢ € the morrow eakfast menu ‘Too elaborate,” she pronounced, “fo Sunday breakfast 1 always” looking everely at me order the imple st po ble breakfast for Sunday. It’s only right And she scribbled a over and up and dowr I took the laug! ered menus back to the chef, not without iin enjoyment, for I had reason to believe he intended giving rt 1 cert himself a little holiday during madam’s ab é e, leaving the most of the cool ng to Rose, the long-suffe g second cook. Here, | told him, was his opportunity to practice " rt hve dist ordered Va Fret elaborate lhe simplest p ible breakfast’ wor ece tate rising at five o'cl for the es i rdered depended fo t 1ec’e u g little } u ses that te | t e to the luff pertectio Trouble in the Kitchen And for ze den elle ! re ive The governo he \ t wa these thing It will be ze ime hops of ze lamt ‘ ustards [¢ nin e egg i ir} ‘ nould ‘ ‘ \ urse it ‘ inchec I iggested that I ud In r ing hut rhe \ ud) prete t lo breaklast I'he chef cocke cap de i ore to make some hat camel how t ecre L so guara , It will be well, chef, to remember that ll undoubtedly hear of any ur ful cooking.’ . And with this word to the wise ibling it with my ar Ww I fled the t trou v presence but little during the following days. When | did venture there tearful kitchenmaids and a harassed Rose were dashing about under the conflicting orders of a chef in pursuit of his art When madam returned larmed at tl ladie Both were of hot water. was much the yo ng the cor lor in bed subsisting on sips EVENING POST “‘Ptomaine poison,” she Was I quite sure none of the quired relining? I was—fortunately—having had lined less than a month ago. While reviewing household happenings I casually mentioned that the chef had been excelling himself and drew attention to some of his recent triumphs. She turned the leaves and studied some of the contents. There was no more talk of coppers or pto- maine poison, but the chef returned thank- fully to his ‘‘ petits muttons.”’ Graft flourishes in the long pronounced ‘ Oppers re- them hadow of a ) man’s home. The grocers and trades- people all bombarded me with bonbons, hothouse fruit, French toilet waters and perfume I could have st: : my own. The k my Office and taku the elbow hoped his order generous Our bill Che butcher's bill, daily petits muttons,” g I trembled to confront expenditure had to be ounted for. ted a shop of sidled into ‘ > nie > tially ‘ g me confidentially b eal upholste rer would be a one were scandalous growing in spite of wa madam care fully The chef “ze chickens and omethir with, for watched and acs when I talked to him, merely shrugged, so I summoned the butcher, anging wit} Boggs to let r the front door, for t} tne chef to meet. “What per cent do I did not want him : I greeted him with: you give the hef?”’ He bowed low, saying: **’ “You call yourself an honest man? witheringly “What would you?” he asked witl hands outspread. “If I don’t give it dir ners will be spoiled. The madam will be told that my meat is poor, unwholesome another butcher will be found He will give ten per cent—-maybe more.” We Butchers Must Live Bu I terrupted olding out heal ol da ene ) il these 10 lar and d ur wort! of neat neve ordered! ‘Not | ma al Mere Dye orders from the chef. You are a new house PPE If the ef ple es the maste i! ’ tre the 4 t ’ ‘ fere w hin Ay e bo ind ou ead hand Beside ve butchers must é | i few weel most t! house w ‘ yt A ) A , AY ) y pe iy f I wave hiv iwa Diogene would ever t e come hunt y t eight hood it it ome tisfactic n bu dling bribes ba to their donor he tlowe I ight in every morning b the gardeners were a Jo! | would tind her ' ffice when | came down; great flat baske I rose uch roses !—red, pin! \ le, eve iriet n profu ) chrysa themut big inflower ill kind f late garden flows on cha my «de he fl oO mys e breakf t table with it crisp while and blue chir ea ind the mid and the t i footr } ering ir Ww y ring me ! break! Wha i rust Ww to ve t! e tlowe range pl t ine when the rece ind hal must be readine ad eve ervant out of sight except the footmen on duty! My) " too, to arrange the table fruit and Wer Lt k I must have been a icce at all thi because though madam gave word of praise—my work was never crit cized « ent bac for rearrangement, as I heard had frequently happened to former housekeeper Boggs, wise man—and with the tan t} t X yeal whose duty al tl would have been, had long ago refused to touct Boggs knew his value and madam probably knew Boggs’ limitation Boggs didn’t know an ner.can beauty from a red cabbage, and after all there ttle differs e except f the smell We were ve ( 1 old-fashioned people and we pride irselves on our hig tepping es and | ipl ed carriage u Zz ne 1utomol oni long journeys or for busine Every mort ing Dawnish, the coachmar ime ton Giving a loud learn madam’s commands pere mptorv knock on rn offi * door, before I could speak he would fling it wide with, ‘What can I do for you to-day?’’—his cay rin tne ne ighborir v that a groom i! i, } livery and the were at my disposa but to my disgust it was usually Dawni who would drive to the door, out of livery (Continued on Page 181 January 31,1920 It’s a Pel ter! 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4 1 Motor Car i heel should be SO designed and constructed that there can be no con- centration of Strains at Any One Point. The athlete, a pole-vaulter, shown in the illustration is alighting froma height of ten feet or more. His legs are not straight. They are dished. If he keeps his legs straight, he will break his legs, because it is the direct Transmission of the Shock or Impact that shatters and destroys. You can demonstrate the soundness of this principle to your own discomfort by merely stepping off the curb-stone with your legs stiff. Instinct tells us to Offset Gravity in this way to Diffuse the Shock. The human body is an excellent illus- tration of the Principle of the ‘Taper, the variation of ‘Thickness and Weight. This is the Principle of the Spring. dail Gou .'- hd A how" ‘i ye tke Necls of. Ca Wohy ° THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The fact that the vaulter’s legs are dished to receive the Shock, too, 1s significant. The body is dished like a Bow—tlexible, not set and rigid. That is the effect of the Dish. ‘The body becomes an actual Spring. ‘That is another reason why the Impact is Diffused over the Whole Body —not concentrated at any One Point. Applied to the Wheel —The natural direc- tion of the Strain, the Shock, the Blow istoward the Hub. Diverting the Strain, therefore, diffuses it. ‘The Off-Set Rim in the scientifically designed wheel also makes the Strain ‘‘turn corners’’ and, therefore, Dissipates it. Besides the vastly Greater Beauty of Dis- teel Wheels, there are these Uhree Basic Principles of ScientificW heel Construc- tion which you should demand— The ‘Taper, The Dish, ‘The Off-Set Rim. Detroit Pressed Steel Company, Detroit, U. S. A. Disteel Wheel Plant, Cabot Avenue New York: 1846 Broadway at 61st St. Boston: 925 Boylston Street Automobile Frame Plant, Mt. Elliot Avenue Chicago: 732 Michigan Ave, San Francisco: 326 Rialto Building DISTEEL WHEELS Doe Whee s Heat Complete The Car Wheel Talk Number Two To give the intelligent me torist naderstanding of the 179

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ISO THE SATURDAY EVENING POST January 31,1920 Vode RI iD ‘The Leather for kine Shoes line LEATHER makes line Shoes ( N i! mountain lope ; flocks of kid a it ra under the watchtul ot sl lephet . Some wander i harp rocks, pu h ime ’ \ ‘on Ih ure h | have le to a | Waly supply th , e shoes of \; B k | hal \ lol kt ure h \ iN 1 ha sa ist \ boot sh N tt h ly] \ ly lh rf ‘ \ IN yout m he \ | IN NIay ING ( I mn, M Th for Vhoe soft] ode Kid

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THE SATURDAY Continued from Page 178 the surrey closed all but the front seat. Though I never spoke except to give curt directions he would swagger into the shops, putting in his word about my purchases; then with his hat at a rakish angle and me perched beside him he would spin round the streets, saluting his many friends. I suffered a while and then decided all this must So the next time Dawnish flung open my door I looked coolly at him. **Dawnish,”’ I said, ‘‘ you have forgotten ur cap.”” He grabbed it off hankee, ma’am,” he gulped. orders to day : a How I wished I'd had gumption to have squelc} r!

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“ Any enough hed him s I learned later that he cor ii self a devil of a fellow with the women and had had a promising intrigue with my im mediate predecessor. After this when I went on errands I was driven by a groom in livery.

One morning when a sprinkle )W had blanketed the gardens and fiel inda border of shell ice fringed the ornamental lake, madam inf me that I would go to New York the next day, taking wit}! Mary, the third housemaid. I would go to he town hou ee, now ormed

me in charge of a care taker. I would engage worker he secre tary would give me a list of trustwe

people—and I would have the house in complete order in ten days’ time. It wa vith difficulty I preserved my Boggs’ ex- pressior or rather lack of ¢ <pression, I could have danced for Joy. Get away from that prison, where I never spoke to ! ! being except on bu iness and where » oO oke to me except to make com pla sk directions? What mattered it he ady never been in except for an hour or immer day I had come a home that I had the iam i to make re to meet mac Impossible Furniture ountry house I along the road every } ese ceased when for When first I went to the « had taken long wall lay, rain or shine But

| uest arrived one day late luncheon

and a bit excited He had been held up ilmost at our gates and only a passing motor party coming to hi iid had saved him from being r walks abi

ned i mad to the est: even Guernsey cattle and orangeries and palm house and graperie are pt to be- come a bore, especially when the latter hang too } gh ; knew the tow house, onl i kitchenmaid tr 1 with the help of her cle is I had eve rin Ci houset a it t f { D ind ? mar me ¢ r the | e and other I met hir t he } ! é

‘Nor can anyone else, mum. I don’t

hold with gilt furniture and French tape trv. Grive me,” Sald Boggy wit! dran itic le or, ‘‘achair as can be sat on in comfort.” But telling a couple of footmen to follow, he ime with me to the big lof room. In a very few minutes they |} led the grand piano— gilded d} te ind su ported by fat cupid ellow notes du »~-to its rightful angle and had twisted the carved-and-gilded cabinets and chairs and tables and couche and eree} ta where they belonged. I ‘ ibout, irranging costly | i-bra ind ers. How much enjoyment I got ng for and keeping these perfectly nted homes I didn’t then know, but far re, I t , than did the owners. Like Boggs, I didn’t admire thes But the comfortable hole house, the pricele ttered

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one of her book a may ent La y on, rive ar nute T of a picture 1 ol the | ilrcase It I vord at ed, bu t nha it the head of a grand staircase some here onl Ave i Madam came in time to entertair r ( uSiveé heon part; She is! it er door by her omnipresent butler and } EVENING POST first composed he useKee pe r I have maintained always that heaven will be filled with Germans and I have had no cause to change my mind. Their infir tesimal souls will slip in unnoticed, while poor sinful wretches from all other nations are being turned away. The head housemaid, being a German, lived only to extol her ‘‘vork’ upon and belittle others, getting into the most frightful rages at disparagement of herself. She hated me ll satellites and on the landing by her and to spy

right royi boasted that she would get rid of me as s had of other housekeepers. With this laud able motive she drew madam’s attention morning to her bedroom door,

one one of the white panels being yellower than the rest. She said it had been caused by the unskilled workers the housekeeper had em ployed to clean. What did either the housekeeper or they know enamel? Madam asked her if she could remedy it. She was sure she could. “Then do madam commanded “Do it now.” So Katrina went at it with every cleaning stuff known to science, ‘But you are not rubbing hard enoug! madam would say. Rub, serub hard harder still!” And Katrina rubbed and scrubbed for the better part of an hour, while madam i: a pink silk negligée lay on her couch before the fire reading The Prayers for the Day and The Simple Life. And then she told her what both had known all along: that the panel was as it always had been —a bit of bad painting. There was little time for hon now. The days ] 7 fit my duties in. was officially week-end of the family—usually all or most of i , old and young, went bag and baggage, menservants and maidservar to what they were pleased to call } there. Sometimes the Saturday afternoon and Sunday. Sometimes it about white so, were hough the cor clo ed, every “4

with visitors week-end beg ended iny time began Thur morning and lasted until the follow Wednesday. Sometimes we were bot houses at once, or on the highway betweer The chef practiced his art whenever and wherever Providence and madam decrees The Troublesome Bureau

once did I see hit It happened in the town It and the cause was the ambiguous per at the useful man. A bureau r sent to a renovator, whose man chose the te afternoon to call for it I sent him andr useful one Thomas by name upst with instructior t » get it eed i I a ire where the Lidl be een i member of the ta or a ¢ { ne Zz l com! er } 1 we to vest igi in the freight t, ¥ ar beneath the impt I mas and the bure ed's coll t rhe trouble iS ODV 1 Ther got the bureau ) the lif here fitted even by leaving the « QOL ¢ Irse tne halt { pluml d the ecting « had immed about four feet ground floor Five ¢ } t ‘ Madam expected f he ‘ moment—the goverr f \ meee \ ‘

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There’s more money for you too— When Mrs. Hall began work as our subscription representative, she didn't have the opportunity that is open to you. The Ladies’ Home Journal was read in thousands but not in millions of homes, The Saturday Evening Post was just gaming rec ognition as the indispensable American weekly, and The Country Gentle- man was practically unknown out side of the state of its publication. Easy permanent profit Yet Mrs. Hall was able to earn as high as $200.00 in a single month! Your local oppertunity is bigger — and richer Learn about it TO-DAY, without obligation, by sending to us the coupon below EVENING POST Boggs was cursing Thomas from the hall floor, not loudly, but distinctly and em- phatically. Quite an audience had gath- ered. It included the chef with a large knife; one or two housemaids disturbed at their tea, munching cake, teacups in hand; a kitchenmaid and scrubbing pail; a laun- dress with a half-wrung sheet; two foot- men in full livery. But all were silent in face of Boggs’ fluency. I waved the chef and maids back to where they came from and retreated into my office, where I spent a frantic half an hour telephoning for an engineer, but at that time of day such a person could not be found. Eventually I borrowed one from the St. Regis, who sauntered in an hour or two later. Meanwhile every servant in the house made an errand through that hall, and when Boggs became speechless the footmen in strict order of precedence eXx- plained to Thomas his spot in the universe. It was not nearly so exalted as his present eerie. James assured him that Boggs’ ex- hortation was a mere curtain raiser to what the governor’s would be. George and Charles dwelt on the fact that madam’s heart not being all it should, they two must carry her upstairs—she weighed one hun- dred and sever ty pounds but, they as- sured him, not before they had explained the reason to her. TI ey both agreed that when released the lift would fly to the roof and then likely drop to the basement. The governor was the first to reach home and, attended by a dignified if purple-faced butler and three expectant footmen, was confronted with the jammed lift Boggs had been but a half-hearted understudy. Indeed, there was much reason for wrath. The servants were forbidden the use of the lift except when carrying a burden. Thomas by wise forethought rarely traversed the

stairs, providing himself always with a burden of sorts. Thus only yesterday, when several luncheon guest including a French ambassador and a foreign prince- { ‘ were about to ep into the waitu g ] lift, ushered thereto by a bowir g butler, it soared from sight, and they and the morti fied Boggs waited while it went to the fifth floor and returned with Thomas and an empty ash can, Another time madam, impressive ducting a distinguished lady, found the eee THE SATURDAY EVEN

January 3!/,1920 passenger car occupied by Thomas in blue overalls, a can of brass polish and a dirty cloth. He had sufficient presence of mind to be industriously polishing the door handle, but the look madam gave him as she motioned him out made even Thomas droop for a few hours. In fact, Thomas and the lift were a regular obsession with us. So much so that when any small article was missing we ran first to the lift to see if Thomas had commandeered it to ride with him. It was a badly wilted Thomas I dis- charged next morning ‘“‘Sure, ma’am,” said Mary, “‘he won't be sayin’ you're soft anny more.” I thought deeply for a few moments. ““Am I soft, Mary?” I asked. “ Jist a throifle, ma’am, and though it’s all right wid thim as has a since of dacency, there’s thim as hasn’t. But afther all, thim as has will do a power of work for ye and thim as hasn’t ye don’t be wantin’.”’ Many pleasant duties fell to me as madam learned to place confidence in me. Errands to the florist’s, to the jeweler’s and other shops. Calls to pay by proxy, when madam’s carriage—I handed madam’s cards to a footman who delivered them at palace doors to other superior in- seated in dividuals like unto himself. There were theater and opera tickets and tickets to picture galleri

, with madam’s Aber- deen terrier for company. He was about as companionable as a hear e, but I loved him, and his dour soul tolerated me. There were gifts to deliver to There were drive rich and poor alike Now all this and much more is written in large letters in the book of every profes sional house keepe r’s life I have learned appear in their servants things from their viewpoint as well as my own. I have learned the joy of being a storm center; of being able to swing a palace and n is; of turning domesti how mistresses eyes and to look at many all that there tragedies into comedies I have learned how hard worked are the idle rich—and not alway for their own pleasure. And so when I sum up the results and gains of months in madam’s househo Il wonder if it shouldn’t have been I wl paid madam fifty dollars a month instea of madam paying me. those « arly

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