The Saturday Evening Post 1920-02-07: Vol 192 Iss 32

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Published Weekly George Horace Lorimer +E DITOR | The Curtis Publishing Churchill Williams, FS. Bigel a’ c NV. Neall, Arthur MeMe a, Company H.D. WalKer, E. Dinsmore Cyrus H. NN. Curtis, President : iate Editors C. H. Ludington, Vice-President and Treasure Walter H. Dower, Art Editor PS « lins, General Bu ee Menader | Walter D.I r.> . 7 ‘i 7 Nill Boyd, A er ng Direct niered as lass Matter, November t® “ . (fice at Philadelp) | Independence Square. Philadelphia F d d AD! & B . F kli Ur M ' 47 | ounde 172 enj. frankiin London: 0. Henrietta Street Ent d as S« i-Cless Matter at the i | Covent Garden, W. € Copyright, 1920, by the Curtis Publishing Company in the United States and Great Britain Post-Oifice Department, Ottawa, Canada | | } L one j * 10c. in Canada Volume 192 ae ta - PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 7, 1920 $2 00 by Subse on Number 32 Tine Pioneer and! Pattenbury By lenry Payson Dowst URLAWAY was crazy. That was me said— that is, everyone in Trimount who what every- knew what a lemon the old Weekly Pioneer had been for the last few years. When Gurl- way bought it it was dying a lingering, if painless, death of malnutrition, anwmia and general senility. It eemed incapable of raising its head or recognizing its vil sed into a state of partial coma. iad the newspaper bug in an But Jin Gurlaway aggravated form. Any sheet of wat te paper bearing blacl haracters that sn red under his thumb and lle d of printers’ ink w cmt cause in to become strangely, suddenly excited and to emit queer noises night city editor just as the last forms are clos- f And he did not sniff cocaine or drink to excess. Kol aid it was just a case of damphoolitis. He used » talk newspaper by the hour to his wife, Marcia, who thoroughly sold to the belief that Jim would live o show the world how Horace Greeley and Charles A. Dana might have been truly successful—if they had SAVED! yssessed Jim’s talent she was profoundly shocked when her husband came home after a week in the city and reported his failure to frequently T. Jefferson Fidyge pul lisher and editor, re 1 le Ia procure a lucrative position on a great metropolitan daily. protest, which he usually printed for the edification of his reader ‘You can’t blame ’em, Mat he explained. “I’m a small-town chap and they Grundy’s Grinds became a valuable feature, Fid knew it pot why worry? Here in Trimount you and I can make twe nty-five a week asset to the paper. go farther tl twice as much would carry us in Chicago or New Yor My oppor Gurlaway did not get any spe { tu ty is more likely to bob up here where I know everyone than in atl g burg where to the Grinds, but he had had a couple of 1 I'd be an utter stranger. You watch—and cheer up.” ment on the Republicrat, and Marcia n t G ol saline worked for the Trimount Republicrat. He acted as mo rter, advertising column headed Trimount’s Social W} - itor and assistant editor. He wrote the Pithy Personal Paragraphs, Both Pertinent The Republicrat wasn’t any great shake fa per, f igh itr ( t pa 1 Imperti t and the Breezy Local Briefs. He edited Green Re orn Ge ssip and What’s week all home print made uy ! t t of t { Moving! the ile es, and he was responsible for a special department entitled Grundy’s from the daily press and a td ( Grinds, appearing anonymously on the editorial page, in which various current topics, bed of the sort of tall-gra such as Syndicalism and Its Answer and Is Ruth a Greater All-Round Player than our up-state sectior Cobb? were learnedly discussed T. Jefferson Fidge wa d t I lim’s stuff had a certain briskness, a freshness of attack, that made it agreeably functions, not alwa obvious t readable. The Republicrat’s following looked forward to Grundy’s Grinds and very make it a financially worth-w!

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

February 7,1920

t much notice from Fidge readers died off and the Republicrat, with the support of Editor Greer became at this moment the first of the the Repu it ariab the part with its new type and up-to-date presswork, citizens of Trimount to assert the lunacy of James T. ed | enti istic Here came g and got the cream of the county patronage. Gurlaway. i int of su in event The stalwarts saw to it that T. Jefferson Fidge got a fat “How much is your mechanical equipment worth?” share of the state printing, which paid an excellent profit. “Just what I can get from the junkman—or maybe the I the of t is held last’ The Pioneer had neither the influence nor the mechanical Smithsonian Institution. You know, they’re great on old : tne rw sdosicl = ecu equipment to compete for such busine relics. Say, my press is as out of date as your grand- , “ipecage oe e . Jim Gurlaway and Marcia met Greer one evening in mother’s flax wheel, and the jobber’s the one that printed : al reactive. Megann’s Drug Store, Prescriptions Carefully Com-_ the tickets Noah issued for the original Cook tour.” f e evening, Hor pounded, Ice Cold Drinks, Cameras and Supplies, Rubber ““Where do you get your power?” ‘ ef prepared Goods and Sundries, where Jim was blowing Mrs. Gurl “Kid power—well, say, Jim Gurlaway, do you mean to \ ‘ | the Taxe Mr aw to a nut sundae Jim asked Greer how he was _ tell me you never saw the Pioneer go to press? Why, it’s tened th respectful ttin’ ’em and the old editor replied that he wasn’t thirsty the most humorous thing in this town—if anything so ‘ ihout 1€ to remain IN put he’d take a cigar, thanks, and the newspaper b much like an obsequy could be humorous. That machine } : ; — rend ‘ th he wasn’t fit for a self-respect dog, let alone a ma f is run by a big flywheel of cast iron, with a two-fisted 4 bra ind idea wooden handle set on it at right angles; and Tilford’ Ally—-you know, the one that has fits—turns the crank its ere heer their ti while I feed. It’s the only useful thing Ally has brains Fid per appeared t enough to do, and if he happens to have a fit on press day ' ? ind big Gotl ke I’m late with the paper. But I guess folks don’t miss it a by ! t \ e speeches were it’ great deal.” ed | ‘ ' his glor He “How about compositors?” { { h the ttes hort, J ‘I buy patent insides and some boiler plate and the set rl np, f ‘ , y on mmed black le matter I mostly stick up myself—lot of standing ads and } . { ped from the top three or four columns of locals. Sometimes I pick up a } t f , t where they joined f tramp printer, but they’re unreliable, and since labor got so { vans } t o ‘ With his ar oO searce and wages high there’s hardly any of ’em left. I do led peacef ' " ach. | ees crossed cl my writing nights.” \ j ‘ ‘ toed ‘ iting in the t “Your expenses must to nothing—and yet you J eeze, he ed ‘ led a il | can’t make the old shee \ 1, und regist pproval of al ‘Last pair of shoes I got’’—Elly protruded a shabby peake ‘ ( ‘ | foot =" wapped advertising for. If Fred Trimble wasn’t | You wv eet I t evel all the local weeklie All we can serve up to people in the a pretty good fellow I'd have gone barefoot. I just man tov , — ed, | ' fable { popular W of news 1s iter about Jig MeNoodle’s painting his age, that’s all Hardly ever see any real money I have th? to eople: not quite trusted and t enjoying } ise and Mrs. Lawyer Bisworth’ enjoying a spell of to pay ca h for pape r and ink and All; get fifty cents for r | ‘ ‘ ‘ it Know! bad health New paper ised t » help people think; now turning the pre . ir prominent f tov they help ’em forget to tl Jim Gurlaway rattled his spoon in his glass to call the He would of } ‘ ! pe | favor Greer bit viciously at the end of his cigar. He was druggist, paid his shot and departed with Marcia. j lirty polit hotl he e week ands gt ed and th ind discouraged to the point of extreme “Poor old Elly Greer,” said Marcia. “Isn't he dowr \ preet 1 r i t ed 1 and a pe mis! on his luck?” Ele ] two days later And 1 would perhap I’m glad I don’t agree with you, Elly,” said Jim. “Pitiful. I’m sorry for him.” forget ir resentment, be e it was exactly what you Pooh! t do you know about it Haven't I beer “Yes; but, Jim, do you think if it had been you th ew } rt of nw { bucking th ne for the last thirty years? Of course, if Pioneer would have failed? Don’t you suppose Elly la In the tua of } ‘ y I he i written and I'd been « > Ww ld stoop to t ks like Jeff Fidge something essential for a real newspaper man?” | filed with I | yrapt the Repu it’s morgue, the " vould uu believe it, I once heard that ite refer to “One thing’s sure he doesn’t lack experience.” phra genero | le te em] ( le ted ! elf as a journalist God save the mark! If he a The Gurlaways husband and fathe ed citize were rnalist I’m the angel Michael nice balmy ever i few of the ‘ t¢ yt hone da rse | make a good living on a vuunt of stand on their tiny pe rc} i the pa er’ read A | vill ipl r nod ind ing th the gang He used to ride o ap , ber use a have to Zo wre or le mild ‘ he wasn’t ashamed to support some crook for the legisla- ‘‘Got any ideas?” jim Gurlaw d ed It writt the bool ture who'd do the 1 id compa dirty worl He “Not unless you pol id Har il Pigeo vhich tell young ‘ vy to get ahead the world that get 1 lot of advertising that represents just so n h and the condition of certainly a wonder i must lows ir | ’ n or get out Jim bribe mone It's easy for any big, rich corporation to buy ful street commissioner.” did like } ‘ ‘ ered ‘T Jett Fidge a pace in the Repul it at an exorbitant price nd trust “But Matty, he’s a stanch Republicrat As one of the per el { the yout ol ect Ie As 1 have tid leff to see that |! irk 1 get their hare for pots il gang that Uncle E panned o hard to-night, yu don't Jim was a printers’ mit ervices rendered.” . Jefferson would allow him to be offended, do you?” Now you ¢ ‘ | he | t the Pioneer Cire tared truculent icTo the toy {} pectacies , rats! Whata plendid example of the freedom of He earned | ‘ ‘ He ached for the oppor at t \ ing with the temerity to oppose hi argu the pre ! Well, ther you'll} ive to write mething tu to see his real « f 1 things in type, ment about how sad the falling of the autumn leaves makes you to let his light } it eve ne rrimount would Don't tell me,” he grumbled, puffing fiercely at hi feel and let it go at that—unless you’re afraid it will hurt know he wa { ‘ { t} i scrub for Jeff Fidge five-cent select from ar g the druggist’s cigar boxe the county forester’s feeling My goodness, I wish you } Fidge had bee enta landing Peter Gillows “I know ’em.” did have a chance to say what you really thought occa- \ the count trea he ¢ i go over to the But just because Jim wor for the Rep lierat “ it ionally!” l t Nat il B j t lerforar e big stand ir Mr Gurlawa px ya poonful of ndae pre “*Some day,” rhed Jir is he napped the glowing butt idvertisement of the i v1 h as advert ng would cariou ly air, “‘you mustn't assume that he’s ir ym of his cigar into the treet ““some day. All things come ver do that titut icent’s worth of good. But Peter pathy with that sort of thing i rent ideas to him who wait Gillows would see that the First National got a substantial about what a newspaper should be.” “That’s one of the iest remarks ever made, Jim Gurl- deposit of county 1 It will be readily seen, therefore, She hastily removed the spoonful to a place of safety. away. No one ever got anything or anywhere just waiting that T. Jett n had the f ma gon hand wash ‘l had once,” rid | ly (reer, ‘Oh, go h, I hould ay Let’ } the old Pioneer and show Mr. Greer ar i the rest i the other I had! I was simon-pure and lily-white, and I'll say right of tl leepy place what a real ir dependent new paper is But Gurlaway had tion that a newspaper ! I never did a thing in my life that I nee 1 to apologize like.” could stay honest and succeed —ever Trimount. And _ for, either. When I bought the Pioneer twenty-odd years Now, see here, Mrs. Gurl y, one nut is enough in i be had never in his twent ears seer ything that ago the politicians came to me and wanted to know where — this family. I’ve always sort of depended on you to keep convinced him of the necessity for politician In the blicratic Party was just my feet on the ground and 1 mustn't fail me. And you general scheme of creat he ted them in the same is my chance to put my know how sensitive 1 am—yvou must never, never startle category with w hf ind « ache iboard the band wagon. or kid me.” Che Trimount P eer wa take it from the title line ome kind of contottionist. ‘But, Jim, I’m not kidding You could make a real founded in 1S80¢ e wit in the Trimount House bar on prosperous and influential, just newspaper of the Pioneer. You want me to help you keep , 1 jovial occasion adde« And foundered 1906." But the the game. Where do you your feet on the ground—you also want me to help you t d had been when the pe e of Trin t County had Huh? You don’t have to get out of your rut, I hope. I should think, from the way looked to the Pioneer for | t guidance. Ba the e, but you know allright. Elly Greer spoke, he would sell <5 | fifties and sixties it had bee t alone a palladium but a ney. It cost me my ambi- “Marcia, the danger in your utterly absurd, wild-eyed reliable ) e of new val, na il and fore ro t ind my chance in life, but I'll say I haven’t ever been and _ irre sponsible suggestion is that it echoes the very : have it menti ime as that of esteemed fellow sorry—I mean sorry because I didn’t turn crook. Of thought I hadin my own mind. We ought not to encourage citizen and popula theca ‘ i real distinct course I’m sorry I’m a broken-down old fossil with a brain each other in lunacy. Besides I’ve got to write my Grinds. iJ Godfrey's editorials told all gone to seed But say, honey, do you think you could—well, sort of help I gy teri Fidge to start the Republicrat. He out on the writing end—how to make eggless cakes and ple rim t subscribed to did h scruples. Look at him to-day—smug remodel last year’s hat and maybe run a column called ' e, which they regarded with 1 I bet you he don’t know he’s crooked, Woman’s Sphere = W their home paper and Mr Jir sas honest as you or I. He’s morally “Oh, Jim, couldn’t I! And I'll tell you something else ve quite the ime grasp of hi cockeyed—that’s what’s the matter with him. I could do—learn to set type.” ey displayed. The Pioneer was “But you know it was the beginning of the end for the “‘And get your hands all grimy with lead and ink? I'd L met on which they could old Pioneer. It’s taken time—like a man with old-fash- never stand for that.” ioned slow consumption. He outlives many a huskier “Don’t be silly. Soap is still within reach of even the nherited the old paper he ran contemporary—but do you call it living? I don’t. I’m poor. Go on now and write your old Grinds. We mustn’t ally succumbed to the lure of the about through, Jim.” get talking a lot of nonsense Of course you’re perf tly purchased by Elliott Greer, ‘Elly, I think the Pioneer could be brought back to right about our being a pair of lunatics and trying to keep ike if pport him Che older life.” Continued on Page 65

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ihe Billaclkk IR ‘ , r Pe or w pea | t t et j idx lig T r as bril- parks in the It wa rd time he eamed from the bove the lofty 1 ch he t othe r ed een ‘ V \ t ed 1 1] T} A ( e wil THE SATURDAY EVENING POST By HAL G. EVARTS te tars above from the yuld not distinguish be- e leys and the signal ance he could detect w in the bottoms, tribe which the animal ¢ gy eve and the e wit a hint of the t i a t! Ati and gen- es t Pea The he pupil, a curious flat- t t ( It wa thi ellow field that er ould have first 1 W ‘ we ¥ ittered | t a the | ¢ Far ry Va the t of all Vv T ) $ rt ' ‘ ‘ e peal eve t 7 + . 4 ! . « t t i . { A> r i re 1» 1 4 } il Dr that t « id rie tead of | rente n gained | ‘ le of antlike t e tne 1 ( } ear And as 7 men of the Washa wile ive or ¢ ent Washa i ¢ ne the ” et i i l ean st 1 be ered at all time bra f eve t » put a difierent inter] and upo of t hinged ) f tne people y rt of The 7 d River Hil the Sh g Water, the Wash: ted the | It en the fir | of |} til their de weil 4 red the Weste me Dla ram to celebrat e descendants of M t ible to count a th night hieftain. Tuku born amo ther r every thousand CR} ) al ‘ rder t mor ine how their Shosho Tukuarikas had split their belief that other black rams. The Wa i village of those who leved that the int in the far Hima- imong the Sunlight i the big light { It flared br rcled about the edge ton hed the fire op ot the toms lar wat lt itc ettled his fate without spon adversity. In the n f all the tribe of lentical, but as creeds gail p oples o now the ly! oldingtenaciou hy t n the ma had etation on ma minor nese points the fe of tribal animal of all Sho the mo nigniy * ed ‘as sheep-eate! in shone in the valie of on Cl was xnown to then a jighorn sheep had multi imbered a full thousand the animal gods had t that ime Or the first their loc j igre Ram, had that erone black \ aid that the and ram W: tribal peak count many thousand bands, and ) fared for meat. the band to des c} efs were privileged } } d na tab- id secede ind € gola ow how e bighorn so main Kill! i i to the pirit of the chiefta fukuar, who it be Manitou. All tribes had prospered and there was meat plenty. But at last the I days had come. The hone lodge were gone fror the bank of the St Water, the tepet of the Tukuarikas in the Wind } Hills were village of W council and made medicine to the tribal god of the men had harried the bison from the elk were gone from the foothills and the bighorr » white growing fewer in the peaks. But the medicine men of the lution at last. They had kill Sv ALIOTL al a century Wa } ikis had rea id kille ( thar 1 no black rams fo all black 1 end of the } roke ints ] adorned wi roll of the the peaks, ter tedly witht hi ear With the « tous booming, reports of | hills. The h eee the wa f th ded in one } flint and one These sound constantly al tudded meac rim of mighty The i irt t} tom meadow to the crest « in lo g oper his mother fe other lamb herself on the that side wit ola fox at relieved, not one on the r other old « lack of prote t d there } { ft nd cast fre nel } 1 ié The 1 ows he left ira he ! i t} D A hundred inlight Pea t the old ew mot ‘ ! AS1OT y g en one of the caught in rd fron ! p ice of 1 t red } i t A r ther - wit ! +} i ’ I} le Ww e SW of Thve cu ng n-ton rose 4 ar ne he r} ’ . oof a f 1 +? j ere t A tne wi e Was! nada ther and ere did not g t. Her fe low | I ye t t fa it Ope ) t! j +} } \} e the eye t it thr hit ¢ ige le t rt t i ‘ t ‘ i ' i ed of Sunlig lat

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7,1920 UE BACIBUEILOIR By Lowell Otus Reese EX iid the ‘ ( t shed hot place! The barber snicked with his shears. A wisp of p found interest, for mingling with the black was an un- | bed e ch ett ' elf for the hair dropped upon Johnny’s nose and clung there tickling deniable hair. ¢ | barber pinned him. He tried to blow it off. He blew out of one corner ol ‘N-no, said slowly, his answer born of that sudder } ‘ ‘ | mpt ! mouth and failed Hopefully he experimented wit! the discovery. “I’m growin’ old, Pete. I reckon I'll go some- bn } é rta other corner of his mouth, but the infernal wisp stayed where and settle down. Up in the Sierras, maybe; up ere i ‘Pretty hot,” suggested the barber cheerfully. there where there’s water and trees and grass and things } The | ‘ ed hi ‘Darned hot.” I always said I'd go up there after I’d played my string in by Johnny squirmed restlessly, every f ber of his lean hun- the flat country. suy me a ran h, you know, and live [ i J } ‘ He dred and seve pounds in rebellion. The bit of hair had peaceful all the rest of my days. Now I’m gettin’ old, so I ‘ developed a thousand stinging nettles and they were driv guess the time’s come.” \ ( for, of course, the ng the poor fellow crazy. Once more he tried blowing, “Old!” scoffed the barber. ‘‘Why, you ain’t twenty-one { , ‘ i the hot blood though knowing in advance that it would do no good, It yet, I bet you! iy he ere eck then occurred to him to dislodge the torment by wiggling ‘I'm thirty-one.” his nose, but here he met with no success at all. He could Johnny made the announcement in the solemn tone of ( i the barber wisely, wiggle up and down, but not from side to side. Some one announcing a funeral. ‘ people can wiggle their noses from side to side and other ‘But that ain’t old,” insisted the barber How cannot, It is a gift just gettin’ good! Why don’t you buy a ra } ‘ rber’s chair! ‘‘Goin’ to renew your leas¢ and stock up again?” a ked down here in the valley?” You ave ed quite a 1. John ’ thebarber. Hewas not prying; he merely wanted to know. “Oh, I’m tired of it!” Johnny wriggled his neck and ted the irber iH “ in 1 that thirsted after Johnny Christmas had slipped a surreptitious hand from sweated yet more profusely. ‘I’m tired of climbing into format You n't drink ne i you been runnin’ beneath the cloth and removed the wisp from his d a red-hot saddle and chasin’ a lot of fool cows all over a irown! f e yt tracted nose. He viewed it at first indifferently, then with red hot country year in and year out. I’m gettin’ to be an Ll ¢ ‘ “! old bachelor, Pete, keep mel ga ——— and I reckon Ill iii. i. ~ turn the hard, hot imitted Jol ridin’ over to the Inf ‘ - younger boys.” is eve t} [ | ‘Say, I got you belted al ca figured out! rig waist | the | | gled the barber ersat wi | lyly. ‘*‘You’re ed hin lol £ in’ to get mar Christma ried ner i 1 t : Aw, shu ks! live wire ro } | grinned Johnny e meant ct | bashfully “Tf you igt t j can't figure any bet ( rm i ter than that y u'll peppered w never get ric} Wester il He cl hich pe of the chai ! ilway long tremulou gi If a joke appeared of relief He was { hor ! ) glad to get rid of much the bette that chair and the lol ‘ personal conversa f the e wa tion that went with , ind=sthat it. But the barber more tha mo was not throug! peopl with him. Five f “T hear Mollie the cha t Evans is coming gla mi r and home day after to- the row of ba morrow,” he said, rum bottlh | watching his victim hair tor ‘ ed craftily. lol be 1 Johnny turned lief He t s 4 cold, but he pre | k out of the w tended indifference dow, thoug! ‘ as he counted out knew whathew | the money for the ee there —a row of haircut. _— ab une “That so?” he tree 1loor replied. I t| Jol hid ‘*Used to be t care for salo sweet on Mollie, Ile had seer me didn’t you?” insit f his best frie uated histormentor, killed b 1 and grinned, And be the ““Aw, shucks!” hoor ty the said Johnny, but he ttletown,! ow reddened in spite iy the flat of himself, ‘ tr flat “Folks think you ili wate hot and Mollie are en a the he f gaged—so I hear.” North and so ““Aw, you car etched away t hear anything, the hot rim of tt Pete!” } 0) “1 bet you are! east t tretehed I hear that Molli iwa the ‘ thinks so herself.”’ | he west t “*Aw,shucks!” e ( t Range : Johnny escaped He had ridde { ies a SE into the street, grin f fteen yea | SIF ee ; ning. Nevertheless Fiftec years! WW. Ra FYOE ; the barber had iddenly it came to planted a cold scare e young man tl . _ — in the young cow- he was tired of the I Bet That My Rattiin' Old Tongue Has Started a Killin’! What'n Blazes Did I Have to Go an’ Tett Him For? man’s soul. Mollie cou y too. And Evans was coming oh, | his was a back! Johnny was ~~ se a ~ ue

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST T —_ | | . . ne AOE Sa “And I Thought You Was a Man Too," Shot Back the Girt. ‘‘Curious We Both Made the Same Mistake, Wasn't It?"' — a loving fellow and Mollie was very sweet. Did she think Now you will understand that I am speaking of the natural life—and God have me } hey re were ¢ 1? Of course there had been some normal man. Of course here and there you will find a Johnny was of the hero kind. He i free iffectionate cony ition and— yes, maybe a pair of kisses. bachelor to whom a woman is merely another human dom, cost him whatever heart pa i But shucks, that don’t mean anything! integer—and nothing more. This sort of man classes ‘Good-by, Mollie,” he sighed t ‘ I ¢ » get out of here,” decided the harassed fellow. women along with gateposts and fire hydrants and open Roadrunner’s head toward the al Seen e when Mollie Evans is about I ‘t got any cellarways—dangerous certainly, but easily avoided if you whose crest the great round n ing G Ui t How I ever m nage d to tay le all these exercise ordinary discretion and common sense. To such by forever ears sure gets meé e bein’ so damn lovin’ that-a-way!’’ a man bachelorhood comes easy. For him the lure is not Johnny was bid r furewe ‘ He wandered over to the Thatcher & Paulson corral and there —the fierce ten ptation to commit matrimony; a love but toa p t of ‘ Ma it on the fence he matter over. temptation with which the normal bachelor must battle done that, and he y it the f | ‘Lo e | e safe v that I’m an old bachelor,” night and day, year in and year out, and then perhapsend and laughed he ‘ e complained I la ! No, when a pretty girl by slipping up at last and tumbling into it in a moment of inywhere close round me, why, I’m just as mushy and relaxation. u n’ as ever. And if I’m here when Mollie Evans gets That is the pathetic part of it. When a man fights for so Por sn CHRISTMAS was dropy nort Wi lil y ¢ Yes, sir, i propose, sure as hell! many years ar d then loses out in a moment of mental lopes into the Ay t \ ‘ } I feel it I now!” abstraction it makes you sad. You can’t help thinking that through thickets of scrul He rolled a cigarette and pondered for some minutes some way or another Nature has played a mean trick on manzanita and ma A ( I ‘ nger, while the y al e the Sierras turned pale with him. And to make it still more melancholy the ancient wider interva J fte wal e promise of a moon. Suddenly he spun the cigarette warrior always falls terribly hard. A young man fre ilence of the ence re vay and sprang down from the fence, auently marries in a shy tentative sort of way, but when jays and the far-ofl e of ‘No, sir,”” he said as he started walking briskly toward the seasoned old bachelor dives into the sea of matrimony tain smell « etl h thea ible, ‘I ain’t g to take any chances on losin’ my he goes clear to the bottom, “Little horse i Jol ‘ f reedom. When a man’s married he’s locked up for life. sut Johnny Christmas was taking no chances. He had He was « pen 5 ‘ ist like bein’ shut uy that barber chair with no way of imagination and he saw all these things. Moreover, he he began to hea ‘ ‘ f ! gettin’ out unle you die Me, I got some sense. I’m_ realized his own particular weakness, and whenever he ings and the hing of | ‘ ind I’m goin’ t now while the goin’s good.” looked back over his past life and viewed his many narrow _ voice raised ( f bitte uy ! t gets the idea that he is an old escapes from wedded bliss he caught his breath and turned warmed, for these ‘ He mes to him much in the nature of a blow. pale. He wasn’t safe yet. Though he was thirty-one year t tene iddle a K iy | e need Johnny Christmas that old he still looked twenty-one. And he was very suscep- ear At th ey? ‘ { nerable re to be chums with old man _ tible. Further, there was that mysterious something about — the firs on the f ‘ ‘ It wa liculo f course—but pathetic as Johnny Christmas that moved women to want to cuddle along the well and look at the moon. boyish ride Many people sneer at old bachelors, but if they knew And it was a wonderful moon that lighted the flat cow awa i eckle ' ‘ bear re they would sneer le for the bachelor is a hero. If country when Johnny slipped out of the little town. He — skin chay ir | every bachelor had: his just deserts Carnegie medals would — rode his cow horse, Roadrunner, and his entire wealth was a pinto | be as thick as Democrats in Mi sippi, for his bachelor- strapped about his waist. He looked back at the homely “Hey, } elled at Je { ‘ hood has been attained by sacr beyond mere imagina- collection of scrubby houses huddled upon the flat breast and get afte ‘ | tior All along the years he employed constantly a of the valley, and sighed. He could almost feel wistful, before he get ! He Pr quality of defensive strategy t no military expert ever loving hands groping after him, striving to pull him back, The instir f ‘ ef ireamed about. It is a great truth. Any man can get urging him to marry and settle down and chase excited rage got a chance, and the R married, but it takes a genius to stay single. cows over the hot dry alkali plains for the rest of his Continued on Page 38

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KW YW ‘ OR three-fifths of the second immediately following her impact on |} optical center Warren Pond’s ‘ il | PRSE were pure reflexive A stupor of gnitior ipmerged |! the primitive, awed convic- nat an amazing le e is the handiwork of a yl personal Providence His disciplined brain muti- ed briefl He could o tare sut during the remain- gz fragment of the instant he quelled the insubordinate with relentle efficiency, envi ned the situation plete and accurately, planned and executed his im- ‘ re I e to the ere ue The one woma iperficially,”” he informed himself tt tre on the qualifying adverb which was at once ebuke and a wat g. multaneously he heard his € apprising M Rachel Westerley that he wa glad » know her, and with the fringe of his retinal area saw Anita White’s mirthfully spiteful countenance assume an expre of amused contempt, and became aware of the tre yg fr iwra e of caravan tea and buttered scone q hese external circumstances aided his return to entire ntrol. The moment of benumbed astonishment ended. pert ally,”” he repeated inwardly, “Thanks, no, II tone conveyed the gentle wstainer decline a cocktail Hi it Mi We terley’ hands were folded placidly in her lap, and that there wa » cup or crul b in her vir ity. Again e was impe led to remind himself that ] } irface. But Anita ed what had been no more than other. You know I never touch it. 1 } i dealt with the lhere’s an ally for you, Rachel,” she opposes tea on principle ye leaped to Miss Westerley’ of her certain esoteric hawing which ite Warren Pond to hare her ir dulgence toward ‘Pond felt a he diminished the even gravity na little, a eemed to inv ide thi r hhofien coincidence She e disapproved of tl liotic habit of p ng one dinner with tea and cakes. A trivia . to be ire, but He tudied her 1 e deliberatels catal guing, mea ng ilmost a Imper yall i a Bertil expert at police eated, of course, o that her exact stature was an affair of conjecture, but he placed it between xty-nine and sevent me inches with me fidence he would weigh be tween one hundred and forty and one hundred a 1 fifty. He checked the items mentally, with a growing sense of certi- tude which defied | sutious reserva ns on the ground of superficiality. Her face was unquestionably to be classified ive, the cl and brow nearly in he same ve il plane, the lips firm, the e of the nostrils betraying that defin tude which he knew to indicate pur pose, streng of conscious volition, He heeked another iter Karly Ye ua ttle, I had some hopping to do,” he answered his moth- mment mecha i hye exactly the clea gray- en he had d ed ul listinct fine mw and lashe aat vigorous hair bly dressed part ila about the d neck, where no single straggling rand diminished the effect of aggre perficial? Yes, of course, but H ire too— eXa the right thing, from the hem of the severe skirt to the iple cool line of the white ¢ ilar where ‘ hroat reveal itself, columnar, ‘ cle } ¢ to 1 bu ‘ of sup ng her head and nevertheless un el il ly dex rat ve at r voice he was xceedingly careful al t voice held ffortlessly to the lower range, round, eautifully placed r the hills and illeys he found so trying in Anita's eathle speech, All superficialities, it impressively significant in their en- cations, He turned his face response to Anita’s interruption, without moving his t reproof with which a tol- observed dinner this evening. Long habit lifted an ev: Anita never could learn that he didn’t ‘I’m sorry.” never play card “Don't you old Pharisee. "ll be bored to tears Again his of that vicious mental opiate too? Thi erious. , In that case, y’s expression. He had the standing in the breech. It was clear that his assent had THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7,1920 By HUGH MacNAIR KAHLER BY J. £. A LkLtLE SM skLEELeU § saying something about } dropping 1 evening in the sort of futilities she ador had been evading these invitations for year He spoke before | you know.” I!” Anita sighed. ‘‘That’s why I’'n Rachel doesn’t play mind leaped. She shared his fixed de of course!” he told Anita. as right. There was patent relief in Miss ciousness of warming cor pale-saffron evening. As he moved across the room toward the chair Westerley’s left he caught his mother’s eyebrows i: of a startled ascent, and realized that to her this un participation in her hospitalities was in cataclysm. It had always pleased him to hug the assu the nat was beginr T RA TE OD want to ed. He testation His eye col ilted hers, deep eall g to deep the shallows. He read distinctly an appeal. Wester- 1 removed the prospect of what Anita would have called a at Miss 1 the act olicited ure of a that his mother tand everybody failed to diagnose her son. insoluble riddle. iccumbed at las t to the surface charms to under- whose disconcerting ability else was almost uncanny—completely He rather enjoyed being an Of course she would think that he had of a girl, just as he had been prophesying, with a confidence perceptibly diminishing, seventeenth year and his ing that she was ever since he had simultaneot seventh foot. near the ly begun his But even conced mark he knew that his choice upset her settled beliefs. She had insisted always that he would choose a little, cuddly, snuggly, giggling kitten of a girl, arguing a fortiori He was a McAllister beyond que “ae te invariably longitudinal, as inev yn, and McAllister men, tably fell in love } with abbreviated, plumpish women. He knew that Mrs. Pond was at this moment confront ing the unheard-of possibility of his departing from the honored precedent of her race. It added to his satisfaction, as he took his place beside the outlander and drew her, with the easy aff: sation of commor he could use at will, into a conver- place which in no wise betrayed itself for the cross-examination it was intended to be. She came from Pittland. He brightened. Pittland and the name of Westerley were intimately associated. The Westerley Forge Company competed formidably with the The Clock Spoke Several Times Before He Was Able to Arrange His Thoughts With Any Semblance of Precision Amesbury Iron Works. He referred to the fact casuall; Rachel Westerley ed in turn. “Why, I’ve 5 You’re Mr. Amesbury’s sale our men talk about! They call you She stopped, flushing a little under the brighter heard of 4 ou, of course ! manager skin. He clear wholesomeness of her chuckled. ‘K. W., eh? Or Old Kilowatt? I didn’t know I was famous enough for that.” He was really de name was his earned brevet. | for him and for the system he had di covered, developed and applied to Cyr Amesbury’s dry below his glow of gratified pride was a deeper warmth of pleasure in rotting business. But the discov f ery that this girl knew enough of busi it all meant. Her ness to realize what tone left point. He made They were getting past supert cialities, now. This wa vital. ‘Yes, indeed. We know all about you stem. One of your mer him in no possible doubt on the another mental check mark. basic, and your sy cards with him when he suppose, He scowled. “Le wing, I He didn’t make good, did h ‘No. I never let him leave the office, It was easy to see why you di ’ e even. charged him.” Her lips drew at the pronoun “You? | “What?” She was puzzled. Ther “Oh, I see. You don’t know who I am, then. I’m R. Westerley in the office.” Warren Pond sat very still. It sim- ply wasn’t credible. Blind luck like this couldn’t happen to aman! R. Westerley! The brains of the whole Westerley busi ness! The driving power behind its sales derstand force, the organizing genius who had built itiato a compact, unified entity agai which not even the K-W system could make serious headway! And that brain, that indomitable purpose embodied by some miracle of Nature a girl! And such a girl! He Height, weight, contour, carriage, facial type, that energy, a woman checked over the items again: eyes, dress, voice. His breath penetrate d pr foundly. Why, if all the Fates had worked overtime in Warren Pond’s behalf they couldn't have managed better! And he was going to spe nd the eve- g with her, while Anita and her harum- scarum cro pl of cards! Suddenl that here, summed up in this encounter and this moment was the whole har- vest of the K-W system. It was no mir- + } was only the logical, inevitable nir iyed some futile game it dawned upon him acle; i _enanes el

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST itworking of the simple fundamental law he had dis- his high-school opportunities could serve that ambition, to ‘“* Aw “i an vered and applied select his courses with an eye on his college entrance and nd when you went to M Lane’s party didn’t [ hope you'll tell me about your system this evening.’’ to specialize on those which promised the maximum advan- you i He nodded, too for speech. He had ys known _ tage in his plotted future. He perceived that she was about t ention a grace that he was right. 17 merely made it unanimous. He And this led to a secondary discovery. Sometimes he ful incident of a game gaha erchief is obliged to restr in impulse to escort taand her forgot minor desires, when he had deferred them because a sofa cus} and a shameful f guest home when they departed. he wanted something else sooner. To avoid this he began *““Aw—lI don’t have to1 ‘ t because ss “You seemed interested.” writing his wants down as they occurred to him. He found “No. But you see you lik girls, to ist as Uncle He snapped back to the present at the sound of his at once that this process exerted a curious effect on the Adam did. You *t help It’ v of N re,” | mother’s voice, with that incorrigible under-ripple of desires themselves. The thing which had seemed almost The words had ar t formida \ musement whicl A troubled him. His caution necessary when he considered it mentally revealed itself in Warren had begun the stud 3 ind harbored a woke, She mustn’t gue yet. That would mean com-_ script as unworthy, absurd. Merely writing it down deepe g resp f tural st ‘ le retreated plication ° He me ite i r lg ge ad ’ | re I yt {| ae oe ed, to Doet ) e ent ted ‘ ! el the Che r genet he the one ed hapy i f lange! It’s true that pe r we've N: © set to i ! I’ve uway preter te erage A te to now t g ! é he person behind Ifcleve ‘ it outtit married cle He went off to yomen they'd room, pursued ive childre " t n aggravat- 1 levere tl ! eon rnal people If t igh which al mie ed } tS bothered } g out ta H motner Wwive he ict ghed charn would sepa ‘ vv but is to gia ind iriably in the lwarfs in no time \ ng place it all \ ( herewasn’tany- ee ti ul ng funny abo t Warre I i ' ded H n i had leaped for [7 BEGAN bs vard with the fore Warr beautiful speed of ild talk. H teen. Thed ire! ind tor uid ther greater de ue that at ft itte lants be 9 ‘ ime aware of the vere ) Menenmn withthe | ° oa Yak he wa till « line Goliat! .ged with teet on, Jess W g ring a | ira tle Doctor That eve I 1, profe Warre ' ware of the led and | enomenal i ted V luality of ever ent 1 fresh ymat oft yy mnceded 7 aS — ~— I ] W arre nwa “That's the Essence of the System, You Know — Concentrate Everything You Have on One Thing at a Time It Works in Nal ; I ‘ y aione I Business Just as Well as in War” , Ss OE He never cries for exe e,”” he admitted. lealways seemed to analyze its importance. He saw that this helped it ‘ tite ey i iref ant mmethning trie etl Zv. and he cries till he get immensely in di ting ushing between ca ial fancie md lest ( that page Hi ) 1 re ‘ that N I don’t th I’ve ever seen another youngster serious resolutions, and adopted it as an inevitable test, ymebody 1 lite fixed in | eterminations,”’ He kept a dog’ eared blankbook behind a conveniently He did not Ar ) I ne Iter that twa Warren himself couldn’t remember a period when he had loose bit of molding in his room. In it, crudely a blo longer to | ( ‘ but t known exact what he wanted. His desires were arranged by date and nature, he codified his wants. On avoided pa g the White |} ‘ ( \ v ‘ al er ig! He wanted the usual tl ng Ver much one of the blan! page , toward the end of hi ixteenth year, markal k ( t f her be did, but he differentiated rewd between he made an entry which brought the blood into his ears i Warrer i i eit Nappene ef ent venie be deferred spite of the fact that no eye but his would ever see it irry her 1 those which 1 t be satisfied instantl) He knew It was the result of his contemplation of Uncle Ada he failed t erve t he wanted most, and now And he quickly dis- his mother’s brother, and an obvious McAllister in point atisfied |} red the advantage of concentrating | forces on that of longitude a man of one dimension, amazingly long and The net re t ul i I t 1 ile I iT} Crt le al of neck, Who pre ents 1 Warrer wit! al Aunt ey vit I i! ail . s I | it fifteen he wanted general tert round and pink and, in her higghest heels, five feet, no 1 eve e scl football tear ed é i inches. The « fronted Warren's sense of har He | ‘ ible ed |} ! nel i mony) and hi al iwgravated b Aunt M * I ‘ ‘ educed rt he He wanted t Evvie’s addict ite diminutives, voiced g fixed on that position he set methodically about falsetto coo an ied | es of rn g fre \ wess of winning it. Hespent patient hours flipping quency and He eyed the departing } } ‘ ll between } egs at a chalked mark on the stable darkly. one of | harging fiercely the tant the backward motion of “Why didn’t Uncle Adam pi omebody |} ne?" he voDpé M ls began. Hestudied the flick of wrist andforearm meditated aloud. “They look like Mutt and Jeff!” té t If | would send the al missile floating back without Of course his mother laughed instead of rebuking thi to it ition, unt e could hit his target without looking, and irreverent critici I I I ‘ eyes to re the imag pI he warned cryptically You'll change ¢ 4) He wa enty poun hter y that one of these days.”’ I q ( han, t he played the tion t ‘ Warren pressed an inquiry. pite of e were few f ble ed pur beh “Tall men always fall in love with little fluffy w en,’ eligible ! It n attributed |! 1cce to nerve and grit and school she explained under redirect eXxaminatior You’l t, but to Warre just knov rwhat he wanted like all the rest of them.” I He began to look ahead, with an eye to fulf gy remoter Warren laughed wit! magnificent vr f ‘ ’ ea } : g found for them in the present. He “Weren't you carrying Anita White boo for her ye ‘ ‘ ‘ I nated him. 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NO STATEM. PTVUE head of av sale THE SATURDAY EVENING POST > NO CREDIT By J. R. SPRAGUE E February 7,1920 down on a man if he happens to get in bad shape; quite the re- verse. We will go a long way with g’st I yned che f me the B | | ect i he it tl ere i Be ‘ the a f ice 4 on ‘ the have ) The ‘ etar { Jobbe« \ ition ¥ lon the | VI } ] ert have received unsigned che luring the past few f me e Big-Bend ect Kivi the drought nas! mu . ‘ I I YY ‘ Vv T t? t tb to oe} t! Ny | k re | , er to a estio the hol explaine When we bey to rece eu ed cher froy { P we ow that } t i! the retailer ’ t r i if tirne The f part of hat ever ' ha nt e of these che think he | liscovered a brand-new heme But it is an it r to wholesale! we know just | t hay ed There ha bee 1 dr vught which burned up rops, or a flood wi h washed them out, ora trike in the railroad shops; and bu ( im the nall town 1s aw fully dull. A merchant owes u e mone that past due; he credit good, because he constant needs our mrerchandise lie |} n't any money in bank, but hei ure he will take in some cash during the next few day lle ponders over any business man who is trying to play fair and who is open and aboveboard with his creditors. And once you make a man face the facts about his affairs you have made a better business man out of him. It was the case of a man whom I will call Miles Bi sell that brought us to our pres- ent method of handling the credits in our trade territory. ““One day word was sent up to the office that Miles Bissell was in trouble, I did not know any- thing about the gentleman except that he was rather a large mer- chant in a town of twenty thous- and population in our trade territory; he had been in business for thirty years and there had never before been any question a to his solvency. I calle up the various wholesalers in his line and found that Bissell was owing money to practi a total of round thirty thousand dollars. The credit man of the house which had him on the books for the largest amount gave a very good desecriptior of the Way the merchant wa wholesale circles.” regarded in Looking Up Bissell ““(“\LD man Bissell was doing business with the house long before I came here,’ he said. ‘We have always shipped him every- thing he ordered without questior Occasionally he has been a little slow in his payments; at such times we have charged him i on the past-due accour has paid it cheerfully. He ha never kicked on prices or made a the ituatlo Bing »! Ele find wa The nds u i check for a couple ft hu ed dollar care le vy forgetting tosign | name, ae It will take a day for the check to reach us. We will take a day to You Don't See How You are Responsible for Old Man Bisseil's Troubles? Alt Right Then, I Will Teti You'*’ claim for shortage. The salesmen say he has the prettiest stock in the county and keeps it in good t ply to his letter a 1 inform him of his mistake. A third day will be gone before he receives our letter By that time he will have collected a bill or something and really have the two hundred dollar n bank He sends 1 a pe rfectly correct check along with a letter apologizing for his mistake. Another ceri inf career has beer afely pa sed,” It is pretty hard nowada for a merchant to put any- tt y over on the wholesale trade; if busine gets dull he might as well confe right away that he is hard up and needs extra time on his | In pr ictically every city in the country where ar whole iling is done there isa local credit men’sa wiation to look after the jobbers’ interests in the town’s trade territor A Professional Trouble Man yore many people have an tdea that the wholesale husir f the country is done mostly by concerns in the re ‘ e New York, Chicago and St, Loui irprised to know how many whole ale | e smaller towns, particularly places that the great center Dallas, Texas, boasts nearly two hundred wholesale Butte, Montana, nearly fifty; Chattanooga, Tennessee, supports more than a hundred wholesaler he small city who operates in a lim- i trade territory can keep in closer touch with his cus- than the concern doing a country-wide business, uusand miles apart between the shipment of an r and the payment of the bill; but the small city e trade territory is limited to a hundred miles or so d, a live credit men’s organization can keep up with irom day t la here in one of the larger Southern cities a particu- etlicie edit me issociation. This city has about whol ile house ts trade territory extends approx- miles round. In spite of two have seriously affected the farmers and stockmen there have been surprisingly few failures among the small-town business men. Recently the writer visited this city to learn how they have managed it. The manager of the credit bureau is a young lawyer who has deserted the courthouse for the more exciting life of a credit expert. His office is on the top story of a tall building and in the telling of the story that follows he was interrupted a dozen times by phone calls from various wholesalers. Quite as a part of the day’s work he was told to take charge of the stock of a corner grocer who had vindictively quit busine quarrel with his wife; to take the train for a small town and straighten out the differences between two partners who were brothers-in-law and therefore could not get along s and left town on account of a together; to remonstrate with a retail druggist who was not paying his bills promptly, but who had just bought a six-cylinder automobile. He was informed tha: a certain country storekeeper in danger of bankruptcy owned fifteen barrels of whisky, and was told to learn if there was any way that said liquor might be turned into money for the benefit of creditors, ‘The main trouble in lawyer-credit man, “ be er tirely se lling goods on credit,’”’ said the is that so many debtors don’t want to frank with the men they owe money to, In- stead of coming right out and telling their creditors when they get into tight places, they try of ke ep books or go to the bottom of their own affairs for fear tocover things up. Lots nen won't even be frank with themselves. They won't things aren't so prosperous as they want to think they are. I guess the reason we have so few failures in our trade territory is because we make the retailers tell us just how they stand or we won't do business with them.” There was a neatly lettered sign hanging over the credit ; desk; upon it was the legend: NO STATEMENT, NO CREDIT manager’ “That motto of ours,”’ continued the credit manager, pointing to it, “doesn’t mean that our wholesalers lie shape. I have often wished all our customers were like Miles Bissell.’ ‘It seems that everything had been going along as usual until the last few months. Bissell had seldom paid hi accounts in full, but was in the habit of from time to time as he had the money to spare; if ar account ran too much past due he would close it up with ending in checks some notes payable monthly, and had always taken care as they fell due. to doing business with him that way and were entirely The wholesalers were used of these notes easy in their minds over the account. “But recently the checks on account had become less frequent; the merchant did not answer letters asking for money, and finally he had let several of his notes go to protest. Formerly he had often sent in mail orders to our local wholesalers, but none had come in for some time; either he was afraid his credit was worn out or he wa how it was sending his business tg some other market. Any a case to be investigated, and I got on the train to go to tissell’s town to see what might be done. “Arriving there I put up at the hotel and prepared to do a little detective work before calling on the merchant him- self. I found that he stood well in his community; he was a director in the chamber of commerce, a member of the Rotary Club, and frequently: worked or pointed to bring about various civic improvements. Fi nally I called on his banker and frankly stated my errand in the town. “*T hardly know what to say about Miles Bissell,’ re- plied the banker. ‘Apparently he has all the qualifications committees ap of a successful business man, but he has never been abk to get ahead. He works hard enough and he keeps a nice store; everyone likes him, but I doubt if he is any better off than he was fifteen years ago. He has never tried to borrow any money from this bank, though in former year we should have been glad to let him have any reasonable amounts. Right now I would not want to take a chance on him, because he has let several notes go to protest. 1 am afraid he is in a bad fix, but I can’t figure out what the trouble is,’ (Continued on Page 46) ally all of them,.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 11 s BUSINESS NEUROLOGY By Wilbur Fadl oc ee ee lS | then we find auntie thet ob ee solid iM what that cost the firm. But the point is that the Aeme boner—but every time we | one we seer i; claimed they couldn’t get me on the phone.” two others. I lay no claim to be sliced ‘Phone!” Sisson barked. ‘‘Don’t you know better, difficulty has me stopped ut I’m de Bridger, than to trust such things to the telephone? Why theory that may he didn’t you let somebody know?” His brother groaned Bridger stiffened. ‘Suffering snakes, is a the he best 1 i ; | ‘You must be forgetting, Mr. Sissor I sent a memo of ‘Just at the moment. W } it to your stenographer. I was up to my neck with that **Get it off your chest.” government-tent order and « vul "t go tting round ar ‘Qur problem ha neti t i wit tr employment of! could1? Ifyourgirl didn’t tell you * equation in places we have ed i way tl { “She did not.” Bridger shrugged are overlooking. Mechar i lly and —« “Well } 1 dryl i've got a name f one of orga ll | ‘ t / your troubles then, Mr. Pad ethic | i it And t Tene Padrig Nolan laughed ground so of t ls t A “Bridger ore Pete.”’ ime t g every I 1. The | ‘ “Maybe,” Sisson retorted. “But whe ire | g It isn’t Bridger’s stencil ch for weak spots keep your hands off my ] te e. I'n Pete, or the telephone service } T ning t! hag Yu it \ ‘ ‘ | ‘ n ce ll i t manded w na ‘ ! te i nd had conf Oh, don’t be a Pete! Cert att T fay into the n k ite our weakne we w \ , mii ffering | ‘ hi { 1 wonder we hadn't 4 ed it up long | | é t at a remedy ent that we are too ne our] ‘ Wi ‘ Pa g Nol { ew i bu Now if i tr ‘ l mifere es when Bestw l \ it like | | rorou that somet observed But suggest ire ' Good Lord, Nat 1eT h to accept the VW the ¢ ‘ vith his head in a boot co \ ed. I want to | ginar fror t i ing to do mething when you can't ¢ puta ne to e boy pl ced out an Abram Roamer stencil and with his ear to the ground and see what he lear i irt ible?” No one answered t The tles 1 y failed to check him and the goods went to care what we give him to do, or what we call } or } eared tl t 1 cut in gloon St. Loui I fired the boy and Mr. Sisson fired the freight much we pay him. And the less he knows a t ‘“‘Whatever its t ‘ the usual has happened aga cle that let the waybill get by | but that ree cern the better.’ Sam} tells me he iid we’ve lost Cardigan & Reese.”’ lessens the } ind ea ur I W their complaint?” n snapped Padrig Nolan was poking his fountain pen nib into “I'll bite—who’s your candidate?” Three delayed ents in the last month. I knew _ his desk blott ent-mindedly t igh t i “T only thought of him twor ite i scnettae 4 ecial-delivery letter explaining Presently he looked up replied. ‘‘My whole idea came to me t that we couldn’t ge | ‘ | i he goods for ther I | J the led t eacht r é ne. In fact it wa “ea ent special. But the Who ts | the two muss We | t the j me ”? . | hat or Cardig & Ree : ive ber | ving fr y { for t t r nat ire | ] Nol obse ed Padd N So I’ve been t ghed Of ce e I’m going t l f i up ik the ) myse t in’t 17’ ! ma e able to a Ye hie » their ears | r" el ¢ gh to w t { em | i tr ™ What luck did yo i | ! e with those ne ist part eople B er ( y al { ! the ones who didn’t get id a f phoned } he |} 1e! ee P iu Nol ‘ i La t ed e he , the eon our! ‘ $ aur 4 oO 1 behavi ] imed the erro t ! telephone omp [knew I was] , ! That work out nee,’’ Nol { inted It does,” the { | y per Té ‘ ned t € Wor I i an * ‘What do you me Bridger ome t red I VEC Act | ‘ Em ment Offic ) ! ed to telepl! ‘ vy he I « i ha ( ewing , p erator it h orde f a — — er ] I didn’t he from them rues : : “It's All as Vague as a Free-:Verse Poem, But I'tt Sign On if You Say So" ee ee hetter than I d —_—— Page 174

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lr THE age of twent of the seh ( ‘ ding f of ‘ Twelve ’ ‘ t the main ¢ } ) ' t let i eaded se i i | t 14) ’ though to | I t I “Us et i ( | i moment M ( ting ¢ 1 st | t If phet ee Thor ' t rr vy I r “All right, t | e, 1 the ju tar i ; He was re called by agru ul I’ve wanted for ‘ eal to tell i met Mir ell ipped I ire i ‘ i | ow just how 1 feel,” he a ered ci | It | fect true that | ticking here I could cash in for a ! when I'm ty and two million he I'm x{ fi | hoe wh ! for im to se a fectl good option ry millio for et thot \ ! ad if But 1 couldn't understand {i tried to explain You're an awfully e fellow and feel under obliga t t 1. Ldon't want to ) ri in disgust Did 1? I d to see 1 me money I j plat ‘You just now iste mm tna jut Frar K, went ed ip » Dared Not Seo Much as Look Round When Hobbs’ Cry Told Him THE SATURDAY EVENING POST NUMBER 100 those long twelve years were turning me into your sort of man. Well, they didn’t. I’m my own sort still, even if I im, aS you say, a youngster and a fool And I’m glad of Mr. Shell. Five years from now you'll begin being raid of the man with the dustpan and your hair will rise traight up on end at the mere whisper of rubbish —for that’s what you'll be, with all your dollars. You'll not dare stand in a fresh wind for fear of whirling off in a cloud ff dust. So long!” At the closed door the old man shook his lean fist. Then fted the tele phone receiver ar d called his daughter. Katherine,” he said, ‘Enderby has quit. I’ve bought hi ires for you. It exactly wipes out your cash ac- nety thousand dollars. Now you can prove to that you are in earnest about wanting to have a man’s e. Take Enderby’s plac ¥o response sang over the wire for fully half a minute. Then Shell cocked one eye at the ceiling while he listened. Presently he glanced down, scowled, rasped ‘“‘The man’s ILLUSTRATED BY ANTON Shell & Co., oTTOa February 7,1920 By John Fleming Wilson FISCHER junior partner swung out of the big doorway of the busy street without regard to voluble truck drivers and entered a place he had not visited since he had been skipper of the Ellen Dare. Inside he nodded briefly to an astonished bartender, whose “Cap’n Enderby!” was a mingling of respect, wonder and disappointment, and asked for Captain Hobbs. “He got in this morni bartender replied hastily. Back any minute ‘Send for him,” from the Columbia River,”’ the “Gone out for a cigar, sir. Enderby commanded, and his tone instantly roused three drowsy fellows in the shadowy rear of the saloon. They tumbled forth noisily, bent on earning a drink. Fred Hobbs appeared immediately, his sea-weathered face lit with vague hope. Enderby shook hands with him ordered a drink for the three messengers and drew the captain to a table set apart under a huge picture of the old clipper Zenas Snow. ‘‘You have the Reliance now, haven’t you?’ the Steamer Was Taking Her Final Plunge Hobbs nodded. “Listen, Fred,” Enderby continued, and recited with ab- solute exactness the conversation he had just had with Tim- othy Shell. “You pretty near imposed on all of us, Bill,’’ Hobbs said when he had heard. ‘‘What with your quitting the water-front crowd cold and doit g the genteel act year after year and mal ing money hand over fist and being quoted in the papers and driving hard bargains and get ting the name of being the conserva tive partner in lls, I guess I wa the only man in Sar She Francisco who sus pec ted you were the same old Long Odds Bill Enderby that landed on the poop of the Ellen Dare by the mercy of God and ther hopped into a smart office by the strang est bit of luck that ever came a poor seaman’s way. And so you quit!” “Quit?” Enderby repeated sharply. “Whythatwretched word each time? Quit? No, certainly not! I’monlythirty- six. I’ve money in the bank. I’mready to begin.” Hobbs sucked on his cigar medita- tively. He seemed rather embarrassed. His eyes did not meet his compan- ion’s. Presently he cleared his throat. **You know what people’ll say, Bill.” Enderby glanced up quickly from the figures he was setting down on the back of an old envelope. “No! What the dickens should peo- ple say? Nobody’s business, is it?’”’

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THE SATURDAY EVENING The Sky Was Overcast With a Low Scud of Clouds, the Wind Shrieked in the Rigging, and From Some Remote Region Boomed the Siow Thunder of a Rising Tempest I’m sick of money that ‘That's just what | on a thousand-to-one shot in the past twelve ye: dred good bets worth to a million cold ca » figured not less than a hun- anywhere from a hundred thousand 1 each used to sit up in my room nights by myself and figure ’em out. Never dared say a word to anybody about in Shells, you know. business man. Now not to a soul. I was junior was the conservative, hard-as-nai Look he re!’’ Hobbs promptly became interested. His expression wa that of a man who thinks time by no } listening to t “One out of eve ry beautiful,”” Enderby said money on that calculatior picke r of pretty women makes marrying a really “Ye-e-s,”” the capta au you'll get by saying W ] dred sailing vessels that cisco to the China coast never arrives e voice of a favorit ve figured that of every hur » of fortune 1undred women is genuinely pent a good while and son d I had the help of the best America and Europe That ood looker alor g shot, doe n’tit confessed, losing interest. ‘* But so is trouble “Then the underwriter the voyage from San Frar Hobb bex ame it terested agall “Oh, you're going to bet “Not so you could write Any fool can sit round the exchange and spend his money i 4 1 m merely leading up to a gi a long time. I got the ti ars ago. First place, I want reinsurance, are you down,” Enderby returned I ble I've |} that eleven hundredth girl for my wife—the raving, rav- A l h ng be **Second place . I hope toland a couple of hundred thou- sand dollars which will alway have my name on ’em. [’1n going to turn up that hundredth ship—the one that never arrived. You just multiply those odds together, old man, and you'll have what I call a real honest gamble worth a man’s time. ‘It’s a gamble al bet any amount that And if the underwriter ship bound for the Captain Hobbs agreed. “T’ 1100 won't have 3 rung the bell on any coast and paid their good money it’s a dead sure thing you’re not going to turn that ship up again.” The speaker glared at the partner in the great scheme. t} simple thoug proposing uch an idioti ht of a junior “You lose,” Enderby remarked. “I have the ship in my pocket “*Posted as missing? three hundred thousand,” “Where is she?’ ‘I don’t know. I said “Oh, you don’t know! } “Only in a general way six years ago. Insurance was a gamble Hobbs’ tone was uc id Hobbs demanded incredulously paid Forgotten. Worth Ende rby re plic d Srains will figure it it ——E t down to busine Hobbs confided profe where from twenty Continued on Page

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THEA \ Ma ‘ t f eak, r a i f the r it i¢ a ste 1 [he ‘ ! pr ! id sta ( ed. Ifthe i ton et v ‘ r f } ! inta that 1 their i | e, I think, ar exhaustible source earl ifficve re er it Mahome 1 vi ior being a tremendot yorid ot é 1 lt thatn t tud isly and re would flock to Ararat if the flocking could but be made just a littie le prepo ter ously difficult, What Fuji-yama i to Jupan, that Mt Ararat might be ome to an Armenia draw! y the deve opment of comn int cations within ea reach of the reat of the world. And is it pas ible | wonder, t estimate tl men ‘ f J pa "S17 er vealt that should be cred- ted to Fuji power to attract the money penders? Nobod ever compare Ararat with any mountain except Fuj ima, and before I saw Ararat I rather re ented such comparisons as belittling Fuji's just claim to a unique distinctior Fuji is incomparable; the most beautiful mountain in the world, But so is Ararat. And that is the difficult It occurs to me that Ararat is su- perior to Fuji mucl the same degree that Fuji is superior to Mayén. These are the three most symmetrical moun- tains in the world, [ believe, and each of them rises in plendid isolation straight up from humanity's eye level »> the cloud The Glories of Ararat ptt i Philippine mountain on the Island of Luzén, and it i ipposed to be the most perfect cone on earth. It i quite pertect as a matter ol fact absolutely perfect; and being clothed in colorful tropic verdure and capped with opalescent lights in lieu of snow it is a wonderful thing to see. From many angles of vision Fuji, too, is per- f Fuji lies not so much in pe rfec- ect. But the attractior tion of form a 1 charm of surroundings ind a curious atmospheric something that is almost mesmeric in its effect on me's un-Japanese cor ousness. Fuji breathes the call of the East Fuji i mirrored in strange! till waters and i# hot across from ma viewpoints with gaunt shadows of age-old and Easterly tortured tres Fuji is based in vast waves of alluring Oriental perfume al dalwood and spice Fuji echoes the great tor g of Buddhi tar {Shinto temple bell ind the tinkle and tang of Eastern music. Fuji picked up and set down among the American Sierras would prove herself at to be an una milable alien But Ararat Ararat could lift her glo rest a ‘ any overeign of the les to which we } t with pride perfect! att ‘ i traveling “ I m Alexar Va out of e north and the ntrv tl is dominated by I'he we cal { the alley of Araxes If I had been earried by yne and di 1 blindfolded into illey without a hint to help m« elf my fr tr vught or being THE SATURDAY EVENING POST UNDER NOARS RAINBO i By Eleanor Franklin &gam From Erivan to Tiflis permitte d to look about me sure ly would have been: This can be no other where than Asia. In the tremendous sweep of the land within one’s vision, in all its character- istics, in the expansive and magnificent generosity of its outlines there was the unmistakable suggestion of Asia’s immensity. It was a surprise to find poor little Armenia so wonderful. Mt. Ararat rises from the very floor of the valley of the Araxes to a height of nearly seventeen thou sand five hundred feet. The height of Fuji-yama is twelve thousand three hundred and sixty-five feet—the number of months and days in the year making this an easy thing to remember. Little Ararat, itself a mightier peak than Fuji, seems to nestle close in against Great Ararat’s heart, though in reality between summit and summit of their sublime and grandly isolated majesties lies a chasm more than sixty miles across. The realm over which they reign I think of as a measure- less shallow cup; its edges—so far away that no word in one’s language has sufficient reach to touch them-—are roughly jeweled with points of sapphire and amber. Sap phire and amber; and with pink-lit black pearls for shad ows; and changes under the sun’s slow-moving rays to lapis lazuliand lavender. It was a gusty storm-punctuated Orphans at Igdir February 7,1920 afternoon in the greenest days of summer, and there were colors—mar- velous colors! There was a pale- gray cloud above Ararat; a cloud that suggested breathless silence and great snowflakes sifting down. Away off on the opposite side of the cup an almost tropie rainstorm, with yellow sunlight shining through and under and over it, was slanting crys tally down across the Alaghez, the Alaghez being vigorously outlined against pon- derously heavy hills lying over against the south. A swift wind was spreading long streaks of mist against the green of the eastern slopes, while the cup’s gleaming brim lifted itself high up agair the farthest far away. A vast world; the broadest land scape l ever saw, and with the River Arax es like a brow: skirl of ribbon wind ing across it. “There were giants in the earth in those days.’’ Con panioned as I was by Ararat my mind reached out in a vain effort to vision the Deluge, and this sentence recurred to me insistently. “‘There were giants in the earth in those d Ly ** God made it a land to be peopled by giants ar d that eventually it should have “repented the Lord that he had made man” seemed to me a curious commentary A boundless in mere scenic construction, then a cast for t rrodigalit 1e Divine on Divinity’s original judgment I Comedy that would not do! Souvenirs Worth Having ‘TT REPENTED the Lord that he had made man,” so he sent the Deluge and in time brought Noah in his ark with his kith and kin and “of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort’’—to rest on Ararat while the waters and his colossal wrath subsided. The ark, they rested between Big and Little Ararat, somewhere ir eternally snow-filled chasm that is sixty miles acros not just somewhere. They point out the very spot tell you, quite as though they believed it to be true, that certain great personages still possess small pieces of the ark that have come down to them throug! the generations. Some souvenirs! Woul you not say so? I thought a few authe: ticated bits of the ark might be regarded as‘assets by a people whose account with the world is largely on the debit side of the ledger. I told them that. I told them I could trade a genuine piece of the ark for at least a cargo of flour and maybe make money on the deal. One way and another we indulged in a good deal of light and mostly pointles talk. Then one day a rainbow came and I for one was silenced and made revert ent; quest resentfully reverent. It was ioningly, prayerfully, shud another day, the third I had spent in observing from my own Ararat of eco nomic security the struggle of horrible hordes in a deluge of woe. The elements again were reveling in a symphony There were no clouds hovering in sifting silence over Ararat, but a sunlit rair storm was sparkling across the valley and the far-away points of sapphire and am- ber gleamed above wind-driven mist The rain blew off; it lifted the mists and banked itself in a dense blue cloud -_ ——— ay ee er

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slopes. Then Ic Waves fantas ing throug} painted the rainbow. It was the broadest and completest ‘ rainbow I had ever seen. From where I } ol flame, saw it it framed majestic Ararat, and I thought to myself: ‘“‘God said unto Noah, This is the toker f the e venant, which I have established between me and tle I tu! at ] ij YY tne ¢ urth.”’ No, I did not think quite that. I cannot claim t have remembered the verse so accu- itel But I did re ember the token f the covenant” and the promise that oothed the minds of the generations f me l looked down at a too closely croaching mob of starving, whimpering people L lifted my eyes again to the erfect rainbow and wondse red y our ( or i oO guar: us woe, a deep gorge for elf which looks from off like a ‘ f low mountains, and ya t the steep wa of tl gorge and t over the hilltops is built the ancient ty of Erivan, the « ipital for the time being of the Armenian Republic My ch, a ty} piece of wreckage left by the storm of w ir and Be ne m which | is Swept over the countries f the Cau 1 attached to the train of the com- mar chief of British forces of occupation, who was making a trip of inspection throughout the areas in- ved in the cna and the quarrels that the Allied peace were endeay g to resolve into something r mi g order and agreement. Wherever he went the general was received with an amount of ceremony be- tting |} rank and pe n, and because I and my little party were enjé g for a time the privilege of bringing up e rear of |} official tra we were enabled to see a side \ The « Kpected to brir g out their hats, frock coats and little armies on our account. Starved Eaters of Grass A! KARS, wl id t recently been freed from the “ Tur and throug SS nh the uncontrolied and empty inded hordes of refugees were wallowing back toward the is from which the wen driven, there was nothing » be een but ru tarvation and abject m ery. At Alexandropol the picture I got was of a too numerous, a { i te pe tion plodding through deep mud inde i ¢ dow ts « on the ground, seeking \ I thought of hu dogs and of how intent ' Typical Costume of a Refugee at Erivan Refugees at Railway Station he thrusts his thing. Ghastly ] see, and awful hands pawed at me. There whine of phy sit al di stres sniffing a hopeles ness that w: THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘lifted up for me to tant m phasized by the fact that there was just one day’s meager ration of bread on hand. There was of flour had been expected, but there was a delay. It would arrive within twenty-four hours, but they were no people we re aying ver f tion and epidemic disease, , There was a lot of typhus. They talked about the toll as we might talk about the score it no flour. something had | they tho very last dy ng of weakne a game A trainload j mie t} trie ath me kind. It was expected that for that day it would be about thi from the Americ re the relief committee, who volunteered to there was to see, He was working si gle-] time. in a situation that would Nave army. Two workers who States—I traveled with come down fron ent th where conditior than at and where thers ill. They them some medicines and hospital equipment send no flour because he had none. I thought of the old Armeniar gover empty office at Kars and of his wail to mie generosity Knows no bounds, | ifraid too late —too late! Our peo; fina all the centuries of truggile, to be wiped 6 There was one thing American philanthi at Alexandropol. It was feeding a good The Americans were doing that everywhere fact holding out flour for the purpose a sarily deaf at times to the entreaties of the tion in order that as many children as po saved. And at that, even the fed childre most part such pitiful little specimens of hun seemed almost better to lk no milk; they were getting no f of an child cannot thrive on bread alone. The ittached to their lilies and not yet al rphans—the Americans had to shield thei the word ‘‘orphar rder to handle t wamped id just arrived trom the 1 Constantinople to Ka Alexandropol ted Refugees Living in the Ruins of an Old Persian Mosque at Erivan MHERE wr Continued on Page 148 ies + hie ilu s human runts, dwarfed \ fan he had not wr permitted to grow iwny little runts! There was to of that. It turned on vith } y ent ! is Lhoug! were en t itura the world to do " en t I'he wome nea 1 iprons or tied up in loops of their ragg rts, while one saw grasses sticki ft most me yp et There wa a t 1 ! an real om ‘ I re aw ( * than the bye l render t e inevital hat I wa ! velled so frequently to witne But all tl W t Alexandrop Ihe came the ride LOW the tral level stretch of th i | the le of the Araxes: t 7 pani hip of Ara ! ‘ reaches of a sufficient t} ; ‘ but ay ! f e ¢ ’ ymphor | i j thought le as ‘ praye to the unfindable ! Then | t gat Er 1 ! new it t Ww thoug! t came iis oft ‘ . ne road ralwa etwee fw ghtiy mud } | ‘ tat \ t i I It looked t ‘ \ pwarad pet \ ther i but i é " " flat The Official Reception grouy ‘ plodd ) voked a d ‘ t hand tempt had bee le he better Arme r tv I rt A l here iS a re pt here | t and top ha lent ind with a i te leseript color obtainable « but with bright i j ! t ! land row 1 i, wl ! ! ih e] iwa ! e edge ] i t r iri¢ pre i} | } . ‘> i - t

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i THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7,1920 THE POSSIBILIST + aay ng ron vest ‘ the ¢ t I er ’ ith t I porct! M4 t gy, disma A | ine left mie mmer nce i the web of railroa ! eal Ct yo | Lit, to aln tL eve ‘ er of the flat } n line, r t the } } { eel w h } yy the Western we y stiffs and the if n east and west 1 t ind it] to the greatest labor center of the world Bel 1 it toward the east, marked , huge lettered ‘ t ii ealled out fla ng ght at night t high | of the 1 ] ‘ ! vit th ! me fa great | ‘ or e great con mercial fami tand e hostile ts against the Llere below ther { ird the west out Ma treet, go fling or | yr |} the homele mer the me in wr led tr st and ed ran vyho mutte to then elve | lo d “ bu the e | ird ind, more mero ind important, tl ne with ir hee ! nad ! eT ind rete ‘ the mberja ithe w g stiffs when bre in tne cont { casual | end t ter , to Cl hey go to and fro t ‘ e! w- ding city tha » th cal LIST the thing they hate ther t | the world — pe ed Ihe ynant rive araw the U one e the he led giant the ¢ ad le ripe ol i powe ( tne ther, the homeless me e powerless pygmies of coarse, casual | il labor, tamed Ir ! Ke r detiant Spinner going west « Mad eet] ed among the fonel ngie pedest! the grou] i it the bor age! ‘ the shuffler > the sax the gatherings at the ¢ rances of the p house vent st westward into the terminable dingy darkness of the street toward the national headquarters of the 1. W. W. He was not observing ill thi he was thinking; thinking! j indercurrent of thought f revolution tr yeneral putin parti ilar partly, it is true, onnection with ! re | ng ot awomatr ( hicage i eit ’ yomat natura first of ll to the homele ma the migratory laborer, from the terms of his exéstence lraveling in bands of males great portions of the vear these nomads of modern civilization ffer easentially from the nomads of an earlier economic me, gn this part ir at least I take no women or hildren withthem in their forced marches. Women, whether the individual man has been married to one not ire creature i rendezv« or ca LL er 1 f e tothem a is the ire fact, for that matter, toa great hare of the f eg | il i that me ere tor our 1 tori lea y it \ Ku pe \ good hare of a ese me ire | the present rangement oi t it ‘ bar ela i w! h moder t 1 t t ( t Their met bound te \ Al 1 the ma dging house anc eap sa And ‘ { the fe of the Wester . TI, of course ed the labor cam} 1 { r i w he i rad the and 1 t! ( ) int Ny The the city environment in w woma yould be as much 1 place and about a ile a i ngle Central Afric (Chicago, theretore to the W M4 till returning from tt gie q te at i ‘ yoma women at least ILLUSTRATED BY CLARK FAY Be ed Ee ; - _ ire | gtt e and walking the city streets; and the city quit naturally, too, calls ‘‘ Womar aloud to him as he enter To Spinner, going forward, our ultra-commercial « 1 itor meeting ol yus demands, shrieked “‘ Womar from his first entrance Figures of womer draped, undraped, half draped on billboards at the entrance of the brightly ghted theater on p ers in tne oon window nad tree f yvuneed the allurements of the Lid Lifter the Jc Rider Girls a la Carte, de ending into, ascending from, a wine gla All about him rose the same appeal—the reiterated cry of that one con- tinual chant, all pitched in one untiorm key with the e exception of the dingy n 1 W re stood out the coarsely lettered sig “When d write mother last?’ Even this, of course, was but another specialized i eal to the emotional demands of the homele mer who have no natural place for women in their economic » Spinner th \ 1 commonplace in Lime told tale He looked by them all passed oO ip tne terminable dingine of the treet, held by his own thoughts, toward the headquarters of the Wobblies, hoping there to get his information of the pre ent whereabouts of the particular woman he sought he national headquarters of the chief institutior of casual labor lies quite naturally in the heart of the national center of its membership close at the end of the railroad from anv corner of the country: a commonplace office in a dingy old busine bloel the fashion of the ’80’s. There was apparently no life there; only one person, an under ow, seated in an attitude of boredom with ying in his lip before a closed roll top that had been Haywood’ I pstairs, ting u n and the dance hall had beer e he would have eet had news of Sonia, as she called herself nee. specially at this time of ve in November, when the bands of lumberiacks or ore-mine workers from Mesaba dows be in the city for a period of a week or two the dance hall would have been jangling full of life. The nickel-in the-slot orchestrion would have been wildly banging; the young and lusty lumberjacks would have been dancing roughly with the Chicago “ Daughters of the Revolution” —girls of foreign } parentage mostly, some with no occupation, but mar workers themselves, at times at least, in factories, in gar- ment lofts. The room would have been full of smoke and laughter: the black cat and the wooden shoes symbols of sabotage—painted on the windows, and the portraits of ibor martyrs on the wall would have risen above a scene ’ lighted hay piness, Now the entire plac e was closed and blac He might have known, as he told himself, that he would not find her there. Things had necessarily changed since he had been in town: the Federal Government was after this out under a barrage the I. W. W. now singling + of new paper fire from the other revolutionist bodie of the country. Haywood was in jail, and many of the By George Kibbe Turner ‘They've Got All the Coin There is, and They’tt Cough it, Too, if You Feed Them the Right Dope on Revolution and What a Brave Crowd They Are" others: naturally the organization was singing low. He turned back to the Wobblies’ reading room, which he had passed as he walked on from the east; and stopped mo ] humor of t} mentarily before the coarsely drawn, gri cartoor Prden lice r of the prolet iriat in the window, He walked then into the room—a long, narrow window- le pace, after the xe and fashion of a small retail I tore on alalt ‘ market street. Be ithe screen of papers 1 the ba i the now W low a k man sat | to an oper l-top de his hat from his hard face the et eye ind sea ed face of a Western ranch hand the ba of the r hree o four fellow workers lolled in plain, round-backed wooder chairs, smoking or spelling out a radical paper. The man at the de [ room —emitted a few curses ¢ i laconic Western style when he saw Spinner entering ‘You've still got your nerve with you I se Spinner gave him his impassive glance. yu still think you can play with us?” 1 ed the keeper of the libra and spat ironica on its fl I never thought anything els¢ stated Spinner lif- down again at his reading. **Not much “Wi ing out?” answered the librarian, and spat again with hostile emphasis. ‘‘ You dirty ‘“*Perhaps some of you wi left of the joint,” commented Spinner. would there be—with all the rats like you climb- something to do wit £g ted Spinner, his pale opponent’s evident ill will. He had engaged in too many Wobbly arguments to be touched by a few foul oT} . you insi epithets. you manage it!”’ he said. “It might be possible > way didn’t show any startling : the neck wher you let the Government re proof out of headq larters ‘It was Haywood, greasy chair warmer, the librarian promptly; and cursed the head officia organization with the utter freedom of self-expressior which the true Wobbly reserves to himself upon all matters and personalities, high and low, including all his owr officials. ‘‘A fine secretary —a tu over on his dome on the side of a hill he'd slide to the bot- tom on grease.” He went on cursing the careless conduct of the chief officer of the organization—the head martyr of the Federa Government prosecution, with the usual temper of the y i — EES SO a te —— = sy ewe ee ees a

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W es when t eir OW among them- raucous voice was speaking—his coat laid aside—in | skilled this type of elve For the e of labor f casual labor in particu- vest and shirt sleeves. of the more dissatisfied of the w neither a plaintive wail nor a measured forensic Here was another transition in Sp e eleme » ! effort uy wage slavery when it calls aloud to its own He had come out of the street of the i é Why SI ild it be? It the voice of the natural few womer pass MN to} ) Y i i ¢ ft of ¢ ets grow! i peared ( if il wiser } e! I diff t experie from were women- W ul I 0d em garment er is the rarian had threshold tne \ i?) * ere ft her , t! re ( he did not fail to se here ne we ne wa Hayw if | mented S é he other t deader than a Spinner remembering the man’s wor miled tinuing dow town e. | i ? he saw her. He could scarcely miss her execu I ‘ une pit gal for punct i n. eated with a her a er girl the left le and me hye } es of \ 4 : f ‘ the on 'T p Street iging a r of the hall, behind a table pile th red par the present time. A ( f | sha 1 | x off a martyr fest g up the coarse istrated pape ewore,asshehad leaders which | ‘ grave r hu 1 PF ‘ e sweet-breathed lv garment f ome time now en at this we the redsmockshe had wholesale appea ‘ rke f the enst K g thems¢ to worn when he had left her-—-which, when the Chicago In the past year there be ‘ etbooks t expr for old friend and newspapers had been giving more space than usual to the this propaganda -t proce ) i if w worker, the f stiff here, and all the little fellow red propaganda, e had adopted, to find herself for an observer, of the ca t of la t ‘ ff ] by rey ers see ‘ hierarch of ra alist \ h se ‘ i hie t fl f l ese ne is the Woma Red and the thr igh its } meet rt and ne ‘ ting wv t ring of | ‘ ‘ } oved toward the right— glad he The speaker of e eve f I icie é t » hey have to go out inkx is lor the overdemonstrative adroit and fine ed! ‘ " ‘ the hu 1 the ers. There’s the ift il the public speaking at least wa rising from a fe rt f A he eg the war 1 < t dense he ea place 1 himself out of his audis t 1a \ ] ‘ I e got a hog tie on the eartl otice The meeting he on recog- outside propag list | ght eg € t lg too or on type during and alter he oughly futile and amat rist 1e¢ é ti ope re il W ta the pre li g genius of the reading It was no int ) t e « \ the L ne t t p € garlic oul I ina it; acruc X10on party, as he had sometimes ne ent ich a e rea ‘ They’re good f ew ed alwi eve g heard designated. Martyrdom was now the common account t was not argume ] ently. meeting ground for the minds of all degrees of hardness appeal to minds alrea , You'll find the ill over there,”’ continued his inforn and softness for whom the world was out of joint; of all that shows in the language i f ¢ me ] nrow gy tne u ial bl If f inion and action, The pacit t, the if men; the accepta e of the J e ol ) that R l Y entiou object ‘ il l, y rooked I

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18 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7,1920 OUR RAILROADS TO-MORROW “pul obset mall ec Railroad it mmpartr more pa iul of lroad By EDWARD HUNGERFORD n } and more of ore , of i get up I lid g to build good not able t * contrac- O00 Ww ) rt} run 19019 i of l Bird's:Eye View of the Pennsylvania Station, New York City 127 have only built about $137,000,000 worth. It sort of looks is if something t? The quite a large point of increased national production being enti pendent upon hey r wasn’t functioning quite right, doesn’t i railroad executives themselves are to-day advertising campaign to estab] ilroad f ue the argument by sayin, trol of « under the beneticence of maintained and iner ler privately conti r who eventually gets cor yur railre the employee ! } ome orm of continuance Administration or old order of things or an entir overnment under Railroad der the how the owners un no matter temperamental Congr nue to be be greatly trengthened a d enlarged, both fair and logical. In the past decade this country ha trial and by bound De them and despite their own efforts its ra tem will I thi our nations road hot ahead indu lemands upor lroads have failed The P uction than any year sing SO. ly by leap pite tine utterly to keep pace with this advance. past year saw le railroad constr only a little more than put into operation. And that was the lo ye 1849 and 1914 and so stood i ontrast with 1910, when nearly 6000 mile 1100 mile ar between tremendous ¢ of new line were placed in operation, or 1911, when the figure was about that time the decline has been both steady a glance at the chart, from 1849 to 1915, will quickly indicate—until the low-water mark of 1919 was reached and the construction becan nil. In fact I have no doubt whatsoever that when the final mileage figures of the year are made public by the Interstate Commerce Commi the railroad increases will be red ink—in the minus column. A good deal of mileage, including prac- tically he entire trackage of the once fairly Colorado Midland Railway, ha up. Ten small railroads in Ohio have disappeared during the past year. And despite the expenditure by the United States Railroad Administration of some $500,000,000 dur- of its existence for vitally necessary track- that the wo. Since and abrupt written in important been abandoned and torn ing the two years age ar d other permanent betterments, I think final account still will be preceded by the minus sign. Five hundred million dollars in two years hardly compares with the average of $572,000,000 a year in the decade which immediately preceded the federalization of our railroads. And what is $500,000,000 in two years compared with the $1,000,000,000 a year that the shrewd James J. Hill more than a decade ago proclaimed as necessary for the ordinary growth and expansion of the railroads of the United Stats Or with the $2,000,000,000 a year that someofthepresent-day railroad economists proclaim necessary for the development of our carriers all the way across the land? Is $2,000,000,000 the nec- essary figure? Or would Mr. Hill’s esti- mate of half that sum till hold good? These are questions that have been turning in my own mind ever since we passed out of the armistice period and the duration of the direct government con- trol of our railroads apparently became a matter of extremely limited time. They must have been turn ing in the minds of other folk aswell. And with them comes the desire of a promise of bettered operation. We have by attained a pe rfection no meal oranythir fectior er ce as jy g neara per inourrailroad t. There is large room for im provement; ar d serv- ice improvement 1 to be Ame patron who demanded ican rail- Long by the road matter the roads in time. tions that I set either in person or by lette - ope rate future It was in order to ar r th se que out 1 round of interviewing, repre every corner of the country ] quickly upor f railroad executives, it } found that even among these there is a good deal of diversity of exceptior future of some of the most entative opinio! ; to whom we shal! hing lack of railroad } ith a few consp » aS ogram for our should they return to private } most } al demand that a goo ] 1 ana aZ iro! crit tip and operation as answer to an unmistakable To be entirely fair I still shel experiences they To cataclysm now seems natior a course, f the ir f r 1 executives are upsetting ndergone during the past twenty-four months. n little less th: their traditions of railroading, their roads to them seeming littl olid than the Bank of England or the United States Treasury. ome of them these have bee TI ey were dee p roote d } e less Never the Same Again yVVEN after the earthquake some of these railroad presi 4 dents A few of them fondly imagine that their railroad to them —ir iys before the war. dreams. still live in their day r back coming j i re inin the ¢ the same form that they we I pretend to no gift of prophecy these days—any wise indeed—but I think I am safe matter what may come to pass in legislation in the tain halls of Congress--whether the plausible Mr or the scholarly Senator C ; or the energetic Mr Esch or the shrewd Mr. Lenroot has his way —the railroads ything like their former selves. I man who does is in saying that no uncer- lumb Immin will not come back to anyt may easily go further and add that ception of a ve ry few railroad executives with the possible ex no one wants them to come back as they were. The majority of folk are not so much concerned, whether rightly or wrongly, with the method of their return as with another thing —their ability to function properly once they Whicl end adequate and fair wages and returns for both employees as well as adequate rates to make ly must mean in addition a For how else are returned. may mean in the beginning or in the and security holders, these possible, but which sure great enlargement of the railroad structure. can our enlarged transportation demands be met? For a moment consider these demands in a little detail: look at the vast and steadily increasing burden upon our transport structure. In 1900 our railroads handled 1863 tons of freight one mile for every person in the country; by 1910 this figure had increased to 2773 tons and by 1918 to 3871 tons. Brought dowr to days this freight service of

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] } } our Americanrailroads isequivalent to haulinga2100-pound wagonload of freight ten miles eac h day of the year forevery man, woman and child in the country. No other country in the world demands or receives such service of its railroads Incidentally we are some little travelers as well; and statistics show that the habit is growing. In 1900 the per capita travel per year of the American was 211 miles—at that time a seemingly astonishing total; but to-day we are all traveling at the rate of 411 miles. This is not far below the freight increase of more than a hundred per cent in the past nineteer years, and forty in the past nine The keen practical mind of Mr. Howard Elliott, of the Northern Pacific, sees the population of the United States at 125,000,000 in another decade, and with our new merchant marine bringing us into the fullness of world trade our per pita use of freight transportation brought to well over 4000 ton miles a year Now let us turn again from prophecy to fact from what our railroads might be to what they are-—-or are not: In the ten years between 1905 and 1915 the average increase per year in the number of freight cars in American railroad service —an increase based rather tightly on the insistent demands of the traffice—was 3.6 per cent; the average ‘ | increase in ton miles, 6.1 per ceat. In 1916 came t bulge in traffic due to the sudden and rapid deve lopme nt of our war industries; this overload has con- tinued almost without a lapse right up to the present day. Yet the developr ent of car facilities which occurred be- annua the grea tween 1905 and 1915--though at the time seemingly not very large, particularly when compared with ton miles was, when one comes to compare it with the car increases 1915, relatively large. For the years 1915 to 1919 how an annual increase in freight cars of but 1.5 per cent as compared with the 3.6 per cent which we saw as an average of the preceding ten years. On the other hand, the ise in freight business between 1915 and 1919 has averaged fourteen per cent a year as compared with but ix per cent annually in the past ten years. If the number of freight cars upon our railroads saying nothing of in- | capacity of the average car had increased in the past four years in proportion to the increase in traffic the actual gain in the number of cars upon the rails in this country ce 1915 would be somewhat over 700,000 cars. As a matter of fact the actual increase has been 120,000 cars leaving an apparent shortage of about 580,000 cars. Ain Era of Car Shortage ——— two ways to view thisthing. The first one is to say offhand that it is necessary to build immediatelysome 580,000 or 600,000 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST of testimonials to the effect that our railroad service ha deteriorated greatly during the past twenty-four mont! Space does not permit and I am going to get to the thing in a different way Here is still another diagram chart — prepared by a cet tain big railroad executive some three or four years ago. At that time he was anxious to look ahead a decade, with the definite purpose of seeing what 1925 would necessi tate in cars, in loc ymotives, in rails, in terminals and other traffic facilities. He used for his basic figure the great standard of American railroading —the freight tor mile (the ton of freight of every sort that is carried a mile). He went back to 1900 when this traffic— steadily growing year upon year and decade upon decade— had already reached a national total of more than 140, 000,000,000 ton miles. Upon his diagram sheet he plotted the increase year by year up to 1916. The increase was an erratic line. It showed decided drops--such as that which followed the great panic year of 1907—and impul- sive jumps. In fact as he was making the chart one of those erratic jumps was in progress. But a cool-headed statistician easily found the straight line of average upon the chart; an easy gradation for sixteen years which repre- sented an annual increase for each of them of about seven and a half per cent. It was a simple enough matter extending that straight line of average—-based upon a continuous performance of sixteen years —through another nine. When it was through the result was easily obtainable. In 1925 our railroads would be hauling 410,000,000,000 ton miles of fre ight and would have spent eight or nine busy years getting ready for it Yet how different was the actual result. Even as the big executive was finishing this chart the actual traffic was “Ee tting beyond the straight line of average increase. In 1916 our railroads hauled 340,000,000,000 ton miles of freight, which was at least 30,000,000,000 more than they should have hauled in that year according to the table of averages. But 1916 was not a circumstance to 1917. In that year the ton miles jumped tomore than 400,000,000,000, or some 10,000,000,000 less than the far-sighted executive had allowed for 1925, at the far end of his calculation. And 1918 piled more traffic upon 1917—only 1.8 per cent more, to be sure, but it was an increase and brought the tonnage almost even with the 1925 prediction. And the railroads still moved the traffic-—somehow. As this is being written the calendar year of 1919 is not quite finished. But the jagged line of American freight increase has taken another abrupt turn. Because of the cessation of war activities, the great coal strike, the steel new freight car f Variou sorts and types, and ende to caten up wil car shortage ! t used ! remall traffichas: great Increases al that the railroads ing shortage of both freight and passenger equip ment. The thougl rises that in the past perhaps they had too ich rolling Stor Perish that thought! In the past they hac real service, To-day hey have no ser ct not what Ne nave beer acc ervice Embargoes } e been placed o1 " non-essentiais and near non-es*entials; the highroad, the canals have been led upon to help “hat is not the | fashioned idea of rea railroad service. If ed | pace permitt might show you d ens, even hundreds How the Airman Sees the Heart of a Great Industrial City. Docks and Railroad Yards in Cieveland From 5000 Feet in the Air e and some other factors, traffic ha ’ j ( And based upon the figures for the first eight or t months of the year the total f the twelvemo \ | close to 260.000.000.000 ton | I'he e of average based upon a considerable number of years 1 fascinat ing and fairly 1 e thing. And the we of 1919 om the e of tratl et Ni NY { t co ol But the point remair hat ir railroad both 1914 and 1918 carried more traffic than their most fa operators predicted for 1925 and they got it throug without any great or even the normal increase equiy nent The credit for this remarkable ope ance may be divided between the United States Railroad Administration and the War Board of the railroads the selves—each of which was in executive command for on of the e years I think, myself, t it by far the laryer part of the credit should go to the War Board, which | i ¢ trol for the first of these two strenuous year With limited funds and very limited authority it cor lated and centralized railroad operation as tl trongly compet tive country had never before seen it consolidated and centralized. By throwing away gewgaws and frills it made the traffic move. Stretching the Rolling Stock T WAS not the first time that traffic had moved effi ciently on American road oh, no. Here was one of the larger roads of the land—and one of the best managed which a few years ago confronted a great world’s fair which was to be held in a big city, where it was one of the chief transportation factors. The officers of this road were much concerned as to their ability to handle the crowd with the passenger cars available and on the 1 of the problem thought it would be necessary to spend about $2,000,000 for new equipment. However, or er second thought they realized that they had 1300 passe ger cars, which were ample for the normal trafic of the road. If many more were purchased they would become unprofitable assets after the fair. Further the possibility of cutting down the ave rage y of pa senger cars by increasing inspection, cleaning and 1 pairing forces at terminals sufficiently to get additional service—service practically equivalent to the addition of two hundred cars to the road's passenger equipment It was realized that during the fair equipment could not be shopped frequently enough to prevent the paint and varnish from becoming dull, but that this was a trouble slight in comparison with the advantage to be gaine Continued on Page 166

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ind met V-iour years steelbur iS, & Dab d The ved him, , was none other than Wally THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7,1920 RG MILLS h Mar general mani offies ad tnat a new Old Man, the in the of ten thou before, he had come i few days old, lying in a little pig iron, wrapped about with an old child had carried him home to their miserable hovel in Vinegar Gully. uir had adopted him, had ever , the boss sat box ar of d and ragged sheet —a forem old wife, I obody’s und Joe Gay, the labor in who fk him ged pi given him their name, lavished all their crude affections upon him, and, while he was yet a mere boy, left him again a nobody's the gigantic plant called Steelburg Mills ng from little job to little job, serv- laboring slavishly at the dirty, forced upon him, laughed at, jeered at, of the mills, but always plodding ness in his heart and a smile on and wonder at the mighty work enamored of the plendid din in his own accomplish be, proud of the insig- nad to do with the colossal things , glorying they might dup. By had attained to bigger, better things about hard work and by hard en of the mills had ceased to laugh neer at him. Lup. By his own efforts he had forged f the mills who had laughed at him, him, had come to respect him, finding they ntial leader, the big man, the strong they would have above them up. Without without ntil those in the high places of Steel- n him their equal in capacity and ties in which were lacking, influence, i ower and knowledge; until those of Steelburg Mills ace epted him without their superior, glad that Steelburg the youngest Old Man that ever sat boss Gay t10n a Mar rat manager ottice the of ten thousand By Herschel S. Hall ILLUSTRATE DO BY H#. J. Goodlow’s right hand was very black. It was black with the black grease and oil that gathers on and crusts the hands of the men who work about the engines and roll trains and motors of the steel mill The hand was white that morning when he went into the mills, but when returned it was black. He had scrubbed it with soap and water, but it was still black. He went into the mills again in the afternoon and when he the hand blacker still. When he picked up a piece of paper his fingers would leave a smudge on its white surface. Several times he paused in his work at his big desk to look at the black hand. And each time he looked at it he smiled. For three days Goodlow had been at work at intervals cleaning out this desk of his, reading old letter them into bits and throwing them away, ne came bacl was tearing or laying them aside if they were of importance to go into his pockets to be carried away. There were hundreds of old an papers to be looked over, papers that had been away ijn d dusty tucked had packed nuggled up against each other until pigeonholes for years, where they themselves in and they occupied astonishingly small spaces. Old photographs of mill men, in little groups and in great crowds, and pic- tures of new mills under construction and of new furnaces building and of queer wrecks and accidents were hauled out from overflowing drawers into which they had been crammed along with blue prints and magazine clippings and pamphlets and marked copies bits of iron and steel came to light of newspaper pieces of rods, thin slices of bars and rails and billets and channels and girders, sections of wire, all cut and planed and prepared to show up the flaws they contained fins or cups—-each of them so interesting at the time of its first examination that it had kept, laid away for another examination, only to be pushed aside and covered up, to work its way down into some dark corner of the desk where it had rusted and rotted. More than one full basket of this heterogeneous material did the janitor carry away before Goodlow had finished his task. But at last the desk stood clear, as bare as it had been the day it came from the hands of the cabinetmaker. Stray pipes or seams or laps or bee n MOWAT Goodlow looked at the empty) holes. the y pigeor , vacant drawers, and sighed. Then he took a ring of keys from his pocket and removed a key whicl he laid on a leaf of the desk chair in which he had been the long table that stood in front of the desk. chair, wabbly on its legs ar He rose and dragged the sitting to the other side of It was an old , and it when it was being d shaky in it in protest, arms creaked loudly, as u ed places the leather The back was leather, as was the seat, and in some had broken through. It wasn’t much of a chair. Goodlow limped painfully to the door opening out of his into that of He oper ed the door and looked in “You can move in now, Wally,’ he He hobbled back to the table Wally Gay came roiling a chair across the floor out office the assistant general manager aid. “Bring your chair.” at d Sat dowr ° of He pushed it in between the iong table and the empty desk. his office into the office of general manager **T have been thinking I'd take this old chair home wit} me, Wally. It’s when n y the only one I can sit in with any comfort troubling me, but if you'll give me room for it in that closet yonder I believe I'll leave it here. Then when I come out to sciatica is have a rag-chewing with you, as I expect to Io when my rheumatism will let me, I'll have something I can sit in without torture.” “‘Leave it here, leave it here!” returned Wally. “T’ll take care of it. And don’t forget to come out and use it often. I'll need you often.” “Oh, no, you won't! No, you won't! But I'll come—I want to come. little outing.”” Goodlow paused and heaved a sigh. “It isn’t so easy, Wally, to—oh, I guess I'l] start on home n I'm through.” Again he paused and there was silence in the room. Then he went on. “I’m mighty glad you nipped in the bud that move of the mer to buy me a present, as I asked you to doin case y of any such thing coming up. Here's men of the mills.” He held up his right hand. “T’'m prouder of that, Wally, than I would be of a diamond the size of a turnip, had they given me one. When I went out through the mills this morning and this after- I'll come, I’ve no other place to go for 1 it isn’t so easy to Ww ou heard my present from the noon, and those men came crowding about me to shake

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elt that I had not wholly failed in my ind is so sore I ean hardly use it. Devil ( Daggy ushed it when he gripped it. And I know Tunky Lord smeared his before he nands with me work here. My l 1 ! “3 aimost cr id thick with fresh grease

tell by the twinkle in the scamp’s eye that he wished to recall to me the time I chased him over that twelve-foot fence back of the Billet Mill with a billet hook. Why, I wouldn’t care if I never got that hand clean again! “Well, I must go. Good-by, Wally.” “T’ll go out to your car with you.” When he came back into the office Wally pushed the old chair across the room to a closet in which he stowed it away. Then he went to his own chair standing between the came up. I ¢

table and the empty desk. For along while he sat musing, with his mind rapidly reviewing the years that had passed, letting it dwell for several moments on the event of his iffice, a dirty-faced youth in greasy le cloth cap about in his grimy hands, nervous, scared, embarrassed. Back through the years of hard work and cruel grilling, when men had aughed at him, when foreman and superintendent had mposed on him, doubled and trebled his working shifts, called him y’s goat,” to a day when a ship- ying clerk had said to him, “‘ How would you like to come n here and push a pencil and help rustle the Manila paper?”’ Then he smiled, he chuckled, the chuckle first coming into that ¢ overalls, twisting his litt

“everybod THE SATURDAY EVENING POST **One letter. messenger. ““More work, I suppose,” him. He read the inclosure. He read it a second time. “Well, I'll be dogged, danged if I won’t!” he muttered, young mar and he rose, took his hat from a nail above his desk and set it upon his head. Then he sat down and reread the such a per letter. “Well, know about that?”’ he chuckled. He rose from his chair and hung his hat back on the nail. Then he read the letter once more. “What d’ye know about that, boys?” The rest goes to Cavendish,” replied the He threw down his bundle and went out. grumbled the shipping clerk as he tore open the letter one of the young men tossed to I'll be danged, dogged if I won’t! What d’ye he demanded,

pping Departme it, b My dear Mr. W el l am creat i W Oo to you and which I tru ir way clear toacce] \ ‘ " Shove eT O higt ear, | yt’ lal w-eyed ifar corner of the room ‘Ahem! Well, boys, the remainder of the letter is of onal nature that I w } t give you a rt of digest of it. “The new job is this: I'm to he nief steerer of the rubbernecks who come to Steelburg Mills to acquire a few of the essentials of the art of steel mal " At present this work is very inefficiently done by several and dive gate watchmen, clerks, foremen, superintendent any ly moving toward the desks where the young men worked. body that can be picked up. “Attention! Cease firing! Wellington Gay.” “We're waiting, all keyed up, Bob,’ youth. , ““Ahem! But before I begin let us all take a nibble from my own plug of spit-quick. ““Double your quids, boys, double your quids! festive occasions let us be festive! Kindly gather about me and allow me to divulge the contents of the communication I have just received from our new general manager, Mr. the building I will meet the: said a pink-cheeked On ward the mills, entertaining them a ‘I am to have a desk, a chair and a cuspidor in the big hall just outside Mr. Gay’s office As our visitors enter n. a her wha { he desire, and politely —if they look classy —conduct them to the office of Mr. Gay's ecretary, who will either writ permits for them to enter nothing doing. “With the passes proc ired, I shall lead subjects as rain, snow, mud, sunshi cold wave winds, bad cold Ifa Midline freight versation on such

broke into a laugh. lette P. Tom,” he said to the stenographer answered the “Take a who had buzzer’s summor “Shall I write ‘general

a ager’ beneath the pace

ure in a ke d lor your sl the stenographer when the dictation had ended “Yes, I suppose that will be necessary from now on.” “T’d like to congratulate ou, Mr. Gay. gla 1 46 “Thank you, Tom.” At tenographer read over his a

his typewriter the otes and grinned. “Say, Wallman, what do you suppose, now, is his first * he asked an- whose official act other stenographer desk stood near his. ‘What? ‘Tl let 3 ter when I've It’s rich.”

n hi Oo messenger boy next trip into the mills irried the letter to the ship- ping department. A ship- ping clerk sat at his desk shuffling a ndustriously tack of blue, pink, yellow nd white shipping bills. \ half dozen young men sat at desks near by and they,

too, worked busily. “What d’ye know about t, boys?” asked the ship- ping clerk, without pausing his work or without look- g up. “T don’t believe we'll ever get caught up with our work—never! I’m very seriously of vi old dump. I think I'll go West—out to Arizona and take up some free land there and start ing Angora goats. They tell me that if you knowany- ng at all about goats you | in get independently ric goat ranching. And I know some thir g

‘ goat ’m one my elf or I tayed on thi wouldn’t have SaInkKYy job lke

} + nd let them ( ‘> ike don off on me year r. What d’;

of the office enger boy The door pened und ames el l

‘Anything for me, Snig slefritzv?” called the ship- ping clerk.

“I Suppose We May as Well Move On," He Said After a Moment's Silence. Coming Out of the House Yonder, Isn't There?"’ hould be blocking our im mediate entrance to the plant I shall turn the cor weightier them if be politi versation to themes, asking they appear to cian what they think of if they the coming electior look to be school-teachers | will inquire if they do not think Whittier’ Bound a charming poen What d’ye know about that

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boys? “Once inside the plant I hall proceed to point out to thema the interest yw ct tails of ee] king and to answer their variou terest quest tell y 1} n } W ty the ‘ ma iday and! ma } t \ explainit vhaty the | hroug! her n t ise flu the Ope Heart} } moke from the Besseme ellow and no bla lso forth. And J ry te the the fh ‘ I ve ol ti litlere t en } gine we} e,% ethemthe temperatures ol ill the fur es th pee] to and ‘ mate for them the veight f the variou ! t et bar i d ( f steel ee lying ut the 1 ind yard | ’ It’sa job that ng to require a raft of k, but I feel that I ca Isha Y t the ist ou de Mr. ¢ | t ‘ the iging Ru t! heery Bulga e da g Dalmat esi t tt ‘ { ¢ ‘ ay “r it j ‘ | . , r i A , M . i i i ( ! 7 a "aa 2% <p Pare ehh ent, the | ‘ ‘ - “J , Pe rf * at * an b ‘ LA owe, *.| the P “There's Someone Continued on Page 119

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THE SATURDAY CON ®™ EVENING POST February 7,1920 C. Crosby and Edward Hl. Smith T R A T E D BY A R T H VR D. F UV kLEL E R ere ag, ad The Moon Rose Fuller and Higher, the Breath of the Gulf Made Warm Murmurs in the Paims, the Sea Piayed or the Sands its Amorous Arpeggios. He Dectared Himself SA YOUNG ma 0, | The , coming from a man and of the young, the pure Well, at least I was young da head full of dream adm ont ind grotesque deed the vanitie condem the Drear poetic, ar ey not? court his own confessior and the one I somet fortunes of dreamit the clods thea fic gentlemen and mis- the good and the bad, the poet sand me nk we all build our fortune felon as wella genius. There are scien- who contend that the the divinely gifted from I don’t k ibout that, reminds me that ionary, Ferdi: the vastest and costliest Panama liere atter hair the et but my collaborator is very fine divide iminal and the pertinently lunatic. ow it was that great engineer and nd de Les eps, who perpetrated lream of the nineteer that overreached itvelf, a wonderful reality As for uch lofty ethers, but I ; ater vi th century was a dream ly to become 1 time I never lifted my fancie nto 1 lot of soari my gota t wandered round in the ntor and when I was life my imagination has reserved for the inv young us high purpose in my thought. I was never, let to add of those fanatic community wit! ten one in ple tons who rever' their absurdities, nor yet one e guileles ver creating useless intricacies h of Midas in a tin shoehorn. d bobtail of an idea that for a generation— namely, rhe genuine investigator, in, discoverer, has a lively for they make the real Whatever I was in somet} ing to me. people d embarrassment be understood: hat means Hope That Makes the World Go Round W! DO: ften stop t nk that invention embraces ! the whok e ) iman history or that itis the complete stuff of prog first ape that used a club, s from his flint to warm hi ruck spart ire cave, and ng some titan mech neces of limitless space kind or another the basis of all civilization. part in the life of everyone and the dreams of The finds s« principle of or some potent way of applying an old or trend of the world’s affairs just a great thinker or a great conqueror. That is the ide. through s« is at Naturally, it pla) a great everyone, who physics change the man me new may urely a idealistic A man may make himself rich beyond counting yme simple useful machine, and he may do it as easily as by finding a gold lode or plundering Wall Street. That is the practi il de. When | began more idealism than selfishness fancie Later the altruistic i into a shadow, till later, I re gret to report, the practk ynsidera- 1O sense of pro- re the con man succeeded the inventor. Many over this rough bit of road. It is all down- ot hard to negotiate, though one gets considerable there wa 1m mys reced and al « tion became portion He men have hill and olt ig er Half the and the Patents We have all seen the cal wonders created by our countrymen. We have watched some inventors pile up vast fortunes from o developed that it left me Dect route, J men born in America are incipient inventors other half susceptible to the ire the great national weakness inventions bug. mechat their works, and like good human beings we have forgotten the others who did not. As I have said before, natural resources, triumphant speculation and inventions are the golden triplets of the popular mind. Even the most poorly informed know that niany patents yield no profits, but they know, too, that most prospectors find no gold. This fact does not diminish the average man’s enthusiasm for Neither does the shorn lamb keep his brothers from the bleak winds of Wall Street all wiser and cleverer than the poor dupes who get fleeced gold mines To ourselves we are until we, too, are clipped. Then we go back for more This pink optimism is a wonderful provision of Nature. Without it there busine and no cor men. The will tell to be sure, that he has a scheme to change all this, but I think him something of a con dealer himself, and meantime the world is as it is. It was to explain and expose some of the fraudulent intrica- cies of tl world of reality that I set out. Perhaps I shall be able to from the toils of con. E ligl t- enment cannot but do some good. would be no speculation, no credit, no socialist you, ive some men iliar literature You | ng vociferous attention to A dozen times every year I see the of the inventions tock salesman if you. It starts out by call huge profits 1 rade by those in the telephone, the aut chine, the air brake, the add and what not. It winds up by new wonder scheme now it, all ll the stock who bought the original mobile, the talking ma- ig machine, the typewriter inviting you to share the Great and poter ; in some gair this t argument, having led many a sucker to his fate. Baiting the Hook OW it is far from my intentior stock promotions as frauds. to brand all inventions- Here and these things really pan out. ButI do mean to pointouttheextreme rarity of this happy dénouement, and I intend to recite a number of typical fraud schemes so that you may recog- nize them when they come your way. I do not even mean to say that all men who promote inventions that fail and lose money are scoundrels. More often the man behind such schemes is an inventive dreamer with a genuine me- chanical and financial vision swimming before him. But the men is full of a most uncertain When—rarely he succeeds he becomes wha} he dreams himself—a scaler of strange new heights. But far oftener he sinks into unforeseen bogs, led by his own ignis fatuus. And he carries down with him thod’e who gave him their faith and money. Further than to utter a general warning, I have nothing to do with these hon« My function is to deal with con as applied to real or fake inventions and there irge. st dreamers. to show how a certain class is constantly victimized through machinations in this field The con man can always find men of any city. The director good for this purpose as any to no trouble in preparing a sucker list if he has a scheme for the palate of the doctor, the lawye r, the dentist, the editor and writer, the technical man and the engineer. Moreover, such people are always accessible. call to have a tooth pulled and stay to play a con game But this is not the only charm that attracts the con ! to professionals A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, motorist remarked regaining a list of the professional and telephone book are as " } thing else Thus he needs go A man ma) consciousness.

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average profe ional man possesses that perilous little knowledge of many subjects alien to his immediate calling. He has nearly always some idea of the working of me- hanieal and electrical devices. He is progressive, in- formed, sanguine. He feels the kinship of the quasi- cientist with the sciences. But he is seldom well enough equipped to discover the fraud lurking deep in the dark vitals of a new idea. Thus he is an excellent target for arrows of con. Some sharpers who deal solely in inventions tricks play to the professional man exclusively, so that millions have been mulcted from this class and other mil- lions are still being extracted—painlessly in the dental ense. All of which reminds me — The owners of the five million automobiles which have put the country on wheels more completely this year than ever before will appreciate that winter is a bad season. Not the least of its disadvantages is that it will free: » up radi- ators and erack water jacket It makes cars hard to tart and car owners difficult to live with. I discovered all this a number of years ago when I operated my first car through my first Northern winter. Some men would have stood by, paid for the repairs and taken it out on the air in profanity and their wives in bad temper. I decided that there were ways of keeping radiators from freezing or chilling and I set about inventing the proper device. When | began I saw the commercial and not the con po sibilities of the idea, but I was ever an unstable fellow in such fine distinctions and discriminations. At any rate, I conceived and constructed a perfect! mest little mechanism like a large porcelair elect witch. This device I connected with the batteries in the car. By sending the current from the batteries through this resistant element I engendered eut enough to keep tl ny irom getting too cold while the ear stood out. A Dentist for a Target | pe all this was excellent and sounded feasible. In + practice the thing wou 't do atall. It used up the ! urrent from the batteries, whose capacities are very imited, so that there was not enough juice left to run the ights and start the motor. This trouble could, it is true, have been overcome by greatly augmenting the number if cells in the battery. Here, however, the expense would THE SATURDAY EVENING POST have mounted quite high and the whole device was, after a zero temperature. Since I had put my batteries into first all, no more effective than the simple plan of putting class shape that very morning, everything went off beau alcohol into the radiator tank with the water. My inven- tifully. We walked out of the club, jumped into the ear tion was not worth the trouble of inventing—and I knew and were off without delay. My new-found friend wa it. That is another matter. really overwhelmed, I was still experimenting with my radiator heater that “Why don’t you patent it and get down to manufa winter when I became aware of the existence of a dentist turing?’’ he demanded as we drove homeward. in my neighborhood who seemed to be hugely prosperous, “Patents cost money and so do plants to work in drove two high-priced and high-powered cars, was a lead- “That oughtn’t to be hard to get ing spirit in the sporty life of the community and let him- “Not for you, doe,” I told him. ‘All you have to do i self be seen to advantage whenever possible. I wondered to charge. The more you stick us the better we like you in my dull way how came this dentist to be so extremely The difference between a good man and a bad one in the well dowered. Nothing more crossed my mind at the professions is in the fee. But with me it’s different.” time. **How much will it take?” Then a filling came out of a tooth and I went to him for Here I fenced. I didn’t want a few hundred or a couple repairs. Nor was I long in discovering his source of wealth. of thousand to get out patents and rent a little facto if My dental friend supported elaborate offices with much my prosperous friend was to be taken in he was worth very-modern equipment, several extra diplomas, the word — taking in for some respectable amount. I always believed “surgeon” put before his normal professional descrip- in doing things well tion—-and he charged for all the frills. I thought it well to cultivate a man who understood so profoundly the Shifting the Anxiety making of money Still without any plot against him in mind, I continued “| GUESS I've got enough money to get out my patent to visit him and become acquainted. One very bitter and start in,” I told him after a silence. ‘ With all the morning I walked into his offices to find him blustering cars there are in this country a man ought to make a mighty and swearing about one of his cars. It had frozen tight the pile out of this thing if it is as good as I think it i { don't night before in his garage, the water jacket had burst and see why I should divide it the repair man informed him that his bill would be one We said no more about the thing at the time, but the hundred and fifty dollars. effect I had expected from my attitude was already being ‘** Almost as bad as losing a filling from a tooth,” I told produced. Nothing makes a man so anxious to put mor him, but he was in no mood for jesting into your invention as your apparent desire to keep | ‘“‘Confound it!”’ he cried, “‘why don’t they make motor out. It is one of the rudimentary rules of con to shift the cars that don’t freeze?” anxiety upon the other fellow. If the schemer succeed “They will when they learn how,” said I. this his game is made; if he fails there is no play. You can't “Ts there a way?” push a man into an investment of any size; you must make I told the doctor about my neat little invention and he him break in. That was what I was trying to do her was moved almost to enthusiasm. He used many electrical Meantime I went ahead, applied for a patent and got it, appliances in his surgery, he understood mechanics fairly like thousands of simpletons who take out useless patent well and had the amateur’s respect for the wonders of every year—for the benefit of lawyers on] wa electricity. I saw at once that here was both a doctor and _ in a position to talk business. When I saw m gain a morsel for my teeth. The next afternoon I drove him out he began with the expected questior to his country club ir my car, which was much less costly “Well, it’s like this,”’ I told him t ui or impressive than either of his. We spent a couple of on one arrangement. I'll sell you a |} terest for ter hours round the nineteenth hole while the car waited in Continued on Page 53 They Introduce te Their Promising New Acquaintances the Polished Rogues Who are Lurking in the Background Then the Game is On

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4 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7,1920 The Counsel of the Ungoally sie rehire By CHARLES BRACIKIE TU — cxccov that it provided us with action. , e bri eve ‘ He3 W ©) except ‘tl at it pebbes fr us with action. ' i ! No one was in sight. Mrs. Davison ILLUSTRATED BY MAY WILSON PRESTON wrung her hands, though that thin verb is at war with those dump- lings—its subjects. ‘Ican’tstand it, Jacob,” she announced alarmingly. ‘I’ve had shocks before and they weakens you. It was just like this when I heard Mr. D. was killed. W weer th ley come and told lat they found in the t just went straight to my stomach and I was dog sick. I was pulled down with the scarlet, any- but that’s the way ik I ‘ nie. Thereat she glanced toward the road—the at- tention of both of us had been distracted momenta rily by her recitative—and emitted the most blood curdling scream that ever tore at my eardrums. **She’s dead!”’ she bered, and started running down it. Major Estabrook was coming slowly toward u leading both horses and carrying Miss Mary. It does credit to his strength, for she was a tall girl. I reached him quite as soon as she did before. ‘Don’t be alarmed,” he aid. “Her saddle girth broke and she fell and stunned herself. I don’t believe it’s serious. She rode a little way with me leading her horse, then I saw she was swaying and thought this safer.” ‘I’m all right, ma,”’ Miss Mary joined in, looking very white The major and I made a chair with our hands and carried her up the drive though she protested and begged to walk. When we reached the house and she had taken the spoonful of whisky I insisted on ad ministering she announced that we were to have din- ner an hour late and that she would dress and come down to prove her entirety. She took really a very short time and descended before the major had appeared. ‘Did he pop it to you, dearie?’’ her mother in- quired comfortably. **Of course not, mother. — ———_—___—___— —_— — “T thought it was kind “T0's No Use,’ She Admitted. “I’'tt Have to Join Cousin Francis and Call it Gibberish of romantic—-romanti« as an Excuse for Not Speaking It'"* « nough to give mea attack of fits anyway.” tea Miss Mary a » major “He couldn’t talk much while he was carrying me.” o twice before ar 1 late **He will m? I bet.” » when they were not back I agreed wi a It was the perfect incident to give , } Mrs. Davison did also, _ his inmaked that would have pleased him. I had and cross, robbed the conservatory of every rose for the music room, nor 3,”’ sl sal where they usus lly went to be alone together. I wanted to fragrance Miss Mary’s great moment of folly sweetly. One looks back on such moments as the loveliest pauses in time, no matter what their consequences. The major came down very late and I knew from his step on the stair that ' were not convincing. might have spared the roses their St. Bartholomew’s Eve. ‘You know that ain't so,”’ she replied to my suggestion ‘Sorry to have kept you,” he said, and he did not look it they might have lost the road. ‘B itwhatcanofbecome at Miss Mary or her mother, but atsome pleasant visionary ‘ Land, lacob, ain't there something we can do?” spot above their heads. He gave his arm to Mrs. Davi 0 iggested that we might go to the front gate, and down ‘“*T bet you’re lame, carrying that great girl.” Mrs. Davison panting beside me. Neither of “‘Not in the least, thank you.”

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST , He had been abstracted at times be fore, but this was a **Major Estabrook had breakfast all right, didn't he, young When I came for the coffee tray he was at the new kind of abstraction. A sort that finds pleasure in its Jacob?"’ Miss Mary asked. end of Aux Italien distant thought “Yes, Miss Mary ’ rr , “ , ee And oh, the isu tnd oh, th 1% Chey sat down to the ghastliest dinner I ever served. “T suppose he must have been very tired last night,” Th oP an ; . y Mrs. Davison supplied the conversation, the Major an she said, pleading for my acquiescence with her eyes. Non ti Sp . occasional word of encouragement and Miss Mary two “ Don’t you think he must have been— after carrying me?” a pt ind heartbreaking eyes. ‘I am sure he must.” Miss Mary, who was dreaming, held out her hand sert the major said: | got my message; I'm “Did he leave any word?”’ *What does that mean?’ he asked i | have to be off to-morrow It’s been awfully good ‘**His compliments, and he regretted not saying good by “Do not forget me I you to have me here Can't tell you how much I ap- in person.”’ “Dr ot forget me,”’ she repeated ‘Isn't it beautifu preciate ‘I saw him drive away, but I thought I hadn’t better Mrs. Davison put down her knitting long enough to That was the end of Major Estabrook’s visit He ex come down.” touch her daughter’s hand with a shy tenderness entirel cused himself after coffee. He must pack and had to get “a Miss Mary.” surprising in that mountainous lad off at an u rf ! Mi Mary came to m) pantry. Th wa ua use while we both looked acro the The rector taved or ind I Mr Da mn ime te ‘Was he just being polite all the time, Jacob?”’ she brown lawns to the reddening buds of the treesin thespin- my pantry at eleven o'clock asked. ney and she pretended to eat. st gue the domini pa ed on the hair,” ud “It seeme ! e to me, Miss Mar **T believe the rector is coming to tea,’’ I reminded her. “T’'m dogged out and I'll bet ire too M put “Then I must have said something or done something.’ “Will there be anyone else?” out the light It’s her funeral, so L suppose she’ it “It probal \ t the message he got,’ I said to “I'd forgotten,”’ she answered. ‘No, he’s all.”’ stay.” comfort her There was something about her voice that made me sa I went to bed, for I was tire b ! t Mr. R 7 I did not tell he the me though I had “‘ Possibly you would like me to telephone the rector, Miss proposed again and efused emphatical At least extracted it from t ousemai inswered the Mary, and explain that your guests left unexpectedly.” he never came to tea with the same self-confic e aga telept t It « ed of a blegram from France the “I would, Jacob I don’t feel much like «3 If Mi Mary had known the leal that ging the maid couldn't remember the exact place. It ra She did not finish the sentence nor did she bur into post grew to be that next weel ‘ ild have tried not t She came acri Congratulation Booru. tears—just stopped and after a moment or so went out of | look as she did when she asked me f t e did at the room. Then came my cov ardly bouquet to upset her every persor wh has ever waited long | ile ‘ Next morning at breakfast—in time for the ungodly by making her happy again. has done — stamped h impat e at t The letter our—the 1 x seemed more normal-minded than I had ‘I love them so!” she said, clasping the box, “Had must be at the post office and have 1 ed distributior seen him He gave me ten dollars which ] pent on an I ought to write to him?” Then made excuse the major is proba being de or is | let f Mi M which gave her ‘I would wait till he writes to you, Miss Mary.” mobilized. He’d seen her so recently he ildn’t write infinite comil “Do you suppose he will?” yet, Then fell int i muiser 1 ar ‘ ind from that x That was something definite to live for, and I 1 t veered to sheer hopelessne [' MISS MARY’S eyes had broken my heart the night telephone the rector again and ask him to dinner to n ( One day after she had reached that point a letter ar ed belore er hands a ne up for the tea I had canceled. He came. Mary was love It was addressed to Mr Davison and ime nthe bit rl vere strong hand with quiet happiness. He was an egocentric little and morning post bag. Miss Mary took it in dreadful exci those da i adet thought she had changed her mind in spite of the fact that mean he had written to her ind the they must do as thou he wished they need not. her eyes went or pilgrimages of dream entirely forgetf il layed, ort t he i KIT her mothe Mrs. Daviso ever came down in the morning. Her of his presence. After dinner Mrs. Davison knitted on a inswered some rd Miss Mar one conce of elegance was to lie abed and eat a green sweater, and the rector read poetry thtful old in her mothe roon When she car crumbly bre t hat she called slug clothes. fashioned poetry such as we used to have when I was Continued on Page 95 f * “ rs a “Ite Don’t Foot Me. But I Like it Just the Same! If You Could Put Poison Into Flattery it'd be a Cinch to Get Rid of Your Enemies" Oa SSS

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THE IDIR cating herse rean!l and dishe orb Kitt lifted ev harn he acquired t ist before f nature al ond determined new that world in her mirror She got her brea vere old friends of her mother e inted galleri conclusion that THE SATURDAY EVENING POST UMS OF JEOPESURIDY By larold MacGrath PRESTON n the kitchen. First y to create the false 3 an ordinary grain the citron. Notso se she could r in the ng her appe- ur without fasci dining , as all were ghost and that there e, the re were , that she he had to ; were ough the ng For venetrated that well Per thr entertain all ie no city room. little pompous, but quired; and she worth in a ere while. ucces » the only people h fluently and : but she would for the fastidious iturally an was dainty, her background of ind did ence here in the uit of the rut of an atmosphere exqul 1 int peignoir and il petticoat little Kitty She lippers. Was edu knew that daintiness at it would be« Moreover, ild be tre a newspaper the confidence in ome riage it sho lis morning, sing had found ; drama had was ¢ Tl there ter ¢ caped her 1 door had oper ed yr } at wa — or there is a bit of the old wife, and Kitty pos sessed ng held her here, when for ence; elsew he re, out ne a tune of The fit the ’ the Red ind let them try it for ten years. to embrace democra , to imagine that What kind of ing to humanity sorry ILLUSTRATED BY JAMES mM February 7,1920 said Burlingame. She Hustle up that Sunday stuff,” Kitty laughed. Just as she had pictured it. hustled “I have it!”’ she cried, breaking a spell of silence. ‘*What—St. Vitus?” urlingame patiently. > inquired B “‘No; the Morgue!’ “What the dickens ” Sut Kitty was no longer there to answer. In all newspaper offices there is a depart- ment flippantly Obituaries on ice, as it were. A photograph designated as the Morgue or an item concerning a great man, a cele- brated or from the king caliber down to Gyp-the Blood brand, all indexed and laid against the instant need. So, running her finger tip down the K’s, Kitty found Kar- lov. The half tone which she eventually exhumed from the tin box was an beauty some notorious rogue; away excellent likeness of the human gorilla who had en tered her rooms with the policeman. would be able to carry this positive mation to Cutty that afternoon. When she left the office at four she the Subway to Forty-second engaged a taxi from the Knickerbocker and discharged it at the n to the Waldorf, which walked through to the south entrance and got into another taxi. She left this at Wanamaker’s, ducking and dodging through the crowded . the a woman, she knew that the press of shop pers would be the greatest during the day. Karlov’s man and the secret-service tive detailed by Cutty both made the same followed Kitty into the dry goods shop and lost her if she had popped up in China. At quarter to five she stepped into Elevator Number Four of the building which Cutty called his very well pleased with herself. She infor- took Street She orth entrance she entered. She aisles. She selected this hour becau ng opera mistake as comple te ly as home, xu O UNDERSTAND Kitty at this mo- ment one must be able to understand the Irish; and nobody does or can or will Consider her twenty-four years, her cor puscular inheritance, the love of drama and the love of adventure. Imagine possessing sound ideas of life and the ability to apply them, and spiritually always galloping off on some broad highway—more often than not furnished by some engaging scoundrel of a novelist—and you will be able to con- struct a half tone of Kitty Conover. That civilization might be actually deathbed, that positively half of world starving and dying and going mad through the of the Germar blight touched her i She or its the was reac tion n a detached way. Kitty Was Carefully Reviewing the Events of the Night Before Often the eyes are like the lenses of a camera minus the sensitized plate; they see objects without print Thus, a dozen times Kitty’: range and the racks on each side of the sto burdened with an empty pancak tered with old-fashioned flatirons She was carefully reviewing the before. She could not dismiss : knew Stefani Gregor or had heard of him; and in either case it signified that Gregor was something more than a And decidedly Two-Hawks was not of the Russian peasantry. sy the time she was ready to leave for the offi sy 0d in her ing them. wept the one rack glance absently vepipe, e j ig and the other clu but she nothir events of the ni sion that Cu Saw the impre valet ] rie was seething and bubbling and dan knew she would do crazy impulsive things easy to analyze this exuberance. She had reache the dark and touched danger, and found a new thr humdrum world. The Great Dramatist had produced a tremendous dram: and she had watched curtain after curtain fall, from the wrong side of the lights. Now she had been given a speak ing part; lusting the furr a their } and she would be down stage for a moment or while the stars were retouch -up. It was not the thoug f Cutty, Johnny Two Hawks, of h she had arrived somewhere in the great drama. When she reached the office she had a hard time settle down to the day’ two iture ing idden treasure; Gregor, of work. felt thing dreadfully for the but as she could not he Ip them she dismissed them from her thoughts every morning after she had read the paper, the way most of us do here in these United States. You cannot grapple with the misery of an unknown person several t That which had taken place during the past twenty-four hours was to her a lark, a blindman’s buff for grown-ups. It was not in her to tremble, to shudder, to hesitate, to is and to balance that. Iri in the original that immortal line read: read,” a particular grudge against the race. When the elevator reached the seventeenth fl or, passengers surged forth. All except Kitty, “We don’t carry to the eighteenth, miss. “Tam Miss Conover,” replied. ‘‘I dared until we were alone.” The boy nodded, glance, and sent the eley *You understand? don’t remember.” **Yes, miss. The boss’ orders. “And if anyone does inquire you are t “That, too.” The boy rolled back the upon a Laristan runner of rose hue wondered what it cost Cutty to keep up an establishment like this. fourteen the north and seven facing the west, of sorry, sorry, poor housand miles away. h curiosity. ‘The Irish rush and some proofreader had weigh tl Perhaps in where angels fear to t the » tarried. she wept her with ar » to the ft. I see tor ur ] itor i *} If any report 0) ‘ or report at npoed ou epped ou cobalt bl i door and Kitty st K ] Ss anc le. She There were rooms, seven facing with glorious vista

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST steam-wreathed roofs and brick Matterhorns and the dim ‘*Would you marry me, Kitty?” “*From a photograph I found in the } J . } eral horizon touching the sea. Fine rugs and tapestries and ‘Are you serious?” pretty blond girl.” furniture gathered from the four ends of the world; but ‘*Let’s suppose I am.” **Good heavens !’’— recollecting her dreai ‘Where wa wholly livable and in no sense atmospheric of the museum. “No. I couldn’t marry you, Cutty. I should always _ it printed?” Cutty had excellent taste. be having my mother’s ghost as a rival.” “Amateur photography. I'll pick it up on the y to i She had visited the apartment but twice before, once in “But supposing I fell in love with you?” the living room.” } her childhood and again when she was eighteen. Cutty “Then I'd always be doubting your constancy. But It was nothing like the blond girl of her dream. St the had given a dinner in honor of her mother’s birthday. She what queer talk!” girl was charming. Kitty turned over the pi “ smiled as she rec alled the incident. Cutty had placed a “Kitty, you’re a joy ! Lordy, my luck in dropping in There was wr ting on the back. ; box of candles at the ide of her mother’s plate and told her to see you yesterday !”’ “Russian? What does it iw?” to stick as many into the cake as she thought best. “And a little whippersnapper like me calling a great man **To Ivan from Olga with all her love “Hello!” said Cutty, emerging from one of the doors. like you Cutty!” Cutty was conscious of the presence of an indefer “What the dickens have you been up to?) My man has ‘Well, if it embarrasses you you might switch to papa = malice in his tones. Why the deuce should he | just telephoned me that he lost track of you in Wana once in a while.” glad that the chap had left behind a sweethear iT maker’s.”’ Kitty’s laughter rang down the corridor. “T'll remember exactly the basis of Kitty's intere t, as ulte det ed Kitty explained, delighted. that, whenever I want to make you mad. Who’s here?” that of a reporter going toa fire. ¢ hey “*Well, well! If you can lose a man such as I set to watch ‘“‘Nobody but Harrison and the nurse. Both good could explain himself K "s interes i you you'll have no trouble shaking the others.” citizens, and I’ve taken them into my confidence to a cer- cease. An old dog in the manger M “Tt was Karlov, Cutty.” tain extent. You can talk free ly before them,” “Cutty, something dreadful has happe | “How did you learn?” “‘Am I to see the patient?” young woman. That's what ma out thes ‘ “Searched the morgue and found a half tone of him. “Harrison says not. About Wednesday your Two- Caught in that horror, and probat ‘ neescaped, | Positively Karlov. How is the patient?” Hawks will be sitting up. I’ve determined to keep the it heartless to be glad I’m an Anu ' Do ‘ “*Harrison says he’s pulling round amaz A tough poor devil here until he can take care of himself. But he these Russians?” il. He'll be up for his meals in no time, is flat broke.” “Not since the Trotzky rég | " I lia “How do you do it?” she asked with a gesture. “He said he had money.” slipped through on some British passy ae “Do what?” “Well, Karlov’s men stripped him clean.” tell us all about it when he comes round. But **Manage a place like this? In a busy office district. ‘Have you any idea who he is?” feel after last night’s bout?” | It’s the most wonderful apartment in New York. River “To be honest, that’s one of the reasons why I want to “Alive! And I’m going on being alive, foreve r! \ ide has nothing like it. It must cost like sixty.” keep him here. He’s Russian, for all his Oxford English Oh, those awful drums! They look like dead eve ‘ i ‘The building is mine, Kitty. That makes it possible. and his Italian gestures; and from his babble I imagine dim corners. Tumpitum-tamp! Tumpitum-/ f ‘ 4 An uncle who knew I hated money and the responsibilitic he’s been through seven kinds of hell. Torches and hob- cried, linking her arm in hi “What a gorge iew | | that go with it, died and left it to me.” nailed boots and the incessant call for a woman named Just what I’m going to do when my s| 1 ““Why, Cutty, you must be rich!” Olga—a young woman about eighteen.” in a loft. I really believe I could w ip here—] “I’m sorry. What can I do? I can’t give it away.” “How did you find that out?”’ worth-while things 1] could enjoy writing and sel “But you don’t have to P “Tt’ our f you want it, “Oh, yes, I do. I’m that | D> _ vy : ’ . ’ “And I'd } , ‘ kind. I'd die of a broken heart expl ' ti fr ry f I had to sit still. It’s the old it ‘ ! : ) game.” 180] ° “Did mother know?” ‘Wed ra ‘ “18,” world. But I 1) With the toe of a snug lit forget to tle bronze boot Kitty drew Tor Rernir } , | an outline round a pattern in back home to-1 the rug. I promise.”’ “Love is a funny thing,” Why tl rgle?”? was her comment. LB ise I’: tremen- “It sure is, old-timer. But do ‘ Ally f, what put the thought into I’ve wanted to do myster your head?” thir I've be h th “T was thinking how very | e, and | ' much mumsy must have been unt te } in love with father.” ah ‘ ‘ un “But she never knew that vild dar I loved her, Kitty.” If ldo I'll dance with hi “What's that got to do Now lead me to the cookie with it? If she had wanted e wa f the tea money you wouldn’t have table. Her her efferve had the least chance in the cence, her whimsicalitie | world.”’ amused even the prim Mi | “Probably not! But what Frances. When she re would you have done in your the exploit of the nuaflage mother’s place?” fan Cutty and Harr “Snapped you up like laughed so loud hat ‘ that!’’ Kitty flashed back. nurse had to put her fings “You cheerful little —lit- on her lips. They might wake tle ——" the patient “Liar. Say it!” Kitty ‘I am interested 5 oP laughed. “‘But am Ia cheer- hi a Kitt I wos ful little liar? I don’t know. der it. I a fe It would be an awful tempta it’s g { out. He t Somebody to wait on ery nice alter I U5 heaps of flowers when the } he A pe | you wanted them; beautiful lish manne ‘ gowns and thingummies and I in gest ‘ furs and limousines. I’ve guard. I fe f often wondered what I should What stranger e race do if I found myself with love to each other! Unt ‘ nd youth on one side and we hard ww the 4 money and attraction on the Phot other. I’ve always been in is ata ind Fre traitened circumstances. | came act ‘ never spent a dollar in all my British f the first ‘ days when I didn’t think I } And the ¢ ought to have held back thre« hought he knew or four cents of it. You can't re knew nobod \ know, Cutty, what it is to be Russia I ever ( poor and want beautiful peasants of the oy things and good times. _Of » that the word R course I couldn’t marry just ires up two p } money. There would have to yrand duke at M ‘ be some kind of a man to go nd a race of me ‘ with it. Someone interesting vy beards and neve enough to make me forge except whe ra metimes that I’d throw: of it! For the! n away a lover for a pocket ee — God set mankind on « yok. “A House in the Warehouse District. Some New Nest. I Can Lead You to it, Sir, Any Time You Wish" (Continued on Page 129

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7,1920 ind v hig rod but the Revolution, it is probable that of free speech that is being demanded is simply the right THE SATURDAY America will always offer asylum under proper conditions — to incite listeners and readers to free love. free loot, free » o the ly oppressed of the world. But it is highly murder and a free field to overturn the Government by EVENING POSJT mprobable that she will continue to-be the world lunatic violence. Anyone who has studied the tons of red and ul In the past we have freely offered to these pink pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals that are Germans and other aliens everything that we pouring from presses all over the country knows that this worship as they please; a chance to is being done boldly and directly by the reds, and timidly oppor- and indirectly by the pinki equal terms with the native This free-speech campaign has even deceived perfectly forbids this for the good American editors, who tremble lest their inherent one group of aliens is trying right to print a corking scandal on the front page or to as a master, and then that roast anythi rially is going to be taken away from o deliver us over to Lenine. And not them. T 4 ar 1 d open season on skunks may “y eeking to destroy our country but in some way curtail their right to kill a frying chicken limiting opportunity for Americans. for supper. u ’ that has successfully distinguished FOUNDED A* D! 172 8 Anges ; geste n of a farmer who has granted between liberty a 1) nse in religion | vail g can . ing tramp, only to wake up from pleasant probably be depended on to show a le common sens« PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY BY . : lr to find him pouring kerosene on the kitchen floor, in distinguishing between free speech and incitement t THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY preparatory looting and firing the house. And these murder. little pieces, bid us be per- Any good citizen who wil ly attend a cla INDEPENDENCE SQUARE . . . 5 - ‘ poor tramp, who ha in red rhetor l | | \ t literature Wi PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, U.S.A graduate w si pretty al nvictions or the prope GEORGE HORACE LORIMER, EDITOR _ Bevici rn ; house will Ii urrounding sada bleed so freely and redly es, Ten Cents » a ta ‘casion for it has passed. » weeks before . 1 " ; " nga a gi ; at the hands of their not becat ale Subserit Money Order . ‘ nd lal realized elsewhere i tl in t. Thei ° PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY 7, 1920 : mt * \ — Self-Preservation ne saadie, Pr ie is in practica then do they fight and kick and scratch ho MRTATION and it OF ADDRESS || “#4! ‘p pia? Why do they conspire questions before us. before the date of ‘ has befriended them? he first, but effect Dupli 1 ly ca » pickings are poor Just now in Ex eplac hose un } » over ther he comrades must rk or starve if immigra I th advat \ rer i ! roun or Jecause their real ‘ apital stic s\ — in the hundred t careless, the most given to accept- join with their ions and professions, When a_ by confiscat iat he is working for the brotherhood of We must rid our ian it seems to Americans like sacrilege to doubt and to some kind of a world vestigate the holy one to see whether it is really Americans have no rights it r guests brotherhood or for his own pocket that he is working. respect; that her citize p is open to anyone Che average American is the easiest fellow in the world reject as his own whims a ee a with profs nal uplift patter, because he is always who cannot speak our langu: have a God-g ocent bystander ir » things that most concern tell us where to get off; that we can make a few passe polities, pre g, labor-and-capital disputes, over anyone regardless of race and presto! an America —— now alien radicalism. He is only half awake ta the or that we can keep on cei t and organization of this sinister red campaign world and have as mucha = is vernm prosperity and his liberties, People talk of these "js tl ere anything Hungary, from the Balk: And after Americanize pttoround on tub and to be taught a litt ll that fuss. The the negro probl as usual or a little problem. The } } auen peoples are temp ran to public affairs and duties th { for easy assimilation; that a sheltered life that makes a co it-bred or three centuries behind o protected. But there can be no innocent b read a few lines, and they = = SE. Se Se business, no |} urspli ng, no passu ‘come. We need tl ree ¢ rat , dueat to crass! ist newspaper talk.”” It is a mena with Western strains and ‘ lilat large number t later everyone must lineup on one side — those that we have her: —— ——— ‘ active part in deciding whether This matter of Americ: on is only partly a quest America or become Russia. of education. Many second-generation Americans from s demand that we keep our doors Central and Eastern ‘ope, men with college’ degrees, are quite unassim 1 t nerican ideals, Temper the red id their mentally and racially they are still Russian or Balkan or a oe work the suppres o German. So further nigration must not only be rigidly i st analyze the possibilities and desirability o races in a. way thatowe have to worship and to vote as__ never done before. he matter of rage, ‘as well as the ng among our one’s c« ‘nce dictates, is one of the great rights of an qualifications of individuals, must be given moré’attention. . America i American citizen, but a situation might easily arise where Arguments for unrestricted immigration always go back any or all of those rights would have to be abridged forthe to some petty selfish reason—never to the greatest good of protection of the people. A group might conscientiously the country. A woman wants a cook, a manufacture = re believe in human sacrifice or in its right to nominate a wants cheap labor, a laborer wants his relatives to shar ) convicted murderer for President: but in either event its in the big wages, a politician wants votes, and aliens want —— conscience would promptly be told to behave. The right to take over our property and our country. The rank and

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file of these unassimilated aliens still live mentally in the ghetto or as peasants on the great estates. In thought they are still stoned by the gentile; still ground down by the master—yoked in mind to the ox of the field. Free- men they walk among us, but they are not free. They are serfs to tradition—narrow, suspicious, timid, brutal, rapa- cious—easily persuaded by their fears and blindly led through their ignorance. It has been truly said that no man is under obligation to burn down his house even to warm the widow and the orphan. America is under no obligation to destroy herself in a hopeless effort to transform overnight the results of centuries of serfdom, ignorance and brutality into upstand- ing Americans. License is as close as the mass of these eastern Europeans can approximate to the idea of liberty, No foreigner has any rights in or to America except those that we choose to give him, and we have been so free- handed in the past that we shall soon have very little left to give. Our great prosperity has been due to two factors America and Americans—the country that was handed to us in trust and that because of its natural advantages bred a peculiarly happy and prosperous race. Increasing popu- lation beyond a certain point means decreasing opportunity and prosperity, and so a lowered standard of living. That is one great factor in Europe’s troubles —overpopulation of the land, overcrowding in the cities, with fewer oppor- tunities and less to go round. Many of the things on which we pride ourselves, that have made us strong, self- reliant and prosperous, are due to luck—our luck in having a big fertile country, rich in raw materials and with enough outdoors untouched and unspoiled so that we can get up against Nature in our work and our play, many of Europe’s troubles, Conversely, many of the conditions over there that we decry, are due to over- population, insufficient natural resources and the lack of any real outdoors, except the sophisticated, dolled-up resorts of the tourist. Let us guard jealously what we have left and be in no hurry to hand it over to aliens, or we shall cheat our sons out of their rightful inheritance. The supply of cooks may be increased, but only tem- porarily. Gone, too, is the day when labor can be re- garded as a commodity, imported like raw material and treated likeit. Relatively larger wages have been permanently secured by labor, with all that that means in the shape of better men and happier lives. We have been having a mad ride on the merry-go-round, bring- ing over more men to make more goods to sell to more im- migrants to make bigger profits to build bigger factories to make more goods to sell. We are wasting and exploiting our resources to the limit, jazzing up production, jazzing up consumption, inflating population, inflating standards of living, inflating fortunes, living faster and faster, getting bigger and bigger, swelling up and up and up —— What’s the hurry? What's the use? What's the finish? In the end, by some process, we must get back to sanity. It all works down to a question of short-sighted selfish- ness, the immediate dollar and the devil take our coun- try; or far-sighted selfishness, conservation, and _ self- preservation, with the kind of an America that we found as a heritage for our children, with a chance for them to make good in the old American way. ¥ A fair field and an unspoiled country is a start to which every American is entitled. The honest gains of his honest work, the reward of his brains, his efficiency and his indus- try, is a finish that no American will forgo because an alien wants to steal it from him. Surfman Ashton j yang is probably no publishing house in all the world that turns A out so much dreary, unread reading Ata ov\ ov Is the Spirit of Our Next President Here? \JA BOARD THE SATURDAY EVENING POST matter as the Government Pr It is pleasant to record that these Sal page are not without occasiona the hot sands Such an oa United States ( 1919. brief L. E. victims in Alask Sandwicl but stirrir Ashton ar a dog sledge with med other man set and comfort to the 160 miles distant, After treating t} passed he arrive: Wales, where he In nearly every cabin Asht Surfman schoolhouse into z ir oases that one has crossed ré ny , > Gua! ep vd ead ‘ Wee ‘ " au © exp a what | f i On Dece y 6 9] j it from | tut N | vd if pe { nd at sn en ‘ it eit wes t 1 er a wee und | LAVithye al lead lay m took c¢ mul He i hos po per uN by meat 0 care for all the tl b for te we i 1 ‘ ed lal rep it the extraor irce and stay Ashton di read between t ceive there the “ nh the yx task would have Though part wartime, the Co e body its ow As lon to build up its ra that rf \ I fame nting Office at as of the

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST EV EIR Y. A New Day in Communication ty of a nation it country’s ate promptly ustomers commercial-t ng of the better th tlantk from raw ifac i her po mat ling statior In the radio » domit British Marconi ¢ Marconi Wirele int compante America Vas durit few mol } pr pre radio bef of how the from a February 7,/920 patented apparatus which has much improved radio work. Instead of uti- lizing oscillations generated by vacuum tubes as has been the practice, the i! it OUR th er Senem ene nen! Hy yor OT f oscillations are now produced by a high-frequency alternator. This ma- chine can be used both in telephony and telegraphy. Its initial considerable, but the upkeep is com- paratively negligible. not mean that the vacuum tube has been discarded, for a limited number of these tubes are necessary to regulate the oscillations produced by the alter- nator and to superimpose the tele- phonie signals upon the continuous wave emitted by the machine. Per- haps the greatest advantage of this new machine is that the wave length transmitted may be varied simply by cost is This does changing the speed of the machine As a result of this invention, the patents of which are held here in the United States, the whole busi- ness of radio communication has un- dergone not only a scientific change but a transfer of control that means much to the future of this country in a political and commercial way. The two big radio companies already doing business quickly realized the real im- port of the Alexanderson invention. One of these companies offered to pur- chase something like $5,000,000 worth of the new equipment, at the same time requesting certain forms of pro- covering their future develop- ment. The vice president of the company manufacturing the Alexan- derson apparatus, realizing the serious- ness of any move that would give world radio control to foreigners, decided to first take the matter up with the United States Government. During the war the Navy had been in charge of radio, so the situation was explained to the Secretary of the Navy, and aid was promised in the effort to retain control of the fruits of our inventive work in this science of wireless com- munication. Secretary Daniels immediately ad- tection the matter V Ernst Alexander Swedish professor, ¢ tates in 1901] ind this country as a A year later he till exists. s credit, all Alexanderson con educatior lraftsimes compal which affiliation d inventions to hi Mr ending power by radio waves, and view he found that it was behind the power in correspondence with them of nature ceived the po while working W object in possible to put electric machine wave and vary thus making long therefore the modulations of 1uman voice, ible It i 1 by-product of the development of distance radiotelephony po evident that radiotelephony t isa method of alternation-current With the previou no more po tained radio wave ystem of wireles ible to transmit the in ordi power transmission park telegraph it was modulations of the human voi land telegraphy over wires and dashes of the Morse first Hertz of electromagnetic radia » than it would be to reproduce speech from code ! ry the dots " ihe »vered and tion. Then first use of electromagnetic Now « Alex- velopment of w telephony radio physicist wa who dis« determined the laws came Marconi practical comm with hi cit encompass the radio grew so fast the sit omplicated due to overs who made the wave for icatior omes } rele inderson which will world, During the war that has actually become atior rowding the air, Space in the as will be pointed out later. It that the war was negotiations conducted by radio, which led to the armistice. Now we must use this new type of service to remedy the lack of adequate means for com day of unprecedented international ether is not inexhaustible fact, to a close by also a as most people know, brought munication in this commerce With the aid of the latest radio equipment, the human ting upon electrical energy for wireless tran 0 horse power Expressed in another Used to Procure Correct Wave Lengths. Interior of a Big Attantic Coast Radio Station, Showing One of the Loading Coils That is In the Background is an Experimental Wireless Telephone Section way, the voice can now be intensified 100,000,000 times. Sound travels but 1090 feet a second, but when the human voice is directed upon a wireless telephone, it modulates ether waves that travel at a speed of more than 180,000 miles a second, But for the present we must leave wireless telephony and devote our attention to the business of telegraphy by radio. The fields of radiotelegraphy and radiotelephony are separate and distinct and it is not felt that the improve ments in radiotelephony will encroach upon the territory of radiotelegraphy. The relation is very much the same as the ordinary telephone bears to the telegraph. As a general rule it is cheaper and more accurate to send a message to a distant point by telegraph than by telephone, and it is much easier to preserve the secrecy of the com- munication, as a telegram cun be sent in code. It is ex ceedingly difficult to transmit a code message by telephone, as certain letters and words are practically indistinguish- able, On the other hand, when accuracy is not of special importance a message may be transmitted with more speed by telephone than by telegraph, as the words need not be spelled out. Furthermore a skilled operator is not required, and there is a personal element in the conversation when one man can talk direct to another which is lacking when the messages have to be transmitted through the medium of an operator. The telephone will be used largely in close-by communi- cations between the earth and airplanes and between shore stations and ships, but the system of transoceanic com- munication that will be employed for the present at least will be by wireless telegraph. It is likewise true that over- land radio communication has not yet reached so advanced a stage of development as transoceanic or high-power wireless, Returning again to Alexanderson and his scientifi ; achievements, we find that this engineer has perfec ted and letters to Congress calling attention to the extreme desirability of national that would avoid confusion in radio communication and bring about world-wide uniformity of practice. Mr. Daniels said: *‘ It is now practicable to erect a radio station so effective that its signals can be intercepted in every village in the world. Such an instrumentality can be of incalculable value in bringing the world together and furthering common understandings. If other countries have better communication services than ours with lower rates their nationals have a distinct trade advantage. It would be detrimental to our interests were the ultimate control of high-power radio to become lodged in a foreign corporation or in any foreign country.” What Mr. Daniels had in mind was that Congress should authorize government purchase and control of radio communication, placing the business under the supervision of the Navy. Congress, however, had just been fed up on gevernmen* ownership of the railroads and the telegraph, so the secretary failed in his plea. This opened the way for the organization of a powerful private com- pany to handle the matter and the result was the forma- tion of a strictly Yankee concern backed by some of our strongest financial interests and possessed of the patent rights to the Alexanderson radio apparatus. This new American company first purchased the British holdings in the American Marconi Company and then with the consent of the stockholders of the latter concern absorbed the American Marconi. This brings radioactiv- ity in the United States under American management for the first time. Next the new corporation entered into negotiations with the British Marconi Company concern- ing radio communication throughout the rest of the world. The result has been that the British concern has been given the patent rights of the Alexanderson alternator for use in the British Empire, by which action American-made radio apparatus becomes standard throughout the world. In South America a wireless company will be organized dressed action Continued on Page 32

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST sf ._ MADE BY THE MAKERS OF CAMPBELLS SOUPS ‘Ta reais sauce Vet, Sosy PH CAMPBELL GOMP ANY. + ADEN,N.J.USA Ask her to get Campbell's It will mean that you will have good beans every time—thoroughly cooked, deliciously . flavored, easily digested. It is so easy to get } Campbell’s (grocers have them throughout the United States and Canada) that there is no | ’ reason why anyone should ever be disappointed in the beans that come on the table. Have Campbell’s regularly. 15c a Can xcept west of Mississippi River and in Canada ioe vat ‘eas. 2 re. z

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(Centinued from Page 30 fifty per cent British and the \lexandet ator the Wave drunketr ered all the avail: t } t he Zageing The apparatus not tree has done uw this, but has it possible to run were even 1utomobiles abreast age iother grea ince in radio has ome from the velopment f t called b receiver, arrag whic allows simultaneous ending and receiv ing. In other word it will now be possi- ble to increase radio traffic by transmit- everal commu- ting nicationsor same 7 it y Ame after a en director ican Company THE SATURDAY EVENING POST . however, As for h parent corpo- ) only between oO that the excel ies will « nse eac! owned rnment there ition of onsider 1 other. half by Thus it rcled by two great corp J lar towa ration will rd link- It will give orld anc commer a i that there are 1 it wil ‘ial and only lable for the trar le space h 0 Opportt fiel r the alr ; Is crowded as as been inity for d. The carried on under ‘ I » longer a the main 10,000 to 20,000 meter- for trar 10.000 wind n md, but ocean th air for neans the ay ailable five such stations ese instal entific d adio of way ent the rate o twelve indicat ment f more tl ated t will be aye will be seven per cent These pre e that the illbe 175t lengths soceanic for its nat com- meters will not ay destroy such a coming it with twelve space in lations. € velop- wave f trans- words a e that lan one the so im- within , which spects, world’s imes as wave length. Through the use of this invention a receiving station which same wave length, and yet the receiving tation will be insensitive to the signals transmitted by that station, though it can receive messages from the other ide of the ocean. Just after we got into the war the powerful German wireless station at Nauen was used to drown our messages from the United States to Yankee ships and troops on the other side of the ocean. This muddled the American com- munications beyond understanding and caused Alexander- son and his associates to start investigations of remedial measures that led to the perfecting of the barrage receiver, which effectively shut out the German signals and enabled us to hear only France and England. Before this wireless talking was a one-way business. One person could listen, but could not answer back until the speaker had finished and both had thrown a switch simultaneously to reverse the process. A final wonderful radio development is the practice of photographic receiving of wireless messages. The instru- ment employed for this work is also a United States inven- tion, having been discovered by an electrical engineer named C. A. Hoxie. This instrument permits the eye to replace the ear in reading a wireless communication. It enables greater speed in receiving, greater accuracy and a permanent record. It will decipher messages that oper- ators were unable to get by,ear. In practice the machine has already recorded at the rate of 400 words a minute, which is as fast as a machine gun shoots. This matter of speed in receiving is extremely important in a commercial way, for it links up with the atmospheric- electric phenomena of the northern temperature zone. For years it has been found that the best time for transmitting all wireless messages between here and Europe was from four to ten o’clock in the morning. Speedy sending and receiving can condense the traffic into this most favorable period, or a greater volume can be sent with a minimum number of stations. When it is remembered that a pair of one in Europe and one here—can easily cost $2,000,000, the item of keeping down overhead charges by rapid sending will be easily appreciated. Expert operators have been known to receive thirty-five words a minute fora short time under perfect conditions, but average reception up to this time has been fifteen to twenty words a minute or 1000 words an hour. Heretofore it was poss ible to send faster than a message could be received, but now the situa- tation may be located close to a sending transmits on the stations tion has been reversed The mechanism of this new receiving device is com- paratively simple. The tape on which the message is recorded is propelled by an electric motor. Automatically this tape enters a developing fluid; then a hypo fixing bath; next it is washed in running water and dried by electric heat assisted by forced draft. All of this process is invisible, as it is effected inside of the little machine. The February 7,1920 message pours out of the wonderful device into a basket and contains an average of one word for every inch of tape. The time to record, develop, fix, wash and dry the tape is from two to four minutes. The rolls of tape are 1000 feet long and a continuous message of 10,000 words can be recorded without reloading the machi Mr. Hoxie says: “‘I hope to perfect the instrument so that in the not-far-distant future several photographic recorders can be attached to a single antenna and simul- taneously receive and record messages from Rome; Lyons; Carnarvon, Wales; Nauen, Germany; and San Francisco. This may be called simultaneous multiplex receiving from one antenna. When this is accomplished an interna- tional receiving station would have but a single antenna and in a room inside the there would be a row of machines with tapes pouring into baskets. One could pause at the first basket and read of the new president of Germany; stepping to the next basket he would read of a volcanic eruption in the Philippines, and only a few feet farther on would be the baskets marked London, Rome, San Francisco, § and Shanghai.” Briefly this is the story of radio communication for transoceanic service. Over in France, where war and its after effects have forced scientific thought to a high degree of activity, a system of wireless telegraphy is going to be employed for warnings on railroads to increase safety and efficiency. This is of a hundred uses to which radio will be applied in the That the United States has succeeded in gaining the highest place in world- wide radio is a matter of national satisfaction. The clever engineers who perfected the inventions that made this out- come possible are deserving of the people’s thanks. *hine,. tation ydney but one coming years. Nitrate as a Cost Reducer F ALL things that were essential to our national suc- the days of war nothing ranked higher in importance than ammonium nitrate. Back of every pro- jectile that was hurled toward the enemy was a propellant made by treating cotton or glycerin with nitric acid. Also every shell that was designed to burst contained an explosive that had been made by treating toluol, benzol or ammonia with nitric ; It was for this reason that when we entered the war this country found itself in a dependent position so far as sufficient supplies of nitrate of ammonia were concerned. Down in Chile there were large deposits of nitrate of soda, but this sour: ssential chemical was several thousand miles distant from our local powder manufac- turing plants and there was alv po lity that some enemy nation might gain control of the seas, cutting off our nitrate supplies and ; mercy of a foreign power because of our la of result of this serious situation th United States were called upon to solve the problem and get us out of the di- lemma. There was cess in of the ¢€ NACINE t at the ammunition. Asa great chemists of the = = 4 Apparatus for the Fractional Distillation of Nitrogen at the U. | = a Fi : also the further fact that we any provision might make for supplying nitrate in war would beequally profitable in furnish- ing us with an ade- quate supply of fertilizer to fill agri- cultural needs in times of peace. Unfortunately here in this country we have no deposits of natural nitrates, so it was necessary to arrange for the production of artifi- nitrates, either from the gases of our by-product ovens or from our atmos- phere. Investiga- tion quickly showed that the capacity of our coke ovens to supply nitrate was quite limited, so all efforts were centered on getting nitrogen out of the air. There were several meth- ads by whith nitro- £éfcouldbeobtained from ordinary at- mosphere. After an extendedstudy of the different plans it was finally decided to a | cial S. Nitrate Piant, Muscle Shoals, Alabama (Continued on Page 34)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Continued from Page 32 f team and water materials coal, coke and such a plant was esti- rom air, ructing in the expense necessary to build a The outcome was te for the new plant was selected on ict coke ovens, ercised by the engineers in laying out le works was so planned that the ce partment proceede d without de lay ontinuously on a route that ran the entire plant will be tment fertilizer that will average as low a During the thirty-one years from 1883 to 1913 inclusive the United imported 6,516,031 tons of Chilean iltpeter, having a value of $209,971,246. There is every } new nitrate plants will make us States reason to believe that our largely independent of foreign countries for our necessary ipply. The bill of the United States is now running at about $150,000,000 annually, of which more being purchased and used in our fertilizer than sixty per cent i Southern States Here in with virgin lands which have not been exploited for genera- tions as have the fields of Europe. The time has arrived, must choose between reducing America we have been blessed however, when our farmer their lands to a barren waste or adding to the soil to make it repay the cost of cultivation, Not long ago Thomas Edison was asked to name the ce the electric light, and he wrote down, first from the atmosphere, making nitric acid and cyanamid. Sir Wil- liam Crookes, the famous British scientist, recently pointed out that the world’s food consumption was running beyond the capacity of the cultivated lands producing it. He ex- preased the conviction that the only way in which the world could ultimately avoid starvation would be through the bountiful use of fertilizer containing that most valuable Four-fifths of every breath we draw large part of our daily food is nitrogen, As to the lity of our exhausting the in our ufficient nitrogen greatest invention sir wireless: and se ond, nitrogen nt nitrogen and a atmos- seven possil nitrogen is | above every res of land there is as m as the world a year in the form of saltpeter, the principal nteresting to note that ich of thi phere element consurne in commercial form of 1 that the air 1 measureless supply of this essential element which can be used to restore our hard-taxed soil. Even here in America, where we are so prone to boast of There is no doubt therefore itrogen contains our population is increasing at In a re- cent ten-year period the population increased 21 per cent and our crops increa ed but 10 per cent. It is not iry to seek further for one of the chief causes of the high In the sixteen years prior to the commence- our absolute independence, , much faster rate than is our increase in crops, neces- cost of living. ment of the world averaged more than five per cent a year. the increase in the cost of living Letu war not assume, therefore, that all of our present troubles are due wholly to the effects of the war and the resultant inflation of the world’s meney. One way out is to increase our crop yields per acre without the employment of additional labor. This means the greater use of the principal plant foods, phos- phorie acid, potash and nitrogen. The only way that the American farmer can be per- suaded to use more fertilizer is to see that it is furnished to him so cheap that he can invest in it with large profit to himself. In past years it has been our practice to use cotton seed as a source of nitrogenous fertilizer. This plan was exceedingly wasteful because. of the fact that cotton seed has greater value as a foodstiaff' than-as a fertilizer. One investigator calls attention to‘the fact that though one ton of cottonseed meal has a-market value of $40 when sold as a fertilizer, it has a combined feeding and fertilizer value of something like $75 a ton. All we have to do is to investigate the food yields per acre in other countries prior to the war in order to dis- cover how great is the deficiency in farm production here

Mr. William C. Durant in the United States. In 1913, of the eight countries pro- ducing the largest quantities of the United States ranked at the bottom of the list. Belgium produced 300 bushels an acre; the United Kingdom, 245; Germany, 243; Austria-Hungary, 130; while the United States produced only 92 bushels on each acre. Practically the same thing is true of our other crops. Belgium produced 71 bushels of oats an acre; .Germany, 61; the United Kingdom, 42; while the United States raised only 30 bushels an acre. Of all the fertilizer we consume in the United States 35 per cent is used in raising cotton; 21 per cent is appor- tioned to corn; 17 per cent goes for other cereals; less than 3 per cent is used to grow tobacco; and the remain- ing 24 per cent is used to grow all of our other crops. It is evident therefore that our principal crop needing a large amount of fertilizer is cotton. Not long ago some experts in Georgia investigated the fertilizer situation in their state and found that the Georgia planters were using a fertilizer composed of ten parts phosphoric acid, two parts potash and two parts ammonia. The research developed the fact that there would be a large increase in the per- acre yield of cotton if a fertilizer were used that contained seven parts phosphoric acid, two parts potash and five parts ammonia. All these facts tend to prove that there is urgent need for a greater supply of nitrogen here in the United States than can be furnished us at present through the operation of our by-product coke-oven plants. Germany did not dare to start the war until her great chemists had developed the cyanamid processes to a point where the German people were independent of the Chilean nitrate supplies. Even though there may be no more wars, we have with us a harassing problem that is known as the high cost of living. Nitrate is one solution, and it is to be hoped that every possible encouragement will be afforded to make successful the practical commercial operation of the immense nitrogen fixation plant in Northern Alabama. A Record in Industrial Growth O MAN who does a big thing can ever see far enough into the future to measure accurately the outcome of his act. Charles Goodyear, dreamer though he was, never imagined that by accidentally dropping a lump of his rub- ber mixture on a hot stove he had provided the basis for the building of what will soon be the world’s largest potatoes February 7, /920 manufacturing industry. Without vulcanized rubber there would be no great motor-car business such as exists to-day. Civilization is largely built on transportation and no phase of transportation ever developed in history is equal in importance to the evolution of the automobile. Wheeled vehicles were used in the early days of Babylon, but, strange to relate, there were no really valuable improvements in actual road transportation from the time of the oxcart of Pharaoh until in 1885, when Carl Benz ran his horseless carriage on the streets of Mannheim in Germany. This was the first road vehicle to be propelled by an internal- combustion hydrocarbon motor. Earlier steam vehicles for highway travel in England and France had failed dis- mally. Even Benz met with such prejudice that the city authorities only "permitted him to drive his crude machine on certain streets at specified hours. It was only as far back as 1892 that Charles Duryea completed and ran the first automobile in the United States. Automobile manufacture on anything like a noteworthy scale did not commence until 1903. At that time about a dozen different cars were being produced. To-day there are about six hundred motor-vehicle manufacturers in the United States. The automobile industry at present em- ploys more than a million workers and represents an in- vestment of approximately one and a half billion dollars, which is more than the capitalization of all the national banks in this country. More than six million cars are now being used in the United States and it is safe to estimate that the total mileage of these vehicles will average not less than twenty billion miles per annum. The war had a serious effect on the automobile industry, especially the manufacture of passenger cars, as is evi- denced by the fact that the wholesale value of passenger cars in 1917 was more than a billion dollars, while in 1918 this value only totaled a little more than $700,000,000. The advances of the industry to a normal production in 1919 were nothing less than amazing and suggest the ex- treme virility of this youthful business. And as for commercial vehicles, the story of the past years is one that shows even greater progress on the road to prosperity. Back in 1904 manufacturers in the United States only produced 411 motor trucks. In 1918 the pro- duction of these vehicles amounted to 227,250 trucks, with a value of more than $450,000,000. Just what the pro- duction of trucks totaled in 1919 I am unable to determine, but the registration of commercial vehicles last year was approximately 700,000 cars as compared with 593,092 cars in 1918. The production of tractors in the United States has increased from 29,670 in 1916 to 314,936 in 1919. Just what this great increase in the number of tractors in the United States will do for the agricultural industry of the nation may well be imagined. It is extremely interesting to note that though European nations started to develop their automobile industries before the idea had taken hold in the United States, the subsequent progress in this industry throughout the world represents a signal victory for America. Here in our own country, where we have in excess of 6,000,000 cars, there is approximately one car for every twenty of our inhabi- tants. In England there are only something like 180,000 cars, or one motor for each 268 of inhabitants; in France there is one car for every 402 people; Germany, one car for every 684 people; Italy, one car for every 1000 people; Austria, one car for every 2700 persons; and Russia, one car for every 5300 inhabitants. No figures that could be compiled would represent in more conclusive fashion the amazing growth of automobile manufacture in the United States. It is also probable that this country will remain the world’s greatest exporter of motor vehicles. Six years ago we were exporting about 25,000 passenger cars and 1000 trucks annually. Our exports at present total more than 70,000 passenger cars and 16,000 commercial vehicles per year. All of which leads me to the story of a man who is one of the dominating personalities of the great American auto- mobile industry that is spreading its force not only throughout our own industrial fabric but is certain to show its activities in all parts of the civilized world. Most Americans have read the tale of the early development of the automobile in this country. We have heard of the early struggles of George Selden, who held the first patent on an automobile that was filed in the United States. We have read of the bitter legal battles that followed. Sut let us pass over the inventors and the other pioneers who exerted such tremendous force in the initial launching of the motor-vehicle business and turn to one who must be conceded to be a genius in the production and distribution of automobiles throughout the world to-day. I refer to William C. Durant, the president of an automobile com- bination that will soon be the largest single corporation that is doing business here on the face of Mother Earth. No industry can become a giant among industries without in that industry some leader developing and becoming a giant among men. Mr. Durant was born in Boston fifty-eight years ago and started his business career as a mill hand in his grand- father’s establishment at Flint, Michigan. Here he learned (Concluded on Page 37) —_

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Ter Wore cat grat _— —— ST (Concluded from Page 34) he lumber business and prepared himself for a business adventure in an organization that embarked in the carriage-building in- stry. The total capital of this little con- known as the Durant-Dort Carriage Company $2000. The product the new company proposed to turn out was a little two-wheeled runabout designed to satisfy the needs of the farmer: of the Middle West. Mr. Durant’s business _ pered and it was not long until his plant was pro- ducing 100,000 buggi $a year, a success so ensation: ~ of ‘its kind that it should have forecast » probable later achievements of this remarkable mar With his clear vision of the future, how- ever, Mr. Durant early perceived that the horse-draw? vehicle was destined to be automobile and he was » enter the field of manu- facture of m« ars, founding a company that started the production of a now well- known automobile its production he cern Supe rseded by the one of the first t tor « progressed so fast t by 1907 he was employing 13,000 men in a single plant. Perceiving the advantages in codperation and amalgamation of interests, he formed the General Motors Company in 1908, using this large corporation to procure con- trol of five motor companies, all in addition to a large number of concer that produced automobile accessories The new company’ rapidly and in 1909 the profit of nearly ten — dollars. business expanded concern sh 10owed a The expansion was so rapid, however, that in 1910 the comp needed twelve million dollars to pay for enormous stocks of raw materials that had been accumulated to atisfy the needs of a rapidly growing busine Wall Street bankers decided to loan the money, but — the deal a costly one to Mr Under the con- ditions impose 1 he W is reduc ed to the posi- member of the of | the ir agreement. voting trust company’s affairs Patience however, pe rsonal accumulated all the tion of a mere that took under a proved to be l le in nis Case, and he not only held on to his holdings of stock but additional shares he was able to purchase during the trying days that followed. In the meantime he organized another motor company and this concern grew so fast that within a few years the company had in- creased its output of cars from a trifling beginning to more than 200,000 cars an- nually. A bit later, when the found the y had a good {hing in Motors, these people decided that expiration of the voting trust they hold on and go ahead with the development. But this was not in exact accordance with Mr Buenel’ plans, and when the meeting was held it was a d that he and his friends controlled the ek; o a new board of directors was chosen for General Motors and the big company again passed into the hands of the man who had retained his I the great organization he had er During the early 4 the automobile indu investment 1 the minds ¢ It Wa money lenders General on the would company’s as an i tion’s leading financier the story runs, that Mr in 1908, as Durant had a chat with Henry Ford at a New York hotel. Mr. Ford had not developed his car then to what it is to-day. ny was not very well nd, believing that he had enough money, was thinking seriously ness. He offers 1 to sell hi Mr. Durant for $8,000,000. approac hed ar umber of his banker friends in the hepe that they would join him in the purchase of the Ford establishment he was met with a flat fusal. The financiers pointed out that they didn’t have any faith in the automobile industry and that they considered it was their red to discourage the whole motor-car busii of retiring from busi- s whole plant to When "acand reiu At present there are more » than eighty operating divisions and subsidiaries under the General M« wing. The capitaliza- tion now is considerably in excess of $1,- 000,000,000 Production of passenger Cars and trucks by all of the General Motors units in 1914 was 68,900. The capacity of the same company in the fiscal year to end July 31, 1920, is more than 500 ,000 passen ger cars, 44,000 trucks, 75,000 farm im- plements and 18,000 tractors. The gross earnings of tl ter new concern in 191% totaled $326,000,000. In 1919 the earnings were approximately $400,000,000 It is not necessary to call further atten- tion to the marvelous success that has at- Mr. Durant’s activities in building smor yross aU THE SATURDAY the greatest industria! corpor: ition in the world. The chief question is: ‘*How has he succeeded in bringing about this accom- plishment?” It is not my purpose to write merely a biographical sketch of a successful man. The point of value in every such case is concerned with the methods that have been employed. What we all desire is infor- mation that may be applied to the regula- tion of our own lives. We are all seeking success of one kind or another and most of us assume that there is something more than mere opportunity back of the rise of any man who has attained to a high posi- tion of leadership. No man who is not a dreamer or iacks in imagination could ever succeed in building such a large organization as is the General Motors Corporation to-day. There fore, first of all he is a dreamer of big dreams. People who do not know have sometimes referred to Mr. Durant as one who is chiefly a financier; but this is not who true, for the greater part of his attention given to the mechanical details of the prod- ucts he ~~ Those who ees him best have had occasion to discover that he can pick out the tec hnical fault in a piece of machinery quicker than most mechanics who devote practically all of their time to the building of motor cars and allied products. Many are the stories that are told of how he has ordered changes in various shop designs following a hasty visit to one of his numerous plants. There is no bluff or bluster about the man One of his close associates tells me that in al of his years of intimate acquaintanceship he has never heard Mr. Durant raise his voice in anger or argument. He is finicky to an extreme. Everything must be flawle This applies to his own clothes as well as to his business plans. He acknowledged to me that he had not mastered the art of delegating all detail to others. It is for thi reason that he remains in such close with every part of his wide busi: matter how remote. Frequently he tour foun working away with aruler and pencil, layi out an advertisement or preparing a form for some special type of report. a man of only medium height and p} he possesses great driving power Though able to work long hours wit - eeming to dissipate either his strength or his enthu slasm One of his friends inquired of him the secret of his success. ‘I try never to make the same mistake tw ig was his reply. When asked if he « ‘Never!”” And then worried he said: added: ‘‘In the day- time I’m too busy and at night I’m too sleepy.” But as I sat chatting with him and di cussing current events it appeared clear to me that the chief business assets of this automobile wizard were two in number and were his smile and his sympathy. To su ceed one must have friends, and this man has them by the hundred. Whether ac quired or natural, it is nevertheless true that the Durant smile is perpetual. No matter how serious the subject, you are always aware that there’s a twinkle in his eye and a laugh just under the surface ready to break forth. He be m4 ves that men were made to li as well as talk and the observance of truth hes helped him immeasurably in h contact with others. The Durant plan first to bend every effort to having his as- sociates settle their differences among them- selves; for,ashesays, then the scheme agreed ten upon is all their own. But if they don’t settle the matter in dispute, then the Gen- eral Motors president accepts the respon- sibility and makes the decision for them. Durant of accused No one, has ever any EVENING POST His modesty and mildne: In the management inherent and personal. of his bus ness or va is no- lack of effort ond all the resources ; of his | concern are thrown into the enterprise. In the management of his company he is not surrounded by a kitchen cabinet, pernicious circle of parasites more ofte: disrupts a corporation and breeds disloy alty than any other single « ‘ people who want to reach him with their grievances, exercise to an extreme degree the conser s the man is more democratic than most of Michigan during the lion: aries than eve 1 Ca goa n ivcmeieed I found him going to the 1e workman in the early with workmen unle int explained to me part of their faith ir . = of mankin 1. in the labor world Mr

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and overtook the runaway in a dozen jumps It was mechanical, all of it; the quick pur- iit, the deft flick of the rope —he and Roadrunner had been doing it for so many ear Sut when the young rider came up Johnny was fighting mad ‘“‘Here’s your blooming c-cow!” he said, tuttering in his rage “But when you peak to me again, young feller, you smooth uut your tongue a whole lot! You get For if you don’t pread all over that and get it good! u'll maybe get your nose our face like a pie.” “So far,” aid the other, “I been able to take good care of my nose. And if it comes to that, why there no time like the pre ent. You climb down off your horse and = oe iy % ee What luck youll have Johnny opened his mouth, then closed it wail He was looking into a flushed, angry face; a boyish face, blue-eyed, cheel that would have been pink if they had not been tanned; a firm chin and “¢ " Johnny said, and turned a deep red, “* I thought you was a man.” “And | thought you was a man too,” hot back the girl. ‘*¢ we both made the same mistake, was! it?’ Johnny Christma pale at the in- ult. He flung off his rope and started the yearling along the trail *You can go as far as you like, of course, he said, his throat constricted with fury. I can't fight a lady *] got it on you then,” mocked the angry girl ‘I ain't got any ich handicap. What I just said goe You climb down ff your horse and I'll Pa Phe crazy gain and en- yearling broke deavored to get away on the back trail. Coincidentally the rest of the bawling tampeded and scattered through the brush Again Johnny Christmas and faithful litthe Roadrunner acted according the instinets of the cow country For f an hour they whirled and crashed bunch about through the brush; and when at last the half-wild brutes had been bunched ind started down the trail again John had very neariy torgotter his wrath The yirl, too, had lost her white-faced rage The two reined in as they came up and both grinned, wiping away the grimy sweat ‘l got to beg pardor ma’am,” said Johnny “I’m mighty quick-tempered when I'm spoken to thataway. I wouldn't have said it if I'd known you was a lady.” Chat’s all right,” said the girl. ‘“ You're a smooth hand with the rope —and that’ some little cow horse Whereupon Johnny forgot even the memory you got there.” swelled proudly and of his recent wrath For to the cowman his horse is as the first born to a doting parent I'm Johnny Christmas,” he said ‘| been workin’ down in the valley for fifteen year Thatcher & Paulsor But for the last two years I been runnin’ my own stock.” “I'm Kirby Medlin,” said the girl I live down here in the Apajanti W hat you aimin’ to do up here in the hills, Johnny?” “Why,” said Johnny, I beer of buyin’ a little ranch and settlin’ dow: I'm gettin’ old, Kirby The girl looked him over gravely, noting the athletic latent power in the virile figure that sat so saddle i t} at leng I reckon louch and the uggestion of carelessly in the “Well,” she I can’t blame you A mar ought to sett lown somewhere in a nice place where people won't step on him because he’s teo larned old to get out of the way Yes, I figure it that way,” neasiy But you carry your age well, old-timer.” Oh, I'm still able to totter round a tle,’ said Johnny tid Johnny ‘Still I don’t know about your settlin’ continued Kirby soberly. countrv is jown up here ‘This hill hell on old mer “Well, I'm not so old as all that.” Johnny was nettled. It's all right for a nan to say he is old, but it doesn’t sound well for somebody else to agree with him oo cordially. ** What I'm tryin’ this: There's a time when a man realizes that he has gone past the age of dancin’ and love makin’ and gettin’ married and all that stuff. Time comes to every man.” Oh, sure!” ‘Time to settle down and have a home. \ dog layin’ on the doorstep and a cat to keep down the deer mice. Maybe a few to get over THE SATURDAY EVENING POST THE BACHELOR Continued from Page 7 chickens—a garden—and a barn for the little horse.” ‘And no wife?” “‘Not on your life! That’s why I came up here—to be free. When a man’s married he’s sentenced for life. But as long as he’s single, why, he’s just like that old bald eagle you see hangin’ in the air up yonder above that peak—see him?’ The girl's eyes followed the outstretched finger and came back to a serious contem- plation of the young man’s face. “T see him,” she said “He's free,” said Johnny Christmas. “Free to go anywhere, Free as the air he lives in.” “‘And you're bound to be like him “You bet! It'd be easy to coax me into matrimony —)ust as easy as coaxin’ that old bald eagle into a cage.” The girl leaned from the saddle and held out her hand “Shake, old-timer,” she said warmly. ‘You said it all for me We're two of a kind. Freedom for- ever—and no weddin’ bells for us!” Johnny Christmas shook the gauntleted hand—a firm hand it was—that gripped hi The two smiled at each other. ’ said Johnny, “it’s fine to meet a girl like you.”” He contem- plated for a moment the boyish face framed against the tousled brown hair that was cut squarely across at the collar like an Indian's; the lithe graceful figure that sat in the saddle as though it belonged there. “I wonder why it is that nearly every girl a fellow wants to get married?” “Do they : ae “Well, most all of "em that I’ve met acted that way. Not satisfied to be pals with a fellow; to chum along, quarrel sorne times and maybe swap a wallop or two now and then and make up again— just like two boy friends But no, they got to start figurin’ right away on gettin’ married. Get to schemin’ how they can rope a feller by the hind laig and drag him to the altar Sentence him for life to buyin’ three square a day Aw, shucks, I’m glad | had sense enough to steer clear of it!” “But you're safe now “Sure I'm safe now! long breath of contentment “Shake again, Johnny! met you. I like you.” ‘Same here, Kirby! You're the right kind of agirl. More like a boy than a girl.’ So these two untamed young creature shook hands again and jogged on down the mountain side by side, for here the trail had been widened into a sled road for the cor venience of the woods hoppe rs wno broug! down to the ranch house the wood for the winter. The cattle were tired and submi ive by this time. They no longer tried to bolt into the brush, but were ' trail far ahead, r bering now the corral and the po ible feed of dry alfalfa there. A quarter of a mile from the bottom the trail doubled out and crossed the point of an open ridge and from Apajanti Valley lay Johnny Christ woked, admira his attitude The whole >o strong pay, meets meals Johnny drew a Say, I'm glad I ‘ ing wearily along the mem this point the whole pread out before the gaze mas stopped his horse and tion showing in every line of It was well worth admiratior floor, hundred of acres of level lar d, was one solid mass of green alfalfa. Be neath their feet was the old ranch house and near by the huge hay barns and cor ral Ringing thi fertile valle y the hill swung round with their different green of All over the hil rose the cheerful tankle-tankle of bel valle \ evergreen fir and pine | ‘This where you live?” asked Johnny. The girl nodded “Daddy came here forty years ago,”’ she aid. “He got it for little or nothing. Land wasn'tvaluablethen. Timeshavechanged.” ‘Your dad— is he livin’ yet?” The girl shook her head “No, dad he died—a year ago. I been runnin’ the ranch I and the boys Then there’s Carmencita. She cooked for dad forty years ago. I reckon she’s boss of the ranch now.”’ She flashed a smile at Johnny Christmas. “You know, when somebody gets your goat when you're a kid, why, that one still has it after you’ve grown up. You may not be afraid of anybody else in the whole world, but when that particular per- son is about, why, you feel small and scared. You can’t help it. Say, you thinkin’ of buyin’ a ranch round here some place?” “T sure am!” said Johnny. “This coun- try looks good to me.” ‘Allright; when you get ready to stock up, why you come over and see me. I reckon we can make a trade.” “Sure, Kirby! What you got to trade?” “Oh, most anything you need. Cows and I suppose you'll want a few buttermilk calves to start with along with the cows?” “Sure! Yes, I'll come over as soon as I’ve found a ranch that suits me. Besides, I like to talk to you. You're the only girl I ever found that could talk like a boy and not want to get married right off.’’ Johnny corral helped turn the cattle into the From the opposite side of the little valley a great clat- tering rose and two horsemen came plunging down out of the forest and headed up toward “Gimme a Shot at That Knot Hote, You Seifish Old Teeter SInipe,"' He Said the corral, making a furiou they hit the level floor and id of dust “They're just my boy a” crambling as traightened said Kirby, out in a ek “coming in to supper “Boys!” ejaculated Johnny Christmas. “Look at the whiskers!” “They're the same boys my dad brought in with him forty years ago,” explained the girl “They've been with us Gettin’ pretty old and stiff— but [ wouldn’t trade ‘em for younger men at that.” The horsemen came up and reined in, grinning at the girl. They were indeed far from young. Perhaps they would average Kirby introduced them and they started on ever since, close to se venty. to the young mar toward the barn. ‘Come up to the | se and have sup- per,” invited the girl. “‘Carmencita’s going ve roast venison. You can stay all and the b will be glad to talk ranches and tl lhey’re good casiens 99 ngs with you. I'd like to do that,” said Johnny He was a trifle house after supper Johnny was talking to the foreman. His name was Benijah McKee and he wore chin whiskers of the 1849 model “Say, Johnny,” said the ancient cowboy, ‘what you in such a hurry to buy a ranch for? Why don’t you stay here and help us out this season? My rheumatism is givin’ me hell this summer; and besides we're goin’ to be short-handed—with an extra- heavy crop of alfalfa comin’ on. You stay, Johnny. After a summer here you'll know the country better. It’s always well to get pretty well acquainted with a country be- fore you buy a piece of land.” ionely, bunk February 7,1920 “There’s a lot in that, Mac,”’ conceded Johnny. “Besides, I like the Apajanti Valley. And if you’re sure Kirby ‘ “Kirby leaves it all to me,” said old Benijah with dignity. ‘I’m foreman of the Medlin ranch. More’n that, she likes you. She told me so. She said you was the only man that ever come to the Apajanti and didn’t start out bein’ fresh. She don’t want to get married, you see, and these fresh tenderfeet shorely get on her nerves. You stay and help us, Johnny.” “T'll do it,” said Johnny Christmas. Pees HERE is no knowing how long Johnny Christmas might have gone on working for the Medlin ranch, for the Apajanti was very beautiful and Johnny was tremen dously happy. In fact he did not realize just how happy he was. But he seemed to have forgotten that he intended to buy a ranch for himself. Really he did not want a ranch now, for he had found the land of his dreams. Gradually the superannuated cowboys relinquished the hard riding and they now nodded at each other, smiling wise old smiles as they watched Kirby and Johnny Christmas go dashing recklessly over the rough ridges—for the old men knew good horsemanship when they saw it. Gradually too, they turned to the more sober work of getting the hay into the barns, overseeing mostly and directing the work of the transient laborers who were brought up from the valley for the haying season. However, old Benijah McKee still clung stoutly to his foremanship, for such things are like the titles granted by royalty and are not to be laid down except for death. But Benijah ex- ercised the functions of his important office from easier paths than those along which the two younger people harried the baw] ing herds. For Benijah’s rheumatism was pretty bad, what with the approach of win ter and another added year of age Johnny had found a girl that suited him exactly. Nothing silly about Kirby. She was a sublimated boy; a girl free from femininities, yet wearing the mysteriou charm of another sex. There is something in men that longs for the companionship of a woman in the wild country; a compan- ionship free from the complexities of love, marriage and their attendant problems Just why this wistfulness in the man’s heart nobody knows. Perhaps it is an atavistic thing; a heritage handed down from the days when our hairy ancestors traveled the wild places with their mates by their sides, fierce women who partook of none of the softer femininities of to-day but who rather were more like men. Perhaps. But the yearning is in the hearts of all present-day men who love the wilderness. Johnny Christmas had it. And here ir the Apajanti he had found the girl who answered all the requirements, so why should he not be satisfied? Together he and Kirby rode the range day after day, growing lean and tanned as the summer crept on toward autumn; camping at noon in the far-off gulches, sometimes in com- pany, sometimes miles apart, but always riding home together in the evening when the sun was sinking into the Pacific beyond the gloomy Coast Range, wrapping itself in its rich warm blanket of crimson after- glow. And always it was the frank joyous intimacy of boyish comradeship. “Kirby, she’s found somebody that can keep up with her,” grinned old Benijah one evening, watching the two young people racing homeward from the green hills. The other old cowboy straightened up from mending a stirrup leather and looked at the approaching dust cloud with speculation growing in his dim old eyes. “Say, Mac,” he said musingly, ‘‘d’you reckon ce ‘You stop right there, Sam Pelly!” said the old foreman with dignity. “* Kirby ain’t a marry in’ girl. She’s got too much respon- sibility here.” “I didn’t say anything,” Sam peevishly. ‘You was goin’ to say something,” in- sisted old Benijah. “‘ Besides, Johnny Christ- mas wouldn’t marry the Queen of England Continued on Page 40) protested old —— —— —— +. OS ——— —— en aio a as A nit ge

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ear. Fe ; 40 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7,1920 A Continued from Page 38 half-breed is exactly like feedin’ a chaw of in the patches of moonlight—‘“‘to-night I had gone home, but still the convivialists ] y t that} i woman hater tobacco to a wild elephant. It drives em want you to come on home. I ask it asa_ se uffied about over the floor. { ‘ ‘ e | ecaust avin’ crazy.” favor, Johnny.” Johnny led the way back to the grove he met ted to get n iv Johnny relaxed suddenly and dismounted. He led Roadrunner far heard hit ae the two antiquated cowboys, Car- “That's different,” he said, looking into out into the woods and tied him to a tree Ble hee . S .. Lopez had come to the Apa-_ the girl’s eyes, which were almost level with Kirby followed and did the same with her 1 wagyge prenist ( whiskers. janti v Big Jim Medlin and his wife his. He started on with her. Presently he own horse. There were no words, but there He. he, he! forty years ago. She was the cook at that laughed. was a mutual understanding. Together the Vhat e matter with you?” de time—a Spanish Indian half-breed, mas- “What you laughin’ at?” asked Kirby, two went back to the grove and took the led Be i} ive of frame, massive of features, with a relieved at the change in the young man’s rope from Sime Turner’s saddle, tying it Not ' He, he, he!” high hawk nose that made her ry le mood from tree to tree across the road at the he 1 fore ed too, ome strong-minded queen of ancient his- “I just thought of somethi ng. fun ny, proper height to catch a mounted man We he said iybe you're right at tory. And like the cowboy by ad stayed said Johnny. “Let ’s hurry home. about the middle. Ay after Big Jim and his wife died and went to He glanced at the hornet’s nest as they ‘If you laugh,” said Johnny, ‘‘I reckon Jol ( . { he’s an old their places up on the green shoulder af the passed and laughed again. Kirby followed I'll half kill you ag hel ickled 1 Sa He’s come South Ridge. She had stayed—and no the glance and her eyes came back to “I won't laugh,”’ promised Kirby. here to settle down and let the younger mother could have loved Kirby more. Johnny's eyes. She sprang into the saddle They untied one of the horses and Kirby om hawe their da He st vled and More than ever Carmencita reminded and galloped down the trail after the white stood holding it, quirt in hand. Johnny ghed And his nd Kirt both of one of some ancient queen as she rode up miantilla Johnny Christmas mounted Christmas went up to the hornet’s nest and of em man the gulch in the vivid moonlight, her high Roadrunner and followed. Behind them carefully —very, very carefully —amputated ponte , He. he hawk nose and strong features accentuated the fiddlescraped andthe hobnailsthumped the bough from which it was suspended Nd Be vith } by the white mantilla she wore upon her the floor. Still going carefully so as not to waken the ells ‘ p and head. Behind her Kirby rode dutifully Occasionally a screech cut the thin night sleeping occupants of the big ash-gray foot ed ove j ed old dressed in skirt Kirby Medlin in skirts! air, for the Chuta Valley boys had just _ ball, hestoleup tothe open window, through e. which w ‘ ed iw kled by As usual there had been argument and as_ started going good, which still came sounds of revelry by night e range weather of fort , year usual Carmencita had won. Skirts it must They were nearly home when Sam Pelly Deftly he tossed the football through and Rem er. I'm foren ft ranch,” be, for this was a social event and the began to sing. The horses had steadied to ran for his life. Kirby saw him coming 4 Yi hut up now and amenities must be observed However, awalk. Thin and quavery, old Sam’s voice She turned the nervous horse loose with his 7 ‘ it the , ! Kirby compromised the matter, Sheslipped rose through the night, singing a song head pointed down the Apajanti trail, giv \ n t ! hee old im the skirt on over her chaps, but Carmencita popular fifty years ago: ing him a keen cut with the qu rt to start en wiping the tears out of his eye did not know tl Eyes like a morning star, cheek a-like a rose; him off well. Then the two conspirators He. he. he! Behind Kirby followed Johnny Christ Lora was a pretty girl, Goddamighty knows! 8? bac k into the deep sh adows and sat mas, jogging soberly along upon Road- Weep, oh, ye little rain! Wail, wind, wail Quietly down. Coincidentally the school | | the sy gy a little bald-headed runner, the two old cowboys bringing up {ll the lonely way along the Colorado trail! house door burst open i ind the ( huta Valley et went questing f i home whereir the rear. As they approached the school roisterers came forth. They were very e its fan here were plenty of house they saw that the building was illu And old Benijah joined in the refrain angry Perhaps they had caught it from ‘ ong th warm edge of the Apajanti minated and there came to their ears the with his cracked voice: the hornets. At any rate hearin; pes horse ‘ but it was a fastidious little hornet sounds of a screaming fiddle with the wr, », oh, ye little rain! Wail, wind, wail clatterit g down the trail toward the Apa i hard to please. It buzzed up the gulch rhythmic thump, thump, thump of dancing 47 the lonely way along the Colorado trail! janti they jumped to the pnw th ion that clear up to the Indian Ridge school hobnailed feet ; : it was Johnny Christmas flying homeward ‘ x miles from the Medlin rane} “Quite a crowd here,” said old Benijah Johnny Christmas swung down off his after having come back and dor 3 worst e achoolh | a grove of oal as they entered the grove and saw many |! e and opened the ranch gate. Car- They scrambled upon their rses i firand madrona, with manzanitainthe — horse tanding about tied to trees, mencita spurred on toward the house, for started in pursuit. Sime Turner w re laces where the in got through; “It’s the Chuta Valley boys,” said old she was sleepy. Kirby lingered a moment. to get under way ‘rom their comfortat i d from the level bench upon which the Sam Pelly. “You ain’t mad at me for spoilin’ your back i rkness Johnny wolhouse tood one co 1 look back The tied their own horse in the grove fight, Johnny?” she aske saw the wai ng rope gather wn the trail and see the little Apajanti and went on to the hoolhouse As they “Sure not!” Johnny smiled up at her out of the saddle and set him down he ke | een baize that tepped armencita sniffed with her good-humoredly. ‘“‘You maybe saved me’ inthe hard stony road a might) } 1 bee pread the d. Lifting capable from gettin’ my nose spread all over my thump. Six other unfor met the 7 eve e ¢ | look away to the west ‘Drinkin’ already,” she said. “We'll face like a pie—same as | threatened you’ same fate, for their wits moved sl wly, here of ev the y banks rolled not sta , the first time we met Remember that what with the darkness and the booze he tops of the gloomy Coast Range For half an hour nothing much hap-_ time?” Big Sime T rs » sit up I I was pretty good, and the little pened, though it was plain that the Chuta Kirby smiled, looking down at him. The look about hock et hesitated for a w ‘ llowever, it Valley half-breeds were getting ugly. Sud moon struck slantwise upon her face. Why “T bee \ . ‘In the ted to be re o it continued its denly she looked act and saw Johnny is it that a pretty girl looks absolutely stummick!”’ He looked about him agair juest, following the trail clear over to the Christmas surrounded by half a dozen ar- supernaturally beautiful by moonlight? and saw Chuta Valley men strewing the ( 1 Valley. where the men are big roug! yuing men. She beckoned Benijah McKee “Sure, Johnny,” she laughed, “‘Iremem- ground like ripe plums after a heavy frost : vn half-breeds, good-hearted when sober, to her side, ber!” “*Ev’body been shot!” he moaned. “Oh, f when drunl i} yin the latter “If we stay here any longer,” she said, The two old cowboys ambled past and my Lawd! rtunate condition the « of the white ‘‘there’s going to be trouble. You get went on toward the barn, singing together And presently Kirby and Johnny ros« with the flercene of the Indian. Johnny Christmas and we'll ramble.”’ softly: silently, stole out into the woods, mounted 4 al kor ne reason or another t e hornet As he started across the room on hi Sun time and storm time all the same to me. thei es and made a wide circuit over the if e the Chuta. It car e back toon n old Benijah saw the unmistakable Earth has no joy since I lost my Lora Lee. hills Alor g abo it midnight they struc! e grove at the schoolhouse That my igns of an argument that was ripe for the Look for my heart and you'll find it neath the a stock trail that they knew and went home ’ tinct which in the lower king finish with fist perhaps with guns. Old an tars. m ofter rpasses our own reason told it Sam Pelly joined him and the two old men — here they laid my lost love forty years ago! ” 4 t here was the place for its future home thrust in between the di putants, ‘ . QO: ba we econd day after the dance at it went to wor nd presently there “Kirby wants to see you, Johnny,” said The two young people were silent, listen- the Indian Ridge schoolhouse Johnny from the t f ik bough an asl { ing Bo dhcp ing the divide between ouse about ‘ e and ipe of a y Christmas allowed “Terrible sad songs they sing,” said the Ch ita Valley and Big Bear Gulch wher thall { ef t l was poy | r toward the door. Johnny he met old Gr: ' *hillips. Graney wa ed by a fine large far of hornet he asked, “They're good boys,”” said Kirby dream reputed to be a hundred years old and the ire eactl d ial as | J and Outside,” said Benijah. ily, looking into the night. ‘“‘They’ve been greatest news gatherer in thie state of Cali i he ! and culent as the ‘Run home, li'l’ boy!” said a sneering good to Kirb “fe fornia. He borrowed the makin’s, rolled f id hol i vy short wee voice ‘Yes,” said Johnny cordially, ‘‘they’re a cigarette and stuck it jauntily between 1] eered up the ny t chand etth ] Ik nny Chr tmas looked back over his good boy a his sunker lips. the little grove by the schoolhouse as houlder into the loose-lipped face of the For several minutes they stood there say- “Hear you was at the dance night afore e place for its home big Chuta man who had been crowding him ing nothing, but enjoying the silence last, Johnny,” he grinned. ‘Hear you cut D Yes, Johnny Christmas mighthavestayed fora fight. But before he could lunge back neither knew why. Johnny woke presently up real playful.’ lefinitely at the Medlin ranch if the ward the two tough old men executed a_ from his sweet abstraction, glancing up at said Johnny, “I was ther tle } et had « ‘ ‘ little teamwork and crowded him outside. the stars. “You better look out for Sime Turner, { est But a chain of ever “Come on, Johnny,” said old Benijah “Well, good night, Kirby.” Johnny. All the rest of the Chuta boys m the hornet’s humble } { erfully, “‘we're goin’ home.” “Good night, wr. took it as a big joke—after they wa P n't it, how often the whole trend of our ““Maybe you are—but I’m not,” said Johnny waited until Kirby had gone in sobered up, but Sime he’s makin’ war medi ves turns upon some trifling incident of Johnny. “Not right now.” He turned, the house after putting her horse away. cine a heap zealous. He's a bad Injun, hich perhaps we are entire , but Benijah and Sam Pelly got mysteri Di ectly he heard the door close he turned Johnny. bee nea watch hi lohnny tK 1 se¢ tr ! ously in the road, Rx lrunner and rode quietly back on the “T'll watch him,” said Johr y carelessly. est many times a ed the ! n “I’m foreman of the Medlin ranch,’ Indian Ridge trail. When he was out of 3 3n ‘ thinkir g of t e war medi- Ridge schoolhouse Indeed they had been piped Benijah severely, ‘‘and I order you _ he Sic bu tes tao Weill Romurtake actin, hat Sime Turner was making; he was tempted often to se 1 t through it to come on home,” He was within half a mile of the school- g the way the big half breed looked t had a ‘ ed lest they rouse “Order your head off!" said Johnny furi- house when he heard a horse following e rope flicked him out of the saddle t e inmates and | g distre ipon some ously, and made another effort to get past, him. He stopped and waited, looking back. and sat him down in the road. He smiled f her passe y. but Kirby caught his ern Aline t immediately Kirby Medlin loped in retrospect, but old Graney’s next remar} ; He’s right, Johnny,” shesaid. “Iknow up the trail, dressed in sombrero and chaps chased the smile away from his face Nd m Pel t 1 carried the how you feel—but there’s too many of ’em and spurs—her regular week-day apparel. though it had been wiped off by a hurried ender 1] ess | e where ere. You and I could hree or four, “Say,” grinned Johnny, “how did you hand. ent I ved I we can’t handle a Besides, if know?” “Sime he says by ain’t got any bu You § ‘ t westartanythingit’llw pinashootin’ ‘I guessed it,” said Kirby. ‘“‘ All the way ness allowin’ you to hang round the rancl ght asked Sam Px ind I don’t want any of 'em shot. They’re home I could feel you fixing it up in your went on the old gossip, smacking his lips ' Up to the Indian Ridge wlhouse? good fellows *when they’re sober—-good mind to sneak back here, so I waited until on his cigarette. ‘“‘Sime says reckons I what does Carmencita say? friends of mine. It's their whisky talkin’ Carmencita was asleep; then I climbed out you're tryin’ to marry the Medlin ranch.” She says we're goin’.’ now. Don’t you mind ‘em, Johnny.” of the window and followed you.” Johnny did not answer. The old man rely I'm ge to the dance,” “*But he hinted that I was a coward!” They laughed silently together like mis- looked uy 4. ‘om his cigarette, but did not at he ld foreman went out to meet K rby raged Johnny. “That loose lipped Sime chievous children first note the expres ion on Johnny's face. and John } i ent legs bowed from Turner!” ““Come on then,” said Johnny. “T met Kirby couple three hours ago,”’ fort ea of the vdadle “All right, you wait, Johnny. Some day Together they rode up ard looked cau- he went on, “over on the Chuta side of the i hear the Chuta Valley boys are comin’ you'll catch Sime Turner out on the trail tiously in at the open window. The old divide. She was chasin’ some fool calves " said Sam Pelly, tagging along and take him apart. He’s a bad one. But _ fiddle still scrape d away erratically, but the out of the brush. I told her what Sime ‘Well, L hope they don’t bring no whisky _to-night"’—she was urging him on toward fiddler was too far gone to follow a tune. said—he, he, he! I told her how Sime with them, Givin’ a drink of whisky to a the horses, where the mantilla showed white All the feminine part of the Chuta crowd Continued on Page 42)

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Old Graney blinked after him, forgetting his cigarette. ‘Now I gone and done it!” he said. “Me, I talk too much! Johnny Christmas he’s goin’ hell-bent down to the Chuta, and gosh darn it, I bet that my rattlin’ old tongue has started a killin’! What’n blazes did I have to go an’ tell him for? He's exactly as hot-tempered and high-strung as Kirby Medlin—and that’s sayin’ a heap.” He wagged his bald head sorrowfully. “ Al- ways did talk too much. Well,” he sighed as he kicked his bony steed in the ribs, “I feel sorry for Sime Turner if Johnny Christ- mas gets the draw on him.” Two hours later Johnny Christmas halted the sweating little Roadrunner at Sime Turner’s cabin. Three or four Chuta Val ley boys sat on the front-yard fence whit- tling and up, for they moking. They grinned as Johnny had been part of the choolhouse the night of the came gang at the dance “Hello, Johnny!” they “Hello!” — said ; “Where's Sime?” One of the boys jerked his head backward toward the cabin. ‘In there,”’ he said. ‘Tell him to come out Johnny. “I want to see him. “You can’ ’’ said the other, not moving from his seat on the fence. “Why can’t I him?”’ demanded Johnny, his anger rising higher with every said. Johnny Christmas. , will you?” said t see him, see hurt. He’s in bed there for may be and a week Johnny had a feeling of nt, for } e had been look- ing forward to thi Turner wit hurt him?” “Kirby Medlin. trail this meeting with Sime anticipation. “What She met Sime up on the Sime was on the out of his horse’s got off and mornin’ ul pickin’ a rock foot Kirby come up to Sime stopped her horse, Put up your hands and fight!’ she Ly Now Jol ny, no decent man w ll fight a lady, no matter if she begs him witl tears in her ey¢ Most men’ But § e he didn't «¢ “ him to y Kirby went r down. But traightened up she t under it and as she t nit. hin once, Then she got or her horse and rode back up the divide the w Ly he'd come. That's the way it happened, Johnny. I was right there and saw it all. ; anything « e your hands and fight!’ Then—zam!” **Did she knock him dowr “Sure! Broke his jaw too, in there settin’ his jaw now. all right. And I reckon it was comin’ to him at that— fightin’ with a lady.” Johnny Christmas turned Roadrunner about and started back “Well,” he said, “ “So long And sa Johnny, ain’t no hard feelin’s here you know.” just ‘ Doe Pets rs Sime got! 1 ” o long he that rat about that dance scrap Raa “All a joke “Sure! Alla b Johnny Christmas ing seemed to id Johnny, grinning “pame faintly Zz joke,” went on But, some struck him in the } t} chest A dull and the light had somehow gone out of the sky. For suddenly it had come to him that contir woman eyes of the have heavy ache persisted there ‘ I tally seeking the society of some one means prospective marriage in the world. He had thought it so easy to go on in the beautiful satisfactory way of boyish comradeship. But alas, he did not know that the god of love has ls all over the earth ye that looks from the face of so- ciety. Nor did he realize that these senti- els may not be ignored or laughed at. Now he would’ have to go! His wonderful dream was ended! Of course their associa- tion could not continue, now that people were beginning to think that he was “ going with” Kirby Medlin. He might talk until sentineis sentinels In February 7,/920 Judgment Day, explaining that theirs was but the ideal association of two superior beings who loved the wilderness—and loved it better because they could love it together. He knew in his heart that society never would believe. He paused as he topped the crest of the divide and looked down upon the green little Apajanti spread out below him. Here he had passed the happiest days of his life. He wondered why. Of course the Apajanti was beautiful, but then there had been other beautiful that he had visited. Why? He gave it up. It was long after dark when he came drag ging into the barnyard. Old Benijah cam: out to meet him, a lantern shining most absurdly against the white light of the moon. “That you, Johnny foreman. eos replied Johnr “I’m mighty glad!” spots a inquired the old v ly. Again a pang went through Johnny’ heart at the warm solicitude in the old man’s voice. Sam Pelly came up then, his bowlegs thin seen outside of their daily bearskin chaps—for Sam had been in bed “I’m might glad, Johnny,” went on old Benijah. ‘“‘We was gettin’ uneasy about you. Hop down now and Sam and me we'll put Roadrunner to bed for you.” The next day was Sunday. Usually they did not Sunday at the Medli ranch—though it was quite proper to mend saddles or break a casual colt or attend to any of the other chores outside the regular business of the ranch. Johnny Christmas packed his few be- longings and tied them on the saddle. Then he rode up to the ranch house to good-by. Carmencita was sorry to see him go. ven allowed her black Egyptiar queen eyes to mist a trifle, but Carmencita was built of stern stuff. She shook hand and wished Johnny good luck Kirby walked with him down to the front-yard ring her everyday chaps, sombrero, shirt and red neckerchief. I’m sure sorry you got to go, Johnny,’ said the girl. Her tone was casual, thoug! an expert might have caught a tremor lying work on one ¢ stile, wei blue flannel below the friendly words. “‘ You not goin’ to buy a ranch round here somewheres?”’ “No,” said Johnny, “I not.” Something was in his “You see, I'd al Medlin ranch. of spoiled me, I guess, mighty hard to plea e after this. I got to thinkin’ it over last night,”’ he went or “Winter's comin’ on. We got all the hay int Darns al i the cattle gathered up ar 1 guess throat choking him ys be comparin’ it to the e Medlin ranch has sort I’m going to be tne all. I—I reckon the boys can attend to gettin’ the winter wood down?” eal iid Kirby, “sure, Joh if you got to leave u He'll give Still Johnny he you go see you your time.” itated, looking wistfully 1 figure he had been riding wit! summer. It had seemed to him that the ideal companions} ip never would end. That was only twenty-four hours ago! And to-day “You folks have been mighty good to me, Kirt y, said Johnny | ISKLY. SO JOYOUSILY all Something got into his throat again and hurt him. He swallowed and swallowed, but it would not go down not entirely. ‘We tried to } y. We like you, If we hadn't | » wouldn't have been good to sir, we'd have chased you off t They shool hands, Johnny climbed aboard the tough little cow horse and turned about. “Well,” he *Good-by, That said, “‘g-good-by, Kirby.” Johnny! Good luck!” tmas was all. Johnny Chri went down to the barn, got his time, shook hand with the two old cowboys ar went on Roadrunner seemed to know that he wa beginning a long journey, for he dropped into the Mexican trot--a gait which en dures from rising sun to setting sun and leaves long miles behind it at the end of a day. As they entered the forest on the g Bear trail Johnny looked back. Kirby t on the stile watching him. He flung d into the air and the girl answered it her own gauntleted hand. Johnny t and the forest shut be- Apa- . entered the fore hind him. In that one janti became a th And if the litt] ttle hornet } ] moment the ing of the past. had not chosen the schoolhouse yard as his dwelling place have thrown the ash- Valley have Johnny would not gray football among the Chuta roisterers. Sime Turner would not Concituded on Page 44

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 43 10 » \ \ Al Government 4 Resolution |} E it resolved that it is the sense of the Joint Committee on Education of the United States Senate and House of Representatives that the motion picture in- dustry of the United States be requested to do all that Sie LA AA ho, Sars Se See = is within its power to up- build and strengthen the spirit of Americanism with- ak A a A a A A a LL in our people.” jer Commies ca Esuctven of ' | > ke is } HE greatest motion picture of its kind { ever seen, “The Copperhead”, had just | been made by Paramount when the above Resolution was passed. “The Copperhead” is a faithful screen re- | production of Augustus Thomas’ greatest stage play. Lionel Barrymore's matchless acting in the — simply a duty but the deepest, root of personal title role can now be seen by the entire country. happiness, lifting you above your own weak To see “The Copperhead” is to be born _ nesses, charging you with a strange new pur again as an American. pose in life. This motion picture will thrill millions of “The Copperhead” shows why Paramount : people as entertainment, but it will do more— is supreme You are entertained —but there's | it will show you that Love of Country is not something more. ADOLPH rea oy presents : CoppERHEAD — LIONEL BARRYMORE Founded on the play of the same name ma EBB pueae by Augustus Thomas, from a by Frederick Land ; FAMOUS PLAYERS ~ LASKY say coxrorarion (10 story Oy Frederick Landis ¢ ADOLPH ZUKOR Pres JESSE L LASICY (ne Pres CRCIL B DE MILLE? Cha Mayr 4

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T But be sure to look for the FI Chicago Seoteh LM a BP a OS si is} as $2 , 00 TALL label ¢ feature " THE SATURDAY EVENING POST STRAP LOCKS SECURELY UNDERNEATH EISEMAN, KAYE CoO., Mfrs. 4 Mfrs. EKCO Make Leather Goods A Wonderful Traveling Convenience New York FPITALL Patented and Forcgn wnirie 9 So erat ARROW NM. eo Eee ma DEVON IRLFEY — COLLARS follow fhe ARROW ano you follow ye Eee style me Pt ABODY (7 4 0 INC, VCAKERS Concluded from Page 42) cherished a He would not made the nasty remark and Johnny would perhaps have stayed on at the Medlin ranch forever, t g the range with Kirby, happy beyond mere words—and free. Per- haps! One by one as he climbed the trail to the Big Bear divide he passed places which brought vividly to his mind the lithe boyish figure he had left sitting upon the stile. Here it was the old salt log where a crazy maverick had once chased Johnny up a tree, Kirby laughing until she cried. Again it was the spring where frequently they met to eat the midday meal together. The dead ashes of their camp fire were there yet, and an old tin can in which they had made coffee. Farther on he noticed a bit of red cloth lying by the trail. Kirby had torn up her neckerchief to bind about Johnny’s finger, which had been lacerated by the rope. But as he got farther away the familiar spots grew fewer. At last he rode out upon the very crest of the Big Bear divide and have rrudge grucge. looked away to the north over a world of rolling mountair That way was his future—and freedom For fully five minutes he sat there, while something welled higher and higher in his heart and finally overflowed from his eyes. Suddenly he knew that freedom was a deso- late thing—unless he had Kirby to share it with him. It was not a matter of reason; es neither did he have to argue it with himself. It was as though a shutter had snapped back from before his eyes, letting him see into his own heart He turned Roadrunner so swiftly that the little horse came round on one hind leg. Next moment he was going back down the mountain side on a keen run. The eagle had just looked out upon a world of freedom and it did not look good to him Johnny Christmas drew a long sobl ing breath when he galloped down out of the forest and glimpsed the ranch house A figure still sat upon the stile, idly, care- less] lool ing down the vy illey. He flung up a jo is hand and the figure sitting on the stile returned the salutation and waited. As Johnr plunged to a stop be fore her Kirl y rose ‘Hello, Johnny!” she said, and smiled. And again an expert in such matters might have noted the merest waver of her voice and perhaps a si t r of the daunted eye something, Joh ny _ ‘Yes!”’ Johnny was on the ground now. He walked straight up to her. “I wish uu’d forgive me, K I don’t want to be free Maybe the eagle in go any wheres he wants to, Kirb but he’s damn lone ome while he’s doin’ it. No, sir, I don’t want to be free ot without you, Kirby. And if you'll marry me, why I'll let ’em say I married the Medlin ranch—and I won't say a word. For you'll know better and you're the only one that count I I love you, Kirl I love you.” Kirt trong bo t ing arms went round the poor feliow neck and tightened there “Say, did youjust find that out, Johnny?” he asked, laughing and crying down his neck. “‘Why, Johnr I knowed it all the time!” It was but a few minutes later, but it might have been years so far as Johnny Christmas was concerned. They sat to- gether upon the top step of the stile, not February 7,1920 caring or thinking of the observing world, for they were very happy. “And Johnny, let’s get started right,” said Kirby after a while. ‘‘ You remember, you said you liked me because I didn’t want to get married?” “‘Sure, I remember, Kirby!” | fooled you, Jot nny. All girls are alike, Johnny. I was layin’ for you—from the first day I met you—up on the moun tain. Don’t you blame me! Different girls have different ways of goin’ about it Me, I was after an eagle. And Johnny, you can’t coax an into the cage. You—you got to fly with him,” There was a long silence. “I’m glad,” said Johnny simply. eacle Christmas Inside the old hay barn peevishly at old Sam Pelly. “‘Gimme a shot at that knot hole, you selfish old teeter snipe,”” he said. Old Sam reluctantly complied. “They just kissed!”” he announced tri umphantly. “‘I saw ’em!” The old foreman took a long look, then straightened up and dragged his eyes from the knot hole. Jenijah pawed “Tt ain’t right for us to spy on ’em,”’ he said. ‘“‘You come with me round behind the barn.” Once behind the barn, old Sam lifted a flat rock, scrabbled in the dirt beneath it and brought up a long black bottle ““Now Sam Pelly,” remonstrated Benijah McKee, but old Sam interrupted him “T know—I know ‘**But that was fifteer years ago! e **But Carmencita tod it up except ‘On ver old finished for him triumphantly. ‘‘ This here’s one He held out the bottle to old Benijah McKee. Benijah hesitated wistfully was He pol ted the bottle toward high closing his eyes, and old Sam stood by watching him with increasing anxiety. ‘‘Happy days!” said old Benijah, smack !”’ he said And we promised her not except j Spec ial o casions,”’ Sam lost noon, ing his withered lips “‘Down the same old alley!” said Sam, and duplicated the old foreman’s achieve- ment **Now put her back under the rock commanded the old foreman. Sam Pelly complied, “Tl ir ay, about a year,”’ said old Sam sly ‘“*He, he, he!” Old Benijah cackled with him, remem bered sudder ly and frowned. ‘I’m foreman of this ranch,” he Sam Pelly, you put that rock bottle and stop gossipin’ about the family! Hear me?” “You go to hy rocking with his ae bet we'll be diggin’ her up agai: said | severely. dowt on that old Sam, you I’m yipped mirth. “I'll bet right The old foreman’ relaxed. He grinned ‘Maybe you're right,”’ he said. Some say the bottle stayed where it was put; others say not But in any event, sun went and the stars , showering the sky with scattered silver, round behind the barn two cracked old voices sang happily to the rising moon good-humored face right--maybe you're t when the down came out far, cheek a-like a rose Lora was a pretty girl, Goda’ n ighty knou Wi ee 1, On, Ye little MW ail, wind, wail All the lonely way along the Colorado trail! Eves like a morning ’ ’ ratn

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“ESTERBROOKS qt) DEI EA N CAMDEN, N. J. Esterbrook Pens “Next morning I went into Bissell’s tore. It was a nice-looking establishment on the principal business street, the show windows well trimmed and the stock kept in attractive shape Whatever else was the trouble with the business it wasn’t neglect. I estimated that there was about forty thousand dollars’ worth of merchandise in the place. Miles Bissell himself was a pleasant-looking man in the fifties, already on duty, though it was only eight o’clock in the morning. ““*T have been expecting this,” he said ubmissively when I told him who I was, ‘and I guess it is just as well for the end to come now as later. But please come back into the office; I hate to have the clerks know what is going on just yet.’ ‘In all my years of handling delinquent debtors I had never had one act just like that. I have had them get mad and offer to throw me out of their place, and I have had others become hysterical and pleading, but none who had given up without some kind ofa struggle. I followed Bissell bac k to the iffice; there was a little slump to his houlders as if he were tired, and as he went along he looked sort of regretfully at the goods on the shelves as if he were saying good-by. I noticed that the heels of his hoes were run over and he needed a haircut. ‘I haven't necessarily come down here to close you up,’ I said to him reassuringly after we had sat down in his office. ‘Very likely we can find some way out of it.’ ***T don’t believe there is any way out of t,” he answered evenly. ‘I owe a lot of money. I haven’t been able to send my creditors any money. I have had to let notes go to protest. And to think this is the end of thirty years’ hard work!’ ‘He was beginning to get excited, and that is an ob ef le in the way of getting information, ‘“**Oh, I guess it is not so bad as all that,’ I said cheerfully. ‘A business can be awfully ick and yet get well again. Let’s get right down to work and see just how you stand. Suppose you get out your stock book and we'll find out how much merchandise you have on hand.’ **Hehesitateda moment and then brought me a thick book with a lot of bills pasted on its pages. ‘I guess this is what you mean, isn’t it?’ he asked doubtfully. “*Why, no,’ I answered. ‘Those are only the bills for goods which you have received from wholesale houses. I want the book in which you write down all your We will see how much you have bought this year, and then by subtracting the amount you have sold we can find out ’ how much you have on hand now.’” purchases, How Not to Runa Business “He twisted round in his chair a little and looked out of the window a moment before he answered: ‘I guess I have not got a book like that.’ “IT had known plenty of retailers who did not kee pa stock book, so I was not very much surprised; I would have to go after information in some other way. It was to my interest to keep him from getting rattled and so I said easily: ‘Oh, well, then, we'll get along without the stock book, I presume you took an invoice of everything in the store the first of the year and we can tart from that. Suppose you bring me those figures.’ “There was another moment of embar- rassment before he began to explain: ‘Well, you see, I didn’t take any invoice the first of this year. We were awfully busy about that time F ““*You didn’t take any invoice last year, either, did you?’ I asked him. **To tell the truth, I didn’t.’ ***And you have never taken an invoice during all the years you have been in busi- ness?’ “*T had guessed right; he admitted he had never known exactly how much goods he had in the store since he first opened up, thirty years before. ““*That is a kind of careless way to do business, Mr. Bissell,’ I said. ‘Suppose your store should burn up some night; you would have a hard time to collect your insurance unless you could prove how much stock you had on hand.’ **He weakly agreed with me; in fact his agreement was so weak that I chanced another guess: ‘You-haven’t got any fire insurance either?’ I asked. February 7,1920 ***No, I haven't,’ he answered, looking at me sort of miserably. “Both Miles Bissell and his creditors had certainly been lucky all these years. There had never been a moment during his busi- ness career when he might not have been wiped out completely; he would have nothing with which to pay his debts or to make a fresh start. I sat considering what to do; Bissell got up from his chair and fussed unhappily round the little office, aimlessly reading old letters, sharpening the same lead pencil half a dozen times or pretending to look for something among the piles of paper on the tall desk. Evidently he was trying to make up his mind to confide in me. After a while he sat down opposite me again. ‘I am going to tell you something,” he said, ‘that I have never told anyone before.’ fis voice was sort of halting and hard to manage, but he went on doggedly: ‘The trouble with me is that I am a coward. I am afraid to stand up and look things in the face. The reason I have never counted up my stock and found out how much I owed was because [ was afraid I wouldn't beso well off as I thought I was. I started to do it once a few years ago, but the debts bade fair to add up to such a large amount that I got cold feet and burned up the figures rather than find how much the debts really amounted to.’ A Bashful Boy Grown Up ““*T guess I have never really grown up. I am past fifty-five years old; people see me round here with wrinkles and whiskers and think I am a strong and rugged char acter, as a man of that age ought to be They don’t know that down in my heart I am afraid to stand up to the facts of life. **So near as [can comes from having been terribly bashful as a boy, and never getting over it. I was born on a farm and the family did not move to town until I was fourteen. <A little while after that I was invited toa party I was tickled to death at the idea of getting into society with the town crowd, and got my self all fixed up with a new suit of clothes, patent-leather shoes and even a gold scarf pin. I put perfumery on my silk hand kerchief. It was dark when I[ got to the house of festivity and from across the street I could see a lot of boys and girls inside, with the front door opening every minute or so to let in more, I felt sort of shy about busting right in amongst them, and so I thought I would stand behind a tree in the front yard and wait until they got to playing some game so my entrance wouldn't be quite so conspicuous. figureout, my cowardice Every once in a while I would think a favorable time had come for me to make my entrance into society and I would sidle over toward the front door, only courage and decide to wait a little longer The end of it was that I never went in at all. I never told anyone about it. When my folks asked me about the party I said I had a pretty good time; and the next day at school when the girl who gave the party asked me why I hadn’t come I told her to lose eems mighty childish, doesn’t it, and too trifling to remember for more than forty years. But listen: Not six months ago when I was terribly hard pressed for ready cash, the wholesalers writing me sharp letters and threatening to bring suit unless I sent some money, I decided to try to get a loan from the bank. I thought I would ask for it when I went down to make my deposit. When I first got there the president was talking with a couple of men and I stood round a little while waiting my turn. Then it occurred to me that every- one would know what I was after, standing about so conspicuously, and I thought l would go across the street and wait until the president was at leisure. From the doorway of a drug store I could look into the bank; pretty soon I saw the two men come out and I started across. I think I would have done it that time except that a couple of farm wagons in the street held me up and when they got past I saw that another man was engaged with the presi dent. ‘I went back to the doorway of the drug store, determined to make the break at the first opportunity, but some of my courage had gone. I would make up my Continued on Page 49)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST a = ee «a amy —e 4.4, * The General Tire has made so many friends that they have kept its ever-expanding factories run- ing 24 hours every day for the past three years. In 1919, production was doubled—and now an other large factory building will soon be adding its output to this great Akron success. The fact that one of the first successful cord tires was a General ‘Tire—undoubtedly has had some- SS > we age Em wenire thing to do with the present position that the General holds in the tire world—but the main reason Is that every General Tire—Cord or Fabri: Pruck or Passenger ‘Type—for small cars or larve —has gone a lonver way t make friend than its price promise Built in Akron, Ohio, by ‘Phe General ‘Vire and Rubber Company. Oe TIRE — a TT

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 49 x Continued from Page 46 ““There were many leaks in his business. i mind to start when the hands on the clo k He would not have known a cash discount in the drug store should reach a certain it he had met one in the street. I found he position; I would see an automobile com- had frequently overpaid his bills by not ing up the street and resolve to go the keeping any records. Customers sensed his minute it passed the cigar store; I would lack of system and took their trade to more surely move as soon as the West Main busine sslike firms. Street trolley car came by. I took my “IT grew to be quite fond of old man observation post at half past one and when Miles Bissell. In spite of all the worrying the bank clos ed at three I was still there. he had done he was still sweet tempered I never did ask for the loan. and cheerful. He had never opened up to “IT sometimes wonder if I am the only anyone before and as it seemed to do him man in town who is so terribly bashful. At good to talk I encouraged him to pour it

our chamber-of-commerce meetings and all out. | other gatherings I never get through admir- “‘His business career had really been a ng the men who can get right up on their tragedy. There had never been a day in feet at any time and talk on any subject. which he was not oppressed by his load of They seem to like to do it. We fellows debt and the uncertainty as to where it who are afraid to stand up on our feet and might lead him. For twenty years he had say something before an audience are al- nervously glanced at the face of every per- ways planning how we will conquer our son who came into the front door of his weakness, but we never do it. Once leven store, apprehensive that it might be a court went so far as to take private lessons from officer with papers to serve. Every letter a teacher of oratory. I gotsoI could stand bearing the.imprint of a wholesale house right up before the professor and speak out was something to be opened with a little boldly, even making gestures; but a little thrill of fear. But even his wife and two laterwhentherewasachamber-of-commerce daughters knew nothing of his troubles; banquet an d I was appointed to respond to they supposed he was comfortably well off a toas t I sent word at the last minute that and he never told them an ything ‘different. there was sickness in my family and I One member of a family thoroughly un- Th f f b couldn't ic as onan poy lat gs lle 9 He ~ al] e uture O your OY

‘It was the same way in my business. lonely man, dumbly carrying his load of Give your boy every chance to get ahead in | suppose if I had begun right when I first troub le. life. Choose his toys wisely and you can de- ‘ became a merchant this cowardice about ‘When I had got everything checked up velop his constructive side to a remarkable . Fy looking things in the face wouldn't have I found the old man had about forty thou- degree while he | is having the best of fun. ri grown on me as it has. If the wholesalers sand dollars in merchandise and good ac- ( + j; \ ; had insisted on my telling them just how counts, against which stood nearly thirty ours , i my affairs stood before they would sell me thousand dollars’ worth of debts. If his inything I would have beer gh me »keep affairs had to be liquidated all at once the a set of books; then I would have known creditors would get about twenty-five cents y how much money | owed whether I wanted on the dollar. And this was the concern ! to or not. that credit men in the city thought so solid ‘But the wholesalers didn’t insist on and dependable!” , anything In parti ular. When I went up i to the city to buy my oper ing bill l told The Creditors’ Meeting , the firm that I had a thousand dollars; or : -y J the strength of tl y sold me about “There was one big asset which did not ees sea itn Solderis f two thousand dollars’ worth of goods, let- figure in the statement that I prepared, me A} fund | Vast a la itt | ting me owe for half. I hadn’t been opened but which might pull the whole thing out , a week before a traveler for another of the mess—old man Bissell himself. He yi . C. Gilbert ¢ yd 119 Blatchley Ave., New Haven, Conn. 4 house came in my store and asked me to was, to be sure, more than fifty-five years t-M Co., 1 I buy his line. I supposed he would ask me old. And so far in life he was a business : to pay « ‘ash in advance, and not having the failure. But even at fifty-five he had ten i, cash I told him I guessed I didn’t need any _ or fifteen good years ahead of him, perhaps ; of his goods just then. But he looked round more; the big war has certainly sent old- | a ry my store a little, said I had a nice place and =man stock up. Besides his ability for work ought to handle his line; he said his regular Miles Bissell would have been an asset for | { terms were sixty days, but as I was a new any business, particularly in a small com- | ; concern he would give me three months on munity where everyone knows everyone f the first l. I figured I could sell all his’ else. Like a great many other unhappy goods before I had to pay for them, sol ac- persons Bissell had a feeling for people; | cepted his proposition and bought a few being lonely he liked to come close to other a hundred dollars’ worth. Other traveling lives. Hardly aday passed but thatsomeone | : men came along, offering to sell me on came to him to pour out a story of business j 1 credit, and almost before I knew it I was _ trouble or blighted young love; toask his ad- ) . owing several thousand dollars.’”’ vice about building an addition onto the | i house or toinquirewhether or not he thought { Worthless Book Accounts it maidenly for a girl to allow a young man to escort her home from Endeavor meeting 4 —_ ‘That was when I began to be afraid when said young man had not bothered to look my affairs in the face. IknewI was take her there. All these consultations ing more money than I ought, for my took up a lot of his time, but Miles Bissell I it worried me a good deal, but was always interested and sympathetic. If I was afraid it would worry me more if I he had been a good business man along with new exactly how much it was. SolI got this capacity for friendliness he would have the habit of sort of letting things slide. been worth a couple of hundred thousand —— a

None of my creditors ever insisted on know- dollars. As it was, people would say that | ‘ gy just how much I was worth; credit was Miles Bissell was the most reliable merchant | ‘ y that whenever business got dull in the county and then spend their money | } ! buy more goods, on the theory that with his competitors. i \ stock might stimulate business. “T went back to a: —_ my oa | | I alw s looked forward to the time when and next day called a meeting of Bissell’s " 1 we ould have all my stock eas for and creditors. There were some long 09 s | q Then I would keep when they saw the figures. Opinions were Satisfy your boy — promote his manly pride

1 fine set of boo run everything on one credit man was for closing i q ystem. ’ up at once, getting whatever the by getting him 4 "“*Mind you, I am not blaming anyone. wreck would brir g. ‘Let's take our loss | aa Ee I have been weak and careless. But if the now and forget it,’ he said. A wholesalers had been more strict about “One of the other creditors thought it > * | elling goods on credit I wouldn't have got would be a good idea to let the matter | 4 . ti nto such sloppy wa} If they had made - string along the way it was, trusting that : REC.U.S.PAT. og i, me tell exactly how I stood before they | Bissell might havea good season or two and | § P ould sell me any goods, then I would — eventually get in better shape. But after A. Sipport for Funts and Hose have had to look thi ngs in the face whether carefully going over the figures the ma- CEs bale I wanted to or not. jority were in favor of letting Bissell settle | " : WULO 40016 *Bissell’s affairs were it in bad at fifty cents on the dollar, It was pointed ‘g Kazoo insures comfort, neatness and erect a hape. I ‘stayed 1 in his store : eek , trying out that with his debts cut in half he would 4 Z carriage. No more mc nding, tubbing Or ; to make up a report that I could ake hack probably be able to pay out, and whatever | button -sew ing for mother to his ereditors. I made him carefully he needed meantime he could buy for cash. id invoice his stock while I dug through the Before the motion was put I asked to be | The light, long-wearing clastic webbing miscellaneous mass of bills and statements heard on the subject. | | > ; “give s” freely to all motions. in his office to find out how much he owed. ***T don’t believe any of these suggestions i ; ' i The only record he had kept was a memo- _ is richt,’ I said. ‘The idea of letting him At Boye’ Clothing, Furnishing and Notion Departments; or 1 randum book showing the amounts which _ settle his present debts for fifty cents on the \ Send tor our Booklet For Real Boys people in the community owed him; and dollar might work out and then again it < HARRIS SUSPENDER CO ) even this was not a cheerful matter, for might not. Miles Bissell is not much of : 4 694 Broadway, at 4th Sc., New York y fully half the accounts were assets in name business man; ina couple of years he would Fteman & Co. Lid. Torunto, Caneds Puily lall 1e at u “ } " i ¢ mly. Some of the people whose names ap- likely be in the same fix aga n. Besides you peared on the book were dead, some had would be doing him an injustice, It is not D moved aw ty and others we re deadbeats. right to make honest man like him go |

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST WE that ar entirely confidence we ask you to place in them. New Spring models in won CA PS derful variety are now being shown A A it more than 18,00 good stores in , " ill parts of the U.S. It will pay you $2.00 to $5.00 to specify “Regal” in buying a Cap. MAKE CAPS worthy of THE REGAI I arge HAT CO,, 643 to 651 S. Wells St. CHICAGO loth Hleadwear House in the World sis as! a; A Hutchinson of New Jer hours pay sey began his work . ~ Mr with THE SATURDAY EVENING Post, THE LADIES’ HOME JOUR NAL and THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, more than five years ago, he are making their spare Hutchinson spends only a small part of his time in securing orders for the three Curtis pub lications. ‘“‘During my biggest months,” he writes, “three hours each has often been able to evening, after my regu earn more than $200.00 lar working hours, and Saturday afternoons do You too evenings to spare for his spare time in a single month. We asked the business.”’ him how he goes abou Sit have his work. “As to the and they will readily how,” was his laconi ’ bring you big, easy profits reply, “they seem t ’ if you will follow Mr sell themselves." His ex S$ repeat i with Hutchinson's exampk perience When so many others can hundreds of others, who Harry E. Hutchinson, N, J. do it, surely you can too What are YOUR spare hours worth? They are worth whatever you have the ambition to ask for them. As our representative, you will receive payment in commissions and f such liberality that there is no limit to the amount you it depends entirely on the time and effort Profits are permanent and ever increas ubseription monthly salaries reasonably expect to earn spend in this pleasant work No experi ice 1 re quired. Here's you ul ! 1 Clip Here VE es Now i Qo a a ee ee eee ee ee eee The Curtis Publishing Company, 687 Independence Sq., Philadelphia, Pa. Gentlemen Please rush me full details of your best offer for my spare hours. Street Town State BRE ase ES Se SS SS a SE SE through all the rest of his life haunted by the fact that he has lain down on halt his debts. He is unhappy enough already with- yut that. “*The suggestion to let him rock along he way he is, giving him more time on his accounts and trusting he will eventually pay out, sounds liberal, | it would not do any good; his will y twenty-five cents on the dollar now, but a year from now It might pay only ten cents ‘Now as to closing him out at once, taking the loss and forgetting it—in the first place it would about break old man Bissell’s heart to stand before his com- munity as a bankrupt. He would probably get some kind of a job and try to save enough out of his wages to pay the old debts, which would be very commendable, and quite practical if he had about forty years of work left in him, which he hasn’t. esides, all this mess is your own fault. You got him into it and you ought to help him out of it “** You don’t see how you are responsible for old man Bissell’s troubles? All right, then, 1 will tell you. It was because you made credit too easy. Not one of you here knew anything about Bissell’s affairs except that he had always paid pretty well and never made any kicks. You shipped him all the goods he ordered and never asked any questions ***Of course this office sends out blanks the first of every year to all the merchants in our trade territory, asking them to mail in statements as to their financial affairs; about half of them pay attention to the request. But do any of you refuse to ship goods to a merchant who fails to make out this statement? You do not. Maybe you use that as an excuse for holding up a mer- chant’s orders if he is getting too slow, but if a merchant is paying promptly he gets his orders shipped, statement or no statement. ‘““*In all the years old man Bissell has been in business he has never made a state- ment of his affairs. He couldn't make one, because he didn't know how he stood him- afraid to find out for fear he might have to face some unpleasant facts. So he just let things drift until at last he got in his present fix.’”’ self and he was Taking a Sporting Chance ***Now suppose all the wholesalers here had agreed years ago that none of them would sell goods on credit to any merchant who did not make a regular statement of his affairs at least once a year. Then old man Miles Bissell and all the others like him would have to be more businesslike whether they wanted to or not. If they were run- ning things the wrong way and getting behind, then the figures would be there to it. We wouldn't be holding meetings like this to consider a merchant's case after he is down and out and his assets worth twenty five cents or the dollar. ‘““*T heard a couple of wholesalers talking recently and complaining that most of the small-town merchants were sloppy and un- businesslike. The man who did most of the talking is at the head of a coneern which has a reputation for its thorough organiza- tion. It advertises that every order coming into the house is filled the same day; there force of bookkeepers; twice a year its books are audited by expert accountants; the merchandise manager can tell any day just how much of any par ticular line of merchandise is in stock and ed is a well-trained how much more is order ‘I wanted some information about a retailer a few days ago and went to this wholesale concern to get it. The credit certau man looked up the account in the big ledger and studied some figures on a piece of pasteboard taken out of his card-index file. ; he’s all right,” the credit man said; ‘“‘he has never given us a state- ment ; s net worth, but he pays pretty well 1as owed us as high as two thou- sand dollars.”’ “*This whol thousand dollars a records in correct shape; but it had a re- tailer on its books for two thousand dollars without knowing how much he was worth, and the chances are that the retailer him- self didn’t know how much he was worth. ***Now let’s get back to old man Miles Bissell. You creditors have sort of lured him on to his ruin. You haven't been any with him than he has pends several to keep its own more businesslike been wit you, **Don't put him out of business, and don’t make him settle for fifty cents on the dollar. Organize his business into a stock February 7,1920 company and each of you take stock in it for the amount he owes you. Then send a good man down there to handle the finan- cial end of the business and let Bissell run the selling part. The financial man will know the meaning of cash discounts, and with everything in good shape there will be no trouble in getting money from the bank to increase the stock of merchandise. “*T know what this will mean to the old man himself. With the burden of debt and uncertainty off his shoulders he is going to come back like a schoolboy. His main trouble is that in some things he has never grown up; but in that he is no different from the rest of us, only it has taken him in a different way. Everybody in town likes him, and when people see that the busi- ness is being rejuvenated the trade will come back to him fast.’ **Tt took a lot of hard talking to convince the wholesalers that the best thing to do was to swap their accounts against him for an interest in hisstore. My main argument was to the effect that their accounts were only worth twenty-five cents on the dollar and it would take several months to sell out the stock and get even that much cash; so why not take a sporting chance on waiting longer and maybe getting a hundred cents on the dollar? Eventually all agreed, a corporation was formed with Miles Bissell as president, and the best financial man we could hire was sent to the town to take care of the books and look after the banking end of the business.”’ Bissell on His Feet “The results were better than we had dared to hope. Miles Bissell with his feet on solid ground .was a different man from the Miles Bissell who had gone apprehen sively round for years, never knowing how he stood or where he was going to end up. Now he could put all his energy into selling goods instead of worrying about renewing notes or wondering whether or not an insist ent creditor would stand for another ten days’ delay. He began to take a great inter- estin the statements which the financial man made out each month and mailed to inter ested wholesalers. If a month’s business showed a good profit he had a feeling of elation that made him more efficient, and if the report was a poor one he worked harder to catch up. At the end of the first year of reconstruction he began to buy out the interests of his wholesaler stockholders, and before three years had passed he was again the sole owner of his business. **He had at last lost the boyish bashful- ness that had handicapped him all his life He was not afraid to look his own business in the face, and other fears had dropped away at the same time ‘He got into the habit of coming up to the city frequently to buy goods, and on such usually made his head- quarters at the wholesale house of Halff & Frank. One day he was sitting in their office talking to Henry Frank. ‘I know what I would do if I were in the wholesale business,’ he said ‘I wouldn't sell one darn cent's worth of goods on credit to any merchant who did not keep an accurate set of books and make a statement of his affairs at least once a year. ‘And this wouldn’t be from a selfish standpoint either,’ he continued. ‘It would save many a good man from worrying his heart out. It is the drifting along in miser- able uncertainty that wrecks lives as well as business. Just think how much more I should have got out of life if someone had made me be businesslike twenty years ago. If a mat scared or too lazy to find out just how his business stands he cer tainly ought not to be encouraged in his evil ways. Believe me, if I were in the wholesale business my motto would be “No Statement, No Credit.’’’ ““By golly, you have said something,’ shouted Henry Frank. ‘That is just the motto we want for our credit association. I'll spring it on them at the next meeting.’ “Which he did. There was a lot of dis- cussion and some of the members objected, but a resolution was adopted pledging the members of our wholesale association not to sell goods on credit to any retailer who does not keep an adequate set of books and make a statement at least once a year. “That is the explanation of those ‘No Statement, No Credit’ signs which you see in every wholesale office in this city. And incidentally it is the reason why our trade territory showed less retail failures last year than any other spot in the United States,” occasions is too

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a ee er Ae a — THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 53 CON Continued from Page 23 thousand dollars. I don’t want you to go nt y fied with the heater and I want you to think over the possibili- ess you're sat ’s before you invest.” ‘Well, what’s your idea?” “The only way to test this thing,” said I, tot t out on a car. You can run my ar for a week or I'll install the device on one of yours and you can try it out.” Before I suggested t} I had taken the itural precaution to put into my car an ‘pensive extra-cell battery, capable of running the heater and still furnishing elec- tricity for the lights and motor. I pointed ut to the dentist that my car was already is no need of spending equipped and there w extra money on one A We swapped cars for a week. My heater tood up, as I knew it would. Why not + ng cost about three hundred dollars to equip it? My man was more than satisfied. Now he wanted to know or iy wnat the device is and how costly it would be to manu- facture. He didn’t about installing or equipping or about larger batteries—and I somenow forgot to « xplain these matters. Instead I showed him the simple porcelair evice and explained how it was merely oKed up to the battery and engendered eat by establishing a resistance. It was itent to any eye that such a thing could t cost much—a dollar or two at the out- 1 i ide My dental friend was not slow to let I 1 grasp the supposed situa- tion. Here was a cheap and simple device al which did away w n almost universal L1USé ; oyar nd expense to motor- t \ e had inder patent. Erg», ve could a facture and sell for what ever | ¢ ¢ ed I did not try to clo the Instead I ser gall When a ma patents he is tah though none too ent or na case _ Y icn th the 1 f « to be no la i a market Three ever ys later 1 went to see the tooth surgeon in his office. I found him itting at his desk with a newspaper alma nac before hin From this valuable com- pendium he ned that there were then close t ilion cars in the coun- t Or the doctor had based yme interesti if pathetic calculations. ‘Crosby,” said he with a wave of enthu- m as [ sat down near him, ‘I’ve got this figured out and I don’t see how we can ] * said I—with a mental ] ‘ t ore four 1 on cars in tne ur have one of these ( make them n an a dollar apiece and twelve means we ought to clean up mil- ns, he ent on. If it’s handled right,” said I—always the conservative ” We'll handle it right, don’t worry.” Well, you'll never have to complain of me on that score,”’ L assured him. “If you me in I'll put the thing into your hands.” Dangerous Knowledge I walked out of the place with the checl my pocket, and the bank seemed a lor me in opening the next day. Then the vere delays. 1 came up against small prob- en iy second model did not seem to work so well. I put off leasing a factory till ment further toward a per- ny health got bad. I he summer. In order eem correct I turned over h my models and dies, I wanted the dentist ion, so that whatever e would be protected. honorable of me at the } later changed ni \ 1) ) re lit ir uc " I put it down here only to show a typical case of self-delusion or l part of the very numerous cla s of men ho know just too little and too much fo their own good. It is this smattering of strange knowledge that undoes so many professional men and makes this class a byword with the con man who has an in- vention scheme, Men with some sort of education, excel- lent in its own field but deficient in others, are prone to believe in the wonders of science and invention, and they are right. They have seen the distant nations brought into each others’ arms by the railroads, the blue immensities of the seas dwarfed by fleet a} the antipodes harnessed to instant responsiveness with chains cal the voice of man sent vibrating through thou sands of empty miles, the air yielding to man-made wings and the very abysses of sidereal night glowing in the light of human eyes. These men know that nothing impossible to the brain and the spirit of nan. What they forget is that there are men and men—and con men. But if I have laid down the general prop osition that the professional man has an attraction for the inventions fraud and thi fraud for the professional person it is by no means true that only this type of scheme i worked. For instance: One hot morning last spring three sub stantial-looking men tricked out by E tailors appeared ina certain Middle We: packing metropolis and rented an office in one of the foremost buildings. Here they installed themselves with an imposing array of furnishings and several stenographer In a few days sheafs of letters began to go out from this office to the professional mer of the city whose names had been gathered from the telephone directories. These let ters called the attention of their recipients to the very high prices being paid for pork, to the alleged shortage of that meat, to the fact that s e had been almost extern ; } of ated in parts of Europe, where they w ave to be replenished from the meage } American supply, and to the money-making opportunities contained in the oily side of porkers. Hog-Raising for All In a few days a second batch of letter went forward to the same addresses. The followed a stream of circulars, each taking the recipient of this mail canvass a step farther in his acquaintance with a new and ymmewhat novel indus Finally came to each addressee a let which made a proposition and tempted a reply. I need not assure you that many replies were sent And within a day or two a salesman ap peared ‘*Doct yr,” said one of these s he tepped into the office of : KNOW! phy ician, “‘] come from yur cor pany in answer to your letter. I thought it better to see you in person : “*l’ve been interested in your literature said the man of medicine. ‘And would like to know what our prop osition is?” ‘I don’t mind.” The salesman took a seat, got out h sheet of calculations and began ““Qur first purpose,” said he, ‘‘is to foster the growing of pork. Our literature | already made clear to you that there is a world shortage and that prices for this meat ' be very much higher within the year rhe average farmer is rai ing What hogs he can, but the situation demands that other be interested—and there is mor ey to be made. Now what we offer is to se y contract for one hundred and fifty dollar which calls for the owners] ip of one brood sow. Of course you may buy one or a many as you like. You are, to be sure, not a stock raiser, but we are. We take the sow off your hands. In fact, you never come nto contact with the beast. We give you a certificate of ownership and our contract which liberally safeguards your interest Then we allot to you as many sows as you may buy. We keep them on our farm, breed them, raise the pig , sell what we think be as the market happens to be up or down, and we turn over to you one-half of the profit The rest we retain for our services in the matter. n this way you can become a stock raiser without any of the incor venience, and you get in on the big money that is bound to be made in hogs.” The glib canvasser paused to catch hi breath, while the doctor reeled “But,” objected the ter,‘I don’t know anything about stock raising. 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THE SATURDAY krom cathedral portal ¢o carden gate—HINGES se Massy! | MICIKINN Hinges and B Salesman, EVENING POST ‘You evidently didn’t do our letters and circulars the honor to read them,”’ said the | anew “It is self- demonstrating that hogs will pay big money at twenty-two cents on the hoof when the farmer formerly got rich out of them at five and six cent that’s common good sense. Also it isn’t hard to see what class has been getting rich through the war; not the doctors and lawyers”’—to which the pros- pect readily agreed. ‘‘The farmers have been getting undreamed-of prices and piling up money as never before. The bank bal- ances in rural states like Kansas have never been so high. Never have been such sales of automobiles in the farm districts of Iowa and Missouri and Illinoi The farmer is at the highest point of prosperity and mainly through wheat and hogs. Now what I offer hare these riches with him.” ‘“‘Show me,”’ demanded the physician “Easy,” responded the salesman. “‘ You know, I suppose, that a brood sow bears two litters a year and that the average litter for good swine ight. Thus a will - sailing in there you is a‘ hance to Ow bring sixteen pigs into the world in a year. Let us reckon that half of these pigs are mal These are fattened for the market brir to il brood and sold. Half of what they g goes ] you. You then have eft the origir ow and her eight female offspring. I speak in terms of average In other words, you will likely have nine brood sows the second ear. “© a little fur ther hould bring fort! » year. Thus at the you should have undred and fifty-fo six montl VOw \ es tl rough disea to be cor rvative fyort} i wT from eighty to one | rket. vo r contracts cover were not stock d had no acce keep boot on the feed used upkeep expense ol the tar Women Confidence Workers rolled to be When six months or a little more round each purchaser of a sow wa informed, according to the plan, that he 1 ven or eight was the owner of a brocd of se r or ten pigs, whether there were any broods or not. If he became excited and bought ll and good. That wa what If he sat tight di ister shortly overtook his stock and he was wiped out. A modern application of a very ancient type of fraud It wasn’t long before the professional people of this city woke to the realization | that they were not At about the ame time the police became convinced that the three gentlemen in their imposing were men. But it was too late to do much. The farm was deserted. The few had been sold off, the gates closed and And with innocents. magre SOWS, We was expected of him ockmen office cor OW the pork resarios had flown them the lardy dreams of many Whoever has loitered at the and mountain resorts has the hotels and pleasure pay lions certain lovely and slightly mysterious ladies. They troll up and down the walks and great sea- hore seen about the February 7,1920 beaches, they drape themselves in the lob- bies, swim about at the balls, gambol in the waves, but neither do they toil norspin. To some they act as introducers and promoters of amenities. They do not flirt— precisely Neither are they at all unapproachable Usually they seem to be detached, though perhaps noticeably friendly with one or more impressive-looking men, likewise play- ing the dolce far Dames d’industrie, I should call these sibylline ones, or—if you like—ladies confidential. Their male familiars are con men. The employment of women in the affairs of sharpers is old as the world, I suppose Their original function was that of attrac- tion. To the modern schemer they act as introducers on the well-known principle that a respectable and cautious man wiil rebuff a strange man and pursue a strange woman. These ladies are taken to various resorts where men of position and conse- 1 women with means spend their They pick up the acquaintance of and women and shortly introduce nising new acquaintances the niente. quence ar leisure. ’ both mer to their polished es who are lurking in the bac ground Ther the game is on The standard type of fraud then per- petrated is nothing more ingenious than a crooked gamble. I know a dozen or twenty of the most skillful card manipulators, faro swindlers and poker sharpers in the country who deserted gambling in it older form in an established house of chance for crooked gaming the resorts, with respectable into the play by Palm Beach, At long since persons lured means of these women. lantie City, Miami, Saratoga, the Southern California resort and even religious A bury Park, smiling under the priestly ad jacence of Ocean Grove, are patronize victin j by t! n the heme is not a gambling mie ict ile device as the sic] No onea engineer game employed il familiar with such trickery will have for gotten what havoc was played up and dowr the Atlantic Seaboard some years ago by Chappie Moran, Lar Summerfield and Sam ( ix, abetted } everal charmer When these gay } ! through their women—a man or woman of sub e they unf 1 the tale of the sick « eer owning sto i certain mine and oon induced their dupe to buy the stock u r the pretense that it wa highly val lable « immediately salable at a high i ire Neither is New York likely soon to forget the pawnbroker who was gambled out of near a hundred thousand dollar it a spe fitted club, where the victim Helleve he was pla g a fixed poker game ag t five or six otf the! t notable mil lionaire New Yor! These other players were, to be ire, only con men dressed and disguised to © we nown rich men The profs it in of ibstance ts the ideal d ‘ i these U t ipl 4 ‘ In n a he the most ‘ of } fell en it comes to q ms of good repute. If he can be a ed eve htl a y whit these i manage to bring ibout —he | tair » keep | counsel No squeal resu But t is usually not eve nece ry The pnysi in I ‘ pecially the lawyer cannot afford to adver tise | elf as a foo such rashne would t him much more than the conspirator have taken, He throws up his hands and cle les he will be wiser next time. But cor is and often bear no visible h other, so that the same nough taken the venomed ro a Wealthy man from one cities | went down to Palm Bea for the winter. This man was a widower with grown and married daughter He was exper ed, worldly, something of a vivant and to his own mind a connoisseur. He never spoke of an incident in his earlier ife that had to do with his deception through one of the crude old mining-stock Few men remembered the incident, but a certain dential person of my acquaintance did, Long and accurate mem are desirable in our picaresque pro fession. My friend decided that this man could be duped a 1 and he followed him uth i wake of the goose. In his rococo hotel at Palm Beach this t his eye upon the person of a (Continued on Page 57) game cont ories a hawk in the man soon sé a ee ee — Spee

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Continued from Page 54 The husband came, a rather sharp-faced, = decidedly elegant woman whom he en-_ blustery person, but still a man who looked countered in the dining room, the elevators, as though he might amount to something | the lounge, on the beach—everywhere. She He spent very little time with his wife, j was a tallish, dark, distinguished- looking treated her shab bily, even seemed to be ‘ person, past thirty perhaps, but still very quarreling with her under his breath in yuthful and beautiful. Her manner was public. His attentions seemed to center ' lways correct, her dress costly, her look rather on several young New York actresses ; i invariably a little melancholy. She was who were showily disposed on the beach ; ilone, save for a maid, and the elderly every day. And at night he w: as off gam- Women Everywhere Discuss It gentleman judged that she was recently — bling or somewhere else. His wife contided 4 wicowed. Aftera week hemanagedtohave her suspicions to her ardent frie d, who ot rT ee ee _ Se ae : himself introduced by one of the genial urged her to get evidence for her divorce ) ] ‘ guests in the hotel, whom he never stopped then andthere. She demurred. She would ?, to suspect of being a confederate in any not take such an advantage of a man she t ij machination against him. Indeed, he had had once loved. j d | i gone to so many subterfuges before he suc- The thing wore on and the delay made the ; ’ | ceeded that he never could be convinced of intended victim wild to have something . j 1 ‘ the truth. done. The more he saw of Mrs. the . a | ‘ Mrs. omega yrs 8 itions ofthe more he was determined to win her. He - a a 4 . nature gentleman. He asked her to dine found out that her husband was a promoter, ~ « “ ‘ t with him, as she was alone co looked often of questionable enterprises. The wife 7 ; i lonely, and she accepted. He took her said her husband’s manner of making . motoring and she decorously brought her money was one of the causes of their ur aid along. When he asked her to make happiness. Little by little she revealed the : | a fishing trip with him she was happy to _ story to her admirer and slowly guided him - q ne red ap arts y. He decided after several toward the climax. ‘ : | ns of this circumspectness that the One night at the end of the same pavilion, F ’ ‘ as a person of breeding and position. with the same moon swimming overhead, . ? : She had not told him so. Indeed, she had she confessed that she loved the aging / told him nothing of herself. In the main it wooer. At the end of an ecstatic evening . was not necessary. He had eyes and per- she unfolded a plan for being rid of her M ception. spouse. He was even then promoting a 1] i* In th y the victim was inclined fraudulent oil company. The thing was | |} J } ; t h his familiar ties a little, but aseries going slowl and he was hardup. He would | . | 4 oft egenth t and me 224 wig wi ornare lik cely enough try to get her new friend into he e1 tened him. Next he tried extra ting his s eme. Wouldn't it be a good idea to P % <4 | ; contidences from the aloof + ty . She put a sum of money into the venture with i j miled sadly into his eyes and begged him the pur] ose of exposing the scheming hus . ’ not to speak of her affairs—for the present. b atching him foul of the law and thus | oe | iy He respect i what he considered her grief. Seales him to perm) t a divorce? | wf With the tiizht of the weeks, however, the of man felt himself slowly growing into the Fast in the Net Lee serra 7 \t woman's graces and confidence. He did not perceive that she was sending roots into The idea struck the Nort herner s bril s 2 4 his middle-aged heart. liant. How had she thought of it ? Bu it One night when they sat at theend ofthe was a silly questior Since when ha OW a Million { long pavilion watching the great lamp of women not known how to achieve their ! the Southern moon stream upward out of desires? A _ the mighty phosphorescence of the sea the The husband now began to lay his C t U It 10 000 B ] D | i wonder and witchery of the provocative snares, and his victim—smilingly — played ame Oo se 9 arre ) al y iy South got hold of him his part and hurried the game along y Von ‘tyoutellmewhoyouareatleast?"’ wherever he could. He was not a little Do you know that a million people are using a new-grade Flou : he urged, uing with the Iringe e of her wrap. perturbed one night when the supposed You may have never heard of it—millions have never seen it. Yet M ‘Just a lone y and unhappy woman,” she promoter came past the end of the pier es ers eos .% esis arte i said softly. which had come to be the lovers’ retreat countless women, by word and by letter, are urging other womes ‘You are much too young and lovely to and caught him and Mrs, in a tender to get it be either.” tableau. It was innocent, but the widower It is made by The Quaker Oats Company, for the lovers of Quaker She sighed, looked into his eyes and away trembled a little. The promoter greeted | | F , | ' ata : : : , a = agp cereals. Just the choicest, whitest. bi of the wheat kernel » the flaming ocean them, passed a cynical remark or two and ; ‘You know I am too old a went on. mito It It is constantly analyzed and tested

imental,”’ he resumed, ‘‘ but something ‘**T think he knows,” she said. ‘But he right im the mall » the quality cannot hes me } whenever is bad—thoroughly bad. He will gladl; I see you this way that somebody should _ sell me if he can get what he thinks I’m : do something for you. I suppose it’s worth.’ N Ad d ; naturel to tell myself that I’m the right The old gentleman was a little frightened. ot vertise ; ; person.” Something warned him to desist, but he was vw Until lately. Quaker Flour was never ad { f ‘I’m afraid no one can help me much,” tootight caught. He continued to deal é‘ “ra , } / ee

hi l 1m ’ é ° a YO i t | Che lady sat with him late into the night lake meaway! Get me out of his hand uake w we are telling listening to his pleading, holding him off, somehow!” she pleaded. ‘What does the | i ; It is for those who want an exceptional verving on tears. At last she kissed him price matter? We can go away and be Flour | | Ls ail : ,

e said. —— not talk of it. Let's just the promoter. Finally it came down to the : } e happy r pretend to be.” amount he was to invest. He hope od to get tOVCTS LO DI in : The moon rose fuller and higher, the off for a few thousands, but was « volly told ; | Hen Use I N| | other (dur capacit breath of the Gulf made warm murmurs in that it would take one hundred thousand A was quickly oversold More mills were 4 the j alms, the sea play ed on the sands its dollars to start the oil business going. It built nd now { ill nake hi iper! f amorous arpeggios. The staid and careful was too strong a blow to his resources and tee ‘ aa gentleman was caught in a resurgence of he refused. 6% iive Flour, with a daily capacity of 10,000 his dead youth. He declared himself. Thatnight Mrs weptonhisshoulder. barrel i Pio ge

4 tly and turned away happy. You will have plenty left and can Flour—the finest Flour tha wenee Cal f make more.” os produ bi like all Ouake { , On Dangerous Ground Finally, infatuated out of all senses, he a ‘ sii Tete rice i agreed to put sixty thousand dollars into ee Cet an d see it ee how white and i “‘T should never have let you speak,” she the oil promotion. He drew on his home Only the Choicest . ’ P ) told him. “1 did not know things were’ banks, got the money tu Palm Beach and wit Pi Be ; fine at ) ‘ { et \ going so far. I have a husband.” was ready to pay. But once again his cau rat a rhat I ) eptior ! t The man was silent as they walked beck tion stopped him. At the last moment he aw rie anene valit white f] \ toward their hotel. He considered, hesi- drew back and refused to close. tated and plunged. The promoter immediately came the ‘Does that matter if you are unhappy hurrah on him. He announced that he wa The Quaker Oats (mpany

: } vith him?” he asked about to leave Palm Beach and take hi h She looked at him with a little start of wife with him. That night at che end of the Quaker Flour Mills y urprise, pier Mrs. bade her chaste and agit 1B Akron, Ohio Cedar Rapids, lowa } “You mean ‘i lover a tearful and reproachful good-b Peterborough, Ontario Saskatoon, Saskatchewan } ‘Marriages are not indissoluble.” She would never see him again. He did not In our Canadian Mills we conform to government requirements as to the HY She left him on the veranda without an want her enough to take her when she could percentage of wheat kernel used j answer. Half the night he walked up and have been his. She thanked him for the . down the sands, feeling himself a lover and little while of hope and happiness and went wondering if he might not be a great fool. back to the hotel Quaker Biscuit and Quaker Farina a The next day Mrs was very ten de r In the morning the dupe waylaid the oil Pancake Flour and sadder than ever. Her husbar id would promoter as he descended in the elevator. ] arrive in a day or two. That was why s - The man had lain awake all night. He | " had been more depressed ly. When he could not break from the womar In ten ‘ came perhaps she would not be able to see minutes he had paid the demanded price 4 er friend at all, but she would try. They The promoter departed without delay, x must be careful. but not until he had hinted, unmistakably, } ‘Did what I said last night offe nd you?” that he understood what had been done to § he asked, agai n under her spell him. .The aged widower sent him off with “Offend me!’’ she purred. “I wish I defiance and the promoter went with a . | ? ere fre e to talk.” cynical smile. — y

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58 THE SATURDAY ./ i) “ge 4," fs You judge 7 its strength eh o% & . ae ‘ k ¥, , cable gives it 6 Rrra outside covering of a portable it Underwriters and the in you must decide mechanical strength demand that the electrical lation meet their requirements — but whether the cord as should be the outside You must decide between braided covering and woven strength, the copper overing makes the strong as it where the wear comes—on Economy demands the decision, [)URACORT) MARK covering TRADE is protected by a covering of thick heavy strands woven like fire hose It can be battered and pounded and abused, and stands up as no other cord will. The illustrations tell part of the story. No wonder Duracord resisted the pounding of heavy test hammers twenty times longer than braided cord. No w abrasion tests longer withstood fifteen times Field tests strength, nder it than cord with ordinary covering ire even more convincing of its unusual Made in all sizes for every purpose Let u send § iow them to your purchasing agent. Get your en Test them yourself, judgment imples of Duracord and ordinary cord, Cc} ot gineer opinion and We'll rely compare on your }. } er about Duracord, o rele us, TUBULAR WOVEN FABRIC CO. Pawtucket, R. 1. Mok of D t ible N vl ‘ uit EVENING POST At the end of a week Mrs. —— was ready to travel north, where she was to arrange matters for the coming exposure of her husband. It was deemed better that she be at a distance, for the sake of appear- ances, when the victim of her duplicity came with his demand on the promoter. There was a farewell at the end of the pier under a gibbous moon, one is prone to fancy. The next morning he found a long letter from the charmer in his hotel box. It had not come through the mail. When the astute Northerner had finished reading this remarkable letter he went out and spat helplessly into the sea. The woman told him with regret that she had duped him. She was under an almost hypnotic sway. She did whatever her hus- band commanded. Could he be a little sorry for her? She wassounhappy. But per- haps it was better so after all. A man of his character would never be happy after he had deliberately bought the wife of another man. The last words sank painfully into his brain. That was what he had been doing. He was helpless to complain or prosecute. He walked up and down slowly on the sand, wondering whether two months of flirtation might be worth sixty thousand dollars. But it probably is true that professional men are less subject to romantic attacks than many other types. If such games as the foregoing are often designed against them it is because they are known as close- mouthed fellows and give less trouble than the run of humanity. The invention re- mains the ideal overpersuader for the tech- nical man, as I shall show. Three or four years ago I completed a number of experiments with the selenium cell as applied to the phonographic motion picture. The idea is an old one and per- istent If one could only hook up the picture reel with the talking machine the complete mechanical drama would ensue. The possibilities of money-making in such a thing are so great that many men have lent their brains and energies to the idea. To date every plan has failed, mainly because of the inability tosynchronize. If the words of the screen actors are to come from a talking machine they must come at the right instant or all is ridicule. To this problem I applied myself. I tried to solve it by recording sound waves on the edge of the film with the aid of photog- raphy. The record would appear in the form of successive long or short linear shadows. With the aid of a selenium cell I now energized a bi-polar magnet or mag- nets, which vibrated a diaphragm and set sound waves in motion, reproducing the human voice in correct time with the pic- ture. Perhaps it is well to explain that selenium is a chemical element which is highly sensitive to the force of light waves. it is a conductor of electromotor force and its conductivity varies according to the amount of light played upon it. Some authorities say that the conductivity of selenium may be decreased or augmented five hundred times. It will be seen how this substance figured in my invention, bootless A Wonderful Failure After long and quite costly experiments wit’ this device I came to the stopping place. I perfected it as far as human ingenuity could bring it. Then I came up against a physical fact, as men will. I managed to record the voice on the edge of the film and I reproduced it perfectly and in exact time with the picture, but the sound was not reproduced with suffi- cient energy to be of any use, It could be heard close at hand, but when it came to amplifying the sound I discovered that the force was too weak. Extra-powerful ampli- fication resulted merely in loud words without tone shading. I was simply up against it. My wonder was a flivver. However, my experiments had cost me thousand dollars. And in days I had the bad habit of getting my money out of things one way or the other. I looked about for a likely way of exploit- ing my burst bubble and soon discovered in a large city lying on one of the lines between New York and Chicago a physi- cian who was a specialist in electrothera- peutics. I knew from other men in my line that he was a sucker buyer; in other words, he had money and often took flyers in the most dubious of stocks. No sooner dis- covered than approached, I moved my apparatus and a confederate to the home city of this medical gentleman, several those February 7,192C established myself in a couple of modest rooms and went off to consult the physi- cian about my left foot. I had suffered from gout a few years before, owing no doubt to early trials and denials. It was true I had not felt an enemy twinge for a number of years, but the gout was as good an excuse as any. I told the physician that I had heard of his wonderful cures and wanted him to do something for my gout. It was not bothering me just then, but it did make trouble at times. He had quite an establishment, with a great array of electrical equipment. All this I admired and talked about with glib familiarity. He was a stiff and pompous man, distant and ponderous, but he was for all that the more susceptible to flattery. 3y my third visit and third cash payment of his heavy fee I had disarmed him and he talked electricity with me. I gauged him carefully, for it is bitterly uncomfortable to catch a tartar who knows too much. He knew electricity from the medical side only. Each time I went to see him I talked more and more freely about electricity, and he followed, a little piqued at my knowl- edge, but glad to talk with a man who knew something of his hobby. The doctor wa to be sure, taking my money and treatir me right along for an ailment I didn’t have, but that was part of his game and I believe every man has the right to play his cards. I meant to play mine. An Excited Physician One morning I sailed into the thera- peutician’s office brimming with delight. I had just had great news. The doctor was sympathetic and curious and I unfolded my yarn. I had for some time been financing in a modest way a man who had a won- derful electrical invention under way. This very morning we had evidently hit success. I explained my talking movies to the doc- tor and he was delighted with the idea. “Think what a thing like this means said I rapturously. ‘It will knock out all the cheap movie dramas where there nothing but crude physical action inter- h idiotie captions. It will mea that as good plays can be had on the screen as on the stage.” “That's true,” said the physician “‘But that’s only one field,” I went on rapidly. ‘‘Think of the value of such a thing for disseminating clinical lectures! It will now be possible to photograph an op- or a chemical or physical experi ment and at the same time to record the words of the lecturer By this means uni versity extension work can be magnified to an undreamed-of point.” The physician stared at me in amaze- ment, ‘Remarkable!”’ he said. what changes such a thing will bring. “And think of the personal appeal of such a thing!” I enthused. ‘What keep people from making complete records of their children by this device, recording not only their appearance in moving pi tures but their voices, from the prattle of the baby to the wheezing of the old man? ‘““And you mean to say you have got such a thing perfected?” * All but the final details.” “By heaven, I'd like to see it!”’ he warming. Here was the heading-in point—that invariable piece of con technic. I had to seem unable or unwilling to show the thing in order to set at rest any suspicion that I might have an object in telling my doctor friend of this marvel. I temporized. The inventor was one of those peculiar taciturn Germans, suspicious of everyone, even of me. But I would see what could be done. I now rented a little workshop for my confederate, who was in fact just enough a German to play the part successfully. Here we set up the talking movie, scat- tered about a lot of grimy tools, put in two kinds of electric current, set up a work- bench, a lathe and other appurtenances of an inventor’s shop and were ready to demonstrate. To the victim I pleaded that my inventor was obstinate. The more I de- layed the more the physician’s curiosity was roused. Finally, when he had heated himself to the proper temperature, I took him to the “factory.” We had, as I have indicated, a short dramatic reel on whose edges I had re- corded the supposed voices of the actors in the manner explained. This part of the thing was perfectly honest and correct. (Continued on Page 60) spersed wit eration “No telling is to said, | ) | oe —— - rr ee ~~ ee

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I tool wv dr ilked | i ‘ s ¢€ I ‘ He ‘ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Continued from Page 58) dow? n the | t Gert \ het il 1 if ‘ . ? ea ‘ (rer ( 1 ‘ | atole } ‘ ¢ to ‘ | ‘ ‘ é ‘ ‘ a Vv the (ie eu i r . ere t they \ mn ¢ | l ese! we ] ‘ t i t ‘ 1 tv i | i t ‘ twheneve Vt ‘ ‘ i i tor os ( ears I |} ‘ i n IVE the ‘ I ‘ he ‘ ‘ t darkened » keep irage ‘ é we ¢ ] | ‘ ‘ ite I have Tham them or of someone else. This is, to be sure, the motivatior that make con games

possibie The doctor was enthusiast about my propositic If I could trick the German nto a receptive frame of mind the doctor would do |} hare, He would buy the man out W ee i 1 me tt } id! A to elapse - > pive I n t , if p ! >» a a ‘ agement me I had to keep the doctor pbouing did by mear of pe ie neat g ts to the hop in the dead of night, when I »wwed the physiciar the latest attempts and failures of the German and revealed to him my iInvariabie it tie t t ré The doctor grew more and more impa- t ‘ to | ind prepared him tor the hu ! But n German ymenow didn’t disc¢ ige very @a k I l¢ pa red ol I! He Wil ir lt irable opt t, I told the doct We must bu him out or he might yet strike the right g or discover my duplicity. I suggested that the p cian approach him with a propositior He did, and my confederate demanded an ex int price, which the pr il it i aec ned to pa Then f ved the usual series of conferer ind the gradual lowering of price and raising of the offer The doctor would t go above hiiteen thousand d ir ind my German “ refused le than f { isand dollar Then came the hu } One morning I We tothe pl in great pertur tior The Gerr ! 1 either caught me at! r he was « isted with the d ¢ H was threatening to throw me Ove ind leave tow with hi invent It me t we might both lose our hold on hu l wa ist excited and upset The doct ( lered and appraised me coldl Phe e put ¢ t hat and we d e over to the | Sure enough the entor was ad I g the } ( nd i rt » the ! e. We ped him and he f ‘ ference lle wa tubl 1 trucu ‘ ine dao t r i 4 ‘ it ‘ t € ind d After much pleading 1 ur¢ gy i m me the Germa ew up ! hands, ¢ ed us both 7 te 1 sh ts and went off to sig or ‘ ihe next ght he was able t depa with 1 I t Dividing the Doctor’s Money There had never bee ir vritte igree ment betwee the doctor and myself, but e understanding was that we were to be equal owne of the entior Here again iman nature, that restle hungry stuff, ed elt He flat refused to do bu ne vith me on an equal-partnership basi One-fifth was the best he would allow. We bitterly and I left town. My

pseudo-German, who had so glibly eve yg up totwent ve t u | ok five thousand from me as! ind tu ed over the rest \ ithey ( t move ence Lt edu top story of a storage ware- house Lcertain ¢ tands a grand piano ( ‘ pe of it would reveal several { re ) y att nment t ta curiou tangle of wires bursting from it terior lhe spiders are spinning their webs among the of tl piano and ther e nest- I ! oO nine year ago L beeame n- tere ! igt t cm tant elect ] experimentation in the ea ota ] nat plano cont led by a phe graphic record That w the orig il form of the idea W } t was elaborated. The general heme \ ed a plano with a ‘ ill constructed n ret under ¢ } of the é ‘ ke rhe second part of the ( hit w 1 phonograph in wl nh the usua I i diaphragm had been displaced by a met diaphragm like those used in the telepnone By thi change the talking miact el lenced » far as the human ear nee ed l tead of sound it emit diaphragm which exert ertain n pressures in the circuit of ie YT ed beneath the Ke Int igain the sele u ised, but to explain the ¢ e arra ment would lead me into te il ab 1 bot needle i i wea ome idea was the substitution of electromotive force for the pl ysical effort of the player, plus the control of the instrument by means rded and retransmitted sound wave wonder what the use might of both a phonograph and a February 7,1920 piano. The talking machine had then never been able to reproduce satisfactorily the playing of a piano. Only the funda mental notes were recorded and reproduced All the partials were lost, with all fine tor and expressions. But if you might control a piano with this recorded music you would bring its beauty back to life. I ae ’ } f ; } i , 4 i! ; 0 i j ) , m 1 f A eT eee ie eT”, |

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{ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7,1920 Inlands and the smoke test A car equipped with Inland Piston Rings seldom leaves behind it a trail of grayish- blue smoke. j Smoke of this color indicates that oil is { getting into the firing chamber and is in- terfering with combustion. In order to be proof against leakage of oil, piston rings must fit the cylinder with absolute tightness. en ie ee But the ring too must be solid, without : gaps at the ends. ~~ w= The Inland Piston Ring with the spiral cut safeguards against leakage. Because it is made in one piece and cut spirally, it is gas-tight and oil-tight. em ee And its tension makes possible a snug fit against the walls of the cylinder. Whenever your car puffs out grayish- blue smoke, look to your piston rings. Inland Machine Works } | 1635 Locust St. ‘ St. Louis, Mo.

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— —w ee ne ee ae (Concluded from Page 60 sent him away by no means easy in his greed, I fancy. ; After I had purposely remained away from my attorney’s office for more than a week he wrote me to command my pres ence, and I called. ‘I’ve been thinking said he. “Yes?” quoth I carelessly. “How are you fixed to finance the thing?” “That’s what I’m forming the company for.” “With a hundred thousand in stock!"”’ he exploded. ‘‘ What do you expect to do with that?” ‘It’s enough. “Nor > : **Well, what do you advise? “Wh => you must do is to incorporate for half a million and put the thing on its feet at once “But I have no way of placing a capital like that. I have to do the thing mod- estly,”” said I. Then and there my lawyer declared him- self in on the deal. Before I left him he had the whole scheme worked out to his own satisfaction. And who was I to stop him? Incorporation was for five hundred thou- sand dollars and the lawyer promised to procure the capital and manage the whole affair. I was to have fifty thousand dollars in cash out of the stock sales in payment for my invention. In addition I was to receive one hundred thousand dollars, par value, of the stock. In return for his con- trol of things—and certain very liberal slices of the stock—-this gentleman was to put up money for experiments and the tak- ing of patents, and he was further boundto build a factory. These things were going to cost him about twenty thousand dollars, but since he was taking about five times that amount in stock for his trouble his liberality was not all it seemed. I wondered as I walked home from this highly satisfactory and yet puzzling meet- ing what was moving in the crafty brain of this man. He was impressed with the piano, but was he such an enthusiast as all this? He did not know me. He knew nothing of electricity. He knew nothing of music. Did he mean to put up the money and the factory? Just what was I getting into? Fortunately there was time to puzzle out all this. I must confess that just at this point the con man did not know whether he was conning or being conned. about your pyanr ” A Grasping Backer But it was the beginning of winter and no factory could be built till spring in that frigid part of the country. Meantime I could proceed with my experiments and get my patents. This I did. Without going into tiresome detail, I applied fcr eight different patents on electrical apparatus for the playing of a piano according to the theoretical plan I have already explained. My lawyer handled all of the legal end and saw to his satisfaction that all eight claims were allowed. He was not a patent attor- ney and did not appreciate the signific ant fact that none of these patents was in any sense basic. The man had by this time put up con- siderable sums of cash and given his services in return for stock. He meant business—so much was certain—but still he had me puzzled. Spring came and ground was broken on the first warm day for a factory whose plans I had myself drawn. In eight weeks it stood there in a populous part of the city, all of concrete and steel. I had purposely planned it for ccnversion into a garage. Frugal soul that I am, I wanted the building to be some sort of asset after the great blowup so sure to ensue. This factory had cost twelve thousand dol- lars, which the attorney had put up out of his own money. Now there could no longer be any doubt as to the man’s seriousness, but I was more than ever puzzled and thought- ful. Finally one night it all came to me. The man was really taken in. He had not been sure at first, but he had risked the first money to find out. The eight patent grants had convinced him, along with my constant building up and my enthusiastic claims. Once feeling certain of his ground, he had built the factory for me and taken a lien on the stock of the company for the purpose of getting the corporation in- volved. Subtle reasoner that he was, he had found a means to put himself in the way of seizing the whole thing. Now I un- derstood the game. The rest would be easy. THE SATURDAY Things began to hum in the factory. My piano was moved from the house to the new plant, and with it all the mysterious mechanism. In one end of the big factory room I set up the instrument. It stood free from the wall so that all might walk round it and inspect it for wiring. Each leg rested on a porcelain disk, ostensibly an insulator. But here was the deception. One of these disks and one of the legs were perforated bored from top to bottom with a one-inch bit—and through this channel ran a cable containing eighty-eight wires, each one of which connected with a magnet under a piano key. The cable was led through the floor and thenee between the floor and the basement ceiling to a room nearly a hun- dred feet away—a small dark cellar room. If anyone asked, it was used for electrical experiments of a secrct nature. Hard by the pian», deftly ecncealed in the metal work of the wall, was a set of microphones whose wircs also ran down under the floor and back to this cecret chamber. And from the phorograph still another wire made the trip back to the room of mystery. This was connected with an electric light, which flashed when I pulled the lever, starting the t talking ma- chine. At the other end of the mic rophone wires was a dictating- mac hine receiving instrument. But the marvels of this hidden room lay in a device with which the eighty- eight-wire cable was connected. This was nothing more than the electrical-player device of a well-known make of automatic piano. Instead of attaching it directly to the musical instrument I had connected it by wires. It played the piano from a dis- tance, that was all. Simple, when you come to understand, wasn’t it? Final Preparations The next step was to provide myself with twenty or thirty piano records for the talking machine. I selected a variety of pieces played by pianists who also made rolls for the particular make of mechanical pane I was employing and immediately bought the corresponding rolls. So when a visitor picked out, let us say, a Chopin sonata played by Paderewski I had the roll to supply the music. Now began my tests. My girl confed- erate took up her place in the secret room with the piano rolls at hand. I took my stand by the distant piano. In an ordinary voice I called for one of the selections. In her hidden room she heard me perfectly and instantly put the roll into the player. At the same time I placed the correspond- ing record on the phonograph. When I was ready I pu'led the starting lever. Instantly the light flashed in the hidden room and my confederate threw the switch on the player. The phonograph at my side was silent, as I have explained. But the piano leaped sud- denly into harmonic life. Only one thing caused me a little trouble: I had to do considerable experimenting and practicing before I found the correct speed at which to operate the talking machine for each of the records. It would have been an absurd piece of blundering had the piano ever continued playing :fter the record was played out But time and a little practice solved all this. My sanguine attorney came hurrying to the factory as soon as I told him we were ready to demonstrate. Everything went off beautifully. more than satisfied. ‘““Now then,” said he, “‘we are ready for the firework To-morrow n ‘night I war nt to bring about two “ ven friends in here and Knock them dead. I’'l{ send up some folding chairs and we'll arrange for some refresh- ments. We'll pull off a stunt here that will bring in all the money we need in twenty- four hours.’ That was all well and good, but I had still some schemes to perfect and some ground- worktolay. I put himoff. Though thething seemed all right to him, it was not yet per- fect. Some slight changes had yet to be made, for I desired when he gave the public demonstration that he bring in some mu- sicians and—if he liked—a few electrical ex- perts. He was impatient at the delay, but the idea of musical and electrical people pleased him, so he gave in. He was EVENING POST I was intensely busy about the factory for a week or ten days—or I seemed to be. Then I went to my friend with some money troubles. I was heavily in debt. I told him a story of recent marital misfortunes, a de- manding ex-wife and her constant harass- ments. In short, I was in need of cash. I got it by pledging some of my stock. I got only two thousand dollars, but it was a starter. I neither needed nor wanted any such sum, but I had an end in view which had better be explained. According to our agreement I was to receive fifty thousand dollars in cash out of the first one hundred thousand dollars of stock sold. In addition I was to have one hundred thousand dollars in stock. Now fifty thousand dollars when one hundred thousand dollars in stock is sold is an indefinite sort of promise. There was the possibility that so much might never be subscribed, in which case I was tied down with a fake invention and no proceeds. Therefore I had to plan the hypothecating of my one hundred thousand dollars in stock. This would come to me as soon as officers were elected. So much was certain. The rest was problematical. I therefore spent more than a month building up my attorney toward the objec- tive of heavy stock loans. I had, to work on, his enthusiasm over the invention and his hungry desire to get hold of a control- ling share of the stock. He wanted of course not only to get his stock more cheaply than anyone else, but he had in the back of his mind the old idea of involving the company, squeezing me out and taking complete possession. And that was what | : anted him to do, but he must pay. — long I had explained to this gentleman th: when my fifty thousand dollars was p: ‘id me—if ever it was—I should have to turn it over immediately to persons who had claims on me. ‘Well,”’ said he, stock,”’ ‘Yes, I will have to borrow heavily on said I, ‘When the time comes,” he considered, “‘T guess that can be arranged.” He saw the company already in his hands, poor avaricious man. Now I was re ady. A few nights later there was a distin- guished gathering in my factory. About sixty people came, including the head of the local electric company, three or four music teachers, a bank director with whom my lawyer did much business, several other lawyers with their wives, half a dozen local physicians, a dozen business men with their wives—all of them friends of my man and all prepared in advance by him. These were the people who were to buy the stock in the wonderful piano—wireless pyanna, he insisted on calling it. “‘you'll still have your A Wonderful Demonstration There was a great deal of bowing and milling, a wearying ordeal of handshaking and an hour of gossiping before we got started. I improved the time by liberally distributing a most potent punch on whose alcoholic content I had made some im- provements after my lawyer’s caterer had delivered it. Finally we were ready and I took my place. I made a little speech in which I explained the marvelous electrical prin iples involved or said to be involved, {1 dwelt on the treme reial possibilities of the thir g. Next I invited the electrical man to inspect the piano, which he did in a hasty em \barrassed wi iy by walking round the instrument. I then ask« the musical people to listen to the fine tone shad'ng and expression of the _ 10. Soa to avoid confusion, I announced, I nau play as many records as I had or ‘the audi ence would listen to, and I would ar each selection as I put it on the machine, I placed a record on the talking machine and stepped toward the wall and the microphones, Saint- Saé ns’ Song Without Words,” I announced, “played by Paderewski.” I stepped back and pulled the lever on the phonograph—but not until I had al ndous commé nounce lowed my girl time to put on the roll. Her light flashed and she threw the switcl There was just the momentary delay while the phonograph burred slightly. Then the piano broke into melody. The audience sat spellbound and open-mouthed. For more than an hour I kept pumping music at my prospects, everything from Jcethoven to ragtime. Not a man or a woman stirred. When I finally let up and called it an evening there was a round of applause. The music teachers all talked at once, Eve epee had some thoroughly in- formed views to air. 4 smiled and said little. Then + took the floor again and said my say. called attention to the real future of this plano for the first time, I told them Before to-night I had been unwilling to let my imagination play with me, but now I was convinced of wonderful things. With this machine once on the market there would be a complete revolution in music, I said. It would be po sible to ) play r this marvelous instrument by wir 3 from any reasonable distance. To be plain, within a few years we would find aérials for wireless on all fine homes and pianos such as this in all drawing rooms. Instead of trooping off to a concert hall to » hear a great pianist the music lover of the future would subscribe to a wireless musi ervice. It might yund grotesque, Dut so had the notion of been calle 1 ab urd. into the snow and futi would sit a comfortable fire, attachment of the playing of the great The player might t? | val j ) e might be in a distant city. Such were the prospective wonders of thi piano, I wanted my audience to feel that this was an event that might well have historic associations in years to come, The End of the Game The next day just befor five in the afternoon my attorney called me excitedly on the tele phone and told me that the hun- dred thousand in stock had all been sub scribed, It was not all paid in at once, to be sure This gave me the ad went back to my man with complaints and money troubles. After much arguing and dickering | arranged to put up my one hun dred thousand dollars in stock for a loan of twenty thousand dollars, not including the two thousand dollars I } id pre i bor rowed. I calculated that the I on the ibscribed st c WO | made in three n my loan to mature in tha Now there was nothing back to the factor: by In due time the ibseribed stock was taken up and I received my fifty thousand dollar Less than ten days later my loan came due and the attorney demanded pa ment, I begged him for an exter n. He knew how I was involved. In three months re I could pay up. The man’s eyes grew narrow and his mouth hard ‘You wouldn't call that business, would you?” he asked. ae Phere are better things than business.” “T don’t know what they ars Anyhow, you’ got good pay for yur ention you've had twent wo tl ind dollars f r st 1 you g it ou nee 1} I don’t see where uu have any ki Youmean,”’ Iasked drama i » tnat I f n out of my inve , You ! tlfat you want to strip me of the thing oe oe of work into He ilked off to the other ¢ f the *oom a 1 began dictating letters to hi tenogray I followed him and remon trated with all t ie |} ia 1 I could p tinto my ( ‘Iwi I hu Vou t ‘ rie si i lhe I went it with f ed a m my cheeks. Downstairs I turned into a bar room, bought myself along drink and burst into uncontrollable laughter. I wasted no time in selling out my furniture and clo ingg my hou ( And a fe WwW nou later the inventor of the wireless piano and } girl assistant were on their way venture two years afterward I stopped for a look at things and then | t away. They were par} ing tin autos where once the marvelous piano had ground out it g Iden sor X- Editor's Note—This is the third of a series of articles by Mr. Crosby and Mr. Smit} The next will appear in an carly iss

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GOOD COFF THE SATURDAY EVENING POST We know the truth about rc CO E marvel at our old super- stitions. It is hard to believe now that more than 30,000 women have been condemned as witches! Frenzy and prejudice mark the development of progress in many directions. Even coffee—the most popular and beneficial of all bever- ages—has not wholly escaped. Despite the fact that food faddists and temperamental extremists have assailed coffee, it has become the universal drink of this great level- headed nation. There can be no question about the soothing, nourishing, invigor- ating effects of good, pure coffee. It lightens fatigue, sustains energy and aids digestion. The best proof of the healthfulness of coffee is the people who drink it. Co \ \ ——— ee Trade Publicity EE i Sao Paulo, Brazil, in the greatest coffee-growing district in the world, is one of the healthiest and most progressive cities in South America. Coffee will ever remain the pre- ferred drink of normal minded, healthy bodied people everywhere. Be sure you drink genuine coffee. Its flavor cannot be imitated. Coffee is man’s drink—woman’s drink —the cheer and solace of all who enjoy the good things of life. Good coffee in moderation must be beneficial to any normal person. Drink it—for your health’s sake. SIGNIFICANT—" The American Housekeeper’”’ says:—‘‘Coffee is of great value. It is one of the best aids to the ailing. Coffee is stimulating but not depressing.”’ Committee of the Good fot You! February 7,/920 Wild and weird were our old delusions == i ut q

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— 5 e My SS THE SATURDAY THE PIONEER AND PATTENBURY Continued from Page 4 each other out of the asylum. But—oh, dear, I forgot! I’ve got all my supper dishes to do.” ° u HEN Gurlaway quit his job on the Republicrat and started running a newspaper of his own T. Jefferson Fidge was not pleased. But he consoled himself with the faith that the enterprise would shortly prove abortive and that Jim would soon enough camp on his doorstep looking for restoration to his old place. T. Jefferson would know when the time came how to bargain for the renewal of the young man’s services, Jim paid Greer only a nominal amount for the controlling interest in the Pioneer. Greer confessed he had almost nothing to sell. Jim, however, guaranteed him a liv- ing for a year and ten per cent of the profits should there be any. “That’s an asset I’d part with darn cheap,”’ said Elly with a cheerful bitter- ness. ‘I’m telling you, Jim, you're on the wrong end of the bargain. However, if you want to gamble against a plumb certainty I don’t know that I can help it. If Fate has determined to skin you I might as well be the beneficiary as a stranger. And maybe I can help you to avoid some of the more obvious mistakes. My experience ought to count. As for me, when the Pioneer’s sad end comes I'l! be no worse off than Iam now. I doubt if I should have escaped the sheriff for a year anyhow. But I don’t want you to fool yourself I haven’t a mite of confi- dence in your success. Only thing is, you're young yet. A year out of your life isn’t a great deal and the amount of money you will lose is no more than you can afford to pay if the lesson only teaches you how much better off a fairly competent plumber or bricklayer is than a publisher.” Jim and Marcia had a nest egg, partly inherited, partly saved. It wasn’t large. Certainly it couldn't be considered top- heavy capital for a publishing enterprise. Jim believed that if the paper could stagger along on an even keel the first year the turning point would be reached—or failure demonstrated. Of this latter contingency he banished the thought. The Gurlaways knew from experience that they could by rigid—not to say pain- ful--economy live a year on somewhere between a thousand and thirteen hundred dollars. This would leave enough for Greer’s small weekly salary—more, in fact, than the Pioneer had been yielding him of late—and give them enough to keep the paper out of debt. If you are still young and capable of enthusiasms and illusions, with perhaps just a little streak of the adventurous in your make-up, the risk assumed by the Gurlaways will not appall you. But if you have entered the season of caution, pru- dence and conservatism, regardless of what years are yours, you will share the horror of their friends and advisers. At the first conference of the three con- cerning the future of the Pioneer, Greer asked: ‘‘What changes in policy are you going to make, Jim?” Marcia was present, because Jim wanted her there. He felt her to be properly a pariner in the concern. But she had no intention of joining in the discussion, largely because she feared Editor Greer would not welcome her intrusion. Some day he would probably alter this opinion, but this seemed not the psychological moment to begin his conversion. “No radical changes for the present,” said Jim. ‘‘ People will be asking that ques- tion and we'll keep ’em guessing. I’m go- ing to think this thing out a bit before I make any big jump. Of course we aren't afraid of anyone, and we can make our editorials as snappy as we choose. But let’s not alter the appearance of the paper or anything of that sort. I rather think its present look of antiquity may be one of these days an actual asset. ‘““‘We must be as economical as we can. Marcia here has volunteered to come to the office at least a part of each day and learn to stick type. Before long she will prove quite a help and that means we can run more set matter without adding to our expense. It will also relieve you, Elly, so that you and I can take necessary time for planning.” Elly’s dull eyes kindled. ‘“Well, well,” he said with an approving glance at Mrs. Gurlaway, “that’s certainly very good indeed. She But isn’t she a very good idea won't have the least trouble. going todootherthings— write stuff for us?’ “Oh, sure! Marcia’s been doing the Social Whirl for the Republicrat for some time. Now she'll broaden her journalistic activities.” “Jim!” protested his wife. ‘‘Don’t get high-flown! You know I’m crazy to help all I can.” “You can help, all right,’’ confirmed Elly. It was apparent that the prospect of Marcia’s presence in the Pioneer office was very agreeable to him. ““Now, Elly, I want you to go on as editor just as you've been for so long. I'll contribute all 1 can, besides hooking on and relieving you of the business detail, like soliciting ads and subscriptions. So you can put a lot of thought into your work. And for heaven’s sake, get after some of our local abuses and abusers with a sharp stick! Don’t be afraid to roast anyone who needs roasting!” Greer groaned. “That's what I was afraid you'd say,” he complained. ‘Every half-baked young editor gets the fearless bug. I was like you once, James—and look at what it did to me! Take an old man’s advice—be honest but don’t shove your honesty down folks’ throats. They won't stand for the holier- | than-thou business. Jim laughed. “Then what'll we do about Grundy’s Grinds? I suppose they’re Jeff Fidge’s property.” “The title is. It’s a good feature, Jim They went well in the Republicrat. Start a column in the Pioneer called Gurlaway’s You can antagonize heaps of people if that’s what you're after.” Elly’s pessimism amused Jim. He had penetration enough tosee that it was largely pose, though, due to mental habit. The old editor was a capable man in many respects. Jim wondered if this persistent gloom hadn't militated against the Pioneer's suc- cess. Well, if the paper failed it shouldn't Gossip. be charged against lack of optimism in the Gurlaway family. “All right,” he said. name. I'll give you plenty of copy. I'll make it right to the point too.” “It’s a relief to me to have you stick your name on it,” ventured Elly. “‘Then the people you insult won't be coming in here | and licking me.’ This colloquy had taken place in the dingy little office of the Pioneer. The paper occupied a small once-white-painted build- ing on Main Street next door to Kane’s blacksmith shop. The conference over, the Gurlaways said good night to Elly, who turned over to Jim a key te the office door. ‘“‘What a hateful, cynical old man!” said Marcia. ‘‘ Doesn't he believe in anything?” “Oh, yes, but he’s a chronic grumbler. You must remeniber he’s had year after year of disappointment, and he’s soured. But your woman’s intuition ought to tell you it’s mostly on the surface. Down in- side his tough old hide he’s capable of enthusiasms— you'll see.”” “Yes, I guess I ought not to criticize him,” agreed Marcia. He has had a hard time. But we're going to make a big suc- cess, aren't we, Jamie boy!” “You bet we are! But I didn’t want to stir Elly up right at first. Of course a paper to succeed has to have something behind ita motive, a principle, or at least an idea with vitality. And I didn’t spring my idea on Elly to-night, becaus» 7 “Why, Jim, have you developed an idea so soon? Why haven’t you told me about —s “Haven't had time,” said Jim. ‘‘It only occurred to me as I was pulling the key out of the door. That’s why I didn’t tell you or Elly. I hadn’t thought of it. Anyhow, you'll have to help me with the details. 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b6 Efficiency in advertising,’’ replied his hief, ‘isn’t always a measurable commod- The big boss has insisted on sticking to i certain list of these country weeklies. He tries hard to justify it to me, but only partially gets away with it. I tell him it’s fifty per cent sentiment, and he wags his head wisely and doesn’t deny it He pays the bills, so I guess he’s entitled to indulge the notion ‘You see, J. Q. was a country boy him- elf and he knows country people. He says they’re loyal buyers of any merchandise they have known a long time and he doesn’t int to drop out of the papers he thinks they read. Of course I don’t believe they do read ’em—not to the extent they used to. But J. Q. says even if their following is i diminishing one he can’t bring himself to ithdraw his support—or something like that. He's a funny bird, Gibbsy, when he takes a notion. You'll have to study hima ng time before you're wise to his curves. New Englander to the backbone—and often think you have to be a New Eng- ander yourself to understand how to read ne,”” I suppose so,”’ agreed Gib ua Gene He'd heard a lot about the inse« _ “~y of me of the Eastern races, but yout t pictured Oriental mystery peal tothe Eastern U.S.A “] wish you'd look, Haskins,”’ he piped presently. ‘“‘Isn't this one a scream? Tri nount Pioneer! Ye gods! Pipe the eut they use for their first page title ! I betcha ome wood butcher whittled it out when Andrew Jackson was rolling hoops. And the type in the ad ever see anything funnier?” “Well, Gibbsy, I happen to know that old sheet was considered a real razmataz newspaper once, Yes, sir, it used to be quoted all over, Man named Godfrey edited it and he was a rip-snorter Bet you anything it has readers to-day who haven't missed a number in fifty year Our nice clean electrotype shows up sort of con trasty along with all that junk, eh?” “Owns the page Here's a hot shot I guess old boy Godfrey's ghost is back with a trenchant pen—oranax, Listen! ‘When we, the pee-pul, get good and tired of ama teur presidents maybe we will get up and assert ourselves and employ a business man to run the country for us, But we won't get him so long as we let the poli- ticians wish our presidents on us.’” “Ouch!” said Haskins, “Let's have a look.”” The advertisir g director took the paper and ran his eye across its familiar column I see! New department—Gurlaway’ Gossip. The lad calls a spade a government dredger, eh? Pretty savage. How’s this We wonder how many of the Repub liers its in the state legislature will have passes on the T.X.& M. when the Governme Ve returns itto the stockholders. Happy days ahead! Che grade-crossing menace needn't worry you if you treat the railroad as a philan thropic Institution.’ Here, take your old paper, Gibbs. Whoever Gurlaway is, he doesn’t mind making enemies,’ Young Gibbs seemed reluctant to lay the Pioneer aside * Most 4s rlaining stuff I’ve read in a dog's age,”” he chuckled. ‘“‘Miss Keogh, I hope you'lls a I have a chance to look over that paper every week The boy Isa wonder.”’ Back in Trimount people were beginning to wake up to the fact that the old Pioneer had a kick or two left in it yet. But this realization didn’t stimulate business “Son,” observed old Silas Hodge, pro prietor of the Popular Cash Market, “my father before me read the Pioneer in the auys when old John Godfrey used to hand t out hot and sizzlin’, But times has changed. The’ ain't no particular sense in gettin’ people to hatin’ you. Now I'm a kind of dyed-in-the-wool Republicrat I cal'late this state’s governed pretty good. ‘ain't pert fect, of course Looks to me like ou was driftin’ over to the opposition, That won't do. You'd ought to take sides with the old party, boy * “We're not drifting over to the opposi tior They'd be as bad as you fell ws if they got the wl ip hand, We're going to ide with the voters.” “Sounds funn y to me, when the voters is all either Republicrats or Oppositior You've got to be hay or grass in a town like thi Settin’ on the fence don't git you awthin’.” You wait, Mr. Hodge. We're not going to sit on the fence. You watch the Pioneer for the next few week that’s all. Do you THE SATURDAY want me to write the copy for your adver- tisement this week?” “No, Jim, I ain’t a-goin’ to give you any ad this week. I been figurin’ for quite a spell back the old Pioneer hain’t brought me any business, but I sort of hated to drop out on account of Elly. Republicrat’s about all I can afford, I guess.”’ “I'm sorry, Mr. Hodge. I hate to think you'd let a little thing like a slight political diffe erence keep you out.’ ‘Oh, no, no!” the marketman assured Jim hastily. “I wouldn’t say that, James. Only I wouldn’t advise you to be quite so outspoken, You know a feller can have his private opinions, but it don’t alw’ys pay to zo hollerin’ of ‘’em from the courthouse steps. A little mite of diplomacy goes a long ways. Tell ye the truth, I was dis- app'inted when you quit Fidge. He’d of done well by ye, specially if you’d wanted to try politic s bime -by.” * Fidge’ 8 kind of polities? Not much!”’ “‘He’s a real successful man, Jimmy, and looked up to in this community—don’t for- get that.” “‘Maybe—by some people. Going to have a canned-goods’ sale this week, Mr. Hodge? Don’t you want some dodgers?” Gosh-a’mighty! If you’d got round early this mornin’ I'd of ordered a thousand handbills. Young feller from the Re »pub li- crat office come in here and I give 'em to him. He’s goin’ to help me word ’em up this evenin’. Sorry, Jimmy. Better luck next time.”’ “Well, I hope you won't stop reading the Pioneer at least.”’ “Oh, no, I'll read it, I s’pose, if it’s only to see what you've got to say about folks. Better be careful, boy. A word to the wise, you know.”” That was the way, thought Jim, a little peeved, as he left the market. Hodge had been in the Pioneer year in and year out. So some of the politicians were going to blacklist it, were they? Let ’em! That week Gurlaway's Gossip was more scathing than ever. Marcia became speedily proficient at the case. She could set with her capable young fingers more ems an hour than Elly him- elf. And not only that, she helped a great deal in other ways. Greer liked what she wrote simple, direct, shorn of the conven- tional highfalutingisms of most small-town weeklies. She was popular with the women of Trimount and her column of social notes was fuller and more accurate than that of the Republicrat. Her friends dropped in with small home items that she could use. They wanted to help Marcia and they liked to see their names in print. She took pains to see that these items were not left out. Over at the Republicrat office they weren't so particular. “That Jeff Fidge is so everlasting high and mighty,”’ complained Mrs. Chief of Police Granger, who had _ painstakingly written for the Pioneer an account of a sewing-circle meeting at her house. “‘ Every- one in his office is independent’s a hog on ice So Marcia really did help the paper, be- cause she made friends for it—and friends meant subscribers. And, of course, a good many, like old Si Hodge, bought it to see what outrageous thing Jim was going to say next in his column of gossip. ‘They all know it’s the truth,”’ said Gurlaway. “The hit bird flutters, Elly. How's your editorial about the contract for the new schoolhouse? Give it to ’em solid! See if you can’t make someone come here with a gun! Stir ‘em up! They know they've got to play square or we'll call the turn. How many copies of the paper did we have left of the five hundred we ran last week?" L was looking for one to-day and blessed if I could find anything but the file copy.” “Better run six hundred this week.” rhat’s all right, Jim, but the more we run the more our paper costs. We're go ing to lose money unless you can bring in some advertising. We're carrying less than ever,”’ Jim turned to Marcia, who stood at the case in the lingy, dus ty old shop, Pretty well up wit h your comp for this week?” he asked. “I wish you'd take the fliv and spend the afternoon collecting back subscriptions. We need some cash. It'll be good for you too— keep you out in the air.” Marcia assented cheerily. The fliv was a hold-over from the palmy days when Jim had had a salary. It was secondhand and made eighteen different kinds of noises. Owing to various accidents during its checkered career it hada rakish, abandoned EVENING POST look like the village reprobate, who man- aged despite the low visibility of liquor in Trimount to keep pleasantly intoxicated three or four days a week. One asked con- cerning both the Gurlaway fliv and the town bum, “‘ How do they do it?” Lately Jim and Marcia had discussed selling the fliv. One could get real money for almost anything with four wheels and a strong odor of gasoline. The Pioneer was demanding more money than they had figured and even a moth-eaten, sagging- backed fliv seemed a luxury they could ill afford. “We ought not to keep a car,” Marcia had said, and Jim had burst into unfeeling laughter. “Keep a car!” he choked. rich!” Anyhow this might be the last time she’d ever drive the poor old cripple, and in spite of its multiplied defects it actually would go. In the years of their ownership it al- ways had gone. That was the one delightful thing about it. So she departed cheerfully. “How much of that old wooden Gothic have we?” asked Jim. “Oh, I guess we have plenty, for all the use we'll ever make of it.’’ replied Elly. “Haven't set a letter of it in years. It would hardly be called for unless we had a page ad—and goodness knows it’s a long time since that has happened to the Pio- neer,”’ He fumbled among a lot of boxes on a dusty shelf at the rear of the shop. Here ’tis,”” he announced. ‘‘Can’t for the life of me think what you want of it.’”’ He looked expectantly at Jim, but Jim offered no immediate explanation. Instead he got a brass galley and began experimen- tally arranging the type, pawing in the box for sorts, which appeared difficult to locate. Elly watched him moodily a moment, then shuffled off to his desk a trifle testily with the remark that Jim could go as far as he liked. The type was aged and battle-scarred. So many of the characters were missing that Gurlaway was a long time in complet- ing his line. Fin: illy it was as nearly satis- factory as the limitations of the assortment of letters would permit. With infinite pains he cut and fitted the leads for letter spac- ing. Then he tied the form up securely with successive thicknesses of strong twine, inked it carefully, laid upon the sticky sur- face a sheet of blank paper and achieved shortly a hammered proof, which he held daintily by the corners. “There,”’ he assured himself, that'll do for a starter.” He laid the proof under the nose of Editor Greer. “What d’you know about that?” he de- manded. Greer stared at the proof on which the fresh ink glistened wetly, puckered his lips, pulled his spectacles down toward the end of his nose and tipped his head forward so as to gaze over their tops—sniffed and read and sniffed again: “Say, that’s “T guess ‘FoR PRESIDENT: J. Q. PATTENBURY” “You've got too much space between the T’s in ‘Pattenbury’; and the D in ‘Presi- dent’ is wrong font. Aside from that I guess it’s a pretty fair job. What you going to do with it?” “Run it right across the top of the first page of the Pioneer every week from now until Pattenbury’s President of the United States.” “It'll be running a damned long time af- ter you're dead then,” grunted Elly Greer, Pees “ KF )R the love of St. Swithin,”’ remarked young Gibbs, of the Pattenbury ad- vertising department, “ will you look at the Pioneer!” He had been told that St. Swithin was the patron saint of shoemak- ers, and liked to be always in character even in his choice of expletives. Haskins looked over from his desk and as Gibbs held up the paper he observed span- ning the top of the page, in fat-faced Gothic letters of an ancient pattern, the words: “FoR PRESIDENT: J. Q. PATTENBURY” His mouth opened, but he didn’t say a thing for a moment. Then he remarked: “Guess your friend Gurlaway’s letting his gossip run away with his judgment. Won- der where he got that notion.” Gibbs crossed the room and laid the paper on his chief's desk. Together they scrutinized the page “Here's his dope,”’ said Haskins, editorials. Let's look.” “in the February 7,1920 This is what the two read: A MAN You KNowW FOR PRESIDENT “We, the American people, can pick our own President any time we make up our minds to go get him and set him at work on the job. ** When weare sick of seeing amateurs and politicians running our country’s business we shall refuse to let the manipulators hand us our public officials. “Every four years each of the two big parties decides whom it wants for Presi- dent. Neither one refers the matter to the voters or asks the people’s advice. They don’t want advice, which would only ham- per them. ‘Inany presidential year there are always dozens of aspirants yearning madly to become Chief Magistrate. As a class they are successful at just one thing—being politicians and keeping themselves in pay- ing public jobs. Most of them if placed in charge of even a moderate-sized business would prove rank amateurs. Yet they yammer loudly for the opportunity to try their hands at managing what has been entitle d the biggest business in the world. “For after all running this country is a business proposition. It is not properly a job for lawyers, doctors, poets, rhetoricians, theorists, astronomers or gentlemen whose principal assets consist of leather lungs and brass-lined larynxes. “From among the self-recommended can- didates, however, the political leaders— heaven help us—select by a process of elimination the man in each party who in their opinion will swing the most votes. “If any one asked them perc hance, ‘ Is this man qualified by temperament and experience, to say nothing of patriotism, to make good?’ they would laugh coarsely and ask in effect what that had to do with the matter. “Or they might answer: ‘Sure! Hasn’t he held one nourishing political job after another for the last twenty years? Well, we rather think so.’ “So we folks with our little votes are graciously permitted to decide between two men concerning neither of whom we have any conclusive evidence that he is big enough to fill the chair of general manager of the United States. We make this deci- sion practically blindfolded. “Sometimes by a fortunate accident the amateur President develops some aptitude for his job, and if he does no one is half so surprised as the politicians who wished him onus. And often, as history proves, he falls down. You know, and I know, that on oe- casion this general managership of the big- gest business in the world has been turned over to some intellectual peewee with the gift of guff. “After a fashion, to be sure, we have a practically fool-proof form of government, so hedged about with restrictions and safe- guards that even a mental defective in the White House could hardly succeed in wrecking us. “But don’t forget, when we have elected a man we have to stand for him four long years at least, whether we like him or not. ‘““Now why not elect by our own choice a man we all know? Why not appoint as our general manager one whose achievements as a business man and executive of success and experience are familiar not to a few but to every American citizen, a man concern- ing whom we can all be sure?) Why experi- ment with an amateur? ‘And again, why not have for our Presi- dent a man who doesn’t owe any politician the slightest debt of patronage or prefer- ment? You know the politicians who lead us don’t do it for nothing. Each one has to be rewarded for his support with something tangible, whether it be the postmastership of Cactus Crossroads, a cabinet portfolio, or something warm and nourishing some- where between. “Once more, how would you like a Presi- dent who, instead of announcing his can- didacy and running about pathetically bleating his patriotism and his aching want of the nomination, actually tried to avoid it until such time as he became convinced that we, the people, wouldn't take no for an answer; until he became’convinced that his abilities, talen - and experience were given him in trust by Almighty God for some great purpose; until his patriotism and his love for his fellow men and their welfare led him to sacrifice his personal interests and devote his time, his life if need be, to helping solve the problems of this blessed nation of ours? (Continued on Page 69) ’ 7

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—— ne —_— 2 nag ee ee ~~ =~, ~ A tani - aw Continued from Page 66 “And so with all these cor siderations in mind I nominate for Pres.dent of the United States James Q. Pattenbury, the shoe manufacturer. You know a great deal shout him; perhaps you regard him almost as a personal friend. He has truly served you well for many years ‘I suppose the idea of being President has formed any part of his wildest Let you and me and a few million other citizens see that he hears the call! “This newspaper with its tiny circulation perhaps the most unimportant, insignifi- cant journal in this great country whose newspapers are the wonder of the world. Yet within its sphere of influence, such as it is, the proposition to make James Q. Pattenbury our next President is going to he set forth from now on, and if Mr. Greer ind I can convince even a few of our friends that our contention isa just one, who knows how far the message may ? “JAMES T. GURLAWAY, Publisher.” never dreams travel “T'll be darned!” “Isn’t that guy ‘The kid is clever,”’ call it a wery, dodge for a rube for a ] brains maybe I for a new remarked Haskins. a corker?”’ agreed Gibbs. ‘“‘I'd wery neat little circulation publisher. He’s too fast town like Trimount. If I had his could think up a good idea of Pattenbury shoe adver- That boy would stir up quite a buzz if he wasn’t locked in the corncrib.”’ ‘He’s a fresh yap,’ commented Haskins. i ; series lsements “Still, do you know, I'd hate like the dick ens to mingle in any joint debate with him Because, Gibbsy, he’s got all the good argu- just as sure as you live He may be a rube, but you know what that enure y ird I el Ww at » hi Gray a gem of purest ray name dark unfath Dor "tw rry, "inte rrupted Gibbs wouldn't call this bird a mute, Milton, now, would you?” ‘Hardly! However, it isn’t of what yougand I call him; you wait until the big vhidl gets hold of this He'll call him a few names that we would never think of. Say, bsy, initial that paper and slip it into isket. Then ho for the deep yut until the storm of shrapnel’s serene tne “You inglorious a questior grinned and turned back to his But at that moment the door of the advertising department opened and James Quinby Pattenbury walked in. He held in his hand a copy of the Trimount Pioneer. Iv HE audacious publisher of the Pioneer was right when he stated in his editorial that J. Q. Pattenbury was well known to yone. For a third of a century his llow citizens had been spreading his fame vherever their feet conveyed them. Pat- y's shoes are the greatest as well as the most widely advertised in the world, and Pattenbury, Inc., the most extensive shoemaking enterprise by hundreds of thou- ands of pairs daily. Pattenbury was born in a little farming village of the traditionally poor but hon- est parents of literary | con- and historic At the age of ten he rose winter and summer at some heathenish hour-— I was four o'clock, ante yvlight- to help with the milking and He walked three miles to the district school and three miles home again, training by force vention t believe 1 Saving time er chore completing his academi of circumstances by the time he was fifteer eal od In those days shoemakers traveled about the countryside, stopping long enough at each farmhouse to shoe the family for six months or perhaps a year ahead, aiid it was as apprentice to such an itinerant crafts- man that Pattenbury gained his first famil iarity with leather, pegs and shoe thread Later he found himself proprietor ‘of a small factory, and with the advent of the tremendous inventions of McKay Goodyear, and the consequent revolutioniz ing of shoemaking, he came into his own as the leading producer in a community which was in time to become a famous shoe center. So grew from Pattenbury’s original mall shop vast castellated structures hous- ng their teeming hundreds, with an output of many, many thousand pairs daily. And other Pattenbury factories sprang up, not in New England alone but throughout the East and Middle West—in such centers as Rochester, Cincinnati and St. Louis— where the spirit of competition moved men to dis- pute the alleged supremacy of the New England built shoe. THE SATURDAY For Pattenbury looked ahead and saw these things. He studied markets, material labor conditions, transportation, local tastes—every element entering into the success of his business; and the Western makers, steadily encroaching upon the New Englanders’ field, found this man, himself a born and bred Down-Easter, always hot at their shoulder, if not—as was frequently the case—far out in front. He wasn't a localized provincial institution— he was na tional. By millions of pairs he outmade and outsold his nearest competitor Yet volume was not his primary tion. His 2 nply realized vision was to give people the sort of shoes they liked, and in doing so to give them at the same time for every dollar the utmost ir quality and consequent service. This ideal him and fl sources, ambi- needed or flowered into an un- swerving policy of which he moment lost sight So it was that the village 1 Ridge, South Dakota, found on display Budthorn’s Up-to-Date Bootery that pe culiarly shade of 3 leather made into heart-satisfying buttor boots with inverted sugar-loaf heels and bulbous as an overgrown radist To the Red Ridgerians these fashion at its superaltitude, the zenith of good form than which Fifth Avenue could display nothing than whicher. Stamped plainly on the sole were the price and the name of Pattenbury, Inc 3ut when displayed in the conservative shops of Boston, New York and other met ropolitan centers the shoes of Pattenbury obsessed poisonous yellow tan toes as represe! ted assumed shapes subtly restrained, breat} ing an almost snobbish class in pattern ar leather and called for prices within the reach of any bank president or movie star of your acquaintance At the same time Dennis Casey walking across the Jersey flats, } contentedly along in a pair of Pattenbury’ stitechdowns of cowhic rable that he was prompted to declare: “It do beat hell how thim wearin’. ‘Tis Pattenbury, Knows how to give the wor-r-rkir good av his dollar.” Twenty thousand people helped Patten bury make shoes and drew h and bonuses le so tough and du- brogues | mine God ble ‘im man the wayes, share more-thar Twenty thousand busy l his profits accepted his " liberal operatives swore fealty to the best and fair est of bosses True, there had beer period of n understanding and stress. But Pattenbury had settled his labor trouble assistance and with justice to Such settlements seemed to posse an iror quality of permanence Hired busy bodies at Washir gton too had persecuted him and prosecuted him in the name of and other interstate In the vernacular, they never got a thing on him. And when a great but pro crastinatory Government found itself sud denly up to its ears in an inter: catastrophe, to which fatuously it had for years turned a deaf ear and an unseeing eye it cried out in its sudden panic to Patter side Sherman josses. bury. So at the munificent wage of one dollar per annum Pattenbury helped straighten out the shoe situation for four million armed men more or less Just how important Pattenbury’s a was may be fully kn reference to the most the War Department, but I trust 1 am not ance betraying a state secret in telling you that if it hadn't been for Pattenbury our Ar might have worn poorer shoes at a far greater cost to Uncle Sam; and 1 will go further and inform you that our Allies were in no small measure indebted to him for what Mr. Kipling has so thoroug! me dramatized as “boots, boots, boot So much the public knows about J. Q é Pattenbury asan institution. Asanindivid ual any adult out of at least three-quart of our entire population would have instantly recognized him from his picture a medium-sized, thin-fi looking man of middle age, with thick gr hair, a crisp mustache and a pair of shi rather bus! ced, wholesome blue eyes sheltered beneath white brows You would have perhaps felt no prompt ing to turn and look at him a second time ir a crowd, yet it would have been this second look that told you here was a man out of the ordinary, emphasizing in his sturdy person the abounding vitality and nervou alert energy of the typical American busi ness man who sets out to do a thing, first ! planning it wisely and then by efficiently. aoing it EVENING POST Of his modest home life the pu new Little He had, as a certain we KNOW! writer stated when called upon to give at account of himself, the same wife and children he started with These were now grown. The wife it as much a type of the succes question wa sful Americar in her sphere as was J. Q. in hi He came to breakfast on Sunday mor dow! ng lippers and lounging jacket, ate ippred atively of oatmeal, crisply fried codfis} balls and delicately browned corn-meal johnnycake; read f a ton of Sunda papers; went to church; took a nap after dinner; and had no [ e pir i butler The old-fashi frame dwelling of province al line wa neither olossal. It sat back from the reet among a profusion of t England shrubbery elaborate as the homes of some elaborate nor « townsmen He was a citizen of Bedford, where tood the original Pattenbur fact t longed to the Baptist church, the club and the Blue ] game ol oage; playe la very mediocre bridge, and unc ystem voted strictly as ! co! lence and his common sense dictated That is the kind of man who walked into the advertising department of Pattenbury Ine., and demanded what the double-and twisted hokus-pokus all that nonsense wa about in the Trimount Pioneer *S: Fred what t} f hr He spread the P eer truculent before } 1dvertising directo Don't know, chief 1 Haskir Giibb ind | were just ng at ‘ thing. That bird trying to have ‘ u Did he se i ai ™ i { fur (ra | call it Wi , chief, we tl ig? il Wa juite bright little scheme ‘What do you mean, bright?’ Pattenbury, looking startled Oh, the chap ea of using the name of a well-known mar! that wa ) his game “Huh!” breathed the chief I'm re heved 1 thought uu meant All right, then,” eried Haskins wit! assurance which showed that he regarded himself a omewhat of ij eyed ! acte I'| iy he used ¢ 1 judgment ! ce of a name i rit. W ou're elected I'd like t ‘ position of postmaster of Bed IQ immed the P Pr the f ind snorted disgusted] If it i he 1d uu better not hand me al k ethat. Of ali the rot He turned and glared at rung Gibt w! rye gy new au ed ide Del i big plle of perlodica But Haskir ecreta M Keog who had been wv t pa ull long a rhe rive lirect Nilnise g Club and Mr. Patt , u i et f , ia ‘ ry ‘ Great rn M ! ‘ trie ! issed ict ‘ \ l« } a bu flu torunt lepartme Now e, Fre ‘ i | tart i te rit f ( t 1 1 ert g i g yt be! lt eve rim t -wherever ‘T t \ et ew hres ‘ t t ‘ ri ‘ (; ! l 1 ' ire ear ‘ } ‘ T ‘ ‘ ‘ We t ‘ r ‘ r iu boys got to me? Whe } k the li vi A le ering that million po i Ou ou ewspaper work fo ‘ r Gibbs } ymmething pret ‘ wa Gibb how Mr. Pattent new iyout Phe ing a tant modestly produced ere etche v red hall t ‘ wits when J. Q. swung brish tow ! le Then i] ture eale iv! the wor plece atat 2, 3 ‘ thoughtfu Hm! ne grunted expre t passed them ba to Gibb I be out St. Lou way f i wet more he announced Che figure me weal pot ] bu ‘ ‘ southwest I know agreed Haskit Dalla falling off a little. I’ve been studying the Ituatior tr g to nit I ye W to oy Wilke ! e te \ it i irred f rie lL? yhit l j there y elf a | et t little first-hand 1 t lf I ild talk wit! lot « ‘ bby rri¢ We i assented Pattent vy, f ing, “that’s for you to decide. O I sug gest that you wait until I'm b I'd f to talk over any idea uu may have. Now for goodness ake, ju n t a juirt i where was it? ‘rir t. © est ning l eve nea 1 of The head of the world’s greatest shoe business trotted briskly out n g tt ac peevishly behind him Isn't he a dear!"’ remarked Mi Keog! | love the way he raved over my iid Gibb “Something inspiring 1 ! Whole-hearted approval. I should th be afraid I'd get a swelled head The advertising director 1ughe i Jon t wort he advised. “ You were ich he didn’t par uur stuff. I've seer the day I'd have accepted that little gru his as loud frenzied applause. It’s | New I giand blog Too darned effusive we! n t {Te ed a tant I alwa feel en i rassed at those f me complime But t Hask, what does he rea ul ! le kull about that presidency thing (y ) l e asked the u ! W tole estio | e been with J Q. a good ma ‘ ind I've eve Tene ible eve to ‘ emote guess as to what we that ad e ol it mp i te aid But | believe ‘ neere wt ne { you that Piones plurge he bu I} t uy ‘ eT prorpr pre } i « i int he N it | nt, and hed >more enter ‘ yyest tha e would i il i t ipt ‘ pa tribe ( il Da Ju t the , ‘ te ects Mi Ke yl I he LiKe t e and } Pre ant v [N SPITE of our request that you di if ur i i bnted | pertinent use of Mr. Patt ume your new yum e st you pe we ure reluct lived t f 1 tha Wwe ire ! la t { x ' t “i { ivert yy iapre t i ract the ma have I 1 vert g Pattenb ¢ I eems a pity tl t t we t I ead sve z ! ! f ¢ j to take ‘ It s , Mr. Pattenb ‘ he is se fTended Yours tru Pati } IN« By FRED! K HASKI Direct {f Ad Na [ ‘ ybserved Jim Gurlawa lr | ette i (sree flesh Pret ‘ the ist est-Lo-go i i p I ill ex L he the me ol i ‘ ‘ 1 i eve 1 i ) t (lt ‘ ‘ ‘ I Iw t } t ea i eve . t et le le mn A tous expect va ‘ Neve i, | thed t pu ‘ ) t ' Pi { A M te I & Fred Trimbl th ed e'lly the | He sa ile | ‘ es have tal ju i D te ‘ligt .) | ‘ ‘ ‘ l i i i “ eased ‘ tr Wik at { ‘ ght lof Preside t Liowed tl P et 1 yee i mite ewspape for 1 ‘ han fort ( 1 he yuldn’t see bu Was Ju 1 ‘ ‘ L eve 1d bee eve GC | | ue we (he | y vdve e Re i give u ‘ Pidy N l ' it and start j ‘ ere ‘ 1 fee t 4 ‘ y ‘ ifterward told Marcia f t he t time ‘ e P or t hange yerne \ J A i (y iV eturned —— a i - mA

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Why worry about coal? Get better results with IN the automate, liquid fuel burner. I Dye ‘¢ NO} Detroit Patents its any furnace ; i I \\ rat SATURDAY EVENING POST What do you think kl he vloa Flaxon’s drygoods store and ¥ iggist and Tony leading fruiterer and baseball enthusiast Old Pop Flaxon said he hadn't worn ar ing but Pattenbury’s plain Grahams for ted Me- fann the dr Bassini, our n years and in his opinion a man who could do what Pattenbury had done could be trusted in the White House with abso lute conndence Ir fact he said he believed the Pioneer had a very firm place in the of this community and it was this affection ort of independent, fearles tand whicl nad +a ** Aw. shucks!” snorted Ell “It wasn't three months ago I tried t get that old rip to use the Pioneer and he informed me that in his opinion there wasn’t room in this town for two paper and the Republicrat lited him nicely.” Well, he changed his tune now, And Megan: ald we'd better send him thirty copies every week instea and if we kept on we'd soon | T. Jeffersor He's contracted f double coiumn ever weel for he will write his ow eh I} nes there’s one local advert have to wet-nurse! But Tony Bassini showed m«e yrme thing I'd never thought of In the mind of thousand people J. Q and thousands of foreign-bor: , Pattenbury is one of our great met Why? Because they've ee! hi name ind picture over th country in every on bill hoards, u treet cars, on fences bart rocks, trees and telegraph poles. They ma not know what Senator Spoopendyke or Ambassador Picklebuster looks like or what : excuse he has to be famous, but Pattenbu they simply can’t get away from. Then, a ony say He’s da fella wat maka da gooda shooce.” Tor i) nes just finist ng up his naturalization and he going to vote for Pattenbury ‘alla time-—two, tree four time Now, Elly uo and I ought to fee mavbe pretty good Let's give ‘em some hot stull this week. W} t's a cinch to show uy ‘ politiciar lhe haven t eve a se ‘ lecent shame Have ou seer esterday ty paper et? The Republicrat Na tior il Committee meet rf it pe morrow it t ve et me read you the re} Ever he eadlines ¢ el iv Ne ud GENERAL SUGDI LEADS FIELD Party Head n Washingt for Meeting { itional Committee G | ‘ t Presidential Race What do you } WwW about that Pick y a man for us to vote for already and the ntion six months off! Listen! Just at present General suyder eems t have a flying start and considerable prestige He ha ot, of course, touched the tate with the really large delegatior New York, for instance, will send an un pledged delegation, the state chairman de- iared to-day, adding in the ime breath that they were for no one and against no one I vue o one’ is right, Elly But tne be there to trade delegats ou can et your life Here ome re Ex-Senator Neally rode down from New York on the same train with William }. Goffin, formér chairman of the Republi- ratic National ttee, and arrived te to-1 ht He offered } ear to many ite to-nig of the leaders, but and that in Comm poke little, Gumshoe Make the most the day was the hat John K. Mur- dick, former sen: from Wisconsin, who took a presidential boom to the conventior elf last time, has moved into the office Senator Codman at the Capitol and eems to be exceedingly happy He is inderstood to be working for Governor Griggs, though he keeping quiet about it.’ ‘Elly, you can get some great dope out of tn Listen agair The great yame at present of all the indidates except General Sugden seems to pet e up tor s« neone else every possible the general might get. Sugden backers don’t mind this. They say the strong Sugden man February 7,1920 aid to-day i fhe tion an) number of small machines. 1 don’t dominate their as they did And the various little barons who succeeded the old oligarchy cannot contro all the delegates they round up. They the delegati yt Uld Guard does ru broken up into more, but | » big bosse states have in’t even deliver for sure ym. their own state ‘Now, Elly, you've enough material ir this a smashing editorial Play up the sordid side, all the talk about barons and oligarchies and delivering dele d the rest how tricky and poker with the self-government as the one article for gates ar sly they are—playing people’s right of Forget you're writing for a one horse derelict and imagine you’re on a big daily say, the Ch New York Guide Gosh, Elly } il! We're fighting for a big pri: Snow take cago Guardian or the this thing hres me to the very so ciple the right of the common voter t have his say about the candidates he t ote for. Can't uu see how tal th whole thing i Oh, I guess so,”’ replied the unexcitabl he justly re sa contemporary You're right dog my cats! What 0 nere if rhting a pipe whicl does it a lrimount?” as big and ju rrimount as it is in Bost or Philadelphia, and I rather think in the a principle is just is righteous it mall town it’s easier to put it across wit the peopl rhis is as good a place to sta aus any Maybe, maybe! a | Jim, how about tr week's Gos ip’ I'm sl 1 couple tickfu Better get bu vi | peers fe ere n spite of his sur editoria He admired Jim Gurlaway tox But Elly had been born somewhere amone the Vermont hill where it wasn’t cor dered wholesome for 4 ung people alse en yht to thelr tace If anyone ill of Gurlawa the traducer would ha He took infinite ed to write pains wit! ! ‘ imn of Gossip and besides wrot« ear! half of the editor matter He wasn't so polished as His style woodpecker’s harp, staccat ipid—-what Greer called hurry-up stuff Greer didn’t realize how Jim worked t achieve this very thing and that ofter entence that seemed to fulminate like recracker had beer rewritten a doze: times in Gurlaway’s little hall bedroom home have cor quite fa an extremist must Jim was not always but this was because he was He exaggerated to send home the sturd\ blows of his argument. In the main he wa right and his bias was displayed in matte of detail rather than along broad lines. H« thought big. He was pitiless in sizing uy and judging situation He hated jobbers the cheap connivances of those« yartered in the market of politics The severely critical cluded that dickering who He felt it was no time to be moderate, so he got up on the roof, and having provided : imself with a choice assortment of verba brickbats he bombarded his enemies wit as much enthusiasm as if he had swung | a countrywide are. The fact that apparently were far be 7 ind futile bat tery did not render any more bland the ac of his inkpot. Quite the contrary, perhap And oh, boy! He was having fur He assured Marcia t} if the old Piones ultimately wouldn't grudge pen in these miscreants mynd the range of his light at ever collapsed he the cost Probably she ated Littl Marcia assented eagerly was only an ign country wife with a misjudged admiratior for a wild-eyed fanatic with the bug of quixotism intrenched firml) Nevertheless, she fed the fires from day to day and never for one moment sensed the pathos of wasting so much good ammunition in a battle against an enemy that wasn’t even among those present She put in a great deal of her time at the Pioneer office, becoming an efficient assist- ant for Elly Greer. She not only set type: she learned the simple art of press feeding while Elly turned the crank. Thus by dis pensing with the services of the fitful Til ford boy they saved fifty cents a week Continued on Page 72 nt, ur sophist ( of his ardor +

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Continued from Page 70 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST A daily?” queried Pattenbur; ‘ago Guardian, vil RATHER bored-looking young man, who was evidently not a traveling uesmal ince ne earried no ample cases, dropped off the noon trai, east bound, and ambled in leisurely fashion to the Trimount House Here he registered as Walter M. Biggers, of Chicago, and inquired regarding tre ition of the Weekly Pioneer Then vent into the dining room, ate his dinner asad but conscientious manner, lighted a wandered without haste along Main Street as directed. Presently he erhauled the small and dingy building ) ipied by the publishing interests of lames T. Gurlawa d associate Inside Mr. Bigge found a tiny office o be a state of inerad- Dle lisarra\ and through a door he y psed the ba hop—combined press- ré room— where a sunny- | ) tood at an ancient case sticking type. The familiar odor of printe l f avily in the air. At a littere k sat a middle-aged, round I a pipe whose thi racy and ead proof nd of the closing door tl verson swung about and ed up across the steel rims of his spee- tacle Mr. Gu vay? N (y 4 iW t Ar t} ny . The i¢ | la ird on the lide of | ‘TL see,” said Gree ww you, Mr. Bigger Just dow I th Jim’l Ihe hawt He cated a cha ecupied by a dozer or more exchange ind leaned forward to veep the pane to the But Bigge rs eased hin elf n, remarking that he'd hye ist a I ible ne Vil ised to A ‘ ‘ t t? I tt t ’ the G diay rie iere- ar (ree iit of th “We ble for tl Pattenbury boom of yours has sure | i winner. Have you seen yesterday's C,;uardia N Jin } e it when he comes in. | have time to go to the post office t la to-morrow’ press day and we're uur ea Oh, we think the world of said Biggers, spreading » rattling pages of the day’ Guardi Across the top tretched in heavy Got » the legend: FORPRESIDENT: J.Q.PATTENBURY “Holy Moses!” cried Elly At that moment the door oper edanda fied maniac shouted: ‘‘ Hey, Elly, look here! Marcia, come in, quick! It’s hap- pened the impossib as Che maniac paused wild-eyed, his hat on his outstretched hands he held of the Chicago Guardian. qua one ear I Oh,” he said hastily, “I’m sorry! I did realize we had a caller. But you can't blame me for being excited.” “This is our publisher, Mr. Gurlaway, Mr. Bigge Jim, shake hands with Mr. Bigge of the Chicago Guardian.”” To the \ wr Elly explained: ‘He isn’t always as razy as thi Sometimes he’s almost rationa Marcia appearing at, this moment in the back-room doorway, the demented young in seized her and kissed her. This would rprised anyone less imperturbable especially considering the mutted apron worn by the young woman and the liberal smudge on the side of her rather adorable nose and chin. “My wife,” said Jim. ‘“‘ Marcia, this is Mr. Biggers, and his paper, great Chicago Guardian, has come out for Pat- tenbury What do you know about that?” ‘I—I— it’s rather an abrupt way to o important a bit of news,”’ replied rf ‘“*Please pardon my toil-stained ngers, Mr Bigge rs, ar d if you'll excuse me I'll wash them.” She vanished. who had risen, the Biggers, viewed all this byplay with a large condescension. Then ““Well, Mr. Gurlaway, I was telling Mr. Greer you've struck a big thing. It isn't often a weekly like yours scoops the country but we the he said nowledge in February 7,/920 Guardian office that you've rung the bell and I have orders from the main works to tell you that we’re with you.” “‘Meaning Mr. Horton?” “Exactly! I’m sent here as his personal representative. But, pardon me, wasn’t Mr. Greer saying you were Just getting to I find I can’t leave for Chicago until to-morrow, anyhow. Suppose we wait until supper time and then you bring Mrs Gurlaway and Mr. Greer over to the hotel and have a bite to eat with me.” Marcia Gurlaway once more appeared in the doorway. ‘Jim, ask Mr. Biggers to come up to the house. The hotel food isn’t fit to eat. Elly, you come, too, and I'll see that you have something that’s at least palatable, with a cup of real coffee.” Mr. Biggers brightened perceptibly. “That’s very 1 % said. “I hope you don’t think I was spelling for the invitation.” “T shouldn’t blame you if you were,” said Marcia, “especially after one trial of Trimount House fare. Now we'll hustle and make up the paper. We'll print in the morning—a thousand copies. That’s quite a circulation for the old Pioneer.” ‘“‘We run eight hundred thousand every day,” remarked Biggers, smiling languidly, as he turned toward the door. ‘Not on a press like Marcia. press? ice, he retorted ” ours, vir ” HE Old Man,” explained Biggers after supper, as he flicked a ¢ sore into his emptied coffee cup, ‘‘isn’t Sealing your thunder. He is as square as any newspaper publisher livir says you've hit prung in ten years a! it along.” ‘“‘Wonder he ever got wind of it,” arded Ell; “Oh, y on’t know V. H. gift for | the greatest tt d he w: naz- He ’s got an uncanny nowing everything that happer rhings just drift his way as if he were a magnet e there happened In this ea vap opening g up ust out of to be a frest our ex- higt school—and h acr your paper and wrote on it in blue pencil, ‘ Yel Journail- the Tall Grass.’ Then he sent it up e, with his initials on it Let me tell you the Old Man raised that kid’s pay a week for being what he calls alert in the interests of the Guardian. It started something all right. “But I'd better go back a month or so to give you a clear picture of just what’s led up to all this. “Horton's a lifelong while he’s personally kept the game of politics, of course our paper's always loyally and consistently supported the party and its candidate “This year, however, V. H. woke up. You know the Secretary of the Treasury recently put up a loud squawk about the government's expenses and there’s been a devil of a lot of talk about the millions that have been chucked to the chickadees taxpayers’ money, every cent, that million of people had to sweat for. ““Now the idea of putting a regular, hard- headed, efficient, experienced business man in charge of this country isn’t original wit! you, Gurlaway—and it isn’t original wit! Valentine Horton, of the Chicago Guardian. It’s been talked of before, but no one ha had the spine to get up and tell the what a lot of jackasses they employing incompetents and vi public office. “Horton puts on his hat and searches out the Republicratic National Committee and informs them that though the Guardian is prepared to be loyal to the party he doesn’t propose to devote paper and printers’ ink and editorial talent to helping them elect a pinhead to the presidency at a time when the country is financially and economically in a critical condition. He suggests mildly that when the candidate is selected it would listen very hopefully to the common pee-pul if that candidate might be a busi- ness man of known qualifications who could be depended upon to substitute horse sense for peanut politics, forget party lines and put this land of ours on such a basis that it wouldn’t be spending money like a chorus girl with carte blanche on some oil mag- nate’s bank roll. In other words, if a general manager wrecked a business by running it hopelessly into debt he’d be fired. But we let the United States go skidding merrily into the financial bog in- stead of keeping our expenses inside the limits of our income. Any schoolboy can Concluded on Page 75 char ve ry ? ige green low ism ll to Horton asa five dollars Republicrat, and strictly out of voter are to zo or ionaries 1n

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(Concluded from Page 72) tell you where that sort of thing leads. Yet we keep the same old bunch of politicians in office and let ’em spend money with drunken extravagance—say, a man will pungle up his income tax without a quiver and then go home and pan friend wife be- cause the grocer’s bill is five dollars higher than it ought to be. Gee, when will we wake up? ‘That's something like the line of talk V. H. handed the committee, and what do you suppose? They gave him the loud, feeling laugh and told him in effect to leave it to them-—they knew their business all right. They'd take care of the candi- lates and he needn’t worry. As for a busi- ness man, they couldn't see it. It wouldn't be practical It wouldn’t be politics. It wouldn't be Well, Horton didn’t wait to hear any more things it wouldn’t be, but walked out, ste as the dickens, and wearing the Guardian would never run a ine to help elect some misfit that the gang decided to hand the voter on a lettuce leaf with a spoonful of guff to make him pal- atable ‘And then within a few days along comes your Pioneer and V. H. immediately sung vut for all the back numbers he’d missed ind read your dope and let off three rousing cheer He'd struck the very thing he wanted He sent for Spratt, our mar aging editor, and put it up to him, and Spratt was foolish enough to grin when he saw the Pioneer. It pretty nearly cost him a good job. After that you can bet he took the proposition mighty seriously. ‘The beauty of the situation is this man Pattenbury’s a persor al friend of Horton’s, and Horton realizes just what a hard nut he is going to be. That's part of the game to create such an a ng sentiment that Pattenbury won't dare refuse—th he won't in the end hea now he’s wild. I phoned the office this afternoon and one of our star men has interviewed him. It’s in to-day’s editions that we'll see to-morrow and I understa Pattenbury's going to ue for defamation of character every news spaper that goes into the scheme. Oh,

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rich! “Now my job is to feature you and the Pioneer in our Sunday edition, with photo- graphs of yourself and Mrs. Gurlaway and Mr. Greer and the Pioneer office, outside an d in.” ‘Heaven forbid!” cried M:z arcia, “TI was going to have it all cleaned up ‘Never, Mrs. Gurlaway! ‘It’s the dingi- ness and the confusion that give it that wonderful atmosphere. We will play up the obscure but brilliant young publisher and his loyal wife, and the stanch and keenly observant veteran editor who instantly recognized the tremendous epoch-making value of the brilliant young pub jlisher’s brain child—say, it will make a peach of a story! ‘*And here is the practical side: Horton is already lining up the biggest dailies in the country to codéperate in putting over the plan. A gigantic syndicate service is to be started with every word of your edi- torials and other material in proofs, mat- rices or stereotypes, which the smaller newspapers can have free, I tell you this is publicity campaign such as has never been attempted before in the history of the United States and Horton is aflame with enthusiasm, ‘**I am instructed to bring to the Guard- ian office the person or persons responsible for the working out of this plan and they will be clothed like the lilies of the field and et to work with solid gold pens writing more editorials on genuine Japanese parch- ment. In other words, Horton will shoot the works and you folks can just sail in and name your own salaries. It means a life job for you—including Mrs. Gurlaway if he wants to make herself a career in news- paperdom instead cf the home. ‘Furthermore, if you need money now I am instructed to authorize you to draw on the Guardian for any amount up to, say, ve thousand dollars; and, of course, you’ll want to arrange for someone to run the Pp ioneer for the present.” At this point James T. Gurlaway inter- rupted Biggers’ flow of eloquence. The Chieago man had lost much of his lacka- daisical indifference of manner and was eeking to convey to the trio something of his chief’s enthusiasm. But Jim had held his peace as long as human nature could tand the strain. ‘Hold on,” he said, “you're going too fast for me. Don’t forget, I’m a country rube with a slow-working brain and I get confused easy. I understand, do I, that it

THE SATURDAY you think Mr. Horton would like to have Mrs. Gurlaway and Mr. Greer and myself pack up and go to work for the Guard- ian? ‘i “Yes and you can write your own tic k et. ‘And then he expects me to delegate the management of the Pioneer to someone else?”’ ‘You'd have to. “And you're going to make us famous overnight as a trio of new stars in the news- paper and political firmament by write- ups and photograp hs and dizzy headlines not only in the Guardian but in newspapers everywhere? 4 -huh! That’s my part of the job.” ‘And in consideration for pulling us up by the roots and exposing us to the pitiless glare of the publicity sun Horton take smy idea and nod a go of it. In other words, J. Q. Pattenbury will be nominated because the newspapers are behind him. My dream comes true in that case.” “Yep, you've said it all. Except the five thousand -” ‘Never mind that. I don’t see any occasion to draw on your people for five thousand dollars. As for the rest of your proposition, of course there are three of us, and I can’t speak conclusively for Mr. Greer. He's un “v ‘r contract with me for a ear, but I sh 1oul¢ in’t think of standing in his way — ‘Hold on there, Jim!” put in Elly. “You leave me out of it until you've settled your own problem. Marcia’s got some- thing to say, I guess.” “It's a gorgeous opportunity for a young woman of Mrs. Gurlaway’s obvious tal- ents,”” remarked Biggers “I’m not thinking of my opportunity, said Marcia. ‘I’m thinking of Jim's.” “Well,” said Jim, ‘‘it’s flattering, not alone to me but to all of us. It’s so dog- gone unexpected say, Bigge rs, let me n < out loud, will you? Sort of feel ' way verbally and see if we can't come to some conclusion. I'll take up the dif Terent features of your proposal in order “First, you want us to pack up right away and jump to Chicago. You must re- member that we’ve been here all our lives and nowhere else. The idea of migrating to a big city is pretty serious. It would mean turning all our habits topsy-turvy remodeling all our ideas. I confess thought rather stuns me and at fi! inclined to be against it. But that’s just timidity or country backwardness, “But when a fellow like me contemplates making such a big change he ought to size himself up pretty carefully. 1 went to New York once and gunned round among the newspapers and they all turned me down. I made up my mind those chaps sized me up about right—a small-town guy. So I decided to be a small-town guy and be content.” “‘He isn’t a small-town guy, Mr. Big- gers,”’ protested Marcia. ‘‘I’m always try- ing to get that notion out of his head. It isn’t the town one lives in—it’s the brains ” ” ”

EVENING POST in his head that make him a small-towner or a man of big-city caliber.” “Cheers for Mrs. Gurlaway!” proposed Biggers. ‘That's the spirit!” *Nevertheless,’’ went on Jim, unswayed by this display of confidence, ‘‘I suspect that I am after all the best judge of my limitations. Not that they aren't elastic I'd be a chump if I thought they weren't. But I hesitate to hop into a big newspaper oftice r igh t out of a clear SKY, where I'd be a mighty little toad in a big puddle, I’ve apparently developed a good thought in this Pattenbury campaign; I hope I'll strike many an idea just as good in future. But I don’t want to go off half-cocked, M: iybe I'll never have another. I'd hate to go to Chicago and prove a morning glory

r all, ‘I don’t say I won't do it; I only think ‘tter not try it right away. Elly can do as he likes. He has the weight of experience that will keep his feet on the ground and make him a valuable man,”’ ‘After spending my life in the thick growth?” protested the perturbed editor, ‘Not without a chaperon, James. now—you're all right. Think out loud some more,” ‘Now I don’t see how I could turn the old Pioneer over to someone else,”’ went on Jim. ‘‘I’d feel like a rank deserter, I’m fond of the people of this community and when they learn that the Pioneer, the } paper they’ve known for so long, |} come the fountainhead of a big nati movement, they’re going to be mighty in- terested yes, if ldo say it, proud Maybe t} ey'll be proud of me. Wt \ r if | suddenly turned round Chicago?” ‘You're foolish if y« a bunch of farmers influence you,” Biggs rs. ‘It’s your life, not theirs, be affe acted,’ ‘True, but I'm young. A little delay isn’t going to ruin me I want to finish this job—carry out the Pioneer's campaign until the convention has selected a candi- date, either Pattenbury or someone el and put the Pioneer on Easy Street. Then I ean think of the next thing to do. I rather believe I'll go to Chicago and ask your boss for a job and he can take me on his own terms, just so he agrees to give me an op portunity to become a real honest-to-gosh newspaper man. The day I step into the Guardian office will be the proudest day of my life.”’ ‘‘And mine,” said Marcia. “If I can help Jim make good in Trimount I ean help him in Chicago.” ‘How about you, Mr. Greer?” asked Biggs rs. ‘I'm likely to trail along with Jim,” said *‘jJust so you allow the boys in the

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-4 to mo} e ‘Ever see a newspaper office where smoking wasn’t the principal business Well, Mr. Gurlaway, how about my Sun-

day story? ‘You let Mrs. Gurlaway give you the dope for that,” said Jim. “I tho ight at

first we didn’t want any Sunday stor if it will help the game along, why go to Only I wish it wasn’t necessary to play personalities. Leave me out. Can't 3 make it Just a story of the Pioneer —one the oldest papers in the country? Seem me it’s picturesque enough to make a mighty good yarn, especially if Ay, wi don't you call it the Rip Van Winkle newspaperdom, waking up after ‘Twenty years’ sleep,” growled | Greer “That's a hot ugyestior Mr Biggers, I owned the old wreck for ju twenty year up to the time t id bought it —and now he insults me rgvers laughed ‘That did sound pretty rough, Ells said Jim I see I'm no Sunday-featurs headline writer. Let's leave it to Bigger ‘You said something,” chirped Bigge ‘You leave it to me id Mrs. Gurlaway ‘About the Guardian's plan to syndicate all our matter,”’ continued Gurlaway | Mr. Horton to go the limit Every word that Elly and I have written or may write from now on is absolutely at your disposal! We can produce just the same line of stuff here that we would in Chicago; and I'll g to Chicago for a few days and see Mr: Horton and let him tell me his idea Elly can come along, too, if he wants to.” **Rip van Winkle drops dead on seeing

Masonic Temple rted Elly. ** There another hot headline for your paper, Big ger I don't know, Jim; I might get ru over by a horse car or something. Do they have horse car ! ir town, Mr. Big gers?” ‘Horton w ir expense M Gurlaway,” tid ind of ourse

you'll expect a v3 . me oaee Sane be Se eee How mu reg a ou thi k you and Mr. Greer ought to hi 4 1 ont twenty-five a week on the Repu licrat,’’said Jim, ‘and I’m paying El ‘Let’s make it a hundred and fifty wee? for h of You for the durati I Pattenbury campaign. I can put that o with the Old Man as easy as pie : Elly Greer’s eyes popped Jim looked thoughtful. Marcia held her breat} Her husband was so darned Quixotic! ‘All right,” said Jim ‘We can use it Now, Biggers, can we put Pattenbury over with the people 4g ‘You wait until you talk with Horton **Does he feel confident?”

solute ly sure.”’ 0 do l, sigyer " Of course | } Ww Pattenbury’s going to kick, but let hi The voters of this country will take hin forcibly and set him down House and make him say uncle or I mi my gue Biggers, if Horton plays the game as you say he will I'll bet you the Trimount Pioneer against one of those ter rible cigarettes you smoke that both partis will nominate Pattenbury. Dern ‘em wi a few million people and the rouse ress a this country battering at the door of the ChicAgo and St. Louis conver halls the y simply won't dare do anything st

fio different ‘By George, the power of the new papers isn’t dead in this country, Bigger Some of 'em are pretty flabby, but see ‘em come up to the ratch! I tel the day your boss stretched Pattenbur name across the t p of his first page wa one of the biggest day im the tory of tl United States.” CGurlaway’s eyes flashed and he thumpe the dining-room tab | dat ced pre Cariou | “L'il say ‘ lap ed back into his habitual air of langui indiffe ‘rence, ‘ isn't it? Sut what if you were What if you had built up a prosperous | ness and acquired a modest compete! nd were just settling down contentedly t njoy life in comfort and a young upstart vn Peer on a boggle-eye 1 hobby all frott

» poor Pattenbur ing at the mouth rode up to your front door and lassoed you and dragged you biting and cussing dow: Pennsylvania Avenue And suppose he slammed you, wills | into the bigge t, hardest, most thankle nerve-racking and merciless job in the world. How would you like it, Gurlaway? Or you, Mr. Elly Greer?” “Me?” grunted Elly. He stu {

insensate finger tip into the bowl of |} pipe, applied a match and shot half a doze thick blue clouds ceilingward. ‘Me? | grab the poker from my violated heart} and beat his dad-blamed block off what I'd do.”

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THE BLACK RAM OF SUNLIGHT THE SATURDAY (Continued from Page 5) Other eyes had detected motion. ree nN k alls. He could see the glowing sparks by night and the smoke columns by day ascending from the fires that never died on the point that the white men later called the Lookout and Signal Rock. Here Tukuar spent the summer. The Washakis hunted ceaselessly in the hill but no hunter attempted the perilous a cent to the lone flat top that the curl of the cafon cut off from the rest of the world He heard the reports of their muskets, but these came softened by distance. Some times at night he could see the fires of the hunting camps. He romped with the three remaining lamps of the band and as they grew strong he led them in explorations along the face of the cliffs. When he was three months old he rounded the shoulder of the wall on a nar row ledge and came full upon a strange creature resting upon the extreme edge of a jutting shelf. This monster had treme dous horns that curled out and back, then forward. He turned his eyes upon the four lambs, favored them with a casual inspe tion and resumed his nap. Tukuar passed him frequently after that, always resting peacefully on some point that afforded a clear view for miles, and the lambs learned that he meant no harm to them. Tukuar was now too heavy for an eagle to carry in its claws and he no longer par ticularly feared them. But one day as he traveied along a narrow trail he learned that these birds were resourceful. The trail pinched out, but there were outcropping rocks projecting a foot or so beyond the

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The eagle tipped ‘ izzily on one ito anda struck viciously in- ward at the lamb behind him, giving a ter- rible wrench that dislodged its precarious foothold on the sl sping point of rock. Then the point was « mpt: Tukuar looked over und saw a sprawling shape turning gro- ly through the air, another form div- ing gracefully after it, following it down. A sickening thud floated up to him, and the grinding of dislodged slabs in the rock lide piled at the foot of the cl ff. He made frantic haste to reach the flats above. The nights had grown rapidly colder. I'wo early snows, soft and clinging, had fallen or ly to melt and disappear In the mornings there were tongues of ice along the rocks where water seeped from the crack The bull elk started bugling, the first of the animals of the hills to mate Two weeks later Tukuar could look down through the rifts in the trees below him and nal movement of white on the tesque timbered slope the white flags of mule deer milling restlessly from one spot to the next. Then the beasts with the curling horns climbed to the summit of their home range » ewes fell and drifted. The days ind short to allow their melt- ing. From his lofty point Tukuar could see the solid white of the peaks, broken only by the brown t ps of the ndages The dead white of the snow gleamed through the heavy green of the spruce Elk and deer moved down the country, holding to the timbered valleys, but the sheep still held to the peal Then came a gray day, an y { drifting slowly from the east Milk ks floated in the pockets of The old ram led the way, ewes and lambs followed close behind. They worked down the cliffs, crossed Crag Creek and ascended the other side, following down the ridges of the main divide. Tukuar’s eyes detected moving dots on ot her ridge s, ot hers beyond those. The bighorn tribe was on the move, but instead of following the valleys, as did the elk and deer, every band of sheep trav eled the backbone of some ridge Once started, they pa ed the antlered tribes that had streamed below the ma month be fore. For the elk no longer wintered in the open foothills as in the past, but made what hift they could to winter through in the lower valleys of the hills. Tukuar had been born in time to be a part of the last general movement of his kind to the winter range in the bad-land brakes The old ram moved far down the range, chose an outcropp pur and followed it, resting on its rim late in the afternoon of the second 7. Tukuar could see many animals of a kind strar ge to him feeding in he flats below. When night came the band descended to the flats and headed swiftly out across them Che young ram heard many new sounds as he followed close at his mother’s heels A deep rumbling bellow sounded from ose at hand and he pres sed close to the old ewe's flank, but the old sheep paid no heed to this note White men had first tarted grazing their cows here three years before and most of the band had heard the bellow of range bulls before now. The iwl of a cow was the next note to startle him. The low country was frequently made hideous by an outburst of jeering yelps that rove from all sides. Tukuar had heard the quall of foxes in his native peaks, bux these coyote voices were new to him. The flat wastes were little to his liking rhere were I h ledges and mighty cliff: upon which »> when danger threatened and he a sense of helplessness, awed by his own insignificance, his feelings much the ume as those a plains-bred calf would ex perience at finding himself among the wild iy les of Tukuar’s home range Then a new note drove the fear into his heart, a savage wail that rolled across the flats. Every sheep stopped in its tracks and they stood huddled together without a move until a far- A answer floated back, dreading to go on after hearing the message that two of the omy buffalo grays in the foothills were on the hunt. After perhaps a minute the sturdy old ram led on and EVENING POST toward morning he led them into a broken choppy country—curious flat benches en- circled by cut-bank washes and draws, a veritable network of coulees, miniature cafions with straight sides. From the midst of the bad lands a great pile of barren many-colored hills rose in a tumbled mass above the surrounding country, the Rain- bow Peaks, seeming but an isolated ruin borne into the low country by some gigantic convulsion of Nature and left there with no connecting link of hills to bind it to the parent range. All through the winter Tukuar heard the hunt calls of the two buffalo grays, but the big killers did not molest the sheep. They killed among the stock on the open range and at this time of year few cows pene- trated the breaks of the bad lands. For the same reason few riders came that way. Those that did come wrought havoc among the sheep, for they came to hunt, bringing strings of pack horses to be loaded out with meat. These men |} had guns that shot many times and once within range of a bunch of sheep the toll was heavy. Once in mid- winter Tukuar’s mother raised her head and took one look at a bad-land rim a hun- dred yards away. A stunted sage on the edge of it had suddenly darkened and showed no light through it. She was off to a flying start, Tukuar leaping after her. The rapid reports of a magazine gun roare “dd behind them. A sheep on Tukuar’s left made two wild lunges and pitched down with her head doubled under her. An old »we just ahead of him collapsed in a limp heap, a .45-90 ball in the base of her brain, and Tukuar cleared her body at a single bound. He heard the thud of lead behind him and a third ewe dropped out of the bunch. The old ram had drawn away to winter by himself. Tukuar saw him appear on a rim off to one side and he had scarcely showed himself on the sky line before he lurched drunkenly and pitched over the brink. Then the rest were safe in the bot- tom of a bad-land crack and they ran for miles. A dozen times during the winter Tukuar heard the heavy cannonading that told of many casualties in other bands of shee p Winter softened into spring and the grass greened at the roots of the sage. Tukuar’s mother led the remnants of the band back toward the Sunlight Peaks, cross- ing the flats at night. From well up the slope of the hills Tukuar heard the aching wail of a single buffalo gray, the last note of its kind that would ever reach his ears, They fed slowly up country, crossing over the heavy drifts from one open ridge to the next, lingering where feed was good and keeping just below the solid snow line. It was a month before they finally grazed out onto the meadow from which Tukuar had first glimpsed the world. He could see other bands of sheep in the open points, for all bighorns had not wintered in the low country. The wind whipped the snow from the flat plateaus and exposed ridges, un- covering sufficient feed to winter many of them through. It was only the surplus that migrated to the bad lands. The snow still claimed the peaks and there were treacherous snow combs that curled out and overlapped the rims, but there were broad patches of crisp green grass between the drifts. Tukuar’s horns had first formed irritat- ing points beneath the skin, then pushed through and showed above the hair of his scalp and lengthened, but not rapidly, for the horn growth of rams is very slow. The Washakis did not resume the gen- eral hunt with the coming of spring. Many bands of them filed through the hills, but these were burial parties carrying their dead to their last resting place on the very lip of the rims that overlooked the streams, interring them in solid-rock inclosures, their most-.reasured belongings by their sides. There seemed to be a great sickness in the village. Day after day these files came to the rims and from his heights above Tukuar wondered what it was all about. There came a time in early fall when Tukuar saw the signal fires flash messages through half the night. From far out across the low count ry, where the chiefs had gone to gather in council with the whites, the message was relayed from point to point that the remnants of the tribe of Washaki must break camp and move to some spot of the White Father’s choosing. Two days later there was great commotion in the vil- lage. Tepees were struck and all belongings lashed on the pole litters trailing behind the ponies. Then the cavalcade filed down the valley. a long line of blue-clad horsemen February 7,1920 riding with it. Thereafter Tukuar heard no more the rhythmic boom of tom-toms from the valleys and the smoke pillars were gone from the Lookout and Signal Rock By fall Tukuar’s horns had attained : length of seven inches, rising from his skull with a slight curve outward and to the rear Very few sheep returned to the bad lands for the winter—only one or two small bands of old sheep that could not break the habits of a lifetime. The majority remained on the peaks, as there was feed in plenty for their depleted numbers. They scattered in small bands on exposed ridges and hig! plateaus open to the sweep of the wind. Tukuar wintered with the ewes, remair ing with them the next summer as well, but during his third winter he drew a little apart from them and fed with a few old rams that held clannishly off by them selves, and with the coming of spring h deserted the ewes entirely. He chose his summer home on the face of a cliff that flanked a mile-long bench, a cool north ex posure where the sun failed to reach him even at midday. A dozen rams ranged this mighty wall, feeding on the grass that grew on the shelves and ledges of the cliff and sprouted in tufts from the cracks of the rocks. The drifts packed in the crevices were slow-melting and the water that seeped from their lower edges furnished abundant moisture for the grass that car- peted outcropping shoulders between the series of crumbling rims. Tukuar first learned of the tawny killer of the hills during his fourth winter. The big cats seldom invaded the peaks, prefer- ring the easier killing of the lower valleys, the elk and deer furnishing the main bul of their feed. Tukuar lay with six other rams under the edge of a low bench that broke the drive of the wind. A bunch of ewes and lambs fed in the flat a hundred yards away. Tukuar saw an old ewe fling up her head, gaze ir his direction for a single second and break into mad flight, followed by the rest of the band. Every ram sprang to his feet, know- ing there was danger near. The wind blew straight over them, and a ram’s nose is not so keen as that of many other beasts. A puff of breeze curled downward and eddied under the ledge. This flurry carried a fear- some scent and the rams broke cover at top speed 4 dreadful yellow cat launched forth from the edge of the bench twenty feet above and crashed down on the ram in rear, his frightful claws reaching far down his victim’s sides and clamping there whil the long fangs crunched into the neck at the base of the skull Every sheep on the mile-long ridge was in wild flight for the rims. Tukuar plunged over a sag in the snow comb and landed or elf six feet below, raced along it and leaped ¢ across a break, working his way far down the cliff. The whole face of the wall was alive with frightened sheep and for two days not a single head peered over the edge. The ledges were packed with frozer drifts that sloped perilously down to the dizzy brinks, but not one sheep made a fatal slip. The bighorn can travel where no animal but the goat can attempt to follow Tukuar’s hind feet were provided with sharp-edged hoofs almost identical with the hoofs of a deer. Each front foot was formed by two bulging capsule-shaped pads lying side by side and capable of being spread wide apart, the cleft between them running well up into the foot. His sharp hind feet cut into the frozen crust; the non-skid fore- feet clung to the most slippery surface. It was hunger that drove him forth at last, for the feed that had covered the wider edges in the summer months was now cov- ered deep with snow. Only a few exposed tufts sprouted from the cracks and these had been cropped short. He climbed to a break in the comb and peered over the edge. hing old rams and a dozen ewes were there before him, feeding close to the rims and he ~quently raising their heads to inspect a dark spot that lay farther out on the ridge. Two eagles perched on this and tore at it, for the mountain lion had only been crossing over the divide from the Clark’s Fork side to the Shoshone, the white man’s name for the Stinking Water, and he had torn but a few mouthfuls from his victim before going on his way. Other sheep appeared here and there over the rims and fed out into the open Just at dusk two foxes came to feed on the meat left behind by the tawny cat. For two days the eagles picked at it by day and the squall of foxes rose from the spot at night Then only the bones and horns remained (Continued on Page 81)

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(Continued from Page 78 Tukuar looked down from his lofty perch and witnessed many thing White trap- pers had come into the hills the year the Washakis left They threw out the r trap lines along the streams for beaver, for lynx and marten on the timbered slopes and on the bald ridges for the foxes that traveled the high divides. Prospectors had come n the wake of the trappers and Tukuar peered down upor them as they the ledges. ! where the float was promising. These mer killed for meat and bait, discriminating not at all between ewes ar d rams. The white Sometimes they tartes man’s cows were already gr Clark’s Fork bottoms. For two years fukuar had heard dull rumbling blasts that jarred the foundations of the hills. hese came from a mine that lay almost at timber line on the Clark’s Fork slope of the livide. All these men must be fed. The elk and deer in the bottoms suffered heavy osses, and the shee p that hel 1 to the lower peaks. The bighorn is a lover of his home range and if ur mole ted doe not tr vel exten- sively. It had been Tukuar’s lot to be I na particularly rough and unim of country, and with meat ir hunters failed to penetrate the massive pile where the black ra In Tukuar’s sixth year his horns meas- ired fourteen inches round the base. The rose from his skull, a continuous graceful made his home curl to the rear, down and outward until the sharp points came back a little below and almost even with his eyes. During the past two seasons he had occasionally met a few scattered ewes ind squired them through the peaks until some ram with heavy horr ssumed con- trol. But this year Tukuar felt belligerent, is head ind shaking appeared and frequently lowering his horns for no reason at al lv bucks and huge bull elk had summered in the rough pockets near timber line only a few hundred feet below hi own summer re- treat. With the first cold days these ant- ered lords he gan to prepare for the mati: g moor The velvet growth that had shielded the horns from harm now hung it ‘ hreds and the owners horned the close- growing bows of timber-line ce to scour it off and poli h their sh g points, Then they dropped down to the valleys to meet their does and cows. Tukuar climbed to the heights above in search of new worlds to conquer. He stopped often to shake his head. Once over the rims he struck a sharp trot and gained the crest of a him. As he topped it he observed an old ram with a band of a dozen ewes, and ukuar felt a great rage sweep through him. He bore furiously down upon the other ram. The ancient warrior shook his head menacingly, and as Tukuar neared him he rushed to meet him. They drove together with every ounce of we gi t behind their hort , ar d the heavy curls crashed with an impact that stopped both rams short and almost crumpled Tukuar’s neck from the shock. The old ram _ renewed the onslaught o swiftly that he battered Tukuar stead- ily backward. His charges followed in closqsuccession— merciless, crushing drives. Tukuar could not stand against his heavier horns and greater weight and in less thar half an hour he quit the field. For two days there was a dull ache in his neck and a euri- ous roaring in his ears. Then he felt better and set forth a He spied a ram of his own age holding five ewes. TI! time the warriors were evenly matched. When exhausted from charging they pressed the curls of their horr together and eontented themselves with il sufficiently watt Ral shoving one another about unt rested to renew their de pe rate ru hes In the end Tukuar held two of the ewes for his own. Whenever a strange ram appeared 1 1 on him together his two enemies bore « with such show of ferocity that he quit that particular mountain top without st blow. At intervals of a week or more the two rams renewed their own quarrel, bi the fights did not last more than a fraction of the time of the first engagement. At last i change came over them. Tukuar left his ewes and wandered across to spect hi enemy. The other ram came him, but there was no resulting fight. It seemed to be in the mind of each that this illy quarreling over so commonplace a out to meet thing as a band of ewes should cease. The hatchet was buried between them and they zed off by themselves The ewes drifted together and thu they THE SATURDAY EVENING POST The white hunters had noted the fact that the points on the horns of young ram were slender and sharp, while those of older rams were blunt and splintered. Some con- tended that these points were broken in the yearly combats. Others insisted that in dropping from one ledge to the next the rams landed on their powerful horns, which could withstand the shock of the drop t much better than their leg join i this shattered the slender tips. Tukuar’ points were still sharp and it had not oc- curred to him that this feature would ever be otherwise, When he fought he took hi opponent’s weight on the heavy curl of } horns, not the points; when he dropped to netimes leaned over and a shelf below he sor landed on the padded forefeet, easing |} hind parts to the ground, and to the long- range observer it might appear that } head was the first part of him to strike. But Tukuar had no intention of performing any such headlong dives. In his eighth summer of an obstruction to hi habit to rest his head f rims, the curl of his horns brushing the ground. From this position he could gaze annoving | i when he wished to gla to the side without turning his head. There- after he worked them down against the rocks as fast as the ever-growing curl forced the points ahead of his eyes. There was now a swarm of men wor the mines. The elk had quit the Clark Fork side, only a few scattered droves re maining. The heep on the lower ridge had been killed or driven back into the peaks and the hunters fre igher fastnesses of Tukuar’s home range, After two years of this the black ram moved away from his fav« traveled toward the Shos f peaks, taking up his stand in the r Sawteeth at the head of Crag Creek from him loomed the towering b flat top where he had four d refuge while the Washaki hunt was on, the curve of the rite coun one side of yawning cafion cutting it off from the rest of the worl 4 For another five years no man looked upon the black ram. Tukuar frequently iyed along the tremendous backbone of the range and swept the low country with his powerful eye Strange things had come to pass in the lowland a off in all directions without moving hi head. But of late when he turned his oval eyes to the side it seemed that something blurred his vision. Often he stretched his neck ahead, but the blur moved with him, and when he turned his head to look for it it was nowhere to be seen. He was forced to turn his head to face the object he wished to inspect al d could no longer peek from the corners of his eyes, This grew more pronounced, and at last he realized that the horn points had passéd hi Tukuar swung his head at a projecting point of rock with a twisting upward move- ment that shattered the point of one horn. He battered industriously till both ti; were splintered back sufficiently t Past There were dark spots from which smoke pillars curled lazily, as once they had ascended from the Washaki signal peak The flats were streaked with fine white line and often Tukuar saw the trailing puffs of dust as white-topped wagons passed over these roads. The valley of the Stinking Water, now the Shoshone bottoms of the hite men, was dotted with ranch house j ral and corral One day he descended to the first rims that flanked the valley near its lower ex- tremity, and as he gazed down into the jumbled mass of foothills at the foot of the wall there were other eyes as powerful a his own tl gazed back at him. A band of antelope stood on the point of a knoll These peedster i the ope ] had been crowded back out 1 t native range to make their last stand in the broker country at the foot of horn buck that led the band could se« Tukuar as clearly as the black ram could ee him. One point they had in mmon tele pie eve ight their most r Tt t 1 and most deper 1a ‘ ( bu here the ene ceased The pronghor buck was lithe i slender, built f peed the blach ram wa turd ina t coupled, fashioned for the strenuous v of hill climbing and bu g the drift Tukuar could perform wonderful f« agility on the face of a cliff where tl int lope could not even find a foothold. The prong I ( ild skim like a streak a y long stretches where the ram would appear but i \ 1 galloper | col ! ea one pertect nf natural ¢ ment, he ‘ \ tra lanted, yet he they stood and exchanged looks act bare th ind feet There were othe prairie dwellers in the hills and Tu ‘ the nigt ere nades of the « ‘ ‘ y one had fled f , intry before the I yn baits of the fe i ere accu ¢ ne themaelvea to ne j thie } “yp u , ft transitior ing own si ) the da ten sheep in t ranged them now. But the bighorn kind 1 been holding its « f two seasor past. Tukuar did not v the two factor that } topped the iugdit f shes He had long since lost his fear of eagles and erhaps did not notice that they were pidly disappearing from the rhe } ite ral 1 to feed upo every trap bait set or px m put out by the trappers, and these men gazed wrathfull; ipon every eagle that had polled atrap set ior better game | I ping upo t then ‘ ‘ | ir eagle ’ ired mean}t i! rrigre ef many bighor i their wa of feeding on bait put out for foxe re the trappers to tad eve ‘ { the birds that came in range A much large pe entaye of lar l edthant er Phere va i ther fa ( it she r ive Tukuar’s race f: ‘ t t forest ranger had beer itione the i ht Peal it man cl i the cause of the bighor eo r exist ng lawstoregul te the ilit but of such recent birth that the the far pockets of the |} ircel ne ol their existe ¢ The had alwa lled the meat as they needed it regardl i j e « PASO ind tl Lhe continue to | Brennan knew that he could not alter the co tions of a whole community, and a her ise men have done befor und since f ceded some points to gain his end Che elk herd ld no longer nter in the foothills and they crowde to the valle en the snow fell he ind there hu dreds of ther tarved. In the fas f th é ettler respected > law that forbade their ki urplus which would other vise } terkilled and gone ¢ ( ld not see a larter of «¢ meat hanging on a settler’s cal ita time ofVear, but that hell broke | ein the neighbo hood of ; man that ot rar out of season or ‘ ‘ at ar time of vear On this ba hye fought it thr and mn Pukuar he ‘ e shots in the val le but there was no s} ting in the hig count al e timber ! ex t im the flail n ntl of ever ear Brennan spent much of his time in the heep range t the rare inima!l that were his fav tes of all game TI hunters brought out the heads of many rar each season and the killing of these ancient ones | fluence on the shee herds as a whi r there i er a su! plus of ran ranger che edal ing to take a head t is larger tha that had yet cor of the } He had seen two-thirds « the rams tl ranged the | yht Peal ! ‘ ther rid 1 th ve } f eu ne nad { ne i} I ‘ 1 1 ae ! ! for the one ram that ild prove the large of } kind Br in had heard the tale of the bis Washal hunt and the ma wre of t strange black rams that ha ( ( oa i heen se¢ once but was never ed \ parent t had vanished from the face of the world, for the whole Wa nat

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 81 (Continued from Page 78 The white hunters had noted the fact innoving m when he wished to gla toa These speedsters of the open plair had Tukuar looked down from his lofty perch that the points on the horns of young rams the side without turning his head. Theres been crowded back out wf theic, it and witnessed many thing White trap- were slender and sharp, while those of older after he worked them down against the — rar ge to make their last stand in the | ‘ pers had come into the hills the year the rams were blunt and splintered. Some con- rocks as fast as the ever-growing curlforced country at the foot of the } he prong Washakis left. They threw out their trap tended that these points were broken in the points ahead of his eyes. horn buck that led the band could se j lines along the streams for beaver, for lynx the yearly combats. Others insisted that in _ There was now a swarm of men working Tukuar as clearly as the bl ram could and marten on the timbered slopes and on dropping from one ledge to the next the inthe mines. The elk had quit the Clark's see him. One point they had in « man the bald ridges for the foxes that traveled rams landed on their powerful horns, whic! Fork side, only a few seattered droves ré telescopic eves, sight the st highly d the high divides. Prospectors had come could withstand the shock of the drop maining. The sheep onthe lower ridves had ind most. dependable sense: bu the wake of the trappers and Tukuar much better than their leg joints and that been killed or driven back int » the peaks eness ceased. ‘] | } peered down upon them as they sampled _ thi d the slender tips. Tukuar’ and the hunters frequently penetrated the the lender, built for speed } the ledges. Sometimes they I pt still sharp and it had not oc- } er fastnesses of Tukuar’s home 1 e k ram wa irdy and short where the float was promis T curred to him that this feature would ever After two years of this the black ram fa ned for the str ( } illed for meat and bait, discriminating not be otherwise. When he fought he t I noved away from his favorite country and mbing and bu g the drift | at all between ewes and rams. The white opponent’s weight on the hea y curl of his traveled toward the Shoshone side of the lukuar could perform wonderful feat man’s cows were already grazing up the horns, not the points; when he dropped to peaks, taking up his stand in the ragged agility on the face of a cliff where the ante Clark’s Fork bottoms For two vear a shelf below he sometimes le ined over and Sawteeth at the hea lof Crag Creek. AcTOsS lope could not eve find a foothold The fukuar had heard dull rumbling blast landed on the padded forefeet, easing |} from him loomed the towering bulk of the — pror rn could skim like a streak a that jarred the foundations of the |} hind parts to the ground, ar i to the long- top where he had found refuge while long stretches where the ram w wuld appea b [hese came from a mine t range observer it might hat hi the Washaki hunt was on, the curve of the | i i \ i per | ( par if timber line on the Ch | head was the first part o trike. yawning cafion cutting it off from the rest ea ne perfect in | natural er \ divide. All these men must be fed. Theelk But Tukuar had no intenti rming « he world, ment, helpl vhen transplanted, vet here and deer in the bottoms any such headlong dives. ‘or another five years no man looked they stood and exchanged lo osses, and the sheep that In his eighth » was conscious upon the black ram. Tukuar frequently bare thousand feet peaks. of an obstruction to his sight. It was } trayed along the tremendous backbone of There were other prairie dwellers in the { The bighorn is a lover of his home range habit to rest hi head flat on the edge of the the range and wept the low country W th hills and Tukuar heard the 1 ghtl ere P and if unmolested do not travel exten- rims, the curl of his horns bru ing the } powerful eve Strange tl gs had come nades of the he one sively. It had been Tukuar’s lot tobe born ground. From this position he could gaze to pass in the lowland had fled fr ‘ int efore the a particularly rough and uninviting strip , n baits of the fers and were accu of country, and with meat ir pl nty the toming themselves to ne litior the hunters fa led to penetrate the mas ive pile | Tukuar iy | e mar ed at the where the black ram made his home ft transitions that had come to pa fur In Tukuar’s sixth y his horns meas- ng his own short span of life. 4 ured fourteen inches round the base. They On the day of his birth there had beer rose from his skull, a continuous graceful t heep in the } f eve ‘ t url to the rear, down and outward until inged them now. But the big! kind the sharp points came back a little below 1 been holding its own for two sea and almost even with his eyes. During the past. Tukuar did not kn t two factor past two seasons he had occasionally met a that had stopped the igdite { sheep few scattered ewe ind squired them He had long since lost his fear of eagle | through the peaks until some ram with » perhaps did not notice that they were heavy horns appeared and assumed con- ily d eal fy the } lr a trol But this ye ir Tukuar felt bellige rent, I ite iraled ¢ t feed uy lrequently ng his head ind shaking every trap bait set or pr m put out by the his horns f eason at all. Lordly bucks trappers, and these men gazed wrathful and huge Ik had summered in the i every eagle that had spoiled a tran set rough pockets near timber line only a few lor better game | hopping uy t then y hundred feet below |} own summer re- elve Fach « »snared meant a longe treat With the first cold day these ant le | t horn | i the Vu ered lords began to prepare for the mating f feeding on bait put out for foxe pire moor The velvet growt}! that had shieldec the trappers tos} tad eve ie fr} the horns from harm now hung in frowzy birds that « n range Ay larye P hreds and the owner horned the close- pe entare ¢ l ‘ t} f rv growing bows of timber-line spruce to There inother f that he cour it off and polish their shining points. ive Tukua race fr p { | Then they dropped dowr to the valleys to t forest ranger had heer ne j / meet their does and cows, i t Peal ampioned Tukuar climbed to the heights above in the ise of the | n shee I e wert i earch of new worlds to conquer. He existing lawstoregulate the killir f game stopped often to shake his head. Once over but of such recent birth t tt settler , the rims he struck a sharp trot and gained the far pockets of the } kne f the crest of a ght rise before him. As he the existe ( The ha ilwa killed topped it he observed an old ram with a their meat the et t re ile f band of a dozen ewes, and Tukuar felt a place « ‘ ! nd t the tinue great rage sweep through him. He bore oR furiously down upon the other ram. The Brennan knew that he could not alter t} ancient warrior shook his head menacingly, tions of a whole nmunit ind a and as Tukuar neared him he rushed to eC! e men have done before and since meet him. They drove together with every he ceded some po to gain his end munce of we ght behind their hort , and the | ‘ herd ildt onyer nie nthe heavy curls crashed with an impact that foot ind they c1 ‘ to the valle ; stopped both rams short and almost en the sr fell he 1 the hur crumpled Tukuar’s neck from the shock. dreds of thom «ft ed. In the { f +} The old ram renewed the onslaught e settlers respected no law that forbade | o swiftly that he battered Tukuar stead- their killing the sur } ild othe ly backward. His charges followed in e have beer ter ed and gone t closqsuccession mercile s, crust ing drive ° le It ! t t Bre i a Tukuar could not stand against his heavier inot seeaq ter of elk meat hanging horns and greater we ght and in le thar or ettler’s cabin at a time ol-yvear, but half an hour he quit the field. For two days that hell broke e in the neighborhood there was a dull ache in his neck and a curi- of any man that tra out. of season o ; ous roaring in his ears. Then he felt better ewe it ar time of vear. On th ha hye } and set forth agair fought it through and wor qT He spied a ram of his own age holding lukuar heard the ritle shots in the ve ewes. Tl time the warriors were P but there wa , iting in the high evenly matched When exhausted from vunt ibove timbe ne excent ne charging they pressed thetcurls of their hort fall months of every year together and contented themselves with 7 . —s . : — rennan spent mu of his time in the / shoving one another about until sufficiently heep range, wat the rare animal ; rested to renew their desperate rushes. In that were his favorite f all gare J } the end Tukuar held two of the ewes for his hunters brought out the h“ads of ma t own. Whenever a strange ram appeared rams each season and the killing of the ii his two enemies bore down on him together ancient ones had 1 fluer onthe a4 y with such show of ferocity that he quit that off in all directions without moving hi There were dark spots from which smoke _ herds as a whole, for thers is ever particular mount top without striking a head. But of late when he turned his oval pillars curled lazily, as once they had __ plus of ns, The ranger che eda! y blow. At intervals of a week or more the eyes to the side it seemed that something ascended from the Washaki signal peaks. ing to take a head that was larger t4 * two rams renewed their own quarrel, but blurred his vision. Often he stretched his The flats were streaked with fine white line that ha et come out of the } He had : ; the fights did not last more than a fraction neck ahead, but the blur moved with him, and often Tukuar saw the trailing puffs of — seen two-thirds of all the rams that rang: qt of the time of the first engagement. At last and when he turned his head to look for it dust as white-topped wagons passed over n the Sunlight Pea of them old mS i change came over them. Tukuar left his it was nowhere to be seen. He wasforcedto these roads. The valley of the Stinking and thy e hor t for six year t ewe and wandered across to i nect his turn his head to face the obiect he wished Water, now the Shoshone bottoms of the he nad thheld } fire i) earching enemy. The other ram came out to meet to inspect and could no lo peek from hite men, was dotted with ranch houst for the e ram that would provethe larg« vi him, but there was no resulting fight. It the corners of his eyes. is grew more and corrals. of } | eemed to be in the mind of each that this © pronounced, and at last he realized that One day he descended to the first rims Brennan had he the tale of the big it lly quarreling over so commonplace a_ the horn points had passed his eyes : that flanked the valley near its lower ex- Washa hunt and the massacre of th thing as a band of ewes should cease. The Tukuar swung his head at a projecting tremity, and as he gazed down into the strange black rams that had once roamed ii hatchet was buried between them and they _ point of rock with a twisting upward move- jumbled mass of foothills at the foot of the there. It was said it or im had { grazed off by themselves ment that shattered the point of one horn. wall there were other eyes as powerful a been seen once but was never ed. Ay The ewes drifted together and thu they He battered industriously till both tip his own that gazed back at him. A band _ parent t had vanished from the fac« i wintered were plintered bacl ufficiently to cease of intelope tood on the point of a noll the w Id, for the hole Vast 1? ye +e nf ’

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s carbon choking your motor? THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Do vou have to shift to “second’’ on hills and retard your spark to stop ‘‘carbon knocks’’: natur il ARBON deposit is result of what goes on inside the gasoline motor Exces- carbon is caused chiefly by four thing 1—A too-rich carburetor mixture 2—Backpressure, due to clogged muffler }—Unsuit il ble, inferior +—-Worn or broken piston rings Carbon clogs your cylinders, ovet heats your motor causing “carbon knocks,’ fouls spark plugs, gums up piston rings and pits exhaust valves, causing leaky compression. You can help prevent carbon forming by always getting that 13 air to 1 part gasoline mixture. parts h With the motor warmed up and idling, open the G-Piel Muffler Cut Out and turn down the adjusting screw until you hear the motor begin to slow down. Then turn the other way very slowly until you again hear the maximum speed. Check this adjustment from time to time with the G-Piel Cut-Out and keep it right On the other hand, the trouble uu are experiencing may be caused by a caked, clogged mufflet » To find out about your muffler, imply test the motor with the muffler and without it. There is nothing like a G-Piel Cut-Out for easy motor-testing. And when blowing out the motor with kerosene, wood alcohol or other . be sure you open the G-Piel, as this keeps the loosened it from getting into the muffler. ‘carbon remover” dep. The satisfaction of hearing your motor Every joys the sharp, clear bark of a pow sweet-running motor. A hot park in every cylinder, valves opening wide and seating tight, just the right mixture from carburetor, exhaust gases scavenging freely through the G-Piel Cut-Out. The open G-Piel Cut-Out gives that of power on a hard pull or short ‘‘sprint,’’ and it cool a hot engine. enthusiastic motorist en extra ‘‘ounce’”’ helps Select the right size Cut-Out for from the G-Piel chart at It will save its cost your cal your dealer’s. many times in a single season. Sales Department EDWARD A. CASSIDY CO. 280 Madison Ave. New York THE G-PIEL COMPANY x-Piel Muffler Cut-Out Tells the motor’s secrets ha yured r d eadt f the aga Three miners had reported having een a great black ram in the hills, but that id peer ong ago and no man had seer and year after year the ranger he legend was based on fact ind if it were possible that one black ram till roamed the peaks. lukuar, the cause of t eculation, led i quiet life « the Is of the iy isav teet The olde were ny 1 war ind the trop! hunters found it crea ingly hard to find good heads. Some of them Sawteeth for ved occasionally hunted the ancient rams, but Tukuar always rece warning of their presence. The ewes and lambs on the ridge took alarm at their ap proach and whenever a bunch of frightened ewes suddenly forsook the high meadow and sought safety under the rims Tukuar was apprised that danger lurked above. He worked round the shoulders of the rox tosafety. This was his only source of wart ing, forthe man scent was not carried down the walis ir ifficient stre th to reach hi indifferent nose unless the wind was exact] right; and |} ears were of little help Sound meant little to } All his long life he had tened to i gy stone ened from the cliff face | the alter? iret r and tl r of tne ater eeped throug the ‘ ce the torn away by the force of the wind or dged by the eet of other sheep, These ocks crashed against the shoulders of the iff their descent and smashed throug! the trees below. Som key point frequently lide with ta the rave Way in a TOCcCK { a resuilar t grinding of rocks as whole slide moved, ' n the winter great sections of the over anging snow combs gave way along witha portion of the crumbling rims themselves and precipitated hundreds of tons upon the steep slope at the foot of the cliff gathe and swept a lane momentum roaring on in an ava ing lanche that and piled débris through the a hundred feet deep acro the bottoms. Some men believed that these constant sounds had caused old rams to be careless of noise, attributing it to ome similar source Others atlirmed that i the bat- could no the eardrums were deadened fro tering fights and that old ram longe r hear at all. It may be that Tukuar did not hear the first reports that thundered in the 1 gorge. In any case he did not trou rise from his bed until a ram appeared, run ning wildly along a shelf below him. Ther he jumped to his feet and turned round in jerky bounds as if bewildered and unde cided which course to take. His eyes cer tered on the two heads on the rims and he ran, leaping along ledges and bounc- ing across breaks to the next point beyond, As he started a queer shape whirled down from above, turning over in the air, anda dead ram struck the edge of the shelf on which he ran and bounced off into space. Another crashed limply to the ledge and he leaped over it. Then the two men across first fabled black ram with the massive horns. The steady roll of two magazine guns banked up in the cafion and was tossed from wall to wall; spurts of rock splint played round Tukuar as the heavy ball earched for him; then he was round the bend and out of range. The tale was spread and once more big hunt for the black ram was on Brennan decided to come in from across the range, and in so doing he was even wiser then he thought, for Tukuar had quit the Sawteeth and moved back to the range of his youth. While the hunters scoured the vicinity where the men had last seen him across saw the the the black ram was squiring a band of ewes ten miles to the north, separated from those who sought his life by a maze of | yawning gorges aad towering points, topped a mighty ridge two hours after sunrise and swung along the crest of a spur that led away toward the Sawteeth, He stopped and listened to a distant sound. Time after time it reached him, the dull booming impact of heavy horns. Brennan He sat down and rested his elbows on his knees as he trained his glasses in the direction of the sound, He gazed long, then lowered them. “Tukuar,” he said. “The last descend- ant of the god of bighorn sheep. One to every thousand—the count stands correct, for there are not over a thousand left in the whole of the Sunlight Peaks.” It was but fitting that the man who had stood for the salvation of the bighorn tribe should take the best trophy of their kind, February 7,1920 and Brennan started for the ridge where Tukuar battled with another ram It was late in the afternoon when Bren- nan reached his goal. He cautiously circled 1 band of ewes, keeping well out of their The tracks of a great ram led down It was over aru nd he crept to the edge not a cliff, but a precipitous slope, and two hundred yards below him the black ram had turned back and was climbing toward The oval eyes detected the man’ tant was treated to a sight that it the ridge form the ir and Brennar he looked over the edge, to witness. is g given to but few mer The sidehill was so steep that a man could have put forth one arm even with hi shoulde rand touched the slope as he walke d round it. Even an elk or deer would have bunched his muscl braced his feet and put on the brakes at every jump when run- ning down it, holding himself in check. Brennan beheld the black ran fleeing down the slope in mighty bounds and in- tead of hold ng his speed in check he eemed only to touch and skim on once more in another leap of such length that the legs of an elk or deer would have crumpled under the we ight of his body a | hind he landed. Tukuar disappeared, his feet throwing dirt uphill behind him at every jump as his muscles drove him on. ot fired. He reasoned it too difficult a mark and have served further to frighten * Heer the ram whose horns should one day be his. to shoot most highly he explained his failure when within range of the d animal in the hills. Once more Tukuar disappeared as he u in the time of Washakis. had done No man cut ! tra rv another year. Brennan hunted long for him and in the summer he sought to locate his retreat so that he might take his scaip the fall, but with all his knowledge of sheep he could find no trace of the great Dlack ram. The r often gazed longingly at the towering flat top that st 0d alone, cut off by the rent at the head of ¢ rag Creek, the point upon which it was said no man } ever et | ‘ foot. With the coming of fall Brennan made his camp in the head of the cafion and made the attempt to scale this lofty pile. For a week he prospected round its base, and after frequent ascents which proved to be false leads he found a break through which he could reach the top. After four hours of strenuous and dangerous climbing he came the flats that had never before been marked by either moccasin or boot A few wise old ewes fed at the far end of it and he kept under « the cliffs that fell away to the north. | out or print. over as he crossed to 3 As he tlong the rims he examined every f moved ; point that reac hed out from the cliff There were long stretches where the walls were sheer and there was nothing to see but the feathery tops of the spruce a thousand feet below. He reached a spot where it seemed that a huge chunk had been nicked from the lip of the rims. The sides of this notch were covered with a carpet of grass and pitched abruptly down, giving the basin a whirl pool effect. And on a point that jutted from its lower extremity the black ram lay asleep. A long hunt had ended. The ranger looked through his sights. Twice he shifted his position to make sure For 4 Space of minutes he looked down from the edge and retraced his steps, for all it is more the joy of the hunt than at the end of it. He had noted well mighty horns and estimated their meas- ure as than seven i the base. ““Maybe they'll keep on growing,” he said. “I'll come back from time to time and see.” srennan knew the ways of rams. Tukuar would range this isolated peak and if un- molested would not leave it during the few years he had yet to live. He could find the horns when Tukuar was winterkilled and mount them on the sealp of some other ram. Once more the ranger excused his failure to shoot. Tukuar slept on, unconscious of the fact that death had stalked close to him and passed him by. Most of his time was spent in sleep and in pondering over the changes during his quarter century of life. A year had passed before the ranger made another trip to see if the horns had grown, and perhaps a week before he came the black ram closed his eyes in the light of the noonday sun. It must be that he dreamed, for when he opened them again it was night and the Washaki signal fires were once more flashing in the peaks. more teen inches round

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and sisters an and one end of the veranda was perceptibly lower

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tnat roille | toward him as he e gate bet 1 none } sober- it t ) in al reverse lich Pond 1 as correct. The were an ll rigibly frivolous fam- 1 Anita was the worst of them a | hear her gurgling laugh a full tone ab é horu It d leased him He Was Ww yv me tall when ne Came in TI wwl erased itself as he encountered Rachel Wester ey’s ( iim le el ¢ E ¢ whensurrounded bythesefatuously cheerful people she remaine l immune tot tion. Among grasshoppers she continued to be tl oberly sagacious ant He had a pang of triumph as he moved toward her il by prearrar t the vacant le her on the 1 iy 0 ne re lible ] l¢ ! 1t Wa t i¢ he'd earned this. You only needed to know what you wanted Anita with her inevitable dar g ep skipped toward him with a pad and pe We're playing Limericks, Warr You know —everybody writes a line.” He shook his head Bette me wa I’m no good at such thing ‘Oh, please!’ Anita id a constitu tional a n to being der 1. She forces tne 1¢ » per t ! led vil i ip wet le glance toward M West ! t? igged, as Anita danced awa ‘YY, it irpt difficult to he i him unex It ea cha H i 1 at tne ! a ement | young lady of VW ) y re pleate ) i fed guy Politely ‘Why —” What drivel! He glowered at f liot s I’m to write the last li ‘ Rime th kilts, I ppose ined over the pad Her | xX produced a cul qu rsomew ed ) in his being. H idd vanted to t! ‘ ist ) ! t i ne could d Let ( what inder the l! 1 wit H ransacked | eve ‘ memories Then with a 1 enlightenment flowed along | pen Do you ound on those ilis?”’

it the ¢€ nee i the stern yu ‘ ra everyt g you | é etl ita time. Napoleon 1—he'd throw his } i I it W e his enen ten t is ma men to p ied Chat was | whole I it dow It wor i lla va ghttiu I can see ( It bvious. Now hip the vital thing is to cent n the individual prospe liate present. I train our irdinal pring all e ever ning ife nat you want, and when uu 10w much.” nodded woking across tl I follow that i skipped toward them Warren.” Continued on Page 87)

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 85 Ha narra ene. scien a ) ( ’ »colate Cream Pudding a acces { : ir , j \ a & _" x nem ea, ‘ ~~ ” rd Men, ask your wives - } to try this It ; ‘ P ( ; | ha | Me: with | ] | : J | t 7 t I | ) k Libby, M¢Neill & Libby } 502 Welfare Bldg., Chicago f | qT i i | ————

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BH = \FQ3 ot ~ = £ ; Reproduced (ran mi in the lidbvar Watehmakers Guild THE OLO WAY r= c™_- GRCUE February 7,1920 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST SIX MONTHS THE OLD GUILD CRAFTSMEN LABOURED TO PRODUCE THIS WATCH mem }OT lightly did the old guild — reluctantly they parted with the com- Wy iD) i watchmakersesteemtheirart. pleted masterpiec Ay Bi fi} Musty records of a bygon In the mountainous cantons of Switzer- emits) age tell us that their devo- jand the art of the watchmaking guilds tion to their craft amounted attained its fullest development. There almost to a religior Patiently they for ] the masters of t] nul dedicated thei and tempered the steel, painstakinglythey lives to their work, and passed down fashioned the minute parts, lovingly they their art, a | heritage, to their adjusted each gear at J wheel and | . ( ind granc DESCENDANTS OF THE OLD GUILD MASTERS FORM THE MODERN GRUEN GUILD T remained for Gruen tobringintothe hand for prompt delivery to any jewelet Gruen Watchmakers Guild the cd in America. scendants of th e ld guild n isters, that Wis th Tienon Chintt Wheres nce com the ancient ideals might bé« preserve J hined the old ideals that made the Swiss In the Gruen Guild workshops at Mad: -* mart at il " cs ‘. "9 te? ; ' Biel, Switzeriand, it no longer takes six (eer ape ved of te * f£ oe months to build a single watch. H adenine yom sc nays sere with the aid of the most modern At : ican machinery, master crafts! fashion G Guild Watch the Gruen movement ind here tl at of t ncics, tl artisans, with the same skill and dev Dest é to Vv the sal as Was poss | by the mast f I for the ( Guild lo what no machine can d I . W hand and adjust h movement to the of 1G nt R r, how exacting standards of Gruen Pri ‘ y OWIss Watcl i Gruet accuracy Write for the Gruen Guild Exhibit On Time Hill, Cincinnati, is the Amer ie sa bees ican workshop of the Gruen Guild wh ; Y og : the hand-wrought cases are made, and she a ll doa the movements inserted and given final adjustment. Her ilseo. maintained a l t Gruen M $315 to $825 rath M. cs real service workshop, wher lard uf ; $ f ; Ver . Vf ; \ : ized duplicate repair parts are always on, ak ae Gruen WatcuMmakers GulLp, Time Hill, Cincinnati, O. Msker h the famous Gruen Watche noe l&;4 Canadian branch, ronto, an. —— % 5 SS = ee Ne ER ~ wi se = =F J ))). SSeS ee i Bawa nua Ls: jie , ~s 3 \ Pee {PT} 4 =; . ® : ‘ ravion ‘. —s, me meer — r Q : = w. 4) NY A eead 2 eae 2 e Ft a a j cate s “ or 5 we Bigs ve -= WSS 4 tf »/ a s a4 7 2% ”, o ee Sry Se ‘ ~ ts avs oe ‘ n , . . rape ay se ‘ ts Ww ichmaher Vas, we " wher ut P " 3 / \ Wu V n hand Guild Watc

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~aree Continued from Page 84 \ N ‘ ‘ \\ ) ired W f \W te Wi i\ nl \ We I" l Tt i And | 1K 4 \\ 4 \ t 4 ‘ ' ‘ \I ~ 4 | “e ] ] } \ 4 ippe ‘ | bye | \ ee tI rt ‘ l be Mt t } tT ‘ t t rie | i He ri he Ss ever J ‘ ‘ t t a ‘ ed ‘ \ a 1 t t t I le } Mear ie the ¢ t played brid entifica nd e, but toa f f h Warren I | ‘ ‘ He t titad it ‘ norl i e rather f it I Westerle ! ‘ ( be de e, | ‘ ect i y ve iss [ie r hat } , ‘ pre e desire . Y ce led j i | Y u ff \\ \\ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “The One Woman Superficiatly,’ He Informed Himsetf With a Stresson the Qualifying Adverb Which Was at Once a Rebuke and a Warning ‘ i M \\ ‘ e, pe i | t re der ed ¢ | i Wa l } te } fou } 1] \ { u } } ] } f ted th | j thes a a ] W } iT ype } ‘ “4 dance Anita. M Weste | » Warre | . ' ‘ T ‘ Hey he ( \ ‘ tor ly i ! ‘ W en ¢ ed | t | ’ ‘ ‘ ‘ \ } ‘ ed « gy else ‘ et ece | | ! \ | t | ! t t t } ‘ | ‘ ‘ [) r ‘ able space ‘ ‘ ‘ } } ‘ \ ( is ‘ é | ‘ ‘ ‘ eve etticie H ‘ | ‘ \ ‘ WW i t a ! i t ! | , eared i H ‘ ‘ t « ‘ | \\V ‘ 1 he re ne ‘ ‘ she tened 1 ‘ t | ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ed rite we ere ] k a ae out! pel t \ he had the agree: | e be t rhe ne ner re pe tt I e br of the phonog ‘ It tent and the n ng Ad ‘ Ow! t! ! I I | \ ind Wilbur, float A 1 t betwee ‘ iu Inv g aan t ‘ “The dance be | t He interrupted hi \ | RON TOOTS PEEP AIT AOER Na Sr en « OEE HTT EERE LET? Continued on Page &9

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ee eae ine de. Mall. x erat oRig” ee ee ee ee Pe kk on ve pice ita a oe a THE SATURDAY EVENING POST An Old Name On A Proved Tire On a record of less than a year’s general use, you can merely begin toappreciate the wide superiority of Oldfield Tires. As yet, only one man truly knows the full merit of these Tires. That man is Barney Oldfield himself. For many years, Mr. Oldfield has ridden on Old- field Tires—tires which, while they bore no Oldfield name, had been built especially for him and to his own rigid specifications. These tires, of which the Oldfield Tires of today are faithful reproductions, carried the Master Driver swiftly, success fully, safely through many a racing campaign. He learned to trust them implicitly—to trust them with his very life. Motorists buy Oldfield Tires today because of this unique heritage. But the time is coming—mark well the prediction when you will buy Oldfields because of their records as a product —records of endurance and long life new to tire annals. Prepare now to set one of these new Oldfield mileage records! Give your car the Oldfield Tires—fabric or cord—that will make this record possible. THE OLOFIELD TIRE CO. BARNEY OLOFIELD CLEVELAND Export Department: 42 Broadway, New York, N. ¥ Rest ti Pe ee Le ORE LTE A AOE BEAL CNT: EE ARES EE one noe ay =e * ee aE ~* ey btcune ORR I RTI February 7,1920 2 ex ELON TE PHT EDT Ta OLDFIELD TIRES “The Most Trustworthy Tires Built”

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(Continued from Page 87) If she’d only been visiting somebody less given to frivolity —some nice staid old lady, for instance But he cut short that sigh. Nothing was to be gained by vain regrets. It was a condition and not a theory, as Mr. Cleveland had so aptly differentiated, which faced him. He must meet it as he found it Mrs. Pond’s restrained inquiries at break- fast afforded him an opening for the first of i is projec te d expedier ts “I wish you'd ask Anita and her friend over here to di ner,’ he said after confess- ing that he had enjoyed himself. “It struck me last night that Anita couldn’t do very much in the way of entertaining, and she'd probably love to have you.” “Of course. That's very thoughtful of you, Warren.” He glanced up sharply. The tone was ilmost suspiciously innocent But hi mother’s eyes were concerned with the lelicate matter of chi ping the top from her egg. The dimple was faintly visible, but that in itself was not especially signifi- cant. She often exhibited it when she was not in the least amused. An idea almost Machiavellian inserted itself amid his thoughts: A herring across the trail—why not let his mother delude herself with the otion that it was Anita who centered his idde licitudes? She had been irritat- ngly stubborn in the matter of that early iffair of the choolbooks. And she con- tinued to remember the d graceful epi ode nvolving a handkerchief and a pillow. All he easier, with that rooted « tion for indati to construct a fresh n ippre- a | lor ‘I couldn't help admiring her la ne pu ued bol ne ne g l ever knew. Things must be simy ful with Mr. White, and yet Ar 1 cheerful and happy as if—re new view of her last nigl He retreated strateg to! Doctor Pond pursued prot I never noticed that you exact hated her, Warre He ct ed W n’t she e one that mother used to think—er imph!’ He coughed Warren concealed at u hant ¢ He knew « t what id ecked the il th nh nothing in } the expressi remotely uggested hat her foot 1 served the purpose of a iffler Anit ce he said sweet I'll her f to-night. Y be e to come A uu, Warren? I | A 1 Ke ] t ‘ t only commo ourte for vou to be here “Oh, Ull come, of course.” Warren cowled convincingly. “I expected to when spoke of it. I suppose I'll have to amuse M Wester] he doesn’t do any of the usual parlo ig He dro V tions of a Von Bernstorff. They were abso . to that lucky jea of making Anita the visible ol jective He could monopolize Rachel Westerley al all evening without rou g even a glimmer of uSpICclor And there’d be a chance of ing some real headway, too, without all acket going or made ome ment notes concerning uitable conversational leads; just as well to think these things out in advance. Tell her about the new catalogue scheme, for met him in t ne, erself arrayed in the queerly simple black which alw I younger than k and blue girls she chap- yoked anxious, as if fearir ¥g Warren’s hard-headed preference for busi- ness dress He dissembled cunningly. ‘Do I have td? I didn’t know you were ng to make a fuss bout .”” ‘I wish you would. You look so nice in ill dress.” He surrendered ungraciously. ‘Oh, all right. But it’ ly, all the same.” than usual over the usine It was necessary to rehearse yme of the things he tended to say. “Oh, that reminds me—did you ever happer to see one of our catalogue sets? Loose-leaf idea, you know; only worked ut so that it dé ’t look like it Save printing nd post € d ple ¢ the cu mer. I'll send you one That w the 1dea—-work up to it wit! it seen gytodragitil And the scheme for getting a che ( to He was a little ar ed to discover when he came dow } mother had THE SATURDAY EVENING POST New Shaving Comfort enlarged on his idea to the extent of asking the Belknap twins and Charlie Doane and Bert Scudder. He scowled when he caught the unmistakable voice of Wilbur Swope in the hall. Hang it, this would be just as bad as last night! Why hadn’t he been specific? He repressed the thought sternly. Cry ing over spilled opportunities wag anathema | maranatha to his creed. No one could have guessed from his greeting that he had not expected all his mother’s guests. He felt her eyes on him approvingly. As he re leased Rachel Westerley’s cool fingers he was moved to shoot a quick sidewise glance at Mrs. Pond. She was not watching him, but the dimple was in evidence. It was enough to send him across the room t Ar Ita, leavir 4 Miss Westerley to listen to Wilbur Swope. Anita grinned up at hir cheerfully. She was curled into a fluffy n mass of semidiaphanous pink He ob served that she held her crossed ankle saucily before her t was a trick of her He leaned back against the arm of another chair, conscious of motherly eyes upon him, and directed toward Anita a look heavily harge 1 with bene volence ‘You’re blossoming late, Warrie,’” she formed him, “‘but you’re— you're might 4 lal "a rose eves had a queer! trick of their own, rved. They danced without mov } skin prickled under the mirt! Anita saw through him without ng. No use hoping to fool her. But he i t managed a credible counterfeit of a grir t I was sure you’d be mad about her,” she confided as he made no verbal riposte “She's exact] your sort.”’ He refused to rise to this fly. “* You meat ley? Would you call me ex How does it show?” ** Be terribly care ful, Warrie! You know that I'm perfect] He foresaw complicatior Then te her I found her ve intere } he ed ne l m own line of worl you know, and she’s thoroughly 1 ‘ ‘Blah!” said Anita irreverently. You don’t want me to insult her for you, do you? Isn’t she just superb? She alway makes me think of the word ‘queenly,’ ex cept that it’s associated with queens and they're all such awful frumps.” Oh, yes, of course.”” He edged back rom dangerous footing. ‘“‘She’s charming, f in that way But-—-l have the habit of forming my opinions of people on their intellectual traits rather than i sls " said Anita agai: it gy with me, W arrie You're as | I'll trade you.” Her voice “She thinks you're mply im y raved about your system a headiine mense. She fairl or somett ng.” He should have been delighted, and it distressed him to find that he wasn’t. Anita laughed, lifting her head up and bacl You see? You don’t like it yourself 1 were all set to hear a touching tribute to your beautiful eye weren't you? Be fy)? ° ! é Probably you aren't the or y person present who judges how did that line of yours go?— by people's intellectual traits.” His mother’s hand touched his arm. He was aware of a distinct relief “You'll take M Westerley, Warren. Anita, I suppose you've got to have Wilbur a suspecting eye at the ma Did she see through him, 1? But there was no time for He claimed }t purtner, rele or question to che back of wr the present He had been ubmit to Anita’s proddings all ner. This was luck, any way y talked. ‘They both talked. Warren ONnSCLOUS of an ayret ible cor he had never talked better in in the interval of listening he mself that here was a woman standing with him on the top ls, an equal, at the very least of it no, not that. Such things weren't uck; ought to pass by the mere brute chemistry f chance. He had made this happen — by owing what he wanted and when he wanted it. The system. It had brought m everything else——and now this! He lessed it according to his gods. “Yes, but you overlook the varying factor. You can’t reduce men to machines That’s where your theory fails. You may train them to follow your plan, letter by etter, but you can’t make the pool player 89 Harsh Methods Done Away With Try This New and Better Way “Well lathered is half shaved" an old saying, and true. But well lathered does not mean much hot water and harsh rubbing in. Those old methods open the pores, make the skin tender Here is a better way. Ik you knew of a way to make your daily shave easier, quicker, more comfortable you would use it. “There is such Shavaid provides it. A bree Trial Tube willenable vou to ad Way. prove it to your own satistaction, Perfected after many tests and experiments, this scientific prep- aration accomplishe instantly what the old methods failed to do. One applica- tion softens the beard perfectly, It soothes a tender skin. | Makes el Shaving a Luxury Men the nation adopting this modern method of easier, OVC Abe | quicker, pleasanter I Phey welcome it as a lony needed im having | EE provemel overa | ways. Everyman whotries Shay aid once uses Shavaid thereafter. For Shavaid does away with hot water applications, with rub bing the lather in. Men have clung to these old fa hioned harsh methods because they have thought they were necessary. They are not. They are inju rious to the tender skin. Softens and Soothes Phe soothing, cooling effect is noticeable as soon a you apply it tothe dry beard. Phen lather. Don't rub the lather in. Phe lather stays moist and ere any. \ Free Shavaid Softens the bear al acer orn wonderful L he Saves wed and trouble Protects the face Removes the razor saad Replac es after-lotions Trial Tube will convince you. \nd as vou shave, note how the blade “takes hold’ without pull 11 Phat is because the beard is thoroughly softened, prepared as it should lx No need of lotions or creams after a Shavaid shave jury has been done to the tendet kin. Phere is no need for medi ament On the contrary, you skinissmoother, tirmer, healthier from Shavaid' } 1 Siereceeane Nien who have close find Shavaid ) mifhuence, burning tinging ensation they used to feel after having l crite wT. 1 hie \ know real , having comfort at last. ki It Is Worth Trying \ll that i neces- ary, in order to introduce this. re markable new aid to havin comtort, is to vet mentotry it yu tonce, No man who have Ones with it will be without it again. bor h i\ ins That is why we want you to send for your Free Trial Tubs Just fll in the coupon and mail it now, before 1 it forget at When your tube come LIS¢ Shavaid \fter the trial tube 1 u od up, you can get Shavaid from your druggist at 50 If he hasn't it, we will be pleased to centsa tril fill your order direct. Shavaid At Druggists’ —50c a Tube BAUER & BLACK, Chicago, New York, Toronto Makers of Sterile Surgical Dressings and Allied Products a AP Ee ty nates OREO RN MO og FET ~

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THE SATURDAY ed } ed } f EVENING POST } he , eW ‘ f ( ‘ | ‘ ty ‘ A ‘ | ' \) ( ‘ ‘4 Pons } ‘ wel thre al ° f i i ! i. ; ! f ‘ ( t l ‘ W é \ face He \\ ( ‘ , W I ‘ } [ ef ‘ ‘ af ‘ Ir. W f ) I I ‘ W l'o () t , ‘ ed t i | 1é 4 \ ‘ } ti fs») } ? ! ' at It } é I i ‘ I 1] ‘ 4 t I February 7,1920 } } She ighed ag \ you « ipted me I the temptation to et i W the me i é me half a doze | ed up ere \ theorie ire a I " you mé , } i ‘ t Wa \\ P ‘ 1 tie { ‘ j \ yr ¢ i ' act i | el We ey to ‘f } ) t il Atte é ( j yt ¢ \ Lie ‘ eu essed And at 0 | f 7] id ' \\ ‘ I I } le \ ' | ’ i ! he ¢ I e ¢ ) \ en |} } q j ‘ ‘ I

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 9) =. « _ z. = = © “cea? = = _ = a a a a a a a ae ee ee ee ee cy camila % ! r ; a ih | : | : e moe. + ’ ELECTAK CLEANER #, — ' & ' : . ’ ® | | / . “ . ‘ = I © ; : i; It Gets the Stubborn Dirt | g a 2 HE special tufted bristle brush in the New Premier . picks up the surface litter and shakes out the deep . seated grit or dirt. It gets right down to the warp. ® It removes handfuls of dirt from rugs and carpets you thought were clean. It restores that bright, fresh look . floor coverings soon lose if not cleaned the Premier way. ¥ 4 ° se , Just Like Human Fingers 8 That special brush is for special even the finest and most highly pol ' uses. For the ordinary cleaning you ished floors. Light in weight, and easy + have the patented brush with the running, you clean without the slight | many rubber fingers. It picks up the est effort. And the Premier attach finest threads, lint and litter. Both fecal li, ‘eine tile oe - ee ge : ; : i ments enable you t get into every fy brushes are motor driven and inte aii ei dies wihien Meek oithiadl i changeable a Nor is that all! The simplest opera What woman will be content ‘ . tion removes either Premier brush clean the old-time way, or accept a Then you can clean by suction alone. less perfect cleaner than the Premier! Here you have three cleaners in one Premiers are sold everywhere The Ly ’ ; , Sol ‘ nearest dealer will be pleased to dem ae) , ae) y . * y " solves every Cleaning onstrate the Premier on your own 2 problem rugs. If you do not know his name, | s Its rubber-tired casters do not mar write us. ‘ ® Electric Vacuum Cleaner Co., Inc., Cleveland, Ohio ‘qZ (Formerly The Frantz Premier Co Premier Vacuum Cleaner Co, Limited, Toronto, Ontario r Exclusive Canadian Distributors, Canadian General Electric Co... Limited, Toronto, Ont ind Branches ‘§ Tt . a! a » €@ @ @ , . 2 « . P ~ , . pi . | f = aaa aS SS ; i Se \ Li 4 -_ | = =... mpm el Seg = ; :. » @ § 9 y vue UC ‘' me ueoW 4 . sed , x Write today for Mrs. Helen Ruggles’ Premier's patented brush with mahy rubber finge mentioned * Newest Book ‘Household Efficiency” ibove, is an impéftanf part of Premier equipment ‘18 - 4 ‘a i

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 93 e)ibheeley! afonola Music at its best— Grand Opera as presented by such stars as Ponselle, Hackett, Stracciari, Lazaro, Barrientos, Rothier, and Mardones exclusively through Columbia Records on the Columbia Grafonola is music at its best.

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04 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST re i a : prey f>, C) il O O > F we w od ; + —"Tm not going to make pancakes any more,no I’m not! Every- time I make them they get worse ‘n'wotrse. This mornin John ate one mouthful of my pancakes ‘nd called em ole | leathery things!’ And all | that milk,eggs and things just wasted- BOO HOO! ! lm going to try once more - February 7,1920

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in addition to the displays of W¥ YORK (EXPOE EPA

THE SATURDAY EVENING POST

February 7,/920

> Plumbing Fixtures shown by Wholesale Dealers and Contracting Plumbers, there are permanent ‘Standard” exhibits in the following cities : Is Your Bathroom Ten Years Old? If so, it ts possible that the fixtures should be replaced. They may not be up to date Like other home furnishings, plumbing fixtures should be re- plac ed as new, more ple asing designs come into vogue. Let youl! Contracting Plumber be your adviser. He is familiar with the modern developments in plumbing fixtures. His knowledge of fixtures plus his knowledge of the technique ol plumbing makes his advice authoritative. Write for“Standard” Plumb- ing Fixtures for the Farm” If you live in a city write for “Standard” Fixtures for the Home.” Plumbing if you live in the country. Standard Savitary ‘Ifo. Co., Pittsburgh tandard’ PLUMBING FIXTURES

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 97 Continued from Page 95 lips those days Mr Davison’s love for to-morrow, mother, so | in transfer that at a @ Sald, ar ‘ ) | will! You’re the biggest liar livedand Miss Mary had been tinctured with respect, property over to Mame You vw probably I'm an ad ways was. Ain't none of that true. I but Mame was another self who} id experi ‘What property?"’ Mrs. Davison asked venturer,”’ I begar I eo! died.” enced what might have been her own — indi ly l admit, but most people i think I wa 1d mix I took care of her adventures on another patl mone you gave me.” if the neard tt D ) ft ind lam | I "a chance with that buncl ‘*Mary’s sweet,” I heard Mr Davisor who's asked fo ‘ G » mea re | yvuld nee the to | W concerned. She's ou the tell her husband one afternoon a few dav *t thir I'd ought t keep it any the Pr \ t mere th now, wait to see her ma later, “‘but she’s kinda « td It nice 0 I t fact i i have e hundred and I don’t believe it! I don’t believe it!” have a real girly girl round Not that | “You certainly had and you're goin’ to thousand d iT that if ‘ a ) Mrs. Davison shrilled her denia iin’t fond of Mary--how could I be a: Your father ed half the money Lk ist 1 and makes me tl [ care ‘Show that lad) ettin’ in n ar in,”’ thing else? She’s been a daughter to me n the bank for me that t me ar A I Mr. Davison said to me with an evident for twenty years. But she’s kinda yu Mr. D. opened his mouth for a denial, but got up and walked round the pa j ense of the drama of ema know.”’ received » Imperative i gia ‘ } ted Mi Marv wat ed me t ) I went to the car “What y n to do about he : hut it again, ha gt le a vague ede I st i f f | i Mr Da wi 1 ( ou tep Mr. D ce rily. ible uund | Pet Var Hoe ve I le Do? Just what I | ‘ i I'd rather, mothe M Mar \ e heard of fan I re ) I hoped tha eposterous story w d’you expect— throw her out of house and ted. ‘I don’t feel cor ible keey y. I haven'ta tin th true I resente t Ing pe nw I i home? We I won't, lecant uu. She nest.” ‘ ey it | ived f 1 \ i got dowr she walked ahead of me, ur my child if she’s not yours.” ; Mame said: ‘* What’s it about-—mon : ere My great-great-grandfather wa | tying the ve Irom round the cap she wore “Don’t seem q tk fair to Mame,” he Yes,” her mother answered Mar tur-t Ling i indrel when the Dut [ M he t sal t eve tep She went returned, rocking and looking supernatu mone You’re going to keep that. M ‘ N \ but tl fact is alm r to the drawing-room before an indignant rally paternal hear?” forgotten and the family passes for good woman prepared to der her and the fact ‘Why ain’t it? There’s plenty for two When Mi Mary put out her hand and I paused and tried to get calm enous Lnat net 1d beer i¢ t edi rtwenty ve r Mary’ isin her « wn ra t invnow ! t i i i *Ple im oa ne thre i ! 1 { { ! 1 ‘ { fa After M D itraged eyes had her share, but alot. I got kinda tired pa What do u I a n India i yuatne t 1 ne A¢ er t ere Nia , ny In mie taxe or mii ict a) | m le t Xx . l ‘ { I % t } t ther ( ir, coloring, feature over to her.” No use makin’ her fee id, Jer M t ee tha ) ‘ " ) feature, that g body proclaimed Aw, Jen!” He was evidently wounded Davison came in very ge fort | not posing ar Mr Dav motherhood Her ow “What did you go and do that for g ) ilous a urriag L am ith wa tanding before her **T’ve managed my own affairs for twenty lal | g the next most fantast t! v Would Mame! ne i i fl ing her arn vears and done better than y 1ever done,”’ J iw gynt there wa 1ioud d 1s T i ire f idopt w for ar ! e? It rund the ing perso My little Mame! he announced in a tone that was nearer in the long living hall he serva . 4 id proj I can’t see you i he ‘ * }e or cTied al i} ed her asl ip) thar any I nad ¢ er he ird ner er Ut ny room Wa ! too My Moora ‘ ip} il i! fer t t rhe nut 7 t! { nd $ M ma da ng plo “and I’m go to ket on wit t nat had been ant ny f everal da ) to ‘ I tiptoe I th ght of n M ra tance s got tive hundred their excitement about the change the 1 You Mar Ip thou d in her right and ‘ goin’ to housel ind that ¢ gz eve Roxis leur Would ) Ce] and get more wher lie had spoker teering the inf Phat ! propo Id her xu seems Kinda unnatural to me Mr. D that Mi Ma 1 ¢ nig ind I don’t | Vhat leg pr me ng wou T WAS ce t daughter M I ed out ild do he no good, | t elf t ecessa but I do r ed to her art I gue Mame'd ght to be able to | ! pantr vhich wa the r natured peopl 1 sa at bye it | W hethe of e rest of | fu manage on ar ind a i wile ng of the | ef ‘ g hall and i gr ul | f tory A rue l ( A I ! t Mr ret rned { nine i is! far el vugt 1! Oi tl I va Lo t { ) t t it tal ny Atl ‘ { ye { I) } ( ibt to the mple He had been t gy to ext ta def te naudible t heat ) t of a i obilit f } tive it she wanted to tatement as to the t of her fortune I did not read as I u 1 | it 1 peor ir ‘ I 1) ‘ t j wed herself to be ever s e | i i faction Waiting for elever ) ind the ] t ‘ lhe t of | ! t { bse e from Irom | eve Ul re irk tha he of extingu ng the ghit I sat and ‘ i athe | thar i ng her le { twent [ the more riotou ended Well, 1} ‘ ire please \ Into n past for me t 1 vere I t ig | y et ¢ f } ‘ ere e re i nedited } vy now, don’t ‘ 1 one trange th know ive I} r ‘ ] arry M R | ime f } thing. You dor get a ! e thar made plar I Oo thought I had ed Mar | mart M Hie had w ed at t gs, n ¢ I nt tog 1 See? With pla forever! a I said N 1 t ecent y-! ‘ me, sent the At th incture M M entered wit! M r I t ten before \ ‘ prot ry Bu B pu i i ent had Mame hanging al ne M Da Da ) l »> the d v \ i ‘ i i I) t mf } rt ‘ le th igh he ! i ilwa MU ed rt i to get nie A I He i ‘ i , hat! Iw ‘ este ‘ | e stre ef t t of the « M f I cha efore | had time tot t t You ‘ int lo t ! \ | t t re é t iter | lea nt the remeé eT, Was De g tl ed he tn? ed We een ha t ’ { t hit i Xz i i Yo ed he { hat he fail ) » olter nd so | ! t is a me | always get d lt And tt to f ‘ ‘ ' fo ne t t | ‘ wre ‘ ne;r one ttle ditt iit { I the re t 1 to be rhe red | * i ‘ ao t! l'r t l i ! t th | mall propert Wa tuated occurred to except her mother, who found f lacie and went away rent t iter the Y i Vy Ul ne asad re} it he managed to raptures delightful Nusataponn aoor inher I ) ‘ i i led I've — t t w ; Mary’s bee ! é ‘ It’s me, Jacol M M ‘ f r é } i t ; I me t mere prove his geniu ‘ sized I th he ¢ ! e pe 1 Can I ‘ H Huffe Or ‘ had appeared _ fe ve I neve et y ( Of e, M M ind é ! é el th the y ‘ ‘ ept the m¢ ny } t Ma, 1 | od | i i i) i i » Mr Da f Roser t and it ite e fe to >| ‘ rm es t 1) i I've got to some ha He eve t yp he ed t! K We ¢ land! e em played at the 1) ! i \e ht eat cde f confidence in } sijou | home You vid tM Ma : Hler eye ere ve ‘ § ¢ la r pe iy re ‘ Maybe we might ! the | ( ita istra I i t tient ibla Mame t ‘ h y ty | e t 1 f } re ¢ 4 ee t 1) t J ‘ } ‘ ye rat f i j Warm ( ‘ enough mone to place, wouldn’t she zo poy Don't pret I ‘ l t em i t ‘ y had Mr Da Gus ed o; her eve NI I) ‘ ‘ l i H ent West, th i if I ed incre l yre i I t I tried rt | i I ‘ j l f ew t told M M Florence I ‘ it } but four ( I l e kK iH im | ‘ 1 er h to feel the Mame ex ne t} eve refuse | i \ i ‘ 1) Hutte I) he i have ne tw innil t that time she w a res ‘ Phat l t he sa You et ‘ i chance \ t M D ! dinner t} Y i have die if “x I M M ! nd r I t ‘ 1 W don't her to “We e' ve ‘ I lt ‘ I t di ‘ t er her mother at nee M ‘ iT e keep eit. Let's: . Tect t M M never realized it. Wouldn't I ‘ tl gh! t Jucob I d t ! | LA i here i i nse ble K al t he ] n't t ee her i ( he e sees that her wher a ’ i i é 1 he ‘ ( ring the me ! nthe g ‘ ‘ ict eit ‘ ‘ l i ‘ | ’ i i | yg mort her father thar had Mrs. D forgot the r er dred and fift » ple ts half J ’ hve | Mr. D raked |} emor ne found child ng € h t ‘ ld t ur I | tt t , I ie j He'd been ca vell be e he talked Miss Mary, wl tood t g the lt ef M M . 4 | 1 of t-« ‘ He me from Ne Why do you st 1 there ea 1 he W i We y 1 Y orl Bostor lown that way, but he bottle, pettie? ‘ ed Ar My I don’t I \ I t Gi 1 W hat I wa good fe eemed like he’d heard ng with you? iy he ] Y ee t i { ‘ } ed D me time He wasn't ‘Not a thing M Ma ( I I dor t [ Pet I i ‘ lidn’t know I wa but I'm not one of ther I ist Oo (; I I j I pa g i dish of pea t I thought t your tongu I ear ( | } ! e ¢ lent lored hu I I gue ts time are M M e began t ‘ I 1 langer, for errupted his rer hanged the subject \ { | never been able tah { : Py aces ] ences te ¢ thers nate hat } e dre to-nig | MI ‘ " y ft f fe e one 1 pants I got I think it’d be I) nd er face ( 1) t ri He neve rne t f he h e can pin it ! r v ) M la ‘ ’ ‘ i Miss M made no more it They went Mame @ mon ind ¢ y You got to te t i r tt 10 it ( l i ’ if i { Ay ( ¢ pret noverabundant hair that way too I} I ¢ weer ‘ i lip , erited her mothe f Y I sa Cher r é f irted ¢ ) a great extent She Mrs. Da ) eamed a ‘ t ind patted he nm the i ) ada é ‘ { " on he t ’ Ma t eeded t ‘ e that,” ( es I zIV i iT inecdote ibout her he told her husband he i that ‘ i M' DAVISON the ' bea d the es they used to have it I do not kn hether Mr. Isaae D front as t A id bee her | } high Despite these frailtie ind n managed to sp. to M Ma t i woman e needed f it ) he had re ! 11 the fer r | ne t ca eM pr te me t ‘ elore ! 1 M Mar L bhegye | l ‘ ) ed ; | Mar a ple re to see her with her Mame d Oo, OF ether the ect plan I want te lar | f , M Int nlace > t irce eeded to get acquainte i re were t table I j t te Ther , ) , ' i | ° '

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST \\ | ‘ l I ) \) \l ‘ ] i \f | { I i \J I I xv W' 10TO ) { | ‘ B ) t l ' | ma i | l | i ! ) ) ) | | ) ) | { ! \\ \\ ) D> I \ f ‘ ‘ | \I ! } \l R 1 \ ' \\ be | | ‘ i | ‘ , February 7,1920 « n D Pete yr i eed y 4 } l e mut or i M i) ew Dp e j I i I M I ) " i i t ’ ‘ M h her Dorothea it it Il ha ‘ | i Dp ; We t) ] i 1) 1 l i. ‘ 1 f i ) f I i ‘ Lo t I At i I ) | ) i I'm i ! i t t il xvI f le M ( ) , \T \I I t t ir t I i i Ta Continued on Page 102

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST N explaining why he is arranging to replace all the remaining solid tires on his motor trucks with pneumatics, Mr. Henry Fowler, Treasurer of the Case-Fowler Lumber Co., Macon, Ga., writes: ‘“‘Our trucks on Goodyear Cord Tires carry capacity loads of logs through mud and sand usually impassable to our solid-tired trucks. Indeed, the trucks on the Goodyear Cords frequently have pulled the solid-tired trucks out of mire and sand in which they have become stuck. Your pneumatics not only reduce fuel consumption and upkeep generally while increasing our daily trips, but they are particularly fitted for our rough work by reason of their downright toughness.” HILE the business man quoted above and many others have been demonstrating the advantages of the perfected pneumatic truck tire, Goodyear has developed proof of an ex- traordinary nature. Since April 9th, 1917, the Akron-to-Boston Express has been running night and di: ay Ci urrying Goodyear freight on pneu- matic tires over its 1,500-mile highway circuit. More recently the Akron-to-Cleveland Freight Line and the Goodyear Heights Busses have been adding to the evidence of cord pneumatic etliciency for all-year transport. These extensive undertakings have sprung from the belief of Goodyear engineers in the eventual widespread adoption of pneumatics to free motor trucks of solid tire handicaps. They have followed the original development of the Goodyear Cord construction, begun years ago, on which the whole practicability and every virtue of pneumatic truck tires are based. They have been the means of exhaustive tests of Goodyear Cord Tires for trucks, also Tubes, Rims, Repair Matertals, and others’ engine pumps and air gauges made in collabo- ration with Goodyear engineers. Now the cost data, developed by these pioneer fleets of pneu- matic-shod highway trucks and busses, can be obtained by writing to The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, at Akron, Ohio. UH UU 101 Pioneering Progress with Pneumatics

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Continued from Page 98 ! rd ne protested I t ta g, or have I lost my mind ‘ e De me a Y haven't lost it Fran assured ner It’s just rattled over to one ide f { o Get on with yur food. I can’t bother to ' " ny 1) t f le His eyes smiled at Pierre, who said, | ‘ n es! ind began t eat wit! AY We ( rf ! Mar rat aid i | ! ment il f i ett Vv urself thered tl amily after you'd é iped it rt ear l ippose my mind has rattied to e side too,” she admitted, “‘ but I kind of | ] i talla tr t a good thing to it belong to ar fan but I suppose a ‘ ed man must he in’t roll about } i en D new ia inattached a ichina egg not ul ! t tia W here i made your mis- ¢ A ! t being a bo : i I it must I i : f Well, wl hid uu make it then? I t i pl e it was the fault of inexperience, e tl est d I i the Lord goes about and wheedle el i lot of unborn ba ntil they consent to iH i bre the father hearts | being born j ( men childret | } ! ‘ I don’t rememt but that sounds ver ‘ r ‘ ‘ » expe it ir to rectify that n ) " ! tur? i into a man,” No,” she pleaded, “I don’t believe | j ‘ Iver e set ed to expect the war to ' t it do eve t went or » It did , his +} iw , ng to agree witl Bee ‘ nat the pr ibly thought all | . ‘ | ng —tl t i t tempest ir r , 1 teapot ‘ eadjustments are Phe between important and to present nin} int one nether one happe M N Were e all under the lid in t ' Hi ir?” Mary ask TT hit We ‘ j t ! \ hra l 1 and be ed. I thought , f ero out of me t } pre ! le an ¢ t. | went awa tha band pla ' ‘ nd I came ’ 7? ; e, ( N t etl een a saint and I ere gy ma ‘ nite the ere wait t lave the et | t humar | 1) l id any good | t Ma isked ili tha ng Econor r he admitted, ind t ‘ ( ( ept that t e lorgotte all the } Dorothea happe 1 to have topped ilking to De M N As Frar iw her ‘ t him he ud, Haven't we, f Ma e cde ( isin D the ‘ é Have at? ‘ id ) ‘ \ pted the benefit f the ind ‘ lAnygea 1d act potter t Do you i ne ! ie hon ‘ oa aa ) ey t 1 | hat I t say that lo,” D thea | i ‘ A ‘ i i i t ‘ f ‘ , You | tr " ! ‘ ere ) ‘ } » Ma ( sil ) thea agree ‘ ¢ ire preé ‘ , or { ) \ ‘ " r ed th a sauce for wl | i 1 | ippene | I nd Pie ' ] ‘ et t ! ! na i tne ‘ i ¢ tet il { | { ‘ « I ‘ : i Ly 4 ed ul it i ! . 1 1 ta A erpeit tr t { ‘ rie ir ing ! ‘ i IL reme ered Hubert and Yo ed 1 be ) fu 2) i no ny é ! ure i ‘ ! i Val t . Ye ; e Ma ‘ f ‘ Who i | l | people hose i y f | I ’ t t i \ i i ‘ ‘ Che boys the \l ‘ ‘ + ’ ( ary | ! i t ‘ ind the re l ance t to be ‘ gravely with l ) We ’ ( F the iD ve left I t vt t the haps tne ‘ i i t t id begun a ‘ ‘ Madame de M ac what results her I ! ed f } expe ‘ he ind ne ‘ \ vr te iter y-room, a demoded but rather t custom that Nicholas affects I heard the marquise say to Mary, “Chérie, toilette est delicieuse. Je me ” votre tig ) eta ouvien qu’ avant que mariee - From the way she said it | was sure they were to be friends Francis came to me remarked. might have “I’m a damned fool,” he ‘Never thought that there been another young: ee “If that is the gravest sit tongue ever brought about ” | said, ter iation your ‘yo 1 walk attended by angel ‘I have no excuse,” he admitted, “but there is something about Cousin Dorothea ind the atmosphere here that provokes me to iff voner cast ror t look It is that I think.” wandered over to u “Mary pleases me,”’ he ‘She has Is very rare these days. Where are be this summer I told him our pl: I could not resist | for you st NRANCIS was reading | p r as he ate breakfast when I came dow: Can I get you an egg?” he asked. Infirm as I may seem, I am quite able Oo Wait on myse thank uu. L donot take in egg.” [hat is the great advantage of having people about who have rea a certain iy ne retorted he | be or iered senii¢ to the most trenuous € their dural he Va fi breakfast ne I came down and ha gone I ¥ t tne I think she will be able to take care of hin ne t rie he i eT ttle ed it Iw giad to hear t ne I i i ) I ense that 1a endang ur fi; tructure ma ¢ he } iu eg ‘ hera t of boot You don’t mind Chat depends on the t he’d never read Alice in Wonderland. I told he e need never hope to become a decent met er of society before ne nm - tered that and the Origin of Specie . tn t be a great relief to her I sa | g mysell a se nd cup of tea to find that e ages have ftlowered to e hera pedagogue He ig re me with a grit e } i womal! eu ne went ‘ he needed in the iy ol reading 4 1 erir it I the poet i? t l lt 1} hat unt e understood ence to the i det D ) plumbing t " ‘ i not expect Vhata meant ‘ is gratel Ur “hie tened to me A ! i certain ilm te yence y} ir} ‘ me t Va | ited t ggies fror e Frenchma ) ed to buffo the nve itlo put n the w e her hun ty gave mea nd of respect for her.” He was tired of fantasies, for he tool the pa ind pointed out a phrase 0 é t la Ke hat | thought ed erable disc ent ! e ol i bo ne wa terested In, and is about * me when I stopped him. He w i ( tongued ung pe it those kind eyes of his I had con I w le how much Ma t ! 1 " herself I j He did not be { Ve tlhe he ered I wante to see her er ver ‘ ind I t t ) et | ‘ I It i I ‘ I ime a ide t ‘ i i i 6. ne t { to i lat i 1} ive | t t low { e pa | t A ee] I have l ler é e Dar t ne i vered mpoolitels take nothing for grante Ly ea entrance te! pted my Good morning, Pete G February 7,/920 The question be put to you butler with more profit than to me,” | replied ¢ had looked in my directior ‘but possibly it is because Francis ate four.” “‘What a gourmand you are, Franci Don’t bother to ring ll might take bacon She looked very martyred, but as if she knew the stake to be infinitely becoming ‘Unle you are particularly bent or making me feel uncomfortable you will let ng,”’ Francis said, doing so. ‘‘Where are the other young people’ Dorothea inquired dae riding. Young Pierre’ mode of self-expression was learned fron the obus and the hand grenade. It consist of going through a great deal of air as fast Is €CSla me I went ible If a Villon had felt t i rning he would have ballade.”’ **Alas,”” I commented, ‘‘the ly ricism the risin is entirely muscular! as po over this m¢ writter generatior “Ma went with him?” Dorothea asked I think that she felt an insistence or fac ts might lend a saner note to the con eT it or How acute of you to have gathered that from my plural, Cousin Dorothea, Francis said outrageously ‘What is it about her, Peter?’’ Dorothe inquired vaguely What is what?’ I mean she not quite like the girl ne usual meet she Sle r i ll Tinet ran¢ remarked “and you find very little of that in the Madame Tu rele e frequent The French people he is the first personal- personal and d to the du and t empty i t mal “Po } that I fou t i : eplied tw » understand luncheon on Wed the long t ilnie t home t ! it the Countr ( tourname Yo thing to the i You ee , We stop the B you low ’ me ‘ t, Fr 3 like a general orde Were 1G-1 1 i eha e, Cou n Dor nea 4 She w exasperated and | 1 not blame he WI! dnt y 1 go 1d ne ae manded irritat “Because I fell going do ur terrac te] esterai nd I an | Have eve! tice Co Peter hat when a child ora inf t e the mowi! of a flows rhe creature goes down grace fu is thous the eart} ere its natura ibitat B hen a man fa ne la vit ev h of him protesting and fighting ig t I lignit like Lucifer falling fr | tne ght of God I had noticed,” I replied, ‘‘ but it { true It 1 paranie ne rmed me TI t iso I rses pa y the wind 1 I excused myself and went to t t t et Ma t x icTo the Pierre Spe W 1ughing gliori- trying to grenouille’ as! I » use he admitted I’il have \ t i i a Pinpber n i ¢ | ea y tT , eax I e?”’ I queried ql e, We é mp Pierre answere ‘ Mad a I " ‘ M é | l ee! X pe t | a Ton niy pe i I e. Ina case, | did é ir la ride then,” la Mary’s face tsur e and | ew sl ( i leel hersell being irried dowr i ius road the ma rn NY © Ie a OF hes

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST ‘and Suburban ‘homes | Cyclone Fence is the aristocrat in fence. Dignified, unobtrusive, yet possessing the charm and the beauty that impart refine- ment and distinction to your grounds. Cyclone Fence, altho per- mitting you to share with others the beauty of your grounds, quietly suggests a fitting regard for your property line. Built in various designs suitable for country estates, subur We shall be pleased to advise with estate owners, ban homes, country clubs, golf grounds, parks, tennis courts, architects, superintendents of grounds, etc. zoos, etc. gratis. Phone, wire or write Main Offices at Wau- kegan, lil., or Branch Offices nearest you CYCLONE FENCE COMPANY Factories: Waukegan, Ill. Cleveland, Ohio. Fort Worth, Tex. Branches: Chicago Detroit Rochester Philadelphia New York City Oakland, Calif. Portland, Ore Look for the “Red Tag” on Cyclone Fence and Products This landscape service 1S San Francisco 103

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104 rh ! rt paper ina bold, ing | i ette Papa } better or I for Mr. M letestable. I don’t trust if ] tr it to notice, but it ‘ | ‘ If papa gets a 4 I n't I The Alfriston is a bad i i ! 1 t and Mr. Marbel esn't rstand | & papa dot But when we sight l 1 Dy ilu | ! Capt HT t ‘ l v it the ape It i ! r ' 1 hee omething el é | be wt ‘ kixa I ‘ ered pe That letter Ni tte by the py laughter toa tir iwho ed ( Fr ew yoing toy? lava Ther omething ened and she tried to write down the Alfriston’s posi ind what the were g gto do. She stuck it intoa tle and ew » i? ea, but the water soaked igt i erased t} re t Hlow did get 1 of th Captain Hobbs’ eyes were half « ed, as though he saw he square-rigger wallowing in the distance with her flag anding out her ZA gying, ¢ M4 low! The bottle w picked up | 1 gul egg hunter on the p theast Farallone four year igo lg t hold of it You had ought to have turned it in to the hydrographi« ities Hobb prot ted And what good w 1 that have done?” Enderby lemanded. ‘There's no date except that May twent third, and that’s only a guess on my part. No information at all that could help the Government or underwriters. It ix thousand dollars to find out what little I did on he strength of it And that was?” mat me That Stephen St. Ledger was master of the Alfri ton, 1 British bark of fourteen hundred tons that sailed from here in January x year wo for Hong-Kong He had old, named amed Dora Henderson, pper for China yupht thi a mighty of the the way with him his only child, a girl seventeen year Geraldine. She had a chum here 1 The Alfriston was loaded mostly with « Captain St a Geraldine wa Marbel wa that’ Ledger was pretty well « out and found out that fine girl, with a good educatior hip and thi he put it Dora persor mate Dora thought him dangerou dangerous He wa i chap of good family and The rest of the message mear no friends little enough, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST NUMBIER 1100 Continued from Page 13 Bullock Island and the fact that except that it mentior the skipper was sick and the ship behaving badly.” The scrap of paper was carefully tucked away in Enderby wallet before Captain Hobbs found words to express his opinion. It was to the effect that he had been invited b madman to share the risk of a wild-goose chase on the authority of a bogus bottle message Bottles are picked up every day,” he concluded. And every day men trip over a million dollars and up, swearing because their shine is spoiled, and go or Enderby retorted. ‘I’ve paid out money for bottles like this for years.” “*And all you’ve got to show for a bearing is Bullock ’ Enderby re ponded. er of a schooner fifteen } } ‘And two years ago I indred dollars to put oat off Bullock and another place I up two of ’em last week—or they paid a twenty picked and turned over to me bottles af were pic ked up oo” “Two out of twenty! *“Ten-to-one shot,” Ende rby re l lied. ‘‘Not “In that case,”” Captain Hobbs returned wrat} fully, ‘‘if long enough the Alfristor , Ende rby’ hand grasped his “Don’t try any eurtls ‘If y I'll find someone with sense.” so bad.” you walt her elf ought to shoulder in a crushing grip. aid If not, betting on your ow hook,” he uu want to do what I tell you, say so. Hobbs grinned nervously. “Oh, I’ve got sense,” he said. The next morning William Enderby found Timothy Shell in an odd humor. The papers were ready, but the enior partner fidgeted and asked irascible questions about petty things, He seemed or the point of expres ing himself violentlh; Enderby was a little piqued He felt that during his years with the company he had more than justified his selection to a partnership. The books showed that almost month had witnessed a deft, adroit business maneuver Yet no man had uggested a word of praise or admiration. True his had prospered just as much as the others, at any time before, he the Timothy Shell's voice Presently he seated himself and drew the papers toward him “We His eye tared. “By every on his side with steady profit to the firm. ever He had Sut now, more than appreciative note in ncome increased enormously. MISS d well finish this up,”” Enderby said briefly. ; glanced down the first sheet open to him and he * he whispered. may a Jove! February 7,1920 Timothy swung on him. “Yes, by Jove!” he mimicked in a thinly sour *“Who the devil did you think I'd let have yourstock? Thi is Shell, Shell & Co.” Enderby raised his eyes defiantly. “Miss Shell will take my place excellently. But I didn’t imagine ad “You didn’t, didn’t you?” Timothy rasped. ‘“‘You never imagine, do you? Of all the dry-as-dust, stick-ir the-mud, ditto-ditto kind of young men ever I met you're the prize specimen! What the grabbed you out of a rotten two-sticker schooner for and put you in this office? Your good looks? No!” Enderby almost flinched at the savageness of the tone. Shell went on, shaking his thin fist furiously at him. you because I told myself you had imagination, originality, Voce dickens do you suppose | “_ got quick wit, enterprise, audacity, energy, And in twelve years—God help me!—you’ve been like ar old, old, old man! back! You've got the imagination of a Mohave Desert turtle and the boldness of a field mouse. You’re almost as origir al as a bill of lading. A stuffed owl has you beat for vision. Good thing for Shells you're going out of it. One sure thir daughter isn’t afraid of ; “You,”’ the young man interrupted suddenly. ‘‘ You’re right, Mr. Shell!’’ Enderby got up and walked round the old man as if curious to examine him. ‘“‘ Abso- lutely right! I’ve been afraid all these years to call my soul my own, and here it’s you I've been afraid of. Would anybody believe it?” Timothy scowled ferociously. “They would not! Sign on the dotted line and get out! Take your ninety thousand and go!” Enderby picked up the check - “Signed by your daughter,” he murmured. ‘“‘ Now there are some matters that need attention and | 34 The door opened and Katherine Shell enters d. rose and bowed stiffly. Timothy glared ‘“*Kate,”’ said her father harshly, ‘ office this time of day? You k: Busy!” His daughter smiled, and Enderby was astonished to se« how much he liked her expression. to the desk and picked up the papers he had just signed and glanced at the check the young man held in his fingers. “Nonsense, dad!”’ she remarked in a clear, resonant low voice. ‘I’m your new partner. Will must tell me a lot before he leaves. If I’m going to take his place ——” visior Enderby, you're a mo absolutely and seanned it Enderby “wh you doing in my the rul get out! OW She came on Continued on Page 108 “And What Have You Got by it?" Demanded Hobbs sath cn h “A Ship Awash on the Rocks With a Rag of Tops't Shredding in the Wind! She's Been There Years!"*

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Cont nué d from F e, ¢ e rem | ) iH ‘ ‘ he eve ‘ mai ‘ he ( Page io4 P ‘ i ( ( j M4 ’ j r f i med i} ‘ i l i ‘ " ( lurthe { , ae hear ight I ght ' a } it} them et he ed at ! ‘ { ‘ i i n of 1 were ‘ l ecause er eve i} Be if 1] ( ‘ THE SATURDAY

] ¢ fte the M She ‘ I id fil led N ‘ ered Ende rose “Then | yy he remarked a little tre i I be e I’ve answered all j ue Ye | ¢ ” wa tne istle ‘ ‘ } ire to te me about t » send the Western Star to Petroy ) eptember hells have neve ( iste f up there I infer.”’ It's a long ) Enderby responded Id t be ‘ fathe ild approve lad tt t ever ente ed your head ! Katherine replied. “It wa ist a iff—-to see if I'd be taken in. You n’t take such a risk, would you?” et 1 touched him el ely. Her guess he actual trutl To send a fast ( er to that! hern port just before the e of na ition on the chance of ' g up a valuable cargo of furs had otte heer ni? nd it he had never ( 1 planned 1 iu gl connection t f He had ma yusly interpo ‘ t al ng tne fit ed matte ne na isked m to CAK al it He nned, don’t ki but it I'm exact ir fathne rid | i n-the ! old ww of a conse itive he told he I wou t dare send a packet up there, th ly tn nt w al vyhere from event etoal ired thousand doll clear But ther yuu-il dare Oh! he whispered “You thi I’m too bold!’ He held out hi ind I must be off. The best of luck!” he har frar Other words { nthe usual l mai gyood-t vere on her t gue, | he repressed ther 1 hope I'll see you once in a while,” she mu ired “I'm leaving the coa na very few aa ” he ar ered, N mnie tant he ame langu 1. (,00d-! ne ud At yn | ler! found Captain Hobb ind tened to! e] t in sile ‘ Wher e excellent mariner had detailed his ex peri it great engt! ij employer ylanced at I 1 cross! Close with the owners of the Resolute, he sr yped I want to be at sea in three aa Hob tarted to argue the point and was q I Ile was unresentful. William J. I ‘ had a reputation for not being | ent \ habit to storm when he 1 il Bill 1 ive been turned dow! Kate Shel the capta ld } elf as he lef No reason else f } being so

crank Withir the int ted three day the little steame Re ite du tiled out of the G en ite and vanished But he dest i N t the ecret that Fr derby | i fa ed it Wa M he | t ga neve effective, had se he ! { pe fat old Hiram I ‘ on the ul and he had reported that the Resolute is bound for the regior ear Bu Island—‘“‘a bit of land down

p i But what '"M ell be gan, then { ed, ew not the woman to prv into ar othe ne beyond a certalr Be She disn ed Captain Forbes and t intormat t} ough other channel ing was to be le ned except that Bullocl Is! 1 was pretty we yut of the usual course of all vesse was a watering station in An lay whal sed to beinhab ited by natives who g The Re te is no pf trade,” Miss Shell decided it he room. ‘“‘But I t ha ( l take a cruise l ind i\ next ve Meanwhile the Resolute had run down her | ide, sighted the Hawaiians and teered into the blank Pacific west of that group H re puzzled. He kne that he wa ! ‘ of all the tiling ita Ende ter, and to ee} long t n these desolate wate ru an appalling and fu tile t That an enia irt, cleve < ‘ { e mat e | i¢ nould ‘ tu end a f ine oT ict i ‘ ve | “ ‘ Ile cor ided t er er was concealing some +} f } YY ; i Isl me into view \ ed briefly a ‘ iste Ender! EVENING POST is 1 nstar dec} i y ob- ervations, examining charts, reading the directory and digesting everything the tocked chart room of the Resolute af in the way of reports, surveys, cur- weather charts and faunal

charts, monographs.

“The Alfriston never made Bullock Island,” lerby remarked to Captain Hobbs one fine night when they were eaming slowly along under a bright half- ‘But I have no doubt they sighted it. I’velooked up the weather of the month et moon.

of May in that year and it was easterly and gale With aship misbehavi 3 we know the there one thing

Alfriston did,

to do. I figure tl St. Ledger would have taker ve, which was to steer as best his port This mate, on the probal ] calculated an easier ¢ way out of it if the next eight weeks or we'll hi he did we'll ei

our plans, take it for granted that Captain t. Ledger recovered and go southwest.’ ‘Your bottles all landed on the California beach,” Hob arked. “If the Alfristo is helpless sl the same as they.” “Two out of twenty came to our beach,”’ Enderby returned. ‘Or three out of twenty-

one if you count in the original bottle with

Miss St. Ledger init. But bottl and ships drift ly, according as the wind blow eighteen of my bottles didn’t t I’m pretty su if ar of them ed the coast I'd have heard of ’em r the ill had me uves signed by me in them and I’m known as a man who pays well for such informa tion. Now my problem is to discover where the other eighteen went to. Find them and ve find the Alfriston or some trace of her.” At midnight of this day Enderby ordered the engines rung down, my figures this is where we start he told Hobbs. ’ ejaculated that seaman in drifting,” * Drifting!’ amazement “T said it!” En

derby re

every argument you can urge against it My word goes! We drift—like a bottle!” A week later Ende rby ended an argument Captain Hobbs and the chief engineer by going below, taking a twenty-four-pound sledge out of the rack and bringing it down on the intermediate shaft coupling. He pointed to the shards of steel and asked coldly of the astounded engineer: “ How long before i again?” ‘Six week sir,”” babbled the chief. On the bridge Enderby addressed Hobt ‘‘T want no more words about this busi- ne ” he said icily. “‘Not for six weeks,”” _ little steamer rolled and swung to every veering wind and sea while the sky of the ilier vault that echoes to the trades. The Reso- lute was drifting north. Her crew stared quart 3 of the world and as did the sailors of Colum- But their low, inarti clear witt wi you can get her going 8 o the

trop pl lowly hardened into the cl into the spaciou murmured, much } it likel

r rose in rebel even when the machinery had been repaired and at each change of the watch the engines were turned over slowly for precaution’s ike Enderby had mastered them all,

from the staring, sullen Hobbs to the be- prime d stoke r “By gad,” the captain confided to the

cl ef engineer, ‘I’m afraid to make a sound for fear the man’ll up and smash somet} else! It’s in him! He's a devil unl Stands up there and stares and lister

scowls. And nothing to see anywhere but the tilt of a cloud or the toss of a sea on the horizon # “Mad!” muttered the engineer. Hobbs brought his S clo e to the

not mad. Jt was Enderby 1} that landed a junior partnership with Shells. Hfe’s never lost out yet. But this time Hobbs made a slight expressive gesture with one great hand—‘“‘ he’s looking for a girl.” The two of them glanced up at the straight inewy fi on the bridge and

err eyes 1 somethir fear. A month later the steamer was lurching in a terrific sea piled up by an easterly gale the furious tides that form

t]} lil

ling wit conte!

that tremendous maelstrom in the North Pacifie called Van Lieuw’s Whirlpool. The sky was overcast with a low scud of clouds, the wind shrieked in the rigging and swept the thin trickle of smoke from the Reso- lute’s squat funnel like a raveling pennant toleeward. From some remote and invisible region hidden by spume and mist the slow thunder of a rising tempest. boomed

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We're right in the westerly eddy of the eurrent!’”” Hobbs called into Enderby’ ear. ‘She won’t stand it! We must get the steam on her and heave to!” Enderby’s seared eyes crossed the cap- tain’s. ‘“*No,” he said gut when the firmly. gale two days later and the Resolute northward with boilin before them, H : together confronted the driven her dizzily chief engineer employer. “Tt’s sheer madness,” Hobbs panted,

“‘Sometime to-night we'll be acro the Japan current and up against the Kuril no harbor, no chance for : thing.” “Any minute the rs may fetcl ”* the « eer a J “No ship canstandt kind of battering. You've got to give her a chance for her life iT Enderby stared at them. The met that

glance steadily and

‘ crests from the leaping sur; nd the under crashing, thundering sé At night iple of boats were ! ed fron thei and lashings and spun ove lt in sy A moment later a id a shock as if the vessel had 1 1 ret d a second sea swept her from b bows She’s gone!’ Hob yelled t it ted star Ender! nde out of the darkness at murk and grasped the lever of the engin room telegraph. It dipped to Ahead and the ng lent gongs belo ent up the clan For ten minutes it is! ind ft be tween the laboring steamer and the ‘ ou re | B t Er i¢ eV t t ‘ ind presently the throl er es | the Va na ve her ou t t urge “God! ed Hol { fi. eat in we heave her ‘*Let her drive!

Ender ted ba **She’ll be ashore in hour! Slowly the mall rew of the Resolute gathered in the lee of the midship house thea tant engineer, on yuple of ike The darkne was impenetrable The sharpest eye ild discern nothing a hundred ur from th steame r iil The I i at the \ et t id given up ng to ease charge tnr

the combers and ng into the bit nacle with ay ill ( | tarting evé Only Ender! perturbed. H

form could he een in one corner of the

bridge, in the tu eep of the iw ! toreat wi the i adoaget that had Lit The suspense grew nbea bie The chief engineer, with a groan of resignation, went below, stopping when halfway down to turn his old grim face up to the dri; f skylight as it in farewell Hobb refuge in the sh: ed wheelhouse swayed beside the steersman drunke his sh ow lengther ng and sli f ny the s ng, quivering l “i be just a roa ur ear then—good-by,’” he muttered to “Rocks! Nothi rocks! The expected of breaking wv crashed on the two e mort A shout f ym \ é ,eryir then and the crew of the Resolute tumble and gathered in light shelt of wheelhouse. . braced above then never looked dowr His eyes were se something beyond the glimmering sea ears listened to something | ides the and thunder of surf rolling against ar coast H voice, heard through the hatel trangu y directed the n it whee ‘By gad, one’d think he was steerir t ‘ Hobbs gasped. Continued on Page 110 a channel!

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i) Continued from Page 108 \ it a } tec ‘ eure i if en ' f yh ‘ e st It va ed asterr I ed f e bridge ring ou onnt fa ‘ e ‘ His ¢ ere t Hi } Dit ) ‘ é | Alfr ’ } le ( ‘ é ‘ e trap | ind ed {! a hes ‘ ‘ iff ler the f nd ul the teamer vy ar i the tremend ‘ > y field of foa ied pped ad a great dart ‘ j tt wh the ocear om ft and an al pened I'he ! hut off a ‘ it ff a far Gad!" Hol bbe e’s gone!” | the ieep lle ittene yut, the itt { mead ip ( hte ite flar ed ‘ ner ra Nia fl ing the f blast of the ile held there eve ber of oa ! ed and the m of he ‘ ng engine ul iway into e of the ule ipe and slowly f her t red bow iward, taking of the nop with ar i i regu- , , Whe Lhe eamer was anc! ed Enderby ‘ fr his self-ay nted post and ‘ he drawn countenances of hi ‘ rhe end of eighty da I ng he 1 mild And what have you got it de- inded Hobb iddenly truculent from rstrain \ ship awash on the rocks i rag of tops’]l shredding in the wind! he heen there year J Phe man he spoke to mere nodded and weed on into the di y lit saloon. A boy e to his call with coffees rhe captain e chief joined him, growling together I the way, cap'n,”” Enderby aid Kee] you watch out the rest of ght for a mall boat Likely these eople | e off People!” repeated Hobb Humph!” We iid his employer quietly etting nt uj Isaw alight burningashore.”’ It ' never been anybody on Plunder ape my time rouaked the engineer, | iw no light I suw it,’ was the curt reply. ‘“ Waken lf anybod comes off.” he tup heavily and strode away, stag ing livhtly with wearine Hobbs ned blighted eyes on his companion Lig he ra ped Small boat ff in this weather! Plunder Cape! \fter x years! His liy agged and he breathed stert yu hy the veins in his tem ‘ len to the pulse of his overladen eart He closed his eyé lowly, with a le look of wr! ind slept in his chair. he engineer, a hardier, tougher man, ed his coffee with slow relish, now and b throwing his head back as if the les of | eck were stiff lowly he i ddand his aged, earred face assumed il ind benignant expression there was a girl,”” he mused in a low ile lered this placidly, sinking eut \ Z rl! Huh! Enderby’ ng vet lie dropped } ! ‘ breast and the a came lowly with pallid ashe i low bank of seudding cloud yrave the sea, drew out of the dusk the k outlines of the rocky cape and finally e plain a ill cabin perched amid en bru just back of the beach. Ender! iiwhtened himself uy andi studied the e in which the Re ite vung to hor Beyond the outjut of the head he saw the seas racing furiously, with turmoil of spume and spray A mile t of the lee the dark irges fell once e unde he power of the gale and ne iwi t | ismothe Phe wreck ? right in the jaws of ‘ "he tol i If I wonds big ile illed a hand and togethe they ere i dinghy into which Enderby got i pulled for the beac He did not glance ilder as he rowed, except whe the hate Ihe ne ti ist out i eaped overboard into water wai ‘ ind drapye little craft to sec ity ire ule the H é fast to a ft ya é ‘ walked ind i i Hle wa il the ‘ i la THE SATURDAY fer ] f ‘ ere rt Pi :Ou quict ly, closing the door. En- y smiled Miss St The her head and M st r derb Ledger!”’ he called. for it was a woman lared Ledger lifted woman !” Enderby said again yt r ita rhe Instead she he held in her at his breast woman did not smile, raised the revolver right hand ar d le Go away! veled it aid in a low voice. Hie caught the expression of her eyes and his own clouded, He seemed to be thinking not of the weapon aimed at his heart but of omething far different. When he spoke it he was in a new tone Don't shoot me till I tell you about Dora Henderson and your bottle letter.” “Oh!” we Miss St. Ledger. Your bottle nally arrived, Did you get mine?” Then “I’m Enderby, you know.” ut up the revolver with trembling and came forward, He saw that she looked absurdly young. Her cheeks were she p hinger faintly colored under their tan ‘Il found four bottles,” she said in a husky voice, “‘more than a year ago!” ‘You've been six years here,” he said gently ‘I didn’t get your message till three years ago and I couldn't find you any Are alone?” “The rest left after we'd been here three months,” she answered, coming still closer, as if to assure herself that he was real. “They took the long boat and went away.” “And you've been all alone since?” nodded “Except for your letters that came in bottles,”’ she murmured, “*I--I didn’t know just what to say in those letters,’’ he stammered, ‘I didn’t know whether you’d get them or not.” “They were very nice,”” Miss St. Ledger replied gently. ‘‘I knew you would come sometime,” sooner you She “And then you were going to shoot me!” “I had to shoot—once,”’ she said simply. ‘*Marbel?” “Yes.” l'hey looked at each other in silence for a while. Enderby felt very calm and content. She was beautiful, he told himself, and well balanced, After so many years most girls would have become hysterical at being res cued from such a spot. He scanned her with friendly eyes. “And we will go away to-day?” she mur- mured, ‘I’m all ready.” It struck him suddenly that she took this affair very much for granted. He wanted vehemently to force her to confess that he had achieved miracles in arriving. His contentment was wiped away. He felt horribly upset. There was so much to tell her, to ask her, to find out. And she was visibly impatient to be gone. “All right,” he muttered uncivilly, aes “if you're in such a hurry!" A thought pierced his heart. “Ah,” he said hoarsely, “of you're in a hurry! I might have ge course known “Yes,” she assented gravely, her moist with unshed tears **Do you think he's still waiting for you?” he demanded brutally. ‘‘He didn’t come after you, did he?” She met his gaze with unfaltering stead fastnes ‘He couldn't,” she said quietly, Enderby stared, swore under his breath and then snapped: “If you're ready we'd better be away. This gale, if it is only a ummer’s storm, seems to be making in- tead of letting up.” With perfect composure she led the way the, cabin, which was of one room rudely constructed and bare of all comforts. Che girl pointed to a roll wrapped in canvas “That is all, I think.” With this on his shoulder Enderby looked round the room. It struck him as prepos that a woman should have dwelt 0 many years in such a hut. There was no sign of any attempt to make it cheer into terou alone ful or homelike. Clean it was, to be sure, but nothing delicate adorned the rough wall, no littlest thing testified to a solitary feminine impulse toward decoration. He went out and she followed without a back- ward glance When they reached the Resolute’s deck Enderby took Miss St. Ledger to his own large cabin and gruffly invited her to make herself at home ‘*No one will disturb you,” he remarked. “But I'll have the steward bring you some breakfast.”’ Hobbs was openly and frankly astonished it the success of the expedition and shook Knderby’s hand vigorously EVENING POST ““T never knew a better bit of work,” he said heartily. ‘*To think how you managed it! Bill Endenby, you always win!” “Not this time,’’ Enderby returned, ‘‘I lost ”” “But the young lady? She’s all right? Surely! My word, what a story she’ll have to tell your grandchildren!” “‘She—she’s not the girl,” Enderby stammered, ‘Forget it! She’s engaged to be married to another chap.” ‘Where? On this island? When's he coming off?"’ Hobbs demanded fatuously. “*He’s up the coast and has been since the Alfriston Enderby returned. **He’s waiting for her.”’ “By gad!” the captain exclaimed, flush- ing with pleasure. ‘‘ Wonderful! A friend of yours, of course! And you turned the trick like a master sailorman! I'l] tell the lad that when we get back. Nobody but Bill En- derby could have figured it out so closely.” Enderby stared at this unusual torrent of speech from the usually taciturn Hobbs and departed to a small cabin aft. There the chief engineer found him when he came to talk ship’s business. ‘We're woefully short of coal,’’ the en- gineer told him. ‘Of course we saved a lot in one way, but the fires ate it up steadily just the same. We can’t steam a thousand miles more.” Fully convinced of this fact after some talk, Enderby turned the chief out and sat down with his problem. All that day and the next he kept his room in spite of urgent summons to the saloon, The third morning he went ashore and examined the wreck of the Alfriston, easily approachable now that the sea had moderated. ‘‘No coals there,”’ he reported briefly. “*There’s only one thing to do,”’ Captain Hobbs urged. ‘‘Send word to San Fran- sailed,” cisco ‘“*Nowireless,”’ Enderby retorted. “Better scheme is to drop into the Japan current and make it slowly along till we pick up some vessel, Then we can tranship our passenger and go back for this copper. There’s plenty of it still in the hull of the Alfriston. That’s what'll pay the bills, cap’n,.” This decided, Enderby visited Miss St. Ledger. He found her quietly cheerful in the company of the chief engineer. She received him in the most friendly manner. He observed that she was still dressed in rough sailor clothes. His polite query drew out the confession that all her own clothes had long ago been worn out. “Another reason why we must speak some steamship,”” he told her. ‘ Well, they'll be plentiful when we get south a few degrees.” **T would like to be properly dressed when we reach San Francisco,”’ she murmured, The very simplicity of the words, with their clear implication, stung him He scowled at her. She met his eyes tran quilly. The chief er gineer soon departed on his business and Enderby found himself alone with Miss St. Ledger. “T think we had better come to an under- standing,” he told her awkwardly. ‘I be- lieve you hardly comprehend my position.” “IT can never repay you,” she said. “That statement might be taken in many ways,”” Enderby responded. ‘But first, let me have some account of what happened to the Alfriston. Just when did you drop that bottle message overside?”’ “IT was writing to Dora Henderson,’ Miss St. Ledger answered, wrinkling her smooth forehead. ‘I can’t remember just why I didn’t finish it. But father became very ill and sent for me and Mr. Marbel. It was bad weather and the bark was really behaving frightfully, so my father asked some questions and then told Mr. Marbel to use his own judgment. That seemed to be all he said, you know—just: ‘Use your own judgment, Mr. Marbel.’ But it wasn’t all he meant to say. However, the mate slipped out and I sat by father’s side till midnight, when he died “The next morning we buried him. We were somewhere off Bullock Island, I un- derstood. Then Mr. Marbel’s entire man- ner toward me changed. He knew perfectly well I was promised in marriage to a—a better man, but he swore he would sink the Alfriston if I didn’t agree to be his wife. So I was desperate. I came down into my own cabin and locked the door. My letter to Dora was still pinned to my desk. It was the only piece of paper at hand. So I wrote my message on the bottom of the sheet and put it in a bottle and threw it out the porthole a February 7,1920 “It’s too bad you didn’t use ink,” En- derby put in. “ Your pencil notation of the longitude and latitude was washed out by the water that leaked into the bottle.” Miss St. Ledger blushed. “ forgot to put things like that down,” she murmured, Enderby’s lean face suddenly became tense. He leaned forward with an expres- sion of immense solicitude. “Just what was it you—er—wrote in pencil on that letter end?” he asked in a curiously flat tone. The girl tossed her head with a hint of coquetry. “It was a personal message,”’ she replied, “‘to the gentleman I am engaged to.” “You mean to tell me that instead of setting down directions for anyone to find you and the Alfriston you wrote a—an affectionate message to him?”’ Enderby stared with unbelief written plainly on his face. es **Why?” he demanded loudly. ‘‘ Prepos- terous! Your father is dead, the mate is a rotter and you’re alone on an unseaworthy ship. You drop a bottle over—your only chance, I take it—and instead of setting down facts you use your priceless oppor- tunity, your last chance to communicate with the world, to tell some young fellow thousands of miles away that you—that you ”’ Enderby laughed harshly. Then he repeated sternly: “Why?” ‘I wanted—I couldn't think of anything else!" He considered this with apparent cold- ness. She sat with her pretty hands folded in her lap and a look of pathetic longing on her face. Very slowly he relished the simple truth of her nature. It struck him that here was a character of infinite purity. Thi girl—a mere chit of seventeen—had been bereft of her sole protector, abandoned by rude destiny to the willful caprice of a brutal youth with no unselfish thought, and instead of crying to the world for help she had taken her last bit of paper and set down in angular script the assertion of her deathless loyalty to a lover. ‘You never suspected that the pencil marks would be erased ?"’ he murmured, ~/ hoped not,”’ she replied quietly. “It’s over six years now since you sailed from San Francisco,” he told her. She displayed a slight tremulousness, as though her strength of endurance were being wasted. Enderby felt flooded with sorrow for her. He gulped at sight of her fidelity. “What happened to Marbel?” manded in an altered tone. “I shot him four days after my father was buried,” she replied. ‘*While the bark was still in the neigh- borhood of Bullock Island?” Enderby flushed suddenly. ‘‘ Will you believe it?” he said gently. “I staked my fortune on that! You know in your bit of letter to Dora you told of this man Marbel. I could see what would happen. And when he was gone, of course, the bark was helpless—it simply drifted.” “Yes,”’ she replied, plucking at the skirt of the heavy sea jacket she wore. ‘The second mate had been swept overboard, Nobody any longer knew how to navigate the ship. So we drifted, setting what sail we dared. We went ashore one afternoon in a dead calm just where you saw the wreck.” *‘And the others left you on the island?” “They stayed till we knew no ships ever called there. They wanted me to go with them, but I had to wait —of course.” Enderby rose and stared out of the port at the gray sea. He felt himself oppressed. All that this girl was saying was simple fact; she had nothing to conceal. And yet it sounded as irrational as a conversation in a dream. “I had to wait—of course,” she had told him. He saw depths at his feet never suspected. Was it possible that men and women acted under the obscure influence of a power they knew nothing of? It seemed to place all man’s calculations and laborious reckonings in contempt. He turned to her. **Why did you have to wait he demanded. “*Because the Alfriston was here.’ “Naturally! Yet the others sailed away? You knew you might wait here for years scores of years! You might die—all by yourself! There was not the slightest reason for your stopping on this island.”’ He shook his head at her slowly. ‘* You had a good reason, Miss St. Ledger.” Continued on Page 113 he de- of course? a

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Continued from Page 110 She blushed faintly. He realized that she vas tremendously beautiful in a still, serene way. ‘How could I leave—after I had sent a

I would be on the bark?” ““A message to—-to him? In pencil! Or the fag end of asheet of paper! Ir Thrown 0\ sea! You mear here sin message that , ' a bottle d mule at you stayed rside many thou

piv becau “Of course!’ Enderby was balked, He road to understar aing “How urnup? That I woul “Oh, I[Tknew! He ca ight I her relentlessl ‘3 did yo not to penetrate tery of this aston - Wh: She looked at him in a

-rayed? is though he were acking in He repeated it pray for?” **Him,” she said He ir “For him to come Ye understanding sisted on more

‘He couldn't!” e cried 1 wider “But I came!’ She drew n her « before } ittitude. He saw that she was touched b a sense of failure “You bet I ame!"" he up my busing m1 ’ I left everything

tood being called a fool a thousand thir to ce | fought with n ow? crew! I almost wrecked tl teamer! | ised every faculty God ever let me have!

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“You poor man!"’ she murmured **Poor mar ! Me? | ery taummered nonplused “Why? Haven't I found vou , But vou were the answer to n praver,” she replied with utter simplicity ‘You came so that I could go back to Sar Francisco.”’ ‘An errand boy!”’ Enderby muttered wildly. ‘I rescue you and that’s my re ward. Hang it all, I've done something that will make half the sailormen in the world shake the heads and tell me I've performed a miracle, and you treat me ar d ill I’ve done as though I was’only an errand boy, a chance messenger! What will they ay when I get back? You're right! ‘Poor ; $s my name!’ ut-—but,”’ she 1id in protest, “‘some \ i¢ tand! She will under te pe 1 i€ a r I nerv¢ i move ent back and fort She!’ he ejaculated wondering]; M St. Ledger rose and put her littl Of course!”’ she said between laughter nd sobs. ‘The girl who loves you! Don’t aan He frowned. He felt himself slipping ick into another world, a realm of flitting eams, of bri Ll € e fancies, of my

himself up

eriou He « | But she wouldn’t 1 me!”’ he mut- ered The girl hoc " rht} Did you tell her?” she whispered Did call Tee eines teueil tan” Ina e he did not re ize as |} wr Enderby replied No! welve years! | ever told her, I—I didn’t know I did t ow. ‘Oh, what a terrible waste of time! Miss St. Ledger said mournfully She looked into his eyes and he saw that her pity was unaffected. She was like a mes- enger mysteriously appearing to unfold the final secret of happine He saw that to her simple and inexperienced soul love THE SATURDAY Was the one thing In the aimed and adored 1ough she were looking at a man who had willfully tossed aside life’s ] jewel “T’m a t they called me. I thought r but that Is she beautiful?” sne asked quiet * Really beautiful?” ‘Are women a mat but lovely »** he demanded recovelr him elf “Sometimes,” **How can world She gazed at him as iove pro cl tk + most fool!’’ he murmured Phat’

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one Well,” he said, quite ed he is beautiful.’’ Then he added But all that’s past and gone. It’s too late The girl drew back, evidently hur ‘You shouldn’t say ich thing he remonstrated. “It’s unjust to a woma He looked at he 1 mome i the turned \ I mu e about getting cove a our way ne mut ¢ ma

depart¢ d hastily The gale had died into a smart bres

when the Resolute steamed past the w of the Alfriston and into the open. ss Captain Hobbs seemed doubtful about the future and spoke at length of coal and provisior \ re long the autumn gales w hey a oncluded ‘What happe to us then, drifting about without a wire less? You'd ought to have installed wire less, Enderby.” ‘And have my officer ‘ yr to the coast for help?"’ was the ret Not fe me! We dor "t need wirele “You may think so,” Hobbs replied offendedly, “‘but time will tell.” Six days thereafter the Resolute’s « gine to a standstil What fuel re ned st be saved for an emerge

crew were busied setting a few rags of canvas the lockers of the stear ‘I'm glad we didn’t load that copper i

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her the chief engineer rem: ed. He had quit hi engine room as one leave i closed Wor t 1 now spent ! time on the bridge. “If that f er full of dead weight we sh'd be vad “ Hobbs grunted No fear, chief! ierb i ounder ship than t! to tetch the tal awa) Look at the way he treats t teamer! No regard for it at all! Heactsa though he despised thi ve el! I'll bet he didn’t suggest loading the copper aboard because he thought the Resolute w good enough for such a rich eargo!” It would ha’ been fair foolishne the engineer remarked I give Enderby credit I never want to sail with him agai but he’ got you all beater capt He i real master mariner Anywa what ships compared to people?’ Such heterodoxy drove Hobbs int l , 4 He belonged to that steadfast to whom lenness chool of sailormer a ship is the eatest entity in the world; e and hope and dreams for worn-out hulk; men who speak of the ship as other men speak of things divine and in estimable. He glowered over the blank sea with his eyes wrinkled in despair To all outward appearance Enderby thought little of his vessel f He was like a man who has spent years ir preparing his mine, has set it off and stead of hidden treasure disclosed, find himself staring into a bottomless ab The only person who could stir him out of his moody humor was Miss St. Ledger. Ir the intervals cf fashioni: herself fitting garments from what scanty stores the steamer offered she would talk with F derb And she never for an insta ated from her single, purposeful insistence on the potency of sincere and simple fait One afternoon, when the barometer w falling and the sky was d ning as if forming across the blue stopped Enderby in his eternal tramp up and down the narrow ca il’ It's going to blow very hard,”’ she told him quietly. “I learned a lot about the weather in this region during my X year at Plunder Cape.” It’s going to blow,” he ar gr men who give lif the sake of a

evil scum were deck outside the swered life- lessly Sut what can Ido? We've barely coal enough left to keep the engines turn ing twelve hours. We may need that power. I can’t venture to waste it on merely steaming ahead.” “T’m not complaining,’’ Miss St. Ledger returned amiably. “I thought a

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But you alone ol ive good rea i to complain,” Dy burst rut have endured ; time. B ATi« co Vel eewny you as patient as you are had someone waiting : Oh, but uu have! © ANSWE 1 How the dickens do you know? e demanded She smiled to herself, dreaming He stared at her and suddenly burst out

“Why wasn’t L--why couldn't | be the mar for you?) Look what I've done fo you! Spent my money and my years and my days and my night ind you do ‘ ven think of me! | never enter your head! It’s absol edible Nobody would believe it ra hod 1 tell u! I—I've w ! | staked my all o fir g you! What's the tter? | win! Nobody denies that | i | t pa es: But you don’t love me! e said re bu rly } ler felt a idde erwhelming a re to hurt he t | e her mooth I'm not » sure of that,” he uid, fixing } eyes on her boldly ‘Nobody would believe I didn’t. Long ago, when I first got hold of that message of yours, I hated Ma l. I used to start up at desk in I'd sweat. I tried to get you out of my

mind, but I knew you were beautiful I managed to get a sight of your photograph at Miss Henderson I read some of your letters to her, written when you were at hool in France And then I gave ip everything and took all my mone in m po t and came for ou I ever gured out how pretty you were whether Ou were worth while vorth all tl expense and trouble And when I’ve done all tl ou dare stand there and tell me I'm not sur mar Vo,”” she uid firr : you're not! She lowered her voice and came nearer to him so that he caught the faint fragranes of her hair Whi re uu > ed he l iting fie ited t ear ‘ ¢ ‘Waited? Has she e der ed of the \ I think not! Under her till deep ‘ he t i nervousl Anywa * he went or é tha to wait any longer. By tl time the Reso lute posted as mi g and I’m thought lost at sea. I reckon nobody’ ‘iting for me, voung lady-—no one he raised her voice What a coward you are,” she told | to have so little trust in a woman's heart! What does it matter if she does hear y« ire dead? She will alway wait! I hope not,”” he said in an al may never get into port We hould ighted long ago. Winter ii Such talk is foolishne ’ You are a ‘ passionate) For the first time he saw dept Her eyes filled with tear } Wi have beet coward trembled, a sob choked her throat “Why? How?” he asked, puzzled ‘Because you don’t simp!l wecept the truth,”” she sobbed “Tt true | would only believe it ind trust her! She waiting! She allowed hastily and 1 men like you who kill men are faith are, and you know it!” he

vered hu kily “To men!” she cried Faith to me » demand their loyalty in spit { e! But no woman ever unfaithful t her love—-never—never!"’ She choked Mer i the know what love At ‘ practice it It is alw i) with u Wet hat it give We trust it We pray tot We die for it It is our heaver And won't believe in it! You e an atheist you have no God!” by wa ent. Present] e offered a last argument ‘Then it’s nothing what I’ve done? And it doesn’t matter that he the mar 1 love isn’t here, while She shook her head I am here sorrowfull He would have come if he could have he whispered. “I know that!” And you think that it makes no differ ence to—to her that I quit and went away, and probably have been posted as mi ing?” She looked at him appealing] Of course not! If you would only be- lieve! If you we

He turned on | heel and it He i nothing t iy toa body for a couple la while tl eather | rseme and the little steame iritted it Ise le il Then he went into M Leage jin late at night. She itting on th sunge, brushing her ha Spry to nt le.” he told he } ipt t what vou ve bee " ig has st m 1 i i betting n and Vay ive bee! It in n-to-one ho th it I’m g¢ ‘ If i “ ‘ he Tose { yp he heavy i OV ‘ ilder, Her eye ere lit t} { nl re Ye ‘ i 1 Ina i t isu ‘ he ent or ) r It’ } he t time I eve eu I've d t ES mysé 1 yr help It’s hee W here Odds B Endert and ther B Cra I r-Odds Bill just got Did ! he did? Nobody k1 ord ol it till he ta the pier.” Tha vha I've beer played a lone ! il bet my last dol But I'm ready t ju I'd stick it it, maybe, if I didn int to see if you're right. If you are, | n more’n I figured I could w be he whis} | 1} thrille D ne tone > I'm goir t bet « i woman God the God you pray to I'll probab ‘ The i’re to trust he Exactly! I thought I'd let you kno ! int eye i ment t vent out ! with it preface e the maki ol a wire le installation on the Resolute, haver Ve Can you fix it uy F The engines kt ked out } pipe, re filled it, lit it and bh moh to the t ‘ cel ny ‘I thir I ca he ed Gimn eight da ou’ve figured uur on chance? Enderby seemed oddly embarrassed It ike it,”” he admitted ‘You keep tl essel righ up f eight day ind I'll have a r " ’ the chief answered confident I me ed col derable wit! \ it I time He pulled | jacket or reache for hi cap ‘I de want to get ashore aga too.” he continued I gue ou ¢ count on me doing best,”’ Captain Hobt received “ ol th fresh effort wit! me reluctant « re ol of satisfaction It had ought to ha’ been thought « ooner,” he told I | ut you're running this packet In three da the battered ul Resolute agreed that tl wirelt the the e hope of safet The stear } to leak from the terrif tra he forced to endure Her nty <¢ blown to mbbor t it A he la it a sea anchor ! Vind and over her. What coal remained little to keep steam up for the pump Of them all t only kept temper an good spirit M t. Ledger seemed ut ble to realize their plight. Enderby wa plifted | " terious entl n whic kept a } ile on } ly i cheer note in } Voce rr} rele vas beir fashioned a 1 poor t d ma teria ild all Ar it the end the chief « ‘ had t ‘ nfe that , rer ( bie } power to make I've got it all re but t he Enderby, the two of them a th That ntn hut ou’ h ! 1 end out ca t 4,00 We neve } yet | Ked up ¢ not nie ‘ Dow t of the n t i ue it We ! e it do,” End a He met the hief’s eve wear I iper f You kno mie Enderb vent ] i re 7 meat I'll bet m nile t tiy “Your pile bet,’ 1 the chief nificant eit hears our ca I e } three ¢ more t That night I handed t} cn engineer the figures of the Resolute’s px tior ] ist ( t broa t vas the resp p ‘No,” Enderby replied, “call Y K The engineer tare ¢ ler } breath and remarked hotl I here, | Concluded on Page 115

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Concluded from Page 113 N pa ' wl l ired, A wee iter Capta Forbes eit der ave a notion this affair n't send over and stepped out into the fury of the storm. invited Enderby to come on dec} or x hundred mile f that 1 you want \ e battled | the " ‘It isn’t a square deal you're getting I bet I'd ea j e to tr to reach some particular ship alleyw the glimmer inting se: he said bluntly, Hobt has told ¢ tiest ¢ n the { when heave there may be no ship © so close at hand gave ‘ f irn I couldn't ha’ believed of a man but old She I \ | it 1 witl pre | ! \r ere speed. rhey rose, f ad ahead ol you. And the nerve of i callin’ for us at dert eturned, All I i ing!” nN swept along the s ae and the last m ite, just like e knew we were back to her man.”” He ived al Enderby towered above him. ed past him into the smother aster: thin hail! iple staring to ea ‘ f } It’s me ta !”’ he boomed ] But he knew that the Resolute was pract ert feet away | ed fort i Odds Enderby! You YK | illy motionless so far as movement over wis} come up on my deck a girl and owe ‘ ! ey f posit on! sa ‘ Lhe ocean's bottom Was concerne ° she indn cre { eT But I in’t te ther they ge lay held betwixt wind and tide, pulling f } i yuve t | | } ot!” doggedly at her sea anchor, slowly sinking inde the response I i pulled | Do as I tell you!”’ came the mmand At a jog in the deckhouse Hobbs caromed iit 1 tremendous thing but i ‘Lemme put in that we’re sinking, a ff him, yelling inarticulately. Enderby end every time.’ felt the urgency of his ery and clutched him } Well, I staked all I had t No!” Endert uid with finalit ‘‘What is it?”’ he shouted. ght Enderby iid He | The engineer ¢ ed up at him a mome Hobbs yielded hima single frantic glance. pened,” he u nscious couple 1 ‘ en his aged face became composed. He **Lights to leeward!”’ he bawled. And ll and “Who did i ti t | ed forward ar rig ve can’t launch a boat!” in the girl in the wo demanae the key. All night g, at ‘ ti He sped on, a grotesque flutter of shadow will do t tervals, the improvised wirele n the hefore the gale, o Bu Endert hirled ed Kate teamer sent out its la call: With a stronger step Enderby hastened Be You!” he answe Pe Re tan o. 4 n and up to the bridge, where he was alone. it last ‘And id ‘ e sul R - =e KS * 1 Y oo Tier \ ance told him that the sea anchor still up w bet?” é ent th ough grad ially disintegrating into we did Eleven hundred to one,”” he rey e-twenty-eigl ‘ ENDERBY A : : aes > ts components of broken spars and torr Katl I’ve been talking quite a i In the first da the ef rose and face invas. He peered to leeward. At first he causel that young in there,”’ M pe othing. Then an infinitesimal pincl dassent edge a er in the dark. Ther t ed ve posed It se ne ca ed ‘ f vellow light glowed just above the sea the tirst aboard out f r boat that for it eve \ t N burned out With a quick movement of his arm Enderby gir and from that minute to t} I eep the pp | ert lded and went to the | ri tore a rocket from its case, knocl it haven't had a | word,’ Da the | ! Mende Cap’! he iid through the |} { head against the rail and held it ! Hi pipe is ready and he t it W he ivagel t was goi! } bes went on B meat he ~asse ‘ I asked that new girl a que . ) B f 1 et ‘ } seem he wanted to get a wire to the elt to si Vv tor ! 5 coast ] mat ied ketchin’ the Niag He gazed at he ‘ ‘ » relay it.” “Your luck t ‘ te To a—at didn’t it?” she You a Ye Forbes ad ed. “T re ed n, didn't you— before t was her ma After six years! | t ho answe ler - ; It see too bad,’”’ M ‘ In the chill air of a wet m« ng ‘ eve 1 have felt ‘ wht steame ue the irt I t ! 1 x hat ‘ 1 | lownsend and Ende hook hand t rather bet o And i Capt I he everything?’ I really don’t e this busine cap No,” he said fit [T haven't. | Forbes growled But 3 1 KNOW i! V1 Vol re than I des ‘ ] ! busine We'll lie here for a couple of — it tr ve and to have fa rt irs while I get e oil aboard and send) mine. Kate, I've ed off ull and report to th iston But ears and neve ! | q | f you wo! p 1 won't didn’t mean anything to j I think I | the game,”” Ender! covered that it eans ¢ ’ eplied coldly. I've lost seve et ‘ e me, but I é tely. Thank M Shell for me ) ha I'll arrange in San Francisco for the me Oh, but I do!” she cri 1 officers of the Re te. I reckon breathl | rich enough to pay them off.” \ lo vhnat! ! ‘ Hobb is te g me there 1 mint Love ul” fl coppe n that ‘ ”* Forbe yyeste endert ed his thigl W ul Endert t ‘ | near f t! Glad 1 re ed = main. office f he & ¢ \ me! Ill buy hat I I the inde ‘ the giance el | lor twenty-five ad i! i gt ( d thi ju forr and then give M edye n M r. 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: rn these mills without the need of steam, gas, electricity, wind or water, and divers other nuts whom I shall have to shoo away from our busy midst. “Well, boys, as Julius Cesar tellingly said, ‘Labor verit mensa,’ which means virtue gets its reward. You know I dis- covered Mr. Gay, boys. Years ago when Mr. Gay, then a young man, merely a boy in fact, came into the office where I hap- pened to be at work and set me right on a difficult problem in mathematics with which I was at the moment wrestling, I said then and there, ‘Some day this young gentleman will be head of Steelburg Mills.” Was my prophecy correct? Look at the signature at the bottom of this letter—‘ Wellington Gay, general manager.’ “* And say, boys, aren’t the mills tickled? A man at the heac of them who worked his way up from their own ranks—that’s what they like! Actually I feel sorry for you stiffs when I think what is ahead of you in the way of work. You'll never be able to keep caught up—never! This old dump is going to hum henceforward as it never hummed hencebackward. Mr. Gay will send word to the mills, ‘A little more zip, please,’ and you chaps will have an extra thousand tons or two of steel products to take care of. Cogitate on it. **Oh, the mills are for him! Look how they elected him councilman from this ward, with the whole rotten city-hall bunch fighting him THE SATURDAY EVENING POST WELLINGTON GAY Continued from Page 21 “Well, I can see that the sale of my fur- naces to Steelburg Mills is assured,’’ he laughed as he laid the paper down. ‘For I know the old stub line can be bought it can be bought at a low figure. And if you present your plan for going into the railroad business to your board of directors as you have here presented it to me there will be a transfer of property in short order,”’ Steelburg Mills bought the stub line con- necting Steelburg and Ferro Junction and at the same time took over the Kirk fur- naces. And Wally Gay became manager of the important iron plant that had been est. blished in early days by old Kent Masterson, operated through a long period by Kent Masterson, Jr., and had become the property of Dunwood Masterson, to be sold by him to Stanley Kirk. A few days after the transfer of the prop- erties had been made Wally traveled to Ferro Junction on the hot-metal train. The road had been repaired, in places entirely rebuilt, since that night years before when he had watehed the four huge ladles of hot metal ripping and pouring down the hill- side following the collapse of a bridge. He shuddered as the train passed the spot where the wreck had occurred, where he had found the woman, Nan Sorrel, lying in the road with the red metal washing about her, her face in the yellow clay, her clothing aflame—where he had watched her die. “Suggest something.”’ **Nothing.”’ The two stood watching the new man- ager of the old Masterson iron plant. He was not a great distance from them. They saw him stop and begin examining a loco- motive crane that had been wrecked and cast to one side of the railway tracks. The figure of the man they watched was a striking one—strongly built and powerful, straight and symmetrical; and the face told of unusual strength of character and seen in profile it was singularly attractive The furnace superintendent came up and joined Wally. After a few minutes at the derailed crane they walked away together toward the furnaces. Masterson left the window muttering, “T can’t understand it! I can’t.” Kirk returned to his desk and resumed his work there. For a long while there was silence in the room. Then Masterson spoke: “Stan, there was a man came to me three or four years ago and asked me if I was interested in Wally Gay. A queer- looking fellow he was, too, with his tiny eyes, his enormous nose and an almost com- plete absence of chin. I told him I was interested in Wally Gay ina way. He then asked me if I would like to know where he camefrom. Ianswered him that I would. Then, would I pay for such information? I replied that I would if his demand were “*He said the man who had put it there McKnight, McNutt—I forget which—had told him he put it there. He stated he had once worked for McKnight or McNutt This man is now dead, I have learned, “Then he showed me a page cut from a receiving clerk's book whereon was set down the point of shipment of the car—it was a car of pig iron.” ‘“‘Where was it shipped from?” asked Kirk. “From here—from these furnaces It was while you and I were in partnership a few years before I turned over ever) thing to you.” “Well?” ‘Nothing—that’s all. I paid the fellow and made a memorandum of the data. I have it yet. I tried to procure the papers he held, but he would not surrender them Once afterward when Wally was visiting me I tried to bring up the subject of hi origin, but I failed—something I saw leap into his eyes as I broached the questior warned me to drop it.” “The child could have been placed in the car between here and Steelburg, or even in Steelburg, before the car was shoved into the steel mills’ yards,” said Kirk, turning back to his work. “True—I thought of that. The informa tion the fellow sold me was worthless. But there was a strange coincidence, Stan, that I noticed at the time I wa looking at his papers. The simply because he was de- cent and stood for law en- forcement. Pretty small spuds of the city-hall gang, wasn’t it?--trying to dis- credit him by bringing up the question of his birth, telling it about that he was the son of some old drunken hag that used to be in the bughouse here. But he denied nothing, af- firmed nothing—paid no attention to their mud slinging, and beat them all hollow. Though a good per cent of the mill men ad- mired the morals of the city-hall gang, they stuck by Wally. And he’s getting things done for old Steel- burg too. I noticed a street gang filling in that hog wallow up in front of the Falls House yesterday. What d’ye know about that? “Well, boys, I must hasten to write a letter to Mr. Gay accepting his kind offer. I know he’s in a hurry for me to enter upon my new duties and I know I'm ina hurry. Isn't it so, boys? Labor vextt men jd The growth of Steelburg Mills continued, a steady growth and a very rapid one. Another blast furnace had been erected on the former site of Vinegar Gully; a new steel foundry had gone up and was turning out steel cast- ings; another bar mill had been built; an- other two-vessel Bessemer was blowing steel; andanew Open Hearth was under cor struction. Stanley Kirk’s furnace plant at Ferro Junction was now in reality an ad- junct of Steelburg Mills—the entire output of the furnaces was being purchased by the mills and going there in hot-metal form. Then Stanley Kirk proposed selling his plant to the mills. He went first to Wally Gay to ascertain his views on the subject “If we can procure control of the railway between here and the Junction I will recom- mend the purchase of the furnaces,’’ said Wally. ‘If we cannot buy the railroad we don’t want the furnaces. With the railroad in our possession we can arrange our ship- ments, both incoming and outgoing, in such a manner that we can participate lr the freight charges on every car of material we handle. Look here.” He took paper and pencil and began an arithmetical demonstration that caused his caller, watching the moving pencil, to ex- claim again and again. When the figures were all assembled Kirk took the sheet and studied it for several moments. ‘ ‘I'm —I'm Going!"' He Stammered, and Opened the Door and Slipped Out Was Nan Sorrel his mother? He had no doubt of it. The man Damrosch had never come back bringing the proofs that she was, as he had said he would do, but the few words the woman had spoken just before she died had convinced him. It would take much to shake that conviction. When the train reached the Junction he did not at once go to Kirk’s office, but walked off toward the furnaces. The fur nace superintendent had been to Steelburg that morning to see him and he had told the man he would come to the Junction that afternoon to go over che plant witl him and to get acquainted with a number of the men, United States Senator Dunwood Master- son was with Stanley Kirk in his office that afternoon and from where he sat he saw Wally passing through the yard. He rose and went to a window. ““Come here, Stan,” he said sharply. Kirk joined the senator at the window. ‘Look at him! Do you see it?” “Oh, yes, I have seen it ever since you spoke of it to me.” ‘“*Explain it.” “ort.” reasonable. He said he would fur: with the number and init f which Wally Gay came to Steelburg M with the date ot the cal ar ai there also the point of shipment of the two hundred dollars.” Stanley Kirk had dropped I rk and was listening intently. ‘Well? he Said que tioningly as Ma te ym paused J Wi of cou e i erested, grea terested. I asked the fellow what were proof He aid he had origit ] ape irrying the information he wished to se me So I greed to his proposa He then owed me Nhat i é aid—and I fully accepted his statement a page from a car-record book listing loaded ears received at Steelburg Mill Before one of the number Wa a faded ue pencil cross mark which had been put there by the yardmaster at Stee lburg Mill ne claimed, to mark that car as the one which Wally Gay, the infant, had beer found by Joe Gay. The date of the car arrival was at the top of the page “IT asked him how he knew the cro mark had been put there for that purpose date of the car's arrival at Steelburg was the day fol lowing my wife’s coming here to my house.” Kirk wheeled about sud- denly. “Is that so? And she came at night, didn’t she?” “Vo Kirk sat tapping his hand with his pencil ‘Are you sure "he began, but he did not finish his question, And after a moment's si turned back to his work Masterson rose and went oa window From where he stood the ruins of the old Masterson mansion could he seen, and Kirk stealing a glance at him saw that hi eyes were turned in that again t direction ‘Stan,’ said the senator coming back to his chair ‘I shudder yet, I grow sich at heart whenever I thin! of the awful experience of that poor girl that night Coming here alone, arriv ing at that great gioomy oi on the hill in | house up there j| the middle of the night } ick, frightened half n drowned from her experi ence with the drunken cab man who drove her out fron the city, and then not find me there finding no one but crazy Nar crazier then than she had ever been before. God i e must have suffered! Oh, if L had been at home that night! But I had no ! t of her coming he had not notified ! | no idea of he hereabout I ‘ time I had arrived at the cor he meant to keep! parting me that she would never see ne ' i & told 1, Stan nat a ae it t ‘ ne Va all 1 ne W i ttle ‘ he hard and ugly side of the worl fe ‘ us the da ighter of my teache mathema it college, who died soor after I had finished school. He left he vil! j but quite alone in rie old eye town and we were mart at once started for Eur ype on an extended tour ‘I doubt if there was ever a happier pa han were we two on that long honeymoon of our a we wandered slowly through Europe. Then the sudden ending of that happiness, the awful ending of it—that black day in my life, in New York soon after our return to America, when, in a Continued on Page 122)

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Continued from Page i119 oment of unreasonable, ungovernable inger, anger violent it was all but in- anity, she left me, declaring she would never see me again, I did not believe her, for I knew she loved me as dearly as I loved her, and I sat down and waited and waited for her to come back to me, confident that he would, But I waited in vain e did not come back, and all my searching failed to discover her, failed to uncover the least clew to her whereabouts. Then, months ifterward, I find her dead —dead in my own house here—with crazy Nan Sorrel sitting at the foot of the bed on which she lay, taring at her and muttering and jabbering liotically. It unnerves me, Stan, to recall if all 8s Kirk had abandoned his work and sat th his hands thrust deep into his pockets, And again there was a long period of silence n the room, ‘Why do you suppose he had Nan Sor- Stan! had seen hot-metal e! buried in the Junction cemetery ‘I believe he did it because he her die a horrible death in the pill--his pity was stirred, his sympathy for the unfortunate creature aroused, That I can offer no other ex- imagine no other, You know, the city-hall gang in trying to defeat him in his campaign for councilman spread the report thi it Nan Sorrel was his mother, explains it to me planation, I can but I ‘What?” Masterson’s voice was raised toashout. ‘Absurd! Ridiculous! Idiotic! Why, Stan, I never heard of that—I was in Washington at the time! Tell me ubout it!” “Oh, they did it! It was a monstrous thing to do, but you know that gang. He never made any reference to the charge, poke about it to no one , ignored com- pletely, but I think ‘ The door behind the two men opened und the subject of their conversation tepped into the room, They both started und for an instant surprise and consterna- tion showed on their faces. Then Kirk recovered his composure and spoke, ‘Hello, there! Come in and take posses- on! But, no, I can’t let you do that either—-not for a week yet. I verily believe it will take me that long to get all my personal junk collected and sorted out.” “Take your time,” laughed Wally. ‘Tompkins will keep the furnaces turning out iron, That’s what we're in need of not office room,” M: isterson rose and shook hands, ‘I'm down here bidding Kirk and the old place a fit ‘al good-by,” he said, smiling. “Oh, continue to consider it the old place and come down whenever you feel homesick for the furnace Sometimes vou'll find me loafing about here— Tomp kins will always be here, You know Tomp- kins, don’t you? ‘Oh, dear, yes! I gave Tompkins his first job. I’m glad he } is gone ahead as he ha Ile wi a good boy. ny tog ment ag pn Seegone, Se See for a fe ite TI 1 Kirk a ked, “You gentlemen will excuse me for a little while, will you not. if I cor tinue with my work? I'll be through shortly Masterson and Wally turned to each other and the subject of the old Masterson furnace Vit ntroduced A juestion rose to the exact location of the first charcoal furnace old Kent Masterson had built. “Tompkins has told you wrong,” said Masters “Come with me and .S per i they left the offic ab out and for mer owner out the exact site.”’ Ar ‘Thing } ive greatly cl inged n anaged the plant remarked the for ed by the shrieking and whining of forced through the in their ear ind their feet pulsating to pound of the blo ng engine Steelburg Mill m over tl here since | the better, of the place as they pa tach with the the aur that was too,” towering being and tuyéres with beneath ythmic beat and mai the eart! the i akes a if taking on by group extend great acqul of furnace Your management will plant too?” Yes, it has inction will from now on be Ferro shipping been so decided. our Ur t limes li raw als will « nd all or very nearly all our outgoing ship ments will pass through the Junction. The Midline is in for jolt. They have been gouging us in ways than me Now we hall be independent of them.” ‘Your idea? Largely, I suppose \ good one—a big one inlet and outlet, tone, coal ome thi our materi way, a jolt, a hard more THE SATURDAY Theif way of the old charcoal furnace led them past the ruins of the old stone house on the hill above the roadway, As they returned Masterson paused in front of the place of desolation. ““My grandfather built that house, my father remodeled and enlarged it, and I—I abandoned it to ruin, I must have it pulled down—I really must. I have been intend- ing to do that for a long while.”’ “T clubbed chestnuts from a tree up in that yard once,”’ laughe “dd Wal to the site “You did? From the big tree near the house?”’ “Yes.” “My grandfather planted that tree there. Let us go up and see if it is yet living.” They climbed the weedy terraces and entered the brush-grown yard. ‘There it is!” cried Masterson. ‘And it’s alive yet! Well, well! Many a time did I gather its chestnuts when I was a boy and when I was a man too. I was born in that room up there—that one to the left with the small windows.” i been in it,” said Wally, “T’ve been all through the house. in there once. “What? well as a chestnut stealer? “T was everything a young Gully hoodlum was—worse than them, I’m afraid.” “Did you—did you ever find out anything about your— your parentage, Wally?” = isterson asked the question hesitat- ingly, doubtfully. eT} learned who my mother was, Wally. Then he added quickly, talk about that to no one,” Masterson looked away. ‘I suppose we may as well move on,”’ he said after a moment’s silence. He was turning away when he stopped, ‘‘There’s someone coming out of the house yonder, isn’t there?”’ he asked, A man issued from a doorway in the back portion of the po and walked rapidly across the yard, climbed a fence and disappeared in a thicket of low tree ~ “I think I've seen that man before, said Masterson. ‘‘Oh, now I regall him—-I had some dealings with him once.” **And I too—unpleasant dealings,”’ mut- te red W ally. “I wonder what he is doing her » “I'm going pulled down—at once,” son as the y left the yard, But he didn’t. And the man who had disappeared in the thicket returned to the old house, not only that day but at inter- vals through many months thereafter, smiling. I broke You were a housebreaker as Vinegar most of ” replied “But I building Master- to have the old declared Steelburg Mills prospered, paid huge dividends to the company owning and Op- erating the plant and continued to grow. The new Open Hearth was completed additional acreage had been purchased, adjoining the plant, and engineers were busy there with rod and transit; the stub line running to Ferro Junction had been double-tracked and trains of ore and lime- stone and coal, of billets and bars and rails—all the raw materials used at Steel- burg Mills and all the products of steel made there together with the long drags of huge ladles of hot metal, were night and day rolling up and down the line, And the pillar of tire that marked the location of Steelburg Mills by night was bigger and brighter than it had ever been before, the cloud of smoke that hung over them by day bigger and blacker. And the big city of which Steelburg was a corporate part prospered and continued to grow, climbing toward and past the million mark. And travelers came to the big city in ever-increasing numbers, men running up and down the world on the world’s business, and seeing over in the heavens to the west of the city the red glare at night, the black pall of smoke by day, inquired and learned they were near to Steelburg Mills, the fame of which had already reached their ears, and they came to Steelburg to beg per- mission to go through the huge plant and look upon its thousand wonders. Came to Steelburg in such numbers that Robert Windish, chief guide, who had a desk, and a cuspidor in the big hall just outside the of the general man- ager of Steelburg Mills found. little oppor- tunity to use the desk, the chair or the cuspidor, so busy was he with his duties as chief guide. “What d'ye know about it, Mr. Crit- tenden?” he inquired of the general man- iger's stood before that gentleman's desk one afternoon fanning his a chair office SOC retary as he EVENING POST face with his cap. “This job of mine isn't any pudding with seeded raisins and cin- namon drops in it, I want to inform you! I don’t believe I ever will get caught up with my work—never! Why I'm on the trot, — and go, all the time. Actually, I don’t get a chance to ruminate, me »ditate or canoe a minute—all I do is to ambulate and articulate. What d’ye know about it? “Honest, Mr. Crittenden, there are hours and hours when [ have no oppor- tunity whatever to nibble my plug. For you can’t be shooting the weed, Mr. Crit- tenden, with a bunch of Yale professors or a flock of suffragettes or a covey of high- school flappers gathered about you listen- ing with delighted ears to your elucidations of the mysteries of steel making. It can’t be genteelly done. “What d’ye know about it, Mr. Crit- tenden? Give it a thought. Yesterday morning I entertained the members of the Soap Boilers’ Convention, which is meeting in the big city this week. In the afternoon I had six doctors, four priests and two old- maid fluffs. This morning came those four Japanese students from Tokio Tech, the nine male school-teachers and the old i. A. R. boys. This afternoon I rushed through a herd of scrubs, an Austrian duke and his staff and that bunch of drunken lake captains, You remember them all— you wrote passes for them, What d’ye know about it? “And that’s the way it goes all the time, allthe time. Right now, Mr. Crittenden— and it’s only four o’clock—I feel like I'd been cradling wheat since sunup on a hillside, as they used to do before they got binders down round my old home town Honeyburg on the White Fork, Mr. Crit- te nde n. Isn't it so? “And not only is there my leg work and my larynx work, but my strong-arm work too. You should have glimpsed me playing ping-pong with the two Greiners yesterday, who came to get some back pay they had already drawn once and to start a rough- house. Every day I have to bounce some- thing out the front door. I’m a busy man. And I simply have to take dumb-bell exer- cises every night be ‘fore going to bed to keep my biceps in trim. W hat d’ye know about that, Mr. Crittenden? I tell you I’ve got a job that’s a job! ‘Listen! There’s somebody out in the hall now! I'll bet it’s a bunch of gawkers wanting to wander through the old dump. Tell ‘em the guide’s gone home sick, Mr. Crittenden. Tell ’em four visitors were burned to death in the plant this morning when a ladle of hot stuff tipped over. Tell ‘em anything, Mr, Crittenden, only don't tell em the truth. I'll shuffle out and shoo ‘em in to you. What d’ye know about it?”’ The big city of which Steelburg was a corporate part continued to grow. And it continued to prosper in a way in spite of the debaucheries of the gang that held the city hall and controlled the affairs of the great municipality. Every year saw an increase in the population, an increase in the num- ber of new buildings erected, an increase in the tax rate, an increase in the num- ber of murders, holdups and robberies—an increase in crime of every sort. Crime—crime flaunted itself openly in the stree ts of the big city and went unpun- ished. Crime in all its thousand hideous shapes and forms found in the big city « place of refuge, took its cue from the gang in the city hall and waxed fat. The under- worlds of other big cities heard of its rich pickings, turned to it and there established themselves to ply their trades in safety and security. And the city-hall gang became bolder, grew stronger, more powerful, and stole and grafted and squandered the public moneys until the name of the big city far and wide was a byword and a hissing. And a face- tious councilman introduced a resolution in council that would change the city’s name to that of Crookshaven, But there came a day at last when the decent, law-abiding, law-loving and _ re- spectable citizens of the big city met to- gether in great numbers, forgot politics and political affiliations and began —~y ga campaign that would reéstablish law and orde T. “A big man with a big job, with a bigger job than is the one we will ask him to take in the office of mayor of this city—that is the kind of man we must look for and find,”’ said the chairman of the first meeting of the Civic League. “A man who has handled big business projects, who has shown him- self possessed of executive — whose record as a business man and as a private February 7,1920 individual is absolutely clean and un- smirched. And let him be not an aristo- crat, nota plutocrat, but a man close to the common people.” : “Name him!” someone shouted. “T can’t,” replied the chairman. ‘‘Some- body else name him.” “Wally Gay!” called a voice. There was a moment’s silence. Then somebody in the back part of the hall laughed. ‘And who is Wally Gay?” demanded a college professor who sat on the stage be- hind the chairman, A dozen men in different parts of the house rose to answer the question. And as a result of that and other meetings of the Civic League a committee traveled to Steel- burg one day, to the office of the general manager of Steelburg Mills, to ask Welling- ton Gay to become the le ague ’s candidate for mayor of the big city. “T will give you my answer in three days,”’ he told the committee. It was the morning of the third day and he was in his office alone. A coal fire snapped and crackled in a big brick fire- place in one corner of the room, for it was a chill day in early fall. He stood before the fire gazing at the yellow flames. “T don’t like it,”” he muttered. “But it must be done—someone must do it! Two years—four years away from here! I don’t like it—this is my work! I can’t do it!” He went to his desk, sat down and picked up a pen, but he did not begin to write. The door le sading from his into his sec- retary’s office was open. He heard some- one enter the adjoining room and he heard his secretary say, ‘‘In yonder.” A man entered his office, his het in his hand, a large yellow-paper envelope under his arm. His hair was remarkably curly, his nose was abnormally large and a se rag- gly black beard hid the chin that wasn’t there, Wally Gay raised his eyes from the sheet of paper which he had placed before him. Then he laid down the pen he had picked up and rose from his chair. **So you’ve come back?” The man had not advanced far into the room. He stopped now, gave a quick glance at the open door and shifted the yellow envelope under his arm. _ I ——” he stammered, “What do you want?” ‘I’m not here for what you think I am, Mr. Gay,” he said. “I was lying to you that other time. The old woman was not your mother, but I can now tell you who was—and your father too. And I have the proofs here,” Wally strode across the room, kicked the wooden wedge from beneath the door holding it open, shut it and locked it and drew out the key. The man watched him with scared eyes. “T tell you, Mr, Gay, everything’s all right. You'll be glad to learn what I’ve come here to tell you!” ‘Twice before you have approached me on the subject of my birth, a subject I for- bid any yone to discuss to me or before me “Yes, but this —— “When I finish with you this time you will never come to me again! I told you that last time if you ever, before you had brought me the proof, breathed a word of what you told me —--—-” “But I never did, Mr. Gay, I never did!” broke in the man, He was now thoroughly frightened and he backed away toward the locked door. “Who told the « ity -} woman, Nan Sorrel, did!” ‘I did not! [swear I did not! I swear by all that’s holy I did not!” Some note of sincerity in the voice ar- rested the torrent of anger that started to burst from Wally’s lips and he was silent. ‘I tell you I didn’t!” repeated the man. “T admit that I was lying to you, that I was trying to get money from you that other time, but I never repeated what | said to you then! I was afraid to—I was afraid of you—even if I had wanted to, and I didn’t, because there would have been nothing for me to gain. But what I’ve got here is all right and when you find out that Maste ‘rson is “Masterson is what?” “Your father!” Amazement, bewilderment, incredulity showed in Wally’s eyes as he stared at the face before him. He turned and walked to his chair between the desk and the table and sat down. The man slowly approached the table. Concluded on Page 125) ” all gang that the was my mother? You

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “How do you get that way?” That’s what flashes back from your smoke- appetite when you pass hundreds of men in a day’s doings all aglow with regular jimmy pipe joy! Surenough funny thing how your smokemotor gets to-purring and to-calling and to-yearning when it whiffs some fragrant Prince Albert in the crisp air! And, a sup- ply of P. A. right around the corner! For, Prince Albert has put new and right- keen-edges on smokeappetites and has set up ! speed-stunt-marks for pipes! It has given countless men smokesport that beats any- PRINGE ALBERT thing the cards ever handed out! It will slip you peace and enjoyment beyond anything you ever figured on! That's because P. A. has the quality, and because our exclusive patented process cuts out bite and parch. Forget every pipe experience you ever had that spilled the beans! Start fresh all over again at the beginning with Prince Albert for your particular pal and how you’ll wise up to some news about pipe pleasure that makes that gladsome smokesunshine fairly pop into your smokesection ! the national joy smoke February 7,1920 “opyright 1920 1t nold s Tobacco Co Prince Albert awaits your call everywhere tobacco 1s sold. Toppy red bags, tidy red tins, handsome pound and half pound tin humi- dors—and—that clever, practical pound crystal glass humidor with , sponge moistener top that keeps the tobacco in such perfect condition, R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO. Winston-Salem, N. C. CRIMP CUT LONG BURNING PIPE TOBACCO

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Concluded from Page 122) “Oh, I ear prove it I have all the proof right here,’’ he tapping the “I Incontestable And my mothe who was she?” “Your father’s wife! And I have the proof for that her ” Velow velor neneult envelope, prool el paper knife a pring! yack and forth, it almost to the breaking point. eve t ng illright, Mr Gay say not! I'vespent alot of time and money n ning dowr ar etting these proofs if bu ] ¢ rot everything and the | a consideration.’ ; ke ed a moment, then went or Ye int these paper uve got tohavethem, You'real to elect \ ma of the then the : lot of rotten lies about you—and they're going to do tha i e defeated. Why f the ord gets out now that you are the n_ the ¢ ) ‘ nm, of United State Senate Maste u'll have 1 wa wa MM ‘ ’ popular vi the name Maste i ‘ ele you! The nging bending of the steel blade of the paper knife continued. oN I’m going to be reasonable, Mr. Gay. I’ve spe t of time ard monk on this case d hink ten thousand i. Gan enadk hae f : You're a big , : on he } ¢ ind 1 ve y t ea 1 ua “| We Gay! The word ere iT a low tone f voice Wa } 1 not iken | eyes trom the knife ‘ he Was speaking more All that I have I got as Wellingtot Gay. If I have been successful I attained ontinue , Wi wpe “" ¢ ¢ nable, c le ng the "Cre it f t yur lal ned | fs! Id em! ihe ma é i 1¢ ha raised | eve ‘ " sre I } ‘ } ‘ f t the i] night ‘ | Bad a I A ‘ e ae P t ther nt” vy] e, Mr. Ga I've ent lot {t ‘ y t} thor dowt y ‘ ‘ ] t that t nforr , e proofs, i rth what I’ve a it I , vy the t thre el” eave [ ! j de ry them! And I'll “Do it! There the oT The 1 nt ne ked at the bla } ; , i coal ne ( we you pay a t f **Again I te il nt i hem!’ “Ne ere M (y ] ‘ r to trust to ir gene ind your square ne I | e a square mar n going to ese |} fs and wher 1 see | i ‘ plete the ire With , ent he had jerked the enve f er 1 drawn out a number of pape ! of ther ellow at tained, ar ‘ tl folding Evident] f m arranged in the orade nw h he ( ed to present them, for he t , wr of the pile and hout gla ! ed ut the table t fe ‘ se to the hands tha were ! bending the steel | ¢ of e pape nile ere’ ‘ ? ber and it I the r—P.G.M.67677. Harvey MeNutt ! that blue-per ‘ irk there And there the 1 nt f sh ent of the \ Ferro Junct Mast & K . “Where did 1 yet these heets? de- manded Wall; H eyes had gone no ther th 1tothe printed captions at the tops of the paper “T won't answer your questior I got them—there they are. I once read ar icle by a famous detective, He said al- \ to get the original I got them Now here i omething that verifies that first The steel blade of the paper knife snappe ' and the two pieces tinkled and rattled a they fell from Wally’ and “That? That?” he shouted. ‘You got that? Where—oh, now I remember! THE SATURDAY So you mutilated my, Bible, did you, that red my room at tne Fall you ente fouse? Why, you cur, I'll send you to state’s prison for this! I'll 1 The man fell to trembling, but he broke in on Wally’s speech, “Oh, that doesn’t amount to much,” he aid, and he hurriedly picked up the next paper. **Here’s the big find,”” he wenton rapidly; the biggest find of all by far. I hunted for it off and on for year n the old house before I discovered it it wa tuck away in a hole in a chimney behir loose brick.”’ Wally was not listening to him the poken words were but a mumble of sound n! ear He was staring at the faded lines old Joe Gay had written in his sprawl ng crooked characte ear before l rton Gay. P.G.M 67677” and the month and tl on Gay's coming to Steell Gully Before his eves there tlo: a picture of old Joe Gay, his fo f; drooping from age and long years of toil with his kir dly, weather-beaten face wrin kled and se amed, be nding over this sheet of paper, his big, blunt, lloused wer gripping the pe ut letters of that ni ume up into his throat and cl niy ind he turned a and looked out of the window near hi K. ‘It’s a letter your mother wrote for your father,” the man rattled on “it t nea ever hing, but I’ve got other ] too —a copy of tor’s c¢ ite oft and so forth d quite a time lo« ther On the k of the letter is some t! rold Nan S i set ! mevning about putting you in the r, with the car number and it il It prett hard to read, I knew e old mn had hidde ye Ing n the ! ise pertaining to tl cease, for I talked with her a couple of times, and I kept « eu ng until l found t Now here are some copies of re rds that complete Wit! e meaningle mumble of the vords in | ea Wal le his chair and ed juick to the do VI h he ur locked Take that stuff and get out f here!’ ne ommanded ina ud oct ‘Take it “a except tt this belongs to me! Get out! Get out qu ¥ The man retreated as W vivanced toward . I'm gou * he stammered rake the pape vith 1! lo hell with them! And } itoo! naried the mar ind he opened the door and pped out fs the pus was about. Nobody’s to know ey-nose knows, eh? But I heard the Man sa (if 0 ! so out i vo! See? Liket ' With his left hand Mr. Windish had sud ae eized the man he i ride ed a right hand found a firm grip in the re of e coat ta ind a moveme! throug? ] tow i the entra t ao ‘Ey s ir Jannie! traight ahead!” napped Mr. Windish. And then he added: “‘Dumb-bells certainly keep a fellow in bouncing conditior porme prefer Indian clubs, but bells for me, bells for me! Biff! EVENING POST Bingo! Jannie! There The swinging ¢ 1 als of Janus Damrosch cr: rh) the and shot tl roug 3 the oO Al loors fi lady in black with a T over her head was thrust backward by sudden rush. “Ach!” she er ied, do ew “What d’ye know abot Classy work, el ‘Mine hoosband wailed the come for pay. “Yes,ma’am., stout Just I ! Tha t » Mr. Damr it th: uggested M fo woman, I come for pay. step this t*s hat, ) a | “ ay, he “He ca ma’am, and I'll introduce you to our Mr cashier, sourwine, at ad ye about it? You don’t use I mean co on it, madam, cogitate. Isn't o? Sourwine! Oh, Mr. Sour ef Al see you! What d’ye know about tha Sourwine? Pour your trouble ni window, madam, Mr. Windish walked acro the | his chair, pulled a leaf from the desk vated his feet to it and breathed heavy “It’s a position, not a job!” he dee When the closing door shut the Damrosch from his office W re to his desk. He pulled out a iwe therefrom a small iron box and ope with a key wi he selecte from al a number on aring he « ed } He folded the leaf that had beer t old Joe Gay’ Bible, pu t el the box and locked and re 1 to the drawer, He picked up |} 1 ‘ ‘ fore him and started 1 trembled so f I was almost i ( He ! and tore lp thre eet ¢ V the piece t »a eba es Wandered to the pape tr been left ly ng on hil table He he together vithout wkir it they carried, gathered them up ar toward the epla As |} ‘ to pitch them upon the bla door opened and Crittenden, his s« lo ed i Mr. Maste es to see ud ne him to ne And Wa returned to the t dropped the paper ! penat Master ! ime i » the “Ah, Wally, I've t heard the ful news!”’ he cried, advar tretched hand, a ( i face e hee out of t returning just | t \ neara hat had take | ‘ et I gratulat e ( ‘ 1 acct ed iD t ‘ ‘ ‘ ( } i ) i ri bee pleading h ther ‘ him to heed the « . have no dou ‘ } il to ri " ere I i ‘ f Ll acce | ‘ ind [know i i attacke ! the ! disgusting manne i the ittacked i} t eour mat () yt ‘ ‘ greater lengtl f ur The brought up and used W!

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— ‘A > zs sey \\) \ / -S | . | | Xe ‘\ ‘ t ean SR ~ >) - WS cua N t & ae HENS “es * ONS = AS YOR ; Tag DY . We = SS c Ss 4 = > onderful Slor Y of the Sin (Can L |’ the tin can has been to you a com- mon thing of commonplace think that way of it no longer. sery ice, Think of the tin can for what it rea//y is—a wonder of the times. Think of it as a monument to patient achievement in our personal interests, What a tale it tell! A tale ( ould to compel our respect and whet our appetites. Once this tin can lay inert in the earth in its original elements—had lain there since Time began—awaiting the hand man that should bring it forth, make the metal, give it shape and crown it with great usefulness. sein> <¢. mantle

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. nde whetary ookie, THE SATURDAY EVENING POST And while it thus lay, awaiting its destiny, there likewise lay those other ingredients, from which Nature herself should bring forth the products of garden, orchard and field, so wonderfully nourish- ing and delicious. You Get Choice Foods Because of It What a stimulus to imagination! What a tribute could be written to what Earth holds in trust for her people! How she holds in one hand the secret of the peach, the pineapple, the succulent vegetable ! How she holds in the other the no less wonderful secret of the means that shall carry her bounty to any table—anywhere -any time of the yearf Today, all these ingredients lie dor- mant together. Tomorrow, rising from the earth they meet again, each to triumph in ‘‘the miracle on your table.” The Needs of Your Own Table Developed It But Nature’s triumph means man’s triumph, also. The tin can of commerce was not born in a day nor without great industrial travail. The can making industry in America parallels that of food-canning itself. In the beginning, each canner made his own cans, and a workman in those days could make by hand 150 per day. Today, production of more than Six Billion cans annually for the canned food output of America is significant of the development of the tin can industry, and of the canned food industry, as well, which NATIONAL, makes all these millions upon millions of cans necessary. The imagination is stag- gered by it. supplied, and of individuals served, it is almost beyond belief. Expressed in terms of tables Science Stands Back of It The ‘‘tin’’ can is a steel can, coated with tin. It is a product of scienc e, of sclen- tific research by hundreds who have studied every step of evolution of specialists beginning with analysis of the steel itself. Extraordinary Care Has Surrounded It Kor example, over a period of years, picked men from the laboratories of four great organizations united in the common effort of developing the tin container. These were the laboratories of steel man- ufacturers, tin plate a can manufacturers, and the National Canners Association. Special “‘heats’’ of steel were experimented with, foods packed in the cans produced from the steel, and the results recorded with scientific accu- racy. The thickness of the tin coating became a matter of scientific determi- Methods ousness of joints are subjects of closest nation. of sealing and impervi- scientific scrutiny. Respect the Tin Can As the tin can stands on your grocer’s shelves or on the shelves of your own pantry, this highly specialized little object claims your respect. The tin can unques- tionably is the safest, most practicable and scientific food container that human skill and ingenuity have been able to devise for the benefit of mankind. CANNERS ASSOCIATION WASHINGTON, D. ( +a Pe AS yon Jour A Jable %, =, wedh © > ae “Sate omen Le Mh) } » ie - bao é ana, * wat 7 ys

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peoples are becoming acquainted. I never to his club, Cutty lit his odoriferous pipe dissipate the fancied eyes for the Te discarded the photograp} lt iw a Russian of this type before.” ind patrolied the windows of his study ment of the actual Patti, with blue the f r be lé ha t A leaf in the wt po Anyhow we'll Ever since Kitty’s departure he had beer eyes discarded the photograph and ng th wav and th f , lut eep here unt ne n his feet By mulling over in his mind a plan regarding Sele otner He began the game anew had \ etotl t where he ce tne never inswer iny telephone her future to add a codicil to hi will, and was Just beginning the attack on the to see the photogral r the gree ‘ go anywhere i call—unlk eaving her five thousand a year, so Mo problem uppermost in his mind when the The movements of | hands were 1 are ire of the speaker.” girl might alway) have a dainty frame for phenomenon occurred agalt Kitty's eves! sutomat And { hatract 1 I begin to fee tant ner u isual De ity lhe pity « was that What fernal nonsense! Kitty had served he net ‘ t |} yral Hy You You have id onvention denied him the pleasure of merely to enli his tender recollectior . ne ve eve entured on ; den] hecc g iu betwee! ettling the income upor her at once, while f her mother [wenty-four and fifty-tw It i " is 1 ‘ ia eve t Karlo we wish to pro he wa oung He might outlive her you And yet, hadn't he just read that Maeter fc wed you; tu pe eve | tect. I {1 you out of that never ild te Anyhow, he would see to nek, fifty-six, had married Mademoiselle f fire and geniu It must be und wu j ent when | saw that the codicil accident might step i Dahon, many years younger? that he rare iw the pl pray v! i e bent on remal! g I decided to He got ou chrysoprase In one In a kind of resentful fury he pushed he } ed t r ‘ it wasn'ta imu f ; corner of the room there was a large port ba his chair and fell to pacing, eddie pastime 1 ment elaxa t i ] i jue x4 t | aire the |] Loy ' Wau i i | ‘ ‘ r ] ited ] ird ind ‘ eX] t ! ‘ permitted him t ( ¢ ite upO 1 t ever problen ed | t! ght l " A pure ental that he * night or recalled her a Cor y ul the photograph without | y f | ti f the idle of Two-Haw ‘ | the mental pre ire i ! yl ( tat ned it t { tol i Good Lord!” he ¢ ilated He seized the photograph ¢ ‘ t ering the gree ‘ e!, The ( i the ¢ na ng ira via hed fron oe t the heigl f he fame. thirt 1 ve F ‘ Hawks! Cutt } t the at I i with 1 M ibou ! | lawks! He re ‘ vive ‘ we she Leen at guarded he the bheaked ( id dete ‘ me begga \ And t pw ‘ ' Yeste } ed ‘ ‘ { ( ! ! j ‘ ereyve : xIV JOR e t perf Ftc 7 | i ‘ r ‘ ‘ tre iv i } ‘ a BT i ‘ WV ‘ ‘J } +} + : f ‘ t eT t t tft ‘ the ire \ ( 0 ting \I f elf kK Inste f t t ‘ t { (ut ‘ ‘ ; ithe } 4 f P ;, ° a. q eve , “ ‘ r i the ‘ { fj a Hi Hawt I tell 1v eit Wa it I pre ‘ ‘ } Stefani Gregor in His Dark Room Cried Piteously P <sre gor And in the m« -\ sepals dapat ‘ for Water—Water—Water! : easelessi inder gu ! you are ar et ( Kitty, to whicheve le holds you. Cay } tain Ha on Is ¢ gy to stay lor dinner " { W t l 4 ‘ ‘ I’m g rtoastudio potiuck with some twe e-by-fourtes net phot rap! of entered ul the ( o he mig r t { “t vour Tony Bernini know. Home prob- beauties of bygone years. The one on top in the twilight. By a he laugh De , f it ter ha ned to be Patt The ad tole ind the atmosphere menta eared f f } Cutty went with her to the elevator and Patti! Linda, Violetta, Lucia Maeterlinck, fift iCut fifty-t Aa : y ne e returne to the tea tabie ne t L i what i nigt paic he had et ! were two different mer Cutt might x ! vn wit! it speat y He iughed " the photograpn or ne his metap! ) na but he wasnt } ‘ ; Wh not Kidnap f oursell if le 1 dippe ! nana to a i going to mix! gi? t | [ gested Harrison, f yu don’t want her bag filled with polished greet mes which He returned to } ngular game More ‘ ‘ t = A ld nave great comme! il ilue f t ra and ecRKiace I i ! ora I ‘ ' She would never forgive me.” people knew more about them; for nothing firm hold of the theme which had ‘ | - {f she found it l ist n the worid quite ) eautilu beginning lured him to the gree tone She the kind who would. What do — gree T'wo-Haw! That name bothered hi he 1 th of her, Miss Frances?” He buil tras above the lovely head and He knew he had heard it before, but \ ( I think he is wondertu Frankl I sid ne¢ wes across the marve is throat never in the Ru in tongue It might be I ‘ lid. te her everything f there is any sudadeni i phenome n took place The that the naj had bee I hing Kitt ‘ | \ f thing more to be told roguish eves of the prima donna receded Still, he had also called hit elf Hawksle { ‘ f When dinner was over the nurse gone and vanished and siate jue one replaced ne moke thickened there were ire i ( ! back to the patient a 1 ( n Harrisor them. The odd part of it was, he could yt quent flare f matche Onet e Cutt Continued on Page 133

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130 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST @ * (7 fit wi GD WON'T WARP- WON'T SHRINK WON'T BURN « : — TROCK gives you a “ a AJ stundard permanent wall or ceiling, factory cast in unit form, and factory finished in workmanship. Sheets of genuine gypsum rock, ceiling -high and protectively coated, Sheetrock has stability and permanence Lhe joining edges of the sheets have the l SY. G. Patented Reinforcement. Sheetrock pre- sents a flat surface of mono- lithic evenness. Dry, clean, impervious to cold and highly resistive to fre, Sheetrock is an assurance of comfort and safety Lending itself to any decora- five treatment — paper, paint, panels or calcimine, Sheetrock always is in keeping with the room in which it is used Jy February 7,1920 F you are planning alterations in your home — putting up a new partition, say; or turning that attic space into a play- room for the children— you ought to know about Sheetrock. Sheetrock is a wall and ceiling material in unit form. It has all the economy and conven- iences of the usual wallboard, and possesses in addition certain qualities of body and looks and fire-resistiveness that no other can give. It comes in broad, firm sheets of pure gypsum, sheathed in a heavy, protective coating. It can be cut, sawed, and nailed. Full-bodied, it has a firm stability, yet 1s easily US

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; THE SATURDAY EVENING POST PAINTING Rigid, compact, and clean, Sheetrock is easily handled. Anyone can cut it, fit it, and apply it. Sheetrock can be painted, papered, tinted, cal- cimined or paneled to suit your preference and to agree with the character of the room. handled, and anyone can apply it quickly. Sheetrock can be papered, tinted, painted or paneled, as you prefer. Where you want an uninterrupted flat wall, it requires no panels. You may use it as it comes from the factory, in its finish of soft, mist gray. A wall of Sheetrock will never warp nor buckle. It will neither expand nor shrink. It offers no lodging for dirt or vermin. It is sound-proof, sanitary, and non-burning. For Sheetrock is a sheet of gypsum rock— the natural mural coating known and un- excelled throughout the ages. PANELED Gypsum, as you know, is a fire-proof, clean, and durable rock. Sheetrock is a standard, factory-made preduct of gypsum, with U. S. G. Patented Reinforcement at the joining edges to insure perfect union and unusual nailing strength. It is constant in quality, uniformly gauged in thickness, and uniformly even in surface. Your lumber dealer, or your dealer in builders’ supplies, will tell you more about the special values of Sheetrock and supply you with any desired quantity. UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY General Offices, Chica PAPERED

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WON'T WARP WON'T SHRINK WON'T BURN pre TROCK gives you a A standard permanent wall or ceiling, factory cast in unit form, and factory finished in workmanship. Sheets of genuine ¢ vPsum roi k, ct ‘ling -high and protective ly coated, Sheetrock has stability and permanence. The joining edges of the sheets have the l’. S. G. Patented Reinforcement. Sheetrock pre- sents a flat surface of mono lithic evenness. Dry, clean, impervious to cold and highly resistive to fre, Sheetrock is an assurance of comfort and safety Lending itself to any decora- tive treatment — paper, paint, panels or calcimine, Sheetrock always is in keeping with the room in which it is used THE SATURDAY EVENING POST \ February 7,1920 F you are planning alterations in your home — putting up a new partition, say; or turning that attic space into a play- room for the children— you ought to know about Sheetrock. Sheetrock is a wall and ceiling material in unit form. It has all the economy and conven- iences of the usual wallboard, and possesses in addition certain qualities of body and looks and fire-resistiveness that no other can give. It comes in broad, firm sheets of pure gypsum, sheathed in a heavy, protective coating. It can be cut, sawed, and nailed. Full-bodied, it has a firm stability, yet is easily US

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST PAINTING Rigid, compact, and clean, Sheetrock is easily handled Anyone can cut it, fit it, and apply it. sheetrock can be painted, papered, tinted, cal- cimined or paneled to suit your preference and to agree with the character of the room. handled, and anyone can apply it quickly. Sheetrock can be papered, tinted, painted or paneled, as you prefer. Where you want an uninterrupted flat wall, it requires no panels. You may use it as it comes from the factory, in its finish of soft, mist gray. A wall of Sheetrock will never warp nor buckle. It will neither expand nor shrink. It offers no lodging for dirt or vermin. It is sound-proof, sanitary, and non-burning. For Sheetrock is a sheet of gypsum rock— the natural mural coating known and un- excelled throughout the ages. PANELED Gypsum, as you know, is a fire-proof, clean, and durable rock. Sheetrock is a standard, factory-made preduct of gypsum, with U. S. G. Patented Reinforcement at the joining edges to insure perfect union and unusual nailing strength. It is constant in quality, uniformly gauged in thickness, and uniformly even in surface. Your lumber dealer, or your dealer in builders’ supplies, will tell you more about the special values of Sheetrock and supply you with any desired quantity. UNITED STATES GYPSUM COMPANY General Offices, Chicago LO PAPERED

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132 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7,1920 - ¥ ashing Machine Electric 30% i, Can You Keep Fnough Clean Clothes for the Children ? HE THOR Electric Washing Machine has solved for the modern Mother the problem of keeping enough clean clothes to dress the children as many times a day as may be necessary. The loyalty and enthusiasm of the Hurley dealer and the exceptional service that he has rendered to the community for over 14 years have shown the present day woman how much her work may be less ened and how much money she can save by the use of a THOR. Your THOR dealer is ready to show you. Each week this electric servant does the washing in nearly half a million homes. It takes only an hour and costs 3 cents for the electricity. $10 a Month Buys a Thor You can purchase a THOR from any Hurley dealer by paying only a small amount down and the balance in easy monthly payments. The THOR has enclosed gears; the atalog, which takes the strain off the motor; the revolving wooden cevlinder, which need not be lifted out because the THOR is self-cleanable—and every feature for the ife and efficient washing of clothes. Write to us at Chicago, New York, San Francisco or loronto It will be a pleasure to mail you our catalog and the name of the nearest dealer ' . ‘ ; English office: Other products of the Hurley Machine Company are the THOR Electric Vacuum Cleaner and the THOR Electric Ironer Y 70 New Bond St., London Chicago ~~, NEw York Yan Francisco ~~» ‘Toronto HURLEY OWachineSCompany

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Ste (Continued from Page 129) hope was there Only one the rich fiery blood of t ian mot fr. But why hap come to America? Why not xr the Riviera, where f it rank, ever prerogatives, is till treated respectfully? But America! Cutty’s head went up. Perhaps that wa t—to barter his phantom greatness for noney, to dazzle some rich fool of an Amer- Karlovy would b 1oment. The chap ey of some kind ng. The moment e essentia he deserts, river ul! | eas, he f ied historical, of and Two-Hawks in fancy, pur placable hatred, m which the lad was I stract object. stood Karlov now » reenergizing | by an im he re was evidel! Two-Hawks’ blood have carried h whispered, bent his he would have so then, there was res¢ And he lay in yonder room, beaten courage and penniless. The top piece in the grim irony —to have come all these thousands of miles unscathed, to be dropped at the go But America? Well, tl would be lved later By the Lord Harry!” Cutty stopped ind struck h hands together The drums!” name Stefani Gregor a lea had taker lodgment, an irrepressible idea, that some- where in this drar vould be the drums of : ’ NI - y ‘et i an\ do ibt cent emeral The mob r- ing o7 the doors, wha A d } ( been Two-Hawks’ most natural first thought? To gather what treasur the hand could be laid ind fle Here in New York, and Karl hands, ultimately to be it up for Solshevik pity of it! propaganda. The infernal e drama é e, man’s game; sport! ( rubbed his hands together pleasurably. To recover those green flames before the ld be br p; under the ancient could be The thought of tho parable distressed him profour pbetore t emeralds OLE act at could be co once, summatec Hawksley her ; convenience— | gems; but what of th: gling them in—and how he done it?—he had thrown away his legal right to them Cutty kneaded his conscience into a satisfactory con- dition of quiescer e and his planning. If he su covering the stones and a little too deeply bit why, he could pay ove twenty per cert ol the I demanded. He could tal it. In a case like tl without depender object. All his life he | " ; | fine emerald to play, w | was an opportunity to acquire two! | . . . , , } If this plan failed to draw Karlovy : | into the open, then eve jeweler and | | ld be notified pawnbroker in town wou and warned. What with the secret- | ervice operatives and the agents of } the Department of Justice atch for K | ‘ l nize his limitation y reasonable to assume that the ' to dicker f mol oO oO >? O18 vik would be only too glad secretly for the di posal of the Now to work. Cutty lool watch. Nearly midnight late, but he knew all the tric’:s of this THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 13. nd of game. If the advertise- peared isolated, a he better | job would be to hide his identity way round tl difficulty He yte out six advertisements, all worded He figured out the cost d ighted to find that he « and was arried the ne ary currency Then he got into his ¢ a ingarees, touch 1 ip I I « i i hands to the required grimines allied for Luck attended him until he reached the last morning newspaper o1 fhe H ne risky busines A queer advertisement coming into the city room late at nignt was ulWays pried into, as he ew from exper! ence » , he feit that he mught t to miss any chance to reach Karlo He explained his business to the sleepy gate bo who carried the advertisement and the cash to the night city editor lesk. Ordinarily the night city editor would have returned the advertisement with the crisp had no authority to 1ccep the “‘drum of jeopardy” caught his attention; and he ta Keen glance across the bu room to the rail where Cutty ood, perhaps cor cuously Hut ph! He calles re- porters. “This loo ; { I , OW t! i 4 nt ce Cutty appre ited he inte lade ior Vhat it Was wort! Someone was going to i »w him When the gate bo eturned to notify him that the advertisement had t accepted, Cutt went do to the ect He there; ju 4 mo !”’ hailed tout that ad t t Cu in du indst | ud lor it, did A? ure Ww l ! ! r . i i 4 reat eme is J I i l ‘ explained Cutty recalling nal ) ( } tood on London Bridge and ped a | | ‘ f overeigns at two $s eacn id »>b ‘ | Liv i t “Can it Can it!"’ jeered the reporter t I i t t ) mt Be a good spor ind give he t | lose SUrike Ca among the yengu ti ’ ‘I'm tel ny OU : { ‘ ] ad ‘Like Mike du are! i { * All right i he word to i 1 irface line \ ir i wa ’ t Now, get t’ hell out o' here befor I ’ d you one on the jaw! orter baci lawa I i WW | the level? Call up the barns and f 1out it i ( tell you what's or And liste if vo To lowme, I'll break your id. On yo ! \ Che reporter dashed for the « i N i } ind back to the doorway t e to see I i I Cutty legging it for the Sul \ ‘ N Was a reporter of the first class he managed I i to catch the same expre wr 1 | le j On the way uptown Cutty cor lered that he had accomplished a shrewd bit of Gee! H ] | en |} Wore Karloy or one ot t ay 1 Wou | ( “ud certainly see that advertisement ind evel! l I ‘ } col if Karlov suspected a Federal trap he would — { ( } find some mear f communicating with W ( kee { he ler of the adve ment i e re er d Che thought of Kitty returned. W Ye-a it the K ind the dicker would é iy ho yuld she ! AT when she learned tl Haw t | t t el was? He fervent hoped tha he had | n " t off th yl never read Thac of Wa \ Phe i ed elt the would be all the rence i e word 1 ( to ( ! | t tween an ¢ gan iyo Po ind a dere (ia ) lict of the Russian autocra Perha [he ‘ i f by best course to p i i t ep of thet nothing at al rs ier about tht i ! t a lot t ! s! discovery I ed ea ‘ l ha tu Upon leas | ( treet-railw es and poet ‘Bob, I’ve been f ed irp rhe ele man and the « nee ere cahoot Chere ] puzzler. He char | ‘ 1 if il ! ! ! ‘ I i i po I the 1 | i lL) ( ' thi +} : ented card t ! cley At the | if | ‘ t ! e of the chief of ti } State ‘ ‘ ‘ | : rs j ies rage ' Unde Ab ite fet? When ther ) ble a | , j “? | ( edit i j i He t | h the | ] tr l V { ! i | xV RrARL1 he next | 4 rool ! ' i hifteer ( i oor ? | ( {) i ) t rai t ‘ ‘ | | ; He hunte I t it ta ‘ thre place a 7 ‘ His | “ i } | } ‘ . \ ‘ ‘ t ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ I i ‘ { ! t » the ‘ * ' ‘ ad Curier” » * ! ¢ t hie ‘ {M ” ‘ € ¢ ‘ f the ed ’ | 7. flat bole iff, Hence, the “You Can't Know, Cutty, What it is to be Poor and Want Beautiful Things and Good Times" Continued on Page 137

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44 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7,1920 Only the Essex Shares —~ They Show Why Essex Went 3,037 Miles in Fifty Hours Not Only in Speed and Endurance, But in Finish and Modernity the Resemblance is Clear A critical public has judged the Essex. In the year past it set a world’s sales record. More than $35,000,000 was paid for 22,000 Essex cars now in service. That shows how men wanted what Essex offered. Now Essex proves the accuracy of motordom’s judgment. Let the official tests speak: On the Cincinnati Speedway a stock chassis Essex made a new world mark of 3037 miles in 50 hours, under observation of the American Automobile Association. With other trials the same Essex ran a total of 5870 miles in 94 hours, 22 minutes driving time, averaging over a mile a minute. Still another Essex phaeton holds the world’s 24-hour road mark of 1061 miles made in the face of a blizzard over snow- covered Iowa country roads. The Essex of course does not cost as tom much as the Hudson nor can it ever be all the Super-Six is; for they are totally different types. But note the advantages Essex shares with Hudson. Both Have This Motor Heat Control For instance, the radiator shutters by which efficient operating heat is main tained in coldest weather. They mean everything to satisfactory winter driving. Closed, they keep the heat in. No unsightly hood covers are needed. They give summer efficiency to gasoline. They end hard starting. And in warm weather, opened, they give the maximum cooling. When you know the Essex you will want one. But you should place your order in advance if you would avoid disappointment in delivery. 1 gwatie ee we ee ¥ lal we ne ee ~ ¥ . PE, * * a ~s . RS ¥* wv w = i “e , , - - WV NNN HK NV KOON VPRO VN OUR WL KO NAIR ORNVVWRW HNO CNV NY VVNR ORV V x » ' ‘ " ’ va » . ‘ oe tae ee tae ae to ce a ~~. ids “al. ay

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 135 - These Hudson Qualities What Car Rivals the Hudson Super-Six ? Its Exclusive Motor Gives it Performance Leader- ship. And Hudson is Creator of Motor Style What can any fine car give to compensate It is a creator of coach design. Not only for lack of the Super-Six motor? It is exclusive in Hudson. And for five years it has meant unquestioned performance supremacy. In speed—in acceleration—in hill-climbing in endurance—no stock car ever matched Hudson’s famous records. The Super-Six motor reduced vibration more than any other type. It checked the most destructive force automobiles must con- tend with. It added 72°, to power, and almost doubledefficiency. It accounts for all Hudson’s supreme records. And it made the Super- Six the largest-selling fine car in the world. Siuadeon ei ii F Weigh the facts. re Supreme m Motor What can any fine car give to compensate Mi and in Design for lack of the Super-Six motor? But performance is not Hudson’s only title to leadership. From the first it has set styles that the motor industry accepts. America but Europe reveals its influence in motor style. Models that are now standard with all fine cars were first introduced by the Hudson Super-Six. Eighty thousand Super-Six owners place Hudson endurance above all its other notable qualities. For durability must always be the most important car advantage. The Super-Six motor has proved the domi nant factor in car endurance. None except Hudson can use it. If you would own all the supreme advantages of speed, power, acceleration, plus endurance, for which the Super-Six motor accounts, you must choose

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IN THE DINING ROOM are enjoyable hours of home life, providing for the table serious problem. one-half of $3 spent Most all of your food is bought direct in the SPRINC THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Thousands of merchants, recognizing this direct financial relationship between their scales and your pocketbook, advertise by signs conspicuously displayed in their shops that they protect their customers by using Toledo Scales—No Springs— Honest Weight. Have you ever known of a met chant advertising that he used spring scale s? Toledo Springless Automatic Scales are Toledo Scale Company, Toledo, Ohio Canadian Factory, Windsor, Ontario Largest Automatic Scale Manufacturers in the World is e Stat i xt e cities in the Unit Othe n thirty -fou reign countries 1 States February 7,/920 Gs oo mp oe Gi Oo ED 0-0 oD OO ED OO GH 00 oD OO Gi OO TD OO OO TD OO OS oO DD oe Ge oe 13 oe GI Oe built on the pendulum principle, measuring gravity with gravity itself. They are universally recognized as the scales which give an exactly measured square deal on both sides of the counter. There are more than one hundred styles and sizes of Toledo Scales to weigh every- thing from an ounce of spice to thirty tons of steel—scales for stores, offices, shipping rooms, warehouses, mills and factories. et P ro * HONEST WEIGHT

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ch puzzle the average intelligent Amer- an citizen. Wha ta thout? Nobody eems to Kno : Once ‘ ‘ en went on a strike because ere eing chea ed and abused. they s Ke on the principie that it is excellent policy always to be de manding something; it keeps capitalism where it belongs mm the ragged edge of ngs No matter what they demand they never expect to give an equivalent; la just cause isn’t nece Thus the nt-day agitator has only one perplex that of eluding the iron hand of the Department of Justice.

prese Suddenly the man in the chair brought the newspaper close up and stared. He jumped to } feet, ran out and up the next flight of stairs He stor ped before a door and turned the knob a certain number of times Present y the door opened the bar est crack; then it was swung wide enough

to admit the tor. “ gr? 3 ] . T Look he v pered, indicating Cut- tv's advertisement The occupant of the room snatched the ne paper 1 « é to a Window “W purchase the drums of Jeopardy) i t } } « Wu ) A ed dit +} Hee Dor LE ( \ | t We , ¢ he ac ed drut to t! yentlemat Se ther B mbecile! What Ce? t ce to find it ’ tr i lr he end ne may ead us to/ ** Leave ! t me. Y i ‘ row 10 i I) i et il vyho harb< the drut The f I wa ) Cre me i the I ea ertise nd a lette ‘ ¢ \ eare \ ! t et , r} M esome. Id I na ive } e muchtodo ‘ ol come ( y K } | or tr yn tne room , cked a ed the do He stepped n at the « r of pushea drays, 1 ind hur n beings that tried to go forward and got forward or by moving idewa ‘ orming through tempor 4 ¢ he eld directly the way of hu u B ere as no object le on in | for Kar ho was not philosophi 1 the pe ilia ense of one Vho was emanding i reason f ‘ thing and nding allego d comparist ind alu ’ he el te ep , ‘ , ophica ften ? plied to the ul kK Va i not a pt SOP PSP] obse he iea of ‘ nd let ive has never been the propaganda of the arch Teo the narel he dea | me oO or the de n of something 1s the rnerstone ! ! Not y wou er cure man ot! yhse y the eath of Ha ey and the DOSSE mm he emerald Moreove there was the fanatica elief in ] poor rdered | ill theaccomplishment of hese oO ect iid eventua 1 t r ‘ bera ” mal nd Abr ma inning in | methods of approact € icked those imaginative ules Db niet e weig , ect nd which we call ‘ A cl j e in a house ha box tche dog on one e of Fifth \ etha et 1og ‘ ‘ le, b t the aut ‘ re yr ‘ writ ble f ‘ } ng up and dow e middle of } yhfare It no +} l to pr phe Vv hat g ng to! i} « to tnat er i, that dog Kar Va t this moment reaching out Varad t rt t ippe had not een fou not beer ind it the two en gz g them juuld not have r ed certain death by

ying to do a lit bargaining on their own itiative. In the first instance they had come forth empty-handed. In the second : , instance—that of intimidating the giri to

THE SATURDAY disclose his whereabou ! nor Stemmler had returned man in the dress suit again? Conceivably, then, the drums were in the possession of this girl; and she was holding them against the day when the fugitive i reclaim them. The advertisement are. Very good. Two could play that game as well as one. The girl. Was it not always so? That

breed! God’s curse on them all! A crooked finger, and the women followed, hypnotized. The girl was away from the apartment the major part of the day; so it was in order to search her rooms A pretty little fool. But where were they hiding him? ll and wormwood! That he should slip through Boris Karlov’s fingers, after all tortuous windings across the worl

Patience Sooner or later the girl would lead the way. Still, patience was a galling hobble when he had so little time, when even now they might be hunting him Bori Karlov had left New York rather well known. He expanded under this thought For

the spiritual breath of life to the anarch is fl y, attention Had the newspape ignored Trotzky’s advent into Russia, had they omitted the daily chronicle of his a ties, the Russian problem would not be so large as it this day. Trotzky would hay wgrin, : this advertisement. t one himself rhe

man who eventually came to negotia ould be made a prisoner and forced to disclose the ident ty of the man who had at projects of Bori

K v, ; the red government of Russia Midtown, Cutty tapped his breakfast extraordinary for

end a SecTe ‘ ice Operallve ) the ma f Karlov decided to ne St thin |} rights, he could er operative to conduct the nego If in the end Karlov strayed into the use of the service for private ends would be justified. Lord, those gree? stones! Well, why not? Something in the world worth a haz ard. W had |

obliquely an irre Vant questlor Suppo ing, in the old days, he had proceeded to reach for Molly as he was now reaching for the emeralds—-a bit lawlessly? After al these years, to have such a thought strike him! Hadn’t he stepped aside mee} for Conover? Hadn't he observed and en 1 Conover’s dazzling assault? Suppo gy N Nad beet ivering ind ! to have thought of that before! What did a womal Nal A love YY and ther an ¢ ile ilter n \l t nad taker m twenty-odd y¢ oO! e Ul ( cove Fact. He had never bee I f mer He had ne preferred to play cor rade instead oj yallant; ind ali the ne had taken advantage of that, u ed him ca lou y to pall h old maid jaded W t and homely debutante What impeller Vas dl g ! te 1 these introgpections? Kitt Mo girl Each time he sa her or thought of her the uninvited ghost f her mother Ay other man upon seeing Kitty or thinking about her would have jumpe nto the fu ture from the spring of a dream. The d parity ir eal ould not have mattered. it was all nonsense, of course. But for } aropping into the ftlice and ca lly | } ng up the read ot} qua ince ! sie Dieliv—the memory'el her—would e gone on dimming Actio tremer is and world ade, nad s¢ ! \ nt ward the future he had been too bu to iste time in retrospection and introspec- tion. Thus, instead of a gently rising and falling tide, healthily recurrent, a flood of mixed longings that was swirling him into incertain dept Those emeralds had bobbed up just in time. The chase would serve to pull him out of thi bog He heard a footstep and looked up. The nurse was beckoning to him, “What is it?”’ EVENING POST eyes | hi “Great! Has he talke ; t

‘No. The awakening happened just ( this moment, and I came to you. You er never can tell about blows on the skull or had brain fever—never any two cases alike.”’ Phadd Cutty threw d his naph 1 accon be. He panied the nurse to the bedside. The Lice that ct of the patient trailed from Cutty to the t nurse and bacl meddle “Don’t talk,” said Cutty. “D \ Her se any questior Take it easy ut ite t the day You are in the hand TI per r He who wish you wel Kat what ‘ inst nex} gives you When the right me ‘ ture we'll tell you a about ourselve \ i ve ot tt been robbed and beater But the: ho That did it are under arrest.’ is née “One question aid the pat eakly Wa ! “Well, just one a nture “ A girl—who gave me something toeat?” . ‘ “Yes. She fed you, and later pr ib rent ! saved your life.”’ { ( “ Thanks.” Hawksley closed ! eye M Cutty and the nurse watched him int have estedly for afew minutes; but as hed again the nurse took up her temps rs heet and Cutty returned to } eps I ‘

ds, no intere i he day and ‘ { Was there a girl? The last pe | he Nad seen, Kitty the first question, af { coming into the light Had he eer Then and there Cutty knew that when he me \ died he would carry into the Bi his earthly possessions—a chuckle. H man beings! ? that reporter had n ed i } page, eight-columr head! But he had missed it, and that was t} ma ‘ thing. The poor devil! Beaten and wit lds out a sou marque in his pockets, ! t was likely to be crowded without the a ne sistance of any newspaper publicity Bu what a yi ! What a whal fayarn! Cl In hi fevered flight Hawkslk had ere spoken of having paid Kitty for that 1 i I Kitty had said nothing about Posing es lephone, air,” announced “Lady.” Molly's girl! Cutty sprinted t phone. “Hello! That K “Yes. How John 'wo-Ha

“Back to earth.” Wi “When can I see hi I 1 Vi to know what the ! } oe y the third « f h dav f ther Has he talked?” | Not permitted r ( stay the run of your lease Cu 1 a laugh All rig Or 1} never have cause to regre ! Fiddlesticks! All I’ve ¢ ) danger is to pre bt t ! here’s Bernir Kitty, did H mea as “(Good heave ! \ ‘ ask that ( In his delirium he spoke I L ia \ ( gan to ij ga ! » t e a da ay re t , £0 out nights “I'll be good,” K yres ‘ must hie me to the gine, : Writing persona ‘ { ‘ gabfe ting wit! B $ ‘ while my brain |} th fair! ‘ eit room r } e. Cut f out that I held ba I vould: t be fair t | | 1] Cutty, did you kt t Ky ¢ ( ims of jeopard ire ne Ne } *“Somebod Ile ny } The in adve ! ul nori x ( ‘Ye and two make lou I Dizz Cut hung u had not re ned l Kitt eeing tl damf ‘ Two and two made f i i four made eight yn indefir to sa K tly airea ne t tartling truth. The initial 1 part had been made upon her | ment of the name Stefar Crregor He hadn’t been able to contr ! rprise Airt I ‘ t r t if j nha ( he } ‘ he might « i f War WW ; ! ~ vr ‘ Vi k ( ‘ } il lt ( n ‘ 1 ou f t b lre ‘ Hf { ‘ ! Hl ‘ I] \ \\ Me \ Continued on Page 141

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Over 800,000 A liner Typ writ ata Farr Pri Sold THE ROLL THAT HONORS Just a few of the great concerns that use THE OLIVER the Oliver Hose THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7,1920 crureo ev or Typewriter ©O- me ONT ene andoiled 9 manure ee Keep Machine cle pes alone for the exceptional care that marks its manufac- 1 N ture, but for its exclusive features of design, the Oliver occupies a position of distinction in the typewriter world. It is the Oliver alone that offers that great advantage—an arch-shaped typebar, with the natural downward printing stroke. This construction insures permanent alignment, gives a lighter touch and brings clearer impressions. And last but not least, it adds to the fame of the Oliver for durability. No buyer, whether he is figuring on one or one hundred typewriters, should decide which is the best until he has in- vestigated the Oliver. Comparisons will emphasize the desir- ability of the Oliver regardless of the $43 saving.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 139 VE The $100 Oliver now only $57 Free trial. No money down. If you decide to keep it, pay only $3 a month

Fill out and mail the coupon— NOW. Get a new Oliver for tive days’ free trial in your own home or ottice. Send no money with the coupon. Make no deposit. This is a real free trial, entirely at our risk and expense. Put It to Every Test Use the Oliver for five days as if it were your own. Put it to every test, to every comparison. Satisfy yourself that if any typewriter is worth $100 it is this superb Oliver with all its modern improvements. If for any reason you decide that you don’t want to keep the Oliver, just send it back at our expense (express collect). We even refund the outgoing transportation charges. So you can’t lose a cent on the free trial. If you agree that it is the finest typewriter regardless of price and want to keep it, pay for tt in easy monthly installments —only $3 a month. SAVE *43 A Saving of $43 This is the identical Oliver for- merly priced at $100. Itisour latest and best model. We are able to sell it now at $57 because of our radically new and economical method of distribution. During the war we learned many lessons. We found that it was un- necessary to have such a vast num- ber of traveling salesmen and so many expensive branch houses throughout the country. We were able to discontinue many other su- perfluous sales methods. As a result we were able to re- duce the price of the Oliver to $57 And the steadily growing volume of Oliver sales enables us to keep to this low price in the face of con- stantly increasing manufacturing costs. Only 10c a Day You may pay for the Oliver on easy terms—only $3 a month, which averages about 10c¢ a day. \ And you have the use of the ma Don’t think of renting or buying a second-hand chine while paying. machine when it is so easy to own a new Oliver. Mail the Coupon Now It is surprisingly easy to learn to operate the Oliver. You have but to use the machine a few days to prove this. And this you can do on our free trial plan. Mail the coupon now and get the Oliver for five days’ free trial. If you wish further information before order- ing, just mark the coupon for our? free catalog. Clip the coupon now ~before you forget. Canadian Price, $72 The Oliver Typewriter Company 1012 Oliver Typewriter Bldg., Chicago, Ill. THE OLIVER TYPEWRITER CO 1012 Oliver Typewriter Bldg., Chicago, ill Nume Street Addre City State Occupation or Business P< eS ew ee eee eee eee eK

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7,1920 a — T ] ———— , —— ‘ = Malay /} SLT Yi i ii &. a 6 UU} }} // wh” ji/ i] pr —_ THE FAITH OF THIS MAN STOOD BEHIND THE EARLIEST ACHIEVE: -| MENT OF C-E-BILLINGS WHO FOUNDED THE BILLINGS & SPENCER | COMPANY OF HARTFORD THE FIRST COMMERCIAL DROP FORGING PLANT IN AMERICA _~_™ = - = ~ — —— ~~ } —~ =S — Wr.) — = ——— — = —— — C j) SS read peep — wie .

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Continued from Page 137 who knew all about life, the trivial courtesies a younger man generally got; the moving of chairs, the holding wraps; the gray hairs which served to \ ust and conf which lulled e eternal feminine fez he male. To e older women no youth but a man of discs rnment, ion, wit and ss fancy and daring, who remembered birth- dence, days husbands forgot, who was always round when wanted lhere was no vanity back of these prem- ise Cutty was merely reaching about for ar expedient to thwart What to his antici- pat mind promised Oo be an inevi- lity. Of course the gl it never did, but he felt it until yonder chap w: evening at five-thirty Kitty re- ceived a box of beautiful rose with Cut ard. Oh, the lovely things!” she cried She } ed them and set them in a big copper jug, arranged and rearranged them for the simple pleasure it afforded her. What a dear man this Cutty was, to have t} sfashion! Her father’s hought of ber in t} friend, her mother’s, and now hers; she nherited hira. nad This thought caused her to he reyes \ mn. ti lay to play , this smile, but there were tears i mad city garden some ‘ ij would it going to Ike from these ed in a long and ? yt S not be aer- leged rory. I was re- You are Miss into the ving room and in i f oment.”” Kittv excuse me iloran her bedroom and touched went into he danger but- Zz ton, which would summon Bernini. She vanted her watchdog to see the tor. She returned to the living room. “What t vou wish to know? elma a? wer. H nai b ible to ive your name “That not nec I a t of bounds you might did ither name should be left out of the affair t ither peculia In what ws “T am or y al ive i al no il to spea Could yo ae . G ry? Then he a Strange ) yu?” slot ’ ae bed Gregor delibe ‘ ind it length. It struck her ; ot “ becoming bored, though he nodded at times. She was glad to hear Berni ring She excused herself to admit the Italiar A false alarm,” she whispered SO me one inqu ng I Crreg I thought { might be well for 1 >See Nil I'll work the radiator f ‘Very we Bert vent into the g room and fussed over the stean ! the radiator be af tranger, rising and picking up his ha biluscated for he knew the v tor, He as one of the greatest bankers in New Y ork—that is to say, it ! Asking le lor about Stelan xvI } elf comfortab inder the reading ump, a fine book in his hand rp ifter-dinner cigar between his teeth, was excet lingly resentiu wher nis butler knocked, entered a | presented a card. ‘My orders were that I was not at home yal ye “Yes, sir But he said you would se« him because he came to se¢ you regarding a Mr. Gregory.” THE SATURDAY EVENING POST “Damn these wait!”’ the banker called, for was starting for the door to carry the anathema to the appointed head. “Bring him in. He's a big bug, and I can’t afford to affront him.” “Yes, sir” perfect ser\ When the beyond the newspapers! ... Wait, the butler with the colorless tone of a ant. isitor entered he stopped just threshold. He remained there ter the butler closed the door. Blue eye and gray clashed; two masters of fence who had executed the same stroke. The banker laughed and Cutty smiled. “Tl suppose,” said the banker, “you and I ought to sign an armistice too.” “* Agreed.”’ ‘And you've always been rather a puzz] to me A rich man, a gentleman, and sticking to the newspaper game And you're a puzzle to me too. A rich and yet sticking to the man, a gentleman banking game.” ‘What the devil was “Can't quite recall.” ‘Whatever it was it went at it.” “A reform was never yet ind pussyfooting,” said Cutty. ver and sit down. Now, how \ you find out about this G ory affair?” The banker held o hand, which Cutty grasped with hones “If you are here in the our row about?” was the way you accomplished by purring : pressure capacity ol a newspaper man, not a word out of me. Have a cigar?” “IT never smoke anything but pipes that irtall You should | ruin ¢ to Miss Cor over name “T was under } e not to explain my busine But bef we proceed, an an- wer. Newspaper?” ‘No. I represent the Justice And we'll get along easier when I add that I possess rather unlimited pow- ers under that head How ou hap- pen to stumble into this affair? “Through Captain Rathbone, my pros- pective son-in law, who is in Cobler A cable arrived this morning, instructing me to proc eed precise Rathbone is an intimate friend of the man I wa The apartment of this man Gregory was mentioned to Rath able as a possible ten abiding place, What do you “Whether or not he is undesirable ** Der edly, I should say lesirabie that statement as an Amer- actually seeking pone in a ec ou make can citizen? 1 do 1 make it unreserved] we CAUSE n luture n-In-law 1s rathe 1 difficult I n to make Iriends V I lama ng mere as Rathbone ivent Oy he othe you | was nterested What do you } ma) Eve £ i ered Cut quit ‘At tl ! ent he n! ipartment rathe ™ Da le ‘ ind il) ite pent We I be tinker-dammed! You ( wT » re if T ‘ 4 Y« \r l want a ) nforma ! that I Ay guide ! future act cording If he ( inde ible he nall be deported the mome he nd on } tank The please +} ’ Origir The tl orde our | arithd does tha ‘ a3 , confessed Cutt “When wa } you?” } nskK government ble vere in our London bi rse, alot of red tape, eX nge, and all that. An hundred thousand arrived.” “What brought him to erica? Why didn't he goto England? That would have beer the ale { naver i ‘I can explain that. He intends to be- come al American citizen some time avo he became the owner of a fine cattle ranch in Montana.” ‘Well, I'll be tinker-dammed too!” ex- ploded ( h these ideas in ‘A young man w head ought eventually . "} to become a first- rate citizen. What a do you say? “T am considerably a famous singer in her time was his inheritance a fortune singing capitals of Europe and speculating fror apitais 4urope ant peculating om She sent the boy, at fortune, I take it, He remained there, under the iis fellow Gregory. methods of living and they shared quarters ears that he learned the i In 1914 the young fe That's all I know. Mighty interesting “T am much obliged to you elephant becomes a normal drab pachy- derm,”’ said Cutty. ‘Still something of an elephant on yo 1 Bring him here if you wis} “And sick the Bolshevik at your door.” 4 You spoke of his having beated and robbed. An old line of reasoning first put I'm sorry for him but I wish he blow away conveniently. yme for our lawye rs to go back to rht to hang up signs in every a grain man from Chicago.’ wanted him, not even those wl able to start some fine ruc i i b j hi Continued on Page 145

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142 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7, 1920 ER-OID — Sor Factory PROOUCTS Ru ber-oid b Ru be 1 Cok saieen There is no more severe test of ready roof- aap ing quality than service on the average in- dustrial plant. Constant vibration, extremes of heat and cold, tlying sparks, smoke and acid fumes, are the gauntlet which the rooting must run. | ees om, » = As substantial proof of the unusual quality of Ru-ber-oid Roofing we cite the fact that it has covered many factory roofs for over twenty years and that the limit of its endurance in this service is yet to be found. No other ready roofing can show such a record on industrial plants. Factory owners, managers, and purchasing agents have found from experience that in a the long run Ru-ber-oid proves less ex- pensive than ready roofings with a lower first cost. When you build or repair use Ru-ber-oid. THE STANDARD PAINT COMPANY Chicago New York Boston There is but One Ru-ber-oid—

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST an@Q Farm Ru-ber-oid Roofing makes a strong appeal to the farm or ranch owner who buys his supplies according to a standard of quality rather than a standard of price. It gives unsurpassed service on farm buildings both large and small. For the roof of a barn, milk house, corn crib or silo, it has no superior. The aim of The Standard Paint Company has always been, and will always be, to produce in Ru-ber-oid the best ready roof- ing that can be made. No cheapening of manufacturing cost at the expense of dura- bility has ever been countenanced. Since you can determine the quality of ready roofing, not by its looks in the roll, but only by its service on the roof, it pays to buy Ru-ber-oid. You know for what the name stands. THE STANDARD PAINT COMPANY Chicago New York Boston ts ee ee outs The Standard aint Co. makes it mmm caiaaiaael 14.3 ROOFING

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\)* \ A a THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7,1920 More Room for the Growing Business Offices too small? Stock rooms crowded? Board. There’s no time lost waiting for Need more room for your growing business? plaster to dry Your own men can do it if Remodel with Beaver Board. outside labor is not quickly available Transform an old factory corner into an Beaver Board will last as long as the +? tractive office. Change waste space any where into usable work rooms. Finish an addition with Beaver Board and let this building—a quality of even greater im portance. It is a true lumber product, made } } from fibres of the white spruc It is built substantial building material help you keep up into large flawless panels that can pace with business expansion not crack and is treated with the patent Speed is one good quality of Beaver Sealtite sizing process to prevent warping. Send for our new book,’’ Beaver Board and Its Uses THE BEAVER BOARD COMPANIES 1 nistration Office Buffa N.Y Thorold, Ont., Canada; London, Er Of in principal cities of United Stat br L tribut ind dealers everywhere You can’t expect Beaver Board re- sults unless this trademark is on the back of the board you buy. PURE WOOD FIBRE

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~ah THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Start The Season Right EGIN your spring car-Overhauling by putting in a set of Champion Spark Plugs. It is the first step in insuring trouble-free engine performance for months to come. Champion Dependable Spark Plugs are recognized everywhere for their unfailing reliability and endurance. Our famous No. 3450 Insulator and Patented As- bestos Gasket Construction make them proof against the intense heat and vicious shocks of constant cylinder explosions. You can drop a Champion on a concrete Hoor and the Insulator will not break; heat the Insulator red hot and it will not short-circuit. There is a Champion Spark Plug for every type of engine on motor cars, trucks, tractors, motor boats and airplanes. Buy Champion for service. Be sure that the name Champion is on the Insulator and the world trade-mark on the box. They are your guarantee of dependable spark plug performance. Champion Spark Plug Company, Toledo, Ohio Champion Spark Plug Company, of Canada, Ltd., Windsor, Ont February 7,1920 Equip Your Motor With Champions

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r iN he reviewed I ti there may have f of ther ind the im a genera bh ‘ ta 1 the tlere e be j nd i j te tv ' ! ot iuse t ea t t e Unite tute i t Arme res] j t te wou e the i \ ‘ Ar cle i t 1 te ‘ led uy t te to ‘ | ed ‘ ft the ect , \ troops in the | lopt has its uses, and t t tne feature of edtoat imum i { ! ya appre ( \ ‘ i entiment We t se { rY 1 ¢ ! bur and tu in but whe it ‘ 0 pl i estal ! ' w he but in our ow country we | make a ~ } it it And right é If the Arme could pre ( emee ‘ ( mabe of loOing their ow t 1 pol g under American d ‘ i thou t i cert r el t en ! be pe iaded to bend ou ‘ 1 let the ‘ ibo Phe Britist yeneral ind | taff of y office lined up i fr t of the le lume e colorful | bemedaled \rine flies fl ( i al Ll w v ibe Ll ch g their spur | t | the evolutio beyar ! Lice ! dm ! Right turn! And a t was not that language he men got out of line, lost step, hopped mud puddt tead hing wh them and did | t ( hat drilled soldi ire supposed not i When the got »ba tangled up it mething had to be done about it office would get " ng them and phite them out witl eemingly « ential uc which the Had begin ill ove ay They were uniformed in undyed home that was a product of the looms set up t} America Relief Committee > ‘ nate 1 it wa too better thi tha in be bought the highly de ‘ ped communitt where wool has come tM 1 chiefly { cal iflage purpose it it is uglier tl y material had ght to be. Even so, I could not help ! that with as little effort as it took ! e it look as it did look it might have ‘ made up int » fitted garment There o wavy to de be the baggy effect they { hieved d to get a lout ensemble the ot the me were incased in rain-soaked it if the same material. There was not 1 whole pair of shoes in the outht Poor, Vs r heroic ur rs of the itest tragedy modern history! I am it meaning to make fun of them I re ded them with unqualified respect. Bu a nucleus of an army that would relieve { ited States of the nece ity lor kee} troo} ! Arme tu er a po ible te the were not ve pron Llowe the pene il wa i ere! el them as | would t been I ‘ ‘ “ Md cB re ‘ I 1 é ‘ The Tongue: Tied Interpreter ‘ M hte ere ¢ t ed Ww th prey t whic } it w ve nthe wl t gy b t } ec ne l ¢ iy wit i j had learned through ( ttee that I wa d to t ne with the we andl the head eeches of welcome | eeded to releve ‘ est po en e, 1 rather ¢ t because ! e ot the Art ind tr i b al cline to ! ‘ ive wl i \ ! le a | ‘ wit} ected trom |! i wel e to Erivar } translat 1 good thing she had me, because if she had uld not have been any got through him THE SATURDAY EVENING POST UNDER NOAR’S RAINBOW Continued from Page 15) What else?” I asked “We ! he iy he hope you ll Vi it the kiteher They're ru y free kitch- ‘ for the el et What have they to cook?’ [his question { e reason started him off, and he made a speech on ! own unt which te everal minute The la answered at length and with a good eal of interesting gest ulat » and facial é re or W he he had f ed I ] “Well?” ‘Nothing el ‘Noth g muct what?” ‘Nothing much to cook.” ‘What I like about the English lan- guage,”’ said I, ‘is its directness and the way lends itself to brevity of statement. If vou don't t it will take all day to say Armenia uu might tell the ladie that I shall be delighted to visit their { el , and ple et k them for meet me with such a kind and courteous welcome : That started him again and he made i ther long talk to which the lad repile l he grew eloquent and wept a good de il hile the other two womet ood by. heav- iw occa nal gi to | cate that the coneurred ‘Well, what does she sa I asked ‘She says don't ment “Don't mention what ‘“*About their n > meet l I wa getting annoy Ye and what else “Oh, all about the misery of the } " le and that sort of thing.” Ile looked very sad Later on, after I had seen a good many things myself in the capital, he told me she was talking all the time about the ruin of the people's soul She could not bear that the should be r duced to such degradation through help lessne and oul-numbing horror. Ile was acutely sensitive with regard to the impre ion hi people might make on me ur was wanting me then to observe the s, whose good looks and charm ing manners anyone might have been proud ol When the preside: me and to introduce the brightly uniformed of his suite I fell back on French ] own talking better citizer t came up to greet Ine mil r and did my The City That Noah Built The president had provided an automo bile for me, but it was an ancient and wheezy old once-new and soft-spoken ve hicle that seemed to have formed a habit of lying down on the job within what optimist might regard as easy walking dis- tance of the next place he wished to arrive an at on time. And there are a good many tories contained in that one involved ser tence that I have no time to tell. At that it was the best machine in town. Indeed it the pre sident’s own, and the only one ad. The gener il orderlies had lifted f} } motor down off it la wa he | } } t car while he wa reviewing the and he got away on his tour of inspection while | was being ke manner to sy the time the ceremonies came to an end it was too late to do much of anything that day, but I thought we might go up into town and locate the head- quarters of the relief committee. I really could not blame the old car for not being able to go along and stop fussing and wheezing. There was a long stretch of road between the station and the town, and no stretch of road on earth was ever in worse There were evidences that once troops, polite and listening in a ladyli peeches. I the condition upon a time it had been paved with cobble- stones, but I could not think that any later than the grandsons of Shem, Ham or Japhe th had put the stones in place. T Erivan i that yody ey say the city was founded by Noah when he descended from the ark-—that is, the Erivanites say this. Over in Etchmiadzin, a few miles away, they iy that Etchmiadzin was the original foun- dation. I am sure I do not know. But what with all the seemingly fulfilled prom ises of fruitfulness and multiplication I see why he should not have founded both of them. There is very little in either to inspire civic pride, but being haloed by uch legend and by a history that has it authentic beginni in the remotest age tn they exceed nt no reason are ingly i Milk Arrives From America of the road was we » turn out into the gutter in order to get past a most important pro- Indeed it was the first of its kind Armenia and I could hardly it was real. It was a procession of oxearts loaded with cases of American milk! { s you stop to realize that for days on end I had been crying over babies who probably had never tasted milk in their conscious lives and watching people starv- ing to death and actually dying under my very you will not be able to under- tand why such a procession should have thrilled me as this did. I felt like crying some more, and espe- cially when the local Armenian gentleman who had come along with us told me it was the first milk that had been seen in Eri- before the war. The town, he aid, was greatly excited about it, and an announcement had made that there were more cargoes on the way. The milk, however, was to be reserved for the or- phanages and hospitals. It could not be sold or generally distributed, because there was not enough of it—not yet; but since the American orphanages here and there were already sheltering something like forty thousand « hildren, with a prospect of per- haps two hundred thousand more to be gathered in, everybody was tremendously interested in them. The American orphanages were estab- shing the real basis of the future Armenian The ; were to be well I rought Bad as the compelled t middle were id believe seen in } tik rile eyes van ince been l 7 “A SS . Ae “ha ~ ee = : ~ = RE See: Mothers and Children of Erivan February 7,1920 up and properly educated. They would be the leaders of the next Armenian generatior and by degrees the Armenians would adopt purely American standards and principles; a consummation devoutly to be wished All of which the Armenian gentleman ex- pressed to me in one way and another as we bumped along over the execrable road. The American who has things of this kind said to him under such circumstances is not unlikely to feel slightly embarrassed and to hope in a vague sort of way that American standards and principles are all that they should be. Or he may think he is being coerced by flattery and feel a sense of It depends on the American Some of us are modest, but most of us are not—-thank heaven! For myself, I very def- initely am not, though I manage usually to Nobody can hurt my feelings how wonderful my country and my people are. I find no difficulty whatever in agreeing with all such opinion I have seen just enough of the rest of the world to realize fully the magnificence of resentment. prete! d to be by tellir g me my own country’s place in the sun. But I do have periods of wishing we could vacate the position that goes with moral leadership. I get tired of being afraid that our performance may not always measure up to our standards and principles and to the expectations of our eager friends, who are sure to call us worse names for our short- comings under the circumstances than they would have if we had them in igno- rance of how wonderful we are. Some of us have talked too much gut never mind; [ think maybe we shall go ahead and finish a few of the things we have started anyhow, and perhaps by degrees the world will forget that we promised to adopt it and bring it up as though it were our own. Ke pt American Relief Headquarters After we had coaxed our car out of two or long, silent fits of despondency en route, it finally drew up and died at the curbstone in front of American relief headquarters. We left a governmentally uniformed and much too dainty-fingered chauffeur to perform an autopsy, and went inside. A one-time private residence, quite spacious and imposing; a wide hallway with a bare splintery floor and weather-streaked walls done in green and salmon-pink scrolls; a winding stairway with worn wooder steps and nental banister; and up- stairs a large front room with two business- like s in it, some blue crushed-plush chairs, a few commonplace Persian rugs and a grand piano. The piano intrigued my three ornal j aes interest. Is that the way you say it? I hate that word “intrigued” and I never would use it except for the fact that in connection with interest 1t conveys to my mind an idea of the kind of interest that should be acknowledged as nosey curiosity It was a shiny-bright, new-looking piano and I meant to ask them how they came by such a luxury at such a time in such a place. But my interest was soon intrigued by other considerations and I forgot all about it. There was music open on the rack and I observed a general sug- gestion in everything that the room was the combined and home of a couple of not too well-served bachelors I was received by Dr. Clarence D. Ussher and the Rev. Harrison A. Maynard. Both these gentlemen are Christian missionarie I used to wor we sent Christian missionaries to Christian but nobody would ask such a question in Ar- menia unless he were deaf, blind, olfactoril: ossified and mentally deranged. The idea latterly has been not so much to turn per fectly good Gregorians into something else, but to turn them into better citizens, illu- minate their benighted minds and introduce them to conceptions of health and clean- liness that might make their lives in some degree worth living. Doctor Ussher is a medical missionary, and during the era when trouble was an interesting something that people got into afar off in picturesque countries with which we had nothing to do he served twenty-one years in Turkish Armenia. His central station was at Van, and when the Turks were coming into that city and his one-time pleasant life was tumbling in ruins about his ears he was carried out on a stretcher, suffering from an almost fatal attack of typhus. The story of his journey is as the (Continued on Page 151 some good business office der why countries,

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Continued from Page 148) story of a fearful nightmare. They got him finally to Erivan, where he made a slow recovery. He was eventually at- iched to theA merican( a li ef as medical director for the Caucasus. Mr. Maynard had a mission at Bitlis and followed his flock in retreat to Rus- ian Armenia during the great dispersal of the Armenian people. He is now treasurer for the American Committee in the Caucas section and was him- elf just recovering from a long siege of typhus when I met him. There was enough typhus always to keep everyone in a constant state of nervous appre- hension. The population was crawling with the disease-bearing insect and one was reminded of the danger at almost every step. One of our nurses—a splen- lid young woman who was a member of a Vassar unit—had just died of it, and the little Ameri community that loved her was saying its prayers very adly. We talked along about various things, and presently an announcement was iat General Gorgonov, the mayor the district, v made th and civil governor of accompanied by a delegation of leading cit desiring an inter- view. I, having mad my plans for the gy day, rose to take my departure, but was invited tostay andsitin. Doctor Ussher thought I might hear something that I did, and I must say the Armenian gen- elow, izens, and followir would interest me felt sorry, very sorry for tlemen. They had come to beg, and they begged with a pe iasive eloquence and vith a cause to plead that I think I should not have been able » resist if 1 had been lirecting the affairs of the relief committee, But the dire were made of sterner stuff than I; so stern in fact that they seemed to me at the moment to be utterly eager It must be a terrific thing to » put up to you the necessity for de- ii ng to let certain rsons die in order that others may live The government had no with which © produce the next day’s ration of bread. The committee had two carloads carefully guarded on a siding down by the station, delegation had come to ask that ne carload be consigned to the government » feed the people. The committee gently but firmly refused and the Little Flour and Many Mouths General Gorgonov argued that a bread less day in a city where there was prac- tically nothing to eat but bread and grass would be very dangerous. There would be worse than that the death toll for the day would be tremendously in- reased. Inordinary times Erivan hadabout twenty-eight thousand inhabitants, but in the city and its envi many hundred thousand refugees had fastened themselves upon the people, and they, too, had to be fed. Moreover, large numbers of them had been reduced by starvation and hardship to the last ounce of physical re- could not live through a less day. And how many days would there be? Where was the flour? I was to learn tha sometimes have to be heartless “ ordes r to obey the dictates if what they believe to be right judgment. Doctor Ussher and Mr. Maynard, as we i other members of the relief staff who had come in for the conference, were un- emotional to the point of frigidity. They had assumed full responsibility for thou- sands of children, and their little hospitals ere crowded with patient These pe ople id to be taken care of in some way ard the ommittee dared not take the risk of nar- rowing its already too narrow margin of riots. But rons as as one istance 1ey breac men yplies. The unclassified and unenrolled others would have to live through the readless days—or die. There was no help for it And maybe it would be only one day after all. There was a delay in the delivery of American flour from Batum, but rep- resentatives of the committee had been sent down into Persia with money to pur- chase grain that was known to be there, and these representatives might be counte id on to come along in a day or two at most with enough to tide the people over a brief period. But there was no certainty about anything; everybody knew what the dif- ficulties were with regard to transportation; he food trains might be raided by bands of Tartars on the way; the American agents might not be able to get engines or fuel or freight cars; any one of a number of things THE SATURDAY Inmates of an Orphans’ might happen, and the committee could not risk the possibility of having to starve the children and the sick. No, the govern- ment could not have the flour. I think I never saw men so depressed. They went away with bent shoulders, looking hopeless and somewhat resentful. The next day I went with Doctor Ussher round the town. It may be enough to say that the town is a mass of ruins, th ough that conveys nothing in the way of a pic- ture. There are ruins and ruins, and Erivan does not suggest so much the ravages of war as the ravages of time. Having been built of mud and rubble and soft varieties of stone it has simply crumbled into un- sightly heaps, except fora few cheap look- ing streets of fairly modern buildings. In a town of rubbish-strewn and malodorous nooks afid crannies. But it is picturesque. A large part of it clings to a liff’s edge over the river gorge as though it had grown there out of the soil itself. It is a rock-roughened and unfriendly soil, offering encouragement to nothing but thorn bushes and harsh spiny grasses. It the main it s a town of steep hills, from the tops of which there are wonderful views of the vast illey of the Araxes, wonderful views of Ararat and the Alaghez. We went first to the employment bureau in a great tumbledown house with a wide paved court and inner balcony. Westepped over prostrate forms to get in, and found court filled with unemployable; pitiful, awful wretches who swarmed round us weeping bitterly, cringing, beseeching, lifting up the hem of my skirt to kiss it. I shuddered away from them. I could not help it. But inside I found young American the the women—of the clean-cut refinement that is characteristic of our best type of college girl— putting hundreds of more or less the same kind of wretches through the proce of examination and enrollment. I re- member doing somewhat the same sort of thing in the midst of typhus-stricken mobs in Serbia in 1915, but the American women on that job wore the most hideous s safety yutfits you ever saw, and did most of their hand! ig of people with tongs » to speak. Self-Sacrificing American Girls These girls were dressed neat blue- linen uniforms with white collars and cuffs—uniforms that had the regular American-girl look—and they were so freshly sweet and pretty that I felt it was wrong for them to be there. Of course it was not, except that they were taking their lives in their hands every hour of every day. I met the same kind of girls in the business offices, the hospitals, the orphanages and schools. And I saw them walking among the crowds on the streets and in the market place, which was no longer a market but a camp for refugees. At home they might have been just a few among hundreds of merely American young women, but out there they were radiant. The contrast between them and the people they were engaged in serving was simply amazing. They were a p2rticularly fine company, to be sure, but even so they were typical They were all college graduates of the past EVENING POST Home four or five years and had all taken special training for their volunteer service. It was whispered to me that one of them at least and the snappiest of the lot she was, too was very rich and had a rich father and mother at home sang op about her and wonde ring what the *y had done to deserve a daughte r with a conscience so com ple te ly out of relation to her face, figure and for- tune; a daughter who didn’t have enough to take advantage of the pleasant life they had prepared for her; a daughter who preferred to give up—oh, everything! And Armenia of all places! But she was having a wonderful time if I am any judge. sense She was working among the children; the children who had not yet qualified a orphans; the chil after day lren who day were gathered up in the streets to be fe big « mpty room here and there, where they quatted together in huddled groups and were happy over chunks of black bread and iin cups of a hot brew of some kind that had no fat in it; the swollen- bellied, blue-skinned, hollow-eyed, indescribably ragged and filthy little pitiful runts; all of them ugly; none of them touchable! The willful littl rich girl had taken the place of the ¢ died. It was as supervisor of this particu larly unpleasant part of the committe work that the girl who died caught the typhus infection. Conditions Not Improving The American committee had et up many looms, tailor shops, carpentry shoy wagon factories, blacksmith shop id what not. But raw materials were very carce and employment had to be reserved for the really employable. There would have been work for everybody if there had been materials to work with. There were not Everybody wanted to wor that was the meaning of the weeping and be seeching hundreds in the cour 1 of the employment bureau. But up to that time the best the Americans had been able to do was to give employment to about eight thousand men and women, It is all now more or less as it was ther about midsummer of 1919, but nothing |! changed except for the worse From the hilltops of Erivan one looked out over the wide-spreading, far-flung beau tiful valley and saw not a single acre under cultivation. That was the saddest thing. In all the country—and I traveled over a good part of it—I cannot remember seeing a plowed field. There were no farm imple ments; no seed grain. And there were no animals either, save a few donkeys, ponie and oxen—all in a fearful condition. One of the Americans told me a story about some children he once saw disput with hungry dogs the carcass of a donkey that had died of starvation when the pasture were under snow. We were exchanging hideous experiences and he thought thi beat anything I had to tell about. The pastures were green when I saw them and the animals could eat, but, nevertheless, they were bags of bones, and since no grass wa being cut to feed — through the winter I imagined that by the spring of 1920 they, too, would probat * ill be gone, Doctor Ussher and I left the « ment bureau and went for a tour of kshops. We w ed from o otner, picking our Way through n ty rubbish-strewn streets. lal rup hills and dow: i t, W saw the people at their labor the washers of tM irders, spinners and weavers; the workers in cotton; the smit! ind « penter and I observed that the vere all work with crude im, ents of their own fa ioning. It w t they had just begun to live nd had brought with them into life a half-remembered knowl edge of old methods of producing life’ necessities Then we went to the hospitals and the orpha: > home These were nearly all se tabli re i tjiaet l } ulding that were never eant » serve uch purposes, but the rranged orderly 1 | in. Both hospita ind ‘ ere f ! j ilmost « ‘ ted turned ou ! ! ( tee’ ter the | ‘ beds were of the undye 4 mia from the committer he mattresses and PLIOWS were made of American flour sac ill ! rhe chil dren for the most part were iformed in ugly dirty-white goods from the committ ve hing that was being done was br done by Amer icans disbursing the funds provided by Amacionn be ‘ ence The boy in one r} nuge had 1 car pentry shop and we t g out desks for the schoolroor V ‘ beds, chests of drawers and tabk Doctor | er enj ryed calling my attention to the effect on ld of a little feeding and proper care yz all the institutions there were dren who had been in quite a w , Others who had come in later, and so on down to those who had just arrived, and the difference between the newly arrived and t} rst comers wa the most extraordinary thing I ever saw The doctor be l turdy-looking I who were g handball out in a courtyard and t i me that only three ot before the ad been starved little creacure who would not have } strength enough to thr a ball even if they had Maybe it! I know by ir how t row I Well, maybe the I used ill children knew I tinct | | } I can testif t Arme i e re } lren in the \ ar ry} 4 é » be taugn how to pla whi itside these institu t ne tle r eve een doing inything that eve re tel esemb] ] igre ‘ ! ! i a ement t or rs t me tha I iw tl ind i hil ind that I U ‘ i iug! Wa ttle I é ] n é neve i laug! Eve re ir homes wert mir t t r One felt nat the dl ing out of em the | f ! htne of ‘ But outsid thie e pe Vt thar lemn t} were t ey } , ary Was to be ha lhe ad co I { lerfed Indi to the ‘ { tarved ( i et the face of a hing t They had ear or to w a} ‘ to ir et | I of food } 1 out ‘ : ng ri ( to huddle to gether ir ‘ i | he mpression ¢ 4 f Ar hildre The mar Jom of enians begat almo multaneousl nh the isdoptio of Christiani and ¢ before that the seem to have bet ! npoy ir with their neighbors tl ery ple th ever lived. Ther e some reason for thi a tL nopnor t eve i fa defined it. Everybody a What's trouble wit } ‘ inyhow?’ But itisa juest that isually ar vered with @ wr mille a i ! i to i ‘Whatever it i t won't do us any good talk about it.” Their characteristics are ident enough, but none of them I ! it ‘ ) pire t m ‘ ‘ } eT y Armeni ire ils t re ! 11 ihe ise t t ( tir t 4 ! I t thie ! 1 ! Viet Concluded on Page 155 &\ 49

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Concluded from Page 151 eir zeal, but apparently it is whatever it is that is the matter with the Armenian it urges the Turk to violence. The Armenians are accused of an ac- quisitiveness of a parcicularly unpleasant variety, but it cannot be said that they have a monopoly of that defect. They are pugnacious and designing. Time and again in their history one finds them plotting against a neighbor, picking a quarrel, then fleeing for their lives with wails of woe and shrieks for sympathy. Yet time and again one finds them fighting bravely and _ be- having as nobly as any people could. They ure a queer mixture. They are exceedingly intelligent and always industrious, yet they have descended farther into hell on earth the any other people that ever lived. Only their inte oman and industry have enabled them to survive. If the y had been a stupid lotus-eating people they would have been exterminated long ago. Yet it is as well to remember that they have elasticity of the Orient. We read of a war they had with the Mohammedans at the beginning of the tenth century, a war which lasted thirteer vear “The wretched inhabitants fled to the mountains and the deserts; the ren nant wandered about in a state of naked ne and experienced all the tortures of famine. When winter came thousands per- ished in the snow. If they fell into the hands of the enemy they were either massacred or subjected to every descrip- tion of torture.’’ An excellent account of what has happened in the twentieth cen- tur) And during each century of the millennium there have been similar tales a aoe ell. Again: “Whole town country ; were destroyed and wh ole ides de populat ed. tate of aff: iirs continued for no ) less tha in years, exhausting the country and denuding it # cultivation.”” The wail wa ‘We sow, but do not reap; we plant and gather not the fruit; the fig tree bears not, and the vine and olive tree are barren. We a little and abandon the rest.” rheir chief characteristics, of course, are tense nationalism and religiosity. They ave always fought tenaciously against ibjugation and have steadfastly resisted every effort that has ever been made to ibsorb them, resorting at times to every naginable means of self-expression, admi- rable and otherwise. Their nationalistic zeal has marched hand in hand with their religious fanaticism, They could never -_ together even with their Christian neigh- bors, and fought many a fierce battle with the subjects of the Cwsars over differences opinion. At one time they ! of reli igious ne: wiped themselves out trying to ti h their version of the unfathomable of Christ’s divinity Some Legendary History d so overlaid with colo Strange enough faint traces of the color still exist and one i permitted in some parts of the country to dream dreams of a heroic past with the almost undimmed ornament of the past before one’s eye I like the name Vagharshapad. It is the ancient name of the city of Etchmiadzin. Etchmiadzin means ‘‘where the Only Be- gotten descended fron heave ! i and wa ubstituted for Vaghars} pad when the Armer an churel Was founde { Vagharshapad was the capital of ancient Armenia, and the ancient Armenians seem to have been somewhat predatory. There Was a powerf il monarch at the beg" ! ing of the third century who cast p the riches of the Sassaniar oo a d resolved to gather t en unto hi if. He assemblee armies, including “Huns covetous @y ond Ci isus and other nomads,’ laid waste the northern provinces of Per: in and marched to the very gates of ¢ tesiphor This makes a colorful picture in my mind } . ave tood ‘a the gates o tood in awe before the one mighty relic of ts greatness that 1 TI is the arch of the throne room of the palace of the Sassanian kings; of its kind the most magnificent structure on earth. The Armenians made war on German principles, They attacked without provo- cation and fought for spoil For ten years they harried and harassed their neighbor, filled their country with his treasure and THE SATURDAY adorned the temples of their gods with his jewels. Then the Sassanian king, whose name was Ardashir, decided to put a stop to it, so he advertised for a reliable mur- derer. He wanted someone to go over into Armenia and kill the Armenian potentate. It was a Parthian who volunteered. His name was Anak. He accepted Ardashir’s promissory note for a large reward and set forth upon his mission. He was a Parthian of the blood royal and had letters of intro- duction to the very best people. They did things in a leisurely manner in those days. He took his whole family with him and settled down in Vagharshapad. He estab- lished a rich ménage and spent a most enjoyable winter. Indeed he had such a good time and made such a lot of interesting friends that he almost forgot what he was there for. But spring came and the Ar- menian began to drill his troops and make preparations for more raids, Then Anak woke up and bethought him that hi is pur pose was to serve Ardashir and collect a rich reward, The Adventures of St. Gregory He chose a night of revelry when he was the king’s guest. He thought he might not be able to do it alone, so he induced his brother to join him, and because they were very popular and highly regarded gentle men they were able to lure the king into a quiet corner for a little confidential talk, and tl they ran him through with their swords. They made a quick escape, but it was not quick enough. A king is soor missed from among his courtiers. He was found mortally wounded, and the hue and cry for his murderers was set up. Set upon by the king’s soldiers they perished in the flood of Araxes. The king lived just long enough to decree that the whole family of Anak down to the last babe in arms should be massacred. But by some means not revealed in the records two sons of Anak were saved. One of them was spirited home to his relatives in Persia; the other was carried off to Cap- padocia. The one who went to Cappadocia fell intothe hands of Christians, was brought up a Christian and lived to become Saint Gregory, the founder of the Armenian church. Thestory of Gregory even briefly sketched would fill volume, but to go to Etch- miadzin without a few points of it fresh in one’s mind would be to miss practically everything that Etchmiadzin has to offer. The murdered king was succeeded by his son, Tiridates, who was a small boy, and during the regency of the nobles first Arda- shir and afterward his whose name was Shapur, made wars of Armenia and reduced the country to ruin. Gregory grew to pious manhood in ignorance of his father's crime, and the secret was not revealed to him until after the Armenians had succeeded in driv- ny t t armic 3 of i apur from thei rcountry aced the splendid pagan, Tir! throne. When Gregory arned who he was he chose at once what he conceived to be his path of duty, and forsaking all else made his way back to Armenia resolved to devote his life to the interests of the king whose father his father had murdered, He came eventually to Vagharshapad where he entered into the king’s service. son and successor, vengeance on and had } dates, upon his By virtue of his high moral attributes and lofty inte ‘llige nee he rose rapidly in his mas ter’s confidence and soon became a trusted counselor, But he > kept his secret to him teadfastly refused to renounce the self and Christian faith, though Tiridates, to induce him todo o, tried every method of per lu sion, irom good natured argument to an ri “a mal experiment with fiendish tor tures. Then came a great feast day wher Tiridates stood in the temple his favorite god demanding sacru ce from ¢ very bod) n his kingdom. He commanded Gregory to place uj the altar of Anaitis an offering f ands, Gregory refused. Wher on a jealous courtier who had learne secret denounced him publicly, saying: “Sire, this man deserves not the light of thy countenance. He has dwelt among us a man condemned, knowing that he abused thy confidence He is the son of that Anal who slew thy royal father and plunged Armenia into ruin!” He was thrown into a deep pit under the castle of Artaxata, where it was intended that he should perish, but in the castle was a tender-hearted widow who kept him alive by ministering secretly to his needs Thir teen years passed. Then came to Armenia EVENING POST a band of Christian nuns who had tled from Rome to escape the outrages of Diocletian One of them, Ripsimé, was reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the world, and Diocletian had sought to tear her from her convent. When he learned that she had fled with her companions to Armenia he sent an ambassador to Tiridates to warn him of the danger of permitting Christians to live in his realm and to advise him to put all the women to death, all save Ripsimé, She was too beautiful to be sacrificed. Diocletian wanted her, but it plea to be imperially generous and to assure Tiridates that he might keep her himself ir ‘ase he should be overcome by her love line 38 Needless to say he was overcome, and he made immediate preparations to have her brought to his palace — in glittering pro ession if she wished; by force if necessary. Force was necessary. Then came a long struggle of wills, the details of which are written in the old books but may not be written in these days; a struggle in whic! Ripsimé, inspired by her faith and upheld by her belief in the sanctity of her vow came off victorious. In the end Tiridat baffled, discomtited, humiliated before all his people, committed the great crime and had the entire company of holy women put to death with horrible tortures, A few days later he and a number of his courtiers were turned into wild boars, foam ing at the mouth, devouring their own flesh and rooting in the refuse of the kingdom, This really is a wonderful story. In com parison with it the story of Nebuchadnezzar lacks everything in the way of thrilling details. But I must leave most of it to your imagination—if you are not already familiar with it—and hurry on One dark and stormy night the king’ sister had a vision. She was a good sister and was not included among those con demned to metamorphosis and dementia. Her name was Chosrowidukht. A radiant being appeared to her and told her that the only person who could restore the king and get the country out of its difficulties was a certain prisoner whose name He was confined in a deep pit under the castle of Artaxata and must be brought forth. Gregory alive? Impos ible! It wa thirteen years since he was thrown into the pit to die! But Chosrowidukht dared not disregard the commands of the vision. sed him was Gregory. Modern Etchmiadzin Gregory was brought forth. He was a time-blackened, filth-incrusted, shriveled little man, but a halo hovered at head He restored ey king to reason, but not at once to hums n form, be ise first he must bury t heuliee of the martyred nur and seek the counsel of God He retired from the sight of the eager began to follow him or sojourned for sixty d iysir the nuns had lived among an abandoned wine pre he was startled from } p noe of thunder in a clear ‘ . rumblings of theearth. The ian ivens opened and the Man, in an aura of celestial sple: dor, descended. Gregory followed the D vinity from point to point in the ity f Vagharshapad and noted each spot where he struck the ground with a golden ma : saying each time: ‘Here shall a chapel be built £46 There were tl rt, PVE memory of the martyred nuns, and a gr central cathedral This is how the name of Vagharshapad came to be changed to Etchmiadzit “where the Only Begotte n descended fror heaven,” Etchmiadzin is a fearful place! It built on tlat swampy ground, rounded by such mountainous and far-tl grandeurs as | have already tried rile Mt. Ararat i »>close that one fe 1 pulse to reach out a ! i its eternal snows. But in the ! ng | it st ‘ ! ‘ ‘ hovels, rutted and mu 1 little motor truck I had | reliel con ittee had a ha { ‘ throug! fairly moder ‘ n i! ent? ( | ! The ehu ‘ e cor ‘ At rate the not at ' ‘ ¢ If I a vu ‘ a } it very difficult to believe that the cathe drail was even resting on 1ts original tour tions, yet they told me it was as it was built under the direction of Saint Giregory himself some seventeen hundred year I called on the Grand Cat! u g plowed a way through a narr getting glimpses into the mud-fl teriors of rows of 1 al hundreds of terrible e Ww motion was a quick gesture of orname Up} as | hurrie« 1 by, I drove fecha tal gateway and into a gre pound wae ah. iby an ancient wa center of the e dral, while round three sides o the monastery, which is as ok the church itself We were met at the cathedri a beautiful ma I use the obj word leliberute lle wa tall; his hair fe in glossy bl upon hi ilder } beard black, fe nto the my bla magnificent ! “ ea gre cross above | placid brow, pint front of a high p e hat jeweled chair t ing at 7 feature were as the feature cameo Only } eve lvveste nary mar They were kee } ingu ve He i graduate of Ha Chis I learned when he a ! uch perfect English that I 1} him where | ol high a whelming, but when I referr jocosely to his Harvard accent a little and we got quite che chummy. We went about here in the yreat 1 titution, @xXamur keen intere nT ch relic ( past, then he co ‘ t ence of the Catl ) Tl ithol is an aged ma beard 1 the hair up ! snow-white. His robe and jewe plendid than the priest but mild benignant look of a praye He sat in a thronelike chair bel table at the end of a long, richl I val He rose to gree i “ ‘ immed el I te gas pleasa gaging a gentleman as | ever nervousness in the presence of Hi of Etchmiadzin increased unt natural gloom of a smileless gree ened into the drear i the Ari i lat I ne en and w ere yoke Eng but ig! ind 1 te r me Ate I w e being seemed to | ‘ the | ted ite He lulyed te indeed he thou ve Ve bre o re } ‘ i: but f " t had ‘ we we pre rd prof it He t ! t ! ‘ } ld } e a feel } ner ide t d 0 r ble j } ‘ et i ed Gs r prtt L foeprpre ( l ‘ But people at } I ms Une tole H fd | { ! i ‘ We depe ‘ ‘ We ‘ Mia ir pe ’ try ( ( " W pe ‘ W I ‘ \; ‘ ye ‘ i 1 J ( i pe mere yr cle I have read was fro i graveya at Iydir t t} perfect rainbor ran r Ay ered W our ¢ i met wide com In the

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ind we'll mar cele. f May, and in every r communit where f nd little chil- f 1 crucified for ( er by the Ju Pilates and the white he ‘ gizzardless priest f capitalism.” wo from egere the I. W. W. r to familiar F nt } me ( ha ° ‘he character of ff fy i! On A T} t/ ; 4 ) } ’ T) nme? ind here t Our l (}i / ; iW ‘ ( ; ; ae p i I} ‘ / Cheho é ‘ ke ita few w f ( on ¢ ly and f tl imorou i ppe r propaganda, to |} t { tT ! t ‘ ! dom il court i juage I It ( ( ’ nee haned ‘ pu r ! whi uld accon t of i? « i ‘ es] i et the to a motl Mone T i , it I wa bho t l e table ‘ And ' ’ { yg ¢ ( ns of e. One iggested w | t ‘ ‘ aati t ‘ t ¢ ‘ I the ‘ te r ‘ ¢ . m u ed the W mu ( I rh a frame-up ‘Su eo! We } +} ryt Ww ‘ y tor t e othe TT. 7G IT yo* POSSI DWT} mit 2) ae ff Vw) 8 LILY Continued from Page 17 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST They are taken—a great part of the Sure the girl ar ered tunes for the small red volume of the hymr fellow worker will let me put of hate of the Wobblie irom the oid songs and exhibit him there.” and religious choruses familiar to the home The fellow w er, a dark less men, from the shrill, flat-voiced singing bent a loo intense black: of the religious enthusiast on the darl vhick e returned with frar ! ht corners of the streets which they fre “We'll show ul as the o quent all over the continent but sung a man aero ine the girit re they were sung in this bare, somber, greer atte mn t the rather ¢ walled hall, in a low pitch—male voice promine largely carrying the air—the yade an odd youth's « ty ty on the high-pitched feminine hig money ed singing of the religious 1 com esied, ‘At bined at the same time with ( lid and e said, ed movemer! vera sl pinner edged tt iv the « 1 aimost to ng 0 | : He Was | Thinking His ‘ i t rent of Thought suat Thinking Undercur of Revolution in if t inaca t vou Ipo ( ule ed i | enerat ( ‘ r ind their re 1M tye tt ‘ ) | t ‘ of ima r , ent type, a er saw l y el e |} ele mhe had een | tne t with the laco ‘ t f « yt @. tern or t eir ye I med ' mal i i! . € | ent ‘ ‘ le } e eve } p f t ‘ ) t 4 ‘ ‘ 1 hy ner to the “i t ( e % no cated vi NER . 4 womal t} ! da togethe is ma nd { or three ye ? he id had |} headquarts He had met he the P é ‘ there e had be ther professional rad j ! n of a mew ha elie 1 tv ol muet ft r mind to Spinner And ( had felt after a time t : er and herself tha e would better leay nin { ‘ ild j forces? ‘ effective the rk for the 1 ‘ i ou “ ‘ leral ounger tl t ear twentre had ¢ een mucl ] it ‘ e range without the usu ‘ ‘ fed busi ( f i irgeoise W ir ! t the harder a t ew of life of the « ‘ normally w ‘ ihe a t tother ' ement th the g ent he} i met and bes ’ ’ ‘ end ind | it ed { ’ ' { +} ! her ! er ‘ ! e had se theref | fr ‘ r eactu { ‘ out U! i ‘ I i and ‘ f the ave f } ( NJ 1 hye he cant { sre , f { i I i

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7,1920 ODELL-PRATT rexel om ere yo) oy KO 0) The all-steel mitre box is built like a modern bridge. The rosewood level is one of the 146 sizes and models of the famous Stratton Levels, known the world over for their unquestioned accuracy. The bit brace is the favorite of many carpenters. The floor scraper dis- plays all that cleverness of design for which the Goodell-Pratt Tools are noted. The combination square and the bevel are instruments that stand the knocking about which often comes to tools in a carpente r’s kit, without losing any of thei accuracy. The very tool you contemplate buying can prob ably be found among the 1500 Goodell-Pratt Tools. Ask your dealer for it. HROUGHOUT the manufacture of every one of the 1500 Goodell-Pratt Bp this fact is kept firmly in mind—that each tool must give useful service over the longest period of time. This has been accomplished only by the use of the best materials, the employment of the most skillful workmen and the adoption of the most approved methods of tool designing.

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Cut-away view of Model K" Oil-Kipp for Pins and other horizontal positions Kipp-Adapters fit Oil Kipps to any make of truck or car Spring Because squeaks cause rattles Squeaks gnaw away at spring-bolts until enough of the bolt is worn away to cause a rattle. And a rattling bolt means a loose bearing and vibration that often causes spring breakage. Oil-Kipps silence and pre- vent the squeaks caused by poor lubrication. They replace any lubricating cup, gun or other device and shoot heavy oil, under pres- sure, over the most snugly fitting bearing surfaces. One filling from your oil can loads them with enough shots for a month, and by simply snapping their spring plungers you can lubricate your chassis in three minutes without dirt or bother. If your dealer doesn’t carry them as yet, send for the free bulletin, “Silencing the Chas- SiS. inability MADISON-KIPP CORPORATION Madison, Wisconsin Ojil-Kipps KEEP CARS NEW Cut-away view of Model HH” Oil- Kipp for Steer ing Knuckles and other ertical positions Continued from Page 159) lots which visitors in Chicago marvel to find occupying what would seem to be im- mensely valuable property in the heart of a great city. Its flat, bare, unornamented brick front now gave that peculiar sense of secrecy and possible danger that come from a house on a dimly lighted sordid street, whose whole face shows no light but the dim one over its hall door. They went in together, walked up the faintly lighted stairs, down the hall, into the room of Sonia Silver, on the second story, with its one window opening out upon the black, can-sprinkled empty lot. She turned on the white glare of the electric light and pulled down the window shade, still talk- ing, exclaiming concerning the work—ex- plaining the developments that had come in his absence and the progress of the legal fight made for the men whose martyrdom had been discussed in the meeting of that evening. “That was good stuff,”’ she said, throw- ing her small hat upon the bed. And then suddenly she reached over—where he had seated himself, lighting a cigarette—and patted his hand as he brought it back upon the arm of the cheap rocking-chair. ““Every one—every one of our boys,’”’ she went on in her rapid voice, “that gets put away—pushes the movement along just so much,” ““The more the merrier, eh?”’ said Spin- ner, smiling and watching her as she stood for a moment before her mirror and passed her hand hurriedly over her perfectly plain nar It wa this marty interesting to watch her. She gave yr propaganda such a different value from that which he did. To him it was one of the various necessary and ef- fective forms of propaganda; it roused his emotions very little except occasionally in its extreme form, when the I. W. W. used that very effective means of propagating class hatred which it was now employing the photographing of the dead body of the occasional man killed or executed in the vi- olence of class strife, and circularizing the workers with cheaply printed reproduc- tions of these pictures of dead men, ing their more or less ghastly wounds. This did at times affect him, especially show- | when he employed the pictures in public speaking; they refreshed and stimulated his expressions of hate; but mostly his hatred—-deep as it undoubtedly was—ran cold and quiet, and he viewed all forms of propaganda with the practiced eye of the man who played upon them as a means to an end—an organ of mass emotionalism of whose key he was master. With a woman it was different; he had never yet seen a woman— including this who was not borne away to some extent by the emo- tionalism she was creating it He looked round the room rapidly as Sonia was straightening her dress. There were none of these extreme pictures vis- ible—though no doubt they could have been found in the pile of radical papers and red pamphlets that stood in the center of the room under the bulb of the electric light hanging down from the bare white ceiling. But on the walls he saw again that she had moved here with her and put up again her portraits of her favorite mar- tyrs—her framed photograph of Joe Hill, whom she had known; of Rosa Luxem- burg, persecuted though not then yet dead violence in Germany; the portraits of several others cut from Sur day new spa- pers; and always that old, familiar ro- mantic picture of Charlotte Corday, looking out, large-eyed, from the bars of her last others. = ( prison, It was a hideous room—bare white ceil- ing, walls covered with that cheap coarse- patterned paper, look like huge magnified beetles crawling in set col- umns toward their top; and curtains, grimy with the eternal soot of the smoky neighborhood. And in it all appeared the one insistent of sentiment—the girl’s pictures of her martyrs. The place was hideous, absolutely con- sidered, yes; but relatively to what John whose figures coarse lac e rt note | Spinner had been through, far otherwise both clean and comfortable. He had bathed and fumigated and generally cleaned him- if his clothing, as he must when emerging from the jungle, yet the depriva- tion and uncleanliness of the life among the homeless men were still very close to his memory and senses; and even he—cold- blooded as he was supposed to be—felt the grateful warmth and sense of cleanliness and a personal solicitousness and affection self and February 7,/920 which the return to the life and surround- ings of woman means first of all to any man who has been out into the wilderness inhab- ited by men alone—even when returning from only a vacation ora hunting trip in the woods. So he sat for the moment, smoking comfortably and watching her with an in- terest not unmixed with affection. She turned as he looked toward caught his eye and its expression, and with an impulsive motion came toward him, clasped him about the head and neck and held his upper body to her as he sat there “Are you glad to see me?” she asked him, flushing deeply. He put his long thin hand upon her warm one and held it. She released him ther from his awkward position “That'll be all,”’ she a quick flash of self-mox kery, ‘for the pres- ent.” her, noun ed with a For she sensed, though he never voiced it, of course, how essentially repugnar demonstrativeness was to Spinner; espe cially when it was in any way strained a awkward. She never, in fact, when she was with him. “Tell me,”’ she said, an him, “what have you done seen all these weeks?” He told her then of } his cleaning up of his mission hurrying home. “That's no place of possib now,” he said. ‘Every minute I was there I was planning to get bac the action is—where there is sor be done.” He turned the conversation, ask ing her about herself. She told him then, more communicative of the happenings of her life—a are—the personal side of the progressing martyrdom; about the men in jail; the women to whom they were married or with whom they lived were now and what doing; women in some cases, at least, of a very different economic and so- cial standing from that of the men wit} whom they lived. While she talked she had taken some work into her hand stockings to darn. Never that he could re member had he seen her idle. She was an endless reservoir of energy, which she took an evident pride in using—possibly in dis- playing. And as she darned her well-worn stockings she talked on of the curious and disillusioning relations of the prisoners and their womenfolk—and of the other women, who in places touched the radical move- ment. And now Spinner holding gar poised in his hand sat back in his chair watching her, waiting, for she was coming now very close to the matter of chief con- sequence to him, which he was anxious to learn about from her. it to the Coast, there and e importance here to where ething to wome! where they his cl rette vil T WAS, of course, Spinner’s business as ; possibilist to use and divert all types of forces developed in the capitalist form of society to destroy it; his duty to take ad vantage of every slip made by those he considered his dense ly stupid opponents in their decadent social organization; there had naturally not escaped him the increasing use to which the women of the bourgeoisie were and could be turned for the purposes of the revolution, especially since the beginning of the war. For some time all radicals had realized that this source of aid from the enemy was available, and had used it to such an ex- tent that many of its features had found their way into the peculiar cynical sla of the rougher radical. But more recent]; the great wave of emotionalism which had passed over the world with the universal disaster of war had projected itself espe cially upon the woman, and had swept the bourgeois woman from her accustomed ci! cumscribed life into movements and emo tions and sen of which she woud have been incapable ten years before 4 creature of her immediate surroundings and its influences, her emotions had been used by chance radical acquaintances to bring the more prosperous women by thou sands and tens of thousands, first into move- ments expressing a natural feminine revolt from war, from that into pacificism, and from pacificism into radicalism of all kinds by an easy-graded way, which would have made it impossible for the women them- selves to recount the exact steps in their mental progress. To Spinner watching this new emotional force rise in the world to be played upon it seemed to a more and more important (Continued on Page 165 i and sations

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mere possibilities of securing among these vomen not or financial supporters of radicalism—as there were now in great numbers but eventuall spies and even agents provocats imong the capitalists And it struck him incidentally as infinitely imusing that the and overfed women of the capitalist class, thrown out of nor mal life by the present maladjustments of capitalistic productior hould promise to become through their womens emotions ind the curiosit incident to idleness one of the most potent instruments for the destruction of the society w h had pro duced them If Pandora had had a family of childre had we ¢ i factor had ofter id of then I isual bitter way to Sonia, “‘she would never have had the time to make all that trouble in the world | pel gy that hathe “te To which she, as hostile to the type as he iways e@ayerT agreed It wa 1 rather daring experiment in manipulation of this kind of woman which ne had pl nned before } departure and vhich Sonia had been « ving out In hi ( e, the tte “ nh it was Spinner’ t erest now to lea hout, and to the t g Ol w nes iwa vV coming ‘Our friend,” he ed her flippant] the plumed J of Are for he ’ ented contin ew l nful name for her —‘‘ how ‘ ng with us “*T’ve got her! i 1 shot her tox ed | lramatic energ L've her —al Something er ‘ gy. Ye surprised! the it mp ive while e looked at " irting [rom the he gy to phrase he recomplishme dramatic: he itehe he tent Oe { y wit! ome patience for | development of her It ! f mportance to rie ‘ ‘ f | ! ! he ' | ty ‘ t e ¢ ent } bor A the 1. W. W to follow the ‘ rive ad ‘ t t po itp 1 These en ha ‘ ( e move erated witl ‘ idinous cheap bor mor ‘ ( nd stockyard ‘ loyet and “ th the st more n tudinou 4 mre ind would the n ed | f these mult ile indet e@ « i lilrage rule of , , ‘ i ’ heir car yr rainst the ex of the ‘ an Federat But S} er hit elf ha t I h pre Is « t h the fie ! ( I ! ul the reate I \me inu ) eady wit! the fe t with a men r p ilread pre illected, and I irs the object of seere mpaigning | el. W. W th t union of the coal ! It w an ors tior eat d espre fa that ‘ it le Ss he ‘ t, could hope touch but one of} It w 0 0 f these that the great 1] re wo V l ? i hes " held e ke he hope fo f g wit yed hand, is relating e © « e tol de eloping it Tron e be g, withhold y ‘ ‘ me ( drama t tl t I pe piace in tne ¢ Fr n the } t imnest game ere you left | ‘ 1 in her di ted wa us al Eve ttle rf She take t we to-d ( ( nee ! I there to tne deat thea d murde f the wo g cli in th imned capital war ~ es tot t too. She sees as we «di by And from there her conscience t i} he he see ‘ irts to set e whole of indt ee Not t far,” jeered nn Not t g up her part of the } eeds. Nothing Continued from Page 162 ible results than its more sol umbers of i ts J For OS could see already * teas THE SATURDAY EVENING POST lis ‘Nothing like that, no!”’ the girl said ang, but immediately serious again, dramatic earnestness never far away ‘No but this much. This positively. I can promise you. She wants to see you. She wants now to advise with you—or ways and means—-for economic justice her workers. Hundreds— thousands.”’ ‘Does she?” asked Spinner, and a faint but pleased smile came over his thin lips “Isn't that pretty good? Going some More than you expected?” she asked, tlushed —] ( for looking for his approval He gave it to her, placing his han hers, with its darning needle, as she flushed still more deeply. Here was reward enough for all her labor —a sheer profit over and above the atisfaction of her success for success’ sake; for all her endless activities, arranging com ttees, arranging meetings, spreading lit erature all the hard, practical work to s inured, expended for the di- rection and the guidance of a movement Vhnicnh sne We Ose po Roce women, capable neither of ard physical work nor the mental essential for its ] promotion, but who ‘ ‘ : would have all the publie credit for the uc- , ce he had engineered. Even Spinne gave her achievement only ‘ pa g attent he was thir ng o1 of \ it ¢ ld be founded on it His hone } lar in fact, were aimed eventually to ‘ ea ver detinite object neu ) i 9 } eg lp eg ak moe Chere’s a wrong and that would contribute a great personal triumph for hir for these mines in whic this woman's fortune lay were notorious in there’s a right way to make vith other their section of Fi yuntr ela ign nee window shades 1 | ittempted or pret i it lid be a / j / tr il power and pre } fa r the Vit nself f ( wa nl 1 part { I ( 1 - vere managed lL} ‘ i \ ind controlled by the male of her fa ol | he brother being the nor il head of , , ; ; ] | operatior ind the actual head of the family 4 fortune that } 1 then { ‘ oft , ‘ And yet Spinner listening to di ppt F , i sled and exhaustive report had the tee , y that ymething was about to develo; ft ma x we ' It , from his plar ’ t st tl t i I You in do much with a wo i nd ! i ‘ these d ths woman whoa fF ever usage f ympathies have been carefu timulated ae { ’ yes . I and terested Ir vial reforn And it l ( ed to him, from Sonia’s clear verbatir ae 4 bk | 1 etition of hert { } S. pou? +? | r th of a \ t Mrs. I & ; & ( fucker, that she | 1 now ome detinite er . 1 hope me act d for ace : I hir the « , yf ’ Indeec he ha uid mu it I ina i i to > u + hel \ Phe girl h her endl y ! is bu ul and of he | ‘ | f Loppe 1 | ‘ ’ it »} f ‘ A. , a : F W tato lam! he cried t l ; F By ‘ 4 UM ' ’ > ae elf-reproa Wha f | i] | t 1. + ¢ 1 ¢ ere I ind you ere | r ead. Like a vy} t. ¢ ‘ } tly It two o'¢ You ought t r to | ] ; hed ’ He was tired, when he thought of it. The , Pm I ¢ lan ene il { 1 ny efile ( ‘non } sual restless 1 is ener; He , le th pi ire and grat it the : eee ; ense ol i cleanne and pe na round woma a irp and ple Sing. ¢ trast to the travele fresh ret {1 f the haunts of the homele mer ‘He looked about him wit a deep unusu nse f quiet and security at the hide 1 vom. the 1 7 " ‘ in her plain garments before the mirror of the ugly machine-made bureau, and the grit and n cellaneous galler of mart on her walls, the long-we aring window TO BE CONTIN! shade material

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1 Leonard St. Dept. B Established 1889 New York City EVENING POST February 7,1920 OUR RAILROADS TO-MORROW (Continued from Page 19 me to reply by saying that if S. P. is not a well-managed railroad we have none in all the length and breadth of this land. Its great operating director, Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman of the board—the big J. K. known and respected all the way from New Orleans and El Paso up to Port- land and Seattle—is among the few really great railroad operators in the United States, which in railroading almost means the entire world. Yet on this road 100 per cent of freight ton miles in 1915 jumped to 140 per cent in 1916 and to 173 per cent in 1917; while the number of freight cars 100 per cent in 1915—actually dropped to 94 per cent in 1916, and only returned to the original 100 per cent in 1917. The average capacity of these cars had in- creased but a mere two per cent in the two years. Operation was the thing, and the only thing For one thing the operating forces of the road had the benefit of the patriotic educa- tional propaganda toward better loading a propaganda which was quickly followed up by unbending rules. The stress and stimulus of war counted—not only with the men who loaded the cars but those who actually moved them. Intensive car load- ing, the placing of far higher minimums in carload lots of commodities of all kinds, the raising of demurrage, the increase of penal- ties for delays of every other sort—these worked the miracle; not only in the case of Southern Pacific but of other roads as well. In no other way could the freight traffic estimated for 1925 be taken care of by the rolling stock and terminals of 1917. “The thing to do is to take the friction out of the pipe and at the same time to increase the pressure,”’ says Mr. Krutt- Ss itt. “To continue the campaign for heavier car loading is of vital importance to the public as well as to the carriers. In no other way than by increasing the pressure on the traffic stream—-intensive car load- ing—and by removing obstacles to flow prompt loading, unloading and movement of cars— can more volume be driven through the channel provided by existing cars and tracks; in no other way can elasticity of circulation be attained, whereby in times of stress facilities can be made to work overtime and carry an overload. The ap- peal must be made to the public to continue to cooperate ar d to assist us in eve ry pos- sible way both in raising the carload and in consenting to increases in carload mini- mum The codperation of shippers—so cheerfully and loyally given to help win the war—should now be given again to help olve forthcoming domestic problems quite as serious as those that confronted us dur- ing the war—if not more so.”

Six Billion Dollars Needed I know exactly what Mr. Kruttschnitt meat and also appreciate the very real ulties that he and all the other railroad executives are going to face when they ask the commercial public of the United States to continue wartime traffic practices a long time after the ending of the war. Hereisa big wholesale grocer down in a Texas city which is served in part by one of the subsidiaries of the Southern Pacific. He is tired of wartime regulations—and wartime service—and does not hesitate to lithic ay so ‘There is no reason whatsoever, as far as I can see it,”” he says to me, “‘for the United States Railroad Administration's continuing to ask that cars be loaded still heavier, re- gardless of the fact that a minimum load of 6,000 pounds of canned meats, canned vegetables or other commodities of that ort is sufficient for a jobber for twelve months’ supply. Nevertheless he is almost compelled to ship 60,000 pounds, which is more than he wants, more than he is able to buy—particularly if he is compelled to buy his other commodities in anything like the same ratio. Moreover, if prices of food- stuffs should drop no wholesaler cares to be overstocked with these things, at the pres- ent high market prices.” Perhaps Mr. Howard Elliott, who stands in almost the same relation to the Northern Pacific system that Mr. Kruttschnitt stands to the Southern Pacific, has something of this last point of view in his mind, for he | does not hesitate to put down as the definite needs of our railroads for the next five or six years the staggering total of 600,000 new freight cars in addition to some

20,000 locomotives and 20,000 passenger cars. Translated into costs these great figures are all the more appalling. Six hun- dred thousand freight cars, at an average cost of $2500 each, come to $1,500,000,000 as a starter. Twenty thousand locomotives at $60,000 each make $1,200,000,000. One remembers rather sadly when a pretty nifty locomotive could be bought at $10,000 to $15,000. Those days are gone. The best of the big steam pullers now cost as high as $85,000 each, and those designed for opera- tion on electric lines are priced at $125,000. Passenger cars can still be bought for a figure approximating $15,000, which makes the total for these $300,000,000. All in all this needed new rolling stock figures out to the pretty tune of about $3,000,000,000. How easily we come to think in billions these days instead of millions. Mr. Elliott and his brother rail- roaders feel that the tracks and terminals to accommodate them will easily amount to an additional $3,000,000,000. Six billions of dollars! It was a lot of money —yesterday. It is a lot of money even to-day, unless you say it mighty quickly. And it brings our unanswered question of a moment ago of how much money the railroads really need for the next five years to a fairly definite figure of a little more than a billion dollars a year. What Twenty Cents a Day Would Do ‘*Even then it is no certainty that, even if the railroads were able to secure this new capital, they would be able to expend it within five years,” continues Mr. Elliott. “Twenty thousand locomotives in five years is a pretty large contract for a coun- try whose maximum output of this sort of railroad equipment has hitherto been some 1800 a year. Prices aside, we are short of labor, short of raw materials. And 20,000 locomotives, 20,000 passenger cars and 600,000 freight would tax our building shops—to put the matter very mildly in deed.”’ Still we are a pretty big country, Mr Elliott, and after our recent great adven ture billions do not seem to trouble our soul very much—perhaps, as a matter of fact, not enough. A clever Wall Street banker has worked out that if each of the hundred million men, women and children were to save a mere twenty cents a day—on ar average no great sum whatsoever—the sum total of the savings would come to some $6,000,000,000 a year —enough to take care of the very vital growing needs of our rail roads, the equally pressing needs of our new merchant marine and many other things as well. And the great era of national extray agance and wastefulness that set in on the eleventh day of November, 1918, would seem to indicate, among many other thir that when the American wants a dollar he has his own most satisfactory way of find ing it. I do not think that the question of the nation’s being able to raise the money for railroad development is a perplexing part of our great transportation problem at this moment. Two things will bring the money forth—faith on the part of the investment buying public in the business future of our carriers, and a definite and progressing policy for the future on the part of those selfsame carriers. Of this last the plan for increased rolling equipment upon their rails becomes a definite and most important chapter. But before we return to this future plan let us consider for a few minutes the all-important financial end of the prop- osition; the thing which seems to-day to be almost solely engrossing the railroad execu tives. “The whole railroad question as I see it,” says Mr. Frank Trumbull, chairman of the Chesapeake and Ohio and other im- portant roads, ‘“‘can be brought down to a single sentence: Can the railroads be made a profitable enough business to attract investment capital in competition with manufacturing and other forms of Amer- ican industrials?” That is simple and succinct. Yet back of its very simplicity lies a vast ramification of complexity. For the moment most of this complexity lies about the heads of Congress. Yet even before Congress be- came superensnarled in this railroad prob- lem the Railroad Administration had made something of a success of the same thing. Continued on Page 169)

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(Continued from Page 168) Yet in all fairness it must be said that the first report and findings of its well-organized wage commission—headed by Franklin K. Lane—despite some sins of omission and commission, quite exceeded in its efforts to place the pay of railroaders on a related and scientific basis any efforts that the railroads themselves had ever made. They were not very progressive along these lines. The question of railroad pay, though seemingly not tightly tied up with that of our roads to-morrow, as a matter of fact has much indeed to do with it. The president of one of the busiest of our Eastern trunk lines—a system of some four thousand miles of main line and ranking fourth or fifth among the carriers of the land in the volume of the traffic it handles—recently made a study of the present increased rates and greatly increased expenses as ap- plied to the business of his road in 1916. He took 1916 because that year repre sented typical good business, before his road had entered upon the abnormal top waves of wartime traffic. In 1916 the road had freight revenues of $95,600,000: passenger ones of $16,743,- 000—a total of $112,343,000. Its expenses that year were $87,780,000, leaving the prope.ty a balance of a little more than $24,000,000. Of this sum, anticipating our entrance into the great war, it put some $10,000,000 into most neces ary permanent ‘rom the la neat improvements along its lines. Fr balance it paid its dividends and ha urplus of $4,000,000. Applying to this same traffic the in- creases of 1919 over 1916—twenty-five to fifty per cent—in passenger and freight rates there is shown a gain of 737,000. Until you see the other side « this looks good. Then—still usin, comparative test you find that the ir creases In wage $48,000,000; or more than the $47,000,000 an just gained by the increased passenger and freight rates. Yet the wage mly a part of the outgo. There are, in iddition to these, $22,000,000 in i sts of material—remember |} the prices of locomotive goil g up—ol which an increase of $11,000,000 is in coal lone; and this takes no account whatso- ever of the further jumps that are bound to come as a result of the strike in the t ituminous field Wages to Remain High Totaling these increases in outgo we find that they come to $70,000,000. And this far in deficit, even after deduct more than w ipes balance ing the increased income out the funds for permanent improvement not charged to « apital, funds for dividends of every sort, digs deeply into the payments necessary for bond coupons and in sixty days after the withdrawal of government protection would thrust this road into cer- tain receivership. Yet this road in this perplexity is not much different from its fellows. Its problem ratio with theirs And their executives are moment for fear their properties may be handed bacl are in about an even equally concerned at this very to them at the present wage scales and othor costs aS well as at the present rate: without guaranty of any No sane man expects these expenses to drop materially for a long time— particu- larly the wage scale Instead I feel that these will rise even higher than they have prote etion already risen. For, despite all the hue and cry over them, the cold fact remains that the rises in railroad wages have not kept pace with the rises in many other forms of American industry. Since the Government took control they have been raised some- th ing less than seventy per cent; in some other industries the increases have been well in advance of a hundred per cent. As a matter of further fact American railroaders—with a few conspicuous excep- tions—in the days before the war were decidedly underpaid. The conspicuous ex ceptions were the men who were protecte d by the great brotherhoods—the engineers, the firemen, the cor ductors and the train- men. These men had organizations to fight for their rights; and they obtained their rights—and decent wage scales, The unor- ganized railroad labor—as I have pointed out repeatedly in the columns of THE SATURDAY EVENING Post during the past ten years-—had neither their full rights nor decent wage scales. Until the wonder be- came not that the railroads had _ trade- inionism but that they had so little of it. They themselves placed a premium upon it. THE SATURDAY The Lane Wage Commission made an earnest attempt to readjust these scales and though working under a fearful time pres- sure made a good deal of a success of its job. But it could not ignore the brother- hood men as it raised the nonunion workers up to a place on the pay rolls which their efforts really deserved. And so the fact remains to-day that the brotherhood rail- road employees are still well-paid men You could not add on a goodly portion of that se venty per cent average to their pre- war wages and not have the total fairly presentable. The difficulties that most o them confront—particularly those who are in the freight service—are those of service rather than of wage. Despite the working of the so-called eight-hour day the hours of actual service remain both long and oner- ous; and because of the peculiarities and exigencies of railroad service in the United States they must in all probability so re- main. Therefore I think that I am quite safe in saying that the railroad wage scales will go up before they go down—if ever they go down—and in hoping that gradu- ally they will be more and more scientifi- cally equalized and adjusted and that the conditions of train employment in many cases will be greatly eased, =~ Ready to Pay for Service Yet these thing: hould not be impos- sible nor even particularly difficult. The American people are willing to pay the price if only they can have the service. Please mark these last words. The crowded trains between New York and Chicago and between New York and Wast and between New York and Boston are the high-priced excess-fare trait that render the ervice Price een rn object in America these days; at least that he impression gained by one who lives in New York. And the price of transporta tion has risen less than that of almost ‘ other commodit luxury or necessit It average increase in the war period has been about twenty-five per cent; which con pares very favorably with shoes or food or motor cars, That is why I say that the railroad executive hould have no extraordina amount of difficulty in getting rat oO attract capital if they will do but o thing: Make concrete and definite prom- ises of a bettered service. But few of them apparently are willing to do tl Seer ingly they have no plans or—what is prob- ably the truth of the situation—they are ifraid to divulge them, possibly for fear that their competitors might get wind of them. Despite almost numberle gent men’s agreements there 1 till a good deal of secrecy and distrust in the railroad business, Yet the public does demand to kr and will conti loudly, what the railroads prop: ue to demand new capital if it be given to the It is not enough to talk of 600,000 new freight ear or 20,000 new passenger cars or tl ame number of new tive These r ordinary necessitte vt ilmo } tine ne cessitie , or 4) What me of us wish to know is how the plant elf is to be enlarged, and, if you please modernized in some of its detail That what I asked of the executives, And a few of them have re por ded to the request i more or less detail Mr. Elliott spoke for the Northern Pa cific and likewise, in a measure, for the Great Northern and the Burlington prop erties He showed the relief and secondary lines to be built here and there partle in the tortuou h } ies. The plans for the Hill group are re definite and long-seeing. The spirit of the far-visioned empire builder | ; over the properties he so firmly hed. Mr. Elliott, moreover, men tioned an impending cost against the rail roads that constantly becomes more immi nent the eventual removal of the infinite number of grade crossings all the way acro the land tecent requests from but three communities on his lines for work of thi sort would make the railroad’s proportion of the cost more than $200,000 \ re who has ridden by day into Chicago from almost any direction can hardly fail to be impressed by the coming day of grade crossing removal in the many great and growing towns and cities of the Middl West, where such removal can only be accomplished by miles of embankment or of cutting—at a terrific expense to all partie concerned. And yet with the steady stretches across the R EVENING POST 1G Varnishes—Stains—Enamels Paints and Varnishes t ‘ KIN >« yM on Pow eae tol nada orrct Pamtne ter wr \e Plant Standardization Plan of the General Baking Company Industrial engineers have operation with the Super shown that Plant Standard intendent of Construction ization of Paints and Var of the General Baking nishes—including the use Company worked out the of standard individual col tandardization plan shown ors on the various pipe thove, Which is now inop conduits and system eration in the twenty-tive throughout the factory, plants of that company. makes possible the right selection always of the paint best suited for the job and aids in quickly tra ing trouble to its source. Woe are pioneers in this held of Plant Standard- ation. We shall be glad tosend full particulars,and are prepared to work out Two years ago our indu a plan specially suited to trial department, in co vour plant. John Lucas&Co..Inc. y Purposely Made LOI £VCTY PUTDOS

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0 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST SANICO The RUST - PROOF PORCELAIN RANGE — er a wo Ranges in One Phe SANICO Combination Range burns gas, coal or wood, it ! ( two full-size oven Use cither or both at 25 YEAR GUARANTEE Coated insid 1 out el ind flues included, with everlasting, us breakable SANTCOS Metal Porcelain tused to rust-resisting Armco in | ‘ lin brillaantly polished heavy nickel bur ished 1 \zure Blue, Snow White or Dart Llu tippled Best from ever tand convenience, durability, economy, et A Beauty cle bag 7 “ r ie ot | : ; it a li CW The finish never lose lustre 4 Stove & Repair Corporation Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson “V , i I Ist RI 1319 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago ANGE & FOUNDRY ((OMPANY.. growth of the American town and the leaps ahead of our highway traffic the day of such wholesale gre“e-crossing removal is not far distant. Mr. Kruttschnitt’s -rision leads toward more double track fo: nis system. That is the way in which he comes back to his fundamental idea of increasing railroad efficiency by likening its traffic to water in pipe, which moves best when pressure is increased and friction removed. ; “‘Our most essential need,”’ said he, ‘“‘is additional double track. No other thing quite takes so much friction out of the pipe, while the factor of safety is raised thereby to a supreme height. It is hardly possible to have head-on collisions on a double-track railroad. That is why we move as fast as possible to second track, and where we cannot afford to make it continuous we approximate that condition by increasing our sidings and lengthening the existing ones. It all goes toward wiping out the fri tion.” This is definite. This is concrete. And so is J. K.’s desire to increase his shop facilities greatly; we already have seen how hard pressed the American car builder and engine builder may soon find them- selves to meet the necessities of the hour. **It is obvious,” concludes the chairman of the Southern Pa , that with ourshops doubled in capacity—in tools and in men as well as in buildings—the length of time that our locomotives will have to spend in them will be cut in half. And the gain in operating etliciency will be very great.” Outgrown Terminal Facilities When one comes east across the conti- nent he finds that the Pennsylvania and the New York Central cannot be included ong the roads whose plans for the future detiniteness { pon these two roads +1 rur the greatest volume of traffic in the entire land—both freight and passenger. Their problem has always been almost as much to keep pace with the present as to build for the future. In the past four years the passenger miles of the Pennsyl- Vania system, east and west of Pitts- burgh, have increased from 4,300,000,000 tT 200 000 COU more than doubled le the freight trattic, in ton miles, has grown from a little over 38,000,000,000 to irly 50,000,000,000. The officers of that id do not hesitate to say that if capital were immediately available the expenditure of from $300,000,000 to $500,000,000 could be started at once on needed addition betterments and extensions to the entire tem Ne) h t uc expenditures, which neces- require time for completion, they ay, would merely bring the system up to current requirements upon it. Thereafter upward of $100,000,000 a year should be pent. The volume of traffic on the Penn- vania doubles in periods which in the past have ranged from ten to fifteen years each. The road must be kept adequate to ich increases, Yet, with the exception of the great tations at New York and at Washington there are practically no terminal facilities upon the big road, either freight or passen- ger, that have not within the past few years either been distinctly outgrown or at least taxed beyond the ts of their normal capacity. A good many folk on Manhattan Island regarded the Penn ylvania station, when it was first opened there, a decade ago, as a good deal of a white elephant to the road. Iam not at all sure that another decade will not see it outgrown and meas- ures under way to add to its capacity. Its e has trebled since 1911. The Pittsburgh station seeming:y was new but yesterday a great and handsome modern American passenger terminal. It already is outgrown and a real operating problem. : Chi ago is beir gt iken care of in its great new Union Station, yet Atlantic City in its phases of rapid development needs a new tation and in a short time must have one. The Pennsylvania folk are not asleep to the necessities of this and other places. Neither are they failing to notice that freight termi- ils must at all times keep pace with pas- nger; and in these days of the on-coming the new American merchant marine particularly so at such port cities as Phila- delphia and Baltimore. Freight trackage is nearly as important as terminals. The Pennsylvania, like a good many of the big Western roads, has always had an ingenious fashion of routing its through freight sepa- rately and in some cases well away from its through-passenger traffic. Freight may go more miles, but it must have the easy February 7,1920 gradients. That is why its freight route across the crests of the Alleghanies is miles removed from the main-line passenger tracks, while to-day its vision seeks to double-track and develop the route along the lower Susquehanna as the whole of an alternative to the old-time Northern Cen- tral for the movement of freight bound north and west from the port city of Baltimore. Nor is it content to rest even here, but seeks to avoid the present congestion of both freight and passenger traffic on its main line across New Jersey by building a brand-new double-track freight line from Morrisville, Pennsylvania—the eastern end of the present Trenton cut-off, which avoids the congestion of the Philadelphia district—across the Delaware from Tren- ton well to the south of the present main line, to a point somewhere near Newark, where it would rejoin it; in fact the piers for the bridge of this new line have already been set in the bed of the Delaware. Perhaps the most important new track- age of the Pennsylvania is the project which it has for placing its own. line into Detroit. he road of the red cars already reaches Toledo on its own rails. It is now definite ly propose d to extend it to Detroit, partly by the construction of a new double- track lroad and partly by utilizing the existing line of the Pere Marquette, which will be extensively improved. In Detroit it is proposed to build a belt-line railroad connecting the automobile and other indus- tries of that city; also to construct new freight yards and additional passenger facili- ties as well as to improve and enlarge the extremely well-located existing freight and passenger terminals which to-day are shared by the Pere Marg vette and the Wabash Railroad All this is vision. This is progress. Yet the New York Central will yield in nei ther to its great competitor. Its traffic coubles each decade as does the Pennsy]- Vania s. Its problems of congestion are equany great Albany is the real bottle neck of the Vanderbilt system. Not only do its lines up from the sea at New Yorl and at Boston unite there but the road takes its way up a fearful hill from the val ley of the Hudson. This hill is in fact the worst grad ystem—ninety feet to the n essitates the break- f 100-car through 1 the west side of five twenty-car ll, which in turr 1 hiteen or twenty r this service alone. Nor The entire vast traffie of the New York Central crosses the Hudson at Albany on drawbridge which test has shown to be open full one-half of the time during the summer months The Proposed High-Level Bridge Yet tl bottle neck this single expen sive slowing ip factor of the busiest part of the main line of one of the busiest of all the rail systems of the United States—could at any minute be entirely eliminated by the construction of a single engineering fea- ture—a high-level bridge across the Hud- son at Castleton, twelve miles below Albany. We propose to build a bridge with but a single pier in the river with its deck a few feet higher than either the Brooklyn or the Manhattan Bridge across the East River, so as to afford little or no impediment to the navigation of the Hudson,” says the New York Central. ‘‘A freight line swing- ing from and off to the east of our present Hudson River main line at Stuyvesant will rise on a long easy tangent to the foothills back from the river, where, at the level of the bridge deck, it will join a similar con- necting | line from the Boston and Albany, and crossing the river at almost right angles will come to the present Main line of our West Shore property just north of Ravena. At this point a great classification yard will be developed . **Now the ease and facility of this great plan develops. A heavy through freight from the West pulls into the new classifi- eation yard. It may be destined for Wee- hawken—the West Shore’s port terminal opposite New York City—to Boston or to Manhattan direct, down the old main line; either in whole or in In any of these cases the work of division and starting on again is a matter almost of seconds rather than of minutes. The bottle neck is gone! The traffic flows both rapidly and evenly.” One thinks again of Mr. Kruttschnitt’s re- mark about the frictionin the pipe. Yet what Concluded on Page 173 — f j

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST S 4 ._ . - . ™ - TECTDIC © " 7.% ‘g a Ve SS. x S oe Nek Zener tes Ps tare 4 You can call it a Starting Battery but what you really buy is a —E ov “7 —and naturally you want that performance to be of the highest possible quality. The motorist who equips his car with “SE Se iOC' sx Battter gets quality~ performance—persistent, depend- able, enduring. “Exide” Service is thoroughly organized to | meet every need of every make of starting and - lighting battery. The address of the “Exide” Station nearest you will be sent on request. THE ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY CO. a The largest n in the worle 1888 PHILADELPHIA, PA. 1920 e } New York Boston Chicago Washington Denver San Francisco t. Louis t" Fig { Minneapolis Cleveland Atlanta Kansas City Pittsburgh Detroit Rochester } ay SER YIU Special Canadian Representative, Charles E. Goad Engineering Co., Toronto and Montreal ke gga ad “Exide”, “ HycapekE e*,:. =x *, “UbinsExide”, “Chlorit mn mulator L¢ YOK FOR Batteries are made by this Company for every storage battery purpose | I { IS SIG N ns ee ™ fits,

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come lown the |} ind n ip Pearl he Ur Pep yard in a perf ble fas} It « 1t propose t did even | I eto bein t exerted it power 1 ate | 1 ent a big railroad from vy f perte logical and ¢ ent step In its own development. ¢ plation of Albany’ t makes me wonde ometimes why the oad met! O GIsiKe a weeping Federal ‘ f ‘ ‘ \ tiled up eve t ola gre e Ol ¢ rhe Cleve Ives re , } rer in ¢ e tunnel ad ‘ he « . Itse W | ed > 000.000, of w e New Ypoie ent € e, the elation of inland waterwa ] I lers can paint th ! ir¢ the I’ 1and the New Ye ( tral t painted it, and paint it ‘ egree ol a 1 the eive the mpathy a tere ! t the eed, Of that | ar ir And ¢ ‘ V fall »acco ith the } ’ f not of i ow? the unde the yn of pul ot } The t ‘ tior jue ! he land tedio bu t the ] t, . difficult ¢ 1 it needs mone needs mone V But « i it need ! t re nt n yet it has received Wit the two commoditie 1 modicum ¢ ment and plain old-fashioned commor ense thrown in—it would almost adjust itsell 1 release Congre tot co! 1eT tion of ne othe exing questions that i ‘ idly nezlected

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174 THE SATURDAY EVENING POST February 7,1920 BUSINESS NEUROLOGY (Continued from Page 11) “He would see the rut—and fall into it expensive joke. Ninety days had gone by the second day,” the younger man assented. without any returns on this investment it “Just so! But if we took on aman who comedy and Sisson had taken occasion had nothing but — you might call his once or twice to raise his eyebrows in the native ability and a desk to sit at he might presence of his two associates and to say stumb le on something helpful? “Well” in a particularly annoying and ‘That’s precisely it. He might not even entirely unanswerable manner. Then one know what he had found, but it’s dollars to day Nares came to him and ann ~~ brides’ biscuits that he would find some- that he had a tentative diagnosis to offe thing. If you O. K. the plan I will have a Sisson snapped him up. talk with Nares and see how it strikes him.” “No, young :ellow,” he said shortly, “But what are you going to offer him “you've come to the wrong place. Save whe at is he going to do to earn his money?” your report for the next conference. If you “T promise you that I will tell him less have any ammunition shoot it at the about that than any man was ever told be- = gang.” fore on being offered a cinch. But I will try ““What I have to say may hurt feeling gently to convey to him the idea that what somewhere, Mr. Sisson.” we want are his observations—his reac- “Feelings? Sisson Brothers don’t carry tions to what goes on here.” that line. Put on your hobnailed boot | Sisson rose. Saturday and walk all over feelings if it “T think both of you have gone crazy,” will get us anywhere. Twelve-thirty!” he said. ‘But personally I would rather The regular conference that week left a try a crazy scheme than to come here once lot of routine business undone and _for- a week and get the blue devils talking and gotten, because when it opened Sissor arriving nowhere. Put me down for the made the blunt announcement that Mr. boy with the native talent, Paddy; I’lltry Nares, the new tax agent, had the floor for anything once.” as long as he needed it. Pitched at the me: Taking cue from a public-service corpora- in the room in this abr a manner, Nares tion, Padrig Nolan created for Sisson colored a little. But he faced the musi Brothers the position of tax agent. Nares, promptly—on both ay the young newspaper man, was informed “I suppose you all know,” he began, that nominally he would be expected tosee ‘“‘that I was asked to come here to se¢ that the firm’s taxes were paid but not whether or not I could find hap pos g wro | overpaid. with the plant—on the basis of an outside “What you say is interesting, Mr. looking in. I told Mr. Padrig Nelan that Nolan,”’ Nares observed, smiling. “But it I wouldn't take a job of gum-shoeing for doesn’t seem to make sense. Haven’t youa_ things and people to criticize. Instead | treasurer or an auditor or someone to make have sat back and listened and watched out checks for the taxes and couldn’t and let impressions hit me just as they came. you I hope the result will be helpful—I think I ““You don’t get me,” Nolan interrupted. have found out what is wrong with Sissor “Paying our taxes will never give you’ Brothers.” brain fag. The situation is this: Though This introduction caused them all to neither Sisson nor my brother is a dodder- lean forward. Nares’ next sentence was ing wreck exactly, and I’m a mere spring a puzzler: i chicken, we are suffering from too much “*My diagnosis is weak nerve familiarity with the business. We are look- Peter Sisson snapped impati nt finger ing not only for new blood and young “Get down toe uses, Nares!”’ he growled. blood— what we need is a different breed of ‘I will, Mr. son. But I want to give cats from ourselves, if you know what I you the sah general lines of my analy mean. We want you becau e you say your- first. Let’s say that the executive offices are self that you haven't had a day’s experience the brains of the firm. The sales force of business in your life. Perhaps you won't — is the legs. The manufacturing and whole see anything wrong at our shop—the hope sale and transportation departments are is that you will.” the hands. Financing—business age “Tt seems to be clearer,” Nares re- ment i f this big bu | a: _ x marked. ‘‘But if you think that I’m com- like the nd the circulatory system | he silent praise ot ing down there to poke round like a in the body d early as I ( in make out . . . mother-in-law looking for du t on the piano all thes ts functior pe real appreciation light- il | aud cracked Gluhes ta the pentey you have fectly > with the depart * - | Raed the wrong party.” ments. l in the nervou ens up the tace ot the } aay Nolan laughed. system of the house. It’s all hot i i | 4 ‘Nix on the mother-in-law part, Nares. pieces.” man W ho smokes a eS | ‘ You are explicitly requeste 1 Bot to poke. “Go on,” someone growled as Nares : a | . Put your feet on your de oO pes smoke paused ae ee rc ‘ ‘ ' ° 5 q cigars if you please. ou will earn your ““Generally speaking, the nerves include VW 1)¢ , pe hnuime | rench , money by keeping your mind open and messénger eo ;, the telegraph clerk, P ° o's § telling us what you think.” the people in the mailing room, the clerk Bria r Pipe. ts dt s all as vague as a free-verse poem,” ais aatehons mail and expre ; matter and . : 4 Nares said, frowning. “‘But your people the telephone operator. And with no in- k | ws; have a reputation for knowing what they tention of being y unkit d I want to tell you lt recalls many a are doing. I'll sign on if you say so first that the weakest spot in your system | © 3 4 I an said so, and We sley Nares went is that your teleph me ope rator is too | = nm ~ yay roll of Sissor Brothers according re y? \ ont ses the 1 hers a rding pretty. pleasant pipetul. qual >» Ee to program. He was introduced exten- Padrig Nolan came up to this bait all- sively Secssie the plant, shops, depart- standing ments, yards and offices of the concern. It “You've said either too much or not was impressed on everyone that as tax enough there, Nares!’’ he exploded. ‘‘Miss ' agent it would be necessary for him to’ Richards came to the firm on my recom- familiarize himself with every department mendation.” y MP | enjoyment is promised al Mal | tor days to come. eo wd mb = . = | before he could be of much value in com- Nares smiled. A eS the pipe to bring a batir i the pul wile yor ok il of the county “T’m not insulting Miss Richards—I’m a assessor and the cold calcul ation softhetax complimenting her. She is a capable girl collectors. For two reasons Wares hopped for a pretty one. But she has been cost- enthusiastically into his somewhat hazy ing the house a good deal of cold cash, and job: One because he had been slavin g alor g worse than that she has been losi i on a newspaper at thirty dollars a week for friends and the confidence of its customers. a long time hoping to get his big chance at It is all because she is pretty and attractive last; the other because he found himself and alive—and knows it fascinated by the sight he was given of the Sisson « “se ‘teristically drove straight ie out the full fragrance ot | ees we your favorite blend. So don’t say “pipe” ° , ° , | inside of a big plant where nothing could at essentials O out sale Si . ss ae : eegeaoe { y l deale ry ay interfere with his seeing the wheels go “You mean that she imuses W | »¢ ’ round. He proceede od cautiou ly , avoidir Z herself on company time hould . | anything that might give offense or make _ be attending to business? | . : s : . employees suspicious of him. He made Only partly that. What makes her a ; = | friends freely. He asked questions — he weak link is that she is too feminine. For Wwe. DEMUTH & CO., NEw york was invited, but he bothered no one nd instance, she comes back at a kidder WORLD'S LARGEST MAKERS OF FINE PIPES for three months he attended the wee * ‘ly reacts to the man who thinks of her as a conferences of department heads without woman instead of as a part ~ the ' Sisson once opening his mouth. Brothers machine. Businesslike calls ge Peter Sisson had been skeptical of the businesslike answers from her—most of the Nares scheme from the first. He was as time. But usually short and’ sharp calls anxious as anyone to determine the cause get short and sharp answers from her. She of their annoying experiences as a going often forgets that she is talking to custon concern, but he considered Paddy Nolan's — ers of the house; she never forgets that she uggestion an inopportune and excessively Continued on Page 177

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‘*Gjood workmen know the difference’”’ THE SATURDAY EVENING POST aeavnacguenDniie CRT as eaters Ga Nase ed SRG ARN bi What was wrong with Bus Wilkes on Saturday, November 8th? C OWN in Louisville, Ky , Jay H. Skinner, an old newspaper man, 1s “But th lay there wa mething wrong with Bu Wor running the Shoe Service Shop, just about the line st, most up-to-date | ] J up ali arou d hit ] Hi Pa J ul } uncl h ur and stuck shoe repair shop in this broad United States. With bis perm ission we t » it. but he just couldn't 7 m to keep uy The Brush be ref rint this letter took it wait for Bus to pass tl t inded jol The ; : . , : ; whole shop, from tl inder down to the boys that shine th Saturday Iw ( bu t day and «¢ man 1 every tter t ire f * d ichine | t vork |] t I } to p uy t W led up th t! | behind schedul At he tid t was all ov I called Bus over t What was tl ter } ] to tu t} ill d Bu I said You slowed 1 tl iwlu ifternoo t finished until near 7 We can't ke up the lost Look at this sheet; youdon’tcall that Mant i time, the schedule for the day is broken, and it gets worse and worse I looked, and sure enough, it w t “About 8:30 on Saturday morning (November 8, 1919), Bu “Th i true story of how a litt rnery sand] tt Wilkes, who runs the shop sander, stops his machine and reach hoy for a p of Specd-grit 115 D Garnet Paper Tl gy 1 piec net A hurried whistle br the Forem 1 the Foreman ds the Brush-boy scurrying to the stockroom for a ‘We are out,’ says the stock boy. ‘I aimed to order it in yest y but she slipped my 1 y . ‘Skip across the street to the hardware store, quick,” says tl Ibov od sein sda ac. ~der an wing Bus Wilke Foreman to the Brush-boy, ‘and get a couple dozen sheets of AE WORE OF TE EET. ENOIOE TINE $8 Lhey il never have anything bu in Ipaper. Bac k he com and Bu lay On a heet, switches on Speed-grits in stocr J yy him after tin U 1 workmen know the difference the motor and away goes the sander. Speed-grits 1s made by Manning Abraswe Co, | Fact \ 4 ; } } aboratory, Trov, N. ‘ Sa Ofn n Beston, Chicago, Cinemn Now Bus Wilkes is a ‘bear’ on his machin He fought tl Le nest ag i es Bocl 1] r F for more than a veat he's i } Nen Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Fran and other leadu ' WK 1) «lll OVE TANCS iv? i a: i '« y ! al i i » abd i P - ‘ oa ° va | on for “Manning Abrastve Co. n your telephone book of treatin’ ‘em roug! When he turns loose on a pile of shi Look | ning Y 1 usually makes the fur fl Send to-day for “The Difference “Book”— you'll like it end to-day |] Spe ( d-prils

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST — Greatest production is obtainable only where each machine, its electric motor and control equipment are built to co-operate most effectively. Any plant will produce more —if you let it! “E, Mee RA Lik 4k Ge RIC HE output of the American Locomotive Company’s largest plant was partly fixed by the capacity of certain tools, belt-driven, from long lines of shafting. Traffic demanded as many locomotives as possible — at once! Extra machine tools for planing could not be had. Driving each machine with a G-E motor made it possible to eliminate long lines of shafting and many belts; saved labor, oil, time and power: and materially increased the production from these machines. The machines in any plant wi// produce what they should, with the correct G-E motor drive. GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY, SCHENECTADY, N. Y. motors From the Mightiest to the Tiniest __ COMPANY February 7,1920

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 177 Continued from Page 174) everything She treats all comers the is talking to mer In making connections same--gives them prompt service and | or ding to her job she givesashadethe courteous treatment and there she stops.

best of it to the man who Jjollies her along She has a quick ear and a good memory; s and names of probably who telephone to the Though she has been with us for two years, she doesn’t know one client from another. If someone calls asking for me and |] am We have out she says so and cuts them off

house But it of employing those remonstrated time and ag Miss Smith ies to make business andfriendsforthe looks at us with a fishy eye and says that use she employs them to lighten the day _ she is giving perfect service. And she i lor her ; mechanically perfect.’ G { vhat u Padd Nolar oe yet you,’ Cooper said, ‘Any obje ut in, “‘I fail to see how this perfectly tion to di } or finding tural hun in cost the firm another place ey.’ ***None at us a sub | ‘Directly t may not,’” Nares replied stitute who Is difiler j But indirectly it doe It means that “*T can,’ Cooper said, ‘but she will cost 7 M Rict ll cones te and give you a hundred and a quarter.’ 1 er be er ( t nd the company 1s “*What? For a telephone yperator? tel gy her to give every minute—to the **Ves, a human telephone operator 1 en who register as men to her—men she one you can practically make a member Fs who pay attention to her. It’s of the firm.’ a4 table And those who don’t register *“*Oh, see here, Cooper, you're missing te that way may not get past her board. Ir the point is eve the messages and business of the ‘*I don’t think I am,’ Cooper inter- af en who are short, sharp, impersonal with rupted. ‘Think it over.’ erw ilways be langer of a sidetrack or “The subject was laid on the table after ‘ ent-1 ded t ling or of neglect.” that—for a while. Then one day a prom ‘Until you have a machine to operate nent man called in asking for one of the witchboard,”’ young Nolan objected, partner The girl replied that they were | t see v are going toovercome not in and closed the incident. The man iman nature and instinct was mad A few days later the lawyers ‘\ . Peter S on nodded learned that he had called them up to dis ‘ep Exac You invent automaton for cuss retaining them for the first time in a it place, Nares, and we'll buy it—at your whopping big case but he had been dis rouble of this sort gruntled by his treatment and had gone efore.” elsewhere. That was the last straw. The

Y ( Nare igTee ] “5 have attorney ent for Cooper ar 1 told him to es of it And before we go any bring on his new operator ° wher Twant tosay'that t's your own "She was homely and-dowdy, Comer Fanjoy velvet shaves— If the blame must be placed it goes says, but she was a miracie at the swit 1, and e I’ve been here I hi board. Troubles rolled off the backs of the - ed round me a little and have becon urtners and the girl houlder vere ed t t most busine firm eee nee Moe: athe ill In a month Get this Stropper exactly as shortsighted as you have been he knew by heart practically the number | vot of the whole trouble with the = of all the otlices ever called and more thar erve systen f busine is that vou em- t she soon had placed all the voices of nerve tenn. of busine 2 Sat poe-see Shes a seem bad Dinan i oe wate for your safety blades minor help ¢ t ipside dowr You ilS} ! ar troubl and ¢ den eauhaaes aa eens ae Have a smooth, cool, comfortable face —after every pulliading warenouse and otc , ad- : ertising, makis ections, employing shave. Always shave quick and easy. sy slropping killed and experienced workmen and de and keep it keen. your safety blade you give it a real shaving edge ment heads. and then when everything you serateh your rea for f ! up ead ind iy Now we will need a tele- pr ef ind a few messenger! ind off i me ¢ e mail a t ( ou ind all that Cit it and find some be ind girls and row then » tr jot ind then we're '’ You're just t ¢ el He turned Pe Siss¢

‘ he d& lad I } ire mr ns.” R ‘ ired a month prob That i < ‘ esmen are the ‘ ediw rough whicl 1 touch your ‘ | le Chey are rth the get or els¢ it< boy who had hear ta to ¢ ease to ¢ t And vet the one em- |} client about the « club Te ee who might be made your best minutes later Brown was on the phone for double-edged safety blades ‘ » rea hundred of your wondering how in blaze ‘ rl had ! , ‘ spe te we ee oe bs : 2 ¥ é aed You just insert the blade and turn the crank ye yhere l ie man reache ( ed | n, and my! c ’ } 7 } tly he that ut friend Bi Wi I told him otrops both edge it once reverse the | ed you for nine i ten-t ind-dollar case him blade and strops the other ide. | very ar Cooper told me ne asn | A shave turns the edge of your blade to , ! the telephone operator?” tl But he aske . ed ae nninge : - . = A at he iW teoth, like thi / otropping N i r rry Ido. Look at it fora minute. Just now “She is.” Browr smooths them back, like this/7]7 77], into , eone asked me if | wanted to make the of the month she akeencutting« lve tt it viidesover yvourtace, tele ' © Oy at n automat That ‘ and 908 Hlowever v r bear ' ever tence our n re ‘ ind ¢ ret the reverse of what tr it. your face will alw ‘ saved clean and lowe nt to make he ] want to make her Nares paused vislishttully cool and fortable, when you strop the ead t¢ irtment ilmost cal et id be 1] ’ n. your safety blades w plex Stropper ‘ , h the t in th room.” Pete S ud P “ms P 9°; « “Oh, fudge!’ the younger Nolansnorted. Nares, but if you hay Get Your T'winplex On 30 Days’ Trial Right-o! Le e tell you something. telephone r ye fromany cutlery, hardware, The other day I net at ephone company or I drt or department store man named Cooper. He is manager of a automatons, but can a Ripeoyas F } \ with 10-year service guarantee. ‘ p D. X.' I ira L private-brancn 1 ot ‘ , kel , nge P r He } | re Price u tine nicke ¢ hye } , | But } princy il ca it wv leather case o : niety rey that he kno the oo f outf ling Twinplex phone operat | t over the whol } t cor tropper na having ets More than half a million

ee ee eK t are now engage I now use | vinplex omewhere in the tropper. [t is indispensable happen along \ t lelightful shaving with “What I said before goe ; double-edged safety blades the average emplo ! lake uy lof Twinplex board operator a ? full ) da eon i evil, and he be ! mn home without i fill the place. If you obligation e are ed w Il find w t you nee : . Ni t tl M ly v P 1 4: ik hate i Write for Free Booklet. the present arrangement. Our iss Smith adrig Nolan waved nd : “s a i : aiicheat cmamain. tot dee tent Semel “¥ 'ueaold me. Nan e said. “We'll nea ['winplex Sales Company Our busine j ill ji t busine * ou cide later what to do about Mi Rich- r raves f 1649 Locust Street, St. Louis “a rom ' ¢ ew York elatior with our ¢ are close and : ; : ONE Blade f ym , a . aie sci ant friendly. Mi Smith in outsider on Peter Sisson nodded emphatically, - .

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THE SATURDAY Tutt et foal Saves 35c Every Morning in a Family of Five “ty © 2 © iam © Pd Quaker Oats 5« | Meat About 40« ad Eggs 50c Figure by Calories f = a ee . " Cost Per 1000 Calories Quaker Oats 5 \n« Hen’s Eggs , 70c } Average Meats 45« Vegetables Ile to 75¢ Average Fish 50« Broilers $1.66 L Peer ae eee as J The Extra-Flavory Flakes 15e and 35c per Package Except in the Far West and South Packed in Sealed Round Packages with Removable Cover i EVENING POST ‘Let her down easy,” he said. “It isn’t her fault that she’s pretty. If she has to go she has to go, but we mus st do something to place her first.’ Nares acquiesced, “7 ¥y ee of that,” he said, “and I think I » found just the position for her. If she t ikes it none of you will need to have her dismissal on your conscience.” “Good!” said Padrig Nolan. ‘‘And I want to say right now that I think I have , 3 ; your general idea about the company’s nervou tem, You spoke of office boys, ail clerks and so on a while ‘seems to me to explain tenographner ago. What y a lot of things.” He turned to the others. ber when we conditions ou say were in our last three months ago? one of us had story to report. Bestwick business of Cardigan & d shipments or a ry letter or something. iliing-room boys forgot to ial stamp on our letter. Sam- on & Co, had quit after their first order » of our failure to fill a te lephon e t. That's the switchboard ope rator ably. Sam Bri lger was moaning be- *‘Remen glooms over listaken e@V ery Sissor stenographer hadn’t given a memorandum about girls for the ewing machines and Drake was full of grief because his stencil boys were g the beans, I hadn’t thought but now it to me that always spillir of it be fore, seems every o1 e of those troubles could be traced to our bad nervous system, as Nares 1 ” cals it oro tee 6 of those incidents wher I tart on the prol declared, “TI among a lot of And I think my m ca from getting a the stencil - l room to Drake, head came, me new angle on » turned of the ship- partment, w much do you pay those boys, Mr. t dollars a week. much a9 Toy They don’t | or traini They haven't require any special i I and you “Nares i rl hey don’t need Jolan laughed aloud. ” Sisson exclaimed. cial training or any spe ability or sense o1 > education or anything else—and we pay them thirty a month! Then when they lose us a ten-thousand- dollar-a-year customer we wonder what's Drake, who had been slow to take the point, smiled ruefully at last. But I don’t see, Mr. Nares, how we an afford to put a good man on that job ly keep him busy two or it would or hour y. “We can't,” Nares ymethir retorted, “But g else for him to good er ough to job a we are going to,” . Phat nd to the details had been fidgeting. much 1S said, “‘but I’m Nares has up his ographers I’m ot mistaken it is my girl who is under fire. She is the one who bung Sam Br r’s message about the factorv women. my entence, Mr. Nare i ‘I don’t know how far to go with my theory about stenographers,”’ Nares replied the women are autiously. ‘Here I thinl reliable and sat factory as stenogra- y of them: rs, for inst he In any sense a private ire more than Mr. Sisson—is ance, secretary? She not sne 1s paid to make pot- hooks and transcribe them legibly. She almost does that much.” , Perhaps that is all you need, but I doubt it. I have always thought that if I were in business I would not be content vith a stenograp at I would have a fast clever typi brains. For the bulk of business that are almost forms it seems to me you should be able to iy to your g rl, ‘Tell Jones & Co, that we in’t use their goods, but let them down easy’; or, ‘Inform the Standard Pipe and Fitting Ce 4 > th: it we want estimates on a carload of such-and-such pipe.’ It ms to me tl ee mean that a at mak ing pothooks, as you nical to be efficient— I hum: qo: ww ought to be of mere letter writing would such call r that only be an incident in her work. My idea may be impracticable, but I would cer- tainly rather pay three times as much for February 7, 7/920 brains as I would for a human slate to write In my opinion the average business stenographer is more ornamental than useful.” “But,” Sisson objected, ‘‘a private sec- retary would cost me at least two hundred a month—and they are rare at that. She _— i have to be unusual. She would have to know this busin 1ess almost as well as I do. She would “Of course she would,” Nares exclaimed. “But if she is going to be part of the nerv- ous system of your business and an agency for coérdinating ycur plans and projects with apacities of the people who are to carry out those plans and projects she ought to know as mu h about the business 1 9” on. the « as possib le, oughtn’t s “Um-m-m! Pe whape you are right, Sisson said thoughtfully—“‘in the abstract But in this concrete case—what about my stenographer?” “T’ve seen a busy morning’s work to nails,’’ Nares said. “So have I,” said Sisson slowly. “I hadn’t thought of it before. Your idea is that her mind isn’t on the job?” “Tt is not—and that is not her fault. It is yours. You = made a sort of sub- clerk of her. The girl has brains. You have never given her a chance to use them. You haven't encouraged her to take an active interest in her job with you. Very few stenographers are encouraged to do that.” Nares paused, turning to the whole group. “Who is the best here >” he — Two or tht ree ans A lams ” Idle of her n the mi manicure her stop tenographer working wered at once—“ Mr odded agreement. yself,”” Nares continued of you want to give ve watched her. *t at her notes is looking up your price yur catalogue or getting other employees to talk to her about their wrote several letters for me and I saw that she knew Sisson Brothers pretty thoroughly. Mistakes I madeshe corrected She volunteered information when I needed it. She is a good stenographer—p lust” “Think she would make a private sec- retary?”’ Peter Sisson in quired abruptly “Not only would but is goir ig te »,”’ Nare replied unexpectedly. ‘‘On the first of t month she leaves this firm to take a place with Morganstern & Weil ‘The devil she does!” Sis “What's the matter with Sisson Brothers?” “‘No appreciation,”’ Nares said boldly ‘Morgan & Weil are offering her twice wl she gets here; but, what is more important to her, they propose to give her real responsibility—a real chance. Mrs. Adams will be of these day “I notice that dictation to her. always busy. W or her m: books or studvir g vi r she is l *nsne is? es sne jobs. barked stern somebody one L move hg adjourn!” Jim Nolan ex- claimed. Nares fires any more soft- nosed bullets into me I’m going to become a casualty.” “Just a minute,” his brother inter rupted. ‘“‘I suggest that we ask Nares to I write us a report whole system and prescribe remedies. en more of on our 1ervous seems to be ey a neurologist or neuro path or whatever it is than I had expected And I" m like Jim—a few more jolts and | will have te take a nerve cure myself,”’ Peter Sisson ec f ‘Wedon't heave losed the wantany reports, *hegrowled ‘What we want is action. Nares, u give me to-morrow mornin Can, All right —we’ll. neuropath Sisson hers to a fare ye well. How does eight-thirt suit you?” The members of the firm learned pre ently that Nares’ analogy between the company. and the human body could b carried a step farther—th.» nervous sy in neither case responds instantly to tre ment. In fact Nares himself had foreseen this. He opposed Peter Sisson in the lat ter’s impetuous plan of turning the whole place upside down overnight. He coun seled stu ly, educ gradual change There was some argument on the point, because Sisson felt that anything worth doing was worth doing promptly and vigoré Nares insisted that revolution would simply to set the establish- ment by the ear id in the end he won. stem ‘ation, yusly, operate His study of the situation had been superficial at best, he pointed out, and he was loath to do anyone an injustice as much as he was to overreach the mark ul immediate Continued on Page 181) hurt the company. The only

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THE SATURDAY EVENING POST 1S! Continued from Page 178 physical and moral examinatior Two he change was at the switchboard of the tele- recommended for immediate dismissal phone. Miss Richards was asked to resign. “They have bad habits,’’ he explained At first she expressed surprise and some “I have told them that they cannot get indignation, but Nares was sent to talk to anywhere until they make an entirely new + her and after that she was very sweet about start and they have promised to come to it and even thanked Padrig Nolan. When my gym classes. Their parents are backing she had left Nolan scratched his head me. I may be able to return them to you ‘*What the devil did she do that for?” in a few months, but they can’t stay now.” But everyone was relieved. ‘“‘Were they pulling the other boys Cooper, the tel one-company man, down?” Nares asked. supplied her successor. She was a large “They weren't doing any particular rawboned girl ornamented with spectacles good. Bad apples in a box, you know.” freckles, and certainly the executives “Then I'll have to see about having two ded that shewould never be accused of | new boys hired.” ng too pretty for her place. At the end “Wait a bit, Mr. Nares. I think that we a few hours the vitchboard began to can get more work done with six than you alk for her. She was a wizard. The most have had done by eight. Give mea chance amazing thing about her was her voice Nares always said that it was McDonald One expected a strident hoarse roar fr a who created something entirely new and woman so large grained; instead she purre d unheard of in office DOYS The latter were into the transmitter like a sleepy cat. There probably not aware of the « in them was something soothing about r voice selves. But in the few weeks the executive Her movements were like a cat’s, too—but were rubbing their eyes wonderingly. lh not a sleepy cat’s. She w: lightning tead of being underfoot when not wanted In a week she was lessening the burdens of and ar y where else when something was to every person in the hou be done, the office boys began to appear by In a month she knew and occu magic when called and to disappear im pation every employee, ar quiredan mediately thereafter. Routine service was uncanny know edge of de partments, sto KS, pe formed with a new s! ap and inte lhi price lists and so on that enabled her to gence. A zeal for knowledge of the busine answer from the board a good mar y of the began to stir them and two of them started questions that had aforetime been passed to night s¢ hool to take commercial course on to others She seldom said ‘‘ Hold the McDonald borrowed a corner of one of the phone while I find out.’ She never said yards where there was a dead wall cor ‘I don’t know,” and it was a rare thing venient and there he marked out a hand for her to refer an irascible and distracted ball court During the noon hour the boy telephone caller to the wrong department. worked off their surplus energies in fierce Finally, she seemed to have an infinite contest and there was no more romping capac ity for telephone numbers When a and roughing it the ness da cle iler, jobber, wholesaler, ra lroad, fac- Without Saying ; ng, tne tema tory, steamship office or freight bureau was — tized their own work to avoid duj ition was only necessary to say, “‘ Miss f territory and waste of effort, and Nare me Hilton, of the Oregon and watching them closely saw to it that eact ‘and if Hilton was to be found he upward step was rewarded by a freer op phone in another h nute portunity, more pay or a better chance to get ahead Peter Sisson stopped Nares one day “I'm afraid you've overreached your self with those oflice boys,”’ hesaid abrupt] ‘What’ “That freckle faced Frank in the execu tive rooms has been pawing over! ette lately Without hi nowing it 1 caught him at it. So I began to keep an eye or him. And you'll never guess why he wa doing it.”’ ‘It would be a smart man who could guess what a boy will do, Mr. Sisson. Lool ing for tips on the stock market perhap Ss on snorted ‘He confessed to me this morning that he working out a ter th e ed heets or ibs or mething so that he egregate n r and bring on to} ( things t portance I neve thought t it’s coing to sav was Sinn ©. especially on rus! aa I ‘ If he in I off the de ] intend t make ! ( ‘ } ‘ ‘ if i | et ! t ‘ ‘ i a . . | | XTRA wear! Get it on top of food looks by get 7 , ‘ } ting Notaseme. The exclusive Notaseme proce gives you both Notice the wear-resisting 4-ply heels and toc the lustrous uniform weave—the smooth, snug fit over ankle and instep You'll be proud of your shrewdness—and of your feet when you wear Notaseme Made for Men, Women, and Children in Lisle, Mercerized, and Silk | NOTASEME HOSIERY COMPANY, Philadelphia, Pa. | ‘ -_

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EVENING POST incoming mail and distribute it. I figure roughly that such a plan ought to add half an hour to the working day of every depart- ment head in the company.” Nares chuckled. “‘Our nervous system seems to be im- proving,” he observed. You've said it! I thought at first that you and Paddy had a brain storm, but I’ve quit that. And, by the way, I may add that I’m personally grateful to you for keeping Mrs. Adams here. She already knows more about raw-material markets and current prices than I do and my conscience doesn’t hurt any when I take a Saturday afternoon off for golf. If I wasn’t afraid of losing you I'd suggest that you hang out a sign Business Neuropath.” ‘I’m still busy here,”” Nares said. ‘And, of course, there’s my Job as tax agent.” “Tax agent your grandmother!” Sisson more norted. ‘““That came from Paddy Nolan's belonging to the Transportation Club and getting theories. But if you aren’t careful between now and the first of the year, you are going to have a real something like assistant to the presi- young fellow, title dent.” It would be incorrect to convey the im- pression that Nares did anything for Sis- son Brothers that was either epochal or revolutionary As a matter of fact the nervous troubles of the concern had been more irritating than seriously crippling. But the difference between new conditions ind old, as Paddy Nolan observed, was the difference between going to work in the with a clear head and going to morning after a night before. thir ys easier for

morning work in the Hi change had made I everyone Rough places were irened out. Leaks were stopped There were fewer errors committed; fewer aggravating de- asioned. There was less and less of the drag and downpull of slovenly methods and people in an organism where the majority were highly efficient and very impatient of those lacking in that quality. Generally speaking, Sisson Brothers was as before, but in highly important but usually neglected details there was a dis- tinct, noticeable and entirely satisfactory lays 0«¢ improvement veryone agreed that Nares’ diagnosis

had been scientifically accurate. It had been exactly the nervous system that wa out of kilter In time that system was functionir gr ormally and smoothly. A new spirit pervaded the plant. Everyone felt better because all their working condi- tions had been improved. The telephone ceili —

February 7,1920 service was not only mechanically perfect, but it was humanly helpful and useful. A new telegraph clerk handled all dispatches out and in and checked them so that they accomplished their purpose of saving time and money instead of being nothing but a life line when procrastination had made the mail too slow. In the shipping depart- ment the new stencil clerk had also been given the work of making out waybills and checking them against order slips. He was not infallible, but the system gradually was made fool-proof. The office boys be- came live and interested factors. The com- pany’s only difficulty finally became that of holding them in their places as office boys when the temptation was to promote them to larger spheres of activity. Nares be- came a fixture. He had had his big chance and had taken it. The only man with a lingering feeling of concern was Paddy Nolan, who could not forget the case of that telephone operator who had been pretty. His hints to Nares for information brought him no re- sults——all he could get was the statement that she seemed to be satisfied where she Finally he could stand it no longer. Nares,” he said one day with some embarrassment, “I'd like to be told definite about that Miss Richards—the girl who used to be on our

too was “Look here, something switchboard “Oh, Miss Richards?” Nares repeated guilelessly. ‘‘What was it you wanted to ask about her?” “*Are you ure she is in As you may remember, I got her the place he a helpless sort of little a good pe ysitior eemed thing I was really And if she isn’t well placed and I could do here sne sorry to see her go anything to help her get something bet- ter Neres smiled. “‘T’m sure she would appreciate your in- terest, Mr. Nolan,” he said guardedly “But I don’t believe you need to worry) From all I can gather her pres ent occupation is satisfactory, though I hat I don’t see about her. confess t! what she likes so parth ularly well about it. But if she happy ; “Oh, dog-gone you,” Nolan broke in, ‘are you going to tell me where she is and what she is doing, or am I going to have to hire a detective to find out?” “Well, if you put it that way,” Nares said, coloring, “I might as well comethroug} She isn’t too pretty for her present iob, Nolan—I can tell you that much. She's engaged to me.” = nd

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7h noweee 6 YOR ea RP PRN The Story of KRYPTOK Glasses THE SATURDAY EVENING POST Chapter Two poss “*I’'m tired of scowling over my reading glasses.”’ “*And I’m tired of fussing with two pairs of glasses.”’ *‘Yes, and I wish I didn’t have to wear these glasses with this ugly seam Surely there must be better glasses for near and far vision”’ that makes me look older. As a man who has been all through the three eyeglass condi tions which these people are now expe riencing, I can appre ciate the annoy ance and inconven ience which thei present glasse cause them—the more so because I have at last found KRYPTOKS (pronounced “Crip-tocks”) the perfect glasses for near and far vision I know, for instance, exactly how an noying reading glasses can become You are constantly putting them on for reading and taking them off for looking at a distance. They have ar uncanny knack of always being off at the wrong time and on at the wrong time. You get so that when you look up quickly from ‘“‘close’’ work, you scow! ever them with an exceedingly comical expression. Fussing with two pairs of glasses is even worse. Because when you want to change from near to far vision, you not only have to take off your read ing glasses, but you also have to put on your distance glasses. And there is always the possibility that in the meantime you have misplaced thre pair you wished to change to, which causes still more annoyance and co1 fusion. I have done that very thing many a time before I had KRYPTO}! Ordinary bifocals relieved some of m) difficulty, but they added newtroubles of their own. As soon as my friend noticed them (and ordinary bifocals are always perfectly obvious) the began to tell me that I was growing old. And I had to admit to myselt that the awkward seam across the lenses of those conspicuous bifocal did make me look old and odd. But now, all my eyeglass troubles are a thing of the past. I wear KRYPTOKS,: the invisible bifocals. With their aid I can read perfectly and yet I never have to remove or peer over them when I want to see at a distance I can see near and far with equal clearness. I never have to change from one pair of glasses to another. Reading and distance powers are invisibly combined in KRYPTOKS » that no one ever suspects that I ar bifocals. Unlike the con: picuous ocals, they haven't the slightest ce of a line or seam glasses for both near and far vision, enient and so good-looking as KRYPTOK Glasses Ask your optical specialist about KRYPTOK Glasses. They are, of course, sold only upon the advice o1 prescriptionoftheoculist, optometrist or optician. Write, for descriptive booklet. Please give the name of your optical specialist. KRYPTOK Company, Inc., 1017 Old South Bldg., Boston, Mass. ‘The Old Bifocal with the disfiguring seam or hump Bifocal with clear, smooth, even surfaces RYPTOK GLASSES THE INVISIBLE BIFOCALS 183 Omer here le a ee meat eter nate «OO « ALOR CARE AEN BEDS BAR

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