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CONTENTS

FOR

MARCH,

Illustration to a c c o m p a n y " T r a c k i n g t h e M a n - K i l l e r "

1911

Frontispiece

T r a c k i n g t h e M a n -.K i l l e r

. . . . Captain Fritz D u q u e s n e With photographs especially collected for this article by the author

.Codfish a n d the Ideal.

A Story

Walter

Prichard Eaton

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Illustrations by H o w a r d Giles

Steel R a i l s a n d I r o n H a n d s G o d ' s Prisoner. The

VeiSC .

P e a c e D o v e of t h e T r e s S a n t o s .

. .

A Story

Richard W a s h b u r n

Child

316

Charlotte W i l s o n

326

Harold Finley

327

E . A l e x a n d e r P o w e l l , F . R . G . S.

336

Illustrations by H o r a c e T a y l o r

Pack Y o u r Trunk and G o ! With

The

Photographs

Ne'er-Do-Well. XII-XIV

A Serial S t o r y .

Chapters R e .x B e a c h

348

Illustrations by Howard Chandler Christy and Andre Castaigne

The

Passing of the Idle Rich.

The

Fair.

A Story

Frederick

Z o n. a G a l e

T o w n s e n d Martin

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F r a n k J. C a n n o n In Collaboration with H a r v e y J. O ' H i g g i n s

383

James Oppenheim

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362

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Illustrations by H . J. Mowat

U n d e r t h e P r o p h e t in U t a h .

Drawings by M. L e o n e Bracker. and photographs

The

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A .S t o r y

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City.

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Hartley Davis

D. O. Edson

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Little Stories o f Real L i f e : T h e C h i l d r e n ' s Specialist

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Straight T a l k A ROW

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Look Up and Not Down"

E A R o l d E d w a r d E v e r e t t Hale, pastor of B o s t o n , of the United ¥ 1 States, of the W o r l d , preached • ^ - ^ a sermon when he w a s y o u n g , i '\ which grows y o u n g e r as the world g r o w s older. It w a s : " L o o k u p and n o t d o w n . Lookout and n o t in. A n d lend a h a n d . " Just n o w there is a b u n d a n t reason for a p p l y ing this t o the business of o u r c o u n t r y . F r o m everywhere w e hear business men talk ing o p t i m i s m . " B u s i n e s s looks fine," they s a y t o us when w e talk with t h e m a b o u t advertis ing, " a n d it's going t o b e better still." Advertisers are thermometers and b a r o m e t

ers b o t h . T h e y , w h o invest their m o n e y in

the intangible asset of h u m a n nature through

advertising, are the m o s t sensitive m e n o n

earth as t o business conditions. True, b a d times affect t h e m differently; for when busi ness l o o k s g l o o m y s o m e of t h e m advertise the m o r e a n d others less; the difference is o n l y a m a t t e r of their o w n courage. B u t when times l o o k g o o d , these advertisers all a c t alike,—they all w a n t t o advertise t o c a t c h the trade that the c o u n t r y has ready for them. T o - d a y w h a t the A m e r i c a n advertisers are doing is t o " l o o k u p a n d n o t d o w n . " Business looks up. Credit l o o k s up. P r o s p e r i t y l o o k s u p . L e t us all l o o k u p a n d m a t c h o u r advertising friends with equal confidence. (Continued on Page 4)

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Fitzpatrick, F. W . . M a c L a g a n , P. E . • . Saxton. Glenn A . S e d g w i c k , C h a s . S. . Stillwell, E . W , & C o . YE P l a n r y C o m p a n y

104 87 116 84 100 100

AUTOMOBILES, MOTOR BOATS AND ACCESSORIES SOc Abbott Motor C o 49 B a b c o c k Electric Carriage C o . 52 Baker M o t o r Vehicle C o . 53 Brictson Detachable Tire Treads 48 B r o c Electric VehicleC o . 93 Classified A d v e r t i s i n g 83 Crow Motor Co. . . . . 59 Electric Launch C o . 56 Elmore Mfg. C o 76 F a y & Bowen Engine Co. . 6 S Ferro Machine & Foundry C o . 57 Fisk Tire Franklin Automobile C o . Goodyear Tire & Rubber C o . . 54 102 Gray & Davis 46 Kissel M o t o r C a r C o . 43 Locomobile Co. of America 5 Maxwell-Briscoe C o . 47 Metzger Motor Car Co.. 102 Mullins, & Co., W . H . . . . 42 National M o t o r Vehicle C o . 45 Nordvke & Marmon Co. 51 "Owen, T h e " Pantasote C o 44 Peerless M o t o r C a r C o . 75 Randall-Faichney C o . 50 Reo. The 123 Roper & Co.. C. F 78 Standard Tire Protector C o . SOb Termaat & Monahan 123 Tuttle Co.. D . M 76 Waterman Marine Motor Waverley, T h e 4 0 4 1 Wilcox Motor Car Co., H . E. . Wright Engine Co., C. T . . . 104

BANKING AND FINANCIAL American Real Estate C o . Bankers' Trust C o . . Biles. R . L. & C o . . Brooksyille Board o f Trade Classified Advertising N e w First National B a n k N . Y . Central Realty C o . Postal Life Ins. C o . . S t r a u s , S. W . & C o . . Texas Gulf Fruit Land C o .

85 105 85 68 94 105 103 03 06 81

BATHROOM APPLIANCES 152 154

J. L . M o t t I r o n W o r k s Standard Sanitary M f g . C o .

BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION Alabastine C o m p a n y Berry Bros B o y l e , A . S. & C o Cabot. Samuel C a r e y M f g . C o . , Philip . Carter White Lead C o . .

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BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION Cont'd p a g e Dahlstrom Metallic Door Co. , Genasco Ready Roofing . . Jap-A-Lac Johns-ManvUle Co., H . W . Kenyon & Co., R. L Leader Iron W o r k s Mershon & Morley National Fireprooflng C o . . . National Lead C o Niagara Hydraulic Engine Co. N. W . Compo-Board Co. . Pratt & Lambert . . . Southern Cypress Mfrs. Ass'n . Tarvia United Hoofing & M f g . C o . Up-To-Date Mfg. Co. . Wyckoff Lumber & Mfg. C o .

, 130 . 32 58 36 07 106 107 . 138 35 S6 37 36 . 134 25 26 SO . 119

CAMERAS AND OPTICAL GOODS Ansco C o Classified A d v e r t i s i n g . Eastman Kodak C o Goerz Optical C o . , C . P.

38 91 I l l 76

CIGARS AND TOBACCO AND PIPES Rogers & Co., John B Shivers, Herbert D . Spaulding & Merrick (Velvet T o bacco)

CUTLERY AND STROPS Autoxfrop Safety R a z o r Classified A d v e r t i s i n g Ever-Ready Razor C o . Meisselbach Bros., A . F. Star Safety R a z o r C o . .

04 94 97 S2 143

EDUCATIONAL Alviene United Stage T r . Sch. . 6 American A c a d e m y of Dramatic Arts 6 American Collection Service 80 American Schools' Association^. 6 American School o f Corres. Bissell C o l l e g e o f P h o t o g r a p h y Chautauqua School o f Nursing Chicago Corres. School Chicago Corres. School o f L a w Classified A d v e r t i s i n g 90 Columbian Corres. College 7 Cortina Acad, of Languages 9 Dickson M e m o r y School Educational Aid Society 6 Evans, W . L . . S c h .o f C a r t o o n i n g

G o o d w i n , J. H International Corres. Schools K a m p Kill K a r e L a n d o n Sch. o f Cartooning Language-Phone Method L e Vere Studios Lewis School National Park Seminary National Press Association . Northwestern Sch. for Stammerers I * a g e - D a v i s S c. h o o l . . . Powell, George H Practical S c h .o f Salesmanship Ransom, C. W R o c k f o r d College for W o m e n

8 145 6 8 8

EDUCATIONAL Continued R o g e r s Hall School f o r Girls School o f Applied A r t Sheldon School, T h e Sprague Corres. S c h .o f L a w Stanley Hall St. L o u i s T r a d e S c h o o l s Syracuse University Universal Business Inst. University o f Chicago Press U . S. S c h o o l o f M u s i c .

7 115 8 6 9 6 7 6 7

FOOD PRODUCTS Anheuser-Busch Brewing C o . Armour & C o Baker Importing Co—Coffee Buffalo Lithia Springs W a t e r C o Campbell's Soup Cresca C o m p a n y Crystal D o m i n o Sugar . Curtice Brothers . . . Eskay's Food . . . . Grape-Nuts Holstein-Friesian Ass'n . Horlick's Malted Milk . Hunt Bros. C o . Huyler's Cocoa Butter . Jell-O Knox. Chas. B . , Gelatine Lea & Perrins Sauce Mellin's Food C o . Nabisco Pabst Extract Peter's Chocolate SchJeffelin & C o . Toasted Corn Flakes Washburn-Crosby Co. . W e l c h Grape Juice . W h i t e R o c. k . . . Whitman & Co.. Stephen F. W i l b u r & S o n ,H . O .

60 95 118 136 20 114 114 115 117 17 115 114 80b 118 61 113 117 151 150 137 148 118 cover cover 70 116 114 76

FURNITURE Berkey & G a y Furniture C o Bishop Furniture C o . Come-Packt Furniture C o . Gunn Furniture C o . Piedmont Cedar Chest C o . Stafford M f g . C o . , E . H .

29 SO 102 120 100 66

HEATING AND LIGHTING American Radiator Co. . Guyasuta Mfg. C o . . Jahant Heating C o . . Peck-Williamson C o . Standard Gillette Light C o . Superior M f g . C o .

23 107 71 31 80 84

HOUSE FURNISHINGS Bissell C a r p e t S w e e p e r C o . Brunswick-Balke-Collender C o C a r b o r u n d u m CO. Clinton Wire Cloth C o . Electric Renovator M f g .C o . Foster Bros M c C r a y Refrigerator C o . M a c b e t h Evans Glass C o . . M o n r o e Refrigerator

THE REST OÍ INDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTS CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 .

116 112 SOd 147 27 110 108 116 69

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Household Supplies A d a m s & Elting C o . (Ad-El-Ite) . 120 " (Hy-Pol) 74 Buffalo Specialty C o . (Liquid Veneer) 120

3-in-One-Oil C o 121 Insurance

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Columbia Phonograph Co. . . 21 . 109 Ivers & P o n d Piano C o . Lewis & Son. W m . D 68 M e l v i l l e C l a r k P i a n o C o . . 33 .158-159 National Phonograph Co. 106 Packard Piano C o 34 Steger & Sons Victor Talking Machine Co. . 18-19 Vose & Sons 113

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TOILET ARTICLES Chesebrough Mfg. Co. . Colgate's Dental Cream Cuticura Soap Dioxogen . . . . Dupont. E., C o m p a n y Fairbank, N . K.—Fairy Soap Ivory Soap LaBlache Face Powder Mennen's Toilet Powder Newskin Company . Pompeian Mfg. Co. . Rexall . . . . Royal Specialty C o . Rubberset C o m p a n y Sanitol T o o t h P o w d e r Scott Paper C o . (Tissue Towels) W i l l i a m s C o . , J. B . . 4th W o o d b u r y ' s Facial Soap Travel,

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y o u r finger across the map from Baluchistan to Singapore, an eighth of the globe. Between these points lie the m i g h t y states of the Indian Empire, towering mountain ranges, and broad and stately rivers—the Indus, the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, the Irawadi, the M a r t a b a n — all flowing to the sea from the high Himalayan gable of the earth. In this vast area, with its jungles, its deserts, its tum bling hill country, lies one of the world's greatest hunting grounds, a region of big game second to Africa alone. My one wish was to test m y nerves on a tiger. T i m e and again, around the c a m p fires of the African veldt, I had heard tales of the big striped cat. M e n that knew told me there was no quarry afoot that compared with it in cunning and ferocity. In their minds, it was the most difficult to hunt of all the hunted ones. A n d so, with a re solve to test the truth of the camp-fire Copyright.

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stories, I t o o k ticket for Calcutta—since there are no tigers in Africa—and from there pushed deep into the Indian jungles. It will no d o u b t astonish m a n y to hear that India runs so close to Africa in its wildness. One easily pictures Africa as a h o m e of big game. Comparatively speak ing, it is sparsely populated, and m u c h r o o m remains everywhere within it for u n c o u n t e d hosts of wild things. But that India, teem ing with a population of more than three hundred million souls, should still have space for big game of m a n y kinds seems v e r y nearly incredible. For the Empire averages one hundred and sixty-seven human beings to the square mile. T h e n , again, this astonishes: N o t only is there r o o m for game in plenty, but m u c h of it is of the most dangerous sort. On an average, India loses every year t w e n t y thousand persons and fifty'thousand head of cattle from the depredations of wild Comf-any.

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Tracking the Alan-Killer beasts. Consider these figures—statistics c o m p i l e d b y the g o v e r n m e n t ; they show b o t h the abundance of man-killing game and the mortality due to their ravages: In one year hyenas killed 2 8 , elephants 2 9 , bears 8 7 , leopards 3 0 1 , wolves S 2 9 , tigers 8 0 9 , snakes 1 5 , 2 6 1 , and other animals 1 , 1 2 7 —a total of 1 8 , 4 7 1 . There must be m a n y others not a c c o u n t e d for. I n the same year 4 8 , 4 0 0 cattle fell a prey to marauding beasts. R e m e m b e r , t o o , that crocodiles, which are h e a v y destroyers, are not men tioned in the list. B u t that the destruc tion is not all one-sided m a y be realized from the fact that during the same period— that is, in a single y e a r — 2 7 , 0 0 0 dangerous animals were destroyed, besides 1 1 6 , 5 0 0 snakes. C o u l d such a condition exist else where than in India? I think not. The indifference of the natives toward this situation is unbelievable. F o r ages they have suffered, have paid their toll of death, and y e t they remain passive, like their cattle. Europeans that k n o w the c o u n t r y will unite in telling y o u that the timidity of the native encourages the beasts to attack human life. One white man c y n ically remarked to m e that the life of the average H i n d u was so miserable, a n y w a y , that he m a d e little effort to preserve it. A t a n y rate, it is true that the H i n d u willingly leaves the c o u n t r y to its wild life. B y the millions he crowds to the cities, where he is content to fester, to exist in hopeless p o v erty and squalor. Out of justice to the Hindu, however, it should be said that to a great extent the laws m a d e b y foreigners are responsible for this. T h e conqueror will not let the native own a rifle, lest he m a y some day wish to rule and so turn the w e a p o n on his British overlords. Naturally, without a means of self-defense, the native shuns the jungle. B u t though India is the habitat of the leopard and the tiger—two of the world's most dangerous beasts—it is not to be c o m pared with Africa for its perils. Of course, if one hunts for danger in India it m a y be found there readily—danger enough to daunt the stoutest heart. But, for the m o s t part, the Indian m e t h o d s of sport are little m o r e than child's play beside the D a r k Continent's perilous amusement. In India, for one thing, there is no hard ship. M o s t of the shooting is done from a h o w d a h strapped to an elephant's back, in which one is literally carried to the game.

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M e n with one arm or one leg or otherwise crippled m a y hunt with success in Indian jungles; but not in Africa, where, as a rule, In Africa, the hunter faces the g a m e afoot. furthermore, one usually hunts alone, with a native shikaree, and perhaps an extra gun-bearer in attendance. B u t in India the c r o w d turns o u t ; it is a party, ordinarily. For the outsider, however, shooting is made difficult in India. Permission is re quired from the British ruler and also from the district's native rajah. Unless y o u b e long to a party of officials, military or civil, you might as well seek elsewhere for y o u r hunting. A smattering of Hindustani is imperative. Y o u will require also the trained shikar elephants; and as these are owned b y officials and native princes, unless you have the proper introduction y o u can not rent them for love nor m o n e y . A n d elephants are absolutely essential on ac count of the nature of the hunting grounds. Providing, however, that y o u have the influence, the best ground awaits y o u be tween the Himalayas and the R i v e r Ganges, and in the country along the Brahma putra. Burma, Assam, and Singapore are also splendid shikar grounds. But apart from these domains, perhaps the best and most accessible place is northern Bengal, any part of which can be reached hy rail way. It was at Jubbulpur, in this region, that I took part in m y first Indian hunt. B y g o o d fortune, in Calcutta I found Mr. Mortimer, an English friend, w h o was Through just starting on a tiger hunt. him, everything was made easy for me. After our passports were issued, our outfit made ready, and our servants engaged, w e b o a r d e d a train of the Indian railway. F o r a great stretch, the line parallels the Ganges, traversing the depths of a miasmatic jungle, an impenetrable mesh of foliage defended against human invasion b y a riotous pro fusion of thorn vines and other creepers. One saw at a glance here w h y one needed an elephant to take one through the jungle. On our arrival at Jubbulpur, where the government's elephants are stabled, I was astonished to find that a number of w o m e n were to go with us on our hunt. In fact, what struck me first at the stables was the sight of them strolling under their parasols a m o n g the big beasts and the native at tendants. T o m y eye n o w , the shikar be gan to take on the aspect of a big picnic.

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T h e r e were the huge white tents, the pic turesquely dressed a n d undressed natives, the soldiers, the w o m e n in white dresses, ready to w a t c h the jungle tragedy from

a loge on their elephant's b a c k , the m e n in white duck and pith helmets—almost a fete, it seemed. A l m o s t e v e r y b o d y , t o o , was a lord, a sir, or an honorable, all related

to some one h a v i n g a h a n d in the British Indian government. A n d , in a m o u n t a n d quality, the provisions b r o u g h t along w o u l d h a v e d o n e credit to a first-rate hotel. E v e r y t h i n g was ready n o w . T h e ele phants were driven u p and c o m m a n d e d t o fall u p o n their knees. M e n and w o m e n c l i m b e d to the h o w d a h s b y ladders. The head shikaree g a v e the signal; each elephant h e a v e d to his feet like a m o u n t a i n in an e a r t h q u a k e ; a n d off w e started in a l o n g string t o w a r d the N e r b u d d a R i v e r . T o me, it l o o k e d as if the big cat w o u l d n o t h a v e m u c h of a c h a n c e . Squatted on the neck of each elephant sat its m a h o u t , the native driver. A steel g o a d helped him to guide the u n w i e l d y b e a s t ; and I ' m b o u n d to say the m a h o u t used it freely. T h e s e were shikar elephants w e rode, trained for the hunt, s u p p o s e d t o stand when a tiger charges, a n d n o t to flinch when a rifle is fired from the h o w d a h . I say supposed, for few elephants live that d o n o t fear the tiger. Later, y o u will see w h a t mine did—incidentally, w h a t he did to m e — when charged. Besides these shikar brutes, there were o t h e r elephants used for beating u p the g a m e . On them, our native aides rode along, unprotected b y a h o w d a h and sitting o n p a d s strapped to the elephants like saddles. M y h o w d a h , like all the others, resembled nothing so m u c h as a b i g cradle. I t was fitted with side racks for the guns. Gener ally, t w o rifles are carried, o n e a small b o r e , h i g h - v e l o c i t y a r m of, say, seven millimeter caliber; a n d a double-barreled express running b e t w e e n . 4 5 0 a n d . 6 0 0 cali ber. T h e d o u b l e .577 is still a great favor ite a m o n g Indian s p o r t s m a n ; justly so, t o o , for its bullet has a crushing i m p a c t cal culated t o s t o p the charge of a l m o s t any beast. M a n y I n d i a n hunters f a v o r also a twelve or an eight g a u g e double-barreled shotgun, using spherical balls. A great advantage of such guns is the ease with which they m a y b e sighted, for they h a v e o n l y a b e a d at the muzzle, a n d m a y b e sighted b y glancing d o w n the rib. At close quarters, to b e able t o take a snap shot w i t h a g o o d c h a n c e of hitting the mark is a big factor of safety. Again, sights for long distances are superfluous in the dense I n d i a n jungle, for nearly always the g a m e is seen close at hand, say, at b e t w e e n thirty and sixty y a r d s . So the great necessity is to b e able to s h o o t

Tracking the Alan-Killer quickly with some feeling of confidence in y o u r aim. After a consultation, our shikaree turned into a part of the jungle where a kill had been m a d e the night before. A " k i l l " is the carcass of an animal slain b y the tiger or other beast. Ordinarily, the killer hangs about in the immediate n e i g h b o r h o o d , waiting to m a k e a second meal at nightfall and in the meanwhile driving the jackals, vultures, and hyenas from its prey. A s the tiger is nocturnal, it dozes during daylight in some shady spot near the banquet place. Furthermore, it usually shuns dens and very rarely hunts long in one particular district. T h i s accounts for the fact that the lion has practically b e c o m e extermi nated in India, while the tiger is appar ently as abundant as ever. As we approached the " k i l l , " the shikaree called the sahibs' attention to a flock of gaunt vultures perched in near-by trees. It was an auspicious sign. Besides, some of the elephants were twitching their ears and trunks and treading uneasily, having evidently g o t wind of their foe. So, to rout out the beast, the beaters made a de tour of half a mile to get behind it, while we, the hunters, t o o k our stand at the jun gle's edge. W e were to wait there until the tiger had been driven up to our guns. As the elephant walks six miles an hour, it was not long before the din of the drums and shouts of the beaters reverberated through the jungle, scaring m o n k e y s , pea cocks, smaller birds, and dozens of other jungle dwellers before them. Sambur deer, barking deer, s w a m p deer broke past us in twos and threes; and a diminutive mouse deer, not over twelve inches high, plunged between m y elephant's legs. W i t h a snort of fear the huge beast turned to bolt, and had it not been for the m a h o u t ' s steel goad, I might have been carried off into the thorn jungle, and perhaps brained against the branches. T h i s nervousness on the part of m y m o u n t did not give me much faith in his alleged courage before a tiger's charge. T h e din m a d e b y the beaters grew louder, and we heard, t o o , the peculiar drumming sound m a d e b y some of the elephants— their sign that a dangerous animal was near. This brought us to our feet in the howdahs, lingers on triggers. Just then a deer in wild fright HCAV past us, and the shikaree, pointing to the left, whispered " T i g e r , s a h i b . " I saw him then. Before

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me was the m i g h t y cat, his j a w almost to the ground as he sneaked, half crouching, through the jungle. H e stood for an instant in suspense. T h e n , as I was a b o u t to shoot, m y elephant, with a scream of rage, charged straight at the beast, shaking m e clear out of the h o w d a h into the bushes, which luck ily broke m y fall. A t the same time, one of m y c o m p a n i o n s fired, and w o u n d e d the tiger. Altogether, there was plenty of ex citement for a m o m e n t . M y rifle e x p l o d e d as I landed, and that, with the elephant's trumpeting, the tiger's howling roar, and the cries of the beaters m a d e a nerveracking din. B u t the tiger was undaunted. H e met the charge of m y enraged elephant, and with a lithe spring was on its head, sinking claws and teeth into the huge beast's neck and trunk, while the m a h o u t beat at him with his g o a d , and the ele phant tried to crush its e n e m y on the ground. Because of the position of the t w o combatants, it was impossible for m y c o m panions to shoot. Resenting the blows of the mahout's g o a d , the big cat sank his claws into the fellow's thigh, and tried to pull him d o w n . This revived m e to action and, seizing m y rifle, I fired the remaining barrel into the tiger's spine. W i t h a roar of pain he fell backward to the ground, and the m a d d e n e d elephant, bleeding profusely from m a n y wounds, tusked and trampled the beast to a pulp before it could be driven off. T h e fascinating part of big-game hunting is that the unexpected generally happens. I was not prepared, however, to have an elephant that had bolted from a harmless mouse deer charge a tiger. B u t that's what happened; and y o u m a y be sure that I kept this incident in mind during all m y future experiences. Our next tiger hunt was of a different character. It resembled more the hunting in Africa, and was c o n d u c t e d from a look out platform, or mucharn, constructed in a tree. T h e village shikaree informed us that a tiger was carrying off the village cattle at night; so, to entice our quarry into the vicinity of the mucharn, half a dozen domestic buffaloes were tied up as a bait. W e were informed that the marauder was an old offender, and although a hundred attempts had been made b y the village shikarees to destroy it, it had escaped all their efforts. In fact, the villagers h a d begun to believe the tiger possessed super

natural powers. B u t M o r t i m e r a n d I de cided to try our luck o n the village curse. I t is far from comfortable to sit in a cramped position all night o n an unsteady platform, in a tree that sways with the wind, waiting for a shot at a dark p a t c h that m o v e s in the blackness, while the fireflies w a v e their lamps in y o u r face a n d every conceivable insect beats a b o u t y o u r head, to say nothing of a lizard or t w o that crawls into y o u r shirt. T h r e e hours of misery had passed when I heard the b u l l o c k near m e begin tugging at his tether. Straining m y eyes for a glimpse of the expected tiger, I saw a b l a c k shape m o v i n g across the o p e n ing. A dull thud followed; afterward there was a bellow, a n d for a m o m e n t sounds of a struggle arose. T h e n all was still. I waited perhaps half an hour before I heard the sloppy, tearing sound that is m a d e b y an animal eating un-bled meat. could hardly see to shoot, b u t I I leveled m y rifle, which had luminous sights, at the dark mass, and fired. A roar of pain burst from the target, telling m e I had reached m y mark. T h e echo of the shot had hardly died a w a y when t w o loud reports on m y right told me,

t o o , that something of i m p o r t a n c e was happening w i t h m y c o m p a n i o n . D e s c e n d i n g the tree, I m a d e m y w a y cau tiously to the b l a c k mass I h a d shot at, c o v ering it in case it should rise a n d charge. T h e n m y friend, M o r t i m e r , cried at the t o p of his v o i c e : " I ' v e g o t h i m ! " " I have, t o o ! " I answered and, t o m a k e sure, I fired another shot at m y fallen quarry. I t did not m o v e . T o m a k e d o u b l y sure, h o w e v e r , I lighted a b u n c h of d r y reeds, a n d saw t o m y astonishment that, instead of a tiger, I had killed a huge leopard. T h e unex pected again! Again, while I was l o o k i n g o v e r m y kill, I heard t w o additional reports from M o r timer's h e a v y rifle; a n d then in rapid suc cession half a d o z e n shots f r o m his auto matic pistol. I k n e w there w a s trouble, and, crying at the t o p of m y v o i c e , ran stumbling through the darkness t o w a r d him, loading as I a d v a n c e d . T o m y relief I saw M o r t i m e r standing in an o p e n i n g w i t h the huge f o r m of a tiger at his feet. H e t o l d m e that just as I first fired he saw his tiger. H e fired a n d the beast w e n t d o w n . A s it rose again, he g a v e it the other barrel; a n d then, feeling certain the animal 2Q6

was dead, he descended from his mucharn. B u t when he was within twenty yards, it again leaped u p and charged. H e fired t w o more shots in rapid succession.. T h e beast rolled over with a roar, only to rise and charge for a second time. W h i p p i n g out his Luger pistol, he p o u r e d bullets into the beast as it c a m e on, until one well-directed shot penetrated the tiger's brain and it fell at his feet. N e x t morning, when the shikarees b r o u g h t the carcasses into c a m p to skin, they found nine bullets in the big cat's b o d y . A n incident in this hunt illustrates the peculiar mental processes of some Asiatics. T h e g o v e r n m e n t gives a reward varying from thirty to fifty rupees to any native or natives w h o kill a tiger. So as soon as the village shikaree saw M o r t i m e r ' s tiger, he i m m e d i a t e l y recognized it as the cattle thief and claimed the reward from M o r t i m e r , saying that the sahib had destroyed his tiger and deprived him of the government reward. M o r t i m e r , w h o was rich, decided to p a y rather than argue. T h e n c a m e another piece of brilliant Asiatic reasoning. T h e reward was thirty rupees for a tiger killed from a tree or an 297

elephant's b a c k , and fifty for one killed on foot. W h e n M o r t i m e r handed over thirty rupees to the shikaree, the native c o u n t e d it with dignified gravity and then, turning with a you-tried-to-cheat-me air, said, " T h e sahib forgets that the reward for a tiger killed on foot is fifty rupees." M y friend roared with laughter and, thinking the j o k e o n himself was w o r t h it, he paid the extra twenty rupees. W h a t is more, we found at the end of our hunt that we had to p a y to all our natives a reward for every animal w e killed. M y next tiger experience was with a maneater, an animal that p r e y e d on h u m a n beings exclusively. Man-eaters are b y no means infrequent, and whenever one is on a raid, it strikes terror into the hearts of every villager in the district. A single tiger of this sort m a y prey on twenty different villages, visiting one to-day, another toÂ m o r r o w . T o m y mind, there is nothing that so chills one's b l o o d with horror as this sinister brute that passes, silently as a cloud's shadow, from hut to hut, looking for an entrance. T h e native lies awake looking through the opening of the hut. T h e crackÂ ling of a twig startles him, he strains his eyes,

Everybody's and trembles with apprehension. H e has nothing but a knife with w h i c h to defend himself. All at once, as if b o r n o u t of the silence, silhouetted against the m o o n ' s silver flood, there stands the apparition, the m a n eater. A n d after that T h e natives c r o w d round the deserted hut and there is mourning in the village. A daily o c c u r rence in India. I t was with exultation that I started off one d a y with M o r t i m e r to a village where a maneater had been seen the d a y before. I t o o k m y nine-millimeter Haenel-Mannlicher rifle and a thirty-five R e m i n g t o n auto-loader for fast work at close quarters, should the beast charge. W h e n we reached the village w e were taken to a mueharn, which M o r t i m e r m o u n t e d , for it was already dark. I re mained below, as I thought I should like to have it out with the tiger in the African m o d e , that is, o n the level of the ground. H o u r after hour passed without incident. I t was getting toward morning, and I was dozing, half asleep, when M o r t i m e r ' s d o u b l e express banged like thunder twice on the platform over m y head. In a flash I was on m y feet A n instant later I saw the tiger not thirty yards away. I fired hap hazard, but did no evident damage, and it vanished in the jungle. M o r t i m e r was con vinced he had w o u n d e d the beast, so we waited till daylight, and searched for the tiger's trail. It was eventually found b y a native, w h o , after following it for a fewyards, picked up a large leaf of the teak koon"—point tree, and cried " K o o n , sahib, ing to a drop of b l o o d . This was a g o o d sign. As we were afraid the beast might get away, we t o o k after it on foot, instead of sending for elephants. Our shikarees, h o w ever, did not like the idea of hunting the man-eater on foot, and protested sullenly. So I told them to walk behind, for I could follow the trail easily, as it passed d o w n the center of a dry ravine. Eventually we reached a point where the ravine made an abrupt turn past a small thicket of tamarisk. W e divided our forces, M o r t i m e r going one side and I the other. A s I came to the end of the thicket, a water hole met m y view and—what I desired to see more than anything else—there was the tiger, lying in the water with o n l y his head out. T a k i n g careful aim, I fired, b u t though m y shot hit, it did not kill. W i t h a short, sharp roar the big cat sprang from the water,

Magazine and rushed around the other side of the thicket. A s e c o n d later I heard t w o shots from M o r t i m e r ' s express, a roar, a n d then a cry for help. R u n n i n g t o w a r d him at t o p speed, I saw a sight that m a d e m y b l o o d run cold. M o r t i m e r was o n the g r o u n d , his white clothing c o v e r e d with b l o o d , while standing o v e r him, its m o u t h dripping with gore, was the tiger. T h e shikarees w h o had our extra rifles and h a d g o n e b y another route to the p o o l , c a m e rushing up, breaking through the bush almost o p p o s i t e the tiger. I n a m o m e n t it charged t h e m and they o p e n e d fire, b u t n o n e of their shots stopped the brute. O n e of the shikarees d r o p p e d his g u n and ran; the other s t o o d , firing as the beast a d v a n c e d . W h e n the magazine was e m p t y the native tried to reload it, b u t t o o late; for the m i g h t y b u l k of the animal flew through the air a n d b o r e the u n l u c k y fellow t o earth. F o r s o m e reason the beast used o n l y its claws. I t fell o v e r the b o d y of the man, and then began wiping its face with its p a w like a house cat. I g o t d o w n o n the g r o u n d and crawled nearer to get a better shot. A c o b r a in the grass raised his h e a d in front of m e , thrust out his tongue, and vanished. A t last I was within easy range. I g o t on m y knee and fired, and at the shot the tiger sank in a limp heap o n its v i c t i m , dead. W h e n I reached M o r t i m e r , he was sitting up, wiping He the b l o o d from his clothes with grass. told his s t o r y : " Y o u ' d n o sooner fired than the tiger c a m e b o u n d i n g r o u n d the thicket. I c o u l d n ' t take a i m : I just fired, h o p i n g for a l u c k y shot. T h e tiger sprang at m e — d o w n I went. T h e b l o w b l a c k e n e d m y brain for a while. W h e n I g o t m y senses I felt the huge b o d y of the animal across m e and hot b l o o d flowing o v e r m y n e c k and head. W h e t h e r it was m y b l o o d or n o t I did not k n o w . I w o n d e r e d h o w long I h a d to live and just waited to feel his teeth in m y flesh. T o m y surprise he g o t u p and ran. I am p r e t t y sore b u t still alive. Shake h a n d s . " In the m e a n t i m e the shikaree w h o had run was attending his c o m p a n i o n . W h e n we reached him the p o o r fellow was hardly breathing. H e was carried to the village, where he died in a b o u t six hours, his skull having been fractured b y a b l o w from the beast's h e a v y p a w . On examining the tiger, I f o u n d that the first shot I fired, w h i c h h a d an expansive bullet, had shattered the b o t t o m j a w after passing through the bridge of the nose. F o r

Everybody's that reason the brute was unable to use its teeth—which no d o u b t saved M o r t i m e r ' s life. Again the unexpected! While o n another tiger hunt, I had the g o o d fortune to witness o n e of the grandest c o m b a t s a man could h o p e to see. I t was a c o m b a t that w o u l d h a v e m a d e the e m perors of R o m e a p p l a u d — o n e that b r o u g h t to me the realization of w h a t the heroic animal life of the jungle really is. I was perched on a mucharn built in a solid old tree on the jungle's edge, waiting for a tiger that had a kill n o t m o r e than fifty yards a w a y . T h e scraggy trees of the s w a m p were silhouetted against a sun that blazed in the west like a ball of incandescent copper. T h e d a y insects ceased their h u m , and the fairy life of the night, whose dawn is the setting day, came buzzing in myriads from their hiding places, like the ballet of an elfin opera. A stately crane stepped daintily through the reeds, and fat-breasted little birds of brilliant plumage settled on twigs, kissed, ruffled their feathers, and p u t their tiny heads beneath their wings. I breathed deep. T h e swamp air, sweet to m y nostrils, almost intoxicated m e . T h e n all at once I heard h e a v y feet forcing their w a y through the tangle. T h e giant grass ahead of m e swayed and b e n t d o w n , and a m o m e n t later a splendid buffalo c o w breasted her w a y out of the entanglement and stood in the open. Suspiciously she sniffed the air, and then, throwing her face toward heaven, she bellowed like thunder. I seemed to shake in the tree. A m o m e n t later an answer came, as if from miles away, and the c o w replied. She shook her m i g h t y horns and then d r o v e them into the earth. She walked up to the tiger's kill and sniffed it. Again the thunder of her throat burst the silence. Suddenly she showed uneasiness. She turned and looked with lowered head past m y tree. M y eyes followed hers. My tiger was there, just on the jungle's edge, within its protecting grass, skulking silently along, with his white belly sweeping the ground. H e saw the buffalo. H e stopped motionless, save for his twitching, writhing tail. T h e c o w scattered the loose earth with Shoot I could not, I a stroke of her hoof. w o u l d not. I wanted to see the jungle Slowly the tiger crept into the drama. open, never straightening his elastic b o d y , his eyes fastened on the c o w . His j a w hung

Magazine half o p e n and dripping. R o u n d a n d r o u n d in a circle he w e n t , t r y i n g to get b e h i n d the buffalo; b u t she was t o o q u i c k for h i m . He paused a n d d r e w himself i n t o a ball, his tail lashing the g r o u n d . T h e n , like a rocket, his b o d y shot through the air, as with a thunderous b e l l o w the buffalo charged, her m i g h t y horns leveled. T h e y m e t in the air. T h e s h o c k hurled b o t h to earth. I n a flash t h e y were up, and with another roar, another bellow, they charged. T h e tiger missed, b u t his leap landed h i m b e h i n d the buffalo, and, turning swiftly, he sprang u p o n her b a c k . B u t b e fore his teeth sank i n t o her flesh, she threw herself o v e r a n d rolled. T h e tiger, to p r o tect himself, l o o s e n e d his g r i p ; again he seized her as she sprang to her feet. But the c o w s h o o k h i m off, a n d w i t h a roar charged, b o w l i n g h i m o v e r , a n d forcing him against the tamarisk. B l o o d was flow ing from her bellowing m o u t h , streaming, too, from the claw w o u n d s in her b a c k , as she retreated to get charging distance to finish him. B u t he was still fit to fight, and again he sprang. H e landed b e t w e e n her m i g h t y horns, his b o d y hanging o v e r her face. His teeth sank i n t o her flesh. B l o o d filled his m o u t h and ran d o w n the c o w ' s sides. She roared in pain, and, lowering her head, charged at a stout tree with her burden. A feeble roar told the tiger's distress. In a limp heap he fell t o the g r o u n d . The buffalo drew b a c k and measured her mark. A short rush forward, a twist of the horn, and she had gored h i m m o r t a l l y . H e tried to crawl a w a y . A roar of v i c t o r y shook the s w a m p grass as the c o w charged again. She lifted the huge beast o n her horn and dashed him to death. N i g h t crept o n , and the c o w disappeared in the darkness that fell like a curtain over the last act of the j u n g l e tragedy. I w a n t e d to say something to the splendid animal in her v i c t o r y , to stroke her scarred skin, and never till then did I k n o w the narrow limits of h u m a n speech. T h e leopard, w h i c h shares with the tiger the h o n o r of being o n e of I n d i a ' s scourges — b o t h in I n d i a and elsewhere, the cattle's greatest scourge—is another n e r v e strainer for the hunter. Australia is the o n l y conti nent w i t h o u t s o m e v a r i e t y of this animal B u t , t h o u g h a w i c k e d beast, it affords little sport and, t o get a shot, o n e has to d e p e n d on luck as m u c h as a n y t h i n g . T h i s

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is because, like the tiger, the leopard has n o fixed a b o d e , no den. It has more cunning and courage than any other animal I have ever encountered. T h e tiger seldom enters a dwelling or house of any sort that is reasonably barred against him. T h e leopard, h o w e v e r , will try to force its w a y into a n y house or shed where it can detect the slightest o d o r of p r e y , and, failing to reach it, will walk up and d o w n all night in the vicinity. Leopards are exceedingly fond of dogs, and will g o to almost any extremity to get one, as the following incident shows. O n e night, M o r t i m e r was in m y tent writing letters, neither of us thinking an animal w o u l d come near the tent, which was well lighted with a powerful lamp. A t our feet w as a fine Russian wolf-hound, which had accompanied M o r t i m e r all over Africa and India. A s the animal was prized greatly, it always occupied its master's tent, and on this occasion was tied to his cot. Pres ently I thought I saw something pass the door, and then decided it must have been m y imagination. A little later I looked up again and saw the t w o green, phosphorescent eyes of a leopard. I pre tended I did not see it, and slowly sneaked m y hand round for m y pistol; b u t the ani mal disappeared. I j u m p e d up and went outside. Looking everywhere, I could see no sign of the leopard, and was about to give up the search, when a howl of pain sounded from M o r t i m e r ' s tent, and the next instant the leopard b o u n d e d out, hold ing the d o g in its m o u t h as a cat holds a mouse. Like a flash I fired, missed the first shot, and got in the second and third that killed it. But the dog was dead, its back crushed b y the powerful jaws. T

It is natural when writing of leopards to associate with them the cheetah—an animal whose natural hunting instinct has been cultivated in India for sporting pur poses since dark antiquity. A l t h o u g h the animal is plentiful in Africa, it is there only in a wild state. A n d , while I have seen cheetahs used as pets b y French officers in Africa and have had one myself, I have never seen them trained to hunt as they are in India. M o s t native princes have their cheetahs, which they use in the sport of deer coursing; m a n y of them reserve jungles where n o one is allowed to shoot, even though a maneater m a y have m a d e it his lair.

T h e coursing usually takes place during the cold m o n t h s , w h e n there is little grass to hide the g a m e , and generally the quarry is the magnificent a n d fleet-footed black deer. Before the cheetah is taken to the hunting grounds he is starved for t w e n t y four hours to m a k e h i m keen, for he k n o w s from long experience that if he brings d o w n his p r e y his reward will b e its b l o o d . T h e cheetahs that I saw in action were the personal p r o p e r t y of the R a j a h of Pun j a b , whose keepers c o n d u c t e d the hunt for the benefit a n d edification of His Excel lency's guests. W e set out for the hunting g r o u n d with drays drawn b y t w o oxen, each d r a y hold ing one cheetah and its keeper. Some were in cages, others just chained to the dray, and in every case h o o d s were k e p t o v e r their heads so that they w o u l d not grow excited at the a p p r o a c h of g a m e . A s it chanced, the first course was with a fine herd of between t w e n t y a n d thirty black deer. O n c e they were sighted, the drays went on to get as near as possible before the game was alarmed. W h e n they were within three hundred yards, the g a m e bolted. In an instant the keeper slipped the h o o d off the first cheetah's h e a d ; it sprang to the ground, hesitated a second as if picking out its prey, and then, like a rocket, the yellow form shot over the gray-green earth after a fine b u c k — t h e fleetest animal, it is said, on four legs. Spurring our horses, w e dashed after them in a wild ride, to be in at the kill. It was a picturesque scene—the galloping native gentlemen in their striking costumes, on their splendidly e q u i p p e d chargers, galloping after the flying b u c k a n d his pur suer. T h r i c e the deer d o u b l e d o n its track, each time losing g r o u n d t o the cheetah. It was a splendid b u t cruel sight to see these t w o beautiful creatures racing for their lives, the b u c k to save its o w n , the cheetah to maintain his, for it was the life instinct of hunger that d r o v e h i m on. A t last in a cloud of dust the tragedy t o o k place. T h e cheetah leaped at the throat of his prey, and d o w n c a m e the b u c k in a heap. T h e cheetah held the p o o r beast's throat in a grip of iron until the keepers cut it and g a v e the hunter his reward. His appetite satisfied, the cheetah b e c o m e s useless—he will n o t h u n t unless h u n g r y ; so the h o o d is slipped o v e r his head a n d he is taken b a c k to his cage. Cheetahs h a v e a

Tracking the Man-Killer peculiar, almost sentimental, sense, for when they fail to bring d o w n their quarry they will run a w a y and hide, and when caught will sulk for considerable periods, as t h o u g h ashamed of their failure. Like the tiger hunt, a buffalo hunt in India is a sort of picnic to an o l d African hand, although dangerous enough and often fatal; for the Indian buffalo is n o weakling. T h e Asiatic buffalo, like the African species, makes its h o m e in s w a m p y country. I t is generally found near large bodies of water, where it can m a k e the wallow, so necessary to its existence. Our party hunted the Soune R i v e r , a tributary of the Ganges. There were twenty-six elephants in the shikar host, each h o w d a h carrying its white hunters—some novices, some old hands. Our first herd we found in a h e a v y jungle, a part of the lowland where grass grew at least fifteen feet in height. I t was a g o o d hiding place for any wild beast and, I m a y add, a dangerous place to hunt in. T w i c e I caught a fleeting glimpse of tiger, so brief a view in that tangle that I had no chance to shoot. In fact, the jungle was so thick that without elephants it would have been impossible to hunt. A m a n on foot could see only the cane-like grass around him and a little p a t c h of sky a b o v e . Against a dangerous wild animal in such surroundings, he would not have the ghost of a chance. Failing to find the herd on the east bank, we crossed the river. I t was a splendid sight to see the monstrous elephants take to the water. T h e y walked right d o w n the b a n k till they were almost submerged, the shi karees and mahouts standing up on the small patch of elephant hide that showed a b o v e the water. I n this fashion the huge beasts walked, in single file, straight as an arrow flight to the b a n k opposite. While crossing the river an amusing inci dent occurred. In our party was an ex patriated American w h o disguised his na tionality under the mask of an English accent. I t was only on rare occasions that a slip g a v e him away. A m o n g our ele phants was one that had only recently been broken, and, following the elephant habit, it -wanted to play when it got into the water. So at a m o m e n t when the English-aping American was upholding the wonderful in telligence of the elephant to the t w o ladies with him, the green elephant raised its trunk and squirted a broadside of m u d d y water

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straight into the h o w d a h . I t came with the force of a fire hydrant, and deluged the occupants. " G o l darn yer soul!" rose a b o v e the roar of laughter in a strong N e w England twang. W h e n we had regained our c o m p o s u r e , a y o u n g A m e r i c a n in another h o w d a h cried, " S a y , o l d sport, the elephant washed out your accent." W e had n o sooner touched the opposite b a n k than the mighty, spreading horns of Unfor a buffalo showed a b o v e the grass. tunately, however, it b o l t e d before we could get a shot. T h e elephants were n o w divided, each half to act as beaters for the other. T h u s arranged, we had gone n o t m o r e than a quarter of a mile into the grass when a rush and a grunt warned us to pre pare for action. T h e elephants were halted, and a m o m e n t later a rhinoceros b r o k e cover—the unexpected again. T w o of us fired and the beast fell without a struggle. W e thought that the d a y was to pass with out any further incident. In the distance we could see the white helmets of the other party coming toward us a b o v e the grass. " P o o r sport," I said to M o r t i m e r . I n answer came the thundering crack of a .577 express. B y this time we were getting out of the long grass into shorter g r o w t h . T h e mahouts halted our elephants, and w e waited. W e could see the grass w a v i n g and hear the crashing of some huge b o d y as it rushed through. Suddenly a huge buffalo bull, magnificent to behold, broke out of the undergrowth. B l o o d and froth were stream ing from its nostrils, and its eyes were glar ing. W i t h o u t hesitation, the m i g h t y beast, with its formidable eight-foot sweep of horn thrust forward, rushed at the line of ele phants with a thunderous bellow. I fired, b u t m y elephant, anticipating a fight and crouching to resist the foe, threw m y aim off. T h e n the t w o huge beasts m e t with a terrific shock. I was jerked off m y feet, and it was all I could d o to hold myself in the h o w d a h as the elephant swayed. M o r timer n o w came to the rescue b y putting a couple of express bullets behind the shoul der of the infuriated bull. E v e n then it did not fall, but staggered b a c k to make another thrust at the elephant. B l o o d was gushing from its m o u t h and the glaze was over its It glaring eyes, but still it made the rush. was the last, however. T h e huge brute fell with a roar as it hit the bleeding side of m y m o u n t .

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F course, I never expected Prentice Piper to d o anything so c o m m o n place as to die of a broken heart. (I suppose it is c o m m o n p l a c e to die of a broken heart, though I never knew any one w h o did.) B u t I must admit that his re c o v e r y was speedy and thorough. P o o r Prentice, with the soul of a Shelley and the outer aspect of a milk-fed Marceline, has himself recorded the story of his first ro 3°4

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mantic aspirations, of h o w Alicia turned from him to a y o u t h w h o k n e w m u c h less a b o u t R o m a n c e p h i l o l o g y (and nearly every thing else) b u t whose p r o p o r t i o n s were s o m e w h a t closer to those a p p r o v e d b y aesthetic standards, a n d w h o s e m i n d did not leap out of the road into the lanes and pas tures of h u m a n t h o u g h t a n d achievement upon the slightest p r o v o c a t i o n . " I have a family-dog m i n d , " Prentice o n c e said. "I

Codfish and the Ideal go fifteen miles while the carryall is driving three." Prentice, however, always reaches his intellectual destination, with an amazing lot of wild flowers gathered b y the way. B u t I a m mixing m y metaphors and for getting m y story. Prentice possessed be neath his fat and preposterous exterior a depth of romantic sentiment unguessed even b y me, an old friend. Perhaps it was his shy w a y of telling m e — t o leave behind the auto biographical record of his unfortunate at tempt at love, when he departed for Tibet and Central China. H e said he went to study the routes traversed b y M a r c o P o l o and other antique travelers. Actually he went, I k n o w , to forget Alicia, to forget that his fat b o d y and his quaint soul had decreed that he could not " c o m e into his garden and eat his precious fruits." Alicia was " a gar den shut up " indeed, for him, b y all the laws of her girlish nature. Beautiful she must have been—and quite incapable of under standing Prentice. B u t what did that mat ter if he loved her, longed for her, w o v e his ardent dreams a b o u t her? W h e n he found she loved another, he gave her up with un questioning self-sacrifice. T h a t is his way. T h e n he went to China to forget. T h e manuscript he left behind I published —disguised, of course. I k n o w he never really meant that I should, but it seemed to me t o o g o o d to keep. Besides, I never dreamed he w o u l d c o m e h o m e in time to see it. But editors sometimes take a long while getting round to printing things, and before it had reached type Prentice was back in America and had laid another—and far happier—manuscript on m y desk. If one is printed, the other ought to be. I w o n ' t rehearse the discussions we have had, almost fights, over the question of printing these intimate, if disguised, records. I t is enough to state that I h a v e finally w o n his reluctant permission to make the second one public also. Perhaps he believes that he owes it to his fellow fat men to demonstrate that even t w o hundred and twenty-five pounds are not inevitably a bar to the convincing expression of a romantic temperament. T h e continuation of his "Useless M e m o i r s " he calls, characteristically, " C o d fish and the I d e a l . "

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g o to funny hotels along the coast, lintlooking hotels with no trees a b o u t ; and when YOU drive b y y o u see them playing tennis ON impossible courts without any back-stops. A n d the suburban girls look at y o u in such a delicious, devouring w a y ! I have always wanted to k n o w the suburbs better, per haps to spend a summer among them at one of their hotels. Returning this season from China, I decided to gratify this perverted passion. Besides, for sundry reasons I didn't care to meet a n y b o d y 1 know. A s the o n l y spots on the M a i n e coast with which I was familiar were Y o r k H a r b o r and Bar Harbor, I g o t a m a p in Boston and did I took the distance a little ciphering. between these t w o points, divided it [by thirteen, added that result to the distance between Boston and Y o r k , and told the conductor to tear out of m y mileage b o o k coupons equivalent to the new total. H e put me off the train, m u c h to m y satisfaction, in the heart of Suburbia. Girls with devouring glances w'ere at the station, their lingerie waists disclosing the colored ribbons in their underclothes. I had al ways wanted to meet such girls. I selected the hotel nearest the water and told the proprietor I desired two rooms. H e looked at m e in amazement. " W h y the s e c o n d ? " he said. I, too, expressed surprise. " W h y , TO d u m p the sand in out of m y shoes at night, of course," I said. I spoke in a clear, strong voice. Sub urbia, fancy-working in the l o b b y , looked up with mingled curiosity and alarm. A buzz followed me about the hotel. W h e n I entered the dining-room, one hundred and three forks were suspended in air, loaded with sundry morsels of fish or vegetables; two hundred and six eyes were fixeel upon me. There is more than one w a y to attain celebrity. T h e hotel which fortune had selected FOR m e is on a rocky headland jutting into the Atlantic. After dinner I scrambled down on the rocks amid the swaying seaweed and the battering, swinging rollers, and also, 1 found upon inspection, amid the boarders. E v e r y few steps I would c o m e around a bowlder or peer over a ledge upon some boarder or group of boarders engaged in those quaint little human occupations which we cannot forego even in the face of the blue Atlantic and under the sound of his mighty minstrels}-.

Ladies of super-matronly figure and highpitched voice reposed u p o n red cushions in niches of the cliff. S o m e were reading novels, some were knitting white shawls, some were doing that kind of embroidery when y o u clutch a h o o p madly—is it center pieces? B u t m o s t l y they were writing let ters, on lap portfolios. " I a m sitting right beside the sea as I write this"—that, I k n o w , is the w a y they all began. N o w and then one of these females w o u l d lift her eyes to remark, in her high-pitched, chairmanof-the-literature-committee-of-the-woman's club v o i c e : " I s n ' t it lovely here? I just adore N a t u r e ! " Or else she w o u l d rise and m o v e to a m o r e shaded rock, with the grace ful m o t i o n of a terrified elephant on a tight rope. T h e r e were y o u n g w o m e n , too—the suburban man-eaters. A few had secured v i c t i m s and dragged them off to a lair a b o v e the waves. T h e m I did not dis turb at their repasts. Others, less for tunate, had sought a substitute in a b o x of molasses kisses and a v o l u m e of George Barr M c C u t c h e o n . But I c a m e u p o n o d d g a m e , t o o . R o u n d ing a huge bowlder, I nearly tripped over a small, wizened, bespectacled old gentle man, with dandruff o n his collar, reading a strange-looking b o o k . T h e characters were H e b r e w . H e saw m y glance. " I ' m reading a little Isaiah," he said, with a friendly smile. " I like it in this setting." " ' W h o hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and m e t e d o u t heaven with the s p a n — " ' I q u o t e d , looking more intently at the funny little o l d gentleman. " D o y o u read H e b r e w ? " he asked hope fully. I shook m y head. "Only German, French, Spanish, Italian, R o m a n c e French, Anglo-Saxon, and a little L a t i n , " I answered humbly. " T h e y leave H e b r e w to the D i vinity School n o w . " " N o t necessarily there a n y longer,"sighed the little old gentleman. " T h e r e is no call in the library for H e b r e w a n y m o r e . " " S t i l l , " said I, " t o speak with that ele gance which the subject d e m a n d s , Isaiah is some p u m p k i n s in the E n g l i s h . " T h e old gentleman smiled and made a place for m e beside him. " L e t us talk of m a n y things," he said.

" Shall we begin with cabbages or kings? " I asked. " W e will begin with that artist over there.'' he answered, pointing d o w n the rocks. "1 think she paints very well, b u t I fear her pictures d o not sell. I like her because she paints the colors in sea f o g . " So we talked of her, and sea fog, and Jap anese art, and the Venetian autobiographies of the eighteenth century, and the origins of Italian impromptu c o m e d y — o f m a n y things indeed, while the lady artist, in a long blue apron, worked on her canvas d o w n b y the swashing tide, her back toward us. I loved the little old gentleman. I wanted to ask him what he was doing here in summer Suburbia. B u t suddenly one of the large ladies under a silly sun hat lumbered round our rock, laden with pillows, fancy work, and E . Phillips Oppenheim. " J o h n , " she said, " h e l p m e up to the h o u s e ! " John rose spryly and bent his five feet one to the task, like a small jack under the axle of a seven-passenger touring-car. So the suburbs can harbor an Old Grammarian! P o o r man, I suppose he was thinking ab sently of some H e b r e w p r o p h e c y when she proposed to him, and assented before he realized! W h e n he left m e I clambered d o w n behind the lady artist. She was not Paul D o u g h erty, nor was she trying to be. W i t h o u t seeing her face, I could see her picture. She was not after the smashing shoulder of a w a v e nor the powerful suck of the recoil; she was painting one of those indescribably ex quisite pools left in the rocks b y the tide, a pool filled with crystal water, red starfish, white shells, a floating weed or two, and moss of a thousand shades of red and olive and green. She was working in oils. I thought water-colors the only medium for the subject. She felt m y presence after a m o m e n t and turned rather impatiently around. I stood just a b o v e her, m y face, of course, wreathed in its habitual grin, m y latitudinally ample form blocking the west ern sky. " W a t e r - c o l o r s , " said I, " w a t e r - c o l o r s — not the new-fangled o p a q u e kind, but g o o d , old, translucent w a t e r - c o l o r s ! " She was a slight w o m a n , m a y b e m y age (which is none of y o u r business), m a y b e a bit younger. She wasn't pretty—but she

WHILE WE TALKED OF HER, AXI) SEA FOG, AND JAPANESE ART, AND THE VENETIAN AUTOBIOG RAPHIES OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

Everybody's was thin! M o r e o v e r , her face was one of 1 hose lively countenances which interest y o u at once. " I don't agree with y o u , " she said, rather tartly. I waved m y hand. " F e w d o , " said I. " I t doesn't trouble me at all. Neverthe less, the essence of y o u r subject is a kind of bright, magic clarity of color, seen through the crystal of water. Oils d o n ' t fit it. I want the hint of the white paper." " A r e y o u an a r t i s t ? " she incjuired. " N o , " said I, " I ' m a factory owner and an amateur philologist. T h a t ' s w h y I criti cise art!" She smiled. Her smile was very pleasant. " H o w e v e r , I believe y o u are right," she said. " B u t n o b o d y will b u y water-colors." " W i l l a n y b o d y b u y oils? " a s k e d I, cruelly. Her face betrayed an instant pain, but as quickly it was conquered. "Sometimes," she returned brightly. I began to like her immensely. " D o m e this pool in water-colors, and I'll b u y it, at your price," said I. She colored, and began to gather up her stool and brushes. " I — I couldn't d o that," she said in embarrassment. " Y o u can, and y o u will," I replied, j u m p ing d o w n the rock to help her. "Business is business, y o u k n o w . " " B u t y o u don't know m y w o r k , " she o b jected feebly. I had the fresh canvas in m y hand. " T h i s is enough," said I. A s a matter of fact, it was, so far as oils were concerned. It was charming. " W e l l , " she finally agreed, " I suppose business is business. Where shall I de liver i t ? " " R i g h t at the hotel," I answered. "I'm there, t o o . " She smiled. " B u t I ' m not. I ' m afraid I shouldn't care for the hotel. I live a mile up, at Codfish C o v e . " " N o t care for life at the hotel? " I cried. " W h y , we have school teachers for cham bermaids, and e v e r y b o d y in the place just loves Nature and the M e r r y W i d o w ! " " E x a c t l y , " said she. I picked up her stool and easel. "Then it's Codfish C o v e , " I said and started on. She regarded m e in an amused w a y . " D o y o u actually fancy y o u are going to carry m y things h o m e for m e ? " she asked. " N o , " said I. " I ' m certain of it. If y o u d o n ' t live at the hotel, y o u can't deliver the

Magazine picture, and if 1 d o n ' t k n o w where y o u live I can't c o m e after it, and besides, I ' m a fat, foolish, preposterous person that n o b o d y minds at all. After a while, y o u w o n ' t notice m e . " She a c c e p t e d m y escort as inevitable, and we m o v e d along a little p a t h through the b a y bushes, just a b o v e the rocks, where we could look up the coast at the white fringe of the surf to a second distant group of summer hotels and cottages. Presently the path w o u n d o v e r a ridge and c a m e d o w n to the shore of a r o c k y c o v e , where a little tide inlet made up into the m e a d o w s . Scaly dories rode at their moorings o n the clear, deep water of this c o v e ; between the rocks and the water, on a strip of shingle, was a g r o u p of gray, weathered fishermen's houses, with nets spread out to dry in the sun, and piles of lobster pots. I noticed studio lights in t w o or three of the fish houses. B a c k at the edge of the m e a d o w stood a comfortable old white farmhouse. She p o i n t e d to it. " T h a t is where w e artists of Codfish C o v e l i v e , " said she. " W e w o r k in the fish houses. C o m e , w e will g o to m y studio." W e entered the l o w d o o r of the mousegray shed—or at least she did. I paused on the threshold, for from within c a m e that coast of M a i n e fish o d o r with overpowering might. " W h a t ? " she cried g a y l y . " A f r a i d of m y nice, w h o l e s o m e smell? C o m e right in, the o d o r ' s fine." T h u s challenged, I a d v a n c e d . T h e in side of the shed was the m o s t delightfully incongruous place I had ever entered. The light c a m e from a great w i n d o w in the north ern end, looking o u t o n the sweep of the coast, and then to o p e n sea. Against one wall s t o o d an old M a t y E . Wilkins sofa with rolled ends, against the other a row of lobster p o t s . T h e easel, with a picture on it, was placed near the w i n d o w , and the brushes s t o o d u p o n an inverted fish bucket. I m m e d i a t e l y a b o v e the sofa and the lobster pots the walls were hung w i t h charming marines, brightly framed in g o l d . Above thern j u t t e d the l o w rafters, and o n cross strips, making a ceiling for the r o o m , were piles of nets, the leads hanging d o w n , broken oars, a d o r y , fish-lines, an a n c h o r , and a m y r i a d other o b j e c t s d e d i c a t e d to the pur suit of the c o d . M y hostess n o w s t o o d against the light from the n o r t h w i n d o w . T h e blue sea, growing p i n k o n the edges

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from the westering sun, made an aura in her hair. She was smiling, a little wistfully, a little triumphantly. " D o n ' t y o u think it is n i c e ? " she said. I held m y nose with one hand. " N o w I can pronounce it unqualifi edly delightful," 1 an swered. " C o d f i s h and the ideal!" "You are laughing," she said. " I d o not per mit people to laugh at m y studio!" " M a d a m , " I cried, " I always laugh at every thing. I cannot help it. M y face works quite in dependently of m y feel ings. I have, besides, the role of fat man to keep up. Actually, I envy y o u everything but the odor, and I should be willing to have even that and fifty pounds more weight as well if I could write out my ideals, m y inner vis ions, one half so success fully as y o u . " She looked at megravely. " H a v e y o u never tried?" she said. D u s k was creeping into Perhaps it the studio. was that. Perhaps it was the o d o r going to m y head. Perhaps it was the aura in her hair and the friend Per liness of her voice. haps it was because I had scarcely spoken to a w o m a n of m y own race for a year; y o u get to miss the creatures so! T h e n , again, perhaps it was because I am natur ally more or less of a ro mantic idiot. At any rate, I answered: " Y e s , I have tried. Be ing neither painter nor writer nor musician, I tried to write out my

" COME KIGIIT IN, THE ODOR'S FINE.

Everybody's ideals in m y love for a girl. My—my technique was faulty." S h e seemed to ponder for a m o m e n t the propriety of reply. Finally she said, " P e r haps y o u expected too m u c h . " " I e x p e c t e d , " said 1, " t h a t romantic hap piness which y o u dream about when y o u are y o u n g and the world is dull." " T h a t is not always idealism," she an swered, gravely. " S o m e t i m e s that is self ishness. I must close the studio n o w . I shall begin y o u r picture in the m o r n i n g . " " M a y I come to watch y o u w o r k ? " I asked, glad enough n o w to crawl thus easily o u t of the subject. " I f y o u can escape the ladies w h o just love Nature," she smiled. " N a t u r e has aided me to do that," I an swered mournfully. " N o t when they are really hungry," she ventured. A n d with this she fled up the path to the farm. I watched her g o , and then strolled slowly home, pondering her words about idealism and selfishness. A n d I came here to study Suburbia! Her name is Hattie, Flattie Walker! W a s ever a name more preposterously p r o s y ? F a n c y its possessor following the Gleam, searching always for the ideal expression of a beauty felt in sea or sky or water pool, and sacrificing to the search! Y e s , I a m sure she has sacrificed much. She is immensely clever, and if she desired merely to live well b y her brush, she could. But she boils the p o t with the best that is in her. M y w ater color of the pool is a gem. It stands on m y bureau, completely obliterating the glass and causing m e to cut myself when I shave. H o w casually she took m y check! Y e t I detected that her lingers trembled. T h e Old Grammarian says it is the first picture she has sold this summer. H e ' s an o d d duck, snooping round with the fishermen when he isn't reading Hebrew, and picking up gossip about the run of lobsters and the affairs of the artists at the C o v e . r

I ' v e bought him one of her pictures, b y the way, or rather I took him to b u y it for himself. One of the blessings of an honest p o v e r t y is the pride it fosters. Miss Walker would, of course, have sold m e more of her pictures, but if she had she would there after have regarded me deferentially as a " p a t r o n , " but with a kind of smoldering hostility. I k n o w these N e w Englanders! She would sell me her choicest work, b u t she would cease to give me her choicest friend

Magazine ship; and that friendship she has given me with less and less reservation as the days have passed and I have burbled beside her as she worked. So I sent the Old Gram marian. W h e n I went to get him, he was sitting on the veranda, out of the piping gale, telling a group of c o n t e m p o r a r y females about Kansas cyclones. " Y ' o u k n o w , o u t there in the schools," he was saying, " t h e y have c y c l o n e drills in stead of fire drills. E a c h teacher has a long rope with a noose at the end to p u t around her waist and a lot of little nooses d o w n the length of it for the children. A t the signal she adjusts her noose, throws o u t the rope, each child springs into a little noose, and the teacher leads the w a y to the c y c l o n e cellar. It is a v e r y interesting sight. T h e principle is the same as that of the A l p i n e climber's rope." " W e l l , isn't that interesting!" chorused the ladies. T h e Old Grammarian just then spied me. " M r . P i p e r , " he added, " w o u l d make an excellent teacher in K a n s a s . " T h e ladies tittered respectfully. ( M y two rooms have inspired a respect never before a c c o r d e d to m e . ) I drew the O l d Gram marian aside. " Y ' o u old r e p r o b a t e , " said I, " y o u ' v e never been in Kansas. B u t n o w y o u are going to b u y a picture from M i s s W a l k e r . " I had to give h i m a detailed statement of m y income, to explain to h i m exactly w h y I c o u l d n ' t make the purchase in person, and to paint the delights of owmership in glowing colors, before I could induce h i m to b u y the picture for himself. H e was quite ready to b u y it for m e , but his pride balked at accept ing a gift. W h y are the p e o p l e I want to help invariably the FINES w h o w o n ' t let me? B u t finally I WON him o v e r . " I d o n ' t OWN a really g o o d p i c t u r e , " he said wistfully. " I h a v e s o m e nice repro ductions, though, and t w o plates from Audubon's Birds, w h i c h m y wife doesn't care for. I have hung t h e m in m y little study." W e found M i s s W a l k e r in her studio. " L a d y of the C o d , " I said, " I h a v e brought y o u an admirer. H e is e n o r m o u s l y wealthy. Stick him g o o d . " She l o o k e d up w i t h her bright smile, tak ing in the O l d Grammarian w i t h her glance. His faded, unpressed clothes, his clerical collar, his shoulders s t o o p e d with poring

AND I BLESSED THE LORD FOR THE KIND FRIENDS HE HAS GIVEN ME.

over books—the true librarian's stoop—his bespectacled eyes, ludicrously belied m y words. Miss Walker looked back at m e with a kind of frightened questioning. I n o d d e d reassuringly, however, and we g o t out the canvases. T h e Old Grammarian was soon lost in the delights of contemplation. H e especially loved the more delicate aspects of the sea, which Miss Walker attempts to capture, the overtones of that m i g h t y organ, as it were. W a r m e d b y his enthusiasm, she adjusted lights, she told of the composition, her color rose. A n d I sat back on the M a r y E . Wilkins sofa a n d l o v e d them both protect ingly. W h e n finally the O l d Grammarian pulled a fat roll of m y bills out of his pocket, assumed ownership of his picture with triumphant artistry, a n d counted o u t $ 2 0 0 —the price he insisted on paying, though she would have taken $ 1 5 0 - I think I was never more h a p p y in m y life. N o , I was happier still a few moments later. T h e O l d Grammarian stood with his picture hugged under his arm. M i s s W a l k e r s t o o d between us, rosy with pleas ure. " M r . Piper must bring y o u again," she

said, " n o t t o b u y , b u t just t o LOOK at

work, if y o u really like it. B u t it is M r . Piper w h o should have been the artist. W h e n y o u think he's talking nonsense, y o u suddenly discover that his e y e is on some beautiful effect and he catches the spirit of Sometimes I come h o m e it in a sentence. and paint his sentences." W h a t could I say? Nothing. I said it. I stood there like a fat, grinning b o o b y , with little prickles of pleasure going up m y spine, and Miss Walker smiled at me brightly, with that glance of level friendship which makes some w o m e n so unspeakably dear. Then the O l d Grammarian b e c a m e the fatherly third person. H e beamed on us b o t h through his spectacles. " M r . Piper has little feelers out in all directions," he said, " g r a b b i n g softly at the nice things in the w o r l d ; a n d a lot of 'em are connected with his heart as well as his head." " N o , " I remonstrated, " I ' m a jellyfish, not an o c t o p u s . " B u t the dear souls only smiled the more at m y embarrassed pleas antry. I think three hearts were very warm with s y m p a t h y a n d happiness just then.

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A n d many hours later, while the breakers roar in the midnight and Suburbia sleeps, one of them is still aglow. I am too h a p p y to be annoyed b y the m o t h s which squeeze in through m y apology for a screen, to die like Semele in the glory of m y kerosene lamp. . . . W h e n e v e r there is a new arrival at the hotel, I hear the ladies first asking the p r o prietor where she comes from, and the next day asking her. " N e w Rochelle? Y o u d o n ' t say s o ! 1 wonder if y o u k n o w m y cousin there—Mrs. R o b e r t s , James R o b erts? Y o u d o ? Y e s , yes, that's her—short and rather stout and goes to the Episcopal church, of course. Well, well, the world is a small place after a l l ! " T h i s mighty truth about the world has been borne in upon me, too. T h e L a d y of the C o d and I have a favorite apple tree in a pasture a quarter of a mile back from the coast. It is low and aged, and from its branches we look across the pasture to the white ribbon of road, and b e y o n d that the r o c k y fields of b a y bushes and then the blue plain of the sea. W e sit in this tree toward sunset time, because just at that time the white sails out toward the horizon turn pink, and an old man comes into view along the curve of the road, driving two cows. Yesterday we were looking out from our Eden perch, and I was discoursing upon the needs of a civic theatre to rescue such people as m y factory hands and their chil dren from the blighting mediocrity of m o v ing picture shows or the crass vulgarity of vaudeville and burlesque, while the L a d y listened with frowning brows, contributing now and then suggestions about pageants which fired b o t h of us with enthusiasm. " Y o u shall c o m e down with me next win ter," I cried, " a n d we'll make a start on working this thing out. I ' v e never d o n e a hundredth part for those people that I should." " N o , I don't believe y o u h a v e , " said she. I was about to answer when I suddenly saw a runabout come around the b e n d of the road. I t was two hundred feet away, or more, but I could not mistake the figures. Hatless, in his inevitable white flannels, M a r l b o r o u g h Saltonstall was at the wheel, and beside him sat Alicia. T h e silvery peal of her laugh drifted over the pasture to m e , like an echo from the past. An instant, and

they were GONE. I c a n n o t describe the emotions within me—the wakened memories of Alicia's kiss, of her flower-like beauty, of the extravagant romantic longings of m y youthful heart, of m y dreadful torture when her love turned cold to m e a n d warm TO M a r l b o r o u g h Saltonstall; and the curious sensation, t o o , of having her cut across m y eager converse with this other L a d y , she w h o had never really followed with me a serious train of thought in her life. I was stunned into silence. " W h a t is the m a t t e r ? " said a voice at m y side. I turned to the speaker, as if awaking. She had never pitied m e for m y preposterous exterior!—she h a d never seemed to recog nize the need of pity. She had met me on the ground of c o m m o n interests and made m e her friend without a hint of sex. She, w h o worshiped b e a u t y , h a d m a d e a friend of so unlovely an o b j e c t as myself, because I, t o o , a m a worshiper, in m y poor, jocund way. Again I thought of Alicia's flower face and remembered m y hungry longings for her l o v e ; but following, stifling such thoughts, was the real image of this eager, grave, clear-eyed face beside m e , and the m e m o r y of all the exquisite hours of the past month, when, instead of the old emotional unrest, there has c o m e to m e the peace and pleasure of perfect comprehension and the mutual pursuit of beautiful sights and stim ulating ideas. E v e n her n a m e suddenly lost for m e its preposterous prosiness. " T h e m a t t e r ? " I answered. " T h e mat ter is, Hattie, that the w o r l d is a small place, as the ladies say at the h o t e l . " She regarded m e quietly, gravely, and waited. " I think I told y o u , " I continued, "that once I tried to write out m y ideals in my love for a girl. T h a t was the girl." She put her hand lightly o n m y arm. " M y friend," she said, " y o u h a v e a roman tic heart. Y o u think e v e r y one as beautiful as y o u w a n t them to b e , as fine as y o u r own fancies. Y o u hunger for an enthusiasm and s y m p a t h y as boundless as y o u r own, to make y o u h a p p y . Y o u w o n ' t find them. Write o u t y o u r ideals in real ink and paper, or in the lives of y o u r f a c t o r y hands. Y o u will be happier so, a n d — a n d n o b l e r . " She withdrew her hand. H e r touch had been w a r m and friendly, b u t it had been something m o r e to m e . It h a d kindled me with a sudden desire to h o l d her shoulders

Codfish and the Ideal between m y hands, look into her face, and read there w h a t was really in her heart. B u t I did n o t touch her. Something held me back, something besides the danger of such a proceeding in an apple tree. Per haps it was the e c h o of Alicia's laugh, still drifting across the pasture. I simply said, '' L a d y , that s y m p a t h y and that enthusiasm I think I shall find!" A n d I looked her eagerly in the eyes. She met m y glance for a m o m e n t — a hushed m o m e n t charged with I k n o w not what electric eloquence. T h e n , in silence, we descended from the tree, and in silence followed the old man and the cows up the white ribbon of the road. . . . T h e L a d y is going to give her exhibition of her summer's work next Saturday, and the Old Grammarian is cursing his p o v e r t y . Sometimes n o w he sits with us while the L a d y works, reading aloud snatches from the Upanishads. F a n c y his reading the Upanishads to M r s . Grammarian! His affection for us seems to draw us closer together, as in a protecting garment. I be lieve the sweet old soul is living vicariously in our younger friendship. T o - d a y he delivered a little talk on R o manticism, apropos of some remark of mine about literary tendencies. T h e L a d y , I noticed, quite stopped her w o r k to listen. " R o m a n t i c i s m ! " he exclaimed. " I n lit erature and life, through the ages, it has been a search for an escape from the b o n d age of fact, from the prison of the c o m m o n place. Y e t h o w often has it been a Phari saical search, a selfish search; h o w often has romantic literature been the sigh of a dissatisfied soul, yet, paradoxically, a selfsatisfied soul! W h y does the prisoned soul seek an escape? Is it because he feels a 'divine u n r e s t ' ? N o , but because he feels that he, personally, is deserving of some thing better. Only when the romantic im pulse expresses itself in some w o r d or deed of sacrifice for others is its unrest truly di vine. T h e R o m a n t i c shut up in his ivory tower is detestable, and his literature a sham. T h e R o m a n t i c w h o forgets his o w n little pains to make his dreams operative for society is the one to admire. I d o n ' t mean he must be a propagandist or a reformer, b u t his work must eliminate a sickly self and speak to all men. If he is a man in love, Aucassin is not his ideal, however beautiful that ideal m a y seem to the heart of y o u t h ; he will not be sicklied o'er with the amorous

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passion, but expanded into a wider sympa thy for his fellows. " E v e n if he is just a man trying to live in the modern world, he will not be perpetually discontented and moonstruck, but perpetu ally trying to put his ideals before the eyes of the less fortunate souls a b o u t him—even if he's only a p o o r librarian. If he is a novelist, he will not be writing idiotic tales about spurious knights and ladies or mythical king d o m s or impossible deeds—that is not to be romantic but puerile. H e will, with all the grace and charm that is in him, be writing about the real people w h o m he knows, and showing h o w their lives, however humble, are touched n o w and again b y the Gleam. W e babble t o o m u c h about romance and realism. Huysmans said there are no such things, but only g o o d literature and bad. B u t what is g o o d in this world has always a b o u t it some aura of its infancy, some golden glint of the true romantic Gleam. W h i c h reminds me, m y wife asked me to bring her this n o v e l ! " H e t o o k a volume of current fiction from under his coat, grinned sheepishly, and m o v e d a w a y around the rocks. " I t ' s a poor sermon," said I , " that doesn't hit s o m e b o d y in the congregation." T h e L a d y said nothing, and I continued: " A l l m y life I have been cherishing the de lusion that I was beautifully romantic; but all m y life I have, it seems, been seeking only a personal satisfaction. Y o u told me the same thing, I believe, when we first met. Once I loved a girl without any thought but to be shut up with her in a tower for two. T h a t love made me no more eager to help m y people, no more sorry for any one less fortunate than I, no more desirous of mak ing m y ideals of sweetness and light—if I have any—prevail. In fact, it made me hate m y fellow-men—one of them espe cially!" Still she was silent, but she was regarding me with a kind of frightened j o y , strange and puzzling. " I want n o w , " I again continued, " t o work out for m y people in a humble w a y that civic theatre idea of ours. T h e y , as m u c h as we, go to their cheap theatres to escape the grind of daily toil; they are o b e y ing a romantic impulse, t o o . I want to give it no less a satisfaction than m y o w n impulse would demand. That will be a w a y of mak ing m y romantic dreams really of some use, won't i t ? "

Everybody's She smiled at me. ' ' Y o u are something of a great g o o s e , " she said eagerly. " O f course it will, the very best w a y ! I k n o w you are not selfish! I k n o w y o u too well to think t h a t ! " " H o w d o y o u k n o w ? " said I, still puzzled. "1 tell y o u , all m y life I have been pitying myself because I was so fat, telling myself that I was cursed like J o b , and deprived of the romantic satisfactions which c o m e to the normal man and maid. I was self-centered in m y fat, selfish, egotistical w a y . Y e t y o u have taken m e for a friend. W h y have y o u done i t ? " " P e r h a p s , " she smiled again, " b e c a u s e / pity y o u . H o w can I help pitying any one who places such absurd emphasis on trivial externals? Then, again, perhaps I have done it because I like y o u . " " Y o u have done it," said I, " b e c a u s e y o u and I blissfully love the same things and d o n ' t fail to understand. Isn't that s o ? " " T h e n , if it is," said she suddenly, " l e t us stop this silly talk and think about that mother-of-pearl light out on the horizon." " L e t us think," I answered, " a b o u t your exhibition next Saturday." " I think of little else when I am alone," she answ-ered, with a look of pain. "It means everything to m e . " So our lecture on romance ended in prac tical figuring—where most romances end! . . . It was in the sudden sweetness of pit) —so much sweeter a thing than the sensation of being pitied—that full realiza tion came to me of m y love for the L a d y of the C o d . I knew that the Old Grammarian was right, and I knew that I had found m y true romance at last. H o w different from m y dreams of it! N o t clothed in the ardor of a flaming passion, with no lyric eloquence and moonlit song, had it c o m e ; but with, instead, a deep upheaval and expansion of m y nature, almost as if love were a preacher exhorting me, and a kind friend, t o o , leading me on. M y first desire was to crown m y Lady's exhibition with success; m y second to tell her of m y love, to learn whether for her, too, our friendship had b e c o m e that profounder mystery of the heart. r

There wasn't a soul at the hotel w h o m I could enlist as a purchaser at the exhi bition except the Old Grammarian. So I had, after all, to make the hateful trip to the Harbor, among the folks I know. I found Jack Hollis there. Better still, I found his sister. I found m y father's old partner, t o o

Magazine —a kindly, if tight-fisted, lover of the arts, and stayed to tea in order to g e t his promise to drive up to the exhibition—and to b u y . There were three. T h e n , finally, I rounded up Billie Barton, w h o has b e c o m e a grist mill of " b e s t sellers" since he used to write pale pink imitations of Pater, in college. N o w he lives at expensive summer resorts, wears socks to m a t c h his ties, and pretends he admires his own b o o k s . If he keeps it up m u c h longer, he'll end b y really admiring them! I told him so. Well, they all descended on the studio in a b o d y . T h e L a d y was staggered for a m o m e n t b y the prospect of real purchasers. T h o s e segments of Suburbia which were present retired to a corner before the rustle of Miss Hollis's clothes, to observe her rather than the pictures, and Billie Barton actually forgot he was a " b e s t seller" and b e c a m e once more the old, appreciative Billie, sensitive to the real thing. Bless him, he b o u g h t t w o pictures! Jack Hollis w a n t e d o n e of the golf links, but, failing that, he t o o k a bit of sea which showed a y a w l — w r o n g l y rigged, he c o m plained, but still recognizable. His sister m e t the L a d y with that beautiful friendli ness which she k n o w s so well h o w to cast like a spell over those w h o m she would set up beside herself. She is the truest patri cian I have ever k n o w n . T h e L a d y , happy and rosy under this spell, expanded shyly. Father's old partner w a t c h e d her and me, I could detect, quite as m u c h as the paint ings, and grinned a m i c a b l y . B u t he had been watching the pictures, t o o . A s we were a b o u t to depart, he p u t his hand on the gem of the lot—a strip of shingle with a p h a n t o m d o r y riding in the fog. " T h i s goes to our M u s e u m at h o m e , " he said. T h e L a d y g a v e a h a p p y little gasp. Miss Hollis smiled. I cried, " T h a t ' s the ticket! A n d y o u ' v e g o t the best of them a l l ! " " Y o u n g m a n , " said father's partner, " I am well aware of that. I trust it will re p r o d u c e in the c a t a l o g u e . " A n d I blessed the L o r d for the kind friends H e has given me. W h e n m y guests had departed, under the peering eyes of Suburbia o n the hotel v e randa, I hastened b a c k to the fish house. O n the w a y I m e t the O l d Grammarian, c o m i n g along the p a t h under the cliff with his vicarious purchases h u g g e d under his arm. " I have left her almost h a p p y , " he said. " W h y not q u i t e ? " I asked.

Codfish and the Ideal " T h a t is for y o u to d o , " replied the Old Grammarian. B u t I was not angry with him. I sped with renewed vigor along the trail. Again the light was l o w and pink on the sea, and m y L a d y of the C o d s t o o d alone against the northern w i n d o w , an aura in her hair. She came forward with her hand out stretched. " H o w a m I ever to thank y o u for t h i s ? " she said. " Y o u h a v e enabled me to g o o n ; y o u have been m y fairy g o d father. I fully expect y o u to drive off in a pumpkin c o a c h ! " I held her hand in mine. T h a t lifelong romantic hunger of m y heart for an exalted emotional excitement, a thrilling happiness, which should burn steadily and bright, was satisfied anew, b u t satisfied in a manner I had never dreamed. There m a y be a b l o o m and a glory a b o u t romantic first love which never comes again, but there is a glory a b o u t our later love, our love based u p o n a mutual recognition and understanding of each o t h er's wider interests and desires, which has its graver and its sweeter charm. There is no fear of the future in it. T h e years stretch ahead in a vista of ever truer happi ness and comprehension. " D e a r L a d y of the C o d , " I said, "I a m ugly and fat. All m y life I have been a j o k e in the world's eye. N o b o d y b u t y o u has ever seemed entirely to

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ignore m y fleshly garments or to run with out weariness after the era/.) trains of m y thought. I t is y o u w h o have enabled m e to g o o n ! " Perhaps it was the fading light, but I thought there was a mist in her eyes as she answered, with a smile: " Y o u are fat, I cannot deny, b u t y o u are not ugly. Y o u are beautiful!" " I l o v e y o u , " said I. N o words of ro mantic fervor rose to m y lips, in impas sioned p o e t r y of wooing. I told her calmly, quietly, and as G o d is m y witness, m y thought was all for her happiness, not mine! A n d as quietly she answered: " I think we can help each other. Y o u need some one to love y o u , t o o , y o u romantic child, and I am the one to d o it." " H a v e y o u l o v e d m e l o n g ? " I asked. " F r o m the m o m e n t , " she answered, " t h a t I knew some one else h a d n ' t . " " B u t I told y o u that when we m e t ! " I cried. W i t h a little laugh she crept closer in the dusk of the studio, and slowly the beautiful pictures in their frames, her visions of the loveliness in sea pool or fog-swept shore, her contributions to the romantic glamour of the world, melted together with the lobster p o t s into an indistinguishable blur. B u t the heart where these visions were w a r m e d to life was beating against m y o w n . 1

STEEL anS

RAILS I R O NH A N D S by

Ricbard

Wasbburn

Cbild

editors Note.-—What do y o u know about the railway problem? Do you realize that it enters into your cost of living, no matter who you arc or what your occupation? Do you realize that your food, your clothing, your furniture, everything in your house, everything that you buy, pays toll to the railroad, at least once, perhaps many times? Here is an article that presents the whole railroad situation simply, sanely, without prejudice, and corrects many loose statements and fallacious impressions that so far have cumbered the issue. The railroad problem is your problem. Its final solution will be for you to find. Here are the facts on which you can base your consideration and your conclusions.

w o u l d n ' t w o r k , I guess. I d o n ' t k n o w much a b o u t the question, n o w that y o u ask things in detail. B u t it is r o b b e r y ; the p e o p l e will finally get on to it and stop it. Y o u can tell it is r o b b e r y b y the w a y these railroad presidents and big financiers a c t — y o u can see they d o n ' t w a n t the truth k n o w n . W e need m o r e legislation to lower rates. Cut 'em in half." T h e tragedy a b o u t this is that the voice is the v o i c e of the court of last resort. Who will settle the railroad question? Not Wall Street. N o t M r . M o r g a n or other Not railway presidents. Not financiers. investors. N o t employees. N o t politi cians. N o t newspapers o w n e d or corrupted by the " i n t e r e s t s . " N o t shippers. The c o u r t of last resort is c o m p o s e d of the men

and w o m e n for w h o m this page was written,

edited, set up, printed, a n d sent o u t across

the country.

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A I L W A Y regulation is not a sentimental question. It has been made to appear so. It has been made sentimental b y half a generation of ill-advised accusation and a defense on the part of the railroads that seemed like perfume used to conceal an odor. T h e attack has been so senseless, the defense so sensitive, that the ordinary man hardly knows what to think. H e cannot confidently advise his representative in government what to d o . His opinion is n o opinion at all. It is an impression. It is a feeling in the bones. Before these articles were written, t w o hundred men of various stations in life— laborers, clerks, lawyers, doctors, mer chants, government employees—were asked casually their opinion about A m e r i c a n rail way rates. A composite of their answers, which were j o t t e d d o w n , is about this:

T h e man w h o settles the p r o b l e m s of

railroad transportation will b e the man who finally p a y s for railroad transportation, the man w h o wants the service a n d p a y s for it. T h i s man in his h o m e can see in the price

" S t o c k - w a t e r i n g and manipulation have been paid for b y the public through high rates. W e are g o u g e d — y o u and I. Rates should be lower. G o v e r n m e n t ownership 3

Steel Rails and Iron Hands paid for rocking-chair, knives and forks, curtains, rugs, water faucet, necktie, closet door, p o k e r and tongs, o v e r c o a t , rubber boots, flour and saleratus, the wall paper, the evening l a m p , and the family Bible, a percentage due to the cost of transporta tion. L e t him l o o k around the house for an article that has not traveled o n a railroad. M o s t of these articles, their parts, or mate rials from which they are m a d e , have traveled on railroads not o n l y once, b u t m a n y times. T h e charge for transportation each time has been added into the final price. I t is there. T h e consumers have paid the p r o m o t e r , the financier, the salary of the railway president and officers, the employees, the railway supply houses, the investors, the bills rendered b y the rail roads to the shippers. Collectively, they have paid the whole bill. N o t as a matter of sentiment, b u t as a matter of business; not as a matter of specu lation, but as a matter of fact, it is the con sumers w h o must say the last w o r d about the railroads. Y o u can talk of the rights of property till D o o m s d a y ; y o u can say that the setting of the interests of mankind above the rights of property is Socialism, or anarchy, or arson, or Christianity, or altru ism, or twaddle, or y o u can talk of public utilities and constitutional limitations and reasonable rates and commissions until chaos; the truth is this: THE

RAILROADS

AND THE

FAMILY

HORSE

It is a nation of consumers who say the last w o r d on service and rates, not for any other reason than that they can d o it. T h a t eliminates any sentimental or learned or doctrinal notions at the beginning of the subject. T h a t is the business of the situa tion. T h e y can d o it. Theirs are the little iron hands. This is a g o o d notion—it is the o n l y airclearing n o t i o n — t o begin with in dealing with the railroad question, which is not only a question of rates, but—for goodness' sake, let us remember — a question of service as well. Service! Something we want d o n e ! W h e n a m a n finds it hard to pick out an article in his h o m e or office that did not c o m e to him o v e r a railroad, it is evident that railroads have had some place in the a d v a n c e of civilization. I t almost seems as if they are civilization. A n d yet this

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fact is something that every one is e v e r y m o m e n t forgetting, just as the virtues o f the old family horse are forgotten. The service of the railroads is forgotten m o s t thoroughly wiien the cost to the nation o f maintaining them is up for discussion, just as the faithful performance of the family horse is m o s t thoroughly forgotten when it is remembered that he burdens us with last m o n t h ' s bill for h a y and grain. H u m a n nature is just like that. I t p o p s up with its sudden heat. I t b e c o m e s forgetful, un thinking, impatient, and costly to itself. THE

COLD-BUSINESS-OF-THE-THLNG

In going at the regulation of railways from The any side, it is blind, vicious, savage. thing that corrects it is the cold business of the thing, which is not blind, vicious, nor savage, b u t k n o c k s quietly on the d o o r while the fuss is going on, knocks on the door when the fuss is over and broken crockery and furniture are strewn a b o u t the house, and knocks on the door when agitators are out of breath and corporation officials are through with their devices. In order to save trouble on b o t h sides, we might as well o p e n the door and let the persistent thing in n o w to save expense, wasted emotion, sentiment gone off the handle, and the knuckles of the cold-busi ness-of-the-thing that are knocking on the door. T h e story of the railroads in the United States is astonishing. See the g r o w t h : MILEAGE M i l e s of Railroad Line in

Total Track Mileage

Population

Miles of Railroad Line Operated

p e r 10,000

Operation

1830. 1850. 1870. 1890. 1900. 1905. 1908.

9,021 • · 52,922 . . 167,191 . . 198,964 . . 225,196 • • 24°,S 9 3

Population

199,876 25S,78 306,797 333,646 4

I 2,S66,020 23,191,876 38,558,371 62,622,250 76,303,387 83,143,°°° 87,169,000

0.02 3-9 13-7 26.7 26.1 27.1 7-5 2

Line mileage per 10,000 population shows only slight relative variations since 1890. Total track mileage increased between 1S90 and 1908 from 31.9 to 38.2 per 10,000 population (additional business from developed territory handled b y double track ing, etc.).

A n d then look at the figures on freight in See the in the years from 1 8 9 0 to 1 9 0 S . creased weight or distance b o u g h t and paid for b y the average consumer. Civilization

Everybody's in the material sense h a d o p e n e d her throttle then! I t is these railroad figures that re flect progress. A n d just as clearly they tell the story of the service of railroads to m a n . The)' show that transportation is being used over eight per cent, more per person per year. FREIGHT

TRAFFIC

FREIGHT TON MILEAGE 1890 1892 1894 1S96 1898 1900 1902 1904 190O 190S

THOUSANDS OF TON MILES PER CAPITA

77,207,000,000 88,241,000,000 80,335,000,000 95,328,000,000 114,078,000,000 141,597,000,000 157,289,000,000 174,522,000,000 215,878,000,000 218,381,000,000

1.23 I.36 1.18 1.36 I.43 I.85 I.99 2.15 2.57 2.48

It is true. T H E H E A R T OF T H E R A I L W A Y P R O B L E M

Nevertheless, the court of last resort, which m a y change even the Constitution IF it wishes, has at least one limitation of its authority. I t is constantly forgetting it, trying to override it, neglecting it. This limitation is the characteristic of physical matter. Physical matter will n o t m o v e in telligently for the benefit of man, b y itself. M a n k i n d must m o v e it. W e m a y have it m o v e d for us only in one of t w o w a y s : W e can have the g o v e r n m e n t m o v e it, or induce private parties to m o v e it in exchange for We a reward. W e must have it m o v e d . should

it at

moved the

least

safely, possible

quickly,

at h o m e and a b r o a d are the chief delight of a c a d e m i c investigators. T h e c o m p a r i s o n of impressions a n d reports and v o l u m e s and statistics and figures p r o v e s anything, can p r o v e anything, a n d has been m a d e to p r o v e anything. A g i t a t o r s for g o v e r n m e n t ownership and rates cut in halves—and quarters—make the case l o o k one w a y ; railroads, " c o r p o r a t i o n m e n , " and finan ciers can m a k e the w h o l e thing change its color, skin, stripes, and spots. M e n con jure with figures showing the cost of a ton mile of freight in one place and the other. T h e s e are e m p t y figures. I t is like this. Here is a sample. T h e average per ton mile rate is in T h e United States, .76 cents; G e r m a n y . 1.36 cents.

T h e main point a b o u t these figures is their indication—only t o o slight—of the inestimable and increasing service that railroads perform. If this service were wiped o u t of existence or tinkered with so that it was seriously impaired, w e should be willing to p a y m a n y times the price w e p a y for it n o w to get it b a c k in its present shape. Cold business sense says so. A n d it is not necessary to w o r k up any sentimental gratitude toward the railroads. C o l d busi ness sense, having said to the c o m m o n citi zen, " T h e regulation of railways is in y o u r little iron hands," n o w says: " T h e first thing y o u want is service."

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expense.

T h a t last sentence is the heart of the railroad p r o b l e m . N o w what has been the experience of other nations with the railroad p r o b l e m ? Comparisons between railroad conditions

B u t in this c o u n t r y the expensive traffic is taken a w a y from the railroads b y the pri vate car lines a n d express c o m p a n i e s , which charge exorbitant rates. I n G e r m a n y there is a parcels p o s t , and mail is carried free. YES,

BUT—

Y e s , b u t railroad materials are cheaper in G e r m a n y . Y e s , b u t in G e r m a n y b u l k y c o m m o d i t i e s yielding a c h e a p rate are carried b y water. Y e s , b u t in the U n i t e d States the gradi ents m a k e i n v e s t m e n t and operation cost higher. Y e s , b u t in the U n i t e d States the per ton mile figure is d e c e p t i v e because it includes the free carriage of g o o d s for the companies themselves. Y e s , b u t in G e r m a n y w ages are lower. Y e s , b u t the average haul in Germany is 7 8 miles; in the U n i t e d States 2 4 4 . T h e shorter haul is m o r e expensive. T h e r e is n o end to this. W h e n y o u have gone far e n o u g h with it, the best guess seems to be that, figuring everything in, the average freight charge in G e r m a n y is just a b o u t w h a t it is in the United States. T h e m a t t e r of freight rate is secondary, a n y h o w . W h a t a b o u t service? W h a t about national d e v e l o p m e n t ? Now comparisons are more difficult! T h e facts t o m a k e t h e m have never been gathered. H a v i n g f o u n d o u t a b o u t what each c o u n t r y pays, y o u n o w l a c k a n y defi nite n o t i o n of w h a t each c o u n t r y gets. T h a t is the sample. Y e t perhaps it is w o r t h while to summarize the investigations abroad: T

Steel Rails and Iron Hands England: Shockingly high capitalization per mile. N o end of fraud and scandal in purchase of rights of w a y b y managers in collusion with owners of purchased p r o p Dis erty. R a t e s far higher than ours. crimination and rebates. Legislation un successful and expensive. Periodical, stupid agitation. A garden spot for exposures. A situation a thousand times worse than ours, except as to safety. Belgium: State ownership. Rates a b o u t the same as here o n freight. Extremely low o n passengers. Clean record as to fraud and favoritism. P a y a fair return on cost. A situation better than ours and p r o b a b l y best of all. B u t , of course, our own p r o b l e m is different. It is vastly larger and vastly m o r e c o m p l i c a t e d . Our fitness for g o v e r n m e n t administration is not so well d e v e l o p e d . Russia: L a r g e l y g o v e r n m e n t ownership. Fraud. General public deprived of bene fits. Still a part of a despotism. Italy: G o v e r n m e n t ownership failed. There were political frauds and rows. Sold out to private interests. A subsequent history of p o o r service, agitation, discrim ination. T h e n four or five years ago the g o v ernment, under pressure of public opinion, bought b a c k , even though expecting to suffer a deficit on operation. H i s t o r y worse than our o w n . Switzerland: G o v e r n m e n t ownership be gan in 1 9 0 3 , after a decade of agitation. Comparison as to service and rates diffi cult, owing to light density of traffic and mountainous territory. Rates much higher than ours. Austria: Part g o v e r n m e n t ownership. Paternalistic management, i. e., passenger rates m a d e to encourage people to travel, go to school, live in the suburbs, etc. O w n ership was sold out to private management in 1 8 4 9 and b o u g h t b a c k in part in 1 8 7 7 and since. Z o n e system of passenger rates. C o m p a r i s o n of freight rates with our own is difficult. T h a t is enough. T h e bald truth of the matter is this—as to service, rates, and d e v e l o p m e n t of our resources b y the rail roads, and excluding the important matter of safety to life and limb, we, in the United States, are" no less fortunate than the aver age of other countries. Let us say all the g o o d things first. There are m o r e of these satisfying facts not to be denied.

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T h e first is that the percentage of the cost of living, including savings, which the average consumer can charge up to trans portation is surprisingly l o w . It averages a b o u t seven per cent, of the total. I t is true that each family has been p a y i n g m u c h more in these days than ten years ago for transportation; but, as we have seen already, the population, c o m p o s e d of m a n y fam ilies, is receiving a much larger service. The average person, as a m e m b e r of the average family, p a y s a larger freight bill every year, because, as a fact, he is getting more freight. The consumption of c o m m o d i t i e s per per son is larger, and one w a y of k n o w i n g this is that the railroads carry more freight per capita—an interesting consideration apart from the railroad p r o b l e m , because it helps to explain the high cost of living. INCREASE

RATES

HASN'T

MUCH

TO DO

W I T H T H E COST OT L I V I N G

T h e n it follows, if one cares to figure carefully, that before the cost of living is raised one hundredth from a direct effect of freight rates, these rates must be ad vanced over ten per cent. Considering the service rendered to the nation, the change in average rates per ton mile is not v e r y shocking, in spite of the general impression to the contrary. Espe cially is this true when c o m p a r e d with the upward course of prices of everything else, and the rapid increase of cost of living and the decreasing value of a dollar. These are the rate per ton mile statistics: 1870. 1887. 1892. 1897. 1S99.

cents

T h e n a rise:

1901.... i9°4

•75 .78

'then a fall :

1906.... 1907 . . . . 1908. . . 1909....

•75 .76 •75 .76

I t is to be remembered, h o w e v e r , that rate per ton mile statistics c a n n o t be used with any assurance. A variety of inlluences makes them deceptive. Y e t they are indic ative of truth. Then another fact must be recognized.

Everybody's T h e r e m a y be watered stock in A m e r i c a n railroads. T h a t is, there m a y be capitali zation w h i c h does not represent an invest ment of m o n e y . It is hard to think of an easier thing to m a k e people believe than that railroads are all water. B u t this is not a sentimental question. C o l d business sense will k n o c k on the d o o r until every b o d y is ready to a d m i t that, t h o u g h the history is thoroughly b a d , there is s o m e bright light as to the present capitalization of our railroads. NOT

SO M U C H W A T E R

IN RAILROADS N O W

T o begin with, the total capitalization carried b y our operating roads averages a mile. N o w , though m a n y other countries show better construction, which makes the cost per mile higher, we show better equipment. T h e n , of course, density of traffic has m u c h to d o with capitalization per mile. T h e density of our traffic is greater than that in France, less than that in England and G e r m a n y . T h e greater the density of traffic, of course the larger the proper capitalization will be, because in crease in density means m o r e stations, doubling of tracks, m o r e equipment, m o r e expense to insure safety of travel. Bear ing these considerations in mind, just see the approximate capitalization per mile in other countries in 1006, 1907, or 190S:

$59,296

Great Britain England (alone) France Germany Austria Russia Belgium

$267,000 320,000 135,000 97,000 95,000 70,000 150,000

Furthermore, though there is some differ ence in opinion, the least prejudiced ex perts believe that we could not dupli cate our railroads for a price less than a mile—the present capitalized value. N o t e well, h o w e v e r , that present value has nothing to d o with the actual a m o u n t invested in railroad property. A n d do not make the c o m m o n mistake, into which m a n y fall, of thinking that our capi talization is e v e n l y distributed a m o n g the railroads. W e are just beginning to learn that each railroad must be j u d g e d b y it self. S o m e arc capitalized a w a y b e y o n d righteousness and earn dividends on that capitalization; some o c c u p y defensible posi

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Magazine tions. I t is folly for b o t h kinds to set up the same kind of wail against regulation, or even against agitation. It is ridiculous that they should join in presenting a single front; it is equal folly for the p u b l i c to for get the difference in their worthiness as p u b l i c servants. Finally, it must be r e m e m b e r e d that some of the roads w h i c h h a v e carried the most water h a v e for long periods failed to yield dividends, and that, since the worst d a y s of stock watering, receiverships and reorgani zations h a v e squeezed m u c h of the water o u t — n o t at the expense of the p u b l i c , but at the expense of the security holders. I t is true that vast fortunes h a v e been m a d e b y c r o o k e d financial m a n i p u l a t i o n of A m e r ican roads, b u t the very worst examples are ancient history and, because the investors sometimes b o r e the loss, the consequence of the exploitation d o e s n o t rest so heavily u p o n the c o n s u m e r — t h e m a n for w h o m this article is written. T h e b u r d e n of capital ization is n o t so h e a v y t o - d a y as it w o u l d be if, the railroads being annihilated, any one g o v e r n m e n t or p r i v a t e interests—should try to refurnish the c o u n t r y with trans portation service. T h e s e facts are sensational enough, for. instead of showing that the situation, na tionally, is w h o l l y b a d , t h e y show a much m o r e surprising truth, w h i c h is that it is not wholly bad. T h e c o n s u m e r might as well recognize this, and d o it n o w . I t is one oi the necessities for intelligent regulation. THE

MOVE

TO R A I S E

RATES

Let us, then, get d o w n to a simple consid eration of our railroad p r o b l e m . There is no better w a y to a p p r o a c h the subject than t o seize the m o s t t i m e l y question for analysis. T h e c o n s u m e r m a y b e c o m e fa miliar with the g r o u n d o v e r which he must travel to reach a conclusion b y looking at a minor matter that confronts h i m at the moment. This minor m a t t e r is the present m o v e of railroads to increase their rates. T h e im portance of a general a d v a n c e in freight rates is e n o u g h to a w a k e n the c o n s u m e r to a lively interest in a m a t t e r w h i c h is his concern and in w h i c h his v o i c e , till n o w , has been silent, while v o i c e s of financiers, rail roads, and shippers h a v e been raised in a h u b b u b of rather c r u d e , e v a s i v e , a n d selfish c o n t r o v e r s y , w h i c h litis e n v e l o p e d the whole

Steel Rails and Iron Hands contention in an impenetrable cloud of eyeblinding dust, b o t h inside and outside the official hearings. MORE

SERVICE—MORE

MONEY

There never has been a m o r e important railroad question than that w h i c h was raised b y this battle-front of railroads asking for an a d v a n c e in rates. I t is only an opening skirmish. N e v e r has the Interstate C o m merce Commission had to realize more keenly that the question of what is a reason able schedule of rates is a question which it cannot really answer. T h e perplexities of the situation are increased b y what m a y be fairly termed an absolute failure o n the part of shippers a n d railroads to meet any where on a c o m m o n issue w here the welfare of the consumer w o u l d b e considered. I t is necessary for a n y o n e w h o wants to m a k e an educated guess a b o u t the merits of the railroads' d e m a n d , from the consumer's point of v i e w , to g o outside the record of the proceedings for light. T

T h e case of the railroads is based on these assertions, and we m a y c o m m e n t u p o n them as we g o along: 1 . There is a necessity to raise more m o n e y for i m p r o v e m e n t s a n d extensions and to give the c o u n t r y the service that it needs. C o l d business sense admits this. The transportation facilities are inadequate. W e want, need, demand, and must have service. INCREASED

R A T E S V S . GILT

ON THE

CEILING

2 . M a n y of these i m p r o v e m e n t s and ex tensions are of such a nature that the benefit of them in large part goes to the public and does n o t a d d to the earning p o w e r of rail road property. [ T h a t is, n e w capital for rail roads sees railroad p r o p e r t y being purchased or built which does n o t promise profits from its use. Therefore, t h e y say, there arises a situation in w h i c h the whole property earns less p r o p o r t i o n a t e l y . C o l d business sense admits this, t o o , with qualifications. T h e r e is s o m e virtue in the suggestion that rates should be high enough to give a fair return of profit a n d also p a y , at least in part, for non-earning additions, which benefit the public m o r e than they d o the railroads. T h e traveler on American

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lines can see plenty of examples of p r o p e r t y which is non-earning. " L o o k at that m a n putting new gilt on the ceiling of this w a i t i n g - r o o m , " said a commuter. " I p a y for that. T h e road wants to raise its rates and take the cost of the j o b out of m e . " " Surely," said his c o m p a n i o n , w h o knew a little m o r e a b o u t corporation management. " Y o u ' r e the m a n that wants it there. Gilt ceilings and big terminal stations, beauti fully designed b y high-priced architects, and lots of other things that y o u h a v e been hol lering for in recent years, are expenditures that d o y o u more g o o d than the s t o c k h o l d ers. Y o u w o u l d b e astounded to k n o w h o w large such non-earning i m p r o v e m e n t s h a v e b e c o m e . I t is the d e m a n d for non-earning improvements that makes investments in railways less attractive than they were and makes financing more difficult." BILLING

T H E P A S T TO T H E P R E S E N T

CONSUMER

C o l d business sense winces a little. T o be sure, this sounds plausible. Y e t the trou ble—and a great difficulty it is— lies in the exaggeration given to the fact b y the testi m o n y of the railroads. Any business man knows that parts of his investment are non-earning. Some n o n earning investment is a normal incident of all business. A m a h o g a n y desk in y o u r office earns no more than one of oak. W h e n the railway presidents this Sep tember tried to point out o n the witness stand the need of higher rates to attract capital so that they might m a k e addi tions, or to yield enough to help p r o v i d e for non-earning i m p r o v e m e n t s out of cur rent earnings, the business man asked, " W h a t are these new non-earning im provements? " " O h , safety devices," said the presi dents, " a n d heavier track and faster service, and abolishment of grade crossings and ex pensive terminals, and " Here cold business sense interrupted to say that to a considerable extent these mat ters of furnishing safety, convenience, and inducements to customers are perfectly nor mal incidents of business, and that if the railroads find themselves behind in these things, it shows a laxity in A m e r i c a n rail roading in the past which cannot properly be billed to the consumer to-day. A n d y e t

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there is n o d o u b t at all that the non-earning p r o p e r t y of railroads is growing p r o p o r t i o n ately larger. 3. "Our operating expense has in creased," say the railroads. " B u t so has y o u r r e v e n u e , " says cold business sense. " S o has the density of your traffic. T h a t helps y o u . T h e n again h o w easy it is for y o u , in spite of the ac counting system p r o v i d e d , to show y o u r profits are less! Listen! W e k n o w the trick! Y o u can d o it b y making h e a v y charges to y o u r maintenance figures, which are a part of y o u r operating expense. YQM can make expense show large. T h a t means that y o u are investing y o u r profits in y o u r o w n property. H o w can y o u show that this maintenance is not a process of con cealing profits or taking them in a different form than d i v i d e n d s ? " JUGGLING THE ACCOUNTS " O h , we w o u l d not d o anything of that sort," say the railroads. " E s p e c i a l l y as to our accounting." " W o u l d n ' t , e h ? " says cold business sense. " L e t me show y o u this exhibit." Exhibit: New York Central; Reported under Operating Expense March, 1909

Ties Rails

March, 1 9 1 0

Increase

$129,785.29 $381,996.96 $252,211.67 90,213.88 237,452.93 148,239.05

Steam Locomo

tive Renewals

6,788.41

278.383.00

271,594.59

Increase in operating expense over a

year ago Decrease in net earnings

$672,045.31 840,678.64

T h e difference, however, is illuminated b y letters which passed between officials of the X e w Y o r k Central: April 27, i q i o . File 12^4. M r . A. H. Smith, Vice President b° General Manager. Dear Sir: Referring to our conversation in regard to the March quarter: Mr. Place advises me that it would be il logical, although perhaps not illegal, to carry any portion of the extra Lake Shore dividend over into the second quarter. I have, however, recommended to Mr. Carstensen a charge to the March operating expenses of $275,683, to cover the value, less salvage, of the 3 5 locomo tives which have been condemned; and a charge of $622,538.50 for rails and ties, to cover one

quarter of the estimated expenditure during the year, instead of $249,000, which is one tenth. I have also asked Mr. Carstensen to see that the March figures are withheld until he has had a chance to confer with Mr. Brown. Yours truly, (Sgd.) R . A. W h i t e , General Auditor. B o s t o n and A l b a n y R a i l r o a d (By Messenger.) At B o s t o n , April 28, 1910. M y d e a r M r . W h i t e : Thank you very much for your favor of the 27th inst., File 1234, advising that Mr. Place stated "it would be illogical, although perhaps not illegal, to carry any portion of the extra Lake Shore dividend over into the second quarter." If it is illogical to spread credits it should also be illogical to spread debits over one quarter, two quarters, or 1 2 months. M y only interest, of course, is the effect that it may have upon matters that are now being considered. Believe me, Very truly yours, (Sgd.) A. H. Smith. Mr. R. A. White, General Auditor. File 1234. Mr.

April 29, 1910. Smith,

Vice President &* General Manager. M y dear Mr. Smith: Replying to yours of the 28th, in regard to spreading debits. Y o u are quite correct, that it is illogical and also illegal to spread debits over a period, with the single exception of such general classes of work (such as renewals or rails or ties) as would logically be continued through a series of months and the benefit of which is applicable to a year. In view of Mr. Place's decision, the Lake Shore dividend was not carried into the suc ceeding quarter, but I have authority from Mr. Carstensen to change our plan of renewing rails and tics so as to spread it over the entire year, which means that the March quarter will in clude one quarter, instead of one tenth, of the entire amount; and also to include in the March expenses the figures reported b y you covering condemned locomotives. This will increase the expenses for March between $650,000 and $700,000. Yours very truly, (Sgd.) R . A . W h i t e , General Auditor. If this little departure practice of the N e w Y o r k ing h a d n o t b e e n m a d e , effect it m a y h a v e u p o n

from the regular Central account b e c a u s e of " t h e matters that are.

Steel Rails and Iron Hands now being c o n s i d e r e d , " the N e w Y o r k Cen tral w o u l d h a v e s h o w n an increase in oper ating revenue for the three m o n t h s ending M a r c h , 1 9 1 0 , of $ 4 4 7 , 7 9 4 . 7 2 , instead of a decrease in revenue. It m a y be m e n t i o n e d that this " p a i n t e d " decrease, whatever reasons were b a c k of the manipulation, n o t only had the effect of making the p u b l i c and shippers believe in the railroad's distress, b u t helped to c o n vince wage earners that, in order to have better wages, they must help the railroads in an a d v a n c e of rates. I t is n o t unfair to say that the laborers are taken in b y this species of strategy—these d o c t o r e d statis tics—which tend to show that a road is in distress. " A n d n o w , " says c o l d business sense, " i t seems to m e that recently the charges to maintenance all along the line have jumped. It is a curious thing, in a way—this leaping of railway maintenance out of its skin. In stead of seeing properties that are really impoverished, I see a g o o d m a n y that have increased their earning c a p a c i t y and have done so b y charging to maintenance m o n e y which was yielded b y the present rates, which came from the public. In a sen t e n c e , " concludes c o l d business sense: THE

RAILROADS'

CONCEALED

PROFITS

"Some of you have been spending, out of money yielded by present rates, amounts which have increased much faster than the prices of labor and materials or the degree of thoroughness of repair. A good deal of this money goes to the railroad interest just as much as it does when it goes in dividends. It is a part of the profits of the business when a new piece of earning property is added to the total of earning property. And this profit comes out of rates." Let us l o o k at the C h i c a g o , Burlington & Q u i n c y . In 1 9 0 5 maintenance of struc tures, w a y , and e q u i p m e n t was $ 1 8 , 8 7 8 , 6 9 2 . I n 1 9 0 8 — t h e year of depression, t o o — i t T h e first three had g o n e to $ 2 7 , 1 0 4 , 9 3 6 . fourths of a year, or nine m o n t h s ending April 1, 1 9 1 0 , s h o w e d $ 2 2 , 8 2 7 , 3 0 5 ! T h i s course of expenditure on main tenance helps to explain w h y some of our roads can m a k e a p o o r showing to the p u b lic b y talking a b o u t what is left after " o p e r ating e x p e n s e " has been deducted from revenues. N o t h i n g can be plainer than that a road can m a k e reports which serve

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to conceal the true state of earning p o w e r . A n d it is a fact that just n o w these charges to maintenance are aviating. HOW

THE PUBLIC PAYS THE PIPER

W h a t d o the railroads say? T h e y say that mileage has increased, so that u p k e e p must be larger. T h e answer is that it has not increased in any such proportion. T h e y say that thoroughness of upkeep has been enforced as it has n o t been before. The answer is that current upkeep is a part of that revenue which a n y fair-minded person wants the railroads t o have, o v e r and a b o v e a fair and liberal return, with depreciation reserve thrown in; b u t the flight in these charges can hardly b e called necessary for current upkeep when, in the recent past, g o o d current u p k e e p has n o t been so ex travagantly phrased in terms of dollars. T h e y say, as t o operating expense, that in g o o d and profitable years the p r o p e r t y should b e so strengthened that dividends can be maintained in b a d years. T h e an swer to this is that n o man of business sense will d e n y the railroads that right so long as the privilege is n o t extended b e y o n d reason. T h e c o m p l e t e answer t o a n y a t t e m p t t o justify excessive maintenance charges is that excessive maintenance charge, or a n y excessive operating expense, means m o n e y that comes out of the public and goes m o r e or less directly t o the owners, or more often to the manipulators. Sooner or later, di rectly or indirectly, the increased value o f the p r o p e r t y is capitalized. T h e n w h a t ? Then the public must p a y rates that will yield a return on this increased capitaliza tion, which really is the investment of the public. It was out of the earnings yielded by the public that the investment was made. HIGHER

WAGES—HIGHER

RATES,

S A Y THE.

RAILROADS

This is the first, foremost, and m o s t i m portant of the concealed profits of the rail roads. I t is so simple that a child can w o r k it. / / makes ridiculous any figures of rail road profit that are based merely on dividends paid. B u t suppose, for the m o m e n t , that the railways have been earning only a fair profit, or at least one which encouraged them t o keep on in business and apparently was large enough to attract new capital.

Everybody's Magazine 324 The advance in cost of materials was a What is the principal basis for asking an increase in rates to maintain that fair profit large phrase with which the railroads ad because operating expense has increased? vanced to the fray. It faded considerably as time went on. Cost of railroad materials Wages.

It is true that infiveyears wages paid is not increasing so very fast. In fact, when by our railroads per average employee have the federal arbitration board was sitting to increasedfifteenper cent, or more. It is adjust the wages of locomotivefiremenlast probably true that, for the increased June, they were presented with a list of amount, less hours of work per laborer sixty-two raw materials, tools, and basic are received. It is true that forty-two per supplies with prices in 1 9 0 6 compared with cent, of the gross revenue of railroads is prices in 1 9 0 9 . There were forty-four de paid out in wages. It is true that consid creases in prices and ten increases. Here is erable increases have just been granted or another list of four of the most important are under advisement. But the introduc railroad materials, with comparative price tion of labor-saving machinery has saved figures: some wage expense, surely. For example, BITUMIN STEEL RAILS LUMBER the Rock Island's report for 190 S shows OUS COAL POOL PIG IRON ARBITRARY PER TON PRICES UNIT 3 , 3 0 0 tons of bridge steel placed by the use 8.00 127. 7 SIS-5 8 of a bridge-erecting car at a saving in cost 1905 . .$2.6 O $ 228.0 0 140. 1 1 9 0 6 . • • 2.7 5 17.7 8 of about sixty per cent. 28.0 0 21.0 6 146. 9 1 9 0 7 . . . . 2.8 0 RAILWAY LABOR PLAYING

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Then, when the total wages and salaries Under the circumstances it may be better paid are compared with the total operating for the railways to rest their case on other income, there does not seem to be any ex grounds. traordinary change in the status. It looks There are other matters to consider, too. like this: What of the new conditions of doing busi ness which tend to reduce cost of service? Per Cent, of Income Paid in Wages. And what has been the effect of the in 1894 42% creased density of traffic? 1S98 40% The last few years have seen cheaper 1900 39% methods of handling freight. This saves 19°S 40% money. I9°9 42% Longer trains. Ten years ago the aver Under thesefiguresthere is no need for age train carried about 2 4 0 tons, now it any such excitement about increase in carries nearly 3 9 0 tons. wages paid, for it follows that if wages have Longer haul. Ten years ago the average increased, there must be fewer employees in haul was 1 3 0 miles, now it is 150. proportion to the dollars of business done. Easier grades. Larger cars. Increased It is hard, then, to see why railway labordensity of traffic. ers should become very much excited in joining with their employers to ask for a WHY NOT BE FRANK? rate increase, as the only way to obtain higher wages. When they do so, they for The trouble with the general case of the get that in the past wage increases did not railroads was principally a trouble in prov depend upon rate advances. This was welling the facts and their significance. Acting brought out in the cross-examination of together, they asserted a heavier operating President McCrea of the Pennsylvania. The expense as a need for higher rates. This truth of the matter is that railway labor has,case, with the exception of its application to in the past few months, when it has advo some of the Southern roads, was not such as cated rate advances, played a title role in to convince the court of last resort. It the old, old comedy of cat's-paw. would have been a much better case if it And yet, when all is said and done, the had argued outright for a more liberal re advances in wages must be reckoned with. turn to railroad investment. That kind of So must the question of advance in the cost a case is frank and open. When the public of materials. knows the facts about the real return to rail

Steel

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road capital and what standard of manefficiency goes into the business, the road with a good case has nothing to fear in asking for adequate rates. I t is to the interest of the consumers—those with the little iron hands—to keep the railroads in sound health, not as a matter of sentimental gratitude, b u t as a matter of cold, selfish business sense, which realizes the need of service, more service, better service, plenty of it. In the judgment of what is necessary to have ser vice, the nation cannot afford to g o wrong, show animosity, listen to agitators or special classes of shippers, or lend an ear to old, worn-out scandal of the pioneer period which has gone. HOLDING

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Unfortunately, not only as regards the case itself, but as regards its presentation inside and outside of the Interstate C o m merce Commission hearings, the railroads made a wretched exhibition. Their lawyers, as a whole, were constantly in the attitude of holding the c o v e r on the information p o t . W h i c h , b y the w a y , is the trouble with a lot of these lawyers representing semi-public corporations. There was a tendency on the part of the railroads to put witnesses on the stand w h o could not answer from their own knowledge as to vital matters. A n d when individuals w h o did k n o w came along, they showed a reluctance to treat the situation in a man's w a y . S o m e of the shippers' testi m o n y was rabid and unfair. Air. M c C r e a , of the Pennsylvania, seemed to hang b a c k in answering questions which brought out the fact that Pennsylvania stockholders, " m o s t of w h o m are w o m e n , " have received in a year six per cent, in dividends and eight dollars a share in rights during a period in which two and one half per cent, went to the surplus. H e did not seem pleased to say that the past year was the most lucrative for stockholders of any year in the past ten except 1 9 0 1 . Mr. D a l y , vice president in charge of traffic o n the X e w Y o r k Central, said he could not tell what surplus his road had last year, and that he could not tell whether there was any surplus! The auditor of disbursements for the N e w Y o r k Central had an estimate of the wage increase on his road, which was $ 4 , 5 0 0 , 6 4 7 . It was p o i n t e d out that this did not show

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the increase in wages o f men e m p l o y e d in freight business, but included the increase in wages paid men in passenger service. At a suggestion that the railroad furnish figures indicating the distribution betw een the t w o kinds, the attorney f o r the road o b j e c t e d vigorously. President Truesdale, o f the Lackawanna, testified that in ten years his c o m p a n y lost a b o u t one million a year on operation of the Morris & Essex, which is leased to the Lackawanna, while fifteen millions were spent on the leased road. T h e fact was later brought out that in the telling of this " l o s s , " it was not explained that the " l o s s " on operation was calculated after seven per cent, interest had been paid on nearly thirty-two millions o f stock and b o n d s of the Morris & Essex. This was a typical case of the other half of the truth—under the hat. Incidental!}', the N e w Y o r k Cen tral in five years has paid out over four millions for the pleasure it takes in operat ing the B o s t o n & A l b a n y . The railroad men w h o testified to the in creased return demanded b y investors in railway securities, knew v e r y well that in creased return is demanded all along the line—in municipal bonds, in industrial se curities. Their bonds have shrunk in value 110 more than other bonds. T h e y knew it. HOW

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These examples are not given t o add sore ness to the subject, but to indicate that the consumer—the man w h o is destined to have the final say—cannot yet open his mouth Nor and shut his eyes to receive wisdom. h;ts this consumer, in fact—this for the benefit of railroad officials and financiers— read without a smile items in the newspapers about how M r . So-and-so, the " E u r o p e a n financier" ( w h o , we fmd, used to be a rail way publicity man!) says that foreign in vestors distrust our railway securities b e cause they fear a rate a d v a n c e will not be allowed. Our ordinary suburbanite with a derby hat, and our ordinary farmer w h o wears a collar, heard the c r y of the railroad interests that railway securities held b y widows and orphans and savings banks are threatened. But such people k n e w — o f course they knew—that this suggestion was a hundred times more hurtful to the integrity of the " p e o p l e ' s s a v i n g s " than a n y rate regulation! T h e y knew that if there came

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a n y depression in railway securities, it could be charged, not to the alleged cause of the wail, b u t t o the pessimistic wail itself. There were two reasons, then, against the general advance in rates p r o p o s e d — a n d a third. T h e first reason was that, with a few ex ceptions, the roads failed to show that their real profits had been reduced b y new con ditions. It must b e remembered that profits are not only in the shape of dividends b u t also in the shape of: i. Rights to sub scribe to stock at a figure less than the o p e n market will pay. 2 . A b n o r m a l increase of undistributed funds. T h e railroads are n o w enjoying the largest surplus ever stored u p . 3 . Charges to maintenance, or any oper ating expense which exceeds an a m o u n t necessary for g o o d , honest current upkeep of the road. T h e second reason is that there is a g o o d old doctrine of equity that the plaintiff must have clean hands. S o m e h o w it seems as if the railroads have c o m e to court this time with gloves on. T h e third reason is the best of all. It is constructive. T o M r . Louis D . Brandeis, w h o as counsel represented eastern shippers, must be credited the suggestion and the testimony drawn from railroad men them selves that gave the suggestion nourish ment. T h e suggestion is this. It is quickly said and frill-less: " Y o u say this first step in the advance of rates y o u plan is a small increase, a small burden on the consumer and a small offset to your 'enlarged' operating expense. B u t a small decrease in your operating expense would meet the situation just as well. W h y don't y o u try efficiency?" M r . Brandeis showed b y his cross-exam ination that scientific business efficiency practiced in competitive industrial enter

GOD'S BY

prises was something of a stranger to m o s t railroad operation. T h e presidents of the Pennsylvania and the B a l t i m o r e & Ohio, for instance, pained and surprised at the sug gestion, a d m i t t e d that n o standard costs were k e p t for the variety of repairs on loco m o t i v e s or freight cars. A n injection of three per cent., or thereabouts, of efficiency in operation w o u l d offset the m u c h talkedof wage increase. A n d w o u l d increased efficiency be possible? I t is a painful idea! Nevertheless, the expense accounts of the insurance c o m p a n i e s w h i c h were supposed to represent the m i n i m u m that could be reached through the efforts of high-salaried m e n have, since the investigation, been p r o v e d to have represented o n l y seventy-five per cent, of reasonably attainable efficiency. A n d there is the Illinois Central asking for a rate a d v a n c e and pointing to a de crease of some $ 7 0 0 , 0 0 0 in net earnings. T h i s is p o o r grace in a m a n a g e m e n t that in t w o years lost $ 1 , 5 0 0 , 0 0 0 in car and equip m e n t repairs through fraud, which might not have been discovered at all. Such a loss would have been impossible where standard costs and m o d e r n scientific busi ness p r o t e c t e d the investors. Y e t the Illi nois Central has a large reputation for efficient m a n a g e m e n t . W h a t a b o u t this railroad efficiency? T h i s is a rich vein. Perhaps, before rates are farther advanced, it should b e explored. Surely the consumer—the m a n w h o pays —is not attacking the railroads, nor "killing the hen that lays the golden e g g , " nor putting the w i d o w s and orphans in danger, nor even exhibiting a n y extraordinary "anti-corpora t i o n " animosity when he m i l d l y suggests that before he contributes a larger income to the roads, they, on their part, should see that nothing is wasted. W h a t d o y o u think?

PRISONER

CHARLOTTE WILSON

L O R D of wide spaces, though D u t y , and circumstance, and H e l p T h o u m y soul t o m o c k A n d range T h y purple paths

I wear T h y chains, b o d y ' s pains, T h y prison-bars, b e t w e e n the stars!

T H E

P E A C E

D O V E

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HAROLD

ILLUSTRATIONS

BY HORACE

H E R E ' S one thing about the alkali c o u n t r y ; or, rather, there ain't one thing — and that's p e t t i c o a t s , " o b served R i l e y , the foreman of the Tres Santos, with a y a w n . " T h e r e ' s one or t w o worse places than N e w M e x i c o at that," he added. " I t ' s funny there ain't more marries Mexes, where it's so near that or nothin', ain't i t ? " remarked Johnson, the ditch boss. "I've seen the d a y when there wasn't a white w o m a n in thirty mile of here," c o n tinued Riley. " J a c k Wilkins went clean t o San A n t o n ' for his wife. Jack was allowin' that the kind of girl to stack up to an edu cated taste didn't g r o w in this valley, which they didn't, either." "The same being w h y y o u ain't foller in' a b a b y carriage, I r e c k o n , " suggested A n d r e w s interestedly. Riley chuckled. Andrews, being ranch machinist and hence indispensable when anything " b u s t e d , " often t o o k liberties with the foreman. " T h e difference between y o u and me, J i m , " R i l e y retorted, " i s y o u ' d be after harnessin' up with anything that done her hair up the b a c k , and I ain't that kind of f o o l . " H e arose for perhaps the tenth time from his seat astride a bale of h a y and peered out of the barn door at the beating rain, which was soaking countless tons of

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fresh-cut alfalfa and enforcing idleness upon himself and four unmistakably pleased ranch hands. " W h a t a heap of fools there are," replied Andrews languidly. " B u t say, h o w a b o u t Jack Wilkins? For a married man with a family I ' d call the boss a right h a p p y lunatic." " A n y b o d y would be a fool not to marry a girl like Missus Wilkins, if he had a c h a n c e , " urged R i l e y patiently. "There was a time, though, when even y o u , Jim, w o u l d ' v e made a better m a t c h for her than Jack Wilkins, in the opinion of m o s t people hereabouts. I ' m sayin' that with all respect for Jack's wife, t o o . " Riley settled easily b a c k and rolled a cigarette. H e was rolling a second one be fore he spoke again. " I n his day Jack was something of a rounder," he said at length. " T h a t was be fore some of y o u b o y s ever c o m e t o the val ley or knew there was such a place o n the map. B o o z e , faro—Jack, he went the whole route—and he went it, t o o , I ' m right here to remark. His wife h a d domestic troubles that'd make any w o m a n that ever hit R e n o , N e v a d a , look like a blame c r y b a b y beside her. T h a t was before a certain fowl we named the ' p e a c e d o v e ' b e g u n to perch on the family rooftree. A P l y m o u t h

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R o c k e r this bird was, speckled, long-legged, pale around the gills. " J a c k ' s early trainin' h a d n ' t h a d enough b e d slat in it for his o w n g o o d , to m y w a y of thinkin'. Old Jud Wilkins was as s a v v y a c o w - m a n as ever lived, b u t raisin' kids wasn't his line. P u t t i n ' the ditch strip into farm land t o o k all the old man's time; and besides that, Jack didn't have a n y m a m m y from the time he was t w o years old. " T h e b o y learned y o u n g . I caught h i m more than once soakin' up tequila with the Mexes when he was o n l y a kid. F o r years he m a d e a regular hangout of a c r o o k e d roadhouse on the T u n a s trail, drinkin' rotten whisky a n d b u c k i n ' a brace-box that'd busted a plumber in six deals. I reckon he wasn't o v e r fourteen when he started this. " T h e worst mistake the old man ever made was to send the b o y off to college. Honest, w e couldn't toiler him for s m o k e back there in the East. B u t old Jud was aimin' to give the y o u n g devil what he c o n sidered a fair chance, so he kept sweetenin' the p o t and worryin'. " W h e n the o l d m a n died, the kid c o m e b a c k sobered d o w n something amazin' and said he was goin' to run the ranch. That b o y , for all he was brought up right here o n the Santos, didn't k n o w n o more a b o u t ranchin' than I d o a b o u t quiltin'; b u t the place was his, and as long as he b e h a v e d himself w e was satisfied. " T h e r e was something sanctified and unnatural a b o u t that first m o n t h Jack run the ranch. Ben M c G r a t h and m e drunk every drop of whisky o n the place so's he couldn't get at it. T h e n w e all held our breath and waited. " W e l l , one d a y Jack said he was goin' to El Paso to get s o m e oil for his machinery. H e sure g o t it, too. Eubri cated wasn't n o name for the c o n d i t i o n he c o m e b a c k in. Albu querque w a s the next sta tion on the j a g route, and then he g o t his gait. Inside of another

Magazine m o n t h he was rip-snortin' o v e r the c o u n t r y , leavin' a trail three states wide behind him. " B u t the worst of it was the w a y he took to shootin' u p the exchequer. Jack g o t to costin' us so m u c h I never knew when I was g o i n ' to h a v e e n o u g h t o p a y off the M e x e s . " O n e d a y w e near had a strike o n our hands. All that k e p t the help from leadin' off the livestock was s o m e little reputation B e n and m e had g o t b a c k in the cow-rustlin' days for handlin' six guns. Well, right in the m i d d l e of m y explainin' that p a y day was c o m i n ' around jest as soon as the young boss g o t b a c k with the dinero, Jack lit on the scene drunk. H e was t o w i n ' along a big, soft-lookin' souse he allowed was his 'fra ternity brother.' " W e sized the pair of ' e m u p , Ben and m e , and decided to act. So w e watched our chance and coralled the fraternity brother. I ' m not sure, b u t I think it was twelve hours we give h i m to get a wire that his relatives was sick and needin' h i m . I remember, all the time w e was talkin' B e n was fondlin' an inch b o a r d with a barrel cactus nailed on the business end of it. T h a t fraternity cuss had a right smart respect for the uphol stery N a t u r e ' d e n d o w e d h i m with, for he got his telegram that same evening. Then I braced Jack. " ' J a c k , b o y , ' I says, ' I was foreman of the T r e s Santos before y o u was ever hatched. W h e n y o u r p o o r o l d dad cashed in I promised h i m f o r t y times, if I promised h i m o n c e , that I was g o i n ' t o stick b y you and the ranch,' I says. ' W h e n I done it,' I says, ' I d i d n ' t figure o n runnin' the old place as n o j a g a s y l u m with a blanket mort gage o n it. Y o u either m a k e up what you consider to b e y o u r m i n d t o c u t this foolish ness o u t and settle d o w n , ' I says, ' o r you and y o u r ranch can g o p l u m b to thunder for all of m e ! ' I says. " T h e next morning, instead of flaggin' the Santa F e a n d g o i n ' to t o w n , Jack got into s o m e o l d breeches a n d r o d e ditch from sun-up to sun-down. T h e d a y after, he b r o k e t w o sickles and a m o w e r hagglin' up three b o r d e r s ; b u t it was a d a y ' s work for him. M o s t surprisin' of all was the w a y he appeared to get a hand o n himself. Things perked up t o b e a t the b a n d . " B u t o n e m o r n i n g he w a s missin', and w e guessed it was all off. T h e o n l y thing we were even speculatin' a b o u t was what we were g o i n ' to d o t o the fraternity brothers if he fetched a n y of ' e m b a c k with him. 7

THE WORST MISTAKE THE OLD MAN EVER MADE WAS TO SEND THE BOY OFF TO COLLEGE.

" W e were all layin' out in front of the house on S u n d a y evening, when all of a sudden E d w i n Summerville K e n t let out a w h o o p that nearly ripped his linings out. Y o u see, E d w i n only had one lung, and was settin' o n the fence o n account of the dew. Well, the next minute I was leanin' against the fence myself, makin' noises like windin' a dollar watch. " U p the lane was c o m i n ' a rubber-tired carriage behind a shiny b a y . Inside was Jack Wilkins, dressed in ice-cream clothes and settin' alongside of a girl. " E d w i n showed the advantages of early bringin' u p b y steppin' out big as life and hitchin' their horse for 'em. A n ' then Jack lifted the girl out like she was a settin' of eggs. T h e missus is pretty enough n o w , but she sure was a pippin those days. Slim and r o u n d — b i g black eyes—this raven hair they talk so m u c h about—cheeks like peaches and cream—prettiest w o m a n alive— that was her. ' T h e s e are the Tres Santos b o y s , R o x i e , ' Jack says. ' T h i s is m y wife, b o y s , ' he says, offhand-like. " I give a gasp for breath even y e t some times when I think of that remark of Jack's.

For the next five minutes us fellows were redder'n an acre of ripe c o w beets. Even Edwin was knocked off his pins. Blamed if the girl didn't fetch a smile and get a little red herself. ' " T h a t ain't no w a y to introduce any b o d y , ' she says to Jack. ' I want to k n o w their names,' she says. Her voice was like little silver spurs a-jinglin'. Jack, bein' sober, was stumped. H e told her he'd been away on business so much he didn't k n o w all of us himself. " ' R i l e y here hires 'em and fires ' e m , ' he says. ' H e ' s got their names and pedi grees d o w n cold.' T h e n he introduced m e to her. ' " S u r e , Mrs. Wilkins,' I says, when I g o t m y breath again, ' b u t I ' d rather not say anything about pedigrees except that none of the b o y s have been hung yet.' T h e n I begun presentin' 'em. ' T h i s oldish-like gent hidin' his blushin' features behind the whiskers is Mister M c G r a t h , ' I says. . . . ' H i m tryin' to get b o t h his feet behind the other one is Mister M c N a r y . . . T h i s high and wide party,' I says, ' i s G e r m a n y Schwartz. If G e r m a n y ' s got any specialty,

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" i REMEMBER, ALL THE TIME WE WAS TALKIN' BEX WAS FONDLIN' AN INCH BOARD WITH A BARREL CACTUS NAILED ON THE BUSINESS END OF IT."

it's drivin' mules, for he's fluent and per足 suadeful in D u t c h and M e x i c a n as well as American,' I says. ' T h e gentleman y o u observe tryin' to edge around the corner of the house is Mister Anderson,' I says. " T h e n I c o m e to E d w i n . ' T h e lad here with the pale, intellectual d o m e and the specs is Mister Edwin Summerville K e n t , from Boston, wherever that is,' I says. ' I f there's one thing Edwin is prouder of than a n y o t h e r i t ' s the sunburn on his arms,' I s a y s . " B e f o r e she'd been with us a week, that girl just naturally turned the Santos upside down. Just her bein' with us went over the ranch like a bucket of whitewash. We m o v e d the M e x e s ' 'dobes out b a c k of the corrals so's she couldn't hear 'em cuss; b u t L o r d , we didn't need t o . ' I never seen a civilizeder lot than they g o t to be after she c o m e . 'La seiiora chiqulta', they called her. " J a c k , he b o u g h t new furniture and had the porch built and hired a decent c o o k . W e all t o o k to shavin'. W e even wore coats to the table till she asked us not to. Out o n the j o b , when the belt flew off the baler, there was only the softest kind of cussin', because she was always ridin' around on a d i n k y little p o n y I gentled for her, watchin' us. G e r m a n y g o t so he c o u l d n ' t drive mules for a cuss, he was that scared she'd understand what he said to ' e m . "

R i l e y paused to take another l o o k o u t of the barn d o o r , b u t the rain w a s p o u n d i n g d o w n as hard as ever and he returned and lighted another cigarette. T h e r e w o u l d be n o m o r e field w o r k that d a y . " W h e r e does y o u r P l y m o u t h R o c k , or Buff C o c h i n , or w h a t e v e r it was y o u said perched on the rooftree, c o m e in? " drawled Andrews. R i l e y g a v e n o indication of h a v i n g heard the question. " I d o n ' t k n o w as I ever rightly u n d e r s t o o d the ins a n d outs of the m e s s , " he c o n t i n u e d . " I d i d n ' t need to. I did learn one thing after a while, though, which is that wdien a m a n ' s spent ten or fifteen years cultivatin' the instincts of a c o y 足 ote, n o t all the angels of k i n g d o m c o m e can drive it out of h i m in a minute. I k n o w that Jack Wilkins h a d a relapse all right. " O n e d a y I n o t i c e d the liquor signal in Jack's face. T h e same d a y he w e n t off to El Paso without sayin' a w o r d to his wife. Before that h e ' d as soon h a v e left without his head. H e c o m e b a c k four d a y s later, b o o z e d up considerable a n d sulky as a lo足 c o e d greaser. T h e girl h a d k e p t to her r o o m all the time he was a w a y , and she c o m e d o w n with her eyes red a n d her mouth d r o o p i n ' . T h e rest of us was eatin' supper. W h e n she seen the shape he was in, some足 thing blazed u p in her eyes a n d b a c k she w e n t upstairs again. I'll tell y o u the scrap that started that night like t o never ended. " T h e next time Jack r o u n d e d the curve to where the little b r o w n j u g was settin', he went o n a regular, o l d - t i m e tear. T h e girl m o v e d clean across the house from him and quit speakin' to him. " F r o m then o n the o n l y time w e saw 'em was at meals o n c e in a while. I'll never forget one breakfast. T h e girl c o m e in late, with her eyes all puffed o u t f r o m c r y i n ' , as they generally was a b o u t that time. The b o y s all said ' G o o d M o r n i n ' , ' b u t Jack never l o o k e d u p . She smiled k i n d of pitiful and set d o w n at her e n d of the table. W h e n the M e x i c a n girl h a n d e d her her coffee, I seen a tear splash in the c u p . " W e l l , w e et a w a y , p r e t e n d i n ' not to notice. If s o m e b o d y ' d p o u r e d water o n m e I ' d h a v e c r a c k e d like a r e d - h o t s t o v e , I was that m a d . I felt like gettin' u p a n d kickin' Jack off the place. Just a b o u t then it was, I guess, I h a p p e n e d to n o t i c e t h a t E d w i n Summerville K e n t , the k i d w i t h the specs a n d the one lung, seemed t o h a v e something o n his m i n d . T w o or three times he started

The Peace Dove of the Tres Santos to take a bite a n d s t o p p e d and looked at m e . T h e n he lays d o w n his fork. ' " M i s t e r R i l e y , ' he says, l o o k i n ' kind of scared, 'is it c u s t o m a r y for hens to set at this time of y e a r ? ' " For the next t w o minutes a pin d r o p p i n ' would h a v e sounded like a cannon ball fallin' through a bass drum, it was that quiet. E d w i n g o t so red the sweat b r o k e o u t all over his face. " ' M i s t e r K e n t , ' I says at last, ' I ain't gone in for a n y exhaustin' study of the sub ject, b u t it's been m y observation that when most hens take it in their heads to set, they set, summer or winter, and hell and high waters notwithstandin'.' " T asked,' says E d w i n , ' b e c a u s e there's a speckled hen behind the corn b o x in the h a y barn been settin' o n four onions ever since I c o m e here.' " ' T h a t hen ain't settin'; she's restin',' Anderson says, straight off the bat. " ' R e s t i n ' y o u r e y e ! ' says M c N a r y . ' T h a t hen was settin' o n three spuds in the same place six m o n t h s before Mister K e n t ever c o m e here. G e r m a n y allowed that the

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same hen had set o n tw o cowcumbers, to his posi tive k n o w l edge, for all of seven months be fore that.' ' " I thro wed the same hen off a doorknob in the sheep corral many a d a y two year a g o , ' says Ben McGrath. " ' W e l l , it ain't any wonder she's wore all the feathers off her chest, is it!' E d w i n says. Jack had to grin in spite of himself, and the Missus giggled. B e n wanked at m e . " ' T h e w a y to break hens of wantin' to set, E d w i n , is to keep ' e m soaked in water,' he says. ' S o m e authorities breaks ' e m b y pourin' and some b y immersin',' he says. ' I t depends o n their religious c o n v i c t i o n s . ' " ' L e t her set,' I says. 'She ain't hurtin' nothin'. If every b o d y was as anxious to settle d o w n and be domestic as that poultry is, t h e y ' d be better off,' I says. " ' B r e a k her of it!' says Jack, gettin' sore. " N e x t d a y I run on to the whole bunch of ' e m in the h a y barn, foolin' around the corn b o x . A s near as I could see, the hen w as tendin' to her o w n business, b u t her cluckin' showed she w as gettin' riled some. " ' Dare y o u to p i c k her u p , ' says Edwin to old M e x i c a n Charley. " I put it into M e x for him. Charley crawled in behind the b o x and reached for her. T h a t hen c r o w d e d him out so fast he nearly knocked the whole top of his head off on a loose board. T h e n she humps up her b a c k and squats b a c k o n her onions. " B e n g o t her from behind. " ' I b e t she d o n ' t d o n o m o r e settin' n o w , ' he says. H e t o o k her straight to the waterin' trough and soused her under. ' C u t out y o u r loafm' o n this garden truck, birdie, WE EVEN WORE COATS TO and lay an egg for a change,' he r

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almighty splash and a m u d - c o l o r e d streak for the barn d o o r . It g o t so that hen was the o n l y bright spot in the all-pervadin' gloom. Meal times the b o y s didn't t a l k of ' " T h a t ain't no thin' else. goin' to w o r k , ' T r y i n ' to raise says Edwin. a smile from the ' " ' Y e s , but it Missus g o t to be is, though,' Ben a regular game says. ' T h a t ' s with us. habit. W a i t till " ' B o y s , ' says she gets wise to McNary one h o w wet she is.' day, ' I believe "'She does t h a t f o w l is s e e m k i n d of gettin' suspi subdued-like,' cious o f t h i s admits Edwin. b u n c h . She's as "'Oh, she m u c h on the set wouldn't p e c k as e v e r , but n o b o d y now,' she's gettin' all s a y s McNary. ured h a r d to Edwin sidled catch of late.' up and begun " ' I ' m gettin' strokin' her on a h a n d f u l of the back. feathers every " ' B e t t e r roll time n o w . She'll d ow n your soon be naked,' sleeves, Edwin,' says Edwin. I says; but 1 ' S h e d o n ' t bite was too late. B y the time the w a y she RIGHT ALONG BEHIND HER GALLOPED EDWIN SUMMERVILLE KENT, LITERALLY YELLIN' HIS HEAD OFF. THE HEN GAVE E d w i n had a used to, neither,' ONE FLYIN' LEAP FOR THE OPPOSITE FENCE." half-Nelson on he says. Then her, t h a t hen he looks over had pecked off all the hide the sun h a d n ' t at me. ' I tell y o u , there's n o t w o ways already burned off, and was squawkin' for a b o u t it. Either those onions has g o t to more. E d w i n g o t mad. H e let her soak in hatch, or this settin' business has g o t to be the trough till the bubbles quit c o m i n ' . It queered, or that hen's g o i n ' to croak. t o o k her a full minute to c o m e to, b u t when W h y , ' he says, ' t h a t hen used to scratch she d i d she around and eat o n c e in a while, b u t n o w ' d a y s give a peevish the o n l y time she's off those vegetables is cluck > and when she's o n her w a y to the trough or under headed for her water or on her w a y b a c k to the nest. I'm onions. thinkin' the water cure's n o bueno,' he says. " F o r weeks " J u s t then the girl p i p e d in. ' W h y don't that h e n g o t y o u take the onions a w a y a n d g i v e the p o o r her cold plunge thing some real e g g s ? ' she says. I t was the b a t h regular first raise we had g o t o u t of the Missus in every day. quite a spell. Every time ' " O h , I tried that long a g o , ' says Ander one of the b o y s son, before she'd hardly g o t the w o r d s out w e n t to the of her m o u t h . ' T h a t was w h e n she was barn t h e r e ' d incubatin' some E a r l y R o s e p o t a t o e s , ' he b e some earn says. ' I held that hen d o w n o n t o p of seven est cussin', fol g o o d eggs for four hours s t e a d y , ' says A n l o w e d b y an derson, ' b u t there w a s n o t h i n ' d o i n ' . She

says, right severe-like. 'That'll break'em every time,' he says, sousin' her for luck. She give one almighty squawk and m a d e a bee line for the corn box.

The Peace Dove of the Tres Santos w o n ' t set on n o eggs b u t her own, and she w o n ' t lay n o n e , so w h a t are y o u to d o ? I guess she's a vegetarian,' he says. ' " B y jinks, we ain't tried her out on egg plant yet,' says Ben. T h e Missus stuffed a napkin over her m o u t h and run upstairs. ' " F e r g e t it!' says Jack, after h e ' d nigh choked himself on a glass of water. " I t was E d w i n that started things off the next time. Jack was enjoyin' one of his morning-after grouches, and the girl looked like she was goin' to break d o w n and have a b o o - h o o . Y o u see, w e ' d kept on purpose from even mentionin' the hen for three days. Well, we h a d n ' t a n y more than set d o w n to dinner when E d w i n speaks u p and says: ' G e n t l e m e n , ' he says, 'this time to-morrow that hen w on't b e settinY " ' D e c i d e d to cut her head off, have y o u , E d w i n ? ' I says. " 'Y ou k n o w better than that,' says Edwin. ' I ' v e been layin' awake nights in v o l v i n ' some plans,' he says. Well, the b o y s laid d o w n their forks and l o o k e d interested as the devil. ' A l l in the w o r l d y o u ' v e g o t to d o is to blindfold y o u r hen and spin her around a b o u t seven times and then turn her loose,' says E d w i n . ' H o w ' l l she ever find her onions t h e n ? ' he says. " ' H e can s m e l l ' e m , can't h e ? ' says Germany, winkin' at m e . r

" ' Smell nothin' ! ' says Edwin, ^^i^,^ ' T h a t hen has such a cold in her head from bein' soaked in water she c o u l d n ' t smell double distilled a m m o n i a , asafetida, and Limburger cheese all mixed together and held right under her s n o o t . ' " ' W h a t ' s to hinder a blindfolded hen that can't smell from wanderin' in a ditch and d r o w n i n ' herself?' says Ben. " ' O h , there's other w a y s of curin' her,' says E d w i n , ' i f y o u o b j e c t to that. W h a t ' s the matter, for instance,' he says, ' w i t h p u t t i n ' her in one of these squirrel cages that spin round and round? I guess about all the settin' she'd d o in one of those w o u l d be o n her head.' T h e girl near c h o k e d , but the b o y s never batted an eye. " ' W h a t ' s the next o n e ? ' we says. " H e r e E d w i n hauls o u t a sheet of paper. ' T h i s is where w e call o n science,' he says. ' I f y o u gentlemen will study this diagram

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I ' v e drawed, you'll grasp the idear,' he says. ' T h e p r o b l e m rests on whether or n o t onions is conductors of electricity,' says E d w i n . ' L e t X be y o u r battery,' he says, pointin' it all out on his paper. ' P and Q are c o p p e r .wires, each terminatin' in an onion. Call one onion A and the other B , ' he says. ' N o w , then,' he says, ' w h e n H , which is hen, squats d o w n just after her bath and resumes her settin' stunt, she gets in c o n t a c t with A and B simultaneous a n d closes the circuit. T h a t minute blue sparks will be flyin' and she'll get a shock that'll j o l t the liver out of her.' " I'll be hanged if Jack and his wife didn't bust out and laugh till they cried. Y o u k n o w h o w a person under any kind of strain does when they d o break loose. It was all the worse because they tried so hard to k e e p from it. I swear I near died myself. " I remember M c N a r y had a plan for puttin' the hen's head in some kind of stanchion so she couldn't d o nothin' b u t stand up. Germany's scheme was to p u t weights on her legs so she'd have to set with out m o v i n ' till she was sick to death of it. Anderson was for changin' her onions for prickly pears, and I remember I was rather in favor of that idea myself. Ben said to leave it to him and keep sousin' her for luck. " I was off-saddlin' d o w n b y the sheds that night, when up rides Ben and yanks his I saddle off and heaves it over the fence. could see he was g o o d and het up a b o u t something. ' W h a t ' s m y t i m e ? ' he says.

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Everybody's Magazine " ' Why, what's b r o k e loose now?' says I. " 'Oh, noth ing' he says, ' o n l y the wild burro that owns this ranch tells m e he's g o i n ' t o fire every m a n o n the place if this settin' hen talk ain't dropped. I ' m

goin' to save him the trouble so far's I ' m concerned,' says Ben. " I told him I thought, myself, we was runnin' the subject into the ground. " ' R u n n i n ' hell!' B e n says. ' T h a t fool hen is a reasonin' being c o m p a r e d with t h e m t w o . T h e y o u g h t to be b o t h of ' e m c h u c k e d in the trough,' he says. ' " L o o k here, B e n , ' I says, ' i t ain't her place to b e c a v i n ' in with him actin' the w a y he is. T h a t p o o r little w o m a n is a lot like this hen the b o y s is h o u n d i n ' to death. All in the world she wants is to settle d o w n a n d live like white folks and have a h o m e and a family. All that drunken y a h o o t does is to throw her off the nest and abuse her.' " ' I f she wasn't so feeble-minded she'd g o back to her p e o p l e ; that's all I g o t to say,' says B e n , and he wasn't just whisperin' it, either. L o o k i n ' up, I seen Jack standin' not twelve feet a w a y b y a pile of bales. H e was redder than fire, b u t I guess neither of us give a damn for him. I t wasn't Jack that m a d e the t w o of us feel like crawlin' through the cracks in the fence. Standin' in the d o o r of the sheep shed was the girl! She went there ever)' d a y to feed a p e t l a m b she was weanin' from the ewe, and there she was with the bottle in her hand and her cheeks burnin'. T h e r e wasn't nothin' at all to say, and it was sure our m o v e . " T h i n g s was relieved of a sudden b y an outlandish clatter which m a d e us guilty parties j u m p like w e ' d been shot from b e hind. It was hard tellin' for a minute just what was happenin'. T h e n , through a cloud of dust, I m a n a g e d to m a k e o u t the settin' hen tearin' along, nine feet at a step, her clucks c o m i n ' easy a hundred and fifty to the minute. She was trailin' ten feet of

red rag from her tail. R i g h t along behind her galloped E d w i n Summerville K e n t , lit erally yellin' his head off. T h e hen gave one flyin' leap for the o p p o s i t e fence. The rag c a u g h t o n a nail a n d b a n g she went d o w n , flat o n her b a c k . E d w i n loosed her, a n d off she streaked it for the o p e n fields. " I ' m never after forgettin' the w a y E d w i n p u t his h a n d o v e r his heart and bowed. " T h e r e ' s n o t h i n ' like h a v i n ' a col lege e d u c a t i o n , ' he says, all o u t of breath. T h e girl w e n t straight to the house and Jack in the o p p o s i t e direction. " I t sure was a caution the w a y that hen carried o n the next few d a y s . Every hour or so y o u ' d hear that peevish cackle bearin' d o w n o n y o u , a n d she'd g o sailin' past with the rag standin' straight o u t behind. E v e r y so often she'd get tripped u p and spin around in circles for five minutes at a time; then off s h e ' d g o again. T h e r e ain't a M a r a t h o n runner livin' w o u l d have had a smell of a c h a n c e against that hen. Ed win d i d n ' t d o a thing b u t b o a s t from morn ing to night. J a c k never o p e n e d his head a b o u t firin' h i m , either. " T h e n the fool hen was missin' for a day. " ' Y o u m i g h t h a v e k n o w e d , E d w i n , with all that college e d u c a t i o n of yours, that the p o o r critter w o u l d get c a u g h t to something in the bosque a n d b e et u p by b o b c a t s , ' says Ben. T h e girl g i v e a gasp. F o r a b o u t the first time E d w i n d i d n ' t h a v e n o t h i n ' to say. T h e next m i n u t e w e heard a rapid-fire cluckin', a n d a l o n g past the w i n d o w sails the hen under a full head of steam. " T h e n the hen d i d sure e n o u g h turn up missin', red rag a n d all. I t wasn't three days, either, till things g o t g l u m as ever. T h a t hen h a d b e e n the Ufe of the ranch. T h e girl b e g u n t o l o o k like she was due for a spell of sickness, a n d it was easy to see Jack was feelin' m i g h t y u n c o m f o r t a b l e . " I t m u s t h a v e b e e n a m o n t h afterward— I k n o w w e were in the fourth cuttin' and b u s y as the d e v i l — t h a t the girl asked Ger m a n y to g o o v e r the R i o G r a n d e and get D o c Collins for her. J a c k was in town. W h e n D o c c o m e , I hung a r o u n d the house till he c o m e o u t , a n d asked h i m if it was anything serious. D o c grinned a n d said it w a s n ' t n o t h i n ' t o w o r r y a b o u t a n d begun dickerin' for a few tons of h a y . Just the same, the b o y s were all g o o d a n d worried, and I, for o n e , m a d e u p m y m i n d J a c k was g o i n ' t o hear w h a t I t h o u g h t of h i m if I had t o set o n him while I was tellin' it to him.

The Peace Dove of the Tres Santos Jack was sober for a change when he c o m e h o m e next d a y . H e was l o o k i n ' g o o d and miserable, t o o , I ' m tellin' y o u . B e i n ' sober, I guess, g i v e his conscience a chance to get in a little w o r k . A n y h o w , y o u could see he was anxious when the girl c o m e d o w n to dinner that n o o n , l o o k i n ' like a ghost ex c e p t for t w o fever spots in her cheeks. " S h e was that nervous she c o u l d n ' t eat. Jack looked at her all the time, b u t she set there for three or four minutes w i t h o u t even liftin' her eyes. T h e n she g o t up and went out o n the p o r c h . I was facin' the w i n d o w and c o u l d n ' t help seein' her. She wasn't any m o r e than o u t the d o o r when she tot tered and p u t her h a n d up to her head. I was just after runnin' o u t to keep her from fallin', when I seen her stop and stare out in the yard. T h e n of a sudden she begun to shriek and laugh—dowmright hysterics. It was somethin' awful the w a y she screeched out. L i k e lightnin' it c o m e to me that her mind had give w a y o n her. W h e n she b e gun screamin' for J a c k I was sure of it. " J a c k went o u t that d o o r like h e ' d been jerked with a rope. I seen her turn quick as a flash and bite her lips and step b a c k . She kind of shrunk a w a y , like she was ashamed of herself, a n d all the b l o o d in her b o d y seemed to b e in her face. " T forgot, Jack,' she says, and I c o u l d see she was tryin' to get a h o l d o n herself. ' L o o k at ' e m , J a c k ! ' she says. Jack was right beside her and he s t o p p e d in his tracks and l o o k e d o u t i n t o the yard. T h e n he let out a laugh y o u c o u l d have heard half a mile, and hollered ' B o y s ! ' W e all broke for the p o r c h , and there they were with their arms r o u n d each other. " I swear there was something holy in the look o n that little girl's face. Jack called her all their o l d pet names and kissed her

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hands and hair and m o u t h a n d squeezed her up to him like he was never g o i n ' to let g o of her again. W e g r o w e d fast to the floor. T h e n she p u t b o t h hands r o u n d Jack's neck a n d hung to him like she was p l u m b tired out. I c o u l d n ' t m a k e o u t w h a t she was sayin' to him, and I wasn't tryin' to, but I c o u l d n ' t help prickin' up 'my ears when I heard D o c Collins's n a m e . Jack was t u m b l i n ' all right, though, for he g o t pale as a sheet. All of a sudden he b r o k e d o w n . " ' R o x i e , m y p o o r little R o x ! ' he says. T h e next minute they were b o t h of ' e m c r y i n ' like a couple of babies. T h e b o y s c o m e t o and begun edgin' into the house. " J u s t at this embarrassin' minute, E d win Summerville K e n t let o u t one funny y e l p . ' L o o k i t ! ' h e yells. ' L o o k i t ! L o o k i t ! ' T h e n we g o t our wits b a c k for a minute. T h e r e in the yard, square in front of us, was that settin' hen w e ' d been missin'. There wasn't a n y mistakin' her; she still had a g o o d t w o feet of the red rag trailin' from her tail. She wasn't runnin' this time, though, a n d her cluckin' was slowed d o w n to somethin' like normal. She sure was scratchin' the gravel, t o o , for I w a n t to b e hog-tied a n d hung b y the heels, hombres, if that hen d i d n ' t h a v e t w o fuzzy little chickens traipsin' alongside of her." R i l e y slowly rolled another cigarette. Lei surely he walked to the barn d o o r and flung it open. " Still rainin' a little, b o y s , but the sun's peekin' o v e r the bosque and there's chores to d o , " he announced in businesslike tones. T h e n , as he lifted a h e a v y M e x i c a n saddle from its peg, he chuckled to himself. " I might have m e n t i o n e d , " he said, " t h a t the next time D o c Collins c o m e o v e r the R i o to see the Missus, Jack was waitin' for him right here on the Tres Santos, anxiouser than a n y b o d y . "

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Y friends, the world lies wide before you. N o r t h , south, east, west, the strange lands b e c k o n and call. C a n ' t y o u hear them—the hansoms slurring through L o n d o n m u d , the roar of the boule vards, the chugging of the stern-wheel river boat, the shrill summons of the muezzin from his minaret, the tinkle of anklet, and the b o o m of temple bells? H a v e y o u no wish to pack y o u r trunk and go? Means and health permitting, it is g o o d for every man to see some little of this globe on which w e live and the strange folk w h o m o v e about it. It is g o o d to escape for a time from the house of b o n d a g e — b e it office or shop or bank—and to g o a b r o a d with no more exacting master than personal inclination and with no more definite plan o f travel than has the horse, escaped from pasture, upon the countryside. H a v e y o u ever stopped to think that there are things more important than the amassing of m o n e y ; that there is a larger education than is to be found in class r o o m s or between the covers of b o o k s ; that the world which lies b e y o n d our little horizons can p r o v i d e entertainments as amusing and m o r e w o r t h while than motoring or golf or bridge; that

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to taste of real adventure or of true romance — w h i c h , after all, are the seasonings that relieve the m o n o t o n y of life's daily pudding — y o u m u s t l o o k b e y o n d the dollar-twenty novel and the orchestra chair? E a c h of us, when all is said and d o n e , has b u t one life to live—so w h y n o t m a k e the most of that life; b u t one earth to spend it upon— so w h y n o t see and e n j o y that earth? T o those w h o w o u l d travel, and can't, I lift m y hat in silent s y m p a t h y , with the hope that the years to c o m e m a y bring them better fortune. B u t for those w h o are a b u n d a n t l y able to travel a n d won't—for those w h o , with education at their |very doors, refuse to bestir themselves, frankly admitting that t h e y prefer the comforts of their clubs, their card tables, and their cars to the annoyances of foreign travel—for these I have b u t scant regard. Somewhere be tween these extremes is the great middle class—fairly w e l l - t o - d o folk, m a n y of whom o w n a horse or a small m o t o r car, m o s t of w h o m keep o n e or m o r e servants, and very few of w h o m hesitate a b o u t going to the theatre when the spirit m o v e s them, or to the seashore or m o u n t a i n s for their summer's vacation. T h e real reason w h y these people 336

d o n ' t travel is that their lives have run so long in the same track that it is almost im possible to get them out of the rut they have m a d e . B u t suggest this to them, and instantly y o u will b e silenced under an avalanche of protestations. " I d o n ' t g o a b r o a d because I can't afford it," says one, with a pathetic gesture, as he cranks up his two-thousand-dollar m o t o r car. Says another, " I can't spare the t i m e , " or, '•'I w o u l d n ' t dare to leave m y business"— but the next summer y o u g o fishing with him in M a i n e or read that he has w o n the amateur golf championship of the A d i r o n dacks. " N o , siree!" exclaims a third, " y o u d o n ' t catch m e going to foreign parts; I ' m too fond of the comforts of h o m e . " Wealth, I answer, is not imperative for travel. Last summer a B o s t o n gentleman and his wife went to E u r o p e on an experi mental trip of eighty days, visiting more than thirty interesting cities in five great countries, at a total cost of $315 each or $3.94 apiece per day. T h i s included every actual necessary expense, steamer passage b o t h w a y s (they had a fine, promenadedeck, two-berth stateroom on one of the slower boats of a well-known line), railway 1

fares, board, street cars, carriage hire, all tips, admission fees, lunches, fruit, laundry, guidebooks; practically everything, in fact, which could properly be included. " I t was third-class railway travel and simple pen sions, of course," the gentleman in question writes, " b u t I wish to be perfectly frank in saying that we lived, on the whole, just a trifle better and more comfortably, averag ing the whole trip, than [we d o at h o m e , and at h o m e we d o not practice self-denial to an extent which requires the official at tention of the authorities." Y o u r time m a y be limited, but if y o u can spare six weeks and six hundred dollars y o u can go round the world. If it is business which hinders, y o u need not be out of touch with it for a single hour, b y night or b y day, b y sea or b y land. D o e s not the wireless flash and splutter from every masthead? D o not the slim cables slip out to sea beneath the waters of every port? M a y not one stei > into a closet and talk a thousand miles? A n d you d o not g o , y o u say, because y o u fear for your comforts? W h y , man, y o u can p l a y golf over an eighteen-hole course in Uganda; the R u m s o n R o a d is no whit pleasanter for motoring than the splendid 337

Everybody's highway which leads from Cairo to the P y r a m i d s ; o n the railways of Russian C e n tral Asia y o u can h a v e a d r a w i n g - r o o m with electric lights and running water for the price of a Pullman section here at h o m e ; when y o u wish a servant in the hotels of India y o u d o n o t h a v e to ring—one is b e side y o u when y o u clap y o u r h a n d s ; there is a hostelry in Berlin where y o u dine in m i d winter, overlooking a garden of red gerani ums, and where it is as m u c h as the lift men's places are w o r t h to k e e p a guest waiting even a single second for an elevator. M o n e y , time, business, c o m f o r t s — n o n e of them is an insuperable obstacle in the p a t h of him w h o really wants to g o . N o t h i n g is farther from m y intention than to imply that Americans d o n o t travel. T h e fact which I a m trying to drive h o m e is that a v e r y great m a n y m o r e people could and should travel than d o . T h o u g h there are m a n y millions of us w h o remain at h o m e for reasons having to d o with babies, business, bank b o o k s , or bread and butter, there are m a n y , m a n y thousands for w h o m there has c o m e to be a call, an irresistible fascina tion in the v e r y whistle of a train, in the rumble of wheels u p o n the track, in the thunder of the waves that g o swirling aft along the rail, in the v e r y sense of l o c o m o tion, of going somewhither, s o m e h o w . A decade ago it was the English globe-trotter's kit-bag and p o r t m a n t e a u that o n e saw o n every steamship wharf and railway plat form from S o u t h a m p t o n around to Shang hai; to-day it is the suit case and steamer trunk of the traveling A m e r i c a n . T h o u g h it m a y b e that with m a n y of us travel means b u t an escape from the c o m m o n p l a c e , I like to think, rather, that it is a t h r o w b a c k to those B o o n e and C r o c k e t t ancestors of ours w h o p l o d d e d westward a n d ever westward that they might see with their o w n eyes w h a t lay b e y o n d the ranges. Once get us out of our grooves, and w e are the easiest of all peoples to induce to set our feet on the long trails which lead from Oshkosh and Snohomish and P a w t u c k e t and K a l a m a z o o to Miramar, B a r b i z o n , Bellagio, Granada—where y o u will. P u t a picture, in colors, of L a k e Lucerne, with the snow-capped A l p s looming up in the distance, before the cashier of a b a n k in the M i d d l e W e s t . Tell him he can get there in ten days, for less than a hundred dollars, and the chances are that within a w e e k he will begin to ask questions a b o u t rates and

Magazine pensions and a d o z e n o t h e r things of w h i c h he h a d o n l y the vaguest ideas a few d a y s before. A w e e k later he has b o u g h t a Baedeker, ordered a steamer trunk, and p a i d twenty-five dollars deposit o n his ticket. I t is in s o m e such fashion as this that w e , the m o s t practical of all peoples, are fast b l o s s o m i n g into a nation of travelers. I never appreciated, myself, h o w m a n y of us h a v e b e c o m e infected with the c o n t a g i o n of travel until, o n e d a y last spring, I stood o n the end of a H o b o k e n pier a n d w a v e d bon voyage t o s o m e friends w h o were sailing for E u r o p e o n o n e of the fastest and m o s t luxurious of the transatlantic liners. T h e gang plank w a s d r a w n in, the last cable had been t h r o w n off, a n d slowly a n d silently the big b o a t slipped o u t i n t o the channel. She was white with fluttering handkerchiefs; perhaps there were eight h u n d r e d cabin passengers a b o a r d her. " P o w e l l , " r e m a r k e d a friend w h o s t o o d beside m e , " t h e r e ' s a million dollars of A m e r i c a n m o n e y a b o a r d that ship that's lost to this c o u n t r y for g o o d and all. Figure it o u t for yourself: say eight h u n d r e d people in the first cabin w i t h drafts or letters of credit averaging a thousand dollars apiece —and m i g h t y little of it will t h e y bring b a c k —to say nothing of s e c o n d - c a b i n passengers a n d the a m o u n t spent in passage-money. W h y , m a n , it's a p p a l l i n g ! " T w o piers south another " g r e y h o u n d , " with e v e r y berth o c c u p i e d , was getting under w a y . T h r e e others h a d already sailed that m o r n i n g , a n d four m o r e would depart before the d a y w a s d o n e . In all, five thousand p e o p l e were d u e to leave N e w Y o r k that d a y . A n d N e w Y o r k , though the largest, is b y n o m e a n s the o n l y port from which passengers sail a t regular inter vals for E u r o p e . B u t just s t o p and think what that means to A m e r i c a n education and A m e r i c a n culture—five thousand of our people sailing for E u r o p e from o n e p o r t in a single d a y ! T h e n u m b e r of A m e r i c a n s w h o visited E u r o p e last year reached the amazing total of three h u n d r e d thousand. R e c k o n i n g that t h e y left a b r o a d or with the steamship c o m p a n i e s an average of $700 apiece— surely a v e r y m o d e r a t e estimate—it will be seen that this c o u n t r y parted with the e n o r m o u s a m o u n t of $210,000,000. T h e business of entertaining the traveler—espe cially the A m e r i c a n traveler—has b e c o m e a leading industry in m a n y countries. A n

Pack Your Trunk and Go! American, making his w a y through an im poverished section of Ireland, inquired of a native, " W h a t d o the people round here live on, Pat? " " P i g s in the winther, sorr," was the answer, " a n d tourists in the sum mer." N o w that answer had in it the germ of much e c o n o m i c truth, for if " t h ' ould s o d " is sustained b y summer travelers, so, in far greater proportion, are Switzerland, Italy, and France. D o y o u appreciate, m y friends, that Switzerland's income from tour ists is greater than that from all her exports put together? D i d y o u k n o w that the toll which Italy collects from her visitors is equal to the value of all her exports from January to M a y ? Can y o u hazard even a guess as to France's annual i n c o m e from the traveler? A s far back as 1907 it was $600 000,000, and it is estimated that in the year just passed it approximated three quarters of a billion dollars. I don't like figures, and y o u p r o b a b l y d o n ' t either, but it seems w o r t h y of note that last year our traveling c o u n t r y w o m e n left eight millions of dollars with Parisian dressmakers (I beg y o u r pardon, modistes), and a million and a half with rue de la Pai.x and rue St. H o n o r e milliners, n o t to mention another t w o million or so spent in the same gay city for trifling mementoes alone. For furs and jewelry M r . and M r s . American Tourist p r o b a b l y left forty million dollars in Europe last year. All of which indicates not only the American love of travel b u t the American extravagance. Europeans are astonished, t o p u t it mildly, at the senseless prodigality with which a certain class of traveling Americans spends m o n e y . This reckless spirit in matters financial has done more than anything else, indeed, to confirm foreigners in their belief that U. S. is derived from $, and does more than any one thing to make European travel unnecessarily expensive for Amer icans of moderate tastes and means. N o t only is the excessive liberality of money-burdened Americans in wretched taste, but it has unquestionably lowered the standard of European commercial morality and exaggerated the veniality of foreign shop and inn keepers. But it was not until I saw a y o u n g scion of American aristocracy throwing his unused five-lire bills from the steamer at Genoa to the scrambling, fighting rabble on the q u a y below, that I fully under stood what incalculable damage such ex hibitions of vulgarity do to the self-respect

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of both traveling Americans and the peoples w h o m they visit. Only then did I appreciate the crying necessity for a proclamation which, b y the orders of the GovernorGeneral, has been posted conspicuously in every train, tourist steamer, and hotel in the Sudan, ft reads as follows: T r a v e l e r s , w h i l e in t h e S u d a n , a r e p a r t i c u l a r l y r e q u e s t e d to r e f r a i n f r o m g a i n i n g a n e a s y r e p u t a t i o n for g e n e r o s i t y b y g i v i n g m o n e y to c h i l d r e n , b e g g a r s , a n d o t h e r p e r s o n s w h o h a v e n o t e a r n e d it. A t p r e s e n t t h e p o p u l a t i o n of t h e S u d a n h a s not b e e n demoralized b y indiscrimin

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a t e a l m s g i v i n g , b u t it w i l l n o t r e q u i r e m u c h of t h i s to m a k e t h e d e m a n d " B a k s h i s h ! " a s i m p o r t u n a t e a n d a n n o y i n g to t r a v e l e r s a s in E g y p t i t s e l f , a n d to c a u s e a c o n s i d e r a b l e n u m b e r of n a t i v e s to f o r s a k e t h e p a t h s of h o n e s t i n d u s t r y for t h e u n w h o l e s o m e e x i s t e n c e of p r e y i n g u p o n others. H i s Excellency the GovernorG e n e r a l trusts that all t r a v e l e r s will c o n sider this a s a personal request from h i m self. I have switched rather abruptly, as I per fectly well realize, from the main track of m y article; b u t I have n o apologies to make, for I wish to emphasize the fact that these

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exhibitions of vulgarity a n d ostentation must n o t be taken as criteria of the expendi tures w h i c h w o u l d have to b e m a d e b y the sane and e c o n o m i c a l l y - m i n d e d American w h o wants to travel a b r o a d . On the contrary, I a m inclined t o think the true reason for the rapidly rising tide of A m e r ican travel E u r o p e w a r d is that our people are beginning to learn that it is cheaper to travel a b r o a d than at h o m e . I n other words, y o u can get to E u r o p e cheaper than y o u can get t o equally distant points in our own c o u n t r y , and y o u can live considerably cheaper, if y o u are so m i n d e d , after y o u get there. Berth and meals included, it costs 125 t o get from N e w Y o r k to the about Pacific C o a s t , a n d it takes con siderable skirmishing t o find, in San Francisco, L o s Angeles, or Santa Barbara, the kind of hotels at w h i c h the average pleasure seeker wishes to stop, for less than three dollars a d a y . Against this, there are m a n y steamship lines which will c o n v e y o n e from N e w Y o r k to a n y o n e of a dozen European ports, with first-class a c c o m m o d a t i o n and meals, for from $60 to $ 7 5 . A n d in Europe one can b e exceedingly comfort able at hotels which, if not ultra fashionable, certainly correspond to our three-dollar-a-day houses, for $1.50 to $2 a d a y . Here, then, is the condition which confronts the A m e r i c a n railroad official and hotel-keeper: it costs less, considerably less, to get to, and live in, E n g l a n d or France or G e r m a n y o r Switzerland or Italy than it does t o visit California or W a s h i n g t o n or Oregon. Therein y o u h a v e the real explanation of the popularity of E u r o p e . It costs less. I t is n o t a case of the N e w Y o r k Central c o m p e t i n g with the Pennsylvania, or the Santa Fé with the Union Pacific, b u t of the rail roads of the United States com peting with the transatlantic steam ship lines for the patronage of hundreds of thousands w h o are going somewhere. Until those who are responsible for the direction of our railroads and the management of our hotels are willing to admit this unpleasant truth, and to treat

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the A m e r i c a n tourist as a valuable customer to w h o m concessions should be made, instead of as a victim w h o should be browbeaten and fleeced, just so long will those three hundred thousand Ameri cans, and m a n y m o r e besides, con tinue to spend their t w o hundredo d d millions of g o o d American dollars on the other side of the pond. Even in the raw, new nations of and the antipodes the comfort p o c k e t b o o k of the traveler are better cared for than in this highly civilized America of ours. In Aus tralia and X e w Zealand travel is looked upon b y the governments as a form of education and is treated as such. E v e r y t h i n g con nected with it—coast, lake and river steamers, railway lines, hotels, restaurants, natural wonders of every kind—are under the super vision of the Ministry of Travel. T h r o u g h o u t these far lands the government acts as c o n d u c t o r , tourist agent, chaperon, and pro tector to the lone traveler. Mag nificently equipped official infor mation bureaus are maintained b y the g o v e r n m e n t in the chief cities, while throughout the land an a r m y of licensed and educated guides stands ready to show the man from h o m e or from a b r o a d something at first hand of the resources of the country. T h e dining-car services of the ^ ^ ^ ^ Australian and N e w Zealand railHHH ways, as well as the restaurants en route, are under g o v e r n m e n t supervision, the name of the caterer and the prices which he is permitted to charge for f o o d being printed and conspicuously displayed in each railway carriage and station. A meal of five courses m a y be had for fifty cents, and even the price of an extra glass of milk is regulated b y law. If the caterer fails to keep his table up to the standard which the government requires, an official of the Ministry of Travel steps in and, b y practical experiments, decides just what prices should be asked for a specified meal—allowing, of course, a fair profit to the caterer—and the readjustment is made. But at all times the comfort and p o c k e t b o o k

of the man w h o travels are considered first. T h e g o v e r n m e n t ' s policy in feeding its travelers is m u c h the same as that pursued b y Fred H a r v e y , the caterer w h o made the old-time restaurants along the Santa 1 e route famous. H a r v e y was once asked to what he attributed his remarkable success. " T o cutting m y pies into four portions in stead of six," replied H a r v e y . "Overfeed a man and he is more likely to c o m e again than if y o u give him barely e n o u g h . " N o r have the Australian and N e w Zea land governments confined their efforts to caring for the traveler's inner man. New roads have been cut, opening up places < f interest, to which g o v e r n m e n t - o w n e d mot< r

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cars carry sightseers at rates no higher than the ordinary stagecoach fare; g o v e r n m e n t launches have been p l a c e d on the mountain lakes and g o v e r n m e n t guides in the forests along e v e n ' trail; g o v e r n m e n t baths have been erected at the hot springs, and at the g o v e r n m e n t bureaus tourist maps m a y b e had for the asking; definite and reliable information is supplied regarding routes, roads, and hotel charges, and trips are planned d o w n to the last detail to meet

In no c o u n t r y in E u r o p e is travel so ex pensive as in our o w n . T h e Belgian railway fares are the cheapest in the w o r l d . F o r $2.25, for example, one can o b t a i n a ticket entitling him to travel wheresoever he pleases, night and d a y if he desires, over the k i n g d o m ' s 2 , 5 3 o m i l e s o f railway,for a period of five days. A similar ticket for a period of fifteen days costs $4.70, while for an ex penditure of twenty-five cents a d a y it is possible to travel as m u c h as o n e pleases for

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the requirements of all purses. Going even farther in their paternal care of the traveler, the governments are n o w building their o w n hotels, opening their o w n seaside resorts, and conducting week-end excursions at prices within the reach of all. T h o s e w h o hold the reins of p o w e r in the great antipo dean c o m m o n w e a l t h s feel that the state should extend to the traveler the same as sistance and protection that it does to the student.

a whole year. I n Switzerland, owing to the increased c o s t of railway maintenance in a m o u n t a i n o u s c o u n t r y , these season tickets, or general abonnements, as t h e y are called, are slightly higher, $6.75 being charged for the prh'ilege of traveling at will over the railways of the Confederation for a fort night. I n G e r m a n y , Austria, and Holland, b y means of the rundrcise tickets, the traveler can m a p o u t a circular tour to suit himself and procure transportation for the

Pack Your Trunk and Go! entire journey at about two thirds of the regular fare. The railway tariffs of Russia are figured not by miles but by zones, which vary in length from twenty-five to seventy versts each, though for each zone, irrespective of length, the charge is the same—first-class twenty-five cents, second-class fifteen cents, and third-class ten cents. By this system the government hopes to encourage travel among the people, the tariff becoming

while in the United States there are half a dozen great transcontinental systems,a com petition which ought to lead to a material reduction of fares, although it has not \ et done so. The Russians, 1 might add, understand the art oi comfortable railway traveling quite as well as we do. if not better, the carriages used on their express trains and their buffets being models of their kind. As the Russian railway gauge is wider than that

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ON THE RAILWAYS OF RUSSIAN CENTRAL ASIA YOU CAN HAVE A DRAWING-ROOM WITH ELECTRIC LIGHTS AND RUNNING WATER.

cheaper the farther they go. the journey of 5,260 miles between Moscow and Vladivos tok, for example, costs only $120, including sleeping-car, as compared with the $100 charged for transportation and sleeping-car over the 3,380 miles between New York and San Francisco. The Trans-Siberian sys tem, it is well to remember, is without com petition, has but a single line of rails, and is maintained, owing to the sparsely inhabited nature of the country, at enormous expense;

of the other European systems (presumably from fear of German or Austrian aggression) and their carriages correspondingly larger, the first-class passenger on the longer jour neys is able to obtain for himself a cabine about the size of one of our Pullman state rooms, furnished with a bed which is con verted into a sofa by day, an armchair, an electric table-lamp, and hot and cold run ning water—sufficient comforts, surelv. for the most exacting of travelers.

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y o u are c o m p a r e d with the de scription o n y o u r passport; y o u are asked a n u m b e r of impertinent and wholly irrelevant questions in gut tural G e r m a n or indifferent French; y o u r tickets are examined with the same minute care that a cashier bestows o n a questionable bank n o t e ; a n d with a last suspicious glance at y o u and y o u r belongings, y o u r nocturnal visitors file out as silently as t h e y c a m e in, and y o u are left to y o u r interrupted sleep —until the next large station is reached, when the entire perform ance is repeated. B u t if the Russians a n n o y you b y night, they feed y o u well b y d a y ; in fact, I k n o w of n o country where y o u get such g o o d food, and so m u c h of it, for y o u r money. Russia, as y o u perhaps know, is the h o m e of the chafing-dish, and in e v e r y railway restaurant y o u will find a long and shining r o w of them — t w e n t y , thirty, even forty, per haps—set o u t o n a spotless counter. I t is n o t necessary to speak Russian to order a meal, for all that you h a v e to d o is t o walk d o w n the line, lifting the c o v e r of each chafingdish until y o u c o m e t o something which appeals to y o u r sense of sight or smell. A m o t i o n to the white-capped waiter, and a plate Copyright by Underiuood &• Underiuood. of the chosen dish is set before you, PUT A PICTURE OF LAKE LUCERNE BEFORE THE CASHIER together with the accompanying OF A BANK IN THE MIDDLE WEST vegetables, a glass of salted and . altogether delicious tea, and a small BIB b o t t l e of harsh Caucasian wine—all for fifty cents. O n l y o n c e have I ex A n y one w h o objects to being awakened at perienced a n y difficulty in ordering a Russian least four times every night had, however, meal, and that was w h e n I asked for some m u c h better stay a w a y from Russia, as the butter in a railway restaurant in Astrakhan. railway police, for reasons best k n o w n to In four languages I asked for it, and each themselves, seize on the m o s t u n g o d l y hours time the stolid T a r t a r waiter uncompre for the examination of passports. A t one in hendingly s h o o k his head. T h e n I seized a t he morning, perhaps, the door of y o u r c o m piece of bread and with a knife went through partment will be unlocked from the outside the m o t i o n s of spreading. Instantly Ivan and, without so m u c h as by-your-leave, a n o d d e d in understanding a n d disappeared. police official, the train c o n d u c t o r , the guard, After ten minutes he returned, bearing in the local station master, and t w o gendarmes, triumph a platter heaped with sliced bread, every one belted, b o o t e d , flat-capped, and each slice spread thick w i t h caviare. " W e l l , " with a revolver the size of a small cannon thought I consolingly, " c a v i a r e is doubtless strapped outside his greatcoat, c o m e filing as cheap in Astrakhan as b u t t e r is in Amer in, startling y o u awake b y flashing their ica, and I might as well enjoy it." But dark lanterns in y o u r eyes. Line for line, when I saw the bill I c h a n g e d m y m i n d : they

Pack Your Trunk and Go ! charged m e three dollars for it. I begrudge that three dollars still. Prosperity and the Wanderlusl g o hand in hand. T h e tide of travel rises with national well-being and ebbs again in lean times. T h e years since 1900 h a v e witnessed m o r e money-making throughout the world than any others in history. This same period has seen not o n l y the d e v e l o p m e n t of tourist routes that had been merely pioneer paths, but a revolution in the speed of transoceanic steamships and of transcontinental trains. For always the c r y is for speed, speed, and yet more speed. M a n y of us marked an epoch for ourselves w h e n Jules Verne wrote " A r o u n d the W o r l d in E i g h t y D a y s . " Per haps it was n o t possible then to g o round the w o r l d in eighty d a y s ; the book w o u l d have been less exciting if it had been. B u t in a n y event, it was nearly possible, and so eighty days has c o m e to c o n v e y to us in more or less intelligible terms the size of the w orld. To-day, how many of y o u could say offhand to what those eighty d a y s have been reduced? B y making use of the fastest trains and boats they can be cut in t w o as easily as a butcher halves a piece of meat, while, b y making close connections, with trains and steamships running reasonably within their o w n best time, it is entirely possible to en circle the globe in thirty-eight days. and that in comfortable trains and ships, with every luxurious a c c o m p a n i m e n t of m o d e r n travel; not b y the desperate expedients of Phineas F o g g .

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in eleven days, which, after all, is at the rate of o n l y t w e n t y miles an hour. From V l a d i v o s t o k a fast steamer will carry y o u across the narrow sea which separates Japan from the mainland of Asia, and a waiting train will whirl y o u across the island k i n g d o m to Y'okohama, where y o u should board a transpacific steamer before the close of the twenty-first d a y from Broad w a y . A n d the thirty-third d a y should find y o u disembarking at V a n c o u v e r . F r o m V a n c o u v e r t o New Y o r k the m a g i c carpet will be laid d o w n in sooth, and with a mile after every glare of y o u r l o c o m o tive's opened fire-door, the distance between the oceans will be covered in five days r

Y o u are no true American unless y o u instantly ask h o w — a n d h o w much. T h e r e are several ocean greyhounds whose captains will undertake to land y o u at Cherbourg or H a v r e in less than six days and in ample time to m a k e connections at Paris with the N o r d Express, so that the evening of the eighth d a y should find y o u in the Gare de Moscow, climbing Koursk in Transinto a wagon lit of the Siberian Express for y o u r fivethousand-mile flight across Asia W i t h no un to the Japan Sea. usual delays this portion of the iourney should be accomplished

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and y o u will have p u t a belt around the globe in the amazing space of eight-and thirty days. Six hundred dollars will p a y for all your tickets for this startling trip, first-class throughout, or, if y o u can c o n t e n t yourself with the less ornate comforts of second-class, that figure can be nearly cut in two. A d d another hundred for meals and berths on the trains, tips, and incidentals, and y o u will have in dollars what it would cost y o u to shatter fiction with fact. L e t it be plain, 1 do not r e c o m m e n d racing round the world in six weeks. Y e t it is interesting to know that it can be d o n e ; and in the case of a busy man w h o cannot possi b l y get away for more than a few weeks

and insists on seeing m a n y coun tries, even hurriedly, there is some thing to be said for the rush around (he world. T o the newspaper reader distant parts of the earth can be little m o r e than names and the chief actors u p o n those stages little more than shadows—until he has seen them. B u t let him once see them, if o n l y for a few hours, and the picture will rise before his vision e v e r y time he reads of them for the rest of his life. H e fits the facts into the frame and paints t h e m in the right colors. H e has spent only a d a y or two in Berlin, perhaps, but when he reads of the spring review on the T e m p e l h o f field he sees the coming and going of dazzling officials and equerries, the gleaming breast plates and eagle-helmets and black horses of the Garde du Corps, even the stern, set face and erect figure of the W a r L o r d himself. H e may h a v e stayed only a few hours in N a p l e s ; b u t when he reads of an eruption of Vesuvius he again sees the grim and smoking mountain rising a b o v e the c o b a l t b a y , he has scant difficulty in picturing the trailing clouds of dust and cinders and the highways choked with terror-stricken fugitives, and he realizes, as he never did before, •derwood. w h a t such a catastrophe means to ^ the prosperity of southern Italy. His steamer m a y h a v e touched just for a m o r n i n g at Tangier, but •^•1 when he reads at the breakfast table of the fighting in M o r o c c o , he sees again, as on a moving-picture screen, the white-walled, flat-roofed houses a n d the narrow, filth-strewn streets; the haughty, fierce-faced tribesmen and the y o u n g French officers of the chasseurs d'Afrique in their light blue tunics riding insolently a m o n g them. But whether we j o u r n e y in our own land or abroad, whether we g o to M a i n e or Alan churia, for a week-end or for a year, whether we travel steerage or in a suite de luxe, let us travel—or wish to travel. H e to w h o m the pages of the atlas bring neither memories nor ambitions is like Sir F o p l i n g Flutter, to w h o m e v e r y place outside of H y d e Park was the desert, or S y d n e y Smith, w h o held that s

Pack Your Trunk and G o ! a life lived out of L o n d o n was a life misspent. Every d a y the w o r l d grows smaller. Tur bine engines, oil-burning l o c o m o t i v e s , aero planes, electric block-signals, the wireless— they are playing a marvelous part in linking up and lighting up the dark corners of the earth. T h e fact that one can g o round the world in six weeks does not mean so much thirty-eight days, as it means that civil ization has progressed, and that, thanks to the new inventions and the hundredfold in creased efficiency they have given to us, w e can now reach Dire D a w a or Antananarivo or Negri Sembilan as quickly, and much more easily, than the N e w Y o r k e r of sixty years ago could reach San Francisco or Vienna or Puget Sound. W h y , the whole wide world, m y friends, is being opened up for y o u r benefit and pleas ure. Until R o o s e v e l t went a-shooting, most of y o u were p r o b a b l y quite unaware that Uganda could b e reached b y rail, and that, seated c o m f o r t a b l y on the cowcatcher of the locomotive, y o u could see all the animals of the menagerie and the ark in their native haunts beside the track. D i d y o u k n o w , I wonder, that a tourist agency advertises hotel-coupons for a hostelry at Nairobi, and that excursion boats run regularly to Ujiji, where, within the m e m o r y of most of us, Stanley, emerging from the jungle into a clearing with rude native huts, lifted his helmet at sight of a gaunt, fever-stricken man and said, " D o c t o r Livingstone, I be l i e v e ? " T i m b u c t o o has been a familiar

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name to y o u all y o u r life, though your ideas m a y have been very vague as to where it was; but y o u might be glad to know that y o u can g o there now, if y o u please, two thousand miles up the Senegal and down the Niger, b y boat and train, and under the pro tection of the French flag all the w a y . F r o m C a p e T o w n the great Cape-to-Cairo trunk line has been pushed twenty-five hun dred miles northward, and only the other d a y crossed the C o n g o border to a point where it will eventually link up with the Uganda system and so on to the railways of the Sudan, so that in a few years more the traveler w h o tires of sitting on the terrace at Shepheard's can get into a train in Cairo and a fortnight later find himself sitting on the verandas of the M o u n t Nelson in C a p e T o w n . T h e traveler who would g o from Argentine to Chile need no longer brave the rigors of a carriage journey over the A n d e s or a v o y a g e around the H o r n , for the rail w a y has just been opened between Valparaiso and Buenos Aires and y o u can go from tide water to tidewater in steam-heated and electric-lighted trains. In Russian Central Asia y o u can see Bokhara and Samarkand and Tashkent from y o u r car w i n d o w , and in Arabia the H o l y R a i l w a y has been pushed southward and ever southward until its engines are whistling under the walls of M e c c a itself. T h e distant lands are calling calling, calling, and he w h o would b e c o m e a g o o d , able, broad-minded, and healthy citi zen should pack his trunk and G O .

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' ' A l l t h e y o u n g f e l l o w ' s g o o d f o r is t o s p e n d m o n e y " : T h i s i s t h e o p i n i o n o f K i r k A n t h o n y h e l d b y t h e p u b l i c a n d his o w n f a t h e r at" t h e o p e n i n g o f t h e s t o r y . T h e s o n o f a m i l l i o n a i r e r a i l w a y m a n , y o u n g A n t h o n y h a d e l e c t e d , u p o n his g r a d u a t i o n f r o m Y a l e , t o r e m a i n t h e r e as f o o t b a l l c o a c h r a t h e r t h a n t o a c c e p t t h e c a r e e r h i s f a t h e r o f f e r e d h i m . A f t e r a great f o o t b a l l v i c t o r y , he starts o u t , w i t h his b o o n c o m p a n i o n s , f o r a n all-night c e l e b r a t i o n in N e w Y o r k restaurants. T h r o u g h t h e i n t r o d u c t i o n o f a s t r a n g e r , o n e J e f f e r s o n L o c k e , t h e c o m p a n y is i n v o l v e d i n a f r a c a s , w h i c h Before dawn e n d s in the g r a v e injury of a p l a i n - c l o t h e s m a n , disguised as a w a i t e r , w h o h a d b e e n f o l l o w i n g L o c k e . L o c k e h a s p e r s u a d e d A n t h o n y ' s c l o s e s t f r i e n d t o h e l p h i m p u t t h r o u g h , a s a p r a c t i c a l j o k e , a p l a n f o r s e n d i n g K i r k off, penniless, o n a steamer for P a n a m a — t h e p o i n t of t h e j o k e b e i n g t o m a k e A n t h o n y w o r k a n d t h e p o i n t of the plot appar ently being to divert pursuit and suspicion from Locke. A s a result, the next d a y A n t h o n y w a k e s u p , v e r y sick and be wildered, o n a ship, w h e r e he finds himself k n o w n as Jefferson L o c k e . I n t h e c o u r s e o f a d a y o r t w o K i r k m e e t s the Cortland'ts, w h o are in t h e d i p l o m a t i c s e r v i c e in P a n a m a , a n d a f r i e n d s h i p g r o w s u p b e t w e e n h i m a n d M r s . C o r t l a n d t , a w o m a n of c h a r m a n d intellectual p o w e r , s o m e y e a r s K i r k ' s senior. W h e n t h e y land at C o l o n , K i r k appeals to Weeks, B u t the elder A n t h o n y ' s message, the A m e r i c a n consul, w h o cables K i r k ' s father, and takes care of h i m for a w e e k . T h a t e v e n i n g , in a p u b l i c park, w h e n it c o m e s , p r o n o u n c e s K i r k a n i m p o s t o r , a n d W e e k s , f u r i o u s , t h r o w s h i s g u e s t o u t . K i r k c o m e s u p o n a y o u n g J a m a i c a n n e g r o , A l l a n A l l a n , w h o i s a l s o h o m e l e s s , a n d t h e t w o s t a r t o u t t o g e t h e r in s e a r c h of f o o d . O n t h e w a y , t h e y a r e i n v o l v e d i n t h e e x c i t e d c o m m o t i o n o f a f i r e , a n d K i r k , i m p a t i e n t a t t h e i n c o m p e t e n c e of t h e f i r e m e n , t a k e s a h a n d . I n a n a t t e m p t t o r e s i s t i n t e r f e r e n c e , h e t u r n s a h o s e o n a n o f f i c i a l w h o , i t h a p p e n s , is t h e T h e r e u p o n , b o t h K i r k a n d A l l a n are arrested, t h r o w n i n t o jail, a n d b r u t a l l y t r e a t e d . T h e English c o m m a n d a n t of p o l i c e . consul secures A l l a n ' s release, b u t W e e k s refuses t o get K i r k o u t ; e v e n t u a l l y , A l ' a n r e a c h e s t h e C o r t l a n d t s , at Panama, S h o r t l y after, h e g e t s a n u n s i g n e d letter, a n d t h e y h a s t e n t o C o l o n , rescue K i r k , a n d c a r r y h i m h o m e as their guest. e v i d e n t l y f r o m h i s f a t h e r , i n d i c a t i n g t h a t t h e p o l i c e a u t h o r i t i e s a r e l o o k i n g f o r h i m , a n d r e f u s i n g all a i d u n l e s s K i r k can " m a k e a m a n of himself." K i r k at o n c e tells M r s . C o r t l a n d t t h e w h o l e s i t u a t i o n , a n d , w i t h t h e p r o m i s e of her influence, decides to go to work o n the Canal. I n the c o u r s e of a trip t h r o u g h the C u l e b r a C u t . h e learns f r o m his g u i d e that Mrs. C o r t l a n d t is a p e r s o n o f g r e a t p o l i t i c a l a n d d i p l o m a t i c p o w e r i n P a n a m a , a n d t h a t h e r h u s b a n d is a m e r e f i g u r e h e a d . A f e w d a y s l a t e r s h e t a k e s K i r k o n a p i c n i c t o a n o u t l y i n g i s l a n d , w h e r e t h e y a r e d e s e r t e d b y t h e i r b o a t a n d left w i t h n o m e a n s o f g e t t i n g h o m e . T o m a k e m a t t e r s w o r s e , a t a m o m e n t o f t e n s i o n K i r k i m p u l s i v e l y t a k e s M r s . C o r t l a n d t in his a r m s a n d kisses her. H e is i n s t a n t l y r e m o r s e f u l , a n d p l e a d s f o r h e r p a r d o n a s h e t a k e s h e r t o t h e n a t i v e h o u s e w h e r e she is t o s p e n d t h e n i g h t . r

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U T as they trudged along together through the dark, K i r k ' s chagrin re turned in full force. M r s . Cortlandt maintained a distressing silence, and he could not see her face. Presently he began to plead brokenly for forgiveness, stumbling in the effort n o t to offend her further, and feeling that he was making matters worse with every w o r d he uttered. For a long time she made no reply, but at last she said: " D o y o u think I ought ever to see y o u again after this? " " I suppose n o t , " said K i r k miserably.

" I w o n ' t b e l i e v e , " she w e n t on, "that y o u t o o k m e for the kind of w o m a n w h o — " " N o , n o ! " he cried in an anguish of selfreproach. " I was a fool " " P e r h a p s I was p a r t l y to b l a m e , " she said; " b u t I d i d n ' t think—I ought to have k n o w n that n o m a n can really be trusted. I thought our friendship was so beautiful— and n o w y o u ' v e spoiled it." " D o n ' t say t h a t ! " K i r k b e g g e d . " Y o u ' l l surely forgive m e s o m e t i m e . " B u t instead of answering h i m directly, she p r o c e e d e d in the same strain, probing his w o u n d e d self-respect to the quick,

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making his offense seem blacker e v e r y moment. Although he assured her over and o v e r that he had simply followed the irrespon sible, u n a c c o u n t a b l e impulse of a m o m e n t — that he had regarded her o n l y as the best of friends and respected her more than he could say, she showed him no m e r c y . T h e melancholy, regretful tone she a d o p t e d was ten times worse than anger, and b y the time they reached the inn where they had dined, he was sunk in the depths of selfabasement. If he had been less p r e o c c u p i e d with his own remorse, he might have reflected that Edith's attitude, especially as she did not expressly withhold the prospect of ultimate pardon, established a closer b o n d between them than ever before. B u t there was no room in his mind for such a thought. In reply to his k n o c k an old w o m a n came to the door and sleepily admitted them. Edith stood for a m o m e n t on the threshold, then said good-night and, quietly entering, closed the door behind her. Kirk experienced a sudden desire to escape. T o remain where he was simply prolonged his humiliation. Instinctively, he felt that if he could only get a w a y where he could view the matter in an e v e r y d a y light it would cease to trouble him. But evidently he could not desert Edith. He sat d o w n upon the door-step and g a v e him self up to bitter thoughts. She was such a wonderful w o m a n , he told himself, she had been such a true friend to him, that he had been worse than crim inal to lose her respect. A n d Cortlandt had been so decent to him! I t was significant that this g a v e him the most discomfort of all. H e had betrayed a man's friendship, and the thought was unbearable. No punishment could b e t o o severe for that. H e was still sitting there cramped and stiff, when the first faint flush of dawn stole over the hill crest behind him. T h e n he rose to wander toward the w ater front. As the harbor assumed definite form, he beheld a launch stealing in toward the village, and ten minutes later greeted Stephen Cortlandt as that gentleman stepped out of the tender. r

" W h e r e ' s E d i t h ? " eagerly d e m a n d e d her husband. " S h e ' s asleep. I found a place for h e r — " " N o t at the Sanitarium!" "No, no. One of these houses. L o r d !

Magazine I ' m glad to see y o u ! W e ' d begun to feel like real castaways. I ' v e been up all night." "What happened?" It was plain that M r . C o r t l a n d t was d e e p l y agitated. " O u r b o a t m e n e v i d e n t l y g o t drunk and pulled out. I tried to get a sailboat, but there weren't any, and it was t o o rough to try crossing with a skiff." I t t o o k them but a m o m e n t to reach the house, and soon the three were b a c k at the water front. " W h a t a miserable n i g h t ! " M r s . Cort landt c o m p l a i n e d , stifling a yawn. "I thought y o u ' d never c o m e , S t e p h e n ! " " I d i d n ' t get b a c k to the T i v o l i until midnight, and then I h a d trouble in finding a b o a t to bring me o v e r . " " I suppose they were alarmed at the hotel?" " I said nothing about, it," he returned quietly, at which his wife's face flushed. Seizing the first occasion, he exclaimed in a low v o i c e : " G o d ! H o w unfortunate—at this time. Were you m a d ? " She l o o k e d at him, and her eyes burned, but she said nothing. CHAPTER

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T H E day following their return from T a b o g a K i r k b o r r o w e d a shotgun and went hunting. T h e events of that night on the island seemed like a dream. Could it b e that he had really blundered irre trievably? W a s it possible that he had offended his best friend past forgiveness? N o w that he h a d caught u p o n his sleep, he wanted to get a w a y somewhere and collect his thoughts. F o r the present, at least, he wished to avoid an interview with Mrs. Cortlandt. A mile or t w o b e y o n d the railroad track, to the north and east, began what ap peared to be an unbroken wilderness, and thither he turned his steps. L o w , rolling hills lay before him, densely overgrown, and leading upward to a mountain range w h i c h paralleled the coast until the distant haze swallowed it up. T h e s e mountains, he reflected with a thrill of interest, led on to South A m e r i c a , the land of the Incas, hidden in m y s t e r y as the forests close at hand were veiled in faint purple. T h e v e r y t h o u g h t was romantic. Balboa had strained his eyes along these self-same

The Ne'er-Do-Well placid shores; Pizarro, the swineherd, had followed them in search of D a b a i b a , that fabled temple of gold, leaving behind him a trail of b l o o d . I t was o n l y y o n d e r , five miles away, that Pedrarias, with the murder of a million v i c t i m s o n his soul, h a d f o u n d e d the ancient city w h i c h later fell to M o r g a n ' s buccaneers. E v e n n o w , a league b a c k from the ocean, the land seemed as wild as then. A n t h o n y suspected that there were houses —perhaps villages—hidden from his v i e w ; but vast stretches of enchanted jungle in tervened, which he determined to explore, letting his feet stray whither they w o u l d . If game, of which he had heard great stories, fell to his hand, so m u c h the better. Heeding a warning n o t to bear arms through the streets of P a n a m a without a permit from the alcalde, he struck off across the fields in a bee-line for the w o o d s . It was a vast relief to b e o u t in the open air with a gun upon his arm once more, and he felt his b l o o d coursing vigorously. The burden u p o n his spirits insensibly began to lighten. After all, he had d o n e nothing for which he needed to be ashamed the rest of his life. Edith, of course, was right in being deeply offended. T h a t was to b e expected. Y e t his c o n d u c t , regrettable as it was, had been only natural under the circumstances. N o w that the first tumult of feeling had subsided, he found that his conscience did not accuse him v e r y severely. A n d s o m e h o w , he was unable to believe that the breach with Edith w o u l d p r o v e irreparable. She was a sensible w o m a n of the w o r l d — n o t a mere schoolgirl. Per haps when the immediate shock of the occurrence had passed, she w o u l d consent to take a different v i e w of it, and they might return to their o l d friendly footing. If not —he w o u l d b e his o w n man soon, a n y h o w . Their lives w o u l d part, and the incident would b e forgotten. H e was sorry that in his m o m e n t a r y madness he had behaved improperly toward a w o m a n to w h o m he o w e d so m u c h ; y e t it was not as if he had shown meanness or ingratitude. Across the m e a d o w s deep in grass he went, skirting little p o n d s and marshy spots, g r o w i n g m o r e cheerful with every step. In one place he had the g o o d luck to raise a flock of waterbirds, which he took for purple gallinules and spur-wing plover, although they were unlike any he had ever seen. I n s o m e scattered groves b e y o n d he bagged a pigeon and missed a quail, which

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unexpectedly whirred o u t of a thicket. T h e n he continued past herds of grazing cattle to another patch of w o o d l a n d , where he came u p o n something that looked like a path. T h r o u g h rankly growing banana patches, y a m fields, and groves of m a n g o trees he followed it, penetrating ever deeper into the rolling c o u n t r y , until at last he reached the real forest. H e had c o m e several miles, and realized that hecould not retrace his steps; for the trail had branched m a n y times, he had crossed other pathways, and m a d e m a n y detours. H e rejoiced in the thought that he had successfully lost himself. A t m i d d a y he paused in an open glade against a hillside to eat his lunch. B a c k of him, the rising ground was heavily tim bered; beneath him, a confusion of thickets and groves and cleared fields led out to a green plain as clean as a n y golf links, upon which were scattered dwellings. E v i d e n t l y those were the savannas of which he had heard so m u c h , and those foreign-looking bungalows were the coun try homes of the rich Panamanians. B e y o n d , the b a y stretched in unruffled calm, like a sheet of quicksilver, its b o s o m dotted with r o c k y islets, while hidden in the haze to the southward, as he knew, were the historic Pearl Islands, where the early Spaniards had enriched themselves. Gazing at this view in lazy enjoyment, K i r k found himself thinking h o w g o o d it was to b e y o u n g and free, and to b e set d o w n in such a splendidly romantic coun A b o v e all, it was g o o d to b e hearttry. whole and unfettered b y a n y w o m a n ' s spell—men in love were unhappy persons, harassed b y a thousand worries and in decisions, utterly lacking in poise. I t was a lamentable condition of hysteria, with which he decided to h a v e nothing to d o . H e did not care for w o m e n a n y h o w . One could scarcely have a n y dealings with them without b e c o m i n g i n v o l v e d in some affair that unduly harrowed one's feelings. H o w m u c h better it was to k n o w the clean spirit of adventure and the j o y of living, undis turbed b y feverish e m o t i o n s ! A s he reclined there, busied with these thoughts, two v i v i d little paroquets alighted near him, to quarrel noisily, then make up and kiss each other like any pair of lovers. It was disgusting. A toucan peered at him with a look of exaggerated curiosity, due to its huge, grotesquely proportioned

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The Ne'er-Do-Well beak. N o w and then c a m e the harsh notes of parrots as they fluttered high a b o v e the tree tops. M e a n w h i l e the y o u n g man's ears b e c a m e attuned to the jungle noises, his eye observant of the m a n y kinds of life about him. T h e w o o d was c r o w d e d with plant life utterly strange to him. On the hill a b o v e towered a giant ceiba tree, its trunk as smooth as if polished b y hand and bare of branches except at the v e r y t o p , where, in stead of tapering, it ended abruptly in a tuft of foliage. Here and there stood tre mendous c o t t o n trees, their limbs so bur dened with air-plants as to form a series of aerial gardens, their twigs bearing p o d s filled with dowm. Beside them p a l m trees raised their heads, h e a v y with clusters of nuts resembling dates in size and form b u t fit only for wild pigs. C l u m p s of b a m b o o were scattered about, their shoots spring ing from a c o m m o n center like the streams from a fountain, and sweeping through graceful curves to a spray of shimmering green. H e h a d never seen such varieties of growth. T h e r e were thick trees with bulbous swellings; tall trees with but tressed roots that ran high up the trunks; slender trees p r o p p e d up head high a b o v e the earth on tripod-like roots or dusters of legs; trees with bark that shone like a mirror; trees guarded with an impregnable armor of six-inch b o n y spikes—Kirk did not k n o w the names of half of them, nor did he care to learn. Vines and creepers a b o u n d e d , from the tiny honeysuckle that reared itself with feeble filaments, to the giant liana creeping through the forest like a p y t h o n , throttling full-grown trees in its embrace. O n every side was the never-ceasing battle for light a n d the struggle of the weak against the strong. T h e air was h e a v y with the breath of triumphant b l o o m s and the o d o r of de feated, decaying life. A thousand voiceless tragedies were being enacted; the w o o d was p e o p l e d b y distorted shapes that spoke of forgotten encounters; rich, riotous, parasitic growths flourished upon starved limbs or rotting trunks. I t was weird and beautiful and pitiless. Unlike the peaceful order of our northern forests, here was a savage riot, an unending treacherous war fare without light or r o o m or m e r c y . Tiring of the scene at last, K i r k con tinued his wanderings, bearing gradually toward the right, that he might eventually

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emerge upon the savannas below, where he knew there was a g o o d p a v e d road lead ing to the city. B u t the trails were devious and seemed to lead nowhere, so at last he struck out through the jungle itself. H a v ing no machete with which to clear a w a y , his progress was slow, but he t o o k his time, keeping a wary o u t l o o k for game, tw'sting b a c k and forth to a v o i d the densest thick ets, until he finally came out u p o n the mar gin of a stream. T h r o u g h the verdure b e y o n d it he saw the open, sunlit m e a d o w s , and he follow-ed the bank in the h o p e of finding a foot log or a bridge upon which to cross. H e had gone perhaps a hundred yards when he stumbled o u t into a cleared space, wdiere he paused with an exclama tion of surprise. T h e b r o o k had been d a m m e d and w i d ened into a deep, limpid p o o l to which the clean, white sand of the b o t t o m lent a golden hue. A t the lower end it over flowed in a waterfall, whose purling music filled the glade. Overhead the great trees were arched together and interlaced, their lower branches set with flowering orchids, like hothouse plants upon a w i n d o w ledge. T h e dense foliage allowed o n l y a r a n d o m b e a m of sunlight to pass through and pierce the pool, like a brilliant, quivering javelin. L o n g vines depended from the limbs a b o v e , falling sheer and straight as plumb-lines; a giant liana the size of a man's b o d y twined u p and up until lost in the tangle over head. Although set just within the border of the untouched forest, it was evident that this spot had been carefully cut a w a y and art fully cultivated. It could b e seen that n o human artist had designed the w o n d r o u s stage effect; but man's hand had aided Nature b y a few deft touches here and there and a careful pruning of her lavish riches. T o step suddenly o u t of an uncut wilderness into such a scene as this w as bewildering and m a d e the American gasp with delight. T h e place had an air of strictest p r i v a c y . A springboard mirrored in the depths belowinvited one to plunge, a pair of iron g y m nasium rings was swung b y chains to a massive limb, a flight of stone steps led u p the bank and into a hut artistically thatched and walled with palm leaves to harmonize with its setting. K i r k thanked his fortune that he had not blundered in while the placewas in use, for it had almost the sacred air of a lady's boudoir. r

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Instead of p r o m p t l y withdrawing, he al lowed his admiration full play, and s t o o d staring for a long time. W h a t a delightful nook in which to dream a w a y the d a y s ! It was dim and cool and still, although outside its walls of green the afternoon sun was beating d o w n fiercely. A stranger m i g h t pass and never guess its presence. I t had been cunningly shaped b y fairies, that was evident. Doubtless it was p e o p l e d b y them also, and his mistake had been in c o m i n g upon it so suddenly. If he had approached with caution, he w o u l d surely have sur prised them at their play, for y o n d e r was the music of their dances—that chuckling, singing waterfall c o u l d serve no other pur pose. Perhaps a fairy was hidden under it now. Kirk was half tempted to conceal himself and wait for it to reappear, though he knew that extraordinary cunning is re quired to deceive w o o d sprites, once they have been alarmed. B u t undoubtedly they were somewhere close b y , p r o b a b l y watching him from behind the leaves, and if they were not such timid creatures he might try to search them out. A s it was, he t o o k a lingering, farewell look and turned to retrace his steps—where upon the queen fairy laughed at him softly. H e paused abruptly, then turned around, with care, so as not to frighten her. But, of course, she was invisible. T h e n she spoke again, with the sweetest foreign accent imaginable. " Y o u had better cross upon the waterfall, sir. There is no bridge a b o v e . " After an instant, during which he strained his eyes to find her, she laughed again. " H e r e I am, in the tree, across the p o n d . " " O h ! " L o o k i n g at him over the fork of a tree trunk, perhaps twice the height of his head a b o v e the ground, A n t h o n y beheld a ravishing face and two v e r y bright eyes. W i t h o u t removing his gaze, he leaned his gun carefully against a bush — firearms have an abominable effect upon hama dryads—and said: " I knew y o u were here all the t i m e . " " I n d e e d ! " T h e eyes opened in astonish ment. " Y o u did not see me at all." " O f course; but I knew y o u were some where close b y , just the same. H o w did y o u get up t h e r e ? " " I climbed u p . " " W h y didn't y o u hide under the waterfall? " " I did not hide, senor. I a m trying to reach m y o r c h i d . "

A little hand appeared beside the face, and a finger p o i n t e d to one of the big airplants a b o v e . K i r k beheld a marvelous, white, d o v e - s h a p e d flower, n o d d i n g upon a slender stalk. " I c l i m b e d up o n the big v i n e ; it is just like a ladder." " T h e n y o u can't b e the q u e e n ! " T w o v e r y large, v e r y dark eyes looked at him questioningly. " Q u e e n s d o n ' t p i c k flowers," he explained. " T h e y hide in ' e m . " "The queen?" " S o m e of them live in trees, and some preside o v e r lakes and fountains. Which kind are y o u ? " " O h ! I a m neither. I live in m y father's h o u s e . " She tossed her head in the direc tion of the savannas b e h i n d her. " D o you wish to cross the s t r e a m ? " " I f y o u please." " W a i t . " T h e face disappeared. There was a sound from behind the twisted tree trunk, a twig fell, then a piece of bark, and the next instant the girl herself stepped into view. " I was afraid y o u ' d g o n e for g o o d , " a c k n o w l e d g e d the y o u n g m a n gravely. H e t o o k up his gun and stepped out upon the crest of the d a m . " Y o u must l o o k where y o u g o , " she ad monished, " o r y o u will fall—splash!" She laughed delightedly at the thought, and he saw that her eyes had a w a y of wrinkling almost shut in the merriest fashion. H e bal anced u p o n the slippery surface of the water w a y with the stream u p to his ankles. " W i l l y o u promise n o t to whisk yourself a w a y if I l o o k d o w n ? " he asked. "Yes." B u t even with this assurance he found it difficult to r e m o v e his eyes from her dur ing the brief instants necessary for a safe passage; and when at last he s t o o d beside her, he felt an irresistible desire to seize her, gently, so that she c o u l d n o t escape. " W e l l ? " she said at length, and he found he had been standing stock-still staring at her for several seconds. " E x c ú s e m e ! I really t o o k y o u for a wood n y m p h . I ' m n o t sure y e t — y o u see, the place is so well suited. It—it was a natural mistake." She d r o p p e d her eyes s h y l y and turned away at his l o o k . " I t is o n l y our s w i m m i n g - p o o l . There have been n o fairies here since I was a very

The Ne'er-Do-Well little girl. B u t o n c e u p o n a time there were m a n y — o h , a great m a n y . " It is impossible to describe the o d d , sweet sound her tongue gave to the English words. It was not a dialect, hardly an accent, just a delicious, hesitating mannerism born of unfamiliarity. " D i d y o u ever see t h e m ? " " N - n o . I arrived always a little t o o late. But there are such things." H e n o d d e d . " E v e r y b o d y k n o w s that, since ' P e t e r P a n . ' " Another shy glance told her that he was still regarding her with his look of wondering admiration. She pointed to a path, saying: " T h i s w a y will bring y o u to the road, sir, if y o u wish." " B u t — I don't wish—not yet." He sought wildly for an excuse to stay, and exclaimed, " O h , the orchid! I must get it for y o u . " " T h a t will b e v e r y nice of y o u , sir. For two years I have awaited its blooming. If y o u had not arrived, I w o u l d have g o t it anyhow." "Girls shouldn't climb trees," he said severely. " I t tears their dresses." " O h , o n e cannot tear a dress like this." She glanced d o w n at her skirt. Allowing his eyes t o leave her face for a m o m e n t , K i r k saw that she was clad, o d d l y enough, in a suit of blue denim, which was b u t t o n e d snugly clear to her neck. It struck him as most inappropriate, y e t it was extremely well made and he could not complain of the effect. H e broke his gun and r e m o v e d the shells, then, leaving it beside the bath house, went to the tree where he had first seen her. W i t h one hand resting u p o n the trunk, he turned, to say: " P r o m i s e y o u w o n ' t disappear while I ' m up there, nor change into a squirrel, or a bird, or anything like that." " W h a t a f o n n y man y o u a r e ! " " D o y o u promise? " " Y e s , yes." " D o y o u live around h e r e ? " " O f course." " W h y d o y o u want this o r c h i d ? " " T o p u t it in the house." Instead of beginning his climb, the y o u n g man lounged i d l y against the tree. " F u n n y h o w I found y o u , wasn't i t ? " he remarked. " I mean it's funny I should have stumbled right on y o u this w a y — there's o n l y o n e of y o u and one of me and— er—this c o u n t r y is so big! I might have

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gone some other w a y and then perhaps w e ' d never have m e t . " H e contemplated this contingency for an instant. " A n d if y o u hadn't spoken I ' d never have seen y o u either." " B u t I had to speak. Y o u could not cross a b o v e . " " A w f u l l y nice of y o u . S o m e people would have let m e g o a w a y . " " B u t the orchid, señor. D o y o u fear to climb so h i g h ? " she inquired, with the faint est gleam of amusement at his o b v i o u s effort to prolong the conversation. "Oh, no!" H e cast a b o u t for something further to talk about, but, failing to find it, began slowly to clamber upward, supporting him self upon the natural steps afforded b y the twining vine and the protuberances of the trunk itself. W h e n he had reached the first fork, he turned and seated himself comfortably, peering dowmvard through the leaves for a sight of her. " N o t gone y e t ! " h e exclaimed. "That's good." " A r e y o u out of breath that y o u stop so soon?" H e n o d d e d . " I need to rest a minute. Say, m y name is A n t h o n y — K i r k A n t h o n y . " T h e n , after a pause, " I ' m an A m e r i c a n . " " S o a m I—at least I am almost. My mother was an A m e r i c a n . " " Y o u d o n ' t s a y ! " T h e y o u n g man's face lighted up with interest, and he started eagerly down the tree trunk, but she checked him promptly. " T h e orchid!" " O h , y e s ! " H e reseated himself. " W e l l , well, I suppose your mother taught y o u to speak E n g l i s h ? " " I also attended school in B a l t i m o r e . " A n t h o n y dangled his legs from his perch and brushed aside a troublesome prickly p o d that depended in such a position as to tickle his neck. " I ' m from Yale. E v e r been to N e w H a v e n ? W h a t are y o u laughing a t ? " " A t y o u . D o y o u k n o w what it is which y o u are fighting from y o u r n e c k ? " " T h i s ? " K i r k succeeded in locating the nettle that had annoyed him. "Y"es. It is cow-eetch. W a i t ! B y and b y y o u will scratch like everything." The y o u n g lady laughed with the most mis chievous, elf-like enjoyment of this prospect. " A l l right; just for that, I will wait." N o w that the first surprise of meeting was over, Kirk began a really attentive scrutiny

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of this delightful y o u n g person. So far he hud been conscious of little except her eyes, which had exercised a most remarkable effect upon him from the first. H e had never cared for black eyes—they were too hard and sparkling, as a rule; but these— well, he had never seen anything quite like them. T h e y were large and soft and vel v e t y , like—like black pansies! T h a t was precisely what they were—saucy, wide awake black pansies, the most beautiful flower in all creation; and while they were shadowed b y the intangible melancholy of the tropics, they were also capable of twin kling in the most roguish manner imagi nable, as at the present moment. Her black hair was soft and fine, entirely free from the harsh luster so c o m m o n to that color, and it grew d o w n upon her temples in a way that completed the perfect oval of her face. His first glimpse had told him she was ravish ir.gly pretty, but it had failed to show h o w dainty and small she was. H e saw n o w that she was considerably below the usual height, but so perfectly proportioned that one utterly lost perspective. Even her thick, coarse dress could not conceal the ex quisite mold in which she was cast. But her chief charm lay in a certain winsome vivacity, a willful waywardness, an everchanging expression which showed her keenly alive. Even now, pure mischief looked out of her eyes as she asked: " H a v e y o u rested enough to attack the orchid? " " Y e s . " H e roused himself from his trance, and with a strangely leaping heart proceeded carefully to detach the big air-plant from its resting place. T h e wonderful flower nod ding to his touch was no more perfect than this dryad w h o m he had surprised. " D o n ' t break it," she cautioned as. he came gingerly d o w n the tree. " I t is what we call Espiritu Santo, the ' H o l y Spirit' flower. See, it is like a white b i r d . " "First one I ' v e seen," he said, noting h o w the purity of the b l o o m enhanced the olive of her cheek. T h e n he began another fruit less search for a topic of conversation, fear ing that if he allowed the slightest pause she would send him away. But all his thoughts were of her, it seemed; his tongue would frame nothing b u t eager questions —all about herself. A t last, in desperation, he volunteered to get another orchid; b u t the suggestion met with no approval. There were no more, she told him, of that kind.

" M a y b e we can find o n e , " he said h o p e fully. " T h a n k y o u . I k n o w them all." She was looking at him n o w as if wondering w h y he did not make a start, but wild horses could not have dragged him away. In stead of picking up his gun, he inquired: " M a y I rest a moment? I'm awfully tired." "Certainly. Y o u m a y stay so long as y o u wish. W h e n y o u are rested the little path will bring y o u o u t . " " B u t y o u mustn't g o ! " he exclaimed in a panic as she turned away. " O h , I say, please! Y o u w o u l d n ' t d o a thing like that." " I cannot speak to y o u this w a y , sir." T h e y o u n g lady blushed prettily. " W h y not, I ' d like to k n o w ? " " O h ! " She raised her hand and shook her head to express the absolute impossibility of such a thing. " A l r e a d y I have been terrible. W h a t will Stephanie s a y ? " " Y o u ' v e been nothing of the sort, and w h o is Stephanie? " " S h e is a big black w o m a n — v e r y fierce. It is because of Stephanie that the fairies have gone away from here," " I f we wait a minute, m a y b e they'll come out." "No. I have waited m a n y times, and I never saw t h e m . " " S o m e h o w I feel sure we'll see 'em this t i m e , " he urged. T h e n , as she shook her head doubtfully: " G o o d heavens! Don't y o u want to see 'em? I ' m so tired that I must sit d o w n . " T h e corners of her eyes wrinkled as she said, " Y o u are not v e r y strong, señor. H a v e y o u been i l l ? " " Y e s — n o . N o t e x a c t l y . " H e led her to a b a m b o o b e n c h beside the p a l m hut. " I ' v e been hunting. N o w w o n ' t y o u please tell me how y o u chanced to be here? I thought these country places were unoccupied at this season." " S o they arc. B u t , y o u see, I am doing a penance." "Penance! You?" " O h , yes. A n d it is nothing to laugh a b o u t either," she chided, as he smiled in credulously. " I am a b a d girl; I am dis obedient. Otherwise I w o u l d n o t allow y o u to speak to m e alone like this. Y o u are the first gentleman I have ever been so long in the c o m p a n y with, Señor A n t o n i o . " "Really?" " N o w I will have to d o m o r e p e n a n c e . " She sighed sadly, b u t her eyes were dancing.

The Ne'er-Do-Well " I d o n ' t understand this penance affair. What do you d o ? " She lifted a fold of her coarse denim dress. " F o r six m o n t h s I must wear these gar ments—no p r e t t y ones. I must not g o out in public also, and I have been sent here away from the city for a time to cure m y rebellious spirit." " T h o s e dresses must be h o t . " " O h , very uncomfortable! But, y o u see, I was b a d . " " N o t very b a d ? " "Indeed! I d i s o b e y e d m y father, m y oncle, e v e r y b o d y . " F o r the first time her eyes grew bright with anger. " B u t I did not wish to be married." " N o w I see. T h e y wanted y o u to marry some fellow y o u d o n ' t like." " I d o like him " " Y o u did exactly right to refuse. B y all means stand pat and d o n ' t " '"Stand pat'! I have not heard that word since I was in B a l t i m o r e . " " I t ' s awful to marry s o m e b o d y y o u d o n ' t like," he declared, with such earnest con viction that she inquired q u i c k l y : " A h , then are y o u m a r r i e d ? " " N o ! But e v e r y b o d y says it's positively criminal to marry without l o v e . " " T h e gentleman is very h a n d s o m e . " H e shuddered. " B e w a r e of handsome men. If y o u have any idea of marriage, select a large, plain-featured man with blue eyes and light hair." " I d o not k n o w such a person." " N o t yet, of course; that is, not well enough to marry h i m . " " I t is not nice to speak of such things," said the y o u n g lady primly. " A n d it is not nice also to speak with strange gentlemen w h o c o m e out of the forest when one is doing penance. B u t I a m a half-American, y o u k n o w . Perhaps that is what makes me so b a d . " " W i l l y o u catch it for talking to m e ? " " O h , yes. It is not allowed. It is most improper." " T h e n I suppose I ' d better leave." A n t h o n y settled himself more comfortably upon the bench. " A n d yet there is nothing really wrong about it, is there? W h y , it's d o n e every day in m y country. Besides, w h o ' s going to k n o w ? " " T h e padre. I tell him everything." " Y o u girls d o w n here have a pretty tough time of i t — y o u are guarded pretty closely, aren't y o u ? "

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She gave him a puzzled look. " I mean y o u d o n ' t have any liberty. Y o u d o n ' t go out alone, or let fellows take y o u to lunch, or to the matinees, or anything like that?" E v i d e n t l y the mere mention of such things was shocking. " O h , señor," she cried incredulously, " s u c h terrible actions cannot be permitted even in y o u r country. It is awful to think o f ! " " N o n s e n s e ! It's done every d a y . " " H e r e it w o u l d not d o at all. One's people k n o w best a b o u t such things. One must be careful at all times. B u t y o u Americans are so w i c k e d ! " " H o w does a fellow ever get acquainted with a girl d o w n here? H o w does he get a chance to p r o p o s e ? " But this frank questioning on so sacred a topic was a little more than the y o u n g l a d y was prepared to meet, and for the m o m e n t confusion held her tongue-tied. " O n e ' s people attend to that, of c o u r s e , " she managed to say, at length, then changed the subject quickly. " D o y o u live in P a n a m a ? " she asked. "Yes. I work on the railroad, or will, in a few d a y s . " " Y o u are so y o u n g for such authority. It must be v e r y difficult to manage rail roads." " W e l l — I w o n ' t have to run the whole works—at first. I ' m beginning gradually, y o u k n o w — o n e train at a t i m e . " " T h a t will be easier, of course. What did y o u say is your whole n a m e ? " "Kirk Anthony." " K e e r k ! It has a fonny sound, has it not?" " I never noticed it. A n d y o u r s ? " " D o y o u speak S p a n i s h ? " She regarded him curiously. " N o t a word." " M y name is Chiquita." H e repeated it after her. " I t ' s pretty. W h a t is y o u r last n a m e ? " " T h a t is it. If I told y o u m y first name y o u could not use it; it w o u l d not be p r o p e r . " " I t ought to be something like Ariel. T h a t means 'spirit of the air and water,' I believe. Ariel Chiquita. N o , they d o n ' t go together. W h a t are y o u laughing a t ? " " T o see y o u scratch y o u r n e c k . " A n t h o n y b e c a m e conscious of a growing sensation where the strange p o d had dan gled against his skin, and realized that he had been rubbing the spot for some time.

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" Y o u did not k n o w it was the cow-nettle, eh?" " Y o u enjoy seeing me suffer," he said patiently. " Y o u d o not softer," she retorted, mimick ing his tone. " Y o u only eetch! Y o u wish me to s y m p a t h i z e . " " S e e here, Miss Chiquita, m a y I call on you?" "Oh!" She lifted her b r o w s in amaze ment. " S u c h ideas! Of a certainly n o t . " "Why?" " Y o u d o not understand. Our y o u n g m e n d o not d o those things." " T h e n Til d o whatever is c u s t o m a r y — really I will, b u t — I ' m awfully anxious to see y o u again—and " " I do not k n o w y o u — M y father " " I ' l l look up M r . Chiquita and be in troduced." A t this the y o u n g l a d y began to rock b a c k and forth in an a b a n d o n of merriment. T h e idea, it seemed, was too utterly ridiculous for words. Her silvery laughter filled the glade. " N o , n o , " she said finally. " I t is im possible. Besides, I am doing penance. I can see no one. I n the city I cannot even sit u p o n the b a l c o n y . " She fetched a pal p a b l y counterfeit sigh, which ended in a titter. N e v e r had K i r k beheld such a quaintly mischievous, such a m a d l y tantalizing creature. " S a y ! Y o u ' r e not really going to marry that f e l l o w ! " he exclaimed, with consider able fervor. She shrugged her shoulders wearily. "I suppose so. One cannot forever say no, a n d there are m a n y reasons " " O h , that's the limit! Y o u ' l l g o nutty, married to a chap y o u d o n ' t care f o r . " " B u t 1 am naughty, n o w . " " N o t 'naught}''—nutty. Y o u ' l l be per fectly miserable. There ought to be a law against it. Let me call and talk it over, at least. I k n o w all about marriage—I've b e e n a r o u n d so m a n y married people. Promise? " " I c a n n o t let y o u ' c a l l , ' as y o u say. Be sides, for t w o weeks yet I must remain here alone with Stephanie." She regarded him mournfully. " E v e r y d a y I must do m y p e n a n c e , and think of m y sins, and—perhaps l o o k for o r c h i d s . " H e saw the light that flickered in the d e p t h s of her velvet eyes, and his heart

p o u n d e d violently at the unspoken invi tation. " T o - m o r r o w ? " he inquired breathlessly. " D o y o u intend to hunt orchids t o - m o r r o w ? " Instead of answering, she started to her feet with a little cry, and he did likewise. B a c k of them had sounded an exclamation —it was more like the snort of a wild ani mal than a spoken w o r d — a n d there, ten feet away, stood a tall, copper-colored negress, her eyes blazing, her nostrils di lated, a look of utmost fury upon her face. She was fully as tall as Kirk, gaunt, hook nosed, and ferocious. A b o u t her head was b o u n d a g a u d y , Barbadian headdress that increased the wildness of her appearance. " S t e p h a n i e ! " exclaimed the girl. " Y o u frightened m e . " T h e negress strode to her, speaking rap idly in Spanish, then turned sharply upon Kirk. " W h a t do y o u want h e r e ? " she cried menacingly. She had thrust her charge be hind her and now pierced him with her eyes. " M i s s Chiquita " he began, at which that y o u n g lady broke into another peal of silvery laughter and chattered to her ser vant. But her words, instead of placating the black w o m a n , only added to her fury. She pointed with quivering hand to the path along the stream bank and cried: " G o ! G o quick, y o u m a n ! " Then to her charge, " Y o u bad, bad! G o to the house." " M i s s Chiquita hasn't done anything to make y o u huffy. I came out of the woods yonder and she was g o o d enough to direct me to the road." But Stephanie was not to be appeased. She stamped her flat foot and repeated her c o m m a n d in so savage a tone that Kirk per ceived the uselessness of trying to explain. H e looked appealingly at the girl, but she merely n o d d e d her head and motioned him to be gone. " V e r y well," he said regretfully. "Thank y o u for your assistance, Miss Chiquita." H e b o w e d to the little figure in blue with his best manner and turned to g o . "This w a y o u t ! N o crowding, please." "Adids, Senor A n t o n i o . " came the girl's mischievous voice, and as he strode d o w n the path he carried with him the m e m o r y of a perfect oval face smiling at him past the tragic figure of the Bajan w o m a n . H e went blindly, scarcely aware of the sunmottled trail his feet were following, for his wits were aflutter and his heart was leaping

The Ne'er-Do-Well in some strange intoxication that grew with every instant. I t threatened to suffuse him, choke him, rob him of his senses; he wanted to cry out. Her name was Chiquita! H e repeated it over and over in time to his steps. Was there ever such a beautiful name? W a s there ever such a ravishing little w o o d sprite? A n d her sweet, hesitating accent that rang in his ears! H o w could human tongue make such caressing music of the harshest language on the globe? She had called him " S e ñ o r A n t o n i o , " and invited him to c o m e again, to-morrow. W o u l d he come? H e d o u b t e d his ability to wait so long. K n o w i n g that she agreed to the tryst, no p o w e r on earth could deter him. W h a t a d a y it had been! H e had started out in the morning, vaguely hoping to divert his mind with some of those trite little hap penings that for lack of a better term we call adventures, in this humdrum world. A n d then, with the miraculous, unbelievable luck of y o u t h , he had stumbled p l u m p into the middle of the most wondrous adventure it was possible to conceive. A n d yet this wasn't adventure, after all—it was some thing bigger, finer, more precious. W i t h a suddenness that was blinding, he realized that he was in l o v e ! Y e s , that was it, be y o n d the shadow of a d o u b t . This mischiefridden, foreign-born little creature was the one and o n l y w o m a n in the world for w h o m the Fates had m a d e him. T h a t evening he sat for a long time alone on the gallery of his hotel, his spirit up lifted with the j o y of it, a thousand whisper ing voices in his ears. A n d when at last he fell asleep, it was to dream of an olive, oval face with eyes like black pansies. CPIAPTER X I V THE

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and whistled blithely as he dressed him self. W h a t a glorious country this Panama was a n y h o w ! H o w g o o d it was to be y o u n g and to be in love! H e never had been so happy. A man must surely be in love to sing before breakfast. B u t the after n o o n was still a long w a y off, and he must be content to dream until the hour came. H e was t o o early for the Cortlandts, so he breakfasted alone. W h e n he strolled out upon the veranda for his smoke, he found Allan waiting for him, as usual. T h e Jamaican had not missed a morning so far, and it was only b y a show of d o w n right firmness that K i r k had been able to get rid of him at any time during the day. T h e black b o y seemed bent upon devoting every waking hour to his hero, and now, finding himself regarded with friendly eyes, he expanded joyously. " G o t y o u some games y e s t e r d a y ? " he inquired. "Yes. A n d I ' m going again t o - d a y . " " P l e n t y games over yonder is, but it is v e r y fatiguing to get them. T o - d a y I go along for showing y o u the w a y . " " N o t a bit like it. I ' m going alone." " O h no, b o s s ! " " O h yes, boss! I accidentally shot the last man I hunted with—killed h i m . " K i r k stared tragically at his companion, but Allan was not to be so easily deterred. " I shall pahss behind y o u , b o s s . " " I ' d love to have y o u , of course—but I ' m t o o careless." "Praise G o d , y o u must not go h'alone in that case, or something will befall y o u ! I shall h'imitate the birds and call them out before y o u to fire at." " F i r e a!.' I don't fire at things—I hit 'em." "Y'es sar. In that case we shall procure plenty of games." " S e e here! I ' m going alone, understand? I have an engagement with a naiad." " ' O w m u c h a m o n t h will y o u be getting for such h'engagements? " " N a i a d s don't p a y in m o n e y ; they give y o u smiles and kind w o r d s . " " B e t t e r y o u continue then as train col lector. There is great h ' o p p o r t u n i t y for stealing." " M y j o b won't be ready for a few days, and meanwhile I have b e c o m e a huntsman. I intend to g o out every afternoon." " H'afternoons is no g o o d for wild h'animals; they are sleeping. W a l k they

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in the h'early morning, for the m o s t part, very quietly." " T h a t ' s true of some w o o d creatures, b u t the kind I h u n t dance along the edges of p o o l s in the afternoon. Say, did y o u ever feel like d a n c i n g ? " "Nosar." " C o m e around on the b a c k p o r c h and I'll teach y o u a buck-step. I feel t o o g o o d to sit still." B u t Allan refused this proffer firmly. Such frivolous c o n d u c t was beneath his dignity. " I 'ave h ' i m p o r t a n t things to disclose," he said mysteriously. "Indeed." " Y e s sar. Lahst night I d r e a m e d . " " Y o u ' v e g o t nothing o n m e ; so did I . " " I was walking o n the h ' e d g e of the h'ocean, when I h'encountered a whale— a 'uge dead whale. I t was v e r y v i v i d . " " W e l l , w h a t has a v i v i d , dead whale to d o with m e ? " " T h i s ! " Allan b r o u g h t forth a sheet of paper, w h i c h he unfolded carefully. " T h e r e is the number—the 'fish number,' sar." H e p o i n t e d at it triumphantly. " W h y , this is a Chinese lottery adver tisement." " I g o t it for the v e r y purpose. I t w o u l d p a y us to h'invest some m o n e y o n the 'fish number.' " " N o n s e n s e ! I d o n ' t believe in dreams. Y o u say yourself they are false. Besides, I've got no money." Allan folded the paper disconsolately and thrust it into his p o c k e t . " I t is fartunate h ' i n d e e d , " said he, " t h a t y o u will b e w o r k A n d those ing soon, M a s t e r H ' A u n t ' o n y . P. R . R . was v e r y fartunate also for getting y o u to h ' a c c e p t a position, v e r y fartunate h'indeed." " D o y o u think I will raise the standard of efficiency? " " M o s t of those railroad persons are vile people. T h e y threw m e h'off the train with such violence that m y joints is v e r y stiff and h'inflamed. I should h ' e n j o y being boss o v e r them for a w h i l e . " " W h y d o n ' t y o u ask for a j o b ? " " I h a v e decided to d o so, and I a m ask ing y o u n o w for an h'engagement as brakes man." " I can't hire y o u . G o to the office." " P r o b a b l y there are h'already brakes m e n o n y o u r train," Allan p r e d i c t e d gloomily. " I have no d o u b t . "

" I n that case I shall ride with y o u as private p e r s o n . " " R i d e b a c k a n d forth e v e r y d a y ? " " T h o s e are m y h'expectations, sar." " T h a t costs m o n e y . " " Y o u will b e c o l l e c t o r , " remarked the negro calmly. " I should like t o see those train p e o p l e h'expel m e in that c a s e . " " W e l l ! I can see trouble ahead for one of us," laughed A n t h o n y . " T h e y don't allow 'deadheads.' " B u t Allan replied with unshaken con fidence, " T h e n y o u should secure for m e a pahss." K i r k found it extremely difficult to es cape from his persistent shadow that after n o o n , and he succeeded o n l y after a display of armed resistance. I t was the hottest part of the d a y when he set out, gun on a r m ; y e t he did n o t think of the discom fort. After skirting the city, he swung into the fine m a c a d a m road that had brought him h o m e the night before, and much sooner than he e x p e c t e d he arrived at the little p a t h that led into the forest. He knew that he was trespassing again, and the k n o w l e d g e a d d e d to his delight. A s quickly as possible he lost himself in the grateful shade a n d followed the stream b a n k with beating heart. H e determined to m a k e his l o v e k n o w n w i t h o u t delay and establish himself as a regular suitor. A s u p o n the previous day, he broke into the glade before he suspected its presence, to find the same golden light-beams flicker ing in the s h a d o w e d depths, a n d to hear the little waterfall chuckling at his sur prise. T h e r e was the tree f r o m which she had called t o him, y o n d e r the b e n c h where they h a d sat together. Of course he was t o o early—he wanted to be, in order n o t to miss an instant of her c o m p a n y — s o he seated himself and dreamed a b o u t her. T h e minutes dragged, the jungle drowsed. A n hour passed. A thousand fresh, earthy o d o r s breathed around him, a n d he b e g a n t o see all sorts of flowers hidden a w a y in unsuspected places. F r o m the sunlit m e a d o w s outside c a m e a sound of grazing herds; the deep w o o d s faintly e c h o e d the harsh calls of tropic birds, b u t at the p o o l itself a sleepy silence b r o o d e d . Once rustling edge of sat and

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The Ne'er-Do-Well miration, then retreated quietly. A yel low-beaked toucan, in a flash of red and black and gold, settled upon a mirrored limb; b u t it, t o o , stilled its raucous tongue and flitted a w a y o n noiseless pinions as if the naiads were asleep. In the moist earth beside the bench A n t h o n y saw the print of a dainty b o o t , n o longer than his palm, a n d he p r o m p t l y fell into a rhapsody. W h a t tiny hands and feet she had, to b e sure, and such a sweetly melancholy face! Y e t she was anything but grave and g l o o m y . W h y , the sunlight dancing on that waterfall was no m o r e mischievous and merry than she. The slight suggestion of sadness she c o n v e y e d was but the shadow of the tropic mystery, or the afterglow of the tragedy that had played so large a part in this country's his tory. T h e fact that she was half American perhaps a c c o u n t e d for her daring, yet, whatever the other strain, it could not b e ignoble. M r s . Cortlandt's figure of the silver threads in a rotting altar-cloth re curred to him with peculiar force. But w h y didn't she c o m e ? A sudden apprehension o v e r t o o k him, which grew and grew as the afternoon wore away. It was a very miserable y o u n g man w h o wandered out through the fragrant path, as the first evening shadows settled, and bent his dejected steps t o w a r d the city. Evidently something had occurred to pre vent her keeping the tryst; but he deter mined to return o n the m o r r o w , and then, if she did n o t c o m e , to follow the path that led to the house, where he would risk everything for a w o r d with her. He wondered if she had stayed a w a y purposely to test him, and the thought g a v e him a thrill. If so, she w o u l d soon learn that he was in earnest; she w o u l d find him waiting there every afternoon and—after all, wiry confine himself to the afternoons, when she was just as likely to appear in the morning? He resolved to g o hunting earlier here after, and give the whole d a y to it. M e a n while, he w o u l d m a k e cautious inquiries. It was considerably after dark when he reached the hotel, a n d his friends had dined; b u t he encountered M r . Cortlandt later. If Edith's husband suspected any thing of what had occurred t w o nights before, his countenance g a v e n o sign of it. Eor some reason or other, K i r k h a d n o t been troubled in the slightest b y the The Next Instalment of " T h e

thought that Cortlandt might be told. H e could n o t imagine Edith's making him the confidant of her outraged feelings. Be sides, w o u l d such a strangely impassive person resent a n y little indiscretion in which his wife might choose to indulge? K i r k did not know—the man was a puzzle to him. Cortlandt's voice was thoroughly noncommital as he inquired: "Where have y o u been keeping y o u r s e l f ? " " I ' v e been hunting, to kill t i m e . " "Any luck?" " N o , none at all. I started t o o late, I guess." " B y the w a y , " continued the other, " y o u r friend Allan has been besieging Edith, imploring her to use her 'h'influence' to get him a position. H e has set his heart upon going to work with y o u . " " H e is b e c o m i n g a positive nuisance. I can't get rid of h i m . " " I never saw such hero-worship." " O h , all niggers are hysterical." " L e t me give y o u a bit of advice, A n thony. R e m e m b e r there are n o 'niggers' and 'whites' in this country—they are about equal. T h e President of the R e p u b l i c is a black man, and a very g o o d one, t o o . " " T h a t reminds me. I hear he is to b e suc ceeded b y the father of m y friend, A l f a r e z . " Cortlandt hesitated. " G e n e r a l Alfarez is a candidate. H e is a very strong man, but it isn't settled b y any means. The successful candidate will need the support of our G o v e r n m e n t . " " I suppose the Alfarez family is one of the first settlers—Mayfkrwer s t o c k ? " " O h , worse than that. T h e name runs back to B a l b o a ' s time. General Alfarez is very rich, and very p r o u d of his ancestry. T h a t is one thing that makes him so strong with the p e o p l e . " " W h a t are some of the other leading families?" K i r k artfully inquired. " T h e r e are a number. T h e M o r a s , the Garavels—I c o u l d n ' t name them all. T h e y are very fine people, t o o . " " D o y o u k n o w the C h i q u i t a s ? " Cortlandt's face relaxed in an involun tary smile. " T h e r e is n o such family. W h o has been teaching y o u S p a n i s h ? " " R e a l l y , isn't t h e r e ? " " 'Chiquita' means ' v e r y small,' 'little one,' 'little girl,' or something like that. It's not a family n a m e ; it's a term of en. dearment, usually."

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R E M E M B E R Aery well the first great march of the suddenly rich u p o n the social capitals of the nation—of those who had gathered from the mines of Cali fornia, from the forges of Pittsburg, from the forests of M i c h i g a n , from the metaled m o u n tains of M o n t a n a , wealth b e y o n d the dreams of M i d a s . T h e y had capitalized the p r o d ucts of their o w n labor, and b r o u g h t with t h e m the tangible evidences of wealth in the shape of stocks and b o n d s . Very distinctly it c o m e s b a c k to me with w h a t a shock the fact struck the sons and daughters of what was pleased to call itself the aristocracy of A m e r i c a that here m a r c h e d an a r m ) ' better provisioned, better armed with wealth, than any other a r m y that had ever assaulted the citadels of society.

T h e effect of these migrations from the fields of labor to the cities of capital I shall sketch m o r e fully in another chapter. 1 w o u l d n o w , instead, touch upon the condi tions that t h e y left behind them, the con ditions that m a d e possible their o w n retire m e n t from actual labor to the ease and c o m f o r t of luxurious leisure. It is not t o o m u c h to say that they left behind them a p e o p l e reduced to industrial slavery. G o n e forever was the free America our fathers knew. F a d e d into history was the ideal of W a s h i n g t o n and Jefferson and L i n c o l n . F r o m the year 1890 o n w a r d the progress of the U n i t e d States has been the fearful m a r c h of m a n u f a c t u r i n g industry. In that year, the p r o d u c t s of industry and of agriculture were a b o u t equal. T e n years

The Passing of the Idle Rich later, the p r o d u c t s of industry were t w o to one against the wealth gathered from the fields. Side b y side with this c o n q u e s t of A m e r ica went the g r o w t h of tenant farming, as against the old free-tenure farming that had marched steadily into the farthest un tilled corners of the land so long as land was free. T o - d a y there is no free land within the borders of the nation, save for a few small tracts hardly w o r t h mentioning. Here, as in the industries, capital did n o t hesitate to claim and capture all that it dared. L a w after law was passed to pre vent the centralization of the p o w e r of ex ploiters over great tracts of the W e s t . L a w after law was broken, e v a d e d , or laughed Once the spirit of exploitation on a at. large scale was abroad in the land, nothing could stand against it. r

In the days of individual effort, exploi tation of labor was n o t possible, for m e n shied off from the chains of the exploiter, took to the boundless free fields of the West, and declared that they w o u l d dwell in freedom or they w o u l d die. B u t in the census of 1900, it is shown clearly that the average employee in this country produces every year $1,280 of wealth, after full allowance for the cost of the material he works with and ail possible running expenses that are p a i d b y his e m ployer. Out of tins amount of wealth, he gets $43/. The remainder, $8/fj, goes into the hands of other men—the capitalist, or the exploiter of labor. T h a t m o n e y , nearly t w o thirds of the wealth p r o d u c e d b y the m e n w h o labor with their hands and heads, goes to p a y interest and dividends o n the securities that represent the increment gathered b y those w'ho sold out, in other days, or w ho capitalized their plants and settled d o w n to draw their sustenance from the labor of other men. H e n c e the idle rich. r

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Turn b a c k to the industrial history of the second half of the nineteenth century, and y o u can trace this d e v e l o p m e n t in the v e r y statistics of industry. F o r the idle rich are but the o u t c o m e of our industrial e v o l u t i o n ; and the same m i g h t y forces that g a v e us a Golden A g e of A m e r i c a n prosperity g a v e us also the I d l e R i c h a n d the Slaves of Industry.

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B y the end of that period, the handwriting o n the w all was plainly visible. F o r instance, in 1840 there were in this c o u n t r y 1,240 c o t ton manufacturing plants, with a c o m b i n e d gross output of $46,000,000 w o r t h of g o o d s . E a c h plant m a d e $37,000 w o r t h of g o o d s . T w e n t y years later, the n u m b e r of plants was 1,091, and the o u t p u t was $115,000,000. E a c h plant m a d e $105,000 w orth of g o o d s . r

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Our fathers saw these figures; b u t it is n o t o n record that a n y man, at that time, saw their true meaning. I t was simply, t o their minds, the working o u t of the f a c t o r y system to its c o m p l e t i o n . I t m e a n t e c o n o m y . I t was part of the same system that had reduced the cost of making a yard of b r o a d c l o t h from fifty cents in 1823 to fif teen cents in 1840. T h e y c o u l d not, naturally, see in it, as we can, the seeds of a revolution that was t o m a k e o v e r again the A m e r i c a of that day, to drag the boasted freedom of A m e r ica in the mire of p o v e r t y , t o prostitute our political system, to tear and w r e c k and sweep aw ay the sacred barriers of society. I h a v e c o m p i l e d a table from the census reports, dealing with textile industries alone, because that branch of manufac turing was the oldest and one of the great est, as it is to-day, and because it illus trates perhaps better than a n y other the progress of principles, rather than the influ ence of special caiibcs, particularly through this twenty-year period of which I a m writing. r

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65 57 96

I n these few figures, all the industrial history of that great p e r i o d m a y b e f o u n d epitomized. T h e n u m b e r of plants, in stead of increasing as the v o l u m e of d e m a n d for p r o d u c t s increased, was c o n t r a c t e d . T h e leadership of the trade, a n d therefore the m a k i n g of prices, was taken b y the houses of larger capital. T h e average capi tal e m p l o y e d in the trade d o u b l e d in the t w e n t y years. T h e o u t p u t also d o u b l e d , for the average factory. T h e n u m b e r of employees, o n the other hand, increased

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but half. Better machinery, m o r e efficient control over the workers, m o r e drastic industrial discipline, fiercer industrial c o m petition for individual w o r k , did their des tiny-appointed task. Here one begins to see on this b r o a d can vas, b u t faint in outline, the tracing of the picture of A m e r i c a to-day. T h e chains began to tighten. M e n w h o had g r o w n to comfortable wealth in the long period of small factories, scattered industries, and free-and-easy industrial d e m o c r a c y , began to gather together into industrial groups. Little industries were rolled together into big industries. T h e capital of the factory expanded, doubling, on an average, in the decade. A t the same time, b y m o r e intense methods of carrying on the trades, the number of employees needed to p r o d u c e a given value of products was c u t d o w n . L e t m e turn, for a m o m e n t , to introduce a slight record of that industry w h i c h has done more, perhaps, than a n y other to bring a b o u t the creation of the class of which I write—the idle rich. I have not dwelt upon it in the beginnings of A m e r i c a n industry, for it was scarcely existent. I refer to the iron and steel industry. In i860 there were in this c o u n t r y o n l y 402 plants manufacturing wrought, forged, and rolled iron. T h e y used an average of $58,000 of capital apiece, p r o d u c e d p r o d ucts worth $91,000 each, and e m p l o y e d an average of 55 men. In 1880—twenty years later—there were 1,005 iron and steel plants—including blast furnaces and rolling mills—with an average capital of $230,000, average products of $296,000, and an average roll of 141 men. Here the evolution of an industry from the small scattered plants to the concentrated, efficient, and powerful " c o m b i n e ' ' is unmistakable. I n this twen ty-year period the value of p r o d u c t s treb led, while the average n u m b e r of workers more than doubled. T h e wealth-producing capacity of each worker increased from $1,438 to $2,015. If the t e n d e n c y toward m o n o p o l y was striking in the t w e n t y years from i860 to 1880, what m a y one say of the t w e n t y years that followed? I n the iron and steel trade, the 1,005 plants of 18S0, with an aver age p r o d u c t i o n of $296,000 each, b e c a m e 668, with an average p r o d u c t i o n of $1,203, 500 in 1900. T h e average n u m b e r of e m ployees per plant rose from 141 to 333. In the c o t t o n mills, the average n u m b e r of

employees in each mill rose during the same period from 1S5 to 287. Here is the birthplace of the idle rich. H u n d r e d s of m e n w h o had o w n e d small manufacturing plants sold them out at g o o d profits in the first ten years of this era and retired to live on the proceeds. T h e firm g a v e w a y to the corporation. Industries that h a d been for generations family affairs were suddenly capitalized in the form of stocks and b o n d s , and the own ers retired from the active business, hiring skilled m e n to carry o n the work. They themselves sat d o w n in ease and luxury, to live u p o n interest and dividends on the securities that represented the plants. I do n o t mean to say that, even now, by a n y means all of the dividends and interest are gathered b y the idle rich. Such a condi tion as that can exist b u t once in the history of a nation. I t c a m e a b o u t in Rome—and it led to the Fall. I t c a m e about in France —and it led to the Terror. Here, in America, it has gone far, to b e sure, and the tendency is o n w a r d : b u t it has n o t y e t reached a point where one m a y say, " T o - m o r r o w the harA'est is ripe." CHAPTER W H O

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F O R thirty years, since 18S0, we have been piling up wealth in the hands of men w h o d o n o t w o r k . I n almost every year there has b e e n pouring from our mills a steady grist of idlers. I t has gone so far that t o - d a y in every city of the Union the class of the idle rich has reached pro portions that to the thoughtful student of events are alarming. I d o n o t desire to criticise wealth; for I a m not a Socialist and I entertain no Uto pian dreams concerning the equal distribu tion of w ealth a m o n g the people, or the pub lic control of all sources of wealth. I agree t h o r o u g h l y with M r . Carnegie, and with m u c h older economists, in the opinion that a n y arbitrary distribution of wealth, or a n y arbitrary assignment of the sources of wealth, w o u l d b e b u t temporary, and w o u l d be followed b y another period of ad j u s t m e n t w h i c h w o u l d e n d with the reap propriation of wealth and the reassignment of the sources of wealth into the hands best qualified b y nature t o h o l d them. I take it to b e p r o v e n b y the experience of the r

The Passing of the Idle Rich world that individual exploitation of the sources of wealth remains as the estab lished basis of the industrial, commercial, and social d e v e l o p m e n t of the world. Y e t , I confess, the terrific sweep of indus trialism across this land throughout the past half century appalls me as I study it from records written and unwritten. I can not go d o w n through the c r o w d e d tene ment sections of our great cities without having it borne in u p o n m e that we as a nation pay a fearful price in h u m a n b l o o d and tears for our industrial triumphs. I cannot see the p o v e r t y , even the degrada tion, of the wives and children of the w age working class in m a n y cities, and even in many rural districts, without being visited b y the devastating thought that surely, if the principle of the thing be necessary and right, there must be fearful errors some where in the application of the principle. r

For the grim fact stands out b e y o n d denial that the m e n w h o are the workers of the nation, and the w o m e n and the chil dren dependent upon them, are n o t to-day given the opportunities that are their proper birthright in free A m e r i c a ; and that, struggle as they will, save as they may, lift their voices in protest as they dare, they cannot obtain from our industrial hierarchy m u c h more than a mere living wage. A n d , on the other hand, it is equally true that the wage of capital is high, that the class of the idle rich has grown out of all proportion, and that it has taken upon itself a power and an arrogance unsur passed in the industrial history of the world. OUR

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Somewhere, there is something wrong. I speak as a rich man. I speak as a repre sentative of the class of which I write, and to which in particular I address myself. W e can no longer blind ourselves with idle phrases nor drug our consciences with the outworn boast that the w o r k i n g m a n of America is to-day the highest paid artisan in the world. W e k n o w those lying figures well. M a n y a time I myself, in personal argument, have showm that the A m e r i c a n workman receives from one and a half to three times as m u c h as his English cousin at the same trade; b u t we k n o w n o w that this means nothing. W e are learning, in stead of e n v y i n g the A m e r i c a n w o r k i n g m a n

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his lot, to p i t y m o r e deeply that English cousin. W e are learning, t o o , that w h a t we give our workers in wages we take b a c k from them in the higher cost of necessities, in food, in clothing, in medicine, in insur ance, in a hundred devious ways all with one t e n d e n c y — t o keep the living margin down. O U R

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M a n y centuries ago t w o great Greek philosophers, Aristotle a n d Plato, pre dicted that the time w o u l d c o m e when the tools of wealth p r o d u c t i o n — m a c h i n e r y — would have reached such an a d v a n c e d stage of d e v e l o p m e n t that it w o u l d b e c o m e unnecessary to enslave a n y b o d y for the sake of allowing any o n e class to d e v o t e itself to the pursuit of culture. These great philosophers believed in slavery during that period of the world's d e v e l o p m e n t in which they lived, on the g r o u n d that o n l y b y the exploitation of forced labor could any class be left free to d e v e l o p the higher attributes of mankind. Y'et b o t h l o o k e d forward to the time when, in the progress of humanity toward the ideal, the per fection of m e t h o d s w o u l d permit the e m a n cipation of all mankind. Aristotle and Plato were no visionaries. Their dreams, so far as the m e t h o d s are concerned, are to-day realities; but alas, h o w different the result! Instead of eman cipation, we h a v e welded a b o u t the necks of the people the chains of industrial slav ery. It is true that the form of slavery, the direct exploitation of the bodies of m e n , has been w i p e d o u t in e v e r y civilized na tion. B u t is it n o t equally true that w e have merely stepped o u t of a process of direct exploitation of a few enchained slaves into a process far m o r e expansive and c m bracing far m o r e people, namely, the indi rect exploitation of wTige-workers for the benefit of capital? T h e fruit of the genius of the inventors of the world is plucked, not b y the hands of the workers, b u t b y the hands of the c o m paratively small and personally insignifi cant class w h o , b y virtue of the genius of their fathers, or b y virtue of mere c h a n c e , administer the tremendous p o w e r of capital. T h e evolution of the ages, then, has b r o u g h t a b o u t this strangely ironical c o n d i tion. H u m a n i t y is face to face with a G o d given o p p o r t u n i t y to acquire and a p p l y

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knowledge. T h e wealth-producing ma chinery of the w o r l d has the c a p a c i t y t o give to all m e n the o p p o r t u n i t y of enjoy ing leisure. K n o w l e d g e and culture are the proper birthright of h u m a n i t y to-day. E v e n in the face of obstacles, k n o w l e d g e and culture spread a m o n g the p e o p l e . O n l y one great obstacle remains to b l o c k the fulfillment of the p r o p h e c y of the great philosophers. T h a t obstacle is the idle rich. I t is the leisure class that t o - d a y destroys the spirit of our dream. I t cannot b e for long. W e in A m e r i c a are m o v i n g fast t o w a r d social revolution. Conflicts between L a b o r and Capital are assuming the proportions of civil war. T h e o n c e powerful middle class, w h i c h is the safety of every nation, is t o - d a y weak, and is every d a y declining. Soon, politically, it will be a m e m o r y , and the battlefield will b e cleared for conflict. CHAPTER THE

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I W A S dining recently in one of the c i t y hotels. M u s i c and laughter flooded the place as sunshine floods the fields. Out wardly, the scene had all the appearance of perfect ease and happiness. Looking around, I lighted b y chance u p o n a table where a group of elderly p e o p l e , all well k n o w n to m e , were dining. T h e y were people w h o live well, and w h o take a large part in the social w^orld as well as in the world of business. I w a t c h e d t h e m as they talked. I n o t e d an air of gravity, of seri ousness, and I w o n d e r e d what it was all about. A little later, as their table as sumed the normal aspect, I w e n t o v e r and exchanged greetings with them. Inciden tally, I asked them what had m a d e t h e m so v e r y serious throughout the evening. One of them, an old friend of mine, told m e . T h e y had been discussing a statement that had appeared as a news item during the afternoon. It was part of a speech m a d e in the Senate at W a s h i n g t o n . It was an attack upon the concentration of wealth in the hands of the few—really a veiled denunciation of the principle u p o n which society is founded. T h e s e m e n and w o m e n , all part and parcel of the social world, had spent m o s t of their evening discussing that item of news. A v e r y few years a g o such an episode

as this w o u l d h a v e been dismissed, with hardly a single t h o u g h t , b y almost any g r o u p of m e n and w o m e n w h o belonged to society. S o m e b o d y m i g h t h a v e introduced the s u b j e c t ; s o m e b o d y else w o u l d have called the senator a d e m a g o g u e , or an agitator, or a Socialist—and the conversa tion w o u l d h a v e drifted o n to the latest sporting news or talk of s o m e b o d y ' s ball a m o n t h or so a w a y . B u t n o w , the older m e n and w o m e n of society k n o w better. T h e y h a v e learned, in fact, t o distinguish real news from mere sensation. I d o n o t say that it is general, this ten d e n c y to take seriously the social, industrial, and e c o n o m i c questions of the day. In m y o w n case, I d o k n o w that until a very few years a g o n o n e of these problems bothered m e much. I k n o w that very rarely did I hear the question raised as to the permanence of the conditions under w h i c h w e lived within our social barriers. N o b o d y , in m y w o r l d , considered the prob lem of industry his o w n ; and every one drifted o n w a r d through the years secure in the c o n v i c t i o n that in the end every thing was going to b e all right. T o - d a y , h o w different it is! T o - d a y we are studying the sources of our wealth, finding o u t for ourselves the real price paid b y h u m a n i t y t o g i v e us the privileges of the social life w h i c h w e and our fathers have e n j o y e d . E x c i t e d b y curiosity, we go down t o inspect the mines our fathers left to us. W e w a t c h the m e n at w ork, mere pitiful animals, risking their lives in terrible en d e a v o r for a meager w a g e , that we, the heirs of time and of eternity, m a y take our leisure in the palaces of wealth. In the mills of Pittsburg w e w a t c h the workers in iron and steel, toiling in the white-hot blast of the furnaces that w e , w h o never h a v e toiled, m a y d r a w our dividends and spend them o n the luxuries w e love. r

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B u t a v e r y few years a g o w e should have l o o k e d u p o n these workers with eyes of p i t y , perhaps, a n d w e m i g h t have talked more or less g l i b l y of the hardships of labor. Y e t it w o u l d n o t h a v e b e e n our problem. T o - d a y w e recognize the relationship be tween the labor that p r o d u c e s our wealth a n d the wealth w h i c h w e e n j o y . M a n y are the causes t h a t have led to this great change in the attitude of the

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wealthy classes t o w a r d the world at large. First and foremost, in m y j u d g m e n t , is the change in the attitude of the working classes themselves toward the rich. For, more assiduously than anything else in this world, we, the wealthy, seek the praise and admiration of the crowd. And the attitude of the p e o p l e at large toward the rich has been changed indeed. I remember, even in m y o w n lifetime, a period when the p e o p l e of this c o u n t r y looked up with admiration and respect to their wealthy classes. It was in the end of that long period of which I have spoken in which the wealth of the nation was well distributed.

hitherto deeply buried roots of A m e r i c a ' s industrial and social life, and eighty-five millions learned how the social fruitage of our age draws its sustenance, j u s t what, in this connection, has been the effect of these five years u p o n A m e r i c a n opinion? W h e n the nineteenth century closed, America worshiped great wealth. It sanc tified its possessors. I t deified the hundredmillionaire. In five years' time A m e r i c a Plu has learned to hate great wealth. t o c r a c y is disgorging; but public opinion is relentless.

T o - d a y h o w great the c h a n g e — h o w w o n derful the transformation! A t first a few weak voices told what a few eyes saw. In unheard-of journals of the labor m o v e ment, in certain revelations of high-finance corruption of politics, dreadful tales were told — stories long since forgotten. In Henry Demarest L l o y d ' s " W e a l t h vs. C o m m o n w e a l t h " we have a strong v o i c e describing what keen eyes clearly discerned. Soon several profound historical studies were published which aroused the more thoughtful. T h e n , with d r u m and trumpet and black banners flying, came the a r m y of the muck-rakers. A n d their revelations made the nation heartsick.

T o us w h o , through the h e y d a y of our popularity, simply sat in the sunshine and throve and grew fat in happiness, it c a m e as a terrible shock—this change of the popular attitude. A t first we laughed at it; then we preached little sermons a b o u t it, half jesting, half serious; then we began to talk a b o u t it a m o n g ourselves; and w e held indignation meetings e v e r y time w e met our friends, and called d o w n the wrath of H e a v e n on these sharp-eyed and glibtongued investigators. Finally—and here lies the heart of the matter—we began to read these outpourings of the popular senti ment v e r y seriously indeed. T h e y c a m e , at last, from sources that we dared not disre gard. Instead of mere muck-raking expe ditions they assumed [the p r o p o r t i o n s [of crusades. Instead of the frantic m o u t h ings of mere sensation-mongers there c o n fronted us, in the c o l u m n s of the press and in the more sedate and orderly pages of the magazines, the speeches of a President, or sane, sober editorials written b y m e n w h o knew b o t h sides, and w h o c o m m a n d e d our respect as well as the respect and admira tion of the c r o w d . W e recognized—those of us w h o thought and saw and felt—that, instead of being a passing phase, this change of popular sentiment was the beginning of a revolution.

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Never in the history of the world has there been anything analogous to the sharp campaign of the A m e r i c a n muck-rakers. The progressive forces of French society raged at the M o n a r c h y and the Church before the French R e v o l u t i o n . B u t their propaganda t o o k thirty years to gain p o w e r and fifty years to a c c o m p l i s h its purpose. The work of destruction here seemed to be done in a night. T h e "Pillars of S o c i e t y " tumbled. F r o m official statements of the President of the United States d o w n to the output of ten-dollar-a-week hack-writers, our publications teemed with the p r o d u c t s of the popular trade of exposure. Great commercial and industrial institutions were analyzed. National a n d municipal g o v e r n ments were dissected. Universities and churches did n o t escape the b u s y seeker for sin. It is but five years since the white light of the n o o n d a y sun beat d o w n u p o n the

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of her course, to get a full understanding of where wealth c o m e s from. I want her year b y year to learn of the d e b t and the responsibility that she, personally, owes to the people that w o r k . A r e these things taught in y o u r c o u r s e s ? " T h e principal was astounded. She p r o tested that such education was entirely o u t of line with the principles and precepts of that college. V e r y delicately a n d tactfully she intimated that one of the foundations of a social education was the constant in stillation into the students' minds of the idea that the aristocracy is superior to the masses. T o teach Estelle that she and her class are really dependent u p o n the grimy men w h o labor with their hands w o u l d be to turn upside d o w n the curricu l u m of that college. T h e upshot of it was that Estelle t o - d a y is enrolled as a student in a high school in N e w Y o r k City. Her mother believes that the salvation of the wealthy classes in this c o u n t r y depends upon the c o m i n g genera tion's understanding the true relationship between Capital and L a b o r . O U R

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This is, perhaps, an extreme case, for o n l y a very few years ago that matron her self was absolutely immersed in the whirl p o o l s of the most frivolous society w h i c h has a real right to use the term in talking a b o u t itself. A l w a y s , she was a w o m a n of a most active mind, of b r o a d sympathies, of excellent benevolent character; b u t her m i n d found its full exercise in the pursuit of social fads, her sympathies found outlet in sporadic raids upon the strongholds of misery and p o v e r t y , and her benevolence sat isfied itself with m u c h hidden largess to vari ous and sundry charities. She did not really understand any of the problems of the d a y . T h e first awakening of this one w o m a n c a m e about through chance. B o r e d to death at a summer resort, half sick, and therefore restricted in her activities, she p i c k e d up a b o o k that a friend w h o had s t o p p e d o n the piazza to extend her sympathies happened to leave. She began, half absently, to turn the pages, from b a c k to front, as one will. A heading caught her eye. Here it is: OUR

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She did not understand it; and her habit of mind led her to investigate. She had

lost the page, b u t she searched until she found it. T h e n she read the paragraph: If our civilization is destroyed, as Macaulay predicted, it will not be b y his barbarians from be low. Our barbarians c o m e from above. Our great money-makers have sprung in one generation into seats of power kings d o not know. T h e forces and the wealth are new, and have been the opportunity of new men. W i t h o u t restraints of culture, experi ence, the pride, or even the inherited caution of class or rank, these men, intoxicated, think they are the wave instead of the float. T o them, science is but a never-ending repertoire of investments stored up b y nature for the syndicates, government but a fountain of franchises, the nations but cus tomers in squads, and the million the unit of a new arithmetic of wealth written for them.

She read on and on. She finished the b o o k , and turned b a c k to its beginning. She had read e n o u g h to realize her pro found ignorance. T h a t night, at dinner, she astounded her husband b y asking: " W h o is H e n r y D e m a r e s t L l o y d ? " " H e is a Socialist writer," was the an swer, " w h o amuses himself attacking our class." " I w i s h , " she said, " y o u would get me all his b o o k s . " F r o m that time on, her m i n d found new o c c u p a t i o n s , n e w interests, new ideas. A w o r l d that she did n o t k n o w existed came swiftly over her horizon. She did not rush m a d l y into extremes—she has not to this d a y — b u t her life has changed considerably. W e , w h o k n e w her so little time ago as one of the typical, clever, brilliant, and flashy p u r v e y o r s of cheer and social j o y , find her t o - d a y n o less charming in the matter of mere entertainment; b u t we expect, when we m e e t her, to find in her mind many other and m o r e serious things. She never appears in print, she is n o t a suffragist, she has d r o p p e d her little fads. She is not that strange a b n o r m a l i t y of her sex that neglects the old pursuits of w o m e n to follow the strange g o d s of m e n ; b u t she is, in every sense, a student of the true conditions that surround her. T h e mists of golden tradi tion h a v e cleared from her eyes. T o - d a y , she has p l e n t y of c o m p a n y in her o w n set. She did n o t convert them. She detests the role of propagandist. T h e y simply c a m e of their o w n accord to read and learn. A n d when the educated classes really b e c o m e interested, I think they s t u d y things m o r e deeply than an other class. E v e n the m o s t violent and anarchistic of the publications that pretend to p o r t r a y the facts of the class relation

The Passing of the Idle Rich ships have thousands of readers among the v e r y wealthy. I remember a case in point. M r . U p t o n Sinclair was invited to lunch, one day, b y a mutual acquaintance, with a y o u n g man of the most exclusive set in N e w Y o r k . The}-' met in a private dining-room at the Lawyers' Club. In the course of the lunch, M r . Sinclair referred to an article he had published in Wilskire's Magazine, a So cialist sheet of the noisy class. " Y e s , " said the other, " I read it." " Y o u read i t ! " exclaimed M r . Sinclair, in complete surprise. " O h , yes—I always read it," said the other, in a matter-of-fact way. There are m a n y like him. Five years ago, y o u p r o b a b l y could have counted o n the fingers of t w o hands the men in the wealthy classes w h o read the literature that comes from " b e l o w . " T o - d a y it is a very c o m m o n occurrence to hear in the best clubs of N e w Y o r k wealthy men discussing, with intense earnestness and real economic sense, articles of which they never would have heard five years ago. " I used to think," said a clubman to m e last winter, " t h a t we were well b e l o v e d ; but I guess our class is the best hated class in the land. I am only beginning to find out w h y . " Y e t I have failed of m y aim if I have given the impression that society is t o - d a y wholly roused. This is, alas, n o t true. T o - d a y , perchance, the vast majority of the men of wealth in this and other cities will call me a visionary and an alarmist. I wish it were true. W o u l d that I could bring myself to believe that the things I see about m e are but the passing phases of a natural adjustment. I have tried, for m a n y years, to persuade myself that all is well. I have failed. CHAPTER VI FOR

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I HAVE shown h o w the seed of our social system, which has reached its fine flower in the idle rich, was planted in the t o o fer tile soil of American industry. I have dwelt, briefly, upon the simple fact that w e of the older orders have c o m e to find o u t something a b o u t that planting, and the manner of the growth. I turn with something like dismay to the

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T o m y mind, as I have studied this ques tion, there has c o m e a sad c o n v i c t i o n : This nation is betrayed. T h e planting of the seed was quite possible without any be trayal of the people. E v e n its g r o w t h for t w o decades was possible without delib erate betrayal. B u t can any thinking m a n dare to say that the growth of this system as it has d e v e l o p e d since 1890, could have been possible without criminal negligence on the part of those public servants sworn to guard the true and lawful interests of the people of this nation? For it was perfectly evident, years ago, that the industrial evolution of this c o u n try was a process of exploitation. It was the knowledge of this fact that lay behind the Sherman L a w of 1890; and behind the Interstate C o m m e r c e A c t , which sought to restrain, to a limited extent at least, the boundless license to plunder which had been taken unto themselves b y the rail roads. N o man of broad and open m i n d can read the facts with regard to the H o m e stead strike, the Pullman strike, the war in the Cceur d'Alene, or the coal strike of v e r y recent years, without coming to the conclusion that, n o matter w h o was in the wrong in the immediate circumstances leading to those national catastrophes, the real underlying cause was a revolt on the part of a subjugated people against the hardships of industrial slavery. W h a t is it, then, that makes possible the continuance of this process of exploitation in the face of the ever-growing public knowledge of its existence? T h e answer is our public shame. For the simple reason is that the one p o w e r in the world which could stop it—the will of the

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American p e o p l e — h a s been turned from its purpose, defeated in its honest efforts, a n d betrayed in its administration, through the power of m o b i l i z e d wealth restraining the hands of our political parties. T o - d a y , in America, the p e o p l e elect their statesmen; b u t the exercise of the p e o p l e ' s p o w e r through these statesmen is curbed, directed, and c o n trolled b y groups of m o n e y e d interests. America, then, is a plutocracy. A l w a y s , politically, the p o w e r of a plu t o c r a c y depends u p o n the maintenance of the status quo. I t has c o m e i n t o being through the operation of certain industrial or commercial conditions. I t lives b y vir tue of the continuance of those conditions, and b y virtue of their freedom from attack b y the one p o w e r strong enough to destroy them, namely, the people. T o maintain this status quo has been the gigantic task successfully carried out b y the financial interests of the United States. It is n o t m y intention—indeed, it is not within m y p o w e r — t o g o into any c o m p l e t e details of the m e t h o d s and machinery used for this end. B u t let m e say that it has not all been accomplished, b y any means, through direct political corruption, though m u c h of it has been accomplished in that w a y . D e e p e r than this has been the indirect subornation of public opinion through a subsidized press, subsidized pulpits, a n d subsidized p u b l i c speakers. W e have heard a great deal of demagogues and wicked socialistic leaders of the m o b . W e d o n o t hear m u c h of that other p h e n o m e n o n , the oily s y c o p h a n t w h o talks to the people with w o r d s of cheer a n d paragraphs of exhortation, having in his mind always the one single idea h o w best he m a y serve the m o n e y e d interests that stand behind him. THE

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I t is strange to me, and it has always been strange to other m e n w h o h a v e studied these things, that the interests of a p l u t o c racy can b e so long maintained, for a plu t o c r a c y , of its v e r y nature, is the weakest possible form of g o v e r n m e n t . I t lives either b y force or b y fraud. I t lived in R o m e before the d a y s of M a r i u s b y force alone; and the lower orders of R o m e were slaves. I t lived in Paris, before the Terror, b y a c o m b i n a t i o n of force and fraud; a n d the l o w e r orders of France b e c a m e fiendish brutes. I t lives in A m e r i c a b y fraud alone;

Magazine and what m a y we say of the p e o p l e of tlus nation w h o p e r m i t it to live? B u t the p e o p l e are stirring. N o t y e t in The definite organization — b u t stirring. line of political cleavage along w h i c h the m i g h t y rift m u s t b e m a d e has n o t y e t been Perhaps one m a y find clearly m a r k e d o u t . the first faint tracing of it in the rise of the insurgents in the last session of Congress. F r o m w h a t I h a v e learned of the sentiment in the powerful M i d d l e W e s t , which more than a n y other part of the Union represents an average of the p e o p l e of the United States, I a m m o r e than half c o n v i n c e d that this is true. If it b e so, m a n y things m a y happen within the next few years, and there m a y b e v e r y g o o d reason indeed for the widespread uneasiness in the p l u t o c r a c y . CHAPTER THE

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S O M E T I M E S an honest man of m y class, reading the news of the day, awakes to a sudden realization of the grim political truth. D u r i n g the time of the public dis cussion o v e r the late tariff readjustment, I remember such an incident. W e were three men, sitting together in the smoking-room of an u p t o w n club. O n e of us had brought in a c o p y of a sane and honest afternoon paper, containing a quiet, dignified, careful, b u t powerful analysis of the actual results b r o u g h t a b o u t under the tariff reform meas ure. W e h a d been struck b y the article. W e called it t o the attention of the third m e m b e r of the g r o u p . H e read it through, while m y friend and I talked a b o u t trivial things. After quite a long p e r i o d of silence, he h a n d e d the paper b a c k to the giver. " W h a t d o y o u think of it? " he was asked. His cigar h a d g o n e out. H e lit it before he replied. T h e n he said, g r a v e l y : " A m e r i c a needs a M a r i u s , a Pitt, and a Peel. Before long, it must get one or all of them, or it will surely b r e e d a D a n t o n and a Robespierre." I t m a y h a v e b e e n mere epigram; but the t w o of us w h o heard it were startled. For the m a n w h o said it was a leader of the w o r l d of fashion, powerful in the world of business, and d e s c e n d e d from four genera tions of the p u r e s t - b l o o d e d aristocracy this country owns. T h i n k , then, of the meaning of this senti

The Passing of the Idle Rich ment, from such a man, at such a time. Marius, a plebeian, led the slaves of R o m e to the seats of political p o w e r , b r o k e d o w n the age-old barriers of an aristocratic plu tocracy, and wrote into the history of the world one of its earliest chapters on the revolt of a subjugated nation held in chains for the benefit of a few. Pitt, L o r d Chat ham, the ' ' G r e a t C o m m o n e r , " hurled from office b y the c o m b i n e d pow er of a king, a plutocratic class, and a subservient political machine, was forced b a c k into office b y the will of the people, unorganized, in the face of all the b a n d e d powers against him, and in spite of a condition of political corruption that made his return seem a miracle. Peel gave the people of England free corn against the banded powers of commercial greed. 7

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Under such circumstances, even in slaveholding nations, there has never lacked a tribune of the people. So sprang the Gracchi from the dust to lead the first great battle in R o m e . So, even in the dawn of popular liberty, c a m e a T y l e r and a C a d e ; before their hour had struck it is true, yet, even so, with p o w e r to call to their backs armies of m e n walling to die and conquera ble o n l y b y accident or guile. So in the fullness of time c a m e other greater men, a Marius, a Pitt, a Peel, w h o led the p e o p l e against the citadels of p l u t o c r a c y . A M E R I C A — A

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I believe that he was right. W i t h o u t re ferring specifically to the tariff reform—for this is no political d o c u m e n t that I a m writing—I believe that the catalogue of enactments b y our legislative machine in the past twenty years reveals b e y o n d the shadow of a d o u b t that the will of the people is subservient to the will of the plu tocracy. H o w can we further blind our selves to the truth? W h e n such a fact is k n o w n as gospel to the people, from M a i n e to California, published in every section of the press, from the guttersnipe class to the scholarly review, h o w m a y the best educated class in the United States g o on upon its careless w a y ignoring the fact?

T o - d a y , we of the class that rules, that draws unearned profits from the toil of other men, k n o w full well that the time is almost here when there must b e a true accounting. T h e fortunes that have been made are m a d e ; and that is all of it. T h e fortunes that are in' the making through misuse of political power, through extortionate exploitation of the people and the people's heritage, through industrial oppression and industrial denial of the rights of man—these must b e checked. T o - m o r r o w , in this land, the d o o r of o p p o r tunity must be again unsealed. W e cannot g o b a c k and create more free land to take the place of the millions upon millions of acres thrown a w a y b y a lavish, stupid, careless, traitorous g o v e r n m e n t . W e cannot fill again the plundered mines of Michigan, or M o n t a n a , or Pennsylvania. W e cannot clothe the hills of M a i n e and Michigan again with pine, or the b r o a d b o t t o m s of Ohio with walnut. W e cannot turn b a c k the hands of the clock, nor re create the e c o n o m i c factors that have been exhausted to make the wealth and the social w orld to-day enjoyed b y the ex ploiters and their descendants. It is not so that evolution works. That rare civilization of the A z t e c s which Cortez crushed can never be restored. O n l y echoes from the t o m b s of the L u c u m o s , after the lapse of t w e n t y centuries, attest the fact that once, in Etruria, there existed a civilization distinctive, splendid, brilliant. Only the ashes in the urn of history remain of Pha raoh's E g y p t , of Athens, B a b y l o n , Persia.

T h e result is perfectly obvious, in the light of history. T h e plutocracy, stripped of the artificial screens behind which it grew to p o w e r , stands exposed to-day in the full glare of the searchlight of public knowledge.

So, t o o , the golden o p p o r t u n i t y of yester d a y is gone, never to return within our bor ders. T h e lesson of A m e r i c a , h o w e v e r , is burned deep into the records of time. Li Canada, such a man as Laurier reads it

A n d to-day, in A m e r i c a , an aristocrat and a member of the plutocratic class, sitting in a great city club of fashion, reading an editorial from a paper that is published and edited to meet the demands of that v e r y class, gives it as his opinion that in this country we must raise a Marius, a Pitt, and a Peel! A n d the alternative—the days of the Terror, the b l o o d y hands, the brutish m o b , the wild-eyed, frantic leaders of the host [that stormed the Bastille, set up the guillotine—so runs the mind of an aristo crat and a plutocrat, reading the Evening Post in a rich man's club on upper Fifth Avenue! FACE

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clearly. I n the greater of the L a t i n re publics in S o u t h A m e r i c a , t h e y strive to p r e v e n t the v e r y c o n d i t i o n w e find to-day in free A m e r i c a . I n this m a t t e r of the real substance of rulership, the United States is t o - d a y an e x a m p l e to the nations. WANTED—A

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Yet, for all our lost opportunities, m u c h remains that can b e d o n e a n d will b e d o n e . It is n o t m y purpose here to sketch the p r o c ess of salvation that is y e t possible. O n l y , at this p o i n t in m y writings, I w o u l d warn the p e o p l e of m y class, those of them w h o d o not y e t think a b o u t these things or under stand them, that the m o m e n t has arrived when the p e o p l e d e m a n d a Marius—a trib une w h o shall lead them o n w a r d i n t o free d o m , a man w h o shall stand before the w o r l d untrammeled b y the golden chains of wealth, undefiled b y the pollution of time-serving politics, filled with the inspiration of the people's will, courageous t o b a t t l e to the very bitter end for the rights that the p e o p l e demand. O n l y the m o r a l l y and intellectually deaf cannot hear the sound of the call of the people. I t sweeps from the plains of K a n sas in the breath of the rustling c o r n ; it swells from the hills of M o n t a n a in the thud of the drill and the rising and falling of picks in the mines; it whirs from the l o o m s of the South and the N o r t h , where child-slaves earn the bread of l a b o r ; it m o a n s from the lofts of N e w Y o r k , in the v o i c e of the slaves of the sweat-shop; it shrieks from the forges of Pittsburg, the charnels of Packingtown, the terrible mines of the mountains of coal. I t is a call for a leader t o F r e e d o m — t h e freedom w e b o u g h t with our b l o o d and signed a w a y in ignorance. I care not where y o u turn, the voices of the p e o p l e crying for their rights rise stronger, fuller, m o r e threat ening year b y year. D a y b y d a y they or ganize. A meeting of farmers at St. L o u i s hies a formal protest against the profits of the middleman, and forms a c o m m i t t e e to investigate and report, a n d puts together a League of R e f o r m . A machine-made politician in N e w Y o r k , in Massachusetts, in Pennsylvania, is crushed b y the v o t e s of The Concluding Instalment of ' ' The Passing of

the p e o p l e he f o n d l y had d r e a m e d he owned. A firmly entrenched p u b l i c officer is branded a liar a n d a thief, n o m a t t e r w h a t committee m a y whitewash him. A great manufac turing c i t y of the M i d d l e W e s t chooses a Socialist m a y o r . A p u b l i c d o c u m e n t pub lished t o clear the skirts of a ruling party of the charge of being in p a r t responsible for rising prices is laughed o u t of court b y the p e o p l e themselves. A daring and preposterous a t t e m p t on the part of organized railroad owners to advance rates to the general p u b l i c while holding them d o w n for the " b i g i n t e r e s t s " is met b y a s t o r m of organized protest. Chambers of c o m m e r c e , industrial clubs, manufacturers' guilds, c o n s u m e r s ' leagues spring up all over the c o u n t r y , expostulating, pleading, threat ening, hurling legal thunderbolts. A Presi dent yields to the clamor, a n d an attorney general launches the thunder of Washington against a m o v e that, ten years ago, would h a v e m e t o n l y the scattered, sporadic, half hearted, hopeless i n v e c t i v e of the private citizen. T h e railroads yield, and begin the revision of rates " a t the t o p , " b y making agreements with the big organized shippers, the trusts. THE

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T h e time is ripe; the fight begins. The status quo is to b e changed. I n the political arena all is confusion. A l r e a d y , from the lips of the old, trained leaders w h o , through long periods, h a v e served the interests of the P l u t o c r a c y while wearing the livery of the People, c o m e hesitating phrases of fear and confusion. O n e a n n o u n c e s that he will re tire after his present term. A n o t h e r goes d o w n to defeat, fighting t o the last for his master. A third, b r a n d e d a corruptionist, sees ruin stalking h i m a m i d the shadows of the c o m i n g d a y . A n o t h e r , reading the papers, d u b s t h e m traitors, and madly curses t h e m before the eyes and in the ears of all the p e o p l e . A n d presently s o m e m a n , s o m e strong m a n of the p e o p l e , will hear the clear, un mistakable call of D e s t i n y t o its chosen. C a n he help b u t h e e d ? H i s t o r y supplies the answer. G o read it, y o u w h o rest secure within y o u r flimsy barriers of self-interest, self-confidence, a n d g o l d , the Idle Rich ' ' will appear in the April Number.

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ZONA LOVES

" FRIENDSHIP

PELLEAS

VILLAGE

ILLUSTRATIONS

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F H e t t y had stood on the rim of the world, looking it over and choosing her part, she would have wanted ex actly the part which the morning held for her. T h e fluttering of the flag from the Fine Arts Building tower, and the m o v i n g , m o v i n g of the c r o w d made a swift flowing of life within her as the b a y mare trotted d o w n the fairground at eleven o'clock in the morning o n " C o u n t y D a v . " " O h , E g b y , " H e t t y said happily, " I b e t y o u they'll all run us—don't y o u ? " " L e a v e ' e m , " said E g b y philosophically. T h e n he looked at her, there on the seat beside him—a look of magnificent posses sion, the look which can linger as it likes and need not turn away. " Golly-olly," he said, " t h e y d o n ' t none of 'em need to remind m e I ' m married to y o u . " E v e n y e t , a whole m o n t h after the event, the words had a kind of unreserve which 616

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made hearing them an adventure. A d v e n ture it was, t o o , for H e t t y to say " m y hus band." N e v e r y e t , before older w o m e n , had she called E g b y that. N o w she looked d o w n at his b r o w n hand o n the lines and al his sleeve, and suddenly she laughed up at him. " E g b y , " she said, " w h a t ' s b y your collar? " H e brushed at his collar vaguely, not understanding. " Y o u ' v e forgot m y first m e n d i n g , " she chided him. " I ain't," he defended, slipping his hand inside his coat collar, where, on the shoul der seam of the soft checked shirt, was the plain blue patch that H e t t y had stitched in there yesterday. " I should say I ain't." T h e road curved. " L o o k at the M i d w a y , " H e t t y cried ecstatically. " M y , what a lot o ' tent at

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tractions. O h , E g b y , w o n ' t w e h a v e fun there?" " S u r e , " said E g b y , " w e ' l l be m e e t i n ' everybody." ' " S p e c i a l l y L u l u M i n e r , " H e t t y said. " L u l u M i n e r , " E g b y repeated. "That's so. L u l u M i n e r . W e l l , h o w d o I k n o w y o u a i n ' t here l o o k i n ' for L e n n y W e s t ? " " O h , E g b y , " said H e t t y . " G r a c i o u s ! I couldn't bear him to speak to me, n o w . " " W e l l , see't y o u d o n ' t , " said E g b y masterfully. H e r e y e s w e p t the scene, her y o u n g b l o o d beating t i m e t o the life of the p l a c e . " A i n ' t it f u n n y , " she said, " a l l the folks a n ' the doin's a n ' the fun of fair-time a n ' e v e r y t h i n g — a n ' y e t the b i g g e s t p a r t is just bein' us?" She a l w a y s startled E g b y s o m e w h a t when she t h o u g h t things t h r o u g h . Boy like, a n d some man-like, he, so to s a y , merely felt his reflections. A b o v e all, he never said t h e m . T o tell his " n o t i o n s " g a v e h i m the s a m e undressed feeling w h i c h the n a m i n g of certain facts g a v e t o H e t t y . " W h a t w e g o i n ' t o do f i r s t ? " he de manded, merely. " I k n o w , " he w e n t on. " L o o k a t the stuff a n ' then g o a n ' set in the grand stand. An'," he added, " I a i n ' t g o t to wonder this y e a r w h e t h e r L e n n y W e s t is goin' to set the other side of y o u . " " L e n n y ' s g o t a a u t o m o b i l e this y e a r , " remarked H e t t y . " H e ' l l b e here in t h a t . " " T h a t ' s so, he h a s , " said E g b y g l o o m i l y . " W e l l , now, if y o u ' d 'a' married h i m " " E g - 5 y , " said H e t t y . "Don't—why, don't!" " W e l l , I w o n ' t — d u m h i m , " E g b y said. " B u y m e some p e a n u t s — b u y me some p e a n u t s before w e go u p in the grand s t a n d , " H e t t y c o m m a n d e d ; b u t instantly her face fell. " N o — I guess n o t p e a n u t s , " she added. " T h e y ' r e kind o' c o m m o n , ain't they? " "Common?" E g b y repeated. "How's that?" ! " W e l l , L u l u M i n e r use' to s a y t h e y ' s c o m m o n , " H e t t y recalled. " F o r c a t s ' s a k e , " said E g b y , " l e t ' s l e a v e u p on L u l u M i n e r . " D r i v i n g d o w n the grounds from the g a t e , t h e y passed l u m b e r - w a g o n s , on w h o s e seats or in chairs in the b o x e s were w o m e n a n d girls, dressed in their best—here a red waist, there an " a l l s i l k , " there a fabric negligible under the innocent ostentation of starch a n d fresh ribbon. L a s t y e a r it

was so t h a t H e t t y h a d c o m e , in her uncle's w a g o n ; a n d she h a d b e e n longing for a w h i t e dress a n d n e w g l o v e s . Of last y e a r she r e m e m b e r e d especially L u l u M i n e r ' s w h i t e dress, w h i t e w i t h b l u e ribbons, and her silver c h a t e l a i n e a n d her b i g hat. Also E g b y h a d t a k e n L u l u for i c e - c r e a m — H e t t y r e m e m b e r e d L u l u ' s w a y of lifting her face so t h a t i t s e e m e d t o b e her m o u t h that she lifted. L e n n y W e s t h a d t a k e n H e t t y she r e m e m b e r e d her a n g r y satisfaction that L e n n y w a s so g o o d - l o o k i n g , b u t she was hearing e v e r y w o r d t h a t E g b y said. A n d n o w — a n d n o w ! H e r e she w a s , a n d E g b y b e l o n g e d t o her, a n d t h e y h a d come in a b u g g y , a n d she w a s dressed like this, and it w a s C o u n t y D a y , a n d e v e r y b o d y would b e here t o see. A s E g b y h e l p e d her t o alight before the F i n e A r t s B u i l d i n g , H e t t y heard the whis per of t w o or three s t a n d i n g b y the door— " T h e bride—there's the b r i d e . " And whereas on their brief w e d d i n g journey there h a d b e e n for her in the suspicion a particular, delicious a g o n y , t i n g e d w i t h de light, n o w , b a c k here in her h o m e town a n d for t h e first t i m e since their return, a b o u t t o m e e t their old friends, the delight w a s chief, b u t t o u c h e d , too, w i t h a certain delicious a n d p e r f e c t l y b e a r a b l e a g o n y . Y e s , there w a s n o m i s t a k i n g , e v e n to the e y e of a s t r a n g e r : H e t t y w a s the bride eternal. P e r h a p s n o one c o u l d h a v e told quite h o w t h e f a c t w a s p l a i n , b u t there is no w a y t o tell of countless s w e e t certainties. H e t t y w a s in w h i t e , n e w w h i t e , her ruffled skirt blossoming i n t o p i n k a t w a i s t and t h r o a t ; a n d her h a t w a s wdiite, n e w white, crisping into chiffon t o veil rosebuds; and her long silk g l o v e s w e r e w h i t e , n e w white. B u t all these one left for t h e look of her e y e s , w h i c h h a d t h a t exquisite a n d peculiai liquidness of certain y o u n g life a n d young happiness, a n d t h e l o o k of her cheeks, which were in a k i n d of r h y t h m of blushes, bloom ing a n d g o i n g , b u t a l w a y s c o m i n g back. A n d there w a s the w i t n e s s of E g b y , big a n d b r o w n a n d conscious a n d in b l a c k , new black. O n e k n e w t h e bride-and-groom t r u t h a s s i m p l y as one recognizes roses. A n d for H e t t y t h e self-consciousness of the m o m e n t w a s t h e h e a r t of t h e delight. She s w a m i n t o t h e h o t F i n e A r t s B u i l d i n g as if she were entering u p o n s o m e luring future. T h e long n a v e of the b u i l d i n g w a s lined w i t h e x h i b i t s : T h e r e w e r e t h e stoves, hideous g r o t e s q u e s , like c l o w n s p u t to

The Fair uses; the sewing-machines, lined u p in reticent d o m e s t i c i t y ; the r o o m s furnished " c o m p l e t e , " till one felt that one ought not to be l o o k i n g ; the school displays, shy with wistful promise or impudent with aspiration; the china painting, here a real dream caught o n a c u p , there a plaque of roses, magnified, m a d e as definite as wounds under a m i c r o s c o p e ; the " o i l s , " the " a r t squares"—vague reachings-out for beauty, reachings-out which ended in embroidering eggs and ice-cream. A n d to H e t t y and E g b y it was all as beautiful as it really was wonderful, and potent with life and with death; as wonderful as were the fine, sincere, feathery cakes, the fiaky-crusted pies, so perfect that they might h a v e been hung on the walls in the place of these walls' more ambitious guests. " W o u l d y o u look where the fruit ain't," observed E g b y . " S i x plates of grapes for the whole lay-out—say, but this year's been fierce for the country. N o t an apple— not an apple. Biggest apple here is a turnip. Say, ain't that a swell showin'? Blamed b u t I guess we'll go west—we g o t

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to round up some climate somewheres. N o t a tomato—say, let's go an' give a look at the stock. T h e y d o n ' t need no climate." H e t t y listened, not looking in the stalls, her eyes on the crowd. T h e r e was one and another and another w h o m she k n e w : the m a y o r and his wife, b o t h elderly and unim pressed—oh, w o u l d E g b y and she ever be like that, n o t paying any attention to each other?—and there was Lillie Chalmers in a new cloth dress—she was pretty, b u t she had lately been divorced, and s o m e said it was because " s h e c o u l d n ' t c o o k a decent meal of victuals and she k e p t house so slipshod n o b o d y could 'a' s t o o d it." T h e r e she was, with " t h a t M i s ' R a y m e r , " as stylish as s h e — " B u t awful l o u d - l o o k i n ' , ' ' H e t t y thought, and in an excess of y o u n g wifely dignity pretended not to see either of them. Behind them a piano b r o k e out abruptly, as if it had kept still as long as it could, and must instantly discharge all its incoherent, pent-up might. T h e c r o w d in the building took u p the m e l o d y and h u m m e d it as they

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listened, and a chorus of fresh, girlish voices u p b o r e it a b o v e the rest— Oh, the m o o n shines b-r-r-r-right and p-r-r-retty, R-r-r-red Wing, L a la la la la a, la la la la la a

they exaggerated it, and ended in a c r y : " F o r e v e r m o r e — h e r e they are! Here's H e t t y an' E g b y . W e been l o o k i n ' every Well, wheres for y o u — Hello, Bride. forevermore!" E v e n in that first m o m e n t of their wel c o m e , with H e t t y one impression d o m i n a t e d : F o r here was Lulu Miner, b u t n o t the L u l u M i n e r of last year, whose costume H e t t y herself had n o w half-unconsciously c o p i e d ; b u t a Lulu Miner in a corn-colored c o a t and skirt with wide lace set in the seams, and a great hat of lace wreathed with huge gold beads; and with her was a stranger, " m y friend, Miss M e a r s , " in a long gray cloth cape with white lining, w h o , to the " R e a l pleased, I ' m s u r e " of H e t t y ' s acknowledg ment, returned an airy " D e l i g h t e d i n d e e d , " which to H e t t y was s o m e h o w as discon certing as a snub. But for the little bride there flooded underneath the m o m e n t the instant, warm, cherishing consciousness that E g b y was hers, n o matter what Lulu wore. B u t as she l o o k e d at Lulu, the better to revel in her own possession, H e t t y saw something. E g b y was married, b u t that made n o difference in the w a y Lulu was looking at him. She s t o o d before him with that old w a y of upturning her face so that it was her m o u t h that was upturned, and her eyes were o n his, in his, in the same merry, challenging, even possessive way. Something caught at H e t t y ' s heart and would n o t let it beat. Lulu w as looking at E g b y as if she understood him, as if she were glad, after his absence, to sink b a c k in his look. M o r e o v e r , it was so that E g b y was looking at h e r — " b u t it's her fault, it's her fault," H e t t y thought, " i t ' s her that's doing it. Of course he's l o o k i n g — b u t then he's just laughing and letting her l o o k . " T

W h e n , after the m o m e n t ' s g a y chatter, the badinage, the " r u n n i n ' , " they all m o v e d a w a y together and stopped outside the building, " m y friend, M i s s M e a r s , " and the others walked beside H e t t y , and L u l u fell in beside E g b y . " L e t ' s g o b a c k d o w n the M i d w a y , " said L u l u . " E v e r y b o d y c o m e on. I could die hearin' the barkers. C o u l d n ' t y o u ? " T h e y all followed—there was a b o u t L u l u

a leadership that always left any rival baffled and defenseless. " M y , " said H e t t y , with a laugh to show h o w at ease she was, " I been wondering when w e ' d find y o u girls. W e said. . . . " " Oh, gracious, w e ' v e been e v e r y w h e r e , " said L u l u — a n d there was a b o u t her that which, when she chose t o speak, left the sentences of a n y b o d y else unfinished. Her sentences, her eyes, her presence were as insistent as her hat. " W e been dying for Seen Lenny? a m a n t o take us around. Say, his a u t o m o b i l e is like parlor furni ture " All that she said was said to E g b y . In the c r o w d the t w o were walking a little before H e t t y and the others, Lulu always looking up. H o w nice they l o o k e d , walking She together, H e t t y t h o u g h t uneasily. herself was small of b o n e and girlishly slight. L u l u was large and strong and a blonde—she l o o k e d beautiful in her corncolor, beside E g b y . A n d h o w glad they were to see each other—they seemed so used to each other. . . . r

T h e M i d w a y , s y m b o l of that slow transi tion from the days w h e n the C o u n t y Fair was a thing of stock and p r o d u c e and races to a time when it shall b e indeed a festival of the harvest, with d r a m a and folkdancing and historic pageantry—the M i d w a y was trying its best to release its scheduled g l a m o u r : O n the canvas facades, painted figures of dancing girls; every where great colored letterings, music boxes, calls of the d o o r - m e n with a penchant for Latin derivatives, all the contortion of g a y e t y and lure. B u t , save to the very y o u n g , it was o n l y as good-will conspired to mask sophistication that folk accepted it all. T h e y liked the M i d w a y n o t for it self, b u t because it was n a k e d l y there to b e liked, and the time was one of pro fessional merry-making. T h e y did not enter into the m o m e n t ; rather, they lent themselves t o it—that dreary distinction b e t w e e n pleasure-seeking and ancient, sun burnt mirth. Well d o w n the t a w d r y avenue a tent with raised sides, and hung with pink mosquito netting, b o r e o v e r its d o o r the d e v i c e : EATING PAVILION

I t was L u l u w h o said, " O h , let's get us some dinner n o w , while w e can p i c k first." A n d at the demurring of the others about leaving o u t L e n n y W e s t — - " W h o ? Oh,

THE WOMAN PUT EGBY'S CHANGE IN LULU MINER'S HAND. AND LULU DROPPED IT IN HIS

PURSE A COIN AT A TIME, THE OTHERS LAUGHING AT THE WOMAN'S MISTAKE.

Lenny'll be fed. W e d o n ' t need to wait for L e n n y — n o w . " T h e y sat at one of the long tables, and were waited on b y anxious, tired members of some L a d i s s ' Missionary Society in the town. In the intervals when she turned her attention from the talk of L u l u M i n e r , Hetty n o t e d the evident head of the dining committee making solicitous excursionings to bring fresh, h o t dishes t o her o w n hus band, w h o sat alone. H e t t y watched the woman and smiled with the others. " A i n ' t wives the silliest, d o n ' t y o u t h i n k ? " said Miss M e a r s , and H e t t y admitted it. But chiefly H e t t y ' s thought was on L u l u Miner, who, as a matter of course, had taken a place at E g b y ' s other side. " N o sir," L u l u was saying lightly, " n o g o o d askin' E g b y to p a y for our dinner. E g b y ' s g o t a family t o support n o w . " " C o m e off," said E g b y ; " t h i s dinner is on us, all right. A i n ' t it, H e t t y ? " Lulu p o u t e d u p at him, lifted her brows, shook her head, ignored H e t t y . " I expect y o u ' r e that domestic, E g b y , " she said. In reality, E g b y took a delicate, sheepish H e wanted delight in this i m p e a c h m e n t . to hear m o r e . I t was t o him a kind of honest and loyal e n j o y m e n t to have Lulu

call him domestic, and t o k n o w that it wa? true. H e prolonged the m o m e n t . " O h , I d o n n o , " he said. "Ain't y o u ? " said Lulu airily. " I ex pect I'll see y o u helpin' dishes often. IJ I ' m asked o v e r . " " H e t t y an' I are goin' to hev the crowd over all the time when we get house k e e p i n ' , " said E g b y magnificently. " A i n ' t we, H e t t y ? " " S u r e , " said H e t t y bravely. B u t sud denly she could see Lulu M i n e r at theii house, their house, looking at E g b y across their supper-table, laughing, flirting, under standing him. . . . and she herself obliged to pretend to notice nothing. As she was having to pretend n o w . Presently, "Isn't it?" said E g b y earn estly, to something which H e t t y had not heard Lulu say. W h a t had she said, H e t t y wondered, and wasn't what what? . . . " D o y o u still not take any coffee, E g b y ? " Lulu said, once. " I think they said they'd got some c o c o a — I ' l l ask." She did ask, and the c o c o a c a m e . H e t t y w a t c h e d to see if E g b y would drink it. I t was their first dinner together at a fair, and it was L u l u w h o was looking o u t for h i m ! Hetty looked across at the head of the diningr o o m c o m m i t t e e , w h o was just bringing her

Everybody's husband a h e a p e d - u p plate of steaming apple-pudding. A n d H e t t y had for the w o m a n a sudden fellow-feeling. I t was nice for her to b e looking after her h u s b a n d like that. " W h e r e ' s y o u r paper napkin, E g b y ? " H e t t y asked desperately, in a need s o m e h o w t o show that he was hers to take care of. " O h , kickin' under m y feet s o m e w h e r e s , " E g b y said easily. " N a p k i n s for fair-time is t o o stylish for m e . " " M e either," said L u l u M i n e r . H e t t y l o o k e d miserably d o w n at E g b y ' s sleeve. T h e sleeve and his b r o w n hand seemed like s o m e b o d y else's. A n d then abruptly something sent through her a Oh, Lulu sudden little glow and thrill. M i n e r could look u p at E g b y if she liked; b u t on E g b y ' s right shoulder, in front, near the collar, was the plain blue p a t c h that H e t t y h a d stitched in there yesterday and that L u l u didn't k n o w anything about. I n that crowd of their o l d friends, with L u l u M i n e r ' s challenging and Miss Mears's posing, s o m e h o w that little wifely service which her hands had done for E g b y b e c a m e a s y m b o l of their b o n d , and L u l u ' s artful ness seemed p e t t y a n d i m p o t e n t . Why, he was hers—Hetty's. I t was her place to d o things for h i m always. She could afford to let L u l u have him a minute or two. "Will y o u look at that w o m a n ? " mur mured Miss Mears, as the head of the c o m mittee followed apple-pudding with ice cream for her husband's nourishment. " W e l l , / think it's real sweet for her to be doin' like t h a t ! " H e t t y flung b a c k unex pectedly. B u t when the Eating Pavilion Treasurer t o o k from E g b y the m o n e y for the din ner, the others protesting, and pretending exertions to p a y , the w o m a n put E g b y ' s change in Lulu M i n e r ' s hand. A n d Lulu d r o p p e d it in his purse a coin at a time, the others laughing at the w o m a n ' s mistake. " N o wonder she believed L u l u was his w i f e , " thought little H e t t y w r e t c h e d l v , and all the unhappiness of the h o u r was b a c k u p o n her. As they stepped out on the M i d w a y again, Lulu t o o k her place at E g b y ' s side with: " I bet, E g b y , when y o u get to housekeepin,' y o u ' l l forget all" a b o u t us. I bet none of us will ever see y o u . t h e n . " " A w , c o m e , " said E g b y , nettled. " W e ' r e o n l y married. W e ain't d e a d . "

Magazine H e t t y fell b a c k a step or t w o behind the others. "Only married." S o that was the w a y he t h o u g h t of it. S o L u l u didn't feel that E g b y ' s being married made a difference, and E g b y d i d n ' t feel it either. W a s that the w a y it was in the world, with, men and w o m e n ? On this her misery of the last hour found climax. H e t t y l o o k e d u p and d o w n the M i d w a y . If o n l y she c o u l d get a w a y from the others before she stopped being able to pretend. L u l u and the rest were now frankly looking for L e n n y W e s t . The people were pouring into the Eating Pavil ion. T h e avenue was nearly blocked. O b e y i n g an impulse w h i c h she hardly felt, H e t t y s t e p p e d farther b a c k , let the crowd flow in and close in b e t w e e n her and the others, s t e p p e d sidewise behind the first t i c k e t - b o x of an " a t t r a c t i o n " tent, and reached u p b l i n d l y for a ticket. In that tent, if she c o u l d get in there, the others w o u l d n ' t find her. She c o u l d n ' t bear it, just then, a n y m o r e . W h e n the tired, elderly man on the box had given her a ticket and she had got within the tent-wings, she w-as confronted b y a tiny b o y in khaki rompers, w h o threw his arms a b o v e his head w i t h — " I ' m de ticket-taker!" T h e m a n l o o k e d o v e r his shoulder and smiled. " A l l right," he said to Hetty, his eyes still o n the child. N o one was in the tent, which proved to hold the largest horse in the w orld, " N a n nie, the queen of the feminine sect." A w o m a n , short-skirted, sallow, with that air of the casual c o m m o n t o all whose business is eternal repetition, launched o n her sing song description of the b i g horse. " S h e is eleven feet, six inches long— the tent is t w e n t y - t w o feet—measure her with y o u r o w n eyes. She weighs 3,030 pounds. She is twenty-four hands high. She is six years old, b r o k e to tandem, d o u b l e , and saddle. She was foalded in L l o y d C o u n t y , " she w e n t o n and on, her eyes taking frank, u p - a n d - d o w n account of H e t t y ' s dress. H e t t y , staring at the horse, hardly heard w h a t the w o m a n said. . . · H e t t y was trying t o understand. While E g b y and she h a d b e e n engaged, there had b e e n little things that hurt, of course, of w h i c h she never spoke—like E g b y ' s danc ing with L u l u M i n e r m o r e than twice in an evening, a n d his sitting beside that girl from the c i t y o n the w a y to the picnic, and r

The Fair so on. B u t it h a d n o t o c c u r r e d to H e t t y that when t h e y were married these things would n o t end, magically. W h y , they t w o would b e married! W a s being married like this for e v e r y b o d y in the world? Suddenly the ticket-box m a n put his head around the canvas. " D a r n y o u , " he said frankly to the w o m a n , " k e e p the kid in there with y o u , can't y o u ? H e ' s under the whole M i d w a y ' s feet." " C o m e 'ere, T i t u s , " said the w o m a n , casually. A n d then she called to the m a n : " L o u , ain't it time for y o u r m e d i c i n e ? " " G o s h , y e s , " the m a n answered. "I'd forgot it again." H e t t y looked at the w o m a n . T h a t must have hurt, H e t t y thought v a g u e l y — t o have had him speak to her—that w a y . And yet, in spite of the ugliness of the inci dent, something lay w a r m in the thought of it, and it was that undisturbed question of the wife a b o u t the medicine. E g b y had never spoken " h a r d " before folks. Well, and of course she just c o u l d n ' t bear it if he ever did—before folks. B u t her thought lingered on the wife's question a b o u t the medicine, and a light w a v e of understand ing swept her.

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" T h a t was real kind o ' n i c e , " she thought, and s o m e h o w remembered the patch on E g b y ' s shoulder. T h e n with that the hurt surged back again. " L u l u Miner got right into his eyes with that look of hers," she remembered, t o o , " a n d E g b y let her in." Oh, she could have stood anything else! B u t when they were married, h o w could a n y one act to either of them as if they were not married? " W h y , " said some one softly, " w h y , Beside her, b e n d H e t t y . Little H e t t y . ' ing over her, holding out his hand, was Lenny West. " H e l l o , L e n n y , " she said mechanically, " d o n a t i o n , " L e n n y said, " b u t it seems What g o o d and grand to see y o u b a c k ! y o u d o i n ' in here? I saw y o u from the machine—goin' into some tent alone. I c o u l d n ' t tell which o n e — I ' v e paid m y w a y into this-is-the-third, m y George, to c a t c h y o u . " W h e r e ' s — ? " he hesitated. "Come out o ' this!" he b a d e her. " C o m e on back where the machine i s . " In an instant H e t t y ' s spirits rose. V e r y well, here was L e n n y , glad to see her—and E g b y p r o b a b l y hadn't missed her yet.

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But for H e t t y , looking, all this set n o -pur to the spirits. She was goading her self to a satisfaction in this chance of events, but it was a frightened satisfaction. Lenny was taking such excellent, gentle, almost tender care of her. If only he wouldn't bend his head that way when he •;poke to her. . . .

d o n ' t s'pose," he added, " y o u ' l l ever let me c o m e to sec y o u — n o w ? " " S u r e we will," H e t t y said, and stumbled on a h u m m o c k and drew a w a y from him and his gentle, a w k w a r d " O o p " of rescue. " W e ' r e g o i n ' t o h a v e the c r o w d o v e r all the time when w e get housekeepin'," she re peated E g b y ' s w o r d s to Lulu. " I d i d n ' t say c r o w d . I said 'me,' " L e n n y suggested. " S u r e we'll let y o u , " H e t t y repeated lightly. " W e i l w a n t y o u . " L e n n y l o o k e d o u t o v e r the sunny field. His face was of the t y p e that in repose takes o n pensiveness, idealizing the simple g o o d looks, definitely belying the goodnatured c o m m o n p l a c e w h i c h lies behind. " D a r n e v e r y t h i n g , " he observed. W i t h a kind of girlish b r a v a d o of revenge on E g b y and Lulu, H e t t y caught him up. " D o n ' t y o u want to c o m e to our house?" L e n n y turned t o her, stooping ever so slightly and briefly to win her look. " Y o u know-1 d o , " he said. H e t t y ' s face crimsoned, her eyes flew afield. T h e r e was n o mistaking. This was L e n n y ' s o l d " h a l f m a k i n ' fun," half tender look of last year at the fair, of all the time before she had been married. H o w could he d o that n o w — h o w could he. . . . She kept silently beside him, trying to understand. W h a t w o u l d other women do? W o u l d they answ-er him, give him back his l o o k — l e t L e n n y in their eyes as— oh, as E g b y had let in Lulu Miner? Was this the w a y it was with m e n and women in the world? " T h e r e ain't n o b o d y like y o u , Hetty," L e n n y said soberly. " I tell y o u what, when y o u g o a w a y it just about empties out the t o w n for m e . " Still she said nothing. B u t suddenly she felt a kind of homesickness, as definite as when in her little g i r l h o o d she had been w o n t to want her m o t h e r ; and there came a great sense of unprotection, as if some barrier were g o n e , and a lonesomeness, as if things that b e l o n g e d to her had been taken away. W h y , she was married— they were married. . . . H o w could things b e like this?

" O u r old crowd ain't the same with Y O U » o n e , " L e n n y said. ' W e l l , we're back n o w , " H e t t y re minded him almost shortly. It ain't the same, t h o u g h , " L e n n y said. " T h e c r o w d ' s all breakin' up. I

" T h e r e , " said L e n n y , " t h e machine's over there. Y o u stay right here an' I'll bring it round. Oh, H e t t y , this is like c o m i n ' to life a g a i n ! " Still she said nothing, nor did she look up as he went. She s t o o d still where he left

" I got separated from m y whole c r o w d , " she said. " W e ' l l hunt 'em up. Y e s , let's go see y o u r new automobile. I want t o . " Out through the throng, with elaborate care, L e n n y W e s t guided her. H o w g o o d looking he was, she thought again. A n d he took such splendid care of her, setting his big shoulders between her and the crowd. H e bent his head to her. " W e i l watch out for the rest," he said. " W h o ' s with 'em? Your husband " " Y e s , " said H e t t y , " a n ' the girls. T h e crowd. Lulu an' M i s ' M e a r s an' all of em." " O h , " said L e n n y only, and fell m o mentarily silent. T h e y were making their w a y against the stream going toward the Eating Pavilion, and their progress was slow. L e n n y , guid ing her to the trodden turf beside the road, made no attempt to hasten that progress. It was noon now, and the grounds were filled. T h e last, " f o r e n o o n b u s s e s " had rattled in and discharged their loads. I n the air hung, like autumn haze, the dust of the long drought, and the h o t hush of September noon lay strangely a b o v e the babel. T h e Pavilion, the b o o t h s where lunches were served, the grand stand, where lunches were eaten, became focal; but the beat of the band, the drone of the merry-go-round, the cries of the showmen persisted. T h e stamp of the horses, the questioning lowing and bleating from the -heds, the chatter of the performing m o n keys on their w a y to be fed, the cry of the balloon man, the high crow of a c o c k , mouts of children, the murmur and laugh >f the c r o w d besieged and confused the ear, as the m o v i n g , m o v i n g of the people and the rout of color mingled to the eve, dissolving impressions as lightly as m o m e n t s ire dissolved.

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her, before the big, shallow Rest T e n t , her eyes seeking the throng, the m o m e n t re solving itself into o n e wish, winged and crying: that she could get where E g b y was. T h e crowd was m o v i n g . . . m o v i n g . . . . Watching it, a sudden sick distaste swept her. W h a t were they all like, a n y w a y ? H a d she ever k n o w n people as people? T h e y had always been going b y and going by around her, b u t had she ever really known m u c h a b o u t them? Oh, and were they like this? L o o k i n g for E g b y , she was conscious of those w h o passed her on the M i d w a y : the monkey-trainer, in short red skirt and huge, white satin slippers and a flopping cloak; three of the w o m e n from the Eating Pavilion, recruiting ice-cream from a stall; a family of five, sharing one p o p corn b a g ; two middle-aged men in the special black of best clothes, meeting with a shout, block ing the M i d w a y with their handshake; b o y s , distributing orange handbills; a w o m a n stopping to tie her husband's neck tie and he jerking impatiently free of her hands; an o l d m a n in a linen coat and gog gles, with a little pail of something which he was taking h o m e ; a carpenter from the village carrying his little b o y , his b r o w n hand outspread on the child's plaid skirt; g r o c e r y m e n and merchants from the vil lage, where the stores were closed on " C o u n t y D a y " ; G r a n d m a Birch, wearing her huge b u t t o n picture of Grandpa Birch, w h o h a d not spoken to her for five years before he died. ( H e t t y knew h o w , on his

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deathbed, he had in his delirium called her old secret names, but he had died with out speaking sanely to her). . . . " L o o k at this great, big, large, enormous fish and alive"—was bawled a b o v e the noise. There went the m a y o r and his wife, elderly, unim pressed: H o w fine for them to have had all those years together, went unexpectedly through H e t t y ' s head. Near H e t t y , within the shelter of the K.est T e n t , a w o m a n was quieting a child, and her husband, warm and panting, had just joined them. " T i r e d s e t t i n ' ? " he asked. " N o , I ain't," the w o m a n said shortly. " I ' m sick of everything but settin'. Ben nie's comin' d o w n with somethin' awful—I never see him so u g l y . " " G i v e ' m to m e , " her husband invited. " I w o n ' t d o any such a thing. You ahvays jounce him out of his senses," said the wife. " W e l l , c o m e on somewheres. We'll leave Bennie h o m e with ma t o - m o r r o w , " he suggested. " I ' m glad y o u had sense enough to think of that," his wife said, and rose to follow him. " Y o u r hat's on a little mite c r o o k e d , " H e t t y heard him say as they passed her. " I t ain't either," said the w o m a n — a n d then they b o t h laughed, as if at some old household j o k e of her impatience in like case. T o m - t o m s sounded from the W i n n e b a g o Indian pen; a little A n g o r a g o a t , escaped, ran bleating d o w n an aisle swiftly formed for h i m ; the odor of hot meal pancakes I

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c a m e from the ring-and-cane b o o t h where pancakes were prizes; snatches of talk reached H e t t y from t w o w o m e n , sitting in the R e s t T e n t b e h i n d her. " M y feet hurt so I declare I b e t they know they hurt," said one, " a n ' y e t the minute I get h o m e Jerry'11 e x p e c t a w a r m meal." " O h , D o d e , t o o , " said the other. " M e n is men, M i s ' Bird. I expect D o d e ' l l w a n t T h a t ' s what he always to kill a chicken. thinks of when I ' m nearest to dead. . . . " " J e r r y manages different," said M i s ' Bird. " J u s t as we're startin' off s o m e wheres he's g o t somethin' to b e m e n d e d — hole in his p o c k e t , like enough. . . . " " great, big, enormous fish and alive," the strident v o i c e went on. . . . " N a n n i e ! Nannie! Queen of the feminine sect!" came faint and far. Suddenly and at first inexplicably a little warm spot g l o w e d in H e t t y ' s c o n sciousness, like a place to sink her thought. " S o m e t h i n ' to be m e n d e d — " T h a t was making a little spot of r e m e m b r a n c e w a r m . A swift, indeterminate surge of fellowship for the two w o m e n swept her; and for that other w o m a n , gone off with B e n n i e ; and for the keeper of N a n n i e and the husband who forgot his medicine. . . . A s abruptly as if a glory from w i d e l y - o p e n e d doors smote across the fairground, H e t t y looked in on the life of the c r o w d : Families; hus bands " w a n t i n ' w a r m m e a l s " ; wives with tired feet and c r o o k e d hats; men saying " d a r n y o u " and wives telling on a b o u t big horses, jealously serving their husbands' dinners, wearing their b u t t o n pictures, laugh ing, companioning, finding " s o m e t h i n ' to be m e n d e d " — w h y , they were all in this together and they all k n e w what one an other knew, and all the L u l u Miners and the L e n n y W e s t s and their eyes and their voices were as far outside really, as was last year's fair. A n d it was true for them all, true for e v e r y b o d y w h o w o u l d have it so, w h o hung on and hung on to these things, no matter what. . . . She turned and looked at the two w o m e n in the tent.

" H e r e ' s an extra b o x t o set o n , " one of them said t o her, h o s p i t a b l y . " N o , thank y o u , " H e t t y said. "I—my husband'll be l o o k i n ' for m e . " D o d e ' s wife n o d d e d . " S o ' l l m i n e , " she said, " a n ' he d o n ' t like t o b e k e p ' waitin' m u c h , either." H e t t y s m o o t h e d at her pink belt and l o o k e d at the w o m e n shyly. " U s wives h a v e t o toe the mark, d o n ' t w e ? " she said—and l o o k e d like a rose. W h e n she turned, E g b y spied her, ran t o her. H e was alone, a n d his eyes had b e e n e v e r y w h e r e , seeking her. " W h y , H e t t y — d e a r , " he cried, " h o w did y o u get lost? I been l o o k i n ' myself crazy." She p u t her h a n d through his arm. Lillie Chalmers a n d " t h a t M i s ' R a y m e r " passing at the m o m e n t , H e t t y waited in an excess of sudden c o m p a s s i o n that they had some how n o t " h u n g o n , " and she b o w e d to them in a kind of wistful graciousness. " E g b y , " she said, " I ' l l tell y o u after ward. A n ' I saw L e n n y W e s t . " "Him?" E g b y said, stopping short. "UJgh, yes, E g b y — h i m , an' listen to me—listen. After bein' here an' seein— e v e r y b o d y — a r e y o u just as glad as y o u can be y o u married m e ? N o — y o u needn't to tell m e t h a t ! " she cried. " I want to tell you. I ' m glad. I ' m so glad I ' m married to y o u that I w a n t to yell it out loud. E g b y — i t ' s a great thing—isn't it—isn't it? E g b y ! Will y o u d o s o m e t h i n ' ? " r

H e l o o k e d d o w n at her. H e was be wildered b y her tenderness that somehow beat u p o n h i m . F o r a m o m e n t they stood still in the dusty o p e n , a b o u t them the people m o v i n g . . . m o v i n g on the fair g r o u n d and the w i d e b e y o n d and away to the rim of the w o r l d . " E g b y , " H e t t y said, " y o u turn back your coat a minute so's I can see that patch I put on y o u r shoulder. T h a t way—so. Now there t h e y c o m e , all of 'em, in Lenny's automobile. D o n ' t let's go in that. Y o u get m e s o m e peanuts—and c o m e on up in the grand stand quick!"

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—Mr. Cannon is telling here the story of a broken covenant — of the vio lation of the pledges given by the Mormon leaders to the nation. He has already recounted his successful mission to President Cleveland to plead for clemency to his people. He hat revealed the secrets of the conclave in which the Mormon Prophets abandoned polygamy by order of "the will of God," He has recited the second solemn pledge given by the Mormon leaders—the pledge of non-interference in politics. These two promises were preconditions oj obtaining statehood for Utah, and it is their treasonable violation that ex-Senator Cannon is to expose in the chapters that follow. This instalment tells the story of a tragic return to polyg amy, and enters upon the formation of that partnership with the predatory." Interests" in Wash ington by which the treacheries of the Mormon hierarchy are now protected.

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E F O R E I reached Utah, m y friends Ben R i c h and James D e v i n e met me, on the train. T h e news of President W o o d ruff's " r e v e l a t i o n " had percolated through the whole c o m m u n i t y . T h e Gentiles were alarmed for themselves. M y friends were anxious for me. All the old enmities that had so long divided U t a h were arranging themselves for a new conflict. And Rich and D e v i n e had c o m e to urge me to remem ber a promise given to m y supporters that I w o u l d hold to m y candidacy no matter w h o should appear in the field against me. Of m y father's stand in the crisis R i c h could give me o n l y one indication: after a conference in the offices of the Presidency, R i c h had said to President Woodruff: " T h e n I suppose I m a y as well close up Frank's r o o m s at the T e m p l e t o n " — t h e hotel in which m y friends had opened polit

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ical headquarters for me—and m y fathei accompanying him to an anteroom, had hinted significantly: " I think y o u should not close Frank's rooms just yet. H e may need t h e m . " R i c h brought me word, too, that the Church authorities were expecting to see m e ; and as soon as I arrived in Salt Lake City, I hastened to the little plastered house in which the Presidency had its offices. President Woodruff, m y father, and Joseph F. Smith were there, in the large r o o m of their official apartments. We withdrew, for private conference, into the small retiring r o o m in which I had con suited with " B r o t h e r Joseph M a c k " when he was on the underground—in iSSS—and had consulted with President Woodruff a b o u t his " m a n i f e s t o , " in i S o o . President Woodruff sat at the head of a

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bare walnut table in a chair so large that it rather dwarfed h i m ; and he sank d o w n in it, to an attitude of nervous reluctance to speak, o c c u p i e d with his hands. Smith t o o k his place at the opposite end of the board, with d r o p p e d eyes, his chair tilted back, silent, b u t (as I soon saw) unusually alert and attentive. M y father assumed his inevitable c o m p o s u r e — f i r m l y and al most u n m o v i n g l y seated—and looked at me squarely with a not unkind premonition of a smile. President Woodruff continued silent. Ordinarily, anything that c a m e from the L o r d was quite c o n v i n c i n g to him and needed no argument (in his m i n d ) to m a k e it convincing to others. I c o u l d n o t sup pose that the l o o k of determination o n m y face troubled him. It was m o r e likely that something unusual in the mental attitudes of his councillors was the cause of his hesi tation; and with this suspicion t o arouse me I b e c a m e increasingly aware of two. rival watchfulnesses u p o n m e . " W e l l ? " ' I said. " W h a t was it y o u wanted of me? " Smith looked up at the President. A n d Smith had always, hitherto, seemed so unseeing of consequences, and therefore unappreciative of means, that his betrayal of interest was indicative of purpose. I thought I could detect, in the c o m m u n i c a tion which his manner m a d e , the plan of m y father's ecclesiastical rivals to r e m o v e him from the scene of his supreme influence over the President, and the plan of a m b i tious Church politicians t o r e m o v e m e from their p a t h b y the i n v o c a t i o n of G o d ' s word appointing father to the Senate. " F r a n k , " the President announced, " i t is the will of the L o r d that y o u r father should g o to the Senate from U t a h . " A s he hesitated, I said: " W e l l , Presi dent W o o d r u f f ? " H e added, with less decision: " A n d we want y o u to tell us h o w to bring it a b o u t . " It was evident that getting the revela tion was easy to his spiritualized mind, but that fulfilling it was difficult to his unworldliness. "President W o o d r u f f , " I replied, " y o u have received the revelation o n the w r o n g point. Y o u d o not need a voice from heaven to c o n v i n c e a n y o n e that m y father is w o r t h y to g o to the Senate, b u t y o u will need a revelation to tell h o w he is to get there."

H e seemed t o raise himself to the in spiration of divine authority. " T h e only difficulty that w e h a v e encountered," he said, " i s the fact that the legislators are pledged to y o u . Will y o u n o t release them from their promises a n d tell them to vote for y o u r f a t h e r ? " " N o , " I said. " A n d m y father would n o t permit m e to d o it, even if I could. Hek n o w s that I g a v e m y w o r d of honor to my supporters to stand as a candidate, no matter w h o m i g h t enter against me. He k n o w s that he a n d I h a v e given our pledges at W a s h i n g t o n that political dictation in Utah b y the heads of the M o r m o n Church shall cease. Of all m e n in Utah we cannot b e amenable t o such dictation. If you can get m y supporters a w a y from me—very well. I shall h a v e n o personal regrets. But you c a n n o t g e t m e a w a y from m y supporters." T h i s inclusion of m y father in m y refusal evidently disconcerted President Woodruff; and, as e v i d e n t l y , it h a d its significance to Joseph F. Smith. I went o n : " B e f o r e I was elected to the H o u s e of Representatives, I asked my father if he intended t o b e a candidate for the Senate. I k n e w that some prominent Gentiles, desiring t o curry favor at Church headquarters, h a d solicited his candidacy. I had been t o l d that General Clarkson and others h a d assured h i m b y letter that his election w o u l d b e a c c e p t e d at Washington, and elsewhere. I discussed the matter with him fully. H e agreed with me that his election w o u l d b e a violation of the under standing with the c o u n t r y ; and he declared that he did n o t care t o b e c o m e again the storm-center of strife to his people, nor did he feel that he c o u l d h o n o r a b l y break our c o v e n a n t to the c o u n t r y . W i t h this clear understanding b e t w e e n us, I made my pledges t o m e n w h o , in supporting me, cast aside equally a d v a n t a g e o u s relations which they m i g h t h a v e established with another. I c a n ' t w i t h d r a w n o w w i t h o u t dishonor." M y father said: " D o n ' t let us have any misunderstanding. A s President Wood ruff stated the m a t t e r t o m e , I understood that it w o u l d b e pleasing to the Lord i] the p e o p l e desired m y election to the Senate a n d it w o u l d n ' t antagonize the country." " Y e s , y e s , " the President p u t in. "That's what I mean." Smith said, rather s o u r l y : " T h e people are always willing t o d o w h a t the L o r d de sires—if n o o n e gives t h e m b a d counsel."

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was a deplorable evidence, to me, of the willingness of some of our former allies to drag us swiftly to the shame of a broken c o v e n a n t , if only they could profit in purse or politics b y our dishonor. I w o u l d not be an agent in any such betrayal, b u t I had

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Smith and A p o s t l e John H e n r y Smith were, b y this time, in close c o m m u n i c a t i o n with R e p u b l i c a n politicians. There was a calm assumption, everywhere, that the Church had p o w e r to decide the election, if it could be induced to act; and this assumption

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into the r o o m ; and a m o n g them was A p o s tle Brigham Y o u n g , son of the P r o p h e t Brigham w h o had led the M o r m o n s t o the Salt L a k e Valley. W h e n he understood m y refusal to a b a n d o n m y c a n d i d a c y , he said angrily: " T h i s is a serious filial disrespect. I k n o w my father never would h a v e b r o o k e d such treatment from m e . " A n d I retorted: " I d o n ' t k n o w w h o invited you into this conference, b u t I d e n y y o u r right to in struct m e in m y filial d u t y . If m y father doesn't understand that the senatorship has lost its value for me—that it's a cross now—then m y whole lifetime of d e v o t i o n to him has been in v a i n . " M y father rose and put his arm around m y shoulders. " T h i s b o y , " he said, " i s acting honorably. I want him to k n o w — and y o u to know—that I respect the posi tion he has taken. If he is elected, he shall have m y blessing." T h a t was the o n l y understanding I had with him—but it was enough. I could know that I was not to lose his trust and affection b y holding to our obligations of honor; and—an assurance almost as pre cious—I could k n o w that he w o u l d not consciously permit legislators to b e crushed b y the vengeance of the Church if they refused to yield to its pressure. A few days after m y arrival in Utah, and while this controversy was at its height, m y father's birthday was celebrated (Jan uary I I , 1896), with all the patriarchal p o m p of a M o r m o n family gathering, in his big country house outside Salt Lake City. All his descendants and collateral relatives were there, as well as the m e m b e r s of the Presidency and m a n y friends. After dinner, the usual exercises of the occasion were held in the large reception hall of the house, with President Woodruff and m y father and t w o or three other Church lead ers seated in semi-state at one end of the hall, and the others of the c o m p a n y defer entially withdrawn to face them. T o w a r d the end of the program President W o o d ruff rose from his easy-chair, and m a d e a sort of informal address of congratulation; and in the course of it, with his hand on m y father's shoulder, he said b e n i g n l y : " A b r a h a m was the friend of G o d . H e had o n l y one son, o n w h o m all his hopes were set. B u t the v o i c e of the L o r d c o m m a n d e d him to sacrifice Isaac u p o n an altar; and A b r a h a m trusted the L o r d and laid his son upon the altar, in o b e d i e n c e

to G o d ' s c o m m a n d s . N o w here is another servant of the M o s t H i g h and a friend of G o d . I refer t o President C a n n o n , whose birthday w e are celebrating. H e has t w e n t y - o n e sons; a n d if it shall b e the will of the L o r d t h a t he m u s t sacrifice one of them, he o u g h t t o b e as willing as Abraham was, for h e will h a v e t w e n t y left. A n d the son should b e as willing as Isaac. W e can all safely trust in the L o r d . He will require n o sacrifice at our hands without purpose." I remarked t o a relative beside me that the altar was e v i d e n t l y r e a d y for me, but that I feared I should h a v e to " g e t out and rustle m y o w n r a m in the thicket." I re ceived n o reply. I heard n o w o r d of com m e n t from a n y o n e u p o n the President's speech. I t w a s a c c e p t e d d e v o u t l y , with no feeling t h a t h e had abused the privileges of a guest. E v e r y o n e understood (as I did) t h a t President W o o d r u f f was the gentlest of m e n ; that he had often pro fessed and always shown a kindly affection for m e ; b u t that, the wall of the Lord being n o w k n o w n , he t h o u g h t I should be proud t o b e sacrificed to it! A m o n g the legislators pledged to me were M o r m o n bishops and other ecclesi asts w h o had promised their constituents t o v o t e for m e and w h o n o w stood between a betrayal of their p e o p l e and a rebellion against the p o w e r of the hierarchy. I re leased o n e of t h e m from his pledge because of his pathetic fear that he w o u l d be eter nally d a m n e d if he did n o t o b e y " t h e will of the L o r d . " T h e others w e n t . to the Presidency t o a d m i t that if they betrayed their p e o p l e t h e y w o u l d h a v e t o confess what pressure h a d been p u t u p o n them to force t h e m t o the betrayal. I went to notify m y father (as I h a d notified the representatives of e v e r y other candidate), that w e were g o i n g to call a caucus of the R e p u b l i c a n majority of the legislature, and later I was advised that President W o o d r u f f a n d his councillors had appointed a c o m m i t t e e t o investigate and report to t h e m h o w m a n y m e m b e r s c o u l d b e counted u p o n t o s u p p o r t m y father's candidacy. T h e c o m m i t t e e ( c o m p o s e d of m y uncle A n g u s , m y brother A b r a h a m , and Apostle J o h n H e n r y Smith) b r o u g h t b a c k word that, e v e n a m o n g the m e n w h o had pro fessed a willingness t o v o t e for m y father, there was great reluctance and apprehen sion, and that in all p r o b a b i l i t y his elec tion could n o t b e carried. W i t h President

Woodruff's consent, m y father then an nounced that he was not a candidate. I was nominated b y acclamation. W h e n I called upon m y father at the President's offices after the election, he said to me before his colleagues: " I wish to congratulate y o u on having acted honor ably and fearlessly. Y o u have m y bless ing." H e turned to the President. " Y o u see, President W'oodruff," he added, " i t was not the will of the L o r d , after all, since the people did not desire m y e l e c t i o n ! " I have dwelt so largely upon the religious aspects of this affair because they are as true of the Prophet in politics to-day as they were then. A t the time, the personal complication of the situation most dis tressed me—the fact that I was opposing m y father in order to fulfill the word of honor that we had given on behalf of the M o r m o n leaders. But there was another view of the matter; and it is the one that is most important to the purposes of this narrative. In the course of the various discussions and conferences upon the senatorship, I learned that the inspiration of the whole a t t e m p t e d betrayal had c o m e from certain R e p u b l i c a n politicians and lobbyists (likeColonel Isaac T r u m b o ) w h o claimed to represent a political combination of busi ness interests in Washington. Joseph F.

Smith admitted as much to me in more than one conversation. (I had offended these interests b y opposing a monetary and a tariff bill during m y service as delegate in Congress—a matter which I have still to recount.) T h e y had chosen m y father and Colonel T r u m b o as Utah's t w o senators. I made it m y particular business to see that T r u m b o ' s name was not even men tioned in the caucus. T h e man selected as the other senator was Arthur Brown,* a prominent Gentile lawyer w h o was known as a " j a c k - M o r m o n " (meaning a Gentile adherent to Church p o w e r ) , although I then believed, and do now, that Judge Charles C. G o o d w i n was the Gentile m o s t entitled to the place. I was, however, content with the v i c t o r y we had won b y resisting the influence of the business interests that had been willing to sell our honor for their profit, and I set out for Washington with a determination to con tinue the resistance. I was in a g o o d posi tion to continue it. T h e election of t w o Republican senators from Utah had given the Republicans a scant majority of the members of the Upper House, and the bills that I had fought in the Lower House were now before the Senate. In the previous D e c e m b e r (1895) these bills had been introduced in the House of * Brown "drew" the short term.

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Representatives immediately u p o n its c o n vening, b y the c o m m i t t e e on rules, be fore Speaker R e e d had even appointed the general committees. One was a bill to authorize the issuance of interest-bear-^ ing securities of the United States at such times and in such sums as the Executive might determine. The other was a general tariff bill that p r o p o s e d increases u p o n the then existing W i l s o n G o r m a n bill. T h e first w o u l d p u t into the hands of the President a p o w e r that was not enjoyed b y any ruler in Chris t e n d o m ; the second w o u l d add to the un fair and discriminatory tariff rates then in force, b y making ad valorem increases in them. M a n y new members of Congress had been elected on the t w o issues thus created: the arbitrary increase of the b o n d e d indebt edness b y President Cleveland to maintain a gold reserve; and the unjust benefits afforded those industries that were least in need of aid, b y duties increased in exact proportion to the strength of the industrial combination that w as to b e protected. T h e presentation of the t w o bills b y the C o m m i t t e e on Rules—with a " c o a c h e r " to each proposing t o prevent a m e n d m e n t and limit discussion—had raised a revolt in the House. A caucus of the insurgent Republican members was held at the E b b i t t Hotel, and I was elected temporary chair man. W e appointed a c o m m i t t e e t o de mand from Speaker R e e d a division of the questions and time for opposition to be heard. W e had seventy-five insurgents when our committee waited on R e e d ; and most of us were new men, elected to oppose such measures as these bills ad vocated. H e received us with sarcasm, p u t us off with a promise to consider our de mands, and then set his lieutenants at work among us. Under the threat of the Speaker's displeasure if we continued to " i n s u r g e " and the promise of his favor if we " g o t into line," forty-one ( I think) of our seventy-five deserted us. W e were gloriously beaten in the H o u s e on b o t h measures. Some of the older R e p u b l i c a n m e m b e r s of the House came to ask me h o w I had been " m i s l e d " ; and they received yvith the raised e y e b r o w and the silent shrug m y explanation that I had been merely following m y convictions and living up to the promises I had m a d e m y constituents. I had supposed that I was upholding an o r t h o d o x Republican doctrine in helping r

to defend the c o u n t r y from exploitation b y the financial interests, in the matter of the b o n d issue, and from the greed of the business interests, in the a t t e m p t to in crease horizontally the tariff rates. I d o n o t need, in this d a y of tariff reform agitation, to argue the injustice of the latter measure. B u t the b o n d issue— looking b a c k u p o n it n o w — s e e m s the more cruelly absurd of the t w o . Here we were, in times of peace, wdth ample funds in the national treasury, proposing to permit the unlimited issuance of interest-bearing gov ernment b o n d s in order to procure gold, for the national treasury, o u t of the hoards of the banks, so that these same banks might b e able to obtain the gold again from the treasury in return for paper m o n e y . T h e extent to which this sort of absurdity m i g h t b e carried w o u l d depend solely u p o n the desire of the confederation of finance to h a v e interest-bearing govern m e n t b o n d s on which t h e y might issue na tional b a n k notes, since the Executive was apparently willing to yield interminably t o their greed, in the belief that he was protecting the p u b l i c credit b y encouraging the financiers to a t t a c k that credit with their raids o n the g o v e r n m e n t gold reserve. T h e w h o l e difficulty had arisen, of course, out of the agitation u p o n the m o n e y ques tion. T h e banks were drawing upon the g o v e r n m e n t g o l d reserve; and the govern m e n t was issuing b o n d s to recover the gold again from the banks. I had been, for s o m e years, interested in the p r o b l e m of our m o n e t a r y system and had studied and discussed it among our Eastern bankers and abroad. T h e very fact that I was from a "silver state" had p u t m e o n m y guard, lest a local influence should lead m e into e c o n o m i c error. I had g r o w n into the belief that our system was wrong. I t seemed to m e that some remedy w as imperative. I saw in bimetallism a part of the r e m e d y , and I supported bimet allism n o t as a partisan of free coinage but as an a d v o c a t e of m o n e t a r y reform. T h e arrival of U t a h ' s t w o representa tives in the Senate (January 2 7 , 1 8 9 6 ) gave the bimetallists a majority, and when the bond-issue bill c a m e before us we made it into a bill to permit the free coinage of silver ( F e b r u a r y 1 ) . A few d a y s later, the Finance C o m m i t t e e turned the tariff bill into a free-coinage bill also. On both measures, five R e p u b l i c a n senators voted ?

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• against their p a r t y — H e n r y M . Teller of Colorado, Fred T . D u b o i s of Idaho, T h o m a s H . Carter of M o n t a n a , Lee M a n tle of M o n t a n a , and myself. W e were subsequently joined b y R i c h a r d F. Petti grew, of South D a k o t a . Within t w o weeks of ray taking the oath in the Senate, we were read out of the p a r t y by Republican leaders and R e p u b l i c a n organs. All this happened so swiftly that there was no time for a n y remonstrances to c o m e to me from Salt L a k e City, even if the Church authorities had wished to remon strate. T h e fact was that the people of Utah were with us in our insurgency, and when the financial interests subsequently appealed to the hierarchy, they found the Church powerless to aid them in support of a gold platform. B u t they obtained that aid, at last, in support of a tariff that was as unjust to the people as it was favor able to the trusts, and m y continued " i n s u r g e n c y " led me again into a revolt against Church interference. T h e thread of connection that ran through these incidents is clear enough to me n o w : they Mere all incidents in the progress of a partnership between the Church and the predatory business inter ests that have since so successfully ex ploited the c o u n t r y . But, at the time, I saw no such connection clearly. I sup

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• posed that the partnership was merely a political friendship between the Smith faction in the Church and the R e p u b l i c a n politicians w h o wished to use the Church; and I had sufficient c o n t e m p t for the political abilities of the Smiths to regard their conspiracy rather lightly. Believing still in the g o o d faith of the M o r m o n people and their real leaders in authority, I introduced a joint resolution in the Senate restoring to the Church its escheated real estate, which was still in the hands of a receiver, although its per sonal property had been already restored. In conference with Senators H o a r and Allison—of the committee to which the resolution was referred—I urged an uncon ditional restoration of the property, arguing that to place conditions upon the restora tion would be to insult the people w h o had given so many proofs of their willingness to o b e y the law and keep their pledges. T h e property was restored without condi tions b y a joint resolution that passed the Senate on M a r c h iS, 1896, passed the House a week later, and was a p p r o v e d b y the President on M a r c h 26. T h e Church was now free of the last measure of pro scription. Its people Mere in the enjoy ment of every political liberty of American citizenship; and I joined in the presiden tial campaign of 1896 with no thought of

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any danger threatening us that was n o t c o m m o n to the other communities of the country. B u t before I continue farther with these political events, I must relate a private incident in the secret betrayal of Utah— an incident that must be related, if this narrative is to remain true to the ideals of public d u t y that have thus far assumed to inspire it—an incident of which a false ac c o u n t was given before a Senate C o m m i t t e e in W a s h i n g t o n during the S m o o t investiga tion of 1904, a c c o m p a n i e d b y a denial of responsibility b y Joseph F. Smith, the man whose authority alone encouraged and ac complished the tragedy—for it was a tragedy, as dark in its i m p o r t to the M o r mon c o m m u n i t y as it was terrible in its im mediate consequences to all our family. B y his denial of responsibility and b y secret whisper within the Church, Smith has placed the disgrace of the betrayal upon m y father, w h o was guiltless of it, and blackened the m e m o r y of m y dead brother b y a misrepresentation of his m o tives. I feel that it is i n c u m b e n t u p o n m e , therefore, at whatever pain to myself, to relate the whole u n h a p p y truth of the affair, as m u c h to defend the m e m o r y of the dead as to denounce the betrayal of the living, to expose a public treason against the c o m m u n i t y n o t less than to correct a private wrong done to the g o o d name of those w h o m it is m y right to defend. Late in July, 1896, when I was in N e w Y o r k on business for the Presidency, I received a telegram announcing the death of m y brother, A p o s t l e A b r a h a m PL Can non. W e had been c o m p a n i o n s all our lives; he had been the nearest to m e of our family, the dearest of m y friends—but even in the first shock of m y grief I realized that m y father w o u l d h a v e a greater stroke of sorrow to bear than I ; and in hurrying b a c k to Salt L a k e C i t y I nerved myself with the hope that I might console him. I found him and Joseph F. Smith in the office of the Presidency, sitting at their desks. M y father turned as I entered, and his face was unusually pale in spite of its c o m p o s u r e ; but the m o m e n t he recognized me, his expression changed to a look of pain that alarmed m e . H e rose and p u t his hand o n m y shoulder with a tenderness that it was his habit to conceal. " I k n o w h o w y o u feel his loss," he said hoarsely, " b u t when I think w h a t he w o u l d have h a d

Magazine to pass through if he h a d l i v e d — I cannot regret his d e a t h . " T h e almost a g o n i z e d expression of his face, as m u c h as the terrible implication of his w o r d s , startled m e with I c a n n o t say what horrible fear a b o u t m y brother. I asked— "Why! W h y — w h a t has h a p p e n e d ? " W i t h a sweep of his h a n d t o w a r d Smith at his desk—a gesture and a look the most unkind I ever saw h i m use—he answered: " A few weeks a g o , A b r a h a m t o o k a plural wife, Lillian H a m l i n . I t b e c a m e known. H e w o u l d h a v e h a d t o face a prosecution in court. His death has saved us from a c a l a m i t y that w o u l d h a v e been dreadful for the C h u r c h — a n d for the state." " F a t h e r ! " I cried. " H a s this thing c o m e b a c k again! A n d the ink hardly dry o n the bill that restored y o u r church prop erty o n the p l e d g e of h o n o r that there would never b e another c a s e — " I h a d caught the look on Smith's face, and it was a look of sullen defiance. " H o w did it h a p p e n ? " M y father replied: " I know—it's awful. I w o u l d h a v e p r e v e n t e d it if I could. I was asked for m y consent, and I refused it. President Smith o b t a i n e d the acquiescence of President W o o d r u f f , o n the plea that it wasn't an ordinary case of p o l y g a m y but merely a fulfillment of the Biblical in struction that a m a n should take his dead brother's wife. Lillian was betrothed to D a v i d , and h a d been sealed to him in eternity after his death. I understand that President Woodruff told A b r a h a m he w o u l d leave the m a t t e r with them if they wished to take the responsibility—and President Smith p e r f o r m e d the ceremony." Smith c o u l d hear e v e r y w o r d that was said. M y father h a d included him in the conversation, and he was listening. He n o t o n l y d i d n o t d e n y his guilt; he ac c e p t e d it in silence, with an expression of sulky disrespect. H e did n o t d e n y it later, when the whole c o m m u n i t y h a d learned of it. H e went with A p o s t l e J o h n H e n r y Smith to see M r . P. H . L a n n a n , proprietor of the Salt Lake Tribune, to ask h i m n o t to attack the C h u r c h for this n e w a n d shocking violation of its c o v e n a n t . M r . L a n n a n had been intimately friendly w i t h m y brother, and he was distressed b e t w e e n his regard for his d e a d friend a n d his obligation to do his public duty. I d o n o t k n o w all that the Smiths said to h i m ; b u t I k n o w that the c o n v e r s a t i o n assumed that Joseph F. Smith

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• had performed the marriage c e r e m o n y ; I know that neither of the Smiths made any attempt t o d e n y the assumption; and I k n o w that Joseph F. Smith sought to placate M r . Lannan b y promising " i t shall not occur again." A n d this interview was sought b y the Smiths, p a l p a b l y because, wherever the marriage of A b r a h a m H . Cannon and Lillian Hamlin was talked of, Joseph F. Smith was named as the priest who had solemnized the offending relation. If it had not been for Smith's conscious ness of his o w n guilt and his knowledge that the whole c o m m u n i t y was aware of that guilt, he w o u l d never have gone to the Tribune office to make such a promise to M r . Lannan. All of which did not prevent Joseph F. Smith from testifying—in the S m o o t inves tigation at W a s h i n g t o n in 1904—that he did not marry A b r a h a m Cannon and Lillian Hamlin, that he did not have any conversa tion with m y father about the marriage, that he did not k n o w Lillian Hamlin had been betrothed to A b r a h a m ' s dead brother, that the first time he heard of the charge that he had married them was when he saw it printed in the newspapers!* If this first p o l y g a m o u s marriage had been the last—if it were an isolated and * See Proceedings before Senate C o m m i t t e e on Privileges and Elections 1904, V o l . 1, pages n o , 126, 177, etc.

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• peculiar incident, as the Smiths then claimed it was and promised it should b e — it might be forgiven as generously n o w as M r . Lannan then forgave it. B u t about the same time there b e c a m e public another case—that of Apostle Teasdale—and, as this narrative shall p r o v e , here was the beginning of a policy of treachery which the present Church leaders, under Joseph F. Smith, have since consistently prac ticed, in defiance of the laws of the state and the "revelation of G o d , " with lies and evasions, with perjury and its suborna tion, in violation of the most solemn pledges to the country, and through the agency of a political tyranny that makes serious prosecution impossible and immu nity a public boast. T h e world understands that p o l y g a m y is an enslavement of w o m e n . T h e ecclesi astical authorities in Utah to-day have discovered that it is more powerful as an enslaver of men. Once a man is b o u n d in a p o l y g a m o u s relation, there is no place for him in the civilized world outside of a Mormon community. H e must remain there, shielded b y the Church, or suffer elsewhere social ostracism and the prose cution of bigamous relations. Since 1890, the date of the manifesto (and it is to the period since 1S90 that m y criticism solely applies), the polygamist must be abjectly 1

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subservient to the Prophets w h o protect him; he must o b e y their orders and d o their w o r k , or endure the punishment w h i c h they can inflict u p o n h i m and his wives and his children. Inveigled into a plural mar riage b y the authority of a clandestine religious d o g m a , encouraged b y his elders, seduced b y the prospect of their favor, and impelled perhaps b y a daring impulse to take the c o v e n a n t and b o n d that shall swear h i m into the dangerous fellowship of the lawlessly faithful—he finds himself, at once, a law-breaker w h o must p a y the Church hierarchy for his p r o t e c t i o n b y yielding to them every political right, e v e r y personal independence, every freedom of opinion, every liberty of act. I do not believe that Smith fully foresaw the policy which he has since u n d o u b t e d l y pursued. I believe n o w , as I did then, that in betraying m y brother into p o l y g a m y Smith was actuated b y his anger against m y father for having inspired the recession from the doctrine; that he desired to i m pair the success of the recession b y having m y brother dignify the recrudescence of p o l y g a m y b y the apostolic sanction of his participation; and that this participation was jealously designed b y Smith to avenge himself upon the First Councillor b y h a v ing the son b e one of the first to break the law and violate the covenant. I saw that m y brother's death had thwarted the con spiracy. Smith was so o b v i o u s l y fright ened—despite his pretense of defiance— that I believed he had learned his needed lesson. A n d I accepted the incident as a private tragedy on which the final curtain had n o w fallen. CHAPTER THE

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M E A N W H I L E I had been taking part in the Presidential campaign of 1S96, and I had been one of the four " i n s u r g e n t " R e p u b lican senators (Teller of C o l o r a d o , D u b o i s of I d a h o , Pettigrew of South D a k o t a , and myself) w h o withdrew from the national R e p u b l i c a n convention at St. L o u i s , in fulfillment of our obligations to our c o n stituents, when w e found that the c o n v e n tion was dominated b y that confederation of finance in politics which has since c o m e to be called " t h e S y s t e m . " I was a m e m ber of the c o m m i t t e e on resolutions, and

our actions in the c o m m i t t e e had indicated that w e w o u l d p r o b a b l y withdraw from the c o n v e n t i o n if it a d o p t e d the single gold platform as dictated b y Senator L o d g e of Massachusetts, acting for a g r o u p of R e p u b lican leaders headed b y Piatt, of N e w York, and A l d r i c h , of R h o d e Island. A t the m o s t critical p o i n t of our con troversy I received a message from Church headquarters warning m e that " w e " had m a d e powerful friends a m o n g the leading m e n of the nation and that w e ought not to jeopardize their friendship b y an incon siderate insurgency. A c c o r d i n g l y , in bolt ing the c o n v e n t i o n , I was guilty of a new defiance of ecclesiastical authority and a new p r o v o c a t i o n of ecclesiastical vengeance. President W o o d r u f f spoke to m e of the matter after I returned to Utah, and I ex plained t o h i m that I thought the Repub lican p a r t y , under the leadership of Mark H a n n a and the flag of the "interests," had forgotten its d u t y t o the people of the na tion. I argued, to the President, that of all p e o p l e in the w o r l d w e , w h o had suffered so m u c h ourselves, were m o s t b o u n d to bow to n o unfairness ourselves and to oppose the imposition of unfairness upon others. A n d I talked in this strain to him not be cause I wished his approval of m y action, b u t because I wished to fortify him against the a p p r o a c h of the emissaries of the new R e p u b l i c a n i s m , w h o were sure to come to h i m to seek the support of the Church in the campaign. S o m e days later, while I was talking with m y father in the offices of the Presidency, the secretary ushered in Senator Redfield P r o c t o r , of V e r m o n t . I withdrew, under standing that he wished to speak in private with President W o o d r u f f and his council lors. B u t I learned subsequently that he had c o m e to Salt L a k e to persuade the leaders of the C h u r c h to use their power in favor of the R e p u b l i c a n p a r t y throughout the inter-mountain states. Senator P r o c t o r asked m e personally what chance I t h o u g h t the p a r t y had in the W e s t . I p o i n t e d o u t that the Republican platform of 1S92 had reproached Grover Cleveland for his antagonism to bimetal l i s m — " a doctrine favored b y the American p e o p l e from tradition and interest," to q u o t e the language of that platform—and the R e p u b l i c a n s of the inter-mountain states still held true t o the doctrine. It had been repudiated b y the St. Louis plat

form of June, 1 8 9 6 , and the inter-mountain states w o u l d p r o b a b l y refuse their electoral votes t o the R e p u b l i c a n p a r t y because of the repudiation. Senator P r o c t o r thought that the leaders of the C h u r c h were powerful enough t o control the v o t e s of their followers; and he argued that gratitude t o the Republican p a r t y for freeing U t a h o u g h t to b e stronger than the opinions of the people on a merely e c o n o m i c question. I reminded him that one of our c o v e nants h a d been that the Church was to refrain from dictating t o its followers in politics; that w e h a d been steadily grow ing a w a y from the absolutism of earlier times; a n d that for the sake of the peace and progress of Utah I hoped that the leaders w o u l d keep their hands off. I did not, of course, c o n v i n c e him. N o r was it necessary. I was sure that n o p o w e r that the Church w o u l d dare to use would be sufficient at this time to influence the people against their convictions. Joseph F. Smith, soon afterward, noti fied m e that there was to b e a meeting of the C h u r c h authorities in the T e m p l e , and he asked m e to attend it. Since I had never before been invited t o o n e of these conferences in the " h o l y of holies," I in quired the purpose of the conclave. H e replied that they desired to consider the

situation in which our people had been placed b y m y action in the St. Louis con vention, and to discuss the perceptible trend of public opinion in the state. I saw, then, that Senator Proctor's visit h a d not been without avail. On the appointed afternoon, I went to the sacred inner r o o m of the T e m p l e , where the members of the Presidency and several of the apostles were waiting. I shall n o t describe the r o o m nor a n y of the religious ceremonies with which the conference was opened. I shall confine myself t o the dis cussion—which was begun mildly b y Presi dent Woodruff and L o r e n z o Snow, then president of the q u o r u m of apostles. T o m y great surprise, Joseph F. Smith made a violent Republican speech, de claring that I h a d humiliated the Church and alienated its political friends b y with drawing from the St. Louis convention. H e was followed b y H e b e r J. Grant, an apos tle, w h o h a d always posed as a D e m o c r a t ; and he was as Republican and denuncia tory as Smith h a d been. H e declaimed against our alienation of the great business interests of the country, whose friendship he and other prominent M o r m o n s had d o n e so m u c h to cultivate, and from w h o m w e might n o w procure such advantageous c o operation if we stood b y them in politics. President

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b y saying that he was sure I had acted con scientiously; b u t b y this time I desired n o intervention of prophetic m e r c y and n o mitigation of j u d g m e n t that might c o m e of such intervention. A s soon as the Presi dent announced that they were prepared to hear from me, I rose and walked to the farther side of the solemn chamber, with drawn from the assembled Prophets and confronting them. H a v i n g first disavowed a n y recognition of their right as an ecclesiastical b o d y to direct me in m y political actions, I re hearsed the events of the t w o campaigns in which I had been elected o n pledges that I had fulfilled b y m y course in Congress, in the Senate, and finally in the St. Louis convention. T h a t course had been ap p r o v e d b y the people. T h e y had trusted me to carry o u t the policies on which they had elected m e to Congress. T h e y had reiterated the trust b y electing me to the Senate after I had revolted against the Republican b o n d and tariff measures in the lower House. I could not and would not violate their trust n o w . A n d there was no authority o n earth which I would recognize as e m p o w e r e d to c o m e between the people's will and the people's elected servants. T h e Prophets received this defiance in silence. Their expressions implied con demnation, but none was spoken — at least not while I was there. President Woodruff indicated that the conference was at an end, so far as I was concerned; and I withdrew. Some attempts were subse quently made to influence the people dur ing the campaign, b u t in a half-hearted w a y , and vainly. T h e D e m o c r a t s carried Utah overwhelmingly; o n l y three R e p u b lican members of the legislature were elected out of sixty-three. It was this conference in the T e m p l e which gave m e m y first realization that most of the Prophets had not, and never would have, a n y feeling of citizenship in state or nation; that they considered, and would continue to consider, every public issue solely in its possible effect u p o n the fortunes of their Church. M y father alone seemed to have a larger v i e w ; b u t he was a statesman of full worldly knowdedge; and his experience in Congress, during a part of the "reconstruction p e r i o d " and through out the Tilden-Hayes controversy, had taught him h o w effectively the national power could assert itself. T h e others,

Magazine blind to such dangers, seemed to feel that under U t a h ' s sovereignty the literal "king d o m of G o d " (as they regard their Church) was to exercise an undisputed authority. Unable, myself, to take their viewpoint, I was conscious of a sense of transgression against the o r t h o d o x y of their religion. I was aware, for the first time, that, in gain ing the fraternity of A m e r i c a n citizenship, I had in some w a y lost the fraternity of the faith in w h i c h I had been reared. I ac cepted this as a necessary consequence of our new freedom—a freedom that left us less close and unyielding in our religious l o y a l t y b y withdrawing the pressure that had p r o d u c e d our compactness. And I h o p e d that, in time, the Prophets them selves—or, at least, their successors—would g r o w into a m o r e liberal sense of citizen ship as their p e o p l e grew. I knew that our progress must be a process of evolution. I was content to wait upon the slow amend ments of time. M y hope carried m e through the dis heartening incidents of the senatorial cam paign for the election of Arthur Brown's successor—a c a m p a i g n in which the power of the hierarchy was used publicly to de feat the deposed apostle, M o s e s Thatcher, in his second c a n d i d a c y for the United States Senate. But the Church only succeeded in defeating him b y throwing its influence to Joseph L . Rawdins, whom the Prophets l o v e d as little as they loved T h a t c h e r ; and I felt that in Rawlins's election the state at least gained a repre sentative w h o was w o r t h y of it. W h a t was quite as sinister a use of Church influence occurred a m o n g the M o r m o n s of I d a h o , where I w e n t to help Sena tor Fred T . D u b o i s in his campaign; and for the use of this influence Joseph F. Smith a d m i t t e d his responsibility, when I protested to the Presidency against it. I left for W a s h i n g t o n , soon after, with an u n h a p p y apprehension that there were evil influences at w o r k in U t a h which might p r o v e powerful e n o u g h t o involve the whole c o m m u n i t y in the worst miseries of reaction. I saw those influences embodied in Joseph F. Smith; and because he was explosive where others were reflective, he had n o w m o r e influence than previously— there being n o longer a n y set resistance to him. T h e reverence of the M o r m o n people for the n a m e of Smith was (as it had always been) his chief asset of popularity. He

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had a superlative physical impressiveness and a passion that seemed to take the place of magnetism in public address. But he never said anything m e m o r a b l e ; he never showed any compelling ability of m i n d ; he had a personal cunning without any large intelligence; and he w as so m a n y removes from the First Presidency that it seemed unlikely he w o u l d soon attain to that position of which the p o w e r is so great that it o n l y makes the blundering m o r e dangerous than the astute. I was going to W a s h i n g t o n , before C o n gress reconvened, to confer with Senator Redfield P r o c t o r . H e wished to see m e a b o u t the new protective tariff bill that was p r o p o s e d b y the R e p u b l i c a n leaders. I wished to ask him not to use his political influence in I d a h o against Senator Fred T . D u b o i s , w h o had been Senator Proctor's political protege. I knew that Senator P r o c t o r had once been given a semi-official promise that the M o r m o n Church leaders would not interfere in I d a h o against D u bois. I wished to tell P r o c t o r that this promise was not being kept, and to plead with him to give D u b o i s fair play—al though I knew that Senator D u b o i s ' s " i n s u r g e n c y " had offended Senator Proctor. r

H e received me, in his h o m e in Wash ington, with an almost paternal kindliness that b e c a m e sometimes m o r e dictatorial

than persuasive—as the manner of an older senator is so apt to be when he wishes to correct the independence of a younger colleague. H e explained that the House was Republican b y a considerable major ity; a g o o d protective tariff bill would come from that b o d y ; and a careful can vass of the Senate had p r o v e d that the bill would pass there, if I would vote for it. " W e have within one v o t e of a majority," he said. " A s you're a d e v o t e d protection ist in your views—as your state is for pro tection—as your father and your people feel grateful to the Republican party for leading y o u out of the wilderness—I have felt that it was proper to appeal to y o u and learn your views definitely. If you'll pledge y o u r support to the bill, we shall not look elsewhere for a v o t e — b u t it's essential that we should be secure of a majority." I replied that I could not promise to v o t e for the measure until I should see it. It was true that I had been a d e v o t e d a d v o cate of protection and still believed in the principle; but I had learned something of the w a y in which tariff bills were framed, and something of the influences that con trolled the party councils in support of them. I could not be sure that the new measure would be any more just than the original D i n g l e y bill, which I had helped to defeat in the Senate; and the w a y in which

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that bill had been driven through the H o u s e was a sufficient warning to m e not to har ness myself in a pledge that might be misused in legislation. Senator P r o c t o r did me the honor to say that he did not suppose any improper sug gestion of personal advantage could in fluence me, and he h o p e d I knew him t o o well to suppose that he w o u l d use such an argument. " B u t , " he added, " a n y t h i n g that it's within the 'political' p o w e r of the p a r t y to bestow, y o u m a y expect; I ' m authorized to say that we will take care of y o u . " As I still refused to bind myself blindly, he said, with regret: " W e had great hopes of y o u . It seems that we must look else where. I will leave the question open. If y o u conclude to assure us of y o u r v o t e for the bill, I shall see that y o u are restored to a place in Republican councils. If 1 d o not hear anything from y o u , it will be necessary to address ourselves to one or t w o other senators w h o are p r o b a b l y available." It is, of course, a doctrine of present-day Republicanism that the will of the majority must rule within the party. A n insurgent is therefore an apostate. T h e decision of the caucus is the infallible declaration of the creed. In setting myself up as a judge of what it was right for me to d o , as the sworn representative of the people w h o had elected me, I was offending against party o r t h o d o x y , as that o r t h o d o x y was then, and is now, enforced in Washington. I was given an o p p o r t u n i t y to return to conformity. I was sent a written invitation to attend the caucus of Republican senators after the assembling of Congress; and, with the other "insurgents," I ignored the invita tion. It was finally decided b y the p a r t y leaders to let the tariff bill rest until after the inauguration of the President-elect, William M c K i n l e y , with the understanding that he would call a special session to con sider it; and, in the interval, the R e p u b lican machine, under M a r k Hanna, was set to work to p r o d u c e a Republican major ity in the Senate. H a n n a was elected senator, at this time, to succeed John Sherman, w h o had been r e m o v e d to the office of Secretary of State, in order to make a seat for Hanna. The Republican majority was p r o d u c e d . (Sena tor D u b o i s had been defeated.) A n d when the special session was called, in the spring of 1S97, m y v o t e was no longer so urgently

needed. I was invited to a Republican caucus, but I was unwilling to return to political affiliations w h i c h I might have to renounce again; for I saw the p o w e r of the business interests in dictating the policy of the p a r t y and I did not propose to b o w to that dictation. W h e n the tariff bill c a m e before the Senate, I c o u l d not in conscience support it. T h e beneficiaries of the bill seemed to be dictating their o w n schedules, and this was n o t a b l y the case with the sugar trust, which had obtained a differential between raw and refined sugar several times greater than the entire cost of refining. I de n o u n c e d the injustice of the sugar schedule particularly. A M r . Oxnard came to re monstrate with m e o n behalf of the beetsugar industry of the W e s t . " Y o u know," he said, " what a hard time we're having with our sugar c o m p a n i e s . Unless this schedule's a d o p t e d I greatly fear for our future." 1 replied that I was not opposing any protection of the struggling industries of the country or of the sugar growers, but I was set against the extortionate differential that the sugar trust was demanding. E v e r y b o d y knew that the trust had built its tremendous industrial p o w e r u p o n such criminally high protection as this differential afforded, and that its p o w e r n o w affected public councils, obtained improper favors, and terrorized the small c o m p e t i n g beet-sugar companies of the W est. I argued that it was time to rally for the p r o t e c t i o n of the people as well as of the beet-sugar industry. H e predicted that if the differential was reduced, the p r o t e c t i o n o n beet sugar would fail. I laughed at him. " Y o u don't k n o w the temper of the Senate," I said. " W h y , even some of the D e m o c r a t s are in favor of protecting the beet-sugar industry. T h a t part of the bill is safe, whatever hap pens to the rest." " S e n a t o r C a n n o n , " he replied, with all the scorn of superior knowledge, "you're somewhat new to this matter. Permit me to inform y o u that if w e d o n ' t d o our part in supporting the sugar schedule, including the differential, the friends of the schedule in the Senate will p r e v e n t us from obtain ing our p r o t e c t i o n . " " T h a t , " I retorted angrily, " i s equiva lent to saying that the sugar trust is writ ing the sugar schedule. I c a n ' t listen with patience to a n y such insult. T h e Senate of the United States c a n n o t b e dictated to, r

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at once, h o w the tariff bill was progressing at Washington. I had known Bishop Cutler for years. I knew that he had labored with extraor dinary zeal and intelligence to establish the sugar industry in Utah. I understood

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that he had risked his o w n property, un selfishly, to save the enterprise when it was in peril. A n d I had every reason to expect that he w o u l d b e as indignant as I was at the proposal to use the support of the beet-sugar states in behalf of their old tyrant. I told him of m y conversation with O x nard. " I ' m g l a d , " I said, " t h a t we're in dependent enough to refuse such an alliance with the men w h o are robbing the c o u n t r y . " A peculiar, pale smile curled B i s h o p Cutler's thin lips. " W e l l , F r a n k , " he re plied, " t h a t ' s just what I want to see y o u about. " W e " — w i t h the intonation that is used a m o n g prominent M o r m o n s when the " w e " are voicing the conclusions of the h i e r a r c h y — " w o u l d n ' t like to d o anything to hurt the sugar interests of the c o u n t r y . I ' v e looked into this differential, and I d o n ' t see that it is particularly exorbitant. A s a matter of fact, the American Sugar Refining C o m p a n y is doing all it can to help us get our needed protection, and w e have promised to do what we can for it, in return. I hope y o u can see your w a y clear to v o t e for the bill. I k n o w that the brethren " —meaning the Church authorities—"will not approve of your opposition to it." I understood what his quiet warning meant, and when we had parted I went to m y r o o m to face the situation. Already I had been told, b y a representative of the Union Pacific R a i l w a y , that the c o m p a n y intended to make U t a h the legal h o m e of the corporation, and to enter into a close affiliation with the prominent men of the Church. I had been asked to participate, and I had refused because I did not feel free, as a senator, to b e c o m e interested in a c o m p a n y whose relations with the g o v ernment were of such a character. But I had not foreseen what this affiliation meant. Bishop Cutler's warning o p e n e d m y eyes. T h e Church was protecting itself, in its commercial undertakings, b y an alliance with the strongest and most unscrupulous of the national enemies. I saw that this was natural. T h e M o r m o n leaders had been for years struggling to save their c o m m u n i t y from p o v e r t y . Proscribed b y the federal laws, their h o m e industries suffering for want of finances, fighting against the allied influences of business in politics, these leaders had been taught to feel a fearful respect for the p o w e r that had oppressed them. They were n o w being offered the aid and c o u n

Magazine tenance of their o l d o p p o n e n t s . Our com m u n i t y was to a d v a n c e to prosperity along the easy road of association with the most influential interests of the country. I r e m e m b e r e d the long, hard struggle of our p e o p l e . I r e m e m b e r e d the days and nights of anxiety that I myself had known when w e were friendless and proscribed. Here w as an o p e n d o o r for us, now, to p o w e r and wealth and all the comfort and consideration that w o u l d c o m e of these. Other m e n better than I in personal char acter, m o r e experienced in legislation than I, and wiser b y natural gift, w ere willing to v o t e for the bill; and Bishop Cutler, a man w h o m I had always esteemed, the representative of the m e n w h o m I most revered, had urged m e to support the bill, under suggestion of their anger if I refused. I saw w h y the " i n t e r e s t s " were eager to have our friendship; w e c o u l d give them more than a n y other c o m m u n i t y of our size in the whole c o u n t r y . In the final analysis, the laws of our state and the ad ministration of its g o v e r n m e n t would be in the hands of the Church authorities. M o s e s T h a t c h e r m i g h t lead a rebellion for a time, b u t it w o u l d b e brief. Brigham H. R o b e r t s m i g h t a v o w his independence in some wonderful burst of campaign oratory, b u t he w o u l d b e forced to fast and pray and see visions until he yielded. I might rebel and b e successful for a m o m e n t , but the inexorable p o w e r of C h u r c h control would crush m e at last. Y e t , if I surrendered in this matter of the tariff, I should be doing exactly what I had criticised so many of m y colleagues for d o i n g — f o r more than one m a n in the H o u s e and the Senate had given m e the specious excuse that it was neces sary to g o against his conscience, here, in order to h o l d his influence and his power to d o g o o d in other instances. I did n o t sleep that night. On the day following, I transacted the financial affairs that I had been asked t o undertake, and then I returned to W a s h i n g t o n . M y wife m e t m e at the railway station, and—if you will bear with the i n t i m a c y of such psychol o g y — t h e m o m e n t I saw her I knew how I w o u l d v o t e . I k n e w that neither the plea of c o m m u n i t y a m b i t i o n , nor the equally invalid argument of an industrial need at h o m e , nor the financial j e o p a r d y of my friends w h o had invested in our home in dustries, nor the fear of C h u r c h antago nism, c o u l d justify m e in wdiat would be, for r

Under the Prophet me, an act of perfidy. W h e n I had taken m y oath of office, I had pledged myself, in the m e m o r y of old days of injustice, never to vote as a senator for an act of injustice. T h e test had c o m e . W h e n the tariff bill came to its final v o t e in the Senate, I had the u n h a p p y distinc tion of being the o n l y R e p u b l i c a n senator who v o t e d against it. A useless sacrifice! A n d yet if it had been m y one act of public life, I should still be glad of it. T h e " i n terests" that forced the passage of that bill are those that h a v e since exploited the country so shamefully. It is their control of Republican p a r t y councils that has since caused the loss of popular faith in Republicanism and the split in the p a r t y which threatens to disrupt it. It is their control of politics in Utah that has de stroyed the whole value of the M o r m o n experiment in c o m m u n i s m and m a d e the M o r m o n Church an instrument of political oppression for commercial gain. T h e y are the most dangerous domestic e n e m y that the nation has k n o w n since the close of the Civil W a r . M y opposition was as d o o m e d as such single independence must always be—but at least it was an opposition. There is a consolation in having been right, though y o u m a y h a v e been futile! M y father, visiting Washington soon afterward, t o o k occasion to criticise m y v o t e publicly, in a newspaper interview; but he was content, b y that criticism, to clear himself and his colleagues of any responsibility for m y act. " Y o u made a great mistake," he told m e privately. " Y o u are alienating the friends w h o have done so m u c h for us." M a n y reports soon reached m e of at tacks that were being m a d e upon m e b y the ecclesiastical authorities, particularly b y Joseph F. Smith and Apostle Heber J. Grant. T h e formal criticism passed upon m e b y m y father was magnified to make m y tariff v o t e appear an inexcusable party and c o m m u n i t y defection. A vigorous and determined opposition was raised against me. A n d in this, Smith and his followers were aided b y the perfect system of Church control in Utah—a system of c o m p l e t e ecclesiastical tyranny under the guise of d e m o c r a c y . Practically e v e r y M o r m o n man is in the priesthood. N e a r l y every M o r m o n man has some concrete authority to exercise in addition to holding his ordination as an The Next Instalment of " U n d e r the Proph

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elder. Obedience to his superiors is essen tial to his ambition to rise to higher dignity in the C h u r c h ; and obedience to his supe riors is necessary in order to attract o b e dience to himself from his subordinates. There can be n o lay jealousy of priestly interference in politics, because there are no laymen in the proper sense of the word. A man's worldly success in life is largely involved in his success as a churchman, since the Church c o m m a n d s the opportuni ties of enterprise and the leaders of the Church are the state's m o s t powerful men of affairs. I t is n o t u n c o m m o n , in any of our American communities, for men to use their Church membership to support their business; b u t in Utah the M o r m o n s prac tically must do so, and even the Gentiles find it wise to b e subservient. A d d to this temporal power of the Church, the fact that it was establishing a policy of seeking material success for its people, and y o u have the explanation of its eagerness to accept an alliance with the " i n t e r e s t s " and of its hostility to any one w h o o p p o s e d that alliance. T h e M o r m o n s , dispossessed of their means b y the migra tion from Illinois, had been taught the difficulty of obtaining wealth and the value of it when once obtained. T h e y fancied themselves set apart, in the mountains, b y the world's exclusion. T h e y were ambi tious to make themselves as financially powerful in proportion to their numbers as the Jews were; and it was a c o m m o n argu ment among them that the world's respect had turned to the Jews because of the de pendence of Christian governments upon the Jewish financiers. T h e exploitation of this solid mass of in dustry and thrift could not long be o b scured, from the eyes of the East. T h e honest desire of the M o r m o n leaders to benefit their people b y an alliance with financial power m a d e them the easy vic tims of such an alliance. W i t h the death of the older men of the hierarchy, the Church administration lost its tradition of religious leadership for the g o o d of the c o m m u n i t y solely, and the new leaders be came eager for financial aggrandizement for the sake of power. Like every other church that has added a temporal scepter to its spiritual authority, its pontiffs have b e c o m e kings of a civil government in stead of primates of a religious faith. in U t a h " will appear in the April Number,

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James

Oppenheim

Author of " D R . R A S T , " " W I L D O A T S , " etc. DRAWINGS B Y W A R R A N T

PRYOR

P H O T O G R A P H S B Y W. M. V A N D E R W E Y D E

O L L Y , with her hand on the d o o r knob, turned to the t w o children in the kitchen. H e r v o i c e was tender and full of pain. " W o n ' t y o u be still, children? Children, won't y o u ? " Then she softly opened the d o o r and stepped noiselessly into the twilight r o o m . Her husband lay asleep on the bed, stretched flat and fully dressed. She leaned over the breathing, living bulk of man, and brought her tender face close to his hot, fevered cheeks and his rough gray hair. In the darkness he seemed so near, and so far—so real and so unsubstantial. I t was at that m o m e n t of dusk when people draw close to one another. M o l l y hesitated. She wanted to pray, and had forgotten h o w . She looked a b o u t the room as if she expected to see some great Power and c o u l d n ' t find it. She could only say a w k w a r d l y : "Please—please spare him—and me. I can't lose him. I can't—I c a n ' t . " A n d then she murmured to herself, all bitterly and b r o k e n l y : " I ' v e lost him al ready." She felt swiftly over his soft, warm c o t t o n shirt for his hand; it was as if she were trying to take hold of him and keep h i m ; and then a tear slid d o w n to her chin and fell and touched the hot, fevered cheek.

T h e man stirred uncomfortably. " Y o u , Moll?" His v o i c e was thick and husky. " R i c h a r d ! " she cried. She suddenly pushed her arm behind the pillow and drew his head up and kissed him passionately. " S a y y o u l o v e m e , " she whispered. T h e r e was a d e e p silence. "Richard!" H e did not answer. "Richard!" A n d then he suddenly pushed her off, struggled, and sat up. She sank back on her knees, gasping, sobbing, her mind a little wild. " L o v e ! " he muttered. " Y o u ' v e let me oversleep." H e leaned close, menacingly. "You've let me oversleep!" H e gripped her arm hard and looked into her face. " A n s w e r me t h i s ! " " Y e s , " she said, in a colorless voice. " I t ' s time to g o to w o r k , ain't it s o ? " She said nothing. " D a m n y o u — i t ' s time to g o to work, ain't it s o ? " " Y e s , D i c k , " she m u r m u r e d , " i t ' s time to g o to work. B u t y o u ' r e not fit " H e t u m b l e d out of b e d , stood up, and then, as he was v e r y sick and felt dizzy, he held on to the b e d p o s t . B u t he spoke in a blaze of anger:

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" G e t m e the sugar!" She suddenly wheeled around before him, and spoke quietly: " S a y please!" H e looked up at the white face a m o m e n t , "(Jetting notions, and laughed harshly. eh? Well, here g o e s ! " A n d he began sip ping the coffee slowly. She stood silent, and then she drew up a chair and sat at the table beside him. She m a d e up her mind then to keep him from the mill at any cost. She spoke quietly: " Y ' o u ' r e sick; y o u ' r e not going to work to-night." " W h o ' s going to stop m e ? "

MOLLY.

" A n d y o u k n o w we're piling up a tonnage record, and y o u k n o w the blooming-mill de pends on me, and y o u k n o w I'll b e iired if I d o n ' t mark t i m e " — h i s v o i c e put on a cut ting e d g e — " a n d y o u c o m e b a b y i n g around —say I love y o u — s h u c k s ! Get me m y supper and b e quick about i t ! " H e added something under his breath as he went reeling into the kitchen. T h e two children, Nellie and B o b , playing in a cor ner, s t o p p e d when they saw him and slid out the b a c k d o o r into the evening. " Y o u better get o u t , " he muttered. T h e n he sank all in a l u m p in a kitchen chair and leaned his head on the oilcloth covered table. His fingers ran through his rough gray hair; and his lean face, with its burning blue eyes and k n o t t y , flushed cheeks, and big lips, was half shadowy, half starting out in the gaslight a b o v e him. Be hind him the shiny black stove was breath ing up heat a b o u t a sputtering coffeepot and a pan of potatoes. There were chairs and a c u p b o a r d , two windows and a door—a neat, c o m p a c t r o o m . M o l l y c a m e in quietly, her face very pale. She p o u r e d off a c u p of coffee, lightened it with milk, and set it before him. T h e n she hesitatingly pushed some p o t a t o slices on He a plate and set it beside the coffee. roughly pushed the plate aside.

H e gave her a quick glance. " Y o u , eh? " She leaned toward him, and lowered her voice. " I ' v e been silent years—now I ' m going to speak." H e clenched his fists, and loosed his quick "Shut up! M y God, you temper again. woman " T h e n she broke in with a sharp c r y : " S e e ! See! What an animal you're gelling to

be!"

H e looked at her quickly then, and saw the fire in her clear gray eyes. "Animal? "

" R I C H A R D ,

" T a k e it a w a y — f o o l ! " She t o o k it a w a y quickly.

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LOST

M O R E ,

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" T h i r t y - f i v e dollars a w e e k . " " Y e s , " she whispered tensely, " y o u ' r e " W e l l , " he muttered, " w h a t m o r e d o you not a man a n y m o r e . " want?" H e began sipping the coffee again. In She g a v e a strange, short laugh, and the thick, warm silence they heard the chil l o o k e d d o w n at the floor, dren laughing as they ran after each other. ' I t might d o for a m a n , " she breathed, " b u t not for a woman, " R i c h a r d , " said M o l l y softly, " y o u ' r e not and y o u k n o w i t . " even a decent father any m o r e . " "Know what?" H e sipped again at the coffee. "Oh—nothing!" " A n d y o u think," she went on, " t h a t a H e began sipping his coffee again. And w o m a n can stand for anything. She can't then her heart seemed to crack open, and the —she w o n ' t ! G o any farther "—she paused terrible pang shot through her throat and to and spaced the w o r d s — " g o — a n y — f a r t h e r — her lips and she cried: " R i c h a r d — y o u don't and I'll leave y o u . " l o v e m e ! Y o u d o n ' t l o v e m e any m o r e ! " H e went on sipping coffee, and then sud His m o u t h o p e n e d to speak, b u t he said denly he t o o k a deep breath, expanding his nothing. H e l o o k e d at her with a tragic chest, and rested his head in his hand. sullenness, a bitter defiance. " W h o does the work, e h ? "

" R i c h a r d , " she cried again, " y o u r work's " I guess I d o as m u c h as y o u , " said M o l l y .

" W e l l , " he muttered sullenly, " w h o c o m e between us. Y o u — a m a n of thirtyl i v e — y o u r hair's gray!" brings in the m o n e y ? " H e started to speak again, but said "You do." nothing. She leaned closer, and spoke " H o w much a w e e k ? " her heart out, the words lashing him. " T h e steel mill's killing y o u . It's the twelve-hour day. T w e l v e hours a day for a w h o l e w e e k — a n d then twelve hours for seven nights. Seven nights y o u d o n ' t sleep with me. I never see y o u m o r e than an hour at a time, and then y o u ' r e dead tired." She raised her voice to a quivering c r y : " I t ' d been better if w e ' d 'a' been found dead in each other's arms the night after we married, w h e n w e k n e w there was a G o d in this w o r l d ! Our children were damned, not b o r n ! "

LABORERS HOVERED ABOUT, AND AS THE BLAZING

INGOT PASSED THEIR FACES AND FORMS CAME

AND WENT SHARP AND SHADOWY.

T h e d o o r o p e n e d softly then, and a little, thin girl, with tossing brown curls, ran in to her mother. 'Mugger! Mugger!" T h e m o t h e r drew the little one close and p a t t e d a cheek, and spoke in a low, dry v o i c e : " Y e s , Nellie." " M u g g e r — c o m e out and see what we g o t ! " " I can't now—please, Nellie, run along!" "But, Mugger " " R u n along! Please, please!" T h e little girl w e n t o u t slowly, stifling quick, tiny sobs. M o l l y turned a face infinitely sad u p o n her husband, and spoke in a v o i c e tender with p a i n : " T h i s isn't a h o m e for our children. It's no home where the m a n o n l y eats and sleeps,

THE MILLS GLOWING THROUGH THEIR WINDOW'S LIKE BUILDINGS EATEN WITH FIRE

and the w o m a n drudges all day. Don't y o u understand, D i c k ? W e have no time for any pleasures—and y o u ' r e t o o tired to even read a n y m o r e — a n d y o u haven't time to h a v e friends in the house, or call and see p e o p l e — a n d y o u ' r e n o t any father. A n d what h a v e the children g o t ? This mill t o w n — s o o t , smoke, noise, not a patch of green, not a clear sky, not a place to p l a y — a n d all the ragged children here. O h , " she paused, clenched her fists, and half closed her eyes, " w h e n I think it's our chil dren going to waste like this—and they so full of things that might be turned to g o o d — and something so sweet in them " She stopped, staring into a terrible future. " I t ' s all the twelve-hour d a y , " she mut tered. " I t makes the men cogs in the mills — n o more. T h a t ' s what y o u are. Y o u ' r e not a m a n ; y o u ' r e a c o g . " H e cleared his throat; he shuffled his feet; he drew a little nearer, and at last his v o i c e rose, trembling: " A n y t h i n g else, e h ? " She l o o k e d suddenly straight in his eyes, and kept his gaze. T h e n she spoke in a

voice that had lightning in it—that seemed to stab through him like a long needle. " Y e s — y o u and I have lived as if there weren't any G o d , and y o u ' v e lost y o u r soul, Richard, y o u ' v e lost your soul. Y o u can't love any more, and y o u d o n ' t live. Y o u ' r e a cog." His face struggled violently, he opened T h e n he half closed and closed his mouth. his eyes and snarled: " N o w , y o u ' v e spoke— and what are we going to do, e h ? " She spoke intensely: "Strike!" "Strike, e h ? " H e smote the table with his fist. " D i d n ' t we strike here in H o m e stead in '92, and wasn't our union busted up g o o d and thorough? A n d ain't they spies all through the mills, and it's worth a man's j o b to open his m o u t h or make a kick? A n d d o n ' t they own us on election day and it's v o t e with the bosses or quit? Talk's c h e a p ! " — h e snapped his fingers. " B u t let me tell y o u , I hold d o w n a thirtyfive a week j o b , and I couldn't earn halt that elsewhere. I ' m stuck. They've got me— they've got me for life. W e have a few hun

Everybody's dred in the bank, eh? But h o w long w o u l d that last? D o y o u want m e to get a j o b at ten or twelve per, and live like a H u n k ? A c o g , eh? Well, what should I d o ? " H e arose, one hand pressed o n the table. A n d then the clock slowly struck five. H e staggered across the r o o m , p i c k e d his hat and coat from a wall-hook, and p u t them on. M o l l y leaped up with a l o w cry, rushed to the door, and s t o o d with an arm across it. Her face was white with a g o n y . " Y o u ' r e not g o i n g , " she murmured breathlessly. "Not?" H e advanced toward her. " D i c k , " she cried, " y o u ' r e n o t g o i n g ! " H e seized her two arms and pushed her aside, opened the door, and stepped out. She gave a wild cry, that called the children home, as he slammed the d o o r and reeled down the street. T h e evening was chilly, making him shiver, and in the s m o k y air street-lamps burned dimly about him. H e turned the corner and walked d o w n a street. O n one side, at the end of the street, stood the black wall of the mill grounds, on the other the smokeblackened mill houses, each set in a cinderdead soil that never b l o o m e d . Richard felt sick, utterly sick. H e reeled through the s m o k y air, turned a corner b e fore the library, and crossed a bridge into the mill grounds. M a n y other m e n were hurrying with him. A s they went o n , suddenly their grim faces were splashed b y far fires and strange lights. T h e y began step ping over intricate tangles of railway tracks in the yards, and all the time their faces shone brighter. Y e t not a man of them t o o k a n y interest, though all about them was one of the sublime scenes of America. T h e y did not seem to see the shining tracks, the glistening red and green lanterns, the mills glowing through their windows like buildings eaten with fire, the tongues of flames through the roofs, the vast swirls of blaze and red-shuddering smoke clouds, and the thousand chimney pipes looking through the changing lights. T h r o u g h all this, a m o n g the buildings, o v e r the rails, in the thick of a roar of machinery, a thunder and thirr and crash of tools, a confusion of yardengines, shrieking up and d o w n with little flat-cars, a hurry of lanterns—through it all, the men m o v e d silently, dully, lit on every side, their black, greasy overalls glistening as they m o v e d .

Magazine R i c h a r d entered a large, square building where the sloping, m a n y - b e a m e d roof was in huge shadows. Set in the solid masonry of the floor were steel trapdoors. A man, grasping a lever, s t o o d in front of one of these, just as an o v e r h e a d crane, like a bridge running d o w n the r o o m , came whiz zing along. F r o m the crane hung sus p e n d e d a huge steel hand. I t stopped above the m a n ; he at o n c e pulled the lever, and the trapdoor at his feet o p e n e d like a huge m o u t h , revealing the " s o a k i n g p i t . " Thus was a well of fire—white-hot—intolerable to the eye. N o r c o u l d the flesh corne near it. B u t the huge steel hand never faltered. It reached d o w n into the v e r y hell of fire, and slowly drew o u t a dazzling, sizzling, white-hot, ten-ton i n g o t of steel. This it bore d o w n the r o o m and shoved on to steel rollers that ran off into the adjoining room. R i c h a r d entered this next r o o m . A t his side the rollers, o n e next t o the other in a long path, were turning, and the ingot slid over them, and m a d e straight for a huge "clothes w r i n g e r " that s t o o d in its path. Suddenly it hit this steel-wringer with a loud " s p l a ! " •—there was a shower of sparks, and it went through with a wild " klong-a-a-1"—like the howl of a hungry lioness. T h e great wringer pressed the steel out, b u t n o sooner had it emerged o n the other side, longer and flatter, than it was shot b a c k , and so, back, and forth, until it was thinned into a long, wide ribbon of steel, and was rolled away to the next r o o m to b e cooled and sheared. Laborers h o v e r e d a b o u t the immense and intricate wringer, and as the blazing ingot passed their faces and forms came and went sharp and s h a d o w y . T w o men stood at op posite sides o n a little platform above the " w r i n g e r , " each with his hand on a lever. One controlled the direction of the rolls, the < other the force of the pressure. Richard relieved the m a n at the pressure-lever, and at o n c e his w o r k began. I t was o n e of the m o s t terrible nights of his life. H e was sick; he could hardly hold his head straight; and y e t he had to have a clear eye, a steady hand, and infinite pa tience. H i s gaze never left the hurrying ingot, and he had t o gauge its thickness and what it w o u l d stand. E a c h time it drew near, it shot o v e r h i m a consuming heat that b u r n t and s m o t h e r e d and m a d e the flesh tingle intolerably. Ordinarily he would not h a v e felt this, b u t to-night he was sick. The

The Cog glare, too, hurt his eyes, and the steel lever got hot under his gloves. There was no breathing spell. I n g o t fol lowed ingot without pause. H e pulled the lever, and then, with the wild "klong-a-a-1," a shower of sparks, a smell of p o w d e r , the ingot was squeezed. T h e speed was terrific and grew worse, for the little foreman had given out the impression that his men must pile up a record and beat the output of the other mills. A n d the responsibility was what made a man old—for if anything went wrong, if an ingot was spoiled or the mill stopped, the m o n e y loss to the workers, as well as to the mill, was v e r y large, for the men were paid b y the ton. H o u r followed hour, and Richard pressed the lever d o w n or pulled it up, his face twisted with the torture of the toil, every nerve, every muscle strained and alert and in action. His head n o w and then went dizzy and his face paled. Whenever he wanked he saw a red ingot sliding b a c k and forth. A n d worst of all, his heart was in wild and new revolt. H e heard the cry of

his wife—her words kept beating through his brain. Sick and desperate and strug gling, he could not shun the truth. H e knew that everything she had said was true. Y e s , bitterly true! L o o k at this machine— it did all the work—he, the man, merely That waited on it, pulling a lever for it. was his life. H e was nothing but a cog. It was this for twelve hours, and then a bite, W h a t was he but a sleep, and this again. an animal? Y e s , M o l l y had told him. A n d then, each time an ingot hit the wringer, some phrase went through his head and m a d e him struggle inwardly. Bang— w h o w — o w — o w — went an ingot! — and M o l l y was murmuring that he had no soul, that he did not love her.—Bang!—and she was speaking of the children.—Bang!—and she told him how- he had s t o p p e d his read ing.—Bang!—and his friends.—Bang!—And he didn't love M o l l y ; how- could h e ? — B a n g ! — H e was getting to b e an animal! On and on it went, the noise, the glare, the heat, the dizzying sickness. H o u r followed hour through the terrible night—hour after

T0NOUES OF FLAMES SHOT THROUGH THE ROOFS, THERE WERE VAST SWIRLS OF BLAZE AND RED SHUDDERING SMOKE CLOUDS, WITH CHIMNEY PIPES SHOWING THROUGH THE CHANGING LIGHTS.

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The foreman hour and no end c h o k e d and sput near. His t o n g u e tered as he was re t h r o a t grew and leased, and the ring P a r c h e d , and he of w o r k m e n stifled seemed to be toiling their smiles. Then over a sun-stricken the foreman backed desert of measure away, muttering: " I less, dazzling sand, suppose y o u know toiling, lifting, sink what this m e a n s ? " ing, burning. Now and then a shower " Y e s , " said Rich of sparks leaped as ard, " i t means good through his brain; night!" now and then the H e t u r n e d and whole r o o m turned walked off quietly. red. N o w he seemed H e went out into to be pushing the the yards. A brown lever down over the d a w n was searching f l o a t i n g f a c e of its w a y through the M o l l y , and her fear swirling smoke, and ful cry rang through in the vague light all the mill. N o w b y a the confusion and mighty effort he saw stir of t h e y a r d s c l e a r l y again—the w e n t o n . B u t it hovering laborers all never stopped, sharp and shadowy, n e i t h e r d a y nor the advancing ingot, night, through the the g l o o m y , dark years. T h e sick wringer, the menac man, hot from the WITH HIS POWERFUL HANDS HE GRIPPED THE

ing h e i g h t s a b o v e flames, trembled in LITTLE FOREMAN BY THE THROAT.

Molly him. But the chilly air of the kept saying: " R i c h a r d , y o u d o n ' t morning. His head, however, was acutely a n y m o r e — y o u d o n ' t love m e ! " love me clear. H e saw all a b o u t him. It must have been the b l o o d in him, he reasoned. He So he gave the lever a g o o d j a m . There came of old A m e r i c a n stock—men and was a weird, unusual crash, a splutter, and w o m e n w h o had given u p the comfort and a dozen men roared together. T h e rolls ease of h o m e and followed their God to stopped, and in the queer silence R i c h a r d worship H i m in the West—there in sweat, saw clearly again. H e had j a m m e d an p o v e r t y , and hardship finding a freedom for ingot and broken a coupling sleeve. A the soul. H e , t o o , c o u l d make the sacrifice. sickening horror went through him. It H e , t o o , c o u l d g o W e s t . T h e West still meant the loss of an hour's time. H e had called the freeman. T h e mighty farmlands tied up the whole mill. A n d all the other needed labor—the N o r t h w e s t needed pio workers w o u l d lose in their wages, too. neers. There, t o o , was r o o m for little chil All the men of the section came rushing dren—and sun and w i n d and a green space toward him, shouting angrily. A n d then for the soul. suddenly the little foreman c a m e dancing up. T h e little fellow swung a fist in R i c h a r d ' s H e was astonished to find h o w calmly he face, and shrieked: " D a m n y o u — d a m n y o u ! took it all. H e felt as if he had left him Just as we're piling up a tonnage-record! self in the mill, and was a different man. A " I'll trim y o u for this world slid off his shoulders. H e was free; Then suddenly fifteen years of silent pres his lips were loosed. In one stroke he had sure blew off. D e m o n s raged in R i c h a r d ' s regained his m a n h o o d . F o r years the mills heart, his brain went hot. W i t h his p o w e r had muzzled him, w o r k e d him, sweated him, ful hands he gripped the little foreman b y flung him out for a sleep and a bite, pulled the throat. him b a c k into the machinery, taken from him his h o m e , his friends, his books, his " Y o u d a m n e d little pusher," he snapped, church, his leisure, his citizenship, his free "so t o h e l l ! "

The City speech—and wasted the man that might have been. N o w he h a d jerked himself free. H e reached the street. T h e wind was blowing away, and the skies were clear a b o v e him. H e looked up. H e beheld the fading stars. A n d suddenly he stood still,- and a wave of glory swept over him. Something broke within h i m — s o m e crust a b o u t his heart—and like a revelation he was charged with light. T h e glad tears came to his eyes. He felt that he was beginning to live. He wanted to open his lips that his open heart might send its glory into words. H e heard the wind singing a b o u t him, he heard the night-world laboring, the engines puffing, the mills roaring; he saw the lights of the street and human beings beneath them. His heart went out to the great world. A n d then, as he went on, with fresh tides of life pouring through him, his soul went out to his o w n . H e thought of his o w n children, he thought of his o w n wife. He marveled at the strange years he had just been through—he marveled at the miserable father and husband he had been. T h e father-passion, long n u m b , a w o k e and struck his heart; his man's love for this w o m a n made him yearn with tenderness. A n d the glory bore him along like a b o y in love. H e turned u p the d i m street—the house was alight. H e stepped around to the rear and pushed o p e n the kitchen d o o r and en tered very softly. M o l l y was building a

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fire in the stove. She paused, with a stick of kindling-wood in her hand, and looked at him. H e spoke in a queer, suppressed v o i c e : " I want to see the children." H e r eyes grew larger, her lips parted, but she said nothing. H e pushed open his b e d r o o m d o o r and passed through to the r o o m b e y o n d . H e was gone several minutes. W h e n he came b a c k his lips were twitching, and tears were

trickling d o w n his face.

"Molly."

"Yes."

H e drew a step nearer. H e tried to c o n trol himself. H e spoke softly. " I ' v e — • been—fired." She stared at him. "Fired?" she cried. " F i r e d ! A n d we're p o o r as m i c e . " She took a step toward him. "Fired?—• Dick!" She gave a great cry and held out her arms, and drew him close—and closer— passionately hugging him. A n d as he felt her arms a b o u t him—tight, tight—her lips pressed to his—her living presence closing with his soul—suddenly, it was as if there was a rip in his heart: love made him tremble, and he m u r m u r e d : " M o l l y , I love y o u again—I love y o u again!" A n d life was sweet again, and they were poor.

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T A W N Y monster, snarling o'er its prey, T h e cruel city crouches by the sea; Glutted with youth, without a hand to free T h e tortured tribute we so idly pay. A n eager host each hopeful morning brings, T h o u g h every night is lighted like a pyre, While to the world a siren song she sings Of hope out-soared and of fulfilled desires. From every sea her ships are crowding in, Up-warping, treasured from the under world. What argosies her ample harbors win! Beside her wharves what mystic flags are furled! O faithless mistress! W h o shall count thy d e a d ? O r write the sum of thine iniquities? Of all thy lovers sing the few that fled Ere thy fierce hand upon their hearts could seize? Yet is no lack of praise thy fame to swell. Even I but breathe forgiveness and farewell.

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The splendor of the stage setting and costuming, and the careful consideration of artistic de tail, it was entirely w o r t h y of that temple of art. M o r e o v e r , it was a c c o m p a n i e d b y wonderful music, based on Oriental and Hebraic melodies, c o m p o s e d b y M o d e s t Altschuler, and played b y the Russian S y m phony Orchestra under his direction. T o these things the critics gave the high praise that was their due. B u t to m e the play they found so dull w as far greater than these artistic accessories—indeed, the most Perhaps, impressive play I h a v e ever seen. as the critics maintained, there are only t w o dramatic m o m e n t s in the drama, if it b e measured b y the B r o a d w a y standard, or even b y the rules of pure technique. To me, however, these seemed b u t pale shad ows of unreal things beside the majestic power of that greatest, m o s t wonderful, most splendid drama in all history. r

These tw o theatric scenes did not give me the thrill which came with the simple an nouncement that the house of Simon the leper, where Christ stayed in Bethany, was just a little w a y from the mansion of Silahus, whose splendors were before one's eyes. A n d when Silanus, truly a noble R o m a n and a philosopher, talked of Simon and his family, of the c o m i n g and going of the Nazarene, in simple, kindly, neighborly fashion, I felt that if I were in the garden of Silanus, I, t o o , c o u l d see the house of Simon the leper and the c o m i n g and going of the Nazarene. This compelling illusion of nearness brought with it a reverent awe that was al most suffocating. I fear that, to most of us, the story of Christ, familiar as it is, seems something far off, d i m m e d b y the mist of years, and we grasp as in a dream conventionalized forms of an idea that has small reality for us. For me, this play made the story vivid—real. So it was that, when the l o v e of the spec tacular Lucius for the gorgeously bedizened Mary Magdalene was shown, I was thinking of the house of Simon the leper, and of H i m w h o lived there. T h e characters w h o p l a y e d Levi the Publican, Cleophas, the Man Cured of Dropsy, and all the others meant nothing m o r e to m e than had their names. N o r was I impressed when the voice of the Nazarene was heard, the voice that drew Mary Magdalene into the c r o w d only to be attacked and stripped of her finery. E v e n when I heard the voice p r o c l a i m : " L e t him

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w h o is without sin a m o n g y o u cast the first stone," I was u n m o v e d ; though this scene, according to Constituted A u t h o r i t y , is one of the two great dramatic m o m e n t s . To I m e there was no illusion in that voice. knew it belonged to an actor, not to the Nazarene. Y e t H e seemed somewhere near, and presently H e w o u l d return to the house of Simon the leper, just around the corner, and if I were in the garden of Silanus I could see H i m . T h a t is the reason w h y it was of small concern whether or not the Magdalene l o v e d H e was interesting o n l y the ardent Lucius. as representing the attitude of his R o m a n g o v e r n m e n t toward the Nazarene and His followers. T h a t the heart of the courtesan should have been touched b y the Nazarene seemed natural enough; b u t I c o u l d not b e interested in the blind, ignorant, human jealousy of the y o u n g R o m a n , and it is upon this, from a technical standpoint, that the whole play revolves. T h e b a c k g r o u n d over whelms that which takes place before one's eyes, and without this b a c k g r o u n d the play holds nothing to lift it a b o v e the c o m m o n place. T h e vital thing is that in " M a r y M a g d a l e n e " one is brought almost face to face with the living, breathing Saviour of Man. Especially is this true in the second a c t ; and never before had I realized h o w mar velous is the thaumaturgy of the stage, the possibilities of its illusion, because I never had known anything in the theatre so overpow eringly dramatic. Silanus and Appius Magdalene have c o m e to the h o m e of Mary in a turmoil of emotions that have stirred their souls b e y o n d belief. T h e y have just looked upon the greatest of all the miracles —the raising of Lazarus from the dead. T h e y describe wdiat has taken place before their very eyes. Appius, hard-headed, prac tical man of affairs, to w h o m seeing is be lieving, accepts what he has seen as a miracle, and can find no words to express the wonder of it. Silanus, the philosopher, without trying to discredit the evidence of his senses, seeks vainly for some explanation that will satisfy himself. T h e y have s t o o d face to face with something mightier than their imaginations. T h e y speak with the simple, lofty eloquence of the G o s p e l s — indeed, nearly the whole of the eleventh chapter of John is w o v e n into the dialogue. I had a conviction, stronger than any illu sion the stage has ever given me, that I was ?

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hearing at first hand the stories of e y e witnesses of Lazarus's resurrection. The illusion was c o m p l e t e without the appear ance of Lazarus, clad in his white deathclothes, the stamp of the grave on his w o r n , pallid face. Straight from his sepulcher he came and was a m o n g us. W h e n he sum m o n e d Mary Magdalene in the name of the Master, one felt that all the powers of earth could not stay her, least of all the passion of Lucius. So all-pervading, so profound was the

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veloped, and it appears to reach a great climax. B u t on the stage the illusion of the m i g h t y thing b e y o n d crushes it into noth ingness. So it seems plain that one m a y not judge this play b y the familiar canons of the drama, any m o r e than b y the Broadway standard. I t is t o o big, t o o significant. T h a t Olga Nethersole p l a y e d Mary Mag dalene meant little to m e . T h i s was as true of her fine m o m e n t s as of her irritating ones, a n d it was o n l y with an effort that I was

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tragic splendor of the drama in the back ground, so keen was the realization of it, that the playing of the last act on the stage went for nothing. T h e idea of Lucius trying to barter the safety of the Nazarene for Mag dalene seemed so futile, so pitifully weak. One cannot conceive of these little humans staying the magnificent tragedy of Calvary. W h e n one reads the play, it is the last act that seems the most powerful and im pressive. It is finely constructed and de-

conscious of either. She makes one feel that she was intended to b e a really great actress, b u t that, b y her o w n foolish affecta tions and the pettiness of her ideas, she has thwarted the career o p e n t o her. But one was splendidly conscious of Arthur Forrest as Silanus, for he rose t o fine heights. He w as w o r t h y of the p l a y . H e had the im pressive dignity of o n e w h o was noble by nature as well as b y rank, and w h o was truly a philosopher. His diction was almost per r

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feet, and the spirit of the play was in him. A n d Charles Hanford, t o o , I liked as Ap pins, for there was in his portrayal—whether it was b y accident or design is of small m o ment—a" touch of m o d e r n i t y that helped to bridge over the chasm of years. M u c h of the honor for the presentation of the play belongs to H u g h Ford, who_ staged it, a n d ' w h o won a triumph that will long endure. T h e production of " M a r y M a g d a l e n e " saved the first part of the theatrical season in N e w Y o r k from the c o m m o n place. There had been a marked lowering of the standard established in the t w o pre ceding seasons, especially in the value of the themes. T h e number of failures during the first half of the season w-as extraordinarily large, and the successes, with one or t w o exceptions, presented nothing significant in the w a y of new ideas or the interpretation of familiar ones. T h o s e w h o have been lifting their voices for American drama have derived m u c h encouragement from the wholesale failure of foreign plays, which means that Charles Frohman, their chief purveyor, has suffered severely. T h e truth, however, is that these plays failed, not so m u c h because they were foreign, although that always is a factor, as because they were bad, measured b y an American standard. For we are gradually developing an American standard, although it is still nebulous. T h e unprofitableness of the early season cannot be charged to errors of j u d g m e n t on the part of the public, which has been m o r e than generous in several instances; for while there has been no failure that was not justified, there have been successes not wholly deserved. N o t o n l y has an amazing number of piffling plays been presented, b u t 1 can recall no season in which so m a n y players have been hopelessly miscast. T h e N e w Theatre started its regular sea son with a failure due to this miscasting malady. N e v e r have I seen a more beauti ful production than that of " T h e M e r r y Wives of W i n d s o r , " from the v i e w p o i n t of scenery and costuming. T h e last scene of all, in Windsor Park, with the misty m o o n light in the trees, and the rollicking mas queraders in their diaphanous robes, was the most exquisitely lovely thing I have ever seen on the stage. It alone almost made the whole p r o d u c t i o n w o r t h while. B u t it was b a d l y acted, in a subdued, l o w pressure key, dragging its dull length to that

last beautiful scene. Surely had Ben Jonson seen this p r o d u c t i o n he w o u l d not have w r i t t e n — " N e v e r y e t had a spectator who did not think it t o o soon e n d e d . " "The M e r r y W i v e s of W i n d s o r " is pure farce, and not all of it is lively and amusing in this day. T r a d i t i o n has it that Queen Elizabeth, whose reputation for virtue was higher than for taste—both being exaggerated, prob a b l y — w a s so delighted with Sir John Fal stajf that she c o m m a n d e d Shakespeare to write a c o m e d y showing the fat knight in l o v e and ordered that it b e finished in four teen days. Subsequently this farce, the result, was rewritten and enlarged. N o n e of the players w h o t o o k part in the presentation gained the slightest prestige, which goes to show that the N e w Theatre has n o t y e t been able to gather or to train actors w h o are perfectly at home in blank verse. On the heels of the failure of the Shake spearean play, the N e w Theatre company gave "The Thunderbolt," Sir Arthur W i n g Pinero's latest production, which, be cause of its failure in L o n d o n , no American manager cared to p r o d u c e ; and it scored a triumph, the remarkably fine acting being a compelling factor. T h e r e is no question that Pinero is the foremost living dramatist writing in Eng lish, a master of his craft, w h o deals in ideas. H e has p r o f o u n d k n o w l e d g e of the laws that g o v e r n the p l a y , b u t often, like some great corporation lawyers, he makes use of this knowdedge to c i r c u m v e n t the laws. I n all his later plays—that is, those written since the firm establishment of his fame and fortune—the d o m i n a n t notion is a flaying of the English middle class. H e is so merci lessly bitter that one suspects he is seeking to avenge some injustice suffered in his struggling d a y s . " H i s H o u s e in Order" was severe enough, b u t it does not compare with " T h e T h u n d e r b o l t " either as a philip p i c or as a drama. T h i s latest play, per haps the best constructed that Pinero has written, is far from perfect, because both actual truth a n d dramatic truth are sacri ficed to the flagellation of the sordid ugliness of the characters. It failed in London be cause national resentment of the convinc ing fidelity of the scenes was so strong that the interest in the really dramatic develop ment of the story c o u l d not overcome it. I n N e w Y o r k the audiences laughed at the portrayal of c o n c e n t r a t e d meanness and

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were ready to receive the real drama with unbiased minds. T h e story is about an English provincial family, deadly respectable, s h a b b y genteel, unspeakably narrow and sordid, whose chief concern is the distribution of the m o n e y left b y a dead brother wdio made a fortune as a brewer, and w h o w o u l d have nothing to d o with his family until he was on his death bed. While the dead brother lies upstairs, the members of the family mingle h y p o c r i t ical grief with wolfish interest in his m o n e y F o r the dead and anxiety a b o u t a will. man has left in Paris an illegitimate daugh ter of w h o m he was very fond, and the nat ural supposition is that most of his fortune is left to her. But no will can be f o u n d ; and if there is none, the large fortune must be divided a m o n g the brothers and sister. T h e thunderbolt descends when, b y a manifestation of dramatic p o w e r that is Pinero at his b e s t , i t is shown that there was a will and that it was destroyed b y Phyllis Mortimore, the wife of one of the brothers —the only decent one. H e r m o t i v e was to save herself from the cruel operation of a certain class distinction—a distinction al most impossible for Americans to grasp. Her father was a grocer, and her husband's family, in their consciousness of superiority, had inflicted upon her a succession of p e t t y persecutions. It seemed to me that the scene in which the guilty wife makes confession to her hus band failed of the effect it should h a v e had because Thais L a w t o n , w h o p l a y e d the role, did not rise to its possibilities. F r o m this point on there is powerful, m o v i n g , absorb ing drama. A l t h o u g h A . E . A n s o n , as the decent Thaddeus Mortimore, p l a y e d with little discrimination, he could not seriously detract from the gripping interest in the scene in which he appeared before his brothers and the lawyers and t o o k upon his o w n shoulders the burden of his wife's crime, only to be trapped because his tale was so ill prepared. In all of Pinero's m a n y plays there is nothing so fine as this scene. A n d the interest carries into the last act, when the lawyers suggest an equitable though hardly legal solution, carefully withdrawing so that it m a y be carried out. T h e n one sees something of the real char although Pinero acter of the Mortimores, is at little pains to d e v e l o p it; and the struc tural weakness of the p l a y lies in the fact that these important revelations are held

b a c k until the v e r y end. If one thinks a little, it b e c o m e s plain that the unspeakable meanness of the Mortimore family is not w h o l l y of their o w n choosing. Like most of us, t h e y are largely the victims of circum stance, of c o n d i t i o n s they had not the strength to o v e r c o m e . Especially is this true of James Mortimore, the head of the family, w h o d o m i n a t e s all the rest. Back of his vulgarity, his lust for m o n e y , is a certain rugged sense of h o n e s t y and fairness that makes one respect him—this seems to be a concession that Pinero the dramatist de m a n d e d from Pinero the man. If the real truth a b o u t the Mortimores were shown at the beginning, " T h e T h u n d e r b o l t " would be a m u c h stronger and m u c h finer play; but the author could n o t h a v e fed so fat the ancient grudge he bears the English middle classes. N e v e r h a v e I seen a finer characteriza tion than L o u i s Calvert's James Mortimore. N e v e r has a n y player given me a more per fect sense of reality. I t did not seem like acting at all. H e lived the character. As perfect in their w a y were the portrayals of A l b e r t Bruning, as Stephen Mortimore, and Ferdinand G o t t s c h a l k as Colonel Ponting —indeed, this is the best characterization that M r . G o t t s c h a l k has given in the New T h e a t r e , while E . M . H o l l a n d and Ben John son p l a y e d the lawyers so effectively that one realizes h o w greatly real acting in small parts can a d d to a performance. N o t since she appeared in " N a u g h t y An t h o n y , " the first c o m e d y that D a v i d Belasco w r o t e — a n d the o n l y one, I believe—has Blanche Bates departed from an emotional role until this season. In "Nobody's W i d o w " she has scored the greatest finan cial success of her career. T h e comedy —really it is m o r e a farce—is the lightest, flimsiest thing, with some extremely clever dialogue. Its spirit is essentially French, and one feels that the Parisian writers, who are infinitely m o r e skillful than any others in this sort of thing, w o u l d have made more of the idea. T h e r e is no question that Blanche Bates delights her audiences. She is t o o g o o d an actress to fail in anything; but she is n o t a c o m e d i e n n e , and the hyper critical, at least, feel that she is lacking in a delicate finesse, in the exquisite touch of evanescent h u m o r that is the soul of high comedy. B u t w e h a v e v e r y little high c o m e d y o n the stage n o w a d a y s , and only one high c o m e d i e n n e , Henrietta Crosman, in A m e r i c a .

T h e Players The chief c h a r m of " N o b o d y ' s W i d o w , " which was written b y A v e r y H o p w o o d , lies in the fact that it appears to be exceedingly naughty, while, as a matter of fact, it is highly moral. T h e heroine, having decided to separate from her titled British husband, announces the fact that she is a w i d o w . Then the husband appears and determines to make her c o m e b a c k to him. A n d this offers opportunity for some delicious scenes, especially when the husband persists in making a midnight visit to her b o u d o i r . Bruce M c R a e , w h o plays the husband, seems to have a keener notion of the w h i m sical humor of the farce than does the star. H e acts the part brilliantly. " T h e C u b , " b y T h o m p s o n Buchanan, in which Douglas Fairbanks is the star, is an extraordinarily clever satire on the K e n tucky feud, and it keeps the audiences in roars of laughter from the rise of the curtain to the end. Possibly it would be m o r e suc cessful as a play if there were less laughter in it. B u t the chief weakness is that the character of the hero, an inexperienced c u b reporter sent to investigate a feud, is not defined. One laughs at h i m m o r e than with him, which doesn't m a k e for financial suc cess, and to the v e r y end one isn't sure whether he has courage or whether he merely hasn't sense enough to be afraid. A n d those familiar with the cocksureness of M r . Fairbanks and the bubbling, aggressivey o u t h of him can realize h o w he accentuates the fundamental weakness of the play. After a long absence M a y Irwin returned to the N e w Y o r k stage to p r o v e again that no one can quite take her place, because of her homely, simple, honest, rollicking humor, which is as irresistible as it is spontaneous. B o o t h T a r k i n g t o n and H a r r y L e o n Wilson have p r o v i d e d her with an elementary v e h i c l e — " Getting a P o l i s h " — t h a t displays her powers to fine advantage—and nothing more is necessary. I t is amusing that these two highly intellectual, forceful, brilliant men, w h o have w o n real literary distinction, should shine as authors of home-cooking drama; but the huge royalty returns must salve their pride. Apart from M a y Irwin as Mrs. Jim, the c o m e d y doesn't a m o u n t to m u c h . I t is just a j o l l y evening's entertainment for people w h o want to laugh. This description is true also of William Collier in " I'll B e H a n g e d If I D o , " of which he and Edgar Selwyn are the authors.

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Originally a one-act skit, t w o more acts have been tacked on to it in rather hap hazard fashion, and the three hang together on the slenderest thread. B u t M r . Collier has p r o v i d e d himself with innumerable bright lines, which he reads in his o w n in imitable w a y , with his deadly serious face. For instance, when a y o u n g w o m a n to w h o m he had been engaged says: " I f I had mar ried y o u I should have c o m m i t t e d suicide," he retorts: " Y o u would have fallen on m y dead b o d y . " Really, a William Collier play is a m o n o l o g u e that changes from season to season, with actors to give it back ground and to allow the star to change his clothes. M r . Collier is always delightfully the same. Y'ears ago Oscar Hammerstein built a great amusement place which included a big music hall he called the O l y m p i a , a theatre called the Criterion, and a roof garden. Financial stress came u p o n him, and he lost the building with everything else. Sturdily he set to work to make another fortune out of inventions and again appeared as a factor in amusements, eventually becoming an in ternational figure b y establishing a grand opera c o m p a n y that was a rival of the Metropolitan. W h e n that institution gave M r . Hammerstein some millions to retire from the grand opera field, he had among his singers a tiny, vivacious little Italian with a W'onderful soprano voice m u c h bigger than she—Emma Trentini. H e decided to exploit her in light opera, so R i d a Johnson Y o u n g was commissioned to w rite what p r o v e d to be a silly b o o k and Victor Herbert to compose some of the finest music he has given to light opera. Also M r . Hammerstein had for " N a u g h t y M a r i e t t a " a new tenor—a y o u n g man from Indiana, w h o is said to have been " d i s c o v e r e d " and brought to the impresario's attention b y Gus Edwards, writer of p o p ular songs. In any case, Orville Harrold is a v e r y remarkable tenor, and is expected to make a real sensation in grand opera, whither he is b o u n d . T h e little Trentini, with her wonderful vivacity, her naive, whole-souled enthusiasm, and her wonderful v o i c e ; the Herbert music, the new tenor; and the fine acting of E d ward Martindel united to make a wonderful triumph for M r . Hammerstein. A n d this in the Olympia, renamed the N e w Y o r k , whose doors he had never entered since he left it as the owner. r

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what the c o p says about it. I have that A clean-cut y o u n g FELLOW FROM the district privilege, have I n o t ? A n d I d o n ' t need a attorney's office next stepped forward with a lawyer. Y o u ' l l treat m e all r i g h t . " bundle of legal documents. The big, boyish voice, clear and steady, "Officer! " H e was looking over the filled the r o o m ; the prisoner's round, smil papers in his hand. Then tie said " A h e m ! " ing face was looking up at the thin and cjuite importantly. peevish face of the clerk; their eyes met. A lump suddenly appeared in the cheek of Slowly the frown melted from the clerk's the officer in the witness chair. T h e clerk face until he was giving back, in the way of saw- it. " ' f a k e it out! T a k e it o u t ! " he a smile, the best he could d o . It was not growled. T h e officer's hand went to his Smith's smile alone, but the whole face. mouth and the lump disappeared in his pocket. "Certainly," said the clerk, and, turning to the judges, he a d d e d : " T h e case goes on " O f f i c e r " — t h e assistant district attorney for trial." had found the paper he was looking for. There was some shuffling of papers and a T h e r o o m became cpiiet. " O n the 2 2 N D instant, y o u arrested one John Smith for whisper or t w o between the judges. T h e violation of the speed ordinance." All eyes clerk called some names from the long list he held in his hand, ending in a singsong were n o w turned on " o n e John Smith." voice: A l s o , e v e r y face that looked upon " o n e John S m i t h " was smiling. Things were sticking "All other cases on the calendar will re out of the pockets of his overcoat. A pair turn to-morrow at ten o'clock without fur of white cloth legs, round and plump, p o k e d ther notice." from his right-hand pocket, while from the Bang!—the gavel came d o w n with a left a yellow, frowsy head, with one eye crash. pushed in, rested its rosy cheek luxuriously " G e e ! " — S m i t h started. against his warm, well-fitting overcoat. T h e " S i l e n c e ! " roared the clerk. inside pocket also bulged. " A r e they all d e a f ? " Smith asked the clerk, pleasantly. Noth ing but his smile saved him. "Officer John Donnellytake the s t a n d ! " I t was still the impatient clerk speaking. Smith now stepped d o w n from the platform and stood among the legal talent, reporters, and the "free and equal," who had the look of ex pecting s o m e invisible power to descend upon them. T h e moon-faced, red-cheeked smile had been contemplating the t hree dignified judges. He now turned and saw " h i s friend, the e n e m y " seated in the witness chair, twirl ing his cap between his knees. H e would hardly have known him for the hard-faced arbiter of the law of yesterday, so gentle and refined was he now, his blond head tipped to )NE OF M Y P A T I ENTS, JUDGE. O N E E Y E GONE, T E E T H A L L K N O C K E D one side in b e c o m i n g OUT, O N E A R M OFF, A N D A S M A S H E D F O O T — I DOX'T SUPPOSE humility. E V E N Y OU G E T T H E M AS D I S R E P U T A B L E AS THIS." 1

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The assistant district attorney contin ued—"Officer, just tell the court a b o u t it in as few w o r d s as p o s s i b l e . " " W e l l , sir"—the policeman shifted his position. E v i d e n t l y the task wasn't pan ning out as he had expected. " Y o u see, I was riding in the park on m e bicycle, when an a u t o m o b i l e whizzed b y me going like—er—very fast." H e s t o p p e d to wipe his m o u t h with the b a c k of his hand. It had been a narrow escape. H e went o n : " I took me stop-watch from m e p o c k e t , and timed him for t w o blocks, and found he was going t w e n t y - t w o and a half miles an hour, so I put him under arrest." " O n e minute, Officer," the assistant dis trict attorney interrupted. " D i d he say anything to y o u ? " " Y e s , sir; he said he was a d o c t o r and had a lot of sick people to see." " I s that all, Officer?" " T h a t ' s all he said." " A l l he said/ Well, what did he d o ? " " O h , just laughed—with his face like that." T h e officer p o i n t e d at Smith, and smiled like the rest. T h e smile had spread with alarming rapidity. " I s that all, Officer?" " Y e s , sir." Turning to the big, benign face with the smile, the attorney asked, " D o y o u want to ask any questions, D o c t o r ? " " N o , sir, I just wanted to hear the case, same as the judges here." H e w a v e d his

T h e chair wasn't large enough for both the d o c t o r a n d the bulging pockets, so, care fully lifting his c o a t , he allowed the sides to hang o v e r the arms. N o w , the frowsyheaded doll was looking furiously into the faces of the judges, while, on the "free and e q u a l " side of the r o o m , a pair of shapely legs p o i n t e d ceilingward, as was proper for that side of the house. T h e j u d g e o n the end seat had a kindly face. H e turned in his swivel chair and ad dressed the prisoner. " Y o u are a physi c i a n ? " I t was hardly a question. " Y e s , sir." " C h i l d r e n ' s s p e c i a l i s t ? " T h e judge was trying n o t to laugh—his eyes rested on the frowsy head that p o k e d from the doctor's pocket. "Ha, ha!" I t was a warm and hearty chuckle. I t c a m e from the prisoner, who went o n : " I k n o w h o w y o u g o t that." He reached to his p o c k e t a n d pulled out the dilapidated doll. " O n e of m y patients, Judge." H e began to l o o k it over. His smile was serious. " P r e t t y disreputable character—one eye gone, teeth all k n o c k e d out, one arm off, and a smashed f o o t — H a ! — I d o n ' t suppose even y o u get them as disreputable as this. Be longs to a little patient of mine, over on the East Side, a little cripple; been in bed a year; wants m e t o m a k e this well, same as I a m going to m a k e him well. That's what lie s a y s . " H e shook his head, closing his lips

IT'S FUNNY ABOUT DOLLS AND KIDS. I'VE PICKED UP AN OLD STOCKING FROM THE FLOOR, TIED A KNOT IN IT FOR A HEAD, AND PUT IT IN THEIR ARMS."

hand, to take them in. A twitter rippled through the court room. " T a k e the witness chair, D o c t o r , and we will endeavor to enlighten y o u , " said the assistant district attorney, v e r y politely. H e laid d o w n his papers, and was rubbing his hands together; his expression s a i d — " I w o n ' t d o a thing to y o u , oh, n o ! " T h e d o c t o r rose and went over to the wit ness chair on the platform beside the judges.

tight in thought. Finally his face opened out in a b r o a d smile from which an amused chuckle just o o z e d . I f was a remarkable face—it held one almost anticipating w h a t he might say. " I t s n a m e is ' D a ' — l o o k s it, doesn't i t ? " H e was turning it around, inspecting it closely. " B o t h b e g a n well, the name and j j v t - w - . e_V--)

T h e Children's Specialist the doll, but kind of petered out, I suppose." His big b o d y overflowed the chair, and the bulge from the inside p o c k e t troubled him. Reaching in, he pulled out a quart bottle— it bore no label. H e held it up while " D a " rested in his lap. " M e d i c i n e , J u d g e . " T h e n his face o p e n e d into a new kind of smile, w i t h a little embarrassment in it. " L o o k s as if I might be a veterinary, with a drench for a horse." T h e j u d g e inter rupted—almost apolo getically—with a smile. " T h i s is hardly rele vant, D o c t o r . Y o u are HE WANTS ME TO MAK ' DA ' WELL, SAME AS charged with exceed AM GOING TO MAKE HI ing the speed limit." WELL." " Relevant, J u d g e ? " —his face was wide open, astonished. " W h y , the soup was getting cold, Judge! " H e placed the bottle to his cheek, then shifted it to the other cheek to make sure. " I t is c o l d . " His face sud denly changed; all the astonishment left it for a troubled look. His eyes lifted to the judge's. " I t ' s the best medicine in the world for a little weazened face in pain, if it's hot, J u d g e . " Turning, he held it out to the assistant district attorney and said: "Just hand it to that c o p behind y o u and tell him to put it o n the radiator b y the gate. I'll get it when I g o o u t . " T h e y passed it quickly d o w n the line like a ball at a football game. Seeing " D a " in his lap, the d o c t o r picked it up and looked it over. " S p e e d ? Of course I speeded; he needed the medicine. A n d , besides, he was waiting for ' D a . ' " H e l o o k e d up to find the judges watching him, so he went on. " I t ' s funny, Judge, a b o u t dolls and k i d s . " l i e was n o w smiling confidentially into the judge's face. " I have been studying them l o r a long time. W h y , Judge, I ' v e seen a little kid, a year or t w o old, suffering such pain as y o u and I—thank G o d ! — h a v e never known. A doll? W h y , Judge, I ' v e picked up an old stocking from the floor, tied a knot in it for a head, and p u t it in their arms. T h e y stop crying, nestle up to it, and some times tell it not to c r y . " His eyes were half-closed, his face soft and tender. H e was almost whispering n o w . " W h y , Judge, it seems to remind them of something—they're so full of love that—

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H e paused a m o m e n t , as though he saw it all again. Some one on the "free and e q u a l " side of the r o o m was smothering a laugh; it was a w o m a n with her head on the bench before her; her shoulders were heaving. I t was an unpleasant, strident laugh. " N o , sir, they d o n ' t learn it there; they bring it with them, Judge, from where they c o m e . " A fearless smile overspread his face. " A n d I ' m never sorry to see their little visit here made short; I ' m never sorry to see them in their little b o a t b o u n d for the place from whence they came, and even old ' D a ' here isn't too b a d to keep them company. A n d I always try, no matter how disreputable, to tuck these ' D a ' s ' in their little skiffs before they are carried o u t . " H e looked at the kind-faced j u d g e earnestly. " Y o u d o n ' t see this side, Judge; y o u only see the side that makes y o u angry. I see it, too, and it makes m e mad, madder than hell sometimes; but then I throw that off, for I ' m only a 'children's s p e c i a l i s t . ' " H e was again smiling, and so was every b o d y else in the r o o m ; but theirs was a nervous smile, almost apprehensive. He glanced at the clock that faced him on the opposite wall. " M y L o r d , look at the time! Quartetpast twelve, and I said I w o u l d be b a c k with ' D a ' all fixed at half past. I ' v e got to hustle." H e chuckled to himself as he stuffed " D a " in his p o c k e t . " B u t I ' m al

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ways this w a y — g e t talking a b o u t kids and newer k n o w when to s t o p . " A s he rose from his seat, the chair stuck to him—he pushed it d o w n and chuckled again. " I ' m so used to sitting o n b o x e s that I hardly know- h o w to c o n d u c t myself in a parlor." H e stepped d o w n from the little platform of the witness chair like an elephant in a circus. F r o m the radiator, as he passed, he tookthe bottle of chicken soup and stuffed it back into his pocket. A s he went through the little gate, one of the legs in his p o c k e t kicked defiantly at the judges, while the other kept waving a " d a y - d a y , " all the w a y d o w n the aisle, to the "free and e q u a l , " w h o still were smiling as if hypnotized. His hand was on the k n o b of the d o o r when he stopped abruptly; then turned back. H e was not smiling, b u t blushing. " J u d g e , " he said, with chagrined aston ishment, " w e forgot the trial." H e re minded the "free and e q u a l " of their b o y when caught in the act. T h e judges said nothing. T h e y stared at the children's spe cialist, but what they saw was much farther away. " W e l l , Judge, what's it going to b e for ' D a ' and m e ? " H e had pulled " D a " out of his p o c k e t and put it b a c k v e r y carefully. " W e ' r e sorry, especially ' D a ' — i f that's going to do any g o o d . " It was a serious smile that n o w played about his very- un usual face—a mixture of sunshine and shadow. One of the judges was wiping his glasses

Magazine v e r y slowly, as if he expected to b e busy at it for an hour. A n o t h e r was picking up some papers from the floor behind the bench and having trouble with the last sheet. The kindly-faced o n e l o o k e d v e r y severe; seeing his colleagues were silent, he spoke sternly: " J u s t i c e must b e done at a n y c o s t . " T h e audience, to a man, frowned. "Put the officer b a c k on the stand," went on the j u d g e . " I want to ask him some ques tions." T h e impatient clerk suddenly appeared from behind his desk, looking angry, and hissed: " D o n n e l l y ! " A n d as Donnelly passed him he coughed, and said, from force of h a b i t : " T a k e it o u t . " B u t D o n n e l l y only shook his head and l o o k e d bewildered. " O f f i c e r " — i t was the j u d g e in the middle w h o spoke, his elbows on the desk—"did y o u measure the distance? " " N o , ma'am." " D o n ' t call m e ' m a ' a m ! ' " I t shot out like a blast. T h e c o p shrank back. " S t a n d up straight, d o n ' t slouch that w a y . N o w what have y o u got to s a y ? " " N o t h i n g , ma'am—sir." " D i s c h a r g e d for want of evidence." The other t w o judges n o d d e d their assent. " And see here, D o c t o r , y o u and ' D a ' keep out of this c o u r t . " Turning to the bicycle cops w h o filled the r o o m from their Sunday drag-net, His H o n o r said: " T h e first officer that leads that m a n here again I'll fine for contempt of court."

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ONCE M O R E — W O M A N ' S S P H E R E ! M Y DEAR M R . H A R D : P e r m i t m e t o say t h a t y o u r articles u p o n ' ' T h e W o m a n of the F u t u r e , " t o m y m i n d , are tiie m o s t illuminating a n d suggestive that h a v e yet appeared a n y w h e r e . I h a v e read t h e m with great interest, the m o r e so, perhaps, b e c a u s e m y o w n v i e w s u p o n the general s u b j e c t are— not o p p o s e d t o y o u r s ; t h a t w o u l d p u t it t o o strongly—but t h e y are—different. I am a d o c t o r — a n o l d d o c t o r , nigh o n t o s e v e n t y — a n d that p r o b a b l y is the reason w h y I l o o k u p o n the subject f r o m the v i e w - p o i n t of w o m a n ' s p h y s i o logical relation t o the race. W o m a n is the a u t o c r a t of s o c i e t y . She m a k e s it. I n the last analysis, she creates the social a t m o s p h e r e , that i m p a l p a b l e , f o g g y , feather b e d - v force w h i c h a n y o n e m a y o p p o s e , b u t w h i c h in the e n d o v e r c o m e s all resistance and c o m p e l s a c q u i e s c e n c e . T h e h o m e discipline that the i n d i v i d u a l p a r e n t m a y e m p l o y is rig o r o u s l y limited b y M r s . G r u n d y . And Mrs. G r u n d y is the c o m p o s i t e m o t h e r of the c o m m u n i t y , w h o s e e d i c t s h a v e banished effective discipline from the A m e r i c a n h o m e . Y o u will see at o n c e that this t h o u g h t , carried o u t t o its logical results, m a k e s the c o m p o s i t e m o t h e r of the land responsible, finally, for rear ing a generation of spoiled children, of w h o m y o u r M a r i e is o n e t y p e . A n o t h e r t y p e is repre sented b y the abler, m o r e aggressive and tal e n t e d ones, a m o n g w h o m arc the " m a l e f a c t o r s of great w e a l t h , " the leading spirits in lawd e f y i n g " b i g b u s i n e s s , " the " f e l l o w s higher up." T h e social a t m o s p h e r e that tolerates t h e m with social r e c o g n i t i o n is o f w o m a n ' s c r e a t i o n . T h e s l o u g h s o f c o r r u p t i o n t h a t h a v e b e e n un c o v e r e d c o u l d n e v e r h a v e existed at all in the face o f w o m a n ' s stern d i s a p p r o v a l of the k n o w n guilty ones. F o r t h e y h a v e been k n o w n well 423

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Everybody's Magazine "lienors" will be extinguished in the splendors of aspiration for adequate preparation for a sphere that all nature declares to be hers ex clusively. The woman who shirks her function as mother is a degenerate as truly as the inmates of the brothels, and it is a godsend to society that she does not reproduce her kind. Your Marie was the product of what her father and her husband "had done for her," but, under present social conditions, her mother was a larger factor. From Marie's girlhood her mother had taught her to dread the pains of childbirth, and it was her mother that carried out systematic indulgence of every whim from babyhood to marriage. Then there is another factor in the family doctor. He was a popular " s o c i e t y " doctor, whose bread and butter it was to encourage every imagined illness and, by suggestion, to magnify them to the limit of her own or her mother's credulity. D o you know, deprived of that sort of practice, half the city profession would be out of business and the other half would barelv live. W. B. E. Ainsworth, Neb. A N A V Y SURGEON ON S N A K E - B I T E S

I have just read Samuel Hopkins Adams's "The Poison B u g a b o o " in your October maga zine. The purpose of this letter is to take square issue with the statement that only eighty persons have ever died of snake-bite in the United States. Within the last five years I myself, at my own expense, have collected evi dences of twenty cases, none older than fifteen years, which are, so I am assured by com petent authority, as well established as is re quired by current rules of court practice. I recognize the fallacies that beset any one who investigates so difficult a subject; still, I am con vinced that the majority of the errors in con nection with snake-bites arises through inexact ness in determining the species of the snake. For instance, I have been unable to find the report of more than one fatal case of rattlesnake bite in Mississippi, although I have records of numerous cases where the persons bitten re covered. I ascribe this to the fact that the only rattlesnake that is at all generally known there is the Crotalus horridus; this species at tains perhaps its maximum development in this state; wherefore I conclude, and I have so always maintained, that the Crotalus horridus is not essentially deadly, by which I mean that under ordinary circumstances it is not apt to kill a grown-up human being. In mountainous re gions, however, this species is occasionally more deadly than the foregoing statement would indicate. It is, as the French say, "quite another pair of sleeves" as regards the Crotalus adamanteus,

the diamond-backed rattlesnake of the south eastern United States. I agree fully with the statement in Professor Ditmars's "Reptile B o o k " which classes this serpent as the peer of any venomous snake whatsoever. In conclusion, I beg leave to suggest that more judicious investigation of records easily avail able will amplify greatly the estimates to which 1 have referred. Through careful consideration of data available to me I estimate, and I do not hesitate to predict, that the next census will show that deaths from snake-bites are about as common in the southeastern states as are those from lightning. And, inasmuch as antitoxin treatment of snake-bites is easily available, it follows that deaths from snake-bites should be classed as preventable. W . F. ARNOLD, M . D.,

Surgeon, U. S. Navy, Retired. N E V E R D U G P O S T H O L E S IN PEACE RIVER V A L L E Y

I see in your February issue a story by Robert Dunn, and in that article he has me digging telegraph post holes in the Peace River Valley. Now, sir, I have not dug post holes in Peace River, nor have I ever been in that part of Can ada. I have been in Yukon and Dawson City off and on for these last fourteen years, or since early in 1897, and only came out to Victoria, B. C., one year ago, and have not been east or south farther than Vancouver, B. C , and Seattle, Washington, U. S. A . ; so your Mr. Dunn was hoaxed into believing that he saw the old war horse doing an honest day's work in the Peace River Valley—not that it would be any dis grace to me. Kindly publish this in your next issue, and oblige, F. P. SLAVLN.

Beaumont, Victoria, B. C. A C O M P L A I N T FROM ECUADOR

For some time I have been reading your in teresting E V E R Y B O D Y ' S M A G A Z I N E .

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vember number I found a story entitled "The Madness of John Harned," written by Jack London; and as in the first lines I saw men tioned Guayaquil, Quito, Maria Valenzuela, I was instantly interested in the story, being my self an Ecuadorian. You may imagine how this article has affected me, being, as it is, a ridicule of a whole republic. This article gives an entirely erroneous idea of what Ecuador and its people are, presenting us as uncivilized people of the mediaeval age. I cannot understand how EVERYBODY'S M A G A Z I N E has permitted such an article to be published. It appears to me that you Amer icans, as well as we Latins, should do everything to further pleasant relations between the two Americas instead of dividing, and creating an

Straight T a l k a n t i - A m e r i c a n spirit in the S o u t h , w i t h articles lacking so m u c h in p r u d e n c e a n d v e r a c i t y as this. I trust t h a t as a c o u r t e s y t o m y c o u n t r y , where there are m e n as c i v i l i z e d a n d m a n l y as in a n y o t h e r c o u n t r y in the w o r l d , y o u will k i n d l y p u b l i s h this p r o t e s t against the g r a t u i t o u s offender. D R . J. C U E V A GARCIA. Colon, R . P. THE RAILROADS' T R O U B L E S — A N D OURS Just n o w , the r a i l w a y s are c l a m o r i n g for a vast increase in rates of freight, as b e i n g n e c e s sary t o their c o n t i n u e d e x i s t e n c e , a n d p u t t i n g u p the plea t h a t it is i m p o s s i b l e t o effect further economies. I t w o u l d therefore s e e m t o b e a not unfitting t i m e t o inquire s o m e w h a t i n t o t h e facts in the case a n d t o learn w h y it is t h a t s o m a n y p r e d a t o r y c o r p o r a t i o n s are p e r m i t t e d t o prey u p o n t h e m a n d d i v e r t i n t o o t h e r h a n d s the revenues w h i c h s h o u l d a c c r u e t o t h e m . Of course, t h e express c o m p a n i e s c o m e first on the list. T h e s e v a m p i r e s , p r e y i n g alike u p o n the railways a n d t h e p u b l i c , are m e r e l y a set of i m p u d e n t interlopers, t h i r d parties, t h r u s t in b e t w e e n the carrier a n d t h e p u b l i c , w i t h n o ex cuse for e x i s t e n c e e x c e p t t o w r i n g f r o m t h e p e o ple e x t o r t i o n a t e profits, at the partial e x p e n s e of the railways. T h e express c o m p a n i e s g e t a n y t h i n g t h e y w a n t f r o m the c a r r y i n g c o r p o r a t i o n s — s p a c e in their s t a t i o n s , y a r d s , advertise ments, t i m e of their e m p l o y e e s , car a n d train a c c o m m o d a t i o n s , e t c . , a p p a r e n t l y w i t h o u t let or h i n d r a n c e ; a n d all t o c o n d u c t a business w h i c h s h o u l d rightfully b e carried o n b y the carriers t h e m s e l v e s , i t is j u s t as easy t o h a n d l e an express as a freight business. N e x t in o r d e r m i g h t b e m e n t i o n e d the Pull m a n C o m p a n y . T h e e n o r m o u s profits of this parasite s h o u l d a c c r u e t o the r a i l w a y s . What reason is there t o p r e v e n t t h e m f r o m caring for a n d f o r w a r d i n g the sleeping p a s s e n g e r ? As a m a t t e r of fact, the B . c V O . R . R . C o . did, at o n e t i m e , h a n d l e its o w n sleeping cars, b u t w a s h a n d i c a p p e d b e c a u s e it c o u l d n o t f o r w a r d t h e m b e y o n d its o w n lines. C o o p e r a t i o n b y the r a i l w a y s w o u l d enable t h e m t o t r a n s p o r t the passenger across the c o n t i n e n t in a parlor o r C a n it p a l a c e car as easily as in a d a y c o a c h . be t h a t the interests of r a i l w a y officials p r e v e n t ? A g a i n , there are the " f a s t f r e i g h t " lines a n d the " c a r t r u s t s " a n d the different b r i d g e s o w n e d b y o u t s i d e r s , w h i c h e x a c t a h e a v y toll f r o m the railways. T h e r e is a b r i d g e used b y the P., F t . W . 6 r " C . R . R . at P i t t s b u r g w h i c h , I a m in f o r m e d , is o w n e d b y a separate c o r p o r a t i o n t h a t c o l l e c t s toll for e v e r y ton of freight a n d e v e r y p a s s e n g e r c o a c h t h a t passes o v e r its bridge. W h y s h o u l d n o t the r a i l w a y o w n it? A g a i n , there are the n u m e r o u s a n d c o s t l y H o w m a n y of p r i v a t e cars u s e d b y " o f f i c i a l s . " these are n e c e s s a r y ? I n h o w m a n y cases w o u l d t h e p u b l i c b e b e t t e r s e r v e d if t'hese persons

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t r a v e l e d as d o those who pay, instead of p l a c i n g those w h o arc p a i d in a different class? I n h o w m a n y cases w o u l d the " o f f i c i a l " k n o w the needs o f the r o a d a n d the p u b l i c b e t t e r , if he traveled as d o e s the o r d i n a r y p a s s e n g e r ? T h e truth is, the r a i l w a y " o f f i c i a l s " h a v e set t h e m s e l v e s a p a r t as a separate a n d superior o r d e r of b e i n g s a n d w r a p p e d t h e m s e l v e s in an insufferable a n d a b o u n d i n g c o n c e i t ; w h e n the truth, as s h o w n b y i n v e s t i g a t i o n , has p r o v e d t h e m g u i l t y of e v e r y k i n d of c o m m e r c i a l a n d business i n i q u i t y , b y w h i c h t h e y h a v e fostered the trusts, b r o k e n d o w n l e g i t i m a t e c o m p e t i t i o n , b r i b e d legislators a n d c o u n c i l s , a n d l o a d e d their r o a d s w i t h ficti t i o u s c a p i t a l a n d b o n d issues. W h i l e I a m w r i t i n g , p e r m i t m e to say t h a t I b e l i e v e credit t o b e d u e the m a g a z i n e s for the r e c e n t , a n d the c o m i n g , p o l i t i c a l r e v o l u t i o n s . T h e crimes of the R e p u b l i c a n p a r t y h a v e been m a n y , b u t the n e w s p a p e r s w o u l d n e v e r h a v e exposed them. W e can learn the truth t h r o u g h D . W . B. the n o n - p a r t i s a n m a g a z i n e s o n l y . Ben A v o n , Pa. PREACHING A MAGAZINE

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P e r m i t m e t o c o n g r a t u l a t e y o u o n the s u p e r b discussion o n the s u b j e c t of miracles c o n t r i b u t e d to y o u r January number b y William Hanna T h o m s o n . D o c t o r T h o m s o n ' s argument gripped m e so that I g a v e it t o m y p e o p l e o n t h e first S u n d a y in J a n u a r y , a n d related the c i r c u m stance of h o w m y a t t e n t i o n w a s called t o it in the c o l u m n s of y o u r m a g a z i n e , a n d h o w his a r g u m e n t g r i p p e d m e , a n d w a r m e d m e u p , and filled m e u p , until it w a s a sheer i m p o s s i b i l i t y for m e to d o o t h e r w i s e t h a n t o g i v e it red-hot t o m y S u n d a y m o r n i n g c o n g r e g a t i o n . I t has in v i g o r a t e d m y faith and, t h r o u g h m y S u n d a y m o r n i n g message, the faith of m y p e o p l e , in the supernatural e l e m e n t s of the Christian faith. I d o n o t hesitate to p r o n o u n c e it the m o s t lucid, c o g e n t , c o n v i n c i n g a r g u m e n t for miracles that I h a v e ever heard o r read, and I h a v e m o r e than a h u n d r e d v o l u m e s of s e r m o n s o n m y library shelves. J. L . Merrill, W i s . E N D O R S I N G MR. W I L D E R ' S V I E W S T h e r e c o u l d b e n o b e t t e r e x a m p l e to illustrate M r . W i l d e r ' s p o s i t i o n in s u p p o r t of d e l e g a t e d g o v e r n m e n t t h a n the letters w h i c h o p p o s e it. H i s m o d e r a t i o n , far sight, l o n g l o g i c , a n d clear t h o u g h t are t h r o w n i n t o high relief b y the h e a t e d a r g u m e n t s a n d l o c a l interests of his o p p o n e n t s . Until the l a w s are a d m i n i s t e r e d b y trained and specialized m i n d s , a n d the t r u l y u n e d u c a t e d masses ( u n e d u c a t e d , in t h a t t h e y h a v e n o t learned to respect learning) are represented b y their superiors, w e shall c o n t i n u e to p l a y the child in the p a r l i a m e n t s of the w o r l d . L . R . B o o n l o n , N . J.

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I T was Oscar Wilde who said that worrier) are sphinxes without riddles; and the quip may stand as a trenchant statement of what is really a totally negligible truth. For it is never in the challenge of an existent riddle, but always in the lure of a non-existent answer, that eternal stimulus resides. The rule holds good even in mathematics. The circle and the square, had it not been for the lucky impossibility of squar ing the circle, would long since have taken each other for granted. If the Eternal Feminine were really guarding an actual conundrum, some prying scientific Johnnie would stumble on the answer some day and then, presto—but don't let us even think of such a catastrophe. The point at issue is that there is not the slight est clanger of the New Woman's spoiling sport by economic self-obtrusion or by literary selfanalysis. She will only add to the game the delightful fillip of an altered emphasis. Emily James Putnam's charming studies of significant phases in the historical development of sheltered European womanhood, " T h e L a d y " (Sturgis and Walton), besides being examples of a genuinely constructive scholar ship and expressions of a distinct literary per sonality, illustrate the titillating possibilities of the new approach to the old mystery. The author comes gracefully and graciously for ward, offering to call a truce in the age-long conflict of deception, and ready to meet us (vizor down and only the sharp poniard of a tempered irony by way of side-arms) on the middle ground of unbiased inquiry. She proudly foregoes all sex-allowances and tacitly disclaims all benefits of chivalrous make-believe. She is impersonal, un-selfconscious, frank, per spicacious, sincere. She delicately, yet un flinchingly, draws aside veil after veil; analyz

ing the successive protective devices of fem ininity with cleft feminine self-knowledge. But when, with a little bow and a mocking smile, she leaves us at last—while she leaves us vastly edified and no little instructed, we find ourselves no whit disillusioned and no jot less mystified.

There is a blunt yet tactful justice, a delicate recognition of humble but genuine sendee, in the French idiom that speaks of the interested and sympathetic lookers-on at a function as "assisting" at the event. I should like, for a moment, to borrow the expression. For the publication of " T h e Japanese Letters of Lafca dio Hearn" (Houghton. Mifflin), edited by Elizabeth Bisland, offers us the none too fre quent privilege of assisting, in this sense, at the induction of a neophyte into the body of Eng lish literature. Many an honest eyebrow will perhaps raise itself in doubting challenge of this statement; because, in the first place, it has been insisted upon to the point of triteness that the "art of letter writing" has been lost to us moderns; and, in the next place, because we have come, by the hard and fast habit of our aesthetic outlook, to feel that an intention of permanence is of the essence of art; that "art" in letter writing leads to artificiality; and hence that letters and literature are incompatible terms. Here, however (as has happened just often enough before to prove the relative elas ticity of the rule), a retiring, sensitive, yet vital personality has found its most adequate selfexpression in the exercise of an untrammelcd and exquisite spontaneity in correspondence.

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for the meeting of the occidental and oriental consciousnesses. But he possessed to so extraor dinary a degree the artist's ability to put him self, intellectually and emotionally, in others' places, that he spent his life looking at the world through alien eyes, and never, for all his hopes and strivings, reached the self-assertion of creative art. Indeed, his mind, instead of being the sculptor's studio of his artistic labors, was in reality the statue upon which he worked. And it is only in his letters that we find its beauties of contour and quality preserved and revealed.

brought against him are quite naturally incom prehensible to him except on the supposition that his proclamation has been premature. In reality, however, his solemn announcement of the hopeless breakdown of a discredited sexual idealism cannot but appear bewildered and pessimistically futile to an age that is already sorting out the foundation stones of a new and, as it fondly hopes, a more practical ideal.

It is well, however, to remember that, letters being fragmentary glimpses, not parts of a com pleted w-hole, a volume of them is a book to browse in, not to consume seriatim or at a sit ting. We are so accustomed to table d'hbtc literature that we have lost the habit of reading a la carte. Nevertheless, the present volume, the third of Hearn's collected correspondence, is for the most part made up of letters to Basil Hall Chamberlain, written between 1 S 9 0 and 1894; and the community of understanding and sympathy in their respective attitudes toward Japanese life and tradition, which is the under lying factor in the inspiration of the letters, adds to the unity and homogeneity of the series.

Did you ever talk to a man who was a born collector and who, through long indulgence in the habit, had become a confirmed and hopeless incurable? Are not these people, for the most part, and to put it bluntly, "the limit"? And yet is there not an oddly irritating fascination in the perversions and inversions that their vocab ularies and their sense of values have undergone? Mr. E. V. Lucas, the indefatigable anthologist, is one of the rare instances of a congenital col lector who, while indulging his master passion, has remained human and articulate. That is to say, while he does not invariably retain any sense of needed relationship between his treas ured specimens and life, he has never lost his appreciation of the relationship between life and the beloved avocation of the collector. He can, and occasionally does, engagingly explain the modus operandi of the cult, and admit us as spectators in imagination to the activities of its initiates.

Mr. James Lane Allen is reported to have said that he feared he had delivered too soon the message that his "Bride of the Mistletoe"' was intended to convey. Mr. Allen, being more completely acquainted with the message than his readers, is better qualified to judge; yet the second story of the projected trilogy of com munication, " T h e Doctor's Christmas E v e ' ' (Macmillan), sufficiently amplifies the infer ences of the first tale to suggest the possibility that the message comes too late rather than too early—that it is a message which the conscious ness of the day has already accepted, the disap pointments of which it has already discounted, and the hopeful possibilities of which it is already busily, though blunderingly, trying to work out. " T h e Bride of the Mistletoe" pictured for us the sudden collapse, in a Kentucky household, of the desperately maintained fiction that ro mantic love is self-endowed with unchanging youth; and, in the pompous scholasticism of Professor Ousley's didactic essay,offered us,over Mrs. Ousley's shoulder, some post-Darwinian proofs of the inevitability of the catastrophe. The new story pictures for us the breakdown of an equally desperately maintained fiction—the notion that faithfulness to an unconsummated romance condones the sin of its own selfishness and illusions. Mr. Allen's earnestness and con viction in the writing of these tales are unmis takable and almost sacerdotal. And the accusa tions of "bewildered pessimism" that have been

In a story called "Over Bemerton's," he not only introduced us to an attractive victim of this obsession, but actually induced us to share some of his hero's joy and solace in his literary treasure-trove. And in his latest book, " M r . Ingleside" (Macmillan), he offers us the entrSe to a select and genuinely likable coterie of desultory pokers-about among old books and old possessions; and, under cover of telling us a simple little story, gives us for an hour's breathing the languorous but restful air of lit erary and aesthetic dilettanteism. 0 Mr. Arnold Bennett's " H o w to Live on 24 Hours a D a y " (Doran) is one of the most intrinsically amusing events of the moment. For it is admirably, although innocently, calcu lated simultaneously to confound the extrem ists of both parties to the Bennett controversy: those who have hailed this young Englishman as impeccable, and those who have declared him to be impossible. Mr. Bennett's really remark able grasp of the subjective mentality of his characters, joined to the complete detachment and the aloofness from sentiment of his attitude as an author, has induced the intellectuals and the cmotionals to regard him, respectively, as superhuman and as inhuman. The intense per

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sonal earnestness of this didactic little essay, in which he tells us how to become capitalists of Time by saving half hours, and intellectual Sandows by doing mental calisthenics, may conceivably induce the emotionalists to hail him as a Daniel come to judgment and the intel lectuals to declare that he has become a Bro mide. As a matter of fact, it merely proves that, like other and less gifted mortals, Mr. Bennett is lovably and humanly capable of being pas sionately banal out of business hours.

I would like to put a small red cross opposite the name of Gouverneur Morris's new volume of short stories, " T h e Spread Eagle" (Scribner). This mark is not meant, like Baedeker's cele brated star, to indicate that if you are travel ing first class through current literature, with a courier and fourteen trunks, you must by all means put up at this book of entertainment. It is intended to serve as a reminder (like a knot in one's watch chain or a ring changed to an unaccustomed finger) that you do not want to forget it. This is not only because there are moments when it will come in handy, but be cause there are moods that it will minister to; legitimate moods that it will supply with that of which they stand in need and which in these clays is difficult to come upon—namely, a whole hearted and unforced restatement of the worth of naive enthusiasms and of the validity of youthful ideals. An ideal is a faith clothed in illusion. And we are so busy just now getting rid of worn-out illusions preparatory to being measured for new ones, that our faith in the simple joys of life occasionally finds itself un clothed and shivering in the cold. Mr. Mor ris's stories, with the unassumed sparkle and unadulterated zest that enliven and inspire his work, remind us that there is still warmth and wear left in some of the garments that we have incontinently relegated to the rag heap.

£> " Nightshade " (Brentano's), by Paul Gwynnc, is one of the fictional first-fruits of the scientific world's new attitude of open-minded inquiry toward the so-called uncanny. This attitude is, in itself, one of the most interesting and significant developments of our day, since it indicates modern science's emergence from adolescence into maturity. In its infancy sci ence, like other infants, believed everything that was told it—that ducks wintered under water and that oysters grew on trees. Later, it instinctively realized that "there is an age in life when we must dare to be unjust, when we must make a clean sweep of all admiration and respect got at second hand, and deny every

Magazine thing—truth and untruth—everything which we have not ourselves known for truth." The resulting scientific materialism, dogmatic and militant, was a youth's declaration of intellect ual independence. This turning, of its own accord, to the quiet consideration of that which it has long denied is the proof of its conscious freedom and achieved manhood. Incidentally, this new attitude (as Mr. Gwynne's weird novel shows) bids fair, for the first time in a generation or so, once more to allow grown-up children legitimately to satisfy the wholesome and nat ural cravings of their imaginations with the delicious pseudo-terrors of grown-up ghost stories. The central theme of Mr. Gwynne's story is the power of supernormal vision given to the eyes of a blind musician by a lamp emitting ultra-violet rays of adjustable wave lengths, invented by a Mephistophelian old scientist of doubtful antecedents and questionable aims. The violinist himself, the Parisian gamin who attends him, and the two sisters whom he blindly thinks are one woman, make a back ground of human interest for the hinted horrors of scientific disclosure. "Nightshade," in that it finally calls in the dead imaginings of the old superstition to "explain" its eventual denoue ment, is a hybrid and transitional type. But it is so genuinely suggestive in the partial realiza tion of its eerie conception, and so successfully revives an emotion long absent from current fiction, that it would be ungrateful to empha size its shortcomings at the expense of its attainments. £3

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& "Oh, Lord," was the fervent prayer of a Southern negro, " o h , Lord, send a turkey to this p o ' ole darky." But he prayed in vain. Christmas was coming and he grew desperate. " O h , Lord," he prayed again, with increasing fervor, " o h , Lord, send this p o ' ole darky to a turkey." And that very night his prayer was answered.

"Here, do you not know the Fourth Com mandment? " Piper: " N o , sir, but if you'll—hie—whistle it I'll—hie—try it, sir." J& The widow of a German officer presented herself at the office for the purpose of drawing the pension due to her. She handed in the necessary certificate from the mayor of the town in which she lived, to the effect that she was still alive. "This certificate is not correct," said the official in charge. "What's the matter with i t ? " asked the lady. "It bears the date October 2 1 , " was the stern reply, "and your pension was due on October 15·" "Well, what kind of a certificate do you wish?" asked the disappointed applicant. " W e must have a certificate stating that you were alive on the fifteenth of October," said the official, with great firmness.

0 On a large estate in the Scottish Highlands it was the custom for a piper to play in front of the house every week-day morning, to awaken the residents. After an overconvivial Saturday night, however, the piper forgot the day and began his reveille (can it be played on the pipes?) on Sunday morning. Angry Master,, from bedroom window: 4 9

The dapper little traveling man glanced at the menu and then looked up at the pretty waitress: "Nice day, little one," he began. " Y e s , it is," she answered, "and so was yester day, and my name is Ella, and I know I'm a little peach, and have pretty blue eyes, and I've been here quite a while and like the place, and I don't think I'm too nice a girl to be work ing in a hotel—if I did I'd quit my job—and my wages are satisfactory, and I don't know if there is a show or dance in town to-night, and if there is I shall not go with you, and I'm from

Everybody's Magazine the country, and I'm a respectable girl, and my brother is cook in this hotel, and he weighs two hundred pounds, and last week he wiped this dining-room floor with a fresh iifty-a-month traveling man who tried to make a date with me. Now, what'll you h a v e ? " The dapper little traveling man said he was not very hungry and a cup of coffee and some hot cakes would do.

The following is a proclamation made at the Market Cross of Inverary, Scotland, less than a hundred years ago: " T a hoy! Te tither a-hoy! Ta hoy three times!!! an' ta hoy—Whist!! By command of his Majesty, King George, an' her (.race te Duke O'Argyll: ''If anybody is found fishing about te lock, or below te lock, afore te lock, or ahint te lock, in te lock, or on te lock, aroun' te lock, or about te lock, she's to be persecutit wi' three persecu tions: first she's to be burnt, syne she's to be drownt, an' then to be hangt, an' if she ever comes back she's to be persecutit wi' a far waur death. " G o d save te King, an' her Grace te Duke O'Argyll." m A traveling man who was a cigarette smoker reached town on an early train. H E wanted a smoke, but none of the stores was open. Near the station he saw a newsboy smoking, and approached him with: "Say, son, got another cigarette? " " N o , sir," said the boy, "but I've got makings." "All right," the traveling man said. " B u t I can't roll 'em very well. Will you fix one for me?" The boy did. " D o n ' t believe I've got a match," said the man, after a search through his pockets. The boy handed him a match. "Say, Cap tain," he said, " y o u ain't got anything but the habit, have you? " 1

services, and you should dig up a good-sized fee. Have you got any m o n e y ? " " Y e s , Boss," replied Rastus, " I still done got dat seben dollahs and eighty-five cents."

A stout old gentleman was having trouble with the telephone. He could hear nothing but a confused jumble of sounds, and finally he became so exasperated that he shouted into the transmitter: "Is there a blithering fool at the end of this line?" " N o t at this end," answered a cool, feminine voice.

& A little colored girl, deeply insulted by her playmate, who had pushed her "off'n de stoop," took her case before the justice of the peace. He inquired into the circumstances and said, turning to the injured one: " T h e plaintiff is allowed to ask the defendant a question, in regard to the assault." " W h a ' s dat y o ' say, sah?" " I say that you may ask the defendant a question." " W h — what'll Ah ask her, sah?" " A n y question you like." The child studied the floor a moment. Then, with the politest of smiles, she inquired, "Sally, am y o ' mamma well?" 0 Kin Hubbard, the Indiana humorist—one of them, that is to say—once was assigned to cover a performance of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Hubbard had his brain-child, old " A b e Mar tin." report the play. This was the critique: " ' Uncle T o m ' s Cabin' played down t' Melodeon Hall las' night. T h ' dogs was good, but they had poor support."

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Rastus was on trial, charged with stealing seven dollars and eighty-FIVE cents. lie pleaded not guilty, and, as he was unable to hire an attorney, the judge appointed Law yer Clearem as counsel. Clearem put up a strong plea in defense, and Rastus was ac quitted. Counsel and client met a few minutes later outside the court-room. " N o w , Rastus," said Clearem, " y o u know the court allows the counsel very little for de fending this kind of case. I worked hard for you and got you clear. I'm entitled to much more pay than I'm getting for my valuable

She advanced to the paying teller's window and, handing in a check for fifty dollars, stated that it was a birthday present from her husband and asked for payment. The teller informed her that she must first endorse it. " I don't know what you mean," she said hesitatingly-. " W h y , you see," he explained, " y o u must write your name on the back, so that when we return the check to your husband, he will know we have paid you the money." " O h , is that a l l ? " she said, relieved. . · • One minute elapses. Thus the "endorsement": " M a n y thanks.dear, I've got the money. Your loving wife, Evelyn."

P U B L I S H E D

THE E R M A N

R A Y

RlDGWAY,

BROWN,

Art

R l D G W A Y

President

JOHN

O ' H A R A

C O M P A N Y

C O S G R A V E ,

Editor

Director

SPRING

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A N D

M A C D O U G A L

W M . L . J E N N I N G S , Secy R O B E R T

STREETS,

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Y O R K

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Mgr.

CITY

W I T H "EVE R Y B O D Y S " P U B L I S H E R S The completest information we can get w o u l d indicate that M o r m o n leaders continue t o practice p o l y g a m y , continue to encourage the pracÂ tice a m o n g the y o u n g e r men, continue t o disregard their agreement with the G o v e r n m e n t of the United States, continue to flout the nation's laws, continue t o scour the world for w o m e n victims of their sublimated white slavery. W h e n we arranged with ex-Senator Cannon for his " U n d e r the P r o p h e t " series, our chief o b j e c t was to give to our readers an accurate inside a c c o u n t of the growth and present status of M o r m o n i s m . A n account as accurate as history should be, divested of all high coloring, imaginary plots, and subterranean mysteries. W e believed w e should be doing the M o r m o n s a g o o d turn to report their history thus honestly and accurately. W e did not hate the M o r m o n s . W e did not fear the M o r m o n s . W e did not believe the stories of their present p o l y g a m o u s practices. W e thought there might be t w o or three exceptions, at most. But A s the truth has been forced u p o n us that some of the leaders of the Church are openly living in p o l y g a m y , brazenly defying the laws, secretly encouraging the y o u n g men in p o l y g a m o u s practices, there has gradually grown up in us a great wrath at the attitude of these leaders, a great disgust at p o l y g a m y , and a great shame that Americans should permit it. W h e n our art director, with rare genius, placed the illustrations in this m o n t h ' s instalment, he visualized p o l y g a m y . If they impress y o u as t h e y did us, each page showing another residence of Prophet Smith for another wife, when y o u get to the last illustration y o u r heart will scarcely contain y o u r horror and y o u r disgust and y o u r anger. T

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A n d if y o u haye imagination—if y o u see these houses with children playing in the yards, and their enslaved m o t h e r s l o o k i n g on from the d o o r w a y s — i f y o u see a bewhiskered brute g o i n g in and out of these houses, bcstializing the sweet h o m e sentiments built u p through years of self-restraint—why, it's horrible! T h a t ' s w h a t it is! N o sane man can fail t o feel the horror, and it ought to b e stopped—throttled—utterly destroyed—immediately, forever. True, people should be left free to worship G o d in their own way— unless that w a y interferes with the laws society has p r o v i d e d for its o w n safety. Society might permit a harmless lunatic t o b e at large; but if society found him poisoning all the springs, society certainly would have some right t o interfere. Other religions that run t o the sensual are p r o m p t l y suppressed; w h y has the sensual feature of M o r m o n i s m been permitted to con tinue ? FOR VOTES. Nice c o m m e n t , isn't it, on the great R e p u b l i c a n p a r t y and thé great D e m o c r a t i c party? If y o u ' l l give us y o u r v o t e s , we'll let y o u live. Once, before Utah was a state, the United States Government said: " Y o u must stop p o l y g a m y ! " A n d the P r o p h e t straightway got in touch with the A l m i g h t y and secured a n e w revelation t o cover the trying situation in which the " c h o s e n p e o p l e " found themselves. A n d the leaders stopped p o l y g a m y until t h e y h a d obtained statehood —but really carried the doctrine on as a cardinal principle of their faith. A n d n o w they return to the practice of it. A n d political parties, for the sake of votes, wink at the breaking of the law s and the disregard of pledges. D o the M o r m o n s actually believe in their religion? D o the women actually believe they are serving G o d A l m i g h t y w h e n they lend them selves t o this ghastly practice? It passes belief, and yet it must b e so. H o w e v e r attractive divinely legalized license m a y be t o the men, and h o w e v e r m u c h the women m a y b e influenced t o choose half a h o m e or one-fifth of a home to no home, the fact remains that M o r m o n s are d e v o u t . r

W e cannot but admire m a n y M o r m o n traits—courage, frugality, tenacity; but their persistence in p o l y g a m y is an insult and a menace to the rest of the c o u n t r y and a crime against societv. It has got to stop. If the government of Utah will n o t stop it ; if the m e n will not stop it—then in m e r c y ' s name let the w o m e n take h o l d and stop it. They can d o it. T h e y ought t o d o it. T h e real crime is against woman hood. W h y d o n ' t they stop it? Utah is a w o m a n ' s suffrage state. W h y d o n ' t the suffrage leaders of the nation show, b y cleaning u p U t a h , w h a t w o m e n can do with the ballot?

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M A G A Z I N E

Look before

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T h e old a d a g e , " l o o k before you leap" n o w reads, " l o o k before y o u l e a s e . ' '

A poorly

heated building is n o r e n t i n g (or

sales)

bargain

any

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invigorating

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Preseri/es Roads

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Tarvia in Cambridge

Street, also an automobile route, Berk shire and York Streets were built, follow ing the methods used on Harvard St.

For some years the superintendent of streets has been experimenting with Tarvi macadam road binder and dust layer.

At the same time Massachusetts Ave., one of the heavy travelled streets leading from Boston to the suburbs on the northwest, was rebuilt in a thoroughly substantial manner with Tarvia X .

AMBRIDGE, MASS., widely known as the seat of Harvard College, is a progressive modern city of 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 inhabitants.

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To-day, tarviated macadam has been adopted as a standard method of con struction. Harvard Street, leading to the college, and one of the principal automobile routes from Boston, was in bad condition in 1 9 0 S . A section of the Harvard Square end was laid with Tarvia X , and an adjacent section was built without Tarvia. The experience during the succeeding winter convinced the superintendent that Tarvia was necessary to make a macadam road endure modern fast-moving traffic. The next season sections of Columbia

In addition to the construction work, Tarvia B has been spread on automobile thoroughfares like Magazine Street, Kirkland Street and the Charles River Parkway. On these streets the automobile traffic is extremely heavy, as Cambridge is not only the way out from Boston to the north and west, but is also crossed by all traffic from the southern to the northern suburbs. Tarvia B was chosen after actual road trials of different types of dust layers and road preservatives. Booklet regarding the Tarvia treatment free on request to our nearest office.

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O n e thing the guarantee forces upon us ; it makes us extremely careful in

A n o t h e r little detail is the nail ing. S o m e manufacturers supply broad-headed nails, but these fre quently cut the roofing. Other manufacturers supply tin discs w h i c h rust quickly and cause leaks.

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T o avoid any trouble from this source, w e provide free o f charge, galvanized iron caps w h i c h are rust p r o o f and will last as long as the roofing.

T h i s year w e will guarantee thousands of roofs all over the country to last till ICJ2I on this basis. O f course w e are not going to l o s e — w e are offering a sure thing. W e k n o w C o n g o will last more than 1 0 years.

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I f it w o u l d not d o s o , it w o u l d be absurd for us to jeopardize our business b y making so m a n y binding guarantees, and the National Surety C o . w o u l d not stand behind us.

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Annual Special Sale OSTER EXTRA THICK $ 30.9° FRENCH EDGE MATTRESS

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In the course of our enormous business, hundreds of ticking

remnants accumulate. W e take this annual opportunity to move

them. Y o u get the financial benefit—we clear our stock.

These mattresses cost $30. regularly, and are in every ivay as great, if not greater bargains than those sold last year at the special price of $18.50. If you were fortunate enough to secure one, you willfully appreciate the present sale. Mattresses are all full, double-bed size, 4 feet 6 inches wide, 6 feet 4 inches Jong, in one or two parts, round corners, 5-inch inseamed borders, French R o l l e d Edges, exactly like illustration. Built in the most luxurious possible manner by our most expert specialists. Filling is especially selected Ostermoor Sheets, all hand-laid, closed within ticking entirely by h a n d sewing.

Weight—full 60 lbs. each, 15 lbs. more than regular Coverings—beautiful Mercerized French Art T w i l l s , finest quality—pink, blue, yellow, green or lavender, plain or figured. High-grade, dustproof Satin Finish T i c k i n g , striped in linen effect, or the g o o d , old-fashioned blue and white stripe Herring-bone Ticking.

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From your Ostermoor dealer; or, if he has none in stock, w e will ship direct, express prepaid, same day check is received

W e pay transportation charges anywhere in the United States. Offered only while they last; first c o m e , first served. T h e supply is limited. T e r m s of sale- Cash in a d v a n c e ; n o n e sent C . O . D . Regular Ostermoor Mattress. 4-inch border. 4 feet 6-inch size. 45 lbs., in two parts, costs $15. 50. T h e £30 French tdge Mattress is two inches thicker, weighs 15 lbs. more, has round corners, soft Rolled ' Edges, closer tufts, finer covering, and is much softer and far more resilient. 1"*· Send your name on a postal for our free descriptive b o o k , " T h e Test o f T i m e , ' a veritable work of art. 144 pages in two c o l o r s , profusely illustrated.

OSTERMOOR & COMPANY, 107 Elizabeth St., New York Canadian Agency: Alaska Featherft r>own e.>., Ltd., Montreal When, ordering, state first, second and even third choice of color of covering, in case all you like are already, sold—there'11 be no lime for correspondence.

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FFLZ / R Children's Heirlooms

H E R E IS A G R E A T D E A L M O R E I N that statement than a m e r e phrase. H o w m u c h m o d e r n - m a d e furniture will endure l o n g e n o u g h to be a n h e i r l o o m ? T h e Berkey & G a y Furniture C o m p a n y i s p r o d u c i n g d a y after d a y , a n d y e a r after year, furniture w h i c h , b e c a u s e o f its d e s i g n a n d w o r k m a n s h i p a n d material,will b e w o r t h y a n d beauti ful l o n g h e n c e .

F y o u should visit the B e r k e y & G a y Furniture C o m p a n y shops in G r a n d Rapids, y o u w o u l d see the patient, m e t h o d i c a l care and skill of the m e n w h o are d e v o t i n g their best time and t h o u g h t t o m a k i n g the best furniture t o be m a d e . N o c o n c e a l i n g of defects, n o slurring over hidden joints, n o hasty finishing — but the same meditative, almost loving, treat m e n t of w o o d , w h i c h in the olden days put t o g e t h e r the priceless period furniture.

U R local representative will be glad to show you his displays of our furni ture. On his floors is a g o o d l y show i n g , and in his magnificent portfolio of photogravures is a lifelike presentment of our 2 , 0 0 0 pieces. Inspect the furniture, study it carefully, understand h o w it is made and what it is made of, and why it is so made — and then you will see w h y a Berkey & G a y piece is one that will stay in your family for years and years. If you would like to read a de luxe b o o k about "Character in Furniture," we will be glad to send it to y o u . It is not a catalogue. W h e n you know our furniture you will understand why it is not the sort that may be put into a cheap catalogue.

Berkey

H I S book we have published is an uncommercial publication, and an expensive one—to us. It tells the story of period furniture in a most interesting way.

A series of paintings by Rene Vincent, the famous French artist, showing our furniture in real life, illustrates it. T h e edition is small, and the demand for copies is great. Fifteen twocent U . S. stamps—much less than the actual cost of mak ing the book — brings it to you by the next mail. But it would be best to send for it at once.

Gay Furniture Co.

159 Canal Street, Grand Rapids, Michigan

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A RE you one of the thousands of manufacturers who ^ ^ pay large annual varnish bills without taking any active interest in the quality, economy or efficiency of the varnish itself? It's a c o s t l y

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E v e r y d a y we arc s h o w i n g manufacturers h o w t h e v ran greatly increase the q u a l i t y of their finishing without increasing the cost for finishing materials; How

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H o w t h e y c a n increase their o u t p u t b y re d u c i n g the t i m e and labor in the finishing department; H o w t h e y can m a k e their p r o d u c t s m o r e at t r a c t i v e and more salable. These arc some of the profit making o p p o r tunities that arc open t o y o u if y o u will o n l y t a k e the time to LOOK into the s u b j e c t . ful

It is not s i m p l y a matter of close and care purchasing.

It i n v o l v e s y o u r manufacturing and finishing processes. If affects b o t h y o u r profits and y o u r factory output. It is so i m p o r t a n t that a large manufacturer w h o recently died, stipulated in his will that Berry B r o t h e r s ' Varnishes be continued in use as long as t h e business l i v e d ! He was one of those wise e x e c u t i v e s ot large corporations w h o m a k e big m o n e y o u t of what others con sider " little t h i n g s . " N o m a t t e r h o w far y o u may be removed from the a c t u a l use of the varnish—look into the s u b j e c t . Y o u will never be sure that your finishing p r o b l e m s h a v e been satisfactorily, fairly and e c o n o m i c a l l y solved until you have exhausted t h e resources, knowledge anil ex perience of o u r organization.

Send for our booklet, " Choosing Your Varnish Maker," and learn briefly w h a t our goods, ability and service are. Better still, ask us to send one of our specialists who understands the finishing problems of your particular business. I t will place y o u under no obligations whatever. Berry Brothers' Architectural Finishes the most widely used varnishes for homes a n d other buildings — can be supplied b y a n y painter or dealer. L o o k for the Berry Label and insist upon getting it. There is no better w a y to b e sure that, your varnish b u y ing will give y o u the best returns for your m o n e y .

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HANKERING DOWN theCostof HEATING

1 X 7 T T H living expenses in g e n e r a l climbing higher, Underfeed W a r m A i r Furnaces and Steam and H o t W a t e r Boilers a r e h a m m e r i n g d o w n t h e cost o f h e a t i n g t o the l o w e s t possible notch. In t h o u s a n d s o f A m e r i c a n h o m e s clean, e v e n h e a t is enjoyed a t least cost. T h e U n d e r f e e d h a s m a d e this possible. T h e r e ' s n o g u e s s w o r k about it. T h o s e w h o h a v e t h o r o u g h l y tested the Underfeed a n d p r o v e d

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All fire is on top—the sensible heat-conserving way.

Smoke and gases, wasted in other heaters, must pass

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the smoke nuisance and nets more heat. The few

ashes are removed by shaking the grate bar as

in ordinary furnaces and boilers. Satisfaction with

the Underfeed grows with the years.

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All "asphalt roofing" is not Trinidad Lake Asphalt Roofing—there's a great big difference. L o o k out for that when you buy your roofing. O r d i n a r y s o - c a l l e d a s p h a l t r o o f i n g s a r e m a d e o f artificial p r o ducts

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q u a l i t y o f the o i l s in the n a t u r a l p r o d u c t ; a n d t h e y s o o n e v a p o r a t e and l e a v e the r o o f i n g " d e a d " — a n d it c r a c k s , b r e a k s a n d l e a k s , a l t h o u g h at the first it m a y l o o k l i k e G e n a s c o , the real T r i n i d a d - L a k e - A s p h a l t r o o f i n g . N a t u r a l asphalt in r o o f i n g is the g r e a t e s t w e a t h e r - r e s i s t e r k n o w n . T o m a k e sure o f r o o f i n g that w i l l p e r m a n e n t l y p r o t e c t , ask y o u r dealer for G e n a s c o , the T r i n i d a d - L a k e - A s p h a l t R o o f i n g , w i t h either mineral or s m o o t h surface. Fully guaranteed. The Kant-leak Kleet w a t e r p r o o f s t h e s e a m s of G e n a s c o R o o f i n g without cement, does away w i t h nail-leaks, a n d g i v e s t h e roof an attractive finish. A s k your dealer for G e n a s c o witli K a n t - l e a k K l e e t s p a c k e d in t h e roll. W r i t e for samples and t h e G o o d R o o f Guide B o o k . THE

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The Apollo is the only player piano in the world with which you can instantly omit the melody, play the accompaniment in any desired key, or accent the melody correctly in all compositions. But here we put emphaÂ sis on the self-evident truth that the only correct way to play a piano is down on the keys. And, by right of patÂ ents, the Apollo is the only player piano that does touch directly down on the keys. Write at once, or ask one of our three hundred dealers. MELVILLE CLARK. PIANO

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4 1 2 Steinwsy Buildinf, Chicago A Few 1911 Style, of the APOLLO

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Behind thé Stëgër Piano

Steger supremacy is the cumulative result of the musical know ledge and creative genius of generations of a family of master piano builders applied to the attainment of a lofty ideal for art's sake. The many thousands in use fully attest to the incomparable singing quality, sonority, depth and permanency of tone of remark able sweetness—the superior materials and workmanship—the proven durability of ^tC(J6rfeifolttPianos and Natural Player Pianos. The experience of thousands of users has amply demonstrated that both the intrinsic and market value of a Jíteíjer de preciates less, year in, year out, than any other make. mulinili ;ii!!SI!Eil ¡¡•nuil J ÍÜ!J!»«>i. ¿ I ' M , UM!

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M o n e y will be Saved Painting this Spring

A I N T w h i c h wears is made from pure white lead, mixed with linseed oil and c o l o r e d at the time of painting. Even though linseed oil is high, the thing to r e m e m b e r is that paint materials are not nearly so expensive as the repairing of a neglected house. Linseed oil at even $1.00 or $ 1 . 2 5 a gallon makes the painting of the average house cost only $4 or $5 m o r e than it used to cost. N o t enough to warrant letting any house g o to ruin from lack of paint.

Furthermore, the flax crop is short again. Linseed oil w o n ' t soon go lower. It may g o higher. Paint this Spring and get the benefit of present prices. A n d use " D u t c h Boy Painter" white lead and genuine linseed oil. D o n ' t be tempted, because standard materials are high, to employ some thing inferior. T h i s is a mistake because not true economy. It may surprise you if you d o a little figuring yourself.

Get from your local dealer prices on the following ingredients :

1 0 0 lbs. " D u t c h B o y Painter" white lead 4 gallons pure linseed oil

1 gallon turpentine 1 pint turpentine drier

T h i s m a k e s 8 gallons G e n u i n e o l d - f a s h i o n e d paint

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using. Y o u ' l l find the best is also the cheapest.

Our Free Painting Helps W e will send you, if asked, color schemes, miscellaneous painting

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T o Painters: If you are a skilled white-leader and use " D u t c h

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L i s t . " W r i t e us for Blue List Circular N o . 242. It gives particulars.

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A house White Leaded is a h o u s e w e l l p a i n t e d ti.

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T h e flame o f a p o w e r f u l b l o w - t o r c h — w h i c h is intense e n o u g h t o e v e n m e l t i r o n — w i l l n o t b u r n J-M Asbestos R e a d y R o o f i n g w h e n h e l d o n one spot f o r n e a r l y a n hour. N o r w i l l i t s e t fire t o b o a r d s u n d e r n e a t h , T h i s has been p r o v e n b y i m p a r t i a l t e s t s m a d e b y F i r e C h i e f s a n d City Council representatives o f m a n y l a r g e cities. J - M A s b e s t o s R o o f i n g i s a b s o l u t e l y fire-proof because its b a s e c o n s i s t s o f s e v e r a l l a y e r s o f p u r e A s b e s t o s Felt. A n d A s b e s t o s , y o u k n o w , is t h e fire-proof, p r a c t i c a l l y i n d e s t r u c t i b l e , m i n e r a l used in gas grates, stove mats, theatre curtains, e t c . T h e s e l a y e r s o f A s b e s t o s ( s t o n e ) F e l t a r e firmly c e m e n t e d t o g e t h e r with g e n u i n e Trini d a d L a k e A s p h a l t — t h a t w o n d e r f u l m i n e r a l c e m e n t w h i c h , i n a s p h a l t p a v e m e n t s , stands the grinding o f wheels a n d p o u n d i n g o f hoofs f o r thirty t o forty years. T h u s , J - M A s b e s t o s R o o f i n g is composed oi. att minerals. N o t a p a r t i c l e o f perishable material in

J - M ASBESTOS ROOFING

Because o f this mineral o r s t o n e c o n s t r u c tion, J-M A s b e s t o s R o o f i n g is also rust-proof, rot-proof a n d acid-proof. A n d , like all s t o n e , it n e v e r n e e d s p a i n t i n g o r c o a t i n g . N o other ready roofing gives a building s u c h a b s o l u t e fire p r o t e c t i o n . N o n e o t h e r lasts s o l o n g w i t h s o little a t t e n t i o n . J - M R o o f i n g is still in g o o d c o n d i t i o n o n m a n y b u i l d i n g s after n e a r l y a q u a r t e r o f a c e n t u r y o f s e r v i c e . Our nearest B r a n c h will supply y o u with

H. BALTIMORE BOSTON BUFFALO

J - M A s b e s t o s R o o f i n g if n o t o b t a i n a b l e atyour d e a l e r ' s — a l s o a p p l y it, if d e s i r e d .

SEND FOR THIS ODD STONE \ V e w a n t t o s e n d y o u a f r e e s a m p l e , j u s t a s it c o m e s f r o m o u r m i n e s , o f t h e c u r i o u s A s b e s t o s R o c k o f which this r o o f i n g is m a d e . W e w a n t y o u t o s e e f o ryourself t h a t its l o n g , silky, pliable fibres will n o t burn when h e l d in fire. W r i t e o u r n e a r e s t B r a n c h n o w , a n d w e ' l l also send o u r h a n d s o m e l y i l l u s t r a t e d B o o k N o . J-29.

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IT IS THE PUREST PETROLEUM JELLY Be on the safe side when you buy a medicine. The special process o f refine ment and extra filtration b y which Vaseline is obtained from petroleum makes cer tain its a b s o l u t e purity. Don't confuse the name "Vaseline" with the "petro latums" or ordinary petro leum jellies sometimes of fered as " the same thing."

Many Kinds—Many Uses You S h o u l d K n o w t h e m All O n a c c o u n t o f its g r e a t v a l u e as a n e m o l i e n t a n d its u n e q u a l l e d p o w e r for soothing and healing, Vaseline has b e e n c o m b i n e d w i t h s t a n d a r d specifics to f o r m s i m p l e , r e l i a b l e a n d effective r e m e d i e s f o r o r d i n a r y ills and accidents. A n assortment of these remedies f o r m a safe and simple "first a i d " m e d i c i n e chest for h o u s e h o l d use. B e s i d e s the v a r i e t i e s d e s c r i b e d h e r e in detail, there are t h e following:

CAPSICUM VASELINE—Better than a mustard plaster; easier t o apply and d o e s n o t

blister t h e skin. R u b o n at night for sore

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MENTHOLATED VASELINE — R e l i e v e s headache, neuralgia or any nerve pain. Th© menthol s o o t h e s tire nerves, while V a s e l i n e c o n d u c t s it q u i c k l y t o the seat o f trouble.

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T h e m o d e r n w a y o f using V a s e l i n e , recom mended b y physicians and nurses. This pure tin container preserves the absolute purity o f V a s e l i n e and keeps it f r e e from dust and germs. E s p e c i a l l y convenient.

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W A S H B U R N - C R O S B Y C O . , Minneapolis, M i n n . , have used this 3-ton W i l c o x T r u c k continuously since March 1st, 1910, for delivering G o l d Medal Flour. T h e company is so well satisfied that they have recently re-ordered. Detail figures on the low cost of maintenance and delivery efficiency from the experience of this c o m p a n y may be had upon request.

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S A V E S $ 1 2 9 . 0 0 P E R M O N T H — T h e Minneapolis Steel & Machinery C o . owns a 1^-ton truck, and use it continually for hauling heavy loads of steel and iron. Their average cost of maintenance is $96.72 per month. T h e average cost of maintaining one team and driver is $90.00 per month. Since the truck does the w o r k of 2}4 teams or m o r e , this company actually saves $129.00 per month. T h e truck averages S}4 8-mile trips per day. S A V E S $ 1 1 1 . 2 5 P E R M O N T H — A 1 ^ - t o n truck owned b y the Minneapolis Bedding Co. averages 1100 to 1200 miles per month at an actual cost of $25.10 per month for every item of operation and repairs, driver $75.00, depreciation $20.00, or a total of $120.10 per month. The company's b o o k s for a period of one year previous to the purchase of the truck show an average monthly cost of $38.00 for team and barn maintenance, teamster $52.00, depreciation $2.50 per team. Since the truck does the w o r k of 2 j ^ teams, this company figures an actual saving of $111.25 per month. D O E S M O R E T H A N 1 2 T E A M S — T h e Lamb Lumber C o . , at St. Paul, Minn., have operated a " W i l c o x T r u x " for one year, and recently reported the following experience : In one day a truck hauled a car load of green h e m l o c k a distance of 7 J-2 miles, accomplishing the performance in three trips over a route which includes one of the worst hills in St. Paul. It usually requires 12 teams a day and a half to d o this work.

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THIS S T A N D A R D O N E - T O N C H A S S I S with special body was built for W m . A . French & C o . , who require sterling service and reliability in a truck with high class appearance, in keeping with Displaces two delivery rigs. the class of goods they deliver to their exclusive patrons.

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S A V E S $ 8 4 . 0 0 P E R M O N T H — T h e Northland Pine C o . , of Minneapolis, have operated their 3-ton W i l c o x T r u c k for G]A months, making a total of 8,000 miles on an average cost of $127.20 per month, including gasoline, oil, repairs and driver. The truck displaces two 4-horse teams, which would cost this company $208 per month. The net saving effected is $84.00 per month. S A V E S $ 1 0 0 . 1 0 P E R M O N T H — O n e 3-ton " W i l c o x T r u x " owned by the Deere & W e b b e r Co. Minneapolis displaces t w o heavy drays. It has been tied up for repairs only five days in one year of service. By a most careful analysis of expense as compared with tire cost of maintaining teams, this company report a saving of $3.S5 per day, or $100.10 per month. C O S T S L E S S T H A N M U L E S — T h e Union Oil C o . , of San Francisco, C a l , in a test contest 32 tons hauled a distance of 41.4 miles in 9 with a six-mule team, report the result as follows: hours at a cost of $4.90 with a W i l c o x T r u x ; the six-mule team hauled only 15 tons a distance of only 13.8 miles in nine hours at a cost of $13.00. W I L L D O A S MUCH F O R Y O U — T h e s e are only fair examples of what you can expect from " W i l c o x T r u x . " W e can show you where you can make money every month by motorizing your delivery system. Our expert traffic department will analyze your problems, and answer them frankly for you. Send for diagnosis blank and catalogue.

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P E E D , p o w e r , style, prestige are e m b o d i e d in e v e r y detail of design and construction o f the majestic National 40. T h i s is the car w h i c h triumphed in leading speed classics o f 1910, o n road, hill and s p e e d w a y . N o other stock c a r has endured in the a c i d test o f sus tained high-speed flights w i t h such a w o n d e r f u l freedom from mechanical troubles. N o o t h e r c a r has demonstrated such m a r v e l o u s p o w e r , stamina and consistency. T i m e and again Nationals finished in one, t w o o r d e r in important long races. T h e r e is a j o y o u s feeling o f pride in o w n e r s h i p o f the National 40 w h i c h w o n s u c h signal h o n o r s at the Vander bilt, Elgin, F a i r m o u n t Park, A l g o n q u i n Hill, F o r t Jefferson, Syracuse, W i l k e s b a r r e Hill, and o n the A t l a n t a and Indian apolis S p e e d w a y s . A n d the b e a u t y o f lines and l u x u r y o f the National " 4 0 " — i n touring car, limousine o r roadster—are not sur passed b y a n y other m o t o r c a r built, regardless o f the cost. Open Touring Car, Open T o y Tonneau, Speedway Roadster, $ 2 , 5 0 0 2,600 Fere-Door Touring, Fore-Door T o y , Fore-Door Seven Passenger Touring, 3,000 Luxurious Limousine—Fore-Door,

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THE

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"The Easiest Riding Car in the World"

Why

It Wins

The Marmon is not built for racing purposes.

The fact that it won more of the important racing

events of 1910 is gratifying, of course, and the fact

that it established more new racing records than any

other car is pleasing.

But these things are incidental.

Our primary purpose is to build the best motor car

in the world for family purposes.

Our purpose in racing has been to

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car that no other test could search out.

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ELIM1 T h e quiet, smooth running motor, the exhilarating buoy ancy of the silent, swift motion—these are proofs of the detailed mechanical perfection of the Kissel Kar—the result of the exceptional system of multiplied inspection under w h i c h every part of the Kissel Kar is produced. Luxurious in appointments and finish, extra roomy, excep tionally comfortable, the Kissel Kar classifies itself among the few perfectly constructed, really superb automobiles.

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The s e l l i n g at $2500 $2000, a n d 30 H. P., $1500—have the symmetrical ( f o r e - d o o r $100 extra) is the sensational v a l u e o f the year. The " S i x " has a l w a y s b e e n t h e c h o i c e l i n e s a n d aristocratic appointments characteristic of p u r c h a s e r s to w h o m t h e s u p r e m a c y o f t h e c a r o f s u p e r i o r quality cars. a n d n o t the p r i c e is the m a i n c o n s i d e r a t i o n — a n d with the paten the r o o m y , s e v e n - p a s s e n g e r Kissel K a r " S i x " is d o u b l e w h e e l d r i v e , is m o r e dependable than instantly r e c o g n i z e d as b e l o n g i n g to this class o f a v e r a g e t r u c k s a n d has p r o v e d in competition to superb automobiles. b e 15</ct o 2 0 % m o r e e c o n o m i c a l of gasoline.

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EVERITT30"

Only 4,000 EVERITTS, This Year, From a Factory of

Double That Capacity—Read, A n d Learn T h e R e a s o n W h y

For the last ten years—since the beginning of automobiles—a certain three Detroit man ufacturers have been building motor-cars. They worked on the first car built in Detroit; experimented through all the years of development; manufactured by the tens of thousands during the great demand for usable cheap cars. Their names are famous wherever cars are known. Two years ago, a demand for better qual ity appeared. It began to be apparent that cheap, machine-made cars, hastily assem bled, could not be permanently satisfactory. Buyers began asking for the quality found in costly cars. The great manufacturing interests owned by these men were quickly sold. A new factory was purchased; a million dollars and a year's time spent in its equipment. Then came the sifting and final adoption of designs, parts and equipment—a process of infinite care.

Built For a New Demand For it was determined to build a genuine "quality car"—to set a standard for years. To eliminate every useless part, profit by the matchless experience available, manu facture every detail, and give to those operations which m a k e for excellence, a de gree of painstaking care known only to the costliest. T h e result was the "Everitt 30." T h i s was the car built to meet the new demand. A s it appeared on the road, a year ago, it attracted instant attention. Engi neers who examined it, pronounced it a marvel of scientific and simplified mechan ism. Buyers who drove it, found it gave a satisfaction and remarkable performance hitherto unknown to medium-priced cars. T h e new model was an instant success.

From these first cars have c o m e astonish ing stories of service. Owner after owner has written to the factory in remarkable words. There has not been a single "come back"; not a single dissatisfied owner. Every one of the 900 has made good.

Limited Quality—Every Car Right It w a s determined at the start to limit factory production—realized as the one means of maintaining quality. This for the reason that the processes which mean most to a high-grade car are necessarily slow and tedious. It is impos sible to hurry the skilled handwork of adjusting, assembling, inspecting and test ing, without sacrificing quality. This in addition to the mechanical operations com mon to all modern factories. Good cars are always built slowly. And this is why there will be only 4,000 Everitts this year from a factory of double that capacity. It means that many would-be buyers will be disappointed; but it also means that every man who gets an Everitt will get a car he knows is right. T h e price —$1,400—is an incident. It is the quality that counts. W e want you to see this car—to test it for yourself over the worst conditions you can find. Only in this w a y can it really be appreciated. There are only a few Everitts now unsold. W i l l you write for our catalog and name of nearest dealer? U s e this coupon—now.

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BROC

E L E C T R I C I M E WAS WHEN A MAN LOOKED UPON AN ELECTRIC AS A WOMAN'S CAR—BUT THAT'S NO LONGER TRUE. I N MANY RESPECTS THE LUXURIOUS BROC IS THE BEST TOWN OR SUBURBAN CAR A MAN CAN DRIVE—EITHER IN THE ROADSTER OR COUPE TYPE.

It is safer, cleaner,'handier, m o r e easily controlled than a gasoline car. It has ample p o w e r and speed for t o w n or suburban use, and costs far less to operate. Three to seven dollars a m o n t h will furnish all necessary current to run a four-passenger Broc-as often, as fast and as far as the average person desires. It requires n o chauffeur; a n y m e m b e r of the family can operate it; it is less likely to get out of o r d e r ^ m o r e dependable the year r o u n d ; and it has all the style one could wish for. If y o u are interested to k n o w the details of B r o c design and construction, write for the L u x u r i o u s B r o c catalog showing the six models for 1 9 1 1 — f o r t w o , three and four passengers; E x i d e or Edison batteries.

The BrvOC ELECTRIC V E H I C L E , C O M P A N Y 1671 East Fortieth Street ie a d v e r t i s e m e n t s i n E v e r y b o d y ' s M a g a z i n e a r e i n d e x e d .

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Reo

You can d o it with a

The car you are sure of B u y the car that y o u know will d o w h a t y o u ask o f it. D e m a n d proof. Y o u w a n t reliability — the kind o f relia bility that b e l o n g s t o the car o f 1 9 1 1 . Y o u w a n t p o w e r , speed, s m o o t h n e s s , and particularly comfort. T h e R e o 1 0 < d a y - a n d - n i g h t record from N e w Y o r k t o San F r a n c i s c o p r o v e s c o n c l u sively that the R e o has all these qualities in high degree. 1

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R e o Fore D o o r T o u r i n g Car, $1350 Mezger Automatic Windshield

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R e o Limousine

$2000

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W h a t the R e o Record proves Reliability. No car could make that trip from New York to San Francisco in 1 0 days 15 hours 1 3 minutes (beating a # 4 0 0 0 sixcylinder car by nearly five days) unless it were thoroughly and absolutely reliable. Smoothness. The Reo made the trip without a single adjust ment being made to its engine, beyond replacing one spark plug. This shows that the engine and all working parts operated with perfect smoothness. P o w e r . The deserts and moun tains were full of rough and steep climbs. Speed. The Reo averaged nearly 4 0 0 miles a day. Comfort. Human beings could not have stood the strain of that long and trying trip if the Reo had not been superlatively comfortable. High - grade - construction. The Reo was in perfect condition at the finish and the same car has been winning other endurance contests right along. Everything. On that trip the Reo encountered every kind of troublesome road and conditions you will ever meet so long as you own a car.

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7/TeOWEN

D e v o t e d to c o m f o r t and family The Owen

is b u i l t o n t h e s a m e g e n e r a l l i n e s as o t h e r

class, w i t h , h o w e v e r , these special features and degree o f c o m f o r t hitherto

Light weight

permitting

convert

what

wheels

disagreeable j o l t

into

undulation.

( 4 2 inches diameter)

motor

w h i c h afford a k i n d

the use o f s m o o t h easy s p r i n g s w h i c h

which

d e p r e s s i o n s as i f t h e r o a d w e r e e n t i r e l y

Long-Stroke

cars o f h i g h

unknown.

w o u l d otherwise

gentle and altogether pleasing

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" N o O t h e r Electric Requires as L i t t l e A t t e n t i o n as a B a k e r " arage men the country over will tell you that G the Baker gives them less trouble than any other car. Its mechanism is shaft

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trouble proof. The shaft drive never needs ad justing. There are no chains or torsion rods to get out of order. The chainless transmission and patented controller save current, so that less charging is required. Baker Electrics have made one world's mileage record after another, with both lead and Edison batteries. E q u i p p e d w i t h either lead or E d i s o n batteries—special electric p n e u m a t i c or M o t z h i g h efficiency c u s h i o n tires.

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-REAL TIRE

H A V E Solved t h e Problem o f Perfect Tire Protection. M y " B r i c t s o n " Guarant I Detach- : T r e a d H a s S t o o d the Severest Tests in A c t u a l U s e b y T h o u s a n d s o f A u t o m o b i l e Owners I K n o w T h i s t o B e a Fact. Because, (1) I M a k e the Under A l l Sorts o f R o a d Conditions. B r i c t s o n " T r e a d in a M a n n e r T h a t L e a v e s N o Q u e s t i o n o f D o u b t A s t o I t s Q u a l i t y ; (2) H u n d r e d s o f U s e r s o f M y T r e a d A l l O v e r t h e C o u n t r y H a v e A s s u r e d M e T h a t T h e " B r i c t s o n " is t h e O n e a n d O n l y R E A L T i r e P r o t e c t o r .

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Five years A g o , W h e n I perfected M y Tread. 1 D e t e r m i n e d t o Sell I t D i r e c t t o C o n s u m e r s , S o .< ' T h a t I C o u l d T r a c e Results o f E a c h Sale a n d K n o w for Myself Just W h a t M y Goods Were Doing. T h e Results o f T h i s D i r e c t Selling P o l i c y H a v e So Thoroughly C o n v i n c e d M o o f the Practical Perfection of the " B r i c t s o n " Tread, T h a t I A m N o wR e a d y to Place " B r i c t s o n " Agencies W i t h Leading Dealers Throughout the Country. A p p l i c a t i o n s Will B e C o n s i d e r e d in O r d e r o f R e c e i p t , Live Dealers. W h o W a n t t o Represent the Only R E A L Tire Pro tector B a c k e d by the Greatest Advertising Campaign Ever Undertaken on a Similar P r o p o s i t i o n , S h o u l d G e t B u s y a n d W i r e , W r i t e o r P h o n o f o r Full Particulars o f m y B r i c t s o n T r e a d Proposition at O n c e !

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Consider the following description o f h o w this T r e a d is m a d e : First, I u s e a n o u t e r layer o f specially t a n n e d , extra pliable C h r o m e Leather, w h i c h never b e c o m e s h a r d o r brittle—never c r a c k s — e v e n w h e n con t i n u o u s l y e x p o s e d o n t h e tire t o all s o r t s o f c o n d i t i o n s — w a t e r , s n o w , sleet, dirt, e t c . N e x t t o t h e o u t e r t h i c k n e s s o f C h r o m e L e a t h e r a r e five l a y e r s — d i d you g e t that, " f i v e l a y e r s ? " — o f t h e v e r y best quality tire fabric. J might use o n l y t h r e e o r f o u r l a y e r s , a n d I m i g h t use a p o o r e r q u a l i t y o f f a b r i c , b u t m y experience has p r o v e d that-five layers are necessary t o o b t a i n perfect strength and in preventing the tread from slipping. fiOucHiMrrj steel stud-also srownc eLwcHEp MBTHOTCCtED ï INNER LEATHER UNTNC 1

those

five

layers

tire

f a b r i c is a l a y e r o f l e a t h e r . Please n o t e this: t h r o u g h t h e outer layer o f :hrgme leather] C l i r o m e L e a t h e r , t h e n t h r o u g h t h e five COVER layers o f tire fabric are d r i v e n t h e steel s t u d s a n d steel rivets. T h e s e a r e ST GET RIVETS clinched into the layer o f leather which i m m e d i a t e l y follows next t o t h e tire fabric, a n d t h e n t h e r e is y e t a n o t h e r layer o f leather w h i c h covers these clinched ends o f rivets a n d studs and p r e v e n t s t h e m f r o m c o m i n g in contact, Consider, too, w i t h t h e r u b b e r tire. the m e t h o d o f fastening t h e Brictson Guaranteed T r e a d t o t h e tire. T h e ends o f the outer layer o f C h r o m e Cross Section of Brictson T r e a d Leather arcskived o r sliced thin where t h e y a r e p l a c e d b e t w e e n t h e r u b b e r t ire This docs a w a y with a n y possibility o f thick ends which might c r u m p l e id ï i m . a n a m a k e s p o s s i b l e a s n u g fit o f t h e Brictson T r e a d o v e r t h e r u b b e r tire. ur T h e T r e a d is . s l i p p e d i n p l a c e o v e r t h e d e f l a t e d t i r e a n d i s n o t h e l d t o tire o r t h e r i m b y a n artificial fastener, s u c h as a h o o k , o r b u c k l e , a wire th p. o r a n y t h i n g o f t h e s o r t . A i r pressure b e t w e e n t h e tire a n d r i m h o l d s id t o t h e t i r o a f t e r i t is i n f l a t e d . I t is s u c h c o n s t r u c t i o n a s t h i s t h a t c u t s T y o u r tire e x p e n s e t o a m i n i m u m .

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Tire Bills Cut in T w o

Ordinary Clincher Tire

No-Rim-Cut Tire

tire m a y b e r u i n e d b e y o n d repair b y running a single b l o c k .

Goodyear No-Rim-Cut — G o o d y e a r oversize tires—under average conditions cut tire bills in two.

H o o k s a r e n o t n e e d e d with G o o d y e a r No-RimC u t tires. N o t e v e n tire b o l t s a r e n e e d e d . The tire s t a y s o n b e c a u s e 1 2 6 b r a i d e d wires are vulcan ized i n t o t h e b a s e . T h e y m a k e the tire base un s t r e t c h a b l e , s o n o t h i n g c a n e v e r force it over the flange.

And that saving is clear. These pat ented tires now cost nothing extra. Our multiplied o u t p u t — $ 8 , 5 0 0 , 0 0 0 last year —has cut the cost of production.

No Rim-Cutting H a l f o f t h e s a v i n g c o m e s in a v o i d a n c e o f r i m cutting. T h e t w o pictures a b o v e s h o w y o u h o w this is d o n e . B o t h tires a r e s h o w n fitted in t h e same rim—the standard r i m used for q u i c k - d e t a c h a b l e tires. A l s o f o r d e m o u n t a b l e r i m s . T h e left p i c t u r e s h o w s h o w t h e r e m o v a b l e r i m flanges are set t o c u r v e o u t w a r d w i t h N o - R i m - C u t tires. T h e tire c o m e s a g a i n s t a r o u n d e d e d g e , a n d r i m - c u t t i n g is m a d e i m p o s s i b l e . W e h a v e s o l d half a m i l l i o n N o - R i m - C u t tires. W e h a v e r u n t h e m flat i n a h u n d r e d tests—as far as 20 m i l e s . I n all this e x p e r i e n c e t h e r e h a s n e v e r been an instance o f rim-cutting.

T h e p i c t u r e at r i g h t s h o w s h o w o r d i n a r y tires— c l i n c h e r tires—are fitted to this s a m e s t a n d a r d rim. T h e m o v a b l e rim flanges m u s t b e set t o c u r v e inward—to grasp hold of the h o o k i n t h e tire. T h a t is h o w the tires a r e h e l d o n .

W h e n t h e tire is inflated t h e b r a i d e d wires con t r a c t . T h e tire is t h e n h e l d t o t h e r i m b y a pres s u r e o f 134 p o u n d s t o t h e i n c h . T h i s braided w i r e feature—which w e controlf o r m s t h e o n l y p r a c t i c a l w a y t o m a k e a hookless tire. A h a r d r u b b e r b a s e w o n ' t d o — a single wire w o n ' t d o . T h e b r a i d e d w i r e s w h i c h contract u n d e r air p r e s s u r e a r e essential t o safety.

10% Oversize G o o d y e a r N o - R i m - C u t tires are m a d e 10 per c e n t w i d e r t h a n r a t e d size. T h a t means 10 per c e n t m o r e t i r e — m o r e c a r r y i n g capacity—without a n y e x t r a c o s t . T h a t a d d s o n the average 25 p e r c e n t t o t h e tire m i l e a g e — s a v e s 25 per cent of tire c o s t . T i r e s a r e o v e r l o a d e d n i n e cases in ten. The tire size is n o t sufficient t o t a k e care o f the extras —the t o p , g l a s s f r o n t , g a s t a n k , e x t r a tire, etc. The result is a b l o w - o u t long be f o r e t h e tire is w o r n out.

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A CHAUFFEUR'S SALARY is one automobile ex pense that does not need to be reckoned with, in maintaining the Silent Waverley Electric. S e a t e d a m i d its l u x u r i o u s furnishings,

the

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distinctive p l e a s u r e s o f this c a r to o p e r a t e the s i m p l e c o n t r o l a n d lever.

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T h e r e are o n l y t w o m o v e s o f the c o n t r o l l i n g l e v e r — f o r w a r d

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It c o s t s less than a c e n t a m i l e to run this l u x u r i o u s car. k n o w o f a g a r a g e rate that e x c e e d s $ 3 0 . 0 0 a m o n t h .

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D e m i - T o n n e a u (Detachable) Four-Passenger T o u r i n g M o d e l 36-B,

50 H . P., $1750

The Valveless Elmore Has the Only Motor Whose Cylinders Work With One United Impulse T h e Elmore Valveless H i g h D u t y M o t o r is one power unit having four related cylinders. E v e r y other gasoline m o t o r consists of indi vidual cylinders, which are separate p o w e r units. The ordinary m o t o r must h a v e v a l v e s ; those valves must h a v e small parts (rods, cams, levers, springs, screws, etc.) to operate them, averaging twenty to the cylinder. Just as a chain's strength is defined b y its weakest link, so is the efficiency of a v a l v e d cylinder measured b y its m o s t insignificant small part.

T h e Valveless E l m o r e has a full power stroke from each cylinder at every revolution of its crank shaft. H a v i n g twice the p o w e r strokes of a valved m o t o r of the same number of cylinders, the Valveless E l m o r e has n o equal for- continuity of p o w e r and sustained torque.

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— o r per mile—as could be

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exist; perfect adjustment of the enormous number of small outer parts required would be vir tually impossible.

Valveless 2-C

If a v a l v e is not adjusted to the 1-200 of a second, its cylinder loses one-fifth, or more, of its power.

T h e four cylinders of the Valveless E l m o r e are always delivering their full, normal p o w e r . A v a l v e d m o t o r can o n l y deliver, at each revo lution of its crank shaft, one-half as m a n y p o w e r strokes as it has cylinders.

T h e Valveless E l m o r e , having the same num ber of p o w e r strokes that an eight-cylinder v a l v e d m o t o r w o u l d give, remains the sim plest a n d m o s t efficient power maker ever placed in an a u t o m o b i l e .

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R o a d s t e r M o d e l 25, 30 H . P., $1200 T o u r i n g M o d e l 25, 30 H . P. $1250

F i v e - P a s s e n g e r T o u r i n g M o d e l 3 6 - B , 50 H . P., $1750

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A l l D e m o u n t a b l e R i m s A r e S u c c e s s e s In

All Demountable Rims A r e Reasonably Quick

Sometimes

T H E

FI5 R E M O V A B L E

R I M

In Actual Service Is

Always Quick—Always Safe

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stick b e c a u s e o f rust o r m u d .

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D e m o u n t a b l e for general use.

pioneer

With de

tails perfected, it is the s a m e rim e x h i b i t e d t h r e e years a g o .

i m m e d i a t e success, it is a n d

ways has been the o n l y altogether practical rim o n the market.

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D E C I S I V E L Y E X E M P L I F I E D ;„ the

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T h e R i v e r d a l e L a n d C o m p a n y , U . B . Building, Dayton, O. P O S T Y O U R S E L F T H O R O U G H L Y A B O U T F L O R I D A . Save stamps a n d letter-writing. G e t d e l u g e o f l i t e r a t u r e from dozens B o a r d s o f T r a d e a n d p r i n c i p a l L a n d C o m p a n i e s , t h r o u g h o u t State, sent F r e e w h e n w e furnish t h e m y o u r n a m e . O u r fee o n l y 25c. Florida Information Service, N o . 5 H y d e , T a m p a , Fla. FLORIDA FARM LAND. T e n d o l l a r s a n a c r e a n d upward. Northern S e n d f o r o u r list o f f a r m s , g r o v e s a n d g a r d e n land. agents wanted. T h e G o u l d - W o o t t e n C o m p a n y , B o x 726, DeLand, Florida. F L O R I D A O F F E R S t h e m a n o f L i m i t e d M e a n s o p p o r t u n i t y to buy t e n o r t w e n t y a c r e F l o r i d a F a r m o n P i n e l l a s P e n i n s u l a , walking dis t a n c e of T a r p o n S p r i n g s . W r i t e for p a r t i c u l a r s of F r e e I n s p e c t i o n T r i p Otter. C h i c a g o - F l o r i d a L a n d C o . , 6 2 3 1 s t N a t . B a n k B l d g . , C h i c a g o . F O R A H O M E O R A N I N V E S T M E N T C h o c t a w h a t c h e e Penln s u l a . W a s h l n g t o n C o . , F l a . , h a s f e w e q u a l s . A l l n a t u r a l resources to m a k e i t G a r d e n S p o t o f F l o r i d a . B l a c k , r i c h , s a n d y , l o a m soil. Plenty o f rainfall 12 m o n t h s In y e a r . N o I r r i g a t i o n . C r o p s n e v e r k n o w n to fall. T w o a n d t h r e e c r o p s e a s i l y r a i s e d e a c h y e a r o n s a m e l a n d . Unexcelled c l i m a t e . O n e o f h e a l t h i e s t s p o t s In U n i t e d S t a t e s . T h e h o m e of seml t r o p l c a l fruits a n d e a r l y v e g e t a b l e s . F i n e s t a n d h i g h e s t p r i c e d orangea o f F l o r i d a g r o w h e r e . L u m b e r o n g r o u n d a t w h o l e s a l e prices. Sun strokes a n d frost-bites u n k n o w n . F i s h , o y s t e r s , c l a m s a n d game g a l o r e . F i n e b o a t i n g a n d salt-water b a t h i n g . Investigate thoroughly is all w e a s k . W r i t e t o - d a y f o r l i t e r a t u r e , s a m p l e o f soil, m a p s , etc. S a n t a R o s a P l a n t a t i o n C o . , 4 1 2 N o r t h w e s t e r n B l d g . , C h i c a g o , III. M A N A T E E , F L O R I D A — A M E R I C A ' S F R U I T & GARDEN Market. F a r m s a t l o w p r i c e s , n e t y o u S 5 0 0 t o S 1 5 0 0 profit per acre each year. C e l e r y , g r a p e f r u i t , o r a n g e s a n d v e g e t a b l e s reach perfection here. Healthful climate, quick transportation. Free booklet u p o n request. A d d r e s s J. W . W h i t e , G e n ' l I n d u s t r i a l A g t . , 3 . A . L . R y . , D e p t . 14, N o r f o l k , V a . G A R D E N C I T Y O N H I L L S B O R O U G H B A Y . 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W r i t e t o - d a y f o r o u r beautiful booklet, C o v e y s F l o r i d a P l a n t a t i o n C o . , C h i c a g o , 111. prices a n d terms. O R E G O N G O V E R N M E N T L A N D n o w o p e n f o r e n t r y . I r r i g a t e d under the C a r e y A c t . W a t e r r i g h t s $ 4 0 p e r a c r e . C u l t i v a t e d land adjoining has d o u b l e d v a l u e in 1 2 m o s . N o b l i z z a r d s . F l o o d s , C v c l o n e s , L a n d C o m m i s s i o n e r , C e n t r a l O r e g o n I r r i g a t i o n C o . , B o x A . R e d m o n d . Oregon.

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CHOICE VIRGINIA FARMS on Chesapeake & Ohio R a i l w a y . A s low as 815 an Acre; rich soil; mild winters; nearby Eastern m a r kets. W r i t e for handsome, illustrated booklet, "Country Life in Virginia" (100 pages) and low excursion rates. Address Κ . T . Crawley, Indus. A g t , , C . & O . R y . , B o x A ^ E . , R i c h m o n d , V a .

^DENVER, C O L O R A D O , G R O W I N G T O 500,000. 4 0 acres Addition, 384 lots, Park Hill section. Worth $40,000. Offer now for ¿30,000, terms half cash. M o r e I n v e s t m e n t C o m p a n y , Cali fornia Building, Denver, Colorado.

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F E R T l L E V 1RQInTa~FARMsVand fruit lands $ 1 5 . 0 0 per acre and up. Fine climate, water, soil, markets and neighbors. Send for beautiful illustrated Booklets. F a r m Lists, rales. Address F. H . L a Baume, AgrJ Agt,, Norfolk AJWestern R y . , Box 2013, Roanoke, Va. VIRGINIA FARMS offer best opportunity for land buyers and the best place to live. M i l d winters, cheap land, sunshine. Grow all crops. Produce best flavored apples. Cattle, hog raising, dairying and poultry raising profitable. Near 4 0 million consumers. G e t top prices. W r i t e for 3 0 0 page " H a n d B o o k of Virginia." G . W r Koiner, C o m . of Agriculture, Richmond, V a .

'COLONIZATION TRACTS — TIMBER LANDS — FARM Lands. I have the very finest selection of money-makers in Louisi ana and adjoining States, for sale at very low prices, and on very easy terms. Rich soil, easy access, and C h e a p L a n d . J. E d w . Crusel, 1001 Hibernia Bldg., N e w Orleans, La.

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fruit and truck farms grow three crops a u d net 8 3 0 0 per acre. Three miles from County Seat. 5-aeres cleared land for $ 2 5 0 . Small monthly pay ments. W e will plant your farm in figs and turn over to you full bearing Orchard. E u b a n k F a r m s C o . , Block 4 5 , Pittsburg. Pa. GROW PAPER-SHELL PECANS—The finest pecan and truck land on Gulf Coast. Growing truck between rows of trees pays S200 to $500 profit per acre. L o w price—easy terms—free booklet. Edwin B. Lang, Box E , Guifport, Miss.

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I M P R O V E D FARM LA Ν D in Eastern Okla homa; 4 0 to 2 , 0 0 0 acres in a body. Grows corn, cotton, oats, wheat and alfalfa. W r i t e for free m a p and literature. Agents wanted. L. R . Kershaw, 504-5 Fly tin-A men Building, Muskogee, Oklahoma.

OKLAHOMA WORLD—Every week. Account of Indian Landa for sale $3 to $ 1 5 per acre. $1 for 3 years' subscription. O k l a h o m a W o r l d , Dept. 101, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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FARMS W I T H I N NEW YORK COMMUTERS' AREA: In the middle west of N e w Jersey. Suburbs of t w o great cities. Buy where you can sell easily and at a profit. W h e r e city people are'buying for country homes. 8 4 0 to $ 1 0 0 an acre with all improve ments. Big increase in values certain within five years. Catalogues. E. 8. Wells, Farmers' Agent, Glen M o o r e , Mercer C o . , N . J. LAND F O R S A L E IN N E W J E R S E Y on all railroads. Factory, Water sites, Farms, Suburban home sites. C i t y property. Cash, in stallments or terms to suit. W r i t e for booklet. John Francis Cahill, 196 Market St.. Newark, N . J.

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C U B A CUBA. M o s t productive soil. A m p l e rainfall. Healthful cli mate. N o frost. N o excessive heat. M a n a t i finest harbor. N . Y . , 1100 miles. Cheapest transportation. 10 acres $300. M a p free. M a n a t i C o . of Cuba. 208 Palace Bldg., Minneapolis, M i n n .

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ASK A B O U T N E W M E X I C O — T H E N E W S T A T E . C o m e to "The Land of Sunshine." Rich Irrigated lands. Ideal climate. Act now while land is cheap. W e sell no lands. W r i t e to-day for facts. State Immigration Board, Albuquerque, N . M . " F R U I T $451.11, A L F A L F A $ 1 7 7 . 8 7 , C O T T O N $ 1 3 5 . 1 5 per acre. Carlsbad Project TT. S. R . S. W h y ? C l i m a t e ! Economical living, good health insured. Prices advancing steadily. E a s y payments. Write Now to F. G. T r a c y , Carlsbad, N e w M e x i c o . ^ B E A R I N G O R C H A R D S ten to twelve years old in ten acre tracts In famous Pecos Valley of N e w M e x i c o . A m p l e water rights for irri gating each tract. Orchards have produced hundreds of carloads of apples and are in prime gondii ion. W r i t e H ..T.Hagem u n , Uus well, N . M .

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BUY P R O P E R T Y T H A T Y O U C A N M A K E A G O O D P R O F I T on quickly. Invest from 8 5 0 0 to 8 2 5 , 0 0 0 in gilt edge N e w Y o r k City Real Estate, and make m o n e y now. References—Dun's, Bradstreet's or any N e w Y o r k B a n k . Established 1 9 0 1 . O ' H a r a Bros., 2873 Webster A v e . , N e w Y o r k . FAR~MS~i F A R M S ! F A R M S ! " W h y go W e s t ? Right here in New York state is your opportunity. Best markets, roads, trans portation, schools, churches. D o n ' t take a chance on land you have never seen. Send for our complete catalogue E of Farm Bar gains from 810 to 8 1 0 0 an acre. N . Y . state farms our specialty. Write to-day! W . TI. Hazard & C o . , Salamanca, N . Y .

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O N T A R I O S U M M E R R E S O R T — G e o r g i a n B a y , Ontario, for sale as a

going concern; perfect; 2 2 acres park lands; station and steamboat

dock; accommodates 175; dining room seats 4 0 0 ; centre for excur

sions; best fishing on lake; electric light; ice-house; launches,

boats, pavilion, etc.; bar business summer and winter—Owner

wishes to retire; cash payment of $ 1 0 , 0 0 0 required. W r i t e or wire.

C. B. Jackes, 28 Toronto St., Toronto, Ont.

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D O N N A IS G R O W I N G . $ 2 5 0 , 0 0 0 Sugar Mill. 8 1 5 , 0 0 0 Hotel and $8,000 business block n o w erecting. $ 1 0 , 0 0 0 Schoolhouse Frisco railroad. Choice 5, 10, 20, 4 0 voted. City Water W o r k s . acre tracts Lower Rio G r a n d e Valley irrigated land with water, all less than two miles from depot. A g e n t s wanted. Liberal contracts. Easy proposition to sell. Address F. E . Scobey, Sales M g r . , D o n n a , Hidalgo Co., Texas. NEW C A L I F O R N I A . Orange, fig, pecan, English walnut a n d

grape land in Gulf Coast T e x a s a t T e x a s prices. High-priced crops

raised between rows while tree^ are maturing. E a s y terms. ( H o m e -

seekers' rates.) Illustrated magazine free. W a l t e r S. Ayres, 7 2 2

Postal Telegraph Bldg., Chicago, 111.

M Y B U S I N E S S IS T O P U T Y O U IN T O U C H with some of the best farms in the middle and southwest offered under value through mitigating circumstances. W r i t e at once to, Ε . H . Graves, 2 0 0 G l o y d Bldg., Kansas C i t y , M o . MONEY=MAKING FARMS THROUQHOUT~l7~STATES;

great variety, size and price. Stock, tools and crops included with

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" N o . 3 0 " free. E . A . Strout, Station 2 7 1 9 , 4 7 W . 3 4 t h St., N e w

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GOVERNMENT FARMS FREE:—Official 112-page book " V a c a n t G o v e r n m e n t L a n d s " describes every acre In every county in Ü. S. H o w secured free. 1911 diagrams and tables. All about W e b b P u b . C o . , Sta. F . , irrigated farms. Price 25c. postpaid. Si. Paul, M i n n .

B E R M U D A O N I O N F A R M S P R O F I T S 8 1 5 0 . 0 0 to 8 3 0 0 . 0 0 per

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cultivated onion farm. B a n k references. F o r particulars address

Zavala Onion Farms C o . , 3 1 0 Gibbs Building, San Antonio, Texas.

' ' S U N N Y ~ A L G O A ' ' T H E O R A N G E G A R D E N O F T E X A S .

Hundreds of enthusiastic non-residents having orchards developed

on monthly payments. H i g h class c o m m u n i t y and land values

advancing very rapidly. W r i t e at once for booklet " O A . " Gulf

Coast Development C o m p a n y , A l g o a , T e x a s .

O P P O R T U N I T Y — G u l f Coast orange and winter garden truck

land at Ravmondville, Texas, only 8 2 5 . 0 0 per acre, with canal being

projected,when prices will naturally advance to irrigated land values;

$125.00 per acre upwards; illustrated booklet free. C . E . T o d d ,

414 Orear-Leslie Bldg., Kansas City, M o .

C H E A P E S T R A N C H IN T E X A S . 3 0 , 0 0 0 acres in two pastures. Good grass land; well watered. $ 1 . 5 0 per acre. E a s y T e r m s . For particulars and sketch address Owner Box 219, Alpine, T e x a s . -

A R I D A M E R I C A ' S B E S T LAND" $ 1 5 ; watered, $ 3 0 ; set in alfalfa, $ 4 5 . Alfalfa yields 8 1 0 0 ; fruits, $ 1 0 0 0 . R y . , schools, phones. Ideal climate. Also stone hotel, R y . center, pays 8 1 0 0 0 a mo. net. Prof. W . C . W e l b o r n , Pecos, T e x a s . MENTION

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"Carlin Orchards." Upper Okanogan Valley. Requires no irri

gation-—Mild climate. Fertile soil—fruits of finest quality pro

duced in abundance. Railway station on property. L o w prices,

long terms of payment. "Write for illustrated pamphlet " D 7 .

Rogers, Black & M c A l p i n e , Vancouver, British Columbia.

180,000 A C R E S IN N O R T H C A R O L I N A ; one billion feet vir W a t e r or railroad transportation. gin timber, 65 per cent. pine. $12 per acre in fee. Pyle & C o . , Inc., Petersburg, V a .

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~ S A L E S M A N A S L O C A L M A N A G E R T O H A N D L E complete line of F o r m a l d e h y d e lumigators, liquid soap, floor oil, liquid wax, disinfectants and Sanitary supplies. G o o d s used b y U . S. G o v e r n ment, N e w Y o r k Central and Pennsylvania R . R . T h e Formacone C o . , 5 0 Church St., N e w Y^ork. MANAGING SALES-AGENT W A N T E D to handle fastest growing magazine with brand new best-selling, premium proposition. A s k for "Salary Plan." Address Sales Force, H a m p t o n ' s M a g a z i n e , 8 4 W e s t 35th St., N e w Y o r k . T A I L O R I N G SALESMEN CAN DOUBLE T H E I R I N C O M E taking orders for our high-grade made-to-order Clothes. Retailed from $ 1 5 to $50. N o capital required. W e furnish outfit. W r i t e for par ticulars. Sampson _ Harris, D e p t . E , 151 W e s t 2 4 t h St., N e w Y'ork. 1

AGENTS, HERE'S Y O U R CHANCE. S o m e fine open territory for Salesman to sell a good line of leather novelties; sells on sight. W r i t e for catalogue. S. B o b b i n s , Leather N o v e l t i e s , Big profits. 4 1 0 4 12th Avenue_ B r o o k l y n , N . Y . _____ A R E L I A B L E " A N D UP T O D A T E P O S T C A R D J O B B E R and M a n u f a c t u r e r wishes to add a few salesmen who will work from their home as a center and cover the territory assigned six or eight times a year. Commissions paid weekly on all accepted orders. W . G . F . B o x 193, N e w Y o r k C i t y . __

A G E N T S , M A K E B I G M O N E Y ! T A K I N G orders from retail merchants for our famous Charcoal Chewing G u m . Build a perma nent business. Benefit b y re-orders. E a s y under our "dealers co operative plan." W e help you. W r i t e for free particulars or send 5c In stamps for sample package. Boston Chicle C o . , 10 Bryant St., M a i d e n , M a s s . W A N T E D — W e have a few choice territories In which we wish to Writ* establish agencies for the famous M u l l i n s Pressed Steel Boat to-day for particulars. T h e W . H . Mullins C o . , 6 0 0 Franklin St Salem, Ohio. _ _ _ ' THE TRAVELING SALESMAN IS INDEPENDENT; W e need a few m o r e m e n t o interview physicians. Con genial work; careful training, large possibilities. Reliable men only. F . A . D a v i s C o . , M e d . Pubs., 1915 Arch St Phi lade Iphla, P a . A Q E N T S — L a d i e s to sell M a d e - t o - o r d e r Petticoats and fine ehlrt waist and suit materials, silks, etc. Attractive outfit and case free. Protected territory. Pleasant work. T h e Columbia Skirt Co., Dept. N , 395 B'way, N . Y .

B R U S H E S ! B R U S H E S ! B R U S H E S ! — 3 0 new varieties of the Capitol B r u s h — O n e for every need of every housekeeper—Our guar antee protects you and the buyer—exclusive rights—over 1 0 0 % profit. W r i t e now for territory—Capitol Brush C o . , Hartford, C o n n .

A Q E N T S W A N T E D T O S E L L O U R H I G H C L A S S Dress G o o d s , W a l s t i n g s , Suitings, Lowest prices. Profitable, dignified work. Outfit of 5 0 0 samples free to reliable women. Write Immedi ately. N e w Y o r k Fabric C o . , 3 0 E a s t 2 0 t h Street. Dep't. 22, New York City. ___ S A L E S M E N , T O S E L L entirely or side line improved J 1 . 0 0 0 Accident and $ 7 . 5 0 weekly l d e m n i t y Insurance Policy, with regis tration and identification, $ 1 . 0 0 annually. E a s y seller, large com missions. W r i t e for territory. N e w Jersey Registry C o . , 118 Mar ket St., N e w a r k , N . J.

M A N A G E R W A N T E D IN E V E R Y C I T Y A N D C O U N T Y to handle best paying business known; legitimate, new, permanent d e m a n d ; no Insurance or book canvassing. Address H a l s t e a d , 4 5 West_34th_St.. N e w Y o r k .

A G E N T S C A N E A R N B I G M O N E Y W E E K L Y S E L L I N G OU1 new styles, embroidered waist and suit patterns, princess dresses, petticoats, art linens, drawn work, silk shawls, scarfs, etc. Cata logue free. J. G l u c k , 6 2 1 B ' w a y , N e w Y o r k . D e p t . E .

A G E N T S M A K E 500 P E R C E N T S E L L I N O " N o v e l t y Sign C a r d s , " W i n d o w Letters and Changeable Signs. Merchants buy In large quantities. 8 0 0 varieties. Catalogue free. Sullivan C o . , 1236 V a n Buren St.,_Chicago, III.

B R A N C H M A N A G E R , M A N O R W O M A N , every section, for a business you can conduct from your own home. N o canvassing. Catalogues used on high class articles. Big profit with small outlay. O n e y o u n g married couple cleared up a handsome sum In two months. W e furnish everything, outfit, ten catalogues, full particulars, etc. for 10 cents in s t a m p s to p a y postage, etc. Address: T h e Ybrad C o . , 4 1 4 Cortlandt Building, N e w Y o r k C i t y .

W E D E S I R E A C L E R G Y M A N , L A W Y E R , D O C T O R , or other educated man In each city and county to represent us. Full or part time. Pleasant, profitable e m p l o y m e n t assured. Address D o d d , M e a d & C o . . 3 0 t h St. and 4 t h A v e . , N e w Y o r k .

I W I L L S T A R T Y O U earning a good income In whole or spare time, slivering mirrors. N o capital. A n y o n e can do the work. Bend for free instructive Book let , giving plans of operation. G. F. R e d m o n d , D e p t . C , Boston, M a s s . A G E N T S CAN EARN BIG M O N E Y . N e w proposition. Sell W r i t e for interesting par ing raincoats. W e are manufacturers. ticulars. Regal Raincoat C o . , D e p t . V . , 1367 B r o a d w a y , N e w Y o r k . ~ S I D E L I N E T M E N E A S Y M O N E Y Selling our Advertising F a n s to M e r c h a n t s . A most complete line that "sells." Season now on. Liberal Commission. Samples free to those in earnest. John B a u m __ garth C o _ 3 4 0 - 2 Dearborn St., Chicago.

WANTED. Salesman, with good advertising ideas, to handle a specialty of interest to every business house, on 2 0 % commission basis. Protected territory given. A n excellent connection for the right m a n . W r i t e , giving particulars and references to Sales Man ager, S. E . cor. M a r k e t & 4 9 t h Sts., Philadelphia, Pa. C A N Y O U S E L L S I G N S ? If you can we want you. Y o u r oppor tunity t o secure h a n d s o m e commission representing high class house everywhere. Genuine continuous demand for our product. Real m o n e y for you. S t a t e s m a n C o m p a n y , Marshall, Michigan.

A G E N T S : Send for free booklet, inside information on the agency business. Filled with m o n e y making plans. Pointers and experience of thousands of successful agents. Address J. M . Finch, 1123 3rd St. D a y t o n , Ohio. _

C A T C H Y CARDS FOR W I N D O W DISPLAYS. Artistic Let Write for tering—classy work. A - l Representatives wanted. proposition. Business D i s p l a y Card C o . , B o x 9 2 4 , St. Louis, M o .

A G E N T S — H A N D K E R C H I E F S . DRESS GOODS. Represent a big manufacturer. Sales run $ 5 0 to $ 1 0 0 . E a s y work. N o ex perience needed. Free samples. Credit. Freeport M a n u f a c t u r i n g C o m p a n y , 31 M a i n Street, Brooklyn, N . Y .

W E W A N T M A N U F A C T U R E R ' S A G E N T with office. In each city, or Resident Salesmen calling on jobbers, or Agent to sell re tailer, carton vending machines; also specialties. McLaughlin M a c h i n e C o . , 7 0 5 Olive St., St. Louis, M o .

F R E E S A M P L E goes with the first letter. Something new. E v e r y firm wants It. Orders from $ 1 . 0 0 to $ 1 0 0 . 0 0 . N i c e pleasant W r i t e at once for free sample business. Big demand everywhere. and particulars. Metallic M f g . C o . , 4 1 7 N . Clark, Chicago.

AGENTS: W r i t e for new proposition on our patented match and gum vending machines. Splendid side line, one sale per day makes good salary. Laclede M f g . C o . , 4 3 1 Laclede Bldg., St. Louis, M o .

W I T H S M A L L S A M P L E R O O M S P A C E men of ability can m a k e large profit selling t o dealers or individuals an article of proved merit. Send postcard to-day for full particulars. Marks A d j . Chair C o . , 11 E . 30th St., N e w Y/ork C i t y .

A G E N T S M A K E B I G M O N E Y S E L L I N G O U R N E W GOLD letters for Office W i n d o w s , store fronts and glass signs. Easily W r i t e t o - d a v for free sample and particulars. Metallic applied. Sign Letter C o . , 4 1 7 N . Clark St., Chicago.

S A L E S M E N t o sell paints, dryers and linseed oil substitute. A complete line of the best products on a liberal commission. C a r o Pine Refining C o . , Sales D e p a r t m e n t , W ade Building, Cleveland, Ohio.

I F Y O U W A N T A P O S I T I O N as Fireman, Brakeman, electric m o t o r m a n , conductor, colored train porter, on any road, good sala ries assured, enclose s t a m p for application blank and m a p of new lines. N a m e position y o u want. H u n d r e d s put to work without experience. 5 0 0 more wanted. Inter. R a i l w a y , D e p t . 4 4 , Indianapolis, Ind.

A G E N T S — P O R T R A I T S 3 5 c , F R A M E S I 5 c , Sheet Pictures l c . Stereoscopes 2 5 c , Views 1c. 3 0 days' credit. Samples and Catalog Free. Consolidated Portrait, D e p t . 1 0 3 7 , N o . 1027 W . A d a m s St., C h i c a g o , 111. * SIDE L I N E — R O A D O R CITY, W E TRAIN MEN T O SELL our Product. W r i t e requesting territory. Sales course free. A d dress Sales M a n a g e r , Bird-Archer C o m p a n y , N e w Y o r k C i t y . A G E N T S — S T O P — B I O M O N E Y E A S Y — 9 0 Big Money M a k ers; Brand N e w selling plan; E v e r y b o d y b u y s ; A n y b o d y can sell. W r i t e for catalogue. Biggest Profits. Outfit free to workers. Miller C o . , Box E 1 5 5 , M u s k e g o n , M i c h . P A I N T S A L E S M E N : W e are offering the biggest side or main line proposition ever m a d e . State territory and class of trade y o u are calling on. Address Box 135, Collinwood, Ohio. W I D O W S , Ladles, M e n . N e w , Interesting, Profitable, easy work. Spare time or permanent. Sell our useful specialties. Our Original selling plan will double your sales. Particulars and premi u m offer Free. Fair M f g . C o . , F M 24, Racine, W i s .

F R E E I L L U S T R A T E D B O O K tells about over 3 6 0 , 0 0 0 protected positions in U . S. service. M o r e than 4 0 , 0 0 0 vacancies every year. T h e r e is a big chance here for you, sure and generous pay, life time e m p l o y m e n t . E a s y to get. Just ask for booklet A - 6 . No obligation. Earl H o p k i n s . W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . ' P H O T O P I L L O W T O P , Portrait, F r a m e , Photo China Plate and Sheet Picture proposition best ever on market for agents. Samples and catalog free. 3 0 days' Credit. P r o m p t shipments. Re jects credited. James C . Bailey C o . , D e s k 5, Chicago. E V E R Y B O D Y ' S M A G A Z I N E W A N T S REPRESENTATIVES In all parts of the country. T h e work is profitable; it doesn't take long to learn; it is a good thing for y o u if you're not quite satisfied with your present income. A g e n t s who give all their time to the work get Big M o n e y — s p a r e time workers are well paid for what they do. I t does not m a t t e r whether you are young or old—all the capital you need is a neat appearance, a fair share of ability, and plenty of W r i t e to-day and get details of the best offer we perseverance. h a v e ever m a d e . Address Circulation De p a r t m e n t , Everybody s Magazine, N e w York City.

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LIVE A G E N T S W A N T E D — H u s t l e r s to handle our attractive 1911 Combination Packages of Soap and Toilet articles with valu able premiums. I manufacture m y own goods and that's why we undersell anyone from 2 5 % to 5 0 % , and still y o u m a k e for yourself 100% to 3 0 0 % profit. W r i t e to-day. E . M . D a v i s Soap C o . , 2 4 Union Park Court, Chicago, 111.

S A L E S M E N who can place high grade advertising campaign with rated merchants.—This is a strictly high grade business proposition and an exceptional opportunity for good salesmen.—A. M . C , Box 6 2 3 , Jacksonville, Fla. TRAVELLING OR RESIDENT MANAGERS WANTED— Y o u n g men, insurance, real estate or travelling salesmen, with refer ences—to employ agents, nets you 5 0 % — W r i t e at once, permanent business. A . T . Hoevet, Dept. E , 4 2 2 W . 46th St., N e w York City.

~~\VANTED B Y A L A R G E D A Y T O N M A N U F A C T U R E R a few live agents in unoccupied territory to introduce a patented specialty. Never on the market before. Address F . B . Jennings, M g r , 1123 Third St., D a y t o n , Ohio.

W E M A N U F A C T U R E and you can make big profits selling Gold and Siver sign l e t t e r s , — N o v e l t y Sign cards, new designs,—Change able Signs and automatic firing Burglar Alarms. Illustrated catalog free. Climax N o v e l t y C o . , N . Broad'y. St. Louis, M o .

*~YOU~CAN M A K E $ $ $ $ A S O U R G E N E R A L or local agent. Non-alcoholic flavors, perfumes, etc., save consumer 8 0 % . Guar anteed goods. Permanent business. Big profits. Write to Pitkin & Co., 6 Pitkin Block, N e w a r k , N . Y'.

SIDE LINE S A L E S M E N T O SELL HIGH CLASS A R T I C L E to B a n k s and Merchants as advertising souvenirs. Liberal com mission to competent men. Particulars and Sample free. Open territory. C . R o p p & Sons. 550 Lakeside Bldg., Chicago.

~ A G O O D S I D E L I N E T O T H E H A R D W A R E trade Small article, conveniently carried, sells on sight. A n office and household commodity. G o o d sales and big profits. Full particulars on request. Portable S u p p l y C o . , 141 M i l k S t . , Boston, Mass.

O N E M I L L I O N A G E N T S W A N T E D fast seller costing 5 c , selling 5 0 c E v e r y firm needs. Orders to S50. Postal brings samples. E m b o s s e d C o . , 2498_Mi 1 waukee A v e . , Chicago.

OIL O F J O Y D U S T L E S S M O P S , S A N I T A R Y A B S O R B I N G Dust cloths and Oilio A u t o m o b i l e b o d y and Furniture Polish needed in every home. O v e r 1 0 0 % to agents. W e prepay Express. Write to-day. W . S. H a m p s h e r C o . , 2 7 5 La_Salle St., Chicago. " A G E N T S , E I T H E R S E X , A N D S T R E E T M E N m a k e big m o n e y Belling Sure Pull cork extractors, 3 bottle openers in one, not sold in Btores. Write to-day. R o b t . O . T o a n C o . , 1206 First St., Jackson, Michigan.

E X P E R I E N C E D OR SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN TO SELL gasoline lighting system suitable for any place or purpose; attrac tive proposition; write for catalogue. D o u d Lighting C o . , 2 1 6 N o . Jefferson St.. Chicago, I I I . , D e p t . C . S A L E S M E N : Our side line men clear extra money each day while waiting for trains. A thoroughly high grade,dignified proposition that a n y salesman can easily place with retailers in any line. Liberal com mission on repeat business. M . H . M a t h e w s , D e p t . 16, D a y t o n , Ohio.

" H A V E NEW PLAN F O R A G E N T S . W a n t one in each C o u n t y No capital needed. Unusual profits and permanent business to right party. Postal brings full particulars. Arnan M f g . Co., No. 2 City N a t T Bank B l d g . , U t l c a , N . Y.

WANTED— WIDE-A WAKE SALES AGENTS TO SELL personally and organize sales force on new and winning inven tion. Live agents m a k e extraordinary profits the year round. Preston H a r m a n , W e s t Virginia, writes, " 1 4 orders first day, 7 5 orders first five d a y s . " Our advertising does half the work. Here is your best opportunity in 1911 for making big income. G i v e full particulars first letter. T h e Progress C o m p a n v , 9 0 6 2 1 0 M o n r o e St., Chicago.

~XaENTS. VICTOR SUCTION CLEANER SELLS QUICK —cleans quick. B e s t low-priced suction cleaner m a d e . One person operates It. R u n s on casters. W r i t e for our liberal terms and special orfer. V i c t o r Suction Cleaner C o . , 2 2 5 High A v e . , Cleveland, Ohio. "AGENTS MAKE BIG MONEY. B i g pay, no experience, no capital required. 5 0 0 0 new art specialties, photo pillow tops 2 5 c , portraits 3 0 c , bromides 25c. N e w 1 9 1 1 catalog and samples free. Write Daniel H . Ritter C o . , M a d i s o n St., Chicago, 111. L A N D S A L E S M E N W A N T E D — H o n e s t agenis for a straight proposition and honest means high class, straight means square— We have Florida Everglade Lands now being drained by the FurstClark Co., under a $ 2 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 contract with the State of Florida. Official reports, actual construction, possession of land to b u y ers only when drained, not now. W o r l d ' s largest reclamation project. A square deal y o u can r e c o m m e n d to your personal friends. Address—V. W . H e l m , 1228 M a j e s t i c Building, Chicago.

BE Y O U R O W N M A S T E R — L E A R N T O W R I T E MUSIC for money. W e teach you how by mail—in 15 easy lessons. Thou sands of dollars in successful songs. Valuable b o o k — " H o w T o W r i t e M u s i c " — s e n t Free. Desk 4 7 , N a t ' l Conservatory of Musical Composition, W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . 169% P R O F I T — $ 5 T O $6 W O R T H O F R O P E , better, stronger than factory made, from 4 0 c ball of binding twine or from scrap twine free; low priced hand machine, only one in market, never sold before; speedy, simple; weighs 5 lbs., makes rope or wire cables,clothes line, halter ties, any length or thickness; loops or splices; finishes with selvedge end. Farmers, mines, factories, boats, liveries, saddlers, stores b u y quick. Hurry for territory. Chicago Appliance Factories, D e p t . 7 0 2 Y — 2 1 Qulncy St., Chicago.

AGENTS. SOMETHING N E W . M a k e big m o n e y selling our High Grade Silk Hosiery. W r i t e t o - d a y for territory, and terms. Sales are easy with these goods. D e p ' t A . 1. Perfection Silk Eo3. Co., 1218 Allegheny A v e . , Phila., P a .

C O S M O P O L I T A N M A G A Z I N E W A N T S A M A N or w o m a n to look after renewals and introduce the magazine to new readers where it is at present unrepresented. Send for our booklet, " T h e M o n e y Makers' M a n u a l , " given free to all ambitious men and women anx ious to increase their income. Address. A g e n c y Department, C o s m o politan Magazine, R o o m 28, 3 8 1 Fourth A v e , N e w Y'ork.

H I G H C L A S S S A L E S M E N , A T T E N T I O N . Best money-getting proposition on the market. L o t s sold on certificate plan. Pur chasers delighted. Astonishing results to live salesmen. Write quick. The Moncrief, Cook C o m p a n y , L a w t o n , Okla. AGENTS F O R O U R N E W L I M I T E D P O L I C I E S . Premiums range from SI.00 t o S10.09 annually. W r i t e to-day. Liberal c o m missions; virgin territory. N o r t h A m e r i c a n Accident Insurance Company (Dept. E ) , 2 1 7 L a Salle Street. Chicago.

I T C O S T S N O T H I N G to join the Clover C l u b and learn bow girls m a y earn money in a pleasant, dignified way. " G u i d e to M o n e y v i l l e " sent free. Send n a m e and address before bedUrre to-night t o the secretary, Helen H a t h a w a y , R o o m s 12-14, T h e Delineator, N e w Y o r k .

AGENTS. Biggest m o n e y - m a k e r known. T h e new Canchester Incandescent Kerosene L a m p revolutionizes old lighting methods. Burns air, not money. Six times brighter than electricity,gas, acety lene or common oil lamps at 1-10 cost. Burns with or without mantle. Burner fits any lamp. Saves 7 5 % oil. N o trimming wicks. Showing mea_3 selling. Territory going fast. W r i t e to-day. H a n d s o m e outfit f_nlshe__Canchest_er_LlghtCo., D e p t . E 3 , 2 6 _ S t a t e St., Chica,go, I1L

A G E N T S — " N A 1 D A " Embroidered Princess Dress and Shirt waist patterns are big sellers. Large profits. E v e r y woman buys. Beautiful designs and materials. Samples and particulars free. Madison Embroidery & Braiding C o . , D e p t . F, Chicago, 111. A G E N T S 4 0 0 % P R O F I T A N D B I G R E - O R D E R S selling our photo pil'ow tops. Get out new line. Just out. H o t sellers every where. Quick deliveries, high grade work. L o w prices. W r i t e for free particulars. Luther Gordon C o . , 160 W a s h . St. Chicago.

WE W A N T E X P E R I E N C E D S A L E S M E N for ethical"physicians' specialty. W e will pay big m o n e y for every order and assign ter ritory to result bringers. If y o u are a high grade m a n , write us. Lutz, 757 Schiller Bldg., Chicago. A G E N T S : Brand newTeasy seller, big profits, new laundry bluing which perfumes clothes with lasting violet perfume. Nothing like It on market. Easily handled. Territory given. W r i t e to-day. Bird Manufacturing C o . , 411 V a n B r u n t St., Brooklyn, N e w Y o r k .

WANTED—ORGANIZERS. GOOD COMMISSION. Get ting members for fraternal social order. G . E . Swisher, 7 2 6 W e s t W a y n e St., South B e n d , Indiana. C A N Y o u Sell Florida L a n d ? Opportunity to Increase Y o u r I n c o m e b y representing an Old Established C o m p a n y operating in Florida. If you can sell Fruit Farms on installment write for details. Big C o m missions. Chicago-Florida L a n d C o . , 623 1st N a t . B a n k Bldg, Chi.

S A L E S M E N W A N T E D — L i v e m e n to sell strongest line of a d vertising novelties in the market, appealing to all classes of trade. Liberal commissions. M e t a l Specialties M f g . C o . , 4 2 7 W . R a n dolph St., Chicago.

M A K E M O N E Y IN S P A R E T I M E selling S I , 5 0 0 A c c u m u l a t i v e Accident policies that pay death claims for any accident; S 1 0 w'kly benefits for $2 yearly; insure a n y b o d y : strong C o m p a n y . Stalter & C o . , Genl. Agents, 102 W i l l i a m St., N e w Y'ork.

OUR L I G H T I N G S Y S T E M S R E O U I R E N O G E N E R A T I O N and are operated as conveniently as electricity b y a switch, or in dividually with a chain pull at 1-10 the cost. W a n t e d live agents. Write for catalog and further particulars. T h e N a g e l Chase M f g . Co., 148 W . Ohio St., Chicago.

W E H A V E A GI L T = E D G E D selling proposition. A n y m a n or woman with ordinary intelligence can m a k e good m o n e y represent ing us. G i v e us whole or "part time, according to amount you want to m a k e . W r i t e to-day t o M . D . G o o d C o . , 2 0 5 Fifth A v e . , Chicago.

A G E N T S E A R N B I G M O N E Y selling latest styles Beautiful Braided Embroidery waists and princess dresses. M e x i c a n drawn work, art linens, various embroideries, catalog free. National Importing C o . , Desk E , 699 B r o a d w a y , N e w Y o r k .

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H I G H C L A S S U S E D A U T O M O B I L E S — H a v e 100 used autos at hard pushed owners' prices, any make, any model 8 1 0 0 to 8 5 , 0 0 0 . I save you the big profit dealers ask. State m a k e and price desired, or send for bargain list. Also have trucks and delivery wagons. Thomas Harvey, 225 W e s t 57th St., N e w Y o r k .

1911 M . M . T O U R I N G M O D E L . H a s more good features than all others. Idler, free engine, roller bearings, powerful, m i g h t y hill climber. Simple, easy control. A g e n t s wanted. M . M . Motor cycle, Brockton, M a s s .

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I B E D HAMMOCK 1

CF If y o u g o into the

important matter

FOR VERANDAS, PORCHES, LAWNS, INDOORS

b u y i n g a piano w i t h an

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The Original, Reliable and Largest Manufacruiers of Portable Houses We Pay the Freight and Deliver our Houses to any R. R. Station in U. S.

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b y which we ship " o n a p p r o v a l " and p a y railway freights both ways, should the piano fail to please, is available wherever in the U . S. n o dealer sells the Ivers & P o n d . Old instruments taken in exchange. Attractive easy p a y m e n t plans available wherever y o u m a y live.

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Foster's IDEAL Spring S O L D

Ordinary Springs Curve the Spine and Cause Insomnia and Backache.

Foster's IDEAL Keeps the Spine Straight, Ensure* Healthy Rest.

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S T A R This Morning It's

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than to the selling of it. The result is a razor that

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cup, hinged back for easy cleaning.

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is made from the finest steel—taken from the heart of

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great as our own. They give you a blade that

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about the STAR Safety Razor. If you are not using

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T P H E SAVING NOT ONLY OF *• NATIONAL, BUT OF PERSONAL RESOURCES IS IMPORTANT. Your greatest resource is health and the conservation of your health includes the preservation of your teeth by the regular use of such a dentifrice as

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This t o y o u , M r . Retailei. We the

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Ask y o u r architect about Bronze Screen Cloth.

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H e w i l l t e l l y o u it is t h e m o s t e c o n o m i c a l b a r r i e r

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be replaced. It lasts as l o n g as y o u r h o u s e .

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pure copper. It cannot crack o r rust e v e n w h e n

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American Woolen (9.

OF A RICA Win. M. Wood. Presiden t

American men and w o m e n are the best d r e s s e d individuals in the w o r l d . T h e American Woolen Company has d o n e m u c h to m a k e this p o s s i b l e b y furnishing a n n u a l l y m o r e than fifty m i l l i o n y a r d s o f o t h at a price that w o u l d b e i m p o s s i b l e n a n y smaller s c a l e o f p r o d u c t i o n .

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Order the cloth as well as the clothes. /( is In uour advantage to d e m a n d Ameri can Woolen Company's fabrics m a d e b y skilled A m e r i c a n experts, A m e r i c a n machinery, and A m e r i c a n m e t h o d s in 34 c o m p l e t e mills operated b y

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We are advertised by our loving JHends''—Mellin's Food Babies

Mellin's Food will Solve Your Problem

Your baby is a new problem in infant feeding. He is individual in his requirements. If he is to develop as he should he must have a food that not only contains all the elements required for his nourishment but one that may be readily adapted to his needs. Mellin's Food is such a food. It will solve your problem. Mellin's Food is to be used with fresh

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pared directions, y o u can exactly meet the individual needs o f y o u r baby.

W e have a very helpful b o o k , " T h e Care and F e e d i n g o f I n f a n t s , ' ' which tells just

Thousands and thousands o f b a b i e s —

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will write us. Mellin's Food Co.

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HIS illustration appears on page 68 of our

booklet, "Modern Plumbing.'' It shows a well-

appointed modern kitchen, in which Mott's

Plumbing Fixtures are used. In this booklet

various styles of kitchen and pantry sinks,

laundry tubs and kitchen ranges are illustrated

and described.

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ject o f bathrooms'. There are shown 24 modern bathroom

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the M o t t line o f bathroom equipment, that it is easy to find

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H I L E Pompeian Massage Cream is used in several million homes by both husband and wife, yet in some homes men still think it is a w o m a n ' s face cream, and again, w o m e n think it is a man's cream. Pompeian is for both, just as m u c h as soap is for both. But Pompeian cleanses, refreshes, improves and invigorates the skin as n o soap possibly can. T h e r e is no logical reason w h y either man or w o m a n should have the cleaner or more w h o l e s o m e skin. W e are all judged largely on first and general appearances—yes, judged before w e speak. Comparatively few people come to know our inner selves. Hence the value of appearance; hence the necessity of a fresh, healthy, wholesome skin. Such a complexion is in itself a g o o d introduction for man or woman into either social or business circles. Y o u are judged before y o u speak! " D o n ' t envy a g o o d complexion; use Pompeian and have o n e . "

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Trial Jar and Art Picture, both sent for 10c. (stamps or coin) for Postage and Packing For years y o u have heard of Pompeian's merits and benefits. T o get you to act n o w we will send a "Pompeian B e a u t y " A r t Picture, in exquisite colors, with each trial jar. This is a

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If y o u r application is received IN TIME and y o u r qualifications are satisfactory, y o u get the profit on all local sales of the greatest typewriter in the public service today. —A

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A Giant Industry T h e Oliver Typewriter W o r k s are the largest in the world devoted exclusively to the manufacture of typewriters. Here y o u see ACRES of machinery, manned b y HUNDREDS of experts, turning o u t a FINISHED TYPEWRITER EVERY 3)4 MINUTES. This stupendous rate of PRODUCTION, ever o n the increase, is necessitated b y the never-ceasing DE MAND throughout the entire world.

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T h e Oliver Typewriter has no counterpart. It is absolutely unique. I t came in a blaze of glory, bearing aloft a TORCH—the torch of "VISIBLE WRITING." TODAY, BECAUSE OF THE OLIVER, ALL STANDARD TYPEWRITERS ARE "VISIBLES!" T h e Oliver Typewriter delivers 100 per cent of EFFICIENCY. I t has a wider ranger of PRACTICAL USES, a more extensive battery of SPECIAL CON VENIENCES than any other typewriter. PRIMARY SIMPLICITY is the keynote of 'this " S y m p h o n y in Steel." I t has HUNDREDS OF LESS PARTS than its rivals. This FREEDOM from com plication is the secret of its greater SPEED and ENDURANCE. I t works with the smooth precision of an AUTOMATIC MACHINE. (80)

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What is an Amberol Record ? 750,000 families already

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More than 1,000,000 fam ilies thought that they had reached the limit of pleasure in home entertainment,when they purchased their Edison Phonographs—and they had, at that time. 750,000 of that million have found that limit of pleasure more than doubled in Amberol Rec ords, Thomas A. Edison's greatest achievement in sound reproduction since hefirstinvented the basic idea of the Phonograph. T h e a d v e r t i s e m e n t s in E v e r y b o d y ' s M a g a z i n e are i n d e x e d .

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Please note the words "with , soap." Please note, too, that they are italicized in Dr. Lawrence's article. Take a cold bath, before breakfast, by all means — if you are in good physical con dition. But do not lose sight of the fact that it is not possi ble for anyone to be physical ly clean who does not take at least one warm bath, with soap, every day. Use Ivory Soap. It floats; and it is pure. These are the qualities that make Ivory Soap unequalled for use in the bath. Purity, in a bath soap, is of paramount importance. And a bath soap that floats is im measurably more convenient than one which, when needed, is at the bottom of the bath tub.

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