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Show fu?,0r now J'our little law ends my little canal." Still j dont know what you're talking about," drawled he. You are always suspecting of double-dealin- everybody gather that this Is another E your Infirmity. Really, ,8t,ce Blacklock, the world isn't wholly made up of Bcoundrels. "I know that, said 1. And I will even admit that Its scocndrels are seldom made up wholly of scoundrelism. Even Roebuck would rather do the decent thing, if he can do It without endangering his personal Interests. As for you I regard you as one of the decentest men I ever knew outside of business. And even there. I believe youd keep your word, as long as the other fellow kept his. ' Thank you," said he, bowing Ironically. This flattery makes me suspect you ve come to get something. "On the contrary, said I. I want to give something. I want to give you my coal mines." I thought youd see that our offer was fair, said he. "And I'm glad you have changed your mind about quarreling with your best friends. We can be useful to you, you to us. A break would be silly." That's the way It looks to me," I assented. And I decided that my sharp talk to Roebuck had set them to estimating my value to them. "Sam Ellersly," Langdon presently remarked, tells me hes campaigning hard for you at the Travelers. I hope youll make It. Were rather a slow crowd; a few men like you might atlr things up. I am always more than willing to give others credit for good sense and good motives. It was not vanity, but this disposition to credit others with sincerity and sense, that led me to believe him, both as to the coal mat- g. I E MHLUflSE GRAHAM PHILLIPS, Author jyiD(c&KB&TrJ&w tiffaaB3-f&sBnza2miM- I did not myself go (jat time bills before the legislatures lose states In which I had Inter- law- i trusted that work to my who maa ever like every Land, ' , Ltely trusted an Important I was 0f his affairs to another, One morning my rely punished. , ppened to light upon a minor a list of agraph in a newspaper ..Small bills yesterday approved In the list was one the governor. of sundry the power f8nlng Tliose words seemed to But ?wroehow to spell Joker. , did I call up my lawyers to ask Its a mystery to me. on about It? is that, busy as I was, 1 know me to methlng inside me compelled hunt and that else ip everything tide-wate- d two-thir- ter" down. got Saxe then senior partner In Einstein on the Just see and tell what Is the bill defining e, will you, commissions e power of sundry signed yester- e bill the governor & otne, Saxe tone, and said: ?r e Certainly, Mr.answer. My have been, - Blacklock," o Since that day I have done my own calendar watching. My lawyers had sold me that I was, had not guardedout;theI, fool only weak p ate In my armor against my companions the plate over my back, to shed assassin thrusts. ana Langdon between them Roebuck owned the governor; be owned the canal commission; my canal, which gave me access to r for the product of my Manasquale mines,, was as good as closed. I no longer had the whip-hanIn National Coal. The others could sell me out and take of my fortune, whenever liked for of what use were my they mines with no outlet now to any market, except the outlets the coal crowd owned? As soon as I had thought the situation out in all Its bearings, I realized that there was no escape for me now, that whatever chance to escape I might have had was closed by my uncovering to Saxe and kicking him. But I did not regret ; It was worth the money It would cost me. Besides, I thought I saw how I could later on signals. DANGER of M7SFC0SZr than most," satd I. successfully Everybody advertises, each one adapting bis advertising to the needs of his enterprise as far as he knows ' how." prises, you know. You can tell 'em, Sam. said I. that I never put out a statement I don't believe to be true, and that when any of my followers lose on one of my tips, I've lost on It, too. For I play my own tips and thats more than can be said of my financier in this After a while I dragged In the subject. "One thing I am and will do to get myself In line for that club," I said, like a seal on promenade. "Im sick of the crowd I travel with the men and the women. 1 feel lta about time I settled down Ive got a fortune and establishment that needs- a woman to act It off. I can make some woman happy. You dont happen to know any nice girls the right sort, I mean? "Not many," said Sum. Youd better go back to the country where you came from, and get her there. She'd be eternally grateful, and her head wouldnt be full of mercenary possible. Sain laughed. Keep out of marriage, Matt, he advlBed, not so obtuse to my real point as he wanted me to believe. I know the kind of girl youve got In mind. She'd marry you for your money, and shed never appreciate you. Shed see In you only the lack of the things she's been taught to lay stress on." For Instance?" "I couldn't tell you any more than t could enable you to recognize a person you'd never seen by describing Aint I a gentleman? I Inquired. the Idea tickled he said. Of He laughed, as if him. Of course," course." . all right, as his In our file," d he. It's house bill No. 427, and apparently not here. The hell you say! I exclaimed. "But well you haven't traveled with our crowd, and theyre shy of strangers, especially as as energetic a sort of stranger as you are. You're too cant explain, he pleaded, frightened whine confirmed 1 really suspicion. not, said I, making the and suggestive. significant you're in my pay to look after1 I guess udden, Matt too dazzling too Too shiny and new? said I, beginning to catch hls drift "That'll be looked after. Hut you'll have to ex-ilIf this turns out to be serious. Apparently our file of bills is com--t- e he went on. except that one, suppose it was lost in the mall, I I very stupidly didn't notice ths ip in the numbers. Stupid isn't the word Id use, said with a laugh that wasn't of the id that cheers. And I rang oft and ed for the state capitol on the eh matters! BLACKLOCK ng distance." Before I got my connection Saxe, was only two blocks ay, came The boy flustering In.0 been discharged, Mr. Blacklock." rose office - began. What boy?" The boy in aP said L charge of the bill file whoso business It was to the boy the file complete. to me, you damned sundrel," said I. Ill give him aj What do yon take me for any-!And what kind of a cowardly und are you to disgrace an Innocent f s a cover for your own crooked Send diim ? Tkr Really, Mr. Blacklock, this is most nordiii.n y," he expostulated. Extraordinary? I cnll it crlm d," 1 re' oi ted. "Listen to me. You after Hi., legislation calendars for nd inr Langdon, und for Hoc- - j KEEP OUT OF THE MAR RIAGE, MATT, I1E ADVISED. turn it to good account. A sensible man never makes fatal errors. What'b. ami Melville, and for half ever lie does is at least experience, toil or tha flnan-- , and can aUo be used to advantage. r la tinal It's the mo.--. If Nuix.leon hadn't been half dead eouutry. tojnt n n K you do for its. Yet Waterloo, I don't doubt be would havea as a means to sit few d und careful a lawyer used its disaster there at the bar, want mo to great victory. ! leve ou trusted that work to a When walked into Mowbray Lang-ra I thoroughbred If o.i did. like wan you're a damn fool. don's olilco.on a clear ? frosty morning. didn't, you're damn scouu-- exercising There s no more doubt in my and my smile was as 1 thiust out Hotter in inv buttonhole. "1 congratulate him. at my hand you." said I. a lie took the proffered hand with hijrt , , 1 " i had In 'll n . (it .t phoii doing some 'skulduggery heard your voice on Hie ni ..T;1, r,""i'lt f ttnv Ren my abuse It. and to spare." ti,o telephone bell rang I (mi hi. right department and del k to read house hill 27, flV "hHrt ,mn,K,I"hV K"t" n (be third, which the slut,, eunal commission the condemnation pro- n to' and to condemn, and to I, lm canal not exceeding HO anl "nt part of I he nh J. - 'anal system of the stale." n I liimg up the receiver 1 was l,,r that 1 had forgotten Saxe is i'it'K. He made some slight . ' wheeled on hint. 1 needed ,f ,lw hadn't been there 1 ouit Imve Hut smashed a chair. he and I kicked him out less !'rvil,w "fhee and would have him out the anteroom wo outer through hall, had he not gath- "h ' iher and run liko a Jl t lii-i- t rihli. Aint I got as proper a country there Is Ain't my apartment In the Willoughby a peach? Don't I give as elegant dinners as you ever sat down to? Dont I dress right up to the Piccadilly latest? Dont I act all right know enough to keep my feet off the table and my knife out of my mouth? All true enough; and I so crude then that I hadn't a suspicion what a flat contradiction of my pretensions and beliefs about myself the very words and phrases were. "You're right In It, Matt, said am. place as Its not tnd They come A fragment of what they were; The ranks ara scattering year by year, , For one by one with hie olden air "Here! llaa answered the summons of Death with I see them tvavor and fiiltor on. Thetr btua grown shadowy gray with dust Grown shadowy gray, as tn years agone Their sabers fell Into shadowy rust. O, this the vision that cornea to me; I watch them trudging adown the street, The ready aotdlera that used to be. With vibrant drumming to tlma their feet; I see them swinging along the way With brave Old Olory above them all; And all the lines are complete Made ao by the mystical trumpet call. And quick and eager, erect and bold. They march triumphantly through my dream The soldier tnen of the day of old With Hags ablow and with aworda agleam. The cannone rumble their warring note, The muskets blaze on the battle's marge, And out of the bugle's brazen throat There shrills the terrible cry of Charge!' But hold. The tnlst that waa In my eyes Now drifts away as a cloud la blown. And the shadows fado, as across the aklea The silent arm of the wind la thrown. And gray, and grizzled, and halt, and lame, They falter on to tho rounded graves In the grace of fame That glow y Beneath the flag that honor wavea. They go A shadow of what they were; The ranks are vanishing year by year, For one by one with hls gallant air lias answered the summons of Death with Here!' And so they waver and falter on, Their blua made shadowy gray with dust The fading host that In years agone Bre forth the grail of the nation's trust. him." had jumped showed. firds I hear no shouts as ths soldiers roms To ths mellow throb of the distant drum. "Excuse me! exclaimed I. "Itd turn her head. She'd go clean crazy. She'd plunge in up to her neck and not being used to these waters, shed make a show of herself, and probably drown, dragging me down with her, if al-ij- h the 2 non-aens- e. came and I feel that I do Saxe no nstice when I say his tone was, not shade, but a full color, off the natal. So I was preparej for what he id when he returned to the tele-one- . "I'm sorry, Mr. Blacklock, but leem unable to lay our hand3 on at bill at this moment." Why not? said I, in the tone that ken an employe jump as if a whip-had cut hint on the calves. id f. - oral; mr aw- town. ges--e- ce to "Thats true enough," he confessed. "But there are enterprises and enter- nerves are, and i on the watchout for i looks and the tones and the that are just a shade off the He " O t quest lolling look. bard to -On tthat?" said be. It Is l " kolnk what tell from bis face I thlnh I h but his head, ct hen I derided that Saxe hudut warned him. cnxe" fro I have just found out CflnnI ' I pursued, "about L bill. ennui What mistake " "That imah'd " ,, lm St about' know anything lou a mat ter. you look merely blank, yourself given overdid It; yohve awtty. i He shrugged his shoulders. " suld he. As you please plouse, las his favorite expression; a stereowith him, typed liony. for In dealing but were never as you pleased, ftlWAVB QM ho phUHtnl. to dig ntlne Next time you wunt 1 wont I under anybody." o for you 8uxe. Really I fwl sorry messed by schomo clever a have such knew don't mind. I'd like to he, said , aboil w hat youre talking UhiK. laired with his patient, own the gov- you and Roebuck U?f ll Travelers club. Thanks, Langdon, I said; and that he might look no further for my mo I want to get Into tlve, 1 added: that club much as the winner of a race wants the medal that belongs to hint. Ive built myself up Into a rich man, Into one of the powers In finance, and I feel I'm entitled to recognition." ter and as to the VI. GENTLEMEN. When I got back tp nty ofllce and was settling to the proofs of the Letters to Investors, which 1 published In sixty newspapers throughout the country and which dally Touched upward of five million people, Sum Ellersly came in. His manner was certainly different from what It had ever been before; a difference so subtle that I couldn't describe It more nearly than to Bay It mude me feel as If he had not until then been treating me as of the same class with himself. I smiled to myself and mude an entry In nty mental ledger to the credit or Mowbray Langdon. That club business Is going nicely," said Sam. Langdon la enthusiastic, and 1 find you've got good friends on the committee." t knew that well enough. Hadn't I been carrying them on my hooka at a good loss for two years? "If It wasn't for for some features of this business of yours, he went on, "I'd ssy there wouldnt be the slightest trouble." said I with an easy "Bucket-shop?this nagging was bethough laugh, ginning to get on nty nerves. Exactly," said ho. And, you know, you advertise yourself like Ilk Like everybody else, only OF VII. GOES ING. INTO TRAIN- This brings me to the ugliest story my enemies have concocted against me. No one appreciates more thoroughly than I that to rise high, a man must have hls own efforts seconded, by the flood of vituperation that hls enemies Bend to overwhelm him and which washes him far higher than he could hope to lift himself. So I do not here refer to any attack on me in the public prints; I think of them only with amusement and gratitude. The story that rankles is the one these foee of mine eet creeping, like a snake under the fallen leaves, everywhere, anywhere, unseen, without a trail. It has been whispered Into every ear and It la, no doubt, widely believed that I deliberately put old Bromwell Ellersly In a hole, and there tor tured him until he consented to try to compel hls daughter to marry me. It Is possible that, if I bad thought of such a devilish device, 1 might have tried It Is not all fair In love? But there was no need for my cudgeling my brains to carry that particular fortification on my way to what I bad fixed my will upon. Bromwell Ellersly came to me of his own accord. I supposo the Ellerslys must have talked me over In the family circle. However this may bo, niy acquaintance with her father began with Hams asking me to lunch with him. "The governor has 'heard me talk of ou so much, said he, that he U anxious to meet you. I offered to help him, and I did help him. Is there any one, knowing anye thing f the facts of life, who will ine when I admit that I with deliberation simply tided him over, did not make for him and present to hlth a fortune? What chance should I have had, if I had been so absurdly generous to a man who deserved nothing but punishment for hls selfish and bigoted mode of life? I took away Ida worst burdens; but I left him more than ho could carry without my help. And It was not until be had appealed in fain to all hls social friends to relieve him of the necessity of my aid. not until he realized that I waa hls only hope of escaping a sharp comedown from luxury to very modest comfort In a flat somewhere- - not until then did hls wife send me an Invitation to dinner. And I had not so murh as hinted that I xvanted It. (To be Continued.) cep-sur- Couldnt Walt So Long. Will I send tho goods homer asked the girl behind the counter In the big department stow. No, Ill take them with me," replied the purchaser; hut as Im In a hutry you may send tho change homo, If you Yonkers Statesman. please, And Into the shadows march they ail r ti.a siiMi Af m fur.nfP trumnt rftll I have a meaning beyond mere honor to the dead. - It celebrates and solemnly re affirms from year to year a national act of enthusiasm and faith. It embodies In the most Impressive form our belief that to act with enthusiasm and faith Is the condition of acting greatly. To fight out a war men must Itelieve something and want something with all their might. So must they do to carry out anything else to an end worth reaching. Peace calls for its patriotic devotion. (no less than war. And, stripped ot the direct associations which gave rise to It, this is a day when by common consent we pause to become of our national honor and to rejoice in It, to recall what our country has done and is doing for us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return. The great French soldier, de Latour d'Auvergne, was the hero of many battles, but remained by hls own choice in the ranks. Napoleon gave him a sword and the official title The First Grenadier of France. When he was killed the emperor ordered that hls heart should be entrusted to hls regiment that hls name should be called at every roil call and that hls next comrade should answer, "Dead upon In the keeping of the field of honor! this nation are the hearts of many heroes; we treasure them In consecrated grouud, and when their names are called wenswer in flowers, Dead upon the field of honor. . STILL LIVE FOR US i - Funeral March for Heroic Dead Has Meaning Beyond Mere Honor to the Fallen. year. In the full tide of at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life, there conies a solemn pause, and through the 8llence the nation hears the lonely pipe of death. Year after year lovers wandering under the apple boughs and through the clover are surprised with sudden tears as they see black-veilefigures stealing through the morning to a soldier's grave. Year by year the comrades of the dead follow, with public honor, procession and commemorative flags and funeral inarch tribute from us who have Inherited a nation's glory to the heroes who gave it As surely as this day comes round we are In the presence of the dead. Hut not all the aBsdclatlona of this day are sad; some of them are triumphant. even joyful. We seem to hear the funeral march become a pean. Our heroic dead still live for us, and bid us think of life, not death of life to which in their youth they lpnt the passion and glory of the spring. Memorial day may and 'ought to EVERY con-srto- d IN LABOR OF LOVE day, and the hundreds that have fallen since the Spanlsh-Amcrlcawar, and whose bodies have been borne across the sea to he burled In Arlington, have made this the largest city of patriotic dead on the globe. This 30th of May, like all others, will see every low green mound of the extensive field covered with flowers and Immortelles. There will be a repetition of the annual 'ceremonies, with probably additional interesting features. solAlas! the column of diers does not present a long line, and the few who participate are for ths most part bowed with age and Increased disability which time has wrought. The patriotic organizations, sons and daughters of veterans, and the loyal people have taken up the work which older hands have had to lay down. The spirit of gratitude aud devotion to the memory of the country's defenders Inspires the whole nation as It did In 18C8. n Multitudes Gather to Aid Veterans Decorate Graves in Beautiful Arlington Cemetery. Coliseum in the national at Arlington, in which people gather annually for the exercises. Is Indescribably beautiful. The space is sorrounded by columns, a light lattice work forming the roof. Beside the columus have been planted wistaria, ruses, clematis and other early flowering vines, which form a perfect bower overhead, while the majestic trees make ample shade for tbs multitude who come to Join in the labor of love. officers The thousands of and soldiers who have died during the 38 years since the first Decoration THE DIED IN PRISON PENS to-da- y their lives. The largest military prison In the north waa at Elmira where 11.916 prisoners were confined In an open pen or stockade. The death list reached 2.994, about 25 per cent. In Matrh, 1865, the greatest mortality occurred 493 or 16.5 per cent of all the deaths. All except six of the dead were burled In field which was afterward plowed up 1864, when 127 yielded up Record of Those Who Passed Away in Military Confine ments Is an Appalling One. The largest confederate prison was at Andersonvllle, Ga., where 45.613 union soldlerp were Imprisoned. The prison had Its maximum number on August 8, 1864, when the rolls show-iDeath the presence of 83,114. lilmed 12,912, or 2S per cent, of the intlre number. Every day the death roll averaged 30. The greatest number of deaths occurred on August 13, planted with wheat, and now Ithor summer nor winter shows a n of where 3,000 hapless confeder es were laid away. d d The members of the Woman's Relief Corps make a great feature of Memo-rlw- t day. The pity of it all Is ttwt there are so muitv new giaves to decorate each year. |