OCR Text |
Show g stepped upon the pier I saw a old man In the pavilion overhanging the water. He was dressed sky-l.m-e all In white except tie that harmonized with the color of his eyes. He was neither fat nor lean, and his smooth skin was protesting ruddlly against the age proclaimed by his hair. He rose as I came toward him, and, while I was still several yards away, showed unmistakably that he knew who I was and that he was anything but glad to see me. "Mr. Forrester?" I asked. He grew purple to the line of his thick white hair. "It is, Mr. Black-lock,- " said he. "I have the honor to wish you good day, sir. And with that he turned his back on me and gazed out toward Long Island. "I have come to ask a favor of you, sir, said I. as polite to that hostile back as if I had been addressing a cordial face. And I watted. He wheeled round, looked at me from head to foot I withstood the Inspection calmly; when It was ended I noted that in spite of himself he was somewhat relaxed from the opinion of me he had formed upon what he had heard and read. But he said: "I do not know you, sir, and I do not wish to know you." "You have made me painfully aware of that," replied I. "But 1 have learned not to take snap judgments too seriously. I never go to a man unless I have something to say to him, and I never leave until I have said it." "I perceive, sir," retorted he, "you have the thick skin necessary to livAnd the twinkle ing up to that rule. In his eyes betrayed the man who delights to exercise a real or Imaginary talent for caustic wit. Such men are like nettles dangerous only to the timid touch. "On the contrary, replied I, easy In mind now, though I did not anger him by showing it, I am most sensitive to Insults Insults to myself. But you are not insulting me. You are Insulting a purely Imaginary, hearsay person wio Is, I venture to as she has been accustomed. I know she would not take tt from me. So, I have come to ask you to pretend to give It to her I, of course, giving It to j ou to give." Again we looked full and fixedly each at the other. "Come to the house, Hlncklock," ho said at last In a tone that was the subllest of compliments. And he linked his arm In mine, ilalfwev to the lambllng stone house, severe In Its lines, yet fine and homelike, quaintly resembling Its own er, as a man's bouse always should he paused. "I owe you an apology, said he. "After all my experience ol this world of envy and malice, 1 should have recognized the man ever in his caricatures of his enemies. And you brought the best possible ere dentlals you are well hated. To b well hated by the human race and by the creatures mounted on Its back la a distinction, sir. It Is tbe crown ol the true kings of this world." We seated ourselves on the frtae veranda; he had champagne and water brought, and cigars; and we proceeded to get acquainted nothing promotes cordiality and sympathy like an lnhial misunderstanding. It was a , good hour before this New hard soft, typical Englander reverted to the subject of And now young my visit. Said he: man, may I venture to ask some extremely personal questions?" "In the , circumstances," replied I. you have the right to know everything. I did not come to you without first making sure what manner of man I was to find." At this he blushed, pleased as a girl at her first And you, beau's first compliment. Mr. Forrester, can not be expected to embark in the little adventure I propose, until you. have satisfied yourself. "First, the why of your plan." "I am in active business, replied I. "and I shall be still more active. That means financial uncertainty." Ills suspicion of me started up from Its doze and rubbed Its eyes. "Ah' You wish to Insure yourself. "Yes, was my answer, "but not In the way you hint It takes away a man's courage just when be needs It most, to feel that his family is Involved in his venture. "Why do you not make the settlement direct?" he asked, partly reassured. "Because I wish her to feel that It Is her own, that I have no right over fine-lookin- J Won, aiyon, l by wool-whit- y elr bori( j loa i, 11 n,yiD GRAHAM PHILLIPS, Author of "mECQSnfc kai The J W Cbj " a he u, I lae, IrJ ; (c&mGffr J90? & tfo sasBs-xaza- CHAPTER XXV. Continued. a will savo me, I continued, -- in a block, holding. They wilt be double my total liabilities months as soon as the 1 leave It Is announced. to your sense of justice Jr I shall have my part of them transfer ,fl to-yo- Coal r with-)re- he aK e when this storm blows over. Roebuck? ny didn't you go to , !,ted without looking up. ause It Is he that stuck the into mo. ulnert n of t j ao inW 8n 02 bodied b he Butte hell fe end J an lelde, a of 30 I suspect the Man-jproperties, which I brought the combine, have some value, no one but Roebuck, and knows about and that borne way was dangerous to them igh that fact. They havent glv-,- e time to look Into It grim smile flitted over the face, re been too busy getting mar-eh- ? o H hu on, hby?" don't know. tt xactly, e itnwW ner. fell V ut tight 3 adg, udi died lit! Its another case pen-D- o any-o- n that list do you want any of the Coal of the combine u there? Is i hli leit and bit tf said I. nbuckllng for the weddlrig-feaa- t getting assassinated as a you wish me to explain necessary," he replied. As I that enormous ma-- ! of his for drawing in informa-anwith that enormous mem-o- f bis for details, he probably more about the combine and Its ertles than I did. ou have heard of the lockout? tired for I wished him to know ' no intention of deceiving him i the present market value of ot thought, with u oon&vno of a mother waylaying the doctor as he Issues from the sick-roo."Luck? said I, gazing blankly at him. "Youve seen the latest quotation, havent you? ' In his nervousness bis temper was on a fine edge. No, replied I Indifferently. I sat down at my desk and began to busy myself. Then I added: "Were out of the Coal combine. Ive transferred our holdings. Look after these things, And I gave him the checks, please. notes and memoranda of agreement. he exclaimed And "Galloway! then his eye fell on the totals of the stock I had been carrying. "Good God, Matt!" ho gasped. "Ruined! And he sat down, and' buried his face and cried like a child It was then that I measured the full depth of the chasm I had escaped. I made no such exhibition of myself, but when I tried to relight my cigar my hand trembled so that the flame scorched my lips . "Ruined?" I said to Joe, easily enough. "Not at all. Were back in the road, going smoothly ahead-o- nly, at a bit less stiff a pace. Think Joe, of all those poor devils down in the mining districts. Theyre out-c- lear out and thousands of em dont know where their families will get . e kind-hearted- d advance t In la a of the innouncrec leridan k irlee of A cen'i I Tinning iJ t and 8n g, hive I ind tOE d ae lpr belong! t countla humane r U1 K. stocks. ehuck has been commanded iod," he said, to eject the labor from the coal regions substitute Importations of Huns and Bohemians. Thus, ticked American laborers will be i trill tn' e there tot abused or i s niotaL for urn mated a BageC e hotdtcp Coffin . from trnrj f an act r, thlch da A and he k allghda , He opened bis table's one drawer, and took out a pad i pencil. He wrote A few words ie lowest part of the top sheet, i it, tore off the part he had led on. returned the pad and to the drawer, handed the scrap or to me. I will do it. he said, this to Mr. Farquliar, second to the left Good morning." a that atmosphere of vast affairs ly dispatched his consent seemed, and was, the lips. act an "And righteousness and will prevail," said I. frowned slightly, n sardonic grin ag the straight, thin, cruel line on ai& wltb-rgume- c: of t d near Ef ider the A u M howl it the d 1 forj? ody and you." one fxploslot that his mind had already out. I said no more, and ew. When I loft tbq room It I'feelsely as It had been when I i It except the bit of paper from the pad. But what a dlf-- c to me, to the thousands, the of thousands directly and "TURNED 1113 BACK ON ME AND GAZED OUT TOWARD LONG 13- Tly Interested in the Coal coinLAND." ed Its strike and lta products, presented by those few, almost bread. And Chough they havent assure you, utterly unlike me, and io serawllngs on that scrap of found It out yet, they've got to leave who doubtless deserves to be Inthe place where theyve lived all sulted." until I had gone over the situ-ltIlls purple had now faded. In a their lives, and their fathers before we had them have got to go wandering about far different tone he said: "If your and Farquliar, 1 nl exchanged the necessary In a world thats as strange to them business In any way relates to the ll,l I begin to relax from the ae the aortas of the moon, and as family into which you have married, Miow great that strain was I I do not wish to hear It. Spare my bare for them as the Sahara desert. a few weeks later, when the "Thats so," said Joe. "Its hard patience and your time, sir. speared thick at my temples luck." But I saw he was thinking "It does not," was my answer. "It ere was In my crown what was, only of hlnmelf and his narrow escape relates to my own family to my wife shock as mine, a thin npot. from having to give up his big house and myself. As you nmy have heard, vel!u Bald I to myself, ven- - and all the rest of It; that, soft- she la no longer a member of the long breath, as I stood mi the hearted and generoua though he was, Ellersley family. And 1 have come Galloways establishment, to those poor chaps and their wives 4o you chiefly because I happened to hotuiy was transacted business and children he wasnt giving a know your sentiment toward the affecting the welfare of scores thought, Ellersleya." ileus of human I have no sentiment toward them, beings, with . "Youve done a grand two hours' Gulloways personal .Interest as work," said Joe. sir!" he exclaimed. "They are nonRulillng principle. "Saved!" Grander than you think, replied existent, Blr Your a,l. and not until then did It I. "I've set the tiger on to fight the wife's mother cessed to be a Forrester wore me. "I must have when she married that scoundrel. paid a bull." pi ice. He would never have. Your wife Is still less a Forrester." "Galloway and Roebuck?" l!d to Interfere with Roebuck "Just that, said I. And I laughed, "True," said I. "She Is a Black-lock.- " I asked him to do J8 It, un- - started up, sat down again. "No, Ill tiod been some powerful He winced, and it reminded me of put off the pleasure," said I. 'Til let I had had, my wits about Roebuck find out. when the claws the night of my marriage and Anita's ubi have made far better catch In that tough old hide of his." expression when the preacher called " hy hadnt i my wlta about her by her new name, nut I held Anita wax XXVI my) Instant answer his gaxe, and we looked each at the n quest!, n. Anlta again. I .A CONSPIRACY AGAINST ANITA.. other fixedly for, It must have been, Wd attack off family mans On about the hottest afternoon of full half a minute. Then he said courAnd thus It came about that summer I had the yacht take me teously: "What do you wish?" that a, k to my lnee, I went straight to the point. My feeling aa If down the Sound to a point on the Conaltered a Mevere defeat, In-- necticut shore within sight of Dawn color may have been high, but my Jubilant ovj-- r my narrow es- - Hill, but seven miles farther from voice did not hesitate as I explained: New York. I landed at the private "I wish to make my wife financially folio d me Into my den. pier of Howard Forrester, tin only Independent. I wish to settle on her lack? asked' As 1 an Income that will enable her to live .he, la the tone brother of Anitas mother. 4 Jill,,lj ) Though he had not saved s favor to me, but because od In with his plans, whatever 1 were, my eyes dimmed. forget this," said I, my voice ilte steady. Kow it," said he curtly. "I wed. Die 1 h the lane WF, i it be coo o contc' of Cher lindeM he la'D v d PeW thK eot. , he naiO'H ale W' J ho , ay.Wf mat1 fn 8 port" ilon r 1 "J , o y 1 from "Try her, young man, said he, laughing "In this day there are few people anywhere whod refuse my sum ironi anybody for anything. And and a a woman York woman and a New York fashionable wdman and a daughter of old Ellersly shell take It as a baby kes the breast She would not take It said I. My tone, though I strove to keep angry protest out of It because I needed him, caused him to draw back Instantly. "I beg your pardon, saltl he. "I forgot for the moment that I was talking to a man young enough still to have youth's delusions about women. Youll learn that theyre human, that It's from them we men Inherit our weaknesses. However, lets assume that she wont take It Why wont she take your money? What is there about it that repels Ellerslys daughter, brought up in the sewers of fashionable New York the sewers, fw tick w with "Tne attmpt" tghed, though he had not smiled, ad spoken as If stating color-act- s. creagebr sed In U' orthen J your The old man smiled cynically. "Have you tried?" he inquired. "If I had tried and failed, she would have been on the alert for an indirect 1 ransacda eyes . By JUDGE OTTO A. ROSAISKY, Court of General $ulons,Nw York City. CANNOT asreo. with (hose who refer to what is termed the newspaper peril. The newspaper is a pocket ediliott of the criminal code, if and it were not for newspapers the crime and brutality that are made by poverty and ignorance would be so prevalent that the country would be no safer to liyc in Ilian Jtussia or any other country where they dont allow tbe jsople to read papers. If it were not for tbe newspapers we wouldn't be able to combat with the growth of acts of violence and we could not have a police force large enough to cope with the f acts of lawlessness. A woman of the tenements reads in the that a woman was sent to jail for a number of years for abandoning her child, and while she in her ignorance w6uld not consider it any crime to leave her child, which has come to her in shame and poverty, she sees that it weans what is to her death itself in a jail sentence to do so, and she turns from her purpose. Many of the ignorant who come here are of the opinion that our jails are terrible dungeons where those who are in them live a life of daily physical torture, and when they see in the papers how this one and that one is sent to jail for this thing and that .thing, which to them are trivial enough things, they become cautious and The spirit of ridicule running through the cartoons that are so plentiful tend to foster the national spirit of humor, and while a man may think himself a martyr who takes a heroic punishment for a crimo he will bow his head in chagrin when he is belittled by the pencils of the cartoonist. The corporations are less a menace to the obliterating of tbe rights of the people when there are many cartoons about their operations than all the campaign speeches made against them. When the average immigrant arrives in Amerfea the first thing he takes to seriously is trying to master the text of a daily newspaper, and while a mind may not have the ability to make much headway with the printed language, the pictures are there for all to understand. The picture language is universal and all may understand it. A cartoon with prison stripes in it teaches a plainer lesson that goes more to the spot than all of the printed things that could be written on t the same subject. ' There is no peril in an institution like that. It can go no further than the people will allow. If a publication docs not say the tilings that a majority of persons fad are right they wont buy it, and it cant give any more, and even if some one has the cash necessary to keep it going it means nothing, because its purpose is nil when people wont read it, no matter whether its a financial proposition of any consequence or not. piaja-- r law-fearin- g. , to-d- ay me. trying to get higher and cut down a pious mans nds; and the downtrodden cool-il- l be brought where they can the blessings of liberty and of reaching of Roebucks mission- ned enicx e free :,can to K IT, Big it whatever." He thought about this. Ills were keen as he said, "Is that real reason? I saw I must be unreserved him. "Part of it. I replied. rest Is she would not take It by Npuunjapcr pitltluitif rutin tn (Ohrrk (Erintr ' sir!" "She does not love me, I answered. "I have hurt you," he said quickly, la great distress at having compelled me to expose my secret wound. "The wound does not ache the worse," said 1, Tor my showing It AnW that was the truth. I to you. looked over toward Dawn Hill whose towers could just be seen. "We live there." I pointed. "She la like a guest In my house." When I glanced at him again, bis face betrayed a feeling of which I doubt If any one had thought him capable In many a year. "I see that you love her, he said, gently as a mother "Yes," I replied. And presently I went on: "The Idea of any one love being dependent on me In a sordid way Is most distasteful to me. And since she does not love me, does not even like me, It Is doubly necessary that she be independent "I confess I do not quite follow you, said he. "How can she accept anything from me? If she should finally be compelled by necessity to do It, what hope could I have of her ever feeling toward me as a wife should fuel toward her husband?" At this explanation of mine his eyes sparkled with anger and I could not but suspect that he had at one time In his life been faced with a problem like mine, and had settled It tbe other way. My suspicion 'was1 not weakened when he went on to say: "Boyish motives again! They show you di not know women. Don't be deceived by their delicate exterior, by their pretenses of They affect to be what passion deludes tis Into thinking them. But they're clay, sir. Just clay, and far less sensitive than we men.- - Don't you see, young man. that by making her Independent you're throwing away your best chance of winning her? Women are like dogs like dogs, air! They lick the hand that feeds 'em lick It, and like It." ITO nE CONTI NUKD.) super-refinemen- t. Our text books, our examinations and our instruction in the education of the youth of our land should glorify the arts of peace alove the art of war. In other words, history should la .taught from a more rational point of view. be would Whilst it wrong to rob the soldier of a just share of glory, whil.--t it would be a mistake to minimize the sacrifice and services of the Army and the navy, it will nevertheless be wise to emphasize the victories of peace above the victories of war, and to teach history in such a way that the pupil will write the name of the poet, the orator, the artist, the in- -, ventor, the educator, the jurist, the statesman, the philanthropist in a place as conspicuous in the temple of fame as that occupied by the name of the victorious general or the successful admiral. IIow can this be accomplished?;' In the first place let us instill proper deals of life and of heroism. The pupil can be led to see that Pasteur, the scientist, has done more for humanity than Napoleon, the destroyer of thousands; that Carnegie, jhe philanthropist; has done more for civilization than the admiral wlujr sinks a hostile fleet; that the men who by experiments upon their own bodies showed how yellow fever is transmitted and can be prevented, were as great heroes as any soldiers that ever faced a cannons mouth; that the woman who Berves in the hospital as a nurse, displays as much heroism as the ofiieer who serves his country in time of war, and that in sight of Cod the shedding of a tear is more than shedding seas of gore. 1 The trouble with a lot of men in the world is that they spend so much time handing out promises to people that they havent got time to make any of them good. A lot of people are satisfied with a promise and that's why theres so much promising done. The man who gets you to promise something and means that you shall make it good for him, is very careful what he asks of you. The man who makes many promises is just like a man who is borrowing money, he is working for a dead horse most of the time. To make good whenever you ran, and not promise more than von can really do, will give you a reputation that von cant buy with money. No man ought to lo ashamed to do the thing ho can do best. We are to get our living, and not do any one else harm, and if a man here put can provide for his family better by racing horses than teaching school, ho ought not to worry about what any one else thinks about it. A good politician dont hand you the glad stuile if he knows you or. not with him. The world hates a hypocrite, and its bad business in politics because they'll get .onto you stumer or later. Its always expensive to lie poor, and the only way to save money is. to have some,' and even if you have to start a stocking1 of savings with the pennies for the days lunch you have made a right start, and befort long that w ill grow to where it is s.mng money for you by its avuilubility to keep you from small debt. |