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Show j . The Unknown Quantity By O. Henry on almost a n:irdnic cast. He caught ltt.n' arm with the grip of a friend and aJtiflrs. "You can't do It!" said, emphatically. emphati-cally. "One of the chief punishments of oj men of ill-gotten wealth is that when you do repent you find that ou have lost the power to make reparation or restitution. I admire your good intentions, inten-tions, Dan. but you can't do anything. Those people were robbed of their precious pre-cious pennies. It's too late to remedy the evil. You can't pay them bark.'" "Of course." said Dan. lighting Ms pipe, "me couldn't hunt up everv one irf the duffers and band m back the right change. There's an awful lot of ni buying bread sli the time Furny tssis thev have I never care for brfd especially, espe-cially, except for a toasted ersi-ker with the Roquefort. Hot we might find a few of m and chuck soin of dad's cash hack wfirre it canio from. I'd fvl better if I could. It seems tough for people In m heid up for a sogarv tiling like We.td. On wouldn't mind ':tndUi a rle in broiled lobsters or deviled ralw. Oet to work and think. Ken. 1 wunt to pay back nil of that mont-y I can." "There are plentv of rharities," said Kenwiti,. mecha nics lly. "Katsir enough.-sald-Dan. In a cToiJd of smoke, "t suppose I could give ihe city a park, or endow an asparaR-ua bed in a hospital. Hut I don't wunt Paul to get away with the proceeds of the gold brick we sold 1'eter. It's the bread shorts I wunt to cover. Ken ' Th thin fingers of Kenwlts then moved rapidly. to -yam kn o wh o w muTS "thon'ejnt ' would take to pay twk the losii of consumers con-sumers during the corner In flour?" ne asked. "I do not." said Dan. stoutly. "My lawyer telt me tbut I have two millions.'' t'lf you hd a hundred miliums." said Ken w KB. vrhemetitlv. "joti couldn't re-pa re-pa ir a t housand t h part of t he da mage that his be-n done. Tou cannot conceive con-ceive of the accumulated evils produced that wits wrong from the lean purses of the poor rea td a thousandfold to their harm. You do not understand. You do ; not see how lippele is your desire to , make restitution. Not in a single In- I I stance can it be done. ! j "Buck up, philosopher!" said Dan. "The penny his no sorrow that the dollar cannot can-not heal." ' "Nut in one Instance.' repeated Kenwlts. Ken-wlts. "I will give you one. itnd let us see. Thomas Hoyr.e had little bakerv over there in Vart- k street. He sold j bread to the pM-et eo(. When the j price of flour went uu he had to raise '. the price of biesd. Hi? i-us?omer wr too poor to pty i:. ITnyne's business failed I and he lost h's (loot) capitalall be h.id In the world." Dan Kinsoiving struck the park bench a mighty blow with his fist. "I accept the instance." be cried. "Take me to Boyne. 1 will repuy his thousand dollars and buy him a new bskerv." "Write your check." said Kenwtts. without moving, "and then begin to write checks In payment of the train of consequences. con-sequences. Draw the neat one for $.").- I 0O0. Bovne went Insane after his fn II- J ure and set fire to the building from I which he wss about to be existed. The loss amounted to that much. Hoyne died in an asylum." i "Kitck lo the Instance." said Ian. "I j haven't not!ed any insurance companies on my charity llt." "iHw your it xt che-k fnr tlQfl ftoo " I went on Kenwlts. "Uoyne's son fell into bs d wa rm after the bsk ery close .1. and was s reused of murder. He was ac-oulffed ac-oulffed Inst week after a three years' legal battle, and the state, draws upon tsTonvsrs foe thai much expense." "Back to the bakery!" exclaimed Dan. Imps t ten tly. "The government doesn't need to stand fn the bread line." "The last item of the Instance ts com and I will show you," said Ken-wits, Ken-wits, rising The ftttcUlUtk- watchmsker wss happv. He was a millionaire bai(r bv nature and a pessimist by trad. Kenwtts would assure vt In ofe breath that money wss but U ard corruption, and thut your hrrd rew ttsh needed detuning and a ne- rihe whe!. II-. rtidortd Kirsotvlng southward ou f -be aure s rwt Into rugged, poverty hwnfet VTTrir- streer. tn in-narrow stetrwny of s eq'ialltd brck tenement he led the nennent nff-prirg of the oc-top:s. oc-top:s. He krcktd on a door, and a clesr voire culled to ilirm to enter. i In thst almost bare room a yon" I wonifln mi sewing st a msrhlne. Hhe 1 nodded to Kenwlts s to a fami'twr sc- u-.Mitttance. Hie little stream of son- 1 light thrmiaii the dngy window aurnished br heavy hair iQ th colur of an ancient Tnsean's shield. Hhe flashed a rippling .smile at Kenwits and a look of some-whst some-whst fl'istereri lnouir-. Kinsolvins: stood regard in a- her clear and pathetic beauty in heart throbtitiig silence. Thus tie came into the pres-er pres-er of the last ltyn of the lusts nee. "How man 4h week. Mi- Mr asked the watrlmiT-ker. A mour'ain cf com e erav ehirl Ihv opon th- floor. "Nearly thirty dozen " Ktfd the voung wom:n cheerfully. "I've mnde s'moft I'm improving, Mr. Kenwits. I hard-b- know what to do with mo much rronev." Her eves turned. bHghtlv soft. In the direction of Dan. A Utile pink spot csme oi' on her round, pale chk. Ker.wftK chuskted like a disholfc raven. "Ms Pnvns." he said, "let me present pre-sent Mr. Kino!ving. ?he son of the mn who p"t bread rn five vears aso. He think he woubl l.ke to do something t0 sid thoe who were Inconvenienced bv that act. (The sin'le left the voun woman's , fsce. Kh roe and pointed her fort 'leer j toward th- door.) Tr.'s time he Moked KiiolvtP rMiphf m h eve. but It was not a o(,i( ihnt gave dbrht. The two mei wt dow" Into Varlck 1 t-eet. Knwi'. urt'v all his neeim-I neeim-I !sm ad r.-tneor ard h'red of the octooo t ee fi n.e rfn.-e ihed at the moneyed , side of h' friend In sn ncHd tor'-en of i ' I in sTieMred to be Jiteinr. and the turned to Kenwlts and shook , hav' w"h h'm warmly i "I'm obMred to 'OU, ICett. o'd man h snH rague1 "a thousand times Obl'fed." "Ve;n Oott! you are ersuty' cried the watchmaker, dropping his spectacles for the first time in vear. Two months sfterward Kenw'ts went Into a la'se bake-' on low-e Rroeiwav with a nair of srold rimmed evetrlssses that he had mndd foe the pmnrietor. A Isdv was ridne an order to a clerk as Kenwtts passed he-. "These loaves are 1 cents.- said the cle-l;. "T siwavs set then m cents nptown " aid tr-e h'dy. "Vci ne-d not fill the nr. -ler. win drive by there on mv wav Te voice was familiar. The watch-mser watch-mser Tped. . "Mr. K-uwits'" cried the lady, heartily. Htw do you do?" Kenwiti was Irving to train his socialistic social-istic sod economic comnrehension on her wonderful fur fcoa and the carrfsge wait-Inr wait-Inr outside "Why, Miss Poye" he hegsn. j "Mrs. Kinsolvirg." she corrected. "Dsn and I were married a month ago." Copyright. lfl?l, by thee Wheeler Syndicate, Inc. The poet Longfellow or was It Confucius, Con-fucius, the inventor of wisdom .'remarked: .'re-marked: "Life is real, life Is earnest; And things are not what they seem. As mathematics are or Is; thanks, old subscriber! the only Just rule by which questions of life can be measured, let us, by all means, adjust our theme to the straight edge and the bs lanced column of the great goddess Two-snd-Two-Makes-Four (figures unaagailaNm gams of addition shall be set over - against whatever opposing element there muy be. A mathematician, after scanning, the above two lines of-poetry, would sav: "Ahem! voung gentlemen. If we assume thai X plus that Is. that life is real-then real-then things 4 mI J of which life in htds are real. Any thing ttiat Is real is whut it seems. Then if we consider the proposition, propo-sition, thai 'thing) are not what they sem.' why Hut ihis is heresy, and not poesy. Ws woo 4he swet fymph Airebrar we .would ' rortdui I vpu into the presence of the j elusive, seductive, pursued, sal isfylntf, ! mysterious -. ; Not long before the beginning of this! centurv, Septimus Kinsoiving, an old .New Vorker. invented an idea. He orig- 1 Inated the discovery that br-.td 1 made j from flour end not from wheat fui urei t'creetving That Ihe flour crop was sliortTI and that the Stork Kxchange was having J ro perceptible effect on ihe grosrtug i whe.tt. Mr. K:nsolitig cornered the flour inarkt-t. The result was that when you or m? U nil lady (before the "r she never had to turn her hand to an thing; Southerners Southern-ers accommodated) bought a li-cent kaf of bread you luul down an additional Z cents, which want 10 Mr. Kinsoiving as a testimonial to his perspicacity. A second result van that Mr. Kinsoiving Kin-soiving nt the game wilh U.OOU.ooO yrof-er-rake-off. Mr. Kinsolving's son Dan was at college col-lege wht-ti 1 he mat he ma Ileal eerlment in iiresdKt uffs wus made. lan came home during vacation, and found the o.d gentleman in n red dressing (.-own resd-it resd-it g "Little fJorrit" 011 th- porch oT his estimable red brick mansion in WnshinK-lon WnshinK-lon Square. lie had retired from birsi-n-ss with enough -extra 2-cent pieces 'rem brad buyers 10 reach, if laid side by noe, lifteen tunes around the eurih and Up as fir as I ha public debt of I'arugway. shook hands with his father, and hurried over to ireewicti Village lo ee his old high school friend. Kenwlts. Lsn had aiwuya admired Kenwlts. Kenwlts Ken-wlts was pale, curley -haired, intense, serious, se-rious, mathematical, studious, altruistic, socialistic and the natural foe of oligarchies. olig-archies. Kenwlts hsd foregone college, ard was learning watc-makug In his father's Jewelry store. Dan was smiling. smil-ing. Jovbil. easy-tempered end tolerant al.ke of Kings and rsgpickers. The two foregathered Joyously, being oppoeites. Anu then lan went bck to college, and Kenwtts to hla mainsprings and to hi private library In the rear of the Jewelry shop. rour years later Dan came back to Washington Suare with the acctimula- I tiors tf B. A. and two veam of Kurote ' tli.. k upon him. He took a filial look at Septimus Kinsoiving s elaborate tomb-s'one tomb-s'one in fireenwood. and a tedious excursion ex-cursion through typewritten documents with the fa mil. lawyer: and then, feeling hfmelf a lonely and hopeless millionaire, hurned down the old Jewelry store across S.ith avenue. Kenwtts unscrewed a magnifying glass from h,s eye. routed out his parent from a dingy rear room, and abandoned the Interior of watches for outdoors. He went with Dan. and tuey sat on a bench In Warhing:ton No.ua re. I tan had not changM mu h; be waa stalwart, and had a dignity that was inclined to relax into a grin. Kenwtts was more serious, more intense, more (earned, philosophical and social isttc. "I know about it now." said Dan. finally. '! pumped It out of the eminent emi-nent legal lights that turned over to me poor old dhd s collect Ion of bonds and hoodie. It amounts to 1.000.000. Ken. And ! I am told that he squeesed It out of the ! chape that pay their pennies for loaves ' of bread at the little bakeries around the corner. Youv studied economics, Dan. and you know all about monopolies, j nd the masses, and octopuses, snd the rtghts of labcrtng people. I never thought I bout those things before. Foot ball and 1 trying to be white to my fellowman were I 1 bout the extent of my coPeg-e curric- I ulum. , I "Hut aince I came back and found out ihlnkin. Id like awfullv well to pay fcark tho chaps who had to Rive up too I much money for bread. I know ft would ' ttuck the line of any income for a good 1 many yards; but I d like to make it 1 Ktuare with m. Is there sny wsy It I ran be done, old Ways and Means?" Ktnwits a big black eves glowed 1 lerccly. Hii thin, Iniellectuai face look i |