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Show Tifr-- " " HIS ENGAGEMENT By DOROTHY CANFIELD REFUSES TO STAY BURIED (Copyright.) oil James McClurg Guffey, operator, gold, silver and coal mining owner and Democratic boss of Pennsylvania, the man w'ho was pronounced two years ago to be politically dead beyond hope of resurrection, has swung the convention of his state and elected delegates-at-largpledged to oppose Bryan. It Is less than two years ago that Julian Hawthorne wrote 0 him: "Those who would flatter him call him a fool. He is too stupid to see the handwriting on the wall; but it is no matter; his power multi-millionair- HEX the historian of our times comes to philosophize as to the worlds amazing progress in the last hundred years particularly in the last CO one of the most notew orthy topics for discussion will be the multiplication of newspapers as to both number and circulation. Ili3 explanation will be made up largely of a statement of the influence of steam and electricity in newspaperdom. His most difficult duty will be to explain satisfactorily the almost complete disappearance of the old fashioned paper in which the editor wa3 bigger than his paper and the evolution of the huge, impersonal papers of the present day. The chief work of the papers of the immediate future will be to make themselves absolutely independent and as impartial as possible in the discussion of public men and public measures. Even a casual observer can see that the day of the party organ has about ended. In the good time coming there will be found some way of stripping this mask from papers which are really the personal organs of certain baneful interests but which pose as real newspapers and in that wmy constantly gull their readers. Thomas Jefferson once declared that as between a country without a government and with a free press and a country with a government and without a free press he would choose the former a declaration to wdiich 1 agree; but he meant an honest press and not a subsidized press. The people demand more and more clean, honest, fair, courageous journalism. The papers of the future will not be half so large as the papers of News, editorials and advertisements will all be condensed not only to save time and money but as a matter of humanity. Once representatives in congress spoke ad libitum. Now an hour is the longest thick-and-th- to-da- in y. It was in a shady nook on Flirtation, where the rocks sloped directith ly from their feet to the Hudson. a reckless disregard of regulations, the cadet had unfastened the top hook of his collar and, with his hands clasped behind his head, was gazing was meditatively at the girl who like looked It opening a box of candy. the regulation arrangement on "Flirtation, but it was not. ended. She arranged her skirts comfortably, Mr. Hawthorne failed to take Into consideratilted her parasol at an angle which tion Guffeys natural cunning, which has saved shaded the cadets head as well as Mm from annihilation on several occasion her own, and then said: "Now, Al has brought him 10 the front once more. lan, you promised youd tell me all This is no sudden dislike for Bryan on Guffeys about It. Theres no reason for putthe since him to been he for has opposed ting it off. part, Peerless One made his first run In 1S96. Guffey got himself elected as a "gold Thq cadet rubbed his Til tell it on one head thoughtfully. hug to the Democratic national convention and fought hard to prevent Bryan's nomination; Failing in this he returned to Pittsburg, fuming with rage condition that you dont interrupt. Tin going to start in by saying and vowing to crush Bryan in Pennsylvania. On reaching home, ho.vever, he learned that his enemy, William F. Harrity, then Democratic boss, had that you dont know the girl, but that bolted Bryan. This was too good an opportunity to let slip. Guffey flopped shes a wonder! It all happened about a year and a half ago when shed to Bryan, proclaimed himself an original Bryan man, started a fight on Harsevrity and gave liberally to the Bryan campaign fund. When the war was over been coming up to the Point for She and stead. to his in eral things. and Democratic boss as months, had hops Guffey reigned Harrity disappeared fern you ever was the little lost the gayest each on occasion 1900 he for in but made the fight Bryan, Again state by about 300,000 votes. In 1904 the Republican majority had increased saw always cracking jokes and to over 500,000, and other state elections have resulted equally disastrously laughing like a chime of bells. You know our set of six fellows, for him. Two years ago he was swept out by the reform wave and the keenhow we always hang together. and bobs he once more up him lost but est politicians thought they had forever, Well, we were together on this propoto the surface. ' was He is said to be an oil magnate in sition all right! We thought she Guffey is many times a millionaire. ever that about little the funniest girl six states, coal king In two, silver mine owner in two and gold mine owner in came along. She was always saying an eleventh. He is said to be as tricky in politics as in business. something you didnt think she was going to. I remember she was the only girl I ever saw who had something new to say when we told her we our wives. called our room-mate- s Francis T. F. Lovejoy, one of the "young Well, a year ago last fall, when I partners in the great Carnegie Steel Co., who wa3 a second-clas- s man, I was sitting has Just become reconciled to Andrew Carnegie, In my room one evening, boning on after a bitter ten years war, owes his financial math. Id been working like a horse a magnificent shortage to "Lovejoys Folly, trying to max my calculus, and I was 1,000,000 residence he is building in the east as grouchy as a bear. My wife was end, Pittsburg, and to his heavy investments not any company, for hed been doing in western mining stocks. area ever since two oclock, and had Lovejoy began with Carnegie as a telegraph turned In so dead tired you couldnt opeiator. He was polite, accommodating and a have waked him with an ax. I was lii-- (l worker who had little to say, especially getting lonesomer and lonesomer, and - nit. the Carnegie Steel Co. Carnegie recogfeeling more and more as though I nized his worth and made him a partner in the wanted a blow-ou- t of some kind to steel business. Then came the break between put some life into me, when there was Carnegie and H. C. Frick. Lovejoy, who was a whoop at the door and the five felthen secretary of the Carnegie Steel Co., sup- lows of the gang came in, all talking Puddenhead had a letter, ported Mr. Frick. From that time on until a at once. few months ago the steel master and Lovejoy waving it In the air, and the only never spoke a word to each other. thing I could get out of them was that It will be recalled that not one of the "young partners of the Carnegie Helen was engaged. I had two Helens Steel Co. ever went to the"wall. They all have great wealth, and even Love-Jo- on the string about that time, and I with all hjs troubles, would have been able to weather the storm, but it was considerably excited till , after about would have left him worth a great deal less than when he was a business they got smoothed down enough for me to majte out that partner of Carnegie. Lovejoy and Carnegie were together the greater part of three days in they meant this girl Im telling about. New York. Lovejoy returned to Pittsburg and it was noted that he had I hadnt thought of her at all. She wasnt the kind youd ever think placed in Pittsburg banks to bis credit $400,000. It was reported that Charles of as sobering down enough to get M. Schwab, former head of the steel trust, had come to his rescue, and many believed it until Lovejoy himself has given out the statement that it was engaged. Puddenhead had had a letter from a girl in Bridgeport, where Carnegie who aided him in his trouble. Helen lived, and she said Helens engagement to a clt named Beardsley was just announced. Well, we were great pais of Helen's, and we were sore that she hadnt told us anything Col. Georges PIcquart, Frances minister of about It. Puddenhead said: Think of war, who, next to Alfred Dreyfus, was the hero her nerve! Shes coming up to a hop of the famous Dreyfus case, was present the night just as though nothother day when the shooting of Dreyfus took had happened. She thinks shes ' place, during the canonization of Emile ing to fool us. Well just let her going Zola, the author and writer. know that she can't get ahead of us The first clew to the innocence of Dreyfus with her practical jokes. Lets meet and to the identity of the real culprit came in her as the bus comes up to the top of 1895 the year by the discovery by spies of a the hill and shout out congratulacard telegram (petit blue) written by Lieut. tions! till can hear us on the they Col. von Schwarzkoppen and addressed to other side of parade ground. Commandant Esterhazy, calling upon him to I was jusi going to say I was game This card tele- for give more detailed information. that, when Big Marshall began gram afterwards famous in the case as the jumping up and down and "petit bieu it was written on a blue post card I got you beat! I got youhollering: beat! , I was taken to Col. Picquart, who had succeeded got an idea that beats that all to frazCol. Sandherr as chief of the secret intelligence zles! Lets all six of us never let on bureau. Col. Picquart looked into Esterhazy's weve heard a thing, and then all prorecord and antecedents. He obtained specimens pose to her, heavy-tragedstyle, durof his writing, and made the sensational discovery that it was Esterhazy and ing the hop take on as though we not Dreyfus who had written the bordereau, the document containing French were broken-hearteand then have military secrets sold to the Germans which led to the charges against the laugh on her the next day. Dreyfus. Say, that struck us all right, all Picquart set the machinery in motion which would have given Dreyfus right! We just went Into the air. a new trial and at the same time placed Esterhazy on trial as the real author "We could hardly wait for the hop, of the bordereau. The French army generals behind the conspiracy thwarted and when my dance with Helen came Col. Picquart's purpose. They sent him on p mission to Tunis and placed I proposed to sit It out on the balcony Lieut. Col. Henry In charge of the secret Intelligence bureau. overlooking the Hudson, and I fairly shivered for fear shed want to dance; d Public opinion in France was thus stifled for a time. Esterhazy was and acquitted. Col. Picquart was arrested on the charge of forging but she didn't, and we went down the the "petit bleu. The charge failed and he was rearrested on the charge of stairs together, me beginning to put showing secret documents of the war office to a lawyer. On this charge he on the proper solemn air. "It was moonlight a warm October was convicted by a court-martipacked by the conspirators of the general staff and dismissed from the army. evening. The Hudson looked like a And then began the long battle which ended in the vindication of Dreyfus, black diamond with rubies all around it where the lights of the shore and the promotion of Picquart to the head of the army. gleamed. There wasnt a cloud in the sky, and just the sweetest autumn smell in the air. Oh, It was!he proper , all right! I lifted Helen to the broad up balustrade same way The earl of Crewe, the handsomest man and I had lots of times before the most stylishly dressed in the British hotise turned and gazed down the and then I river, tryof lords, has been promoted from lord president ing to look romantic. I wont tell you of the council, a position almost a sinecure at what I said to her, but you can just $10,000 a year, to secretary of state for the colobet it was ! I told her she nies, a portfolio that provides lots of work and was the only one in the world for me a salary of $25,000 a year. In his old position that I had my future all fixed up his principal duty was to carry a big, with her in the midst of sword at the opening of parliament and do his would be the death of me it, and it to unfix my best to prevent it from getting entangled be- ideas, that I would quit the service tween the legs of some state functionary. This if there wasn't any hope for me. duty would occupy about half an hour a year, Say, it was a good thing I was and the radical wing of the government party leaning up against the balustrade have been raising a fuss about the salary being cause if it hadn't been for out of all proportion to the services rendered. have fallen right down in a fit. that Id Helen There was some danger of the post being abol- was looking at me with like eyes ished, so it was deemed advisable to provide stars, and they changed every minute Lord Crewe with a position of real responsibility. and got softer and softer till I was Five years ago it would have been considered Just melted and floated away in air ou wouldnt think she absurd to give him any position so important as that he now fills, for he was ever could Lord Rose- have laughed out of them, distinguished only as a thtng of rare beauty. His 'father-in-law- , they were bery, had caustically referred to him as a "society butterfly," but for once so sweet and solemn. Her lips moved, Rosebery was mistaken. When the Birrell education bill reached the house and I could just hear her say: 'Allan of lords it was Crewe who pad to defend it from the vicious attacks of the conmy Allan! I was about servatives. He was defeated, but it was a gallant fight against overwbelminf the most startled and scared Individual you ever odds, and it showed that there was good material In the man underneath h saw vandlfied air, his Irreproachable dress and his almost girlish beauty. e an-wh- ich close-croppe- d and what with that and my eral feeling of goneness, I know I have turned pale. She leaned ' toward me and said, in the pretties? lowest voice, that just went through me like a knife: Why, Allan, you must have known how I felt! "I took another brace, and mur mured some disjointed questions about the clt Beardsley, but she caught m You didnt believe that up short. gossip! "I was just dissolving in thin air all this time I was, for a fact! I couldnt feel the ground under my feet, and had to hold on to the balustrade, hard I was so and dizzy. jus( then Big Marshall came running out to get Helen for the next dance. helped her down, and she gave my light-heade- d RECONCILED TO CARNEGIE possible except by unanimous consent. Tha paper of the future will exploit good deeds more and reduce the reports of scandal to the minimum. speech There is a type of man and father, lt ambitious for his sons, who might be to understand were it not that a study of the conventional in life makes his position easy. diffi-icu- Occasionally, through correspondence, I come in touch with this man, who is in- censed at the idea that any form of unquestioned logic or hardheaded condition of fact should be expressed in sharp collision with his ideals, which have only the conventional to hack them up. lie is afraid to face the facts of life He refuses to accept the law's which have been reached by deduction as governing the careers of men. The Why should not iny sons aspire to anything? he insists. is world full of opportunities. There is no limit to human accomplishment in human afTairs. Pessimism long has been regarded by the alienist as a disease. In any exaggerated form, without the material and pressing conditions w'hich might breed it, the expression of pessimism is only an effect, pointing back to its cause in an aberrated brain and nervous system. In contrast to this victim of neurasthenia is that other typical case, in which everything under the sun wears the glory of imagination. Sleeping on a cot in a detention hospital for the insane, the cell is a palace. Tlten manifestly between these extremes must lie the narrow line of sanity and sense of proportion, without which a sane existence cannot be sensed; without which a sane existence cannot be lived. Optimism has grown to be a conventionality 60 strong in influence that it often is an affectation, pure and simple. We have been dealing in extremes let us take an example of the extreme in the accomplishment of the boy. Every American born boy of sound physique is a potential president of the United States. He must he a better president if he shall be trained to diplomacy and statesmanship. lie should have the environment of statesmen and of diplomats. Why not train your son all your sons to diplomacy and statesmanship ? I ask of this conventional father. But a candidate for the presidential office is not eligible until he is flu years old; probably at G5 years old age again would make him ineligible. But at most in thi3 30 ycavs of age eligibility, with one terra to each executive, the office would be filled only seven times. The chance i3 - too great, is this anticipated answer. Which brings us back again to the disturbing law of averages against which his conventional optimism has risen in arms. A United States senator a short time ago declared that 97 men ruled the financial destiny of this nation. A social arbiter might advance the statement that 100 families lead the nations society. Scientific, literary, art, and professional experts might group the several leaders in still smaller numbers. What is the use? 0, what is the use of holding up to the young man as goals these peaks of attainment when so much that is sweet and lasting in life lies untasted and untouched at the feet of the young man, misguided and straining his eyes writh looking upward? It takes much more courage in the everyday work of life to live up to the high ideals of life than it doe3 in war where the bands are playing and the excitement of the hour carries men on to the face of death. Many men face the cannons mouth because it is less dangerous than turning to run the other way. In battle the great generals have told us there is little personal courage exhibited. A two daring men who regiment has one or and the others forward follow. press In the humdrum of life there is no band, no cannons roar, no one exhorting must do your duty without the You ahead. to keep straight you ment which a battle brings. You little boys and girls can become greater heroes by doing your full duty in civil life than you could by going to war because it is harder to keen your courage day after day without the five-minu- FOUND DREYFUS FORGERIES y court-martiale- BUTTERFLY A BUSY BEE stage-setting- red-hot- two-hande- d Was the Only the World for Me. "I Told Her She Girl in arm a little hidden pat, that couldn't have hurt worse If she'dj hit me with a hammer! I watched her walk away with Big, feeling meaner and meaner, till, as she turned and gave one backward look toward me, I just shriveled up to nothing at all. I moved around the corner to a place where I knew nobodyd come, and fell down on a chair, and took my head In my hands and did some tall thinking! First off, I took about an hour calling myself bad names. Id think of the light la her eyes as she had looked at me, and curse myself for about the lowest, meanest specimen of humanity that ever drew breath. "I was all in a tremble when I stood up finally, but my mind was made up. I was a Doanes from Alabama, and I wasnt going to go back on the woman who loved me if it killed me! I tell you, I didnt sleep much that night, and I didnt need reveille to wake me up In the morning. I was planning what I would say to Helen when I saw her the next afternoon The first time I saw her would be the worst. After chapel, though, her aunt her aunt is Capt. Wadleigh's wife-t- old me that Helen had been telegraphed for to come to New York to see an uncle off on the steamer, and that she had left on the first train. Say, maybe I didnt feel like a re rrieved prisoner! I caught the first long breath Id had since the night before. But in a minute I knew I'd have to write; and thats what I did! All that afternoon I wrote and tore op and wrote and tore up, trying to fir just the letter she ought to get. I tried to think what Id want a fellow to write if I were a girl just engaged to him, and then Id write It. I got some sort of a letter done, and was just starting out to post It when Capt. Wadleighs orderly came up and said that Miss Helen had left a note for me and wished me to go over to the house and get It. I started over there and posted the letter on the way. When I got to the gate I saw Puddenhead and Big going up the walk, and two of the other fellows were looking out of the windows. I thought: 'Oh, Lord! Helens probably left a note for all of them announcing our engagement. I won't have to pat a bluff or up anything! "Mrs. Wadlelgh was sitting Inside talking to the fellows already there, and In a minute In came Adams, and there we were, all six. Mrs. Wadleigb got up and went over to her desk You boys and Helen are such jokers, she said. I dont know what the joke Is this time, but I suppose it is some of Helens nonsense. She asked me to give you all one of these. With that she began handing around some little notes. I knew what it meant, all right and I waited a minute before I opened bail mine, for I didn't feel as thonsh I bad Helen to 'read what any right written there. When I broke the seal an engraved card fell out and, as looked at it, I got the shock of my WeMr. and Mrs. request the honor of your presence at the to of their daughter Helen Eugene Beardsley. "Just then we heard a funny nois and there was that wife of mine back so of us, just gasping for breath, aad full of laughter he was black in He face. As we turned around and look? be , at him kind of dazed and an was so tickled he gave a whoop, fell on the floor in a fit. That blame scalawag hadnt been asleep at that night, and he had gone and to! Helen all about our scheme; and do vou think? The little actress, shed accepted the whole six of us same way rk3 had me! marriage fish-eyed- t J |
