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E I G H T H OF " T A L E S OF M E N . "

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H A C K L E Y L O W E R S C H O O L Boys 9 to 13. Situated on an elevation of 500 feet above the Hudson River twenty.five miles from New York City. Modem facilities for thorough school training with every natural advantage for healthful home life. Prepares for Hackley Upper School. Eor catalog and illustrations, address Harold F . Avery, Director, Box 754, Tarrytown, New York.

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For Girls. 97th year. Re-opens in September with three new, wellequipped,fire-proofbuildings. Ideal location. Preparatory, General and Special Courses. Certificate privileges. Music, Art, Modern Languages, Elocution, Domestic Science. Gymnasium. For catalogue, address Miss Anna Leach, A.M., Principal, Troy, New York. W I L S O N S C H O O L FOR B O Y S Gives a thorough training to a limited number of boys of high character for the leading Universities. F o r Catalogue, refer­ ences and information, address Headmaster, Fishkill-on-Hudson, New York. PUTNAM HALL M i s s Bartlett's School for G i r l s . Offers exceptional facilities for college preparation. Offers general courses with diploma for those who do not care to attend college. H o l d s certificate right for all leading colleges. Catalogue on request. Address E l l e n Clizbe Bartlett, Principal, B o x 807, Poughkeepsie, N . Y . T H E SOMES SCHOOL Ideal home for thirty boys. O n Cayuga L a k e , near Cornell University. College preparation by expert teachers. and class instruction, modern equipment, healthful location. Unusual opportunities for outdoor recreation. $600. Aurora, New York.

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For Girls. F u l l academic and college preparatory courses. M u s i c . A r t , Domestic Science. Certificate admits to leading colleges. F u l l y equipped gymnasium. Tennis, basketball, skat­ ing. F o r catalogue address M r s . Helen H . V a n W i n k l e , P r i n c i p a l , Buffalo, N e w Y o r k . T H E MANOR SCHOOL F o r Girls. Classes arranged for graduation, college preparatory and special courses. Resident pupils limited to 20. F o r par­ ticulars address principals : M a r y E . H u l l , Grace H u n t i n g t o n , Larchmont M a n o r , N . Y .

ST. MARY'S SCHOOL, MOUNT ST. GABRIEL Peekskill, N . Y . C h u r c h B o a r d i n g School for G i r l s . F o r t y third year. E i g h t y acres. New fireproof building ready in the fall. T e r m s $600.00. Address T h e Sister Superior. WALLCOURT M i s s Goldsmith's School for Girls. (Formerly T h e Wells School.) O n the east shore of Cayuga L a k e . T h o r o u g h preparation for any college. General academic and special courses. Physical culture. F o r booklet address M i s s A n n a R . G o l d s m i t h , A . B . , P r i n . , Aurora-on-Cayuga, N . Y . THE MOST SUCCESSFUL SOHOOLSof to-day began to advertise in S C R I B N E R ' S M A G A Z I N E years ago for pupils for to-day. To-day these schools are advertising for to­ morrow.

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R e g i s t r a t i o n 1906-'10 f r o m 41 states a n d 10 foreign countries. A t h l e t i c f i e l d . R e c r e a ­ tion B u i l d i n g and Boat House. Gym­ n a s i u m ; r o w i n g s h e l l s . F a r m o f 150 acres. T e r m s $660 to $760. C . V . P A R S E L L , A . M . , Ithaca, N . V .

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Founded by L i e u t . - G o v . W m . D u m m e r in 1763. A t South Byfield, near Newburyport, Massachusetts. Boarding school with 330 acres and modern buildings thoroughly equipped for sixty boys, prepar­ ing for college or scientific school; individual attention; high stand­ ards. F o r illustrated catalogue address Charles S. Ingham, P h . D . QUINCY

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For G i r l s . F i n e estate, 6 miles from Boston. A m p l e grounds. Outdoor sports. Special and graduate courses. Advantages in M u s i c , Art, Languages. Domestic Science. College preparation and certificate. M r s . Horace M . W i l l a r d , P r i n c i p a l , Wollaston, Mass.

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A sub-preparatory school of the highest class, which aims to fit boys mentally, morally and physically for the larger preparatory schools. Booklet upon request. Alexander H . M i t c h e l l . Headmaster, B i l l e n c a . Massachusetts.

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F o r Girls Desiring Individual Attention Genuine happy home life with personal, affectionate care. Growing girls inspired by wholesome and beautiful ideals of useful womanhood. The Cape climate is exceptionally lavorable for an outdoor Ufa which we make attractive and refining. Forty acres; pine groves, seashore, ponies. Hygiene and morals are observed especially for results in health, character and education. Gymnastics, Music, Handi­ work, Domestic Arts, French, German, Spanish—native teachers. A l l branches of study under patient and enthusiastic instructors. Address R E V . T H O M A S B I C K F O R D , MISS F A I T H B I C R F O R D , Principals East Brewster, Cape C o d , M a s s .

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THE BROWNE AND NICHOLS SCHOOL For Boys. 28th year. Opens Sept. 20, IQTO. Thorough preparation for H a r v a r d or any other college. Sound Methods, H i g h Standards, Permanent Results. Enthuiastic good-fellowship. Athletics. Address either P r i n c i p a l , George H . Browne or R e v . W i l l a r d Reed. Cambridge, Mass.

L E S L E Y N O R M A L S C H O O L FOR K I N D E R G A R T N E R S Playground Course. Close proximity to H a r v a r d University. Exceptional opportunity for study under leading educators. Address M i s s E d i t h L . Lesley, P r i n c i p a l . 29 Everett St.. Cambridge, Mass. HOWARD

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New building on Punkatasset H i l l . Extensive grounds and woodland. Tennis courts, ball field, canoeing. Constant careful attention to the individual boy; special supervision of young boys. Thomas H . Eckfeldt, Headmaster, Box L , Concord, M a s s .

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For G i r l s and Y o u n g Ladies. Healthful and beautiful location. 25 miles from Boston. Academic, College Preparatory and Special Courses. T w o years' course for H i g h School graduates. Domestic Science. A r t and M u s i c studios. M i s s Sarah E . Laughton, A . M . , P r i n c i p a l , West Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

In Old Concord Mount Ida School Year book on request

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A preparatory and finishing school. Advanced Elective Courses. College Certificate Privilege (without examination). Piano, Voice, and Violin with Noted Men. Domestic Science, Resident Nurse. Gymnasium, Di­ rector of Athletics. Exceptional opportunities, with a delightful home life.

Stands for scholarship, cul­ ture a n d character. Pre­ pares for colleges, scientific schools, or business.

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M i s s M i r a H . H a l l , P r i n c i p a l , Pittsfield, M a s s .

M i s s C H A M B E R LAY N E ' S S C H O O L F O R G I R L S General, Special, and College Preparatory Courses. T h e P'enway 28, Boston.

ABBOT ACADEMY School for G i r l s . Eightieth year opens September 15, 1010. Address T h e Dean, 27 School St. Andover, M a s s .

BRADFORD

ACADEMY

F o r Y o u n g W o m e n . One hundred and eighth year opens Sep­ tember 14th. T h i r t y miles from Boston. Address the P r i n c i p a l , M i s s L a u r a A . K n o t t , A . M . , Bradford, M a s s .

CUSHING ACADEMY B y reason of its endowment it offers a l l the advantages of a high priced school for the annual expense of $275. Gymnasium. Athletic field. Co-educational. F o r catalogue, address H . S. Cowell, A . M . , P r i n c i p a l , Ashburnham, Massachusetts.

MISS MCCLINTOCK'S SCHOOL For Girls. General and College Preparatory Courses. Music, art, arts and crafts, domestic science. Resident and day pupils. M i s s M a r y L a w M c C l i n t o c k , P r i n c i p a l , B o x G , 4 Arlington Street, Boston, Mass.

WlLLISTON SEMINARY A m o d e m school for boys. 70th year begins in September. Cottage and dormitory system. Scientific and preparatory depart­ ments. G y m n a s i u m and athletic field. Correspondence solicited. Address, Joseph H . Sawyer, L . H . D . , P r i n c i p a l , B o x 1550-P, Easthampton, Massachusetts.

THE MACDUFFIE SCHOOL F o r G i r l s . F o u r houses in beautiful grounds. N e w G y m n a s i u m this year. College fitting. Entrance by certificate. General and Post Graduate Courses. M u s i c and A r t . Y e a r book and pictures on request. Springfield, Mass.

TENACRE

A school for twenty-five little girls. Preparatorv to D a n a H a l l . Terms, $800. M i s s H e l e n T e m p l e Cooke, D a n a H a l l , Wellesley, Massachusetts.

PERRY KINDERGARTEN NORMAL SCHOOL Prepares for Kindergarten, P r i m a r y and Playground positions. M r s . Annie Moseley Perry, P r i n c i p a l , 18 H u n t i n g t o n Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts.

T H E M A R Y A . B U R N H A M S C H O O L FOR G l R LS Founded by M i s s B u r n h a m i n 1877. Special and College Preparatory courses. Correspondence should be addressed to M i s s H e l e n E . T h o m p s o n , Headmistress, N o r t h a m p t o n , M a s s . MARTHA CHAMBERLAIN BURNHAM.

T H E C A M B R I D G E S C H O O L FOR G l R L S , INC. . Resident and day pupils. P r i m a r y , Academic, College Pre­ paratory and General Courses. Basket b a l l , tennis and instruc­ tion i n gymnastics. F o r catalogue, address M i s s R u t h Coit Headmistress, 36 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, M a s s .

THE COMMONWEALTH AVENUE SCHOOL F o r G i r l s . (The Misses G i l m a n ' s School.) _ General and CollegePreparatory Courses. Resident and day pupils. M i s s G i l m a n , M i s s G u i l d , Principals, 324 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, M a s s .

MISS CAPEN'S SCHOOL F o r G i r l s . M i s s Capen announces that her school, for many years known as " T h e B u r n h a m School," w i l l in the future be called " M i s s Capen's School for G i r l s . " Correspondence should be addressed to M i s s B . T . Capen, P r i n c i p a l , Northampton, M a s s .

LYNNHOLM-BY-THE-SEA

CHAUNCY

A real home school for a few girls. A healthy, busy place where girls l e a m sunshine as well as books. College preparation— music—careful culture—under direction of a mother of girls. Address, M r s . George W . Osgood, 135 N a h a n t St., L y n n , Mass.

HALL

SCHOOL

Established 1828. Prepares boys exclusively for MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY and other scientific schools. Every teacher a specialist. Hagar and K u r t , Principals, 557 Boylston St. (Copley Sq.), Boston, M a s s .

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Lasell Seminary A u b u r n d a l e , Mass.

T e n Miles from Boston

Ailitajry - A c a d e m y \vbrcesler, j?la.ss. E s t a b l i s h e d i n 1856. The K t . Bey. Alex. H . Yinton, B . D . , I L . D . , Springfield, Visitor. Gives Its pupils: , , , . . . (1) A progressive, up-to-date curriculum which prepares its students for the highest collegiate institutions in this country or lor professional or business life. Excellent home influences. (2) A military training which has won the admiration of an enthusiastic clientage for half a century, with a wholesome dis­ cipline, corrective but parental. A n efficient Academic Staff. (3) Athletics encouraged but carefully supervised. (4) An ideally healthful location in the residential part of the "Heart of the Commonwealth." Terms $100. Please address J O B E l ' H ALLIEN S H A W , A . M., H o d m M t e r .

Courses i n Language, Literature, Science, Music and Art. with thoro instruction in the theory and practice of Household Economics. Trainingis given in the A r t o f Entertaining, House Furnishing and Management; Marketing, Cooking, Dressmaking and Millinery. Ten­ nis, Boating, Swimming, Riding and other sports are encouraged. Address C

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M . W I N S L O W , P h . D., Principal

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For G i r l s . Fits girls for life as well as for examinations. It is different, better and worth investigating. M r s . Elisabeth Mathews-Richardson, A . B . , P r i n c i p a l . Founded by R e v . S. S. Mathews, D . D . 4 3 St. James Street, R o x b u r y , Boston, Mass. W H E A T O N S E M I N A R Y For Young Women. 76th year. Large endowment permits moderate terms. Certificates to college. Advanced courses for high-school graduates and others. New gymnasium and all sports. For catalogue and book of views, address Rev. Samuel V . Cole, A . M . , D . D . , Pres., Norton, Massachusetts. (30 miles from Boston.)

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M i s s A N N I E C O O L I D G E R U S T S F R O E B E L OF K I N D E R G A R T E N N O R M A L C L A S S E S

19th year. T w o year course for kindergarten, primary and play­ ground positions. Post-graduate and special courses. Pierce B l d g . , Copley S q . , Boston, M a s s .

W A L N U T

HILL

A C A D E M Y

Ideal location in beautiful N e w E n g l a n d town. O u t d o o r life. A i l athletics. M o d e r n equipment. S m a l l classes. Individual attention. Preparation for any college. M o d e r a t e terms. For illustrated circular address: A r t h u r J . C l o u g h , A . M . , P r i n c i p a l , G r o t o n , Mass.

M a n l y boys. School council, elected by the boys with the teach­ ers, regulates the conduct of the school. Individual attention makes rapid progress possible. A t h l e t i c director. Boys enter college in advanced standing. B o x 14-S, W a b a n , Mass.

Buildings Modern E a u i p m e n t Complete Physical L a b o r a t o r y Chemical Laboratory M a n u a l T r a i n i n g Shop

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A college preparatory school for girls. Seventeen miles from Boston. M i s s Conant, M i s s Bigelow or the Secretary w i l l be at the school on Wednesdays of J u l y and August. N a t i c k , Mass.

L A W R E N C E

S C H O O L

S C H O O L

Gymnasium Bowling: A l l e y s Athletic Field Swimming: P o o l T e n n i s Courts

ROCK RIDGE: 114 C L I F F ROAD W E L L E S L E Y HILLS, MASS.

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Location high, dry and healthful in one of New England's most beautiful residential villages. R O C K R I D G E H A L L for boys of high school age. Thorough preparation for any college or for business. Masters able, experienced, mature. boy an object of constant thought and care : hence well-regulated daily lives, marked improvement, rapid progress. T H E H A W T H O R N E H O U S E for young boys. Home-like atmosphere. Experienced teachers. Manual training. Constant supervision.

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OHIO H A R C O U R T

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S C H O O L

F O R

G I R L S

Preparatory and special courses. M u s i c . Healthful location i n a beautiful college town. Buildings modern and surrounded by extensive grounds for outdoor recreation. F o r catalogue, address Miss Merwin, Principal, Gambier, Ohio. T H E C I N C I N N A T I K I N D E R G A R T E N T R A I N I N G S C H O O L

A S S O C I A T I O N

Affiliated with the University of Cincinnati. Practice teaching in P u b l i c Schools, M i s s i o n and Private Kindergartens. Address, L i l l i a n H . Stone, P r i n c i p a l , 6 L i n t o n St. U N I V E R S I T Y S C H O O L For educational purposes, not for profit. Offers exceptional opportuni­ ties ill the preparation of boys for college or business; strong faculty; shops for manual training; athletic field, gymnasium, swimming pool, running track, bowling alleys. Location finest in the city. For catalogue, address Harry A . Peters, B . A . , Principal, 7179 Hough Ave., Cleveland, Ohio.

G L E N D A L E

C O L L E G E

Offers a pleasant home in a beautiful suburb of C i n c i n n a t i ; i n ­ sures a liberal cultivation through its Collegiate Courses. A r t , M u s i c and Expression, and preparation for a l l colleges. T h e home life is natural and happy. T e r m s moderate. A p p l y for catalogue to M i s s R . J . D e V o r e , Prcs't, Glendalc, O h i o . 36

M I A M I

MILITARY

I N S T I T U T E

A t instance of W a r D e p a r t m e n t n o w being enlarged 5 0 % . T h o r o u g h college preparatory and courses leading to degrees. Individual instruction. Personal care. Selected Bovs. Com'd't, U . S. A r m y Officer. O R V O N G R A F F B R O W N , M . A . , President, Box 79, G e r m a n t o w n , O h i o (near D a y t o n ) . OHIO

MILITARY

I N S T I T U T E

T e n miles from C i n c i n n a t i . H i g h , beautiful location. Military drill subordinate to academic work. L o w e r s c h o o l f o r y o u n g e r erti ficate A° » ; T i t s to colleges. T h o r o u g h physical training. A . M . Henshaw, C o m m a n d a n t , B o x 24, College H i l l , O h i o . Y

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M I L L E R

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For Girls. L i m i t e d in numbers. College preparatory and ad­ vanced courses. Special advantages in Languages, Literature, History M u s i c and A r t . P r e p a r a t i o n for Foreign T r a v e l . A d ­ dress M r s . E P . S. M i l l e r or M i s s E . Louise P a r r y , A . M . , Lenox Place, Avondale, C i n c i n n a t i , O h i o . T H E

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S C H O O L

F O R G I R L S

A n attractive home department for a limited n u m b e r of resident , f P« . A d v a n c e d course for ate'he hest colleges. Fiv A M ^ ' Languages. M i s s E . A . S M I T H , Principals, Evanswood, P

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One of the best equipped schools for girls i n the country. Beautifully located, overlooking L o n g Island Sound, 50 minutes from N e w Y o r k City. B u i l d i n g new and specially designed for the school. College Preparatory and general course. M o d e l i n g , drawing, choral a n d sight singing included in every grade. A Department of Domestic Science. Gymnasium. Athletics. Outdoor Sports.

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Miss

B U T T S ' S

C H O A T E

T H E

F o r Boys. Excellent equipment; prepares for all colleges and scientific schools. Requires of its pupils good, hard work. Refers by permission to leading Christian Scientists throughout the country. F o r information, address L o u i s D . M a r r i o t t , A . M . , Headmaster, Stamford, C o n n .

S C H O O L

F o r Girls. Offers a healthful, happy home, with the best advan­ tages for study and recreation. N o r w i c h , C o n n .

S C H O O L

A N e w E n g l a n d Preparatory School, with a L o w e r School for young boys. A catalogue will be sent upon application, w i t h addresses of those who know intimately the School's work a n d character. George C . St. J o h n , Headmaster, W a l l i n g f o r d , Connecticut.

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A Country School for Girls.

M i s s Davies, Principal. Washington, Connecticut.

Black Hall School A

REAL HOME SCHOOL For Boys of All Ages A distinctly home atmosphere. Special individual instruction. Healthful buildings and out-door life. T h o r o u g h preparation for college or business life.

Charges for school year, $500.00. Applica­ tions for 35th year (beginning September 28th, 1910), can be made to

The Taconic School F o r Girls

CHAS.

G.

BARTLETT,

M . A . , Principal

B l a c k H a l l ( T o w n of O l d L y m e ) , C o n n .

Lakeville, Connecticut. Near Beautiful L a k e In the Berkshire lHHa. Thorough college preparation. Music, Art, Literature. Golf, tennis, basket ball, boating. Special attention is paid to the younger pupils,the buildingillustrated below being the home for girls from 13 to IB years of age. Catalogue on request. MISS L I L I A N D I X O N , A . B . (Wellesley aud Bryu Mawr).

MISS B E R T H A B A I L E Y , B . S. (Welleslcy).

Salisbury School Salisbury, Conn. (In the Berkshire

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Hills)

now for Sixty Boys.

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CATHARINE

AIKEN

SCHOOL

For Girls. General course with music, art and modern l a n ­ guages. College preparatory course with certificate right. F o r details address, M r s . Harriet Beecher Scoville D e v a n ( A . B . ) , Stamford, C o n n . , near N e w Y o r k .

T H E

K I N D E R G A R T E N

We have found the demand for our graduates greater than we can supply. O n e and two year course. F o r catalogue, address Fannie A . Smith, Principal, 8 6 3 Lafayette St., Bridgeport, C o n n . S T A M F O R D

P R E P A R A T O R Y

R I D G E

S C H O O L

Founded by W i l l i a m Gold Brinsmade. I n the highlands of Litchfield C o u n t y . A home school for older boys. L i m i t e d to twenty. A large faculty enables us to give particular attention to each "boy. Booklet on request. Washington, C o n n . T H E

T H E F A N N I E A. S M I T H F R O E B E L A N D T R A I N I N G S C H O O L

S C H O O L

F o r G i r l s . 36th year. Intermediate, College Preparatory and General Courses. Superior advantages i n M u s i c , A r t and the Languages. G y m n a s i u m . T h e home life i s replete with inspira­ tion. 64 West A v e . , N o r w a l k , C o n n .

P H E L P S

S C H O O L

F o r G i r l s . Intermediate, College Preparatory and Special Courses. E q u a l attention to development of m i n d , body and manners. L i m i t e d to 25. H o m e atmosphere. G y m n a s i u m , Basketball, Tennis, etc. F o r catalogue address * . . M i s s Frances B . Atwater, P r i n c i p a l . Wallingford, Connecticut.

S C H O O L

A school which offers to boys the refining influences of home life. T h e cottage system. O n l y five boys taken in each house. Boys of the highest character only are received. T h e certificate of this school admits to almost all leading colleges. A l l Ath­ letics. Catalogue. Alfred C . Robjent, Director, Stamford, C o n n .

R U M S E Y

H A L L

A school in the country for young boys, where they are prepared to enter secondary schools without conditions. W r i t e for cata­ logue to the Headmaster, C o r n w a l l , C o n n .

T H E I N G L E S I D E

C H E S H I R E

M O S T

S U C C E S S F U L

S C H O O L S

of

to-day began to advertise i n S C R I B N E R ' S M A G A Z I N E years ago for pupils for to-day. To-day these schools are advertising for to­ morrow.

A School for Girls. School year begins Tuesday, October 4, 1910. M r s . W m . D . B l a c k , Patroness. N e w M i l f o r d , Litchfield C o . , C o n n .

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Founded A. D. 1794.

C H E S H I R E , CONN.

Situated on high ground i n the most beautiful and healthful section of Central Connecticut, within easy reach of New Haven. Course of instruction calculated to develop equally every phase o f the boy's character. College Preparatory and general courses, supplemented by a well-directed physical training. A l l buildings are equipped with modern conveniences and sanitary features throughout. A n illustrated history a n d catalogue of the school will be sent on request. P A U L K L I M P K E , M . A , (Yale), Headmaster.

MICHIGAN D E T R O I T U N I V E R S I T Y 3 T H O O L Preparatory and Manual T r a i n h u 3"hool for Boys. New buildings, dor­ mitory, shops, laboratories, gymua IL.II., swimming pool, athletic field. Exceptionally strong faculty, Cohere certificates accepted. Calendar upon application. Those addressing S e c y , 2 Elmwood Ave.. Detroit, M i c h . , will receive illustrated book.

T H E

D E T R O I T

H O M E

A N D D A Y

S C H O O L

Established 1878. T h i r t y received i n the school-family. P r e ­ pares for College. Well-equipped gymnasium and laboratories for physics, chemistry, and domestic science. T h e Misses Liggett, Principals, Detroit, M i c h i g a n .

MISSOURI S T E P H E N S

C O L L E G E

F O R

W O M E N

F O R E S T

Located in a University town. T h e very center of culture. Lit­ erary work approved by the University of Missouri and Chicago. Leads i n music. Courses in A r t , Elocution, Home Economics and Business. Chartered and endowed. F o r catalogue and views address. D r . H . N . Quisenberry, Pres., Dept. S, C o l u m b i a , M o .

WASHINGTON, G U N S T O N

HALL

A beautiful Colonial H o m e School for Y o u n g Ladies. Illustrated catalogue. M r s . Beverley R . M a s o n , P r i n c i p a l ; M i s s E . M . C l a r k , L L . A . , Associate Principal. 1906 F l o r i d a A v e . , N . W . , Washington, District of C o l u m b i a .

P A R K

U N I V E R S I T Y

F u l l College Course. Preparatory Certificate admits to Wellesley, Smith, a n d M t . Holyoke. College of M u s i c , E . R . Kroeger, Director; Carter, Voice; G a l l o w a y , P i p e O r g a n . V i o l i n , E l o c u ­ tion, Art, G y m n a s i u m . B o a r d , tuition, room, $285. W r i t e for Catalog to President, A n n a Sneed Cairns, St. L o u i s , M o .

D. C .

B E L C O U R T

S E M I N A R Y

Home and Day School for Girls. Unexcelled location. Course leading to diploma, college preparatory, and special courses. Certificate admits to college. Exceptional opportunities in Music, Art, Expression, and Languages. Social and educational advantages of the Capital. Outdoor sports. Address. Mrs. M . B . Somervell, Principal, Washington, D . C .

An Ideal School for Girls and Young Women

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Located in a c h a r m i n g park of ten acres. Surrounded b y and within easy reach of the m a n y and varied educational institutions for w h i c h W a s h i n g t o n is famed. Cultured instructors; delightful home l i f e ; refined asso­ ciations; social advantages wholesome. Preparatory, Cer­ tificate a n d College Courses. Music, A r t , Elocution and Domestic Science. Literature on request. A d d r e s s F. M E N E F E E , P r e s i d e n t , W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

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National Park Seminary \ "The Glen School." For Young Women W a s h i n g t o n , D . C . (Suburbs) A unique collegiate school for the education of girls b y sane effective means. College quality a n d v a r i e t y of w o r k suited to each student's needs, tastes and health. T r a i n i n g and cul­ ture of the w h o l e being. T r u e preparation for refined, c o m ­ panionable, useful w o m a n h o o d . A c a d e m i c Studies, Music, A r t , L i t e r a t u r e , Science, C i v i c s , Secretarial C o u r s e a n d Domestic Science. A village of school buildings in a p a r k of romantic beauty. E v e r y facility for study, rest and recre­ ation. P u r e air and w a t e r a n d perfect sanitation. W r i t e for attractive illustrated book.

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Martha Washington Seminary F o r Y o u n g W o m e n Located in the finest residential section of trie National Capital, over­ looking Dupont Circle. Delightful school life combined with Washington advantages. T w o y e a r s ' c o u r s e f o r H i f r h S c h o o l s r r a d u a t c H . General and Special Courses. Department of D o m e s t i c S c i e n c e . Music, Elocution, Arts and Crafts, Modern Languages. Outdoor s p o r t s . Sight-seeing each week. $soo-$6oo a year. EDWARD W THOMPSON, PRIN.. 1601 CONNECTICUT AVE .WASHINGTON, D.C.

NATIONAL

C A T H E D R A L S C H O O L FOR

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BOYS

A n Episcopal country school occupying its beautiful new home. Prepares for Colleges and Universities. Bishop of Washington, Pres. B o a r d of Trustees. F o r catalogue, address E . L . Gregg, Headmaster, B o x T , M o u n t St. A l b a n , Washington, D . C .

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ARMY AND

NAVY

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MADEIRA'S SCHOOL F o r G i r l s . College Preparatory and Certificate Privilege to Vassar, Smith and Wellesley. Complete academic course for pupils not going to college. T w o years' advanced course for H i g h School graduates. M u s i c and art. G y m n a s i u m and athletics. M i s s L u c y M a d e i r a , 132b 10th St., Washington, D . C .

CHASE

GIRLS

PREPARATORY SCHOOL

Select boarding school for young men a n d boys. Thorough preparation for colleges, scientific schools, Government acad­ emies. Special courses. N e w buildings. Athletic grounds; new gymnasium. Catalogue. E . Swavely, Principal, 4101 Connecti­ cut Avenue, Washington, District of C o l u m b i a .

CHEVY

COLONIAL S C H O O L FOR

Graduating and elective courses. Preparation for College and European travel. Two months of resident study in Florida. Music, Art, Languages, Expression. Individual instruction. Advantages of the Capita] fully utilized. Out-of-door recreation and sports. Miss Charlotte Crittenden Everett, Principal, 1729 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C.

COLLEGE

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HAMILTON

SCHOOL

F o r Girls and Y o u n g Ladies. Write for Catalogue. M r s . Phoehe Hamilton Seabrook, Principal, Lafayette Sq., Washington, D . C , opposite the White House.

BRISTOL SCHOOL

For Girls. Separate French Residence. Special, Preparatory. Academic and two years' Collegiate Courses. Athletic and pleasure grounds. Music, Art. Dramatics. Drawingroom Deportment, Foreign Travel. Capital ad­ vantages. Location high and healthful—park of threes acres. Miss Alice A. Bristol, Principal, Mintwood PI. and 19th St., Washington, D . C .

WASHINGTON

A H o m e School for Y o u n g Ladies. Special advantages in M u s i c , A r t , E l o c u t i o n and Domestic Science. Campus of eleven acres. G o l f and other outdoor sports. Healthful location at Chevy Chase, " Suburb B e a u t i f u l . " Artesian water. Address M r . and M r s . S. N . B a r k e r , Principals, D r a w e r 841, Washington, D . C .

NATIONAL CATHEDRAL S C H O O L F o r G i r l s . Fireproof B u i l d i n g . Park of 40 acres. Unrivalled ad­ vantages in music and art. Certificate admits to College. Special Courses T h e Bishop of Washington, President B o a r d of Trustees. M r s . Barbour W a l k e r , M . A . , P r i n . , M t . St. A l b a n , W a s h i n g t o n , D . C .

SEMINARY

A beautiful home, refined associates, thorough instruction. Academic and Special Courses. Certificate admits to college. Culture class for PostGraduates, offering advanced English, Civics, Ethics, Music, Art, Lan­ guages. Travel Class. Gymnasium. Tennis. Mr. and Mrs. G. T. Smallwood, Principals, 2103-09 S Street, Washington, District of Columbia.

LAISE-PH1LL1PS

SCHOOL

For Girls. College Preparatory, Academic, and Elective Courses. A d ­ vanced course tor high school graduates. Art. Music. Mrs. J . SylvesterPhillips, Principal, 1623 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D . C.

Cloverside School FAIRMONT A H o m e School for G i r l s . Regular and special courses. M u s i c . A r t , Expression. Preparation for foreign travel. Playground adjoining. C o l u m b i a Heights, Washington, D . C .

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GIRLS

Misses Timlow have transferred

iheir school, Cloverside, from Mont­ clair, N . J., to Washington, D . C . The Capital affords unique opportunities for culture and education.

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ature, psychology, ethics, history of art, logic and eco­ nomics, equivalent to part of a college course.

The

endeavor is to teach the relative values of life and to develop poise and character. The

Jlddress for catalogue

Misses Timlow, Principals, 1600 Scett Circle WASHINGTON, D. C.

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choosing a school for your boy you p/ace ' character and scholarship foremost in your requirements. So do we in selecting boys for ill

Character-building is ourfirstaim

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your boy. Y o u want him strong in body, mind, and character, with the strength sym­ metrically proportioned. Our illustrated catalogue shows and explains the way we assist boys in this three-fold growth, and the influence the school endeavors to exert for rightliving and successful life-work. Preparation for college, scientific school, or business. Efficient faculty with record of long ser­ vice together. 26th'year under present manage­ ment. Summer camp in Ontario woods, Canada.

Bordentown Military Institute Bordentown-on-the-Delaware, N . J . T. H. L a n d o n , A . M . , D.D., Principal

Rev.

Lieut.-Col.

T.

D.

Landon,

The Peddie Institute OUR AIM IS: "The Best Boys' School in America'' f We have an endowed school with an enviable record in fit­ ting boys tor college and for life; a strong faculty of success­ ful experience here; splendid enthusiasm among our 260 boys. % Location nine miles from Princeton; region unsurpassed for health. Fine equipment. Sixty acres campus, athletic field, gymnasium with indoor track and swimming pool. Well-appointed laboratories, library of 9000 volumes, observatory, museum. f We prepare for all colleges, law, medical and engineering schools. Thorough business course. Music. II Rates $400. Lower school for boys 11 to 14 years. Fortyfifth year opens Sept. 21, 1910. Catalogue and booklets sent on request. * B . W. SWETLASD, A. M., Principal, Box 9-C, Hlghtitown, N. It

P

ennington Seminary school for BOYs Pennington,

N . J.

ivo longer co-educational. Prepares boys for all college Classical, Scientific, English, Commercial and Manual Training Courses. Elocution, Vocal and Instrumental Music. Pipe Organ. S E P A R A T E H O M E J U N I O R D E P A R T M E N T for boys under 14. Athletic Field, Gymnasium. Competent Physical Direc­ tor. 73d year. For catalogue, address

Commandant

3. M O R G A N R E A D . D . D . . P r e s i d e n t . B o x

ST.

MARY'S

HALL

For Girls. Ideal Location between New York, and Philadelphia. High Standard of Work. Excellent Record of Health. Happy Home Life. Burlington, New Jersey.

KlNGSLEY

S C H O O L FOR B O Y S

In the New Jersey hills, 22 miles from New York. Prepares for all colleges and scientific schools. Individual attention in small classes. Gymnasium and extensive grounds for athletics and sports. For catalogue address J . R. Campbell, M . A . , Head­ master, Box 103, Essex Fells, N . J .

A MODERATE PRICE SCHOOL Our ambition is to give a good educa­ F O R G I R L S tion under moral influences, rather than

to make money. Therefore at charges much below the average we offer a thorough college preparation; a broad literary course; domestic science, elocution, piano, organ, violin and voice culture. College and specially trained faculty. Location, buildings, equipment, healthfnlness unsurpassed. J o n a t h a n M . M e e k e r , P h . D . , D . D . , Hackettstowe.

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M i s s B E A R D S SCHOOL For Girls. Situated in one of the most healthful and beautiful of the New York suburbs. College preparatory, special and graduate courses. A new building containing a gymnasium, music and art studios, will be ready in the Fall. Orange, New Jersey. T H E MERRILL-VAN LAER

SCHOOL

For 26 years in New York ; now located at Princeton, N . J . A country school for girls offering College Preparatory and Special Courses, Music and Art. After August 1st address Princeton, N . J . Until that date, The Merrill-van Laer School. 32-;a East 17th Street, New York. DWIGHTSCHOOL

For Girls. College preparatory and special courses. Certificates accepted by leading colleges. Limited number of pupils insures individual attention. Four buildings ; spacious grounds. Subur­ ban to New York. Gymnasium. Tennis, riding. Address Box 607. Miss Creighton and Miss Farrar, Principals, Englewood, N . J . Miss

RICHMOND'S SCHOOL

FOR G I R L S

Thorough College Preparatory and Home Boarding School, at beautiful Crantord, N. I.. 35 minutes from N. Y. City. Combines the city attractions under chaperonage with out-door life under specialist; canoeing, golfing, skating. Number limited. Reopens September 28th. Booklet sent 011 application. Mariana N. Richmond, Principal.

The B r o w n S c h o o l o f T u t o r i n g Frederic L . Bfown, B.S., Headmaster. Fifth year. Individual in­ struction at the pupils residence or at the School. Begin any time. Complete information upon request. Summer address: West End, New Jersey. After September 25th address 600 West 141st Street, New York City.

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"Military but not Reformatory."

Freehold Military School For

Boys 8 to 13

T H E F R E E H O L D M I L I T A R Y S C H O O L is a home school for young boys only; do you realize the value of this? The classes are small, and limit­ ed enrollment permits of individual instruction and care. Gymnasium, athletic field, all outdoor sports. H a l f a mile distant but under s a m e m a n a g e m e n t . NEW JERSEY MILITARY A C A D E M Y , a school with the highest scholastic standing. Pre­ pares for any college or business; also West Point and Annapolis. Beautiful country location, 42 miles from New York, 66 miles from Philadel­ phia. Modern equipment, gymnasium, athletic field, all outdoor sports. For catalogue of either school, address Box

IVY H A L L — M I S S M A C D O N A L D S C H O O L FOR GIRLS

MAJOR CHARLES M . DUNCAN, 710 Freehold, N . J .

AND MISS

FINN'S

BLAIR

College-Preparatory and Finishing Courses. Certificate admits to leading colleges. Boating, basket-ball, tennis. Bridgeton, New Jersey. (Near Philadelphia.)

P R E P A R A T O R Y

S C H O O L

College preparatory school for boys over fourteen. Rapid prog­ ress possible because of limited number of pupils (50) and freedom from rigid class organization. Excellent equipment and facilities in the way of buildings and grounds. Special attention given to athletics and moral welfare. Personal inspection invited. For year book, address J. B. Fine, Headmaster, Princeton, New Jersey. y * f P H n H A h

[ilitary icademy

r \ E V E L O P S stalwart, clearheaded, clean-moralled y o u n g men. Prepares for college, business and Govern­ ment academies. Prohlbitsprofanity. Intoxicants, tobacco and hazing. Insists on thoroughness, promptness, Integrity, obedience and faithfulness.

Exceptional Faculty. V o c a ! and Instrumental music, l a n d horsemanship. Magnificent buildings and L grounds. H o m e comforts. Largest gymnasium in the \ State. 8-acre athletic field. C A V A L R Y A N D \ \ I N F A N T R Y T R A I N I N G . W r i t e for catalogue. Major JOHN R.JONES, Sunt., Box 109 WEHONAH. * H « : : : Y : : i . : ^ v J ? ? V A 10 MILES ^GLOUCESTER /.'• • • v"v-:''\v'*'.\ FPnM PHILA , CO.. N. J . / g g a f 11 _ DELPHI A

No '5aloon5 ^or Factories^ in the Town N

MONTCLAIR ACADEMY W& • Orange Mountains. Overlooking W J S . New York—500 Feet Elevation 24th year u n d e r present H e a d m a s t e r . A College P r e ­ paratory S c h o o l w i t h m o d e r n equipment, i n c l u d i n g large n e w A c a d e m i c B u i l d i n g , s w i m m i n g p o o l , g y m ­ n a s i u m a n d athletic field, M o n t c l a i r A c a d e m y is a n i d e a l s c h o o l for b o y s ; superb c l i m a t e , beautiful a n d healthful l o c a t i o n . O u r w o n d e r f u l l y successful p l a n of i n d i v i d u a l assistance i s fully e x p l a i n e d i n a b o o k ­ let e n t i t l e d " Y o u r B o y a n d O u r S c h o o l , " i n w h i c h the H e a d m a s t e r says s o m e p o i n t e d t h i n g s w h i c h w i l l i n ­ terest parents, n o matter w h e r e t h e i r s o n s are e d u ­ cated. M a i l e d , together w i t h o u r i l l u s t r a t e d c a t a ­ l o g u e , u p o n request. JOHN G. MACVICAR. A.M.. 22 WKLDEN PUCE. MONTCLAIR, N. J.

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Military Academy For

Older Boys

ACADEMY

63d year. Prepares for any American College. Campus 100 acres. Thorough equipment; liberal endowment justifies low rate of &350. Opens Sept. 14th. John C. Sharpe, A . M . , D.D., Principal, P. O. Box N , Blairstown, New Jersey. L A K E W O O D

P R I N C E T O N

New Jersey

S C H O O L

F O R

G I R L S

Full Academic Course, Primary Department to G r a d u a t i o n . Special Courses. Ideal location with wonderful winter climate. Out-of-door life emphasized. Horse-back, golf, tennis, rowing, s k a t i n g . D e l i c a t e g i r l s given special attention. Miss Edith Samson, Principal, Lakewood, New Jersey.

" M y Son Having Failed Completely In his preliminary examination for college, entered your school, and in one year he covered two regular school years of work as is done at most schools, and not only passed his examinations easily for college, but with credit to himself and his school." This extract of a letter from the mother of a recent student is one of a hundred or more valued by Mr. Groff, showing the high grade of success he has had for twelve years. The School now has to offer an unrivalled school plant and equipment—• The

Groff Country School DealgBeach,

N e w

Jersey

having purchased " Kildysart," the magnificent estate of the late Daniel O'Day, of the Standard Oil Company, on the New Jersey Coast. The new location provides not only adequate class room and school equipment, but every comfort and convenience of the most modern home for Summer and Winter, with boating (on Deal Lake), golf, horseback riding and other outdoor sports carefully directed. Few boys are stupid, they simply need individual assist­ ance by able teachers. Here timid boys are encouraged, bright boys are interested and backward boys are made capable of quicker advancement. Each boy treated in accordance with his needs. No grades or forms that a boy must fit. Enrollment is limited. Separate department for boys 8 to 14 years. Fall term begins Sept. 26. Address JOSEPH C. GROFF (A. B. and Class 1893, U. S. N. A.), 228 West 72nd Street, New Yorkor " Kildysart," Deal Beach, N. J . P h o n o s — 7 4 4 Columbus, N . Y . or 1 0 2 0 Deal B e a c h , N . J .

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Military College CHESTER, P e n n s y l v a n i a .

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Degrees in Civil Engineering (C.L); C n e m i s , r

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y ( - -); Arts (A.B.)

Preparatory Department: Thorough instruction in elementary studies.

lnlantry. Artillery and Cavalry Our Aim—Greatest Efficiency. A national reputation ior excellence of system and character of results.

4-Jin Year

begins Sept 21st.

, cuiogm, ol

1910.

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CoL CHARLES E...HYATT, President

MISS WRIGHT'S

„ _ ,. ei • 1 * c u 1 Preparatory io Bryn The Misses Shipley s School— 'Mawr College. BUILDING—Specially designed Colonial building with every i m ­ proved appointment. S I T U A T I O N — E d u c a t i o n a l and social oppor­ tunities of situation opposite B r y n M a w r College. INSTRUCTION— D i p l o m a in College Preparatory and Academic courses. Certiluate admits to Vassar, Smith and Wellesley. T w o resident French teachers. Specialists in all departments. ATHLETICS—Resident athletic director. Y O U N G E R PUPILS receive special attention. F o r circular, with views of the school, address THE

SEMINARY

Est. 1851. A high grade school for girls. Prepares for Vassar and other Colleges. English, M u s i c . Art, Expression courses. M o r a l , social and physical culture. Convenient to New Y o r k , Philadelphia and Washington. $355. Frank Paxson Bye, B . S., President, West Chester, P a .

HILL

Y E A T E S

B I R M I N G H A M

S C H O O L ,

INC.

F o r Girls. A n excellent school for girls, offering either academic or college preparatory courses. Healthful loca­ tion. G y m n a s i u m . Physical training. M a i n Line P . R . R . F o r catalogue address A . R . Grier, Pres., Box H , Birmingham, Pa.

S C H O O L

R O N E V S

S C H O O L

F o r Girls. 41st year. Healthful location. Prepares for any Woman's College. M o d e r n equipment. Catalogue on request. Bala, Pennsylvania. Near Philadelphia.

W Y O M I N G

S E M I N A R Y

Co-cducational. New Buildings, new gymnasium, campus, athletic field. Small classes. Honor men in 30 colleges. M u s i c , Elocution. Strongly moral. N o profanity, liquor, tobacco or hazing. $250 to $350. Catalogue free. Rev. O . S. Kriebel, D . D . , Principal, B o x 106, Pennsburg, P a .

S E M I N A R Y

Founded in 1844. Co-educational. College Preparatory and Busi­ ness Courses. Departments of M u s i c . A r t and Oratory. Fine buildings. Beautiful location. Yearly rates, $350. 66th year opens Sept. 14th. Catalogue on request. Address L . L . Sprague, D . D . , L L . D - , President, Kingston, Pennsylvania. M A P L E W O O D Near Philadelphia. 40th year. Wakes up boys to duties ot life. $400.00. Department for little hoys, 12 yrs. and under, $350.00. Limited to 40 boys. College or business. No tobacco. No hazing. Fine gym. Vacation fr< m June 4th to Sept. 16th, with or without instruction, $125.00. All outdoor sports. J. Shortlidyc, A . M . , Vale, Prin., Box 68, Coiicordville, Del. Co., Penn'a.

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T h e M o u n t a i n School for G i r l s . In " America's Switzerland." No malaria. Near New Y o r k and Philadelphia. Special buildings (brick and stone), mansion style; spacious grounds; outdoor life ; superior table. " T h e kind of school girls l i k e . " M u s i c . A r t . Elocution. 44th year. Address L i b r a r i a n for booklets. Terms $500 a year. N o " extras." Claude N . Wyant, P r i n c i ­ p a l ; Bishop Ethelbert Talbot, Visitor. South Bethlehem, Penna.

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Thoroughly prepares boys for College, T e c h n i c a l School or Busi­ ness. Let us send you our catalogue and booklet " T h e Spirit of Mercersburg." T h e y w i l l prove vastly interesting and beneficial to the parent confronted with the education of his boy. Address W i l l i a m M a n n Irvine, P h . D . , President, Mercersburg, P a .

P E R K I O M E N M i s s

ACADEMY

Endowed. Established 1854. Calls out the best i n every by its high standard of honor a n d entire sympathy. Has an enviable record in scholarship. O n l y a limited number of boys taken. Over 100 acres for a l l kinds of athletic sports. L a k e for canoeing, etc. Gymnasium and pool. Frederic Gardiner, A . M . ( H a r v a r d ) , H e a d ^^SSSzggP master, B o x 532, Lancaster, P a . M E R C E R S B U R G

T H E

BRYN MAWR, PA.

A Boarding School for Boys. Situated among the hills bordering the upper Wissahickon Valley, in a region noted for healthfulness and natural beauty. For catalogue, address J a m e s L . Patterson, Head-master, Chestnut H i l l , P a .

T H E

DARLINGTON

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CHESTNUT

SCHOOL

F o r Girls. Preparatory to B r y n M a w r College. D i p l o m a in College Preparatory and Finishing Courses. Certificate admits to Vassar, Smith and Wellesley. Circular upon request. B r y n Mawr, Pa.

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St.Lukes School

For BOYS

Swarthmore

W A Y N E , P A . , 14 m i l e s f r o m P h i l a d e l p h i a . For forty-seven years (,26 years under present headmaster) St. Luke's has been eminently successful as a school for boys. Its attractive home life and careful individual instruction pro­ mote contentment and high scholarship. Buildings all new, specially planned to meet every require­ ment. Locality remarkable for htalthfulnesS, natural beauty and freedom from undesirable influences. Gymnasium with swimming pool and shower baths. Groujids of 30 acres, including large athletic held with quarter mile cinder track and facilities tor outdoor games. Boys prepared for any college or for business. Terms $800 a year. For illustrated catalogue address C H A R L L 5 H E . N R Y S T R O U T , A . M . , Headmaster

T H E B A L D W I N S C H O O L (Incorporated.) A preparatory school for B r y n M a w r , Smith, Vassar and Welles)ey Colleges. D i p l o m a given in general course also. W i t h i n nineteen years 231 students from this school have entered B r y n M a w r College. Certificate admits to Smith, Vassar and Wellesley Colleges. Fire-proof building, extensive grounds, hockey, basket ball and tennis fields. Resident athletic director, trained nurse, and French and G e r m a n teachers. A separate cottage for little girls. Jane L . Brownell, A . M . , H e a d of the School. F o r catalogue address the Secretary, P . O . B o x F , B r y n Mawr, Pa.

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A Boarding and D a y School for boys and girls, u n d e r the supervision of F r i e n d s . O n l y 24 minutes f r o m P h i l ­ adelphia and accessible b y train or trolley. T h o r o u g h preparation for College, T e c h n i c a l School, or Business. Excellent faculty. M o d e r n buildings, separate cottage system. R e c o r d for health unsurpassed. A m p l e opportunity for athletics—gymnasium, s w i m m i n g pool and r u n n i n g track i n the athletic field. B o a r d and tuition, $500. Y e a r Book free. A r t h u r H . T o m l i n s o n , H e a d Master S w a r t h m o r e , Pa.

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book u p o n request. MISS HART'S GARTNERS

TRAINING

SCHOOL

FOR

W i l l re-open Sept. 29th, i p i o , at 1615 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. Junior, Senior, Graduate and N o r m a l Trainers' Courses. Five practice Kindergartens. F o r particulars address M i s s Caroline M . C . Hart, T h e Pines, Rutledge, P a .

LINDEN HALL S E M I N A R Y A Home School for G i r l s with Graduate and Special Courses. A School with an uninterrupted history from 1746 to the present time must be rightly founded and conducted. F o r catalogue, ad­ dress Rev. Chas. D . Kreider, Principal, Lititz, P a .

GEORGE

SCHOOL

COLLEGE

FOR

WOMEN

A high-grade college. Courses of study broad and modern. U n ­ usual advantages i n music. Fine location in the Woodland R o a d district. DILWORTH HALL, a boarding school fitting girls for all colleges—same management. Catalogues on request. H e n r y D. Lindsay, D.D., President, Pittsburgh, P a .

ARMITAGE

S. M A G I L L , A . M . ,

Principal,

Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.

FRANKLIN A N D M A R S H A L L A C A D E M Y Founded 1787. Enters about 40 boys to colleges eachyear. Beau­ tiful grounds. M o d e r n , sanitary dormitories. Laboratories, gym­ nasium, athletic field. $125,000 i n recent improvements. Good health record. Terms moderate. Catalogue. T . G . H e l m , A . M . , and E . M . Hartman, A . M . , Principals, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

WILSON

COLLEGE

FOR

WOMEN

I n the beautiful C u m b e r l a n d Valley. Courses leading to degrees of A . B . Classics, Music, A r t . A most excellent faculty. Campus 50 acres; 14 buildings; rates moderate. M . H . Reaser, P h . D . , President, 20 College Avenue, Chambersburg, P a .

Under management of Society of Friends. Thorough college prepa­ ration. Beautiful grounds. 227 acres. New Gymnasium and Laboratories. Large athletic field. Healthful location, 25 miles north of Philadelphia. For catalog address Joseph S. Walton, Ph.D., Priii., George School 1'. O., Bucks Co., Penna.

PENNSYLVANIA

FRANK

KINDER-

MISS

SAYWARD'S SCHOOL

F o r Girls, in charming, healthful suburb of Philadelphia. College preparatory and special courses. Certificate admits to Vassar and Wellesley. M u s i c a l department, physical training, outdoor sports. Develops character, mind, and body. F o r catalogue, address M i s s S. Janet Sayward, Principal, Overbrook, P a . CONWAY

HALL

Founded 1783. Prepares thoroughly for any college or technical school. New athletic field and well-equipped gymnasium. Rates $350. Special Scholarships. George E d w a r d Reed, President. F o r particulars apply to W . A . H u t c h i s o n , P e d . D . , Headmaster, B o x 31, Carlisle, Pennsylvania.

SCHOOL

For Girls. Certificate admits to Smith, Wellesley and Vassar. Athletics including Horseback R i d i n g . Harriet C . Armitage, Principal, Wayne, Pa., Suburb of Philadelphia.

OGONTZ SCHOOL For Y o u n g Ladies. T w e n t y minutes from Philadelphia, two hours from N e w Y o r k . T h e late M r . J a y Cooke's fine property. Miss S y l v i a J . Eastman, Miss A b b y A . Sutherland, Principals, Ogontz School P . O . , Pennsylvania.

MISS

MARSHALL'S SCHOOL

F o r Girls. Academic and M u s i c Departments. College Prepar­ atory and Special Courses. Ideal location. New building. C o m ­ fortable home life a n d out-door sports. F o r catalogue, address M i s s E . S. M a r s h a l l , Oak Lane, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

P E N N HALL A thoroughly good preparatory school for y o u n g women. Also strong^Seminary Course. Rates $325.00, i n c l u d i n g Languages, Elocution, A r t and Voice in class. A l l rooms have private baths. Beautiful location on W i l s o n College Campus. Catalog on request. Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.

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Staunton Military Academy

SouthernSeminar

An Ideal Home School lor Manly Boys 368 Boys from 15 States last se Largest Private Academy in th South. Boys from 10 to 20 year prepared for the Universities, G ernment Academies, or Busin

44th Year. For Girls and Yound Women. Location—Beautifully and healthfully located ' famous Valley of Virginia, near Natural Bridge, in a I F section noted for its natural scenery and wonderful winter 1 f climate. Elevation 1200 feet. Pure, bracing'mountain air. [ Outdoor life in extensive grounds. Tennis, basket ball, I boating, riding and driving, tobogganing, skating, etc., ' under trained Director. Notable hpiiItli record. Not a serious |j f case of illness in many years. See catalogue for particulars. I T h e School—$100,000 equipment. " Handsomest school 1 building in the State." University specialists. Students 1 f from thirty states and foreign countries. Highest Standard 1 f College Preparatory and Finishing. Full courses of one and 1 two years for high school graduates. Lower school for girls 9 to | 14- Art, Elocution. Conservatory advantages in Music. ' T h e H o m e — F o r decades this institution has made the girl ] realize that she has in it real H o m e L i f e i n t h e M o d e r n S c h o o l , giving her home 1 and friends in place of those left, freedom of association with < faculty and students and personal attention to her whole life, to ] health, manners and character, as well as to mind, the whole aim being to make her the finest woman. Handsome Catalogue and ' Book on the Home Fife Free. Two railroads. Rate $260.00. Opens Sept. 29th. Address SOUTHERN SEMINARY,Box H45,Buena Vista,Vn. 1

1,600 feet abo ve sea-level; pure, dry, bracing mountain air of the famous Shenandoah Valley. Pure mineral spring waters. Military training d e v e l o p s obedience, health, and manly carriage. Fine / s h a d y lawns, gymnasium, swim„ _ / m i n g pool and athletic park. Daily drills. Boys from homes of refine' ment only desired. Personal individ­ ual instruction by our T u t o r i a l Sys­ tem. Academy fifty years e l d . New $100,000 barracks, full equipment, absolutely fire­ proof. Charges $360. Handsome catalogue free. Address: CAPTAIN W M . H . K A B L E , A . M . ,

PRINCIPAL. STAUNTON. VA.

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Sweet Briar College A College lor Women, of the grade of Vassar, Wellesley, S m i t h and B r y n M a w r . F o u r years of collegiate and t w o years of pre­ paratory w o r k are g i v e n . Located in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains on an estate of 3000 acres. T h e buildings are modern, a n d the conditions f o r health are unsurpassed. On Southern Railroad, south of W a s h i n g t o n . Fifth year opens Sept. 20, 1910. Catalogue a n d v i e w s sent upon application DR. MARY K. BENEDICT, President, Box 103

SWEET BRIAR, VA, HOLLINS INSTITUTE A College for Y o u n g Women. Founded 1842. College, Elective and Preparatory Courses. M u s i c , A r t , etc. Located in Valley of Virginia. 500 acres. Seven miles north of Roanoke. Invigo­ rating mountain climate. F o r catalogue, address M i s s M a t t y L . Cocke, President, Box 308, Hollins, Virginia. SHENANDOAH COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE AND S C H O O L OF M U S I C Co-educational. College preparatory. Broad variety of musical courses, including pipe organ and orchestra. Piano tuning. Certificate admits to University of Virginia and other colleges. Terms: $150 to $200, includ­ ing board and tuition. Address S. C. I., Box 109. Dayton, Virginia. (Near Washington, D. C.) SOUTHERN FEMALE COLLEGE 48th year. A n ideal College Home, after highest V i r g i n i a standards. Social training. F i v e build­ ings with gymnasium. R e g u l a r and special courses, M u s i c , A r t , Elocution. $200 to $300. A r t h u r K y l e Davis, A . M . , Petersburg, V a . , B o x 214. CLUSTER SPRINGS ACADEMY Located in the most healthful region of the South, this school is unsurpassed as a training school for young men. Individual attention. Rates only S350.00. H a m p d e n Wilson, Principal, Box 43, Cluster Springs, Virginia.

Virginia College For

Young

Ladies.

R O A N O K E ,

V A .

Opens Sept. 29th, IQIO. One of the leading Schools in the South. M o d e r n buildings. Campus of ten acres. Located in Valley of Virginia, famed for health and beauty of scenery. Elec­ t i v e , Prepara­ tory and C o l ­ lege Courses. Music, Art, E x ­ pression, D o mestic Science, under the direction o f European a n d American instruc­ tors. Students from 32 States. F o r cat­ alogue, address M A T T I E P . H A R R I S , President, Roanoke, V a . Mrs. Gertrude Harris Boatwrigtit, Vice-Pres.

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A U G U S T A M I L I T A R Y A C A D E M Y (ROLLER'S SCHOOL) In the famous Shenandoah Valley. A country school w i t h modem equipment. Electric lights. Steam heat. G y m n a s i u m , containing bowling alley, swimming pool, etc. Experienced instructors. 36 years of successful work. F o r catalog address Fort Defiance, V i r g i n i a . MARY BALDWIN S E M I N A R Y F o r Y o u n g Ladies. T e r m begins Sept. 8th, 1010. I n Shenandoah Valley of V i r g i n i a . 296 students from 33 States past session. T e r m s Moderate. Enter any time. Send for catalogue. M i s s E . C . W e i m a r , P r i n c i p a l , Staunton, Virginia.

R A N D O L P H - M A C O N A C A D E M Y FOR B O Y S A BRANCH OF T H E RANDOLPH-MACON SYSTEM. In the Valley ol Virginia. Equipment cost $100,000. Large gifts make rates $230 a year. Prepares for College or Scientific Schools. Gymnasium and Athletics. 19th Session opens Sept 13th. Address Chas. L . Melton. A . M . . Principal, Box 408. Front Royal, Va.

BOWLING G R E E N

SEMINARY

Forty-fourth year. Special advantages at lowest rates. In a beautiful and historic V i r g i n i a town. Strong faculty. Certificate to colleges. Phenomenal health. Sports. Opens Sept. 20th. Catalogue. Rates, $167.50. R e v . C . K . M i l l i c a n , A . B . , B o x 445.

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SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES VIRGINIA STUART

FISHBURNE

HALL

Formerly V i r g i n i a Female Institute. C h u r c h School for Girls in Blue Ridge Mountains. Intermediate and College Preparatory. New G y m n a s i u m and Infirmary. 67 th Session. Unusual a d ­ vantages in M u s i c . Address M a r i a Pendleton D u v a l , Principal, Staunton, Virginia.

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For Y o u n g M e n and Women. Military and outdoor life for young men. Boating, etc. I n beautiful Greenbrier Valley. Lower school also. $20 scholarship to first student from each State. Strong faculty. Opens Sept. 29. Rates, $187.50. Rev. L . S. Shires, A . B . , Box 545, Alderson, West Virginia. GREENBRIER

PR E S B Y T E RIAL

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Lemisburg Seminary and Conservatory of Music

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O n l y non-coeducational, military, preparatory school i n the state. M o d e r n equipment. Large corps of instructors. Athletic facil­ ities. G y m n a s i u m . Commandant from one of six leading military colleges in U . S. F o r catalog and circulars address H . B . Moore, P r i n . , Lewisburg, W . V a . (near Greenbrier White Sulphur Spr's).

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A school for manly boys. M o d e r n equipment; beautiful a n d healthful location near the Blue Ridge Mountains. Altitude 1300 feet. Prepares for University, etc., a n d business life. Rates moderate. F o r catalogue, address James A . Fishburne, A . B . , Principal, B o x 261, Waynesboro, Virginia.

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M o d e r n b u i l d i n g s , fine equipment, g y m n a s i u m . Large c a m p u s , delightful climate, health record unsurpassed. E l e c t i v e , academic, college courses. Music, Art, Expression. European and A m e r i c a n instructors. F o r catalogue address

S C H O O L S of

to-day began to advertise i n S C R I B N E R ' S M A G A Z I N E years ago for pupils for to-day. To-day these schools are advertising for to­ morrow.

LEWISBURG

SEMINARY,

Lewisburg, W. V a .

ILLINOIS

THE

KENWOOD

INSTITUTE

and T h e L o r i n g S c h o o l f o r G i r l s . N o w consolidated at 4600 E l l i s Avenue, Chicago. Certificate admits to all colleges for women. B r y n M a w r preparation a specialty. College Pre­ paratory and Special Courses. Unequaled advantages in M u s i c and A r t . Handsome residence, offering bath with each bedroom ; tennis and basketball courts and playgrounds. F a l l term opens Sept. 20th. Catalogue on request. Stella Dyer L o r i n g and Helen D . Loring, Principals. TODD

SEMINARY

HALL,

LAKE

UNIVERSITY

Boarding For

SCHOOL

and D a y School.

Lake

FOR G I R L S

Shore

Drive,

Chicago.

prospectus, address Miss A n n a R . Haire, 1106 L a k e Shore D r i v e , Chicago.

FOR BOYS

1000 feet above the sea. Absolutely healthful. 62 years of successful training of minds, bodies, morals and manners of boys 7 to 14 years old. O u r i d e a l — " F o r Every T o d d Boy a G o o d Citizen." F o r book of facts, address Noble H i l l , Principal, Woodstock, 111. (One hour from Chicago.) FERRY

THE

FOREST, I I I .

THE

MISSES

SPAIDS

SCHOOL

For Girls. College preparatory and finishing courses. Domes­ tic Science, M u s i c . Certificate admits to leading colleges. M o d e r n equipment. Atmosphere of Eastern culture. Cata­ logue on request. Address Miss Kate Louise Spaids, 3136 Michigan Boulevard, Chicago, 111.

Forty-first Y e a r .

For Y o u n g Women. College preparatory and Junior college. Certificate admits to Smith, Vassar, Wellesley, etc. A r t , music, domestic science, physical training. Beautiful location, home care. F o r catalog and book of views, address M i s s Frances L . Hughes, B o x 76.

NORTHWESTERN

MILITARY

ACADEMY

A select military a n d naval school. Student government. Special emphasis on character building and outdoor life. E n ­ rollment filled early. References as to character a n d scholar­ ship required. Address C o l . H . P . Davidson, Superintendent, Highland Park, 111.

A n 1 ;!eal School for Young W o m e n and Girls. Sound scholarship, womanly character and bodily health are developed by our course of study and school life. 73d Year b e g i n s S e p t e m b e r 29th. F i n e m o d e r n " b u i l d i n g s a n d a w e l l b a l a n c e d C o u r s e o f S t u d y . D e p a r t m e n t s . e a c h in c h a r g e o f t r a i n e d s p e c i a l i s t s , f o r E n g l i s h , C l a s s i c a n d C o n t i n e n t a l L a n g u a g e s , S c i e n c e , M u ­ sic, A r t , etc. G y m n a s i u m for physical culture. Beautifully shaded C a m pus with Tennis C o u r t s and B a s k e t B a l l F i e l d . A d d r e s s M I S S M A R T I N A C . E R I C K S O N , P r i n c i p a l , M o n t i c e l l o S e m i n a r y , G o d f r e y , III. (l)

Monticello Seminary

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H O W E A

S C H O O L

Howe, Indiana T E A C H E R FOR E V E R Y T E N BOYS E v e r y B o y Recites Every Lesson E v e r y Day Graduates admitted to leading colleges on certificate. Estate o*' 150 acres. • Nine Fine Buildings. Thorough sanitation. Healthful country life. A l l ath­ letic sports. Beautiful lakes.

Separate S c h o o l for Younger B o y s F o r illustrated catalogue address

T h e Rev. J . H . M c K E N Z I E , Rector, B o x

TUDOR

HALL

School for Girls. Certificate admits to Vassar. Wellesley, Smith, Cornell, Mt. Holyoke. Special preparation for Bryn Mawr. Courses in Music, Art, Voice Culture, Household Science. Native French and German Teachers. Bible study in all departments. Miss Fredbnia Allen, Ph.B. (Cornell). Principal, 1536 N . Meridian St., Indianapolis, Indiana.

B E F O R E

A B B O T T

W H E R E

NEW

S C H O O L

ROCKLAND

HAMPSHIRE

MILITARY

A C A D E M Y

In the foothills of the Green Mountains. Superb location. Ideal school for the wholesome training and thorough education of boys. Special attention to life i n the open. Table supplied from the school farms. George B . Lawson, A . M . , Principal, Saxtons River, Vermont.

WISCONSIN

H O L D E R N E S S

HALL

C O L L E G E

S C H O O L

T h e Chief-Justice of Wisconsin calls it " T h e School that makes manly boys." Unrivalled for healthfulness. Highest standard of scholarship. F o r information address R e v . W i l l i a m Francis Shero, P h . D . , Racine, Wisconsin.

S T E A R N S

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F O R

B O Y S

Situated i n the picturesque hills of southern N e w Hampshire. Prepares for Phillips-Andover and other leading schools. B o y s live i n cottages with principal and masters. G y m n a s i u m and athletic field. Address A r t h u r F . Stearns, P r i n c i p a l , 1 9 M a i n St., M o n t Vernon, New Hampshire.

T H E R A C I N E

S C H O O L

For Boys. Prepares for Colleges and T e c h n i c a l Schools. R a n k s with the highest grade schools of New E n g l a n d , yet by reason of endowment the tuition is moderate. A new b u i l d i n g was opened last year. Rev. L o r i n Webster, L . H . D . , Rector, P l y m o u t h , N . H .

T H E

Junior College and Academy for Y o u n g Ladies. Conservatory of M u s i c , Fine Arts, and Domestic Science Departments. B . Talbot Rogers, D . D . , Warden, F o n d du L a c , Wisconsin.

ACADEMY

Education is costly. Ignorance more so. This school develops manliness, builds character, trains mind and body at the formative time of a boy's life. Military system, judicious athletics, preparation for College, West Point, Annapolis, 01 business. 14 years under same management. Summer Camp. $10,000 expended recently in im­ provements. Our five books free. Elmer E . French, Supt., 5-15 Academy Hill, West Lebanon, N . H . , on the Connecticut River, 4 miles from Dartmouth College.

VERMONT

GRAFTON

S C H O O L

215

F o r Boys. Offers the natural attractiveness of the Rangeley L a k e region. Five year record—every new pupil with one exception has registered for the second year. N i n t h year opens Wednesday, Sept. 28th. T u i t i o n , $700. Address George Dudley Church, Headmaster, Farmington, Maine.

V E R M O N T

T O A T T E N D

L I N C O L N - J E F F E R S O N U N I V E R S I T Y Resident and Home Study Courses. Law in all its branches. Scientific Business including Freight Kates, Accounting. Auditing, Advertising, Sales­ manship. Business Principles, Currency, Exchange, Corporation Organiza­ tion. Management. Four years' Classical Course embracing Mythology, Literature. History, Latin, etc. Over 2 2 , 0 0 0 students enrolled. Very reasonable terms. Write for catalogue. Hammond, Ind.

MAINE T H E

D E C I D I N G

Send for catalog of Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana. T h i s is one of the largest institutions of learning i n the United States. T h o r o u g h Instruction at Lowest Expense. Catalog mailed free. Address, H . B . B r o w n , President. O . P . Kinsey, Vice-President.

P H I L L I P S

E X E T E R

A C A D E M Y

130th year opens Sept. 21st, i p i o . F o r catalogue and views, address H a r l a n P . A m e n , Principal, Exeter, N e w Hampshire.

FLORIDA

ST.JOHN'S |AMERICAN> MILITARY RUGBYX ACADEMY

R O L L I N S ,

F L O R I D A ' S

O L D E S T

C O L L E G E ,

at W i n t e r Park

W h y imperil health of boys a n d girls by confinement i n super­ heated school-rooms and exposure to severe weather, when they can live out of doors, and have best instruction and care, at less cost than at home ? College, Academy, M u s i c , Expression, A r t , Business—golf, tennis, boating, gymnasium, athletics.

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"The School That's Different. " LOCATION. B e a u t i f u l W a u k e s h a L a k e C o u n t y . T h r e e h o u r s ' r i d e f r o m C h i c a g o on m a i n l i n e C . M . & S t . P . R . R . COURSES. Classical, Science, Literary, M a n u a l T r a i n i n g and Commercial. ATHLETICS. Of a l l kinds. T h e S c h o o l has a n a t i o n a l r e p u t a t i o n . S e n d f o r c a t a l o g u e . If y o u c a n , visit the s c h o o l . OR. S . T. S M Y T H E , President (File F ) Delatleld, Waukesha Co., W i s . Chicago Office—1515 Masonic Temple. Tel. Con. 3 9 0 2 .

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S C H O O L S of to-dav began to adver­ tise in S C R I B N E R ' S M A G A Z I N E years ago for pupils for to-day. T o - d a y these schools are advertising for tomorrow. ,

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SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES MARYLAND THE G I R L S ' LATIN SCHOOL An independent college preparatory school. O u t of 445 graduates 341 have entered college. Certificate admits to leading colleges. I n d i v i d u a l attention. Rate $600 a year for b o a r d a n d tuition. N o extras. F o r catalogue address Miss Wilmot, Principal, Baltimore, M d .

NOTRE

DAME

O FMARYLAND

College for Women and Preparatory School for Girls. Regular and Elec­ tive Courses. Extensive grounds. Location unsurpassed. Suburbs of Baltimore. Spacious buildings, completely equipped. Beautiful new building with capacity for 150 additional students ready in 1910. Conducted by School Sisters ofNotre Dame, Charles Street Avenue, Baltimore, M d .

MARYLAND COLLEGE—1853-1910 For Women. Baltimore Suburbs. Washington advantages. Preparatory and College. Two years* course for high school graduates. A . B . and L i t . B . Degrees. Elocution; A r t ; School of Music. New Pipe Organ. Healthful Climate. Beautiful Campus. Outdoor Sports. Elegant SunParlor. Non-sectarian. Catalogue. Charles Wesley Gallagher, D . D . , Box G , Lutherville, M d .

THE

WOMAN'S

The

Tome School for Boys

An Endowed Preparatory School

COLLEGE

Offers a practical, well-balanced course, including electives, lead­ ing to the B . A . degree. Strong Preparatory Department. D i p l o m a s are also granted i n M u s i c , A r t a n d E l o c u t i o n . Practi­ cal courses i n Domestic Science. T e r m s , $300. Joseph H . A p p l e , A . M . , President, F r e d e r i c k , M d .

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m a k e s

p o s s i b l e :

A Faculty of university men who are specialists in their departments. A n enrollment limited to boys of high, character. School buildings and grounds represent­

M O U N T D E S A L E S A C A D E M Y O F T H E VISITATION Catonsville, M a r y l a n d . 5 miles from Baltimore. E l e m e n t a r y , Intermediate, A c a d e m i c a n d Senior Departments. Special attention to M u s i c — V o c a l and Instrumental. Art, L a n ­ guages a n d C o m m e r c i a l Courses. Address the Directress.

i n g an investment of $1,500,000.

Swimming Pool, Gymnasium, Athletic Fields, Golf Links, Quarter Mile Track, Batting Cage, Tennis Courts. A completely equipped Lower School for Little Boys. Tuition $700.

KEE MAR COLLEGE For Women. M o d e r n buildings, campus of ten acres, i n the beau­ tiful C u m b e r l a n d Valley. Preparatory, Collegiate a n d Special Courses, with unusual advantages i n A r t and M u s i c . $300 a year. F o r illustrated catalogue, address S. M . N e w m a n , D . D . , President, Hagerstown, M d .

Elaborately illustrated Book on Request. THOMASSTOCKHAMBAKER, P h . D . , P o r t D e p o s i t , M d . :

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For Girls. T h e 48th year begins T h u r s d a y , Sept. 29th, 1910. M r s . H . P . Lefebvre, M i s s E . D . H u n t l e y , Principals, 122 and 124 W . F r a n k l i n Street, Baltimore, M d .

MINNESOTA

SAINT MARVS

BUFORD COLLEGE Select home college for the higher culture of women. Limited to 100. Ideal suburban location. Thorough College course. Conservatory ad­ vantages in Art, Music and Expression. University Bible Course. Non-sectarian. Term opens Sept. 15, 1910. Write tor year book K . Mr. E . G . Buford, Regent. Mrs. E . G . Buford, President. Nashville, Tennessee.

HALL

A H o m e School for G i r l s . F o u n d e d by B i s h o p W h i p p l e , 1866. W a i t i n g list last 4 years. Catalogue on application. M i s s Caroline W . Eells, Principal, Faribault, M i n n .

Stanley Hall For

T E N N E S S E E

Girls

Minneapolis, Minn. Claims your attention because in reputation for fine work, for strong discipline, for breadth of courses for study, for employ­ ing only specialists as teachers, for its thorough, up-to-date equip­ ment, for the esthetic home environment provided and for the general care and training given its boarding pupils, this school has for 20 years ranked as one of the strongest College Pre­ paratory Schools in the country. Since 1906 its Conservatory, having 40 instructors and 500 pupils, has afforded advantages in Music, Art and Dramatic Art unequalled by any other girls' school in the country. For catalogue of either school, address

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F o r G i r l s and Y o u n g W o m e n . 46th year. Seminary and Special Courses. College Preparation. Conservatory of M u s i c . 175 boarding pupils. Complete appointments. C i t y advantages. O u t d o o r sports. Delightful climate. F o r catalog, address J . D . B l a n t o n , L L . D . , President, N a s h v i l l e , Tennessee.

Tennessee Military Institute A school of national patronage. O n main line of Southern Ry. in mountains of east Tennessee, the Switzerland of America. Most healthful climate in U . S . 35 states represented past session. New buildings designed spe­ cially tor a military school. Up-to-date equipment. Steam heat, electric lights, running water from fine spring in every room. Gymnasium, bowling alleys. Athletic field, campus of 45 acres. Encampments in mountains, practice marches, cavalry trips. Individual instruction. Prepares for college, Government Academies, or business. Social surroundings ideal. One of the most' successful military schools in the South. Terms, board and tuition, full session, $300. For illustrated catalogue address COL.

0. C. HULVEY, SUPT., SWEETWATER, TENH.

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A bo)' with us continues his usual school work while he enjoys the broad­ ening, cultivating influences of intelligent travel. W e study history and languages on the spot. Europe, the nursery of our civilization and culture, is our school room. Increased interest and individual instruction result in economy of energy and time. T h i n k of the wonderful possibilities of this plan for a boy in his formative period—not a mere year's schooling but an investment for life. L e t me tell you more about it. Illustrated catalogue.

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For Girls. Three months' residence, Paris. Three months in villa outside Florence. T w o months' travel. French, Italian, History, Art, Literature. College Preparation. 6th year. F o r booklet, address M r s . E d w a r d Sherwin, 188 Village Avenue, D c d h a m , Mass.

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ARTMAN'S TRAVEL C L A S S E S in Paris, M u n i c h , Florence. Languages, branches. Summer party for general travel, Cooper H a r t m a n 104 E . 85th St., New Y o r k .

T H E T H O M P S O N - B A L D A S S E R O N I S C H O O L O F T R A V E L F O R G I R L S Sails in October with Principal for tenth school year oftravel and study abroad. Usual courses. Music no extra. Extensive itinerary. Fine home abroad. Mrs. Helen Scott, Sec'y, Central Ave., Dover, N . H .

M A D R I D , S P A I N International Institute for Girls ill Spain. Department for American Girls. French, Spanish, History of Art and Music. Advantages of the University of Madrid, the Pindo and the Ataneo. Foreign Travel. Directora: Miss Susan D. Huntington. B.A. Welles ey, M . A . Columbia, Calle Fortuny 5, Madrid, Spain. Address. American Representative. Miss Amy I-. Rowland, 146 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Mass.

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T H E PENNSYLVANIA ACADEMY OF T H E FINE ARTS Founded 1805. Schools of Painting, Sculpture, and Illustration. Twenty-three students awarded $ 5 0 0 each last year for foreign travel, as prizes. Instructors: Thomas P. Anshutz, George McClellan, M . D . , Charles Grafly, Hugh H . Breckenridgo, Cecilia Beaux, Frank Miles Day, Henry McCarter, Joseph T . Pearson, Jr., Daniel Garber. Write for circular. Broad and Cherry Streets, Philadelphia, Pa.

WASHINGTON COLLEGE OF MUSIC All branches of Music and Dramatic Art. Sydney Lloyd Wrightson, President, Dept. A . 1220 F Street, Washington, D. C.

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glare of heat and light; and ahead of us the great, strange river went twisting away into the distance. At midnight we had stopped at the sta­ tion of Koba, where we were warmly re­ ceived by the district commissioner, and where we met half a dozen of the profession­ al elephant hunters, who for the most part make their money, at hazard of their lives, by poaching ivory in the Congo. They are a hard-bit set, these elephant poachers;

offered a sharp contrast to those of Uganda; we were again back among wild savages. Near the landing at Wadelai was a group of thatched huts surrounded by a fence; there were small fields of mealies and beans, cultivated by the women, and a few cattle and goats; while big wickerwork fishtraps showed that the river also offered a means of livelihood. Both men and women were practically naked; some of the women entirely so except for a few beads. Here

Sail-boat at Wadelai Landing. From a photograph by J. Alden Loring. there are few careers more adventurous, or fraught with more peril, or which make heavier demands upon the daring, the en­ durance, and the physical hardihood of those who follow them. Elephant hunters face death at every turn, from fever, from the assaults of warlike native tribes, from their conflicts with their giant quarry; and the unending strain on their health and strength is tremendous. At noon the following day we stopped at the deserted station of Wadelai, still in British territory. There have been out­ posts of white mastery on the Upper Nile for many years, but some of them are now abandoned, for as yet there has been no successful attempt at such development of the region as would alone mean permanency of occupation. The natives whom we saw

we were joined by an elephant hunter, Quentin Grogan, who was -to show us the haunts of the great square mouthed rhinoc­ eros, the so-called white rhinoceros, of the Lado, the only kind of African heavy game which we had not yet obtained. We were allowed to hunt in the Lado, owing to the considerate courtesy of the Belgian Govern­ ment, for which I was sincerely grateful. After leaving Wadelai we again went: down stream. The river flowed through immense beds of papyrus. Beyond these on either side were rolling plains gradually ris­ ing in the distance into hills or low moun­ tains. The plains were covered with high grass, dry and withered; and the smoke here and there showed that the natives, ac­ cording to their custom, were now burning it. There was no forest; but scattered over

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the plains were trees, generally thorns, but other kinds also, among them palms and euphorbias. The following morning, forty-eight hours after leaving Butiaba, on Lake Albert N y anza, we disembarked from the little flotilla which had carried us—a crazy little steam launch, two sail-boats, and two big rowboats. We made our camp close to the river's edge, on the Lado side, in a thin grove of scattered thorn-trees. The grass grew rank and tall all about us. Our tents were pitched, and the grass huts of the porters built, on a kind of promontory, the main stream running past one side, while on the other was a bay. The nights were hot, and the days burning; the mosquitoes came with darkness, sometimes necessitat­ ing our putting on head nets and gloves in the evenings, and they would have made sleep impossible if we had not had mos­ quito biers. Nevertheless it was a very pleasant camp, and we thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a wild, lonely country, and we saw no human beings except an occasional party of naked savages armed with bows and poisoned arrows. Game was plentiful, and a hunter always enjoys a permanent camp in a good game country; for while the expedition is marching, his movements must largely be regulated by those of the safari, whereas at a permanent camp he is foot-loose. There was an abundance of animal life, big and little, about our camp. In the reeds, and among the water-lilies of the bay, there were crocodiles, monitor lizards six feet long, and many water birds—herons, flocks of beautiful white egrets, clamorous spur-winged plover, sacred ibis, noisy pur­ ple ibis, saddle-billed storks, and lily trot­ ters which ran lightly over the lily pads. There were cormorants and snake birds. Fish eagles screamed as they circled around; very handsome birds, the head, neck, tail, breast, and forepart of the back white, the rest of the plumage black and rich chest­ nut. There was a queer little eagle owl with inflamed red eyelids. The black and red bulbuls sang noisily. There were many kingfishers, some no larger than chippy sparrows, and many of them brilliantly colored; some had, and others had not, the regular kingfisher voice; and while some dwelt by the river bank and caught fish, others did not come near the water and

lived on insects. There were paradise fly­ catchers with long, wavy white tails; and olive-green pigeons with yellow bellies. Red-headed, red-tailed lizards ran swiftly up and down the trees. The most extraor­ dinary birds were the nightjars; the cocks carried in each wing one very long, waving plume, the pliable quill being twice the length of the bird's body and tail, and bare except for a patch of dark feather-webbing at the end. T h e two big, dark plume tips were very conspicuous, trailing behind the bird as it flew, and so riveting the observer's attention as to make the bird itself almost escape notice. When seen flying, the first impression conveyed was of two large, dark moths or butterflies fluttering rapidly through the air; it was with a positive effort of the eye that I fixed the actual bird. The big-slate and yellow bats were more in­ teresting still. There were several kinds of bats at this camp; a small dark kind that appeared only when night had fallen and flew very near the ground all night long, and a somewhat larger one, lighter beneath, which appeared late in the evening and flew higher in the air. Both of these had the ordinary bat habits of continuous, swallow-like flight. But the habits of the slate and yellow bats were utterly different. They were very abundant, hanging in the thinly leaved acacias around the tents, and, as everywhere else, were crepuscular, i n ­ deed to a large extent actually diurnal, i n habit. They saw well and flew well by day­ light, passing the time hanging from twigs. They became active before sunset. I n catching insects they behaved not like swal­ lows but like flycatchers. Except that they perched upside down so to speak, that is, that they hung from the twigs instead of sitting on them, their conduct was precisely that of a phcebe bird or a wood peewee. Each bat hung from its twig until it espied a passing insect, when it swooped down upon it, and after a short flight returned with its booty to the same perch or went on to a new one close by; and it kept twitching its long ears as it hung head downward devouring its prey. There were no native villages i n our im­ mediate neighborhood, and the game was not shy. There were many buck: waterbuck, kob, hartebeest, bushbuck, reedbuck, oribi, and duiker. Every day or two Kermit or I would shoot a buck for the camp. We

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generally went out together with our gunbearers, Kermit striding along i n front, with short trousers and leggings, his knees bare. Sometimes only one of us would go out. The kob and waterbuck were usually found in bands, and were perhaps the com­ monest of all. The buck seemed to have no settled time for feeding. T w o oribi which I shot were feeding right in the open, just at noon, utterly indifferent to the heat. There were hippo both in the bay and i n the river. A l l night lone; we could hear

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whole it has not much diminished, some species have actually increased, and none is in danger of immediate extinction, unless it be the white rhinoceros. During the last decade, for instance, the buffalo have been recovering their lost ground through­ out the Lado, Uganda, and British East Africa, having multiplied many times over. During the same period, i n the same region, the elephant have not greatly diminished in aggregate numbers, although the number cf bulls carrying big ivory has been very

rhino, s h o t by Kermit Roosevelt.

F r o m a photograph by E d m u n d Heller.

them splashing, snorting, and grunting; they were very noisy, sometimes uttering a strange, long-drawn bellow, a little like the exhaust of a giant steam-pipe, once or twice whinnying or neighing; but usually making a succession of grunts, or bubbling squeals through the nostrils. The long grass was traversed in all directions by elephant trails, and there was much fresh sign of the huge beasts—their dung, and the wrecked trees on which they had been feeding; and there was sign of buffalo also. In middle Africa, thanks to wise legislation, and to the very limited size of the areas open to true settle­ ment, there has been no such reckless, wholesale slaughter of big game as that which had brought the once wonderful big game fauna of South Africa to the verge of extinction. In certain small areas of mid­ dle Africa, of course, it has gone; but as a

much reduced; indeed the reproductive capacity of the herds has probably been very little impaired, the energies of the hunters having been almost exclusively di­ rected to the killing of the bulls with tusks weighing over thirty pounds apiece; and the really big tuskers, which are most ea­ gerly sought after, are almost always past their prime, and no longer associate with the herd. But this does not apply to the great beast which was the object of our coming to the Lado, the square-mouthed or, as it is some­ times miscalled, the white, rhinoceros. Africa is a huge continent, and many species of the big mammals inhabiting it are spread over a vast surface; and some of them offer strange problems for inquiry i n the discon­ tinuity of their distribution. T h e most ex­ traordinary instance of this discontinuity

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is that offered by the distribution of the in this neighborhood, the rhinoceros seemed square-mouthed rhinoceros. It is almost to spend the heat of the day in sleep, and as if our bison had never been known within to feed in the morning and evening, and historic times except in Texas and Ecuador, perhaps throughout the night; and to drink This great r h i n o c e r o s was formerly plentiful in South Africa south of the Z a m b e s i , where it has been completely exter­ minated e x c e p t for a score or so of individ­ uals on a game reserve. North of the Zambesi it was and is utterly un­ known, save that during the last ten years it has been found to exist in several localities on the left bank of the Upper Nile, close to the river, and covering a north and south extension of about two h u n d r e d m i l e s . Even in this n a r r o w Cow squared-nosed rhino of the Lado, shot by Mr. Roosevelt. ribbon of territory the From a photograph by Edmund Heller. square-mouthed rhinoc­ eros is found only in cer­ tain localities, a n d a l ­ t h o u g h there has not h i t h e r t o been m u c h slaughter of the mighty beast, it would certainly be well if all killing of it were prohibited until careful inquiry has been made as to its numbers and exact distribution. It is a curious animal, on the average distinctly larger than, and utterly different from, the ordi­ nary African rhinoceros. The spinal processes of the dorsal vertebrae are so developed as to make a very prominent hump over the withers, while Rhino of the usual type with prehensile lip, shot in the Sotik by Mr. Roosevelt (The differences of the two types are shown in the above photographs.) forward of this is a still From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt. higher and more prom­ inent fleshy hump on the neck. The huge, in the evening and morning, usually at misshapen head differs in all respects as some bay or inlet of the river. In the widely from the head of the common or morning they walked away from the water so-called black rhinoceros as the head of for an hour or two, until they came to a a moose differs from that of a wapiti. place which suited them for the day's sleep. The morning after making camp we Unlike the ordinary rhinoceros, the squarestarted on a rhinoceros hunt. A t this time mouthed rhinoceros feeds exclusively on

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grass. Its dung is very different; we only occasionally saw it deposited in heaps, ac­ cording to the custom of its more common cousin. The big, sluggish beast seems fond of nosing the ant-hills of red earth, both with its horn and with its square muzzle; it may be that it licks them for some saline substance. It is apparently of less solitary nature than the prehensile-lipped rhino, frequently going in parties of four or five or half a dozen individuals. We did not get an early start. Hour after hour we plodded on, under the burning sun,

saw rather dimly through the long grass a big gray bulk, near the foot of the tree; it was a rhinoceros lying asleep on its side, looking like an enormous pig. It heard something and raised itself on its forelegs, in a sitting posture, the big ears thrown for­ ward. I fired for the chest, and the heavy Holland bullet knocked it clean off its feet. Squealing loudly it rose again, but it was clearly done for, and it never got ten yards from where it had been lying. A t the shot four other rhino rose. One bolted to the right, two others ran to

Veldt pool, rhino camp. From a photograph by Edmund Heller. through the tall, tangled grass, which was often higher than our heads. Continually we crossed the trails of elephant and more rarely of rhinoceros, but the hard, sunbaked earth and stiff, tinder-dry long grass made it a matter of extreme difficulty to tell if a trail was fresh, or to follow it. Finally, Kermit and his gun-bearer, Kassitura, dis­ covered some unquestionably fresh foot­ prints which those of us who were in front had passed over. Immediately we took the trail, Kongoni and Kassitura acting as trackers, while Kermit and I followed at their heels. Once or twice the two trackers were puzzled, but they were never entirely at fault; and after half an hour Kassitura suddenly pointed toward a thorn-tree about sixty yards off. Mounting a low ant-hill I

the left. Firing through the grass Kermit wounded a bull and followed it for a long distance, but could not overtake it; ten days later* however, he found the carcass, and saved the skull and horns. Meanwhile I killed a calf, which was needed for the Museum; the rhino I had already shot was a full-grown cow, doubtless the calf's mother. As the rhino rose I was struck by their like­ ness to the picture of the white rhino i n Cornwallis Harris's folio of the big game of South Africa seventy years ago. They were totally different i n look from the common rhino, seeming to stand higher and to be shorter in proportion to their height, while the hump and the huge, ungainly, square* Kermit on this occasion was using the double-barrelled rifle which had been most kindly lent him for the trip by M r . John Jay White, of New York.

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mouthed head added to the dissimilarity. The common rhino is in color a very dark slate gray; these were a rather lighter slate gray; but this was probably a mere individ­ ual peculiarity, for the best observers say that they are of the same hue. The muzzle is broad and square, and the upper lip with­ out a vestige of the curved, prehensile de­ velopment which makes the upper lip of a common rhino look like the hook of a tur­ tle's beak. The stomachs contained noth-

with tents, food, and water, and Heller cared for the skins on the spot, taking thir­ ty-six hours for the job. The second night he was visited by a party of lions, which were after the rhinoceros meat and came within fifteen feet of the tents. O n the same night that Heller was visited by the lions we had to fight fire in4he main camp. A t noon we noticed two fires come toward us, and could soon hear their roar­ ing. The tall, thick grass was like tinder;

From a photograph, copyright by Kermit Roosevelt. The calf, which was old enough to shift for itself, refused to leave the body— . Page 277. ing but grass; it is a grazing, not a browsing animal. There were some white egrets—not, as is usually the case with both rhinos and ele­ phants, the cow heron, but the slender, black-legged, yellow-toed egret—on the rhinos, and the bodies and heads of both the cow and calf looked as though they had been splashed with streaks of whitewash. One of the egrets returned after the shooting and perched on the dead body of the calf. The heat was intense, and our gun-bear­ ers at once began skinning the animals, lest they should spoil; and that afternoon Cuninghame and Heller came out from camp

and if we let the fires reach camp we were certain to lose everything we had. So L o ring, Mearns, Kermit, and I, who were in camp, got out the porters and cut a lane around our tents and goods; and then started a back fire, section after section, from the other side of this lane. We kept every one ready, with branches and wet gunny-sacks, and lit each section in turn, so that we could readily beat out the flames at any point where they threatened. The air was still, and soon after nightfall our back fire had burnt fifty or a hundred yards away from camp, and the danger was prac­ tically over. Shortly afterward one of the

African Game Trails fires against which we were guarding came over a low hill crest into view, beyond the line of our back fire. It was a fine sight to see the long lines of leaping, wavering flames advance toward one another. A n hour or two passed before they met, half a mile from camp. Wherever they came together there

splendid to see the line of flames, leaping fifty feet into the air as they worked across the serried masses of tall papyrus. When they came toward the water they kindled the surface of the bay into a ruddy glare, while above them the crimson smoke clouds drifted slowly to leeward. The fire did not

Mr. Roosevelt with kob, shot at rhino camp. From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt.

would be a moment's spurt of roaring, crackling fire, and then it would vanish, leaving at that point a blank in the circle of flame. Gradually the blanks i n the lines extended, until the fire thus burnt itself out, and darkness succeeded the bright red glare. The fires continued to burn i n our neighborhood for a couple of days. Finally one evening the great beds of papyrus across the bay caught fire. After nightfall it was

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die out until toward morning; and then, behind it, we heard the grand booming chorus of a party of lions. They were full fed, and roaring as they went to their day beds; each would utter a succession of roars which grew louder and louder until they fairly thundered, and then died gradually away, until they ended in a succession of sighs and grunts. As the fires burned to and fro across the country birds of many kinds came to the

Our back fire meeting the main fire. From a photograph by J. Aldeu I.oring. edge of the flames to pick up the insects which were driven out. There were marabou storks, kites, hawks, ground hornbills, and flocks of beautiful egrets and cow

herons, which stalked sedately through the grass, and now and then turned a small tree nearly white by all perching in it. T h e little bank swallows came in myriads; ex-

Rhino camp, Lado Enclave. From a photograph by Edmund Heller.

African Game Trails actly the same, by the way, as our familiar home friends, for the bank swallow is the most widely distributed of all birds. The most conspicuous attendants of the fires, however, were the bee-eaters, the largest and handsomest we had yet seen, their plumage every shade of blended red and rose, varied ^with brilliant blue and green. The fires seemed to bother the bigger ani­ mals hardly at all. The game did not shift their haunts, or do more than move in quite

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fly, and one or two of us were bitten, but, seemingly, the fly were not infected, al­ though at this very time eight men were dy­ ing of sleeping sickness at Wadelai where we had stopped. There were also some ordinary tsetse fly, which caused us un­ easiness about our mule. We had brought four little mules through Uganda, riding them occasionally on safari; and had taken one across into the Lado, while the other three, with the bulk of the porters, marched

From a photograph, copyright by Kermit Roosevelt. One remained standing, but the other deliberately sat down upon its haunches like a dog— . Page 280. leisurely fashion out of the line of advance of the flames. I saw two oribi which had found a patch of short grass that split the fire, feeding thereon, entirely undisturbed, although the flames were crackling by some fifty yards on each side of them. Even the mice and shrews did not suffer much, prob­ ably because they went into holes. Shrews, by the way, were very plentiful, and Loring trapped four kinds, two of them new. It was always a surprise to me to find these tiny shrews swarming in Equatorial Africa just as they swarm in Arctic America. In a little patch of country not far from this camp there were a few sleeping-sickness

on the opposite bank of the Nile from Koba, and were to join us at Nimule. It was Kermit's turn for the next rhino; and by good luck it was a bull, giving us a complete group of bull, cow, and calf for the National Museum. We got it as we had gotten our first two. Marching through likely country—burnt, this time—we came across the tracks of three rhino, two big and one small, and followed them through the black ashes. It was an intricate and diffi­ cult piece of tracking, for the trail wound hither and thither and was criss-crossed by others; but Kongoni and Kassitura grad­ ually untangled the maze, found where the

From a photograph, copyright by Kermit Roosevelt. When alarmed they failed to make out where the danger lay. — Page 279.

From a photograph, copyright by Kermit Roosevelt. Same two rhinos photographed in another position.

African Game Trails beasts had drunk at a small pool that morn­ ing, and then led us to where they were lying asleep under some thorn-trees. It was about eleven o'clock. As the bull rose Kermit gave him a fatal shot with his be­ loved Winchester. He galloped full speed toward us, not charging, but in a mad panic of terror and bewilderment; and with a bullet from the Holland I brought him down in his tracks only a few yards away. The cow went off at a gallop. The

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very much bigger than the common pre­ hensile-lipped African rhinoceros, and as carrying much longer horns. But the square-mouthed rhinos we saw and killed in the Lado did not differ from the com­ mon kind in size and horn development as much as we had been led to expect; although on an average they were un­ doubtedly larger, and with bigger horns, yet there was in both respects overlapping, the bigger prehensile-lipped rhinos equal-

Marabous and vultures. The undertakers. From a photograph by J. Alden Loring. calf, a big creature, half grown, hung about for some time, and came up quite close, but was finally frightened away by shouting and hand-clapping. Some cow herons were round these rhino; and the head and body of the bull looked as if it had been splashed with whitewash. It was an old bull, with a short, stubby, worn-down horn. It was probably no heavier than a big ordinary rhino bull such as we had shot on the Sotik, and its horns were no larger, and the front and rear ones were of the same proportions relatively to each other. But the misshapen head was much larger, and the height seemed greater because of the curious hump. This fleshy hump is not over the high dorsal vertebrae, but just forward of them, on the neck itself, and has no connection with the spinal col­ umn. The square-mouthed rhinoceros of South Africa is always described as being

ling or surpassing the smaller individuals of the other kind. The huge, square-muzzled head, and the hump, gave the Lado rhino an utterly different look, however, and its habits are also in some important respects different. Our gunbearers were all East Africans, who had never before been in the Lado. They had been very sceptical when told that the rhinos were different from those they knew, remarking that " a l l rhinos were the same"; and the first sight of the spoor merely confirmed them in their be­ lief; but they at once recognized the dung as being different; and when the first ani­ mal was down they examined it eagerly and proclaimed it as a rhinoceros with a hump, like their own native cattle, and with the mouth of a hippopotamus. O n the way to camp, after the death of this bull rhino, I shot a waterbuck bull with finer horns than any I had yet obtained.

Monitor lizard robbing the crocodile's nest— . Page 282 From photographs by J. Alden Loring. Herds of waterbuck and of kob stared tamely at me as I walked along; whereas a little party of hartebeest were wild and shy. O n other occasions I have seen this conduct exactly reversed, the hartebeest being tame, and the waterbuck and kob shy. Heller, as usual, came out and camped by this rhino, to handle the skin and skeleton. In the middle of the night a leopard got caught in one of his small steel traps, which he had set out with a light drag. The beast made a terrific row and went off with the trap and drag. It was only caught by one toe; a hyena similarly caught would have wrenched itself loose; but the leopard, though a far braver and more danremns 272

beast, has less fortitude under pain than a hyena. Heller tracked it up in the morn­ ing, and shot it as, hampered by the trap and drag, it charged the porters. O n the ashes of the fresh burn the foot­ prints of the game showed almost as dis­ tinctly as on snow. One morning we saw where a herd of elephant, cows and calves, had come down the night before to drink at a big bay of the Nile, three or four miles north of our camp. Numerous hippo tracks showed that during the darkness these beasts wandered freely a mile or two inland. They often wandered back of our camp at night. Always beside these night trails we found withered remnants of water cabbage

African Game Trails and other aquatic plants which they had carried inland with them; I suppose acci­ dentally on their backs. O n several occa­ sions where we could only make out scrapes on the ground the hippo trails puzzled us, being so far inland that we thought they might be those of rhinos, until we would come on some patch of ashes or of soft soil where we could trace the four toe marks. The rhino has but three toes, the one in the middle being very big; it belongs, with the tapir and horse, to the group of ungulates which tends to develop one digit of each foot at the expense of all the others; a group which in a long-past geological age was the predominant ungulate group of the world. The hippo, on the contrary, be­ longs with such cloven-hoofed creatures as the cow and pig, in the group of ungulates which has developed equally two main digits in each foot; a group much more nu­ merously represented than the other in the world of to-day. As the hippos grew familiar with the camp they became bolder and more vent­ uresome after nightfall. They grunted and brayed to one another throughout the night, splashed and wallowed among the reeds, and came close to the tents during their dry-land rambles i n the darkness. One night, in addition to the hippo chorus, we heard the roaring of lions and the trum­ peting of elephants. We were indeed in the heart of the African wilderness. Early in the morning after this concert we started for a day's rhino hunt, Heller and Cuninghame having just finished the prep­ aration, and transport to camp, of the skin of Kermit's bull. Loring, who had not hitherto seen either elephant or rhino alive, went with us; and by good luck he saw both. A couple of miles from camp we were crossing a wide, flat, swampy valley in which the coarse grass grew as tall as our heads. Here and there were kob, which leaped up on the ant-hills to get a clear view of us. Suddenly our attention was attracted by the movements of a big flock of cow herons in front of us, and then watching sharply we caught a glimpse of some ele­ phants, about four hundred yards off. We now climbed an ant-hill ourselves, and in­ spected the elephants, to see if among them were any big-tusked bulls. There were no bulls, however; the little herd consisted of five cows and four calves, which were V O L . X L V I I I . — 26

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marching across a patch of burnt ground ahead of us, accompanied by about fifty white cow herons. We stood where we were until they had passed; we did not wish to get too close, lest they might charge us and force us to shoot i n self-defence. They walked in unhurried confidence, and yet were watchful, continually cocking their ears and raising and curling their trunks. One dropped behind and looked fixedly in our direction, probably having heard us talking; then with head aloft and tail stiffly erect it hastened after the others, presenting an absurd likeness to a baboon. The four calves played friskily about, es­ pecially a very comical little pink fellow which accompanied the leading cow. Meanwhile a few of the white herons rode on their backs, but most of the flock stalked sedately alongside through the burnt grass, catching the grasshoppers which were dis­ turbed by the great feet. When, however, the herd reached the tall grass all the herons flew up and perched on the backs and heads of their friends; even the pink calf carried one. Half a mile inside the edge of the tall grass the elephants stopped for the day be­ side a clump of bushes; and there they stood, the white birds clustered on their dark bodies. A t the time we could dis­ tinctly hear the Doctor's shot-gun, as he collected birds near camp; the reports did not disturb the elephants, and when we walked on we left them standing uncon­ cernedly in the grass. A couple of hours later, as we followed an elephant path, we came to where it was crossed by the spoor of two rhino. O u r gunbearers took up the trail, over the burnt ground, while Kermit and I followed immediately behind them. T h e trail wound about, and was not always easy to disentangle, but after a mile or two we saw the beasts. They were standing among bushes and patches of rank, unburned grass; it was just ten o'clock, and they were evidently preparing to lie down for the day. As the-y stood they kept twitching their big ears; both rhino and elephant are perpet­ ually annoyed, as are most game, by biting flies, large and small. We got up very close, Kermit with his camera and I with the heavy rifle. T o o little is known of these northern square-mouthed rhino for us to be sure that they were not lingering slowly toward extinction; and, lest this should be

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the case, we were not willing to kill any merely for trophies; while, on the other hand, we deemed it really important to get good groups for the National Museum in Washington and the American Museum in New York, and a head for the National Collection of Heads and Horns which was started by M r . Hornaday, the director of the Bronx Zoological Park. Moreover Kermit and Loring desired to get some photos of the animals while they were alive. Things did not go well this time, how­ ever. The rhinos saw us before either Ker­ mit or Loring could get a good picture. As they wheeled I fired hastily into the chest of one, but not quite in the middle, and away they.dashed—for they do not seem as trucu­ lent as the common rhino. We followed them. After an hour the trails separated; Cuninghamc went on one, but failed to overtake the animal, and we did not see him until we reached camp late that after­ noon. Meanwhile our own gunbearers followed the bloody spoor of the rhino I had hit, Ker­ mit and I close behind, and Loring with us. The rhino had gone straight off at a gallop, and the trail offered little difficulty, so we walked fast. A couple of hours passed. The sun was now high and the heat intense as we walked over the burned ground. The scattered trees bore such scanty foliage as to cast hardly any shade. The rhino gal­ loped strongly and without faltering; but there was a good deal of blood on the trail. A t last, after we had gone seven or eight miles, Kiboko the skinner, who was acting as my gunbearer, pointed toward a small thorn-tree; and beside it I saw the rhino standing with drooping head. It had been fatally hit, and if undisturbed would prob­ ably never have moved from where it was standing; and we finished it off forthwith. It was a cow, and before dying it ran round and round in a circle, in the manner of the common rhino. Loring stayed to superintend the skinning and bringing in of the head and feet,- and slabs of hide. Meanwhile Kermit and I, with our gunbearers, went off with a " shenz i , " a wild native who had just come in with the news that he knew where another rhino was lying, a few miles away. While bound thither we passed numbers of oribi, and went close to a herd of waterbuck which stared at us with stupid tameness; a

single hartebeest was with them. When we reached the spot there was the rhino, sure enough, under a little tree, sleeping on his belly, his legs doubled up, and his head flat on the ground. Unfortunately the grass was long, so that it was almost impos­ sible to photograph him. However, Ker­ mit tried to get his picture from an ant-hill fifty yards distant, and then, Kermit with his camera and I with my rifle, we walked up to within about twenty yards. A t this point we halted, and on the instant the rhino jumped to his feet with surprising agility and trotted a few yards out from under the tree. It was a huge bull, with a fair horn; much the biggest bull we had yet seen; and with head up and action high, the sun glinting on his slate hide and bring­ ing out his enormous bulk, he was indeed a fine sight. I waited a moment for Ker­ mit to snap him. Unfortunately the waving grass spoiled the picture. T h e n I fired right and left into his body, behind the shoulders, and down he went. In color he seemed of exactly the same shade as the common rhino, but he was taller and heavier, being six feet high. H e carried a stout horn, a little over two feet long; the girth at the base was very great. Leaving the gunbearers (with all our water) to skin the mighty beast, Kermit and I started for camp; and as we were rather late Kermit struck out at a great pace i n front, while I followed on the little ambling mule. O n our way i n we passed the ele­ phants, still standing where we had left them i n the morning, with the white cow herons flying and walking around and over them. Heller and Cuninghame at once went out to camp by the skin and take care of it, and to bring back the skeleton. We had been out about eleven hours without food; we were very dirty from the ashes on the burnt ground; we had triumphed; and we were thoroughly happy as we took our baths and ate our hearty dinner. It was amusing to look at our three naturalists and compare them with the con­ ventional pictures of men of science and learning—especially men of science and learning in the wilderness—drawn by the novelists a century ago. Nowadays the field naturalist—who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist—fol­ lows a profession as full of hazard and in­ terest as that of the explorer or of the big-

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u n t i l we saw our q u a r r y . T h e s t u p i d beasts h a d smelt us, but were trotting to a n d fro i n a state of i n d e c i s i o n a n d excitement, tails t w i s t i n g a n d ears cocked, u n c e r t a i n w h a t to do. A t first we thought they were a b u l l a n d a s m a l l c o w ; but they p r o v e d to be a b i g cow w i t h good horns, a n d a calf w h i c h was nearly full g r o w n . T h e w i n d a n d sun were b o t h exactly w r o n g , so K e r m i t c o u l d not take any photos; a n d a c c o r d i n g l y he A r o u n d this c a m p there were n o ravens shot the cow b e h i n d the shoulder. A w a y or c r o w s ; but m u l t i t u d e s of kites, almost as both a n i m a l s went, K e r m i t tearing a l o n g tame as sparrows, circled a m o n g the tents, b e h i n d , w h i l e G r o g a n a n d I followed. uttering their w a i l i n g cries, a n d l i t o n the After a sharp r u n of a m i l e a n d a half K e r ­ little trees near b y or w a d d l e d about o n m i t overtook them, a n d brought d o w n the the g r o u n d near the cook fires. N u m e r ­ cow. T h e younger one then trotted threat­ ous vultures, m a n y m a r a b o u storks, a n d a eningly t o w a r d h i m . H e let it get w i t h i n single fish eagle, came to the carcasses set ten yards, t r y i n g to scare i t ; as it kept c o m ­ for them outside the c a m p b y L o r i n g ; a n d i n g on, a n d c o u l d of course easily k i l l h i m , he took pictures of them. T h e handsome he then fired into its face, to one side, so as fish eagle l o o k e d altogether out of place to a v o i d inflicting a serious i n j u r y , a n d , t u r n ­ among the foul carrion-feeding t h r o n g ; o n i n g , off it went at a gallop. W h e n I came the ground the vultures made w a y for h i m u p the cow h a d raised itself on its forelegs, respectfully enough, but they resented his a n d he was t a k i n g its picture. It h a d been presence, a n d n o w a n d then two or three w a l l o w i n g , a n d its whole body was covered w o u l d unite to m o b h i m w h i l e on the w i n g . w i t h dry c a k e d m u d . It was exactly the W e wished for another cow r h i n o , so as color of the c o m m o n r h i n o , but a little to have a b u l l a n d a cow both for the N a ­ larger than any cow of the latter that we h a d tional M u s e u m at W a s h i n g t o n , a n d for the k i l l e d . W e at once sent for H e l l e r — w h o A m e r i c a n M u s e u m i n N e w Y o r k ; a n d h a d been w o r k i n g w i t h o u t i n t e r m i s s i o n K e r m i t was to shoot this. A c c o r d i n g l y he since we struck the L a d o , a n d l i k e d i t — a n d a n d I started off early one m o r n i n g w i t h waited b y the body u n t i l he appeared, i n G r o g a n — a m a n of about twenty-five, a good mid-afternoon. hunter a n d a c a p i t a l fellow, w i t h w h o m b y H e r e i n the L a d o we were i n a w i l d , u n ­ this time we were great friends. It was i n h a b i t e d country, a n d for meat we de­ m u c h like our other hunts. W e t r a m p e d pended entirely o n our rifles; n o r was there through h i g h grass across a b i g , s w a m p y any difficulty i n o b t a i n i n g a l l we needed. p l a i n or b r o a d v a l l e y between l o w rises of W e o n l y shot for meat, or for M u s e u m ground, u n t i l , o n the opposite side, we specimens—all the M u s e u m specimens be­ struck a by-this-time f a m i l i a r l a n d m a r k , i n g used for food too—and as the naturalists t w o tall r o y a l p a l m s , the o n l y ones for some were as busy as they w e l l c o u l d be, we miles a r o u n d . H e r e we turned into a b r o a d f o u n d that, except w h e n we were after elephant a n d rhinoceros path, w o r n deep rhinoceros, it was not necessary to h u n t for a n d smooth by the generations of huge feet more t h a n half a day or thereabouts. On that h a d t r a m p e d i t ; for it led from the dry one of these hunts, on w h i c h h e shot a c o u ­ i n l a n d to a favorite d r i n k i n g place on the ple of b u c k , K e r m i t also k i l l e d a m o n i t o r N i l e . A l o n g this we w a l k e d u n t i l K a s s i - l i z a r d , a n d a crocodile ten feet l o n g ; it tura made out the t r a i l of two r h i n o crossing was a female, a n d contained fifty-two eggs, it at right angles. T h e y were evidently w h i c h , w h e n s c r a m b l e d , we ate a n d f o u n d feeding a n d seeking a n o o n d a y resting good. place; i n this country the square-mouthed T h e m o r n i n g after K e r m i t k i l l e d his c o w rhinoceros live o n the grassy flats, sparsely r h i n o he a n d G r o g a n went off for the d a y to covered w i t h s m a l l thorn-trees, a n d o n l y go see if they c o u l d not get some live r h i n o into the h i g h reeds o n their w a y to d r i n k . photos. C u n i n g h a m e started to j o i n H e l l e r W i t h K a s s i t u r a a n d K o n g o n i i n the lead at the t e m p o r a r y c a m p w h i c h we h a d m a d e we followed the fresh t r a i l for a m i l e or so, beside the dead r h i n o , i n order to help h i m game hunter i n the remote wilderness. H e penetrates to a l l the out-of-the-way n o o k s a n d corners of the earth; he is schooled to the performance of very h a r d w o r k , to the endurance of fatigue a n d h a r d s h i p , to en­ countering a l l k i n d s of risks, a n d to grap­ p l i n g w i t h every conceivable emergency. I n consequence he is exceedingly compe­ tent, resourceful, a n d self-reliant, a n d the m a n of a l l others to trust i n a tight place.

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w i t h the skin a n d skeletons. M e a r n s a n d L o r i n g were busy w i t h birds, s m a l l beasts, a n d photographs. So, as we were out of fresh meat, I w a l k e d away from c a m p to get some, followed by m y gunbearers, the little m u l e w i t h its w e l l - m e a n i n g a n d utterly i g ­ norant shenzi sais, a n d a dozen porters. W e first went along the river b r i n k to l o o k for crocodiles. I n most places the b a n k was high a n d steep. W h e r e v e r it was b r o k e n there was a d r i n k i n g place, w i t h leading d o w n to it trails deeply rutted i n the soil by the herds of giant game that h a d travelled them for u n t o l d years. A t this point the N i l e was miles wide, a n d was d i v i d e d into c u r v i n g channels w h i c h here a n d there spread into lake-like expanses of still water. A l o n g the edges of the river a n d between the w i n d i n g channels a n d lagoons grew vast water-fields of papyrus, their sheets a n d bands of dark green break­ i n g the burnished silver of the sunlit waters. B e y o n d the further b a n k rose steep, sharply peaked hills. T h e tricolored fish eagles, s t r i k i n g to the eye because of their snowwhite heads and breasts, screamed c o n t i n u ­ ally, a w i l d eerie sound. C o r m o r a n t s a n d snake birds were perched on trees overhang­ i n g the water, a n d flew away, or plunged like stones into the stream, as I approached; herons of m a n y k i n d s rose from the marshy edges of the bays a n d inlets; wattled a n d spur-winged plovers circled overhead; a n d I saw a party of h i p p o p o t a m i i n a shallow o n the other side of the nearest channel, their lazy b u l k s raised above water as they basked asleep i n the sun. T h e s e m i - d i u r n a l slate-and-yellow bats flitted from one scan­ tily leaved tree to another, as I disturbed them. A t the foot of a steep bluff, several yards from the water, a crocodile lay. I broke its neck w i t h a soft-nosed bullet from the little Springfield; for the plated s k i n of a crocodile offers no resistance to a m o d e r n rifle. W e dragged the ugly m a n eater up the bank, a n d sent one of the por­ ters back to c a m p to b r i n g out enough men to carry the brute i n b o d i l y . It was a fe­ male, containing thirty eggs. W e d i d not find any crocodile's nest; but near c a m p , i n d i g g i n g a hole for the disposal of refuse, we came on a clutch of a dozen eggs of the monitor l i z a r d . T h e y were i n sandy l o a m , two feet a n d a half beneath the surface, w i t h o u t the vestige of a b u r r o w l e a d i n g to them. W h e n exposed to the sun, u n l i k e

the crocodile's eggs, they soon burst. E v i ­ dently the y o u n g are h a t c h e d i n the cool earth a n d d i g their w a y out. W e c o n t i n u e d o u r w a l k a n d soon came o n some k o b . A t two h u n d r e d y a r d s I got a fine b u c k , t h o u g h he went a q u a r t e r of a mile. T h e n , at a h u n d r e d a n d fifty yards, I d r o p p e d a straw-colored N i l e hartebeest. Sending i n the k o b a n d hartebeest used up all our porters but two, a n d I m o u n t e d the little m u l e a n d t u r n e d t o w a r d c a m p , h a v i n g been out three hours. Soon G o u v i m a l i pointed out a b i g b u s t a r d , m a r c h i n g a w a y through the grass a h u n d r e d y a r d s off. I d i s m o u n t e d , shot h i m t h r o u g h the base of the neck, a n d r e m o u n t e d . T h e n K o n g o n i pointed, out, some distance ahead, a b u s h b u c k r a m , of the harnessed k i n d f o u n d i n this part of the N i l e V a l l e y . H a s t i l y dis­ m o u n t i n g , a n d stealing r a p i d l y f r o m antheap to ant-heap, u n t i l I w a s not m u c h over a h u n d r e d yards f r o m h i m , I gave h i m a fatal shot; but the bullet was p l a c e d a little too far back, a n d he c o u l d still go a c o n ­ siderable distance. So far I h a d been shooting w e l l ; n o w , p r i d e h a d a fall. I m ­ mediately after the shot a difficulty arose i n the rear between the m u l e a n d the shenzi sais; they p a r t e d c o m p a n y , a n d the m u l e joined the shooting p a r t y i n front, at a gal­ lop. T h e bushbuck, which h a d halted with its head d o w n , started off a n d trotted after it, w h i l e the m u l e p u r s u e d a n u n c e r t a i n course between us; a n d I d o n ' t k n o w w h i c h it annoyed most. I e m p t i e d m y m a g a z i n e twice, a n d p a r t l y a t h i r d time, before I finally k i l l e d the b u c k a n d scared the m u l e so that it started for c a m p . T h e b u s h b u c k i n this part of the N i l e V a l l e y d i d not live i n dense forest, l i k e those of E a s t A f r i c a , but a m o n g the scattered bushes a n d aca­ cias. T h o s e that I shot i n the L a d o h a d i n their stomachs leaves, t w i g tips, a n d p o d s ; one that K e r m i t shot, a fine b u c k , h a d been eating grass also. O n the U a s i n G i s h u , i n a d d i t i o n to leaves a n d a little grass, they h a d been feeding o n the w i l d olives. O u r porters were not as a rule b y any means the equals of those we h a d i n E a s t A f r i c a , a n d we h a d some trouble because, as we d i d not k n o w their n a m e s a n d faces, those w h o w i s h e d to s h i r k w o u l d go off i n the bushes w h i l e their m o r e w i l l i n g c o m ­ rades w o u l d be t o l d off for the needed w o r k . So C u n i n g h a m e d e t e r m i n e d to m a k e each readily i d e n t i f i a b l e ; a n d one d a y I found

African Game Trails h i m sitting, i n R h a d a m a n t h u s m o o d , at his table before his tent, w h i l e a l l the porters filed by, each i n t u r n being decorated w i t h a tag, conspicuously n u m b e r e d , w h i c h was h u n g r o u n d his neck—the tags, b y the w a y , being S m i t h s o n i a n l a b e l cards, contributed by D r . Mearns. A t last K e r m i t succeeded i n getting some good white r h i n o pictures. H e was out w i t h his gunbearers a n d G r o g a n . T h e y h a d h u n t e d steadily for nearly two days without seeing a r h i n o ; then K e r m i t made out a b i g c o w w i t h a calf l y i n g under a large tree, o n a bare p l a i n of short grass. A c c o m p a n i e d b y G r o g a n , a n d by a gunbearer c a r r y i n g his rifle, while he himself carried his " n a t u r ­ alist's g r a p h l e x " camera, he got up to w i t h ­ i n fifty or sixty yards of the dull-witted beasts, a n d spent a n h o u r cautiously m a ­ noeuvring a n d t a k i n g photos. H e got sev­ eral photos of the cow a n d calf l y i n g under the tree. T h e n something, p r o b a b l y the click of the camera, rendered them uneasy a n d they stood u p . Soon the calf lay d o w n again, w h i l e the cow continued standing o n the other side of the tree, her head held d o w n , the m u z z l e almost touching the g r o u n d , a c c o r d i n g to the custom of this species. After t a k i n g one or two more pict­ ures K e r m i t edged i n , so as to get better ones. G r a d u a l l y the cow grew alarmed. She raised her head, as these a n i m a l s a l ­ w a y s do w h e n interested or excited, twisted her tail into a tight knot, a n d w a l k e d out f r o m u n d e r the tree, followed by the calf; she a n d the calf stood stern to stern for a few seconds, a n d K e r m i t took another photo. B y this time the cow h a d become b o t h p u z z l e d a n d irritated. E v e n w i t h her d i m eyes she c o u l d m a k e out the m e n a n d the camera, a n d once or twice she threat­ ened a charge, but thought better of it. T h e n she began to move off; but suddenly wheeled a n d charged, this time bent on mis­ chief. She came o n at a slashing trot, g r a d ­ u a l l y increasing her pace, the huge, square lips s h a k i n g from side to side. H o p i n g that she w o u l d t u r n K e r m i t shouted l o u d l y a n d w a i t e d before firing u n t i l she was o n l y ten yards off. T h e n , w i t h the Winchester, he p u t a bullet i n between her neck a n d shoulder, a m o r t a l w o u n d . She halted a n d half wheeled, a n d G r o g a n gave her right a n d left, K e r m i t p u t t i n g i n a couple of a d ­ d i t i o n a l bullets as she went off. A couple of h u n d r e d y a r d s a w a y she fell, rose a g a i n ,

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heads which seems to completely absorb so many hunters who write. What we need at the moment is more information about the average South African heads. There are to be found among most kinds of hornbearing animals individuals with horns of wholly exceptional size, just as among all nations there are individuals of wholly ex­ ceptional height. But a comparison of these wholly exceptional horns, although it has a certain value, is, scientifically, much like a comparison of the giants of different nations. A good head is of course better than a poor one; and a special effort to secure an exceptional head is sportsmanlike and proper. But to let the desire for "rec­ o r d " heads, to the exclusion of all else, be­ come a craze, is absurd. The making of such a collection is in itself not only proper but meritorious; all I object to is the loss of all sense of proportion in connection therewith. It is just as with philately, or heraldry, or collecting the signatures of famous men. The study of stamps, or of coats of arms, or the collecting of auto­ graphs, is an entirely legitimate amusement, and may be more than a mere amusement; it is only when the student or collector al­ lows himself utterly to misestimate the im­ portance of his pursuit that it becomes ridic­ ulous. Cuninghame, Grogan, Heller, Kermit, and I now went off on a week's safari in­ land, travelling as light as possible. The first day's march brought us to the kraal of a local chief named Sururu. There were a few banana trees, and patches of scrawny cultivation, round the little cluster of huts, ringed with a thorn fence, through which led a low door; and the natives owned goats and chickens. Sururu himself wore a white sheet of cotton as a toga, and he owned a red fez and a pair of baggy blue breeches, which last he generally carried over his shoulder. His people were very scantily clad indeed, and a few of them, both men and women, wore absolutely nothing ex­ cept a string of blue beads around the waist or neck. Their ears had not been pierced and stretched like so many East African savages, but their lower lips were pierced for wooden ornaments and quills. They brought us eggs and chickens, which we paid for with American cloth; this cloth, and some umbrellas, constituting our stock of trade goods, or gift goods, for the Nile.

The following day Sururu himself led us to our next camp, only a couple of hours away. It was a dry country of harsh grass, everywhere covered by a sparse growth of euphorbias and stunted thorns, which were never in sufficient numbers to make a for­ est, each little, well-nigh leafless tree, stand­ ing a dozen rods or so distant from its near­ est fellow. Most of the grass had been burnt, and fires were still raging. Our camp was by a beautiful pond, covered with white and lilac water-lilies. We pitched our two tents on a bluff, under some large acacias that cast real shade. It was be­ tween two and three degrees north of the equator. The moon, the hot January moon of the midtropics, was at the full, and the nights were very lovely; the little sheet of water glimmered in the moon rays, and round about the dry landscape shone with a strange, spectral light. Near the pond, just before camping, I shot a couple of young waterbuck bulls for food, and while we were pitching the tents a small herd of elephants—cows, young bulls, and calves—seemingly disturbed by a grass fire which was burning a little way off, came up within four hundred yards of us. A t first we mistook one large cow for a bull, and running quickly from bush to bush, diagonally to its course, I got within sixty yards, and watched it pass at a quick shuffling walk, lifting and curling its trunk. The blindness of both elephant and rhino has never been sufficiently emphasized in books. Near camp was the bloody, broken skeleton of a young wart-hog boar, killed by a lion the previous night. There were a number of lions in the neighborhood, and they roared at intervals all night long. Next morning, after Grogan and I had started from camp, when the sun had been up an hour, we heard one roar loudly less than a mile away. Running toward the place we tried to find the lion; but nearby a small river ran through beds of reeds, and the fires had left many patches of tall, yellow, half-burned grass, so that it had ample cover, and our search was fruitless. Near the pond were green parrots and brilliant wood hoopoos, rollers, and sunbirds; and buck of the ordinary kinds drank at it. A dyker which I shot for the table had been feeding on grass tips and on the stems and leaves of a small, low-grow­ ing plant.

African Game Trails After g i v i n g u p the quest for the l i o n G r o g a n a n d I, w i t h o u r gunbearers, spent the d a y w a l k i n g over the great d r y flats of b u r n t grass l a n d a n d sparse, w i t h e r e d for­ est. T h e heat grew intense as the sun rose higher a n d higher. H o u r after h o u r we p l o d d e d o n across vast level stretches, or u p or d o w n inclines so slight as h a r d l y to be noticeable. T h e b l a c k dust of the b u r n rose i n puffs beneath our feet; a n d n o w a n d then we saw dust devils, violent little w h i r l w i n d s , w h i c h d a r t e d right a n d left, r a i s i n g to a height of m a n y feet gray funnels of ashes a n d withered leaves. I n places the coarse grass h a d half resisted the flames, a n d rose above o u r heads. H e r e a n d there bleached skulls of elephant a n d r h i n o , l o n g dead, showed white against the charred surface of the soil. E v e r y w h e r e , crossing a n d recrossing one another, were game trails, some slightly m a r k e d , others b r o a d a n d h a r d , a n d beaten deep into the soil by the feet of the giant creatures that h a d trodden t h e m for ages. T h e elephants h a d been the chief r o a d m a k e r s ; but the rhinoc­ eros h a d travelled their trails, a n d also buf­ falo a n d b u c k . T h e r e were elephant about, but only cows a n d calves, a n d a n occasional b u l l w i t h very s m a l l tusks. O f rhinoceros, a l l square-mouthed, we saw nine, none carry­ i n g horns w h i c h made t h e m w o r t h shooting. T h e first one I saw was i n l o n g grass. M y attention was attracted by a row of white objects m o v i n g at some speed through the top of the grass. It took a second look before I m a d e out that they were cow her­ ons perched o n the back of a r h i n o . T h i s p r o v e d to be a b u l l , w h i c h j o i n e d a cow a n d a calf. N o n e h a d decent horns, a n d we i p l o d d e d o n . Soon we came to the t r a i l of two others, a n d after a couple of miles' t r a c k i n g K o n g o n i pointed to two gray b u l k s l y i n g d o w n under a tree. I w a l k e d c a u ­ tiously to w i t h i n t h i r t y yards. T h e y heard something, a n d u p rose the two pig-like b l i n k i n g creatures, w h o g r a d u a l l y became aware of m y presence, a n d retreated a few steps at a time, d u l l curiosity c o n t i n u a l l y o v e r c o m i n g a n uneasiness w h i c h never grew i n t o fear. T o s s i n g their s t u m p y - h o r n e d heads, a n d t w i s t i n g their tails i n t o tight knots, they a m b l e d b r i s k l y from side to side, a n d were ten m i n u t e s i n getting to a dis­ tance of a h u n d r e d yards. T h e n our shenzi guide m e n t i o n e d that there were other

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r h i n o s close by, a n d we w a l k e d off to i n ­ spect t h e m . I n three h u n d r e d y a r d s we came o n them, a c o w a n d a w e l l - g r o w n calf. Sixty yards from t h e m was a n a n t - h i l l w i t h little trees o n it. F r o m this we l o o k e d at t h e m u n t i l some s o u n d or other m u s t have m a d e t h e m uneasy, for u p they got. T h e y o u n g one seemed to have rather keener suspicions, a l t h o u g h no more sense, t h a n its mother, a n d after a w h i l e grew so restless that it persuaded the c o w to go off w i t h it. B u t the still a i r gave n o h i n t of o u r whereabouts, a n d they w a l k e d straight t o w a r d us. I d i d not wish to have to shoot one, a n d so w h e n they were w i t h i n t h i r t y yards we raised a shout a n d a w a y they c a n ­ tered, heads tossing a n d tails twisting. T h r e e hours later we saw another c o w a n d calf. B y this t i m e it was half-past three i n the afternoon, a n d the two a n i m a l s h a d risen from their n o o n d a y rest a n d were grazing busily, the great c l u m s y heads sweeping the g r o u n d . W a t c h i n g t h e m forty yards off it was some time before the cow raised her head h i g h enough for me to see that her horns were not good. T h e n they became suspicious, a n d the c o w stood motionless for several minutes, her head held l o w . W e m o v e d quietly b a c k , a n d at last they either d i m l y saw us, or heard us, a n d stood l o o k i n g t o w a r d us, their b i g ears cocked f o r w a r d . A t this m o m e n t we stumbled on a r h i n o s k u l l , bleached, b u t i n such good preservation that we k n e w H e l l e r w o u l d like i t ; a n d we l o a d e d it o n the por­ ters that h a d followed us. A l l the time we were thus engaged the two rhinos, only a h u n d r e d yards off, were intently g a z i n g i n our direction, w i t h foolish a n d b e w i l d e r e d solemnity; a n d there we left t h e m , s u r v i ­ vors from a l o n g v a n i s h e d w o r l d , s t a n d i n g alone i n the p a r c h e d desolation of the w i l ­ derness. O n another day K e r m i t saw ten r h i n o , none w i t h more t h a n o r d i n a r y horns. F i v e of them were i n one party, a n d were m u c h agitated b y the a p p r o a c h of the m e n ; they r a n to a n d fro, their tails twisted i n t o the usual pig-like c u r l , a n d from sheer nervous stupidity bade fair at one time to force the hunters to fire i n self-defence. Finally, however, they a l l r a n off. I n the case of a couple of others a curious i n c i d e n t h a p ­ pened. W h e n a l a r m e d they failed to m a k e out where the danger lay, a n d after r u n n i n g a w a y a short distance they r e t u r n e d to a

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bush near by to look about. O n e r e m a i n e d night, or very early i n the m o r n i n g a n d standing, but the other deliberately sat late i n the e v e n i n g . B u t S u r u r u s a i d that d o w n u p o n its haunches like a dog, staring there were other buffalo w h i c h l i v e d away ahead, K e r m i t meanwhile being busy w i t h f r o m the reeds, a m o n g the thorn-trees on his camera. T w o or three times I saw r h i ­ the grassy flats a n d l o w h i l l s ; a n d he v o l u n ­ no, w h e n roused f r o m sleep, thus sit u p teered to b r i n g me i n f o r m a t i o n about them o n their haunches a n d look a r o u n d before o n the m o r r o w . Sure e n o u g h , shortly be­ rising on a l l four legs; but this was the o n l y fore eleven next m o r n i n g , he t u r n e d u p with time that any of us saw a r h i n o w h i c h was the news that he h a d f o u n d a solitary b u l l already standing assume such a position. o n l y about five m i l e s a w a y . G r o g a n and N o other k i n d of heavy game has this h a b i t ; I at once started b a c k w i t h h i m , accom­ T h e country and indeed, so far as I k n o w , only one other p a n i e d b y o u r gunbearers. hoofed a n i m a l , the white goat of the north­ was just such as that i n w h i c h we h a d hith­ ern R o c k y M o u n t a i n s . I n the case of the erto f o u n d our r h i n o s ; a n d there was fresh white goat, however, the attitude is far more sign of r h i n o as w e l l as buffalo. T h e often assumed, a n d i n more extreme f o r m ; thorny, scantily leaved trees were perhaps a it is one of the characteristic traits of the little closer together t h a n i n most places, queer goat-antelope, so m a n y of whose ways a n d there were a g o o d m a n y half-burned a n d looks are peculiar to itself alone. patches of t a l l grass. W e passed a couple F r o m the lily p o n d c a m p we went back of ponds w h i c h must have been permanent, to our camp outside Sururu's village. T h i s as water-lilies were g r o w i n g i n t h e m ; at was a very pleasant camp because while one a buffalo h a d been d r i n k i n g . It was there, although the heat was intense i n the half-past twelve w h e n we reached the place daytime, the nights were cool a n d there where S u r u r u h a d seen the b u l l . W e then were no mosquitoes. D u r i n g our stay i n advanced w i t h the u t m o s t c a u t i o n , as the the L a d o it was generally necessary to wear w i n d was shifty, a n d a l t h o u g h the cover was head nets a n d gloves i n the evenings a n d to t h i n , it yet rendered it difficult to see a hun­ go to bed at once after dinner, a n d then to d r e d yards i n advance. A t last we made lie under the mosquito bar w i t h practically out the b u l l , o n his feet a n d feeding, al­ nothing on through the l o n g hot night, though it was h i g h n o o n . H e was stern sleeping or contentedly listening to the t o w a r d us, a n d w h i l e we were stealing tow­ h u m m i n g of the baffled m y r i a d s outside a r d h i m a puff of w i n d gave h i m our scent. the net. A t the S u r u r u camp, however, we A t once he w h i p p e d a r o u n d , gazed at us could sit at a table i n front of the tents, after for a m o m e n t w i t h outstretched head, and supper—or dinner, whichever one chose to galloped off. I c o u l d not get a shot through call i t — a n d read by l a m p l i g h t , i n the still, the bushes, a n d after h i m we r a n , K o n g o n i cool, pleasant air; ,or w a l k up a n d d o w n the leading, w i t h me at his heels. It was hot h a r d , smooth elephant path w h i c h l e d by the w o r k r u n n i n g , for at this time the thermom­ tents, l o o k i n g at the large red m o o n just eter registered 1 0 2 i n the shade. Fort­ risen, as it h u n g low over the h o r i z o n , or unately the b u l l h a d little fear of m a n , and later, when, white a n d clear, it rode high being curious, a n d rather truculent, he i n the heavens a n d flooded the l a n d w i t h its halted two or three times to look round. radiance. F i n a l l y , after we h a d r u n a m i l e a n d a half, T h e r e was a swamp close by, a n d we he halted once too often, a n d I got a shot went through this the first afternoon i n at h i m at eighty y a r d s . T h e heavy bullet search of buffalo. W e found plenty of went h o m e ; I fired twice a g a i n as rapidly sign; but the close-growing reeds were ten as possible, a n d the b u l l never m o v e d from feet h i g h , a n d even along the w i n d i n g buf­ where he h a d stood. H e was a n o l d b u l l , falo trails by w h i c h alone they could be as b i g as a n E a s t A f r i c a n buffalo b u l l ; but penetrated it was impossible to see a dozen his w o r n horns were s m a l l e r a n d rather paces ahead. Inside the reeds it was nearly different. T h i s h a d rendered K o n g o n i impossible to get to the buffalo, or at least u n c e r t a i n whether he m i g h t not be a cow; to be sure to k i l l only a b u l l , w h i c h was a l l I a n d w h e n we came u p to the b o d y he ex­ w a n t e d ; and at this time w h e n the m o o n c l a i m e d w i t h d e l i g h t that it was a " d u c k " was just past the full, these p a r t i c u l a r buf­ — K o n g o n i ' s i n v a r i a b l e m e t h o d of pro­ falo only came out into the open to feed at n o u n c i n g " b u c k , " the t e r m he used to de0

Kermit's first giant eland cow, shot on the Redjaf trip.

scribe anything male, from a l i o n or an ele­ phant to a bustard or a crocodile; " c o w " being his expression for the female of these a n d a l l other creatures. A s Gouvimali came r u n n i n g u p to shake hands, his face wreathed i n smiles, he exclaimed ' ' G-o-o-d-e m o r n i n g " ; a phrase w h i c h he h a d p i c k e d up under the impression that it was a species of congratulation. A s always w h e n I have k i l l e d buffalo I was struck b y the massive b u l k of the great b u l l as he l a y i n death, a n d by the evident a n d tremendous m u s c u l a r power of his b i g boned frame. H e l o o k e d what he was, a formidable beast. T h i r t y porters h a d to be sent out to b r i n g to c a m p the head, hide, a n d meat. W e found, by the way, that his meat m a d e excellent soup, his k i d n e y s a good stew, w h i l e his tongue was delicious. N e x t m o r n i n g K e r m i t a n d I w i t h the b u l k of the safari w a l k e d back to our m a i n camp, on the N i l e , l e a v i n g C u n i n g h a m e a n d H e l l e r where they were for a day, to take care of the buffalo s k i n . E a c h of us struck off across the country b y himself, w i t h his gunbearers. After w a l k i n g five or six miles I saw a b i g rhino, three-quarters of a m i l e off. A t this point the country was VOL. XLVIII.—27

flat, the acacias very t h i n l y scattered, a n d the grass completely burnt off, the green young blades sprouting; a n d there was no difficulty i n m a k i n g out, at the distance we d i d , the vast gray b u l k of the r h i n o as it stood inertly under a tree. D r a w i n g nearer we saw that it h a d a good horn, although not as good a s K e r m i t ' s best; a n d approach­ i n g quietly to w i t h i n forty yards I shot the beast. A t the m a i n c a m p we found that M e a r n s h a d made a fine collection of. birds i n our absence; w h i l e L o r i n g h a d t a k e n a variety of excellent photos, of m a r a b o u , vultures, a n d kites feeding, and, above all, of a m o n i ­ tor l i z a r d p l u n d e r i n g the nest of a crocodile. T h e monitors were quite plentiful near camp. T h e y are a m p h i b i o u s , carnivorous lizards of large size; they frequent the banks of the river, r u n n i n g w e l l o n the l a n d , a n d sometimes even c l i m b i n g trees, but tak­ ing to the water w h e n a l a r m e d . T h e y feed on mice a n d rats, other lizards, eggs, a n d fish; the stomachs of those we caught gener­ ally contained fish, for they are expert s w i m ­ mers. O n e m o r n i n g L o r i n g surprised a monitor w h i c h h a d just uncovered some crocodile eggs on a s m a l l sandy beach. T h e eggs, about thirty i n n u m b e r , were b u r i e d 281

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i n rather shallow fashion, so that the m o n i ­ tor readily uncovered them. T h e m o n i t o r h a d one of the eggs transversely i n its m o u t h and, head erect, was m a r c h i n g off w i t h it. A s soon as it saw L o r i n g it dropped the egg a n d scuttled into the reeds. I n a few m i n ­ utes it returned, took another egg, and

r a n u p a slanting tree w h i c h o v e r h u n g the river, a n d d r o p p e d into the water like a snake b i r d . T h e r e was a l w a y s s o m e t h i n g interesting to do or to see at this c a m p . O n e afternoon I spent i n the boat. T h e p a p y r u s along the channel rose like a forest, t h i r t y feet high,

Mr. Roosevelt with the Belaeniceps rex or whale-biled stork at Lake No. From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt. walked off into the bushes, where it broke the shell, swallowed the yolk, a n d at once returned to the nest for another egg. L o r ­ ing took me out to see the feat repeated, replenishing the rifled nest w i t h eggs taken from a crocodile the D o c t o r h a d shot; a n d I was delighted to watch, from our h i d i n g place, the b i g l i z a r d as he cautiously ap­ proached, seized an egg, and then retired to cover with his booty. K e r m i t came on a monitor plundering a crocodile's nest at the top of a steep bank, while, funnily enough, a large crocodile lay asleep at the foot of the bank only a few yards distant. A s soon as it saw K e r m i t the monitor dropped the egg it was c a r r y i n g ,

the close-growing stems k n i t together by vines. A s we drifted d o w n , the green wall was c o n t i n u a l l y b r o k e n by openings, through w h i c h side streams from the great river rushed, s w i r l i n g a n d w i n d i n g , down n a r r o w lanes a n d u n d e r l o w archways, into the d i m mysterious heart of the vast reed beds, where dwelt b i r d a n d reptile and water beast. I n a s h a l l o w b a y we came on two h i p p o cows w i t h their calves, and a dozen crocodiles. I shot one of the latter— as I always do, w h e n I get a chance—and it turned over a n d over, l a s h i n g with its tail as it sank. A h a l f - g r o w n h i p p o came up close b y the boat a n d leaped nearly clear of the water; a n d i n another place I saw a

Troops at Mongala. From a photograph by Edmund Heller.

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mother hippo swimming, with the young one resting half on its back. Another day Kermit came on some black and white Colobus monkeys. Those we had shot east of the Rift Valley had long mantles, and more white than black in their coloring; west of the Rift Valley they had less white and less of the very long hair; and here on the Nile the change had gone

wandered. Moreover, instead of living in the tall timber, and never going on the ground except for a few yards, as in East Africa, here on the Nile they sought to es­ cape danger by flight over the ground, in the scrub. Kermit found some i n a grove of fairly big acacias, but they instantly dropped to the earth and galloped off among the dry, scattered bushes and small thorn-

American Mission, Sobat River. From a photograph by Edmund Heller. still further in the same direction. O n the west coast this kind of monkey is said to be entirely black. But we were not prepared for the complete change in habits. In East Africa the Colobus monkeys kept to the dense cool mountain forests, dwelt in the tops of the big trees, and rarely de­ scended to the ground. Here, on the Nile, they lived in exactly such country as that affected by the smaller greenish-yellow monkeys, which we found along the Guaso Nyero for instance; country into which the East African Colobus never by any chance

trees. Kermit also shot a twelve-foot croco­ dile in which he found the remains of a big heron. One morning we saw from camp a herd of elephants in a piece of unburned swamp. It was a mile and a half away i n a straight line, although we had to walk three miles to get there. There were between forty and fifty of them, a few big cows with calves, the rest half-grown and three-quarters-grown animals. Over a hundred white herons ac­ companied them. From an ant-hill to lee­ ward we watched them standing by a mud

Shiluk dance at the American Mission. From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt. hole i n the s w a m p ; evidently they n o w a n d then got a whiff from our c a m p , for they were c o n t i n u a l l y lifting a n d c u r l i n g their t r u n k s . ' T o see i f by any chance there was a b u l l a m o n g t h e m we m o v e d t h e m out of the s w a m p b y s h o u t i n g ; the w i n d b l e w h a r d a n d as they m o v e d they evidently smelled the c a m p strongly, for a l l their t r u n k s went into the a i r ; a n d off they went at a r a p i d pace, half of the herons r i d i n g o n t h e m , w h i l e the others hovered over a n d alongside, l i k e a white c l o u d . T w o days later the same h e r d again made its appearance. S p u r - w i n g e d plover were nesting near c a m p , a n d evidently distrusted the car­ r i o n feeders, for they attacked a n d drove off every kite or v u l t u r e that crossed w h a t they considered the p r o h i b i t e d zone. T h e y also harassed the m a r a b o u s , but w i t h more c i r c u m s p e c t i o n ; for the b i g storks were short-tempered, a n d rather d a u n t e d the s p u r - w i n g s b y the w a y they opened their enormous beaks at them. T h e fish eagles fed exclusively on fish, as far as we c o u l d tell, a n d there were piles of fish bones a n d heads u n d e r their favorite perches.

O n c e I saw one plunge into the water, but it failed to catch a n y t h i n g . A n o t h e r time, suddenly, a n d seemingly i n mere mis­ chief, one attacked a purple heron w h i c h was standing on a m u d b a n k . T h e eagle swooped d o w n from a tree a n d k n o c k e d over the h e r o n ; a n d w h e n the astonished heron struggled to its feet a n d attempted to fly off, the eagle made another swoop a n d this time k n o c k e d it into the water. T h e heron then edged into the papyrus, a n d the eagle p a i d it no further attention. I n this c a m p we h a d to w a t c h the w h i t e ants, w h i c h strove to devour everything. T h e y are n o c t u r n a l , a n d w o r k i n the day­ time only under the tunnels of earth w h i c h they b u i l d over the surface of the b o x , or whatever else it is, that they are devour­ i n g ; they eat out everything, l e a v i n g this outside shell of earth. W e also saw a l o n g c o l u m n of the dreaded d r i v e r ants. T h e s e are c a r n i v o r o u s ; I have seen b o t h r e d a n d black species; they k i l l every l i v i n g t h i n g i n their path, a n d I have k n o w n t h e m at n i g h t drive a l l the m e n i n a c a m p out i n t o the jungle to fight the mosquitoes unprotected u n t i l day-light. O n another occasion, where 285

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the N i l e ; ourselves, our men, our belong­ ings, and the spoils of the chase all hud­ dled together under the torrid sun. Two or t h r e e t i m e s we grounded on s a n d bars; but no dam­ age was done, and in twenty-six hours we reached Nimule. We were no longer in healthy East Af­ rica. Kermit and I had been in robust h e a l t h throughout the time we were in Mr. Roosevelt on his camel. U g a n d a a n d the From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt. L a d o ; but all the a steamboat was moored close to a bank, an other white men of the party had suffered ant column entered the boat after nightfall, more or less from dysentery, fever, and and kept complete possession of it for forty-eight hours. Fires, and boiling water, offer the only effectual m e a n s of resistance. The bees are at times as formid­ able; when their nests are dis­ turbed they will attack every one in sight, driving all the crew of a boat overboard or scattering a safari, and not infrequently kill­ ing men and beasts of burden that are unable to reach some place of safety. The last afternoon, when the flotilla had called to take us far­ ther on our j o u r n e y , we shot about a dozen buck, to give'the porters and sailors a feast, which they had amply earned. A l l the meat did not get into camp until after dark—one of the sailors, unfortunately, falling out of a tree and breaking his neck on the way in—and it was pictu­ resque to see the rows of big an­ telope—hartebeest, kob, waterbuck—stretched in front of the flaring fires, and the dark faces of the waiting negroes, each de­ puted by some particular group of gunbearers, porters, or sailors to bring back its share. Next morning W e embarked Slatin Pasha, from the roof of the Khalifa's Palace, shows how

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sun prostration while in the L a d o ; s o m e of the g u n ­ bearers had been down with fever, one of t h e m d y i n g while we were i n Uganda; and four of the porters who had marched from K o b a to Nimule had died of dysen­ tery—they were burying one when we arrived. A t N i m u l e we were as usual greeted with hospita­ ble heartiness by the English officials, as well as by two or three elephant hunters. One of the latter, three days be­ fore, had been charged by an unwounded bull e l e p h a n t . H e fired both barrels into it as it came on, but it charged Belaeniceps rex in the garden of the palace at Khartoum. home, knocked him d o w n , From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt. k i l l e d his gunbearer, and made its escape into the forest. In the for­ could generally find some fairly leafy tree lorn little graveyard at the station were the near which to pitch the tents. The heat graves of two white men who had been was great; more than once the thermometer killed by elephants. One of them, named at noon rose to 112 in the shade—not real Stoney, had been caught by a wounded shade, however, but in a stifling tent, or bull, which stamped the life out of him beneath a tree the foliage of which let and then literally dismembered him, tear­ through at least a third of the sun rays. ing his arms from his body. In the Afri­ The fiery heat of the ground so burnt can wilderness, when a man dies, his com­ and crippled the feet of the porters that panion usually brings in something to show we had to start each day's march very that he is dead, or some remnant of what­ early. ever it is that has destroyed him; the At quarter of three in the morning the sailors whose companion was killed by whistle blew; we dressed and breakfasted falling out of the tree near our Lado while the tents were taken down and the camp, for instance, brought in the dead loads adjusted. Then off we strode, branch which had broken under his through the hot starlit night, our backs to weight; and Stoney's gunbearer marched the Southern Cross and our faces toward back to Nimule carrying an arm of his the Great Bear; for we were marching dead master, and deposited his grewsome northward and homeward. The drum burden i n the office of the district com­ throbbed and muttered as we walked, on missioner. and on, along the dim trail. A t last the stars began to pale, the gray east changed to opal and amber and amethyst, the red O n February 17 th the long line of our laden safari left Nimule on its ten days' splendor of the sunrise flooded the world, march to Gondokoro. We went through a and to the heat of the night succeeded the barren and thirsty land. Our first camp more merciless heat of the day. Higher was by a shallow, running river, with a and higher rose the sun. The sweat shaded pool i n which we bathed. After streamed down our faces, and the bodies that we never came on running water, of the black men glistened like oiled iron. merely on dry watercourses with pools here We might halt early i n the forenoon, or and there, some of the pools being crowded we might have to march until noon, ac­ with fish. T a l l half-burnt grass, and scat­ cording to the distance from waterhole to tered, well-nigh leafless thorn scrub covered waterhole. 0

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when we halted for a day to rest the porters, we felt as if we were on the most comfort­ Kermit and I would kill buck for the table able kind of yachting trip; and everything —hartebeest, reedbuck, and oribi. I also was done for us by Captain Middleton, killed a big red ground monkey, with ba­ the Scotch engineer i n charge. Nor was our debt only to British officials boon-like habits; we had first seen the species on the Uasin Gishu, and had tried and to American friends. A t Gondokoro in vain to get it, I was met by M . for it was wary, R a n q u e t , the never sought B e l g i a n Com­ safety in t r e e s , mandant of the and showed both Lado d i s t r i c t , s p e e d a n d en­ and both he and durance in run­ M . Massart, the ning. Kermit Chef de Poste at killed a bull and R e d j a f , were a cow roan an­ kindness i t s e l f , t e l o p e . These and aided us in so-called h o r s e every way. antelope are fine beasts, light roan O n the last day in c o l o r , w i t h of February we high withers, started down the r a t h e r short Nile, s l i p p i n g c u r v e d horns, easily along on huge ears, and the r a p i d cur­ bold face mark­ rent, which ings. Usually we wound and found them shy, twisted through but occasionally stretches of reeds very tame. They and marsh grass are the most tru­ and papyrus. culent and dan­ We halted at the gerous of all an­ attractive station telope; this bull, of Lado for a when seemingly good-by break­ on the point of fast w i t h o u r death, rose like a kind Belgian flash when Ker­ friends, and that mit approached evening we dined and charged him Arab Sheiks who came in from the deserts far west of Khartoum atMongallawith to report on the French trouble. full tilt; Kermit Colonel O w e n , had to fire from From a photograph by Kermit Roosevelt. the Chief of the the hip, luckily breaking the animal's neck. southernmost section of the Soudan. I A t Gondokoro we met the boat which the was greatly interested in the Egyptian and Sirdar, Major General Sir Reginald W i n - Soudanese soldiers, and their service med­ gate, had sent to take us down the Nile to als. M a n y of these medals showed that Khartoum; for he, and all, the Soudan their owners had been in a dozen cam­ officials—including especially Colonel Asser, paigns; some of the native officers and Colonel Owen, Slatin Pasha, and Butler men (and also the Reis or native cap­ Bey—treated us with a courtesy for which tain of our boat, by the way) had served I cannot too strongly express my apprecia­ in the battles which broke forever the tion. In the boat we were to have met an Mahdi's cruel power; two or three had old friend and fellow countryman, Leigh been with Gordon. They were a fineHunt; to our great regret he could not looking set; and their obvious self-respect meet us, but he insisted on treating us as was a good thing to see. That same after­ his guests, and on our way down the Nile noon I witnessed a native dance, and was

African Game Trails struck by the lack of men of middle age; all the tribes who were touched by the blight of the Mahdist tyranny, with its ac­ companiments of unspeakable horror, suf­ fered such slaughter of the then young men that the loss has left its mark to this day. The English when they destroyed Mahdism rendered a great service to humanity; and their rule i n the Soudan has been astoundingly successful and beneficial from every stand-point.* We steamed onward down the Nile; sometimes tying up to the bank at night­ fall, sometimes steaming steadily through the night. We reached the Sud, the vast papyrus marsh once so formidable a bar­ rier to all who would journey along the river; and sunrise and sunset were beauti­ ful over the endless, melancholy stretches of water reeds. In the Sud the only tree seen was the water-loving ambatch, light as cork. Occasionally we saw hip­ pos and crocodiles and a few water birds; and now and then passed native villages, the tall, lean men and women stark naked, and their bodies daubed with mud, grease, and ashes to keep off the mosquitoes. We stopped at the mouth of the Sobat to visit the American Mission, and were most warmly and hospitably received by the missionaries, and were genuinely im­ pressed by the faithful work they are doing, under such great difficulties and with such cheerfulness and courage. The Medical Mission was especially interest­ ing. It formed an important part of the mission work; and not only were the natives round about treated, but those from far away also came in numbers. A t the time of our visit there were about thirty patients, taking courses of treat­ ment, who had come from distances vary­ ing from twenty-five miles to a hundred and fifty. We steamed steadily down the Nile. Where the great river bent to the east we would sit in the shade on the forward deck during the late afternoon and look down the long glistening water-street in front of us, with its fringe of reed * The despotism of Mahdist rule was so revolting, so vilely cruel and hideous, that the worst despotism by men of European blood in recent times seems a model of humanity by comparison; and yet there were nominal "anti-mili­ tarists" and self-styled "apostles of peace " who did their feeble best to prevent the destruction of this infamy. VOL.

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bed and marshy grassland and papyrus swamp, and the slightly higher dry land on which grew acacias and scattered palms. Along the river banks and inland were villages of Shilluks and other tribes, mostly cattle owners; some showing slight traces of improvement, others utter sav­ ages, tall, naked men, bearing bows and arrows. Our Egyptian and Nubian crew recalled to my mind the crew of the dahabiah on which as a boy I had gone up the Egyptian Nile thirty-seven years before; especially when some piece of work was being done by the crew as they chanted i n grunting chorus " Y a allah, ul allah." A s we went down the Nile we kept seeing more and more of the birds which I remembered, one species after another appearing; familiar cow herons, crocodile plover, noisy spurwing plover, black and white kingfishers, hoopoos, green bee-eaters, black and white chats, desert larks, and trumpeter bull­ finches. A t night we sat on deck and watched the stars and the dark, lonely river. T h e swimming crocodiles and plunging hippos made whirls and wakes of feeble light that glimmered for a moment against the black water. The unseen birds of the marsh and the night called to one an­ other in strange voices. Often there were grass fires, burning, leaping lines of red, the lurid glare in the sky above them making even more sombre the surround­ ing gloom. As we steamed northward down the long stretch of the Nile which ends at Khartoum, the wind blew in our faces, day after day, hard and steadily. Narrow reed beds bor­ dered the shore; there were grass flats and groves of acacias and palms, and farther down reaches of sandy desert. T h e health of our companions who had been suffering from fever and dysentery gradually i m ­ proved; but the case of champagne, which we had first opened at Gondokoro, was of real service, for two members of the party were at times so sick that their situation was critical. We reached Khartoum on the afternoon of March 14th, 1910, and Kermit and I parted from our comrades of the trip with real regret; during the year we spent to­ gether there had not been a jar, and my respect and liking for them had grown

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steadily. Moreover, it was a sad parting from our faithful black followers, whom we knew we should never see again. It had been an interesting and a happy year;

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1 h a d been almost too easy —that was y o u n g M i l l n e r ' s first feeling, as he stood again o n the Spence door­ step, the great m o m e n t of his interview b e h i n d h i m , a n d F i f t h A v e n u e r o l l i n g its g r i m y P a c tolus at his feet. H a l t i n g there i n the winter light, w i t h the c l a n g of the ponderous vestibule doors i n his ears, a n d his eyes c a r r i e d d o w n the perspective of the p a c k e d i n t e r m i n a b l e thoroughfare, he even d a r e d to remember R a s t i g n a c ' s apostrophe to P a r i s , a n d to h a z a r d recklessly under his s m a l l fair moustache: " W h o k n o w s ? " H e , H u g h M i l l n e r , at a n y rate, k n e w a good deal a l r e a d y : a good deal more t h a n he h a d i m a g i n e d it possible to l e a r n i n half a n h o u r ' s t a l k w i t h a m a n like O r l a n d o G . Spence; a n d the l o u d - r u m o u r i n g city spread out there before h i m seemed to g r i n l i k e a n a c c o m p l i c e w h o k n e w the rest. A gust of w i n d , w h i r l i n g d o w n from the d i z z y height of the b u i l d i n g on the next cor­ ner, drove sharply through his overcoat a n d c o m p e l l e d h i m to clutch at his hat. It was a bitter J a n u a r y day, a d a y of fierce light a n d air, w h e n the sunshine cut like icicles a n d the w i n d sucked one into b l a c k gulfs at the street corners. B u t M i l l n e r ' s c o m p l a c e n c y was l i k e a w a r m l i n i n g to his s h a b b y coat, a n d h a v i n g steadied his hat he c o n t i n u e d to stand o n the Spence threshold, lost i n the v i s i o n revealed to h i m f r o m the P i s g a h of its m a r b l e steps. Y e s , it was w o n d e r f u l w h a t the v i s i o n showed h i m . . . . I n his absorption he m i g h t have frozen fast to the door-step if the R h a d a m a n t h i n e portals b e h i n d h i m h a d not s u d d e n l y opened to let out a s l i m fur-coated figure, the figure, as he per­ ceived, of the y o u t h w h o m he h a d caught i n the act of w i t h d r a w a l as he entered M r . Spence's study, a n d w h o m the latter, w i t h

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Wharton a wave of his affable h a n d , h a d detained to introduce as " m y son D r a p e r . " It was characteristic of the o d d friendli­ ness of the whole scene that the great m a n s h o u l d have thought it w o r t h while to c a l l b a c k a n d name his heir to a mere h u m b l e applicant l i k e M i l l n e r ; a n d that the heir s h o u l d shed o n h i m , f r o m a pale h i g h b r o w e d face, a smile of such d e p r e c a t i n g kindness. It was characteristic, e q u a l l y , of M i l l n e r , that he s h o u l d at once m a r k the narrowness of the shoulders sustaining this ingenuous h e a d ; a narrowness, as he n o w observed, imperfectly concealed b y the wide fur collar of y o u n g Spence's expen­ sive a n d b a d l y cut coat. B u t the face took on, as the y o u t h s m i l e d his surprise at their second meeting, a look of almost p l a i n t i v e g o o d - w i l l : the k i n d of look that M i l l n e r scorned a n d yet c o u l d never quite resist. " M r . Millner? Are you—er—waiting?" the l a d asked, w i t h a n i n t e n t i o n of serviceableness that was l i k e a finer echo of his father's r e s o u n d i n g c o r d i a l i t y . " F o r m y m o t o r ? N o , " M i l l n e r jested i n his frank free voice. " T h e fact is, I was just standing here lost i n the c o n t e m p l a ­ tion of m y l u c k " — a n d as his c o m p a n i o n ' s pale blue eyes seemed to shape a question, " m y e x t r a o r d i n a r y l u c k , " he e x p l a i n e d , " i n h a v i n g been engaged as y o u r father's secretary." " O h , " the other rejoined, w i t h a faint colour i n his sallow cheek. " I ' m so g l a d , " he m u r m u r e d ; " b u t I was s u r e — " H e stopped, a n d the two l o o k e d k i n d l y at each other. M i l l n e r averted his gaze first, almost fearful of its b e t r a y i n g the a d d e d sense of his o w n strength a n d dexterity w h i c h he d r e w f r o m the contrast of the other's frailness. " S u r e ? H o w c o u l d a n y one be sure? I d o n ' t believe i n i t y e t ! " he l a u g h e d out i n the i r o n y of his t r i u m p h . T h e boy's w o r d s d i d not s o u n d l i k e a mere c i v i l i t y — M i l l n e r felt i n t h e m a n homage to his power. 291

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" O h , yes : I was sure," y o u n g D r a p e r repeated. " S u r e as soon as I saw y o u , I mean." M i l l n e r tingled again w i t h this tribute to his p h y s i c a l straightness a n d b l o o m . Y e s , he l o o k e d his part, h a n g it—he l o o k e d i t ! B u t his c o m p a n i o n still lingered, a shy sociability i n his eye. " If you're w a l k i n g , then, can I go along a little w a y ? " A n d he n o d d e d s o u t h w a r d d o w n the shabby gaudy avenue. T h a t , again, was part of the high comedy of the hour—that M i l l n e r s h o u l d descend the Spence steps at y o u n g Spence's side, a n d stroll d o w n F i f t h A v e n u e w i t h h i m at the proudest moment of the afternoon; O . G . Spence's secretary w a l k i n g abroad with O . G . Spence's heir! H e h a d the scientific detachment to p u l l out his watch a n d fur­ tively note the hour. Y e s — i t was exactly forty minutes since he h a d r u n g the Spence door-bell a n d handed his card to a gelid footman, w h o , openly sceptical of his c l a i m to be received, h a d left h i m uncere­ moniously planted on the cold tessellations of the vestibule. " S o m e d a y , " M i l l n e r grinned to himself, " I think I ' l l take that footman as furnacem a n — o r to do the boots." A n d he pict­ ured his marble palace rising from the earth to form the mausoleum of a footman's pride. O n l y forty minutes ago! A n d n o w he h a d his opportunity fast! A n d he never meant to let it go! It was incredible, what h a d happened i n the interval. H e h a d gone up the Spence steps an u n k n o w n young m a n , out of a j o b , a n d w i t h no sub­ stantial hope of getting into one: a needy young m a n w i t h a mother a n d two l i m p sisters to be helped, a n d a lengthening figure of debt that stood b y his bed through the anxious nights. A n d he went d o w n the steps w i t h his present assured, a n d his fut­ ure l i t by the hues of the r a i n b o w above the pot of gold. C e r t a i n l y a fellow w h o made his w a y at that rate h a d it " i n h i m , " a n d could afford to trust his star. D e s c e n d i n g from this joyous flight he stooped his ear to the discourse of y o u n g Spence. " M y father'll work y o u rather h a r d , y o u k n o w : but y o u look as if y o u w o u l d n ' t m i n d that." M i l l n e r p u l l e d up his inches with the selfconsciousness of the m a n who h a d none to

waste. " O h , no, I s h a n ' t m i n d that: I don't m i n d a n y a m o u n t of w o r k i f it leads to s o m e t h i n g . " " J u s t so," D r a p e r Spence assented eagerly. " T h a t ' s w h a t I feel. A n d you'll find that whatever m y father u n d e r t a k e s leads to such a w f u l l y fine t h i n g s . " M i l l n e r tightened his l i p s o n a g r i n . H e was t h i n k i n g o n l y of where the w o r k w o u l d lead h i m , not i n the least of where it m i g h t l a n d the eminent O r l a n d o G . Spence. B u t he l o o k e d at his c o m p a n i o n s y m p a ­ thetically. " Y o u ' r e a p h i l a n t h r o p i s t l i k e y o u r fa­ ther, I s e e ? " " O h , I d o n ' t k n o w . " T h e y h a d paused at a crossing, a n d y o u n g D r a p e r , w i t h a dubious air, stood s t r i k i n g his agate-headed stick against the curb-stone. " I believe i n a purpose, d o n ' t y o u ? " he a s k e d , lifting his blue eyes s u d d e n l y to M i l l n e r ' s face. ' ' A purpose ? I s h o u l d rather say so! I believe i n n o t h i n g else," c r i e d M i l l n e r , feel­ i n g as if his were s o m e t h i n g he c o u l d g r i p i n his h a n d a n d s w i n g l i k e a c l u b . Y o u n g Spence seemed relieved. " Y e s — I tie up to that. T h e r e is a P u r p o s e . A n d so, after a l l , even if I d o n ' t agree w i t h m y father o n m i n o r points . . . " H e coloured q u i c k l y , a n d l o o k e d a g a i n at M i l l n e r . "I should like to talk to y o u about this some day." M i l l n e r smothered another smile. " We'll have lots of talks, I h o p e . " " O h , if y o u c a n spare the t i m e — ! " said D r a p e r , almost h u m b l y . " W h y , I shall be there o n t a p ! " " F o r father, not m e . " D r a p e r hesitated, w i t h another self-confessing smile. " F a ­ ther t h i n k s I t a l k too m u c h — t h a t I keep going i n a n d out of things. H e doesn't believe i n a n a l y z i n g : he t h i n k s it's de­ structive. B u t it h a s n ' t destroyed m y ideals." H e looked wistfully up and down the c l a n g i n g street. " A n d that's the m a i n thing, isn't it ? I m e a n , that one s h o u l d have a n I d e a l . " H e t u r n e d b a c k almost gaily to M i l l n e r . " I suspect y o u ' r e a revolutionist t o o ! " " R e v o l u t i o n i s t ? R a t h e r ! I b e l o n g to the R e d S y n d i c a t e a n d the B l a c k H a n d ! " M i l l n e r joyfully assented. Y o u n g D r a p e r c h u c k l e d at the e n o r m i t y of the j o k e . " F i r s t rate! W e ' l l have i n ­ cendiary m e e t i n g s ! " H e p u l l e d a n elabo­ rately a r m o r i a l w a t c h f r o m his e n f o l d i n g

T h e Blond Beast furs. " I ' m so sorry, but I must say good­ bye—this is my street," he explained. Millner, with a faint twinge of envy, glanced across at the colonnaded marble edifice in the farther corner. " G o i n g to the club ? " he said carelessly. H i s companion looked surprised. " O h , no: I never go there. It's too boring." A n d he brought out, after one of the pauses in which he seemed rather breathlessly to measure the chances of his listener's indul­ gence: " I'm just going over to a little Bible Class I have in Tenth Avenue."

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Yes, the whole secret of success was to know what one wanted to do, and not to be afraid to do it. His own history was prov­ ing that already. He had not been afraid to give up his small but safe position in a real-estate office for the precarious advent­ ure of a private secretaryship; and his first glimpse of his new employer had convinced him that he had not mistaken his calling. When one has a " w a y " with one—as, in all modesty, Millner knew he had—not to util­ ize it is a stupid waste of force. A n d when he had learned that Orlando G . Spence was in search of a private secretary who should be able to give him intelligent assistance in the execution of his philanthropic schemes, the young man felt that his hour had come. It was no part of his plan to associate him­ self with one of the masters of finance: he had a notion that minnows who go to a whale to learn how to grow bigger are like­ ly to be swallowed in the process. The opportunity of a clever young man with a cool head and no prejudices (this again was drawn from life) lay rather in making him­ self indispensable to one of the beneficent rich, and in using the timidities and con­ formities of his patron as the means of his own advancement. Young Millner felt no scruples about formulating these principles to himself. It was not for nothing that, in his college days, he had hunted the hy­ pothetical " m o r a l sense" to its lair, and dragged from their concealment the various self-advancing sentiments dissembled under its edifying guise. H i s strength lay in his precocious insight into the springs of action, and in his refusal to classify them according to the accepted moral and social sanctions. He had to the full the courage of his lack of convictions.

Millner, for a moment or two, stood watching the slim figure wind its way through the mass of vehicles to the op­ posite corner; then he pursued his own course down Fifth Avenue, measuring his steps to the rhythmic refrain: "It's too easy—it's too easy—it's too easy!" His own destination being the small shabby flat off University Place where three tender females awaited the result of his mission, he had time, on the way home, after abandoning himself to a general sense of triumph, to dwell specifically on the various aspects of his achievement. Viewed materially and practically, it was a thing to be proud of; yet it was chiefly on aesthetic grounds—because he had done so exactly what he had set out to do—that he glowed with pride at the afternoon's work. For, after all, any young man with the proper " p u l l " might have applied to Or­ lando G . Spence for the post of secretary, and even have penetrated as far as the great man's study; but that he, Hugh M i l l ­ ner, should not only have forced his way to this fastness, but have established, within a short half hour, his right to remain there permanently: well, this, if it proved any­ T o a young man so untrammelled by thing, proved that the first rule of success prejudice it was self-evident that helpless was to know how to live up to one's princi­ philanthropists like Orlando G . Spence ples. were just as much the natural diet of the " O n e must have a plan—one must have strong as the lamb is of the wolf. It was a plan," the young man murmured, look­ pleasanter to eat than to be eaten, in a ing with pity at the vague faces which the world where, as yet, there seemed to be no crowd bore past him, and feeling almost third alternative; and any scruples one impelled to detain them and expound his might feel as to the temporary discomfort doctrine. But the planlessness of average of one's victim were speedily dispelled by human nature was of course the measure that larger scientific view which took into of his opportunity; and he smiled to think account the social destructiveness of the that every purposeless face he met was a benevolent. Millner was persuaded that guarantee of his own advancement, a rung every individual woe mitigated by the philanthropy of Orlando G . Spence added in the ladder he meant to climb.

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just so m u c h to the sum-total of h u m a n i n ­ efficiency, a n d it was one of his favourite subjects of speculation to picture the i n ­ n u m e r a b l e social evils that may follow u p o n the rescue of one infant f r o m M o u n t T a y getus. " W e ' r e a l l b o r n to prey on each other, a n d pity for suffering is one of the most ele­ mentary stages of egotism. U n t i l one has passed beyond, a n d acquired a taste for the more c o m p l e x forms of the instinct " H e stopped suddenly, checked i n his ad­ vance b y a sallow wisp of a d o g w h i c h h a d p l u n g e d through the press of vehicles to h u r l itself between his legs. M i l l n e r d i d not dislike animals, though he preferred that they should be healthy a n d handsome. T h e d o g under his feet was neither. Its c r i n g i n g contour showed a n injudicious m i n g l i n g of races, a n d its meagre coat be­ trayed the deplorable habit of sleeping i n coal-holes a n d subsisting on an innutritious diet. I n addition to these p h y s i c a l disad­ vantages, its s h r i n k i n g a n d inconsequent movements revealed a congenital weakness of character w h i c h , even under more fa­ vourable conditions, w o u l d h a r d l y have qualified it to become a useful member of society; and M i l l n e r was not sorry to notice that it moved w i t h a l i m p of the h i n d leg that p r o b a b l y doomed it to speedy extinc­ tion. T h e absurdity of such an animal's at­ tempting to cross F i f t h A v e n u e at the most crowded hour of the afternoon struck h i m as only less great than the irony of its hav­ ing been permitted to achieve the feat; a n d he stood a moment l o o k i n g at it, a n d w o n ­ d e r i n g what h a d moved it to the attempt. It was really a perfect type of the h u m a n derelict w h i c h O r l a n d o G . Spence a n d his k i n d were devoting their millions to per­ petuate, a n d he reflected how m u c h better N a t u r e k n e w her business i n dealing w i t h the superfluous q u a d r u p e d . A n elderly lady advancing i n the oppo­ site direction evidently took a less dispas­ sionate view of the case, for she paused to remark e m o t i o n a l l y : " O h , y o u poor t h i n g ! " while she stooped to caress the ob­ ject of her sympathy. T h e dog, w i t h char­ acteristic l a c k of d i s c r i m i n a t i o n , viewed her gesture w i t h suspicion, and met it w i t h a snarl. T h e lady turned pale a n d shrank away, a chivalrous male repelled the a n i m a l w i t h his u m b r e l l a , and two idle boys b a c k e d

his action by a v i g o r o u s " H i ! " T h e ob­ ject of these hostile d e m o n s t r a t i o n s , ap­ parently a t t r i b u t i n g t h e m not to its o w n unsocial c o n d u c t , but m e r e l y to the chronica n i m o s i t y of the universe, d a s h e d w i l d l y a r o u n d the corner into a side street, a n d as it d i d so M i l l n e r n o t i c e d that the l a m e leg left a little t r a i l of b l o o d . I r r e s i s t i b l y , he turned the corner to see w h a t w o u l d hap­ pen next. It was d e p l o r a b l y clear that the a n i m a l itself h a d n o p l a n ; b u t after several inconsequent a n d c o n t r a d i c t o r y movements it p l u n g e d d o w n a n area, where it b a c k e d u p against the i r o n gate, f o r l o r n l y a n d foolishly at b a y . M i l l n e r , still f o l l o w i n g , l o o k e d d o w n at it, a n d w o n d e r e d . T h e n he w h i s t l e d , just to see if it w o u l d c o m e ; b u t this o n l y caused it to start u p on its q u i v e r i n g legs, w i t h desperate turns of the h e a d that meas­ ured the chances of escape. " O h , h a n g it, y o u poor d e v i l , stay there if y o u l i k e ! " the y o u n g m a n m u r m u r e d , walking away. A few yards off he l o o k e d b a c k , a n d saw that the d o g h a d m a d e a r u s h out of the area a n d was l i m p i n g furtively d o w n the street. T h e idle boys were i n the offing, a n d he d i s l i k e d the thought of l e a v i n g them i n c o n t r o l of the s i t u a t i o n . Softly, w i t h infinite precautions, he began to fol­ low the d o g . H e d i d not k n o w w h y he was d o i n g it, but the i m p u l s e w a s overmaster­ ing. F o r a m o m e n t he seemed to be g a i n ­ ing u p o n his q u a r r y , b u t w i t h a c u n n i n g sense of his a p p r o a c h it s u d d e n l y turned a n d h o b b l e d across the frozen grass-plot adjoining a shuttered house. A g a i n s t the w a l l at the b a c k of the p l o t it cowered d o w n i n a d i r t y snow-drift, as if disheart­ ened b y the struggle. M i l l n e r stood out­ side the r a i l i n g s a n d l o o k e d at it. He reflected that u n d e r the shelter of the w i n ­ ter d u s k it m i g h t have the l u c k to r e m a i n there unmolested, a n d that i n the m o r n i n g it w o u l d p r o b a b l y be d e a d of c o l d . T h i s was so o b v i o u s l y the best s o l u t i o n that he began to move a w a y a g a i n ; b u t as he d i d so the idle boys confronted h i m . " K e t c h yer d o g for yer, b o s s ? " they grinned. M i l l n e r consigned t h e m to the d e v i l , a n d stood sternly w a t c h i n g t h e m t i l l the first stage of the j o u r n e y h a d c a r r i e d t h e m a r o u n d the nearest c o r n e r ; t h e n , after p a u s i n g to look once m o r e u p a n d d o w n

T h e Blond Beast the e m p t y street, l a i d his h a n d on the r a i l ­ ing, a n d v a u l t e d over it into the grass-plot. A s he d i d so, he reflected that, since pity for suffering was one of the most elemen­ tary forms of egotism, he ought to have r e m e m b e r e d that it was necessarily one of the most tenacious. II " M Y chief a i m i n l i f e ? " Orlando G . Spence repeated. H e threw himself b a c k in his c h a i r , straightened the tortoise-shell pince-nez, o n his short b l u n t nose, a n d b e a m e d d o w n the l u n c h e o n table at the two y o u n g m e n w h o shared his repast. His glance rested on his son Draper, seated opposite h i m b e h i n d a barrier of G e o r g i a n silver a n d o r c h i d s ; but his words were a d ­ dressed to his secretary w h o , stylograph i n h a n d , h a d t u r n e d f r o m the seductions of a m u s h r o o m souffle i n order to jot d o w n , for the S u n d a y Investigator, a n outline of his e m p l o y e r ' s v i e w s a n d intentions respect­ i n g the n e w l y e n d o w e d O r l a n d o G . Spence College for M i s s i o n a r i e s . It was M r . Spence's practice to receive i n person the journalists p r i v i l e g e d to i m p a r t his opinions to a w a i t i n g w o r l d ; but d u r i n g the last few m o n t h s — a n d especially since the vast pro­ ject of the M i s s i o n a r y College h a d been i n process of development—the pressure of business a n d beneficence h a d necessitated M i l l n e r ' s frequent intervention, a n d c o m ­ pelled the secretary to snatch the sense of his patron's elucubrations between the courses of their hasty meals.

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take of c o n c e a l i n g f r o m M r . Spence his sense of what he was losing w h e n d u t y constrained h i m to exchange the f o r k for the pen. " M y chief a i m i n l i f e ! " M r . Spence re­ peated, r e m o v i n g his eye-glass a n d s w i n g i n g it thoughtfully on his finger. ( " I ' m sorry y o u s h o u l d miss this souffle, M i l l n e r : it's w o r t h while.) W h y , I suppose I might say that m y chief a i m i n life is to leave the w o r l d better than I f o u n d it. Y e s : I d o n ' t k n o w that I c o u l d put it better t h a n that. T o leave the w o r l d better t h a n I f o u n d it. It w o u l d n ' t be a b a d idea to use that as a head-line. ' Wants to leave the world belter than he found it.' It's exactly the point I should like to m a k e i n this talk about the College."

M r . Spence paused, a n d his glance once more reverted to his son, w h o , h a v i n g p u s h e d aside his plate, sat w a t c h i n g M i l l n e r w i t h a d r e a m y intensity. " A n d it's the point I want to m a k e w i t h y o u , too, D r a p e r , " his father c o n t i n u e d genially, w h i l e he t u r n e d over w i t h a crit­ i c a l fork the p l u m p a n d perfectly m a t c h e d asparagus w h i c h a footman was presenting to his notice. " I want to m a k e y o u feel that n o t h i n g else counts i n c o m p a r i s o n w i t h that—no a m o u n t of literary success or intellectual c e l e b r i t y . " " O h , I do feel t h a t , " D r a p e r m u r m u r e d , w i t h one of his q u i c k blushes, a n d a glance that wavered between his father a n d M i l l ­ ner. T h e secretary kept his eyes on his notes, a n d y o u n g Spence c o n t i n u e d , after a pause: " O n l y the t h i n g is—isn't i t ? — t o Y o u n g M i l l n e r h a d a healthy appetite, try a n d find out just what does m a k e the a n d it was not one of his least sacrifices w o r l d b e t t e r ? " to be so often o b l i g e d to c u r b it i n the " T o try to find o u t ? " his father echoed interest of his advancement; but whenever compassionately. " I t ' s not necessary to he w a v e d aside one of the t r i u m p h s of M r . try very h a r d . Goodness is what m a k e s Spence's chef he was conscious of r i s i n g a the w o r l d better." step i n his employer's favour. M r . Spence " Y e s , yes, of c o u r s e , " his son n e r v o u s l y d i d not despise the pleasures of the table, interposed; " b u t the question is, what is t h o u g h he appeared to regard t h e m as the good " r e w a r d of success rather t h a n as the alle­ M r . Spence, w i t h a d a r k e n i n g b r o w , v i a t i o n of effort; a n d it increased his sense brought his fist d o w n e m p h a t i c a l l y on the of his secretary's merit to note h o w keenly d a m a s k . " I ' l l t h a n k y o u not to blaspheme, the y o u n g m a n enjoyed the fare w h i c h he m y s o n ! " was so frequently o b l i g e d to deny himself. D r a p e r ' s head reared itself a trifle higher D r a p e r , h a v i n g subsisted since i n f a n c y on on his t h i n neck. " I was not g o i n g to a diet of truffles a n d t e r r a p i n , c o n s u m e d b l a s p h e m e ; only there m a y be different s u c h delicacies w i t h the insensibility of ways " a traveller s w a l l o w i n g a r a i l w a y s a n d ­ " T h e r e ' s where y o u ' r e m i s t a k e n , D r a p e r . w i c h ; but M i l l n e r never made the m i s ­ T h e r e ' s o n l y one w a y : there's m y w a y , "

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said M r . Spence i n a tone of u n s h a k e n conviction. " I k n o w , father; I see what y o u mean. B u t don't y o u see that even y o u r w a y w o u l d n ' t be the right w a y for y o u if y o u ceased to believe that it w a s ? " H i s father l o o k e d at h i m w i t h m i n g l e d bewilderment a n d reprobation. " D o y o u mean to say that the fact of goodness de­ pends on m y conception of it, a n d not on God Almighty's?" " I do . . . yes . . . i n a specific sense . . . " y o u n g D r a p e r falteringly" m a i n ­ tained; a n d M r . Spence turned w i t h a dis­ couraged gesture t o w a r d his secretary's suspended pen. " I don't understand your scientific jar­ gon, D r a p e r ; a n d I don't want t o . — W h a t ' s the next point, M i l l n e r ? ( N o ; n o savarin. B r i n g the fruit—and the coffee w i t h i t . ) " M i l l n e r , keenly aware that an aromatic savarin au rhum was describing an arc be­ h i n d his head previous to being rushed back to the pantry under y o u n g D r a p e r ' s indifferent eye, stiffened himself against this last assault of the enemy, a n d read out firmly: "What relation do you consider that a man's business conduct should bear to his religious and domestic life ? ", M r . Spence mused a moment. " W h y , that's a Stupid question. It goes over the same g r o u n d as the other one. A m a n ought to do good w i t h his money—that's all. G o o n . " A t this point the butler's m u r m u r i n his ear caused h i m to p u s h b a c k his chair, a n d to arrest M i l l n e r ' s interrogatory by a r a p i d gesture. " Y e s ; I ' m coming. H o l d the w i r e . " M r . Spence rose a n d plunged into the adjoining "office," where a tele­ phone a n d a R e m i n g t o n d i v i d e d the atten­ tion of a y o u n g lady i n spectacles w h o was preparing for Z e n a n a w o r k i n the East. A s the door closed, the butler, h a v i n g placed the coffee a n d liqueurs on the table, w i t h d r e w i n the rear of his battalion, a n d the two y o u n g men were left alone beneath the R e m b r a n d t s a n d H o b b e m a s on the d i n i n g - r o o m walls. T h e r e was a moment's silence between t h e m ; then y o u n g Spence, leaning across the table, said i n the lowered tone of i n ­ t i m a c y : " W h y do y o u suppose he dodged that last q u e s t i o n ? " M i l l n e r , w h o h a d r a p i d l y taken an opu­ lent purple fig f r o m the fruit-dish nearest

h i m , paused i n surprise i n the act of h u r ­ r y i n g it to his lips. " I m e a n , " D r a p e r hastened on, " t h e question as to the r e l a t i o n between business a n d private m o r a l i t y . It's such an interest­ i n g one, a n d he's just the person w h o ought to tackle i t . " M i l l n e r , despatching the fig, g l a n c e d d o w n at his notes. " I d o n ' t t h i n k y o u r father meant to dodge the q u e s t i o n . " Y o u n g D r a p e r c o n t i n u e d to l o o k at h i m intently. " Y o u t h i n k he i m a g i n e d that his answer really covers the g r o u n d ? " " A s m u c h as it needs to be c o v e r e d . " T h e son of the house g l a n c e d a w a y w i t h a sigh. " Y o u k n o w things about h i m that I d o n ' t , " he said wistfully, but w i t h o u t a tinge of resentment i n his tone. " O h , as to t h a t — ( m a y I give m y s e l f some coffee?)" M i l l n e r , i n his w a l k a r o u n d the table to fill his cup, p a u s e d a moment to l a y a n affectionate h a n d o n D r a p e r ' s shoulder. "Perhaps I know h i m better, i n a sense: outsiders often get a more accurate focus." D r a p e r considered this. " A n d your idea is that he acts o n p r i n c i p l e s he has never thought of testing or d e f i n i n g ? " M i l l n e r l o o k e d u p q u i c k l y , a n d for a n instant their glances crossed. " H o w d o you m e a n ? " " I m e a n : that he's an inconscient i n ­ strument of goodness, as it were? A — a sort of b l i n d l y beneficent f o r c e ? " T h e other s m i l e d . " T h a t ' s not a b a d definition. I k n o w one t h i n g about h i m , at any rate: he's awfully upset at y o u r h a v i n g chucked your Bible Class." A shadow fell o n y o u n g Spence's c a n ­ d i d brow. " I k n o w . B u t what c a n I d o about i t ? T h a t ' s what I was t h i n k i n g of when I tried to show h i m that goodness, i n a certain sense, is p u r e l y subjective: that one can't do g o o d against one's principles." A g a i n his glance a p p e a l e d to M i l l n e r . " You u n d e r s t a n d me, d o n ' t you?" M i l l n e r stirred his coffee i n a silence not u n c l o u d e d b y perplexity. " T h e o r e t i c a l l y , perhaps. It's a pretty question, c e r t a i n l y . B u t I also understand y o u r father's feeling that it hasn't m u c h to do w i t h real life: especially n o w that he's got to m a k e a speech i n connection w i t h the f o u n d i n g of this M i s s i o n a r y College. H e may think that any h i n t of internecine strife w i l l

T h e Blond Beast weaken his prestige. M i g h t n ' t y o u have waited a little l o n g e r ? " " H o w c o u l d I, w h e n I m i g h t have been expected to take a part i n this p e r f o r m ­ ance? T o talk, a n d say things I d i d n ' t mean? T h a t was exactly what made me decide not to w a i t . " T h e door opened a n d M r . Spence re­ entered the r o o m . A s he d i d so his son rose a b r u p t l y as if to leave it. " W h e r e are y o u off to, D r a p e r ? " the banker asked. " I ' m i n rather a h u r r y , sir " M r . Spence l o o k e d at his w a t c h . " Y o u can't be i n more of a h u r r y t h a n I a m ; a n d I've got seven m i n u t e s a n d a h a l f . " H e seated himself b e h i n d the coffee-tray, lit a cigar, l a i d his w a t c h o n the table, a n d signed to D r a p e r to resume his place. " N o , M i l l n e r , d o n ' t y o u g o ; I want y o u b o t h . " H e turned to the secretary. " Y o u k n o w that D r a p e r ' s given u p his B i b l e C l a s s ? I understand it's not from the pressure of en­ gagements—" M r . Spence's n a r r o w lips took a n i r o n i c curve u n d e r the straightclipped stubble of his m o u s t a c h e — " i t ' s on principle, he tells me. H e ' s principled against d o i n g g o o d ! " D r a p e r lifted a protesting h a n d . "It's not exactly that, father " " I k n o w : y o u ' l l tell me it's some scien­ tific q u i b b l e that I d o n ' t understand. I've never h a d time to go i n for intellectual hair-splitting. I've f o u n d too m a n y people d o w n i n the m i r e w h o needed a h a n d to p u l l them out. A busy m a n has to take his choice between h e l p i n g his fellow-men a n d theorizing about them. I've preferred to help. ( Y o u m i g h t take that d o w n for the Investigator, M i l l n e r . ) A n d I t h a n k G o d I've never stopped to ask what made me want to do good. I've just y i e l d e d to the impulse—that's a l l . " M r . Spence t u r n e d back to his son. " B e t t e r m e n t h a n either of us have been satisfied w i t h that creed, my son."

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" A h ; y o u were? T h a t ' s good. T h e n I ' l l o n l y say one t h i n g more. Y o u r d o i n g what y o u ' v e done at this p a r t i c u l a r m o ­ ment hurts me more, D r a p e r , t h a n y o u r teaching the gospel of Jesus c o u l d possibly have h u r t those y o u n g m e n over i n T e n t h A v e n u e . " M r . Spence arose a n d restored his watch to his pocket. " I shall want y o u i n twenty minutes, M i l l n e r . " T h e door closed on h i m , a n d for a w h i l e the two y o u n g m e n sat silent b e h i n d their cigar fumes. T h e n D r a p e r Spence b r o k e out, w i t h a catch i n his throat: "That's what I can't bear, M i l l n e r , what I s i m p l y can't bear: to hurt h i m , to hurt his faith i n me! It's a n awful responsibility, isn't it, to tamper with a n y b o d y ' s faith i n any­ thing?"

Ill T H E twenty minutes p r o l o n g e d them­ selves to forty, the forty to fifty, a n d the fifty to a n h o u r ; a n d still M i l l n e r w a i t e d for M r . Spence's summons. D u r i n g the two years of his secretaryship the y o u n g m a n h a d learned the significance of such postponements. M r . Spence's days were organized like a r a i l w a y time-table, a n d a delay of a n hour i m p l i e d a casualty as far-reaching as the b r e a k i n g d o w n of a n express. O f the cause of the present derangement H u g h M i l l n e r was i g n o r a n t ; a n d the experience of the last months a l ­ lowed -him to fluctuate between conflicting conjectures. A l l were based o n the i n d i s p u ­ table fact that M r . Spence was " b o t h e r e d " — h a d for some time past been " b o t h e r e d . " A n d it was one of M i l l n e r ' s discoveries that a n extremely p a r s i m o n i o u s use of the emotions u n d e r l a y M r . Spence's e x p a n ­ sive m a n n e r a n d fraternal phraseology, a n d that he d i d not t h r o w away his feelings any more than (for a l l his p h i l a n t h r o p y ) he threw away his money. If he was bothered, then, it c o u l d be only because a careful sur­ vey of his situation h a d forced o n h i m some unpleasant fact w i t h w h i c h he was not i m ­ mediately prepared to d e a l ; a n d any u n preparedness o n M r . Spence's part was also a significant s y m p t o m .

D r a p e r was silent, a n d M r . Spence once more addressed himself to his secretary. " M i l l n e r , y o u ' r e a reader: I've caught y o u at it. A n d I k n o w this boy talks to y o u . W h a t have y o u got to s a y ? D o y o u sup­ Obviously, M i l l n e r ' s original conception pose a B i b l e Class ever hurt a n y b o d y ? " of his employer's character h a d suffered ex­ M i l l n e r paused a m o m e n t , feeling a l l tensive m o d i f i c a t i o n ; but no final outline through his nervous system the fateful tre­ h a d replaced the first conjectural image. m o r of the balance. " T h a t ' s what I was T h e two years spent i n M r . Spence's ser­ vice h a d p r o d u c e d too m a n y c o n t r a d i c t o r y just t r y i n g to tell h i m , sir "

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impressions to be fitted into any definite pattern; a n d the chief lesson M i l l n e r h a d learned from t h e m was that life was less of a n exact science, a n d character a more i n ­ calculable element, than he h a d been taught i n the schools. I n the light of this revised impression, his o w n footing seemed less se­ cure than he h a d i m a g i n e d , a n d the rungs of the ladder he was c l i m b i n g more slippery t h a n they h a d looked from below. H e was not without the reassuring sense of h a v i n g made himself, i n certain s m a l l ways, neces­ sary to M r . Spence; a n d this conviction was confirmed by D r a p e r ' s reiterated as­ surance of his father's appreciation. B u t M i l l n e r h a d begun to suspect that one might be necessary to M r . Spence one day, a n d a superfluity, i f not a n obstacle, the next; a n d that it w o u l d take superhuman astuteness to foresee how a n d when the change w o u l d occur. E v e r y fluctuation of the great man's m o o d was therefore anx­ iously noted by the young meteorologist i n his service; a n d this observer's vigilance was now strained to the utmost by the little cloud, no bigger than a man's h a n d , a d u m ­ brated by the banker's unpunctuality.

y o u n g m a n let his p e n describe t w o or three vague patterns o n the b l a n k sheet before h i m . " D r a p e r has i d e a s — " he r i s k e d at last. M r . Spence l o o k e d h a r d at h i m . " T h a t ' s all r i g h t , " he said. " I w a n t m y son to have everything. B u t what's the p o i n t of m i x i n g up ideas a n d p r i n c i p l e s ? I've seen fellows w h o d i d that, a n d they were generally try­ i n g to b o r r o w five d o l l a r s to get a w a y from the sheriff. W h a t ' s a l l this t a l k about good­ ness? Goodness isn't a n i d e a . It's a fact. It's as solid as a business p r o p o s i t i o n . A n d it's D r a p e r ' s duty, as the son of a wealthy m a n , a n d the prospective s t e w a r d of a great fortune, to elevate the standards of other y o u n g m e n — o f y o u n g m e n w h o haven't h a d his opportunities. T h e r i c h ought to preach contentment, a n d to set the example themselves. W e have o u r cares, but we ought to conceal them. W e ought to be cheerful, a n d accept things as they are—not go about sowing dissent a n d restlessness. W h a t has D r a p e r got to give these boys in his B i b l e Class, that's so m u c h better than what he wants to take f r o m t h e m ? T h a t ' s the question I ' d like to have answered ? "

W h e n M r . Spence finally appeared, his M r . Spence, c a r r i e d a w a y b y his o w n elo­ aspect d i d not tend to dissipate the cloud. quence, h a d r e m o v e d his pince-nez a n d was H e wore what M i l l n e r h a d learned to call t w i r l i n g it about his extended fore-finger his " b a c k - d o o r f a c e " : a b l a n k barred with the gesture h a b i t u a l to h i m w h e n he countenance, i n w h i c h only an occasional spoke i n p u b l i c . A f t e r a pause, he went twitch of the lids behind his glasses sug­ on, with a d r o p to the level of p r i v a t e inter­ gested that some one was o n the watch. course: " I tell y o u this because I k n o w I n this m o o d M r . Spence usually seemed y o u have a g o o d deal of influence with unconscious of his secretary's presence, D r a p e r . H e has a h i g h o p i n i o n of your or aware of it only as a n a r m terminat­ brains. B u t y o u ' r e a p r a c t i c a l fellow, and i n g i n a pen. M i l l n e r , accustomed o n y o u must see w h a t I m e a n . T r y to make such occasions to exist merely as a func­ D r a p e r see it. M a k e h i m u n d e r s t a n d how tion, sat w a i t i n g for the click of the it looks to have h i m d r o p his B i b l e Class spring that should set h i m i n action; but just at this p a r t i c u l a r time. It was his own the pressure not being applied, he finally choice to take u p religious teaching among hazarded: " A r e we to go on with the In­ y o u n g m e n . H e began w i t h o u r office-boys, vestigator, s i r ? " a n d then the w o r k spread a n d was blessed. M r . Spence, w h o h a d been pacing up I was almost a l a r m e d , at one time, at the a n d d o w n between the desk a n d the fire­ way it took h o l d of h i m : w h e n the papers place, threw himself into his usual seat at began to talk about h i m as a formative influence I was a f r a i d h e ' d lose his head M i l l n e r ' s elbow. " I don't understand this new notion of a n d go into the c h u r c h . L u c k i l y he tried D r a p e r ' s , " he said abruptly. " Where's he U n i v e r s i t y Settlement first; b u t just as I got it from ? N o one ever learned irreligion thought he was settling d o w n to that, he took to w o r r y i n g about the H i g h e r C r i t i ­ in m y h o u s e h o l d . " H e turned his eyes on M i l l n e r , w h o h a d cism, a n d s a y i n g he c o u l d n ' t go o n teaching the sense of being scrutinized through a fairy-tales as history. I can't see that any ground-glass w i n d o w which left h i m vis­ good ever came of c r i t i c i z i n g w h a t our ible while it concealed his observer. T h e parents believed, a n d it's a queer time for

T h e Blond Beast D r a p e r to criticize my belief just as I ' m b a c k i n g it to the extent of five m i l l i o n s . " M i l l n e r r e m a i n e d silent; a n d , as though his silence were a n argument, M r . Spence continued c o m b a t i v e l y : " D r a p e r ' s a l w a y s t a l k i n g about some d i s t i n c t i o n between religion a n d m o r a l i t y . I d o n ' t u n d e r s t a n d what he means. I got m y m o r a l s out of the B i b l e , a n d I guess there's enough left in it for D r a p e r . If religion w o n ' t m a k e a m a n m o r a l , I d o n ' t see w h y irreligion should. A n d he talks about u s i n g his m i n d — w e l l , can't he use that i n W a l l Street ? A m a n c a n get a good deal farther in life w a t c h i n g the m a r k e t t h a n p i c k i n g holes i n G e n e s i s ; a n d he c a n do more good too. T h e r e ' s a time for e v e r y t h i n g ; a n d D r a p e r seems to me to have m i x e d u p week-days w i t h S u n d a y . " M r . Spence replaced his eye-glasses, a n d stretching his h a n d to the silver box at his elbow, extracted from it one of the l o n g cigars sheathed i n gold-leaf w h i c h were re­ served for his private c o n s u m p t i o n . T h e secretary hastened to tender h i m a m a t c h , and for a m o m e n t he puffed i n silence. W h e n he spoke again it was i n a different note. " I ' v e got about a l l the bother I can h a n ­ dle just n o w , w i t h o u t this nonsense of Draper's: T h a t was one of the Trustees of the College with me. It seems the Flash­ light has been t r y i n g to stir u p a f u s s — " M r . Spencer paused, a n d t u r n e d his pincenez on his secretary. " Y o u haven't heard from t h e m ? " he asked. " F r o m the Flashlight? N o . " Millner's surprise was genuine. H e detected a gleam of relief b e h i n d M r . Spence's glasses. " I t m a y be just m a ­ licious talk. T h a t ' s the worst of good works; they b r i n g out a l l the meanness i n h u m a n nature. A n d then there are a l w a y s women m i x e d u p i n t h e m , a n d there never was a w o m a n yet w h o understood the differ­ ence between p h i l a n t h r o p y a n d business." H e drew again at his cigar, a n d then, w i t h an unwonted movement, l e a n e d f o r w a r d and m e c h a n i c a l l y pushed the b o x t o w a r d M i l l n e r . " H e l p yourself," he said. M i l l n e r , as m e c h a n i c a l l y , took one of the virginally ci n ct u r e d cigars, a n d began to undo its w r a p p i n g s . It was the first time he h a d ever been privileged to detach that golden girdle, a n d n o t h i n g c o u l d have given h i m a better measure of the i m p o r t a n c e of

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the situation, a n d of the degree to w h i c h he was apparently i n v o l v e d i n it. " Y o u re­ m e m b e r that S a n P a b l o rubber business? T h a t ' s what they've been r a k i n g u p , " s a i d M r . Spence a b r u p t l y . M i l l n e r paused i n the act of s t r i k i n g a m a t c h . T h e n , w i t h a n appreciable effort of the w i l l , he completed the gesture, a p p l i e d the flame to his cigar, a n d took a l o n g i n ­ halation. T h e cigar was certainly delicious. M r . Spence, d r a w i n g a little closer, leaned f o r w a r d a n d touched h i m o n the a r m . T h e touch caused M i l l n e r to t u r n his head, a n d for an instant the glance of the two m e n crossed at short range. Millner was conscious, first, of a nearer v i e w t h a n he h a d ever h a d of his employer's face, a n d of its vaguely suggesting a seamed sand­ stone head, the k i n d of t h i n g that lies i n a corner i n the court of a m u s e u m , a n d i n w h i c h only the r o u n d enamelled eyes have resisted the wear of time. H i s next feeling was that he h a d n o w reached the m o m e n t to w h i c h the offer of the cigar h a d been a prelude. H e h a d always k n o w n that, sooner or later, such a moment w o u l d come; a l l his life, i n a sense, h a d been a preparation for it. B u t i n entering M r . Spence's service he h a d not foreseen that it w o u l d present itself i n this form. H e had seen himself consciously g u i d i n g that gen­ tleman u p to the moment, rather t h a n be­ i n g thrust into it by a stronger h a n d . A n d his first act of reflection was the resolve that, i n the end, his h a n d should prove the stronger of the two. T h i s was followed, almost i m m e d i a t e l y , by the idea that to be stronger t h a n M r . Spence's it w o u l d have to be very strong indeed. It was o d d that he s h o u l d feel this, since—as far as v e r b a l c o m m u n i c a t i o n went—it was M r . Spence w h o was a s k i n g for his support. I n a theo­ retical statement of the case the b a n k e r w o u l d have figured as being at M i l l n e r ' s m e r c y ; but one of the queerest things about experience was the w a y it made light of theory. M i l l n e r felt n o w as though he were being crushed b y some inexorable en­ gine of w h i c h he h a d been p l a y i n g w i t h the lever. . . . H e h a d always been intensely interested i n o b s e r v i n g his o w n reactions, a n d h a d re­ g a r d e d this faculty of self-detachment as of i m m e n s e advantage i n such a career as he h a d p l a n n e d . H e felt this still, even i n the act of n o t i n g his o w n b e w i l d e r m e n t —

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felt it the more i n contrast to the o d d u n ­ consciousness of M r . Spence's attitude, of the incredible candour of his self-abase­ ment a n d self-abandonment. It was clear that M r . Spence was not t r o u b l e d by the repercussion of his actions i n the conscious­ ness of others; a n d this l o o k e d like a weak­ ness—unless it were, instead, a great strength. . . . T h r o u g h the h u m of these s w a r m i n g thoughts M r . Spence's voice was going o n . " T h a t ' s the only rag of proof they've got; a n d they got it by one of those nasty acci­ dents that nobody can g u a r d against. I don't care h o w conscientiously a m a n at­ tends to business, he can't always protect himself against meddlesome people. I don't pretend to k n o w h o w the letter came into their hands; but they've got i t ; a n d they m e a n to use i t — a n d they mean to say that y o u wrote it for me, a n d that y o u k n e w what it was about w h e n y o u wrote it. . . . T h e y ' l l p r o b a b l y be after y o u to­ morrow " M r . Spence, restoring his cigar to his lips, puffed at it slowly. I n the pause that followed there was an instant d u r i n g w h i c h the universe seemed to H u g h M i l l n e r like a sounding-board bent above his single consciousness. If he spoke, what thunders w o u l d be sent back to h i m from that i n ­ tently listening vastness? " Y o u s e e ? " said M r . Spence. T h e universal ear bent closer, as if to catch the least articulation of M i l l n e r ' s nar­ rowed lips; but w h e n he opened them it was merely to re-insert his cigar, a n d for a short space nothing passed between the two men but an exchange of smoke-rings. " W h a t do y o u mean to do ? T h e r e ' s the p o i n t , " M r . Spence at length sent through the rings. O h , yes, the point was there, as distinctly before M i l l n e r as the tip of his expensive cigar: he h a d seen it c o m i n g quite as soon as M r . Spence. H e k n e w that fate was h a n d i n g h i m an u l t i m a t u m ; but the sense of the formidable echo w h i c h his least an­ swer w o u l d rouse kept h i m doggedly, a n d almost helplessly, silent. T o let M r . Spence talk on as long as possible was no doubt the best way of g a i n i n g t i m e ; but M i l l n e r k n e w that his silence was really due to his dread of the echo. Suddenly, however, i n a re­ action of impatience at his o w n indecision, he began to speak.

T h e s o u n d of his voice cleared his m i n d a n d strengthened his resolve. It was o d d h o w the w o r d seemed to shape the act, though one k n e w h o w a n c i l l a r y it really was. A s he t a l k e d , it was as i f the globe h a d s w u n g a r o u n d , a n d he h i m s e l f were up­ right o n its axis, w i t h M r . Spence under­ neath, o n his h e a d . T h r o u g h the ensuing interchange of concise a n d r a p i d speech there sounded i n M i l l n e r ' s ears the refrain to w h i c h he h a d w a l k e d d o w n F i f t h A v e n u e after his first t a l k w i t h M r . S p e n c e : " I t ' s too easy—it's too easy—it's too easy." Y e s , it was even easier t h a n he h a d expected. H i s sensation was that of the s k i l f u l carver w h o feels his good blade s i n k i n t o a tender joint. A s he went on t a l k i n g , this surprised sense of mastery was l i k e w i n e i n his veins. M r . Spence was at his m e r c y , after a l l — that was w h a t it came to; b u t this new view of the case d i d not lessen M i l l n e r ' s sense of M r . Spence's strength, it merely revealed to h i m his o w n s u p e r i o r i t y . M r . Spence was even stronger t h a n he h a d sus­ pected. T h e r e c o u l d be n o better proof of that t h a n his faith i n M i l l n e r ' s p o w e r to grasp the situation, a n d his tacit recognition of the y o u n g m a n ' s right to m a k e the most of it. M i l l n e r felt that M r . Spence w o u l d have despised h i m even m o r e for not using his advantage t h a n for not seeing i t ; and this homage to his c a p a c i t y n e r v e d h i m to greater alertness, a n d m a d e the c o n c l u d i n g moments of their talk as p h y s i c a l l y exhila­ rating as some h o t l y contested game. W h e n the c o n c l u s i o n was reached, and M i l l n e r stood at the goal, the g o l d e n trophy i n his grasp, his first conscious thought was one of regret that the struggle was over. H e w o u l d have l i k e d to p r o l o n g their talk for the p u r e l y aesthetic pleasure of m a k i n g M r . Spence lose time, a n d , better still, of m a k i n g h i m forget that he was losing it. T h e sense of advantage that the situation conferred was so great that w h e n M r . Spence rose it was as i f M i l l n e r were dis­ missing h i m , a n d w h e n he r e a c h e d his hand t o w a r d the c i g a r - b o x it seemed to be one of M i l l n e r ' s cigars that he was t a k i n g . IV T H E R E h a d been o n l y one c o n d i t i o n at­ tached to the t r a n s a c t i o n : M i l l n e r was to speak to D r a p e r about the B i b l e Class.

T h e Blond Beast T h e c o n d i t i o n was easy to fulfil. Mill­ ner was confident of his power to deflect his y o u n g friend's purpose; a n d he k n e w the o p p o r t u n i t y w o u l d be g i v e n h i m before the day was over. H i s professional duties despatched, he h a d o n l y to go u p to his room to wait. D r a p e r nearly always l o o k e d i n on h i m for a m o m e n t before d i n n e r : it was the h o u r most propitious to their e l l i p ­ tic interchange of words a n d silences. M e a n w h i l e , the w a i t i n g was a n o c c u p a ­ tion i n itself. M i l l n e r l o o k e d about his room w i t h new eyes. Since the first t h r i l l of i n i t i a t i o n into its c o m p l i c a t e d c o m ­ forts—the shower-bath, the telephone, the many-jointed r e a d i n g - l a m p a n d the vast mirrored presses t h r o u g h w h i c h he was always h u n t i n g his scant o u t f i t — M i l l n e r ' s room h a d interested h i m no more t h a n a railway-carriage i n w h i c h he m i g h t have been travelling. B u t n o w it h a d a c q u i r e d a sort of historic significance as the witness of the astounding change i n his fate. It was C o r s i c a , it was B r i e n n e — i t was the k i n d of spot that posterity m i g h t yet m a r k with a tablet. T h e n he reflected that he should soon be l e a v i n g it, a n d the lustre of its m o n u m e n t a l m a h o g a n y was veiled i n pathos. W h y i n d e e d s h o u l d he linger on i n bondage ? H e perceived w i t h a cer­ tain surprise that the o n l y t h i n g he s h o u l d regret w o u l d be l e a v i n g D r a p e r . . . .

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point of h o n o u r between allies. A n d M i l l ­ ner h a d p r o m i s e d M r . Spence to speak to D r a p e r about his B i b l e Class. . . . D r a p e r , t h r o w n b a c k i n his chair, a n d s w i n g i n g a loose leg across a meagre knee, listened w i t h his h a b i t u a l gravity. H i s downcast eyes seemed to pursue the v i s i o n w h i c h M i l l n e r ' s words e v o k e d ; a n d the words, to their speaker, took o n a n e w sound as that c a n d i d consciousness refract­ ed them. " Y o u k n o w , dear boy, I perfectly see your father's point. It's n a t u r a l l y distress­ ing to h i m , at this p a r t i c u l a r time, to have any hint of c i v i l war leak out " D r a p e r sat u p r i g h t , l a y i n g his l a n k legs knee to knee. " T h a t ' s it, then? I thought that was it!" M i l l n e r raised a surprised glance. "What's i t ? " " T h a t it s h o u l d be at this p a r t i c u l a r time " " W h y , naturally, as I say! Just as he's m a k i n g , as it were, his p u b l i c profession of faith. Y o u k n o w , to m e n like your father convictions are irreducible elements—they can't be split up, a n d differently c o m b i n e d . A n d your exegetical scruples seem to h i m to strike at the very root of his c o n v i c ­ tions." D r a p e r p u l l e d himself to his feet a n d shuffled across the r o o m . T h e n he t u r n e d about, a n d stood before his friend. " I s it that—or is it t h i s ? " he s a i d ; a n d w i t h the w o r d he drew a letter from his pocket a n d proffered it silently to M i l l n e r . T h e latter, as he u n f o l d e d it, was first aware of an intense surprise at the y o u n g m a n ' s abruptness of tone a n d gesture. U s u a l l y D r a p e r fluttered l o n g about his point before m a k i n g i t ; a n d his sudden movement seemed as m e c h a n i c a l as the i m p u l s i o n conveyed b y some strong spring. T h e spring, of course, was i n the letter; a n d to it M i l l n e r t u r n e d his startled glance, feeling the while that, b y some curious cleavage of perception, he was c o n t i n u i n g to w a t c h D r a p e r while he read.

It was o d d , it was inconsequent, it was almost exasperating, that such a regret should obscure his t r i u m p h . W h y i n the world s h o u l d he suddenly take to regretting D r a p e r ? If there were any logic i n h u m a n likings, it s h o u l d be to M r . Spence that he inclined. D r a p e r , dear l a d , h a d the i l l u ­ sion of an " i n t e l l e c t u a l s y m p a t h y " be­ tween t h e m ; but that, M i l l n e r k n e w , was an affair of r e a d i n g a n d not of character. D r a p e r ' s temerities w o u l d always be of that k i n d ; whereas his o w n — w e l l , his o w n , put to the proof, h a d n o w definitely classed h i m with M r . Spence rather t h a n w i t h M r . Spence's son. It was a consequence of this new c o n d i t i o n — o f his h a v i n g thus dis­ tinctly a n d i r r e v o c a b l y classed himself— that, w h e n D r a p e r at length b r o u g h t u p o n " O h , the beasts!" he cried. the scene his shy s h a m b l e a n d his wistful H e a n d D r a p e r were face to face across smile, M i l l n e r , for the first time, h a d to the sheet w h i c h h a d d r o p p e d between t h e m . steel himself against t h e m instead of y i e l d ­ T h e youth's features were tightened b y a ing to their c h a r m . smile that was l i k e the ligature of a w o u n d . H e l o o k e d white a n d withered. In the new order u p o n w h i c h he h a d en­ " A h — y o u knew, t h e n ? " tered, one p r i n c i p l e of the o l d s u r v i v e d : the

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Millner sat still, and after a moment Draper turned from him, walked to the hearth, and leaned against the chimney, propping his chin on his hands. Millner, his head thrown back, stared up at the ceiling, which had suddenly become to him the image of the universal soundingboard hanging over his consciousness. " Y o u knew, then?" Draper repeated. Millner remained silent. He had per­ ceived, with the surprise of a mathematician working out a new problem, that the lie which M r . Spence had just bought of him was exactly the one gift he could give of his own free will to M r . Spence's son. This discovery gave the world a strange new topsy-turvyness, and set Millner's theories spinning about his brain like the cabin fur­ niture of a tossing ship. " Y o u knew" said Draper, in a tone of quiet affirmation. Millner righted himself, and grasped the arms of his chair as if that too were reeling. "About this blackguardly charge?" Draper was studying him intently. " What does it matter if it's blackguardly ? " " M a t t e r — ? " Millner stammered. "It's that, of course, in any case. But the point is whether it's true or not." Draper bent down, and picking up the crumpled letter, smoothed it out between his fingers. " T h e point, is, whether my father, when he was publicly denouncing the peonage abuses on the San Pablo plan­ tations over a year ago, had actually sold out his stock, as he announced at the time; or whether, as they say here—how do they put it?—he had simply transferred it to a dummy till the scandal should blow over, and has meanwhile gone on drawing his forty per cent interest on five thousand shares? There's the point." Millner had never before heard his young friend put a case with such unadorned pre­ cision. His language was like that of M r . Spence making a statement to a committee meeting; and the resemblance to his father flashed out with ironic incongruity. " Y o u see why I've brought this letter to you—I couldn't go to him with i t ! " Dra­ per's voice faltered, and the resemblance vanished as suddenly as it had appeared. " N o ; you couldn't go to him with i t , " said Millner slowly. " A n d since they say here that you know: that they've got your letter proving i t — "

T h e muscles of Draper's face quivered as if a blinding light had been swept over it. " F o r God's sake, Millner—it's all right?" " It's all right," said Millner, rising to his feet. Draper caught him by the wrist. " You're sure—you're absolutely sure ? " " Sure. They know they've got nothing to go on." Draper fell back a step and looked al­ most sternly at his friend. " Y o u know that's not what I mean. I don't care a straw what they think they've got to go on. I want to know if my father's all right. If he is, they can say what they please." Millner, again, felt himself under the concentrated scrutiny of the ceiling. " Of course, of course. I understand." " Y o u understand ? T h e n why don't you answer?" Millner looked compassionately at the boy's struggling face. Decidedly, the bat­ tle was to the strong, and he was not sorry to be on the side of the legions. But Draper's pain was as awkward as a ma­ terial obstacle, as something that one stum­ bled over in a race. " Y o u know what I ' m driving at, M i l l ­ ner." Again M r . Spence's committeemeeting tone sounded oddly through his son's strained voice. " I f my father's so awfully upset about my giving up my Bible Class, and letting it be known that I do so on conscientious grounds, is it because he's afraid it may be considered a criticism on something he has done which—which won't bear the test of the doctrines he believes in?" Draper, with the last question, squared himself in front of Millner, as if suspecting that the latter meant to evade it by flight. But Millner had never felt more disposed to stand his ground than at that moment. " N o — b y Jove, no! It's not that." His relief almost escaped him in a cry, as he lifted his head to give back Draper's look. " O n your h o n o u r ? " the other passion­ ately pressed him. " O h , on anybody's you like—on yours!" Millner could hardly restrain a laugh of re­ lief. It was vertiginous to find himself spared, after all, the need of an altruistic lie: he perceived that they were the kind he least liked. Draper took a deep breath. " Y o u don't — M i l l n e r , a lot depends on this—you don't

T h e Blond Beast really t h i n k m y father has any ulterior motive?" " I think he has none b u t his h o r r o r of seeing y o u go straight to p e r d i t i o n ! " T h e y l o o k e d at each other again, and D r a p e r ' s tension was suddenly relieved by a free boyish l a u g h . " I t ' s his convictions —it's just his funny o l d convictions ? " "It's that, a n d n o t h i n g else o n e a r t h ! " D r a p e r turned b a c k to the a r m - c h a i r he had left, a n d let his n a r r o w figure sink down into it as into a b a t h . T h e n he l o o k e d over at M i l l n e r w i t h a smile. " I can sec that I've been w o r r y i n g h i m h o r r i b l y . So he really t h i n k s I ' m o n the r o a d to p e r d i ­ tion ? O f course y o u c a n fancy what a sick minute I h a d w h e n I thought it m i g h t be this other reason—the d a m n a b l e i n s i n u a ­ tion i n this letter." D r a p e r c r u m p l e d the paper i n his h a n d , a n d leaned f o r w a r d to toss it into the coals of the grate. " I ought to have k n o w n better, of course. I ought to have remembered that, as y o u say, m y father can't conceive h o w conduct m a y be independent of creed. T h a t ' s where I was stupid—and rather base. B u t that letter made me d i z z y — I c o u l d n ' t t h i n k . E v e n now I can't very clearly. I ' m not sure what my convictions require of m e : they seem to me so m u c h less to be considered than his! W h e n I've done half the good to people that he has, it w i l l be time enough to begin at­ tacking their beliefs. M e a n w h i l e — m e a n ­ while I can't touch his. . . . " Draper leaned forward, stretching his l a n k arms along his knees. H i s face was as clear as a spring sky. " I won't touch them, M i l l n e r — G o a n d tell h i m so. . . . "

V In the study a half h o u r later M r . Spence, watch i n h a n d , was d o l i n g out his minutes again. T h e peril conjured, he had recovered his d o m i n i o n over time. H e turned his c o m m a n d i n g eye-glasses o n Millner. " I t ' s a l l settled, then? Tell Draper I'm sorry not to see h i m a g a i n to-night—but I ' m to speak at the d i n n e r of the L e g a l Relief Association, a n d I ' m due there i n five minutes. Y o u a n d he dine alone here, I suppose? T e l l h i m I appreciate what he's done. Some d a y h e ' l l see that to leave the world better than we find it is the best we can hope to do. ( Y o u ' v e finished the notes

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for the Investigator ? B e sure y o u d o n ' t forget that phrase.) W e l l , good evening: that's a l l , I t h i n k . " S m o o t h a n d compact i n his glossy even­ i n g clothes, M r . Spence a d v a n c e d t o w a r d the study d o o r ; but as he reached it, his secretary stood there before h i m . " It's not quite a l l , M r . Spence." M r . Spence t u r n e d o n h i m a look i n w h i c h impatience was faintly tinged w i t h apprehension. " W h a t else is there? It's two a n d a half minutes to eight." M i l l n e r stood his g r o u n d . " It won't take longer than that. I want to tell y o u that, if y o u c a n conveniently replace me, I ' d like —there are reasons w h y I shall have to leave y o u . " M i l l n e r was conscious of reddening as he spoke. H i s redness deepened under M r . Spence's dispassionate scrutiny. H e saw at once that the b a n k e r was not surprised at his announcement. " W e l l , I suppose that's n a t u r a l enough. Y o u ' l l want to m a k e a start for yourself now. O n l y , of course, for the sake of ap­ pearances " " O h , c e r t a i n l y , " M i l l n e r hastily agreed. " W e l l , then: is that a l l ? " M r . Spence repeated. "Nearly." M i l l n e r paused, as i f i n search of a n appropriate f o r m u l a . B u t after a m o m e n t he gave up the search, a n d p u l l e d from his pocket a n envelope w h i c h he h e l d out to his employer. " I merely want to give this b a c k . " T h e h a n d w h i c h M r . Spence h a d ex­ tended d r o p p e d to his side, a n d his sandcoloured face grew c h a l k y . " G i v e it back?" H i s voice was as t h i c k as M i l l ­ ner's. " W h a t ' s happened ? Is the bar­ gain off?" " O h , no. I've given y o u m y w o r d . " "Your word?" M r . Spence l o w e r e d at h i m . " I ' d l i k e to k n o w what that's worth!" M i l l n e r c o n t i n u e d to h o l d out the en­ velope. " Y o u do k n o w , n o w . It's w o r t h that. It's w o r t h m y p l a c e . " M r . Spence, standing motionless before h i m , hesitated for a n appreciable space of time. H i s lips parted once or twice u n d e r their square-clipped stubble, a n d at last emitted: " H o w m u c h more do you want?" M i l l n e r b r o k e into a l a u g h . " O h , I've got a l l I w a n t — a l l a n d m o r e ! "

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"What—from the others? Are you crazy?" " N o , you are," said Millner with a sud­ den recovery of composure. " B u t you're safe—you're as safe as you'll ever be. Only I don't care to take this for making you so." M r . Spence slowly moistened his lips with his tongue, and removing his pincenez, took a long hard look at Millner.

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" I don't understand. What other guar­ antee have I g o t ? " " T h a t I mean what I s a y ? " Millner glanced past the banker's figure at his rich densely coloured background of Spanish leather and mahogany. H e remembered that it was from this very threshold that he had first seen M r . Spence's son. " W h a t guarantee? You've got Dra­ per!" he said.

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By C . A . Price empty tribute should'we pay our dead If tears were all the breaking heart could spare, If all the joys the years have harvested Vanish like fairy-gold and leave us bare, And all the brightness that Love's self has shed Change in a little hour and turn to dull despair! WHAT

How do we honor those whose years have run On light-foot youth, by downward countenance, Or praise, by shrinking from the morning sun, The eager souls who couched their hearts for lance And tilted for life's prizes to be won, Nor ever bade their courage wait upon their chance? Not so, not so; O, let it never be That all they were should perish from the earth; Shall we disown what they have left in fee, Their dauntless hope, their springing love and mirth? That wealth is all our own; base heirs are we If it escheat to heaven, while we bewail our dearth. Then, if the heart must break, it will be stored With all most precious things, all savors sweet, A l l bitterness distilled into a hoard Of sacred joy, for offering not unmeet; Ae Mary, when her box before the L o r d She broke, and spilled the myrrh and spikenard at H i s feet.

A black column of smoke poured from ihe funnel of the Dauntless, and the race for life began.—Page 316.

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CUBA AS A BY

FILIBUSTER

FREDERICK

FUNSTON

Brigadier-General, U . S. A r m y ILLUSTRATIONS

H A P P E N E D to be in New York City in 1896, and one e v e n i n g in the spring or early summer was strolling past Madison Square Garden, and impelled by curiosity dropped in to see the Cuban Fair then in progress. This fair, promoted by resident Cubans and American sympathizers with the cause of Cuban independence, was held ostensibly for the purpose of raising funds for the purchase of hospital supplies for the insurgent forces in the field, but a subsequent acquaintance with what was being done on the distracted Island justifies a suspicion that more of the money was expended for dynamite and cartridges than for quinine and bandages. The principal attraction at the fair on the occasion of my visit was a fiery and eloquent VOL. XLVIII.—29

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speech by Gen. Daniel E . Sickles, well known to be one of the most valued friends of the Cubans in their struggle, Since the outbreak of the insurrection I had taken considerable interest in its progress, and had indulged myself in a vague sort of idea that I would like to take part in it, I fear as much from a love of adventure and a desire to see some fighting as from any more worthy motive. Of course, I shared the prevailing sympathy of my countrymen with the Cubans, and believed their cause a worthy one. Whatever doubts I may previously have had on the expediency of mixing up in the rows of other people vanished after hearing General Sickles's speech, and I returned to my room that evening with my mind made up and spent a sleepless night, as befits one who has just determined on going to his first war. 305

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T h e next m o r n i n g , without credentials of any k i n d , I presented myself at the office of the C u b a n J u n t a at 56 N e w Street, a n d i n ­ q u i r e d if I c o u l d see M r . P a l m a , but d i d n o t succeed i n d o i n g so. M r . Zayas, one of the attaches of the J u n t a , took me in h a n d a n d was most courteous, but assured me that they were sending n o A m e r i c a n s to C u b a , a n d were confining their efforts i n this country to r a i s i n g funds a n d d o i n g what they c o u l d to direct public sentiment in favor of their compatriots. I have since often wondered how I could have been so guileless as to expect them to receive me, a total stranger, w i t h open arms. I c o u l d have been a fugitive from justice seeking a hiding-place, a worthless adventurer, cr, worst of a l l , a spy i n Spanish pay. It was evident that different tactics must be tried. T h r o u g h a m u t u a l friend I obtained a letter of introduction to G e n e r a l Sickles, and the next d a y called on the one-legged o l d vet­ eran at his residence, a n d not only h a d a most pleasant chat w i t h h i m , but left w i t h a personal note to M r . P a l m a i n w h i c h the G e n e r a l stated that, though he d i d not k n o w me personally, he felt justified i n vouching for me on the strength of the letter I had brought h i m . B a c k to the J u n t a w i t h ­ out loss of time, and now it was different. I was admitted without delay to the office of the k i n d l y faced, honest old patriot w h o afterward became the first president of free C u b a . M r . P a l m a asked me if I h a d h a d any military experience a n d was told that I had not, but h a d read considerably along military lines a n d felt that I had it i n me to make good. A question as to my k n o w l ­ edge of Spanish brought out the fact that I h a d a fair reading but not a speaking acquaintance w i t h that language. M r . . P a l m a then stated that in order as m u c h as possible to avoid violating the neutrality laws of the U n i t e d States the C u b a n s c o u l d not receive applicants into their service i n this country, but that I could be sent d o w n on one of the first expeditions, a n d might, after m y arrival, offer m y services to what­ ever insurgent chief in the field I desired. M y urbane but n o n - c o m m i t t a l friend of the day before, M r . Zayas, was n o w sent for a n d I was turned over to h i m . T h i s gentleman took m y address a n d told me that as it was impossible to entrust the secrets regarding the sailing of filibus­ tering expeditions to any one, I must not

expect to be i n f o r m e d as to w h e n I c o u l d leave, but must possess m y s o u l i n patience u n t i l sent for. I n the m e a n t i m e I was to c a l l at the J u n t a once a week. O n one of these visits M r . Z a y a s told me that the C u ­ bans were h a v i n g indifferent success w i t h their artillery i n the field, largely because their people d i d not seem to k n o w h o w to handle the guns, a n d suggested that if I were to acquire some k n o w l e d g e o n that subject before sailing it m i g h t a d d to my w'elcome. T h i s struck me f a v o r a b l y , as my father h a d been a n artillery officer i n the C i v i l W a r , a n d I h a d been b r o u g h t u p on stories of fierce struggles in w h i c h the o l d brass N a p o l e o n s of that d a y h a d done their part. M y o w n artillery experience con­ sisted i n once h a v i n g seen a salute fired to President H a y e s at a c o u n t r y fair i n K a n ­ sas. T h e result of M r . Z a y a s ' s suggestion was that I took a note f r o m h i m to the firm of H a r t l e y & G r a h a m , the a r m s dealers from w h o m the C u b a n s p u r c h a s e d their implements of w a r , a n d h a d e x p l a i n e d to me by one of their experts the mysteries of the H o t c h k i s s twelve-pounder breech-load­ ing rifle, a n d was allowed to fondle that ugly l o o k i n g instrument of death to m y heart's content a n d take it apart a n d put it to­ gether again. A b o o k of instructions as to its use a n d a lot of f o r m i d a b l e tables of velocities at various ranges, etc., I a l l but c o m m i t t e d to m e m o r y . M y keen interest i n this n e w subject so pleased M r . Zayas that he suggested that I i m p a r t some of my valuable lore to some of his c o u n t r y m e n in N e w Y o r k w h o were p r e s u m a b l y w a i l i n g in feverish anxiety for the s a i l i n g of the next expedition. T h i s I agreed to do, though it struck me as a somewhat indiscreet per­ formance i n a city where C u b a n s were closely watched b y S p a n i s h spies, and where there were i n n u m e r a b l e enterprising reporters l o o k i n g for " s c o o p s . " But I kept m y feelings to myself, a n d a few even­ ings later was c o n d u c t e d b y one of the attaches of the J u n t a to a s m a l l h a l l over a saloon, w e l l up on T h i r d A v e n u e . A l l but a few of the lights were t u r n e d off a n d the w i n d o w shades were w e l l d r a w n . H e r e we found about fifteen C u b a n s , callow youths in the m a i n , the most of them I judged being students. T h e s e aspiring patriots chattered l i k e magpies a n d s m o k e d the most astounding n u m b e r of cigarettes. I n a d d i t i o n to this p r o m i s i n g m a t e r i a l ,

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there were in the room several large and imposing-looking crates labelled "machin­ ery." These were opened and turned out to be the various parts of a Hotchkiss twelve-pounder. M y recently acquired knowledge, what there was of it, now be­ came of use, and the gun was set up and taken apart a dozen times, and the breech mechanism, sights, and ammunition ex­ plained. As this gun is transported in sec­ tions on mule back, as well as dragged by •a shaft, the various heavy pieces were lifted up to the height of an imaginary or "theo­ retical" mule and then let down again, a form of calisthenics that soon palled on the embryo artillerymen, the night being hot and the room close. Several times the pieces were allowed to fall to the floor with •a noise that should have aroused the block, and I spent a good bit of time figuring out how I would explain to the police, if they

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came to investigate, what I was doing with such warlike paraphernalia in peaceful New York. But we were not molested and for a month, once a week, went through this performance. But it was wasted effort. Whether any of these young men ever reached the Island to participate in the war, I do not know, but certain it is that there was not one of them in the artil­ lery command of the "Departamento del Oriente," the only one that did any serious work with artillery during the struggle. But it was different with the gun that we trun­ dled and knocked about on those hot sum­ mer nights above that T h i r d Avenue saloon, for it had its baptism in that hell of Mauser fire at Cascorra, where it was served within two hundred yards of a trench full of Span­ iards, until human endurance could stand the strain no longer, and the gun was dragged backward into a ravine by the sur307

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vivors of the detachment. A n d later at Guaimaro, Winchester Dana Osgood, Cornell's famous foot-ball player, fell across its trail, shot through the brain. It helped to batter down the stone fort at Jiguani and took part in the duel with the Krupp bat­ tery at Victoria de las Tunas, and I under­ stand now rests in the Havana Arsenal and

enal speed in getting out of the way. The explosions of its nitro-gelatine loaded shells threw water and spray a hundred feet in air. Nearly a year and a half later I saw one of these guns, possibly the same one, at Victoria de las Tunas, reduce block­ houses and stone barracks to heaps of rub­ bish, wreck a K r u p p eight centimeter field-

The freight cars were opened, we took off our coats and went to work.—Page 313.

is pointed out to visitors as one of the relics of the War of Independence. Veri­ ly, the old gun had a career not to be ashamed of. A n interesting incident of the summer was a trip with several members of the Junta to the coast of Long Island to see a demonstration of the working of the newly invented Sims-Dudley dynamite gun; an instrument that looked more like a tele­ scope on wheels than an implement of war. This gun was fired several times out to sea, to the evident consternation of an excur­ sion boat which made the most pnenom-

piece, and terrify hundreds of Spanish regulars into surrender. So the summer wore along, but one after­ noon in August came the fateful telegram, and after all these years I can quote its every word, " B e at Cortland Street Ferry at 7 p. M . , ready to leave the C i t y . " M y trunk was hastily packed and left behind, and with a few belongings in a small valise, and, I must acknowledge, with some sink­ ing of the heart, I made my way to the ferry accompanied by an old friend of col­ lege days. Here I met M r . Zayas and by him was introduced to a M r . Pagluchi, a

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ford were chums, careless, go-lucky young fellows; the former was terribly wounded at Desmayo, having both legs shattered, and spent nearly a year on his back in a " b u s h " hospital. He remained in Cuba after the war, and now lives in Camaguey. Of the final fate of Welsford and Walinski I know nothing. On the ferry-boat the five of us tried to

Fortunately, the carry was down hil.—Page 313. Huntington, a fine-looking Canadian of sol­ dierly bearing, who had served in the Northwest Mounted Police; Walinski, an Englishman of Polish descent; Welsford, a young man from New Jersey, and Arthur Potter, a former English marine soldier who had lived in the United States for several years. Huntington was one of the bravest men I ever knew, being, in fact, absolutely reckless. He served with dis­ tinction in the Cascorra and Guaimaro campaigns, and was finally killed in a fight with Spanish guerillas, his body falling into the hands of the enemy. Potter and Wels-

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appease our boundless curiosity as to w here we were bound by attempts to extract in­ formation from Pagluchi, but without suc­ cess, as it was evident that one of the things that individual was paid for was keeping his own counsel, and he fully justified the confidence reposed in him by the Junta. He kept our tickets in his possession and said we would know all in due time. A t Jersey City we took berths in a sleeper on the Pennsylvania, early the next morning passed through Washington, and in the fulness of time reached Charleston, South Carolina, where we were conducted to a

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O v e r b o a r d we went . . . c a u g h t the boat b y its sides, a n d r a n u p onto the b e a c h with it o n the next w a v e . — P a g e 315.

T o Cuba as a Filibuster hotel, and found among the guests about thirty Cubans, well-dressed, superior-look­ ing men, standing about in little groups, conversing in low tones, and worried about something. I recognized among others, Gen. Emilio Nunez, afterward governor of the province of Havana under the ad­ ministration of President Palma, whom I had met at the office of the Junta, and by whom I was introduced to Gen. Rafael Cabrera, a kindly and considerate old gen­ tleman who was one of the veterans of the Ten Years' War, and who had lived in exile since its close. He was now returning to renew the struggle of younger days, but to lose his life without seeing the realization of his hopes. Among other guests of the hotel were some fifteen or twenty well-groomed, quietappearing men whom we were at once warned against having anything to do with, as they were operatives of a well-known detective agency in the employ of the Span­ ish minister at Washington, with the excep­ tion of a few who were said to be United States Secret Service men or United States deputy marshals. It was the duty of these men to learn what they could as to our in­ tentions in order that they might give to the proper authorities the information neces­ sary to enable them to seize the vessel on which we were to sail. They had had no success with the wary Cubans, but their eyes brightened when they saw Pagluchi's five wards, and they lost little time in trying to get acquainted. T w o of them took me in hand and suggested that there was noth­ ing like a mint julep to make one forget Charleston's August climate. But I told them I was from Kansas, whereupon they suggested an ice-cream soda; there was a place a few blocks distant where were con­ cocted cooling drinks that were the talk of the town. Would I not stroll down there ? It was difficult to shake them off without retiring to my room and sweltering in the terrific heat. Finally, Huntington saw my plight, and coming over very genially offered to thrash both of them if they did not leave me alone. This had the desired effect. Our curiosity as to how and when we were to reach Cuba was not yet satisfied. It was known that the steamer Commodore, famous as a filibuster, was lying in Charles­ ton harbor closely watched by a revenue-

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cutter. She had been searched for arms, but none were found on board, and, as she carried no persons besides her crew and her papers were correct, there was no jus­ tification for her seizure. The vessel was merely under surveillance, and the arrival of the parties of Cubans in Charleston had added much to the importance of watching her. As will be shown later, the Commo­ dore was merely there as a blind, and served her purpose Well. O n the afternoon of the day following our arrival the Cubans, carrying their hand baggage, began to leave the hotel in little groups, each followed by one or more "sleuths." About half past three Pag­ luchi told his flock to come with him, and we made our way to the station of the Plant Line system of railways, where we found one of the regular trains about to leave. We were conducted to the rear car of the train, a day coach, where we found the C u ­ bans who had preceded us from the hotel. Several of the detectives who attempted to secure seats in this car were told that it was a special chartered by a party of excursion­ ists, and that we would be obliged to deny ourselves the pleasure of their company. So they found seats in the car ahead, and in due time the train pulled out of the station. As to the destination of the train to which our car was for the time being attached, I cannot say, but I know that we pounded along over the rails at a fair rate of speed until some time late at night, when we stopped at an obscure station in the woods; a locomotive backed up to our car from a siding, the car was quickly and quietly uncoupled from the train, which then pro­ ceeded on its way, while our car with its engine flew back on the track a few miles, was switched onto another line, and sped along for hours without making more than the few absolutely necessary stops. From a special car we had grown to be a special train, a small one, it is true, but none the less a special. The whole plan for escaping the men following us and throwing them entirely off the scent had been thought out by M r . Fritot, the Charleston agent of the Plant Line, and worked to perfection. We had many a chuckle over the chagrin that must have been felt by our attentive men­ tors when they found how neatly they had been "sacked."

Drawn F. C. Yohn. An almost ideal natural gun-pit was found near the beach.—Page 316.

T o Cuba as a Filibuster Just after sunrise we came to a stop at a little station in a region of pine woods. There was a small station building and possibly one or two other houses, and a good-sized sluggish river crossed by the railway bridge, under which lay a big tug, the Dauntless, soon to become famous as the most successful filibuster in the Cuban service, now making her first essay in the ex­ citing work of dodging American revenuecutters and outrunning Spanish gun-boats. On a siding near the river bank were three large freight cars, supposed to contain saw­ mill machinery, arrived two days before from New York. There was no longer any occasion for secrecy, and we were informed that the station was Woodbine, on the ex­ treme south-eastern coast of Georgia, the river was the Satilla, the freight cars were laden with arms and ammunition, and the panting tug in the river was to carry us to Cuba. We alighted from the cars, stretched our cramped limbs, and looked over our surroundings with no little interest. Our engine and car pulled out, and the engineer, who evidently suspected that he was help­ ing to make history, called out, "Good-by and good luck, don't let them Spanions git you." We were served with a hasty break­ fast of strong coffee and hard bread from the Dauntless, the freight cars were opened, we took off our coats and went to work, and work it was. The forenoon was sultry and the boxes heavy, but fortunately the carry was down hill and we returned up the river empty-handed. There were many among the thirty-five of us who had never done a stroke, of manual labor in their lives, but we five were not in that class. Never­ theless, we were heartily glad when the task was over, and all felt that we had qualified for membership in the freight handlers' union. In five hours there had been transferred to the hold of the Daunt­ less the Hotchkiss twelve-pounder, with its pack-saddles and other gear, and 800 shells, 1,300 Mauser and Remington rifles, 100 revolvers, 1,000 cavalry machetes, 800 pounds of dynamite, several hundred sad­ dles, half a ton of medical stores, and 460,000 rounds of small arms-ammuni­ tion. In truth, the Madison Square Gar­ den fair for the raising of funds for the purchase of "hospital supplies" had evi­ dently been a howling success. I can tes­ tify that the cargo of the Dauntless put VOL. X L V I I L —

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many a man in the hospital for every one it took out. It was about noon when we were ready to cast off, and the Dauntless, giving several defiant toots, as if in exultation, slipped down the river toward the sea. O n the bridge was her master, Capt. John O'Brien, a noted filibuster, usually known by the honorary title of " D y n a m i t e " O'Brien, from some incident connected with one of the Central American or West Indian revolutions that he had been mixed up in. Blockade running was an old story with him, even before the Cuban insurrec­ tion, and during that war he had safely conducted a number of expeditions to the Cuban coast. He was an ideal man for the perilous business, cool and resourceful, and a splendid seaman. A n d all of these quali­ fications were needed for filibustering in this particular war, for if there was one thing well understood it was that every member of one of these expeditions if captured by the Spaniards would get the shortest shrift possible to give him. The Spaniards do not fight revolutions with rose-water, and maybe they are right. Consequently, fili­ bustering in those days was grim and ter­ rible business, fit occupation for lionhearted men. Insurrections with their attendant blockade running are not so fre­ quent as in the good times gone by. The industry is in the "dumps," and Captain O'Brien is now chief harbor pilot of H a ­ vana, the mild-mannered, thick-set man with iron-gray moustache who has con­ ducted many a one of you on a passenger steamer through the narrow entrance past Morro Castle. I saw him ten years later, when he came out to bring in the vessel on which I was a passenger at the time of the second intervention, and we had a good embrace in Cuban style in memory of our hazardous voyage of former years. H i s present occupation must seem to him as tame as raising chickens. Pagluchi had long before turned over his five members of the expedition to General Cabrera, doubtless glad to be rid of us, and was now in charge of the engines of the Dauntless. The crew consisted of just crew, and they look alike the world over. It seemed rather a shame to run these men, who probably did not know what they were doing, up against the chance of being blown out of the water by a Spanish gun-

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boat or of being lined up against that fa­ mous wall at the Cabanas fortress, the scene of so many pitiful tragedies. In a short time we were out of the river and on the Atlantic. A sharp lookout was kept before getting well out to sea, but not a wisp of smoke was in sight. As a part of the game to give us a clear field, the Commodore had left Charleston the evening before and steamed north, followed by the revenue-cutter, fi­ nally putting into Hampton Roads. So there was no danger to be apprehended from that particular vessel. Now followed four days of rolling and pitching on the broad swells of the Atlantic. How small and inconse­ quential the little Dauntless seemed on that wild waste of waters. She could have made the passage in two days but for the necessity of economizing her supply of coal for the return trip to some United States port, and to have enough fuel to enable her to speed up and make a run for life if the occasion arose. Always a victim to seasickness, even under the most favorable circumstances, I can never forget those four days of suffer­ ing as the little steamer labored through the sea, rolling and pitching, our only home, the deck, swept from time to time by clouds of spray, with an occasional wave for good measure. We lay about day after day in our water-soaked blankets, getting such snatches of sleep as we could, and now and then staggering to the rail to make the required contribution to Neptune. We certainly were as unhappy and as unheroiclooking a lot of adventurers as ever trusted themselves to the sea. O n the afternoon of August 16 we were told that we were approaching the north­ east coast of Cuba. The wind and sea now moderated somewhat, and the worn and harassed filibusters began to come to life. A l l realized that this was the most critical period in our voyage, as the coast was pa­ trolled by gun-boats and armed launches, and capture meant death, swift and inev­ itable. We five had among ourselves talked over such a possibility, and it was pretty well understood that if worst came to worst we were to take Kipling's advice,

ing patriots in N e w Y o r k , was now un­ packed and mounted on the deck forward, and several boxes of ammunition opened. This was a task of great difficulty, a gun on a field carriage mounted on the deck of a rolling vessel being about as dangerous to those serving it as to any possible target. But the brake ropes were adjusted, and the piece anchored as securely as possible by means of other ropes, the wheels being also blocked by timbers. T h e muzzle pointed over the port bow, and if a necessity had arisen to train the gun in any other direc­ tion it was intended to accomplish the pur­ pose by turning the vessel accordingly. As I was the only one on board who under­ stood this weapon, General Cabrera placed it in my charge, and I had my four com­ panions to assist in setting it up and in serv­ ing it in case of need. There were known to be two classes of vessels patrolling the Cuban coast, several gun-boats of rather low speed, and a considerable number of fast, large launches, each carrying a crew of about a dozen men, and armed with a Nordenfelt rapid fire gun of small calibre. It was intended, in case we encountered a gun-boat, to depend entirely on the speed of the Dauntless to escape, but if our an­ tagonist was a launch we were to let her get as close as possible and then open on her. We had no doubt that we could drive off any launch, and even hoped that we might frighten the crew into surrender. A tar­ paulin had been placed over the gun as soon as mounted, in order that it could not be seen until needed for action. It is inter­ esting to know that some months later, while attempting an expedition on the south coast of Cuba, the Dauntless had a gun mounted in this fashion and was pursued by an armed launch, whereupon she fired one shot, missing the target about half a mile, but the launch could hardly be seen for the spray she tore up in getting out of the way. This incident created much amusement, being spoken of as the first and only "naval battle" of the war.

We made out in time the low mangrovecovered coast, and could see far away the dim outline of the hills of the interior.' We " Just r o l l to your rifle and blow out your brains, stood on deck with beating hearts and A n d go to y o u r G o d like a s o l d i e r . " tense faces as the little steamer drew near But not without making a fight for it, for the inlet known as L a s Nuevas Grandes, a the Hotchkiss twelve-pounder, the same short distance east of the entrance to Nuegun at which I had drilled for the perspir­ vitas harbor, on the coast of the province of

T o Cuba as a Filibuster Puerto Principe or Camaguey. N o vessel was in sight, but we were troubled by the appearance from time to time of a bit of smoke along the shore line far to the east­ ward. A l l who were supplied with glasses kept them trained on that part of the hori­ zon. It was plain to be seen that Captain O'Brien and Generals Nunez and Cabrera were anxious, as they held several whis­ pered consultations on the bridge. The smoke might be from a fire on shore or from a vessel bound eastward, the latter suppo­ sition being in favor from the fact that it was not seen for the last half hour before darkness settled down over land and sea. As night came on we could plainly see the flashes of the Maternillos light to the west­ ward. A n d so, minute by minute, we drew nearer to our goal. A man was now taking soundings, and his voice and the throbbing of the engines were the only sounds that broke an oppressive silence. We five wouldbe Lafayettes and V o n Steubens were grouped about the gun on the bow; the weapon had been loaded and the primer in­ serted, and the only thing that remained to be done, in case a necessity arose, was to remove the tarpaulin, get her pointed in the general direction, and pull the lanyard. We were taking no chances on nervousness and confusion at a critical moment cheat­ ing us out of one shot, at least, in case an inquisitive launch should poke her nose around the point that we had now passed. If I must tell all, our teeth were chattering, and not from cold, but from the terrific strain and from trying to force ourselves to be calm and cool. Las Nuevas Grandes is merely an inden­ tation in the coast and in no sense a harbor, and when we were about half a mile from the surf the engines were stopped. The Dauntless carried two regular sea boats, but these were not used in landing our cargo. Instead, she had brought, piled up on her deck, eight broad, flat-bottomed skiffs, each with two pairs of oars and a steering oar. A seaman would scorn to be seen in such a craft, but they were quite well suited to an aggregation of land crabs like our­ selves, and owing to their flat bottoms could easily be hauled through a moderate surf. Each of us five "Americans," as we were called, to distinguish us from the C u ­ bans, was put in charge of a boat, while the others were intrusted to three of our Cuban

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fellow-voyagers. The boats were lowered by hand over the rail without difficulty, but once in the water pounded about in a way that was most disconcerting. The crew of the steamer went below deck and passed up the cargo, which was tossed into the boats with feverish haste, no attempt being made to stow it properly. As no one was now left on board to serve the gun, it was dis­ mounted and the various parts lowered, after much difficulty, into my boat. I was able to get away first, and with a crew of four at the oars pushed toward the surf, which, owing to the darkness, could not be seen, but was distinctly audible. About half-way to the shore we could dimly make out the line of breakers. Years before, I had had some pretty stiff surf work in Indian canoes on the Alaskan coast and thought I knew something on that subject, but the prospect before us was not alluring. The greatest drawback was the darkness, which made it impossible to see whatever rocks there might be, as well as to estimate the height or violence of the surf. But it was too late to turn back, and in we went. There was a lot of pitching and bucking, and a wave or two broke over us, but as soon as we struck, oars were dropped and overboard we went, up to our waists, caught the boat by its sides, and ran up onto the beach with it on the next wave. Fortunatelv, it was a perfectly clean, shelv­ ing, sandy beach, and we got through with nothing w orse than a superb ducking and a boat half full of water. The gun with its wheels and carriage was carried beyond reach of the tide and thrown down in the grass, and the boat overturned to get out the water it had shipped. Just as we were preparing to launch, in order to go for our next load, we heard excited voices near us, and knew that the second boat was coming in. We ran down the beach to assist, but arrived too late to be of service. The boat was caught on one quarter, turned broad­ side on, and hurled onto the beach. The air was literally full of Jesus Marias inter­ spersed with the impressive type of English cuss words, in the use of which one of my companions was no mean artist B u t the boat was dragged out, and the next day at low tide its cargo was recovered. Both boats were now launched and started on their return to the Dauntless. O n the way we met several others, and gave them the r

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information that the beach was a good one, but the surf troublesome. A l l lights on the steamer h a d , of course, been screened or extinguished, but a lighted lantern h a d been h u n g over the shore side for the purpose of g u i d i n g r e t u r n i n g boats. A s it was deemed inadvisable to b u i l d a fire on shore, there was n o guide i n that direction, w i t h the result that our cargo was scattered along about seven h u n d r e d yards of beach. So the w o r k went o n far into the night, an occasional boat upset­ ting, but without loss of life. L u c k i l y , the excitement kept away a l l feeling of fatigue or hunger. T h e w i n d was rising a n d the sky h a d become overcast, a n d there were occasional squalls of r a i n . M y boat was nearing the Dauntless for its sixth l o a d , when we heard an excited exclamation from the bridge, a n d saw to the n o r t h w a r d , over the mangrove bushes on the point, a peculiar white light sweeping the h o r i z o n . T h e steamer h a d not anchored, but was keeping her approximate position by means of her screw, a n d h a d h a d on a full head of steam ever since a p p r o a c h i n g the coast, ready to do her best i n case she h a d to r u n for it. A t this time two boats were l o a d i n g alongside, but their crews piled into them a n d pulled clear, under some sulphurous orders yelled d o w n from the bridge. T h e r e were a few tense moments in. w h i c h we lay on our oars a n d awaited developments. N e a r e r a n d nearer came that cursed light, but the vessel itself c o u l d not yet be located o w i n g to intervening l a n d . B u t there was n o time to lose, as to be caught i n this little pocket of a bay meant disaster. T h e en­ gine bell rang viciously, a b l a c k c o l u m n of smoke poured from the funnel of the Dauntless, a n d the race for life began. It was k n o w n that this c o u l d be no l a u n c h , as launches, at least those at that time i n the Spanish navy, do not carry search-lights, but must be a cruiser or a gun-boat of some size. T h e Dauntless p l u n g e d through the wat­ er, a n d for a couple of miles we c o u l d trace her by the smoke a n d sparks from her fun­ nel. I n order to clear the point she h a d to r u n straight out to sea, at first in the direction of the enemy. T h e search-light wavered here a n d there on the shore line a n d over the surface of the water, a n d fi­ n a l l y fell on the Dauntless. T h e r e was a painful moment for those of us w a t c h i n g ,

a n d then came the distant b o o m i n g of the guns; but finally these sounds d i e d away a n d both pursuer a n d p u r s u e d faded from sight. W i t h heavy hearts we r o w e d ashore, a n d the m e m b e r s of the e x p e d i t i o n gathered about the piles of cartridge boxes a n d b u n ­ dles of rifles on the beach, shivered i n their wet c l o t h i n g , a n d i n s u b d u e d tones, dis­ cussed the situation. A l l were present, but only about three-fourths of o u r cargo h a d been l a n d e d . O u r p o s i t i o n was not a n en­ viable one, as we felt m o r a l l y certain that the S p a n i a r d w o u l d r e t u r n after daylight a n d deal w i t h us. W e c o u l d , of course, escape into the b u s h , b u t a l l our war material w o u l d be c a p t u r e d . T h e hours dragged along, but finally m o r n i n g came a n d ushered i n a wind} a n d sodden day, the trees a n d grass d r i p p i n g moisture, a n d everything seemingly c o n s p i r i n g to depress our spirits a n d harass our w o r n bodies. O n the supposition that the gun-boat w o u l d honor us w i t h a visit d u r i n g the d a y , search was made as soon as it was l i g h t for a suit­ able position for the g u n , w i t h the intention of d o i n g our best to beat her off. A n almost ideal n a t u r a l gun-pit was f o u n d near the beach. I n some violent s t o r m a large log h a d been h u r l e d b e y o n d the o r d i n a r y hightide m a r k , a n d h a d fallen across the m o u t h of a little gully, where s a n d to the thickness of several feet h a d been b l o w n u p against it. T h e g u n was set u p i n the g u l l y , its muzzle p o i n t i n g over the l o g w h i c h served as a revetment for the sand. T h e position was most satisfactory, so far as protection was concerned, but h a d the disadvantage that the m u z z l e c o u l d not be depressed suf­ ficiently to use the piece at short range. F r o m fearing that the gun-boat w o u l d come i n , we n o w began to w o r r y lest it s h o u l d not. W e reasoned that the advantage was a l l on our side, as we h a d good protection a n d a steady p l a t f o r m , w h i c h the gun-boat c o u l d not have, the Dauntless having demon­ strated how a s m a l l vessel c o u l d r o l l on that shallow a n d exposed coast. W e would have a good clear target, w h i l e to h a r m us the gun-boat must m a k e hit o n the m u z z l e of the g u n , the o n l y p o r t i o n of it exposed. W e k n e w that she must be a n u n a r m o r e d vessel, a n d that our shells w o u l d r e a c h her vitals if our m a r k s m a n s h i p was e q u a l to the occasion. W e even c h u c k l e d as we thought of the possibility of a l u c k v shot d i s a b l i n g her m a c h i n e r y , after w h i c h we c o u l d delib-

T o Cuba as a Filibuster erately bombard her into a surrender and then go out to her in our small boats, thus beautifully turning the tables on our pur­ suer. In the meantime a fire had been built and coffee made and bacon broiled, and this with some hard bread refreshed all greatly. It was thought best to carry our tons of military stores, piled helter-skelter along the beach, to some place concealed from view, and this slavish task consumed the greater part of the forenoon. Advan­ tage was taken of low tide to recover those articles lost from the boats overturned in the surf on the previous night. Fortunately, boxes of cartridges and bundles of rifles are not easily swept out to sea, so that eventually the only shortage was one bundle of ten Remington rifles. The small armsammunition was not injured by its immer­ sion, the boxes being tin-lined, but several cases of cartridges for the twelve-pounder were practically ruined, as we were to learn to our cost at Cascorra a few weeks later. While carrying out these tasks many anxious glances were cast seaward, and about eleven o'clock a film of smoke was noticed far to the north. Closer and closer it came, until we could make out the hull of the vessel, but we were kept in a fever of uncertainty as to its identity. If we could have had a broadside view our doubts would have been dispelled. It was con­ sidered unlikely that the Dauntless would return, and if not that vessel it must be a gun-boat. The Cubans, armed with M a u ­ sers, were scattered in groups along the beach to resist a landing party, and we five went to our gun-pit, loaded the piece, and made all preparations to open the ball. Considering our excitement when in danger the night before, all were remarkably cool and self-possessed, which probably arose from our conviction that if the gun-boat came close enough to open fire with effect she was "our meat." I was already sight­ ing the gun and estimating the distance for a trial shot, when the vessel suddenly swung her broadside to, and we recognized the Dauntless. Captain O'Brien, fearing that we might use him as a target, had swung around purposely in order that we might identify the vessel. There was a wild run for the boats by all except a small guard left on shore, and we were soon out to the

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steamer. N o time was lost in landing the remainder of the cargo, a task of a couple of hours. As to the adventures of the past night, we were told that the Dauntless had led the gun-boat a straight chase to the north for several hours, and out-distancing her pursuer had finally made a wide cir­ cuit and come back to get rid of the re­ mainder of her cargo, being aided in her escape by the thick and squally weather. Months afterward we were informed, and I presume correctly, that the vessel that had given us such a close call was the torpedo gun-boat Galicia. It is almost certain that it was either the Galicia or the Jorge Juan, as they were said to be the only naval ves­ sels, other than launches, on that portion of the coast at the time of our landing. As the last boat load pulled away, the Dauntless, brave as her name, gave three defiant blasts from her whistle as a parting salute and steamed away, leaving us to our own devices on a strange and inhospitable coast. As we silently watched her fade from sight we realized that we had burned our bridges behind us and were in for the war. We made ourselves as comfortable as pos­ sible under the circumstances, keeping a lookout for any gun-boats that might drop in on us. It has always been a mystery to me why the Spaniards at Nuevitas were not informed as to our landing by the gun-boat that discovered us. A n expedition could have been sent against us with success at any time within the next four days. A l ­ though we could have kept a vessel off with our gun, fifty men landing out of its reach could have captured all our material, though we could have escaped into the jungle. It was, of course, impossible for thirty-five men to attempt to move our tons of impedi­ menta for any distance from the beach, and immediately after the final departure of the Dauntless, four men had been sent into the interior to get in touch with the rebel forces. Four anxious days passed, but finally a man was sighted coming along the beach, and two of our party went out to meet him. We heard them, when within calling distance, give the insurgent challenge, " Alto. Quien va ? " and the reply, " Cuba," and knew that the new arrival was a friend. The man was one of the scouts of the advance guard of General Capote's portion of M a x i m o Gomez's command. He was a ragged, un­ washed individual, armed with a Reming-

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ton rifle a n d machete, a n d was so g l a d to see us that he insisted on bestowing o n each one of us the abrazo, a f o r m of embrace m u c h in vogue in C u b a . I took m y m e d i ­ cine along w i t h the rest, but not w i t h notice­ able enthusiasm. Soon came the advance guard, a n d then the m a i n body, i n a l l six h u n d r e d men, w i t h a large n u m b e r of packanimals. It was too late i n the day to begin the m a r c h into the interior, but the next m o r n i n g a l l were on the move, every horse a n d m a n loaded to the l i m i t . B y nightfall we h a d covered thirty miles, a n d we new arrivals, being " s o f t , " were about done for. W e went into c a m p along a beautiful potrero, or pasture, w i t h about a thousand men under G e n e r a l M a x i m o G o m e z , w h o h a d m a r c h e d thither to meet us. Before m o r n i n g I h a d found i n this force four fel­ low-countrymen, W a l t e r M . Jones, a native of N e w Y o r k State, w h o h a d lived in C u b a for ten years, a n d w h o died after the war as chief of the harbor police of H a v a n a ; A r t h u r R o y a l Joyce, of South E g r e m o n t , M a s s . , who, a few weeks later, was to be terribly w o u n d e d i n the g r i m w o r k at C a s c o r r a ; W i l l i a m S m i t h , second i n c o m m a n d of G o m e z ' s personal escort, a n d James P e n [The

nie, of W a s h i n g t o n , D . C , w h o afterward h a d the d o u b t f u l pleasure of c o n t r i b u t i n g a leg to the cause of F r e e C u b a . W e sat late a r o u n d the c a m p fire that n i g h t , ex­ c h a n g i n g experiences w i t h these already seasoned campaigners. T h e next m o r n i n g I was presented b y G e n e r a l C a b r e r a to the grizzled a n d silent o l d chieftain, M a x i m o G o m e z , veteran of the T e n Y e a r s ' W a r , a n d h a d a good o p p o r t u n i t y to see some­ t h i n g of m y future c o m r a d e i n arms. It was a rather i m p r e s s i v e - l o o k i n g force, the m e n though very, very ragged, b e i n g well a r m e d a n d w e l l m o u n t e d . M u c h to my surprise, fully nine-tenths of t h e m were white m e n , w h i c h was a c c o u n t e d for b y the fact that these troops were r a i s e d i n C a m a ­ guey, w h i c h has a smaller percentage of Negroes than any other p r o v i n c e i n C u b a . L a t e r I was to see organizations f r o m the southern part of Santiago p r o v i n c e con­ sisting almost entirely of N e g r o e s , b u t take it t h r o u g h a n d t h r o u g h , there were m a n y more whites than b l a c k s i n the insurgent forces. T h e next m o r n i n g we were on the m a r c h , a n d i n due time we n e w a r r i v a l s h a d our first taste of w a r , b u t that is an­ other story.

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spirits on the rebound, her courage waving in her face, like the flag on a cit­ adel, she hesitated at noth­ ing. O n Chevenix's sugges­ tion that they must "play the game with Nevile," she told her be­ trothed what she proposed to do. He had raised his eyebrows, but said, " W h y not?" " I thought you didn't love each other," had been her answer, and he had re­ sponded: "Well, I have no reason to dislike him. In fact, he gave you to me, if you remem­ ber." He chuckled over the memory him­ self. "When the thing between us was at its reddest heat, your man came pelting up to me. He had seen you, it appears, and nothing would stop him. I never told you this tale, but you may as well have it now. The man's a lunatic, you know. What do you think he wanted ? How do you think he put it? A s thus: ' I loathe you, my dear man.' I'm giving you the substance. ' Y o u stand for everything I'm vowed to destroy; but I hope you'll marry her, and tie her to you for life.' That was his little plan. As you know, I couldn't oblige him. He thought I could!" She had been staring out of the window while he harangued from the hearth-rug, his favorite post in a room. A t this time she had no eyes but for the Open Country, or what of it could be seen over the chim­ ney-pots. But at those last words, she did turn and look at him. " W h y did he think you could?" It was for Ingram then to stare. " W h y did he think so? M y dear, I ' l l tell you

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why no sane man would have thought so, if you insist. He thought that as I had lived alone ever since Claire bolted, I could get a divorce. That's what he thought." Sanchia pondered his reply, facing the window again. Ingram fidgeted, with his hands in his pockets. " Men don't live like that," he said. Sanchia did not move. More as if it were to satisfy herself than to credit him, she said, to the window and street beyond it, " I wonder that he didn't remember that you would never drag any one into notoriety whom you had once— loved." Ingram grinned. " A s your man Glyde tried to drag you, my dear! Well, that's one way of ac­ counting for old Senhouse, certainly. I don't know that that would have stood in the light, after the way she behaved. Noto­ riety! She managed that for herself." " T h e n — " she began, but did not finish. She stopped, looked sharply about her, out of window, across the room, seemed to be listening to something, or for something. Then she said, " I see." For the rest of the evening she was very quiet, burning in a hidden fire. Here was Saturday, and to-morrow she should see him again—the man who had loved her so much that he had never kissed her. Love such as that, rendered in kisses, was unthinkable. She knew that she must not think of it, though she could not help her dreams. But there was no fear. T h e man who had not dared to kiss her when he might should find that she was worthy of such high honor. Through the strings blew the wind from the southwest. " I love him—I shall see him to-morrow—I shall never tell him so— 319

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but he will read it in my eyes. He never so glad! Nobody could do t h a t ! " — " E x ­ kissed me when he might—he will not do cept Jack," she added half in a whisper. " T h a t old chap's not a man," said it now, when he must not. I am a fool, a fool, a fool! Thank God, I am a fool Chevenix; "he's a spirit." " They used to call him the Faun, at Bill again!" H i l l , where I first met h i m , " she said. " I II fancy now that I never knew him at all. " I F A N C Y , " said Chevenix, as they But he knew all about me. That's why breasted the down, " that to the candid ob­ I'm so happy. Nobody has ever known server we present a very pretty sight. He's me since—and it's such a bore to have to not here, but I wish he were. A free- explain yourself. Other people seem to moving young lady—this is my idea—a think I'm extraordinary. I ' m not at all— Diana of the Uplands—wasn't there a pict­ I'm the most ordinary person i n the world ure of the name ?—going to see an eman­ —But he liked me like that." Chevenix, watching her, said, " H e ' l l like cipated party of the Open Road—with a chain round her heart, in the custody of a you like this, I expect. M a y I tell you that you're a heady compound? D o be quiet. gentleman friend." She took him on his own terms. " E x ­ Remember that I'm holding the chain. I plain your idea. What, for instance, is in won't swear to every l i n k . " She laughed, the gentleman friend's custody ? The chain and pressed forward, the wind kissing her or the heart ? Because, I assure you " eyes. They reached the race-course and had, " A truce," said Chevenix, "to your as­ surances. What I mean is this. It's jolly behind them and before, two valleys. decent of Nevile to let you off. I don't Their road lay now due west, keeping the know how he can bear you out of his sight ridge—a broad grass track belted rarely by after the way he's behaved." woods on the north, but open on the south She was in high spirits. She laughed at to hill and vale i n diversity of sun and the vision of Nevile, deeply contrite and shade, a billowy sea of grass where no sign afraid that she would find him out. " I of man was to be seen. Sanchia's heart was don't think Nevile cares much, whatever so light she scarcely touched the ground. I may do." But Chevenix shook his head. She swam the air, not flew. Chevenix " You never know where to have Nevile. pounded in her wake. What says the primer? Timeo Danaos— " Y o u know," he told her by and by, don't you k n o w ? " " he's alone here ? A solitary figure ? Do­ She pleaded, Might they not forget Nev­ ing the hermit? Crying i n the Wilder­ ile out here in the open ? " D o you know," ness?" she asked him, "that I haven't been out She had guessed, but not known that. like this " Caution set a guard upon her eyes and " On the loose, e h ? " he interposed. She tongue. " D o you mean—that he's always nodded. alone?" " Yes, like this—free to do as I like—the " Bless you, yes. H i s lady couldn't stick world before me—" She fronted the blue it. She fled. But she's quite fond of him valley for a moment, and then turned to the —in her way. I found out his address from wind—"and the wind in my face—ever her. She was quite glad I was going to see since I left Wanless ?" Then she reflected him. But she never goes herself, I believe. with wide and wondering eyes. " A n d be­ She's married. Other views altogether, she fore that—long before. I haven't been has. O r he has—her husband, you know. free, you know, ever since I knew Nevile. It was a rum business altogether, her tak­ O h ! " and she inhaled the spirit of the ing up with old Senhouse. I could have hour. " Oh, I could fall down and hug the told her what would come of that, if she'd earth. Don't you love the thymy smell? asked me. N o malice, you know—now. I don't know why, but it always makes me They're good friends. Write to each other. think of poetry—and that." She lifted her As a fact, she's married. She was a widow. rapt face to where, like a fountain of sound, She's married a man I know, a chap in the a lark flooded the blue. " T o lift up, and House, name of Duplessis. Sulky chap, up, and up, to be so lovely because one was but able. Keeps her in order. O l d Sen-

Rest Harrow house will speak about it—you see if he don't." She was full of thought over these say­ ings. What had he been about when he mated with a woman of that sort? " A man don't live like that," had been Nevile's explanation of part of his own his­ tory. Was this the meaning of her friend's vagary? Would he tell her? She would never ask him, but would give worlds to know. Presently, and quite suddenly, as they pushed their way, now in silence broken only by Chevenix's cheerful whistling, upon that backbone of a broad hill-country— quite suddenly her heart leaped, and then stood fast. " Look, look!" she said softly. ''There's Jack, close to us!" In a shel­ tered hollow some hundred feet below the level at which they were, a hooded figure in pure white was startlingly splashed upon the gray-brown of the dry hills. The peak of a cowl shot straight above his head, and the curtains of it covered his face. He sat, squatting upon the turf, with a lifted hand admonishing. About him, with cocked ears and quick side-glances, were some six or seven hares, some reared upon their haunches, some, with sleek heads, intent upon the herbage, one lopping here and there in quest, but none out of range of a quick hand. Above his head, high in the blue, birds were wheeling, now up, now down. Peewits tumbling heavily, pigeons with beating wings, sailing jackdaws— higher yet, serene in rarity, a brown kestrel oared the sky. Sanchia's soft eyes gleamed with wet. " Saint Francis—and the hares! O h , dear­ est, have I never known you'?" "What a chance for a rifleman!" said Chevenix. " T h a t beats the cocks." They stood intent for a while, not daring to disturb the mystery enacting. Chev­ enix whispered, " H e ' s giving 'em church, to-day being Sunday," while Sanchia, breathless, said, " H u s h ! hush!" and felt the tears fret a way down her cheeks. Presently she put both hands to her breast and fell upon her knees. Chevenix, not in­ sensible to her emotion, lit a pipe. Thus he broke the spell. " Go to him, please. T e l l him that I'm here," she bade him, and then turned away and sat waiting upon a clump of heather. She sat, as not daring to look up, until she

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heard his soft tread on the turf. Then she lifted to him her wet and rueful eyes. His long strides brought him close in a second. He was changed. Leaner, brown­ er, older than she had known him. A n d he wore a strange Eastern garment, a hooded white robe, short-sleeved and buttonless, made of coarse woollen cloth. He had thrown the hood back, and it sat upon his shoulders like a huge rolling collar. Yes, he was changed; there was mystery upon him, which sat broodingly on his brows. But his eyes were the same—bright as a bird's, frosty-kind as a spring morning, which stings while it kisses you. " Queen M a b ! " he said. " Y o u ! " and held out both his hands. It was evident that neither of them could speak. She rose; but there was no touching of the hands. " A n d Peachblossom, attendant sprite," cried the resourceful Chevenix, following him up. " D o n ' t forget him." " Puck, I think," said Senhouse. " Robin Goodfellow." He had recovered himself in that breathing-space. " H o w splendid of you both. Come and see my ship. I'm in moorings now, you know. I've cut piracy." " A n d preach to the hares," said Chev­ enix. " W e saw you at it. What does his lordship s a y ? " " H i s lordship, who, in spite of that, is an excellent man, likes it. His lordship was pleased to catch me, as you did, at it, and to suggest that he should bring out a party of her ladyship's friends to see me perform. I told him that I was his hireling, no doubt, but that my friends here were amateurs who didn't care to say their prayers in public. His lordship begged pardon, and I bet you he's a gentleman. Nearly everybody is, when you come to know him." Chevenix revelled in him. " Still the complete moralist, old J a c k ! " he cheered. " I'll back you for a bushel of nuts to have it out with Charon as you ferry across. A n d here, for want of us, you turn to the hares! Sancie, you and I must get season tickets to Sarum, or he'll forgethis tongue." Sanchia, overcome by shyness, had noth­ ing to do with this brisk interchange. She walked between the contestants like a child out with her betters. Senhouse led them down the scarped side of a hill into his own valley; rounding a bluff, they suddenly

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came u p o n his terraces a n d creeper-covered hut. T h e place was a blaze of field flowers, each terrace a t h i c k carpet of color. I n front of them the valley w o u n d softly to the south, a n d melted into the folds of the hills; to the right, u p o n a w o o d e d slope, i n glades between the trees, goats were at pasture. " G o a t s ! Robinson Crusoe!" Chevenix pointed them out. "'Die mihi, Damaia, cujum peats? an Meliboei?' A r e they yours, S e n h o u s e ? " " I d r i n k them, a n d m a k e cheese. I learned how to do it at U d i n e ages ago. Y o u shall have some." S a n c h i a saw them. T h e sun gleamed u p o n fawn a n d white, a n d made black shine l i k e jet. Deep i n the thickets they heard the bell of one, c r o p p i n g musically. Senhouse led them to his veranda, w h i c h was shadowed f r o m the heat, made them sit on mats, a n d served them with m i l k a n d bread i n wooden bowls a n d trenchers. H e was barefooted, w h i c h San­ c h i a must by a l l means be—for the d a y : d i v i n i n g her, as he only c o u l d , he knelt without i n v i t a t i o n and untied her shoes. " S t o c k i n g s too, I ' l l bet y o u ! " was what C h e v e n i x thought; but he was w r o n g . Senhouse went into his c a b i n , a n d returned w i t h sandals. S a n c h i a h a d taken off her own stockings. T h e y were sandals to fit her. " I made them for M a r y , " he ex­ p l a i n e d ; " but she preferred boots." " M o s t of 'em d o , " Chevenix said, " i n their hearts," and Senhouse quietly rejoined, " S o I've found out." Chevenix the tactful withdrew himself after a civil interval. H e said that he should go goat-stalking, and, instead, went for a ramble, well out of sight. T h e n he f o u n d a place after his m i n d , s m o k e d a pipe, and h a d a nap. T h e pair, left to themselves, resumed with hardly an effort their ancient footing. H e said, after l o o k i n g long u p o n her, " Y o u are changed, Queen M a b ; y o u are graver a n d quieter—but vou are yourself, I see." " I am not changed r e a l l y , " she said. " I love all the things I d i d . B u t some­ times one doesn't k n o w i t . " H e d i d not appear to heed her, o c c u p i e d i n his gentle scanning of her. " Y o u are, I suppose, more beautiful than y o u were.

I was p r e p a r e d for that. Y o u have been very m u c h w i t h me of l a t e . " H e r excitement grew. " H a v e I ? It's very o d d , but " " It's not at a l l o d d , " he s a i d . " N o t h i n g is. I w i l l tell y o u w h a t happens. After I go to b e d — w h i c h is a l w a y s l a t i s h — I feel you come d o w n the slope. I a m not sur­ p r i s e d — I w a s n ' t the first t i m e . Y o u come i n a blue g o w n , w i t h bare feet. I can't see a n y t h i n g of y o u as y o u c o m e b u t g l e a m i n g i v o r y — a n o v a l : y o u r face; t w o b a r s : y o u r a r m s ; two s h a f t s — a n d y o u r feet. Your h a i r is loose a l l a b o u t y o u r shoulders, a n d close about y o u r face. It m a k e s the oval longer a n d n a r r o w e r t h a n I see it n o w ; y o u r face is fuller b y d a y t h a n b y night. Y o u come to me out here where I wait for you, a n d h o l d out y o u r h a n d . I rise, a n d take i t — a n d out we go. I realize n o w that I a m i n the c o n d u c t of a f a i r y . I was i n ­ spired w h e n I h a i l e d y o u — h o w l o n g ago? —as Q u e e n M a b . Y o u show m e wonder­ ful things. D o y o u k n o w that y o u come ? " " N o , but—•" She stopped, a n d bent her head. H e r experience h a d not been so s i m p l e — " I have t h o u g h t s o m e t i m e s — " She c o u l d not finish—broke off abruptly. T h e r e was a beating pause, d u r i n g which neither of t h e m d a r e d l o o k a t the other. She broke it. She asked h i m w h a t he d i d out here alone. " I l i v e , " he s a i d , " v e r y m u c h as I d i d . I r e a d — i n three tongues; I paint r a r e l y ; I d o a great d e a l of work. A t night I write m y b o o k . A n d then—you come." " A n d what is y o u r b o o k ? " " It began as M e m o i r s — i n three volumes, but those have stopped. T h e r e was plenty to say, but after c e r t a i n experiences which came to me h e r e — s i n g u l a r e n o u g h experi­ ences—nothing i n it seemed w o r t h while. N o w I call it D e s p o i n a , after the p r i n c i p a l character." " W h o is D e s p o i n a ? " H e l o o k e d at her, s m i l i n g w i t h his eyes. " Y o u are D e s p o i n a . " "Oh," s a i d she, " I t h o u g h t I was Queen M a b . " " It is the same t h i n g . D e s p o i n a means the L a d y — t h e L a d y of the C o u n t r y . She is a great fairy. T h e greatest." It was n o w for her to smile at h i m , w h i c h she did a little wistfully. " Y o u r Despoina is either too m u c h f a i r y , or not enough. She does very h u m d r u m things. She has

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done m i s c h i e f — n o w she is g o i n g to repair H e a v e n , I see so w e l l w h a t it w o u l d be, it. She is g o i n g to be m a r r i e d . " A n d it w o u l d be right, m i n d y o u . T h e s e H e was w a t c h i n g her q u i e t l y , a n d took laws of Society are n o t h i n g , absolutely her news q u i e t l y . n o t h i n g . B u t y o u are pleased, for reasons, " Y e s , so I l e a r n e d . T h e r e was a y o u t h to s u b m i t . Y o u are deliberate, y o u are strong. It's the o l d t h i n g over a g a i n . here w h o t o l d m e . " She stopped h i m , flushing w i l d l y . " A H i d e o u s , vile, a b o m i n a b l e servitude! B u t y o u t h ! S t r u a n w a s here? T h e n it's true y o u are pleased to do it. Y o u say it is D e s t i n y , a n d y o u m a y be right. I tell —it's t r u e ? " H e was quite c a l m u n d e r this outcry. y o u once more, I dare not say a w o r d " Y e s , y o u r c h a m p i o n G l y d e was here. A against i t . " good fellow i n the m a i n , b u t L o r d ! w h a t a " N o , n o , " she said hastily; " d o n ' t say d o n k e y ! I t h i n k I d i d h i m good. H e left a n y t h i n g to stop me. I must go on w i t h me a week ago. H e h a d t o l d me about it. I have p r o m i s e d . H e k n o w s I d o n ' t y o u — f o u n d out where y o u l i v e d , a n d w h a t love h i m , a n d he doesn't care." was h a p p e n i n g . " She sat w i t h her face be­ Senhouse p r i c k e d up his head. "Does tween her hands, d a r e d not let h i m see it. he love y o u , do y o u suppose? D o you Senhouse r e s u m e d the question of her believe i t ? " marriage. " I t doesn't matter w h a t y o u She shrugged half-heartedly. " H e says do. Y o u are y o u . So I n g r a m has for­ so. H e — h e seemed to when I told h i m given M a s t e r G l y d e , a n d n o w " that I was going a w a y . " She lifted her pale face at this w o r d of " W h e n was t h a t ? " he asked her. She duty. told h i m the whole story as the reader " H i s wife d i e d a year ago; rather more. k n o w s it. Senhouse heard her, his head H e wants me to m a r r y h i m , a n d I t h i n k I between his hands. must." A t the end of it, he looked out over the " Y o u d o n ' t w a n t t o ? " She shook her valley. head, w a t c h i n g her fingers tear the grass. " W o u l d to G o d , " he said, " y o u a n d I " N o , " she said, " not i n the least. B u t I h a d never met, S a n c h i a . " shall do it. D o n ' t y o u t h i n k that I s h o u l d ?" T e a r s filled her eyes. " O h , w h y do y o u H e thought, then threw his arms out. say t h a t ? " " G o d k n o w s w h a t I a m to say! If the H e took her hands. " Y o u k n o w w h y . " world held o n l y y o u a n d me a n d h i m — T h e r e was no faltering i n the look that here—fast i n this v a l l e y — I tell y o u fairly, passed between them n o w . T h e y were I should stop i t . " She l o o k e d up q u i c k l y , face to face i n d e e d . H e got up, a n d stood and their eyes met. H e r s were h a u n t e d apart from her. She w a i t e d m i s e r a b l y with longing. H e h a d to t u r n his head. where she was. " B u t it doesn't. T o me w h a t y o u i n t e n d " W e m a y be friends now, I b e l i e v e , " he to do seems quite horrible—because I a m said. " Y o u ' l l let me write to y o u ? Y o u ' l l flesh, a n d cannot see that y o u are spirit. trust me ? " T h a t is a perfectly honorable r e a d i n g of " I shall live i n y o u r letters," she s a i d . the L a w , w h i c h says, W h a t I d i d as a c h i l d " I r e a d n o t h i n g else but those I have. I must abide as a w o m a n . It's a l a w of T h e y are a l l the help I h a v e . " T h e n w i t h N a t u r e , after a l l ' s s a i d ; a n d yet it can be a cry she b r o k e out. " O h , J a c k , w h a t a contradicted i n a breath. It's one of those mess we've made of our affairs!" everlasting p r o p o s i t i o n s w h i c h are true H e l a u g h e d bitterly. " D o y o u k n o w both ways, positively a n d n e g a t i v e l y ; for m y t a l e ? " N a t u r e says, T h a t is m y rule, a n d i m ­ " I guess i t , " she said. mediately after, B r e a k it if y o u ' r e strong " I p l a y e d the r o g u e , " he told her, " to a enough. N o w , y o u are, but I a m n o t . " good g i r l , w h o was as far f r o m m y under­ O n c e more they l o o k e d at each other, standing as I was f r o m hers. G o d bless these two w h o h a d b u t one desire between her, she's h a p p y n o w . I swear to y o u that t h e m — a n d w h o k n e w it each of each. A n d I meant to do her h o n o r — a n d d i r e c t l y I f o u n d out what she really w anted, I w o u l d again it was he w h o b r o k e a w a y . " I ' m a c o w a r d , I ' m false to m y o w n have given it her. Y o u ' l l not believe that belief. 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feel h a p p y w i t h m y ideas of w e d d e d l i f e — b u t I d i d . O h , H e a v e n s ! P o o r , dear, af­ fectionate, simple soul, she felt n a k e d ! She shivered at her o w n plight, a n d w o n d e r e d w h y I ' d been so u n k i n d to her, seeing I was by o r d i n a r y so k i n d . I shudder to t h i n k w h a t she must have gone t h r o u g h . " " B u t , " she said, anxious to save h i m , " but she k n e w what y o u r beliefs were—and accepted them. Y o u told me so." " Q u e e n M a b , " he said gravely, " s h e was a w o m a n , not a fairy. A n d please to observe the difference. She, poor dear, felt as if she was stripped u n t i l she was mar­ r i e d . Y o u w i l l feel stripped when you are. Y e t y o u both do it for the same reason. She obeys the law because she dare not break i t ; y o u because y o u choose to keep it. Despoina! Despoina!" She laughed, a little awry. " Y o u used to c a l l me A r t e m i s . I ' m not she any more." " Y o u are a l l the goddesses. Y o u do what y o u please. Y o u r m i n d is of A r t e m i s , you have the f o r m of Demeter, the graveeyed spirit of the c o r n — a n d y o u r gown, I observe, is blue, as hers was. I see H e r a i n y o u , too, the peering, p r o u d l a d y of i n ­ tolerant eyelids, a n d K o r e , the pale, sad w i f e — w h i c h makes y o u y o u r o w n daugh­ ter, m y dear—and G a i a , b y w h o m the A t h e n i a n s swore when they were serious— G a i a , the H e a r t of the E a r t h . A l l these y o u are i n turns—but to me D e s p o i n a , the L a d y of the C o u n t r y , whose secrets no m a n k n o w s but m e . " She was now by his side, very pale a n d pure i n her distress. She put her h a n d on his shoulder as she leaned to h i m . " D e a r ­ est, there is one of m y secrets y o u have not learned. M a y I tell it y o u ? " H e listened sideways, not able to look at her. She felt h i m tremble. " I think not — I t h i n k not. Y o u w i l l tell I n g r a m first —then do as y o u please. D o n ' t ask me to listen. H a v e n ' t I told y o u that I see you every night ? " " A n d I tell y o u n o t h i n g of m y s e c r e t ? " " I never ask y o u . " " B u t do I not tell you ? C a n I keep it ? " " Y o u don't speak to me. Y o u never speak. Y o u look. Fairies don't speak w i t h the tongue. T h e y have better w a y s . " " W h a t do y o u do w i t h me ? " " I follow y o u , over the h i l l s . " " A n d then?"

" A t d a w n y o u leave m e . " " I am a ghost?" " I d o n ' t k n o w . Y o u are D e s p o i n a . Y o u go at d a w n . " A p o w e r was u p o n her, a n d w i t h i n her. She put b o t h hands on his shoulders. " O n e night I s h a l l c o m e — a n d not leave y o u . A n d after that y o u w i l l not f o l l o w m e any more. I shall follow y o u . " P e r f e c t l y mas­ ter of himself, his eyes met hers a n d held them. " It s h a l l be as y o u w i l l . " She s m i l e d confidently. " I s h a l l come. I k n o w that. B u t I shan't s p e a k . " " W h a t need of speech between y o u and me?" She saw C h e v e n i x u p o n the h i g h g r o u n d above. H e stood on the grass dykes of H i r l e b u r y , a n d w a v e d his hat. " I must go n o w , " she s a i d . " G o o d by, m y dear o n e . " " G o o d - b y , D e s p o i n a . I n seven hours you w i l l be here a g a i n . " . . . " I t is to be o b s e r v e d , " says a gifted author, " that the l a w s of h u m a n conduct are precisely m a d e for the c o n d u c t of this w o r l d of M e n i n w h i c h we live a n d breed a n d p a y rent. T h e y d o not affect the K i n g d o m of the D o g s , n o r that of the F i s h e s ; b y a p a r i t y of reasoning they should not be supposed to o b t a i n i n the K i n g d o m of H e a v e n , i n w h i c h the S c h o o l m e n dis­ covered the citizens d w e l l i n g i n nine spheres, apart f r o m the blessed I m m i g r a n t s , whose privileges d i d not extend so near to the H e a r t of the Presence. H o w m a n y realms there m a y be between m a n k i n d ' s a n d that ultimate object of P u r e Desire cannot at present be k n o w n , b u t it m a y be affirmed w i t h confidence that any denizen of any one of t h e m , b r o u g h t i n t o relation with h u m a n beings, w o u l d act, a n d law­ fully act, i n ways w h i c h to m e n w o u l d seem harsh, u n c o n s c i o n a b l e , w i t h o u t sanction or convenience. S u c h a b e i n g m i g h t m u r d e r one of the ratepayers of L o n d o n , c o m p o u n d a felony, or enter i n t o c o n s p i r a c y to depose the K i n g himself, a n d , b e i n g detected, very p r o p e r l y be p u t u n d e r restraint, or visited w i t h chastisement either deterrent or v i n ­ dictive, or b o t h . B u t the true inference from the premises w o u l d be that although duress or b a n i s h m e n t f r o m the k i n g d o m m i g h t be essential, yet p u n i s h m e n t , so called, ought not to be v i s i t e d u p o n the

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" Y o u want food, Sancie; that's what you want. Come. Don't let's have a com­ motion. Y o u leave all this to me." She leaned against the wall, and brushed her hand across her face. Chevenix was in despair. Nevile, from below, called up, " W h a t are you two conspiring about?" Sanchia shivered, and stood up. " Go down alone," she said. " I can't." IV S H E dragged herself upstairs, and locked herself in her room, stumbled to the win­ dow, caught at it by the sill and leaned out. Her skin burned, her blood beat at her temples, and her breath came panting from her. Her white breasts ached with the burden of her strife. " I was born to live, not die. A i r ! or I shall fall." It was mellow dusk by now, the lamps below her lighted, and above the chimneys and broken roof-line, above the trembling glare which meant London, there were stars in a violet sky. The stars which looked on London, looked also on the dim grass wolds, o n hills rolling like waves, on muffled woods, rivers swift under their banks, on cornlands stiff and silent in the calm, on pastures and drowsy sheep. But the hills stretched out on either side of a valley, fold upon fold, everlastingly the same. There Despoina walked, at the deepest hour of the night. Even now she was looked for by one who sat in the valley and watched the east—in­ tent, hooded, white, his chin upon his knees. A knock sounded at her door. She turned and ran to open. " H e r ladyship has sent to know if you would have something sent up, miss." Nothing, nothing. She sped back to the window. At midnight, Despoina should be there. At midnight! In three hours! It was time to get ready; there wasn't a moment to lose. She watched the night as if she were listen­ ing to it, counting its pulse. Then, kneeling where she was, she began to unfasten her hair, running her hands through it as each clinging coil loosened and grew light. So presently she was curtained in her hair. It drooped about her burning cheeks and veiled her bosom. She looked like the Magdalen in the desert, facing, wide-eyed, the secret. There she knelt on, in a trance^ waiting for the hour. It struck ten—eleven.

She changed her dress and put on again the blue cotton gown of the day's wearing —but she left her hair loose about her face and shoulders, and her feet were bare. She looked at herself in the glass. H e r face was white, her eyes were wide and strange. She did not know herself, smiling so sharply —like a goddess wild with a rapture not known by men and women. Fierier de­ lights than theirs, the joy of power and knowledge mated with its equal, coping fellow to fellow; consciousness of immortal bliss dawned upon her wise lips, and flick­ ered in their curve. "Despoina is here," she said, and blew out the light. V IT was intensely dark in the cup of the hills, but by the difference of a tone it was just possible to make out where the sky began. Looking closer yet, you could guess at a film of light, as if the rim of down ab­ sorbed and reflected a caught radiance from the stars. O n a quiet night the stars seem to burn more fiercely, and on this night you might have believed they gave you heat. There was no moon; but the sky was illuminated by stars. Jupiter had rays like a sun, and Sirius lay low down and glowed, now fiery, now green. A winged creature, coursing up the valley, would pass unnoticed; but if it struck suddenly upward for a higher flight, above the hills, into the upper air, you would see the light upon its pinions, and even the glitter of its watchful eye. There was no wind; the silence could be felt, throbbing about you. It was past the hour when the creatures go hunting; the time when every breathing thing sub­ mits to the same power. M e n and women forgot each other and their loves; foxes lay coiled in their earths. The shriek of the field-mouse startled you no more, nor the swift dry rustle of the grass-snake. Pres­ ently, very far away across the hills, in some valley not to be known, a dog barked; but the sound just marked the silence, and died down. The hooded figure down there sat like a Buddha on his rock, motionless, unwink­ ing, breathing deep and slow. H i s hands clasped his shins, his chin was on his knees; he pored into the dark. He sat facing the ridgeway where it came from

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H e r heart urged her. " G o to h i m . " She l o o k e d at h i m . " I can't see h i m perfectly, a n d can't trust myself." H e r heart cried, " I have brought y o u so far. I daren't stop." S t i l l she stood a n d flickered. Senhouse m o u n t e d to meet her. Blush­ ful a n d bashful she stood; but her eyes, deeply watchful, never left h i m . H e , too, h a d lost his tongue. " Queen M a b ! I k n e w that y o u were c o m i n g . ' ' H e r eyes were t i m i d a n d her tongue tied. She was like a rueful c h i l d . " H o w d i d y o u come, m y d e a r ? " " I don't k n o w . " " Y o u came last n i g h t ? " " A h , y o u knew m e ? " " W e l l , Queen M a b ? " She h a d n o t h i n g to say. " O h , m y dear, m y dear," he asked her, " w h y are y o u c o m e ? " " I can't tell y o u , if y o u don't k n o w . " She l o o k e d at h i m , a n d he k n e w . " Y o u came to me—not because I love you?" " N o , n o ! N o t for t h a t ! " " Y o u are beautiful beyond belief, Q u e e n M a b . A n d you are the soul of truth. M y dear one, do you love me ? " She h u n g her head, a n d l o o k e d up from under her l o n g lashes. H e saw, not heard, her answer. H e encircled her w i t h his a r m , a n d felt her t r e m b l i n g at his side. " M y dear," he said, " I was w r i t i n g m y M e m o i r s . N o w w e ' l l b u r n the b o o k ; for I see that I a m now going to be b o r n . " She l o o k e d up at h i m l a u g h i n g . She was the color of a flushed rose. " M y b r i d e , " he said, and kissed her lips. She turned i n his a r m a n d c l u n g to h i m . T h e storm swept surging over her; passion l o n g pent made her shiver like a b l o w n fire. T h e y took their w i l d joy. . . . H e led her by her h a n d to the shade of the valley, where the deep turf is h a r d l y ever dry. She was barefoot n o w , as he was, a n d bare-headed. I n her bosom was a spray of dogrose. " Y o u are blue-gowned, like D e s p o i n a , " he told her, " and indeed that is y o u r name. I a m to have a fairy w i f e . " " A r t e m i s no m o r e , " she laughed. " Y o u fulfil a l l the goddesses. Artemis was y o u r c h i l d h o o d . B u t let's be p r a c t i ­

c a l . W h a t is to be d o n e ? " She faltered her answer. " I have f o u n d out b y m y s e l f w h a t to d o , " she said. A n d then she k i s s e d h i m . " It's done n o w . " T h e y p i c k e d up their lives where they h a d d r o p p e d t h e m . T h e y were content to wait for the fulness of their j o y . H e busied himself w i t h f o o d for her; he c o o k e d , a n d she helped h i m ; they t a l k e d of his affairs as if they h a d a l w a y s been hers. S o m e t h i n g stirred the p r a c t i c a l side of h i m . She was to see h i m as n e a r a m a n of the w o r l d as it was possible f o r h i m to be. It m i g h t have been a s h o c k to her, but its s i m p l i c i t y was a l l his o w n . " I must see one person, a n d y o u must see one. I ' l l go to y o u r father, a n d y o u shall tell I n g r a m w h a t ' s g o i n g to happen. W e d o n ' t owe h i m m u c h — b u t there's that, I t h i n k . I've a great i d e a of treating the w o r l d w i t h c i v i l i t y . T h e one t h i n g it has w o r t h h a v i n g is its sense of m a n n e r s . Let us have manners, then. D o n ' t y o u think s o ? " H e h e l d her close as he spoke, and w i t h a strange d i s c r e p a n c y between sight a n d sound, l o o k e d at her w i t h d i m eyes of love, before w h i c h she h a d to close d o w n her o w n . T o his " D o n ' t y o u t h i n k s o ? " she c o u l d o n l y m u r m u r w i t h o u t breath, " Y o u m u s t n ' t love me so m u c h — n o t yet, not y e t ! " b u t he pressed her the nearer and l a u g h e d his j o y of her. "What! After eight years! A n d if I d o n ' t h o l d her very close, M a b , the t r i c k s y sprite, m a y slip me." T h e n he r e t u r n e d to his m o r a l i z i n g s . " Y o u ' l l see I n g r a m , m y blessed one, don't you t h i n k ? " She said gravely, w i t h h a r d o u t l o o k upon the distant w o l d , " Y e s , I m u s t see h i m — " a n d then, w i t h a s u d d e n t u r n to h i m and a w o n d r o u s v e i l of tenderness u p o n her eyes, " Y o u k n o w that I t h i n k w h a t y o u t h i n k — from now o n w a r d . " T h e i r l i p s sealed the pact. H e b r o k e a w a y at last. "Practice! P r a c t i c e ! D o let's be p r a c t i c a l . T h i n k of this. M y house is y o u r s u n t i l we m a r r y — that can't be for a w e e k . " A w e e k ! T h u s was Senhouse p r a c t i c a l . She b l u s h e d her answer. " W h a t will you do ? I mustn't turn you o u t . " H e opened his a r m s w i d e to the airs of the d o w n .

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" I sleep in the open. The stars for me. They shall see you wedded. Meanwhile, I shall wait upon you. But do let us be practical. We wait a week: we marry— but then what shall we do ? Shall we re­ form the world ? I think we shall do that in spite of ourselves; for if two people dare to be simple, there's no reason why two million shouldn't." She lay at peace, con­ sidering—her blue eyes, searching wonder­ fully into his, saw peace like a crown of stars. " I'll tell you what I should like to do," she said. " I've thought about it this min­ ute. It never occurred to me before, but I should like to teach, better than anything in the world." He looked far out to the white rim of horizon. He took her very seriously. " It's the highest profession of all, of course. Let's think. I've begun on it already— oddly enough. A n d yet, you know, it's not odd. Nothing is—after our experi­ ences. . . . We will teach. Woodcraft, weather-craft, husbandry, beast-craft, skycraft. I can do that much for them. L i t . hum., Greek, Latin, English, Dante. His­ tory, shadowy; geography, practical. Tink­ ering, carpentering, planting. N o mathe­ matics—I can't add two to two." " B u t I can," she told him. " I ' l l teach the babies—for we must have babies." His eyes flashed upon hers, for one beat­ ing second of full interchange. Then he turned them away, and scanned again the hazy hills. But hers remained on their watch, charged with their wistful dream. " Our school," he presently resumed, " I see it. We teach first of all Nature's face, and the love of it. We lead their hungry mouths to Nature's breast. N o books! N o books for them to glue their eyes upon. They shall learn by ear: their eyes have a better book to read in. Classics by ear and by heart, e h ? " She glowed at a memory. " You wrote to me about that. Y o u said that, before the printing-press, people used to get poetry by heart." He looked down at her where she lay at ease. " ' A s I have got y o u , ' I said." She dreamed beneath her flickering eyelids. " You had me then. I didn't know it— but you had. A n d you have me still. T H E

That's wonderful. But now I have got you!" She lay awhile under the spell of him and the thought, and glowed and blos­ somed under them until at last, flowering like a rose, she turned and hid her face in his arm. Senhouse, grave and strong, let her lie where she was; but he felt the throb­ bing of her bosom, and was moved to utter­ ance. Nothing i n the eyes he bent down to her beauty, and nothing in his words, betrayed the passion of his heart. " The loveliest thing in all the world to me," he said, " i s a beautiful thing bent in humility, stooping to serve. I shall see you teaching your children. They will be at your knees, on your knees; you will kiss them, and I shall go mad with joy. Flowers and you! Yes, we'll have our school. We'll teach people the beauty of their own busi­ ness by means of the most beautiful things. Flowers and y o u ! " They talked long and late, walking down the valley to the farmstead for bread. On this, with milk and fruit, they supped, after Sanchia had bathed and clad herself in one of his Moorish robes. Hooded and folded in this, she sat at meat, and Senhouse, filled with the Holy Ghost, discoursed at large. The past they took for granted: the present was but a golden frame for the throbbing blue of the days to come. Very early on the morning after the night when, as had been foretold, she was made a wife under the stars, Senhouse came back to her bedside and put a little flower into her hand. It woke her out of her dreams; glozed and dewy from them, she looked at it, and smiled at him through it. In graygreen leafage lay a little blossom of delicate pink, chalice-shaped, with a lip of flushed white. Watching him, she laid it to her lips. " M y flower—our flower," she said, and watching him still, put it deep with­ in her bosom. " M y dear one, we have earned it." ' " R e s t - H a r r o w , " ' said Senhouse, in a sententious mood,'"grows in any soil. . . . The seed may be sown as soon as ripe, in warm, sheltered spots out of doors. . . . It is a British plant.' So says Weathers, the learned botanist. I praise Weathers. And I like his name." T h e n he kissed her. E N D

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O W you're sailing u p the P a n a m a C a n a l . ' It w o n ' t be l o n g n o w before the s h i p p i n g of the w o r l d w i l l be sailing u p here too, I suppose. T h a t ' s the G a t u n locks u p ahead where y o u see those towers. I made a trip a d a y f r o m P o r t o B e l l o to G a t u n w i t h sand for the concrete-mixers. Guess I ' v e navigated the P a n a m a C a n a l about as m u c h as a n y b o d y has so f a r . " T h e short, grizzled, D o w n - E a s t tug-boat captain leaned from the pilot-house w i n d o w and watched the b r o w n waters r i p p l e be­ fore the blunt b o w of the little t u g . " W e tie u p right there at the sandcranes," he said. " J u s t go over o n the west bank, a n d f r o m there y o u c a n see the locks, the d a m , the spillway, the Chagres, and a l l . " I made m y w a y b y the b i g , noisy con­ crete-mixers, where dusty negroes toiled with their heads b o u n d i n r e d handker­ chiefs, a n d along the " s c e n i c r a i l w a y " that conveys the concrete f r o m the mixers

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of the fifty miles of it, we grasp for an instant a vague idea of the proportions of the en­ terprise. A small, sunburned man under a broad felt hat came and stood be­ side me. ' ' We dump nearly three thousand cubic yards of concrete in there every day," he said. " N o ; it doesn't fill up very fast; the cable-ways waste a lot of time. N o ; the cables never break, but some­ times a tower-man will pull in on a bucket be­ fore he gets it raised high enough; of course, there's trouble t h e n ; usually gets a darky, and smashes up things generally." The shadow of a buz­ zard skimmed across the ground before us, and my c o m p a n i o n , with squinted eyes, watched 1910 the bird for a moment The dirt-train in its graceful flight; then he continued: "It is remarkable that the people in the States can't make up their minds that this canal is really going to be completed. Now everything is in a perfect, systematic run­ ning order, and it's only a matter of time. There, that's the head man of this division, over on the dam. They're mostly army men in charge. They are all right, only they usually have to get some technical men to do the dirty work. "That's a queer character down there cussing out that gang of niggers." He pointed out a figure on a plank, over a gang of negroes, whose wildly waving arms suggested a ruffled temper. " H e is the boss of that gang," continued my companion, "and the other day he got down in the form himself, just as they fired a big 'dobey-blast over on the dam. A rock, about the size of a barrel, splashed in right beside him. It nearly drowned him with wet concrete, which dried on him

so quickly that they had to carry him over to the nearest locomotive and wash him off. If he looks mad now, you should have seen him while they had the hose turned on him. " N o w , if you want to get over the line to-day, you had better go over there on South toe and get that train of Western dumps. They have just come over with a load of rock from Culebra, and will be going back as soon as they are un­ loaded." Just as I was picking my way across the lockbed, the eleven o'clock whistles began to blow on everything that car­ ried steam. It was like the noon hour in a young manufacturing city, and up the wooden stairs filed an army of mudspattered negroes, army colonels, Irish bosses, engineers, a n d Span­ conductor. iards. Some of the men from the west bank came sailing over in a cement-bucket, a hundred feet in the air. Dinner-time at Gatun, and for two hours the operations are abandoned to the simmering heat of the noonday. Over on the South toe, I climbed up into the last car of the dump-train, and found the conductor and the flagman dangling their heels over the side and reading a three-weeks'-old newspaper. "Yes, we'll be going as soon as N o . 4 clears .the main line," said the conductor. A moment later the engineer pulled two short blasts on the whistle, released the air, and the train slid slowly down the toe, around a long curve, and out on the main line. " N o t much to see between here and Tabernilla," said the conductor; "canal's about down to grade here naturally—just have to chop down the trees and flood the lake."

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Then, as his eyes wandered up the train, A n d then he went on to tell how a few he noticed that the negro brakeman was days before a big Panamanian section boss absent from his position, half-way to the had sent one of his gang back to flag all engine. the trains while the rest tore up a little "Say, Oak," said he, "where'd the shine track to put in a switch. A few min­ goto? He was there a minute ago. Don't utes later a locomotive rounded the suppose he went un­ curve, running back­ der, do you?" ward, jumped, and tipped over. After "Guess not," said the first excitement the disinterested flag­ h a d s u b s i d e d , the man, who was busy flagman was asked making a cigarette; why he did not hold "didn't see nothing the locomotive. He of him back here on replied that they had the track." told him to flag all " I got to find him, the trains and that anyway," said the was only an engine. conductor; a n d he started up over the " M o s t as dumb as swaying train. the little Indians you When about half­ see around here," way to the engine he said the conductor. stopped, c l i m b e d " I had a passenger over the end of the run for a while, and car, and was lost to one day a little Ind­ view. Soon, how­ ian about four feet ever, he reappeared, high didn't have his followed by the miss­ fare. I told him I'd ing brakeman. Fol­ have to put him off lowing gesticulations —at the next stop, hinted at rebuke and I meant. I looked advice, and then the around a minute later, conductor came back just in time to see and resumed his seat him walk off the plat­ on the last car. form into the jungle. They do it quite often; " A s l e e p on the don't mind it a bit." frame," was his com­ "That's the Chament. "They cer­ gres again, there," tainly ain't very brill­ said the flagman, as iant. Why, at noon we came in sight of they'll crawl under a the crooked, muddy train of Lidgerwoods river, through a gap in in the 'cut,' and go the jungle. " H a r m ­ to sleep with the rail 19 tO less-looking enough for a pillow. " O you now, isn't it? I've can't tell them any­ The dynamite-man. thing, " put in the flag­ often wondered if man. " W h y , even the darky engineers there was going to be water enough to flood on those stem-winding, monkey-motioned, that lake. A hundred and sixty-five spiggoty freight-engines will stop a train square miles is some puddle, I'm here to anywhere along the line to chase guanas. tell you." Didn't I see a whole crew pile off with " W e l l , " said the conductor, "she's harm­ boards and shovels and everything to chase less enough now, all right; but she's a ter­ a pair of 'em just this side of L a Boca last rible stream in her anger Then there's Sunday? N o flagman out either; he was plenty of water—nasty, brown, swirling hunting guanas too." water that eats away banks and washes out

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bridges. Why, I've seen the track right here with four feet of water on it. Just the other night they had a shower up in the hills some­ where, and the old crick rose ten feet, washed out the dam at Point One, and put six shov­ els out of business." "There's more work for some one," said the flagman; "two months' work gone in two hours. Still, if it wasn't for the wash­ outs and the slides, it would be a shame to take the money. Hello! here comes a shower; let's beat it for the m i l l . " We made our way over the jolting train, and slid down through the coal into the cab, just as the rain came pelting down. "Tabernilla's got a board against you, B i l l , " shouted the conductor across the cab to the engineer, who was hanging from the window with a little stream of water run­ ning off the point of his chin. "What is it? Back into the dump and get a string of Lidgerwoods? " The shower went as quickly as it came, and while the engineer was changing the train of Western dumps for eighteen Lidg­ erwoods, the conductor and I waited in the shade of the despatcher's tower. " N o more Gatun for us," he said; " L a s Cascadas to the dump here after this. Let's get over to the engine. B i l l will be ready to go in a minute, and here comes old M a c . If he sees us, he'll take an hour

telling about the improvements that he made on the track-shifter and the spreader. Why, they wouldn't be able to build this canal if it wasn't for the new-fangled coupler he in­ vented. There's a bunch of 'em down here just like M a c . " A few minutes later B i l l had the big mogul merrily bending the string of Lidgerwoods along the crooked track that follows up the Chagres. The canal-bed lay to the west until we crossed the Gamboa bridge and slowed down for Gorgona. " That's where all the repair-shops are," explained the conductor," and they've got some men there who know their business, too. Before they got ahead on stock it had them guessing, though. Why, when they first put the air-compressors in to run the drills in the cut, the boilers hadn't come from the States. So one feller goes out into the jungle and scrapes up four old, rusty, French marine boilers and puts 'em to work. He told me that every night when he went to bed he used to thank the good L o r d that they'd stayed together for another day." Just then the flagman joined us. "What do the people up in the States think of this job ? " he asked. " When I first used to go home, people seemed interested, and used to ask a lot of questions; now they only say, 'When are you going to get the blamed thing done?' Don't blame the colonel for getting blue. Senate asking foolish ques­ tions, and then some bum newspaper man comes down here, stays two days, and says the colonel's methods are all wrong. Course th; public believes it. Fine! Lots of kickers right on the job, too. It's usually the ones that have been up on the carpet for some­ thing, though, that make the worst row. Colonel keeps open house every Sunday morning just to listen to 'em, and if a feller's in the right he usually gets a square deal." As the train rolled into Matachin we got signals to leave the main line and enter the cut. About a mile up a tower-man held us up, and the train came to a grinding stop. On every side, steam-shovels and drills filled the air with their clamor, which was punc­ tuated by an occasional blast. "Better drop off here and go along with

Drawn by William Harnden Foster. In the wake of their disturbance came the devouring, clamoring, wedge-formation of steam shovels.—Page 336.

T h e Canal Builders that feller there," said the conductor; "he's the best dynamite-man on the job. Why, that feller peels oranges for lunch and then picks his teeth with little 'dobeys. Get him to tell you about Bas Obispo." "Seeing the sights?" piped the hulk of a man in an unexpectedly squeaky voice. "Well, you'll see one in a minute. Just go­ ing to lift about seventy-five thousand cubic yards off the top of that hill back there. Accidents? Well, yes, one or two. See that ledge there ? That's Bas Obispo. Put twenty-six men into clear there at one shot, and winged some sixty more." His left hand involuntarily went to his empty right sleeve, and I knew that he had a vivid recollection of the disaster. "Never knew what fired it," he said. "Some thought it was a high-temperature layer of limestone about thirty feet down. Some said short-circuit. A l l I know is that she blew about four hours too soon, and 'twas something wicked." "Now, dynamite is very weird stuff," he continued. " Y o u don't know just what it will do, and we have accidents right along —can't seem to help it. The more I know about dynamite, the more I find I don't know. The worst scare I ever got, though, outside of being blown up myself, was when the President came through here on an inspection-car. Orders had been given to have all switches spiked, all loaded holes fired, and no more to be loaded. A l l powder was to be put back in the maga­ zines and locked up. " A l l was fine as frog's hair as far as Empire, when I happened to look up, and there was a fool nigger sliding down into the cut right in front of the car with a fifty-pound box of dyna­ mite on his head. He didn't even know where he got it, but anyway he dropped it. W e l l , sir, 1 expected to see t h a t inspection-car and the high-and-mighties and the P r e s i d e n t of the United States just disap­ pear—but they didn't. Pve known dynamite to go off, though, with less excuse than that had." "Those steam-shovels are great things, aren't

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"Sure; got two yesterday," was the an- tentedly. Behind them, with their checked swer; " can't seem to teach them to get to flag, came the powder crew, loading two cover. Let's get back of this car or they'll tons of dynamite at a charge. In the wake of their disturbance came the devour­ pot us." We found shelter between the trucks of a ing, clamoring, wedge-formation of steamLidgerwood car while " B a l d y " started to shovels. Everywhere snakes of dirt-trains back in under the shelf. The space, already wound back and forth with screeching inhabited, would not admit him, so his flanges. ' ' Better step back a bit," my companion head and shoulders remained exposed. warned. " E v e r "Say, Baldy," since I saw a rock jeered the dyna­ fly off one of those mite-man," you're cars and take a bad as an ostrich nigger's head clean —most as bad as off, I get awful Craney, here. He embarrassed every raced a Spaniard time I find myself to cover behind a too near the off tool-box the other side of a train. day. Dago beat Rocks s u r e f l y him out, though —went by him the sometimes on the way the pay-car curves." goes by a tramp. " N o w I've got Craney ain't much to go up there in of a trotter. The that top berm and live w i r e s w e n t see how the tripods across right over are m a k i n g i t . the box, and while They had another Craney was kick­ premature explo­ ing the Spiggoty sion up there yesout he got mixed terday. That up i n the w i r e s train there is going somehow. G o t down through the such a j o l t it cut. G o get on Craney. knocked him the e n g i n e and about twenty feet. you'll find a good When he got his bearings, the dago was feller there. He used to run the Dixie back of the box again." Flyer in the States till he saw this job." Just then the 'dobey went off, and after the subsequent shower of rocks we all emerged. "What do you hear up in the States about M r . Roosevelt's coming down here and taking charge ? " asked Baldy. " He's sure got the proper enthusiasm, and that's what they need. We fellers can build this canal all right now, only it takes a mighty big man to keep us doing it." After Baldy and Craney had gone back to their shovel, the dynamite-man told me that they had been together for eight years, and had become so expert with a big fiveyard shovel that" they could catch red-bugs with it," as he expressed it. As we walked on toward Culebra we met a flock of churn-drills chugging away con-

I found a small, stooped man, with a calm gray eye, and minus one ear. He must have seen my look of inquiry, for he passed his hand over his head. "Loose freight-car door on the Rock Island—dark night and I didn't see it com­ ing." " Y e s , " he continued, "these are good engines for this job. Biggest mo­ guls ever been built. ' T i s remarkable, too, how they stick on this bad iron. Some of it would give a boa-constrictor nervous prostration trying to follow it; seldom get off, though, and very seldom lay down." He smiled as he froze the train with the emergency, as the conductor's red flag dropped. " Good engines, and we've got some good

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T h e Canal Builders boys r u n n i n ' ' e m , " he said, " a s g o o d as there be." " See that shovel right there u n d e r the end of the E m p i r e b r i d g e . " H e p o i n t e d w i t h a greasy finger. " T h a t outfit has been o n a vacation u p to G o r g o n a . S t r u c k some u n exploded 'dobeys right there where he is now, only o n this b e r m above. B l e w the dipper cover clear across the cut. C l e a n e d the crane off a n d everything else clean down to the boiler. Y o u r j o b don't look very good to y o u for a d a y or so after a n accident like that or B a s O b i s p o . B u t then again, it's the money. A s for me, I've been here four years n o w . Getting good pay, and, b y George, I ' m going to swing levers n o w u n t i l the o l d d i t c h is done—that is, if t h e y ' l l let me. T h i s is an A m e r i c a n j o b right through, a n d I be­ lieve it is a good chance for the A m e r i c a n people to show their p a t r i o t i s m . " T h i s must have been a n u n u s u a l dec­ lamation for the ex-engineer of the D i x i e Flyer, for he m o p p e d his b r o w a n d then his hands w i t h a b u n c h of d i r t y cotton-waste and took a l o n g d r i n k of ice-water. Just as he resumed his seat the shovel blew the " g o - a h e a d " signal. " H e l l o ! " said the engineer, as he reached for the throttle, " b e t t e r d r o p d o w n ; I've got to move back to the shovel i n the pilotcut and let that next fellow i n here. Go over and ask that c i v i l engineer u n d e r the umbrella there about the time he staked out the relocation." T h e y o u n g W e s t - P o i n t e r i n k h a k i suit and puttees g r i n n e d a n d shook his fist b a c k at the slowly retreating engineer, w h o was hanging from the cab w i n d o w a n d s m i l i n g approvingly. " O h , " said he, t u r n i n g to his w o r k , " h e wants me to tell y o u about the time w h e n I was first here a n d was out i n the b u s h do­ ing some surveying. I d i d n ' t k n o w m u c h about the trees a n d things, so of course the first thing I d i d was to fall into a b l a c k palm. It took them three hours u p at the hospital to p i c k the thorns out of me. I've k n o w n that engineer there ever since N e w Y o r k was a flag-station, as he says. He used to live i n m y t o w n , a n d used to let me ride on his engine w h e n I was a k i d a n d he was switching d o w n i n the west y a r d . " Y e s , that F r e n c h j u n k is a pathetic sight," he went on, as his gaze rested o n the old rusty cranes a n d engines l i n e d u p i n VOL. XLVIII.—32

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solemn file a l o n g the b a n k of the cut. " W e l l - m a d e stuff it w a s , " he said, " b u t en­ tirely inadequate. C a n ' t say too m u c h for D e Lesseps a n d his c r o w d . W h y , we're us­ i n g most of their o r i g i n a l figures n o w . T h e graft was a l l o n the other side. W h e n they w a n t e d a Spiggoty engine here some one over there w o u l d order a dozen a n d get a b i g rake-off from the manufacturers. " O f course, they put u p a few more statues t h a n was absolutely necessary, a n d so m a n a g e d to keep broke most of the time. W i s e c r o w d , though. O n c e w h e n they got stuck for coin they got a s m a l l steamer u p here from L a B o c a , flooded the cut till she floated, a n d then took some photos of her a n d sent them to P a r i s — ' P a n a m a C a n a l at last open to n a v i g a t i o n . ' " T h e n he c o n t i n u e d : " T h a t ' s C u c a r a c h a slide there, just b e y o n d G o l d H i l l , a n d here's C u l e b r a slide over here. It is the slides a n d the floods that give the most trouble. T h a t is just where the uncertain­ ty of the time for completion lies. That shovel there at the b o t t o m of C u c a r a c h a has been there for six months. It's been just d i g , d i g , d i g , a n d it comes d o w n about as fast as they take it out. O h , yes; it's only a matter of getting to a n a t u r a l level; but w h e n that is going to be is h a r d to tell." Just then, up a n d d o w n the cut, the shovels began to whistle for five o'clock, a n d the a r m y of workers came s w a r m i n g , l i k e so m a n y ants, up the b a n k s . Back t o w a r d L a s Cascadas heavy blasts began to shake the earth like so m a n y s m a l l earth­ quakes. " Y o u ' l l find that y o u r watch w o n ' t keep very good time here," said the W e s t - P o i n t e r w i t h a l a u g h . " Y o u see, they arrange the time so that they can have the best eight hours for w o r k . D i d y o u say y o u were go­ i n g d o w n t h r o u g h to B a l b o a ? Better h u r r y u p a n d get that first engine. T h e y a l l put u p d o w n at P e d r o M i g u e l , a n d it is time they were getting o u t . " I got u p i n the first locomotive, a n d soon we became one of a procession of l o c o m o ­ tives w h i c h , like so m a n y weary beasts of b u r d e n after a h a r d day of toil, filed out of the cut, over the u n c e r t a i n track, to the round-house at P e d r o M i g u e l . F r o m the despatchers' towers, p e r c h e d at intervals against the western sky, the t o w e r - m a n w a v e d the procession along w i t h a w h i t e

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flag. Then he slid down the bank and joined the group perched on the tank of the last engine. "Another day's work done," said the engineer, as he looked back into the now almost deserted cut. " I ' m glad we didn't get hung up at Balboa to-night. Haven't been able to get home for two nights. Y o u see, they won't give us overtime to come home on, and they say it isn't fair for us to come home on our own. Why, there isn't a fellow with a family on the job but what would take two hours of his own time to get home if he could; but it's the same old story. The engineers have to be the first out and the last to get through. Still, that's what we're paid for." As we came up onto the main line below Paraiso, we found the chief-engineer's big yellow motor car side-tracked to let the L a Boca sand-train by. "Hello, there's the colonel," said the engineer; "looks queer to see him waiting for a dirt-train, doesn't it? Yes, colonel says we're building a canal now and not running a railroad. He'll side-track a pas­ senger-train any day if there's a dirt-train in a hurry." We were just going by the yard-master's office at Pedro Miguel to take the switch for the round-house at the lower end of the yard, when the yard-master himself came out and handed the engineer an order.

" H u h ! " said that unfortunate; "might have known it was too good to be true. N o w I've got to go to Balboa breakwater and get a pile-driver and bring it back to M i r a Flores. I see where it's ten o'clock before I get home after all. Well, here's a clear line, so the sooner we get started the sooner we'll get back." We rolled along at a thirty-mile clip, under elevated trestles and around long curves, by the M i r a Flores power-house, and down through the swamp of Corozal. A l l day long, dirt-trains from Culebra had trod that same path, transforming Gold Hill into a breakwater. It was quite dark when we picked up the train at L a Boca. Out in the channel the dredges clanked and splashed i n the moonlight. Mud-laden scows moved silently up and down the stream like dark phantoms. Beyond, the Pacific lay silvery and peaceful, broken by hump-backed islands. The man on the opposite side of the cab left his seat and, standing in the gangway, contemplated the scene. " A n d the moun­ tains shall be moved into the midst of the sea," he soliloquized finally. A n American state shall be planted in the heart of a Central American republic. With that as a foundation, shall be un­ dertaken the greatest work of the kind the world has ever seen. A n d Americans are doing it.

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By Jesse L y n c h Williams I L L U S T R A T I O N

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JUST when the affairs of that unbusiness-like branch of the distinguished C a r r o l l f a m i l y k n o w n as " t h e Freds" w e r e approaching a crisis, a sordid financial crisis, the enormously wealthy M r . Ster­ ling recurred in their orbit, like a comet, to brighten their horizon. M r . Sterling had helped to avert financial panics in Wall Street, but to the Carrolls he was better known as the man who had once rented their house during horse-show week at the near-by country club, and liked it so well that he afterward sent his secretary out to buy it one afternoon when not too busy with other things. A s it turned out the Freds had cruelly refused to sell at any price because they liked it so well them­ selves and because M r . Sterling was hardly worthy of such a charming place as theirs. They were painters, and he was a mere millionaire. Now, some men might have been dis­ mayed by this rebuff. Not so M r . Sterling. He consoled himself by secretly securing options upon the greater part of the adjoin­ ing township. Then he let it leak out that he proposed to establish a country-seat upon the most commanding site, thus mak­ ing a market for the rest of the land which he did not want at prices which reimbursed him for the entire operation. So he was now engaged upon the amiable pastime of crowning an unsuspecting American hill with an Italian villa whose south facade was almost as extensive as the home hole at the golf links. " A s exuberant and spectacular as the Villa Caprarola," said M o l l y Carroll con­ temptuously. "More so," said Fred, sniffing at the

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many wide-spreading terraces, the flam­ boyant Barocco redundancy. " T h a t man Peters must be having the time of his life. He's going to beat Vignola at his own game. Peters had been the Carrolls' architect. He had since risen in the world. He was now the Sterlings' architect. It is possible that M r . Sterling had never heard of Caprarola or its designer. A t any rate the Carrolls derived a certain satisfac­ tion from thinking so. But M r . Sterling would not have cared a hang about that. Why talk about such things when you have the money to buy them. Money talks. The Sterling place when finished could be seen from miles around to be more expensive than any of the estates in that part of the country, and it was also clear that he would have spent even more upon it if any one had told him how. True architecture should always be an expression of the individuality of the builder. Well, having erected one of the showplaces in America, he now desired to deco­ rate its apartments in such a way that those Americans and visiting foreigners who were privileged to penetrate the interior would admire the owner's noble art of sparing no expense from the inside point of view. A n d that is how the painter and the billionaire met again upon a business basis. For M r . Sterling had decided to have " a symposium of leading American artists" represented upon his walls, instead of im­ porting foreign labor for the purpose, as others of our aristocracy have done on the same principle that they buy foreign titles for their daughters, nothing being too good for them. This Captain of Industry was a patriot, and America was good enough for him, he said. H e believed in encouraging home industries. That was how he got his own first step toward the dizzy heights of High Finance. 339

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N o w Frederick Carroll was not so well known as some of the others on M r . Ster­ ling's type-written list, but experts in such matters had said that he was worthy to be there. Besides, Sterling had been impressed by the young man's independence, and therefore by his pictures; had bought some of them once, he believed; and wanted to help the poor artist along. He was a kind man, and wealth is a sacred trust, and we are here to help one another. After all, we have but one life to lead.

Fred smiled tactfully and suggested something else. " I used to go i n for alle­ gorical stunts when I was young," he said, "but I've lived it down since." M r . Sterling smiled too, but seemed to be keen for truth. Fred stopped smiling and remarked that if he did anything at all it would have to be a representation of life—not a misrepresen­ tation. M r . Sterling stopped smiling and sug­ gested that it was his library. " B u t it's my work," said the painter, smiling again. This gave M r . Sterling pause. Then he smiled again and said: " T w e n t y thousand dollars." This gave Fred pause. T h e n he scowled and said: " Y o u ' d better get young De Courcy for the job. He's given to doing searches for truth." Well, in the end young De Courcy got the commission, and Sterling got his search for truth, and Fred got nothing at all except a disappointment. So the recurrence of M r . Sterling in the Carrolls' orbit did not solve their finan­ cial difficulties at all. It only explained them. If no man can serve two masters it goes without saying that two mistresses are still more out of the question, especially when one of them is so jealous as art is acknowl­ edged to be by new students at the League every year, and the other so exacting as do­ mesticity proclaims itself even more elo­ quently on the first of every month. It was fine to be appreciated by "the chosen few," but that didn't pay the plumber nor any other piper. It is commendable to cling to High Ideals but this did not lower the High Cost of L i v i n g . It is noble to be true to a heaven-sent gift, but Carroll also had heaven-sent children, and numerous other expenses entailed by a marriage pre­ sumably made i n heaven too. Well, it was bound to come out all right in the end. Aunt Bella said so, and Aunt Bella ought to know. She had a million or two and had never married.

M r s . Sterling, it may be added, observed that the Carrolls, notwithstanding their lack of outward and visible signs of inward and financial grace, seemed to have an effectual calling list. They were popular among a God-fearing colony of conservative wealth, where Mrs. Sterling proposed to be popular too. Every little thing helps. Now, the Carrolls, too unworldly to see any such motive, were delighted. They thought it spoke well not only for their po­ sition in the world of art, but especially for the Sterlings' taste. It was encouraging to see their fellow-countrymen making prog­ ress. The Carrolls, too, were patriots. Be­ sides, they needed the money. The children were growing up, and seemed to expect an education. A l l the preliminary overtures were de­ lightful. The Sterlings beamed upon the Carrolls and invited them to dine i n the vast, new-smelling house in order to talk the project over. The Carrolls beamed upon the Sterlings and graciously overlooked the fact that the new-comers had not yet been invited to dine at " T h e Meadows," as the Carroll house was called on their letterpaper but never elsewhere. Each side politely put the other at ease all through the long, elaborate dinner. " W e cannot all have the sacred trust of wealth," was the benign attitude of the hosts, "but let us be kind to those not so blessed." " W e cannot all have birth, breeding, and a sense of the beautiful," was the tactful at­ titude of their guests; "let us keep them from suspecting it." But all this was of no avail, as it turned out. For M r . Sterling wanted a big alle­ II gorical presentation of the Search for Truth running clear around the library over the W H E N the Fred Carrolls returned at last books, fine new books, all of them latest from abroad, brown and cheerful and se­ editions. rene, they took a house i n town for the win-

T h e Carrolls' Fortune ter, and the gossips out i n the c o u n t r y — f o r even the most refined a n d conservative colo­ nies have been k n o w n to i n c l u d e a f e w — nodded their heads over the teacups a n d said: " T h a t aunt of theirs m u s t have left them more t h a n we t h o u g h t ! " A u n t B e l l a ' s magnificient bequest for es­ tablishing the " A r a b e l l a C a r r o l l M e m o r i a l N e i g h b o r h o o d H o u s e " d o w n o n the E a s t Side, though h a r d l y c o m p a r a b l e w i t h some of the other princely gifts of this golden age of O r g a n i z e d C h a r i t y , was nevertheless meritorious enough i n size to get a h e a d - l i n e in the newspapers. T h e residue of the es­ tate went, a c c o r d i n g to the w i l l , share a n d share alike to dear A u n t B e l l a ' s beloved nephews a n d nieces. N o w as there were a number of these, a conservative r e a d i n g between the head-lines h a d at first m a d e Fred's portion only seventy t h o u s a n d d o l ­ lars, though there were others w h o stated authoritatively that it was at least seven hundred thousand, a r g u i n g that the very fact of dear A u n t B e l l a ' s b e i n g able to give so m u c h to the c h i l d r e n of the E a s t Side showed that her estate was " m u c h larger than at first estimated."

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n u d g e d each other a n d s m i l e d as he passed. H e h a d regained his healthy exuberance d u r i n g these two years. W i t h rest came objectivity. H e c o u l d see again. M o r b i d i n g r o w i n g thoughts h a d v a n i s h e d a n d he h a d reached a p e r i o d i n his artistic career where he c o u l d appreciate the c h a r m of N e w Y o r k . H e no longer sought for the beauty of the O l d W o r l d i n the streets of the new, as cubs do w h e n just b a c k f r o m P a r i s w i t h long h a i r a n d false ideals. H e took a n d enjoyed what was set before h i m , a s k i n g no questions, a n d got more s t i m u l a t i o n out of it t h a n from a bottle of champagne.

" Y o u missed a great m o m e n t , " said F r e d w h e n he j o i n e d M o l l y over the tea-table, for his wife h a d refused to go. " T h e r e I sat shivering i n m y last summer's suit, m y pockets full of u n p a i d bills, wasting two good hours of daylight, a n d trying to look worthy of m y heritage of high ideals while I listened to the m a y o r praise A u n t B e l l a ' s public spirit." " I hate A u n t B e l l a ' s p u b l i c s p i r i t , " cried M o l l y vindictively a n d she threw the after­ n o o n paper describing the m e m o r i a l across F r e d h a d been a p p o i n t e d one of the trus­ the r o o m . tees of the N e i g h b o r h o o d H o u s e , a n d h a d F i n a n c i a l l y speaking, the C a r r o l l s were hurried back to A m e r i c a i n time to attend at the present moment worse off than ever. the "ceremonies i n connection w i t h " the T h e y merely seemed to be better off. B u t laying of the corner-stone. H e was n o w that was not their fault. Indeed they were sitting upon the p l a t f o r m l o o k i n g reserved so guiltless that they never even suspected and dignified, hearing w h a t a good w o m a n it. T h e i r pecuniary sensibilities were quite A u n t B e l l a h a d been a n d r e a l i z i n g h o w r u d i m e n t a r y . T h e y k n e w h o w A u n t B e l l a proud he ought to be of his heritage of high h a d treated them, a n d assumed that others ideals and p u b l i c spirit. c o u l d guess by the N e i g h b o r h o o d H o u s e . H e looked p l u m p a n d prosperous i n his T h e r e is n o t h i n g like h a v i n g a clean con­ eminently b e c o m i n g L o n d o n clothes— science. B u t again, n o t h i n g looks so guilty " w e l l - g r o o m e d " is perhaps a m o r e ortho­ as innocence. E v e r y t h i n g they h a d done dox phrase, though it must be confessed h a d been i n the interest of art or economy. that he had taken o n weight d u r i n g his resi­ It l o o k e d l i k e the evidence of ease a n d dence abroad. It became h i m w e l l , h o w ­ solvency. W h e n the residuary legatees found that ever. It made h i m m o r e " d i s t i n g u i s h e d their respective portions w o u l d be a scant looking." B u t it is to be feared that F r e d e r i c k C a r ­ ten t h o u s a n d apiece, A r c h i e C a r r o l l , w h o roll d i d not appreciate his sacred trust n o r was one of the executors of the estate, being the distinction of being a useful p u b l i c cit­ a good, conservative, business-like fellow izen, for as soon as the ceremonies were invested his legacy a n d the very consider­ over he stepped into his w a i t i n g l i m o u s i n e able executor's fee i n Steel F i v e s . B e i n g and dashed u p the b r i l l i a n t avenue as fast also a n o t a b l y k i n d elder brother, full of as the traffic regulators w o u l d a l l o w , de­ s o u n d advice, he h a d suggested that the lighting i n the opalescent t w i l i g h t , the p u r ­ unbusiness-like F r e d s h o u l d follow his ex­ ple tones, a n d the pretty girls. So m u c h so. a m p l e . that he failed to see the nods of a couple of B u t F r e d d i d not see it that w a y . " T h a t old pals of his who were w a l k i n g a n d w h o m a y be wise for y o u , A r c h i e , " said the artist

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broad-mindedly, "but I can't afford such luxuries. It would not be business-like. I believe in putting one's capital into one's business." So he packed up, took the fam­ ily to Europe, and stayed there until he got his legacy all nicely spent. H e had been bankrupt in health, hope, and ideas. The interest on a few Steel Fives would not have restocked him in these very necessary resources for the pursuit of his trade. The stay abroad did. He also accomplished some very good work over there, sketching with a congenial group of fellow-craftsmen, who knew his work, who liked him, who talked his own language. He got the inspiration of a change of scene. H e studied the new schools. H e fell into the swing of a new manner of his own. He achieved a new grip on life and a new view of his own life in perspective. One of the chief advantages of going abroad is what you see at home when you get back. The Carrolls saw a whole row of mistakes, grinning at them from the rear. But they also saw a crowd of op­ portunities in front. There was a chance to make good after all. " Y o u are still young. Y o u must get back into the city, Fred. If not with the family then with­ out us," said Molly, who could see some­ times better than he could. " D o n ' t think about the family, think about your work. T h i n k what the big men over there told you about it." It so happened that on the steamer com­ ing home they fell in with an old friend of theirs, an admirer of Fred's work, a gentle­ man of leisure who classified as "artistic and literary" inasmuch as he possessed a valuable collection of ceramics and went in for old prints and first editions, a flabby soul but a kindly one. He said he hated New York i n winter—he was always hating things—and proposed trading houses for a year. T o be sure, his town house, very nice and spacious as town houses go, was not so comfortable and complete as the Carrolls' country house, though it would have rented for five or six times as much money. T h e Carrolls, however, were so lacking in pecu­ niary consciousness that they never even thought of this sordid, commercial view of the matter. They hesitated only be­ cause they knew the house and wondered if they could stand the color of the draw­ ing-room. " B u t it will only be for one

year," as M o l l y reminded Fred, and "beg­ gars cannot be choosers," as Fred cheer­ fully reminded M o l l y . So they graciously accepted, and Fred's friend had the honor of saying to his acquaintances, " I have taken the Fred Carrolls' place for the win­ ter—a simple little cottage, but it's only for a year." The rest of the illusion of affluence fol­ lowed as naturally and easily as brother Archie's sweet, smooth-running car. Archie still felt so cut up over Aunt Bella's public spirit that he had taken his family off on a long cruise among the Bahamas and had begged the Freds to use his car during the winter because George was the best chauf­ feur he had ever had and he did not want to lose him. Fred did not feel like accepting it at first, but M o l l y reminded him that he had refused to accept anything from Archie for the portrait of the latter's wife; a most interesting portrait showing the frivolous Julia (well known as a mollusc in the Carroll family gossip) posing as a perfect mother with the children entwined about her i n a graceful group while she wore an appropriately low-cut evening gown. " To-day in town," reported a member of the colony, " I saw Fred and Molly Carroll in their brand new limousine. It's a very smart one with an expensive purr and they have put their crest on the door." Now it may be that the Carrolls considered crests and similar bravery rather unneces­ sary in the land of the free, especially when so fresh from a very-different kind of colony in France, with different aspirations and absurdities. It is good for Americans to go abroad and see some real democracy occasionally. It's so quaint and old-fash­ ioned. However, Fred could not very well paint out the crest, even though he was a painter. Besides, it was only for one year. Archie's expensive limousine, by the way, was worth Fred's entire legacy. A n d yet instead of decreasing his capital it only seemed to put the Carrolls' fortune up an­ other peg. It now soared well above the million mark, and they seemed to be getting richer every day. " T h a t chauffeur of Archie's is a nice fel­ low," said Fred to M o l l y with a whimsical smile. " H e ' s lent me one of his fur coats." W h y not? George, a clean-cut well-edu-

T h e Carrolls' Fortune cated young American, had three coats and he had nothing against Fred. Even the coat was noted by members of the colony, but Molly's clothes, of course, occasioned more comment. "Doucet, I think, so rich and yet so simple—that indescribable some­ thing." The acquisition of Molly's new outfit was characteristic of the Carrolls. "Before we spend all this money," Fred had remarked in a business-like manner at Paris, "you've got to get a lot of new things." "We can't afford it," protested M o l l y weakly but with a gleam in her eye. " W e can't afford not to," replied her more practical husband. " T h i n g s are so cheap here, if you know where to get them, and the Lord knows when we'll ever be over again." So with the aid of her husband's talented eye for color and design, M r s . Car­ roll became the complacent possessor of a brand-new trousseau, which was not only of the latest mode; any other wealthy woman could achieve that; but also of a subtle orig­ inality which many even wealthier women coveted. It should be added that M o l l y only consented to this extravagance upon the express understanding that Fred would get a new outfit for himself while in London. That was the way they usually compro­ mised in the interest of economy. For " i f I can afford it then you can," she declared logically. A n d so they dawned upon New York looking smart and quietly distin­ guished. Now in town, of course, the Carrolls and their wealth were not taken so seriously. There were so many other people to think and talk about, and there was hardly enough wealth to make an impression upon our great and glorious metropolis—only two or three millions. T h e self-centred city hasn't time to go into details or look be­ neath the surface. It takes you on your face value. It seems that this well-known painter and his charming wife had been living on the Continent for a great many years, where his pictures had been making all kinds of a hit at the salons. They were now comfortably settled down for the season in N e w Y o r k to "execute a few commissions" and to have as good a time as possible, like every one else, before returning to their "artistic" country place and their beloved garden in the spring. For the rest they had an atmos­

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phere of cheerfulness and success combined with quiet dignity and comfort. We all like cheerfulness better than gloom. Ill T H E guests now assembled at Molly Car­ roll's pretty dinner-table were of this broad elective acquaintanceship, old friends and new, lasting or temporary. Formerly the Carrolls were inclined to limit their circle of social intercourse to the "literary and artis­ t i c " crowd who are, of course, the real elect of the earth. But they had outgrown such narrowness. Perhaps they wished to spread the light. Perhaps they wished to sell some pictures. A t any rate their guests of honor this evening were none other than M r . and M r s . Sterling—the new M r s . Sterling, the old one having died. Possibly the new house, which the colony now called Sterling Castle, had proved too much for her, though with a housekeeper and an assistant housekeeper and thirty servants even the Barocco ex­ uberance oughtn't to have troubled her. As a matter of fact she had liked it, poor thing. It made her feel valuable, just as did the liveried servants. The new M r s . Sterling had been a suc­ cessful emotional actress. She was still an actress, playing the star part of the wife of a billionaire, and playing it quite successfully too, though not emotionally so far as one could detect. She made an impressive en­ trance with her new master, wearing about her neck the dog collar of plump and price­ less pearls he had given her as well as a peck or two of diamonds expensively crowded upon the covered and uncovered portions of her beautiful body. She had not wanted to come here very much. She had known plenty of artists i n her brilliant but less affluent past. She had not played her new part long enough to tire of it as yet. She still felt the glamour of rich people, just as some rich men feel the gla­ mour of the greenroom. But she felt more reconciled to her husband's wishes after she had entered the house, which, though not comparable with her own, was surprisingly fine for a mere artist. The Carrolls had not particularly wanted the Sterlings either, but they had never had a chance before to return the former M r s . Sterling's invitation of several years ago,

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and they wanted the old man to see that they cherished no animosity against him for that matter of the search for truth. Though as it happened Sterling had borne up very well without a Frederick Carroll decoration on his walls, as could be seen by his genial expansiveness. H i s country place had proved a great success; the colony had swung around at last, as he had known it would, and he was now a real patron of the arts as you could see by the way he patronized all artists. That was why he had insisted upon accepting this surprising invitation. He was still more surprised to find the artist so comfortably established. " T h i s explains it a l l , " he said to himself, thinking of the search for truth. It was too bad. Painters ought to be poor. For this collector of paintings, railroads, and other bric-a-brac held to the orthodox faith that for those who do the real work of the world, like manipulating the stock-market or jack­ ing up the tariff, money was a good thing, but not for artists. It makes them lazy. It is just possible that Molly derived a lit­ tle mischievous delight in showing the Ster­ lings that a simple dinner could be good and that even better people would come to it than came as yet to M r . Sterling's enormous house on the avenue. She seated him next to M r s . Langham. It was Aline Langham, the distinguished novelist, who not only wrote of the highest society, but belonged to it—a distinction far from common among writers in democratic America. For the most part they have to put up with the company of those who, like themselves, make books and pictures, not those who buy such wares. M r s . Lang­ ham could not only satirize in fascinating detail the expensive entourages of our Amer­ ican aristocracy, but she possessed such things herself as might be seen when she took the air in the park in order to become refreshed for satirizing the vanity of riches. But good Queen Victoria endured a far more complicated domestic ritual every time she "drove out," although she, kind soul, was a simple old lady who could not have written one of Mrs. Langham's books to save her crown. In America all our women are queens. They deserve every­ thing that makes for the dignity and grace of living, and those who jeer at such con­ comitants of an advanced stage of civiliza­ tion only show that they are out of touch

with the Zeitgeist of our democracy or that they are envious, or else, worst selfrevelation of all, that they have not had such things for many, many generations in their own family—an admission no selfrespecting American should care to make. N o w the Carrolls, i n the innocence of their hearts, had placed M r . Sterling next to M r s . Langham, supposing that the novel­ ist would enjoy the opportunity of "study­ i n g " him. But that experienced lady knew the Sterling type by heart already. It is quite too common in America nowadays, thanks to a beneficent combination of nat­ ural resources and unnatural laws. But it is well known that there aren't nearly so many newly rich painters. Accordingly the authoress was quietly studying her host and hostess instead. Being a psychologist, she was naturally interested i n observing the effect of a sudden accession of wealth—not much, to be sure; only five millions—upon a conscientious painter who had not only an eye for color but also for women, and upon his clever young wife who was not only ambitious for him but also for social success. Every woman, of course, was socially ambitious. It was sheer affecta­ tion, inverted snobbery, to pretend other­ wise. Thus the unsuspecting Carrolls bade fair to be impaled upon M r s . Langham's pen and held up before the magnifying-glass of her projective imagination to serve as a useful example to the world, Fred mean­ while feeling pleased that this brilliant and delightful woman had fallen under Molly's charm, and M o l l y that M r s . Langham was one of those gifted beings who appreciated the genius of Frederick Carroll. In passing it is worth observing that Mrs. Langham was a little perplexed to account for the meagreness of the Carrolls' menage —only one man servant, and a poor selec­ tion at that—for being a true literary artist she always observed servants with the care­ fulness of a highly paid housekeeper. Home has been woman's only sphere for so long that it seems difficult to break the im­ memorial habit of the sex. T h e Carrolls' simplicity appealed to her sense of fitness. It showed a commendable restraint, an artist's scorn of worldly display. It might be a pose, but a very clever one. Neverthe­ less she prophesied with a mental smile that they would soon grow tired of this oversimplicity. T h e dinner itself was very

T h e Carrolls' Fortune simple too, and she wondered how this girl new to New York had discovered that simple dinners just then were very smart. The quick adaptability of the American woman is always interesting to novelists. A l l this would doubtless have interested the Carrolls if they had only been aware of it. For Fred had run up such a large bar bill at the club purchasing wines for these simple return dinners that his name had been posted for non-payment of house charges. However, he would have been willing to admit that the dinner was good, and, in fact, he complimented Molly upon it after their guests were gone and they were talking it over. " B i g , heavy dinners," he said, " are so vulgar, Molly, especially when attempted by poor people like ourselves." Now there were others among those pres­ ent who took thought of Molly's dinner and its relation to her husband's wealth. There was Carlton Stillman, the art critic, and his clever wife, who had sharp, black eyes which watched everything. Being i n the artcritic business they were both rather critical of artists just as patrons of the arts some­ times patronize them. M r s . Stillman tried not to be aware of Molly's very successful evening gown; for she feared it was a Paquin; and she sniffed inwardly at the fru­ gal meal. She thought the Carrolls rather stingy, knowing perfectly well that if she and Carlton ever came in for any money— but then they never would; they had no rich aunts to endow them. Some people had all the good luck. Carlton Stillman was an old friend of Fred's who had known him "when." So as he had failed as a painter himself it was difficult to accept Fred's affluence and his quiet air of having had it all his life as ami­ ably as, for instance, the Sterlings, though they, it should be remembered, had even greater wealth. N o r could he look down upon it with the godlike detachment of a Mrs. Langham who had the novelist's in­ difference to the vanities and jealousies of poor human nature. When the Stillmans first entered the drawing-room and caught sight of these personages, Carlton and his wife exchanged glances as much as to say, "Dear me! Aren't we flattered?" They were, as a matter of fact, rather pleased but were too much afraid of showing it. So Carlton maintained a satirical smile all evening and confided to the woman he took

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out, a broker's wife, that all this was going to ruin Fred Carroll as a painter. " H e used to be a very good sort, simple and un­ affected," said the critic, "but now that he has come in for all this wad of money— well, I see his finish." A n d Carlton shook his head sadly. It's a critic's business to analyze and understand. " I wonder what they see in people like the Sterlings?" replied the broker's wife. She had a soul above money, not being the member of the family who had to earn it. She was quite literary and artistic, and de­ voted not a little of her husband's lucky turns upon these worthy causes. " O h , like seeks like," Stillman answered sagely. " Wealth wants to play with greater wealth. I shouldn't be surprised if Molly intended eventually to marry off that inno­ cent little daughter of hers to one of those young Sterling reprobates." Another friend of early days was there, but he did not take it so hard—the husband of the broker's wife. He had been one of Molly's admirers many years ago, but had got over it enough since his own "ideal marriage" to admire Fred as well as Molly. He was an athletic, generous-minded fel­ low, and was just glad to see these two de­ lightful friends "so well fixed." Indeed, he thought seriously of buying a picture if the market went up another point, espe­ cially as he felt grateful for the opportunity of meeting the famous M r . Sterling, "one of the biggest men in the street." He appre­ ciated the honor, it seems, somewhat more than his wife did. In fact, he watched the big man all evening, remembered every word he uttered, and told his partners about it the next morning in the office. Young De Courcey was there too. He who had sought for truth successfully for M r . Sterling. He sat on M r s . Langham's right, and, apropos of the propinquity of his patron on her left, he asked her face­ tiously if she had ever seen his search. " W e l l , it's worth going miles to see," he went on humorously, "though perhaps," he concluded in a worldly whisper, " M r s . Sterling's house is a bit too far for you." Then turning brightly to the lady on his other side he told her about it too. She was the art critic's wife, and wives should al­ ways be interested in their husband's pro­ fession. When the conversation became general he decided to let the rest of the table

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know about it all at once. " B u t all the same," he remarked, apropos of something his host was saying, in the authoritative manner of hosts at the end of the table, as to the relative advantages of town and coun­ try for working—"all the same, when one wants the work of real genius to gladden one's ancestral halls i n the country, one comes to town to look for it. Isn't that so, M r . Sterling?" he added, with a laughing glance at Fred. For he had never heard the truth of Fred's connection with the search.

cause he has money is no reason why he should patronize me." Alas, one must pay the price, even for wealth. A n d after that whenever any one at the club said, "Fred Carroll's money doesn't seem to have changed h i m , " D e Courcey always added, " But he takes too much pains to show that it hasn't changed him. H e thinks we are thinking about his money all the time, simply because he i s . " A n d yet it is safe to say that, as the dinner-party now arose, nearly every one at the table had given thought to the Carrolls' fortune, liking or disliking them for it, ex­ cept the Carrolls themselves, who seemed to like every one (including themselves), beaming graciously upon all alike and now glancing at each other by way of mutual congratulation upon the success of the dinner. Indeed, as Fred gallantly drew back Mrs. Sterling's chair, he felt so elated and expan­ sive that he bestowed upon her a killing glance and said: " H o w unkind of you to go!" though he was longing manfully for a cigar by this time. " B u t I am coming to your studio on Thursday," the emotional actress returned, "to see that painting you were telling me about." " I f you'd only let me paint you\" he sighed, though, having a keen eye for color and women as M r s . Langham surmised, he observed that she w as pretty well painted already. " A h , we can talk that over when you dine with us next week," said M r s . Sterling, as he bowed her into the drawing-room be­ side the apparently unobserving authoress. Then, leading the men away to the library, he held a light for the broker's cigar and hospitably tried to talk about the unsettled condition of the market, though being ut­ terly ignorant of such things he made a mess of it. " A h ha," thought the observant art critic, with a satirical smile. '' That's what inter­ ests him now. Well, he'll probably lose it all. Then he may come to his senses and do some good work." For Stillman loved art for art's sake. IV

Now the great man had not been alto­ gether happy either with M r s . Langham on his right or his hostess on his left. H e wanted to talk high art with them, and they insisted upon talking high finance with him. It rather hurt his feelings, and then and there at Molly Carroll's little dinner he de­ cided to give a large, expensive art museum to his native city out West where his millhands were dying of typhoid according to the laws of the survival of the fittest. A n d he did so, too, though Molly never got a word of credit for it. But when this glib young painter turned to him in that assured manner he was thoroughly provoked. In the respectful silence which followed De Courcey's facetious appeal, the great man smiled sardonically and said, " If you want to know the reason you got my library to do it was because my good friend Carroll here recommended you. I offered him twenty-five per cent, more than you got, but he turned the job down." The hostess laughed quickly to make plain that it was all good-natured chaffing. So did the host and several of the guests, most of all young De Courcey himself. But after that he stared at the centre-piece and remained silent, crushed by the heavy hand of capital. That's the way with these in­ fant industries unless we protect them. U p to this point in the dinner De Courcey had been genuinely pleased at seeing a nice, quiet fellow like Fred in the lap of luxury. " H e ' s a thoroughbred," he had remarked to M r s . Langham. " F i t s the frame so well." But now discovering himself under obligations to Carroll he disliked him for it. " W h a t does he amount to, anyway?" he said to himself, with a glance at Fred, seated at the head of a brilliant dinner-table B E F O R E the season was over Fred and looking urbane and serene, and apparently M o l l y occasionally touched that effulgent without a care in the world. "Simply be­ pinnacle of success which brought the illusr

T h e Carrolls' Fortune trious Carroll name among the names of others present who had possessed wealth and social eminence as far back as the memory of the oldest society reporter could reach. Surely this sort of success ought to prove demoralizing to an impressionable young painter, even without the complacent consciousness of wealth: adorable women looking into his eyes and telling him how they adored his work, which they had never seen; teas in his studio so that they could see it and adore it afresh; younger painters asking him to come to their studios and kindly criticise their work. A l l this giddy whirl of flattery might reasonably be sup­ posed to turn his head. But, regrettable as it may seem, it did nothing of the sort. Perhaps the atmos­ phere of admiration made him gallantly ambitious to prove worthy of the praise of the women. Perhaps the attitude of re­ spect made him conscious of his responsi­ bilities as an adviser of youth. But more likely there was nothing conscious about it. He hadn't time to think about himself, nor inclination; he was too much interested in other people and outside things. It was an unconscious stimulation—the subtle psy­ chic influence of approbation. In short, he was getting an uplift, and such things are quite as necessary as the dull weight of ad­ versity, though Carroll's New England an­ cestry would have been loath to admit it. As Mrs. Sterling told him one morning in the studio, in the old days—she was begin­ ning to call them the "dear old days"— she could never do her best except when she felt that the audience was loving her. " N o wonder you were so successful," said the painter, and he was spurred on to do his best upon the head he was making of her, even more than in his own dreary old days by the prattle of children's voices or the rat­ tle of butchers' wagons. The head was shown at the mid-winter exhibition of the Academy of Design. It attracted considerable attention. Those who did not like him said that this was be­ cause of the interest in the subject rather than the skill of the work. It attracted attention all the same. Moreover, it re­ ceived an honorable mention in the com­ petition for the Bronson prize. Some of his acquaintances were puzzled. They had hardly expected him to do anything serious.

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" I always told you he could do good work—if he only tried," said those who had not lost faith in him. M r s . Sterling had a great deal of faith in him. She bought two of the pictures that he was preparing for his own exhibition in the spring, before he had a chance to exhibit them. She, too, had become a patron of the arts. It ran in the family. One of the canvases she bought appealed to her as so divine that she could hardly stand it, so she turned her face away and wept beautifully. She was beginning to bore him dreadfully. That was why he said such nice things to her. She dropped into the studio at all hours, but as she sometimes brought friends and some of them were likely to buy pict­ ures, Fred as the father of a family could not very well put her out. In M a y came the "Exhibition of Paint­ ings by Frederick Carroll," at McPherson's. It could hardly be said that the gallery was crowded, though M r s . Sterling testified humorously that there was standing room only. A t any rate, never before had so many people come to see his pictures, not only the usual sprinkling of those who paint or write or collect, but others who had gone to their country places by this time made special trips to town in high-powered cars. Perhaps their fluttering presence irritated certain of the critics. In the old days they had usually dismissed Frederick Carroll with a brief commendatory notice. N o w they discussed him in long condemnatory notices, beginning "After a long silence." Some of them took him seriously and spoke of his "distinction of manner." Fred liked that. Another, a young man with elab­ orately fashionable clothes, said, " H e paints like a gentleman," which offended Fred's professional pride. Carlton Stillman summed it up authoritatively thus: " L e i s ­ ure should be used for taking pains, not for showing that one is free from the necessity to do so." A n d he implied a flippant dilet­ tante's scorn of being understood. For A r t has to do with things as they seem, not as they are. Thus a work of art can seem so many different things to so many different men. " Y o u mustn't let a little thing like that bother you," said an older painter to Fred. "It's much better than being dismissed with a light pat on the back and then for­ gotten."

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Another painter, a man whom Fred had never met, wrote a letter to the newspaper defending Frederick Carroll from the charge of dilettanteism, and paying his respects to critics who didn't know great work when they saw it. A l l of which drew more atten­ tion to the art of Frederick Carroll. McPherson the art dealer dropped into the studio one day. "We've done very well," he said. " I ' l l sell the rest of them for you within a year if we work it right." Y o u are getting something of a vogue. We must strike while the iron's hot. Get 'em on the run. We must have another show in the fall. It's the psychological moment. "That's impossible," said Fred. "I've got to have some rest this summer." " What have you in these old portfolios ? " " O l d stuff, done several years ago, never exhibited. It's rotten." But when McPherson looked at it he pro­ nounced it "swell." He said: "It's in a different mood, but it's good work." Molly backed up the art dealer. So did an older painter, one of the big ones whose opinion Fred respected. A n d now a curious thing happened. Fred put his head on one side, squinted his eyes and decided that it was not so bad after all. In fact, he was quite pleased with some of the canvases. " A work of art can seem so many different things to so many different men." Fred was a different man now that success was coquetting with him. V B U T before the exhibition took place in the fall, just when the tide was turning, when articles were being written about the art of Frederick Carroll, when he was re­ ceiving honors, such as invitations to lect­ ure before select gatherings of young women, when all life seemed bright with promise and good cheer, and just when Fred and Molly were presumably about to begin another triumphal tour heavenward in New York, the sad but interesting news went out that the Carrolls had lost their money. " Y e s , my dear, they've given up their town house and have moved into one of those co-operative studio apartments. They have rented their own place in the country for three years. They have even given up their car!"

" I suspected that something was the mat­ ter all along," said the broker. " T h i s explains their apparent lack of public spirit when it came to subscribing for charities," said the broker's wife. " It all goes to prove," said D e Courcey to some of the fellows at the club, "that you never can tell by outward appearances what is going on inside." " I always knew that Fred wasn't a snob at heart," said another, "but I sup­ pose he was worrying a good deal and that affected his manner." T h i s explained it all. Every one agreed that Fred and Molly were showing a beautiful spirit. They ut­ tered not one word of complaint. T o be sure they disliked giving up their house in the country, but they hoped some day to get it back again. Meanwhile the children were old enough to thrive i n town and the family must follow the job. Even Molly's made-over Paris clothes did not sanctify her spirit, for she had intended to make them over all along. Paris styles are always a season ahead of N e w York's. " W e l l , I told you he'd lose his money," said Carlton Stillman to his wife. " N o w he'll settle down and work. He's got to." A n d sure enough he had another exhibi­ tion quite early i n the fall! T h i s showed how industrious he had been since he lost his fortune. A n d when Fred's selections from his early work which he had been touching up during the summer were ex­ hibited at McPherson's, Carlton Stillman was the first to sound the praise of Fred­ erick Carroll's " n e w " manner. It seems that he had struck a fresh note, showing a more matured understanding of the irony and bitterness, the inherent pathos and yet the inherent beauty of this process called life. " I t must be fine to be a critic," said Molly to Fred. Perhaps the other critics felt the same psychic influence, or else like the other painters they all agreed to stand by good old Fred Carroll i n his time of trouble. " T h a t ' s the way to make these lazy ar­ tists work," thought M r . Sterling, looking on. A n d perhaps that was the way the rest of the buying public looked at it, for McPherson sold all of these pictures in the new manner and most of those left over from the heyday of Carroll's affluence. Not

'I hate Aunt Bela's public spirit," she cried vindictively.—Page 341. only that, but he asked for more. Fred re­ fused, however, because he had promised M r . Sterling to take on a big decorative scheme for the foyer of the magnificent mu­ seum that great and good man was building in a Western city. " C a r r y out your own idea," said Sterling. " Y o u ' r e the doctor. Only F d advise you to let me invest the commission for you. You're not fit to handle money, Fred, my boy." And yet, strangely enough, it was this very loss of his money that had been the making of him, as every one knew, includ­ ing Mrs. Langham, who expressed the same idea in a more subtle way in her searching psychological story called " R e ­ demption." VOL. XLVIII.—33

T o be sure, Fred had originally planned to be a portrait painter. This worthy am­ bition was never to be carried out. But what of it? N o one ever constructs his career according to plans and specifica­ tions. But now the Carroll children would at least have a chance to make the attempt. " I always told you that you would win out in the end," said Molly, apropos of Fred's election to the Academy. "Sooner or later true merit is always recognized." " W e l l , " said Fred, with the becoming modesty of a man of achievement, "there's one thing I can honestly say: what little I have accomplished in my life has been without any bluffing."

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I T T I N G L Y , I thought, the r o a d thereto starts for the Bluegrass K e n t u c k i a n from horror-haunted J a c k s o n , the county-seat of B l o o d y Breathitt; B r e a t h i t t — a l ­ most the first m o u n t a i n county i n the State to inaugurate the terrible feud, a n d cer­ tainly the last to give it u p , b e g i n n i n g one d u r i n g the war, c u l m i n a t i n g it only a year or two ago i n the death of one leader at the hands of his o w n son, a n d keeping it alive to-day. T h e little t o w n was sitting quietly on the flanks of fourteen b a b y mountains when I swung from the cars one m i d A u g u s t noon, a n d waited w i t h other h u n ­ gry travellers i n the hotel bus u n t i l the u n i f o r m e d autocrat of the t r a i n could change into his day-clothes a n d come along. T h a t same bus, without a slack of speed, h a d been ferried over the m u d d y waters of the K e n t u c k y R i v e r o n a flatboat w h e n I was last there, but now, it rolled at about the same speed over a suspension bridge, b u i l t b y the county, let to private i n d i v i d u a l s , a n d b r i n g i n g i n , as I was told, a tremendous yearly toll. " W h y doesn't the county reap the har­ vest?" N o b o d y i n the bus answered but one m a n , a n d he pleasantly gave me the l a u g h . I might as w e l l have asked w h y i n that county a m a n still has the cave-dweller's right to take his brother's life w i t h little other risk to his o w n except from the d w e l l ­ er i n another cave. T h e outside w o r l d c o u l d n ' t very w e l l omit B r e a t h i t t w h e n it made law, a n d B r e a t h i t t accepted the gift w i t h gratitude so far at least as it s h o u l d serve the personal purpose of the m a n w h o held the l a w i n the h o l l o w of his h a n d . N o t that there are not bitter complaints of law­ lessness i n Breathitt, a n d stern upholders of the law. T h e r e are: but I observed that the bitterest a n d the sternest were not allied w i t h the party that happens just n o w to be i n power. 35°

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It was l u n c h t i m e — d i n n e r - t i m e it is m the m o u n t a i n s — a n d the little hotel was c r o w d e d , mostly w i t h vigorous, active y o u n g m e n . T h e host was y o u n g , smooth­ faced, a n d courteous, a n d straightway he requested me to " s h a k e h a n d s " with his guests. I s h o o k — w i t h a l l of them: a mission w o r k e r f r o m B e r e a , a college on the edge of the B l u e g r a s s ; a school-teacher, a lawyer, a nervous, fluent Presbyterian minister, a n d a m a n f r o m M i s s o u r i who was f o r m i n g a stock c o m p a n y to pur­ chase a h i g h - p r i c e d s t a l l i o n ; a n d clerks, merchants, ex-feudsmen. P e r h a p s it was the h o l i d a y effect of S a t u r d a y , or of the c o m i n g base-ball game that afternoon, but the air h a d a w i d e - a w a k e h u s t l i n g quality i n m a r k e d contrast to the slumbrous calm that I h a d k n o w n i n that village before. A l r e a d y I h a d learned that I c o u l d get a horse—a " g o o d h o r s e " — a n d m a n y people told me as m a n y w a y s of getting to H e l l fer-Sartain, w h i c h r a n g e d according to o p i n i o n f r o m forty to sixty miles away. M o r e o v e r , everybody t o l d m e to stay all night o n the w a y w i t h ex-Sheriff Callahan, a n d , as I h a d read i n the papers only a few weeks before that he h a d been ambushed b y his enemies as he stood i n the door of his store, a n d was still i n b e d from his w o u n d , I thought I m i g h t hear, see, and learn something of interest. It was nearly two o'clock S a t u r d a y afternoon, a n d I must be b a c k i n J a c k s o n M o n d a y m o r n i n g , so I needed a good horse a n d a h u r r i e d de­ parture. T h e base-ball t e a m i n variegated uniforms was passing w h e n I went out to mount. T h e horse w a s there, a gaunt, bony, superannuated, drooping-necked old mare. I was aghast, b u t everybody i n the c r o w d h a d r i d d e n the o l d p l u g a n d every­ b o d y said she c o u l d m o v e , a n d above all was w i l l i n g . J u s t t h e n she turned one sightless eye to m e a n d I shuddered. "I r i d her twenty-five years a g o , " said one by­ stander. " F o r heaven's sake h o w o l d is s h e ? " " N i g h on to t h i r t y , " said another. There was n o t h i n g to be done a n d I climbed

'I rid her twenty-five years ago," said one by-stander.—Page 350.

astride, waved good-by to my friends, crossed the bridge, ambled under a trestle, and was soon winding upward on the road to Hell-fer-Sartain over in Leslie County far away. II A L O N G a ragged ridge I rode a little way, and then down a narrow creek; a short way through a little valley and up another narrow creek to the toilsome top of an­ other ridge. Most of the time the road was the creek bed, sometimes rocky, and some­ times of solid gray slate into which the wheels of heavily-laden wagons had worn ruts but a trifle wider than their rims, sometimes eighteen inches deep. The old mare was an expert mountaineer. She had but one gait on level ground—a swinging pace. Uphill she would go at a quick walk, and down hill stiff-legged, letting the force of gravity do her work, and making the avoidance of vertebral dislocation my work. When there was a little hollow she would break from this stiff-legged walk just at the right moment and let her own impetus carry her to the top of the next little rise. N o mean physicist was that old mare, and assuredly she was willing. She

needed no switch, and she was so old, so poor, and so pathetically obliging that I straightway dubbed her " O l d Faithful." I was to have a great deal of admiration and no little affection for O l d Faithful be­ fore that trip was over. As it was Saturday afternoon, I met along the road idlers on foot and on horseback, and there was a group of them at every cross-roads, schoolhouse, and store. In that county, too, the log-cabin was disappearing and the signs of the universal change going on among the hills were plentiful. Once in a creek-ra­ vine an old hag tottered out of a miserable hut, and trembling on a cane, shaded her eyes with a withered hand and hailed me: " G o t any tobaccer?" she quavered. " I been so sick I hain't had no chance of gittin' to the store." I knew she wanted smoking-tobacco, and I had only cigarettes, several of which I tossed her. "Shore they hain't pizen?" she asked, and as I rode away, she was still looking down at them untouched. The sun was swinging low now, and at last I was approaching the river. Across the creek I could see the store of another Callahan, brother of the ex-sheriff, and on the edge of the little settlement, about it, 351

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I met two boys, pillion-fashion, on horse­ back. T h e one in front had a reckless face, and his eyes were heavy with drink. " H o w d y , " he shouted, and I could have heard him had he been a hundred yards away. Hazily his eyes took in the sightless socket of O l d Faithful, and then caught my spectacles, and after he had passed he turned to his companion and again shouted: " B o t h b l i n d , by God." N o o f f e n c e was meant and none taken by so naive a comment and I rode on, laugh­ ing, toward the store on the porch of which sat a g r o u p of men. Brother Callahan was comfortably fat, hum­ orous of face, and a bit sarcastic of speech, and he e y e d me and O l d F a i t h f u l whimsically. " A meetin'-house pa­ cer," he genially char­ acterized the old mare — h i s characterization of me being kindly with­ held—while the rest of the group, one of whom, a b e a r d l e s s stripling with a huge revolver h o l s t e r e d under one 'Shore they hain't arm " f i x e d " me (as German students say) as only mountain folks can. Yes, I could telephone back to Jackson, and I could reach Sheriff Calla­ han's a little after dark, and Brother Calla­ han would telephone ahead that I was com­ ing. Of course I had to tell my business (book-writing I put it) and I saw plainly that I was not understood, nor was my purpose in going to Hell-fer-Sartain, and I could feel the eyes of suspicion following me out of sight when I rode away. It was beautiful up that river; the dirt road was good, the branches arched overhead, and the slanting sun-rays shot through them and laid bars of gold on the lazy yellow stream. I met men on horses and mules, several of them openly armed, and all showing the holiday moonshine-aided spir­ it of Saturday afternoon. Dusk had fallen when I turned up the creek, and the first stars were peeping through it, when I saw

through the gloom a big white house near a white store close to the road, and I knew I was nearing Sheriff Callahan. A rather gruff young fellow met me at the gate. " I ' m afraid I've kept you waiting," I said. " Y o u have," he said, shortly, but with no ill nature, and he reached for my horse's reins. I went past a spreading shrub and into a comfortable liv­ ing room where there were a big bed, a bu­ reau, and a wash-stand. M y host was not visi­ ble, and it was not un­ til I had washed up that he suddenly appeared: a big p o w e r f u l man with black hair and a short black mustache, shifting watchful black eyes, and in spite of his size, with the lithe swift­ ness of a wild-cat in his every movement. I had met him before in the court-house at Jackson when a feudsman was on trial for a murder in w h i c h the sheriff was supposed to have had a h a n d , but he did not recollect me: he met so pizen?"-—Page 351. many people, he said, in e x p l a n a t i o n . He was coatless, without waistcoat, and under the waistline of his black trousers was a tiny hole, and in the rear of those trousers was a similar little hole. T o my surprise he asked me no questions whatever but put on a black coat (this black garb I was soon to learn was purposeful) and led the way to the dining-room where a silent darkeyed girl who I presumed was his daughter served us as good a supper as a hungry man would want anywhere. There was little talk between us until we were seated in the hallway afterward. I observed that my host sat in the corner so that the bushy shrub outside the door shut him off from being seen anywhere from the mountain side, and so that he was visible only from the door of his own store, and that more­ over not a patch of white showed about him from head to foot. H e had been shot from ambush only a short while before,

O n the Road to Hell-fer-Sartain and plainly he was g u a r d i n g against a s i m ­ ilar catastrophe. A week before the papers had reported h i m i n b e d n i g h death. I cleared my throat: " I am surprised to find y o u so w e l l , " I said, " I thought y o u were something of an i n v a l i d . " " O h I'm all right." " A h , when d i d the—er—accident occur ? " " I was h u r t , " he said gravely, " j u s t forty days ago." T h e n we d r o p p e d formalities a n d M r . Callahan rose a n d showed me the tiny holes i n his trousers where the bullet h a d gone through. It was a n a r r o w shave, a n d then he told me i n detail a n d w i t h no r a n ­ cor the story. It h a d n o t h i n g whatever to do with the o l d H a r g i s - C o c k e r i l l feud at all he declared—it was a little personal matter of his o w n . Some months before a few men r i d i n g past his house h a d play­ fully fired into it. M r . C a l l a h a n a n d his friends h a d r u n out a n d playfully re­ sponded, w o u n d i n g one m a n a n d k i l l i n g a mule. F o r t y days before M r . C a l l a h a n was standing i n the door of his store just after sunset w h e n he felt a sudden sharp

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p a i n i n the groin, a n d t u m b l e d to the floor b e h i n d the door. H e thought at first that it was a sudden stroke of paralysis u n t i l the crack of the gun reached his ear, a n d w h e n another bullet ploughed through the door w h i c h was meant to finish the w o r k of the first i n case that first h a d not properly done its w o r k , he k n e w quite positively just what h a d happened. T h e first thing he d i d was to rise a n d drag himself to his tele­ phone, so that w i t h i n ten minutes blood­ hounds were ordered from the Bluegrass. H i s six-year-old son was standing at the gate, a n d while the assassins were firing over his head, the little fellow saw the puffs of smoke on the hill-side, a n d heard the assassins r u n n i n g away. M r . C a l l a h a n trailed his assailants with the hounds, got positive proofs, he claims, that they were the guilty ones, and then h a d them arrested a n d tried. T h e y were dismissed, because, he further claimed, his enemies were i n control of the courts—in answer to w h i c h , observers more or less prejudiced say that M r . C a l l a h a n thereby got only a taste of the medicine that he h a d administered to others when he was the doctor of laws. B e

He turned . . . and again shouted, "Both blind, by G o d . " - P a g e 352.

Mr. Callahan and his friends had run out and playfully responded.—Page 353.

that as it may it was hard for me to see while listening to his story how any man could have acted otherwise than he had, and as he may act hereafter—unless his party again gets in power when he will no doubt make his redress legal rather than personal. If he could be assured, he said, that his enemies would rest now, he would gladly take his memento—tapping the wound in his groin—and call it square. " B u t they won't and they will try to am­ bush me again." So there he was with his little body-guard, a prisoner in his own 354

house, with a secret passage between house and store, appearing outside only when he must, and never knowing when a bullet would sing at him from the bushes; never standing in a doorway or before a window with a light behind him, clothed in black to give no aim to a rifle, and when he had to leave home, slipping off at night by some unfrequented way, and always—no matter where he was—in momentary danger of death. " W h y don't you leave?" I asked. " M y business is here and my home," he

O n the Road to Hell-fer-Sartain said simply, " a n d besides they w o u l d say I was a c o w a r d . " A l l the time he t a l k e d , his little b o y was cuddled i n his arms a n d quite such paternal tenderness I h a d not often seen. " H e is crazy about the sea," he said. " H e ' s always asking questions about it, a n d w h a t he wants most on earth is just to see it. I've told h i m a l l I know about the sea, but he keeps o n a s k i n g questions t h a t I can't answer. I told h i m it was as deep as these mountains are h i g h . "

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half a n hour later w h e n I h a n d e d h i m the mite asked for m y breakfast as though he wanted to give it back. " I don't charge preachers n o t h i n ' , " he said. I have been taken for a detective—a revenue officer—and for m a n y other things i n the mountains, but never b e f o r e have I been honored w i t h the suspicion of w e a r i n g the cloth. B u t it was Sunday m o r n i n g , a n d I h a d said that I was on m y w a y to c h u r c h on H e l l - f e r - S a r t a i n , w h i c h w a s yet three hours away.

" Seven or eight times as deep as these m o u n ­ tains," I said, whereat even the father looked incredulous, a n d then I Ill took a h a n d a n d told the boy all I c o u l d M A N Y y e a r s ago a t h i n k of a b o u t the little s t o r y , just seven o c e a n and its c r e a t ­ hundred and fifty ures, and the fishes that words long a n d called carried lights a n d elec­ " H e l l - f e r - S a r t a i n , " was tric batteries, a n d the published n e x t to the lad drank i n the w o n ­ advertisements i n a cer­ ders as t h o u g h they tain A m e r i c a n weekly. were fairy tales w h i c h T h e a u t h o r got the the father, I am inclined ~ munificent sum of six to believe, thought they dollars for it. H e h a d were. There was a long sweated out his heart's journey for O l d F a i t h ­ blood on a book or two ful and me next day, b e f o r e that story ap­ He felt a sudden sharp pain.—Page 353 and I must start at four peared, a n d yet, w h e n o'clock i n the m o r n i n g . he got to N e w Y o r k I could get breakfast at his brother-in- some six weeks later he found himself law's Callahan said, a n d so I struck a k n o w n for that little story. B i l l N y e h a d comfortable bed (two sheets it had), a n d been reading it on the platform, and Colonel in the dark, next m o r n i n g , O l d F a i t h f u l W a r i n g h a d read it before the authors' and I were ascending the bed of the creek. club—facts that went abroad throughout The sunrise was bursting b e h i n d us w h e n the l a n d . T h e author saw a c o l u m n of we reached the top, a n d far d o w n the ridge criticism about those seven h u n d r e d a n d I came upon a clearing i n w h i c h were l o g - fifty words a n d no m e n t i o n of his name. houses with dormer-windows a n d porches, L a t e r he got the prospectus of some p u b ­ vine-clad, artistic, a n d w e l l built. T h e r e lishing firm's collection of the masterpieces was a tennis court near the r o a d a n d I a l ­ of his country's literature w h i c h stated that most gasped. It was B u c k h o r n College at a n authors' dinner it h a d been decided planted there by Presbyterians. I h a d that a short story w i t h the queer title of heard of it but never before k n e w its " H e l l - f e r - S a r t a i n , " a n d b y a n u n k n o w n whereabouts. I passed B u c k h o r n reluc­ author, was the best short story written i n tantly, hoping that I s h o u l d have time to A m e r i c a ! A n d that the collection w o u l d stop there coming b a c k , rode d o w n the c o n t a i n this i n c o m p a r a b l e gem. This river, crossed, a n d drew u p before the house story was mine, a n d for this reason I was of the brother-in-law. M y host hesitated o n m y w a y to see the scene of the story

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down a devil of a place,' t'other feller says. ' W e l l , ' says the fust man—'you're goin' into hell fer sartain now.' " From that point I was to ride up a little creek that trickled past my informant's cabin, and on top of the ridge I would strike Devil's Jump Branch of Hell-fer-Sartain. Then I c o u l d ride on down to church. It was a wild ride up that little creek. I lost my way, recovered it, struck the head of D e v i l ' s Jump B r a n c h , f o l l o w e d its rocky path, and in less " H e ' s a good man an' than an hour I emerged there ain't a word agin at its mouth b e t w e e n h i m " — the s p e a k e r m a s s i v e superimposed paused—'' leastwise not boulders to see the placid for a long time. 'Bout stream I sought gleam­ fifteen year ago he got ing u n d e r m o r e great in a fuss with a fat feller boulders below. I halted an' he an' a f r i e n d o' in the road and looked hisn w a i t e d for him in back at those m a s s i v e , the lorrel an' shot him moss-grown r h o d o d e n ­ but they didn't kill him. dron-tufted b o u l d e r s — They're g o o d f r i e n d s that branch anyhow was now. The preacher paid well named—and I could­ the feller not to prosecute n't help thinking what a him, an' atter the thing was over he tol' as how perilous leap at that point bein' nervous he put a the old boy would have bullet between his teeth into his domains. As ] when he saw the fat feller rode down I was politely comin', an' he was so He was still pieachin told the n a m e of the on Hell-ferSartain. blame nervous t h a t he creek by a man and by £ bit the bullet in two." woman, each without £ " A n d he kept on preaching?" I asked. smile and each correcting my pronuncia " O h yes, folks have never held that up tion to Hell-fer-Cer/a/»—for the presen agin him." A n d he was still preaching on generation of mountaineers is losing it: Hell-fer-Sartain. Now in the story printed, dialect fast. The church was at the moutl the creek had gotten its name from the of the stream which was rather large anc fighting character of the dwellers thereon. had deep pools that looked bass-haunted As the teller of the story says to the listen­ Twisting down it for several miles, pas ing stranger: several rather well-to-do looking cabins " J u s ' turn up the creek beyond the bend I learned that preaching was going on : thar an' climb on a stump an' holler about hundred yards from the creek in a school once"—that is one mountain method of house. There I halted. The bellowin issuing a challenge—"an' you'll see how tones of the preacher issued from the lit the name come. Stranger you'll git hell tie frame school-house, and the window fer sartain." As I was nearing the waters of it were suddenly filled with curiou of the same I asked a mountaineer lean­ faces regarding me. Half a score of boy ing on the fence about that name and he were seated on the roadside and one c grinned: them took O l d Faithful away to munch o " F o l k s say an ole bear hunter goin' up a dozen ears of corn. The rest sat whittlin; the creek met another one coming down. swearing, gossiping about the small going: ' Whar'd you come from ?' he says. ' I come on in the neighborhood, about everythir

at last. There was a church on Hell-ferSartain, and I had heard there was a Sun­ day-school known officially as the Hell-ferSartain Sunday-school; and, moreover, that a philanthropical lady had offered to give this school a library provided she should be permitted to design the book plates. Moreover, I had heard of the preacher of Hell-fer-Sartain, and he fitted the niche in which imagination would place him. About him I had heard these words:

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but w o m e n ; for i n the m o u n t a i n s the tongue of gossip about w o m e n is c u r i o u s l y still. " I was up to dance o n D e v i l ' s J u m p last night," said one, " a n ' I d i d n ' t git home till daylight. I ' m p u r t y t i r e d . " " I f you don't w a t c h out, the preacher i n thar'll be after y o u . H e says to J i m P e r ­ kins yestiddy, ' Y o u air g o i n ' to h e l l . ' A n ' J i m says ' I r e c k o n y o u ' l l git thar fust.' " " H e was after me a m i n u t e a g o , " said the other. " H e got to l o o k i n ' straight at me an' a-talkin' hell-fire a n ' d a m n a t i o n straight at me a n ' I come out. H e better not say n o t h i n ' to me outside." Presently I went inside myself. The preacher was tall a n d l a n k , his trousers were short, a n d his A d a m ' s apple as b i g as Julius Caesar's. O n e glance only he gave me. H e wasn't w e l l he said, but he w o u l d go on a little longer, though heaven k n o w s

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eyes o n one youth w h o shifted i n his seat, and a moment later, like his predecessor outside, stole out of the house. A little later, pleading, the preacher t u r n e d his eyes to another corner of the r o o m where a girl sat w i t h her handkerchief at her quiv­ ering m o u t h , a n d I saw tears loosening themselves from her downcast eyes. T h e rest, attentive or not, as their m o o d was, got u p a n d left w h e n they pleased, while others strolled i n as they pleased: so, as I had heard m a n y a n d m a n y such sermons, I, too, soon followed their example a n d soon strolled out just as casually, but a little more m a r k e d than they. I h a d been to Hell-fer-Sartain, a n d I h a d heard preaching there. If I went back n o w the w a y I h a d come, I should save six long weary miles. I was tired, as was O l d F a i t h ­ ful, but I h a d not been to the m o u t h of Hell-fer-Sartain and I h a d not seen the

"You're goin' into hell fer sartain now."—Page 356. how long he h a d been going o n a n d yet would go. " I believe," he chanted cheerfully, " a s sure as I ' m a-standin' here that there is a living hell of fire a n d brimstone into w h i c h you sinners here w i l l go as sure as y o u ' r e asettin' here ef y o u don't repent a n ' be saved by the grace of the L o r d . " H e fixed his

c h u r c h there, a n d while m y curiosity was satisfied, m y conscience wasn't a n d so from sheer stubbornness I saddled O l d F a i t h f u l and rode o n d o w n H e l l - f e r - S a r t a i n t h r o u g h an avenue of c u c u m b e r trees. N e v e r h a d I seen so m a n y c u c u m b e r trees i n m y life as were o n that one r o c k y r o a d a n d h a d they only been starred w i t h their great creamy

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blossoms they would have been compensa­ tion for the whole toilsome trip. Disap­ pointment awaited me at the mouth of the creek. The church there was closed, and above its doors was not the picturesque title of the stream, but some fern-like name that was easily traceable to some shocked femi­ nine taste from the outer world. Half a mile on I got a dinner of cold beans and cold

A girl sat with her handkerchief

cornbread, and joined by a twenty-yearold school-teacher on a big black mule, turned my face toward Jackson. This young school-teacher was making money in his native mountains in order to study law outside; he had gone to school in the Bluegrass and he knew my books. Just then he was electioneering for his brother, who was running for a county office and he shouted his slogan to some natives playing base-ball up the creek, to the porches of the houses we passed, and when we met a voter in the road he stopped, while I rode discreetly on, and he never failed to over­ take me with a wink of success. I'd like to wager that the brother won. Hell-fer-Sar­ tain Creek had once deserved its name, he said, for there had been a "heap of devil­ ment" done up there. There had been several fights in the school-house where I had heard preaching but everything had quieted down there as it was quieting down all through the mountains except over toward Jackson. Yes, the good old times

were gone! O n the other side of the mountain we parted and I rode on to Sheriff Callahan's where I got supper. As I was telling him good-by I asked him if the men who had shot him were neighbors of his and he smiled. " Y o u passed their houses, going and coming," he said. " W h y , I must have asked the very men

: her quivering mouth.—Page 357.

how much further it was to your house. I wonder if they thought I was—er—er" I was about to say a spy of his but his face was not encouraging, for the mountaineer is singularly unsympathetic with curiosity like this on the part of a stranger, and I left him with a fleeting wonder that he might have thought me possibly an emis­ sary of theirs, which would have been humorous indeed as long as I was missing the tragedy that would have been easy in either case. It was dark now, there were no stars, and the one good eye of O l d Faithful must guide me along the pitch-black road. It was seven or eight miles back to Brother Cal­ lahan's store where I could stay all night. The ford was at the mouth of the creek on which he lived, and I was warned to be careful crossing it as the water was deep both above and below. H o w was I to know when I had gone seven or eight miles ? I had no watch, and I could not estimate the probable distance by O l d Faithful's

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supposed rate of speed. H o w was I to see n o t h i n g a n d boldly entered the river. know when I reached the ford ? T h e sheriff T h e s w i r l i n g yellow struck the m i d d l e of said I could feel for it, as the R o u g h R i d e r s m y saddle skirts but I h a d the faith of ages tried to catch the S p a n i a r d s , I suppose— i n that o l d mare n o w a n d she was soon with my hands. It was a cheerless a n d deli­ c l i m b i n g the other b a n k precisely at the cate problem. A t several houses I shouted m o u t h of the creek. It was so d a r k w h e n I inquiries, and at each house I got the cheer­ reached the little settlement a r o u n d B r o t h ­ ing news that at each I was the same dis­ er C a l l a h a n ' s store that I could not find tance away from the ford, so that O l d either store or house. B u t one light was Faithful and I were at least h o l d i n g o u r visible, a n d from its direction came a h y m n own. B u t soon, every house was d a r k , for of praise for blessings that I could not quite mountain people go to bed early, a n d n o appreciate, a n d I rode across the creek more information was m i n e . t o w a r d it. T h e singer d i d not keep people Suddenly, however, I got great comfort. a l l night; but he pointed the way through After However uneasy I was, O l d F a i t h f u l ap­ the gloom toward C a l l a h a n ' s store. parently knew no fear a n d no uncertainty. hallooing myself hoarse at it, a sleepy son O n she went as confidently as though she of B r o t h e r C a l l a h a n ' s came out i n none too were on the way to her o w n stable, a n d it good a humor, naturally, a n d showed O l d occurred to me that d u r i n g the twenty- F a i t h f u l to corn, a n d me to the " h a p p y seven blushing summers of her y o u n g life h a y . " I h a d been i n the saddle just fif­ she had been over that r o a d before a n d teen hours since four o'clock that m o r n ­ that she had not perhaps forgotten h o w ing, a n d I travelled the whole way again to swim. So I let the reins loose o n her that night i n m y dreams; though it seemed neck and while I saw, as it seemed, m a n y that I h a d not fallen asleep before I was fords, I let her alone, a n d we a m b l e d o n a w a k e n e d by the same l a d w h o m I h a d through the dark for two hours a n d , it awakened. H e was bringing me a pitcher seemed, many more. A n d I d i d well to of water. It was p l a i n from his manner trust her, for without w a r n i n g she suddenly that I h a d been the subject of discussion turned down a steep b a n k where I c o u l d that was not altogether flattering.

When we met a voter in the road he stopped, while I rode discreetly on.—Page 358.

"Comin' over on Hel-fer-Sartain agin?"—Page 361. " D ' d you say you were in the book busi­ ness?" he asked. "Yes." " Y o u sell 'em?" " I make 'em." He stared incredulously and I thought for a moment he had done me the honor to mistake me for a publisher, but I was wrong, for at breakfast my gen­ eral credibility seemed in question. There were two gentlemen present who lived on the classic stream of Hell-fer-Sartain, but whether they had come after me and had helped the atmosphere of suspicion or were on their way home, and still helped the wonder as to why I had been there, I didn't learn, but there was a distinct ten­ dency to guy me more or less gently. A n d when after a few remarks about the world in general during which I had innocently remarked that I had been in Cuba during the Spanish war and in Manchuria during 360

the Japanese war they all but winked at one another openly. " I heard a young feller tellin' once about all the places he'd been," said one, "an' I kept tab on him. I asked him how old he was an' he said twenty-six; an' I pulled the paper on him an' showed him by his own count that he was sixty-six." Now, the bough from which this chest­ nut dropped must have been withered cen­ turies ago, but it was told as a personal experience and brought the usual laugh. It was plainly at my expense but my vanity was so tickled at his overestimate of my youth which made me almost a contem­ porary of O l d Faithful, that the offence of it passed me by and the winks this time were directed at my stupidity. A l l were sitting on the porch of the store when I mounted the old " Meetin'-house pacer." One of the Hell-fer-Sartain men

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was physically magnificent—tall, power­ her other than a patient sigh of weari­ ful, rugged of face, a n d smooth shaven. ness. I left her i n front of the hotel w i t h " C o m i n ' over on H e l l - f e r - S a r t a i n agin ? " genuine regret a n d affection. I believe I should have bought her a n d h a d her turned he asked. " I f I do, I ' m c o m i n g to see y o u , " I said. out to graze for the rest of her life h a d I " C o m e a l o n g , " he said, w i t h sudden been sure she w o u l d have been w e l l taken heartiness, and I t h i n k there was no more care of, a n d anyhow, I concluded I w o u l d hire her for a week that she m i g h t rest at suspicion with h i m . Back the way to J a c k s o n I started a n d least that long. B u t she belonged, the not a sound came from the little c r o w d hotel proprietor said, to a boy w h o w o u l d behind me. Doubtless they watched me put m y money i n his pocket, consider h i m ­ out of sight and, u n t i l one of them sees self just that m u c h i n , a n d hire her out or hears of these lines a n d believes that right away as soon as I was gone. So I was p a i d for them a n d convinces the I acquiesced as we a l l do i n helplessness others, they w i l l never understand h o w a w h e n help seems useless a n d i n suffering stranger could ride night a n d day to H e l l - that we can't assuage. fer-Sartain and night a n d day b a c k . U p I h a d been to Hell-fer-Sartain. If there and down r o c k y creeks, over a n d d o w n be for the erring the good old-fashioned ragged ridges, a n d along n a r r o w little place i n w h i c h the preacher over on that creek valleys O l d F a i t h f u l a m b l e d me a n d creek h a d such faith, I may, i n spite of m y ­ it was nearly noon before I l o o k e d from self, get there, but willingly to either place, the last ridge d o w n o n the fourteen hills never! of Jackson. I h a d been gone forty-six O n the way to the t r a i n I saw O l d F a i t h ­ hours, and twenty-seven of these hours I ful p l o d d i n g along the r o a d w i t h a stranger had spent on the back of O l d F a i t h f u l . o n her back, starting out for another toil­ A l l the way she h a d been w i l l i n g , a n d there some trip. I wish I h a d bought freedom was never any other remonstrance from for O l d F a i t h f u l .

I left her in front of the hotel with genuine regret and affection.

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V E R since I first beheld that bit of California coast, I have wanted to spend some time upon its shores—time enough to know its changing moods, the whims a n d ca­ prices of its weather, its dunes a n d rockbound beaches, its wild solitudes, its un­ earthly phantom-like trees. But how was this to be accomplished? One could readily enough drive round it in the daylight hours, but how pass the night? O n all its stretches of wilderness no one lives nor is camping even permitted by the company in control. One day, however, while r i d i n g over the tract. I SDied a cottaee huddled under some 362

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pines and found that it belonged to the forester and his family—sole habitants, sole guardians of these woodland solitudes. Upon inquiry, I also found to my chagrin that his wife had no room to spare and was, besides, unwilling to increase her al­ ready large family. But there is an open sesame to every door, if one can find the magic word. This time it proved to be my Spanish name that helped me, for she still remained a good Iberian guarding her king's portrait over her mantel-shelf. The necessary permit from the company was comparatively easy to obtain, and two weeks later one late afternoon saw my tent arrive, with a cot, a trunk, and some can­ vases. In an hour all was i n place, and

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at six o'clock I joined the forester's house­ stems, yielding as the waves drove in, and, as hold at their frugal supper. the rushing waters receded, straightening up I had of necessity pitched my tent at and shaking their hair like so many mer­ some distance from the house across a deep maids in the surf. Barnacles and mussels gully and had chosen a spot under a clump hung in great families to the ledges crusted of live-oaks protected from wind and fog. wdth pink corallines. I spent the first evening stretching can­ Farther out at sea, clusters of bull-kelp vases, and then turned in. The silence bobbed their bulbs upon the waves, glisten­ was intense; the breakers made no noise ing, long-haired, like heads of South Sea whatever, for I was on the lee side of the Islanders. A n d sometimes a seal, scarcely hills. Not a rustle in the trees. The chirp distinguishable from them, would swim in of a cricket and the buzzing in my own close to shore, fishing, rolling his big eyes ears were the only sounds I could detect. and twisting his head about, first to one side Then, just as I was dozing off, I thought then to the other with that queer, ungrace­ I heard a step. First faint, it came nearer ful movement peculiar to short-necked and nearer, approaching the tent over the people. Whales that now and then blew their dry oak leaves—leaves on which no moist­ spouts at sea and schools of porpoises were ure had fallen for four mortal months. I rarer sights, but rarest of all on that bleak listened and the footfall drew ever nearer— coast was a ship out on the far horizon. in fact was now very close. I lit my lantern cautiously and, rais­ ing the flap, saw—a tiny kanga­ roo-rat, whose hop on the dry oak leaves sounded, in the still­ ness, like the tread of a deer! I was up very early in the morning, and, with my sketch­ ing traps, was soon out on Pescadero Point. Weeks of work now ensued until I grew to know the form of every rock, the thrust of every tree, the changing aspects of sea and sky, the cool gray sunrises and the warm ruddy sunsets. In these spots, far from the road, close down by the break­ ers, not a soul came to intrude, not a voice but the great voice of nature disturbed the eternal solitude. Near by and below, the westem sea, despite its apparent calm, thundered on the jagged rocks and ledges—thundered to the southward against the bleak cliffs of Point Lobos; thundered to the northward as the coast abuts thickly grown with cy­ press; thundered at my feet Hobgoblins, stunted creatures of the dark.—Page 365. against the gigantic foundation of Promontory Point, against its After all, the features of the coast, unique piled up bowlders, round and glistening— such as the Cyclops might have hurled at of their kind, are those fantastic cypresses fleeing Ulysses. B y the water's edge little that clothe its rocky promontories with forests of sea palms reared their flexible their strange growth—strong, durable as

The strange groves of Cypress Point.

the rocks themselves, built to resist the stoutest gale. Away from the shore, they grow more reasonably, spreading their tops like giant umbrellas, full, thick, and resist­ ant and of a rich velvety green. But close to the water, their lives are spent in constant battle with the wind, their young shoots lopped off, killed by the blast on the sea­ ward side, forcing their growth constantly in one direction, driving them landward, and giving them that strange fleeing move­ ment that, to my mind, is their salient characteristic. A n d in this battle, toppling, struggling with a one-sided weight, their great trunks throw out huge wedge-shaped buttresses, and their branches thicken aloft into queer elbows—flvin? buttresses as it 34 6

were, that present a thin edge to the wind, but a broad, flat surface to support the great weight overhead. Their limbs by this proc­ ess become contorted and twisted into the strangest possible shapes, rendered stran­ ger still by the presence of a ruddy seamoss that clings close to their under side— the trentepohlia—of the color of rusted iron or of clotted blood. If these trees are weird in the daytime; if their writhing forms stimulate the imag­ ination in the fog; it is toward evening and at night that they become positively un­ earthly. As darkness falls, the younger ones of more conventional design, whose healthy bark is dark, lose themselves in the general gloom, and only the aged giants,

Sketching in the Inferno whose trunks are gray and ashen and hoary with moss, retain the reflex of the sun, writhing their maimed and twisted mem­ bers in the darkness of the forest. Dead branches, lopped off by gales and moulder­ ing at their feet, worm-eaten, moss-grown, become in the uncertain light" the little peo­ ple, "gnomes, dwarfs, hobgoblins, stunted

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the forester's horses, I was able to push my field of operations farther and seek sub­ jects at a greater distance, taking a lunch with me so as to spend the day, returning sometimes only after nightfall. Then I grew to know the strange groves of Cypress Point, filled with the mysterious gloom of Hades' kingdom—groves that the wind

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creatures of the dark, strange freaks of nature, whose limbs stand petrified i n the act of running, and whose dead arms and gaunt fingers, prehensile, reach out for the belated wayfarer. Each evening the fog would drive in from the sea, a thick white blanket that little by little obliterated every object, and every morning the rosy sun would rise to wage a battle royal against its ghostly cohorts, sometimes crowned with success, driving them fleeing seaward, sometimes remaining defeated, hidden, while the gray ghosts held the battle-field all day. As time wore on, with the aid of one of

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lashes without mercy, exposed to the full fury of the north-west. The Point itself has been stripped naked and stands bleak and denuded, the trees, buffeted by constant gales, having fled the shore, shrinking as it were away from the sea, as if upon it they had beheld some nameless horror. A n d even in the dense groves behind, the trees live in stress and torment. Some, worsted in the struggle, have been hurled to the ground and lie there with roots reaching vainly in the air for sustenance, their trunks half buried in the winter's wash, stiffened, stripped of bark; their branches shattered on one

Groves where Dante might have walked.

A s I left the last cypresses behind (for side, w i l d l y w r i t h i n g aloft on the other. Others, dead, still stand, gaunt skeletons, the grove ends at this point) a n d came out half-petrified, eaten by worms a n d covered u p o n the dunes, on l o o k i n g up toward the w i t h pale green m o u l d , a w a i t i n g final dis­ hills, I was startled to find a dense smoke solution. Y e t others, still y o u n g a n d v i g ­ overhanging the pine forests that hitherto orous, tired of the struggle, have spread h a d been h i d d e n b y the nearer trees, and themselves i n despair upon the g r o u n d , to perceive m y friend the forester fighting their vigorous velvety tops f o r m i n g an i m ­ single-handed a vast forest fire. Coatless mense shrub no higher than a m a n . a n d hatless I p i t c h e d i n w i t h h i m , and we I n the sombre groves that lie yet farther w o r k e d together for hours, lighting counter i n l a n d , D a n t e might have w a l k e d a n d fires, d i g g i n g trenches, or beating the blaz­ dreamed his tragedies, a n d through their i n g grass w i t h green pine-boughs until at solitudes the E r l k o n i g might dash u p o n his length relief came f r o m t o w n i n the shape sable charger. of a score of stalwart w o r k m e n . It was while sketching i n these forests W h a t a sight it makes as the fire,whipped near Cypress P o i n t one d a y that I noted b y the w i n d , scurries over the short dry a bluish haze overhanging the dunes that grass, l i c k i n g it up i n a n instant, leaving border the Restless Sea, i n whose furious, only blackness b e h i n d ! N o w and then intermingling currents I c o u l d m a k e out the the flames encounter logs covered with un­ masts of a steamer that, like m a n y another, derbrush a n d a r o u n d t h e m create roar­ had gone to perdition u p o n the jagged rocks. i n g braziers. Soon the overhanging pine T h i s haze was of such unusual occurrence boughs begin to w i t h e r a n d t u r n brown, d o w n b y the sea that I wondered a n d later a n d then, of a sudden, a great flame leaps on rode out to investigate. to the very top of a tree, singeing every 366

Sketching in the Inferno needle. But the pine remains standing and apparently unharmed, for the fire has by now rushed on to further conquests. But if you watch a while, you will note, just above the ground, the tiny flames licking into and around the trunk, sapping the pitch, roaring and curling into the very life of the tree. Then without warning and with a great crash, down comes the giant, prone upon the ground, to be consumed at leisure by its arch-enemy. It is in these sun-flecked pine forests that the stag makes his home, his coat har­ monizing—nature's protection—with the dusty browns and grays of the tree-trunks and with the carpets of needles and cones that lie in great masses upon the ground. In them, too, you may chance upon coveys of quail so unsuspecting that, as long as you make no untoward movement, they unconcernedly go on with their feeding. In sandy spots you will come upon the tracks of the coon—prints that resemble the impress of a baby's bare foot. Coyotes, too, are frequent visitors in the denser woods, and a wild-cat or an occasional

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mountain lion may yet be encountered, lurking in the deepest solitudes. When tired of the woods, I went down by the sea. On the bits of beach lay all sorts of gaudy sea-weeds washed up by the waves; vivid green ulvas intermingled with crim­ son sea-aprons; brownish feather boas, as if fallen from a lady's neck, entwining the shimmering strands of bladder-kelp or the parti-colored leaves of the iridea, dedicated to Iris, goddess of many colors. Here, too, I discovered empty abalone shells, opalescent and lovely as Pompeian tear-bottles, and, once in a great while, a chiton or sea-slug mailed in plate-armor like a knight of old. At low tide how delightful the pools, ly­ ing in the hollows of the rocks like aqua­ marines, of the nereid green of Minerva's eyes—yXavKdvis ke-qv-q—their dark-toned fis­ sures animate with life and mottled with pink corallines edged with silver! Cockle shells, purple and pearl-tipped, crawled by the score among the sea-weeds—the trees of these naiad gardens; owl-limpets and seaurchins of varied colors clung in the deeper

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clefts; while hundreds of anemones, mauve, the shores of classic lands. Neptune usually rose, or pale green, carpeted the deepest stills its waters as pools like daisy fields in spring-time. " A l o n g the surface of the tides H i s sea-green chariot s m o o t h l y glides; L y i n g on the fiat rocks, I watched the H u s h e d by his wheels the billows lie; wonders of these water gardens: their shells T h e s t o r m clouds v a n i s h f r o m the sky." and colored rocks, their forests of seaFrom out the quiet grottos of Arch palms; their big actiniae, awake, with

Its headlands . . . fall sheer into the ocean.

myriad tentacles afloat, sensitive, awaiting their prey; their star-fish, easily mistaken for mottled rocks, digesting big fat mussels. Some of the most beautiful of these pools lie in the fissures on the south shore of the peninsula, which lee coast is gentle in char­ acter—a pastoral andante after the agitato of the north shore—serene, limpid, suave as

Rock old Nereus might issue with his train of lovely daughters, his dolphins, and his tritons, and in its shady archway Proteus might sleep as he tended his flocks of seal. . . . The surrounding rocks, whitened with guano, are the nesting-place and restingplace of countless sea-fowl, murres and

S k e t c h i n g in the gulls for the most part, that sit in solemn conclave, craning their necks and flapping their wings like the Penguin Areopagus on Anatole France's imaginary island. Toward evening, as the level sun shot amber shafts of light through the combing breakers, I watched the gulls fishing on the beach, standing in line along the strand, running out as each wave receded, digging madly in the sand with their bills until driven shoreward again by the next breaker. In the distance the San Benito Mountains, serene, unfolded their undulating profiles, terminating in the rugged forms of Point Lobos, the land's last stand against the fury of the sea. Later on, I rode down to this point— perhaps the wildest on the coast, a veritable chaos. Its headlands, higher and steeper than any on Pescadero Point, fall sheer into the ocean. In the causeways between, the sea whirls and eddies, beating itself against the cliffs, undermining them with long fis­ sures or perforating them with cavernous water gates, in which as the waves rush in, the boiling foam mounts higher and higher, then subsides and a myriad tiny cascades flow out. I noticed one—a sort of blow­ hole, a long perpendicular cleft—where, as each breaker clashed against the north front of the headland, a cloud of spray, like steam, would burst with tremendous force through the south side, the waves patiently cutting their way through the cliff, eventu­ ally to form one of those monumental arches that are so common along the coast. The tides, as they go out, leave great basins of rock-bound water, quiet as mir­ rors, glazed, reflecting pictures of infinite variety and rarest color until, as a painter might draw his palette knife over a wellpainted detail, a breaker bigger than its fellows overtops the rim, pouring a foaming

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cataract into one corner, rippling the surface and destroying the marvellous reflections. Around these basins Boecklin's triton fam­ ilies might gather and blow their whelks; or, hidden behind their rocky walls, his si­ rens lurk to lure their prey, and in the weird trees overhead his harpies roost. Out of reach of the highest tides the tragic cypresses grow again, writhing like lost souls of the Inferno, tortured, scarred, scrambling up the cliffs; clutching madly at the crevices with their roots, as if in mortal fear of being hurled into the boiling flood below. Yet around their roots gardens bloom, filled with rare plants half aquatic, that derive their sustenance from the salt sea air. The mesembryanthemum, dressed in motley red and green, trails its festoons along the ledges, and the cotyledon stars the fissures with its clusters of pale green roses. As the season wore on the winds grew fresher. O n the lee side of Point Lobos all was quiet, but put your head above the top of the cliff and the wind whipped you like a lash. The trees, resistant as they are, swayed in the wind, their long lace lichens fluttering like old men's beards. The ghostly fogs had ceased. Uninter­ rupted sunshine prevailed. A t night the moon hung its crescent in the immen­ sity of the sky; the drooping line of the distant hills, big by day, pushed close to the horizon. Then in September came a day when the south wind blew. The whitecaps gleamed on a leaden sea. Gray clouds, the first in months, appeared in long streaks across the sky. Next morning I awoke to hear the rain pattering on the dry leaves and dripping from the oaks overhead. The long summer drought was broken—the rainy season was at hand.

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By W i l l i a m Morton

FRANCE

Fullerton

J U R I N G the last forty years impressive, was his message to that country. three foreigners have aroused E v e n i f M r . Roosevelt h a d not opened his the imagination of F r e n c h ­ lips i n F r a n c e , his very presence there would m e n : T h e C z a r N i c h o l a s have been an object-lesson. II, K i n g E d w a r d V I I , and Theodore Roosevelt. T h e C z a r a n d the K i n g of E n g l a n d have exerted an incalculable influence on F r e n c h history. I T is a necessary preliminary to my argu­ T h e r e are signs that the c o m i n g of M r . ment to note that the great impression left Roosevelt m a y entail consequences w h i c h by M r . Roosevelt i n F r a n c e could not have w i l l be no less inextricably woven into the been made if he h a d not arrived there with a tissue of contemporary F r e n c h annals. singular prestige. H e is the convenient sym­ T h e gravest exponent of B r i t i s h public b o l for E u r o p e of A m e r i c a n world-power; opinion, at a moment when the E n g l i s h peo­ a n d France, i n particular, has had excellent ple were bowed as one nation, a homogene­ reasons of late for congratulating herself ous throng, r o u n d the body of their sovereign, o n h a v i n g greeted F r a n k l i n with sympathy welcomed M r . Roosevelt's coming i n lan­ a century a n d a half ago, and for hav­ guage w h i c h it is pertinent to recall. T h e i n g a i d e d the B r i t i s h colonies beyond the spectacle of the unfailing enthusiasm excit­ A t l a n t i c to achieve their independence. A t ed by Theodore Roosevelt as he passed from Algeciras she reaped the reward for her atti­ country to country was compared to the fer­ tude d u r i n g the A n g l o - A m e r i c a n difficulties vor aroused by G a r i b a l d i , when his roman­ of the eighteenth century. A t Algeciras, the tic exploits were still fresh i n men's m i n d s conciliatory intervention of President Roose­ and his red shirt was the symbol of strug­ velt, by thwarting the G e r m a n Emperor's gling causes. " T h e r e has been nothing like efforts to destroy the diplomatic block on it i n E u r o p e since the days of Peter the H e r ­ w h i c h F r a n c e was able to take a firm stand m i t , " said The Times; and this great organ i n the defence of her M o r o c c a n interests, did of British feeling undertook to account for more than save that country from an humili­ the mystery of a phenomenon w h i c h the ation w h i c h might have led to a European mere psychology of crowds is admittedly war. It confirmed again the fact, which inadequate to explain. T h e reason w h y Continental E u r o p e h a d learned during the M r . Roosevelt's progress i n E u r o p e has been S p a n i s h - A m e r i c a n W a r , but w h i c h , if it had such as the greatest monarchs have not al­ not been for M r . Roosevelt's conspicuous ways enjoyed was taken to be the fact that personality, it might easily have forgotten— the substance of a l l his speeches has been the fact that the U n i t e d States exists, and one needful and welcome. M r . Roosevelt that the M o n r o e D o c t r i n e does not neces­ came to a E u r o p e w h i c h was sick and very sarily i m p l y that the A m e r i c a n Government weary of talk, perpetual talk, about rights; ignores the presence of other Powers on this and it listened with avidity a n d hope to a planet. M r . Roosevelt, w h o h a d been a m a n w h o spoke of duties, and spoke of soldier i n C u b a , a n d a n official of the N a v y them plainly and emphatically. T h e op­ D e p a r t m e n t , h a d also been the foremost portuneness of M r . Roosevelt's message for promoter of arbitration among the nations. his time is the explanation w h i c h was given of the astonishing success of his odyssey. A t T h e H a g u e , at Algeciras, and at Ports­ I have no desire to reject this version of the m o u t h he proved to E u r o p e that America matter. O n the contrary, I fully accept this was no mere cartographic figment. For explanation; and i n what I have to say con­ F r a n c e , as for the rest of the E u r o p e a n Con­ cerning Theodore Roosevelt's visit to F r a n c e tinent, M r . Roosevelt, a n d M r . Roosevelt I shall merely undertake to point out h o w alone, meant the U n i t e d States. H i s com­ particularly opportune, and how esDeciallv i n g was the a r r i v a l of the m a g i c i a n who had made A m e r i c a to l o o m over the top of the I J 37°

M r . Roosevelt and France sea, and finally to become visible from Madrid, Paris, Berlin, and London, and even from China and from the islands of the Pacific. Such was the European point of view. Its correctness or its superficiality need not here be discussed. T h e fact remains: for France, as for Europe, M r . Roosevelt per­ sonifies an epoch of American history. The curiosity which the ex-president evoked in Paris sprang from a feeling of genuine and disinterested admiration for the man who had made the Republic of the United States more than merely visible to the naked eye, who seemed to have introduced it into the concert of the Powers; and the sympathy with which he was greeted in France was but the natural payment of a debt of gratitude to a man who had done that country signal service at a moment of grave crisis. More­ over, as chance would have it, he came to France " i n the nick of time.'' H e was the representative, it is true, of ideals which are not new, some of which, indeed, had been uttered by a foreigner more than twelve years before, but which had fallen then on stony soil. The time was ripe for his visit. II D U R I N G the period in which the United States was materializing for European ob­ servers out of the mirage which had seemed for so long a time a mere cloud-bank in the Western Atlantic, the relations of the E u ­ ropean States were evolving according to the laws of equilibrium, which, in the lan­ guage of politics, means that those States were engaged in a struggle for the balance of power. Bismarck did more than create an approximately united Germany: he de­ stroyed Europe. He pitted the Continental nations against one another i n a reciprocal enmity which seemed likely to endure. The history of Europe during the last twenty years has been, in its broadest aspect, merely the often blind but consecutive effort to shat­ ter German hegemony, to restore the con­ cert of the Powers, and to establish equilib­ rium among those Powers. A necessary condition of the restoration of stable equi­ librium in Europe was the renascence of France. England was a long time coming to this point of view, but Russia clearly per­ ceived the fact only a few years after the conclusion of the Treaty of Frankfort, and

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the result of her perspicacity was the FrancoRussian Alliance, and ultimately the Triple Entente between France, Russia, and Eng­ land, which was a device for counterbalanc­ ing the prestige of the Triple Alliance. N o fact is more characteristic of our time than the Franco-Russian Alliance. But no fact was for a long period more misunder­ stood, even in France. The French Foreign Office left French public opinion in such complete ignorance of the real diplomatic bearings, and of the practical significance, of that alliance—which was interpreted by the nation as an earnest of ultimate recovery of Alsace-Lorraine—that when, in August, 1898, the Czar appealed to Europe in arms to meet for discussion of the problem of dis­ banding the standing armies, there was a spontaneous protest, a wail of disenchant­ ment, throughout the whole French nation. When the young Czar visited Versailles in the autumn of 1896, he was piloted through the famous Galerie des Glaces, where the German Princes had proclaimed the birth of aa empire won by the partial dismember­ ment of France. The presence in that ac­ cursed spot of a more arbitrary potentate than even a Hohenzollern drunk with vic­ tory was given almost a lustral importance by certain observers who had no difficulty in convincing the quick French imagination of their perspicacity. Nicholas II was con­ ceived by them as a great and friendly mon­ arch who had hunted the German spectre from that historic hall, and had purified it for French ends. If the French nation as a whole welcomed the Russian Alliance, it was because it felt that France could now hold up her head in Europe, and that one day perhaps she could tear up the Treaty of Frankfort. The burst of enthusiasm which greeted the Russian sovereigns on their several visits to France had no other meaning than this: " Y o u are our friends, and some day you and we together will put Prussia in her place." Thus, two great peoples, utilizing all the democratic forces of publicity at their dis­ posal in our time, so transformed the arts of diplomacy that the union which they had formed could no longer be defined in the old idioms, and by such oft-used words as "treaty" and "alliance." But there was to be a rude awakening. In 1898 the Imperial Russian Gazette pub­ lished the appeal of the Czar in favor of dis-

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armament. I n F r a n c e this p u b l i c a t i o n was like an unexpected peal of thunder w h i c h seemed to shatter a l l the hopes of the nation. W a s that, then, the m e a n i n g of the alliance with Russia? Public opinion i n France, d u m f o u n d e d before the b l o w , accused her rulers of h a v i n g been d u p e d by the R u s s i a n F o r e i g n Office, w h i c h was represented as having acted i n the interests of the two a u ­ tocratic conspirators, the G e r m a n E m p e r o r a n d the C z a r . A n eminent historian, M . Lavisse, A c a d e m i c i a n a n d professor at the Sorbonne, expressed on this occasion the feeling not only of the masses but of the n a ­ tion as a whole: " N e v e r has our government taken care to explain to us the exact mean­ ing of the alliance. It has thus far spoken and acted as if there were an understanding warranting vast hopes. It has encouraged the very natural illusions of a country given to enthusiasms. It has not perceived that we needed the real truths, n a k e d a n d d r y — harsh if necessary." T h e " r e a l t r u t h " was that the F r e n c h statesmen w h o h a d extolled an alliance w i t h R u s s i a h a d done so i n the interests of peace, a n d that they were of the school of G a m betta, whose m a x i m was that if F r a n c e could come to an understanding with R u s s i a a n d E n g l a n d , she c o u l d do more than recover her position i n E u r o p e ; she w o u l d be able to destroy G e r m a n hegemony. I n a period when the c a r k i n g desire for revanche still dominated F r e n c h society, it w o u l d have been impossible, i n a democratic c o m m u n i t y like that of France, to undertake to dispel or even to temper " t h e natural illusions of a country given to enthusiasms," a n d to substitute for the misconstructions of F r e n c h opinion as to the R u s s i a n A l l i a n c e truer con­ ceptions of the E u r o p e a n situation, a n d an exact notion of the scope of the defensive alliance with the C z a r . T h e essential thing for those w h o were responsible for the des­ tinies of F r a n c e was to effect the alliance at all costs. Its bearing a n d significance could be explained later on. T h e disillusionment caused throughout F r a n c e , as F r e n c h m e n g r a d u a l l y grew to realize that the alliance i m p l i e d no active policy of aggression c u l ­ m i n a t i n g i n the revanche, but meant the m e l ­ ancholy maintenance of the status quo as determined by the T r e a t y of F r a n k f o r t , a n d that a l l that subsisted of the " l o n g hopes a n d the vast thoughts" of the early epoch of en­ thusiasm was the somewhat mystical faith of

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G a m b e t t a i n an " i m m a n e n t justice,"—this disillusionment was one of the most tragic experiences that ever befell a generous na­ tion. F r a n c e rose from the b l o w a sadder but a wiser nation. T h e experience tended to cultivate i n it as a whole that spirit of positivism a n d resignation w h i c h had pre­ viously been characteristic of only a part of the people. It cultivated also the stoic cour­ age to see a n d to take things as they are, w h i c h is the p r i m a r y condition of practical statesmanship; a n d F r a n c e , i n seeking to readjust herself to the conditions revealed b y her belated perspicacity, fell back upon the resolve to " m a k e the b e s t " of the best b a r g a i n w h i c h her rulers h a d been able to arrange i n their efforts to restore her to her place i n the w o r l d . T h e C z a r ' s appeal to E u r o p e was exam­ i n e d i n this fresh light. O n reflection it was seen to be, after a l l , a n utterance and a n act i n s p i r e d by some of the soundest of F r e n c h traditions. W h a t it really amount­ ed to was the c o n v o c a t i o n of the EtatsG e n e r a u x of the nineteenth century; and it was not that b y a figure of speech, but actually that. O n l y the conditions of our " l a i c " time, the m u l t i p l e material condi­ tions, h a d m a d e such a n appeal possible. E u r o p e as a w h o l e to-day is smaller than the F r a n c e whose woes a n d reclamations were considered i n 1789 b y N e c k e r and the k i n g . B u t to-day, as then, there are cor­ r e s p o n d i n g " o r d e r s " w h i c h are interested i n preventing the possibility of the reform proposed b y the C z a r . T h e N a t i o n a l As­ sembly h a d decreed " f r a t e r n i t y , " had cried urbi et orbi: " t h e r e s h a l l be no more war." T h e time was not yet ripe. It was not ripe w h e n the reform was extolled by Napoleon I I I . B u t it was a l l but ripe i n 1898, and it is riper still to-day, because of the march of the factors, or rather the multiplica­ tion of the p e c u l i a r m a t e r i a l conditions, w h i c h are t r a n s f o r m i n g the very mentality of the race. B i s m a r c k retarded the work of the F r e n c h R e v o l u t i o n , gagging France a n d flinging E u r o p e b a c k into the old re­ gime. L o u i s N a p o l e o n h a d begun i n the r e v o l u t i o n a r y spirit, b u t G e r m a n y blocked the w a y . A t last F r a n c e resumed her on­ w a r d m a r c h , a n d — i r o n y of ironies!—the C z a r a r r i v e d w i t h his historic appeal to the nations, s h o w i n g h i m s e l f thereby the real heir of the R e v o l u t i o n , the continuator of the w o r k of the N a t i o n a l Assembly.

M r . Roosevelt and France There are two French ideals: that of les droits de Vhomme, and that of raison d'etat, and the struggle between them makes French history the most fascinating and human of all histories. T h e Czar, incar­ nating the first of these ideals, pointed the way to France, giving voice to her revolu­ tionary spirit, her concern for right and human liberty, her scorn for privilege and raison d'etat, and her sublime Utopian logic. Three years after his famous appeal in favor of disarmament the Czar paid a sec­ ond visit to France. A t Compiegne, on Friday, September 19, 1901, he gave audi­ ence to M . Bourgeois, the French plenipo­ tentiary at The Hague conference. T h i s was the morrow of the day spent by the German Emperor on the field of manoeu­ vres of Betheny, where at luncheon, i n the casemates of the Fort of Vitry, the Czar proposed a toast i n the following words: " I drink to the brave French Army, to its glory and to its prosperity, and I like to look upon it as a powerful support for those principles of equity on which repose the general order, the peace, and the wellbeing of the nations." It was impossible to affirm more explicitly that the army of the Franco-Russian Alliance was the army of T h e Hague. " E q u i t y , " on the lips of a Russian emperor, was synonymous with "Justice," in the mouth of a Roosevelt. France had no longer any excuse for not understanding. She did understand; not merely her rulers, but her people. A n d yet how many of their sentimental instincts were wound­ ed, how many of their natural impulses ar­ rested, by the certainty that "the principles of equity on which repose the general order, the peace, and the well-being of the nations," must henceforth be their only cult! T h e Czar had sown, i n the teeth of a driving Gallic wind, the germs of pacifism in France. B u t the seeds had pushed to the light amid a rank undergrowth of as­ pirations toward "revenge." Was there no way of making a harmonious gardenplot of these blades of corn and of these scarlet poppies ? Pacifism and war! Here were two reciprocally contradictory ideals. Could nothing be done to reconcile them? T h e problem seems to have been solved by the ex-president of a friendly nation and a "sister republic." T h e rough-rider of Cuba had been the laureate of the Nobel

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Peace Prize. Frenchmen awaited M r . Roosevelt's arrival with anxious expecta­ tions, hoping to learn from his lips the formula which the United States had found useful and which might serve as a remedy for their malaise. They were not disap­ pointed. Here is what the ex-president said to them at the University of Paris, in a lecture which has been disseminated by the Temps among some fifty thousand school-teachers throughout the country : " T h e good man should be strong and brave, that is to say capable of fighting, of serving his country as a soldier, should the occasion arise. There are well-inten­ tioned philosophers who declaim as to the iniquity of war. They are right provided that they insist merely on the iniquity. War is a horrible thing, and an unjust war is a crime against humanity. But it is a crime of this sort because it is unjust, not because it is war. The choice should always be i n favor of right, whether the alternative is peace or even war. The question should not be simply, Is there going to be peace or war? The question should be, 'Should the cause of right pre­ vail? Are the great laws of justice once more to be observed?' A n d the reply of a strong and virile people will be: ' Y e s , whatever the risk may be.' N o honorable effort should ever be neglected in order to avoid war, just as no honorable effort should be neglected by an individual, i n private life, to avoid a quarrel, and to keep out of difficulties; but no self-respect­ ing individual and no self-respecting na­ tion should submit to injustice." A n d dotting the i's with a vigorous stroke, in a handwriting which all could read, the speaker concluded with an inspiriting and illuminating definition of patriotism, and of its bearing on international relations. He seemed to be giving a voice to the finer idealism of French foreign policy under the T h i r d Republic. The truly patriotic na­ tion, he said, made the best member of the family of nations. It should stand up for its rights, but it should respect the rights of others. "International law," however, was not private law, and it lacked as yet a recognized sanction. For the pres­ ent every nation must be the final judge of its own vital interests, and in the last resort must have the will and the strength to withstand the wrong which another

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w o u l d inflict u p o n it. T h e nations were a l l for peace a n d justice, b u t " i f peace a n d justice were at loggerheads they w o u l d de­ spise the m a n w h o d i d not take the side of justice, even though the whole w o r l d were to rise u p i n arms against h i m . " N o lips since G a m b e t t a ' s h a d addressed F r e n c h m e n w i t h this l u c i d i t y a n d this a u ­ thority. A n d the l i p s i n question were those of the one distinguished foreigner whose sincerity was b e y o n d suspicion. M r . Roosevelt justified F r e n c h m e n to them­ selves. H e capped the w o r k of the C z a r , reconciling the two great p r i n c i p l e s w h i c h h a d presided over the evolution of F r e n c h h i s t o r y : the spirit that h a d i n f o r m e d the Declaration of the Rights of Man, a n d f r o m the defeat of A r i o v i s t u s to the T r e a t y of N i m e g u e h a d a n i m a t e d the soul of the n a t i o n i n its long struggle t o w a r d u n i t y a n d raison d'etat.

Ill T H E m a n w h o h a d thus eloquently ex­ pressed the aspirations a n d the anxious reflections of the F r e n c h soul u p o n prob­ lems w h i c h concern the very existence of F r a n c e as a nation, c o u l d be permitted to utter certain home truths w h i c h w o u l d have been tolerated from no one else, a n d M r . Roosevelt made the most of his a d ­ vantage. It w a s not merely a matter of his r e m i n d i n g a people w h o h a d i n s c r i b e d the w o r d " E g a l i t e " o n a l l their p u b l i c m o n u m e n t s (not excepting the portals of their cemeteries—perhaps, the o n l y place where it deserves to figure) that " E q u a l ­ i t y " is a n a b s u r d i t y ; that there are degrees of w o r t h , a n d thus degrees of legitimate superiority, a n d consequently of desert a n d social r a n k ; and that only men who are equal are equal. It w a s not merely a mat­ ter of his paean i n honor of the m a n of action a n d character, w h i c h contained pas­ sages of w i t h e r i n g scorn for the c y n i c w h o from his ivory tower watches the fray, fan­ c y i n g that i t is v u l g a r to take part i n the battle a n d " d i s t i n g u i s h e d " to criticise, to count the blows dealt b y others—utter­ ances as stinging as those i n w h i c h the A b b e C o y e r castigated the aristocracy of his time for their indifference to the great civic, p o l i t i c a l , a n d c o m m e r c i a l interests of the c o m m u n i t y ; a n d utterances, moreover, that were singularly audacious i n a society where so s m a l l a p r o p o r t i o n of the E l e c ­

torate care to i n d u l g e i n their right of suf­ frage. It w a s not even M r . Roosevelt's h a u g h t y a s s u m p t i o n to be speaking to the doctors of the S o r b o n n e as the P a u l of a N e w D i s p e n s a t i o n , a n d his venturing to assure these G a m a l i e l s that a l l the science of the schools is as nothing in c o m p a r i s o n w i t h c o m m o n sense a n d those qualities w h i c h , w h i l e g i v i n g a m a n selfconfidence, give h i m at the same time a sentiment of h i s responsibility as a mem­ ber of society. It w a s not M r . Roosevelt f u l m i n a t i n g as a k i n d of Protestant Savon­ arola, i n the d o w n r i g h t A n g l o - S a x o n way, that m o v e d the heart of F r a n c e . It was the mere fact of h i s existence as a type; the fact that a m a n w h o h a d been president of a r e p u b l i c s h o u l d possess ideas of his o w n , a n d take himself seriously as a leader of m e n a n d a teacher, whereas i n their own country the h e a d of the State was a vague personage w i t h o u t k n o w n views of any k i n d , w i t h o u t i n i t i a t i v e or authority, and a m a n w h o , i f he were to venture to enun­ ciate a n y ideas or to p l a y a role, would ex­ pose himself, b y virtue of the Constitution, to the F r e n c h f o r m of impeachment, and perhaps eventually be brought u p for trial before P a r l i a m e n t sitting as a H i g h Court of Justice. N o w , M r . Roosevelt's visit to France c o i n c i d e d w i t h ^;he p e r i o d of the general elections for the C h a m b e r of Deputies. T h e e x - M i n i s t e r of F i n a n c e , M . Jules R o c h e , w h o is a l e a d i n g P a r i s editor, stood i n those elections, as he h a d stood for m a n y years, for a constituency i n the De­ p a r t m e n t of the A r d e c h e , a n d he was elect­ ed. I n h i s address to his constituents, in w h i c h he t h a n k e d them for their confidence, he s a i d : " A t the very m o m e n t w h e n the exPresident of the U n i t e d States was so mag­ nificently e x p o u n d i n g i n P a r i s the condi­ tions of a true r e p u b l i c a n d the role of a citizen, y o u were offering the example of an entire p o p u l a t i o n of free citizens in a false r e p u b l i c , w h i c h is at the mercy of arbitrary a c t i o n a n d the prey of anarchy. It w a s i n v a i n that certain so-called re­ p u b l i c a n electors t r a m p l e d under foot the essential p r i n c i p l e s of a republic, a n d acted i n a spirit of h o s t i l i t y t o w a r d liberty and right. Y o u p r o c l a i m e d i n l o u d utterances, y o u as w e l l as M r . Roosevelt, that there is no r e p u b l i c w i t h o u t citizens, a n d no citi-

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zens without the love a n d exercise of liber­ the b e g i n n i n g of p o l i t i c a l w i s d o m . T h e ty, and no liberty w i t h o u t institutions w h i c h fear of a " m a n " has been an inevitable are its consecration a n d its guarantee." state of m i n d of the F r e n c h r e p u b l i c a n s , M . R o c h e ' s electoral rhetoric s h o u l d be since the r e p u b l i c i n its development has taken cum grano salis; but the passage I h a d to fight for its life a m i d a w o r l d of have cited is significant i n c o n n e c t i o n w i t h enemies s u r v i v i n g f r o m the o l d regimes. what follows it. T h i s is n o t h i n g less t h a n T h e C o n s t i t u t i o n of 1875, under w h i c h the announcement of M . R o c h e ' s i n t e n t i o n F r a n c e is n o w vegetating, was adopted b y to propose a r a d i c a l r e v i s i o n of the C o n s t i ­ a m a j o r i t y of but one vote, a n d that C o n ­ tution of 1875, i n a d d i t i o n to the i n d i s p e n ­ stitution was o n l y one step—a m o m e n t of sable electoral r e f o r m ; a r e v i s i o n w h i c h repose w h e n the n a t i o n seemed to be m a r k ­ w o u l d e m b o d y t w o of the essential p r i n c i ­ i n g t i m e — i n the secular effort, w h i c h has ples of the A m e r i c a n C o n s t i t u t i o n — a n d yet b y no means as yet been realized, to organ­ the U n i t e d States is a r e p u b l i c ! — t o w i t : ize the sovereignty of the people i n a free the guarantee of the necessary rights a n d country, w i t h a responsible government liberties of the citizen, a n d a responsible that c a n be controlled by the n a t i o n . T h e president w h o w o u l d choose his ministers spirit of unity, inoculated i n the F r e n c h outside of P a r l i a m e n t . M . Jules R o c h e soul b y the m o n a r c h y , has above a l l been revives here ideas analogous to those of i m p o s e d b y the geographical position of M . D e r o u l e d e . T h e latter is one of the F r a n c e . I n the U n i t e d States, on the con­ most h o n o r a b l e a n d sympathetic of c o n ­ trary, the p o l i t i c a l tendencies were a l l cen­ t e m p o r a r y F r e n c h m e n , a n d i f ever the trifugal, a n d the n a t u r a l p r i n c i p l e was that i r o n y of fortune h a d lifted h i m to the of federalism u n t i l the u n i t y of the n a t i o n Elysee, a l o n g experience of F r a n c e w a r ­ was achieved—perhaps p r o v i s i o n a l l y — b y rants m y b e l i e v i n g that he w o u l d have been the enormous sacrifice of b l o o d d u r i n g the a president of the stamp of M r . Roosevelt: C i v i l W a r . I n F r a n c e the fear of a " m a n " instead of w h i c h , F r a n c e ostracized h i m as was the f o r m assumed b y dread memories: a danger to the State! B u t F r a n c e , as it the two experiments of the m o n a r c h y a n d happens, does not need or w a n t a president of the empire, two foreign invasions, 1814of that stamp. N e i t h e r a D e r o u l e d e nor 1815 a n d 1870-1871; a n d three r e v o l u ­ a R o c h e is ever l i k e l y to rule her; a n d I tions, 1789, 1830, a n d 1848. A s the astute have c i t e d t h e m merely because it is inter­ historian of the T h i r d R e p u b l i c , M . H a n o esting to observe that their ideas w h i c h taux, puts it: "les esprits eclaires qui dirii n the present state of the r e p u b l i c i n geaient V Assemblee Nationale avaient la F r a n c e are b o u n d to class t h e m a m o n g the honte, la haine, I'horreur du pouvoir per­ reactionaries, a n d almost to appear sub­ sonnel, du despotisme et de la dictature. versive, s h o u l d nevertheless be c o m m o n ­ Done la volonte nationale etait unitaire, places of r e p u b l i c a n i s m i n the great demo­ tandis que la prudence nationale etait libercratic c o m m u n i t y of the W e s t . taire." T h e C o n s t i t u t i o n of 1875, therefore, m a i n t a i n e d n a t i o n a l unity, a n d preserved R e a l l y , this w o u l d seem to i m p l y a cu­ the a d m i r a b l e scaffolding of government r i o u s a n o m a l y . It w o u l d suggest, at a l l k n o w n as the a d m i n i s t r a t i o n , but d i d events, that there are more forms a n d k i n d s everything i n its power to discourage of r e p u b l i c s t h a n are u s u a l l y supposed to personal a m b i t i o n a n d to enfeeble such exist, a n d that there is no obvious reason ideals of citizenship as were b o u n d to be for u s i n g the w o r d i n description of two extolled b y T h e o d o r e Roosevelt, the most c o m m u n i t i e s governed i n ways so r a d i c a l l y authoritative exponent of the t r a d i t i o n a l l y disparate as are the U n i t e d States a n d A m e r i c a n p o l i t i c a l p h i l o s o p h y to w h o m France. F r a n c e was ever l i k e l y to listen. . " R a r e l y , " O f course, M . J u l e s R o c h e , for his o w n says of the C o n s t i t u t i o n of 1875, M . H a n o p o l i t i c a l purposes, has put his finger o n t a u x , " has a more c o m p l i c a t e d p a g o d a been one of the essential differences between constructed to shelter a more d i m i n u t i v e F r a n c e a n d the U n i t e d States. A s he has g o d . " A n d he is right. A l l that R e p u b ­ observed w i t h a d m i r a t i o n , i n the U n i t e d l i c a n F r a n c e desired was a visible figure­ States a responsible m a n is p l a c e d at the head at the s u m m i t of the m o n u m e n t . T h e h e a d of the State, whereas i n F r a n c e the type of chef d'etat represented b y a presifear of a " m a n " has for forty years been

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dent of the U n i t e d States is a monster f r o m ment prevents the e d u c a t i o n of the elector the point of view of the C o n s t i t u t i o n of the o n any question of general policy and ren­ p a r l i a m e n t a r y r e p u b l i c of F r a n c e . "Every ders the deputy the creature of the State act of the president of the republic" says official. Y e t the n a t i o n longs for a frank­ clause 3 of that C o n s t i t u t i o n , "must be er p a r t y o r g a n i z a t i o n , for the opportunity countersigned by a minister,'''' a n d these to discuss great n a t i o n a l questions, for ministers are responsible not to the h e a d the t h r i l l of a really d e m o c r a t i c existence. of the State, but to the C h a m b e r of D e p u ­ T h e r e is n o d o u b t that its citizens are ties, u p o n w h o m they depend. I n the eager to escape f r o m the i n d i v i d u a l veiderie F r a n c e of the T h i r d R e p u b l i c superiority w h i c h tends to be the p o l i t i c a l fate of men of every k i n d has been d a m n e d i n the who have not even, as under the Second name of equality, a n d suppressed i n the E m p i r e , the c o m p e n s a t i o n of being able name of raison d'etat. N o t h i n g resem­ to satisfy their l i k i n g for a glorious facade b l i n g an organized democracy has ever a n d of c h e r i s h i n g the sentiment of respect. existed i n F r a n c e , where the ship of state N o w , M r . Roosevelt, i n his categorical way, is still sailed b y a s m a l l crew—the " G o v ­ voiced, w i t h c l a r i o n - t o n e d efficiency, the ernment of the ten t h o u s a n d , " to use B i s ­ unexpressed longings of the republicans, m a r c k ' s phrase—who have seized a n d while still seeming to speak the language m a n n e d the N a p o l e o n i c a d m i n i s t r a t i o n a n d of the l i b e r a l , even of the reactionary, op­ the p o l i t i c a l m a c h i n e r y . T h e role of the position. T h e republicans, w h o one and head of the State, as it has w o r k e d out i n all agree w i t h h i m (as even the recent gen­ practice under the T h i r d R e p u b l i c , has eral elections tend to show), but who dared s h r u n k to a n even narrower compass than not openly confess it, since such confes­ the d e l i m i t a t i o n fixed by the C o n s t i t u t i o n sion w o u l d have classed them with the of 1875. D i s c i p l i n e , inter-subordination, reactionaries, tolerated M r . Roosevelt's beginning w i t h the president, are the m a r k s h o m e truths, solely because they came of F r e n c h citizenship. T h e r e is no recog­ from A m e r i c a n a n d " r e p u b l i c a n " lips; but nized place for i n d i v i d u a l initiative. F r e n c h from any other personality of his eminence y o u t h aspire to become " f u n c t i o n a r i e s , " — c r o w n e d h e a d or other—many of the c i v i l servants, a part, however subordinate, ideas to w h i c h he gave expression would of the vast m a c h i n e ; few d r e a m of becom­ have been h e l d to verge o n impertinence. ing leaders of men, a n d of " s e r v i n g " the T h e conservatives a n d the reactionaries, body-politic i n the A m e r i c a n w a y . A l l on the other h a n d , are always chiding the this has p r o d u c e d an automatic civic life republic, a n d they w e l c o m e d M r . Roosevelt i n w h i c h the C h a m b e r s a n d the a d m i n i s ­ as a t i m e l y visitor l o a d e d w i t h unexpected tration have directed the acts of committees grist for their m i l l s . " W e told you so!" k n o w n as governments. It is a state of they c r i e d to their r e p u b l i c a n compatriots. things r a d i c a l l y the opposite of that result­ " W h a t a l e s s o n ! " B u t the republicans i n g from the A m e r i c a n C o n s t i t u t i o n . A were, i n reality, n o less delighted, since career like that of M r . Roosevelt w o u l d be they, too, recognize the urgent necessity impossible for a p u b l i c m a n i n F r a n c e , a n d of r e f o r m ; a n d the reform is coming in were a F r e n c h m a n to try to test the elas­ the spirit of M r . Roosevelt's counsel. They ticity of the F r e n c h C o n s t i t u t i o n , a n d seek agree that he has s p o k e n " i n the nick of to secure the personal authority a n d pres­ t i m e . " H i s " p r o v i d e n t i a l " words strike tige of a Roosevelt, he w o u l d q u i c k l y be­ home at just the right m o m e n t . come the i n c a r n a t i o n of a l l the reaction­ F r a n c e has entered u p o n a period of ary aspirations i n the country, a n d might, ultimately, as I have said, be i m p e a c h e d unrest, of a d m i n i s t r a t i v e a n d electoral re­ f o r m , w h i c h is b o u n d u l t i m a t e l y to trans­ before the Haute-Cour. f o r m the very foundations of her Constitu­ tion. It w i l l not have been i n v a i n that i n this h o u r of crisis a n ex-president of the IV " r e p u b l i c " of the U n i t e d States should F R A N C E , even r e p u b l i c a n F r a n c e , suf­ have fearlessly lectured the "sister repub­ fers from the monotony of the bureaucratic l i c " o n the duties of c i t i z e n s h i p , and that a u t o m a t i s m of its civic life, i n w h i c h the he s h o u l d have s a i d to m o d e r n F r a n c e such form of ballot k n o w n as scrutin d'arrondisse- things as these:

T h e Point of V i e w " A good citizen w i l l insist o n l i b e r t y for himself, a n d m a k e it his p r i d e that others should have it as w e l l as he. P e r h a p s the best test of the point reached i n any c o u n ­ try by the love of l i b e r t y is the w a y i n which m i n o r i t i e s are treated there. N o t only s h o u l d there be complete l i b e r t y i n matters of religion a n d o p i n i o n , but there should be complete l i b e r t y for each i n d i ­ v i d u a l to l e a d the life that suits h i m , p r o ­ v i d e d that i n so d o i n g he does n o h a r m to his neighbor. . . . I n a r e p u b l i c it is neces­ sary, i n order to a v o i d failure, to l e a r n h o w to c o m b i n e intensity of c o n v i c t i o n w i t h a large tolerance for differences of c o n v i c t i o n . V a s t divergencies of o p i n i o n relative to

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religious, p o l i t i c a l , a n d social beliefs w i l l exist necessarily, if the intelligence a n d the conscience are not to be stifled, but to de­ velop sanely. T h e bitter f r a t r i c i d a l hatreds based o n such divergencies are not a sign of ardent belief, but of that f a n a t i c i s m w h i c h , whether it be religious or antireligious, democratic or anti-democratic, is itself merely the manifestation of sinister bigotry, w h i c h is i n t u r n the p r i m a r y cause of the d o w n f a l l of so m a n y n a t i o n s . " Since M r . Roosevelt's departure, F r a n c e has been saying to herself, i n the words of Dante when Virgil chided: ' T h e self-same tongue first wounded and then healed m e . "

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thankful for your successes," wrote Dean H o o k to a young friend; " i g ­ nore your failures, and always be at tempting something new." Clauses one and two gave me a pleasant, platitudinous fillip, superficial as the thirty " c l a p s " the children had applied that morning; but the last part of the dictum was a vigorous one-to-grow-on. I had been ruefully saying to myself that at thirty I had read all the books worth reading, and drunk the cup of my limited diversions; and that now it behooved me to settle down to contented acquiescence in the monotony of village customs and mental habits. Somehow that exhortation of Dean Hook to be

Need of always attempting something new, the New whisked me like a spirited horse around the corner of my inertia into the wide world. Perhaps I had been too steadily industrious. T h e iterated preaching of my house, my garden, my desk, had been, "Stay, be content, keep off the grass, have proper meals, sufficient sleep, save some money for old age " — a prescription to dull the keenest edge of thought. Possibly, to renew body and m i n d and spirit, I must make some progressive readaptation of my secure and peaceful life; stir into it some i n ­ gredient to check the crystallization going on

there, and thus keep myself in collodial condi­ tion. Possibly, to grow, I must do unhabitual things: " None but would forego his proper dowry,— Does he paint? he fain would write a poem, Does he write? he fain would paint a picture,"

T h e Dean's maxim sticking like a snag in the stream of my birthday meditations, all sorts of flotsam and jetsam swirled about its sides. Every book I read, every sermon I heard, every least experimenter in the way of life, brought illustrations to my text. In study­ ing Hermione's part in the "Winter's T a l e , " M a r y Anderson suddenly determined to take the part of Perdita as well. H e r chief authority was the strong resemblance between the two. T o intrust Perdita to a person unlike the queen in looks, voice, or manner, would spoil its con­ tinuity. H a d doubling the parts necessitated cutting important speeches, the idea would have been abandoned; but as only six of Perdita's lines were sacrificed, M a r y Anderson did not feel guilty of vandalism in making this radical innovation. It proved her masterpiece. Catherine the Great, of Russia, could imitate anything, the crow of a cock, the purr of a cat, or the imperial dignity with which she ruled. I n mastering strange parts she forgot royal

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annoyances. M a d a m e le Brun, delayed in a terrible road by a breakdown to her carriage, gathered up some of the wretched earth and tried to model a head of it. " I really achieved something that looked like a face, and the time flew." Fleeming Jenkin's mother was over forty years old when she lost a beautiful voice. She at once set herself to learn the piano, work­ ing eight hours a day, and attained to such proficiency that her collaboration in chamber music was courted by professionals. Y o u n g L a d y Burton asked a friend to teach her to fence, declaring that she wished to defend her husband when they were in the wilderness together. She set herself to learn everything which might fit her for a roving life, so that in desert or woods, with or without servants, she might be qualified for any emergency. She went to a farmhouse where she learned all domestic details, how to groom horses, milk cows, and tend poultry. One of .he best dairy women in our Middle West, whose butter has taken many prizes, never milked a cow or saw a churn till circumstances made it necessary to take charge of an important dairy. She was over thirty at the time, yet she picked up the whole business almost instantaneously, because in the new work she regained that great motive power of the will, interest.

when T h o l u c k asked h i m if he had ever read any German theology. " W e l l , now, I do not think I have; but I will begin German to­ m o r r o w ; " and he did, declaring that his mind received new tone therefrom, and his spirit new enchantment. L a Rochefoucauld lent himself to the play of the Precieuses, writing maxims, without ever suspecting that he would therein find the fame he had vainly sought in politics and war. Leschetizky, wounded in his right arm and unable to use it, composed a number of pieces for the left hand alone. One, a fantasia on " L u c i a de Lammermoor," is very popular. Not to multiply illustrations unduly, the career of Watts summarizes them all. N o individual of his age possessed so much and so varied in­ formation. Aside from chemistry and the arts and all physical sciences, he was curiously learned in antiquity, music, and the law. He was well acquainted with most modern lan­ guages and recent literature, and he found life thrilling to the end.

have all known persons who seemed to glory in their limitations: " I can­ not sew; I cannot cook; I cannot read poetry." Possibly he was a clever man who refused to learn to row that he might Dean Buckland tried in vain to induce the never have to pull a boat for others. I have farmers of his locality to rejuvenate their fields. even heard that sailors, who would make good Finally, on the turf near his summer home, he swimmers, hold off because overboard in midsowed the word guano in that material, and in ocean, with no hand to help, and not a spar, due course the brilliant green grass of the they would rather drown end-on, the sooner letters amply testified to the efficiency of the the better, than fight for it. In such refusal dressing. Where preaching of the new had speaks the soul of the deserter. Every oc­ failed, illustration won. Sedgwick was allured cupation learned, every idea gained, is years into geological studies by being appointed pro­ of slavery remitted. I once fell into Attemptm' fessor of geology at Cambridge. T h e state­ the habit of telling a friend who ment sounds incredible; but he said: " H i t h e r ­ knitted that I too must some time to I have never turned a stone: now I will leave learn it. T h e remark was repeated once too no stone unturned." Murchison, an officer in often for her patience. Instantly strong arms the dragoons, an excellent hunter and a keen were around me, needles and a piece of plain horseman, hardly knew one stone from another. knitting forced into my hands, and no excuses, L a d y Murchison, however, taking up the study no urgent calls elsewhere effected a release. of geology, he himself began that career, which T h e n and there, amid pouts and laughter, my made him the first geologist of his age. A fingers were put through their paces, suffi­ French chemist begged Pasteur to study the cient directions sing-songed into my ears; and silk-worm disease which was making such havoc lo! to knit is now the solace of my dark hours. in French industry. " B u t consider that I have M a r c e l Prevost, the most essentially French never handled a silk-worm!" " S o much the of contemporary writers, outlines in "Lettres better; you will then have no ideas other than a. Francoise" the system of a woman's educa­ those which come from your own observation." tion. " K e e p your taste for novelty," he tells He succeeded notably. " F i x e d ideas are her; " y o u r trust in to-morrow; your instinc­ dangerous," he used to say; " t r y new roads." tive faith in the world's progress. Be curious Chalmers had been abusing German theology, about the world in which you live—you will o f

T h e Point of V i e w have time enough to be reactionary. Experi­ ment courageously in the fashions of the day." D i d he forecast the extraordinary coiffures of this year of gracelessness ? Y e t perchance, since fashion departs before it can fade, it is the only thing in this old world that is perennially fresh. Conceivably, a psyche knot, or a pre­ posterous pompadour, a rampant rat or a bulging bun releases the imprisoned soul of the factory girl, as a sprinkling of sudden perils in the hunting field uplifts the professional man, or as impulses from the vernal woods enlarge the horizon of the house mother. Athletes get muscle bound: we get thought bound, and need an outlet in some exotic action. T o the sorrow-weighted the maxim to be al­ ways attempting something new is tonic, medic­ inal, recuperative. F o r forty years Marianne North's father had been both her friend and companion, and after his death she had to fill up her hours with other interests and learn new habits of mind and heart. She went straight to Mentone to paint from nature. Specializing on botanical specimens, she trav­ elled all over the world in search of subjects, giving her superb collection of painted flowers finally to K e w Gardens, where it rivals the her­ barium in usefulness and interest. After M r . Delany's death, his wife could never bring her­ self to her old pleasure of painting flowers, but she invented a method of making paper flowers in mosaic, copying the original marvellously. Beginning thus at the age of seventy-four, in eight years she did one thousand specimens, " w i t h truth unparalleled," botanists coming from afar to use her collection for identification. W h e n old interests have been snatched away, there is nothing like new ideas for creating new interests and soothing grief and loneli­ ness. T h e study of a foreign language, geology, botany, ornithology, astronomy; or a handi­ craft, be it only the scraping and repolishing of a piece of old furniture; planting cabbages in orderly rows, cooking fancy desserts, or trifling with some of the hundred kinds of "cat'scradle" which an industrious ethnologist has collected from many primitive peoples—these all bring relief from depressing routine. One dear old lady I know combats loneliness by con­ cocting rhymes to the names of her friends, people hovering about to hear her jingles like bees about a honey pot; while another old lady who makes exquisite Irish crochet and pointlace asserts that she acquired her deftness by a youthful progression through such atrocities as hair wreaths, wax flowers, putty frames, and

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perforated air castles. L i k e M r s . G a m p , she added so many strings daily to her bow that she made a perfect harp of it. T h e aging have special need thus to seek new tasks and new impressions, to think outside the present circle of ideas, to pray to be kept from narrow pride in outgrown ways, blind eyes that will not see the good of change. T h e crossing of the radical line between man's and woman's work affords unexpected diversion. I knew of a young woman who studied in a Western school of mines at the same time that her brother was taking a course of designing with a Parisian dressmaker. Benjamin Franklin travelled by coach from Philadelphia to N e w Y o r k . The journey took four days, and he knitted stockings to while away the time. Choiseul employed some of his leisure in exile by doing tapestry work in the drawing-room at Chanteloup, recounting de­ lightful tales meanwhile of his long ministry to his distinguished guests. Jean Jacques sat outside his doorway making bobbin lace, and even carried his pillow about with him in the fields. In the way of friendships wisdom urges that we live " i n the stream of novelty as well as in the lakes of loyalty." N e w friendships are i n ­ spiring, and only by making new attachments can we escape threatening solitude. Society is an essential medicine for the shy. Fenelon ad­ vised his royal young pupil to gain some daily victory over his reserve: " G o into the world as a penance for your faults, as a duty to your house and name, and rid yourself of that hid­ den selfishness which pretends to a taste for a quiet, serious life." Even in the field of ethics one may profitably roam as an adventurer. A n excellent piece of roguery, quoth Jowett, " i s never to say an un­ pleasant thing about anybody, no matter what the provocation." One might seek adventure by mastering the fine art of dress; by acquiring a picturesque vocabulary, by practising the golden rule. In Maeterlinck's fairy story, the Soul of Sugar broke off one of his sweet fingers for Mytle to eat. It grew again immediately, whereby his generosity insured h i m always new clean fingers. It was borne in upon Stevenson that his duty was not to make his neighbor good, but to try to make him happy. D r . Johnson sententiously remarked that the poet G r a y was dull in a new way, which made people think h i m great. B y the new face slipped over the old fact do the qualified enrich erstwhile commonplaces. Jules Simon's father

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was a Napoleonist. H e had in his office por­ traits of the royal family, but he was not proud of them till by turning them upside down, an ingenious arrangement revealed likenesses of Napoleon, his queen, and his son. When D r . Boyd found on his shelves an­ tiquated books on science and theology, he refrained from donating them to the public library, but burned them, which savors of novelty. Y o u n g Herbert Spencer, too poor to hire a cab to drive him to a dinner party, took a roll of newspapers, one or two of which he would spread down over each muddy crossing, thereby making a little bridge over which to walk clean soled.

the student of old H o m e r finds his knowledge helpful in ordering bed and meals in modem Greece. I n mere reading the sophisticated will not confine their choice to one kind of literature. Fiction should alternate with "thick books." T o read only the best hun­ dred books is to make of the week one per­ petual Sabbath. A t a time when Joseph I I of Austria wanted to have a finger in every pie, he forbade the reverend fathers of a neighboring monastery to sing through their noses; but a Capuchin soon came imploring permission to revert to nasalism. L i k e St. Anthony preaching to the fishes:

In the intellectual life the need of the new is imperative. T h e advantages of varied knowl­ edge, in opposition to the idea that it is better to learn one subject thoroughly than to know something of many subjects, was the text of A . R . Wallace's first prize essay. Pres. Woodrow Wilson declares that the university of to­ day should make boys as unlike their fathers as possible; not because their fathers are not ex­ cellent men, but because they are too special­ ized. We must try to generalize the boys again. " I f L a Bruyere had drunk, if L a Rochefou­ cauld had hunted, if Chamfort had travelled, if Lacy had known foreign languages, if Theophrastus had been in Paris—they would all have written better still," explained the wise old Prince of Ligne. A later diplomatist, Prince Hohenlohe, whose omniscience was re­ markable, dwelt upon the wholesome fatality by which he had held posts only long enough to overcome the initial difficulties and habituate himself to the place. " T h e n the inexorable hand of Providence intervenes and tears me away, and I seem to hear a voice saying that everything is going too easily for me, that my inborn laziness will get the upper hand, and packs me off to something new."

" Much delighted were they, But preferred the old way."

A chief end of literary study is to reveal new interests in life, to multiply the points of con­ tact between the mind and human experience, to open out new ways of thought and feeling. A foreign language puts unfamiliar things in an unaccustomed way so deftly that we feel as though we had gained another sense: the words of our mother tongue, in Lowell's apt phrase, having been worn smooth by so much rubbing against our lips and minds. Moreover the man who learns Spanish to sell to the Spaniards may use it to read Cervantes; and

So up and down the ages the conservatives are crying, " W h y cannot you let it alone?" while the young "girt with the priceless robes of in­ experience" are pushing against the crusts of the old, responding to the call of every fresh moment, seeking enjoyment in energy, not dalliance, wholesomely exhausting each stage of life as it is lived, and hospitably entertaining conflicting sentiments and contradictory opin­ ions. N o r is their attitude one to be apologized for. Rather is it in line with the whole method of the universe. Everywhere, as D r . Martineau says, in the lower life there is the spirit of routine; but everywhere the higher life is undulatory, in need of variation, developed through change. Variety of work and inter­ ests keeps life fresh and steady and sane. "However mistaken Byron and Shelley were," said Tennyson, "they yet gave the world another heart and new pulses, and so we are kept going." Without this impact of the new, the untried, the unhabitual, the most original of us grows stale and languid. T r y i n g to divine, as Wellington put it, what is on the other side of the hill is not enough. Walt Whitman states our need thus: " O we can wait no longer, W e too take ship, O Soul; Joyous we too launch out on trackless seas, Fearless for unknown shores, on waves of ecstasy to sail, Amid the wafting winds . . . Chanting our chant of pleasant exploration. O my brave Soul! O farther, farther sail! O daring joy, but safe! are they not all the seas of God? O farther, farther sail!

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been surpassed. In the first place, he used a clay that was well selected, washed and freed from all impurities; secondly, he employed glazes which were pure and beautiful in color, and predominant among these were a mag­ nificent pale blue and a creamy white; thirdly, his works had the glaze evenly distributed over the whole surface and so preserved the beauty of his modelling; fourthly, he was extremely careful in the jointing of different pieces and he always fitted them together and eliminated all ragged edges and coarse joints."* In the more impalpable qualities of the art, also, the contemporary sculptor, working with polychromatic faience and terra-cotta, will probably be content to rival the two great Delia Robbias.

the g r a d u a l p r o c e s s of its development, or reconsideration, contemporary archi­ tecture in this coun­ try seems to be com­ ing to the point of accepting freely the embellishment o f c o l o r e d sculpture. Grotesque, College of the City of New York. T h e adoption of the typical s t e e l girder and frame, within the period of less than a quarter of a century, has—it has been sug­ gested—through its insistence upon greater In the simpler color schemes adopted, the safeguards and higher standards in structural arrangement of white figures on a blue ground work, led to the adoption of more absolutely is frequently maintained to-day, as in the fire-proof and frost-proof material, as terra­ pediment of D r . Parkhurst's church, Madison cotta, and thence, naturally, to the introduc­ Square, in this city. In the panels of the tion of color with this ma­ Boston Opera House, rep­ terial, first in the strictly resenting Music, D r a m a , c o n s t r u c t i v e members, and D a n c i n g , this blue t h e n in the ornamental, takes on a greenish tinge. tiles, medallions, reliefs, In the l a r g e medallions and finally in decorative and reliefs on the facade and even m o n u m e n t a of the new V a n d e r b i l t sculpture. But, while hotel, in this city, now in science is permitted to go p r o c e s s of construction, on (somewhat haltingly at the color is more delicate, times) to the exploitation the figures being white and of entirely new fields, one the background a delicate after another, the fire-new cream color. B u t for all presentations in art this w o r k , sculptfrequently prove to u r a l and p u r e l y be either of doubt­ a r c h i t e c t u r a l , the ful value or the re­ number of colors, it vivals of past glories is claimed, can be in­ —even when it is definitely increased. question only of the T h e use of this material processes, material in building t h e t e c h n iq u e. has become so ex­ " L u c a ' s w o r k s in t e n s i v e that, it is glazed f a i e n c e , " a s s e r t e d , fifty per writes a contempo­ cent, of the visible rary expert, "have construction of the technical q u a l i t i e s From photographs, copyright by F. G. R. Roth. •'Francis G . Plant, Art which have n e v e r Director, Hartford Fai­

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sky line of the "sky-scrapers" on Manhattan resents truth; on either side are graceful float­ Island is of terra-cotta, and only about fifteen ing female figures in adoration, one with a lyre per cent, of marble, granite, and other stones. and the other with a scroll, " G l o r i a in Excelsis Deo." O f the two kneeling male figures, that The rest is mostly brick. If, however, we take for a moment the point in armor on the right indicates the conquering of view of a painter, it may be admitted that or militant church, and that on the left the this color will not always be satisfying. Even church as a shepherd. In the angles at the in setting aside the objections lodged by the extremities a p p e a r the rising sun On tonalists against all glazed and shiny color—as and the crescent moon. repellent, unsympathetic, superficial, etc.— the blue field are seen there is to be found apparently something in a l s o f l o a t i n g -t'' the clay, its glazes and slips, which limits, for c h e r u b s ' the commercial work at least, the range of the charm of its color. I n some of the modern interior work in tiles, in the decora­ tive landscape designs in very broad m a s s e s w i t h raised outlines, something more like the qual­ Pediment in Dr. i t i e s the painter strives for are obtained—the mellow­ ness, richness, depth, smothered pomp—so to speak, the color living and working in the mass, ready to break out, threatening, to be hoped for. Color, in short. A n d even better results will probably be obtained. D r . Parkhurst's low-domed, Romanesque church facing Madison Square was designed as a colorful edifice, and the sculpture in the pediment was planned by the late Stanford White. The size of the figures, in very high relief, excited some apprehension when it came to their execution, and many devices were em­ ployed to insure success—among others, that of mounting a vastly enlarged photograph of the completed model, the size of the original, in the tympanum (forty-four feet on the base line) and inspecting it critically from the park below. From M r . White's memoranda, H . Siddons Mowbray, painter, executed a careful design, indicating the color, and Adolph A . Weinman, sculptor, carried this out in a relief model of the dimensions required. From this model the Atlantic Terra-cotta Company pro­ duced the finished work, in the required colors, and the assembled pieces were carefully set in the brick work of the pediment, the touches of gold, in leaf, being afterward laid on by hand, though the metal, also, could have been ap­ plied and fired with the three colors employed. In the centre of the tympanum appears an up­ right tabernacle or shrine, bearing the cross and ball in gold on an orange panel and with the ornament also picked out in gold; under­ neath are clouds and a winged head: this rep­

heads and wisps of cloud, and it is spotted with stars. T h e figures, etc., are of a glazed white, not too cold; the lyre and the letter­ ing on the scroll, the halos of the two angels and of the cherub heads, the knight's sword hilt and the stars, are also gilded. The background is of a luminous blue, some­ what more luminous than is wanted, allow­ ance having been made for the inevitable lowering of tone by dust and exposure to the weather. The decorative panels over the main entrance of the Boston Opera House, Bela L . Pratt, sculptor, executed by the Atlantic Terra-cotta Company, are smaller in scale, also in high relief, and divided into square panels like gigantic tiles. These panels present in each a central figure or group, about half life size, and larger groups at the two ends. For the decorations of the first two floors of the facade of the Vanderbilt hotel the scheme is more strictly architectural. In the great semicircular lunette over the central entrance very tall decorative terminal figures, nymphs and satyrs, six feet in height, eight in number, radiate from the centre like the sticks of a fan, separating very shallow arched niches and united by festoons and other fight devices; over the light cornice of the second floor, on the three great bays of the building, are spaced large medallions, four feet in extreme diameter, bearing dancing figures in relief, and the cor­ nice itself carries a handsome Paladion motif. In the interior of this building, when com­ pleted, it is intended to make still more ex-

T h e Field of A r t tensive use of this decorative sculpture tricked out with color. A l l of it will be modelled from the designs of the architects, Warren and Wetmore, and under their supervision by Donelly and Ricci, and executed by the Hartford Faience Company. In the School of Medicine, University of Pittsburg, is a very large p a n e l in high relief, the figure thirteen o n e - h a l f feet in height and eigh­ t e e n feet

Parkhurst's church.

at base, of Esculapius, with his staff and ser­ pent, gray in color, modelled by the sculptor Charles K e c k for the Atlantic Terra-cotta Company. For the more or less Byzantine architecture of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, the elaborate color scheme of the re­ lief work of which—in red, green, yellow, cream tones, and sienna—has provoked much comment, this same company has provided nearly a hundred cherubic figures, creamy white against yellow, and other figures in high relief, a colder white against blue. E x ­ amples could be multiplied. Among them is a large panel in several colors representing knights tilting, seven feet in length, in Rookwood faience, by the sculptor W . P. M c D o n a l d , over a doorway in Westwood School, Cincin­ nati, Ohio. A very extensive field is opened by the possibility of exact reproduction of any classic work—as a panel of Donatello's children, by this company, in old ivory with touches of sienna. I n the field of smaller work, wall fountains, flower-boxes, vases, tobacco-boxes, panels in relief, etc., etc., the opportunities are innumer­ able, and the interior work offers certain ad­ vantages in permitting the use of soft, porous, and heavily applied mat glazes, not having to fear the assaults of wind and weather which will affect unglazed terra-cotta. For fountains, the polychromatic exterior glaze decoration is peculiarly well adapted and has been used in a number of important cases. A very ingenious and interesting diversion of this art has been presented in the little

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Panel by W. P. McDonald in the Westwood School, Cincinnati.

low relief or limited to raising the outlines, partly for the purpose of confining the color within its proper boundaries. The clays, of different colors, in which occur sand, flint, and feldspar, are found in various localities. For the terra-cottas, broken pieces of the baked terra-cotta, called " g r i t , " are added. F r o m the model furnished by the sculptor, or from that made by trained workmen in inferior pieces, a cast is made, into the mould of this cast the prepared moist clay, the "body," is forced into every part, and when dry taken out and fired in muffle kilns. The largest part of the drying takes place after the piece is turned out of the mould, either on the floor or in tunnels where artificial or waste heat is in circulation. I n the circular kilns the flames do not touch the clay, but circulate in various directions through the hoilow walls and down through the central hoilow shaft according to three separate systems of firing, known by their respective names, For the larger pieces of terra-cotta, as those of the Parkhurst church, it is necessary to regulate this firing very carefully, that the moisture contained in them shall be completely expelled before the extreme heat is applied. The steam vent holes, left in the upper part of the kiln, are not closed for two days, then all peep holes and vents are stopped up and the highest temperature developed, frequently 2,250° Fahrenheit, For

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finer movements. On February 1 st, of this year, we had to discontinue the $35.00 Howard as we announced at that time, and on June 15 th we made the last of the $37.50 quality. These are both excellent watches. The $35.00 watch sold out so fast that many people were disappointed.

They didn't see the jeweler soon enough.

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This watch is 17-jewel single roller escapement, tested in its case at the factory—adjusted to three positions, temperature and isochronism—in hunting case only. We wish it clearly understood that this is not a raise in price of Howard watches. It means that we have to increase our pro­ duction of the finer watches and we can't do that by hurrying the work. In 65 years of watch making history a Howard has never been slighted. Every year there are more men who want to own a Howard —never quite enough to go around. The price of each watch is fixed at the factory and a printed ticket attached. Not every jeweler can sell you a Howard watch. No jeweler can charge you more than the printed ticket calls for and the Howard is always worth that price. Talk to the Howard jeweler in your town—he is a good man to know. E. HOWARD WATCH WORKS BOSTON,

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Your Money's Worth in a Watch Case reliable watch case, with its tight-fitting caps and neat joints, is a mighty fine piece of workmanship. There are a dozen ways to cheapen it—in amount of labor put on it, in skill, in weight, in fineness. T h e genuine watch case is made not merely to please the eye and to sell, but to protect the wonderfully fine and delicate mechanism of the watch movement or " w o r k s . " Y o u know how it is in buying anything : if you take things for granted and don't k n o w what to ask for you get an adulterated article—a substitute said to be " just as good " as the genuine. ILJi

T h e trade marks illustrated o n this page are y o u r safeguard. T h e y are standard with the fine jewelry trade, and have been for 50 years. T h e y mean absolute integrity i n b u l l i o n value, i n assay, i n construction of a w a t c h case. B e sure to find them. E v e r y good jeweler i n this country knows the marks and carries the cases. T h e y are made for l a d i e s ' and men's w a t c h e s — p l a i n , engine-turned, engraved or enameled. A l l sizes, a l l patterns.

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Light the Room Artistically I make two or three thous­ and k i n d s of lighting glass. These com­ prise all shapes and kinds, i n all colors and shades of col­ ors, i n s i l k , satin and vel­ Keg. U. B. Pat. OK vet finishes and more coming all the time. The globe or shade the electric light is adds to the beauty room. A bare electric detracts from it.

over what of a light

But refine this light with the proper glass and the furnishings of the entire room take on a new charm.

A m o n g a l l my many globes and shades you can readily find the exact styles required for each room i n the home. M y latest invention is " A l b a Glass." It is especi­ ally adapted to the lighting of large spaces, such as streets, hotels, theatres and public buildings, because it gives even diffusions of light, w i t h o u t sacrificing the brilliancy. Every lighting glass which I make, makes the light a better light. M y catalogue is free. for it? Address

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PIANOLA Hundreds of people will return from the country this year with the intention of buying a Pianola Piano. In the home of some neighbor or friend they have been greatly entertained by hearing one of these instruments—per­ haps even played one themselves. They have listened to people who literally knew nothing whatever of music play the Pianola Piano with a beauty—an expressiveness—a brilliancy of execution only surpassed by the greatest pianists.

Discernment Necessary But not all these people will exercise the care they should when they come to make their purchase. Some of them may fail to realize until after they buy—that all player-pianos are not Pianola Pianos. Too late they will learn that the musical results accomplished with the Pianola Piano are possible on no other pianoplayer whatsoever. That only on the Pianola are those wonderful features, the Metrostyle—

PIANO which shows in every piece the mood of the composer and how to interpret it; The Themodist—which brings the melody or " theme " clearly out above the accom­ paniment; The GraduatedAccompaniment, The Sustaining Pedal Device, etc.

Pianola Pianos Radically Different From Player-pianos A player-piano is any piano with any player in it. A Pianola Piano is either a Steinway, a Weber, a Steck, a Wheelock or a Stuyvesant Piano containing the world famous Pianola itself. Practically all piano manufacturers now have instruments on the market for which they claim results similar to the Pianola Piano. The fact is, that not one of these instruments approaches the Pianola Piano either in the artistic nature of its perform­ ance—the simple yet complete control it offers the performer, or in the expe­ rience and skill which shows in its construction.

Pianola Pianos cost from $550 upwards. They may be purchased on monthly payments. Illustrated catalog N will be mailed free upon request, together with information as to where the Pianola may be obtained.

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A PORTION OF ONE OF OUR STOCK ROOMS OF NEW WOOLENS

The only stock we carry is thousands and thou­ sands of yards of the newest all-wool fabrics, embracing beautiful and exclusive weaves from the most reputable mills in the world. Y o u ' l l f i n d c l o t h i n g , f a b r i c s

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New York City Surface Cars And 5th Avenue Auto Buses Study the Cards — We Have a Standard Ask for rates and information

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Y o u can hardly be too early about it. Duo/old doesn't overheat you on a mild day or in a warm room; yet it is a perfect safeguard against the severest weather.—Two l i g h t - w e i g h t f a b r i c s in one; w i t h air-space between. This is sensible, scientific, and distinctly " the correct thing." Duo/old is worn by good dressers and well-groomed men everywhere. Y o u r dealer will show you Duo/old single garments and union suits in various weights and styles; thoroughly shrunken; and guaranteed in every respect. Y o u r money back if not satisfied. If you can't get exactly what you want write to us. We'll find a way to supply you. Ask for the Duo/old style booklet. It gives important facts about underwear that every modern man ought to know. ' Get next." Duofold

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The average man you meet is wearing today a better look­ ing, more comfortable and more durable shoe than was worn by the millionaire of yesterday. Just one t h i n g has made this possible :

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Here is a picture of the shoemaker of your youth—you have seen him at work w i t h almost precisely the same tools that were used at the time the pyramids were built. But within your m e m o r y he has vanished into history. H i s place has been taken by a system of almost h u m a n machinery. T h e m a k i n g of shoes has been revolutionized i n the past ten years by the marvelous development and the general use of the Goodyear Welt system of shoe machinery, w h i c h results i n :

Satisfaction to the wearer; Better business for the dealer; Prosperity for the manufacturer; Improved conditions of labor. N o matter w h e r e s o l d , o r u n d e r what name, a l l r e a l l y good W e l t shoes today are m a d e b y this p r o c e s s — a s k the salesman (next time) if the W e l t shoes he offers y o u are " G o o d y e a r W e l t s "—refuse them if they are not. Y o u w a n t the best—get it. W e have prepared an alphabetical list of a l l " G o o d y e a r W e l t " shoes sold under a special name or T r a d e M a r k . W e send it on request, w i t h o u t charge, and w i t h it a b o o k w h i c h describes the " G o o d y e a r W e l t " process i n detail a n d pictures the marvelous machines e m p l o y e d .

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USE PAINTS MADE WITH OXIDE of ZINC

Seaside Painters know by experience that nothing but Oxide of Zinc Paints will give satisfaction. Seashore exposure is only an "accelerated paint test." Paint that wears well here will wear better elsewhere. A proper percentage of Oxide of Zinc is essential to the life of Paint.

Does your paint contain Oxide of Zinc? Oxide of Zinc is unalterable even under the blowpipe.

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This is the day of big things, done quickly. Men no longer wait on the slow process of time. This advertisement speaks to other millions while you are reading it. Ten years ago a man who imported much fine foreign furniture for his fellow Americans decided to make American furniture the standard of the world. This man has doubled his facilities over and over again, until he now has the largest and most perfect workshops of their kind in the world — m a k i n g C O W A N CABINET W O R K —and yet he is not supplying onetenth of the demand which w i l l arise when all the people know about C o w a n furniture. He is planning to double his workshops again and again. T h e old way would have been to advertise conservatively and wait years. The modern way is T h e C o w a n Special Offer, to Induce Immediate Acquaintance with Cowan Furniture. The Special Offer for September isthe C o w a n Colonial Four Poster Bed (the famous old Pineapple pattern shown herewith) on which we offer you a saving of $17.50 on the single, or $27.50 on the double size. T h i s offer holds good for the month of September only.

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T h e beds are shown in our own retail store in Chicago, and by all of the stores throughout the country where Cowan furniture is sold. If you do not know the nearest Cowan agency, the name will be furnished upon request, or you may order the beds by mail direct from the Cowan shops. T h e r e is only one Cowan quality. Y o u can buy other four post beds of similar appearance at our reduced price or near it, but do not do so expecting to get Cowan quality. Y o u will be disappointed. These beds no doubt are worth what is asked for them. T h e whole point of our special offers is that whatever we offer will be worth much more than the price at which we offer it temporarily. Hundreds of C o w a n beds of this famous old pattern are now in the finest American homes, and they have been sold uniformly heretofore at $55.00 for the single, and $65.00 for the double size. T h e y cannot be sold for less, at a profit, and will not be sold for less after September 30th. During September we offer them for $37.50 in either single or double size. T h e beds are of the very finest of selected soli^ mahogany, each board selected for its beauty of grain and texture. T h e posts are hand carved and the head board is jive-ply mahogany, veneered upon solid mahogany, to prevent warping. W e sell our special offerings to our agents at less than our shop cost to enable them to fulfill the terms of this offer. W e make the same offer through our retail store and by mail, F . O . B . Chicago, to make the opportunity nation-wide. W e make these offers solely to stimulate your first interest in Cowan furniture. O n c e interested, we know you will do as hundreds of others have done—furnish your home entirely with it—all at once if you can—piece by piece if you must. There is no other furniture like it, and no other /?«i?furniture made in a sufficient numberof patterns so that a home may be furnished entirely with it. The Cowan line now numbers more than a thousand patterns, all in mahogany or Circassian walnut, reproduced from the masterpieces of historic design—Sheraton, Chippendale, Heppelwhite, Adam, American Colonial, etc.. You can take advantage of the September special offer only in September. Call upon our nearest agent if you know him, or write to us at once for information. Dresser, dressing table, chiffonier, costumer, commode and cheval glass to match can be had if desired.

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FineViolins greatest offering of Fine Violins in the history of the industry is now being made by L y o n & Healy. Over THaEyear's preparation and search of out-of-the-way sources of supply in Europe are represented in this great sale. Masterpieces by Stradivarius, Guarnerius, A m a t i and other masters are quoted at figures which are most reasonable. Fine old fiddles of a pure and carrying tone (authenticity fully guaranteed by L y o n & Healy), are offered from $100 upward. N e w L y o n & Healy W a s h b u r n Violins from $15 u p ; new L y o n & Healy Msestro Violins from $50 up ; new L y o n & Healy Cremonatone Violins from $100 up. T h e foregoing instruments offer teachers and students the most remarkable values yet created in solo instruments. Special V a l u e s . — W r i t e Carlo to usTononi, for the Venice, history1739 and characteristics ofS295 the following fine old violins: Tommasso Carcassi, Florence, 1751 . . . . 268 Fine Violin Catalog Guisseppe Odardi, Venice, 1735 246 M o n t h l y Payments Joseph Kloz, Mittenwald, 1793 218 To anyone in the market Camillus Camilli, Mantua, 1734 347 We accept a small cash pay­ for a violin, we will send our Old English, Duke 140 beautifully illustrated brochure, Pillement, Paris no ment and allow ample time on " Fine Old Violins." This is the standard work of the kind, the balance, when desired. En­ and contains a vast amount of joy your violin while you are information upon violins and violin makers. Make a study paying for it. of the subject before buying.

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The Kewanee System of Water Supply

Ir W h a t the K e w a n e e System M e a n s to the Inexperienced M a n How The Kewanee Differs from Others If you want a water supply system for your country home, or for any building or institution, learn what the Kewanee System means to you.

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In order to protect yourself from the substitution of inferior equipment for the Kewanee System, look for the trade-mark K E W A N E E on the tank and the name K E W A N E E on the pumping machinery. A Kewanee System consists of a Kewanee Tank and a Kewanee Pumping Unit, installed according to the prints and instructions furnished by the Kewanee Water Supply Co. The combination of a tank with a pump to work on a similar principle is not a Kewanee System. This information is for your protection.

No matter how little you may know about water supply equip­ ment, you can have just as good a plant as if you were an expert and experienced hydraulic engineer. Kewanee Systems are designed by men who know how—experienced practical engineers who have solved thousands of water supply problems. Avoid plants designed by inexperi­ enced people who want to experi­ ment on you. Kewanee Systems are made by us. They are not the assembled pro­ duct of a half dozen different manu­ facturers. We furnish the complete system and we are responsible for all—every part of it. There is a Kewanee System for every kind of building or institution. We do not try to make one or two styles fit all places. Every problem is solved separately—every plant

guaranteed to work successfully under the conditions for which it is recommended. Kewanee tanks—the high stan­ dard for quality in pneumatic tanks. Kewanee Pumping Machinery—the only complete line of pumping ma­ chinery built for the exacting require­ ments of air pressure service. Inferior tanks and pumping outfits are made to sell, but they must necessarily provide inferior service and be more costly in the long run. Kewanee Systems are easy to in­ stall and easy to operate. All the expert part of the work is done at our end—not yours. Kewanee Systems are inexperience-proof.

Our 64-page illustrated catalog tells the Kewanee story. Let us show jou what we have done for others and what we can do for you. Ask for catalog No. 9.

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M A N Y houseowners put off badly needed painting last spring because of the rainy weather i n A p r i l and M a y . If you have done so, paint this fall. It was wise not to paint i n the wet weather but don't put it off longer. F a l l is an excellent painting season. T h e atmosphere is clear and bright and free from moisture. Insects are not prevalent. Surfaces are dry — i n short, every condition favorable to good p a i n t i n g is found i n the fall. W h e n you paint, specify D u t c h

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Manning-Bowman Alcohol Gas Stoves can be used interchangeably with Chafing Dish or Coffee Pot Style Percolator and in addition will take any cooking utensil and cook as complete a meal as can be done on a kitchen range. These stoves are supplied with Manning-Bowman Chafing Dishes or may be bought separately. All dealers have them and the Manning-Bowman Q u a l i t y Coffee Percolators, Chafing Dishes, "Eclipse" Bread Mixer, etc. Write for free Book of Recipes and Catalog 'J-13' MANNING, BOWMAN & C O . , , Meridek. C o m

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National Lead Company An office in each of the following cities: New York Boston Buffalo Cincinnati Chicago Cleveland St. Louis (John T. Lewis & Bros. Co., Philadelphia) (National Lead & Oil Company, Pittsburgh)

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Dance"

quoted a well-known music critic watching a hundred children dancing to Baldwin Player-Piano accompaniment. A l l the waltz k i n g s , a l l the music monarchs from Strauss to Sousa, from Chopin to Chaminade, are y o u r subjects—•

The Baldwin Player Piano furnishes fingers of fairy fleetness and the power to accent l i k e an artist. you control the performance ; y o u r r y t h m i c feeling rules.

Yet

T r y the Viennese waltzes on a B a l d w i n P l a y e r - P i a n o . H e r e is s w i n g , enticement, color as w h e n the master leads the band. Every composer is yours to interpret w i t h art. The Catalogue, describing Baldwin player construction, is complete with player facts. Let us sendit. Comparison between the "Baldwin" and other piano-playing inventions emphasizes Baldwin superiority.

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St. 1/nns 1013 Olive Street Boston 40 Huntington Ave.

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ENAMELS SUPERIOR WHITE ENAMEL « ) is the finest quality of white enamel that can be made. It dries quickly with a beautiful glossy surface that retains its beauty through exposure and wear and does not turn yellow. Is easily kept clean and is not affected by repeated washing. It is intended for use on the finest interior woodwork and can be used over old varnished ur painted surfaces with most exceUeni results. Can be rubbed

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H E Chalmers " 3 0 " is the only medium priced car that ever won the Glidden Trophy, and the Glidden T o u r this year was the longest and hardest reliability run ever undertaken. For five days after every other car was penalized—and over the worst part of the route—the Chalmers " 3 0 " continued with a perfect score. T h e winning car was strictly a stock car, the same as you would buy at any Chalmers salesroom. Such a test answers all questions of speed, power, endurance, reliability, that expert or novice could ask. T h e Chalmers 3 0 " has proven itself over and over again to excel in all these features — in fact, the Chalmers

In detail—the curves just back of the tonneau doors have been straightened out, making the low, rakish, straight-lined bodies which every maker strives so hard to obtain. T h e seats have been lowered, adding mater­ ially to the riding comfort.

T h e tonneaus of both " 3 0 " and "Forty" have been made longer and wider. T h e fen­ ders have been changed slightly, adding to the graceful appearance of the car. T h e battery box has been placed under the tonneau floor and a big tool box placed on the left running board, a change that every driver will praise. N e w style carburetors are used on both motors and their economy and uniformity of "30" has never been defeated in any operation under all conditions will surprise every buyer. important motoring contest by a car O n the " 3 0 " we furnish a Bosch magneto, big of its own price and power class. There is no stock car in the world at new-style gas lamps, Prest-O-Lite tank and a special Chalmers top—all for $200 additional. any price with such a record. A s in former years, the Chalmers principle T h e Chalmers 1911 models are now ready is not to make as many cars as possible, but for delivery. I n all vital features they remain to make them as good as possible. Chalmers the same cars that have created world's record cars are built on a quality, not a quantity basis. for speed, endurance, efficiency and consistency. In general, the greatest improvement on W e would like to take care of everyone the 1911 Chalmers consists in refinement of who wants a Chalmers, and yet it is not our detail, like the artist's final touch to the mas­ ambition to build cars in very large quantities; terpiece. Lines have been beautified in body hence we would advise you to place your and fender, so that—viewed from any angle— order early. no car, whether it costs $5000 or more, affords W r i t e for the new catalog " B G " and more eye-delight than the Chalmers. name of the nearest dealer. CHALMERS MOTOR COMPANY, Detroit, Mich, {Licensed under Selden Patent)

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— " .whenevep an unusually difficult endurance van occurs, OP a stpenuous toup like tbe Glidden Trophy confest-vou will see

GOODRICH TIRES the prevailing choice of the contestants, and will see proof of the wisdom of the choice at the end Of thfe P U I L ' ^ ~Jlpril advertisement.

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