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Turning Lives into Dollars Juliet Wilbor Tompkins Illustrated by Joke Boyd ana w illiam Oberhardt А Bluelabel Saint, (A Story) à қ í . Ellis Parker Butler Illustrated B. Horace Taylor i The Romance of Newsgathering ‘ Remsen Crawford Illustrated with E, E How Roosevelt Is Regarded Abroad А Vance Thompson Illustrated by Robert F. Wildhack Wanted,—a Desperado, (A Story.) . Frederick Upham Adams Illustrated by w ill Crawford The Beginnings of the Drama іп America . . David Belasco Illustrated by Fletcher C. жеке апа W. C. Rice A Busy Moming, (A Stoy.) . ; ; i ; А Jennie Betts Hartswick Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer Books as Doctors . ; 4 à Е à А . Richard Le Gallienne Illustrated by Maud O. T. Thurston Studying for Grand Opera , ; ; i Mme. Schumann-Heink

Illustrated with special photograph Success with a Flaw : . қ А s 4 Orison Swett Marden

How Coleman Got Home for Christmas, (A Story,) . James B. Connolly Illustrated by E. M. Ashe The Art of Christmas Giving Mary E. Wilkins Freeman ‘Illustrated by D. C. Hutchison

Money-making at Home . i А ; Anna Steese Richardson Illustrated by Maud O. T. Жылда

A Word to Strikers . 2 а ы ; қ . А Elbert Hubbard

Verse:

A Song for All the Living . ‘ ” j à à Mildred I. McNeal Sweeny Illustrated by Carl Abel

The Skipper and the Cabin Boy . А ; ‘ А š ‘ . Wallace Irwin Illustrated by H. E. Dey

When You Strike the Hardest Knot А ; 5 Р i . Roy Farrell Greene

Stamina versus Bluff А А ^ ; ; " Strickland W. Gillilan

He Did His Best . с А à А А А ^ . Henry Coyle

The Gospel of Ladies : i a $ қ " $ Alfred J. Waterhouse

Christmas i : ; Agnes M. Matthews

OTHER FEATURES AND DEPARTMENTS

Humor and Anecdote : : А i А . 828 | Popular Science ; А Garrett P. Serviss The Editor's Chat . > Р А ы : . 834 | Useful and Pretty Christmas Gifts . Mary Le Mont Hints to Young Writers . 837 The Accessories of the Fashionable Wardrobe, Receptions and Calls . "Мез, Burton Kingsland 840 Martha Dean Hallam New Ideas . 842 Тһе Well-Dressed Man . Alfred Stephen Bryan A Review of New Books . ; Lk 1. Addington Bruce 847 ; Baron Rosen’ s Hat . М : J. Herbert Welch

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F. HOPKINSON SMITH ELIZABETH JORDAN GEORGE В. McCUTCHEON

Features that Cost Fortunes

This is a day of specialists. The time has gone by when agreat magazine can be built up by occasional writers, The magazine of the future will be entirely the product of specialists. SUCCESS MAGAZINE is building up a staff of strong, vigor- ous specialists, each one of whom will make a study of some particular subject which is of vital interest to the people of this country. SUCCESS MAGAZINE aims to give its readers the best product of the best brains in the world ; and it will spare no pains or expense to secure the most interesting material that ingenuity and money can procure. Some of the features which we have published in the past have cost five thousand dollars apiece. We shall give our readers better things іп the future, for it is our policy always to give more than we promise,

W. J. Bryan on International Affairs

Mr. Bryan, who is on a two years' tour of the world, is making some very im- ortant investigations for SUCCESS MAGAZINE оп certain questions which have ately assumed an international interest. He will spend considerable time in China,

and will give this magazine a graphic account of the Chinese boycott of American goods nnd a resumé of the whole question of how America is likely to be affected in the future by the Chinese, He will also write for us his observations on the situ- ation of foreign markets and international trade relations, and will make a special study of the communities which operate public utilities,

Samuel Merwin on Progress

It is doubtful whether any young writer has made greater strides in public favor during the last two years than Samuel Merwin, who has become a favorite with our readers by his forceful articles on industrial and financial topics. His "Тһе Great Speed Trains of America," in our October issue, attracted such wide [omnc attention, and was so widely quoted and brought so many appreciative etters to this office, that the editor requested him to write a companion article showing the latest achievements in shipbuilding. Accordingly, Mr. Merwin took passage оп the new giant steamship " Amerika,” the largest and most palatial craft that ever sailed the seas, in order to study this latest triumph of ocean palaces, The safety, luxury and comfort that are afforded by the floating palace hotels that Лу between America and the Old World are a part of modern advancement. Mr. Шеген also has several other important commissions from this magazine, He will interview noted men abroad on topics of vital interest.

Vance Thompson on Diplomatic Affairs

Many people regard Vance Thompson as the most fascinating of American writers, The tens of thousands of SUCCESS MAGAZINE readers who have been charmed during the last two years with his brilliant articles will be pleased to know that he is to contribute during the next year some of the most important work he has ever written. His long residence in Europe, his intimate knowledge of inter- national politics, and his close acquaintanceship with such men as President Loubet of France, Sergius Witte, Lord Lansdowne, Von Bulow, King Leopold and other famous diplomats has given him entrée to those circles in which are settled the great disputes of nations. Mr. Thompson was the compiler of the celebrated De Blowitz letters. In the future he will be commissioned to write about all the important political and international affairs that, sooner or later, become '' Dip- lomatic Mysteries."

Hosmer Whitfield on Foreign Captains of Industry

While owing to a difference in journalistic methods little has been heard of the captains of industry of Europe, they do exist and direct enormous industries. The interesting personalties of these men are scarcely known even to the. European public. Hosmer Whitfield was specially commissioned by SUCCESS MAGAZINE to visit and Investigate the great shipbuilders, metal workers, manufacturers and inventors of Europe and has seeured Some ‘stories’

The Shameful Misuse of Wealth

By CLEVELAND MOFFETT

of surpassing interest

Perhar о series of articles ever printed in SUCCESS MAGAZINE has uttracted such un tengon f Mr, Мойт" Ihe St tiol Misuse of Wealth It has bro: r offi housands of letter ( 1 on d has opened Ше eyes of many ople ta the nec y ol pr lin rk expend some

Ul per та fth ted | ! enng ! сот ı of the poor Mr. Mathew ha M at dea { tin { ney pr for this second et не! 1 ] ату mumpet nel cli propis to be ever

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JEROME K. JEROME WILLIAM HAMILTON OSBORNE |

Stories that Stand for Something

HE fiction stories that will appear in Success

MAGAZINE will be of a much higher standard

than we have hitherto published. They will embrace many new fields of story-telling, for we have greatly broadened the scope of our literary effort, and we intend to give a better and more fascinating presentation of the most sparkling, gripping short stories by American and European writers than ever before. Іп fact, we intend to stand as the leading publication of high-grade fiction in the United States. Among those who will contribute to early numbers are: —

Е. Hopkinson SMITH JEROME K. JEROME DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS GEORGE BARR MCCUTCHEON HAROLD MACGRATH MAARTEN MAARTENS ELLIS PARKER BUTLER FREDERICK TREVOR HILL PORTER EMERSON BROWNE ELIZABETH JORDAN HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD CHARLES Е, MARTIN HOWARD FEILDING T. Jenkins НАтх8 HOLMAN Day WiLLIAM HAMILTON OSBORNE MARTHA MCCULLOCH-WILLIAMS WILLIAM К. LtGHTON ZONA GALE ALVAH MILTON KERR

GEORGE ADE

Mr, Ade is America's greatest living humorist. He will tel) cur icadeis how һе manages to make peop:e laugb.

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Our Art Department

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| to illustrate a magazine beyond a few pictures that might illumine the text. To-day it is an equal factor with clever literature in the **make- up'' of any publication worthy of a standard rank. Good artists are more difficult to secure and de- mand more remuneration than ever before, Ме- chanical devices for the reproduction of high-grade work im half-tone and color have almost reached the асте of the inventor's art. We are taking advantage of all these conditions and have im- proved. our art department to meet the demand of the time. Our cover designs, which have been so noted in the past, will be even more striking in the future. Success MAGAZINE probably pays the highest price of any magazine in America for its cover designs, |. C. Leyendecker, the best cover designer in America, is one of our staff of artists, А fine sample of his exquisite workman- ship is shown in our Christmas issue. Guernsey Moore, one of the best artists in the United States, will furnish a number of cover designs during 1906, E. M. Ashe, Clyde O. De Land, H, G. Williarnson, Charles Sarka and other noted artists will also paint covers. The inside pages will be adorned with the best work of such artists as

E. M. ASHE FLETCHER C. RANSOM HORACE TAYLOR WiLL CRAWFORD FREDERIC R. J. J. бос» ARTHUR G. DOVE WILLIAM OBERHARDT

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Editorial Announcements for 1906

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FLETCHER C. RANSOM J. 4. GOULD

The Progress of America

The policy of SUCCESS MAGAZINE is to build up and not tear down. We shall publish during the coming year forcible and instructive articles which will mark the strides of progress and show the great possibilities of different sections of our country.

There is nothing which Americans are quite so proud of and so interested in, as the story of our progress as a people. The growth of America has been the most marvellous thing in all history. The story of its progress reads like romance. It is the romance of business conceived in the imagination, in the workshop, in the small corner store, on the farm, the home, and finally put into shape as the great steel plant or the factory, shipping its products to every corner of the globe.

During 1906 we shall present a series of articles illustrating what President Roosevelt termed, 'our unexampled prosperity." "These articles will be written around the industries that have made America the foremost mercantile country in world. Тһе first article in the series will be entitled ''Steel," and will be written by Frank Fayant, a journalist of great ability who has made a reputation for his reliability and great capacity of investigation.

Other articles embracing the great industries for which our country is noted will follow. In addition to Mr. Favant, and other writers to be announced, we will mention the following contributors to this series :— William Jennings Bryan, David Graham Phillips, Hosmer Whitfield, Hartley Davis and Henry Harrison Lewis.

The Real John D. Rockefeller

By WALTER WELLMAN

Much has been written about this important man—the leading factor in the world of finance and commerce—a great, silent creature who says little and sees по опе, In Mr. Wellman's article will be portrayed the true Rockefeller, the man

Humor and Anecdote

A magazine that deals so strongly and strenuously with the affairs of the day must needs pay attention. to the humorous side of life, For this reason we will extend the space allotted to mirth-provoking literature in the future. There will be humorous stories by Charles Battell Loomis. Ellis Parker Butler, Charles F, Martin, H. D. Varnum, Felix G. Pryme, Sy H. Perkins, James W. Foley and many other men who have made the world better for smiles, "Then, too, we will publish a number of humorous poems by Wallace Irwin, whose ver work has already delighted our audience. Mr. Irwin is, perhaps, the greatest writer of humorous verse since W, S. Gilbert laid aside his реп, Nixon Waterman and Holman Day will also contribute humorous verses, from time to time.

News for the Family Circle

The home is the backbone of the nation, and we have no hesitation in saying that our Home Department will he the backbone of SUCCESS MAGAZINE during the year 1906. We will publish each month, a number of departments con- ducted by specialists in their various lines, which will be absolutely indispensable to all who wish to be a success in the full and true sense of the word, It does not matter whether the reader is a man or a woman, a boy or a girl, he or she will find in this section of the magazine reading matter that will be not only absorbingly in- teresting and entertaining, but really vital in its helpfulness—mentally, physicially, and socially,

It will help the anxious mother, whose paramount thought is the proper care and training of her children. It will help the busy housewife who is anxious to make her home attractive, to lighten her labors by doing things in the best way, to give her husband and children the food that will tend to make their bodies sound and vigorous and their minds healthy and active, It will help the young man and young woman who want to know how to behave in society, or to act in difficult and delicate situations, It will help the girl who wants to select and wear her clothes to the best advantage, to adapt a limited wardrobe to many occasions, and to choose, or make for herself, the little but important accessories which will insure a success- А It will help the young man who wants to be correctly dressed on all

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All the readers of SUCCESS MAGAZINE, no matter what their age or , may come to our Home Department with perfect confidence that a personal interest will be taken in them, and that the conductors of this Department will do everything in their power to help them to a solution of their difficulties, whatever they may be.

A few of these specially and authoritatively conducted departments are given below, merely as ап earnest of what SUCCESS MAGAZINE proposes to do in this jirection

Some of the noted women who will contribute to the Home Department are: Margaret Deland. Mary Stewart Cutting, Elizabeth Jordan, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Josephine Wright Chapman, Manon Harland, Martha McCulloch-Williams, Christine Terhune Herrick, Isabel Gordon Curtis, and Helen Campbell.

Some of the Regular Departments

by Dr. E. E. Walker - by Mrs. Burton Kingsland

HEALTH AND HAPPINESS - - - Ir You ARE WELL BRED - - - THE WELL-DRESSED MAN - - - - by Alfred Stephen Bryan WHAT TO WEAR AND How то WEAR It - by Martha Dean Hallam USEFUL AND ARTISTIC NEEDLEWORK - - - by Mary Le Mont THE Girt AND HER CLOTHES - - - by Grace Margaret Gould ETIQUETTE BY PHOTOGRAPH - - by Jeanne Gordon Mattill

“How to Know and Appreciate Good Music," by James Huneker, will be an important series in 1906.

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By JULIET WILBOR TOMPKINS

How the Sweat Shops and Facto- ries Are Grinding Hope, Ambition and even Life out of Little Toilers

Frontispiece by John Boyd Life sketches by William Oberhardt

LAST summer some Americans traveling in

Italy stopped aghast at a sight that met them on the outskirts of Palestrina. А child of about six was plodding steadily between a small quarry and ап unfinished house, with each trip bearing on her head a large stone for the builders. ‘These stones averaged at least twenty-five pounds in weight, and the child could not lift them alone; one of the elders busy at the same task would poise the burden for her, and it would be taken off at the other end. The face under the stone was gravely uncomplaining: already the back showed а deep incurve. MI the spring—the elasticity of growth,—seemed crushed out of the little figure. The Americans were horrihbed. They put ques- tions, protested, and did what they could to get the burden lifted. Then they exclaimed to

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one another: ‘You don’t see such things in America!" “Thank God, a child can't be treated like that, at home!"

Not long ago a child of six walked down Avenue D, in New York City, carrying on her head a load of sweatshop **pants"—they are not trousers, at that price,—weighing not less than twenty-five pounds. She had to walk sev- eral blocks with it and climb four flights of stairs; and when it was removed her work was only just beginning, for the endless buttons— twelve to a pair,—were to be sewed on by the brown claws that gripped the bundle. She passed many Americans on her way, but no one noticed, and no one was horrified. Several times a week she has trudged over the same route under the same weight, in this land where “а child can't be treated like that," without arous- ing any public indignation. Do we have to go abroad before we can see? Pants on Avenue D are less picturesque than stones in Palestrina, but their dead weight is sagging the little back down just as effectually, and this is not an exceptional case. We have laws about chil- dren’s work and men who enforce them. Yet, all through the tenement districts of New York, there are children who, in one way or another, carry stones.

The Stunted Child Will Certainly Become an Indigent _ With the sentimentalist, the protest against this fact spends itself in individual relief,—a few burdens lifted, and the system left un- touched. But to the reformer the pathos is not so important as the frightful wastage. Every child stunted, mind, body, or soul, means a future citizen who will be a care or à menace— in both cases, an expense,—to the state. Every chill denied schooling mens an illiterate citizen, and every strained body means an adult

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ofair. The philanthropist grieves over the child de- nied his birthright, while the reformer grieves for the state denied its full working capacity, and the consequent burdens thrown forward upon the poor of the generation to come: both views work together for good, even if their holders occasionally do not.

The New York law de- clares that no child under fourteen shall work for hire, and no child between fourteen and sixteen who can not read and write simple sentences in ;the English language, and show thathe has attended school one hundred and thirty days during the previous year: he must be of normal height and development, and his day is limited to nine hours. It is a just law,—good for the present industrial con- ditions,howeverthe future may improve on it. In the mills and factories it can be more or less rigor- ously enforced, but there isa vast field of child labor at home that this law does not and can not touch.

To understand this, follow the six-years-old pants-bearer and her mother—whose load is thrice as big,—up the four flights of their tenement, as I did. Ап offer to help the little girl with her pack was introduction enough, and a few stray words of Italian established friendship on the long journey up. They are dark stairs, askeleton of stoneandiron, with walls of lurid pink and green, smeared and blotched and broken, and the stale air reeks of indecent poverty. Half naked babies crawl out into the hall to peer through the banisters at us; a careworn little girl of about seven is sitting on a step rocking a shrieking child, her little shoulders strained with his weight, but her face maternally patient. “Hello, teacher!” calls a child of school years,—almost any woman visitor is addressed as "teacher" in the tenements. To the question, “Why are n't you at school?" she replies with a vague murmur about a sore finger, and a moment later she is vanishing with cautious speed down the stairs. At the same time a grimy little boy passes with a can that is obviously on its way to the saloon for beer,—two broken laws exhibited in the space of sixty seconds.

The Lifa of the Tenements Is a Sordid One,—

Тһе door of the apartment we are seeking stands open to the odors

of the hall, and the owners, being Italians, smile shy welcome, setting out a chair, throne-like, in the middle of the main room, even while their hands are busy at the bundles; for they go to work at once, without so much as a preliminary stretch. Moments must be very precious іп this household. Тһе room is amazingly dirty. А battered, broken stove proclaims it to be the kitchen, though a disreputable cot and a scarecrow bureau make claims for it as a bedroom. One is conscious of the dirt of discouragement as well as the dirt of ignorance. The hands that designed that remarkable bureau cover of orange ribbon and pale green lace must once have been directed by an ideal of home brightness; they could not have suspected that their hand- iwork would one day be the resting place for a black iron soup kettle and a disreputable pair of boots. Frag- ments of a gay cover still adhere to the cushion in the company chair, and the woman, for all her hurry, steals a moment to thrust a grimy shirt under the cot. Decidedly there have been better days in this household.

Тһе light is dim, for the only window opens on an air shaft, if air it may be called that comes from that foul well. Adjoining is another room, a dark hole entirely filled with а bed,—the inhabitants must get іп over the foot. Lying on this, now, is а two-years-old, asleep, and a boy of == about eleven with a flushed face and heavy eyes. Itlooks suspiciously like measles, and the little girl, recognizing the word, nods that that is probably the case; her minia- ture shrug adds that it can not be helped,—that life is all more or less measles and pants, and we must take what comes. The bundles are dropped on the bed beside the

An Italian girl, age fourteen years, who has spent six years in a factory.

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boy, and he curls up against them while his

mother and sister fly to work, the mother at

finishing, the little girl at the buttons. The

child’s hands are small, and the cloth is stiff,

but she tugs at her needle with a patience far

more touching than rebellion. She sits as

close as possible to the meager window, but " ft) | already her eyes show signs of strain. They | 8

are dull eyes, except for a momentary sweet- | W \ ness when she smiles. All the frail new |, | m. growth of her age is being relentlessly , | 1

pounded down, leaving arid vacancy. All her human possibilities are being exchanged for about ninety cents a week.

As things are, there is no help. So long as the law licenses the tenements for manu- facture, and so allows the mother to bring the work home, the children willhelpher. Fifty thousand inspectors could not patrol the tenements sufficiently to pre- vent this: if it were tried, some small sentry would always sound the note of warning, and the official, on his arrival, would find only the mother working, while the little children would be playing innocently upon the floor.

Neither the mother nor little Giulia can speak English, so intercourse is limited until Maria comes home from school,—a middle-aged little girl who falls to work with incredible swiftness, and who can “finish” as neatly and quickly as her mother. My presence is explained in a ripple of Italian, and from her I learn the short and simple family annals. The father is out of work,—a faint shrug suggests that he is often out of work; the rent for the three rooms—for there is a still darker hole beyond occupied by two boarders,—is nine dollars a month; her mother usually begins at five in the morning, little Giulia sews seven or eight hours a day, and she herself works from school until bedtime, an hour that varies from nine until half past twelve,—good preparation for profiting by the day's lessons! The family income averages between six and seven dollars a week, Pietro, now on the bed, works, too, when he is not sick; but on this point she.is reticent. What Pietro adds to the family income is not made clear just then.

The Boys and Girls of these Workshop Homes Never Have Time to be Young

Maria herself is thirteen, and can go to the factory next year,—she says it eagerly. She is undeveloped, heavy-eyed, nervously shrill at slight provocation,.and her back has the tragic, elderly look of wizened youth. She has never had time to be a little girl. It is a discouraged, joyless household, and the baby tugging at her needle is as old as her mother. A little arithmetic shows that, after providing for the rent, from fifty to sixty-five cents a day remains for the living expenses of five people, irrespective of what the father and Pietro may occasionally con- tribute; and you will remember having read somewhere that the “есо- nomic efficiency" of five people can not be maintained in New York ata cost much less than two dollars a day; that is, they can not be nourished and housed for their proper welfare at a smaller expenditure. Looking at the tired faces and the undeveloped bodies of the children, you wish you had not done that sum; and how you wish that Pietro would remove his measled person from the pants!

When this latter wish is finally suggested to Maria, she confides to vou that that is nothing,—that, when Mrs. Rosini on the floor below had smallpox, she went on making flower and feather ornaments for the hair just the same for a week, till she got so bad they had to tell the doctor, when he took her away. I could go down and ask her about it myself if I doubted it; they were lovely ornaments,—for ladies’ hair,

I, too, in my day, had worn hair ornaments; it was a shuddery thought. Finding that the smallpox episode was eight months back, I do make a passing call upon Mrs. Rosini, Maria calling over the banisters that I am a friend of hers, for she can not stop work long enough to accompany me down and make the introduction.

Now there is a tale told rejoicingly among social workers of a writer who went,one early morning, notebook in hand, to one of the settlements, and asked to see the head. “Тат going to write a book on the slums," she explained, briskly, “and I intend to devote this whole day to studying the subject. I want you to tell me just where to go!" Had this earnest student paused in the doorway of Mrs. Rosini's apartment, she would have seen a fairly clean, bright room, with holy pictures on the walls and a window that even let in a modest patch of sunlight; half a dozen little children at a table were fashioning petals into flowers,—surely as pretty and harmless an occupation as making paper dolls or scrapbooks; a kindly-looking woman was busy with a green wreath set with tiny bril- liants. Nothing could be farther from the conventional idea of a sweatshop, and the student would go away won- dering contemptuously at the cranks who are straining to abolish such innocuous occupations.

No one would be apt to tell her about the smallpox episode, so she will not know that work done in the

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tenements is a constant menace to public health; that manufacturing of every sort, from wigs to bahy clothes, is daily done in the same room with diphtheria, tuberculosis, pneumonia, and other contagious diseases, the door being kept locked and the work whisked out of sight at the coming of an inspector. She will not realize that the little girl of eight who is thrusting violet petals on а stamen sometimes works far into the night and all day Saturday and Sunday, and so is diminishing her power to make good use of her schooling. She isa gay-hearted little thing, entirely willing to work, and the child of four, who stands beside her smoothing petals with her stubby fingers, is proud of her part in the task and eager for the time when she, too, can toss finished violets upon the growing pile. It looks pretty and harmless; but with the school child it is done at the cost of exercise and play, and the world is realizing more clearly, every year, how absolutely essential these are to a child's development.

The Law Should Forbid Absolutely any Manufacturing Work іп the Tenements

Worse than arrested development, out of the nervous strain of too much work in childhood come disorders, moral as well as physical. It has been said, with authority, “Idleness in young years is not so prolific of immoral and criminal leanings as is premature employment." Pre- mature! This baby of four smoothing violet petals is already earning, haps, fifty cents a week; and they tell of an infant of eighteen months

g found assisting at passementerie-making by splashing its little hands in a bowl of glue and beads, the mother fishing out the latter as they became properly coated; and there was published, recently, the story of a woman and six children under eleven years of age who lived in a basement and for four dark and filthy years kept body and soul im- perfectly connected by folding paper bags,—from one hundred thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand a week, and the price going steadily down from seven cents a thousand to four cents. She was at last discovered and given help, the children being sent to school; but who knows how many more women are toiling in the black holes of New York, helplessly feeding the bodies and souls of their children to the relent- less wolf at the door?

There is a way to find out, Accord- ing to Dr. A. S. Daniel, who has been for many years a worker among the East Side poor, the remedy must be drastic,—forbid the manufacturer to have any part of his work done in a tenement house. With all this manufacturing trans- ferred to factories, which could be pro erly inspected, the child worker айк 4 necessarily be set free; school, day nursery, and public playground must attend to his case when the mother is obliged to ро. And now comes the in- . evitable protest,—the poor widow who can not live without her children’s earn- ings! She exists, without a doubt,—we have just seen her in the paper-bags family; but do you realize what also exists, a product of this child-labor sys- tem? It is the parasitic father.

It is an unlovely human attribute to let others do the hard work if they will. The labor of women and children, at first undertaken merely to help out, has bred a set of hulking loafers who make scarcely a pretense of working, and no pretense whatever of caring for their own. Make manufacture difficult for the women, and impossible for the children, by taking it out of the home, and a new crop of these parasites will not be forthcoming. The destitute

. - widow must be provided for; but she is not soomnipresent as the charitable often believe. And the woman who spends the years of child-bearing bending over un- wholesome work while the man idles and drinks is not only an object of pity; she is also a factor for harm, definitely crippling the future.

Both of these homes, the miserable one on the fourth floor and the more cheerful one on the third, typify the evil done by child labor. Maria’s father was earning good pay and doing well by his

' own until he fell ill, six years ago. То tide over, his wife took in sweatshop work, and thereby Pietro, Senior, learned the fatal lesson that it is easy for women and children to earn money, and that the streets offer more attractions than

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Ап average messenger boy who works in a hotbed of iniquity

Sewing on buttons in a sweat shop

the soap factory,to a convivial spirit. At intervals he obtained jobs, but his skill in losing them was yearly increasing. His wife had given up remonstrating: it was more profitable to bend steadily over the work. Mrs. Rosini’s husband was made of better stuff and worked faithfully in a paper-box factory; but the evil of child labor was hampering him in another way,—that of competition in his shop, for it is an economic fact that the cheap labor of children reduces the wages of men. Dr. Felix Adler has spoken significantly on this point, as follows:— Economically it is brought home to us that the wages earned by children are not really an increase of the family earnings; that, where there is competition between children and men, the wages of the men are thereby reduced; so that a family in which man, woman and child are bread- winners may not earn more—sometimes earns less,—than the income gained by the man when the man alone is the bread- winner. Ж + * It is better for the state to furnish outright relief than to see the standard of living of whole sections of the population lowered by child competition,

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'The children of others were competing with Rosini, and so his children had to work. That sunny room, gay with artificial flowers, was as much part of an injurious system as the dark and dirty hole on the floor above.

А product of the system as unlovely as the parasitic father is the greedy mother, who sees her children primarily as assets. She is no myth of sentimen- tality, this grimly practical parent, Nor is she intentionally cruel. Now and then she is dissipated and hardened, but usually the fact that she has slaved all her days herself is for her a perfect reason why herchildren should do thesame; she is too ignorant to realize what might be gained by a more liberal upbringing. Ап Italian woman was heard to say com- placently, in regard to her rapidly in- creasing family: '*Oh, yes, maka da babe now, maka da babe all a time; bimeby babe maka da mon, we go back to Italia!" She was simply providing for a comfortable future, which was to begin as soon as possible.

I know a boy of thirteen on whom rests the burden of his entire family: a loafer father, a mother who drinks, and two little children. Tim’s face is heavy, unsmiling, and incapable of lighting up, though it can lower on provocation. He betrays not one glimmer of the thoughts within him, if thoughts there Бе. “Тіп- mie's a good son; he helps his people," says his mother, in richly wavering ac- cents. “Не don't go on the street, neither, He's a good boy." Timmie stands dull and silent under the tribute; he looks neither gratified nor sarcastic. Forbidding manufacturing to the tenements would not help him, for he is in a factory and legally capable of working. Nothing can help him but two handsome Irish funerals. But the Timmies of the future,—some- thing can help them. And that something is the great fist of public opinion, demanding and enforcing laws that shall gradually put the child out of the economic equation.

The Free Life of the Newsboy Does not always Bring Out His Best Qualities

Mrs. Rosini gave me the clue to Pietro of the measles. It seems that when he touches the street below he becomes Pete, an exceedingly active newsboy, licensed to sell papers outside of school hours, and usually earning at least fifty centsa day. Pete, who went to work at the age of seven, used to help his family with his earnings, turning over proudly his little handful of nickels and pennies. His smallness made up for his ignorance of business ways; for, if you will notice, patrons nearly always choose the younger boy to buy of; if he is so small that his presence on the street is absolutely inhuman, they are apt to bid him keep the change. It is the popular idea of kindness. Thus babyhood became a valuable business asset on the street, before the newsboy was obliged to carry a license and to prove his ten years. In point of fact it may still be found

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“Туосам!” called Mr. Fogarty.

Dugan was standing on the top step of a wabbly stepladder, nailing the eighth letter of the motto, "Peace On Earth, Good Will To Men,” on the wall above the stage in Prendergast Hall. His mouth was full of wire nails, and the gilt cardboard letters, A, R, T, and H, were clasped between his shaking knees. He looked down and frowned.

“Phwat?” he asked. ;

“Come on down," said Fogarty. “Oi want a word wid ye.”

Dugan was the janivor of Prendergast Hall and the boss of it, but Fogarty was the head of the Janitors’ Union, so Dugan came down.

“Phwat is ut?" he asked. He still held his hammer in his hand, ready to go on with his

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: ) “Ye те called out," said Fogarty. ''Pren- dergast is havin' his kitchen whitewashed by th' nagur, Diggs, who is outside th' White- washers’ an’ Kalsominers’ Union, an’ th’ Con- federation has boycotted Prendergast. The Whitewashers’ an’ Kalsominers’ Union requists every union man not t’ work for Prendergast, an’ in me capacity of Prisidint of th’ Janitors’ Union Oi order ye t' come out on strike. Will ye соте?”

Dugan emptied the nails from his mouth and laid the hammer on a step of the ladder.

"Shure!" he said; “shure will Oi come."

He looked up at the uncompleted motto.

“But 't is too bad th’ nagur got th’ job just whin th' ladies of th' mission is in need of th' help of me!"

Miss Willis, who had been filling red mosquito netting stockings with candy, and Miss Jones, who had been tying strings around pink pop- corn balls, saw that something was wrong and came over to where Dugan was standing.

“There 'll be no Christmas fer yez, this year, ma'm," said Dugan, "and don’t blame me,— 't isa nagur done ut. Oi 'm called out on strike, ma'm, an’ th’ hall will be shut up, fer there ’s no wan t' janitor ut fer vez."

Miss Jones and Miss Willis looked at each other aghast. Тһе North Star Mission Sunday

School had been meeting in Prendergast Hall

for years. There was no other auditorium in the South End available, and all the little mis- sion scholars had been invited to the Christmas Eve exercises. There was to be a programme and singing, and then the beautiful Christmas ladder, evergreen-bedecked, and covered with candy and pop corn and presents, and Mr. Henley as Santa Claus to climb the ladder and make the joyous distribution.

Dugan rubbed his red hair sympathetically and frowned, while the ladies talked rapidly together.

“Go awn down,” said Dugan to Fogarty; “Oi will pick up me tools an’ be wid ye.”

Fogarty went out.

“И only Mr. Henley was here!” said Miss Jones. “А man knows so much better what to do.” ‘

Mr. Henley was the mission’s only man. came because Miss Willis came.

“We might get him to janitor for us that one evening,” suggested Miss Willis.

“ And who would be our Santa Claus?” asked Miss Jones.

Miss Willis looked at Dugan. With his red whiskers he did not look much like the white- bearded Christmas saint, but neither did Mr. Henley. There was a mask and a wig to fix all that.

“Not me!" said Dugan, quickly, when he saw Miss Willis glance his way. ` “Oi’m on strike!"

^ But, Mr. Dugan,—" be- gan Miss Willis. She was quite ready to cry, they had worked so hard and the thing had promised so well. The ladder was a great im- provement over the ordinary Christmas tree. The year before they had had a bell, made of hoops covered with greens, and the chil- dren had enjoyed it so!

"But, Mr. Dugan,—”

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she pleaded from her heart.

“Of course,” said Miss

Jones,“ we would пч ask you

it to do any janitor work. We

would n't expect that, if you

are striking. But you have

the right to do other work, have n’t your”

“Not fer Prendergast,” said Dugan.

“But it isn’t for Prender- gast,” Miss Jones insisted; “it is for us."

“Oi’m a union man," said Dugan, slowly, “ап” no scab, Ап’ is right Oi sh'u'd work, whin on strike, if ut's work for a union man, an’ not a scab job. But is th' mission a 'fair' shop,

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E —— Oi dunno!" > Miss Jones's eyes sparkled. “Tt belongs to a union,” she said. “Oi dunno that wan," said Dugan.

“It’s the Sunday School Union," said Miss Jones.

“ An’ kin Oi git a card in th’ union, Oi dunno," said Dugan, doubtfully. '*Wid- out a card Oi c'u'd not tek th’ job. Thim is th’ rules.”

“We can get youa card,” said Miss Jones; “we can get you a regular Sunda y-school card and enroll your name on the membership list of the mission, which is a branch of the International Union."

Dugan rubbed his chin.

“Oi dunno, is there, mebby, a Santa Claus Union?" he said, slowly. ‘They be so hang manny unions, these days. Phwat is this Santa Claus loike, now? Phwat is th’ job of him?”

“Well,” said Miss Jones, cheerfully, ‘ай you have to do is to wear the suit and go up the ladder and take down the toys and candy and pop corn and hand them to the children when they come to the foot of the ladder. I know you will like that, Mr. Dugan, the chil- dren are so happy when they get their presents. They all love Santa Claus. You know he was the good old children's patron saint, in Hol- land.—”

“Оһ, ho!" said Dugan,—‘‘ Dutch, is he? An’ Oi’m t' be a Dutch-Irishman, am Oi? No, ma'm! Git some other Santa Claus. Niver was a Dugan a Dutchman, Miss Jones, an' niver will a Dugan be wan. Dom th? Dutch! Look how they be gittin’ all th’ janitor jobs, these days! Oi'll be no Dutch saint fer yez. Sooner w'u'd Oi see a Dutch- man be Saint Paterick |»

“All right!" said Miss Jones, promptly; "then you сап be Saint Patrick. It does n't matter the least. We would quite as willingly have you be Saint Patrick."

“Phat is more loike!" said Dugan, with satisfac- tion. "Saint Paterick Oi will be, an' gladly, ma'm, fer he was the grandest saint of all of thim, an' niver a Dutch saint was knee high t him. Saint Paterick Oi will be.”

"Of course," said Miss Jones, “we wil pay you the regular Sunday School Union wages for Saint Pat- rick. They are a little less than for Santa Claus."

Her eyes twinkled as she said it, but Dugan received sia it soberly.

“Let be!” he said; “із

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little enough did they pay double wages for a man t’ pretend t’ be а Dutch saint. 'T is a wonder annywan but a scab will tek th’ job.”

Miss Willis took from a basket the costume that had served long and well as а garb for Santa Claus. Dugan looked at it.

“Phwat 's thim?” he asked.

“You wear these when you are San—Saint Patrick," explained Miss Willis.

"Red!" said Dugan; 'thim is no Saint Paterick uniform. Thim is th’ duds of a dang Britisher. "T was th’ good ould green Saint Pat was afther wearin’! Hev ye no green wan?"

"No," said Miss Willis, hesitatingly. She looked at Miss Jones questioningly.

* We can make a green one,” said Miss Jones, promptly. “If you will help us with the decora- tions of the hall we can make a green suit to-morrow morning, and then your wages will begin now."

Dugan thought a moment.

“Oi hate t’ do ut," he said; “but "t will not matter, th’ afthernoon."

He stooped down and picked up the loose red trousers and began to draw them on.

"What—" began Miss Willis, but Miss jones put her finger on her lips. Dugan slipped into the stuffed red coat and buttoned it. He looked at the long white wig and the mask with its white beard, and hesitated.

"T don’t think you need wear the face, this afternoon," suggested Miss Jones; “you can see better without it."

* Where did Oi put th' hammer?" asked

Dugan, “ап” which wan af these letters goes |.

up nixt?”

Fogarty came in as Dugan reached the top of the ladder.

“Tim,” said Fogarty, and then he caught sight of Dugan's red rim of whiskers above the plumply padded red stomach of the Irish Santa Claus.

** Phwat th'—," he began, and as suddenly stopped because there were ladies present.

“Go awn down," said Dugan, “ап” tell Prendergast Oi 'm sthriken', so he 'll know ut. Oi 've taken a timporary job, Fogarty, wid th' Union of Sunday School Missions, as Saint Paterick, an’ this is me uniform.”

Fogarty grinned.

“Yer a moighty red Saint Paterick, thin, Dugan,” he said.

“Бей?” said Dugan; “red, is ut? Shure, Oi know now phwy ye quit railroadin’, Fogarty. Red? 'T is green, Fogarty,—grass green, ye see, but ’t is color blind ye Бе.”

Тһе next evening Dugan was on hand early, and he put on the green suit with great pride. He could hardly sit still in the little dressing room off the stage while the earlier portion of the exercises was going on, he was so anxious

** He stopped because there were ladies present "

to appear before the audience. Mr. Henley, little and bald and spectacled, was everywhere. At one moment he was poking the fire in the barrel stove, the next he was finding a seat for a late comer, and the next, opening or lowering a window.

There were Christmas carols by the whole missión, and a little talk by Miss Jones, and more carols by the mission collectively, individ- ually, and in groups, but all the while the chil- dren restlessly awaited the lighting of the candles on the tall ladder, which was bright with its swathing of greens and pop-corn strings and glittering glass ornaments. It was exciting to hear the jingle of sleigh bells that came from the dressing room as Saint Patrick Dugan crossed his legs a different way, and once, when Dugan

** * Children, ' he said, ‘it’s all right; just remain seated ' "'

sneezed, there was such a jingling that Sadie Moriarty stopped right in the middle of the solo she was singing and had to begin at the beginning again.

"Now, children," said Miss Jones, when the last carol had been sung, “уге are going to have the good Santa Claus—"

“Santa nawthin'," said a rich voice from the dressing room,—‘‘’T is Saint Paterick."

Miss Jones looked anxiously in the direction of the voice.

“Children,” she began again, “we who have charge of the mission have tried to give you this Christmas something a little different from the usual programme. You all know about the Christmas tree and what it signifies, but this year we have a Christmas ladder. Last year we had a bell, which signified, ‘Ring out the glad tidings.’ Our ladder and the motto above it mean that we should try to climb toward—” but that part of the little speech was dead words

. to the eager children. It passed over their

heads until she came to the real business part of it.

“Апа we have another surprise for you," she said. “We will have no Santa Claus this year." She waited a moment to let the awful significance of this sink in, and then brought joy to the blank faces again.

"Instead," she said, gaily, “good Saint Patrick has come to take the presents from the ladder. As I call each little boy’s and girl’s name the little boy or girl whose name is called will come up and receive the present from the hands of Saint Patrick."

She turned, and Mr. Henley began briskly lighting the candles on the ladder, while the school sang “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” The ladder sparkled with lights while they sang, “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing!" and then Mr. Henley briskly extinguished the candles, and the good gray and plump Saint Patrick stalked forth to carry out his part of the programme.

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“Gee!” cried an excited voice, “look at de green Santa Claus!” while Sadie Moriarty con- fided to her seatmate, “It ain't no real Saint Patrick; it’s only Mister Dugan rigged up.”

Dugan rattled his bells and bowed low to the audience. On one arm he carried a basket, into which to put the gathered fruits of the ladder as he plucked them. There was a lively silence, slit by whispers and rustlings of garments, and Dugan turned and put his foot on the ladder.

At that moment three men arose in the rear of the hall, and one called authoritatively :—

“ Dugan ! ”

Dugan stopped and looked around.

“Tst!” said the man, beckoning with his hand. . Dugan hesitated, started to climb the ladder. and thought better of it.

* Phwat is ut?” he asked in a loud whisper. “Ап”, phwativer ut is, address me as Saint Paterick.”

The men beckoned earnestly, but Dugan stood still. The whole mission was craning its necks to see who was holding communi- cation with Saint Patrick, and Miss Jones and Miss Willis were standing amazed. Mr. Henley tripped briskly down the aisle to the three men and spoke with them quickly. Then he led them up the aisle to Dugan.

"Children," he said, “it is all right; just remain seated,"

Two of the men were very large men, and one was small. Their countenances showed embarrassment, but firmness.

“I know what them is," said Sadie Mori- arty; “them is the three wise men of the East. They had 'em once at the "Piscopal Sunday School, up town."

Dugan came a few steps to meet them.

" Me name is Hogan," said one of the big men, “ап” Oi mek you acquainted with Misther Larry Flannery an' Misther Moses Levinsky. You can't go up that ladder, Misther Dugan."

“Dang!” said Dugan, “ап” phwy not? Isita non-union ladder?”

“Oi dunno," said Mr. Hogan; “ut may be. Ut is Delancy's ladder, an' he is a union-shop carpenter, so belike th’ ladder is good enough, but ’t is not fer you t' be climbin’ ut."

"Children," said Miss Jones, nervously, “we will sing ‘Onward, Christian Soldiers!’ again, while Mr.—while Saint Patrick is talking with his friends.”

The gray-bearded saint laid his basket on the floor and peeled off his gloves,

"Who ye be, Misther Hogan," he said, roughly, “Оі don’t know, an’ Oi don’t, care, , but no wan says Tim Dugan can not go up anny ladder that's union made. Go awn out, an' whin Oi git troo wid me exercises Oi 'll come outside and bat th' whole face off af ye. No man says ‘ Dugan, do this!' or ‘ Dugan, do n't do ut!’ t' Dugan.”

“Second verse," said Miss Jones; “now, all together!"

“Oi ’ll tell ye who we be," said Mr. Hogan, angrily, *an' mebby 't will shut th' abusive mouth of ye. We be a delegation of th’ Hod Carriers! Local Union, Nummer One, That 's who we be, Misther Tim Dugan, an' come t' tell ye yer doin' a dirthy scab trick, takin' a job out of th’ mouths of union men.”

“Но!” jeered Dugan,—''union men! D'ye think Oi was born yestiddy at ten o'clock? Union men! W'u'd ye be tellin’ me there 5а Saint Paterick Union?"

“Ко,” said Mr. Hogan; ‘there be not, but did ye iver hear tell of th’ Hod Carriers’ Union, Misther Timothy Smart-aleck Dugan? Did

e? ” j “Qi hev!” said Dugan, shortly.

“Ye hev!” said Mr. Hogan. "''Good fer уе, Misther Dugan! Well, sor, ‘tis t' warn ye 't is a hod-carriers’ job ye 'v got, ап” t’ warn ye t' git off th' job immejiate or hev yer union card took away by th' Janitors' Union fer bein' a scab,

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4 гла Misther Dugan." Dugan tried to rub his brow, and: his: hand теі the smooth’ surface of the false-face."

“Third verse!" said Miss Jones, hopefully.

“Т” ye seeanny hod оп me, Misther Hogan?" asked Dugan.

** "Tis all th’ same, hod or basket," said Mr. Hogan, “by th’ rules of th’ Hod Carriers’ Union. Read th’ rules t’ Misther Dugan, Misther Levinsky.”

Mr. Levinsky took the yellow-back pamphlet from his pocket.

*' Rule Te-venty-von,’” he read,—‘‘‘A hod- carrier shall pe any von who goes up ant town any latter or stairvay or odder t’ings, carrying bricks or mordar or odder t’ings in any hod or box or basket or any odder t’ings.’”

“Well,” said Mr. Hogan, “is ut a ladder, Misther Dugan, and is ut a basket? Phwat? And is ut other things ye mane t' attimpt t' carry down th’ ladder in th’ basket?”

“Т "is no Saint Paterick job, then, that Santa Claus has," said Dugan, “but a hod-carriers' job!”

“Tis so!" said Mr. Flannery and Mr. Hogan.

“But, if ’tis so," said Dugan, “phwat will th’ kids do, an’ th’ poor things wid their mouths waterin’ fer th’ prisints an’ as dry as a bone singin’ thimsilves hoarse?

""T is a union man's job,” said Mr. Hogan, coldly.

“Thin divil a bit will Oi Saint Paterick ut for thim, though they be all th’ kids іп Ameriky,” said Dugan. “Т is a good union man Oi am, Misther Hogan, an' intindid no harm. Ex- cuse me, sor, fer speakin' hard words t' ye. Oi beg yer pardon."

“Let be!” said Mr. Hogan. generously.

* Repeat first verse!" said Miss Jones, rather doubtfully.

“ But Oi feel sorry fer th’ kids," said Dugan, “ал” thim so set on gettin’ their prisints from th’ hands of Saint Paterick."

"UD is all right!" Mr. Hogan assured him;

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*we kem t' take th? job oursilves, Dugan. Wan

of us will be Saint Paterick fer th’ kids, an’ *t will be betther fer thim t' git their prisints from a Union Saint Paterick than from a scab.”

"Shure!" agreed Dugan, “соте intil th’ dressin’ room an’ put awn th’ duds."

They reassured Mr. Henley, and Mr. Henley reassured Miss Jones, and Miss Jones reassured the audience and had it sing the second verse again.

In the dressing room Mr. Dugan shed the coat and Mr, Hogan tried to put it оп. He could not so much as get his arms into it. Mr. Flannery, being larger than Mr. Hogan, did not attempt to wear it. They turned to Mr. Levinsky.

“ Misther Levinsky," said Dugan, “рей on th’ duds, ’T is your job, an’ good luck t' ye. But if iver anny wan had tould me Oi w'u'd live t' see th' day whin a Levinsky w'u'd be Saint Paterick for a Christmas Sunday school I'd have soaked him a good wan in th' eye. Mebby th’ leddys w'u'd be afther tellin’ th’ kids Saint Paterick had a call t' meet Santa Claus at th’ club, an’ passed on th’ job t’ Moses."

Levinsky did not fit the suit well. By turning the trousers up a foot at the bottom he was able to wear them, but the grace of his movements was destroyed by the rotund cotton-batting stomach of Santa Claus, which hung before his knees. He turned up the cuffs of the coat sleeves to let his hands have breath, but when he walked the artificial stomach knocked for- ward spasmodically with each step as his knees struck it. The mask and wig extinguished his head. Even Sadie Moriarty giggled when he walked into view, and as he climbed the ladder, carefully lifting the stomach out of his way before each step upward, Miss Jones had to put her eyes deep into a hymn book to hide her feelings.

Dugan, relieved of his duties, took his seat in the front row, with Hogan and Flannery on either side of him.

«Т is a good rule,” he said to Hogan, “that rule twinty-wan of th’ Hod Carriers,—'t is so

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widespread an’ generous-like. Annything ye go up is a ladder, an’ annything ye go down is a ladder, ап” annything that will hold anny- thing is a hod, an annything annything will hold while ye go up or down annything is a brick. Well, annyhow, Oi’m glad ye did not let me break th’ rule. Oi ’ma good union man, Christmas or „аппу other дау. An’ 'tis plisint ť sit here an’ see th’ kids come grinnin’ up fer their prisints, an’ just as pleased with a Levinsky Moses as wid an Irish Saint Paterick or a Dutch Santa Claus. The unions is all roight, I can tell ye, Hogan.”

“Мг. Dugan!” called Miss Jones,—‘‘ Mr. Timothy Dugan!”

“Ап” phwat is that, now?" said Dugan, sur- prised.

“Т is a prisint fer ye," said Hogan; “ро awn up an' git ut."

“А prisint fer me?” Dugan asked, “look at that, now! Ain't they th' daycent leddys, though, t’ think of Tim Dugan?”

He walked the few feet to where Levinsky stood holding out a square parcel, and took it.

“Thank ye, Saint Paterick Moses," he said, and returned to his seat by Hogan.

“Ореп ut," said Hogan.

Dugan, grinning, opened the package. He half expected some hoax. It was a full box of fifty cigars.

“Dang!” said he, and tears of pleasure filled his eyes. *'Ain't they th’ daycent leddys?”

Hogan leaned over and took the box. He turned it over and handed it back.

“Pass thim back, Dugan,” he commanded; “they hev no blue label. They be scab cigars, an' ye kin not tek thim. "T would be ag'inst rule twinty-eight of th’ union, an’ unfair t’ th’ Cigar Makers’ Union, t? smoke scab cigars. And, annyhow,” he added, “they be Christmas cigars.”

“Hang me if Oi don't turn scab, thin! growled, Dugan, grimly, “before Oi 'll pass wan of thim back to sich daycent leddys, bad suz t' rule twinty-eight,—w’ich is hereby suspindid!"'

By Mildred I. McNeal Sweeny

IV. Then keep a joyous face Set toward the dawn! She comes the earlier on For him who faithfully &ays Watching before the gates Of her dark citadel,

Be brave! Love « Thy cup will have To where love lives, and takes One other in the supreme, Much that thou dost not guess, From the bright mouth that makes Sweet way. Ecstacy and distress, i Its happiness, that kiss And for all those Strange strains of good and ill; Which hath no peer, ) a ы. Аз Who long had fallen quite But ашай it none the less, The first, most dear With і rcl E delish And with a smile, Life's sunny summit of bliss. Mhout fus circle of delight, | And let. wone’ever way His heart finds kindly room, “He feared, and turned away т ІП. Еуеп as the light of day 1 The whole world moves Generously makes bloom | Keep thy heart sweet! Songlike, thenceforth, for him The weed-flower and the rose.

Not counting how he waits. Be brave,—love vam lt is a simple creed

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Victories in the Newspaper World.— How the Insurance Upheaval Originated.—Some Reporters Who Have Secured Big °“ Scoops"

Е VARIETY Бе the spice cf life, the newspaper reporter has a corner on ness between Mr. Hyde and Mr. Alexander. But the reporter kept _condiments, То greet a president, probe a murder, and report а оп prodding and digging patiently until he gained the confidence of society ball, the same day, is, to him, but tame diversion. То be first some one on the inside whose name will probably never be known. at the scene of some terrible catastrophe, or view a battle and race with From that time on Ferguson had the situation in his own hands, and his fellows to give the earliest news of it to the world,—this sort of thing what followed is thoroughly known to the American public to-day, having gives him more entertainment. To unlock political secrets at the resulted in the greatest upheaval ever known in the history of American national capital, or elsewhere; to expose “graft,” the curse of republics; ^ finance. Compelled, by the persistent revelations Ferguson was making, to

to resort to ingenious, almost Machiavelian methods undertakean investigation, Francis Hendricks, super- in the investigation of crime,—these are the newer intendent of insurance for the state of New York, branches of reporting, most interesting of all. filed away a lengthy document containing the testi-

What fascination and chárm about a life so mony he had taken; and it remained for Louis

Seibold, another '* World" reporter, to procure a copy of this secret report, which made the longest “story ” ever “гип” in a newspaper about a single incident,— 112,000 words. It is still a matter of keenest specu- lation among the newspaper men of New York how Seibold obtained possession of a copy of a state document, and it will be, probably, a mystery for- ever. Reporters of Seibold's type never betray con- fidence. Were the secrets of Messrs. Ferguson and Seibold known concerning the great insurance exposure, they would, undoubtedly, make good read- ing, but these men made pledges of confidence for

changeful! If he could only spare time from his strenuous life to nestle down in a cozy corner on a winter's evening, as other men do, slippered and robed, what thrilling tales of adventure the reporter might tell of his own exploits, apart from the stories he has put into print! What a world of romance might arise in his reveries if he only had time to think of himself and conjure up memories of the past!

But, to the reporter, there is no past. Тһе word has been torn from his dictionary. So far as he is personally concerned, life holds no temptation, no charm, outside of something that now is, or some-

thing that is about to Бе. To tell one half the world the public good, and it goes without saying that what the other half is doing,—that 's his art and e і those pledges will die with them. creed, and he makes fulfillment with a self-effacement Richard Harding Davis 'The first real reporting in America about which that leaves him in oblivion. Nourished on excite- ca берег x ann agree а hangs any considerable romance was the work done ‘ ^ American novelists, who began his » * ment, and spurred by the pleasure of pursuit, his half- career on the New Vork * Sun.” by the war correspondents during the conflict between day, half-night existence consists in a rapid series of He once disguised himself as a bur- the states. In the galaxy of journalistic stars then flights after that phantom-like something called news. жеге اعا عون رمات‎ an The at shining were Whitelaw Reid, of the Cincinnati To get it and give it to the world ahead of all others " Gazette," now proprietor of the New York “Trib- sends him into the chase with an impulse that thrills. une” and ambassador to the Court of St. James; Should there be some shrewd effort at concealment, the reporter will Henry Watterson, of the Chattanooga “Rebel,” now editor of the go about his task with heartier zest. A dog never bites a dead buck, Louisville ‘‘Courier-Journal;”? George W. Smalley, of the New York and the reporter is chagrined when news “comes easy." "Tribune," now American correspondent of the London ''Times;" What effect would Burchard's “гит, Romanism, and rebellion" William Е. С, Shanks, of the New York “Herald” and what was then have had on the Blaine campaign, had Franklin Fyles not been attending the Associated Press, who now lives in Brooklyn; Joseph Howard, Jr., to his duty in reporting the meeting at of the New York * Times,” now corres- the Fifth Avenue Hotel? These three pondent of the Boston “Globe,” and

Edmund C. Stedman and George Alfred Townsend, of the “World.” “Bull Run" Russell, of the London ** Times," found restrictions so hard that he abandoned the field shortly after the first battle of Bull Run. Laws gov- erning correspondents in the field were strict, indeed, in those days. Henry Villard and his associate correspond- ents for the New York “Herald” were early informed by General Don Carlos Buell that, if they published the plan of campaign against Nashville which he had submitted to General McClel- lan, and which General Grant after- wards executed, they would be treated as spies. Later, when General Sher- man learned that Villard was trying to cross the lines and establish а“ Herald” bureau in the South, he gave him notice

ruinous words have been held respon- sible for the turning of a presidential election; and it was not Burchard who did it, but the reporter who told the country what Burchard had said. “I don't care a snap about votes," said the late Governor Flower, and Walter L. Hawley, a reporter for the New York “Evening Sun," threw it verbatim at the men who voted. There would have been no investigation of the insurance companies had it not been for the recent disclosures made by David Ferguson, a reporter for the New York “World,” who began by prodding the officers of the Equitable about James Hazen Hyde's Cambon dinner and other evidences of ruinous waste. At the outset, Ferguson was laughed at by the men heapproached. Hydeand

Alexander, the two heads of the Equi- ? ге Louis ead pr жұта. one e that he would be shot, or hanged, if table, denied everything,—denied that фр ha tin Tosu ачзои дора ооа ы he persisted. Villard then quit Sher- there was any factional uprising in the the world. Mr. Ferguson first unearthed the roubles that exiered in rhe Кіші man's department, and announced in

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a war correspondent, Whitelaw Reid displayed wondrous activity and incon- testable courage. He used the nom de plume “Agate,” in writing for the Cincinnati * Gazette," and over this un- pretentious signature he gave to the world at large the first full report of the battle of Shi- loh, a “scoop” of the most pronounced type. George W. Smalley distinguished himself by giving the New York “Tribune” the first’ descrip- tion of the battle of Antietam. When telling of his achieve- ment, in recent years, he laughs at the extremities to which he was put in getting his "story" through to New York, After he had written

it, he filed it with the telegraph company at a small station where the facilities were, indeed, poor. He sat watching the operator until the Jast word had been clicked off, and then it suddenly occurred to him

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Lindsay Denison, who, in the face of many obstacles, caught Agoncillo, the agent of Aguinaldo, for the New York “бап,” when he came to America

that possibly, after all, his efforts to score a “beat” had been in vain,

for the war department might delay his message, if not suppress it entirely. Impulsively, he sprang upon the back of a horse, rode

thirty miles to the nearest railroad station, caught the first train bound north, wrote out his story again aboard the train, while traveling all the way to New York, and arrived in his office just as his delayed dispatch was beginning to come in, ‘‘doctored” by the censors of the war depart- ment. Mr. Smalley at once became опе of the powers of the “Tribune,” and, after the war, was sent to London to establish the first bureau of

an American paper abroad.

One of the greatest journalistic feats of the Civil War was accom-

plished by the New York “ Herald," in compiling a complete roster of the Confederate army. James Gordon Bennett, the first, was a great believer in giving “both sides,”—which is still one of the first rules of the *Herald." It was decided to establish a Con- federate department in the “Herald” office, which would handle only such matters as related to the Con- federate army. One feature of this work, as conceived by Frederick Hudson, then managing editor of the “ Herald,” was to gather all the Confederate local newspapers possible and such other records as might furnish the rosters of the various divisions of the Con- federate army. When the “Herald” finally came out with a full roster of the followers of Lee, it raised great commotion. Тһе northern newspapers cried “Collusion!” while the southern papers screamed "Spies!" Тһе trick was easy enough, as is shown by a musty old pile of southern local newspapers now in the “Herald” office, giving the lists of soldiers from their respective neighborhoods.

The first newspaper man who ever went to a war and created the title of “war correspondent” in its full sense was William Howard Russell, who went to the Crimean War, in the early fifties, for the London *"Times." He was not allowed to go with the British army, so he determined to follow the war on an inde- pendent plan. А ham cost him twenty-five dollars, a turkey the same, a glass of jelly one dollar, and he had to pay the equivalent of thirty dollars for a pair of boots while on the trail of war. Attimes he almost starved. No foreign correspondents were allowed with the French army, in the Franco-Prussian War, in 1870, but Germany welcomed them from all countries, In those days, war correspondents could view a battle at close range; but, now that artillery and musketry have so much wider sweep, a corres- pondent is lucky if he is permitted to see the fighting at a distance of four miles, and, unless he is willing to risk his life, even at such chances, he would better stay at home with his mother.

Perhaps the most complete and the most signifi- cant **scoop" ever scored by a single newspaper over all the papers of the civilized world was accomplished by David Graham Phillips, now famed as a novelist and magazine writer, who got his start as a reporter for the ‘‘Sun” and the “World.” It was on June 23, 1893, while Phillips was London correspondent of the "World," that he learned, from a diplomat who had visited the British marine office, that the “Victoria,” the flagship of the British Mediterranean

squadron, had been sunk off Tripoli with all on board. Тһе rumor was vague and was not credited at the marine office; but Phillips, with the instinct of the Yankee reporter, determined to take no chances. Тһе London papers made some efforts to verify the report, as did all the other correspondents of foreign newspapers stationed in London, but they wasted their efforts in querying Tripoli, Africa, instead of Tripoli,

an insignificant little seaport in Asia Minor. Phillips looked up the

Whitelaw Reid,

who secured the first complete report of the Battle of Shiloh, one of the greatest journalistic feats of the days of the Civil War

Robert J, Wynne, who, when a newspaper man, un- earthed the famous postal scandals

map, saw that there were two Tripolis, and determined to try them

both. He knew of по опе in Tripoli, Asia Minor, who might send him a report of the disaster; but, knowing how night editors in America frequently wire unknown telegraph operators in out-of-the-way places, in emergencies, to send them reports of things that have happened thereabouts, he decided to try this scheme upon the unknown telegraph agent at Tripoli.

To his utter dismay, he was informed by the gen- eral manager of the London office that the operator at Tripoli was a Turk and would never be able to send the report or even to decipher the message. "We'll take the gambler’s chance," said Phillips; "although it's about a thousand to one, we 'll take the chance.” Off went the following message:—

Telegraph Agent, Tripoli, Syria. Will pay you $500 for

a full account of the "Victoria" disaster. Hope you will send about 2,000 words. Please send as soon as

possible.

Then came a long, tedious, nerve-racking delay. As the hours wore on, Phillips eagerly gathered in the London papers to see if they had obtained the news. Not a sign of it appeared in any of them. All night he sat up, waiting for a reply to his message, making frequent trips to the main office of the telegraph com- pany. “It is hopeless,” said the general manager; “I never dreamed you would hear anything in response." Suddenly the wires delivered this message :—

“ Prepay telegraph tolls, or telegraph the money to pay. Will send account." This was signed “‘ Pierre."

"Let us send him the money at once," shouted Phillips, grasping his hat. “It is useless," replied the general manager, shrugging his shoulders,—* per- fectly useless. "The money can go only to the end of ourline. Тһе Turkish government will not allow it to go any farther." Phillips decided to leave all to the mercy of “ Pierre," and sent a message saying that it was impossible to telegraph money, and asking his unknown friend to borrow the money, relying upon his honesty.

Then came another long and weary siege of wait- ing, of scanning the London papers, and of querying the marine office. Not a word had been received anywhere; not a line in the papers told of the disaster. On the morning of the third day, while Phillips was trving to gulp down a cup of the abominable stuff they call coffee in London, a messenger boy ran into the restaurant with six sheets of the coveted story. "There's more comin’, sir," the lad said, and hurried back to the telegraph office, while Phillips sought the cable to New York. It was, indeed, a thrilling story,

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спа “ Ріегге, the man of mystery, showed a wonderful familiarity with the English language, although many of the words were badly shat- tered by the Turkish operators. Тһе story told how Admiral Tryon had given orders for the battle ship “Camperdown” to execute a ma- neuver, how the commander had signaled that the space between his ship and the “Victoria” was insufficient, how the admiral simply re- peated his orders and the two ships collided, the “Victoria” going to the bottom, stern up, her propellers grinding to death five hundred of those aboard. The full story of the disaster reached New York at 7.30 Р. м., Monday, June 26, and was immediately printed in an extra edition of the ‘‘ Evening World.” Next day, the morning “ World” carried a more complete story, while all the papers in this country and in London stood by wondering whether it wasreliable news or not. Not until the fol- lowing day, or the sixth day after the disaster, did the London papers print the story, and they took it then from the ‘‘World’s” account. ''Pierre" turned out to be Dr. Ira Harris, the only American in all the countryside about Tripoli, Syria, and one of the five men there who could speak English. He happened, by the merest accident, to be in the telegraph office when the message arrived, and the Turk, instead of throwing it away, turned it over to Dr. Harris. He borrowed money to pay the telegraph tolls on the "special" It was necessary for him to spell each word, letter by letter, to the Turk who sent the dis- patch, as the latter knew nothing of English and very little of French.

Lindsay Denison, of the “Sun,” played the same game of chance at great odds as Phillips did, when he caught Agoncillo, the agent of Aguinaldo, when he came to this country, just prior to the outbreak ia the Philippines. Agoncillo came here pretending to be the agent of Aguinaldo, delegated to treat with the president of the United State for concessions to the Filipinos; but, when the hostilities actually began in the Philippines, and it became the belief of the authorities at Washington that Agoncillo was nothing more than a spy sent here to get information to enable Aguinaldo to conduct his rebellion more satis- factorily, he decided to make a hasty escape to Canada. А "tip" came to the “Sun” office from Washington that Agoncillo had bought a ticket, at least as far as Baltimore. Тһе city editor did not even know that the agent of Aguinaldo was coming to New York, but he was determined to get an expla- nation from him if he could be found here. Every hotel in the city was searched by “Sun” reporters. Finally, Denison hit upon the plan of keeping vigil at the railroad stations from which trains depart for Canada. Не had no reason for doing this other than that it is better to be safe than sorry. Не had no in- formation that АропсШо contemplated going to Canada, for it was not known even at Washington where he had gone when he left there. As a matter cf fact, Agoncillo had been at the Manhattan Hotel in New York while the “Sun” reporters were looking

David Graham Phillips,

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Isaac D. White won fame by identifying the man who tried to kill Russell Sage

for him; but, not having reg- istered, he threw the scribes offhistrack. It just happened that Denison struck out upon the proper assumption. Call- ing up his city editor, he asked that another reporter be sent to the West Shore Station, Weehawken, saying that he would keep a lookout for his man at the Grand Central Station, these being the only two stations from which a pas- senger bound for Canada would be apt to leave. After several hours of waiting, Denison noticed a diminutive, dark-skinned fellow nervously pacing along toward the gates that lead to the trains for Montreal. He thought he recognized Agoncillo from the pictures which had appeared in the newspapers, but he wasn't quite sure, He had never seen a Filipino, but he thought this little chap came about as near.to the de- scription of one as any human being could, so he stealthily went aboard the train and quietly sat down in the same car, having hurriedly pur- chased a ticket to Poughkeepsie, New York, and given a policeman a dollar to telephone his office that he thought he had his man.

The night editor of the ‘‘Sun” realized that Denison would probably land a great “beat,” puro coveted at that time, because secret service men were on the track of Agoncillo to arrest him as a spy; so he began to send telegrams to Denison aboard the train at various stations, saying, “Call him Jones in your dispatches, to prevent leakage of the news over the wires," and other such words of precaution. After the train was well out of New York City, and going at a swift clip, Denison nearlv terrified the little Filipino to death by going over and sitting down beside him. Не frightened him suffi- ciently to get an interview from him and information as to where he was going, which was the all-important thing at that time for the United States government, and the “Sun,” next morning, was particularly in- teresting to the authorities at Washington. Denison had done what the combined force of secret service men had failed to do; but, having no power to arrest, he could only let Agoncillo go his way.

Enough has been said already to show that it requires eternal vigilance for a reporter to bag his game, leaving not a single chance for escape. It might be further said, however, that the element of luck does creep in now and then, either to a news- paper man's advantage or to his ruin. When Regi- nald Foster was one of the craít, he became famous as the luckiest of reporters. He was alert, energetic, and capable of writing an excellent story when he landed it, but seemed to have a mascot perennial and eternal. Wherever he went, he stumbled upon а “beat.” He happened to be reporting a St. Patrick's Day parade, and went into the Windsor Hotel to tele- phone his office, when the fateful fire started in that hosteiry, resulting in the horrible deaths of several hundred persons. Foster abandoned the parade, helped rescue the imprisoned patrons of the burning hotel, and that night wrote a graphic account of the fire from start to finish. Не was the most available reporter in New York when the great Hoboken fire started, and, hiring a steamer in the name of his news- paper, he saved many lives before the firemen could render aid. When President McKinley was assassi- nated, at Buffalo, the first news came to all the papers in New York in the shape of a very brief bulletin. А group of newspaper men simultaneously asked of each other, ** Where is Foster?" Somebody explained that he was then on his vacation at Narragansett Pier; but, even while he was speaking, a telegram to the city editor was received and torn open. It read thus: “I was right beside the President when he was shot, having come to the Buffalo Exposition to close my vacation. Will send full descriptive story to-night.” It was Foster.

The outside world little dreams of the money that is spent in gathering news. The average person would not believe that a reporter is sometimes backed by $25,000 or even $50,000 to get a single “beat” оп other newspapers. One case of this kind, which re- sulted in the most exciting race for news, perhaps, in

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The Skipper and the Cabin Boy

А Cheerless Tale of Christmas Confectionery By WALLACE IRWIN

Author af " The Nautical Lays of a Landsman” ILLUSTRATED BY H. E. DEY

“ Кет me a ditty,” says the gentlemanly tripper, “Rattle me a ditty of the northern polar sea." “ Aye!" says the cabin boy, and "ayc!" says the skipper, "Неге 's a reel adwenture, sir, what happened unto we."

* T was on the eve о” Christmas," says the skipper to the ітіррет. [Blow me," says the cabin boy, “ but it were gittin' cold! “| "Our course was nor'-to-starboard by the handle of the dipper, Our vessel frozen solid from the jig-plank to the hold.

“ Not a livin’ creature could we see upon the ocean.”

["Skeercely," says the cabin boy, “--ехсері eleven whales." |

“ Then, upon a sudden, еге we had the faintest notion, Bang ! we hit a cake of ice as big as New South Wales!

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** * To keep те mind from freezin' ' "

“Through the air we shot fer fair as swift as flyin’ pigeon. [" Most as swift," the cabin boy deliberately said.] “ Biff ! we landed іп the snow upon the polar regions, Him a-standin' on his feet and me upon me head.

"Thar we sot atop the snows and watched the waves a-comin', Crashin’, dashin' on the ісе with terrorizin' spunk, Till our good ship ‘Susan Snook,’ (she allers was а rum ‘un,)

Shrieked and squeaked and tore and swore,— then gurgled as she sunk.

“Тһас we sot, | must repeat, with пагу crumb nor cracker,

Feelin’ jest as hungry and dejected as ye please,

‘Nothin’ in our pockets, save an ounce о” plug tobacke:

And a little cookbook called "Оле Hundred Recipes.’

“| begins to whistle, and | tries to think о suthin' Christmas-like and pleasant, but no pleasant subjects came: Settin’ on an iccberg seven million miles from nothin’ Ain't so very jolly that you ‘Il notice of the same.

“1 chawed plug tobacker to restrain meself {rom sneezin', Hopin' as a warmer spell would hit us from the south." ["1," remarked the cabin boy, “to keep me mind from

freezin’, Read ‘One Hundred Recipes’ and frosted at the

mouth."]

"Suddenly we heard some bells a-janglin’ and a-jinglin', Then we seen a golden sleigh a-hikin' o'er the floe, —

There upon the forninst seat, (it set our pulses tinglin’,) Sat a jolly gentleman with beard as white as snow.

**Santy Claus ahoy!’ I yells, for sure enough I knowed

m, “Won't ye kindly resky us? We're starvin, him and me.' *Goodness mercy, по!” he says, as if the thought had blowed him,

* Gosh all Christmas, holy smoke, and, likewise, jiminee 1"

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* Bound fer Ireland, Portugal, and North Amerikee,— Forty thousand million kids, and each expects a present ; Can 't ye see this ain't no time to be a-stoppin' me?

, "' Christmas is me busy day, so [m a trifle worried, —

Can't ye wait а week or so, when, maybe, 1 11 be back? Here's a little food fer ye," he says, with gestures hurried. Аз he whipped his reindeer up and throwed us off a sack.

“Last we seen о” Santy Claus we stood a-lookin' daffy, Then we opened up the sack and felt undone complete,—

Nothin’ there but candy canes айі peppermint and taffy ; Mighty dinky vittles fer а hungry man to eat!

* Talk about the horrors of an arctic expedition |” ["Starvin'," says the cabin boy, "and eatin’ candy сапез! |

** Popcorn balls fer Christmas is а splendid But fer steady diet they is full o' aches and pains.

“O them weeks о” candy-ness and stickiness and sweetness ! Gumdrop breakfast, bonbon lunch, and caramels for tea;

Chilblains and confectionery frozen in completeness, —

Forty tons o' chocolate,—and much too much fer me!

“When а walrus came our way we fed him peanut beietles : Now and then we handed maple kisses to the whales ; Polar bears et almond creams and seemed to like the vittles, Openin' ther jaws fer more and standin' on ther tails.

** Spring came on and found us there upon the verge о” madmess, Candy, candy everywhar, and not a bite to eat!"

|“ Stranger," says the cabin boy, with looks akin to sadness, “ Think о” being shipwrecked on an ше о” sticky sweet !]

“ОВ we stood at eventide and gazed across the murky Сбн, sud ctia on turnips, mution chops, aad с ;

[" Also," says the cabin boy, “| spoke о’ truffled turkey, Mentioned as 'delicious' in "Опе Hundred Recipes.” "|

—** Till at last a ship arrived, and with a boathook handy We was dragged from off the ice,-—ther wa'ant no time

to lose : When they found us we were ftretched upon a bed о” candy, ` Ragin’ in delirium and eatin’ of our shoes."

“I've had some adwentures," says the skipper to the tripper. "Гуе been et by cannibals and swallered by a whale: Me and him ain't timid, sir, —but by Old Neptune's slipper. When we thinks о’ Santy Claus we turns a trifle pale.”

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By VANCE THOMPSON

Owing to the World-Wide Interest in President Roosevelt, SUCCESS MAGAZINE Commissioned the Greatest American Interviewer to Learn from European Statesmen Just How He Appears in Foreign Eyes

L—The “Big Stick" and the Peace-Lord

HE ministry of foreign affairs is in the Quai d’Orsay. I went there,

the other day, to see M. Rouvier; and, while I waited, I said

casually to one of the secretariés,—a mere polite word to pass the time,—'' What's new in your Venezuela trouble?"

“Аһ, we do n't know what to do," he exclaimed, with an outthrow of his hands; “І wish your President Roosevelt would give Venezuela а cut or two with the beeg steeck.”

Perhaps his reference to Mr. Roosevelt was merely a polite phrase, like my question; but I am inclined to believe there wasa sighing earnest- ness in it. Anyway, it shows how readily the French mind turns to the great American; and that, to one who knows how self-centered France is,—how little heed it has for the men who are illustrious otherwhere,— is significant. Of our modern presidents only two— Lincoln and Grant, —ever attracted French attention,—and the circumstance of war made them known. For Mr. Roosevelt the ink has flowed in torrents. Not only do the newspapers relate his exploits,—whether he kills a bear or goes down in a submarine boat,—but they are also avid of his opinions, and interviews with him (unfortunately, not alwavs true,) are displayed with great prominence on the first pages of the big dailies.

Almost Every French Home Contains Some Book Written by or about Roosevelt

Pictures of Mr. Roosevelt as а rough rider, as a cowboy, or talking from the tail end of a Pullman, confront you everywhere in the European press. Nor should I like to say how many books have been written about him, ‘' Roosevelt Intime,” a work of three hundred pages, in which the story of his forceful life is graphically told, has reached all the reading homes of France; and his own books—notably “La Vie Intense,"— nare A د‎ have followed. 1 know of no other book that has had so wide an influence in latter days. Young France, especially, is in- terested in the sudden and formidable upbuilding of her sister republic; and the . cause of this growth she has sought, wisely enough, in Mr. Roosevelt's books, in those on the Far West, and especially in the one whose title I have quoted in French, “Тһе Strenuous Life." So it comes to pass that two American writers are pretty close to the French schoolboy's heart,—Mr. Roosevelt and their old, fa- miliar friend, ‘‘Mark Twain." In other words, the President is known in France. It did not require the epoch-making treaty of peace, which the world owes him, to make him one of the great figures of con- temporary history.

His contemporaries were eminently aware of him.

But that vast event, with its far-reach- ing international consequences, brought him into the very focus of public thought. The mind of the French foreign office turns inevitably to the hopeful parables of the “beeg steeck.”

When anything goes wrong in French public affairs, the publicists knock the government about the ears with that better president oversea. Here is a good illustration, for example:—

“If a man such as President Roose- velt came to live among us for three

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months as a private citizen, having to undergo all those accidental relations with the administration which daily life imposes on us, he would quickly refuse to believe in the existence of a republic in France, and would return to his country convinced that we are incapable of ever

possessing real liberty." The President Stands in too Exalted a Position To Be Rewarded by Any Prize

In such words Monsieur Emile Danthesse expresses at once his opinion of Mr. Roosevelt and his patriotic discontent. Jndeed, these are pleasant days in France for an American; go where he will, he hears a good word of his president, and, now and then, the complimentary “И we had such a man!” And, when men get together іп Paris,—for what purpose it does not seem to matter greatly,—the first thing they do is to send a message of some sort to the White House. The other day it was a congress of physicians, studying tuberculosis; they tele- graphed the "expression of their respectful and cordially sympathetic sentiments;” and then they set about their business A like preliminary opened the Peace Congress at Luzerne.

By the way, I asked Monsieur Frédéric Passy about that,—him whose lifelong labors in the cause of peace were honored with a Nobel prize,—and he wrote me:—

“АП the friends of peace owe a profound gratitude to President Roosevelt. He received many and heartfelt evidences of it in the tele- grams sent to him from the Peace Congress on September 20 and 21. Every possible method should be taken of showing him the sentiments inspired by what he has done."

Then Monsieur Passy goes on to speak of the possibility of Mr. Roosevelt's candidature, іп 1907,—since for 1906 it is too late,—for the Nobel prize to be awarded by the Norwegian parliament for eminentservices to the cause of peace in the world; and he presents a view which is, so far as I know, quite a new one.

“It seems to me," he writes, “that, Бесеу on account of the grandeur of

is situation and of his róle, President Roosevelt should be one of those eminent personalities who are usually considered as being above such a competition; and that the Nobel prize should be reserved to those persons whose resources and whose influence would be strengthened by it, while, at the same time, it recom- pensed their services."

Mr. Roosevelt may not be of the same ` mind; but I quote the letter for two rea- sons; Monsieur Passy is the grand old man of peace,—a veteran in the war for arbitration,—and his appreciation of the young peace-lord is worth recording; in the second place, it is difficult to pay a man a finer compliment than that of telling: him he stands above those whom one may properly reward.

There is in Paris a Street of Peace, the famous Rue dela Paix. Popular en- thusiasm demanded, the other day, that its name should be changed to “Rue Roosevelt." "Though that was not done, another street is to bear the President's name,—an honor already paid to Wash- ington and Franklin.

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circumstance, the dignity and discretion, that hedge about a man in power, be he the king or the king's minister, the president or his premier. It isa form of etiquette shining stiff and implacable asa bar of steel. For in- stance, you wish to know President Loubet's opinion of Mr. Roosevelt. Now no one else is so amiable as M. Loubet; noone is more approachable. A year or so ago he wrote, at my request, an article for an American mag- azine,—and that is a sort of thing European rulers do not do readily. Should you speak with him, quite informally, he would tell you many a pleasant word he had in mind of Mr. Roosevelt; but the protocol—that in- flexiblelaw,—forbids one ruler to speak publicly of another. It is farcical, in a way; and yet, perhaps, it makes for peace. Personally, I know that M. Loubet has taken a keen interest in President Roosevelt's public career since 1900, and, doubtless, before. What Monsieur Loubet said in his telegram of congratulation, when President Roosevelt brought to an end the Russo-Japanese War, was merely the public expression of an admiration he had often made known to his intimate friends. Monsieur Rouvier, the minister of foreign affairs, is even more fastly tied to the protocol than his chief. А smiling man of the world, without enthu- siasm—as he once said,—for greatness, even his own, his policy has been one of steady friendship for the United States.

IL—Statesmen and Ministers of State Do Talk!

I owe to Monsieur Paul Doumer, the president of the French parlia- ment, a lesson in the gentle art of dodging the protocol. At present M. Doumer is the most formidable candidate for the presidency of the republic, for which the election will be held next year. More than any other it behooves him to walk circumspectly; but, on the other hand, he is one of Mr. Roosevelt's most pronounced admirers. When he meets an American, his first care is to add to his knowledge of the man who throws so big a shadow over international affairs. So, gliding round the protocol, he sent me his “lively regrets that his functions did not permit him to write what he thought of Mr. Roosevelt and to state publicly his real admiration for him."

T, too, regret it; for M. Doumer has meditated on the man he would fain praise.

In Belgium the protocol weighs not so heavily upon the world of state. Leopold the Second is a homely king; and, in spite of his chamber- lain, is always glad to send a word of greeting to his “great and good friend oversea." In that pleasant Belgian land they all seem to be in a conspiracy to rival the king in amiability. I transmit a few official messages: the first is from his excellency, the minister of state. Monsieur Beernaert writes: “I said, recently,—to the applause of the inter- parliamentary congress,—that President Roosevelt is а man of grand character and lofty integrity; and I believe that, in these words, I charac- terized exactly his high and sympathetic personality."

From the president of the senate, Count de Mérode-Westerloo, came these words: “How could a Belgian, а citizen of a neutral and industrial country, be other than glad to render homage to those who work for the peace of the world? There is по one here who did not rejoice at the ending of the Russo-Japanese War. All of us have ad- mired the action, so weighty in the matter, of President Roosevelt."

Belgian opinion is eloquently summed up by Senator Wiener, the cabinet minister, who says:—“ A few weeks ago the interparliamenta- rian conference for peace and arbitration met in Brussels. Its first act was to salute the great citizen who, at that very moment, was just ac- complishing a pacific work more real, more efficacious, and greater than all those which had been attempted up to that time by the pacifiers of the two worlds. The name of Roosevelt, who had just united on Amer- ican soil the delegates of the two warring empires, was greeted with enthusiasm by all the representatives of all the nations. Whatever was to be the issue of the noble enterprise of the president, we applauded his courageous initiative. А few days later the conference held its

closing session at Liége,—there we learned the end of the horrible war. `

Roosevelt Is Creating a National Influence Which Will Affect АП Europe

“When the president of the conference rose to thank Mr. Roosevelt, in the name of universal humanity, an immense acclamation drowned his words, and it seemed to us all that, behind these enthusiastic cheers, we heard the cries of joy and gratitude of all the mothers, of all the wives, and of all the children whose anguish your great citizen had stilled and whose tears he had dried.

“What is the glory, conquered in no matter what field of war or science, which can be compared to the eternal renown that the Peace of Portsmouth will give, in the memory of men,to President Roosevelt? What other man among all your great presidents ever gained in so short a time such worldwide popularity and recognition?

“I said, recently, to one of your compatriots:—' Roosevelt is the great President of Peace.’ ‘Yes,’ he said, smiling, ‘but he is also the President of battleships.'

“That is true. He is not only a. pacifier,—rather he is the pacific statesman of a great country, who knows that real and durable peace is gained only by continual sacrifices, and that, since the world has been the world, the old saying has been true: ‘Si vis pacem para bellum.’

“In our free and laborious Belgium we follow with interest and admiration the prodigious expansion of your country. Led by a guide like Roosevelt, it will ро оп in the noble paths of justice and civilization.”

it is extraordinary how the Rooseveltian idea of life has become ап in-

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timate part of French thought. The upcoming generation has a sterner and more strenuous attitude toward Ше than its predecessor has had. Especially is this truein the great middle classes, —the world of business and affairs. No little of this is due to the example—for his biography is a com- mon property of youth,—of the man who came to the headship of the great transatlantic nation after taking so wide and stirring a career in civic life. Perhaps it is due to national pride; perhaps young France is tired of hearing Aristides called “The Just;” at all events there is а character- istic tendency toward a theory that Mr. Roosevelt did not quite invent the strenuous way of looking at things. А distinguished publicist, Monsieur Albert Savine, puts it for you in this way: “Тһе ideas of Roosevelt are those of Montaigne, and the principles he lays down are those which were applied to Montaigne's education."

So the situation is saved and under the еріз of Montaigne the youth of France goes on being Rooseveltian.

Gaston Deschamps speaks for the academic world,and it is a pleasure to transcribe his appreciation of our chief of state. Не writes: * Old Europe, mother of civilized nations, admires the actual President of the United States with the tenderness of a grandsire. Old Europe, which, by a series of emigrations, has poured out upon the New World the best of her blood and of her genius, is pleased to salute, in the person of "Theodore Roosevelt, an accomplished example of certain diverse qualities that are less common here than once they were,—less common, at least, іп one man. I mean a man of politics who is not a politician, a man of action who is, at the same time, a man of thought,—a parlia- mentarian who does not waste his life in idle words, but writes beautiful books to preserve the joyous activity of his own mind,—in short, a new model, singularly rejuvenated and modernized, of what, in the seven- teenth century, was expressively called “Р? honnéte homme." I have not translated the phrase; it means more than “honest тап)” what it strives to express is the upright man, the broadly reasonable man, who rounds up his life into a clean and equable whole; and it is in this age-old sense of the words that Deschamps applies them to the man he praises.

"There is another side to the French judgment of Mr. Roosevelt; more than one statesman will tell you that their interest is in the empire- builder more than in the man. That swift, disconcerting move іп Panama gave food for thought. Nor is it quite clear to them what future he is making. Victor Bérard, who is in France the highest author- ity on world-politics, has this prophecy for you:—

“Mr, Roosevelt made plain his national policy long before he delivered his presidential message; he did it by publishing a life of Cromwell. For him Cromwell was not,as for the land of Louis XVI., the first regicide; he was the founder of the British thalassocracy,— the author or signer of the ‘navigation act’ which gave to the English people the empire and the commerce of the seas. America, to-day, awaits her Cromwell, because the United States of the twentieth century is going to do again what England did in the seventeenth. One need not be a prophet to foresee that in Theodore Roosevelt that man has come." Ав you see, Monsieur Bérard makes a long cast at the future.

Il.—Academic Appreciations and Diplomatic Wooing

Count Goblet d’Alviella, senator and member of the French Academy, said :—'*We are at a turning-point in the history of the world. Nearly all the available part of the earth's crust is in the hands of people who in- tend to hold what they have. The growing and unavailable self- assertion of the yellow race is closing forever the prospects of white expansion in the Far East. Each power hastens to seize the few remain- ing openings. Under these circumstances, it is fortunate for the United States to have a man who has fully understood the need of securing for his fellow citizens the international situation due to the size and wealth of their country, especially when his country has still such a future for internal development, That Mr. Roosevelt's imperialism is not a danger for general peace, we have as witness his efforts to favor the better adjustment of international law and the extension of arbitration, at 'The Hague and elsewhere.

“Tf, last year, at the Interparliamentary Conference of Saint-Louis, after І had moved that the neutral powers should be requested to in- terfere amicably between the two belligerents in the Far East, I added that President Roosevelt seemed to me particularly fit for such an intervention, it was because I felt absolutely convinced that no Euro- pean power would dare to undertake the task. He did it and has now won the name of having done practically for the cause of peace more than any other living man. In all justice, it is to him that the next Nobel Prize ought to go.

“President Roosevelt has done а good deal to bring the United States nearer to an alliance with England. There are some alliances that mean war and some that mean peace. I should consider ап Anglo- American alliance, as much as I do an Anglo-French one, a great guarantee for the peace of the world, and it is not the understanding between Japan and England which will make me think the contrary. It is not only the international equilibrium that may before long need the support of a strong hand, but also the no less momentous question connected with the preservation of universal liberties, self-government and democracy. Liberal Europe may, some day, be glad to look toward a powerful America, which President Roosevelt will certainly have helped to build.”

December, 1905

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DESPERADO

By FREDERICK UPHAM ADAMS

Author of ** The Kidnapped Millionaire'*

Illustrated by WILL, CRAWFORD

J Ам fond of studying my clients, and both

of the members of the firm of Black and Roberts interested me. They own ranches and mines, are directors in banks and railroads, and wield financial and political influence in several western states. Roberts is a member of a state legislature, and Black has been in the national house of representatives and is slated for the senate.

The latter is a man whose language, tastes and poise proclaim birth and culture. You soon come to know that the mental predominates with Black. Roberts is of another type. Ihave never seen two men more nearly opposite phys- ically and mentally, Black is short and stocky; Roberts is tull, lean, and wiry. Black is talka- tive almost to the point of garrulity; Roberts is solemn and taciturn. Black is aggressive in his declarations and conservative in his actions; Roberts is deliberate in planning, but a whirl- wind in execution.

The more I studied these men the more I marveled that they were partners. "The natural affinity of opposites is a well-known law, but here were combinations which seemingly re- quired only the slightest friction to generate an explosion; yet they have worked in harmony for years, and I soon came to know that no event or combination of events could array one against the other.

Тһе three of us were on an expedition so im- portant in its nature that absolute secrecy was imperative. Wetherefore dispensed with guides, but Black and Roberts knew the trails. We camped, one night, well up the slope of a ram- bling foothill which opposed the last barrier to the range which was our goal. We smoked, іп silence, after our evening meal was ended. I gazed at the elongated Roberts and then at the trim and well-poised Black, and for the hun- dredth time wondered at theloyalty which bound them. Iam schooled to mind my own business, and I can not imagine what impelled me to violate this sensible practice.

“How did it happen," I asked, looking at Black,''that you and Roberts became partners? ”

Black took the pipe from his mouth and looked at me. He is quick of speech, but his lips closed so suddenly that I knew I was on dangerous ground.

"[ beg your pardon, gentlemen, and with- draw that question," I quickly said; “it is none of my business."

Black was on the point of saying something when Roberts broke the silence.

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what you lawyers call good and sufficient rea- sons,” he'said, "and suppose we let it go at that."

Black laughed, good-naturedly.

“We never have told that story," he said, turning from me to Roberts, ‘‘but there is no reason why we should n't confideit to our lawyer. Lawyers are paid to keep secrets."

“You can tell him," Roberts growled, after a pause. “We ° both tell him," declared Black. ‘It’s not much of a story to listen to, but it was rather exciting to live through, was n't it, Jack?”

“It surely was. Tell it, if you 're going to, Bill."

"I was the boy wonder of the New England town in which I was born," began Black. “І dashed through school, and was admitted to the practice of law when I was twenty years old.

_ A year later I was elected to office. Then I

applied all of my energy to drinking. I cele- brated all victories and deadened all defeats in rum. I drank up my voice, my health, my reputation, my friends, and my mother.

“I had a sweetheart, and she stuck by me until it was a disgrace to have her name linked with mine. During an interval of sanity I realized the depth of my disgrace. She had faith in me. She loved me and would wait for me while I started life over again. I went West and began the practice of law in Denver. Suc- cess came,—and I drank to it. I wrote and told her of my fall, and the letter begging me to try again was stained with her tears.

“T became a cowboy, securing a position where, for months, I could not possibly obtain whisky. Life on the range worked a wonder- ful physical and mental change іп me. Му.

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joy to live,—to live in hope for her. Six months

passed and I wrote her a letter telling the good |

news and asking her to write to me at Laramie, stating that I would be in that town in a month. I did not tell her a secret which filled me with joy. І had discovered outcroppings of gold ore which promised a fortune beyond the dreams of a struggling lawyer. I had entirely recovered my egotism with my health. I honestly thought she would not care whether I had a million or a splinter, so I dismissed the subject by saying that I had saved up two hundred dollars and had finally knocked out old King Alcohol. I told her a lot of other things which I need not repeat, and I felt happy all over, thinking how pleased she would be.

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ready for my trip to Laramie. Fora month my thoughts were centered in a vain but fond at- tempt to guess what she would write to те. I shall never forget the moment when, from the crest of a hill, I caught my first glimpse of Laramie, that bright forenoon. "There lay the field on which I would taste the sweets of a double victory. I would receive and read her dear letter, and I would demonstrate to myself and to the world that I had conquered my crav- ing for liquor.

“Му hard-earned money was іп my pocket, the secret of the mine was safe in my breast, the blood of health flowed in my veins, the skies smiled down on me, and all nature applauded what I had done.

“Му horse spurned the miles which lay be- tween us and Laramie. І sang and yelled from pure excess of joy. І did not realize it, but I was already intoxicated, although the stimula- tion was a harmless опе. On the edge of the town I saw an old beggar,—a worthless scoun- drel, no doubt,—but I tossed him a silver dollar. I was not willing that any one should be un- happy on that, my day of triumph.

“I galloped recklessly through the streets, and dismounted in front of the post office. I strode in and demanded a letter for William H. Black. I fixed my eyes on that clerk as he pulled out the letters in the “В” box, and watched him narrowly as he swiftly sorted them over. As he got near the bottom of the pile I felt something come up in my throat, but I choked it back. Не looked at the last letter, pushed them together, and slid them into the pigeonhole,

“ ‘Nothing for you, to-day, Mr. Black,’ һе said. Ithink I was crazy from that moment.

** * You're а liar!’ I shouted, with an oath. ‘Look again!’ $

“ *T told you there was no letter for you,’ he said, and һе was good and mad. І shoved а pistol through the opening.

“ “Give me those letters!’ I said, holding the gun full on him; “ ‘I’m taking no chances of mistakes!’

* "There's no letter for you,’ he said, as cool as could be; *but, since you insist, you can look for yourself.’

“Не handed me the bunch of letters, and I was so excited that I dropped the gun and grabbed them. Не could have picked it up and shot me, if he had cared to, but I suppose he figured that I was drunk and irresponsible. Gentlemen, there was no letter for me!”

Black paused in his recital. It was deathly

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blended into the black of the star-studded sky.

I did not dare interject а word, and a minute before he continued.

“I have often wondered if I would Бау gone out and got drunk if there had been a letter there from her," he finally said, more to himself than to us. "I'm pretty sure I would n't; but, of course, there is no way to prove it, As it was, I did not hesitate a second. І figured that she was through with me, and very likely married to some one worthy of her. I could not blame her, but life had no more attraction for me. I thought of the gold mine and cursed it,

“Tt took me four days to drink up that two hundred dollars, and three days more to sleep off the effects in the town calaboose. When I searched my pockets I found that I had two or three dollars left. I thought the matter over as calmly as I could, and decided to commit suicide.

“1 considered that suicide question as coolly as you would any simple detail of law or busi- ness, I had tried life and found it a failure. My father was dead, I had killed my mother by years of miscon- duct, I had brought disgrace on my relatives and friends, and deservedly had lost the love of the only woman on earth who had stuck by me until hope had died within her. There was not a single valid reason why I should remain alive.

“But I did not like to kill myself. I have always argued that it is a cow- ardly thing todo. I longed to die, but not by my own hand. І thought of hunting up a case of smallpox, and wondered if it were possible to contract pneumonia, but both of these expedi- ents looked like beating the devil about the bush. It occurred to me that, per- haps, another drink might give me a better idea, and I proceeded to take one. My prodigality had formed a temporary coterie of acquaintances, and I mingled with them. I was sparing of my money, as I had sense enough left to know that I was likely to have use for it if I wished to die decently.

“From one of these boys—and they were not a bad lot of fellows,—I learned that a noted desperado and mankiller had struck town.”

Roberts shifted uneasily and took his pipe from his mouth.

“І would n’t put it that way, Bill,” he interrupted, his face gaunt and ashen in the waning light of the camp- fire.

“T’m only saying what I heard, Jack,” said Black, placing his hand on the other’s shoulder.

“I never shot a man who didn’t start the trouble himself, and mighty few of them," in- sisted Roberts. “І don't want our friend here to get the idea that I was a bad man, and if I had any such reputation it was n't comin’ to те.”

“Lord bless you, Jack, keep quiet, or you 'll ruin my story!" laughed Black. “Ав I was saying, the boys told me that Jack Roberts was in town, that he was a dead shot, and that any man who went up against him had better shoot first or forever hold his peace. As you can guess from the way Jack has interpolated with uncalled-for remarks of a defensive nature, he was the one indicated, and I was mightily pleased with his traits as they were described to me. Here was a chance to commit suicide like a gentleman."

"See here, Bill," declared Roberts, аса forward, “ Ido n't pretend to be much of a story- teller, and I never told this to anybody, but it 's only fair that I should tell just what happened, hecause, on the square, about all you know about it is what I have told you.”

“That’s right, Jack, and you сап go ahead and tell it just as it happened," assented Black. “I’m glad to get out of telling it, and every time I think of it I am ashamed."

“All right, and I’ll make it short and to the point, as they say," began Roberts, running his fingers through his mustache. “І never was much of a hand to drink, and never was what you might call *under the influence' in my life, but on this day I happened to be standing up to the bar of the ‘Cheyenne Queen,’ talking with some friends of mine, when in comes а man named Brady, that I had met, and with him was a young fellow that he introduced as Bill Black. Brady said that his friend Black had heard of me and wished the honor of meeting me. I was young and a trifle vain, in those days, and this sort of made me feel important, so I shook hands with this Black, who had a good honest face and seemed sober as a judge.

“T was n't paying attention to anything at all, when this Bill Black tapped me on the shoulder.

“ ‘I understand,’ said he, his eyes looking mighty funny, ‘that you are the only real bad

“Jack was watching me, but he never sald a word "'

man from up the gulch, and that the trail is humped up with the mounds where you have buried your dead.’

“Tf it had n't been for his eyes I should have thought he was joking, but I began to suspect that he had been drinking more than he showed, so I answered him soft-like, and told him it was evident some one had been slandering me. He had a glass of beer in one hand, and the other hand was over the bar, so I did n't anticipate any harm.

“ *Do you know what I think?’ he suddenly asked, and I told him surely I could n't guess.

" *[ think you are a cross between a prairie dog and a milk snake!" he yelled, and with that he threw the contents of his glass in my face."

Roberts paused, and the edges of his long mustache lifted in a sheepish grin.

“Му going through that window, and landing on the sidewalk, sash and all, was nothing but an accident," he said, softly. “I know it looked as if I was headed for the door or window, but as a matter of fact my eyes were so full of

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liquor that I did not know where I was going, and it just happened that I struck that window. Bill knows that. But, leaving this aside, the fact remains that my one ambition, at that moment, was to get out of range, and I was amazed that the shooting did not begin. My pony was outside, and without waiting to solve any mysteries I just naturally jumped on his back, stuck spurs into him, and headed for the setting sun; and, if that do n't prove I was n't а bad man, 174 like to know what it does prove. Now you can go on, Bill."

The three of us joined in a hearty laugh.

“It all seems very funny now, but there was no joke about it then," continued Black. “І realized at once that I had overplayed my hand, and that a man can't be expected to shoot straight with his eyes full of liquor. It dawned on me that I had done a mean trick to a stranger, and I tell you I felt pretty bad about it. Ex- pecting and hoping to be killed, I was dazed for an instant when my intended executioner dove through that window. I started after him with the idea of making the proper sort of an explana- tion, but before І could get to the door he was on his pony and hoofing it toward the hills. My pony was across the street, and in my excitement I stumbled and fell. As I did so, one of Jack's friends took a shot at me and clipped a corner off my right ear. Such was the change in my views about the desire for death that I esteemed m mighty lucky that the bullet went an inch or two wide.

“Jack was out of sight before I got well under way. І kept on until it was dark, but his aon was too fast. My one ambition then became to find Jack Roberts and explain to him that it was all a mistake. During the days that followed, while I hunted for some trace of the man I had wronged, I thought much of her, but there was nothing bitter or resentful in my sorrow. I had lost her, as I deserved, but I would show my respect for her wasted devotion. À

“A week later I was in Medicine Bow. I had an idea that Jack was headed that way, and I had n't been in town ten minutes before I saw him across the street. I held both of my hands in the air, yelled, and walked straight toward him. Like lightning he whipped out his gun and covered me, but I knew he would n't shoot a man under such circumstances.

“Маё do you want?’ he said, low- ering the muzzle of his gun a trifle. His face had a curious expression, half mad and half curious. .1—”

“1 thought he was crazy," inter- rupted Roberts; ‘‘but you can bet I wasn't taking any chances after what had

happened. When he told me he wanted to apologize, I did n't know what to think. It was the first time anybody had ever apologized to me, but we fixed it up all right."

“And then a funny thing happened," con- tinued Black. ‘‘Jack asked me to have a drink, and I refused. I didn’t say anything about never taking another drink as long as I lived, or make any promises to him, but I've never taken a drink since, and that's quite a span of years ago. We sat down and talked things over. Iliked him, and he was willing to over- look what I had done; so we hooked up together and became partners without drawing up any legal papers, and we have n't drawn up any yet.

* Jack had business in Laramie, and I went with him. We rode into town and hitched our ponies in front of a drug store. We had not gone far down the street when we met a young man who looked sharply at me and then stepped in front of us. I did not recognize him, but he

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The Beginnings of the Drama in America By DAVID BELASCO

Illustrated by Fletcher C. Ransom and W. C. Rice

[7 is my purpose, in this article, to familiarize the public with the con-

ditions that led to the formation of theatrical organizations in a country which is.now offering more encouragement to the actor and the stage than any other on the globe.

For what knowledge we have of things theatrical we must depend wholly upon the manuscript journals and diaries left by the men who lived at the time and who were accustomed to set down in their private correspondence such things as were of unusual interest. As a conse- quence of the correspondence and diaries left as a heritage to the student of history, we are acquainted with many material things which, other- wise, would have been buried.

It is a fact that the first regular organized dramatic company in New York played there in 1732; but it is not known, however, whether the members were merely amateurs, or numbered among them professional players from England. John Moody speaks of having visited Jamaica in 1745 and having played an engagement there for the edification of the English colonists on the island. Moody afterwards became a celebrated London comedian. It is chronicled that **Otway's Orphan" was per- formed at a coffee house in King Street, in Boston, some time during the year 1750, by two young Englishmen, assisted by young men of the town.

Theatrical history in America may be said to have begun with the production of Addison’s “Cato,” in Philadelphia, in August, 1749. We have direct information on this point derived from a manuscript journal left by John Smith, dated August 22, 1749. “Joseph Morris and I happened in at Peacock Bigger’s and drank tea there, and his daughter, being one of the company that was going to hear the tragedy, ‘Cato,’ acted, it occasioned some conversation, in which I expressed my sorrow that anything of the kind was encouraged.”

The Common Council Endeavored to Suppress the Drama as a “ Disorder "

This production led to a regular series of entertainments, as in the early part of 1750 Recorder, afterwards Chief Justice, William Allen reported to the common council that certain persons had taken it upon themselves to act plays, and he was informed that they were intending to make a practice of committing such mischievous acts, and he feared that such conduct would be attended with deleterious results, such as breeding

indolence and other vices. The board unanimously requested the magistrates to take the most effectual measures for suppressing the “disorder,” by sending for the actors and making them give bonds for their future good behavior.

Robert Venable, an aged negro, born in 1736, who died in 1844, related toa Mr. Waters an incident of the first play ever given in Philadel- phia. According to his story, a company of gentlemen and ladies, players from England, aroused considerable interest with a play given at Plumstead's store. “The gentle ladies of the town were very much exorcised,” he said, “Бу the attentions paid to the leading woman of the company by the young sparks of the city." Her name was Nancy Gouge, or George. It was recorded in the New York ''Gazette" that she received a benefit in New York, in 1751, to which city she had come from Philadelphia, where the magistrates had placed a ban on theatrical performances. The first record of a performance in New York was of one given March 5, 175o. The heads of the enterprise were Messrs. Murray and Kean. "Thomas Kean was the principal player, and upon him devolved the leading róle, in both tragedy and comedy.

The First Shakespearean Production Took Place on Nassau Street, New York

Kean described himself as a journalist. Another member of the company was John Tremain, formerly a cabinetmaker, who was next in importance to Kean. The latter was the original “ Richard III.” in this country, as he was also the original ‘‘Captain Macheath,” in the “ Beggar's Opera."

The New York “Gazette,” in the issue of February 26, 1750, an- nounced as an important item of news that a company of comedians had arrived the previous week from Philadelphia, and had taken rooms formerly belonging to Ralph Van Dam, on Nassau Street, as a pla vhouse. Тһе opening play was “Richard IIL," with Kean in the title róle. When the companies played in Philadelphia, they did not advertise in the papers, but did so in New York, and, as a consequence, the history of the drama is clearer and more coherent than is the case in the City of Brotherly Love.

New York claims the honor of the first Shakespearean production, by reason of this performance; but this is by no means certain, as it may have been the playing of ** Richard III." that caused the actors to be bound

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over in Philadelphia and resulted in their emigrating to New York. At any rate, this was the only Shakespearean play given that season. Evidently the season was not prosperous, for Kean, in writing to a friend, spoke of his financial straits by reason of poor patronage, and he feared that he must go back to journalism.

The second season opened September 13, 1750, with the“ Recruiting Officer." ''Cato" was first produced a week later, according to “The Postboy” of September 24. In this issue, mention was made that this play attracted the largest houses ever seen in New York. "The editor further commented оп this fact in a statement wherein he said it re- flected well on the intelligence and taste of the public, as it showed that the people were inclined to encourage plays of sober thought. “Cato” was ated soon after, with the addition of a pantomime. During the months of October, November, and December, 175o, new plays were added to the repertory. In summing up the strength of the attractions, it was found that the operas drew best. In order to increase interest between acts, songs and instrumental solos were rendered by different members of the company. Тһе capacity of the theater was limited to one hundred and sixty-one seats in the pit, ten in the boxes, and one hundred and twenty-one in the gallery. At this capacity, one hundred and twenty-six dollars and seventy-five cents could be taken in, although it is related by one chronicler that, when the opera was produced, more persons had bought tickets than could be accommodated in the theater, which caused great dissatisfaction. А recurrence of this had much to do with the closing down of thé theater, in 1751, and, besides, there were many who appealed to the governor to refrain from giving his consent to the carrying on of “Үе playes."

William Hallam Has often Been Called the “ Father of the American Stage"

This was the end of Thomas Kean's connection with the stage in America, for, upon his partner Murray giving him a benefit, in which he played “Richard ШІ.” free of any house share, he gave up his half of any interest he was entitled to under the partnership agreement.

In the latter part of 1751, one Upton, having been sent to America as an advance representative of William Hallam, an English actor of repute and manager of standing in London, to pave the way for a company of players selected by Hallam as a permanent organization in the colonies, having little integrity and no regard for the interest of his employer, affiliated with Murray, and, having obtained consent of the governor, reopened the Nassau Street playhouse, cn December 26, in * Othello," with Upton as the Moor. Tremain played “Таро,” and Mrs. Upton “Desdemona.” “Тһе Provoked Husband" and the farce, “Lethe,” followed soon after. Тһе concluding play of this season's engagement was “Тһе Fair Penitent," and evidently Mrs. Tremain here made her d¢but, for the programme recites that she would attempt the

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T About this time Hallam, learning of the perfidy of his trusted agent, determined that his vengeance should take the form of. business annihi- lation, gathered around him a strong force, and sailed for the new country. On landing herehe began by addressing letters to the pressassailing Upton in most forcible terms, calling the latter а pretender, and endeavoring to bring down ridicule on the manner of the pro- ductions and the character of the plays, at the same time reciting how glorious would be those offered by him when he should have arranged the necessary de- tails, such as time and place. With the advent of Hallam, the stage assumed a more pretentious aspect as regards the interest it created and the influence it exerted.

William Hallam has been called the father of the American stage, a title he does not deserve, inasmuch as he was merely the backer of the enterprise that his brother Lewis was to manage. The - same William Hallam was the manager of the Goodman Fields Theater, in Lon- don, where David Garrick made his débul, in 1741. We are told that the American company was formed on the sharing plan. The number of shares was fixed at eighteen. There were twelve adult performers, including the manager, and each performer was allowed a share. Lewis Hallam had another share às man- ager, and a share was allowed to his three children, the remaining four shares being for the profit of the backer for the use of his money. А company willing to agree to the terms was enlisted, the plays were selected, and the parts were assigned. The pieces chosen were those that were most popular on the London stage, at that time, and many of them continued to be played by the American company

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from 1752 down to the Revolution. With this repertory and one pan- tomime, ‘‘ Harlequin Collector, ог the Miller Deceived,” the adventurers set sail in the ** Charming Sally," Captain Lee, early in May, 1752.

When the Upton-Murray Company disbanded in New York, at the close of the season there, in 1751, it was soon reorganized, and was playing in Virginia in the spring of 1752. Within a fortnight of Lewis Hallam's arrival at Yorktown, the ‘‘company of comedians from Virginia” reached Annapolis. This company had some kind of ex- istence for more than twenty years. This goes to prove that the Hallam company was not the first regularly organized theatrical company in this country. Some writers have claimed that the theater in Annapolis was the first erected in the United States; but this is not true, for what was used as a theater was little better than a commercial warehouse.

Hallam found that the plays he brought with him from England had previously been acted by Upton and his company. This caused a falling off of interest, for the newspapers of the time strictured Hallam for not giving them something new.

Of all the Plays Produced by the Early Companies, Only Two Have Survived

At Williamsburg, in the Virginia colony, on September 5, 1752, Lewis Hallam produced, for the first time in America," The Merchant of Venice.” The building which was used for a theater was in the suburbs of the town, and it is said that it stood so near the woods that the manager often stood in his door and shot pigeons for dinner. It was destroyed by fire, some years later, and a new theater was built below the old capitol. There was no orchestra for this occasion, but Mr, Pelham, who gave lessons on the harpsichord in the town, was engaged with his instrument to supply the music. The performance began with a pro- logue. As it was the first composition that is preserved written for and addressed to an American audience, it is looked upon, to-day, as a curiosity. The only subsequent perforniance of the Williamsburg engagement that can be found anywhere is that of the ninth of Novem- ber, 1752. Mention is made of this in the “‘Maryland Gazette” of November 17, and it is quite probable that this performance would have passed by without notice had. not a lot of Indians visited the theater as the guests of the governor. On this occasion “Othello” and “Напе- quin Collector" comprised the bill.

Hallam remained in Virginia eleven months, and went directly from Williamsburg to New York, where he arrived in June, 1753. His wel- come was not very cordial, and permission to perform was at first denied. Тһе old theater in Nassau Street was demolished, and a new one erected, and the bill for the evening of the opening night, as published in the New York “Gazette,” was “The Conscious Lovers." Тһе prices оп the opening night were: box, eight shillings; pit, six shillings; gallery, four shillings. For the second night, they were reduced to: box, six shillings; pit, five shillings; gallery, three shillings. А month later there was a further reduction, the pit being put at four shillings and the gallery at two shillings. The days of performances were Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, the season lasting from the seventeenth of September, 1753, to the eighteenth of March, 1754.

There were twenty-one distinct plays and twelve farces produced, which com- prised only one third of the performances of a season of six months. "These were given under circumstances that must have rendered the representations doubly difficult, and yet were always played with full casts and all parts acceptably filled, if we are to believe the chronicler of the period.

To the visitor toa theater of the pres- ent day, the work of this company must surely appear marvelous, aside from the arduous labor of presenting so many plays in such rapid succession, both pla vs and farces comprised in a list being ca- pable of an exceedingly interesting analysis, They include not only the best works, in a dramatic sense, but also the purest plays the English stage had produced up to that time. The authors were men, with a few exceptions, whose fame will form a part of the glory of English dramatic literature until the world ceases to prize English letters. "Their names us writers for the stage have а familiar sound; but, with the exception of Shakespeare's, their plays have dis- appeared from the boards. None of the farces or comedies survived, and only two of the tragedies—Moore's '* Gamester * and a revamped version of Rowe's ** Jane Shore,"—have been seen by this gener- ation. That they should have been so completely forgotten is all the more ге- markable because their authors are still

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Т == elevator soared upward swiftly. At the fifth floor it stopped, with a pensive, pneu- matic sigh, and two men stepped out.

** Good!” exclaimed the older passenger, as they left the car, “I'm glad we happened to reach the office together; it ’s early, too,"—with a glance at the clock in the corridor,—''not yet half past eight. We'll have time to run over the points in that railroad case and begin on those defective titles for the land company be- fore Williamson's appointment at nine. And, І wanted to tell you, Markley has decided to retain us in his suit against the quarry people,— it will bea big thing if we win out. Then there 's that trolley scrap with the L.,V., and O., over the right of way,—Howland 'phoned me that he 'd be in on the 9:20. I suppose you have the papers in that bankruptcy case, Hadley?"

** Yes," replied the younger man; ‘‘I saw the parties last evening. They won't settle without a fight, —I told Morris we 'd see him here at eleven. Looks as if we 'd have a busy morning. Isuppose Miss Barry has the mail."

Passing through the anteroom and entering the spacious inner office, Hadley, the junior member of the firm, tossed a sheaf of papers, tightly embraced by a rubber band, upon his perfectly appointed mahogany desk, and, with a single movement, flung his broad shoulders out of his heavy overcoat.

**T tell you, Hollister," he said, “а cold bath— really cold, you know,—is the greatest thing in the world! There’s nothing like a breathless plunge and a brisk rub to shock one’s faculties awake. We played bridge last night at the Dysart’s till one o’clock, and had champagne and a ‘chafe’ afterwards; very good sport, and all very well for the care-free single, but it spells dis- sipation for the married toiler, —how the women stand it I don’t know!”

“Sounds рау!” remarked the older man, with а half note of envy in his voice. “Му wife won't play bridge,—prefers chess with me or one of those deadly moral games, ‘flin’ or ‘pitch,’ with the youngsters, and, as for champagne,— well! ! ”

Тһе clock in the corridor struck the half hour sonorously as Hadley seated himself at his desk and snapped the elastic from the pile of folded

P Why, what on earth!" he exclaimed, sur- prisedly, as he took up and unfolded the top- most document. :

Its appearance was distinctly un-legal. The

r was thick and creamy and its faint, blossomy odor breathed forth unmistakable femininity. A much contorted silver mono-

m writhed across the upper corner. Before he had deciphered a word of its contents, which were penciled and bore a hurried look, the telephone bell rang.

* That’s probably Pennock,” called Hollister, from his desk in his own special sanctum. “Не rang me up before breakfast. He's worried

A BUSY MORNING

The Story of Two Wives, Two Husbands and the Advantages of a Telephone System

By JENNIE

BETTS HARTSWICK

Illustrated by Herman Pfeifer

about that judgment,—just tell him that we 71 be busy all the morning, but if he can drop in after lunch we 'll examine into the matter."

Hadley took down the receiver.

“ Hello!—Yes, this is their office.—Yes, I said so, Hollister and Hadley. 15 that you, Pen- nock?—Hello! is that Mr. Pennock?” А lengthened, throbbing pause ensued, and Hadley called again, impatiently, ““ Hello, central! who rang Hollister and Hadley, just now?"

“Is that Mr. Hadley?" came in suavest ac- cents from the exchange. “А lady—Mrs. Hadley, I think,—wanted you; but I guess she ‘hung up;' she ЛІ probably call you later."

Hadley replaced the receiver and went back to his desk.

“Tt was n't Pennock," he said, as he passed Hollister's door. “Му wife wished to speak to me; that 'sall, Can you go over these bank- ruptcy papers now, Phil?"

** Yes, or—in a minute; I ’m in the middle of this railroad data; I say, Horace, before you sit down, just dictate a reply to this letter of Al- ston’s; Miss Barry can take it now; it should be mailed at once.”

Hadley took the letter and entered the wide- windowed alcove, where a typewriter was clicking busily.

Не had progressed as far as “Dear Sir:—" when the telephone pealed again.

Hollister answered it this time.

**Hello!—Yes, this is Hollister and Hadley. Is that Jim Pennock?—Oh, beg pardon, Mrs. Hadley,—yes, he’s here; I'll call him.—Busy? —no, not very; he’ll be right here.”

He left the receiver swinging and went into the alcove.

“Your wife wants you, Hadley. Give me Alston's letter; I'll finish it."

“Hello, Clara!" called Hadley.—'' Yes, it's I. You rang me before, didn't you? Any- thing wrong?—Oh,—who brought the note?— Speak up a little!—I can't hear you,—Willie Gleason; well, what of it?—Oh, you just hung up the receiver till you'd read it.—Yes, I under- stand; that's all right; but go on, Clara,—what do you want now?—

“ List, what list?—No, I didn’t find any list.— You slipped it under the rubber band round my papers?—Well, I didn't see it; you must be mistaken.—Oh, hold on, though, —I believe I did find it, after all,—written on your go-to- meeting stationery, wasn't it?—but I hadn't timetoreadit. Whatisitand what's to be done with it, anyhow?—Oh, the list of partners for the new series of your whist club!—How many typewritten copies?— T wenty?—Yes, I suppose she can; not before lunch, though, for she's rushed, this morning.— Well, I'll see,—perhaps, —she can crowd them in, І guess.— Yes, I can bring them home with meat noon.—No, I won't forget to order the flowers, and I'll stop at Mrs. Barker's for the score sheets. Anything else?— What?—Speak up а little, Clara!—Rain?—No,

l don't think it's going to rain; good-by."

Hadley, standing with his back to the door, had scarcely embarked upon the waves of this conversation when he was acutely aware that some one had entered the room behind him and had passed on into Hollister's office.

He hung up the 'phone, and, going to his desk, began a hurried search for the feminine, cream- tinted sheet that had puzzled his momentary glance earlier in the morning.

It appeared that Mrs. Hadley, “lest she for- get," had tucked it under the elastic band con- fining the bankruptcy papers, intending to ex- plain its pe before he went downtown; but, in the ntrvous distraction resulting from late hours the night before and the heavy responsi- bility of entertaining the Woman’s Whist Club, that afternoon, she had characteristically neg- lected to mention it.

Hadley hunted wildly, but it was several minutes before the errant list of gaming ladies was finally run to earth in the wastebasket, where it had significantly drifted.

Seizing the penciled missive, he took it to Miss Barry and hastily instructed her to strike off a score of copies, "ай odd moments," during the forenoon. For some reason (һе stenographer appeared to develop an unusual obtuseness in the matter of comprehending his directions, and required details and explanations, not to mention several translations of the illegibly written names.

Hollister was giving grave attention to the in- dividual who had entered while Hadley was talking, and, as the latter left the alcove, his partner signed to him to join the Conference. 'The man was a prominent merchant from a neighboring town, and the case which he had brought for their consideration was of con- siderable importance.

Hadley's instructions to Miss Barry regarding the list of whist players had been plainly audible, and, in view of his recent conversation at the "phone, he felt uneasily that the new client must look upon him as an essentially light-minded junior partner.

Assuming his most sage expression, he listened attentively to the merchant’s statement of his difficulty, but Mr. March persistently talked straight at Hollister, and it was with a feeling of relief that Hadley heard the peremptory sum- mons of the ‘phone.

He left the room to answer it.

“НеШо!--Үев, this is the office.—No, this is Mr. Hadley talking.—Oh, is it you, Mrs. Hol- lister?—No, not particularly busy. Hold the 'phone а moment and I'll call him."

He summoned his partner and went back to the litigating merchant, who refused absolutely to go on with his tale and sat in stony silence waiting for Hollister's return.

* We-e-ell, Augusta, what is it?— The mis- sionary meeting, next week?—Yes, I know you have to read a paper.—Whose name?—The

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