prey on the souls of men the and the moral of the time seem to foster it with almost zeal you would imagine that a of life had been established by divinity and the care of its execution given into the hands of the utterly yet there is that other form of which has nothing to do with conscious calculation in the vast majority of cases it is without design or the average woman controlled by her affections and deeply in love is no more capable of anything save thought than a child � the desire to give and so long as this state she can only do this she may change hell hath no fury etc but the yielding attitude is the chief characteristic of the mis the and it is this very attitude in to the grasping of established matrimony that has caused so many wounds in the of the latter the temperament of man either male or female cannot help falling down before and this non seeking note it approaches vast distinction in ufe it appears to be related to that last word in art that of spirit which is the first characteristic rf the great picture the great building the great the great � namely a giving freely and without of itself of beauty hence the significance of this particular mood in went up stairs thinking of her for the moment and then of his wife all the of the present combination troubled him sit down sit down you won t take a little you never do i remember now weu have a cigar anyhow now what s this that s you to night extra extra all about the big fire burning down you could hear the voices calling faintly in the distance far off toward the thicker sections just that replied have you heard the news no what s that they re calling it s a big fire out in oh replied butler still not gaining the of it it s burning down the business section there and i fancy it s going to b financial conditions here tomorrow that is what i have come to see you about how are your pretty well drawn in butler suddenly gained the idea from s � expression which was stem though normal enough to all appearances and from the distant calling voices that there was something serious in the wind he put up his the hand as he leaned back in his big leather chair and covered his mouth and chin with it over those big and bigger nose thick and his large eyes gleamed his gray hair stood up in a short even growth all over his head so that s it he said you re trouble tomorrow how are your own affairs i m in pretty good shape i think all told if the money element of this town doesn t lose its head and go wild there has to be a lot of common sense exercised you know we are facing a real panic it may not last long but while it does it will be bad stocks are going to drop to morrow ten or fifteen points on the opening the banks are going to call their some arrangement can be made to prevent them no one man can do that it will have to be a combination of men you and mr and mr might � that is you could if you would persuade the big people to combine to back the market there is going to be a on local street unless they are sustained the bottom is going to drop out i have always known that you were long on those i thought you and mr and some of the others might want to act if you don t i might as well confess that it is going to go rather hard with me i not strong enough to face this thing alone looked at butler meditating on how he should tell the whole truth in regard to well now that s pretty bad said butler calmly and he was thinking of how his own affairs stood exactly a panic was not good for him either � meant considerable trouble for him but he was not in a desperate state he could not fail he might lose some money but not a vast amount � before he could things still he did not care to lose any money how is it you re so bad off he asked curiously he was wondering how the fact that the bottom was the going to drop out of local street would affect so seriously you re not any of them things are you he added it was now a question of lying or telling the truth and was literally afraid to risk lying in this if he did not gain butler s support he might fail and if he failed the truth would come out anyhow i might as well make a dean breast of this mr butler he said throwing himself on the old man s sympathies and looking at him with that brisk assurance which butler so greatly admired in him he felt as proud of at times as he did of his own sons he that he had helped to put him where he was the fact is that i have been street railway stocks but not for myself exactly i am going to do something now which i think i ought not to do but i cannot help myself if i don t do it it will be to injure you and a lot of people whom i do not wish to injure i know you are naturally interested in the of the fall election the truth is i have been a lot of stocks for mr and some of his friends i do not know that all the money has come from the city treasury but i think 