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my reward seemed great wht

my reward seemed great when the bright
young woman regarded me as gratefully
as she did out of her beautiful mellow
brown eyes. In her eagerness to thank
me for what she was pleased to term
my nobility Of heart-I declare she quite
overwhelmed me-she pressed my hand
quite enthusiastically; and-I confess 1t
as another evidence Of human weakness
I could do nothing but stare with a sort
of fatuous pleasure at that hand for a
long time after the young woman had
taken her departure.
Now for the utterly stupefying sequel
One night-it was after midnight-about
week after the young woman's call
upon me. l left hotel on the avenue
where I had been making a protracted
call upon an old business associate who
now lives in the north. Just as l stepped
from the hotel I saw a crowd forming
about a pair Of exceedingly gay young
women who appeared-judging from the
unbecoming livelness of their behavior
to have been-er-dining indiscreetly. Both
of these young women were most lavtshly
costumed. One of them-whom l in
stantly recognized as my young woman
visitor of the previous week-was engaged
in a wholly unbecoming argument with
the driver of hanson cab which stood
in front of the hotel. Her purpose, II
appeared was to mount to the driver
box of the hanson cab and drive her
young woman friend up and down Penn
sylvania avenue, for the purpose, I gath
cred, of winning a wager with male
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present ii is attached and made into a
little lengthwise Battery-to-Bronx state
on Its own hook.
NQ1h!ng particularly new about this
suggestion. but 1t is being harped upon
a good deal in these days of contention
between the liberal" folks of Moo Yawk
and a governor with an enormous up
state following) who doesn't happen to
see things from the same liberal angle.
If the Island Of Manhattan were capable
of taking care of itself as separate
state; if Grittier Moo Yawk as a separate
state were not almost sure to become a
sort Of cancer. Tenderloinishly speaking,
In the side OF the nation. there would be
perhaps a bit Of Justification for its de-
tachment Greater New York now has a
population of its own considerably greater
than that OF a good many OF the states
of the Union. Moreover. there is no doubt
that the big town Is to an extent ham,
pered by some of the legislation which Is
enacted for it's supposititious benefit by
upstate legislators wholly out of sympa-
thy with the needs and demands of the
town.
But can you see Noo-Yawk-on-Manhat
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a traffic policeman who was standing
near.
Il want to hurry back to the OIL he
Yes. sir" said the policeman. this
way sir And the cop swung open the
door of an immense black automobile as
sisted Mr.. Nevin into the tonneau and
jumped up beside the chauffeur.
Il will have to ride with YOU" lie said.
las otherwise you might be arrested. Hit
1t up. Jim''-ths to the chauffeur
And Jim hit 1t up. Nevin, pleased with
this courtesy to the press. figured that he
rode faster through the streets of Balti-
more than any man ever has or ever Will
and it took about two minutes to reach
the station. At every corner policemen
the flying car. stopped before the appraised
hand of the traffic cop and bowed and
smiled at the newspaper man in the ton
neau. But. all unconscious of this, he
hung on for his life, with Lis hat low on
his forehead and his eyes closed to keep
out the Swirling dust.
Il am very much obliged to you" Nevin
told the policeman at the journeys end.
How much do 1 owe the chauffeur
THAT has all been attended to- re-
Joined the policeman with smile. but 1
would very much like to shake hands
with you, Mr.. Bryan
Did Nevn explain? He did not! He
just shook hands with the cop and beat 1t
for the car. where he locked himself In
a. stateroom and hid under the lower
afraid the policeman would arrest him
for impersonating a parsonage or for
something equally serious, had he at
tempted to explain.
In Philadelphia pretty much the same
thing happened. Nevin sitting In solitary
state in taxicab. arrived at the Camden
ferry ahead Of the official party and ran
into crowd of several thousand wait
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be let alone-and All mean tub

want tub be let alone-and All mean tub
be, Aim saying that"
Never listening, they continued to shout
their ticket stuff into his ears and to man.
handle him all over the pavement: and
then, from a certain CLINT that / saw
creeping into the eye Of the cadaverous
man from the southland. 1 saw that
thered likely be doin's around there pres
emily, and SO l stuck to see what would
come off.
Now. All VAIN you people tub tuhn mo
loose" said the tall one who was getting
that awakened CLINT in his eye. "Ah'm a
NAH business. but All amt goin tub let
NOBODY take a-hold OF me in this man.
nuh. suhs SURE AM NOT"
You'd think they'd have been warned.
now. wouldn't you? But they were too
busy Juggling the man about to catch
sighs of that look out OF his eyes. and it's
pretty hard to get a New York ticket
Spectator to take tumble, anyhow. So
they continued to pull the Georgian
around.
Well. heah goes All sure AM tired o.
telling yo' people L take yo' hands off
me-" quietly observed the tall man. and
then his right hand. that looked like
punched group of fancy plaintains hang
ing in A fruiterer's window, shot out II
caught the most offensive OF the ticket
bawlers on the point of the jaw. and he
went down to the tagging as If a Zambesi
ostrich had hit him a back-swat with a
calloused hoof. Then hve-count EN- five
more of the ticket spectators went
down in just precisely the same way be-
fore they had the slightest chance on
earth to take belated warning and beat
1t away from there. The Georgian just
piled 'em on the pavement as II they had
been sacks OF bran. his arms working
like pistons and straight from the shoul-
der. Then the tall Georgian pulled his
coat sleeves over his cuffs and sort o.
gave a hitch down to his waistcoat and
walked on his way down Broadway, whiIe
the res: of the ticket spectators made
the widest lane for him that you ever
saw in your life. When anything sure
enough salutary happens over here, its
always provincial who pulls It,
CLARENCE L. CULLEN.
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YOU'RE going to get killed, Ben said
to Sturgis. the minute I read that Collins
thing. He only laughed drily and went on
smoking his cob pipe. When the story
was read and digested a lot of Creole S
more quiet folk dropped in on Sturgis and
told him that he was taking needless
risk
You don't stand to get anything by
jumping Collins. Ben they told him. He 8
in camp to stick. You can't run him out.
Moreover. he'll kill you sure as eggs is
eggs. Better vamp back to Arizona. Ell p
collins will do that vamping thing.
was Sturgis' quiet reply to all this. I'm
going to run him out of this camp, and
am not going to be killed. either. Let it
go at that
collins was in Denver when the thing
came out. and he didn't get back into
camp until two days later. AS soon as he
lit back he heard about the attack upon
him in the paper, of course. Some barkeep
flashed 1t on him.
collins had his usual rum parcel with
him. and when he read the story he did
a teeth-grinding number that almost
made the barkeep duck under the bar.
Collins didn't recall Sturgis, hadn't met
up with him in Creole. and so he didn' t
know who was back Of the wallop.
"'Who is the coyote?' he howled at the
barkeep.
Little feller-a runt-named Ben Stur-
gis: come here from Tucson: some quick
in handling himself, too explained a by
stander.
collins started for our office right
away. I'd heard that he was in camp
and that's why / happened to decide
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CONTAMINATION REALLY RULED ITSELF IT WOULD

continuous to the "legit." pulled what
they called the apache dance over here
the other night. Pretty nasty and sick
ening affair. too 1t was,
1t wasn't. as you might naturally sur
mise, dance illustrative of the customs
and kinks of the Apache Indians. If it
had been only that 1t might have been
at least endurable. No; this so-termed
dance" had to do with the apache of
Paris" those strangers and thieves and
murderers of the French city of whom
Sterling Heilig in his letters printed in
The Star often writes entertainingly
and colorfully. There may be worse
breed of criminals somewhere at the out
posts of the earth than these degenerate
PEACHES Of Paris but if there is the stu
dents of criminology don't know anything
about 1t.
Well. these two vulgar tawdry vaude-
Williams, taking their cue from the Salome
business. and concluding. perhaps natu-
rally enough, that nastines and nothing
else was the thing chiefly wanted by
New York theatergoers. fixed up this
Pache dance which is supposed to repre-
sent male and a female criminal of
Paris in state Of absolute frenzy dane
Ing at each other" at a 'Pache ball in
Paris. Nothing quite degrading. so
brutally fAthy, raw and disgusting has
ever been seen on the New York stage.
The two people wear their entire assert
ment of clothes, of course but that
doesn't make the thing any the less vile.
After all Is said there certainly is some
thing artistic about the Salome dance
when 1t is done by an accomplished
dancer. Wha' there is of artistry about
the Salome dance is a partial excuse and
atonement for 1t. But there is no excuse
for this 'Pache dance l observed a lot
of hardened FOUNDERS looking at each
other slantwise on the night the thing was
first done. Quite a number of them got
up and went out of the theater. Where
are you going?' I heard one OF them ask
another. Outside to expectorate," was
the disguised reply.
But the spectators are bawling and
selling seats outside the door of that
theater for IS the throw. and the audi
ences are made up mostly Of sheathily
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Manhattan. It would be the odoriferous
state. as you no doubt perceive in your
down in the state of Manhattan proper
enough. You'd hear the rattle of the
chips and the clatter of the spinning mar
BILE above the roar Of Broadway as you
swung up or down that rather garish and
over-p pictured thoroughfare. You'd be able
ct git t. tsee a show on a'sunda'~" too.
For that. you know. is another sad grew
ance with the separate state people
that they cant git t tsee no show on
a'Sundays." 1t isn't enough that there
are always slews and slathers of shows
on view over here that nobody with an
intelligence above that of a couch insect
could possibly care to see on any OF the
week nights, much less on Sunday night.
They're sad and mad and bad over 1t be-
cause they cant tsee no show on a'Sun-
days"
With Manhattan a state the police force
would promptly be abolished and III OIL
The myriads of Salomes would. with per-
feet immunity. remove even their few
strands Of screening seed pearls and the
second-story men would work by day
light SO as not to be hampered by the sin
lister aspect Of night and the alarms
which must proceed from a state of dark
ness. Gumshoe men would discard their
padded pedals and work at high noon I'M
der the beneficent rays of the sun, and the
ponies would not only race all day but
by electric light.
1t will be pretty soft. prett-tie soft. for
the lowbrows and the bullnecks and the
blunt chins when Manhattan Is made over
into a separate state. In the meantime
just stand on one leg and then on the
other and wait for that to happen. That
will make you feel as II you're waiting
for one of those 18th street cars to take
you to Anacostia when. some day In a mo-
ment Of alteration. you're just bound and
determined to to AQaCOStia.
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whether he was giving me an exhibition
of skillful acting or whether he really be-
lieved his heart was normal. He ap-
peared to be a keenly disappointed and
perturbed little man while he was resum-
ing his clothes, for, Of course. there was
no possibility Of his being recommended
for a policy with his kind of heart.
For all his disappointment. he handed me
a keen little shot as he went out.
Ives Stree said he, L certainly am
surprised at what you tell me. I'm going
to see medical man about It, and be
accumulated medical man with such OBJ
viously intentional malice that 1 couldn't
help but laugh.
"Others, when I am forced to tell them
that they have things the matter with
them that must cause their rejection. get
mad. Not long ago 1 examined man
who. I could see at glance. was In a
bad way from habitual drinking.
"'You imbibe quite some, do you not?'
I said to him.
"'Oh, a little he replied. quite off
hand. Take nip when I feel like 1
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But honestly. it seemed everywhere
as If this might be true. Whenever a po-
ltical meeting and a base ball game con-
flcted in dates, the attendance at the po-
ltical meeting got a fearful jolt, and
while shopping through the crowd at one
grand outpouring of the pee-pul I was
terribly distressed to hear knot of labor
ers who. by all the dope. should have
been tearing their hair and splitting their
threats while Mr.. Bryan denounced gov
eminent by injunction, enthusiastically
debating whether Cleveland or Detroit
would win the American League pennant.
And they were almost under the Peerless
Leaders nose, too.
1t takes all sorts of people to make up
a crowd as well as a world. and 1 suppose
that political throngs are pretty much
the same everywhere, except perhaps
there may be shade of difference in the
demeanor of a flock OF voters who intend
to vote the prohibition ticket. But, gen.
orally speaking. there is distressing SIM
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We'll, my mouths all right he said
CURLY. L guess you can take my word
that far. If I'm right in every other
essential respect l guess my mouths
not going to make me a poor risk.
Il had, in order to conform to the
companys rules, to insist upon his Civ.
ing me an interior view Of his facial
orif1ce. I made a wretched blunder, how
ever, in my effort to mollify him by adj
verting to his teeth.
1.-The examination of the mouth I
said. with a significance which / took
pains to emphasize. does not refer
wholly to the condition of the teeth. nor,
indeed. to any lack Of natural teeth.
Some persons are esteemed quite fair
risks who have few or no teeth. and
- 'Thatll be about all the cracks you
need to make about my teeth the oddly
sensitive chap broke in upon me there.
My teeth are my own affair. and nobody
elses' and blessed If he didn't quit in a
huff right there, putting on his clothes
as If there were a fire in the building
and clomping out like a man grossly In
suited"
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tan actually going Its way as self-gov-
erning state? Vince! There would be
the doin S. yes!
You'd be able to get bet down then
all right enough That by the way. is
one of the big arguments offered as to
why Moo Yawk ought to be a little state
on its own hook-because. you see, II 1t
were. why. fellers, you could get a bet
down then.
What's the good of a state, anyhow
that doesn't let a Teller that's too tired
or too strong to work get bet down
whenever he bedinged feels like it. hey?
Maybe you've heard about that Personal
Liberty League. The Personal Liberty
League is an organization or racetrack
regulars who got together and made
themselves into a nice sounding league
and got lapel buttons to show 1t at the
time they began 10 curdle at the mere
mention of the name Of Gov. Hughes.
Gov. Hughes. after living his entire life
in New York reached the conclusion that
the race tracks around here were making
blacklegs and thieves and buns out Of an
element Of the youthful population That
could Ill be spared from legitimate pur-
suits; wherefore he busted himself when
he became a governor. at the task OF max
Ing race track Enclosures looking barren
and sad and vacant and gloomy and
things; task at which he has succeeded
admirably. Therefore, you see, Gov.
Hughes became. ipso facto. grueling
enemy Of personal liberty" Conse-
uociitiy tiic punch OTSdTiZco lHiS
Personal Liberty League for the purpose
OF pertectin their rights. see? The Per-
sonal Liberty League is an outfit COM
posed of horsy persons who have been
chucked out Of non-working, on-produc
ing occupations by the diligence Of the
governor In putting through his anti
betting campaign. and they wear their
Personal Liberty buttons just as bold and
daring as can be. they do, and they
hold meetings ct which the question.
yelled. Is asked over and over again.
"Wot's tn good Of a state were vouse
can't get no bet DOWN." and they think
they are cutting a very dickens Of a fig
ure in the equation OF political things.
These ere the people who have taken
up that old yowl for q separate state OF
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abnormal health. and then go ahead and
find out for myself how they measure up
physically.
mo longer ago than yesterday a
weakened but good-natured little man of
fifty or SO treated me to an exhibition Of
what l may term agreeable brass that
made it hard for me not to laugh right
in his teeth. He told me at the outset
that despite his rather poor color. which
of course I noticed at once, he was as
trig and right as a new red sled and al
ways had been.
Merely a matter Of form. doc, ex-
aiming me- he said to me in that breezy
way. The kind of health I tote around
with me always has been a source Of
scandal in my neighborhood. Never even
had growing pains when was a boy, nor
the earache. Poorly tough individual, me.
II you're asking me-
"Well, I hadn't had my ear on the left
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want and need it
" How often might that be-? I asked
him.
"'Oh. I don't keep track of my drinks.
he came back. faring a bit. I can drink
or leave it alone. Drink is nothing to me.
well, l felt in duty bound to tell
him then. you are to understand that /
speak purely in a professional sense. and
not of course. censoriously-that's out
SIDE my province. l am forced to tell
you. though, that you're in an extremely
bad way from liquor. Your kidneys. 1
Judge, are working under extreme pro-
test, and your liver is in a pretty leath-
cry condition. You have an excellent
chance to develop cirrhosls of the liver,
solely, of course. because of your excess
i've indulgence in alcohol
He was one of the angrest men I ever
examined. He claWed around and shook
his fist and asserted that no man could
declare him to be a drunkard and get
away with 1t. and when he reached his
top pitch of violence I simply walked
out Of the examination room and let him
have 1t to himself
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Some men who look as il they ought
to know better are more f1nical even than
women with respect to trivial defects
of their physical makeup. Last month
l examined a man of forty or SO who
at once approved himself to me as
good risk. He was quite unusually
sound In every particular, and. the main
examination over. 1 was winding up with
what we call the trimmings-the minor
points of the examination.
Kindly open your mouth as wide as
possible 1 requested him. desiring to
see his tonsils and such like. 1 could
see him stiffen under that request. and
I knew the reason why. I had seen as
soon as he entered the examination room
that he had a whole mouthful Of false
teeth, upper and lower rows, on plates
That was his sensitive point
whats my mouth got to do with
this eXamination?' he asked me, a bit
crisply.
II told him that the mouth screened
certain physiological devices and con-
traptionS that had to be passed upon by
a medical examiner.
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too bad to tote gum he said. "Stur-
gis had been everything about the west
and southwest-prospector, miner. freight
er. cow gouger-before I met up with him.
When I hit Creole and got a job with
him he had the only paper in the camp.
He was an understood man. but muscular.
lar.
only one of the bad gun people got
after Sturgis during the time I worked
for him. This a camp bully by the
name Of Tim Collins. Sturgis had known
Collins in Arizona and had his record pat
He didn't hesitate to spread the record
on the minutes either. Collins was doing
lot OF clain-jumping around Creole and
getting away with 1t on his reputation as
a gun fannist. There was lot of east
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wned women. Oh, it's the wholesome
tie old burg, good people!

gowned women. Oh, it's the wholesome
little old burg, good people!
THE funnyists hereabouts have coolies
of fun with the buyers from 1.-The
provinces" who get over here q couple of
times q year to purchase got<ls for their
firms. To read and listen to the foolish
observations made about this army of
some %, 900 buyers who strike New York
in the spring and autumn, you'd really
imagine that these buyers comprised one
great Reuben army Of yaps and hayseeds
That's the conventional way in New
York Of regarding them. and during the
buyers seasons here the New York papers
are cluttered with little fakerino yarns
designed to show that these shrewd peo-
pie from little places like Chicago and
Cleveland and Detroit and New Orleans
and ST. Paul and San Francisco and
Omaha and Washington and such like
pifflnS towns-that they're a tribe Of
bucolic jokes that don't know enough to
lower an umbrella in a typhoon. The
simple fact is, of course, that Manhattan
Island never by any chance shelters so
much brain matter as 1t does when these
picked buyers, men and women, drift
along to this town on their commercial
missions. and if New York could approx
mately find out just what the great ma
Jority Of these buyers think Of their town
1t is likely that they would feel of their
ears to find out where all the flame was
coming from.
One thing the buyers in New York
won't stand for Is imposition, and New
Workers themselves. as l have often
pointed out In this correspondence. fatten
on that stuff. 1 witnessed a little incl
dent the other night going to prove this.
certain theater on Long Acre square
has been giving show all summer that
would actually be dear at two bits per
seat in the best part of the house. to
and damned houses, at top prices
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side of him for more than two seconds
before I discovered that he had a heart
that did its work like a creaky windmill
and that stood quite still and skipped a
couple of beats just about whenever it
felt like it,
Kind of eccentric, that heart Of
yours told him.
"'Whose? Nine? said he. looking pro-
foundry puzzled My heart eccentric,
you say?'
"'Sure is told him. Decidedly &C.
centric. 1t lays off every little while and
forgets about its job. Been that way
long?'
doc, you amaze me- exclaimed the
little man. You sure amaze me. 1 am
shocked. I honest am shocked. My heart
eccentric? Most astonishing thing I ever
heard in my life!
Honestly, he was so tremendously In
earnest about it that couldn't determine
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THERE are several men who closely
resemble or who are said to resemble
William Jennings Bryan. One of them is
Charles B. Hanford, the actor who often
has been taken for the Peerless and an
other is Jack Nevin, newspaper man
from out of the west. who has been with
Mr.. Bryan since the Denver convention
and who is now travelling on his private
car, the Olvette. Nevin is about Mr.
Bryan's size. few years younger per-
haps. with the same general sort of a
countenance, the same kind of clothes
and the same kind Of hat Yet when
the two Of them are together there s
practically no resemblance at all except
In faint general way.
The point isn't whether Nevin looks a
great deal or just little like Mr.. Bryan;
1t Is simply that wherever he goes peo-
pie take him for Bryan. Over In Balti-
more just the other day Mr. Bryan.
with his party, was at one end of town
and had to get back in a hurry to his
private car, which was due to leave in a
few minutes. Nevin, wishing to econo-
mize time. left a few moments before
the rest Of the crowd, and, not being IA
miliar with Baltimore. he stepped up to