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Evening star., 1915-11-14
SUNDAY MAGAZINE for November IA, 1915

lSnneSS impaired Dy tneSe Sudden pronIS,
there could still be no doubt of his ingenu-
BUSINESS. He didn't embarrass the men
who had advised him--he didn't claim
any especial merit for catching his fish.
That was the beautiful, appealing feature
of it-he hadn't ceased to believe in the
sovereignty of luck. And even in COM
munity where financial modesty is one of
the last virtues to flourish he never as
sumed or imagined that he was clever.
: But the possession of resources had its
effect upon him, nevertheless. When he
played golf in these days, he tipped his
faithful caddie a quarter instead of fifteen
cents; and when he said good night to
Helen Haynes he held her hand a full
second longer than the conventional The
arrogance of the rich!
LIE had set his heart upon a quarter
- million. That together with his salary
downtown, he thought might do for a
man of thirty or under. At least, they
could struggle along with it. He had
heard that one doesn't need to fear mat
rmony until after the third year of it;
and he hoped that three years would put
him beyond the necessity of living on a
bread-and-cheese income-in the mean
time, they might struggle along, provided
the bread were of the best grade obtain
able and the cheese were imported.
And so, when he was hardly more than
twenty-eight, when he was utterly un-
conscious of anything remarkable in his
accomplishments was so young that
he rather expected nice things to fall into
his lap by sheer force of gravity,-when
he was entirely unappreciative Of the fact
that six per cent. on his original invest
ment was all that he had right or reason
to anticipate, he went into Coppers. He
went into it with both feet which is to
fifty thousand. He needed ninety to
complete his quota. And that night up
at the Haynes house, he told Helen that
he was tottering on the very threshold of
triumph.
"Oh, that's NIGEL" she said. "What is it
this timer
Ewing shook his head.
dts too big to talk about. You see,
I've got some absolutely confidential in
formation, and | can't afford to have
it leak out. Everybody in Kenilworth
would try to get in on it, and then
nothing would happen. That's the way
those things work. But if l have any
luck"
The next morning Coppers were up an
eighth, and Ewing wrote another check.
"The markets steady, isn't it?" he
asked flaming.
STEADY" said Tanning. ats asleep!"
But Coppers advanced a quarter, and
Ewing wrote a third check Rumors of a
general bear movement were common;
but Coppers fought up another eighth,
and Ewing bought seventeen hundred and
eight shares on the usual margin. That
left him sixty dollars in the bank-he
could have carried six more shares, of
course, but he was always conservative.
He realized how important it is to carry
a balance in the bank.
1t must have interested him to note
how he had come to pose as mascot.
People-some of them-actually cred
tied him with the inside knowledge he
was so fond of talking about. He could
almost have charged a commission for a
chance suggestion. Tanning and Hen
derson and dozens of others, who had
1aorpoI of co,oo fr;u, ,ti/ oon, -, ,>ronoc,
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it to anybody"
For once, he had cast aside his old prin-
ciple of taking profit as soon as it was
apparent. He needed fve-polnt gain;
five little points stood between him and
the summit of his ambitions. His in
formation was excellent; the pool was in
cidental, but it ought to help him. The
break was due in not more than ten days,
two weeks at the latest; and after that
1t was during those two weeks that
Ewing neglected his Office duties for
the first and only time in his career. He
spent them in motoring around kenil-
worth with real-estate agent, and gath
ering together references and credentials
of the leading architects in New York and
vicinity. One of the architects, who had
friends in Kenilworth, said that Ewing
was the most innocent client he had ever
dreamed of. He had inquired whether it
would be ethical to hold a competition
for house that couldn't possibly cost
more than twenty-five or thirty thousand
dollars, including the plumbing.
And when Coppers advanced two
points, and then two more, Ewing stopped
looking at plots of limited extent, and
began to consider the desirability Of ex-
pert landscaping. You see, if the pool
really got behind Coppers, and showed as
hard as they knew how, the movement
might not peter out so soon-and Ewing
might have half million.
OF course, every one knew that some
violent activity in the market might be
looked for; else why did Mr.. Haynes,
who had practically retired from the
Street, begin to take the 7.56 to town
every morning, and stay in late at night?
And why did all the others complain so
bitterly if breakfast weren't ready at
least half an hour earlier than it had ever
been ready before? Ewing was the only
placid fnancier in Kenilworth-and he
had more at stake than all the Others put
together.
Why, on the day Of the Copper panic,
when the Exchange was a solid mass of
raving, disheveled maniacs, Ewing was
poking around the hills with his real-estate
man, no more concerned about his quarter
million, or his half, than if he had inher-
tied it overnight, and had utilized every
cent of it in those ridiculously unproduc-
tive government bonds-as if any one
ever became rich and married an angel on
three per cent.
FWING got back to the Inn at four
o'clock, sunburnt and happy. Under
the door of his room he found at least
twenty kilograms and telephone slips
from his brokers; and, without waiting
to read them through, he jerked the re-
ceiver from the hook and called New
York. His face was radiant; it was the
face of man in that rare and exquisite
moment when success is certain and
prodigious, and yet when the last word
of verifcaton is still to be uttered. And
after he got the brokers on the wire, and
talked with them two or three hectic
minutes, he went to the window and
stared out over the hills of Kenilworth as
if he had never noticed them before
Then, because his youth hadn't quit him
without reserve, he changed perfectly
adequate tie for one almost exactly like
it, and went up to tell Helen.
"Why, ThaXter!" she cried. al haven't
seen you for weeks!"
"No,' he said unsteadily; "I've been
pretty busy lately"
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the world as it comes-untl it comes ad-
versely, and then to take it fighting.
"Thaxter!' she said, with sharp intake
of her breath.
He gestured, palms upward, toward the
sky.
"All gone!"
He turned aside, and then, because he
retained boys horror of appearing the
atrical or stricken in defeat, he returned
to meet her eyes.
"The whole thing he said. "They-
they just managed to catch it, If | hadn't
been lucky, Id be hit harder stil-the
market broke four or five points more
afterwards. When it's all cleared up,
commissions and interest and all, may
have hundred dollars coming to me-not
much more than that, anyway. thought
I'd better come up and tell you before any
body else told you"
"All gone!' she whispered duly.
"Oh, it's all part of the game
"But-nOw-"
Now" he said. "Why-nothing.
"Isn't there-couldn't there be "a
mistaken" ,-..
Hardly" he said, with sudden huski-
ness. al just came up to tell you. 1t was
a beautiful dream while it lasted"
"Isn't any of the-dream left, either?n
"How could there be? I've made such
fool of myself! Your father and Hen
derson and lots of the fellows said |
should, and ! hare. No; and because it
isn't likely that We'll see so very much of
each other for a while"
"Don't!" she gasped. "Thaxter! Don't
be-silly!"
"Silly!" he echoed as it silly to realize
where | stand nom1"
Family, as if from a great distance she
heard herself saying: "But are you sure
you knoU where you stand?"
The blood sank from his cheeks.
"Helen!' he said thickly. "You don't
underestimate
"Y-yes, do!'
"But it's been year-and I'm in ex-
actly the same place
pose l do now?"
Through the murk of his slaughtered
hopes he caught at the incredible, dazzling
truth.
"Why, Helen!' he stammered aWould
it have been-any use to ask you henp'
Breathless, she nodded. Ewing, his
eyes very wide, came a step closer to her
"And you know how poor l am? And
we'd have toto live on what | have?
Nothing but my salary-and- and one
little thousand dollars | put away for in
cidentals? You know that?'
Again she nodded. Ewing held out his
arms.
ooh, my dear!" he said brokenly "If
I'd only known"
SHORTLY before dinner time Mr..
Haynes, who had five or fifteen or fifty
millions, I've forgotten which, tore up to
the entrance portico of his four hundred
thousand dollar estate in twelve thou
sand dollar English touring-car, and dis
missed a chauffeur who got forty dollars
a week.
In the hallway he was met by two rap
turous young people who weren't thinking
of currency.
"WeU,' said Mr.. Haynes briskly. at
was some day! Coppers-on the short
side. There's life in the old dog yet. We
netted hundred and fifty thousand
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Hell, DecduSe Ills yOuOi IduI quiz MIN
without reserve, he changed perfectly
adequate tie for one almost exactly like
it, and went up to tell Helen.
"Why, ThaXter!" she cried. al haven't
seen you for weeks!"
"No,' he said unsteadily; "I've been
pretty busy lately" b,
"You've been working too hard; you
look tired out"
al am; but it's all over now."
Although the expression was equivocal
she seemed to sense its meaning; a little
glow of color irradiated her cheeks, and
as suddenly died away.
"Really2" she faltered.
Hadn't you heard?"
"Heard what?"
"'rhe market"
al knew there was something important
-daddy's limited at it; but"
"The bottom fell out of it early this
afternoon. / was looking at some land up
near the golf club, or they might have
reached me-"
He smiled at her-the raw, unhumorous
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In the hallway he was met by two rap
turous young people who weren't thinking
of currency.
"WeU," said Mr.. Haynes briskly. at
was some day! Coppers-on the short
side. There's life in the old dog yet. We
netted a hundred and fifty thousand"
At mention of the short side Ewing's
jaw dropped. For the first time since the
revelation, he saw that he might have
been fighting against too great odds. Rec
ollections of the pool, of the foreboding
rumors, of Mr.. Haynes quondam interest
in metallurgical securities, flooded him;
and he perceived, as in flash of lightning,
that he had lost what Mr.. Haynes had
won. 1t wasn't matter to laugh at, of
course; still, when you come to consider
the irony of it
But Helen was already laughing.
"What's the idea?" demanded her
father jocosely. "Isnt it enough?'
al don't care" said Helen recklessly.
"Thaxter's got thousand, daddy
Thaxter's got whole thousand!'
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1915-08-05
Continued on page 81

great question to the will of the
people? This is the very essence
of true Democracy. For con-
venience we adopted a represen-
tat've government, but the pow
er to govern is vested in the
hands of the people, through
their representatives.
Mr.. McChesney. if he should
be elected Governor Of Kentucky,
(and | hope he will) does not
propose to force prohibition on
Kentucky. He only proposes to
submit the question to a vote Of
the qualified voters of Kentucky
and let the will of the people de-
eide the question. This is in
perfect accord with the Divine
plan of salvation. God, has
through His great love for man
provided the plan. but left it to
mans will to accept the plan or
reject it. Choose you this day
whom ye will serve. o. Jerusa-
lem, Jerusalem: how often would
| have gathered thy children to-
! gether, even as hen gathereth
her chickens under her wings.
but We would not" D"
| cannot see how any good
| christian Democrat can look in
: face or the principles, or doctrine
= advocated by Mr. McChesney
+, and vote against him. This is
e the way | see it, but the reader
must open his eyes and see for
q himself. He cannot see with his
|, eyes shut.
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1915-08-05
SENATOR OLLIE
N. JAMES
Takes His Stand Squarely For
County Unit and Against
State Wide

Senator Ollie M. James. who
came-to Louisville Wednesday,
gave out q statement last night
in which he declares his opposi-
ton to Statewide. prohibition
as undemocratic" in that it
denies local self.government
to the people Of the State"
Il believe the Democratic
party" he says should declare
in favor of the continuance and
strict enforcement of the exist
ing county unit law. | hope
that no Democrat will. by his
vote, directly or indirectly do
snything to force upon our party
a declaration in favor of State
wide prohibition.
Senator James statement in
full is as follows:
Il am greatly interested in
seeing the Democratic party
victorious in the coming contest
for the control of the affairs of
our State for the next four years.
For US to be defeated in this
contest would not only entail
upon our people the blight of
disagreement. which has al
ways followed Republican rule
but it would make doubtful the
State of Kentucky in the greater
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1915-08-05
Continued on page 81
THE WAY | SEE 1T.

By Rev. James S. Chandler OF
Auburn Logan County, Ky,
father of Rev. James A. Chand-
Ter Pastor of'the M. E. Church
Of this city.
In the Courier Journal notice
that the editor. posing as a
Judge both Of politics and relig.
ion, has said time and again,
that mo man can be a democrat
and a prohibitionist." He also
has said that no man can be a
Christian and a prohibitionist. "
| can see that a man cannot affil-
late with, and vote the ticket Of
both these parties at the same
time, or in the same election.
and this may be what Mr.. Wat
terson meant by his assertion,
but when / consider the princi,
Piles involved in these charges,
think just the reverse is true. NJ
true Christian can be opposed t
the prohibition OF any great evil
The Bible is full of prohibition
Thou shalt, and thy sh' It not ar
Bible terms. The first is com
pulsatory and the second is pro
' hibitory. The truth is. nearly a
e of our laws, whether found i
the Bible or our statutes, ar
: either prohibitory or compulsa
tory. Some laws are permissiyC
7 but these do not have the fore
5 of compulsion and prohibition.
i How can a true christian, or
true Democrat or a true Repul
hcan vote against submitting an
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1915-08-05
TO THE Dem.
OCRA7|C VOTERS
OF Criitenden County. Editorial
Comment On Article By
Judge Thomas

The PRESS desires to add one
word relative to the race now on
bSween Judge C. S. Num-,
Judge ]. F. Gordon and Mr.. Gus
Thomas, of Graves county, Dem
ocratic candidates for the nomi.
nation for the Court of Appeals
bench.
1t seems that Mr.. Gus Thomas
has feeling in his bones that
Crittenden county has gobbled
all the fat Offices within the gift
Of the Democratic votes of tht
First District from the dim anC
misty past up to and including
the present writing. His wal
and complaint is heard on every
hand. Some papers of his are
Il
full of it. The editors seem Il
spend their time looking u
favorite sons, and every mother
son of them are saddled on Crit
tenden county. Listen to this
will you. This is Judge Thoma
speaking in tn e "Callowa
Times. l."
Notwithstanding this tn
County Of Crittenden has recei,
: ed more public patronage, bot
Federal and State, than an
other county in all Western Ker
lucky, and perhaps more tina
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1915-08-05
Lee GIBSON
CANDIDATE FOR
The Deroeralie Nomination For
Circuit Judge In This District,
Replies To Judge Blue

Mr.. Blue and | have been
speaking together in various
parts Of this judicial district for
for three weeks. and he has
been saying in his speaches |
was a gentleman and a pleasant
running mate. and IL | was sue
cessful In defeating him for this
nomination he and his friends
would cheerfully support me.
He now comes in the closing
days OF this campaign and by
insinuations and innuendoes.
cowardly always and never man.
ly. seeks to oshow | am unworthy
Of the high Office | seek. Mr..
Blues letter Is the act Of an
old time political trickster. II
am not worthy. It was his duty
TO tell the people and state facts
showing nv unworthiness and
give me an opportunity to defend
myself when face to face with
him.
The only promises | have mad,
in this campaign to any person
are those made in every public
speech; that is, ! would enforc,
all the laws; treat the rich anC
poor alike. and give every mar
a fair and impartial trial, ant
know no man or set of mel
while discharging my publ,
duties.
Like MIR. Blue, | have Away
]
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1915-08-05
enquirer SAYS
STANLEY WILL WIN.
His Long Brilliant Battle For The
Farmers And Lsborers
Bears Fruit.

Estimates from each OF the 100
counties in the State on the Gov
ernor's race in the Democratic
primary, made to Tom Cromwell,
Kentucky political correspondent
of the Cincinnati Enquirer. who
conducted a political canvass of
Kentucky. shows a plurality of
over 10000 for A. o. Stanley
over H. V. McChesney for the
nomination. The totals are Stan-
ley. 95. 5.l35; kcChesney. 74.75U:
McDermott 2S.435; Bosworth,
Lass. The figures show that
Stanley will get approximately
as per cent. Of the total vote II
be cast and that he is fully IL
per cent. stronger than McChes.
ney. He will. according to the
representations made to the
writer by knowing men in each
of the counties, carry eighty
three counties. as against thirty
one for McChesney.
One county each is given L
McDermott (Jefferson) and Bos
worth lCaldwell). In Estil
county Boswortn is given an ever
break with Stanley. and in Har
rison, Floyd and Magoflin coun
ties Stanley and McChesney ar,
considered by the estimators 4
be of about equal strength.
In every congressional distric
unless the figures are very mucl
awry, Stanley will have a plural
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1915-08-05
MRS. D. c.
ROBERTS DEAD
Wife OF Well Known Mining Man
And Mother OF Councilman
George P. Roberts.

A message was received In
this city Thursday morning July
18th. conveying the news Of the
sudden death at Idylwild Pines.
Michigan, of Mrs. Rebecca Win
slow Roberts, wife of D. C. Rob.
erts the well known mining ex.
/ pert and mother of Councilman
George P. Roberts the head Of
the Roberts Mining and Milling
90. Of this city. The cause of
her demise was Nephritis with
which she had been afflicted for
some time. She was in her usual
health otherwise and was talking
and joking with her grandson
Kenneth Kimpton only a few
moments before she went to
aleep."
| The stricken husband went to
| Michigan for the beloved re-
mains which he accompanied to
this city arriving here at II
O'clock Sunday morning. The
funeral service was conducted
b. Rev. H. V. Escott at the
residence of her son G. P. Rob
erts on Walker street at foul
O'Clock Sunday afternoon. ant
the interment Immediately after
ward at the New Cemetery ant
the new made mound was cover
ed with flowers, tokens of low,
and respect from friends her
and elsev here.
The deceased is survived b
her husband and three children
George P. Roberts Of this city
Mrs E. G. Kimpton of Chicag
e and Mrs. Angus S. Williams O
S Wilbur. Washington.
Il Rebecca Winslow Roberts. Dor
= at Brewster, Massachusetts, Oct
o ober oath. 1874. Married Ma
II 9th. 1866 at her home. Her al
p cestors on the maternal sid
e landed at Plymoth, Mass. in l61
e on the ship Ann. the thir
II vessel bringing what are know
1t as the Pilgrims Of Plymouth. Q
6 the fathers side her forbea
ID were Hugenots whose coat
ID arms were a Moors head wi
~ the usual accompaniments. Co
" firmed by Bishop Doane of 4
ID diocese Of Albany N, Y. she W
to through life a devoted Churc
y, woman. (EpiscopaD The h
tory of Massachusetts Bay nj
called Massachusetts Is repl'
j. with the memories Of her fami
" the Winslows. Mrs. Robe
was a refined sweet characr
and was beloved by her frier
Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1915-08-05
AM NFAVOR Of GIVING THE PEOPLE A CHANGE tn
VOTE ON STATE wide PROHIBITION, HARRY VI .WCHESNEY.
CHALLENGE TO
SENATOR JAMES
To Debate On The Subject, Nation
And Statewide
Prohibition. =
(To the Editor OF the Courier
Iournal.)

(To the Editor OF the Courier
Journal
The question OF prohibition is to
the iront-it will not down. Let
no one expect to put quietus on
the liquor war. II will not end so
long as a drunkard breaks his
mothers heart, drags wife down
to poverty and misery, or dram
shop disgraces civilization. Our
friends who are engaged in the
manufacture and sale OF intoxicat.
ing liquors had as we'll make up
their minds now 10 seek worthier
! employment. Their trade is an
outlaw, though legal, as Judge
Artman has well labeled it, The
Legalized Outlaw" 1t Aourishes
on human depravity and human
weakness. Its patrons, like the
flies that patronize Ay traps, and
the mice that seek their food d
mouse traps, are its victims. Th'
law OF God, the mandate OF reason
and the demands OF enlightened
and progressive civilization hav'
united to decree the overthrow Q
king Booze, and even now hi
throne iotiers to its fall. Civil
ization must be preserved -ur
must be overthrown.
Let me give a few reasons VIII
. ! reject the overtures oi the dis
tillers. and say boldly in the nam
OF Kentucky's homes, and ker
tucky's honor the rum power sha
be pulverized.
; FIRST - LIQUOR BUSHES
], DOES NO GOOD.
No institution is entitled to Il
protection OF the stars and strip,
7 that does not benefit the homes
. the land. The saloon, the brey
cry, the distillery, can make
] plea for mercy on the score
=. human upliit. Every liquor she
4 in Kentucky. in the nation, in Il
l world. might be sunk into Il
y ocean this day, and no moth
8 would gather her children abo
q her knee and recount the noble re
q ords OF its past. None such cou
n look up into the face OF God a,
ask, "Why have YOU taken aw
Q my noble friend, my help my ST
" in righteousness'" The wo'
= might consign its liquor trade
4 the flames tomorrow, and lose Il
n a iarthing's value in all that max
d ior human uplilt, Tor moral, int
= lectual and even material heti
ment.
- Ii does no good.
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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1915-12-30
AWFUL. ~ TRUE.

TT THE following Statement, from
a Carlsbad newspaper is correct Il
a would seem hat our intelligen.
state corporation commission, over
worked as u is. might turn It's at.
tention for a brief time TO the sItua.
tion outlined. Here Is the statement
The sleeping cars that arrive
In Carlsbad on belated trains
from the north are never fumi-
gated and frequently babies and
delicate. ladies are compelled TO
sleep in berths occupied on the
same day by consumptives and
tuberculosis infected people com
ing 70 this land Of sunshine. At
would seem that the etnrn OF
Pullmans on the same day might
be obyiated and the cars fumi-
gated. Il would be but little
more expense 10 the railway or
the Pullman company and might
save many "a life, II this state
were TeSas-but. it is not