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BARON TO ENTER UNDER BOND.
Banker Oppenheim's Case " lie
Farther Investigated.

Notwithstanding orders issued yester-
day by the Immigration Bureau In Wash
lngton for the release of Baron Robert
T.. O~ppenheim, a French banker, the
Baron slept again last night at Ellis
Island.
What the Baron IL alleged TO have
done to incur the charges of moral turpi-
tude, on which The immigration authorl-
ties held him en- his arrival here, re-
manned as much of "a mystery as ever.
The release of the laron Will have a
string to II. for he will he placed under
bond OF $1,000 for three months pending
n further Investigation OF the charges.
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The future course OF action Of Honora
May O'Brien. tho young woman who
was Tilted by John B, Manning. the
aged millionaire. will he determined at
an O'nrien family conference to he held
In the Office Of counsel, John J. Rooney,
to-day. Miss O'Brien's brother will re-
turn this morning from his home In
Newport.
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|ORYAN FOR FORCED
SER VICE IN GUARD
Commander Of N. Y. Militia,
Here From Border, Says
Troops Proved Efficiency.
UNIVERSAL TRAINING o. X.
Criticism Of State SOldiery Tn
justified I'm View Of Facts.
Says General.

Major-Gen. John F. Organ Is In
IA cor Of universal compulsory military
service. but believes the National Guard
should be the medium through which
that service In enforced. While he vas
not prepared to align himself with
Major-Gen. Leonard Wood In the idea hat
six months intensive mandatory train
ing for boys just out Of high school was
the solution OF this country's prepared
ness problem. Gen. O'Ryan did express
the opinion that the National Guard
hould be recruited from boys OF hat
age. and that the service should be made
obligatory.
Always the champion OF the National
Guard. Gen. Organ declared yesterday
that the Guard had demonstrated It's
and that the criticisms Of 1t were u~pjusti-
fed in view of the facts. lie arrived
here from the border yesterday noon
with his SAT-.
mar showed Its Proficiency.
Among the officers who came with him
were Lieut.-Col. Henry s.. Terriberry,
chief surgeon Lieut.. col Henry 3.
Sternberger. Lieut. Col. Francis Mccain,
Lieut.. Col. !. Leslie kincaid. Majors Ed
ward Olmstead. Allen l.. Reagan. Fred
erick NJ. Waterbury, Edward II. Maloney
and w. ii. steers. Capt. James L. Loree
n Lieut.. Robert II. Molyneaux.
The stories that tho National Guard
Ia "A failure are all pure nonsense" Gen,
organ said yesterday. Officers OF the
regular army who saw the work OF the
New York troops on the border mar.
yelled AT our proficiency. The New York
troops were the best on the border. and
I confess that even I was surprised AT
the high degree Of their training, ! was
greatly surprised to learn that state
nen,s rejecting dlscredit on their work
had been made In Washington.
at must be borne in mind that the
National Guard that went to the border
was the product Of the old Dick bill and
was not organized under the new Hay
law. We did not feet he effect Of the
new Law al all while w were on the
border.
Under the old law there were IA many
standards as there were states. The Q
law makes for a uniform service and in
creased efficiency. and under 1t the Guard
IL just entering upon a degree of greater
usefulness.
And I am not one OF those who be
lieye that on account OF the new law and
the tour OF duty on the border recruitins
In the National Guard is Killed. II (,
true that some OF the older men may moi
ieenlist, but the young men OF the coun'
try will map their course from the opin'
ion Of the ninety ana nine contentet
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In the industrial shares trading con
tinued furious throughout the afternoon
session. with declines all but continuous.
T. was only In the last few minutes that
amy rally at all set IN. and that rally.
due to professional trading as much az
10 banking support or bargain hunting,
carried stocks only slightly above the
low prices of the day.
The tape ran far behind the market.
At the end OF the first hour. not
FAR from 300, 900 sharcs changed hands.
he ticker in the office was a fun hair
hour behind the market on the floor.
although no attention VAS paid by the
Stock Exchange reporters TO odd lots.
stop loss orders or bonds. The gong
sounded on the exchange at ? o'clock a.
usual, but the stock market did not close
IN the brokerage offices until ais. and
the ticker did not cease reporting bonds
uhtil forty-e'ght minutes after the clos
Ing hour Of the exchange.
After the tardy ticker had reported
the last transaction II was shown that
the losses In active industrials ranged
from ~ TO l5a = points on the day. But
the day was only an incident In the re-
adjustment OF the stock market to peace
conditions. That REIMBURSEMENT really
began on December II, which was the
morning Of the publication Of the Ger.
man peace note.
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Producers IIIt Hard.

The great majority Of them who sold,
according to heads OF half a dozen big
commission houses, were men who were
not forced out Of the market, hut who
wanted to keep part of tho profits they
had gained from previous speculation
There were. of course, thousands of GUS
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The following tab!" shows the high
prices on December q, which was the
market session before the German peace
note. the closing ~ Yesterday. N" losses
since December 9 and the net losses ycs-
terday
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Due TO Lnnsing's words.

The prevailing argument. then. va
that IL this country was In n uarlous
position with the principal belligerents.
AS Secretary Lansing was reported az
saying, all securities were a sale. There
was also selling OF the rails in a sym
pathetic movement. Customers VINO
we're hard put to It to carry ~favorite In
dus,rial stocks parted with some OF their
good rails to ret the money.
At the close the records SHOVE
greater declines In railroad shares than
on any other day Of the bcarish market
following the publication of the German
peace note last week Monday. such
losses were sustained as follows: Atchi-
son. PA Baltimore and Ohio. 2'a.
Canadian Pacific. a. Chesapeake and
Ohio. a. st. Paul, "A Rock Island.
5N Denver preferred. 8; Great North
ern. ga I.ehigh Valley. .: Missouri.
Kansas and Texas preferred. 3; Mis-
souri, Pacific. 2as New York Central.
3ts New Haven. IA Pennsylvania.
- Reading, 5A Southern Pacific. Pc f;
Southern Railway. , Inion Pacific. AZ.
The decline la Union Pacific was the
more noteworthy because II followed the
declaration OF a . per cent. dividend IN
addition TO the regular . per cent. quar-
terly.
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WALL ST. HARD hit
BY SELLING WAVE
Continued from First Page.

Wall Street who recalled Lloyd Georges
ringing speech and continued to con-
strue that address as meaning a rom
~tinuation OF the war until n decisive vic
tory guaranteed a just and lasting peace
TO the Entente forces.
The force OF their buying brought
about fair ~recoveries from the low prices
until the news tickers reported Secre-
tary of state Lansing as declaring that
the United States had been placed In a
position threatening belllgerency and
that none Of the belligerent nations had
been sounded by either the President or
the state department before the pub
LEGATION of the Presidents request for
peace terms.
A wave Of selling as violent as In the
early trading again swept over the mar
ket. and carried all stocks down to new
low prices. steel common sold down "a
1OON, "a loss Of ~ points from Wednes-
days closing. In other industrials there
were even more drastic declines. This
selling movement extended to the rail.
road shares, which in the morning had
held up much better than most OF the
industriais. with some OF them. Union
Pacific. for instance. showing at tunes
gains over Wednesdays closing.
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Il The Turmoil
81 BOOTH HARRINGTON

The room to which he conducted his
tagging charge was furnished in every
particular like a room in a new hotel;
and Bibbs found 1t pleasant-though,
indeed, any room with a good bed
would have seemed pleasant to him
after his journey. He stretched him
self fat Immediately, and having re-
piled mot now" to the attendants
offer to unpack the bag, closed his eyes
wearily.
White jacket, racially sympathetic,
lowered the window shades and made
an exit on tiptoe, encountering the
other white jacket-the harassed over
seer--in the hall without. Said the
emerging one:
"He mighty shaky, Mist Jackson.
Drop right down an shet his eyes.
Eyelids all black. Rich folks gotta go
same as anybody else. Anybody ast
me IL change 18th at ole boy-No
sub! Lem keep Is money; keon my
black skin an keep out the ground!
Mr.. Jackson expressed the same
preference. "Yessuh, he look tub me
like somebody awready laid out"
He fell silent at rustling of skirts
in the corridor. 1t was Mrs. Sheridan
hurrying to greet her son.
She was one OF those fat, pink people
who fade and contract with age like
drying fruit; and her outside was q
true portrait OF her. Her husband and
her daughter had long ago absorbed
her. Edith lived all day with hei
mother, as daughters do; and Sheridan
so held his wife to her unity with hin
that she had long ago become uncon
scious of her existence as a thing sep
arate from his.
Mrs. Sheridan's manner was hurried
and inconsequent; her clothes rustle(
more than other women's clothes; sh'
seemed to wear too many at a tim,
and to be vaguely troubled by them
and she was patting a skirt down owe
some unruly internal dissension at tn,
moment she opened Bibbs' door.
At sight of the recumbent figure sh
began to close the door softly, with
drawing, but the young man had hear,
the turning Of the knob and the rus
ting of skirts, and he opened his eyes
"Don't go, mother" he said. "I'n
not asleep" He swung his long leg
over the side Of the bed to rise, bu
she set a hand on his shoulder, re
straining him; and he lay fat again.
"No," she said, bending over to kis
his cheek, 81 Just come for a minute
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CHAPTER ~.

Mr.. Vertrees, having watched their
departure with the air of NAN who
had something at hazard upon die ex-
pedltion, turned from the window
and began to pace the library thought
fully, pending their return. He was
about sixty; a small man, withered
and dry and fine, trim little sketch
of the elderly dandy. His lambre-
quin mustache, like his smooth hair,
was approaching an equally sheer
whiteness; and though his clothes were
old, they had shapeliness and a flavor
of mode.
The room was cheerful and hideous.
Under mantel OF imitation black
marble a merry little coal fire beamed
forth upon high and narrow "Eastlake'
bookcases with long glass doors, com
Portable, incongruous furniture, half a
dozen Landseer engravings which Mr..
and Mrs. Yertrees sometimes men
toned to each other, after thirty years
Of possession, as ''very fine things"
They had been the first people In town
to possess Landseer engravlngs, and
there, in art, they had rested, but they
still had feeling that in all such mat
ters they were in the van.
The growth Of the city, which might
easily have made Mr.. Vertrees a mil.
llonaire, had ruined him because he
had failed TO understand 1t. When
towns begin to grow they have whlms
and the whims OF town always ruin
somebody. The dainty little man was
one of the first to fall down and wor
ship Bigness. He was a true prophet
of the prodigious growth, but he had q
fatal gift for selling good and buying
bad. He sold his inherited office build
ing and house in town to buy lots
then he sold his farm, except the house
and the ground about 1t, to pay take;
| on the lots. But he had to do some
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but I want to see how you seem. Edith
said"
Poor Edithp' he murmured. "She
couldn't look at me. She"
"Nonsensew Mrs. Sheridan. having
let in the light at a window came back
to the bedside. "You look a great
deal better than what you did before
you went to the sanitarlum, anyway.
It's done you good a body can see that
right away. You need fattlng up, of
course, and you haven't got much
color"
"No,' he said, "I haven't much
color"
"You look a great deal better than
what | expected"
Edith must have a great vocabu-
laryw he chuckled.
"She's too sensitive" said Mrs. Sher-
idan, "and 1t makes her exaggerate a
little. What about your diet?"
That's all right They told me to
eat anything"
THAT'S good" she said, nodding
''They mean for you just to build up
your strength. That's what they told
me the last time went to see you al
the sanitarium. You look better than
what you did then, and that's only a
little time ago. How long was itr
Eight months, ] think"
"No, II couldn't be. l know II aim
that long, but maybe It was longer 4
! thought. And this last month or %
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CHAPTER ii-contInued.

"Oh, he's a friend OF the whole fam
fly," she returned, with a petulance
which she made no effor. to disguise.
Roscoe and he got acquainted some
where. and they take him to the the
ater about every night. Sibyl has him
to lunch, too, and keeps" She
broke Off with an angry little jerk of
the head. 1--WE can see the new house
from the second corner ahead. Roscoe
has built straight across the street
from us, you know. Honestly, Slbyl
makes me think of snake, sometimes
the way she pulls the wool over
peoples eyes! She honeys up to papa
and gets anything in the world she
wants out OF him, and then makes fun
of him behind his back-yes, and to
his face, but he can't see It'll She got
him to give her n twelve-thousand-
dollar porch for their house after it
was"
Good heavensv' said Bibbs, staring
ahead as they reached the corner and
the car swung to the right, following
a bend in the street. "Is that the new
house?"
Yes. What do you think Of it?"
SWELL" he drawled, "I'm pretty sure
the sanitarium's about half a size big.
ger; can't be certain till measure u
And a moment later, as they entered
the driveway, he added, seriously:
"But It's beautifulw
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1915, BY Harper a Brothers)

window and paid himself the dubious
tribute OF thorough inspection.
Throughout this cryptic seance his
manner was profoundly impersonal,
but finally he appeared to become pes
simistlc. He shook his head solemnly;
then gazed again and shook his head
again, and continued TO shake II slow
ly, in complete disapproval.
"You certainly are one horrible
sight" he said, aloud.
And at that he was instantly aware
OF an observer. Turning quickly. he
was vouchsafed the picture OF charm
ing lady, framed in a rustic aperture
Of the summer house" and staring full
into his window-straight into his eyes,
second before the fashlngly censorlous
withdrawal of her own. Composedly,
she pulled several dead twigs from a
vine. her action conveying n procla-
nation to the effect that she was in
the summer house for the sole purpose
ofysuchlike pruning and tending.
Having pulled enough twigs to EN-
phasize her nconsciousness-and at
the same time her dlsapproval-of ev.
erything In the nature of Sheridan
or belonging to Sheridan, she de
scended the knoll with maintained
composure, and sauntered toward O
side door of the country mansion OF
the vertreeses. An elderly lady. bon
neted and cloaked, opened the door ant
came to meet her.
"Are you ready, Mary7 I've beer
looking for you. What were you do
ingT"
Nothing. Just looking into one o
Sheridans' windows" said Mary Yer
trees. ~ got caught at It,"
"Maryw cried her mother. "Just a
we were going to call! Good heavens!'
even go, just the same," the daugh
ter returned. IL suppose those womei
would be glad to have us IL we,
burned their house to the ground"
But who saw your" insisted Mrs
vertrees.
zone OF the cons, suppose he was
believe he's insane, or something. A
least l hear they keep him in san
tarium somewhere, and never tai
about him. He was staring at himsel
In a mirror and talking to himself
Then he looked out and caught me-"
"How did he lookf"
. "Like ghost In a blue suit" sal
Miss vertrees, moving toward til
, street and waving a whlte-gloved han
. in farewell to her father, who was oil
serving them from the window of hi
library. Rather tragic and altogethe
: impossible. Do come on, mother, an
let's get 1t overv'
And Mrs. Yertrees, with many mil
givlngs, set forth with her daughte
; for the gracious assault upon the me-
, house next door.
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CHAPTER III.

It was gray stone, with long roofs
Of thick green slate. An architect who
loved the milder Gothic motives" had
built what he liked: 1t was to be seen
at once that he had been left unham-
pered, and he had wrought a picture
out OF his head into a noble and ex-
ultant reality. At the same time a
landscape designer had played so good
a second, with ready-made accessories
of screen, approach and vista, that al
ready whatever look of newuess re-
manned upon the place was to its ad-
vantage, as showing at least one thing
yet clean under the grimy sky.
Altogether, the new house was sue
cess. 1t was one Of those architects
successes which leave the owners
yelled in privacy; 1t revealed nothing
of the people who lived in 1t save that
they were rich. In our swelling cities
rich families, one after another, take
title and occupy such houses as for
tunes rise and fall-they mark the
ine child's toy wagon left upon a
walk or driveway of the new house,
and yet II was-as Bibbs rightly called
it-"beautiful."
What the architect thought Of the
"Golfo di Napoli," which hung in its
vast gold revel of rocco frame against
the gray wood of the hall, is to be con-
jectured-perhaps he had not seen 1t.
Edith, did you say only eleven
feet?" Bibbs painted, staring at 1t, as
the te-jacketed twin Of Pullman
porter helped him to get out of his
overcoat.
Eleven without the frame" she ex.
planned. Its splendid, don't you
think? It lightens things up so. The
hall was kind Of gloomy before"
"No gloom noww said Bibbs.
"Thls statue In the corner is pretty
too" she remarked. Mamma and
bought that And Bibbs turned al
her direction to behold, amid grove
of tubbed palms, "life-size," black
bearded Moor, OF a plastic composition
painted with unappeasable gloss and
brilliancy. Upon his chocolate head he
wore a gold turban; In his hand he
held a gold-tipped spear; and for the
rest, he was red and yellow and black
and silver.
"Hallelujahw was the sole comment
of the returned wanderer, and Edith
saying she would "find mamma" lef
him blinking at the Moor. Presently
after she had disappeared, he turned
TO the colored man who stood waiting
Bibbs' travelling bag in his hand
"What do you think of it?" Bibb!
asked, solemnly.
"Gran'v replied the servltor. ash,
mighty hard to dus'. Dus' git in al
'em wrinkles. Yessuh, she mighty har(
to dus'."
IL expect she must be-" said. Bibbs
his glance returning rehectively to tn,
black full beard for a moment. IL
there a place anywhere could Ii
DOWN."
"Yessuh. We got one mem spar
rooms all fix up TO- you, sub. Righ
up staihs, sub. Nice room"
He led the way, and Blbbs followe,
slowly, stopping at intervals to rest
and noting a heavy increase in tn
staff Of service since the exodus fron
the "old" house. Maid and scrub
women were at work under the pa
tently nominal direction OF anothe
Pullman porter, who was profoundl
enjoying his own affectation of bein
harassed with care.
"Ev'ything got look spick an spa
To- the big doin's tonight" Bibbi
guide explained. chuckling. "Yessui
we got big doin's tonight! Big doin's!
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age somehow" according 70 his concep-
ton Of his position In lIfe"-one Of his
own old-fashioned phrases. Mr.. Yer
trees had discovered. too, that there
was no salary for him In all the bug
zing city-he could do nothing.
1t may be said that he was at the
end OF his string. Such times do come
In all their bitterness, finally, to the
man with no trade or craft, II his
feeble clutch on that slippery ghost,
Property, shall fail.
The windows grew black while he
paced the fan-shaped zone of freight.
But as the mantel clock struck wheez-
lily six there was the rattle of an outer
door, and Mary Vertrees came rushing
into the library and threw herself into
deep chair by the hearth, laughing
so uncontrollably that tears were In
her eyes. Mrs. vertrees followed de-
corously, no mirth about her; on the
contrary, she looked vaguely disturbed,
as II she had eaten something not quite
certain to agree with her. and regret
ted It.
Papa! Oh, oh!' And Miss YER
trees was fain to apply handkerchief
upon her eyes. I'm so glad you made
us go! wouldn't have missed it"
Mrs. vertrees shook her head. II
suppose I'm very dull" she said,
gently. II didn't see anything anus
ing. They're most ordinary, and the
house is altogether in bad taste, but we
anticipated that, and"
"Papag Mary cried, breaking in
"They asked us to dinnerr
"Whatw
"And I'm golngw she shouted, and
was seized with fresh paroxysms.
''Thlnk of It! Never in their house be-
fore; never met any OF them but the
daughter-and Just barely met her.
"What about you" interrupted Mr.
Yertrees, turning sharply upon his
wife.
She made little face as II positive
now that what she had eaten would
not agree with her. II couldn't| she
| said. "I--"
"Yes, that's just-just the way She
she looked when they asked her!" cried
Mary, choking. "And then she-she
realized II, and tried to turn It into 0
cough, and she didn't know how, and II
sounded like-like squealv'
81 suppose" said Mrs. vertrees
much injured, "that Mary will have
an uproarious time at my funeral. Sh,
makes fun Of"
Mary jumped up instantly and kissed
her; then she went to the mantel and
leaning an elbow upon 1t, gazeC
thoughtfully at the buckle OF her shoe
twinIling in the freight.
"They didn't notice anything" sht
said. 80 far as they We're concerned
mamma, II was one of the finest coughs
you ever coughed."
"Who were 'they'?" asked her father
"Whom did you seeT"
"only the mother and daughter,
Mary answered. Mrs. Sheridan Il
dumpy and RUSTY; and Miss Sheridan
is pretty and pushing-dresses by TIL
fashion magazines and talks abou
New York people that have thelI pic
lures In 'em. She tutors the mother
but not very successfully-partly be
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The Story
of a Big
Man in a
Big Town
Observation-Disclosures.

thing to keep himself and his family
up. so in despair he sold the lots
(which went up beautifully the next
year, for Traction stock" that was
paying dividends; and disappeared al
together from the commercial surface
at about the time James Sheridan
came out securely on top.
But there came day when three
servitors OF Bigness in Philadelphia
took greedy counsel with four fellow
worshlpers from New York, and not
long after that there were no more
dividends for Mr.. vertrees. In fact,
there was nothing for Mr.. Vertrees, be-
cause TIE Traction stock" henceforth
was no stock at all, and he had mort
gagged his house long ago to help imam
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One Of the near-trasedies OF
life comes when the poor young
man or woman is snubbed by
the rich crowd with whom he
or she has played at school In
childhood. II Is then that pov.
erty stlnus, and pride Of family
doesn't help much. The situa-
tlon Is quite as interesting,
though reversed, when a rich
and lovable young man Is
snubbed by a poor but naughty
arlstocrat because he belongs
to the "new rleh."
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SYNOPSIS.

eheridan's attempt to make a business
fnan OF his son Bibbs by starting him in
the machine shop ends in Bibbs going to
sanitarium, nervous wreck. On his re-
turn Bibbs is met at the station by his
sister Edith.
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VIII Mary be able to lnfatu-
ate young Jim Sheridan at the
dinner, or will she become dis
austed with her fortune-huntlng
plot and throw up the whole
buslness7
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1To BE coNTulUED.l