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MAGAZINE SECTION for March ), 1916

people he had met, and wondered whether
loneliness had caused it. He even ac-
cused himself for having let it annoy him.
He must see what he could do about pro-
viding Gather with some sort of company.
The matter was recalled to his mind
the next morning at breakfast, when
Gather suddenly asked him:
Steve, what's a martingaleo'
Langley explained with rather quizzi-
cal smile, which was not lost on Gather,
for he added almost in apology:
81 saw the word in book"
Langley was not deceived.
John he said suddenly, "don't you
want to learn to ride? 1t would do you
lots of good
Gather blushed as he did on the least
provocation.
at would be awfully good of you" he
replied; "but | don't know anything
about it. | might hurt the horses"
Langley smiled again and did not press
the matter; but he tucked the idea away.
A few days later Langley made one of
his rare visits to his desk, and in fumblng
over his papers came across one that was
out of place-a letter half finished and as
if tucked aside awaiting time for compile
ton. 1t was not in his own writing;
glance told him that it was Gathers, and
he crammed it into pigeon-hole. Then
he remembered subconsciously that he
had seen the same letter in the same
place several times. Perhaps it was
letter that Gather had written for him. He
glanced at it; then, gripped with sud-
den hot anger, read it from end to end.
Dear Girl lit beganl: This letter has been
long delayed, but life in the country is not
the dull thing that most people imagine it
to be. In fact you would be quite sur
prised to see your "bookworm in the midst
of one ceaseless round of frivolity.
Dinners, dances, hunts, riding follow
one after another, and it is a standing joke
between my partner and me that we
never see each other at home. When he is
not off on some giddy excursion l am; and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

when one or the other of us comes down to
breakfast late but appetiteless, the other
simply gives him look of stern reproach
and says, "ScOre one
have told you about our little farm. or
course we are not in it to make money, but
if the corn crop does not go back on us we
will have pleasant little balance, thank you
You would laugh, l say, to see the man
who was nothing but a grimy valedictorian
in the midst of these butterflies; but, girl o
mine, / have got to make a confession. l
like it-lke it just as much as you did in
your palmiest days of college proms, and if
you could see me now l do not think that
you would be ashamed of your bookworm
rode in the drag hunt Thursday, and fin
ished well up in spite of broken martini
gale; and after it went to a dinner that was
a joy of joys.
There were several young married people
there, and-now don't be jealous.oa girl
whose face you have seen very often in
the society sheets, but whom l will call
simply Miss s." She quzzed me about my
broken martngale, and l retorted with a
quotation from Xenophon "On the Horse. !"
She admitted defeat.
And, by the way, have invented new
cocktail known as the "BOokworm, which,
people tell me, is very profound. You
take
RUT here the letter broke off, and Lang
~ ley threw it back on the desk. 1t was so
absurd that normally his inclination would
have been to roar, but it touched him in
his one vulnerable point. To Langley's
mind, the sin of sins was lie. Yet,
curiously enough, he told himself, in de-
tecting the lie he had committed the sin
that he regarded as only less sneaking-
he had read another mans letter. Nor
did the circumstances make any differ
ence. True, Gather had been his de-
pendent for months, and his own name
had been taken in vain; but he did not
know that when he began. Langley was
honest with himself. By his code, man
could not read his own death-warrant if
it were not addressed to him. He had
caught Gather in shameless matter, but
by the very act he had involved himself.
Langley sat down to think it out. AS
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most nan pot OF Jam. III was me.
Langley could see a picture of poor old
Gather fumbling, for hours probably,
making those hopeless sandwiches, and
then sitting beside them, like a faithful
dog, half starved, but waiting for him to
come home.
"Heavens and earth, John, he exploded,
that's shame!7 And, being himself
handy enough in the kitchen. he rushed
from the room, returning with huge
piece of chocolate cake and a glass of
milk shaken up with an egg.
Gather protested violently, but finished
everything put before him. including the
rest of the sandwiches.
you ought not to have done it, Steve
he ended, rather choking. "You've done
enough for me as it is.
"Oh, rot, replied Langley; but he was
already half way upstairs.
THE position of John Gather in Lang
Icys household was one which could
he explained easily enough, but Langley
never had explained it and never would
explain it to his friends. If any one
asked, he merely said: "Oh, he was a
class-mate of mine."
Gather had, in truth, been in Langleys
class in college. Not only that but he
had been the head of the class, while
Langley had been in the glorious middle.
But at college Langley had hardly known
Gather at all, for the latter had been one
of those hopelessly inefficient creatures
who make the word valedictorian almost
term of reproach. He was pure
dreamer.
Gathers five years out of college had
been pathetic. A man who could not
find word in a dictionary because he
read all the intervening words, active
life seemed to have no place for him at all.
An instructors position in small college
he had lost almost Immediately because his
class-rooms were simply riots. He had
taught in high school with even worse
his class had found him acting as clerk in
dry-goods store, accomplishing and, in
a way, rather interested in his work.
He had told Langley about it. For all
ills Langley had only one remedy.
"John, he had said when he found him,
"come up in the country and visit me
while. I've got some books | want you
to help me with
John had protested, but he had come.
He had come for two weeks, and he had
been there for over eight months. For
the first few weeks he had gone relgiously
through all the motions of going away;
but, with less and less effort, Langley had
overruled him every time, and now his
leaving was not even mentioned. At
first there had been some talk of tutor
ship or librarians position, and Langley
had even written one or two letters with
those ends in view; but the answers had
been vague and dilatory, and the indefi-
mite hope they offered had served only as
an excuse for further stay. Gather was
there, and that was all. Half the time
Langley forgot him, and all the time
Gather forgot everything if only he had
book on his knees. In little ways he
made himself useful. He added up the
slips on the grocer's account, and kept
the tobacco jar full. The housekeeper
was afraid to sleep alone in the house. and
Langley found him convenient as watch
dog. But most Of all Langley was by ma
ture patriarchal. The head of his house
had always had dependents around him;
l.. i 1
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-20
FIRST SUBMARINE WARFARE.
Continued from Page -Four.

II, 1864. To work down the harOor
and through the Federal fleet Of gun
boats Dixon probably used her as SUD-
marine, but he came up to stab. A hun
dred yards away from the steam s!oop
Housatonic the fishboat was detected
'like a plank floating along the tide
The ships master did not recognize ner
and lost precious seconds in which ne
might have got away. Suddenly sne
was suspected, the Housatonic slipped
cable, backed engines, desperately called
to quarters, fired small arms-Dlxon
struck forward of the mainmast and eS
ploded his torpedo.
The Housatonic's bottom was blown
in and she sank inside of four minutes
her crew scrambhng into her yaras
Only five men were killed aboard hef,
but the first warship had been destroyeu
by submarine.
No triumph for Dixon. The Hunle'
went down with her victim and Stran'
gled her last crew. After the war a'''
ers found her 100 feet off, her Do"
pointing toward the Housatonlc.
Thirty-two men lost. -.
The crews that Charleston fed 10 'i'
Hunley were volunteers. The very en'
terprise in which they died, they knew
was deemed questionable. There S~
small chance that, If captured, 'ns
would be treated as prisoners OF We
In this all-but-forgotten chapter OF u.
submarine is further proof .i''
Charleston was 'the hotbed of the oV'
federacy."
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Hay Fever
Continued from Page One.

By this time | was quite reconcile,
to undergoing the treatment. In f,c,
/ was afraid that my early Indifferent.
had made them feel that didn't wan,
it; so kept throwing cut little hints u
the effect that hadn't any superstition,
prejudice against hyperdermic iniec.
tions, and that supposed that it didn,
take long, and showed them that wo,.
my sleeves rolled up anyway, which
would make it all the easier for them
BY means of these delicate little piece.
of subterfuge | finally convinced tbs
doctor that he could try the vaccine a,
me without offending me, and he had an
attendant bring a box containing N.
entire layout.
rolled up my sleeve and looked GU,
at the window. | had never been hyn.
dermically injected before and was
ready for anything. / didn't suppose
that it was so bad as having leg cut
off, but certainly there must be some
pain in having that needle run its length
into ones arm. fixed my eye on 4
lightning rod on nearby barn and said
to myself, "Come, come, my man. Think
of all your Plattsburg friends who had
to 60 through this same thing" That
cheered me up quite bit, for my Platts.
burg friends get on my nerves. The
doctor was pinching my arm, Maybe he
couldn't find any suitable place to in.
ject it. He might have to cut me open
with a knife and put it in with spoon
"All right" he said. Come over 10
my office day after tomorrow"
1t was done, and was on my way IN
the Great Experiment. l say "experi.
ment" because | began late. | should
have started the treatment in June and
so have got running start on the
plague, but when | took my first punct.
ure my appointed doom was only one
week off. | have now had five treat.
ments, and as | write | am three days
overdue. | dare not think about it. Ny
knuckles are all raw from rapping wood
One year the Gypsy's Curse didn't hit
me until the twenty-frst. So it still has
a days leeway.
| know that this Is no place to leave
this story. My brother-convicts will
not know whether or not the thing has
worked, and will say to themselves,
ooh, some more newspaper talk" And
so l have made arrangements with the
Traffic Department TO let me take upa
position on the pedestal of the Worth
Monument in Madison Square from the
hours of 9 and II every morning
and will there be glad to have all hay
fever sufferers who are interested come
and look at me and see for themselves
whether or not | am afflicted. would
much rather not have any one speak to
me, for | am not used to such public
performances. But | shall be the man
on the pedestal of the Worth Monument
who wears a sprig of goldenrod in his
button-hole.
And if | do have an attack, shall be
the man who has just killed five inno-
cent bystanders in a most brutal fash
ion and who is being led away by the
police.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-20

Senator Williams, of Mississippi, who
voted against both measures, said in
speaking against woman suffrage:
Suffrage is not a right and never
was right. 1t is privilege granted to
the individual by society in the interest
of society. Therefore society does not
admit idiots to exercise it, nor lunatics,
nor paupers, nor men under twenty
one, nor, In Mississippi, those who are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-20
ARE WOMEN PEOPLE?
Bv Alice Duey Miller
A r E

he said, were North Carolina, New
Mexico and Wyoming.
What, suffrage state? How the
other "antis" must have pricked up
their ears!
But Senator Bryan's subsequent sta
tistics reveal the fact that while North
Carolina has $3.50 children between the
ages of ten and thirteen years employed
in mechanical, manufacturing or min
ing industries, Wyoming has none.
In speaking against the child labor
bill Senator Bryan said: What are we
going to do with the children when you
forbid them to enjoy the right to earn
a living?"
1t would seem as if the Senator had
never heard of the we'll known Home
And yet he has, for in speaking
against the suffrage amendment he re-
ferred 10 the anti-suffragists as those
"who still believe that the home and the
child are her (woman's) sphere"
Homes for every one but children, is
the Senator's motto.
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so ignorant that they cannot read or
write"
And, the Senator should have added,
mothers who are so ignorant they can
not see what an advantage factory work
is to little children.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-20

Senator Oliver, another stern op-
ponent of restrictions on child labor,
not only voted against the woman suf-
frage amendment but appeared before
the resolutions committee of the Repub-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-20

On August the United States Sen
ate passed the bill restricting child la
Dor.
Twelve Senators voted against it.
Every one of these who had voted at
all on the woman suffrage amendment
had voted against that, too.
The following Senators voted against
the child labor bill
Bankhead Oliver Smith (Ga.)
Bryan Overman Smith Is. CO.
Fletcher Penrose Tillman
Hardwick Simmons Williams
Of these the following voted against
the suffrage amendment:
Bankhead Overman Tillman
Bryan Smith (Ga.) Williams
Oliver Smith Is. c.
Senators Fletcher, Penrose and Sim
mons did not vote on the suffrage meas
ure. and Senator Hardwick was not a
member of the Senate at the time
Senator Bryan, of Florida, not only
voted but spoke against both measures.
In speaking against the child labor
bill he said that there were now only
three states with an age limit of less
than fourteen years for the employ
ment of children. These three states,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-08-20

Three of the conspicuous anti-suf-
fragists in the Senate did not vote on
the child labor bill at all apparently.
These were Senators Lodge, MARITIME
and Wadsworth.
All three often assert probably that
they held women's interests dearer than
their lives.
Indeed Senator MARITIME said, in
speaking against woman suffrage: II
need not say l love and admire good
woman. There is no man in this body
who can Guido and outvie me in efforts
to uphold on every occasion the good
women of the land"
Yet it does not seem to have dawned
on the Senator that the occasion when
the good women of the land would most
wish to be upheld is when the protection
of their children is in question.
Now, does any one think that it is a
coincidence that those in favor of child
labor are anti-suffragists?
Those who wish to keep children in
the mills wish to keep mothers away
from the ballot box.
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principle.
Senator Overman, who voted against
both measures, when speaking against
the child labor bill pointed with pride
to the fact that North Carolina has
fewer children between the ages of
fourteen and sixteen in jails, prisons
and warehouses than in most of the
other States of the Union.
Some years ago, when opposing with
equal vigor the establishment of the
Child Welfare Bureau, Senator Over
man was not so well up on his Stats
tics
He could not then tell whether the
children of his state were legally al
lowed to work ten or eleven hours.
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lican convention in an attempt to pre-
vent the party's Endorsement of the
principle.
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Children never are refractory
In a pretty mill or factory.
Every one is quiet, very,
In a we'll run cemetery.
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Loyal Employees
BIZ Courtesy of The Ne'C Republic.

IN the very day before the en-
ployes of the New York City
Railways Company went out on
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-02-11
IN The CLOUDS
BY ESTHER BURR REYNOLDS.

THE profession has all gone to
pieces!" mourned old Ezekiel Brown.
Where is genius? Where is talent?
Where is the dashing bareback rider
who thrilled the thousands, and that
big laugh of the universe, the clown,
who made merriment for the mil
lions?"
Where, indeed? ?" murmured his Pc
tite and pretty daughter, lola, sorrow
fully, as she stitched away at a tin
seled dress which she wore as a SUI
pernumerary in a cheap theatrical
company.
"The day of the clown is over"
mourned old Ezekiel anew. ITS the
day of the entertainer howl AS to
the child equestrienne act, l might as
well have trained you for the opera.
Poor child!-our glory is departed and
they pay you, a star Of the arena, six
paltry dollars a week for standing on
the stage with a dozen others in a viii
lage maiden s%cene!"
do l complain Of it, father, dear?"
cried lola cheerily. THAT keeps the
pot boiling, and times have got to
change, for Merrill says so, and he is
a rock of strength and dependence,
you know"
Eyes, poor Merrill" continued the
old circus fayorite, determined to
grumble out all his manifold troubles.
Look at that boy, the best triple som
ersault man in America-once. Now
why, the new-fangled 'equilibrist' has
to invest two or three thousand dol
lars in his act outfit before he gets a
vaudeville engagement. And the we'd
ding Here Merrill thought he had a
settled position as advance agent for a
show, and what does the show do?
Bustl And the wedding put off till he
ees his way clear to support youl"
lola looked a little grave. Yes, there
was to have been a wedding and she
was disappointed. Merrill Boyd had
been a close friend of her father and
a lover Of her own for several years.
Humble people, and honest, they we're,
the sawdust CRIME and the tinsel glare
having hurt them one bit, for
the circus ring was a family proclivity
on both sides.
There he is now!" suddenly cried
lola, and sprang to her feet, all aglow
with delight and suspense. The door
opened, succeeding to the quick, nerv.
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u tramp of sturdy footsteps. Hand.
some, alert, k~indly-eyed and manly
looking, Merrill Boyd burst In upon
the homely little room, brisk, stimu.
lating and quite excited.
well, old friend" he cried to Ezekiel,
I've made it,"
you don't say so-another engage.
ment?" questioned the old clown
eagerly.
Not in the old line, though" replied
Merrill. "You see, we are desperately
driven, and l had to hustle for some.
thing now and ready. In the first
place. my dear" beaming on lola,
we've got to get married, you and l."
"When?" voiced the astounded lola
Every day for a year to come,
maybe"
why, Merrill" began the old cir
u man, agape.
"Where?" gasped lola.
I'm a balloon" promptly explained
Merrill. Don't get the jiggers, peo.
pie. It's a plain, practical PROPOSE.
ton"
Then he told what II was. He had
run across an old circus friend, whose
business had been making show bal.
loon ascensions. The man was Grip.
pied, could work no longer, but had
some contracts with circuses for the
season. He offered to lease the bal.
loon to Merrill for ninety days on an
demonstrating basis. A feature OF
the ascensions was to be a prize to the
mar and woman who would go up in
the balloon and be married.
you see," said Merrill to old 70,
kiel, you are a licensed minister. Not
many times will strangers 90 up N
the balloon, 70 lola and ! must make
the play, and you must quarry us"
YES" replied Ezekiel, that Is a fact.
Years ago ! had a license 70 preach for
q sect out In Dakota, and II holds
good. Am ! to really marry you twoY'
he inquired.
"once, for good. There Is no other
way, and every time the ceremony Il
repeated It win bind US closer togeth.
er than everl" cried Merrill expansive
". Surely you are willing. lola"
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-02-11
Tells Of Commercial Fertilizers

Tells of Commercial Fertilizers
Missouri farmers can soon OBJ
tain a complete list of all the lie
ensed brands of fertilizers on
sale in the state in 1915. A
Chemical analysis has been made
of each brand of fertilizer sold
in the state. The bulletin soon
to be issued on the inspection
of Commercial Fertilizers" was
written by DR.. P. F, Trowbridge
of the Agricultural Experiment
Station of the University of Mis-
souri, at Columbia.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-02-11
MOVEMENT FOR PURE EGGS
Proposal Made That PerearinatIons Of
Hens Be Investigated and
Results Noted.

There is a general sort Of feeling
that n fresh egg is as good as anoth-
er, avs the Kansas City Star. Who is
II that is ready to ask whether her
weekly supply Of eggs is fortified or
not? Most Of as are particular to the
point Of pettiness on the subject Of
pure bread, we will only buy our rolls
done up in waxed paper, we will not
look at anything but grade A milk. In
accordance with our ideas restaurants
even do up loaf sugar in sealed billets,
and so on through the list without
a lapse until we come to eggs.
AS a matter Of fact, egg shells are
not germ proof by any means. From
the moment we realize how 1t happens
that an egg can grow stale" we must
admit that contamination is possible.
A whole group Of disquieting revela.
tions follows upon this admission. not
the least Of which is the discovery that
the garden or farmyard hen is at pres.
ent allowed to saunter whittier she
listeth regardless Of hygiene. Then
we trustfully gather her product and
feed it to u babies and invalids, for.
getting that unless hens are healthful,
unless their food Is pure and clean,
they cannot lay pure eggs.
When p%oultrymen realize this, and
all scientific poultrymen do realize il,
the chicken nuisance will be a thing
Of the past, and people who want to
sell eggs win no more want their fowls
to u free than the modern dairyman
allows his kline to nibble by the road.
side.
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There will be 1,O8S delegates in
he Democratic National Conven-
ton at St. Louis on June IA.
The call for this convention con-
tains a plank from the Baltimore
platform of 1912 directing that
in those states which do not have
direct primary elections delega-
ties to the national convention
shall be chosen at a primary cleo
ton conducted by the party or
ganization. The plank directs
also that an expression of prefer
ence for Presidential candidates
shall be given at the primaries.