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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-06-13
TENTH BALLOT

Alabama, II vOtes-WOOd, 3;
LOwden, 3; Harding, 8.
Arizona, 6-WoOd, q.
Arkansas, 13-Harding, Is.
California, 26-JOhnsOn, &c.
Colorado. 12-Lowdcn, 4; Hard
ing, >; Wood, g.
Connecticut, 14-jOhnson, Il;
Harding, Is.
Delaware, 6-Harding. 6.
Florida, S-WOod, IL; Harding,
! 1-2.
Georgia, 17-Harding, 10; Wood,
Idaho. S--JohnsOn. 1; LOwden, p;
Harding, 3; Wood, 3.
Illinois. 5S-Johnson. IS ID; Low
den, IL; Harding, ID 1-5.
Indiana, 3O-WOOd, 81; Harding,
81.
Iowa. 26--Harding. &c.
Kansas, 2O-HOover, 4; Wood, Il;
Harding, rs.
kentucky, 26-Harding, %.
Louisiana, 12-Harding, II.
Maine, 12-WoOd. ~.
Maryland. I6-WOOd, TO-. Hard
ing, .; Hoover, 4.
Massachusetts, 35-WOOd, IL;
Harding, IL; Coolidge, 4.
Michigan, 3O-WOOd, 1; johnson,
4; Harding, %.
Minnesota. 24-JohnSon, 4; Hard
ing. ,; Wood, II.
Mississippi, 12-Harding, 0 1-2;
Wood, 1-2.
Missouri, 3e-Harding, SO.
Montana, S-JOhnSOn, s.
Nebraska, 16-WoOd, 3; johnson,
z; Harding. Ii.
Nevada, 6-Johnson, 1; Hoover.
I 1-2; Harding. 1-2.
New Hampshire, S-WOOd. s.
New Jersey, 2S-HOOver, I Hard
ing. 5: johnson, Z; Wood, Is.
New Mexico, 6-WoOd, g.
New York, S8-COOiidge, a:
Hoover. 4; LenroOt, 4; Butler. >;
Wood 6; Low6hen, B; Harding 6S.
North Carolina, 22-Harding, 90;
North Dakota, 1O-wood, 4;
Harding, o.
Ohio. 4S--Harding. As.
Oklahoma, 20-WoOd, 1-2; Hays,
1 Harding, IS; Absent, t-2.
Oregon, tO-JOhnson, 3; Wood, 3;
Harding, 2.
Pennsylvania. 7G-JohnsOn, f.;
Knox, 4 (; Wood. II; Harding. 60.
Rhode Island, 1O-Harding, 10.
South Carolina. 11-Harding. fl.
South Dakota, 10-WOOd, 6; Hard
ing. 4.
Tennessee. 2O.-Harding, 90.
Texas. 23-HarIitng. %.
Utah, S--WOOd, /; LOwdcn, ?;
Harding. 5.
Vermont, s-Wood. 8.
Virginia, 15-WOOd, I; Harding,
Washington. 14-Harding, g.;
Wood. 5: Hoover, I: Polndexter, 2.
West Virginia. 16-Harding, 10.
Wisconsin, 26-Hariing, 4;
Hoover. I: LafOllctte. 81.
Wyoming. 6-Harding, @.
Alaska. 2-Harding. >.
District OF Columbia, 2-Harding,
Hawaii. 2-Harding, ?.
Philippines. Wood. ..
Porto Rico. Harding. =.
NINTH BALLOT.
Alabama, Il votes-Lowden, s.;
Wood, 4; Harding, 4.
Arizona, 6-Wood. s.
Arkansas 13-Lowden, 10 IL I;
Wood, / 10; Harding. l.
Colorado. 12-Lowden, !; Hard
ing. 8: Wood, s.
Connecticut, johnson, i;
Harding. l3.
Delaware, 6-Harding. 3; Sproul.
s.
Florida, S-Wood. /: Harding. T.
Georgia, 17-Harding. I; Lowden,
s; Wood. s.
Idaho. johnson. 1; Lowden, /;
Harding. Z: Wood 5.
Illinois. Dickinson, Il; Low
den. Al.
Indiana, s0-Lowden. 4: Harding
Il. Wood. Is.
Iowa. 25-Lowden. 20.
Kansas. 2O-Harding 20.
Kentucky. 2s-Harding, IS.
Louisiana. 12-Harding. 70
Maine, i2-Wood. -
Maryland 16-Wood. IS
Massachusetts,. 35-Harding, I:
Lowden. :: Wood. II: Coolidge p.
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THE WEATHER..

Michigan; Partly cloudy weather and prob
ably local thundershCwers Sunday and Mon
not much change in temperature.
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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-01
BANK CLEARINGS

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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-01
SHARP RALLY IN
ELECTRIC STORAGE
Dealing in General Local List
Light, With Slight
Price Changes

The spirited rally in Electric Storage
Battery to 122, or PA points above
Saturdays closing level and Z points
above the low mark of last week, was
the outstanding feature Of the local
market. The movement came in for
more attention because Of the marked
expansion Of the dealings on the ad-
vancing price. At the same time the
belief was expressed on the street that
recent reported retrenchment orders had
been greatly exaggerated and the gen
eral business of the company was but
slightly affected by the slowing down
of the automobile industry. The move
ment at the same time quite forcibly
demonstrated many of the recent sellers
had sold into bag and that the stock
is still closely held.
Pennsylvania Railroad was strons
feature of the railroad division, nearly
recovering the seventy five cents quar-
terly dividend which was taken of to =
day. Lehigh Valley on small sales
moved up to "a and Lehigh Navigation
was firm at COY.
Dealings in the street railway shares
and other utilities were light, with little
or no change in prices. Lake Superior
dipped under II to 10% on light
trading.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-01
LATEBULGE ON
SHORT COVERING
Bear Party Beat hasty Retreat
When Harding Odds Were
Increased

Now York, Nov. 1.--Hurried cover
ing the shorts in the last hour Of the
trading impaired an animated aspect to
the final dealings In today's stock mar
ket. The rebound was made the more
striking because of the earlier irregular
ity and the rather spotty price move
ment. The late bulge was Influenced to
large extent by the reported raising
of the quoted odds of o to 1 on Hard
ing. There was natural disposition on
the part Of the professional traders to
adjust accounts in order to meet the
election eventualities. During the
morning the trend Of the market was>un-
, certain, with heaviness and strength
, cropping up in different parts OF the
list. The stronger spots being found In
the railroad division, Of which Southern
Pacific continued the undisputed leader.
Nothing Of Importance in the way
OF news turned up over the week end.
The improvement in the bank state
ments came In for a little attention be-
cause OF the fact there was little en-
couragement Of any immediate improve
ment In the money market rates. This
fact was impressed by reason OF the
al Il Al
nhlhs Oh the renewal rate for call loans
again at per cent, lndicating once
atain = very scant supply OF ioansble
iunas Ior STOCK market accommodations.
IN the otner hand attentlon was
realrected 70 tne general business STU
ation py .ne adyices OF further reduc
oon ., inaustriai actvities win reports
VI auaitiona, smut Gowns anu lessenlng
OIL workins FORCES. IL doubtf9i, now
eYer, "hether any Oh the outside con-
dltions exerted direct influence upon
ths irregular course OF the days market;
which from all appearances continued
70 be soeiy governed by technical con-
dltlons WITHIN ltset. i
During the morning the market
showed little distinct trend one way or
tne other. hails, steels. copper ana
equipments were moderately higher at
tho outset, but this was balanced by
heaviness In different parts of the in
dustrial division: Such hrmncss as the
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-01
BONDS
FOREIGN EXCHANGE

New York. Nov. 1.-The foreign ex-
change market opened irregular. Sterling
showed a decline Of ", to 8.34E for
demand and 3.44h for cables. Francs
We're up 2 centimes. at $50 for cables
and 6.Sl for checks: lire were I points
checks.
Other quotations were:
Swiss cables 1856, checks 1867; gull
der cables 30.45, checks 30.32; pesetas
cables 1890. checks 1888; Stockholm
cables 1915, checks 1896; Christiania
cables 1880, checks 1850 Copenhagen
cables e.7i, checks $40: marks, i.ss.
At the end Of the first hour, sterling
and francs were steady and unchanged
from the opening figures. Lire declined
2 points to 3.67 for cables and 3.66 for
checks Marks declined / point to the
low OF the present to Lab. Belgtans
gained % eentimes TO e.7l for cables and
go for checks, Demand sterling was
The premium on New York Exchange
here today was q shade lower at l0h
per cent. The discount In New York on
Montreal exchange was unchanged at
8 0-18 per cent.
The Central European exchange mar
clines. The' figures were entirely nom
inal at the following: Austria 80,
Cxecho-Slovakla liz, offered Jugo-Sla-
via rs. Polish .32, Rumania 1.80. rubles
lc. Finland 2,16, Greek $40.
SATURDAYS FINAL QUOTATIONS
1sHs.' Gsss: @ S::sS s.sS ssS $Si s4s s4S sSs; ss
ToDAY's OPENING QUOTATIONS
5ssl:. 3sG:"' -: 49,: ss:NS 81 sss 1910
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-01

orally was weaker. Operations were al
most entirely local. Selling, which
came from elevator interests and COM
mission houses, was induced by heavy
receipts in the Southwest and the
Northwest; a disappointing inquiry for
export and poor demand from millers..
When local shorts attempted to get In
after noon, prices advanced quickly,
as there was little for sale. Toward
the close there appeared more disposi-
tion to press the bear side and the rally
was not held. Export concerns were
light purchasers Of futures. 1t was
reported that Belgium was buying in
India and that France was getting
barley from South Russia.
Beneficial moisture was noted over
the domestic winter wheat belt. Pre-
miums on the cash article here were un-
changed.
Dealings In corn were moderate and
the market irregular, with the final tone
easier. Purchasing by cash houses,
which were taking off hedges against
sales of cash corn, was among the
factors. Canada was again good
buyer. Fasteners were reported to be
on the selling side. Receipts were
smaller.
Oats were heavy in the main on SELL
ing by the Northwest and a local ele-
vator concern The mn rkp OF waa dull
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-01
Commodity Markets
COTTON MARKET

New York, Nov. 1.-Unexpectedly
strong cables led to an active and firm
opening In cotton this morning with
frst prices 81 to 81 points higher. Wall
street and Liverpool interests were big
buyers at the start, while New Orleans
houses. in view Of holiday in, that
market, sold here, as did some local spot
interests.
For the first fifteen minutes after
the outset the market held steady
around first levels, in absence OF he'd dge-
pressure and because Of covering orders
Tor over the holiday. ,
The afternoon market ruled quiet and
steady without trading feature other
than moderate December liquidation
prior to first notice day.
Exports for the day were again heavy.
The total now Is practically even with
that of last season at the present time.
The exports were Al .G77 bales, including
90, 900 bales to Great Britain and 2O,-
1856 bales to the Continent.
Clearances for the season to date
were ,004, ,221 bales, compared with
/ .O62, $40 bales for the corresponding
period last season. The receipts at the
ports for the day are estimated at 3d.
600 bales, against 38,60S bales last
week and 45, ,070 bales last year.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-01
CURB ISSUES DROP
UNDER few SALES
Standard Of Indiana Feature In
Oil 0roup--IndustriaIs
Steady

New York, Nov. 1.--Prices on the
Broad street curb declined under small
trading, about the only exception being
Tobacco Products Exports, which was
bought on fairly large scale from IA
to IAN. General Asphalt. In the early
trading, moved up to 57M, but later
sold Of to b5h.
The Standard OIL group was quiet,
about the only feature being Standard
OF New Jersey, which ranged from 100
to $50.
simms Petroleum and skelly Oil were
both weak and In supply at moderate
at 1885.
=. Industrials were generally steady.
North American Pulp sold at 2M and
Hercules Paper at 2OM. II. J. Rey-.
nolds new was traded in at 30. EN-
pire Tube continued strong, selling at
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-01
Canadian Rsfiners Cut Sugar prIe.

Montreal. Noy Sugar refiners
1890 per cwt TO 1880 cwt., while the
Dominion Refinery went to 1850.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-01
LIVESTOCK QUOTATIONS

Chicago. ,Noy. 1: -. CATTLE -, Receipts,
lS coo BEAD sssf ssss and butcher she
i5.b0; butcher cows mostly S. 800 10. S2S;
Gamers. sHttsrs and bulls strong to 2tc
steady to strong best veelsrs,S $is s50Gi4:
western receipts. $500 headi strong to
to iSSdsiEsGGIPt, iSs s5oSS head Active CSC
% St 81 ST. ss. TOP Gsc q so
higher; bqlk qn Desirable nd 100 to 12o-pound
sHEEP = Receipts. -28, 900 head. Fat
sheep and lambs fully 25c higher; choice-fed
western and native lambs, $751; bulk, mn.
sy. shoss SGi GhSce XessEPg wsh
feeder lambs. sis,sb. '' ''p
1900 SssS Hshsr HH sisrLnHsfsStipts sissTs sissSSfs;
asf5s asss5s sdS S.lS HsSs 6SSs
:. Hods-Receipts, 000O heaX Higher.
Heayies and heavy workers., ia. .sb Oil 50;
lifsas saEgP SSfkerS ANp f9d PiRESs SsssTlHns,. .ooo
hhssd; Higher. Top sheep. IS; top lambs.
70 East st Leu Louis. H.. Nov. l.-cArTLE-
higher Top n!esrs tlsi bulk, .sio1l2: year.
ner, cows, steady to strong at ;S7Sd fas; f25
bulls. steady, calves. 2a to 5Oc lower; good
and eh9ics yealers. ti+ +.t0@ Is ?b; feeder
s'9frs oos@Ry ss.esSy tS str9SSS Ind bulk $1,000
S1s SSh TS Ssa%s. S2s m;H5a% ;s g
sHEEP-!sesipts $500 head $50 higher.
1925; bulk, s6.b0QB.2O. N
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-01
MoNEY-LENplNa RATES

NEW YORK-Money on call, both
classes of collateral, opened today at
8 per cent for lending and renewing.
There wore rumors today for time
money to be secured at per cent, bu.
the largest banks in the city, one OF
which usually places more time money
than any other In normal periods, de-
clarcd that money was unobtainable
for any period under 8M per cent. The
nominal bid is still 3 per cent
Buslness In acceptances has not heen
80 dull In several months MS at present
Rates are nominally unchanged.
Prime mercantile paper continues
slow at 8 to 8A per cent
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-01
GRAIN MARKET

:. Chicago, Nov. l.-Trsde in wheat
was quiet today, but the market gen.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-01
PHrLADELPHIA-Can, 8 per G

time. per cent commercial paper three
to six months 6 per cent
(Note--These are merely nominal
quotations, as the legal rate OF interest
In the state OF Pennsylvania is fixed at
per cent Plus premiums and oommis-
days is loaned at 8 to 8M per cent. while
commercial paper. from three to six
months. 10 being offered at TO 81 per
cent?
New-York tribune., 1920-07-13
DR.. Tildsley, Teacher

Tho testimonial in DIR. Tildsley's
behalf signed by twenty-one princi-
pals of high schools is eloquent con-
firmation Of the high educational
gifts Of the Associate Superintend-
ent Of Schools.
It is upon the patriotic issue that
the dispute has chiefly been waged,
and rightly. The attack upon DR..
Tildsley was fostered by radicals
and disloyalists, and if the Board
Of Education should finally refuse
to reappoint him the triumph of
prof. Germans and our local Bolshev-
Xxi would be great.
But it is for his merits as an
educator, as creator of living
school processes and as an execu-
tive of complete fairness and pecul-
lar discernment that DR.. Tildsley
earned and deserves his position
He offers the rare combination of
inspiring example and efficient di-
rection. Through his personal eff
forts favoritism has been eliminated
and merit established as the con-
New-York tribune., 1920-07-13
A Place for Coolidge

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: / have been reading in "The
Digest" what you and other leading
Eastern papers are saying about Gov
ernor Coolidge. You are right. A
place should be found for him. that we
may get the benefit Of his talents.
Big men seem to be scarce. For
Gods sake let US get the benefit Of
those we have. I, and believe thou.
sands of others, would like to sec Won
and other great papers of the country
advocate a constitutional amendment
making the Vice President an active
member Of the Cabinet. Then you will
have something to offer a big man.
Big men will be looking for it, and
the President can't get away from hin,
II he should happen to be like Mr..
Wilson and want to be the only shin
ing light Of the Administration.
D. X. BUTLER.
Portland, Ore, July 4, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-13
The Disturber at Spa

Hugo SHINES, who caused a couple
of unpleasant scenes at Spa by his
defiant talk and manners, is the
super-millionaire of the New Ger
many. Before the war he was, per-
haps, the leading iron and steel and
coal magnate of the Rhine Province
and Westphalia. In the war period
and since he bought into shipping,
electrical concerns, newspapers and
other ventures. He has big invest
ments in Holland as we'll as in
Germany.
SHINES was recently elected to the
Reichstag. He is the most powerful
individual in the republic. He came
to Spa not as a delegate, but as the
largest owner in the industries on
whose operation the payment Of the
German reparations depends. He
retains even in defeat the insuffer-
able arrogance characteristic of the
"robber barons" of the Rhineland,
as DR.. Muhlon called them. He had
to be rebuked at the very start by
Chairman Delacroix for saying in
sultingly to the Allied representa-
tives: "Any one who is not afflicted
with the disease of victory"-
Yet, as Mihlon shows, these German
steel and iron barons were them
selves afflicted with loathsome form
of the disease of conquest and were
already, in the fall of 1914, parcel
ing out the natural resources of
Belgium and Northeastern France.
In his book, Germany After the
Armistice," Lieutenant Maurice
Berger, of the Belgian army, tells
OF an interesting interview he had
with SHINES in the spring of 1919.
The Westphalian super-magnate is
thus described: "He is man of
fifty years, of pronounced Semitic
type, with hard features and stiff
black hair" The Spa dispatches
say that he now dresses very shah
billy.
To Berger Herr SHINES denied
that Germany had brought on the
war, had done any wrong in invad-
ing Belgium or had committed
atrocities there. He criticized the
unnecessary destruction of some
Belgian factory equipment and the
broadening of the civilian deporta-
tions. He blamed the war on
France and Russia, and said it took
both the German army and German
industry "by surprise" It is a Curl
GUS thing that SHINES acquitted
Great Britain of any blame for the
war. That was because he was in
England in July, 1914, on a business
mission. II was over there" he said,
three weeks before the war. con-
cluding business agreements to
which that country's adhesion would
have been an absurdity if it had
had any faith in the imninence of a
New-York tribune., 1920-07-13
formidable"

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Your editorial entitled "For-
midable" compels attention. 1t hits
the nail squarely on the head. More
over, it is timely. The Republican
party needs unalloyed advice. It's
cancer Of "overconfidence" needs the
surgeons knife. The results of it's over
confidence in 1916 are we'll known. It
certainly ought to have learnt it's les
son by this. Nothing but an acutely
defensive aggressive campaign will
puncture one of the ablest Democratic
tickets within the memory of man
the Cox-Roosevelt ticket My wife
told me, on returning from local
theater last Monday, that when the
pictures of Harding and Coolidge were
thrown on the screen there was not
even as much as motion of the finger.
1t is because I. as a young Republican,
want to Sc the Harding Coolidge ticket
win next November that l am gravely
concerned about the apparent inertia
and cocksureness among Republicans.
URIAH N. MURRAY.
Boston, Mass, July 9, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-13
Senator Harding's Pencil Point

Unlike President Wilson, Senator
Harding does not use a typewriter.
He says that his thoughts flow more
freely from the pencil point. 1t
is, he adds, "habit of thirty years,
which most Of the older school of
newspaper men followed" 1t would
be interesting to know how many
of this older school have clung to
tradition in the same fashion. In
the earlier days of the typewriter
there was a feeling that it was
poor medium for original compost
tion. Would not the product of a
machine be mechanical? Seasoned
editorial writer's, however illegible
their handwriting, naturally re-
sisted the innovation. Yet there
must be fewer newspaper men now
who do not prefer hammering the
keys to holding the fountain pen.
The idea that the typewriter has
deteriorating influence on style
is still prevalent. Many jokes were
cracked at the expense of popular
novelists who took to it's use-they
had become intellectual factory
hands, so to say. The typewriter
may be no more consciously me-
chanical than the pen, once it's SIM
pie technique has been acquired
That many who have learned to use
the typewriter still prefer the pen
is a matter of personal instinct.
Thus Senator Harding is obviously
careful writer, who is in no hurry
to complete his task. The type
writer puts less of check on
tluency. There may be something
symbolic in the fact that Mr.. Hard
ing uses the one and Mr.. Wilson the
other.
Three inventions within the men,
ory of men still middle-aged have
done more than any others to revo-
lutlonize newspaper routine-the
typewriter, the telephone and the
typesetting machine. But each ad
vantage has its compensating dis
advantage. Senator Harding ex-
presses the hope that he will not
be considered reactionary because he
sticks to the old-fashioned wav of
writing. There is this to be said
New-York tribune., 1920-07-13
The Two Reasons

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Caspar Whitney has
started something. I am in the same
boat as he is, and expect to handle
the situation in the same way.
We do not want Jimmy Wadsworth
for Senator after his betrayal Of the
majority of New York Republicans by
not voting for General Wood at Chi
cago. However, if the ineffective
methods we seem obliged to work
under at present cannot prevent his
nomination for the New York Senator
ship, it would be fools trick to vote
for Democrat.
There are just two reasons why ]
shall vote the Republican ticket next
autumn:
1. The Republican party.
2. The Democratic party.
l hope soon to have a third strong
reason, namely, Warren G. Harding.
TURNER Low,
New York, July 8, 1920.
New-York tribune., 1920-07-13
Eugene

OF the trio Of unhappy empresses
of the nineteenth century the career
of Eugene of France was by far
the richest in color and romance, in
brilliant lights and deep shadows
If there be tragedy in old age count
ing the endless days and hours OF
it's own forlorn superf1uity, broodine
over the choices of youth which wis
dom, mature and merciless, no longer
blames on the blindness of imper-
sonal destiny, hers was the most
tragic fate of the three.
Elizabeth of Austria lost her only
son in the unexplained tragedy of
Mayerling. Bound by none but a
formal tie to the husband whom
she once had married for love, she
sought escape from the gloom of
her Wittelsbach mind in travel and
in Heine's poetry, until the dagger
of Luccheni opened the way to the
final escape. The tragedy of Car
lotta, after that frantic flight from
court to court in search of help for
her beloved Maximilian, was con-
summated on the morning when
Aztec soldiers fired the fatal volley
below the wall of Queretaro. From
that moment her soul, if not her
body, was dead. The castle of
Bouchot may still house her earthly
frame; her mind has found refuge
from that unbearable haunting pic
ture in the clement twilight Of in
sanity.
Neither escape was granted to Eu-
genie de Montijo. She lived to taste
death in life. 81 have lived-I have
been. do not desire to be anything
more, not even a memory. I
live, but l am no more-a shadow, a
phantom, a grief which walks" No
words more pathetic than these were
ever uttered by one who has gained
the highest prizes this world can
yield.
Yet the test of life is, after all,
whether one would, if the choice
were given, live it over again and
pay the price once more. The
chances are that Eugene would not
refuse. No heroine of romantic fic-
tion ever was endowed by her Crea-
tor with a career so full of glory
and romance and reward as was her
life; no fairy tale has more wonders
to offer than had her reality. The
story of Cinderella looks pale and
commonplace in comparison. With
all the infinite sadness of her later
years, in her heart of hearts she
must have known that she had once
been happy woman.