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CHAPTE FER V
When ] Am Mary.
Andersonville.

Anoersonvlle.
 Well, here I am. I've been here two days now, and 1 guess I'd better write down what's happened so far, before forget it.
 First, about my leaving Boston. Poor, dear Mother did take on dread fully, and 1 thought she just wouldn't let me go. She went with me to the Junction where l had to change, and asked the conductor to look out for me. GAS if 1 needed that-a young lady like me I'm fourteen now. l had birthday last week.)
 But 1 thought at the last she just wouldn't let me go, she clung to me so, and begged me to forgive her for all she'd brought upon me ; and said it was cruel, cruel shame, when there were children, and people ought to stop and think and remember, and be willing to stand anything. And then, Tn the next breath she'd beg me not to forget her. and not to love Father bet ter than l did her. GAS if there was any danger of that ) And to write to her every few minutes.
 Then the conductor cried, "All aboard!' and the bell rang, and she had to go and leave me. But the last l saw of her she was waving her hand kerchief, and smiling the kind of a smile that's worse than crying right out loud. Mothers always like that. No matter how bad she feels, at the last minute she comes up bright and smiling, and just as brave as can be.
 had wonderful trip to Anderson Vile. Everybody was very kind to me, and there were lovely things to see out of the window. The conductor came in and spoke to me several times mot the way you would look after Child, but the way gentleman would tend to lady. I liked him very much.
 There was young gentleman in the seat Tn front, too, who was very nice. ne loaned me a magazine, and bought some candy for me; but l didn't see much more of him, for the second time the conductor came in he told me he'd round a nice seat back in the car on the shady side. He noticed the sun came in where I sat, he said. q hadn't noticed it speciality But he picked up my bag and magazine-but l guess ne forgot the candy box the nice young gentleman in front had just put on my Wlndow-sill, for when I got into my new seat the candy wasn't anywhere;
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Then the Conductor Called "Ali Aboard!" and the Bell Rang, and She Had to Go and Leave Me.

and of course I didn't like to go back for it. But the conductor was very nice and kind, and came in twice again to see if 1 liked my new seat; and Of course I said I did. It was very nice and shady, and there was a lady and a baby in the next seat, and l played with the baby quite lot.
 It was heaps of fun to be grown up and travelling alone! 1 sat back in my seat and wondered and wondered what the next six months were going to be like. And I wondered, too, if I'd forgotten how to be Mary"
 Dear mel How shall I ever re- member not to run and skip and laugh loud or sing, or ask questions, or do anything that Marie wants to dor" 1 thought to myself. And l wondered If Aunt Jane would meet me, and what she would be like. She came once when was little girl, Mother said; but I didn't remember her.
 Well. at last we got to Anderson vile. John was there with the horses, and Aunt Jane, too Of course l knew she must be Aunt Jane, because she was with John. The conductor was awfully nice and polite, and didn't leave me till he'd seen me safe in the hands of Aunt Jane and John. Then he went back to his train, and the next minute it had whizzed out of the sta- ton. and I was alone with the begin o< e
 The first beginning was nice smile, and a Glad to see ye home' Miss" from John, as he touched his hat, and the next was HOW do you do, Mary?' from Aunt Jane. And I knew right off that first minute that I wasn't going to like Aunt Jane-Just the way she said that Mary" and the way she looked me over from head to foot.
 Amt Jane is tall and thin, and wears black-not the pretty, stylish black but the "I-don't-care" rusty black-and stiff white collar. Her eyes are the kind that says, I'm sur prised at you!" all the time, and her month Is the kind that never shows any teeth when 1t smiles, and doesn't smile much. anyway. Her hair Is some gray. and doesn't kink or curl any where : and I knew right off the first minute she looked at me that she didn't like mine cause it did eul1.
 I was pretty sure she didn't hke my clothes, either. I've since round ont she didnt-but more of that anon. q just love that word "anon.O And I inst knew she disapproved or my hal. But she didn't say anything not in words-and after wed attended to my trunk, we went along to the car riace and got in. My starsl didn't sunpose horses could go so slow. why, we were ages just going block. You see I'd forgotten; and without think ing spoke right out.
 My! Horses are slow, aren't they" cried. You see, Grandpa has an auto, and"
 Mary r"-just like that she inter- rupted-Aunt Jane did, >qunny DOW
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Fathers come. He came yesterday. But didn't know it, and l came run ming downstairs. ending with llttie bounce for the last step. And there, right in front of me in the hall vas Father.
 I guess he was 8s much surprised as I was. Anyhow, he acted so. He just stood stock-still and stared, his face turning all kinds of colors
 Your he gasped, just above his breath. Then suddenly he seemed to remember. "Why. yes, yes, to be sure. You are here, aren't you? How do you do Nary"
 He came up then and held out his hand, and I thought that was all he was going to do. But, after a funny little hesitation, he stopped and kissed my forehead. Then he turned and went into the library with very quick steps. and I didn't see him again till at the supper-table.
 At the supper-table he said again, How do you do, Mary?" Then he seemed to forget all about me. At least he didn't say anything more to me; for three or four times, when l glanced up, found him looking at me. But just as soon as l looked back al him he turned his eyes away and cleared his throat, and began to eat or to talk to Aunt Jane.
 After dinner-I mean supper-he went out to the observatory, just as he always used to. Aunt Jane said her head ached and she was going to bed. 1 said I guessed l would step over to Carrie Heywood's; but Aunt Jane said, certainly not; that l was much too young to be running around nights in the dark. Nights And 1t was only seven o'clock, and not dark al all But of course couldn't go.
 Aunt Jane went upstairs, and l was left alone. I didn't feel bit like reading; besides, there wasn't a book or a magazine anywhere asking you to read. They just shrieked, "Touch me not l" behind the glass doors In the library. hate sewing. l mean Marie hates it. Aunt Jane says Marys got to learn.
 For time just walked around the different rooms downstairs, looking at the chairs and tables and rugs all just so, as if they'd been measured with a yardstick. Marie jerked up a shade and pushed chair crooked and kicked a rug up at one corner; but Mary put them all back properly-so there wasn't any fun in that for long.
 After a while I opened the parlor door and peeked in. They used to keep 1t open when Mother was here but Aunt Jane doesn't use it. l knew where the electric push button was, though, and I turned on the light.
 Before I got the light on, the chairs and sofas loomed up like ghosts In their linen covers. And when the light did come on, I saw that all the old shiyer places were there. Not one was missing. Great Grandfather An derson's coffin plate on black velvet, the wax cross and flowers that had
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CHAPTER I.-Mary begins with Nurse sarah's account of her (Mary's) birth, which seemingly interested her father who is a famous astronomer, less than a new star which was discovered the same night. Her name is compromise, her mother wanted to call her Viola and her father insisting on Abigail Jane. The child quickly learned that her home vas vas small friends, and was puzzled thereat. Nurse Sarah tells her of her mothers ar- rival at Andersonville as a bride and how astonished they all were at the sight of inc dainty eighteen4year old girl whom the sedate professor had chosen for wife.
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CHAPTER II.-Continuing her story, Nurse Sarah makes it plain why the household seemed a strange one to the child and howher father and mother drifted apart through misunderstanding each too proud to in any way attempt to smooth over the situation.
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(Copyright by ELEANOR H. PORTER)
SYNOPSIS

FACE.-'Mary Marie" explains her .nnarent double personality" and just why she is "cross-current and contra Sietion;" she also tells her reasons for writing the diary-later to be novel The diary Is commenced at Andersonville.
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CHAPTER TII-Mary tells of the time spent "out west" where the perfectly all right and genteel and respectable" divorce was being arranged for. and her mothers Uo her) unacountable behavior. By the courts decree the child is to spend six months of the year with her mother and six months with her father. Boston is Mothers home, and she and Mary leave Andersonville for that city to spend the first six months.
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There's something funny about Aunt Jane.
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CHAPTER IX.-The diary takes Jump of twelve years, during which Marie (always Marie them has the usual harm Jess love affairs inseparable from girl hood. Then she meets THE man-Gerald quceessful portrait painter. They are deeply in love and the wedding follows quickly. With tho coming of the baby, Eunics things seem to change with Marie and Gerald, and they in manner drift Apart. When Eunice is i've years old, Marie decides to part from Gerald In- tSndlng to break the news to her mother. she Is reminded of her own frequently unhappy childhood and how her action IA parting from her husband will subject Eunioe to the same humiliations Her eyes opened. Marie gives up her idea of ! separation, and returns to her husband. her duty, and her love.
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(Continued next week.)
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enough to show you that England had not
hitherto interfered with them very much
and constitutes another reason for your
not blaming people who wished to stick to
a country which on the whole had treated
them very well. But the consequence of
having been so long allowed to do as they
pleased was that all these separate and
jarring States disliked the thought Of even
a loose connection between them if it were
to be permanent. It meant making con-
cessions to each other which none of them
was prepared to make. Very few people
We're willing SO early as 1774 to echo the
words Of Patrick Henry when he said: II
am not Virginian; l am an American"
Lafayette thought that the members Of
Congress hated one another as much as
they hated the common enemy.
But in the case Of the Constitution as In
the case Of the war itself events kept push
ing. Events have always this power Of
taking things out of peoples hands. You
yourself will remember this almost in your
own experience in the days before the great
world war. We as a people began and
wanted to, remain neutral, but the agrees
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sive acts Of Germany finally pushed us
into the combat. People at first were very
suspicious Of the movement which was
started along with the declaration for
permanent confederation Of the colonies.
1t was not until after the revolution had
been won and the danger of weakness in
disunion had become very clear that the
idea began to find acceptance in the minds
Of the majority. Franklin. you remember,
was called the president and not the Gov
ernor of his State; and it took five years
after the end of the war for people to get
used to the thought of having a power
above the State Assembly and an office
above that of its president. Not until then
were the leaders of the States assembled
in an actual attempt to draw up consti-
tuition. Then came four months Of bitter
debate between the leaders who wanted as
much power as possible for the national
Government and the leaders who wanted
as much power as possible for the indlvid-
ual States.
Naturally therefore. the literature of all
this period was mainly that of passionate
dispute. dispute not about theology as
that of the Puritans had been but dis
pute about politics. 1t was sometimes as
splendid literature Of its kind as the whole
world has ever produced; but it was not
the kind which we call pure literature,
writing merely for its own sake. Often,
indeed, 1t was not writing at all. Some of
the best speeches of the Revolutionary
period were not even put down on paper
ho Inn J,ou
and speeches. and speeches! Before and
during the war there were, of course.
speeches against the King and the Loyal
lists, and speeches against other people
who differed from the speaker In ideas of
how to get rid of both of them. After the
war came the second flood. Speeches by
people who wanted the States to separate
and people who wanted them to stay to-
gether And then by people who wanted
part of the proposed new Union to be
stronger than the whole, and by people
who wanted the whole to be stronger than
any of its parts. Washington said that
Congress, where only a small portion of
all these speeches took place, was torn
by the strife between persons and parties.
And Franklin said there was no telling
whether the whale would swallow Jonah
or Jonah would swallow the whale.
One feature of dispute is derision. Two
little boys or two little girls never have a
difference Of opinion without angrily maxi
ing fun of each other. They try to belittle
each others good points and exaggerate
each others bad points. We call this de-
rision, sarcasm and satire. There were
salty oceans and oceans of satire during
the War for Independence, and during the
first, fortunately bloodless, war for the
Constitution. Most Of It took the form OF
songs and ballads. Even the best of these
were like almo,. all such productions
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struck off in the heat Of battle-when the
smoke clears away they are seen to be
not so good as they seemed at the time.
You know how this works yourself. After
quarrel is over you can think of far
more singing remarks than when you
were at it hammer and tongs. But the
occasion has gone by for saying them, and
you wouldn't want to s&y them If it hadn't.
now that your blood has cooled off BIT
Then there were also many songs ana
ballads about the incidents Of the war.
These, too, are never likely to seem as
good to later gener: tion as they seemed
at the time. But some of them were GER
tainly much better than the one whic.,
stuck so long in peoples minds that 1t re-
mains there now as a n5tional song. This
is Yankee Doodle. Have you ever Won
dered how it was that a patriotic song
could be speaking Of dandy" and mac
aroni" and have such ridiculous word as
doodle" in it? 1t was largely an old
song and sung to an oc Dutch tune; and
it seems to be the original chorus which
we sing now. 1t made fun of people who
dressed UP in fine clothes and thought
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asking you to do anything, you can
put that telegram down as a forgery"
Lanes upright, vigorous and open
course in this election gave him national
prestige, and Hearst, who has never yet
succeeded in getting an elective office lex
cept that of Congressman from a district
controlled by an unsavory political ma
chine), instead of destroying Lanes poliu-
cal fortunes, as he wished to do, really ad-
vanced them. For President Roosevelt, at
tracted by Lanes courageous and unequal
fight against a sinister and hypocritical
political antagonist appointed him to a
place on the Interstate Commerce Commits
sion. There was opposition to his con-
firmation, because Lane was a Democrat.
His letters show that he declined to take
any part in wire pulling in the Senate,
which strengthened Roosevelt's confidence
in him And Roosevelt who rejoiced in
this kind of a fight. overcame the opposi-
tion, as he knew so well how to do.
Lanes record as Commerce Commits
sioner led to his being chosen by President
Wilson as the Secretary of the Interior
In his Cabinet. Lanes letters, like Walter
Pages letters, disclose the moral struggle
which went on in Washington during the
European war between President Wilson,
who thought all the belligerents in Europe
were tarred with the same stick, and the
100 per cent. Americans who had the con-
viction which my father thus expressed in
1918:
We speak Of a war in Europe. In
strictness Of speech there is no war in
Europe. There is an international posse
comttdtH8, representing more than
twenty civilized nations, summoned to
preserve the peace and protect the peace
able nations of Europe from the worst
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not treat you decently. The very ones
that were loudest in their declarations
against w. w. at every stage, now sug-
gest that you might have quit his SER
vice if you didn't like it, ! hope it will
not get under your skin
What comfort you would have given
the enemy if you had resigned! Have
they thought Of that? I came to the
brink when the President blew up my
coal agreement to save three or four
hundred million dollars for the people.
But l was stopped by the thought,
GIVE no comfort 10 Berlin" ,
Good night and good luck.
In 1920 Lane resigned from the Cabinet,
"literally forced out Of public life" as he
said, "by my lack Of resources" He went
into administrative industry, for he was
a. remarkable executive But his health
had been broken by his arduous faithful
and self-sacrificing services to the public.
In 1921 he died at the hospital Of the
Mayos in Rochester, MINI, after a major
operation. which he described in a vivid
letter sent in manifold to several friends
who had telegraphed ana written urgently
for news-a letter that ! rather think is
unique in personal literature. With this
extraordinary letter (Which by an unfor-
tunate typographical error in the book Is
dated May II, 1912, instead of May II,
1920 the volume, as well as his life,
closes.
The chief impression which carry away
from my reading of these letters is that
here was a man of str 9Th and vigorous
convictions who at the same time was
tolerant and could zee the good in every
man Lane was singularly free from parti-
sanship. Perhaps this was because he was
passionately an American.
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they were fine fellows. Perhaps the slang
word we sometimes use now for that kind
of fellow, dude" came from the same idea
as doodle" "Macaron" was the slang
word they used then and it meant about
the same as dandy" does now when you
mean chap who thinks more of his
clothes than the man inside them. So
when the British soldiers sang this song
about the American soldiers they mean.
to convey that they were just play soldiers
and not much as fighters. The first COM
plete set of new words to this old song
was "The Yankees Return From Camp"
and was written in 1775 The Yankees,
you see, took a song which made fun of
them and turned it into a victory song.
Naturally, 1t was very successful.
Such songs to be Successful do not need
to have any literary quality. If they have
a good catchy tune which can stir people,
that is all that is necessary. 1t Is almost
like school cheer. Rah! rah! rah! Bill
bo! bah!" will make much better cheer
than if you had good words or even real
ones. 1t Is the way you say them which
has the inspiring quality you want in a
cheer SO with almost all national songs
1t seems to be the tune which makes peo-
pie remember them.
Another national song of which we can
be a little prouder has entirely original
words and an original tune. 1t is Hail,
Columbia" written in 1878, when 1t looked
as though Americans might go to war with
France. For the two allies were quarreling
with each other about their rights almost
as soon as the Allies of the world war fell
to quarreling about theirs: and in that
case, as now, the quarrel did not spring SO
much from the Governments as from the
passions of unreasonable and selfish people
The third song which stuck in peoples
minds we can approve still more as liter
ature. This is "The Star Spangled Ban
ner," written actually during the lombard
ment of fort in the second war with Eng
land In 1872 1t is the words of this song
and its origin rather than the singableness
of its spirited tune which has made 1t one
of our chief national songs. The foremost
one Of all, our national hymn, was not
composed until much later, in 1882.
Many people deplore the fact that "My
Country, Tis of Thee" is not more national.
A witty person has said that 1t is only an
American translation of the English ma
tional hymn and set to the same tune.
which Is German. But why is this so de-
plorable? We are not brand new fact
in the worlds history, and all the world
has had share in the making of us. Some
day new national hymn will arise which,
while 1t will not, we hope, depreciate the
contributions other nations have made to
our success. will spring more from our own
soil. But one cannot force national hymns
tient
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A Review BY LAWRENCE F. ABBOTT.

and cunningly against Lanes candidac.
and was undoubtedly the deciding factor
the defeat of Lane, who lost the Governor
ship by a narrow margin. Lane describe
the incident thus:
On the morning of election day he
(HcarsD sent special train through
out the whole Of Northern California
containing an issue of his paper APP
pealing to the saloon keepers and wine
growers for my defeet. Later,
when Hearst budded as a candidate for
President in 1904, he sought an inter-
view with me, and said that he was not
to blame for the policy that had been
pursued. Our interview closed with
this dialogue:
'Mr. Lane, IL you ever wish any,
thing that can do, all you will have
to do will be to send me a telegram
asking and it will be done"
To which l responded, Mr.. Hearst,
II you ever get telegram from me
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Franklin and Statesman Chds Story American Lte1atu1

most highly organized and most efficient
band Of brigands the modern world has
ever known. This is not rhetoric. 1t is
an accurate and scientific statement of
the facts.
Mr.. Wilson'S obsesslor about the war
was such, for example. that he did not re-
gard our comrades in arms as allies This
singular fact comes ont in Lanes diary
under date of March /, 1918: I'VE had diff
ficulty in providing for our men in France
and for our allies (tEe President never
uses this word, saying that we are not
"allies'D
There was much about President Wilson
for which Lane had L great regard and
he was wholly and always loyal to his
chief but 1t is clear from his letters that
he must have had SOME trying moments
and experiences. Four days before his
death he wrote to his old colleague, ex-
Secretary Lansing:
am disturbed because you may be
disturbed. As / lie in bed I read and
am read to. and some of the papers do
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place of birth, date of naturalization
and the like, readily gets his pass
port.
1t is generally the persons who do not
go to the Custom House armed with
facts which common sense should tell
them would be required who encountered
trouble.
Two photographs are required to be
filed with each application for a pass
port Additional ones may be needed.
for in some foreign countries such photo
graphs are demanded of tourists
Despite the general belief it takes
"Weeks and weeks" to get passport, an
application bearing full data fled on q
Friday was sent to Washington, granted,
and the completed passport filled out,
signed and returned to the Custom
House by the following Tuesday,
The traveller does meet considerable
financial strain in getting the necessary
document for a visit to England. The
United States Government charges $40 for
the passport At the British Consulate.