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PROMISE GONE TO PROTEST.
Political history probably does not j fiord .1
parallel to tin* explicitness of the promise as
. con fra'fed with the failure of the performance
which have so far distinguished Mr. I aft's con :
neetion with the tariff.
In the early stages of the campaign started up
—on thi’ platform declaration for tariff revision, j
some political seer brought the charge that, there
being two directions in which "revision” might
proceed, the idea of the Republican leaders was
to keep the ph*dge by a revision "upward".
At that time the charge looked the hoax which
the platform declaration afterwards established
had been played on the people. Mr. Taft wli
quids to make reply. On his Western trip he
v »tatc<l that the declaration tor tariff
revision meant exactly what revision in the popu
lar -estimation hail always been supposed to
mean—a revision downward. The complaint and
the burden were the results of a high tariff: the
meaning of revision was a correction of the
trouble. It was on this plain statement that the
country accepted Air. Taft.
The country now knows that the charge which
was brought in the campaign proved to b>' true.
The, tariff was revised—with a vengeance. Had
conditions were deliberately made worse. Per
haps with a prophetic sense of the remit, special
privilege made hay while the sun shone. Graft
that had been careful became impertinent. Ad
roit "protection'* threw off the mask ami became
robbery open and altove board. There "hc a
carnival of the "pork barrel ", which the people
by law are compelled to keep constantly iilie 1.
There might have been hope for Mr. Taft had
he disapproved this action. He would have retain
ed personally the confidence of the people, hud he
repudiated the effort to repudiate his own prom
ise. Instead, he not only signed the hill, hut en
dorsed it. lie took the burden of his own dis
honesty. Like the "stamlpat” leaders, he glorified
in and justified what he could not excuse.
Widely known as are these simple facts, it
comes now with little grace for the President to
turn in extremity u|*oit the men with whom he
has trained, it is humiliating to hear him again
jvoice the promise he has broken. It wd! raise a
disgusted laugh throughout the country for the
people to hear the President who declared Jie
Upward revision of the tariff to be the bes. taiiff
law ever written now declaring that at the next
session of Congress there will be a real revision.
Not the President, nor any other man, can in
. definitely blow hot and cold. The people tire
of promises as a diet. I he people remember noth
ing, so well as a promise that is broken. Mr. Taft
.will gain nothing by his attitude of crawling
panic except, possibly, the addition of u new con
tempt to a well established distrust.
Another promise is poor payment, for one al
ready gone to protest.
VIGILANCE AXI) FAIR DEALING.
There is, jiossibly, as much science in the hon
i- ©sty of business as there is in business itself. By
tlus we mean to say that a mere jiersonal hon
esty is not the whole equipment necessary to
honest dealing. There is needed in addition the
*»*4-rnwi viinhirici' nw*v-^nrv to vmiko a flYWiil intPiit
an established fact. Every merchant, every man
Ijfacturer, every business man has far more than
his own conscience to answer for. He must pro
tect himself as well as his customers. He must
be watchful in season and out of season to see
that what he himself represents in perfect faith
is not actually a fraud. To be honest himself,
he must have the genius to make others be honest
to him. -Many a business has been ruined by
underlings zealous to the point of unscrupulous
ttess. Many a reputation has been lost to men
not only without guile themselves, but so guileless
as to permit themselves to deal fraudulently with
out knowledge of the fact.
North Carolina is now affording a fine example
of these simple truths in the case of one Elder
fSimpkins, proprietor of the Simpkins cotton seed,
• brand which he developed and from the sale
-1ft- which ne has accumulated a fortune. The
peed itself is a marvel as a producer. It is known
front one end to the other of the cotton States.
And Simpkins, who started as a poor man and
used his head in co-ordination with hie hands,
lias come to a rapid affluence.
Now, however, Editor Dockery, of the Rock
ingham Post, a practical farmer and a man of
Unimpeachable character, makes the charge of
fraud, saying that he, has personal knowledge of
the Simpkins seed, having bought two lots—
■i; fifty bushels, two years ago and fifty bushels
k this year,—and “is prepart'd to show that they
piv at) awful ginhouse mixture, containing almo-t
rery variety of cotton.” The Post is informed
that "Ur. Simplon* sells a great many car loads
of seed and raises very few of thorn himself,
that his sacks are branded ‘Pure Simpkins Cot
ton Seed, raised by W. A. Simpkins.’ ’’ Editor
1 tockery “happens to know-’ that “Mr. Simpkins
buys seed and sf-lls them under his brand from
paries who never bought any of his seed, l’he
fact is, these seed are the king seed and if they
were pure there would be no better on strong
laud.” _ ^
It happns that, wo know Elder Simpkins. A
ilollar that he knew to bo dirty would burn his
palm. lie is what is known as a “Hardshell
Papist”, a preacher in his church, raised in its
simple creed of rugged honesty. Yet the Dockery
charge cannot lie dismissed for this reason, and
the facts seem to show that a man who found his
own wav of making a fortune has simply per
mitted himself to bo imposed on. lie has brought
in question his own honesty by trusting too much
the honesty of others. Doubtless he ha- been
dazzled by. success and in the effort at gain he
may have unwittingly committed a fraud, if it
shall appear that 1 lie seed he has sold are not in
reality those which constitute his capital, the
fact of his personal honesty will not avail. He
will have sacrificed a reputation of u lifetime
to the faults of others.
For in the equation of honesty, business looks
for the purpose of its self-protection altogether at
the result, and not at, all to the intent.
"CANNOT STAND THE GAFF’.
Prior to President Taft’s pie t for the mercy
of “my distinguished predecessor/ hr l ir
t/iniat), in taking note of the New \ ork situation,
headed an editorial with the query, “Will 1 aft
Fight<"
The query, as we saw it, was pertinent for
several reasons: First, because every indication
pointed to the fact thut a tight was inevitable;
second, because the uncertain and dubious qual
ity of recent Presidential actions was sufficent
to raise the douht ; third, because the quest.inn
that wac applicable to Taft could nni apply to
Roosevelt. Roosevelt, at leant, will light, even
if he does have a band to advertise the fact;
whatever of pugnacity may have been concealed
at one time beneath the Presidential adipose lias
not been much in evidence.
Would Taft light i was a question which we
think the country was asking itself, and the an
swer to which was a disappointment to the coun
try, in common with ourselves. In the growing
certainty that. Mr. Taft could not escape the beat
itig that the future held for him-r—whether it cairn
at the hands of tin* friend who has lieen per
sistently engaged in undermining him, or at tin
| hands of the open enemy of t?u* Democracy—
(every reason dictated the desire on the part oi
• every citizen who held the government m re
spec! that he should tight, rather than lie down
Since jhat time, events have shown the Pres
ident in a position of recumbency. Ignominious
lv and with a whine he waits the kick that he
must see is inevitable, which yet he attempts ti
; postpone. We hold that it is a public misfor
tune tha\ when the. opportunity existed to slam
up for his medicine, the President now lies dowi
and cringes against taking it.
How widespread the disappointment is may b
illustrated by the reply which the Petor-bur;
Index-Appeal made to the query mentioned
Staling that an "Ohio newspaper man once ha'
|doubts on the subject, but they were speedily
dispelled when the future President gave him
Ttenble thrashing, and then sat on his prostrah
jform until a promise was given to leave 'hi
'State”, our neighbor says:
“Will Taft light! Don't you be de
ceived by that smile, for the man that
smiles and smiles is the worst man in
the world to tackle when he 0 angered.
Instantly, all the milk of human kind
ness in his nature changes to virtiol,
and there's sure to be something do
ing and lots of it. When von want
to negotiate an easy proposition, call
down the bluffer that is always look
ing for a tight, and if you call him
right he will come down promptly,
and there will be no light. But don’t
try the experiment on the good-na
tured. smiling man, unless you mean
business. As between the President
and his predecessor, we would pick
the President, as a tirst-class fighting
tnan, and \ve Itelieve that the impend
ing tight in the Republican party will
vindicate the soundness of our judg
i ment.”
"Rig Bill” may have been a terrible fellow it
| his younger days in the Buckeye State. Hi
, local reputation inav have been jnf the hest, am
I he may have been a bruiser of whom all the othe
bruisers were afraid. But that was before lie go
into fast company. That was before ho had ha<
enlightmenf at the hands of the “profesh”. Am
that, too. was before he had received a hearty
jolt or two. Many a magnificent fighter crumple
up at the first punch, and is thenceforward fi
i to do no more than groom some man who ha;
none as well as strength. “Will Taft Fight ?
l\Ve regret to say that, everything goes to indicat
,thnt he will not. As the old time chicken fighter
used to have it. “lie cannot stand the gaff”.
!_
I
THE UNKNOWN DEATH
| Near the Sixth Avenue entrance to Centrt
Park in New York, Sunday, a man suddenl
i threw up his hands and sank in pain to the pave
ment. He was serionBly shot through one wris'
Two Italians shortly afterwards felt stingin,
j pains and discovered that they had been strnc
by bullets. A woman, also, was slightly wounc
H
All of the victims were stricken within i
[circle of fifty feet. Not a sound indicated whenc
I the shots had come. Not a vapor of smoke dis
jdosed the presence of the perverted individual
I who, in a resj>cctable neighborhood in a great
[city, was engaged in watching the people pass
I the point lie hud selected on the highway, as a
hunter might lie in wait along a deer trail.
|Surrounded by civilization, in elbow touch with
the ordinary Sunday crowds making for the
jPark, these people were struck by bullets which
came out of the void with not even so much to
indicate their origin as in the ease of a bolt of
lightning.
For hours a fashionable club in the neigh
borhood was held in a panic, policemen were
stationed in the danger zone to warn away ped
estrians, and on the wall of the park and on the
pavement were found the marks of scores of!
| bullets, indicating that the hidden and silent
marksman bad many mure misses than hits to j
ibis credit. Although the investigation showed1
that the shooting had been going on for several
'days and had been indulged in at all hours
I from 2 A. M. until late in the afternoon, there
was absolutely no clue to the perpetrator and:
j apparently no way of reasonably hoping to dia-j
cover him.
' Fndoubtedly, this dramatic, incident in the
I life of a great city was made possible by the use'
iof the Maxim ‘‘silencer” for firearms. \\ hen this
invention was perfected a year or so ago, the
world was quick to see its possibilities as a means
(of assassination, as well as in the conduct of war
fare. Smokeless powder and high power
rifles bad already,gone far toward making life
.unsafe against any marksman murderer. I he
silencer removed the one danger of detection,
the sound of the discharge as a betrayal of the
criminal. If it wore possible for one to deal
: noiseless death from a window or roof, the last
I safeguard of the law against, tlu; secret assassin
would Is- destroyed. So that in recognition of
the harmful potentialities ot the invention,
tteiwit ion! K’ i.i-ovr I* n rr.iuniii
up put the ban upon its .-ale, On ly in the United
•States, characteristically careless of human life,
was it possible for the private individual to go
into the market and openly purchase the most
modem facility for murder.
Strangely enough, the common fear and the
-numerous fictional predictions have, up to the
Central Park episode, lacked confirmation in
experience. This was in part due to the high
stand taken bv the manufacturers in refusing to
place their invention on pistols, and in part to
the lack of general information concerning the
invention itself, which is sold in the main to
armies. The mysterious marksman of New York
has, however, given a practical demonstration of
a vital danger, .no doubt he is insane, but for
all that he is highly suggestive to the criminal
• and * be anarchist. More than that, the wide
, | publicity given the incident will suggest a means
-1 to many in whom is the mischievous germ of
.that peculiar madness which glories in doing a
secret hurt. Nothing is better known to psychol
> ogv than the sort of maniacal egotism that
j prompts the doing of a thing which will prove
l a mystery to all except the perpetrator of the
, deed. If some action is not speedily taken, it is
well within the possibilities that criminal and
insane cunning will out of the Maxim silencer
r const met a reign of terror which shall compete
. with the horror of the always pending death that
1 distinguished the reign of the Borgias.
1 Monday’* You.-.. York Herald is rospomdbh* for
' ja headline in which it is stated that ‘‘Dignified
!Silence of Mr. Taft Heals Disorder in Party”.
When he did finally open his mouth he destroyed
the one and produced the other.
In the light of Air. Taft's declaration that he
will favor a further revision of the tariff, the
| Wright aeroplane will have to look to the “high
cost" for its height honors.
| Tennessee Claflin (l.ady Francis Cook) de
clares that American girl do not go abroad to
drink and smoke. We had understood all along
that they went in the hope of catching a title
before learning noble ways.
*1, -
.1,* l> \f
T_
Cudahy secured n divorce from her husband
was that, of excessive cruelty to her banker lover.
Colonel Roosevelt is pleased with President
Taft’s letter. Another fact tending to show that
Roosevelt is the only one of a kind.
Hon. Joseph Sibley, who was arrested for
j buying votes immediately after ho had issued a
. statement withdrawing from the race for Con
t gress, can at least declare that the goods were
] never delivered.
l]
It appears that the Hon. Hoke Smith is one
s man with a good deal of fat who has managed
to ‘‘come back’’.
< | '—
' It was really all over with the lion. ‘‘Little
3 Joe” Brown so soon ns the commercial State of
s Georgia discovered that he had been flirting
with the Muse.
j The Paris fire chief has been visiting Pitts
1 burg, and expresses himself as delighted with the
y, speed of the department. He will never be able,
I however, to make Paris as “fast” as the oity of
. I smoky millionaires.
£ The Republicans are preparing to pnt forth a
Congressional candidate to contest in the election
.with Captain Lamb. A stationary run is vain
i , able as exercise but hardly exbilirating as a
e I spectacle.
ft.
SOCIAL AND
PERSONAL
Mr* Benjamin C. Tilghman. of Philadelphia, gave
an al fresco tea at the Casino at the Virginia Hot
Springs Monday afternoon, assisted by Mrs. Walter
McMlchael. The company Included ^Justice and Mrs.
Horce Lurton, Mr. and Mrs. George Cole Scott. Mr. and
Mrs. Frederick Scott, Miss Frances Scott, of Richmond;
Mr. and Mrs. Abble Barnard. Miss Caroline Wood, Mr.
and Mrs. C. 8. W. Packard, Mr*. Robert C. Drayton,
Miss Ellen Hopkins, Mrs. Edward Colston. Miss Judith
Colston. Mrs. Edgar Bright, Mrs.'Charles Neave, Miss
I,e Molne, William Rogers. B. H. Wood. William Hop
kins and William Shepard Bryan, Jr. Mr. and Mrs.
George C. Scott gave a lawn party at Fern Villa on
tW same evening, when the piazzas and lawn were
hung with Japanese lanterns, and a buffet supper was
served.
Bishop Beverly Tucker was host on Monday after
noon nt a luncheon at the Fasslfern to eight .guests,
who drove over from the Homestead by way of Dunn s
Gap.
William Felton gave a dinner at the Oaks Monday
night for the Misses l^iulse and Sarah Gibson and
George and John Duncan.
Box Party In Roanoks.
Mr. A. Watt Bethea was the host of a delightful box
part.v at the Jefferson Theatre, Roanoke, on Monday
evening. His guests included Miss Helen Churchill,
Mr. Roy Smith. Jr., Miss Dorothy Buckner, Mr. Stewart
Ragland, of Richmond; Miss Virginia Michael, Mr.
Dickey Thompson, Miss Margaret Byrum, Mr. Bob
Peters. Miss Martha Wentworth, Mr. Versa! Spaulding,
Miss Mary Ferguson and Mr. A. Watt Bethea. Mrs.
Graham Claytor chaperoned the affair.
At the Country Club.
Quite the vogue for smart society In Richmond Is
a drive In the late afternoon to the Country Club,
where groups of friends entertain arid are being en
tertained at small tables dotting he lawn or placed
In the piazza overlooking the rolling greensward and
the trees, bordering the river. Hosts of supper par
ties and others present at the club on Saturday even
ing invluded: Mr. and Mr*. John H. Munco. Mrs. James
I.yons, Dr. M. G. Burke. Mrs. J. Caskle Cabell. Mr.
and Mrs. Hiram T. Gates, Mrs Blount Mason, of Balti
more; Mr. and Mrs. St. George Anderson. K. T. D.
Myers. Jr.. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Bolling, Mr. and
Mrs. William 1- Royall, Mrs. Barker G. HamiU. of
Trenton; Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Taylor, Dr. und Mrs.
Hugh Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kruse, of Pittsburg;
Mr. and Mrs. Charles U. Williams, Dr. and Mrs. Fisher.
Ben Valentine. Mr. and Mrs. prank Powers. Mrs. De
Witt Adams, Miss Ross. Mrs. Palmer. Mis* Helen
Adams, Miss Younger. Miss Anita Cuasens, Mr Antrim,
Mr. James Dunlop, Mr. and air*, e*. i. ontnuse
many others.
Sydnor—Mead®.
~Invitations hav e been received here announcing the
approaching marriage of the Rev. Charles William
Sydnor. pastor of Christ Episcopal church, of Poca
hontas. Ya., to Miss Lizzie Brockenbrough Meade,
the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Kverard Meade,
• •f Aceotink, Ya. The marriage will take place at
the Pohick church of that place on Setpember 1.
Mr. Sydnor Is a native of Petersburg and has lived
in Portsmouth the past three years since his ordination
to the ministry.
Warrantor! Horss Show. »
Society in Richmond is much interested in the War
renton horse show, which takes place August SI
and September 1. Fauquier can boast some of the
finest horses in the State, and the Warrenton show
is always a success from every viewpoint. A mnn
i her of house parties will be given at that time at the
beautiful country homes around Warrenton. w hore quite
a colony of Richmond people have been spending the
summer. The town will be overrun with charming
i visitors and any number of charming little functions
j will be the order of the day.
Entertain Guests at Barkeloy Springs.
Mr. and Mrs. J. GrlfT Edwards and Mrs. Griffin F Ed
wards. of Portsmouth, Ya., who are now st l erkeley
Springs. W. Ya.. will return home on August 2*. Mr
; Edwards has been wonderfully improved by the trip
Mrs. Edwards, the noted leader of the Confederate
: choirs, has been delighting the guests with the old
Southern songs and last week an informal concert
cleared fifty dollars for the benefit of the Catholic
church there.
Touring In Virginia.
Mrs C. S. Gooken. Mrs. W. G. Peebles, of Carters
ville. Ala.; Miss Daisy Gabbert. Miss Hoke, of Rich
mond. and Mr. J.,S. Boatwright form an automobile
; party who are touring Southwest Ylrginla. Th-v spent
the week end at Natural Bridge, which is u favorite
resort with the many tourists this season.
Th® Militiaman to Ent®rt®in.
Since the signal social successes achieved by the
Richmond Eight Infantry Klues at the opening of their
armorv in the spring. Richmond has awaked to the
fact that in her military organizations the life Is not
entlrelv one of routine drill. Just as all work end no
play will make Jack a dull boy. it will have the same
effect on the soldier boys. With this In view. Major
Bowles is now engaged in arranging dales for a series
of full dress battalion drills, to be followed by music
. II-d dtpo-loft-_These -Informal be a—41stIne®
addition to the social life In Richmond during the
coming fall and winter
I Activity along the line of festivities is not confined
to the Blues, for the Richmond Howitzers will be hosts
at an attractive reception on Thursday evening, mark
ing the formal opening of the athletic department oi
i their armory. The square between the two buildings
i will be hung with Japanese lanterns and there will be
I music and refreshment*'. This will be ladles- nighty and
a number of Invitations have been sent out for this a,
fresco affair.
Personals.
Major and Mrs. James H. Dooley, who have beer
l abroad for several months, will sail for America or
, Saturday. August 27. They will spend a month ot
more at the northern toast resorts, returning to May
i mont" about the middle of October.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. McMahon, who have beer
spending some time In the mountains of North Caro
lina. are now at Cape Henry. They will return tc
Richmond the last of the week.
• • •
Mrs Claude A- Swanson, who has been at her coun
try estate. ‘-Eldon.- most of the summer, left on Satur
day for the Greenbrier White Sulphur 8prlngs.
• • •
Misses Myrtle and Essie Dodson, who have been thi
guests of friends In this city for some time hav<
returned to their home in ^Danville. Miss Myrtle Dod
son Is a graduate of the Woman’s College her®.
• r* snip* I* r»f th«
Wavsrley" at Virginia Beach.
Mr John C. Howlett leaves Richmond Wcdnekdaj
evening for a ten day*' trip to Baltimore and Phila
delphia. * _
Mr* Prank A. McMillan has relumed to her home It
Newport New a after upending two weeks with her pa
rents tn this city. # .
Miss Mabel Leldy. of 2713 Bust Marshall street hat
returned home after a visit of eight weeks to frlendt
In Newport News and Leigh Hall.
The Itev William T. Ball, pastor of Tabernn -le Bap
tist church. left Tuesday for Northfteld. Moat, wjen
he will spend several weeks at the Moody Bible School
Mr. and Mrs. 8. K. Norris, of this ctt>% are vlajtlni
Mr. Norris’ parents. Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Norris, or
Prince street, Alexandria.
Mrs. H. G. Manson, Mrs. W. Gray Watson, Mist
Ha tel tine Watson, Misses Helen and Mil lax Gray Wait
son are spending some time In Roanoke. They hav<
been guests at 'Edge Hill." In Montvale. the past twe
months.
The launch Ruth, owned by Mr. Davis, of Rich
month carried^ Jolly party to Ocean View last Satur
day Among those participating were Mr. Davis, Mr
Arthur Garred. Messrs George and Horace Cair, Curtli
Andrews and T. G. Scroggins.
Colonel E. L. Edmondson, of Staunton, is spendlni
several days In the city.
Mrs. Robinson, of Norfolk, who has been vlsitlnf
friends In this city, returned to her home In Redgati
avenue Tuesday.
Mr and Mrs. James H. Dugglns and family havt
returned from Virginia Beach^and Ocean View
Mrs William Karrar. whp has been visiting In Rich
mond, has returned to Newport News, accompanied bj
Miss Kate Welle.
• • •
Miss Lucy Beveridge, of West Grace street, h»i
: f:
returned from a Western tour through Wlsconun, low*
and Dakota.
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Bernard Robb la spending his vacstion at Grg^»
mont, the Robb home In Caroline county, which la'howt
the scene of a family gathering.
f WAS HE DOOMED 1
By LOUISE OLNEY.
(Copyright, 1»10, by Associated Literary Press.)
His worry began the moment he mat Aide Thorns.
**■ afraid he could not keep away from her.
and he knew that If he did not he was doomed to
m Jove. He was not ready to fall In love—•
thoughtful observation of hla comrades showed him
a J *a.uc" a ,,*te u,u*”y Progressed into matrimony.
And -he was not ready, financially or sentimentally,
for marriage, it had always been hla idea that a
man should be at least thirty before taking such a
step, and that he should not ask a girl to share hla
early bitslnesa struggles. And he was only twenty
11'e and just beginning to mi|i« good with the run
down factory his father had left him. John Stoner
began to do some steady thinking on the aubject—•
which never yet In the world's history has helped
u man In his love troubles.
The first self-suggestion was to Bee. to refuse on
plea of extra busy times all the summer gaieties
planned during her stay at the home of hla friends,
the nitons. The next one, the fatal one, was that
perhaps that one little dancs had cast a glamour
over charms which would vanish by day. Ha would
go to the all-day picnic planned for 8unday, flml
freckles on her nose or a flaw in her temper, and
be cured. This was a beautiful plan, but It did
not work out. He went to the picnic, was oast bjf
Fate as her partner, found the freckles, which,
however, only added piquancy to her fair beauty.
Also when she fell Into a passion because another
man shot a bird—John found It an admirable thin®
in her. ^
When he reached home that night he worried mors
than ever—because he was mortally afraid that he
i coul<l never In the world get her to love him. J1m
Elton told him tales of her conquests In the West,
and of how she had refused a score or so of good
• mftn an<J true, not caring enough even to wear thslr
| eoslps at her belt. Jim said she was the most
j Indifferent little minx in creation and superfluously
j advised his friend to chase about with her and b*
amused and amusing, but to leave his nloe, solid,
marriageable heart locked up In his top bureau
drawer. This was fine advice, and suffered the com
mon fate of advice-—|t was not taken John as
| sented readily—and went on to his fate, not blindly.,
j hut with h!s eyes wide open.
With posslhle marriage staring him In the face, he
! redoubled his business efforts—there was a certain
i little house he wanted to buy and furnish in case—
S anything should happen.
«na ne ini«na»(l to make things happen. Aid*
Thorne's career was followed by happen toy Ha
began to devote himself wildly to her. though say
ing no word of hts reelings. Then In the watches
of the r»lght he would review hts actions of the day,
curelng himself for a stupid Idiot that knew noth-,
ing about women A month before he would havs
called himself a wise man for knowing nothing
about them.
One miserable night after he had been especially
entertaining to her all the evening, he recalled a
story he had read somewhere In which a man had
won a skittish and elusive maid by using the weapon
of Indifference. Should hw try Indifference? Could
he try it without her seeing the ruse'
The next evening he let himself, with apparent
I reluctance, be absorbed by the wilful fascinations of
1 Edith Shore. Edith, had he known It. was more
i than ready for a sentimental encounter with this
handsome young man whose tack of Interest In her
se« had piqued all the girls In the set that was logi
cally his. But she was too wily to be openly grail
fled—she hedged and fenced, and was. moreover,
so really rharmlng. so genuine, that he found It
very pleasant, even though Aide Thorne was show
ing the most subtly flattering willingness to oe adored
by a man ten years her senior.
From then on things were In a hopeless tangle.
When he went back to Aide she was too occupied
to notice him. and he was finally, at all the email
picnics and dances and motoring trtps. thrown Into
i the society, of Edith Shore.
One worry changed Itself Into another. Edith
acted as If she owned him. and he was afraid Aid*
! was not In the least troubled. Then a comforting
i light oame to him 1 la Mrs. Jim's careless conver
| satlon.
i "I can’t sec.” said that small lady, "why Aids
detesta Edith Shore as she does—she will hardly
treat her well enough so 1 dare ask her to the house'.
She calls Edith a 'horrid cat,’ and won't say why
I can't see that the girl haa been anything but loveiv
; to Aide. And I've been watching like a hawk to
discover any reason for it—she surely can't be Jeal
ous?" Then .the talk flowed into other channels.
But John went home that night with a new hop*
In his heart Did she hat* Edith because of h.s
i absorption In the latter? How could he find out?
He would have liked to aak her flatly—It was his
method of doing things
for Miss Thorne, and asked her to go canoeing with
him. She assented a little languidly but pleasantly.
' and suggested taking lunch, so they would not have
to get back to dinner unless they liked—and “unless
you have some evening engagement," she added. He
declared himself unexpected and unattached tor as
long as she would have him about.
By the time the cook had prepared the lunch, t nd
Aide had rid herself of several callers. It was w,-!l
toward evening before they got away. John launched
his pretty canoe, helped the girl In. and paddled close
i In to shore under the cool shadow of the overhang
ing trees.
It was very quiet and restful, and something like
peace stole Into the man's heart as he studied the
sweet face opposite him and marked Its expression
of content. It seemed so natural for them to be
together that he could have sworn that she was
thinking the same thought at the same moment.
He once half opened his lips to tell her how close she
came to hta heart, and then he waa assailed by a
doubt as to how to tell her.
He kept on paddling—at leaat he could do that well.
He did It Indian fashion, kneeling, using a stngis
blade. The wind stirred his heavy dark hair about
his head, and the wistfulness In his eyes as he looked
at the girl made her suddenly sensitive to his gsie.
Her clear blue eyes met hie d*rk ones and wavered
away, while a veritable wavs of a rosy Mush sub
merged her face. His pulse beat hard and fast —
oh. she did care, she did. she must! He forgot his
doubts as to the right manner, and suddenly said:
"Aide—Aide—'* when ah^ gave a sudden nervous
water, struggling to keep above the surface. The
girl was a swimmer, but she let him keep an arm
about her. 8he shook the water trom her face, let
the current drag back her hair, and gave him a mis
chievous look.
"What were you saying when 1 Interrupted by tip
ping you out?”
"I was just going to ask you to marry me.’* ha
i sputtered, "but If you prefer attempting suicide and
i murder to hearing me out—" He stopped for breath,
and then finished righting the oanoe. "Now," he eaid.
“I shall have to get you ashore somehow. As you
see. the paddle has gone down stream. You're a pretty
good swimmer, and If you’ll keep beside me, I can
get the canoe to land and Improvise a paddle to get
back w'ith. Shall we start?"
She hesitated, then laughed a little, blushing again,
j "I forbid you to mention—what you were going
! to—on land.’’ He Interrupted her with masculine
i rudeness.
“All right—then I'll have It out here. I hmt-jat*.—
i and want you to Iftafry me. Will you?" He put an
arm about her, drawing her cloear to him. She did
' not answer, and he shook her a little?
"I’m—a little scared, and pretty—wet, but If you
, don’t mind taking me—like this, why I suppose—"
Again he Interrupted her, but not by mere words.
"It’s rather wet.” she said demurely beneath her
breath, "the—kiss, I mean."
Then, without warning, she broke from his hold
and swam swiftly away from him to the shore. lie
followed more sldwly with the canoe, and finally
clambered out upon the send, where she stood wring
ing the water from her long hair.
"And this one Is wet, too—anil this, and this." hs
said in a dry tone.
She laughed, but she denied neither the sentiment
nor the fact.
The man who watts for something to' turn up
orally gets turned down.
“A novelty, shirts without buttons.” reads an
vertlsement. That's nothing uev», Mhny 4
has wont them for year*
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