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«T h is article w as w ritten a short time
b efo re G erm an y declared war. —Kdltor'a
to ta l
OU realize the moment you
step from your train into the
well regulated rush of the
Rahnof that you are in a place
where foreordination is the
highest law. Berlin is the capital of
th e empire of supreme orderliness,
the land where everything has a place
and keeps It, where there are no
■trays, where every member of soci
ety has an orbit and moves in it
■round the central sun. which radiates
■ mystic gravitation into every activ
ity of every man. woman and child of
the nation, writes Samuel P. Orth in
the New- York Tribune.
And you realize the instant you
■re tounged in the deep cushions of
the comfortable taxi and are spin
ning off to your hotel down the very
new and very lavish avenue that Ger
man frugality and thrift no longer
Bnd luxury either unattainable or un
attractive.
The German, the plain,
hard-working model German, has suc
cumbed. Like all other people, from
Egyptians and Babylonians down to
Americans, he has found that luxury
Is undesirable only as long as it is
beyond his reach.
Everywhere in the capital the prodi
gality that has replaced the ancient
frugality obtrudes Itself in an awk
ward, parvenu manner.
One is op
pressed with the notion that thes»
Germans know better, are
half
ashamed of their surrender. But lov
ing the comfortable feeling that their
sew gotten money can buy, they cling
Y
surveyor and gardener are all math
ematicians.
Mathematics Is the symbol sclencn
of this empire of exactness, because
all the conditions are postulated by
the brain of man, and therefore all
the results can be exactly predeter
mined. Euclid is the patron saint
The rehabilitation is remarkable, a
strange revolution, transforming a
people kuown for centuries for their
learning, their military prowess, their
humble thrift, into the industrial peers
of England and America
We are
always boasting of American expan
sion.
But we had a new country,
with virgin fertility, no hampering
habits and no troublesome neighbors.
Germany has a thousand years of
medievalism; had holds despoiled by
five centuries of almost constant
wars and pillage; had the habits of
peasants and handicraftsmen, the
rooted customs of a simple and home
ly folk, devoted to the soil, to the
family, to the church and to the sov
ereign.
Suddenly, through the mir
acle of federation, the warring duke
lets and prtncelets amalgamated, and
with the genesis of imperialism came
the birth of industrialism.
The Rhine valley is no longer Ailed
with legendry and lore; it is Ailed
with the smoke of rushing trains, puff
ing steamers and whirring factoriea
The workman is no longer content
with oatmeal; he covets roast goose.
Like America.
“ Berlin is growing faster than Chi
cago.”
"W e have 30 great towns,
manufacturing centers, that have
A merican E m bassy , C eklin
to It, and at the same time try to
hold the simpler ideals of the glorious
resterday.
New German Symbol.
Their architecture, for Instance,
stands as a symbol of the new Ger
many, the heavy blocks of art nou
veau that have replaced the rococo
>f long ago, and the big, plain, useful
buildings of a generation past. The
facades are stuccoed with c-ncysted
Cupids and malformed Venuses, their
truncated towers terminate in a
square chiseled caricature of a man.
The lines are straight and honest
snough.
But the square and practi
cal buildings are overlaid with all
¡he evidences of money, and money-
made taste.
The public architecture of the cap
ital is not national; it is merely im
perial. The kaiser not only person
ally names all the streets of hts cap
ital, but he censures all the designs
lor the public buildings and monu
ments. This relieves the German ar
tistic conscience of a heavy load, al
though it does not relieve the eye
¡tom the oppression of such hideous
lisplays as the "Puppen Alle,” with
Its monster row of congealed ghosts,
>r the heaps of bronze castings that
tncumber the Grosser 8tern in the
Tiergarten, or the white marble
statue of Queen Charlotte, In a j
Battenberg gown and picture hat. In
the midst of the Rose garden.
In Charlottenburg, the millionaire
suburb, with its wonderful wide ave-
tues, the panorama is that of a town
made In a confectioner's shop. The
palaces are baked sugar enormities,
placed with exactness in a mathe
matical garden, where roses are
grown by the inch and sod Is scrupu
lously measured into rectangles by
txactly straight walks of gravel and
tan bark.
The architect, draftsman.
come up in 30 years.”
These and
thousands of other sordid facts are
poured into your ear at every hand.
And poly the accent of the language
and the orderly aspect of the land
scape convince you that you are not
in America. The ordinary conversa
tion on the streets, in the hotel lob
bies, is about stocks and bonds, mar
kets, things merchantable. When I
dined with businesa men the Arst
question always was: “ When Is the
United States going to annex Canada,
Mexico, Cuba and Brazil?”
Always
Brazil. Rarely one asks you bow our
universities and laboratories are get
ting on, or whether there are evi
dences of an artistics awakening.
Business, business, proAts, tariffs!
How has Germany accomplished
this miracle? The country was full
of people 30 years ago, even after
sending us so many millions of our
sturdiest pioneers of the middle West.
Yet today there are many millions
more.
These people are Teutons,
supposed to be slow, cumbrous,
phlegmatic, patient They have shown
themselves alert, enterprising, agile,
prompt. They were for generations
devoted to books, research, art and
warfare. They have shown a wonder
ful precocity for ledgers, markets,
dividends. Not that they love learn-
ing less, but proAts more.
There Is one answer. It comes to
you everywhere In their capital. Mech
anism. It Is the mechanism of the
solar system in microscopic minia
ture!
Worlds and planets reduced
to motes and atoms. The sun Is the
state; the satellites, stars, moons,
nebulae, are the officials, the mil
lions, the underlings, are hordes.
None so rich, so wohlgoboren, none so
poor, so InsignlAcant, to escape the
sway of this political and economic
gravitation.
Author o f
“ T h » Story o l Sarah”
“ T h » Ship ol Dreams"
Etc.
Copyright by Th» Century Co,
SYNOPSIS.
Captain Abraham Rose and An galln »,
hla w ife. have lost their little home
through A b e's unlucky purchase o f T elia
Ay Gold m ining stock. Thulr household
goods sold, the |H»> auction money, all
they have left, w ill place Vh» In the Old
M an's home, o r A n gy In the Old laxity's
home
Both a r » s e lf sacrlAcIng but Abe
decides “ M y desr, this la the fust time
I'v e had a Chance to take the wust o f It."
The old couple bid good-by to the little
muse
T e rr o r o f "w h a t folk s w ill s a y "
•ends them alon g by paths to the ga te o f
the Old L ad les' nome. Miss A bigail, m a
tron o f the Old I sidles' home, hears o f
the 111 fortune o f the otd couple. She tells
'.he other old ladles, anil lllossy. who has
yalil a double fee fo r tile only double bed
chamber, voices the unanimous verdict
that Al»c must he taken In with Ms wife.
A ho aw akens next m orning to And that
la Is "O ld l.ad y No 3 1" The old ladles
fix e him such a w arm welcom e th at he
s made to feel at home at once. "B ro th er
A b e " expands under the w arm reception
o f the sisters, and a reign o f peace begins
In the Old Ladles* homo A!>o Is the cen
ter o f the com m unity
T h e semi annual
visit o f B lossy's aged lover, Capt. Samuel
D arby. Is due. Abe advlsoa her to m arry
him
F o r the Arst tim e the captain falls
to appear
Blosay consults Abe so often
regard in g D arby, his old captain In the
life-sa vin g service, that gossip begins to
bus*
Aunt Nancy takes Abe to tusk for
flirtin g with Bluesy.
H e Is much con
cerned when he learns that A n gy Is lent
ous
Blossy drives a w a y with D arby to
be married.
Abe loses popularity. The
change reacts -*n him and the d octor o r
ders him to tied. Then he Is at the merev
o f the old ladles. D arby comes to see him
CHAPTER
XI— Continued.
Abraham Aushed. Ho did not care
to recall Samuel's wedding day. lie
hastened to ask the other what had
decided him and Blosay to come to
day, and was informed that Miss Abl
gall had written to tell Blossy that If
she ever expected to see her "Brother
Abe" alive again she must cotne over
to Shoreville at the earliest possible
moment.
“ Then I says ter Blossy,” concluded j
Captain Darby. ” 1 says, says I, 'Jest
lemme see that air old henpecked
Abe Rose. I'll kill him er cure him !”
I says. Here, yer pipe’s out. Light
up ag'in !"
Abe struck the match with a trem
bling hand, unnerved once more by
the speculation an to what might have
happened had Samuel's treatment
worked the other way.
” 1 left Blossy and Aunt Nancy
a-huggin' an' a-kissln' down stairs."
Abe sighed: "Aunt Nancy ailers was
more bark than bite.”
“ Humph!
Barkin’ cats must be
tryln’ ter live with. Abe,” he tapped
the old man's knee again, "dew yew
know what yew need? A leetle vaca
tion, a change of air. Yew want ter
cut loose from this ali-Ared old ladies'
shebang an' go skylarkin’.” Abe bung
on Samuel's words, his eyes a-t.winkle
with anticipation. “ Yes,—yes, go sky
larkin'! Won't wo make things hum?”
"Thar's hummin' an’ huinmln',” ob
jected Abe, with a sudden show of
caution. "Miss Abigail thinks more o’
washday than some folks does o'
heaven. Wharabouts dew yew cak'late
on a-goin’ ?"
"Tew Bleak H ill!”
Abraham's face lost its cautious
look, bis eyes sparkled once more. Go
back to the life-saving station where
he had worked In his lusty youth—
back to the sound of the surf upon the
shore, back to the pines and cedars
of the beach, out of the bondage of
dry old lavender to tho goodly fra
grance of balsam and sea salt! Back
to active life among men!
“ Men, men, nawthin' but men!”
Samuel exploded as If he had read the
other's thought. "Nawthin’ but men
fer a hull week, that’s my prescrip
tion fer yew! llaow dew yew feel
naow, mate?”
For answer Abe made a quick spring
out of his chair, and in his bare feet
commenced to dance a gentle, rheu-
matlc-toe-concidorlng breakdown, cry
ing, "Hy-guy, Cap'n Sam'l, you've
saved my life !” While Darby clapped
his hands together, proud beyond
measure at bis ruccess as the eman
cipator of his woman-ridden friend.
Neither heard tho door ojien nor saw
Angy standing on the threshold, half
paralyzed with fear and amazement,
thinking that she was witnessing the
mad delirium of a dying man, until she
called out her husband's name. At
the sound of her frightened voice, Abe
stopped short and reached for the
blanket with which to cover himself.
"Naow don't git skeered, mother,
don’t git skeered," he adjured her.
"I'm all right in my head. Cap’n
Sam'l here, he brung me some won
derful .medicine. He— ”
"Blossy said you did!’ Interrupted
Angy, a light of Intense gratitude
flashing across her face ae she turned
eagerly to Darby. "Lemme see the
bottle.”
“ I chucked It out o' the winder,” af-
flnncd Samuel without winking, and
Abo hastened to draw Angy's atten
tion back to himself.
"See. mother, I kin stand as good
as anybody; hain't got no fever; I kin
walk alone. Yew seen me dancin’ lest
naow, tow. An’ ef I had that peaky
laetle banty rooster of a doctor here.
I'd kick him all the way deown stair»
Cap'n Sam'l'a wuth twenty Ave o' him."
"Yaw kapt the presurlptlou, didn't
yer. cap'n?” demanded Angy. “ Naow
ef he ahould be took ag'in an'—'*
Samuel turned away and ooughed.
"Mother, mother,” cried Aba. “ahet
the door an' come aet deown or all the
slaters'll come a pilin' 111. I've had a
Invite, I have.”
Angy closed the door and came for
ward, her wary suspicious eye trailing
from tho visitor to her husband
“ Hy-guy, ain't It splendid!”
Abe
burnt forth. “ Me an' Cap'n Sam'l here
Is agoln' over ter Bleak Hill fer a
weak."
"Bleak Hill In December!" Angy
cried, aghast. "Naow, see here, fa
ther,“ resolutely, “ medicine er no
medicine— "
“ He's got ter git hardened up,”
Aruily Interposed Doctor Darby; "It'll
be the makln' o' him.”
Angy turned on Samuel with ruffled
feathers.
"H e'll
freete
to death.
Yew
a han't—*'
Here Abo'a stubborn will, so rarely
set against Angy's gentle persistence,
rose up in deAance:
"W e're a gwlne on a reg'iar A No. 1
spree with the boys, an' no women
folks is a-goin1 ter stop us neither."
"Wheu?" asked Angy faintly, feel
ing Abe's brow, but to her surprise
Anding It cool and healthy.
“ Term orrer!” proclaimed Samuel;
whereupon Abe looked a little dubious
and lifted up his two feet, wrapped as
they were In the blanket, to deter
mine the present strength of his legs.
"Don’t yer think yer'd better make
it day after termorrer?" he ventured.
"Or ’long erbout May er June?"
Angy hastily amended.
Samuel gave on exasperated grunt.
"See here, whose spree la this?”
Abe demanded of the little old wife.
She sighed, theu resolved on strat
egy;
"Naow, Abe, ef yew be bound an'
possessed ter go ter the beach, yew
go; but l ‘m agoln' visitin' tew, an’
1 couldn't git the pair o’ us ready In
elds a week. I'm a-goin' deown ter see
Blossy. She ast me Jtst naow, pendin',
she says, Cap'n Sam'l here cures Abe
up ernough ter git him off. I thought
she was crazy then."
Samuel knocked the ashes out of
his pipe against the window sill and
arose to jo.
' Waal." he said grudgingly, "make
it a week from terday then, rain er
shine, snow er blow, er a blizzard.
Ef yer ever a-goin' ter git hardened,
Abe, naow's the time! I'll drive over
long erbout teu o'clock un' git some
body ter sail us from here; er ef tho
bay freezes over 'twlxt naow an' then,
ter take us In a scooter."
A "scooter,' It may be explained. Is
an iceboat peculiar to the Great South
bay—a sort of modlAed dinghy on run
ners.
"Yes— yes, a scooter," repeated Sam
uel, turning suddenly on Abe with
the sharp inquiry: "A ir yew a shiv
erin'? Hain't, eh? Waal then, a week
from terday. so be it !" he ended. “ But
me an' Blossy Is a-comln' ter see yew
off an' on pooty frequent meunat-
while; an’, Abe, ef ever I ketch yew
a-layln' abed, I'll leave yer ter yer
own destruction.”
CH APTER
X II.
“ A Passel of Meddlers.”
Angy's secret hope that Abe would
change his mind and ubandon the
projected trip to the beach remained
unfulHIled. in spite of the fact that
cold weather suddenly descended on
the South side, and the bay became
Arst “ scummed" over with ice, and
then frozen so solid that all its usual
craft disappeared, and the "scooters"
took possession of the Aeld.
Abe and Samuel held stubbornly to
their reckless Intentions; and the sis
ters, sharing Angy's anxiety, grew so
licitous almost to the point of active
interference. They withheld nothing
In the way of counsel, criticism, or
admonition which could be offered.
"Naow,” said Mrs. Homan In her
most commanding tones at the end of
a Anal discussion in the big hall, on
the evening before the dnto set for de
parture, "e f yew ’re bound, bent an'
determined. Brother Abe, to run In the
face of Providence, yew want tew
mind one thing, an’ wear yer best
set of Aannels termorrer.”
"Sho, thar hain't no danger of me
ketchin’ cold," decried Abe.
“ I didn't say yer thickest set of
Aannels; I said yer best. When a man
gits throwed out onto the ice ker-
flump, the thickness of his clo'es Bln't
goln’ to help him much. The fust
thing I alius taught my husband« was
to have everything clean an' whole on,
when thar was any likelihood of a sud
den death.”
"Yew 'spect me tew go an’ prink up
fer a sudden death?” thundered Abra
ham. "I hain’t never heard tell on a
scooter a-killln’ nobody ylt; It’s them
plagued Iceboats up state what— ”
"That's all very well,” persisted Mrs.
Homan, not to be diverted from her
subject; "but when old Doctor Billings
got run over by the train at Mastic
Crossln’ on Fourth o’ July eight year
ago, hla wife told me with her own
lip* that she never would git over It,
cu> he had his hull big toe «tickin'
out o’ the end of his stockin’. I tell
yew, the«e day« we’ve got tew prepare
fer a violent end."
The patient Angy somewhat tartly
retorted, that during the last week «he
had «pent even more time upon fa
ther'« wardrobe than she had upon
her own; while Abe Inwardly rejoiced
to think that for seven day« to come—
•even whole day«— he and Angy would
be free from the surveillance of the
sister«.
Mr«. Homan, in no way nonplussed,
boomed on:
"Thar, 1 most forgot about hi« nock-
tie. ’fo u r««, they don't d r»«» up much
at the station; but Juat the aamn that
air tie o' yourn. Brother Abe, 1« a die-
grace. 1 told yew yew'd «pile It a-
w oarin' it tew bed. Naow, 1 got a
red an' green plaid what belonged to
my second stepson, Henry O. Ho never
would '«' died o' pneumony, either, ef
he'd a-took my advice an' made hint
«elf a newspaper night cup last time
he substituted with the ‘savers. An'
yew kin have that necktie Jest as well
as not Naow. don't say a word; I’m
hatter able to part with it n yew be
not to take i t ”
No one ever attempted tbe fruitless
task of stopping Mrs. Homan once
fully launched; but whun at last she
permitted her bark to rest ugalnat her
chair, folding her arms with the man
ner of ono who makes a sacrlAce In a
worthy cause. Abo broke Into an ex
plosive protest.
If any one fretted him In bis some
what fretful convalescence. It was this
grenadier member of the household,
who since Blossy's marriage bad en
deavored to All the vacant post of
"guardeen angel."
"Mis' Holman," he sputtered, ris
ing to his feet. "1 wouldn't wear a red
an' green plaid tie to a eel's funeral!"
Then with a somewhat ungracious
"goodnight" to the company In geu
oral, he trudged across thu hall and up
the stairs, muttering something to
himself about a "passel of meddlers."
Well moaning Miss Abigail, who
had been nodding half aaleep, roused
herself to call after him, and he
paused unwillingly to heed.
"Naow, don't yewr lose no steep ter-
night," she admonished, "a-worryln'
erbout the change in yer vlttles. !
told Cap'n Sam'l that hardtack an'
•ech like wouldn't never do fer yer
weak stuniuiick, an' he promised me
faithful he'd send somebody tew the
mainland every day fer tnllk."
"Dew yew think I be a baby?"
shouted Abraham, turning on hla heel.
” 1 know now what makes my teeth so
sore lately," mumbling to himself;
“ It's from this here arrer-root an' all
these puddln'y messes. They need
hurdeuin', tow.”
NEW ARMOR PLATE
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C la im e d , W ill Make
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Abraham was up betimes In the
Welch, Ark.
morning to greet a day crisp and cold,
L e t t e r -o
quiet, yet with sufficient breeze stir
D r. K ilm e r it C o .,
B ingh am ton , N. V .
ring the evergreens in tho yard out
side to make him predict u speedy P ro v e What Swam p-Root W il D o f o r You
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Thu old man was nervous and ex Binghamton, N. Y., for u sample size
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anticipations, somewhat oppressed, will also receive it booklet of valuable
now that tho day had actually come, Information, telling about the kidneys
with a sense of timidity and fear. Still, and bladder. When writing, be sure
and mention this paper.
Regular
he put on a bold face while Angelina fifty-cent and onedollar size bottles
fastened his refractory collar and tied for sale at ail drug stores.
his cravat.
This was neither M re Homan's of
Cheaper.
fering nor Abe's own old, frayed tie.
"A waist for a salesgirl" is describ
but a new black one which had mys ed by a fashion writer. Rut lu what
teriously been thrust through the respect docs a salesgirl's waist differ
crack under the door during the night from that of a ductless --Louisville
Courier Journal.
So, tho last Anisblng touches having
been put upon his toilet, and Angy
Art Is long and time is fleeting, and
having made ready by lamplight for we are reminded that the bizarre val
her own trip, even before the old man entine will soon be in our midst agalli.
was awake, there seemed nothing left
to be done until tbe breakfast bell
Why Good Men Are Buey.
should ring.
"Marry a busy man." advises Helen
, Abe sat down, and looking hard at Rowland. It can't be done legnlly. All
his open carpetbag wondered audibly the busy men are married. That'»
If they had "everythin' In." The last what mukes them busy.
time they two had parked Abe's ward
robe for a visit to Bleak Hill had been
The pork barrel seems to be the
many years ago, when Sumuel Darby, center of interest "over to" the legis
though somewhat Abe's Junior, was lature.
keeper of the life saving station, and
Abe was to be gone for a whole sea
Optimistic Thought.
son’s duty. Then ail of his posses
Resolutions taken without thought
sions had been stowed In a long, bol bring disasters without remedy.
ster-like canvas bog for the short
voyage.
Both Angy and her husband recalled
that time now—the occasion of their
Arst, and almost of their last, real
separation.
"A week'll pass In no time,” mur
mured Angy very quickly, with a catch
In her voice. “ Lookin' nhead, though,
seven days seem« awful long when yer
old; but— Oh, law, yea; a week'll
pass In no time," she repeated. “ Only
dew be keerful, Abe, an' don't take
cold."
CHAPTER XIII.
WHAT $10 DID
FOR THIS WOMAN
(T O B E C O N T IN U E D .)
FISH HOOK RECOVERS BODY
Passsngsrs From Passing Train Drag
River After Boy le Knocked
Off Bridge.
Uelng the boy's own Ashing rod In
grappling for his body, passengers on
a Susquehanna and Western train that
hnd knocked I'aul Colombo from a
bridge near Babbitt, N. J., Into the
river, succeeded in hooking his coat
and dragging the body to the surface.
Tho lad, who lived at Twenty-third
and Palisade avenue. West New York,
was Ashing on the edge of the railroad
bridge with John Eirhlar, when the
train due at Hackensack at 12: CIS came
along.
The Elchlar boy Juat managed to es
cape Injury, tbe pilot of the engine
grazing hts heel. The Colombo bo;
was struck on the side of the head
as he tried to swing away from the
rail. Engineer Vrooman taw the bo;
fall Into the river, stopped the train,
and the passengers hurried to the
scene. Several bo;e who were swim
ming near b ; dived time and again,
but without success.
Then tbe passengers took turns with
young Colombo's Ashing rod, and Anal
ly the hook caught In the lad's coat
The body was dragged to the bank and
taken on the train to Hackensack.
A Question.
"Dobbs le a mild mannered man.“
"Yea, he la. I wonder If ha's natural
1; so, or married?"
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