TITE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND. SEPTE3IBER 17. 1911.
BUTTE AUTH2RES5 AJSANDS
Time has changed Mary MacLane a
bit.
In the 10 year sine aha wrote her
daringly epigrammatic "expose" of her
Inward self, which, made the world alt
up and take notice, a transition haa
occurred se that aha la no longer In re
Tolt agalnat tha order of things.
To this aha confesses In a new chap
ter to her "story" which haa lately
fallen from tha presses. She avers
that a thouaand half-formed Ideals
bare withered and faded and -blown
down tha winds" alnce the "day of tha
gray dawn and the deviL"
She la 2 now. and while tha 10 yeara
hare not completely altered tha Mary
MacLane who at 1 waa dabbed "Tha
American Marie Besklrtseff- yet aha la
strangely different and more seasoned.
In her newest chapter aha doesn't re
lent In the leaat at her previous un
conventional utterances. But she
makes some modifications.
Here Is the way her -story" began
when, aa a girl of 1 at nutte, she
leaped Into sudden notoriety, not to aay
ftme:
Mrr First OalpMrtaae.
"I. of womankind, and of 1 years,
will now begin to aet down aa full and
frank a portrayal aa I am able of my
self. Mary MacLane. for whom rha
world contalna not a parallel.
"I am convinced of thla for I am odd.
-I am distinctly original Innately ant
In development.
1 have In ma a quite unusual inten
sity of life.
"I can feel.
"I have a marvelous capacity for
misery and for happiness.
"I am broad-minded.
-I am a genius.
-J m a philosopher of my own good
peripatetic school.
-I care neither for right nor for
wrong my conscience la nil.
-My brain Is a conglomeration of
aggresslva versatility.
"I have attained an egotism that la
rare Indeed."
At 2. or rather at I. alnca tha
latest chapter waa written a few
montha ago and prevloua to her laat
birthday, aha aeta out In thla wtta:
-I. of womankind and of elght-and-twenty
yeara. wtll now make a fleeting
flashlight portrait. In high tints and
halftones, of what la to me, when ali a
said, the most fascinating thing In tha
world, my own peraonallty; for which,
belike, tha world contains no parallel.
I am not. I admit quite convinced
of that for 1 know by azperlenra of
It that tha world. In ways, la vary,
very wide. Still, contemplating my
self dispassionately, I know that I am
dd a thing of mystery, aubtlety and
brains.
"Insomuch, therefore, I am unusual.
I care neither for right nor for wrong.
My conarlenca la Ilka a rotten ribbon
bound lightly about tha moral codes.
"I am sane, broad-minded, level
headed, yet prone to all the crass llttle
lesses and narrownesses withal.
NEW
LATENT
'"y3 GEORGE aAIH
ONCE in the dim dad Pays be
yond Recall, before any one in
vented a Solder that .would hold
lorn a Lid. there lived a blue-eyed
3azook named Steve.
We refer to the Juicy Period preced
ing the Uplift, when Gov. Hughes waa
f'HI In a Prep School and the Candi
date wearing the largest collar was the
Peoples fholce for Alderman.
The State Senator with a noble Con
stituency of Guineas. Wcrs and Hun
raks usually conducted a Wood Alcohol
Emporium, with a Hop Joint b-low. a
Hon long In the rear and a Crap
Game upstairs. A C-p stood outside
a beat up any one who made a Beller.
A Good Cltlsen wishing to open a
Murder Parlor needed a couple of Black
Bottles, a Barrel of Sawdust and a
Tull at the City Hall.
When he opened up. he threw the
Key in the River and arranged to have
the Bodies taken out through the Alley
so as not to Impede Traffic In the
Mala Thoroughfares. All of which
came under the Head of personal Lib
erty. Twelve months every Year marked
the Open Season for every Game from
Ptteh-and-To.a to Manslaughter.
Getting down a Pet on the Ponies
mi attended with the same Difficulty
that would cow be asperlenced in pur
chasing m Red-Hot at Coney Island, but
It did not take as long, because there
was no Mustard to be applied.
Any oca In search of Diversion could
roll Kelly Pool at 10 Cents a Cue In the
Morning, go to the Track In the After
noon, take la a 20-round Scrap in the
livening and then Shoot at the Wheel
a few times before backing Into ths
Flax.
The Police were Instructed to make
sure that all Push-Cart Peddlers were
properly Licensed.
Steve roamed the Wlde-Open Town
and spread his Pets both ways from the
Jack
When he cut the String and began to
back his Judgment he knew no Umit
except tne Milky Way. Any time he
rolled them, you could hear some Rum
bl. All the Bookies. Barkeeps. Bruisers
and the Boys sitting on the Moonlight
Kattiers knew Mm by his First Name
and had him tacaed as a Producer and
a H'lva Vies Fellow.
Steve heard vague Rumors that cer
tain Stiffs who hurried home before
M:dn!ght and wore White Mufflers
were trying to put the Town on the
Fritz and Can ail the Live Ones but
he did not dmn that a Mug who went
around la Goloshes and drank Root
Beer could put anything across with
the Main Swivel over at the Hall.
O, the Rude Awakening!
Ore day he was In a Pool Room
working on the Form Sheet with about
ISO other Students and getting ready to
back Sazerai k off the Boards In the
Third at Guttenberg. when some Blue
Warons backed up and Steve told tbe
Dsk Sergeant, a few Minutes later,
that his Name was Andrew Jackson.
Nf xt Day he had a Wire from V
Trainer but when he went to the o'.d
familiar Joint, the Plain Clothes Men
uv him the Sign lo Beat It ana
"I am complex and inconsistent to
the last degree.
"I have somewhat remarkable gifts
of analysis and Intuition, and of ex
pression by way of written English.
-I have a aense of humor that Is
rarer than ether, deeper-reaching than
clairvoyance, and Infinitely more pre
cious to me than would be the aura
cognisance of a rose-crown paradise
at death."
Mary's Kgotlaam.
She then proceeds In the newest
analysis, which is put out by Duffleld
Co, and Is aa follows:
-I am extremely egotistic, but I con
tend that I'm not more ao than la all
the world: only more frankly. Tea, I
am frightfully but frankly egotistic
-I have a auperflcially kind heart
and a heart that is full of the utmost
abysmal folly: a heart that followa
whither its loves lead, down rocky
roads, through Lraiubly pasturea and
tangled underbrueh, passing by on the
other side always the Gold and the
Worldly advantage.
"I am wrapped around in a sort of
comprehensive vanity that la more en
during and more useful and necessary
It haa aaved me from many a alip
'twtxt the cup and the lip than any
garment of righteousness. -
"I have no ambition of any eort
whatsoever. The top of my desire la
for a measure of Inward peace. For
1 have none none.
"The aum of 7 la wealth to me al
waya. One hundred and f.fty dollars
is a tantallaatlon and an exasperation.
For 11000 I would murder any one who
waa not my friend-. If I saw a chance to
do it painlessly and tidily: for I hate
physical pain for myself or another,
and I hate sloppy thlnga like bleeding
flesh.
"My everyday mood la made of In
difference, a deep Joy of living, a moat
aomber. melancholy and reckless dis
regard of fortune, all of which are
quite genuinely real.
"The day'a bus! nets for me always
Includes a flash of horror, a nameless
terror, a sort of look-in at the mys
terious delirium of Ufa. brief aa the
passing of the winds around a house
corner, but black aa a bottomless pit.
"I have the passionate, aenaual-gray
eyes of a world-weary courtesan, and
the-virginal pink lips of a cloistered
nun.
"I have the capable hands of a
strong-hearted and womanly woman,
and the slim wanton feet of an undis
ciplined glrL
Her Brala and
-I have the brain of a highway rob
ber and the aoul of a subtle child.
"Life never bores me. I find always
a deep thrall In It in the simplest
things, and In all others. But a little
bit of death seems to lurk in all things
for me. I feel myself literally wearing
out against the hard surfaces of thla
great glittering world. My lire la a
conscious death march, a slow, seduc
tive Journey toward my grave."
Having gotten thus far. Miss Mac
Lain takea a thoughtful backward look
at the Mary of Butts days. She de
cldee that her former aelf. before she
knew Boston literary folk and Broad
may, was really -a clever, ridiculous
and wonderful child." She writes:
IN
turned away, throbbing with Indigna
tion.
It was for this his Relatives had
fought at Lexington and Lundy s Lane
and Gettysburg!
He felt that our vaunted Liberties
were but Shadowy Pretenses, although
he did not use this exact Language in
expressing his F.motlons. He said.
-Well, what do you Know about
thatr ,
The down-town Books were being
raided hut the Angoras kept on gaf
loplna; at the Track, so he rode out on
the Train every day In order to pre
serve his Rights as a free-born Ameri
can. One Day Just as he was Peeling from
his Roll in front of the Kentucky Club
In order to grab-Gertie Glue at 8 to I.
Lightning struck the Paddock and laid
out the entire Works.
When the Touts and the Sheet-Writers
and the Sure Thlngers came to and
began to ask Questions. It waa dis
covered that the Yap Legislature had
killed the Racing Game and ordered all
the Regulars to go to Work.
Steve went hack to town In a dazed
Condition to hunt up vne Gang and Hnd
out what could be done to put out the
'"- .
When he arrived at the Hang-Out
'there was a Flag at Half-Mast. The
Roost had been nailed up for keeping
open after. Kleven oClock.
A few Evenings after that he saun
tered up to a large TTrame Building
to look at a coupf. of Boys who had
promised to make 135 Ringside.
A Cannon was planted at the Vain
Chute and the Street was filled, with
Department Sipte Employes disguised
as Soldiers.
Nothing doing.
The Oovernor had ' called out the
Mllltla In order to prevent a Blot being
put upon the Fair Name of the Com
monwealth. With the Selllng-Flaters turned out
to Pasture, the Brace-Box and the
Tlnch Wheel lying in the Basement at
Central Station, the Pubs going back to
tho Foundry and all the Street Lamps
being taken In at Midnight no wonder
Steve was hard pushed to find Inno
cent Amusement.
He started te hang around a Brok
er's Office, but It was no Fun to bet on
a Turn-Up when you couldn't watch
the Shuffle. Besides, the Game was
Cold and was being fleroely denounced
by the Press.
For a Time he kept warm in a Bowl
ing Alley. Drive a Man Into a Corner
and goad him to Desperation and he
w ill go so far as to BowL provided he
ltvea In a German Neighborhood.
One Evening he went down to see
the Walhallaa go against the Schwa
hen . but the Place was Dark.
The AuthorlU' interfered.
It seemed that the Manufacturer of
Bowling Halls Involved the Destruction
of the Hardwood Forests, while the
Game Itself overtaxed certain Impor
tant Muscles ending with "alls, at the
same time encouraging Profanity and
the use of S-cent Cigars.
Steve had one Stand-By left to him.
He could prop himself up on the Bleach
ers with a bag of lubricated Popcorn
between hta Knees and hurl insulting
Remarks at Honua Wagner, Joe Tinker
and Ty Cobb.
When he crawled up in the 80-cent
Seats he found the same old Bunch that
Uied to answer Roll Call at the Tool
Room, the Sharaey Club and the Bet
ting Rlnsr.
xt. Xavw had made them Decent Cltl-
1
A'1 few
W0m ' ' MPS
"A thousand taut-drawn cords have
snapped In me since I wrote that book.
A thousand half -formed Ideala-have
withered and faded and blown down the
wlnda since the day of the Gray Dawn,
the Devil, the Anemone Lady and the
Red Line on the sky. At It I waa
strong, full of the ardors of revolt, full
of the revolta of adolescence, and at
that exquisite pregnant moment of
physical and mental awakening which
comes but once." The changes that
have come In the ten years have much
to do "with things of bone and flesh."
To her "it has always been as If the
physical were connected by live wires
with the mental. The lim young body
la the half-sister of the erratic brain."
The Effects of Time.
"Therefore It's mostly because my
slim young body haa become fragile and
quiescent to the waya of the conven
tional world, which It never was at 19,
that my mind and my heart and my
aoul for I still believe that I have all
of these no longer know those pro
found and passionate revolta and pro
tests against the long-established order
of things. At 1 I combatted the uni
verse dally with the aame mad young
HIE 1911 E4BLE QF THE COLLISION:
BETWEEN STEVE AND THE SUfiFIlWRr
UEGISLaiOM:
i :
'5YEVE told THE OEK SERC&rMHT, A HIMUTE-"1 l-TE-R
S-ua-t HIS HftME WA5 rVHDREW' JftCKSOKt''
sens, but it hadn't made them any
easier to look at
Steve longed for tha Ponies and the
good old Prelims between the Trial
Horses, with Blood Dripping from the
Ropes, but when he picked up the Pink
Sporting Page in the Morning, all he
could find was that the Sacred Heart
Academy had wrested the Basketball
Trophy away from the West Division
UlKh School.
Baseball Is only Near-Sport to one
who haa whanged tbe Wise Ikes that
mark up the Odds. Steve went to It
because there was nothing else on the
Cards.
One Day he found every entrance to
the Park guarded by a Blue Burly and
the Crowds being turned away.
The Health Department had put in a
Knock or. the Game, on the Ground
that the Ball, on being handled by
various Players and passed from one to
the otherT carried with It dangerous
ilic robes.
The Officials insisted that after every
Play the Ball should be treated wiLh
acorn which must have come Into
fashion when' Eva was young, and Is
In truth the epic of youth. .' . . And
now, well the book haa been published
and eight years have slipped away."
The Jump from obscurity, when the
first chapter was published, affected
ber In this wise:
"I was yanked out of the obscurities
of my life in Butte into the none-too-friendly
limelight of far-reaching radia
tion all by way of my mooted little
book of the Devil, the Olive, the Tooth
Brushes and . the word 'damn.' The
notoriety which encompassed me was a
bewitching thing. It reached from sea,
to sea, from Chicago to London the
yellow newspapers blazoned me from
Dan to Beeraheba and back again. My
little girl's diary drew Instant blood
from the public at large, the newspa
pers, Anthony Cometock and the vaude
vinetage. I did not anticipate quite
the breadth and the virulence of the
storm which my little old book would
raise. A talent of some brilliance com
bined with unlimited audacity and
woven together with a warp and woof
of personal confession was a thing that
they all fell for. It brought me an
3LANG
A .n..nH. that each Plaver
should have an Individual Ball and al
low no one else to touch it
The Society for the Protection of the
Young had put up a Howl because the
Game diverted the Attention of Urch
ins from their Work In the Public
Schools and tended to encourage Men
dacity among Office Boys.
The . Concatenated Order of High
Brows had represented to the proper
Authorities that, as a reeult of wide
spread Interest in the demoralizing
Pastime, ordinary Conversation on tbe
tall-end of a Trolley Car was becom
ing unintelligible to University Grad
uates and the Reporta In the Dally
Press bad passed beyond the Ken of a
mere Student of the English Language.
The Medical Society certified that
eight out of ten Men fced shattered their
Nervous Systems, split their Vocal
Cords and developed Moral Astigmatism
all because of the Paroxysms result
ing from Partisan Fervor. The Doc
tors said It was worse than the Co
caine Habit Either build an Asylum
astounding notoriety and much good
gold money.
"I felt myself the master of my fate.
Not In any Intoxicating, headlong, vic
torious sort of way, truly, but with a
cold and quiet sense of superior Inward
potence which could cause heavy-locked
doors to open before me and Iron gates
to give way, and could make me free
of the highway.' I feared nothing
reverenced nothing I besought nothing.
As of a truth I do not to this day."
Bad Old Kcw York.
Of Greater New York she has this to
say: "Damaging as it is to every at
tribute of me, it yet is the Place of
my Dreams. I lived there all by my
self for two years. I know its vast and
cruel sordidness. There is nothing in It
gentlor than the hard, gray cobble
stones which pave the down-town
streets. I know its infinite preoccu
pation. I know the treachery of its
charm. But by those tokens it teaches
you absolutisms which some way grow
precious to you the more you know
them they're like diamonds and emer
alds and rubles. By its million vanities
and its billion weaknesses and its vam
pire's ethics it hurls truth adamant
truth into one's teeth. Two years of
by no means easy living and plaisance
on tho Isle of Manhattan, and one
knows the human race like a book. One
can distinguish true things from false
things. It costs you your slim young
body by the ounce and your mentality
by the cubic Inch If you're made that
way; but it's to know the cold truths
as they are. ...
"My two years in New York were
like a chain of beads of alternate pat
tern and color. They were of alternate
luxury and hungriness. of comparative
wealth and half-vagabondish but very
real poverty, of padded comfort and
all-too-wearing deprivation the ex
igencies of fluctuating fortune. It
would be hard to say which I enjoyed
the more now that It's all over. I tell
over the beads dally In the. far remote
ness of thla shadowy Butte, for New
York Is Indeed the place of my
dreams."
Referring to the comparison of her
with Marie Bashklrteeff. Miss Mac
Lane writes:
"At 19 I wrote myself down a
'genius'- in every other page of my
book. At M the word and my use of
it inspire In me chiefly an Idle mirth
fulness. I think now. that I won't
quite know what it means, and it
seems an extremely uninteresting word
In any case. ....
"At 1 l imagined I bore many re
semblances to that singular Russian
woman. Marie Bashklrteeff. and I even
believed I outbashklrtseffed her at
every point At 28. I think. It highly
unlikely that I ever had the slightest
quality In common with her. She was
analytical, but In a nebulous, meta
physical sort of way whilst my analy
ses are material and almost viciously
detailed. My reading of the Bashklrt
eeff now Is that she was a patrician, a
high-brow, a Brahmin of the French
type, with a very unusual breadth and
cast of mind, and entirely lacking in
tut fascinating trivialities, the iri
descent romantlcneases, the pictur
esque follies which chiefly go to make
up the sum and substance of me. Also
I think she must have lacked the sub
conscious sense of humor which I
quite expect will bring me one day to
the inner gates of paradise."
"At 10 I wrote it coldly that I stole
SS. (That, by the way. was one of the
quaint lies I told In the book.)- Well,
ent Inmates of all the Nut Colleges. It
was not fair to keep the Quiet Ones
locked up while the raving Bugs -were
admitted to the Grand Stand every Af
ternoon. Under the Circumstances, a purely
Paternal Administration, could do only
One Thing. It put Baseball out of
Business.
On the very next Afternoon the un
quenchable demand for Sport asserted
Itself.
Steve went into the Baclc Yard with
his eldest Son and looked about cau
tiously. "Is the Lookout stationed on the
Fence?" he asked.
"H'" .
"Is the Garden Gate securely lockedr
"It is."
"Are the Mallets properly muffled V
-They are." ,
"Then t'hell with the Law! -Well
have a gams of Croquet"
MORAL: We cannot eradicate Crime
until we have weeded out those per
verted Natures that are predisposed to
I dare say I might have been capable
of it then. But at 28 there's a small
vulgarness about the thieving of such
a sum which absolutely turns my stom
ach. I would hold up a train, though,
or a late-homing pedestrian, if I had
the nerve and the verve, and if I
wanted money that much. But as to
that, vne always wants money."
Her VIewe of Love.
In conclusion she has a few things
to say on the subject of love:
"At 19 I wanted to be loved poor
child, poor child! At 28 I look back to
one resting, though she knew it not,
between the devil and the deep sea
between the lack and the luxury of
loves. Take it from me at 28, that love
of any kind (except the long-suffering
affection of one's own family) is
a thing of countless cross-purpose, of
coroding and cankering self-torture
and an endless chain of Jealousy
Jealousy In every possible form and
hue; so that each love that comes into
one's life is like, despite its encompas
MUZZLING THE WAR DOGS
CONTINUED
ences that cannot be settled by law.
Before such a matter goes to this com
mission there is an enforced delay of
one year in which" time the heat of
anger is allowed to die down and di
plomacy is given an opportunity. If.
with the passing of anger, diplomacy
is still unsuccessful the Joint high com
mission makes its inquiry iuto matters
of fact and recommends a course of
procedure toward settlement Its find
ings are merely, advisory, but It offers
all manner of opportunity for a peace
ful settlement of the question at issue.
. If, for instance, such a treaty had
been In existence when the Maine was
blown up in Havana harbor there would
have-been a delay of a year before any
extreme measures would have been pos
sible. This would have been a coollng
ofT period. Then the matter would have
gone to the commission of inquiry. That
commission would have used every en
deavor to ascertain whether or not the
disaster to the Maine was due to Span
ish hostilitv or an explosion within the
ship herself. There is a strong possi
bility that the United States, a great
and strong nation,, thrust upon Spain,
absolutely powerless to fight her, a war
which was precipitated by an occur
rence with which the latter nation had
nothing whatever to do. The new sys
tem would have come nearer getting
at the facts. Then the matter, would
have been recommended for some sort
of arbitration. " When he United States
and Spain went to war there was.no
question of the outcome, regardless of
which was right. Had Spain been right
in every particular the outcome would
have been the same. But there would
have been no Justice in the decision.
The commission will find a manner of
settlement more nearly Just. ,
The Sen"tee Objection.
The treaties provide that when there
Is a question as to whether or not a
mater may be arbitrated, that question
shall be referred to the Joint high com
mission of inquiry. The United States
COMPENSATION A NOVEL
CONTINUED
The Warrens' residence had not been
opened for 10 years, and Kathleen de
clared cheerfully that there was much
renovating to b done. She would have
It all la order by the time Miss Ann ar
rived, and meanwhile' supervision of
the paper-hangers and upholsterers
took her away for most of the time.
Then, the very day before Miss Ann's
coming, she found she had congratu
lated herself too soon on the escape.
Juliet was sent for to meet some
friends in Cincinnati people whom
the bad not seen for years, and who
were stopping oft on their way to Cali
fornia, especially to have a few hours
with her. It seemed unkind to desert
Kathleen, even for a few hours, on
the last spurt of her struggle and yet
Mrs. Steele saw no way out of it She
reassured herself with the fat;t that
she would be home again In time for
dinner. - . "
"I hope you won't be too bored," she
said wistfully. . . '
"Oh, no." Kathleen was a little white
but her voice rang quite steady.' "I
shall be at the house all day. and. Miss
Gresham asted me to lunch with her,
you know, so I shall be busy. Don't
.worry about me."
And feeling unaccountably encour
aged, Juliet didn't
There Is a certain weapon in bavins
learned the strength of cowardice.
Kathleen shunned the place of oppor
tunity during a whole long strenuous
day's work, trying to busy her hands
so completely that she would have no
time left for her imagination. The
scheme succeeded in a way; yet she
came back in the evening, restless and
irritable from the strain. She was very
tired of being distant and politely im
personal, and she looKed forward with
a great relief to the freedom of to
morrow. But it seemed that Circumstance in
tended to tease the victim before It let
her off. Instead of Juliet she found
Memoirs of Skerlock Holmes
CONTINUED
learned to love you, I feared to tell
you about my child. God forgive me, I
feared .that I should lose you, and I
had not the courage to tell you. I had
to choose between you, and In my
weakness I turned away from my own
little glrL For three -years I have
kept her existence a secret from .you,
but I heard from the nurse, and I
knew all was well with her. At last
however, there came an overwhelming
desire the see tne child once more. I
struggled against it but in vain.
Though I knew the danger, I deter
mined to have the child over, if it were
but for a few weeks, I sent a iiundred
pounds to the nurse, and i gave her
instructions about this cottage, so that
she might come as a neighbor, with
out -rny appearing to be in any way
connected with her. I pushed my pre
cautions so far as to order her to keep,
the child in the house during the day
time, and to cover up her little face
and hands so that even those who
might see her at the window should
not gossip about there being a black
child in the neighborhood. If I had
been less cautious I might have been
more wise, but I was half crazy with
fear that you should learn the truth.
"It was you .who told me first that
the cottage was occupied. I should
have waited for the morning, but I
could not sleep for excitement and so
at last I slipped out. knowing how dif
ficult it la to awake you. But you
saw me go. and that was the begln-
t t-rnuhlea. Noxt to von
sing fascination, a wan little bit ol
hell."
Finally of the future: "There's:
deal of scorn and insolence in me yet
that have withstood the slings and ar
rows." After another period of years,
these three things might happen:
"I might be dead,
"I might be in a convent
"I might be married.
"All of which I have contemplated.
But in my contemplating there was al
ways this doubt:
"If I were dead would I stay dead? 1
have heard there are other worlds.
"If I Joined a veiled sisterhood
would I stay in ltT For all on a Spring
day 1 might remember the bronze Di
ana on the Tower: The call of Man
hattan. "If I married would I stay mar
ried? Which seems the unllkellest
thing of all."
And at the very last Mary MacLane -assures
her "runners and readers" that,
lf she lives they "shall meet again at.
Phllippl."
FROM PACE 6
Senate, in which has always rested the
authority of approving or disapproving
treaties and other international mat- -ters.
is fearful that under such an .
arrangement some of Its power will be
lost It has proposed the elimination
of that portion of. the treaty which
authorizes this reference to the com
mission and by so doing to keep that
authority in the Senate
This is exactly the pnt upon which
Germany is inclined to protest, and the
fear of losing a bit of power is en
dangering the approval of the most Im
portant matter that it ever had the.
privilege of passing upon. Whether
world peace is to be set back 50 years
or whether the Senate is to delegate
a bit of power that it might never be
called upon to exercise, is the most
burning question in the United States
today and the most important one
hanging in the balances of the times.
No event in history has so centered
the eyes of the world upon the United
States as has this entry into the arena,
of treaty making. It is to the young
and virile nation of the West that the
great countries of the world are com
ing and binding themselves to eternal
peace. The freedom of the United
States from national entanglements, her
Independence of precedent her willing
ness to strike into the open fields of
the unexplored in diplomacy, her very
glee in breaking down the barriers of
formality, have set her aside from ths
other nations.-' She has taken advant
age of all these things and has done a
thing that to the international relations
of nations Is unprecedented. (Yet the -nations
of the world were ready for."
Just this thing and the echo of approval '
has been sounded from all the lands
of the world. So has the United States
Justified her growing claim to a leader-
ship among the nations and to being
a great world power yet a power f or
peace and fellowship wherever men
do congregate.
(Copyright 1911, by William Ather
ton Du Puy).
FROM PAGE 4
a message wired by Mrs. Steele, saying
that she had missed the evening train
and could not get back until the next
noon. "So sorry. But Mrs. Stubbs will
chaperone you,' concluded the tele
gram, which Juliet had written and
Kathleen read, with a sinking heart.
Neither of them saw the inevitability
of the crisis, sooner or later; and to
Kathleen it seemed especially cruel,
coming at the end of the fight which
had drained all her endurance.
She dressed for dinner as quietly as
her nervous hands would allow, choos
ing a soft black chiffon frock which
she thought she hoped, added to her
dignity and sophistication. Just before
she went down, Mrs. Stubbs came
in, much elated over a personal
charge from Mrs. Steele, to the effect
that Kathleen was entirely in her care.
-And I'm sure I'll do everythin" for
you, miss," added the old Englishwo
man, gazing at the strange grace of
the girl's long arms, and the blue
shadows in her heavy black hair.
.."Thank you," said Miss Warrens, lay
ing down her mirror. 8he threw her
head back with curious defiance and
went downstairs, tall and determined,
to face the possibilities.
Anthony was in the library when she
came in. He said conventional things
about the misfortune of Juliet's haying
been detained, and enlarged on the
commendable qualities of Mrs. Stubbs
until dinner was announced. In fact,
Kathleen had incorporated him Into her
course of repression until he almost
forgot that they were alone. He lis
tened while she talked carefully and
rather brilliantly of the new Forestry
Commission and the peace prize and
the Japanese question; all the thousand
and one concerns which suggested
themselves as safetyvalves against in
discretion. And Kathleen rejoiced in
the presence of the servants, in the ex
istence of every formal institution that
was helping her to temporize with the
issue. She seemed to feel that if she
could force it into the background of
defeat now, it would never summon
the boldness to appear again.
To be continued.
FROM PAGE 3
had my secret at your mercy, but you
nobly refrained from pursuing your ad
vantage. Three days later, however,
the nurse and child only Just escaped
from the back door as you rushed In
at' the front one. And now tonight you
at last know all, and I ask you what
Is to become of us, my child and me?"
She clasped her bands and waited for
an answer.
It was a long ten minutes before
Grant Munro broke the silence, and
when his answer came it was one of
which I love to think. He lifted the
little child, kissed her, and then, still
carrying her, he held his other hand
out to his wife and turned towards the
door.
"We can talk It over more comfort
ably at home," he said. "I am not a
very good man, Effie, but I think that
I am a better one than you have given
me credit for being."
Holmes and I followed them down
the lane and my friend plucked at my
sleeve as we came out.
"I think," said he, "that we shall be
of more use In London than in Nor
bury." Not another word did he say of the .
case until late that night when he
was turning away with his lighted
candle for his bedroom.
"Watson," said he, "if it should ever
strike you that I am getting a little
over-confident in my powers, or giving
less pains to a case than it deserves,
kindly whisper 'Norbury' in my ear and
I shall be infinitely obliged to you."
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