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Mr. Perlmutter laid a soothing palm
I on Cohen s shoulder.
"But. Mr. Cohen." he said, "what can
I we do? why should you tell us all
this?"
Mr. Cohen shook off Morris' caress.
"Youre right," he said. . "Why should
I tell you all this? I didn't come here
to tell you this. I come here to tell
you something else. I come here to tell
you to cancel all orders what I give
I you. Also, If you or your salesman
come by my place ever again, look out;
that's all. The way I feel It now, I'll
murder you!" He turned to leave. "And
another thing." ha concluded. "One
thing, you can depend on it. So far
what I can help It, you don't sell one
I dollar's worth of goods to any of my
friends, never no more!"
Again the door banged explosively.
land Mr. Cohen was gone.
For 10 minutes there was an awed
I silence in the sample-room. At length
Abe looked at his partner with a sickly
I smile.
"Well, MawrusB," he said, "you made
la nice mess of It, ain't you?"
Morris was too stunned to reply.
"That's . what comes of not minding
I your own business," said Abe. "We lose
good customer, and maybe several
I good customers. We lose a good book-
I keeper, too, Mawruss one what nag
been with us for five years; and also
I we are out a wedding present.','
"I meant It good," Morris protested.
"I done It for the best. It says in th
I Talmud, Abe. that we are commanded
to promote marriages."
Abe. waggled his head solemnly.
"This is the first time I hear lt,.tnat
I you are - a Talmudlst, Mawruss!" he
said.
IV.
A month passed, and Miss Cohen con
tinued to apply herself to her daily
task at Potash & Ferlmutter's books.
"I don't understand it, Mawruss,"
Abe said one morning. "Why don't that
girl quit her Job? She must have all
sorts of things to do clothes to buy
and furniture to pick out, ain't it?"
Perlmutter shrugged his shoulders.
"I spoke to her about it," he replied.
"and she says so long as we're so busy
here, she guesses she will stay on the
Job as long as she can. She says her
mommer and her sister can do all tha
shopping for her.
"You see, Mawruss, what a mistake
I you make," Abe commented with a sigh.
"That's a fine girl, that Miss Cohen!"
Morris nodded gloomily. He began
I to realise that he had made a mistake,
I after all. Only that morning Mrs. Perl
mutter had demanded $20 with which
to make over her best frock for Miss
I Cohen's wedding.
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S the firing line of the Zapata up
rising in Southern Mexico, in peril
from cannon fire .and musketry,
stands the oldest living thing in the
he agreed; I world the famous cypress in the
"but you got to admit yourself, Abe, churchyard of the village of Santa Ma-
that a growing business like ours needs rIa del Xule ,n tne intendancy of Oax
a hustling young man for a bookkeep- L tw and a half ,eaffue, ea8t of
That's all right, too. Mawruss," said l cn.
Abe; "but you also got to admit that The disturbances attending the sev
what a growing business like ours eral insurrections have postponed tem
needs most of all, Mawruss, Is custom- porarlly the attainment of the supreme
ers: and so rar what I see. we aon t Um))tlon neld by Dr. Herman von
gain any customers by this. Also, my Schrenk. of st. whicn is to de-
wife has got to have a new dress for
the wedding. She told me so this morning."
Morris made no reply. He was grow.
lng heartily sick of this business of fir
ing Miss Cohen, and consoled himself
with the thought that the wedding was
fast approaching, and that they would
be rid of her for good.
At length the wedding day arrived.
Miss Cohen left Potash & Ferlmutter's
termine scientifically the approximate
age of this Nestor of the whole veget
able kingdom.
Experts, judging by the gigantic bole
of the Santa Maria del Tule cypress
and by the Blow growth of this species,
have estimated the age of the patriarch
of all trees to be between 5000 and 6000
years.
These figures are staggering to the
at 4 o clock, for the ceremony was aet I . " " . ' " .r." . v, .
.oi i , I outatlon. when the seed from which the
with her .mploVerV wis" an tree sprang fell upon the earth King
lng one for all three. Abe handed ner
a check for 125, with the firm's bless
ing, and Morris shook her hand in com
parative silence. He had done and suf
fered much for that moment of leave
taking: and further than wishing her a I
long and happy married life, he said I
nothing. As for Abe, the squandering
of $25 without hope of return, tempo-
Menes was holding the first reign In
Egypt, of which we have historic
knowledge S000 years before the birth
of Christ. It was a slender stripling
200 years old when Cheops drove his
subjects with the lash to the labor of
building the great pyramid. It had
reached a lusty youth of 1500 years
when the Hebrews made their exodus
from the land of the Nile.
This living thing in tropical America
was silently building itself to its pres
ent stature and vigor seven centuries
before Babylon reached its greatest
splendor. Ancient Nineveh, in the
ninth century before the Christian era,
was a parvenu compared with the
Oaxaca cypress. The earliest cunei
form inscriptions which archeologists
have unearthed in Assyria date back
to only 1800 B. C and the tree in
Mexico which was to arise in the dis
tant future on a new and unknown con
tinent had even then lived almost as
many years as separate the world today
from the final recall of the Roman le
gions from Britain.
This still flourishing tree of the twen
tieth century had built its annual rings
and spread its yearly foliage for 10 cen
turies when Abraham tended his flocks
and Baw a vision of the Jewish rac
that was to be. It had lived 2000 years
before David slew Goliath and Solomon
erected the temple at Jerusalem.
In the eye of its hoary antiquity,
Troy, Athens, the Macedonian Kingdom
and the Roman Empire were mere up
starts of time. The discovery of Amer
ica and the conquest of Mexico by Cor
tez would seem, in its life, things of
only a few months ago.
The last scientific measurement of
the Santa Maria del Tule cypress was
made by Dr. von Schrenk in 1903. a
century after Humboldt discovered it.
wihle on his famous tour of equatorial
America. Dr. von Schrenk found that
Its trunk, four feet from the ground,
had the astounding girth of 126 feet.
An idea of its vast age may be ob
tained by comparing it with a cypress
described by Professor Asa Gray, which.
although only 14 feet In circumference,
was 670 years old. So slow is the growth
of the cypress that this tree had re
quired nearly seven centuries to at
tain a diameter of 54 inches.
CHAPTERS OF A POSSIBLE AUTOBIOGRAPHY
COXTIXUED FROM PAGE 4.
man, and can be relied upon for every
rarily exhausted his capacity for emo- I movement In the interest of good citl-
frvt-"RINa the Boer War an English
1 I soldier who had broken his short
pipe picked up a dried African
gourd or calabash and, cutting off the
neck, improvised a smoke. Out of this
Yankee-like discovery has grown an
industry the product of which la seen
In almost every tobacco store the cala
bash or vegetable meerschaum pipe. At
first the Boers were most Jealous of
letting the calabash seeds get out of
. their country, for the pipes brought an
enormous price, from $10 to $50; but
the Department of Agriculture intro
duced the seeds and now most every
one Is growing his own pipes every
one who has a back yard, and some
people even on the roofs of houses and
apartments. The price of the pipes has
dropped to 60 cents or a dollar, al
though pipes are still offered at $10
or even $20, but these of course have
fancy amber stems with gold trim
mings. Now. however, any one can
grow his own calabashes and at a
mail cost buy his fittings; and the
vegetable meerschaum is generally ac-
tlon.
"Good luck to you. Miss Cohen," he
said. "Hope we see you again soon."
"Oh, aure! Miss Cohen replied cheer
fully. "You'll be at the wedding to
night?"
Abe nodded they an noaaea ana
Ithen. with a final handshake all around.
Miss Cohen departed.
It must be confessed that the wea-
zensbip. I was first intimately thrown
with him when I was Police Commis
sioner. One evening he and I both in
dress suits attended a temperance
meeting of Catholic societies. It cul
minated in a lively set-to between my
self and a Tammany Senator who was
a very good fellqw, but whose ideas ol
temperance differed radically from
claimed by the devotees of the weed to
provide the sweetest of smokes.
The African pipe calabash vine Is a
prolific ylelder, a single vine maturing
as many as 30 or 40 gourds, nevertbe
less considerable care is required to
train the fruits into pipe shapes and to
lay them, during the growing period,
on small boards or shingles, so that in
ripening they will harden evenly and
take on a good meerschaum color In
smoking. The careful pipe grower can
train the neck of the gourd into any
desired shape, taking it In hand when
it is young and pliable.
The calabash gourd makes an exr
cellent pipe for smoking without any
lining, as when thoroughly ripe and
hardened the fiber is as tough as hard
wood. The pipes on the market, how
ever, are all fitted with either meer
schaum or plaster-of-parls bowls. The
former can be secured at small cost
from dealers, or bowls can be easily
made of plaster-of-parts at practically
no cost. The Department of Agricul
ture has Issued a brief circular, con
taining not only directions for growing
the calabash, which will thrive under
any conditions suitable for squash or
cymling growing, and also full dlrec-
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tlona with Illustrations for making enjoyable occasion for all the guests, mine, and. as the event proved, from
Cohen. The wine flowed like French Mike evidently regarded himself as my
champagne at $4 a quart, while, as L-.w. ho w sitting nr. tha niatform
Morris Perlmutter at once deuced beald8 mean(1 j thinU feit as pleased
waiter disguised the label with a
napkin, it was really domestic cham
pagne of an inferior quality. Never
theless. Abe Potash drank more than
his share, iq a rather futile attempt to
get back, in kind, part of the $12.50 he
had contributed toward Miss Cohen's1
wedding present, to say nothing of the
cost of his wife s gown
pipes, both the crude. Inexpensive style
and the finished pipe, for which you
pay several dollars at the tobacco store.
As a grower the calabash vine Is
marvel. Planted early in the Spring in
good earth, a single vine will overrun
an ordinary city back yard. The leaves
are deeply incised and the vine la not
unhandsome. The little gourds, once
they have formed, grow with marvelous
rapidity, and the ambitious pipe grower
wno is training the gourde Into special
forms for Christmas-present pipes must
needs watch and shape his gourds dally,
Most of the big seedsmen are sellln
the African calabash seeds this year,
and this is well, for Uncle Sams sup
ply has run out. but a few seeds will
suffice, for one vigorous plant will fur.
nlsh enough pipes to smoke any fam
iiy to deatn.
The Government "agricultural ex
plorer," David O. Falrchlld. who rec
ognlzed the desirability of the calabash
pipe and secured seeds from Africa for
introduction Into America, has, strange
to say, never experienced the early
horrors and the later joys of tobacco
smoking. GUY E. MITCHELL
FIRING MISS COHEN BY MONTAGUE GLASS
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6.)
which she had received Ike's greeting
had not entirely disappeared: and, as
he glanced up, her large black eyes
looked like those of a frightened deer.-l
Morris was forced to adroit to him
self that if her bookkeeping was
doubtful, at least there could be no
mistake about her charms.
Aa for Ike, now that the business of
securing orders was done with, he sur.
rendered himself to gallantry, for
which he had a natural aptitude.
"Ah. Miss Cohen." he said, "ain't It
a fine weather?"
A pleased smile spread Itself over
Morris' face.
"I think I hear the telephone In the
sample-room." he broke In hurriedly.
Excuse me for a moment."
When he returned. Ike snd Mtss
Cohen were chatting gaily.
"What do you think of that?" Morris
cried. "My Minnie just Tang me up and
says she got tickets for the theayter
tomorrow night two tickets. We can't
use 'em. because we're going to a a
wedding. Would you two young folks
like to go. maybe?"
"Why. sure." Ike said. "Sure we
would. Wouldn't we. Miss Cohen?"
Miss Cohen assented bashfully.
"Well, then," said Morris, "I'll get
em for you I mean I'll send 'em you
by mail tonight, Ike."
Ike was profuse in his thanks; and
then and there arranged to call for
Miss Cohen at half past seven, sharp,
the following evening.
Morris beamed his approval and shook
hands heartily with Ike as the latter
turned to leave,
"How about that mistake la .the
statement?" Iko asked.
"Some other time," said Morris, walk
ing with Ike toward the store door.
Then he sank his voice to a confidential
whisper. "That's a fine girl. Miss Co
hen." he went on. "Comes of fine fam
ily, too. She's Max Cohen's niece. You
know Max Cohen. He's the Beacon
Credit Outfitting Company. He's a mil
lionaire, Ike. If he's worth a cent, he's
worth a hundred thousand dollars!"
Ike turned on him an awed yet
searching look as they clasped hands
again in parting.
"I give you my word. Ike. she's his
favorite niece," Morris concluded, "and
he ain't got no children of his own!"
IH.
The ensuing week was a busy one
for all concerned. Abe was occupied
In the store with an unusual rush of
Spring trade; Morris had his hands full
in the office and cutting-room; but
Miss Cohen and Ike Felnsllver had been
busiest of all. for in less than six days
after their visit to the theater a soli'
talre diamond ring sparkled on the
third finger of the lady's left hand.
"Well, Mawruss." Abe said ten days
later. "I suppose you fired Mis Cohen"
"Me fire Miss Cohen!" Morris ex
claimed. "I'm surprised to hear you
that you should talk that way. Abe.
What for should I fire Miss Cohen?"
"Why, last week you said you was
going to fire her. ain't it-"
"Last week," Morris replied, "was an
other day. If I ain't got no more sense
than that I should go to a fine young
lady like Miss Cohen and say. Miss
Cohen, you're fired." after she worked
for us five years, and her uncle also a
good customer. I should be sorry, Abe,
"Then, we're going to keep her, aft
er all what?" Abe said.
"No, we ain't going to keep her.'
said Morris, "we're going to lose her.'
"Lose her! What d'ye mean?"
Morris smiled In a superior way.
"Abe," he said, "you ain't got no
eyes in your head. Ain't you noticed
that ring on Miss Cohen a left handr
Abe stared in astonishment.
"It's a beauty, Abe," Morris went on.
"A bright young feller like Ike Fein-
silver don't get stuck, no matter what
he buys. He got It through Plotkin's
cousin down on Maiden Lane."
Abe sat down to ponder over the
news.
You mean," he said at length, "that
Ike Felnsllver, of the Hamsuckett Mills.
Is going to marry Miss Cohen?"
You guessed it right. Abe," Morris
replied.
"And wno nxed it up 7" said Aba
"I did." he replied.
Abe smoked on In silence.
"I suppose I must congratulate her,
Mawruss," be said at length, starting
to rise.
"There's no hurry," said Morris. "I
let her go uptown this morning. She
wanted to do some shopping."
Abe sat down again.
"You done a smart piece of work
Mawruss. I must say," he admitted,
"Ike's a good feller, and Miss Cohen'll
make him a good wife, even If she
ain't a good bookkeeper. Also, we done
a good turn to Max Cohen. I bet be s
pleased. I wonder he ain't been around
yet-
Hardly had the words Issued from
Mr. Potash s mouth, when the store
door opened to admit a short, thick-set
person, and then closed again with
bang that threatened every pane of
glass in the vicinity. There was no
hesitation about the newcomer's ac
tions. Hejnade straight for the sample
room, and had almost reached it be
fore Abe could scramble to his feet.
The latter rushed forward and grabbed
the visitors hand.
"Mr. Cohen." he cried, "what a pleas
ore this is! I congratulate you!"
Mr. Cohen withdrew his band from
Abe's cordial grasp.
"You congratulate me, hey?" he said.
with slow and lronio emphasis. 'TOaw
russ Perlmutter also congratulates me
what?" He fixed the unhappy Morris
with a terrible glare. Don t congratu
late me." he went on. "Congratulate
Ike Felnsllver and Beckle Cohen." He
gathered force as he proceeded ."Fools!'
he continued in a rapid - crescendo,
Meddlers! You spill my blood! You
ruin me! I'm a millionaire, you tell
Felnsllver. I've got nothing to do with
my money but that I should throw it
away in the streetl"
Mister Cohen," Morris protested.
"you 11 make yourself sick.
i ll make you sick!" Cohen rejoined.
"I'll make for you a blue eye, too. Five
thousand dollars I got to give her!"
Abe whistled Involuntarily.
"I should think $2000 would be
plenty." he suggested.
Max Cohen turned on him witn an
other glare.
What!" he shrieked. "Am I beggar?
Should I give my niece a miserable
$2000? Ain't I got no pride? I got to
make It $50001" He paused while his
Imagination dwelt oh the magnitude of
this colossal sum, "Five thousand dol-L
and interested as if the set-to had been
physical instead . of merely verbal.
Afterwards I grew to know him well,
both while I was Governor and while
I was President, and many a time he
came on and boxed with me.
Battling Nelson was another stanch
friend, and he and I think alike on
Consequently, on the morning after! most questions of political and indus-
the festivities he entered his place of trial life: although he once exDressed
business In no very pleasant frame of u ma RnrT1n Mmtniritin hmnu a-
mind. He found that Morris had al- President, I did not get anything 'like
reaay arnveu.
the money return for my services that
he aggregated during the same term
of years In the ring. Bdb Fitsslm
mons was another good friend of mine.
He has never forgotten his early skill
as a blacksmith, and among the things
that I value and always keep in use
Is a penholder made by Bob out of a
horseshoe, with an inscription saying
that it is "Made for and presented to
President Theodore Roosevelt by his
friend and admirer, Robert Fitzslm-
mons." I have for a long time had the
friendship of John L. Sullivan, than
whom in his prime no better man ever
stepped Into the ring. He is now a
Massachusetts farmer. John used oc
casionally to visit me at the White
House, his advent always causing a
distinct flutter among the waiting
Senators and Congressmen. When I
went to Africa he presented me with a
gold-mounted rabbit's foot for luck.
I carried it through my African trip;
and I certainly had good luck.
On one occasion one of my prize
fighting friends called on me at the
White House on business. He ex
plained that he wished to see me alone.
"Well.. Mawruss," be said in -greeting,
"everything went off splendid for
Felnsllver. Max Cohen came down with
a certified check for $5000, you and me
got rid of about over a hundred, count
ing the wedding present and our wives'
dresses, and Miss Cohen got a husband
and a lot of cut glass, while xm I got
a headache!"
Morris grunted.
"I guess you don't feel too' good your.
self, ain't It?" Abe went on. "Anyhow,
you got to get busy now, and" find some
smart young feller to keep the booka
You got rid of your dirty water, Maw
russ: now you got to get some ciean.
Did you put an 'ad' in the papers. Maw.
russ?"
No, I ain't," Morris snapped.
Ain't you going to?"
What for?" Morris growled. "We
don't need no bookkeeper."
"Why not?" Abe cried.
Morris nodded in the direction of the
office.
"Because we got one, he replied.
"Abe turned toward the little glass
Inclosure. He gasped In amazement.
and nearly swallowed the stump ot his
cigar, for at the old stand, industrious,
ly applying herself to the books of
Potash & Perlmutter, sat Mrs. Isaac
Felnsllver, nee Cohen.
A moment later the door opened, ana
Isaao Felnsllver entered. Immaculately
clothed in a suit of sebra-like design.
He proceeded to the bookkeeper's of
fice and kissed the blushing bride: then
he repaired to the sample room. '
Good morning, Mawruss! Good
morning, Abe!" he said briskly. "Ain't
it a fine weather?" He threw a bundle
of swatches upon a sample table. "My
partners. Goldner & Plotkln, and me"
here he paused to note the effect "is
putting out a fine line of Spring goods,
and I want to show you some."
Abe and Morris looked over Ike's line
In dazed astonishment, and before they
were really cognizant of what was go
ing on. Ike had booked a generous or
der. He gathered up the samples into
a neat little heap and put them under
his arm.
That ain't so bad," be said, "for a
honeymoon order."
Then he turned and strode toward tne
bookkeeper's office. Once more he
saluted the lips of his assiduous spouse
and a moment later he was walking
ranidlv down the street. Abe looked
after him and expelled a huge breath.
"You find it in the Talmud tnat we
are commanded to promote marriages,
ain't It, Mawruss V he said. "But one
thing's sure. Mawruss you can't run a
cloak-and-sult business according to tne
Talmud." There was a short silence.
Did you ask her why she comes back,
Mawruss?" he said.
Morris took the end off a particularly
black cigar with one vicious bite.
"I didn't have to asK ner. one ioia
me." he said bitterly. - one says a
smart trirl can eret a husband any day.
she says; but a good job is hard to find,
and when you get one, you should stick
to it!"
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princess Olga, oldest daughter of the Czar of Russia, Is reported
to have been selected for the wife of the Prince of Wales. The
young people have never met as yet, but that is of no consequence in
the matter of royal match-making. It is said to be likely that they
will accompany their respective parents when the Czar and King
George meet at Queen Alexandra's villa near Copenhagen this FalL
sat down opposite me, and put a very
expensive cigar on the desk, saying,
"Have a clgaT." I thanked him and
said I did not smoke, to which he re
sponded. "Put It in your pocket." He
then added, "Take another; put both :n
your pocket." This I accordingly did.
Having thus shown at the outset the
necessary formal courtesy, my visitor,
an old and valued friend, proceeded
to explain that a nephew of his had
enlisted in the Marine Corps, but had
been absent without leave, and was
threatened with dishonorable discharge
on the ground of desertion.
My visitor, a good citizen and a patrl-,
otic American, was stung to the quick
at the thought of such an incident oc
curring In his family, and he explained
to me that it must not occur, that there
must not be the disgrace to the fam
ily, although he would be delighted to
have the offender "handled rough" to
teach him a needed lesson; he added
that he wished I would take him and
handle him myself, for he knew that I
would see that he "got all that was
coming to him." Then a look of pathos
came into his eyes, and he explained:
"That boy I Just cannot understand.
He was my sister's favorite son. and I
always took a special Interest in him
myself. I did my best to bring him up
the way he ought to go. But there was
Just nothing to be done with him. His
tastes were naturally low. He took to
music!" What form this debasing taste
for music assumed I did not Inquire:
and 1 was able to grant my friend's
wish.
While in the White House I always
tried to get a couple of hours' exercise
in the afternoons sometimes tennis,
more often riding, or else a rough
cross-country walk, perhaps down Rock
Creek, which was then as wild as a
stream in the White Mountains, or on
the Virginia side along the Potomac.
My companions at tennis or on these
rides and walks we gradually grew to
style the Tennis Cabinet; and then we
extended the term to take In many of
my old-time Western friends such as
Ben Daniels. Seth Bullock, Luther
Kelly, and others who had taken part
with me In more serious outdoor ad
ventures than walking and riding for
pleasure. Most of the men who were
oftenest with me on these trips men
like Major-General Leonard Wood; or
Major-General Thomas Henry Barry:
or Presley Marion Rixey, Surgeon-General
of the Navy; or Robert Bacon,
who was afterwards Secretary of State;
or James Garfield, who was Secretary
of the Interior; or GifTord Plnchot, who
was chief of the Forest Service were
better men physically than I was; but
I could ride and walk well enough for
us all thoroughly to enjoy it. Often,
especially In the winters and early
springs, we would arrange for a point
to point walk, not turning aside for
anything for instance, swimming Rock
Creek or even the Potomac if it came
in our way. Of course under such cir
cumstances we had to arrange that our
return to Washington should be when
It was dark, so that our appearance
might scandalize no one. On several
occasions we thus swam Rock Creek
the early Spring when the ice was
floating thick upon it. If we swam the
Potomac, we usually took off our
clothes. I remember one such oc
casion when the French Ambassa
dor, Jusserand, who was a mem
ber of the Tennis Cabinet, was along,
and, just as we were about to get in to
swim, somebody said: "Mr. Ambassa
dor, you haven't taken oft your gloves,"
to which he promptly responded. "I
think I will leave them on; we might
meet ladles!"
We liked Rock Creek for these walks
because we could do so much scrambl-
ng and climbing along the cliffs;
there was almost as much climbing
when we walked down the Potomac it
Washington from the Virginia end of
the Chain Bridge. I would occasionally
take Borne btg-game friend from abroad.
Selous or St. George Littledale or Cap
tain Radcliffe or Paul Niedicke, on these
walks. Once I invited an entire class of
officers who were attending lectures at
the War College to come on one of these
walks; I chose a route which gave us
the hardest climbing along the rocks
and the deepest crossings of the creek;
and my army friends .enjoyed It hugely
being the right sort, to a man.