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WHAT IS PROGRESS
("Uncommon Sense" by John Blake in Seattle P.-I.)
Selfishness caused the world war.
Selfishness cursed America with African slavery.
Selfishness is responsible for child labor.
Selfishness is back of every Illegal monopoly.
Selfishness is behind the age-long struggles of mass against class.
1'rogress is measured by the success of the attempt to eliminate sel
tishness.
.Men can never deal jusMy with one another until they reduce selfishness
to a minimum.
Wherever that Is done the employer and the employe come into agree
ment and nations ancient bitterness and conclude lasting treaties of peace
While selfishness is still predominant In human nature, no legislation
can ever cure the evils from which nations are suffering.
it is selfishness that fills the halls of law-making bodies with lobbyists
and (he mails with letters full of bluster and persuasion to the men who
are elected to make the laws.
It Is selfishness that causes the disagreements between the merchant
and the clerks, and the housewife and the girl who does the upstairs work
The long fight for progress, which has really succeded now and then
is a battle to eliminate selfishness.
One of the skirmishes in this battle wrung the Magna Charta from
King John. —
The greatest of wars taught a self-glorving military caste that the}
would not impose their wills upon the whole world.
The Greek republic began the work of moderating selfishness, a work
whose fruits were destroyed in the Dark Ages, when selfishness again
feigned supreme.
In comparatively recent years that work has been taken up again and
is slowly bringing results.
It has. however, only tegun. The enemy is deeply Imbedded in hum
an ua'ure and the individual seldom recognizes It for what it Is.
Some day he *111 be able to analyie his own motives and then selfish
ness will begin to disappear.
Those who foresSee such a time call It the millennium.
WHY I'U'K OX I S?
It appears to be the ambition of certain Kurpean statesmen to link up
German r eparations with the debt their countries owe the United Stajes
They declare their willingness to reduce the reparations providing some o!
t. - American obligations can be wr.tteu off. Why pick on America? Therf
would be more reason In saving the reparations could be cut if excessive ar
m nients expenditures on the part of the allies were reduced. But the only
rt ul influence affecting reparations is the German ability to pay. She is go
mi; to be made to turn over to the allies every mark that can be raised and
ktill keep her Industries moving. W'i ether or not the obligations to Am
er .-a are settled has no bearing on the German ability to pay. If Germany
< .tnnot pay. the reparations must be cut down: and if she can pay, she wll!
be made to. The debt to the United States does not enter into either con
tingency.
MEXICO'S IHTY
Mexico must adopt the demands laid down by Secretary of State
Hughes calling (or the signing of a treaty that will respect American prop
erty rights before the Obregon Administration can obtain political recog
nition. One member of the Cabinet reported to have said he d.d not seo
how the I'nited States could afford to recognize a government which has
openly declared it would not respect the property rights of Americaus in
Mexico.
Mr Hughes' attitude with respect to Mexico Is wholly consistent with
tfcat annouueed by him wiht respect to Russia. If a country Is averse to con
forming to the dictates of civilized society it can not hope to enter into dip
! imatii: relations with the United States while the Republican Adtninistn
lion is in power. The dignity of the nation is measured by ita asocates
THE OPPORTUNITY AM) THE MAN
Attorney General Daugherty says "there never was a time when 1
would have given 30 cents to get the office of Attorney General, but I would
not take a million dollars for It now." Mr Daugherty has an opportunity
that comes to but few men. If he succeeds in securing a substantial num
ber of conviction:! in the war graft prosecutions he has Inaugurated, hip
and fume will be made. He will be hailed from one end of the country
to the other as the man who did what every decent citizcn wanted to see
done Not only will he have established a place in the hearts of the people
that money canuot buy. but he will have made a reputation that will be
worth thousands of dollars to bim when he retires to the private practice
pf law. ..
? *.
Sl^TIlHufraticns by ^
^ Irwi* TSyeivr
Cbp^riqhf Dtj tuwir\ ooimer ^ • ■+
He drew her \?T iTim powerruiiy; sne
felt hliu warm, aliuOBt rough with
passion*. Since that day when. Id
::;zW
Drew Her to Him Powerfully; She
Felt Him Warm, Almost Rough With
Passions.
Alan Conrad's presence, ho had
grasped unit kissed tier, she luid not
let IdiD "realize'' their engagement, as
he hud put It.
"Why not?" lie turned her face up
to his nmv. "Your mother's here; your
father will follow soon; or. If you will,
we'll run away—Consiuuce! You've
kept me off so Ions! You don't be
lieve there's anything against tne.
dear? l>o yon? L>o you?"
"Xo; no! Of course not!"
'Then we're going to be married
. . . Right away, we'll have It then;
up here; uow!"
"No; not Low, Henry. Not up
here!"
j "Not here? Why not?"
She could give no answer, fie held
her und commanded her again: only
when he frightened tier, he ceased,
j "Why must It he ut once. Henry? I
don't understand!"
"It's not must, dear." he denied.
"It's Just that I want yon so!"
When would It be. he demunded
then; before spring, she promised at
last. But that was all he could tuake
Irer say. And so lie let her go.
The next evening. In ihe moonlight,
she drove h I in to l'etoskey. He had
luessutfes to send and preferred to
trust the telegraph office In the larger
town.
Alan was driving northward along
the long, sandy iieltilisula which sep
arates the blue wuters of lirand Trav
erse from Lake Michigan; and. think
ing of Constance, he knew that sin
was near. He not only had remem
bered that she would he north ut liar
' bor Point this month; he had seen In
one of the l'etoskey papers that she
and her mother were at the Sherrlil
summer home. His business now was
taking him neurer '.iieiu than he had
been at any time before; and. If he
wished to weaken, he might convince
himself that he mixta leuru from her
circumstances which would aid him In
his ta»k. But he wus not going to her
for help; that was following In his fa
th«r's footsteps. When he knew every
thing. then—not till then—he could go
to her; for then he would know exact
ly what wus upon him and what he
should do.
His visits to the people named on
those sheets written bv his father had
been confusing at tlrst; he had hud
great dltlicu'ty In tracing some of
them at all; and, afterward, he could
uncover no certain connection eltliei
between them und Benjamin Corvet 01
between themselves. But recently, he
had been succeeding better in this lat
ter.
He had seen—he reckoned them over
again—fourteen of the twenty-one
named originally on Benjamin Cor
vet's lists; that is. he had seen eltliei
the Individual originally named, or the
surviving relative written iu below the
name crossed off. He hail found that
the crossing out of the name meant
that the person was dead, except in
the case of two who had left the coun
try and whose whecvahouts were as
unknown to their present relatives as
they had been to Benjamin Corvet.
and the case of one other, who was
In an insane asylum.
He had found that no one of the
persons whom he saw had known Ben
Jamln Corvet personally: 'many ol
them did not know him at all. the
others knew him only as a name
But. when Alan proceeded, always
the.e was one connotation with each
•f the original names; always one cir
cumstance bound all together. When
he had established that circumstance
as Influencing the fortunes of the first
tww^iu his list£. he tiai} said .t^hitii
self, as tBe hloJxi pricked JJueerly un
der the skin, that tlie fart mlgh: he
a mere coincidence. When lie estab
lished It also us affecting the fate of
the third and of the futirlh and of
the fifth, .such explanation no longer
sufficed; and lie found It In common
to all fourteen, sometimes as the de
ciding factor of their fnte. sometimes
as only slightly affecting them, but
always It was there.
In how many different ways. In what
strange, diverse ntanlfestntlnns that
single circumstance had spread to
these people whom Alan had Inter
viewed! No two of them had heen
affected alike, he reckoned, as lie went
over Ills' notes of them. Now he was
going to trace those consequence* to
unotjier. To what sort of place would
It bring hliu today and what would
he find there? He knew only that It
would be quite distinct from the rest.
The driver turned aside from the
road across a cleared field where ruts
showed the passing of many previous
vehicles; crossing this, they entered
the woods. Little tires for cooking
burned all about them, and nearer
were parked an Immense number of
farm wagons and buggies, with horses
unharnessed and munching grain. Al
an's guide found a place among these
for his automobile, and they got out
and went forward on foot. All about
them, seated upon the moss or walk
ing about, were Indians, finally
groups among which children played
Alan saw uuiong these looking on.
the bright dresses and sport coats of
summer visitors who had come to
watch. The figure of a girl among
these caught his attention, and he
started; then swiftly lie told himself
(hat It was only Ids thinking of tVin
stance Sherrlli that made him believe
this was she. P.ut now she had seen
him: she paled, then as quickly
ilushed. and leaving the group she had
been with, catne toward him.
He had no choice now whether he
would avoid her or not; and his hap
piness at seeing her held him stupid,
watching her. Iler eyes were very
bright and with something more than
friendly greeting; there was happi
ness In them too. His throat shut
together as be recognized ibis, and his
band closed warmly over the small,
trembling hand which she put out
to him. All his conscious thought
wus lost for the moment In the mere
realization of her presence; he stood,
holding her hand, oblivious that there
were people looking; she too seemed
careless of that. Then she whitened
aguin ami withdrew her hand; she
seemed slightly confused. He was con
fused as well; it wus not like tills
that he had meant to greet her; tie
caught himself together.
Cap in hand, lie stood beside her,
trying to look and to feel as any or
dinary acquaintance of hers would
have looked.
CHAPTER XIII.
The Owner of the Watch.
"So they got word to you!" Con
Stance exclaimed; she seemed still
confused. "Oh, no—of course they
couldn't have done that! They've
hardly got my letter yet."
"Your letter?" Alan asked.
"I wrote to Blue Rapids," she ex
plained. "Some things came—they
were sent to me. Some things of
Uncle Benny's which were meant for
you Instead of me."
"You mean you've heard from
him r
"No—not that."
"What things. Miss SherriJI?"
"A watch tf his and some coins and
—a ring." She did not explain the
significance of those things, and he
could not tell from her more enumera
tion of them and without seeing them
that they furnished proof that his
father was dead. She could not In
form him of that, she felt. Just here
and now.
•Til tell you about that later. You—
you were coming to Harbor Point to
see us 7"
He colored. "I'm afraid not. I got
as near as this to you because there
is a man—an Indian—I have to see."
"An Indian! What Is his name?
You see. I know quite a lot of them."
"Jo Papo."
She shook her head. "No; I don't
know him."
She found a spot where the moss
was covered with dry pine needles and
sat down upon the ground.
"Sit down," she Invited; "I want
you to tell me what you have been do
ing."
"Fve been on the boats." He
dropped down upon the moss beside
her. "Cntll yesterday I was n not
very highly honored member of the
crew of the package freighter Oseoda:
I left her at Frankfort and cume up
here."
"Is Wassaquam with you?"
"He wasn't on the Oscoda; but he
was with me at lirst. Now, I believe,
he has gone back to his own people
to Middle Village."
"You menn you've heen looking for
Air. Corvet In that wuyV"
m
"iVot exactly nmt. • tie nesmiteo;
lint he could see 110 reason for not tell
ing •'•hat he had been doing. He had
not so much hidden from her and her
father what he had found In Ilenja
mln Corvet's house: rather, he had re
frained from mentioning It In his notes
to them when he left Chicago because
be hud thought that the lists would
leail to an Immediate explanation;
the.v had not led to that, hut only to
a suggestion. Indefinite yet. He had
Itnown that. If his search finally de
veloped nothing more than It had. he
must at last consult Sherrlll and get
Sherrlll's aid.
•\Vp found some writing, Miss Slier
rill," Ire said, "In the house on Astor
street that night after Luke came."
"What writing?"
lie took the lists from his pocket
and showed tlieni to her. She sepa
rated and looked through the sheets
and read the uatnes written In the
same baud that had written the direc
tions upon the slip of paper that came
to her four days before, with the
| things from Uncle Kenny's pockets.
"My father bad kept these very se
cretly." he explained. "He had them
hidden. W«ssaquam knew where they
were, and that night after Luke was
dead and you had gone Jiome, he gave
| them to me."
"After I had gone home? Henry
went back to see you that night; he
had said he was going back, and after
ward 1 asked him, and he told me he
hat! seen you again. Did you show
him these?"
"He saw them- -yes."
"He was there when Wassaquam
showed you where they were?"
"Yes."
A little line deepened between her
brows, and she sat thoughtful.
"So you have been going about see
ing these people." she said. "What
have you found out?''
"Nothing definite at all. None of
them knew my father; they were only
!
"Nothing Definite At aii. kohi ot
Them Knew My Father."
amazed to find that anyone In Chicago
had known their names."
In her feeling for him, she had laid
her Irmd upon his arm: now her fin
gers tightened to sudden tenseness.
"U lmt do vou mean?" she asked.
(Continued on Thursday)
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