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III'MAN JI NK
Whoever looks about with a discriminating eye and a philosophic mind
cannot fait to he apalled at the enormous amount of human life that is sup
ported by the world, out of which no particular stood seems to be forthcom
ing. We have our criminals, real or adjudged. . ur feeble minded and our
insane. AH these must be fed. clothed and sheltered, and in some casta
confined, because at liberty they are even more dangerous than an equal
number of wild animals. We have also our wandering Willies, that rest
les> army of migrating labor, mostly harmless and not wholly useless, but
shirk 'ig altogether the ordinary responsibilities of citizenship. Thous
ands of them wander unattached, forming no real part of organized society,
i day and there tomorrow, this great fraternity of modern Ishmael
ites drift hither and thither like lost souls. claiming their rights by virtue
of not having asked to be born.
We have our lazy man of the neighborhood, rooted to the soil like a
vegetable. "Not able to work." he entertains the local loafers with im
probable tales of what he "used to do." or he may even go to bed and stav
there, a burden to his family—this !>pe always lias a family—resting com
fortably until the undertaker eurries him oil'.
We have the butterflies of fashion, men and women by the thousands
who live without labor 01 -m> kind of useful service to society. They con
sume the fat of the land, u.l- live in luxury, rendering nothing in return,
maintaining their usele-s lives from day to day because better men and
women labored before them. Th- > .re of about ti:e same consequence in a
well-o:de:ed society as are the things of wire upon wliich'we hang our lat
est fashion* in the show window less even, for these figures made of wire
consume nothing They make no demands up> u us. but are even workaLIt
into a bit of useful junk in the end.
These favored sous and daughters who repudiate their birth-right—
what of them anyhow? They toil not neither uo they spin, and yet Solo
mon in all his glory was not arraved like one of these. And as to chariots
a:.d horsemen! Ueaoid the modern limousines! Nothing like it in Solomon i
time, and it e.vceedetli by far anything that the Queen of Sheba ever dream
ed of Not content a th leadi: - jseiess lives themselves and not willing
to minister even to their own wants, to say nothing of others, these human
j .irasites draw heavily upon the world and surround themselves with
flunkies at every turn, ready and waiting to caier obsequisously to the
slightest passing whim, all for money—and money, too. that somebody else
earned a long time ago in really usetul work.—Success Magazine.
TO ISl il I. iti.lHMi MILKS <M- ili> Vl».—The $:!T>0.000,000 appropriat
ed by Congress as Federal aid :n ijunction with State funds will result
iu the construction of about 4'J.OtiO miles of road, says the Bureau of I'ub
li. Koads of the United Slates Department of Agriculture. This Mileuge
would parallel the railroad from New York to Sanfrancisco nearly 15 times,
or. if divided equally anions tile St:i tes. would give nearly 1,00(1 to each
state.
The status of road building on April 30 wa3 as-follows: In projects
entirely complete, a total of 16.3."5 miles, utidi'r construction. 13.950 miles
in projects, averaging G2 per cent complete. A considerable part of the
latter mileage is actually complete and in service. In addition, funds have
been allotted to 7.511 miles, much of which will come under construction
during the present season, lies des this, there is still available for new
projec's $t!O.HS.00u, which on the -an e b isis as previous Federal aid con
struction will result iu the construction of 5000 miles of highway. In
.March the fund available for new pioje. is was taken up at the rate of $12,
Oou.OUO a mouth and at the rate of i5.To0.000 iu April.—Juneau Empire.
Over half the fires that occur iu the forests are due to human agencies,
and are. therefore, preventable.
Kucsia Is In dunser of swin^in" s<
fur bai k from collapsed communism
as to Iwoiuf the most thoroughly c-up
Italistic-vontrolled nation no earth.
This ts the observation of Charles
i'ldlip Norton, former adviser of the
Russian-American Chamber of Com
merce. He is bark from a Ions tour
of the I.enln-Trotrky domain. What
he predicts would be a logical reac
tion. Human nature runs to extremes.
No abstainer as rabid as an amateur
drunkard the morning after. In time,
though, he reacts, tries the poison
again.
Thinzs are muddled in this world.
If Germany had gold enough to pay all
her reparations In money, thus en
abling all other nations to wipe out
their debts, the economic collapse of
the world would probably be ten times
as bad as It is now. The world needs
work and products, not gold.
The controversy over the color of
Washington's hair is as little likely
to be settled finally as the Identity of
his authentic body servant or the true
list of places where he made his
"headquarters" while comnwiudeHn
Chiej; ox the colonial avuiy.
Now some one Is fretting his gray
tumier over how (lie caveman kuewP
so much about astronomy. A few
more discoveries anil we will all he in
clined to l»-lleve that the caveman was
I :i Uglily cultured individual.
A coitn'ess has been brought up In a
London i oiirt on the charge of having
•von on the races by trick. The same
:is in this country, winning ou the
races in iCinrland seems to be regard
•ii us a suspicious circumstance.
Ex-Premier Briand of France snlfTs
at golf us "h same for schoolboys."
Nevertheless as M. liriaiid leariieii al
the conference. golf ami other games
nave taught the Americans anil Brit
ish to hit rhe ball in the pinches.
t Struck on the head with a leaden
sash weight in the hitnil of her as
sailant. a young woman's life was
saved hj her thick hair, it seeuis to
carry a suggestion as lo how to bob
up serenely.
The first Cornian skyscraper, sixteen
stories li> height, is to be erected in
Harahiirg. Bu: the Ceruians call It a
"cloud sciaiclier."_
I
7v INDIAN DRUM
h William MacHiiraand Edwin lialmer
CHAPTER VII.
Mr. Corvtt'i Partner.
The Instnnt of meeting. when Alan
recognized In Slierrlll's partner, the
man with whom he had fought In Cor
vet's house, was one of swift readjust
ment of 'ill his thought—adjustment
to a situation of which he could not
even have dreamed, and which left
him breathless. But for Spearman,
obviously, it was not that. Following
his noncommittal nod of acknowlO,'
ment of Slierrlll's Introduction and his
first steady scrutiny of Alan, the big.
handsome man swung himself off from
; Steady. Bold, Watchful Eyes Seemed
I Measuring Alan Attentively.
the desk on which lie ski uiul leuned
| signiti.it It. fating them more directly.
I "l»h, yes (Vnrad." he said. His
j tone was heiirty: In it Alan could rec
, ognlze only so much of reserve as
' might he expected from Sherrlll's
I partner who hud taken an attitude of
' opposition. The shipmasters, looking
on. could see. no doubt, not e<en that:
except for the excitement which Alun
j himself could not conceal. It must ap
pear to thetu oidy an ordinary Intro
I dnctlon.
i Alan fought sharply down the swift
j rush of his lilood anil the tightening c,f
I his musc les.
"1 can say truly that Pin glad to
I meet you, Mr. Spearman," he uiau
1 aged.
I There was no recognition of any
l thing beyond ttie mere surfuce mean
• lug of the words In Spearman's slow
I smile uf acknowledgment. as lie turned
I from Alan to Sherriii.
, "I'm alraid you've taken rather a
I bad time. Lawrence. (*un't we get to
Igether later—this afternoon? You'll
be about here this afternoon?"
"1 think I rati tie here this after
noon.' Alun said.
"Let's say two-thirty, then." Spear
j tcuu turned and noted the hour almost
, solicitously among the scrawled ap
| poiiitnients on his desk pad; straight
ening, alter this act of dismissal, he
' walked with them to the door, his
I hand on Shenlll's shoulder.
'Circumstances have put us—Mr.
Slii»rrill and myself—In a very dilti
' curt position, t'otirad," he remarked.
| "We want much to be fair to all con
■ cerned--"
lie did not Uulsh the seuteuce, but
I' halted at the door. Sherriii went out.
and Alan followed htm; exasjieratlon
—half outrage yet half aduilrntlon—at
Spearman's healing, held Alan speech
| less. If every movement of Spear
J man's great, b:tndsoiue body had not
| recalled to him their struggle of the
I uight before—If, as Spearman's hand
[ rested cordially on SherriU'S shoulder,
j Alan had not seemed to feel again that
, big hand at his throat—he would itl
| most nave been ready to believe tliut
j this w as not the man whom lie had
j fought. But he could not doubt thai;
■ he had recognized Spearman beyond
| question. And Spearman had recog
i, nized him—he was sure of that; he
could not for an iustant doubt It;
Spearman had known it was Alan
whom he had fought in Corvet's bouse
eveu before Sherriii had brought them i
together. Wus there not further proof
of that iu Spearman's subsequent man
ner toward him? For what was uli
this cordiality except defiance?
Power and possession—both far ex
ceeding Alan's most extravagant
dream—were promised hitu by those
papers which Sherriii had shown him.
When he had read down the list of
those properties, he had had no more
feeiiug that such things could be his
than he had had at first that Corvet's
house could be his—until he had heard
the intruder moving iu that house
And uow It was the seuse that another
was going to make him tight for those
properties that was brlugiug to bin.
the realization of his new power. He
"iiild" souieUiim; ou tUal ffiuu—«u
Spearman. He did not know what that
thing nas; nu stretch of his thought,
nothing that he knew about himself
or others, could tell him; hut. at sight
of hliu. In the dark of Corvet's house.
Spearman hitd ••tied out In horror, he
had screamed at him the name of a
sunken ship, and In terror had hurled
his electric torch. It wus true. Spear
man's terror h:ul not been at Alan Con
rad ; 11 had been because Spearman
hud mistaken him for some one else—
for a ghost. But. after learning that
Alan wus not a ghost. Spearman's at
titude had not very greatly changed;
he had fought, he had been willing to
kill rathe*- than to be caught there.
Alan thought an Instant; he would
make sure he still "had" that some
thine on Spearman and would learn
hurt lar It went. He took up the re
ceiver and asked for Spearman.
A voice answered—"Yes."
Alan said, evenly: "I think von and
I had better have a talk before we
meet with Mr. Sherrlll this afternoon.
I am here In Mr. Corvet's office now
■ nd will be here for half an hour,
then I'm going out."
Spcarinau made no reply, but hung
up the receiver. Alan sat waiting, hi*
watch upon the desk before him—
tense, expectant, with flushes of hot
and cold passing over him. Ten min
utes passed; then twenty. The tele
phone under Corvet's desk buzzed.
' Mr. Spearman says he will give
you five minutes now," the switchboard
gl:l said.
Alan breathed deep with relief;
Spearman had wanted to refuse to see
hlti—hut he had not refused; he had
seiit for him within the time Alan had
appointed and after waiting until just
before It expired.
Alan put his watch back into Mi
pocket and, crossing to the other office,
found Spearman alone. There was no
pretense of courtesy now In Spear
man's manner; he sat motionless at
[ his desk, his bold eyes fixed on Alan
| Intently. Alan closed the door behind
him and advanced toward the desk.
"1 thought we'd better have some
explanation." he suld, "about our
meeting last nlzht."
"Our meeting?" Spearman repeated;
his eyes had narrowed watchfully.
"You told Mr. Sherrlll that you were
In Dulitth and that you arrived home
In Chicago only this morning. Of
course you don't mean to stick to that
story with me?"
"What are you talking about?"
opparuiaii iifiiiuiuifu.
"Of course. I know exactly where
you were a part uf last evening: and
you know tlutl I know. I only want to
know what explanation you hare to
offer."
Spearman leaned forward. "Talk
sense and talk It quick, If you have
anything to say to me!"
"I Imveu't told Mr. Sherrltl that 1
found ,\«u at Corvet's bouse lust night; !
hut 1 don't want you to doubt for a
minute that I knew you—and about ]
your d—g of Benjamin Corvet and I
your cry about saving the Mlwaka I"
A flash of blood came to Spearman's
face; Alan, In his excitement, was sure
of It; but there was Just that flash, no
wore. He turned, while Spearman sat
chewtng his cigar and staring at him,
and went out and partly closed the
door. Then, suddenly, he reopened It,
looked In. reclosed It sharply, and j
went on his way. shaking a little. For, |
as he looked back this second time at
the dominant, determined, able man
seated at his desk, what he had seen
In Spearman's face was fear; fear of
himself, of Alan Conrad of Blue Rap
Ids—yet It was not fear of that sort
which weakens or dismays; It wa» of
that sort which, merely warning of
dauger close at hand, determines one
to dse every means within his power
to save himself.
Alan, still trembling cxcltedly,
crossed to Corvet'B office to await
Sherrltl. It was not. be felt sure now,
Aluu Conrad that Spearman was op
posing; It was not even the apparent
successor to the controlling stock of j
Corvet, Sherrill and Spearman. That
Alan resembled some one—some one
whose ghost had seemed to come to
Spearman and might, perhaps, have
come to Corvet—was only Incidental
to what w as going on now; for In
Alan's presence Spearman found a
threat—an active, present threat
against himself. Alan could not Im
agine what the nature of that threat
could be. Was it because there was
something still concealed In Corvet's
house which Spearman feared Alan
would find? Or was It connected only
with that some oue whom Alan resem
bled?
• •••••
Constance Sherrill's most active
thought thai day was about Henry
Spearman, for she had a luncheon en
gagement with him at one o'clock.
The tea room of a department store
offers to young people opportunities
for dining together without furnishing
reason for even innocently connecting
their names too intimately, If a girl Is
not seen there with the same man too
uUeu. Tliere la something essentially
casual «nd unfireinedlliitijTl about It—
as though the man and the girl, both
shopping and both hungry, had Just
lutppened to meet and go to lunch to
gether. As Constance recently had
drawn closer to Henry Spearnmn In
her thought, and particularly since
she had heen seriously considering
marrying him. she had clung deliber
ately to this unplanned appearance
about their meetings.
She glanced across at him. when she
had settled herself, and the first little
trivialities of their being together were
urer.
"I took a visitor down to your office
this morning." she said.
"Yes," he answered.
Constance was aware that it was
only formally that she had taken Alan
Conrad down to confer with her fa
ther ; since Henry was there, she knew
her father would uot act without his
agreement, and that whatever disposi
tion had been made regarding Alan
had been made by blm.
• •••••
"Did you like him. Henry? I hoped
yeu would."
He did not answer at once. The
waitress brought their order, and he
served her; then, us the waitress
moved away, he looked across at Con
stance with a long scrutiny.
"You've seen a good deal of him,
yesterday and today, your father tells
me." he observed.
"Y es."
"It's plain euough you like him," he
remarked.
She retlected seriously. "Yes, I do;
though I hadn't thought of It just that
way, because 1 was thinking most
about the position he was In and about
—Mr. Corvet. But I do like hiin."
"So do I," Spearmun said with a
seeming heartiness that pleased her.
"At least I should like hlra. Connie. If
I hud the sort of privilege you have to
think whether I liked or disliked him.
I've had to consider him from unother
point of view—whether I could trust
him or must distrust hlra."
"Distrust?" Constance bent toword
Mm impulsively In her surprise.
"Distrust him? In relation to what?
Why?"
"In relation to Corvet. Sherrlll and
Spearman, Connie—the company that
Involves your Interests and your fa
-HP""
"You've S«en a Good Deal of Him, I
Yesterday and Today, Your Father [
Tell* Me," He Observed.
ther's and mine and the Interest* of
many other people—small stockholders
who have no Influence In Its manage- |
ment, and whnsv Interests I have to
look after for them."
"1 don't understand, Henry."
"I've had to think of Conrad this
morning In the same way as I've had
to think of Ben Corvet of recent years
—as a threat against the Interest* of
those people."
Her color rose, and her pulse quick
ened. Henry never had talked to her,
except In the merest commonplaces,
about his relations with Uncle Benny;
It was a matter In which, she had rec- |
ogulzed, they had been opposed; and
since the quarrels between the old
friend whom she had loved from child
hood and he, who wished to become
now more than a mere friend to her,
had grown more violent, she hud pur
posely avoided mentioning Uncle Ben
ny to Henry, and he, quite as con- '
sclously, had avoided mentioning Mr.
(Wvui to hor
(Continued on Thursday)
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