Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1894, Page 14

SILVER IN CHINA How the Great Empire Manages Its Money ‘Matters. ABOUT CHINESE BANKS AND BANKERS Five Hundred Million People Who Do Business in Copper Cash. BANKRUPTS AND THEIR PERIL ee Byecial Correspondence of The Evening Star. (Copyrighted, 1804, by Frank G. Carpenter.) HANKOW, China, April 5, 1804. HE SILVER QUES- | tion is a far more im- portant matter out here in Asia than it has ever been in America. The Jap- anese are trying to uphold their end of the financial question by raising their prices, but the five hundred odd millions of Chinese do their business in copper cash on a silver basis, and the cost of their imports are now just double what they were a few years ago. I cashed $50 in gold the other day and re- ceived $100 in silver for it, and American @ellars are now quoted in China at 212. The imports have to be bought with gold and sold for silver, and the prices must, of course, be doubled for the merchants to come out even. The prices of labor and of Chinese products have not risen, and the thousands and millions of Chinese farm- ers who are now coming to the cities to Duy their supplies of cottons and other for- eign things are charged double prices. They €annot understand it, and they won't pay ‘them. They think they are being cheated, and they won't buy at all. They simply say they can’t afford the goods, and they go back home and cut up their old @ewns into pants for the little girls Swell Official in Winter Dress. @nd petticoats for the boys. The re- sult will be a great falling off in China's imports from Europe and America, and it will act as a sort of a protective tariff to stimulate home production. There are now on foot a number of schemes for the manu- facturing of foreign goods in China, and some of the Chinese capitalists themselves are seriously considering how they can take advantage of the present situation in the building of factories. has a foreign trade of something like $200,000,000 a year. Heretofore more than half of this has consisted of imports. The goods have been shipped into the open Ports of the country and from thence car- Tied in junks, on camels, on wheelbarrows and in Chinese carts all over the empire. Par beyond the Chinese wall, on the bor- ders of Thibet and in the wilds of Mongo- Ma you find strange people wearing English and American cottons, and many of the huts of the Thibetans in the Himalaya ™mountains are roofed with tin pounded out of American coal-oil cans. I see our coal oil carted on wheelbarrows through the Streets of these interior Chinese cities, and there {s a great oil reservoir at Shanghal, where the petroleum is stored awaiting its shipment into the interior. We have been sending in the neighborhood of forty million gallons of coal ofl to China every year ft ome time nd many a Chinese home with the fluid that flows from the pipes of the Pennsylvania wells. A Rich People. China contains between four and five hun- red millions of people. With its tributary provinces it Is s population of St 000. Since the begin- Ring of our government we have coined all told about 461,000,000 silver dollars, not in- eluding the halves and quarters, and h if the whole c carried to China to give a dollar to each of its inhabitants. China is generally supposed to be vecy Poor. I believe, on the contrary, that it is @ rich country, and it must require a vast amount to do its business. It is true there are many millions of poor, but there are also millions of weil-to-do millions of eomparative! here are few countries where jew worn, and where the cl most costly. since I came herve Chinese Bankers. yusands of ordinary citizens dressed in mg gowns of brocaded silk lined with furs, and nearly every other woman you see outside of the laboring women wears a silk coat and silk pantaloons, while her little Binched toes are covered with silk, silver or gold embroidered shoes. She has silver or eld ornaments in hair and her silk address is often decorated with rows of Pearls. Both sexes wear gold rings, and a ‘well-to-do Chinaman expects to fit out his @aughters with jaments on the oc- a b They look upon the change in the pric #m gold rather than a hear everywhere th her r, and I . “Why for realize so a the ghange when they have a daughter whom | Want to marry off, and the rise is, in The empire now | along the Yangtse Kiang is lighted; o have the enormous! better classes are | sa rise | CLUB. fact, so surprising to many of the peopl that they are selling their gold ornaments. They are bringing out the gold bricks they have hoarded and the country is being drained of its gold. ‘The Chinese are a great business people. Their cities are beehives of work, and they require a great deal of money to do their trading. The city of Canton absorbs about three millions of sflver dollars a year. It takes millions to do the business of Shang- hai and Tientsin, and there are scattered over this land thousands of native banks who do a regular banking business and | some of which issue notes. There are 400 | native banks in Peking, 300 in Tientsin and hundreds in Shanghai, Foo Chow, Ningpo, Hankow and Canton. All of the big cities have their stock exchanges and in these the brokers meet daily and buy and sell like our bulls and bears do in Wall street. I saw a thousand such brokers pulling, hauling and scratching at each other in the stock ex- change in Peking, and I am told that many of them have receritly lost great sums in betting on silver. The Taotoi or Chinese mayor of Shanghai has lost, it said, $800,000 within the last three months in buy- ing silver, and he has, in fact, speculated himself out of office and his place will shortly be filled with a new appointee. In all of the treaty ports, the foreign as well as the native, business is really done by the Chinese. All of the foreign firms have Chinese cashiers, and these men make all of the calculations and handle all the mon- ey. When you go into a bank the English clerk will call a Chinaman to figure out your exchange for him and it will be the Chinaman who will pay you your money. If you make a deposit or pay a bill it is a Chinaman who handles every silver dollar, testing it carefully by ringing it before le accepts it, and estimating the amount and the rate of exchange with one of these box- es of balls strung on wires, which form the slates ané pencils of the celestials. It 1s wonderful how fast these men can figure in this way. They push the halls this way and that with their aristocratit, long finger- nailed yellow hands, and in less time than you could put down the figures they give you the result. They are always sure of { themselves, and if they make a mistake the ; firm by whom they are employed expects | them to make it good. They are under heavy bonds, often running up into the hun- | dreds of thousands of dollars, and there are few defaulting Chinese cashiers. These “compradors” and “shroffs,” as they are called, keep track of the Chinese markets | for the foreign firms. ey have cashiers’ or bankers’ meetings, as it were, every day among themselves and report later on to their masters. They know all about the standing of different Chinese banks and firms. In speaking of them they divide them into four classes. If they say a bank is a number one bank it Is sure to be us good as the gold. If they call it number two it is fair. If number three, its reputa- tion is cloudy, and if four, you had better let it alone. Chinese Counterfeiting. Chinese bank notes are more like promis- sory notes than our bank notes. There is not and never has been a national bank, and notes are not used as currency to any extent. The banker merely writes the amount on the note and puts: his private seal or chop over it. Such notes are made out for all sums from five to twenty thou- sand taels, and the Chinese banker never goes back on his signature. He pays the notes when they are presented in silver or gold. The silver is usually paid according to weight, in lumps the shape of a toy bath tub, ranging in value all the way from a dollar up to fifty dollars. The usual size is worta about fifty dollars, and it weighs about five pounds. The gold is made in long, thin cakes, and is twenty carats fine. The banker stamps with his private seal every piece of silver he pays out, and even the Mexican dollars are marked thus with India ink. Every big bank or company has @ man who takes all of the silver dollars that come in and fits them into holes made in a board, so that when they lie in them their surface is just level with the board. He then takes a brush and water and washes them as white and clean as though they had just come from the mint. He now stamps his chop on each of them, and this means that he guarantees their payment. Any one who has been in China will see the necessity for this. There are no shrewder counterfeiters in the world than the Chi- nese, and they are especially adept in the plugging of coin. They will bore holes in a silver dollar and insert other metal which will make it weigh the same as a good dol- lar, and they are willing to chip an atom of silver off of a large number of coins in or- der to make good wages out of the sale of the dust. The other day an American got a silver dollar in trade at Hankow, and at- | tempted to pass it at the bank there. He was told it was not good, and upon his questioning the matter the Chinese cashier sent for a candle and lit it. He then held the coin over it, and, lo! in a moment it be- gan to melt. The sides fell off, and in the center there was a piece of copper. The ‘Ten Dollars Worth. counterfeiters had split a genuine coin and had hollowed out the two pieces on the in- side so that the copper could be fitted into them. They were then patched together so | neatly that only the experienced ear of the | Chinese shroff could detect the fraud. Copper Cash. | Silver dollars will not pass in interior | china, and outside of ports stlver is taken | entirely by weight. The only coin current in the empire is the copper cash, of which | it takes 1,000 to make a dollar in silver. A thousand cash will weigh about nine pounds, and ten of our dollars changed into cash would weigh nearly one hundred pounds, and would form a fair wheelbarrow load of money. I see lots of money carried on wheelbarrows through these Chinese cities, and a common sight Is a cooley going out to market with strings of these copper | cotms slung over his shoulder. The cash are |, |about the size and shape of our old red | cents, save that they have square holes of | about the size of the tip of your little fin- | ser running through them. They are strung |in strings of one thousand on ropes of | twitsted straw, and at the end of every hun- | dred a knot is 'tied in the string to mark the |count. These cash are made at all of the | provincial capitals, and the viceroys are ex- | pected to turn them out. They cost at the | Present time more than their face value to make, and copper of this kind 1s, in fact, jhere dearer than gold. I saw such coins | being made some years ago at the big mint at Canton, and I watched a new machine | turning them out at the rate of seventy a | minute at the Kiagnan Arsenal the other | day. The copper went into the machine in the shape of a hoop, of about the widta of the iron hoops which we use on jcider barrels, and stamps which worked through holes in a plate cut the metal into round disks, stamped the characters upon them and cut out the central hole in each coin all ata single stroke of the machine. It was worked by steam, but even at this rate of seventy per minute it turned out only about four dollars’ worth of coins an hour. It is even worse at the older Chinese mints, where the coins are cast, and the copper {and the labor make the production of them |a loss to the men who are told by the gov- |ernment or the viceroys that they must rnish so many cash within a certain date. ‘The result is that these cash are often made THE EVENING STAR, of spurious metal, and I have seen some of them which were so poor that I could break them in two with my fingers. At the pres- ent rates of exchange I could buy two thou- sand of these coins for one of our dollars, end it would take twenty to equal the value of a little American red cent, and you could buy a pound of them for a nickel. I sent my Chinese servant for ten dollars’ worth of these cash today, and he came back loaded. His hands were ful! and his shoul- ders were covered with strings of cash. The picture was so curious that I had my photographer snap his camera on him as I helped him unload. Banking System to: ‘The banking system of China is the oldest known to man. According to Chinese records there were banks of discount and deposit here as far back as 2600 B. C., and the interest laws of China were made long before Columbus discovered America. There were Shylocks here a thousand years before the real Shylock was born in the mind of Shakespeare, and nowhere on earth amcng civilized people will you find higher rates of interest paid, more money borrowed und more debts conscientiously paid. The ‘egal rate of Interest in many of the provinces of China ts 30 per cent and in others it is 26 per cent. Still millions are lent, I am told, in the shape of call loans in the seaport towns at 5 and 6 per cent, and all sorts of money transactions are entered into. China had a system of building and loan associa- tions long before we began to exist as a nation, and all over the empire there are associations for the loaning of money, in which the different members pay 80 much a month and the joint capital is passed from one member to another from year to year, so that each gets a chance to use it for a part of the ten years during which such as- sociations usually run. ‘There is no place in the world where capital combines more readily than in China. The, bankers have their guilds or associations, which fix all their rates of credit and interest. Every city has its clearing house, which settles up the business between the banks at the close of each day, and the native banks issue cir- cular letters of credit to travelers going through the empire. There are big banks who push Chinese patent medicines, and little ones who loan out sums which we Americans would hardly think worth while borrowing. There are trades unions of all sorts and even the beggars club toge:her and are bound by the rules of their union. Farmers combine together to buy cattle, peddlers buy and sell the custom of partic- ular streets to their fellows, and a man who wants to get married and has perhaps not enough money to buy a wife will go into one of these loan associations to get it. The Annual Settling Up. I tried to buy some pictures at Klukiang, but found the dealer’s store shut and was told that he was closed until he could get enough money from his friends to pay his last year’s debts. All firms here have to settle up at the close of the year, and it is the greatest disgrace to go into bankruptcy. Bankrupts often commit suicide, and the son feels bound to pay his father’s debts. It is the same with other relatives. The debts of any member of a family are a dis- grace to the whole family, and rich men having failed will go to work at the most menial occupations in order to pay up. Big failures are alw: punished by law. If the amount is from $1,500 to $5,000 the bank- rupt is banished, and if it runs above that amount his head is taken off. Thefe is not much discussion about the matter and the law is that the bankrupt who becomes such from unavoidable circumstances is decapi- tated just the same as the fraudulent one. There are no lawyers and no juries and ihe judges or officials of the town pass the sen- tences. Sometimes the bankrupts carry Loan Associa- r heavy chains for weeks through the streets. At others they are put in the cangue, as shown in the initial illustration. If, how- ever, the bankrupt can save enough out of the failure he can sometimes buy off the judges and thus save his head. In many cases the creditors forgive their customers their debts, and many a man at the annual settlement day, which always comes at the close of the year, has his friends come to- gether and start him anew clear of debt. If he cannot clear himself in some way his sbop is kept shut until he announces his failure or gets the funds to continue. ‘Thi prevents there ever being a great panic in China. The acwual standings of the different merchants and business men are known at least every twelve months, and there is no chance for a man to continue a long career of fraud and fallure. The pride which the Chinese take in keeping up the reputation of their towns, their business and their families is very remarkable. I met at Canton one of the richest men in China. His name was Houqua, and he is said to be worth fifty millions of dollars. He has big investments in American and other foreign securities, and he supports about four hundred of his poor relatives. This man's father was the Jay Gould of Canton. At the time that the British gun- boats came before the city they demanded an indemnity of six millions of dollars. They threatened to bombard the city if this amount was not paid in forty-eight hours. A subscription paper was passed around among the Canton capitalists, and Houqua put down his name for $1,100,000 and paid it over to the collectors. In the donation he sald he “gave $200,000 of it in token of hi affection for his beloved wife, $800,000 as a thank offering for the prosperity which had attended him tn business and $100,000 in recoenition of the fidelity of his son.” , F nk 4, ~ —. pans S ae Eanes “The Path of Glory” in Kansas. From the Hays City Sentinel. The illimitable gall of some men makes our legs ache. A candidate for Congress over in the north tler writes to the effect that he wants “marked copies” sent him whenever this paper says Sree com- plimentary of him. Now, candidates all, listen to years of experience: First, when you resolve to enter the lists, sit down and write the editor a nice adoring letter. Tell him you have long been yearning for his valuable publication and inclose $1.50. If you are pushed for time you may trim off some of the yearn and some of the adore, but in no case should you moderate the $1.50. Don’t say anything about being a candidate. itors are gifted with re- markable powers of analogy, and you will be charmed and surprised beyond expres- sion at the skill with which they fathom your secret. By and by some venal popu- list will assault your noble character. And then, ah then, a champion will spring to your support. In the meantime we will re- mark, the dado over in the north tier may remain in his sepulcher until doomsday, and we will never roll away the stone with “marked copies.” Fee SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. WRITTEN POR THE EVENING STAR BY HOW- ARD FIELDING. (Copyright, 1894, by Bacheller, Johnson & Bacheller.) CHAPTER VII. An Object of Admiration. AWRENCE, BORNE above the crowd, yielded himself abso- lutely to the intoxi- cation of popularity. He was the biggest man in New Haven for an hour at least, and he thoroughly enjoyed the sensa-! tion, The route of his triumphal pro- cession chanced to take him by the house where Flor- ence lived, and she was standing on the steps surrounded by a dozen other girls when he passed. There was a shrill chorus of applause, and all the girls waved handkerchiefs. Florence was so proud of him that the tears came into her eyes. She felt very small and unimportant to be the sweet- heart of so distinguished a man. It seemed to her that many of the other girls looked more worthy of the honor. They were tall and queenly, while she was only five feet four in high-heeled shoes. And then she remembered that her persuasion had made Lawrence what he was, But for her he might never have been famous. And with that thought she became so tall that she could look over the heads of all the other girls and see what was going on, as well as if they hadn't been there. Lawrence was forced to leave his ad- mirers soon, and go to the training table for dinner. It is well known that the athletes at the principal colleges eat food especially prepared for them, and pre- scribed by the highest medical authority. In spite of this fact many of them are quite well, but Lawrence was not of that number. Perhaps his digestive machinery was not naturally strong enough to stand the strain of eating, as one might say, under the eye of a physician. At any rate, he had not been well since his first en- counter with @ scientifically regulated diet. It may have been a twinge of dyspepsia which turned his thoughts out of the pleas- ant channel in which they had been run- ning, and made him feel dissatisfied with the world as he arose from the table. To him, just then, Florence was the world, so he became dissatisfied with her. He had seen the light In her eyes, the glow on her cheeks, the ecstasy of pride when he went by. All this came back to him, and not pleasantly. “She is in love with Paddy O'Toole,” said Lawrence in his heart. “It is disgraceful.” Now everybody will readily admit that if such was the truth, Paddy had a great deal more right to complain than Law- rence had. Yet it is very hard to satisfy a young man when he Is in love, and Law- rence became wildly jealous of Paddy, who “Yes,” Said Paddy. had never met Florence, and in the natural course of events never would. However, there was some justification for Lawrence's feeling, for he had not been able in the course of his acquaintance with Florence to make her take a deep and abiding in- terest in anything which had really been achieved by himself. She knew every curve in Paddy's extensive repertory, but she could not remember from one day to the next so much as the names of the studies in which Lawrence most notably excelled his competitors. He resolved that she should love him for his intellect, for those commanding ment?! powers which made easy grist of conic sec tions and such hard things. “We will not discuss base ball this even- ing,” said he to himself, very firmly. “We will converse upon more serious topics. He was, by this time, on his way to call upon Florence. There was a kiss due him, as the reader may remember, for the Har- vard game had been won—by Paddy O'Toole. Lawrence resolved not to take this kiss, nor even mention it. He would lay before her the treasures of his mind, and capti- vate her with his knowledge. To this plan he scrupulously adhered; and Florence had never thought him dull before. She had looked forward to the interview with feelings of the liveliest joy, and the result was a bitter disappointment. She was offended that he did not claim his re- ward at once. But he scorned to do it, for he felt that the prize had been won by his hated rival. He would not approach the subject. Instead he opened out to her the treasure house of his mind, which was real- ly not bad for a freshman. The result was that by 8:30 o'clock she was not only angry, but bored; by 9:30 they had quarreled; and at 10 Lawrence took his leave, without having mended matters at all in the last half hour, and without having secured his own kiss or the one that belonged to Paddy. ‘This was only the beginning of bitterness. There was another game of ball a few days later, and Paddy again distinguished him- self. He shut out Amherst without a hit, and Amherst was supposed to have a strong batting nine that year. But Paddy was too good for anybody's nine that day, and the visitors merely fanned the air one after an- other. Paddy's work was justly regarded as the very finest article of ball playing that had ever been seen in New Haven, and the. vast crowd simply went wild over him. Florence, who had considered herself es- tranged from him, shed tears of penitence, She wanted to be forgiven right away. So, with a great company of her girl friends, and some men to give them countenance, she waylaid Paddy O'Toole as he was once more belng borne away in triumph, and fairly captured him from the hands of his admirers. Harry Bangs, who had been hov- ering on the outskirts of the crowd, viewed this scene with the blackest dismay. He had a deadly fear that in the presence of so much loveliness Paddy’s tongue might be unloosed. The young man had de- veloped some signs of that gallantry which distinguishes the Irish race. On one oc sion when he had been more heartily ap- plauded than usual by a bevy of girls in the grand stand he had horrified Bangs by throwing a kiss to them in the most courtly style known to the chivalry of the South Cove. Happily his gesture had been mis- taken for a private signal to the catcher, and the incident had escaped remark. In this cage, however, the provocation was more pressing and immediate. The girls surrounded Paddy, and gazed upon him as if he had been an inspired prophet. Contrary to all the traditions of their sex, they re- mained silent, waiting for him to say some- thing that could afterwards be remembered, But Harry Bangs had wronged Paddy in thinking that the gifted youth would be false to the oath which bound him to yes and no. He remembered it even in that moment of temptation. A less gifted person than Paddy might have found it difficult to open a conversation with either of the words which he was permitted to use. But the problem was very simple to Paddy. Having no ideas to express, he had little need of language. His beaming counte- nance showed suiliciently well the delight he felt in the presence of these lovely young creatures. He surveyed them for some sec- onds in silence, and then said “Yes” in a most charming manner and with a slightly rising inflection. The use of this word in an interrogative sense was a habit with Law- ren and Paddy, who had more imitative faculty than a cage full of monkeys, had caught it exactly. That word and the smile of benign con- descension which accompanied it were all that the girls required. From that instant nversation was theirs. They showered bined teas the expressions of their admi- ration; they loaded him with questions re- garding the technical ints of the game; they made him the umpire of their little dis- putes about the various points of play. And Paddy, with admirable politeness, re- plied yes or no, as the occasion seemed to demand, and as a judge he achieved a suc- cess never attained by the good Haroun al Raschid, for he made each party to a con- trovergy believe that he had given a de- cision in her favor. It may be that they afterwards remem- bered only what they themselves had said. To do that is a charming peculiarity of the gentler sex, when it remembers anything at all of a conversation. Some of the nice things that were said on this occasion the girls rightly credited to themselves, but a generous half was transferred to Paddy's account. The general verdict was admirably rendered by Florence. “Oh, isn’t he just too clever?” she cried. “It’s nogwonder he can pitch ball. He does it with his head. My brother says so. Isn't that true, Mr. Bangs?” “Yes,” said Paddy, gravely, and he was applauded to the echo as Harry Bangs led him away. “Say,” whispered Paddy, when they were out of hearing, “am I all right?” Am I solid with the ladies? Well, I guess! Did you ever see the likes of me before?” Bangs wiped the cold perspiration off his forehead. “No, I never did,” he replied. “You're a wonder; that’s what you are. I said so the first time I ever saw you.” Florence went home and wrote a sweet little note. She sent it by a trusty messen- A Remarkable Combination. ger aged ten, whose secrecy could be pur- chased with candy of an inferior grade. Lawrence received the note in due course, and he read as follows: “I was wrong when we quarreled. I have regretted it ever since. But you were not yourself that evening. Doubtless your stud- jes were worrying you. I should’ have made allowances. Today I have seen your true self, and I admire you. The words “true self” were underlined once and “admire” three times. “She admires Paddy O’Tool muttered Lawrence with a groan. “I suppose she thinks he's a ‘wonder,’ as my brother says. Well, he is a wonder. He is the only one of his kind ever born without a caudal ap- pendage. He is an anthropoid. And Flor- ence admires him.” Lawrence buried his face in his hands and ground his teeth with rage. CHAPTER VIII. Growing Apart. “Larry,” said his brother one morning, “we'll have to do something for you. You're falling behind.” “Falling behind whom?” asked Lawrence. “The other half of you; the half that is good for something.” “You mean Patrick?" ruggled to be calm. “Granting for the sake of argument,” he said at last, “that it is possible to be inferior to such a creature, I will ask you in wi respect you think me to be defi- “Why, you're out of condition. You look overtrained. You're ten pounds under weight, and it shows in your face. You're pale as a ghost, my boy.” “I fear,” said Lawrence, thoughtfully, “that there is some truth in what you say. The difference in our ways of life has done much to decrease that unfortunate resem- blance which——” “Unfortunate,” echoed his brother. “It was the biggest piece of luck that ever happened to Yale. What do you think of the Harvard game?” “I am trying not to think of it at all,” sighed Lawrence. “Well, I tell you it’s worth thinking That Harvard team was made up of nine sluggers from Slugtown, and if anybody but Paddy had been in the box they'd have batted the ball all over the state of Connecticut. You ought to be proud of that game, Larry. It was a big thing for Yale, and it couldn’t have been done without you. Now, we can’t take any risks. At any cost of money or comfort we must preserve your resemblance to Pad- Getting a Color. dy. I've thought that all out, and I'll tell you what you must do.” He proceeded to outline his plan. In the first place Lawrence was to study in future on the roof of the house during the day um e. “I've found a nice hot corner up there for you,” said Harry. “You'll have a southern exposure and a chimney behind you that gets pretty warm, I believe, in the middie of the day when the sun’s on it. Nobody can see you up there and you can lay on all the color you need.’ Lawrence groaned. “Then you must take a lot of exercise, continued Harry. ‘addy is filling out a good deal, and you'll have to keep up with him.” “But, my dear brother,” Lawrence re- plied, “I can’t find time for all this. The over indulgence in physical exercise which you recommend will encroach upon my hours of study.” “Can't you study and exercise at the same time? Get some light dumb bells and swing them while you're grinding Greek. Then you won't be wasting your time alto- gether with the blasted stuff. And, besides, you may develop. There's no telling. If you were a little heavier you'd be an ideal man for foot ball.” Lawrence brightened at this last remark and Harry took it for a hopeful sign. “By Jove,” he cried, “it would be a great thing if I could get both of you into shape for the game. We could pl it on Har- vard in great shape. We'd have one of you half killed in practice just before the Har- vard game. Probably it would have to be you, because Paddy would be the better man. Then I'd put you in the hospital and let everybody know that you were there. We'd have reliable doctors’ certificates to show that you couldn’t possibly play again during the season. There'd be.a jubilee in Cambridge and Harvard money would come out at odds on. Then at the last minute I'd get. you out of the hospital and hide you, and Paddy could go into the game. All Har- vard would walk back from Springfield and Yale would have money to burn after the game. It would beat the trick we played the first year I rowed on the crew. We got an artist to paint boils on the backs of our necks and the papers came out with a story that we had been poisoned. The od: on Harvard jumped to three to one; and then we won the race by about a quarter of a mile. As a matter of fact, they hadn't been in It from the first of May to the day of the Tace.”” Lawrence faithfully observed his broth- er’s directions. He had noticed that out- door life and exercise were improving Pad- dy’s appearance, and he had had Florence's word that the young Irishman was the bet- ter looking of the two. It must not be sup- posed that he was unaffected by this criti- cism or that he was so much wrapped up in his studies as to be entirely oblivious to the consideration of his personal appear- ance. He decided that a little color in the cheeks would improve him, and so he mounted to the roof the next day with the anticipation of securing great benefit. It was very hot in the corner which Harry had selected for him, but Lawrence stuck to it all day with the exception of his hours of recitation. By evening his face was burned to a blister, and he had to remain in the house two or three days until the color moderated to a shade which matched Paddy's. He was equally faithful with exercise which Harry had recommended. He enter- ed into this with an enthusiasm which de- Nghted his brother. In reality Lawrence had conceived a fierce jealousy of Paddy, and had begun to long to surpass him phy ically. He had no love for athletic sports and did not, at this time, hope to supplant Paddy in that line of life. But he would have liked to be able to take the young Irishman to a remote corner of some desert- ed region and there inflict upon him a cor- poral chastisement which would settle for- ever the question of physical superiority. Probably his jealousy would never have led him to such an extreme, but he felt that it would be a great satisfaction to him to es that he could do it any time he de- sired. It was about this time that the name of Larry Bangs began to be conspicuous in the newspapers. His singular taciturnity on the athletic field had already been noted, and he had come to be spoken of as the “Speechless Wonder.” Lawrence had been interviewed three or four times, and his views on base ball—of which, despite his patient study of fuil scores he was pro- foundly ignorant—were given at great length. Paddy had read these articles and expressed the utmost contempt for them. “You ought to try to learn something,” he said to Lawrence. “What's the matter with you, anyhow? Can’t you get. it through your head? It’s easy enough.” Once Paddy was caught by a reporter and he gave a first rate interview. As he said nothing but yes and no, the representative of the press was able to talk all he pleased without interuption. He was an expert in base ball, and his views, credited to Paddy, seemed wonderfully sound. Lawrence was greatly disappointed with his own first interview. On that occasion he had skillfully led the conversation away from sport, and had spent an hour or more discussing educational topics in a manner which he believed would win him recogni- tion from the authorities of the college. He had an idea that the publication of these views would excite considerable comment throughout the country, and he told the re- porter that such would be the result. The reporter replied “Yes,” in a tone so oracular that it might have come from Paddy him- self, As a matter of fact the able journal- ist kriew that there was a gentleman with a blue pencil in the editorial room of his newspaper, and that it would be easier for a rich man to enter the kingdom than for a column of stuff about the best method of instilling the classics into a freshman to get into print. He took down what Law- rence said, because Lawrence was looking, but he did not make the mistake of turnirg it in as copy. When the article appeared the absence of all reference to educational subjects was the most conspicuous thing about it—to Lawrence. But it is safe to say that no- body else noticed it. The reporter was a very polite young man, and did not wish to offend anybody who would be good for so much space in the future as Larry Bangs would. So he wrote a nice note to the subject of the interview, explaining that he had faithfully recorded all that Lawrence had said, but, unhappily, space’ was short in that particular Sun- day's paper, and so the educational matters, as being of less interest to the public, were crowded out. Lawrence had a considerable respect for the profession of journalism, which he had some thought of entering after his college course was over. He did not intend to re- form it. On the contrary, he thought it quite good enough as it was to engage his most serious efforts. He was not nearly so much inclined to question the judgment of the editor who had omitted the educational part of his interview as one acquainted with his studious dispositon might have expected that he would be. On the contrary, he was led to wonder whether education had not ceased to be of any importance in the world. Evidently that was the view of the editor, and such a man should be in touch with public sentiment. The experiences of his first year at college had naturally prepared him to take such a view. Therefore, on the occasion of the second reporter's visit he devoted all his time to a serious discussion of base bali and its probable effect on the destiny of mankind, interspersed—at the re- Porter's fequest—with stories illustrating the most advanced methods of bulldozing = er as that science was taught at Yale. ‘The whole of this interview was printed. Most of it was unintelligible to Paddy, but such parts as he understood—to use his own expression—“gave him a pain. “It's no use, Larry,” he said, “you haven't got the head for it.’ And Lawrence was inclined to agree with him in secret, though openly he affected to despise advice from such a quarter. is it possible,” he said to himself after- | ward, “that in regard to certain important branches of human knowledge I am what Patrick would call “thick?” (To be continued.) —__. My Sweetheart. 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