The evening world. Newspaper, May 25, 1906, Page 18

World’s Daily Magazine, Friday, May 25, 19067 Bing! ih the United States Ts What Tt 1s Co-Day. By J. Campbell Cory. FOOTSTEPS OF OUR ANCESTORS IN A SERIES OF THUMBNAIL SEBTCHSS, What They Did; Why They Did It; What Came Of It, Entered at the Post-Omce at New York as Second-Class Mail Macter. | VOLUME 4¢ oe seeee NO. 16,848. THE REVOLT AGAINST DISHONESTY. The time is not far past By Albert Payson Terhune, No. 29.—War-Clouds Gather Again. 667 HAD onty to open my hand to let havoc loose!” I Thus wrote Thomas Jefferson in 180, reviewing the course he had@taken in averting a second war with Hogland. But that wor, though averted, ce the United States had |wwas close at hand. A quarter-century had passed |gtven England a lesson in werfare that should have been remembered forever a3 @ wholesome warning, But a now generation and w ministry had sprung up in Grent Britain, aa well as in America, and the preter lesson was already hadt-fongotten, Napoleon Bonaparte, an obsoure Corsican by birth, had risen wy lehtning speed to the rulership of France, Then, with ambition as bouts aa hie genlus, he had sought to conquer the world. after nation fail victim to his trrestatibie legions—Germany, —practically all continental Bu- ss alone successfully opposed his .3 m of world-conquest, France and England ae Wars Endanger$ were at war by land and at sea. Each sought to 1 in irrespo: or dema- goguery. the langimge the Jnited States Circuit with reference | of contract | Wm lP-TPUCSTAC. «proved against \W. H. Truesc i M i Our Commerce. injure the other's commerce and maritime power, 6 10 pursult of this plan Pngbind quickly ceased to respect the laws of nations toward neutral powers and violated the most sncred rights. | Each belligerent forbade c trade with the other. American merchant yee eels were sctzed lawlensly by British ocrufsers. We had no navy to protect our President of the Delaware, L. anna and Western Railroad. The Court calls his action “dishonorable,” his motives “sordid” and} ways that “it is conduct like Truesdale’s by those who manage the affairs | (lof great corporations that has aroused the spirit of rese © f i i vhich i ” merchant service and could only make useless protests ngninst the outrage Engy é (public mind which is so intense to-day. to search United States ships for | | Twenty years ago to have alleged that the use of public franchi exploit private interests through ais j sailors (in other words, to caTry 5 h service). Such acts, of iE ; but {t was en- a single bbing combination was “ ; mesty” and “shocking to the moral sense of the community” w | ve occasioned a similar’suspicion of irresponsibility in the accuser. Yet | sapeake were claimed 4tish aquadron lying off | vied that the seamen ‘ mn up, and on June 2, ard gave chase, ing or wounding eaten vessel and is what Justice Gaynor says of the Interborough merger. Then to have charged'that the management of a great railroad lacked | jPthat common honesty which it is disgraceful not to have” would have | Ween attributed’ to questionable motives. he Yet these are the words of President Baer, of the Reading, with inly veiled:allusion tothe Pennsylvania Railroad. Could the accusation ‘ave a more substantial confirmation than is given it by the disclosures fot grafting officials loaded down with stocks and bonds acquired at the question w salted the Ch reoon t rye in the 1 navy aters fired on and looted by « fore fo had of betrayal of trust? | Sutsnaee avon itald ‘It isnot from: the agitator and the partisan that these grave charges | see France, our ‘emanate. They areinot the expression of class hostility. ‘They are the| ‘wpinions of’ men of the highest standing, and represent the intelligent | ‘thought of the country,on the looseness of morality, the venality in high ‘places and the general departure from old standards of recti ade, the ex- ‘posure oftwhich is becoming the most painful chapter in American history. weak from the with a half. :t, to the eternal mo ng back the : ey n waters and to ld be completed. American WESTON’S EXAMPLE, s What avrebuke“Weston’s walk from Philadelphia to New York is to 1 ivatore & the millions of cityypeople who junzp on a street car to go half 2 mile!) Mig oe to a standatiil, | The Embargo, and nport and export What maniin a huntdred thousand of half his si ty-eight years could f Nalin tee served as his pacemaker in those ninety-six miles? Are we'forgetting how to walk? Charles Lamb in a letter to Wordsworth, written when he was fifty-eight, sa cheerful in this genial weather; walked sixteen r er Mar: Lamb usedto say that her “stint” was fifteen miles: more fatigued her. Fifteen miles is exactly the distance from the City Hall to the| Yortkers tine. How meny New Yorkers could cover that stretch without] collapse? What a.restorative to-ragged nerves it would be if they and did! eee ie ‘ AAAS SAAAAAAAASSANSRG ETA SA TENOR MARS EAAENESGASASAASTASESSR STADE OSODASOUASOSS OS UGTEUAGASORURELUAS LUTAASUOATASASSAAAGATAAAASASSAAS SUA AAGAOASSEGTLSASAAAASASAAGAAAAES LOSPROTOOTEDASASTTAGESTTNONUSLEVSTATATATASAS ESTRELLAS E ARERR ARRAN, f ave from _export- He was pnsequence “Tam feeble but é IylaSquera. SYNOPSIS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS, paused, chilled by the solt “Bye!” he sald, us for the first time. But the immediately, he hout a word of | le hall, leaving Loder sured me. That's cnouch ternoon to know how thi se. sudden, unre z » cut him le of the room. ing her name unconsec’ ed into the alone in the sittin i" as well as the room i empty; he He Tpatot 1 Sew a } ' | then he ta turned Poearsony ata ee ee RGIS ite mnbeaes Aas! the fireplace. i ‘ EE, ae MIDE, : 5 ity hia smabty iolsines Lote been entered upon he had been. if not conc goleion! lonsings. . { H 4 Smte's ho: rs action the apathy a 8 ain to regain its olW | t e dining w ized with bitter certainty that hiswasno | Ghareingto e-coming. On entering Chilcote’s house 1 experienced none of the unfamiliarity, none , that as ed him (Copyright, 1608, 00, by Harper & Drothers) CHAPTER XI. HERE was a silence—an uneasy then, suddenly becoming tni- n med the exile reo Loder spoke. The epizode of manner, he echoed the laugh, | © iships; here, in the atmos- was, to all appearances, ordin: ou're right! You're quite! peat rae It an alfen, " calling forth ‘8 que mn and keep his feet In their own an's character that sen- ie § found no place in his nature, Sentl- bs not lacking. though they lay out of utogether denied om after Chilcote’s was one of phystea discomfort Mis own clothes, |with their worn looseness, brought no sense of | ness such gs“Fome men find In an old gar- ! Lounging, and the clothes that suggested al for him. In his eyes the nsibiiity was symbolic, and &s a natura! sequence; in the p Jowed it each was conscious of a Feware that in some subtle way sympathy had been dropped, thot cause Was nexplicable and to tho ot ‘plain. Loder watched the ghost of h: whiter and thinner, then dissoly ‘ments and flutter up the chimney. As morsel wavered out of sight, he turned ar nis hand, he began to fumble a ier kept the same position. ‘You'll fi ook in its usual drawer," he sald. » entry of a hundred pounds—pay for the | The rest can stand over until’— He } used abruptly. Si] | Chilcote shifted his position, “Don’t talk about that. It upsets me to anticipate. 1 can make out a check to-morrow payable to John Loder.” Avon ne No. That can wait, The name of Loder fs eee Genre ; : : : serine mao : scams | better out of the book. We can’t be too careful." are rpereeslTOA ORR ICa hiete wag} and act hich t udy 2 rise as ee . mh! ‘Loder spoke with unusual impetuosity. Already a : y to the gre ee : slight, unreasonable jealousy was coloring his; ul sminut thoughts. Already he grudged the {dea of Chil- e cote with his unstable glance and restless fingers opening the drawers and sorting the papers that for one stupendous fortnight had been his with- out question, Turning aside, he changed the sub- ject brusquely, |” “Come into the bedroom,” he sald. “It's half. | past seven {f it's a minute, and the Charringtons’ |show ts at nine,” Without waiting for a reply, he e| Walked across the room and held the door open. “The scheme has gone! “ny oe was no silence while they exchanged i I could almost departur even inspiring. And, as with clothes, so with his actual sure roundings. Each detail of his room was familia but not one had ever become intimately close. He had used the place for years, but he had used it« as he might use a hotel; and whatever of his household gods kad come with him remained, like ! himself, on sufferance. His entrance into Chil- cote’s surroundings had been altogether different. Unknown to himself, he had been in the position of a young artist who, haying roughly modelled in clay, ts brought into the studio of a sculptor, To his outward vision everything ds new, but his inner sight leaps to instant} understanding, Amid. all the strangoness he recognizes the one essential vod of Mfe had crumb “A man can generally be trusteu to look after his own atching h and with a qu Loder talked continuously, sometimes in ti ay ome things, Chite ae cart sentences, sometimes with’ tronic —the wor shop, the atmosphere, the home, uy theatre 5 Cre" chileote’s face. “Gooain| touches of humor; he talked until Chitcote,) On this hist right of retin Lode comarebente ) i el Chileote's face. "Good | stray amtected Ae top utaek wikhuenotnertcars] ea forme hing ot his 1.08 Hon: and, conprenen ting, | : Oe yae rath ine mtonent wae not |sonallty after ils weeks of solitude, fol) under hia) UO fecad the problem ani fought with tt. ; ee eet Toner (knduence—his excitement rising, his Imagination | ad made his bargain and must pay his nied “lirring at the novelty of change. At last, garbed Jonce more in the clothes of his own world, he man had dr share, Weighing this, he had looked about his ” { room with a quiet gaze, Then at the object really sought for, hi nd had va t. as if finding e's had come. teil” 1 @ from the bedroom back into the sitting- |! r tf yer aa ‘and there halted, waiting for his companion, | rune Ho thes plec ora rested on the pipe. ‘ ly ft tly od. 2 c% | rac’ he ns stood cisely as he had te yon « silpped| Alinost directly Loder followed. He eame into) firt Tit tnd tooked. ut them for nc ione et , the room quietly, and, moving at once to the table, d up the notebook, on the table. “I'm not going to preach,” he began, “so you cord of every nc-|needn’t shut me up, But I'll say just ono thing—| cor hed tn Chileote’s!a thing tihat’ will get sald, Try and keep your) name; “I don’t think you'll find any loose ends,”| hold! Remember your responsibilities—and keep ty |he said, as he turned back the pages. “I had you| your hold!" He spoke energetically, looking earn-| A at him questloningly, and your position in my mind all through.” He! estly {nto Chilcote'’s eyes, He did not realize tt, | ee paused and (aancen up a tio eo: “You but he was Blandi (08 his Chis aaree rhe Oh, excellently!” Loder’s man-|have a position that absolutely insists upon at-| Chileote paled a little, as he always did in taco Turning from restless curi-| tention! He added, In a different voice. ofa pattie Then he extended his hand, lant, conatorsaplacretrosnestions; but inoreettateae eyes, he moved a Mttle way| At the new tone Chilcote looked up as woll,| “My dear fellow,” he said, with a touch of hau-| tresf—in ae vu a m he fighting of “No moral lectures!" he said, with a nervous| teur, ‘a man can generally be trusted to look atter | dimeulty—e pe 18 man’s eternal solace, laugh. “I was anxious to know {f you had pulled/ his own life.” ‘ Fe (To ae Continues) then an fronie expression that was almost a smile had touched his lips, and, crossing the room, he!. had taken the oldest and blackest from {ts place and slowly filled it with tobacco, ' With the first Indrawn breath of smoke his ate titide had unbent. Without conscious determinas tlon, he had chosen the one factor capable of. easing his mood. A cigarette {s for the trivial moe ments of life; a cigar for its fulfilments, {ts plea: r pocket he drew out 4 recrossing the room, laid it Was a correct, eve ° tion that had iy tension, but restles: use. Reaching es % forward, Buy: Suddenly mor