The evening world. Newspaper, May 9, 1912, Page 23

_Th . BOTH e Evening World Daily Magazine. -_ May 9. By MAJOR ARCHIBALD W. BUTT , MajorButt, Aide to President Taft and One of the Heroes of the Titanic, Was Praised by the President as the Soul of Loyalty, Self-Sacrifice and True Manhood. BUTT. © CHINEOINST. WASH. (Coprtighs, 1008, by J, B. Lippincott Co.) CHAPTER I. PALMER: You will start for the South to-morrow and write | eeries of letters on tne ing in that section. Avoid the cities and bi your pictures be drawn from lift conditions exist- tracks and let This will be an order on the educatio: business office tor what money you may need. Buch were the orders I found one morning on my desk in the city editor's oom of a well known Boston newspaper. Of the labor involved in such an as- signment I was ignorant, and I saw only @ pleswant trip in that part of my, country in which I had never travelled. I had been employed on the paper { @ comparatively short time—in fact, I had been in journalism for a period of less than two years—so that such an assigninent as the one now given me was highly . flattering to me, and I knew it would be equally gratifying to my father, who “had watched my career with that interest which attaches solely to an only son. 1 had not been out of Harvard very long when I had taken the advice of an ‘Nert Uterary man, a friend of my father, and entered journalism as @ epping-stone to literary distinction. “he few short etorles I had written, sowever, had been returned to me by *t magazines to which I had sent them with & Promptness that was calculated » dampen my ardor and otherwise to cwcourage me. I hed led to be- lieve that my etyle was exceptionally good and that I was not without a keen tense of humor, at the same time po! sessing @ proper apprecistion of t! pathetic. I taken a prise at the high schoo! , and later, when my tal- relop at the university, fill a place on the ed! torial staff of one of the monthly pe: o@icals published there. I was oha- + grined, therefore, when my manuseripts, w mn legibly on fine linen paper, ti: swith the best silk ribbon to be had, cam back to me, I began to form a very poor opinion of our magazines. Pos- sessing an independent fortune, I dete: for an essa: ents began to 1 was elected to emi- first mined to publish my writings in book) form and at my own cxpense, I took) my manuscripts to a publisher, who. | honest man that he was, was kind enough to tell me that prople did not think much of books published at the ‘euthor’s own oxpense. Determined at length to get a proper estimate of my work, I sought out an old friendeot the family who had achieved fame by nd in a ruth- less sort of way, then, told me that some of my ere good, but expressed clumsily. advised me to cease all attempts at Iii erary composition and to seek a plac aper, “Writing must beco: @ habit with you,” he said, can hope to express your thous’ @racetully, What you need most te ea ‘and if you can avold the pitfalls of jour- Mem you may in time succeed in your mbition.”” It took me just another ax Betty Vincent's Advice t False Shame. “p, D.” writes: “A girl te hesitating about allowing a young man to call on er because Ber home is not as nicely furnished as (t might de. Do you think should be ashamed of her home. “Q. R." writes: “I was in love with a young man, but have quarrelied with him, He hes sent me some insulting postcards, Would !t be proper for me to return all his letters and cards?’ It would be @ proper and dignified rebuke. “M. L.” writes: “Z am seventeen and a young man has asked me to go to several places with hum. I don't love him, but I enjoy bis company, Shay I ih bimr* go wil > 1 don't see why not, € you show him WHoa THere! Dont Do THAT ' o Lovers Plainly that you only want to be good friends. Other Men. "X. Z." writes; “1 @ girl, but 9) other men. Yet around with me. What shall I do?” Unless the girl has promised to marr; you sho has a perfect right to accept attentions from others. “Y, Lu writes: “Ie tt proper for a young lady of sixteen to be in love with a boy of twelve?” It's most exceedingly silly, boy probably thinks so. and the “J, B.” writes: “I am twenty and In love with a young lady of twenty-rour. We plan to marry in about a year. Do you think the differei to to make-us unhappy Not necessarily, if each ther. Ow really lov \ Po? But- mind te follow pitation that on to Washington on © delicate onta- again the order which lay Sat t Se ie Se 1 thought 1 & wile he this Hne some mon' managing editor to the idea at the rend it over and I started with editors foom, AS ye. Th indeanit ft to the managing I h paper Cai! ustere ttle cripple—physl- before iret mental, for mentally he was a I was outwardly calm, but my heart was beating @ tattoo inside, for there were few of us who aid not fear to stand before him unless very eure of the ground on which we atood, I however, in a businesslike w aesignments were daily oocur- ignment, sir.” onntnat assignment?” he asked. iy “For me to go South to-mofrow, 1 oe you are Palmer, are yout’ he said, calmly looking me over through thought you were old- jced your Work and gave ‘assignment on account of jave you come to eay you are not equal to it?” I was eomewhet surprised when I learned that he did not ¢ remember me, but the fact that he had judged by my work was at least gratifying, 20 T hastened to s: “No, alr, I feel perfectly able to do YOu HAVE Me ON My _KNEESAINT Ou SATISFIED — DON'T BE SO the work, bu indefinite to me es ‘Without . n time, but I should ought to suffice. What te, net discolored, dis- fe did mot even ony le pot even eay good morning—in- eed, he seemed to have dismissed me Pe peeve WG ceca red, won manag: ing editors think it @ part 4 ‘of ficial duties to be sl<mannered. I wee bg that I had not esked him exactly | the arte appears @ little | coul rm whenever he talked of of the friends he had mad: th the campaign from whieh I aid draw sonte moral. I had determined to pierce the border Gtates and seek for the information I desired from the land where the palmetto, the pine and the live oak five side by side. ‘That eventi finished my firet tet- ‘matted ft trem the train ‘When people out deaten tracks and away from the thriv- ing centres through which I had which, according to my precon- were the result of tas or New Engi A remained in the vicinity of thie olty for severest Gaye, making jour- ito the country and taki bated of their of. | labor wanted, dut on this poim 1/& felt reasonably certain, however, for pe-| there was to be a Presidential election year, the following and the more I thought of it the more certain I became that my letters were to be used to ia New £& opposing party, and thereby ‘make certain the electoral vote of that section. My work would not only make certain the New England vote, but pos- bly save the vote of some of the Mid- My father had bolitionist and his father Ge As I read the order of my essignment over again # seemed to me to be @ com- mand to charge the enemy. The old abolition blood was in my veins and wae running at high tide. With fever- ish haste I made ready for my depart- ure. Packing up a ew things and put- ting writing mat in my sri where I could the more easily get a them, I started for what I still looked upon as the mare gountey. ; sped the ties of @ briliiant future arose vcore me, When I reached Baltimore I looked from the window of the car and recalled scenes enacted there, when those stoned while on way to the defense of The Gey grew rapidly on, and as the led into Washington the lofty the Capitol, bathed in the fresh light of am April morning, dispelled my resentful and led them dack to the beautiful ecenes which were al- ways uppermost in my father's memory at should sa; int @ ploture oe gf one ee antebellum plantations, Since you Int, write of them as they are. Bring the scenes in Georgia vividly before the ple ’ ‘They can draw their own concl na. Let your pictures be of peo- ple and places as you see them.” ‘That was all; but it wae sufficient to @batter my hopes and discourage all further attempts to make eure of t! electoral vote of New Discon: solate, and with a vague sense of my own ignorancé, I boarded a train that Right bound somewhere in @ southerly direction, I did not know end I did not Now 41S SEN! THERES No BUTS ABOUT Tris. NEVER Afuse A DUMB ANIMAL THAT WAY, THUSLY. Go uP To IT AND STRore iT GENTLY: | “Everybody’s Doing It!” 3 (attr) #g care where When I awoke the next morning Odor which filled every > of See ot “Geonwta during my. sheep tT of a ing my threw up my window and inhaled great Graughts of fresh air. I felt invigorated where it tod na, the further wi me, er in@-forests and out of seach editors, I t, the bet- ba i a in the day 1 the main road and took @ narrow.gauge line which I was tol@ followed the bed of the Savannah River and passed througti everal of the most historic counties of State, rich in memories of the and peopled mostly by remnants of the ol@ colonial and antebellum fami- Mes, who had, in the past, made them the most influential centres of th ‘We stopped at several statio around each there was an air of the the indolence that | depots, and. in front of these there w: alway be seen some antiq ‘wagon or “carryall.” Thet tter w invariably filled with half-grown gi: and boys Imughing and chattering like @ lot of magpies as the train pulled up. ‘They were there presumably to get the mail, but as I thought more likely to of gossip and to find out going on" down the road. 1 Gave myself up to listening to their ohatter, and 1 found there would be at It would, je, I thought, to of these people, indicate that they classes, but whose conversation, accent, and grammatical phraging would lead one to believe they represented a clase better educated and with more culture than one is likely to discover in such out-of-the-way counties as those through which we were now passing. By degrees the few passengers who . looking old gentleman and myself. He wore a long frock coat and an old- fashioned silk hat. He represented a how, and “Hows Hilen?” javen face would wrea: in a amitle as invariably he would make well, but between the cooking and the music ehe has little time left By Carmichael ;| Was a Durst of merriment from belonged to the farming and Jeboring | | 's her own fault,” salA some one at one of the stations, ‘for all she has got to do Js to choose which ¢arm eke pre- iting er Jim fers, that of Squi Wadley'a Hotlyhurst.” At thie there the YOung people in the wagons, “Don't be putting sueh notions in my Ellen's head just now,” he would laugh “Ellen and Bud have their old father and mother to look after for while yet, to aay nothing of the Pino “Bud can do that by himeelf,” called out one youth, Then wuddenty turned red and hung his head as he w the girls casting their eyes from to the other and laughing. T dare say there others of us who have used that argument to Ellen be- fore thia and many e@ time,” added an- other Boy scarce out of his teens, “so you need not bother to repeat it, Colonel.” By the time our train started again I had determined to introduce myself to y ao bu 1 saw ai tn him re letter, By wa: opening 0; tions I asked him ate Ogle. thorpe station, where I had expected to ve the train, ‘About five miles, air,” he sald, and with & courteous, old-fashioned Sew Scross the aisle he added, "May I ask {f you are bound there?” I tol4 him that my destination. He then continued: “If it De not too impertinent, may I ask you what takes yousto such an out- of-the-way place? You are not a law- yer from Atlante, are you, sir? There seemed to’ me to be a note of alarm in the question, and he appeared greatly relieved and his face brightened visibly when I toi him that I was not a lawyer and visiting Georgia for the Gret time, I soon learned the cause of his anxiety as to the matter of my Davenport and De Wolf Hopper, soing for four weeks. As anxious to love-siek maidens look uncommonly well. may be due to draperies that enggest ; istance to Ogle. | mortgag: have liked me (To r ppt teers 5 EE; fal 3tt 2 25 3s gs i i i | FY Fees i | SIDES OF THE SHIELD 7 5 ited; to think. Be Continued) BY CHARLES DARNTON,. N begsing to remind us once again that @ Gage ef Gilbert and sullivan is the throat trouble, thie revival hae @ great deal of lite in ; | ! j | i tf i! : i t 7 ih H ¥] Hi Y itt Reee i | i E I s |r i il | iz j | | i i f i t tif sft lid |