The evening world. Newspaper, February 4, 1922, Page 17

38,000 CONSUMERS | INTHE REALM OF MUSIC ) ~ OF KWCS GAS FR IN BIG REFUND SU Entitled by Law to 22 Candle Power—Got as Low as 3.99, CASE GOES BACK TO 1919 Brought by Martin M. Duitz ; and Covers Services to Present Time. Gas consumers tn the Bath Beach, Bay Ridge, Borough Park and Sunset Bections of Brooklyn, who have been paying the Kings County Lighting (Company on the belief they were getting a twenty-two candle power Fas, may find themselves with money $n pocket. A complaint, signed by Justice Aspinall and served upon the company yesterday, has been filed in the Supreme Court with the idea of compelling the gas company to re- fund that part of the money tt has collected ‘In the past three years on the twenty-two candle power basis, which was not warranted by the actual quality of gas supplied. At certain times, according to a transcript of the records of the De- partment of Water Supply, Gas and Blectricity, which accompanied the eomplaint, the dally average of candle power was as low as 3.99, The av- erage for 1919, this exhibit shows, twas 16,07 candle power; 1920, 10.19 eandle power; 1921, 11.80 candle power, The suit, brought by Martin M. Duits, No, 1550 53d Street, Brooklyn, 4s in behalf not only of the 500 mem- bers of the Community Welfare As- woclation of Borough Park, of which he 1s President, but of all the 38,000 consumers of the company. Mr, Duitz recites that every month the com- pany has been proferring bills and every month he has been paying only that percentage of {t which the city’s reports of candle power show war- ranted, Many times, he adds, the company has attempted tn vain to shut off his supply of gas ‘Asserting that a lower candle pow fas means higher bills for the con- sumer unless the rate is reduced pro- portionately, Mr. Duitz gays the cor pany has on the contrary increased its rate from 95 cents to $1.50 a thousand cubic feet. The Kings County Light- ing Company 1s the only one in the city which has never obeyed the 80- Cent Law, having charged 95 cents instead. In an appended exhibit Mr. Dultz quotes from the annual report of the Public Service Commission for 1918 as follow: “The Commission for the First Dis- grict feels It should not indirectly in- crease the price (for gas) by redue- ing the quality, and that thereafter, fn any change of standard, there is a fixed equality in the actual thermal Neontent of gas actually furnished un- Wer the candle power standard, ® © © The commission's order * rected that any company which should reduce the quality below 650 B. T. U, the standard fixed for 22- candle Rewer, must also make a dis- fount to consumers."" As relief, Mr. Duitz requests speet- fieally ‘that the defendant be com- {pelled to make an account of the ex- { eess moneys paid as charged herein, und that such account be made, and hat the court appoint a referee to hear and report thereon and to state the sums due the plaintif and each end every one of defendant's consum- ers by reason of the excess paid the iiefendant based on the percentage of Heficiency in candle pov The law provid 22 andle power tas in New York State untess the Public Service Commission orders wtherwise. So far the commission has not. ‘The company, during hearings hefore the commission recently fran uitempt ndle power gas nor had ‘it ever wopraled for a change in standard he uetion Is returnable Wednesd: JHOUSE PASSES BILL Certain Limits, to Put Matter on Definte Basis, WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, — The Hou fig Bill without a record vote. This involves acceptance of the Sen- fio ainendments, so that the bill re- vation power, within certain Imits $) put the Allies’ war debts to Amer ha on a definite basis Announcement was male at the White House that the President will appoint three Cabinet members, « Sen tor and a member of the House, p commission to refund the foreign Webt, The Cabinet members will prob. bly be Sceretaries Mellon, Hughes whe view that the limitation in the ‘Dill as idimuus interest rates will probably help the commission when refunding work begins. BROTHER AUSTIN DEAD, Brother Austin of the Order of St Wranois, eighty-seven years old, die Bhe monast Butl Rrooklyn, ty admitted that since 1917 it has not} 1 to obey the Jaw requiring a | REFUNDING DEBTS) | ea laust” will be pictured » Hope Give Harding Power, Within! Hampton as the star, The heroine is a native of the Middle West who has adopted the conference | peport on the Foreign Debt Retund-| ventures of Rill and Bob, Young Girl Violinist Makes Debut With the Phil- harmonic, By Frank H. Warren. One can picturo Willem Mengel- berg, about to set out from Holland for New York to take up his duties as conductor of the Philharmonic So- ciety, reflecting to himself: ‘Possibly there is a dearth of violin soloists in poor old Ni York, and I'd better take one aloui Looking about, how- ever, Mr. Mengelberg discovered all the grownup fiddlers located in Amer- fea, Still undiscouraged, he brought over little Erna Rubinstein, who had already proved her worth as soloist with Mr. Mengelberg’s own orchestra, Most children of Erna’s age would just be deliberating whether to take up the violin or plano and become ac- complished. But Erna is far ahead of her mates. Yesterday afternoon in Carnegie Hall, where she appeared with the Philharmonic Orchestra, she looked ten or eleven in her youthful gown and bobbed hair; rumor put her age at fifteen, but her face belies it. At any rate, she can make a violin sing. She went at the Mendelssohn concerto as confidently as though, just home from school, she were going to do a little practising. Her supple wrists and easy bowing style let her take parts of the concerto at break- neck speed. The lovely andante the youngster played with exquisite taste, tone and extraordinary poise. It was expert fiddling. Mr. Mengelberg opened his programme with Bee- thoven’s “Pastoral'’ symphony and closed it with a nicely graduated per- formance of Weber's ‘‘Freischutz’’ overture. The Metropolitan Opera Company revived Massenet's ‘‘Manon"” in the evening with Miss Farrar in one of her best roles and one that anybody else will have difficulty in putting in the forgotten list, In no other part. does Miss Farrar’s natural charm hold such an appeal. Mario Chamlee sang Des Grieux for the first time in his young career and gave a very satisty- ing performance. He will, of course, acquire greater confidence and author- ity in repetitions but it 1s decidedly a step in advance for him. Some two hundred Farrar devotees applauded in the darkness for half an hour after the final curtain but no goddess ap- peared to address them. Fanny Rezia, soprano, gave a re- cital in Aeolian Hall. She has a nat- ural voice of pleasing quality and am- ple volume that needs further study. If she is looking for encouragement it 1s gractously tendered. “The Jewels of the Madonna’’ has its loyal followers who each year are forced to wait untill the coming of the Chicago Opéra Company to bask in | the melodramatic atmosphere of Wolf- Ferrari's noisy work. These enthust- asts flocked to. the Manhattan Opera House last evening, revelled in the opera’s paste heroics, drank their fill of the tinkling melodies and of course sighed over tho entrancing intermez- zo. It is @ fine vehicle for Rosa Ralsa, who, as Maliella, can either “dramatic soprano” or “‘trill'’ to her heart's content. She knows not re- straint and success Is guaranteed, Forest Lamont’s Gennaro is familiar and it brought this American tenor back to the local footlights. His voico appears to have grown in volume. There was plenty of din and energy in the performance, Miss Mary Garden !s not only the stern and businesslike impresario but is her opera company's best booster. Nearly every performance at the Man- hattan Opera House finds her in a stage box, following her artists close- ly and leading the applause, no mat- ter what the price of prima donna gloves. The famed silver head band, however, has as yet refused to un- bend. Next week's opera bills are: Metropolitan—Monday, “Barber of Seville,” with Galli-Culcl; Wednes- day, “‘Louise,"" Miss Farrar; Thurs- day afternoon, ‘La Boheme," Bori and Gigli; night, ‘Love of Three Kings," Muzio and Martinelli; Friday, ‘Rigo- letto,"* Galli-Curcl; Saturday after- noon, “Andrea Ghenier,’’ Muzio, Gig- i; night, “Carmen,"’ Farrar, Marti- nell. Chicago—Monday, ‘‘Love of Three Oranges'’ (first time here); Tuesday, “Louiso,"" with Miss Garden; Wednes. day, ‘‘Tannhauser,"’ Raisa, Schube: Thursday, ‘Rigoletto,’ Mason, Schi- pa; Friday, ‘‘Salom Garden; Sat- urday matinee, ‘Girl of the Golden West,"’ Raisa, Lappas; night, ‘Lucia di Lammermoor,”’ Pareto, Schipa, The principal concerts for next week & ‘To-morrow, Claire Dux, so- prano; Nina Tarasova, interpreter of Russian folk song; New York Sym- phony Orchestra, Monday, Myra Hess, pianist. Tuesday, Oliver Den- ton, pianist; Ida Geer Weller, mezzo- contralto; Philadelphia Orchestra; Philharmonic Orchestra at Metropoll- tan Opera House, Wednesday, Ros- ing, Russian terfor; Magdeleine Du Carp, pianist; Schola Cantorum in the great B Minor Mass of Bach, Thurs- day, Chicago String Quartette (first Ashley Pettis, pianist; Paul jarmonic Orches- tra, Friday, Joseph Schwarz, bart- tone; Philharmonic Orchestra, Sat- urday, Perey Grainger, pianist; Felian Josef Hoffmann, pi- New Offerings On the Screen RIVOLI—Dorothy Dalton will be seen dressed as a man salling a ship in “Moran of the Lady Letty,” an adaptation of one of Frank Norris's sea stories. Rudolph Valentino heads the supporting cast. A Funny Face comedy called “Cracked Ive,” a car- toon, and the Rivoli Pictoridf will also be shown. Warren A. Newcombe's “The Enchanted Ci * a fantasy made from paintings and live figures, | will furnish the music theme, Vic- torina Krigher will dance. RIALTO—"Boomerang Bill,” with Lionel Barrymore in the role of a gunman, will be presented. The story is by Jack Boyle and deals with a crook who has decided to “go straight,"" but commits another crime to help a girl he loves, There will also be a Snub Pollard comedy, ‘Blow ‘Em Up," and the Rialto Magazine, The music programme opens with Franz Liszt's “Les Preludes," played by the orchestra. CRITPRION—The feature photo- LOCKWOOD INQUIRY COSTHIMS300,000, SAYS UNTERMYER “Need of Committee Greater Than Ever, but Malign Influences Are Busy.” Samuel Untermyer’s estimate of the cost to him in cash expended and in services rendered as counsel to the Lockwood committes Is ‘more than| $500,000."" Mr. Untermyer undertook the labor voluntarily. In order that It might cover all the ground he planned he undertook to pay all the clerical ex- penses of counsel and such of the investigation expenses as were necea- sary to make certain the State's money should not be wasted om false play will be “Where Is My Wander- | leads. ing Boy To-Night?"' based upon the! famous hymn, Gerald C. Duffy wrote the story, which deals with a youth who falls In love with a chorus girl and STRAND—Fanny kh ost’s “Star- 8 made the victim of a loveless mar {riage and leaves her brutal husband to make a career In grand opera James Rennie ia the le There will be another ser of *Ad- of Harold Lloyd's comedy Loves Me Not," and the Strand Topi- cal Review. As guest conductor the Jorehestra will ha Guiles only the President's signature | » bocome Jaw, giving the Adminis- | who will also play the Vienne: waltz, “Beauties of Baden he 6 singers include Richard Bold, Bidora Stanford, and Herbert Waterous. CAPITOL—"The Four the Apocalypse’? will sereen feature, the chief CAMEO—"T: week, toze chestra music will be May Wilson, prano. SEES EEEieiiRaEEE CLARE SHERIDAN TO DESC. OF CHARLIE CHAP Ine as 4 remarkable analys oul of Ch: je Chaplio” yu i _ ) tis bua “in a porel light. fing man. a revival he Nathan Franko, Torsemen of Prodigal Judge,’’ a pictured version of Vaughan Kester’s novel with Mactyn Arbuckle in the role, will be held over for another 4 her with a Larry Semon and Hoover, The Administration takes | comedy, ‘The Show Shop.” With or- 1N." LONDON, Feb. 4.—Mrs. Clare Sheridan is contributing to next In an interview before he started for his annual February rest at Palm 1 se: ‘anges In its scenes from Broad-|the ending of the commission of the p41 ¢or compensating prison tive and constructive proerammes now way. influences are bu Splendidly quipped lobbies of the fire and casualty insurance companies and of certain life insurance companies and profiteering landlords and other pow- erful interests are workin overtime jto this end He promised to cut into tion and come back » Pa If con tnced that the p his help. his —_-— | HOMER'S “EIGHT BELLS” Highest Price Pa Americ: Winslow Homer's painting, “Hight Bell are. famous marine which for- merly belonged to © it was an a private col- |John Levy Galler nounced yesterday, lector 8 Weekly Despatch what is} is $50,000—a ne record for Homer Jand probably the t has been paid thu ‘ ra American picture The rise was again Impressive not Much significance was placed on the continued rise in demand sterling. | ati There was considerable profit taking Trading was on an active scale, being shares for a full five hour session. mund, .0839 1- 0005. 0049 8-4, up .0000 3-4. mand, Fesetas, demand, .1585; cables, .1537, up .0007, Sweden kr., demand, .2545; cables, demand, .1605; cables, .1610, up .0007. Denmark ki 2037, up .0007, MILLER ABANDONS Labor Had Protested Strongly |! ch yesterday, he said that while | to have State printing done by con “The need of the committee is | vie ter than ever,” he sub “Malign | islature advocated an increase in thc amount of printing which is done tn |the prisons for the State, whien by y, aw now {8 confined to the ne+ Gov, away the monopoly of State printing y intimated tha iT Mr, Untermyer Intima at the! from Lyon & Co, and divides th 1S SOLD FOR $50,000 | Jing ‘Trade Albany last week di “joker” and strat Fearon, who am f. T, Stotesbury | clude the clause. of Philadelphia, has been sold by the | the Prison law, erintendent of Prisons to subject to the ernor for es' {this city, The price named| am The buying movement in the stock) 4... market which set in during the] jm early part of the week was con-|Am tinued in to-day’s two hour session, | Am and numerous stocks were able to|/Am set new high records for the year. = only because of the exteat of the re by their absence and the forward |4™ movement still seemed to be based | 4™ on optimism regarding the outlook for business late in the spring and | 4m summer. Am In the case of the rails the construc- | Am tive suggestions of Secretary | Am Hoover made before the Interstate |4™ Commerce Commission still had a|4™ helpful effect. Low priced non-di- ate vidend payers were in particularly |4,, good demand, Am m Before the end of the first half hour |: of trading gains running from one} Am to two points were numerous | Am tren oe Anaconda 0 ho rails, equipments, | joss Dry Goods Asso Oll .... Atchion Ry motors, ofls and steels. It rose to above $4.82, for a new] Atl high since the latter part of 1919, | Baldwin Loco Balt & Ohio Dalt & Ohio pf. Beth Steol B Bklyn Rapid Tran Bklyn R Tran ctfa Brown Shoe hour by holders who had teen for-|putte 4 sun tunate enough to purchase stocks | Butterick Co lower down earlier In the week, but] Barnsdale B as the market drew to a close the| Caddo Cent Oil upward movement was resumed |Ctllf Packing . Calif Petrot . Callf Pot pf. i1 TO 22. shortly after the turn of the second and final prices were at or very High. Low. Atama Bzpress Ady Rumely Avax Rubber FEATURES OF THE TRADING,|Aingxa Jun HOUR BY HOUR, ra By R. R. Batson. ae Se ean —_——_— An, Boac! 10 TO il. am CAE EL Ari Oar @ Py... Cotton Ol . Drug Bynd.., Hal... H&L pf. Toe . Too pt ...006 International . Linseed OU . gains, but because every, group of | Am Locomotive stocks shareg in tt. New developments were conspicuous |Am Safety Razor Allied Chem .... Bhip & Com Smit & Ref, Smit & Ret p: Am Bnuff . Steel Foundry Sugar ....... Sumatra Tob Tel & Tel. Tobacco Tob pf new. Tod cts B La France, Radiator .. ‘Wool . Wool pt Writ Pap pt Zino Birm & At. Gut & WL. close to the highs of the day, which | Ganadian Pacific. meant in many instances the high|Central Leather. prices of the year. Cent Leather pf.. Cerro De Pasco. at the rate of well beyond a million | Certain-Teed Prod Demand sterling continued strong. Chandler Motors. Ches & Ohio. Chic & Alton Ry, oe 5 CM&StPRR WALL STREET GOSSIP LIRERTY BONDS, it Liberty $1-28 opened 95.60; ist| ori Col Sterling, demand, 4.32; cables. | Cot 4.821-2, up 13-4, French francs, de-| Cc! cables, .0840, up| Co! Grapho .. Lire, demand, .0465 1-2; ca-| Comp Tab & Rec. bles, .0466, up .0001. demand, .0802 1- 570, up 0015. Norway kr..| ne demand, .2032; cables, = | re PLAN TO EXTEND Goo Chile Copy 41-4, 96.46, off 04; 2d, 96.30, off| chino cope -10; 8d, 97.32, off .08; 4th, 96.40, off|Ciev CC & St I 16; Victory 4 3-48, 100.24, FOREIGN EXCHANGE OPENING. | CvC*-Col8 cables, .0803, up (005. "Marks, demand and cables,|cont Carn. Greck drach-|Coaden Ot! ma, demand, .0448; cables, .0453, up|Corn Products v001. Swiss francs, demand, .1958. j cables, .1960, up .0006. 8715; cables, .2720, up .0011, | Cuba Cuba Ca *)Cuban Amer Sug Davison Chem ... Dome Mines Endicott John: mous Players. | Fam PI Wisner Body ... CM&SPRPpt Chic Pneu Tool... Chic RI & Pac.. CR aPC po pt CR 1aP 7 pe pt Gt West pt. & Northw Ry Ctuett & Peabody. Fuel @ Tron. & Southern.. Gas @ Elec ructblo Bteel ... Guilders, de-|Cruciblo Bteel pt ww Sugar Su pt & Hudson. yera pf. port Texas ral Blectric . ral Motor Motor Deb. Motor 6 p rich Gulf States Btoet Vouston OU. upp Motors .. Against Law to Allow Con- | |"' vict Competition. Me (Special From a Staff Correspondent ;., of The Evening World.) Int ALBANY, Feb, 4.—Gov. Miller's |!" labor is Cen... ma Ref... tion Cop Cone Corp na Corp pt Agr Corp. Agr Corp pt Harvester Motor Paper . 5 Mer Marine, . © Mar pf, Nickel Priomiace eet itl carey tna | Lockwood committee would bring has heen introduced In the Assembly Invi the Ol film programme. A musical pro-|&Teat personal relief to him and) py Joseph A. McGinnies of Chautan- [20M 0M logue to the chief picture is to be| Would free his time for the making qua, Chairman of the Ways and j.wel Toa sg jsuny by Fre! Jagel, Miriam Fox!ot money he did not need, it wow] steans Committes. By tt the Gov. | ©"! Tea pe. jand Susan 1) Clough, Lillian) ne “4 public disaster” in that it would! ernor appeara to have eerved notice) Meine Gly 80 | Powell will give a. ssical dance, bring un end to all the different puni- | © ola ave served notice | ian City Bo pf, is that there will be no further attempt} iully Springtield y Wheel . Tart. Chanee. High. Kennecott Cop Keystone Tire , Lehigh Valley . Loew's Ino .. Se ee 1 Ed [++++1 Manat! Sugar . Man Elevated . Martin Parry Marlin-Rockwel Math Atk Wka... 265 McIntyre P Mines 9% Mex Petroleum Miamt Copper... Middle Btate O11,, Minn & St Louts. Mv Kan & Tox... Mo Kan & Tex pf. eeee ee SECS ES rer ss +Ft+ | tl ttre] Mo Pacific pt. National Acmo Nat Enam & Stp New Ori T & M [NY Alrbrake... Lletl le New York Dock . NYNM@&H. folk & West. Novu Scotia tee! | Nat RR Mex Orpheum Cireutt. Otls Elevator +t+e ltt Owens Bottling Pacific Devel Corp we Pan-Amer Petrol. Penn Seaboard St] Vere Marquette Philada Company. Vhillips Petroleum Piereo Arrow Merce Arrow pf.. 14+} 1 +++1 1 fet +44] Pressed Steel Car Pullman Company 116% Punta Aleg Sugar 38% bub Serv of N J Producers & Ref. Rall Stee! Springs 4 ‘ heading 1at pf. Reading 2¢ pf Remington ‘Type Royal Duteh NY StL & San Fran Bt L & Bouthweat Savage Arms Soa'd Alr Line pf tL & San ¥ pf. t+] +] Ltl++ ++4++4+4 Ferstee cree £F eee thern Ry pf.. Stand Oil of N J. 180 8 Oot NJ pf. ere eee U SCT Mpe pt 1 8 Ind Aleohol 8 Realty & Imp U8 Rub Jat pf U1 8 Steel pt. Utah Securities Va Car Chemical Wabash pf A.... West Maryland West Pacific Western Union Willys-Overtand Willys-Overt'd pt THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1922, 23 se MD 20% Ye 15% mat 05% 85% 0% 20 0s 21 14% 78% 40%, 60% 82% ont 38 1834 40% = 11% 28% 107% 02% a 18% 58 Wm 1 tal wales 505,200, Low Last. Change. +t++ ++ ee Fs xe i+ +14++ +1 ae ee “Ee” +leeetee + cae s se +t et ~ RES +e ett wereie Litlt++ eereree | “2 petPs is SFE Fee Fe reeee $+tit tts e 6 184 1% Institution in which a print een established is ron bill, which takes), the F change of front of some of (he influ-| patronage among all planta or firms. y.id eniial politi at Ait desirous of competing, a clause of the sy. week was the best 5 Printing law, which itmite the py« of the tremendous inerea’its Pressure | amount of printing which can be done; | being brought to bear by the lobbies. lin a prison, waa stricken out, The ex |eision of this clause was tantamount |to the passage of a bill which would carry out the mendation, although the fact wasn | known to Senator Fx a Modern! jovernor’s recor aron The conference of the Allied Print~ | (4 representatives held \r covered the ntway went to Mr nded hie bill te te ant The McGinnies bill, which amends at pproval of the Gov- y ishing @ system compensation for prison Inbor ‘The hall provide for a px t paid to + aad ranade !s proposed that labor, ne each isoner ‘The Governor, in abandoning this !™F Cae (aaaeee project, seems to have been “listening, to reason.” His message to th 4 of his age of the voce, shall be his dependents Miller's and sinc h the Gov him the ste present Jaw, In eat against eing done in the prisons, 10,000 ed Into Albany ey were printers d trades and bo sinds of the Stal 1 banners flyin {tot HIM an in. But before had launched test against peting und the Lack of Room Hace 250 Ca the Khaw for Mie SRO goa} of maalgliun<n. “4 Ku Keus bao at « mossy value of such minus the cost of the prisoner's main pald to the pris recommendation nore printing In prisons ly intended as a “f amendment to the opresentatives With bands pl g the prison hailing rank ind when hill they had vuld be nothing done the Way of pul here last night, according to Information riven to local newspapers to-day. and fifty could of lack of room the meeting SHIP NEWS INFORMATION Due To-Day tro To- Morrow Gibraltar Monday Ban Jur Juan Matin Clone oth not 1o-Vay READ ® war ov mr oeue eynncare - we BEGIN THIS STORY VIRGIL DRACE—A young Yankee of wealth and position, who go markable J A ‘Ren Sf the OLD SouTH TO-DAY AND MEET to New Orleans on a mission of revenge for the hanging of his father by Stepho La Vitte, a guerilla in the Civil War, He is joined by of good family, but with an insatt- who has attracted Virgil's atten- © to be old Stepho’s daughter. She is rescued by Drace and then disappears, but when Liberty discovers a cask of wine addressed to Stepho La Vitte at Farnum’s Landing, he d cides that they should sail up the river and visit his uncle, GENERAL BETHPAGE—Who lives at the landing next to Farnum’s. LIBERTY SHOTTLE—A young man able passion for gambling. NADINE LA VITTE—A beautiful gi tion, and prov in a ri CHAPTER Y. (Continued.) HOTTLE came stumbling over the doorsill and found Drace in conversation with Major Pewitt and William Hawkins. With a wink the Major enjoined a humorous stlence, and mutely they sat attendant on the losers mood. Bhottle sat down, took out a card, wrote on it, put it back Into his pocket, tapped his teeth with the wencil, apoke: “I have fust written a resolve, and whenever I do It becomes a jaw of my being. It has just been enacted and recorded that never again on this earth am I to bet another cent. I may go to houses where there are card parties, but never again am I to shuffle a deck. My career as a fool is ended, . . . Who was it that wrote ‘If at first you don't succeed, try, try again’? A prison sentence would be too good for the hatcher of such a fallacy. If at first you find you're wrong, awit. That's my course for the future.” “I congratulate you. But what are you going to do?” Draco inquired, tripod and eat a raw turnio In the wind, Or, tf compelled to be humbler, I can curry horses. “And bet some fellow that you'll have your horse curried first,” said the Major. With his pencil Shottle slowly tapped his teeth “The firat nquirt of cold water generally comes from ono as much afflicted as yourself. But no matter. Cold water chills, but at the same time It cleanses. And from this tine on, gentlemen, Liberty Shottle, the vague and unreal, will become the obvious and the actual. If I had a thousand dollars right now I wouldn't bet that the ein will rise to-morrow. ‘Oh, there {# euch a thing as redemp- tion * CHAPTER VI. noon the Bumblebee passed Farnum’s Landing, and later touched at Bethpage Land- ing. From the crest of the high em~- bankment was an endless view of spreading cane fields, The General's house stood in the midst of old trees near half a mile from the river. Lead- the perpetual shade of low-branching live oaks. Drace was enchanted with the scene, the sweet air. Beside him + | Shottle long-legged his way, his neck stretehed out, Gencral,"’ he said. Toward them, with a slow but firm erect old gentleman, Shottle hailed him, and he quickened his pac ‘Well, well, Liberty Shottle! Wel- come sir, and your friend—" “Unele, this is Virgil Drace, my best friend.” The old man straightened, held out friend welcome most hospltably. Now they walked toward the house, rm. The double hallway doors stood open. The General conducted Drace nto the Hbrary, a room that looked big enough for a tennis court, Then he hastily withdrew, and Shottle No hickory tree sap is any married. Here they ar Aunt Tyele was good air, and with a winning gentle- * Her volce was soft, and thougn muld not subd the coquetry with which na- voice was devoted to the General. In as auntly a fashion as she could she held up her Hps to Shottle that he {might bend down and touch them and she greeted Drace with the ut |‘ most kindness Presently the great plantation bell 3] on a tower in the yard rang time for lithe evening meal At the table In a room that 1 od like # hall, with a great tlreplace and ed Sideboards, and with portraits French bronze of W flowed with 4n — opportuni offered inquired of the General, asd casually as possible, [f he knew any thing of an old fellow named Stepho who was r eo in the ¥ yuted to live The General seemed somewhat sur prised at the inaul "You." ud, “LE know someth f him. And t believe there are ru that he in¢times seen across the river nea here. During the war he was a |guerrilla and cast much blame on the Vonfederacy. T met him once, after var—near your father's ho M lea w tired, {' had halted In the shade to let them side | oe wheo Up cama two man, ope put his hand on the wheel of my buggy and sald that my mules were his—that they had been stolen from him. I laughed, but meantime I had the muzzle of a pistol between his cyes. He didn’t flinch nor wink. He looked at me and said that he may have made a mistake. I told him f thought he bad. Then, taking his hand off my wheel, he bowed himself pack and said that he would see my egain, to apologize. Rut I haven't seen him since.’ The night was warm, and theough the windows the alr came cool and luiling from the Gulf; but Drace Iny until daybreak befe he slept, and when he awoke the noontime bell was ringing. A Negro knocked to tell him that dinner was ready, The General and Tycie were seated, but Shottle was not at the table with them; and following Drace's look of inquiry, came explanation from the General: “I gave him the five hundred dol- lara that he was to put in with the five hundred furnished by you to be Invested Initiatively In that cotten- bagging factory at Vicksburg, ahd he took an early boat for that city I think it is a fortunate, thing for the South that they discovered a wild plant, a sort of jute, reaily bettes for making ropes and bagging than “1 will drag a surveyors chain and|elther flax or hemp. I had seen |equint at the landscape. I'll lug a! nothing about the discovery, but 1 am not a very close reader of the newspapers. But Shottle assutes me that this wild Jute can be grown on the poorest land and that it needs no tending. I am naturally cautious, Virgil, and I did not myself invest but backing your judgment in the matter, I loaned Liberty five hundred. ‘When do you expect active operations toward bullding the factory?” Tycle forestalled Drace's answer: “Oh, I am sure it will succeed, and it will be a great thing, especially for \Liberty. He has tried so hard, but somehow his energies haven't been properly directed, And he Is so cap- able!” She was so confident, and so hone- BOUT 4 o'clock in the after-| ing from the landing was a road tn) and emphatic step, came a tall, spare, | ;of much help to me. both his hands and made Liberty's|a government he the General with his hand on Drace’s school man’s hesitating pr to find Aunt Tycle, You'll) where boards were nailed eter than her disposition. She was hottle, my father's young elster, # young, as 1 told you. And she | pes ks younger now than when she oking, brown | if ever she tire endowed her eyes, yet she was| Lov honest with herself, and in act and} ful for her luckless kinsman, that Drace played protecting villain te Bhottle's purposes. “Well, I don't know exactly when they are to begin work, but soon, [ trust.’ She gave him a grateful look for Is trust. now perfectly assured of Shottle's useful future. But the Gen eral did not appear to be easy in bis mind, and a little Inter while he and Drace were walking about the yard {beneath the big trees, he referred | again to the investment. Drace would have shuffled away from it, bunt the old gentleman cornered him with @ question: “T want the truth. Did Liberty, He to me?" “Yes, sir; he aid” “I began to think so the moment he left me, Well, It !# a singula thing, that when he ts with me, fF | believe tn him, but the moment he ts “Yonder comes Uncle Howard, the gone, my faith has gone with him, I suppose he has cost you consider able."* “Oh, not very much. I am fond of him, and T believe he Is going to be “Well, I've lost five hundred this morning, but T can stand tt, T have erdered the mules hitched up, and am foiling to drive with you about the |rlantation. Tam going to show you e in the delta.’* During the drive the old gentleman was talkative, sometimes with the ion, ba more often as the frea companion arre le rather than discursive Drace evinced in everything a kee interest, but {t was not real, WH heart was not with him, It was in |New Or ns, in a narrow strect ross a door, fy son,” said the General, with freedom of an old man. “T sup s you have settled as to the young th lady who 1s to be your wie “Oh, yes—that Is, not exactly.” “ah, In that take your time, but | not too tong a time. T by Meve |ter for a man to marry T waited too long. It w but in my case favored by fortune eis the mighty pulse oSthe world, m= air, but look that yon choose a c panion. Don't let a handsome face turn your head, I ta Hawaven that you are of too st a character to pe nen yuty to flash you blind, Mrs. Rethnage, as you know te a har woman, Dut she has remark nd. sir—a_m n t Now, the young Indy you ® all rieht. # Drace prosate: ally obstructed him ‘T am clad to hear that, but 1 In the en the General ad beer with the tonishin, “It was none of the ness, Mr. 1D that nan older than. myself."* id have wa ne his no! eart, and I accepted it And now they tell me that she ts likely to marry old Josh Mortimer,” “Tam acquainted with Miss Lacy ond old Josh." Do Not Mise Monday's Interestteg dastalmend.