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Oem, High. Low Int Mer Mat pf. 70% 70 14% | Inter Nickel 125% 13% | Invincible On 44% feland 08 S806 % Iron Produ Jewel Tem sess Kanwar City 80 . 19% | Kelly Springfield, 1% | Kennecott Cop 183% Keystone Tire M% Kroage . Ine « Monat! Sugar 58% Man Shirt Martin Party \ P14 40% 46% ONAN Nrutntenon A Whe é am 6 & 4 Motntyre P Mine: Am Bros! 32% Stay Dept Stores 100% ; Am Sugar (6% Mexican Pet .... v 4m Soper PAN Miami Copper | Am Sum FS Middie States OtL \f Am Tel M8% Midvalo Steel .. ; Am Td ct 133% yinn @ Bt L . it am La Fi 5% Mo Kun & Tex ., | Am Wool .. &'"6 Mo Pacific . Am Writ Mo Pactfic pt ie Anaconde Mont Ward ‘ if . Montana Power . NF Mullins Body at RR ational Nat Enam &’ Stp National Lead ., | Nevada Consol .. HiNOTEM.... [NY Alrbrake .. |S ¥ Central . ¥ Dock . YNUGH.. NYO&W..... of folk Bouthern 11% Norfolk & Wi Mex 24% Biseutt 152 a Butte & Superior Batterick Co Northern Sue Packing ‘ Orpheum Canadian Pacific. Central Leather... Cent Leather pt. Gortain-Teed Prod Ghandier Motors... Chea & Ohio...... Oy M & Bt P RR. OM & BP RR pf ht Pneumat Toot ° Gan on. ople’s Gas . Fore Marquette. Chic RI & Pac 33% 93% 33%), prttada Com ary Company: i CRISP 7 popt 23% Bay aa, | Phllada Company A large part of the financial element OUlc Great Wert 6% ON eaves ame Oh Great West pt YON seu) hl ace acre ce hus expressed surprise that these or: Ch! & Northw Ry G4 65% GT | Bitaburgh Gonl., ders have been placed in view of the ; a bade 16% 16% 181K | fact that the surplus idle cars now on / Opr cin rps L 05 os tS 65 ions Creek Coal, Ion ten | nd in Kood working condition Cyca-Cola f...... 46% 46% 4K ABN | putiman Company 115 1161, | total more than 400,000. But every Gol & outhern .. 30% 40% amy 40 | 5, pare ee © i ‘ 4, | Punta Aleg Sugar 36%, 37 | competent railroad man knows that Obl Gas & Electric 60% 60% 69} A | ure OM et 4 Columbia Grapho. 2 2 2 2 | pub ery of eg ay | With an increase of only 15 per cent 1 Gas ? VIM SIR SIM) IN Sean nerins ore Mecnss ae be Prod & Retiners. 41% in general business this surplusaye iy Rall Steel Springs 971% would no longer exist, that, in fact, | by Ray Copper ..... Pet Reading ; there would be a real shortage of z Reading 24 pf... | @ equipment. Rep Iron & Bteel. Sais ge tt aye Cybe Cane Busar, 10% Be aes wales Managers of the lar ilroad. sys e Bug pf 25 Pecihiis Motor naturally advised in these Cuban Am Bugar. 19% ‘al’Dutch NY s by bankers who are the fin: | On pf. al xponsors of the systems. And ] wh Lead.. in placing these orders they are, of t in " ao ine | course, acting in accordance with the j a Phe... opinions on thd business outlook of } Erie .. oe paces ale these banker Bite iat 0 4 What is true in the railroad fleld 1 Erie 24 pr. likewise true of many other industries Famous Players . 70% jot segeest dd Hd And it Is because bankers and leadiniy ‘al Anphalt.. 61 % business men view the outlook so op- General Axph: 61% 61% 604 Ut i Gaston Wd Wie % Bien Coppa timistically that the stock market is | eee oes Bouhern Pacific, SE neene a Bouhern Rall . i | _ Ser Hoa ole South Rall pre It is interesting to note that while | TE drrtnorn ot Bana Oil of NJ pe 31 railroad net earnings are making their Gt Nor Ore Stewart-Warner.., poorest showing, the average price of saan Gean Sugar .. Stromberg railroad stocks is at the highest point ‘ Golf Staten Btocl. 74% Studebaker reached in more than fourteen months. Jj Houston Oil ..... 74% Supertor Olt This signifies that while investors whe ‘ Hupp Motors Ty Texas Gulf & do not ad conditions aright have | Dijinots Central . 101 Tene Cop: Chem been selling their holdings because of { homa Hefin, 3% Si Big sy Texas Company, : s pete be ia ena ep ceite aah, Get ek Bela oceans poor carnings and reports of tmpend Inter Cons Corp. 2% 2% «2% ay Tex & Pac Coal. ing receiverships, insiders and big in- Bst Cons Corp pf 7% 7% 7% 7% ‘hird Avenue ‘I terests have been steadily accumulut r Agr Corp.. 8% 8% 8% 8&4 Tobacco Produ jing the stock thrown on the marke it Harvestor 83% 83% 83% Tranacon Ol . by these frightened holders, The Ipter mead Dy DH BH been cal mount of railroad stocks now in the ‘Tater Paper .... 50% 50% 50% Union Pacific pi! market available for trading purposes Int Mer Marine , 15% 15% 15% 15% Gated poe. taken in the aggregute is probably = : smaller than at any time in the lust United Food Prod } BANKING AND FINANC! Un Ry Inv Co pf. 224 four or five years. Un Retail Stores. 55 $ = é ; It is axiomatic in Wall Street that the general public never buys stocks , V B Ind Alcohol. for investment purposes when busi- U 8 Realty & Im ness is in a depressed condition and wiginibee be when stocks are at their lows, but of market terms and jf |} ‘ssc prefers to walt until the market hi H |u 8 Breet had a sharp advance and has dis | tran Copper counted in large part the tmpro Utah Becuritie: ment in business which bankers have Success in the market Vanadium Steel., foreseen, i Wadeah oe roses Public appetite for stocks is never : comes from good jody Vabash pi keener than when business is on the ment based on all avail- Weber. & ten crest of a prosperity wave. But this = able information. ki is the time when big holde ize the ‘Weat Mi de pg Std ad opportunity of disposing of stocks pur- Western Union, chased when business conditions were ui Westinghouse . at their worst and when the public Wheeling & LE, was selling. White Motor . on KA White ou, If statements of sume ot the lead- See hd ing commission firms cun be relied on, “s Sener Geta Seu . the public has not entered the pre Wenoann ries] she asig | eMt Market om a lance scale, Although elliott lis the volume of trading on many re- FOREIGN EXCHANGE OPENING, | SORt days had been upward of 1,000,- ance eee Bey panne 000 shares some of the large com- a » @. 2; cables, ission houses h jot done enor 4.85, up 1-2. French francs, demand, | fusinesa’ to pay for thelr oven ¥ | business to for thelr overhead 0848 1-2; cables, .0849, up .0003. Lire, | expenses. When the public Is heavily demand, .0481 1-2; cables, .0482, up| interested in the market some of -0003. Belgian francs, demand, .0819:] these commission houses do from 6 cubles, 0810 1-2, up .0000 1-4. Marks,| to 10 per cent. of the dully stock bus- eenans and series, Hl) 1-2, up! iness of the Exchange, A -2 jreek drachma, demand, 0480; cables, .0455, unchanged. Sw'ss] Many stock market traders are » francs, demand, .1952; cables, anxiously waiting for the statement a ya Serna, of unfilled ton or the United » +8782, off 0002. Paset States Steel Corporation to be is- mand, .1558; cables, 1560, up 20005, | sued at noon on Friday. ‘Thore ne Sweden kronen, demand, —.2603; | hardty @ possibility that it will in- gables, 2598, up .0002. Norway kro-|fuence the market either way, not nen, demand, .1635; cables, .1640, up} because the increase oy decrease in :0004, Denmark Kronen, demand, | tonnage will be small but because t) +2035; cables, .2040, off .0004. real factor in the market 1 CURB. shares is the improvement in busi > Lincoln Motors, 1%, off %; Inte. | Bea# Which ig only now getting under ‘ HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS. | Rubber, 9; Caribbean, 4, up %; Phillip| ¥8%” Morris, 13, up %; Intl. Pet., 15, %i Radio, 4, off %; Maracaibo, 2 ANNOUNCES HER RE- APPEARANCE ‘TO-NIGHT AT THE LIBERTY BONDS, Liberty 3%s, opened Ist 4h%s, 9 up ; 2d, 96.18, up 1 end John MacCrate, 97.16; 4th, 96.28; Victory 3%s, 100-16, - .THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, FE Market Sidelights By R. R. Batson. In the midst of very poor earnings statements portraying the depressing business conditions of the last year, being struc’ by Some of the leading business interests of the count lmen who have every means of cor- rectly forecasting thevoutlook for the next y No better indication of the real opinions of bankers and business men on the outlook can be furnished than by the preparations railroads are making for taking care of a large in- ar in traff recently it was predicted in Very this column that many of the largest ansportation compantes in the coun- try would soon file large orders of material and equipment. This predic tion was soon followed by the an nouncement that the Union Pacific and Southern had ord dd $12,000,000 and locomotives officia 1 announce Now comes the ment that the Atchison, whose man }agement is known for its conserva |tixm, bas decided to expend more than $43,000,000 for equipment, addi- tions, extensions, &e. The Burlington Railroad ts the latest to decide to place large orders for equipment. It will place orders for more than 7,800 new ¢: nons half a dozen equipment con sin —- up 1%,| KING EDWARD TREE IN PARK Mrs. Irene Castle tat “Gandy, yf we ts: Ke) FELLED BY NEW STYLE SAW “ee ee Planted by Him in 1800 When 04; Prince of Wales, It Was 59 8d, Inches im Diameter, to bring it down, an unmistakable note of optimism is | cluding the American Car and Foun | rt MaJor HA. HERRICK CHAS. V. HICKOX, Jr. BOXING COMMITTEE ) A.W. CLARKE, EXECUTIVE. SECRETARY | | | Hits OF THE ARGONNE. “TRouPE TITS FIGHTERS ATREUNION FORGET ~FGHTING FOR FX Ii Was a Jolly Crowd of | Heroes that Assembled | at Town Hall. Every scat in Town Hall was fille j@t the rounion of the Seventy-Seventh | Division Association last night, And the: many an aching side this (morning for Adolph Pincus told many stories that would make dead men ugh. Corporal Pincus is the fun- niest man in the Seven Jeverybody admits it |Prance he was giving logue of his and th 1 to take a lieutenant from the audience, y him on the grass and dash water over him. He was turning purple in the face. The corporal was the only man who could get a laugh when his comedy, “The Argonne Players," was per- |forming in a dugout under heavy shell fire. All the humor of the lines went for naught and Pincus gbt peeved and yelle “Why the hell can't they call off this war during the show! ‘Twas uw grand night last night. More than ‘1,000 were turned away, everybody being anxious to get in to r the “buddies’’ tell stories, espe a famous mono- Jarmy Idng enough to learn Many jokes wei English. uppreciated only b men who have been overseas—it was a strfetly 77th night. William Liebling, the smallest basso in the A, F., was heard, He's little but he can make a noise. They do say on that famous night of the performance in the cugout in the Ar- gonne his reverberating notes were heard aboye the whiz and bang of ‘ritz's shells. There was no mistak- ing Liebling's presence last night. His motto is. “Little but Loud,”* Maj. H. A. Herrick, Provost Mar- shall of the division, was on hand. He is famous as the “Cop" of the 77th. The Major is a born “cop” as one could readily notiee last night— he was anxious to see every person in his proper place. He did one thing for the 77th which no one will exer forget, to wit: He discovered that famous marksman, William Carver, at Camp Upton, It ts related that one night Carver saw a passenger train passing a little station in Jersey and got the notion there were too many lights on it. He unslung his rifle and popped away, When the last car passed Carver the train was in total darkness, The story is vouch- ed for by a fine of $10 and by Major Herrick himself, But the record is not smashed yet. There's more to be told: In a small town in France the U. 8. off .04; 4%s, 10 aft 104 A gasoline-run saw for tree felling Totalligenon Siaconaree two German K Fe Z OOS iS: was tried out in Central Park yosteraay, |C@2T€F Pizeons and a certain officer ickerbocker Gin MOONEY HEADS LAW ALUMNI. [Tho saw, driven b- a twin cylinder . i was looking for some one to “bump Bimued Ll Mosuey, ba has teealcicn, ie euaranieea to cul ve suet them off."". Enter Mr. Private Car- WHERE SHE elected President of the New York Unie M ches al yer (he was an M. P. by the way) WILL, ity. : Jnl- | minute in hard wood. Spe Sanit versity Law School Alumni. John with his Kittle gun. Bang! And the DANCE NICHTLY AT has been elecied Treasurer. Park Commissioner Caltatin, wile is; two Httle pigeons fell dead y SUPPER The V1 residents” are Biihy Root, [ih, was represented by Wesley Leah, [a Siggle shot of the trusty D Barth, Bugene Stevenson, | Chief Forest>r of t) Department. | The story 1s vouched tor by more ‘LUNCHEONS DINNERS |} [David Leventrt’, nartin J. Keown, Johm [The frat roe et. ical eal prec beet Apa Adan N eral iydda set, * in » M. Wartey Platze i fe %j celled in two minut " } i = . MODERATE PRICES Fronklin Russell, Altre) Tee Paes, dae arene tree, cuts 82 inches tne dainete [am enviable reputation as an M. P Woodward, James A. 0'tiorman, was planted Jn '1860 by the late ‘ing | He ROME nybody during bis ward E, McCail, Victor J, Dowling, La Edward, w Princ ‘ * entire €2d St. at Broadway Mo Kapper, Lake ton, Frank |dropped in twenty minut alt} There was “Bue Jim Devine,'* mem- miner, Charles K. Kelby, George |partment’s tree doctors muc “ her of the Mire Department's Rescue Phone Bryant 1846 V. Mullan, Churles S. Whitman @ito'| ettorta to skva thie old tree unt q. Sauad. One day is ai a Major A. Rosalsky, Judse Edwin L. Garvin| Axe work would have taken a huit day |General passed him and he failed to salute, The officer turned to him JAMES L Brack weit PRESIDED jeially those who have been in the| Some of the Boys Who Made Argonne History Sketched at the 77th Association’s Reunion STR ADOLPH, Pincus WHO WROTE “THE ARGONNE PLAYERS" was A RioT WITH HIS STORIES LEIBLING THE SFT S BASS BARITONE OF THE, ARGONNE PLAYERS: d: “Don't you know what }those two stars mean?” ; | “Yes, answered Jim, “they mean | yon have two sons in the service." Adolph Pincus says that's the near- Jest Jim ever came to getting a com- |mission. Jim was the cyele driver of the jas much about the ro he does about the stre native village. | It was denied last night that eret, John Cuffe Cr of France as ts of this, ,his Mess was going to be come chef at the Ritz, He's now a detective on the New York po!'c« force, Jim Devine says he was the champion egg boiler of the A. EB. F. No one in the outfit could do it with such consummate accuracy as dear jold John, who sat high up in the bal- cony last night. The Seventy-Seventh Association as founded by A. W. Clarke, now [the executive secretary. Mr. Clarke was wounded twenty-one days after fretting into France nd returned home soon after. He and Maj. § Fullerton Weaver organized the assb- ciation before the 77th had returned nee. It was first formed One time, in Mong those invalided home and now it has grown to include every man in the outfit. Ben Baker, formerly a member of the “Argonne Players."’ sang for his comrades last night. He, with Adolph Pincus, originated the players on the Alsace Front, During hostilities they played from the Swiss frontier to Flanders, It is the only company of its kind that did so. After the arml tice it played all over France, It pe |formed before the entire Peace Mis- ‘sion in a Paris theatre. Pincus wrote most of the lines, William E, Bourke, another member of the company, was present last night The success of last night's party was largely due to H. S. Stratton who had given much time to the ar- practically angements. He did a good job, Before the evening was over pic- tures were shown of the old camp grounds, of the division's battles and the billettin$ areas in Fran Before going home everybody eang “They Didnt Think We'd Do It, but We Did."" It follows. ‘There {1 a crack Division tm the A. E to-day and {t baily from old Broadway There are actors, clerks and bankers, ther fare doctors by the score, There are men wh er oldiers to the cor hey've surely pr ‘They an tell’ the earth cuorus. f ain we'd do It, but wo aid t think we know the way to fight thuteau Thivery to the home of fought before, thelr worth, and you ‘the footprints of Broadway's noble ons. They didn't think we'd do It, but we did. The pale-faced rookies that they used to kid When Jerry fell In the Argonne. Wood. He got merry hell and got lt doggone gud, They didn't think we'd do it, but we did ‘And you know darn well wo did, —.__—_. CATTELL DROPS SUITS. by Ousted Professor, Prof. J, McKeen Cattell has discon- tinued the sults begin more than two years ago to compel Tolumbia Uui- versity and its President and Trus- tees to pay him $115,000 damages for his dismissal from the faculty follow. ing pacifist activities. President Butler said last night that Prof. Cattell will receive only the annual retiring allowance that his twenty-six years of service with the university just When a representative of ‘The World called yesterday at the offices o? the Selence Wress, in the Grand y is now engaged us editor of scientinic publicati the professor would neither irm nor deny the report that he was to get $45,000 trom Co- jumbisa. “ BRUARY 8, 1 HS. demon motor- | Actions Against Colambia Ended| Central Terminal, where Prof. Cattett! FD. SANFORD, SECRETARY SAM FREEDMAN . CHAIRMAN ARRANGEMENT COMMITTEE © i920 ay THe eee pynsicerE ~ inc BEGIN THIS STORY New 01 LIBERTY SHOTTLE—A tiable passion for gambling. He GENERAL BETHPAGE—Shott! search of Stepho, and, fa father that she mu marry CHAPTER VIII. (Continued.) T the breakfast table, Tycie, with mother tenderness, up- braided Drace for sleeping ont for fear of arousing the house. Afterward Drace and the ATTON CONE — CHR FINANCE comm. | SHIP NEWS INFORMATION Due To -Day Mexico “ Liverpool Tana! i | | Ara gua: Chicago City, onaort, —Avenmoutih Gattney, Liverpool Mesaba, London . Due Friday. Santa Marta nta Marta, Liverpool Asia, Lisbon | Bragilicr, Amaiérdam | Sailing To-day. | 7 Mails C! Sais | | Fort Mamitton, Ber- wegttaeesiesess TADAMG 1100 AM. | 4, St. JoHins..! 7.00 AM. 11-00 AML Kingston ne! Buenos Sun | 830A.M. 12.00M. | Sailing To-7. orrow. Malls Close, 9.00 A.M. 00 A.M. Sailing Friday. | a. | * Malls Close Bails. | Crigobal .....61130 AM. 3.00 P.M. Baracao, Kingston... 1.30PM. 4.00 P.M. Parla, Trinidad ....0). 130 P.M. 4.00 P'M, pein aaa IN NEW YORK TO-DAY. Uife as a Fine Art Club, movting Commodore, 2 P. Third Panel Sheriff's Jury, ¥ odore, 7.30 P.M, stern Supply Association, meeting- eon, Astor, 10 A.M, oria, Ineheon, Astor, noon. Retail “Millinery Association, dinner | and fashion show, Astor, 7 P. 9f, p gma Epsilon Delta, dinner, Astor, 7 | Henry Clay and Mystic Tie Lodgo, F. and A. M., dance-supper, Astor, 8 P. Eastern Accounting Officers, luncheon, nnsylvania. Palestine Fougdation Fund, meeting, Pennsylvania, 8° P, M. Kiwanis Club, lunchcon, a0 P.M. chnology Club, dinner-dance, | Alpin, 7 P.M. |, Belectic Club, meeting-luncheon, Wal- dorf-Astoria, 11 A, M. New Y -k Browning Society, meeting, Waldorf-Astoria, 2 P. M. All Saints’ Church, euchre and dance, Waldorf-Astoria, 8 P. M. National Civie Federation, Waldorf-Astoria, 2 P. M, Water Power League of America, con- vention, Engineering Socletites Building, No. 29 West 39th Street, 10 A. M, National Retall Dry Goods Associa- ton, meeting, Pennsylvania, morning. New York Board of Trade and Trans- portation, luncheon-meeting, No, 41 ark Row, noon. Vood Dealers’ Credit dinner, Kismet Temple, dinner, } Pe i McAlpin, Me- lecture, Union, annual Xo, 92 Herkimer Street, Brooklyn, 7.30 P.M, Congregation Mount Sina, minstret and danee, Masonic Temple, Claremont { and Lafayette Avenues, Brooklyn, 8} P.M, Marquette Club, midwinter dance, Plaza, 9 P.M. Women’s Munielpal League, rummage sale, No, 15 West 50th Street, Board of Education, meeting, Hall of the Board, 59th Street and Park Avenue, 4p. M. —.—— BRITISH STEAMER RUNS AGROUND PROVINCETOWN, Mass., . B The British steamer Thistlemore went jasround late yesterday on Peaked Hill bar, four miles north of Highland Light, at the tip of Cape Cod.. The Coast ;Guard crews from the Peaked Hill and | Race Point Stations were forced to give up attempts to get out to the steamer because of the high seas and ebbing tide, The Coast Guard cutter Tampa jarrived In the vicinity of the Thistle- more early in the evening, but it was » meeting in Natchez, and I should much |'Thursday, and I gave him my word considered doubtful whether she could be of any assistance before morning, ’ General strolled out under the trees, “By the way,” the Geheral said presently, “I have an engagement to deliver an address before a teachers’ like to haye yom bear me company. We can leave this evening on the Black Hawk and reach there early in the morning.” "I'd Wke very much to go," an- swered Drace. “But can we get back vefore Thursday? asily by Wednesday morning. Anything important for Thursday?” “Oh, no. An old fellow down at the ferry wants te to go fishing with him that I'd be on hand, Most remark- able old man, full of fun; quite a character.” “You must mean old Spence. are you sure it is not that pretty daughter of his that attracts you? You'll have to be a little careful, my But son. We may associate with men out of our social running, but not with women, Ah, Tyelel Mr. race has just consented to give me | hus company to Natchez." The Black Hawk's band played a welcome, and the Captain came down the plank to conduct the General on board. From a quiet, lazy and almost dexerted landing the place leaped into the full throb of life. Negroes and shiftless whites came from their hovels to gaze upon the magic splendor of this journeying palace, and the three- shell man stepped ashore to gather up dollars. Dinner was a state occasion, and after it, the ball, Then their s| emar @ goes to the home of uncle. in the swa » t hi of Periwinkle Shells. He is captured by the men, but set free oe NADINE LA VITTE—Beautiful dau; rooms—then morning and Natchez. The address was to be deltvered in the afternoon, and when the thne came the General led him ové# to the hall to hear the speech, imprisoned him wtthout bail tn a corner and there he ‘had to sit. The address was long, academic and dull, and ne sufferer mused: I don't see why Shottle ever called 4 remarkable character.” Fiverybody came about the General to take his hand, Young women told him that they had never been so thrilled. Drace lied to him, too, |} swore him an orator “Let us walk off alone, General. Slowly they walked at firet, but af. ter a time the old gentleman struck u brisker pace, toward the river, ow, my boy, as we've got through with those beaters of dust out of the old carpets, we'll have some fun. Old Col. Pemberton wanted me! delightful honse, a gracions wife and handsome daughter, but I had to de- cline, I've stood about as much now as I can, We'll go down to old Tobe Mason's tavern, under the hill. Tobe is a gentle old fellow, never killed but three men. One of them shot Tobe's leg off and now he wears a per; and I want to tell you that when he un- straps {t and hops around in a fight, he's right meddlesome. At a trial in the court house here not long ago, the "* satd the sa! z ./to go home with him, and he has a/on, and urising, the General salute) judge issued an order thot all deadly Weapons must be left with the dep- uty sheriffs at the door—and sir, they made old Tobe take off his wooden ley “rhe tavern was as tough a place as river men could make it. Built of logs, bricks, stones and clapboards, it Jooked ike an architectural stagger, trying to climb the hill. In the main room was the bar. Herein Tobe gave his famous ‘possum feasts and dances, when the spirit of Mquor mounted high enough to swing its partner off the ground. “Well, I'll be knocked in the head for a steer!" old Tobe cried out, stumping toward the General. ‘'I | haven't seed you since the River tuck fire. Well, well! the other day. your hand, Mr, down."" “Tobe, I'm glad to see you," said the General. ‘‘And fetch us about two quarts of that summer-grape wine. Let me tell you about it, Drace. We have a wild grape here that gets ripe ulong in August. It's much larger and {s not sour like the fox-grape, and its vine likes to climb about a sassafras sapling. And then you see an umbrella of grapes. Now don't say a word till you've had a good taste of it. Tobe makes it him- self, and he'll fetch us some that's at leart twenty-five years old. Here we ure." ‘The wine was as red_as blood, cool and yet warm, Its flavor was the ripened sweetness of the spirit of the autumn. It was as mellow as the scent of the apple at harvest time. “What do you think of it, hey?" “Uncle Howard, are you sure that this was not made by Bacchus instead of Tobe?" “Good, self?" “Yes, I'm doing fine, General. You see, I can’t express myself as well as you can. I haven't as much to draw ‘Thinkin’ about you, Glad to shake Drace. Set right my boy! Enjoying your- from, You've not only book-knowl- edge but experience, worth more so- OLD SOUTH TO-DAY AND MEET VIRGIL DRACE—A young Vankse of wealth and position, whe Goes to 8 On a mission of revenge for the hanging of his fath by Stepho La Vitte, a guerilla in the Civil War, with = sur 1 of good family, but with an insa- From this place Virgil goes in t free by ighter of Stepho, who is told by her BOYCE—To whom Stepho owes much. cially than all world,’* “You hit it off well, But what is better than it all? Moral freedom This table here is rough, with one rheumatic leg slightly drawn; thes: chairs we sit in, bottomed with strips of hickory bark, would be scorned 1! a sheriff's salo; but sir, Mark Antony. in his first triumph, his chariot drawn, by lions, was not more regal than w: are at this moment, enthroned and sceptered with moral freedom, Pow out, for as that same Antony said ‘Scant not my cups'—Tobe, where’« that old scoundrel who used to play ‘The Arkansaw ‘Traveler’ ?"’ Tobe stumped his way over from thy bar. “You mean old Slithers? “That's the man, What's becone of him?” “Nothin’. And T reckon he's play in¥right now down at Cadman's joint that ought to be wiped off the eart) Want him?" Need him, after him," Old Slither.. bald and winking, cam with his home-made fiddle, ‘The Gen eral ~reeted him warmly, introduce! hint to Drace; and the most comfort able chair in the house provided him he sat down to play the famous of tun “Tobe,” shouted the General, "fetcl in the buek-and-wing dunce Tobe went to the door, yelled as if calling hogs; and in came two bis negroes, a throng of idlers following them, At,it they went, shaking tie house, and ‘when weariness threatened to seize them, for refreshment they drew off, and leaping, butted thei heads together like goats. After « time the General gave them a dollar apiece, dismissed them—gave the fid dler five with an order to play t old tune again, Old Tobe was now lighting his evening lamps. The Gen eral called to him. “Toby, what have you for supper The old fellow closed one ¢ “what have T got?’ he that’s it. An’ I tell y cake and roasted doves.’* No, you don’t mean iy -cake and roasted the libraries in the Tobias. Send a bos doves, | od. by Gideon's Band. Fet-i us, Tobias. And mark you, alon with it and bring about a trowel tu of that wild plum jelly, Ha, us 6) John said. ‘Now comes in the swe of the nizht,’ or something like th: Wait a moment, Tobe. Got any beo bacon ‘Bear-hacon?’ says he, “Mave ‘ot the middlin’ of a bear I killed & canebruke five yeurs ago, hung 1) sides and smoked ‘em with gr persimmon wood. ‘Bear-bacon! ay ‘All right; you broil strips of and pin them to the breasts of tt doves... . You @ seanting y cups a litt'e, my boy. I’m about rea: for another quart.”’ The doves and the strips of baco and the hoe-cake and the jelly canw the repast “Talk bout quail! Quail, sir, i insipid, white, dry and tasteless com pared with the dark richness of thy dove. And look at this. bread, mad of mealed pearl. You never tast any bacon like that, my son, fed o acorns showered down from Olym pur... . The sweet of the night!” They had finished the meal and wei: sitting back, smoking, sipping wir when D noticed a sudden char in the General's countenance, @ tigh! ening, a grimness; and turning abou! he saw standing against the wall strange figure-—a man not tall, bi broad of shoulder, his body slopin= Iithely down to feet expressive of sin cwy restlessness, His muss of ha! wus like tangled flax straw, dark an: yet gray. Like the bristles of a 1! boar, his short mustache stuck oul and his heavy eyebrows looked lkr great hairy caterpillars crawhn: across his lower forehead. In his dress there was a wild touch, a bar- baric aspect. Slowly he came for- ward. “This is Gen, Bethpage, heh?" hat is my name, yes. What do heh? them - 1 don’t want you want with me ‘Whut I *pologize I come mule lv de want, to* think mini “Well, fo on away. any apology from you.’” “No? You put pistol at me. Thai was in Louisiana, This is Mississip.” ‘An’ I tell you here you naf turn’ car- petbagger.”” “what! If Gen. Andrew Jackson should arise out of his «rave and tell me that, do you know what I would say to him?" “You would beg hees pardon as you will mine, heh?" “T would say to him as I now say to you: You are an infamous lar.” Drace sprang@®between them and seized the man by the wrist; @ dirk fell from his hand, Stand back, General," cried Drace “There is not going to be a fight here, Stand back, Tobe!” The dark faced man looked Drace in the eye. “Monsieur was ver’ strong. 1 see him some other day." Turning, the fellow made off. _ But “Now, who the devil was that”’ asked Drace. “That, my dear Drace,’’ replied jhe General, “was the fellow’ sou about the other day—-Stephe la } Do Not Mise To-Morrow'a'Interesting | instalment. |