THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1001.
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The Breaking; of
Anson Pettigrew
(Copyright, 1001. by 9. 8. McClure Co.)
From the day when ho tnade his flrst In
spection trip over the ling It was a case
of premeditated dislike for SupsrlntcaiUnt
Oreby's successor, aud before Petl'grow ot
his ofllco chair well warmed the men nil the
western division were ripe for revolt.
Thcro .were, reasons,, such as they were.
For one, PettUrow was a younR man and a
college graduate; fpr another, ho had suc
ceeded old man Orcby, whose bark was
ferocious, whose bile was never worm than
a sharp nip, and who was rather proud
of his ascent from his beginning as a sac
tlon boss. tjntly, PettlRrew was some
thing of a martinet In the matter of (lis
elpllne. and discipline, as ha defined It. had
hitherto been an unknown quantity on the
western division.
"t tell you, boys, I'm givln' him Just
bout six months to stay out here for his
health," said Abel drjscom at the round
house cjucuj of enKlnemen, convened to
"cuss and discuss to new superintend
ent'. "Why, they tell mo that back In
tbat Hoston college where he xot his brand
be used to wear a gown, like a woman."
"An they do ba tellln' me hs dossu't
know ttio difference between a 'hoi;' and a
'mogul,' put In I.affcrty. '"Twns on'v
tfestherday the engine dispatcher sez to
urn. 'Mlither Pcttlgrcw,' sez he. 'thlm
engines av the 3(10 clars do be too light for
thraln slventeen,' sez he. 'Will I bo Bind
In' out the catnllbnckr sez he. That's
the "camllback?" ' sez this new dlekle b'v,
Sure, 'tis tho now Hnldwli!,' sez M'.Mur-(
trie. Oh, tho c'nsolldatlon, ye mane.' ssz
the boss."
A laugh greeted t'hs fresh proof of tho
new superintendent's unscphlstlcatton, and
tho glbo at rollego graduates in general,
and at Mr. Anson Pettlgrew in particular,
went tho round of the caucus.
But big John Mcrnrtney, tho cnglncenr of
the fast mall, put In a v.'onl for tolerance
when he got up and stretched himself, pre
paratory to thp dally Inspection of the
huge mall "flyer."
"Don't you fellows be too swift about
making up your minds." ho said. "As
you say, Abo, It takes u whole man to run
this division, but I ain't to blessed suro
wo haven't got one. Mold your broath a
little whllo till you see what he's mnd of."
"Aw, go on! He's tullor-morio; thnl'a
what he Is!" growled "tliack Jack" Mu
Cann, the runner of the Ovorland express.
McCann was tho. head and front of tho
critical opposition, oral when be bddvd that
he would provo all things dcrogrtory to Mr.
Anson Pettlgrew, there were no takers.
In the meantime the now superintendent
nan having a rather uncomfortable expe
rience In tho chair-wanning procrfs. It Is
n standing accusation ngalnst the newly
appointed official In tho railway service
that he always brings an executioner's ax,
well sharpened and thirsty for heads. Hut
there are two, sides to that shield! or rathor
the shield Itself Is hounded by an endless
circle of causo and effect. With tho fear
of the ax to unsettle them, the employes
lose their esprit do corps: the loss finds
expression In recklessness, the recklessness
In disaster and then Ihe ax comes In play.
Pettlgrew know all thin, beforehand, and
he had determined to keep the ax well In
the background, Dut' trouble met him at
tho office threshold. Superintendent Orcby
had taKtn his chief clerk with him and a
new office chief hail to bo Installed at once.
Pettlgrew mado the mistake the generous
mistake of promoting tho man next In
line, with the rrtult- thitt 'every other man
in tho office, became tho unwilling underling
of ono who had but now been a fellow
underling.
From Pcttlgrew's own office as nn epi
demic center tho disaffection spread like the
measles; first to the train dispatchers, then
to thu trainmen and the shops, and every
thing tho. new superintendent did was given
an unfriendly twist.
When he suggested mildly to "Ilardup"
Walker that tho engineer of a crack pas
senger train looked mere In keeping with
his Job In clean overalls and Jumper than
In a greasy frock coat aud u narrow
brimmed Derby hat two sizes too larno, a
howl of "despotism!" went up from one
end of the division to the other.
When he Insisted, alio mildly but firmly,
that speed recorders In freight caboons3
wcro mado for use and were not to be ad
justed with a coupling pin when thn con
ductor wanted to do n little "wild' run
ning, they called him a tyrant; and when
ho discharged Adam I.nrkln for smashing
his recorder, thcro was open talk of a
strike.
As a matter of course such n state of af
fairs soon mado Itself felt In a lack of ef
ficiency at all points. Dispatcher Lohen
grin went to sloop In tho middle of his
trick one night and let two freights find
each other on Jack mountain. Ills succes
sor, a man who, as It turned out, had forged
his letters of recommendation, lost his head
nd let the Kast Mall tcloscopo a stock
train between stations, killing Macartney's
fireman and tho conductor of the freight.
After this a very demon of disaster ran
amuck on the western division and tho
right-of-way was bcatrown with smashed
cars and ditched engines. Pettlgrew set bh
teeth and held on' like a man, but he knew
It was only a question of tlmo when the
frightful record would break him when the
general manager would Intimate that a
change of physicians was sometimes thu
enly hepe for a sick patient or a sick di
vision. ''I seem to have struck a bit of pandl
monlum cut hero a, remnant of chaos and
old night," ho wrb.to in a letter to tho
friend of his youth, "We read In the book
that tho dovll Is to be looted at the end of
ome certain millennium; he's loosed here
now. Tho business of this office, has come
to bo tho making of the dally report of
smashes.
"I can't begin to uccount for all the
dlanstrous confusion. I havo practically the
samu set cf men that my predecessor had,
and, as for my own part, If I don't know
my trade, I ought to, And yet tho most unheard-of
things aro- continually nopponlng.
Last week" and from this he went on to
recount some of tho unheard-of happenings.
It was after ofllto hours whon ho finished
thq private- latter and he hud a llttlo twinge
of contrition when ho found that ho had
been keeping Mlw Oray, the stcnographrr,
who was still waiting for him to sign tho
day's correspondence.
"Ou. h:g your pardon, Miss Oray," he
said; "I had qulto forgotten."
Ho signed (ho batch of lotters and. last
of all, the terrible ''casualty report. Two
more engines In the ditch and three men
hurt ono of them past mending, so tho di
vision turgeoti wired.
Pettlgrew dropped tho pun, got up
hastily and wont to stand nt the win
dow, looking out upon tho yards. Mls.s
Orny waited patiently. She was young,
but she was a woman grown, with a
woman's sympathetic Insight. She had
been watching Anson Pettlgrew' stubborn
fight agalust fato and she was heartily
sorry for him. She Baw, as no one but a
clear-eyed woman sitting nt tho best pos
sible vantage point of view could see, how
he had missed his opportunity.
After a tlmo Pettlgrew came back to bis
desk with the light of a sudden resolution
in bis eye.
"Take another letter to tho general man-
By Francis
Lynde.
m
ager, If you please,"
he began to dictate.
"You will sco by
he said curtly, and
the accompanying
casualty report that our Ill-tuck Is still
with us. Upon mature consideration 1
have come to believe that tho beat In-
terests of tho company demand a change
In the management of this dlvllson. There-
fore, I beg leave to tender herewith my
resignation to take effect"
He stopped becausi Miss dray's flying I
pencil had stopped and she was looking
up nt him with something more than sur-'
prise lying nt tho bottom of tho deep-
welled eyes. "O, no; not that!" she said
VJlclily; and then sho looked nway from
him.
Ho stated at her. as he might have stared i
at the first president's picture over hl,RBked
desk. If that had suddenly spoken to him.1
Then he ald: "Why not?"
"Excuse mr, please," she entreated
turning back to her notebook. "I had
no right to say thot or anything." Then I
she- gave him his cue "my resignation, to; versing lever Into tho corner, and took the
take effect" ' slack of tho long, loose-coupled train as
Ho pushed the cue aside In an Impatient gently as It ho had had an eye on each
gesture. "We will waive the technical i on of 'ne cnalt toggles that were doing
question of right. Is there the smallest ! dutyfor missing drawbars ou the "crip
defensible reason why I should not resign?" ( Pies."
"There Is every reason," she said It "Say, boys, he's been glvln' us the laugh
"WHEN THKY 1)11 KW HIM UP TnOUdH
RABY.' '
warmly, with nnother upward flash of tho
clear-seeing eycu. "What would you think
of i soldier an officer who resigned under
fire?"
Pettlgrew pulled himself together and
tried to remember that ho wns the divi
sion superintendent" and she wns his ste
nographer this for deemt dlzclpllno's pake,
nut the .barrier of. aham dignity fell dpwu
and bis better sense told him that thev
wcro for the time only a man nnd n woman
as Ood made them a man In soro trouble
and a woman who would help hlra It she
could.
"do on," he said, humbly. "It appears
to me that my course Is the only Justifiable,
one."
She shook her head. "No; you haven't
done nil."
?"It Is very evident that I haven't doce tha
right thing," ho rojolucd.
Sho pushed the pencil and notebook
away, as If to remind him that their busi
ness relation was suspended for the mo
ment. "Can you beur a little truth?" she nsked,
with tho Ingenuousness of a young woman
who, tho business relation apart, could
take her place Instantly as his eaun!.
He gazed nt her with Interest newlv
aroused. Ho hnd been regarding her as a
mero bit of the ofllco machinery the. onlv
bit that never gavo him any troubl; bv
getting out of gear. Dut now ho saw the
real Agnes dray, "the daughter of the brnvo
army officer, who, he hnd been told. haJ
given his llfo In battle with the Utes when
the C. & G, R. was fighting Its wuy
through thu reservation.
"I can bear anything Better than defeat.
Miss Gray. What should I do- that I
have failed to do?"
Her reply was shotlike In Its directum.
"You aro a master of men, In name and
title and authority; you must bs so In fact.
I can't tell you how; that Is a man's work.
Dut It can be done, nnd you can do It."
She put a llttlo of the fine fervor of her
solf Into him. He reached for the note
bcok and drew his pen throuKh the un
finished letter of resignation. As ho did
It tho door opened and the trainmaster
came In to say that the wreck train wns
going out to pick up the remains of the
latest smash and to ask If there wcro anv
speclnl orders.
"No," snld Pettlgrew, "I'll go with you."
He shut his desk and as ho passed her he
said: "Goodnight, Miss Gray, and I thank
you."
To say that Trainmaster Dougan was sur
prised Is putting It mildly. Not in any of tho
lato frequent calls, for tho wrecking train
h:d the new superintendent taken the Held.
"We'll havo to wait a few minutes till I
can got your car out, Mr. Pettlgrew," ho
said, as they wore hurrying down tho electric-lighted
yard, and then he had the sec
ond sheck of surprise.
"I don't wnnt the car. The wreck ca
boose Is good enough for you nnd tho men;
It is good enough for me."
That night tho trainmaster, the crew of
tho wreck train and what was left of the
crews of tho two derailed frolghts had a
revelation mado to them. They discovered
that tho new superintendent not only knew
how to clear n badly obstructed track most
expeditiously, but that ho could alto be a
man among men, directing, commanding,
cheering nnd oven laying hold with his own
hands at a pinch,
Never In nil the history of the division
had tho kinks been taken out of a ptlcd-up
string of boxcars so quickly and so easily,
and on the run back to Grand Dutte with
tho "remains" Pettlgrew clinched tho nail
by riding on the engine with Abel drlscom.
Itclleved of his pnysenco In the caboose
the men discussed this new phase of the
superintendent freely.
"Took hold Just like old man Oreby,
didn't he?" said Simmons, tho derrl:k man.
"U'goah! It remlndod me of old times!"
"Yes, and, by gravy, be knows how, too!"
cut In tho shop foremnn. "Why, I believe
ho could swop Jobs with any of us If he had
a mind to."
"That's nothln'," said Unagan. tho little
Irish machinist, who never failed to got In
"double time" on the wrecking train weu
the opportunity offered, "they tell me tbat
nowadays they do be putting thlm college
b'ys rljht In th' shop to shtudy the tbrade,
praetlckll. Dut, sa-ay, did yes sea him wld
th' pipe?"
"What pipe was that, Jerry?"
"Mine, thin, begobl Whin wo was wlggln'
nt that lasht box ho tuk a broke up clgyar
I out av his pocket. 'Damn I' sez he, ''tis
tho lasht won 1 had. Und me the loan av
ycr pipe, I.nnngan.' An' I shtud back nn
gaped at him whin he plugged the black
dudhcen an' shtuck It betwane his teeth
'I.oshI' sez I to meself, 'there's the mnkln'
nr n glntlcman in ye, nfther all, Mlsther
Pettlgrew.' "
While the men In the eabooso wcro con
ning the newly learned lesson, Abel Oris
.com was making yet other discoveries In
' the cab of the "17. Slnco the freight smash
. had happened between stations, the wreck
I train had to feel Its way under a flag to
'he nearest telegraph office, and during the
flag-following preface to the homeward run,
Ihe superintendent sat on the fireman's
box and said nothing
Dut when Abel climbed aboard at Arroya
with his running orders for Orand Butte,
Pettlgrew shook himself awake.
"What aro the orders, Qrlscom?" he
"Hun to meet 1" at Guernsey."
Pettlgrew glanced at his watch. "Pretty
narrow margin, Isn't It? Let me take her to
Guernsey." And therewith he swung him-
self up to Orlscom's box, dropped tho re
THK OPKN
WINDOW
HAD
all along," said Abel, recounting it for tho
benefit of tho roundhouse, contingent tho
noxt day. "What he doesn't know about
gcttln' the Inst hnlr-klnk out of an engine
ain't worth flndln' out. Dy Jacks! the way
ho tolled that string o" 'cripples' nrpund
the corners to make tlmo was a caution tn
sinners! Knowed right where he had to
case off and right whom he t-ould turn her
loose for every Jolt ot Bpeed them' 'cripples'
'u'd stand. Maybe, ns you say, he ain't no
railroad man, but I'm tellln' you, wheu II
comes to runntn' a played-out scrap heap
like the 717. he's Old Man Science hlsself."
Pcttlgrow was at his desk ns usual the
morning after the wrecking trip, nnd when
Miss Gray came in to teko his dictation
tho thousand miles of rnnk hnd file eti
quette lay between them again. If n man
were grateful he was too well trained and
well bred to show It. And If the young
woman were curious to know what had
come of the momentary breaking down of
the barrier, it served only to make hor a
little moro precise and machine-like In her
attitude toward Mr. Anson Pettlgrew.
For a fortnight after this the epidemic
paused. Thcro wero smashes enough to
show that the microbe wns still with us,
but thn casualty roport was shorter and
lees frequent. Also, Uiero were signs of
returning loyalty, ns when some of tho
older men began to spenk of the superin
tendent aB "Old Man Ans," and to admit
guardedly that In exceptional Instances a
college man and n gentleman might like
wise be a good railroad man.
Dut tho "sick" division went back to
health positive ono moonlit night In De
cember when all tho dun plnlns and
hcaved-up mountains lay stark and glisten
ing under n mantle of frozen snow, fend tho
main lino ot tho westorn division was lost
to sight save for the endless procession of
tce-cncrustcd telegraph poles and two
black etrcaks In the snow to mark 'the
parallels ot tho rails, '
Train No. 6, the castbound Overland,
Farnham conductor und Jack McCann engl
necer, was fifty 'minutes late, nnd It car
ried a freight precious to many, not least of
nil to the black-browed man who crouched
on tho engineer's box of the flying locomo
tive. "Black Jack," ns the men called
him, had been alternating between two
mocds all the wny from Lono Pine. When
ho thought of tho wife nnd baby girl riding
on' a pass In the rear sleeper, "as good as
anybody, by Ood!" tho grlmness went out
of him nnd you might havo smitten him
wtlhout fear of Instant death. But when
he thought of the superintendent's enr
added to tho olrendy overburdened train nt
Lone Pino, ho swore viciously.
"Just like him!" he growled, adding a
string of tho vicious expletives. "Tailing
his blank blank enr on to mo a night like
this! And like as not he'll have me on
the carpet tomorrow for not making time
with his" (moro unprintable adjectives)
"blanked private sleep wagon!"
But If the rear sleeper of No. 6 carried
two women souls priceless to tho black
browed engineer, It also carried another
lately grown very dear to the superintend
ent. For Agnes Oray was one of the
sleeper paiscugers, returning from a visit
tn her cousins in Salt Lake.
No word sava of business had passed be
tween them since that evening of barrier
breaking, but In some Indefinable way Pet
tlgrew knew that he was fighting his bittla
nud winning it, partly for sheer raanhoDd'B
sake, to bo sure, but also because the hUh
Ideals of this clear-eyed young woman
were holding him to the mark.
So, whllo McCann, sending tin big engln
headlong at tha grades, wns thinking ot
his wife und child, PettUrow, at tho other
end of the train, was thinking of the blow
In store for Miss Gray thinking of it and
cursing tho hard fate that would make
him deal the blow with his own hand,
But fate, lying In wait at the foot of the
Jack mountain grndp n n frost-fractured
rail, had another word to say, and It wrs
said with terrible emphasis,
McCann felt the broken rail when tho
onglno shot over It, nnd what a man may do '
to stop a train going at a forty-five mllo
gait wns done In a half-dozen choklne
heartbeats'. Then ho leaned far out of
his window to look back, with all the blood
tn his veins turning Into Ice. One after
another of the ears In the slowing train
HE
lurched over the break, righted Itself and
ttundled on securely until the turn of tne
rear sleeper came. That lurched, llko the
others, and for a flitting Instant McCann
thought It would psss the bresk In safety.
Ho was mistaken. Whllo he looked the
Pullman swung out of line with a burao
lng crash, broke Its coupling and plunged
down the embankment, dragging the super
intendent's car with It.
McCann was off In n flash, yelling like a
demoniac and racing back while yet the
brnkeshoes were grinding sparks from the
moving wheels. Hut quick as he was. the
fire In the Pullman heater was quicker, and
by the tlmo he had run halt the train's
length the wreck was vomiting flame and
smako from tho broken windows.
There was help a-plenty nt hand and
what was moro to the purpose n leader
of approved temper. Pettlgrew had come
out of his overturned car with nothing
worse than a few cuts and bruises, and he
took command at once,
"Stand by with three or four more to
help me and set everybody else at work
piling on snow " ho said to Farnhara.
And with that he dropped through a
broken window and began passing tho Im
prisoned occupants of the Pullman up to
the willing hands above.
As It chanced, Miss Oray was one of the
first. "Thank dodl" he gasped when he
found her. "Arc you hurt?"
"No. not badly, I think." sne said, "do
to tho others flrsl there Is a baby In sec
tion 3."
"Not It there wore n hundred babies!
Come." And he wrapped her up In tha
berth curtains aud handed her up to Karn-
ham.
Happily the Pullman's load was light
nnd Ihreo minutes later when Pettlgrew
groped nnd stumbled through tho blinding
smoko with tho engineer's wife In his
arms, ho hnd forgotten tho baby nnd
thought ho had thorn all. Dut when he
was dragging himself up out of the smok
ing furnnee thero wns a tumult afoot and a
blaclc-browed man mad with grief and
despair was shouting In frenzy.
"My baby! my baby! Out o' the way
and lot mo got down there! O, God In
henven!"
It wns loo Inte, they said, and they
held him back. But there was no one to
hold Pettlgrew, nnd he dropped once more
Into tho ronrlng furnacp: dropped and
groped, fighting as only a bravo man can
fight tor tho llfo of another. And in the
end he won, ns a bravo man will; and
when they drew him up through the I -n'ten
window his eyes were shut and Hit;, iron
hand of suffocation was gripping nt his
throat, but ho had the baby safely swathed
In a berth blanket.
In some occult way the saving of Jack
McCann's baby wrought tfte mlrncle of heal
ing, and the end of tho disaster epidemic
dated from that moonlit night and the
wrock of No. G. Just how Iho miracle waa
applied Is meat for the psychologists, but
Lafferty explained It In a single syllogism,
"Begob, thin, nnd why hot? Sure, there's
nlvvcr an omadhaun on tho division as
wouldn't alt up nights f'r Oul Man Ans
nfther thnt!"
Pettlgrew lay a week tn bed to pay tor
his part In the mlraclo and had the urgent
buslncBn of his ofllco brought to his room
by tho chief clerk. This wns how he
learned that Miss Gray was ill and bad not
yet reported for duty. Naturally, then, the
first uso he made of tho doctor's permission
to get up was to go nnd call on her, os
tensibly to Inquire after her health, but
really to rid himself of a burden which hnd
grown Intolerable. For all this tlmo he
hnd been carrying In his pocket the general
manager's order directing that all women
employes bo eliminated from the C. & G.
R. service.
It was Miss Oray horself who answered
his ring, and she was glal to see him, and
said so.
"I was hoping you would come," she ad
mitted. "I havo something to say to you
which It will bo easier to say to Mr. Anson
Pcttlgrow than to the or er"
"Tho 'boss?'" he suggested. "1 am glad
you put mo cn the friendlier footing. I,
too, have something to say, and"
"I know," she laughed; "you aro going
to scold me for not going back to work.
Then I shall assume to bo very angry and
tender my resignation."
His sigh ot relief was almost a gasp.
"Miss Oray, do you mean tbat Is that
what you worn going to say?"
"I do and It Is," sho said, answering both
halves of the query. "I cama ot age last
week; I am free, whlto and 21. as wo
should say down In the dear old south
land; and a little property of my grand
f.ithsr's "
"I understand," he cut In. Then he got
up, took a letter from his pockot and laid
It carefully upon the glowing coals In the
grate. "Your resignation Is accepted. Now
will you hear what I have to say?"
"Yes; but you can't scold mo now, can
you?"
"God forbid!" He crossed the room and
sat down beside her. 'I)o you remember
one evening In the office whon wo both laid
aside tho business conventionalities and
you tcld mo what I must do?"
She nodded.
"That talk made a man of ma made me
wholo again, for I wns fairly broken.
Agnes, dear, I the business can't run with
out you. Won't you come back Into tho
service ns my wife?"
It was a nine-days' wondor for tho force
In the superintendent's office when It be
camo noised about that Agnes Oray bad
"quit between two days." But the riddle
resolved Itself a few months later when
she came back on the western division as
Mrs. Anson Pettlgrew,
FA8IIIOVN SLAVISH.
Somr I'rrtlnrnt Olikcrvntlo'n liy One
of Th ein.
Lovely woman, high or lowly, Is fashion's
slavo, not passion's slave, as the dime
novels phrase It. The tine can not be
drawn oven at civilization, for who Is moro
rigorously fashionable thau a Hotentot
belle? Having no Intellectual charms, slui
can not win tho cannibal bravo except by
delighting his eyes with the brilliancy of
her sennty raiment; and not to please him
would mean to remain unwed and be
stamped out in the survival of the fittest.
Among the birds tho male Is arrayed In
marvelous plumage for the sole purpose
of belnB selected by the medest-feathered
females. Dut among humanity woman pre
sents the attractions and man makes the
selection.
One ennnnt but envy the permanence of
heathen fashions. With the Indians, for
Instance, scarlet, yellow, blue and green
paint has "been tn" for many seasons.
What comfortl Fancy the consternation of
the squaw who had spent many month.
weaving with Infinite pains a brilliant
Navajo blanket, should she suddenly lenrn
that It had gone out of style nnd her time
nnd labor were lost!
Do we "new women," beginning this ren
tury of progress ever stop to consider how
absolutely we arc In tho powor and grip
of the czar, fashion?
Once woman wore hoops whose size
would dwarf a modern airship, imagine
tho beautifully formed women of Greece,
models for tha greatest sculpture of tho
world, arrayed In tight corsets and hoop
skirts!
A queen there once was ho wns hunch
backed and all the court women, for cour
tesy, had artificial humps put In their
dresses. As a rcsut we, In a domocratlo
country, ho have forgotten een tho
queen's name, wear the bustjo, n slmplo
lowering of the unsightly protuberance.
We are told that our grandmothers had
sixteen. Inch wrists, yet they reared fam
ilies of ten and twenty children! But
perhaps the physical weakness of those
very children was the result of the
mother's tight lacing. It has been charged
that this very thing has produced crip
ples nnd oven criminals unto the third
and fourth generation!
What barbarism hns mado woman, who
carries all the future within her frail
form, (he one to wear the most unhygienic
clothing ever Invented? And what has
perverted the taste which considers such
garments attractive? If one-half of hu
manity had to go fashion-made nnd nbusu
the delicate internal organs, why could It
not hnvc been man, with his stronger
physique, not called upon to give birth to
humanity? But no; man dresses sensibly
to his credit be It said and uses the stylo
of dress suited to his life, even If It has
little to recommend It to the eye of the
artist.
In European court circles and In our own
colontal days those men who were "gentle
men of leisure" were as strictly dominated
by fashion as ever woman was, or Is. Hut
now they glory' In It only on the stnge!
The Louis XIV high heels, satin gar
ments, laces, ruffles and powdered wigs
find wearers nowhero else.
Men solved tne drosi question hecnuso
economic conditions demanded suitable
working clothes; women will solve If even
tually for the samo reason. Dut very slowly
do they emerge from conservatism, es
pecially tuch forms of It as arc supposed to
raako them charming. And It Is usually
fashion's dictates, not reason's, which In
tho end prevail.
For half n century timid attempts were
made, from time to time, for n shorter
dress, beginning with thoso of tho nbtucd
pioneer, Amelia Bloomer. But lncn woman
has tnken to athletic sports fashion hns
devised nnd sanctioned the very costumes
for which common sense pleaded In vain.
Today no fashionable woman thinks her
wardrobe complete without threo or four
tailor-made short skirts, "bicycle length"
and "golf length." with a number of loose
sblrt waists of every color and fnbrlc.
Whllo women aro striving for fewer and
Impler clothes, men's wardrobes are be
coming more complicated, dolf suits, bicy
cle outfits, evening dress. Tuxedos, "swal
low tails," yachting costumes, negligees,
flannels, business suits, hats, cravats nnd
socks ad Infinitum comprise tho tollot ot
the man a la mode.
Indicating that lovo for display which
still exists In tho breast of mnn, behold his
primitive delight In the gold lace, long
plumes and clanking swords In the parades
of the secret orders and fraternities!
And the military! Is peacock or woman
so overwhelmingly vain as an officer In full
uniform?
La mode .at 111 demands thnt ordinary mon
wear white and black and sober shades,
but how eagerly, they accept Jhq mw re
gime of rioting colors In tho soft shirts,
vests, hose and ties the purplo, scarlet,
green, blue, yellow, pink, so temptingly set
forth by the "gentlemen's furnisher." And
fortunate the mnn who docs not In his In
experience wear an outrageous combination
of three colors In shirt, socks and cravat!
An odd circumstance In the psychology
of drees Is that woman, seeking romfort
and nlso In order to Indulge In nthlotlcs,
copied man' loose shirt, confining It nt
the belt and calling It a shirtwaist. Then
ho turns nbout, recoples the garment from
woman, and behold a new product of tho
twentieth century the shirtwaist mnn!
There aro few of us who are or wish to
bo emancipated from fashion's tyranny.
We enjoy our shnckles. Our hair goes
up or down, sleeves Inflate or cling, skirts
are wide or narrow, hats are the slzo of
tubs or teacups, exactly as the style de
crees and wo kiss the hand that smites us.
No sooner have wo comploted a suitable
wardrobe and are longing to turn our at
tention to weightier matters than fashion'
sends out a new mandate and all must
be dono over again, while the weightier
matters are deferred.
Thus we are 5-affeted nbout .by those
lightning-change artists, fads nnd
fashions. Where are the woman's clubs
which shall break those bonds? What re
formers will set us free? Who shall wrlto
our emancipation proclamation.
ONE OK THE SLAVES.
TEA Iini.VKINfc IK THIS (40UTII.
Nosr I'peil as is IlcvcriiKc Where For
merly It Wim Medicine.
"The Increased consumption of tea Is
one of the Interesting phases of modern
commercial life in the south," said a
drummer to a New Orleans Times re
porter, "and you would bo surprised nt
the vast change which has taken placo In
this respect. Tho fact is that during tho
past tow years the changes tn the tea
business have amounted to a revolution.
I have Just returned from a trip on tho
road and I touched some of tho mora
remote places In Texas and Mississippi,
and while I have been out before In the
same territory, I was surprised at the
Increased number of tea drinkers.
"Up to a few years ago In the more re
mote sections of the country tea was used
almost exclusively In the sickroom. Tea
had to be bought In the country from the
druggist. The man who dealt In goneral
merchandise rarely thought of selling tea.
unless he had a medicine counter In his
ntore. Tea wns somothlmj finicky, to be
given to the convalescing patient, oloug
with crackers, tasteless broth and things of
that sort.
"This Is not the case now. Ton Is bought
In rather large quantities by country mer
chants and the country folk use It for
other than sickroom purposes, It Is ex
tensively used throughout tho country.
"There Is still more Interesting n fact In
connection with the growth of tho tea
trade. Negroes are now great tea consum
ers, You would be surprised at tho nmount
of tea consumed by this element of tho
population. Using tea is a new thing with
tho negro element, but slnco thoy have'
gotten Into the tea-drinking habit they havo
vastly Increased tho consumption of tho
product. Yes, they have nbout quit using
sassafras roots for tea-making purposes
and this rather primitive drink Is now used
for Its medicinal properties. It has ex
changed places with tho other tea,
"These are some of the reasons for the
Increased consumption of tea. There ore,
of course, many other special and general
causes for the new demand and altogether
the changes form a rather interesting sub
ject so far as modern commerce is con
cerned." "Garlnnd" timr ana iianges '
Awarded flrsl riie. Paris exposition, 1900.
THE U. S. STANDARD.
No Man Is Stronger Than
His Stomach.
The men who seeks to enHst hi the
U. S. Army must be physlcallv sound.
There is a minimum standard of height
and men under that standard, no matter
how healtliy, will not be accepted. Dut
aside from height the requirement is a
sound physicnl condition, nnd this con
dition depends in chief upon the health
of the stomach and its allied organs of
digestion and nutrition. Manv a man
has been rejected by the medtc.ll ex
aminer who appeared externally to
possess nil the physical requirements of
a goal soldier. Hut the examiner looks
below the surface. He knows when the
stomach is weak, and he knows also that
no mnn is stronger than his stomach.
Most people look upon Indigestion ns
discomfort rather thau a disease, Dut
in reality indigestion or dyspepsia is the
disease of all diseases. It makes other
diseases possible. It involves the blood
nnd the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys
every organ of the lody.
WKAK STOMACH WEAK MAN,
That a "weak" stomach causes gen
eral physical weakness mny easily be
understood. Pood is the staff of life.
The source of all physical strength is
food. Dut before the body can receive
strength from what is eaten the food
must be digested nnd nssimllntcd. To
convert the food cntcn into nutrition is
the office of the stomach nnd the other
organs of digestion and nutrition. When
the stomach is "weak " the food received
into It is only partly digested and as
similated ; the body loses tts proper sup
ply of nutrition nnd grows proportion
ately weak. The capacity of Ine stomach
in its normal health and use equals the
nutritive demands of the body. State
that normal capacity ns equal to loo.
When the6tomnch is"wcnk" itscapaclty
is reduced proportionately. It may be
that ten or twenty per cent, of the nutri
tive values of the food eaten nre lost or
wnsted. That ten or twenty per cent, of
lost nutrition must then represent a ten
or twenty per cent, loss of physicnl
strength.
wnnnit strknt.th comks prom.
rhysical strength comes from food and
from food alone. If n man has enough
to eat and eats enough, there's no reason
why he should not have a perfectly
nourished nnd healthy body. If he is,
not well nourished, if he is losing weight,
then the stomach is weak, or diseased,
whether he knows it or not. If he knows
he lids' stomach "trouble," then he may
be sure that the trouble will not stop
with the stomach, but will reach out to
other organs of the body dependent on
the stomach for nutrition.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
has restored lost health nnd strength to
thousands of suffering men and women,
because it cures diseases of the stomach
and other organs of digestion and nutri
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"I had been suffering from indigestion
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A CORNI'!ltU T.USSON.
The average person seems entirely nn
nware of the dependence of the several
organs of the body upon the stomach for
their henlth nnd strength.
Hut if 11 " weak " stomach
makes aMveuk man that
weakness must be distri
buted among all the parts
ann organs which, taken
ns a wnole, make up the
physical man. The rela
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physical organs is like the
relation of the corn to the
soil in which it grows. If
the soil abounds In the
nutrition which makes
corn, then the stalk is tall,
the leaves broud, the ears
heavy. If the soil is poor
or weak then the corn Is
weak nnd it is weak all
over, in stalk, leaf aud ear.
Uvcry part of the corn
shares 111 the lack of nu
tritive elements in the
soil. It's so with the
stomach. When it is
"weak" nnd there is loss
of nutrition, every organ
chares that loss heart,
liver, luiu,.., kidneys, etc.
Dr. I'iercc's Golden Medical Ditcovery
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BY
Dramatic Story.
in Plot.
November 3, and
Illustrated.