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CHICAGO
, The Plot Thickens in
'. cnarrnrt XII. .
HEN it comes to really amount-
.ing to something,, women are
like engines in several particu-
In the iirst place. it is never sale
to judge either by the paint. I've seen
many an engine come from the shop
glistening like the gold money you used
to get for your pay check in the far
gold letters and shining brass trim-
mings that bullgine looked as if it
would make a mile a minute with ton-
nage 10 per cent over its rating. But
when you got the battleship on the main
line its netting would stop up, it would
leak at the mud ring and blow at the
cylinder packing and, after you had
set out loads on every passing track
half way across a. division. you iinally
would have to crawl in on some siding
and send for anotherengine, with less
paint. to pull you in. - Then I've seen
some engines which looked as it they
were less than one round trip from the
scrap pile yank thirty cars of porter-
iiouse steak on the hoof over a mountain
division on passenger schedule and be
ready to double back with a coal drag
as soon as treated to a drink of water.
Alter that session with Miss Buraleeu
I began to suspect that I'd been judging
the engine by the paint without having
in mind that paint doesn‘t hurt a good
engine and doesn't help a poor one. I
believe the saying is that beauty is but
skin deep. Paint is on the outside of
the skin and has nothing to do with
the machinery.
us was the thought that was slosh-
lng about in my think-dome as I
escorted Miss Bursleen to the street by ’
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crowing railroad and his willingness to
real money to ave ‘
e more I thought about it
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had lilac Just where I wanted him and
then that our declining
years were going to be quiet and peace-
ful-ns far as lilac was concerned. ’
"Did you get an earfull?" I asked Billy
when he Joined me in the l by.
“I'm the best listener in this county,"
31”? replied, "but I don't understand the
game."
‘ hear what she said about
Mac being so anxious to get into print
that he--“.
"Yes, I got that," Billy replied as a.
broad grin spread over his face, "Mac's
the last fellow one would erpect to be
so vain." ‘
"Say, Billy. I'll tell you something, in
DISC, in spite
owns the controlling interest in a regu-
just human. In no
y. I'll forget
the proprleties of good breeding, as Fat
would say, and admit to you that Mac
is so human’at times that he's just a
common, arden variety of d-n
tho I can lick anybody who says so in
public.
Billy laughed at that and, as we
stepped out on the street and I beganto
"What's in the air‘! Do you really
meanthere is n chance of Mac losing
control?"
e don't get back that stock cer-
won't be general manager of the Conti-
nental alter the next stockholders‘ meet-
ing and that comes off before our next
pay day." -
“ hen it is up to us to get the stock
certificate," Billy said with a finality
a bandit who has just decided
mall train must berobbed.
"Tell me about this denl."‘
I was terribly hurnililated after we
(I to let Billy
m.rh1e’...laee.d.ed ”
Conspiracy
Horace Howard Herr
rubbed it in a. little when I was telling
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as one.of the self-made captains of in-'
dustry is awfully funny if you can see
it from where I was sitting at that mo-
ment. I don't care who the self-made
captain is, you don't have to walk around
him more than once to find the woman
who kept him from being a gutter bum.
Kate, and
proprieties of modesty. as Pat would say.
precludes the possibility of me mention-
ing another person who had a good deal
LEDGER
had been the
8. SID B.
PATRICIA
b g a noble ideas: anxious to “dem
ocratlze our democracy" and
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Who's Who in the Railroad Drama
HARDLY liI'K!-IARNEI’. General Manager of the Continental Line's Western
divisions, and stockholder as well: expert railroad man who began his career
as iireman on freight trains, when his big dinner paid frequently contained
nothing more substantial than stale ai .
KATIE: 1u'l(EAnNEY. the General Manager’: wife. who as a healthy. lovial girl
life and mascot of a certain popular railroad restaurant; cashier
she was. but never too proud to hand a humble railroad lad a slab 0' pie and
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M'KEAR)'l:Y, just graduated from a young ladies‘ seminary; full of
o aid the
Midnight Missions in “rescuing the perishing;" a. good girl who always
mean
the governor would say the word:
JACKSON REILLY, assistant‘ to the General Manager; was rear brakeman when
Mac, Sr., fired the big freight hogs; knew and admired Kate in the old, grimy
days; made his home
dren arrived became
with the happy pair after their marriage; w
the “fetch and carry," the Newfoundland dog of the
hen chil-
family; in fact, he's the droll. humorous chap who relates the whole amusing
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BIJRALEEN nlslml-‘F. a. former seminary girl of veiled family connections:
much too pink and flimsy to win Jackson's approval; Patricia's guest in the
liIcKearney home, but not entirely welcome, apparently, to her parents, be-
cause of her marked attentions to Hardin J., the son; scant dresser at the
dinner table; "liable to fall out of her clothes most any
the loquacious Jackson.
time," according to
srnr:nrn.urnrsn. ranchman and deputy sheriff much feared by cattle
rustlers:'a dead shot. let the foe be mountain’ lion
munitlon; friend of Jackson's and lsIac’s.
t believe in wasting am
or two-legged prowler:
he
BILLY BARBER, Speedy's son: chip of the old block: at the age of 10, proud
owner of the ill-fated Arizona hurro.
That's what Billy. now a broad-shouldered. regular he-
ticular hurro."
man, would
“Let Jackson tell about that par-
say.
MISS llrA.lt'rlx, McKearney's private secretary and stenographer; fat, fair and
40 an
d didn't care who knew
dance; paid a generous salary and war
This story began in No. 13, the Ledger
tained from our agents or newsdealers.
it; no gum, face powder or bobbed hair in evi-
til it.
for April 1. Back copies may be ob-
"rn say so," I replied. "'and you are
5 looking into the countenance of one of
those very mes, young man! If you
are not careful you are going to ruin
mighty good woman,;
B' was in a belligerent mood
when I unloaded from the taxi at the
amt: He wouldn't accept my invita-
tion to luncheon and when he rode away
I wasn't sure whether the movie profes-
sion had galned a first-class rancher or
an Arizona ranch had lost a bum actor.
I felt I would have to devote more of
and attention to Pat's
or two an
reason I was the more peevish with Mac
for having bailed up his own affairs so
, that I was forced to devote some of my
valuable time to trivial affairs like the
control of a transcontinental railroad.
I walked into oihce carrying
with me one of those canvas-hound tis-
sue-llaper books in which the oflice boy
copies all the letter -
“Mr. McKearney," I began as I opened
the book on llIac‘s desk and drew up the
chair, “I’m representing the Shirley
Publishing'Company and We are about
to bring‘ out a.book on the self-made
suckers in the railroad business. Our
hinting at those which shouldn't be dis-
cussed in polite society. With this
write-up we prints full-page photograph
of the subject. A hareheaded photo-
graph for one thousand dollars, a picture
of the subject in overalls for nve hun-
hat for two thousand dollars. bind
this hook in denim to give it the homely.
‘VIII Print ll I'le-
fllrr of In In Plug Hut for Two
Thollnnnil Ilnllarll.”
“If You Prcltrp “Q
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to do in keeping lilac out of the bread
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e.
I had explained the whole layout to
Ousness of this situation, Billy‘: sole
comment was:
"IV:-ll, we'll have to do one of two
things: get that stock certificate or pre-
vent the meeting of the stockholders,"
Having got that sage advice off his
chest what did he do but load on me a
new and is real worry. - .
"I don't care who controls the Con-
tinental Railroad," he began as an pref-
ace to his lecture. "I'm not '
set in on this game much longer. It
isn't fair to Miss Patricia and, besides,
I'm not’ going to go'lnto the movics.
Imagine me as an actor!"
“1'ou‘ve played your role first-class so
far," I assured him. “ o the
young Woman, she's interested in you.
sure I'll keep them)-
polniment this afternoon."
‘'1' just give you a straight tip," I
one prejudice that starts in her toes and
runs all thru her to her hair; she'll never
marry a. man with money if she-knows
it before the ceremony--"
"I'll not have you talking to me of
matrimony in that way!" Billy ex-
claimed. “It isn't right andj"
"All ght, have it your way. But if
you don‘t keep that date and get that
oh and make good I'm going ta tell rat
Just how much mane)’ You have and I'm
giving you fair warning. she has made
up her mind to have nothing to do with
the idle rich. It doesn't make much dif-
ference who controls a railroad and, us
ar as I'm concerned, you can forget
about Mac's trouble: because he hasn't
any. lie just thinks he has.. But you'd
better think twice before you decide to
drive Pat Mcliearney into matrimony
with some poor but honest. fellow and
force her to take in washing and do scrub
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Others died in poverty.
-And all the time their
, with diamonds.’
. Y0!-Ir grasp. Know!
there to guide you.
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They Overlooked the
- Diamonds ‘
' HERE is a modern fiippancy to the effect
that.- “What you don't know won't hurt
you." It is also a fallacy. For instance:
The farmers of Kimberley were a disgusted, ' "
disheartened lot. They said the soil was too
rocky to earn them a living. Some of them left.
But the farmers didn't know. They thought the
priceless gems were pebbles. g V '
Don't be like those Kimberley farrners. Know!
Don't seek opportunity inllsome distant place
and overlook the diamonds that are dailywithin
Afdiwlising is a mine of opportunity. it tells
0 values you wouldn t know about if it were not
'I‘hc secret of economical buying is informa;
tion. The or woman who isbgsg lnfofmed
IS the one who buysto best advantage;
,. Agggm
Read the advertisements,
children were playing
Know!
egotistical ass Mac was Of course, I ‘Work an e-4' '
felt very peevlslrwith lilac for zettin “There are times when every man
such -'1 5Cl‘aDt‘. and. perhaps. I ought to be serious," Billy protested. I V
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