HIS FATHER'S SON. By E. A. WHARTON, Lawrence K. Neville, Jr., aged six, willed his Impatient way through the Jfont hall and out upon the piazza, tareful, evem then, to keep on the rug ad to close the screen door softly. For upstalro In a darkened room Muvver-lover lay In care of a white-capped nurse, who was perpetually putting her finger to her llpe and making frantic ges tures for silence If he so much as thought aloud. Baby Bister walled continually, and Boy resentfully wondered why nurse didn't make her keep still. He was ure that kind of a noise must dis turb Muvver-lover far more than a Httle whistling and slamming of doors. But perhaps It was because she was a lady-baby, he thought, as he settled himself to watch for Daddy. Folks had to be polite to ladles. He'd like to ask Muvver-lover, but they hadn't let him see her for days and days. Al leys before when she had been sick he had been allowed to tiptoe in and rub her head, and she had said It made her better. But then there had been no cross nurse. The lad leaped to his feet as his father came In sight, and raced to meet him. Daddy would make every thing clear. The man's strong hand closed over the small brown one, and Neville smiled down into the wistful upturned face; then straightway all but forgot the child's existence. And Boy, skipping along to keep pace with his father's swinging stride, for the first time in his short life found Paddy unresponsive. As they ascend ed the steps, Neville roused from his abstraction to hear Lawrence say: "Is It 'cause she's a lady-baby, Daddy, and we must be polite to ladles?" "That's exactly it, Boy;" he an iwered the last clause of the question. 'Men must always be polite and con derate to ladles under all circum stances. Run out now and play, and W very quiet." A perfunctory kiss trapped upon the lad's cheek, and Dad ly tiptoed up-stalre. Boy gazed after him with a queer, choky feeling in his throat till the door to his mother's room closed be hind him. Then he stood still, trying to understand 'What it all meant. Had he done something to displease Daddy? And didn't Muvver-lover love him at all since sister came? He clenched his fists and winked hard. He wouldn't cry! If they didn't care, he wouldn't either. v A shrill whistle sounded at the gate and he ran out to meet the boy who at Just across the aisle at school. "No, I can't have anyone come here, because my mother's sick," he ex plained with an odd little assumption of dignity. "I'm sorry, too, for It's lonesome when your folks are sick." Returning, he went to the kitchen door. He wondered at black Susan's tender manper and at her muttered Tore li'l lamb!" as he dragged his feet up the back stairs. The playroom, ever he kitchen, was fitted with all sorts of things that boys like. There were a few Bimple tools that Daddy .was teaching him to use, and appar atus for light gymnastics, for Boy's parents cherished theories as to train lug children. Just now the room was crowded; bis bed had been moved from his pretty room next to mother's, and there was a cot, where Susan slept 10 100k after him. In one corner were the toys that he was beginning to consider too bauylsh for a six-year-old; chief among these was a rag doll. To Boy, Moll's bowed lead and dejected air indicated grief at being thus cast aside, and with ready lympathy he tcok her in his arms and tat down to meditate. He was almost happy as be ran town-stairs at Susan's call. He and Daddy would have a chat over dinner, and then it would be time to go back to school, where there would be a de lightful half-hour in which he could yell and whistle to his heart's content. But Daddy did not appear. Susan ex plained, as she brought his soup and pushed Boy's chair closer to the table, ITo' paw can't come now. He tole lie to give yuh yo' dinner an' sen yo' Jack to school, lest yuh git lade." As he ate his solitary meal. Boy iron de-red why Susan's cooking; didn't taste as good as usual. Evem his fav orite pudding lacked flavor. Then ho rendered why Daddy didn't come, and why they got that baby, anyhow. To be sure. If Dcddy and Muwer-lover really wanted her, why he'd try to want her, too. But It really didn't seem to him they needed a baby. He clambered down from the table and went back to the playroom, for a last loow at Moll, the only member Df his small world that had not failed Vim. He reluctantly laid her on his ed, and was turning away, when a judden thought Btruck him. Why not? Jt was Friday, and teacher had ex pressly said at noon that they might bring their dolls If they liked. He was sure Moll would like it . better ' than being shut up there alone. Moll was essentially a boy's doll from her sturdy, tightly-stuffed arms and legs to the cut and quality of her substantial garments, One lnstlnc- tlvely felt that she, too, should have had her woolly locks cropped and have been put Into trouserss. Boy tucked her comfortably under bis arm and hop-eklpped along thb walk and out on the street , . ' A blue-eyed, befrilled angel'"trbm frvw cw i1p.iMntr by with equally befrilled doll In her arms. She was In the "high first," and had been Boy's sworn ally for at least three or four weeks that they had been neigh bors. Now she stopped. "Is It a boy doll?" she asked, holding out her bands. "I should think1 you'd rather have a boy-doll," she added, as she returned Moll. "This one is nice and big and and cuddly, but she's kind of fat, and needs some new clothes." A group of girls trilled, and she tripped away to Join them. Boy turned Moll over and surveyed her critically. New clothes, indeed! Weren't the skirt and Jacket made of bis own best suit, and the stocking-cap and leg gings exactly like his own? What more could a boy want? Girls were different. He supposed baby-sister would want a doll like Edith's when she got big. He tucked Moll up more comfortably and trudged on. Two or three big girls passed and chaffed Boy about the doll. He was tempted to be saucy, but remembered Daddy's teach ings In time to tighten his Hps and pre tend not to hear. "Men must always be polite to ladles," he reminded him self as he snuggled Moll closer. Just before he reached the school- grounds a little chap from the kinder- garden bumped against him with a sneering remark about "girl-boys." Boy's face was so red that the freckles on his nose looked white, and the hands thrust deep In his pockets were clenched till they hurt. But the boy was littler than he and Daddy said that only cowards hurt little fellows. Boy backed against a tree, and, looking quite over the smaller one's head, pursed his lips into a whistle. He was conscious that It wasn't much of a tune; the sound wouldn't come, somehow, but it served. Others gathered, some to Join In the fun, some to see fair play. Boy whls- tied calmly on till Pug Walters, at least three sizes larger and the bully of the primary grades, stole behind him, and shouting: "Hey, sissy, lend us your doll!" snatched Moll from under his arm and held her aloft by one leg. Let's have a game of football, hey?" He held the doll out and drew back his foot, but before he could kick, a tor nado of arms and legs struck him, and the doll was forgotten in an attempt to defend himself. Now Boy was no mollycoddle, In spite of the alliterative titles and his beloved doll. Among Daddy's theories was one that every male human be ing should be able to defend himself, and Boy had been learning to do that about the time he got steady on his feet. The units of the yelling circle that formed as If by magic saw no occa sion to interfere, and Boy, unconscious ly giving vent to the loneliness and heartache of the preceding days, as well as the rage that had been accu mutating over the Insults to himself and Moll, pommeled bis antagonist with vim cheered on by his partizons. It was a fight to the finish, with no referee to call time. Back and forth they went, now one gaining and now the other. Boy forced Pug to the edge of the ring and was about to strike once more, when a sudden silence dis concerted him. Looking up, he found Teacher close beside him and a grieved droop to the corners of her mouth, and turning his head to avoid her eyes, he saw Daddy at the outside of the ring, watching In, puzzled silence. Miss Haines turned to the biggest one of the group, "You might have prevented this," she murmured re proachfully. "You know how we de pend on you big boys." She pushed Pug toward him. "Since you didn't see fit to Bto? the fight, you may take this boy to the cloakroom and put him In order, and then take him to his teacher." Boy, narrowly watching Miss Haines thought he detected a flash of satis faction In her glance at Pug's rather swollen face. But he told himself that he must be mistaken; Teacher couldn't be anything but sorry over a fight Daddy, now Someone had picked up the doll, and Miss Haines was brushing and shaking It as though her one object in life wai to render It Immaculate. When nil the boys had gone, she extended her hand without a word, and Boy took it, feeling himself grow smaller every Instant. Daddy stood aloof, as though merely an observer. Gould it be possible that he did not mean to interfere, to explain? Teacher would bo kind, of course and she would mean to be Just, but she couldn't understand; ladies never did, not even Muvver-lover. He'd have to he punished, he knew but he wouldn't mind that much ii Daddy would only go away. His lips v i re beginning to tremble, and If he should cry, Daddy would be so ashamed. Neville's hand closed reassurlng'ly over the dirty, bloodstained one that stretched toward him in half-conscious appeal, but loosened as Miss Haines brought a basin end proceeded to wash away all removable signs of conflict. There was a lump at one corner of his right eye. Boy thought It must be d'lrt, and put ,up his hand to brush it oft. Miss Haines pressed the cold cloth on the spot and deftly applied a bit of courtplaster to a cut on his chin There was a bare place on his fist, too. Miss Halnos dried his hands and face on hef handkerchief and put her arm around him. "Now, Lawrence, ihM- me-tibout'' it. Who began the fight?" . No answer." " "Did you hit him first?" Boy nodded. "You did?" Teacher gasped, and Daddy's face grew stern. "Didn't he do anything to you?" Another nod. 'Call you names?" A nod. "Anything else?" "Jerked Moll away from me and was going to kick her." MIes Haines looked puzzled. Daddy interposed. "Why did you bring your doll to school, Lawrence?" Miss Haines said we might, cause It's Friday afternoon." Bit by bit the story was elicited, and presently. Boy, his head on Faith Haines' shoulder, was sobbing out the Incoherent details. Daddy caught the words "lonesome Muvver sick, Daddy didn't care, Moll loneeome, too," and when Boy regained sufficient self control, to lift his head and turn, a shamed little face to his father's with a " 'Scuse me, please. Daddy. I didn't mean to," the slender throat was etui clutching. "I I" Neville's own eyes were misty and his voice not entirely steady. Somehow the lad found himself close to his father's side, mopping his face with the paternal handkerchief. Ne ville rose. "I'll take Lawrence home with me, Miss Haines, unless you think it will be quite subversive of discipline. He's hardly in condition for school" his lips twitched as he scrutinized "bumps" oa the Bmall face "and be sides, I want to make a few facta clear to him. It's been an anxious time at home, but that's no excuse for me." Boy tucked the doll under his arm and snuggled his sound hand into bis father's. "I s'pose maybe Moll's tired and we'd better take her home first," he suggested In response to Daddy's proposal of a trip to the Zoo. . That was an afternoon to remember. They walked past the schoolhouse and througlv.the park beyond and stop ped to watch the swans on the pond. During the hour at the office that Daddy craved as a favor, Boy curled up In a big leather chair supremely content. Then came hours at the Zoo, when Just he and Daddy were alone in a charmed world, where Daddy retold his favorite "Just So" stories as they wandered from place to place. And without anything being said about It, Boy came to know that he had bis own place In Daddy's heart that not all the baby sisters In the world could oust him from, and that Muvver-lover loved him Just as dearly as ever. That evening, when he was all ready for bed and feeling a little homesick as he knelt to say his prayers be cause Muvver-lover was not there to hear him, Daddy came to say that he might see her for a little while If he would be very still Indeed. Baby sister slumbered peacefully while he stroked her cheek and kissed the tiny fingers that clung to his. Moth er had been told a part of the Btory, The fight had Bhocked her at first, but she had not been the one sister In a band of sturdy brothers for nothing. Boy climbed up and nestled Into his old place beside her. He smiled con tentedly as her fingers caressed hlB bruises, while Bhe whispered: "He's mother's comfort, her dear baby boy, As he was slipping Into dreamland, Daddy lifted him and carried him back to his bed at the other end of the hall. He cuddled closer and flung one arm about Daddy's neck as the man murmured: "He's Daddy's brave little man." From the Ladles' World. SOME PRICELESS TABLEWARE Special Staff of Servants Required to Handle Royal Service. The table at which the King and the Prince of Wales dined side by side with President Fallleres' and M. Cam bon was laden not with gold plate, but with something much more valu able a service of bleu de rol Sevres china, so valuable that no price can be put upon It. President Fallleres had it specially sent across from the Elysee, of which It is one of the most artistic ornaments. Much of it dates bnck to the oarly days of the famous factory, and when one of the plates Is broken a rigid Inquisition is held by government officials Into the cause of the accident. Indeed, so much value is attached to the fragile ware on which dinner was served that only a special staff of servants, all experts in handling It are allowed to touch a single article. The china was brought over in crates specially designed so that no. piece can, unVss by the most extraordinary mischance, suffer frcm the roughness of a sea Journey. The whole service is of tho most beautiful description. The cehtreB are white, with gold figuring, but the rims for a couple of Inches are in the rich inimitable blue called bleu de rol, ov er which is sprayed the same gold fig ures. The dessert was served on a set of dishes of the same pattern, but having on the rims ovals, each with a hand-painted, exotic bird of brilliant plumage. His Majesty drank his after-dinner coffee from a cup made at the Sevres factory in 1S58. The pat tern follows the same lines of blue, white and gold, but the inside is of pure gold. So good Is the work of the cups that, although their manufac ture is rfor Sevres so recent as 1858, they cannot be replaced with the same perfection. The gold In them makes them quite heavy to the hand. They are among the most exquisite samples of the potter's are in this particular form in existence. Only the knives, forks and spoons for the dessert ser vice were of gold. These, too, show ed such an artistic sense In the crafts men that they were In keeping with the china. The menu was entirely prepared In the Embassy kitchen by M. Briandt, the chef there. Montana during 1907 produced sap rhlres worth 1229.800. F A Warning Tke Misuse Ey Woodrow Wilson, President of Princeton University. OR the first time In eral feeling that issue Is now Joined or about to oe jumeu, between the power of accumulated capital and the privileges and the opportunities of the masses of the people. The power of accumulated capital, as at all other times and in all other circumstances, Is in the hands of a compara tively small number of persons, but there is a very wide spread Impression that these persons have been able in re cent years, as never before, to control the national develop - , i ment In their own interest. The contest that has resulted is generally said to be between capital ana labor, but that Is too narrow and too special a conception of It. The contest is rather between capital in all its larger accumulations and all other less concentrated, more dispersed, smaller and mere economic forces in the land. This process of segregation Is always a symptom of deep discontent. No observant man can longer shut ing forces in our modern society have broken Its unity and destroyed Its or ganic harmony not because that was Inevitable, but because men have used their power thoughtlessly and selfishly, and because legitimate undertakings have been pushed to Illegitimate lengths. The most striking fact about the that the most conspicuous, the most readily wielded ana the most formidable power is not the power of government, but the power of capital. We have forgotten what the power out what the power of capital means, and so we do not fear government and are not Jealous of political pawer. We fear capital and are Jealous of its domination. There will be need of many cool heads and much excellent Judgment amongst us to curb this new power without throwing ourselves back Into the gulf of old (governmental) domination, a practical way of escape. Capital now looks to the people" like they must deal as with a master, and not as with a friend. No one can mis take the fact and no one knows better than the manipulators of capital how many circumstances there are to Justify that Impression. We can never ex cuse ourselves from the necessity of dealing with facts. , I am sure that many bankers must and the most criticised Interest of all is banking. The banks are, in the gen eral view and estimation, the especial and exclusive Instrumentalities of cap ital, used on a large scale. They stand of the people, and put whatever comes great captains of industry, the great which are In the way to crush all competitors. I shall not stop to ask how far this are, In fact, singularly remote from the from the farmer and from the small trader of our extensive countrysides. I trust you will not think me Impertinent if I say that they (the bankers) excuse thimselves from knowing a great many things which it would be man ifestly to their Interests to know, and that they are sometimes singularly Ig norant, or at least, singularly indifferent, about what I may call the social and political functions of banking, particularly in a country governed by opinion. k -r mm m naroarians at nay By J. T. HE rrccn Cold lay rolled the ocean, blue liues great ladies and to enjoy the game. So:ne sat in finely upholstered carriages, drawn by magnificent horses, whose golden harness trap pings glittered In the sunBhine; others sat in automobiles, while others, clinging to the tradition of an earlier day, were there on horseback. On the piazza of the club-house flnelv eowned women and well-groomed men drank tea while they watched swift-footed ponies, bearing their crimson and yellow clad riders helter-skelter over the field. As for the game, It was a splendid show they played well, those husky young fellows, with a skill and courage alto gether admirable, giving the lie to the notion that wealth and dissipation necessarily go hand in hand. As I watched the game, admiring the skill of the players, and realizing the magnificent surroundings in which they spend their lives surroundings permitting of Infinite leisure for the cultivation of body and mind the words of Matthew Arnold, in his beautiful apostrophe to Oxford, came to my mind. "There are our young Barbarians at play." Arnold, It will be remembered, referred to the upper, middle, and lower classes of English toclety as Barbari ans, Philistines, and Populace. The aristocrats, he said, Inherited from the Barbarian nobles, their early ancestors, that Individualism, that passion for doing as one likes, which was so marked a characteristic. From the Barbari ans, moreover, came their love of field sports, the care of the body, manly vigor, good looks, and fine complexions. "Tho chivalry of the Barbarians with its characteristics of high spirit, choice manners, and distinguished bear ing, what is this," he asks, "but the commencment of the politeness of our aristocratic class?" "There are our young Barbarians at play." That line of Arnold's coming to my mind, which at that moment was contrasting the scenes I have described, suggested the thought that despite the familiar words In the Declaration of Independence, and our inherited repugnance to the idea, we have an upper,, middle, and lower class In America. 'the Atlantic Make Use In Most Ccses, by a age, It May Ey H. IV. I HERE Is a great deal of low land'in every state. Most of it will be reclaimed some time and made into good, productive farm land, but there are places on almost every farm where different treatment might work beneficially without any special outlay. During these last three wet seasons there have been many acres of low lands that could not be culti vated, and consequently were waste lands. I want to make a little suggestion as to how we can make use of these T lands. Sow them down with tame grasses. I nave gone through many big sloughB that ran through two or three farms and noticed that while one farmer had a fine stand of timothy hay right on the lowest spot his neighbor, whose land wasn't any lower, let it go to weeds. One far mer in particular hauled off two loads of this hay an acre, worth $S a load, while his neighbor was paying taxes on the same kind of land and didn't get a cent from It. This timothy and clover will not only net a good income, but will Increase the fertility of the soil, thus putting it In line shape for grain growing when the wet season Is, over. Land worth $50 to $100 an acre Is too valuable to let lie as waste land, when you can easily get $16 an acre out of it. The trouble in such cases Is that such land has always been waste land, and the farmer's attention has never been called to tho possibility of reclaininig it easily and cheaply. Sometimes a shallow ditch through the lowest part will carry oil most of the water quickly, thereby rendering a portion of the ground suitable for certain crops. , Of course, the real remedy Is a thorough system of drainage, with tiles running back well to the high grounds. 5 to Capital of of Power i the history of America there is a gen his eyes to the fact that the contest actual organization of modern society is of government means, and have round from which we were the first to find a force and Interest apart, with which have realized that the most isolated remote from the laborer, and the body into their coffers at the disposal of the masters of finance, the corporations view of the banks Is true. But they laborer and the body of the people, m Lincoln. 1 bright In the sunshine, while beyond as the sky above It. About the side gentlemen of fashion were gathered 7 of Swamp Land .. Proper System of Drain Be Made to Fay. Swope. -V YOUNG WALTER 'SCOTT. How the Boy of the'Canongate Told 8torle to Hit Comrades The business office of a writer to the signet, as a Scotch lawyer Is call ed, is not an especially cheerful place at any time, and the Interior of such a room looked particularly cheerless on a late winter afternoon In Edinburgh in 1786. A boy of fifteen sat on a high stool at an old oak desk and watched the snow falling In the street. Occasionally he could see people pass ing the windows men and women wrapped to their ears in plaid shawls for the wind whistled down the street so loudly that the boy could hear It, and the cold was bitter. The boy looked through the window until he . almost felt the chill himself, and 'then to keep warm, held his head In hie hand and fastened nis eyes on the big1 heavy leaved book In front of him which bore the unappealing title Br skine'a "Institutes." The type was fine, and the young student had to read each line a dozen times before he could understand it. Sometimes bis eyes would involuntarily close and he would doze a few moments, only to wake with a start to look quickly over at another desk near the fire where his father sat steadily writing, and then to a table In the corner where a very old man was always sorting pap ers. The winter light grew dim, so dim that the boy could no longer see to read. He closed the book with a banc. "Father." "Yes, Walter, lad?" The lawyer looked up from his writing and smiled at the figure on the high stool. "I'd best be going home; there's no more light here to see by." "A good reason, Walter. Wrap yourself up warm, for the night la cold." Young Walter slid down from his seat and stretched his arms and legs to cure the stiffness in them. He waa a sturdy, well built iaa, with tousled yellow hair, frank eyes with a twinkle In them, and a mouth that was large and betokened humor. When he walked he limped, but he held him self so straight that when be was still no one would have noticed the deform ity. Five minutes later the boy was plowing his way through the narrow streets of the Canongate, the old town part of Edinburgh that had aa ancient a history of street brawls as the Paris kennels. Nobody who could help It was abroad, and Walter was glad when he reached the door of his father's house In George square and could find shelter from the cutting wind. The Scotch evening meal was simple, soon over, and then came the time to sit before the blazing logs on the great open hearth and tell stor ies. The older people were busy at cards in another room, and Walter, with a group of boys of his own age who lived in the neighborhood and liked to be with the lame lad, bad the fireside to themselves. In front of the fire young Walter was no longer the sleepy student of Ersklne's "Insti tutes"; his eyes shone as he told story after story of the Scotch border, half of them founded on old ballads or legends he knew by heart and half the product of his own eager imagination. Whole poems, filled with battles and hunts and knightly adventures be could recite from memory, and his eye for the color and trappings of history was so keen that the boys could see the very scenes before them. They sat In a circle about him, listen ing eagerly to story after story, for getting everything but the boy's words, and showing tneir fondness and admiration for the romancer in each glance. Walter was minstrel and prophet and historian to the boys of the Canongate by the winter fire, as he was to be later to the whole nation of Englishmen. From Rupert Sargent Holland's "Historic Boyhoods" in St. Nicholas. On Commercial Politeness. The man who solicits your adver-'' tlsement, the salesman who has sam ples to exhibit, the life insurance agent whose hair-trigger tongue pleads elo quently for your family, even the se ductive canvasser, who tries to in veigle you liito buying a history of the world In twenty-five volumes, can be listened to for a courteous minute or two and politely dismissed without seriously clogging the wheels of busi ness. Perhaps they may really have something worth while to offer. Above all, the tellers and the cashier of every bank need a course in the art of gracious expression. Why should the depositor of money be regarded with frowning suspicion, and why should his mistake in indorsing checks wrong side up or his failure to have his books balanced regularly call forth shouts of correctloa Instead of a few words of kindly instruction? After all, he Is only Ignorant or onlyfforget- ful. No dark scneme ror deiraumng the bank lurks behind his failure lo follow tho bank's rules. Courtesy 13 Its own reward. It pays In personal satisfaction, in minimizing friction, in making friends and in raising yoi in the eyes of your business associates. Scientific American. ' City Linear Table. , The city child was describing to her friends a Very tall tree she bad seen In the country. "Oh, It was awful big," she said. "Well, how big?" they asked. "Three flights," come the answer. New York Press. Not a Bark. Terrier Don't you have any dog watch on this craft? Tabby No. This is a cat boat," Uf o.