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; Copyright, 1911, by Thomas Dixon
g, PROLOGUE.
{L “This remarkable tale, in which
epach characler is sketched from
%ife by a master hand, goes be
‘neath the surface of modern so
iciety and lays bare the canker at
Che root. Like all Mr. Dixon’s
work, it is a tale of American
WRife, essentially true in the picture
it draws and done with a swing
ng power which brings its dra
amatic scenes home to us. The
plendid strength of the tale lies
lin the conflict between James
Stuart and Nan, in which love
and greed of wealth struggle for
gnastery.
g CHAPTER |.
g A Star Boarder,
‘ I the end of a warm spring day
i in New York, James Stuartsat
;j in the open window of his
room on Washington square
smiling. With a sense of deep joy he
watched the trees shake the raindrops
from their new emeraid robes and the
f fiving clonds that tlecked the western
- sky well into seas of purple and gold.
. A huckster turned into Fourth street
crying:
“straw—berries, straw—berries!"
And the young lawyer laughed lazily.
A fiood of tender memories stole into
his Leart from the sunlit fields of the
south. Ile had goue hunting wild
strawberries with Nan Primrose on the |
hills at home In North Carolina the
day he first knew that he loved her.
How beautiful she was that day in
fhe plain blue cotton dress which fit
ted her superb young figure to perfec
tion! ow well he remembered every
detail of that ramble over the red hills
—he could hear now the whistle of a
_Bob W hite sitting on the fence near
“» spring where they lunched, calling
& mate. As Nan nestled closer
ie old stile they saw the little
i bird slip fromm her nest in a
gt straw, lift her head and soft-
T, |
® -Nan had whispered excited
-5 her nest!”
istinetly his tremor of
itement as her warm
v the spot. With pe
e remembered the
wre of the palm of
5 %?th eager interest
“rg—twenty beau
-5 %uemorles stood
lose above her
5 . %me in his life
aer dark rich
5 % its mystery.
isn't it, Jim?”
h ¥
- 08 snug a nest
5 €in!" he whispered
5 .ood silent and blush
final plunge. Looking
or dark eyes he had
‘dear Nan!™
1 very still, looking down
5 vith a throb of fear and
erness he dared to slip his
5 d her waist and kiss the
fips. And then he noticed
;.'n'st time a deep red straw
¢ ain in the corner of her mouth.
; {e of her struggles he laughingly
¢ ted on kissing it away.
.ad then as a dreamy smile stole
(o her face she suddenly threw her
.ms around his neck in passionate
nderness returning with interest ev
oy kiss he had taken.
“Straw—berries!”
“'he man looked up and drawled his
familiar cry.
“Yes, yes!"' he shouted. *“Two boxes.
Put them on the stoop—and keep the
change!”
. He threw the man a silver dollar,
and the white teeth of the Italian sig
paled a smile of thanks as he bowed
jow. lifting his dirty cap im acknowl
edgment.
NWor was Nan's beauty merely a mem
ory; it was the living preseace, the
source .of the joy that filled his soul to
overflowing, today. for she had grown
moe beautiful than ever since her
mother had moved to New York.
3 m:ad always believed that the real
© e it the back of Mrs. Primrose’s
i#boliow ‘head for this move to the
_had ybeen the determination to
’*m?!‘% ‘engagement and make a
ppeore briijient marriage for Nan. Anad
, @ when they left he followed.
. Toé aibther tiad always professed for
him unbounded loyalty and admiration,
but he had never been deceived. Ie
knew that Mrs. Primrose lied as she
breathed—politely, but continuously—
by her involuntary muscles. Day and
night since they had reached New
York she had schemed for Nan.
She had leased a house in the fash
jonable meighborhood of Gramercy
park, and to meet the extraordinary
expense began a careful and systemat
ic search for rich young men to whom
she could let two floors.
Stuart was sure In his heart that Nan
had never joined in those plans of her
mother, though he had wished that she
might have shown a little more
strength In resisting them.
Well, he was going to win at last,
and the world was full of music! He
had the biggest surprise of life in
store for Nan, something no true wo
man’s heart could resist. He had suc
ceeded after incredible difficulties in
secretly building a cottage by the sea
in Brooklyn. Its lawn sloped to the
water's edge, and a trim boat lay nod
ding at the dock. Neither Mrs. Prim
rose nor Nan had the faintest suspi
cion of what he had been doing. :
Tomorrow he would lead his sweet
heart into this holy of holies of life,
the home love had built. He could see
now the smile of tenderness break
over her proud face as he should hand
her the kevs and ask her to fix the
wedding day.
His reveries were broken by a timid
knock on the door and a faint call:
Jimr
“Come in!” he eried.
“You're not a bit glad to see me,”
the soft volce said. “I've been stand
ing ot there for ages.”
“fforgive me, Sunshine. 1 must have
been dreaming.” Stuart pleaded, leap
ing from hik seat and seizing her hand.
“I'm awfully glad to see you!"
“Then don't call me that name
again,” she pouted.
“But Isn't it beautiful ?”
“It would be if my hair wasn't red
and 1 didn’t have freckles and was
older,” she protested, looking away to
hide her emotion,
“But your hair isn't quite red, Har
riet. It's just the color of the gold
in honeycomb,” he answered, gently
tonching her disheveled locks. ‘Be
sides, those few little freckles are be
coming on your pink and white skin,
and you are nearly fifteen. Well, I'll
just say, ‘little pal” How’s that?"’
“That's better,” she said, with a
smile and sigh.
“Oh, Jtm, I've been so dreadfuily
lonely since you were away! 1 de
clare, Jim, I'l die if you go away
«gain. 1 just can’t stand it.”
Stuart smilingly took her hand.
“Lonely, Mies Chatterbox, when that
big father of yours worships the very
ground you walk on!"
“Yes, I know he does, Jim, and I love
him, too, but you've no idea how
dreadfully still the house is when you
are gone., Oh, say, 1 want you to be
a real boasier and eat with ms. Of
course you will.”
“That woukl be very nice, dear, but
I'm sure your father would draw the
line at a real boarder. I'd never have
got this beautiful room with that
big old fashioned open fireplace in your
home if it hadn't happened that our
fathers fought each other in the war
and became friends one day on a big
battlefield. It's been a second home to
me."”
“Re our hoarder and I'll make it a
real home for you, Jim," she pleaded.
“Ah—you'll be making a real home
gome day for one of those boys I saw
at your birthday party—the tall, dark
one, I think?"
“No. He doesn't measure up to my
standard.”
“What ails him?"
“He's a coward. My hero must be
brave, for I'm timid."
“Then it will he that fat blond fellow
with & jolly langh?”
“No; he's a fibber. My prince, when
he comes, must be truthful. It's =0
hard for me always to tell the trath.”
“Then it will be that dreamy look
ing one of fifteen you daneed with
twice?” s
*“No, he's too frail. My hero must be
strong, for I am weak. And he must
have a big, noble ideal of life: for mine
is very small—just a little home nest
and a baby and the love of one mar'™
“I'm not sure about that being such
a very small ideal, girlie.”
“But, oh, my! I've forgotten what |
came running home for. Papa sent me
to ask yeu to please come down to the
factory right away. He wants to see
you ou a very Inwportant matter. It
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must be awfully important, He lock
ed s 0 worried, I dou't think I ever saw
him worried before.”
“I'll go at once,” Stuart said.
He strode rapidly across town to
wanl the DBowery. through IFourth
street, wondering what could have hap
pened to break the accustomed good
humor of the doctor.
The doctor had long since retired
from the practice of medicine as =@
profession aud only used it now as his
means of ministering to the wants of
!.x neighbors. His neighbors were 2
large tribe, however, scattered all the
way from the cellars and dives of Wa
ter street to the shanties and goat
ranges of the upper Harlem. Stuart
had never met a man so full of con
tagious health. He was a born physi
cian. There was healing in the touch
of his big hand. Healing light stream
ed from his brown eyes, and his iron
gray beard sparkled with it. His
presence in a sickroom seemed to fill
it with waves of life, and his influence |
over the patients to whom he minis
tered was little short of hypnotie. \
Stuart found the doctor standing at
the door of his factory, shaking hands!
and chatting with his employees as
they emerged from the building at the
close of a day's work. A plain old
fashioned brick structure just off the
Bowery was this factory, and across
the front ran a weatherbeaten sign
which had not been changed for more
than fifty vears: “Henry Woodman
Manufacturing Chemist,”
The doctor’'s father had established
the business fifty-two years ago, and
the son, who bore his father's name,
had succeeded to its management on
his death, which occurred just after
the return of the younger man with
his vietorious regiment frem their last
campaign with Graunt hefore Peters
burg and Appomattox.
He took Stuart’s hand in his big.
cruehing grip and handed him a letter,
which he opened and read hastily:
No. 60 Gramercy Park.
To Dr. Henry Woodman:
Dear Sir—l must have an answer to the
proposition of the American Chemical
company before noon tomorrow. After
that hour the matter will be definitely
closed, JNO. C. CAILHOUN BIVENS.
April 2, 1898.
Still looking at the letter he asked:
“What does it mean?"
“An ultimatum from the chemical
trust. I'll explain to you when you've
seen something of my work tonight.
The first hour I want you to put in
with me at the dispensary.”
Stuart's eye rested on the embossed
heading of the letter, *No. 60 Gramer
cy park,” and he slowly crushed the
paper. It was the Primrose house,
Nan's home. Her mother had suc
ceeded. £
Bivens, the new sensation in high
finance, she had established as her star
boarder in Stuart’s absence; Bivens,
his schoolmate at college; Bivens, the
little razorback scion of poor white
trash from the south who had sudden-
Iy become a millionaire! .
His blood bofled with rage. As he
turned and followed the doctor he
laughed with sudden fierce determina
tion.
* ¥ * * * . =
The dispensary was Woodman's hob
by. The old fushioned drug store stood
on a corner of the Bowery, and in the
rear extenston, which opened on the
side street, he had established what he
laughingly called his “life line,”” a free
dispensary where any man needing
medicine or a doctor’s advice ecould
have it without charge if unable to
pay.
For two hours Stuart saw him min
ister with patience and skill to the
friendless and the poor; for each a
cheerful word and the warm grasp of
his big hand with the prescription.
The young lawyar watched with curi
ous interest the quickened step with
which each one left. The medicine had
begun to work Defore the prescription
was filled.
When the last applicant had gone
Stuart turned to the doctor: ‘
“And what s the proposition which
the distinguished young head of the
chemical trust has made you?"'
**That | sell my business to them at
their own valwation and come into the
trust or get off the earth.”
“And you wish my advice?”
‘“Yes."”
“What figure did he nama?”
“Mowe than its cash value.”
“I'hen you will accept. of course?”’
*“] would if there were not some
things that can’t be reckoned in terms
of dollars and cents. If [ take stock
in the Ameriean Chemical company 1
am a party to their methods, an heir to
their frauds.”
“Yet isn't the old regime of the small
manufacturer and. the retailer doom
ed? Isn't combination the new order
of modern life? Will it pay you to
fight a losing bettle? Bivens is not a
man of broad culture, but he is a very
smooth young gentleman”—
“He's a contemptible little scamp!”
snapped the older man. “When I took
him into my drug store six years &go
he didp't have a change of clothes.
Now he's a millionaire. How did he
get it? He stole & formula I had used
to relieve nervous headaches, mixed it
in water with a little poisonous color
ing matter, pushed it into the soda
fountain trade, made his first half mil
l Hon, organired the Ameriean Chemiecal
company and blossomed inte a mag
nate. And now this little soda foun
tain pip threatens me with ruin unless
1 join his gang and help him rob my
neighbors. It happens that 1 like my
veighbors. My business iz to heal the
sick, not merely te make money. Thou
sands of children die at my very door
every summer who could be saved by a
single prescription if they eould get it.
That’s the thought that grips me when
{ begin to figure the profits in this
trade. I'm making a fair living. 1
don’t want any more out of my neigh
bors. I've shown you some of them
tonight.”
PUeR
LeLli -
GOVERNOR CROWN, SENATORS BACON AND SMITH, GOVERNOR
ELECT SLATON, NATIONAL COMMITTEE HOWELL, JUDGE
J. K. HINES AND OTHERS APPEAL FOR
FULL DEMOCRATIC VOTE.
STATE COMMITTEE’S
APPEAL TO DEMOCRATS
To the Democratic Voters of Georgia:
With Demecratic success certain
on Novemver 5, Georgia can not and
will not be a laggard in rolling up a
record-breaking majority for Wilson
and Marshall.
There are more than two hundred
thousand Democratic voters in Geor
gia. When the party is in power,
it will be to our advantage to be able
to prove our interest by showing that
the bulk of us veoted. It will be dis
advantageous and embarrassing to
have to admit such lack of interest
as will be indicated by a small vote,
thongh it be sufficient to elect.
Hom. Woodroew Wilson, candidate
for president, is the first Southern
man to be nominated by the party
for that office since the Civil war.
Shall we fail to show, by a rousing
vote, that we approve the raising of
the ban which beretofore has been
upon us?
He =pent h's beyhood and early
manhood in this state. Shall we be
indifferent to the e¢laims of a former
fellow-citizen?
His wife, who will be the mistress
of the white house, igB a native of
Georgia, and their children were born
here. Shall Georgia Democrats be so
lacking in gallantry as to give her hus
band and their father a vote so rela
tively small that they will have to
blush for her own people?
If every Demoerat, who is able to,
goes to the polls on election day and
votes the ticket of his choice, an un
precedented total vote and majority
wll be given Wilson and Marshall in
Georgia.
The state committee, without fear
as to the result, sounds this call to
the Democrats of Georgia.
VOTE! REMIND OTHERS %O
VOTE!
We call upon the party leaders in
the varicus connties to take active
steps to gee that the full vote of the
party is polled. We call upon those
who, by offic'al preferment, have been
given the ecenfidence of the party o
urge upon their fellow-Democrats the
importanee of going to the polls, <
If they will perform this simple
duty, Wilson and Marshall wiil re
eeive more than 150,000 votes in Geor
gia on November §.
Georgia Democrats, tco, owe an un
questioned duty te their members of
congress, who, together with the oth
er Demoeratic members of that body,
have passed more legislation of value
2nd importance to the people than
has any comgress im the last quar
ter of a cemtury. And these meas
vres. materially lowering the cost of
living, would have bheen laws today
had it not been for the vetoes of 2
Republican president. ' ‘
Let me call attention to the fact
that the national committee has fixed
Saturday, November 2, as rallying
day for the country.
Regardless of how assuring the out
lcok may be in any county, we call
upon the Democrats to meet on that
day, and, at least, take steps for polk
ing a full vote in their respactive
communities on the Wednesday fol
lowing. ’
This is of great importance. '
Let every Georgia Demecrat do bis
duty! :
Respectfully,
THE STATE DEMOCRATIC BXBC
UTIVE COMMITTEE,
W. J. Harris, Chairman.
A. H. Ulm, Secretary. :
GOVERNOR BROWN’S CALL
TO VOTERS OF GEORGIA.
To the Democrats of Georgia: |
Let me exprese the hope that every
Demccrat who took part in the pfli‘
mary last May and every other Dem
occrat who can get to the polls will 1
cast his ballot in the national ebec
¢ion for the Wilson and Marshall elec
tors. The fight we had in the pfl-i
mary was in ne sense one against {
Wilson and Marshall, but was one for
Underwood as Georgia's preference.
Beini a resident of Alabama, the
daugliter of Georgia, we sentimentadly
preferred him, but, when the conven
tion nominated Governor Wilson, it
automatically made it the duty of e¥
orv Democrat in the Union cordially
and vigorously te support Governor
Wilson. 1 cannot be too clear, thepe
tore, in the declaration that I sin
cerely hope and earnestly urge that
every registered Democrat in Geor
gia who can go te the polls in No
vember will cast his ballot for the
Wilson and Marshall electors. Thie
ia. in my opinion, a Democratic year,
and Georgia, the leading state of'the
South, must maintain her merited as
cendancy in Democcratis eouncils and
by no means, therefore, should she
rail to give a sweeping majority for
wilson and Marshal.—Jos. M. Brown.
SENATOR HOKE SMITH'S
FORCEFUL STATEMENT,
Wirng from New York, where he
'« enzaged In assisting the natiomal
Democratie eampaign committee, Unt
ted States Senator Hoke Smith sends
this message to Georgla Democrats:
New York, October 28.—Hon. W. J.
Harris, Chairman, Atlanta, Ga.: It
gives me pleasure to semd a few
words to Georgia Democrats upon the
pres‘dential election. 1 wish 1 couMd
spend mext week with them, but the
national committee urges me to re
main in the East, and I must work
where most needed.
I have no doubt about the election
of Governor Wilson, but I earnestly
hope Georgia will give him a splen
did majority. He was born in Vir
ginia, ten years of hs life were spent
in Georgia, he married the daughter
of our beloved Georgia clergyman,
Doctor Axon, and two of his children
were born in Gaimesville,
With President and Mrs. Wilson,
we will be at home in the white
house as never before. Taft and
Roosevelt each support unjust high
tariff taxes. Roosevelt supports
trusts and menopolies. With Wilson
as president we will firmly enforce
the law against trusts and monopo
lles. We will substantially reduce
tariff rates. Wilson is free from any
Improper influence which could em
barrass his serviees to all the people.
With him as president we free our
government from control by selfish
interests.
Far more important than the local
pride this election will give us, should
be the genuine service to all the peo
ple which will come from it. This
is our one opportunity. Taft and
Roosevelt, with their allies, Aldrich
and Cannon and Perkins, have split
the Republican party in two. A great
victory is in front of us, and I beg
every Democrat in our beloved state
of Georgia to vote and to get his
neighbor to vote, and thus become a
part of our victory.—Hoke Smith.
SENATOR BACON URGES
DEMOCCRATS TO VOTE.
fn a telegram addressed to State
Chairman W. J. Harris, Senator A. O.
Bacon, now in New York City, says:
“Bvery Democrat in Georgia shouid
certainly go to the polls and deposit
his Bballot on November 5. Unless
all signs fail, Woodrow Wilson is go
ing to be the next pres’dent of the
United States, and every Georgian
will be gratified to enjoy the con
sciousness that he contributed his
vote in accomplishing that great re
sult,
“No appeal to Georgia Democrats
wounld be required, were it not that
the confidence of our people in the
certain vote of the state, naturally
indwees the feeling in each man that
his particular ballot is not necessary
to gecure it. The Democrats in New
York and other doubtful states where
every vote must be fought for and
browght out, will be greatly encour
aged by the knowledge that the in
[terest of Georgia In this decisive con
test has stirred the state and will
‘Bring every man to the polls.
~ “When the gratifying result is an
nounced and there dawns for us the
new political day, it will be intense:
ly gratifying to Georgians to note,
when they compare the votes, that
this state has not been laggard, but
has stood in the forefront of the vic
tors.”
QOV.ELECT J. M. SLATON
APPEALS TO DEMOCRATS
“Byery Democrat in Georgia should
vote for Woodrow Wiisom on Novem
ber 5. He is the first Democrat we
have had a chance of electing since
Cleveland. With no state im the Un
ion has he cloger personal association
than Georgia. By birth, by, ancestry
by sympathy, he is Southern. His
wife is a Georgia woman. He has
lived in our midst. He knows our
civilization amd is in touch with our
ideals and our civilization. It would
be impossible for him to make John
Brewn’s birthday an occasion to ad
vocate the eradicaticn of state lines,
and the enlargement of Federal pow
er as did Mr. Roosevell at Ossawat:
omie. Neither conld he denounce as
traitors Jefferson Davis or Robert E.
Lee. Governor Wilson would agree
with that great Virginian, who was
first president, that a third term men
aces the perpetuity of Republican
government.
“Neither of his oppoments has ever
done anything towards relief of our
tariff burdens, nor do they promise
anything in the Hlne of reduction of
the tariff. Of all people should Geor
glans living in a state, which is fourth
in the value of agriculural products,
vote for that man who advoeates their
relief from paying tribute to govern
ment fostered industries, while re
ceiving no governmental favoritism
‘themselves. There is met a laborer
who toils in the shop, nor a farmer
who ploughs beneath the summer
mp,'nor a merchant whe purchases
his wares, who cam expeet relief from
smy source except the Democratic
party.
“Every Georgian whe stays away
from the polls or ocasts his vole
sagainst Woodrow Wilsom, but lessens
the Influence of Georgia in national
-affalrs and retards her recognition as
a leader in the sisterhood of states.
“Wilson will be elected anyway
The probabilities of his success are
two to one in his favor. Why should
we embarrass our representatives in
congress by givirg a lame majority
to & man who represents that party
which rescued us from the horrors
ef recomstruction, and who personally
is beund te our people by every hu
man bond. 1 do not believe they will
do it.”
COMMITTEEMAN HOWELL :
SOUNDS DUTY KEYNOTE.
Hon. Clark Howell, national Dem
scratic comm.tteeman from Georgia,
magkes strong appeal for a full Dem
ocratic vote in this state next Tues
day.
“Every Democrat in Georgia
should take the trouble to go to the
polls and vote in next Tuesday’s elece
tion,” Mr. Howell said, “if for Do
other reason, because of the majority
feature in the Georgia law.
“There is, of course, no doubt of
the fact that Georgia is overwhelm
ingly Demccratic. The two wings of
the Republican party are counting on
this majority feature of the Georgia
law and assumed Democratic apathy
to make a showing. Of course they
couldn’t profit by it, because the leg
islature would select Democratic elec
tors.
«But it would be a feather in the
Republican cap, if that party could
succeed in throwing the choiee into
the legislature: and it would likewise
be a source of great humiliation to
Georgia to have it go out to the
world that the Democracy of this
state had practically failed to meet
the test in this the most crucial cam
paign of the party’s history since the
war.
“If there ever was a time when a
Democrat ought to vote, it is noOw—
not merely because he is voting for
the party nominee, but for the more
essential reason that he is voting for
the very thing the Democrats of the
South have been fighting for all their
lives, and with a better chance of get:
ting it than they have ever had be
fore.
“If the Democratic party doesn’t
win ncw, it never will win. But we
will wn by the biggest majority on
record, 1 think a dozen states di
vided between Roosevelt and Taft,
is an exceedingly liberal allowance
out of the forty-seven,
“With the Republicans split half in
two, with two candidates in the field
and with both w'ngs preferring the
election of the Democratic candidate
to the success of each other, it is
simply and absolutely a question of
counting Wilson’s majority.”*
UNDERWOCOD FOLK
STAUNCH FOR WILSON
There is no more ardent Democrat
in Georgia than Hon. G. R. Hutchens
of Rome, who successfully led the
fight before the Georgia primary for
Congressman Underwood of Alabama.
Mr. FHutchens is now foremost in the
ranks of those who are urging every
loyal Democrat in Georg'a to turn
out and vote for Woodrow Wilson on
November 5. In an interview just
given out, Mr. Hutchens says:
“I hope every Democrat in Georgia
wiill make it a pcint to vole the Demo
cratic ticket in November, and roll
up the biggest majority in the history
of the state, and let it be in this man
ner known that we regard our party
as one who safeguards correct princi
ples and preserves the sacred institu
tion of human rights and human hap
piness, and guarantees t 0 each and
every citizen the right to enjoy the
fruits of his labor, without unjust dis
crimination,
“As the manager of Mr. TUnder
wood’s campaign, I want to make an
appeal to every man who was wita
me in that preliminary eontest to be
sure and vote in November, for first
of all we are Democratic from princi
ple, and in this patriotic manner,
alike with all other Democrats of the
nation, keep up the fight until we
reach the sublimity of a complete res
torat'on ”
FORMER POPULIST
- SUPPORTING WILSON
Bvidence that the Populists of
Georgia who have come back into
the Democratic party, consider them
gelves in honor bound to support the
nominee of the Democracy for presi
dent, after having participated in the
state primary, is voiced by those for
mer Populist leaders who fought its
hardest battles Hon. Seaborn
Wright of Rome, Hon. W. L. Peek
of Conyers and Judges James K.
Hines of Atlanta,
“1 shall most certainly vote for
Woodrow Wilson for president,” said
Judge Hines, in discussing his atti
tude, “and I consider that every man
who participated in the Georg'a pres
idential primary, is in honor bound
to support the nominee of the party.
“Before the primary I was an Un
derwood man, and if Underwood had
won, we would have had the right
to expect the Wilson men to support
him. I am glad to note that, with
gsmall .except'cn, the Underwood men
are standing solidly by the nominee.
“Besides, Wilson is a good man, a
capable man, and will make a splen
did president. He is one of the fore
most among oOur progressive leaders,
has a good progressive platferm back
of him and I am confident he is going
to wn. Then, too, he is a ,Southern
man and married a Georgia woman;
go there is every reason why Geor
gians and Southerners generally
should strongly and eordially support
him.”
It is possible that the world's fu
ture supply of paper pulp will be de
rived from the bamboo forests of the
tropice instead of being drawn from
the forests of the temperate zones.
Successful experiments have been
made in Japan pointing in that direc
tion. A company has obtained a per
petual lease of 8,000 acres of bamboo
foreet in Formosa, eraough to provide
600 tons a month.
In natural wonders Arizona is one
of the most atiractive of the United
States.