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bade her string a necklace for Tony. The little creature smiled and ran to fetch a diamond needle, which she threaded in golden silk, then picking off the fruit, one by one, she began stringing the necklace-first a gold nut, then a silver nut, then a gold nut, then a silver nut, until she had a beautiful long chain. Throwing it about Tony's neck, she whispered: "Open these nuts when you are.in need." Beside the gold and silver nut tree stood a tiny pomegranate tree. Plucking a ripe pomegranate, the chief handed it to Tony.

"Give this to your mother," said he, "as soon as you reach home."

Then leading him back along the path to the tree-trunk door, he let Tony out and disappeared.

Tony looked everywhere for the cow, but she had gone, so, slipping the necklace into his pocket for fear of thieves, and holding the pomegranate carefully in his hand, he ran home.

There lay his mother, paler and weaker than ever.

"Why, Tony!" she cried, "where have you been these three days? I have nearly died of worry."

Without stopping to explain, Tony handed her the pomegranate. She took one taste and immediately the color came back to her cheeks, her eyes grew bright, and throwing aside the bedclothes, she stood up.

"Oh," she cried, "run fetch your father and tell him I am well again!"

When he had returned with the happy miller, Tony drew the necklace from his pocket, and remembering the Brownie bride's words, he cracked one nut. It was filled with diamonds! He opened another. Rubies tumbled out. Another -it was full of emeralds. Every nut held precious stones.

Now they were rich and could buy a new mill and a dozen cows and anything

they wished. But though the grateful wife put out flour and milk every night, and the miller declared the Brownies might have the run of the whole place, and Tony hunted and hunted for the hollow tree, they never saw a Brownie again.

By WALTER R. BROOKS

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Rating the Presidents

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first legal step in our history to put the civil service on a merit basis.

Grant was followed in 1876 by General Rutherford B. Hayes, a Civil War soldier with a distinguished and gallant record. It has always seemed to me that Hayes has never received the credit as President to which his memory is entitled. This is partly due, perhaps, to the Tilden-Hayes election controversy which nearly split the country in twain, and partly to the fact that ne and Mrs. Hayes were singularly upright, gentle and retiring. They were of a strong religious bent and there are always those who think that a religious man in public life must necessarily be a sniveller. Prohibition was not then an acute political question, but President Hayes and his wife were teetotallers and were averse to serving wine on their table. This led to the wellknown witticism of Secretary Evarts, who remarked that at White House dinners "water flows like champagne." President Hayes was opposed to "bloody shirt" reconstruction of the South and in favor of efficiency in Government or, as it was known in those days, "civil service reform." In both of these policies, however, he was obstructed by the spoilsmen of his party.

In 1880 the Republicans again selected a soldier to be their standard bearer, General Garfield, who had a fine record both in the army and in Congress. In spite of the purity of Garfield's private character the whispering gallery attacked him with some of its coarsest insinuations, which utterly failed to smirch him and have now been forgotten. By this time the Democrats determined to take a leaf out of the Republican book and selected as Garfield's opponent, General Winfield Scott Hancock. General Hancock had had no political experience whatever; and Charles A. Dana's only comment in his vitriolic paper, "The Sun," was that "General Hancock is a good man and weighs two hundred pounds." There was then, as there still is, much hedging and dodging on tender and sore points of controversy. General Hancock created a good deal of amusement by saying that "the tariff is a local issue." Perhaps his purpose was to ingratiate himself with both free traders and protectionists. If so, he failed to attain his end although his statement was correct in economics. In any section of the country in which industrialism develops its voters become protectionists whatever may be their political heredity. Consumers are in

stinctive free traders; producers are instinctive protectionists. It is for this reason that the traditional free trade policy of the Democratic party will be "soft pedalled" this year in those southern states in which manufacturing has grown to important proportions. Wherever the commercial interests of business men make them doubtful about the benefits of philosophical free trade the Democratic party has endeavored to assuage their fears.

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LTHOUGH Blaine was defeated for the Presidency in '84, he deserves to be remembered as the probable originator of the policy of reciprocity as a solution of the complicated question of international trade relations. Blaine's doctrine of reciprocity has found a permanent place in our "most favored nation" treaties. His theory, which is a sound one in social economics, is that the function of the protective tariff is not to prevent the purchase of goods manufactured abroad, but to protect the country from lower standards of wages and living conditions than those existing in the home markets. If this is Republican doctrine it is a doctrine. that has generally been accepted by agriculturists as well as by manufacturers, by Democrats as well as by Republicans.

In its attitude towards efficiency in the Presidency and Federal Government, the country seems to vacillate in a curious fashion. Probably the weakest and most ineffective administration in Our history was that of James Buchanan. The electorate immediately turned to Lincoln who, next to Washington, gave the country the most efficient direction of national affairs it has ever known, if successful achievement in a period of dire catastrophe is a mark of efficiency. Cleveland's first administration was characterized by new standards of efficiency, but the country abandoned him and tried Harrison, and again returned to Cleveland. It will probably be admitted that no president has done more to reorganize the political structure of the Government on an efficiency basis than Roosevelt. And yet in a very few the voters, years through Harding, put themselves under the corrupting power of Fall and Dougherty, who made the brief period of their authority so contemptible that it can hardly be described without subjecting the narrator to the accusation of whispering.

pared expresses only one man s opinion, but it may at least form a basis of discussion for those who are interested in reading presidential history from the efficiency point of view. It should, of course, be borne in mind that the forerunners of the present Republican

party were Federalists or Whigs, and that in the days of Jefferson and Madison the Democrats called themselves Republicans to distinguish themselves from what they regarded as the monarchical tendencies of Washington, Adams, Hamilton and Marshall.

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table that surprise me. I started it with the preconceived notion that the Republican list by its brilliance would throw the Democratic list into the shade. But like a good novelist, I have let the characters speak for themselves, and I am astonished to find that the. Democrats make a pretty good showing after all. Their trinity is Jefferson, Cleveland, Wilson. The Republican trinity is Washington, Lincoln, Roosevelt. Remembering that comparisons are odious I will only add the comment that six such names in a political history of less than a century and a half can hardly be furnished by any other Of government, ancient or modern. the eleven Democratic Presidents six, or a fraction more than one-half, have received the insignia E. Exactly one half of the eighteen Republicans are so marked. The Democratic list, however, has four Presidents who seem to deserve the damning W, while the Republican list exhibits only one. As to which to be prouder of, Harding or Buchanan, I will leave the impartial reader to decide.

In the present campaign voters will be asked to choose between the two candidates on the ground of efficiency. One of them was brought up in a political organization which in the past has stood for the spoil system, although he has now outgrown that early education and as governor of a great state has advocated efficiency and put it into practice. The other has from his boyhood been educated in a profession which could not exist without the science of efficiency, and has proved himself in practice to be one of the most capable administrators of modern times both in business and politics. As I see it, the fundamental question for all intelligent voters this year is not prohibition, or religious bigotry, or personal charm, or even intellectual culture. It is simply this: Which candidate is most likely, by training, experience and political heredity and environment, to give us efficient government?

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Flying North

(Continued from page 852) and where steamers sail round about

to avoid land. The straight routes, which are the short routes, lie northward by a mathematical neceswhenever sity the cities between which they run are far from each other. You see that when you look at your globe. The farther apart cities are, the more northerly must be the shortest route between them. If they are on opposite sides of the earth from each other then, in the northern hemisphere, the road between them lies through the center of the Arctic.

And now it is gradually dawning on us through flights such as those of Wilkins and Eielson from Alaska to Spitsbergen, and Hassel and Cramer from Rockford to Greenland, that these routes that are shortest in miles are also

easiest to fly per mile. As to commerce with Europe, this means least to the Atlantic coast cities, for the short routes from them do not lie far north. It means a great deal to Chicago, for the straight road is the one Hassel flew, leading eventually across Greenland. and Iceland; it means more to Seattle for, by flying across the north end of Greenland instead of its middle and then across Spitsbergen instead of Iceland, Seattle is almost as near as New York to northern Europe, and 2000 miles closer to some European cities by air than she is by steamer and rail.

The public will not be air minded until they separate air routes in their thinking from routes of steam. Then they will demand short routes, and get them. True, they will have the expense of planning and building a few supply stations on the new routes, but what is that compared with the visioning of transcontinental railways in the old day of ox carts?

It needs no Huntingtons or Hills to lay out direct air routes from Chicago, Minneapolis, or Seattle to London, Berlin, or Moscow, and to develop a service on these routes. But it does

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