CTREE RUBENS UNDER HAMMER.
Art Collection of t'.pcenlrlc Hermans
l.lnde in He Sold ftoon.
It falls to the publli- administrator
of tho county of New York to scatter
'the collection of old masters on which
Herman Llnde so s?t his heart that ha
died In destitution rather than dis
pose of even one of his precious can
vases. Among the 121 pictures which are
to be sold at tho 6th avenue auction
rooms are three attributed to Rubens,
for which shortly before be died Mr.
Llmle refused $130,000, as Is shown
by a letter found among his effects.
The entire collection Is said to be
worth half a million dollars, the Now
York Herald says, and once In an
ecstasy of enthusiasm over some new
find the c: centric owner declared that
he would not take a million for his
art;s'!-- possessions.
Or ilo three canvases which seem
the v.:. t important there Is good rea
son to believe that one, at least, "The
Fe;it of Uerod," Is the work of the
noted Flemish Muster, Peter Paul Ru
bens, while tho others may be of his
school cr by students who filled In
from his sketches. Several experts
haw even expressed the opinion that
the Lead of "The Sorrowing Magda-
len" v. :is actually painted by Rubeni
himself.
It would no hard to get together a
more variegated assemblage of
worthies and unworthles than Mr.
Llmle collected In his life. He was a
Shake spearc an reader and he had been
known to recite entire plays of the
bard cf Avon. He gave recitations In
his palmy days at Stelnway Hall and,
despite, tho grotesqueness of his man
ner. his zealous appreciation of the
genius of the dramatist drew large an
dier.ecs.
Mr. Undo inherited a small fortuno
and invested it in pictures, good, bad
and Indifferent. Some be acquired In
out-of-the-way shops, others at auo
tion-j and many in his trips to Eu
rope. Occasionally he would make an
iir.v,ovtant find.
Mr. Linde brought suit against the
estate of the late Coliis P. Huntington
sewn yens fit-'o for $6,000, the price ol
an nile;;ed Correggio, but was unable
to recover sr.ythlng. lie became fond
er cf his cf.llect.ion with the flight of
years and cherished the nmbltlon that
he might establish a museum where it
could be shown to those willing to pay
a Kinall fee for admission. His Idol
was the small Rubens representing
"Tho Feast of Herod," which, what
ever lis origin may be, is certainly
meritorious work of art.
SHOUT METEB SE2M0NS.
Social progress and religious prog
ress should go hand In hand Rev. C
S. S. Dutlon, Unitarian, Brooklyn.
There is no other happiness in this
world than that obtained by compan
ionship with God. Rev. Dr. Duval,
Presbyterian, 'Winnipeg.
No matter how small you . start,
If you increase one atom every day
you will nemo day fill the whole uni
verseRev. J. H. Denison, Congrega
tionalism, Boston.
A mind may be so stored with
knowledge and yet have no system of
thinking. Knowledge is the raw ma
terial of an education. Rev. J. W.
Francis, Presbyterian, Parkersburg,
Va.
Religion Is the outward act by which
man indicates his recognition of a God,
having power over his destiny and to
whom allegiance, service and honor is
due. Rev. A. W. Ivin3, Mormon, Salt
Lake City.
The employing class often have
nough power not only to enable them
to secure justice, but to compass i'.i
their own interests injustice for the
poor. Rev. J. E. McConnell, Congr
gationalist, Providence.
A man's desires and needs are ever
lor better things and the yearning be
gets its own fulfillment. The same
power that Implanted the wish will
not fail to satisfy it. Rev. R. Stuart,
Unitarian, Detroit.
Some of the music I have heard
has made me feel like hitting some
hody. 1 refer to hyenns and songs that
go droning along and put nearly every
hodv to sleet). Rev. J. A. Mllburn
Congregatlonallst, Chicago.
The real Christians of the present
age are. not half so much interested in
establishing the universality of the
deluge, as they are In removing tha
nresent universal deluge of sin. Rev
C. C. Pierce, Baptist, Los Angeles.
The things granted to us all, with
out partiality, by providence by our
asking and knocking are the spiritual
possessions which are the unfailing
iuh nf real success in life. Rev. H
Vrooman, Presbyterian, Providence.
The prosperity of labor and capital
Is inter-dependent. One cannot sub
sist without tho other, any more than
the brain could live without the sup
port of the stomach, the heart, the
liver and the other organs. Cardinal
Gibbons, Roman Catholic, Baltimore.
The Seclflculln.
Lady (prospecting for a cook)
Now, I want a girl who will be able
to think for herself; one that I won
have to watch and correct every min
ute of the day. I want one in whom
I can repose perfect confidence, sure
that she will get the meals at the
time and in the way I like them,
want a cook
Superintendent Intelligence Office
Excuse me, ma'am, but you don'
want a cook. V.'nat you want is
fairy godmother. Puck.
I)ec-r!ttlve.
"What kind of lookin:; girl Is thU
to whom you have bnome engaged?'
asks the old cigar manufacturer of li la
son, who has come home from college
with the glad news.
"Oh, she's a leader!" enthusiastic
ally replies the youth. "Colorado
Claro , hair and a panateiia shape,
dad!" Judge.
What has beco:ue of the old-fash
loned man who waxed his mustache
into a horizontal line dividing the
north and south portions-of hi3 faceT
Occasionally a good woman lift
man from the gutter, but more often
the lob li turned over to a policemaa.
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M V1S
HAT the divorce rate Is higher in the United States than any
other country excelling Japan may no doubt surprise the many
who have never given tho matter any serious thought. Dur
ing the years 18tt0 to 11)00 the increase in our country was
three times the rale of population, against two and two-thirds
lor the ten preceding years. This would mean that one out of
every sixteen marriages was disrupted In the divorce courts,
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and to-day the average is even greater, one in every twelve. South Carolina
13 the only State in the Union that makes no provision in its statutes for
divorce and it records fewer marriages. The west and the middle west are
tho divorcing states. The State of Washington reaches the highest mark of
all, while Montana tallies second, Texas third and Indiana outrauked Illinois
letween the years 1890 and 1900. The most frequent grounds are cruelty
and desertion, and women do most of the divorcing. Back of these facts and
figures lie the cause for this increase In the annulment of the marriage tie.
Who is the most to blame, the man or the woman? The man, it would seem
at first glance, since woman does most of the divorcing. She instinctively
prefers the home and maternity to outside interests, despite statistics and fig
ures that would seem to tell another story.
Woman is essenially volatile and plastic from years of necessary depend
ence. She is by instinct and training economical and conservative; so much
depends upon her the judicious management of the home, the wise control
of the children and their proper training. Was It not an all wise Providence
that made, protected and supported females, the mothers of children? Civil- .
lzation and society were formed for woman, by man, in his desire to shield
and protect her from stress of business and the conditions that differentiate
her frcm her sex. There were three things woman used to take hard (like
whooping cough In old ase), and they were religion, matrimony and love.
Something has transpired to change her Ideas, for the old fashioned gospel
of lifo is no longer fashionable. Matrimony Is now considered nn episode,
a thing with which to juggle. Religion is a story of the past and love has
as many names and guises as the fertile imagination can conjure. What
haa taken the place of the old-time friends that were more than anything else
responsible for tho character of the nation? For every gain there is a meas
ured loss, as we outstrip the waiting things about U3. Every desirable con
dition is attained at the expense of something less desirable, and vice versa.
There Is more of wealth, luxury, pleasure and more evidence of things mate
rial in the world to-day than ever before.
We all know what woman considers
the Chicago Inter Ocean asks, what of man? Has he any rights? Can they
be found, and, if so, could they bo determined in the present unsettled con
ditions? Will ho continue to meekly support a hustling, voting, masculine
wife?' One who does not trust him sufficiently to let him care for her best
interests yithout her interference? What has been the Incentive for man's
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Purveyors to England's Monarch
Are Restricted to a Profit of
io Per Cent.
EDWARD MAKES A SCHEDULE.
His Majesty Sees Tradesmen Supply
Wholesalers' Bills for Purposes
of Comparison.
It may be hardly credible, but it
Is the fact that while the struggling
citizens of America are being forced
to pay exorbitant profits on the neces
saries of life the King of England
permits none of his tradesmen to
charge him more than allows them a
profit of 10 per cent, the New York
World says. They can like It or leave
it, but those are his terms.
In the days of Her Majesty Queen
Victoria, who was given the reputa
tion of being stingy, because she never
gave anything away, the royal trad
ers had an easy time. And they mado
hay while their sun shone. They lit
tle dreamed," though, of the severe day
reckoning that wa3 coming.
The distance from the railroad s'a-
tiou to the castle at Windsor ia lees
than halt a mile. The hill to the castle
is rather steep, so most of the hotel
carriages have two horses. The fare
for such a vehicle is half a dollar. For
the ordinary one-horse cab the fare
Is only 23 cents. The charge to her
maje&ty when she ordered a carrlago
from a hotel to bring a guest from the
station to the castle was $2.30.
Edward VII. allows Instead of $2.50
just 81 cents. He says that Is too
much,. but allows the extra few cents
because ho insists on the hotel keep
ing horses such as his master of the
horse will pass as respectable-looking
and maintaining a stable of them all
tie year round, whether they are want
ej or not. There Is in England a great
desire to supply the king. It Is one
of the best possible forms of adver
tisement. His maje&ty makes the
tradesmen pay for it. A royal order is
always given on large and beautiful
specially engraveu paper. Hut pre
viously the tradesman Is granted a
WITH THE SAGES.
The descent to hell Is easy. Virgil.
Foster the beautiful, and every hour
thou callest new flowers to birth.
Schiller.
Eat not thy heart; which forbids to
afflict our souls and waste them with
vexatious cares. Plutarch.
He who glVio better homes, better
books, better tools, a fairer outlook
and a better hope, him will we crown
with laurels. Emerson.
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Divorce Evil GiowsSltIdzte
United Staes Leads flfonld t
In Marital Separations mth
Exception
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as her rights, absolute equality, but,
SHORT time ago W. O. Maglnnls, the wireless operator, step
ped to his key on the sinking Kentucky, and sent out the
signal "S. O. S.," the International wireless distress call. Be
fore the water reached the dynamos his cr"y for help was
heard. The Mallory liner Alamo, guided by information furn
ished by tho operator, located the Kentucky and rescued her
company Just before the steamship went down. This happen
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ed near Diamond Shoals, down the Southern Atlantic coast of the United
States, and before morning came the story of the rescue was told ashore,
and "S. O. S.," the new ambulance call of the sea, was made famous. The
story of that rescue has been duplicated a number of times since the wlre
lesa became a feature of the equipment of nearly every passenger-carrying
vessel which puts to sea.
A decade spans the development cf applied wireless, and even now,
when it has not reached a perfected state, it has not only become a com
mercial factor, but if haa robbed the sea of half its terror. Accidents which
in the not so long ago were of the gravest sort and meant not only sleep
less nights to the officers and passengers, but days of heart-breaking toll to
the men, have become but exciting incidents of an ocean voyage.
The sinking of the White Star liner Republic made, the distress signal
"C. Q. D." a by-word around the world. "C. Q." is the call meaning to
stand by or to give attention. In continental news services where several
"royal warrant," which Is something
to frame and preserve as an heirloom.
That enables him to put the royal coat
of nrms up over his store window and
eAerybody else rushes In, since what
tho king buys must necessarily be the
best.
But his majesty has a schedule of
profits. It was drawn up actually by
himself. In that schedule is the
amount of profit to be permitted to
every class of tradesmen. On gro
ceries the profit allowed . is only 5
per cent. On meat It is 10 per cent.
Soaailvd I.Ike Smoke.
"Isn't It disgraceful tho way women
smoke nowadays?"
"Why?"
"I Just saw an advertisement offer
lnK to any woman six puffs for a dol
lar." Purple Cow.
Ilackleaa Driving.'
"What is the matter? I. see you've
got your hand In a sling?"
"Reckless driving."
"Horse?"
"No, nail." Tit BIta
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endless striving through the ages? Has it not been for tho benefit of woman,
to give her more of every desirable thing? If this be po, then what Is the
cause of the deplorable Increase In divorce statistics? Man knows aa well a3
woman that the cause of one means tho ultimate cause of many, so closely
haa the human family been united. That woman Bhould establish her ldei
tlty by becoming a part of tho great plan has been conceded from the begin
ning. That she should become a seeker along all the avenues of learning Is
as It should be, but the wild struggle for equality will reduce her to the
ranks where romance, chivalry and tho finer ethics of deportment will no
longer be deemed a necessary part of man's training. Will he meekly con
tinue to support a hustling, voting wife? One who does not trust him to care
for her best interests without her supervision? Will he be agreeable when
he brushes cheek by jowl with hla wife, sister, mother or daughter at the
polls?
A womanly woman has always been considered the fairest gift to man.
A masculine woman Is as bad, or even worse, than an effeminate man.
When woman grows Indifferent or unappreclatlve man becomes neglectful,
then sooner or later deserts the woman who no longer appeals to him, or re
lies on him for anything but material support. When he does not do this he
becomes cruel and resorts to brute force, the primitive method of subduing
tho weaker one. This may in a measure account for the most frequently
named grounds for divorce 1. e., "deseratlon and cruelty."
The home has been and ever should be considered supremo. It has been
the one substantial, tangible thing around which our present form of gov
ernment, our civilization, has been built. When the home is divided It means
disruption. It' woman can adjust herself to the new conditions of her creat
ing the clubs, polls, etc. it ought to be an easy matter to understand the
temperament of the man she has chosen to be the parent of her children and
a possible life companion. Her place outside the home, her economic value
In the region of man's heretofore undisputed realm, has not yet been eatab
lished, or, If bo, It has been grudgingly conceded 'by man. Why?
He considers her a home product, a home producer. Lack of sympathetic
understanding in each other's ambitions, endeavors, desires Is the paramount
cause for three-quarters of the unhappy marriages. The ambitions 'of one
may increase while the other remains satisfied with old customs, old condi
tions. Sentiment, temperament, tastes, plans, even one's conception of love,
life, futurity, death may change while the other one resolutely adheres to
old theories. Under these conditions, any one of them ia sufficiently strong
to disturb the harmony of a perfect understanding. Thoughts become diver
sified, antagonism enters into the scheme of things and happiness, the one
condition to which all humanity is forever striving to attain, becomes re
mote, temporarily, at leaat, and the divorce courts hear the plea of two more
misunderstood creatures who desire to be freed from the irksome bonds of
matrimony.
Ills majesty held that the grocer could
keep, his supplies without deteriora
tion if they were not sold, but the
butcher could not and so required the
higher profit.
Ten per cent is, however, the limit.
The Jewelers waited on the lord cham
berlain and protested that they had
so few customers, compared with the
butcher and the vegetable dealer, they
were bound to have at least 30 per
cent.
"Not from me," the king Is reported
to have said when the lord chamber
LITTLE THINGS WORTH KNOWING
Steamship working hours are four
on and eight off to the end ot the voy
age. The Cundarderj serve broken bits
of butter-scotch candy along with the
afternoon tea aboard ship.
In a turbine steamship the rhythmic
thumping of the pistons disappears,
and instead the engine give out a
thin soprano song that rises or falls
In key with the speed, sometimes sug
gesting a continuous squeal.
operators are on a loop the call "C. Q." signifies that a message Is coming
through for all operators to take.
It saves time. The Marconi Company uses It as a general call for atten
tion. They added the letter "D" to the combination. TBla stands for dan
ger and Is the signal of danger demanding that every operator stop all busi
ness and prepare to receive message to follow.
The "S. O. 8." is the wireless distress signal provided for In the service
regulations of the International Wireless Telegraph convention adopted at
Berlin in 1900. The combination of letters have no especial significance
except that they are easy to sound and click out Btrong and are easily read.
What happens on a disabled steamship after the "S. O. S." call has been
sent out? There Is little 6f the hysterical terror of old-time shipwrecks,
for there is always the assurance that help is coming, and the story as told
by the wireless messages Is one of calm seamanship which brings relief to
passengers and inspires the men to work.
The story of the saving of the sinking Kentucky on Feb. 4 Is a straight
away tale of an operator who sat at his key until the water reached the
dynamos and shut off the power. "8. O. S." "S. O. S." was the call he sent
through the air, while below him the men were working with might and
main to keep the fast-filling vessel afloat until help came.
"S. O. S." "S. O. 8." Maglnnls kept clicking away, and then, when
hope seemed lowest, came the answer. The steamship Alamo, bound down
coast, had caught the cry.
"the trouble?"
was the fragment of tho first call Maglnnls got when he snapped the re
ceivers on his ears.
It was enough. His call had been heard. Then, frantically, he told
what had happened and that help was neoded. The Alamo was ninety miles
away, and the next message from her was for the Kentucky's position.
"We have changed our course," was the next comforting message, and
soon after the water reached the dynamos, and tho vessel, so low in the
w ater that the winter seas broke over her, wallowed through the water with
the crew at the rail waiting for the Alamo to come. She got there in time.
The boats from the Kentucky were lowered at 1:30 o'clock In the afternoon!
At 3:00 p. m. the Alamo was alongside. Ten minutes later the Alamo was,
under way and the Kentucky left a fast sinking derelict.
lain urged the petition of the Jewelers.
And they didn't. Ten per cent Is all
they get.
His majesty takes care to see that
his 10 per cent Is only 10 per cent.
Whenever a bill is presented for pay
ment tho tradesman has to produce
with it his own wholesale bills. The
price that goes on the royal bill has
to be only Just so much more than
what the tradesman has paid himself
as the rate on the profit schedule al
lows. If the butcher has paid 20 cents
a pound for bis prime American, Llv-
Mure ' nirrrnlliig.
Fair Girl My father made his for
tune when he was a young man.
Would you like to know how he did It?
Gallant Youth Not particularly, but
I would like to know If he baa it
still. Catholic News.
Wkto Ills Tin Cornea.
"What? You're engaged to Mr.
Brown? Then you won't marry Mr.
Jones, after all!"
"No, not after all. But, perhaps.
J after Mr. Brown." Cleveland Leader.
ANTI-rROFANITT CONGRESS.
Itrmarkiittl Onthrrlnar o
Held In Rom Hrt Month.
A most remnrkable International
congress against swearing and profane
language will bo held In Rome next
month, when representatives from al
most all the antl-profanlty leagues In
the world will meet. Strangely enough,
Italy, which to-day la considered the
country where ewearlng Is most preva
lent, boasts an Institution against
8W earing w hich Is seven centuries old
and still flourishes In Florence under
Its old title of the Venerablo Archcon
fraternity of Mercy.
Toward the middle of the thirteenth
ctntury the Florentine porters used
to congregate to drink and gamble in
a wineshop on the Via Adimarl, and
they swore so much and so loudly that
one of them, an old man named Plero
dl Luea Borsl, In the hopo of saving
his fellow workers' souls and at the
same time putting a check on their
profanity, proposed to Impose a small
fine on tho swearers. His proposal was
accepted and within a short time a
largo sum of money was collected,
which it was derided should be used
In some work of expiation.
"In order that tho money might
benefit both the soul and the body,"
says an old chronicler, "six stretchers
were purchased and destined to each
of the six quarters of tho city where a
squad of porters was detailed to con
vey In them such persons as were 111
to tho hospitals or to carry the bodies
of those who fell dead or had been
murdered to tho cemetery. And Tach
porter was entitled to take a coin from
the coin box for every trip."
The institution still exists and It
counts among its members not only
porters but the most prominent citi
zens of Florence, as well as the King
of Italy and the archbishop. It Is no
longer supported by the fines imposed
for swearing, but by voluntary contri
butions. BRIARS HOLD BABY FAST AND
IT IS FROZEN TO DEATH.
Held last by briars Dornering a
ditch, John Heler, 3 years old, was
found frozen to death near his father's
home at Sayrevllle, N. J. The child
had been missing several days.
The 12 principal .crops of this coun
try show a valuation of $5,000,000,000.
erpool-kllled beef, he can charge the
rcyal household 22 cents a pound and
not a fraction more, although In Lon
don the price Is probably 28 cents
a iound to other consumers.
The women of America cannot, per
haps, do what the King of England
did so easily. But many of them ex
press the belief that by combination
they can do much to prevent them
selves from being robbed by unfair
profits that go only to swell the al
ready overbloated coffers of the power
ful trusts.
splinters!
A minute's work cuU more Ice than
an hour's talk.
Even a well read man can have the
blues sometimes.
Heaven must soem far off to those
who shout their prayers.
You don't have to go up In an air
ship to have a high old time. ,
It you monkey around a bee hive
you must expect to get stung.
it it wasn't for the little dog's bite
he would never be heard from.
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OLD A! M I'! UlllOtl
Modern Methods and Oriental
Ways Side by' Side in the
Mexican Republic.
LEGENDS OF ANCIENT TOWNS.
Sleepy Tourists Awakened at 5
O'Clock A. M. by the Jangling
ot Sweet Bells.
Every high school girl knows tha
"Across the Alps lies Italy," but how
many educated, well-informed Auieri-Cf-ns
know what lies beyond the Rio
Grande river In Mexico? I have now
been a month In this wonderland
Old Mexico writes an Omaha Bee cor
respondent , from Guadalajara, apl
every minute of those thirty days has
been filled with delight. Our eyes
have feasted on a riot of color In sky
In the tinted colors on old cathedral
walls. Every morning tumultuous
ringing of church bells din in our
ears not ringing slow funereal se
date or In Sundny chime as with us,
but each Individual bell ringing like
our old-time fire bell, all at the same
time. Little tenor bells that can be
heard only In a quiet Interval ponder
ous booming brass bells brought from
old Spain before our pilgrim fathera
took ship on the Mayflower. The little
bells swinging in exuberant excitement
clear around the wooden beams to
which they are strapped with bands of
Iron or with leather thongs. The great
bells disdaining to move are struck
with huge iron hammers on the out
side rim or with ponderous clapper
fiom within. Such a deafening hurly
burly of bell-ringing never wakened
a sleepy tourist at 6 a. m. in any coun
try but Mexico.
Tho. scent of Jpsmlne, of orange and
lemon blossom and of roses and the
new, almost overpowering odors of
gorgeous tropical flowers fill the sun
luden air you breathe. The strange
new fruit, sweet and luscious, that
tickle our palates and the peppery
dlhbes that surprise our conventional
beef eating Anglo-Saxon stomachs. All
these pleasant, new surprises to our
senses make the physical man happy.
But rich as are these sensations, they
sink into insignificance when com
pared with the appeal this old land
makes to our Imagination and to our
sympathies. No town or hamlet but
has Its legend of old Aztec days or
castle or church of Cortez, the con
queror. This Is Egypt over again. The Ori
ent at our gates, and nothing charms
tho western mind as does the mys
tery that lies behind this old civiliza
tion. It is as If we saw our ancestors
come to life again after 1,000 years.
Wc c"an see here what was meant by
the command, "Take up thy bed and
walk," when we see the native unroll
himself out of his Berape tho garment
of one piece that la at the same time
his protection against the weather and
his bed by night. We know that to
go up on the housetop to pray here,
as In Palestine, is to do the conven
tional the flat roof of the house Is .
Intended to live upon as well as to
shelter the one-story rooms below. The
sandals on their feet, the bottle made
of whole pig or sheep skins to carry
wt.ter or "pulque," the native beverage
are the same we hear about in the
"lesson for the day" In our church
at home. This Is the simple life and
a more contented, carefree, devout peo
ple I have never seen.
Side by side with this oriental life,
unhampered even with the rudiments
of sanitary science, are evidences of
the latest word In scientific mining
and electrical apparatus, magnificent
slate and municipal buildings, enlight
ened provision in the way of state
theaters, beautiful public parks, foun
tains and statuary and, mlrabile dlctu,
we have a new Paris in the City of
Mexico, with fine, wide asphalt streets
that challenge any city In the world,
most beautiful public buildings of the
latest French architecture, costing
from $2,000,000 to $12,000,000 each;
model electric street car lines and
cleaner streets than can be found else
where on this continent. A vigilant
police administration that makes us
ashamed of our great metropolitan
cities in comparison.
A . FRANK MILLIONAIRE.
Say He Haa No lllht to III
Money
Joseph Fels, the" millionaire Phila
delphia soapmaker, was In Cincinnati
recently on an Inspection tour to see
how his crusade on poverty, to which
ho Is contributing $100,000 every year.
Is getting along. At a dinner In a
fashionable hotel, at which he was
the guest ot honor, he said:
"A man cannot be a millionaire
without being a beneficiary of thla
system of robbery. I am well protect
ed. There Is a tariff that keeps for
eign soaps out of the country. I own
stocks In street railway companies
that are private property and are
under public franchise and do not pay
taxes on those franchises. I own stock.
In railroads that are private monopo
lies and should be public property. I
own many things that I shouldn't.
"But I intend to hold on to these
things in order to make more money
with which to fight the system that
hat, made me rich at the expense of
others. I believe I am spending my
money better than Rockefeller ia
spending his."
Itulslnir the l ullen.
"See that young fellow over there?"
Inquired the talkative stranger.
"Yes, what about him?' Inqalred
Smlthson fretfully.
"That young fellow, mister, is de
voting his life to a noble cause. The
best part of his time Is spent in an
endeavor to raise fallen humanity
to lift those who are down and set
them on their feet again."
"Indeed!" replied Smlthson. "And
who Is he?"
"Oh, he's the attendant at roller
skating rink!"