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TRU3T PROSPERITY H A3 RUN ITS
COURSE.
Important Industries Forced to Curtail
Production In Consequence of De
creased Demand Effect of the Ding
Icy Bill.
In th'r day of ret renchment an'l
decreased xNrts which an- the nat
ural result of a high protective tar
irr. tur manufacturers have- been look
ing fi" market airiail that were not
walled In by a protecll v tariff against
thorn. The British colonies In South
Africa seemed t he best field for ex
ploiting, and qilt" a nice business was
lrlnglng up In tnat direction. The
depart tiM'itt of commerce, which now
Includes the bureau of statist Ich, wan
quick ti rail ntteut son to our Increased
trade with South Africa and the pr
tect lo.tlst organs iointed to it as an
example it foreign trad" that had not
heen reduced ly our own protection
wail. Kut. alas! those wicked British
er who are free traders at home,
where they cannot raise enough ncces
Hit lea to supply t heni.se ves. when
transplanted t' a new country with
infant industries, which they are tr
2ng to huild up. have determined on
protection.
The department ,f commerce now
Inform iirt that al! KrltKh territory in
South Africa has put in operation a
preferential tariff system in favor of
Great Britain f 2.1 per cent. This
will hmiii wipe out the trade that our
.xorters have I 1 1 i 1 1 up, with so much
expense and care. The business thus
lost with South Africa amounted to
$3."J.tMo,nMi, or about one-fourth of
what the same territory bought from
England, and the amount was in
crease.) with surprising rapidity. In
IS'.tS our trade there amounted to only
one tenth of the British, which shows
the great increase since that date.
Cur trade with Canada Is being cut
off in exactly the same manner and all
the Kuropean governments are also
raising their tariff walls higher and
highrr against us. The principal suf
ferers by this system of protection
adopted by other countries will be the
American workingman and farmer.
Both will be cut off from markets for
the surplus they produce over and
above what the people of the United
States can consume. The working
men x. Ill suffer by the decreased de
mand for what thy manufacture and
the farmers by the decreased markets
for their surplus. As the demand de
creases, prices for goods or produce
fall ami wages dtcline. which is the
immediate result I hat may be looked
for in this country. In fact, the process
has already begun and some of the
great r manufacturers the trusts
have already notified their workmen
that the reduction must be made. The
-teeI trust has posted notices that on
Jan. ! a new agreement with its em
ploys will be necessary. The Dover,
N. J., Index of Oct. 2 says:
"Some f the employes of the mines
In thi.j section have received notice
that their wa-;es will be cut fifteen
cent per day. and it Is said that the
same rub' Is to prevail in all of the
mines in the country in the course of
a few ;!as. Thi;i is occasioned by the
bi siunip' in steel ami a consequent
reduction in the price of pig iron."
That is from a local newspaper pub
lished in the iron mine region and the
infernal ion therefor;; comes at first
hand.
A ! ie.t ---.) special correspondent of
the New York Evening Io.-t ol Sept.
:; saj s :
"The riliroud and machine shops
are not using as ninny men as recent
ly, th' night shifts having in a num
ber of instances been dispensed with,
owir.g to a falling off in business."
Thus we have the natural result of
protettion brought home to us by the
effort. of other countries to preserve
their markets for their own goods. As
the foreign demand for our surplus
productions decrease, we must reduce
our output. To reduce means men
out of work ami lower wages.
During the height of the trust boom,
that has now run its course, wages
have been Increasing. They will now
begin to fall, and only the best skilled
workmen will find steady employment.
The protectionists would have us be
lieve that the Dingley bill, if un
touched, will continue prosperity, but
the facts show it; it has bred trusts
and monopolies; raised the price of
living far beyond the increase of
wages; forced foreign countries to in
crease their tariff wall against Ameri
can products and produced a panic in
the stock market which seems des
tined to extend to all branches of
trade.
That the tariff has been the mother
of trusts was a sworn statement of
one of the great trust magnates and
that the trusts have been selling their
products cheaper to foreigners than to
our own people has been proven. Yet
with all this evidence of the harm
that the protective tariff has done and
is doing, the Republican leaders have
determined not to reduce or reform it
and tre already engaged in packing
the committees of the coming con
gress so that the subject cannot even
be considered.
SHAW AND THE BANKERS.
Loans More Millions Without Interest
The Administration and Wall
Street.
The amateur statesman and finan
cier who has been placed by the Re
publican leaders in charge of the
Vnited States treasury has been add
ing to the amusement of the world by
telling how he would settle the curren
cy question, and how he would build
up American shipping. If theorizing
about what he would do. if he had the
power, was all there was to iaugh
about. Secretary Shaw could go on
with his vaporings ami no harm would
be done. As secretary of the treas
ury, he has. however, enormous op
portunities for mischief and his zeal
for the Wall street bankers born of
numerous interviews with the a?tute
masters of financ who control the
money and stock markets, has led him
to violate the plain enactn::r.t3 of
Coneress. Secretary Shaw, at the evi
dent bidding of the stock gamblers,
has been and is doing, the very acts
that the Aldrich bill, that Congress
refused to pas3, would have au
thorized. That Secretary Shaw Is entirely In
capable of comprehending tho simple
law that governs tho movement of
money Is hhown by his extraordinary
effort to Increase the currency vol
ume. With fne hand he deposits with
the banks the treanury surplus and
with the other Is retiring circulation,
which the banks find it profitable to
do. as the kvnds that secure It have
so advanced In price tha the banks
find It Is more profitable to sell them.
The Increased premium on bonds has
been brought about by the demand for
them as security for the surplus cash
Mr. Shaw Is loaning to favored banks
without Interest. So far as Increasing
the money supply goes, this Is merely
loaning I'eter to pay Paul, the only
restriction being that the retirement
of bank circulation Is limited to
$3,0t0.00 a month.
Secretary Shaw has evaded, if not
disobeyed, the law that provides for
public money being deposited with
banks, by desiting $2.C00,0o0 with
the St. Louis banks without requiring
them to deposit United States bonds
as security. In this ease he accepted
s tate and municipal lond.s as security
and bankers all over the country are
demanding, on the same terms, their
share of the 1u.iiOU.imn) that Secretary
Shaw says he will loan; besides the
$!r.t;.POo,(n0 already loaned.
It Is rather discouraging to those
who believe in a strict construction
of the law in all that relates to tho
care of the public money that the
evasion of the law in the interest of
bankers by the Secretary of the Treas
ury, is indorsed by President Roose
velt. It shows the desperate condi
tion of, at least, some of the banks
that the President has been forced to
yield to their importunities for help.
It likewise shows that the Ix.-asted In
deendence of the present adminis
tration of the money power and Wall
street. If such ever existed, has been
adjusted for political reasons and that
the old alliance between the Republi
can leaders and the banks, trusts and
corporations, is in full force and
effect. It is not diflicult to believe
that for these loans, without interest,
of nearly $200,000,000 of the people's
money, will return ample interest to
the next Republican campaign fund
in which President Roosevelt has
such great personal Interest.
A Presidential Dilemma.
The statement of Postmaster Gen
eral Payne that President Roosevelt
was fully aware of the deal that had
been made for the division of the
spoils of office in Delaware is rather
hard on a civil service reformer, as
President Roosevelt professes to be.
It must be especially disheartening to
those Republicans who were hopeful
that their party would not be dis
graced by complicity with the attempt
of Addicks to purchase the Delaware
senatorship. That Mr. Payne should
have given the Addicks faction their
share of the political spoils was to
be expected, but that the President
acquiesced in supporting the notori
ous Addicks is a shock to all patriots
who demand decent government.
The offense that Miss Todd had
committed and for which her dis
missal was requested was that she
opposed the Addicks faction, and that
and that alone is why Mr. Payne as
official headsman chopped off her
head. There was no word against
her personal or official conduct, no
petition from patrons of the office for
her removal, but she and her family
wrre opposed to Addicks. That was
crime enough for Mr. Payne.
A fellow feeling made him wondrous
kin 1 to Addicks and his ambition to
represent Delaware in the United
States senate. The respectable fac
tion of the Republican party in Dela
ware has been trying to stem the tide
of corruption and have denounced Ad
dicks as a debaucher of the voters of
the state, but Postmaster General
Payne has evidently determined to aid
him.
What will President Roosevelt do?
Will he reinstate Miss Todd or stand
by the action of his postmaster gen
eral? President Roosevelt can afford to be
independent of the Addicks faction,
for in any event, they can but send a
contesting delegation to the next na
tional convention and their claim for
recognition will be settled by that
iKxly where the will of the President,
from the present outlook, will be
omnipotent. But the voters of Dela
ware and the whole country will hold
him responsible and expect him to
carry out his own declaration that,
"Words are gtod only when backed by
deeds."
Jug-Handle Prosperity.
Even the Republican newspapers are
at iast beginning to open their eyes,
and their columns to the fact that the
Republican-High-Tariff-Trust brand of
prosperity, about which we hare heard
so much during the last four years, is
a fraud and a humbug, as far as a
majority of our citizens are concern
ed. It is prosperity for the trusts, all
right, but it has nearly exhausted the
resources of a majority of the people.
The following is from the Chicago
Inter Ocean, a good Republican paper:
"Ever since 1S97, this nation, on the
surface, has prospered as never be
fore. Yet it may be doubted if one
half the heads of American families
are in as favorable a position as they
were in 1SJ7. The third party the
majority who are neither capitalists
nor able to fortify themselves behind
labor union walls is to-day giving
more proportionately than in 1S97.
while getting only the same.
"When capitalists combine to raise
prices, reduce expenses, or anticipate
profits it is this third party that pays
the higher prices, stands the reduction
of expenses, and converts the antict
pated profits into actual ones.
"The plain truth is that fully one
half ths workers of the United States
the men whose incomes are from
$ to $3.0o a year, the men who are
neither in trusts nor labor unions,
have not been getting their share of
the national prosperity. They are
working for the prosperity of capital
and organized labor, but no one Is
working for them. And under this
burden they are becoming exhausted.'
"Wr-y not remove the tariff on
chocs? It cannot injure the weakest
member cf the trade. On the contrary,
it will tend to broaden your markets
and Increase your opportunities."
Hon. Charles II. Jones.
Commoner
THE SILVER DOLLAR.
An East Oakland. Cal.. reader of the
Commoner writes: "It is asserted with
emphasis' by republicans on the Pa
cific coast that every sliver dollar
I which nf course, includes silver cer
tificates) issued by the government is
guaranteed by tne goia uemnu n.
hat Is the status of silver money:
and if secured by gold, why does the
custom house require payment oi du
ties to be made in gold exclusively?
If the silver dollar is made equal to a
gold dollar by law, can anybody truth
fully claim the former to be worth 50
..n5 Prior to was not gold and
silver on a parity and good enough for
Americans until the nobility oi Eng
land were permitted to plow with the
republican heifers?'
The silver certificate is reaeemauie
in tho silver dollar. The silver dollar
is irredeemable money. There is no
gold behind it. The silver dollar is
tnnria 1frnl tender for all debts, public
or private, except, where otherwise stip
ulated in the contract; tnereiore. n
can not be possible that the custom
tiniicos remiire navment of duties in
gold. The silver dollar is just as good
for the payment or duties as tne goia
niiar The act of March. 1900. gave
the secretary of the treasurey, if in his
opinion it was necessary to maintain
the parity of all money, to exchange
one kind of money for another; but so
far the secretary of the treasury nas
not accepted the act of March. 1900.
as justification for the redemption of
the silver dollar in gold: and one of
the provisions of the Fowler bill, now
being agitated by the financiers, is
that all money, including the silver
dollar, shall be redeemed in gold. The
status of the silver dollar, so far as
redemption is concerned, is the same
today as it was at the beginning of
this government. It is irredeemable
money. Some men refer to it as a "50
cent dollar" because the commercial
value of the bullion in the silver dol
lar is not equivalent to the value of
the coin as "current money with the
merchants." But it is not a 50-cent
dollar because men are fighting for it
and dying for it, and children are cry
ing for it. Every one is willing to ac
cept It for 100 cents on the dollar,
knowing that it will pay every debt,
public or private, except where other
wise expressly stipulated in the con
tract. Prior to 1873 the commercial ratio
of gold and silver kept pace with the
coinage ratio, and bi-metallists believe
that restoration of the coinage condi
tions that existed prior to 1S73 would
raise the bullion value to the coinage
value. The recent advances in the
price of silver, owing to the Philip
pine coinage, provide an interesting
object lesson. If the purchase of 1.
750.COO ounces of silver for the Philip
pine coinage could make such marked
difference in the price of silver, what
will be the effect when the Philippine
coinage is well under way and sever
al hundred million ounces are required
in order to sustain the Philippine sys
tem? Is it not, also, reasonable to
believe that the effect on the price of
silver by the mere purchase of a few
ounces of metal for Philippine coin
age would be incomparable with the
effects upon the price of silver if the
United States mints were open to free
and unlimited coinage?
President Roosevelt talked to work
ingmen on Labor Day. But words are
good only when backed up by deeds,
and up to date tne number of trusts
that have been shackled corresponds
with the number of times Sir Thomas
Lipton has won the cup.
Owing to the fact that there is a
presidential campaign slated for next
year Mr. Roosevelt is engaged in writ
ing a message that will seek to placate
selfish interest without arousing the
antagonism of the victims.
Senator Allison has given his views
on financial legislation, but he has
unfortunately forgotten to submit the
key to his views.
If the coal barons are not careful
their continued extortions will make
the public so warm that no coal will
be needed.
Those who imagined that congress
would be called in special session be
fore election overlooked the fact that
something besides legislation for the
I coumrj o guuu ia uuuvi .
The Chicago Chronic-Is says: "Mr.
Cleveland would poll ever?- democratic
vote in the land." Is th Chronicle
still figuring that the 140 000 men who
voted for Palmer and Busuer are the
only democrats?
In thorough organization there is
complete victory. Organize, and do It
without further delay.
Comment.
"GRAFT."
The word "Graft" has been so fre
quently employed of late that it has
come to have a technical meaning. It
is used to describe the illegitimate
profit which a corrupt public servant
makes out of his office. The most com
mon form of graft Is in the form or a
rebate on contracts made by the offi
cial for the public. The postoffice in
vestigations show that several em
ployes were Interested in contracts made
in their departments. Of course, it is
plain bare-faced stealing, for the offi
cial acts for the people as a whole
and to pay a high price for supplies
with the understanding that a part or
the price will be returned to him per
sonally is only an indirect method of
converting the money of the govern
ment to his own use. All purchasing
agents are tempted to misuse their
positions and public opinion ought to
be such as to restrain and strengthen
those who hold such positions of trust.
Even school boards sometimes become
venal and sell their decisions to the
book company that offers the largest
cash bonus to the board. What a sad
commentary on public morals to say
that men especially selected to super
vise the instruction of the young
should become purehaseable. In the
cities another form of graft is found
In the selling of immunity. Saloon
keepers, gamblers and keepers of
houses of ill-fame, are sometimes al
lowed to violate the law, provided a
stipulated sum is paid to officers whose
duty it is to enforce the law. This
form of crime should be made so
odious, that every party organization
would, for its own protection, unre
lentingly punish lis own members
when found guilty of trafficking in po
lice authority, but back of all this mis
use of official power stands the com
mercialism the sordid, greedy com
mercialism which is stimulating the
love of money and condoning the of
fenses against law and good morals.
The only permanent remedy is to be
found in purifying public thought and
raising the ideals of the people.
WAS SOMETHING CONCEALED?
Following close upon the announce
ment that the militia at Victor, Colo.,
had suppressed a newspaper, comes
the report that the governor of the
state has found it necessary to investi
gate the acts of the militia officers.
It doubtless occurred to a great many
people that the Colorado militia
evinced considerable activity in sup
pressing free speech and interfering
with constitutional rights.
Mr. Wilbur F. Wakeman, secretary
of the American protective tariff
league, is gathering the names of the
members of the senior class of the
various colleges for the purpose of
sending out literature in favor of pro
tective tariff. When the people under
stand that the money used to carry on
a protective tariff propaganda is sup
plied by the people who secure an ad
vantage from high import duties, such
literature will be valueless. The pro
tective tariff league ought to add a
postscript to each document saying:
"This postscript was paid for by Mr.
, who makes enough money
out of the tariff laws to enable him to
contribute to the treasury of the pro
tective tariff league, which in turn is
trying to secure legislation that will
turn the people's money back Into the
pockets of the contributor."
Mr. Hanna has imported an army of
republican spell-binders into Ohio,
probably with an idea of attracting the
attention of the people away from the
main issue.
Ex-Secretary Smith's partiality for
Cleveland is possibly due to his pleas
ant recollection of his eatch-as-catch-can
wrestling match with the Wilson
tariff bill during Mr. Cleveland's sec
ond administration.
We may expect the Russian govern
ment to haul down its flag just about
the time a republican administration
announces some definite policy on the
financial or Philippine questions.
Secretary Shaw shouts "stand pat."
but it is noticeable that a very small
shove from Wall street will move him.
According to Senator Allison the
republican tariff song will read:
"Go, tariff reform, go thy way.
Some more convenient day
On thee we'll call."
Now that Secretary Shaw has as
sured the voters of Ohio that we have
prosperity, Messrs. Morgan and Schwab
ought to make a few speeches show
in g how to keep it.
It seems that Governor Cummins
is once more able to meet the "Iowa
idea" on a public thoroughfare with
out growing red In the face.
Courtesy of The Commoner.
GROSSCUPS BLOOD BOILS.
Judge Peter S. Grosscup, appointed
to the federal bench by President Mc
Kinley, recently said: "When I see
the laws of my country introduced to
enable men to consolidate money for
the public good, turned Into the excuse
for swindles that should land the pro
moters in the penitentiary, and when
I see that to be the almost universal
history of corporations, every drop of
blood in me boils with hate and re
venge." Judge Grosscup might also
have expressed his indignation against
the failure on the part of executives
to enforce laws which were intended to
land the violators of the law in the
penitentiary.
WAS IT A SLAP AT ROOSEVELT?
According to tfc; chairman of the
Rhode Island republican convention,
Theodore Roosevelt is the "most bril
liant and most courageous of living
statesmen." but NeL;on W. Aldrich,
who is generally regarded as Mr.
senate, is "the foremost defender of
our national honor and of our national
prosperity." It is dollars to dough
nuts that Mr. Roosevelt won't sur
render without a struggle to the right
to be known as the "foremost de
fender." UNITED STATES MAIL. CON
TRACTS. A Cherokee. Tex., reader of the
Commoner writes: "I wish to ask if
a man makes a contract with the gov
ernment to carry the United States
mail, has he a right to sublet it? If
not. what, is the penalty for sub-letting?"
He has a right to sub-let a
contract with the approval of the post
office department. In the event that
a mail contract is sub-let without ap
proval, the contractor cannot recover
from the government.
There is one faint hope that all the
rascality in the governmental depart
ments will out. There are faint indi
cations that the grafters in the postal
department, angry at the thought that
the grafters in the interior department
made better hauls, will lend their aid
to exposing the land deals, and that
the land grafters will retaliate by aid
ing in the exposure of the postad
grafters.
Perhaps it would be easier to de
nounce the sultan of Turkey for per
mitting so much bloodshed in his do
mains' if we could temporarily forget
the fact that the transport Kilpatrick
recently arrived from Manila with 306
dead American soldiers on board vic
tims of a policy contrary to the spirit
of ur free institutions.
Our exports to and imports from the
Philippines during the last ten months
amount to about $16,000,000. Even if
the profits amounted to 25 per cent
this is- only $13,070 apiece for each of
the 306 dead soldiers brought over by
the Kilpatrick. But human life is
cheap when measured by the imperial
istic standard.
It is customary to accuse the aver
age Englishman with being slow to see
the point of a joke, but the average
Englishman is quick to see the point
of a joke about "the foreigner paying
the tax."
It is reported that Mr. Rockefeller
has lost an overcoat valued at $100.
The theft means that while the over
coat cost Mr. Rockefeller $100 it will
probably cost oil comsumers $3,437.
872, or thereabouts.
Doubtless those thirty indicted post
office officials are busily engaged In
selecting the republican temple pillars
they expect to pull down in case this
sort of thing goes much further.
The Sioux City Journal says that in
1896 Mr. Bryan insisted that "the gold
dollar was worth more in exchange
able value than the silver dollar." The
trouble with the Sioux City Journal is
that when it tries to discuss the money
question it draws upon its imagination
for its facts.
What President Roosevelt needs
most is some copious doses of the old
P. Davis remedy in his cabinet.
Russian evacuation of Manchuria
has a decidedly republican-revision-of-tbe-tariff
appearance.
It appears now that while we were
worrying about Charles Schwab's
health. Charles was engaged in look
ing after something besides his health.
Sooner or later it will dawn upon
Mr. Rockefeller's mind that he can
get at Uncle Russ Sage only by form
ing a trust in the cheap clothing
market.
Speaking of "guessing contests,"
have you guessed yet what Secretary
Shaw is figuring on doing next for
the nr-,r and friendless barons of Wall
street? - v
ONE MAN THAT SHOULD KNOW
DENIES LOVE IS A DISEASE
Lor in Farr, head of the largest fam
fly in the world, bitterly opposes the
theories advanced by Dr. A. C. Cotton,
dean of Rush Medical College, Chi
cago, that love is a disease due to a
microbe.
Mr. Farr has had six wives, 39 chil
dren, 231 grandchildren and 56 great
grandchildren. He has seen his 250
or more descendants married and
tearing children, and then, too, his
experience as the husband of six
wives, and living with all at the same
time, makes him an authority on tl(
Question of love.
There is no fine spun mysticism or
sentimental ioetry In the mind of this
father of thirty-nine children. His
definition of love was unmistakably
plain.
"Love!" he said, without hesitation.
MISER'S CHART IS MISSING.
Paper Showing Location of Buried
Wealth Suddenly Disappears.
The recent settlement and distribu
tion of the estate left by Joseph Co
natser, a miser, has again set the peo
ple of Whitman (Wash.) county guess
ing as to what became of a chart
showing the location of various places
where Conatser had buried his money.
Just before death Conatser gave Thos.
Keyes, his closest friend, a plat which
contained a number of marks, dots
and figures, and pointing from the
window of his cabin, showed the siot
where much money was buried. He
asked Keves to dig it up. and in an
old tin can the latter found $2fi0 in
gold coin. Conatser gave Keyes to
understand that each spot on the chart
marked a place where the coin was
concealed.
When it was found necessary to
move the old man to a hospital this
chart and his other papers were sewed
inside of Conatser's vest. After his
death all the papers were turned over
to the court, with the exception of the
chart.
The mystery which surrounds the
lost chart may never be explained, and
the accumulations of Joseph Conatser,
the Sunset miser, may remain buried
forever.
Victory Due to Lost Key.
An amusing incident occurred at
Cuxhaven during some landing maneu
vers which were being carried out by
the German fleet.
An adversary's fleet was supposed
to be attempting to force the entrance
to the Elbe, which was defended by
troops on shore. The first attack of
the "enemy" had been repulsed dur
ing a severe storm. The troops on
shore retired to their bivouac, and to
protecet the rifles from the rain,
which was coming down in torrents,
they locked them up in a small wooden
house.
Suddenly the alarm sounded, but on
rushing to get their weapons the key
of the house was not to be found.
When after considerable delay, the
rifle3 were distributed, it was found
that the "enemy" had forced the en
trance and thus gained the victory."
London Mail.
Train Girls for Domestic Service.
Sorely tried housekeepers in New
York and vicinity hope great things
from a newly started movement for a
servants' guild whose main object will
be to thoroughly train acceptable girls
for the duties of domestic service.
Mrs. Russell Sage has been especially
prominent in the movement. In her
riew the chief trouble in keeping good
servants lies usually with the mis
Iresses, who are inclined to be incon
siderate slave-drivers. The title of
the new organization is to be the
Women's Domestic guild.
Writing Bicgraphy of Putnam.
James Putnam Stewart of Louis
ille, a direct descendant of Gen. Isaac
Putnam of revolutionary fame, has
many relics of his distinguished ances
try and is busily engaged in writins
out the lineage of the family.
When Railways Were Rare.
In 1S50 there was not one mile of
railway in Wisconsin, Tennessee or
Florida or anywhere west of the Mis
sissippi river. Even in 1870 half the
area of the country was still without
railways.
"love Is the natural affection between
man and woman that has ItH founda
tion In the desire to perpetuate the
race. That's love, but oh, how many
there arc to-day who marry with dlf
ferent thoughts in their minds."
For a few minutes the old man
seemed lost In reveries of years long
gone.
"Did I tell you that I agree with
Roosevelt's views on the marriage
question?" he asked. "His thoughts
meet mine exactly.
"Ive often comes at first sight," hi
flcntlnued. "With my first wife; it did.
It is not always, though, Ubat this
feeling comes at first sight. Hut love,
comes as soon as the man and woman
are well acquainted. If they love each
other they do not have to keep conn
pany for years to find It out."
PREACHER TELLS FUNNY STORY.
Dr. Parkhurst Narrates Anecdote of a
Converted Savage.
Dr. Parkhurst delivered himself of
a story In the course of his sermon
in the Madison Square Presbyterian
church at New York on a recent Sun
day. This is the story:
"An African chief became converted
and moved to London, where; ha wore
fashionable clothes and behaved In
every way as an irreproachable man.
One day he was giving a lecture In a
church em the advantages ejf a peace
ful, civilized life. His collar did not
fit well, and in attempting to adjust it
ho tore opJn the buttonhole;.
"The ripping shirt band brought
back all his ld savagery, and ho
.shouted out that civilization was all a
sham, and he wished he was back In
his edd life. Whereupon he pulled ejff
his collar, his coat and trousers and
finally stood in the; garb of the un
adorned savage. Then he set fire to
the" church and tejok to the wejods.
"If his buttonhole had been a Iittlo
stronger," added Dr. Parkhurst, "ho
woirld probably have remained an Irre
proachable man the rest of hi life.
That's the way with much f our
civilization and virtue. A very small
thing will reveal th real conditions."
Denounced by Dying Wemai.
A dramatic scene was enacted In a
dingy room of a New York East Side
tenement, where an age?d woman In
her dying moments Identified Patrick
Shea as the murderer of William Mc
Mahon. The crime was committed
last May, and was a typical Cherry
Hill murder. Shea csepaed and after
a long chase was run down in Phila
delphia. Mrs. Catherine Brown, who
had known Shea from childhood, was.
the only witness, and she could not go
to court, so the court went to her.
Propped up by pillows, she told tho
magistrate that she saw Shea, who
stood manacled beside th bed, walk
up behind McMahon and deliberately
shoot him down. Cross-examination
failed to change her Btatements, and
she finished by roundly denouncing
Shea.
"Your mother," she exclalmed, shak
ing her head at him, "was a decent
woman. Be off; I never want to se
you again."
Satisfied All Around.
A Philadelphia wrote recently to
the department of public safety com
plaining about the barking of dogs in
the vicinity of h!s home. The com
plaint wa.s referred to the police lieu
tenant of the district, and he mad
report. In this report the lieutenant
wrote that the dogs are not noticed
so much now, p.s the change In weath
er has caused people to cleise their
windows and thus escape much of the
barking. He concluded his report in
this manner: "The person who com
plained was sick w hen he wrote to tho
department. S:nce then he has died,
and his svidow has no complaint to
make."
Monarch Has No Ear for Music.
Considerable surprise was manifest
ed in Paris over the fact that the king
J of Italy did not applaud when Presi
dent Loubet tock him to the opera
there. Parisians did not seem to know
that their distinguished guest does not
care a rap for music or poetry. King
Victor Emmanu'l takes bis pleasure
on horseback or in an automobile. He
is also fond of military life, being a
rigid disciplinarian.