LAUGHTER AND TEARS.
A Comedy Scene In Which Grief Play
ed a Leading Part.
"Stage fright is not one of the emo
tions which get across the footlights,"
writes Miss Alice Crawford. "Audi
ences are for the most part as serene
ly unconscious of it as they are of
other individual sentiments in the ac
tors harlng no relation to the inci
dents of the play.
"I shall never forget an Instance of
this curious insensibility of the crowd.
Once when I was touring one of the
most charming and popular girls of
the company died after only a few
days' illness. She was one of those
sweet, tranquil natures and had en
deared herself to us all. Her death
in lodgings in the small provincial
town had an element of real tragedy
in it ,
"The news that she was dead reach
ed the theater In the evening just as
two of the actors and I were about to
go on for a scene of broad comedy.
We went on the stage with tears in
our eyes, and I can still see the face
of one of those comedians with the
great tears glistening on the paint.
He was dreadfully affected. Try as
he would, he could not control his
voice, and the tears kept choking him
as he rattled off his lines.
"The audience were convulsed every
time his voice broke, and it made me
cry more than ever to see the grief
shaking him as he grinned and chaffed
through his tearJK Yet that comedy
scene never went so well before. The
audience never guessed." Exchange.
STORY OF A MUD HEN.
And. the Man Who Tried to Shoot or
Drown the Bird.
"It Is a mighty hard thing to down
a mud hen," said a Portland official.
"Every one knows this homely bird, so
clever that it can dodge the flash of a
gun. making it very hard to kill If
any one ever wanted to kill one.
"A friend of mine who was a great
hunter, but not acquainted with the
mud hen, was out hunting on the Co
lumbia sloughs some years ago when
he saw what he thought was some
kind of duck floating on the water.
He aimed his shotgun and fired, but
the bird dived as the gun was dis
charged, and the shot struck the wa
ter where the bird had been a mo
ment before. As the smoke cleared
away the hunter saw the bird come to
the surface, and he gave it the other
barrel, with the same result.
"His obstinacy was now aroused,
and he determined to kill that bird be
fore be left the place. He shot away
every round of ammunition he had,
but the bird dodged every one and
still floated in the same spot. In great
disgust my friend sat down on the
bank and lit his pipe. At the first puff
of smoke the- bird dived again, and
this gave him his inspiration.
"To make a short story, he smoked
up all his tobacco in an effort to drown
the mud ben. but when darkness fell
and he started for home the bird was
still floating in the same jgld spot."
Portland Oregonian.
A Wedding Ring Superstition.
Although there was a lifelong
friendship to back up their business
deals, the Jeweler was not surprised
when his old customer who had mar
ried a second time bought the wedding
ring at another shop.
"If he should take a third wife be
would buy the ring at still another
store," the Jeweler said- "That is one
Of the superstitions of the trade. A
man may hare the marrying bflbl
ding rings in his time, yet ne never
buys any two of them from the same
place. Jewelers do not expect it. They
don't want to sell two wedding rings
to the same man. Bad luck would
surely light on all concerned, and
there is enough trouble in the world
anyhow without deliberately Inviting
more of it by defying a good old wed
ding ring superstitutJon." New York
Times.
KNOW THE OPEN SHOP.
Why Union Men Stick to Their Own
Organizations.
Advocates of the open shop often
wonder why members of the labor
unions so persistently stick by their
own organizations Instead of meeting
their employers in an open shop
Sunday school class, with friendly ex
change of courtesies on each side. It
would be so nice and so profitable all
around. These philanthropists finally
conclude that it is just perverseness
of human nature that makes the union
man fight the open shop.
If the open shop would give seven
and a half hours a day, $6 pay and
Saturday afternoons off with 'full pay
perhaps the union man would be
tempted to abandon his own organi
zation for the open shop Sunday
school class. But the open shop Is
not built that way. Sooner or later
the hours are lengthened, generally
sooner. Sooner or later the wages are
lowered, generally right away. Soon
er or later a lot of apprentices are set
to doing one thing only, and laborers,
coolies, Hindus, Mexicans anything
cheap put to doing all that is possible.
Then people wonder why the union
man hates the open shop. Such a
strange thing, this attachment to a la
bor union!
Education In Virginia. .
At the convention of the State Fed
eration of Labor at 'Richmond, Va., a
statement was made by John B. Cllne
dinst, a deputy in the office of the state
labor commissioner, that in the course
of his travels he had discovered more
white boys who were unable to read
or write than he had found among the
colored population. The white popu
lation pays 90 per cent of the total
amount of money expended on the ed
ucation of children in the state, and
it Is a strange anomaly, if the state
ment be true, that a greater percent
age of white children than of the col
ored do not take advantage of the op
portunities afforded. Accordingly res
olutions were adopted recommending
compulsory education and free books
to the pupils in the public schools.
Lured to Their Ruin.
The great exodus from Great Britain
of immigrants to the colonies and es
pecially to Canada has caused many
thousaads of people to suffer. Letters
are and have been pouring into Eng
land from these immigrants stating
that the promises which allured them
to migrate have been found to be illu
sory. It is a well known fact that em
ployers of labor have been insistently
advertising the alleged favorable In
dustrial conditions in Canada. There
has been a very large number of im
migrants arriving during the last eight
een months, and the labor markets of
Canada are glutted to the extent of
Intense suffering.
Homes For Workingmen.
San Francisco Housesmiths' union
voted to contribute $3,000 to the Mc
Namara defense fund. The union
adopted resolutions requesting con
gress to issue $500,000,000 in currency
to be used in constructing homes for
bona fide workingmen ' at a cost of
$2,500 for each house and land, the
Bame to be repaid to the government
In installments of f go month,
Fire Insurance Rates for Lincoln
TO THIS PUBLIC; At a meeting of Lincoln Fire Insurance Agents a few days
ago in reply to ray question as to whether I bad not done the right thing by
giving everybody the same rates on dwellings, the agents replied that I bad
merely given the rate situation an overdose of physic. My contention is now and
always has .been-that one person is entitled to as good a rate as another pro
vided he has the same kind of a risk; and as the rates on dwellings of the same
class are all rated alike I cannot see how an agent can justify his action in charg
ing one person 80c per 100 for three years and charge his next door neighbor 50c
for the same thing. Tbe person that comes to my office and asks me to write
his insurance is entitled to as 'low a rate as the one who goes ' to every
office in town to see where he can get it the cheapest. I have lost considerabTK
business during the past three years while other agents were writing the risks
below the regular price when in competition and when I advertised that I wouldi
write all risks at the lower figure I was accused of giving the rate situation an
overdose. If I am wrong in this contention then I am not entitled to your busi
ness. Twenty years ago I began to solicit life insurance which I followed nearly
six years representing several companies, and I never knew of a life insurance
company to cut the rate on any policy from the published rates. I have for
thirteen years managed a Hail Insurance Co., doing business in Nebraska and
paid more than $300,000.00 in losses on growing crops and we have never writ
ten a policy for a less rate to one person than we charged another in tbe same
district according to our published rates, and why Fire Insurance Companies
should publish schedules of rates for all classes of property in Nebraska and then
charge one person full tariff and possibly his next door neighbor one-half as
much is more than I can quite understand.
The laws in this State governing Mutual Fire Ins. Co.'s compels such com
panies to make the same assessment on all policyholders of the same class and!
hazard of risks and I cannot see any difference between a mutual or a stock com
pany in this respect. It is true we have an anti-trust law in Nebraska preventing
stock fire insurance companies from combining for the purpose of holding up the
rates, but that has absolutely nothing to do with writing one person at one price
and another person at another price on the same class of risk. If one company)
wishes to charge 80c per 100 for three years for dwellings in Lincoln and another
company will write dwellings for 50c that is a privilege that each company should
enjoy, but there should be a law preventing any company from charging one per
son more than they do another on the same kind of dwelling. I'
shall, therefore, continue to write all frame dwellings at 25c per 100 for one year,
50c for three years and 75c for five years and so long as the companies I repre
sent will accept the business at these figures I will charge no more and no lessj
1 have four companies in my office ranging from 40 to 75 years old, having as-,-sets
from one to six millions in which I can place your dwelling house insurance!
at the above figures. I can also take care of large mercantile lines at as low rates,
as are quoted by any agency in the city. I am yours for business.
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