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The anti-pass bill went through the
house with but on* dHfceating'vote
(that of Cone) and immediately after
the senate accepted the house amend
ments. The bill carries the emergency
clause aad will become a law Just as
Boon as signed by the governor. By
reason of the senate provision making
the holder of a pass equally guilty with
the giver, every owner of an annual
In the state, not especially excepted
by the provisions of the bill, will be
come a criminal and subject to prose
cution unless he throws his paste
board into the fire or hands it back to
the giver. Several members of the
legislature who have been making fre
quent trips home on .complimentary
transportation will have ta jmy when’
they leave after the final windup.
Under provisions of the bill attorneys
or surgeons to receive passes must be
able to show that they are “bona fide
employes, the major portion of whose
time is employed in the service of the
company" from which they might re
ceive the transportation. Cone’s ob
jection is that there are a hundred and
one pretexts through which a railroad
may construe lawyer and doctor poli
ticians all over the state as employes.
The house recommended for passage
Aldrich’s maximum freight rate bill by
practically a unanimous vote. The
senate having passed the measure, it
will be certain of passage now and
equally certain of approval. The bill
makes a reduction of 15 per cent In
the rates in force January 1, 1907, on
live stock, potatoes, grain and grain
products, fruit, coal, lumber and build
ing material in car load lots. The rail
way commission is given power to
raise or lower rates. If the roads show
that the rates are not reasonable, the
commission has power to permit the
roads to raise rates. The friends /f
the bill make the claim that It will
give immediate relief from the unjust
charges on the principal products tised
and shipped in the state and without
waiting an indefinite time on the rail
way commission. It was urged as a
temporary and supplementary act to
the bill defining the powers of the
commission.
Two bills regulating the South Oma
ha live stock exchange #nd the stock
yards were passed by the house. One
bill by Adams of Dawes provides for
a general cut amounting to 50 per cent
on the profits in the charges made at
the yards for feed, yardage and sim
ilar service. It provides also for state
weights of live stock and for annual
public reports showing the business
condition of the company. The Do
ran bill is aimed at the commission
men and the live stock exchange. It
provides a cut in commission charges
to put them back to where they were
two years ago before a general reduc
tion was made by commission men.
An anti-discrimination feature also
practically knocks out the stock ex
change by opening up that exchange
to any character of irresponsible con
cern. Under its present rules a com
mission man must pay the shipper for
all live stock sold for him whether
the commission man can collect or not.
The house refused to stand for S. F.
384, which conferred upon the state
labor bureau authority to investigate
corporations and look into the books
of these concerns, a bill which it was
said Governor Sheldon heartily en
dorsed, and it was indefinitely post
poned upon the recommendation of
the judiciary committee. McMullen
and Harvey made talks against the
bill, and though Noyes of Cass offered
amendments, they were not acted up
on, and the house sustained the re
port of the committee. S. F. 308 re
ceived a similar fate. This is the bill
by Aldrich of Butler providing com
mon carriers shall receive permission
from the railway commission before
floating bonds.
The railway commission has not yet
formally organized owing to the ab
sence of Robert Cowell, the member
from Omaha. - He failed to come early
In the week and it is not known when
he will be present. His resignation has
been expected for some time, as he has
told friends that he would resign if
the work of the commission required
much of his time. He was not present
to be sworn in when other state of
ficers took the oath of office January
S, but took the oath later.
The "single tax" theory is dead as
far as the present session of the legis
lator is concerned. The senate killed
a bill introduced in the house by Rep
resentative Davis. > Later a similar
•fate befell S. F. No. 109, presented by
Senator McKesson. Governor Sheldon
recommended in his message that all
mortgage indebtedness be deducted
from the assessed valuation of the
property.
The senate declined to reconsider its
action of the previous day indefinitely
postponing H. R. 403, by Blystone, ap
propriating $50,000 for a hospital
building at the Lincoln hospital for
the insane for the use of men. Mc
Kesson’s motion to reconsider was de
feated by a vote of 9 to 15. The mat
ter was discussed and Root of Cass,
chairman of the finance committee,
■aid his committee was unanimous in
Its decision that the appropriation was
aot necessary. He was supported by
other members of the finance com
mittee.
The house was touched with senti
ment and presented to Speaker Net
t]eton a solid silver carving set and
berry bowl and a carving set to Chief
Clefk Clyde Barnard. Representative
JDodge made the presentation speech
nnid paid an eloquent tribute to the
speaker and clerk.
Governor Sheldon signed the termi
Bal tax bin fifteen minutes after the
bill was placed on his desk. The bill
has no emergency clause and will not
affect the assessment of railroad prop
erty this ye*
The state-wide primary bill passed
the house on the 29th, as amended by(
the senate. Dodge, of Douglas, moved,1
that all the amendments be adopted
with the exception of section 30, re-'
lating to the promulgation of the'
party platform and the selection of
a state committee, and on this ques
tion he asked for thu appointment
of a conference committee. His mo
tion was defeated. The senate passed
the bill by a vote of 30 to 3, every
senator going on record. Though the
.bjJl.dvas recommitted at the forenoon
session for an amendment which Sen
ator Aldrich wanted to attach, the
change was not made and the bill was
placed on its passage at the opening
of the afternoon session. The three
senators who voted against the meas
ure were Ashton, Latta and Hanna.
Ashton and Latta are f jsionistg while
Hanna is a republican. Ashton ex
plained his vote in a written state
ment. declaring the primary would
cost the state $200,000 a year. The
bill goes to the governor at once.
The proposed law, to go back to the
old system of precinct or township
elective assessors, was defeated in the
house by a vote of 40 to 42. The bill
was introduced by Johnson of Saline
and applied only to counties of less
than 25,000. In these counties the
county assessor was to be done away
with and the deputy assessors, instead
of being appointed by him, were to be
elected in each precinct or township.
There was a considerable demand for
the bill by farmers who declare that
assessors are appointed from the
towns which give the merchants in
the towns the best of the bargain at
the expense of the farmers.
The house passed the Adams and
Doran stock yards hills with practic
ally the Douglas county delegation
opposed. Some of the members from
Douglas county did not vote for the
bills. The contest came up la the
afternoon when Thiessen of Jefferson
moved to recommit H. R. 495 by Do
ran to provide an amendment that
commission men should charge 50
cents a head for selling cattle, 25
cents a head for calves, 15 cents for
hogs and 5 cents for sheep. This was
quickly voted down when Clarke of
Douglas made a motion that the bill
be indefinitely postponed. It received
only 8 votes.
Among the more important bills
passed was an amendment to the
Hirsch law by Cone. It seeks to rem
edy the defects in the Hirsch elevator
law by providing a means through
which railroads are required to furnish
trackage to elevators The limit in ca
pacity of elevators to which railroads
are required to furnish side tracks is
also reduced to 10.000 bushels. The
bill provides that the elevator man
must be ready to put up the cost of
building the side track, but forbids dis
crimination between two elevators in
one place and requires the railroads
to treat all elevator men in one local
ity alike.
The senate finance committee rec
ommended for passage H. R. 295,
which provides for a heating plant at
the Peru Normal school. The action
of the committee in indefinitely post
poning the bill appropriating $2,000
for a subhatchery for fish in Cherry
county was reversed by the senate
after a fight by Senator Hanna. After
securing the reconsideration of the
vote he moved the bill be placed on
general file, and after a heated de
bate In which members of the finance
committee declared the action would
open up the way for a wholesale re
versal of the action of the commit
tee, the motion carried.
Wilsey of Frontier, chairman of the
railroad committee of the senate,
gently laid fifteen bills on the secre
tary’s desk after a motion had been
carried to indefinitely postpone all
senate files not on the general file or
advanced to third reading. The batch,
with one or two exceptions, applied
directly to railroads, but; in the entire
lot there is not one that is not wholly
or partly covered by bills already
passed by one or both of the two
houses. Many of them related to the
qualifications and powers of the rail
way commission and some related to
maximum rates of commodities.
The senate expunged from the rec
ords a resolution offered by Sibley
of Lincoln county early in the session
censuring Assistant Secretary F. P.
Corrick. The trouble came about
through the publication of some let-'
ters from some of Sialey’s constit
uents protesting against a stringent
anti-pass law.. Senator Sibley offered
the resolution apparently while an
gered at the publication of the letters.
It was never pushed and has been al
lowed to lie dormant until, when, by
unanimous vote, a motion by Randall
of Madison to expunge It from the
records carried.
The last county option bill was in
definitely postponed in the house by a
vote of 40 to 37, made by Lahners of
Thayer county. The measure was in
troduced by E. W. Brown of Lancas
ter after the original postponement.
The defeat of the Thomas bill to re
duce the rates charged by sleeping
car companies in this state was one
of the features of a senate session.
Aldrich of Butler moved to recommit
the bill to the committee of the whole
for specific Amendment so as to per
mit the railroad -commission to control
tates as will as the running of sleep
ing cars on trains. Clarke of Adams
moved to table the whole matter,
which would have carried with it the
original bill. King of Pelk spoke ia
opposition to the motion to table. It
was defeated, thus killing the measure.
The physical connection telephone
bill is among the measures left on
general file by the sifting committee.
Five hundred and fifty-eight bills were
introduced in the house and only a
small portion of this number has been
considered or advanced. The Benate
killed the Thomas bill, cutting the
fares on sleeping car rates and that
the house sifting committee imme
diately afterward advanced the house
sleeping car bill to the sifting file,
together with the bill cutting express
rat'ts.
ARCHIE ROOSEVELT.
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Son of the President, who has been very ill. but is now rapidly recovering
from his attack of diptheria.
DIDN’T SEND THE SEATS.
Actor Not so Gallant as the Fair Ones
Had Expected.
A well-known American actor, who
i;< old enough not to consider himself
a matinee idol hy any means, was
somewhat surprised and pleased in a
St. Louis hotel a short time ago, when
a pretty girl stopped him in the corri
dor and presented him with a rose,
without saying a word. He was more
surprised and less pleased to receive
a note the following day reminding
him of the incident, and asking him to
send the giver of the flower two seats
at the theater in which he was play
ing “as a memento of the occasion."
“My dear young lady,” the actor re
plied. waxing sarcastic as he realized
what had been the object of the atten
tion he had been paid, “i would be
glad to send you the seats you ask
for, but, on consultation with the man
ager of the theater. 1 have been in
formed that the seats are all fastened
down, and that he is opposed to hav
ing them sent away as souvenirs in
any event, so that you will have to be
contented with an autograph for a
souvenir of your benevoleuce of yes
terday instead.”—Montreal Herald.
Romance of the Bible House.
Front this huge building, in Astor
place. New York city, authority radi
ates to the uttermost ends of the
earth. Let its directors say the word
STRANGE METHOD (
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Ferry over New River at Brawley, Cal. The cage is suspended by pulleys
to a cable and is pulled back and forth by another cable.
and cargoes of Bibles, marvelously
printed in the quaintest and most bar
barous of tongues, will go on camels
or elephants crashing through the
jungles of Africa and Siam; on queer
little llamas over the great passes of
the Andes between Bolivia and Peru;
on the heads of cannibal coolies round
about the base of the Mountains of
the Moon, near the source of old
Father Nile; on camel back across the
burning deserts of Nubia and Arabia
the Stony, or in flat-bottomed boats
towed by man with bamboo cables
through the deep gorges of the
Yangtse river.—The Circle.
Poll Parrot as a Game Bird.
While the parrot is a bird of beauti
ful plumage, as a table delicacy it is
not recommended, as I know from sad
experience. My first essay at eating
a parrot was attended with modified
success. The bird must have .been
comparatively young, and after sev
eral hours boiling became soft enough
to masticate and finally swallow, leav
ing behind it an impression that we
had lunched on the sole of a rubber
boo*.—Field and Stream.
Sadly Misunderstood.
A London journalist says that Amer
ican women go abroad for husbands
bemuse they want to be bossed. And
thy great mass of American husbands
wli; rise to remark feelingly to a man,
"Bow little he knows our noble wom
en!”—Baltimore American.
Rejected Manuscript.
The rejected manuscript is often the
foundation of a writer's, fame when
the author perseveres in the face of
discouragement until he finds an edi
tor to accept hip contribution.
gan to ring the bells. One night re
cently the village was roused by the
notes of the Angelus. It was no call
to mass, still less a Are alarm; it
was a mistake of the mayor. The
moon, breaking through the clouds
Just before going down, had brought
him from his bed thinking it was sun
rise. And now he is awaiting a letter
from the prefect reproaching him, and
perhaps revoking him for having
rung the church bells before sunrise.
Danger in Being Too Good.
Jimmy—W’at ails yer? Yer don’t
go in fur no fun at all nowadays.
Tommy—No; I'm bein’ good. I’m
goin’ to have a birthday soon an’ I
want ter get a present—
Jimmy—Better be keerful an’ not be
too good or mebbe they won’t give yer
nothin' but a Bible.—Philadelphia
Press.
No Yelling How Long.
Visitor—How long are you in for,
my poor man?
Prisoner—Dunno, ma'am.
Visitor—How can that be?
Prisoner—It's a life sentence.
As in Real Life.
Opportunity knocked once at a
man's door. But the man was out
just then, wresting from a reluctant
world the wherewithal to feed his
wife and babies. Opportunity passed
on. It mostly always happens like
that.—Judge.
Something Like It.
“I asked the boss to supplement my
salary to-day." •
"Did he do it?”
“No; gave me the haha."
^Sort of comic supplement, eh?"
THE EVER READY PUMP.
No Trick at All to Make Customer
What He Wanted.
William Barclay Parsons, the en
gineer, is a foe to scamped work, and
at a recent dinner he said:
“That man is most unwise who tries
to get his work done cheaply. Cheap
work can always be secured, but the
quality of such work is on its face—”
Mr. Parsons, smiling, interrupted
himself to tell a story.
“There was a man,” he said, “who
entered a dairy and asked how much
the milk was.
“ ’Ten cents a quart, sir,’ the young
woman behind the counter answered.
“The man looked disappointed.
“Haven't you got any for six cents?’
he asked.
”Xo,’ said the vonng woman: ‘but,’
she added, ’we can soon make you
some.’ ”
Mayor as Bell Ringer.
The following story is told in Paris
of a village priest and a mayor: In
a village in the department of the Ain
the cure was his own church warden.
For want of money the church was
abandoned, and for many days the vil
lagers heard no Angelus when work
ing in the fields at daybreak, at noon,
and in the evening. The mayor, a re
tired gendarme, an ardena radical,
missed the cure and the chimes as
much as any other villager, and when
the cure had been gone a week he be
OF CROSSING RIVER.
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HAVE LOST CUNNING
COUNTERFEITERS TURNING OUT
NO GOOD WORK.
For Many Year* There Have Been
No Spurious Banknotes to Worry
the Money World—The “Mon
roe Hundred.”
There is one lost art among crim
inals, one trade which United '•States
secret service men have seemingly
wiped out to the very last man. This
is the art of counterfeiting currency,
says the Kansas City Star. Kansas
City bank officials Isay that for eight
years not one spurious banknote
worthy of passing comment has been
handled in the money world. They
declare that the day of successful
counterfeiting has come to an end.
"Not a banknote which fools the ex
perts is on the market,” said E. F.
Swinney, president of the First na
tional bank. “There is counterfeit
currency, plenty of it,” he said, “but
it's a kind detected almost at a glance.
Inspection of it quickly reveals the
flaws. Usually the work is clumsy.
But not since the notorious gang in
Philadelphia which made the famous
"Monroe hundred" was wiped out has
there been a really clever counterfeit
er at work. At least, we have no rec
ord of any.
The "Monroe hundred" was a $100
silver certificate with the face of
President Monroe stamped upon it.
It was of a series of 1901, check letter
D, Tillman register. Morgan treasur
er. It was an absolutely perfect coun
terfeit. Experts in the treasury de
partment were fooled by it. The notes
became so numerous and were ac
cepted so extensively that the gov
ernment called in its entire issue of
?hf bill, amounting to several mil
lion dollars. Even now a ‘Monroe
hundred" is occasionally picked up
and is almost impossible to tell
whether it is genuine or not.
"The only difference between the
genuine bill and the counterfeit was
in the shape of the figures 3 and 4
and the length of the bill. In the fig
ure 3 the lower loop did not extend up
so far toward the center of the figure
as it should have extended. In the
figure 4 the space between the base
and the center cross line was nar
rower than it should have been. The
false bill was one-sixteenth of an
inch shorter than the genuine.
“Such irregularities would easily
• pass the eye of an expert,” Mr. Swin
ney said. “Of course, if a genuine
bill was laid before you. and you had
the opportunity to compare the two,
after some study the defects could be
noted. But think of the number of
money handlers who had the counter
feit bill who had no opportunity for
such comparison.
“The gang which made the Monroe
hundred" was arrested in Philadelphia
in 1899. The plates which printed the
bills were recovered and the counter
feiters sentenced to long terms in
prison.
"With the end of that gang,” Mr.
Swinney said, “there seems to have
been an end of successful counterfeit
ing. Not since 1899 has the govern
ment been forced to recall any cur
rency issue. Crooks have learned
that to make spurious currency which
wili pass inspection is a hard task.
And they have learned that the pen
alty Uncle Sam makes them pay when
detected is heavy.”
Hadn’t Been Drunk.
He evidently wasn't used to the
ways of big hotels. He looked as
though he might have been from some
farm and was in a large city for the
first time, says the Denver Post.
Somehow he had heard that the next
morning men who have been absorb
ing intoxicants drink lots of ice wa
ter.
“Say," he said to C. T. Newton be
hind the desk at the Shirley hotel
about eight o'clock in the morning,
"the other clerk last night told me to
ask fer things over that little tele
phone in my room when I wanted 'em.
"Yes," said Newton.
“Well, this morning, about a 0a\i
an hour ago, i asked fer a glass of ice
water. Some girl answered the tele
phone.”
"Yes.”
“Well. I don't like to be took fer a
heavy drinker. 1 wasn't drunk last
night.”
“What do you mean?"
“Jes‘ this—I didn't get no glass of
ice-water. That girl sent me up a
whole pitcher. It looked mighty much
to me like she thought 1 was full of
liquor last night and would need a
whole pitcher. A glass would a-been
enough.” And as he turned and
strode away he wwe one of those
"Guess I didn’t call him down, eh?"
’ooks.
Donation Carnegie Refused.
Apropos of Mr. Carnegie's latest
gift, an editor, taking out his note
book, said the other day:
“I can tell you of a gift of $1.50 that
Mr. Carnegie once refused to give. Let
me read you the letter asking for this
gift.”
With a laugh he read:
“Dear Mr. Carnegie—Understanding
that you are blessed at present with
an unusual surplus of income, and
knowing well your generous spirit
and desire to do good to those who
will help themselves, I want to ask
you to make me a contribution of
$1.50.
“When I was a young man my mo
ther gave me a hymnbook, which I
faithfully used. It is now, thanks to
my efforts, worn out, and I think It
should be replaced, and you are the
man to do this.
“Appreciating to the full the gener
ous deeds that have made your name
illustrious in this and other countries,
and believing that in making me this
donation you will be carrying on the
spirit of your work, I am, yours faith
fully, “Mark Twain.
“P. S.—Don't send the hymnbook;
Bend the $1.50. “M. T."
Fierce Bugs.
“Yes, I'm looking for a house. The
roaches where we are now scare my
wife most to death.”
“Nothing scares my wife but mice.”
“Same with my wife, but these
roaches are so I 'g they look like
mice.”—Philadelph'.c Press.
USE ELECTRIC POTATO PEELER
Bread Made at West Point Withoui
Touch of a Hand.
The first thing which attracts one's
attention is the electric potato pee'.er
—a tublike machine with revolving
knives.
A bushel of potatoes is thrown in
at a time, a button is pressed and in
the space of five minutes the tubers
fall into another tub neatly peeled
As four or five barrels of potatoes are
used every day the labor saving o!
the apparatus will be readily under
stood.
One hundred and fifteen loaves of
bread are baked every 24 hours* and
nearly 100 rolls, with occasionally 50
spice cakes. Pies are used once a
week and 125 are baked.
There is an electric bread-mixing
machine, with funnels through which
the flour, water and yeast may flow
according to the wish of the baker.
The loaves are also cut and rolled by
machinery, the whole baking being
done without a hand touching the
bread until it comes from the oven
and is placed on the cooling racks.
An electric dough divider is used
for cutting rolls. The dough is
thrown on an iron plate, and a cutter
drops, separating it into pieces of the
size required for each roll. These
are quickly transferred to a pan and
are set to rise.
The eggs used in cooking are beat
en by electricity, and the silver used
in the dining-room is polished with
a brush run by the same motive
power.
Dishes are washed by placing them
in a wire rack and touching a lever
which causes the rack to sink into
scalding water, where the dishes are
cleaned. Another lever lifts them,
and they are turned out on trays to
dry.
ice is made in the basement, and
comes from the freezer in 50-pound
cakes.
The steriliizng machine is an elec
tric apparatus, and with its aid 180
gallons of milk are sterilized every
morning. The milk is poured into a'
large can and heated to 180 degrees,
which kills the bacteria, and in less
than three-fourths of a minute it is
cooled to 38 degrees.—Leslie’s
Weekly.
COURT TRIALS OF ANIMALS.
In Olden Times They Were Arraigned
Before Justices.
The decision of the southwestern
police court (London) magistrate that
a monkey may use the pavement if
he causes no obstruction, reminds us
that, down to a comparatively late pe
riod on the continent, the lower ani
mals were considered amenable to the
laws. Domestic animals were* tried
in the common criminal courts; wild
animals fell under ecclesiastical ju
risdiction. French antiquaries have
discovered the records of 92 proc
esses against animals, conducted with
the strictest formalities of justice,
from 1120 to 1740. when the last trial
and execution, that of a cc*v, took
place. Thus, there was a lawsuit
that lasted from 1445 to 1487 between
the inhabitants of St. Julien and a
kind of beetle, and at Lavigny, in
1457, a sow and her six young ones
were tried on a charge of having mur
dered a.nd partly eaten a child. The
sow was found guilty and condemned
to death, but the little pigs were ac
quitted on account of their youth, the
bad example of their mother, and the
absence of direct proof against them.
—London Chronicle.
Chewers of Tea Leavos.
“I had an odd case of tea chewing
the other day,” said a physician..'“Tbe
man was yellow and emaciated. He
had been chewing China tea for
seven years.
‘‘He said that at first tea chewing
had had a wonderfully stimulating ef
fect on him.
" ’I drank in those days,' he admit
ted frankly, ‘and sometimes I would
turn up at the shop after putting away
20 or 25 beers with only three hours
of sleep to my credit. Naturally I'd
feel seedy, but, sir, by chewing a few
mouthfuls of tea I’d become almost
as alert and fresh as ever again.’
‘‘As the habit grew on the man.
though, its stimulating effect died. It
finally failed to stimulate him at all,
but without it he was nervous, he got
headaches and he had no appetite.
“Of course I advised him to aban
don tea chewing—to abandon it grad
ually. What interested me in his case
was his claim that in teashops—he
worked in a teashop—the chewing of
the leaves was a fairly common
thing."
Goose Is Intelligent Bird.
A farmer would scarcely believe
that a goose requires only about 60
hours in order to prepare it for the
footlights and a critical audience, and
that a common pig, which has been
bought in the market, will in 30 hours
be competent to blossom forth as an
actor. According to Mr. Clyde Pow
ers, a trainer of wide experience and
much patience, it takes a duck about
three days to learn how to march on
the stage, to follow the chorus, and to
march off again at the proper time; it
takes a chicken a week or more, and
a turkey cannot grasp the art of act
ing before six months’ time. Mr. Pow
ers has tried to train a peafowl, but
be finds that it is impossible. A goose
is the most intelligent of all the feath
ered tribe, and a goose is also the
only one of the domestic fowls that
shows affection.—Leslie’s Weekly.
Made an Impression.
The witty vicar of a country parish
in the north of England was often
pained at the apparent apathy dis
played by njembers of his congrega
tion towards matters'of religion. He
did his best to impress them for good,
but somehow he seemed to make very
unsatisfactory progress. One day, as
he was out for a ride on horseback in
his parish, the horse made a sudden
plunge, and he found himself lying
full length on his back in a ditch
bottom. Fortunately, it was soft,
otherwise the consequences might
have been more serious. He got up
and, taking a survey of the place, ex
claimed as he walked away:
“Well, there is at least one place
in my parish now where I have left
an impression.”
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"I am not conventional, myself,"
I said the young man who had seen a
great deal of life. He was speaking
to the debutante.
“I think that’s so nice of you," said
the girl, with enthusiasm.
"I’m afraid that I shock good peo
ple sometimes,” said the young man.
complacently.
“I just love people who do that,”
said the girl.
■ “I speak my mind, don’t you know.”
said the young man. "I have my own
ideas on things and I'm not ashamed
to tell them: If people don’t like them
it is a matter of perfect indifference
to me. Now, I don't think I shall ever
become engaged, for one thing. Not
that I think there i3 anything wrong
with engagements, only I take a
broad view of It. The trouble is.
generally speaking, that, women are
narrow in theirs. Yon see. they al
ways want to monopolize a man. 1
' don't think that is right, exactly.”
“It doesn’t seem exactly right, does
it?” said the girl.
The young man looked pleased.
"Now, I thought that I was going to
shock you,” he said. "1 didn't hink
you would agree with me. You really
have more intelligence than most
girls—far more.”
“I'm afraid you are trying to flatter
me.” said the debutante.
“No. indeed," said the young man.
“That’s exactly- the thing 1 wouldn't
do. I never do it. If I think a thing
I say it, whether it is complimentary
or not. Hut this idea of devotion to
just one girl is all wrong. 1 can ad
mire one girl very much indeed, but
I don.'t see that that is any reason
why I shouldn’t admire others, do
you?”
No. indeed, replied the debutante.
"One girl has one quality and an
other has some other quality which
the first girl doesn’t have.” said the
young man, argumentatively. "No one
can expect to have all the admirable
traits. That is the way I look at it.
And then, you know, a man isn't al
ways in one kind of mood. At one
time he may be feeling as if he want
ed something lively and then he may
be in a melancholy sort of mood.
There are times when what I want is
to talk to a girl who has repose and
at the same time sympathy and un
derstanding. You know how that i*;,
don’t you?”
“I think I do,” murmured the de
butante.
"But if a fellow is engaged to that
sort of girl and some time when he
wants a little fun he wants to—er—
talk with a lively Sort, then the other
one gets mad and makes trouble.
Then, too. a girl may be good-look
ing. Well, I’m a great admirer of
beauty. I just like to look at it. but
beauty won’t satisfy a man. There
isn’t any one thing that will, so far
as that goes. A man wants variety
Even in the matter of looks. I might
think of a blonde and when I saw a
fine-looking brunette would feel pleas
ure in looking at her. too. But the
blonde wouldn't want to stand for
that, you know. She'd get sore—er —
angry, don’t you know. Why should
she? Nearly all the girls I know
have some points about, them that I
like. Some of them are one thing
and some another. Why shouldn’t 1
enjoy them all? That’s the reason I
d<5n’t think that I would ever want to
be engaged.”
"Have I got my points?” asked the
debutante, shyly.
“Hots of them,” answered the young
man. gallantly. “For one thing, you
are liberal in your ideas, and consid
ering how young you are that is a
great deal. And then you are beauti
ful. No. I mean it, honest. Your
type of beauty is the one that I pre
fer to any other, too. You mustn’t mind
if 1 speak frankly, you know. 1 have
to. If anybody asks me a question I
always tell him the truth. I like peo
pie to be frank, but they very seldom
are.”
“I know that's true." said the de
butante. “To tell you the truth. I'm
a good deal that way myself. I've
that same liking for variety. I like
some men for one thing and some for
another, and just as you say, we have
different moods in which certain peo
pie appeal to us more than others.
Sometimes I like men to talk to me
and just listen and at other times
they make me tired and I want to do
some talking myself. Some men talk
on interesting subjects and others
don’t. When Mrs. Gipsen presented
you to me I just felt as if you would
interest me.”
“Now, I’m afraid you are flattering
me.” said the young mao, with a grat
ified air.
“I assure you that I’m not,” replied
the debutante. “I am telling you the
exact truth. 1 always do. You
mustn't mind if I speak frankly,
either. I have to. Just now I feel in
the idood to talk to Mr. Robinson.
He’s standing over by the door now
looking at us. You don’t mind if I
beckon to him. do you?”—Chicago
Daily News.
Expect Duchess at Newport.
It is almost assured that two
duchesses—her grace of Marlborough
and her grace of Roxburgbe— will be
in Newport the coming season. They
have been expected there for several
years, but always something has bap
pened to prevent their coming. The
former is expected to visit her moth
er Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, and the
latter to spend several weeks of the
summer with her mother, Mrs. Ogden
Goelet. •
A Happy Accident
We ask God to forgive us for our
evil thoughts and\ evil temper, but
rarely if ever ask Him to forgive us
for our sadness. Joy is regarded as
a happy accident of our Christian life,
an ornament and a luxury, rather than
a duty.—R. W. Dale.
Pointer for Grandma.
My little nephew, when he was
three years old, was visiting his grano
ma one day and as she was about t»
give him a piece of bread and but
ter he looked up at her and said.
“Cut it good and big, grandma, for Cod
loves the cheerful giver."