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VOLUME JL1U, NUMBER 4
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A PORT OP MISSING MEN
: ;From the Graham & Morton dock,
ait the foot of Wabash avenue, three
trien walked Into the Chicago river
recently. Pour policemen wearily
fished them out and left them to dry
on the wharf.
These three men. are daily asso
ciates of the following distinguished
.persons:
. A brother of President Harrison'
law partner.
A son of a millionaire brewer.
- . A brother of a stock exchange
operator.
A brother of a Chicago police
official.
Some day one of these four men
may decide to take a promenade in
the water and perhaps the police will
get them out, and perhaps they
won't For the four distinguished
persons, as well as the three undis
tinguished persons, are only "wharf
rats," and their deaths would prob
ably trouble the cky as little as their
near-deaths trouble the officers who
rescued the three.
There is a story called "The Port
of Missing Men." O. Burke, dock
superintendent for Graham & Mor
ton, thinks he knows where the port
is. Hundreds of men have dropped
suddenly out of sight. Many of these,
according to Mr. Burke, are laboring
now along the docks of the Chicago
river, unloading boats for 25 cents
an hour, and, like the three who
nearly drowned, occasionally drop
ping, or nearly dropping, out of all
existence.
Two years ago the Chicago police
official's brother first drifted down
to the docks. It was another year
before his fellow workers discovered
that he had relatives in Chicago. In
America's Most
HMBanHKBUHHi
Famous
Songs
How often have you wished for a
book containing the old. old songs:
for after all, the songs nearest to
our hearts are the ones we knew as
children and the ones our children
are singing today.
We have just examined a music
folio entitled America's Most Fa
mous Sobkm) these comprise the
best known songs, Including patri
otic, home, love, southern and folk
songs. Songs like the following:
Alice, Where Art ThohT
Battle Cry of Freedom,
Dcb Dolt,
Dixie Land,
GIbht-'s Warning,
Heart Bowed Down,
Katklcea Mavouraeem,
IiHt Rose of Summer,
Rocked la the Cradle of the Deep,
Whea Yon and I Were Youag, Maggie,
and 50 other universal songs of
America with music, and piano ac
companiment, in large clear print
and on good paper.
We have been so favorably Im
pressed with this splendid collec
tion of songs, and feel so certain
that nine out of every ten readers
of The America Homestead Will
bo anxious to own tho book that we
.have made arrangements with the
publisher In New York to reserve a
liberal supply for our readers.
IDach subscriber to The Americas
Homestead who sends us twenty
five cents to pay for a year's sub-r
scrlptlon to tho paper, and ten cents
to pay for wrapping and postage
on the book of songs will receive
a copy with our compliments.
This .offer will hold good as long
as the present edition of the books
laatH. and rcauests for the book will
be filled in tno oraer mat tney reach
this, office. We caution everyone to
be prompt In sending for tho book.
If your subscription Is already paid
in advance, tho 2S cents remitted
-will atlll further TOva,nda your ex
piration uvb wrr year.
The AmericatiHomestead
Uacola, Nebraska
the winter the official's brother dis
appeared. It Li said that hU brother
pays his way ont of town. During
the summer he can stay drunk with
the assurance that he will not be
arrested. Yet it was not drink alone
that put him on the dock, It was
his wife, Mr. Burke says.
The brother of the stock exchange
man has been on th dock for three
years. His brother long ago gave
him up, but his sister, the wife of
a wealthy real estate dealer, etill
labors with him.
The son of the millionaire brewer
Is a German. Superintendent Burke
identifies him by a long scar o& the
right side of his jaw. He got it long
ago In a Germany university. Every
month he receives a remittance of
$150. It lasts him a night.
The man whoso brother was a law
paTtner of Benjamin Harrison seldom
labors. He says his name is Farley.
He speaks three languages, reads
Latin, and can discuss literature and
music.
Then there are others disbarred
lawyers, doctors, who have fallen
victim to their own drugs, wrecked
men of twenty different professions.
There is a checker player who once
earned large sums for his exhibition,
poets, musicians, and murderers.
One of the three was named John
son, another "Beefsteak," another
"Scratches." Perhaps they haye
other names, but they did not tell
them. When Mr. Burke makes out
their pay checks he calls them, for
the sake of convenience, Smith, or
Brown, or Jones, or anything else
which happens to strike his mind. It
is unimportant, because the pay
checks are never for more than 60
or 75 cents and are soon cashed in
the nearest saloon.
This casual attitude is the thing
which draws the men to- the docks.
At 3 o'clock every morning a Gra
ham & Morton steamer comes loaded
with the fruit. The fruit must be
moved into warehouses quickly. Two
or three hours of working time is as
much as they want. Chicago Tribune.
cal; every religious man Is mora or
lees of mystic and except to a
kindred soul there must seem to be
something veiled and esoteric about
him. The Jew's three thousand
years of devotion to a religious ideal
-an Ideal never perfectly lived up
to and frequently basely betrayed
has given him, perhaps to a larger
degree than other men, the inner
qualify which Messrs, Locke and
Galsworthy say they can not appraise
but they are in error In attributing
it to fundamental differences of
blood. The Aryan races, given the
same history end an equally fair
fidelity, would have produced the
same result. The rear difference is
not In blood it is in Weltan
schauung. Mr. London's argument sounds so
fair and reasonable that it is hard
at first reading to detect the fallacy
in it. Yet fallacy there is. Surely
no one ould maintain that there are
no wrong-doers among the Jews, or
that they are to be depicted in litera
ture as being all angels. Insofar
both Mr. London and Mr. Locke are
right. Where they are wrong is
this: Probably because the Jews
are a persecuted people and, when
not persecuted, living under ostra
cism or prejudice they ate judged
by their evil types and the persecu
tion and prejudice are fed by such
types. If a novel dealt only with
Jewish characters' no objection could
possibly be made to a villainous
Jewish character among others.
When, however, only one Jew is
introduced and he is a villain there
Is good ground tor objection that
we aTe treated unfairly; Shylock is
not the hero of Shakespeare's "Mer
chant of Venice," but it is the best
known character of the play and in
many minds the classic type of Jew.
"Our Mutual Friend" iiv, probably
more read than' ''Oliver Twfst." Yet
Riah is forgotten while Fagin has
been immortalized in journalese.
Daniel Deronda and Mordecai are
noble types of Jews, but the world
refuses to accept them as such. For
two thousand years, the Jew has
been regarded as fair sport for every
hunter, and because Mr. London would
not hit a man when he is down, be
cause he Is the humanitarian he
describes himself and because he
believes in a fair field and no favor,
he should reconsider the .position he
takes. We believe he himself will
agree with us. American Hebrew.
DIFFERENT
Madam Lillian Nordica returned to
Farmington, Me., her old home, after
an absence of thirty years, and sang
"Home, Sweet Home" to her former
friends. She and her audience were
very much affected, but maybe
Madame Nordica would not have felt
that way if she had had "to stay 'there
for the thirty years. Herald and
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THE JEW IN ENGLISH FICTION
Every reader of fiction will have
observed the frequent unpleasant
references to Jews to which atten
tion is drawn in an article which we
publish this week. We have invited
tho opinion of some of the leading
novelists of the English-speaking
world and have pleasure in present
ing them to our readers in this issue.
General satisfaction will be felt at
the sympathetic manner in which
most of the great writers approach
the subject, but a few of the opinions
can not be passed without comment.
By a singular coincidence, Mr.
Locke and Mr. Galsworthy both
speak of being unable to understand
the Jewish people owing to a dif
ference in blood. One confesses his
Inability to get at the "esoterics" of
Jewish character, while the other
speaks of the mystery which veils the
Hebrew from non-Hebrew eyes. With
all duo deference to these distin
guished members of their craft, we
believe them to be in error. There
are no such racial mysteries as they
imagine.
The non-religious or irreligious
jew veils no mysteries, lie is as
frankly materialistic as,.hls Gentile
neighbor of the same attitude toward
religion." In these days of scientific
testing of beliefs, the religious atti
tude has become hard to understand,
and Qhristianity has suffered in this
r8pectieven more than Judaism.
TJie.fccalled advanced thinkers, for
whomySD'kic and science are the final
w'ordsjjhave a perfectly natural In
abllity,o comprehend the Intellec
tual make-up of those who live by
what Beem anachronistic standards.
All religion is more or less mysU-
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