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P—■ _ ! BEING • BUSINESSLIKE j ! i i When the delivery man had pock eted his bulging book and gone pound lng on his way, the oldest daughter of the house shrugged her pretty shoul ders and returned to her guest in the parlor. “Business Is a great fraud," she de clared. "I’ve always said so," responded her friend with some emphasis. “I’ve Just signed an exprossman’s book to show that I've received some thing,” the daughter of the house ex plained. "Now, why sign? I don't know what's In that box. It’s large and heavy, but It may be empty. And yet a delivery man would drop dead if you stopped to look Inside before you signed. No one ever does." "Certainly not,” said her friend, warmly. “That would be quite un professional. What that box contains in a small matter, after all. The point Is, did It come? When you are as old as I am, my dear, you will be gin to understand how many yards of red tape men need to be truly busi nesslike. They put up an appearance of great caution—” "And do the saddest things ever heard of!" “Exactly. Leases that everybody breaks—” “Checks that any one can cash—" “Contracts that no one pays any at tention to—” “Deposit slips that you always lose—" "Passes for the bearer only—but any one may be the bearer—and cards not transferable—” “Adele, I’m so glad to hear you speak so,” cried the hostess. “I've al ways believed that business was so much pretense.” “A most cursory knowledge of busi ness methods—improperly so called— shows how shallow they are.” "I'm so glad you feel as I do, Adele. It’s such a comfort to hear you ex press those convictions. Father has always scolded us girls for not being businesslike, and I've always tried to conceal my ignorance more or less. It seemed such a matter for scorn.” "Scorn? My dear,” said her friend in a tone of finality, “business is in compatible with high thinking.” “Adele,” said the girl suddenly, “how do you send money..” “Seal it up,” snapped her friend “How else?” "You darling! Of course how else! Hut as long as 1 can remember, when ever we sealed up money in an envel ope and father found it out he would throw up his hands and implore the fates to help us. Then he has gone about for days after, uttering instruc tions about 'money orders’ and regis tered letters! Hut neither Ethel nor 1 had ever paid any attention to him until last summer when I went to the country. It was very funny. "I had been away only a short time when Ethel wrote in a rather superior tone that she had sent me a registered letter for $10. Just as if she had been in the habit of doing those things ev ery day of her life! The money didn't surprise me, you know, because she owed it to me. Hut 'registered letter' sounded entirely too ambitious for our little Ethel. “Well, I went down to tlie postoffici* every day for a week, insisting that there was a registered letter for me. Tha postofilce there was a poor excuse of a place, and it had a lot of suspi cious looking clerks. So when my let ter was overdue I just drew myself up and insisted that the letter was there, and so was the money. Hut they did not seem greatly excited. “The people of the town began to interest themselves in my financial condition. It was rumored that I was expecting a lot of money that hadn’t come, so I had to spend money lavish ly to bIiow that I didn't really need it Then I wrote Ethel that something was wrong. And I didn't hint that It served her right. “Her next letter was suitably hum ble. She couldn’t understand what was the matter, but she inclosed a lit tle paper, which, she said, the man at the postofflee had given her as a re ceipt for her money. She said she had given my name and address quite plainly and she suggested that if 1 showed the receipt they might be able to trace the letter. So down I went to the postoffice with the little paper. "‘Here's the receipt,’ I said. Then. Adele. you never heard such a noise as those crazy men made. You'd have thought they had been saving up that guffaw for the best part of their lives. “As soon as they could frame words they asked me in a sort of chorus what I wanted. Naturally, I told them, when my sister had given my address and paid her money she expected that it would be sent to me. I can't tell you all they said. They showed me all the reading matter on that paper, which was enough .to drive any one insane. “But it seems, Adele, that after giv ing your money to the clerk at the postofflee you have to send on the lit tle receipts yourself and put the per son that gets it to the trouble of hav ing it made back into money again. Could anything be more roundabout?” “Then you haven't seen the new forms for money orders?” “Don’t tell me—” “I won’t. Only they’ve added some other kind of ticket—which makes three.” “Goodness, Adele, what’s the point? But tell me—if all that performance is only a money order, what in the world is a registered letter?” ■■11 ■■■■■■1 —1 ■ ■■ ■ I Home Talent Please let me call attention To a serious mistake; The Mutt and Jeff in the K. C. | Post Is v Hum and Flagrant Fake. Quite true. Mutt Bought ja New Suit I predicted that he would; But let me brand tlieCar (toon A naked bold Falsehood. Fact is, both Mutt & Jeff Purchased themselves some (clothes. They bought of one of our stores. Pray where else do you sup [pose? Such swell gents as Jeff [and Mutt C* uld satisfy their whims, In Iieal Hand Tailored (Garments, For $15 Simoleens. And let me tell you to, (Sir! That if you hope to secure A natty suit of all wool, Shaped to your own contour, And hope to get the said (Suit At the cost as small as Jeff, Tis time that you, my [good sir! Were beginning to get hep]) To the Fact that the “U” (System of Tailoring Over the Post office on stone (street, Can tit you for fifteen | dollars, In a suit that can’t be beat. IE MEXICANS ARE DRAWINGI06EIRER Ambassador Do La Barra Writes Article On Situation. IN THE NAME OF PATRIOTISM Insurrecto Leaders Consider It An In vitation to Patsli Up Differ ences—Our Troops to Border Helped. New York, Mar. 15.—Before Senor De La Barra, the Mexican ambassa dor, departed for Washington, he gave out here the proofs of an article which will appear tomorrow in the Indepen dent, on “the situation in Mexico,’ urging all his countrymen, regardless of “all divisions of party, all differ ences between men” to recall the “sa cred interests of our country." and ’ '.o work together for the progress of true democracy and the best improvement of the motherland.” The ambassador wrote this appeal after his conference with Senor Li mantour, the Mexican minister ot fi nance, and he considered it so impor tant that at the very last moment he had it printed. An Invitation. Insurrecto leaders to whom the par agraph was shown said they consid ered it an invitation to come into camp, and its issuance makes more noticeable a trend of events that has been discoverable for thu last three days. After the first shock of surprise in the United States and of alarm anc, distrust in Mexico caused by the dis patch of 20,000 American troops to tb. frontier, there began on the one skit a series of formal diplomatic ex changes between the two powers nr.d on the other a series of carefully weighed interviews and authorized publications in the daily press. Un derneath this current ran a deeper tide of sympathy between countrymen I who might he at odds but were still countrymen. Intervention Means War. “Intervention means war,” said Se nor Liman-tour in so many words. “Intervention?” answered Dz\ F Vasziuez Gomez, the inszzrrecto agent at Washington who has been here for the last three days. “The moment there is intervention there will cease to be an iizsurz-ection. Doth sides w ill make common cause against a com nzon enemy.” In short, it became plain that twc streams of tendency were flowing to a junction. On one side there was a disposition on the part of tho Insui rectos to open negotiations with ;he representatives of the Mexican admin istration hez-e; on the other thpze wa ft growing understanding between the Mexican government and the United States. Virtually Senor Limantour is willing to have it understood that it the United States Will take care of smuggling, his government will take care of the insurrection Senor Limantour Thinks We Keep Up the Revolution. _____ I HE IS GREATLY DISTRESSED We Not Only Send Men But Supply Money, Munitions of War and Sympathy to the Insurrectos. -— New York, Mar. 15.—Americana are directly responsible for the revolution In Mexico, according to the statements of.Senor Jose Yvea Limantour, the Mexican minister of finance in an in terview at the Plaza hotel. Not only are Americans taking an active part in the field operations of the inaur rectos, Senor Limantour declares, but they are also supporting the rebels with sympathy, money and munitions of war, sent from the United States. "I am greatly distressed," said Se nor Limantour, "by the persistent dis patches from El Paso and from other points along the border, telling of the activity In (Mexico, particularly of the destruction of railroad property and the smuggling of arms and ammunl tlon over the border. "These dispatches indicate that Americans have taken as great a part in the Insurrection as have the Mex leans. Americans who have allied themselves with the insurrection In Mexico can scarcely expect protection under their own flag any longer, and It seems obvious that they must take their own chances when making dep redatlons and destroying property un der a foreign flag. "I am convinced that except for the sympathy, the financial support and actual participation of Americans Id battles, the insurrection, particularly In Sonora and Chihuahua could not] continue.” The minister referred to an Amerl can whom he did not name, but whe was easily identified as Creighton, for merly a resident of New York, who If reported as having helped destroy bridges. "I am informed,” said the minister "that he is leading a band of despe radoes along the line of the Mexican National railway and that his band is burning bridges, tearing up tracks and creating other outrageous depreda tions. I wonder if these individuals and the other Americans who have had sympathy with them and taken part in the insurrection, realizo the significance and importance of tlieii attitude and acts? "It is pretty generally known that the line of the Mexican National rail way between Juarez and Torreon practically out of business because oi the depredations committed by Mexi can rebels led by Americans and their American sympathizers. In the territory served by the strip of rail way are about 30,000 people who are engaged and employed in the mining industry chiefly. Practical suspension of business is the rule in this section In all lines of Industry. iius means uiai mere are tnou sands of men out of work and alsc that when they are idle they are in cited by some of my disloyal country men and Americans to join the insur rectionary movement under the prom ise of some marvelous benefits. “I will appeal once more to the good sense and sober judgment, not only ol my own people but of ail Americans to think before giving the movemenf support even of a moral character. “The Mexican government and my self have assurances from the United Slates government that there is 11c intent on the part of this country t< intervene in the insurrection and that no further troops will bo sent to the border.” DANVILLE BREATHES EASIER THE grand jury quits elec tion PROBE. ----4 While Claiming That Much Crime Ex ists They Are Unable to Secure Evidence to indict. Danville, 111., Mar. 15.—After seven weeks of investigation which cost Ver million county thousands of dollars and after asking the preparation ol hundreds of true bills against prom inent politicians, the grand jury con cluded its wort, by the return of four-' teen indictments against obscure elec-! tion workers and allowed all the "big fish” to elude the net. Former Foreman Isaac Woodyard, whose return to the jury room after a long illness was expected to give the investigators "backbone” and result In the indictment of those "higher up," is indignant at what he considers the "outrageous laxity” of the jury and state’s attorney. In extenuation of the failure to ac complish anything of importance tho grand jury made public a set of reso lutions which, in view of their final report, was considered remarkable. They claim that evidence wa3 conceal ed. Some of the jurors are Inclined to shift all the blame for the fizzle onto the shoulders of the state’s attor ncy. The indictments returned charge conspiracy to buy votes and perjury. Politicians here are laughing in their sleeves at the outcome of the inquiry and the reputable citizenship of the town is indignant at the success of the ! politicians in thus quieting the scan I dal. 1 BWa^gg^^BgBg..II l !. . - , INSURRECTOS NOT DISMAYED DR. GOMEZ MAKES STATEMENT AT WASHINGTON. Revolutionists Will Lay Down Arms Only When Their Demands Are Granted. New York, Mar. 15.—’Dr. Francesco Gomez, leader of the Washington Junta of the Insurrectionists In Mex ico, delivered a general defiance of tho Mexican government Just before he departed for Washington. Doctor Gomez, who has been here several days in consultation with Gustave Ma dera, said: "The revolutionists will lay down their arms only when their demands are granted. If the demands are not granted we shall continue to fight to the death. We are not worried over the presence of United States troops In Texas. "We, that is the Insurrectionists, be lieve that the movement of troops la directed against Mexico as well as to the smuggling of arms, but Is not purely directed against the Insurgents. The government Is now realising the seriousness of the Insurgent move ment and the whole country Is thor oughly alarmed. "There are 12,000 men under arms In 20 states out of 31 states, fighting for the insurgent cause. In addition to our physical strength actually In the field we have many American men in high places who are not only sym pathizing with us In our struggle but are secretly aiding us with resources.” SIX AMERICANS WERE KILLED All the Men Who Fell in a Mexican Skirmish Belonged This Side of the Border. El I’aso, Tex., Mar. 15.—Federal troops from Matamoras and Torreon caught a baud of rebels at Coyote Ha cienda near Torreon last Saturday, according to mail advices, and there was considerable loss on each side. The rebels had Just robbed the ha cienda. Friday in a fight at Sauclllo Ha cienda 300 rebels and 100 regulars met and six rebels were killed, all Americans, but unidentified. Galena, in tuc state of Nuevo Leon, to which Governor Reyes fled a year ago when in a controversy with Dlr.z, is in rebellion now. REUNION OF ROUGH RIDERS Col. Roosevelt Met His Comrades of Spanish War at Albuquerque, New Mexico. Albuquerque, N. M., Mar. 15.—For mer President Roosevelt was In his glory today, renewing friendships with old comrades in arms of the Spanish Amerlcan war. The Rough Rider reg iment, of which Roosevelt was colonel, opened its annual reunion here today, and the colonel was tne principal speaker at the opening exercises. The reunion will come to a close tomor row. Mrs. and Miss Roosevelt Joined the colonel’s party here and will stay with him during the remainder of his trip. Governor Sloan of Arizona met the Roosevelt party here and will act as their guide during the visit to the Grand Canyon. 110 Years for This Missourian. Sedalia, Mo., Mar. 15.—‘‘Uncle Dan’’ Bartlett, w ho for the first time in his life of 110 years is ill at his home here, is believed to be the oldest white man in Missouri, lie was born in Boonville, Mo., in 1801. Without leav ing the state he has lived under Spanish, French and American rule. •'Uncle Dan” says the first event he remembers was the trial of Aaiou Burr in 1807. Frank Burt of Wichita Enters Plea In Court, HE SOLD STOLEN STAMPS! It Is Charged That a Bank President and a Joint Keeper Were Also Implicated in the T ransaction. . Wichita, Has., Mar. 15.—Frank Burt, former chief of police, pleaded guilty in the federal court here to the charge of selling stolen postage stamps. Burt had anuounccd his intention earlier in the day through Harry J. Bone, United States district attorney. I,. F. Naftzger, former president of the Fourth National bank, who was arraigned together with Burt, entered a plea of not guilty. Although Burt is held on four different indictments, each containing four counts, it was an nounced that he would not be tried at once, but would be used as a state's witness against Naftzger and Frank Callahan, a joint keeper who was in dieted at the same time. Callahan did not enter a plea, but asked for further time in which to con sult a lawyer, saying that such priv ilege has been denied him. Such per mission was granted and lie will be arraigned tomorrow morning. Later, bis attorney stated that he would light tho case, entering a plea of not guilty. Hurt's action was unexpected, and a big surprise to Naftzger and Calls ban. Callahan has never been releas ed from custody since the Indictment, being unable to furnish tho $20,000 bond required at the time. Hurt and Naftzger are still at liberty on bond. Naftzger refused to mako any state meat concerning Hurt’s action, but at torneys for tho banker said they would attack the former chief's character and attempt to show that ho Is trying to save himself at the expense of in nocent men. Naftzger, Hurt and Callahan wore indicted by the federal grand Jury Sep tombor 14, 1910, for receiving and hav lng In their posscuwlon, "wrongly and with intent to dispose of, quantities of stamps," stoleu In August from the postolllees at Iiopo and Hurdlck, iu Kansas. Naftzger has been president of the hAourth Natloual bank for 18 years. He was rich. Hurt had been twice chief of polloe, and bad recently resigned under fire. Callahan, owner of "Callahan's Dive," was at the time under a sentence of from five to teu years for robbing the poitofilee at Milan. Kan Kansas Ctrl’s Scholarships. Lebo, Kan., Mar. 4*.—The Rev. Roger P. Stephenson of this city re ceived word that his daughter, Mlsa Corlnne, has won a traveling scholar j ahlp at Vassar college. 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