Cottage Grove leader., March 01, 1910, Image 3

CHINESE ROUT LAMA
MOB DEFIES B AYO N E TS.
D iterm t ‘ 'f in
Soldiers” — Qenere
Strike May Be Celled.
CAR STRIKERS RIOT
Philadelphia, Feb. 23.— According
to a statement itaued today by the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit company,
the amount o f damage done today and
the number o t aaiaultt committed by
moba were greater than on any prev-
ioua day of the atrike.
Two hundred and ninety-five cart
were wrecked, making 760 cart put
Trouble Hat Long Been Expected— out o f eervice tince the ttrike began. | Boys Set Fire to Cars— Passengers
Six hundred and tixty-three cart
Are Stoned in Many Localities
Chínete Government Determ­
were run up to nightfall, when all cart
— 3,000 Deputies Sworn In.
ined to Ditperte Monkt.
were returned to the barnt.
Grand Mead ot Tibetan Monks
Flees to India.
Philadelphia Terrorized by Angry
Mob of Union Sympathers
SACRED CITY OF LHASSA TAKEN
STRAY BULLETS INJURE MANY
Calcutta, Britith Ind a, Feb. 24.—
Chinese troops today entered Lhataa,
the capital of Tibet, and the retidence
of the Dalai Lama, the tupreme head
o f the Lam aiit hierarchy, who, upon
the approach o f the eoldiera, tied with
eevernl of bit ministère into India.
Senout trouble has been expected,
owing to the action o f the small Chi­
nese army, which, marching from Sze-
Chuen, China, subdued Eastern Tibet,
levying contribution* on the Lama’s
home and showing no respect for the
monasteries.
The Tibetara, resenting the dese­
cration o f their holy places, petitioned
tbe Chinese foreign board, praying
that the emperor of China interfere in
the interest o f the Buddhists. The pe­
tition was disregarded, the Chinese
propose to make the administration of
the country purely Chinese.
The Dalai Lama appealed to Lord
Minto, the viceroy o f India, but he re­
fused to interfere.
London, Feb. 24.— The flight from
Lhassa o f the Dalai Lama will cause
no surprise to close observers o f the
Chinese attitude toward tbe Tibetan
people when he was in Pekin.
It became evident then that the
Chinese government had no intention
o f permitting him to reume his sway
at Lhassa, so far as civil power was
concerned, and attempts were even
made to bar his passage on his return
home.
Following its policy o f “ China for
the Chinese,” the government determ­
ined to make more effective its control
over the land o f tbe Lamas. A cam­
paign to this end has been pushed in
the border provinces for the last two
years, and now China has sent an army
o f 26,000 anti-Buddhist troops into the
capital o f Tibet.
This army, which was dispatched
from Sze-Cbuen. has been drilled by
Japanese officers and is completely
equipped with mountain and machine
guns o f German and Japanese patterns
and with wireleas apparatus.
Philadelphia, Feb. 23.— Three boys
were shot and probably fatally injured
and
several
received less severe
wounds today in riots that followed the
attempted resumption of service by the
Philadelphia Rapid Transit company.
The shooting occurred in attacks on
cars in the Northeastern section. Mar­
ket street, the principal
business
thoroughfare, was the scene of the dis­
turbances all day. Cars were Btoned
and two policemen were roughly hand­
led by a mob of Beveral thousannd per­
sons. A dozen arrests were made and
the prisoners were placed in a trolley
car. This was stormed by the mob and
two prisoners escaped.
Preparations were made by author­
ities to call upon the entire force of
the state m ilitia if the police tomor­
row were unable to cope with the sit­
uation.
President Murphy, o f the
Central Labor union, still regards a
general strike o f all unions in the city
as inevitable, although Organiser Pratt
is said to oppose this move.
Members o f the State Feneibles, an
independent m ilitary organization. 200
strong, were placed on duty today,
armed with loaded rifles. They were
detailed in the Kensington mill district
Northeast, a hotbed o f sympathisers.
Fifteen policemen quartered in tbe
barn o f the company at Ridge avenue
and York street narrowly
escaped
death tonight when'the entire north­
east corner o f the building was blown
away with dynamite.
The explosion
occurred just as C. O. Pratt was about
to address a meeting o f carmen at
Ridge avenue and Dauphin street.
C E N SU S OF O C C U P A T IO N S .
Questions Will Apply to Everybody in
the United Slate*.
Philadelphia, Feb. 24.— Police offi­
cials o f the city today virtually ac i-
knowledged their inability tn cope
with th vs t ike situation when a re­
quest as made o f John C. Groome, su­
perintendent o t the state police, that
the 200 members o f his command be
brought to this city for police duty.
This request was made, notwith­
standing that serious rioting was less
frequent today than on any other day
since the strike o f the streetcar men
began last Saturday. The state police
are expected to reach here tom rrow
morning, and will doubtless be sent in­
to the Kensington district, where tbe
State Fencibles had such an unpleasant
experience.
For the first time the Rapid Transit
company succeeded in running its cars
until 6 o’clock on the Frankford line,
which penetrates this unruly territory.
A t that hour all cars were returned to
the barns.
Four policemen guarded each car,
and detectives patrolled the route all
day in automobiles.
Whenever a
group o f men fo med detectives rushed
them and even followed the ringleaders
into houses until they had captured
them. In spite o f the vigilance o f the
police, many car windows were b o-
ken, and the company was finally
obliged to use sheet iron windows in
place of glass panes.
Washington. Feb. 23.—Tbe “ occu­
pation” question in tbe United States
census population schedule to be car­
ried by the enumerators during tbe
Thirteenth Decennial census, begin­
ning April 16 next, applies to every­
body living in tbe United States on the
date mentioned, which ia the “ Census
Day,” and ail the population schedule
questions relate to it only.
In ita printed instructions to enum­
erators the census bureau holds that
the occupation followed by a child or a
woman is just a important, for census
purposes, as the occupation o f a man-
Therefore the enumerators are told
never to take it for granted without
inquiry that a woman or child old
enough to work has no gainful occupa­
tion.
I t is pointed out, however, that only
gainful occupation are to be reported.
By this is meant any employment,
work, profession or vocation by which
the person working regularly earns
money or ita equivalent. The fact
that a person has no gainful occupa­
tion is to be noted on the schedudle.
I f a person is only temporarily unem­
ployed on account o f lack o f work or
sickness, or other temporary reason,
the occupation which that person usual­
ly follows is to be reported.
I f a person has two occupations, the
enumerator must return only the more
important one— that is, the one from
which the person gets the more money.
I f that cannot be learned, then he is
to return the one at which the person
spends the more time. As an illustra­
tion, the enumerators are told to re­
turn a man as a “ farmer” i f he gets
most o f his income from farming, al­
though he may follow the occupation
of a clergyman or preacher; but they
must return him as a "clergym an” if
he gets more o f his income from that
occupation.
Ruth Line Is Dispersed
Los Angeles, Feb. 24. — Senator
Frank P. Flint today sent a telegram
to the weary ones who are still main­
taining tbe line in this city, hoping to
be the first to file on the Yuma lands,
informing them that the order of Sec­
retary Ballinger will stand. The sec­
retary’s order disrupted the line and
ordered all homeseekers to take their
chances in a “ grand rush” on the
morning o f March 1. Those in line
maintain they w ill “ hang on” until
tbe last From 210 the line haa dwind­
led to 166.
House of Lords Lacks Support.
London, Feb. 23 — The players in tbe
game o f politics threw the cards upon
j the table in the house o f commons to­
day. The government is without the
allies necessary to carry legislation and
the prospect ia that the country will be
stirred up by another general election
soon.
Premier Asquith announced
that the financial legislation would be
put ahead o f the proposals to curb the
power o f the house of lords. John E.
Redmond, the Irish leader, declared
flatly that the Nationalists would not
support that program.
Railroad* Make N o Headway.
Baltimore, Feb. 24.— Tbe two pow­
erful railroad labor organizations, the
Order o f Railway Conductors and tbe
Brotherhood o f Railway Trainmen,
tFhich have undertaken to obtain a gen­
eral increase o f the wage scale for all
employes in those branches o f tbe ser­
vice on the principal lines in tbe east­
ern part o f the United State* and in
Canada, have suffered repulse at the
inauguration o f their campaign. Three
weeks o f negotiations ended today
when the company declined to accede
to the demands o f the organization.
Maryland Deemed Unsafe.
Vallejo, Cal., Feb. 23.— The chief
engineering officer of the cruiser Mary­
land haa filed a protest with the Navy
department against sending that ship
to sea for target practice. I t ia simi­
lar to that made by the engineer of the
West Virginia in regard to that ves­
sel, reciting that human life would be
endangered by taking tha ships to sea
with their machinery in ita present
condition. These protests, it is said,
have been favorably indorsed by the
commanding officers o f the two cruisers
end forwarded to Washington.
M eteor Hits Mountains
San Diego, Cal., Feb. 24.— From
Warner’ s Hot Springs, about 70 miles
northeast o f th<s city comes tbe report
that a meteor o f extraordinary size and
brilliancy was seen there this after­
noon. It was traveling from West to
East. Passing the Springs, its course
led into the mountains, where it ex­
ploded with a deafening report and
sent up a great oloud o f dust. The
phenomena was witnessed by several
guests at tbe hotel.
Da Sagan Further Titled.
Paris, Feb. 23.—Charles William
Frederick Boson d* Talleyrand-Peri-
gord, fourth dnke o f Talleyrand and
father of Prince de Sagan, who mar­
ried the Countess de Caatellane, for­
merly Anna Gould, died today. The
duke suffered s stroke o f paralysis as
the result o f his experience in a char­
ity bazaar fire. With the duke’s death
Prince de Sagan succeeds to the titles
o f Duke de Talleyrand and Herzog zu
Sagan, and becomes a Serene Highness
Girl Parades Long as Boy
Moorhead, K y., Feb. 24.— Miss Golds
i* Centrill, 17 years old, today war
sent home by the school trustees afte-
they learned that she had been attend­
ing school as Sam Murray, dressed in
boys’ clothing.
She stood second in
her class.
Several months ago she
earned her living for several weeks as
• “ newsboy” on train*.
Egypt’ s Premier Diet o f Wound.
Cairo, Egypt, Feb. 23. — Boutres
Pasha Chali, the Egyptian premier and
minister of foreign affairs, who was
shot by a student yesterday, died to­
day. Tbe assassin, who is in custody,
is a Nationalist, and declare* he sought
to avenge certain acta o f the govern­
ment which are displeasing to tbe Na­
tionalist*.
S T R IK E R IO T S C O N T IN U E .
Local Police Admit Defeat—State P o ­
lice Called Out.
| Cars wrecked, 297; car windows
• broken, 2,608; arrests made, 40;
• women shot, 2; extra police or-
; dered, 8,000; total employed by
; company, 7,000; strikers’ estimate
I o f men out, 6,200; company’ s esti-
J mate of men loyal, 3,600- strike-
• breakers imported, 175.
THE DAY
WHEN THE SLEEPERS SHALL RISE.
The »tars are »pinning their thread»,
And the cloud» are the du»t that flies.
And the sun» are weaving them up
For the lime when the sleeper» shall rise.
if-
The ocean in music roll«,
And the gem» are turning to eye».
And the trees are gathering souls
For the time when the sleepers »hall rise.
The weeper» are learning to »mile,
And laughter to glean the sighs;
Burn and bury the care and guile
For the day when the sleepers shall rise.
Oh, the dew» and the moth» and the daisy-red,
The lark» and the glimmers and flows,
The lilies and sparrows and daily bread,
And the something that nobody knows!
-George MacDonald.
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Philadelphia, Feb. 22.— Rioting in
every section o f the city followed the
attempt o f the Philadelphia Rapid
Transit company to operate its lines
here today.
Passengers and crews were driven
from car.-i-by infuriated mobs o f strike
sympathizers and in nearly a score of
instances the abandoned cars were
burned or otherwise destroyed.
A t nightfall every car was with­
drawn from service.
Stem measuree
were adopted by the police to quell the
disorders.
F ive persons were ar­
rested. charged with inciting to riot.
Two women were taken to hospitals.
Mayor Reyburn tonight ordered Di­
rector o f Police Clay to swear in 3,000
additional police and to issue a pro­
clamation enforcing the riot act.
The executive committee o f the Cen­
tral Labor union this afternoon pledged
both moral and financial support to the
strikers. It also decided to call a
sympathetic strike of every union man
in the city in case the authorities put
into effect their threat to operate the
cars with policemen and firemen.
In tbe morning cars were run on
every line with little difficulty except
in the mill district of Kensington,
where cars were stoned by mobs. A t
11 o'clock transit company officials
announced that cars were running on
their regular schedule. Shortly after­
ward riots were reported from scores
o f widely separated localities.
In tbe Southern section a mob o f
boys drove a conductor and motorman
from their posts, end, after the four
women passengers had le ft the car, set
it on fire.
The car following was stopped also
end wee being set on fire when a de­
tachment o f police and a chemical en­
gine reached tbe Beene. In this same
section Mary Devlin, aged 16 years,
was shot in the leg when the police
fired their revolvers in an effort to
check the mob.
In the usually quiet residence sec­
tion of West Philadelphia, mobs for a
time baffled the police. Iron bars and
stones were piled on the tracks and
several cars were wrecked.
Mounted
police were powerless to disperse the
mobs, and a fire hose was brought into
play.
Contradictory claims are made by
the opposing forces as to the number
of men on atrike.
Leaders of the
Amalgamated Association o f Street
and Electric Railway employes say
that 6,200 o f tbe 7,000 employes of
the transit company have le ft their
care. Officials o f the company say
that 3,500 of their employes are loyal
and that regular service w ill be re­
sumed at daybreak tomorrow.
The importation o f 175 strikebreak­
ers from New York led to an attack on
the barns and main offices o f the com­
pany this afternoon.
Windows were
broken by the mob, which was finally
dispersed, after 35 arrests had been
made.
1
Union leaders say they w ill force
the company to arbitrate.
They
charge that the company for months,
by a series of petty persecutions, has
been endeavoring to force the union to
strike, and finally, by discharging a
large number o f union men, practically
declared a lockout.
C d DEN TA L j ES T
He looked across the table at the
smiling young woman.
"Well, daughter,” he said, "what’s
the news? I mean the sort of news I
can’t find in the daily press.”
"What sort of news, daddy?”
"News that concerns the one topic
that interests me most—yourself?"
The girl hesitated.
“ It's all good news, daddy.
I ’m
well, I ’m happy here with auntie. I
have pleasant friends. And now that
you have come, daddy. I ’ve nothing
'eft to ask for.”
He looked at her searchingly.
"Your letters hinted at something,”
he said. " I thought it might be a
young man.”
She blushed a little, but met bis
glance with a frank laugh.
“ There are two young men. daddy.”
He laughed too— and then his face
grew grave.
"Then it isn't serious?"
"N ot yet, daddy."
She came around the table and drew
her chair close to his.
"W ell, dear?”
“ You know, daddy, that Mr. Right
Is quite likely
to pop around the
corner at any time, and when he
comes I ’ll say to him, ’Mr. Right, I
recognize you at a glance, but until
you can make my daddy acknowl­
edge that your credentials are approv­
ed, you can Just set yourself down as
Mr. Wrong now and forevermore."
"That's our agreement,” said the
man, and he fondly stroked the girl's
shining hair.
“ Yes.” she went on. "And now
there are two young men who seem
to like me very well, and sometimes
I have an Impression that one la
Right, and then I ’m almost sure It's
the other. And sometimes I'm quite
afraid to think that at any moment I
may find out which it Is.”
The man softly laughed.
"W hile you are in that seasaw state
* f mind, my dear, he said, “ I feel
quite positive It is neither. Anyway,
your old daddy will organize himself
In a private detective agency and look
the field and the candidates over. He
is going to stay here now indefinitely
and watch over the welfare of his In­
teresting child.”
“ Oh, daddy!”
“ No more European trips, no more
conferences In dingy foreign offices.
Daddy has graduated from that sort
of thing. He expects to settle down
and save himself from rusting out by
keeping a more or less watchful eye
on the factory—when It does not in­
Asiatic Employers Taboo.
terfere too much with the golf links.”
“ The factory, daddy?”
San Francisco, Feb. 22.— I f the var­
ious unions affiliated with the San
“ Yes.
I forgot • that you didn't
Francisco Labor council obey the reso­ know.
In making some financial
lution adopted last night by that or­ shirts recently the factory fell Into my
ganization none o f their members will hands. In fact, I brought the deal
be permitted to work in a house where about. Perhaps there was a little sen­
Asiatics are employed. The resolution timent about It. You remember I told
followed the voting down o f n recom­ you that I got my first start in life at
mendation that no more saloons where one of the looms in the old building
Asiatics are employed be unionized, and that stood on the site of the present
it was adopted on the plea that it was
office.”
not fa ir to single out the saloons for
“ Yes, daddy. And it's all yours—
boycott when other busineea houses
that great building?”
employ them.
“ It's mine, dear; and will be yours
—unless we tire of the business.”
Castaway C hief o f Camp.
Juneau, Alaska., Feb. 22.— Captain j The girl suddenly, laughed.
■'Isn’t It funny, daddy, that both
W. P. H. Porter and a few members of
the crew of the wrecked steamer Yuca­ those young men I spoke to you about
tan are standing by the vessel, which should be employed at the factory?”
The father softly whistled.
lies more than half out of water. M.
" It Is funny," he answered. “ And
Walsh, who was shipwrecked in the
Farallon on Cook Inlet last month, and perhaps It simplifies matters Let me
Of course, these youngsters
who was obliged to spend four weeks in think.
camp after that steamship went down, didn't know I was coming?”
was s passenger on the Yucatan and
"No, daddy, they couldn't know it.
made good use o f his former exper­ I didn’t know It myself.”
ience as a castaway.
It ia said he did
“ And they have never seen me and
more than anyone else to make the know nothing about the change In
Goose Island camp comfortable.
ownership.”
■'They've never seen you— I am sure
Aviation School Planned.
of that, daddy.”
Los Angeles, Feb. 22.— Plans for
“ And the change In ownership Is
the establishment o f a "school for aer­
not to be announced until I desire to
ial research” were presented to the
announce It.”
city authorities'and the various civic
He suddenly rubbed his hands.
bodies today when members o f tbe
"This looks good to me,” he laugh­
Aero club o f California asked tbe may­
or and the head* o f the various associa­ ed. ‘T'U take a look at your young
tions to name members o f a commis­ friends, unbeknownst, as Uncle Hi
sion to direct such an institution. Ex­ Daniel used to say. Wbo are they?”
He drew out a memorandum book
perimenters and
invsntora
in ail
branches o f aviation and meteorology and pencil and frowned absurdly.
The girl laughed at hlg air.
will be aided by the proposed plan.
" I can only give you their present
names, daddy—I don't know their
Sumptar Survivor Dias.
aliases.” ,
Erie, Pa., Feb. 22.— James Gibbons,
"V ery well.
Just remember that
the last o f tbe little garrison that sur­
rendered with Major Robert Anderson you are here to speak the truth with­
in 1861 when Fort Sumpter was fired out fear or favor. Who Is No. I f
“ No. 1 Is Sherman Treat. Ha la act­
upon, died tonight.
Gibbons was
credited with sighting tbe first gun ing superintendent of the factory In
the place of Mr. John Conway, wbo
fired by tha Union forces.
he aald. Hla face lightened. the stranger to the girl— and what he
nd you were a boy in the old fae­ saw In those shining, brown eyes
ry. That's fine. My father began made him stammer a hasty accep­
ere, too.
I'd like to hear about tance.—W. R. Rose, In Cleveland Plalm
those old times. We think we have deqler.
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made great advances since the Acme's
GORKI IS W ASTINO A W A T .
early days."
"No doubt of that,” said the older
A t t e n d e d b y Ma ke . A a d r l e v a , A s t h a
man. "I'm only afraid you have ad­
A w a i t s D ea th a t C apri.
vanced beyond me."
In the retirement of his villa at
The young man moved toward the
Capri Maxim Gorki laughed at the re­
door.
Then he turned and, coming
port of his having been sentenced to
back, bent over tbe gray-halred man.
death by the Russian revolutionary
"Any Immediate necessities?" he
party.
softly asked.
He has retired to that beautiful
The older man looked up at him
island not through fear of his Rus­
with a sudden smile.
sian co-believers but In obedience to
"N ot yet.” he answered.
medical advice on account of lung
“ Here is my card,” said the younger
trouble.
man a little hurriedly. "Come at any
Since September consumption ha a
time. 1 will be glad to see you."
wrought ravages, the Naples corre­
He turned and passed through the
spondent of the New York World saya.
outer doorway.
Gorki is now an emaciated, white-
The gray-haired man looked at the
haired old man, though well on the
card and address.
sunny side of 50.
The name was John Osborn.
Gorki is naturally sullen and pessi­
The man stared at it and slowly
mistic, but he is cheered at Capri by
nodded.
the companionship of Mme. Andrleva,
"You may be slow and shy, John
formerly of the St. Petersburg stage
Osborn.”
he murmured, "but your
and the cause of the abrupt termina­
heart beats quick and warm. Bless
tion of his visit to America. While he
the boy.”
He carefully placed the card in an works on his new novel, “ The Chron­
Inside pocket and looked up.
The icle of the Little Town of Churow,”
door of the inner room had Just open­ the actress spends her leisure visit­
ed and a stout young man was coming ing the poor and the sick la Che neigh­
borhood. By her kindness she has won
out.
The persons who were waiting sud­ the hearts of the peasant folk, who
denly arose, but he waved them aside. speak of her as "the queen of Capri.”
"No more time to spare,” he told It Is said that she recently sent sev­
them. " I f your business is of impor­ eral Invalids to Germany for treatment
at her own cost.
tance come again to-morrow."
Of Gorki she takes the utmost care;
He turned toward the outer door
and encountered the gray-halred man Indeed, It was only with reluctance-
who had suddenly arisen and now that she allowed him to be inter­
viewed. lest his rest cure should be
barred the way.
"Excuse me, sir, but are you Mr. spoiled.
His low state of health necessitates
Treat?"
the greatest precaution. He workB In
"Yea."
room so hot that for an ordinary
"May I have a word with you?"
The assistant superintendent looked person to breathe there Is a laborious
operation. When he ventures out,
the stranger over.
which he rarely does, Into the mild
"What is it you want?”
southern winter, he wraps himself In
“ 1 want employment, sir.”
a huge fur coat beter suited to Si­
The young man frowned.
"That'B what I supposed. Well, we beria.
Earlier In the year he completed In
have nothing for you. We want en­
ergy here— not the musty deliberation conjunction with his greatest friend.
of old age. You've passed your time Prof. Mayer, a volume dealing with
of usefulness, my gray-halred friend.” the Messina earthquake. The proceeds
of Its sale are to be given to the poor
The stranger’s voice grew eager.
" I worked for the factory, sir, forty of the ill-fated cities.
years ago. You'll find my name on
the old books— and on some of the old
patterns."
The young man shook his head.
“ Well,” he said, "you can't work
here again. You have outlived your
Italy's recent plan to educate her
alloted span of industrial usefulness.
1 am surprised to hear that you are mountain folk la already in opera­
looking for work. Don't you know the tion, according to the Rome corre­
chances are etrong that If yon secured spondent of the New York Sun. As
a place you would crowd some young­ the shepherds of the Abruzzl could
er and much abler man from employ­ not be brought to school, teachers
have been sent to them. The percent­
ment?"
age of Illiterates .among the Inhabit­
The stranger sighed.
"But what am 1 to do?” he asked In ants of the Abruzzi has always been
very high, and statistics show that
a helpless tone.
“ That's destined to be a very seri­ despite the fact that many schools
ous problem,” said the young man. have been opened in the towns and
"You know what Dr. Osier is reported villages within the last five years, 68
to have said. Well. I don’t go as far per cent of thd population la still
as the chloroform theory, ot course, Illiterate.
but I do think that when a man reach­
Some members of the board of edx-
es the point where both his mental catlon feared that the general spread
and physical strength Is waning, he of education among the peasantry
should bow to the inevitable and get would tend to a decline of religious
off the track. That’s what I expect to faith. Others put forth the theory
do when I reach your age. It's the that the Inhabitants of the Abruzzk
law of the inevitable.”
had been Ignorant and unlettered for-
“ But what am I to do, sir?” he re­ centurles, and consequently had lost
peated.
the aptitude to learn.
"Go home,” said the younger man a
Prof. Emldio Agostlnonl discovered
little sharply. "Go home and tell your the real cause. He noticed that the-
friends to take care of you. The Acme government schools In tbe towns and
plant can't be bothered. We have divi­ villages were not well attended, not
dends to earn and stockholders to sat­ because the boys were not willing to
isfy. I f we tried to run a benevolent go to them, but because they could
home here for superannuated employ­ not. The majority of the inhabitants
es we would soon close our doors.”
of the Abruzzl are shepherds, qnd
“ And does the fact that I once work­ spend nine months out of every year
ed here count for nothing?” the in the mountains, living In huts and
stranger asked.
tending their flocks.
"That’s all sentiment,”
said the
Professor Agostlnonl suggested to the
young man, "and sentiment has no ministry of public instruction the plan
place In a hustling factory. Perhaps which has now been adopted as an
It you had stuck to the works you experiment.
wouldn't be in your present straits.”
Instead of having schools with
He had turned toward the door, teachers and empty benches, why not
leaving the stranger Btarfng after him send the teachers up to the mountains
—a stare, strange to say, that was where the boys are, and hold classes
coupled with a queer cynical smile— there?
when a young woman suddenly en­
The plan pleased some Influential
tered the room—a fluttering and in members ot the board of education,
every way charming young woman, and fifteen teachers were furnished
who looked eagerly from one man to with horses and instructed to ride out
the other.
every day and beat the country for
"How do you do, Mr. Treat?” she pupils. Wherever they found boys or
said to the younger man, who sud­ men willing to learn, they were to
denly removed his hat.
Then she stop and teach.
turned to the stranger. *‘ I couldn't
The fifteen traveling teachers have
wait any longer, daddy,” she said.
their hands full, as. to their great
The young men paled. His jaunty surprise, they found that tho shep­
air of self-confidence suddenly wilted. herds, young and old. are not only
He looked at the older man and mut­ willing to learn to read and write, but
tered an indistinct apology. Then he that they are very quick and Intelli­
turned and hurried away.
gent.
The girl looked around in wonder.
W ho A n
th e ElectV
“ Why, what In the world does that
Two modern statements of the dot
mean, daddy?”
trine of "election.” neither of which
The gray-halred man laughed.
" It means that No. 1 Is of the opin­ would quite satisfy John Calvin or
ion that your father Is too old to be of Jonathan Edwards, are given In the
Congregationalism
any service to the factory."
One was Henry Ward Beecher's epi­
Before the girl could comment on
this remarkable statement the outer grammatic and convincing phrase:
door opened and John Osborn came "The elect are whosoever w ill; the
non-elect are whosoever won't."
into the room.
Good as this Is. there Is another ex­
"Why, Miss Harmon,” he stammered
planation that Is a star of equal mag­
with a quick flush of pleasure.
It was made by a colored
"This Is my father, Mr. Osborn," nitude.
divine, who said:
said the girl.
“ Brethren, It Is this way. The Lord,
The stranger extended his hand, but He Is always voting for a man; and
the young man hung hack.
the devil, he la always voting against
" I — I hope you'll forglv* my for­ man. Then the man himself voteai
wardness, sir," he stammered.
" I and that breaks the tie !”
didn't dream that you were Miss Har­
A C a r e le s s M a n .
mon's father.”
Father—Why have you quarreleo
The girl looked from one man to
with Harry?
the other.
Daughter— Because he proposed to
“ And what does this mean?” ehe de­
me last night.
manded.
Father— Well, there was no harm
" It means, my dear,” her father ex­
plained, "that No. 2— I should say this In that, was there?
Daughter— But I had accepted htna
young Osborn here— tried to be kind
to a forlorn looking old man without the night before.— Illustrated Bit*.
dreaming that he was your father and
T h e A r i t h m e t i c S pirit.
the owner of this factory. We must
‘As a rule," said the cynic, “on* may
shake hands, young man.”
reckon the number of his trn* friend*
The girt looked on with shining on the fingers of one hand.” "W elL“
eyes.
answered the good-natured person
"That was fine,” she softly said.
“ anybody who counts up bis friend-
“ See here,” cried the other man, ships the same as he does hla money
‘'you wanted to bear me talk about doesn't deserve any more."
those early days at ths Acme plant.
Brazil is endeavoring to encoure
Join us at dinner to-day, my boy.”
Tb* dazed young man looked from Its Iron Industry.
[ wo
work,”
went to Colorado for his health last
spring.”
"Assistant
superintendent.
Yes.
Characteristics?”
"Why, he is large and strong, and
quick In his speech and ways, and
very masterful."
"Not a bad bill of particulars. Hab­
its good?"
‘T think they must be. He Is con­
sidered a very clever young man.”
"Where from?”
"New York. His father was secre­
tary of the company.”
"Oh, yes. A fine man with aristo­
cratic connections. I've heard of hia
boy.” He looked up from the book.
Who’s the other lad?”
“ His name Is John Osborn. He is
manager of the pattern shop. He íb
a designer himself, and an Inventor,
too, I think.”
The man nodded.
"That's right. They spoke to me
about him. He has done some useful
things. They called him a valuable
lad. Characteristics, please?”
“ He is rather quiet, and shy, and
has very little to say about himself.”
The man looked up.
“ Somewhat the opposite of No. 1,
eh?”
"Yes.”
"One thing more.
Are the two
young men on good terms?"
"Oh. yes. They come here together
quite often.”
' That's a little strange. Isn't It?”
The-girl laughed.
” 1 fancy that No. 1 thinks he has no
opposition worth considering, and that
No. 2 feels that It repays him to come
here, whether he wins or loses." She
laughed merrily. "I'm almost sure
that No. 1 thinks No. 2 an admirable
foil for his own masterful brilliancy
—and perhaps No. 2 is willing to play
the role In order to come here often-
er.”
The man nodded.
"But you haven’t told me about this
Osborn's family. Is he a nlttve of the
town ?"
. "Yes. His father was the first fore­
man of the factory. After John grad­
uated from a scientific school he en­
tered the factory, and has been climb­
ing ever since. I think It must be be­
cause he works so hard.”
The man put away his book.
“ I'm going down to the factory,
dear. Perhaps I ’ll make the acquaint­
ance ot these interesting young men.”
"Shall I take you down, daddy?”
"No, I'm going unaccompanied and
unannounced."
‘ Then I'll come after you with the
electric.”
"Very well, dear. Give me plenty
of time. Good-by."
Twenty minutes later a gray-haired
man, plainly dressed; a tired appear­
ing man, with stooping shoulders, was
ushered into the ante-room of the
office of the assistant superintendent
of the great and busy Acme mill.
"There's a lot of 'em ahead of you
this morning," said the boy who
guarded the inner door. " I ’ll call you
when he’s ready to see you.”
The gray-halred man nodded and
took a seat in a dusky corner. There
were twenty or more persons waiting,
twenty persons seemingly represent­
ing as many grades in life, and the
newcomer found himself busy study­
ing them.
From time to time the
inner door opened and one of the
waiting group was admitted.
The gray-halred man might have
been there twenty minutes when the
outer door opened and a slender young
man entered.
He was bare-headed
and carried a package of loose papers
In his hand.
As be passed along he chanced to
notice the man in the corner.
He
slackened his pace and came a little
nearer.
And the gray-halred man
looked up at him and smiled.
"You are waiting to see Mr. Treat?"
"Yes."
"He la busy this morning—you may
have to wait some time. Come over
here by the window. This Is an easier
chair."
The gray-halred man took the
proffered seat with a word of thanks,
and the young man passed Into the
inner room.
When he came back he was closely
studying one of the papers from his
bundle.
But he looked down as he
passed the grayhaired man, and
stopped. Hi* eyes took In the plain
attire, tbe gray hair, the patient face.
''Pardon me," he softly said, "but
may I assume that you are looking for
employment 7”
The gray-halred man nodded.
"Yea," he answered.
"You are a stranger here?”
” 1 am now,” the gray-halred man
replied. "W hile I was quite young I
worked In the old factory building.
That la why 1 hoped to find employ­
ment here.”
The young man's look grew grave.
"W e have many applicatloas for