THE GREAT CHICAGO COLISEUM, WHÉRE THE REPUBLICAN
NATIONAL CONVENTION WILL BE HELD
•THE
JLMOLSLY IS NO PROGf Of LOVE.
Bi Helen Oldfield.
Í
I he Chicago Coliseum, in which the Republican National Convention will be held next year, is one of the great
est auditoriums in this country. It is built on the site formerly occupied by the Libby Prison War Museum, and the
ornamental outer wall of the building Is the same which surrounded the museum. The seating capacity of the hulld-
lng is abofft 15,1)00. A part of the main floor space only will be necessary for the accommodation of the delegates, and
the remainder of this and the enormous galleries, extending entirely around the building, can be utilized for visitors.
The building is located within a few minutes' walk of the center of the city, one block from Michigan avenue and
four blocks from the lake. It cost *500,000 to build, and was completed in 1900. and opened for the National Grand
A. my encampment of that year.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
are going to do great things, you
•ay—
But what have yon done?
are going to win in a splendid way.
As others hrve won;
have plans that when they are put
in force
Will make you sublime;
have mapped out a glorious upward
course—
But why don’t you climb?
You’re not quite ready to start, you say;
If you hope to wiu
The time to be starting is now—to-day—
Don’t dally, begin!
No man has ever been ready as yet.
Nor ever will be;
You may fall ere you reach where your
hopes are set—
But try it and see.
You are going to do great things, you say,
Y'ou have splendid plans;
Your dreams are ot heights that are far
away;
They're a hopeful man's—
But the world, when it judges the case
for you,
At the end, my son,
Will think not of what you were going
to do,
But of what you've done.
—S. E. Kiser.
reached the cabin, and Fulton had al
ready gone to the field.
The minister didn't remain long. Af
ter speaking a few words to the sick
woman and the children, he prayed
and took Ills departure. He saw at a
glance that other things than prayers
and words ot sympathy were needed.
He spent the morning visiting neigh
boring farms. When he returned home,
late that evening, tired with the day's
work, he felt that It had not been In
vain.
At noon, when Fulton was told of
the preacher’s visit, he said nothing,
but a queer expression came on his
face. Whether of approval or resent
ment It was hard to tell.
The next morning he was clearing
away the breakfast dlsnes and trying
to quiet a fretful child when he
chanced to glance out of the door. He
was almost startled. A dozen men were
hoeing industriously in the cotton
patch. He stood for some minutes re
garding them, dazed. He wns not a
hard man, and, touched by the unex
pected show of kindness, a tear came
Into his eye; rolled down his cheek,
splashed on the plate he was drying.
In a moment he was ashamed of the
weakness and quickly brushed all
traces of it from his eye. He hung up
the dishpan, washed the baby’s face,
and entered his wife's room.
"Molly, we’ll have company for din
ner,” he said, as he began to tidy the
room. “The neighbors are hoeing in
the cotton.”
There was a little smothered cry of
Joy.
“I’m so glad for you, Zeb.”
Fulton picked up his hoe and walked
toward the men. They saw him ap
proaching. One of them stepped out to
meet him.
“We’ve treated you shabby. Mr. Ful
ton." he began. "We didn't know Just
how you were situated till the parson
rode roun' yesterday an’ tole us."
’’I'm shore I 'predate yore kindness."
returned Fulton, as be began to chop
into the weeds Industriously.
"I 'low you needn't work to-day,”
continued the man. "We'd rather
you'd stay with yer wife. We'll git
over the patch 'gin night 'tliout yore
help.”
Fulton threw Ills hoe to the fence
corner and returned to the house. The
wives of the men had arrived in his
absence. When he entered the cabin
It presented the appearance of having
undergone a general renovating. There
was snowy linen on the bed. and it was
wheeled to where his wife, dressed in
a clean wrapper, could look through
the sunshine across the valley. A faint
color had crept into her checks and
brightness into her eyes. The chil
dren. with clean dresses nnd faces,
looked tidier than for many a day. The
baby sat on a quilt on the floor playing
with a new rag doll.
Some of the women were in the
kitchen getting dinner that they had
brought, and behind the shed he could
hear the sound of scrup-boards as oth
ers busily washed the soiled clothes
that had accumulated in the house for
weeks.
Fulton glanced about him dubiously,
not knowing Just how to adjust himself
to the situation.
“Now. jest sit down by yore wife an'
rest to-day,” said one of the women,
stepping in from the kitchen. We're
shore ashamed for bein’ so onneigh-
borly. Guess you think we're a hard
set 'bout here, an’ not without cause.
We ain't makln’ no excuse, but
spring's been so late, an' been so much
rain, an’ the men folks so behln’ with
ther crops, we Jest ain’t had no time
to think o' anybody but ourselves. The
parson come over yesterday an’ tole us
we ought to be ashamed, an' we air.
You'll not hold It 'gin ns. will you, Mr.
Fulton?”
"I'm shore I 'predate yore kind
ness,” said Fulton, awkwardly pushing
a chair to the side of the bed.
“Yes, do set down an’ rest. You
shorely must lie petered out with all
the work you’ve had to do.”
The door closed and Fulton was left
alone with his wife. ’ The baby still
cooed over the rag doll, . He sat in sl-
lence, holding his wife's hand, his eyes
rested on the men In the field and tile
baby on the floor.
The next Sunday morning. Fulton,
the baby on his knee, sat on the door
step looking across the valley to where
the housetops and spire of the village
church had glistened in the sun. He
had been gazing some time through the
shimmering air that lay over the fields,
when he turned and spoke to his wife.
"Molly, would you mind if I leave
you a couple of hours with the chil
dren?”
“Why, no. Zeb; but where are you
going to-day ?"
“I thought I would go over and hear
the parson.”
Again the sun was sinking behind
the fringe of woods along the ridge,
The trees made long black shadows
across the cotton patch, now white as
a field of snow. with its millions ot
bursting boils.
Fulton and his wife stood by the
fence viewing the promising prospect,
The baby played about its mother's
knee, and the children gazed out over
the fields toward the golden sunset.
Fulton put Ills arm about his wife
and drew her closer to him. As he
kissed the upturned brow the sun gild
ed for a moment their bared heads.
“Molly, when the crop’s sold,” he
was saying, “we'll buy back the little
Clear Creek farm.”
The baby clapped its hands and
laughed.—New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat
HE sun was slipping behind the
fringe of trees across the field
when Zeb Fulton reached the
end of the rows. With an effort he
straightened himself. The hoe fell to
the ground. He unwound a red hand
kerchief from about his neck, wiped
over Ills face. and. turning, let his eyes
wander over the patch of cotton. Some
thing like a groan escaped him. It
looked a hopeless task; excepting for a
few dozen rows that he had hoed, cot
ton could scarcely be seen in the rank
weeds.
Zeb Fulton had moved into the Gib
town neighbor ho d, in tlr- early winter,
from the Clear Creek country. There
he had owned a small farm; but. his
wife fulling sick, he had mortgaged it
that he might pay doctors' bills. A
crop failure forced him to turn over
the farm to Ills creditors. With an in
valid wife and four helpless children
it hail been difficult for him to rent a
farm. Land-owners wanted men that
had a "good force of hands.” The
cabin and little hillside patch was the
best he could do. Under favoring cir
cumstances it did not promise much;
hampered as he was it looked almost
hopeless.
He walked slowly toward the cabin.
As he climbed the fence between It and
the field the children came running to
meet him. The tired look vanished
from his face as they clung to his
trousers and reached up for his bands. NEARLY $200,000,000 WILL BE REQUIRED
The smallest, a toddling baby, he kiss
TO COMPLETE THE PANAMA CANAL
ed and lifted to his arms. The group
entered the cabin. Fulton sat down by
It Is estimated that it will cost the United States *184,233.358 to acquire
the bedside, the baby on his knee.
"How have you been resting. Mol and complete the Panama canal, besides the amount to be paid to the gov
lie?” he asked, a shade of anxiety in ernment In control of the Isthmus for the concession.
Already there has been an Immense amount of money and energy ex
his voice.
There was a movement In the pended on the canal. It Is safe to say that a sum more than sufficient
quilts; a thin hand was stretched out to dig a waterway from ocean to ocean at sea level has been collected
to him. Fulton took It tenderly be from Investors at different times In Its history.
When De Lesseps organized the first company in 1880 for the construc
tween his rough palms.
“Zeb, I'm so much trouble. How tion of the canal, it started work with a paid-up capital of *60,000.000. For
tired you must get worrin' with the eight years the company tolled, employing at times as many as 15.'«X) men.
children, the cooking, tending the crop, Then came a necessity for changing the plans and the company failed,
after having collected In rouud figures from the sale of stock and lionds
and me such a burden—an'------- "
"There, don't talk any more. Mol *260,000.000. Of this It was shown that the expenditure actually made on
lie. You've had a bad day. You the isthmus amounted to *15.400,000, and that the cost of excavation and
mustn't feel that way. I'll hurry the embankment proper was *.88,<XJO.OO<t The ultimate cost was then estimated
supper and gallop over and see the as *174,600,000. For several years an effort was made to capitalize a new
company to complete the work, and at last, in 1894. the present Panama
doctor."
“No. Zeb. don’t; you can't afford It canal company was organized with a paid-up capital of *13.000,1 **). Since
that time work has advanced at the rate of about 1.000,000 cubic yards of
end It'll be of no use.”
,
"Don't Molly, don't — that's what excavation each year.
The total amount of excavation up to the present time has been about
hurts. You mustn't give up. The doc
tor will pull you through all right, Rl.OOO.i«*) cubic yards. Unfortunately only aliout 40.000.000 cubic yards
of this Is available for the waterway proposed In 1809-1900 by the canal
yet.”
He leaned over and kissed tbe pale commission, of which Bear Admiral Walker was president. The Walker
commission's recommendations included this available excavation in the
brow.
"There, now, see If you can't get *40.000.<**) t J be paid the canal company for Its work. map«. rei-ords, draw
some sleep while me and the children ings and the property of the Panama Railroad Company. The commission
estimated that the total amount of exca'-atlon which wonld lie required
cook a bite.”
He took the children Into the «bed for the canal to be built from Its plans, exclusive of that for the Bohio dam
room and closed the door. A Are kin and Gigantl spillway, would be 94.8'13.703 cubic yards. The work remain
dle«! and supper place«! on the stove, ing to lie done, therefore, represents the difference lie'ween the amount ot
he took down the milk pail and went available excavation which it will acquire by purchase from the Panama
down to some thatched stalls to milk Canal Company, or nearly three-fifths of the entire work. It 1» estimated
and feed the cow. the children follow that the cost of this work will be *144.233.358. In addition to the sum to be
paid to the present owner of the property. By the time It 1* completed more
ing at his heels.
Dr. Gaines and the village preacher. than H50.000.000 will have lieen obtained In one way or another for use In
Zora Pertll. were engaged In conver building th» canal, while nearly »312 'W•■<»«' will have actually been spent
sation when Fulton reach«*«! the doc In connection with Its construction and administration.
It was the intention of the Panama Canal Company to make the canal
tor's office that night. So it happened
that the Rev. Pertll learned of Fulton's 29.5 feet deep. The increased dimensions of steamers now being built has
sick wife. The next morning he drove made It necessary to plan for a much deeper canal, and the Walker com
It was late In the day when be , mission's plans are for a waterway thirty-six feet deep.
T
clety took form, for cruelty was punished by ‘Humanity
Martin.” he being himself Judge, counsel and Jury, and
the offender was either committed to Jail on the spot or
recelvixl adequate punishment at the bands of "Humanity
Martin" himself.
The late Henry Bergh, of New York, tn 1860. thlrty-two
years later, founded the New York society; tn 18«8 the
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania societies were organized,
and tn the following year the Illinois Humane Society was
chartered by the State and organized. Now there are few
of our sister States in which protection is not given to
helpless animals and children by legislative enactment and
the organization of humane societies thereunder.
These societies have always encouraged that mode of
education of children known as bands of mercy, ami In this
Interest nearly every public school In Chicago has been
visited and such bands of mercy formed. The continu
ance and efficacy of su< h bauds necessarily depend upon
the Interest of the teachers in and their devotion to the
humane cause. Chlea. o has two ambulances with horses
and a most competent man In charge for the relief and
transportation of suffering animals.
At an early day the society began the erection of street
fountains, of which there are now over sixty In convenient
places throughout the city of Chicago, ministering to the
wants of man and beast, and for two or three years the
society undertook the administration of the city dog pound.
There exists the utmost cordiality between this society and
all Its correspondents. The grand sum of all this humane
work that Is proceeding everywhere to-day throughout the
civilized world it would be impossible to estimate.
“He prayeth well, who loveth well
Both man and bird and beast.
He prayeth best who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.”
Fond Parent—I understand the fac
ulty are very much pleased with your
work. Dropped Junior—Yes, they en
cored my sophomore year.—Princeton
Tiger.
Caller—Your sister Is a long time
making her appearance, Johnny. John
ny—Yes, she's got to make It, of
course, 'fore she comes down.—Chicago
Tribune.
“His wife has been the making of
him.” “Why, he doesu't seem to be
much." “That's it She has made
him perfectly miserable."—Philadel
phia Bulletin.
Politician—Congratulations, Sarah,
I’ve been nominated. Sarah (with de
light«—Honestly?
Pollt'cian— What
difference does that make?—Detroit
Free Press.
The Mother—Bobbie, didn't your
conscience tell you that you had doue
wrong? Bobbie—Yes’m; but I don't
believe everything I hear.—Philadel
phia Ledger.
"Do you know anything about flirt
ing?" “No,” be replied sadly.
"I
thought I did, but when I tried It
hanged If the girl didn't marry me.”—
Chicago Post
“What can I do for my little boy,
asked mamma, "so that he won't want
to eat between meals?” "Have the
meals Acker together,” replied the
greedy young man.
Farmer Ragweed—Has Bill learned
anything tew college? Mrs. Ragweed
—No; an’ wuss'n that, he’s forgot what
he uster know! Says he can’t eat pie
without a fork.—Chicago News.
Doctor—Do I think I can cure your
catarrh? Why, I’m sure of It. Patient
—So you are very familiar with the
disease? Doctor—I should say so! I've
had It myself all my life.—Judge.
Miss Muddle—I wish I knew ot a
really good way to preserve my com
plexion. Miss Snappe—U you keep
the box In a cool place It will be all
right, won't it?—Philadelphia Press.
Jonathan—I say, Britisher, can you
spell horse? Englishman — Orse?
Why, certainly. It honly takes a haltch
nnd a ho and a bar and a hess and a
he to spell 'orse.—Kansas City Jour
nal.
“Within the last decade,” remarked
the progressive citizen, “woman has
gained considerable standing In the
business world.” “Yes,” rejoined the
female breadwinner, "especially In the
street cars "
Teacher—You notice that boy who
stands at the foot of the class? Well,
hist summer he was the brightest boy
in school. Committeeman—-He Is now.
1 notice the foot of the class Is nearest
the stove!
Mrs. Knox—So yon met Mrs. Tom-
lyn to-day. What did she say? Mr.
Knox—Nothing. Mrs. Knox—You sur
prise me—she usually talks an awful
lot! Mr. Knox—Oh, she did that to
day, of course!
Missus—We're going to give a dance
on Friday. Jane, and I want you to do
FAMILY TRAVELS 1,500 MILES
you can to help us. Jane—Well,
TO CHICAGO IN BIG WAGON all
mum, I'm afraid I ain’t much good at
that sort of thing. I only know a bar
rel organ Jig and a cake walk.
Mrs. Ascum—Did you see Mrs. Lo-
cutte at the ball? Mr. Ascuni—Yea.
Mrs. Ascuni She was dressed entirely
In white, the paper said. Is that so?
Mr. Ascum—Well—er—no, she didn't
appear to be dressed entirely.—Phila
delphia Press.
"Seen Ezry's new horse?" asked one
citizen of another. “I have," was the
reply, “Well, what does it look like?”
asked the questioner. Impatiently,
“Well, he looks,” said the other man,
THE COVERED WAGON. MR. PRATT AND FAMILY.
slowly, "as If Ezry had taken him lit
Walter J. Pratt, a former Wyoming randier, reached Chicago the other an old debt.”—Christian Register.
day with his family after a l.MX) trip from Rock Springs, Wyo., in a covered
"Who's the slowest man you ever
wagon. It took Pratt Just seven weeks to make the Journey. He was a know?” "A chap In New York. He
cattle rancher and after selling his ranch he decided to move East, and to
make the trip In true Western style. A covered wagon was secured and ho foil out of a third-story Hat window
Immediately proceeded to make It ready for the Journey. A spring bed wns and did not reach the ground for an
fitted to the rear of the wagon, nnd a stove, table and all the necessary hour.” “How was that?” “He caught
in a tree at the second story and went
articles they had use for were placed in the vehicle.
Two of Pratt's best horses were hitched to the wagon and then the In to visit some friends.”—Detroit
trip commenced. The travelers stopped only to feed nnd rest the horses. In Free Press.
"I don't believe In paying fancy
the evening the horses were unhitched and allowed to roam the prairies.
Stops were made at all cities to get supplies. Pratt Is the possessor of a prices for custom-made clothes," ssid
valuable farm near Higgins Ijtke, Michigan, and after a short stay in Chi Kloseman. “Now here’s a suit I bought
cago started for that locality with team, wagon and family.
ready made for seven dollnra. If I
were to tell you I paid twenty dollars
minster, 10W; the Austrian house of for It, wouldn’t you believe it?
NO WATER MAY BE NEEDED.
llapsburg goes back to 952. nnd the might If you told me over the
Agricultural Department Coneldere house of Bourbon to 804. The descend phone."—Philadelphia Press.
the Problem of Dry Forming.
Blobbs—What a touchy little chap
It Is probable that In the near future ants of Mohnmnicd. born 570, nre nil Hotspur is—he's always ready to take
It will be possible to raise good crops registered carefully nnd authorita offense.
Sharpe—I've known him
without either natural or artificial Irri tively In n book In Mecca by n chief ' when he wouldn't.
Blobbe—When
of
the
family.
Little
or
no
doubt
ex
gation. As Is apparent to everyone,
j was that? Sharpe—When we were
ists
of
the
absolute
nuthenticlty
of
the,
even the most lllieral system of Irri
long line of Mohammed's dimcendantn. ¡following the Atherstono hounds. He'd
gation will not exhaust the available
always rather go half a mile round—
arid and semi arid roglona of the west, In China there are many old families, sooner than take a fence.
as even when Irrigation hna be«m ap also among the Jew«. But In point of
“One week from to-day, Uncle John,
plied to Its titmoat llmlta there will peilegreis the Mikado of Japan has a
Ills place has been I will be a married man. Yes, In seven
remain some millions of acres of fer unique record.
tile land that adjoins these reclaimed fill«! by members of his family for short days I will be Initiated Into ths
more than 2.500 years. The present mysteries of matrimony.” “No mys
wastes. The lands lie principally be
Mikado la the 122d In the line. The teries about it, my boy. It Is Just the
tween the one hundredth and the one
hundredth and twentieth meridians first one was contemporary with Ne plain, simple rule of three.” “Rule of
Eh—wliat three?”
"Wife,
and comprise areas over which there buchadnezzar 6W years before Christ. three?
motherin law. and hired girl."—Kan
la a deficient rainfall, with no avail
The Pope's Sleeping Car.
sas City Journal.
able neighboring sources of supply
Although the pope never travels he
“Are you sure you really and truly
which might be brought to them even o-.vns a sleeping car, which was con
love me, John?” asked the fair buneb
by canals.
strutted In 1868, when the line from of home-grown sweetness. “Sure, I'm
But the department of agriculture Rome to Naples was opened. It will
has other resources to fall back upon. be exhibited at the Milan exhibition In sure.” replied the he end of the trans
If the custonwiry crops require water 1!*«K> to Inaugurate the Simplon tunnel. action. “But Tom loves me, too." per
why not d<welop new crops that can There are three compart merits—a sisted the fair party. "He said he'd
lie grown dry? Thia, in substance, Is throneroom, a car for the guard of gladly lay down his life for me.” “Oh,
the problem the bureau of plant In honor nnd a bedroom. The throneroom all right,” answered John.. “If you
dustry has set for Itself. Dry lan«l la richly furnl Ned and lias a cupola want a dead man you're bls and he's
farming or "dry farming” la the nani" engraved with the papal aims and the It.”—Chicago News.
of this unique scheme. Just now the twelve apostles. The carriage Is so
Fine Tai Dmlger.
world la living ««-arched for Industrial I arranged that the pope when seated
German Imperial authorities have
plants that can sustain life aixl mature , on his throne Is plainly visible and secured a fine of *12.•’’«»> from the heirs
crops with a minimum of water and ' can give bls benediction to the crowds of a German manufacturer on the
an elaborate life study of all such nt the stations. The sleeping car Is ground of his having understated his
divide«! Into throe parta—le-il. hath income and so paid too low a tax dur
planta Is under way.
and dressing rooms—which are hung ing several years of his lifetime.
Oldest Family in the World.
with yellow and white, the papal col
Of the 4**) barons in the British ora. The be«! la of ebony and Ivory.
Not Quite as Bail as Reported
House of Lords about a dozen of them
Madge—They say your mother takes
Irate
Father
—
Ah!
how
is
It
I
catch
Iiack
to
IB*),
the
earliest
living
dale
In washing?
1264. The oldest family In the Brltiah you kissing my daughter, sir? Answer
Marge—No such thing; she hasn't
me,
air;
how
la
it?
Young
Man
—
Fine,
Isles Is the Mar family in Bcotland,
come to thst yet. She only goes out
sir,
fine!
—
Ph'ladelphln
Ledger.
1003. The Campbells, of Argyle, tie-
washing.—-Boston Transcript.
gan Is 1190. Talleyrand dates from
No man la always right—and if be
We can all And reasons why Other
1199, and Bismarck from 1270. The Is a married man It's ten to ine that
people shouldn't make mistakes.
Grosvenor family, the Duke of West- he's never right
It jealousy be proof of love, that love Is love
of self. It rushes eagerly to sacrifice the sup
posed object of its deep and absorbing affection
upon the altar of its own vanity and selfishness,
and never hesitates to drag the so called sovereign
of Its heart captive at the chariot wheels of its
caprice. A great love must of necessity be un
selfish, too full of the beloved to think of self,
prizing all Its talents and possessions, great or
small, only as something to offer with Itself. Love Is slave
as well as king, and serves faithfully, joyfully, taking pride
in Its humility, and ready always to sacrifice Itself with
alacrity for the use and behoof of the beloved. There ntay
be some men. and more women, who, upon making the
bitter discovery that the heart which they coveted for
their own had been given to another, have not only put
their own claims unselfishly aside but have also done what
they could to make the person so dearly loved happy with
that other. Can any one deny that such affection, counting
its own happiness as naght In comparison with that of its
object, is far more pure and devoted than the self-seeking
passion which claims everything as its own, and begrudges
even the crumbs which fall from its table—the mad desire
which has lieen sung by poets, and which nowadays occa
sioually figures In tae police courts as preferring to slaugh
ter the object of its fierce devotion rather than relinquish
it to another? No; a thousand times no! I'nselflshness is
the strongest proof which love can give in evidence of its
own truth and sincerity.
There Is a faint shadow of apology In the case of the
mother—the natural pang of “to bear, to rear, to lose,” the
giving way to another. And there is far too much truth
in the old adage, “Your son is your son till he gets him a
wife.” It cannot be denied that wives are far more likely
to be touchy, not to -av Jealous, of their husbands' mothers,
than mothers are with regard to their sous’ wives. Mother
love Is, or ought to be, the most unselfish sentiment upon CAPITAL AND LABOR SHOULD BE FRIENDLY.
earth, and it is to be hoped and believed comparatively few
■> Senator Harcaa A. Hanna.
mothers would condemn their sons to lonely lives In order
If there are men who from force of
that they may keep them all to themselves until the in
circumstances and tlielr environments
evitable day comes when they must leave them. But for
do not feel competent to decide ques
the sister’s Jealousy there Is no possible excuse. What right
tions of interest for themselves, for that
lias any sensible woman to expect her brother to keep
class organization is a good thing, and
single for her sake? Yet time and again all sorts of family
It Is a good thing to have leaders. Dig
differences and quarrels arise purely from bitter opposi
nify labor by conservative action and
tion to a brother’s choice of a wife. Nor—singular fact—
by choosing as representatives men who
is it by any means the case that the women who keenly
fully appreciate and fully understand
resent their brother's thoughts of marriage are willing to
both sides of the question, men who
give up matrimony on his account. On the contrary, they
do not feel it to lie their duty to go Into
are ready and willing to say “Yes” to the first fairly good
a fight for the sake of a “scrap.”
offer; nay. sometimes are already engaged or even married.
My proposition Is, first, that the in-
In which latter condition of affairs they are selfish for
terests of capital and labor are mutual; second, that tie-
their children as well as themselves.
cause of the greater experience and. if you please, greater
Intelligence of the employers as a whole, It makes their
1HE GROWTH OF HUMANITARIANISM.
responsibility greater, and they should go more than half
way.
By Joan C. SHortall. Hrealdeat at llllnola Humane Satiety.
The conflict that lias been going on for so many
centuries between the forces of kindness and CURE FOR THE TRUST EVIL
cruelty, of barbarism and civilization, sill' .con
Hv Governor Cummin* of Iowa.
tinues. The last 100 years has seen the greatest
It la my firm belief that If all cor
progress In the practical development of humane
porations are so organized that the ag
sentiment. Animals ceased to be merely the
gregate par value of their bonds and
property of their owners but became through tlie
stocks Is limited to the actual value of
development and application of the divine emo
the capital contributed to the corpora
tions of mercy and Justice clothed with certain In
tion the trust question will not long
herent rights. The most notable public recognition of the
vex the people of the United States.
evidence of this humane sentiment occurred when Lord
The corporation or association that Is
Erskine stood up In his place in the House of Peers In
brought Into existence for the express
1811 and In gentle and appealing tone pleaded the cause
purpose of suppressing competition by
of Justice to the lower animals. Side by side with Ixird
the purchase or consolidation of Inde
Erskine stood that great apostle of kindness, Richard Mar
pendent plants covering the whole field
tin, who then represented the County Galway In both the
OOV. CUMMINS.
and that proposes to destroy the force
Irish and British parliaments, whose boast was that be of potential competition by the same method is a vicious
tween his entrance gate and his hall door lay thirty good and unlawful combination, and all the powers of gov
Irish miles. Upon this vast estate the first humane se- ernment should be employed tor its annihilation.
NEXT TO ALICE ROOSEVELT.
Miss Enl<1 Shaw Takes « High Place
In Washington Society.
Over 1,000 Invitations were sent out
for the brilliant function In Washing
ton, when Miss Enid Shaw, daughter
of Secretary of the
Treasury Leslie M.
Shaw, was Intro
duced Into society.
The President and
his family, together
with the official
world of the capi
tal, were present to
welcome the Iowa
girl into the charm
ed circle of Wash
ington's upper ten-
MISS ENID SHAW.
dom.
Miss Shaw is a young woman of at
tractive appearance and bears a strong
resemblance to her 'istlnguished fa
ther. She has dark-blue eyes and wavy
brown hair, with in exquisite pink nnd
white complexion Last year she grad
unted. after n five -ears’ course, from
Cornell College, M< mt Vernon. Iowa,
from which her father many years be
fore graduated. It is a co-educattonal
institution. She tte?n traveled in Eu
rope, perfecting h r French nnd Gor
man, both of wl ch languages she
speaks fluently.
Miss Shaw Is now ’he ranking young
woman in Washing..»n society under
Miss Alice Roosevelt, and will come in
for a large share of so al attention.
A Visible Argument.
Some uneducated people are victims
of the fallacy that because there are
graduates of colleges who are un
worthy of the Institution that has
tried to do so much for them, there
fore colleges are bad.
The Rev. I
Thomas P. Hunt relates In his spirit
ed autobiography an Incident In which
he corrected one man's prejudice.
While I wns acting as agent for
Ijifayette College I applied to a
wealthy miffchant for a donation, a ,d
also urged him to take a scholarship
and have his sons educated. I found
him so strongly confirmed in the opln-
Ion that a college education la but
the road to worthlessness that I de-
slated from arguing with him.
After dinner I proposed a walk, We
made a thorough visit to the wharves,
grog shops and hotels of the placet
After supper I remarked, “What a
pity that so many of the worthless.
Idle nuisances we have seen in our
walk to-day have spent their time and
their father's money in colleges!”
“Colleges!” said he. “Why, there
Is not a college boy among them? They
are ignorant; their parents do not go
to church nor rend the Bible. Col
leges, Indeed!”
I had him. “You see, then,” I said,
“that young men may tie ruined with
out a college education. I admit that
educated boys may be ruined, not in
consi-quenci of education, but rather
in spite of IL Statistics show that a
smaller proportion of college students
become worthless than of any other
class of young men in the country.”