S the 1 ilTlCS g r.l.roJ profession that thU
5 m sponslhillty should tivt fa'.'.c
fftJ',SSSSSxS ! the government Job, ve though
' there U less niouey In It than in run
Ding t grot railroad system. It u l
trlbuts to Mr. Wallace and to the
great re
sponsibility should tart ra::cn on me
shoulder of a railroad man. Few
doubt that the big ditch mill b con
structed economically and well. The
spirit tbat placed a tteel band across
the Rockies, that bridged Salt Lake,
that U tunuellng uuder New York
CltT. that has been back of a thou-
"You can't toll the Russians that j will successfully unite the Atlantic
the "yellow peril" is not real.
A phenomenon to a man who never
loses a bunch of keys.
The favorite flower of Uncle Rus
sell Sage Is the touch-me-not
i j ' ' l 1 1 i
rreu r TTTnmvmnw7 Ann. srm
OPINIONS OF GREAT PAPERS ON IA.PORTANT SUBJECTS
No fire drill on the Slocum, no fir
drill In the Iroquois the old story.
It is a good thing to lose your fence
If It means the enlarging of your
field.
The man who holds his head too
high overlooks a lot of life's good
things.
Man Is a gregarious animal and set
tles In cities but when he gets there
he has little to do with his neighbor.
and racltic. Thers la another side to
this. The selection of a practical
railroad man means that there will
be few sinecures la the canal Job.
Men will be hired for their ability and
made to earn their wages, and favorlt-
Germany and Tramps.
KRMANY has solved the tramp problem. It
is announced that she U reasonably free from
vagrants, and that such as are slinking about
the byways are a relatively harmless lot. who
seldom commit robberies and asaaulta of mag
nitude. And the way slie has settled the diffi
culty Is this: She arrests all tramps aud puts
show of Inter-1 them at work. She makes the work so much harder thau
Ism will stand little
ferlng with good service. That Is the the work of decent men that, after a trial of It, the tramp
way most railroads are run, and It Is reform and quit the road. In our own country we have
as It should be. The government has an army of the useless and vicious, from which is annu
plenty of money to Invest, but none to ally recruited a considerable addition to the rauks of the
waste. I active criminals.
There is not so much la vagrancy itself which con-
One of the Boston newspaper. I fill V9 to crinie indeed some men would be In better
speaking of the V.d home" movement heahn and mora9 f they occasionally allowed their legs
point In the effort to assimilate the legions of Illiterate
immigrants that are coming to our shores from southern
nd far eastern Europe, There Is a general feeling that
the time has come to Impose gToater restrictions upon the
Importation of this class of persons.
Those who assert that this would be a violation of the
tradition that this country Is the asylum for the oppressed
of all races should remember that with nations as with
Individuals, self preservation is the first law of nature.
Chicago Journal.
The L. Z. Lelter estate of many mil
lions has been left in trust that is
one form of octopus that no one will J one-time residents and their posterity
which has renewed so much of good
fellowship in many parts of New Eng
land, remarks the taking up of the
same kind of celebration, inviting all
want to smash.
It Is Just as easy to praise a neigh
bor as it is to find fault with him.
but people seem to derive less satis
faction from It
Mrs. Hannah Ellas deeply regrets
that she Is a negress, but seems to be
unconcerned about the things she
ought to regret most keenly.
So long as men struggle for better
prices for what they have to sell, so
long will there be struggle for lower
prices on what men have to buy.
When a village bank cashier's wife
appears in a new dress the neighbors
look-at her as if they suspected her
husband of having robbed the bank.
When Russell Sage travels he al
ways takes the last seat In the car, so
that the conductor will be compelled to
let him save the Interest on his money
longer than any of the rest of the pas
sengers.
to run away with them and carry them into the country.
where they would renew he physical lire that grows
anemic at the bench and the desk, it la not the free and
open air life that demeans; It Is the effort to live without
work; to get all and give nothing; to shift and sneak and
steal In order to obtain food, lustrad of tolling honestly,
even for an hour or two a day. Many of the tramps that
are now idling along our highways and "hooking" rides
on freight trains could pay for their meals by sawing a
little wood, or weeding a garden patch, but they are ex
tremely unwilling to do It, although not Infrequently they
work as hard at robbery as other people do at honorable
employment
Tramps carry moral corruption as they do physical
contagion. Although mentally sodden and representative
Af m mm that midutllT eliminates Itself, since It is an
inaia easy, was me repiy, i wum: prey to tne dlsPase, that are Invited by meager, un
get back from Omaha in less time . ... th gt)ell9 of agination and periods of ex
u neeueu. og io go w vuinua nosure and hardship, they exert some Influence over young
iu u e8i ip me xuri mau, .u eople whose niln,is and habits are sun unrornieu, ana
the Boston phrase "out west" reveals when a a found , tnHr mny prison authorities
that the same kind of tiling survives mBan na t. t ... hp for hIra if hft were
there. It is different only in form in The boy9 who dr,ft ,nt0 the reformatorle and gaols of the
California, where to return to the old ,and aftef a WBnon on tne ad. are among the most de-
nome is to go xo me siaiea, yura h (he autllortlo8 Dave to deal with. Our tramp
aIia ot An.tiMio rva rk .......
armv. then. Is a missionary company tnat is going aiwut
the land preaching and practicing the most detestable of
vices and often Involved in crime. Brooklyn kagle
to participate. In Ohio towns, and
calls It "old-home week out west."
The phrase recalls to a dweller In
Chicago an occasion when during a
sojourn of some months In Denver a
friend of that city remarked that he
was "going east" that night, but
would not fall to keep an appointment
for three days later in Denver. "How
can you do that If you go east to
night?" asked the Chicago man. "Oh.
Now that the Carnegie hero fund
commissioners have met and organ
ized, let the heroes come forward
promptly. No need to push or shove,
either; Just come along quietly and in
single file.
that recalls the once tremendous gap
between the old western frontier in
Iowa and Missouri and the scattered
fringe of civilization along the Pa
cific. "Out west" to the New Eng
ender, "going east" to the Denver
visitor to Omaha, "the states" to the
Californlan, all are survivals of a
time when there were localities with
actual differences that Justified the
phrases, but are nearly outworn now.
We have reached the point where
some of the phrases have become ab-
Time to Close the Gates.
ON DON newspapers are gloating over the fact
that the slums of that city are being depleted
by reusou of the $'J.0O steerage rate, which
enables the riffraff of Europe to come to the
United States. As a result this country Is
threatened with a deluge of the offscourings
of the world. We are menaced with an over
... tw. h.rA noA 11 v Inst thip flaw of the scum and drees of pauperized humanity. The
oua 4 auu viuvao mwiv j -
According to a new encyclopedia.
poverty Is caused by four things-
drink. Inefficiency and shlftlessness.
crime and a fondness for roving. One
other cause that might be mentioned
Is a lack of money.
meanlne. It is time to begin to cultl-' managers of the transatlantic steamship lines engaged In
rate the habit of mere relativity as to this despicable traffic apparently have no other thought in
points of the compasJ In a country the matter than of the Income it brings. Having Innded a
rapidly crystallizing Into homogeneity, shipload of the refuse of Europe's population on our shores
these steamship agents practically say: .ow, you neg
Th. Mni tr Ctottini- Rich. gars, shift for yourselves!"
Th manU for rettln rich the The situation demands Immediate and energetic action
mad, false idea that we must have on the part of the immigration authorities at our Eastern
. . , .. Than Ai,-h ti lis a thvrnii rh alftlntr ami wlnnnw.
,ii. i x tw v. i monev nas o area worse oavoc wl - c- -
axiiwu ft"i.cu uunu lut - - , ,vla u u f ,n.,m." . mWlt nf lmm irfl
Immortal 'Paradise Lost.' " said a lead- among ammnous peopie man war or -s " .
... ,i j. ii. j . j i nesnlence. A member or tne uaicago curomc ueggars -uu iivinjiuimi '''
of it la considered Mara OI ATaae Bay8 I . T , . . : Z' I.u 71 " V".,T.. VkVwI;;
and women of this country contribute rare irora iveryooi io .r ir uu i -w, -mu
a hundred million dollars a year to of a rate war which no thoughtful American citizen can
the sharoers who promise to make regard with aatlsfactlon. On the contrary it suggests
them rich auick. They work the same deluge of pauper Immigrants of the most undesirable type
old scheme of a confidential letter and I It Is easy to see how, under a possible continuation of
shrewd baiting, until the victim parts these rates, several of the old world governments can well
with his money. Thousands are plod- afford to pay the passage of countless hordes of their pov
ding along in poverty and deprivation, ' erty-stricken, ignorant and turbulent subjects to America
chagrined and humiliated because making this country a dump for the refuse of continental
they have not been able to get up in Europe. Here Is a subject which should arouse congress
the world or to realize their ambitions, to speedy action. When a person can travel from the Ron
for the reason that they succumbed ' manian provinces to New York for $15, It Is time to set
the manuscript
worth 25,000. How many of our
modern manuscripts which are worth
$25,000 to-day will, I wonder, be worth
$25 a century hence T
A mean farmer claims that there
used to be a fine echo on his farm
that attracted numerous summer
boarders, but one day his wife got
Into a controversy with It, and in its
struggles to have the last word the
poor echo strained itself so badly that
It lost its voice entirely. It is a mean
man that would make up this Joke.
As a class, doubtless, mothers-in-
law are too rudely treated by the
purveyors of humor and satire and
not sufficiently honored. They may
be- Interested to learn that President
Smith of the Mormon church, who was
a conspicuous witness In the Smoot
case, and probably has had -as large
an experience with mothers-in-law as
any living American, is their ardent
ally. He says the custom of ridicul
ing them is contemptible, and adds:
"The best friends I ever had were
my mothers-in-law. I loved and hon
ored them and shall ever hold their
memories sacred. They were true
women and were worthy of their
daughters." Perhaps some women
will think this last sentence conveys
a doubtful compliment
. It la not the least but one of the
greatest advantages of higher educa
tion that the woman of to-day does
know herself much better than did
her mother or grandmother, and with
that self-knowledge comes a better
understanding of her relations to the
world about her. The college girl of
to-day is healthier, stronger, saner,
more Independent, more resolute and
more useful than were the social but
terflies or the household drudges of
her grandmother's time. In the ex
perimental stages of this new develop
ment there may have been danger.
but the education of the body as well
as of the mind is now looked after
In all our girls' colleges, Indeed, much
better than In colleges for the other,
sex.
The biggest single industrial enter
prise ever undertaken by the United
States is the digging of the Panama
canal. That makes John F. Wallace
Interesting. He is going to dig It He
has accepted the position of chief en
gineer. It was the natural thing to
select a railroad man for the big Job.
A man who can build railroads as
they are built In this country is equal
to anything. Mr. Wallace Is general
manager of the Illinois Central Rail
road. He worked his way up from
.the bottom. He has health, a mag
nificent physique, brains and the kind
f patriotism that caused him to ac-
to the scheme of some smooth pro
moter, who hypnotized them into the
belief that they could make a great
deal very quickly out of a very little.
The great fever of trying to make
one dollar earn five dollars is growing
more and more contagious. We see
even women secretly going Into brok
ers' offices and "bucket shops," invest
ing everything they have in all sorts
of schemes, drawing their deposits out
of the banks, sometimes pawning their
Jewelry even their engagement rings
-and borrowing, hoping to make a lot
of money before their husbands or
families find it out and then to sur
prise them with the results; but, in
most cases, what they invest is hope
lessly lost
Thousands of young Americans are
so tied up by financial or other entan
glements, even before they get fairly
started in their life-work, that they
can only transmute a tithe of their
real ability or their splendid energies
Into that which will count in their
lives. A large part of it Is lost on the
way up, as the energy of the coal Is
nearly all lost before It reaches the
electric bulb. Success.
Lincoln's Way of Teasing,
In his home city, Springfield, 111., a
story is told of Lincoln which has
never appeared in print His house
bad long needed a fresh coat of paint,
but a political campaign was in prog
resB and "Abe" had no time to look up
painters.
During his absence for six weeks of
clrcuit-ridlng In his one-horse shay,
Mrs. Lincoln had the matter attended
to, and on his return when he drove
up to the little cottage on 8th street
she came out on the steps to welcome
him. Paying not the slightest atten
tion to her, Lincoln surveyed the
house from foundation to eaves in a
dazed manner and then drove to the
next door, and called to his neighbor:
"Say! Can you tell me where Abe
Lincoln lives?"
"You old goose! come home and be
have yourself," laughed Mrs. Lincoln,
Modern Improvements.
Day I find there Is a $2,500 mort
gage on the property you sold me. You
never said anything about It;
Gay Certainly I did. Didn't I dls
tinctly tell you It hod all modern lm
provementa? New Yorker.
about putting up the bars in earnest,
This country welcomes thrift intelligence and loyalty to
law and order from whatever land they hall. But our
republican institutions are already taxed to the danger
T
m
Passing of the Country Church."
HE Passing of the County Church" Is the title
f an Interesting article in the Outlook by James
E. Boyle. From this article we learn, If we do
not already know It, thut the country, uhii
which we have been accustomed to look as the
stronghold of organized religion, has lost Its
character as such In recent years.. According
to Mr. Boyle, the decay of the rural church la due chiefly
to the tendency to schisms and divisions. The congrega
tions divide aud subdivide over some new religious fad
or some difference in dogma, and with each division the
amount of true religion decreases.
"The rural church," says Mr. Boyle, "seems doomed.
Each time It changes name now Baptist now New Light
now Saint It loses In membership and vitality. Its Art
may be relumed temporarily, but Its ultimate extinction Is
Inevitable. Soon the little church stands by the wayside
forsaken. The doorstep decked with tall weeds, the win
dows broken. Then It becomes a granary or a corn crib
for some thrifty farmer, or Is torn down and carried away.
This process may take years, even decades, but It is In
evitable."
Mr. Boyle does not think that the decline of the rural
church is accompanied by an increase of vice and crime
In the rural districts. The country school house is better
and more Influential than ever. The rural free delivery
mall box la fast appearing at every front gate. Intelll
genre is more widely disseminated than formerly. There Is
less Ignorance. The people are no longer interested by the
kind of preaching that used to appeal to them..
The higher order of rural Intelligence demands a better
church than the old country church ever was or could be.
In the future Mr. Boyle thinks the church people of the
country will belong to strong and ably conducted churches
In the towns and villages. Thus the building of good mads.
the Introduction of rural free delivery, the building of
suburban trolley lines and the popularization of the auto
mobile will have a good effect religiously as well us mate
rlally. for they will strongly tend to give the rural com
munltles a better religious connection than they ever had In
the old dayj of small country churches. Minneapolis
Journal.
What Kills Men la War.
N the last Issue of the Army and Navy Journal
some data are given as to the nunilwr of
wounds actually inflicted by the bayonet and
saber as compared with firearms and artillery,
Of all wounds treated by medical officers of
the Union armies in the Civil War about four
tenths of 1 per cent, or 022 out of 240,712, were
saber or bayonet wounds. In the Crimean War the KnglUth
and French bad 24 per cent of such wounds; In the Schles
wlg-Holsteln War about 8 per cent, while In the Franco-
Prussian War the records show that the Germans received
less than one-third of 1 per rent
"A striking commentary this upon the advance of mod
ern military science, showing that with the general adop
tlon of long range firearms the saber and bayonet are
rapidly falling Into disuse, and the time is coming, If It
has not already arrived, when those old aud honored
weapons will become obsolete."
But it is, not the bullet or the artillery Are which strikes
down the largest number of men. It is disease. ' In the
Civil War one man out of every 0.7 was wounded In action
one of every 38 died of his wounds; one of every 4.7 wa
killed In action. Of the total mortality among colored
soldiers 90 per cent was from disease. Of the total mor
tallty among the whtte volunteers, 70 per cent was owing
to disease; among the white regulars, 00 per cent Chi
cago Tribune.
ACCURATE RAILROAD WATCHES
Companies Beqnire Employes to Ad
jnat Their Timepieces to Standard.
Absolute accuracy in timepieces Is
nowhere else so vital a matter as In
the operation of railroad trains. If
watches vary no schedule or time table
is of any value. Where so many thou
sands of watches are in use it has been
found necessary to adopt some system
whereby perfect uniformity may be
insured. All watches are examined at
close intervals and kept in order by a
staff of experts especially engaged for
the purpose. There Is no reason why
a railroad man's watch should keep
inaccurate time. It costs him nothing
to have it regulated and it is part of
h! duty to see that It is in order.
The time by which the watches of an
entire railroad force are set is tele
graphed from Washington. At a cer
tain time the operator at the railroad
headquarters receives the time, records
it at his own station and at the same
instant sends the Information to every
"train-order" station along the line. It
Is the duty of the operator at the train
order station to set the clock right by
Washington time and from this clock
every employe attached to that station
must set his watch.
At every station there is a clock that
records standard time. At the larger
stations there is a clock that records
the correct time to a second. If it
varies from the standard time a notice
is affixed to the clock stating the ex
act variation. Upon returning from a
trip or before beginning the return trip
after a run, the trainmen must com
pare their watches with this carefully
regulated clock. If It is found that the
watch has lost or gained during the
trip the timepiece must be handed in
to the time-keeping department
Here the railroad man receives an
other watch for temporary use while
bis own Is being regulated, and the ex
pert employed by the company over
hauls the condemned watch and re
turns it later to the owner. With the
watch is given a ' certificate showing
that the department bis regulated it
and it is again a good railtoad time
piece.
Besides the watches of the train
crews, there are still the timepieces of
all the station employes, the signal
tower men, the thousands of hands
working along the tracks and In the
shops, to be looked after.
For these a special force of experts
Is employed to travel up and down the
line, stopping at all stations. To the
expert come the railroad men, watches
in hand. From constantly visiting the
various points the watch repairer
knows the timepiece as well as he
knows the men, and a short examina
tion determines whether or not the
watch is ticking to proper railroad
time.
Part of the duty of the repairer is to
see that the station clocks and the
clocks in the signal towers along the
line are ticking according to railroad
time. If they are not doing their duty
he halts in his progress long enough to
make them register time according to
the Washington standard.
The railroad company will not per
mit the employe to carry any watch
his fancy suggests. He must purchase
a watch that meets with the favor of
the management If a certain watch
comes again -and again to the repair
department and proves to be always
behind or ahead of the time it Is con
demned finally and the railroad man
must provide himself with one to the
liking of the company, or carry a
watch that the company will provide
at his expense. -
plained to them that Whitsuntide is
great religious celebration, correspond
lng In importance with their Mubar
ram, also an occasion of rejoicing.
The festival proved infectious, for
one of the women broke into what 1
termed "the mad dance." Her com
punlons unconcernedly became passive
spectators of the woman's frenzied ex
ertlons.
A quick, eccentric and yet at times
rhythmical step was maintained for
the long period stated. Not for one
moment did the dancer pause for re
freshment or rest
She collapsed at the close of the
thirty-sixth hour. After an lntervnl
she was housed by the other Somali
women, who, by beating their tam
bourines and by cries of exhortation,
succeeded in encouraging her to an
other effort.
The second dance, however, did not
last long and. the woman again fell
exhausted.
Following this bad attack another of
the natives a man lost his head and
frantically threatened the holiday
makers, who were startled by his wild
conduct He was taken in hand by the
police, however, and eventually calmed
down. London Express.
!lMAY BC LOST TRIBE OF ISRAEL.
rctUr Rare of rop1 I.MoCdf
round la Cantrsl Amsrlc.
Colonel J. C. Tucker, former United
6tatcs minister at Martinique, relates
a strange story of a race of people llv
lng In an underground city lu Cen
tral America. Colonel Tucker som
time ago received Information about a
ract who live In cities cut out of the
rocks In the mountains of Central
America. In an out-of-the-way place,
very difficult to reach, and which no
stranger had visited before nun ana
turned alive. Ha decided to investi
gate After reaching a certain point
olouel Tucker had to travel 8U0 uillea
through vWld Jungles, rnrrylng bis pro-
Ulotis on a pack mule and enduring
many hardships on way. As no
ueared the hidden city his every move
ment ww watched and reported to tht
high priest of the tribe dwelling there,
but no harm was offered hlui. Wbcu
he shot a pair of lions lu the Jungles.
which hnd been killing tl'i unlives, he
did an act that turned out to be th
ery thing that gave him their friend-
hip and protection.
llo was welcomed by the high prlset.
who spoke ihmhI English, and wa
hown through their wonderful city.
hewn out of the solid granite rock
n the mountain side. To the unlnlnt-
d the surface of the mountnln gave-
no clew to the city concealed within
It It was entered by secret passages.
c-nlngly concealed by nature's handi
work, and which led to large, commo
dious rooms, handsomely furnished,
mostly lu old mahogany. Passages led
to hundreds of other rooms, and to
a large hall, In which the strung peo
ple met and held meetings, while unal-
ler openings for ventilation went up
ward, ending among the rocki anil
ungles above, so arranged thn the
rain could not enter.
The tradition among these curious
pevplo was that they originally ratno
from a country fur away, and that
their mission was to outwit their ene
mies, which, lu the beginning, pursued
them. At all entrances then wer
sldo rooms, from which, at a moment'
notice, deadly gases could bo let looxo
upon any hostile Invaders who might
enter, and which would kill them In-
Htaiitly, while by sliding doors of stono
tlio git a would be kept froiu entering
the city.
The light of the sun, moon or star
never enters their underground city.
except through certain openings, by
which they study the mysteries of th
night skies, but they use electricity
for lighting purposes, a aclenco they
have learned by keeping In touch wltU
the outer world through their young
men.
The colonel says he was an attend
ant at their meeting and was sur
prised to find they were going through
Masonic rituals, which he, being a
Mason of high degree, understood.
This was an Inheritance of theirs froin
their ancestors of the nnknowu past.
Colonel Tucker has written many
chapters about these people and their
city. He has done so because he
wishes to preserve the knowledge. II
freely shows them to his friends, and
has as yet made no effort to publish
them. The proprietor of a well-known
Eastern magazine, who visited the
City of Mexico, and who was given .
tho privilege of rending the manu
scripts, with the proviso tbat he would
not publish their contents, offered -Lionel
Tucker first $3,000 and then
doubled that amount If tho colonel
would pilot him to the city in tho
rocks. And he may yet do so.
Colonel Tucker believes these people
are part of the lost tribe of Israel.
He has many old parchments they
gave him which be has been unable
to find anyone to decipher for him.
but which he hopes to have read by
some one of the great scholars of the
world, when the mysteries they con
tain in their tlme-stalned hieroglyphic
will be mado plain, thus revealing to
the world perhaps the strangest story
that ever linked the dim past with the
living present
DANCES A DAY AND A HALF.
Somali Woman Infected with Bellglons
Frenzy In English Town.
A Somali woman has astonished
Bradford holiday-makers by dancing
without a stop for thirty-six hours.
It was no part of her business thus
to exert herself; she simply entered
with excessive and unexpected heart!
ness into the spirit of the great Whit
suntide festival.
A number of women of the Somali
tribe are proving a great attraction at
Bradford exhibition, and it .was ex
Andrew Gleeson' Eloquence.
For twenty years Andrew Gleeson,
contractor and builder, was a mem
ber of the Republican National Com
mittee for the District of Columbia.
He controlled the Irish vote, and Per
ry Carson controlled the negro vote;
and they were very successful, politically.
Carson, the negro, was a natural
orator, but Gleeson, rich and powerful,
could not make a -speech. One even
ing at a political .meeting, where one
hundred Irishmen mingled with about
two thousand negroes, Perry Carson
did not appear, and the crowd called
on Gleeson for a speech.. He hesitated,
shook his head, but finally arose and
shouted:
"God bless the Irish, both white and
black."
It was his first, last and only speech;
but It pleased the crowd all right, . .
Was a Crabologlat.
Booker Washington, In lecturing to
his colored people, tells them this story,
and it hits hard those of his dwn race
who have tried to injure him. He
says:
'Once upon a time there was an old
colored man who was having great
success catching crabs. He had a tre
mendous box more than half full, when
u passer-by warned him that the olg-gt-st
and best crabs were crawling out
and would escape. The old man replied:
" 'Thankee, sir, much obleeged, but 1
ain't goln' to lose no crabs, I'se a
crabologlst, I island I knows all 'bout
de crab nature. I don't need to watch
em, 'tall. When do big crab fight up
to de top, and when he In glttin out
de Uttlo crabs catch him by de lalg and
pull him back, lie caln't git out no
how.' "
And then Booker Washington snys:
"My friends, I have been Informed
that there Is something of crab naturo
in humun nature; but t must be alto
gether among white folks, and not in
our race."
Teasing Ills Wee Brother-ln-Law.
It was Smythe's wedding-day, and
he was teasing his boy brother-in-law.
"Now, Johnny," he said, "I'm going
to take your sister away and have
her all to myself, and you won't see
her any more."
"No, really are you?" said the boy,
curiously.
"Yes, I am. What do you think of
It?"
"Nothing. J fancy I can stand It If
you can."'
Sometimes the girl's father strikes a
young man favorably and sometimes
he merely kicks him out . ;